After a long flight through the air, the Keybearers and Fortesque land on board of a flying ship… or rather: Will and Daniel are landing first, followed by Kuran who got the girls on top of him.

Groaning Kuran wondered "Why does we have to be for the pillow joke?"

"Because it would be gentlemanly." Will chuckled.

"You and me: Get it. But why a walking pile of bones with armor?" countered the darkness user.

Dan rolled his eye by Kuran's comment.

"Isn't our fault that we land over you, okay?" Said Edea.

"Let's just move one." Will said.

"Then girls should stand up first" Kuran pointed out.

"True." Said Kairi and got up, leaving the boys space for stand up.

"Okay, where are we?" asked Rena, looking around.

"I'm going to go out on a limb here and say a haunted Pirate ship or something." Will said.

Kuran looked over and told "Flies without explanation. Check. The shape isn't anything that should be for a well run ship? Check. Walking skeletons as crew? Check. I think you are right here."

"Thanks, 'captain obvious'..." Said Edea.

"We're in a flying ship, right?" Kairi asked and Will nodded. "And if the information is right, Zarok's fortress is a floating island in some sense."

"You're thinking what I'm thinking?" Asked Rena.

"Hijack the ship?"

"Then let's take down the captain" told Kuran and pulled the bow to shoot the first skeleton which came too close to them… while he didn't kill him, he was falling off board.

Looking over he wondered "How high do you think is this going?"

"High enough for them not to be a problem." Will added.

"But now we must find the captain, and if he isn't here, he must be at the other side of the ship." Said the elf

"And he is barricaded off." observed Kuran "We need one of the ship's cannons to get throug"

"Sounds like a plan."

"Some of us get the cannon, while the rest get the gunpowder?" offered Kuran

"About the cannon, isn't needed look for it." Said Edea looking to a side, finding a really BIG cannon, with the three letters in capitals.

"Uhm… how much Gunpowder?" asked Kuran "Not to mention… where are the cannonballs? Or should we use Will and Dan?"

"Sorry but I'm not in the mood to be blasted into something twice."

"I won't survive" it" told Kuran.

"Nobody wants, but unless we risk to blow half ship, is the only option for cross the barricade." Said Kairi.

Will only sighed in slight frustration.

"But that means too that if we want cross the barricade, all us must be the cannonball." Said Kairi, sighing loudly. "I Sincerely don't like the idea."

"Well… how about I try to make a protective shell around us, while wrapping clothes around us to cushion us" told Kuran "Of course we have to make sure that Kairi isn't touching it"

"Worth a shot."

"And why I can't touch them?" Asked Kairi, hands on her belt.

"Oh yeah, I forgot about that…"

"And if the clothes is your only worry, we can find a lot of them in this ship." Said Kairi. "They're dead, but I think that either dead pirates needs to change their outfits."

"Just anything that can be use as cushion" shrugged Kuran "So let's get everything."

They began to look around, trying to get the powder kegs necessary for made the cannon work and the necessary clothes for protect them from the posterior shot, but the ship itself was immense, and there was many pirate skeletons and a lot of Fallens roaming around.

They entered a room and Kuran just had the time to raise a shield to block pistol shots. Glancing over it he grins "There are three more kegs!"

"And just that Boiler Guards are shooting at us with that near!" Said Rena, behind Kuran. "If one of them is shot, all this place will blow!"

"I know! We have to deal with them quickly"

"Yeah, let's go."

And Kuran rushed forward, tackling the closest one and slammed his keyblade into the head.

Edea rushed forward another enemy, cutting it in half with her own katana, while Kairi used some Blizzara spells for dispatch the others, knowing that Fire or Thunder could made the powder explode.

Will Sliced off the head of another before sending another crashing through the wall throwing it off the ship.

And then Kuran jumps and blocks with his axe a shoot that was purposely send towards the kegs before throwing the Keyblade and pin the enemy on the wall.

Looking at the kegs he said "If I dare to guess, I would say one more and we are good"

"Are you sure?" Asked Kairi. "If we get the wrong number, will we fall short, or be sent into the Lanes Between."

