Torn Between Them

by: Jay (Fluteprince)

Rating: M for later chapters(language, drugs and or achol refrences, lemon, etc.)

Pairings: VanitasXVentus, VentusXTerra, and others.

Chapter 1: What was that thing!

Terra and Aqua. They weren't exactly popular, or interesting. In all honesty, they tried to fly under the radar. But, if you asked anyone at Radiant Garden Academy, they would know about them. But, no one really paid them any attention- except me.

They seemed to give off this energy that was like a drug to me. It was like I was obessed with the two. Almost to the point I'd secretly follow them around at school. From what I could gather, the two lived together, but only as friends. They were practically insepperable, though. And I could never get tired of them.

One time, I'd even dropped my pencil, and Terra had picked it up for me and handed it too, without saying a wor. I admit that I like him, but that was besides the point. He and Aqua were like heroes to me for unknown reasons and I couldn't get enough of the two. But, little did I know, today, I'd be seeing them a lot more...

"Ventus!" Roxas tried to snap me out of my thoughts, which had everything to do with Aqua and Terra. Roxas was my iddentical twin brother, but there were subtle ways to tell us apart. Like, my voice was deeper. And he wore brighter clothes. I was slightly taller, and he was a little tanner than me. And I had a whiter smile.

We were standing by our lockers and since we had the same last name- Gemelli- we had lockers right next to eachother. Now, I could see hwere our difference came in. We could choose from three school uniform colors- light blue, black, or tan. I wore the tan vest with a white undershirt and tan khaki pants with brown shoes. Roxas wore the black vest with a white undershirt and black pants and shoes. Both of us had the the Academy's crest over our left breast.

"What?" I asked.

"Did you get the Social Studies assignment done?" He asked smiling.

"You'd know that if you didn't leave every night and didn't come home until midnight." It started almost as soon as we moved here in September, but it was now April and it kept continuing, night after night. But, somehow he still had time for homework.

"I know, but I was just asking. Mom told me too, she thought you looked a little distracted last night." He smiled again, his deep blue eyes rivaled my light blue ones.

"I got it done." I said, ignoring the fact that my mom thinks I was "distracted" which was her way of calling me stupid. "So, what do you do every night, Roxas?"

"It's confidential. Confiding in you would mean not only expolsion, but as well as-"

"Imprisionment. I know, I know. You tell me the same thing every time I ask." I muttered. I decided to drop it and go to my next class- math- which was my personal favorite because Aqua sits to my right and Terra sits in front of me. I quickly took my seat, and waited.

It wasn't long before Aqua sat beside me and a moment later Terra took his seat. That's kinda when I went into my "pretend to listen to the teacher, but really stare at Terra and Aqua mode." I did this every day and in every class I had with them.

"Good morning sophmores, today we will be taking the pronoun exam. Please get out a sheet of paper and your pen or pencil." My language teacher, Mr. Marluxia told us before he started handing out the test packets.

"Can I borrow a pencil?" A voice in front of me asked. I was stunned, looking up from my desk to see Terra turned for me. I nodded my head slowly and accidentally handed him my calculator without realizing it.

"This would be nice if we were doing math," Tera laughed and smiled before continuing, "But, I asked for a pencil." This time, I took back the calculator and gave him a pencil from my binder.

"Thanks, dude."

"N-n-no problem, Terra." I smiled dreamily as he turned around. Beside me I heard Aqua snicker. But, when Mr. Marluxia handed me my test, I started to focus on that. I didn't know why my mother thought I was stupid, I was a B-Average student. Maybe because Roxas's grades were always better than mine.

I finished the test with a lot of time to spare, so I basically just sat there until the bell rang, signaling it was time for lunch. I quickly got my tray and sat down at a table with Roxas. I was scary every time I saw him, knowing that I looked exactly like someone else. You'd think I'd get used to it, but I never had.

His hair was a sandy blonde, a little darker than mine and was spiked in all the same places. We just liked the way it looked, I guess. I was also scary to see he'd gotten the exact same lunch as me- a hamburger, some fries, a little piece of cake, and white milk- without even knowing. I swear, sometimes it was like he performed actions that I was just thinking about.

"Hey," He smiled as I picked up a french fry and dipped it in ketchup.

"Hey."

"How was the lanuage test? It was brutual for me."

"I thought it was easy."

"That's why your the creative one." He laughed, opening his milk.

"She's crazy if she thinks I'll date her." A voice sighed, as the owner sat down at our table. The boy was tall with brown hair, spiked the same way as Roxas and I's, and deep blue eyes like my brothers. He had tan skin and pale lips, dressed in the tan uniform like me. Sora.

"Kairi?" I asked my best friend.

"Yes! It's like she's stalking me or something!" He shook his head as he took a sip of his milk. Roxas and I laughed.

"It would not surprise me, dude." Roxas said. "She always stares at you with this look- like she wants yo rape you or something."

"I know! Ugh!" Sora shouted as he spilled his milk all down his shirt. "Roxas, Ventus, do either of you have a different vest?"

"I do," Roxas said. "Let's go get it." And with that the two boys left, leaving me alone at my table. And that's when I noticed Terra and Aqua, sneaking toward the doors that lead outside. Before they exited, they were each enveloped by a whitish-bluish light, that changed their uniforms into something else, but I couldn't see becaus ethey exited so quickly.

What was that? Their clothes just changed like magic! Where are they going? Should I follow them? So many thoughts coursed through my mind, causing me to panic silently. Eventually, I decided to follow them before they got away.

I snuck out of the school, which wasn't as hard as I thought. But, when I got outside, I couldn't find them. I looked down, ready to give up, but I noticed footsteps along with strange animal tracks. I followed teh tracks and eventually caught a glimpse of the two.

