As the Gummiship flew through space, Goofy and Sora were sitting near the back.

"Where are you heading now?" Kairi asked, tipping her head. She didn't know that much about Sora's adventures, basically nothing, so she was glad she was getting this view into his life.

"I think we're heading to Tarzan's world," Sora replied, trying to categorize the worlds in his head. He had gone to Wonderland, then the Colosseum, then the Jungle, right? "It's a big jungle."

Goofy melancholily says that they're not finding much, and Sora asks if he's speaking about the king.

Mickey sighed. He didn't mean to worry Donald and Goofy as much as they clearly had. He hoped they would trust him to not do anything exceedingly dangerous and to just focus on the Key and saving the worlds. But it was clear that he had failed in that regard.

Goofy says that he's also talking about Sora's friends and Alice.

Sora smiled slightly in remembrance. Even when Donald seemed more focused on finding Mickey, Goofy had always made sure Sora was okay and remembered that Sora also wanted to find his friends as well.

He was pretty sure that Goofy had mentioned offhand one day that he was a dad and Sora could believe it.

Donald reminds Goofy about the ship flying on happy faces and Goofy says that it just seems fishy that people keep disappearing and that there's a big Heartless in every world.

Vanitas couldn't help the flash of surprise that went through him. One of the bumbling idiots from Disneytown was actually thinking about what was happening in the worlds and acknowledging it as strange? The world must be truly ending.

Sora wonders what it could all mean and Jiminy agrees with him.

"That's right, Jiminy mentioned that he lost his world as well," Aqua said quietly to herself, her mind trying to formulate a map with all the information she was getting. "Why Jiminy's world though? Why Sora's?"

Sora mentions the Keyblade and how the Heartless in Wonderland were stronger than the ones in Traverse Town.

"Did you ever figure out why?" Roxas asked, aiming a look at Sora, who paused before replying.

"Well, the main idea is that Maleficent was just getting better at making them," he explained, causing several eyebrows to raise.

"Maleficent was making them?" Terra asked and Sora nodded.

"Well, most of them," he said. "Heartless are natural creatures that come from people's hearts when they fall to darkness but a lot of the Heartless, we fought this time, like the big ones, were created specifically by Maleficent. There's not usually that many Heartless around."

Axel, Roxas, and Xion couldn't help but remember the Heartless that Xion and Roxas would fight for the Organization. How many of those had been real and how many had been fake? Axel had noticed that there had been an increase in Heartless numbers but not Nobody numbers sometime before Roxas was created. Perhaps this was the reason.

"What was the second idea?" Naminé asked, shifting in her seat when a couple of confused glances were sent her way. "Sora said the main idea. So, there must have been another."

"Well, the other was that there was more Darkness in Wonderland than there was in Traverse Town and that was what was making the Heartless stronger," Sora said. "Though that's harder to prove."

Goofy bets that the Heartless will probably keep getting stronger.

And they did, thought Sora.

The ship rocks and Goofy asks Donald to fly better. Donald welcomes one of them to try it and Sora says he will.

Many of the teenagers sighed, having seen Sora do the exact same thing on the way to Wonderland. Kairi elbowed Sora in the side.

"What?" Sora asked, giving her a look. "I wanted to fly the ship. I'm much better at it now, anyway."

Sora moves towards the controls and Donald stops him. A planet comes into view.

"Sora, please tell me you didn't land in the jungle world because you crashed," Riku muttered and Sora turned to him, an expression of clearly faked betrayal plastered across his face.

"Now Riku, why would you think that?" He asked and Riku sighed, shaking his head slowly.

The ship gets closer to it and Sora wonders what type of world it is. Donald says the king wouldn't be there.

"I mean, Donald doesn't know that," Kairi murmured. "He could be there."

Mickey paused, thinking. He was probably already in the Realm of Darkness at this point.

Sora brings up that Sora and Kairi could be there and asks to land. Donald says no and that they're on an important mission.

Sora couldn't help the small sigh that slipped through him. He was aware that he and Donald had their… problems when they first became travel members with each other. Donald had been focused on finding the king and hadn't wanted to listen while Sora had truly grasped the fact that the leader of their world was missing. But now, watching it happen again from an outside perspective, he couldn't help the small twinges of anger and discontent that bubbled back up inside him. Donald had said that he and Goofy would help Sora find Kairi and Riku just like Sora was helping them find Mickey. But he hadn't really wanted to. At least, not until after this.

As Sora and Donald bicker, the controls go wild and the Gummiship starts tipping. Doanld tries to stop it, but nothing works. Donald blames Sora before ejecting them all from the cockpit, sending them flying.

"That was mean," Kairi grumbled, leaning deeper into Sora's side. The boy sighed.

"Donald and I… didn't really see eye to eye in the beginning," he said softly, half to Kairi, half to himself. "But we grew closer, and we became friends, I promise."

Mickey closed his eyes and tried not to think about the consequences of this. He wished Donald would have been more… understanding to Sora and not so fixated on finding him, but he should have known that was what Donald was like.

Sora falls through several vines before landing in a large wooden hut.

Several people winced as they watched Sora bounce down to the ground and he could feel both Riku and Kairi giving him a critical look, as if scanning him for injuries that happened over a year ago.

