A/N: Hey fokes! Looks like it's about time for the next chapter! Sorry it's been so long since the last chapter, I've been fairly busy. I decided my girlfriend's birthday deserved an entire week of attention, so I ended up pushing the chapter back a week so I could do so with out being distracted. I can already hear the different reactions from you wonderful readers.
Ok the last thing I have to say. The last chapter offered a challange to you readers, and I'm happy to say that there are infact TWO winners! Ok so, I will announce the names of the winners at the bottom so as not to ruin the chapter. I've decided, with advice from CyberDragonEX, to list the names of everyone who guessed right before this chapter was put up, and their names too will be at the bottom of the page.
Ok so I had to fix the formating of the chapter since, for some reason it decided to center the top half of the story. Thanks to OrionTheHunter for pointing out that flaw. He also gets thanks for his comments on switching the location of the story, since he makes several good points, I've changed my mind about changing it's place.
All right, Read on!
"Tanis, where are we?" Harry called.
The Planeswalker glanced back at his young charges. Harry and Rain were sitting on their trunks watching as the strange lights and shapes flew by. "This is the Æther, which is the space between Planes."
"Didn't you say this was all emptiness?"
"Yup!"
"Then how are we breathing?"
"Look down," he said as he pointed to the strange silver platform they were on. "This is my invention. This is the 'Dimension Hopper's Mortal Transporter' or DHMT for short. Basically, this thing draws mana and uses it to shield and propel you mortals between planes, thus conserving the energy of the Walker you're following."
"Where does it draw from?" Rain asked.
"Same places the Arcade does."
"The what?"
"The Chaos Arcade is my artificially created lab Plane, which draws its energy from specially placed arrays on multiple planes. You're worlds refer to them as Stonehenge."
"You built Stonehenge!"
Harry glanced at her, surprised at her excitement. It was just a pile of rocks.
"Yes, I did. Its designed to take a small amount of the world's mana and send it to mine, which keeps it stable even when I'm not there to do so."
"Ya that's great and all, but how does this platform thing work?" Harry interrupted.
"Right, well it draws in and runs off of the five basic mana types.. It uses Blue to make water, which is than filtered by a special plant that is created by Green. The plant splits the water into hydrogen and oxygen, than it releases the oxygen to you while absorbing the carbon dioxide you breathe out. The Black keeps the plant from growing out of control while the white forms a shell to keep everything inside. The Red then burns the hydrogen as fuel to push your foreword."
"You know you could have just it was complicated," Rain whined.
"Hey, which way's my world?" Harry asked.
"That way," Artanis pointed almost straight up. "By about 30,000 tiers up or so."
"Damn," The three stayed silent as hundreds of planes flew past them, blurring together.
"Where are we going?" Rain asked.
"To a Plane made up of several small worlds. I think you could both learn some things there."
"Like what?"
"Well Potter here, needs to get better at healing. I won't always be there to fix a broken arm or popped spleen."
"And me?"
"You are gonna learn to use your mutation the right way."
"The right way? What the hell does that mean!"
"You didn't tell her?" He glanced at Harry who shrugged. "Your mutation draws mana instinctively, while letting you expel it consciously. Depending on what you want the effect will vary. You should in fact be able to copy many of the lower level spells out there."
"Really!"
"Well it's a little bit more complicated than that, but ya."
"That's incredible! Hey this means I can do everything you can!" she pointed at Harry.
"Not yet," Harry shot back. "You need training first, meaning you will be needing my help!"
"Why would I need that! He just said that it does what I want when I want, so if I want it, it will."
"We're here." Artanis muttered.
"Where are we?" Harry asked. The two teens glanced around at the strange forest that was surrounding them. It was full of dark shadowy trees completely bare of leaves, with claw like branches twisting in an unfelt breeze. Moonlight streamed down, casting eerie shadows across the gray ground.
"It's like something out of a horror movie," Rain muttered.
"Shut up and come on, my aim was off so we have to walk a bit."
