Author's Note: I know that this story isn't as good as my previous ones, but I try my best and well, you're all probably getting impatient in wanting to see Tangled. It will come, so don't worry.

I don't own Kingdom Hearts or Final Fantasy.

CH26: The Double Acre Adventures.

Halfway towards Kanga's house, Sora and the others called out for Piglet while still looking through the Scrap Book. Kairi couldn't help but think about what this 'Heffalump' was like even though she and Sora both felt that maybe it wasn't as scary as everyone in the Hundred Acre Wood thought it was. Besides that, no one really knows what it really looks like other than Owl. Then again, Owl's not as one might say as intelligent as he claimed himself to be.

A question then perked up in Sora's mind which was something he'd meant to ask since fending off the Bees earlier.

"So um, how did you guys end up being chased by Bees anyway?" Sora asked Pooh.

Pooh blinked before thinking as he tried to remember, before saying, "Why, it was earlier today that we made a plan to get honey from the Bee hives by making them a new Hive. Piglet came along, wondering what we were doing too."

And so Pooh bear, with the occasional help from Tigger, Rabbit and Eeyore, told Sora and Kairi how today's events had started.

Flash-Back: Before Sora and Kairi's arrival...

Piglet was at home, finishing up his latest painting for his scrap book. As he sat in front of the window of his home, he was unaware that Tigger was outside, awkwardly carrying a fake tree while stumbling. But as Piglet placed the painting into the book, he then heard a noise and turned around and saw not only Tigger finally, but also to his surprise, Eeyore, who was...also carrying things and was dressed up like a Bee.

Then Rabbit came, carrying other stuff including a violin. Finally, Pooh appeared, also carrying items such as a cloth, glue, paper and a ball. All four of them were heading off somewhere within the Hundred Acre Wood. Curious and wondering where his friends were going and what they were up to, Piglet put away his book, grabbed his scarf and scurried out to follow everyone.

He found them in the middle of the woods up on a hill. Rabbit was up on a tree branch, where on a higher branch, a Bee hive was hanging there and he was holding the same violin. Tigger was strangely dressed up like a tree. Eeyore sat on the ground, still dressed up like a Bee, with a mega-phone in front of him.

Pooh himself was soaking and sticking gluey paper onto the ball with a hole in it and it looked similiar to an actual Bee Hive. There was another log there that resembled to the tree costume Tigger was wearing.

"Tigger, are you ready for the Hive yet?" Pooh asked.

"All I am is ready. Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo!" Tigger said happily, before asking about the tree costume, "How do I look? I mean, uh, does this log make me look fat?"

"Ohh. Like the best honey tree that a bee will ever see." Pooh replied, smiling as he gave his bouncy friend the fake Bee Hive before placing the slightly heavy other log over his head. Tigger then bounced up and landed on top of him to make themselves look like a Honey Tree.

Piglet then came out from the grass and approuched the real Bee Hive, while Rabbit began playing the violin. Which, wasn't even close to expert level.

"Rabbit. What are you doing?" Piglet asked.

"Oh, can't you tell?" Rabbit replied, acknowlaging Piglet's pressence. "I'm lullabying the bees for our big plan." before playing again.

But all it really did was Screech, Squeek, Eek, Screech, Shriek.

"They seem to like Bee-thoven." Rabbit continued.

Bee-thoven? More like Bee-Torture. Within the Bee Hive, the Bees were, as not promised, not liking it. They all continously cringed and buzzed a groan while covering their none-existant ears with their hands, and really, who can blame them?

Not certain that it would answer his full question, Piglet went over to Eeyore, asking, "Eeyore, what are you doing?"

"I got to use my big voice to tell the bees about the new hive." Eeyore, gloomy as usual, replied, before demostrating while speaking through the mega-phone, which the extra volume caused Piglet to stumble back and clean out his left ear to rid the ringing noise, "Buzz, buzz. Great new hive."

Still puzzled, Piglet went up to Tigger and Pooh, asking to the former, "Tigger, could you tell me what you're doing?"

"I have to hold the fake hive hive enough for the bees to see." Tigger answered, holding the flase Hive as high as he could. "It's the biggest part of the plan. That's what Tiggers do best. Hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo."

"You do seem bigger than usual." Piglet commented, slightly disheartened. This only made him feel even smaller than usual, which was a sad thing for him.

Pooh, hearing his smallest friend, managed to peak through underneath Tigger, greeting, "Oh, hello, Piglet."

"Pooh," Piglet began, hoping that at least Pooh could explain better than the others, "What are you all doing?"

"Harvesting honey, of course." Pooh began, gazing at the bunch of papers on the ground. As Piglet picked it up and scanned through multiple drawings, as Pooh explained, it not only matched the description of the drawings, but it finally began to make sense; "It's all in the plan. First, Rabbit will lure the bees with beautiful music. Then Eeyore tempts the bees into their new hive. Then Tigger holds up the hive for the bees to see. And then comes the best part. We get honey from their old hive. Ha ha."

Well, that certainly explained everything and now Piglet managed to put the pieces of the puzzle together. Feeling wanting to help with the plan, he then requested, "Can I help you with your big plan?"

Pooh shook his head, or at least he tried to without causing him and Tigger to fall, and said carefully and apologetically, "Well, thank you, Piglet, but, um, perhaps another time."

"When we have a bit smaller of a plan or when you're a bit bigger of a Piglet." Tigger added.

