Crystalmaiden62: Man, this is a depressing day. I feel better and the day seems good until I hear the shooting.

Anna: That's scary, the shooting happening in a Batman movie.

Blair: A moment of silence for those who were killed and wounded.

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Crystal: Yes, this is a shock but I have the chapter up so I hope you like it and here comes the Disclaimers.

Disclaimers: Well, I don't own Kingdom Hearts. I only own Anna and Lunar Wish so I hope you like it and place don't flame me.

Chapter 11: Halloween Town

After a full day of rest and Jiminy, Chip, and Dale taking care of us, we were back on our adventure. I'm not looking forward to the next world. If its Halloween Town, I'll need to hide from the others so they can go off without me. If it's Neverland, well I'll have to face Riku and his darkness soon after all. I stayed in my room for most of the day, being as silent as possible in hopes Sora and the others would forget me on this next trip. Sadly, they didn't.

"Anna! Come on, there's a new world we need to go to!" Sora called, from my door as I covered myself with my blanket.

"You go on without me. I caught a cold." I said, pretending to cough.

"Oh no you don't!" I jumped as the door swung open and Donald holding his wand. "You need to get up. You've got a duty to do."

"I don't wanna go down there though. It has two of the things I'm scared of: darkness and ghost." I said, but Donald yanked the blanket off me.

"No, you need to come and seal that keyhole."

"Don't worry, Anna. I did promise I'll deal with the Search Ghost Heartless while you deal with the others." Sora said, as he and Donald pushed me out of my room. I felt like crying as we landed and we got out. I have to admit, I liked my outfit. I was dressed as a witch but I wasn't all black, there was some blue and red and even a small bit of pink in the ribbon of my pointed hat as well as the ribbon that tied my cape together. Still, there weren't much red but had more blue in the lining as well as my vest and I'm wearing a dress. Other than that, I looked normal; well, besides the dress. Sora and the others did look darker and different but I guess it's okay; I don't do scary.

"This sure is spooky place." Goofy said, as I nodded moving closer to Sora. "I'll bet the people here are scary-lookin' too."

"Don't worry. We look spooky, too. If they scare us, we'll scare them right back! Maybe we should fix up your outfit, Anna." Donald said but I shook my head.

"No, I'm fine but I could do with some pants at least." I said.

"Yeah, Anna can scare them with her magic. Besides, it's nice to see Anna at least look like a girl." Sora said, as I glared at him.

"Hey, what's that supposed to mean? I look like a normal girl even with shorts thanks."

"I'm just kidding. Come on, let's go." Sora said, taking my hand and we ran to the town square. When we got there, we saw the Search Ghost Heartless but they didn't attack us. "What's going on? Why aren't they attacking us?"

"We'll find out in a bit." I said, walking pass the ghost. The ghost, though not doing anything, still creeped me out and I stayed close to Sora. We looked to see the Mayor of Halloween Town in all his happy glory at the moment.

"And now, allow me to introduce the master of terror, the king of nightmares: Jake Skellington!" At once, the skeleton man coming out of the well of green water. I have to admit, he's not scary and he seemed nice enough for me to make friends with. "Bravo, Jack! Bravo!" The mayor cheered, running to the town hero. "Those ghosts will be a big hit at this year's Halloween!"

"Thank you, thank you!" Jack said, looking pleased. "But their movement still needs work." No, I think they're scary enough. "It's not scary enough. I want to strike bone-chilling terror. I'm going to consult the doctor."

"Then I'll go attend to the decorations." The mayor said and walked off.

"Come on, let's go see what's going on?" Sora said, as I nodded.

"Yeah, I really want to meet Jack."

"You do?" Donald asked, as I nodded.

"Yeah, he seems pretty cool." I said and we followed Jack to the laboratory of Dr. Finkelstein.

"I don't understand." Jack said, pacing around the room. On the operating table, was a ghost Heartless and Dr. Finkelstein checking it. "Maybe the guidance system was damaged in the explosion."

