Okay, here's the deal. I want Sora/Usagi only because I have no idea how put Usagi and Riku together. I have too many moments in Kingdoms Hearts 2 planned for Sora/Usagi, especially interactions with the group in Hollow Bastion.

So in conclusion, this fanfic will be Sora/Usagi. It'll be better for the plot, trust me.

I do not own Sailor Moon or Kingdom Hearts in any way, shape or form…

Fighting Darkness

Chapter Twelve

Halloween Town

After a few long moments, Usagi stopped chasing Sora and they were able to walk through the self opening, creaking gates. As soon as they all stepped into the town square, the gates slammed down closed.

"Yikes…" Usagi said, looking around. The dark atmosphere and eerie fog gave the town a spooky look. It was pretty small, as far as they could see. Only a few house surround the small town square. In the center of the town square was a little fountain filled with green water. And surrounding the fountain were Heartless! Sora and the other got in their battle stances with their weapons in hand, waiting for an attack. After a short while, none came.

Sora tilted his head slightly to the side. "Huh?" he muttered, confused along with the others.

"And now…" said a sudden voice, "Allow me to introduce the master of terror…" As the voice spoke, Heartless moved into two separate lines right next to each other. "The master of terror… The king of nightmares…" Sora, Usagi, Donald, and Goofy watched in confusion, the Heartless started to move a part in their separate lines with their arms up in a gesture to present something. "Jack Skellington!!" A tall skeleton wearing a striped black and white tuxedo emerged from the fountain. His arm were crossed, making an 'X'. Unconsciously, Usagi grabbed Sora's arm rather tightly.

The skeleton, also known as Jack stroke a 'tada' pose, earning an applause from the guy with the megaphone. The cone shaped little man tossed the megaphone aside and ran to Jack as fast as his little legs allowed him to, saying, "Bravo, Jack. Bravo! Those ghosts will be a hit at this years Halloween!"

"Why, thank you Mayor." said the skeleton, showing his appreciation. Jack looked at the Heartless as he rubbed his boney chin. "But, their movement still needs work. It just isn't scary enough. I'm going to consult the doctor." With that said, he walked over to some house not too far away.

The Mayor nodded in agreement as Jack walked away. "Then I'll attend to the decorations." Then the Mayor ran off to where to attend to the decorations.

"Can I have my arm back?" Sora asked Usagi, who was still holding his arm tightly, with sarcasm. She immediately released his arm and looked away. "Are you scared?" Usagi continued to look away, crossing her arms over her chest stubbornly.

Meanwhile, Donald walked up to one of the Heartless and looked at it right in the eye. Seeing no reaction, he took his staff and whacked it on the head.

"Donald!" Sora yelled in alarm, pulling the duck back. "What are you doing!?"

"It didn't attack." Goofy noted. Apparently, he was watching the Heartless the whole time.

Sora looked up at the floating, ghosts looking Heartless. Goofy was right… It didn't move an inch! "Wha?"

Usagi looked in the direction where Jack left. "Maybe we should ask the Doctor." She looked at the group to see their reaction.

"Did you see where he went?" Goofy asked.

Usagi smiled to herself. "Of course. My eyes don't miss a thing!" Sora groaned and shook his head. Bragging about her eyes again… "So, let's go!"

/…/

Sora quietly pushed open a door and looked around. There was nothing inside expect for a flight of stairs and another door at the top. He opened the door wider and walked in with Usagi, Donald and Goofy following behind.

Suddenly they heard Jack's voice. "I don't understand. Maybe the guidance system was damaged in the explosion or something."

"Nonsense!" Another voice responded, "My devices are always perfect!"

Usagi started to quietly walk up the steps. She wanted to know what was going on and to see what the 'Doctor' looked like. He sounded old.

"Usagi!" Sora whispered sternly, "No!"

She was already at the top of the steps before she glanced over her shoulder. "I just wanna see!" She whispered back before she bent down slightly and opened the door a crack to peek inside. Sora shook his head and glared. As he was glaring, his eye caught something he never notice before. She had a nice set of legs.

Sora didn't know how long she was looking, but apparently Goofy had to snap him out of it. He tugged on the teen's arm and pointed to the top of the steps. "Let's look." Sora nodded and walked up behind Goofy. Donald was already there, peeking in the room in a spot under Usagi. Sora, being taller than Usagi, stood behind her and peeked in. Goofy easily found spot and peeked in.

