Disclaimer: Yay! I got a review! A GOOD review! does the happy dance Erm, wait this is a disclaimer... I do not own Kingdom Hearts. But I've been saving my allowance for a whole year so I can buy it! kid voice Ha, when my friend read this, she asks me, all worried: 'Why does Donald swear?' Well, folks, Donald swears because I think he really does quite frequently, they just cut it out. So there! Oh, and about all the little typo's in last chappy... I am sorry! I will apologize to the readers, I will apologize to the website, I will apologize to the world! GOMEN NASAIIIIII!

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Chapter One: New Companions

"So... um, Murky. You're going to destroy all the heartless?" Sora asked, his voice confused.
"I told you. I'm not Murky, I'm Pyro." Lisayre sighed.
"Umm... sorry. Pyro. But, that's right, right?"
"Right."
Sora blinked in surprise. "And... you want our help?"
"Yes."
"She's crazy!" The duck--Donald, as Lisayre had found out-- squawked. "Just a moment ago, she was using darkness, and now--"
Lisayre looked at the duck menacingly. "Roasted duck is one of my favorite foods."
Donald was silent.
"Well, Pyro. We're not going to help you. We have to find my friend Riku and the king. Besides, why should we help you? Thanks to you, we all have third degree burns, and--"
"Curaga." Lisayre sighed in annoyance.
"Gawrsh, thanks!" Goofy said, his burns healed by the spell.
(Well, at least I still have this spell.)Lisayre thought, sighing.(But who knows what else I can do now that I don't have the darkness? I don't even know if I can duplicate that spell from earlier. But I guess I'll worry about this once I get these three to help me...)"There. Now you no longer have the 'third degree' burns that I inflicted upon you in self defense are gone, there is absolutely no reason you can't help me."

"Whatever! We still have to find Riku. And what reason do we have to help you, anyway?"
"Well, you can help me, or I can burn you to a crisp. It's your choice, really." Lisayre said cooly. (Can I do that? Well, they don't know if I can or can't, so I guess that's all that matters...)
Donald, having recovered from the roasted duck remark, sighed. "Alright, what do we do first?"
Lisayre thought for a moment. (Well, I won't be able to do much if I don't know what I'm capable of anymore. I have to find out what I can do. Wait...) "Do any of you know a sorcerer?"
"Yeah, Merlin!" Goofy answered.
"But he lives in Traverse Town, and now our Gummy's worthless." Donald reminded him.
"Okay. So we find another way to get to other words."
"Oh, great." Sora snapped. "I'm glad you started off on such an easy task. And, by the way, I'm not helping."
"Yes, you are." Lisayre sighed, anger apparent in her voice.
"No... I'm not."
"Then stay here and rot, for all I care." Lisayre said. "But, if you don't help me find a way to travel between worlds, how will you ever get back to your island?"
Sora glared. He knew when she said that, it wasn't his island she knew he wanted to get back to. "Alright. But only for Kairi's sake."
"Who?" Lisayre asked, faking a naïve voice.
"I think you know."

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Donald and Goofy started down the winding path away from the massive door, but Sora and Lisayre lingered for a moment.

"The door is gone..." Lisayre whispered. "So where are you... Riku?" Her voice was inaudible from a foot away. "Riku. I'll find you."

Lisayre turned and began to follow Donald and Goofy. "Come on, Sora."

"But, uh, Pyro, don't you think--" Goofy began.

"Come on."

The four of them started down the path. After walking for what seemed like hours, the path opened into a vast, green meadow. "Beautiful..." Lisayre whispered, then turned to her companions. "We stop here for the night."

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Sora sat glumly in front of the campfire. I can't believe we actually have to help this bitch...
 He did not like this 'Pyro,' he knew that for sure. Other than making him stop his search for Riku, and all the threats, she seemed so shifty. Hell, she even looks like she's always keeping secrets. And she probably is. It was true. Her long black hair swept across one of her icy blue eyes and nearly covered the other one as well, making it nearly impossible to maintain eye contact with her. Her face remained expressionless a majority of the time. Her voice was only a degree above a whisper, and it was cold, somehow—Dead, Sora thought.
Other than that, this Pyro girl just freaked him out. There was something about her...
Sora stared into the fire. And she used darkness... but it would appear she's also a fire mage. Damn, it's so confusing!
Sora yelped and leapt up, yanked out of his revere as someone shook his shoulder.
He turned back. "Oh. It's you."
"Yes. Me." Pyro smiled.
(Her smile even looks like a sneer.) "What do you want, then?"
"What do I want? I came to ask you if you wanted some food. But if you insist on knowing what I want..."
"Alright. Shut up. What do you have to eat?"
"'Shrooms."
"Huh?" Sora asked dumbly.
"Mushrooms."
"Oh yeah. 'Shrooms. Riku is the only other person I've ever heard call them that, so..."
"Whatever." Pyro said coldly, turning away from him. "I gave the bag to the duck. If you fry them, they're good."
As the girl stormed off, Sora scowled. (Did she just... flinch at the word Riku?)
The more he thought of it, he remembered her doing the same in the previous conversation.
('Shrooms. Flinches at the word Riku. That's really...odd.) Sora thought, standing and surveying the area for Donald. (But it's just a coincidence, most likely.)

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Alright, so it's a bit short, and not as good as the prologue, but please review anyway... please?