Before we begin, I quickly want to explain how I made the Lore about the worlds.

All worlds have some sort of magic in them. Most are barely noticeable, while others change visitors' form, all to keep the world order. The Organization coat protects the Nobodies both from the darkness but also the light that changes one shape. I hope this clears up a few things.

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The forest has become lighter now that the sun is up, meaning the vacation time is soon at its end, but it's not like the group has any ways of returning back to the castle. "So, did that snake tell you anything?" Axel asks Xion while they all traverse the forest like a bunch of deer, not the way he expected this vacation to be, but hey; makes for one hell of a memory.

Saix jumps over a large tree trunk, closely followed by Roxas. Meanwhile, Xion replies to the red deer beside her. "She said something about unlocking my true powers; only there will we be able to leave." Xion tries to jump over the large trunk, but didn't get high enough and ended up landing halfway on the trunk.

Axel gently pushes Xion over with his antlers, when sure she is over and away, he jumps over this obstacle. "Any idea what powers 'she' spoke about?" He asks right as he lands beside the dark grey fawn.

"Maybe the ability to understand creatures such as her?" Xion tries to shrug, but it's hard when walking on four legs. "She did have the same symbol as the sound making kangaroo."

Not to mention it was that snake that put them into this weird situation in the first place, so, in that case. "We should track down the cobra," Saix suggests the three others, he stops briefly so Axel can get up beside him. "It was the one who put us into this situation in the first place by destroying our coats." Axel nods in agreement and Saix turns to the dark grey fawn that is Xion. "Can you hear its voice?"

Xion walks a little beforehand the others, hear ears moving at her listening intensely after the voice of the cobra. She stops and stares at a certain angle, "I hear her, she is calling. Wants us to find her." and Xion sets into a run. "This way!"

The others quickly follow, going way faster thanks to their deer shapes. Xion leads them to a more open area in the form of a meadow, but right as they are about to enter this area: "Wait!" A female voice calls and the group is stopped by a doe.

A fawn appears from the forest as well, gives Roxas a quick look before turning to the doe, asking her, "Mother, what's wrong?" proving to be this doe's son.

"You must never rush out to the meadow." The mother doe gently lectures both her son and Xion. "There might be danger. Out there, we won't be protected by the forest." She eyes the meadow, "So we have to be very careful." adding mostly to her son, "Wait here, I'll go out first." and she slowly heads out to the meadow.

Roxas is a bit confused by that doe's hesitating and warning of going out to the meadow area. "But there aren't any Heartless here, and if they were," He eyes his friends "we can fight them, right?"

"We can't really use our weapons like this." Axel points out and lifts his right leg to prove his points. Roxas summons his keyblade but can't even hold it with his mouth as the handle is too big, so the light-brown fawn dismisses it with: "Maybe it is a good thing there's no Heartless…"

"What is a Heartless?" The other fawn asks, making the group turn to him. "Are they dangerous?"

"Very, but they aren't any here." Axel replies to the fawn.

The fawn smiles, "That's good." and shyly asks these two other fawns. "Are you here for the meadow too?"

But before either of them can answer, his mother calls, "Come on, Bambi, it's alright."

"Sounds like there's no danger." Axel remarks and begins to walk out to the meadow, Roxas and Xion follows without much thought. Saix casts the fawn named Bambi a look. The fawn is hesitating but Saix shrugs it off and follows the others.

Bambi slowly joins his mother and when she starts running playfully around. He casts away his fear and leaps after her, both running and jumping around as only happy deer can do.

Bambi does stop his happy running around when he almost runs into that other male fawn, he backs away and runs a big circle around him, no idea how to be around other fawns and think he rather play on his own.

Both the young keyblade wielders stops and watch Bambi run around, both curious of why he's doing that for no apparent reason. "What is he running from?" Xion asks.

A quick check and Axel replies with a small laugh. "He's just playing."

"Playing? What's that?" Roxas asks, casting another look to Bambi that is now running around in the small river. He titles his head at this as it reminds him of how the local kids in Twilight Town would be running around when he and the others are sitting and eating ice cream at the clock tower.

Axel opens his mouth to explain, but stops himself. How in the world is he supposed to explain how goofing around and being silly feels like? He looks at Saix for help, but that light grey stag only gives him a 'that's your own grave' look, so no support from there. With no other idea, Axel admits, "It's hard to explain," and suggests. "but why don't you join him?" Roxas and Xion gives him a dumbfounded look, but hey, since they are stuck here, might as well put their vacation time to some good use. "We can stay here for a little while."

The two exchanged a look, before Roxas runs over to Bambi, the other male fawn bashfully backs away, only to back up against another fawn. One way more open and playfully as that one runs around him and the two key bearers, laughing loudly.

