Erik puts Mario in his room before heading down to the Academy's cafeteria with Kiki.

Mario soon wakes up, stretching as he arouses from his slumber. "...Must have fell asleep," he mutters before getting off the bed and walking toward the cafeteria.

There are few Knights in the cafeteria, and they are all sitting together, laughing at something.

A black haired girl sits alone, picking at her food.

Mario notices the girl sitting alone. He is, as of yet, however, unsure if he should approach or not.

"Hey." One of the Knights whispers to another at the table. "Did you hear? It's rumored that Danni girl lost her parents a week after she started here."

"That's horrible. So she has no family?" A girl asks in a whisper.

"Apparently not. She wasn't even in the mess hall for parental visitation." The Knight says.

Mario is silent, overhearing this rumor from not too far away. In one sense, he could kinda relate. After all, he had lost his parents, but her case was reasonably harder. After all, he never actually knew his parents, and she had.

Danni doesn't seem to hear, still picking at her meal.

"I feel bad for her, but she blows off anyone who tries to be friends with her. It's like she's afraid to get close to anyone." The girl whispers.

Mario remains silent, now wieghing whether or not he should try to befriend her. He slowly tips more toward the earlier, but another part holds him back, mostly because he still doesn't know much about this Danni girl.

"I know, I think she needs a friend who can somewhat relate to her." The Knight says.

Another moment passes, and soon, Mario goes to the cafeteria line to pick up some food. He soon returns and stops across from Danni. "Is this seat taken?"

"No, go ahead." Danni says. She starts eating.

"Thanks," Mario says as he sits down, taking a bite and swallowing before continuing. "I don't believe we've met. I'm Mario."

"Dannielle." Danni says, looking at him with blue eyes. They looked sad.

Mario sees her sad, blue eyes, and it almost breaks his heart. However, he manages to continue. "It's a pleasure to meet you, Dannielle."

"Likewise, I guess." She says. She takes a bite of her food.

Mario is silent as he takes another bite, not sure what to say next. He wants to avoid any topic that could accidentally recall something unpleasant, and given that he knows little to begin with, he isn't even sure what that would include.

Danni says nothing either, and once she finishes hder meal she pulls out a book. Wiked Was written on the cover in emerald letters.

Mario notes the cover of the book, soon finishing his meal. "So you like to read?"

Danni nods. "Fantasy, Mystery and Historical Fiction are my favorites, but I like other genre's as well."

"I see," Mario says. "I suppose you go to the library often, then."

"When I can. Sometimes it's the only place to get some quiet." Danni says, smiling. Why did her smile seem familiar?

Mario feels the familar sense of the smile, a little reminded of... "I see," Mario responds. "I personally prefer mystery novels."

"Ahh so I guess you've read the Sherlock Holmes ones?" Danni asks.

"Some of them," Mario states. "The one involving Red-Haired League kinda stands out as one of my favorites."

Danni smiles again. She pulls out her phone, it vibrating in her hand. She sighs. "I gotta go." She says. "I'll seee you around I guess." Danni then gathers her things and leaves the cafeteria.

For the next three days, Danni was not to be found. But the morning of the third day, Mariya and Axel return from their honeymoon. Upon seeing Mario, Mariya doesn't seem surprised that Mario had returned to normal. She simply smiles at him before walking away down the hall.

Axel nods in Mario's direction before going to gather some of his things from his room and move them to Mariya's room

Mario watches the newly weds pass, seeming unsure how to react. Happy that they were now married? Apologetic for having caused so much devastation? Or would apathy be a better approach, as the feeling was understood?

((Don't forget the other topic, Axel.))

Mariya sighed, entering her room to clear stuff out, but she finds her old things are gone, along with the stuff she was planning on moving. She smirks. "Merlin." She says, shaking her head. She should have figured he'd know that Axel was moving into her room and what she'd been planning to move. She then ran down to the stables. Once there she goes to Sasha's stall. Sasha squaked at her and Mariya smiled. "I missed you to, Sasha. How are you doing?" She asked as she entered the stall.

Dr. Matera appeared, and entered herself. She smiled. "She'll lay her eggs any day now." She said, smiling.

