Katari: Okay, first off, Lorwen and I don't own KH. This story is a collaboration between us, so chapters will alternate authors.

Lorwen: Stop saying big words. Your gonna confuse them.

Katari: We know this plot is severely overused, but frankly, we don't care. There isn't a rule that says we can't do a story like this, so flamers… bug off.

Lorwen: Wow, Wolvy-san, I've never heard you threaten anyone like that! claps

Katari Point Of View (POV)

I gazed out of the window for a moment, my thoughts trailing off again for the thousandth time that day. I was a huge daydreamer, and, of course, I had to daydream while operating a sewing machine…

"Brittney, look out!"

Danielle spoke up at just the right time. I pulled my hands away from the little machine, just before they would have been sewn together.

"Baka… pay more attention to what your doing."

I nodded and laughed harshly. "Gomen… I just… wasn't looking."

"And I thought I was the clueless one."

I grinned and looked back at my work. I was trying in vain to sew an Organization-style coat for Halloween, but the shiny pleather fabric I bought wasn't cooperating.

"This is impossible," I lamented abruptly.

"No kidding. Lego is being mean to me…" Danielle replied. 'Lego' was actually Legolas, the pansy Lord of the Rings elf she was going to be for Halloween. But it seemed her costume was being uncooperative too.

"Let's do something else," I suggested.

"Like what?"

"Kingdom Hearts, maybe…?"

Danielle's eyes lit up. "Hai! Let's do that."

We strode over to the living room where my Playstation 2 was located. Every time I came to Danielle's house she made me bring it over.

We turned it on, and for half a moment stood fixated by the pretty green light on the reset button. But soon we overcame it and listened to the sleepy menu music.

Kingdom Hearts was by all means my favorite game. I'd fallen in love with it the first time I played it. Then I had one of those obsessions too. I'd dream about it being real, having adventures like that. I felt like I was on my very own little Destiny Islands, and I wanted to get off of it more than anything.

I took up the controller, but Danielle smacked it out of my hand.

"What the hell, aiya! I cried out, perhaps a little too loudly.

"You took the controller away from Walter!" she sobbed.

I raised a brow. "Walter…?"

"Yeah! He's my new imaginary friend!"

I sighed. I was amazed at how sugar could turn a thirteen-year-old into a toddler. There was no denying that I was the most serious of my friends, but if I didn't surround myself with crazy people, I'd probably curl up and die of boredom.

"He wants to play."

"Err… okay," I said.

Danielle took the controller and handed it to the spot of air that divided us. She let go of it, and it predictably dropped to the floor.

"Oh… well, I guess he doesn't to play after all…"

We spent the next hour killing off Heartless. Danielle's skills were coming along nicely… but she still took a heavy beating whenever she tried to face Sephiroth, while I beat him for what seemed my fiftieth time. I was really conceited about it, until I died from a measly Shadow Heartless.

"It's not my fault!" I protested. "I didn't know he was behind me, and-"

My objections were drowned out by Danielle's maniacal laughter.

"Lorwen! Stop it!"

But she didn't stop. She just kept on laughing until she could barely breath. "Sorry… Katari-san, but… I can't believe…"

"Yeah, yeah, I get it," I growled moodily. "Do you want to play something else?"

Danielle sat up for a moment, then nodded. "Walter said he wants to play hide and seek!"

"Hide and seek? Your not serious…"

"Yeah, I am. Now come on, he's already hiding."

I nodded. It would be a harmless way to kill a few minutes. "Alright, let's go."

Danielle started. "Hold on." She dashed upstairs and back, an old, holey backpack in her grasp.

"Your backpack of doom? That one you say you took to Middle-Earth?"

"Yep!"

"I still don't know if I believe that whole 'Me and Elanor went to Middle-Earth' story," I said jokingly.

"Believe it," Danielle replied shortly. She walked over to the fridge and began packing her seemingly endless backpack with food.

"What do you need all that for?"

"In case we get lost."

"Come on, your house isn't that big."

Danielle dismissed me and continued packing. "Now let's go find Walter!"

We started on this first floor, but didn't find anything. I was beginning to wonder how you were supposed to see an invisible person.

We looked in cupboards, under couches, even the pool. We started up the narrow stairs, the fake flowers that curled around the banister catching in my messy, dark blonde hair.

"Ouch… uh, maybe he's in your room…?" I suggested.

"Yeah, maybe," Danielle said. "Come on."

We entered her room and were greeting by at least ten Legolas posters, all smiling back at us.

"I knew you were obsessive…"

"Leave me alone!" Danielle pleaded. "Legolas is pretty!"

"Not to mention pansy…"

"He is not!"

"Is too."

"IS NOT!" Danielle shouted. I cowered, then turned towards the closet as I heard something come from it.

