Author's Note: Been driving myself crazy on which new world I should do even before I finished off the first district of Olympus Coliseum. The original plan was to have the world based on Emperor's New Groove later on in the story, but between deciding either to do Tangled next, or Frozen next, or another idea which I still plan to have it later on, or even considering of maybe adding Toy Story(probably won't but if you're not happy with me not adding it, I'll add it), but I've admitted defeat and decided to go with this next.

I don't own Kingdom Hearts or Final Fantasy.

CH5: Not so Groovin'.

In a world not too far from Olympus Coliseum, Maleficent was looking out of the window of a large, golden palace which recently has ben redecorated in dark purple tapestries and terrifying statues. The witch was still doubting that what Hades told her was true, considering how he has a history of being a liar, even towards other villians back two years ago. On the other hand, he had his hands full, but she was fully aware that Sora and his friends would no doubt meddle yet again. But as long as those fools were unaware of her current plans, they'll be too busy, which gave her full advantage.

She dismissed her thoughts for the time being and turned back to the conversation she was having with Beckett who came along for this special trip as Pete had gone off under her orders. The Lord of the EITC was speaking with an old woman with pale wrinkled skin, wearing a dark purple dress with a plumage collar, matching head dress and huge purple earrings, and looked as though she owned the place, which, given the latest development that's happened just recently, she did.

"Quite astonding that you managed to take over the Palace and declaring yourself as a rightful leader to this world, Yzma." Beckett told the woman who grinned at him.

"Oh please, Mr. Beckett." Yzma waved off, "This is nothing compared that you and Maleficent have accomplished."

"In which case, perhaps it's best to get down to business." Beckett replied, politely gesturing at Maleficent to speak.

The witch nodded, and said, "How would you like to go even further, if you agree to help me in the goal of finding two powerful artifacts? A Book of Prophicies and a Black Box, perhaps?"

"I don't know anything about those two, but I might lend a hand." Yzma said, while behind her, a tall muscular young man with black hair dressed in blue and yellow was busy cooking on a small barbeque behind her. "After all, I can always send my henchman to do it."

"Are you talking about that man who foolishly turned the Emperor into an animal?" Beckett scoffed.

The old woman smirked, "Well, I must admit, I was worried when Kronk mixed up those potions, but now that Kuzco is dead, all is forgiven."

This made Kronk shake, as he accidently began to mess up the cooking and accidently burnt the cleaning cloth before quickly putting it out, and pretended to be innocent, which, unfortunately, caught attention of the other three. So, he said, nervously, "Ah. Oh, yeah, yeah. He's...heh. He's dead, all right. I mean, you can't get much deader than he - than he is right now. Unless, of course, we killed him again."

This immediately made Yzma suspicious and approached him before he could distract himself, grabbing him by the cheeks and asked, "Kuzco is dead, right? Tell me Kuzco's dead. I need to hear these words."

"Do you need to hear all those words exactly?"

Yzma froze at this response, before growling through her teeth, "He's still alive!?"

"Well, he's not as dead as we would've hoped." Kronk admitted in embarrassment.

"Kronk...!" Yzma snarled, her face turning red.

"I just thought I'd give you the heads-up in case Kuzco ever came back."

"He can't come back!"

"Yeah. That would be kind of awkward - especially after that lovely eulogy." Kronk recalled.

Not responding to that, Yzma grabbed Kronk by the collar and pulled him down to her level. "You and I are going out to find him. If he talks, we are through! Now, let's, move!"

When she regained her posture, she noticed that Maleficent and Beckett were watching her. The latter then cleared his throat and told her calmly, his expression not having changed even the slightest, "I believe you may need to calm your temper and focus on what you need to do."

"The Heartless will help you in retrieving Kuzo. The darkness can help as long as you don't seep too deep into it." Maleficent suggested.

Yzma growled at the two of them, before sighing and grumbled while placing her hands on her hips, "Oh, well. It's a start, I suppose."

She then clapped her hands, and a small army of Heartless appeared, in forms of Jagulars with the Heartless symbols on their chests, their eyes yellow, fur all purple, and claws black. "Find Kuzo and either bring him here or finish him off!" Yzma ordered.

The Heartless bowed their respect before vanishing into the darkness. Yzma in the meantime dragged Kronk out of the Palace without giving a farewell to Maleficent and Beckett.

"Very ill tempered, that woman." Beckett admitted, with slight annoyance.

Maleficent could only nod in agreement.

{Kuzco-Topia}

Having traversed through the worlds between gate-ways now that Sora had a better idea how to get across once more, he and his team had left Olympus Coliseum behind and travelled in the Gummiship to really begin their quest per Zeus' advice. Though all of them knew that this journey will be three times difficult as the last time, much to their dismay, but they were not backing down now.