Mario is soon walking through the castle, a bit bored. Ever since he had to start the road to Knightdom all over again but now without his powers, it has been pretty slow for him. However, for him, it wasn't entirely bad. After all, a day without fighting Heartless was a good day since it meant they weren't attacking.

Danni can be seen heading to the sparring grounds. She ties her hair back when she gets there and sighs, finding no one there. She sighs and sits on a bench. She fiddles with a locket ((The stone in the center changes colors)) thats around her neck.

---

Mariya sighs and kisses Sasha's beak before leaving Dr. Matera to check up on the chocobo. She smiles, seeing her father and hugs him.

"Welcome back." Sora says. "You two enjoy yourselves?"

Mariya nods. "Yeah, we even hit Destiny and visited Grandma and Grandpa."

Sora smiles. "That's good. We missed you. And PS Axel's crown is in your closet if you wanna pop it on him."

Mariya laughs. "Will do." She says, before letting him go and walking off.

Mario soon walks into the training room, hoping to find something entertaining. He then notices Danni. "Oh, hey, Danni."

"Hey." She says, letting her necklace go. "Wanna spar?" She asks.

"Hm, I suppose," Mario states. "Been a slow day, so it'd be fun to do."

"I wonder...." Danni says. "Common, lets check out the simulation program." Danni says before heading down to Ansem's lab.

---

Mariya is checking over the computer systems in Ansem's lab, but she stops to stare at her wedding ring, and she smiles. "Still hard to believe." She mur,urs.

"Alright," Mario states, following Danni. "So they've set up the simulation system then?"

Danni nods, and gets on the elevator, hitting the 'A' button and waiting as it went down.

Mario waits silently as the elevator descends. He rocks a little on his feet as he waits for it to descend.

Finally, the door opens and Danni gets out and Mariya truns twords them. Danni bows. "Your majesty." She says

Mariya sighs. "Do I seriously have to tell all the Knights again to just call me Mariya? What can I do for you two?"

"We wanna try out the simiulation program." Danni says.

"Alright, head down Danni, I wanna talk to Mario." Mariya says.

Danni nods and goes down to the simulation hanger.(What used to be the Heartless manufactury.)

"Your not in trouble." Mariya says. "I just wanted to ask how long you knew Xamira was my nobody."

Mario pauses, half-expecting this question. "...A while," Mario states. "I never said anything, though, because she asked me not to."

"I know...she said I knew why you didn't tell me...I probly would have never left the castle ever again in fear of becoming a heartless....no offence. But she mentioned in the letter that I'm to tough to be defeated by a heartless." She laughs. "She had a point there."

"Isn't that the truth?" Mario says with a small chuckle before he heads down to the simulator.

Mariya turns back to the screen, and starts running the simulation program. She turns on the rooms speakers. "Just remember if you ever wanna start just say 'End Simulation' and Tron will shut it off." She says. Danni nods. "So...you wanna name the conditions?" Danni asks.

"Hm..." Mario thinks for a moment before listing them. "Neoshadows, aggressive, in a dark environment...No weapons barred...And it's raining."

Mariya and Danni chuckle, and in a minute, the simulation activates.

Danni stands her guard, and when the Neoshadows appear, she attacks.

Mario immediately begins to attack as well, fending off the Neoshadows with the sword he has as the simulation continues.

Danni draws her guns, and shoots the Neoshadows, her hair hiding her face.

Mario finishes cleaving a Neoshadow in half, but before he can turn to take out the next one, more Neoshadows appear and pounce on him, causing him to let out a brief yelp as he is taken down, dropping his sword as they pile upon him. His arms flail from underneath the mass as it sinks into the ground.

"Mario!" Danni shouts. "End simulation!"

The simualtion turns white, and then disapears.

The simulation may be gone, but surprisingly, the dark mass engulfing Mario does not. These were real Neoshadows, and before a word can be said, they pull him into the darkness and disappear with him.

Having seen the Neoshadows, Mariya runs down, but was to late. She looks at Danni. "What happened?"

"I don't know, they just appeared...and when they tackled Mario I ended the simulation thinking he'd be okay if I did but.." Danni says. "We have to find where they took him."

Mariya nods, and soon, she gets a small search party, heading out soon after.

{Mariya, Danni and Axel to Alageasia}