"What were you aiming for?"
"Your teachers, I guess they've moved since I last scanned this Plane."
"So, can you tell us who we're looking for? Or maybe where the hell we are?"
"We're looking for your teachers," Artanis said bluntly. Suddenly he turned and walked away, the teens stared a moment before running after him. "The first thing you should know is that there are too many natural Planes to name them. We tried numbering them, but the fact that their infinite kind of ruined that method as well. So we started numbering them based off of how close they are to the Union's Main Plane."
"Does any of that matter?" Harry interrupted.
"Not really, but this might be a long walk and I didn't want to do it in silence. I could sing if you prefer?" The young wizard shook his head. "So basically this Plane is designated tier 28362 Plane 437."
"Check out that hill," Rain pointed. The three looked through the trees to see a hill whose narrow peak that seemed to be reaching for the moon, before it slowly curled into a swirl back to its base. "Holy…"
"What the hell?"
"Oh good!" Artanis clapped happily. "We're almost there!"
"That's where we're going?" the frightened girl shrieked.
"Yup, we need to go over it!" Artanis answered as they broke the tree line.
"Artanis, what kind of Plane is this?" Harry muttered. Living hills was a bit freaky even for the Planeswalker.
"Uh…technically this is just one world in this Plane. This Plane actually has a few hundred different worlds in it."
"So there can be more than one world in a Plane?" Harry asked. The Walker nodded. "Do ours?"
"Oh yes! Hers has almost 25,000! Yours is only about 10,000. This Plane is unique though, since every world here can support life."
"I find this all hard to believe," Rain muttered in shock.
"You're a mutant with strange powers, I'm a wand waving wizard and he's a freakin demi-god. Belief is long gone!" Harry muttered.
"That reminds me!" Artanis whirled around and blasted both teens with a blue light.
"What the hell!" they shouted before the light faded. They glared at Artanis who grinned and conjured a large mirror and they gasped.
Harry's hair had grown longer, almost past his elbow and was streaked with white. His eyes had turned gray while his skin paled. His shirt and pants had turned solid black while his coat was fluttering as if it had been caught in the wind. Around the ends of the sleeves and the bottom edge of the coat were blood red flames that were made of a strange scaly leather. Wrapped around his left arm was the black metal chain Artanis had given him while Gryffindor's Sword hung from his hip.
Rain's blue hair had turned black while her ears suddenly came to a point. Her legs were wrapped in fish net stockings that looked like little spider webs while a ruffled black skirt fell down to her knees. Her t-shirt had puffy sleeves that closed tightly at her elbows. Her skin took on a green tint and a black coat, like Harry's though without the flames, hung down to her ankles.
"Ya gotta blend in!" Artanis laughed.
"I look like a vampire! Where the hell are we!" Harry snapped.
"We're on the 'World Of Holidays' or more specifically, Halloween Town!"
Harry glared at the smiling immortal. He could have done without the constant reminders of his teacher's insanity.
"I look pretty good." The two turned to see Rain smile as she spun around. "Can I keep it?"
Artanis beamed at the girl. "I'll add a set to your trunk!" He pulled out a pair of shrunken cubes. They flashed before he threw them to the teens. "The set you're wearing will change back when you leave this world and the trunks walk just like Mad Eyes' did," the Walker said to Harry. "Same password to shrink and grown, but you need to 'thank' the Marauders to get into each section, well minus the Rat guy."
Harry sighed and nodded. "Could it be any more complicated?"
"Would you prefer a voice activated biometric lock with a magical signature scan to close it?"
"Uh…" Harry barely understood a word of what Artanis just said. "No I'm good."
"Alright than!" He clapped his hands and turned to Rain. "First, here," he tossed her a cell phone that had appeared out of nowhere. "It has all the numbers you'll need programmed in including your parents."
The girl nodded. "Thanks."
"Now I believe Logan was teaching you to use a weapon correct?"
