Disclaimer: Kingdom Hearts and everything else belongs to Walt Disney and Square-Enix.

The OCs and their alter-ego that appear in this story belong to their respective authors. More information about them are found in the "Original Characters' Intro" chapter.

::KINGDOM HEARTS III Online HD::

-The Princess and the Bad Boy-

Back at Midlight City High School.

Taylor was leaning on one of the toilet's cubicles at the girls' restroom, where Sierra locked herself in to weep in silence.

"Sierra, it's been two hours since you've been in there, we're about to miss our third period class." Taylor reminded her friend.

"Not until you find a cure for my face!" Sierra shouted.

"I can't find a cure without you the patient seeking the cure!" Taylor replied.

The restroom door swung open and in came… a guy?!

The guy had long dark-brown hair (his hair were similar to Riku's from KH2), and he wore a black shirt with long, baggy navy pants. He also wore a wristband that says 'Kuran' on it, and has several piercings on his right ear.

Taylor saw the guy and, instead of freaking out because of the obvious, she quickly got up and greeted him excitedly, "Matt! There you are!"

"Hi." He sounded nervous before he and Taylor shared a quick kiss. His emerald eyes then fixed across the restroom, "Why am I in here and not outside? Where I'm supposed to be?"

"Don't worry Matt. No one is here except Sierra and I." Taylor reassured.

"Good." Matt sighed, "Cuz I don't want to be called a pervert."

"You brought Matt Salazar here?!" Sierra exclaimed inside her cubicle, "Are you MAD Taylor? He's one of the most popular guys in school!"

"Yeah." Matt said sarcastically, "Second to Talen Brightfire. Seriously, what do these girls see in that guy? Anyway, what's the emergency?"

Taylor touched the cubicle with her finger and it set ablaze. The exposed Sierra stared back at Matt and screamed piercingly before pulling Taylor in front of her to shield her hideous face.

Matt arched back, "Oh my gash! Her face!"

"I know." Taylor sounded monotone.

Sierra peeked over Taylor's shoulder, "You saw that?"

"Yeah, you look like a witch." Matt replied.

"I wouldn't say a witch." Another voice—a strong independent girl's voice—sounded in the restroom "You're more of a crow. The curved nose gives it away."

The girl that just came in was Asian and had violet-hair. She wore a violet school girl uniform with a skirt that reached near her knees. She smiled at the two girls.

Taylor frowned at her before facing Matt, "What's she doing here?"

"Taylor, there's nothing going on between us. Violet's just my Biology partner." Matt reminded her girlfriend.

"Yeah." Violet said, "Like I have time to play hooky with your boyfriend." She scoffed, then peeked over Taylor to stare at the hiding Sierra, "And what died on your face?"

"HEY! It's not that bad, y'know? It's natural!" Sierra barked.

"Not to me." Violet said, "You got Chloracne: an eruption of blackheads, cysts, and pustules. You, girl have a problem."

"Or, it could be your Beauty Mark that is missing." Matt said, staring at his PSP he had pulled out. Taylor and the shying Sierra went to stare at the PSP screen. They saw a glowing orb with a beautiful face reflecting on it swirling on the screen.

"My Beauty Mark?" Sierra repeated.

"Everybody has one. And we're not talking about the dark pimple we get somewhere in our body. We're talking about this one." He pointed, "It is a magical orb that represents the very existence of our beauty. Without it, one could end up looking like…" he then faced Sierra, "…that."

"Oh, just say it Matt. She's ugly." Violet snapped.

Sierra stammered, "B… bu… but I… I don't have that!"

"Exactly." Matt said, "Someone stole it. Someone from another Realm. Not this realm. My first guess would be from the Kingdom Hearts III Online HD world."

"Really?" Taylor, Sierra and Violet looked on interestingly.

"Who? Who stole my Beauty?" Sierra went to grab Matt by the colon and violently shake him silly, "Who's the damn criminal?!"

"Relax! I'll tell you." Matt said, before pushing up more buttons on his PSP. His answer finally displayed on the screen. "There. It comes from the Queen's Castle at Dwarf Woodland."

"Dwarf Woodland?" Taylor repeated, "That's where the boys are."