"Guys, fine, remember?" He told them. "It barely hurt."

Sora stands up, rubbing his head. He calls out for the other two.

Again, Riku was met with his… anger at Sora's companions. He knew they cared for Sora, in their own way, but he had yet to see that care in the actions they took. Yes, Goofy was better at it than Donald, and he had seen some actions when he was following Sora after he woke up but there still wasn't anything that reassured him that these two were Sora's friends.

As Sora looks around, a jaguar appears from the shadows and attacks Sora, with Sora fending him off with his Keyblade.

Naminé gasped as the jaguar appeared, curling up in her seat. Aqua's eyes widened as she started to recategorize the world on her internal "dangerous scale" and Riku felt his breath leave him for a quick second.

Sora gets thrown into the wall by the jaguar, but another person comes out of nowhere and fends the jaguar away with his hands and a spear.

"Who is that?" Kairi asked, taking in the man's appearance and movements. He didn't look completely human.

"Tarzan," Sora explained. "He's nice, but hard to understand. I think he was raised by apes."

Tarzan says Sabor before repeating Sabor, Danger. Sora asks if the jaguar's name was Sabor.

"Was it?" Xion asked, mildly intrigued and Sora shrugged. He hadn't ever found out.

Sora thanks Tarzan and Tarzan repeats the word. Sora is confused.

"Does he… not understand you?" Aqua asked, watching the screen in fascination.

"I don't… know exactly," Sora explained. "A woman we met, Jane, seemed to understand him well enough, even if he never spoke a lot of English. I have a feeling Tarzan understands more than he knows, but he mostly has trouble saying it."

Sora asks where he is, and Tarzan repeats him. Sora asks if he's seen his friends.

"Sora, why are you asking him?" Kairi wondered, giving the boy next to her another elbow. "He clearly is only repeating what you say."

"I had to try though," Sora defended himself. "That was the whole reason I went there."

Sora starts describing Donald but stops before mentioning Riku and Kairi.

"Isn't Donald your friend?" Xion asked, leaning on Axel's side. She hated it whenever she was separated from him and Roxas, especially if she hadn't chosen to be. "Why aren't you asking about him?"

"I guess I was a little upset," Sora said slowly, looking down. "He had made it clear that he was focused on finding Mickey and I was upset about that and that he refused to look for Riku and Kairi. So, I focused on finding them. If Donald wasn't going to help me, then I wasn't going to help him."

"Gosh Sora," Mickey said, giving the boy a sad look. "I didn't mean to make Donald focused on finding me. I did tell him to help whoever was holding the key."

"I know Mickey, it's not your fault," Sora told him, returning his smile from earlier. "Donald just… really wanted to find you. Which makes sense. I really wanted to find Riku and Kairi. And we figured it out anyway." He finished his statement with a wave of his hand but Aqua narrowed her eyes slightly. Sora was allowed to still be a little upset at Donald, especially if they hadn't truly gone through their issues with each other. He didn't have to immediately forgive the duck because the duck had said sorry. She resolved to wait and see what had come from it.

Tarzan asks Sora that he's looking for Riku and Kairi before saying that they were here.

"What?" Kairi asked, raising an eyebrow. At this point, she was sleeping inside of Sora's heart and Riku was lost to Darkness, probably somewhere in Hollow Bastion. She would like to believe that her body was with him.

"Tarzan meant that friends are in one's heart," Sora explained, trying not to think of the joy that had rushed through him when he had heard Tarzan's words. After everything he had seen, even in the first week, he should have realized it wouldn't be that easy. "It was something he learned and repeated often." Sora felt his smile dim slightly as he remembered the sadness that had gone through him when he realized that Riku and Kairi weren't there, and both of the other teenagers gave him worried looks.

Tarzan says a word that Sora doesn't understand and gestures, before repeating that friends were there.

"Tarzan's word for heart," Sora explained without prompting.

Sora says he doesn't understand but asks Tarzan to show him. Tarzan introduces himself before leading Sora away.

"It's okay Sora," Riku said quietly, feeling like he was going to trip over his own words. He was not good at this whole comforting thing. "We're here now." Sora paused, blinking in shock at the words coming from Riku of all people, before looking up and flashing the older boy a smile.

"Yep!" He chirped out, reaching out to hug the boy before turning to Kairi and doing the same thing. Kairi's arms came up to return the hug. "You're both here and you're not allowed to leave again." Both of the other teenagers privately thought that there was no way that was happening.

Donald wakes up on a boulder, looking over and seeing Goofy out cold next to him.

Despite all the feelings that were starting to flow back into Sora's mind, he couldn't help the little bit of relief that went through him when he saw Donald and Goofy, safe and unharmed. He knew they were okay; he saw them later in the camp, but still… It was nice to have it confirmed.

Donald wakes up Goofy, who seems unconcerned.

While there were a couple of laughs at Goofy's shenanigans, many of them were still slightly off after watching Sora and Donald fight and hearing Sora's thoughts.

Donald tells Goofy to wake up and Goofy realizes that Sora isn't there.

Sora smiled softly at Goofy. Always the caretaker, he thought.