"Ya…He said my powers weren't suited really suited for anything tougher than an unarmed civilian. The Professor agreed when he saw me try to do that simulation of yours."
"Good! What was it?"
"A pair of metal rods each about a foot long. Wolverine said it was to get me used to swinging around the weight…"
"He was teaching you to wield a pair of daggers." Artanis paused. "The professor agreed to this?"
The girl nodded. "Damn wonder if he knew…Eh." He snapped his fingers and a pair of sheathed daggers appeared on the girls hips. "There made of a special mana conductive metal. I have no idea what it will do with your powers though."
"Wait! I don't know how to use these!"
"Hit your opponent with the sharp side and try not to let anything hit you. Simple really."
"But I…"
"Ok than! Your teachers should be right down there!" Artanis turned and pointed down the slope to a spot at the bottom of the crater. It seemed that something was standing in the middle of the shadowy hole surrounded by strange flashes of light.
"I don't see them. I mean the whole things in shadow. How can we see them?" Harry asked.
"Actually," Artanis started. Harry blinked as the Walker's arm blurred as it sprang up, grabbing something out of the air. "They're probably causing those flashes of lights, surrounded by heartless monsters like this one."
The two teens stared at the struggling shadow rabbit thing. "What is that?"
"A shadow it's the weakest thing you'll run into here."
"How do we beat that thing?" Rain muttered.
"Well you can blast it, stab it or anything else really…Oh stop worrying!" He snapped at the panicking girl. "They're not alive, you're not killing them!"
"…Ok…"
"Just go save your damn teacher!" He snapped. "Don't die!" and then he was gone.
"Did he just take that thing with him?" Harry muttered.
"There's so many of them?" The red haired girl yelled.
"Really? I hadn't noticed!" The taller of her male companions yelled back as he slashed through an armor wearing monsters.
"Shut up Riku!" the blonde teen yelled.
"This is your fault Sora!"
"How is this my fault!"
"It was your idea to come here!"
"You picked the landing place!"
"Will you two shut up!" the girl shouted at them.
"Sorry Kairi…" they both muttered. It was obvious who was in charge there.
"Bombarda!" A voice shouted.
The three teens looked up as a red beam slammed into the heartless horde. The explosion tore through dozens of the swarming monsters.
"Wow" Sora muttered.
"What was that!" Riku shouted eyes wide.
"Look!" Kairi pointed up the crater wall.
"Bombarda!" Harry shouted.
The two teens charged down the cliff towards the dark horde, Rain blades flashing out cutting through those that turned to meet them. "Why am I using the one using weapons? You have a sword too!"
"You have more training with them than I do. Besides my spells are stronger than yours." He let loose a pair of cutting curses that sliced through the heartless ranks. Definitely not the strongest spell he had but it was the quickest to cast.
"Ya, for now!" she said as she slashed through a pair of solider like heartless.
"Don't get distracted!" He kicked a shadow that got too close only for it to sink into the ground and dart away. "Well that explains the name."
"Shut up Potter. You're the one distracting me!"
"You started it!"
"No you did!" She cut through an armored knight as it dived at her.
"No you!" Harry caught a shadow with a cutting curse as it dove at him.
"You!" She hopped back as a claw lanced out to grab her head.
"You!" He shouted a cutting curse into the shadow destroying it before it could grab her.
"Just shut up!" She snapped as she tossed a blade past him. Grinning as it slashed through a heartless as it tried to claw him in the back.
The two soon found themselves pushed together, surrounded by clawing monsters! "I'm not entirely sure this was a good plan!" Harry shouted.
"What was your first clue!"
"Get down!" Harry's hands shot up wands aimed to either side.
"Crap!" Rain dropped to the ground.
"Bombarda!" Rings of energy leapt from the wand tips as a pair of spells shout out. Harry's eyes widened and he fought to stay on his feet. The spells slammed into the ground and erupted into huge explosions, tearing through the heartless ranks and covering the area in dust.