They now found themselves in a new world with a large Palace, a Jungle, and a Hill-Top village before Mickey declared to make landing. Soon the beams of light rained down in the middle of a hilltop village as Sora, Riku, Kairi, Mickey, Donald, Goofy, Lea, Isa, Roxas, Xion, Ven, Terra, Aqua, Skuld, Myde and Jack Sparrow appeared as the lights revealed them. The sixteen travellers glanced around their new surroundings as they took in the sight of the night sky, lush green lawns and small huts decorating the hill. All seemed quiet.

"Where is everyone?" Terra asked.

"Maybe they're asleep right now." Skuld suggested, "It is pretty late."

"Maybe not everyone, 'cause I don't think people up on the top had gone to bed." Myde pointed out as he pointed up at the hill, where lights from the window of the hut at the very top were still on.

The others nodded in agreement, before Kairi tried and failed to cover a soft yawn behind her hand, looking quite sleepy.

"You okay, Kairi?" Xion asked.

"I'm okay. Just really sleepy." Kairi responded.

"Me too." Sora complimented, stretching his arms up as he yawned himself, and the others suddenly realised just how really tired they were. He then suggested, "Maybe they'll let us stay the night. I bet all of us could use a rest."

"I agree. Let's go ask." Aqua replied.

Lea stretched his arms up, commenting, "Man, would I give for a nice soft bed and warm fire."

"And a nice soft bed. With a soft pillow..." Myde yawned.

"Not sure I would be getting much sleep with the movement underneath me." Jack grumbled. He was in for a rough night. He was certain of it. It's been years since he slept in a bed on dry land and that'd been before he ran off when he was a teenager.

The others didn't say anything and instead all of them made their way up the hill. The walk was peaceful without a single heartless in sight as off yet. No one said a word, as they were all tired and were glad for the peace and quiet. Soon they arrived at the top of the hill where one of the natives was sitting on the edge of a small stone pond. He was an overweight man in a green hand-made poncho, sandals and a brown hat. He had a pet white llama who was grazing with a cart still attached to its back. Sora and Ven looked towards the man and noticed that he looked sad. Without a second thought, the teenagers walked over to the man. Feeling that he wasn't alone anymore, the man lifted his head up and looked at the world-travellers with a confused expression on his face.

"Sir, are you okay?" Ven asked kindly.

The man nodded, "Oh, y-yeah, I'm fine. I'm just tired from my trip." Before asking, "Who are you? I don't think I've ever seen any of you around here before."

"I'm Ventus, but you call me Ven." Ven replied.

"And I'm Sora." Sora added, before indicating the rest of the group behind him and Ven, "These are our friends; Riku, Kairi, Aqua, Terra, Mickey, Donald, Goofy, Roxas, Xion, Lea, Isa, Myde, Skuld and Jack."

"Nice to meet you. I'm Pacha, I'm the village leader." Pacha replied with kindness as he shook everyone's hand. "So where are you all from?" At his question, the entire group tensed up and looked around at each other. No one said anything until Jack spoke up.

"Pretty far away, mate." The pirate responded, shrugging, "We've been travelling quite a lot that we haven't had much thought on where we came from, and it's kind of annoying sometimes, really." being exceptionally good in being a liar that easily makes people believe that he'd been telling the truth.

Sora and the others did their best not to be too surprised by this. Mickey had been seconds behind Jack in responding to Pacha's question, but held it off. Instead, he and the others nodding in agreement with Jack's fib.

"I see. Do you need anywhere to stay? I'm sure my wife won't mind; she loves house guests." Pacha asked, understanding.

"If that's alright with you." Aqua replied kindly, "We don't want to be intruding on you or your family."

"Or make things inconvienent." Skuld added.

"Well, no one else is going to be much help this late at night. And we have more than enough blankets. It'll be a bit of a squeeze though, if that's alright." Pacha responded. Sora and his friends looked at each other, before making their final decision.

"Gee, that's real nice of ya', Pacha." Mickey said, speaking for everyone.

However, before anyone else could respond, everyone noticed one of the bags on Pacha cart was moving. Myde approached it and began poking at the bag before he asked, "What's in here?"

"I don't know." Pacha replied, scratching his head in confusion as he approached the moving bag. "I don't even remember this bag being here."

"Maybe someone accidently dropped it in the city and you didn't even notice?" Roxas suggested.

"Most likely, now that you mention it." Pacha agreed, as he couldn't think of a better scenario, as he undid it. And out of the bag, to everyone's surprise, was another dizzy, black and red-furred llama. "Where'd you come from, little guy?" Pacha asked

"No touchy." The llama slurred, almost as though he was drunk. Everyone jumped in surprise at hearing the llama talk. Jack squeeked, Pacha and Lea both stumbled into Isa, Ven and Mickey, causing all four of them to fall onto the ground, Terra and Aqua both stood in defence stances, Roxas and Xion gapped and froze, Skuld gasped, covering her mouth, Donald jumped into Goofy's arms and the two clinged onto each other, Sora and Riku both stood protectively in front of Kairi and Myde shook violently in fear.