Violet raised an eyebrow, "Boys?" she looked confused. But Matt wasn't. He somehow knew what Taylor was saying.

"I'll fill you in later." Taylor told her, "But right now we got a group of Keybearers to contact." She then faced Sierra, "And YOU got a pageant to win."

Violet choked back from laughing hard. Taylor glared at Violet briefly before pulling the reluctant Sierra out of the restroom. Violet and Matt followed.

Rian felt his arm vibrating and jumped, catching the guys' attention. "Whoa!"

"What's up?" Pierre asked.

"I… I dunno! My arm feels funny…"

"Wave your hand over your arm." Axel advised.

Rian did it and his Digital Gauntlet glow a menthol green, covering his arm. He faced Axel with an annoyed look, "Do you have to know everything?"

Axel pursed his lips and shrugged, "Pretty much. What? You didn't know how to work this thing?"

Rian scoffed, "Oh I knew!" he then hesitated, "…just not… as…" Rian hesitated. He cleared his throat and uncomfortably said his name, "ahem… Rian Rivers."

"There you go!"

"What does the Gauntlet said?" Talen asked.

Rian pushed some buttons to open its holographic screen and checked, "It's a Twitter Message from Taylor."

The boys looked surprised, "Twitter?!"

"So you can tweet in here? Awesome!" Pierre exclaimed.

"Wow, just imagine! This could be my fifth twitter account besides this gauntlet!" Talen said proudly.

The guys turned to him, surprised, "You got four Twitter accounts?" Axel exclaimed.

"Yeah! One for the girls, one for the guys, one for my parents, and one for my real friends." Talen said.

"Are we your real friends?" Pierre nervously asked, looking like he didn't want to know the answer to that question.

Talen hesitated, "Yeah, something like that."

Rian read the Twitter message, "Soledad: Just found out about Sierra's condition. She's under a spell. Please find her Beauty Mark at Dwarf Woodland. Sierra and I are entering Beauty Pageant."

The boys laughed at that last sentence.

"Guys, that's not funny!" Rian said, smiling and trying to hold back his laughter too.

"Okay let's get serious." Axel said, "What does she mean by finding her Beauty Mark? I mean, doesn't she has one?"

Rian double-checked the tweet. It had a picture of the shiny Beauty Mark stone on the message.

"It's a different kind of Beauty Mark." Rian showed the picture, "Apparently it's some sort of spiritual stone that holds our beauty intact. Without it we look like the trash threw up on us."

"Like Sierra!" Talen howled with laughter and the others followed, laughing and guffawing at Rian's remark that seemed very easy to picture.

"Guys!" Rian chortled, "I… I didn't mean it!"

It took the boys a while to quiet down.

"So what do you think?" Rian asked.

"I'm thinking the same person who wants Snow White dead is the same person who stole Sierra's Beauty Mark." Pierre said.

"And if that person is truly obsessed with beauty," Axel said, "then they don't want anyone from this world and our world to be beautiful. It just simple as that."

"And that person is none other than the Witchy Queen herself!" Talen said before cracking his knuckles, "Why I oughta give her some beauty treatment!"

"Great! But we can't do that!" Rian said, "Someone has to protect Snow White!"

The boys pondered for a while. "How about one of us protects Snow White while the three of us go find Sierra's Beauty Mark from the Queen?" Axel proposed.

"Love the idea, dude!" Pierre said, "But really, who will protect a special princess like Snow White?"

There was an awkward silence with the teens. They then blurted out.

"Not it!"

"Not it!"

"Not it!"

"Not it! Damn!" Rian cursed and the guys hollered.

"Hey, don't get mad! You're the best KH Player ever! Aren't you?" Axel provoked.

"Oh, I'll show you who's best?" Rian sniggered.

"Am I interrupting something?" Snow White entered the scene and asked the gathering teens.

"Actually, Princess, you're in perfect timing." Axel said before facing Rian with a sneer, "Rian is gonna take care of you, while the three of us are gonna take care of the queen."

The three teens were about to leave when Snow White said, "Oh, but please don't hurt her! I do not wish for anyone to get hurt. After all, she is my stepmother."

