I held onto the side of Ven's Skateboard Glider as we sailed through the lanes between, I could of probably hung there until we reached where ever Ven was taking us but my arm was starting to get a bit tired so I decided to get his attention, "Oi Ven." I call out.
Ven turns and looks at me for a second before going to face forward again, a second later his head snaps back around so fast I swear he gave himself whiplash, "VITREUS!" he yells out in shock before he pulls me up and lets me sit on the glider while he stands at the front, I had to admit with the two of us there wasn't much room.
I gave Ven as best a glare I could with the helmet covering my face, "Ventus, Why did you leave home." I ask him my voice completely cold.
Ven stiffens.
"Well, I'm waiting!" I say crossing my arms.
Ven lets out a small chuckle, "Can we just not and pretend I did?" he semi pleads
"NOW VENTUS!" I say snapping slightly.
Ven flinches a bit, before he sighs and his head tilts down a bit, "I was worried about Terra."
"Why?" I question in confusion.
"That boy said that "He'll be a different person"." Ven says under his breath and I can bearly hear it.
"Boy?" I question
Ventus nods, "That Masked Boy" he comments.
I felts my eyes widen in shock, "You saw him!?" I say grabbing Ven as I thought about that conversation I heard between Xehanort and the Masked Boy.
Ven nods slightly, "Y-Yeah." I can hear the confusion in his voice.
I felt myself feeling worry and confliction, "I'm going to regret this." I mutter under my breath.
"Vitreus?" Ven questions.
I clasped my hands together and put my hands on my lap, "Alright Ven listen up, I know I should take you back home but I know you… your stubborn, you'll just probably leave again, I'd do the same if any of you were in trouble." I say with a slight chuckle, "So I'll let you come along but you HAVE to follow my rules without question, got it?" I say my tone going serious.
I can hear Ven drawing a breath of happiness, "Yeah!" Ven says with a nod as we accelerate down to the World.
-KH-
When Ven and I came out of the Gate and our armors vanished we found ourselves in a small rocky canyon standing on a ledge, Ven began to look around gasping in awe at the sight of the new world.
"How's the View." I ask with a teasing smile.
"It's awesome, everything is so new." Ven says continuing to look around.
I chuckled slightly before putting my hands in my pockets, "Alright Ventus, I'm pretty sure you know this but remember DO NOT, under any circumstances tell anyone that we're from another world." I tell him.
Ven nods, "I understand." He says.
I nod, "Good" I say before frowning, do I hear some singing?" I question.
Ven tilts his head listening as well.
"Heigh –Ho, Heigh-Ho Heigh-Ho, Heigh-Ho Heigh Ho, Heigh-Ho, Heigh-Ho It's off to work we go." The sound of the song comes through the canyon, we looked around and saw seven tiny men that reminded me of lilties from my home world walking by while singing in a tune.
"Woooooow." Ven says in awe as I watch the men pass with a stone faced expression, Ven runs to the other side of the ledge were standing on to watch the men pass by, I followed him over and noticed that they were going into some sort of mine enterance.
Ven grabs my arm and pulls on me a bit, "Come on Vitreus I wanna go see." He says like a little child wanting something.
I chuckled at his antics, "Fine, we can take a quick look but then we have to go we don't have time to play." I tell him.
Ven nods as we hop down of the small cliff, "Let's go." I tell Ven as he lands beside me.
"Yeah." Ven says with a nod.
We take two steps before a small black creature appears out of nowhere.
"What's that?!" Ven questions in awe starting to walk towards it.
I pushed him behind me, "Unversed." I say in realization as I draw Memento Mori, "Ven stay back." I tell him, as I hit the creature and it disappears before a bunch of floating jars appear and a bulky looking one.
"But I want to help." Ven says drawing his Keyblade and getting into his stance.
"Don't Ven." I protest
"I'll be fine." Ven says.
"Fine, but only take on the small fry, I'll take the big one." I tell him.
"Right." Ven says as he throws his Keyblade at one of the floating jars making it flinch back, he summons back his keyblade and throws it again the second hit destroying the unversed.
I turned to face the bulking Unversed I swung my keyblade, but when I hit it's front my attack bounced off and I was knocked back a bit, "So that won't work." I mutter to myself shaking my head, "In that case." I utter before I ducked down to avoid an attack and dashed behind it, I swung my keyblade and struck its back, the blow hit home as it was knocked into the air. "So it's back it its weakness." I comment to myself, I keep up my onslaught of attacks before it eventually vanishes into nothing.
I turn to see Ven finishing his last one off.