I was right, their outfits had changed. Unstead of his school uniform, he was now were a black shirt with a giant red X on the back and front of his shirt. He wore normal brown shoes, but he wore tight tanish pants, but they were covered by a cape-skit thing that started at his waist, but had a long slit in the front. And on his shoulder was weird metal armor plate that ran down his arm. His hair was normal- brown hair hung to his chin on both sides of his heads, but toward the top, it was pulled back and spiked a little.

Aqua was different as well. Instead of her blue undershirt, vest, tie, and the skirt she usually wore, was something entirely different. She was wearing a black short sleeved shirt like Terra's, but she had a pink X that only was on the front and only crossed on her chest. She wore black short-shorts and staerting at her knees were black tights followed by white and black shoes. Starting halfway from her shoulders and elbows were white sleeves. Her light blue hair was perfect as usual, though.

But, in front of the two was a strange creature. It was like a man, except at least twenty feet tall. He had long hair like snakes and his mouth was covered by a cloth and his eyes were a pitch black color, that masked his whole body. He even seemed to have darkness seep out of his body.

"Told you there was a Darkside here Aqua!" Terra shouted at the girl.

"I should've listened to you," she replied. Then, they did something insane. It was bright light that surround their right hands, and when it dissolved, in their hands was a strange weapon that was different for each. Terra's was a long weapon. Toward the end, were to blue arks that connected to the bottom on either side, forming a handle. The other part was a long brass pole that started slim, but grew wider toward the top. Also, toward the top, three bars- each different lenghs- sprouted from both sides.

Aqua's weapon, on the other hand didn't give off the same appearence as Terra's thick one. Her's took a thin and light approach. Her's was long as well, but instead of blue arks, it was just regalur steel that seemed to make a misshapen oval around the handle. above the handle cover was two diamond shaped holes that turned into the long shaft of the weapon. That shaft was a dark blue metal, and at the end, it formed a large square with an outward point in the middle of it. On the top-outward part of the square was a backwards "L" which formed a tiny square. In the bottom-outward edge was a regualr "L" which also made a tiny square. And at the point was a inward facing "V" which made a small diamond.

Both weapons were different, but they gave off the same energy- a powerful light, that balances the world. Then, the two jumped at the creature and they jumped higher than an capable human being. They were at the least high of the creature's- the Darkside's- chest. They started slashing at the creature with their weapons before landing gently on the ground.

They started to run back my way, but to avoid being seen, I hid behind a tree that was conviently there. While Terra ran my way, Aqua turned back and stabbed the monster in it's foot. It howled and tried to make a desperate grab for Aqua, but ended up having it's hand cut by her blace. While she stood there feeling triumpant, she didn't see the monster's other hand coming at her.

Lucky for her, Terra had lighting fast reflexes and was in front of Aqua, blocking the Darkside's hand with his balde before I could even blink. Terra pushed the hand back and jumped again, this time, trying to stab the creature in it's chest. The blade pierced the creature, but it did little to faze it. When Terra landed on the ground, the blade dissolved and reappeared in Terra's hand.

Aqua was about to stab the monster in it's foot again, but the monster had grown wise. It smack her with the back of it's gigantic hand, and slammed her into a tree. She crumpled over, her face bleeding slighly from the cheek. She wasn't dead, nor was she knocked out, she just was unable to move.

"Aqua!" Terra screamed, rushing toward her. The moster held out his hand and a volley of black orbs flew out, heading toward Terra. The first few he dodged easily, but the final one, struck in front of him and the ground shifted which caused the boy to fall backwards. I felt panic at first, and then a feeling of power, a feeling that I needed to keep the balance, washed over me.

The Darkside raised it's massive fist, and slammed down hard-

But before it could even make contact, I was there, a strange weapon of my own in my hands, blocking the monster from hurting Terra. I pushed it's hand back with a great force, then jumped into the air, so high I stabbed the creature clear through the head. I landed lightly on the ground a moment later. Then, the monster fell to it's knees, then started to fall forward, but it just dissolved into darkness, leaving the three of us alone.

"Ventus." He said as he got up, rubbing his chin in thought. "Well, of course. It makes since."

I didn't even care what that was supposed to mean. I looked down at my weapon, and noticed it was a lot different than Aqua's and Terra's. For one, they held theirs with the point outward. I held mine with the point facing backwards. But when I fought that thing, I'd slashed it as well as stabbed, and my slashing was like I'd seen ninja's do in movies.

The fighting style was only one difference. Mine was a short weapon, made completely of steel. At the handle, a yellow metal sprouted from the steel and made a square around the handle. The steel went upward, but not long until it turned into a lighter color of gray steel. Attatched to that was a curved line that faces outward, and it has five points that are evenly spread out. They also start to get smaller as they receed toward the handle.

Terra rused over to Aqua and forced her to drink a green liquid from a jar that he'd pulled out of his pocket. Almost immediately, her cut healed and she looked fine. She looked kind of dazed at first, but she eventually came to her senses.

"What just happened? What is this?" I asked, holding up the weapon. "What was that thing?"

"Listen, Ventus, we can't explain right now. They could be listening. What we want you to do, is go back to school and don't say anything to anyone about this. Then, after school, tell Roxas Aqua and Terra sent you to come here, and he'll take you where he's been dissappearing every night. Do you think you can do that?" Aqua asked me.

I slowly nodded, as they turned and went towards the school. I decided not to tell anyone, but what was I supposed to do? Aqua said to go back to the school and finish out my day. I turned toward the school and ran.

Author's Notes:

Thankyou for reading. I just want to say that there is really no time line. And what I mean by that is, the time line the games is no concept in this story. And neither are some other things which will come up later in the story. I would love if you'd review =]