Now for the first new world of this story!

Rapunzel: "YAY!"

Okay Raps, I'm happy too.

Rapunzel: "I'm just happy from that last review you got!"

Oh yeah. Responding to "Hero of Neutrality"; don't worry, I'll never abandon a story.
Not this one, not Modern Family, and definitely not Tomb Raider.

Rapunzel: "Couldn't have said it better! gamePsycho11 doesn't own Kingdom Hearts, Square Enix or Disney."

Chapter 6: Kingdom of Corona Part I:
The Girl in the Tower

They went back up to the cockpit and saw the new world in front of them.

The Kingdom of Corona.

"Wow...it's huge!" said Kairi. "I wonder what kind of place this is!"

"Let's find out," Mickey said, then they all warped down.

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They arrived in an area with grass, and hills. There was a waterfall and a small stream.

"It's beautiful," Aqua said.

Yuffie ran over to a nearby rock and lost her lunch.

Riku went over and patted her back, "You okay?"

Yuffie coughed and gagged a bit, "I will be..."

"Uh, what the hell, Yuffie?" Sora questioned.

"Sorry, I forgot to mention, I have motion sickness," the ninja confessed.

"You have motion sickness?" Axel did a double-take. "But you're a ninja!"

"I know I'm a ninja!" Yuffie shouted. "Don't rub it in!"

Riku rubbed her back, and held out something.

"Here," he offered. "It's motion sickness pills."

"Thanks," Yuffie said as she took them, as well as gulped down some water from her bottle.

"Hey, look," Goofy drew everyone's attention to a strange tower, not far ahead of them.

"That's strange," said Aqua. "Who'd build a tower way out in the middle of nowhere?"

"Let's check it out," said Mickey.

Even stranger was that there didn't seem to be any way up.

"Okay, whoever built this clearly never wanted to leave," Terra said.

"We'll go up first," Riku volunteered, meaning himself, Sora and Kairi.

Sora picked the redhead up bridal style, then ran up the wall of the tower, followed by Riku.

Kairi held onto Sora, being sure not to look down.

Once they reached the only open window, Kairi went in first, while Sora and Riku waited outside by holding onto the sides of the tower.

The place had a kitchen, a mirror, a bookshelf, and paintings all over the walls. There were stairs that led to a second floor.

"Nice place," she surmised, then noticed something by her foot. It was long, and golden yellow.

Kneeling down to get a closer look, she picked it up. It felt like...
"Hair?"

Kairi's instincts then told her something was coming. She summoned her Keyblade, quickly turned around and blocked a frying pan from hitting her in the head. …Wait, frying pan?

Kairi looked up...and saw a girl of at least 17 years, wearing a pinkish-purple dress...and she had really long, golden blonde hair.

No, really...her hair was so long, it practically covered the floor!

"What the-?!" The blonde gasped. "A girl? I thought you were a bandit!"

"Uh..." Kairi honestly didn't know what to say.

Sora and Riku stuck their heads in.

"Is that another girl we hear?" The silver haired teen asked.

"W-who are you?!" the girl asked. "Identify yourselves!"

"Whoa, easy!" Sora cried. "We just happened to pass by."

Still being cautious, the girl held her frying pan in front of her.

Then, a green chameleon appeared on her head, and scampered over to the tip of the pan, and squinted at the three off-worlders.

"Uh...hi...?" Sora asked, not knowing what to think.

"Look, I'm sorry we scared you," Kairi apologized. "But we mean you no harm."

"What she said," Riku agreed.

"How about, uh...introductions?" Sora offered. "I'm Sora."

"My name's Kairi," the redhead introduced herself.

"Riku," said the oldest of the trio.

"I'm Rapunzel," said the girl before she gestured to the chameleon, "And this is Pascal."

"Okay, Rapunzel," Kairi began. "Why do you live here, all by yourself?"

"Oh, I don't live by myself!" said Rapunzel. "I live with my Mother!"

"Your mom?" asked Kairi.

"She left to go get me something," Rapunzel said. "She'll be gone for a few days."

"How'd she get down?" Riku asked. "There's no stairs, ladder, or anything to climb down with."

"Oh, she just used my hair as a rope," Rapunzel answered, holding up her abnormally long locks.

"Wow...that's...pretty innovative," said Kairi.

"Thank you," said Rapunzel.

"Wait, so your mother is the only one that leaves?" Sora questioned. "You've never been outside?"

