Disclaimer: Kingdom hearts is not mine. If it was I'd actually have as many rooms and ferrets as I actually want to have.

Notes: Erk... a long long long time ago, a freak of a girl started a story that soon became the longest story she'd ever written. With more chapters than anything else, the girl was v ery proud of it. then she went on vacation and her mind rotted. But not to fear! I started this chapter while I was still in Poland, and now, finally, its finished. I guess. so here you have it. I hate writing gummi ship stuff. But that's okay. Oh, yes, don't get too attached to the lady in pink. If i actually finish this as I want to and go on to write the sequel... welll... heheheheheehhh.... growls i hate her......

On with the story!

BTW: Music taht inspired me ending the chapter: Depeche Mode. Oh yeah.

Chapter 13

The view outside the window hadn't changed much since the beginning of the flight. Even with a warp jump, there were still a few hours of flight time left for them. It was a good thing everyone had their seatbelts on, since as soon as they left warp speed, a group of heartless ships bore down on them and forced them into an interspace dogfight. Dodging meteors and gummi blocks, Leon and Cid managed to destroy the heartless ships without suffering anything more than a few scratches on the armor. Now they were flying through a field of crystals, blue and red gummi blocks floating around them in misty space.

Sasha leaned against the starboard window, looking out into the crystal field but not really seeing it. The battle axe and Masamune lay on the floor next to her like loyal dogs, and every now and then her gaze dropped to them. Every time it did she quickly looked away and tried to think of something else. Something like this new world they were going to. She tried to imagine what Halloween Town might look like, and what exactly this 'Halloween' thing was. Finally, getting tired of the blades constantly interrupting her thoughts, she pushed off from the window and walked over to where Sora was sitting and looking through his keychains.

"Sora?" Sasha asked, sitting down next to him. "What's Halloween?"

He looked up at her in surprise, forgetting about the keychains.

"You don't know what Halloween is?" He exclaimed, eyes wide in disbelief.

"No..." Sasha said uncertainly.

"But... everyone knows what Halloween is!" Sora said.

"I don't!" Sasha answered, her wings fluttering. Sora gave her a suspicious look, but then put his keychains away and started explaining.

"Halloween's this kind of festival, holiday, sort of thing. Everyone gets dressed in these ridiculously scary costumes and runs around scaring people." He started. Sasha looked confused, but he continued. "But there's more, you go around to peoples houses and knock on their doors,

and when they open them you yell out 'Trick or Treat!'"

"And... then what?" Sasha asked.

"And then they have to give you candy, or you trick them with something." Sora said, then added after a moment. "Or TP their front yard..."

"What's 'TP'?" Sasha asked, still confused. "Isn't it some sort of house or something?"

"Don't worry about it, its just a trick thing." Sora said, "But you really didn't know what Halloween was?"

"Not until now." Sasha said. After a moment she smiled. "Heh, that sounds like fun, dressing in costumes and scaring people..."

"It is! The best part is when you scare old ladies, and they scream and scream..." Sora started to laugh. "Once I scared my own cat! I put all this makeup on and this scary costume and when I stepped into the living room he almost fell off the table!"

Sasha started to laugh with him, until they both were laughing like idiots. Yuffie came over, grinning.

"And what's so funny?" She asked, leaning on the back of one of the chairs and looking at them.

"Halloween stories..." Sora explained, grinning widely.

"Ooooh, Halloween stories! I love Halloween stories!" Yuffie exclaimed happily, and in seconds she'd hopped over the back of the chair and plopped into the seat.

"I thought you said you didn't celebrate Halloween on your world anymore..." Sora said, looking at her.

"That may be true, and it also may be true that I'd never ever dressed up or gone out Trick or Treating," Yuffie acknowledged, " But that doesn't mean that I can't love Halloween stories."

She looked at him triumphantly. Sasha snickered, and when the young ninja crossed her arms and looked at her indignantly, she cracked up. Sora joined her, and soon the whole threesome was laughing.

Aeris looked over at them from where she, Donald, and Gooyf were looking through the supplies and checking them. Donald gave them a glance, 'hmph'd' and went back to helping Goofy get his head out of one of the backpacks. Aeris smiled, then went on with her checklist.

"Oooh, did I ever tell you about the time I switched everyone's materia?" Yuffie asked, her eyes glowing mischieviously. "Well, it was one night when we stopped in this little country town, right. After everyone went to sleep I snuck into their rooms and switched their materia on them, you know, keeping the colors of the stones the same so they wouldn't catch on that quick. Well, the next day we meet up with these dinasour dragon sorta creatures, and Cloud goes to cast Fira and instead he casts Blizzara, and Vincent is doing lightning damage instead of ice damage..."

Yuffie got a nostalgic look in her eyes. She smiled and sighed.

"Of course, as soon as they figured out what happened and who did it, they chased me to the next village and almost drowned me in the well," Yuffie grinned. "Those were the days."

A sudden noise interrupted their laughs, and Cid started cursing loudly.

"Okay, what happened?" Yuffie asked, jumping to her feet.

"Heartless ships. They managed to sneak around to our back and attack us from behind." Leon said, flipping some switched on the control panel.

"Everyone, buckle up, this is gonna be one hell of a ride." Cid called. Everyone leaped for their seats. Streaks of light flew past them, laser fire that they'd managed to avoid.

"Dammit!' Cid growled, cigarette ash drifting down to the floor. He let out a puff of smoke and pulled back on the steering stick, causing the gummi ship to suddenly turn and shoot upwards.

"What are you doing?" Leon exclaimed. Cid gave him a steely look.

"Trust me, I know what I'm doing." Cid suddenly pulled the ship to the left, and they watched as six heartless ship blasted past them on the right. Cid straightened the ship out and pointed towards the enemy ships. "Now!"

Leon, almost caught off guard, fired off the ships cannons, hitting three heartless ships and clipping the wings of the other three as they blasted past.

"Hah! Lets see them follow us now." Cid said, grinning and taking a long drag on his cigarette. He set the the ship on its course, and they blasted off leaving the wounded heartless ships far behind.

Thank you to:

Magic Blue Fire Kitsune: Rarg! er, i mean... heh... I've been away from the internet for too long! Anyways, i'm planning on reading your story as soon as I finish uploading this. I dun have msn, but feel free to e-mail me at if you want.

Reviewer formerly Jade now Malignant Paroxysm: hee heee... yeah I'm weird. Wow, a returning reviewer? I feel special. I'm glad that you managed to find my story again. Thanks for reviewing and letting me know how you like it.

TwilightAmathyst: Yay! New reviewer! You deserve cookies! Especially since you reviewed to all my other stories too! I have no idea how you managed to get through all that, but thank you very much for it. And I'll try to update some of those others as soon as I figure out how. And I'm fixing/fixed the mess up with the chapters. That's weird, but the prologue is back in its proper place, so go ahead nad check out chapter 1 if you want.

Ari: that sucks, you can't reply... erk, but thanks for telling me what you think! Heh, here, you get cookies too.

Sarah: Because I know you're going to read this eventually. Thanks for keeping up with the story, and for reminding me to update, update, update! heh, its really cuz of you that this chapters going up today and not next year.

Thank you everyone for holding up with me and lasting through my stupidity and late updates and all that. You've all been great.

Zo, sigining out.