The boys looked on poker-faced. Axel then faced Pierre. Pierre then faced Talen. Talen then faced Axel, and then he turned to face Pierre. Both boys stared back at Talen who looked very reluctant. There was that awkward silence again.

"Fine." Talen scoffed.

Snow White brought back her smile on her face again, "Oh, thank you! You are all truly noble Keybearers."

"We are doing a noble thing guys." Axel reminded the guys, and they all agreed.

"Okay, but if that queen comes at us full-force, I swear it's Roasting Time for her!" Talen exclaimed as the boys were heading out. "Roasting Time!"

Donald was inside the Gummi Ship, pondering when he heard Goofy enter with groceries bags.

"Gee, Donald. You should have come with me at the Radiant Kingdom's Day Market. It's full of good stuffs." Goofy said before chewing on a piece of delicious banana bread.

"No thanks I'm not hungry." Donald muttered.

"Is something wrong?" he asked.

Donald stood silence for a good minute before turning to face Goofy, "Goofy, why didn't you tell me?"

"About what?"

"About him."

Goofy stood still with his mouth full.

"Goofy?"

"I don't know what you are talking about." Goofy turned away.

Donald got off the control panel and confronted his friend, "What do you mean you don't know what I'm talking about?" Donald angrily sneered, "Terra told me everything that went down! He even told me that you knew! What I don't understand is why you didn't tell me? I thought we were friends!"

"We are friends."

"Really? Well… I don't feel that anymore."

It didn't take long for Donald to realize what he said to Goofy was way out of line. Goofy looked hurt.

"W…Wait. So what are you saying? Because I didn't tell you what happened, we're no longer friends?" Goofy asked.

Silence fell between the two friends. Chip and Dale came at the right moment.

"Uh…what's going on?" Dale asked.

"Are we interrupting something?" Chip asked.

Silence again.

Goofy shook his head, "No. I was just leaving." He said before strolling out of the Gummi Ship. Donald tried to say something but the right words couldn't come out of his mouth.

Snow White faced Rian. Rian faced Snow White. Rian appeared nervous and tense, and Snow White could help but notice.

"Is something the matter?" she asked gently yet politely after a good solid minute of silence.

"Well… I don't mean to be rude but…" Rian took a deep breath before blurting out, "…don't you have like a TV, or a DVD or something?"

"TV? DVD?" Snow White repeated with curiosity in her voice, "What is that?"

"YOU don't know TV and DVD?" Rian looked shocked, "What about a computer? Do you own one?"

Snow White still looked clueless.

Rian alarmingly stood up. "An iPhone?"

No response.

"VIDEO GAMES?!"

Rian finally gave up! "Oh my gosh, Princess Snow White! How do you live?!"

"We were given the breath of life?" the princess answered.

"No!" Rian snapped, "No, no, no! I'm not talking about philosophy here!"

"You look rather upset. Can I get you anything?" Snow White was ready to leave her chair, but Rian stopped her.

"No, please!" he exclaimed, "I just wanna do something while I'm protecting you!" he then sighed again before collapsing back on a chair, "Seriously, this whole protecting-you-kinda-deal is gonna be soooo boring."

"Well," Snow White began, "If you're bored, I can help you with something."

Rian's head jerked up in hope, "Really? You can hook me up?"

"I…" Snow White hesitated, not understanding the meaning of 'hook me up', "… believe I can do that? But first, why not transforming back into your Keybearer self, just for extra protection?" Snow White suggested.

Rian beamed, "Yeah. That's not such a bad idea!"

Rian stretched a pose, DBZ-Style, and a blinding light struck his body, transforming him back to Thunder.

"Sweet! Now we're talking!" Thunder then pulled out his PSP that was equipped with his Keybearer's outfit, "Now why didn't I think of that?"

"If you're bored," Snow White wasn't finished, "the dwarves left a lot of dishes before heading off work." She pointed at a pile of dirty dishes by a clogged sink. Thunder cringed, "Aw, man…"

Snow White tossed him a bar of soap and a sponge, "You can help clean them up." She said with a gentle smile.

