"Mal!" Ben shouted once he caught sight of his beloved girlfriend. He immediately wrapped his jacket around Mal's wet body to prevent her from getting chills. "What on Earth happened to you?"

"The usual." Mal said quietly as moved away from the people of the party. "Some kids from the Isle tried to drown me because 'Lord Xehanort' ordered them to kill me. Sora saved me."

"We need to do something." Ben insisted. "We can't have them trying to murder you. Why does Xehanort want you dead?"

"Who knows?" Mal pulled the jacket tighter around her. "Sora's speaking with Fairy Godmother at the moment. He wants to get her permission for something, but he wouldn't tell us what."

"I do know I need to teach you how to swim." Ben teased, but had an undertone of seriousness. "That's twice that someone tried to drown you, and three times you almost did."

"I have no time to learn." Mal argued good-naturely. "Unless you want to make a date out of it."

Although Mal was joking, Ben thought it was a perfect idea. "I know what we're doing Wednesday," he announced causing his wonderful girlfriend to laugh.

Truth be told, as soon as they returned to the school, Sora did have a word with Fairy Godmother about the incident that occurred about half an hour ago. Due to Sora's insistence and chances of future danger to the students, Fairy Godmother gave permission for the Keyblade wielder to teach the children how to fight and use magic to defend themselves. However, he had to get the parents to agree before he could.

So, Sora decided to take drastic measures.

Sora stood on a table and requested from the adults, "I would like your permission to train your children to fight."

"What?!" Alice exclaimed in fright. "Why would you need to do something like that?"

"Organization XIII, a group of people who wants Kingdom Hearts to themselves," Sora began the explanation, "has invaded this world along with Xehanort. They've been recruiting villains from the Isle of the Lost to join their side. It's hard to say who has joined their side, but we do have a couple reliable sources. "

"Aren't you strong enough to fight them on your own?" Aurora questioned, which caused the parents that were against it to murmurer in agreement.

"Was Master Aqua strong enough?" He interrogated hotly. "Was Ventus? Or even Terra? No!Aqua is stranded in the Realm of Darkness, having no idea where she's going. Ventus lost his heart to his dark half, causing him to be in a coma in a world only Aqua knows. Nobody knows were Terra is at because Xehanort tried to take over his body and ended up releasing both of their hearts. Those three weren't even strong enough to protect each other. I am only strong enough to protect my friends, not to kill like you wish I would do."

"But you've managed to beat them all before." Snow White pointed out positively. "Why couldn't you defeat them now?"

"I had the help of my friends back then." Sora corrected the young queen. "Besides, I never met or fought against some of the villains. For example: Mother Gothel, Dr. Facilier, and Gaston."

"Sora, Gaston was Queen Belle's and King Beast's villain." Cinderella informed the courages teenage boy. "How could you have saved their world if you didn't fight him?"

Sora turned to Queen Belle, who had a look of guilt plaster on her face, for she knew what he was about to ask. "Why didn't you ask me to stay for help?" He questioned the retired royal.

"You had helped us too much already." Queen Belle answered with the same kindness in her voice from when he first saw her at the Beast's Castle. "You teamed up with Beast to find me in the castle at Hollow Bastion even though you had your Keyblade taken from you."

"I helped him because I couldn't let him go on that suicide mission alone." Sora argued. "In fact, the Heartless probably would have killed me if I hadn't gone with him."

"But you helped him save me from the Heartless that attacked me in the ballroom." Queen Belle started to list off everything Sora had done for them willingly. "You stopped Xaldin from destroying the castle and from taking the rose-."

"You're the one that took the rose back." Sora pointed out with a bit of teasingness in his tone. "Who knew you had such a killer elbow?"

Queen Belle let out a small laugh, but went back to her serious face. "We thought we owed you too much to have you help us more when you were in the middle of searching for your friends. Besides, after all the fighting Beast did by your side, he was able to defeat Gaston easily. Gaston was nothing compared to Xaldin and the Heartless."

"Where is King Beast?" Sora wondered. Belle only give him a look that said 'I will tell you later' which actually made Sora have a sneaky suspicion what he was doing.

"Anyways," he continued on like the previous conversation didn't occur, "if I am able to at least teach them self-defense, then my mind would be at ease knowing they can at least defend themselves."

"How will you teach them?" 'King' Philip wondered as he voiced the opinions of the other concerned parents. "And how can you? You had no one to teach you how to use that Keyblade of yours."

"I will need the help of a few friends that I've fought with." Sora turned himself toward Mulan and Shang with a smile. "If they don't mind me asking for their assistance."

The now-married couple smiled back at their old companion. "We don't mind at all."

"I will teach them the best I can." Sora said as he addressed everyone. "Give me about one to two weeks and they will be able to put up a fight with anyone. I guarantee it."

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