"I'm sorry, Piglet." Rabbit concluded apologetically, as he and the others all believed that this was far too risky for someone like Piglet to get involved. "But I'm afraid this is a very big plan.

While Piglet was disappointed in not being able to help due to being the smallest animal, he then cringed and plugged his ears with his fingers when Rabbit continued to play the violin and despite what Pooh said...unfortunately, it was not beautiful music at all. It was the complete opposite.

Screech, Screech, Screech, Squeel, Squeel, Squeel, Eek, Eek, Eek, Shriek, Shriek, Shriek! Rabbit played it faster and faster and it only got more and more worse.

Finally, the Bees were at their boiling point and declared to get rid of the noise outside of their hives and attack anyone who simply got in their way as they realised it was to drive them out to steal their honey.

Soon the flock of Bees came out of their Hive, which at first Rabbit thought it worked. To his horror, however, the Bees snatched the violin from him and to his and Piglet's shock, they broke it in half! Rabbit shrieked when the Bees turned their attention to them and hid behind the tree.

Fortunately, Eeyore came to the rescue and called out through the Mega-Phone, "Buzz, Buzz! Great new hive. Free Rent. Buzz, buzz!"

The Bees, hearing this turned their attention to attack everyone else on the ground, and to make things worse, Tigger was getting several itches due to having sticks and leaves poke him which was very uncomfortable.

Piglet, seeing the Bees coming straight towards him, cried out in panic, "Oh, d-d-dear!" and ran, but accidently tilted the mega-phone upward, causing the Bees to zoom right through the front and out of the back in the smaller hole, narrowly missing Eeyore who ducked slightly.

"Oh, Buzz!" Eeyore muttered, a little freaked out. In the midst of chaos, the mega phone on top of Piglet who couldn't see, and both he and Eeyore, stumbled backwards.

The Bees, looking around, saw the stuck Piglet and decided to attack him next. When Piglet managed to pull the Mega-Phone off him, his eyes widened as the Bees were coming back. But as he tried to look for a way out of this situation, he looked at the mega phone, and then at false Bee Hive and an idea came into mind.

Finding his courage, Piglet held the mega-phone up and hoped for the best. The Bees ended up repeating history as they flew through the mega-phone and all accidently zoomed into the false hive. The impact caused Tigger and Pooh to seperate and the former landing on the ground, stumbling.

Dropping the mega-phone, Piglet then saw angry eyes of the Bees and hurriedly plucked a remaining soaking gluey paper and stuck it onto the hole, trapping the Bees inside so they couldn't escape easily. He sighed in great big relief at his quick panicked thinking.

That was close.

Everyone else also sighed in relief before both Pooh and Tigger threw away their costumes while the latter dropped the closed up false hive with the trapped bees and at Pooh's calling, Rabbit tipped the real hive upside down to the ground. The other two held up a honey pot to catch the falling waterfall of honey.

"We're geniuses." Tigger said happily, only for him and Pooh to have misjudged and were completely covered in honey while the honey pot was slightly empty. None the less, Tigger added, "Sticky geniuses."

Soon the two of them, and Rabbit who climbed down from the tree, and Eeyore who took off his Bee costume, all congratulated each other for the success as Pooh happily licked the sweetness of honey.

Piglet, feeling proud of himself for having helped out all along, began to speak up, "But-but I was the..."

To his disappointment, Rabbit said apologetically, "Oh, Piglet. I'm sorry that you couldn't be part of our big plan."

"Oh, but I thought I..." Piglet trailed off as everyone was too busy celebrating, and then realised that none of them had even seen him actually having tricked the Bees into going into the false Hive and all had thought that the Bees did that on purpose.

Disheartened and sad, Piglet walked away. He even noticed that his shadow was small as well. As he decided that maybe a walk could make himself better, along the way, Piglet noticed that a little ladybug was having trouble crossing two grass blades. Being generous, he helped by holding up his hand and allowed the little insect far much smaller than him cross, and the adorable Ladybug waved it's thanks to him.

That made him feel better. Piglet then noticed that a little Squirrel was having trouble reaching for an Acorn that was too high for it. So he helped by moving a rock and plucked it from the branch, handing it over to the furry-tailed animal who also thanked him. Then, a little baby blue bird fell from the sky and Piglet quickly saved it by catching.

The little bird then tweeted in distraught as it pointed at the other side of a river with a pebble bridge was, and on the other side, was a tree where a bird's nest with two grown up birds were also distraughted. Feeling sorry for the bird, Piglet then placed it onto his head and crossed the river on the stones and then helped the little bird fly up to the nest where it was happily reunited with it's relieved parents, and the bird family thanked him.

While Piglet was glad to help and he did feel a little better, he still felt slightly disheartened at the fact his friends didn't ask him for help.

"Oh, it'd sure be nice if my friends needed me." Piglet said to himself.

Then he had thoughts. Of how his friends wanted to aske him for his help; to lullaby the Bees, to call them to their new hive, to help make the false hive to be higher and that they really needed their help.

This made Piglet smile and he happily raced back to the opposite direction and unknowingly got his scarf stuck to a fence. As he went, the animals he helped happily went along with him.

Meanwhile, back with Pooh and the others...

"Ahhh." Tigger sighed in relief, smearing himself with Honey. "Wonderfullest honey." as he could no longer feel the itchiness he felt earlier.

"Oh, I thought Tiggers hate honey." Pooh said, thoughtfully.

