[A/N: This must be some kind of record for me lately. I haven't posted two chapters so close together since I started the story. Anyway please enjoy.]

"Hello my dear its time to wake up. Come on get up you've been asleep for far too long."

Instead of opening her eyes Juliet rolled over; her head pounding. "Oh, go away I'm trying to sleep." She felt a presence looming over her and cracked one eye open and was quiet startled to see Erik standing over her. "Oh….I wasn't expecting to see you." Sitting up Juliet rubbed the back of her head and felt a lump. "Where are we?"

Erik put a hand out to help her up. "Sleeping on the job I see tsk tsk. Anyway you're in the belly of Monstro the whale. Quiet the foul tempered fellow Monstro."

Juliet accepted Erik's hand and pulled herself up. "How did we get in Monstro's belly? The last thing I remember is that we were flying towards a world that had a huge cathedral in it."

"That would have been La Cité des Cloches. There's a man there you'll want to weary of."

"Do you have a pen I could borrow?"

Reaching into his robes Erik produced a quill. "Will this work?"

"Now do you have ink?"

"Doesn't need it."

Juliet cocked her head to the side. "How could a quill not need ink?"

"It just doesn't need it. Try writing something and you'll see."

She pulled the map out of her back pocket and smoothed it out on her knee before crouching down and writing on the back of it. 'Watch out for Monstro. He swallows travelers." Juliet blew on the ink which was glistening red for some reason before folding it back up and putting it back in her pocket. When she turned back to give the quill back to Erik she saw three thin cuts on his cheek that were lightly bleeding. "What happened to your face? You're bleeding."

The face that his face was bleeding didn't seem to faze Erik in the least. He simply wiped the blood away and started to walk away when he felt Juliet grab his arm. "What is it? I told you where you are I don't think you'll need my help again for a while."

"But you're bleeding."

"That happens when you use that quill." He plucked it from Juliet's hand and put it back in his robe. "Its nothing to worry about trust me."

She only tightened her grip on his arm. "I could get Clementine to use a healing spell on you."

Erik blinked once before he started laughing. "You're sweeter then I give you credit for. No thanks though I'm fine." He shook Juliet's hand off his arm before walking into the cavern that led to Monstro's stomach.

Juliet still felt worried and went after him, but found the first cavern to be empty. "How does he do that?" She could hear moaning coming from back in Monstro's throat and gave the cavern a last look before walking back into the throat. However, she heard a noise coming from further in the stomach and went after the noise.

Akio opened his eyes and found himself laying in piece of drift wood that was mostly submerged in the water. He propped himself up on his elbows and saw that Clementine was laying a few feet away from him. "Clementine, are you ok?" He got up and wrung water out of his shirt as he looked around for Juliet. "Juliet, where are you?" Walking over to Clementine who'd began to stir Akio helped her up and saw that she still had the donkey ears and tail. "Let's go look for Juliet."

By this time Juliet had gone into the third cavern as she followed the noises. "Could just be stomach noises, but it almost sounds like someone is trying to get away from me." She rounded a corner and collided with Puck. Imminently she jumped backwards and summoned the Keyblade. "What are you doing here?"

Puck rubbed his nose as he scowled at Juliet. "Just looking around. I think the better question is what are you doing inside a whale? Shouldn't you be looking for a way out with your little friends?" He began to advance on Juliet who didn't back up. "Or maybe you're looking for someone." A little smile came to his lips when he saw her look away. "Ding ding I think I win. Now the next question is who are you looking for?"

"No one that concerns you."

"You love him don't you?" The smile grew more devilish as Puck began to circle Juliet like a vulture.

"Who said anything about me loving anyone?"

"I can read you like a book. You're in love with Erik."

Juliet's whole face turned bright pink. "I am most certainly am not in love with Erik. Anyway how do you know about Erik?"

"Who doesn't know about Erik?" Puck saw the confused look on Juliet's face and snickered. "You don't know anything about him do you?"

