A/N: Okay, this chapter is a filler chapter. I'm really sorry, I don't wanna pad it out any more than I already have, but I want to do a chapter dedicated to the character interactions between Liz, Aqua, Terra, and Eraqus, even though Aqua and Terra technically don't know Liz and Ven swapped bodies. And also, it contains a short plot point. So bear with me.

I also got the wake-up ideas from a YouTube video called "The Ultimate Wake Up PRANK Compilation". Go check out the video! It's cruel and hilarious.

Disclaimer: I only own my OC's and, drumroll please . . . . . . . THE PLOT 8D

Don't forget to REVIEW!

Chapter 3

An Average Day

Liz's POV

It took me a while to get out of the funk. It took an entire week for me to stop worrying about everything and just go with the flow. I figured that if I didn't think about it too much then things would work themselves out, it usually works. Then again, Will and Tori are always accusing me of not thinking enough. So, I decided to just go along with whatever. Master Eraqus trained me with Aqua and Terra as if nothing was any different, though he did give me private lessons in the library after regular training. Though after I nearly blew up the library attempting a simple fire spell, we decided I shouldn't try my hand at magic again.

As for regular training . . . I'm currently on two sports teams at school, football and kickboxing. In the past I was in softball and soccer, both in which I'm horrible at in comparison to the other two. But all four sports have some pretty intense training and practice coming with them. Or maybe it's just the fact that our coach was completely insane.

All that training combined and multiplied by ten couldn't even compare to the hell Master Eraqus put us through every. Single. Day.

In my normal body, I'm pretty fit considering my sports record, but in Ven's body, he's a pretty scrawny boy, so it made it hard to train. He's not as strong as my own body, but his attacks were more based on speed since his body was fast and had great stamina. Terra and Aqua were much better at training than me, but they didn't seem surprised that I was failing so badly since Ven was still a bit of a novice.

Though, when we trained with our keyblades, I got my ass whopped so many times. At least it's normal for Terra and Aqua for Ven to be crappy with a keyblade compared to them.

So, I guess I can explain in full detail if you really want to know how it all happened.

The day starts off with us waking up at the crack of dawn. Aqua and Master Eraqus are usually up by or before then, leaving Aqua to wake Terra and I up while the master got his morning coffee. She got pretty creative with her methods of being an alarm clock. She use lightning spells, ice spells, fire spells, one time Aqua even turned me into a tree and back just to wake me up. Needless to say, I learned pretty quickly to get up early.

Terra on the other hand was never so lucky. After getting used to the early morning routine, I was able to bear witness to Aqua's methods of waking up Terra. Let me just say this: I severely wished I had my phone camera just so that I could record it. Each time was different and damn it, they were all hilarious and somewhat cruel thinking about it, but you know what, I don't care.

This time, I put a small wooden table over his head. Aqua had a bull horn at the ready and once the two of us were at the doorway, so that Terra wouldn't kill us immediately, and we had our earplugs in, she pressed the button. He hit his head on the table pretty hard when he tried to sit up. When he saw us laughing our asses off, he pulled the table off and started to chase us.

"I'm going to kill you two!" the young man cried.

"You say that every morning, Terra, and we're still alive and well!" Aqua yelled back, still smiling.

"This will be the day then!"

"Yeah, right!" I shouted as Aqua and I ran.

He chased us around the castle for a bit until Aqua and I ran into the kitchen and hid behind Master Eraqus. He chuckled at our antics since, again, this happened every morning. Terra ran in, his face red with anger and a bump on his forehead that was slowly swelling up, until he saw the master. He bowed respectfully.

"Good morning, master," he said. Though he looked kind of silly in just a T-shirt and neon orange boxers. Yeah, you can see why I wanted my camera.

"Good morning, Terra," Eraqus said with a smile. "I see Aqua and Ventus woke you up again."

Aqua and I poked our heads out from behind the master and gave cheeky smiles. Terra settled with a glare and Aqua got started on cooking breakfast.

"Don't think I'm letting you two off the hook," Terra said.

"You say that every morning," I commented.

"Yes, but today will be different!"

"You said that yesterday. And the day before that. And they day before that!"

He glared at me and waved his fork threateningly, "Just you wait! Your dead when we start sparring."

"You wish!"

"Alright, that's enough you two," Aqua said, setting down our food and then sitting down next to Terra. "Eat first, kill each other later."

I didn't say anything since food was already in my mouth.