"Well, they do to eat." Tigger agreed, before explaining, "But to stop the itching, oh, there is nothing betterer."

Then, all of the sudden, Pooh thought he heard some kind of noise, but as he placed his hand on his head, it was covered in honey and now covered his ear in honey, asking, "Did you hear something? I'm afraid I've got some honey in my ears."

"What's that, Pooh?" Tigger asked, now hearing some kind of buzzing noise, which made him, Rabbit and Eeyore quickly worried. "I can't hear you over all that buzzing."

"Who's buzzing?" Pooh asked.

They all glanced over at the false hive, and saw it jitter and move. Then, all of the sudden, the angry buzz of the furious flock of Bees came blasting out of the false hive, ripping a new hole through it in the process and were now glaring angrily at the four of them who stood in horror.

"Bees!" The four of them chorused. Soon, Eeyore and Tigger made a run for it, but the former tripped and fell down the hill, while Rabbit quickly grabbed hold of Pooh's arm and dragged him to follow Tigger who accidently smashed the honey pot in the process.

The trio ran away screaming from the furious Bees who wanted nothing more than to turn the group into a trio of prickly pin cusions, while Pooh cried out fearfully, "Oh bother!"

They ran while also noticing a familiar spiky-haired boy who had just arrived with an unfamiliar darkish red-haired girl who both saw what was going on...

End of Flash-Back.

"...And then you came and saved us all, Sora." Pooh finished the story.

"Yeah, without you, we'd all been stunged to death! Hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo!" Tigger said, happily to the teenaged boy who smiled sheepishly.

"Not all of us." Eeyore said, reminding everyone, "I got stung."

"There's something about what you all said doesn't add up." Kairi couldn't help but comment, which made everyone stop and glance at her.

"What do you mean?" Sora asked, curiously.

The teenage girl, having thought about the story Pooh and the others had said, couldn't help but think about from Piglet's point of view, explaining, "Well, it doesn't make sense that the Bees would just attack due to Rabbit's music, then trap themselves in the fake bee hive before escaping and then attack again and there was no sign of Piglet during that time."

Everyone glanced at each other for this, before Sora folded his arms and thought deepily, then realised that his friend had a point. "You know, I think you're right. Maybe Piglet had something to do with the Bees getting into the fake hive and got stuck in there for a while."

"Now that you mention it, I thought I was seeing things, but I could'a sworn I saw little Piglet hold that horn Eeyore was using and the Bees coming right out of it and into the fake hive." Tigger said thoughtfully in agreement.

"And if that's the case, then maybe it was Piglet who trapped the bees into the hive. Otherwise, they would've flown right out a lot sooner, right?" Sora theoried, with Kairi nodding in agreement.

"And we never would've even got the honey out of the old hive." Eeyore said, coming to realise that it made even more sense.

"And we didn't even realise it until now." Rabbit said, now feeling guilty as even he realised that it made perfect sense.

Pooh lowered his head while gazing at the Scrap Book. "Oh, bother. I believe, if this is true, then we have hurt Piglet's feelings, because we didn't congratulate him for helping us."

"Hmm, come to think of it, Piglet did help us a lot too as I remembered." Sora said, feeling sorry for Piglet. "I mean, he asked me to help when you got stuck in Rabbit's hole while trying to get out when we first met."

"You're absolutely right, Sora." Rabbit said in agreement. "If it weren't for Piglet, you'd never help us to make carrot juice to make him thinner or get him out of my front door."

"He really cares so much, doesn't he?" Kairi asked. Before anyone else could answer, she nearly tripped and stumbled back when her foot nearly went into a small ditch on the ground. Regaining her balance, she gazed down and saw...a round hole in the ground. In fact, when she and the others looked up after they saw what happened and stopped, their eyes widened as several other dents on the ground were there, and apparently it was making a trail in pairs.

"Are these...footprints?" Kairi inquired.

"Sure looks like it." Eeyore commented dryly. "If it's not, then the sky's finally fallen. Always knew it would."

"That's impossibibble." Tigger said, while Sora shook his head as his bouncy friend tried and failed to say 'Impossible'. But still, gazing at the large footprints, it gave him a bit of more worry.

"There's only one thing that can make a footprint that big." Rabbit paused dramatically. "A Heffalump."

"Just like Owl said." Pooh said, fearfully. At this moment, while everyone glanced at each at the worries of both Piglet missing and now they found evidence that a Heffalump was in the Hundred Acre Wood, a familiar female Kangaroo hopped over, which Sora and most of the others recongised.

"Hey, Kanga." Sora greeted, then became concerned when he and the others noticed that she held a concerned look on her face. "What's up?"

"Oh, Sora. It's good to see you again." Kanga greeted, before noticing Kairi and quickly greeted her kindly, "Oh, well hello there, dear. Are you Sora's friend?"

"This is Kairi." Sora introduced the two to each other, "Kairi, this is Kanga."

"Nice to meet you, Kanga." Kairi greeted with a small wave.

"Nice to meet you too, Kairi." Kanga replied, before asking all of them, concern returning to her face, "Have any of you seen Roo? He should've been back home by now."

"Roo's missing too?" Sora exclaimed, shocked.

"What do you mean?"

"Piglet's missing and we're looking for him." Pooh answered first, now even more worried.

Tigger then gasped, rather dramatically before saying, while grabbing Rabbit by the shoulders, "Don't you know what this means? Piglet and Roo are both in troubable with Heffalumps!"