Juliet nearly smacked Puck upside the head with the Keyblade only to have him jump out of the way. "Say one more thing about him I dare you."

The grin only grew. "Oh, so you do love him. Well I'll stop playing with you for now." Puck turned and disappeared into a black portal that had materialized behind him.

The little voice in the back of Juliet's head was telling her to go look for Akio and Clementine, but she was choosing to ignore it since she still wanted to find Erik. Not that she would tell him what Puck had said or anything she wanted to make sure he was ok. "Erik, where are you?"

There was a scuffling noise coming from the next cavern that attracted Juliet's attention. She made her way through the passage way and found Erik perched on top of a barrel picking at his nails. "I'm glad I found you. I just ran into Puck and he was saying some awful things."

Erik didn't look up from what he was doing. "You want to get out of here right?" He looked up to see her nod. "Well, if that's the case I suggest you stop following me and go get your friends."

"What can they do?"

Sliding off the barrel Erik walked past Juliet back towards where she'd come from. "If you can find your way into Monstro's stomach you can jump around in there and you can get out that way."

"You mean he'll puke us out?"

"Essentially. Or if that idea displeases you, you could always light a fire in his stomach and he'll blow you out his blow hole."

It was times like this that reminded Juliet of how much she liked Erik. "How do you know all of this stuff? Has Monstro swallowed you before?"

Erik wasn't really in the mood to delve into his past with Juliet, but if it would get her off his back. "Yes, actually when I was traveling in my youth I came across Monstro and he swallowed me."

"Where were you going?"

"That story is for another time. Now I think you have friends to look for." Erik didn't wait for an answer from Juliet and walked back through the chamber.

Even though Erik had explicitly told her to go look for Akio and Clementine, Juliet wanted to go after him. "But Erik told me not to go after him, but I really want to see what he's doing in here." She began to pace outside the chamber entrance arguing with herself about what she should do. "I want to go after Erik, but I need to find Akio and Clementine if I want to get out of-" She was cut off when an envy monkey swung out of nowhere and began batting at her face.

Before she was able to summon her Keyblade Akio's disk came flying out of nowhere and hit the Wraith in the back of the head. Coming up from the chamber that Erik had gone through came Akio and Clementine who looked quiet damp and a bit upset. Akio left Clementine to finish off the Wraith before he turned to Juliet. "Where were you?"

"What do you mean where was I? I was just looking for a way out." She backed up as Akio advanced on her.

"No, you were going after that Erik guy weren't you? Were he is? I need to give him a piece of my mind." Akio heard Clementine giggle behind him and looked back at her. "What are you laughing about? I'm being serious he needs to leave Juliet alone before he gets her into trouble."

"I think somebody's a little jealous." Clementine only began to laugh harder at the angry look on Akio's face.

"I most certainly am not jealous of some guy who's twice my age."

Juliet sighed heavily. "Do you think we could change the subject?" She turned to Akio. "I didn't mean to make you worry, but I thought Erik might know a way out of here and it turns out he did so give him so credit will you?"

Akio only crossed his arms over his chest and shook his head. "I don't like him, but I guess if you trust him he's alright." He put his hands up to block Juliet when she went to hug him. "I'm not in the mood for a hug right now." Trying to ignore the look of disappointment on her face Akio decided to change the subject. "So, what exactly did he tell you about getting out here?"

All though she was feeling a perturbed with Akio, Juliet held her tongue. "He said we need to get into Monstro's stomach and either jump around a lot or start a fire. Either way we'll get out."

Clementine's face went the color of old cottage cheese. "You mean he's going to vomit us out?"

"That's exactly what I said and yes that's going to happen unless we light a fire then he'll shoot us out his blow hole."

Akio's face was turning the same color as Clementine's. "Well that sounds disgusting. Are you sure he's just not pulling your leg?"

Juliet was starting to feel a little put off with Akio. "I know you don't like him Akio, but Erik is only trying to help."

