Twilight Town

I

Donald was looking over a map of the worlds. "Next we'll go see Phil about training Julia right?" Sora nodded and continued to guide the gummiship through the asteroid field. "Okay so…" Donald quickly made a little asterisk next to Olympia, "then where?"

"Let's just wait until we get a lead or two," answered Sora before slowing the ship. Donald agreed with a simple nod and rolled the map back up. "Hmm…well where should we land? By the mansion or the sandlot?"

"Well…" Goofy pondered it, "we need information right? So we should probably go into the town first and then we can go check out that ol' creepy mansion."

"Right. So the sandlot!" He began punching in the commands but stopped when he heard a small yawn. "What?" he thought Julia had yawned because she didn't like the idea. "Nothing, I'm a just a little tired…" she answered as she lay by one of the windows. When they had been flying she had watched the many stars outside of the ship.

"Oh. Well…if you don't like an idea just say so, okay?" Sora smiled when she nodded and replied, "If you think it's a good idea then it's a good idea to me." "Great. No objections then, he pressed the button and they began to descend. But then the ship began to lurch for some reason. "Huh?'

"Ah!" The other three exclaimed as they were tossed around. "What's going on!?" Donald exclaimed.

"I don't know!" Sora began pressing the flashing buttons with some hope it would stop. "It just started going-CRAZY!" The lurching, instead of stopping, became wilder and threw all of them about the cabin. As they flew about each one of them would hit buttons as they flew by the control panel.

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"Give up!" Seifer said to Hayner as they battled with struggle bats. He swiftly knocked the other boy to the ground and placed the bat at his throat, clearly ending the match with a killing blow.

"Ugh!" Hayner glared up at Seifer before mumbling something that sounded like 'unfair…' Seifer could only smile back before beckoning to Fuu, "take a picture." The girl walked over with her camera.

"Click," was the only word she said while taking the picture. She took the photo when it popped out of the camera and gently shook it.

Olette could only glare at Seifer, "alright! You can let him get up now!" She placed her hands on her hips until Seifer finally looked at her. "Fine, we're done here anyways. Aren't we guys?" Fuu only nodded to his question and Rei laughed heartily.

"Course we are! We're the toughest, ya know?" He laughed even more as they started to walk away; leaving Hayner, Pence and Olette in shame.

Once Seifer and his gang were out of earshot Hayner jumped up and kicked dirt in their direction. "Next time I'll clobber him over the head with his own bat!" Pence could only help but roll his eyes and smile to Olette.

"Come on," she walked over and placed a hand on his shoulder. "We can go get some ice cream." Olette smiled as Hayner opened his mouth to answer but they both froze when they heard the sound of screaming and yelling. "Where's it coming from?" she looked around and saw no one in the clearing.

"I don't know."

"Look!" Pence pointed up in the air to four figures that were falling.

The three followed with their eyes to see a brunette, then a duck, a dog, and a blond land in a pile in that order. The sounds of 'owws' and 'ohs' came from the mass until one of them sat up.

"You guys okay?" Julia asked as she looked down at Sora, Donald and Goofy. She sat on top of the pile hoping that no one ha been seriously hurt.

"Nah, I'm oka-!" Sora moved Goofy's leg to see three familiar faces. "Hayner, Pence, Olette!" He exclaimed before pushing Donald, Goofy and Julia off of himself.

"Hey!" Julia waved her arms but flipped off the pile anyways. "Ow…" she sat on the ground holding her head.

"Sora!" Hayner held a hand out and helped Sora up. "What are you guys doing here?"

"Well we came to visit," the brunette casually replied and then smiled, "you know, doing the hero stuff."

"Great!" Hayner laughed, "Actually…"

"Oh! Who's this?" asked Olette before going to inspect Julia.

"Huh? Oh!" the blond jumped when she realized Olette meant her. "I'm Julia." Olette smiled at the girl and helped her up.

Sora laughed since it appeared that Julia had been accepted. "She's a friend that's traveling with us," he added when Hayner raised an eyebrow.

"Good! Can I keep her? Kidding," Hayner added, "But what exactly made you visit after what, half a year?"

"Sorry, it's just that a few things came up…" he sighed, "oh! And that's why I wanted to visit because I hadn't seen you guys in so long."

Pence nodded, "and I'm guessing you've heard?"

"Heard what?" Sora asked.

"Oh so I'm guessing you haven't?" Olette asked after she was done sizing up the girl. "Hmm, well about…oh two months ago those white things started coming into the town again."

"Stealing stuff or just wreaking it. It's kind of like they're looking for something. It's a total drag too because it's unsafe to go out into the words or go out along…" Hayner added with a sigh.

Julia made a little sound that was something between a gasp and a sigh.

Hayner nodded, "it's mostly been stuff from the marketplace though."

Olette became re-interested in the girl when she gasped and pulled her away from the boys. "Hi! I didn't exactly get to introduce myself. I'm Olette! And wow! You're really tall!" she walked around Julia and looked down at her shoes, "and you're wearing flats!"

"Uh…thanks?" she glanced awkwardly at Sora who continued to talk to Hayner.

"What kind of stuff?" Sora watched as the two boys thought it out.

"Well…" Hayner looked to Pence.

"First it was pretty much anything but lately it's been food. Oranges, apples, bananas, pears…" Pence pulled out a photo of one snatching a pumpkin, "see."

Sora nodded and took the picture, "mind if I keep this?" Pence and Hayner shook their heads; he nodded and slipped it into his pocket.

"Sora it's getting late!" Donald suddenly squawked.

"Oh!" Hayner checked his watch, "dang!"

Olette, who had become happy at the fact there was another girl said, "Sora where are you guys staying for the night?"

"Well…" he thought about it, "probably back at the gummiship. We'll probably just camp out for the night."

"Oh no!" Olette shook her head and pulled Julia back over to the boys, "you can stay in my parent's guest house! And we can all have dinner and talk about even more things that have been going on!"

"Well…" Sora looked at Donald who shrugged. Then he turned and looked at Julia, "what do you think?"

"It's a great idea!" Julia nodded her head and gave one of her signature bounces.

"Great! What about you two?" Olette looked back to Hayner and Pence.

"Well…" Hayner looked to Pence.

"Uh…"

Olette rolled her eyes to both of them, "nice try you guys. But you have to come over for dinner. She heard them groan and ignored it. "I'll call you guys when they're ready okay? That way you can go home and drop off your stuff!" Before she could fully finish her sentence the boys had already run off.