This new female fawn stops before Roxas, tilting her head, still smiling before starting to jump around. Roxas almost stumbles over himself in an attempt to keep an eye on this agile fawn, then, when she splashes some water on him by running through a small pond. Roxas finds himself compelled to return the favor and begins to run after her, he didn't hit the new fawn but Xion instead.

"Hey!" She cries and before he can apologize, she jumps right into the water, splashing water on him and the female fawn. The female fawn gets into a fit of giggles and soon running around the nervous Bambi; who tries to get away from her. Roxas didn't really notice, he's busier trying to splash Xion with water. Bambi did get over his shyness and soon all four are chasing each other around at the pond area. The chase leads out from the pond area, and out to the meadow.

They do stop for a moment when a lot of adult deer appear, many of them are stags and when seeing a pair briefly butt heads. Bambi tries to copy them towards Roxas, the light-brown fawn does the same and they laughing pushes each other with their heads, before joining the two girls in their play of chasing one another.

Their chase leads over to Axel and Saix, both watching intrigued but also baffled that Roxas and Xion, in fact, are able to know what playing is without even know what it fully means. The playing group runs off again. Axel turns to his friend, hesitates but then pushes him with his head. Saix stares at him for a moment, before returning the favor by headbutting him. The two have a moment of fun pretending to be real deer, ending with Saix toppling his friend over, looking down at him with a smug smirk. Axel gets back up, but whatever he was going to say... never leaves his mouth. Cries of a large murder of crows made them both look up and when checking the area, they notice that all of the animals on the meadow are either running or hiding away.

One look from the light grey stag and Axel hurries over to the oblivious of the danger kids. He stops them, "Something's wrong." and quickly leads them back to Saix, while the mothers of Bambi and the female fawn leave the meadow area as well.

Noticing the sounds of barking dogs that are fast approaching. "We have to leave, now." Saix tells them and starts running the same way as the inhabitants of this world did.

Axel, Xion and Roxas follow his example. The sounds of dogs are getting closer and right as they reach the forest, a loud 'bam!' of a gun echoes through the meadow.

Hearing that, Axel voices his thoughts, "Why did this world turn us to deer if there exist humans?" but another shot from that hunter made him brush that question off and instead follow the others deeper into the forest, the echoes of the dogs can still be heard, but it seems safe for now.

"Xion, where's the snake?" Saix demands. Xion nods to where she can hear the voice, but it's also where the dogs' bark can be heard, looks like they have to fight their way through.

Saix starts to move that direction, but Axel stops him when he sees darkness is leaking out from his friend's right shoulder. "You're hurt." Did that hunter hit him?

"I'm fine, it looks worse than it is." Saix brushes it off, the shot only didn't hit anything vital and he has dealt with more significant wounds that this. Eyeing Xion, "Lead the way." she nods, and they begin to run towards the dogs.

Didn't take long before the pack of dogs found them. Roxas did try and summon his keyblade, but as he has no way of using it and as a fawn, neither he or Xion have the strength or any shape of weapon to defend themselves. So, they cannot do much other than run away from these rabid dogs. Axel and Saix did come to his and Xion's aid, using their antlers as weapons. They charge into the dogs, throws them, and thanks to their bigger sizes, kicks the dogs away from the two fawns.

The dogs refused to give up, though, so all the two stags can do is keeping them at bay while Xion guides them towards the cobra.

They get to a rocky area, Xion manages to climb over the loose rocks but Roxas lost his footings and would've slid back to the pack Saix is keeping at bay if not for Axel catching him by the antlers and then using them to push him over this steep and rocky area. Saix joins them not soon after. He and Axel break several rocks free, causing a landslide that makes the dogs drop back to the area below. "That won't keep them down for long." Axel voices, his friend does not answer, only moves to follow the two keyblade wielders. Axel follows his example.

"This way!" Xion calls, running as fast as she can with Roxas right beside her, and between two cliffs, they both jump. Axel and Saix follow, only for the latter to get shot, and he crashes on the other side, this time having trouble getting back up.

Xion and Roxas run over to their wounded comrade, with Roxas asking confused and afraid: "Why are they only hitting him?"

"It's because of his pelt." Axel replies as he lands beside them. "Hunters love to add a white deer to their collection." Of course, the kids don't fully understand, and there's no time to explain. He quickly scans the area before going to help his wounded comrade back on his feet. "Come on, pal, get up." Saix struggles, but he has always been stubborn which now comes to the man's advantage. He gets up but it's clear that shot took its toll.

They all duck when another shot; this one misses them by a hair and instead hits a tree right beside them.

Axel pushes Saix, making him move, his friend limps away but even as they get back into the forest. Saix stands out with those almost white color of his. And being a rare sight makes him a prime target for this hunter current chasing them. "The universe must really hate you." Axel speaks only for his friend's ears.