"Fine, fine whatever let's try it out. Now he wouldn't have happened to tell you how to get to Monstro's stomach would he?"

"Well, no, but I'm sure we can find it." Juliet was nearly knocked over by Clementine who had launched herself on her.

"Don't tell me we have to split up. I don't want to by myself inside a whale."

Juliet put a reassuring hand on Clementine's back. "I wasn't going to suggest that. Wouldn't want to make someone mad." She was looking over at Akio as she said this.

Pretending like he hadn't heard this Akio started to walk over to the next chamber entrance. "Well shouldn't we start looking for the entrance to the stomach?"

Breaking away from Juliet, Clementine rushed over to Akio. "Let's go look let's go look."

Akio watched Clementine go through the entrance before turning back to Juliet with a sheepish look on his face. "I didn't mean for it to sound the way it did."

"What are you talking about?"

"You're going to make me say it aren't you?"

"Honestly I don't know what you're talking about." Juliet walked past Akio and went into the next chamber after Clementine.

As they went through the chambers that led to Monstro's stomach Juliet couldn't shake the feeling that they were being watched. It's probably just Erik looking out for us nothing to worry about. I think if it was Puck or Antonia they would have shown themselves by now. She looked back half expecting to see Erik, but saw nothing. "I guess maybe he left, but wait a minute he couldn't just leave could he? He's probably in the stomach waiting for us."

"What are you talking about Juliet?" Clementine looked over at her with a pleasant smile on her lips. "You thinking about that guy you like so much? Might want to be careful don't want to make Akio jealous again."

Juliet snickered as she watched Akio go further on. "Slow down Akio you're losing us."

A short while later they arrived a tall passage that had several platforms on it; air swooshing upwards. Juliet walked over to the one of the platforms and stepped onto it the air pushing her upwards. "It looks like this is the way up to the stomach." She jumped up onto another platform with relative ease.

Akio and Clementine began jumping after her with the same ease.

Juliet stopped jumping when she reached the last platform and waited for Akio and Clementine to catch up. "What do you think we'll find once we get in there?"

"Acid…..probably." Akio was hoping that there weren't any more Wraiths hiding in the whale's stomach.

"Well let's go and find out." Jumping up once again Juliet found herself getting sucked into the whale's stomach. There was a wet sounding plop as she landed on a stretch of muscle that led to a pool of greenish acid. Around the acid pool were several more elevated platforms. When she went to get up Juliet felt Akio and Clementine land on her as well.

Akio quickly scrambled out from under Clementine so he was off of Juliet while Clementine only flopped down on her.

Clementine was lolling on top of Juliet not showing any desire of wanting to get off. "I never realized how soft you are Juliet." She looked over at Akio as she said this and laughed as his face went pink.

"That's nice. Could you get off of me?" Juliet until Clementine had rolled off her before standing up and brushing slime off of her. "Well it looks like this is the stomach." She was a little disappointed that Erik was nowhere to be found. Maybe he knew another way out. "Anyway, Clementine you know fire magic right?"

"Of course I do."

Juliet looked around the stomach, but couldn't find anything that looked like it would suitable for setting on fire. "I guess fire may not work. Let's try jumping around."

However, this didn't seem to be working either and they soon tired. Juliet sat down on one of the platforms and swung her legs out. "Maybe we should try the fireballs."

Clementine looked like this had the best idea she'd ever heard. "Well, the fireballs do float." She summoned a small ball of fire to show them. "See, all I have to do is make a couple bigger ones and send up over towards his mouth. It will get to hot and he'll have to sneeze us out."

Juliet shrugged and hopped off the platform landing on the spot that jutted out into the acid. "I guess we could try that."

Needing no further prompting Clementine summoned several larger fireballs and sent that out towards Monstro's mouth.

Outside the giant whale was beginning to hack and sputter before finally sneezing and sending his three guests sailing out his mouth.

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