I forgot to make a joke last chapter about how Ariel married Eric at age 16 after only knowing him for 3 days, so…insert said joke here. I wonder how old Eric was. Something about him screams too old. Even though I think he's sexy.

Also, Romeo and Juliet is not a love story, it's about how stupid teenagers are. Particularly when one of them is only 14. Eew.

Mixanko stepped forward and pointed a finger towards Ariel. "You're pure heart…" she said darkly. "I'll take it now. Doorknobder!"

Mixanko waved her hand, opening a corridor of darkness revealing the daimon. "Doorkknobder!" it shouted out.

"Hotaru, you and Ariel run for it!" said Kairi, baring her keyblade.

"Humph. Doorknobder, take them out!"

The daimon turned and looked at Mixanko strangely. "Uh…I'm not really so good at combat…just locking things up…"

Mixanko sweatdropped. "Oh great, I found my perfect match…I'm going to kill Xima for sabotaging me like this!" she said angrily, clenching her fist. Then she turned and looked at Kairi as if seeing her for the first time. "Wait a minute…Kairi?" she turned to the side. "Hm, this could either be really good or really bad…on the one hand, princess of heart and pure hearts, on the other, there's probably no way I'll be able to beat them and get anything done now without back up, and my back up is…yeah, only bad news," she sighed sadly.

Kairi raised an eyebrow and stood up straight. "Uh…aren't you gonna attack us?"

"Shush!" said Mixanko. She took out a watch. "Please, let this invention work…Saïx?" she called into it. "Oh, beautiful! Yeah, its one of Xima's new inventions…look, I need you to cancel my back up. Kairi's here, and we really don't want things to hit the fan quite yet…okay, good." She put the watch away into a pocket.

"Now, where were we?"

"Boy, she's bizarre," said Donald. "Ya know, she kind of reminds me of Demyx," said Goofy. They both laughed.

"Hey! Demyx happens to be a good friend of mine!" said Mixanko angrily. That just made the both of them laugh harder.

"So, I guess that like Demyx, you're not going to fight?" asked Kairi.

"And what, get all sweaty? No thanks. Now come on!" she grabbed Doorknobder quickly and pulled her into a corridor of darkness. Kairi looked around, then gasped. "Ariel!"

"Oh, this is bad!" said Sebastian on Ariel's shoulder. "We've had worse!" protested Ariel. "I mean, they're not exactly Ursula. They're not even as bad as that shark!"

"You get yourself into too much trouble girl!" said Sebastian.

"Think there's anywhere we can hide?" interrupted Hotaru. "Well, we could try…Eric!"

"Ariel?" Eric was standing there in front of them, looking a little confused. "I just got back from town, what's…" she quickly ran over into his arms, and a twang of jealously went through Hotaru, though she wasn't quite sure why. She made a note to greet Riku like this when she saw him again.

"Aww, isn't this sweet?"

They all turned to see Mixanko standing there, the daimon next to her. "As the goddess of love and beauty, it pains me to break up such a pure love…but unfortunately, it's the pure we want."

"Stop right there!" said Kairi, Donald and Goofy trailing behind her.

"Damn, your fast…in fact, I call BS on you two catching up so quickly…stupid heroes…Doorknobder!" The daimon quickly cringed. Mixanko groaned. "This isn't going my way…"

A corridor of darkness opened up between Kairi and Mixanko, and a familiar figure in an Organization coat walked through.

"Sorry I'm late, I just got struck with the weirdest sense of nostalgia at the beach," said Sora, a hand over his forehead.

"Sora!" said Mixanko excitedly. "Just the person…I didn't want to see. You're not supposed to be here! Ugh, well when life gives you lemons…Doorknobder! Lock up!"

"Yes ma'am!" said the daimon eagerly, happy to finally be of some use. Doorknobder raised its arms and erected two steel doors, blocking both ends of the hallway they were in. It also turned and locked all of the doors except for one.

"I assume you can steal pure hearts?" asked Mixanko. Doorknobder looked crestfallen. "I was made to steal hearts! I may be a little useless, but I can perform my basic duty!"

"Don't worry!" said Mixanko. "I too know what it's like to be called useless…now, go steal their pure hearts!"

"Yes!" The daimon turned towards Hotaru, Eric, and Ariel. It dove at them, pushing them into the room and locking it behind them. Hotaru tumbled to the ground and hit her head hard (4 H's! AHHH) against the wall, and could everything around her turned fuzzy. She could just see Doorknobder walked over towards Ariel and Eric…

"Sora…" said Kairi, her voice shaking. Sora frowned. "Do I know you? Hmm, you do seem sort of familiar…"

"Just for the record, everything she says is a lie," said Mixanko, biting her bottom lip. This could end up turning really bad…but if they were successful in apprehending Kairi, then it would totally be worth it. Kairi was the princess they had expected the most trouble from, but now…

"This could be the perfect opportunity," said Mixanko, an evil glint in her eye. Everyone was too focused on Sora to acknowledge Mixanko's creepiness.

