Authors Note: Hello again. First off, thanks to SpringBorn, psychicshipping, Xxnikkigirl123xX and Dracula X for reviewing and to the ladder two for following/favorite-ing. I was surprised to get any reviews/followers/favorites at all considering how long I was gone, so thanks for being amazing and sticking around. Whelp! Here's the beginning of Port Royal for ya! Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own anything recognizable. Just Katy, Cassie, and Ryan.

While flying to the next world, Katy, (who usually spent her time finding new ways to make Donald want to throw her out of the ship), was sitting rather quietly in the corner, and contemplating the lie that had become her life.

For one, there was the entire episode in Castle Oblivion. As ecstatic as she was that Sora chose to have his old memories back, the memories he lost were pretty important too. He'd defeated 3 out of the thirteen Organization members (and since Roxas isn't with them anymore, shouldn't that make them Organization IX?) and had replaced Kairi in his mind with Naminé. Those were some pretty big, life altering things that probably should be remembered.

Then there was Roxas. Roxas, who if you wanted to make things more complicated was half of him. While he wasn't someone that she had to worry about, she could only imagine the reaction Sora would have to what his "other half" had been doing with his Keyblade while he was asleep.

And finally, there was the 'Axel and Demyx' problem. Axel was definitely the type of guy who would give everything away to start a fight, vanish after said fight, and leave Katy to deal with the fallout. Not something she was looking forward to. She needed to look into purchasing a muzzle and finding a way to permanently attach it to the redhead's face. And then there was Demyx. If it wasn't enough that he wasn't the sharpest crayon in the box and might accidently let something slip, he had a freaking thing for her. Just thinking about it made her want to bang her head against the wall. The worst part was that it really shouldn't matter to her, but deep, deep, down where she hid her deepest darkest secrets, she kind of had a teeny-tiny, not-even-noteworthy-if-he-hadn't-said-something crush on him too. And she was a horrible person for it.

The thing about traveling with the terrible trio was that they were usually the ones she discussed these types of things with. And since that was strictly prohibited, she kept it all locked up in her mind in a drawer labeled "don't ever go there" and that's where it stayed, waiting for the day it would all become too much so it could explode and ruin her life.

Yeah, she was screwed

Drawing herself out of her pity party, Katy realized that they were landing at their destination. Hopping up from her seat, she grabbed her hoodie and backpack and exited behind Sora.

The place they had landed at would not be winning any awards for cheerfulness any time soon…or cleanliness. They ran up some brick steps to an overlook and found that some treacherous looking ocean surrounded them.

"Wow…" Donald said in awe

"This place is—" Sora searched for a good word.

"Desperately in need of a mop and bucket?" Katy supplied.

"I was gonna say different, but that works too."

Shrieks of panic from somewhere below them caught their attention.

"Organization XIII?" Goofy asked

"Or the Heartless" Katy said grimly, drawing her swords. "C'mon, let's get down there.

Meanwhile, our favorite villain (who apparently we haven't seen enough of yet) was already two steps ahead and was talking to the group of pirates who caused the shrieking.

"Aztec treasure, eh?" Pete asked.

"Aye. And thanks to the curse put on it, we are neither among the living, nor the dead." Pirate captain Barbossa replied.

"Really? 'Cause you look like regular pirates to me." Pete scoffed.

"Ah, but in the moonlight…"

Conveniently, the clouds parted at that moment, the moonlight filtering down and revealing the zombie skeletons that were Barbossa and his crew.

"Whoa! Now I get what you were saying'!" Pete said, quickly changing his tune. "Hmm, well, if you see two doofuses and two brats with Keyblades, steer clear. They got a kind of magic that don't belong in this world, see? And nobody knows what it'll do to ya, 'specially with the moon showing what you really are."

The moon fell behind the clouds again, revealing Barbossa's normal face, now with a look of interest.

"A match for Barbossa, you say?"

"Hey!"

Yep, it was about time for the four Musketeers to make their entrance.

"Yep, I knew it. Those were the punks I was tellin' ya about." Pete said to Barbossa.

Apparently, Sora doesn't enjoy being called names…

"Who are you calling punks? It's Sora, Katy, Donald, and Goofy to you. And don't you forget it!" He stated angrily.

