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Disclaimer: I still don't have ownership of anything Kingdom Hearts related. If I ever do, You'll be the 1st to know. I just own Katy, my OC

"Is it really that hard to make a beach?" The cloaked man asked DiZ, tossing the kid's bag of munny into the air and catching it.

"We'd be giving the enemy another entry point."

"What about this?" The man asked again, gesturing to the munny pouch.

"We could always buy some sea-salt ice cream." DiZ laughed.

"I'm more of a chocolate girl myself. And thanks for not making the beach, DiZ. It's the least you could have done. That Hayner kid is kind of cute, it would have been nice to see him shirtless, give me some sort of entertainment." Katy said, striding into the computer room.

"Hello. Katyana." DiZ greeted her, the cloaked man giving her a nod.

"DiZ, Cloaky. But seriously, folks. One shirtless guy, that's all I was asking for."

"So when your boyfriend wakes up, ask him to strip for you. I'm sure he'd be happy to do it." Cloaky replied in a bored tone.

"Ha, ha, very funny. Seriously, my sides are splitting right now. So, about that ice cream..." Katy asked, changing the subject.

"Objects from that town must be kept out of the real world." DiZ explained. "You can delete that pouch."

Katy groaned and the cloaked man nodded, tucking the bag into his cloak.

Dreams again. They were getting old.

In Atlantica with King Triton;

"As the key bearer, you must already know, one must not meddle in the affairs of other worlds.

With Ariel in her grotto;

"So many places I want to see. I know I'll get there someday."

With Phil and Hercules at the Coliseum;

"Thus I hereby dub thee junior heroes."

"Hey What do ya mean junior heroes?"

"You rookies still don't understand what it takes to be a true hero."

With Aladdin in Agrabah after defeating Jafar;

"I...I wish...for your freedom, Genie!

"Al!"

In Halloween Town after defeating Oogie Boogie;

"Sally, Why didn't I listen to you?"

"Don't feel bad, Jack. We'll come up with another plan for Halloween. Next time we'll do it together."

In the Monstro after Riku kidnapped Katy and Pinocchio;

"Or are you too cool to play now that you have the Keyblade?"

"Riku, what are you doing here? Did you find Kai-"

In Neverland after defeating Captain Hook;

"I can't believe it. I really flew. Wail 'til I tell Kai-. I wonder if she'll believe me. Probably not.

At the Coliseum with Cloud;

"I'm searching too."

"For your light? Don't loose sight of it."

In the Hundred Acre Wood;

"Sora, where are you going?"

"I'm gonna go look for my friends. They're waiting for me."

Back in Neverland again, when they first arrived;

"Where are Donald, Goofy, and Katy?"

"You should stop asking about them and start asking...about her."

Visions of a man clothes all in red sitting in front of a computer and a blonde girl standing in front of a large flower-like pod. Then the pod and the room she was in disappeared and only the girl was left.

"Who are you?" Roxas asked.

She turned and smiled at him.

Roxas woke from his third restless night and swore he saw the blonde from his dream standing a ways from his bed.

"Huh?" He did a double take and she was gone.

Roxas dressed and walked to the Usual Spot where he Found a note from Hayner;

Meet at the station. Today's the day we hit the beach—and don't sweat about the munny!

Roxas shrugged and made his way to Station Heights. He waved to Olette and Pence who grinned at him

"Hey." Pence said with a grin

"Morning." Olette smiled

They strode towards him and suddenly time froze...literally.

"Huh?" Roxas exclaimed, running towards them, only to skid to a stop to avoid hitting a blonde girl who appeared in front of him.

The girl from his dream.

"Hello, Roxas." She said sweetly, arms clasped behind her back.

"Hi..." Roxas replied, confused. Did he know her? He didn't think so. "And you are-"

She held up a hand and cut him off.

"I wanted to meet you at least once."

"Me?" he asked, still confused.

"Yes, you." She answered, simply turning around and walking away around the corner.

Before he could pursue her, time unfroze and Olette and Pence continued walking towards him as though nothing happened.

"Olette dragged me to go shopping." Pence groaned.

"Hey, do you wanna come with us?" Olette offered.

"Um, uhh, wait...did you just see that..." Roxas stammered, still a little gobsmacked.

"He's stalling." Pence said, not blaming his friend in the slightest.

Olette laughed and nodded

"Very well, then. We'll see you later, Roxas."

"Y-Yeah." Roxas agreed, still deep in thought. "Did she go to that haunted mansion?" He asked himself, taking off towards Tram Plaza.

When he got there he caught a glimpse of her by the entrance to the woods. Tearing after her he skidded to a stop when a black portal opened up and three of those creatures, dusks Katy had called them, came out and grabbed at him.

"Lemme go!" Roxas yelled, shaking on off of his arm and running away from them as fast as he could.

He didn't know if they were still behind him, he just kept on running. He didn't even realize he'd reached the sandlot until Seifer called out to him;

"Hey! Chicken-wuss!

