Summary: On Christmas Eve, Kairi receives a Nutcracker from her godfather Von Drake and one crazy night.

A/N: Okay, so here we are! The third chapter and it's only the second day! And allow me to apologize; I resubmitted the second chapter because I forgot to add something. Another thing, I'm also thinking about submitting the epilogue on New Year's Eve or New Year's Day, depends if you want to read it then or just before Christmas. Anyway, let's get to disclaimin' and get this show on the road!

Disclaimer: I own neither the Nutcracker nor Kingdom Hearts. Each belongs to their respective owners, so don't sue me.

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Kingdom Hearts in the Nutcracker

Chapter III: Through the Mouse Hole and Onward

The minute they walked through the mouse hole, they were led into a dark tunnel. Needless to say, the tunnel was not only dark, but it was slimy, dirty, and rough. Poor Kairi, unfortunately, tripped, and tripped again upon attempting to get up. Most of the group, including Roxas (she would get him back for that), was moving ahead of her, except for Sora. "Need help?" He offered Kairi a hand (wooden, she knew), and as Kairi took it, Sora helped her up. Now, not only was she scratched up, but also she was slimy, dirty, and bruised to boot. But, Kairi didn't seem to mind. Sora and Kairi stood there for a moment, hand in hand, looking each other in the eyes. She noticed something; Sora's hand wasn't cold at all. It was as warm as flesh. The one named Riku looked back, and shouted, "Sora! Come on! We need to find Mortimer as soon as possible!" Sora nodded and said, "We're coming!" Sora took a few steps, and then let go of Kairi's hand. Kairi followed after, eagerly and with a spring in her step.

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"YOU WHAT!?" Mortimer was standing in front of a plump man, with grey skin, and balding grey hair, wearing dark purple robes and black armor. Said man was sitting on a stone grey throne, in a dark room covered in thorns. "Emperor Eisner, I honestly didn't expect for that girl to come in, or her brother!" Mortimer was nervous, to say the least. "You forgot about the Nutcracker to deal with a little girl!? How stupid can you get? You're lucky I even let you lived! You could be stone, like the rest of the toons, like your cousin's beloved, Minnie Mouse!" Mortimer frowned. "I know sire, I'm grateful for the opportunity you have given me but-" "Then get rid of that Nutcracker and his lackeys!" Mortimer nodded. "Yes sire…" Mortimer walked through two large eerie doors, mumbling to himself. He kept walking, until he reached a courtyard. "Loyal servants! Hear me! Bring back the Nutcracker, dead! Do not hesitate to petrify any who defy you! Or I shall kill you myself!" A large army of Heartless of all kinds appeared, and all raised a claw. They disappeared into their own portals, seeming to be determined to finish their mission. Mortimer looked back inside, muttering to himself. "I'll take care of that girl myself…"

The group had approached the end of the tunnel, although now a bit slimy and dirty. When they had stepped out of the tunnel and into a snow-draped forest, Riku was unpleased. "See? THIS is why I HATE dark tunnels, Nise." Nisemono snorted at his brother. "Pfft, yeah right. Your just scared of the dark." Riku glared at his brother. "Ain't!" "Are!" "Ain't!" "Are!" "Ain't!" "Ain't." "ARE-CHEATER!" Riku and Nisemono were snarling at each other, when Sora intervened. "Okay, let's NOT kill each other before we're even half-way down, okay? Okay." Nisemono and Riku stepped off, away from each other, still glaring. Suddenly, from somewhere in the forest there was a shout. "EITHER YOU LET ME GO OR I'LL TURN YOU INTO A WEED!" Kairi blinked, and started walking. "Kai, what in the heck are you doing?" Roxas asked, rather peeved that Kairi was getting him, of all people, into so much trouble. Kairi stop walking, and looked at Roxas. "It's apparent someone needs our help." "Kairi, you are crazy. Hear me? INSANE." Roxas was frowning, and the rest were hesitant. Sora, however, followed. "She's right. Come on, whoever it is might be able to help us, anyway."