"Not really, no," Rapunzel said. "Mother says the outside world is very dangerous. But, I've already proven to myself that I can handle it. …Oh! I completely forgot!"

She ran over to a light blue closet that was held closed by a light green colored chair, and pulled the chair away.

Kairi raised an eyebrow, "Skeleton in your closet?"

Rapunzel opened the door...and an unconscious man fell out!

"Whoa!" Kairi cried. "Who's that?!"

"I don't know," Rapunzel responded.

"IS EVERYTHING OKAY UP THERE?!" Mickey's voice called from outside.

"Who's that?!" Rapunzel jumped.

"Relax, it's just our friends," Sora assured her, going over to the window. "Everything's fine! We'll be down in a few minutes!"

Riku picked up the unconscious man and placed him in the chair,
"Alright, let's find out what this guy's doing here."

Pascal climbed onto the man's shoulder, and poked his cheek with his tail, trying to wake him. But that didn't work.

"Try a tongue to the ear," Riku suggested.

"Ew!" Kairi shivered.

Pascal smirked, then shot his long tongue into the man's ear, successfully waking him. Then he gave two startled yelps; first from the tongue in his ear, second, because Riku was only a few inches away from him, giving an intimidating stare.

"Good morning, sunshine," Riku said.

"Uh...who are you?" the man asked.

"I think we should ask you the same question," said Riku.

"The name's Flynn Rider," the man answered.

Rapunzel stepped over cautiously, holding her frying pan out,
"Who else knows my location, Flynn Rider?"

"Alright Blondie-" Flynn began.

"Rapunzel," she interrupted, telling him her name.

"Gesundheit," he responded. "Here's the deal; I was in a situation, galivanting through the forest, I came across your tower, and-" Then he looked around frantically. "Where's my satchel?"

"I've hidden it," said Rapunzel. "And it's somewhere you'll never find it."

Flynn looked around a bit, "It's in that pot, isn't it?"

BONG

"What'd you do that for?!" Sora asked. "You didn't have to knock him out again!"

"Well, um-" Rapunzel looked a bit embarrassed.

Kairi went over to the pot, and pulled out said satchel,
"Really?"

"What's in there that you don't want him to find?" Riku asked.

"...A tiara," said Rapunzel.

"Really?" Kairi asked before she reached inside and pulled out a diamond tiara. "Oh, wow!" She then put it on her head. "Sora, what do you think?"

Sora blushed a little before he smiled, sheepishly.

Kairi smiled back at him, blushing.
"Okay, let's find a better hiding place for this, and finish the interrogation."

"Or, we can just keep it with us," Riku suggested. "He wouldn't be able to take it from us anyway."

"That works, too," said Kairi.

"Cool," Riku responded.

Kairi placed the tiara back in the satchel and handed it to Sora.

Riku stepped back over to Flynn,
"Pascal, if you would?"

Pascal woke Flynn up again by sticking his tongue in his ear.

"AGH!" Flynn cried before he wiped his ear on his shoulder. "Will you STOP doing that?!"

"So, what do you want with my hair?" Rapunzel questioned.

"Uh...what does your hair have to do with anything?" Sora asked.

"Your hair IS longer than normal, but what would anyone want with your hair?" Kairi added.

"Yeah, what they said," Flynn said.

"Because that's why Mother locked me up here," said Rapunzel. "To keep me safe."

"...Why do I have a feeling that's not why...?" Sora whispered.

"Look, I was being chased, I saw a tower, I climbed it," Flynn explained. "End of story."

Riku looked him in the eye,
"Hm...he's telling the truth."

Rapunzel went over to the top of the fireplace. and pulled back a curtain, revealing a painted picture of nighttime, and some floating lights.
"Okay, Flynn Rider, do you know what these are?"

"You mean the lantern thing they do for the princess?" Flynn asked.

"Lanterns...?" Rapunzel whispered. "I knew they weren't stars!"

"Wait, what lanterns?" asked Kairi. "And what princess?"

"Oh, I don't know," Flynn answered. "A while back, the king and queen lost their daughter and now they fly some lanterns into the sky on the night of her birthday."

"Huh," Rapunzel hummed. "The lanterns also fly on MY birthday, which is tomorrow. So, Flynn Rider; you, Sora, Kairi, Riku, and their friends waiting outside, will act as my guides, take me to see these lanterns, and return me home safely. Only then, will we return your satchel."

