Chapter Ten: When Mom is too Cool for Your own Good

Okay, I don't care that I just submitted one like, an hour ago, but I'm putting out another. Sorry, but you're going to have to stick with the same snack, I'm sorry if you're dieting. If you are, get some carrots or something. That'd be good. I keep forgetting that Donald is in this…I guess when he's not with just Sora and Goofy, he's hard to concentrate on. I'll just say that at this point, he was searching the other side of the island.

They had actually gone on a hunt to find me. I stood at the dock on the island, and waved at the main one frantically until they noticed me. (Holy crap! I was just at the school!) I turned around, and the school was gone…decoy! Damnit!

After about a half hour of waving, one of them noticed me and rowed out to get me, and my gigantic bag of stuff. All three of them were seated in the same boat, looking frantic.

"What happened?" Sora exclaimed. "Are you okay?"

"They kidnapped me!" I explained excitedly as I loaded my bag into the boat.

"But you ran off." Riku contradicted.

"Just because I ran off doesn't mean that I wasn't kidnapped!" I snapped back at him. "I've had enough of your jackass persona to me. You even said a few days ago that you had changed for the better, and if a jackass is this, well…I guess you got worse. So shut up." I can't believe I just told Riku to shut up.

"So, what happened?" Kairi continued. "Where'd Marluxia go to?"

"He and the rest of the Organization members—"

"I don't get it." Sora said. "Why are they still alive? We killed them all."

I shrugged. "Xigbar explained to me something about how they can still exist as long as darkness exists. He kind of said that they feed off it." I said that with a spooky like tone.

"That makes sense." Kairi added. "Because if the Heartless are still being created, there has to be Nobody's too. Not everyone could be just a regular Heartless."

"So, this probably means we need to destroy Kingdom Hearts…yet again." Riku groaned.

"I'm not taking part in this." I comment quickly. "There is no way."

"Oh c'mon!" Sora whined. "I mean, Maluxia explained that he wanted to see your games, so you've obviously important here somehow."

I didn't want to tell him about what happened with the wall of fire and such but… "Marluxia told me, the he thinks that they've found their new number eight." I said, mentally smacking myself.

"Eight?" Sora asked. "But…" he counted. "Axel's eighth…right?"

"Not anymore." I paused and tried fighting off a sad fangirl face. "I was told he was made into a Dusk." I shrugged. "I guess he betrayed them."

"He did." Sora added. "He helped me ward off Dusks on the way to the World that Never Was."

"He was loyal to Roxas, too." Riku continued, "And Roxas is safely napping inside Sora right now."

"Wait," Kairi said. "this explains why Anna had Axel's weapons!"

Okay, I think they got what was going on, so I finished up telling them what had been going on.

"Where have you been!" Donald squawked at me, as he saw me show up with the others.

"They'll explain." I said tiredly. "I'm wiped out." Sora pulled Donald aside and began explaining the situation to him.

"We've gotta get you off this island." Riku said, as Sora continued talking to Donald. "The Organization's after you, and probably all of us too."

"Donald!" Kairi called. "Is the gummi ready yet?"

"Almost done!" he assured. "We can leave this weekend."

"We have to." Riku added. "The Organization is after Anna, and we can't have her here. As soon as they get her, they'll be after us."

"Do you guys ever wish you could go back to your old lives?" I asked. "Does this ever get annoying?" They ignored my question…I'm okay with that. I can't blame them.

The next morning…I was picked up again! This time tossed over the shoulder by Sora. This is how not to carry a damsel in distress.

The ship was done, and it was actually very, very…awesome. How can I not say that? I mean, everyone knows how much a pain in the ass the gummi navigation was in the game, but this is fun.

"Make Anna name it!" Sora groaned. "We had this fight last time and you threatened me with paopu!"

"No!" I whined. "I'll give it a name like…Blaaarsh. And it'll be pronounced like swiggy." I paused. "We could call it RAKS or SKAR or KARS or SRAK or ARKS—"

"How about…" Sora started.

