A/N: I know that at least two people are guaranteed to have been happy with the last chapter (the same two who were in love with Quince almost as much as I was). From now on, you may not a big deal of drama in here... Heh. :D Note that I said I would never bring Quince back... Look at how easily I cave in to my own wants. xD

Well, guess where else Quince is hanging out at? He's actually in my friend, Seldomknown3's, new fanfiction: "The Blue Hour Awakens" It's about a Keyblade war, andandand you all should go and read it. :D

Sorry this update took so long, guys. x.x School was hectic. Seriously. But because of today, I've started the first chapter for the next fanfic. xDDD

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"I'm glad that we're being assaulted by Nobodies now." Stefa's sarcastic voice echoed throughout the Marketplace. Quince struck at a dusk twice with his Maybe Memories keyblade before it actually disappeared. "I forgot how tough these things were." She added upon completely missing a Dusk that was at least ten centimeters away from where she hit. The Dusk retaliated by curling around her ankles and knocking her into one of the fountains.

"Nice work." Quince called to his friend, "You okay?"

"Perfect." She murmured, climbing out of the fountain completely and totally soaked. "I think we went the wrong way."

"You can't keep saying that, Stef." He said, shaking his head and rolling his eyes.

"Trust me. I think I saw something back in the Dark Depths when we left."

"And you mention it, now?" Quince was just now remembering how scatter-brained she was. "The number of Nobodies isn't going down, so we'd better run." He reached out and grabbed Stefa's wrist not unkindly, and they began to head all the way back to make their way back to the other side of the world. Stefa smoothed out her wet bangs over her forehead. Like before, her left eye was covered by the longer part of her bangs, and part of her right eye, too.

"You know what? If you could call upon a portal still, that would be beautiful." Stefa remarked as they passed through the Great Maw. She ignored the shouts of everyone with great effort; It was hard not to respond when people were shouting your name so desperately. Droplets of water fell from Stefa's hair as they made their way through the canyon.

"If I could call upon the portal still, no one would have been separated." Quince reminded her. Stefa hung her head in silence. The guilt and loneliness she had felt for so long had melted into numbness long before Riku, Sora, Kairi, Naminé, and Roxas came to her world. "Sorry." He said quickly upon noticing Stefa's expression. "I saw what all of that did to you. I guess it's no fun being alone."

"And losing your parents, and thinking that you lost your best friend. Friends, I should say." She added. "Oh, that's right. Nalani is probably going to go crazy when she sees you." Quince chuckled.

'I wonder how Riku will feel about me being around.' He thought as they reached the end of the Great Maw. Instead of turning right to go up to the cliff top of the Dark Depths, they continued left where the rock layers formed gigantic steps that they had to jump down. Stefa was deep in thought as they neared the Castle.

With Quince back, how would everything be? The possibilities hurt her head so badly. She had missed him so much, but Riku... "Ugh." Stefa murmured under her breath. As usual, Quince didn't miss a beat.

"What is it?" He asked.

"Being wet." Stefa lied. "It's annoying, keeps making me slip in these big ass shoes." She pointed down to her white shoes with the pink 'V'. They made her a lot taller.

Quince knew she wouldn't tell him the truth, so he changed the subject as they came before the castle. "What was it you saw?" He asked although it was unnecessary. The heartless symbol was glittering. Stefa, without knowing why, pointed Shadow Heart upward. To their surprise, a silver beam shot out from the tip and entered the heart. Instead of appearing as the heartless symbol or keyhole, it was a perfect heart-shape. The beam entered the heart and stayed; She must have had to do something more.

Once again, without knowing why, she turned the Keyblade sideways like she was unlocking a door; Another beam shot out of the symbol in reply and engulfed Stefa in a golden light. Quince let out a low whistle, at which point Stefa noticed only she was engulfed in the light. "Wait! Quince!" She cried, suddenly terrified to be left without him again. Even as she held out her hand, she could see herself fading away.

