~~Sora53: Once upon a time, there was a crazed authoress who didn't update
her ficcy for a long time. You know what happened to her?
Fans: Death?
Sora53: No! She updated!! ^_^!!
Disclaimer: *pulls out wallet* I have...2 dollars! Not enough to own Kingdom Hearts. But it is enough to own Corita!!
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"Yes, this is it." Dr. Finkelstein said when Jack held up the small bunch of forget-me-not.
"Now, I've been doing a bit of reading, and all we need now is suprise. I'm sure the Mayor said something about it a while back." He said.
"No problem!" Jack said. "We'll be right back with the suprise!"
"Suprise? How do you just go out and find suprise?" Corita asked, following behind Jack, whose legs were almost as tall as her.
"You just do." He said mysteriously.
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"Wait! Stop everything! We have the suprise!" Sora called, walking back into the laboratory.
"Sora, don't be so dramatic about it." Corita said.
"Hey, we had to play a weird game to get it! Why not be dramatic?" Goofy asked.
"I'll take that!" Dr. Finkelstein said to Sora, snatching the Jack-in-the- Box from his hands. "Just give me a minute..." He said, turning away.
"I think it was fun! Even though you nearly had a heart attack, Donald." Goofy said.
"Since when do ghosts fly OUT of tombstones?" Donald shivered.
"In Halloween Town, they do!" Jack said grandly as he walked over to Dr. Finkelstein.
The whole process took about 5 minutes. In that time, Sora had managed to sit down on a chair bored, Donald was sighing impatiently, and Goofy was poking him in the head. Corita had drifed back over to the Heartless, and started poking it again.
"How much longer?" Goofy asked.
"A few more minutes!" came the reply.
There was a great groan from everyone in the room except for Jack and Dr. Finkelstein.
"Did you hear that?" Corita asked the boys sitting a few feet away. All she got in response was another grumble.
"I thought I heard something...there it is again!" She cried. "It came from over here..."
Corita walked behind the table where the Heartless was laying, and she caught site of a pointed hat scurrying away.
"There's someone there!" She said.
"I've finished!" Dr. Finkelstein said, holding up the heart.
"Watch out!" Corita cried.
"What are you talking about? There's no one...HEY!" Dr. Finkelstein bellowed. From behind him came a small kid with a strange, skeleton-like mask on. Grabbing the heart, the child ran off with 2 companions.
"Grr.....go get them!" Dr. Finkelstein cried, pointing his finger at the door.
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"Aw, we lost them!" Sora said sadly.
"We couldn't have already!" Corita said.
"Looks like it." Goofy moaned.
"Don't worry!" Jack said calmly. He was looking up in the sky, as if expecting all the answers to come falling out.
"What are you looking for?" Donald asked him.
"Zero!" Jack said.
As he spoke, the same small ghost-dog they had seen in the graveyard came drifting down towards them.
"Zero, after them, quick!" Jack said, pointing a finger in the direction where the 3 had gone.
Zero's ghostly ears perked upwards, and he turned around and flew off in a flash.
"FOLLOW THAT DOG!" Goofy shrieked, running swiftly after him.
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"I knew Oogie Boogie was behind this!"
Zero had let them straight to a giant manor; huge fences and giant gates soon told them that they weren't welcome.
"How are we supposed to get in?" Sora asked.
"We climb!" Corita said, pointing to a small path upwards to the entrance to the manor.
The manor rocked and creaked as they climbed; various Heartless emerged from every nook and cranny.
"So, why do you think Oogie Boogie wants the heart?" Sora asked Jack after they had defeated their 20th set of Heartless (Goofy counted.)
"Oh, I don't know." Jack admitted. "He's most likely trying to control the Heartless with it..."
There was a loud thunk; Goofy had dropped his shield on Donald's foot.
"OW!!! GOOOOFFFFYYYY....."
"Sorry, Donald."
Along with Donald's shriek came dozens of more Heartless, so Sora and Jack's conversation was cut short.
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"You think this is the door?" Corita asked. "Hey, there's a note!" She said, pulling a piece of paper off the door. "It reads, 'Keep out. If you enter, you will die. If you resist, you will die. If you're close enough to the manor to be reading this message, then you're probably already dead.'"
"Sounds pretty accurate to me." Jack said thoughtfully.
"Let's go!" Sora said, wrenching open the door and stepping inside.
The room with the death message taped to the door turned out to be little more than a playroom. A few toys were scattered here and there, and some chairs and such were set up. Directly across from the entrance, however, were the 3 little troublemakers who had stolen the heart.
At the sound of the door closing behind Donald, the 3 of them lept up from what they had been doing.
"Ah! You're supposed to be dead!" aid the little witch.
"Ah, but you're forgetting one thing. A simple message on a door doesn't kill people." Corita said matter-of-factly.
"Shut up, girlie!" said the little devil. "Shock, Barrel, you ready?"
"Always ready!" The boy named Barrel said.
"Let's take 'em!" said Shock.
