"What's that?" Donald said pointing at the gray thing.
"Wow, it's huge!" Sora exclaimed.
"It's a giant whale!" Goofy said as it came closer.
"Its Monstro from the movie, Pinocchio. He's a whale of a whale, and vicious besides!" Yumi said. Everyone gave her a confused look but went back to look at the whale.
"Whoa Donald get us outa here!" Yumi shouted.
"It's too late. It's gonna swallow us." Donald said.
"Aahhh!!!" They all shouted as the huge whale swallowed them.
Yumi woke up on the ground where she saw Donald, Goofy and Sora in front of her face up close.
"Ack!!" Yumi said scooting backwards. Goofy had his shield above his head. She was about to ask him why when all of a sudden a small box fell on top of Goofy's shield. Now I know why.... she said to herself.
"Knock it off!!" Donald yelled.
"Hey, Yumi. Are you okay?" Goofy asked.
"Yea, sorry to scare you like that." Sora apologized.
"What are you guys doing? Where are we anyway?" Yumi asked rubbing the side of her head.
Another box fell from the sky almost hitting Yumi, but she got out of the way.
"Uh, you know, I think that big ol' whale Monstro just swallowed us. And for today's weather: expect showers. Goofy held up his metal shield he uses for defense during battle to cover his head. Another small box hit Goofy's shield. "Heavy showers!"
"Hey! Who's there?" Donald yelled up at the planks above him.
"It's me," a boy said carrying a green block.
"Oh, its just Pinocchio.....Pinocchio?!" Donald shouted.
Pinocchio walked along the planks with the green block and headed over to a ship on the far right near the back.
"Come on, lets follow him." Yumi said jumping in the water swimming over to the ship. The gang followed. "Acck!! Th-th-the w-w-w-at-t-e-r-r-s f-f-reez-z-zing-g-g!!" They swam to a nearby ship where Pinocchio was heading.
"What have you got there, Pinocchio?" Geppeto said.
"With this, we can get out of here, father." Pinocchio said.
"Really? With this big block? You think so?" Geppetto asked.
"It's true. So, how did you end up here, Pinocchio?" Sora asked climbing up on the side of the ship.
"Oh, my. So the whale swallowed all of you, too? My goodness." Geppetto said.
"Yea, looks like it." Sora said.
"My name is Geppetto. I'm Pinocchio's father. When we got separated, I traveled all over, looking for him." Geppetto explained.
As Geppetto kept talking, Yumi stared over at Pinocchio heading over to the cave.
"So, you seem to know Pinocchio quite well. I hope he was a good boy in my absence." Geppetto said carrying the block over near the bed. "Well, we've all had quite a journey. Right, Pinocchio? Pinocchio? Well, I think he ran off. Can you do me a favor? I'm very old and can't walk that fast. Can you four get Pinocchio for me?"
"Sure, old man......-er, I mean, Geppetto!" Yumi said correcting herself. "Haha...."
Sora, Yumi, Donald and Goofy explored the place when they entered a chamber. They saw Pinocchio.
"what are you doing here? Come on. Let's go back." Sora said.
"You know, Geppetto's really worried about you. Come on. Let's go and we can play somewhere else. Okay?" Yumi said reaching her hand out to Pinnocchio.
"Pinocchio, stop fooling around. This is not time for games." Sora said heading toward the opening that leaded outside.
"But Sora, I thought you liked games." Said a voice behind him. Sora whirled around and saw Riku standing next to Pinocchio.
"Or are you too cool to play them now since you have the Keyblade?" Riku finished off.
"Riku! Wh-what are you doing here?" Sora asked in amazement that in all places he would find Riku here.
"Just playing with Pinocchio." Riku answered back.
"You know what I mean! What about Kairi? Did you find her?" Sora asked.
"Maybe. Catch us and maybe I'll tell you what I know." Riku said asking for a challenge.
"Come on!" He said to the gang as they all ran to catch Riku. Riku grabbed Pinocchio and headed into the chambers of Monstro.
They lost Riku of what chamber he went in. It was either chamber 4 or chamber 6. They made a vote and went to chamber 6. They saw Pinocchio running in front of them and started chasing him.
"Boy, for a wooden boy like Pinocchio, he sure runs fast!" Yumi said while running and panting.
"Hurry, before we lose him!" Sora said and stopped. Pinocchio ran past Riku and ran into another entrance.
"Riku!" Sora said. "What's the matter with you? What are you thinking? Don't you realize what you're doing?"
"I was about to ask you the same thing, Sora." Riku replied. "You only seemed interested in running around and showing off that Keyblade these days. Do you even want to save Kairi?"
