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Wanessa held her hand over my mouth and forced me to hold still until Maleficent, Jafar, and the heartless were gone. When she finally let go of me I leapt up.
"RACHEL!" I screamed. Looking around the bazaar. "She's gone Wanessa! She's gone! That stupid Riku tricked her into that portal and now she's gone with him and Maleficent." Wanessa came up behind me and gave me a hug.
"We'll find her, don't worry. We have to," She muttered into my hair, though I could feel her uncertainty. "Okay breathe." I tried to relax. "We've got to find Sora, Donald, and Goofy."
"Why?"
"Remember, there's always dark to light," She explained. I looked at her. My feet hurt, my head heart, and my throat hurt from screaming. I wanted to sit in the shade somewhere and relax. "Look I was reading the strategy guide and it says that they have a boss fight that goes through the whole city. I bet if we find a good lookout spot we'll see them fighting and then somehow follow them."
"Okay," I said. We started walking towards the large gateway leading further into the city. Black shadows were rising up from the ground; their yellow eyes were made dull by the sun. "Oh, heartless." I pulled my magical staff from the air and whacked at the first one's head. The Bandit jumped backwards and flung his sword at us. Wanessa jumped in front of me with her shield, which sparked white with the impact. The heartless dissolved and was replaced with a pile of munny and green health balls.
"GET THE BALLS!" I yelled, noticing another heartless rising up from the ground to attack us. Wanessa looked at me.
"At least we'll get some practice in!" She said, laughing. We attacked the heartless and gathered as much munny as possible. We felt stronger and weren't tired at all when we were done.
An hour or so passed and our hiding place was getting hot. Wanessa had pulled back her long hair with the only hair tie and I continued to brush my short hair out of my face.
"Where are they?" I complained. I leaned back against the slightly cool rock as Wanessa leaned out over the edge to look.
"OVER THERE!" She shouted. Just as she did, a loud crashing sound came from the gate to the palace. A giant blue centipede with pots for the middle was moving throughout the city. Sora was attacking the middle, trying to get it to shorten up. Goofy covered the tail and Donald avoided the dark laced feelers on its head. We jumped down just in time to be attacked by the feelers.
"GET OUT OF THE WAY!" Sora yelled. He'd smashed all the pots and joined Donald up front. I dodged a feeler but Wanessa didn't. She was throne into a wall. I ran towards her and held up my staff.
"CURE!" A green light sparked from the end and surrounded her. I felt lightly drained but when she was standing I leapt back into the battle and started beating the centipede in the head and blasting fire and ice at it. Wanessa jumped in and helped Sora attack the pots gathering again in the middle.
"Who are you?" Sora asked, breaking a pot directly in half, the keyblade sparking as he did.
"Nessa!" She answered.
"Nessa?" Sora stopped. His paused caused him to be kicked by a leg on one of the pots. "Where are you from?" She couldn't answer. "What about you?" He yelled up to me.
"Meggan!" I shouted back while stabbing at the eye and burning it with fire at the same time. Then suddenly the centipede snapped and disappeared into a black fog. I ran up behind Nessa and whispered in her ear, "Are they supposed to know we're following them?" I asked. Nessa shrugged.
"I can't see how it'll hurt. They may need our help," she whispered back. "And besides we can use them to find Rachel, they're looking for that Riku guy, right?" I nodded. We walked back over to them and they had decided to go to the desert. We looked at our feet and moaned.
"Good luck guys," I said, looking around for a shoe shop anywhere. "We might come out that way eventually." They nodded and started to leave, Aladdin and Genii were traveling with them now. "Okay, shoes."
Just then a very small man with a cart ran past. "EXCUSE ME!" Nessa called after him. He stopped and turned. "Do you know where we can get shoes?" A huge smile broke out on his face and he whipped the cover off of his cart. A bunch of shining gold things sprang up. Rugs and clothing, and a rack of shoes rolled out of the side.
"Whoa," I said. Taking a step closer.
"Shoes, clothes, anklets, wristbands, rings, protective bandannas, potions, and anything you could think of in this cart. Search away and come to me when you're done shopping," He said and pulled out a book and sat on a bench placed at the front of the cart.
Wanessa and I smiled at each other and started to rummage through his cart. We found anti-darkness bandannas, comfortable shoes, and we stocked up on potions just in case. When we were done the peddler jumped down and examined our pickings.
"These are the most comfortable and versatile shoes I've ever invested in," He bragged.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"Versatile, meaning they chan-"
"I KNOW WHAT IT MEANS!"
"She means, what makes them versatile," Wanessa explained.
"Oh I see. They change depending on the type of conditions you're in," He explained, "For example, if you were in the desert they would become non-slip and make it easy for you to move quickly across the dunes. Or if you were somewhere wet they would become water proof immediately to protect your feet."
"Awesome." We paid for the items and loaded up with them. Splitting the potions between us. I tied the bandanna around my head and held back my hair and Wanessa looped hers through the top of her pants. "This is so much better," I sighed, dunking my head into a basin of water before we went out in the desert. Within a few minutes, it had already evaporated off my face.
The Cave of Wonders was already open and we walked cautiously into the mouth of the lion. Inside there were several heartless left over from Sora's original raid of the place. We destroyed them and traveled down further into the cave. We heard a malicious laughter coming from one of the doors and we ran over to it and peaked in.
Maleficent and Riku stood at the top of a large block, which hung over a giant hole in the ground.
"Wait until they are done fighting and return with the two girls," Maleficent instructed.
"Aren't you going to help him?" Riku asked, looking into the hole.
"No. If he can be so easily defeated he does not deserve my help," She spun her cape and stepped through the portal into the darkness. Riku sighed and sat down next to a struggling figure. I squinted my eyes to look closer.
"RACHEL!" I screamed, getting away from Wanessa's arms long enough to run to the edge of our block. Riku looked up and tried to figure out who we are. Rachel's head moved in our direction but he pushed his hand on her head and she fell still. Then he raised his sword and put a protective barrier in our doorway. "YOU ASS HOLE GIVE HER BACK RIGHT NOW!" Wanessa stopped me from running into the barrier but as I blasted spells at it, but I was distracted by another girl who was walking onto a block. She had on a green outfit with jet-black hair.
I watched as Riku silently jumped from his block to hers and as she leaned over the edge he touched the back of her head and with a little scream she fell forward, but he caught her before she fell over the side of the cliff. Without so much as a grunt he picked her up and jumped back over to the ledge with Rachel on it. He stepped through the portal carrying Jasmine and after minute came back for Rachel.
"Let's go!" Wanessa grabbed my arm and pulled me away. "If we find the gummy ship we can climb aboard and travel with them." I nodded and we both ran quickly back to Agrabah, searching along the way for their gummy ship. Halfway through the desert we found it and climbed aboard.