AN: Hey everyone! Man, I tried to get these two guys to hug each other, but they wouldn't. I still want to have someone take the Manly Hug Test, 'cause I really want to know how long it takes two guys to hug! Hey Doomboy2000, maybe you can hug some guy and tell me how long it takes. Selphie Louise and I wanna know! I was looking at my stats, and I have way more reviews for my poem collection than I do for this fic. So I just have to say again, thank you for R&Ring! I totally love you guys for that! I'm still working on this fic's sequel right now (it's WAY better than this fic. The sequel actually has detail and more action and stuff). I'm currently on page 44 of the sequel. It's not quite at the part where you'd be getting to the end, but it's coming up. So, I hope you guys read the sequel too! This stupid document manager is uploading my stuff all weird. So sorry if it comes out all choppy. I don't know why it's doing that!

Disclaimer: I don't own KH.

Chapter 10: Break it down to her

"Huh? Yah sure!" This is it, Vern thought. Take that Kairi, I'm stealing
your man. He just can't resist me!

"Well, um, before I left with Jafar, I...uh...heard you say something." Sora said nervously.

"Oh yah, you heard me?" Vern asked.

Man, she must not be listening, I just said I heard her. Great, she's
probably mesmerized
by me or something. Freaky, he thought. "Uh yah, I did. Um, anyways, I
uh, just like you
as a friend. I mean, I guess I'm flattered that you, er, love me, but I
just don't feel the
same way."

Vern couldn't believe what she was hearing. "Oh, I see. Is it because of
Kairi?"

"Yes. I don't mean to get you down." Sora didn't want to totally crush
Vern's heart. "I
mean, you're a nice girl, funny, smart, pretty, but you're just not who
I'm looking for.
I'm sorry."

"Uh, don't apologize." It was hard for Vern to get any words out. "If you
don't...like me
like that then...that's okay." Vern had to turn away. She didn't want him
to see her cry.

"I'll, uh, just see you later." Vern said, running off into another room.

"Boy, that was tough." Sora said, wiping the sweat off his forehead. "I
seriously thought
she was gonna punch me or something."

"The next world's straight ahead!" Donald said. "Hey Sora, you don't look
too good."

"I just talked to Vern. You know, I had to tell her I didn't like her the
way she liked me.
It was painful."

"That's why I'm glad I already got a sweetheart. Well, hopefully I'll get
back to the
castle to see Daisy. Yah know, I always had a feeling that she had a
thing for Daffy Duck
from Loony Tunes. Yeesh, gave me the creeps every time she watched him."

"Uh, right." Sora said, slowly backing away.

"There it is! The next world!" Goofy said, pointing to it.

"But, that looks like an underwater world. How am I supposed to breathe
down there?"
Sora said frantically.

"Don't worry! I'll just use my magic. Donald transformed himself into an
octopus, Goofy
into a turtle, Sora into a dolphin, and Vern as a seahorse.

"Man!" Iqui said. "Why couldn't I have ventured out into this world! I
could have been a
mermaid!"

"Well, you can be a mermaid here. Well, a soramaid. You see, you can
clean up in here
after us. You did want to be a maid didn't you?"

"Stop kidding around!" Iqui laughed. "I will clean, but only because I
went out of the
gummi ship and nearly got you killed."

"Thanks." Sora said. Things were getting better between him and Iqui. If
only it would be
the same for him and Vern. She used to stare at him all the time, but now
she doesn't
even look at him.

The four left the gummi ship in their new disguises, and splashed into
the sea world.

"This is so cool!" Sora said, swimming around. "Right, Vern?!"

Vern looked at Sora for a split second but turned away.

"Come on Vern, there are plenty of fish in the sea! There's one right
now!" Donald said,
laughing.

Vern swam rapidly up to Donald. "If you ever make another joke like that
I'll cook you,
cut you up, wrap you in little packages, and sell you to starving
people!!!!!!!!!"

"Man, I'm glad she didn't go off like that on me!" Sora said, relieved.

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"Excellent work, Riku." Maleficent said.

"Uh, thanks."

"We took care of one girl, Alice, and you got Jasmine, so you only have
four more girls
to go. Your next assignment won't be for a while though, so rest up."
Maleficent knew
what was on Riku's mind. "I heard that you ran into a friend of yours in
Agrabah."

"Yes. Is he okay?" Riku asked.

"Oh sure. He's been okay, with his new friends and all. He doesn't seem
to care about
your friendship anymore."

"What? You're lying! Sora would never do that!"

"Did you see the weapon he had in his hand? That was the Keyblade. He
stole it from
you."

Riku was a little confused. "What're you trying to say?"

"You are the true Keyblade master, and your supposed friend took that
title away from
you."

"How could he do that?!"

"Well, I'm not sure. But he's not really trying to save Kairi. He wants
to save Kairi
before you do. It's really all just a competition for him. That's why
Jafar had him
captured. He's thinks he's better than you." Maleficent said.

"Well, he's not." Riku said, believing her.

"That's right. So if you ever run into your little friends again, don't
go easy on him. Got
it?!"

"Got it."

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Yay! I have a three day weekend, and then Tuesday's a half day! Ugh, but I have to work on this painting for art and some Spanish extra credit. When do you guys get outta school? I know some people are out already (I want to kill them j/k). Anyone excited that Harry Potter 3's coming out yet? I didn't read the books, I just watch the movies, so please don't tell me anything that happens! Have a great weekend!