Zeno here, yeah okay thanks for the tip I misspelled Aeris's name through the whole thing. Fixed, okay we're back on track and rolling. By the way, if some of the grammar seems kind of funny it may be that way on purpose. I guess sometimes I like to write like Yoda, maybe?

 Any who enjoy!

  I shook my head as I sat up. The last thing I could remember was sitting down in the chair facing where we were coming from having trouble breathing. Come to think of it, this room was totally different, and how had I ended up here? After all the Great Ninja Yuffie didn't get in life threatening situations everyday.

   I took a look around, Squall was sleeping on another bed like mine, Cid was doing the same, on one next to his, and that strange girl was cleaned up still rocking back and forth. It was strange she seemed so familiar. I'd seen her somewhere before. She was missing something. I got up and walked over, I was the only conscious one in the room, and so what would it hurt right?

 Well I got over there and she stopped staring right at me, and the ribbon around my neck, my red ribbon. I touched with my fingers, and untied it. It was the last present I'd got from Cloud before he left. Apparently it had belonged to someone close to him, because he told me to hold on to it till he got back. I handed it to her and she eagerly snatched it up. I stepped back afraid, the strange feeling still resided in me.

  She rose and walked over to a mirror and tied it in her hair and turned around and smiled, "Do you know where my Cloud is?"

 I stumbled back aghast. It was Aeris! It was Cloud's precious Aeris! She was suppose to be dead though? Right? Septhroth had killed her last we knew. I sputtered, "I'm not sure at the moment."

 She smiled softly at me, "Thank you for my ribbon, I would be nothing with out it, please call me Aerith."

 "You're Aeris though, don't you remember?"

 "I was, I'm a new person, and so I wish to go by a new title. The old me died a long time ago." She looked out the window into the stars, looking a bit forlorn. Then her attention turned back to me with a smile, "So where are we exactly, Yuffie?"

 "I don't know that either." This chick was just creepy. I mean she was dead for crying out loud, and I didn't know if I should ask her either. Plus she knew my name! Oh what the heck, "Aerith, uhm, how can you be here if you were dead?"

 She remained silent, "That's something I'm not quite sure of, the last I remember was the searing pain of his blade through my back, and the last feelings of Cloud's arms. Then blackness lots of blackness."

 "Oh," her voice dropped off and her face looked very sad. Me being the loud obnoxious person I am decided to cheer her up, "Well, we shall have to find Cloud, he's to stubborn to die anyways. Though I do admit he's changed a bit since you left us."

 She knew who I was, and she knew who Cloud was, maybe she was the real thing. And she knew him. That %*#@.  Then again with everything that's happened, I just don't know who to believe anymore. I turned around to look at Squall and Cid, they both slept so soundly. Aerith smiled, "I see Cid is still around. Good old Cid. Does he still cuss a lot?"

 "Just as much as ever, though his mouth his clean when it needs to be," I smiled, "Only for short periods though."

 "Who's that?" she pointed to the other table.

 "That's Squall. Or at least that's what I call him he likes to go by," before I could finish what I presumed to be door slid open, a strange looking sort of duck stood there. Aerith and I both turned too look at him.

 He was in a white coat with open showing his black-buttoned stained shirt underneath. Grey hairs extended from his head surrounding a crowing of feathers and he wore spectacles on his beak. He saw us awake and quacked in surprise, "Goodness what are you doing out of bed! Get back down now!"

 I looked at Aerith and we both grinned playfully, hopping of course back on our bunks. His almost German accent was hilarious. Quite fitting if I do say so for a doctor, "Uhm, Mr. Where are we?"

 "First of all I am Doctor, Ludwig Van Drake! Second you are aboard the Explorer, the grandest of King Mickey's star ships. Designed by yours truly!" He bowed and then came quite close, invading my, Yuffie's, personal space, "But the question my dear, who are you, and what are you?"
 I glanced from side to side to see if he was serious and he was. What a deranged duck, "I am the great Ninja Yuffie." I spoke proudly, "And I'm human." I pushed him back with my finger.

 "Good, good, you seem to be better than before," his attention had turned to Aerith, "You name?"

"Aerith and yes I am feeling better."

 "What a pretty name." Drake smiled at her.

 A grumbling noise came to my left, I looked over to see Squall finally coming around, "Get up sleepy head." I pushed him in the arm. He sat up holding his head.

 "I must have the largest headache known to man." He responded opening his eyes looking around.

 "It happens when the body is deprived of oxygen." Drake said pointing one of his feathered fingers in the air, "And you are?"

