As Dotty woke up next to the crashed ship in the middle of the forest, she'd see Zen-Aku bent down in front of her. [color=bc8dbf]"Dotty!"[/color] He growled.

[color=6ecff6]"I'm up, i'm up!"[/color] She rubbed her eyes. She then looked around. They seemed to be in a strange forest. The sounds of animals could be heard everywhere. Birds, insects, a breeze flowing through the leaves. She looked around to see Taivas having also been catapulted through the windshield of the ship as it crashed. Although he didn't seem to be terribly damaged. Gummi ships were custom designed to protect their occupants, using various magics, it meant dying in a crash was practically impossible. Of course, Dotty didn't know this, nor did she much care. She looked at the damaged Gummi Ship in the tree. [color=6ecff6]"Ah."[/color] She sighed, before putting her fists on her hips [color=6ecff6]"Han, i think we're gonna need to call Churchill."[/color] Han looked at her and shook his head, before he began looking around, he sniffed the air.

[color=bc8dbf]"We're not alone..."[/color] He growled. He looked around. Dotty ran over to Taivas and gave him a few pokes to the back of the head as he got to his feet

[color=6ecff6]"Hey, H- Taivas. Poodlewolf says we're not alone."[/color] She parrotted.

He checked on Dotty for a moment to see if she was okay. And thankfully, she didn’t seem too badly hurt from the crash. And he was also thankful he didn’t go through the ship's windshield. [color=00aeef]“Are you okay?”[/color] He asked.

[color=6ecff6]"A-OK, boss!"[/color] She saluted back to him. As the pair got out of the ship. Taivas was glad to be finally on some solid ground. As he stepped out, he noticed they landed in some sort of clearing in a forest. But where exactly they were, he didn’t know. 

[color=00aeef]“Just stay close to me, there might be heartless around.”[/color] Summoning his keyblade while walking further into the forest. A gust of wind rushed past Taivas from behind. Dotty wasn’t paying terribly much attention, and Zen-Aku didn’t turn to see in time.

[color=bc8dbf]"Something is toying with us."[/color] Zen-Aku growled. As he looked around, he would see a trio of small lights in the tree’s above them. Jumping up high, he would see the 3 lights were, in fact, 3 fairies hiding above them. He perched on the branches for a second staring at them, before the 3 fairies looked back at him. [url=https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/kingdomhearts/images/6/64/Final_Fantasy_Girl.png]One had brown hair with a white and blue outfit. The second had blond hair and a yellow outfit. The last one seemed to be some kind of goth with black outfit and gray hair.[/url] The spirit and the fairies looked back and forth with each other for a few more seconds.

[color=fff79a]"GET HIM!!!"[/color] The yellow one yelled, before jumping at him with a flying-kick, but simply passed straight through him. Dotty looked up as she heard the tiny voice scream.

[color=6ecff6]"What was that?"[/color] She asked, seeing the 3 small lights.

[color=00aeef]“Tsk, I don’t know. But it’s probably nothing. Just some pesky flies…”[/color] Taivas grumbled while walking further into the forest.  He just assumed it was some sort of annoying spirit. If that were the case, then they could just continue walking. But he didn’t want to waste time trying to find his friends. He looked back at the three lights glaring at him, wondering if they were some kind of heartless. But they didn’t seem to make sense to him. Dotty looked up to contemplate putting the mask on. She knew Taivas could only hear half of what was going on up there. But if Taivas wasn’t worried, she shouldn’t be either.

[color=bc8dbf]"So, you can see me."[/color] Zen-Aku growled.

[color=fff79a]"Crud, he's a Spirit."[/color] The yellow one sighed.

[color=bc8dbf]"Who are you and why are you stalking us?"[/color] He growled at them. The grey haired one jumped in front of the Yellow one.

[color=gray]"We don't need to answer to some heartless."[/color] She grunted in response.