The room looked like it was made of metal. The floor was constructed of various types of metal. To the right of room, there was a medical table with a Heartless laying on top. Right to the table was a large machine. Against the adjacent wall, was a large book with yellow pages laying on a desk that seems to be too small for the book itself. The skeleton, Jack was leaning over it, reading.

"I've got it!" Jack said suddenly, pointing his boney finger up. He spun around the face the Doctor. "The Heartless need a heart! Do you think we can add a heart to that device, Doctor?" Jack asked the question eagerly.

Usagi's senses kicked in. She has a bad feeling about this. Giving the Heartless a heart? It sounds unnatural and when science tries to take over nature, something is bound to go wrong.

"Certainly," the Doctor replied, moving his automatic chair over to the far end of the metal table. "A heart is simple to make." He wore a closed lab coat, with black electric safe glove. His was big and had a line around the top. He also wore black glass on his face. He wasn't exactly what Usagi thought he would like, but then again, this world is full of surprises.

Spinning back around, Jack read from the book. "To make a heart, first take a container with a lock…"

The doctor reached under the table and took out an organic heart shaped container with a lock in the center. He tried to open the heart, but it wouldn't budge. "We need the key to this thing first." He opened the top of his head and scratched his brain, trying to think of where the key might be.

Just then, Donald ran through the door screaming. Sora started to lean too far and he fell on top of Usagi. The duck let out a sigh of relief. He was able to get away from a dog pile! Goofy just stared down at them, blankly.

Sora smile sheepishly at Jack and the Doctor. "I can open it!" He said, holding up his Keyblade.

"How about you get off of me first?" Usagi asked with that wonderful sarcasm of hers.

Once Sora was off of the blond, he moved over to the heart and pointed the Keyblade at the lock. A beam of light shot out from the Keyblade and into the lock. There was a click and the heart opened.

"My!" Jack said with astonishment, "That was amazing!" Sora looked down and scratched the back of head the hide whatever embarrassing blush was creeping up. "What's your name?" Jack asked.

"Sora."

"Well done Sora!" the skeleton complimented. "For helping us, I'd like for you and your friends to be a part of this year's Halloween!"

"Really?!" Sora asked, excited. "Cool!" Donald and Goof looked just as excited as him, but Usagi on the other hand…

"I'll pass."

"Well that's okay," Jack said, although he sounded a bit disappointed. "You could give us a review instead."

Usagi just nodded. "Why's that Heartless here?" She asked, pointing to it.

Jack glanced down at the Heartless. "The Heartless came to town not too long ago," He explained. "What's frustrating is I can't get them to dance with me. So Dr. Finkelstein and I are trying to improve the guidance system! He's quite a genius!"

Usagi glanced at Sora, giving him her bad feeling look, but he wasn't paying attention.

"Okay Doctor, let's continue!" Jack turned back to the book and read aloud. "To make a heart, we need pulse…"

The doctor reached under the table again and took out a glass jar with holes in the lid. Inside the glass jar was a frog with an oval shaped body. He opened the jar and dumped the frog inside the heart. "Next."

"Terror."

Dr. Finkelstein tapped his chin and looked around the room. What could represent terror?

Suddenly Usagi scream and moved to the other side of the room. Sora raised an eyebrow. "What's the matter with you?" She just pointed and everyone else in the room looked at the wall, On the wall was a big, black spider with legs as thick as pencils. Sora, Donald and Goofy all screamed and moved to where Usagi was.

"Perfect! Did you see the terror in their eyes?" The overly excited skeleton walked to the wall and took the spider. He tossed it to the heart it, surprisingly, went inside. Jack quickly moved the book and started to read. "Now we need fear."

Dr. Finkelstein reach under the table yet again and took out a big piece glass. He slammed it on the table, breaking it into many pieces and tossed them into the heart. Jack took the silence as his cue to read the next ingredient. "Hope and Despair."

For the last time, Dr. Finkelstein took out two snakes that were eating each other, creating a circle.

Usagi leaned close to Sora's ear. "Can they really make a heart?" she whispered. "I mean, it's much more complicated than that." Sora just shrugged.

"We have a heart!" Jack said suddenly. Sora and the rest looked at the table and indeed, the heart was beating just like a normal heart would.