"In case of the Lanes between, I bet we are able to use dark corridors again and get back or use the gummi ship" told Kuran "And in case of short we just get more. And think about how many we got"

"That's assuming one Boiler guy can cause a problem. in any case I found some gunpowder." Will stated, holdingup a keg of gunpowder.

"So should we get more or have it? That's up to you. I say we have enough" told Kuran

"How many kegs you think we need for operate that MASSIVE cannon?" Asked Edea. "If all us has to be shoot by that, it need enough power for that, or we will only have our feet burned."

"I think 4...maybe 5 more kegs." Will stated.

"Then let's get them" told Kuran.

They kept looking for them, but when they began to look on the deck, they were ambushed by bats of the size of a human (Giant Bat).

"Just what we needed. Bats, and in big size." Said Rena beginning to shot mana arrows at them.

"Where did these come from?" groans Kuran and began to shoot his Dark Arrows "Really annoying"

"With Morrigan here, surely from anywhere." Said Kairi, striking a near Giant Bat.

"So I guess her thing is Bats or something?" Will asked kicking another away.

"You would say the same if what ambushed us were ghost?" Asked Edea, cutting in half a roaming pirate.

"Out of all the things we fought you mentioned her with the bats."

"Do you remember her telling that?" asked Kuran while slicing one up

"You know what? Forget it. let's just kill these things." Will said blasting more of them with ice.

But one of his ice attacks was stopped by a fire attack, which come from what seemed a ghost with the appearance of a purple tunic with blue eyes where eyes should be, wearing a peak on the hood and armed with two floating wands. (Reditus Wraith)

"Great, more of that magic abusing Fallen." Groaned Kairi. "And this seems more dangerous."

Before Will could ask, he found himself dancing avoiding some Thundaga spells summoned by the Reditus Wraith.

Kuran aims and shoot an arrow at the arm of one the enemy to get one of the wands down. The hit only made it fly away a little before of return to the ghost, soon replying with a Firaga, but luckily Rena intercepted the fire attack with her mana arrow.

Will added to the attack with a Thunderga. But the spell was absorbed instead of damage the Fallen.

"This things has the same protection than the wizard-wannabe heartless!" Said Kairi. "We can't damage them with magic!"

"Physical attack only huh? sounds simple." Will said.

"That's my clue" grins Kuran "Just have to get close"

As if on cue, Will threw his Keyblade at the Reditus Wraith, knocking it down to the ground. And Kuran rushes up to hit the keyblade on the wands, sending one of them flying away.

Edea used that moment to impale her katana on the ghost, destroying it quickly. And after of a short battle they cleaned that section of the ship.

"Got more powder." Will said holding up another keg.

"And traps are coming for the next section" told Kuran as he made a checked look.

"This place gets better and better." Said Rena sarcastly.

"if we didn't need this ship, I would suggest shooting it down" told Kuran.

"And which other method you could suggest for reach Zarok's lair?" Asked Kairi.

"Aside from riding Wills back? I have nothing" admits Kuran "But perhaps we could try to blast the traps off"

"I may be strong but unfortunately my wings can only handle so much weight." Will stated.

"And if we began to blast the traps, surely one of them could destroy the ship."

"At least those that can be disabled" told Kuran "Or are you telling that removing a trap that involves giant spinning blades could crack the ship in half?"

"Eh Maybe.." Will shrugged.

"You know how unlikely this sounds?" Kuran spat.

"Considering that you brought that up in that manner?" Will deadpanned.

"Oh come on! I cannot be right all the times" Kuran argued.

"Okay, how many timeshave you said something that turned out true?" Asked Rena.

"For what I counted from our first meeting… between the 90% and the 100% of times." Said Kairi.

"That could have been my answer." Said Eve across the communicator.

"Let's find more kegs and see." Will said.

Kuran frustrated, raised his hands "Fine! But don't complain to me if anybody gets chopped up!" and he threw his Keybalde to cut a pirate that rushed to them in half.

"We don't run into traps blindly, okay?" Rena said shooting down a bat that was close to biting Kuran's neck.

"You know… I bet many people say that and properly run into the first trap they could encounter" told Kuran while looking carefully at the corners as they go and suddenly goes to the knees "See what we have here… a tiny string at the high of the feet… wonder what happen if we break it"

"Want to risk finding out?" Will asked.

