A/N: Wootness! I'm updating! Now u hav 2 giv me ALICIA, NBB! Ha! (: And hello, every1 else who's reading this FF, REVIEW PLEASE! I SEE YOU LAUGHING AT ME RIGHT NOW, BUT PLEASE REVIEW!

Kaede woke up on a cold, hard floor. She wrinkled her nose. "Ewwww, it smeeeeellls," she whined. She stood up, brushing off her clothes. Her pink recyclable nightgown was so nawt supposed t be treated like this: there was a thin rip at the bottom where the ruffle was coming off the edge. She sighed, tugging the leggings she'd "borrowed" from Michiko down to cover more of her legs-the room was cold, like the owners wanted the people in the building to be miserable.

"What have we here? A new arrival!"

Kaede jumped. The voice was raspy, but it had a sharp edge to it. Kaede mumbled a quick spell to illuminate the top of her staff. She shoved it into every dark spot in the room, but there was nobody else there.

"Um, hello? Who…is this?" Kaede asked.

"Guess," the voice said, dripping with sarcasm.

"Cloud? Ari? Chi? Yuki? Akky? Tally? SHAY?!" Kaede guessed. If it was Shay, she was going to scream, because Shay-la wasn't exactly someone Kaede would laugh with at the end of this scary-making joke.

"No," the voice said. It sounded bored, but also like it wanted to laugh.

"Uhm…Ren? Sora? Roxas?"

"No."

"RURI?! IF THIS IS YOU I'M GOING TO KICK YOUR LITTLE A-"

"No," the voice interrupted. "Guess again, you're rather entertaining, Miss Kaede." The voice chuckled dryly. The sound was like nails on a Rusty-era chalkboard. Kaede flinched before she gathered her tiny shreds of confidence again.

Kaede stomped her foot. "This is so nawt funny! Just tell me who you are!" She sighed impatiently, trying hard not to freak out when she heard the footsteps approaching her. What had she been thinking? Telling a potentially dangerous person to come closer? And what if this person was like, totally unstable and went crazy and then-

The person who stepped forward was a tall woman. She had a dark cloak draped around her shoulders. Her features were like that of a Special, but older. Kaede squinted at her.

"You know, you're kind of ugly," Kaede said. She smiled helpfully.

The woman scowled. "My name is Dr. Cable, and this was Special Circumstances."

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"Where do you think she is?" Chiho wondered again. It was six in the morning. For all she'd complained about Kaede's babbling at three AM, she just couldn't shut up.

They'd fought off the heartlesses long ago, but now were just trying to sleep in their rooms. Yuki was tired of hearing this question. She was worried about Kaede too, of course, but enough was enough! Really, couldn't she find a new way to phrase the question, at least?

Akako was thisclose to hitting her head against the wall. Ariana was drowning her out by pumping music over her skintenna. All of them were debating shoving Ren's sweaty post-training socks into her mouth just to shut her up.

"I mean, do you think someone stupid brought back the Dark Dork or something?" Chiho babbled on.

"No," Yuki said through gritted teeth. "I don't think so."

"Well, who else is crazy enough to kidnap? Gawd knows heartlesses aren't smart enough to like, just decide to kidnap someone on their own." Chiho sighed and settled into her pillow, rolling her eyes. "They had to be under someone's orders, y'know?" she mumbled. Finally, much to the other girls' relief, she started to fall asleep. They listened to her even breathing gratefully.

But Ariana shot up in bed, hitting her head on the low ceiling. "Ow, dammit!" she hissed under her breath. But as her head throbbed, she began to think. Chiho had just said something useful, whether she knew it or not.

A/N: Welllllll? Watcha think? Is Chi an idiot or what? Ha ha. Anyway. Sorry I haven't been using the KH people much; I'm actually considering moving this to the "Uglies" section of Fanfic, if there even is one. :P BTW, NBB- 729 words! Yay me! I want the ALICIA book tomorrow, kay? I'm already a day late… -.-