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She was flying fast and swift toward the ground, and that was how Stefa thought she was going to die. Well, then the ground turned into water, so Stefa wasn't as worried by breaking anything. Drowning was always a possibility, though. Stefa crashed underwater. Light was shining above, and she swam toward it.

When she broke surface, Stefa noted that she was in the Radiant Garden again. Or still? Again? Still? So why had she fallen from the sky. "My life gets weirder all the time." she murmured. Conveniently enough, she had broke surface right next to the ladder in the Marketplace. She climbed it, slipping at times when she moved too fast, and jumped over the wall. The marketplace was still empty, making her wonder if she had just been sent to the beginning of the world.

She ran through the Marketplace, slipping as she went. The one sure fire way to know if she was crazy or not was to go back to the Great Maw. Stefa coughed, her lungs filled with saltwater. She was overwhelmed by so many thoughts right now, but the one that she was going with was to get to the Great Maw in one piece. "Why can't I call a portal?" Stefa growled out of agitation when she had made it to the Bailey, panting. There was still a long way to go. "Maybe I should make someone come to me."

Stefa thought this was probably a bad idea, so she forced herself onward, jumping over the wall in the Bailey, and landed on all fours on the pavement below.

"This is getting repetitively annoying." She remarked. Finally, Stefa had made it to the Great Maw, and was breathing heavily. No one seemed to notice her, so apparently that whole, 'there's a thread that will blah blah blah' was wrong. Stefa would remember to get Quince for that. Muttering darkly under her breath and dragging her wet body through the Great Maw, she totally ignored it when Yuffie had yelled her name.

Then more of them were yelling her name. That was really starting to give her a headache. She was still staring at the ground, muttering darkly, and dripping wet when she knocked into a body. When she looked up, she was both deeply disappointed and very happy to see it was Quince.

"How can you ignore your friends like that? It's terrible." He mocked with folded arms.

"Stop joking, Quince, you and I both know you aren't funny." Stefa said, punching him in the arm, lightly. The way she was acting reminded her of the old her, the carefree one.

"Honestly, Stefa." Kairi's voice rang from behind her. She had her hands on her hips, and, looking at her, she reminded Sora and Riku of the fourteen-year old Kairi. Stefa whirled around.

"Oh my Goofy, you guys are real!" She squealed, but was talking so quickly that her words had run together. Stefa ran backward and embraced Kairi tightly, causing the auburn-haired girl to get wet.

"Now I'm both unhappy and wet." Kairi joked, returning the embrace.

"Well, well, well. Wake the dead." Axel commented upon spotting Quince. He sheepishly rubbed the back of his head. So much attention was a killer. In fact, he was expecting more than half of the time to kill him, but they all just stared. Nalani ran forward and practically tackled Quince; He fell to the ground and groaned.

"You still have a tackle that can rival a pro football player, I see." He commented.

"Sorry." Nalani said only half-heartedly before she turned back to Stefa. She wanted to both scold her and hug her to death. Well, she could always do both. The mage skipped forward and tackled both Kairi and Stefa to the ground.

"Why me?" Kairi asked although she was half-laughing.

"Because you were there!" Was the reply from a very cheerful Nalani. "Now, I scold." She rolled off of the two girls, but hugged Stefa around the neck. "You. Are. So. Stupid." Stefa frowned.

"Why now?"

"You got sucked into a portal and left, that's why!" Nalani replied in a cross voice. As soon as the words came out of her mouth, she realized that they sounded better in her head.

"Oh, phew. I thought it..." Suddenly realizing what she was saying, Stefa quickly closed her mouth.

"What?" Nalani asked sharply. "What did you do?" Stefa looked up into Nalani's chocolate brown eyes and then at everyone else, who had closed in on them.

"I may or may not have given a heart to the Superior of Organization XIII."

The day just got worse after that.

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After being yelled at for being so 'foolish' by most of the restoration committee and her friends, things didn't improve. Well, at least, one good thing was there. Riku had been able to seal the keyhole, probably because of his Keyblade's type. After this statement, the group struggled to think about what the Organization's next move could be. Axel and Roxas had no problem declaring that the others would probably be outraged that only Xemnas had a heart.