"Whaddya mean, 'girlie?'" Corita cried. "Grr...I'LL SEND YOU HOME CRYING FOR YOUR MOMMIES FOR THAT!"
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"It wasn't our fault! Oogie tricked us into taking the heart." Shock said sadly.
"It was all Barrel's idea!" Lock said, pointing next to him to Barrel.
"Bu-Bu-But...you guys said..." Barrel said slowly.
"You should be ashamed of yourself!" Shock cried, burying her head in her arms.
The battle between Lock, Shock, and Barrel had been a swift and easy one. Corita, keeping her promise of sending them home crying, had gotten in a variety of spells; everything from Aero on her teammates to blasting the 3 troublemakers with huge blasts of fire. Sora, of course, had been fighting mainly with his Keyblade; he simply claimed he wasn't ready to take Merlin's advice and try a magic spell. Goofy and Jack swiped at them with their weapon/claws, and Donald had entertained himself by shooting ice spells and Corita's fire spells, just to annoy her.
"Do you WANT me to unwrap you, Mummy Boy?! PERMENANTLY?!" Corita had growled at him.
"BRING IT ON, CRAZY WOLF LADY!"
"Stop...it..." Sora said, pulling the two apart. They quickly became entanged in the fight again, leaving little time for arguments.
"You think they've learned their lesson?" Jack asked, staring at the three huddled masses that were sniveling and clinging to each other.
"Let's blast 'em!" Donald said, pointing his staff at them.
"No!" Lock cried.
"It wasn't our fault!" Barrel cried.
"Have a heart!" Shock wimpered.
"Don't blast them." Sora said. He kneeled down to their level, and with a little smile, asked, "We won't blast you if you promise never to listen to Oogie Boogie again. Okay?"
The three of them nodded, and seemed to relax a bit more.
"However," Sora went on, "I'll need to you tell me where Oogie Boogie is."
"We...we don't even know..." Shock said quickly.
"No idea!" Lock said.
"He's definitly not behind the green door!" Barrel said.
"Oh? And where is this nonexistent green door?" Sora asked.
"It's absolutly NOT near the bottom of the manor, and you don't need to pull that lever to get in." Barrel said softly. "Nice job, little idiot!" Corita called, pulling down the lever he had pointed to. A soft whirring noise filled the room, and Barrel lept up.
"No! I was using reverse phycology!"
"Hmm...oh well." Donald said, marching out of the room behind the rest of the team.
~~Sora53: The problem with new chappies after you haven't updated? They're short.
Fans:...
Sora53: What?
Fans: *points* Crazed Riku fangirls here to collect they're chapterly amount of Riku.
Sora53: *gulp*~~
Fans: Death?
Sora53: No! She updated!! ^_^!!
Disclaimer: *pulls out wallet* I have...2 dollars! Not enough to own Kingdom Hearts. But it is enough to own Corita!!
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"Yes, this is it." Dr. Finkelstein said when Jack held up the small bunch of forget-me-not.
"Now, I've been doing a bit of reading, and all we need now is suprise. I'm sure the Mayor said something about it a while back." He said.
"No problem!" Jack said. "We'll be right back with the suprise!"
"Suprise? How do you just go out and find suprise?" Corita asked, following behind Jack, whose legs were almost as tall as her.
"You just do." He said mysteriously.
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"Wait! Stop everything! We have the suprise!" Sora called, walking back into the laboratory.
"Sora, don't be so dramatic about it." Corita said.
"Hey, we had to play a weird game to get it! Why not be dramatic?" Goofy asked.
"I'll take that!" Dr. Finkelstein said to Sora, snatching the Jack-in-the- Box from his hands. "Just give me a minute..." He said, turning away.
"I think it was fun! Even though you nearly had a heart attack, Donald." Goofy said.
"Since when do ghosts fly OUT of tombstones?" Donald shivered.
"In Halloween Town, they do!" Jack said grandly as he walked over to Dr. Finkelstein.
The whole process took about 5 minutes. In that time, Sora had managed to sit down on a chair bored, Donald was sighing impatiently, and Goofy was poking him in the head. Corita had drifed back over to the Heartless, and started poking it again.
"How much longer?" Goofy asked.
"A few more minutes!" came the reply.
There was a great groan from everyone in the room except for Jack and Dr. Finkelstein.
"Did you hear that?" Corita asked the boys sitting a few feet away. All she got in response was another grumble.
"I thought I heard something...there it is again!" She cried. "It came from over here..."
Corita walked behind the table where the Heartless was laying, and she caught site of a pointed hat scurrying away.
"There's someone there!" She said.
"I've finished!" Dr. Finkelstein said, holding up the heart.
"Watch out!" Corita cried.
"What are you talking about? There's no one...HEY!" Dr. Finkelstein bellowed. From behind him came a small kid with a strange, skeleton-like mask on. Grabbing the heart, the child ran off with 2 companions.
"Grr.....go get them!" Dr. Finkelstein cried, pointing his finger at the door.
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"Aw, we lost them!" Sora said sadly.
"We couldn't have already!" Corita said.
"Looks like it." Goofy moaned.
