Chapter 1

Unexpected

The first rays of sunlight peeked through Ventus's bedroom window. The boy had been sleeping nearly the whole morning away. The night before had been busy with packing and final goodbye's to his best friend. There was a small knock at the door. "Ven! If you don't get up now you'll miss the train." A female voice rang from outside the door. Ventus only stirred a little bit. Quite content in sleeping. The light knock came again. When there was no answer she let herself in. She was a tall and fit young adult with short blue hair and blue eyes. She shook her head at the sight of her little blonde friend. To be more precise they were more like family. The two of them including two other people lived together like a proper family.

She shook him lightly until she could see the blue of his eyes. "G'morning Aqua" Ventus said sleepily. Aqua smiled warmly. "Ven, you hopeless sleepy head. Your going to miss your train if you don't get ready soon." She said. Ven's eyes widened. "Oh yea! I don't wanna be late!" He said jumping out of bed.

"breakfast is ready." She said as she left the room. "Okay." Ventus replied. He dressed as fast as he could and came almost running to the dinning room. "I made your favorite. Eggs and french toast." Aqua said as Ven sat down to eat. "Thanks Aqua! I'm sure gonna miss your cooking." He said while putting a mouth full of eggs in his mouth. At that moment Terra walked in. He was a well built tall male with brown hair and blue eyes. "Good morning Ven." He said ruffling Ventus's spikey blonde hair as he walked by. "Good Morning Terra." Ventus replied. When Ventus was finished he put his dishes in the sink and grabbed his backpack and duffel bag.

"Do you have everything you need? Tooth brush, comb, your lunch pack, extra pa..."

"I got everything Aqua. You don't have to worry." Ventus interrupted her.

"Alright then are we all set?" Terra asked.

"Yes but this time I'll drive." Aqua replied.

Ventus lived in a small town on the side of a mountain known as twilight town. It was a quaint little town. But he had not always lived there. He as well as Terra and Aqua were orphan's who where taken in my Master Eraqus who ran a small Dojo. He was a strict teacher and a strict care giver. Ventus who was painfully aware that he did not have or know his birth parents, wanted to find them desperately and it wasn't until a month after he turned sixteen that he had found where his birth father lived. With the permission of his guardian he was now on his way to meet his real father. For years he had envisioned what his birth parents were like. Always wondering what they looked like what their personalities were like.

When they finally arrived at the Train station Ventus grabbed all of his items and said his goodbyes to his two closest friends. He gave them both the worlds biggest hugs. "Wish me luck!" Ventus said cheerfully. "Of course Ven, good luck and be safe." Aqua replied.

The train ride took quite a while, about a three day ride on the Twilight Express. By the time Ventus had gotten off the train and retrieved his luggage it was nearly four thirty in the afternoon. He was very nervous but excited too. This was his first time to the Destiny Islands. He was set for the small town of New Bohdum. Which was about a half an hour away from the local Train Station.

He looked around him taking in the scenery. Everything was so different here. The sights, smells and people were much different than back home. The slight breeze filled his nose with the sent of freshly cooked fish from the nearby restaurants and the salty ocean just beyond. There were many shops all lined up along the streets selling everything from paintings to jewelery and beachwear. Ventus pulled out a small piece of paper and looked at the address written on it. That would be where his father lived. He took a deep breath. "okay." He said to himself and set out to find a taxi.

Ventus arrived at his destination at just about five o'clock in the afternoon and as he made his way up the driveway to the front door his stomach tightened and his nerves were at last getting the best of him. Stay calm Ventus, you can do this. He thought to himself. The House was huge. It looked just like those really rich house's you'd find on the beach-side. Ventus couldn't have imagined that his father was wealthy. Unless he had the wrong address but he didn't think so. It took months of research to find any traces of his birth parents. He hadn't really planned out what he would say. How could he? It's not everyday a teenager comes up to your door saying: Hello I'm your son. But Ventus had wanted to meet his father so badly. He breathed in deeply and exhaled slowly and then knocked on the door.

The door opened widely to reveal an extremely tall and muscular man. He had blonde hair that was covered by a bandana and blue eyes. He wore a v-neck red shirt and a tan trench coat. Ventus could feel himself shrinking under the impressive size of this guy. He had seen a couple of pictures of his birth father but that was only pictures. It made Ventus feel ten times shorter than what he already was.

"Can I help you?" The man asked.

Ventus didn't respond right away. He was still trying to compute how tall the guy was. That and he was trying to form something in his brain to say. He was beginning to really wish that he had not come alone. If only Vanitas had come along. He thought. Vanitas was his long time best friend who had stuck by him through thick and thin.

"Hello, My name is Ventus and I've been searching for you for a long time." He finally said deciding on those words.

The man gave Ventus a funny look and then one of understanding. "Oh I see, you came for an autograph. Didn't you?" He asked.

Ventus had read up on his birth father. His name was Snow Villiers and he was a football player. Although Ventus didn't realize it was a very famous football team that his father was on. Ventus shook his head.

"No, I'm not here for an autograph. I have something very important to talk you about." Ventus said.

He knew that he was beating around the bush. Ventus felt almost to afraid to say, I'm your son. Would the man believe him? Would he just shut the door on him? Ventus didn't know and that's what scared him. The very fact that he did not know how this man would react. Maybe it was a bad idea after all. It was starting to get darker and yet Ventus still had gotten nowhere.