"I'll definitely do that. But first and foremost, lemme check my email." Thunder went back to his PSP, "Scoops around the school says that Sierra has made the audition!" He suddenly laughed out loud, "Seriously? Phew! Unless the Beauty Pageant has a Ghoul Girl title on its award list, I totally wouldn't agree! Ha!"

Snow White shook her head, "I don't know about you, but this rather odd object that you and your comrades are always using doesn't qualify as work in my opinion."

Thunder paused. Somehow Snow White got into his conscience. "Wh…what…" he chuckled nervously, "What are you saying? It's just something to… ummm… stop boredom. Like… work?"

"Please put it away, kind sir."

Thunder reluctantly put his PSP back, "…all right fine. I'll do the dishes. Sheesh, you're maybe beautiful but you're quietly annoying."

Thunder suddenly saw a hideous face peeking through the window from outside. The hideous face was an old woman, carrying a basket full of apples.

"Whoa!" Thunder jumped, accidentally broke a plate.

"Is something wrong?" Snow White asked, alerted.

Thunder turned to face her, then turned to face the old woman, but she was gone.

"I…" he hesitated, "…I thought I saw something."

The door swung open, and Thunder and Snow White together saw the old woman carrying the apple basket. She looked frail, weak, and demanding. But rather very hideous.

"Oh, please help me…" the old woman groaned.

Snow White immediately rushed to her aid.

"Oh my heavens! Are you all right?" Snow White asked before turning alarmed when the old woman collapsed to Snow White's arms, "Oh dear! You're hurt!" the princess faced Thunder. "Please help her get to bed!"

Thunder hesitated, "I dunno about you, but she looks evil."

"It is not my place to judge before helping others." Snow White said, "You have got to help her, please!"

Thunder stared back at the old woman who appeared very helpless… but somewhat sneaky. Thunder knew there was something wrong with that woman… something evil. He could sense it from his Keybearer sense. But he didn't know what it was. He then faced Snow White whom her pity for the woman made him feel pity.

"All right fine." Thunder helped Snow White carrying the woman to bed.

The old woman smiled, "Thank you young ones. I'm in your debt."

"Did something happen?" Snow White asked.

"I was almost run down by this stampede of strange dark horses." The woman replied, and Thunder knew what she was talking about, "Centaur Heartlesses." He thought.

The prince saw the dwarves getting out of the mine, just in time to close off work for the day. They were singing happily together.

"Heigh-Ho! Heigh-Ho! To home we go, we—!"

"Dwarves!" he called out to them.

The dwarves turned to face the paranoid prince.

"Well, if it is the Prince." Doc chuckled, greeting him warmly.

"You know, we never get to know your name." Grumpy complained.

"It's Richard." He responded, "Please listen. Snow White is in grave danger!"

The dwarves got alarmed, but Richard wasn't finish, "The Queen made an alliance with some dark warrior from another world!"

"A dark warrior from another world?" the dwarves repeated.

"Oh dear, maybe uh…" Bashful said bashfully, hesitating whenever he was trying to speak. "that dark warrior could be related to uh… these half-horse, half-darkness creatures we fought recently."

"What?" the Prince exclaimed, "You mean… these creatures you fought to protect Snow White? They were from that warrior? So it's true?!"

"We gotta do some—!" Sneezy cut himself short with a big sneeze.

"B-b-but what can we do?" Bashful muttered.

"W…what does that knight look like?" Happy asked excitedly (excited as in pressed and in-a-hurry). "Tell us everything!"

"I… I dunno… I…" Richard stopped to think. He could grasp a mental picture of a clue relating to the Blackheart, "…she was with the Queen…and she was carrying a sword… the shape of a key."

The dwarves all lock eyes with each other.

"And that key…" Richard continued, "…she transformed that weapon into a dark apple."

"A Deadly Apple!" the dwarves exclaimed in panic.

"C'mon, men! We gotta rescue Snow White fast!!" screamed Doc and everyone rushed in with Richard, unintentionally leaving Sleepy behind, who was snoring on the ground. Dopey came back for his buddy and effortlessly dragged him along.

The boys were halfway across the forest when Axel stopped their tracks.

"Wait." He said, "Something's wrong."

"What is it?" Pierre asked.