"Not bad Ven." I tell him as I put away Memento Mori.
"Thanks Vitreus." Ventus says with a smile before he frowns, "But what were those things, you called them…Unversed?" he questions.
I put my hands in my pockets a habit I seem to do when I need to gather my thoughts, I took in a deep breath and blew it out slowly before looking up t the clear blue sky, "They're called the Unversed, Eraqus said that they are creatures that feed on negativity, he tasked Terra, Aqua and I with eliminating this threat to protect the balance of light and darkness." I tell him.
"I see." Ven says with a nod, I can detect slight disappointment in his voice, I guessed he was slightly upset Eraqus didn't tell him about this as well.
I put my hand on his shoulder, "Don't worry Ven, I know you're upset a bit, but it's only because he cares."
Ven nods silently
"Now come on, didn't you want to see what those seven were up to?" I ask him.
I noticed Ven's face morph to happiness before he runs to the cave behind him, I follow along.
-KH-
We walk in to see the walls shimmering with various dazzling jewels, the men are around in various spots, using their pickaxes to mine out the ore, I notice one stumble back out of the corner of my eye.
"Huh, who are you." The one with the glasses asks when he notices us.
"I'm Ventus, call me Ven." Ven introduces, and this is…" he goes to introduce me.
"V" I say coldly
Ven looks at me in confusion, "V…."
I give Ven a slight glare making him flinch back slightly.
"A diamond thief, take cover, ya fools." One with brown patches on his elbows and a long beard yells before they all begin to run around in a scramble before rushing deeper into the mines, the one I saw earlier that stumbled crashing into the wall.
Ven looks around in confusion and concern, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to frighten you." He apologizes.
"You didn't?" a slightly pudgy one asks.
The one with dark circles under his eyes yawns, "You mean, you're not here for our diamonds?" he asks.
"That's not nice, treating me like some kind of bad guy, I'm just trying to find a friend, His name is Terra." Ventus tells them, "He's dressed kind of like me about yay tall." He says holding up his arm.
I shook my head, 'Ven, I doubt anyone could know who you're talking about with that description.' I comment in my head.
"Sounds like a tall tale to me, go on, git!" the one who called us diamond thieves earlier yells.
"We don't know any Terra." Another comments.
Ven rubs the back of his head, I wasn't surprised they didn't know Terra.
"Please, could you come over here?" Ven asks them, "I just want to talk." He tells them.
"Don't fall for it, Stay where ya are!" the grumpy one tells them.
"QUIET!" I snap at them making them all flinch in fear, "The two of us are not here for your stupid rocks." I hiss at them.
"Run ya fools." The Grumpy one says as they all run deeper into the cave.
I tilted my head down so my bangs shadowed my eyes, "You want me to be the bad guy, Fine I'll be the bad guy." I mutter before going over to the dopey looking one who stuck behind and grabbed him harshly by the neck and lifting him up, he began to squirm slightly.
"Vitreus!" Ven says in horror.
"Come on." I snap in a harsh tone before I go deeper into the cave, when we arrived in the deeper champers I held out the squirming dopey, "Get out here NOW or else this one gets it." I say putting on slight pressure making the one I was holding make a slight squeak of pain.
"Dopey!" the glasses one yells out running out from his hiding place.
"YA fool, get back here." Grumpy yells.
I growled slightly and increased my grip more, "ALL of you get out here or else this one will get it."
"Fine, Fine." The glasses one wearing says as they all come out, I ease up my grip but don't let go, "Now you guys obviously don't want to talk to us to tell us, Where' are some other people around here?" I ask them.
"T-There's a castle beyond the chorus, I mean the forest." Glasses stammers out.
I nod throwing down my hostage like a rag doll as several of the men go up to him to check on him, "Come on Ventus." I tell him turning around and going to walk out.
"But..." Ven begins to protest looking back at the men in concern.
"NOW VENTUS!" I snap at him, making him flinch back before he follows me like a scolded child, I take a few steps before stopping, "I hope this teaching you a lesson, making flimsy assumptions about people can lead to your friends getting hurt." I say in a cold tone before walking out of the mines with Ven following quietly behind me.
-KH-
"What was that for?" Ventus questions
I shrugged, "We got the info we wanted, Terra wasn't there and we found an idea of where to look next, so what if the methods were a bit unsavory." I comment.
"But did you really have to hurt him." Ventus asks.
