*I don't own ANY of the Kingdom Hearts characters or Lion King II: Simba's Pride characters, I only own Katie, her sister Clementine, and her cat Venitas.

The moon has finally risen in the Pride Lands, Katie and the gang had a long day. Nobodies and Heartless tried to get into the king's den and it took a good two hours of fighting to get them out. That and Katie, Repliku, Sora, and Kairi got chased by rhinos an hour before the invasion. Katie was pacing back and forth, trying to decide to go to sleep or not. "I know that nothing happened to me last night, but that could change very easily. Either way I put it, Xehanort would get me…I just don't know what to do!" Katie mumbled.

"I still think it's fine for you to sleep…" Riku told her.

Repliku turned quickly to Riku and spat venomously, "It's dangerous for her to sleep!"

"How so?" Riku questioned.

"First off, do you remember what happened to Katie in Berk?!" Repliku snapped. "Xehanort almost got her! And so did Ansem!"

"She was awake when Ansem found her!" Riku retorted.

"So?!"

"GUYS!" Katie yelled. "Would you two just stop fighting?! It's literally driving me insane! Just shut up already and get along! You're both the same person so just stop it!" She covered up her mouth with her tail right after realizing her mistake.

Repliku and Riku stared at her wide eyed; Repliku angry and Riku confused. Riku walked up slowly and asked, "What do you mean by that?"

Katie looked at the cave's floor and turned around. "I'm going to bed."

"Katie, you didn't answer my—"

"I SAID GOODNIGHT!" Katie screamed, not caring that she was drawing attention. She ran off before Riku or Repliku could say anything else.

After a few seconds of awkward silence, Lea approached the two boys. "What was that all about?" he asked.

Riku sighed and shook his head, "I don't know…"

"Well, if I were you two, I wouldn't talk to Katie for a while. She sounded pretty mad." Lea advised.

"Thank you, Captain Obvious." Repliku growled. Looking at Riku bitterly one last time, he bounded away to find a place to sleep for the night.

"Is it just me or does Katie seem like a different person?" Kairi's voice cut into the instance silence.

"Yeah, she seems more…" Sora looked for the right word. "Viscous lately."

Kairi nodded in agreement, "Yeah, when those Heartless and Nobodies attacked earlier, she was fighting so brutally…I know that they're just Heartless and Nobodies but Katie attacked them like an animal."

Lea rolled his eyes playfully. "We are animals, Kairi."

"You know what I ment!" Kairi retorted.

"I'm sure she's fine…she's probably just tired." Riku assured them.

"You positive about that?" Lea asked.

Riku nodded. "Yeah. Wouldn't you guys be cranky too if you hadn't slept for over three months?"

Sora nodded in agreement. Then it struck him and asked Riku, "Why did Katie say that you and Repliku are the same person? I know that you both look the same—"

"And sound the same." Kairi added.

"And wield almost the same weapon." Lea added.

"But why does that make you two the same person?" Sora questioned.

Riku sighed, "I have no idea. I'll think about." He looked outside to see a full moon high in the sky. "It's getting late. I'll see you guys tomorrow." The group split up and went to their designated places in the den and went to sleep.

Katie plopped down onto the cave floor. She put her paws on her head and huffed. 'I can't believe almost gave Repliku's true identity away…' she sulked to herself. 'God, I'm so stupid…' Sighing, she closed her eyes. 'I'm sorry, Repliku.' She dropped into the world of dreams.

"Okay Katie! It's time to go to bed!" an older female voice called. A girl walked into the picture, maybe ten and was wearing Scooby-Doo pajamas. Her hair was as black as night and pulled back in a tight fluffy pony tail. Her hazel eyes glowing in the dim lit room.

A young girl, around four and wearing a cute white night gown, pouted. "Aw, Clementine! Five more minutes!" the little girl pleaded to her older sister.

Clementine giggled and pick up the little girl. "You know Mom wouldn't be happy if you went over your bed time."

"But I don't wanna go to bed!" the little girl complained.

"Tori has to go to bed and she's three years older than you. If she has a bed time then so do you, Katie-Bear." Clementine told her littlest sister with a smile.

"But Clementine…!" Katie whined.

Clementine set Katie into her bed and pulled up the bed net. "Night Katie."