The boys stood quiet. The only thing that they were hearing was the sound of the rustling tree leaves. Talen suddenly turned around and saw a Neo Heartless with the gruesome colored arms pouncing on him.

"HEY!" he yelped.

"Whoa!" Pierre and Axel yelped before summoned their Keyblades, forcing the Neo heartless to jump off Talen. Talen then summoned his Keyblade and the boys saw themselves surrounded by Neo heartless of the same race.

"Aw, man! Heartless everywhere!" Pierre shouted. "And they appear very different!"

"Okay!" Talen sounded irritated, "Didn't their mama taught them not to sneak-attack on people? Especially ones carrying Keyblades?!"

"Guys, you know what this means right?" Axel said and the boys nodded in response.

"HENSHIN!" Axel stretched a fighting pose, DBZ-style, and light struck his body transforming him back to Sharx. Talen and Pierre stared back at him as if they wanna know what was up with that.

"It's a Kamen Rider thing." Sharx quickly filled them in.

"Oh…" they say before stretching a pose DBZ-style also, "LET'S GO!!" They transformed back to Blazen and Stone and posed for combat. The Neo Heartless charged at them without hesitation.

Blazen placed his Fira Card on his Keyblade and stabbed his Keyblade to the ground, causing the Fira attack to erupt from the ground like a volcano, blasting the enemies up-high. Stone jumped in and delivered a couple air combos at the creatures, vanishing them one-by-one.

Sharx transformed his Keyblade into a Dessert Eagle and delivered 8x hit combos of his Gunshot at the Neo-Heartless, hitting most of them bull's-eyes. But more started to multiply and they all jumped at Sharx who tried to reload his gun and shoot at them some more. He jumped out of the way, and in midair started shooting, but the heartless grouped together to form a shield and deflected the gunshot.

The gun shots went flying everywhere, some went straight toward Stone. Stone nimbly dodged the blow in midair, and quickly placed a Reflect Card on his Keyblade, casting Reflect on him and the gun shots that were chasing him bounced back from him to hit the Neo-Heartlesses.

The Reflect quickly faded and Stone landed safely on the ground, only to get tackled from behind by more Neo Heartless. Stone air-recovered before he hit a tree, landing both feet on the tree's trunk to face his enemies. He placed the Neo Gravira Card on his Keyblade and jumped off the tree, charging them up straight with his Keyblade. He pierced right through the group, unleashing his Neo Gravira Spell on them to make them float helplessly. He then air-dashed toward them, and delivered more combos, before sending them to the ground with a Meteor-Smash style swing of his Keyblade.

Blazen kept attacking the Heartless with swings of his Keyblade, and finished with a strong pierce attack, sending them flying. He turned around and shot another Fira attack at another group of enemies, splitting them up and sending them flying. He let out a battle cry, and suddenly his body covered in flames. He went after the flying heartless, took focus on his enemies with his gauntlet, and unleashed his Focus Mode Supernova. He then shot out multiple of flames at his targeted enemies, incinerating to nothingness. Blazen landed back on the ground and his flame-engulfed body returned to normal.

The boys looked exhausted. But more Neo-Heartless showed up. One came right behind Blazen and grasped him in a tight hug.

"Hey! Let go!" Blazen yelped, struggling to break free.

"Blazen!" Sharx and Stone rushed to his aid, "Don't worry buddy." Sharx said, "We're—!"

They stopped their tracks as they saw an army of Centaur Heartlesses armed with bows and arrows, and lances, targeting them.

"…surrounded." Sharx finished.

"What?" Blazen exclaimed. "What do you mean surrounded?"

"All right, all right." Stone said, "Let's not move a muscle guys, or we might end up—!"

Too late. A Centaur let loose of its bow and its arrow went straight for the Neo-Heartless that was holding Blazen. But the arrow passed right through the creature, unharmed, and it stabbed Blazen instead.

"Aahh!" Blazen went down on his knee in pain.

Suddenly all weapons started flying at every corner, forcing the boys to defend. Stone quickly casted Reflect on the group, deflecting attacks, and Sharx casted Super Armor, preventing any more damages. The Reflect nailed some, but not all of the heartless.