Dr. Finkelstein put the heart in the machine and then pulled the big switch. Blue lighting surrounded the Heartless and it abruptly sat up.

"It's working!" Donald said with disbelief. Just as Donald said that, the Heartless fell back down.

"It failed!!" The doctor yelled, frustrated. His inventions never fail! Well, almost never if the heart is included.

"We might be missing some ingredients," Jack suggested. "It's just incomplete, that's all doctor."

Dr. Finkelstein move his automatic chair to the book and looked it over. After a little while he spoke. "Let's add memory. Sally!!"

Usagi looked around, wondering what this Sally will look like. Was she a big monster with nasty, yellow teeth and green skin? Maybe she another skeleton like Jack?

"Sally!?" There was no answer. "Good for nothing girl! Why did I bother to create her!" He turned to Jack. "Sally has the memory we need. Try to find her."

"No problem Doctor." He glance at the group. "Would any of you like to come along?"

"We would," Sora said volunteering himself and Usagi.

"Wait," The blond blinked. "What?" Sora grabbed Usagi's wrist and led her to the door. "Where are we going now?"

"Don't know," Sora said plainly.

Usagi took her wrist back when they reached the bottom. "You don't know where we're going and you're dragging me there? Are you crazy!?"

"Are you scared?" Sora asked.

Suddenly the door burst open and the Mayor ran in. "This is terrible, a major crisis!"

"What's the problem Mayor?" Jack asked as e came down the steps with Donald and Goofy behind him.

"It's the Heartless, Jack!" Mayor told him. "They're out of control!"

"Hmm…" Jack thought for a minute. "Our experiment must have triggered something. Don't worry Mayor, well take care of it."

"What about Sally?" Usagi asked as the Mayor left, looking a bit relieved. "What if she can't defend herself against the Heartless?"

"No need to worry about her," Jack answered, waving it off. "Sally is very good at hiding, and I know just how to find her." Jack pat his leg twice and seconds later a ghost dog with a bright orange nose came through the wall. "Can you find Sally for us?"

Zero let out a bark and zipped through the wall in search for Sally. The attempted to follow, but they stopped buy the Heartless.

"Forgot about them…" Usagi muttered, getting ready to fight.

/…/

Goofy gulped, "Is this a graveyard?"

Donald looked the place that Zero had lead them to. There were various tombstones around along with some dead trees. "I would say so."

Zero barked and flew around a bit before flying into a tombstone. From behind the tombstone, there a small sound of surprise causing Usagi to let out her own. She didn't expect anything to be, well alive here. She still hasn't gotten the fact that this world is full of surprises through her thick skull.

A girl stood up from behind the tombstone. Usagi surprised to see at how normal she looked. Take away the stitches from her arms, legs, body and face, she practically a normal girl. "Is there something wrong Jack?" Sally questioned.

"Oh no!" Jack shook his head. "Everything's great! We'll have the best Halloween ever! All we need now is your memory."

"My memory?" Sally repeated. She held out the dead flowers she was clutching to her chest. "You mean these?"

"Your forget-me-nots? Yes." Jack politely, held out his hand.

"I have a bad feeling about this Jack…" Sally said with an unsure expression on her face. However, she still placed the flowers in Jack's awaiting hand. "Why don't we try something else? There's still time."

"Nothing will beat what I have planned. As soon as we give the Heartless a heart, they'll dance just as I envisioned it!" Jack was so caught up in vision he just noticed Sally's worried look. "Trust me! You'll love it." Jack reassured as he made his way out the graveyard to complete his vision.

Everyone but Usagi and Sally followed. "So that's what he wants to do," the blond figure. "Control the Heartless."

"I have a bad feeling…" Sally repeated.

"Same here. That kind of device can easily fall into the wrong hands," Usagi said, voicing her worry.

"Jack doesn't really see the bad side of things…" Sally explained as she moved to follow Jack.

"I can tell…" Usagi sighed, "I just have to make sure it doesn't. Are woman the only level headed people around here?" With a final sigh, Usagi left the graveyard.

From a coffin in the back, giggling could be heard. Three children jumped out of it one at a time. One was dressed up as a witch with a hat included; this was Shock. The second kid was dressed up like a devil; this was Lock. The last kid was dressed up as a skeleton and he was shortest one of the group; this was Barrel.

