The Disney Castle was surprisingly quite when Sora, Kairi and Ven arrived at their friend's home. The three keyblade wielders where not surprised to see no one else they called was there, but they were not expecting it to be this quite, heck, it was never this quite here.

"Where is everybody?" Ven asked as the three began to look around. They had landed in the garden square of the castle, where everyone normally was on beautiful days like today, but no one was here.

As they continued to look around, Sora could have sworn he heard something rustling in the bushes behind him. So he turned, with Kairi and Ven following their lead as they listened closely to the faint sounds coming from the bush.

"No, I love you more…" A voice unfamiliar to the three said followed by giggles and laughs. Sora only glanced at his two friends, who only shrugged at this; all of them knew that it couldn't be a heartless or anything like it. So Sora then decided that he would be the one to see what it was, so he bent down to the bush's level and said,

"Um, hello?" But there was no reply, and the giggles only continued. Confused, Sora then brought his hands close to the bush, moving some of the surfaced leaves and branches out of the way.

But then then the giggles stopped and a blast of blizzard came out of the bush, sending Sora flying backwards.

"Sora!" Kairi and Ven yelled as they ran over to their friend, who didn't seemed to be that injured, but still groaned when he got back onto his feet.

"For Cosmos's sake Donald! Why is it we can't get any privacy without you or Goofy DESTROYING it!" A familiar voice said as two figures came out from the bush. The first one, who also seemed to be the one that just yelled, was the one the three recognized as a rabbit with long ears wearing a blue, black and yellow body suit. The next one however was someone they didn't notice, who appeared to be a black and white cat, wearing a form fitting dress that had different shades of green with a matching tiara with gold stones.

As soon as the rabbit realized who it was, he instantly changed emotions. "Sora, Kairi, Ven! What a surprise seeing you here!" Oswald said as he ran up to the three and put his hand behind his head. "Oh, ah… Sorry for going all ninja on you Sora."

"Eh, it's fine; I could understand why you did that." Sora said, feeling Oswald's pain of not having enough privacy because of a certain duck and dog.

It was then when Kairi realized something every important about the rabbit. "Oh, by the way, I'd like to congratulate you, Master Oswald."

And as if on command, the three keybladers did a short bow in front of Oswald, which made the rabbit blush a little bit. In one of the last letters they sent to the islands, Donald, Goofy and the King had told them that Oswald was given the Mark of Mastery Exam from Mickey and passed. Kairi especially already felt bad for not congratulating Oswald sooner, so she figured this would be the best time to do so.

"Aw shucks, thanks guys!" Oswald said in reply, sounding much like his brother, King Mickey himself, when he said 'aw shucks'.

"You should have seen him; he worked really hard to get to the master's rank." The small cat said.

"Oh! Guys, this is Ortensia, she's um…" "I'm Oswald's girlfriend; it's nice to finally meet you!" Oswald started, but Ortensia finished.

"Nice to meet you too." Ven told her as Sora and Kairi nodded in agreement.

"So what are you guys doing here? From what Mickey said I thought only Roxas, Lea and Namine were heading this way." Oswald asked.

"What? When did they tell you they were coming here?" Sora asked as Oswald replied,

"They have to come drop Tidus and the others off and they said they might have made a 'shocking revelation'."

Sora, Kairi and Ven only exchanged worrisome glances before Kairi said, "We kind of have a 'shocking revelation as well…"

"Well then it looks like we are the only ones who didn't."

The group of five then turned to where the voice came from, seeing that Terra (who was the one that spoke), Aqua, Riku and Xion had landed in the garden and were unsummoning their transportation devices. "Well great, now I feel like we missed out," Xion added as the four walked over to the others.

"Trust me; you didn't miss out on anything." Kairi spoke.

"We'll be the judge of how 'shocking' this 'revelation' is once the stragglers get here." Aqua said, referring to Roxas, Lea and Namine.

"That's what I was just saying," Oswald interrupted, "They are bringing Tidus and the others back here. In fact, they should have been back by now."

"Those three— well really, those two are always late, honestly it's no surprise." Riku commented, but, as if on cue, the group of nine felt a gust of wind coming from above them. They then all glanced up, seeing a huge gummi ship hovering above the garden, not being able to land since it was too small of an area.

"You have got to be kidding me…" Oswald said as he jumped up on one of the bush art and yelled to the ship, "Hey geniuses! You can't park the friggin' gummi ship in the garden!"

Right when the rabbit said that, group notice the small hatch on the bottom of the ship opening, and saw two heads poking out of it.