"Tigger, c-calm down!" Rabbit cried out, pushing his bouncy(and once and while annoying) friend off him, even though he was shaking in panic. "D-Don't panic! The best thing to do is...do everything at once!"

"But how can we find Piglet and Roo and worry about the Heffalump at the same time?" Pooh asked worriedly, shrugging.

"The first thing to do make a trap and capture the Heffalump and if it has both Piglet and Roo, we demand it to release them." Rabbit declared.

"I think it'll be easier if some of us look for both of them just in case." Sora suggested, though he had his doubts that the Heffalump was even dangerous.

"You mean, split up for a little while?" Kairi inquired, and when her friend nodded to confirm the speculation, she nodded in return before suggesting, "Maybe I can go with Kanga to find Roo."

"You would?" Kanga asked, slightly surprised.

"Of course."

"Oh, thank you, dear. You're sweet."

Deciding that it would be okay for now as the Hundred Acre Wood was fairly peaceful despite the risk of having a Heffalump roaming around for some reason, Sora then continued to Pooh and the others, "In the meantime, the rest of us will find Piglet and at the same time watch out for the Heffalump."

Despite the fear of the Heffalump, the concern of the safeties of both Piglet and Roo were everyone's top priority, so everyone agreed that it was the best course of action as of this moment.

With Kairi and Kanga...

"Roo!" Kanga called as she and Kairi searched one part of the Hundred Acre Wood, searching for the missing young joey. They were searching through the forest, calling out for Kanga's son.

"Roo?" Kairi called out, worriedly and hoping that Roo was alright and safe.

"Roo, dear?" Kanga tried again.

The two were about to call out for Roo again when both Kairi and Kanga heard a sound, not too far from where they were. It sounded like...children laughing? From the sounds of things, it sounded like two very young boys happily playing as though nothing was out of the ordinary.

"That's Roo!" Kanga realized, in relief.

"That's a relief. But, who is he playing with?" Kairi wondered, puzzled.

Kanga was confused herself. "I'm not sure. Let's go take a look."

The teenaged girl nodded before hurrying over with Kanga to the source of the laughter. When they finally reached to where the sounds were coming from, both Kairi and Kanga peeked from behind a tree and to their surprise and relief, was indeed Roo, a smaller version of Kanga wearing a blue shirt, and with him was...a big lavander elephant like thing with a fuzzy tail, no taller than Pooh, Tigger or Rabbit.

And he looked to be very young and friendly. In fact, he was playing with Roo as the two were laughing happily.

"It's a Heffalump." Kanga whispered.

"That's a Heffalump?" Kairi asked, wide eyed. She had admittedly expected the Heffalump to be bigger and much more scary and dangerous looking. This was the complete opposite. The Heffalump was friendly and young.

She then smiled and said, "He and Roo are very cute."

The more the two of them watched Roo and the Heffalump play, the more they realised that the young boys were friends and indeed the Heffalump was friendly. Kairi and Kanga smiled warmly at the scene. Though that still left one question in Kairi's mind; this Heffalump looked too small to have made those large footprints. Suddenly the two of them put the two and two together.

There was another, larger Heffalump in the Hundred Acre Wood, and judging at how young this one in front of them was, it was starting to make sense.

With Sora and the others...

As the group searched around the Hundred Acre Wood, Sora was hearing more and more about how heroic and helpful Piglet was the more Pooh and the others gazed at all the paintings in the scrap book; like how Piglet rescued Roo from the river, then at another time Piglet, during Halloween, gathered up his courage to save everyone from a Spookable(though Sora felt that the 'Spookable' thing was just their imaginations, but he didn't say anything), and how he helped rebuild Eeyore's house.

During this, Pooh, Rabbit, Tigger and Eeyore began to all feel guilty for not giving enough credit to their friend and all wished that they had and were now more desperate to find Piglet. Sora could understand fully well, and he was worried for both Piglet and Roo, hoping that they were alright.

The five of them then called out to Piglet while looking through out another part of the area, eventually arriving at a bridge to stop.

"Where is he?" Sora wondered aloud.

"Perhaps we should look in the book again." Pooh suggested.

"Hey, I just got a Tiggerific idea." Tigger perked up, snatching the book from Pooh and began to flip through the pages quickly as he continued, "Let's see where the book ends and go there. What do you think?"

Rabbit was the first to protest as he snatched the book from Tigger, pointing out, "No, no, no. If we do this in an orderly manner, we'll find him much quicker." before going through the pages in a slower pace.

Sora shook his head with a mental exasperated sigh. Everything Rabbit ever did in the book, it didn't always seemed to work out at all. On the other hand, he knew that either way searching for Piglet wasn't going to be quicker in other optains.

Tigger seemed to have thought of the similiar thing, because he pointed out in annoyance, "But orderlier doesn't seem to be working, does it?"

"All I'm concerned about is finding Piglet and Roo and watch out for the Heffalump." Rabbit responded, just as annoyed.

"Well, I wanna find Piglet and Roo too!"

"We all want to find them!"

The two of them then began to fight over the book in a tug of war as the two continued to argue, much to the concern of Sora, Pooh and Eeyore.

"Hand it over, bunny boy! Finding Piglets and Roos are what Tiggers do best!" Tigger argued.

"lt's what Rabbits do best." Rabbit argued stubbornly.

"Tiggers!"

"No, Rabbits."

"Tiggers!"

"Rabbits!"