"How about we name it later." Riku finally suggested. "Let's get going."

"I like Swiggy though!" I whined, as I got pushed into the ship.

I couldn't believe it was actually working. It was so cool too. Interspace was o brightly color compared to Outerspace. I mean, this is what is connecting me to all these other worlds.

"Where're we headed?" I asked.

"Hollow Bas—I mean Radiant Garden." Sora said. "That's not a problem, is it?"

"Nope." I agreed. Riku somewhat groaned, and we could hear him say, "Bad memories, bad place." In a nervous tone. Poor guy. It must be kind of like having PTSD or something.

"Lighten up." I joked, punching him. "I just had to witness my world being destroyed. You can get over a little bad memory. I mean, if I stick by you, annoying the hell out of you, I bet you'd forget about it." I kept smiling, and I couldn't stop, finally, I burst out into one of those giggle fits.

"Uh…Are you okay, Anna?" Kairi asked, seeming me on the floor in hysterics.

"I'm fine." I guaranteed. "This is just so flippin' awesome!"

THUNK!

"We're here!" Sora announced, getting up, and opening the hatch of the gummi and checking for any Heartless or Nobodies. "All clear! We can get out. As soon as Donald emerged, right before me, we heard another thunk.

"Donald!" running toward us was Goofy…and…holy crap! I ran forward and tackled a girl coming in our direction.

"Beth!" I screamed, hugging the girl. "What did I tell you! What. Did. I. Tell. You! It happened! We're here! We're in the game!"

"I know!" she squeaked. "And I brought my goofy figure like you told me."

"And I brought Donald, and lemme guess, Goofy was in your bag or something." I continued, Beth nodding.

"And you are?" Sora asked, coming up behind me, causing Beth to jump back pointing excitedly and muttering words of some unknown language.

"You've been with him!" she continued to squeak. She finally realized she had been asked something by Sora and began freaking out that she didn't answer sooner. "I'm Beth, Anna's friend…And she's so lucky!"

Sora laughed, Donald and Goofy were with him. "Welcome to the worlds of the game." He shrugged, not sure what to call it. "How long have you been here?"

"Uh…" she thought. "Two or three days, maybe. I think you're mom's around here somewhere."

I gulped…in a happy way. I didn't exactly want her to know what I was currently mixed up in.

"Are the dogs and cats here?" I asked. Beth nodded, said she had been taking care of them. I sighed a sigh of relief. I could live here now, my mom and pets are here. Home? What are you talking about, haha. "Beth, I love ya, kid, but you can't let my mom know that I'm here. After I leave, go right ahead. Let her know I'm okay."

And yet again, I was carried away, by Riku, who threw me over his shoulder so I could wave to Beth while they directed me to Leon's place. Another example as how to not carry a damsel in distress.

Leon took a scornful look at me, and sat down. "You want me to teach her how to fight…with chakrams. Axel's chakrams too. It'll never work. Look at her." He paused. "She may be able to use a sword, to a degree, and a bow, but…a bow? Unless those arrows are miniature keyblades, she's not going to have much luck in training."

"Don't get me angry right now. I know French and German." I glared at him and pulled out the matches. Maybe he's scared of them too!

Leon groaned, seeing that all six of us, that's including Donald and Goofy, were serious. "No. I won't."

The door was kicked open and we heard. "SQUALL LEONHART!" a voice roared, as I saw…..

"Mom!" I groaned. "I told Beth not to tell you." Mom walked up to Leon and gave him this look of pure anger.

"Squall, you train my daughter! You don't know what it's like to have a daughter who you'd die if you lost! Make sure she learns what she needs to know!" Mom looked at me, and smiled, and kissed me on the head. "You listen to Mr. Leonhart. I don't want you to get hurt. You know that. I love you, sweetie. I'll be in town if you need me." And she left.

I sat there in shock, barely breathing. "You heard my mom." I shivered, talking to Leon. "Train me."