"Did you here that?" Barrel said over the snickering.

"Sure did!" Lock said excitedly. "A heart!" He stopped snickering as he became a bit lost. "So, what do we do?"

"You really are stupid!" the witch, Shock said, annoyed. "It's it obvious?" Lock finally understood and nodded.

"Tell Oogie Boogie!" they said together in union, before they started to snicker.

/…/

"We're back!" Jack announced as he moved over the doctor and handed the flowers to him.

"This is it," Dr. Finkelstein said after he looked over the flowers. "Now we just need 'surprise'. I have hunch that Mayor may know were to find it."

/…/

Lock, Shock and Barrel sat, huddled up in a corner shaking as the large figure before them laughed manically. "A heart!?" the sack full of bug roared with laughter, "That bonehead is really making a heart!? That works for me! I can't wait to get my hands on-" he glanced down at his handless nubs. "Well I have no hands. But I can't wait to nab that heart and control the Heartless!" The figure continued his manic laughter.

He stopped abruptly and glared at the kids. "What are you three waiting for!? Go get that heart!"

They all screamed and ran out of manor in a flash.

/…/

Usagi walked behind Sora through the secret door in the back of the graveyard they were previously in. It only led to another graveyard that had a huge pumpkin off to the side. Usagi spotted the Mayor ahead standing buy some tombstones.

Happy to get this over with, she made her way to him. "Hey, do you have… 'surprise' or anything that represents surprise?"

Mayor nodded excitedly. "You bet I do, but to obtain it, you must play a game!"

"A… game…" Usagi could not believe her ears. She had no time for this!

Sora ran up after he heard the word 'game'. "What game?"

"Just over there," Mayor gestured to the bunch of tombstones along the side of a wall. "After you play, you can have the prize inside the pumpkin, but first-"

Mayor didn't finish because he was rudely interrupted by an explosion followed by little pieces of charred pumpkin falling from the sky.

"What was that for!?" Donald yelled, glaring at Usagi, who was now holding the Jack-in-a-box.

"We have 'surprise'. Let's go and complete the heart," she said as she made her way to the secret door.

Jack gave an apologetic look to the Mayor before he left with the others.

/…/

"Finally," Dr. Finkelstein held the now completed heart in his hands. "It is sure to work now." He moved his electric wheel chair over to the machine again, but before he got there something made the chair fall over. That something was Shock pushed the chair over. Because of the impact, Dr. Finkelstein dropped the heart. Lock moved from his hiding place and took the heart. He ran out with Shock and Barrel right behind.

"Blasted trouble makers!" Dr. Finkelstein yelled as they ran out. "After them!"

Jack automatically ran after them followed by Goofy, Donald and Sora. Usagi looked at the doctor. "Do you need any help?"

"Go after them!" he snapped.

Usagi frowned and left the lab. As she went outside, she vowed to make sure that he wont see the heart again.

"We lost them," Sora informed as soon as she came outside.

Zero barked and flew in front of Jack, for he had called for the ghost not that long ago. "Can you follow them boy?" Zero just let out another bark and flew off, following the kids scent.

/…/

Zero had led them to another a graveyard which can be found near the graveyard where the Mayor was in. To get there, the group had to travel trough yet another secret door. This graveyard was bigger and had less tombstones. In the center, there was strange hill that has the edge going out toward a gate and there was more ground swirled underneath it.

Oh yeah it was full of Heartless too.

It didn't take long to defeat the Heartless. After doing so, Jack traveled to the top of the hill. "I think I know where Lock, Shock and Barrel may have gone," he announced.

"Where to?" Sora asked.

"There is a Manor just beyond that gate," Jack explained as he gazed at the Manor in the distance. "We just have to figure out how to get over there."

Usagi sighed for the umpteenth time that day. She has no patience or time for this! She took out her frustration on the tombstone near her foot by kicking it.

"Oh look!" Jack exclaimed. The hill started to unroll and the tip went over the gate. "Now we can get in," The skeleton started to cross with the group following behind.

"Garwsh, I wonder how we got it to work…" Goofy thought aloud.

/…/

"I knew Oogie Boogie was behind this!" Zero led the group to bridge and across the bridge was Oogie Boogie's Manor.

"Who?" Donald asked.

