Marie's casual wear:
www[dot]swirl3y[dot]deviantart[dot]com/art/I-bring-you-peace-214094964?q=gallery%3Aswirl3y%2F29599925&qo=5

Marie in 3D:
www[dot]swirl3y[dot]deviantart[dot]om/art/3D-version-of-Marie-Final-280424908

A\N:
Hur-de-la-hur-dur.

You know what I noticed? Sora was pimped slapped 3 times during the past few chapters. He got one during the army sign-up in Mulan's world, one with Beast in his castle, and not too long ago, by Hades.

I stand by what I say and that's that Sora can fight off a whole horde of heartless, but he can't prevent a bitch slap. OTL, you fail Sora…

Same goes for Demyx. He hates fighting, but god, he's so hard to fight during the battle of the thousand heartless.

Chapter Twenty-Five
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Feelings are quite troublesome.

As we walked further into the underworld, we stopped when we saw a tall, lanky man standing in front of two large doors. He turned around when he heard our footsteps. "Ah! You!" he said.

He took off his hood, and out revealed a man with a blonde…mullet? He had bright green eyes, and a rather carefree look. He tipped his chin with finger, and started to think of something, and when he did, he raised his finger, "Roxas?"

"Excuse me?" Sora replied. The blonde man scratched his head, and tried calling "Roxas" again. When it seemed like it wasn't working, he sighed, and gave up. Sora got a little frustrated with this guy calling him names, and placed his hands in his hips. "What are you talking about?"

The blonde guy took out a piece of paper, and started reading it. Ryan and I raised our eyebrows in confusion, and the fact that this was just weird. He read aloud one line from the note, and I stood on guard. "Use aggression to liberate his true disposition," he said. He sighed, and put the sheet away, "Riiight. Did they ever pick the wrong guy for this one…," he sighed.

"What are you talking about?" I asked, still on my guard. He placed his hand in front of him, and almost scoffed away. "Now's not the time, Aura," he said. Now I'm confused.

"Oh wait, you're not Aura. Yet," he said as he looked over to while smirking. Who is Aura?

"You're bizarre!" shouted Sora, not even bothering to take out his keyblade. The guy took out something small, round and gold. Sora, Donald and Goofy gasped, and Goofy pointed at the gold, round thing. "He's gotta be the thief!" he shouted.

Oh, so that's the stone they were talking about. "Well, that's just plain rude!" shouted the blonde mullet wearing man. He used the stone on himself, and he took out his weapon, which was…a guitar? Well, I won't complain.

Sora, Donald, Goofy and I took out our weapons, and I told Ryan to hide. He was reluctant at first, but he went anyways. The man chanted something, and suddenly, a bunch of water figures sprouted from his guitar. I looked around, and remembered being hit by the same water figures when I was teleported here.

"Argh, we gotta get rid of the water people! They're defending the guy!" shouted Sora. I looked at them, and they were indeed defending the organization 13 member. Sora immediately ran to rid most of the figures, and Donald helped by casting blizzard so that they were frozen. I decided to side with Donald while Goofy and Sora were teamed up fighting half of the rest.

With Donald freezing them, it was easier for me to kill them. I attacked them about two times before they broke apart, and Donald just kept freezing them. I figured that firing a spell while attacking would be even more effective, so I did just that. As I ran to the next frozen figure, I chanted my fire spell, and the stars started lighting up. I attacked the figure, and the fire released from my blade. It fell quickly, and I was happy to know that the method was working. I did the same for the last little bunches of figures, and they started dropping like flies. When we were done, I looked over to Sora, who had finished bit earlier than we had. When we gathered, we looked over to the man in black, and he was slightly slouched.

"Roxas, come back to us!" he said before disappearing into his black portal. Sora scratched his head, probably out of confusion, and put his blade away. He looked over to Donald and Goofy, who could only shrug their shoulders.

"Guy's a broken record," Sora finally said. I sighed and shrugged my shoulders as well, these organization 13 members were odd, to say the least. "Hey, look!" shouted Donald.

He pointed to the floor, and we noticed the stone that the guy dropped. Donald walked over to it and picked it up, then brought it back to give to Sora. He raised it in the air, and the power from the stone released unto us. When it hit me, I felt this huge pressure off my shoulders, and it felt easier to breath. My knees no longer felt weak, and the feeling of tiredness was gone. "Let's go! Meg needs our help!" shouted Sora, and so we left.