"There's so many of them!" Stone complained.

"Wait, let me try something." Sharx proposed. He turned on his Gauntlet and he switched it to Focus Mode. His Keyblade morphed again into his Dessert Eagle gun, and suddenly split into two type of guns: Dessert Eagle and .44 Magnum.

"Great. More Gunshots! They keep deflecting those y'know!" Blazen grunted, still in pain from that arrow on his back.

"Not gunshots! Gun Time!" Sharx took focus on his enemies and unleash his Focus Mode Gun Time. Shots started barricading the long-ranged enemies, annihilating them completely. The enemies' number decreased rapidly and the boys no longer felt trapped with them. They finally released their defenses to go all-out.

Blazen switched to Fire Blazer Mode and charged at his enemies full-force, unleashing powerful fire-based combos, while Stone unleashed his mastered-powerful Quake Spell on them by jumping high up into the air with his Keyblade and descended it hard to the ground, causing a powerful tremor that sent them flying to oblivion.

The heartless were finally defeated and the coast was finally clear. The exhausted boys made their weapons vanish. Blazen grunted as he pulled out the arrow off his back and felt a deep wound there.

"Aw, dude. Are you okay?" Sharx asked him.

"Y…yeah… I'll be fine. Hold on." Blazen said, before taking a deep breath. As if in response to his deep breathing, his body glowed a bright red fiery light and the wound vanished in dust. The boys looked impressed.

"Brave Heat." Blazen told them, "Always comes in handy."

"Bravo, boys!" They suddenly heard clapping echoing around them with the voice. "Bravo!"

They looked around but they saw no one in sight… until Sage suddenly materialized before them, surprising them! She was smiling genuinely as if she was a friend, but the sound of her voice told them otherwise.

"I should congratulate you on your fabulous performance just now, but that would unfortunately interrupt the pleasure of seeing you win the stupid award for leaving the princess and your best friend behind." She said.

"You." Sharx sneered.

"Wait, who is she?" Stone asked.

"I dunno, but she looks evil." Sharx said.

"I'll tell you who she is." Blazen said, "A Blackheart member."

"Great guess, Blazen." Sage cocked her head on one side, "Now did you guess it, or did you pull that answer from outta you?"

"Why you—!" Blazen called back his Keyblade and menacingly charged at Sage, but Sharx and Stone quickly restrained him.

"Blazen, wait! She's not worth fighting against!" Stone warned his heavy-breathing friend.

"Yeah man!" Sharx warned him also, "We don't know what she's capable of."

"That's where you're right, Sharx." Sage said, "I am capable of a lot of things. Everyone in the Dominion does."

"Like what?" Blazen barked, "Steal Sierra's Beauty and put Snow White in danger by the hands of her own stepmother? You're low you know that?"

"Now the beauty thing is the stepmother's business." Sage replied, "Snow White on the other hand is a different story."

The boys looked questionable.

"What are you talking about?" Stone asked.

Sage let out a quick chuckle, "Now why don't you go back to her home and find that out yourself? You left her, for your friend's beauty. How pathetic!"

"The only pathetic person is you." Sharx said, "We got Thunder. And he's protecting her as we speak!"

"Oh yes." Sage said, "So is he. As well as a complete stranger. From outta…" She eerily whispered the last phrase. "…nowhere."

Darkness enveloped Sage and she vanished. The alarmed boys faced each other.

"That doesn't sound good." Stone said.

"We gotta turn back!" Sharx proposed and the gang all turned back.

Back at Dwarf Woodland, the old woman was facing Snow White, "You must be the lovely Princess Snow White." The old woman said, examining the princess, "Lips as red as blood, skin as white as snow…"

Snow White smiled coyly. But Thunder looked wary. "How about we don't talk about how beautiful she is and leave?" Thunder quickly said, "And by we, I meant you." He said to the old woman.

"Oh, I'm terribly sorry for making you uncomfortable." The old woman said, "Though I must thank you…" she then faced Thunder, "…the both of you, for helping me recover quickly from my trauma. As a token of gratitude, please accept…" she pulled out two pieces of apple, "…these apples. They are fresh from my ever-loving garden."