"Oogie Boogie," Jack answered, "He causes trouble every now then..."

"And he went too far this time," Usagi interrupted as she crossed the bridge. "We have to get that heart back."

Jacked followed her. "First, we should find the kids and have them tell us where Oogie Boogie is."

"But what about the heart?" Sora wondered. "They took it, didn't they?"

Jack nodded. "That's right! And then I bet they took it to Oogie Boogie! Those kids are his henchmen after all."

Donald laughed a bit. "That's sad! I bet he's not even that strong!"

"We can't underestimate our enemies Donald," Goofy told him as if he was reading it from a book.

The group came up to a large, wooden door. Usagi opened it slowly and examined the area.. It looked safe. She opened the door wider to let everyone else in. "Coast is clear."

Sora walked in and looked up the steps. "How much further do we have to go to find the kids?"

Jack shrugged, "Who knows? They could be anywhere!"

"I say we just look around," Usagi suggested, "Hopefully there wont be any traps." In the back of her mind, Usagi really doubted that. The place looked like it was reeking with traps!

The group did what was suggested and looked around. To the blondes surprise, there wasn't any traps at all, just a few Heartless patrolling some areas. Eventually, they reached the highest point of the manor. On each side of the bridge were rib bones, moving rib bones. Usagi hoped that something useful was behind the door.

As the group got closer, they could hear some giggling inside. It was the kids! Jack opened the door and the kids froze.

"It's them!" Shock yelled.

"Run!" Lock shouted as he ran past Jack, followed by Shock and Barrel. Of course they didn't get far. Jack walked in giving Usagi, Sora and Goofy room to walk in with a kid they caught. They dumped them down in a corner and Donald walked the room. He closed it and stood there to make sure none of the kids would run out.

"Where is the heart?" Usagi asked with a small undertone of demand. She didn't get a response out of them.

Jack decided to take a more polite approach, "Can you tell us where Oogie Boogie is?" He got a response.

Lock shook his head, "We'll never tell you were he is!"

"Never!" Shock repeated.

Barrel nodded, "We'll never tell you about the green door!"

Usagi raised an eyebrow. "Green door?"

"He could be lying," Sora whispered in her ear.

Usagi took note of the other two glaring at Barrel. "I don't think so. There is a huge chance that the heart is with him. Now we just have to find the green door."

"You'll never find it!" Lock said.

"Never!" Shock repeated, again.

Barrel nodded, "You'll never find the green door at the bottom!"

Lock and Shock glared at him again.

"I'm starting to like these kids," Sora said as he made his way out. Once everyone was outside, Donald used his magic to melt the door knob, locking the kids inside for a while.

The group made their way safely down to the bridge. The only reason why it was safe, was because they already got rid of all the Heartless.

Goofy looked over the side of the bridge. "How do we get down there?"

Usagi looked around and spotted the way down. "There!" To the left, there was large what looked like a root going downward. Best thing is, it doesn't look steep. "That part of the tree looks stable." Just to be sure, Usagi jumped down and tested the stability. "Yup pretty stable!" she gave them a thumbs up and continued her way down. The rest of the group followed after jumping down. The green door was waiting for them at the end.

"This is it," Jack announced. "Let's get the heart back!"

Usagi stepped up to the door with Sora. "We're doing more than that…" she murmured as she and Sora opened the door. It slammed shut once everyone was inside. On the opposite side of the room, on a higher floor level, was Oogie Boogie. Was nothing but a ghoul looking, dirty sack of bugs.

Jack stepped in front of everyone else, "Oogie Boogie, give be back the heart!"

The sack of bugs just laughed. "You want this?" He waved it around, taunting him. "Come and get it!" He shoved the man made heart in his mouth and swallowed.

Usagi gasped, "Oh no!"

"Let's see what this heart can do. Oh Heartless!" After a minute, two ghost like Heartless appeared at his side. "Is this it?" Oogie asked with a very disappointed voice.

"Not what you expected?" Usagi taunted. "Too bad. But you should know that a heart is as weak as it's owner…"

Sora flinched at those word. Even though it wasn't directed at him, he could still feel the venom dripping from her words. "Ouch…"

Oogie Boogie glared at the blond, "How dare you!" With his yell, there was a sudden force of power that knocked every off balance.