"Well then what is it that you want from me kid?" Snow asked.

"I wanted to meet you and get to know who my father is. I wanted just to at the very least meet my father." There he said it. He finally said it. His father.

"What? Father? I think you have the wrong house." Snow said.

"No I am positive that I have the right address." Ventus replied half shakily.

This wasn't going well and Ventus could feel his emotions starting to emerge from the pit of his stomach and well up into one of his, as Vanitas would call it, cry baby faces.

Snow feeling somewhat bad for the teenager in front of him scratched the back of his head. "Well come on in. It's get'en late maybe you could call your parents to come and pick you up. You came here alone right? I don't see anyone with you." Snow said and stepped aside to let Ventus in.

Ventus walked into a small foyer and into a large living room. The house looked unkept to say the least. There was another person there. He was just as muscular as Snow but maybe a little more so. He had a tuft of orange hair that stuck up on the front of his head that went to the back and the sides were shaved into a zigzag design.

"Hey Gadot we have another guest." Snow said entering the room. Ventus followed slowly. He was really beginning to think that he had made a mistake. But still, he was here and there was no changing that.

Snow plopped himself on the couch and made himself comfy. "come have a seat kiddo. Then we can talk." He said to Ventus.

Ventus made his way over to a chair that wasn't too close to either Snow or Gadot and set his items next to it. He held onto a small bag that held a very important document.

"Now then, where's your home maybe I can drop you off there." Snow began.

Ventus shook his head. "I can't get home tonight. The Train that I took doesn't come back this way for a few days." Ventus replied. Ventus then proceeded to pull out the document that would prove without a doubt that Snow was his father, His birth certificate.

"I have something to show you. I brought it as proof. It may have been selfish of me to seek you out but I really wanted to meet you and I couldn't find anything on my mother." Ventus continued.

Ventus handed the document over to snow who looked at it carefully and sure enough in bold letters his full name was displayed next to the word father. Snow was shocked to say the least. Gadot felt very confused by what was going on between the two of them. He could also sense the change in snow.

"Hey I'm gonna call it a night. I'll see you later at the big game okay?" Gadot said and quickly left sensing that his presence would make things more awkward than what they already were.

"So it is true? After all these years and she never told me? How old are you?" Snow asked.

"I'm sixteen." Ventus replied.

"Sixteen years and not a single word? If I had known that you existed..." Snow trailed off.

That night Ventus slept in one of the spare rooms. It was a moderately average sized room that was set up as a guest room. He laid there almost wide awake. There was so much information buzzing around in his head. How could he sleep? None the less he tried to sleep and he finally fell asleep sometime after midnight.

When Ventus first woke up he thought that he was still back at home until he couldn't smell Aqua's usual cooking or hear the sound of the busyness of twilight town. Then he heard it. The most dreadful hardcore rock he had ever heard. This snapped him out of his sleepiness. He was use to hearing rock because of Vanitas who if you didn't personally know him you'd stay as far away from Vanitas as possible because he just had that aura about him. But the sound of this particular music was enough to give even Vanitas a headache. Not to mention it was loud. Very loud.

Ventus got up and got dressed and made his way downstairs. He found the source of this music. It was a large stereo that was in a workout room that snow was currently utilizing. Snow got up and turned the music off.

"Good morning, I was just doing a little warm up." He said.

"Good morning." Ventus replied.

Snow walked into the kitchen and took out a protein shake. "Would you like one too?" he asked.

"S-sure." Ventus replied.

Snow pulled out a second one and slide it across the counter towards Ventus. Looking around the kitchen Ventus noticed quite a few dirty dishes piled up. Snow opened his can and drank it pretty much in one shot then he crunched the can which made Ventus flinch and he threw it making a perfect landing in the garbage can. Ventus opened his can and took a small sip of the liquid inside. It was a chocolate flavor but somehow it didn't taste very much like chocolate and Ventus wondered if that was why Snow had just downed the drink instead of taking the time to drink it like a normal person.

"So then where should we begin." Snow started.

Just then Snow's cell phone went off and he held up his hand gesturing to wait a minute. Ventus took sips of the increasingly nasty tasting drink as he only half listened to Snow talk to, whoever he was talking to. He had showed Snow his birth certificate the night before and they had a long talk about the fact that they were father and son in which the fact that Ventus really, truly was Snow's biological son finally sunk in. Snow had told Ventus that he was welcome to stay as long as he liked as long as it didn't interfere with Ventus's schooling. The one condition though, was Ventus had to call Snow by his given name. He could not call him Dad or any version there of. Summer had just began so school didn't start up for another two months. Ventus didn't have to worry about that. But on the other hand when snow told Ventus not to call him Dad it took him by surprise. The truth was, it hurt when Ventus was told that but Ventus supposed it was only right since they had only just met even if they were father and son or at least that's what he told himself.

Snow got off the phone. "I'm sorry Kiddo but I have to leave." He said as he began rushing about the house to get himself together. "See you later." He said as he walked out the front door.

Ventus just stood there still holding the drink that he was given. It was then that Ventus decided that Snow was the type of person who did everything five hundred miles a minute. It certainly wasn't what he had envisioned. But what exactly was it that he was looking for anyway?