"AAHHH!" Myde screamed hysterically, pointing at the talking llama, before exclaiming, panicking, "Demon Llama!"

"Demon llama!? Where?" The llama asked, panicking himself as he turned to face the normal llama who screamed in fright. He in turn screamed in terror before the talking llama ran out of the bag, surprisingly on two legs before he lost his balance and tripped and rolled right into the wall of a small pond, and layed dazed upside down on the ground. "Ow, my head..."

"Very unusual demon llama..." Jack muttered, still stunned beyond belief.

"Gawsh, I hope he's okay." Goofy said, worriedly.

Pacha stood up and slowly approached the llama, saying to it slowly and calmly, "Okay, demon llama. Just take it easy. We mean you no harm."

The llama shook his head, shaking off the dizzyness, before asking the man, "What are you talking about?" before realising as though he recongised him as rightened himself up on his hooves and glared, "Oh, wait, I know you. You're that whiny peasant."

Pacha gasped at this response, suddenly realising why the voice sounded awfully familiar. But how could this be? "Emperor Kuzo?" He asked in disbelief.

"Yeah. Who do you think you were talkin' to?" Kuzco replied, not getting why the guy who he just met earlier was so shocked about now. What was it with peasents?

"Eh?" Jack asked, shocked even further.

"What?" Everyone else asked, shocked and disbelief.

"Wait a minute-this guy is an Emperor?" Myde asked, shaking his head in disbelief.

"Can somebody please explain to me what's goin' on?" Lea asked, hardly believing what was happening. The rest of the group looked upon Kuzco the llama, all with equal expressions of shock and confusion.

"How did this happen?" Aqua wondered, just as at loss.

"He wasn't like this the last time I saw him; I don't know how this happened." Pacha replied honestly.

"Hey! I'm right here!" Kuzco snapped, unaware of he hooves he was using to balance himself, "You show me respect and speak to me when I'm around!" unaware that he was standing on his hooves.

Everyone shifted around uncomfortably, looking between each other until Pacha stepped foward, trying to explain as nicely as he could to break the news, "Uh, how did...You don't look like the emperor."

"What do you mean I don't look like the emperor?" Kuzco demanded, rudely.

"You're not even noticing the difference?" Isa asked, skeptically.

"What difference? How can I be different? I'm the same young empe-" Kuzo was saying as he pointed at Isa while raising a hoove to point at him, but cut himself off and gasped in shock when he saw that his hand had turned into hooves. "It can't be!"

Instantly, he turned to the fountain that he'd crash into and looked into his reflection and cried out dismay before turning and began to rant. "Agh! My face! My beautiful, beautiful face! I'm an ugly, stinky llama! WAH-HAHA! Llama face!" Kuzco was pulling at his cheeks before he began screaming and crying after collasping onto the ground.

"Wait, okay, your Majesty. Shh." Pacha said in an effort to calm the young emperor down.

Jack rolled his eyes and finally became very annoyed, before grumbling at the hysterical emperor-turned-into-llama, "Oh, shut it, and calm down." only to be smacked on the back of the head by Aqua who glared at him for being disrespectful, despite Kuzco's apparent rude personality.

"Okay, calm down and think slowly." Terra suggested, before winching when Kuzco slapped himself in the face to snap out of it.

"What happened?" Riku asked.

"I'm tryin' to figure it out, okay!?" Kuzco snapped.

Mickey approached Kuzo and said calmly, "Can I suggest that you calm down and think slowly?"

"What was the last thing that you remember?" Kairi asked, gently.

"I-I don't know." Kuzco panicked a little, but then seemed to recognize something about Pacha. "Wait a minute. I remember you. I remember telling you that I was building my pool where your house was."

"Wait, you were going to built a pool where Pacha's house is?" Roxas demanded, "Why would you do that!?"

"It's going to be a birthday present to myself." Kuzco retorted while brushing Roxas off and continued to Pacha while going back into his memories, "Then you got mad at me-!" before gasping and then accused him, "And then you turned me into a llama!"

"What?" Pacha demanded angrily, "No, I did not!"

"Yes, and then you kidnapped me!"

"Why would I kidnap a llama?"

"Yes, why would anyone kidnap a llama?" Jack pipped up to make point of the rather useless argument.

"I have no idea." Kuzco replied to Jack, pointing at Pacha, "He's the criminal mastermind, not me!"

"What!?" Pacha yelled, glaring at him.

