If more people joined, the numbers might be more of a problem than an advantage. They made quite the crowd already.

Xion smiled back at Jack and then hurried to follow him and Emizel. "We should be able to just go straight through the woods to the mansion gate."

She summoned her keyblade, though. Heartless had sometimes liked to hide in the woods; Nightmares probably weren't much different. This meant she had to put Manda down, but the Toximander didn't seem to mind joining Barley on the ground. It would be easier to help her person this way, after all. What was Val thinking, just lazing around like that?