[color=fff79a]"Yeah and we'll never tell you a thing about Briar Rose!"[/color] The yellow one retorted, leaning past the grey one. The other two fairies immediately facepalmed.

As Taiva and Dotty moved further into the forest, leaving Zen-Aku behind to deal with the fairies, Taivas heard something or someone singing. [color=00aeef]“Hold on, do you hear that…singing?”[/color] He asked Dotty while looking around for the source of the singing. Dotty stood bolt upright and looked around, before getting down onto her hands and knee's and sniffing around. She then stood back up again, a little bit of dirt on the tip of her nose.

[color=6ecff6]"Stupid human nose doesn't work."[/color] She sighed [color=6ecff6]"But i think he's going that way."[/color] As the pair of them continued to walk, that sinking feeling of being watched quickly seemed to leave them. Quietly making their way into the bushes, they peaked their heads out to see a fairly tall, handsome man in a red hunting cloak dancing in the middle of the forest with his own cape, his horse tied up to a nearby tree watching with disinterest.

[color=ed1c24]"I don't know, Samson..."[/color] The man sighed as he stopped, hanging his cape up on a nearby branch, before walking towards the horse [color=ed1c24]"I feel like a man who has missed... Well, everything. Something tells me that i have to be right here, right now, something deep down in my heart. And that song... Why can't i get it out of my head?"[/color] He looked to see an owl had worked its way into his cloak, along with a pair of sparrows holding it. He smiled, before bowing to them. [color=ed1c24]"You know, my father really doesn't appreciate me speaking with strange girls."[/color] He laughed [color=ed1c24]"But we have met before, haven't we? [i]I know you, you walked with me once upon a dream!"[/i][/color] He began, putting his arm at the edge of the cloak and holding it around the waist with the other hand. [color=ed1c24][i]"I know you, that gleam in your eyes is so familiar a gleam."[/i][/color] As he did so, Dotty's nose suddenly poofed back into that of her puppy form. As the man danced, Taivas would suddenly see a set of fair, perfectly golden locks of hair descend through the branches of the tree, shortly followed by the head of a stunningly beautiful woman, her face seemed shocked, as if drawn hypnotically to the song.

[color=ed1c24][i]"Yet I know it's true that visions are seldom all they seem. But if I know you, I know what you'll do. You'll love me at once, The way you did once upon a dream"[/i][/color] As he continued to dance with the animals, the woman dropped down, she seemed to be dressed in some strange, [url=https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/finalfantasy/images/e/e5/Yuna_the_Thief.jpg]scantily clad outfit which covered her arms and upper torso well enough, but left her midrift and upper legs rather exposed.[/url] Dancing around, exactly behind him and keeping out of his way. As Taivas looked down at Dotty, she had now fully transformed into her puppy form as she seemed hypnotically drawn into the dance as well, As Philip sashayed, leaving the cape for a second, the Owl spotted the girl and left, leaving Dotty perfectly in place to jump straight into the cloak and take its place, with the sparrows now holding up the cape.

[color=ed1c24][i]"La-dum, la-dum, la-dum, ahh-ah-ahh-ah-aah..."[/i][/color] He sauntered around, his eyes closed, not seeing either the puppy now in the cloak, nor the woman who danced in front of him for a second, before darting behind another tree, before his eyes opened. He once again grabbed the cloak as a dance partner

[color=ed1c24][i]"But if I know you, I know what you'll do. You'll love me at once"[/i][/color] After a flash of light from behind the tree, the girl came out again, this time wearing [url=https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/finalfantasy/images/2/2e/Yuna_Songstress.jpg]A new, blue dress with frilly accents and skirt.[/url] Dancing up behind him, she began to also sing.

[i][color=gold]"the[/color] [color=ed1c24]way[/color] [color=gold]you[/color] [color=ed1c24]did[/color] [color=gold]once,[/color] [/i] The man immediately turned around, startled to see the girl, looking shocked. [color=gold][i]"Upon a dream!"[/i][/color] As she finished, Taivas managed to sneak in and grab Dotty, dragging her back into the brush before she turned back into her human form. As they got back to the bushes, Dotty looked slightly drunken.