I sighed, "Look Ventus the world isn't all peaches and cream like you think, and just because I'm Nice to you Terra and Aqua doesn't mean I'm ready to become friends with everyone." I put my hand over my heart, "Some wounds are just impossible to heal." I mutter under my breath, "Now come on we gotta start our trek." I tell him as we walk down the canyon.
-KH-
Ventus and I passed through a small bit of forest, there was some Unversed encounters but we easily dispatched them, when we exited the portion of the forest we came upon a small house.
"Wow." Ventus comments as he goes to look through the window.
"Must be those guys house." I comment before I grab Ven by his collar and pull him back.
"H-Hey!" Ven stammers in protest.
"It's rude to spy into another's house." I tell him.
Ven laughs sheepishly before a scream tears through the air.
We look around trying to discern where the scream come from.
"There!" Ven says pointing at the woods leading towards the Castle.
"Come on Ven." I tell him as I take off towards the woods.
"Right." Ven says as he follows behind me.
The two of us ran into the thick woods, the dense tree tops making it impossible for light to pierce through, when we reached the other side of the woods there was a young girl sobbing.
I stepped forward and started to say something when I noticed that her outfit was something royalty would wear, I felt my rage simmer slightly as I grind my teeth before I turned on my heel and began to walk away slightly.
"Vitreus?" Ven questions wondering why I turned away.
"You deal with it." I say with a slight bite in my voice.
Ven recoils lightly before he nods composing himself and walks up to the girl, "What's wrong?" he questions.
"These horrible trees, they tried to grab me." She ways while crying.
I rolled my eyes while thinking, 'Typical royalty, they get caught on a branch and they fall into an emotional mess.'
Ven holds out his hand, "Ah, it's okay. You were probably just seeing things, it happens to all of us when we're afraid." He says in a comforting voice that makes the girl stop crying but her eyes were still moist as she looks up at Ven.
The Girl takes Ven's hand and he helps her stand up, "Oh thank you I feel quite better now, I'm sure I'll get along, somehow." She tells him, "But… I do need a place to sleep at night, would you know anywhere I might be able to?" she inquires
"Well, I saw a house just up ahead." Ven tells her.
I frown, "Ventus, you can't just offer up another's home as refuge." I tell him.
"But she needs it, and I'm sure they wouldn't mind." Ven says making his objections.
I pinched the bridge of my nose and rubbed it before sighing, "Fine but only because we've wasted enough time here and need to get going soon." I say before pushing off the tree I was leaning against.
Ven nods before turning to the girl, "Come on, we'll take you there, oh I'm Ventus, Ven for short." He tells her.
"V." I say stoically.
"Thank you, Ven, V. My name's Snow White." Snow White says in a cheery tone.
I mentally gave a gag at her chipper tone, "Fine now that that's out of the way lets go." I tell them as we start to walk.
We had only taking a few steps when Unversed appeared, "Ahhh those creatures again." Snow White yells in panic.
'She's seen them before.' I observe before I draw out my weapon, "Ventus you protect her while I take care of these guys." I order him.
"Right. Ven says as he summons his Keyblade and stands by Snow White.
I put some pressure in my legs and leaped at one of the Green Unversed with my Keyblade held out, the blade slashing through its body making it flinch back before I pivoted around on my foot and leaped at the Unversed again making it vanish with a second strike, before I turned around again and leapt at a new opponent.
Ven was using his wind magic and throwing his Keyblade to take care of the Unversed near him.
"Help me!" Snow White yells out, I turned to see her being pulled in by a tree sucking in air, "Guess she wasn't seeing things." I comment as Ven dashes between Snow White and the Tree and unleashing a bit of light purifying the tree.
"Are you alright?" Ventus asks.
"Yes." Snow White says.
I swung my Keyblade knocking down a orange floating jar unversed, "Let's get going!" I tell them.
"Right." Ventus says as Snow White nods as we continue to go through the forest.
We continued to run through the forest slaying various Unversed, we had encountered a few more trees that tried to capture Snow White but Ven and I easily took care of them, I noticed Snow White had some various bruises on her arms and face from various unversed that managed to make attacks on here, we eventually reached the other edge of the forest and ran through the opening at the edge of the forest leading to the clearing with the house.
"Here we are." Ven tells Snow White.
"Oh thank you Ventus, you too V." Snow White says thanking us.
I just let out a Humph.
Ven leads Snow White over to the house and opens the door and leads her inside, "I'm pretty sure you'll be safe here, but sit tight while I look around" I hear Ven's voice say from inside before he comes out.
I walked over to him, "So your going to scout the Area and make sure it's safe, huh?" I ask him putting my hands on my hips and leaning forward.