It wasn't too long before we came into an unknown room. When we walked in, there was a thick pillar in the centre of the room and a string of dark purple smoke extended from that pillar. What was odd was that there was an engraved drawing on the pillar. Sora and I walked closer to the pillar, and he noticed a key lock on it. Since I couldn't open the lock, it was up to Sora to open it. He jumped back, and took out his keyblade. When the light appeared from his blade, it unlocked the pillar. The whole thing started lighting up, and it was almost blinding to the point where we had to cover our eyes.

When we opened them, the dark smoke disappeared, and a transparent pillar of light appeared instead. We looked up, and noticed there was another floor to reach. Donald entered the pillar, and he started floating upwards. My eyes widened, and I stood there while watching Goofy rise after entering the same pillar.

Sora and Ryan walked towards it after, and Ryan looked at it. "Pretty sick, man," he said as he whistled. "It's like a levitation spell or something."

Sora and I looked at Ryan with confused faces, and he looked back at us. "You know, you're not the only one who knows about magic…I've read some fairy-tales that use magic like this," he replied while laughing.

"…And what kind of book is that?" I asked, curious about the kind of stories Ryan read. He didn't really strike me as the reader type.

"Well, it was pretty cool. There was a knight who had to save a princess, but he couldn't so he had to ask a magician to help out and he gave him all these cool powers!" he rambled and rambled on about the story, and I started giggling. Ryan sure looked like a kid when he talked about something he really liked.

"Ah, well, I guess I'm talking too much." Ryan laughed nervously, and proceeded to float up to the next floor. I continued to look at the pillar, and soon enough Sora was standing near it. I looked at him, and he turned back to smile at me.

"Let's go," he said as he stuck out his hand for me. I continued to stare at him, and it felt like a whole hour before I walked towards him with my hand extending out for his. As I touched his hand, I started feeling dizzy, but I hid it so Sora wouldn't see.

As I walked to the pillar, he continued to hold my hand. He took a step into the pillar and he started floating up, but he stopped since I wasn't in the pillar. I slowly walked into the pillar, and I started floating as well. It was a little shaky, but when Sora grabbed my other hand, I started feeling even dizzier. My eyes struggled to stay opened, and I had to lean my head on Sora's chest. I guess he looked down, since I heard the chain of his necklace shift. I couldn't care if he liked it or not, since I could barely stay awake…I had to close my eyes. When I did though, I started remembering something…

"Are you okay?" Marie asked. "You've been acting funny since we got here."

"aw," was what Sora said first. "I was hoping to do this in a prettier place. But, I guess here will do."

She gave him a questioning look, and he started grabbing out something. When he took out a golden necklace with a small crown attached to it, Marie had a feeling that this was why he was acting so weird.

"This is for you," he said. Sora handed her the necklace, and looked at it. It was nicely made, and it looked pretty. Marie looked over to Sora, and smiled. "What's this for?" She asked.

"So you don't forget me."

When I opened my eyes, I noticed we were close to the top. Weird, I felt like I had my eyes closed longer than that. I shook my head, 'so you don't forget me'. Was the necklace Sora gave me something to remember him by? Was the feeling I got from the necklace because of that? Ever since I got my memory back, I've been feeling like I've been missing something. That necklace…maybe it's my ticket to remembering everything? Maybe I wasn't paying enough attention to it. As I looked up at Sora, I noticed he had a smile on his face, and I couldn't help but smile. He did have a nice smile, after all.

As he reached the top, he helped me after. I stood on my feet and looked around. Meg was in the room, tied by some dark-looking vines. She called out to us, and sounded happy that we came in time. Beside her, though, was Hades. We all gasped, and Sora took out his keyblade. "Gee, thanks for the help!" he said as she chuckled.

He left the other second, and Meg told us to look behind us. We turned around and came face-to-face with Pete, who had a bunch of bat-like heartless behind him. "What? Can't fight in the underworld?" he mocked.

"Better think again!" shouted Sora. Pete didn't look scared or intimidated, which meant that he was serious about fighting us. He smirked at us, and I glared back at him.

"It don't matter, once these heartless here take care of ya, I'll be gone with the girl!" he shouted while pointing at me. Now, what does he want with me? It didn't matter, since I had full confidence that our team was going to win. Of course, with Meg around we needed to make sure she was all right. Donald and Sora took the lead attacks, while Goofy and I tag-teamed on protecting Meg. Ryan ran somewhere where it was safe from the fight, and we were all set.