"Oh…Just…Great...Brille…Idea…Pot…," Rain coughed out.
"Shut the…up," He wheezed back.
The two wandered blindly in the dust cloud for a few moments before the wind dragged it away.
"Wow…" Harry muttered, glancing around. The heartless around them were devastated, revealing gray dirt and a pair of craters on either side of them.
"That was awesome!" Rain cheered.
"Thanks"
"Can I do that?" she asked hopefully.
"No idea."
"Sure hope so, that was crazy…." she stopped, staring past him.
"Ah…Crap," Harry muttered afraid to turn around. He just KNEW something was bad was there, with a sigh, he turned his eyes landing on a small creature with a round black head. His eyes widened as he watched the fuse sticking from its head burned down. "What god did we anger…Protego!"
"Kaboom!"
"So this thing took on the X-Men and even give little Harry trouble?" Artanis asked as he circled the destroyed robot.
"Hey you! This is a restricted area. Identify yourself!" a voice shouted.
"Wouldn't it have been smarter to grab me by surprise and question me when you were sure I wasn't able to fight back should I prove to be a threat?"
"UH…" Artanis smirked as the solider actually stopped to think about it. Hell the idiot hadn't even drawn his weapon.
The Walker's hand shot up and a blue light leapt from his hand, slamming into the solider. His eyes glazed over before he fell to the ground. "This is why my guards were told to fire first." He shook his head and placed his hand on the Sentinel. Instantly they vanished.
Hours later the base would go to full alert while a certain solider was sent to the med bay babbling about Bugs Bunny stealing the big purple machine.
"Cura!" Harry's first conscious thought was 'what idiot names these spells?' His second thought was 'I definitely need to learn that…'
'Wham!' "Get off your ass Potter!" A familiar voice shouted.
"Ow! What the hell Masters!" Harry shouted, springing to his feet into to avoid another kick.
"Oh good, you're awake!" She smiled. Than her smile turned into a glare "If you ever do something that stupid again I'm gonna….Uh….Call that Granger girl and tell her!" Rain shouted.
"What the hell…" Harry suddenly found himself wrapped in a hug as the girl jumped on him.
"Why the hell did you take that explosion?"
"It was an accident…I tried to through up the double shield and it failed…" Harry muttered. Suddenly the girl let go, and Harry looked up to see her glaring at him again. "Wha…"
"You idiot!" She punched him in the shoulder. "I was all worried, thinking you'd done something stupid and noble! All you did was screw up the spell? You deserve to be blown up!" Arms crossed, she turned away.
Before he could respond, he was interrupted. "Uh…Are you guys all right?"
Harry looked up to find three teens, about their age, staring at them. The only girl, whose pink clothes quickly caught his attention, was leaning forward, staring at him. Behind her, a taller boy with purple hair was trying to hide a laugh while a shorter dark blond boy looked at him in confusion. All three were holding large, strange key things. "I take it you fixed me?" The girl nodded, smiling. "Then Ya, I'm good. Better than I was BEFORE I got hit by the kamikaze midget thing…"
"It's called a Minute Bomb." The purple haired boy spoke up. "Annoying little things hide in swarms of larger Heartless so you can't see them 'till it's too late."
"Well that's just annoying" Rain muttered.
"So who are you guys?" The shorter boy called, jumping forward.
"I'm Harry Potter and she's Rain Masters…" Harry told them. "Our guardian brought us to this world to meet…Uh you I think, so we could assist you in exchange for teaching us."
"Huh?" Came the intelligent reply from the shorter teen.
"You're an idiot Sora." The purple haired teen sighed. "He said they'll help us find your friends if we teach them."
"Oh!" Sora's face brightened. "Well I'm Sora, the jerk is Riku, and she's Kairi."
"You'll have to excuse him; he can get a little excited sometimes…" Kairi giggled.
"Aw…Kairi…" He scratched the back of his head.
"As….interesting as this is to hear…wasn't there a horde of evil shadow things here a couple minutes ago?"