"Uh…geeze, Sora! You don't remember me? Thanks a lot!"

Sora frowned. "Excuse me?"

"I'll give you a hint: it starts with a 'K'."

"Uh…Katy?"

Kairi blanched. Sora really didn't remember her at all?

"Sora, you have orders," whispered Mixanko into his ear. He ignored her, though. "Wait a minute…you look just like Xion!"

"Oh brother…" said Donald. "What are we going to do with this kid?"

"Stop with the obvious details and fight her already!" said Mixa anxiously.

"You must be the one…that Xion saw before. The one that called her a fake." The Oathkeeper and Oblivion keyblades came to his hand.

"Ooh, two? That's new," said Mixanko. Sora shot her a look and she quickly backed away.

"What do you know about Xion?" he asked.

Kairi felt a ray of hope within her. "Before I tell you anything, you have to come with me!"

"Forget it!" he said, getting ready to fight. "Sora, don't listen to the Organization! They're trying to deceive you! Xion too"

"Do you have any idea what you put Xion through? When you called her that?" Sora gripped his keyblades. "She's not a fake, or a puppet, or any of that. She's my friend! She would never do anything like that!"

"We're you're friends!" said Goofy. "Come on Sora. We don't want to hurt you…"

"But we'll knock you out and drag you unconscious body with us!" They both looked at Donald. "For his own good! Well, what do you suggest?"

Sora frowned. "You two…why are you helping her? You might as well get out of the way, or I'll go through you too!"

"If anything happened to Kairi, you'd kill us anyway!" said Goofy.

"What are you talking about? Start making sense!"

"Sora…" Kairi shook her head. "I think its time we knocked some sense into you!"

Hotaru groaned and looked up, still feeling dizzy.

"Riku…?" she whispered, looking forward. She saw Riku standing in front of her, wearing an organization coat and a blindfold, looking down at her with a look of…disdain? Pity? It was hard to tell with the blindfold what expression he was exactly making. Riku turned away from her and started to walk away.

"No…Riku!"

Hotaru ran forward after him and grabbed his hand. He then turned around and Hotaru gasped as the darkness surrounded him. The darkness cleared, and she was now staring at Ansem the Wise's face. Hotaru backed away and gasped as he turned his head towards another figure who was stepping in. She looked a lot like Hotaru, but a little older, and her hair seemed to stretch on into infinity, becoming one with the darkness. On her forehead was a black star.

"Mistress 9…" gasped out Hotaru. Mistress 9 wrapped an arm around Ansem and kissed him on the cheek. "Darkness is the hearts true essence…" she whispered. "Sooner or later, Hotaru…"

"NO!"

Hotaru stood up, transformed and glaive in hand. Both Ariel lay on top of Eric, both of them unconscious, their pure hearts floating above them. Doorknobder took one look at Hotaru and jumped away, looking scared.

"Why do you look so serious all of the sudden…?"

Hotaru raised her glaive and slashed right through the daimon. It groaned and seemed to collapse into itself, disappearing until there was nothing left but a doorknob sitting there. Hotaru looked at it, then turned towards Ariel and Eric. She reached out to one of the pure hearts, instinctively knowing it was Ariel's, and stared at its bright shine. This was such a pure heart…such a delicious looking pure heart...

Hotaru brought the pure heart close to her mouth…

"Reflect!"

Donald cast the spell towards Kairi, blocking Sora's incoming strike. Goofy ran behind him and bashed with a shield, knocking him over. As Sora fell over, the Oathkeeper keyblade fell out of his hand, into the air. Kairi quickly jumped up and grabbed it. She pointed both keyblades out at Sora. He shook his head and pointed the oblivion at her. "You're just going to ruin everything!" he said angrily.

"Sora…" said Kairi softly. She peaked her eyes at the keychain to the Oathkeeper keyblade. "Sora, don't you remember what this is?" she said holding it up, praying that it sparked something.

Sora clutched his forehead. "No, I don't want to hear anything else!" He dove towards Kairi. Kairi quickly raised both keyblades to block him. Donald and Goofy charged over, and Sora jumped into the air, releasing pillars of light shaped like Organization symbols out at all of them. Kairi managed to avoid getting hit, but both Donald and Goofy were knocked out by the attack. Kairi looked at Sora worriedly.

"Sora, please…"

"No, I have to keep her safe…" said Sora, groaning and touching his forehead. Kairi ran towards him, then stopped and doubled over, touching her forehead too. Still, she crawled towards him. "Sora, please…" she said, reaching up to take his hand. "Don't you remember the promise you made me? You said you'd come back for me. I'm never letting you out of that promise, Sora. Come with me, now. Please."

Sora peeked an eye past the fingers over his face and looked down at Kairi's hand. Slowly, he grasped it back. Kairi felt her heart flutter for a moment.