"Alright, that's enough, you two!" Mickey told both Kuzco and Pacha as he, Donald, Sora and Kairi stepped between the two of them. "No ones to blame here!"

"Fighting isn't going to solve anything!" Kairi added. "And everyone's positive that Pacha is innocent."

"Not to mention that we have more important things to worry about; like how to get you back to normal. Savvy?" Jack concluded, quickly joining them, and added to Kuzo, "What say you to that plan, your highney?"

Kuzco thought about this plan, and as much as he hated to agree with these peasents, he had to admit that this drunken guy did have a very good point. "You're right, me getting back to normal is important."

"Okay, so now that's settled," Sora began, asking, "Is there anyway to reverse this?" while Riku, Aqua, Isa and Terra all felt headaches developing.

"There is." Kuzco replied, quickly getting into the plan, "Okay, first, gotta get back to the Palace. Yzma, my ex-advisor has this 'Secret Lab'. I'll just snap my fingers and order her to change me back!"

"If you had any." Riku muttered under his breath, and Donald nodded in agreement.

Thankfully, Kuzco didn't pay attention and instead started wobbly walking down the dirt trail. "Hey, all of you! No time to waste. Let's go." The llama-emperor snapped at the people surrounding him. But no one made a move to follow him. Kuzco noticed and pointed towards the trail. "Hey guys, I want to get out of this body. Wouldn't you? Now, let's go!"

Still, no one moved, or even said anything, until Pacha told him firmly, "Build your summer house somewhere else."

"Wanna run that by me again?" Kuzco asked, turning to glare at Pacha at this response while starting to march back towards him.

"I can't let you go back unless you change your mind and build your summer home somewhere else." Pacha spoke calmly, but was surprised when Kuzco smirked.

"I got a little secret for you. Come here. No, closer." Kuzco smirked, Pacha leaned in close to him but was unprepared when Kuzco screamed right into his ear, "I DON'T MAKE DEALS WITH PEASANTS!"

"Well, then I guess I can't take you back." Pacha replied stubbornly while crossing his arms, after cleaning his ear out from the sudden ringing.

"And don't even think about asking us until you change your attitude and your decision." Aqua added sharply, glaring at Kuzo along with everyone else who nodded in agreement. She was understandably angry with the fact this emperor was attempting to destroy the kind man's home all for a swimming pool.

"Fine! I don't need any of you." Kuzco huffed. "I can make my own way back." turning once more towards the dirt trail, only to be stopped by Pacha when he said this.

"I wouldn't recommend it." Pacha warned, standing in front of him. "It's a little dangerous if you don't know the way."

"Nice try, pal." Kuzco smirked as he walked past him and into the jungle.

"No, really, I'm telling you, there are jaguars and snakes and quicksand!" Pacha called after him when Kuzco started singing.

"La la la la. I'm not listening!" Kuzco sang off-key as he walked further and further away.

"I'm not kidding! Listen, you cannot go in there!"

"La la la-oh-omph!" Kuzco grunted when he nearly lost balance before rightening himself and still wandered off into the jungle, and called back in a sing-song tone, "Still not listening!" before he disappeared through the foliage of the jungle and Pacha was steaming with irritation.

"Aw, you... Fine. Fine. Go ahead!" Pacha roared after him.

"Are you really just going to let him go on his own like that?" Ven asked, concerned.

Pacha just shrugged as he replied, "If there's no Kuzco, there's no Kuzcotopia. Takes care of my problem."

"His funeral." Jack shrugged in agreement, before smirking and said, "Then again, it's not our problem if he wants to do something stupid."

"We can't just leave him like this!" Kairi protested, "He could die out there!"

"Aw phooey! He'll be fine." Donald scoffed, "Who wants to help a brat like him?"

"But what if he gets attacked!? We can't just sit here and not do anything!" Kairi argued.

"She's right." Pacha sighed, after his conscience had been arguing with him and he did always listen to it. "I know I'm probably going to regret this, but we need to at least help Kuzco through the jungle."

"In other words we're going in there, right?" Lea asked, folding his arms behind his head.

"Yep." Donald grumbled.

"And we're going to save the whiny emperor who doesn't like us?"

"Pretty much." Jack nodded, in a tone of that of a tired parent.

Lea groaned as he slumped lower, "So much for a good night's sleep."

"Well, c'mon! We gotta catch up to Kuzco!" Mickey cried out. Pacha took the lead and everyone else, even the reluctanted Lea, Isa, Donald, Jack and Myde, quickly followed into the jungle.

Meanwhile deep within in the damp, dark, cold jungle, Kuzco wandered along a dirt path, laughing at the scenery and mocking Pacha's warnings.

"Scary jungle. Right. Ooh, a leaf. Ooh, it might attack me. Oh, it's a scary tree. I'm afraid. Ha ha. Please. Never find my way? I'm the emperor, and as such, I'm born with an innate sense of direction. Okay, where am I? Wha-" Kuzco started to get nervous as he asked himself this, noticing how scary the jungle really was.