After we ate, Eraqus would take us outside and have us run around the entire castle seven times. Yes, SEVEN times, and you've seen how big the place is! After doing our "morning jog" as Eraqus likes to put it, we do forty push-ups and then we take a break to rest our already burning muscles.

I flopped on the grass and stared up at the sky as Aqua poked my cheek playfully.

"What are you doing, Ven?" she asked.

"Resting," I replied simply.

Terra walked over and sat down next to me and sighed, "Ven's got the right idea. I'm beat."

"Aww, come on, guys. It wasn't that bad," Aqua said with a forced smile. Terra and I gave her a look and the smile fell from her face as she collapsed to the ground with us. "Yeah, it was that bad."

We laughed and stared at the sky, trying to find patterns in the clouds. After about twenty minutes, Eraqus called us back where we'd start sparring. Sparring usually took up the rest of the day, but sometimes Eraqus would see improvement and let us off early so that we could hang out in the library and just talk.

Today on the other hand, Terra was determined to keep his promise of whooping my ass while we were sparring though. The end result was my near death by keyblade. That would be an embarrassing tombstone:

RIP Liz Hamilton

Died when sparring with a video game character while in the body of another video game character

Aside from Terra's bloodlust and Aqua laughing as I nearly died, we had a good day. Admittedly, Terra and Aqua felt more like my siblings than my actual siblings. Well, technically Tori, but still . . . Is that a sign of a bad relationship with your family? I mean, I love them and all, but after Tori and I got to middle school, we just kind of fell apart.

But being with Terra, Aqua, and Master Eraqus reminded me of the good days with my siblings and my mom, back before Tori became a perfectionist, Will left for college, and my mom nearly died (long story). It really did feel like a family to me, but I knew it couldn't last, which is what saddened me the most, the reality that I had to go back.

A couple weeks after I swapped bodies with Ven, I managed to find something in the library on body swapping. I was doing my usual studies (and when I say studies I mean completely ignoring my work and just goofing around) when I came across a book. Well, I can't exactly call it a book, it was more like a journal than anything and it looked like it was shoved in carelessly, but regardless, I took it off the shelf and sat down on the ground, leaning against the other shelf.

The name of the owner was written in the front, but the name was scribbled out beyond deciphering. Either way, I read through. The entries were all interesting. Most of them were talking about experiments on the heart, what makes a heart, tons of equations I'm sure Will would have a field day solving, etc. There were no dates, so I couldn't figure out when the entries were written, but the paper and ink were a little faded, so I could assume at the very least that the journal was pretty old. If I didn't know any better, I would have whole-hearted assumed this was Xehanort or Ansem's reports, but Ansem's wouldn't have been written until much later in the future and Xehanort's was probably already scattered.

I didn't have enough time to read the journal in detail, so I skimmed through most of it. But when I got to what was supposed to be the last ten or so pages, they were all torn out. It could have been Xehanort's journal, he tore out the pages, and scattered them like in the game where the player had to collect all the reports. But that didn't make a lot of sense since in the game they were only required to unlock the Final Episode, which isn't much, and each report was a record of Xehanort's life as well as key elements to figuring out his backstory as well as his plan.

This journal wasn't talking about events that occurred in Xehanort's life, they were notes. And the pages torn out must have been really important pieces to them.

"Ven! It's time for dinner!" Aqua called. I didn't even notice she had come in.

"Okay, hang on!" I yelled back. I hid the journal in my pocket and ran to the door.

"What were you doing?" she asked.

"Just reading," I replied. "Come on, let's get going. I'm starving.

Monkey: Well, that wasn't so bad, now was it? (dodges rotten fruit thrown by angry readers) Okay, so it's a LITTLE short—(dodges more angry rotten fruit) Okay, fine! It's really short! But it's not bad!

Nico: I guess it could have been worse.

Monkey: What are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians fandom running away from fangirls?

Nico: Yes. So I decided to hide out in this fandom with you.

Monkey: Why me?

Nico: Because you're the only one who's stupid enough not to kick out some guy with a sword. As far as I know at least.

Monkey: True . . . wait . . . HEY! (sighs) Well, if you're going to stay, at least work for it. My muse fell into the River Styx a while back, so I've been lacking in comic relief in the Author's Notes, so I've had to resort to the regular, boring ones. Now that you're here (evil grin)

Nico: O.O

Monkey: (looks to the readers) Review or the son of Hades becomes my new torture dummy (evil laugh)

(lightning strikes in the background as Monkey continues to laugh evilly/insanely)