"Better hurry, Ventus..."

"Or you'll never see Terra again."

⠀⠀ A young armored boy flies forward on his keyblade glider with purpose. Those words linger in his mind like an ink stain. Despite not knowing much about this boy in a mask, he can't help but feel as though that his words foretell a future Ventus can't bear to live in. What will happen to Terra? What does he mean that he'll turn into a different person? Terra can't disappear forever, he's too important.

⠀⠀ Although the boy was focused on looking for a world to begin his search for the Earth warrior, he noticed a rather unusual sight. A girl floating in The Lanes Between. She wasn't wearing anything to protect her from the forces of the space amidst the varying worlds, but she seemed completely fine. She was upside down, legs bent with her knees together and a fair distance away from her torso. Her arms were crossed, making it seem as though she's frustrated with her predicament.

⠀⠀ Intrigued, Ventus slowed down and approached the girl with many questions in his head, that he's hoped get answered, but knows that only some of them would get answers. How is she fine wearing nothing in the space between worlds? How'd she get here? Who is she?

⠀⠀ Upon closer inspection, He saw that her long hair was brown. Her clothes were pretty peculiar, having skin-tight clothing. Her legs were covered from her feet all the way up to her upper thighs. They were white and faded into a grey as they reached lower to her feet. The top of these boot/stocking hybrid had a thick yellow trimming. Her arm warmers followed the same design, reaching up to her triceps. She seemed to be wearing a one-piece bathing suit that was mostly white, but also had a faint grey gradient to it, similar to her arm and leg pieces. Her ears were covered in headphones that had yellow screen on each phone. Her belt had two pieces of flexible plastic appendages that stemmed from each hip. They were yellow and opaque. There were two discs placed on top of the belt where the two plastic appendages hang from. Like the appendages they were yellow and opaque, but this seemed to be made of a more harder texture.

⠀⠀ The girl seemed to have noticed Ventus approaching her so she quickly turned her head to see what was approaching her, which prompted them both to gasp in shock.

⠀⠀ "Aw, cool! Where'd you get that?" The girl was the first to speak, clearly, she sees this as more casual than Ventus. In fact, he was so shocked at her casual attitude he forgot what he initially wanted to ask.

⠀⠀ "Um… It's my way of transport between the worlds." He hesitated in mustering up an answer, since he is aware of the world order and knows that it's important. However, since this girl is already out here, with the many worlds in plain sight, he hopes that this one exception would be fine.

⠀⠀ "Worlds? There's more than one world?" She unfolded her arms and placed her hands on her hip. Her legs are now straightened and put apart, making her slowly rotate up right.

⠀⠀ Ventus low-key hoped that she'd be aware that there's more than one world, she is out here and all, but he isn't entirely surprised that she didn't know. That is the whole point in the world order after all.

⠀⠀ "Yeah, there is. How'd you get out here?" He asked.

⠀⠀ At this point, she was up right, but was still somewhat rotating, "Well, there's this big evil douchebag that was doing something, and when I went out to go investigate, I got blasted out all the way over here."

⠀⠀ The boy found her response humorous, but since he didn't really know what was going on entirely, he just smiled softly under his helmet, "Wow, that must've been a pretty hard hit, how are you okay?"

⠀⠀ The girl put on a pretty cheeky expression, "Well, obviously that's 'cuz I'm not human."

⠀⠀ Oh… Ventus felt a little stupid that he didn't make that observation at first. It was obvious, a girl perfectly fine in space. With no protection whatsoever. That would explain things.

⠀⠀ "Oh… Right…" He laughs nervously. Ventus suddenly remembers about his mission to find Terra and the weight that he's on a time limit makes him want to dash out of here and into the first world he finds. But, he can't just leave this girl floating in the space between worlds. He knows that she didn't get here on her own merit, so he wants to help somehow. He smiles brightly after he makes the realization that he can take this girl back to her world and try to go look for Terra in the same time.

⠀⠀ "Hey, your world can't be too far away from here. I'll help you get back."

⠀⠀ "You will? Aw, thanks!" She lunges over and boldly hugs him. He lets out a 'whoa' under his breath and tries to regain balance on his keyblade glider. She quickly lets him go and looks around.

⠀⠀ "Uh, I don't really see it close by…" She puts her hand on her hips again and her legs are bent, this time her feet positioned behind her.

⠀⠀ "Then… Let's just go check out the world nearby here, it's bound to be yours."

⠀⠀ "Okay, man… You're the guy with the cool space hover board, so you can call the shots. Oh! I can't just let you do this for me and not do anything in return. What's something I can do to repay you?"

⠀⠀ "Oh, repay me? That won't be necessary, it's really no biggie, I swear."

⠀⠀ "Uh, helping me get back home is a pretty big deal to me! If you hadn't swung by, I'd just be stuck here in space!"

⠀⠀ "Huh, good point… Well, I'm looking for a guy. He's like way tall and is kind of dressed like me, well… I'll explain more once we land."

⠀⠀ "Ah, looking for someone, eh? Well… I'm kind of looking for someone too, in fact, I'm lookin' for several people."

⠀⠀ "Great, then we can look for the people we're looking for together."

⠀⠀ "Yeah… Sounds like a great idea to me. Well, it's basically the only option I got, so."

⠀⠀ Ventus lets out a laugh this time, her quirkiness is starting to grow on him.

⠀⠀ "Alright." She goes over and gets a good grip on the side of Ventus' keyblade glider, "Onward!"

⠀⠀ "Onward!" Ventus made his glider jet onward and the stars zipped passed them as the vague shape of a world is seen in the distance. At first, Ventus was pretty anxious about the seemingly doomed fate that was to befall Terra. However, the energy that was being emitted from this girl was pretty contagious and lifted his spirits from the heaviness of his current situation. Of course, he knew it was important, but having company in this quest made him feel better.

⠀⠀ "Hey, what's your name anyway? I'm Ventus, by the way, but you can call me Ven"

⠀⠀ "Lan Chia."