A fly then zipped past him before it was caught in a spider web above him, calling out for help until the fly met it's doom when the spider then gobbled it up instantly. Kuzco cringed in disgust, before admitting to himself, "Oookay, that was the freakest thing I've ever seen."

He then heard bushes rustle and it becoming louder and louder, meaning that whatever it was in the bushes was coming closer and closer and Kuzo froze still. He then gasped, before becoming annoyed when a small, cute squirrel holding an acorn jumped out of the bushes. Well, that was humilating.

Grumbling to himself at the over reaction, Kuzo then asked rudely to the small animal, "What do you want?"

The squirrel only held out his acorn for Kuzco. "Oh, for me? Why, I don't know what to say." The squirrel blushed before Kuzco threw the acorn hard on the squirrel's head, causing him to release a yelp of pain.

"Hit the road, Bucky!" The emperor snapped as he began walking away after giving it a raspberry, but Kuzco was stopped dead in his tracks by the jaguar heartless, appearing out of dark shadows, surrounding the stunned llama. "Uh-oh." He squeeked.

The squirrel smirked before appearing near him again, pulling out a red balloon before shaping it to that of a llama, held out and also pulled out a sharp needle, threatening to burst it, muttering in squrriel gibberish.

"No, no. No, no, no, no. No, no. No, don't." Kuzco practically begged. The squirrel popped the balloon with a big bang, but the heatless didn't move. "HA!" Kuzco laughed, before gasping as the Heartless suddenly moved and growled at him.

He immediately made a run for it deeper into the jungle, screaming. The Heartless were about to chase after him but were suddenly blocked when a couple of them were hit by a shield. A second later Goofy jumped up, grabbed his shield and stood protectively where Kuzco ran off into. Most of the others also appeared in fighting stances as well, while Pacha, Kairi(who was told by Sora and Aqua to go with, mainly for her safety after the Rock Titan and she hesitatedly agreed), Myde and Jack(much to the two's dismay) raced into the jungle to find and rescue Kuzo.

Sora, Riku and Terra swiped at the Heartless with their Keyblades before the three of them and Ven teamed up and delivered impressive team-work of whacking the Heartless somewhat pinball style until Sora finished it off by tossing the Heartless into the tree where they vanished. Mickey and Ven joined hands and spun around while firing out orbs of light at the Heartless that tried to attack them but were hit by the lights as they did until the monsters faded. Lea and Roxas combined fire-spells and while the redhead spun his Keyblade in a new trick like he would with his Chakrams before sending it out, Roxas tossed a fire-ball that combined with Lea's Mini-Firenado that caught eight Heartless off-guard.

Isa, Skuld and Aqua did the similier thing, only using Wind Spells that created a tornado of sorts that trapped five other Heartless before the three of them leaped into it, and whacked the defendless Heartless several times before landing as they let the spell finish them off. Donald casted Thunderaga that electrocuted two Heartless before jumping out of the way as he didn't want to get scourched again like last time. Xion glared at the Heartless she was facing before she leaped into the air and thrusted her Keyblade down at one of them, slashing forward and backwards at the other two Heartless despite quickly getting exhausted as were everyone else. Goofy whacked the remaining Heartless with his shield like a one-handed club that always did some damage that he did several times until his opponents were defeated.

In the meantime, Kairi and her group searched around for Kuzco as all they had to do was follow his screams, before the four of them were confronted by more of the Heartless. Jack was slicing at them with his Keyblade the same way he would with his cutlass, starting to get used to it as it started to feel a bit less heavy. Myde whacked them with his styer and water elements, and Kairi twirled around as she whacked and slashed at the Heartless before jumping away before one could poison her while protecting Pacha.

The group soon found themselves cornered towards a high cliff despite defeating the Heartless, and down below them, was Kuzco at another cliff, surrounded by more Heartless Jaguars, and he muttered nervously, "You killer jaguars..."

"We have to get to him!" Kairi cried out, worriedly.

"And how do we do that?" Myde asked, skeptically.

Jack and Pacha both glanced at the two younger people, then noticed a vine near them that was long enough to swing across the long gaps of cliffs, then at each other, as a crazy came into mind. Finally, deciding that he was faster and far more lighter than Pacha, Jack grumbled as he took off his coat and accessories, "At least I don't have to worry about getting arrested this time." and handed them to Pacha and Myde, telling them firmly, "Do not lose these."

"Jack, what are you-?" Kairi asked, before cutting herself off once she realised what Jack intended to do.

Without responding, Captain Jack Sparrow grabbed hold of the vine and jumped and leaped, allowing it to hold him as he swung down, yelling(and slightly screaming considering how high it actually was), towards the petrifized Kuzco and in the nick of time, the pirate snatched the emperor bodily with one arm.

