The Mane Seven Adventures of Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories

Chapters

Chapter 1 Into Castle Oblivion
Chapter 2 Forgotten Memories
Chapter 3 The Forgotten Girl...
Chapter 4 Name of the lost friend...
Chapter 5 Meeting an old friend

Chapter 1 Into Castle Oblivion

After the events of battling Ansem, Star Mage, and Maleficent, Sora, Donald, Goofy, and the Mane Seven have went off to help search for King Mickey and Riku. Throughout searching for them, they have took a break and started resting. When it turned night time, they went to sleep. Red SoarDash woke up from his sleep. Then he realized that it was night time still. He sighed and sees his other friends still asleep. Fluttershy starts waking up as she yawns. Then she notice that Red was awake too.

"How come you're awake Red," asked the shyful pony.

The red stallion turns to Fluttershy and said, "Oh hey Fluttershy. I just couldn't stay asleep I guess."

Fluttershy went to sit with him. Red notices, but he lets her sit with him.

She asked, "Do you think we'll ever return home?"

Red thinks about this. It's been a couple of days since they had been taken to these strange worlds. He was very worried if they won't return to their home again. Especially since all the lanes are closed again after defeating Ansem.

He answered, "I... Honestly don't know Fluttershy. It's hard to say if we'll ever see everyone again."

"Oh," said Fluttershy.

She looked down and sighs. Red sees this and gets close to her. He hugs her and looks at her.

"Hey.... I'm sure that maybe we'll see Equestria again. Trust me," said the red stallion as he wanted her to smile.

Red didn't like having the shyful pony be very sad. He wanted to make sure she was at least happy while on this journey.

Lucky for him, she was able to smile after his kind words.

She smiled said, "Thank you Red."

Red smiles also, but he started to yawn.

"We should definitely get some sleep if we want to find Riku and King Mickey," said the red stallion.

Fluttershy then had this idea, but she was nervous about saying it.

"H-Hey Red.... I was wondering if.... nevermind," said Fluttershy.

He looks at her as he was interested in what she wanted to say.

Red asked, "What is it?"

Fluttershy then started blushing as she said, "I was um... wondering.... if it won't be so much trouble.... that I could sleep here.... with you."

This causes him to blush.

"S-sure," said the red stallion.

He started to lay down as she lay down with him. They both slowly went off to sleep.

Later on, Sora now wakes up. He looks around as he notices everyone is asleep. Then suddenly he hears a voice.

"Along the road ahead lies something you need," said the voice.

Sora was confused until he turns to see who it is. But no one was there.

The voice spoke again as Sora turns around to finally see him. It seems to be someone in a black coat.

The stranger said, "However. In order to claim it you must lose something that is dear to you."

The stranger disappeared as as Sora was confused on his words.

Then later on, the others had woke up. They all started to head off in search of Riku and King Mickey.

Pinkie Pie then suddenly asks, "Are we there yet?"

Applejack answered, "No."

They kept walking until Pinkie Pie asks again, "How about now?"

Rainbow Dash tells her, "Pinkie Pie. We won't get there faster if you keep asking that every 5 minutes."

Pinkie Pie then says, "I know but it's such a loooooooonnnnnnnnggggg walk."

They continued on walking until in front of them is a very large castle. Then they all decided to walk in as they look around. The room seems to be white and has a door that leads to a room.

As they look around Goofy asked, "Hey, ya think it's okay to barge in?"

Donald tells him, "But we gotta do it, if we're gonna find the king..."

This makes Goofy surprised as he asks, "The king?! King Mickey's here?"

Donald said, "Something just told me he'd be here, okay?"

Goofy asks, "Really? 'Cause now that ya mention it, I was kinda thinkin' the same thing."

Red says, "Weird.... I'm also thinking the same thing."

Fluttershy asks, "Really? You also think Riku and King Mickey are here too?"

Red nods at her and she says, "Yeah... It's very weird. It's like I feel that they were here earlier."

This makes everyone very confused.

Sora then said, "Seriously? Me too! One look at this castle, and I just knew: Our very best friends, they're here."

Goofy then said, "A-hyuck! Guess great minds think alike."

Applejack says, "Ah don't think so sugarcube."

Rarity asks, "What do you mean Applejack? Isn't it good that we all think that they are here in this castle?"

Applejack replied, "It is good Rarity. But isn't it very weird how all of us somehow have this feeling?"

Then Jiminy Cricket came out of Sora's hood and says, "She's right guys. It can't be just a coincidence."

Donald then says, "Oh, no, Jiminy. Ya don't mean that-"

Jiminy cuts him off and replied, "Yep, I had it too, mm-hmm! I had the exact same feeling."

Goofy then said, "Gawrsh, maybe it's contagious."

Twilight said, "If it is then maybe we should check out this castle."

Sora said, "All right."

He then starts walking to the door that leads further in the castle.

Donald then exclaims, "Wak! Where are you going?!"

"That way. To the door. Are ya scared," asks Sora as he smirks.

Rainbow Dash asks, "When did you become such a scaredy bird Donald?"

Donald got upset by their teasing as he said, "Aw, don't be ridiculous! Come on, let's go, Goofy!"

Fluttershy says, "I don't know... Maybe it's a bad idea entering here."

Red tells her, "I'm sure we'll be okay."

Pinkie Pie says, "He's right! It's not like anything totally scary or confusing is gonna happen!"

Goofy then suddenly said, "Hey, fellahs, shouldn't we shut the door behind us before we go? Guys!"

They turned to see what Goofy saw. They saw it was the guy in the black coat that Sora saw earlier.

Sora then yelled, "That's it! Who are you?"

Sora, Red, Rarity, and Twilight summoned their keyblades. Donald summoned his staff and Goofy summoned his staff.

Rainbow Dash exclaims, "Hey you! Might wanna leave or we'll have to deal with you!"

Rarity asks, "Who even is this?"

Pinkie Pie answers, "Must be a new terrifying bad guy."

Donald suddenly exclaims, "Wak! It's a Heartless!"

Twilight says, "I don't think it's a-"

Donald cuts her off and continued, "I'll try some magic! Thunder!"

He casts a spell but... nothing happened. Everyone looked at him in confusion.

"Come on. Thunder! Thunder," said Donald as he kept trying to cast the spell.

Donald then tries his other spells by saying, "Come on... Blizzard? Fire!"

Nothing happened again.

Donald asked, "Why isn't it working?"

Pinkie Pie said, "Maybe you staff is broken."

Donald tells her, "Magic staffs don't break!"

Red asks, "Then what else can it be?"

Suddenly, the stranger says, "I should think it's obvious. The moment you set foot in this castle, you forgot every spell and every ability you ever knew. In this place, to find is to lose, and to lose is to find. That is the way in Castle Oblivion."

Sora asks, "Castle Oblivion?"

The guy in the black hood tells him, "Here you will meet people that you have known in the past. And you will meet people you miss."

Sora then says, "I miss? Riku! You mean Riku's here?!"

The mysterious man said, "If what you want...is to find him..."

He then suddenly went through him. Sora then went to strike him, but the stranger in the black coat vanished away from him.

Sora turns to him and glares.

Red asks, "What did you do?"

He answers, "I merely sampled his memories. And from them, I made this."

The stranger shows off a card. Then he throws it at Sora and he catches it.

Sora asks, "What's this, a card?"

He tells him, "It is a promise for the reunion you seek. Hold the card to open the door. And beyond it, a new world. Proceed Sora, Red SoarDash, Twilight Sparkle, and Rarity. To lose and claim anew, or to claim anew only to lose..."

Then the stranger vanished.

Sora looks at the card that was in his hand.

Rainbow Dash asks, "Should we listen to him? He seems suspicious."

Applejack says, "It could be a trap."

Twilight then said, "Well whatever it is, we should make sure to be careful in case he does something bad."

Sora said, "C'mon. Let's go."

They walk to the door as Sora looks at the card. Then he points it up. His card disappears and it made the door open. A bright light was showing.

Red says, "Guess we should walk forward then."

Twilight tells her friends, "Remember guys. Be careful and don't lose your guard."

They nodded at her as everyone heads through the door.

Sora, Red, Twilight, and Rarity had entered the strange world. What's very strange about it is that it looks exactly like Traverse Town.

Red said, "What...? Okay now I'm confused."

Rarity said, "You're telling me darling."

Sora said, "But this can't be right. How are we back in Traverse Town?"

Twilight said, "This is probably because of the guy in the black coat."

Then suddenly the guy in the black coat appears behind them.

He tells them, "What you see isn't real."

They turn and see him right there.

The guy in the black coat continues, "This town is an illusion created by your memories ingrained in that card."

Sora was confused as he asked, "My....memories?"

Everyone else was also confused.

Twilight asks, "What do you mean by 'his memories...?'"

Jiminy jumps out of Sora's hood and looks at them.

"Forget about that! We lost Donald, Goofy, and the other ponies," exclaimed Jiminy.

They heard him as they look around. They tried calling them, but nothing was heard. Then they turn to the guy in the black coat.

Red then asked, "What did you do with them?!"

It was an angry tone. He was very concerned if he lost his friends again after working so hard to find them when he travelled to other worlds during their first adventure.

The guy in the black hood tells them, "They are at the mercy of the cards now. Master the cards, and their strength will be yours again."

After the guy in black coat explained to them what they need to know, they noticed that Donald, Goofy, and the other ponies is running to them. They seem to be alright.

Red looks at them and says, "Thank Celestia you guys are here. I thought we were all separated again..."

Sora asks them, "Where have you been?"

Donald answers, "You tell us! When you opened the door, we saw a strange light...and the rest is just...blank."

Jiminy Cricket was confused as he says, "Gee, that doesn't help. Try to remember what happened. I have to keep my journal up to date."

Rainbow Dash says, "Yeah yeah cool it. Just give us a minute."

Suddenly, Donald and Goofy notice that their clothes have changed to what they wore on their first adventure.

Goofy asks, "Hey, Donald, where'd I get the new clothes?"

Donald exclaims, "Wak?! Me too, Goofy! Somebody's been messing with our clothes!"

They then look at the stranger in the black coat.

Sora asks him, "Could it be the cards again?"

The guy in the black coat tells them, "That is for you to ponder. Master the cards and make your way through the castle. But from here, you walk alone."

Everyone was in shock to hear this. He wants to have Sora, Red, Twilight, and Rarity walk alone.

Goofy exclaims, "Alone?! We can't let our friends go alone!"

Donald nods and says, "Yeah! They can't do anything without our help!"

The keyblade wielders look at him while being annoyed with that response.

Rainbow Dash thought, 'Oh really? Last time I remember, you ditched us back in Hollow Bastion.'

Sora says sarcastically, "Thanks a lot Donald."

Goofy asks while concerned, "You sure you'll be okay?"

Sora nods and says, "Of course!"

The other keyblade wielders nodded at Goofy.

Twilight then says, "You want us to go alone? Fine. We'll do what you say."

The stranger scoffed and said, "Hmph, the heroes speaks boldly. Go, then. The rest of Castle Oblivion awaits. Walk the avenues of latent memory, and you shall meet someone dear to you."

Jiminy then mutters, "I've got a bad feeling about this..."

Sora tells him, "Relax, Jiminy. We'll be ready for any tricks he's got up his sleeve. How hard can it be to figure out these cards? All we have to do is use one in front of that door over there."

Sora said as they can see another door that leads them to another room.

Applejack asked them, "Are ya sure about? We can follow y'all without him knowing."

Rainbow Dash nods and says, "Yeah! We can take him on if he tries to stop us."

Twilight says, "It's not like we have much of a choice. Seems like we have to play by his rules for now."

Rarity said, "Which could be unlucky for us."

Pinkie Pie asks, "But what if he pulls something out of his sleeve? Like a secret ambush which involves other people like him but have some sort of secret mission that involves us."

They look at her while confused.

Donald asks, "Where did you even come up with that?"

Pinkie Pie answers while smiling, "...Just a hunch!"

Sora then says, "Well let's get going then."

They were about to leave. Fluttershy looks at Red and asks, "Are you sure about this Red? This could be very dangerous."

Red nods as he sighed.

"Yeah. You gave a point. But it's not like we have a choice. Otherwise he might do something bad. But trust me. We'll be okay," said Red as he smiles at her.

Fluttershy nods as he starts to head out with the others.

Fluttershy then thinks, 'Why do I have this bad feeling...'

After a while Sora, Red, twilight, and Rarity were moving through rooms. They fought against heartless that appeared there. But they were struggling a bit while fighting. They were so used to fighting together as a team with their friends. They never thought that they would have to fight alone.

After a while, they were in another room as they were taking a break.

Sora says, "Hmm, fighting alone isn't as easy as I thought..."

Red included, "You're telling me..."

Just then they notice a bunch of cards appeared. Then they glowed a bright light. Their friends had shown up. This surprises the keyblade wielders a lot.

Rarity exclaims, "Aah! At least warn us before popping out of nowhere like that!"

Donald exclaims, "Hey, it's not our fault! We don't know what's going on!"

Then they notice something behind them. It was Pluto, King Mickey's dog.

Sora exclaims, "Pluto?!"

Fluttershy smiles as she pets the dog as this seems to make her happy.

"What a cute dog. I never seen him up close. I wonder how did he get here," said the shyful pony.

Donald asks, "The real question is: What's Pluto doing here?!"

Goofy tells him, "There's nothing strange about that. We came to Traverse Town with Pluto, didn't we?"

Donald and Goofy was confused about this, until Jiminy pops out of Sora's hood.

Jiminy Cricket tells them, "No, wait! According to my journal, it was before you met Sora, Red and Twilight that you came to town with Pluto!"

Donald exclaims, "Wak! He's right! We were chasing after Pluto, and that's how we ended up in Castle Oblivion!"

Pinkie Pie asks, "But aren't we in Traverse Town?"

Jiminy Cricket answers, "Well, it's not really Traverse Town. I think the card created this Traverse Town inside Castle Oblivion!"

Twilight then says, "So that guy was telling the truth. This card really did take us to Traverse Town."

Rainbow Dash suddenly exclaims, "Aaghh! Who cares about all that? It's too confusing!"

Sora says, "You're telling me." I don't know where we are, but let's just keep moving forward defeating Heartless! We'll get somewhere!"

Applejack says, "Let's hope ya right Sora."

Suddenly, they heard a family voice that is behind them.

"You'd better be careful, or it's the Heartless that are going to defeat you," said the voice.

They turn and notice that it was Leon.

Sora exclaims, "Leon, it's you!"

Twilight says, "Thank Celestia that we are able to see you again."

Red asks, "But wait. What are you doing in Castle Oblivion?"

Leon was confused as he asked, "Castle Oblivion? What are you talking about? This is Traverse Town. And how do you know my name? Who are all of you?"

Everyone was confused as he tells them that he doesn't know them.

Rarity asks, "A-are you serious darling?"

Leon answers, "I'm serious. I've never met the likes of you before."

Sora tells him, "Quit playing, Leon! We all fought the Heartless together! You know that!"

Leon shook his head no. Then continued, "Look, I don't know what you're talking about. I don't even know your names."

Goofy asks sadly, "You don't?"

Leon tells them, "...Sorry."

Pinkie Pie exclaims, "I can't believe it. How can you have forgotten about us? We're your friends! You have to know us."

Leon shook his head as he continues, "I feel for you, but you've got the wrong guy. Happens all the time. Don't take it so personally, Pinkie Pie."

This made everyone even more confused. First Leon said he doesn't know them, now he easily remembered her names.

Sora then exclaims, "So you do know our names!"

Leon was confused as he said, "Now, now hold on! Why do I know her name, Sora?"

His eyes widened. Now he suddenly knows Sora's name.

Rainbow Dash exclaims, "Okay what kind of prank are you trying to pull?! I mean pranks are easily funny but now is not the time for pranks!"

Leon then answers, "There is no pranks Rainbow Dash. I honestly don't know- Wait... now I know your name...?"

Goofy whispers to his friends, "You think Leon's just kidding around?"

Donald answers, "If he is, it's not funny."

Fluttershy asks, "I hope he isn't trying to mess with us."

Leon asks, "Who's kidding around, Goofy? You, Donald, and Fluttershy are the ones who-"

Applejack exclaims, "See! Ya do know their names. Ah'm pretty sure you know the rest of our names as well."