By then, Pooh cried out, "Ooh, be careful! That's the only way to find Piglet!"

"Guys! Stop fighting!" Sora demanded to the two.

It was already too late, as at the last tug, the book slipped out of Rabbit and Tigger's grasp and flung into the air, much to their and everyone else's horror. They tried to reach out to grab it, but it was far out of reach as the Scrapbook landed into the river, many of the paintings flying out and discarded. Sora, Pooh, Eeyore, Rabbit and Tigger could only watch as the book was being carried away by the river's current, and none of them could reach it to get it back.

"There goes our map!" Rabbit cried out in dismay.

"And Piglet's memories." Pooh added in sorrow and defeat.

A moment of silence after Sora sighed.

"I only wanted to find Piglet." Tigger sombely muttered in guilt.

"We all did." Rabbit replied in the same guilt.

Pooh sighed, "Oh, I wish we could have told Piglet how much we meant to him."

Seeing how the four of them were ready to give up all because they lost the book, Sora shook his head, pointing, "Hey, c'mon, guys. Are we all just gonna give up finding Piglet now?"

"We lost the Scrapbook, and Piglet's memories." Eeyore pointed out.

"That doesn't mean we should give up now." Sora said, and when the others gazed up at him in confusion and wonder, the teenaged boy continued, "So what if we lost the Scrapbook? It doesn't mean that Piglet's memories were lost too. Sure, pictures remind us much of the past and everything we went through, but losing them doesn't mean we lost our memories. They're deep within our hearts, sometimes forgotten but never lost. Besides, Scrapbook, map or not, searching for friends doesn't change."

"You mean we can still find Piglet even without the Scrapbook?" Pooh asked, feeling some hope rise inside him, as did the others who glanced at each other. All of them started to realise that Sora had a good point as it gave them more memories that were not in the book; whenever one or two of them were missing, they still searched anyway.

"Yep. I know we will." Sora nodded.

Realising that Sora was absolutely right, Pooh, Tigger, Rabbit and Eeyore ultimately agreed, with renewed hope and determination to find Piglet, because Scrapbook or not, he was their friend, the five of them resumed their search to find Piglet while keeping an eye out on any signs of a Heffalump. They continued to call out to him and searching around the Hundred Acre Wood and while Sora knew it could possibly take a while, he also had a feeling that they were getting closer to him.

All of the sudden, the ground beneath Pooh gave way, startling the bear as he fell into the what Sora and the others quickly realised was a pit-trap.

"Pooh!" Sora, Tigger and Rabbit cried out, while Eeyore muttered, "Oh, boy."

"Oh, bother." Pooh muttered after he landed at the bottom of the trap, rubbing his, uh, bottom.

"Pooh! Are you alright?" Sora called down, while surprised that the pit-trap was surprisingly deep, and wondered briefly where it had come from in the first place.

"Ooh, I seemed to have fallen into...a big hole." Pooh muttered, before he began to try and climb out, only to slide back down when the dirt gave way. "Oh, bother, bother. Um, excuse me, could I have some...help?"

"We gotta get Pooh outta there!" Sora told the others who nodded in agreement. Coming up with a plan, they decided to make a rope, with Sora to say on top. He held onto Eeyore's back legs, while Rabbit hanged onto his front legs as he lowered himself down, and finally, Tigger also climbed down carefully and hanged onto Rabbit's legs while using his tail to use as a rope for Pooh to grab onto.

"Here you go, buddy boy." Tigger called down to Pooh. "We made you a rescue rope! Hoo hoo hoo hoo!"

But despite Sora carefully lowering himself without falling in or accidently letting for of the others, even as Pooh stood up and stretched out his arms, the bear was still a couple of inches too low from Tigger's tail, no matter how hard he tried.

"The rescue rope isn't rescuing." Pooh sighed.

"Then we need a little more help." Sora sighed, and he knew that Kairi and Kanga would be too far from where he and the others were right now. He hoped that they weren't too far away.

"Who's small enough?" Eeyore asked, dismayed.

Rabbit shook his head in disbelief, worriedly, "Oh, dear. Who can help?"

'Yeah. A little help would be nice.' Sora thought to himself. He couldn't just leave Pooh stuck in the hole for a long time and he didn't want to. Neither did anyone else. The problem was, who can help at a time like this?

Apparently, the answer was solved as all of the sudden, appearing next to Sora, much to the teenager's surprise, was a familiar, small pink animal as he and the others who he was holding were greately relieved to see save and sound and having arrived just in time to help. If anyone was small enough to help get Pooh out of the hole, it was...

"Piglet!" Sora and the others cried out in relief.

Piglet, who had been searching for his friends after he found that they were missing and that the Bees had gotten out of the fake hive, had finally found them and was surprised that Sora was here, and when he heard that Pooh was in trouble, gathering up his inner courage, he'd came at the right time, peered down at the hole and saw how deep it was, and gulped nervously.

"You can do it, Piglet." Sora encouraged once he knew that his smallest friend had come to help.

"Yeah, buddy boy! Hoo hoo hoo hoo!" Tigger added encouragingly.

Seeing the encouraging expressions on the others, it was enough for Piglet to realise that they needed him. This alone gave him determination and seeing how they needed his help, he gathered up the courage in his heart. So, he carefully climbed down all the way to Tigger's tail while calling down to Pooh, "Hang on, Pooh!"

