Ah man… it took me forever to update again… Sumimasen… Just don't expect regular updates from me… Bleah…. Oh yeah, since she said she'd kill me if I didn't do this, if you like Kingdom Hearts and you like Ansem, read Tetsuya Kitase's fics, cuz Ansem features prominently in pretty much all of 'em. She's a fangirl. Anyway, on with the show! And now, cameos of a different sort!

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"Are you sure this is safe?"

"Of course I'm sure! I've done this loads of times!"

"Really?"

"Well… no… but… OFF YOU GO!"

A resounding scream echoed through Icicle Inn from the vicinity of the slope near the back of town. Tess and Sephiroth looked up from their snowball fight.

"What was that?" Tess said.

"I have no idea," Sephiroth said, lobbing a snowball at her. He missed, and Tess' next snowball hit him in the face. "Hey! No face shots! Red card, ref!"

Sam, playing referee, shook her head. "Nope. Sorry."

"The ref's biased!"

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Meanwhile, Cloud and Vincent had managed to make it to the top of the slope again. Once they reached the top, Vincent dropped his snowboard and tried to strangle Cloud.

"If you do that again, you're fangirl fodder!" he yelled.

"Whaa! O-o-okay-ay-ay! J-j-just stop shaking-ing-ing me-e-e-e!" Cloud cried. An ominous rumbling noise greeted their ears. Vincent left off strangling Cloud and the two looked around.

"What's that?" Vincent said.

A giant snowball, with Jack Sparrow stuck to the front and being repeatedly rolled over, was flying towards them at an alarming rate. "Look out!" Jack yelled.

"Oh, SHIT!" Vincent and Cloud yelled, hopping back on their snowboards. They pushed off, and flew down the slope. The snowball was close behind. They whizzed down the slope, dodging around the snow-moogles and snow-chocobos. The snowball drew ever closer, and Vincent and Cloud tried desperately to outpace it. But to no avail. The snowball hit them full on, and the two of them stuck to the front.

"Hey, Jack."

"Hello, Cloud."

"Hi, Jack."

"Ahoy, Vincent."

"How's it been?"

"Pretty good, except for being stuck on a giant snowball. Yourselves?"

"Not bad, except for the whole snowball thing."

"Say, is that a drop-off?"

"Why, so it is."

"Shall we scream?"

"I'd say so."

"YAAAAAH!"

Once again, Tess looked up.

"There it was again," she said. "It sounded like a scream."

"Probably was. And for once, I'm not causing it," Sephiroth said. He chucked a snowball at Tess, and hit her shoulder.

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A few hours later, everyone except Cloud, Vincent, and Jack Sparrow had gathered in the local inn.

"Anybody seen Cloud, Vincent, and Sparrow?" Tess asked.

"I think Cloud and Vincent were snowboarding," Cait Sith said.

"But what about Sparrow?"

"I think I saw him and Yuffie trying to make the world's biggest snowman," Nanaki said.

"The world's biggest WHAT?"

"Do you think we should find them?"

"Probably. Do we want to?"

"No, but then we'd have to recruit people to replace them. Sam, do you still have Barbossa's monkey?"

"You mean Saruma?"

"Huh?"

"I renamed him Saruma. Yeah, I still have him."

"We might be able to use him."

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The next day, everyone was gathered around the top of the slope.

"Did they really go this way?" Yuffie said nervously.

"Where else would they have gone?" Nanaki replied.

"Well, we won't find them by standing here! Tally ho!" Tess yelled as she jumped on her snowboard and went flying down the slope.

"Wait for us!" Sephiroth cried as he followed suit. The others looked at each other, shrugged, and took off, Saruma the monkey clinging to the ends of Sam's headscarf.

As they whizzed through an area strangely empty of trees, Tess looked around. Several stumps jutted out of the snow.

"I think they went through here," she called Sephiroth, who was by now level with her. He nodded, and the two sped up. They soon came to a fork in the path. Tess took the left path, and Sephiroth followed.

"Is this the right path?" he asked.

"I think so. I saw a scrap of red cloth stuck to the snow near the start of this path," Tess replied. However, they came to another fork. This time, Tess went right, having spotted a hole in the snow that looked suspiciously like it was caused by one of Cloud's lethal hairspikes.

The long line of snowboarders, strangely resembling a truck convoy, shot down the slope, towards a drop-off. Tess leaned forward, and shot off the edge. She flew through the air, and landed smoothly below. Sephiroth also landed smoothly, sending up a massive spray of snow. Sam shot off the edge, flipped, and landed on her feet with her snowboard in her hand.

"Show-off," Sephiroth grumbled.

The others came flying off seconds later, though they had less than graceful landings, particularly Nanaki, who landed nose-first in a snowdrift. He pulled himself out and shook his head, spraying Cait Sith with snow.

"So, which way?" Yuffie said. Tess looked at her. Then she looked at Sam.

"Did you catch that cloth?" Tess asked.

"Yep," Sam said, holding it up. Saruma grabbed it, and sniffed it a few times. He chattered incoherently, and ran off in one direction.

"Follow that monkey!" Sephiroth cried. The others darted after the monkey. Soon, a trio of voices reached their ears.

"You nincompoop! I told you to go left through the warp hole, not right!"

"Well, I'm sorry, but you aren't the easiest person to understand!"

"Gawrsh, can't we just get along?"

"Hey look! A monkey!"

Sephiroth's crew rounded a turn, and felt their jaws drop.

A boy with spiky brown hair, a white duck, and a tall gangly dog were teasing Saruma. Well, the boy and the duck were arguing, and the dog was teasing Saruma.

"Uh, who are you three?" Tess asked. The dog looked up, but the duck and the boy kept arguing.

"Gawrsh, I'm Goofy," he said enthusiastically. "That there is Donald, and he's Sora."

"Huh? Someone say my name?" the boy said.

"Who're you talking to, Goofy?" the duck said. Then he spotted Sephiroth and his crew, all watching with some degree of amusement. "Who're they?"

"I'm Sephiroth. Have you seen anyone go by here?" Sephiroth said.

"No, we haven't. Although we did here some screaming over to the west," Sora said, pointing with what looked like a giant key.

"Thanks. Can we have our monkey back?" Saruma scurried away from Goofy, and climbed back up to Sam's shoulder. Sora and Donald started arguing again, and Goofy tried to placate them. Sephiroth and his crew shook their heads, and headed off to the west.

As they left, something occurred to Sora.

"Hey, didn't some of them look familiar?" he said. "I'm pretty sure I saw Yuffie, and that guy in the front kind of looked like Ansem, but I think I've seen him somewhere…. He looked like this guy I fought in the coliseum. Looks a lot like him, in fact. But that guy didn't have a wing…"

"Stop changing the subject!"

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O.o… Yeah… Whee! Kingdom Hearts rules! I just had to do that! XD Anyway, next chapter will (hopefully) focus on Cloud, Vincent, and Mr. Sparrow. Hehehe… it's fun calling him "Mr. Sparrow." There's a Pirates world in Kingdom Hearts 2! YAYNESS! XD

On a completely different subject, I'll try to update a little quicker with the next chapter, depending. o.o;; I don't know how much writing I'll be doing. Effing school…. XP