"You have to be joking… an imaginary friend can't make noise!" I said.

"Let's go check it out." I slowly opened the closet door, freaked out. It couldn't be possible, could it…?

"EEK!"

I turned and saw Danielle looking mortified. I looked down; and saw something shadowy and dark curl around my legs. "What the-?"

"Brittney! Walter, this isn't funny!"

"I don't think Walter is doing this!" I cried. I felt the shadows wrap around me and draw me to the closet.

"Lory-san… a little help!" I reached out my hand, and Danielle didn't hesitate in taking it. But I couldn't free.

"Dammit! Come on!" she yelled, pulling at my arm painfully. She held on as long as she could, but lost her grasp. I felt the shadow pull me forcefully into the closet, but it seemed they had also captured Danielle. But unfortunately, I blacked out right about then…

((Later))
"Ugh…" I opened a sleepy eye, my body aching. "Ouchiness…"

I opened my other eye and looked around. I was laying on brick, and next to me…
"Danielle!"

Danielle was sitting up, tossing a rock up and down casually. "About time you woke up."

"Huh? Where are we? What happened?"

"How should I know?"

I got up and got a better look at things. We were surrounded by brown buildings, neon signs adorning their roofs. Above us the night sky twinkled jadedly.

"This place looks really familiar," I commented.

Danielle shook her head. "It doesn't to me. I mean, it does a little, but not really."

"What happened? The last I remember, that shadow was pulling us into your closest."

"That's what I remember."

I paced around the alleyway, trying to figure things out. "I've been here before… wait… no, no I haven't…"

"Well, have you or haven't you?"

"Both," I said, confusing myself. Danielle just rolled her eyes.

"Here," she said, throwing me a candy bar, and giving herself one. "I told you that backpack would come in handy."

"Your like a boy scout… you always come prepared." Danielle smiled smugly.

"Come on, let's go look around, aiya," I suggested, pulling her off of the barrel she was seated on.

As we walked on, the location got more and more familiar. The brown buildings, the neon signs, even the dark, jaded sky… somehow, I'd been here.

Finally we got to what looked like a town square. Then it hit me… I swayed, and clutched Danielle's arms to keep from fainting with shock.

"Oh my god…"

"Wolvy-san, are you alright?" she asked frantically.

"Danielle… I know where we are…"

"Well, I wish you would share it."

"You don't understand… we… we're in Traverse Town…"

"WHAT!" she screamed. Actually I wasn't too surprised with her reaction.

"I know it sounds crazy, but I'm serious!"

"But Brittney… how!"

"I don't know, aiya!" I sighed and forced myself to calm down. I hung my head… and actually started to laugh. I don't know why, I just did.

"What's so funny?"

"Nothing… come on, I think there's a café around here…"

Sure enough we found one, and drank the coffee Danielle had somehow found in her backpack. It kept us from paying, but now I knew why it had taken my dad years to learn how drink coffee black.

"So somehow we got sucked into a videogame, okia?" Danielle said.

"Seems like it, but we weren't anywhere near the Playstation when it happened… Danielle, what are you doing?" I looked across the table, where Danielle was writing on a piece of paper.

"I'm making a list," she said simply. I craned my neck to get a better look. Riku, Zexion, Vexen, Riku Replica, Sephy…

"Of all the people your going to snog? Just take Vexen off the list, he's ugly."

"Is not! Leave him alone!"

"Then take Zexy-sama off the list… he's mine."

"No!"

I got nowhere with the arguing, so I quickly gave up.

"Say Brittney… how do we get to Castle Oblivion from here?"

I choked on my coffee. "You want to go to Castle Oblivion!"

"Yeah, why?"

"It's just…" I lowered my voice to a whisper. "Should we really talk about it here?"

"What do you mean? The people here don't seem to care," Danielle said. I nodded, and went back to my drink.

"Hey Lorwen? … Does anything feel… wrong?"

"What are you talking about?"

"I mean… does everything here… feel fake?"

I was surprised to see Danielle actually thinking about this. "Yeah… actually it does… maybe this is a dream or something… hey look! Their giving out free saki!" She scurried off to the bar.

The next five minutes I spent in silence, but not for long…Hey Ho!

To the bottle I go
To heal my heart and drown my woe,
Rain may fall, and wind may blow,
But there still be, many miles be still to go
Oh, sweet is the sound of the pouring rain,
And the stream that runs from hill to plain
But better than rain, or rippling brook,
Is a mug of beer inside this Took!

I laughed as she finished the song, which I recognized from Lord of the Rings. Would she ever get that movie out of her system?

Suddenly, I saw movements outside the window. I ran to it and peered into the darkness. Carved in the shadows I saw a skinny, cloaked figure, with flaming red hair. And he was coming towards the café.