A/N: the front picture will change for every chapter, and again enjoy!
Still with his keyblade in hand, Lea opened his eyes, quickly getting on his feet when he realized he was down on the ground. The red haired looked confused around the apparently empty plaza "what… did just happen?" he dismissed his weapon as there seems to be no danger, still he kept looking around after Isa, wondered where he has gone?
but the blue haired man was no where to be found, so with great dispointent that he failed brining his friend´s back to his senses.
"why is it so complicated?" he groaned and went back to the Mysterious tower.
"are you feeling alright Ax- I mean Lea"
"still haven´t gotten it memorized?" Lea teased dryly and tapped on his forehead. Sora smiled embarrassed back as response. He and his friends were all shocked seeing Lea return with wounds from a heated battle. Lea´s eyes moved to Riku who stood nearby "Lea, what happed? You look like you lost to a Bethmouth"
the redheaded smiled to him in a sad way, holding over the hurting side, the place where Isa´s claymore have hit.
Sora noticed it and tried to help.
"I´m fine" Lea said dismissive and added with a laugh "not the first time I got beaten down to bruises" he laughed dryly and turned back to Riku "as for your question, I met Isa. the man you know as Saix"
"what?!" Sora and Riku asked in disbelief, both have encountered the Nobody known as Saix before and those weren't exactly good memories.
"why did you go after him?" Riku asked and added "and why could you find one of Xehanorts vessels that easily? Me and Sora have looked everywhere for them"
" hey, it wasn´t me who found him." he pouted annoyed over such a accusation, then again; he had been searching for Isa. he turned to Sora "just be happy he didn´t arrive when I was with Kairi, true she can defend herself, but not against the likes of him" he then began looking around "speaking of the girl, where is she?"
"I´m here" Kairi came inside the room with a very worried face and from that look she gave him, he must look pretty bad. He nodded smiling to her, silence telling her he was alright.
she smiled back in relief and glad he was alright.
"while I has been beaten to pieces by Isa" Lea started casually as being almost killed by your best friend was a everyday experience "what have you guys been doing?"
"we found one of the missing keyblade wielders" Sora said happy and explained that after a little help from friends from other worlds, they have found a safety pathway into the Dark Realm and found Aqua.
"and she wasn´t alone" Sora added "she was with Ansem the wise!"
Lea frowned "Ansem the Wise?" he crossed his arms, for that name did sound oddly familiar "where have I heard that name?" he couldn´t point where, so he pushed it away and turned his attention back to the trio "Guess Aqua is the one I saw talking with Yin Sid, what about Ansem?"
"well, Ansem is back in Radiant Gar—"
"Ansem lives in Radiant Garden?" Lea interrupted with a frown, and then he remembered "oh, now I remember! He is the King of the castle!"
Riku blinked and asked "you know Ansem?"
"not in person" Lea admitted and quickly explained that everyone in Radiant Garden had heard of Ansem the wise. "after all, he is the king" he added smiling to them, but thought that neither he or Isa really cared who he was when they snuck into the castle.
the trio did not ask further into the subject, for they were all called inside the meeting room where a woman with sea blue hair, her clothing had a slight armor appearing over it. she stood before Yin Sid who, as usual sat in his chair. Lea did see this woman when he returned but because she has been talking to Yin Sid about something about a Terra and some other boy, he didn´t pay much attention and have went inside the other room to clean himself up. Both keyblade masters turned to the group who walked inside and Yin Sid spoke to Sora and Riku "once again you have proven yourself by saving Master Aqua from the Realm of Darkness, but unfortunately, there is no time to celebrate her return" he turned to the woman named Aqua who nodded to the older wizard and explained to the group "we need to help both of my friends, one of them are sleeping inside our old home world"
"sleeping how?" Lea asked and she explained "his heart almost got destroyed in his battle against a dark force named Vanitas. Forcing him into a comatose sleep"
"what is his name?" Sora asked.
Aqua smiled to him and said "it´s Ventus"
Lea who has been standing with his back up against the wall gasped hearing that name. Ventus, could it really be the boy he befriended so many years ago? None of the others notice his shock and he didn´t want them to know, so he quickly hid it and again listen to the conversation.
"Ventus… somehow, that name sounds familiar, but I can´t place it" Sora admitted sad and added just as confused "also when we met you in the Realm of Darkness, I got this… happy feeling, like I have been waiting to see you again"
Aqua gasped, she took a step closer to Sora and gently sat her hand on his chest. It confused the boy but he didn´t move. Aqua closed her eyes, as if searching for something inside Sora. She gasped opened her eyes and stepped away from Sora.
"is something wrong?" Sora asked confused over her shock.
Aqua smiled weakly "it would explain why you…" she stopped herself and changed topic "Ventus´s heart is inside of you"
Sora eyes wide and he sat his hand on his chest, baffled over what she just have told him.
Riku didn´t seems very surprised over this for some odd reason. he turned to Aqua and asked collected as ever "where do we find Ventus?"
"I´ll take you there, for you wouldn´t be able to find him on your own."
"why´s that?" Kairi asked and the older woman explained calm "because everyone who steps inside that castle walls will be lost in oblivion"
he couldn´t believe this, Lea chuckled over something Axel has been searching for and only got sour feet and a big head ache from it. "Castle Oblivion" he said to the Keyblade master.
She eyed him with a raised brow, not sure how he knew that place "yeah, but… how do you know"
"I have been there more than once, got those icky orders to search for a certain room" he told and added annoyed "but all I did was walking in circles…"
Aqua smiled weakly to him, then turned to the others with a serious frown "we should leave immediately, I don´t want Ventus to be in there more than necessary"
Sora and Riku nodded and left the room. Kairi hesitated, not sure she could follow them on this mission.
Sora glanced back to her "aren´t you coming?"
"sure" she nodded and followed him with a cheerful smile.
Lea also followed, he wanted to see how this "chamber" looks like and, meets an old friend again.
"oh, almost forgot" Aqua stopped outside the tower and turned to the group "before we leave, I have something for you" and she explained a power to call friends to ones side and borrow some of their ability. by explaining she showed a star-shaped charm called a Wayfinder.
"Ven, Terra and I had very much use of this ability, on our journey" she told them with a sad smile of the memories of losing her two best friends. She shook the memories off and said to the trio that she was more than willing to give them the same ability.