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018 – Honey, We Were Shrunken by Heartless

(For The Sacred and Profane; Prompt: 'Squall and Tifa find themselves Mini'd thanks to a new type of Heartless. Shrunken, the pair's only hope lies in Yuffie and Donald')

As the flash of light faded, Yuffie became distinctly aware of a few things. One, the new Heartless—which Yuffie had dubbed Pronged Neos due to their long, forked tongues and cloven hands and feet—had retreated. Two, the light snow that had been falling when the Heartless first attacked the Bailey had become just short of a blizzard. Three, Leon and Tifa had disappeared.

Looking to her left and right, Yuffie shuddered in the cold and cupped her hands around her mouth, "Leon! Tifa!" She called out.

Getting no response, Yuffie made sure that the Heartless were truly gone before stepping sideways to begin the search for her comrades in arms. The last thing she had seen, the Pronged Neos had hit both Leon and Tifa with their tongues. Which was both strange and gross. Strange because they had big, clobbering hooves that might have done more damage than a whip-like tongue, and gross because…well…EW!

As she moved her foot to take another step, her eyes drifted downward. Something caught her eye right where she was about to set her foot down. Without fully realizing why, she hastily lengthened her stride to avoid stepping on the dark spot in the snow and ended up taking an awkwardly long step. Wiggling a little to keep her balance, she squinted at the spot.

…No…way…

Yuffie hit her knees, a half snort escaping her, "You have GOT to be kidding me."

From his suddenly six-inch stature, Leon got to his feet and glared up at her. "Does this look like a kidding situation to you?"

His voice sounded like he was on helium, and Yuffie covered her mouth against the burst of laughter that crept up on her upon hearing him. Leon brushed the snow off of himself. While the snow was just deep enough for her boots to sink into, on Leon, it was almost mid-calf on him.

"What happened?" She asked, still smirking.

"What do you think happened?" Leon sounded bitter. "Those Heartless must have some kind of venom in their tongues that causes people to shrink."

"That's a pretty stupid ability." Yuffie lifted an eyebrow.

"Really?" Leon snapped sarcastically. "Shrink your enemy down and then simply stomp on them? Like you almost did?"

"Point taken." Yuffie shrugged and then stopped, "Wait, but that means Tifa too—"

She frantically moved her feet to make sure that she hadn't accidentally smashed the miniature-d woman, found nothing, and started looking around. In the bright white of the snow, it wasn't difficult to pick out Tifa's black outfit, even if she was only six inches tall now. Unfortunately, it looked like the woman wasn't moving.

Yuffie shuffled to her and turned her over. Tifa was unconscious, but she didn't appear injured and there wasn't any blood. Gingerly scooping her out of the snow, Yuffie returned to where Leon was. She extended her other hand.

"I think she's okay, just knocked out. C'mon, I'll get you guys inside." She said.

Leon looked mortified at the idea of being carried like a doll and hesitated.

Yuffie rolled her eyes, "Squall, you can either let me carry you or you can walk by yourself. We're twenty feet from the door…So we'll see you in an hour, yeah?"

"It's Le—" He started, but while he was correcting her per usual, Yuffie snatched him up by force.

"Yuffie!" He wriggled frantically in her grasp, "What the Hell—"

She stood, and the rush of moving from the ground to that height gave him enough vertigo to shut him up. Yuffie crossed over to the door to Merlin's house and kicked it open, as both her hands were occupied. Ducking inside out of the snow, she reverse-kicked the door closed again and shook the snow off her person.

"Okay, great, fine, we're in. Put me down!" Leon clawed at her fingers, which were wrapped around his torso.

Yuffie snickered and deposited both Leon and Tifa—who was by now starting to stir—on the coffee table. He staggered off balance and glared at her, rubbing his ribs for a moment, before kneeling beside Tifa to assess her condition for himself. Yuffie shivered in the after-chill of the snow and went into the kitchen near the back of the house to nab some of the coffee. Maybe she'd get some for Leon and Tifa too. They probably needed warming up more than she did…But it wasn't like she could just pour them a glass. They'd drown in it!

Perusing what might work as a glass for six-inch tall person, Yuffie nearly jumped out of her skin when she turned into the kitchen and saw Donald Duck sitting at the table, poring over one of Merlin's old spell books.

"Bah!" She started, lifting a hand to her chest. "Donald, you nearly gave me a heart attack!"

Donald just looked up from the text and lifted an eyebrow, "People reading books quietly scares you?" He chuckled.

"Hmph." Yuffie spun on her heel and went about getting that coffee.

She could probably fix this by herself. Heck, maybe Leon or Tifa knew how to fix this situation. Nevermind that Donald was a magician in his own right; he was such a smart ass sometimes that it wouldn't be worth asking him for help. Besides, Leon was humiliated enough about YUFFIE seeing him like that, and she had seen Leon in some pretty messed up situations.

"Leon and Tifa got hit by a Heartless that shrinks you down to six inches tall." She blurted.

Leon's dignity could take another hit, right?

Donald blinked at her, "Wha-?"

Yuffie finished pouring herself a mug of coffee and beamed. "Wanna see?"

Donald smirked, marked his spot in the text, closed the book, and hopped down from his seat to follow her back into the den. Leon and Tifa were where they had been left on the table. Tifa was sitting up now, rubbing her head and looking disoriented, while Leon knelt beside her, still a little concerned.

"I brought help." Yuffie announced, gesturing to Donald with a flourish.