"Nonsense. My devices are always prefect!" The scientist said, looking annoyed as Jack looked at a large book.

"Oh, I've got it!" Jack said, looking excited. "Why, of course! The Heartless need a heart!" Sora and I looked at each other. Even when I first played the game, it was weird yet interesting to hear this idea. "Doctor, do you think we can add a heart to that device?"

"Certainly. A heart's not all that complicated. Let's get to work." Well, hearts are a lot more complicated than they think. Only Kingdom Hearts can make a heart.

"To make a heart, first take a container with a lock…"

"We need the key to this thing first!" Dr. Finkelstein yelled out.

"We can help!" Sora cheered, grabbing me and we walked in.

"Really? You can unlock it?" Jack asked, looking at Sora and me.

"Sure, it's easy for us. Right, Anna?"

"Uh, yeah." I said, nodding.

"You guys are really gonna unlock it for them?" Donald asked.

"Why not? If they succeed, we won't have to fight the Heartless, right?" Sora pointed out. "Besides, I want to see the Heartless dance, too. Don't you? And it might help Anna with her fear of ghost if they're doing something funny."

"Hm, that might work." Goofy said, as I shrugged.

"Okay, Anna. You do it."

"Okay." I pointed my keyblade at the pulsating empty heart and unlocked it.

"My! That was amazing!" Jack said, examining the heart. "Oh, and you are…"

"I'm Anna, these are my friends: Sora, Donald, and Goofy." I said, gesturing to the guys.

"Well done, Anna!" Jack said, happily. "I'd like you and Sora to be a part of this year's Halloween."

"What's this Heartless doing here?" Sora asked, pointing to the Heartless on the operating table.

"Oh, the Heartless came to town just recently." Jack said, looking pleased. "What's frustrating is I can't get them to dance with me. So the doctor and I are trying to improve the guidance system. He's quite a genius! Okay, doctor, let's continue. The ingredients for a heart: pulse, emotion," He took out a frog and placed it on the table.

"Terror." Dr. Finkelstein said, as Jack placed a spider in the heart.

"Fear." Jack said, as the doctor used his fingers to scratch a piece of glass noisily. "Hope and despair." Jack place two snakes biting the other's tail. "Mix them all together, and we have a heart!"

"Um, isn't a heart a little more than those emotions?" I asked, looking to Dr. Finkelstein.

"Nonsense, this is how to make a heart." The doctor said, pulling a switch and lighting hit the Heartless and it sat up like Frankenstein and seemed to work before falling down back onto the table. "It failed!"

"I told you, a heart is a little more complicated than just those emotions." I said, crossing my arms as the doctor glared at me but seemed to resign himself to the truth of my words.

"Maybe we're missing some ingredients." A lot if you're making a heart. "Let's try adding memory. Sally! Sally!" I jumped back a bit as the doctor opened his head and scratched his brain a bit. I'm not liking this place again. "Good for nothing girl! Don't know why I bothered creating her! Sally's got the memory we need. See if you can track her down."

"No problem." Jack said, turning to us. "Sora, Anna, would you like to come along?"

"Sure." Sora said and I nodded. Sally's probably one of the few things I won't be scared of in this place. I'm really looking forward to meeting here. The moment we got outside, we heard the mayor panicking.

"Jack! Jack! We have a major crisis!" He yelled, his sad face out. "The Heartless are completely out of control! We can't stop them!"

"Hmm… maybe out experiment triggered something." Jack said, thoughtfully. "Everything will be fine, Mayor. You have nothing to worry about."

"Are the town's people safe?" I asked the mayor.

"Yes, they went to hide from them but we need to get rid of the Heartless as soon as possible."

"No, we need Heartless for this Halloween. We've got this under control." Jack said, as we looked to him. He doesn't seem to understand the Heartless can do a lot of harm to the people here. We got to the town square to see the Search Ghost Heartless acting up. Oh man, they're all ghost!

"Anna, go. We'll take care of the Heartless." Sora said, rushing into battle.