"They disappeared after you did that super blast thing" Rain answered. "Probably hopped that little bomb guy would take you out after you scared them."
"Which means we probably shouldn't stay here very long…They could come back just as easily."
"You can come with us!" Sora called. "We were just heading into Halloween town to see our friend Jack when we were attacked."
"What are you doing!" Riku snapped at him.
"What do you mean?"
"You can't just up and invite them, how do we know we can trust them!"
"They said they were gonna help us, why are you so suspicious?"
"Maleficent said she'd help me and look how well that turned out! Not everyone can be trusted! You can't go around inviting everyone to help us!"
"You shouldn't walk around expecting everyone around you to betray you either!" Sora snapped back.
"Guys!" Kairi interrupted. "Will you give it a rest! They said they'd help if we teach them right? Well let's find out what they want to learn before we even try to work on a deal, ok?"
Both boys nodded, avoiding her glare.
"Well, I guess that explains who's in charge here…" Harry muttered, getting a glare from the two boys.
"Shut up" Rain smacked him across the back of the head. With a frown she stepped forward "Sorry about that, apparently boys are idiots no matter what world their on." All three guys dropped their heads in shame as the girls laughed.
"So what is it you wanted to learn?" Kairi asked.
"Well Harry over there has a habit of getting hurt quite a bit so we definitely need to learn those healing spells you used…And I don't think we'd be adverse to learning some of your other spells and maybe a bit of how you fight…"
"Well I can teach you the healing things, but Sora would have to teach you to use any other magic. As for fighting…" She glanced back at Riku who nodded reluctantly. "I'm sure we can work something out."
"That's great" Rain said happily. "And of course we'll help you for as long as we can…"
"Or until our guardian shows up and drags us away…" Harry muttered.
"Though it would probably help if we knew what we needed to help with" Rain finished.
"Well…How can I put this…?"
"Uh what she means is…" Sora cut in "We're kinda looking for some friends of ours…"
"Are you supposed to be meeting them somewhere?" Harry asked. He didn't like the sound of that. Escorting someone to a meeting seemed rather tedious and annoying…A bit like babysitting actually.
"Their missing" Riku said bluntly. "We got a message a while back from Sora's friends Donald and Goofy, saying there was something bad going on and we had to come quickly. We got to the Traverse town like their message said, but they never showed up. We've been trying to find them since."
"Traverse town is another world?" Harry asked, getting a nod. "So than why did you come here?"
"We ran into a friend on another world who told us that our friends were coming here. We'd only just arrived when the heartless swarmed us."
"Sounds like it was a trap to me." Rain muttered.
"That's what Kairi said when they attacked us." Sora agreed.
"So now you're going to the closest town where your friend…Jack Right?" He got a nod. "Right, so you're going to ask this Jack if he saw your other friends?"
"Yup, that's the plan!" Came Sora's excited reply.
"Great, so then, if you'll let us, we'll help you out." Harry offered, holding his hand out.
"We accept!" Sora said, grabbing his hand before the other could answer.
"…Fine, but if you try and betray us I'll cut you down" Riku muttered as he turned to walk away
"Do I get a say in this?" Rain asked Harry.
"Not really" He admitted.
"Bastard…" Rain muttered.
"Hey what's a Bas-Tard?" Sora asked.
Riku froze mid step before he actually fell to his knees laughing. Kairi covered her mouth to hide her own laughter while the two new comers quickly joined the purple haired teen on the ground. Some times Kairi forgot how innocent Sora could be…Especially since he never got to go to high school…She could only pray she'd get to see his reaction to learning what puberty was…
"Seriously guys…" Sora called after his friends, both new and old, started to walk away. "What's a Bas-Tard?" He frowned at their renewed laughter.
"Does anyone else find it creepy that we have to go through a grave yard to get to your friend?" Rain asked as the five teens stepped between the tomb stones.
