-Naminé: Hehe, welcome everyone!
Joe: This is good pizza!
Corita: Ooh! As the fanfic writer, I happily accept a slice of pizza!
Sora53: O.o -steals pizza-
Corita: NOOO!
Fans: Why is Sora53 so violent?
Naminé: O.o
Joe: O.o
Naminé: I'll get to work...-

Disclaimer: No, I don't own KH or anything like it. But I do own Corita. AND THIS PIZZA MUAHAHA!

Riku took the last few steps up to the next hallway of the castle, squinting from the brightness of the place. Sighing, he headed towards the small platform and doorway at the end of the hall, identical to when he'd first arrived here.
"Something...tastes kind of funny..." he said suddenly, halting. "What is it? It's so familiar..."
Searching the back of his mind for what the taste could be, he realized it in a moment with a tough of resentment.
"Darkness." He muttered bitterly. "The taste of darkness. What's happened to me... The darkness even seeps into my senses."
"Don't you worry, Riku." called out a heart-warming voice. Looking up, Riku saw an orb of light similar to the one he'd seen earlier float down from the ceiling. When it hit the ground, a fuzzy image of Mickey appeared.
"Your Majesty!" Riku called as he moved towards the image. "What happened to you? You're all...fuzzy."
"I can only send a little bit of my power here." Mickey explained. "But I have a request."
"A request? From Your Majesty?"

"Riku, don't let go of yourself just because darkness has a hold on you." Mickey told him, voice full of concern. "Fight the darkness inside you! It won't be easy... But don't forget! Even in the darkest darkness, there's always a little light." "Light...within darkness..."
"You and I have seen it!" Mickey said happily. "The far-off, welcoming light inside the door to darkness... The light of Kingdom Hearts, Riku...it'll show you the way. Please don't give up. Believe in the light. That's all I ask."
"Okay...I'll try my best." Riku told him, nodding.
"And I'll try to find a way to reach you. I'll come, I promise." Mickey said. He held out his hand in a welcoming manner, and Riku reached down to try to shake it. The teen's hand passed right through the King, however, and Riku looked down at him in disbelief.
"You're...an illusion? My hand passes right through you." Riku said in despair.
"But we shook hands, in our hearts. We're connected, you and me." Mickey told him, letting his arm fall back to his side.
"Yeah...I guess so." Riku muttered softly. With one final smile, Mickey's fuzzy form faded away into the still air of Castle Oblivion, leaving Riku alone again.


"Holler Basment?"
"Hollow Bastion, Goofy."
"Hankie Battle?"
"Hollow Bastion."
"Hava Burger?"
"GAH!" Corita roared. Goofy hung his head and turned back to trudge along with Sora and Donald.
"Sorry, Corita. It's just...Hollow Bastion doesn't sound right."
"Say what you will. It's the truth." Corita told him.
"Stop acting like this, Corita." Sora said. "It's not our fault you're going crazy."
"I am not...HEY!" she yelled, causing Donald, Goofy, and Sora to roar with laughter.
"Maybe you guys are the ones going crazy." Corita said, smacking Sora lightly on the head. "I, for one, will never forget Hollow Bastion."
Sora rolled his eyes at his sister. "Anyway, it doesn't matter now, does it? I just have to use these cards Axel gave me, and we can get to the next floor."
Choosing one carefully out of the deck, Sora gripped the individual card and placed the rest safely in his pocket. He stepped onto the small platform in front of the door and held the card above his head. All around him went white once again, and he felt himself being pulled forward.

Sora landed on the soft ground, and he felt sand spread between his fingers and into his hair. Dizzily, the Keyblade Master got to his knees and brushed the sand out of his hair. Nearby, Donald and Corita were yelling at each other once again.
"DONALD! You got sand in my hair!"
"I didn't! There's sand all around, you just fell into it!"
"I saw you throw some at me!"
"YOU WANNA FIGHT?"
"BRING IT ON, DUCK BOY!"
"CORITA! DONALD! BE QUIET!" Sora roared, standing up and brushing sand off of his pants. The two quickly became silent. The glaring sun overhead was quickly causing Sora to overheat, and he thought he heard something in the distance.
"Hey! We're in Agrabah!" Corita said, looking around after she'd brushed all the sand off her.
"Agrabah?" Goofy asked.
"Sssh! You guys! I think I hear something..." Sora muttered. In the distance, someone calling for help...
"I don't hear anything..." Corita mumbled.
"You know you have bad hearing." He said. After a moment, he started to run forward. " Someone's in trouble."

Goofy followed behind instantly, but Donald and Corita were in an argument again.
"I don't know what you're talking about, I didn't throw sand at your head, Corita..."
"I SAW you! Don't make me take you down!"
"GAH! SORA AND GOOFY ARE GONE!"
"THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT, DONALD!"
"MY FAULT? Look, there are there footprints in the sand. Let's follow them!"
"Oh, now he's Mr. Genius Duck Boy..."

