Mariya lands in the Bamboo groove with Haku's girlfriend. They leave and go to the Palace. Once there, Haku greets them both. "I'd introduce you to, but you already met." Haku says with a laugh.

"Yea, Sayuri is an awsome girl. So whats the problem?"

"We think an Organization member somehow froze time in our world for a while. Infact, it was when Darren was here."

"Darren has been inprisoned for a couple days now." Mariya reports.

"Well we believe he was acting upon Darren's orders, but we cannot be sure." Haku says.

"So you want me to drive this Nobody out of The Land of Dragons?" Mariya asks. She sighs when Haku nods. "I'll take care of it then."

"Mulan and Shang are at the Village if you need help." Haku says.

Mariya smiles. "Thanks, but I think I can handle it."

Upon arriving at the Village, Mariya looks around. Shang and Mulan had been at the Encampment, but Haku probably hadn't known that. But she was sure it wouldn't be to hard driving out one Nobody. She heads to the Village cave, and carefully steps around the carts holding the cannons. Once inside Eternity appears. It raises and points to the center memorial. A beam of light shoots out, and the entire room lights up. After the light fades, Mariya falls to the ground unconsious, and her face turns pail. After a few mintues Eternity disapears.

After a few moments, footsteps are heard coming into the cave. Soon, a cloaked figure comes up behind her, and it is obviously Bleach. Silently, he looks at Mariya, Twilight Blade in hand, and without a word, he reaches down to grab Mariya.

In the bamboo grove, Mario pops out of a dark doorway, looking around before rushing toward the Encampment, turning into his Heartless form for more speed.

At the Encampment, Shang and Mulan are training a group of soiders. "Heartless!" Shang shouts, and the soilders turn and draw their weapons.

Mulan attacks Mario, swinging her sword at him.

Mario quickly dodges, running past them before suddenly skidding to a halt. "...Now wait...where exactly am I going?" he questions before looking back at the soliders, his Royal Knight medallion glistening in the light. "Hey, this is an emergency. I need to know where Mariya is. Her life could be in danger."

Mulan looks at Shang. "That must be the new Royal Knight Sora was talking about." Shang says.

Mulan nods. "Mariya went with Sayuri to the Palace to make sure she was safe. After that I sappose Haku would have sent her to the mountain to check out the village, strange things have been happening up there. I sujest you hurry, she went up there ten mintues ago."

Mario nods and rushes toward the mountain, suddenly leaping and then diving into a shadow puddle, flying across the ground as he speeds toward and up the mountain.

At the mountain pass, all is quiet. It seemed strange thought, shouldn't there be heartless roaming about? Had they senced Mariya's heart and gone after her? If so, Mario should get to the Village Cave, and fast.

Meanwhile in the Village Cave, ten Neoshadows apear, blocking Bleach's path to get out, but they ignore Bleach and go for Mariya.

Bleach suddenly drives his Twilight Blade into the ground, glaring at the Neoshadows as a giant barrier of twilight suddenly goes up around him and Mariya and cutting them off from the Neoshadows.

Mario, meanwhile, races through the mountain village and into the cave, and spying the Neoshadows, he draws both Shadow Blades and starts to slice his way through them.

The Neoshadows ignore Mario, attacking the barrier. If Mario noticed, Mariya's heart felt slightly weaker then it had before. Despite that, Mariya's heart seemed more important then battleing Mario.

---

Mariya wakes in the same strange area she had in Alageasia. "No...." Se whispers,, remebering that this was the spirit realm. "This is going to kill Axel."

"You're not dead Mariya." A familiar voice says.

Mariya looks over and gasps. "Riana's mother? Your.."

"The fire spirit..which I still find weird." Riana's mother says. "I'm here to inform you that your doing well with Eternity. You only have to seal one more keyhole before you can access all of Eternity's powers."

"But theres a cost isn't there?" Mariya asked.

Riana's mother sighs and nods. "You may have already noticed your heart is weaker then before, but it won't get to bad, after the next keyhole, it'll be like it never even weakend."

Mariya sighed. "Why me?"

"Because you have a pure heart Mariya." Riana's mother says before hugging Mariya. "Now, the next keyhole will be Alageasia. Eragon won't remember who you are, he'll just think your Nobility from far away."

"Will Arya remember?" Mariya asks.

Riana's mother nods. "Only because mostly she figured it out. but otherwise no one will remember. Good luck, and tell Riana and Sarah to be happy."

"Sarah is getting married. To Riku of all people" Mariya says.

"Oh I know, me and the other spirits are always watching. I'm glad she found happiness." Riana's mother says. She hugs Mariya tight. "Take care, Princess."

Mario only continues to strike at the Neoshadows, trying to keep them away from the barrier.

after stepping out of the door he rushes to find Mario, seeing him fighting a group of heartless he rushes in to the midst swinging his sword taking out a few of them before getting to Mario "miss me?" he says with a smirk. "Wheres Mariya?"

Mariya is simply sleeping now,- some color returning to her face- and outside the barrier, a bright light shines, destroying all of the Neoshadows.

Bleach, seeing that he is no longer needed, lowers the Barrier, then disappears, both Twilight Blades in hand.

Mario watches Bleach leave, but he is more concerned about Mariya.

Axel just stares silently confused before walking over to Mariya to make sure she is safe

Mariya stirs, and she stretches. She smiles weakly at Axel and Mario. "What? You two look like someone died." She says, trying to joke. She still looks pale though, so maybe she should be taken home to get checked out, just to be safe.

((Mario has just let me know he's on vacation. So I'll be controlling him til he gets back.))

Mario leans down and helps Mariya up. "Lets get you home."

Just then Shang runs in "Is she alright?" He asks.

"I'm fine, explain to Haku what happened, and to send my gummi ship back to Radiant Garden." Mariya says.

Shang nods and leaves. Mario smiles. "So I don't owe you a new Gummi Ship now?"

Mariya just rolls her eyes.

Mario summons up a portal, and helps Mariya threw it. Once again he leaves the portal open for Axel.
{Mariya & Mario to Radiant Garden.}

Axel walks through after them

{Axel to Radient gardens}