[A/N: At the rate I'm going I may be able to do another chapter tonight, but the next chapter will be short. This chapter was long as far as page numbers go, but not so much actual words. And the identity of the mystery woman was kinda revealed in this chapter, but no name is given. Reviews are appreciated. Enjoy the chapter!]

"Well, it looks like we've landed in Land of Departure. I hope Erik is here." Juliet tucked the map away missing the worried look that went between Akio and Clementine.

The Land of Departure wasn't very big and consisted of small spits of land connected by large golden chains with one slightly larger island that had a large castle on it.

Juliet began walking towards the bridge that connected their small island to another island when she felt Akio's hand on her shoulder. "What?"

"Are you so sure you want to ask Erik about this? I think Clementine was right when she said he's probably the connection."

"Are you guys still going on about that? I trust Erik why can't you?"

Clementine desperately wanted to say something, but shut her mouth. Because he's no good we've told you that, but you won't listen.

"I'm sure he'll be more than willing to answer our questions it's just the matter of finding him."

The next island still didn't have any people on it, but up ahead there was the sound of clashing metal on metal. As they got closer it was revealed that the source of the noise was two people and what surprised Juliet was that they both had a Keyblade.

The man was first to notice them and lowered his weapon. He was tall with brown hair and blue eyes while the woman was slightly shorter with blue hair and blue eyes. They were staring at them curiously.

Juliet smiled back at them. "I didn't know anyone else had a Keyblade. Hi, I'm Juliet and I also have a Keyblade."

The man took a few steps forward. "Show us then."

She summoned the Keyblade and held it out for him to see. "I wasn't lying if that's what you're thinking. We've been on the road for a long time and I've never seen anyone else with a Keyblade I thought I was the only one."

"Terra, will you relax she's just a little girl. If she caused a problem you could easily take her out."

Terra looked back at the woman with a frown. "She may look like a little girl Aqua, but how can we trust her?"

Aqua went up to Terra's side. "None of them look dangerous to me."

"And you do have an eye for that sort of thing." It looked like Terra was starting to relax. "All right so what are your names?"

"I'm Juliet and these are my friends Akio and Clementine. And not to rain on your parade or anything Terra, but I'm stronger then I look I could probably give you a run for your money."

"Is that a challenge?"

"I don't know maybe it is maybe it isn't."

Akio rolled his eyes. "If you want to fight him so badly just say something."

"Well when you put it like that yes I would like to fight you Terra and you too Aqua. I didn't use the Keyblade at all in the last world I was in and I don't want to get rusty."

Terra summoned his Keyblade which unlike Juliet's was larger, brown, and looked like it had teeth on it. "I hate to rain on your parade, but I'm not going to go easy on you just because you're smaller than me."

"I don't suspect that you would." Before Juliet could say anything else Terra lunged at her nearly knocking her off her feet. "I didn't know we were starting."

While Clementine watched she couldn't help, but notice that it looked like there were a pair of shadows off in a corner next to the castle. She prodded Akio in the shoulder and pointed over at the shadows. "Do you see those shadows?"

"Yeah, do you think we should go check it out?"

Clementine blinked and the shadows had vanished. "No, it was probably nothing."

Juliet had nearly knocked Terra onto his back when he retaliated by jabbing at her stomach. "You're pretty fast for a guy of your size."

"And you're strong for a girl. I thought Aqua was the only girl with some fight in her."

Clementine frowned when she heard this. "Is it just me or are they flirting while they fight?"

Akio shrugged. "Maybe they are they aren't I don't care."

"Yes you do."

"I don't."

"Yes you do. You're just mad because she'd never spar with you."

"I'm not and let's stop talking about this I'm trying to watch."

Juliet had to duck when Terra swiped at her head and returned his blow with a successful blow to the stomach.

Terra doubled over for a minute, but quickly recovered. "How long are we going to be at this?"

"As long as you can hang I've got all day." Even though she said this Juliet was beginning to feel fatigued.

Aqua took a few steps forward, but still kept out of the way. "If you guys want I could heal you so you could keep going."

Terra shook his head. "I'm going to wear her down don't worry, Aqua."

For all their big talk after three or four more minutes passed both of them were down for the count. Juliet stood up pushing her hair from her face. "That was some work out. Much better then fighting wraiths all day." She offered her hand to Terra who was still on the ground. "Ok, who's next?"

Aqua stepped forward. "Are you sure you don't want to rest first?"

"No, I'm good just don't go easy on me all right?"

"I don't plan to."

Terra was sitting on the sidelines watching now. "Don't take Aqua lightly either she quiet good with magic."

"That's cool. Clementine is good with magic too."

