Chapter 3: Gummi Problems
"So how is that gigantic key-thing supposed to hurt people?" Danny asked.
"It's not meant to hurt people, it's supposed to help them," Sora replied.
"By what? Helping them get into their cars?" Danny shot back.
"No. By destroyin' the Heartless," Goofy said.
"Heartless? What are those?" Nino asked.
"They don't have hearts," Donald said, "And they attack worlds."
"Does Jiminy's journal have anything on these 'Heartless'?" Lia asked.
"Yes, it does," Jiminy said, handing her the journal.
"Thanks, Jim." Lia flipped through the pages, her eyes scanning the pages quickly. They locked on the pages marked 'Ansem's Reports'. "Who's Ansem?" she asked.
"Ansem was the Heartless that was controlling all the other Heartless." Sora said.
"It says under these 'Secret Ansem's Reports' that these other reports were written by the Heartless of some guy named 'Xehanort'. "
"Who's that?" Danny butted in.
"That was one of Ansem's apprentices," Goofy said.
"Wait a minute. Ansem the Wise?" Lia asked.
"Yeah," Sora said.
"I know him," Lia said.
"Knew him. He died a while ago," Jiminy said.
"Oh. He was really cool. And so was Mickey."
"The King's still alive," Donald pointed out.
"Oh, yeah. Right," Lia said quickly, then digressed, saying, "So is this the place?"
"Yeah," Sora said. They had reached a field outside Amity Park, where an orange ship was parked.
"What the heck is that?" Danny asked, looking at the ship quizically.
"It's a Gummi Ship," Donald provided.
"What? Do you chew it up and spit it out when it looses the flavor?" Danny challenged.
"No," Lia said, "Gummi Ships are used to travel from world to world, since worlds aren't always connected. In other words. it's just like an inter-world car, with guns and stuff."
"Why would it matter if the worlds were connected or not?" Danny asked.
"The worlds weren't always connected. From what I read in Jim's journal, it was whoever this Xehanort guy was who screwed everything up."
"How do you know so much about other worlds?" Jimminy asked.
"How do you?" Lia replied.
"Experience," Jimminy said.
"Same here. Just not my own. Mickey told me about it when he met me something like three years ago," Lia said, then added, "We gonna go or what? I bet Nino's rearing to get some ass-kicking in." She gasped.
"What's wrong?" Donald asked.
"Nothing much. I gotta go get someone. Be back in a sec," she said, disappearing in a wisp of energy.
"Who do you think she's getting?" Goofy asked. Sora shrugged.
"Nino," Shimmera said from underneath them. The trio on top of her looked shocked. "What?" she said, "Never seen a summon spirit that could talk before?"
"Well, yeah, but, you know, we didn't think you could talk." Sora said sheepishly.
"Maybe you shouldn't judge by what you see next time then, huh?" Shimmera said.
"I guess so. Sorry."
"You better be."
Lia reapeared, Nino holding onto her hand.
"Have you guys played nice?" Nino asked.
"Of course!" Donald said. Sora grined. Lia raised an eyebrow, then shrugged.
"So where do you think they are?" Danny asked.
"From what we know, Malificent was the one who kidnapped our friends," Goofy said.
"Cool. Now do you know where she is stationed?" Lia asked.
"We think she's in a very special castle in The World that Never Was," Donald said.
"Ah. Where the Nobodies are, right?"
"Actually, where they were. Sora got rid of them," Jimminy said.
"Whatever, you know what I mean!" Iia said indignantly.
"So why don't we head off?" Nino asked.
"Because there isn't enough room in the Gummi ship," Donald said.
"Oh, don't worry. If Danny and I fuse with Nino, and Shimm doesn't mind going into her crystal, we'll only be one person, Nino, and he's kinda small. Does that work for everybody?" Everyone agreed, though some morereluctantly than others. "Cool. Danny, take my hand." Danny followed her order. "Good, now hold on tight. This is different than just overshadowing someone. You have to work with the other, not control them." She walked over to Nino, took off her necklace and put it around his neck, put her hand on his shoulder and just seemed to sink into him, as did Danny. Nino nodded to Shimmera, who faded away into nothingness.
Nino turned to Sora, Goofy and Donald, and asked, with a voice that wasn't just his own, but more of a mix of his, Danny's and Lia's, "So, you guy's ready to go?" The trio nodded in awe as Nino walked toward the ship.
End Chapter 3: Gummi Problems.
Author's Notes: So, what do you think? Personally, I think I'm going overboard with my O.C.'s, and if you think so too, tell me so! Sorry if I seem pushy, but I want to be a good writer. Thanx for all your help!
Author's Quiz: What happened when Ansem the Wise's Kingdom Hearts Data thing (I can't remember the name right now, and I'm at the Library right now) exploded? I will except either answer or both.