Just a Shadow;

Chapter 4;

Heartless….

Tiny opened her glowy yellow eyes slowly. As her eyesight adjusted, she found herself back in the Gummi Ship. She was lying on a window seat type bed by a large window. She stood up slowly and looked out the window. Outside she could see another world in the distance. 'Deep Jungle, no doubt.' She thought. Suddenly she heard quick footsteps and found herself enveloped in a huge hug. "Tiny!" said Sora happily as he squished her. "You're awake!" He then went on babbling about how he was so worried about her and how grateful he was that she had saved him and how weird it was that she was a shadow and could do magic and so on. Tiny just sweat dropped and tried to understand what he was saying because he was talking so fast.

"Sora, why are you talking to that thing?" asked Donald as he came to the doorway to see what the commotion was about. The ship was on autopilot, don't worry. Sora stopped babbling and sent Donald a glare.

"She's not a thing, she's a person." He said crossly. Goofy joined Donald in the doorway. He didn't seem to notice the fighting at first.

"Well hello Miss Tiny. Or should I say good mornin', sleepyhead?" Goofy said with a chuckle. Donald turned to glare at him too.

"Not you too Goofy! Why are you treating this- this monster like it's a real person?" asked Donald irritably.

"She's not a monster! She's a person!" retorted Sora. Tiny looked down, keeping her eyes on the ground.

"You don't even know it's a girl! It'll probably turn on us! I say we get rid of it."

"Don't you talk about her that way!" Tiny stared at the ground throughout the little fight. She wriggled out of Sora's arms and jumped onto the ground. She kept her head bowed and walked out silently. Sora and Donald were still fighting, and Goofy was trying to get them to stop. She walked into the control room and stared out the front window, sighing. Deep Jungle was closer now. She stared at it for a moment.

'Maybe…. Maybe I should just leave…. Maybe stay in Deep Jungle. I'm just a burden…..' she thought. 'If only I hadn't been turned into this… this thing. But… no. I'd probably still be in the way even if I were human.' She looked down at her claws, disgusted with herself. She jumped in one of the chairs and sat there. 'I wonder if Heartless can cry?' she thought, her eyes watering. 'Well… I guess that answers my question…..'

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"That's it!" shouted Donald. "We're leaving that little thing at the next world we come to!"

"No we're not! Tiny is my friend!"

"How can you be friends with something that has no heart?!"

"Hey guys… where's Tiny?" asked Goofy suddenly.

"Huh?" Sora looked down, and not seeing her anywhere, started to panic. "Tiny?!"

"See!" said Donald. "That little thing ran off! It's probably going to try to crash the ship!"

"You can't just assume that!" Sora looked down. "We don't have time for this." he grumbled. "We have to go find Tiny! She can't be too hard to find on this little ship!" Sora ran out of the door and looked both ways down the hall before running towards the control room.

Sora looked around, Donald and Goofy coming up behind him. "Tiny?" He called out worriedly. He was about to go look in the next room when Goofy spoke up.

"Hey Sora… do you hear that?" he asked. There was a rather odd squeaking noise coming from one of the turned around chairs. It sounded like… sobbing.

"Tiny…?" asked Sora warily. The sobbing stopped for a moment and then continued. He took a careful step forwards and turned the chair around. When it turned around everyone was silent. Tiny was sitting there, rather odd looking crystalline tears falling down her face. "…."

"Wow… I've never seen a Heartless cry before…. I never knew they could…." Said Donald, starting to feel a little guilty. Sora picked Tiny up and held her like one would hold a toddler.

"Sh… it's ok. Stupid ol' Donald didn't really mean it…." He said comfortingly. Donald felt too ashamed of himself to retort. Tiny buried her face in Sora shirt, soaking it.

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Kitty: :gasp: I actually updated!? Eheh… sorry for the wait. Been kinda busy… I'll try to post more often, really I will. R and R please!