"Okay, thanks." I said, and ran off to the cemetery quickly with the Search Ghost chasing after me. "Leave me alone!" I yelled but the Heartless were destroyed by a silvery white blur.

"I thought you'd be able to beat them Anna. You don't usually run from the Heartless." I looked to see Riku and blushed. Riku was a silver haired werewolf and I'd have to say, he looked hot with wolf ears. "You look cute in that outfit, Anna. But isn't a dress a little bit bad for battle though?"

"Can't be helped, so I'll tolerate it for now." I said, pulling at the end of my dress. "Anyway, what are you doing here?"

"I'm looking into different people who can be a princess of heart." Riku said, looking at a certain gravestone.

"You think it's Sally." I stated. "Riku, I can tell you that Sally isn't one, that's for sure. She may be pure and kind and gentle…"

"Like you."

"Riku." I said, looking at him and blushing a little at his words. "She's not who you're looking for."

"Thank you for telling me." Riku said, turning away from me.

"Riku, did you know that Maleficent knows all the princesses of heart?" Riku turned to me looking shocked. "Yeah, Maleficent knows them all. She's been hunting them down for years now since she first gained control of the Heartless."

"Anna, can't you tell me who the last princess is then? It'll save Kairi if you do."

"I can't." I said, looking at him seriously. "I can't tell you who the last princess is to keep Kairi safe. Kairi's safety as well as the worlds are in danger will be affected if I tell you anything about the last princess."

"Anna…"

"Riku, Kairi understands why I'm doing this."

"No!" Riku shook his head looking shocked. "That can't be true. Please, Anna. Just come with me and we can save Kairi together. I'm sure we'll find a way to make it work." He held his hand out to me with a certain look in his eyes. That look alone would've made me want to take his hand but the darkness around him seemed endless now that it scared me a bit.

"Riku…"

"Anna." I turned to see Sora and the others coming to me. I turned back around to see Riku had gone.

"What's wrong?" Goofy asked, as I shook my head.

"It's nothing." I said, turning to them. At once, a small ghost dog shot out of one of the graves and came to me.

"Ah!" I screamed and jumped behind Sora.

"Now, Anna. There's no need to scream. It's only Zero." Jack said, petting Zero on the head.

"Sorry, I just don't like ghost." I said, looking to Zero, as he looked back at me curiously.

"Well, we can't have that. There are going to be ghost at this years Halloween and we can't have our witch being scared of a ghost." Jack said, looking down at Zero. "I know, Zero, you stay with Anna for the rest of her stay."

"What!" Before I could reach, Zero came to me and licked my face.

"Anna, are you okay? You look pale." Donald asked, as I shuddered.

"I was licked….by a ghost dog…." I stumbled a bit before Sora held me up.

"Come on, Anna. Don't you think Zero's cute?" Sora said, as Zero looked ready for me to pet him.

"I guess…" I said, making to pet him but he barked and I jumped to Sora.

"Anna, why don't you ask Zero about Sally?" Jack asked, as I looked to him.

"Why not you?"

"You need to get used to ghost like Zero. Here ghost aren't bad at all." Jack said, as I looked to Zero, who looked eager.

"Okay, Zero do you know where Sally is?" Zero nodded and went behind a tombstone and someone gasped and got up.

"Is something wrong, Jack?" Sally asked.

"No everything's going great." Jack said, walking up to her. "We're going to have the best Halloween ever. All we need now is your memory."

"Memory? You mean this?" She held up some forget-me-not flowers in her hands.

"That's prefect." Jack said, as Sally gave it to him.

"Jack, I have a bad feeling about this." Sally said, looking worried while Jack stared fascinated by the shriveled flowers. "Why don't you try something else? There's still time."

"Nothing could beat what I've got planned!" Jack said, enthusiastically. "Once we give the Heartless a heart, they'll dance just as I envision it. Trust me. You're going to love it!" That still didn't make Sally feel any better and Zero and I looked at each other. Still, we went back to the lab with Sally and Zero. Zero seemed to like me but he's still a ghost no matter how cute he is.