With the batty heartless swarming the area, it was hard to hit them. They were small and nimble, and they can fly. I thought it was best if I used magic here, since that was much more accurate than my swordsmanship. I fired spells like blizzard and fire at the bats, and they started falling easily. Sora was in charge of taking down Pete, while Donald backed him up. I looked over to Goofy, who was busy protecting Meg. I ran up to him, with my blade defending me. "Let's switch!"

"Gotcha!" he said. As Goofy when blocking the bats away from us, I fired spells at the ones that came near Meg. After a while, we destroyed all of the bats, and all that stood was Pete. He placed a shield in front of him, which made attacking him impossible. The heartless re-appeared, so we focused on them for the meantime. They were easier to fight since Sora was joining in, and there wasn't a lot to begin with.

After a while of fighting the heartless, Pete's barrier started thinning out, and Sora immediately went after him. As soon as he could though, a horde of heartless bats swarmed him. He swatted them off, and returned to back to us. "There's too many!" he shouted.

He cut the vine-looking ropes off Meg, and opted to leave. Ryan came back to us, and we were on our way. However, when Pete came to stop us, Hercules stopped him! Yes! Strike one for the good guys! When Pete fell flat on his behind, he walked over to us, and apologized for his late arrival.

He whistled, and out from above came a white horse with wings. Hercules called his name, Pegasus, and told him to help Meg out of the underworld. By the name, I'm guessing Pegasus is a male. Hercules looked over to us, and told us to leave everything to him.

"What about you?" asked Sora, obviously hinting concern in his voice. However, Hercules replied saying he was going to show Pete not to mess with a real hero. Sora hesitantly nodded, and looked back at us to run. We all went down the pillar, and out came Meg along with Pegasus. Meg looked concerned.

"Sora, I won't leave him," she said. It was getting more obvious that she really did like Hercules, but I'm sure he can handle it. At least, that's what Sora thought. "Look, even Herc has his limits. He can't keep winning forever."

"Then we'll back him up!" retorted Sora. I guess we were going back, but I wanted Ryan to go with Meg. It was getting too dangerous, and he couldn't keep hiding behind a rock all day.

"Meg, can you take Ryan with you?" I asked, looking up at her. She nodded a little hesitantly, and I understood. Ryan did flirt with her after all. Ryan looked over at me, and he looked angry.

"Come on Marie, don't you trust me enough to go with you?" he shouted. I wasn't really in the mood to argue, not that I ever am, but Ryan was really being stubborn.

"I trust you, but this is serious! You could get hurt!" I retorted.

"But I won't get in the way, and if they come at me I can just kick—"

"Please, don't argue with me!" I pleaded while shouting, and then he stopped talking. This was probably the second time I had to raise my voice at him, but he was being stubborn. I looked around, and noticed that the others were staring at me, and I closed my eyes. "Please, just listen to me. I'm not feeling sorry for you, if that's what you think. I just want you to be safe. So, please…"

Ryan sighed, and waved his hand at us like nothing as he walked towards Pegasus. I looked away, and he started getting on Pegasus. He started flying towards the coliseum, and I looked at Sora and the other two guys. "We should go."

"You okay?"

"Just fine."

I know Ryan meant well when he came to find his 'missing cousin', but maybe it would have been better if he had never came. I find it's like taking care of a child, and it's only been a while since he's been with us. I couldn't afford to focus on that, since our mission was to help Hercules. Donald and Goofy went up first, then Sora, then me. As we reached the top, we saw Hercules already to give out. Meg was right; Hercules really needed a break or something.

Hercules smiled and nodded at Sora and the rest of us, and we prepared for the fight. Something I didn't expect, though, was the fact that the cave started trembling. I looked around, and I noticed some stones breaking off from the bigger ones. Well, this isn't good.

"We got to hurry and finish this fight! The cave will give out if we don't!" I shouted. They looked around and noticed the same thing, and they nodded. Instantly after, Sora changed into one of his stronger forms, and as a result, Goofy disappeared. I looked around at the bats, and decided to deal with them while Hercules and Sora fought Pete. Donald was on my side while we fought the heartless, and we were handling them off well.