Donald asks who needs Sora and says that they'll find the King without him.

Sora looked downward and Kairi twisted her head, giving the boy a concerned look. "Sora," she said slowly, and Sora shook his head quickly, looking back up at her.

"It's okay, remember?" He told her. "We figured it out." Aqua watched the boy in concern. Mickey bit the inside of his cheek. Had he made a mistake sending Donald to find Sora?

Donald reaches for his wand, only to come into contact with a baby gorilla.

Sora tipped his head, staring at the gorilla. Had he seen that one when he was there?

"A gorilla?" Riku wondered, the smallest bit of awe in his voice. They had heard of gorillas on Destiny Islands, had seen the pictures of them, but he hadn't ever seen one for himself. He hadn't ever gone to the world that Sora was on.

Similarly, Kairi's eyes were wide as she stared at the screen. Naminé tipped her head. She didn't know why her Somebody was so enthralled. They had seen a bunch of magical things so far into the viewings, things much more crazy that a simple gorilla.

"Um… what's a gorilla?" Xion asked quietly, aiming the question at Axel. He blinked, furrowing his brow as he tried to think about how to answer. In truth, he hadn't ever met one either, and his knowledge of them, along with a lot of other animals, had drifted to the far back of his memory. Honestly, the only true things he remembered about his childhood before becoming a Nobody was Isa and his little sister, even if the memories of her were foggy as well. Everything else was a… blur, mostly.

"It's an animal," Sora answered instead, after a couple of seconds. "Kind of like us, they're intelligent creatures who live in family troops and helped raise Tarzan. There's a lot of them in the Jungle."

"We'd learned about them in school, but…" Kairi started, still staring at the screen. "I never thought I'd actually ever see one."

"Out of all the things you've seen, Princess?" Vanitas asked drily, giving her a look. "This is the thing that really takes you aback?"

Kairi puffed up slightly, glaring at the boy sitting across the room. While she usually liked to give everyone the benefit of the doubt, she couldn't help but listen slightly to Aqua when she had dismissed the boy sitting in the chair. His actions hadn't helped either. But now…

"Yes, because that is more proof that the worlds used to be connected in some way," she told him, looking down her nose the best she could. For a second, she almost felt like an actual princess. "All the other things are just wild and crazy and fit their worlds. This is something that is shared between two worlds that should, theoretically, be completely and utterly separate." Aqua gave her a small, proud smile, and Kairi had to push away foggy memories that told her you've seen that smile before and instead pointedly turned her gaze away from Vanitas to instead look at Sora, who was also giving her a smile. Though this one was significantly more hyper.

Vanitas huffed and looked away, resting his chin on his hand.

Donald jumps back in shock and a noise from the underbrush makes the little gorilla run off. He drops something.

"What was that?" Terra asked, not recognizing what the noise could be. Sora tipped his head in thought. They had come into contact with the gorillas, the Heartless, and the hunter during their time in the jungle but other than that…

Donald recognizes it as a Gummi block.

"How did a Gummi block get there?" Mickey wondered, blinking in confusion. Gummi fell from the stars, rarely but it did, though the most common way to get Gummi was from a thing already made of Gummi. Had there been another Gummiship in the Jungle? Or could it have been from Sora, Goofy, and Donald's ship?

A voice asks who goes there and Donald and Goofy turn to see a man dressed as a hunter.

Sora frowned as he looked at Clayton. He hadn't been… the greatest person, wanting to hunt the gorillas, but he hadn't deserved to get his heart stolen by the Heartless and turned into the thing they had to fight. He wished that things had turned out peacefully, but that unfortunately was not possible in some worlds.

Sora follows Tarzan through the vines.

"That looks dangerous," Kairi murmured, watching Sora skid through the vines. Sora couldn't really say anything against it. It had been dangerous.

"It was fun though," he told her, and she huffed but didn't say anything.

Tarzan leads Sora into a tent, calling out for Jane. A woman turns around.

"So, Tarzan's the odd one out here?" Riku asked under his breath, trying to figure out how the world worked.

"Yeah," Sora replied, nodding. "He was raised by apes while the others… weren't, I think."

Jane asks who Sora is. When Sora starts to introduce himself, Jane realizes that Sora speaks English and probably isn't Tarzan's family.

"I mean, wasn't that kind of obvious?" Ven wondered. "Sora's walking and looking so different from Tarzan." Sora shrugged. Perhaps it was in fact hard to tell. They didn't know that much about the world.

Jane asks if Sora's here to study the gorillas.

"Jane was a researcher," Sora said, cutting off a couple of questions that were about to be asked.

A man says he doubts that and the hunter from before enters, leading Donald and Goofy.

Mickey couldn't help the small sigh of relief that slipped out of him. He was glad Donald and Goofy were okay, even if he was still a little worried about how Donald was dealing with Sora.

The three of them reunite but Sora and Donald remain angry at each other.

Both Sora and Mickey bit back sighs.

Jiminy appears and tells them that he's glad they're okay.

"I swear, every time he pops up, he scares me," Roxas grumbled, a sentiment repeated around the room. It was very easy to forget that Jiminy was also traveling with them.

Donald asks where the Gummiship is and Jiminy says that he hid it a little way beyond the tent.