"Aaaaggggh!" Kuzco screamed as he gazed down at the vastness of the jungle below him and saw how high it really was, clinging onto Jack in paralyzing fear.

"Oi, will you shut it already!?" Jack winched at the loud screaming at his ear. "I saved your life!"

"Jack, look out!" Kairi's voice echoed, as from where she, Pacha and Myde were standing, they saw where Jack and Kuzco were about to crash into.

But by then, it was already too late as the vine struck into a tree spinning them around and around in a fast ring before finally stopping leaving them all tied tightly upon it as it snapped off leaving them in an extremely awkward position, with Jack on the top while at the bottom facing the impending doom below was Kuzco. By then, Sora and the rest of the group arrived on the lower cliff Kuzo was at earlier after finishing off the Heartless, before Kairi, Pacha and Myde joined them and when they saw what happened, they began to really panic and worry.

"Do I want to know?" Isa asked.

"I don't think so." Myde muttered, worriedly.

Somehow recovering and having grown tired of the screaming feast, Kuzo then asked to Jack, "Maybe I'm new to this whole rescuing thing, drunk guy, but this to me might be considered kind of a step backwards, wouldn't ya say?" clearly annoyed.

Jack felt a bit embarrased by this, before admitting, "First time I got tied up by a tree while swinging." then quickly added, "But like all sticky situations which I happen to so get out off, we can get out of this one. Savvy?"

Unfortunately, the moment he said this, the tree trunk began to crack making it bend downwards making them all freeze in seconds, Kuzco sensing what was going to happen after his moment of shock said, "You know what? I hate you already."

"Feelin's mutual, mate." Jack responded with a sigh.

Much to the horror of Sora and everyone else who tried to reach the duo, they were too late as the tree snapped entirely making them all fall into the depths below making Jack and Kuzco scream, so immediately the rest of the group raced down, knowing that Aqua, Terra and Ven couldn't use their Keyblade armors. The tree smacked into rocks left and right until rolling onto a ledge of some kind that propelled them forwards into the water of the river. Jack and Kuzo spouted bubbles of air. Twisting in its depths they finally broke the surface again as they breathed hard all spluttering out water that had got into their mouths, however it wasn't over yet as they then suddenly rushed down the current of the water, smacking into more rocks before being flipped over once more down a small waterfall into another calmer river.

The two coughed and spluttered water their little exhilarating experience Jack and Kuzco at last had the chance to recover themselves, breathing hard from exhaustion as the log spun them around slowly. Kuzco still in his dampened annoyed mood spoke again, "I don't know about you, but I'm getting all funned out."

"Could be worse." Jack tried to say opimistically, only to gaze ahead of him and Kuzco, quickly realising that it was already worse. Eyes wide in horror at the sight before him, he muttered in an anxious tone, "Oh, bugger."

"Don't tell me," Kuzco began, seemingly calm and unfazed. "We're about to go over a huge waterfall."

"Yep." Jack answered, in the sudden same unfazed expression as the Emperor.

"Sharp rocks at the bottom?"

"Probably."

Still with the stotic and unfazed expression, Kuzco then muttered, "Bring it on."

Then at once before they toppled, Jack screamed at the top of his lungs, while Kuzco yelled out, "BOOOOUUUU-YAAAAAHHHHH! WOOOO!" As the tree fell from the waterfall and crashed into the bottom down into the depths below.

The moment they saw the two of them go down, they feared for the worst as they reached the shorelines of the river below the waterfall. Just when they thought all was lost as broken shards of the log floated up, Goofy then pointed at something at the water, "Look! There's Jack!"

True to Goofy's word, Captain Jack Sparrow resurfaced, spluttering and quite amazed that he was still alive. Next to him briefly, an unconscious Kuzo floated up and Jack quickly grabbed hold of him before the llama could sink. He then pulled him along the water towards the shore, and was thankful that the others were there. Lea, Isa, Terra, and Pacha raced forward and pulled both of them out of the water.

"Easy, easy." Lea muttered as he and Pacha pulled Kuzo onto the ground, while Isa and Terra pulled Jack to his feet while the pirate was soaking wet.

"See that?" Jack began, before ranting a bit, "Because I will not be doing that again!"

"What are you, crazy!?" Sora snapped at the pirate. "You guys could've gotten killed!"

"It's not my fault the Emperor was the one stupid enough to ignore Pacha's warning!" Jack snapped back. "Someone had to rescue the bloody llama from the Heartless!"

"Yeah, but you could've just looked where you were goin'!"

"Says the one who recklessly puts himself in danger constantly just like Will!"

"At least I look where I'm going!"