"Yes. This is it." The doctor said, taking it. "Now, just one more ingredient. We need 'surprise' to complete the heart." Still off but I'll give him some credit for trying. The mayor should know where it is." This time, there were other Heartless than the usual Search Ghost Heartless so I could join the fight without much worry. On top of all that the mayor wanted us to do this ghost thing in the cemetery to get the jack-in-the-box. Maybe the ghost here, are nice after all. They don't seem to be bad people, in face they seem to be like normal people. Just with a hobby of scaring people for fun. That still made me shudder and Zero licked my hand in comfort.

"I guess you're not that bad." I said, looking at Zero as he looked pleased.

"There's no need for you to be scared." I turned to Sally. "Zero only wants to be your friend and the ghost are only doing what they're used to."

"I guess." I said, moving to pet Zero but pulled back. "We've got no time. We need to get this to Dr. Finkelstein." So we get back to the laboratory and the doctor looked pleased to have it.

"There you go. This time it's sure to work." The doctor said, as I crossed my arms.

"I'm still saying it won't work. Hearts are too complicated to make." I said, as Dr. Finkelstein glared at me.

"Nonsense. I made Sally with this method." Okay, he got me there. He did make Sally from scratch after all and she turn out nicely. He made to place the heart inside the Heartless but sometime tripped the wheelchair sending the heart flying only to be caught by a kid dressed as a devil.

"Hey!" The kid just laughed, now joined by his two friends, a girl dressed as a witch and a boy dressed as a skeleton: Of course, Lock, Shock, and Barrel.

"The never of those little hooligans, stealing my work!" Dr. Finkelstein raged, as Jack helped him back onto his wheelchair.

"Who were those kids?" Sora asked, looking to me.

"Lock, Shock, and Barrel: a couple of tricksters." Jack said, looking annoyed. "We'd better get the heart back before they ruin it."

"I agree." So again, we ran off but they were gone. Man, those kids can run fast.

"We lost them."

"And Zero apparently." I said, looking for the ghost dog but not seeing him. Jack patted his knee and Zero appeared.

"Zero! After them, quick!" Zero nodded and flew off with us behind him. We went back into the cemetery and to a open stone coffin.

"I'm not going to like this." I said, crawling into the coffin, we ended back into the area where we met the mayor, and went through another door to the landmark hill of Halloween Town. There's way to many hidden doors leading to different places here.

"In coming!" We looked to see a whole bunch of mummy and gargoyle Heartless coming at us. This battle is way easier for me since there were no ghost and my Lunar Light spell can easily take care of the Heartless.

"What an interesting attack." Jack said, looking at me.

"Thanks, but do you know how to make the hill uncurl?" I asked, looking at the hill. In the game, you just go near it, press a button, and it goes for you. Now, I'm not really sure.

"Oh of course." Jack just snapped his fingers and the hill moved to make a bridge to get to the other end of the wall.

"Well, that was easy." Donald said, as we made our way across. We crossed the bridge over the water when we came across the famous Oogie Boogie Manor.

"I knew Oogie Boogie was behind this!" Jack said, looking up at the tall manor.

"So what do we do?" Sora asked, as I looked and I think I saw the kids in their tub enter the at the very top of the manor.

"They should be up there. If we hurry, we can get the heart before they give it to Oogie." I said, though doubtful that'll happen. Okay, I have to say it: I like Oogie's manor. It looked cool for a creepy old place but it would've made a fun play house. No wonder those annoying kids made this place their hang out. After battling a ton of those gargoyle Heartless, we finally made it to that evil playroom just to in time to see them throw the heart down a tube.

"Hey, where does that tunnel go?" Sora asked, as the kids smirked at us under their masks.

"We're not telling." Lock said, as I glared at them.

"That's it, you three are annoying. Sora, these brats are mine."