True to what Terra had said Aqua kept her distance shooting out fire balls, blizzard spells, and bolts of lightning.

Besides fighting Antonia, Juliet had never had much experience fighting a magic user and was having a difficult time with fighting Aqua. She was knocked down several times and before she was able to get up ahead Aqua would continue her magical assault.

Aqua was standing over Juliet with her Keyblade aimed at her; a smile on her lips. "Do you give up?"

"Nope." Juliet thrust her Keyblade into Aqua's face causing her to jump backwards. "I'd hate to lose to someone who relied solely on magic. Meaning no offence to Clementine of course."

There was a frown on Aqua's face replacing the smile. "I don't rely solely on magic."

"Then show me what else you can do."

Aqua summoned a handful of large bubbles and began to knock them towards Juliet who dodged nearly all of them.

"I'd say that's still magic."

"It isn't magic."

"Yes it is." She had to dodge Aqua's Keyblade being flung at her head. "That wasn't magic and I applaud you for it."

Akio glanced over at Clementine. "If I didn't know any better I'd say Juliet was trying to piss her off."

"That's probably what she's doing to get her off her game."

It seemed to be working too since Aqua's moves were being erratic and she was missing more often while Juliet was landing more hits.

"What is going on out here?" The speaker was a tall man with salt and pepper hair wearing grey and white robes.

Aqua imminently backed off of Juliet and went back to Terra's side. "We were just showing our new friend what we can do, Master Eraqus."

Master Eraqus looked down at Juliet who still had her Keyblade out. "Another Keyblade wielder? Who taught you how to use it?"

"No one taught me I taught myself."

"Where did you get it?"

"This man named Erik gave it to me."

Eraqus raised an eyebrow at the mention of Erik. "Never heard of him." While Eraqus said this there was a flicker of something in his eyes that said he was lying.

Juliet stood up. "I think you do know him and I hate to pry, but I've been looking high and low for him and I can't seem to find him anywhere."

"I was lying when I said I hadn't heard of him. I only know him by reputation, but from the reputation I've gathered that he's rather slippery, but what I don't know is where he found a Keyblade."

"Maybe he's got good luck."

Eraqus shook his head. "Luck has nothing to do with it. I've also heard that Erik is someone you can't trust."

Clementine nodded in agreement. "That's what we've been trying to tell her, but she won't listen. Back me up Akio."

"Clementine's right both of us have been telling Juliet that Erik is evil for the longest time and she's too stubborn to listen."

Eraqus turned his gaze to Juliet. "You'd be wise to listen to your friends."

"I only wanted to ask him a question."

"Ask Master Eraqus." Terra had decided to pipe in.

"If he wouldn't mind."

Master Eraqus folded his arms over his chest his steely gaze fixed on Juliet. "What questions do you have?"

"So, when I was in the Bear Kingdom I saw this wraith that looked like it had some intelligence in it, then Akio says he saw this mystery woman in Land of Dragons who could take down a wrath without breaking a sweat, and now I'm starting to think that there's some kind of connection between this woman and these two others who have been causing problems since I first left Traverse Town."

"Who are the two others?"

"There names are Puck and Antonia. Puck is kinda short with shaggy black hair and pierced ears and Antonia is kinda tall with lots of black hair and always wears red."

Master Eraqus swallowed. "I've seen these two before. They were here and I fought them off."

"They were here? When?"

"Last night. They came in with those monsters you call wraiths. If it hadn't been for Terra and Aqua I don't know if I could have gotten rid of all of them."

"See this is why we need to find Erik. If I could just ask him if those three people were connected it would clear a lot of things up."

Master Eraqus held his Keyblade up in Juliet's face. "Your friends have told you not to go looking for him. I have told you not to go looking for him. Will you abandon wise words to chase a fantasy?" He watched Juliet's expression change to anger. "If you can defeat me I will tell you where Erik is. That at least I can do for you."

Juliet looked a bit confused at Eraqus's proposal, but never the less swiped her Keyblade at him which he easily side stepped.

In return for her blow Master Eraqus swung his Keyblade at the back of Juliet's legs knocking her down. "If you want to know where he is you should try harder."

"I am trying harder." She threw the Keyblade at Eraqus's middle, but was parried.

In one elegant motion Master Eraqus swung his leg out knocking Juliet off her feet then pointed the Keyblade at her chest. "I suggest you give up now and take your defeat with grace."

It didn't look like Juliet could win this fight so she put her hands up. "I give….I'm done."

Master Eraqus's Keyblade disappeared and he offered his hand to her. "You're cocky that could get you into trouble if you're not careful."

