This was it! This was it he'd finally be able to personally pay back Xehanort for those years of torture and for almost killing him for the sake of that stupid X-Blade! Now while he was distracted by Terra and unable to fight bac-
Ventus swung, but his blade missed.
He couldn't even gasp before Xehanort grabbed his helmet and held him there like a prize before his best friend. "T-Terra!" he gasped. His body followed the inertia of his jump with a painful yank followed by limp flailing. Oh god was his head coming off? It sure felt like it. His neck wasn't meant to bear the entire weight of the rest of his body like this.
Then he heard cracking. The metal of his helmet was cracking, breaking, fragile and brittle. He wailed and screeched, abandoning the words "courageous" and "brave". He was terrified, "T-TERRA!" He squirmed and writhed, trying to get away, GET AWAY GET OUT OF HIS GRASP-
Terra- stalwart, unyielding Terra -was knocked off the cliff like he was a mote of dust.
Ventus stopped struggling. He felt tears roll down his cheeks. No. Please, someone tell him this was a nightmare. He could feel Xehanort's gloves against his temples, pressing with uncanny accuracy to keep his head pierced in that horrible grasp. The smoky glass cracked away, and then he saw a blip of blue. That was Aqua, no doubt about it.
He reached for her, only able to press all of his fear into one sobbed and agonized word, "Aqua!"
Ventus felt himself seize up as flames licked across his body, then couldn't even sob or gasp because of the ice that sealed away the burn. The pressure against his temples vanished. He was falling, falling, falling. Ven pounded against the cliff over and over and over, pieces of him being eroded away in the impacts. His Keyblade shattered in his hand. His helmet was violently torn off by the cliff.
And then someone caught him, and they slid for agonizing foot after foot. Aqua rolled Ventus over in her lap, her stunned expression saying every word for her. She managed to stammer, "V-Ventus, are you okay?"
Ven could only let out a pitiful moan of reply, darting his eyes as he tried seeing if he could find Terra. Something glowed above them, and they both witnessed Kingdom Hearts itself climbing into the sky.
God, what had gone so wrong? Weren't they the heroes?
What had gone so wrong?
DON'T TALK TO ME THE SECRET ENDING OF 2 FINAL MIX HAS BEEN HD-ED THANKS TO THE RELEASE OF 2.5 AND I'M JUST SO DONE WITH THOSE DETAILS LIKE JEEEEZZZZ