"Um, okay?" Sora said, as I took out Lunar Wish.

"What are you going to do, old hag?" Barrel asked, as I felt really annoyed.

"I'm guessing your parents never taught you that when you do something bad, you'll get punished." I said, glaring down at them as they took a step back.

"Scatter!" Shock yelled and they ran around the room.

"You won't be able to run for long!" I yelled, raising Lunar Wish into the air. "Lunar Light!" For the next three minutes were filled with the sounds of the children's screams.

"Anna, I'm scared of the Lunar Light now." Sora said, as the children huddled close to each other holding their butts.

"Don't worry, I'm sure I won't be using Lunar Light on you any time soon." I said, shrugging. "Besides, the Lunar Light spell only affects people with really dark hearts. Seeing as these kids work for the villain here, they count." We turned to them and they whimpered at the sight of my keyblade. "Now, kids. I'm sure you don't want that to happen again. That's just my punishment. Imagine what Jack'll do to you for trying to mess with his Halloween plans."

"Yes, they'll have to deal with much more when this is over." Jack said, sternly and the kids looked a little more nervous.

"We were just following orders!" Shock yelled, frightened under the stern look from Jack. Never mess with the hero of the town. "Oogie Boogie told us to steal the heart. It's all Barrel's fault. It was his idea to tell Oogie Boogie about the heart."

"Yeah, that's right!"

"B…but you guys said…."

"You should be ashamed!" Great, now they're pointing fingers.

"Never mind that. Where is Oogie Boogie then?" Sora asked, as I moved to pull the switch to get the door to Oogie's lair unlocked.

"He's at the very bottom of the manor." I said, looking at the tunnel. "Being a bag of bugs, he probably likes a dark cool place to make his home."

"You're right, Anna. How did you know he was a bag of bugs?" Jack asked, as we left the playroom.

"Well, that's kind of my secret. Still, at least it helps me know where things are." I said, and we made our way down. You know, Oogie Boogie is one weird villain. I have to give him credit for that idea if he had a heart he might be able to control the Heartless. That means Maleficent never gave Oogie the power to control the Heartless; good job on her part really. Another, his room entrance is a little to conspicuous. Really, it's a giant green door with his face on it. Really, this guy isn't the best villain when it comes to his lair. We walked into to see his game room lair and I have to admit, though dark it looks awesome.

"Oogie Boogie, give me back the heart!" Jack yelled, seeing Oogie with the heart on the other side of the room and he stuffed it into his mouth and swallowed. "Now, let's see if I can get their attention. Oh, Heartless!" But only two gargoyles Heartless came to his side. "This is it?"

"Guess, they didn't like your heart very much." I said, crossing my arms and grinning a little.

"Nobody disrespects me! Nobody!" Oogie yelled, and the roulette in began to spin and the force of a few bombs threw us onto it.

"He's cheating!" Sora yelled, as we dodged bomb dices, blades, and whatever else he sent at us from above us.

"Just keep close to him! We'll get the chance to attack but use thunder spells to get him!" I yelled, and Donald and Sora followed my lead and after a while, the platform rose and we finally got to Oogie Boogie. "You ready, Sora?"

"You bet!" Sora ran up and landed a powerful blow before moving out of the way.

"Lunar Storm!" I yelled and the force of the spell sent us back and finished off the bag of bugs. "Ew!" I yelled, squashing the bug with my foot. "God I hate bugs."

"So, that heart was a failure after all." Jack said, looking a little depressed.

"Hey, look what I found!" Goofy said, and handed me a paper, which was piece of Ansem's Report.

"That's good, we can send it when we get back to the gummi ship." I said, pocketing it.

"At least we're done." Sora said, as we left the manor and got to the entrance of the bridge to the waterway. If only they knew. The ground suddenly shook and we turned to see the manor had completely changed, the whole foundation of the manor turned into Oogie Boogie; which makes you wonder if the bugs inside are as big as us.

"Whoa! How did he get so big?" Sora asked looking to me, as I looked to the orbs of darkness on Oogie: well more like pimples.