"That we won't. We'll engrave it on your tombstone to be sure." Barbossa replied nastily. Then he addressed his crew.

"Men, half of you stay here and indulge these cullies'. The rest, bring me that medallion."

"Aye!" The crew said in unison. Half of them scampered off, the other three drew weapons and took battle stances.

"Aw, we only get to stomp on a few of you?" Sora taunted.

"Hey, Sora, maybe it's not a good idea to egg them on. I have a bad feeling about this." Katy muttered uneasily, her protector senses tingling.

Barbossa chuckled darkly and sicked his pirates on them.

Katy was having some serious déjà vu. The same thing happened to her when she tried to damage the Antisora. Nothing. She couldn't damage it at all. Except this time, it wasn't just her. None of them could damage the pirates and it was getting very old, very fast.

"It's no use. We can't beat them." Sora panted

"Aye, what do you expect?" One of the pirates called, ginning as the clouds were once again blown away from the moon and he and his two comrades turned in to zombie skeletons.

"Why do I feel as though we're suddenly in the middle of a bad horror movie?" Katy mumbled as the skele-pirates grinned evilly at them.

"You best be sayin' your prayers." One taunted.

"Hey, watch out! They can see ya! Stay away from their magic!" Pete called, frantically?

"What for?" One of the pirates asked, cockily

"Weren't you listening to me before?" Pete groaned.

Meanwhile, our four favorite heroes were quite interested in what he had to say.

"Hey, Pete, thanks for the tip!" Sora called back, ginning as she shot a ball of fire at one of the pirates.

After Pete's helpful hint, the pirates were taken care of quickly. But something was…off Katy couldn't shake the feeling what she was being watched. And it wasn't like, 'casual staring' watched it was full blown 'all eyes on me' watched. It was extremley unnerving and she wanted it to stop ASAP.

"Hey! This ain't over!" Pete's yell of defeat broke her concentration as she stared at the overlook in the distance intently, and brought her back to the situation at hand.

They watched Pete take off, and then it was back to business.

"If Pete's here, that must mean we have work to do." Sora deduced

"Yep. And that Pirate captain looked pretty mean, too." Goofy agreed

"Man, I'd hate to see him turn into a Heartless." Sora shuddered, then regrouped. "Weren't those guys headed to town?"

"Yeah. I think they were looking for treasure." Goofy remarked as the headed in the direction of Town.

Katy stopped Sora before he could follow.

"Do you feel that?"

He tilted his head to the side.

"What?"

"That 'someone's trying to burn a hole in the back of my head' feeling?"

Sora's eyes widened slightly

"You think someone's here?"

"Yeah, the whole time we we're fighting I could feel them staring at me."

"C'mon, let's go check it out."

He grabbed her hand and tugged her over to the overlook near where they landed.

Katy knew as they ran up the steps that they weren't going to find anything. The feeling had disappeared as quickly as it came. Whoever had been there was long gone. Sure enough;

"There's no one here. Do you want to keep looking or…?" Sora asked

"No. No, I was probably just being paranoid. Let's go find the talking animals, it's fine."

Sora gave her a long look, then nodded.

"Okay."

She did an about face and started walking, only to have Sora turn her around and kiss her on the mouth.

"What was that for?" She asked, grinning stupidly

He shrugged

"No reason. C'mon, let's go." He grabbed her wrist and lightly tugged her in the direction of town. Neither noticed the figure in the shadows follow them.

Meanwhile, over in the town…

"Where are you taking me? Let me go!" The governor's daughter, a.k.a. Elizabeth Swann, shrieked as a pirate easily three times her size slung her over his shoulder and carried her off to god knows where.

Just as they were almost out of sight, Will Turner came rushing around the corner.

"Elizabeth!" He called in alarm, rushing to go to her aid, only to be confronted by the Heartless

"What…are they?" he muttered at the strange bunny-look-alikes

"The Heartless! Watch out!" Donald's decibel level caused dogs everywhere to wince.

Sora and Katy, having caught up with the others after their brief venture, skidded to a stop between Will and the Shadows.