"Can Jiminy even pilot it?" Kairi asked, turning to Sora. "He is very small."

"I've… decided not to ask," Sora admitted with a sheepish smile. "He doesn't do it often, anyways."

Clayton calls them a circus of clowns.

Kairi and Riku both made noises of offence on Sora's behalf while Vanitas and Roxas snickered. Sora huffed out an offended noise.

As Clayton leaves, Jane reminds him that they're studying gorillas, not hunting them.

"He's going to be a problem, isn't he?" Aqua asked, already able to see the darkness that must have been swirling around Clayton. It reminded her of the stepsisters a little. Too caught up in their own world and desires to listen to others. Too… greedy.

"Yeah," Sora replied with a grimace. "He'd gets transformed into a Heartless and we have to end him." He winced. Another death on his toll.

Jane welcomes them in and says the more the merrier.

"She's nice," Kairi murmured, watching the young woman and Sora nodded. Jane had been very nice to them, even when they were as strange as they were.

"She just… doesn't blink at the walking dog and duck?" Roxas asked, raising an eyebrow.

"I mean, she knows Tarzan," Xion replied. "Perhaps they aren't the weirdest people she's seen?"

Both Sora and Donald say that they're staying, giving each other looks.

Sora winced at his past actions. And Donald's past actions.

Sora turns to Jane and introduces themselves to her. She greets them.

Now not in the moment, Sora could see that Jane was very blasé about the fact that there was a walking, talking duck and dog. Even in the world she lived in, you would think that she would have a couple of questions.

Goofy shows Sora the piece of a Gummi block and Sora asks what it is.

Mickey focused up on the screen. Maybe they would figure out where the Gummi block came from.

Goofy explains that it's a piece of Gummi and Donald says that it could mean that the King was there.

"You weren't there, were you Mickey?" Riku asked, turning in his seat to look at the king, who shook his head. "So, how'd the Gummi block get there?"

"Well, Gummi falls from the sky most of the time," Mickey explained. "We just happened to have a lot of it from the sky. It's possible that piece just fell from the sky. Or it could be from Sora's Gummiship."

"Must be from the sky then," Sora said.

Donald says they have to work together for the moment and Sora agrees but specifies for only the present moment.

"How did you become friends again?" Kairi asks. "You two seem pretty mad at each other."

"Well…" Sora trailed off, thinking back. "Thank the Heartless? And Tarzan?" Riku rolled his eyes, hidden from most of the watchers.

Roxas couldn't help but think about himself and Axel. Their friendship had been broken by secrets and they hadn't really had a chance to fully repair it before Roxas had been kidnapped and lost all his memoires. He wondered if the three of them, given time, would have been able to repair their friendship, like Sora clearly had done.

Jane asks Sora if he's looking for something and Sora says he's looking for his friends. He says that Tarzan said they were here, but he can't talk to Tarzan.

Sora's hands tightened around his friends. They were here, they were fine.

Jane explains that Tarzan was raised by apes in the jungle and that he doesn't understand that much of their language.

"I wonder how they're doing," Sora muttered to himself. He hadn't ever been back to the Jungle since then. He hoped Tarzan and Jane were doing okay. Perhaps he should visit that place after he got out.

Sora asks Tarzan where his friends are, but Tarzan doesn't completely understand, just repeating "friends here".

"It's… sweet?" Kairi started. "That Tarzan thinks his friends are in his heart." But she could feel Sora's frustration through the screen, and she was trying to make present him feel better. She knew he would find her eventually, in Hollow Bastion, but it didn't make watching Sora's journey any easier. Even though she had technically been a part of it.

Sora explains that Tarzan said one other word that he couldn't understand. Jane says they could try slides to see if they could guess the word that Tarzan was saying.

"Does it work?" Aqua asked but Sora shook his head.

The first slide shows a place.

"Radiant Garden!" Terra said in surprise, recognizing the tall Castle surrounded by trees.

"Wait, that's Radiant Garden?" Sora asked, turning to look at the older Keyblade Wielder, who nodded. "Huh, it didn't look like that when I was there."

"Well, it's still recovering," Mickey explained, taking over the story. "It fell to darkness, then was brought back by Maleficent as Hollow Bastion. Even with all the work of the Restoration Council, it'll take a while before it's back to its former glory."

Kairi blinked in wonder, looking at the image on the screen. That was her birth world? That beautiful Castle? Had she lived in it? She was a Princess of Heart; did that mean she was an actual Princess? Alice hadn't been, but all the others had. Did she visit that place regularly? Had she run through the forest, even in her small five-year-old body? She hadn't ever felt really the urge or need to return to her birthplace but now… She might want to.

Axel couldn't help the small wince that went through him when he saw the picture of his old home. Even if most of the memories were fuzzy, he could still recall the plaza where he and Isa often spent their time. Running in-between alleys, helping his younger sister to touch the water from the fountain. Beautiful sunsets where he could forget everything. Forget the gaping hole after his parents' murder, forget the girl in the basement who they still had to save, forget the darkness that was encroaching in the ending days of Radiant Garden. While his life in Radiant Garden hadn't been perfect, it had been nice. And he hadn't ever missed it before now…

Sora feels like the place is familiar but thinks that he's never been off his island.