Donald, for his part, pointed and laughed unabashedly at the two shrunken figures on the table. Not just a giggle kind of laugh either, but a full blown, gut busting laugh that sent him tumbling to the floor. Leon watched him topple over and then sent a razor sharp glare in Yuffie's direction. It would have been intimidating if he wasn't so small. Frankly, he could only look adorable in this state.

"Tifa, are you okay?" Yuffie asked after a beat.

Tifa looked up at her, "I guess…aside from…you know." She gestured around herself.

They both looked a little chilled; the smaller bodies apparently couldn't warm up as fast as their normal-sized selves. Aerith had left her pink Snuggie on the couch from the previous day, so Yuffie snatched it up and toted it over, plopping it on the table for them. Tifa immediately took advantage of it, her bare arms and legs probably freezing. Leon apparently had his pride to keep him warm, as he folded his arms and deliberately looked away from the scene.

Donald finally recovered enough to stand up again, wiping the tears of mirth from his eyes. "Looks like you've got a LITTLE bit of a problem." He snarked.

"Where's Merlin?" Leon said, still staring away from them.

"Out." Yuffie shrugged.

"Can you call him?" Tifa said, bundling herself up in the makeshift blanket, "I'd rather be like this for as little time as possible." Then, absently. "Aerith would be one thing, but if Cid or Cloud saw us like this—"

Looking the other way, Leon's eyes widened dramatically at the implications of that. Yuffie snorted at his expression. Cid had seen Leon in some deep crap before; he would give Leon and Tifa a good taunting for the whole thing, but Cloud…That would be downright hilarious, considering how often Cloud and Leon were always trying to pick each other apart and mock the other's inadequacies and shortcomings.

Oh the puns to be made on 'shortcomings' alone…If Cloud saw Leon like this, Leon's dignity would die a slow painful death, Cloud would be sure of it. Tifa didn't look too concerned, however…though Cloud would probably only make passing remarks about it at her, because…well…she would just punch his face in.

"It's a pretty simple spell." Donald remarked, drawing them all back.

"Could you do it then?" Tifa asked, getting awkwardly to her feet.

"Easy-peasy." Donald cracked his knuckles dramatically.

While Yuffie was left pondering how he HAD knuckles, the duck scampered off to get the necessary materials for the spell. She pulled up a chair and plopped into it backwards, resting her arms across the back rest of it, looking at her two friends.

"What's it like?" She asked curiously. "Being ridiculously small."

Leon just glared, but Tifa shrugged, "Kind of like that one room in Wonderland…only so much weirder because this is Merlin's house." She looked around slowly.

"Are you sure you want to be changed back so quickly?" She asked.

"YES." They both immediately responded in unison.

"But—but think of the fun stuff you could do!" Yuffie gestured. "Imagine if we got two little saddles and hooked them onto Duke—"

They just stared at her.

"You could go parasailing on a kite—"

More staring.

"Or—oh! Barbie car." She said emphatically.

"Found it!" Donald announced, carrying a slim spellbook into the room.

"Thank GOD." Leon visibly deflated with relief.

Donald rolled up his sleeves and set the text on the table in front of them. "Now, this might be a little tricky—"

"Tricky?" Tifa shrugged out of the blanket.

"Well, I can't just zap you with a reversing spell because shrinking and enlarging requires keeping proportions correct. Not just arms and legs but organs and bones." Donald explained.

"You said it was simple." Leon snapped impatiently.

"Simple in magic is still really complicated." Donald clarified. "But I was trained by Yen Sid." He boasted.

"Great," Tifa put her hands on her hips, "So if we need an army of animated broomsticks, you're our guy."

Donald frowned at the remark but took out his magic staff. "Do you want my help or not?"

"Yes." Leon murmured flatly before looking up. "Just…test it on me first. Don't do us both at the same time."

Yuffie and Tifa both blinked.

"I told you…I know what I'm doing." Donald's quick temper flared.

"I know, just to be safe." Leon lifted his hands.

"No." Tifa stepped forward. "You don't get to be all sacrificial when you're six inches tall." She looked to Donald. "Test it on me first."

"What the Hell?" Leon spun to her. "You're only six inches tall too!"

Yuffie and Donald exchanged deadpan looks. Yuffie shrugged and nodded toward them. Donald nodded in agreement and aimed his magic staff at both of them.

"Wait." Yuffie lifted her phone and snapped a picture of the two tiny warriors bickering on the table top.

Donald snorted and then quickly spouted off the incantation with a flash of magic.

Both Leon and Tifa's bickering was silenced with a POP and a THUD, and Yuffie distinctly heard the snapping of breaking wood as the light from the spell faded. When the slight mist cleared, both Leon and Tifa were back to their normal sizes, on the floor, and Merlin's table had been broken under the sudden combined weight of them.

"Geez." Tifa wheezed, sitting up and inspecting herself. "Maybe a little warning next time?"

Leon got up on his knees, shaking his head. "The Hell was that for?"

Donald folded his arms. "Like a bandage." He put his staff away. "Just say thank you so I can get back to my studies."

Tifa and Leon begrudgingly sighed, "Thanks, Donald."

The duck bobbed his head triumphantly and half turned toward the kitchen, "Oh, and Yuffie, send me that picture."

Yuffie saluted. "Will do."

And as soon as she did that, she was SO sending it to everybody else.

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A/N: Disney characters are strangely hard to keep in character. I feel like Donald was a little off, but hopefully the idea of shrunken Leon and Tifa was amusing enough to distract from that.

More to come soon!