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Disclaimer: I still do not own Kingdom Hearts. Just Katy, my OC :)
Back at the Old Mansion, DiZ sat in the library's basement in front of the many computer screens when the Cloaked Man entered;
"Organization miscreants...They've found us." DiZ sighed
"But...why would the Nobodies steal photographs?" The cloaked man asked
"Both are nothing but data to them. The fools could never tell the difference." DiZ ridiculed, rubbing at his temples. "We are running out of time. Naminé must make haste."
Roxas tossed and turned, dreams of him plaguing him once more
In Traverse Town just before Sora met Katy;
"Where am I? What happened to my home? Riku? Kai-"
Meeting Katy;
"Thanks. My name's Katy by the way. Katy Tannith."
With Leon just before they fought;
"Who are you?"
"They will come at you out of nowhere as long as you continue to wield the Keyblade."
Meeting Donald and Goofy;
"Hey, why don't you come with us? We can go to other worlds on our vessel."
"Sora, Katy, go with them. Especially if you want to find your friends."
"Donald Duck."
"Name's Goofy."
"Katy."
"I'm Sora. I'll go with you guys."
In the Second District hotel after the fight with Leon;
"The Heartless have great fear of the Keyblade."
With Aerith in another room in the hotel;
"That's right, The Keyblade"
Back again with Sora;
"So...this is the key?"
With the villains, discussing Sora and Katy;
But the children are a problem. They found one of the keyholes."
Roxas jerked awake, shaken by the dream. He stared down at his hands, remembering the strange weapon from yesterday.
"A key...blade?"
He was also a little perturbed to find that the girl he met yesterday, Katy, was also in his dreams. Did she know him? He planned to keep an eye out for her today, he had questions he wanted answered.
Still reeling from the dream he had, Roxas was unusually quiet while Hayner, Olette, and Pence chatted amongst themselves. He was brought back to reality when Pence told him to hurry up. He hadn't even realized the others had left. He followed Pence outside the Usual Spot where the others were waiting impatiently.
"We're going to Market Street." Hayner informed them all before taking off, the other three following.
Roxas caught up to the other three the next street over. They were looking at the poster advertizing the annual struggle match.
"Just two days to go." Hayner said excitedly, turning to Roxas. "You and I have to make the finals. That way, no matter who wins, the four of us split the prize!"
"Okay, You're on." Roxas agreed.
"You two are gonna clean up." Pence said, giving them a thumbs up.
"Go get 'em." Olette added, smiling encouragingly.
"It's a promise." Hayner declared as he and Roxas did that fist pound thing that guys do. "Now down to business. One ticket to the beach is 900 munny. How much for the four of us?"
"3600 munny." Olette answered, being the more studious of the four.
"And 300 each to spend there. What's that for all of us?" Hayner asked the brown haired girl
"1200 munny. A total of 4800 munny." Olette replied, doing the calculations.
"To spend on what?" Roxas asked
"Pretzels of course! What else is there?" Hayner said, grinning.
Okay, just want to point out here that if a pretzel is 300 munny, then there must be some serious inflation going on in Twilight Town. Just saying.
"Well, there's always watermelon." Roxas pointed out.
"Too pricey. They're 2000 munny apiece."
I rest my case.
"Pretzels it is." Roxas agreed.
"So where were we?" Hayner asked
"We need 4800 munny altogether. But all we have is..." Olette started, looking around at the rest of them.
"I've got 800." Pence said
"...650." Olette added
"150. Sorry." Roxas apologized
"That's 1600 munny! We need another 3200." Hayner said. "Let's find ourselves some odd jobs and earn some dough!" We have 'till the train leaves to earn 800 munny each! Meet at the station with cash in hand!
Gee, he's pretty bossy for someone who didn't have any munny in the first place...
"Didn't he say he had it covered?" Pence asked as Hayner ran off.
"Whatever. Those pretzels are sounding pretty good." Roxas said, suddenly hungry.
So on that note, they all set off to make some cash.
After about an hour of mail delivering and poster sticking, Roxas made his way to Station Plaza where the others were waiting.
"All present and accounted for?" Hayner asked.
The others nodded and pence asked;
"What have we got?"
"Just this." Roxas said holding out his share
"Nice going, Roxas!" Hayner exclaimed, impressed
"I knew you would do it!" Olette smiled and then continued, "Nice work, everyone. Added to what we started with, we now have...Ta da! 5000 munny."
"Sweet!" Hayner crowed as Olette handed the pouch with their earnings to Roxas. "Let's get tickets!" she said, running off with Pence.
"We can't be together forever, so we'd better make the time we do have something to remember." Hayner said, more to himself that Roxas.
"Huh?" Roxas asked, a bit perturbed by his friend's sudden deepness.
"Gotcha!" Hayner cried, snapping out of it and running over to join Olette and Pence inside the station.
Roxas shook his head and went to join them, when suddenly something hit him in the legs, causing him to trim over it and smack his head on the pavement. Rubbing his busted lip, Roxas looked up and jumped when he saw the cloaked figure standing above him. The figure grabbed him by the arm, roughly pulling him up.
"What-?" Roxas gasped, wincing at the person's grip.
"Roxas! Three minutes!" Hayner called out.
And as soon as it was there, the figure was gone. Roxas shook his head, blaming his lack of sleep.
"Okay!" He called to his friends, running after them.
"Four students." Hayner told the girl behind the ticket counter.
"Roxas, the munny!" Pence called to him as Roxas dug in his pocket.
"Wait, No!" he exclaimed, realizing the money was gone.
That man, the one who grabbed him...
"He must have taken it!" Roxas muttered to himself, running back to the doors.
"Where are you going?" Olette asked
"Remember when I fell? I had the money before that. I bet that guy took it!" Roxas explained
"Guy?" Hayner asked.
"He couldn't have gotten that far..." Roxas trailed off when he saw the weird looks they were giving him.
"What are you talking about?" Hayner asked again. "There was no guy."
"But...There wasn't...Really?"
The others however had turned their attentions away from him when the train whistle sounded and it left the station.
"Oh, boy." Pence groaned, upset that they'd worked for nothing.
"There was really no one there?" Roxas muttered to himself as he trudged after the others to find something else to do.
None of them saw the lavender-haired girl as she watched them from a distance.
As she watched them leave, Katy groaned. This gig was supposed to be easy. She wasn't supposed to have to worry about Organization XIII members killing Roxas in his sleep, but between the dusks and DiZ all worked up about actual members being able to infiltrate "Twilight Town", she had her work cut out for her. Sighing as she felt a major headache coming on, Katy retreated to the Old Mansion. Roxas and his friends were probably going to get ice cream and sit on the clock tower anyway. Nothing exciting. Besides, she deserved a break. She hadn't slept in days...
Katy was right; the four teens were able to scrape up enough munny to get themselves some sea-salt ice cream to eat while they hung out at the clock tower. Roxas, however, was deep in thought and his ice cream began to become less frozen.
"It's melting." Olette pointed out.
"Sorry." Roxas apologized, absentmindedly.
"Cheer up already." Hayner drawled.
"That was definitely weird though." Roxas protested
"Strange." Olette added.
"You said it." Roxas replied, zoning out once more. "Can you feel Sora." He repeated the words the cloaked man said to him.
"Can you feel Sora?"
Restoration at 28%
"Naminé, hurry."
A/N: Sorry, I know it's a little on the shorter side. There wasn't much dialogue in this one and I didn't want to add too much filler. 5 reviews please and I'll post the next chapter :)