"You just had to say something!" Donald said to Usagi, blaming her.

Usagi just blinked, her face held the expression of shock. "Wasn't expecting that…"

Oogie Boogie started to laugh a bit manically now. "Just look around you!" The ground under Oogie's enemies lit up suddenly along with the rest of the room. They were standing on some kind of roulette!

"What kind of place is this?" Jack asked, looking around. The place was filled with all sorts of torture devices. He didn't have much time to analyze because the floor started to move, knocking everyone off their feet.

"Let's play a game, shall we?" Oogie's voice rang though the room. "I'll roll some dice and whatever number comes up decides the kind of torture you get!"

"Don't say anything!" Donald snapped before Usagi could speak.

The roulette stopped abruptly as Oogie threw the dice. "It looks like I get to summon some… HEARTLESS!" At his command, many Heartless appeared and attacked the group. Donald used his Fira spell and got rid of a couple of Heartless. Jack used his strong and fast attacks to take care of the fast Heartless, Wight Knights. Goofy covered for Jack and managed to destroy a few himself.

Usagi and Sora in the mean time tried to figure out a way to get to Oogie Boogie.

"He's really far," Sora observed, "All we can do is use magic."

Usagi looked at her enemy. Magic wouldn't be enough and she knew Sora knew that. At least one of them have to somehow get up there. She turned her gaze to Sora. He looked pretty strong and he has gotten stronger lately, so he shouldn't have any issues. "Throw me up."

"What!?" Sora yelled, flabbergasted. "I can't…"

Usagi, didn't listen to him, "Use your Keyblade. We have to be quick before this thing starts turning again."

Realizing there's no talking her out of it, Sora nodded. Usagi stepped back some to get a running start. Sora used the momentum from her run to give her the boost she needs to reach Oogie.

She landed almost perfectly not too far from the sack of bugs with her sword in hand. He glared at her. "You… What are you doing here!? Get back down there!"

"Don't think so," Usagi answered before she started to attack him. For a big sack of bugs, Oogie was pretty fast. She barley got any hits on him and the hits she did land on him weren't serious.

"Thunder!" Sora's Thundra spell hit Oogie right on the head, making him dazed. This allowed Usagi to land a deadly hit on his side. Bugs leaked out of the open wound.

Oogie screamed in frustration, causing another burst of power that knocked Usagi down on the roulette. "You little brat!" Oogie yelled as he tried to stop the bugs from escaping his body. "You'll pay for that! Let's see how you'll like getting cut up!"

As if on cue, a razor sharp blade fell from above landing in front of Usagi. Her legs barely escaped being cut in half! It rose back up a bit and moved above her.

"Look out!" Goofy screamed as he ran toward her. He managed to pick her up and he also avoided damage by holding his shield over his head, blocking the blade. The blade tried to cut them twice more before rising up again.

Oogie started to laugh again only to be silenced by a Fira spell by Donald which charred his cloth like skin. "Ow!" Oogie released his wound, allowing more bugs to escape, and started to put out some small fires on his skin. Usagi aimed and fired a Fira spell at Oogie, in the same spot where Donald's spell hit.

"Goofy!" Sora called out, "Give me a lift!"

"Gotcha!" Goofy said. Using the same method that was done before, Sora got a running start and Goofy used his shield to push him up toward Oogie.

When he was close enough, Sora delivered a single, powerful strike at Oogie's weaken chest, making a large cut. Thousands of bugs start to spill out. No matter hard he desperately tried, Oogie could not stop the bugs from falling out. The heart came out as well, landing at Sora feet. It was cut open by Sora's Keyblade, completely destroyed. "NOO!!" He shouted out as he deflated until he was flat on the ground.

Jack sighed sadly, "So the heart was a failure after all…" He walked to green door, muttering about thinking of a new Halloween event and how there wasn't much time. Donald and Goofy followed him.

Usagi looked down at the remains of the makeshift heart. "I knew it would cause trouble…"

Sora glanced at her, "You had a bad feeling?" Usagi looked at him and nodded. "Why didn't you say anything!?"

"You looked really excited, I didn't want to ruin your fun," Usagi told him. "I thought we could destroy it after the event, but it got into the wrong hands pretty quick." The bugs had crawled in different directions. On ground the ground where the bug once where was a piece of paper. Usagi walked over and picked it up, scanning it's contents.