"Y-yeah." Ven says with a worried look like he might have done something wrong.
I chuckled and rubbed his head, "You're a good Kid Ven, Stubborn but good you care about everyone."
"H-Hey." Ven groans in protest trying to push my hand off.
"You go check that way." I say pointing at the way we just came, "And I'll check that way." I say pointing towards the mines we first arrived at, "Meet back here in five Minutes." I tell him.
"Right." Ven says as we spit off to check the area.
-KH-
"Anything?" I asked Ven when we reunited.
"Nope." Ven says before opening the door and walking inside with me following behind, "The coast is clear, now a monster in sight…Huh!" he says stopping short.
I looked past Ven to see the Tiny Men surrounding Snow White, 'Spoke to soon.' I think.
The tiny men turn around and notice us, "Couldn't leave us alone and stay away, couldja?!" Grumpy asks.
I notice that few of them surround dopey protectively while glaring at me.
I give them a dark glare making them flinch and back down.
"An' who invited you in, ya rotten thieves." Grumpy yells.
"Oh no, they're no thieves, they rescued me." Snow White protests.
"You fussn't be mooled, uh mustn't be fooled by them, princess, that one is especially dangerous." The glasses wearing one says gesturing to me.
I bit my lip and clenched my fist my nails drawing blood when I heard the term Princess being used to refer to Snow White.
"Just go on an' git!" Grumpy yells at it.
"Please don't sent them away." Snow White pleads, "You see, he helped me when I was lost, and oh, so very frightened." She tells us.
"What happened?" Ventus questions walking over to them.
"Well, I was picking flowers by the wood, and there was a stranger there, he had a sword but it was like a key and then these monsters came and…" Snow White tells us.
When I heard about the Keyblade and Monsters I assumed were the Unversed I paid a bit more attention to the story.
"A sword like a key." Ven mutters to himself before gasping in realization, "Terra!"
"Ya mean this stranger saw ya and set his horde of evil demons after ya?" Glasses asks.
"Terra would never do that" Ventus says in protest before looking at me, "Right…V?" he asks looking at me.
I nod, "Terra may be hard headed and a bit of a brute but he would never hurt someone innocent, willingly or on accident." I tell them.
"Oh, of course. I'm sure he wouldn't, not if he's someone who's your friend." Snow White comments.
"Princess, you trusnt be so musting…er, trusting." Glasses tells her.
"He's a lying, Mark my words." Grumpy says.
"I'll prove it!" Ven yells running off.
I turned and glared at the tiny men, "YOU SEVEN ARE PATHETIC!" I snap at them making them all and Snow White Flinch back, "You all made baseless assumptions on pure speculation without bothering to find out the truth, mark my words you all had better curb you stupid accusations before you accuse someone that leads you or those you care about to perilous trouble." I say harshly before I open the door and walk out slamming it harshly making the windows shatter.
I ran towards the woods leading towards the castle where we had first met Snow White to see Ven on the ground before a giant tree looking Unversed.
"VEN!" I yell out drawing out my keyblade and throwing it at the Unversed knocking it back before leaping over him and standing protectively in front of Ven, "Ven get up." I tell him
The Unversed I decided to name Mad Trent lets out a roar.
"Back off!" Ven snaps at the Unversed charging in Anger.
'VEN, CALM DOWN!" I order him as I jump over him and intercept an attack at Ven from the Mad Trent making me yell in pain as I'm knocked back, I gasped out in pain as I was slammed into a tree.
"Vitreus!" Ven yells in fear, "N-No I let my friends get hurt because of my anger." He stammers in panic.
I tried to get up but pain surged through my body, "VEN PAY ATTENTION!" I snap at him, as he quickly spins around and barely manages to block the Mad Trent's attack.
"You Want some of this." Ven says in a challenging tone before holding up his Keyblade, "Thunder." He calls out as a lightning bolt strike the Unversed.
I weakly managed to reach into the pouch on my waist and pulled out a Hi-Potion I popped open the lid and managed to put the Vial to my lips and downed the potion, I hated that I couldn't use even the weakest magic and had to relied on potions. I stood up and summoned out Memento Mori again and charged at Mad Trent, as I ran at the Unversed a pink aura surrounded by body and I jumped slightly and pooled the energy from the flow motion and dashed at the Unversed, the Flow Motion power latching onto it as I began to orbit it at a fast pace, I stuck my Keyblade into the Mad Trent's body and gathered the energy of the Flow Motion, "Huaaaahhh!" I grunt out before sending the Unversed flying knocking it down, I felt the power pooling in my body before the pink aura of Flow Motion surrounds my body as I enter my own command style
I notice the Mad Trent begin to unleash poision puddles, "Ven Now!" I yell.