"We'll take care of them! Go! Take cover!" Sora said over his shoulder.

Giving the creatures one more lingering look, Will nodded and ran off.

Considering it was only a bunch of bunnies, the battle was over in under a minute. Will approached them again as they were wrapping up.

"Well done! My own fencing skills are not to be ashamed of…but I've never faced foes such as that before."

"No Problem dude, but, uh, who was that blonde girl they ran off with?" Katy asked, rocking back on her heels slightly

Elizabeth! I must rescue her! Would you help me?"

Sora nodded

"Of course! I'm Sora. This is Donald, Goofy, and Katy."

"And I'm William Turner. Call me Will"

"Okay, Will. Let's go!" Sora said, dismissing his Keyblade and motioning for him to lead the way.

"Right, we've got to get to the docks!"

Sora Donald and Goofy took off after him, Sora hanging back when he realized Katy wasn't following.

"Everything okay?" He asked, looking around for anyone who might be watching her again.

He didn't see anyone, but Katy certainly felt them.

"Yeah, I'll be right there, uh, shoelace." She said, motioning down to her half untied high top. "Go, I'll be right there."

Giving the area one last sweep with his eyes Sora deemed she was safe, before running to catch up with the others.

Katy re-tied her shoelace and got up slowly, eyes closed. Concentrating on the uneasy feeling she had, she tried to pinpoint where the staring was coming from. Shrugging she started in the direction of the docks. She passed by an alleyway and quickly, before the person following her could move away, she spun around, blades drawn and doubled back. Running into the alley she heard a gasp. She reached out blindly in the dark, grinning when her fingers brushed over material. Using all of her strength she pulled the person toward her then slammed them into the alley wall, causing them to cry out.

"Um, ow!"

Even with the blood rushing through her ears, she'd recognize that voice. Angrily, she blindly reached for the hood she knew was there and yanked it down revealing a platinum blonde mullet and a sheepish grin.

"Hey, babe."

"ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR FREAKING MIND?" She whisper yelled, not wanting to draw anyone's attention. "What are you doing here you…you…STALKER!"

Demyx rolled his eyes.

"How original."

"No way, buddy. We are NOT having a normal conversation here. Either you tell me why your following me right now or I swear to God I will take your sitar and shove it—"

"Okay! Jeez, with the threatening! I'm not really doing anything, I'm just…observing."

"Observing?" Katy accentuated each syllable, eyebrows disappearing behind her bangs. "Observing what exactly?"

"The lovely scenery?"

"If 'the lovely scenery' is the back of my head then yes, I'd say, that's exactly what you're doing." Frustrated, she let go of the front of his cloak and took a few steps away from him, pinching the bridge of her nose.

"Okay when I turn around you are going to tell me that The Organization sent you to spy on me, and that's the ONLY reason that you are here, and it's going to be the truth, and that's what I'm going to tell my friends so I can continue lying to them for the greater good. Okay? Go."

She turned around, arms crossed, but Demyx, suddenly finding his shoes to be quite interesting, said nothing.

"Well?"

"I'll say it, but it's not the truth."

Katy groaned.

"This is not happening right now."

"Katy—"

"Don't 'Katy' me! You need to go, Demyx. Right now!"

"But—"

"LEAVE!"

"NO!"

Realizing that, once again, their screaming had brought them closer to one another, Katy took a few steps back.

"What do you mean, 'no'? Demyx, I told Sora I was tying my shoelace. And with all the noise we're making, he's going to be here in less than a minute! I'm surprised he's not here already! You need to leave, now!"

"No. Last time I checked, I don't answer to you. If I want to stay here that's my choice. And if I just so happen to be in the same place you are every now and again—"

"Every now and…Oh, no! You are NOT making a habit out of this!"

Demyx opened his mouth to retort when Sora's voice cut him off.

"Katy?"

Katy opened her mouth to reply, but Demyx covered it with a gloved hand. He restrained her struggling long enough to whisper;

"Just ask yourself where you'd be if I hadn't been at the Coliseum that day. You wouldn't be here. You're protecting him, but whose protecting you?" He asked before letting her go and disappearing through a dark corridor.

"Katy!" Sora's voice was more urgent now as he skidded down the alley and helped her off the floor.