"Maybe there will be a lot of betrayals." Yuffie suggested cheerfully.

"Demyx will probably leave..." Roxas said. "I think all he's ever wanted is a heart; He hates fighting."

"It doesn't matter who stays and who leaves," Cloud remarked. "Xemnas has his heart now, so whatever he was planning to do will probably be done now. Even with just him in the Organization, things would be dangerous."

"Not that anyone would leave." Axel added. "If Xemnas is doing something that would make him all-powerful, they'd want to stick with him to save their own asses."

"Not to mention a lot of them like doing evil deeds." Quince stated. "Especially Larxene, Marluxia, and Saïx." Several at the table shuddered.

"Until we can find anything out, I suggest you guys continue to re-lock the worlds." Leon told them.

"Can we go this time?" Nalani asked in a pleading voice.

"I second that! It's boring here." Ceron added.

"Gee, thanks." Tifa murmured. Just then, Cid entered the kitchen. He was wearing the same look as he had right when they were told Twilight Town had been destroyed.

"Which world?" asked Riku, preparing himself for the worst. Cid rubbed the back of his head.

"Destiny Islands."

Naminé, Roxas, and Axel had been terrified to hear the news, but their reactions were nothing in comparison to Kairi, Sora, and Riku's. That was their home. They had already had it taken from them once, and now it was gone again. Sora had proclaimed that they go to End of the World immediately, but Kairi, through tears, had told him that they had a duty to fulfill and it had come first.

It was unanimous that they stay the night for the sake of keeping sanity. Stefa spent some time with Riku before dinner and then an hour after. When he told her that he was going to sleep, she had decided to go ahead and take a walk around town while the sun was setting. Quince had been filled in on everything that everyone knew, and he was very unhappy to learn that Jewel's Grove had been destroyed.

Stefa was joined by Nalani on her way out of the house, so the two of them decided to walk together. "Wow. Quince is back. It still seems so weird to say." Nalani remarked. They were sitting on the wall of the Borough, beside the Bailey, so that they could see the beautiful sunset.

"You're telling me." Stefa said, half-laughing. "I'm still trying to make sure I'm not dreaming."

"So this is a dream you'd like to have." Nalani remarked, grinning.

"What?" Stefa asked, her eyebrows furrowing together. Nalani laughed, but sobered up quickly.

"Say, do you think Quince still likes you?" This question, so surprising, almost caused Stefa to fall off of the wall and plummet to her death. She had to admit, though, she had been wondering about it to.

"I have no idea. He's been acted kind of brotherly toward me, though, so I don't know."

"Well, you said he had a big brother thing going on, right?" Nalani smiled at her own choice of words. "I guess it would be nicer to say he was watching over you. Anyway, he must know Riku and you are together." Stefa's heart fell into her stomach. Quince was one known to put up a front when he knew he couldn't have something he wanted. Stefa swallowed hard at the thought of Quince still being in love with her.

"Stefa!" Nalani practically shouted to gain her friend's attention. Stefa blinked a few times when she realized that Nalani was speaking to her.

"Yeah?"

"...You still like him." Nalani said, half-surprised and half-pleased. Stefa's cheeks grew red.

"Like a brother." She insisted. Nalani waved her off.

"Yeah, yeah sure."

"What about you and Ceron?" Stefa pressed. This time Nalani blushed.

"This conversation will be known to no one."

"Agreed." said Stefa.

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The next morning, several Gummi Ships were dispatched, after Cid complaining about having to build more. Sora, Kairi, and Riku were in one. Stefa, Naminé, and Quince in another. Ceron, Nalani, and Roxas were in the last. Riku, Sora, and Kairi had decided to stick to together after what had happened to their Islands since they were still very depressed over it all. Although both Stefa and Nalani had fought with Cid over the fact that they were separated from each other, they had lost and he he won.