"Right!" Ventus Yells as we both charge at the Unversed.
I leapt at the Unversed and swung my Keyblade across the Mad Trent's making it screech in pain leaving a slash on its body.
"Haaahh." Ven yells out as he enters his fever pitch command style, he cuts through the Mad Trent his slash crossing mine making an X on its chest.
"Let's finish this!" I say turning around
"Right." Ven says as he pivots around.
"Haaahhh!" We both yell out as we leap at Mad Trend out Keyblades piercing through the Unversed's Body.
The Mad Trend lets out a screech of Agony as It flails around before letting out a hiss of death as It falls to the ground vanishing in darkness.
"Let's Go, Ven." I tell him.
Ven nods before running out of the woods, when he reaches the edge he's gasping for air, before he looks around slightly, "Terra!" He yells out hoping our friend was there, "Aww!" he mutters in disappointment.
I put my hand on his shoulder, "Don't worry Ven we'll find Terra." I tell him.
Ven Nods, reaching up and gripping my hand in his trying to comfort himself, "Huh?" Ven questions.
I look down and noticed a crimson red apple roll to Ven's feet.
Ven reaches down and picks it up, I flinched back the smell of death that the Apple gave off,
Ven gasps in realization, I look over to see him looking at an old crone walking by carrying a basket of apples.
I frowned, her scent reeked of magic, jealousy and darkness, but more importantly I didn't detect old age it was full of bitter youth.
Ven walks over to her, "Excuse me, ma'am, you dropped this." Ven tells the old crone.
"Huh?" She says looking back at Ven and realizing he's holding the apple, "Oh, why thank you, my pet." She says taking the apple from him, "To tell the truth, I really don't know what I would have done without that." She tells him.
I just watched silently with a stoic expression and my arms crossed not bothering to interfere no matter what I felt.
The old crone lets out a small chuckle, "Haven't I seen that sword before?" She questions in a baiting way.
"Terra has one, you know Terra?" Ven asks in hope.
"Oh, yes, yes, that ruffian pointed one of those at me, asking about some "Xehanort."." The crone tells Ven.
I leaned forward a bit frowning, 'I wonder if Terra found anything about Xehanort, but more specifically if he found anything about that masked boy.' I ponder to myself.
"My poor heart nearly stopped." The crone tells Ven making me snort silently at that pathetic lie
"That doesn't sound like him at all." Ven mutters to himself in worry, "Ma'am, where did Terra go?" he asks her.
"I'm sure I have no idea." The crone tells Ven, "Must you all menace a poor granny so?" she questions.
"What, No, I was just…" Ven stammers out as the Crone leaves before he looks down upset, "Terra, what did you do?" He mutters under his breath before looking at me his eyes slightly moist, "Vitreus you don't think Terra did those things do you?" he asks me.
I walked over to him and put my hands on his shoulders and looked him in the eyes, "Ask yourself this Ven, do you Trust Terra?" I ask him
"Yeah, I do." Ven says confusion in his eyes.
I gripped his shoulders, "Then hold onto that Belief of Trust, if you do then you'll find Terra is the exact same person you know and nothing will change that." I tell him
Ven smiles wiping his eyes, "Y-Yeah, But I still want to know why he harmed that old lady." He mutters
"She was lying." I tell him.
"Huh?" Ven questions.
I shook my head, "I don't know why but that wasn't an old crone, it was someone disguising themselves.
"Huh, why would they do that?" Ventus Questions.
I shook my head lightly, "I don't know, but its obvious Terra isn't here anymore come on lets go to the Next World." I tell him.
"Right." Ven says as he opens the gate as we put on our Armors and climb on Ven's Glider as we took off from this world and into the lanes between to head to the next world in search of Terra.
Tali,
Although it wasn't planned, Ventus was brought along on our journey, I know I should of taken him home but then again when did I ever listen to orders. In our first new world we found Seven Men who reminded me of Aunt Meeth, although their personalities leave something to be desired. We also met this young girl named Snow White, she may have been royalty but she was a kind soul I'm sure that would like her if you met her. Ventus was a bit upset when he learned Terra might have attacked Snow White and this Crone we met who had a poisoned Apple. I tried to tell him that Terra couldn't have done it but I feel as if he still has doubts, I'm sure when we see Terra again Ven will realize that his fears were baseless and he'll go back to being his chipper self.
Vitreus.
-KH-