Leon asks himself, "I don't get it... Something's wrong with my memory. What's happening here?"

Twilight answers, "That's what we're trying to figure out. Seems like there is some weird power that is messing with your memories."

A female voice spoke, "She's right Leon. Aerith was onto something like this."

They look to see Yuffie walking towards them.

Yuffie said, "She said she sensed some uncanny kind of power. And asked us to look into it. Well, this is as uncanny as it gets. Maybe you should take them to see Aerith."

Sora asked, "Y-You know us Yuffie?!"

Yuffie answered, "Yep! Looks like you know me too."

Leon asked Yuffie, "You know them?"

Yuffie answered, "Nope! Total strangers. But I definitely know their names. Strange, yes, but convenient! We can skip the introductions."

Leon was confused by how calm she was during this.

"How is it that you can accept this situation so easily? I don't get you," asked Leon while looking at her.

Yuffie then tells them, "Well, I'm gonna run ahead and fill Aerith in. Leon, you give them the grand tour. See ya later!"

She then starts walking off as Leon turns over to the others.

He sighed and says, "I guess it's no use pondering over it. Come on, follow me. But there are Heartless wandering around town. I'd better teach you how to protect yourself in battle."

Leon then spent a couple of minutes teaching Sora, Red, Twilight, and Rarity more on fighting with cards. They finally finished after a while.

Leon asked, "Think you've got the hang of it?"

The red stallion answered, Think so. Seems complicated, but I'm sure that we'll figure it out a lot more better."

Leon then tells them, "Here, I found this lying around. You take it. Remember what I told you and make good use of it."

They look and sees that it is a card of Simba.

Eventually, they made it to one of the rooms in Traverse Town. There they met Aerith.

Red asks her, "Did you forget us too Aerith?"

Aerith looks down and says, "I don't know whether to say "nice to meet you" or "good to see you again." I don't think I know you all, but I still feel like you all belong here."

Yuffie agrees by saying, "Yeah, exactly! Like we've never met, but it still doesn't feel weird knowing your names."

Pinkie Pie says, "But we did met! We were taking on those mean heartless! You have to remember us...."

Her friends look at her as they were very concerned.

Leon thinks about this for a second. Then he says, "It feels like you're right... But I can't remember."

Sora said, "Then I guess you won't remember what you told me. In Hollow Bastion, when I sealed the Keyhole: 'We may never meet again...'"

Leon continues what he is saying, "...but we'll never forget each other."

Rainbow Dash exclaimed, "Ha! You do remember!

Yuffie's eyes widened as she told Leon, "She's right, Leon! I remember you saying that too."

Leon sighs as she starts thinking about this. Then said to her, "I guess I can't write it off as a coincidence, then."

Then Aerith told them, "I don't have any memory of it, but somehow I still remember. I think your heart is doing the remembering for us."

Sora was very confused. So was everyone else.

So he asked, "My...heart?"

Twilight asks, "But how?"

Aerith starts to explain, "We don't know you, Sora, but your heart is full of memories of us together. Those memories must resonate in our hearts, too. Maybe they tell us things we couldn't otherwise know."

Leon asks her, "So you're saying that Sora's memories are affecting ours?"

"His memories do seem to have a certain power," said Aerith as she nods at him.

Applejack suggests, "Maybe it's like that guy said then."

Fluttershy says, "So... this town is just an illusion then like he told us....?"

Sora said, "Even created from my memories."

Aerith continues, "And...there's someone special to you in this town?"

Sora asked, "How did you- Ah, I get it. My memories are resonating with yours, telling you what happened. Yeah. A friend of ours is somewhere in this town- I mean, Castle Oblivion."

Yuffie asks, "Castle Oblivion? What's that? There aren't any castles in here."

Fluttershy tells her, "Well uh.... That's not quite what he meant Yuffie."

Red then said, "Maybe we should take a look around. Maybe we can find something else that can help us out."

Leon nods before saying, "Then go have a walk around town. There are Heartless, but that's no problem for you."

Sora smirks and asks, "So you know we can fight?"

Leon gave a small smirk and said, "I can't say I know, but I feel like believing you. Let's leave it at that."

Later, they went on ahead to look around. Pinkie Pie seems upset.

Goofy notices this and asks, "Hey Pinkie Pie. Are you okay?"

Pinkie Pie sighs as she starts to say, "It's just.... How could our friends forgot us?! We're supposed to be friends! Friends never forget each other!"

Donald suggests, "Maybe the castle is messing with their heads."

Twilight says, "Could be...."

The shyful pony suggests, "Maybe it has some weird magic that effects everyone here."

Rarity said, "Though I'm sure they will be fine. After all they did remember us again."

Rainbow Dash then says, "Yeah. I mean even though they did forget us, at least we got them to remember us."

Pinkie Pie asks, "But what if we forget them like they forget about us...."

That made everyone go in silence.

What if they really did forget everyone they met? Leon, Yuffie, Aerith.

Rarity said, "That... is very upsetting..."

Sora then says, "Maybe the guy in the black coat really is behind it."

Applejack asks, "Ya think so?"

Sora then explained, "Yeah. Probably from that card he gave me of Traverse Town."

Red tells them, "Then we should probably question him them."

Everyone but Pinkie Pie nods as they agree with him.

Red then tells her, "Hey.... It will be okay. Even if we do forget them, our hearts will still remember them."

She hears this and smiles slightly. Then she nods. They then start moving on, but Pinkie Pie stayed.

She thought, 'I hope you're right Red...'

Then she puts on a fake smile and follows them.

They made it to the second district as they see Cid.

He notices them and greets them, "Well, whaddaya know. It's Sora and the ponies!"

This confuses him as he says, "Wait, what am I saying? I don't know you. But you do LOOK like a Sora, what with the spiky hair and baggy pants..."

Sora chuckles nervously before saying, "It's okay, Cid. That's my name."

Cid chuckles and said, "So! You've heard of me, eh? Well, I can't say as I'm surprised."

They nod at him.

Twilight then says to him, "Anyway, maybe you can help us out. Our friend is supposed to be somewhere in this castle- I mean town. Any advice or any tips?"

Cid explains, "Your friend, huh? Lately all this town sees is Heartless. Can't even take two steps without gettin' attacked. In fact, this plaza's the worst. Word is, a jumbo-sized Heartless shows up when that bell rings. If you value your hide, you'll get outta here while the gettin's good."

They were shocked when they heard this.

Goofy then said, "Gawrsh, maybe we should leave."

Sora turns to them and asks, "Don't you want to see the Heartless?"

Donald exclaims, "NO we DON'T!"

Applejack tells him, "We gotta deal with the heartless threat feather-butt before we leave outta here."

Then suddenly, the bell starts ringing.

Donald exclaims, "The bell!"

Then the ground starts rumbling.

Fluttershy notices something falling down.

She exclaims, "G-Guys! Look out!"

They look up and saw the Guard Armor heartless appeared.

After fighting it off, Leon, Yuffie, and Aerith catched up to them.

Yuffie asks, "So your friend wasn't here?"

Sora shook his head and answered, "No. I don't think we'll find him in this town. But he's somewhere in this castle. I just know it.

Cid was confused and asks, "Castle? Like this whole town's inside some humongous castle? Hoo, that's rich!"

Leon tells him, "He's probably right, Cid. We may not understand what's going on, but Sora and his friends does. They can see that reality is bigger than just this world."

Pinkie Pie mutters, "I hope you're right..."

Leon nods at her and tells her, "You'll be okay. No matter what shape reality takes, you can handle it. I may not remember you or your friends, but I know you in my heart."

She looks at him and smiles as she thanked him.

Yuffie tells them, "Take care, Sora."

Cid then says, "I'm a little lost...but best of luck anyway."

Leon, Yuffie, and Cid all walked away from them. Then they started walking, until Aerith stopped the keyblade wielders.

Sora asked her, "What's up?"

Aerith tells them, "I don't have all the answers, but I had to tell you something. Sora's memories created this town, right?"

Red nods and answers, "Yeah. The guy in the black coat gave us this card."

Aerith then continued, "If that's true, then this town is just a figment of your mind...and so are we."

They were all confused.

Sora then exclaims, "But...you can't be a figment! You're standing right here. The town is here, too!"

Aerith explains to them, "But I'm not really me. I don't remember the things I should. And I sense things I shouldn't. Sora, beware your memories. In the journey to come, you'll be faced with more illusions. Sometimes the shadows of your memory will deceive you, try to lead you astray."

Sora asks, "So... what exactly does that mean?"

Aerith says to him, "I'm sorry. I'm just another illusion. The truth is out of my reach. Just stay strong Sora. Don't let the illusions distract you from what's truly important."

Sora answered, "...Okay."

Donald yelled, "Sora! Red! Twilight! Rarity!"

They all look at them.

Applejack asks, "Are y'all ready to go?"

Twilight tells them, "Yeah we'll be there in a minute!"

Then they turn to see that Aerith was gone.

Sora exclaims, "Aerith? Aerith!"

Fluttershy asks, "Is everything okay guys?"

Rarity answers, "Wasn't Aerith right here? We were talking with her."

They look at them confused.

Goofy says, "Aerith left with Leon and the others, remember?"

Sora asks, "Huh?!"

Pinkie Pie tells them, "Yeah. It was like you were talking to a spooky ghost pony."

They walked toward the others as they were about to leave. As they left, Sora stayed behind and looks back at the place where Aerith talked to them.

"Is this what she meant...," asked Sora as he left also.

They walked back into Castle Oblivion as they see the stranger in the black coat again.

He asks, "Did you enjoy meeting your memories?"

Sora answers, "....Yeah. It was good to see everyone."

They all glare at the stranger. Then Twilight asked, "What are you even trying to do? Sora has to be your main focus right? What is it you really want from him?"

The stranger in the black coat didn't bother saying anything. That was until another guy in a black coat showed up. This time he isn't hiding his face. His hair was red and spikey, he was tall, and he has teal eyes.

He greets all of them by saying, "Hello!"

The guy hiding his face asked him, "What do you want?"

The guy with red hair chuckles before answering, "No hogging the hero."

The stranger was amused by his words. Then he threw cards at him. The red headed stranger caught them easily.

The guy in the black coat says, "Then perhaps you'd like to test him."

Then he disappeared, leaving the guy with red spikey hair with Sora and the ponies.

"My show now, keyblade masters. Who am I? Oh, my name's Axel. Got it memorized," asked the guy with red spikey hair named Axel.

Sora answers while confused, "Uh...sure."

Axel smirked before saying, "Good. You're a quick learner."

Everyone looked at Axel was they were worried about what he was gonna do.

Axel then said, "Now that we're getting to know each other better..."

Suddenly, he starts summoning fair on his hands and wrists and out came his weapons. Which are Chakrams.

Everyone was shocked by this. The keyblade wielders all summoned their keyblades and everyone else got ready also.

Axel continued, "...Don't you go off and die on me now!"

The keyblade wielders' friends turned into cards as they were ready to fight against Axel.

Red rushed to attack Axel, but he dodged and counter attacked him.

Axel then threw his chakrams at Red and it hurt him effectively.

Sora jumps up and tries to strike him from above, but Axel quickly blocks his attack.

As Axel was about to attack Sora, Rarity tries to attack but Axel quickly attack them both.

Twilight goes to strike at Axel, and their weapons clashed together.

"Y-you're....pretty tough.... for a princess....," said Axel while struggling against Twilight's keyblade.

The princess of friendship didn't say anything as she kept struggling against him. Unfortunately for her, Axel leg sweeps her quickly.

Then he starts throwing fire balls at all of them. They rushed and blocked the fire balls.

Red then uses a card that has Donald on it. He yelled, "Donald!"

Donald appeared and said, "Haha! Now take my spell!"

He said as he launched a spell at Axel. But.... it was a fire spell. Which powered up Axel.

Axel then chuckled and said, "Hehe! Thanks!"

Red glared at Donald and asked, "What the hay was that Donald?!"

Donald glared back at Red and tells him, "It's not my fault! I used blizzard and it somehow made me use fire instead!"

Suddenly Axel jumps from them as he starts to charge up and he was surrounded by a aura made of fire.

"BURN," exclaims the guy in the black coat as he launched a fire wall at them.

The fire wall, hits them both as it hurts them badly. They groan in pain as they glared at Axel.

Sora then used a Simba card and summoned him. Simba glared at him and launched a powerful roar which damaged him.

Simba unsummoned and they rushed towards Axel to attack him.

He gets hit by them. Then he strikes at them. They get hit and then attacked him a lot faster.

They were clashing their weapons against each other. Then Sora quickly rushed and did a final strike.

It seems like Axel was defeated. They then notice cards were shown to them. It was from other worlds they have been to before.

Goofy said, "Another one. What's it do?"

Jiminy then says, "Hmm. Kinda looks like the card you used when you made Traverse Town."

Red said, "Must be for more worlds."

The brunette teen said, "Then I guess we're gonna need it to keep going..."

"That's right," sais a voice as it belonged to Axel. It seemed like he took no damage form those attacks they did to him.

Axel walks to them and asks, "Did you really think after that introduction, I would give up oh so easily?"

Twilight then tells him, "You were testing us weren't you?"

Axel smirked and nodded at them.

"And you passed. Congratulations Keybearers! You're ready now! Ready to take on Castle Oblivion," said the red haired guy in the black coat.

He continued, "You will need to follow your memories. Trust what you remember and seek what you forget. Then you will find someone very special."

Applejack asked, "Ya mean King Mickey and Riku?"

Axel ignored what she said and told them, "You will just have to give some more thought to who it is that's... most important to you. Our most precious memories lie so deep within our hearts that they're out of reach. But I'm sure that you can find yours, Sora.

Sora was very confused as he asks, "Why me?"

Axel explains, "You have lost sight of the light within the darkness. And it seems that you've forgotten that you forgot."

Everyone but the keyblade wielders was extremely confused.

Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie both asked, "What?"

Sora looks down and mutters, "The light within darkness..."

Axel then raised his hand to him and asked him, "Would you like me to give you a hint?"

They look at Sora to see what he is going to say.

Fluttershy asks, "Sora.... Do you want to take it?"

Sora thinks about this. He wants to figure this out. To see what he meants by someone that's important. But.... this has to be something he needs to do for himself.

So he tells Axel, "I'm gonna figure it out for myself. If you're in our way...."

Donald quickly gets in front Sora and says, "Don't worry, Sora! We'll protect you!"

Axel was impressed as he chuckled. Then he said, "Good answer. Just what I'd expect from one of the Keyblade masters. But be forewarned... When your sleeping memories awaken, you may no longer be who you are now."

Then he disappeared... What he said made everyone confused and slightly freaked out.

Author's Note

Finally it is done! The first chapter of The Mane Seven Adventures of Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories is finally done! I'm very glad to return to you guys with this. Hope you guys enjoy this. Can't wait to write a lot more again!

Chapter 2 Forgotten Memories

After their big fight with the guy in the black hood with red hair, whose is name Axel, they headed up into the Castle to find out where their friends are located. As they were heading up, something was bothering Jiminy.

Jiminy muttered to himself, "Hmm..."

They were concerned after hearing Jiminy.

Sora asked him, "What's wrong, Jiminy?"

Jiminy starts to explain to them, "Well, ya see, what Axel said back there worries me. What could he have meant by, 'You may no longer be who you are?'"

This was concerning to them as this might was something that freaks them out.

Sora asked him, "I may no longer be me? How can I be anyone else?"

Pinkie Pie suggests, "Maybe it's a very very hard riddle."

Red then says, "Seems like more than a riddle. Maybe we should be careful."

Goofy nods and says, "Yep. Feels like just about anything could happen here in Castle... Oblivi... Oblivi... Obliv-"

Donald quickly cuts him off by correcting him, "Castle Oblivion!"

Goofy chuckled before saying, "Oh, yeah! Now I remember!

Sora nods tells them, "We'll be okay. Whatever it is they're cooking up, we'll be able to handle it together."

Goofy also says, "Course we will. Like at that creepy castle we explored together, the one with all those weird contraptions."

This has them very confused as they look at Goofy.

Applejack asked, "Uh... When did that happened?"

Twilight asked, "But wasn't it back when..... When..... Weird. I can't remember."

Rainbow Dash asked, "Well what is it called anyway?"

