[A/N: This chapter is a bit longer then the past two so please enjoy it. Thank you to all who read and favorite this story. Reviews are read and appreciated.]

As they stepped out of the portals into the new world Juliet noticed that her clothes had stayed relatively the same expect they were a lighter blue. Akio's outfit had also changed from red and black to orange and grey. "Do you know where we are?" They would really be in a pickle if they had landed in a place and didn't know where they were.

Then again I've landed in worlds before and not known where I am. Juliet looked around the room that they'd landed in and saw stripes on the sides of the doorway signaling that a barrier used to be there. In the corner was a big yellow computer. Oh great more computers.

Akio looked around the room that they had entered not being as familiar with this world as The Grid. "I believe we're in the neighboring world of The Grid." He heard Juliet sigh heavily. "This is Space Paranoids if I'm thinking correctly."

Juliet zeroed in on the exit of the room and began to walk out when she noticed that Akio was staring after her. "What? You think I'm going to take you with me or something?" She saw him nod his head feverously. "Sorry but, I just can't do that."

"Why not?" Akio hastily followed Juliet who was already out in the hallway going up to an elevator. "I saved you back there. Don't you think you owe me something?" Instead Akio watched Juliet get onto the platform and had to jump onto it himself in order to keep from being left behind. "Are you even listening to me?"

"Not particularly." Juliet looked down into the deep abyss beneath the platform and hastily backed up. "I'm taking you with me and that's that. I don't owe you anything." She could feel him staring at her back. "I'm on a journey and I don't think you'd want to get mixed up with what I'm doing."

"How do you know? I could be an asset for all you know."

"I highly doubt that." Juliet hadn't been told that it would be ok for her to get help from anyone and until she heard that it was she was content to continue on by herself. "I just needed to know where I am and now that I know that you can leave." As the platform reached its destination Juliet hopped off quickly followed by Akio. "Why don't you just go home?"

Akio winced at what Clu would have planned for him if he showed up without the prisoner. "I can't go home now."

"How come?"

"I'm supposed to bring you with me." Akio saw Juliet raise an eyebrow. "You were an unwelcome user in The Grid and since I'm a guard I was suppose to bring you to Clu and I didn't so now I'm in trouble."

Juliet sighed under her breath and stopped walking. "I guess if you don't know anywhere to go it wouldn't be right of me to turn you away." She turned around and pointed a finger at his chest. "I'm telling you now if you come with me you need to be able to keep up." At that moment a familiar mole looking Wraith stuck its head out of the ground prompting Juliet to step on it sending it back down into the ground. "I guess the Wraiths are in this world too." She could see movement coming from around the corner and took a few cautious steps forward.

Standing on the other side of the wall was a boy wearing not a blue or red skin tight uniform, but normal clothes that you might find in Traverse Town or Radiant Garden. The boy saw Juliet and Akio and waved merrily at them before he turned his back and began to walk away.

"I got a bad feeling about this." Akio muttered to himself noticing that Juliet wasn't paying any attention to him. "When you're in a world like The Grid of Space Paranoids you're suppose to look like us. When you don't there's some bad going on." He saw Juliet begin to walk after the boy. "I don't think it's a good idea to follow him, Juliet."

Ignoring Akio, Juliet continued to walk after the boy until she came to a fork in the road. One path led to another lift and the other to a closed off room. She pointed at the lift. "You go that way I'll go the other way." Not waiting for an answer she went off in the direction of the sealed off doors leaving Akio behind.

When Juliet walked through the doors she found herself in a bright green room with a giant screen in front of her. Well, I guess he's not in here. As she turned around she came face to face with the boy she'd been looking for. "Um hi,…."

The boy didn't say anything, but smiled back. He had a hand behind his back.

Juliet looked around the brightly colored room not noticing what was behind the boy's back. "You don't look like you're from around here. Where are you from?" She saw something dark creeping up behind the boy and readied her Keyblade. "There's something behind you."

The boy raised an eyebrow at the sight of the Keyblade his smile growing ever so slightly. He tossed whatever was behind him past Juliet and out into the room. He then sprung forward and until he was nose to nose with Juliet. "You're not getting out of here so easily."

"What are you talking about?" Behind Juliet the thing that the boy had thrown out was beginning to change in shape.