"Look, it's brimming with the power of darkness!" Donald pointed out. "Oogie Boogie s drawing power from those dark globs!"

"So we have to destroy those things, right?" Sora said, as I nodded.

"Yep, it shouldn't take too long with my Lunar spells we just gotta be careful of his lantern since it'll shoot fire at us." I said, smiling at Lunar Wish. "I think we'll be better splitting up. We'll get this done faster."

"Are you sure, Anna? It might be dangerous." Goofy asked, as I nodded.

"Yeah, I'll be fine. I've got light magic so it'll be easier for me to finished up."

"Okay, go for it." Sora said, smiling.

"Thanks. See you guys in a bit!" I yelled and changed Lunar Wish into a glider and flew off to the manor. It didn't take me long to finish off the darkness pimples but I had a little bit of difficulty dealing with the gargoyle Heartless that would come at times. I should've asked Donald or someone to come with me after all. Still, I'm getting stronger at least. I flew off of the Oogie as he stared to shake and flew down to Sora and the others. "You'd better get ready, we'll need to seal another keyhole." I said, watching Oogie go down and the manor vanished leaving the keyhole. At once, we raised our keyblades and sealed the keyhole for good. Maybe that's why Maleficent didn't give Oogie the power to control the Heartless; he might not have cared in her goals to begin with. Still, we went back into town and told Sally and Dr. Finkelstein about what happened.

"Oh Sally, why didn't I listen to you?" Jack said, looking depressed.

"Don't feel bad, Jack." Sally said, coming to comfort him. "We'll come up with another plan for Halloween. Next time, we'll do it together." I wish Riku would say he should've listened to me. He can't see he's only being used.

"I guess we have no choice." Jack said, turning to us. "We'll have to cancel the Heartless Halloween festival for now. Visit us any time. Next year's Halloween will be the scariest ever!"

"Okay…" I said, weakly petting Zero.

"Hey, Anna. You're not afraid of Zero anymore." Sora pointed out, as I nodded.

"Even though, Zero is a ghost he's cute and friendly so I like him now. Right, Zero?" I said, as Zero barked in agreement.

"So you, got over your fear of ghost?" Goofy asked.

"Boo!" A ghost popped out and I screamed and ran for it. Needless to say, I'm not.

"Urgh!" I lay in bed and felt Kairi patting my head in comfort. "I hate ghost so much!"

It's okay now, Anna. It's over now. Kairi said, as we heard Lunar laughing.

I've never seen Anna run that fast before! If only Ventus was able to see it.

"Not now, Lunar." I groaned, as someone knocked on my door.

"Anna, you in there?" I heard Sora say.

"Yeah, come in." I said, sitting up as Sora entered the room and Kairi vanished. "What is it?"

"I was wondering if you have Ansem's Report. I was planning on sending it to Leon and the others." Sora said, as I handed to him. "Also, Aerith sent us a letter saying she translated the reports we sent her and she'll send it to us in a bit."

"That's good news." I said, getting up. I can't help but feel Riku getting closer.

Anna, are you okay? Kairi asked, returning to my side.

"Riku's coming, we'll see him soon." I said, taking out my keychain. I don't know why but I can feel Riku's excitement for some reason. Why he's so eager, I'm not sure. But I do want to see Riku again. I can't help it. It's the part of me that's loved him for years. I wonder I he feels that through our connection. I doubt it though. Still, I couldn't stop thinking about him as I made dinner. I wonder when he'll be coming. I know it'll be soon at least.

Anna: At least that's done. I don't like ghost.

Blair: It's okay, at least you'll see Riku in the next chapter.

Crystal: Yes and a special moment will happen. (smirk)

Anna: What is it?

Crystal: Well, you'll have to wait. But to hint, it'll involve a special moment with Riku. So, hope you liked it. Join us next time in Chapter 12: Return to Neverland. See you soon!

Anna: TELL ME!

Crystal: No!