Goofy keeps trying to remember it by saying, "Gawrsh, oh it was, uh... Holla... Holly... Holler... Sorry. I can't remember."

Donald quickly spoke, "Wak! Stop goofing around."

Sora asked him, "Goofy, you sure you didn't make it up?"

Goofy shook his head as he was sure that he didn't made it up.

As they figured maybe it was nothing, they headed towards the door to the next room. Sora hold up a world card to the door and the door opened. They all went through it.

They were suddenly in a very strange and weird looking world.

Wonderland

They look around at the world around them. It was very strange and weird.

Rainbow Dash says, "This place is... very something alright."

Pinkie Pie replied, "Come on Rainbow Dash! Seems like such a cool world to be in."

Rarity hears someone as she tells her friends, "Hold on everyone. I believe someone is coming."

They notice a white rabbit came by as he seemed in a rush.

The White Rabbit exclaims, "I'm late! I'm late! I'm dreadfully, awfully late! The queen will roast me for dinner! If I'm late for the trial, it'll be off with MY head next!"

That last remark had them very shocked.

Sora asked, "What do you mean, "off with your head"?!"

The White Rabbit quickly says, "Oh my fur and whiskers! I'll never make it!"

Sora, still shocked by what he said, spoke, "Off with his HEAD?!"

Fluttershy says to her friends, "Oh my... For such a place that seems peaceful, it sounds very violent."

Twilight says, "Let's follow him to make sure everything is okay."

With that, they went into the world of Wonderland to follow the White Rabbit. As they walked, they see a courtroom. This meant a trial was happening.

Goofy asks, "Gawrsh, looks like some kind of get-together. What's the occasion?"

Donald says, "Hey, this must be that trial the White Rabbit was talking about!"

Fluttershy says, "Maybe we entered at a wrong time."

Twilight spoke, "I'm not sure. Let's listened in."

They see the a strange woman up on a judge's bench with a blonde girl in a blue dress at the podium. Seems like she is on trial.

The White Rabbit says to the blonde girl, "Alice! Do you understand the charges against you?"

The blonde haired girl, named Alice, starts to exclaim, "Of course not! I've done nothing wrong!"

The Queen of Hearts responded with, "Feigning ignorance, dear? You are charged with aiding the creatures called Heartless who threaten my kingdom!"

This accusation shocked Sora, Donald, Goofy, and the Mane Seven.

Alice was upset by this accusation and countered back, "Fiddlesticks! Where's the evidence?"

"The evidence is...I forgot! That's the evidence! Because you, Alice, are the one who stole my memory," said the Queen of Hearts.

They heard this and was upset by this.

Rainbow Dash whispers quietly, "Jeez. Maybe she also lost her mind."

Pinkie Pie nods while saying, "Yeah. Never knew anyone can be crazy like her."

The cyan looked at her before saying, "....Right."

The White Rabbit told her, "We can't rid the kingdom of Heartless until we get Her Majesty's memory back. This is a serious crime!"

Alice countered back with, "This is so unfair! So what if you're a queen! Don't blame me just because you can't remember things!"

This has caused the Queen to get upset.

She angrily exclaimed, "Such insolence! You're talking to the Queen of Hearts! And to think I might have let you go, had you apologized straightaway! What a brazen thief!"

Rarity said, "Seems like she should look in the mirror if she thinks that poor girl is brazen."

Queen of Hearts then suddenly spoke out, "The court has reached a verdict! OFF WITH HER HEAD!"

This made everything shocked by the verdict. Then Sora ran up to speak for Alice.

Sora says, "Hold it! This trial is a farce! You should investigate before you arrest innocent people!"

Red rushed to stand with Sora. He said, "He's right. This trial is very unfair."

Queen of Hearts sees them and asks, "What is the meaning of this? How dare you suggest Alice didn't steal my memory!"

Twilight then starts to say, "They're both right. This is not how you run a court system."

The Queen of Hearts looked at her and asked the three of them, "I suppose you know who the real culprit is, then!"

This causes them to be very stumbled.

Queen of Hearts exclaims, "Speak! Or it's off with all of your heads! Now, out with it! Who's the thief?"

Red asks while whispering to his two friends, "What are we supposed to do?"

Twilight responded, "I'm not sure. We just have to make up a random person so that we-"

"I'm the thief!"

They turn to see Sora telling the Queen the Hearts that he's the thief that they want.

They were very shocked by this.

Twilight whispered to him, "S-Sora!"

Queen of Hearts asks, "Say that again?"

Rarity asked, "Sora darling! What are you doing?"

Sora replied, "It's the only way to help get her free. What else am I supposed to say?"

Twilight tells him while being upset, "I don't know maybe something without getting us into trouble!"

Donald agrees and says, "This is really screwy Sora!"

Queen of Hearts then exclaims, "Cards! Seize them all!"

After the fight they were tired. Then notice that Alice is gone.

Applejack asked, "Where did Alice go?"

Goofy answered, "Looks like she escaped."

Suddenly they turn to see the Queen of Hearts. She yelled, "Perhaps she did. But YOU won't!"

Red tells his friends, "Run!"

They rushed out of the courtroom to escape from the Queen of Hearts and her card guards.

It took them some time, but they finally escaped. They even also found

After running for a long time, they finally made it to Alice.

Sora said, "Things got a little crazy back there, but at least you're okay."

They nod at Alice, but she was concerned of course.

She tells them, "I don't mean to be ungrateful, but...was that true, what you said? Are you the thief?"

Sora shook his head before saying, "What? Of course not! Why would I steal the queen's memory?"

Goofy nods and says, "Yep, Sora only said that 'cause he wanted to save-"

Donald quickly cut Goofy off to say, "To show off!"

They made Applejack smack Donald behind the head with her hoof.

He yelled, "Ow! Hey!"

Alice asks, "Is that right? Well, you saved me all the same. Thank you."

Suddenly, a strange cat appeared in front of them.

Alice yelled out, "It's the Cheshire Cat!"

The Cheshire Cat smiles at them and says, "Feeling better after that mad dash, are we? Oh, but you're not out of the woods yet!"

Fluttershy asks, "What do you mean Mr. Cheshire Cat?"

He replied, "The queen's a stickler for justice! She won't forget you till she remembers! She won't stop hounding you till you get her memory back! Did she forget because she remembers? Does she remember that she forgot? Doesn't matter, I suppose."

He disappeared from them.

Rarity says to her friends, "What a strange cat."

Applejack asks, "I'd say let's make sure to stay away from her."

Jimmy came out of Sora's hood to asked, "But Applejack, what about Alice? If the queen catches her again, it's off with... well, you know."

Red then says, "Then I guess we'd better do something about the queen."

The Cheshire Cat appeared again to talk to them.

He spoke out, "You should do something. But you don't have to do anything."

Red asks, "What are you talking about?"

The cat explains, "If you can't remember something, it's like it never happened. Likewise, if something never happened, you can't remember it. Try too hard to remember, and your memory might lie to you."

He disappeared away from them.

Pinkie Pie says, "What a nice cat. Though very confusing."

They looked around the place as they stumbled in a very strange pink area.

Goofy says, "Gawrsh, what's with the sudden change of scenery?"

Then Alice said, "Let's look around!"

They look around until, Alice started to shout. They rush to her to see the Queen of Hearts in front of her, with the card guards.

She said, "Thought you'd seen the last of me, did you?"

Sora muttered, "Uh oh!"

Queen of Hearts demanded them, "Game's up, scoundrels! For stealing my memory, I sentence you to... I sentence you to..."

Suddenly, a flash of light appeared. The queen seemed to get effected by it.

She groaned in pain while saying, "I...sentence... ... Oh? What's going on? Where am I?"

Everyone was confused with what's going on with the queen.

She then asks, "What in the world am I doing? Confound it, I can't remember!"

Sora asks his friends, "What's wrong with her?"

Twilight answered, "Maybe somebody swiped her memory again."

Suddenly, Alice notice something very big coming down.

She yelled out to her friends, "Guys watch out! Something's coming!

They saw the Trickmaster jumped down and they dodge before it lands on them.

Sora tells them, "So this is what stole the queen's memory!"

Red then says, "Let's stop it before it cause anymore problems!"

After the fight, the Queen and her guards walked up to them.

Queen of Hearts yelled, "You there! All of you! What is the meaning of this? Where did that creature come from?"

Sora asks, "How would WE know?"

Queen of Hearts angrily said, "So, you refuse to answer? You're hiding something! They're plotting against me! Seize them immediately!"

Rainbow Dash whispers, "Wow this lady is so annoying."

Suddenly, Alice tells the Queen, "Please, Your Majesty, wait! It was you who commanded us to destroy those creatures."

They looked at her confused.

The blonde haired girl continues, "Your Majesty, in her prudence, didn't completely trust us at first. And so, at Your Majesty's command, we fought them to prove ourselves. Isn't that right guys?"

She looks at Sora, Donald, Goofy, and the Mane Seven.

They looked at her confused still, until they finally get what she is trying to do.

The lavender colored pony says, "O-Ooooh. Yeah that is what happened."

Queen of Hearts asks while confused, "I...told you...to do that?"

Rarity quickly says, "Y-Yeah Your Majesty! Don't you remember?"

Queen of Hearts then says, "Don't be ridiculous! I never forget anything! Of course I gave the command. You did splendidly."

She and the guards leave them as they were relieved that things are good again.

Alice says, "Well, that was close."

Sora happily tells her, "Way to improvise! I never would've thought of that."

Alice tells him, "Just like the Cheshire Cat said as much.'Try too hard to remember, and your memory might lie to you.' The queen would never admit she forgot. So instead, she remembered something... ...that didn't happen! She ended up fooling herself."

Sora was confused about this as he feels something strange about what she said.

She asks, What is it Sora?"

Sora then answers, "Hm? Nothing. Well, I guess you'll be safe now."

Goofy nods and says, "And the queen won't give us any more trouble! After all, we got rid of the Heartless, just like she commanded!"

Pinkie Pie also said, "Yep! It was very nice of us to do that even though she was crazy."

Donald looks at them and gets upset as he said, "Don't tell me you two have been fooled, too!"

They said goodbye to Alice and headed out of Wonderland. They arrived back in Castle Oblivion. Goofy seems to be pondering about something.

Goofy muttered, "Hmm..."

They heard him and turn to the Captain of the knights.

Donald asks, "Huh? What's the matter?"

Goofy answers, "It's that creepy castle that I was talking about earlier... I know I didn't imagine it."

Twilight says, "But we don't remember ever being in a castle before this one."

Rainbow Dash suggests, "Maybe you're confused."

He turns to Rainbow Dash and shook his head no.

"That's the thing. I didn't imagine it at all. Cause that was the castle where Sora had to use the Keyblade to free Kairi's heart," said Goofy as they were able to remember Sora turning into a heartless back then.

Rarity says, "That's right! We watched when that happened. We had to fight Riku who was being controlled by Ansem."

Goofy continues, "Uh huh! And then he just disappeared! And I was so worried. How could I ever forget that?"

Sora then smiled as he able to remember that moment.

"Oh! It was when I turned into a Heartless," said Sora.

They remembered that it happened, but something weird happened just now.

Fluttershy asks, "....It happened at a castle....?"

Red says, "Yeah it.... I mean it didn't... I mean... That's weird. I can't remember it..."

Donald says, "Aww... You forgot that? Cause I remember perfectly."

They look at the King's court wizard doubting that he remembers it perfectly.

Sora asks, "Then what's it called?"

Donald answers, "That's easy! It was..."

They look at them as they expected an answer.

Applejack asks, "You don't remember where it happened... Did ya?"

Donald quickly says, "Sh-shut it! Jiminy, help me... Is it in your journal?"

Jiminy comes out of Sora's hood and smiles as he brought out his journal.

"Every word! I finished the first volume right before we got to this castle," said the cricket as he starts to flip through pages.

Jiminy says, "Now then, if I can just find it... Oh, here we go!"

Twilight says while being less worried, "Hopefully it will help us remember."

Jiminy then was shocked. He yelled, "Oh! How could it be?!"

Rainbow Dash sighs before saying, "Don't tell me you forgot to write it down."

"N-No! I-It's worse! All my entries! They're gone! Every page is blank," said Jiminy as it made everyone shocked.

Red then was saying, "N-No way it's empty."

Applejack then said, "Can we check it just to make sure?"

Twilight use magic to levitate the book closer to them. She flip through the pages and it was just like what Jiminy said. Everything is blank.

"H-He's right," said the element of magic.

Fluttershy asks, But how can that be....?"

Sora said to himself, "The journal's blank... What's going on?"

Meanwhile, a girl with blonde hair in a white dress was drawing something in her notebook.

Then back with the gang, they were upstairs trying to figure out the problem with the journal notes vanishing.

Donald said, "Something's screwy. Journal pages don't just vanish!"

Twilight suggests, "Could be some sort of magic...."

Sora looks down as he says, "What if...it's more things?"

Donald asks, "Huh?"

Sora starts explaining, "Goofy was telling us about another castle we'd been to... But none of us really remembers it. Do ya think... Could it be that we don't remember because we're losing our memories?"

This makes everyone shocked and scared.

Jiminy then says, "Hold on! Remember what that mystery fella said? 'In this place to find is to lose, and to lose is to find.' It musta been our memories he was talking about losing!"

The red stallion then says to his friends, "So if we keep going, we'll lose more..."

Pinkie Pie says, "Guess it really is Castle Oblivion..."

She was trying to light the mood, but it didn't help much at all.

Donald says, "So the higher we go, the more we'll forget? Does that mean everything and everybody will be forgotten?"

Sora mutters sadly, "Riku and Kairi too..."

He was more concerned than everyone else. Red was very worried when when they were separated into different worlds. Now he wonders if this would cause him to forget everyone else. Everyone back in Equestria, his friends that he just met, his best friends that he searched for....

Rainbow Dash asks, "Should we go back then?"

They weren't sure about this. They didn't want to lose their memories, but they want to look for King Mickey and Riku to see if they are okay.

Goofy suddenly says, "Don't worry, fellahs! We might forget about where we've been or what things we've seen, but we won't forget who our friends are."

They made them unsure, until Goofy continues.

"C'mon, Sora, when you turned into a Heartless, did you forget about us," asked Goofy.

Sora shook his head and answered, "Of course I didn't!"

Goofy smiles and says, "There ya go! No matter what happens, you won't forget your friends."

The brunette teen thinks about this. Maybe Goofy is right. Maybe they won't forget their friends. He smiles and looks at them.

Sora said, "You're right. Thank you, Goofy."

Donald then says, "So, if there's nothing here that can make you forget about your friends...then we have nothing to be scared of! Let's go!"

As he was about to head off, suddenly Sora starts to remember something.

"But when I turned into a Heartless...who was the one who took forever to notice and kept clobbering me," asked Sora as he smirked.

Donald then remembered that as it made him upset.

He asks, "How come you didn't forget about that?"

This makes everyone start laughing.

Olympus Coliseum

They walked into the world as it seems very Greek related. They look around and then Donald noticed a sign.

He exclaims, "Look an announcement!"

They rushed to the sign and start to read it.

Jiminy explains, "Hmmm... It's for some sort of contest. They're calling it the 'Olympus Coliseum Survival Cup.' Contenders have to run an obstacle course, battling each other along the way. And listen to this: 'The great hero Hercules will also compete for the Cup.' It says here he's never been beaten.

Rainbow Dash says, "So cool! Can't wait to enter and win this cup!"

Red asked her, "Wait you actually want to enter the competition?"

"Yeah I mean why wouldn't we? I'm sure this won't be hard for us," said the element of loyalty.

Applejack said, "Definitely. Ah mean we have faced Ansem. I'm sure we can handle this competition.

Sora starts to say, "Yeah. This sounds like fun."

Donald sighs before saying, "You're going to compete even if we don't right?"

Twilight tells him, "I mean we don't have a choice Donald. It's best to do this so we can head further into the castle."

Jiminy then explains, "Hold it, everyone. There's more... 'Only contenders who finish the preliminary course may enter the main competition.' It says the preliminary course is just ahead."

Sora then says, "Then what are we waiting for? Let's go!"

They headed into the preliminaries to pass it. Until, Hades, the god of death, walked to the sign that they read.