"It could have been me," Kairi said softly, eyes enraptured by the screen. "While I don't remember what happened while I was in your heart, I was able to share memories with you and react to… extreme circumstances. Maybe I recognized my home, even if I didn't remember it." Sora paused, thinking it over. They'd seen crazier things in the past couple of months.

"Maybe," he said, reaching out to give Kairi a hug. He had seen the wonder in her eyes when she gazed at Radiant Garden. He should take her with him to see it.

Jane goes through a couple more slides, but nothing happens.

Several of them thought the slides were rather random and few of them. It hadn't really helped figure out what Tarzan was saying.

When Tarzan can't answer, Clayton says that they must be with the other gorillas, who Tarzan has refused to show them where they live.

Suspicious, several people thought. Not about Tarzan's actions, but Clayton's insistence that they had to be at the gorilla home. And Jane had called him a hunter before…

Jane says Tarzan wouldn't hide anything but is cut off by Clayton, who asks Tarzan where the gorillas are.

Naminé, in a bizarre thought which she didn't realize where it came from, thought that Clayton and Larxene were similar. In the way that they wouldn't take an answer for an answer if it wasn't the one they liked.

Tarzan looks at Sora before nodding. Jane asks if Tarzan is sure.

"That was nice of him," Kairi said.

"Why though?" Ven asked. "He must have known that Sora's friends weren't there."

"I think he just wanted to help," Sora explained.

Tarzan says that he'll go see Kerchak.

"Who's Kerchak?" Xion asked.

"The leader of the gorillas, I think," Sora replied.

Jane asks who Kerchak is, and Clayton says that he's probably the leader of the gorillas. He says he'll go along as an escort, mentioning that the jungle is dangerous.

That's a bad idea, was a thought passed around the room.

Goofy whispers to Sora that he has a bad feeling about Clayton.

"Good instincts," Terra murmured. That was something that everyone could use.

Jiminy says he'll watch the Gummiship and leaves.

"Does he always watch the Gummiship?" Roxas asked and Sora paused before shrugging.

"Sometimes he does, sometimes he comes with us," Sora said. "It's a tossup."

Sora asks Tarzan if this is really okay, and Tarzan says that they'll go see friends.

"I agree with Key Kid, as weird as that sounds," Vanitas muttered. "You're clearly leading Clayton to exactly where he wants to go. Why would you do that?"

"If there was a chance that Riku and Kairi were there, I had to take it," Sora said firmly. "Even if it made me uneasy."

Heartless appears in front of them and Sora tells Donald and Goofy that they don't have to do anything. He'll take care of it.

"Why would you say that?" Kairi asked, twisting to look at Sora in shock. "You've always fought together before."

"Well, you're seeing what's going on between Donald and me," Sora said, looking down. "I suppose… I didn't really want to fight with him at the time, knowing that he'd be bad tempered about it."

"Still Sora," Riku told him, and Sora wilted slightly. Why did Riku have to use the "I'm disappointed in you" voice? "That is dangerous. You could have gotten hurt."

"I'll be fine, promise," Sora said, trying to placate both of his friends. "Donald and Goofy help anyways. Eventually."

Donald asks if that means Sora doesn't need his magic anymore and Sora says he guesses.

"I should have been nicer," Sora murmured, and Kairi jabbed him in the side with her elbow. "Ow Kairi, what the heck?"

"Listen, while usually I'm all for making friendships and the like, in this moment you're allowed to be a little surly," Kairi told him seriously, looking at him in the eyes. "You and Donald have genuine grievances against each other and until you can sit down and talk about it, you're allowed to be a little mad at him. During a battle might not be the best place to argue, but don't get mad at yourself for being mad. It's fine to be mad."

Sora shot her a small smile.

Unknown to her, her words were rattling around the heads of two of the other Keyblade Wielders. Terra and Aqua both frowned minutely.

Terra felt his hands curl slightly into fists. Hearing someone say that, even if it was a small child who should be no where near this fight, made him feel… better, in a way. All Master Eraqus had taught him was that all negative emotions, anger, jealousy, greed, fear, led to the Darkness. There was no way to stop it unless you stopped having those emotions. But was that even possible? It was a thought that had circulated in his head often, before and after the possession. Could he have stopped those emotions from overtaking him?

Aqua looked down. Time in the Realm of Darkness, while not as long as the time passed in the Realm of Light, had given her time to think and reflect. While Darkness users like Vanitas and Xehanort were evil, irreversibly evil, was everyone who used Darkness evil? Riku had Darkness swirling around him, burrowed into his very skin, but he had still flinched away from his past actions and looked at Sora with devotion and love. Terra, even entrenched in Darkness as he was, still hugged her tightly and could still read her movements and thoughts like they would do when they were younger. If Darkness wasn't evil, why had Master Eraqus taught them that it was?

And could they have stopped the tragedy that happened years ago if they had known the difference?

Donald says that they aren't one for all anymore. Goofy tries to stop them from arguing.

"I just feel bad for Goofy," Roxas muttered. "Having to deal with you two."

Donald and Goofy join the fight but Donald and Sora fight separately from each other.