"What happened? Are you okay? Did you find the person following you?"

Katy paused to catch her breath, trying to buy herself time to think of an answer

"No, it was…Dusks. A whole bunch of Dusks, they just appeared out of nowhere."

"Do you think is was The Organization?" Sora asked, drawing his Keyblade and looking around.

"I don't know. Maybe. Dusks usually mean Ax—" She stopped with a gasp, realizing she said too much.

"Dusks usually mean what?" Sora asked, looking at her intently.

"Nothing, nothing."

"No! You were going to say something!" Sora said angrily, hands fisted at his sides. "Same as in the Coliseum, when were we're looking for the Olympus stone. You started to call the Organization member by a name! Then the same guy saved you during that cave in! It's like…it's like you know these people! If I didn't know you any better I'd say you were helping them."

Now it was Katy's turn to get angry.

"You take that back!"

"Well, what am I supposed to think? What other reason would they have to save you unless you were somehow useful to them?"

"You're crazy! You haven't acted like this since…since…"

"Since when?" He yelled, exasperated

"You know what, forget it. If you want to think I'm working with them, that's fine. Let's just forget all of the times I saved your ass. Tell me, how is that useful to them, huh? Even though I can't physically hurt you, I sure as hell can stand around and let you get hurt. But I don't, I risk my neck for you all the time! Oh, and another thing," she raised her voice to interrupt his rebuttal.

"If that Organization member hadn't saved me that day, I'd be dead right now. D-E-A-D. But if that's what you want, next time I'll be sure to stand in the way of the cave in. Better yet next time I take a giant ass sword through the chest for you, I'll do my best to stay in the coma."

On that note, she stomped past him, doing her best not to let the tears in her eyes fall. She knew this would happen. All it takes is one loose thread for a sweater to unravel. That's what her grandmother used to say.

She felt a hand on her shoulder and was pulled around to face Sora, who looked just as upset as she did, if not more.

"I didn't mean it like that! I don't want you dead, of course not! But…you'd be lying if you told me you weren't hiding anything from me, wouldn't you?"

Taking a deep breath, Katy nodded.

"Listen, Sora. Remember when you woke up in Twilight Town? How I was already up and had new clothes and everything?"

He shook his head affirmative.

"Well, think of the last time you saw me. I was bleeding to death in the middle of The End of the World. You put me on a ship with Cassie and Ryan back to Earth. How do you think I got from there to Twilight Town?"

Sora thought for a second and went pale. Slowly, he shook his head.

"I-I don't know."

Okay, so her theory of Naminé. Planting a fake memory to fill that void was a bust. He was just unobservant.

"Okay, you're right. I am hiding stuff from you, but it's because I have to. Several very important people have told me that I can't tell you some of the things I know. You just have to trust me, okay? I know right now I don't really deserve it, and I know it's blind trust, but you have to."

Sora stared at her for a long time before giving her a small smile and a nod.

"Okay. I trust you."

"Just like that? You were ready to take my head off back there."

"I'm sorry, I just…lost my temper."

Katy laughed, rubbing her eyes with her palms.

"That's okay. You're aloud to lose it once in awhile. You're not Link. You have an opinion."

"Whose Link?"

"Culture reference. Not important right now. So, uh, are we good?"

Sora grinned, pushing her against the brick wall and kissed her.

"Yeah, we're good." He laughed, pulling away.

"Fantastic, so…"

"C'mon, let's get back. Will is probably having an aneurism, we've been gone so long."

Katy laughed and nodded, following him.

And then of course, she had to make the mistake of looking back into the alley again. Demyx was back, staring at her intently. She gave him her best glare, and he smirked, saluting her sarcastically before disappearing again. A feeling of foreboding washed over her, and Katy shivered. She might have dodged this bullet, but she hadn't won the war. Not by a long shot.

A/N: Okay, so obviously Port Royal is being split into two parts. I decided it was high time for some plot. I've always had a direction that I want this story to go in and in case you haven't guessed yet, Demyx is involved and I'll probably need input on it later. Anyways, hope this chapter was more interesting than the last. I'll have the rest of this up tomorrow. See ya then!