He reads, "'Hercules is a model of true strength and gallantry-the perfect hero?!'"

"Oh, he's perfect, all right. PERFECTLY INFURIATING!! Just thinking about that little sunspot makes me boil! HOO, I'd like to drag him into the Underworld," said Hades angrily as he turned to red.

Then he turned back to normal and calmed down.

Suddenly, a voice starts to say, "Which is why you hired me."

Hades turned and sees that it came from a blond swordsman.

He said, "That's right. You're my man... Cloud, is it? Your job is to beat Hercules in the games. And once you've got him cornered... ...finish the job. Do that for me, and-"

Cloud cuts him off by saying, "You restore my lost memories. As we agreed."

Hades nods and says, "You have my word."

The Mane Seven and the Trinity Trio went through the preliminaries as it was a struggle.

Applejack and Rainbow Dash were in a friendly competition to see who is the best.

Everyone was watching while going through the course. Eventually, they both were in a tie, but they accepted it.

Finally, they made it to the lobby where, Philoctetes, or Phil, is in waiting for the contestants. He sees them finally came as he was shocked.

"Huh? Where did you come from? Don't tell me you guys finished the prelims," said Phil.

Sora nods and says, "We sure did."

Red nods and says, "And now we want to go for the Cup!"

Phil then tells them, "Well, you came to the right place. Not that you stand a chance against Herc."

Fluttershy asks, "Why not?"

Phil says, "Two words. You. Ain't. Heroes!"

Sora exclaims, "You're wrong!"

Twilight nods before saying, "Yeah he said three words."

Rarity tells her, "I mean you're right but that's not what he meant Twilight."

Red then asks, "How can we prove we're heroes unless you give us a chance?"

Suddenly a voice was heard as he said, "He's right, Phil."

It was Hercules.

He continued, "They cleared the prelims. I think they deserve a shot."

Phil starts saying, "Hmm...you got a point there, Herc. But still-"

Hercules cuts him off by saying, "Of course, we could always cancel the games."

Everyone was shocked by this.

Rainbow Dash asked, "Cancel them? Why? It was so fun and awesome!"

Hercules explains, "Yeah it is pretty fun, but old Phil's prelim course was so hard, no one else could finish it."

Pinkie Pie says, "Really? It didn't feel all that hard to us."

Sora then says, "Well, if you let us compete, you won't have to cancel the games! How about it, Phil?"

Phil starts thinking before saying, "Okay, you got me over a barrel, so fine. Here's how it works. Since your team and Hercules are the only contenders-"

He was cut off as someone walked over to them. It is Cloud.

He said, "No, they're not. The name's Cloud. I'll be joining in my own team."

Phil exclaims, "The more the merrier! Now the games will really be something to see!"

Hercules chuckles before saying, "I'm looking forward to this. Don't expect me to pull any punches!"

Red replies, "Same to you Herc! Let's give it our best!"

Phil starts explaining, "Okay, let's get this show going! But first I gotta explain a few rules. Rule #1! First one through the obstacle course wins! Rule #2! In the event of a tie, a battle will determine the winner! Rule #3! You can interfere with your opponents on the course! And finally... Rule #4! All challengers have to give it everything they got! All right, enough with the spiel. On your marks... Get set... GO!!"

Everyone, but Cloud started running into the course. Cloud was walking into the course.

Later, the Mane Seven and Trinity Trio were separated from Hercules and Cloud. They went through the course in hopes of winning. Then later, they stop and notice that Cloud was right there.

Goofy says, "Gawrsh, that was nice of him to wait for us to catch up!"

Donald shook his head and countered, "He's not waiting! Remember Rule #3? 'You can interfere with your opponents on the course!'"

They look at the blonde swordsman and get ready to fight.

Cloud, however, said, "You can put that away. I'm not looking for a fight with you, so keep moving."

They were confused.

Red asks, "Are you sure?"

Cloud answers, "I'm not here for the Cup. Just Hercules. Today he loses more than the competition."

They realized what he means by that.

Fluttershy says, "Y-You don't mean... But why?"

Cloud tells them, "This is business. Stay out of it. Go win your Cup."

As he was about to walk from them, they were ready to fight against him.

Cloud stops and turns to them

"Do you realize what you're doing," asked Cloud.

Sora says, "Rule #3! You can interfere with your opponents. Right? You're not the only one who wants to fight Hercules."

After the fight between them, they used potion cards to help heal themselves. But what's strange is that Cloud is gone.

Rarity asks, "Where did Cloud ran off to?"

Pinkie Pie says, "You don't think that he's-"

Applejack said, "Yeah. He's heading towards the finish line."

Red then stated, "Then we better hurry then."

They rushed towards the end to hurry to the finish line. Eventually, they made it. But they see both Cloud and Hercules were fighting. But both were very tired.

Hercules yells, "You lost! Give it up, Cloud!"

Cloud panted and says, "We're not done yet..."

Hercules says, "I can't guarantee your safety if we keep going like this!"

Cloud countered, "Better worry about yourself. Looks to me like you're slowing down a bit."

Sora exclaimed, "Don't worry! I'll back you up!"

Everyone got in front of Hercules to help cover for him.

Cloud then says, "Get all the backup you want. I'm going to finish you and get back my memories!"

Everyone looked at him as they were confused. Memories?

Suddenly a voice was heard and it said, "Now, now, Cloud, we don't want to spill the beans."

He came from Hades. He appeared and looks at them."

Hercules exclaims, "Hades! You!"

The Lord of the Dead says, "Looks like you oversold yourself. All you did was wear him down. This doesn't look good for your performance rating... Let me put it this way: You, my spiky-haired friend, are fired."

Cloud was upset by this betrayal.

He said, "But...my memories! We had a deal!"

Hades scoffed before saying, "Did you really think you could get back your lost memories just like that? Get a grip!"

Cloud was about to attack him, but he was too injured.

Hercules tells him, "Hades, you were behind this from the start!"

Hades replies, "Cloud may have failed to take you out, but he did break you down. Time for Plan B. Pack your pita, Herc, 'cause you've just won a free trip to the Underworld, paid by me!"

Red exclaimed, "Hold it!"

Hercules says, "N-No!"

Sora says, "Come on! How are we gonna have a one-on-one with you if you're in the underworld."

Hades chuckled before saying, "Good point. I guess you'll just have to go with him! Rule #6! There are no rules! Ha ha!"

After defeating Hades, everything safe again. Until...

Rainbow dash says, "What?! The games are cancelled? How come?"

Phil tells her, "Two words! Everyone is pooped!"

Twilight then says, "Wait, that was more than two-"

She was cut off by Sora saying, "You gotta be kidding! What about our match with Hercules?"

Hercules tells them, "Sorry, but you wouldn't want me to compete in this condition. Let's have a match when I've rested up a bit. Can you wait?"

Sora then says, "Okay. I'll hold you to that."

As that was settled, Cloud starts to recover.

They walk over to him to check on him.

Twilight asks, "You okay?"

Cloud nods before saying, "Yeah. Sorry I messed up your games."

Sora then says, "Hey! Hope you get your memories back! Forget about what Hades said. Sometimes the tiniest thing can make you remember stuff you forgot years ago. If it's an important memory, there's no way it could ever be gone forever. That's what I think, anyway."

Cloud chuckled slightly before giving a card to Sora.

He said, "That's for you. For helping me out."

Sora asks, "Sure you don't want to just come with us instead?"

Cloud gave a smirk before saying, "Not interested."

They then headed out of Olympus Coliseum and headed back into Castle Oblivion.

As they were walking, Donald seems to be very concerned.

He said, "Aw... I hope the king is gonna be okay..."

Sora asked, "Why bring that up?"

Donald answers, "I had to be sure that I hadn't forgotten him."

Pinkie Pie asks, "Is that going good for you Donald?"

Donald answers, "Yep! I remembered! We're on a quest to find the king."

Goofy also says, "I remember that too. The king helped save everything by staying on the other side of the door to darkness. I think..."

Donald also says, "You got it Goofy!"

Twilight says, "And me and Red we're looking all over for our friends. It made us so worried, but we knew you guys would be okay. Right Red?"

Red didn't seem to pay attention as he was pondering.

They look at him as they were concerned.

Fluttershy says, "Red...?"

Red looks and sees that they were staring.

He said, "Y-Yeah? Oh uh yeah. I remember that too. Thank Celestia we founded you guys. Otherwise, we would've been very worried about what's gonna happen."

Sora then smiles as he says, "And me... I'm looking for Riku. He was with the king when the door closed. Hm. I guess there's no way we'll forget the most important memories."

Donald nods before saying, "That's good. 'Cause I don't want to forget..."

Meanwhile, in another room in the Castle, there was the same spikey red haired man that they fought before. There was able another person that he was talking to. It was a woman with blonde hair.

The woman says, "You seem pretty intrigued by this Sora kid."

Axel scoffed before asking, "Are you telling me you're not Larxene?"

The one named Larxene smirked before saying, "Haven't decided yet... I think what intrigues me more is what you see in him. Even more so than the horses that are with him."

Axel looks at her as he stayed quiet.

Then he explained, "There was a time he became a Heartless. And if one becomes a Heartless-"

Larxene cut him off and finished for him by saying, "They lose their minds and their feelings... They're consumed by the darkness."

Axel nods and continued, "Right. But not Sora. He held on to his feelings, even as a Heartless. And there's only one other man who's been able to do just that."

Larxene starts to think and eventually says, "It's the strength of his heart... That's what interests you. Why the Keyblade chose Sora's heart."

Axel smiles and says, "To unlock the mysteries of the heart. Isn't that the Organization's mission?"

Author's Note

Ooo.... Looks like the plot thickens... Wonder what else is going to happen in the mysterious Castle Oblivion...

Anyways. Sorry for taking so long to bring out this next chapter. But I'm glad to bring it to you all.

Chapter 3 The Forgotten Girl...

The Mane Six and the Trinity Trio were up the next floor after heading through worlds Wonderland and Olympus Coliseum. Though they have been worried about what else they will have to go through next.

Donald starts to say, "Hey, I wonder if there's anything we've forgotten..."

Goofy starts thinking if they would forget anything else. Then he replied, "Hmm... If we did, what would it have been?"

Goofy shrugged and said, "I can't think of anything, so maybe that means that I really am losing my memories.But whatever they were, they couldn't have been very important memories, right?"

Sora then said, "Right, or else I don't think you would have forgotten it."

Twilight says, "Yeah. I hope our most important memories didn't get lost or erased."

Sora then said, "Hey look."

Rarity asked, "What is it Sora?"

Sora answered the element of generosity, "A good luck charm Kairi gave me. It's special to her, so I promised that I would return it. I'll never forget making that promise. It's why I could never forget Kairi."

Red smiles at this and was very happy to see how much Kairi means to Sora, as did the rest of his friends.

Fluttershy smiles at this also, but looks at Red. She thinks about this.

The shyful pony remembered asking Sora about this and could remember the memory.

Fluttershy looks at Sora holding the good luck charm. Then she asks him, "Hey Sora. What is that?"

Sora answers, "Oh this? This is the good luck charm Kairi gave to me. Something she gave to me. She told me about these kind of shells that she made with this. That if we ever get separated this will always help us get connected with each other."

She nods at him and starts thinking.

She thought, 'Connected.....'

Fluttershy was thankful that memory wasn't gone. Then she looks at Red. She had an idea, but she is going to save it until she gets back to Equestria with her friends.

Sora smiles as he thought, 'Am I right, Kairi?'

He imagines the red headed teen and smiles thinking of her

But what's strange is that when he turned, he saw a girl with blonde hair, a white dress, and having a notebook on her. Though she seems similar to Kairi. But he couldn't figure it out.

He then said out loud, "Do I know...that girl?"

They look at him while being concerned.

Donald asks, "Hey, Sora. Where did you go?"

Pinkie Pie says, "Yeah! You kinda dazed out for a while."

Sora chuckled and tells them, "Sorry. Never mind."

Rainbow Dash says, "Then we better keep moving if we want to find the king and Riku."

While they went, Sora thinks about that girl for a second before going up to the door. He held up another world card and the door opened for them.

Agrabah

They went in the world and looked around. Until Goofy spots something wrong.

He exclaimed, "Look, Sora! Someone's in trouble!

Seems to be a young man with black hair holding a sword and was surrounded by heartless

Red exclaims, "We'd better do something!"

They rush into the fight and get ready to help out.

Sora asks, "Mind if we help?"

The stranger says, "Thanks! I thought I was done for!"

After fighting them a lot, more keeps coming up.

Donald exclaims, "They just keep coming!"

Twilight says, "We better think of something fast then."

The stranger, named Aladdin then said, "Guess we'd better see if the legends are true. Magic lamp, my first wish! Get rid of these Heartless!"

When Aladdin holds up the lamp, blue clouds were appearing from the lamp as the Genie in the lamp came out.

Genie exclaims, "Stand back, kids! Genie of the lamp coming through! Ain't nothin' I can't make right as rain-well, if we HAD rain in the desert. But enough dry jokes! One Heartless disappearing act, coming right up!"

The heartless were gone as everyone is relieved.

Red speaks out, "Thank Celestia that we got through that."

Rainbow Dash looks at Aladdin and asks, "Why didn't you call him in the first place?"

Aladdin starts to explain by saying, "It's not that simple. You see—"

Genie interrupts by saying, "I couldn't have said it better myself. But I will anyway! I'm strictly limited to three wishes per master. And ixnay on the wishing for more wishes!"

Sora asks, "So you've got two wishes left?"

Twilight tells him, "Better use them carefully then."

Aladdin starts saying, "I've got to get back to the palace somehow. But with all these Heartless..."

Goofy suggests, "Hey, we're headed that way too, so why don't we go with Aladdin?"

Applejack answers, "Sounds like a plan then."

They all headed through the world to find the palace. Until Goofy wanted to know something.

He asks, "So uh why are you going to the palace Aladdin?"

Aladdin explains, "That no good royal vizier, Jafar. He tricked me into getting this magic lamp from the Cave of Wonders. The cave was crawling with Heartless. I'm lucky I made it back to Agrabah in one piece!"

Twilight asks, "Wasn't there anyone else there to help you out? This Jafar seems very evil with power."

Genie then says to Aladdin, "I know how you feel, Master. People have been ordering me around for 10,000 years. And what help do I get? I keep wishin' someone will wish me outta this gig. But go figure the odds on that."

Aladdin then had an idea as he asks, "Well, how 'bout I use my third wish to set you free?"

Genie was shocked by this as he asked, "Doth my pointy ears deceive me? Master, you'd do that for me? You're not just pullin' my topknot now, are you?"

Aladdin shook his head before saying, "I promise, Genie. Anyway, there's only one thing I really want."

Genie exclaims excitingly, "Then we'll just have to DO something about that, Al! Can I call you Al? So, what'll it be? Fame? Fortune? A herd of luxury camels to call your very own?"

Aladdin then starts to explain, "Well, there's this girl. Her name is Jasmine. She's princess of Agrabah. And...that's the problem. It's hard for a 'street rat' like me to get a chance to see her. That's how this all started. I thought if I went to the Cave of Wonders, I could get the treasure, and maybe then Jasmine would want to meet me."

Genie quickly says, "Well I've got just the package for you! You'll not only meet the lady, you'll go in style... ...as PRINCE ALI! How d'ya like the sound of that, Al?"

Aladdin, while surprised by the suggestion of the wish, asks, "Me, a prince! Can you really do that?"

Genie answers, "In an Agrabah minute!"

Aladdin nods before saying, "I guess the legends were true after all. C'mon, let's get to the palace!"

They finally made it to the palace as Donald spotted something.

Donald exclaims, "Wak! Look at that!"

Fluttershy says, "Look! Someone's in trouble."

Aladdin exclaims, "It's Jasmine!"

Goofy says, "She needs our help!"

Sora exclaims, "We'll never make it in time!"

Rainbow Dash smirks and was about to fly over there.

The element of loyalty said, "Looks like I'm gonna have to go and save-"

Rainbow Dash exclaims, "D-Dude!"

Aladdin cuts her off by saying, "Genie, I wish for you to save Jasmine!"

Genie rushed in to save her. She was safe. They all went to check on her

Rarity says, "Seems like she is okay."

Rainbow Dash was upset as she said, "But you wasted your second wish! I could've gone and rushed over there to save her."