"Given that we better disable it somehow for our return trip, I would say: Yes!"

"Either if I like hear a discussion about traps and other things, we have things to do, remember?" Said Al from Dan's eyesock.

"I know," told Kuran "But taking safety seriously doesn't hurt… if you didn't notice. Will is the only one who could be thrown into literally anything without the slightest worry about dying"

Then Kuran stepped back with the others, threw a dagger to set it up and a few dozen arrows shoot out from the walls, indicating if they had set off while being close, they would be completely covered by arrows by the time it stops.

Looking over to Dan he asked "Do you think you would like to have these, just because we weren't careful?"

"Ah ah" Babbled Dan shaking his head.

"Let's move on" told Kuran, having his daggers ready to remote trigger other traps.

"Can't help but wonder why they would rig there own ship when they're using it….May when it's at the docks to prevent theft, but when they're on it?" Will spoke.

"Either they are not the brightest or they did that because of us." shrugs Kuran "10 Mummy on the lack of brains."

"You say it by they being only bones?" Asked Kairi but then looked Dan. "No offense, Dan."

"No offense, but the only two intelligent skeletons I met so far is Dan and a blacksmith named Robert" told Kuran

"Robert?" Will asked.

"Yes… doubt you know him." Kuran replied.

"I would like to talk about people of the past, but now we have a ship to seize." Said Kairi.

"Then tell me where the next barrel is" told Kuran as they keep walking and wondered "And shouldn't we have run into more goons by now?" Suddenly a bullet hit a wall near his head

"me and my big mouth…" Kuran groaned.

Will gave him a light smack to the back of the head before turning his attention to the un-dead pirates.

And they engaged them, but they were able to wipe the ground with them.

"Remember what I said before?" Asked Kairi to Kuran. "Now is 99%."

"See what I have to deal with?" Will said, finding another keg of gunpowder.

"I would get tired of him in your situation." Said Edea.

Kuran sighed loudly and, looked around the next corner and said "Will… did I ever mention a run in, with a dragon which was nothing more but bones and acid?"

"I don't think you did…" Will replied quizzically.

"Well… we are going to face one… he is waiting for us" told Kuran, pointing over the spot they have to pass next

"Thanks for the head's up…" Will sighed.

Thought he saw Dan's and Als expression he told "Not my fault!"

"I didn't said anything." Replied Al.

"The way you looked at me" Will replied.

"Any idea on how to take care of this kind of enemy?" Will asked.

"Err, somebody can cast a Cura over an enemy?" Asked Edea.

"Let me guess. because it is undead, healing spells would hurt it?" asked Kuran "If this works than we should test it by letting Will do it"

"That worked in my world with undead enemies." Said Edea.

"Fine…" Will huffed before going up to the dragon, casting cure on it.

It roared by that and shoots acid at Will as retaliation to the "healing", removing skin and some flesh from his front, while the head was down to the skull which began to burn.

Will kept casting Cure on the dragon. Who roared and shoots more acid at Will

Eventually the Dragon was no more as Will's deformed and burning body turned to the others.

"I hope you all appreciate the things I do via my immortality..because you all owe me BIG TIME!"

"Don't worry about that." Said Kairi smiling.

"Good that you know, because I'm not letting these things go."

"I would slap your back, but right now I don't know if it is healthy for any of us" told Kuran as he moves on to get the last barrel… wherever it was.

"Okay, seems that we have enough barrels. Not grab more! An gunpowder more and that big cannon will put us into the Lanes between." Commented Al

"I agree" replied Kuran and went his way back, while experimenting with small scale versions of the bullet they are going to have.

"I'm going to kick the captains boney hide so bad for putting up with that acid thing…" Will mumbled.

"That if we don't get flying outside the ship with the blast." Said Rena.

"Or blast the ship apart" joked Kuran as they got back and Kuran made the lower half of the bullet and said "Kairi… I think we should wrap you up like a package to prevent you touching the darkness. Just… who lit up the cannon?"

"Dib!" Will said.

"Get outside, lit the cannon and return here before be shooted?" Asked Edea.

"I can do that." Said Al.

"I thought you are bound to his head?" asked Kuran.

"I can get away of Dan's head a moment. Enough to light the cannon and return." Said Al.

