Hello to all my loyal readers!!

but, before we get the ball rolling.....

just a quick shoutout to neosun7: if i told you why they have to kill her, that would be a HUGE spoiler! so, you're just gonna hafta wait!

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Lafarga watched Mia dance in the light of the setting sun, and sighed sadly. She looked so happy. So carefree.

And completely unaware of what was about to happen to her.

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Mia finished dancing and walked over to where Lafarga was sitting. She noticted that he had a sad expression on his face and was puzzled.

'Why is he so sad?' she thought as Lafarga turned his head to look at her. 'This is his favorite festivel of the whole year.'

She sat down beside him and gave him a fake punch on the arm.

"Why so glum?" she asked. He just looked at her and smiled sadly.

"Can't tell ya." he said and he handed her a passion flower blossom. "i want to apologize for this afternoon."

She was surprised. "You don't have to. It's okay."

He put the flower in her hair. "Yes I do. I shouldn't have done that on your birthday."

She blushed. "Aww...okay. Thanks. It was-"

She stopped talking and looked over at something on the trail up to the waterfall. She got up, and followed it, wondering what it could be.

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Lafarga saw the Shadow Heartless as soon as Mia stopped talking, but, before he could tell her not to get up, she was up and gone. He ran up the path that went up the mountain to the waterfall.

When he finally got up to the waterfall, he gasped. Mia was lieing facedown on the ground with about a dozen Shadow Heartless around her. she slowly stood up and th Heartless all lunged at her. Lafarga was about to jump in and help, but, to his amazement, the Keybalde appeared in her hand and she looked at it for a moment. But then, she hit each Heartelss with it, and was doing well until she got to the seventh one.

It knocked the Keybalde out of her hand and went straight for her. Lafarga pulled out the Gunblade that his father's friend had given him and attacked the approaching Heartless. Mia looked at Lafarga in shock.

"W-what is THAT?" she said, pointing to the Gunblade.

"No time for that now. Just grab the Keyblade and RUN!" he yelled as thousands of Heartless emerged from the ground. He grabbed Mia's hand and pulled her down the trail.

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Mia gasped when they got back to the festival grounds. Those black things were EVERYWHERE! the villagers were panicing and running every which way.

'Well, if this key thing defeated the ones at the waterfall, maybe it will defeat the ones here too.' she thought. she ran into the fray and began swinging the key this way and that, defeating each of those black things one at a time. When she thought she was doing well, she felt the ground shake. she turned around, and screamed at what she saw.

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'Darkside' thought Lafarga when he turned around to see what Mia was pointing at. He looked back at Mia and he saw that she had fallen on her knees to the ground. she was shaking something terrible, but, she stood up, looked over at him, and ran towards Darkside.

'She'll get herself killed if I don't do something!' he thought, and began to run after her.

'Don't forget the mission'

Lafarga stopped when he heard the familiar voice inside of his head.

'I don't care about the mission anymore! Mia needs my help!' he argued

'But you know what will happen if you don't listen.'

Lafarga felt a sudden pain in his chest, but he kept running. Mia was at Darkside now, attacking its foot with her Keyblade. He helped her by attacking its other foot, but Mia ran out of energy. She had fallen to her knees and she was using the Keyblade to keep herself from falling all the way over. Sudden;y, a huge, black orb appeared over the island, and Lafarga ran to Mia and held her close to him, to try and keep them on the ground. But, it was no use. The force of the orb sucked them both up into the darkness.

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Heehee. . .i've left you with another cliffie! (i only do this to make sure you keep reading.) cya in the next chappie!

AnimaeGurl