Both Jack and Sora glared at each other angrily, prepared at any minute to strike before Kairi stepped between them, while Ven and Riku pulled Sora back and Mickey, Donald and Goofy restrainted Jack.

"Stop it, both of you!" Kairi shouted. "This isn't the time to be fighting!"

Once both Sora and Jack stopped resisting, after their friends let them loose, the two of them pouted and looked away from each other angrily, their arms crossed to their chests, not willing to even glance or speak to one another at the moment. The others all sighed.

"This is exasperating." Donald groaned.

"Now now, while things did get out of control, the important thing is that everybody's alright right now." Mickey told the two irritated boys as calmly as he could. "Relatively speakin'."

"Uh, guys?" Myde spoke up, worriedly, "I hate to break this up, but Mr. Whiny Prince's not breathing."

When everyone else heard this, they all immediately turned their attention to Kuzo who still layed unconscious, as Aqua, Lea, Isa, Terra, Skuld and Pacha hovered around him, while the latter tried to get him to respond. "Come on, breathe. Breathe!"

The women of the group gasped in horror when this didn't happen and the rest of the group suddenly feared that they'd been too late. In desperate measures, while at the same time not liking this method, Pacha then cautionly moved his hands forwards as he then opened his mouth and at once as his teeth were moved back a tongue sprouted up almost like a springy toy, much to everyone's disgust.

"Ah, yuck." Lea groaned, feeling a bit green as his stomach turned. Even Pacha repelled back, before bravely began to attempt the heroic act and moved forward to press his lips to Kuzo's, while everyone else cringed and were unable to look, turning away from the sight.

But then suddenly at once as Pacha came within an inch of his lips, Kuzco's eyes opened up as he looked up to see him and his kissy face. Once Pacha felt something that made his eyes open and saw Kuzo's eyes looking at him, alarmed. The two then immediately pulled away from each other in seconds and cried out in disgust before they began to spit and rub their lips. As Sora and everyone else turned to see the preformance, they cringed awkwardly, while Kuzo and Pacha slowly looked at each other before looking away again, groaning in disgust once more.

"I'm not even going to comment." Terra muttered, cringing.

"Took the words right out of my-uh, n-nevermind!" Lea quickly cut himself off when he realised what he was about to say and actually felt nauesous at what just happened. "Think I'm gonna be havin' nightmares tonight."

A little while later, after recovering, the group stopped at a small area near a rock and a lake to rest for the night as they were tired and it was far too late at night to head back to the village. Kuzco was busy gargling getting rid of the germs that he thought he supposedly had got from Pacha's 'kiss', however he was getting annoyed as everyone stared at him, while Pacha told him for the umpteenth time, "For the last time, it was not a kiss." while he was busy trying to make a campfire to warm themselves from the cold jungle air.

"And at least you were not wearing a corset." Jack added, busy drying himself off while referring to the time when he rescued Elizabeth Swann who nearly drowned thanks to the extremely tight corset she'd been wearing that day, which unfortunately brought back memories of when she forced him to join Sora's group in order to keep him safe but had also exiled him from their world and now was stuck as a much bigger fugitive than ever.

But just as Pacha managed to get the fire started, Kuzco approached, still disgusted as ever as he spoke, "Well, whatever you guys call it," He then spat much like a llama does and then put out Pacha's hard worked fire in seconds, much to everyone's annoyance, "It was dees-gust-ing!"

"And that wasn't?" Isa asked skeptically, referring to what Kuzco just did.

"Touche." Kuzco dryly responded.

"Ah, no sweat, Pacha. I got this." Lea smirked at Pacha, before snapping his fingers as softly as possible while aimed at the log, and in the matter of seconds a new campfire was lit due to the redhead's nature of being using the power of fire.

"Wow. Thanks, Lea." Pacha smiled, delighted.

"Perks of bein' a fire wielder." Lea joked with a wink. "No prob."

Annoyed that the attention was taken from him, Kuzco then continued to Pacha, "And if you would've done what I ordered you to do in the first place...we all could've been spared your little kiss of life."

"You will please stop it with that attitude of yours, your highness?" Skuld groaned, rubbing her forehead. She was sick of the Emperor's personlity and it was driving her nuts.

Kuzco didn't respond, and instead shook his woolly coat which caused the water to spread everywhere and Lea's fire was put out which made him cry out in sheer annoyance, "Hey!"

The Emperor then walked off while Pacha again tried to relight the fire, and as the llama made himself at home near the rock, he continued, smuggly, "And now that you're all here, you will take me back to the palace!" The group of world-travellers slumped in defeat. "I'll have Yzma change me back, and then I'll start construction on Kuzcotopia. Oh, yeah!"

Taking a deep breath while controlling her anger, Aqua then spoke calmly, "Your Majesty, I think we've all had a big misunderstanding."