Aladdin realized this and was frustrated that he wasted his wish like that.

But then heartless started showing up again.

He said, "Not again! Sorry, Genie. But you're the only one who can-"

Red cuts him off to stop him by saying, "Wait! This is your last wish! Don't waste it.

Sora nods and tells him, "This time, let US handle the wish-granting!"

After the fight, everyone was relieved.

Rainbow Dash says, "See? We didn't need Genie this time."

Aladdin nods and says, "Thanks, but I'm still down to my last wish..."

Suddenly a flash of light appeared and blinded everyone for a second.

Donald exclaims, "Wak! What's happening?"

Fluttershy says, "I'm not sure... seems something blinded us."

Aladdin notices that the lamp wasn't in his hands.

He exclaimed. "Oh, no! The lamp! It's gone!"

They look around to see if it's around. Until, they heard a voice walking to them. It seems to be Jafar. There was also a red parrot with him, named Iago.

He says, "Hmm it seems my plans have gone amiss. I was certain you'd waste your last wish... ...what with poor Jasmine in distress and these delightful creatures to deal with. But no matter. At last the lamp and its genie are mine to command!"

Aladdin was upset and he asks, "Why are you doing this Jafar? You've got the lamp! What more do you want?"

Jafar answered with an evil grin, "Such an interesting question. You see, I knew you were going to use the lamp to try and win Jasmine's heart. But we can't have that, now, can we? Because I am the one Jasmine will marry!"

Everyone exclaimed, "You?!"

Jafar gave an evil laugh before continuing, "Certainly you realize that if I marry the Princess, then nothing can stop me from becoming Sultan! You're nothing more than a pawn in my game street rat! Genie! My first wish! Deliver Jasmine to me!"

With that, Genie was forced to bring Jasmine to Jafar.

Aladdin yells, "Genie! What are you doing?!"

Genie sadly says to him, "Sorry Al. My hands are tied on this one. I gotta obey whoever has his mitts on the lamp."

Jafar then says before leaving, "Precisely. Farewell, Aladdin...you fool!"

He disappeared leaving everyone behind.

Aladdin says sadly, "Great. Now I've lost Jasmine AND the lamp."

Redshook his head and tells him, "You can feel bad about it some other time! If you don't pull yourself together you'll never see Jasmine again!"

Sora agreed by also saying, "You lost the lamp. So what? You can still save her on your own! Losing someone you care about is bad, but not as bad as never getting them back!"

His friends were very impressed with what he has to say. Aladdin was also.

He then tells him, "Sora... You're right. I can't give up now! I've gotta save Jasmine!"

Donald, however, said, "But Jafar's got the lamp. We can't just walk up to him and expect to win..."

Everyone realized that Donald was right. No way they can win when Jafar has Genie. But Aladdin had a plan.

He said, "Maybe we can. I've got an idea. Listen up!"

He told everyone the plan as they understood it. They then rushed to find where Jafar is.

They found him as they glare at Jafar.

He turns to see them before asking, "What's this? Has Aladdin given up on his precious Jasmine already? Well, I'm not going to waste a wish on the likes of you. I'll deal with you myself!"

This has everyone exclaimed, "Aladdin! Now!"

Aladdin jumped from one of the buildings and was about to run to him until Genie was in the way.

Jafar told Genie, "Genie seize him!"

Genie then says, "Al forgive me!"

Aladdin got hit as he flew back. He groaned in pain before getting up.

You fell for it Jafar," said Aladdin as he smirks.

Jafar asks while being shocked, "What do you mean?!

Rainbow Dash chuckles and says, "He means that you just wasted your second wish. Now you have one left."

Jafar listens as he smirks evilly.

He said, "Well well. The cunning of a rat. But unfortunately, you can't see beyond the bait. Your little ploy changes nothing! I can crush you once and for all AND make Jasmine my own! Genie! My last wish! Transform me into an all- powerful genie!"

After the fight against Genie Jafar, the world is back to normal.

Donald says, "We rescued Jasmine AND we got the lamp back!"

Applejack looks at Aladdin and says, "Ya still have one wish left Aladdin."

Genie nods and starts to explain,"He sure does. Time for me to make a prince outta this guy! Course, I'd like to be free, but like they always say, genies can't be choosers. You're probably miffed about that whole puppet-of-Jafar thing anyway. Go on, Al. Wish for what's really in your heart. Be a prince. Get the girl."

Genie felt about being Jafar's puppet as he blamed himself.

Aladdin looks at him and says, "Okay here goes. Genie, I wish for your freedom!"

Genie then starts to change as he now has two legs and was free.

Aladdin then says, "Now no one like Jafar can use you for evil again. Genie, you're free!"

Genie was very grateful for this.

"Al I'll never forget this. But what about Jasmine? What are you gonna do," asked Genie.

Aladdin thinks about this and says, "I was wrong Genie. If I used your help to win Jasmine... ...I'd be no better than Jafar. Jasmine means the world to me. I want to show her the real me."

Sora says, "That's the spirit!"

Aladdin then told them, "Thanks. And good luck to you too."

Red asked, "What for?"

Aladdin starts explaining, "I was ready to give up back there but what you and Sora said really kept me going. That's when it hit me. You must be looking for someone you care about too."

Sora nods to agree with what he's saying.

Aladdin starts saying, "Listen Genie..."

Genie cuts him off by saying, "Say no more little pal! I know JUST what you're thinking. Here you go!"

He then made a card appear and it has him on here.

Genie explains, "Whenever you need me just call. That okay with you Al?"

Aladdin answers, "Of course!"

Fluttershy asks, "Are you sure?"

Genie answers, "Anytime at all. Hey, without you guys, I might never have been able to ditch that lamp! And I think Aladdin will be fine without me for at least a little while."

Twilight said, "Well thanks for this then."

They all headed out of Agrabah and was in Castle Oblivion again. While they were heading to the stairs out of the room, Sora stops to think.

The brunette teen said to himself, "Who could that have been before in my memory? It wasn't Kairi... But another...girl? Maybe... I think her name was..."

Donald exclaimed, "Sora! Let's go! You want to find Riku and the king don't you?"

Rarity says, "That's right darling. We wouldn't want to miss them."

Sora nods and starts to walk.

He thinks, 'It was right on the tip of my tongue...'

Meanwhile, the girl from before was busy drawing. But it was of her, Sora, Kairi, and Rika.

Back with the ponies and the trinity trio, They were about to head to the door to the next world until...

"I remember!"

They turn to see that Sora was the one that spoke.

Twilight asked, "Remember what?"

Sora answers, "There was another girl!"

They all look around.

Goofy asked, "What? A girl? Where?"

Sora tells them, "No no. I mean on the islands where I used to live. Besides Kairi and Riku, there was one other girl I was friends with. The four of us played together all the time."

Pinkie Pie says happily, "Wow! You never told us about her Sora. Maybe she's a good friend just like Kairi is."

Red however was confused as Pinkie Pie said something very true and confusing.

He said, "Yeah... We never heard you talk about her."

Jiminy came out of Sora's hood and says, "Indeed. Seems to me that's the first time you've mentioned her Sora."

Sora sadly spoke, "Yeah...I guess I forgot all about her. I think...she just suddenly went away when I was still really little."

Twilight asked, "...So what exactly caused you to remember about this girl?"

Sora shrugged before explaining, "I'm not sure. But it's been coming back in pieces as we go through the castle."

Fluttershy asked, "What about her name?"

Sora tries to remember it, but he couldn't.

"I don't remember. I feel kinda dumb. We said we weren't gonna forget our friends and well now... I can't even remember her name," said Sora.

Applejack told him, "Well I'm sure it'll come back to ya sugarcube."

Goofy agrees and says, "Yeah! If it's been coming back to you in pieces... You're sure to remember her name just like everything else!"

Rarity tells him, "Just give yourself some time to remember."

Sora looks at his friends and smiles at them.

Then they walked to the door and Sora hold up a world card. The door opened and they went inside.

Monstro

They looked around as they were in a very strange place.

Sora said, "What a weird place! Everything's kinda springy and soft."

PInkie Pie was bouncing on the ground as she seems to be enjoying herself.

Goofy said, "Nice and warm too. I'm startin' to feel like a nap."

They were about to talk, they heard a young voice.

"I think you should be a little more worried," said the voice.

They heard it and start to get freaked out.

Donald asks, "Who's there?"

The voice spoke again, "You're inside the belly of Monstro the Whale."

Jiminy hears the voice and says, "Why I know that voice... Pinocchio? Pinoke, it's you! Come on out!"

Pinocchio was peaking out of the corner as he sees them.

He asked, "Is that you, Jiminy? Gosh, I thought I'd never see you again!"

Jiminy smiles and said, "Gee there's no way you wouldn't find me again. I'm your conscience. And your conscience will always be your guide. Remember?"

Pinocchio nods and replies, "Sure Jiminy. And I've been a good boy, promise. I didn't tell a single lie."

Then suddenly his nose starts growing which means that he is lying if course.

Jiminy sighed from this.

The wooden boy then asked, "How did you end up inside Monstro anyway?"

Red answered, "We uh... sort of used a special way..."

Pinkie Pie included, "Yep! It's super special that we don't even know how we even got here."

Pinocchio said sadly, "That's too bad... I was hoping you could help me and Father get out of here."

Jiminy was surprised before asking, "Well I'll be! Geppetto's here too?"

Pinocchio answered, "Sure he is. Follow me!"

They went and followed Pinocchio inside through the whale. Finally they entered the mouse area and see an old man. Jiminy seems to recognize him.

He exclaimed, "Geppetto!"

The old man named Geppetto turns to see them.

"Bless my soul it's Jiminy Cricket. How in the world did you get here," asked the old man.

Jiminy answered, "You tell me! How does a clockmaker wind up in the belly of a whale?"

Geppetto starts to explain, "Well, it's a long story..."

Rainbow Dash groaned quietly and Twilight hears her.

She secretly elbow her and said, "Make sure to listen."

They all listen to Geppetto.

Donald said, "So you sailed out to look for Pinocchio..."

Goofy included, "...and Monstro swallowed you!"

Geppetto nods and says, "Yes but I found my son. I would do anything for my Pinocchio."

Fluttershy asks, "But aren't you stuck here sir? Doesn't it get scary being in the inside of a whale?"

Geppetto replied, "Not if Pinocchio and I are together. That makes everything a little bit better. There's nothing better than being reunited with someone you care about."

Sora says, "Yeah... I know what you mean."

Red also said, "Same here..."

Though the red stallion meant with having to find all his friends after being separated from them.

Geppetto continues, "I don't care if I'm trapped here so long as I have Pinocchio. He's such a good boy."

Jiminy chuckled nervously before saying, "Well he still tells fibs. But with a little help from me..."

Geppetto cuts him off and says, "Oh Jiminy you worry too much."

Sora then notice something as he said, "Speaking of Pinocchio... Where is he?"

Donald said, "He was here a minute ago. Where's he gone this time?"

Geppetto starts to explain, "I expect he's off exploring. That boy has been poking around just about everywhere inside this monster. He won't tell me why it's so important. I tell him it's dangerous, but he won't listen."

Jiminy then says, "That boy's a handful!"

He then turns to his friends and says, "If you all don't mind..."

Sora sighed before saying, "I know I know. You want us to help you find him, right? C'mon, guys, let's get going!"

Twilight said, "You can count on us to bring back Pinocchio sir."

They then headed inside to find where Pinocchio is. Finally they were in the bowels of the whale and found him.

Some of them were very upset.

Jiminy exclaimed, "Pinocchio! What are you thinking?! You know Geppetto worries when you wander off by yourself."

Donald exclaimed, "Jiminy was worried too!"

Twilight also said, "You shouldn't even be out here all alone. Heartless would've came and hurt you."

Pinocchio says, "I'm sorry..."

Sora asked, "What are you doing anyway? Looking for something?"

Pinocchio answered nervously, "Um...yeah I'm looking for treasure!"

Though his nose grew from the lie he told.

Jiminy sighed before saying, "Here we go again!"

Goofy then suddenly spoke, "Now don't be so hard on the little fella Jiminy. We promise not to get mad Pinocchio. Is that why you're afraid to tell? No need to fret. Tell us the truth. We'll understand. Put yer trust in Goofy!"

They were impressed with his words. It was like he had some sort of instinct to help with this. Some sort of fatherly instinct.

Pinocchio looks at Goofy before explaining, "I was looking for a way out. Father says he's happy, but it's my fault we're stuck here. I shouldn't have run away from home. I want to help Father get home to the workshop. But he'll worry if I tell him what I'm doing."

"So that's why you thought you had to tell a lie," said Jiminy as he understood why he lied and didn't tell anyone.

Applejack smiles and said, "Ya did it 'cause you love your dad!"

Red listens as he looks at Pinocchio. Maybe he needs courage. He smiles as he is happy to help him. So the element of courage goes to talk to him.

"All you need now is courage then Pinocchio," said the red stallion

Pinocchio asked, "What?"

Red smiles and continued, "Tell Geppetto the truth. With little or some courage you can do it! If you tell him how you really feel, I bet he'll help you find a way out. Just be brave when you tell him. And if you like... we'll come with you and help out."

The ponies were very impressed with what Red said to help cheer up Pinocchio.

Pinocchio smiles more and asks, "Really? You'll help us? Okay I'll give it a try! Wish me luck Jiminy!"

Jiminy nods before saying, "No more keeping secrets then. Have we got a deal?"

The wooden boy happily nodded at the cricket.

"Sure! I'll be brave and tell Father how I really feel. No lies this time," said the wooden puppet.

Jiminy replied, "Great! Then your nose won't-"

Suddenly he was cut off from the rumble.

Fluttershy asks, "Wh-What was that?"

Twilight looks up and exclaims, "Watch out!"

Jiminy exclaims, "Pinocchio run for it!"

Unfortunately the heartless already got him. Everyone worked together to help fight off the Parasite Cage and save Pinocchio.

After fighting the heartless, it seemed like there is no hope.

Pinocchio exclaimed in fear, "Help! I'm trapped! Help me! I'm scared!"

Red then starts to say, "Pinocchio! You gotta be brave!"

Pinocchio asked, H-How?"

Red continued, "Don't give up! Try fighting your way out!"

Pinocchio hears his words and tries to be brave. As he tried the heartless was defeated.

The others ran to see if he is okay.

Jiminy asks, "Pinocchio are you all right?"

The wooden boy said, "Don't worry I'm okay. Just a little sticky..."

Pinocchio then gets up as he had an idea.

"But I have a great idea! That thing spit me out when I started fighting back. Why don't we try the same thing with Monstro," said the wooden puppet.

The others think as this seems like a good idea.

Sora says, "Of course! If we're lucky, Monstro might cough us up!"

Rainbow Dash says, "Great idea! Let's go deeper inside and try it!"

Pinocchio then says, "I'm going, too!"

Jiminy hears him and shook his head.

"No it's too dangerous," said Jiminy.

Pinocchio said, "Aww c'mon..."

Jiminy told him, "You should be with Geppetto. No use escaping from Monstro if you two get separated again!"

Rarity tells him, "Don't worry sweetie. We have it covered."

Pinocchio then tells them, "I guess you're right. Be careful everybody!"

They then reached the deepest part of Monstro and starts to fight enemies.

Sora and Red worked together by using some attacks. Applejack lassoed some heartless for Rainbow Dash to come and kick them as hard as she could. Donald uses magic to fight against some of them. Goofy and Pinkie Pie worked together also to take out some heartless. Fluttershy went to kick a few heartless while trying to make sure she doesn't get hit. Twilight and Rarity both worked together to finish some off.

After a while, all the heartless were defeated.

Sora said, "Whew..."

Rainbow Dash asked, "Did it work?"

Rarity says, "I don't know..."

Suddenly they felt a rumble.

Fluttershy asks, "What was that...?"

Jiminy exclaimed, "It's working! Monstro's gonna sneeze!"

After the whale sneezed, everyone was on the ground out of the whale.

They all get up.

Twilight asks, "Is everyone okay?"

Rainbow Dash gets up and groans as she said, "Define okay..."

Red gets up and stretches himself. He sees Fluttershy getting up as he helped her.

She told him, "Thanks..."

Applejack asks, "Where's Pinocchio and his dad?"