"Well Jack IS the pumpkin king…" Sora answered. "Creepy is his way of life."
"I hate grave yards…" Harry muttered. "Last time I was in one my friend was killed and I barely managed to escape…It kind of started my journey actually…"
"No offense Potter, but now I'm even more freaked out." Rain muttered.
"What kinda witch are you?" Kairi asked. "I'd think you'd be right at home in a place like this."
"A witch? HER!" Harry's depression vanished instantly as he burst out laughing.
"It's a costume…" Rain admitted. "Our guardian said it was so we could fit in better."
"Donald, Goofy, and I did the same thing whenever we came here…But it relied on Donald's magic so…" Sora trailed off.
"So wait, you're just a normal girl like me than?"
"We'll…Not exactly normal per say...But ya, pretty much. Harry's the witch actually."
"Wizard!" Harry snapped. "Boy's are wizards, girls are witches!"
"You're a wizard?" Sora asked, surprised. "Like Yen Sid?"
"Uh…Don't know, I've never heard of him" Harry admitted.
"How have you never heard of him! He's the most famous wizard ever! His name is known on almost every world!"
"I have to admit; even I've heard of him" Riku added.
"We've been rather….Sheltered most of our lives. We're from some fairly….Remote worlds, so this is all pretty new to us…" Rain spoke up before Harry could answer. Artanis had insisted Harry keep his story a secret in her world so it stood to reason he'd want the same thing in this one.
"Hey look!" Harry said, pointing. Everyone followed his gaze out of the graveyard to the well in the center of town where there was a party going on.
(Marilyn Manson : This Is Halloween)
Boys and girls of every age
Wouldn't you like to see something strange?
Come with us and you will see
This, our town of Halloween
This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Pumpkins scream in the dead of night
This is Halloween, everybody make a scene
Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright
It's our town, everybody screm
In this town of Halloween
The five teens raced through the graveyard as music filled the air. Harry soon noticed a strange, genderless zombie creature on a stage singing as other frightening beings watched.
I am the one hiding under your bed
Teeth ground sharp and eyes glowing red
I am the one hiding under yours stairs
Fingers like snakes and spiders in my hair
This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!
In this town we call home
Everyone hail to the pumpkin song
In this town, don't we love it now?
Everybody's waiting for the next surprise
Round that corner, man hiding in the trash cam
Something's waiting no to pounce, and how you'll...
Scream! This is Halloween
Red 'n' black, slimy green
At the far end of the celebration the teens could see a strange cone shaped man presiding over the ceremony. Before him stood a bride in a raged and old wedding dress while the groom, with his back to the teens, wore a rotted and torn tux.
Aren't you scared?
Well, that's just fine
Say it once, say it twice
Take a chance and roll the dice
Ride with the moon in the dead of night
Everybody scream, everbody scream
In our town of Halloween!
I am the clown with the tear-away face
Here in a flash and gone without a trace
I am the "who" when you call, "Who's there?"
I am the wind blowing through your hair
I am the shadow on the moon at night
Filling your dreams to the brim with fright
This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!
Halloween! Halloween!
Tender lumplings everywhere
Life's no fun without a good scare
That's our job, but we're not mean
In our town of Halloween
Walking down the aisle were Lock, Stock and Barrel, each carrying a basket and tossing worms like flower petals. Apparently Halloween town had some very different marriage ceremonies from what they were used to seeing.
In this town
Don't we love it now?
Skeleton Jack might catch you in the back
And scream like a banshee
Make you jump out of your skin
This is Halloween, everyone scream
Wont' ya please make way for a very special guy
Our man jack is King of the Pumpkin patch
Everyone hail to the Pumpkin King
This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!
In this town we call home
Everyone hail to the pumpkin song
La la-la la, Halloween! Halloween!
"Oh it's a wedding!" Rain cheered. The five teens were leaning against the fence around the graveyard watching the festivities as the towns people celebrated.