"Okay, sounds good," Sora agreed.

"Sure," Kairi smiled.

"Deal," Riku added.

"Good for you, but not me," Flynn argued. "Me and the kingdom aren't exactly Sympatico at the moment."

"Why not?" Riku asked with a glare in his eyes, causing Flynn to tense up. "You're not hiding anything...are you, Flynn?"

"You can try to get your satchel back by force, but it won't end well for you," Sora warned him, spinning the satchel around by its strap.

Flynn sighed, "Let me get this straight: I help these guys take you to see the lanterns, bring you back home, and you'll give me back my satchel?"

"I promise," Rapunzel said, getting close to him and glaring. "And when I promise something, I never, ever, break that promise. EVER."

"She sounds honest," said Riku. "I say 'What have you got to lose'?"

"Fine, I'll do it," Flynn gave in.

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Sora, Kairi and Riku jumped out the tower's window.

"Finally!" Axel exclaimed. "What took so long?"

"I'm guessing there's people living here?" Terra asked.

"We're not sure about all the details," Kairi said as Flynn climbed down the tower with arrows.

Then, Rapunzel threw her hair out, then came sliding down on it like it was a rope. She laughed as she twirled around on it, but when she was about to reach the bottom, she gasped and stopped herself, just a mere foot (literally) away from the ground.

She seemed to hesitate for a moment...but then she stepped down onto the ground and a huge smile appeared on her face.

"Uh...are you okay?" asked Kairi.

"...I'm better than okay...!" Rapunzel whispered before she began to sing.

"Just smell the grass, the dirt,
Just like I dreamed they'd be~!"

The wind blew, carrying some dandelion seeds, which Rapunzel chased after, playfully.

"Just feel that summer breeze,
The way it's calling me~!"

She ended up walking right into a pond of water, feeling its coolness and wetness on her ankles.

"For like the first time ever, I'm completely free~!
I could go running
And racing
And dancing
And chasing
And leaping
And bounding
Hair flying
Heart pounding
And splashing
And reeling
And finally feeling

That's when my life begins~!"

"Who's that?" Mickey asked.

"That's Rapunzel," Sora answered. "This is her very first time outside."

"Like, ever?!" Yuffie questioned.

"Yeah, it's crazy," Riku said.

"Gawrsh!" Goofy exclaimed. "I'd act that way, too, if I were her!"

Rapunzel was laughing and dancing around like a giddy little girl.

"I can't believe I did this!" she exclaimed. "...I can't believe I did this...I CAN'T BELIEVE I DID THIS!"

"...Well...she's excited," said Aqua.

"Mother would be so furious..." Rapunzel muttered, fearfully.

A while later, the group was watching Rapunzel sitting in the middle of a pond, looking at lilies.

"Well, that's okay," she said. "What she doesn't know won't kill her, right?"

Then, she was sitting inside a cave, hugging her knees and rocking back and forth.

"Oh, my gosh," she said. "This would KILL her!"

Then Rapunzel was seen running around in the woods.

"This is so FUN~!" she shouted as she kicked up some leaves, getting some on Flynn and Riku.

Then she was up in a tree.

"I am a horrible daughter," she lamented. "I'm going back."

Then, she was seen rolling down a hill, getting tangled up in her own hair.

"I am never going back~!" she exclaimed. "Woo-hoo!"

Then she was seen lying face-down in the grass.

"I am a DESPICABLE human being!" she cried.

Then she was seen, using her hair to swing around and around on a tree.

"WHOO-HOOOOOOOO~!" she shouted. "Best! Day! EVER!"

Everyone watched her in amusement, joy and concern, or in Flynn's case; annoyance.

Soon, Rapunzel was sitting against some rocks...crying her eyes out.

"Poor thing," Kairi said, worriedly. "I wonder if she's gonna be okay."

"She's probably more than a little at war with herself," Axel surmised.

"My thoughts exactly," Flynn agreed.

"Huh?" Rapunzel looked up, finally noticing the rest of the group that she hadn't met yet.

"This is Axel," said Kairi as she put her hand on Axel's shoulder, then jokingly tapped her finger against her. "Got it memorized?"

"Hey, that's my line," Axel said, but he smirked, nonetheless, and Rapunzel did laugh a little bit.

"Donald Duck."

"I'm Goofy. Pleasure ma'am."

"I'm Mickey."