I used both my keyblade and magic to rid the heartless, and Donald concentrated on using his magic. I started using more of my magic, since I still didn't feel at all strong with my keyblade. Donald shouted for me to handle the left side while he dealt with the right side. I nodded and quickly swung my blade to the left, taking out at least two bats. As I rushed there, I grabbed my keyblade, and chanted the fire spell. My magic was more effective than my keyblade, but the heartless were going down, so it didn't matter. I looked over my shoulder to see how Sora was doing, since I just wanted to make sure he was all right. He was fighting like a pro in that form, and I couldn't help but feel jealous again. It seemed like everyone was fighting better than me. When I heard Sora yell, I looked over and noticed he was attacked. I raised my hand to cast cure, and he was healed shortly after.

It wasn't long before Donald and I took care of the heartless, and we checked up on Sora and Hercules. Sora changed back into his original form, and Goofy came back to us. Pete put up the shield again, but Sora jumped and kicked him while in the shield. Since he was in that ball of a shield, it went towards Hercules. He punched it hard, and Pete cried out in pain while he went flying after the shield was broken. When he came to, Pete got up quickly, and pouted as he spoke. "I'm not done with you yet, I'll get you guys next time!"

As soon as Pete disappeared, the trembling started getting worse. We all ran towards the pillar, to avoid a rather unpleasant ending. As we reached the pillar we were lead down to the lower level, but it still trembled.

"Let's get out of here!" shouted Sora. We all agreed, and ran as fast as we could out of the underworld cave. Despite the trembling and the running, I found myself still glancing at Sora. I tried looking away, but my eyes always went back to stare at him.

What's going on?

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY! I hope you guys are having a good day, even if some of you don't like V-day. ST. PATTY'S DAY IS COMING SOON. WOOT WOOT!

Trubeque:
I sent you an earlier review so I wouldn't prolong the answer, but to keep you updated we are still working on SAH. I've written the chapter, and all I am waiting on is for the last author to add some bits so that I can release it! XD

Shadow 1n2:
Heh, yeah, Ryan has a way with nicknames. XD yes, although Marie will end up being a little more surprising come KH:3D or KH3. Well, I just recently saw a trailer, and young Master Xehanort mocked Sora asking him if he was the original Sora. So…who knows? XD Awe, that's awesome! I have many great friends with birthdays in March. They're Pisces, so I get along with them well.

Lvl-ZeR0:
I'm glad you've had an awesome day! Oh, and well I like lollipops! Evil Marie won't be shown for long, or even live long. She's kind of like repliku. XD

grapejuice101:
Thanks! Ah, yes! Now she does, but she's a little confused. That necklace will be big in her memories, since even Sora said it himself, "so you don't forget me." and fakey will appear soon, but her entry will be short and tragic. XD and yes, Ryan makes great comedy!

starlightmint72:
He actually forgot about her, or at least I think. However, I choose to think that he didn't forget her. True, I agree that no one can be perfect, and the only time I can actually say that someone is perfect is from a perspective of a baby. I saw a movie where a woman said that to a baby, mother is perfect. I want to think that with Dante, since Stella took care of Dante while he was sick. You're right, Dante does care more about Marie than Stella, since he's selfless. Stella is selfish, and she's always thinking that everything is about her, but that'll change soon. And who knows, she could stay there forever if it meant that Marie wouldn't have to follow her path. However, she's selfish, so who knows. Haa, well my scanner is working, but I'm tired of coloring with a mouse, so I want to wait until I can afford a tablet to start uploading them with colour. In the meantime, I'll probably just upload line-arts.

Dracula X:
Mayyyybe, or maybe not. Muahaha. And yea, it certainly seemed like it. Fakey and Aura are both angry people after all. XD oh man, and I was watching that some time ago. Aw, Star Wars…

dracula-key:
Bleh, yea. Timeless River is somewhat boring, but we'll see if I can spruce something up. I'm actually looking forward to Atlantica too, just because Ryan is there to cause some comedy! You know, I've been having the urge to make Ryan a starfish, just for the lulz.

SisterOfScarletDevil:
Hehe. XD Well, stay tuned for the next chapter. XD

Captainface:
Yeah man, though she ain't gonna be alive for long. Yeah, I decided to make a really evil one, that way when she's gone no one feels bad. Muaha. And Eiram?...lol, well whatever floats your boat. Heh, we'll you'll have to wait and see if that happens.