Both Snow White and Thunder looked hesitant. "Oh thank you, kind lady," Snow White said, "but we cannot accept your gifts. We appreciate your lovely gesture though."

Thunder let out a sigh of relief, but the old woman wasn't gonna let this go. "Oh, please. It's more than a lovely gesture. It's a gift." The old woman then beamed, "Hey, how about…" she dug back into her basket and pulled out…

"…these delicious Caramel Apples on a stick?" she said, holding on to the two delicious snack treats that were dripping in caramel honey liquid whose image looked like skulls, "It's a family recipe. They're too die for. Mueeh! Hee! Hee! Hee! Hee! Hee! Get it? Die?"

"Whoa…" Thunder gasped, tempted. But Snow White was no different. "Please, we can't accept it." Snow White said.

Thunder snatched the Caramel Apple from the woman, "But I can!"

"Thunder?"

"C'mon, Snow White! It's Caramel Apple!" Thunder said, "What could possibly go wrong? It's not like it's been poisoned."

"Thunder, no! That Caramel Apple is poison!!" Taylor yelped on her PSP screen back at Midlight City High School's fashion room, where all the pageant-hopefuls were getting ready for the Homecoming Pageant. Matt and Violet came to watch.

"What's going on?" Matt asked.

"Thunder is about to fall into the Queen's trap!" Taylor exclaimed.

"How dumb can this boy be?" Violet said.

They stood by, helplessly watching the horror unfolding on the screen. They screamed, "NOOOOOOO!!"

The girls looked up, their attention got caught. Taylor, Matt, and Violet grinned back at them.

"Checking out a movie." Taylor covered up. But the girls all looked interested.

"An action-horror movie." Violet added at the last minute and the girls immediately turned away.

Thunder took a bite out of the Caramel Apple when he heard Taylor's voice ringing in his ears.

Thunder, no! That Caramel Apple is poison!!

Thunder accidentally swallowed at the sound of poison and almost choked.

"Thunder, are you all right?" Snow White asked him, but he couldn't respond.

Thunder had that grave look on his face as he lock eyes with the quietly-smiling old woman. "You…!" he breathed.

"Delicious, is it?" the old woman said, before cackling. "MUEEH! HEE! HEE! HEE! HEE! HEE! HEE! HEE!"

Thunder suddenly morphed back into Rian and quickly went down on his knees. The poison was quickly spreading.

"Thunder? Thunder, are you—?!" Snow White suddenly cried out just as Rian succumbed to the ground, "Thunder!!"

"Your charming Keybearer Prince is gone." The old woman sneered.

Snow White knelt beside Rian, her frightened eyes on the old woman who transformed back to her stepmother the Queen. Snow White was now helpless.

"…you're all alone now." The Queen yelled out, "Seize her!"

Centaur Heartless barged in the house and surrounded Snow White and Rian.

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Next Chapter::

A Beauty Pageant's Rescue Mission

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On the Next upcoming Chapters of KH3 Online HD
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"Thunder, you idiotic Keybearer!" Blazen was staring at a half-eaten Caramel Apple he held with his fingers, "Who in their right mind would fall for that trick?"

xXx

"The Prince." Sharx, Blazen, Stone, along with Flora and Cross crossed path with the Prince and the dwarves in the forest.

"You…" The Prince angrily said before unsheathing his sword and pointed at them menacingly. "What have you done with the Princess!"

xXx

"No way can they save their princess from Destiny now." Sage told the Queen.

"What of that Keybearer, Johnny?" The Queen asked Sage.

Sage turned to face a floating Rian whose heart was starting to leave his body gradually, "What do you think?" she said, and the Queen smiled.

xXx

"I'm sorry sis, you have to leave!" Tenshu told his sister Kami.

"Why?" Kami asked curiously.

"Because it's too dangerous!" he hesitated, "I mean…"

The front door kept on slamming full-force. He glanced over at the door then back at his sister, "because…" he hesitated.

xXx

Goofy stared at the picture once more. So did Donald.

"Sora was a good friend." Goofy said.

xXx

"Good bye, Keybearers." Phantamis smiled, "Hello, Heart of Pure Light."