"At least, they're helping?" Naminé said, trying to lighten the atmosphere slightly.

At the end of the fight, a couple of Heartless jumps out of the bushes and startle Donald. Sora calls out to him.

Kairi smiled slightly; an action mirrored by Riku. No matter how mad Sora was at someone, he wouldn't sit by why they got hurt. That just wasn't who he was.

Tarzan defends Donald and Sora tells Donald angrily that he said that they didn't have to fight.

"Worried, Sora?" Kairi said, giving Sora a look and Sora huffed, looking away. It had scared him, to see Donald attacked, but he had also been mad at him at the time.

Donald says not to underestimate a Royal Magician and Sora rebukes that he doesn't care how royal Donald is, that he can get rid of the Heartless on his own. The two of them look away from each other.

Mickey winced; a motion noticed by a couple of the watchers.

"What's wrong, Mickey?" Riku asked, having seen the King's wince, and Mickey looked away for a second.

"That… might not have been the nicest thing to say, Sora," Mickey said gently, looking to the younger boy. "I know you didn't mean it, you have no idea, but… Donald takes great pride in his status as the Royal Magician. It helped him and his family a lot in life."

"What do you mean?" Sora asked, tipping his head. Donald had spoken about Daisy before, so he knew about her, but he didn't know about anyone else.

"Well…" Mickey trailed off. "Has Donald ever talked about his family?"

"Just his wife, Daisy," Sora responded, and Mickey hummed in consideration, tapping his fingers together.

"Donald had a sister, named Della," Mickey explained slowly, several people noting the had in the statement. "She's gone now. No one knows what happened to her. She was an explorer and one day just… didn't come back. But she left behind three kids, who weren't even hatched yet. And it was only Donald still around to take care of them. At the time, he was right out of spending time working in the army of the Kingdom and didn't have nearly enough to support them. So, he took to learning magic because it was a well-paying profession. Now, his nephews want for nothing and have good prospects going forward. And he even reconnected with his uncle. Because of his magic and later, his status, as Royal Magician."

"Oh," Sora said softly, looking down.

"It's not your fault for saying it, you didn't know," Mickey reassured him. "Plus, he's probably forgotten about it by now but… just for in the future."

Sora nodded, looking up at Mickey. "I will keep that in mind. I didn't know he had a sister."

"Well, no one really likes talking about her, unless it's telling her kids what she was like," Mickey said. "It's been twenty years now, anyway. Della Duck mostly just exists in memories now."

A somber mood settled over the watching room for a second, many of the people reeling from the information they just got. It hadn't ever really occurred to any of them that Donald had a missing sister or nephews he had to provide for.

Tarzan asks Goofy if Donald and Sora aren't friends anymore and Goofy says he doesn't know.

Sora blinked, trying to focus back on the present and not what Mickey had just told him. It wouldn't do any good now to focus on it. Maybe he could talk with Donald once he got out of here, clear the air between them fully.

The four of them end up on a rocky outcropping, where two gorillas sit.

"Kerchak, I assume?" Aqua asked, looking to Sora, who nodded.

Tarzan asks Kerchak to listen to him.

Several people jumped in surprise.

"Wait, I thought he couldn't speak English?" Ven asked, blinking in surprise.

"He can't," Sora said, watching the screen in fascination. "When we were there, all were heard were gorilla noises. He's not speaking English."

"Then how can we understand it?" Terra asked and Sora paused before shrugging.

"Magical room that's showing us the past and future?" He said, pitching up the end of the sentence in a question.

"It wouldn't be the craziest thing that's happened in the past hour," Axel said, gesturing to the room at large. Where several people sat that should not be there.

"How much magic was used to create this?" Aqua wondered under her breath. It couldn't have been easy.

Tarzan says he trusts Sora and the others, and he wants to help them because they need help.

"So, he's actually that sweet," Kairi murmured, thinking back to the "friends in heart" thing.

"Yeah, he cares about everyone," Sora replied, thinking about Jane's and Tarzan's relationship. Two very different people making it work between them.

Goofy asks if anyone got that and Donald says no. Kerchak hears something and walks off, being followed by the other gorilla. Goofy notices that he seemed distracted by something.

"By Clayton," Sora explained, thinking back. Clayton had gone to the treehouse, hadn't he?

Sora walks toward Tarzan and attempts to comfort him before mentioning the direction Kerchak walked off to.

"How'd you know?" Xion asked and Sora paused.

"I don't think I did," Sora said. "The way he was acting just seemed off… and I recognized the direction he was going."

In the treehouse, a young gorilla is playing with a globe.

Oh, Sora thought. It is the same gorilla.

Clayton crouches just out of sight and lines up a shot.

Hearing Kairi suck in a breath of concern, not being the only one to do it, he reached out and patted her arm in a soothing manner. "Don't worry," he told her. "We stopped him."

Donald runs up behind him, screaming, causing Clayton to miss his shot.

Even with the tense atmosphere, there were several laughs echoing around the room. Kairi clapped a hand to her mouth to stifle giggles and Roxas and Xion both laughed. Naminé quietly giggled, taken off guard, while Sora smiled, used to Donald's antics.