"Selphie, please calm down! In your current state, you can't even turn…it, into one." A small fairy with blonde hair, blue eyes, snowy complexion, and a silvery blue ballet dress with a tutu like a snowflake was in a cage, trying to calm down her friend. Selphie, a small fairy with 50s styled brown hair, green eyes, sun kissed skin, and a ballet dress with a brown leotard and sunflower shaped tutu, was frowning, being carried by her leaf-like wings. "Donald, I blame this on you! If you hadn't lost track of the king in the first place, we wouldn't be in this situation!" Donald, a duck apparently, squacked incoherently, while his friend, Goofy, a doglike person, frowned. The two were tied up, back and back. "Can't you fairies every shut up?" A large, fat, cat like person, spoke. He was the one carrying Selphie by the wings. "I have EVERY right to talk, Pete! You betrayed the toons, and you're carrying me by my wings, which are most certainly crinkled by now! SO YOU SHUT UP! Namine, keep outta this!" Namine, the snow like fairy, sighed. "And off she goes…"

Meanwhile, the ragtag group looked on, seeing the angry fairy. Mickey looked angry. "It's that mean old Pete up to his tricks again!" Sora tried calming Mickey down. "Don't worry, we'll take care of him!" Mickey nodded, while Nisemono and Riku sneaked towards a closer tree. "Alright, Nise, you know what to do, right? We have to be-" "PICK ON SOMEONE YOUR OWN SIZE, PETE!" "Quiet." Riku frowned as Nisemono charged into plain view, taking his weapon, a dragon wing shaped sword, out, and wielding it above his head, ready to strike. "Oh ho ho, it's that boy's brother, Nisemono! Where's your brother, huh?" Riku had snuck behind Pete, and had his weapon out as well, holding it above his head in a similar style. They both had the same weapon, but Riku's was slightly different; there was a small angel wing curving out of one of the skeletal lines of the wing. "Right here, Pete." Pete dropped Selphie, and backed towards the side, as Nisemono and Riku ganged up on him. Selphie stood up, and dusted snow off of her. "Hey! Hey, listen! Pete's got the key for my friend's cage!" She shouted, while pointing at Namine, sitting in the cage. "Selphie, I think they'd figure that out." Selphie frowned, and stuck her tongue out at Namine. "Shush you." Selphie distracted Riku, when Pete called out Heartless. "Get them!" Riku and Nisemono focused on attacking the Heartless next, while Pete made an attempt to escape, but not with success. Mickey and Sora caught him. "Oh no you don't!" Both took out their key-like weapons, which, as far as Roxas recalled, were called Keyblades. "Hey! This just isn't fair!" Sora glared (as much as a Nutcracker could, anyway) at Pete, along with Mickey. "It wasn't fair for you OR Mortimer to betray the toons to join with Eisner, either! Even Maleficent, who killed Walt Disney, refused to join with him!"() Mickey said, rather upset. Pete looked back at Mickey. "Hey, when it comes to Eisner it's every toon for themselves!" Sora shook his head. "It's all for one and one for all, Pete! And if you're going to help Eisner, you suffer the same fate as him!" Sora attacked Pete, although his movements were stiff, and not as smooth as Mickey's. Kairi was panicking, so did what she thought was a good idea; she scooped Selphie up, and tried her best to get to Namine's cage.

"Hey! What'd'ya think yer doing?" Kairi was stepping side to side, trying her best to avoid attacking Heartless. "I'm helping you, that's wha-!" Kairi was tackled by a Heartless, which she was trying to kick off. "Get off of me, dang it!" Axel sent a flaming chakram at Kairi's attacker. Hehe. FLAMING. Kairi got up, still holding Selphie. "Thanks, Axel." Kairi gave a quick little bow of the head, and looked at Roxas shouting profanities. "DAMN STUPID LITTLE-Gah!" Kairi laughed nervously and tilted her head. "Maybe you should…" Axel nodded. "Already on it!" Axel jumped over to where Roxas was, and attacked the Heartless, and unfortunately (for Namine) melting snow. "Okay, so HOW exactly can I get to your friend…" "Namine. And you'll have to avoid the Heartless." Selphie nodded. "…That's kinda obvious." Kairi smiled unsurely. "Yeah! Go for the obvious! See, they expect you to be all sneaky, so when you aren't, they're caught completely off-guard!" Kairi sighed, and nodded. "If you say so…" Kairi took a deep breath, and ran into the small group of Heartless.