Jiminy looks as he said, "They're gone. They must've gotten out safely."

Sora looks at Jiminy before saying, "Without you Jiminy? I thought there was no escaping your conscience!"

Jiminy hears him and sighed.

he sadly said, "I don't mind being left behind as long as they're both safe. Maybe Pinocchio doesn't need me after all."

Rarity asks, "What do you mean darling?"

"That little puppet used to have trouble telling right from wrong. But he's come a long way. Maybe he doesn't need Jiminy Cricket anymore. Seems like he's got a conscience of his very own," said Jiminy.

Sora looks before saying, "Don't you remember what Geppetto said? 'There's nothing better than being reunited with someone you care about.' I bet Pinocchio's counting the days till he can see you again."

Twilight also said, "He's right Jiminy. Pinocchio

Jiminy thinks about what he said and smiled.

He said, "Well what do you know... You might be right."

They all headed out of the world and went into Castle Oblivion again. Then they turn to Sora to ask him more about the girl he mentioned.

Donald asked him, "Sora is there anything else you remember about that other girl?"

Sora thinks before saying, "Hmmm...just bits and pieces."

Twilight says, "Maybe you can tell us more about her. That way we can be able to help you remember."

Rainbow dash says, "Yeah. I bet she is a cool person is she is your friend."

Sora starts explaining, "Uhh... She was quiet...and always drawing. When we'd go to the beach she'd draw a picture instead of swimming. Sometimes she'd draw us too! She was really good. I remember Riku and I fighting over who she'd draw next. But one day she was gone just like that. I think the grown-ups knew the reason. They might even have tried to explain some of it to me. But I was little. I probably didn't understand what was happening. I remember crying after she was gone. But...that's all. I still don't remember her name."

Everyone felt bad for him as they understand how they would feel.

Donald suddenly says, "Oh I bet you'll remember it in no time!"

Jiminy came out of Sora's hood to say, "I must point out. Sora keeps remembering things instead of forgetting them. It seems to me forgetting things may be the only way to reach the memories buried deeper down inside each of us."

Applejack asks, "So we should forget in order to remember?"

Twilight thinks about this and says, "Well... it's like those guys in the black coats said... 'Our most precious memories lie so deep in our hearts, that they're out of reach.' Maybe thats what they meant.

Goofy tells Sora, "Gawrsh Sora. I think I'm a little jealous of ya. How come we can't remember more stuff from our memories?"

Donald smiles and says, "Come on, Goofy! Let's get going. We've got to forget things faster."

Everyone seemed reluctant, but they agreed. Rarity, however, seems to have a bad feeling about this.

Meanwhile back with Axel and Larxene, they were discussing about Sora and the others.

Larxene said, "Just as we intended."

Axel then said, "We'll continue with our plan. Let's see how far this group will go."

Larxene however stops him by saying, "You had your fun on the first floor. So this time, it's my turn."

Axel then threw her the world cards and she catches them.

Larxene smirked and said, "I'm not going to just give it to him."

Axel said with a hint of worry, "Don't break him."

Larxene replies, "Well... Do I detect a soft spot? I'm not going to break the toy. I'm not dumb."

Axel reminded her by saying, "Don't forget. Sora is the key. We need him if we're going to take over the Organization."

"I know that you're in on it too... But keep it under your hood at least until the time is right," said Larxene before she disappeared.

Axel smirked before saying, "You would have been wise to have done the same Larxene."

Author's Note

Another girl? Weird.... Where did she came from.... We'll just have to find out next time. 😈

Chapter 4 Name of the lost friend...

After heading up from the last floor, our heroes stopped to ask Sora about that girl he mentioned.

Goofy asked him, "So Sora, did anything back there help ya remember your friend's name?"

Sora starts thinking again as he tries to remember more of her.

Rainbow Dash asked, "Anything...?"

"Nothing else... Her name's the only thing I can't seem to remember," answered the brunette teen.

Twilight looks at him and says, "Don't worry. I'm sure you'll remember more of her after we use the last world card."

Sora nods before using the world card to pen the door in front of them. Then they went inside.

Halloween Town

Everyone had their forms changed back when they first came to Halloween Town before. Though Rainbow Dash was wearing a black coat with having a skull for a head as she seems to have a grim reaper form.

Everyone was shocked to see the type of world this is.

Goofy says, "Gawrsh! Don't like the looks of this place. I bet it's crawlin' with ghosts!"

Fluttershy grew very nervous and slightly scared from this place.

"Y-Yeah... and probably monsters too...," said Fluttershy.

Rainbow Dash was confused and asks, "What about the heartless?"

"I-I mean we fought them all the time... I gotten used to them," said the element of kindness.

Donald scoffed before saying, "Aw, phooey! There's nothin' to worry about. You won't be spooked if you already know what's coming! Not even real ghosts can frighten us anymore. If they take one look at us, THEY'd be the ones to run away!"

Applejack and Rainbow Dash instantly gave a blank look at Donald as they obviously doubted him.

Pinkie Pie asks, "You really think so Donald?"

Donald replied, "Trust me!"

While he was starting to walk, something appeared right in front of him. It was a skeleton in black clothing.

"Welcome to Halloween Town," said the skeleton known as Jack Skellington.

Donald instantly screamed out, "Waaak! A ghost!"

This causes both Applejack and Rainbow Dash to both laugh at how scared Donald was. He grumbled and seems embarrassed.

Jack chuckled before saying, "Wow, that was the best shriek I've heard in ages! If you're THAT easy to scare, we're gonna have a great time! Sorry, I haven't even introduced myself. I'm Jack Skellington! And this is Halloween Town. People around here call me the Pumpkin King! So if you're lookin' for a ghoulishly good time, you've come to the right place."

Donald angrily exclaims, "Well we aren't!"

Jack then replies, "Too bad because at the moment we've got a bit of a problem in Halloween Town.

They were confused with what he meant.

Red asks him, What kind of problem is that?"

Jack then says, "Well... Like this!"

As he said that, heartless appeared.

Pinkie Pie exclaimed, "Heartless!"

Rainbow Dash says, "Let's take em out!"

They worked fast to defeat the heartless together. After the fight, they turned over to Jack.

Donald angrily asks, "What's the big idea?! Why'd you go and call the Heartless?!"

Jack answers, "I didn't call them. I just knew when they were going to show up. In fact, I'd love to get rid of them. They actually go around attacking people, instead of just scaring them."

Rarity asks, "So why are they here?"

Jack then starts to say, "I was just going to go ask Dr. Finkelstein the same question. I'm heading to his laboratory right now. Follow me!"

Then he starts walking off as the others watch him.

Applejack asks, "Should we follow him?"

Twilight answered, "I guess so. May be the only way to head further into this world."

Donald grumbled before saying, "I don't like this. What if he's leading us right to the Heartless?"

The pumpkin king appeared again to scare Donald.

"Bingo! You saw right through me," exclaimed the skeleton as Donald screamed loud.

Jack chuckled before saying, "Ha ha ha, I'm just kidding! Now let's get going."

Everyone else started laughing as Donald was embarrassed from this. Then they went and followed Jack.

They went into the lab and see Dr. Finkelstein right there. Though he seems to be in need of help.

Jack Skellington then says to them, "Allow me to introduce Dr. Finkelstein! He's a world-famous genius!"

Dr. Finkelstein enjoys the compliment but he seems to be too much in trouble.

So he says, "Yes! Maybe I'm TOO smart. I'm afraid I've created something horrible!"

Rainbow Dash asks, "What's that Doc?"

The doctor turns to them and starts to say, "Well... Have you ever stopped to think about the power of true memories'?"

They exclaimed, "True memories?!"

Dr. Finkelsteinstarts explaining, "You see... our hearts are full of memories, but not all of them reflect the truth."

This has them very intrigued.

Though he continued, "The heart isn't a recording device. Even important memories change with time. They warp or fade, leaving us with but a shadow of what we hoped to remember."

Rarity thinks to herself, 'Strange... I wonder if that could be happening to.... N-No. That can't be happening.'

Sora suddenly asks, "Could that be happening to me?"

Dr. Finkelstein answers, "It happens to everyone. Some memories grow ugly, and some become more beautiful. If we could recover our true memories, the world would seem completely different. So, I devised a potion from forget-me-nots that brings our true memories back."

Red asks, "Well did it work?"

The doctor replies, "Well, that's the problem..."

Jack continues for him, "As soon as the doctor got a whiff of the potion, Heartless started popping up!"

Donald mutters, "Sounds like a failed experiment to me."

Dr. Finkelstein hears this and replies upsettingly, "No! My research is flawless! I just need another look at the potion to find out what went wrong!"

Twilight asked, "Well where is it then Doctor?"

Dr. Finkelstein sadly spoke, "Unfortunately...it's vanished."

Rarity though suggests, "Maybe some troublemaker had made off with it."

Dr. Finkelstein starts thinking before saying, "It must've been Sally! Jack, you've got to find her and get my potion back."

Jack quickly says, "Leave it to me!"

Sora asks him, "Can we tag along?"

His friends looks at him confused.

The pumpkin king grew confusion as he asks, "What for?"

Sora answers, "I want to know more about these 'true memories' the doctor keeps talking about."

Jack was impressed as he told Sora, "Excellent! Then let's go find Sally!"

They all headed out and follow Jack. Though they were confused and concerned about Sora. After some time, they finally meet up with Sally

Jack greets her, "There you are Sally. I thought I'd find you here."

Sally turns to them while confused.

"Who are your friends," asked Sally as she looks at them.

Jack answers, "They're interested in true memories. You have the potion, don't you?"

Sally, though very hesitant, answers, "Well...yes."

Jack asks, "Could you give it back?"

Sally answers, "I guess so, if you insist. But...I'm afraid. All the Doctor did was smell it, and the Heartless appeared. What if someone drinks it?"

Jack though seems too excited to listen as he said, "Are you kidding? What could be more exciting?"

Sally tells him nervously, "I'm worried, Jack. Isn't there another option?"

They turn to him as Fluttershy says, "Maybe she is right... maybe we should think of another solution to not have heartless show up."

Pinkie Pie asks, "Do you any other fun ideas for Halloween, Jack?"

Jack tries to think of another option. Though with no luck, he answers, "I can't think of a thing."

"I can! Give it here," exclaims a voice.

They turn to see Oogie Boogie run and charged into Sally as the potion lands in his hands.

Sally exclaimed, "Oh, no! The potion!"

Jack exclaimed, "Oogie! You again!"

Oogie Boogie chuckled evilly before saying, "Jack, where are your manners? I'm just helping you put the potion to good use! You should thank me! Well, well. Just one sniff, and the Heartless appeared. What would happen if I chugged the whole thing? THAT would be scary! Poor Jack! You can't hold a candle to Oogie Boogie. Time for Halloween Town to taste pain and despair beyond any nightmare!"

The evil bag of bugs quickly escapes with the potion. They were shock to see him took the potion like that. And very upset too.

Jack said, "Pain and despair? Oogie, you monster!"

Applejack tells Jack, "Come on Jack! We better hurry and chase after him!"

They went and followed him through Halloween Town. Then they finally followed him to the torture room.

Jack exclaims, "Oogie! Hand over the potion!"

Oogie Boogie growled as he glares at them.

"You fools don't know when to quit! Say...all this running around is making me thirsty," said Ooogie as he was about to drink the potion.

Jack exclaimed, "Oogie! No!"

He starts chugging down the potion in front of them.

Fluttershy says, "This doesn't look good guys..."

Rainbow Dash muttered, "No Kidding..."

Oogie Boogie finished the drink before saying, "Ahh! Lip-smacking good!"

Then he suddenly stopped moving. He didn't react to anything until...

"Agh! What's this? What... Something's wrong! Something deep inside me. Something...scary," exclaimed Oogie Boogie as he felt a very deep pain that's terrifying.

Jack asks, "Oogie! What's going on?"

Oogie Boogie yells, "No! Get back! Stay away from me!"

After their fight, they went to report back to Dr. Finkelstein about what happened. Then gave him the potion that was nearly empty.

Dr. Finkelstein said, "Confound that Oogie Boogie! He drank nearly all of my precious potion! There are only a few drops left!"

Goofy looks at Sora before asking, "Sora, why don't you ask the doc if you can drink the rest?"

Sora thinks about this as this could help with with his memories. Especially since he just remembered the girl he used to be friends with.

Then he said, "No. I'd better not."

They looked at him confused. Especially his friends.

Dr. Finkelstein says, "What, don't you want it? Too bad. It would've been a great experiment."

Jack asks Sora, "Don't you want to find out about your true memories?"

Sora answers, "Of course. Now more than ever. But there's this guy, Axel. I promised him I'd find the truth on my own."

His friends look at him as they were impressed that he wants to find the answers for himself.

Dr. Finkelstein then says to himself, "I just don't understand. When I inhaled the potion, Heartless appeared, ...and when Oogie drank it, he was overcome with fear. What could it mean?"

Sally then bluntly said, "It means the potion was a failure."

Dr. Finkelstein got upset by this before saying, "No! I can't be wrong! Oogie MUST have found his true memories! Hmm... True memories must unbalance the heart, ...and cause unpredictable changes within!"

Sora thinks about this more as he asks, "Then...what about me? What happens when my true memories awaken?"

He looks at the brunette teen and answers, "Perhaps something even more terrifying... But this is all just a hypothesis. I can't be sure without further research."

Jack looks at Sora also before saying, "What's wrong, Sora? Does the doctor's theory scare you?"

Sora answers nervously, "Well, yeah... a little."

Jack smiles before saying, "That's good to hear!"

They looked at Jack confused as they were troubled with knowing what he meant by that.

But he starts explaining, "Fear and doubt are signs of a strong heart. They push your heart, strike out in new directions, take chances! Without them, your zest for life might fade... ...as would your taste for fear. And believe me, that would really ruin my fun."

They think of this as they smile.

Then Sora says, "Thanks, Jack. I'll remember that."

"Then good luck, everyone! May you always enjoy being frightened," said Jack.

They said their goodbyes to Jack before leaving Halloween Town. They were back at Castle Oblivion as they notice a dark corridor appearing.

It was Larxene, who looks at them with her smug evillish smile.

Donald quickly says, "I bet you work with Axel!"

Pinkie Pie said, "Must be since you wear those weird black coats!"

Larxene smirked before saying, "Too clever. Seems you're a lot smarter than I thought you was Pinkie Pie was it? Well I'm Larxene."

They glare at her before they got ready to fight in their stances.

She continues, "So...are you enjoying your stay at the castle? I bet it's nice to peel away all the worthless memories and awaken the true memories... that lie deep in your heart."

Red asks, "True memories?"

Larxene nodded at him before saying, "Of course. Although...it seems that Sora is still forgetting the most important thing here. When that poor girl hears that you've forgotten her name, why... it'll just...it'll break her heart."

She says it in a tone that's just cold. Everyone had caught this tone, except for Sora who is only interested in hearing about his friend.

Sora says, "Poor girl? Do you know her?! ...Is she...here?"

Larxene sighed before saying, "Yes she is. You see, the bad guys are holding her captive somewhere deep inside the castle. And you obviously are the hero, so you and your pathetic friends have to go save her. Although..."

She charged at him with amazing speed and hit him a couple of times before kicking him hard.

This causes him to flew back and fall on the ground. Though something fell on the ground with him. It was a strange star item.

Larxene said instantly, "I'M a bad guy so you have to go through me!"

Red thinks, 'W-Woah.... This lady is tough... She just took him down easily.'

Then he and the others notice the star object on the ground.

Rarity asks, "Oh my... what is that?"

Sora looks slightly up to see that.

Then asks, "Is that thing mine?"

Larxene chuckled slightly before saying, "What a shame... You've been wearing it all this time and forgot? No... That's not possible."

While Larxene says this, Rarity looks at the strange item. She was confused.

So she thinks, 'Weird... Sora never showed that before... how did he have that and not remember it is in his pocket... What is going on...?'

Larxene notices Rarity is getting too interested in the item that fell out of Sora's pocket. Way too interested.

Then she rushed and quickly kicks her back also.

They watched this and exclaimed, "Rarity!"

She got hit by her attack and glared at her.

"Don't lose your guard pony! Wouldn't want you getting so so soft," said the blonde haired woman.

