Disclaimer: Same as before


Piper: Let's go!

"All the girls gear up."

Amanda: Cole, if I die, I hate you.

Cole: Gee… thanks….


"I REALLY don't-" Leo tried for the hundredth time to stop the girls, but failed miserably.

"Leo, we're going and that's final." Piper said, "Paige org before my husband tried anything stupid."

"Okay. Sorry Leo." Paige said, and, with all 6 girls hooking arms, Paige orbed then to the depths of the Underworld.


Amanda, Dyana and Mari took the left corridor, and Piper, Paige and Phoebe took the right. As they walked through Barbus' fortress, Amanda got a weird feeling in her stomach.

"Is it me, or does it feel like we're being watched?" Amanda whispered to the others, just incase they WERE being watched.

"You try to think to much." Mari replied, "Relax will ya."

'No. I will not." Amanda replied to Mari with an attitude.

"Whatever."

"Will you two shut up!" Dyana snapped, "This is a covert operation! Be QUITE!"

"Your tellin' us?" Mari replied. Dyana glared intensely at her. "I'd hurt you but-" Dyana started, but Amanda cut her off.

"But I think they'll do enough hurting for you!" Amanda pointed to a large group of little black creatures.

"Aren't they those Heartless thingamajigs that the Book mentioned?" Mari asked.

"Let's focus on KILLING THEM! Before they KILL US!" Amanda shouted.

"Gunner!" Amanda and Dyana shouted together, taking their Gunner forms.

"Alchemist!" Mari shouted, taken her own Alchemist form.

"How many Mar?" Amanda asked.

"Twenty. All small. Should be fairly easy." Mari replied.

"Should be?" Dyana asked.

"It will." Amanda said. All three girls charged into battle.


"IT'S NOT WORKING!" Amanda shouted, as she tried to fire two rounds into a set of Heartless.

"I NOTICED!" Dyana shot back as she tried the same.

"I'M GOING TO KILL YOU MARI!" Amanda shouted.

"I DIDN'T DO IT!" Mari replied, as she shot two with her gun.

"TRY LEVITATING US OVER THEM!" Dyana suggested.

"YOU GUYS ARE TOO HEAVY!"

"WE ARE NOT!" Amanda snapped, "I'M ONLY 125lbs!"

"AMANDA!"

"SORRY!"

"CAN YOU FREEZE THEM?" Dyana asked Amanda.

"AND RISK BLOWING US ALL TO TIMKUCKTU? I'M SORRY BUT I WANNA LIVE FOUR MORE YEARS!"

"WELL IF YOU DON'T YOU'LL DIE ANYWAY!" Dyana shouted. Amanda tucked her gun away in her pouch and winced as she closed her eyes and flicked her hands.

"YAY AMANDA!" Mari shouted. Amanda opened her eyes and sighed in relief as the Heartless stood frozen.

"RUN!" Dyana shouted at the other two and dashed off towards the nearest door. Amanda looked at Mari challengingly and before she knew it, she was winning their little race. Once they got through the door, they slammed it shut.

'Do you two have to make a challenge out of everything?" Dyana demanded, irritated by the two. Amanda and Mari looked at each other, both out of breath, grinned, looked back at Dyana grinning and Mari replied, "Of course."

"Life's no fun without a little oomph!" Amanda added.

The trio shot down the long corridor, where they would fight their first actual Pre-Vanquish fight.


What idiots! Barbus thought to himself gleefully as he watched the Charmed One's trying to battle the Heartless.

"My, my, girls…" He said pleasantly, "…What HAVE you gotten yourselves into?"

Barbus turned around to two figures in the room. One male, one female, they stood shoulder to shoulder, waiting for a command.

"Go watch the cage." Barbus said, "Wait for my signal to attack."


Amanda, Dyana, and Mari burst through the next door, into a large closed off room. All three girls stood slightly stunned. Had that REALLY been it? Mari noticed the cage where Sora was held. He watched the girls with a curious look, wondering what they were doing there, just standing like that.

"I've got him!" Mari said to Amanda and Dyana, and jogged over to the cage. Amanda looked around the room, telling that something wasn't right.

'Should we call the sisters?" Dyana asked. Amanda shook her head, "Not yet…"

"Hey guys!" Mari called, walking up to the others, with Sora on her tail, "He says that Barbus is after the Charmed One's powers."

"That can't be right…" Amanda said, "He must know we're-"

"Shh!" Mari snapped suddenly, then urged for them to all listen closely, "Maybe he doesn't know…"

"Ah!" Dyana said, getting it right off the bat. Amanda nodded in understanding too as she scanned the room. Unfortunately, she was the only one capable of seeing farther, not because of magic, because she was far-sighted. Mari was near-sighted and Dyana was near-sighted in one eye. She immediately noticed a shadowy part of the room that shouldn't have been shadowy, and noticed there was no other door.

"Hey, you." Amanda said, addressing Sora.

"I have a name." He replied.

"Okay. Hey SORA," She said, irritated with his cooperative level, "Where did Barbus exit the room? From the door?"

He shook his head and pointed to the corner with the shadowy part, "He just walked into the shadows over there or shimmered out."

"I see…" Amanda said, starting towards the shadows, "Maybe we should just take a look at what's over there…"

"Amanda, I dunno…" Mari tried to reason with her, but Dyana stopped her and said, "You're wasting your breath."

As Amanda crept closer to the shadows, she saw a faint beam of light. Mari, Dyana and Sora-who now was reunited with the Keyblade –followed. They stood and watched as she stepped completely into the shadows, and waited anxiously for her to say, "C'mon!" but they didn't. Just as Mari got fed up of waiting and started towards the shadows did Amanda shoot out, and straight into the wall. She moaned in pain as the gang ran up to her.

"What happened?" They all asked her. She glared straight at the shadows and said, "Kyle and his new girlfriend happened."

Sora, Dyana and Mari whipped around to see Kyle come out of the shadows along side a girl with reddish-brown hair. Amanda pushed herself up and whipped blood from the corner of her mouth as Sora gasped.

"Kairi?" He asked, looking at the girl, who was dressed in a black shirt and skirt. She tilted her head and smiled.

"Who?" The friends asked.

"My friend from the Islands." Sora replied.

"I knew what Barbus was talking about before…" Amanda said, "I just didn't think it would actually come to that…"


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