The thing at the moment looked like a black blob that was bubbling and frothing. It began to twist itself upwards until it resembled a twisted blob that glowed with a faint electronic light.

The boy pointed at the thing that was only continuing to grow in size. "Meet the Virus." He snapped his fingers which caused the Virus to start levitating off the ground before it slid past them and beneath the door of the room.

Juliet tried to walk around the boy, but he also took a step to the side blocking her. "Would you mind moving so I can go after that thing?"

The boy only continued to smile. "You're not getting away from me." He aimed a punch at Juliet who just barely managed to duck out of the way.

"What's wrong with you?" Juliet had to jump away again when the boy went to punch her again.

Instead of responding the boy continued to aim punches at Juliet; his knuckles barely brazing her cheek. The boy saw the heard the Virus finish squeaking beneath the doorway before he jumped backwards. Behind him from out of nowhere materialized a dark portal that came out in a hushed whisper. The boy hopped backwards and disappeared into the portal.

Juliet blinked a couple times in confusion. "Where did he come from?" She shrugged and began to walk out of the room when she got the feeling that someone was watching her. "Is someone there?" Juliet looked around the room for a few more seconds and saw no one, but when she turned around to leave the room she was face to face with Erik. "What are you doing here?" She didn't seem to notice that like the boy Erik wasn't wearing the red or blue uniforms from Space Paranoids.

"I was just checking up on you." Erik looked around the room with a board look on his face. "I think the better question is what are you doing here? Have you found any of the seven pure lights yet?" He saw her nod her head, but didn't look very impressed. "So, what have you found out?"

"There's a little girl in Radiant Garden named Kairi who is one of them." She saw that Erik still didn't look very impressed. "Erik, can I ask you a question?"

"You already have I suppose another would be all right."

"Why do you need me to find the seven pure lights? Are you going to do something with them?"

Erik had to come up with something quickly to quell Juliet's curiosity. "As I'm sure you've noticed there is darkness that is starting to creep into the worlds. If I can gather the seven pure lights then the darkness can be sent back to where it came and the worlds will be safe. For instance that boy that was just here is from out of the darkness. The only thing I know about him is that his name is Puck and he is probably going to be quiet the problem." Erik looked away from Juliet not feeling entirely comfortable with the admiring gaze he was receiving.

Juliet hadn't really felt ready to go on this quest in the first place, but after hearing what Erik had told her she was feeling more than ready to do anything he told her. "Don't worry I can take on anything that comes my way. I'll find the rest of the pure lights and tell you as soon as I can."

Gingerly Erik patted Juliet on the head. "That's very reassuring. Now if you don't mind I have matters to tend to elsewhere and I leave this in your very capable hands." With that Erik turned around and walked out the door only to be quickly followed by Juliet.

By the time Juliet got out of the room she couldn't find Erik anymore, but saw Akio standing near a lift on the far side of the hall. "Akio, did you see someone come out of the room I was just in?"

Akio looked around the hall and shook his head. "There's no one else out here." He saw Juliet look a little disappointed before she started to walk over to him. "I did see this weird sludge looking thing go past earlier, but no one besides you have come out of that room."

Juliet found herself wondering how both Erik and Puck had managed to get past Akio without being noticed, but maybe Akio just hadn't noticed them leaving. "That thing you saw go past is called the Virus and we need to go after it. This boy named Puck let loose in this world and he's one of the bad guys."

Akio pointed in the direction the lift was going. "It went up that way. I've been to this world one other time and the only things that are in that direction are the I/0 Tower and the dock for the solar sailors."

"Where does the solar sailor go?" Juliet saw Akio swallow hard. "What's the matter?"

"That goes to where the MCP is."

"What's the MCP?"

Again Akio swallowed hard looking like he didn't want to talk about it at all. "The MCP stands for Master Control Program and essentially it runs this world. That's also where Commander Sark is and he's just as bad as the MCP."

Juliet shrugged; the thought of getting into a conflict with either the MCP or Commander Sark didn't seem to bother her. "For your sake we'll steer clear of them, but we need to find the Virus." Not waiting for Akio she got onto the lift. "Well, are you coming with?"

Akio hastily jumped onto the lift after Juliet just as the lift started off. He sat down on the edge of the lift and let his legs dangle off the edge. "What took you so long in that room?"