Then Rarity got back up as now she knows something is up with Larxene and that Axel character.

Larxene thinks, 'Damn annoying horse. She's going to jeopardize EVERYTHING! I'll deal with her later. RIght now I need to deal with the brat.'

So then she starts saying to Sora, "ANYWAYS! The memory of that girl has to be engraved somewhere deep inside your heart. Sora... think carefully now. What oh what could it be? And who gave it to you?"

Sora looks inside of his heart and starts to say it, "Na... Na...mi...?"

Larxene smirks as it was working. So she continues, "Sora... Sora... You're getting it now! Release the memory from within your heart!"

Sora then finally said, "Nami... Naminé."

He said it. He said the girl's name.

Larxene smiled before walking to the star shaped object.

"Well, it's about time. That's right...Naminé. Yes, she's the one that gave you that tacky little good luck charm," said the blonde haired woman.

She picked it up and said, "Not that you even bothered to remember. No surprise, seeing as you also couldn't remember her NAME. Talk about heartless! I can't believe you! It'd serve you right if I decided to smash this piece of junk!"

As she was about to destroy it, they were about to stop her, until they saw Sora slashed her hand with his keyblade to make her drop the charm.

Sora yelled, "Let it go!"

He quickly catches the good luck charm and said, "Naminé gave me this. It's very important to me!"

Larxene got frustrated that he hurt HER hand.

"Oh, it's important to you," said Larxene as she summoned her lightning kives.

Larxene then exclaims angrily, "Ten seconds ago, you didn't even know what it was!"

Larxene rushed towards to fight them. She was very quick with her attacks. Red tries to strike at her, but Larxene was dodging easily.

Then he decided to use a Rainbow Dash card. Rainbow Dash summoned into the battle and used attack attacks against her.

Larxene got kicked and glared at the cyan colored pony. She smirked after seeing this.

Then she did quick attacks with Rainbow Dash and hit her easily. Then backflipped from her to use thundara on her. The element of loyalty got struck by it. Soon she is now stunned.

Then she returns back to the card.

Sora rushed and attack her from behind. She growled slightly and dodge before countering Sora.

Twilight goes to use fire, but it barely did anything.

Rarity rushed to attack as hard as she could, but it wasn't enough.

She thought, 'This isn't enough... If only we would remember our old abilities well we could easily take her down.'

Twilight hurries to strike at Larxene before kicking at her.

She gets hit and strikes back. Then Sora and Red both attack her together.

She gets upset as she vanishes to away from them and then starts summoning clones of herself.

They were shocked by this.

Twilight even said, "She can clone herself...?"

Then Larxene and the clones rush at them very fast to strike.

Rarity tries to attack her, but she hits the clone instead. Then they heard her and the clones laugh at them.

Red thinks to himself, 'Great... she is too fast for us to find the real her.

Sora looks as he thinks he knows the real Larxene. He goes to slash her, but it turns out to be a clone.

Red then decides to use aero to push her and the clones back. Soon he can see that the clones were injured, but one of them seems to be barely affected. That must be her.

Twilight, Sora, and Rarity see this as they went to strike as hard as they could. Red did the same. Then they work together to finish her off.

After the fight, Larxene went back and smirked as she has enough messing with him.

"Hmph. You're not as bad as I thought. You really are a hero. A heartless hero," said Larxene while smirking.

Sora angrily asked, "Who asked you?!"

His friends were surprised by how quickly Sora got angry from this.

Larxene sees this and smirks before saying, "Oh does it hurt because it's the truth? You are just a baby. And if you're gonna be a baby, then here ya go."

After saying this, she tossed a card at them and Twilight catches this with her magic horn.

Larxene then said, "I created another card from your memories, you know. Be a good boy and say 'thanks.' Ta-ta!"

Then she left as Sora tried to get her but it was too late.

Sora called out, "Wait, Larxene!"

"Where are you?! Don't you dare hide from me! Show yourself," exclaimed Sora as he angrily swinged his keyblade.

The others watched as they were concerned.

Jiminy was trying to keep hanging onto Sora as he said, "Sora calm down! She's not coming back."

He then stopped and looked down. He was in despair. His friends were very concerned as they walk to him to check on him.

Goofy said, "Sora?"

Fluttershy asks, "Are you okay...?"

Sora couldn't answer her question. All he could say is, "I hate this... Why'd I need someone like that to bring back...Naminé's memory?"

Twilight looks over at him before bringing him the world cards.

"Don't worry... we'll find her," said Twilight as she smiles at him.

Sora stayed quiet as he looked at the world cards in his hand. Then he looks ahead and starts running into the next floor.

Donald asks, "Where is he going?"

Red answered, "He's heading to the next world. We better hurry and follow him."

Meanwhile, Larxene appeared from the fight with the others and soon walked over to Axel.

She said, "Whew... Throwing that battle wore me out."

Axel smirked before saying, "Really? It looked to me like you just plain lost."

This clearly mocked her as it made her upset.

"Oh shut it Axel! Don't act like you didn't lose against them before," said Larxene.

Axel rolled his eyes and said, "At least I didn't make things too suspicious to where one of them is onto us.

The savage nymph remembers that Rarity is getting too suspicious of them.

She said, "Let me handle her. She'll be out of the way permanently."

"Oh really? Because clearly you can handle it SOO well," said Axel as he smirked from making her mad.

Larxene growled before saying, "How dare you! You don't appreciate the nuances of-"

"An ungainly effort," said the male as he appeared from the dark corridor. He had dirty blonde hair that reached slightly past his shoulders.

Larxene said, "Vexen!"

Vexen smirked before saying, How could you be humbled by someone of such limited significance? You shame the Organization."

Larxene looks away and rolled her eyes from what he said to her.

Axel looked at the older man and questioned, "How can we help you Vexen? It's not very often we see you topside."

Vexen starts explaining to the redheaded male, "I came to lend you a hand. You obviously believe this Sora and the others has much potential, but I remain unconvinced they are truly worth such coddling. I think an experiment would show if they really are of any value to us."

Larxene sighed and groaned immaturely from this.

"Hmph. Well, here we go again. It's just an excuse so you can carry out your little experiments. That's all," explained the blonde haired woman.

Vexen told her, "I'm a scientist. Experiments are what I do, yes."

Axel said, "Whatever. You can do what you want. But you know, I think testing Sora is just a cover for testing your valet."

Vexen felt offended from this.

"Valet? He's the product of pure research," said the older man.

Larxene smirked and said, "What he actually is is a toy."

Vexen rolled his eyes at the woman before scoffing. He said, "Hmph. You should just learn to be quiet."

Axel then toss him a world card before saying, "Anyway... Since you came all this way, you're gonna need this. A humble gift to my elder. I hope you use it to put on a very good show for us."

Then someone walked over to them and they turn to see them.

Author's Note

Seems like Sora remembers her name! Though it seems that Rarity is suspicious of this castle. But it's probably nothing right? ....Right?

Chapter 5 Meeting an old friend

After the fight with Larxene, everypony and Donald and Goofy finally know the name of Sora's long lost friend. Naminé. They were happy that he can remember her name, though upset that they had to remember because of how terrible Larxene was towards Sora. Sora was up on the next floor as his friends catch up to him.

Donald called out, "Sora not so fast!"

Rarity also says, "No need to be in a rush darling!"

Sora stops and turns to his friends before saying, "We don't have time! They've got Naminé. We gotta rescue her!"

They stop also as they start talking to each other.

Goofy said to them, "Sora sure does seem like he's upset."

Donald replied, "You'd be too. He just remembered a friend but found out she's in trouble!"

Goofy listens to his feathered friend and reply back, "Good point. I guess if we heard that the king was in danger, we would be pretty upset about that too."

The ponies look at Sora as they were worried too.

Applejack says, "Yeah. If we were in his shoes, we would be in a hurry to find our friends."

The element of magic spoke out, "Though I'm concerned that Larxene hurt him a lot."

Pinkie Pie nodded and was upset as she said, "Right! That Larxene really was cruel to him and his friend."

Rainbow Dash said, "If I wasn't a card in that fight I would've made sure she wouldn't ever hurt my friend."

Rarity nodded before saying, "Right."

Rarity agreed that Larxene was harsh, but something doesn't added up to her. She needs to find out what Larxene and that Axel character are up to.

Fluttershy looks at Sora and was worried about him.

'Poor Sora... He shouldn't have to be like this. Even after remembering his friend," said the shyful pony.

Though when the yellow pegasus look at Red, she notice he was quiet.

Red looks at Sora as he remembers how he was when his he had to travel to find his friends in different worlds. It made him very worried back in.... well a world he was in. Imagine if he never found his friends... The heartless would've gotten them or worse...

Fluttershy asks, "Are you okay?"

The element of courage hears her and turns over to her before nodded. Then rushed over to Sora.

"Don't worry. We'll save her," said the red stallion

Sora nods before starting to use one of the world cards and headed into the world. They were now in Atlantica.

Goofy said, "Gawrsh! This looks like the bottom of the sea."

Sora included, "It sure does. So how come we can breathe?"

Pinkie Pie answers, "Beats me."

Twilight said, "Maybe someone cast a spell on us?"

Rainbow Dash begins to say, "It's just like breathing air though!"

Donald then said, "But it's not air. See? Someone's swimming this way!"

They turn to see a young red headed mermaid swim to them.

She said, "If anyone asks, you didn't see me!"

They were confused with what she just said. Until, Goofy pointed out something she is holding.

He asks, "Hey, what's that sparkling thingy you got there?"

The mermaid, who's name is Ariel, quickly said, "Oh, nothing! Nothing at all! Remember, you didn't see me!"

She then swim away.

Applejack then said without being hesitant, "She was hiding something."

Red says, "I wonder what it was."

They then reached to to Triton's Palace where they reached a small red crab named Sebastian.

He muttered, "Oh, woe is me..."

Fluttershy asks while concerned, "Is something wrong little crab."

Sebastian turns to them to explain, "Someone stole the king's magic trident. Atlantica is defenseless! And to top it off, Princess Ariel has disappeared! King Triton's worried sick. He won't leave his chambers."

They were all confused.

Rarity asks, "So this Ariel girl disappeared?

Sebastian nodded before continuing, "Ariel's friend Flounder would know where she is, but now he's gone, too."

Then they whisper with each other so that Sebastian doesn't hear.

Sora asks, "Wait a sec... Didn't we just see Ariel?"

The red stallion nodded before saying, "Yeah. But she didn't seem happy to see us."

Goofy then said, "It seem like she was hiding something."

Applejack then asks, "Could it be the trident?"

Jiminy Cricket answers, "You know, maybe it was."

Donald then said, "Wak? But that means Ariel stole it!"

Twilight thinks about this before saying, "There has to be some sort of explanation as to why she took it."

Sebastian starts panicking and gets very worried.

He starts saying, "Ariel! Where did you swim off to this time? If anything happens to you... The king will think it's all my fault! He told me to keep an eye on her, and now this! What if she ran away because of something I said?! King Triton will banish me forever!"

Rarity asks, "Should we tell that little crab that Ariel took the trident?"

Sora quickly said, "No way. He'll pop his shell if we tell him Ariel took the trident."

Goofy nods before saying, "Guess we'll have to get to the bottom of this ourselves!"

They went looking for Ariel to see if she has the trident on her. Then finally, they spot her and quickly hide.

Ariel seems to be stressed as she says, "This is all my fault. I wish I'd never taken Daddy's trident. I should've known things would turn out this way...."

Donald quickly said, "She DID take it!"

The element of honesty quickly covered his mouth before he gets too loud. Then they heard someone coming.

Applejack whispered, "Pipe down! Somebody's coming!"

They notice that the one who is going towards Ariel is the sea witch, Ursula.

Ursula says to her, "No need to worry, child. You did the right thing."

Pinkie Pie whispers to her friends, "Who is she?"

Red shushed her while they listened in more.

Then she continues, "Why, I'm sure you'd do anything in the world to help your little friend. Poor Flounder has been swept away to the human world. No place for a little fish. Why, if we don't hurry, you might not have a friend to save. Besides, you're not GIVING me the trident, dear. Just letting me borrow it for a bit. You can save Flounder! Lend me the trident, and I'll help you!"

The redheaded mermaid thinks about this before giving her response.

"I know. But Daddy needs the trident to defend Atlantica. I need time to think," said Ariel.

Ursula said to her, "Well, it's all the same to me. Just remember, your little friend is dodging fishhooks while you twiddle your fins. Well, you can come see me once you've made up your mind."

As she disappeared, Ariel became even more stressed. This could risk Atlantica, but also could risk her friend, "Flounder.

She muttered to herself, "What am I going to do?"

Luckily they heard her.

Red exclaimed, "Don't trust her!"

Ariel said, "Huh? How long have you been listening?"

Sora answered, "Oh, long enough."

Donald quickly replied, "It doesn't matter. Red's right! Don't trust that sea witch! She's up to no good. You can see it in her face!"

Ariel was thankful that they don't trust her either.

"She spoke, "Then we all agree! The problem is, I don't have any idea where Flounder is. And she's the only one who can help."

Sora suggested, "What about us? C'mon. Let's go talk to her. You shouldn't have to do this by yourself."

Ariel asks, "Really? You'll come with me?"

Applejack answered, "yep! Let's get going!"

They headed to find Ursula. Finally, they reached her lair.

Ursula notices them before saying, " My, so many guests! Have you made up your mind, my dear?"

Ariel nods as she looks at the trident one more time before looking back at the sea witch.

"I'll do anything for Flounder. But I need proof I can trust you. You said we could save Flounder if I gave you the trident. Well prove it," said the redheaded mermaid teen.

Ursula chuckled at this before telling her, "But of course! See?"

With that, she summoned Flounder right there in front of them.

Donald exclaimed, "I knew something was fishy!"

Ursula then continued, "There you have it. If you want your precious Flounder back, give me the trident!"

Ariel was hesitant as she gives her the trident.

Ursula has her hands on it as she starts laughing evilly.

"Ha ha! Mine at last! Now I'm ruler of all the seas," exclaimed the sea witch.

Ariel yelled out, "Let Flounder go!"

Ursula answered, "But of course! I'm feeling generous. Which reminds me... You always wanted to see other worlds, didn't you? Well, dear, I know just the world to send you to! Unfortunately, this will be a one-way trip!"

Ursula exclaimed, "The sea and all its denizens shall grovel before me!"

After the fight, they rested before speaking with each other.

Flounder felt guilty as he said, "Please don't be mad, Ariel. That ol' witch tricked me."

Ariel shook her head before speaking, "Flounder, as long as you're safe, nothing else matters. Now all we have to do is return the trident and everything will be okay."

Fluttershy asks her, "But what if the king finds out you're the one who took it in the first place?"

Ariel says to her, "I'll be grounded forever..."

They then heard a voice as it belonged to Sebastian who was calling out to her from outside.

He exclaimed, " Ariel! Ariel! Where are you, girl? If you can hear me, please answer!"

Ariel said, "It's Sebastian! He came all this way just to find me."

Goofy nodded before replying with, "Yep, and when he does, you're gonna get it!"

Sora suddenly had an idea to share.

"Hey, I know! Why don't you just say the sea witch stole the trident? And you got it back all by yourself! Then there's no way you'll get in trouble!"

Everything, but Ariel look at him.

Applejack said, "Really Sora?"

Ariel then admits to them, "I just had the same idea! But...I can't do that. I don't want to get in trouble, but I can't lie. Not about this. I know I haven't made the best decisions lately. It was a mistake to take the trident. But I made that mistake because I wanted to help you, Flounder. I'm proud of that. Blaming someone else would mean giving those feelings up. So, I'm going to tell the truth."

Jiminy nodded before saying, "She's right, Sora! Honesty is the best policy."

Sora nervously spoke out, "Hey, I was just kidding! Great, now I'M the one in hot water!"

They started laughing together before heading out. After leaving Atlantica, they back into the castle to where they were planning to head to a new world. Then suddenly they notice someone walking towards them. It wasn't one of the people in the black coat. It was... Riku?

They seen him right there and was completely shocked.

Sora sees him and exclaims, "R-Riku?!"

He runs over to him. The last time they seen him was back at realm of darkness of the other side of the door.

Red says to the other, "That's... Riku...."

Twilight said, "He's okay and fine.... That's good."

