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// Chapter 4 Name of the lost friend... 
// Story: The Mane Seven Adventures of Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories 
// by RedSoarDash 
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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.