[color=6ecff6]"Oh yes, my prince in shining armour, i will marry you!"[/color] She slurred out.

[color=gold]"I'm awfully sorry, I didn't mean to frighten you."[/color] The woman smiled. The man laughed to himself as he looked upon her stunning beauty.

[color=ed1c24]Oh, it wasn't that, it's just that you're, um... uh...[/color]

[color=gold]"A stranger?"[/color] She asked. He hummed in confirmation. [color=gold]"But don't you remember? We've met before."[/color]

[color=ed1c24]"We... We have?"[/color]

[color=gold]"Well, of course. You said so yourself, once upon a dream."[/color] She batted her long eyelashes at him. Meanwhile, in the brush, Taivas was holding onto the girl for dear grim life as she struggled and writhed, throwing fists each way, his hand clasped across her mouth.

[color=6ecff6]"MMLEMMEATMFFFUSSYFHESFHEALINGMFYMFAN!"[/color] She screamed in outrage through the hand.

[color=00aeef]“Shut up will you, you're gonna give our position away.”[/color] Taivas hissed and kept his hand on Dotty’s mouth. She was still spitting and fighting him, covering his hand in slobber. Watching the two people striking up a conversation with each other. He assumed the two of them had no associations with the heartless. But he still didn’t trust them.  There was some rustling near the two strangers when suddenly a few heartless jumped out of a nearby bush. 

Four were wearing armour and armed with swords and shields; others were dressed in wizard robes and wands. The knights started charging at the woman while the wizards floated behind them. A few of them were firing at the man with various elemental magic. Briar Rose switched to a black mage sphere. Starting to shoot fireballs at the heartless to help support Philip. Philip, meanwhile, was charging at the warrior heartless with his sword, which was now unsheathed.  He is focused on the warrior who is heartless while Briar is concentrated on the wizards. Philip’s sword clashed with the heartless. His battle with the warriors was causing him to jump and move around, similar to his previous dancing. The fireballs that Briar fired hit some of her targets, with some hitting the nearby trees, setting them on fire. Taivas was inclined to help them, but he stopped when he noticed a weapon hitting one of the heartless. 

A large shuriken hits a  few of the wizards, heartless. Someone comes out behind some trees, a man armed with a Halberd, cutting down a few more of the warriors, heartless. “Sorry for barging in; I just thought we’d lend a hand, " the man says with a smile. The shuriken comes back and is grabbed by a woman who appears beside the man. 

Taivas removed his hand from Dotty’s face to look at the picture inside his locket. The two newcomers seemed to match the two people in the picture. [color=00aeef]“It’s them.”[/color] He muttered before slowly coming out of the bush.

[color=6ecff6]"MY FUTURE HUSBAND IS IN DANGER!!!"[/color] Dotty yelled now that her mouth was free. Upon this outburst, several Heartless turned to them. A wizard heartless, shooting some lightning at them.

 “Hi, watch out.” The woman yelled out while the man jumped in to block the lightning. “You always did have your head in the clouds. It’s nice to see you again Taivas.” The man said, winking at Taivas. As they said this, Dotty raised an eyebrow in confusion and then looked up at Taivas

[color=6ecff6]"Han? Why do they know you’re Taivas?"[/color] She looked at the 2 new entrants. [color=6ecff6]"OHMIGOSHAREYOUTWOINVENTICUSANDCATPRINCESSOMIGOSHINEEDTOGETPOODLEWOLFHEDLOVETOGETTHEENTIREGANGBACKTOGETHERPOODLEWOLFISSUCHAGRUMPYSOURPUSSCANYOUTWOTELLMEWHATHESLIKEWHENHESACTUALLYHAVINGFUNBECAUSEILETHIMTAKEOVERMYBODYTOUSEWHENHEFIGHTSAND-!"[/color] The hand once again crossed across her mouth, despite it continuing to flap and try to continue her unbroken hyperactive tyrade.

