Sora and Riku sat in the back of the truck that was driving towards the wasteland.

"What did Leon want to talk to you about yesterday?" Riku whispered to his companion.

"It was weird; he said that I could come back once I've learned about my weapon…" Sora said studying the keyblade in front of him. "What'd that guy call it? A Keyblade?"

Riku shrugged. "Hey wait! If this is about you and your sword, then why am I being banished?"

"Cause it's not about my weapon! It's about the fact that we're screw ups!"

"But Leon said that we could come back once you've learned about your weapon." Riku pointed out.

"Yeah but how are we going to learn about it? Who are we going to ask? The Keyblade? Hello, I'm Sora, the person who wields you! Can you tell us about yourself so we don't get banished? Yeah right, Riku!" Sora said.

The truck came to a stop and the door opened. Leon stood there with a worried look on his face. "All right you two…" He said. Sora and Riku looked at one another and stood up and walked outside. The wasteland was everything they thought it would be. Big, dry and hot. Sora looked back at his Sensei with pleading eyes.

"Sensei please…. Don't…"

"It's not my call, Sora. Don't worry, though, I'm going to bring you back. So stay alive, don't die, and keep out of the sun. That's an order."

"Yessir."

Leon ruffled Sora's hair. "I'll be back. Don't worry about it. Take care of each other and whatever you do, don't resort to cannibalism."

"What?"

"Never mind." Leon said climbing back into the truck. "Remember, stay alive, find water, and stay out of the sun. Got it?"

"Yessir."

"You're a good kid Sora. Don't worry about it."

Leon looked at the boys one last time before the truck drove away. A huge cloud of dust arose in its path that sent Sora into a coughing fit. "We should get moving." Riku said after smacking Sora on the back to clear his lungs. They turned around to start walking.

"Are they gone?"

Riku stopped. He turned to see Kairi stepping out from behind a rock. "Hi guys!" She raised a hand in recognition.

"KAIRI?" Sora said doing a double take.

"Yeah, I snuck out so I could go with you!"

"You snuck out? To be banished with us?"

"Yesssir, I did." She said proudly.

"Are you an idiot?"

Kairi lowered her proud hand. "Huh? What's that supposed to mean, Riku?"

Riku walked over to her and seized her shoulders to shake her. "Kairi! You don't get it! This isn't one of our adventures, we've been banished. B-A-N-I-S-H-E-D. Banished!" Riku spazed.

"You can spell, Riku! Wow! So what happened during the 5th grade spelling bee? Did you choke?" Sora asked. Riku glared at him.

"That's beside the point, Sora. Kairi, we could die out here."

"Then I'll die with you. That's what friends do."

Sora smiled. "Thanks, Kairi, but we should get moving so none of us die." He said pushing them both deeper into the wasteland.

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"I couldn't find any water." Riku announced throwing the cantine down in front of the fire. Sora curled up under their temporary rock shelter. Kairi leaned up against Sora and picked it up. "You didn't think to fill it up before you left?"

"We did."

"This is the spare canteen. We have another full one." Sora explained. Kairi nodded and looked out to the desert.

"We need to find water, and fast." Riku said sitting down Indian style. Kairi placed her hand in her chin. "What are we going to do? How are we going to find it?"

"We could try digging." Sora suggested.

"I don't think that will work. We could try though…"

"We could look for an oasis." Kairi put in.

"I doubt it will be that easy." Sora said shaking his head. "Hey! Did any one else hear that cacti store water inside? We could cut one open!"

"Good idea!" Kairi said leaping up. Riku nodded. "I'll go see if I can't find us a spiky plant." He said standing up. He left the rock shelter and walked out into the dark desert.

"Does your dad know about this?"

"Are you kidding me? If he knew I snuck out to banish myself I'd never hear the end of it." She laughed. Then followed an awkward silence until Riku came back with a skinned cactus that was cut in half.

"Well, we'll have to suck the juice out of it." He said holding it out. Sora took it from him and began to squeeze the juice into the canteen. "We can't survive on cactus juice forever; we need to find another source of water." Riku informed his friend.

"Yeah." Sora agreed. "And I need to find a way to communicate with my Keyblade, so we can get out of here."

"Communicate with your Keyblade? What's that supposed to mean?"

"Trust me, I wish I knew. My teacher said to find out about it… or something"

Kairi watched Sora squeeze to juice into the canteen and smiled skeptically. "Shouldn't we make sure it's not poisonous before we taint our canteen?"

"Don't worry, it's not. I must've sucked at least three of them dry before I brought one back." Riku admitted while carving a stick into a spear.

"You what?"

"What? It's a cactus! The desert isn't going to run out any time soon!"

"No, but… poisons and stuff can take a while to set in. Who knows, five hours from now you could be getting high off cactus juice."

"You worry too much."

"You don't worry enough! If you haven't noticed, we're banished to the wasteland in a Jak and Daxterish way! Next we're going to faint and the Wastelanders are going to pick us up and then we'll find out Sora's some Time Hero who's his own grandfather!"

"Kairi, calm down. You've been playing too many video games. There are no Wastelanders."

"Great. Then we'll just die since no one is coming to rescue us."

"You didn't have to come along, and we're not going to die. Sora just has to find a way to communicate with an inanimate object."

"In other words, we're going to die." Sora put in helpfully.

"Oh, gee, thanks for the confidence booster there, Sora." Riku said rolling his eyes.

The three sat under the rock in silence. "Ok, let's look at the bright side of things." Sora said, trying to sound as relaxed as possible. "We're not sitting in the sun, we have some water, and a temporary form of replacement water, Riku and I are both skilled fighters-" Riku coughed. Kairi looked sideways at Sora.

"What's there to fight? Cacti? I'm sure they'll provide a good fight if you're bored. And there's no animals to hunt out here, and I am not eating scorpions."

"Speaking of scorpions, don't move." Riku said, edging away from Kairi.

"You're kidding, right?" Kairi asked nervously, not daring to move a muscle. She glanced at Sora, who was looking at her and backing away slowly. Kairi's eyes widened. "Kill it! Kill it!" She whispered harshly. "Aren't you supposed to be Knights?" Her voice squeaked in anticipation.

Sora smiled nervously. "Well, Riku, since I'm technically not a Knight yet, you can kill it."

Riku shook his head. "Oh, no, Sora. It's great training, you should do it."

"I don't care which one of you kills it! Get it off of me! Get it off!"

"Riku has the stick."

"Ok, ok, fine! I'll do it! Shows how much you care about your girlfriend, Sora."

Sora humphed and turned away from him. He mumbled something that sounded like 'nommy geffwend.'

Riku held the stick out at arm's length and slowly approached Kairi. She glanced out of the corner of her eye at the giant, ugly, black arachnid that was slowly crawling up her arm. "Hurry!" She hissed. Riku leaned forward as far as he could and held the stick parallel to the scorpion. "Riku!" Kairi hissed. With deft speed, he thrust the spear forward and knocked the scorpion off her and it fell squirming to the sand. Kairi jumped up with quicker speed than would have been expected from the girl and darted out from underneath the rock towards Sora. Riku, in the meantime was continually stabbing the scorpion with the pointy end of the stick.

"Um, Riku, I think its dead now."

"That's what it wants you to think!"

Hallo, I return with yet another chapter, I keep getting ahead of my self, thus making this story a little hard to update.

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