"Stupid old pilot. Why am I calling him a pilot? He can't navigate one of these to save his life!" Stefa was not just ranting, either. Two years previously, Cid had proven how great he was at flying a Gummi Ship by crashing it into Traverse Town with Cloud, Tifa, and Yuffie inside of it.

"Stefa, breathe." Roxas ordered the Princess over the transmission; Sora, Riku, and Kairi quietly stayed out of it.

"So where are we going again?" Quince asked. "And remind me why we're letting Stefa drive while she's angry."

"You're going to a place called 'Andy's House'," Kairi's (A/N: Damn it, I almost did my own name again. D:) voice chimed in over the transmission. "It's new." She added.

"Sounds like we're going to someone's house." Stefa stated smartly. Quince hit her on the back of the head.

"Wherever did you get that idea?"

"We're going to the Pride Lands." Nalani stated, before realizing she had once heard the name. "That's where Simba, Nala, and Kiara live!"

"And we're going to the Deep Jungle." Sora announced.

"Great, so we're the only ones that are going to a brand new world?" Stefa's voice sighed over the transmission; Riku chuckled quietly.

"'Fraid so."

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Naminé, Stefa, and Quince noticed there was something very different about this world when they were beamed down onto a bed, but that's not what gave it away. What gave it away was Quince's clothes, at first. He was still wearing a red t-shirt and blue jeans, but he was also wearing a black vest with a star on the back, a black cowboy hat that was tilted over one eye, and big black boots with spurs on the back. "You're a cowboy!" Naminé said as Stefa fought down a laugh.

"You two are plastic." He retaliated.

"Huh?" Stefa asked. She grabbed Naminé's wrist and jumped off of the bed and onto a desk beside the bed. They walked over to the window and looked at their reflections. Naminé and Stefa were definitely plastic, but they were also wearing some clothes that could put sluts to shame. Stefa was wearing a too-short white miniskirt and a pink top that only had one strap. Tied around her neck was a pink rose. Her shoes were pink sandals. Naminé was wearing white sandals with a flowing white skirt and a blue tank-top; She didn't look half-bad.

"Oh my God." Stefa muttered with disbelief as she stared at her reflection. "We're almost like Bratz dolls." (A/N: I realize that Bratz weren't out at the same time as Toy Story 2, but stay with me here.) Quince wasn't even bothering to hold back his laughter.

"Naminé you look great," He said, causing the blonde to blush. "Stefa, you look like a--"

"Don't say it." Stefa snapped. Just then, a short and somewhat fat looking spaceman came up toward them. He had a plastic shield that was over his face and a green uniform. He was pointing some sort of laser at them.

"Uh-oh." Naminé murmured.

"State your names and business here." The spaceman ordered. Stefa and Naminé simply stared at him, so Quince replied.

"Quince, Stefa, and Naminé," He said, pointing to each of them in turn. "Have you seen any weird black shadows or white creatures around here lately?" Considering how he was always taunting Stefa, she was surprised to hear him being civil to the spaceman. The spaceman turned off his laser although his gaze remained suspicious.

"How did you know about those?" Naminé held up two hands in defense.

"We're here to help," She explained, "before the heartless destroy this world."

"Yoo-hoo!" A southern voice called from below. Quince, Stefa, Naminé, and the spaceman all leaned over the side of the table to see who it was. A tall young cowgirl with red yarn hair was waving up at them. "Since when did Andy get more dolls?" She asked the spaceman, who merely shook his head.

"I don't think they're from here; They seem to know about the black creatures infesting this place, though."

"Well, I gotta say that it's a dern good thing Andy went off to summer camp! These black things are suspicious." The cowgirl said with her southern accent.

"They're called heartless." Stefa stated.

"We'd better take you to the sheriff," The spaceman said as he jumped off of the table and skillfully landed on the wooden floor. "Come on." Quince, Naminé, and Stefa all exchanged looks before they jumped after him; Naminé and Stefa both fell flat on their faces while Quince landed easily on the ground.