Then, the barriers around the hallway fell down, as well as on the door. Mixanko quit biting her nails and looked around. "Stupid daimon…" she muttered to herself.

As soon as the barriers disappeared, Sora let go of Kairi's hand. He backed away and shook his head. "I'm sorry."

Kairi suddenly felt her headache increase. What was going on?

"Roxas!"

They both turned over towards Hotaru, who was staring at Sora with a look of strong determination.

"Roxas, think about it: Do you really want to leave Xion in the hands of the Organization again?"

Sora stared at her. "Huh? What are you…" then trailed off and groaned again. He opened up a corridor of darkness and quickly ran through. Hotaru turned back to Kairi, certain that the message had gotten through to Roxas. She grabbed her and helped her to her feet. "Are you okay?"

Kairi nodded. "I guess…what was that back there?"

"I think Sora's been remembering Roxas. I think that's the reason he's been cooperating with the organization. Even without all his memories, Sora would never do that."

"Roxas…his nobody. Wait, if Xion looks like me…do you think the two of them…?"

Hotaru nodded. "He, Xion, and Axel are best friends. But, in the end, in order for Sora to wake up, the both of them had to go away. Xion knew this, so she forced Roxas to destroy her."

"And after that everyone forgot she existed…" Kairi looked down sadly. "No wonder he wants to keep her safe so badly. But how did you know all that?"

Hotaru avoided Kairi's eyes. "I dreamt about it…" she then collapsed, de-transforming as she fell into Kairi's arms. "Hotaru…" What a mysterious girl. Why was she having all of these visions of people connected to Sora?

"DAMN IT!"

They both turned and looked at Mixanko, who was looking at Ariel and Eric beginning to stir. "This mission is a total failure…I didn't even get the pure hearts I needed…" she turned at Kairi and Hotaru. "I hate you guys! You ruined everything! And I'm not going to let you get away with it!"

Kairi set Hotaru down and raised her keyblade. "Bring it on, then!"

"Don't worry," came a voice from behind her. "I've got this one."

Kairi turned around. "Dem-Dem!" said Mixa excitedly. He winked at her and strummed his sitar. Kairi took a fighting stance. "I heard you were a pushover."

"Oh really? Well, what do you think about these? Dance water, dance!"

Bunches of water clones appeared, surrounding Kairi.

"Now, destroy 100 of those in five seconds!"

Sora ran frantically into Xion's room, looking around. "Xion? Xion!" he called out. The room was empty. He sighed and walked forward, then noticed a note on her bed. He picked it up and started reading to himself.

Thinking of you, wherever you are.

We pray for our sorrows to end, and hope that our hearts will blend.
Now I will step forward and realize this wish.

And who knows: starting a new journey may not be so hard.
Or maybe it has already begun.

There are many worlds, but they share the same sky-
one sky, one destiny.

Sora dropped the note and ran out of the room as floods of memories began to hit him at once.

"Thundaga!"

The lightning destroyed the last of the water clones. Kairi ran forward towards Demyx and slashed right through him. His weapon disappeared into bubbles, and he grasped his head. "Oh no, not again!" he shouted out as he faded away. Kairi frowned. Why did they keep fading away like that?"

"Well, so much for our honeymoon," said Mixa shrugging. Kairi turned. "Wasn't he your friend?"

"Boyfriend."

"Well, shouldn't you be sad to see him go?"

She shook her head. "Us newer members are all Nobodies, meaning we don't have hearts. Can't exactly mourn his loss. Speaking of which…Venus Love-me Chain!"

The chain shot out of Mixa's hand, entrapping Kairi. She struggled against the chain, but quickly fell over, having no energy left. Mixa smiled to herself. "One princess of heart and her entourage…not a bad haul at all, all things considered."

Things are about to hit the fan and pick up from now on, I promise. I don't know why this chapter gave me so many troubles, but it did. I've been on my computer pretty much all day, perusing the internets while trying to write, and I just couldn't. GAH. Oh well. Here it is. Sailor Hearts should be done soon, I had actually planned to finish that first haha. And I already have the next chapters in mind, just a matter of writing, adding details, etc.

What was Hotaru doing there before…?

Also a joke about Demyx. That was a stupidly short fight, which will actually be explained next chapter.

And I used the doorknob daimon...partly because I'm too lazy to make my own. Which, with the wealth of monsters-of-the-day Sailor Moon has, I really shouldn't have to. I mean, there may be almost as much variety as there is among heartless. But also, because I was pretty sure people would recognize it from the episode where Minako got her pure heart stolen. Which was funny as heck. My favorite part is when Minako gets her heart stolen...and then she just grabs it and starts running away. Everything about that episode is hilarious!^^ Ah minako...then we have the "epic reveals": OMG those people that look and sound exactly like those people are those people! . really Sailor moon creators, really?

It's funny that Minako retains consciousness when her Dream Mirror is stolen too, and then she breaks out. That girl has some willpower. Is that why setsuna calls her a leader? 'Cause I see no other reason in the anime.