Once again, sorry for the delay. I would type up my excuse, but I am just so darned lazy right now. I feel that this chapter is not up to par, but just bear with me--it is setting things up for the finale. Hopefully, the next chapter won't take so long to get posted...

Review please! It helps me with my inspiration (which I am a bit low on at the moment)

The Bunny Tribe's Secret

Upon returning to camp from their last challenge, Sora began sobbing once he saw Vexen's lab set.

"I miss him already! He was such a good friend!"

"He's kidding, right?" Demyx muttered to Riku. "I mean, the old man hated Sora."

"Good luck telling Sora that." Riku scoffed.

Sora had just gotten over his crying fit when he passed Xigbar's old spot. Seized by a new flood of emotion, Sora broke down and began to pound the ground. "Why?! Why does everyone I care about eave me?! He screamed a bit hoarsely.

"Aww…I feel so bad for him. Aren't you gonna comfort him, Riku?" Demyx asked.

The silver haired teen was lying on his back and fiddling around with his Red Lobster coupon absentmindedly. "He'll be fine. He's just overreacting as usual."

Demyx didn't seem satisfied with that answer and decided to take it upon himself to comfort the Keyblade Master. Approaching the boy slowly as to not frighten him off, Demyx reached out and patted Sora's shoulder gingerly, just as the boy let out a particularly harsh sob. Demyx jumped in surprise, yanking his hand back, but determined not to quit.

"Hey, it's okay. I'm sure you'll see them again soon."

"Why Demyx, I didn't know you were such a sentimentalist." Zexion commented as he passed the two.

"I'm not!" Demyx yelled, sounding flustered.

"You're right. We Nobodies lack the capacity to be sentimental." Zexion agreed as he picked up a curious polka dotted bowtie. "Now, where did this come from?" he wondered, deciding to make an investigation of the matter.

"Come on! Help me out here Riku!" Demyx cried, realizing that Sora's hysterics weren't stopping despite his comforting words.

"I told you, just let him be." Riku said, holding the coupon up to the light.

"Ow, don't be mean!" Demyx protested.

"I'm being frank, not--huh?" Riku halted his words and scrutinized the coupon more closely.

"What is it?" Sora asked, suddenly right beside Riku.

"Ack!" Both Riku and Demyx jumped--Demyx at Sora's disappearance, Riku at Sora's appearance. Regaining his composure, Riku gestured for the others to come closer. "This coupon…if you hold it up to the sun, you can see a hidden map."

"You're right…" Demyx said, taking the coupon from the teen in order to get a closer look.

"Oooh…'X' marks the spot. Is this a treasure map?" Sora asked bringing his finger to his lips.

Abandoning his search for the origin of the mysterious bowtie, Zexion approached the rest of the group. "Shall we see what this map points to?" he asked.

"Yay! Adventure time!" Sora cheered and danced to a happy little tune.

"According to this map, re need to climb beyond the waterfall, then follow the stream until we reach the…rock that looks like a steamboat."

"Why a steamboat?" Demyx pondered.

"Don't ask me." Zexion shrugged.

So, without further adieu, the group was on their way to an unknown treasure.

"What do you guys think this treasure is?" Demyx asked as they walked.

"I hope its lots and lots of chocolate!" Sora exclaimed.

"Let's hope not." Demyx said, shuddering as the remembered the last time the boy ate chocolate.

"I hope its something we can use to get away from this damn place." Riku said wistfully.

"That would be wonderful…" Demyx smiled. Then, he realized that Zexion had said nothing yet. "What about you, Zexion? What do you hope it is?"

"Hope is a meaningless state of being." The Nobody replied without taking his eyes off of the map.

"Oh, come on--you must have something that you want that treasure to be." Demyx pressed.

"First of all, I'm note even certain that the 'X' marks a treasure. It could be a trap--after all, we did get these coupons from Ansem and Imogene. Second, the only thing I want is to get off of this island, however, I doubt that our gracious hosts would be so careless as to leave a way of escape within our grasp." Zexion replied tonelessly.

--With Ansem and Imogene

"Hurry up with that popcorn, Imogene! I want to get the movie started already!" Ansem called in the direction of the kitchen.

"I'm coming, I'm coming." was the muted reply. The co-host bounded out of the kitchen, carrying two bowls of popcorn. Then, without warning, the girl did a faceplant on the floor, dropping the bowls and scattering the contents everywhere. Sitting up to find the culprit behind this dastardly surprise attack, she picked up a hair brush.