"Uh, I'm not hanging anywhere." Pooh realised, as usual due to his very little brain. When he looked up to see who talked to him, he was greatly surprised and relieved himself to see his missing and now found friend. "Piglet."

Piglet held onto Tigger's tail with one arm and his legs while holding out his other for Pooh to reach. After a bit of a stretch, the two joined hands and held on tight, which then allowed Sora to pull the five residents of the Hundred Acre Wood back up to the safety of the normal ground and a few feet away from the hole. Once everyone was standing up and back on solid ground, they all sighed in relief, and soon gathered around Piglet, hugging him while he was slightly surprised.

"You sure had us worried!" Sora said in relief.

"Oh, thank goodness you're safe!" Rabbit was saying.

"We're so glad to see you." Tigger added.

"Glad to see me?" Piglet asked, blinking in confusion. Did that mean they were looking for him as well?

Pooh nodded to confirm it and said, "Oh, yes. It's so good to have you back." hugging his very best friend who, feeling emotional, hugged him in return, just as the ground slightly popped up near the group, and Gouper came pulling himself out.

"So you found Piglet and seen that my pit-trap caught that Heffey Heffalump!" Gouper called out, relieved to see Piglet alright as well.

What Gouper had said about the pit trap caught everyone else by surprise, blinking in confusion and slowly growing annoyance, as Sora asked, "What? You mean you build that trap that Pooh fell into?"

"What? Pooh?" Gouper blinked, before hurrying over to the hole and to his disappointment, it was completely empty. Groaning in annoyance, he grumbled, "The nerve of that bear, falling into the trap that was meant for the Heffalump...!"

"Oh, Gouper." Rabbit groaned in exasperation, facepalming himself, while the others, even Pooh, looked at the gouper in slight, or in Tigger's case, sheer annoyance.

"Uh, Gouper. You'd ought to be careful with y-your traps." Piglet pointed out.

Shaking his head in annoyance, while walking away, Gouper grumbled to the group, "Speak for yourse-" only to not look where he was going again and ended up stepping right into the hole he'd just made and fall right into the bottom, screaming in surprise, "-EEELLLLFFF!"

Thud!

He landed at the bottom, yelping, "Omph!"

Sora chuckled nervously while shaking his head, only to become alarmed when he and the others had heard a scream nearby. It sounded familiar and quickly his eyes widened as he immediately recongised it.

"W-What was that?" Piglet asked, nervously.

"That didn't sound like a Heffalump." Tigger thought.

"Or a Jaguar." Pooh added.

"Or a Woozle." Eeyore added, glumy.

"It was Kairi!" Sora exclaimed, worriedly.

"Oh, dear. She and Kanga and Roo must be in danger!" Rabbit cried out, starting to get into another panic attack.

Piglet, not having met Kairi yet, asked to his friends, "Oh, excuse me, but, w-who's Kairi?"

"She's Sora's friend who came with him to the Hundred Acre Wood." Pooh replied, "And she and Kanga were looking for Roo who went missing, like you did."

"Oh, d-d-dear! We've got to help them!" Piglet cried out, now quickly worried as well.

The group didn't need to be told twice, as they all raced to the source of the sound in hopes that Kairi, Kanga and Roo didn't end up encountering the Heffalump or anything more unusually dangerous in the Hundred Acre Wood.

When they arrived five minutes later, Kanga was at the side of another pit-trap, trying to reach down into it along with Roo and, to the group's shock and Sora's surprise, was a Heffalump. It didn't take Sora long what had happened; like Pooh, Kairi had ended up falling into another one of Gouper's pit-traps, meant for the Heffalump.

He had to admit, this Heffalump was a lot smaller and a lot more cute than he had expected.

Immediately, Sora called out, "Guys!" to which Kanga and Roo, and even the Heffalump looked, and while the former two were relieved to see him and the others, the latter looked frightened and backed up a little.

Seeing this, Roo told his new friend ensuringly, "It's okay, Lumpy. That's My and Mama's friends Sora, Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Rabbit and Eeyore."

"Sora? Is that you?" Kairi's voice called from the bottom of the pit.

"Yeah, and the others are with me." Sora called back to his friend stuck in the ground, relieved that she was okay.

Tigger gasped in shock and his eyes widened in disbelief, as did the others when they saw the Heffalump named Lumpy, "It's a real Heffalump!"

"And it's got Roo, Kanga and trapped Kairi too!" Rabbit cried out as well.

"Wait, that's not true!" Roo cried out, quickly stepping in front to shield the frightened Lumpy from the others. "He's trying to help to pull Kairi back up."

"Now, see here, Roo-"

"Rabbit." Kanga interrupted him, "Let him finish, please." in which Rabbit did as he was told. If there was one thing he knew he shouldn't do, it was to anger a mother, especially Kanga.

This allowed Roo to continue, "We're all wrong about Heffalumps. They're not scary. Lumpy's my friend. He's just like us. He gets scared."

"Oh, d-d-dear." Piglet muttered, calming down and immediately feeling sorry for the big but rather also small Heffalump, smaller than the one that should've been due to the footprints.

"He likes honey." Roo continued.

"Oh, my." Pooh muttered in realization. Well, Lumpy did look afraid and friendly and plus, the young Heffalump liked honey as well. Well, at least that was one thing correct about the Heffalumps, but now it wasn't as bad as he thought it was.

"He even learned how to bounce." Roo added.