The young gorilla runs off, hiding behind Kerchak who came through one of the doors. Tarzan calls out to Kerchak, but he leaves.

"He could at least say something," Kairi muttered. "Tarzan's trying to talk to him."

Tarzan turns to Clayton, who says that he was trying to save the gorilla from a snake.

"Does he think that anyone's going to actually believe that?" Vanitas snarked, rolling his eyes. "That's so clearly a lie. Good lies have at least a little bit of truth in them."

The group travels back to the tent. Jane scolds Clayton, despite his attempts to justify himself. Jane apologizes to the group.

"She shouldn't have to deal with him," Aqua said quietly. "He should have been sent away the second he started to threaten the gorillas."

Sora says she doesn't have to apologize, and a gunshot rings out.

"He really went for the gorillas?" Kairi exclaimed, throwing her hands in the air. "After Jane just told him not to?"

"I don't actually know what happened," Sora admitted. "That was the last time we saw Clayton before the Heartless absorbed his heart. I don't know what he did."

The group runs out to see a gorilla surrounded by Heartless. They move to attack, with Sora and Donald arguing slightly. Goofy says it's not the time.

"Have to agree with him," Roxas said. "Arguing while fighting is… not a good idea."

Sora and Goofy get separated while fighting and Goofy says that the gunshot could have been Clayton attempting to help the gorillas.

Several people doubted that was true.

Sora says he would like to believe that but gets sideswiped by a Heartless, being saved by Donald.

"Still friends, even when we were arguing," Sora said softly.

Donald says he owes him, and Sora replies that he doesn't want to owe him.

"It's… nice that you're still helping each other?" Naminé said slowly, watching the screen.

Donald helps the gorilla from before and the gorilla hugs him in fear.

"Poor baby," Xion whispered, and Roxas gave her a look. He would never understand her obsession with animals.

Donald says that he can't fight with the gorilla and Goofy recommends sending him back to the tent. Donald does so. The rest of the fight the Heartless, getting progressively farther away from the camp.

"Is it a good idea to get that far away from Jane?" Aqua asked. "She can't defend herself."

Sora grimaced, thinking about what happened next. "No, it wasn't."

Goofy attempts to have Donald and Sora make up while on the way back to the tent, but it doesn't work. Tarzan looks nervous as he enters the camp.

"What's wrong?" Terra asked, seeing Tarzan's uneasiness. Sora doesn't answer.

The three of them enter the tent, only to see that Jane and the gorilla are missing.

"Oh!" Kairi exclaimed. "Were they okay?"

"Yes, they were," Sora told her. "We found them just fine."

Tarzan calls out for Jane before realizing that there is a strange smell and taking off towards the treehouse.

"What's so special about the treehouse anyway?" Ven asked, thinking back. "It looked like it had been inhabited before and everything seems to happen there."

"I don't know," Sora said. "I never thought to ask. But… Tarzan had to get to the jungle somehow, right?"

When they arrive at the treehouse, Jane looks out from hiding inside it. There are several gorillas in the area.

Kairi relaxed slightly when she saw that the woman was okay.

Jane explains that Clayton came to the tent, and she doesn't remember anything else.

"Clayton was already a Heartless at this point?" Axel asked and Sora nodded.

A gunshot is heard behind them, and they turn to see Clayton. Tarzan says that it isn't Clayton.

"He… looks normal?" Xion said slowly. With all her experience fighting Heartless, she hadn't ever seen one like Clayton. He looked normal.

"I admit, I haven't really seen one like Clayton since then," Sora admitted. "Perhaps he wasn't fully a Heartless yet?"

"How'd Tarzan know?" Aqua murmured quietly under her breath.

Something invisible bursts through the wall behind him and smacks Tarzan away.

"What was that?" Riku asked, sitting straighter as he realized that Sora was once again being thrown into fighting. Another one of the big Heartless, maybe?

"A Heartless," Sora explained, answering Riku's thoughts. "Though, this one was invisible. It was hard to fight."

It looks like Clayton is flying but Goofy realizes it's an invisible Heartless.

"How are you supposed to fight something like that?" Kairi asked, hands circling around Sora's arm.

"Guess?" Sora said, getting a look from multiple people in the room.

Kerchak moves in to protect Tarzan and Sora, Donald, and Goofy focus on the Heartless.

Kairi smiled when she saw Kerchak help Tarzan. It was good to see that their relationship wasn't too damaged.

Donald and Sora argue as they fight, their attacks getting in the way of each other. Goofy tries to stop them, but they ignore it.

"It's okay," Sora said, feeling Riku's judgment even if he wasn't looking at him. "We made up after this."

The three of them eventually manage to destroy the Heartless. Clayton is crushed by it.

"Should I feel bad that he's gone?" Xion questioned, watching the screen. True he hadn't looked like a Heartless, but he had been one. And he hadn't been the best person before he turned into a Heartless.

"It's… complicated," Axel responded, not looking forward to having to explain things like grief to the two kids, even if they'd already felt in some capacity. Grief was most definitely one of the more complicated emotions.

The gorillas celebrate and Kerchak picks up Sora, sending him, Donald, and Goofy flying through the air.