"Oh, I knew I should have put you back in the bathroom when I was done with you--how careless of me!" she scolded herself.

"Oh come on, I don't want to wait any longer!" Ansem said, pressing the play button on the remote (of destiny). Nothing happened. "Oh dratted cookie nuggets! It looks like I forgot to put new batteries in the remote--how careless of me!" Ansem said, furrowing his brows.

"It looks like we're just a couple of careless chickadees today!" Imogene laughed. Ansem joined in on her laughter, even though, really, it wasn't that funny.

--Back with team Destiny's Ninjas

"I guess you're right, Zexion. They aren't that careless." Demyx agreed.

"Look! It's the steamboat rock!" Sora pointed and ran up to hug it.

"Sora, that one is the steamboat rock," Riku sighed, pointing to a rock to Sora's left. "The one you're hugging now just looks like a yeti."

Sora let go, his cheeks flushed with embarrassment. "I-I knew that." he grinned, rubbing the back of his head.

"Where to from here?" Demyx asked.

"According to the map, there should be a secret passage underneath the boulder.

"Under the boulder? How are we supposed to move this thing?!" Riku exclaimed.

Zexion spoke up. "Obviously, that is not possible between the four of us. We might as well just go…back…"

The group turned to look at what Zexion was staring at.

"Look guys! I moved the boulder!" Sora said happily from beside the displaced rock.

"How did you manage that?!" Demyx yelped disbelievingly.

Zexion walked to the boulder and attempted to push it himself, however, it would not budge an inch. "Such a feat should be impossible for someone your size." he murmured.

"Well it was easy--I just asked it to move, and it moved." Sora shrugged.

"Ahm…Okay. Moving along, let's get going." Riku said, heading down the staircase revealed when the boulder was moved.

"It's so dark in here…" Sora whined as he attached himself to Riku's arm.

"D-don't you have anything to light the path up with?" Demyx asked, peering into the darkness., then a click and a light began shining in the form of Tinkerbell.

"Riku…do I even want to know why you have that?" Demyx asked, holding back laughter.

"I-it was in my prize bag from one of our last challenges!" Riku defended indignantly.

Utilizing the magical light of Tinkerbell, the team traveled the length of the tunnel, stumbling across the occasional discarded canister of shaving cream. Finally, they reached the end and ascended the staircase leading the ground above. Riku turned the toy light off and stowed it away in his pocket then waited for the others to emerge from the tunnel. Once they were all out, they took a good look around. Surrounding them were giant bunny idols.

"Bunnies!" Sora squealed.

"According to this, we should be at the spot of the 'X'" Zexion frowned. "But I don't see anything."

"Are you sure you're reading that thing right?" Demyx asked, taking the map and reexamining it.

"Of course." Zexion said bitingly.

"Shush!" Sora gestured with a finger to his lips. The group was silent, listening for whatever it was that Sora heard.

The sound of rustling bushes and footsteps reached their ears.

"Who's there?" Riku called out bravely.

From all around them, scraggly looking people wearing ragtag clothes and makeshift bunny ears emerged. They bowed to the idols as they passed them, then focused their attention on the wary castaways.

"What you doing here?" one of them asked, stopping a few feet away from them.

"We're looking for treasure." Sora explained.

"No treasure. Only bunny." the man insisted.

"Um…do you happen to know a way off this island?" Riku asked.

"Way off island?" the man repeated.

Demyx nodded encouragingly. "Do you know?"

The man looked to be deep in thought. "Bunny know." He turned around and walked back into the forest along with the other people from his group.

"Should we follow him?" Demyx asked uncertainly.

"We might as well." Zexion answered, already following the 'bunny' people.

They followed the silent people for a while, spotting the occasional cactus. The bunny people led the castaways to a shrine where, next to a large man wearing a cloak of dried grass and a headdress of feathers, sat a little white bunny. The man who guided team Destiny's Ninjas stepped forward and bowed. "Outsiders meet bunny--want truth."

The man, obviously their chief, looked to the bunny next to him. "They want to know, but are they worthy?"

The little bunny merely lifted its hind leg and scratched at its ear furiously.

The chief looked up and pointed to Sora. "He is the only worthy one."

"Yay! I'm worthy!" Sora cheered.

Another one of the bunny tribe came forward and gently pushed at Sora. "Come, met bunny. Hear truth." she encouraged, leading Sora up to the altar. The boy uneasily climbed the stairs and the chief conferred quietly with the boy.

"No fair." Demyx pouted. "I want to hear too."