 "Squall Leon. Call me Leon." He gave the duck a serious look, and Drake nodded in return. That was Squall though, always serious. Always serious. If it wasn't for me I swear he'd die of it.

 With in a few more minutes of awkward silence, Cid was awake cursing everything in site in distaste of his pained head. I laughed at him, he was so funny when he poured bad words from his mouth.

  Dr. Drake looked us over and said we were fine and gave everyone painkillers, thank god.

 "Hey doc," I spoke while he was fiddling around with strange liquids.

 "Yes?"

 "How bout you giving one that will knock Cid out and finally get him to shut up." He stopped cursing out the ship and turned to glare at me.

 "That might not be such a bad idea after all." Leon responded with a slight grin on his face.

 Cid being Cid, "If you darn $#*( duck try and get near me you will not live to see another damned day."

 We all laughed but Drake was actually filling up a shot. I looked to Aerith who was still giggling, and then to Leon who had the largest grin on his face as did myself.

 Drake dared to get near, and near he got. Cid tried to punch him and he just stuck the needle in his fist and let it go right in. I looked rather shocked. Cid was even surprised, "Whoa, man… I'm just gunna sit down here…" he fell over on the bed out like a light.

 "There that is better." Drake spoke happily, "Maybe next time he'll be cleaner with the tongue."

 "You knew I was kidding right?" I spoke confused.

 "Yes, and well I though it would be better done."

 I gave Leon a worried look. I mean these people had a lot of power if they could knock Cid, of all people, out so quickly. After all we didn't know where we were.

 Leon started, "Okay now that you've had your fun, mind answering some of our questions?"

 "That is not for me to do," the doors again opened to reveal another duck, a strange sort of dog, and a mouse with a crown, "Donald, Goofy, and King Mickey just the people we need."

  The "King" chuckled happily, "Welcome to our ship and please make yourself comfortable." The mouse looked strait at Leon and he looked back at Mickey, "Leon we have some matters to discuss if you would walk with me?"

 "Certainly your highness?"

 "You know him Squall?" I piped in. I needed to know too, after all what the heck was going on?

 "Yuffie, I know the King, it's okay we're in good hands."

 Mickey turned to his counterparts, "Why don't you two take these girls to go get some food? You must be starved."

 "Yes your highness." The Duck quacked in a squeaky voice, "Ladies this way." He opened the sliding doors guiding us out. I glanced at Leon for approval, he nodded and Aerith and I left. The door shut leaving King Mickey and Leon behind.

 The tall one, called Goofy, I can only imagine why, grabbed my shoulder, "So what's your name?"

 "Yuffie."
 "I like that name, good name." He chuckled. I glanced around worried.

 Aerith talked with Donald, whose voice was driving me nuts, and I talked with Goofy, who was okay. We walked a few paces and we arrived at the "mess hall." They showed us these cool food replicator things, we ordered who knew what, but it tasted good at least.
 Goofy, Donald, Aerith, and I sat down at one table, each with food. Yum. "So why were you guys in that ship?" Donald quacked with greens in his bill.

 "Something ate our planet."

 Goofy looked over to Donald concerned, "The Heartless."

 Donald nodded, Aerith looked saddened, "Heartless, what is that?"

 "They are evil creatures that consume all light." Aerith spoke disconnected from life.

Goofy pondered, "How did you know that?"

 "I don't know. I just know." She rubbed her arm and shrugged.

 "Okay they what do they look like?" I asked, I mean it was I guess a good thing to know.

 "Well it depends on the type," Goofy responded, "but they all have one symbol and it looks like this." He grabbed a napkin and a pen and started drawing.

 When he finished he passed it to me, it was a heart with sort of gothic curves in graved in it. The center was colored black, and the outline was a thick red. Fitting of the name heartless, "Okay so they Heartless they eat worlds? Why?"

 "Well we haven't quite got that far yet." Donald responded, "That's why we were coming out here, to Hallow Baston, when we found it was gone and you were the survivors."

 Aerith and I nodded, "So then do we know anything about them."

 "Only that they are spreading through out the known universe creating chaos and that they are destroying it as well."

 "We also know that they take peoples hearts and turn them into other heartless." Goofy added. "And that they can appear almost anywhere where summoned."
 Lights dropped from the ceiling screaming red light, "Apparently there is one aboard, Yuffie." Donald quacked.

 "And that means we have a mole too." Goofy spoke quietly, "Things, I think, are going to get a little scary."

 I nodded and my hands lowered to my ninja stars in concern, life was just going to get tricky again.