Chapter 2: Boy on Fire

Boy POV

Can dead people dream? When the knight got me, I thought it was over. Anyway, I had weird dreams. The first one, I wake up back at the Land Of Departure and Mom and Dad say, "Ven get up, there's a meteor shower tonight." I try to respond to them but I could not say anything. I wasn't in control of my body. Whoever is controlling my body gets me up and walks me over to a mirror. I look and see that I have blonde hair pushed to the right. Other than that, I am wearing the same clothes as I always do. Then I get it. Mom and Dad always talked about Ven, I guess this dream is showing me what happened to him. Then the dream shifts. Mom, Dad, and I are on the summit watching the meteor shower when mom gives us star shaped good luck charms. The scene shifts again. Now I'm in a more mysterious place, on a pillar, which has me on it. However, I look forward and see somebody else. Somebody with Yellow eyes and dark blue hair. He has a key shaped sword too, but this one is two of the ones Sora had put together. "Ventus! Join me so we can create the X-Blade!" he shouts. "No way Vanitas, I'll never join you!" Ventus says as we summon our key. "You know, it doesn't have to look like this." Vanitas says looking at the corrupted X-Blade. "You should leave your friends behind and join me." "No way, my friends are my power, and I'm theirs!" Ven shouts as we run up to Vanitas and attack him. The scene shifts again. This time I'm in the town where I was hit. I'm me again, but I'm very little and in a stroller. I try to talk but a bunch of baby talks come out of my mouth "Awww you're so cute!" Kairi says looking down at me. I look around and see a Sea Salt Ice Cream stand. I start pointing at it and making more noises. "Do you want to go get ice cream?" Kairi says, I nod. "Ok then. Let's go find daddy first." She says as we turn around. After a few minutes of walking around, she sees him. "Sora lets go we're going to get Ice cream then the baby and I are going home." Kairi says. "Ok Kairi. Donald, can you hold my spot for me while I'm gone?" Sora asks a duck. "Sure Sora, just hurry back." Donald replies and we walk towards the ice cream stall.

Kairi's says we're going home and we walk away. "Say bye to dada." She tells me. "Bye-bye dada." I say in my toddler voice. "Did you have fun with mommy today?" she asks. I nod. Wait a minute; I thought Aqua was my mom. As we're walking home, her shadow becomes bigger and Heartless leap out of the ground. Kairi turns her head and runs. "Wheeeeeee!" I scream in delight, not knowing what these things are. But they pop up in front of the stroller. She summons another one of those keys and attacks the Heartless. A Heartless grabs me and a black portal appears behind it. Suddenly, I feel a tug in my stomach and flames erupt all around me. Some heartless burn but others get the jump on me and drag me away. Kairi is running towards me while slashing at the heartless. The last thing I hear before being thrown into the portal was my real mom screaming "Pyrus! No!" I emerge from the portal in the land of departure. Aqua, who I thought was my mom, walks over and picks me up. I'm asleep and my pendant I always wear is radiating heat. "What are you doing here?" Aqua asks. I just mumble a few things in my sleep and Aqua takes me up to the castle, where she casts a spell on me and clothes appear on me. "Just like Ven," Aqua giggles. "We'll call you Ven. I just can't wait until you wake up, I just wish I knew how you got here….oh well, I'm sure Terra will be ok with you staying

POV of Girl

It's been a day since I found out this boy was a fire elemental. Every now and then, fire swirls around him, preventing me from trying to help him. I see that I'm low on food. I grab my bow and three pouches of water, one for drinking two for…other causes. I'm afraid of leaving this boy though, if I'm gone too long and he gets out of control he could burn the house or maybe even the entire forest to ashes. After a moment, I decide I'll go for ten minutes. What could go wrong?

Pyrus:

After the flashback about my history, I'm in the middle of the ocean. I can't swim up, but I'm not necessarily running out of air. I swim farther down and I see a white pillar, similar to the one in my previous dream. When my feet touch it, a blinding light shine from beneath it. After the light dies down, the column erupts in flames. "Whoa!" I exclaim backing up. I try to swim up, but I end up coming right back down. I guess gravity switched. Anyway, when the flame finally goes out there's me with my key shaped sword on it, but I'm leaning against the sides and it looks like I'm asleep. I walk around and a chest appears in front of me. I try opening it, but its locked…go figure. I try kicking it but nothing happens. Then the key appears in my hand. "Not this again." I say. I hit the chest once with the key and it opens up. Inside is a green star with the Mark of Mastery symbol in the middle, one of the charms Aqua gave Ventus and Terra. I grab it and it lights up. So many memories flood into my head. So many of Ven's, I see Ventus in many places, a couple a times him fighting that Vanitas person. My key begins to glow and I say its name, Flame Caller. I get it now, Ven tried stopping Vanitas, but Vanitas tricked him into creating the ultimate Keyblade. I wish I knew this earlier…All of a sudden my heart begins to ache and my vision goes black.

Girl:

I start heading back, I didn't get anything, and I guess I'm just a little tired. the pin holding my hair pops out again and fall to the ground. "Forget it," I say tiredly as I continue walking towards my house. I see the smoke rising from my chimney, I also see heartless running towards my house. I take cover behind a tree and load my bow, and fire it at a heartless. I watch it and the arrow goes right through it. Not good, it noticed me, I open one of my pouches and place my hand above the opening, I flick my hand forward, and water rushes out and hits the heartless, dissolving it. I call the water back and it comes into my hands and freezes into a sword. I grip my weapon and rush the heartless. I command more water to develop around my bow and my arrows, freezing them. As I'm running I'm slashing and firing ice arrows at heartless in my way, hoping they didn't get to the boy. I start wondering if they got to him, but I quickly clear my head of those thoughts. I can't stand to see him like that, even though I barely know him. I keep firing arrows and slashing until I make it to the front door. I kick it open with my bow ready; I rush in and fire an arrow at a heartless in the kitchen. I see a heartless over the boy, and it looks like its stealing his heart. A heartless jumps behind me and I quickly turn around and slash at it as hard as I can, breaking my ice sword. I reach for an arrow but there is no more. I yell stop and the heartless just looks at me and hiss. The boy's heart rises out of his body and turns black. I force the water to take shape as an arrow and freeze it. I grasp it and fire it directly through the heartless's head. It screeches and dissolves. The boy's heart has black energy swirling around it. I run over to him, his face is extremely pale. I glace at his heart and fire is swirling around it. I back up and command water to surround his heart. The fire fizzes out and his heart returns to his body. I place my hands where his heart is and try to talk to him. "Hey, are you ok?" I say. And for once, he responds with thanks, who are you though?"