A/N: I am still having a bit of a shortage of challenge ideas, so if any of you kind readers have any suggestions, please im me and let me know - And now, enjoy the next chapter

Chocolate Flavored Lava Lamps

The team woke up in a lousy mood, due largely in part to the bad mood pixie who attacked them in their sleep.

"What's for breakfast?" Sora asked wearily, walking to the kitchen area of the camp.

"Chocolate chip pancakes." Riku answered.

"Really?!"

"Of course not! It's the same old slop we've been having every morning!" Riku shouted irritably.

"Well you could've just said so." Sora pouted taking a bite out of an oddly shaped piece of fruit.

Zexion walked up to get his share of food. "You know, thanks to that ridiculous Imogene, we didn't even get a prize for our last challenge." he said with an edge of anger in his voice.

"Wow, I've never heard you angry with anyone." Marluxia commented as he took his hairnet off. He swung his hair around and whacked Axel in the face with it.

"Watch where you're throwing your stupid pink curls." the pyro said, spitting some of the hair out of his mouth.

"You would be angry too if she'd done that to you." Zexion muttered remembering the 'unnameable incident', which he now used to refer to Imogene's tickle attack.

"Yeah, I'm sorry about that. How about we call a truce?" Imogene asked.

Everyone jumped at the girl's sudden appearance. She was dressed in a violently orange tuxedo today.

"What are you doing at our camp?" Riku demanded.

"Well, I was observing you guys on the secret cameras, and Mr. Grouchy over there reminded me that I hadn't given you guys the prize." Imogene said, gesturing toward Zexion. The Nobody glared at her.

"Secret cameras?" Kairi asked uneasily.

"Yeah, don't worry about those." Imogene said passively.

"So what are you going to give us?" Axel asked.

Imogene put her hand on her chin, as if thinking, then snapped her fingers. "I've got it! Be right back--don't budge an inch!" she shouted as she took off at a run. Sora immediately froze in place.

"I don't think she meant that literally." Cloud sighed.

"I-I knew that." Sora said scratching the back of his head.

5 minutes later…

A big rig was driving up the beach, scaring pedestrians out of its way. (Just kidding! There aren't any pedestrians on the island, you silly gullible fools). It skid to a stop and sprayed them all with sand. The driver's door opened and Imogene hopped out of the truck.

"I come bearing gifts!" she announced.

"We get a truck?" Demyx asked.

"No, not a truck, what's inside the truck!" Imogene went to the back and opened the door. A wave of chocolate chip pancakes flowed out and onto the sand.

Sora nearly had a spastic attack. "Chocolate!!!" he squealed, diving into the pile of pancakes.

"How on earth did you get all of these?" Xigbar asked incredulously.

"Well, that's an interesting story…" Imogene said.

--Flashback--

Imogene stormed into the island's kitchen and announced, "Hello fellow employees! I need a truckload of chocolate chip pancakes ready in five minutes!"

The cooks gaped at the girl and a few of them dropped their spatulas.

"Well? What are you waiting for? Get cooking!" the girl prompted them. They hurriedly got out the jumbo frying pan and began cooking.

--End Flashback--

"That still doesn't explain how you got all of these pancakes so fast." Riku stated.

"Broaden your mind." Imogene said in a mystical voice.

"Hey, these are pretty good!" Kairi said as she stuffed her face full of chocolately goodness.

Imogene looked down at her watch and suddenly exclaimed, "Gosh! Is that really the time?! Sorry buddies, I've gotta fly--see you at the next challenge!" she exploded into a cloud of orange dust, leaving behind a paper that read, 'keep the truck--it's out of gas'.

"Well that was amusing." Vexen said as he mixed nitroglycerine with formula 409. "Don't forget, kiddies--formula 409 causes cancer!" he said happily.

"Hey…where'd Sora go?" Demyx asked looking around.

"Guys! I found a better way to dive into the water!" Sora shouted from atop the waterfall.

"Why do I have the feeling that this isn't going to end well?" Cloud asked.

"Because it's Sora on sugar." Riku said, rubbing his temple.

Sora jumped, and his clothes began to shine as his body transformed into his mermaid-er, merman form. He landed in the water with a splash and swam around happily.

"Sweet! The little dude's got voodoo clothes!" Xigbar exclaimed.

"I could do that if I wanted to…" Vexen muttered.

"Oh yeah? Then prove it!" Xigbar challenged.

"Fine then, I will!" Vexen shot back. He scrunched his face up and started to concentrate.

"Uhhh…dude?" Xigbar asked uncertainly as Vexen's face started to turn red and his eyes bulged. Then suddenly, with a loud pop, the Nobody turned into a lava lamp.