Apparently the dusks were following him because they entered the Sandlot seconds after.

"Whose that?" Fuu asked, taking a stance

"I dunno, but they've already crossed the line." Seifer growled, also preparing to fight. "Find a weapon." He called to Roxas, who grabbed a struggle bat off the ground nearby.

He fought, even though he was pretty sure he wouldn't be able to fight them without that key-shaped sword. Sure enough they had Seifer, Rai, and Fuu surrounded before he knew it.

"Not good..." he muttered, looking for a way out of this.

"That's when he realized that time must have stopped again. None of the others were moving. The dusks advanced upon him and it didn't look like he was going to be getting out of here in one piece.

"Roxas! Use the Keyblade!" Someone called to him.

He looked around wildly and there was the blonde from before, standing on a balcony. Unfortunately, he didn't know how to summon said Keyblade and the dusks were closing in. He threw his arms in front of his face to block the blow. There was a flash of white light and he was pretty sure he was dead. Instead he found himself standing on a stained glass platform in surrounded by darkness. Three weapons appeared before him and he grabbed one to defend himself if needed. The Sword he grabbed promptly turned into the Keyblade. As though an unspoken cue had been given, the dusks appeared once more. This time he was ready for them. He disposed of them quickly and went through the door that appeared. He ran up a long flight of stained glass steps, getting rid of the occasional dusk along the way and went through yet another door. When he saw what was in the next room, he wished he hadn't. A HUGE, heavily armored, ninja looking creature was waiting for him. And apparently he was supposed to fight it. After deciding that jumping off the platform in an attempt to escape was not a good idea, Roxas took a deep breath, squared his shoulders, and proceeded to beat the crap out of the thing. It took awhile and a lot of fancy combo tricks he didn't even know he knew but finally the creature died, exploding into pieces. Unfortunately this caused the platform to explode as well and Roxas fell into the dark abyss below. Batting away the wisps of, well, darkness that seemed to want to consume him, Roxas felt someone take hold of his hand and pull. There was another flash of white light and he was suddenly in a strange looking white room with the girl from earlier. He tried to say something but she stopped him.

"My name is Naminé." She paused for a moment before asking "Roxas, do you remember your true name?"

He was about to ask her why everyone seemed to be asking him that question when suddenly a familiar figure in a black cloak grabbed her arm.

"Say no more, Naminé."

"But if no one tells him, Roxas will-" She tried to protest.

"It's best he doesn't know the truth." The figure interrupted, firmly

"Hey! You're that pickpocket!" Roxas exclaimed, realizing where he'd seen the man before.

The man said nothing. He opened a portal with a flick of his wrist and pushed Roxas through it, causing him to black out. That seemed to be happening to him a lot lately.

He came around, finding himself on the ground in the sandlot. He could hear Rai talking from somewhere near him;

"Hey, Seifer! Strike a pose, y'know."

"How's this?" Seifer asked, smugly

"That's perfect, y'know! How about one more y'know?"

Roxas got up and saw that Fuu had a camera and was snapping pictures of Seifer.

"What's that for?" he asked

"Keepsake." Fuu answered.

"Those freaks in white jumpsuits are gone, y'know?"

"Cakewalk." Fuu added with a wave of her hand.

"What were those things?" Roxas asked, although he already sort of knew the answer.

"Outsiders, that's what. And if they don't wise up to the rules around here, I might have to take "disciplinary measures.""

"Oh yeah, Seifer's always looking after the town, y'know?"

Roxas nodded absentmindedly and felt someone burning a hole into his head with their glare. Turning to his right he saw Hayner, Olette, and Pence and Hayner was glowering at him. With a scoff, the blonde turned and ran off, the other two in tow.

"Wait up!" Roxas called, taking off after them.

"Hey! No chickening out of the tournament tomorrow!" Seifer called out to him.

Honestly, the struggle was the last thing on his mind. So many weird thing's were happening to him lately that he really hadn't given it a second thought.

When he got back to the Usual Spot, the others were already there eating ice cream.

"So...you hung out with Seifer's gang today?" Pence asked, sounding a bit offended.

"N-no...It's not like that." Roxas protested. "Oh, yeah, how was the beach? Wasn't that today?" He asked trying to change the subject.

"We didn't go. It wouldn't be the same without you, right?" Olette replied, smiling sadly.

"...Sorry." Roxas mumbled "Hey...how 'bout we go tomorrow? We could get those pretzels and-"

"I promised I'd be somewhere." Hayner interrupted

"Ohh...Oh!" Roxas said, realizing what he was talking about.

Hayner gave him a long look before scoffing

"I'm outta here."

He left, the others following, leaving Roxas alone. Between letting down his friends and all the weird occurrences that happened to him today, he felt lousy and completely exhausted. Shuffling home, he hoped things would be better tomorrow...and that he could actually get some sleep tonight.

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