"Okay, everybody into the cannon." Said Kairi.

Everybody, with Kairi in the middle of them, got inside the cannon, while Al light the cannon and returned into Dan's skull.

Suddenly Rena raised an eyebrow and asked. "Somebody else think that this idea has some gaps?"

"Kind of too late to worry about details now." Will said.

Kuran nodded and closed them in the capsule and told "IF anybody doesn't like Rollercoasters… well… Too bad!"

Before of ask what were Rollercoasters, the cannon shoot and they flied across the whole ship until land hard in the barricaded area.

"That… was a bad ride" groans Kuran in pain as he made the bullet dissolve

"Well where here and in one piece…..I think." Will added as he dusted himself off.

"No broken bones here" told Kuran and looks at Dan "Dan is in one piece as well"

"We're okay too." Said Kairi, rubbing the back of her neck.

"Then let's get this captain…"

"Aarg, look what we have here?" Asked a voice and when they looked to the origin they found a large skeleton pirate with red captain clothes. "You must be the rats that decided to play stowaways in my ship, right? Then sorry for you, but I don't accept stowaways in my ship, but I will show mercy and give you to choice: Or you jump out of my ship, or I kick you off my ship!"

"How about you jump off or bring us to Zarok?" countered Kuran "Either way we are not leaving."

"Bring you to Zarok? Well, that can be a good idea." Said the captain. "Surely he will reward me if I take you to Zarok, tied up to down, hanging on you feet on the mast, ready for be devoured by the scavenger birds!"

"Good idea, Kuran." Said Edea, with a sarcastic tone in her voice.

Kuran sighed loudly "Edea… this was just a little pre battle banter. Did you seriously think I expect him to take us for free? I was just about to tell him, that we say no to his offer and scatter his bones, take his hat and sail this ship by ourselves."

"Okay, but you saw how big he was? We will need something as big as a cannon to at least hurt him!" Said Rena.

Luckily there was two cannons just aiming to the area where was the pirate. Shrugging he checked if the cannons are loaded and asked "Ready to get heavy headaches?"

"With that question you decided your fate!" Said the captain and then began to come skeleton pirates and a group of Ignis Wraiths and Nulla Wraiths and some Sana Wraiths.

Shrugging, Kuran made a club and hits one of the Pirates, sending his head off board. But an icicle from a Nulla Wraith nearly hit his leg.

Rena began to shoot arrows for maintain the spectral Wraiths, more exactly the Sana Wraiths for avoid them to heal their enemies, but was hard by the large number of pirates and other Wraiths attacking them. Kuran saw what Rena was trying and rushes over, Keyblade and Darkness blade in his hands, slicing his way through the enemies to give her the openings she needs.

Kairi got near of one of the cannons and shooted it when the captain, who was walking around his area, was in range, hitting him directly, but he replied to that shooting at her with his gun.

"Hey! How can that guy shoot three times, and each time shoot five bullets with that gun?" Asked Kairi, avoiding the bullets.

"Boss logic, dear Kairi." Will said, blocking the bullets.

"Yeah," told Kuran while doing the same "Never got it either but here is a lot that has an own logic. Like some design choices in buildings. For one instance: Who with the right mind makes a bridge over a lava sea which can be cut down by a button on the other end?"

"Don't ask me! I don't write the rules!" The captain said and called more pirates and Fallen. "But I like to break the rules!"

"Don't tell me." Said Edea, sending some of the pirates out the ship. Kuran tackles one off as well while throwing his keyblade at the head of another one.

Will grabbed another and proceeded to spin him around knocking around any enemy that got near.

"You like breaking rules? Ok let's break some rules!" He said before sending the pirate crashing into the captain. But only got shooted by the captain as reward.

And Kuran threw his Keyblade at his weapons arm.

Will then started to run towards the captain, but got grabbed by a Giant Bat that threw him to a group of pirates.

Kuran aimed an arrow at the bat and shoot at it, before wondering "Where is the owner of these bats?"

"They're summoned as the other Fallen." Said Kairi, dispatching another pirate before of lit another cannon, hitting the captain who just recovered his gun.

"We have to remove the gun permanently" spoke Kuran and looks at Will "Ready for something stupid?"