"What the-?" Kairi said, taken aback, but Sora smiled at her.

"I'm fine, it was fine."

The three of them land in a pile, quickly getting off each other.

"Is that the only way you know how to land?" Vanitas snickered. "It seems like it happens quite often." Sora gave him a look.

Tarzan climbs up to them, pointing at the waterfall and calling it his home.

"It's beautiful," Aqua said, looking at the waterfall and the lake and greenery around it. Several people agreed with her.

Tarzan takes them and Jane behind the waterfall, revealing a giant cavern and tree.

Xion felt the urge to go there, to see the worlds she never had. It would be an… adventure. She'd go with Axel and Roxas, and no one would tell them what to do ever again.

Tarzan says the word they didn't know, listening to sound of the waterfall around the cave. Jane realizes that the word is heart.

"Is that place… Tarzan's heart?" Roxas asked, feeling slightly confused.

"It's more like, he feels the most at ease there, it's his home, and the waterfall sounds like a heartbeat, kinda," Sora explained.

Tarzan asks if they understand, and Jane says that friends are inside their hearts.

Sora smiled, slightly sadly. While Jane was correct and had been continued to be proven correct with everything that Sora did, he could still remember the slightly sad feeling that had overtaken him when he realized that Riku and Kairi weren't there. That he had to keep searching for them.

Tarzan explains that with no heart, there's no friends. Sora and Donald turn to each other. They apologize to each other.

"See?" Sora said, waving at the screen. "We made up. We're fine now."

Sora looks at the tree and blue butterflies move, revealing the Keyhole.

"They really are random, aren't they?" Terra muttered, thinking back to Wonderland's.

Sora locks the Keyhole and gets another Gummi block.

"Did they come from every Keyhole?" Aqua asked and Sora nodded. As well as he remembered at least.

Donald gets hugged by the young gorilla from before and Goofy says that he has an admirer. Donald says that Daisy would kill him, causing laughter.

Sora laughed along with his onscreen counterpart. It was nice to see him and Donald laughing together again.

The screen fades back in, showing the dark room again.

Sora's laughter abruptly ended, and he turned to look at Riku, who had gone stiff.

Really? He scolded himself. Are you going to react like that whenever she comes onscreen? But he couldn't help the slight quickening of his breath and Sora reached out, grasping his hand tightly. No one else said anything, but Terra was watching carefully for the signs that Riku was having another panic attack.

Maleficent and the others talk about Clayton and how his lust for power got himself turned into a Heartless.

It's fine, she's not here.

"How is she watching you?" Aqua asked, trying to think about the different magics it could have been. "How is that possible?" Sora shrugged, unknowing.

Vanitas smirked. I wonder how long it will take to realize that Master Xehanort was watching all three of them the whole time. The scars on his palms twinged slightly as he thought that, and he winced. It's fine.

Emerging from the shadows, Jafar says that a weak-hearted fool like him was no match for the Heartless.

Sora narrowed his eyes, remembering Jafar kidnapping Jasmine.

He says that Sora is a problem because he sealed one of the Keyholes. Maleficent says it'll take him ages to find the rest.

"How about… no?" Sora snarked, feeling Kairi laugh from his side. He was trying to lighten the atmosphere slightly and felt relieved when he saw the smallest twitches on Riku's face.

She says he remains blissfully unaware of their other plan.

Riku flinched. A plan you helped, you made. They couldn't have done it without you. Sora's grip tightened on his hand.

Maleficent says the princesses are falling into their hands and Alice is shown.

You kidnapped her, you helped Maleficent, you-

"Riku?" Sora asked quietly and the older boy looked down at him, pulled from his thoughts. "We okay?" Riku blinked once, trying to slow his breathing.

"Okay," he responded, and Sora gave him a small smile.

The screen turns off and the lights come up.

"Sora," Mickey said slowly, and Sora turned to look at the king, not letting go of Riku's hand. "I think I might know why Donald was acting the way he was." Sora tipped his head, intriquied.

"Well, this isn't the first time I've gone missing," Mickey revealed, looking down. "In Donald's and Goofy's time at the palace, I disappeared one other time for a long period of time. Ten years ago." Aqua blinked, realizing what he was talking about. "You guys know I know Aqua and well, I was a part of everything that went down then. And I was gone for a while and when I came back…" Mickey trailed off and his hands twitched before he looked back up at them. "I wasn't the same, not for a while. Aqua and the others were my friends, and they were gone and it seemed like they had died. I was… mourning them."

"Mickey…" Aqua said and Mickey looked to her, smiling softly at her.

"You were my friends and I thought you gone," he told her. "Wouldn't you do the same for me?" Mickey turned back to Sora. "Donald was probably afraid that if he didn't find me, it might have been the same thing. And he was probably worried about that. It's not an excuse for why he acted like he did, but it might be a reason."

Sora paused before smiling in Mickey's direction. "It's okay, your majesty," he said. "Donald and I are friends now and while I know he was stressed; we've worked past that. Plus, you're here now, so hopefully he won't be as worried."

"I'm not leaving again," Mickey promised. Sora smiled, before letting it dim slightly. His eyes traveled back to Riku. He couldn't help but be worried. He knew what happened after this.