"What do you think is up with these people?" Riku asked Zexion out of the corner of his mouth as he watched the bunny tribe stare at them as they stroked little handheld bunny mannequins.

"Perhaps they have not seen outsiders for a long time." the Nobody replied, equally discreet.

"What?!" Sora's startled outcry drowned out Riku's reply and caught his teammates attention. They boy had a slightly horrified expression on his face.

"What is it?" Riku called.

Before Sora could answer, the inhabitants of the bunny tribe broke out in a panic, and ran for the cover of the trees. Looking around for what had caused the chaos, Zexion spotted an approaching giant mecha.

"Ack! Since when has this story had giant robots?!" Demyx cried, jumping out of it's way.

"It's them!" Riku bellowed, pointing at Ansem and Imogene who were standing on the robot's shoulders.

"He knows!" Imogene shouted, pointing at Sora. Ansem pushed a large red button labeled emergency. The ground beneath the Keyblade Master opened up and the boy just barely leapt aside in time to avoid the net that flew out of it.

"It's the trapdoor!" Demyx squeaked.

"Come on Sora!" Riku called, rushing forward to grab his friend.

"Damn! I missed!" Ansem pouted, pushing the button repeatedly. Sora squealed and jumped aside avoiding the trapdoor as it continued trying to capture him into its dark abyss. As he maneuvered, Sora missed his mark by an inch, and lost his footing, causing his fall into the trapdoor.

"Sora! Hold on!" Riku called to the boy who was struggling to pull himself up. He ran up to the boy and grabbed a hold of his arm, pulling him up. A rope flew up from the depths of the trapdoor and wound itself around Sora's ankle, pulling him back down and yanking him out of Riku's grip.

"Soooorraaaaaa!" Riku cried.

The Keyblade Master yelled as he fell, but his voice became muffled as the door closed over him.

The bunny chief put his hand on Riku's shoulder, restraining him. "Run behind altar. Find secret path--follow toward truth! We distract!"

Riku bit his lip, wavering between trying to help his friend, and following the chief's advice.

"Come on! We can't stay or the trapdoor will get us too!" Demyx yelled, yanking at Riku's arm. Reluctantly, Riku followed Demyx and Zexion behind the altar, leaving the chaos behind. They spied what must be the secret path almost absorbed by the brush, and began following it.

"What do you think the chief told Sora that made Ansem and Imogene want to vote him off with out even a tribal council meeting?" Demyx asked suspiciously.

"I don't know, but it must have been something that we definitely aren't supposed to know." Zexion replied, thinking.

"I must be the worst friend in the world to leave him behind like that." Riku muttered.

"Don't start whining now." Zexion sighed, anticipating having to put up with the angsty teen.

Surprisingly, Riku didn't have a comeback for that. He had stopped and seemed to be listening. "You guys hear that? Is that you Sora?"

Demyx pat Riku on the shoulder. "I hate to point this out to you, but…not even Sora can escape the trapdoor.

"But I heard something!" Riku insisted stubbornly. The bushes rustled, silencing the boys.

"It could be the bunny tribe…" Demyx suggested quietly, but was shushed by the other two.

Out of the bushes came none other than the little white bunny. It fixed it's beady eyes on them, then continued on tis way.

"Let's follow it." Demyx suggested, taking off after the furry little bundle.

Zexion shrugged. "Eh, why not?"

The bunny led them to a little purple button built into a boulder with a small screen beneath it..

"What do you think the bunny wants us to do?" Demyx asked.

The bunny gestured toward the button.

"Look at the button? Well, it is a pretty button, but what does that have to do with anything?" the Melodious Nocturne asked.

The bunny smacked its forehead with its paw and squeaked. (Translation: Press the damn button!).

"Oh…press the button. Sorry, I kinda had a brain-dead moment there. He pressed the button and a 30 second timer began.

"Holy crap, please tell me that I didn't just doom us all." Demyx said with dread.

"We'll find that out in 24 more seconds." Zexion answered, crossing his arms and waiting.

Ther was a tense silence, broken only by the beeping of the timer.

"Get ready for it." Riku said as the timer reached 10 seconds.

"Squeak!" said the little bunny.

Demyx pushed his fingers in his ears and braced himself.

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Haha! This is the first cliffhanger for this story! (I feel kinda evil)

Once again, review, or I will send the bunny tribe to your homes and make them steal all of your carrots--then having no carrots wll cause you to loose your eyesight! And without your sight, how will you read the final chapter(s) of this story? Muahahah!