[color=00aeef]“I think it’s….my friends.”[/color] Taivas said, feeling total awe at seeing his friends in person.

[color=6ecff6]”MPPHHS PHAT U MPHS TSUYUN!!!"[/color] Dotty replied through the hand over her mouth. Taivas could feel the man’s hand on his body pushing him down onto the floor. Blocking an incoming attack from one of the heartless. The woman threw her shuriken at one of the wizard heartless, making it dissipate.

“Come on, I thought you were some badass with your weapon. Let’s see if you still got the mojo." the man said, smiling before focusing on the other heartless. He charged at them, leaving Taivas alone. 

Taivas quickly realized he was in the middle of a fight and stood up, gripping harder on the handle of his keyblade. Focusing on the wizards since they would be quite a problem if left alone. Charging at the wizard heartless, moving in a zig-zag pattern, trying to avoid their attacks. Slicing down the few heartless that were in front of him. But he was so focused on them that he overlooked one of the wizard heartless throwing a fireball at him. The fireball hit him in the side, sending him tumbling onto the ground, shielding the pup with his body. But luckily, Taivas quickly recovered, rolling away from the heartless. The man swung his massive weapon at the armoured heartless coming towards him. The heartless was taken by surprise and dissipated in a puff of smoke. 

The woman followed suit and threw her shuriken to destroy two of the wizard heartless. “Easy as pie, " the woman said after catching her weapon. Taivas got back up on his feet, not wanting to feel useless to the two of them.  Throwing a shadowy black hole that seemed to suck in and destory the rest of the warrior heartless that were left. “A few more left, I got this.” The man said, but Taivas worked quickly to beat him to the punch. Running towards them to slice the warriors in half. The rest of the heartless was dealt with. And for now, they could rest before moving on. Taivas took a few deep breaths and was now worried there would be more heartless on the way. 

“Not bad Taivy. We knew this place was crawling with heartless. Just didn’t know it would be this bad.” The man said while the woman walked over to give Taivas a potion.

[color=6ecff6]”Phivy?"[/color] Dotty asked through the hand over her mouth, looking up at Taivas, immensely confused by these new people.

“You're always so reckless. Here, take this; it’ll help with the pain.” She said as Taivas chugged the contents of the healing potion. His wounds healed quickly, and the pain from before seemed to subside. 

[color=00aeef]“You two look familiar, are you…Adian and Xera?”[/color] He said, looking up at them. The man nodded with a smile.

[color=6ecff6]”Phur muh lapht tphim, itph Inphenphicis uny Caff Phrinfeff!"[/color] She gestured to the pair.

“Last time I checked, that was my name.” He looked over at Dotty, extending his hand for her to shake. “Nice to meet ya, kid. So, are you here to lock the keyhole of this world? Or are you just here to sightsee?” He let his arm slip to his side after shaking Dotty’s hand. Dotty looked down at the hand with awe, Poodlewolf was one of her favourites, but she also loved Inventicus.

[color=6ecff6]”OHMIPHOGOMIPHOGOMIPHOGYUGHWPHULGNCHBVILIEVEPHOWMU-"[/color] She continued rambling through Taivas’s hand over her mouth, his hand slowly getting more covered in the childs slobber.

[color=00aeef]“Yeah, something like that.[/color] He interrupted her, slinging her under one arm, her continuing to ramble as if nothing had changed. He suddenly stopped talking and stared at them for a moment, feeling something new. It was a feeling of hope and joy that he had finally found his friends. He gave them a big hug instantly, surprising Adian and Xera. “I thought I lost you guys…” He whispered to his two friends. Both of them were wrapping their arms in one big embrace. After a moment, Taivas let go, feeling kind of awkward. 

“It’s nice to see you again, Taivas. Come on, let’s go and find that keyhole.” Xera said with another warm smile. Taivas followed, wiping the slobber off.