Tigger blinked in surprise. Like him and Roo and Kanga, Lumpy the Heffalump can bounce too? Suddenly he felt guilty for not realising the truth about them and maybe he could get to get along with this kid.

"Sometimes we get scared of things that we don't really know about." Sora agreed with a nod. "The poor little guy is more afraid of us than we are of him, and like Roo said, he's trying to help him and Kanga to get Kairi out of the hole."

Finally, Rabbit relaxed a little, feeling guilty as well; twice in a row now.

Lumpy still hesitated, but relaxed a little as Sora said kindly, "Don't be scared, Lumpy. We're all friends too."

"He's right." Kairi called from the pit, as everyone gathered around and to their dismay, this was deeper than the one that Pooh got stuck in, which meant that this one was more too dangerous to make a self-rope with all of them here.

"H-how are we going to get her out?" Piglet asked, worriedly.

Roo nodded in agreement. It was too deep and it was too risky for all of them to try and get Kairi out without falling in and getting stuck themselves. That's when Lumpy realised something and, with determination, he turned to Roo and said, "Roo, I've got an idea."

He then ran off a couple of feet away and as Sora and everyone else wondered what the young Heffalump was about to do, Lumpy tried to blow his trumpet several times and frightening Piglet.

"Don't worry, Piglet." Pooh told his friend ensuringly to calm him down, as he somehow figured what Lumpy is trying to do. "I think he's trying to help."

"You're right. He's calling for someone to help." Sora nodded in agreement, as Lumpy blew as hard as he could this time, and finally was able to make the noise that could be heard all around the Hundred Acre Wood. Suddenly they all heard the same sound, except it was louder and possibly bigger, responding to Lumpy's call.

Relieved that help was coming, Lumpy cried out happily, "Mummy!"

"Mummy!?" Rabbit and Tigger both exclaimed in horror, realising what was really going on, and attempted to run away, but Kanga grabbed them to stop them from doing so.

Everyone could feel the vibrations of footprints, and then, out from the trees, a larger Heffalump, possibly about five times bigger than Lumpy, emerged, trumpeting once more. Roo was amazed to see his new friend's mother, Sora's eyes widened in amazement, Pooh and Piglet and Eeyore stood frozen, Kanga's reaction was a little surprise, and lastly, both Tigger and Rabbit, in sheer shock at the size of this Heffalump who was Lumpy's mother, fainted.

Seeing the smaller Heffalump, the mother Heffalump approached him and demanded angrily, "Heffridge Trumpler Brompet Heffalump the IV! Where have you been?" and when Lumpy looked a bit guilty for having run off like that, she quickly calmed down and hugged him with her trunk, saying softly this time, "Oh, my little darling. I've been worried sick."

"I'm okay, Mummy. But my friend Roo's friend's friend is in trouble." Lumpy replied, pulling his mother to the edge of the hole while the others backed off a little. "Mummy, this way! Hurry! Her name's Kairi."

Seeing the teenaged girl in the hole, Lumpy's mother called down, "Kairi, are you in there? Now don't be frightened. I'm Lumpy's Mummy."

"I'm right here, Mrs. Heffalump." Kairi called up, surprised to see the size of this Heffalump, but ultimately relaxed when she was told and had also realized that the one above was indeed Lumpy's mother.

"Don't you worry, love. Leave it to me." Lumpy's Mother called, lowering her trunk to reach down and carefully wrapped it around Kairi's waist, slowly pulling her back up to solid ground, much to everyone relief once Kairi was back on the upper ground.

"Thank goodness." Sora sighed in relief.

Kairi nodded, then turned to the large Heffalump, saying kindly, "Thank you for helping me, Mrs. Heffalump." before saying to Roo and Lumpy, "And thank you both too, Roo and Lumpy. If you both haven't met, I would've still been in that hole."

Roo and Lumpy, seeing how Kairi was a very nice person, blushed a little for the compliment, before Lumpy celebrated that his mother had did it and trumpeted happily and successfully again, before they, Roo and Kanga all embraced in relief and happiness. Everyone else smiled at the heart-warming scene.

That's when Sora, Kairi and Pooh all realised why the Heffalump, the mother Heffalump was making all the noises and footprints in the first place and understood.

"Oh, Rabbit. That's why the Heffalump was in our wood. She was looking for her baby." Pooh said, with a smile.

Realising that Pooh was right and also feeling incredibly awkward for the behavior, Rabbit approached Lumpy and cleared his throat, saying, "Young Heffalump. I, uh, that is to say, we, uh, can you ever forgive us? We have acted very badly."

"That's okay, Long Ears." Lumpy said, smiling and now no longer feeling afraid of any of the others and quickly coming to forgive them.

While Rabbit mentally sighed that he'd just met a Heffalump version of Tigger, Tigger himself chuckled as he nudged Rabbit with a grin, "I like this kid already."

"You were right, Roo. He is nice once you get to know him." Lumpy said to Roo, referring to Rabbit.

"And I see that you found Piglet. Everything turned out alright today." Kanga said in relief.

"Well, actually, it was Piglet who found us and helped to get Roo out of another hole that Gouper kinda made. It's a long story." Sora sheepishly corrected.

"I guess Piglet, Roo, Lumpy and his mother are all heroes today." Kairi giggled. Everyone all around them laughed in agreement and good times.

It looked like things were back to normal, only better because now Pooh and the others had found more new friends.

