Authors Note: I know! You all must hate me! Remember when I said I had the flu? I kind of never got better. I'm so sorry I haven't posted lately! I'll try my hardest to get the rest of this up this weekend. Again, so sorry about the wait!

Disclaimer: As compensation for being sick for over two weeks, I think I SHOULD own Kingdom Hearts…but the world is a cruel place. Still just Katy.


The voyage to the next world was relatively quiet. Sora sulked in his seat, throwing a glare or two at Katy every couple of minutes. Katy, who was driving, gritted her teeth as she watched Donald from the corner of her eye. He was pacing back and forth just behind her, making disapproving noises in the back of his throat every time the ship swerved a little. Finally the duckling cried out.

"Land there!"

"Where? If we stop there we'll drown?" Sora said, speaking for the first time since they'd taken off.

"No we won't. I'll make it so we fit right in." Donald said, carefully supervising Katy as she landed the ship.

They were beamed off their vessel in a cloud of Donald's sparkle ridden magic, (the people aboard the Enterprise should be VERY jealous right now) and found themselves in the middle of the ocean. Looking at the others, Katy observed Donald's handiwork. Goofy had been transformed into a turtle and was currently swimming around happily, Donald was an octopus…a very angry octopus apparently since he was floating upside-down with a scowl on his face and his arms crossed. Sora and herself had been turned into mermaids…or in Sora's case merman I guess…

"Wow…this is just ironic." Katy said, laughing to herself.

"What are you talking about?" Sora asked as he tried to unsuccessfully learn how his tail worked.

"I live on Mermaid Lane, remember? This is probably the most epic moment of my life."

Sora rolled his eyes and continued trying (and failing) to swim.

Then a girl's musical voice rang out through the small grotto

"C'mon, Sebastian!"

"Ariel, wait! Slow down! Don't leave me behind!" A voice with a thick Jamaican accent answered back frantically.

A mermaid, obviously Ariel, swam into the grotto. She had long red hair and big blue eyes and was followed by a yellow and blue fish and a red crab, the ladder swimming right into Donald's upside-down scowl. The crab gave a yell and hid behind Ariel's green tail. The mermaid laughed.

"Relax, Sebastian! They don't look like one of them… Right Flounder?"

The yellow and blue fish answered nervously;

"I don't know, there's something…weird about them."

Sora laughed nervously

"What do you mean?"

A frown graced Ariel's face and she began to swim in a circle around Sora and Katy.

"They do seem a little different…Where are you from?"

"Uh…were from...kinda…far away..? And were not really used to these waters." Sora said hesitating as he looked over at his companion who pinched his arm.

"Smooooooooth." She hissed before turning around and smiling sweetly, praying that she was right about the assumption she was about to make.

"Were from the north…over by Maine."

Ariel's eyes lit up.

"Really?! From all the way out there?!"

"Yep!" Katy said, mentally doing a victory dance.

"That's so far away! I hope I can visit one day."

"Sure…no problem."

Sebastian swam over to Ariel looking uneasily at the lot of them.

"Ariel, King Triton will not like this!

Ariel sighed and rolled her eyes.

"There really aren't a lot of things that daddy likes." She said, shrugging.

Katy smiled, reminded of her Mothers tendency to hate everything she did. Looking casually over to the left, her eyes widened.

"Um, Sora? I think we have a problem…"

Octopus looking Heartless began to swarm into the alcove, shutting Flounder and Sebastian into a large clam shell before turning to attack.

The four of them plus Ariel took care of them quickly. After the fight they all agreed it would probably be best if they went to see King Triton to alert him of their presence. Ariel led them to the Palace, following the gold tridents that had been scrawled onto the walls of nearby caverns. Soon they were entering Tritons Palace. They hadn't been there five minutes before a bolt of lightning shot out, narrowly missing Katy's head (as usual) and hit a group of Heartless that they hadn't heard follow them.

"That was too close." A deep, authoritative voice said.

They all swam over to stand in front of King Triton

"As long as I have my trident, I will not tolerate those creatures inside this palace."

"Daddy!" Ariel protested, trying to interrupt her father's tirade long enough to get a word in edgewise.

"Oh, Ariel! When will you listen, it's dangerous out there! Strange creatures lurk outside!"

Sebastian cleared his throat.

"Behold. You swim before the ruler of the seas: His Majesty, King Triton!"

Triton studied the four of them, his look suspicious.

"And who are they?"

"They helped us fight off those creatures!" Ariel exclaimed.

"They don't look familiar."

"We're from an ocean very far away." Sora said, nervously

"Yup. We came to find the Keyhole!" Goofy stated, smiling.

"The what?"Triton demanded

"What's that?" Ariel asked, her eyes sparkling with innocence with an undertone of mischief.

Goofy laughed.

"Well it's a--"

"There's no such thing! Certainly not here!" Triton stated firmly, interrupting.

They all took (swam?) a couple of steps back away from the throne.

"But, Daddy!" Ariel protested.

"Ariel, not another word! You are not to leave the palace, is that clear?!"

Ariel's lower lip trembled and she swam out of the palace as fast ash she could without looking back, Sora, Katy and the others following her. From his throne, Triton sighed.

"Perhaps I'm being too strict. I'm just concerned for her safety."

"Of course Your Majesty! But I must admit, now I'm quite curious about this Keyhole." Sebastian said, swimming to stand (float?) in front of King Triton.

"That need not concern you, Sebastian!" The King said much too quickly.

Apparently, he knew more then he was letting on.

"Have you anything to report?" The King asked Sebastian.

"Just as you suspected Your Majesty, they seem to be coming from Ursula's grotto."

"I knew it! That sea witch is up to no good again I see exile from the palace has taught her nothing!"

"Yes she poses serious danger." Sebastian agreed.

"And I told you to keep Ariel away from such danger, did I not?" Triton asked with a glare.

"Your Majesty, please! I…uh…"

"GO!"

Sebastian let out an 'eep' and swam off after our heroes.


A/N: Yes, I know it's short! This is gonna have to hold you over until Christmas break though, I have SO much schoolwork to make up. I'm really, really, really sorry! I promise I'll make up for it. Please R&R!!!!!!!