"I do..." Sora said hanging his head low. Silence came until it broke by Pinocchio's cry. Sora, Yumi, Riku, Donald and Goofy all went into the bowels where they saw Pinocchio trapped in a heartless monster.
"Pinocchio!" Yumi screamed.
"Help me, guys!" Pinocchio yelled back at them.
"You up for this?" Riku asked Sora.
"No problem. Let's do it!" Sora said getting into a battle position. "Come on, guys."
"Ready!" Yumi said holding four ninja stars in between her fingers and in a battle position.
"On your mark!" Donald said reaching out for his magic wand.
"Get set!" Goofy said getting out his shield.
Riku got out a blue and red sword similar to the Keyblade. "Go!"
They fought. Sora and Riku hit it with their swords while Yumi threw ninja stars at it. Donald used magic often while Goofy did cool spins with his shield and protecting himself.
Finally, the heartless monster gave up and let Pinocchio out falling into a hole in the ground. Riku ran after Pinocchio and jumped into the hole leaving Sora and the gang jumping in, too. They fell back right where they started on Geppetto's boat.
"Pinocchio! Pinocchio!" Geppetto shouted to someone above. "Please! Give me back my son!"
"Sorry, old man. I have some unfinished business with this puppet."
"He's no puppet. Pinocchio is my little boy!" Geppetto said.
"He is unusual. Not many puppets have hearts. I'm not sure, but maybe he can help someone who's lost theirs." Riku replied.
"What a minute. Are you talking about Kairi?" Sora asked.
"What do you care about her?" Riku said in a mean way and walked off.
"Hey, you! Get back here!" Yumi yelled, but Riku ignored her. "Get him!" They followed Riku into the stomach of Monstro. There, they saw Riku and Pinocchio.
"Hey, let Pinocchio go, Riku." Sora yelled walking in.
"A puppet that's lost its heart to the heartless. Maybe it holds the key to helping Kairi." Riku said. "How about it, Sora? Let's join forces to save her. We can do it, together." Riku said walking toward Sora. Sora immediately drew out his Keyblade.
"What? You'd rather fight me? Over a puppet that has no heart?" Riku said shocked.
"Heart, or no heart, at least he still has a conscience." Sora answered.
"Conscience?" Riku asked.
"You might not hear it, but right now it's loud and clear. And its telling me you're on the wrong side!" Sora said.
"Then you leave me no choice." Riku answered. The ground shook and the heartless monster that they battled earlier fell to the floor, leaving Sora, Yumi, Donald, and Goofy to battling.
The heartless gave up releasing a glowing blue heart. It collapsed in front of them.
"Run!" Yumi shouted as they all exited the chamber except for Sora.
"Riku, Riku! Where are you?!" Sora shouted. Yumi practically convinced Sora to run and dragged him out of the chamber. They all told Geppetto and Pinocchio to take cover for Monsto's gonna blow! They ran to the Gummi ship for cover. Monstro sneezed letting out the Gummi ship and Geppetto's boat. After they got out and was freely to move, they set their eyes on a different world.
"I sure Pinocchio and Geppetto are okay." Goofy said looking back seeing the Huge whale get smaller in size.
"Yea, hopefully they landed safely somewhere." Donald said trying to keep his mind on the space road.
"Riku...." Sora said looking back at Monstro to see if there was anything else floating in space.
"Don't worry. If you have hope in finding your friends, I have hope in finding my brother." Yumi said putting her hands on Sora's shoulder. "....So which world are we going to!?!" Yumi shouted in Sora's ear.
"...Whoa!" Sora shouted from being shocked. "Oww, not so loud, please!" Sora said covering his ears with his hands.
"Opps...I think I ate too much chocolate candy bars....heh." Yumi said.
"Did you say chocolate? Here, we have a whole bunch!" Goofy said handing a whole box of chocolate bars to Yumi.
"Wow, thanks!" Yumi and Sora said grabbing a handful of chocolate bars.
"Goofy....!" Donald said with anger. "The last thing I need from Yumi is screaming. If I here one more scream, I'm going to hit something out there!! And..."Donald said.
"And...what?" Goofy asked curiously.
"And it will be your head when we land!" Donald continued.
"Gawrsh." Goofy said with his hand over his throat.
"Anyways, continuing with Yumi's question, we're heading toward Neverland." Donald said looking at a World Map King Mickey left behind on his journey.
"Okay, then...NEVERLAND HERE WE COME!!!" Yumi shouted loudly.
"Arrgh....Goofy..!" Donald said.
Donald got his finger and went across his throat meaning, it-will-be-your-head-soon. Goofy swallowed hard and put both hands on his neck.
To be continued in Chapter 4: Atlantica.................