Chapter 1: Ven's powers

Ven shivered, he was laying in his bed the sheets pulled around his waist, he was coughing. His body hurt, the mark appearing on his forehead. "Master Eraqus...Aqua...Terra..." He was trying to call out but his body wasn't letting him, he could barely breathe much less talk. He knew if this kept up he wouldn't be able to do anything. Ventus hissed, the mark flickered and glowed as the boy let out a pained scream. He opened his eyes, the color was gone from them, and there was the unversed symbol in his eyes. He was trying to fight but it wasn't working as well as he wanted it to. He heard the door opening and voices, but he couldn't hear them, they sounded so far away. Until there was someone by his bed. "Ven hang on!" Terra grabbed Ven's body as Aqua leaned down holding onto the other side of him. Master Eraqus had followed them along with a blonde haired woman who looked familiar to Ventus. "It hurts! Make it stop..." The boy thrashed the symbol flickered and formed back even stronger spreading down his face as if he was bleeding the black blood. "Hold him down! Don't let him move..."

Though the more they held him down, the more he thrashed. When he had seemed to wear himself out the symbol flickered and faded as he coughed. " Master is it over..." Terra was still holding Ven like he was afraid to let him go. "For now...Let him go...and clean off the blood then let him go back to sleep..." The blonde woman moved, and started to clean it off. "I'm so sorry Ven...this isn't your curse to bear..."When the boy was covered up again, she moved back to look at him. He seemed so pale, so weak even he was just a child who didn't deserve this kind of thing happening to him did he. "Why does this have to happen to him..." Aqua moved out of the room to leave Terra and Ven. Terra was curled up next to the younger male who seemed to just be getting colder. He was shivering or so it seemed. Ven's eyes just stared ahead of him, he was exhausted after what had happened. He hated it and wanted to get out of here already, just get this to end. But as he looked to Terra he knew they wouldn't be able to do anything.

"Terra why ..." He just felt a hand on his forehead and the words go to sleep little one. Ven's mind was confused, but as he closed his eyes he felt the sleep over take him. It wasn't like he could fight it for very long either. He had never tried for very long this had happened before. He could remember the first time it had happened.~Flashback/Ven's dream~Ven was playing out in the garden, gathering flowers and waiting for Terra and Aqua to get back from there keyblade master training. "Pick pretty flowers to show Aqua~" He laughed and wanted to find out what was taking them so long. He coughed, and put his hand to his mouth, pulling it back he saw black blood, or at least it smelled like blood. "Terra...Aqua...Master..." He cried out, what looked like shadows forming around him, that unversed symbol had appeared in his eye and on the ground around him. He could feel rough arms, and then a soft touch, when he had awoken he was laying on his bed. The others were around him, he could feel someone shaking him.

"Ven it's time to get up..." ~End of Flashback/dream~Ven looked to Aqua, and Terra, the older male was fast asleep next to Ventus. "Did he stay in here all night?" Ven hadn't exactly registered that Terra was there, but he remembered the warmth he had felt. "Yea let him sleep Ven...Master Eraqus wanted to see you..." Ven nodded and pulled his shirt back on before walking to the door. "What happened yesterday Aqua...my head still hurts..." He put his hand on his forehead it was sore, but he wasn't bleeding, nothing was wrong at all, and that was just the way it was. "Don't worry about it Ventus...Let's just go see the Master...He'll explain it to you..."Ventus went quiet he felt like everyone was hiding things from him, and he hated it. He didn't like anyone ever doing that to him, and it was the way it was. "Master Eraqus? I brought Ven for you...He wants to know about well you know.." He didn't know if it was going to really do anything, but Ventus sat down on the chair next to Master Eraqus. He wondered what he was going to do, there had to be a good reason for this. "What happened? Why won't you tell me?" He did very much want to know what was wrong with him, and why this was happening, Vanitas was long gone or so he remembered.

He remembered ending him but how had he survived. It was all so confusing to him."Ven even we do not understand...one day maybe it will tell you...dont' think too much on it..." He stood up and grabbed a box, pulling something out. "Here this will help you through the attacks if we arent' there...It will get you through it, maybe even stop it..." He wondered if Ven would take it and believe yes they hadn't tested it, but it was supposed to work. "Fine I'll take it but one day you should tell me...I can't keep guessing..." He got up and walked out of the room, ignoring Aqua and Master Eraqus. "What's up with him? What did you tell him...?" she didn't like thinking that Master Eraqus told him something he shouldn't have. It would have been smarter if he had been quiet like he was supposed to."I told him nothing...other then he will find out in due time..." There was nothing else he would have, or could have been able to say.

It was just better if he didn't, nothing would have been able to go that way. "He will want to know more of course...but for now don't let him know...dont' tell him...It's better this way..." Aqua nodded though she was not pleased about this, who could blame her though. She wanted Ventus to know what was going on with him, but he was not going to find out any time soon, unless he started looking for himself. That was part of the task that had been set up for him would be a lot better for him now, if he was smart about things and did things the right way. She looked out the window to see Ventus, he was leaning against the wall, after all he was tired and probably wanted to learn something. There was so much that he needed to know but there was no way to tell him anything that would have made any sense to any of them now. "Why won't he tell me..." Ventus sighed, and looked up at the sky, trying to focus. He was not that bad anymore, though that thing he had been given was clutched in his hand. He wanted to know about it, and about all of this. There was no way that he would be able to get away from it. "I just want to know..."

He heard someone walking close to him, as he turned around the wooden keyblade clutched in his hand. "Terra! did you have to scare me like really..."Ventus sighed, and tried to ignore what Terra just did as much as he was annoyed with him, and wanted him to not do it again."Sorry Ven you just seemed so tense..." Again Ven just sighed, knowing Terra was just trying to lighten the mood, he did that from time to time. Not that Ventus would be able to say much if he did the same thing maybe it would be different. He wasn't sure about that after all, he never did that. He would just ignore it, and hope that it go better. "Terra do you think I'll figure out what was happening to me back there?" He wanted to know if Terra thought he would, and what Terra would do. Would he help him after all, he really wanted someone to help him, as he had for awhile. "Of course you will Ven...for now just don't push it too much...when it comes to you it does...and it will..." He didn't know if this was what he wanted to have anything to do with, they had to work with it.

At the time there was only so many things that could be curled up and leaned against Terra, he was tired, exhausted even and as he held onto his friend. He wondered what he was supposed to do. Not that it was going to be that much of a help, he was just dealing with some things. He knew he had to get over this before it got worse, before he did lose his mind. "I'm sorry Terra...let's go back to the others now..." He moved to get up walking with Terra back towards the place. He knew they were getting through all of this, after all that had been done to them. "Ven you will be alright it's just a matter of time...don't push yourself as I said before..." Ven nodded, and looked back at the house as they had a feeling he was missing something again, but he moved straight towards his room sitting down on the bed. "I will find out...but now it's time to rest..." He yawned and felt the sleep over take him again he hadn't meant to go to sleep. No he had meant to go back and find Terra, but he was just way to tired this one is done was getting really tired while writing this so it's not as long as the others. will continue this one later, probably tomorrow anyway.