"Mmm-hmm." Kuzo muttered, uninterested as he was using Pacha's poncho as a towel to dry himself off.

"If you really think about it, you might suddenly decide to build your vacation house on another, more empty hill-top that's for free." Myde perked up, helping Aqua and the others. "You know, that doesn't already have people on it."

"And why would I do that?" Kuzco asked as he tossed the poncho onto the fire that was put out yet again instantly.

Pacha sighed, taking a deep breath before continuing for the others as he hung up his poncho to dry off, "Because, deep down, I think you'll realise you're forcing an entire village out of their homes just for yourself."

"And that's...bad?" Kuzco asked, the entire group nodded.

"Of course it is." Donald said, getting a bit more irritated. "And they wouldn't have anywhere else to go after that!"

Kuzco nodded, as though realising it. Apparently he still didn't get the memo before ultimately told them, "Now take me back."

This made everyone else furious, as Pacha retorted angrily, "What? Wait, wait. How can you be this way? All you care about is building your summer home and filling it with stuff for you!"

"Uh, yeah. Doy. Me. Everyone else in the kingdom gets it. Though you guys are the ones that doesn't seem to be with the program? Wouldn't you say?" Kuzo snapped in return.

"You know what? Someday, you're going to wind up all alone." Pacha told him with serious disappointment in his eyes.

"And you'll have no one to blame but yourself." Isa added.

"And by the time you try to find people who really do care about you, it'll be too late." Aqua concluded, though she tried to get the message into Kuzo's head to make him understand, because deep down, she really hoped it wouldn't come to that.

Kuzco rolled his eyes at these pathetic future predictions, before commanding as he pointed his hoof at the group, "Thanks for that. I'll log that away. Now, for the final time, I order you all to take me back to the palace!"

However then acting with the same cool uncaring attitude he'd given them, Sora was the first to react as he told the llama, "Well, looks like you're stuck out here, because unless you change your mind, we're not taking you back."

"And neither of we." Mickey added, crossing his arms.

Seeing that he was being ignored and turned down this way didn't please the young llama emperor as he then uttered in a mocked weenie-annoyed voice behind everyone's backs as they turned back to the fire, "Because unless you change your mind, we're not taking you back. Mee mee mee, mo mo mo."

He then picked up a small rock and threw it directly at Pacha's head. The group of seventeen instantly turned around and glared at the llama who was trying to look as innocent as possible. "Huh? What? I didn't do anything. I didn't - Somebody's throwing stuff. You going to build a fire or what? What's going on?" Kuzco mumbled, slinking off against a rock.

"Ugh, he's the snobbiest guy I've ever met." Myde grumbled as he sat on the ground.

"Forget it." Pacha sighed, "He's never going to change his mind."

"We should sleep in shifts." Isa told them, standing up, "I'll take the first one."

"I'm after you." Lea decided, laying down, placing his hands behind his back to use as a pillow, yawning.

The rest of the group nodded in agreement, the remaining others getting ready to sleep. Myde, Goofy and Donald collapsed on the ground and instantly started snoring, Mickey yawned and curled up on a patch of grass. Jack layed on the ground, trying to get comfortable before the exhaustion of the day claimed him and he was fast asleep himself. Roxas and Xion layed against one tree, Ven and Skuld did the same by another, Sora, Kairi, Terra and Aqua inched towards the fire, Kairi shivering in her short sleeveless dress, wishing she had a coat or a long sleeved shirt at least.

"Cold?" Sora asked, Kairi nodded looking up at him.

Xion, seeing this, stood up and approached the two, taking off her Organization Coat which revealed her clothes Merlin had lend her, and wrapped it around Kairi's body. The former replica smiled with a shrug, "It's better than nothing."

"Thank you, Xion." Kairi replied, while snuggling against Sora, falling asleep in his arms. It took Sora a moment to register what had just happened before smiling down at the beautiful angel curled up against him. The keyblade master brushed aside Kairi's bangs before lightly kissing her forehead and lying down on the ground, brushing Kairi's auburn hair with his fingers. Next time she was in danger, he would protect her and not fail like he did when the Rock Titan attacked.

Apparently Lea saw that Aqua was shivering too, because he sighed before standing up and took off his coat, revealing his clothes Merlin lent him before offering it to the two who gazed at him questionly. He just shrugged with a smile, silently indicating that she needed more than he did against the cold.

"Not much, but at least it'll keep ya' warm." Lea said, as Terra took it and wrapped it around Aqua's body.

"Thank you, Lea. You're sweet." Aqua replied, smiling.

Lea's face turned red by this response, before shrugging again and then returned to his original position.

Soon enough, almost everyone was asleep. Tomorrow would be a new set of challenges.

A/N: Not sure how this one will turn out, but I will do my best. See you in the next chapter!