Corita and Donald began to run, following the footprints left behind by Sora and Goofy. They ran past a few buildings and turned a corner, promptly running into the very two they'd been following.
"OW! Corita, what was that for?"
"No time! Sora, look at that!" Corita yelled, pointing her finger at the figures ahead. In a small plaza, about 30 feet from where they stood, a young man was under attack by several Heartless.
"We'd better do something!" Donald cried, rushing forward. The four of them ran the short distance to the man, who was struggling against the Heartless fiends.
"Looks like you could use some help!" Sora said boldly to the man.
"Thanks! I thought I was done for!" The man said, looking down at Sora. Sora whisked the Keyblade into his hands in a bright flash of light, and behind him his companions began to once again glow as they turned into cards.


"Whew...that was close." The man said, brushing his black hair out of his face. Sheathing his sword, he turned to the Keyblade Master.
"Thanks, um..."
"Sora."
"Thanks, Sora." The man said gratefully. "I'm Aladdin." At that moment, Corita, Donald, and Goofy once again popped out of thin air, but Sora didn't take much notice, as he'd grown used to it.

"I'M SICK OF POPPING OUT OF THIN AIR!" Corita howled as Donald once again stood on her foot. "Uh oh!" Goofy cried, pointing to Sora's side. More Heartless had appeared, their yellow eyes glowing maliciously.
"They just keep coming!" Donald roared as Corita stood up and knocked him to the ground. The Heartless were beginning to slowly creep towards the group.
"Time to see if the legends are true..." Aladdin said, moving in front of the group and shielding them from the Heartless. He reached into the deep pocket of his baggy tan pants and pulled out a bright, golden lamp.
"Magic lamp, my first wish! Get rid of these Heartless!" Aladdin yelled out to thin air as the Heartless prepared to pounce on him. For a moment, nothing happened. Then, bright blue smoke began to emanate from the inside of the lamp Aladdin was holding. The smoke quickly rose into the air and began forming a shape. After a few seconds of everyone watching in awe, a magical Genie appeared.

"Genie!" Corita said happily. Donald looked at her like she was crazy.
"Did someone say "wish"? Then stand back, kids, genie of the lamp coming through! There ain't nothin' I can't make right as rain...well, if we HAD rain. But enough dry jokes! One Heartless disappearing act, coming right up!"
The bright blue Genie merely snapped his fingers, and all the approaching Heartless vanished in a puff of darkness.
"Gawrsh!" Goofy cried as the Heartless evaporated into the air. After a moment, Donald asked, "Why didn't you call him in the first place?"

Aladdin looked down at Donald, who was tapping his foot impatiently. "It's not that simple. You see..."
"I couldn't have said it better myself. But I will anyway! I'm strictly limited to three wishes per master. And no wishing for more wishes!" Genie interrupted, doing a little genie-dance around Aladdin and Sora's head. After he'd explained this, he began to condense into a small ball of blue smoke, which then vanished back into the lamp from whence it came.
"So you've got two wishes left? Better use them carefully." Sora told him wisely as Aladdin picked the lamp up off the ground and tucked it back into his pocket.
"I've got to get back to the palace somehow. But with all these Heartless..." Aladdin muttered sadly, hanging his head.
"Hey, Sora. We're headed that way too, so why don't we go with Aladdin?" Corita asked, her bright blue eyes looking into Sora's.
"Hmm...that's not a bad idea, Corita! What do you think?" He asked Aladdin. Aladdin's head instantly perked up, and a smile grew on his face.
"That would be great! Thanks, guys."
"So, where's the palace?" Goofy asked.
"It's that way." Aladdin and Corita said, pointing their fingers towards the area where the group had first arrived in Agrabah. Corita looked at her companions's bewildered faces and quickly put down her hand.
"Um...lucky guess?"

-Sora53: Uh...where am I?
Corita: JOE! GET OVER HERE!
Fans: Ugh, another chappie.
Joe: Everything is as it should be.
Naminé: Yes.
Corita: HEY! Joe, if you let me read that notebook of yours...
Joe: What, the notebook that says what's gonna happen to you?
Corita: Mmmhmmm! I'll give you something.
Sora53: NO GIFT-GIVING!
Sora Fangirls: Sora53, do you care to comment on the fanfic currently?
Sora53: Um...no. Let the reviewers ponder it :D-

-Final notice- I ish taking a poll! Do you like the more compressed version of the fanfic that 'Memory's Rhapsody' has been following, or do you prefer the more loose format that 'Twin Hearts' was following? Tell meh :D-