The Gummy Ship was already in the loading dock as Wanessa and I into the chamber. Sora had just jumped out of the door while we walked past.

"Hey guys!" He yelled. I ignored him and climbed aboard the ship. What was wrong with Rachel? "Where's your friend?"

"She's not coming with us," Wanessa said quietly. She climbed aboard after me, Sora shut the door behind us. We explained everything to them.

"So how are we going to get her away from them?" I asked after the ship had already taken off. Sora shrugged, and Nessa looked thoughtful.

"Did she seem loyal or scared to you?" She asked. I looked up, giving her a confused look. "Well if she's loyal to them then it won't be easy to get her away, she might be consumed by darkness already. But if she was scared and didn't want to get us hurt then she's actually just trying to protect us and we must then go to the head honchos and destroy them."

"You've got a very good point," Sora said, "When I saw Riku in Traverse Town, he seemed loyal to them. I don't know how I'm going to get him away."

"Well Riku's an asshole," I muttered. Sora glared at me.

"He is not! He's just not himself."

"Whatever."

"Well Rachel's not exactly a nice person either."

"Okay whatever," I mumbled. "We need a plan."

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The world we landed in was dark. Very dark. There were scary faces and iron fences everywhere you look. The decrepit civilians were as bad as the crumbling stonewalls. We walked along the path, them staring at us.

"You know Donald," Goofy said slowly, "I don't think we blend in to well." Donald nodded and raised his staff; we all glowed silver for a moment.

Sora took on the look of a vampire, half of his face devoured by an evil pumpkin. He had little black wings coming out of his jacket and he became a pastel colored being. Donald was wrapped up like a mummy, part of his middle missing. Goofy became a werewolf with an ex'd out eye. Wanessa had on a long, tatter, black skirt and a puffed white shirt with bloody stains on the sleeves. Her long brown hair was matted and tangled. She looked like a murdered tavern worker. I had on ripped black and white stockings, a short black skirt and a corset stained with blood. My skin was so pale it was almost translucent and my short hair was tossed around.

"Cool!" Nessa, Sora, and I exclaimed at the same time. We laughed.

"Well hello there!" We turned and saw a very tall skeleton in a tattered old suit standing across the way. "Welcome to Halloween Town!"

"Hi there!" Sora said walking forward.

"I'm Jack Skellington and this is Sally," He said, introducing the rag doll girl standing next to him.

"I'm Sora, and that's Donald and Goofy."

"I'm Meg and this is Nessa," I added.

"I'm absolutely delighted to meet you!" He actually did sound happy.

"So what are all these heartless doing here?" Sora asked.

"Oh, that's what they're called," Jack exclaimed, "Well I want to use them as dancers in our Halloween celebration, but I can't get them to dance with me." I tugged on Nessa's sleeve.

"Come on, let's get out of here," I whispered. We ran off while they discussed Dr. Finklestein and the heartless. As we ran off towards a gate that lead to a grave yard we saw three little kids heading across a hill in a bathtub. "Let's follow them." Nessa nodded and we followed them to a giant clubhouse. It was absolutely huge!

We walked up the planks cautiously. There were heartless just standing around, not attacking us, or even moving for that matter. We watched them uneasily and made our way up the winding planks.

"Hey look!" Nessa pointed. There was a treasure chest in one of the chambers that randomly hung from the branches. "I wonder what's in it."

"Probably just some random Gummy shit," I said, looking for a way to get to the door that I could barely see on the platform above us. "Hey, what do you thin-" I looked around for her, "Wanessa?"

"OVER HERE!" She called. She was standing on the platform across from the metal cage, judging the distance to jump across.

"What are you doing? We have to find a portal to the Evil Honchos."

"I know. But what if this is full of puppies?"

"Let Sora get it, I have a feeling they'll be this way later on in the day." She ignored me and continued to bounce on her legs. I started to walk towards her, intending on dragging her along behind me. She backed up several steps and pushed on her back leg. Then suddenly she was running forward. She jumped and flew across the gap. My mouth gaped open as she landed smoothly and opened the chest. Three puppies ran around her yapping with delight, and then they disappeared into the air.

"Nice, now lets go!" I called. She started to walk across the metal when a sort of sonic wave of darkness flashed through the air.

"What was that?" She called.

"I don't know but get over here!" She walked a little quicker but then I saw a heartless on the branch with the rope. It was gnawing on the rope. I raised my staff and named.

"MEG WAIT!"

"FIARGRA!" I shot straight at the heartless and hit it straight on. It disappeared; the hearts it had stolen flew into the sky. "Shit." Some of the flames from my attack had bounced off and had caught the rope on fire. "NESSA JUMP!" She started to run but just as she was about to push off the cage fell.

I raced to the edge of the platform and dove after her. I caught on to the rope and as we fell to the bottom I pulled myself along and grabbed onto the metal bars. The ground was coming closer and closer. Then we crashed into rocks, right in front of a green door.