"I just ran into the person who sent me on this mission in the first place." Juliet waited until the lift was secured into place before she hopped off quickly followed by Akio. "Now….I say we check the I/0 Tower first. Which direction is it?"

Pointing over at the right pathway Akio walked up to Juliet's side. "The I/0 Tower is over that way." He was glad that Juliet had decided to go to the tower instead of going on the solar sailor which meant that they wouldn't be having to go anywhere near the MCP or Sark. "What does this Virus thing look like anyway?"

From out of nowhere a green tentacle swung out at Akio hitting him in the stomach and sending him flying across the hall. The Virus came creeping out of the hallway leading to the I/0 Tower swinging long green tentacles as it went.

Juliet got in front of Akio with her Keyblade at the ready. "Why don't you go hide somewhere I got this."

"No, I want to help." Akio got up and readied his disk.

"Fine, just don't let yourself get grabbed by that thing." Juliet sprung up and struck the Virus in its flabby gelatinous body. All though her attacks simply bounced off the Virus she tried hitting it again, but to no avail. "Its no use our attacks aren't doing anything."

Akio flung his disk again, but like Juliet's Keyblade it simply bounced off. "Do you know of any other way to attack this thing?"

Juliet had to jump out of the way when the Virus shot a laser at her from out of a single bulbous eye near the top of its body. Why spell did Erik give me in Andy's Room? Blizzard? No was thunder?

"Try fire." She heard somebody whisper in her ear.

After having to dodge another attack from the Virus, Juliet took a step back and aimed her Keyblade at its eye before a small ball of fire shot out of the tip of the Keyblade hitting the virus square in the eye. She heard it let out of a wet sounding squeal as it retreated backwards flailing its tentacles as it went. Juliet shot another slightly larger fireball at the Virus once again hitting it in the eye. "I think I've gotten it weaker now we can destroy it."

Akio thrust the disk out again hitting the Virus in its eye causing it to emit another damp squeal.

The Virus began to slide away from Juliet and Akio melting a little as it did so.

"I think one more attack will do the trick." Juliet gave the Keyblade a good toss and this time when it hit the Virus in the eye it knocked the eye out of its socket.

The Virus gave a violent shudder before collapsing in a pile of mush which then began to melt away.

Juliet gave a sigh of relief as she watched the remains of the Virus disappear. "Well, that wasn't as hard as it could have been."

"Don't be getting too cocky now." Erik had been watching the fight with the Virus and was feeling a bit more pleased with Juliet. "There's still plenty of Wraiths left in the other worlds. Not to mention people like Puck lurking about in the dark too."

Akio had never seen Erik before, but just from this first meeting he got the feeling that he couldn't be trusted. "How do you know about these monsters?"

Erik ignored the cool glare he was getting from Akio. "I've been to many different worlds that's how I know about the monsters." Still ignoring the Akio, Erik walked over to Juliet and lightly tapped her on the wrist. "I thought you could use some more magic. I just gave you the blizzard spell that might come in handy in the near future."

Juliet felt her cheeks tinge a light pink from the feeling of Erik's fingers on her. "Thanks….where do you think we should head next?"

Erik's eye twitched ever so slightly at the word 'we' assuming that the 'we' meant her and Akio. "If you knew where any of the other seven pure lights were I'd suggest there, but you don't know where any of them are so just go to the next closest world." He turned around and began to walk away.

Akio saw that Juliet was staring after Erik with a look of admiration on her face and waved a hand in front of her. "You think we should head out of here now?"

"Oh, yah sure."

Quietly they made their way back to the lift and down the hallway until they were back in the room that they'd started in. Juliet stood aside to allow Akio to type something in on the yellow computer that was in the room and found herself wondering how Erik managed to get around the worlds so quickly and quietly. "Were you serious about coming with me, Akio?"

Akio looked away from the computer and turned to Juliet. "Of course I was serious. I've wanted to see the outside worlds for a long time and this is going to give me that opportunity." He pressed a few more buttons on the keyboard.

Once the pair had gotten out of the Space Paranoids world and back into Radiant Garden they found that the lab of Ansem of the Wise was deserted and quickly made their way through the dark twisting halls and out of the castle.