"The name's Yuffie."

"I'm Aqua."

"And my name's Terra."

"It's nice to meet all of you," said Rapunzel.

There was rustling sound in the bushes, making Rapunzel climb onto Flynn in fear,
"Is it ruffians? Thugs? Have they come for me?"

But all that came out of the bushes was a little rabbit.

"...Don't move," said Flynn, sarcastically. "It can probably smell fear."

"Oh, sorry," Rapunzel got off him. "Guess I'm just a little bit...jumpy."

"Hey, it's okay," Sora said. "I used to be the same way."

"Really?" asked Rapunzel.

"Yeah," Sora replied. "You just gotta get used to being outside."

"Are you hungry, blondie?" Flynn asked. "I know a great place for lunch!"

They followed Flynn's lead and walked off. As they walked, though...they had no idea they were being watched.

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The group came to a small field of dandelions.

Sora picked one and put it in Kairi's hair.

"Aww, Sora!" Kairi said. "Thank you!"

Sora chuckled and blushed at her while Riku blinked, then looked at Yuffie.

Rapunzel gasped at a big white dandelion puff.

"Oh, look at that!" she exclaimed as she ran up to it. "I wonder what kind of flower it is!"

"...Hold it," said Aqua. "I'm getting a bad feeling about that-"

Before she could stop her, though, the Dandelion Puff revealed itself to be a Heartless!

Many other Heartless appeared around it, all looking like big brown seeds with leaves for arms and on their heads.

Rapunzel backed away, "What the?!"

Before the Dandelion Heartless could attack her, a blast of fire knocked it back, courtesy of Axel.

"Get back, blondie!" he told her. "We'll handle this!"

"Mother said that the outside was filled with ruffians and thugs!" Rapunzel exclaimed.

"They're neither," said Kairi as she drew her Keyblade. "These are monsters called Heartless!"

"Demons?!" Rapunzel questioned. "But they don't even have fangs!"

"They're not exactly demons, but pretty damn close," Yuffie said, pulling out some shuriken.

"Sounds like your mother came up with all kinds of reasons to keep you from leaving," Riku said, drawing his Keyblade.

Soon, the Heartless began to attack, but Sora began to use his Aero spell to send them flying in a whirlwind, and Kairi knocked a few of them down!

Mickey jumped around in constant spinning attacks, while Riku and Axel rushed through Heartless after Heartless.

"Wait! Let me help, too!" Rapunzel called out before she used her hair to lasso some of the Heartless!

Then she spun them around and slammed them into the Chief Puff, creating a golden shockwave, which destroyed all the Puffballs.

"...Whoa...!" Sora whispered.

"That...was...SO COOL!" Kairi exclaimed.

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Mother Gothel rushed back to the tower. She'd seen a palace horse, without it's rider, and now she feared the worst.

Once she got to the base of the tower,
"Rapunzel, let down your hair~!"

No response.

Gasping, Mother Gothel went into the tower using a hidden passage that was covered by vines.

She burst in through a trap door,
"Rapunzel?!"

But Rapunzel was nowhere to be found, and by now, Mother Gothel was getting more desperate.

"Missing someone?" A male voice spoke out.

"Who's there?" Mother Gothel looked behind her and saw a man.

He was tall and elegant, wearing a black coat, gloves and boots. He had shoulder length rose-pink hair with ruffles, and blue eyes.

Marluxia, Number XI, the Graceful Assassin of Organization XIII. Originally destroyed by Sora at Castle Oblivion after using Naminé to try to make the young boy his puppet to help overthrow the Organization. Now, one of Xehanort's thirteen vessels.

Mother Gothel was a bit frightened by the look in this man's eyes.

"She's such a precious little gift, isn't she?" Marluxia mused as he approached her.

Mother Gothel then glared at him, "If you think I'll let you hurt her-"

"Oh no, you misunderstand," Marluxia held up his hands in defense. "I was merely gonna offer my assistance to help bring her back."

"...I beg your pardon?" Mother Gothel asked.

"Surely a woman in your "situation" wouldn't want to lose her precious flower," Marluxia said. "And, it couldn't hurt to have a helping hand. Because if you tried to take her back on your own, her new friends will see into your heart, know your true intentions, and ruin everything. Fortunately, I know how to deal with those meddlers."

"...I'm listening," said Mother Gothel.

We're following the movie a bit more, including the songs!

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