Sora blinked and blushed a little, "You did that for me?"

Usagi nodded and looked his way. She raised a eyebrow at Sora's slightly red cheeks, "Yeah. Are you okay?" She took a step forward, which lead Sora into taking one back.

Sora laughed nervously. "Let's catch up with everyone!" he said as he quickly ran out. Usagi put the paper in the small pouch on her side. Her back pack transformed into the pouch to go with her costume. It's more convenient. She soon followed closely behind him.

/…/

The group made their way to the bridge and started to cross. "So where to now?" Goofy asked.

Donald jumped and bonked him on the head with his wand. "We keep looking for the king!"

"I can't shake the feeling that we're not done here yet," Usagi said. She could feel darkness growing with each passing second.

Sora was walking beside her. "But we beat Oogie, right?" He sounded unsure of this now. As soon as Sora finished his sentence, the ground started to shake and most of the bridge broke. Good thing the reached the end already.

Goofy put his shield over his head, yelling, "Not good!"

Jack who was ahead of the group, turned to look back at the manor. "Look!" he pointed at the manor. The group of four looked at the manor.

Donald was the first to speak. "What the!?"

"Is that Oogie!?" Sora asked, a bit taken back. Oogie was now the manor itself. On top of his head was a dark globe. "How did he get so big!?"

"That up there!" Jack pointed to the dark globe. "He's drawing power from it!"

Usagi nodded, "Then we have to get rid of it. No problem!" Sure Oogie could swing the huge lanterns at them, but it could easily be blocked or dodged. Suddenly, a bunch of gargoyle looking Heartless appeared and on the ground many shadows and skeleton like Heartless appeared. "Now it's a problem…"

Donald used a Thundara on the gargoyle Heartless eliminating a number of them. But there were so much left over.

"Sora, you have to get to the dark globe!" Usagi spoke quickly, for time was short. "We'll do what we can to cut you a path and keep the Heartless off of you! I'll be right behind you! You just gotta keep pushing forward!"

Sora nodded even though he didn't like the idea of leaving his friends behind. "Let's go!"

The group, including Jack, jumped down to face the army on ground and landed softly with the help of Donald's Aeroa spell. To start a path for Sora, Donald once again used a Thundara spell. This took out a number of Heartless, cutting a path for Sora and Usagi. Goofy ran down the path with his shield up ready to push any Heartless out the way.

Usagi raised Goofy's defense by casting the wind spell on him and spiraling wind protected him and attacked the weaker Shadow Heartless. They were almost to the manor. Goofy put his shield over his head. "Jump on!"

Sora was the first to use Goofy shield as elevation to get on the Manor followed by Usagi. They immediately ran up to get closer to the globe. Part of the bridge fluttered, as if it was trying to throw someone off. Usagi was the only one on this part of the bridge and she slipped.

Sora quickly grabbed her hand and pulled her back up. They continued their climb up until they were intersected by many gargoyle like Heartless. They were close to the top. Usagi could feel the darkness radiating from the globe. "Go on, Sora!" she told him as she swiped at a Heartless.

Sora shook his head, "I'm not leaving you with so many Heartless!"

"I have Genie, remember?" She said before she blocked an attack and dodge another. Seeing that she can handle herself, Sora nodded and moved on.

Usagi search in heart for her friend. When she found him a light appeared at the tip of her sword followed by a blue whirl wind and Genie came out of it, stretching and yawning. "What's this?" he asked as he looked at his surroundings.

"A bunch of Heartless," Usagi answered. Genie smiled at her.

"Hey! I was wondering if you'll call me!" Genie pulled her in for big hug.

"Ack!" Usagi started to struggle. "Genie! We have Heartless!"

"Oh right!" Genie dropped her and flexed his fingers. "Just say the magic words!"

Usagi blinked. She was really confused. What were the magic words? "Please?"

Genie sighed, "Those aren't the words!" He disappeared and reappeared on her shoulder in a much smaller size. He poke in high squeaky voice, "The magic words are…" he whisper the rest in her ear. He disappeared again and reappear where he was and in his usual size.

"…" To avoid saying the magic words, Usagi looked around and saw that the Heartless were frozen in place. "What happened to the Heartless?"