"I'm Jessie, and this guy here's Buzz Lightyear." The cowgirl explained with a good-naturedly smile. Stefa and Naminé felt slightly less nervous and returned the smile. Quince, however, seemed to be very aware of his surroundings, waiting for something to attack.

"Nice to meet you." Naminé said with a nod. Stefa heard the girl introduced the three of them, but was more focused on something black moving toward a small sheep.

'Oh my God. Are these heartless desperate or what?' Shadow Heart materialized in her hand and she ran forward, defeating the heartless with one slash. The sheep seemed to make an appreciative noise as a tall woman with blonde hair, a large dress, and a shepherdess crook came before the sheep. After checking out the sheep and becoming satisfied, the woman turned to Stefa with deep gratitude.

"Thank you so much, miss!" She cried as she squished Stefa into an awkward hug.

"Uhm, it was no problem." said Stefa sheepishly as she patted the Shepherdess on the back.

"My name is Bo Peep." The woman told her as she released Stefa from the hug.

"I'm Stefa."

"You're dead." A voice called from above. The voice was soft and the sentence that she had said seemed to have been forced. Standing on top of the bookshelf (A/N: I hardly remember what Andy's room looks like, so try to stay with me here...) was none other than Reixka with an angry Larxene beside her. While Reixka looked like she had just been turned smaller and still looked completely normal, Larxene looked a little bit... odd.

Larxene's hair was still the same, but her body looked shinier. Not to mention her outfit was completely different. She was wearing a short black skirt, black boots, and a blue t-shirt. Stefa burst into laughter at the sight. "You're a Barbie."

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"A keyhole to the heart of this world?" Nala asked. Roxas had just tried to explain things to the best of his ability about the hearts of worlds. Nalani, however, had strayed off to talk to Kiara, who was looking down.

"Hey, what's the matter with you?" Nalani, back in her lion form, asked as she nudged the cub.

"Dad still doesn't want me to see Kovu..." She murmured. "I don't understand it, he hates him for no reason..." Nalani frowned. Or at least, she tried to.

"If he doesn't hate him for a valid reason, then he'll get over it." She assured the cub. "Things will work out." Kiara's mood shot up from someone finally having confidence in her.

"Hey, thanks, Nalani!" Kiara said as she got to her feet. "I hope things go well with your journey." With that, the lion cub skipped off, unnoticed by others. Nalani realized that she might have just gone against the King's orders as the cub disappeared into the distance.

"Oops." She looked into Ceron's direction. He was boredly slashing at the rock with his long-sword in his mouth. His appearance had taken on a black lion that was slightly older than Nalani. The fact that he was continuously being ricocheted off the rock seemed to not bother him a bit. Nalani smiled and sighed. "It's nice when someone has confidence in a love that no one else believes in."

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"This place hasn't changed a bit." Sora stated. He, Riku, and Kairi were standing inside of the old tree house. The only thing that had changed was him--in appearance, of course. He was still the laid back lazy fourteen-year old at heart. He remembered when he had first met Tarzan and had been willing to swear that he had seen Kairi right behind him.

"Where's the keyhole at?" Riku asked, looking around the treehouse wearily. "How old is this thing?"

"Pretty old." Sora admitted.

"Looks that wa--!" Kairi's sentence was cut short when she took a few steps forward and the floorboards beneath her gave way.

"Kairi!" Both Sora and Riku shouted, but by the time they had run to reach out for her hand, she had already fallen underneath.

"Oof!" Kairi cried when she hit the netting below the treehouse. "That was fortunate." She muttered quietly to herself as she looked up at Sora and Riku's worried expressions. "I'm alright!" She called up to them. Several low growls from somewhere in the middle, however, told her otherwise. The shadow of three large cats began to slink toward her; They were jaguars, two males and one female. "I might have lied." The Keyblade Princess whimpered as they prowled toward her, their pearly teeth revealed in a fierce snarl.

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A/N: I had to cut it off there, sorry. xD This chapter was awfully... long. Yes, I totally made Larxene a barbie doll. See you next chapter. :D