"Goodnight, Clemy!"Katie chirped, a tear rain down her cheek.

"Aw, Katie…why you crying?" Clementine asked.

Katie puffed her cheeks and rubbed her eyes. "My chest hurts."

"Where?"

Katie pointed and tapped her heart. "Right there…"

Clementine clicked her tongue. "You need me to get Mom?"

Katie shook her head. "Nope! I'll be fine! Night-night, Clemy!"

Clementine ruffled her sister's bowl cut, messy brown hair. "Night, sis." She walked out her sister's room and turned off the light, leaving the Hello Kitty nightlight and the full moon illuminate the room.

Katie gripped onto her teddy bear as her chest continued to be in pain. She laid awake until the night sky caught her eye. Crawling over the bed's net she walked over to her window. Cranking her head up to look at the sky. One of the stars was blinking, then two, then three, then four. Katie blinked when three of the four stars disappeared. She cocked her head to the side in confusion, then she shrugged. Katie waddled back to her bed and crawled under her covers. She fluttered her eyes shut.

Katie opened her eyes to find herself on a blood-red stained-glass platform. She walked along its edge to and looked at the many pictures of strangers. She stopped at the large portrait of a very light brown-haired teenaged girl with a ribbon over her eyes. "That girl looks like Mommy but with shorter hair!" Katie chirped. She suddenly heard a weird twinkling noise.

Turing her attention away from the portrait, Katie looked up to see a little sphere of shadows come down to her from the dark and cloudy sky. "Oh!" Katie reached up her tiny hands to catch the sphere.

As the sphere descended to the little girl's hands, a male voice asked, "Why are you helping me?"

"Who's there?" Katie asked the sphere. "Are you okay?"

The voice sighed, "I can't believe I' m asking for help to a stupid little kid."

"Hey!" Katie pouted.

"Never mind…what's your name?" the voice asked.

"I'm Katelynn! But my Mommy and Daddy call me Katie!" Katie chirped. "Who are you?"

After a short pause, the voice answered. "I'm Vanitas."

"Are you okay, Mr. Vanitas?" Katie asked full-heartedly.

"No. I'm not." Vanitas huffed.

"Are you sad? You sound sad. Did something happen to you, Mr. Vanitas?" Katie asked.

"Look, kid. I got hurt in battle. I heard you when I was just about to die."

Katie cocked her head to the side. "You heard me? How? Are you okay?"

"I just did, okay? I followed your voice and then I found you. Would it be…" Vanitas' voice sounded restrained as he continued, "…Okay if I stayed here for a while? Until I get better?"

Katie nodded her head. "Yeah, it's fine with me, Mr. Vanitas! As long as it makes the pain go away for you."

"…Thanks…" Vanitas huffed.

"You're very welcome!" Katie chirped. She watched the sphere of shadows float towards her chest. The shadowy sphere sunk into her chest and Katie suddenly felt very cold and a bit angry. She didn't know where the anger came from. She closed her eyes and opened them to find herself in her room. It was dawn.

A blue creature with antenna and diamond-shaped red eyes popped up from the ground in front of her on her lap. "Aw, it's so cute!" Katie leaned forward to the creature and patted its head. The blue creature disappeared with a puff of smoke and was replaced by a very small black kitten with gold eyes and a yellow paw and underbelly. It meowed at her. "It's a kitty!" Katie squealed. She scooped up the cat and crawled out of her bed. "Mommy! Mommy! I found a kitty! I'm going to call him Venitas!"

Katie woke up and yawned. 'So that's how it happened…' She got up and stretched.

"Katie!" Sora called worriedly.

"Yes?" Katie asked.

Sora ran towards her with his eyes widened. "Simba's hurt!"

Katie narrowed her eyes at Sora. "Tell me everything." She followed the brunette lion cub to Simba's den.

I'm happy to announce that I found someone to do the art cover for LoaDH! It's tsukuneXmoka! He happily volunteered and is creating the new cover! I've seen the work-in-progress and MAN! It is AWESOME!

Fun Fact!: Katie forgot about Vanitas about a year after she met him, because he didn't comunicate with her. She just believed that she got Venitas (the cat) from her cousin Kenny's farm.