"I'm always up for something stupid." He grinned.

And Kuran stormed forward with Will. The bats appeared but Kuran threw his Keyblade at the first one and let the second one grab him, leaving Will with a free way to the pirate captain

When he got into a perfect position, Will struck the bat, making it let go as he crashed into the captain, grabbing both his arms and ripping them off. "Hows that for dis-armed."

"Not quite what I had in mind" admitted Kuran "But at least he cannot bare arms against us."

But as reaction of that, more pirates and Fallen began to attack them, trying to protect the captain.

Will simply started beating anything that got close to him with the Captain's disembodied arms.

But they were no match for the warriors on deck and Kuran told Kairi "Try to get his head."

"I think they're fixed. I can't move the cannon." Said Kairi, while Dan tried to move the cannon with everything he had.

Kuran sighs while slicing two heads off "I was thinking you either go in and slice or use your spells"

Will blasted more enemies with a surge of electricity. "If you all are trying to think of a plan, could you think a bit faster?

"What do you think I am trying to pull?"

"Well, unless you can tilt the cannon up, the only solution would be to keep firing until destroy it." Said Kairi, at the time that Dan sat on the cannon panting loudly.

"Uhm… Kairi… look at Will! He ripped his arms off." told Kuran "So why do you think you still need this cannon?"

"Between you and me, Will is normal?" Kairi asked Kuran surprised.

"If you take his immortality away, yes" he replied

"Dude the guy was a skeleton, it took little to no effort to rip his arms off." Will said,fending off the attackers.

"Don't say that as if I was useless!" Yelled the captain, behind Will. "And drop my arms now!" He kicked Will's butt, sending him flying with the group and making him drop his arms.

"Next time I'm kicking your head off!" Will growled.

A pair of pirates put the captain's arms in their place. "Not if I kick yours." He said and began to shot his gun against them.

"How I would like shot him with his own cannon in the face!" Said Edea kneeling for avoid the shots. That comment gave Will and Kuran an idea, at the same time.

"You up for doing another thing stupid?" Will grinned.

"I am more in the mood for something outright crazy"

"Guys, you start to scare me." Said Rena after of shot down a Ignis Wraith.

"Deal with it" shrugged Kuran

Will then crawled into the canon. "Ready when you are."

Kuran got at the cannon and smirked "Let's get this guy"

"When you got a good aim, fire."

Kuran nods and waits… and waits carefully… and once the captain was at a good spot, he shoot.

Will braced himself as he crashed into the captain, his upper body busting into bits. Will got up and kicked his skull to the others, "Head's up."

"Guys, you're both insane."

"Kairi… don't worry about this. You'll get used to it as well over time" explained Kuran and looked at the head "I wish I had read Hamlet though…"

"Kiss my ass!" Suddenly said the captain's skull, and with the scare, Rena kicked the head out the ship, disappearing in the sky.

Looking after the head, Kuran told "You know… since this guy is a living skeleton, it shouldn't be THAT scary or surprising that he can still talk even if detached from his body"

"One, the only skeletons that I fought until this world were Fallen. And two, when their head were detached, they disappeared." Said Rena. "It just got me off guard."

"I see" told Kuran "Well… I think with that we captured the ship. Now we should figure out how to sail it without crashing into the next sole mountain within miles"

"Best if one of you do it...I can't drive or steer." Will said.

"And about the map, we can use Eve's help for guide us to there." Said Kairi.

"Good idea. I don't want be in this ship if he is the captain." Said Edea signaling Al, who inside Dan's skull was yelling incorrect captain-type orders, showing that for be a genie he had no idea of how rule a ship, annoying Dan more than needed.

Sighing told Kuran to Kairi "Get the course…"

Then he called to the crew "Alright! We sized this ship and anybody who doesn't agree will be thrown overboard! The only thing we want is to get to Zarok's lair! Once we are there, you are free to run! And now hoist the sails, pull the anchor and set course to Zarok's lair! And anything that comes from the guy insides the skeleton's head is instantly considered as belayed! Got me?"

"Any objections? No? Good now set sail!" Will shouted.

After that, they sailed in direction to Zarok's Lair, hoping to finish this sinister, but strange, nightmare.