"Don't worry!" Jack said calmly. He was looking up in the sky, as if expecting all the answers to come falling out.
"What are you looking for?" Donald asked him.
"Zero!" Jack said.
As he spoke, the same small ghost-dog they had seen in the graveyard came drifting down towards them.
"Zero, after them, quick!" Jack said, pointing a finger in the direction where the 3 had gone.
Zero's ghostly ears perked upwards, and he turned around and flew off in a flash.
"FOLLOW THAT DOG!" Goofy shrieked, running swiftly after him.
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"I knew Oogie Boogie was behind this!"
Zero had let them straight to a giant manor; huge fences and giant gates soon told them that they weren't welcome.
"How are we supposed to get in?" Sora asked.
"We climb!" Corita said, pointing to a small path upwards to the entrance to the manor.
The manor rocked and creaked as they climbed; various Heartless emerged from every nook and cranny.
"So, why do you think Oogie Boogie wants the heart?" Sora asked Jack after they had defeated their 20th set of Heartless (Goofy counted.)
"Oh, I don't know." Jack admitted. "He's most likely trying to control the Heartless with it..."
There was a loud thunk; Goofy had dropped his shield on Donald's foot.
"OW!!! GOOOOFFFFYYYY....."
"Sorry, Donald."
Along with Donald's shriek came dozens of more Heartless, so Sora and Jack's conversation was cut short.
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"You think this is the door?" Corita asked. "Hey, there's a note!" She said, pulling a piece of paper off the door. "It reads, 'Keep out. If you enter, you will die. If you resist, you will die. If you're close enough to the manor to be reading this message, then you're probably already dead.'"
"Sounds pretty accurate to me." Jack said thoughtfully.
"Let's go!" Sora said, wrenching open the door and stepping inside.
The room with the death message taped to the door turned out to be little more than a playroom. A few toys were scattered here and there, and some chairs and such were set up. Directly across from the entrance, however, were the 3 little troublemakers who had stolen the heart.
At the sound of the door closing behind Donald, the 3 of them lept up from what they had been doing.
"Ah! You're supposed to be dead!" aid the little witch.
"Ah, but you're forgetting one thing. A simple message on a door doesn't kill people." Corita said matter-of-factly.
"Shut up, girlie!" said the little devil. "Shock, Barrel, you ready?"
"Always ready!" The boy named Barrel said.
"Let's take 'em!" said Shock.
"Whaddya mean, 'girlie?'" Corita cried. "Grr...I'LL SEND YOU HOME CRYING FOR YOUR MOMMIES FOR THAT!"
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"It wasn't our fault! Oogie tricked us into taking the heart." Shock said sadly.
"It was all Barrel's idea!" Lock said, pointing next to him to Barrel.
"Bu-Bu-But...you guys said..." Barrel said slowly.
"You should be ashamed of yourself!" Shock cried, burying her head in her arms.
The battle between Lock, Shock, and Barrel had been a swift and easy one. Corita, keeping her promise of sending them home crying, had gotten in a variety of spells; everything from Aero on her teammates to blasting the 3 troublemakers with huge blasts of fire. Sora, of course, had been fighting mainly with his Keyblade; he simply claimed he wasn't ready to take Merlin's advice and try a magic spell. Goofy and Jack swiped at them with their weapon/claws, and Donald had entertained himself by shooting ice spells and Corita's fire spells, just to annoy her.
"Do you WANT me to unwrap you, Mummy Boy?! PERMENANTLY?!" Corita had growled at him.
"BRING IT ON, CRAZY WOLF LADY!"
"Stop...it..." Sora said, pulling the two apart. They quickly became entanged in the fight again, leaving little time for arguments.
"You think they've learned their lesson?" Jack asked, staring at the three huddled masses that were sniveling and clinging to each other.
"Let's blast 'em!" Donald said, pointing his staff at them.
"No!" Lock cried.
"It wasn't our fault!" Barrel cried.
"Have a heart!" Shock wimpered.
"Don't blast them." Sora said. He kneeled down to their level, and with a little smile, asked, "We won't blast you if you promise never to listen to Oogie Boogie again. Okay?"
The three of them nodded, and seemed to relax a bit more.
"However," Sora went on, "I'll need to you tell me where Oogie Boogie is."
"We...we don't even know..." Shock said quickly.
"No idea!" Lock said.
"He's definitly not behind the green door!" Barrel said.
"Oh? And where is this nonexistent green door?" Sora asked.
"It's absolutly NOT near the bottom of the manor, and you don't need to pull that lever to get in." Barrel said softly. "Nice job, little idiot!" Corita called, pulling down the lever he had pointed to. A soft whirring noise filled the room, and Barrel lept up.
"No! I was using reverse phycology!"
"Hmm...oh well." Donald said, marching out of the room behind the rest of the team.
~~Sora53: The problem with new chappies after you haven't updated? They're short.
Fans:...
Sora53: What?
Fans: *points* Crazed Riku fangirls here to collect they're chapterly amount of Riku.
Sora53: *gulp*~~