Aqua

I've had to live all those years, knowing I'd failed. Here I don't seem to age, I just continue on in this Realm of Darkness, remembering. I've no idea how long I've been here, but it seems like forever. I made a promise though, and that means I've got to go back some day.

Master Xehanort didn't win. But we lost more than he did. Even though I hope, I don't know if Ven ever will wake up. He's safe though. He's hidden in a Room of Awakening, and there no one will be able to find him. At least I know he's safe, but Terra…

Seeing Terra like that was one of the hardest things I've ever had to face. In fact I would rather face all the Unversed I have ever fought than see him like that again. For half a second I thought I could see him in there. He was frightened, and hated himself for allowing himself to be so easily taken in. His memory was slipping away and he was panicking, but I knew what had happened. He wasn't just Terra anymore. There was something else inside him: something evil. Maybe if he was just Terra I could have coped with that. I tried to liberate him but that I couldn't even manage. There was something other Terra I knew in him at the end though. It was almost as though he had tried to fight against his own actions, and something was left in there, deep inside, that stopped him from destroying me. That was why I couldn't let him fall into the darkness. He was still Terra, no matter what.

I couldn't do as he asked. When I took Ven back to the Land of Departure and turned it into my Castle of Oblivion I heard his voice somehow, wanting me to destroy him. I didn't know what he meant at the time and I ran blindly after him. I was afraid. We had been separated at the Keyblade Graveyard and something in my heart was hurting as though something terrible had happened, but I am not one to give up. I needed to find him. I wasn't going to leave him anywhere. I loved him. That's why it hurt so much. I loved him, and even though I'll never give up hope that I'll see him again someday, thinking of what happened to him has been eating away at me all this time. I couldn't do it, even when I saw what he had become I couldn't destroy him. I believed I could get him back, but I wasn't strong enough for that, even if I did beat him…

He still fell.

I dived after him too. I had to save him. I wasn't leaving him behind this time. I would make sure he would be safe. The Darkness felt compressing. He was the only thing I could see and at no consideration to my own safety I vowed to get him out of there. The initial plan was to get both of us out, but that wasn't going to happen, I noticed.

But if only one of us was going to go, then there was no question about it.

It had to be Terra.

I gave him my keyblade and sent it out of the darkness with him. I hope that he lives well until I can find him again. I may not have been able to do what he asked: destroy him (although I don't think I could have given up on him either way. I worry about him, even if I try to be an optimist). But I still could give him a second chance.

I love you, Terra.

I've been here a long time now: too long, but I'm never going to give up. The Boy with the Keyblade, he can fix these pieces and maybe some day I'll see Terra again, as he should be (not as he was the last time I saw him).

And Ven will wake up.

"Sora…"