"I hate to break it to you, but mermen are way cooler than lava lamps." the Freelance Shooter said.

"You're just jealous!" the lava lamp huffed.

"Yeah, whatever." Xigbar shrugged as he went to eat some pancakes.

"H-hey guys? Um, guys, I'm stuck like this!" Vexen the lava lamp said with a trace of panic in his voice. No one seemed to hear him. "Guys! A little help here!" he shouted rocking from side to side. The lamp fell over sideways into the sand. "Why does my life suck?" he muttered.

"Dude, I know the feeling." Justin Timberlake said from beside the lamp.

"You're still here?!" the lamp exclaimed [see chapter 12 Justin's Shampoo Bubbles -.

"No. You're imagining me." the singer replied, then poofed away.

"Great--now I'm hallucinating." Vexen grumbled to himself.

"Chocolate is bad for my figure." Kairi said to a little colorful bird sitting next to her. "But I really couldn't care less."

"How do you plan on competing in the next challenge if you're in a cast?" Demyx asked the girl.

"You know, I really have no idea why I'm even in this thing. I should be wrapped in bandages, not in a cast." Kairi said. Her voice took on a more angry tone. "I will get that- that- monster back for shooting me if it's the last thing I do!"

"As long as she doesn't bring that dog back…that miserable beast chased me all around the island, through several pits of quicksand and a perfume shop! I'll never forgive it!" Demyx declared.

"I'm chopping broccoli!" Marluxia sang out suddenly as he watered his plants. And they all broke out in the broccoli song.

--six repetitions later, everyone was out of breath and had a sudden hatred for broccoli.

Meanwhile, with Sora in the water…

Sora was diving to the bottom of the waterfall and having lots of fun doing things. Lots of things. What are they? I….don't know. He dove to the very bottom and saw something red and wavy.

"Ariel!" he exclaimed, seeing the mermaid princess.

"Sora!" she said in surprise.

"What are you doing here?"

"I swam upstream looking for my lucky bottle cap, and I got lost…" she said sadly.

"That's too bad." Sora sniffed sympathetically.

"I know, since I'm here, let's sing some wonderful songs about the ocean!" Ariel said happily.

"Yay! Singing! I bet Haley Joel Osment cursed Square Enix the day he had to come in and do the voiceovers for Atlantica! His friends probably never let him live it down!" Sora theorized.

Somewhere in Hollywood…Haley Joel Osment sneezed. (Bet you were expecting something more exciting than that to happen, didn't ya? Huh? Huuuh?)

Back at camp Destiny's Ninjas, a horrible sound met the team's ears.

"What is that?" Xigbar asked, covering his ears.

"It's coming from the water!" Marluxia realized, going to the pond's edge. Everyone followed the Graceful Assassin and saw that the noise was coming from none other than Sora and a mermaid.

"Someone's gotta stop them!" Vexen cried. (He was still a lava lamp and he was still laying sideways in the dirt).

"You're right!" Demyx said. Then, he picked Vexen up by the cord and took him to the water's edge. He started swinging him around and around, gaining momentum.

"What do you think you're doing?! I'm gonna loose my lava!" Vexen yelled.

Demyx let go of Vexen, sending the lava lamp/Nobody into the water. He struck Sora on the head, and effectively knocked him out.

"Sora!" Ariel cried as the Keyblade Master floated to the surface. Riku and Cloud hauled the boy out of the water and he transformed back into a human once he left the pool.

"Don't you ever darken our doorstep again!" Xigbar shouted to the mermaid.

Ariel swam away crying, while being consoled by the Loch Ness monster. Then, something shiny caught her eye. "Oooh! It's my lucky bottle cap!" she said, picking it up. (I wonder if Ariel eats fish, cause that would sorta make her a cannibal).

Vexen swam up to the top of the pool of water, gasping for breath. The impact with Sora's head had transformed him back into his normal, ugly old self. He climbed out of the water and coughed. Then, his hands found their way around Demyx's neck.

"Why did you- how dare you-" he couldn't put his fury into words as he shook the Melodious Nocturne back and forth. "What do you have to say for yourself?" Vexen demanded.

Demyx pointed behind the Chilly Academic and sputtered, "Incoming."

Vexen let go of Demyx, who scrambled away from him, and turned around. He saw a huge, heavy looking beach ball hurtling through the air toward him. He had just enough time to say, "Well that's just-" before he was slammed into the ground.

Axel walked up to the ball and, ignoring Vexen's twitching limbs, and pulled a piece of paper from the ball.

"Looks like it's challenge time." he said. And they all walked away toward the beach arena, leaving the twitching man behind.

"Why does the author torment me so?" Vexen muttered into the sand.

(Answer: Because it's so fun!)

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