"I wonder who's…" Sora muttered. He was the only one there who knew anyone in this town, so he was very curious as to whom the lucky couple was…Well actually, this was Halloween town, they probably considered them the UNlucky couple…
"…Do you, Jack, take this unholy conglomerate of body parts to be your wife? To scare and frighten, torment and disturb, through boredom and excitement, till rebirth do you part?"
"It's Jack!" Sora practically shouted. The others were surprised none of the wedding guests had react to his cry.
"I do" Jack answered.
The townsfolk cheered. Suddenly the mayor's head rotated, revealing his other half. "And do you, Sally, take this Bag of bones to be your husband? To scare and frighten, torment and disturb, through boredom and excitement, till rebirth do you part?"
"I do" came her soft reply.
More cheering filled the air as the mayor's head turned back. "Then, by the power invested in me by the Great Pumpkin, I now pronounce you man and wife. You may kiss your bride." The teens joined in the cheering as Jack and sally shared their first kiss as a married couple. The traditions may have been different but a wedding was a wedding no matter where you were…
The teens waiting until Jack and Sally had left before climbing over the fence. Together they waited until most of the guests had left to join the wedding reception.
"We should follow them" Riku said to the others. "If you're friends have been here they will have gone to visit jack right?" Sora nodded. "Then we should ask him if they've been here and get on our way. We don't want to interrupt such a special moment more than we have to."
"That's very romantic Riku" Kairi teased. "Never knew you had it in you…"
The boy grinned "Not really, I just figured you'd get mad if we didn't do it that way."
"Damn right we would" Rain muttered from next to her. Both girls giggled as the boys tried to avoid drawing attention.
"Let's go than" Harry said as he started to follow the last stragglers. "Hey Sora, any idea where this 'Professors' house is?"
The group soon found themselves standing in the stairwell that led to Professor Fink's basement. They could hear the celebration going on inside and were debating on whether or not they should interrupt. Harry and the girls simply didn't feel right intruding on such a special moment, no matter how important the reason may be. Sora simply couldn't think of anything but finding his friends while Riku just cared about being as quick as possible. They probably would have kept on debating if they weren't interrupted by a strange figure darting out of the room and up the stairs past them. A moment later, several angry shouts filled the air. Without a second thought the group of teens tore into the room, pushing their way through the suddenly fleeing crowed of wedding guests. The finally forced their way to the dance floor, where they found Jack surrounded by a dozen strange, pink, and surprisingly female monsters.
"Dancers!" Riku shouted as his key blade appeared.
"What are nobodies doing here!" Sora yelled as his key blade popped into existence. "How are they even still here without the Organization to control them?"
"Let's figure that out after we save your friend!" Harry called, his wands aimed. Next to him, Rain had drawn her daggers and held them at the ready while Kairi stepped between them with her blade raised high.
"Jack!" Sora yelled.
The skeletal figure ducked away from one of the Nobodies before looking up and waving. "Sora! You came for my wedding!"
"Ya but it looks like we got here a little late!"
"It's more of a surprise this way" The pumpkin king called back. "I'd introduce you to my bride, but it seems these new guys kidnapped her!" Sora was definitely surprised at that. Not only that the nobodies had kidnapped Sally, but at the fact that the normally happy Jack sounded very very angry. And judging by the glowing fire in the skeleton's eye sockets, Jack was pissed.
A/N: Alright, first things first. The song is Marilyn Manson's "This Is Halloween."
Ok so now I announce the winners! The prize goes too the two people who guessed that Artanis would be taking the kids to the Kingdom Hearts world. Those two people use the names Seimika and Undeen. As such, both will receive the offered prize "Guess where they go next and I'll answer one question about the future of the story! (I reserve the right to refuse any plot ruining answers)". I will send a message to both readers by the end of the day informing them of their successful predictions.
Others who guessed right include: CyberDragonEX who posted as Magnus, and starwarsjunkie110292
Alright, well thats it for me! Keep reading fokes! Oh, And DON'T DIE!