"I'll keep that in mind. Well I guess we should go." Juliet turned to go when from the corner of her eye she saw black smoke coming from inside the castle. "What's going over there?"

Eraqus turned and began to run towards the castle with Terra and Aqua close behind.

The inside of the castle was filled with wraiths and in the back of the room sitting on two seats were Puck and Antonia.

"I got rid of the two of you. What are you doing back?"

Puck rolled his eyes at Master Eraqus. "You don't think we wouldn't come back for more old man? And this time we brought our friends with."

Antonia was craning her neck. "Looks like I burned your face pretty good didn't I jackass? What's the matter your cure magic too weak to cure a simple burn?"

Clementine was about to attack Antonia when Juliet put her arm up blocking her. "What are you doing? She's obviously asking for a fight."

"I'll take care of them. You two go help Master Eraqus, Terra, and Aqua there are plenty of wraiths to deal with." Juliet summoned her Keyblade and began to walk towards the two chairs. "You know I've had just about enough of both of you." Wait a minute. If they were part of the connection wouldn't they know who the mystery woman was? "Before that do either of you know about a mystery woman who can take down wraiths with one blow?"

Puck and Antonia exchanged a cunning smile before Antonia spoke up. "If you can defeat both of us without help we'll tell you who she is?"

That was all the prompting Juliet needed before she threw the Keyblade at Puck who dodged.

"What's the matter? You're getting sloppy, Juliet."

"You think I'm sloppy do you?" Juliet thrust the Keyblade at Puck's chest knocking him out of the chair. "Is that sloppy?"

The wind had been knocked out of him and it took him a minute to recover. "You're sloppy because you're emotional." Puck hopped back to his feet and punched Juliet in the stomach knocking her down. He was standing over her with a board look on his face. "You know I think that's the first time I've actually landed a hit on you. That's really bad on my part. Maybe I'll hit you again."

Juliet swung the Keyblade out at Puck's legs nearly knocking him over, but because of that was punched in the back of the head. "Is that all you got?"

Antonia got up from her seat and began to walk around Juliet who was still on the ground. "That is pretty pathetic Puck. Here let me help you." She cast a fire spell at Juliet who rolled out of the way.

Getting a little unsteadily to her feet Juliet aimed this time at Antonia who wasn't so good at dodging.

She was hit hard in the face, but instead of blood streaming down her cheek there was a thin dribble of a black liquid. Antonia brought her hand up to her cheek and touched the liquid. "You're making me bleed."

Juliet had to quickly back away when Antonia cast a blizzard spell at her.

Puck got behind Juliet and kicked her in the legs, but this time when she fell Juliet swung the Keyblade out hit Puck in the back of the legs and when he fell she got on top of him pressing the Keyblade to his throat. "Do you give up?"

"No quiet…look behind you."

Juliet looked back in time to see Antonia kick her in the face and off of Puck.

"Thank you for that sister dear."

This wasn't looking good for Juliet who had blood coming out of her mouth and was staggering backwards. "I can take you two on no problem." Juliet felt something warm flutter in her heart. She felt lighter.

Puck aimed another punch at her, but missed.

Juliet glanced over at Akio and Clementine to see light coming off them and going to her. "Strange….what's going on?" She had to duck from another attack by Antonia. "You think I'm sloppy? I'll show you sloppy." There was a bright light emitting from the tip of her Keyblade.

Puck and Antonia were starting to look fidgety. Before either of them could say anything else the light from the tip of the Keyblade blew them back against the back wall. Puck lay on his face for a minute before he looked up at Juliet. "Well that was a surprise didn't think you had it in you."

Antonia was also getting to her knees, but it looked like all the fight had been knocked out her. "You want to know who the mystery woman is? Fine, I'll tell you. She is our sister."

"Sister?"

"Yes, but that's all I'll you." Antonia summoned a dark portal and pulled Puck through it. As soon as she'd done this the wraiths disappeared.

Juliet wiped some of the blood from her lip and began to walk towards Akio and Clementine. "I told you guys I could take out the two of them with no problem."

Clementine titled Juliet's face upwards and cast a cure spell on her lip. "You were bleeding I don't know if I'd call that without problem."

Master Eraqus was staring at Juliet. "Do you have any idea what you did to defeat them?"

"Not really all I know was that there was a lot of light."

"That's called trinity. You drew power from your two friends and channeled it through the Keyblade."

"That's interesting…..could I do it again?"

"If you tried hard enough yes you could do it again."

While they were walking out of the castle Juliet turned to Akio and Clementine. "I know who the mystery woman is now."

Akio and Clementine both looked over at her. "Who is she?"

"She's Puck and Antonia's sister. I don't know exactly what that means, but if we can find her we could stop her too."