Sora was attacking Pete with his Keyblade, while Pete used a shield to block the attacks. "Can't we talk this out?" "No!" Sora attacked again, and so Pete blocked. Meanwhile, Mickey was busy untying Goofy and Donald. Donald was happy to see Mickey. "Your Highness, you're okay!" Donald said, in his odd voice. Mickey laughed, and replied, "I'm fine! Although Minnie sure isn't, and neither is Daisy." Donald frowned at that, but Goofy smiled optimistically. "Gawrsh, don't worry you two! I'm sure we'll find them!" Mickey nodded, and Goofy and Donald were finally free of their ropes. Donald looked at Pete, and squawked angrily. "You no good-!" "Gawrsh Donald, calm down! I'm sure Sora will take care of Pete!" And Sora did. He had tripped Pete, and the keys fell out of Pete's pocket. "H-hey! Why don't you watch your girlfriend, huh?" Sora looked at Kairi, who was held captive by several Heartless. "I'm okay! Really!" Kairi laughed nervously. Sora had looked towards Kairi, and then towards Pete. He looked towards Kairi again, and something in his eyes sparked. Sora ran towards Kairi and attacked the Heartless. Pete, however, was running off.

"See you later, suckers!" Pete laughed, and escaped through a portal. When Sora was done and finished, Kairi had more scratches. Joy. She shook it off. "You didn't have to do that. You could have just got rid of that…thing, first," Kairi said, looking up at Sora. "I know. And you didn't have to save me back there. But you did." Kairi sighed, and smiled. Namine hit against the cage. "A little help please?" Nisemono nodded, and took the keys that had fell out of Pete's pocket. He walked over to Namine's cage, and opened the door, while Selphie walked over to Riku, climbing up his pant leg. "Hey!" Selphie kicked him at his objection. "Shush you!" Namine flew out of the cage, and around Nisemono, stopping when she got in front of him. She gave Nisemono a curtsy mid-air. "Thank you very much for saving me." Nisemono smiled a bit. "No problem." Shang crossed his arms and frowned. "Great, great, everyone's just fine! Except one thing; Pete's gotten away, we haven't seen Mortimer at all, and for all we know Eisner's killed the toons that are stone already." Aladdin, Abu, Phoebus, Beast, Riku, and Nisemono nodded in agreement, while Mickey crossed his arms. "Well, if he's after us, he wouldn't get ridda them, would he? He'd use them to lure us to the palace, right fellas?" Axel, Kairi, Roxas, and, in a way, Sora nodded. Kairi put her hands on her hips.

"So, wouldn't he expect you coming then? If that Mortimer fellow is there, then they've already planned what to do when we get there, right? So…" Kairi looked around unsure. Goofy sighed. "Gawrsh fellas, she's right. So what should we do?" Sora looked around. "We'll think of it as we go!" Kairi snickered a bit, while Axel looked unsure. "Think of it as we go? Are you so sure about that?" Sora gave a confident tilt of the head. "Positive! We've gotten this far, haven't we?" Donald looked unpleased. "Not with this many people!" The group sighed, while Roxas spoke up. "Well, maybe we could split up. That way, even if a few of us end up captured, not all of us will. Would that work?" Mickey nodded, while Kairi smiled slyly at Roxas. "Finally decided to work along with this?" Roxas sighed. "The way I see it, this is all some dream, that the mushrooms were contaminated, and when I wake up, none of this will have happened and I won't be covered everywhere in an mile of goop." Kairi sighed.

"Nisemono, the two fairies, and I will go in one group," Riku said. Selphie, who had reached Riku's shoulder and was now sitting on a shoulder tassel said, "Hey! We have names!" Riku sighed, and rolled his eyes. "What are they then?" Selphie straightened herself out proudly. "My name's Selphie, one of the head resident fairies to the King of the Flowers, Lord Marluxia." Namine was rather quiet. "My name's Namine…" Selphie added to her sentence. "And she's the Ice King's Grand Vizier." Namine nodded, rather meekly. Needless to say, she wasn't as outgoing as Selphie was. Shang spoke up. "Aladdin, Phoebus, Beast, Phillip and I will stay in a group as well." Mickey spoke up. "Donald, Goofy, and I will work together, too." Axel smirked, and hung a lanky arm around Roxas' shoulders, and said, "So those two lovebirds can work together-," he gestured towards Sora and Kairi. "-which just leaves you and me, little buddy!" Roxas frowned. "Joy." And so, each group went their separate ways.

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A/N: Ah yes, the third chapter. And it ended up being longer than the first. And only about one thing. Shame, isn't it? But still. Anyway, I feel bad. I'm totally rejecting Phillip. But he gets too much credit anyway. Not as much as Shang. SO ANYWAY. Who can guess the pairings? (Besides the obvious ones.)

() I heard once that Walt Disney died during the production of Sleeping Beauty. So, basically it was either Phillip or Maleficent. If I put Phillip, you'd all kill me. SO LET'S KEEP BLAMIN' STUFF ON THE MISUNDERSTOOD FAIRY, WHY DON'T WE.