A little while later, Sora and the others sat near the tree on the hill as they watched the sun set, joined by Lumpy and his mother, and even Gouper who apologized for the traps once he got the whole story, and Pooh and the others apologized to Piglet for losing the scrapbook and told him that he did many great things even before today's events, to which Sora and Kairi both agreed on, and Owl who also got the full story also joined them.

"Sora. C-Can I ask you something?" Piglet spoke up.

"Sure. What is it?" Sora replied, curious.

"Well, as a small and timid animal, I'm afraid I'm usually too afraid to do anything and meet anyone. But when my friends are in trouble, I-I suddenly feel brave and m-my courage comes up to me in my chest. I-Is it normal for you and Pooh and everyone else too?" Piglet inquired.

Sora smiled, and explained, "Well, it's kinda hard to explain, but sometimes fear can get to us a lot, but when your friends are in danger, it's your heart that tells you that they mean so much to you that you'd do anything to help them, and even with or without encouragement of others, it's really friends that makes you forget your fear and instead face it. And sometimes, it doesn't even matter if you're big or small. If you put your mind into it, you can do anything."

"Really?"

"Yep. Really."

"You're right, Sora. I guess I can be brave, when I need to be." Piglet smiled at the encouragement and support.

"Guess that means size doesn't count even if the plans are biggerer and you're smallerer. Hoo hoo hoo hoo!" Tigger realised.

"Aboslutely." Rabbit agreed, as did everyone else in this world, while Kairi smiled warmly at Sora. He'd always be supportive without even trying, and that's what she cared so much about him of.

"I like how you make all of us feel better, Sora." Pooh smiled happily, chuckling.

Sora nodded, "Thanks, Pooh." before sighing as he and Kairi both stood up, with the former saying, "Well, we'd better get going."

"Are you leaving?" Lumpy asked, disappointed.

"Yeah, afraid so. But we'll come back soon." Sora promised.

"It was very nice to meet all of you." Kairi added, a little sad to leave, but knew that other worlds were calling, and everyone else in Radiant Garden were waiting.

"Do take care, loves." Lumpy's mother said warmly.

"Remember to bounce by with the three of us!" Tigger added, referring to himself, Roo and Lumpy.

"Thank you again, Sora." Piglet added.

"Right. Hey, do you know what I find funny?" Sora smiled.

"What's that, Sora?" Kanga inquired.

"Well, it looks like that Lumpy captured all of you in a good way." Sora replied.

"And made new friends too." Kairi added.

Pooh nodded in agreement when he realised that Sora and Kairi were right. "Things are going to change around here, but for the better."

"Indeed, Pooh bear." Rabbit nodded in agreement.

"See you and Kairi again, Sonny." Gouper waved.

"I really do need to tell you more of my great uncle's voyage." Owl added.

"Bye Sora! Bye Kairi!" Roo waved.

Sora and Kairi waved goodbyes to their friends of the Hundred Acre Wood as they began to disappear from the book and soon would be returning to the rest of their group back in Radiant Garden to continue their own adventures, leaving behind this world once more until their next visit and this time, without any worries of Xehanort, Chaos and Bhunivelze.

{HUNDRED ACRE WOOD}

Back in Radiant Garden...

As Riku, Mickey, Donald, Goofy, Skuld, Ven, Aqua, Terra, Lea, Isa, Roxas, Xion, Namine, Myde and Jack who'd regained consciousness a short time ago and had half-hoped that Sora and Kairi both entering the book had been nothing more than a dream, were waiting for their two friends to return. They'd been in the Winnie the Pooh book for at least an hour and a half now.

Just then, light materalized from the book which got everyone's attentions and when it got a bit brighter, the book opened all by itself and from a flash of light, Sora and Kairi both reappeared as the book behind the two closed up.

"Was everything okay?" Aqua asked, the first to greet the two teenagers.

"Yep. Everything's fine." Sora replied with a smile.

"It's a good thing Heartless never get into the book. It was actually quite fun." Kairi added.

Lea chuckled as he had his arms folded to his chest, "Meanwhile, most of us were training while you two were in there, and Jack here just woke up a few minutes ago."

"Really? What happened?" Sora asked, he and Kairi both suddenly concerned for their pirate friend.

"He fainted the moment you two entered that book. That's what happened." Myde answered, shaking his head. He then noticed that the pirate in question looked a little bit pale at the reappearance of Sora and Kairi, before the younger man added with smirk, "And I think he's about to pass out again."

While Jack suddenly realised that was what he was about to do against his will, he shook his head to quickly recover and immediately denied with a childish pouting, "I will not pass out, and I did not faint. I was a little knock on the head. Savvy?" in an futile attempt to defend his dignity.

"That wasn't what it looked like to me." Terra pointed out with a teasing smirk. Everyone else couldn't help but smirk as well at this comment, while Jack rolled his eyes in slight annoyance.

"Sora." Mickey spoke up after a few moments, "Leon told us to meet him at the castle once you and Kairi got back. I think he, Cid and Merlin found somethin' really important on the situation with Chaos and Bhunivelze."

That was news flash to both Sora and Kairi. The two of them glanced at each other, wondering if what Leon and the others had found, noting that absence of Merlin, Leon, Cid, Yuffie, Tifa, and the Gullwings, would help them and their companions. Maybe they found out about Aced and the whereabouts of Yen Sid.

Only one way to find out.

A/N: The Hundred Acre Wood is done, as it only took two pages. Well, one and half. Hopefully the next chapter at some point, we'll be heading to the next world.

See you then!