Pinkie Pie says happily, "This is great! This means Sora and Riku are friends again!"

Though Rarity was quiet through this.

She thought, 'Riku is back... Though he seems... different than how we last seen him. And he seems.... mad? But why?'

Sora then asked Riku, "What are YOU doing here?"

Riku then suddenly spoke out, "Not happy to see me? Lemme know if I'm getting in the way—ya know, of something that's more important."

The mane seven looked confused by this. Sora felt hurt that Riku would say something like this.

"Huh? I didn't mean that," said the brunette teen.

Riku scoffed at him before continuing to speak, "Hmph. Spare the excuses. I bet that you had all but forgotten about me."

Red then defended Sora by saying, "You can't be serious. He went all this way just to help find you."

Riku replied, "Of course you defended him. Spare the excuses. Quit acting like you care."

Rainbow Dash had enough as she suddenly, "Why am I not surprised that you're acting like a jerk again...? You hadn't change. You're still the same bad friend that you have always been since we met."

She had enough of him speaking like that towards her friends.

Twilight then said, "No matter what hurtful things you have said, "Sora has been searching for you with the help of us."

They all nod at him.

Riku scoffed before saying, "Really...? That's funny since now it's only Naminé that you're looking for. You're only focus on her more than you did about me... right?"

They stayed silent after hearing that. Then he continued.

"You don't care about me. Just like you never cared... at all about her feelings," said the silver haired teen.

Sora then muttered, "Namine's....?"

Riku said, "Hmph. I knew it. Never even gave it a thought did you? Just cuz you want to see Naminé, sorry, doesn't go both ways. Tell ya the truth, Naminé doesn't even want to look at your face."

Sora got upset by that and asked, "Why not?!"

Riku answers, "You should ask your memories...why Naminé disappeared from the islands. Remember that, and you'd know."

Sora's friends got upset with the way that Riku was talking towards Sora like that.

Pinkie Pie tells him, "Sora would never do anything to hurt her!

Sora then suddenly asks, "Did I... Did I do something? Is it my fault? Riku..."

Suddenly Riku changes into his form he had when they fought him.

He then tells him, "Go home Sora. I'll care for Naminé. Anyone who goes near her..."

He charges at him and attacked, but Sora barely blocked his attack.

He continued, "...goes through me!"

The others were shocked by this.

Rarity even thought, 'Okay something is wrong with Riku.'

Sora asked, "Wh-What's wrong with you?! We're supposed to be friends!"

Riku then said, "Please Sora. Since when have you ever cared about me? Naminé's not the only one who's sick of looking at you. So am I!"

He backed up and got ready to fight.

Sora begged him, "Riku stop it!"

It was too late as now they were fighting. After the fight, Riku managed to escape.

Sora then shouted, "Riku! Where are you?"

He and the others headed towards the next floor. Eventually they made it, but were too late. Sora stopped and looked down. He was very sad by this.

Goofy asked, "Sora, are you okay?"

Sora answered, "Don't worry about me. Riku...what happened?"

Jiminy jumped out of Sora's hood before saying, "Hmmm... Sure was strange. Almost like Ansem was back controlling Riku again."

Red replied, "But that's impossible. We stopped Ansem."

Applejack then wondered, "Then why is Riku like this?"

Rainbow Dash then said upsettingly, "Because he's a two faced jerk that wanted to hurt Sora. That's what..."

Twilight then said, "We can't assume that Rainbow Dash. There has to be another reason since he did help us close the door."

Donald then suddenly said, "Hold on... The king! If he's with Riku, he might be in danger!"

This has everyone concerned. But Sora was still upset.

Donald said to him, "Sora..."

Jiminy thinks before saying, "I know... You're thinking Riku isn't your friend... But that's just not true."

Sora asked, "You sure?"

Jiminy answered, "Well, I know he said some awful things to you back there... But you gotta remember, we are in Castle Oblivion. Why, folks lose their memory here a little bit at a time. Riku's probably just forgotten that the two of you were such close friends. That's all."

Sora asked, "So he just forgot?"

Jiminy nodded before saying, "My guess is that's so. But Sora...instead of being sad, we have to figure out a way to help Riku get his memory back. If we all work together, why, we're sure to get you through this. No need to mope."

Goofy then said, "Jiminy's right. You shouldn't push your friends away."

Sora stayed quiet as he listened to them.

Donald then suddnely asked, "Sora, do you remember our very first promise?"

The brunette teen looks at him.

Both Donald and Goofy answered with, "Always smile!"

Goofy then included, "That was the promise we made to each other the first time we met! We promised to never forget to keep smiling!"

Sora smiles at this as he remembered the first time he met Donald and Goofy with Twilight and Red.

He said, "You're right."

Sora used a world card and soon headed in there. They arrived in a strange pirate ship.

Sora asked, "Where are we now?"

Goofy said, "The floor is kinda unsteady."

Rarity said, "I think I can hear the ocean too.

Donald then exclaimed, "I know! We must be inside a ship!"

Rainbow Dash hears this and was shocked and amazed.

"Wow that's so cool," exclaimed the cyan colored pony.

Red tells her, "We should probably find a way out."

Rarity asked, "Though how can we darling? There doesn't seem to be anyway of helping us get out of here."

The others were confused until they see a fairy flying next to them.

Donald exclaimed, "Wak!"

Sora asked "Who are you?"

The fairy then tries to get their signal before showing the way out.

Fluttershy said, "Maybe she's trying to help us."

Goofy then replied, "Looks like you're right!"

Eventually she leads them throughout the ship until they stop.

Sora suddenly asked, "Is it just me, or are all the rooms starting to look the same?"

Rainbow Dash said, "Oh okay... Thank Celestia you were thinking that too."

Pinkie Pie then asked, "Does this mean we were going in circles?"

Donald got upset by this and went to instantly blaming the fairy.

"Some help SHE was," said the court wizard as the fairy was mad that she instantly kicked Donald's beak.

They all started laughing at this until they heard a voice.

"Tink, what are you doing?! You weren't supposed to bring the pirates WITH you," said the voice.

They look to see a boy with reddish brown hair and green clothing came out of a barrel.

He exclaimed, "Stay back, pirates! Or this will be the last fight you pick!"

Donald exclaimed back, "What's the big idea! We're not pirates! We're only here because... ... Umm... Why are we here Sora?"

Sora answered, "Huh? How am I supposed to know? Pinkie Pie?

Pinkie Pie shook her head before saying, "Beats me."

The boy, named Peter Pan, starst saying, "Okay, okay, I understand. I guess if you were real pirates you wouldn't get lost on your own ship. Plus, you're dressed funny."

Donald whines by saying, "There you go again!"

Rainbow Dash then said, "Wait, so if you thought we were pirates... This must be a pirate ship!"

Peter Pan nodded and answered, "That's right. You're trapped inside the Jolly Roger, ship of the ol' codfish, Captain Hook."

Fluttershy then asks, "But doesn't that mean you're trapped too?"

Peter Pan shook his head before answering, "Me? Don't be silly. No one can capture Peter Pan! I'm just laying low until it's time to spring my plan."

Goofy asked, "What plan is that?"

"The pirates kidnapped my friend Wendy. She's got to be somewhere on this ship I didn't expect there to be so many pirates on watch, though. I sent Tink to look for a way around... ...but all she found was you," said Peter Pan.

Sora then said, "I bet I know what Tink had in mind! If we all make a big enough racket, we can distract the pirates!"

Goofy said happily, "Gawrsh, you musta read her mind!"

Red then asked, "So how about working together?

Peter Pan replied, "Well, why not? Of course, I could save Wendy myself, if I wanted to. But you guys look like you'd be stuck without me."

He headed off first while everyone followed behind.

Donald whined again, "Don't you have ANY manners?"

They explored through the ship and checked everywhere for Peter Pan's missing friend. There they finally found her.

Peter Pan exclaimed, "There she is!"

Wendy notices them and said, "Peter? Peter Pan!"

Peter Pan asks before speaking more, "Wendy, are you all right? I've come to rescue you with my new crew! C'mon, let's get off this leaky ol' tub and do some exploring! Ha ha! We'll never grow up!"

Wendy listens as she smiles, but slowly frowns.

"Listen, Peter. I've got something to tell you... I want to go home to London," said the girl as she turns from him.

The mane seven and the Trinity Trio were surprised by her answer, though Peter Pan was shocked and upset.

Peter Pan asks, "What are you talking about? Why would you want to do that? You'd have to turn into a grown-up. Besides, goin' on adventures is a lot more fun! If you go back to London, you'll have to leave the nursery. You'll grow up and we'll never see each other again!"

Wendy notices how upset he is as she hated doing this.

She said, "I know Peter. But... I still want to go home."

Peter Pan quickly turned angry and yelled, "I came to rescue you! And you don't care if you ever see me again!"

Wendy was hurt by what he accused her of and turned to him.

She exclaimed, "No you don't understand!"

Peter Pan ignored her and just start to fly.

He quickly said, "Suit yourself! And while you're at it, rescue yourself! I'm leaving."

He then suddenly flew away and leaving them all behind.

Sora says, "H-Hey wait a minute?!"

Donald mutters to himself, "There he goes."

Rainbow Dash however felt angry by this before yelling, "Th-That jerk! How could he just leave us like this and her?!"

Twilight said, "Can't believe he would do that to a friend just because she wants to return to her home."

Applejack even included, "Well... Why don't we try ta think of something to do since he left us like that?"

Rarity said to her, "That's a great idea Applejack. But what can we do?"

Goofy then suggested, "Hey I've got an idea! Why don't we think of something once we get up on deck?"

Donald replied, "That doesn't make any sense... I think."

Red looks at them before saying, "Well there's still trouble waiting outside."

He turns to Wendy and said, "Wendy you stay here. We'll try to create a distraction."

Wendy nods as they all went through the ship.

After many hours of searching, they finally get out of the ship.

Donald exclaims, "Whew! We finally made it out!"

Pinkie Pie exclaimed also, "Yep! Looks like we are able to get away from this! With no danger at all."

Suddenly, a voice was heard.

"There you are you rascals," said the voice as it turns out to be Captain Hook.

Captain Hook then continued, "I'll teach you to play stow away on my ship! Friends of Peter Pan, I'll wager!"

When he says that, they all turn to each other to start discussing to themselves.

Donald asks them, "Are we his friends?"

Goofy included, "He sure didn't seem to think so."

Sora also said, "Yeah the way he took off like that. He even ditched Wendy."

Rainbow Dash also said, "Can't believe he did that..."

Red included, "Me neither Rainbow Dash..."

Captain Hook notices this and got tired of them talking with each other.

"I'm not finished talking yet! How dare you ignore me and plot behind my back! Uncivilized brats! You're in cahoots with Peter Pan no mistake," said the Captain.

Twilight says to them, "Doesn't seem like he's gonna believe us anyways."

Sora then says to him, "Well either way, you're gonna let us off this ship."

Goofy included, "And Wendy's coming with us."

Captain Hook suddenly smirked before saying, "Think again you scallywags! Hook's one step ahead of you!"

They were all shocked to see that he is able to have Wendy right there on the plank about to fall off.

Then he continued, "Any trouble and Wendy takes a long walk off the plank!"

Donald exclaims, "You wouldn't!"

Hook replied, "Believe me I'd rather not. After all, I need Wendy to bait that blasted Peter Pan!"

"Then I'll just have to take the bait you old codfish," said a voice as it was Peter Pan flying to Wendy.

Wendy exclaimed happily, "Peter!"

Peter Pan smirked at Captain Hook before saying, "Here I am Hook! Miss me?"

Captain Hook got angry by him before yelling, "Insolent BRAT! Today is the day you pay for taking my hand!"

He charges at them, but Peter Pan managed to hold Wendy and fly her away from the plank. This causes Hook to miss and almost fall off the plank.

He got more angry and turns towards them.

He said, "You've made a fool of me for the last time Pan! I'll cleave you to the brisket!"

After the fight, they went to talk with each other.

Sora tells him, "Thanks Peter. We owe you one."

Peter Pan nodded before saying, "Well at first I thought I'd let you handle it but it really looked like you needed help. But hey, you guys did pretty good, though."

They nodded at him back and turns towards Wendy.

"Wendy, about London... Are you sure you won't change your mind," said Peter Pan hoping she would change her mind.

Unfortunately, Wendy shook her head before saying, "Peter I'm sorry. But I really want to go home."

Peter Pan sighed before saying, "I was afraid of that... Everyone grows up and grown-ups always forget. First you'll forget what it feels like to be young, and then you'll forget about me."

Wendy replied, "How can you say such a thing Peter? I'll never, ever forget you."

Peter Pan explained, "Sure that's what you think now. But when you try to remember me, the memories will be gone. You'll forget—little by little, one memory at a time. Once you're grown up, there won't be a single memory left."

After hearing this, everyone felt bad for Peter. Until Sora spoke out to him.

"Don't say that. Memories—even important ones—don't come back to us whenever we want them to. But that doesn't mean the memories are gone. It's more like...like they're sleeping. So when the right thing comes along and wakes the memory up, we can remember it. The memories engraved in our hearts never go away. I'm sure of it," said Sora.

Wendy nods and says, "He's right Peter."

Peter Pan said, "Never huh? It's funny. I thought everybody who left Neverland forgot all about it. But I have a feeling you guys just might be different. Okay, Sora! If you say we'll meet again, then I believe you! Let's go, Wendy. London is waiting."

Then he turns to them before saying, "Goodbye Sora. I'll be waiting to see what you look like all grown up!"

Though Tinkerbell stayed behind.

Fluttershy asks, "Are you okay Tinkerbell?"

Sora then said, "This must be a gift from Peter."

Donald then said, "Maybe he's not such a thoughtless guy after all."

But after he says this, a moogle drops on.

Goofy asks, "Another gift from Peter?"

Applejack said, "Seems like a perfect gift to me."

They all started laughing except Donald.

Finally they exited Neverland and headed back to Castle Oblivion where they meet RIku again.

Riku notices and said, "Take the hint... I told you to go home."

Sora shook his head before saying, "Not until I rescue you and Naminé."

Riku replied angrily, "I don't remember ever asking you to rescue me."

Sora smiles at him and tries to get him to remember.

"Did you forget? Kairi's there—waiting for us both to come home," said the brunette teen.

Riku replied back, "You're the one who forgot. I told you at Kingdom Hearts when we closed the door... 'Take care of Kairi.'"

This made Sora quiet as he looks down.

Riku then told him, "Give it up. I'm not going back to the islands—not for anything."

Sora then looked back before asking, "It's not just for Kairi! What about the rest?"

Riku scoffed and said, "You can have those losers. Already forgot 'em."

This made Sora very upset at what he said, "That's enough!"

He even summoned his keyblade.

Then the silver haired teen asks, "What about you Sora? Do you actually remember what they all look like?"

Sora was confused by this before he said, "Of course I rememb-"

Suddenly, he can't remember his old friends.

Riku chuckled to himself before saying, "Don't feel bad. That's what this castle does to you—after a while. It's good. You forget all the useless stuff and remember for the first time what really matters. I remembered it, Sora. I now know the one thing that is most important to me. Protecting Naminé. Nothing else matters—not a thing."

Sora then looks at Riku as then an image shows of them playing sword fighting as kids with wooden swords.

"Hey... Riku... I think I'll jog your memory," said Sora as he gets ready to fight.

Riku chuckled before saying, "Go ahead and try."

After the fight they all look at Riku.

"Hmph. Too bad, Sora. You can fight me all you want, but I still won't remember a thing," said Riku.

Rainbow Dash was about to say something until Sora stopped her.

Then he spoke, "C'mon, Riku... Let's quit fighting—let's go help Naminé."

Riku replied, "Together—right. So like you Sora... You're always trying to worm your way into my heart!"

This makes Sora confused until he said, "Hold on! When did I ever do that?"

"Hmph, you forgot that, too? You never cared. It never mattered to you," exclaimed Riku as he runs off.

Sora said to himself, "You won't push me away."

Rarity watched this all happened as she thought, 'What is with him...? He is much different than back when we last saw him. Could it really be that this castle is effecting him... or maybe.... n-no. That can't be. Something has to have happened to him."

Author's Note

Finally am back. Sorry for taking so long but I'm back with more of my Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories story and stay tuned for more of that.