"Hey Oswald!" Tidus exclaimed.

"Nice to see you here ya?" Wakka yelled.

Oswald could only face palm at the sight before he yelled back at them, "I swear you six counting Paine and Selphie will be the death of me!"

"Did something happen that made Oswald hate these guys?" Kairi whispered in Ortensia's ear.

"Oh, he doesn't hate anyone, but during the time that they have spent here, Tidus, Yuna, Paine, Rikku, Wakka, and Selphie have really gotten under his skin." The cat replied as they continued to listen to Oswald and the others arguing.

"What do you mean you don't know where to park it?! You four stole it out of the only place you can park it!" Oswald yelled.

"Dude chillax, we aren't even the ones driving it! It's all Lea and Roxas's fault!" Wakka replied.

Oswald then let out a growl before he placed his paws on his head, acting like he was going to rip out all the furs on his head before Ortensia decided to fix the problem by yelling, "Chip, Dale!"

And on cue, the two chipmunks came into the garden and did a salute to Ortensia who then asked, "May you please park the gummi ship for us?"

"No problem Miss Ortensia!" Dale replied as the two then ran over to the highest bush art in the area and jumped into the small hatch Tidus and Wakka were looking out. The group then heard Chip yelled at them to get their butts off the ship, and they jumped out the hatch, Lea, Roxas and Namine being the first.

"Bout time you three showed up." Terra said.

"Don't blame us, blame Wakka and his horrible navigation skills." Yuna replied for them, since she, Wakka, Tidus and Lulu where the next to jump out of the ship.

"Hey!" Wakka said, but he was then hushed by Lulu, which the other keybladers where confused by, but then Roxas explained.

"That's Lulu, Wakka's girlfriend…" He said, but was slightly cut off by Lulu's yelling,

"Rikku, are you coming or what?"

"Sorry! I'll be right down!" A female voice said. Right after that, the familiar blonde jumped out of the ship and onto the ground with her hair blowing wildly in the wind.

But it seemed that Terra was the only one that noticed Ventus's mouth drop to the floor.

When Terra began to laugh, Aqua asked him, "What's so funny?" he replied,

"I think Ventus might have just found love at first sight…" Terra replied as the two looked over to see Ven making huge googly eyes at Rikku, who didn't seem to notice this. Since Ven clearly had his eyes locked on her and was most likely playing some cheesy love song in his head, Terra waved his hand in front of his eyes. "Hello, worlds to Ven…"

"Huh, what?" Ven moaned.

"Clearly, my friend, you are not very good at hiding your feelings…" Terra teased as Ven only turned as red as a cherry.

As soon as Ven came out of his state, the ten keyblade bearers turned to look at each other. "So you called us, Sora?" Lea asked.

"Uh, yeah, we kind of have some news, really big news about something that you guys need to hear…" Sora replied as Namine added,

"We kind of do too, actually, when you called us we were already heading back here to talk to the king about it."

"Which is exactly why we told you guys to meet up here." Kairi said.

"Well if you want to talk to him he is in the study, I'll take you there." Oswald said as the keybladers and Ortensia nodded as they began to walk in the direction of the study. Tidus, Yuna, Wakka, Rikku, and Lulu were about to as well, but the rabbit stopped them. "Don't even think about it; you have already given me a big enough headache today."

"Well then where are we supposed to go?" Tidus asked.

"Go bug Paine and Selphie; they went into town to go get some of Uncle Scrooge's famous ice cream." Oswald replied, and much to his relief, they cheered and left right after that. "And good riddance."


It looks like Ventus kind of fell in love with Rikku at first sight... hehehehehehe...

This chapter was kind of a comic relief before the next chapter, which will have some big revelations revealed. I am not going to say what, but big secrets will come out that could possibly tear one of our fellow heroes apart.

Let's just say the Dark One's identity could possibly be revealed...

Also, from what I have visioned in my head, I believe that the chapter after the next chapter (or maybe even the next one if it is to short) is going to make a lot of people gasp, and some SoraxKairi fans really want to go awwwwwwwwww... I don't know, I have a lot of plans for future chapters that I am hoping will make a lot of the shippers go awwwwww, especially one TerraxAqua scene... (Yes I know I owe you guys a huge scene for that)

So, even though this story is no where near finished, I have been brain storming about the final battle of this story and so far, I think it is going to be pretty epic. I am kind of trying to go for that amazing feeling I had when I played through the battle of Hollow Bastion and I just felt like a friggin hero!

So anywho, please R&R! We are only 17 away from 300! and look out for the next chapter!