Saix nods in agreement and knowing these hunters of this world won't let their target in the form of a white stag get away. "Leave me." He tells Axel hard. "They are only aiming at me." And the others seriously does not need that sort of distraction in the search for the cobra.

"What? No!" Roxas argues, and agreeing with Roxas they shouldn't leave a friend behind: "We won't leave you!" Xion cries to Saix.

"I will be fine." Saix tells the two, yes these two gunshot wounds are slowing him down, but there needs a lot more before he starts to fade. "You need to find the cobra, and you can't with me slowing you down."

"Saix's right," Axel says and begins to leave, trusting that Saix is as strong as he always thought he is. This is one of the few advantages of not having a heart, for if he had been Lea in this situation. Then he would've refused just as much as Xion and Roxas are. "right now, the snake is our first priority." He jerks at the sound of the dogs, they are about to catch up to them. "No time to argue." Axel shoves the two kids the way Xion pointed before. "You just gotta trust him."

Roxas and Xion reluctantly follow Axel, leaving Saix behind, they reach the area where the cobra is awaiting them, curled around a large tree. Xion runs over to it, "Please, help us save our friend!" she begs. The cobra slowly lowers its head down to the dark grey fawn, her eyes wide in horror of its answer: no. "What? Why won't you help us?!" She demands. The cobra explains that it only will if she unlocks her true power. But Xion has no idea what her true power is!

Roxas runs over to the snake, from what Xion said, it refuses to help. "You caused this to happen!" He yells angrily up to it, "Do you want our friend to fade away?"

That depends on her. The cobra replies simply, and with those words, it flies away. In utter disbelief of this abandonment, Xion spins around and runs back down to where Saix is. Axel stops her: "No, you try and get that snake to help us out. I will go and help Saix." He tells her hard and jumps down to the area where Saix is fighting those dogs.

"But… she won't help us…" Xion begins to cry, not sure what she can do to make the cobra listen.

Roxas hates to see his friend cry like this, he feels so sorry for her and it enrages him that the snake is the cause of this. Because of it, they might lose a friend. He glares up to where the snake flew off. "Keyblade or not, I am going to beat it until it's going to help us." He growls, anger causing the fur at his neck to raise.

Xion turns to where she can hear the cobra, enraged in how she is pretty much watching Axel and Saix getting torn apart by those dogs while the owner of the gunshots is approaching. She had it with that cobra!

'That's enough!' She glares up to where the cobra is, she can feel it and with her mind, Xion takes hold, forcing it to hear her words. 'Invi! You will help my friends or I will send you back to where you belong!' The cobra flinches, tries to resist, but Xion is too scared for her friends' safety and too angry in how it denied her request when asked nicely, so now she is forcing it to obey.

The cobra struggles but does submit to her will. It flies down to where Axel and Saix are, a powerful wind strike, and all of the dogs are blown away, then it chases the one who shot Saix off.

The two stags appear, both quite beaten up but Saix looks worse for wear, but he's is walking. "Nicely done Xion." He praises her, winching both in pain but mostly in surprise when he gets a dark grey fawn right against his chest. Xion doing the best deer vision of a hug. He can only stand there, no idea how to appropriately react on such a human reaction from what is supposed to be only an emthy replica.

Axel is no help, guy's grinning like an idiot.

Xion does step away from him when the cobra returns. Her glare fades in whatever it is telling her, it does slightly return but she avoids the snake's eyes. "I won't thank you for it…" The cobra seems to accept that, and with a strike of the tail, a portal opens. Xion casts it one look, and when it has flown off, she tells them. "This portal will lead back to Twilight Town, she said it won't harm us."

"Better leave before I have to carry Saix." Axel points out and steps into the portal, and after some disorientated light-show, he stumbles out, in a human shape into Twilight Town. Not long after Roxas, Xion and Saix follow, with the latter saying: "That's never going to happen." He's holding over the gunshot wound he took in the shoulder and Axel notes himself to help Saix get that bullet out when they get back to the castle.

"Aside from the dog part, I found this vacation pretty fun." Roxas voices and asks his three friends, "Or was I'm the only one?"

"I had fun too." Xion says, "It was fun being a deer for a day."

"Yeah, we should try that again someday." Roxas laughs, Xion nods in agreement.

"Let's get back to the castle." Axel tells the two, mostly so he can avoid saying that he didn't enjoy this vacation all because he does not have a heart to feel such things. Prefer to let the kids keep this illusion. Adding from the look Xion and Roxas give him. "Don't worry, the short trip between here and The World That Never Was won't be enough to hurt us." They nod, and they all return to the Nobody world and thus ending their single day vacation.


Not only did this give me a chance to involve Bambi's world but also write the Sea-salt group have some innocent fun, at least until those dogs came and ruined it all, but hey, it did reveal the name of the cobra, or at least, the name of its master.

comments are always appreciated, let it either be your thoughts on the story itself or things I can improve on