A/N: No disclaimer of any sort. Never has been, now that I think about it... I'm gonna try to make regular updates, but with school coming up and what-not, I'm not sure if that's gonna be possible. Luckily I have early release this year, but I might get a job, so never mind...

Teek: Oi, Twerp! The fic?

Me: Oh, yeah, I was gonna do that, wasn't I? R&R please, people.

How often is it, she asked herself, that you have to duck flying body parts when you're in the fricking audience

Mizu was trying her best to watch Sora fighting, but so far all she was managing was avoiding getting brained by gigantic purple thumbs.

"This--is getting--rediculous!" Mizu growled while ducking and dodging the Guard Armor. Finally getting fed up with it, but not really wanting to jump in, she ducked behind the wall and pressed her back up against it, trying to stay as out-of-the-way as humanly possible.

"Well this is getting me nowhere fast..." she growled. "I gotta come up with some cash for the ship, gotta stock up on potions, and I'm sitting here trying not to get skewered by flying purple fingers! Could this day get any worse!" As soon as she said that, Sora and his comrades finished off the Guard Armor, and began talking. Mizu missed some of it, but managed to catch Sora talking.

"So," he asked, "you were looking for me?" The duck and the other one both nodded and said something along the lines of "Uh-huh!" Mizu swung her legs over the side of the terrace wall and watched the trio.

"They, too, have been seeking the weilder of the Keyblade," Leon said, nearly scaring Mizu off the wall.

"Hey," said the dog-like person to Sora, "why don't you come with us? We can go to other worlds on our vessel."

Surprisingly, not even the promise of seeing other worlds cheered Sora up. He seemed preoccupied, worried about something, probably Riku and Kairi. Instead of immediately perking up, all he said was, "I wonder if I could find Riku and Kairi..."

"Of course," the duck said, much too quickly for Mizu's liking. The duck's friend leaned over and whispered something, but Mizu couldn't hear it. She could, however, see their expressions, and the one on the duck's face dropped her opinion of him about three notches.

"Sora," Leon said, apparently not able to hear the duck and his buddy either, "go with them. Especially if you want to find your friends."

Sora still didn't look any happier. In fact, he looked sort of hopeless.

"Yeah, I guess," he replied absently.

"But you can't come along looking like that," the duck said. Mizu clenched her teeth and narrowed her eyes. The duck had dropped another ten points on her "People I Like" list. Not even what the duck had to say next redeemed him. "Understand? No frowning. No sad face. Okay?"

Patronizing ball of feathers, Mizu thought scathingly as the duck dropped two more slots on the list.

"Yeah," the duck's friend said, leaning over so his face was level with the duck's, "ya gotta look funny, like us!" The duck pushed his friend's face away, obviously annoyed and just as obviously trying not to show it.

"This boat runs on happy faces," the duck said, trying hard to ignore the other person.

"Happy?" Sora asked, still in the depressed sort of voice. Then, unexpectedly, Sora made the worst happy face in acting history, with a big cheesy grin that didn't quite reach his eyes like it normally did. The duck and his friend started laughing so hard that they should have been turning blue, and Mizu just barely managed to choke back a peel of laughter.

"That's one funny face!" the duck's friend managed to say through his laughs.

"Okay, why not?" Sora asked after they had caught their breath. "I'll go with you guys."

"Donald Duck," the duck said, holding out his hand. Er...wing.

"Name's Goofy," Donald's friend said, holding out his hand, too.

"I'm Sora," Sora said, adding his own hand to the pile.

"All for one, one for all," Goofy said.

"You guys sound like the Three friggin' Musketeers," Mizu said from her perch.

"Kage!" Sora exclaimed as she jumped down. She tilted her head and grinned at him.

"Yo, Sora," she said, completely ignoring Donald, who was trying to get her attention so he could introduce himself.

"Hey... Kage," Leon said. Mizu turned to him now and grinned at him, too.

"Thanks for not calling me Mi-chan or anything, Leon," she said. "I'd really hate it if you and Yuffie were convinced and wind up wrong anyway."

"I understand," Leon said. "Come with me, though. There's someone I want you to meet. You too, Sora."

A/N: Cliff-hanger, cliff-hanger, cliff-hanger. AGAIN! At least I'm good at them.