"Oh I stopped time until you got the magic words." Genie waved it off then he down at her a bit excited. "Say it…" Usagi groaned and muttered the magic words. Genie put a hand over his ear, "I can't hear you!"

Usagi sighed and shouted out the words. "It's showtime!"

"Bingo!" The Heartless unfroze and Genie began attacking them with a variety of spells.

Meanwhile, Sora had reached the dark globe and hit it with his Keyblade. This caused Oogie to release a grunt. The globe only cracked a little from Sora's hit. He continued to deliver blows, cracking it more and more until it finally broke.

The Heartless disappeared and the manor started to slowly disintegrate. Sora made his way back down to Usagi and Genie. "Need a lift?" Genie offered. Sora nodded, grateful that he doesn't have to jump off the manor. Genie picked up each teen and disappeared. They reappeared by and exhausted Donald and Goofy. Jack seem to be okay though. He might a little sad that the heart didn't work and was destroyed. Genie put the teens down and said his farewells before disappearing.

Eventually, the manor disappeared completely, leaving the keyhole behind. Sora did his job as the Keybalde master and locked it.

/…/

Jack sighed dreadfully, "Why didn't I listen to Sally?" The group went back to the Doctor's lab to give him the bad news about the heart. Of course, he refused to accept the fact that it was a failure and went on believing that Sora just destroyed it.

Sally put a comforting hand on the skeleton's shoulder, "Don't feel bad Jack. We'll think of something for next Halloween. Let's do it together next year."

Jack smiled at her and nodded in agreement.

/…/

While everyone was boarding the Gummi ship, Usagi picked up some dead flowers from the ground. They reminded her of Sally's forget-me-nots. Her memories. But can flowers really hold memories? She sighed and looked up at the stars in the sky. If they could, Usagi wished that had brought her own set of forget-me-nots when she was arrived at Destiny Island, maybe then she wouldn't have forgotten where she came from. With another sigh, she looked back at the flowers and immediately dropped them.

The once dead flowers were now alive and vibrant. The petals are bright pink with a yellow center. The stem was strong and green with two leaves sticking out of each side. Usagi looked at her hands and then down at the flowers again. They were now returning back to their dead state.

"Too weird…" she said.

"Usagi!" Donald yelled from the ship, "Hurry up or we'll leave you!"

"What!!" Usagi ran to the ship, "Don't you even dare!!"

/…/

"Finally out of that world!" Usagi cheered as she relaxed back against her seat.

Sora smiled, knowing that Usagi couldn't see him. "So you were scared!"

"Was not!" Usagi snapped. "And stop smiling like that! I can see your reflection in the window!" Sora couldn't help but to laugh.

Chip and Dale walked on the dash board, carrying a letter. "You guy got a message while you were gone." Chip said gesturing to the letter with his head.

Usagi stood up and took the letter from them. "Thanks," She said before she read it over. She smiled down at Sora. "There's another tournament!"

/…/

Well, here you go! You finally have chapter 12. Now let me tell you what took so long, I hate battle scenes. So instead of writing this one, I wrote some other scenes for the fic for future chapters. Especially for the sequel and the sequel is for KH2 not CoM. I have no clue what the title will be.

I originally wanted to go to Neverland first but then I would have go to Hollow Bastion next. I can't believe I'm that close though… Anyway plans changed and here's the outline. After this, I'll do the tournament and Alantica, then Neverland, then filler chapter with a tournament and other thing, then Hollow Bastion where some bad thing will happen! I can't wait!

Okay another rant here. Who here has had some trouble trying to figure out how to beat Oogie Boogie? I was having a lot of trouble! I couldn't figure out how to get the roulette to stop. And whenever it happened, I thought Oogie did it. So then I finally see that I can control it, which is good since Sora was almost dead, I was able to enough to heal and I finally kicked Oogie's butt!!

Woot! Another rant. I really have to rewrite the other chapters. I have forgotten so many elements like Jiminy, Chip and Dale, and the summons. They are kinda important for the sequel! So right now I'm on chapter four. I don't know what I was thinking when I let Sora and Usagi beat Leon, probably because I did. But in reality, they will not be able to beat him. Should I work on the rewrite or the next chapter?

Anyway, act like you still love me and review! Please tell me why you like the chapter and why you didn't. What can I improve on? What are you're predictions? Alright now click on that little purple button down there and type away!

Please...?