WHY THE HEAVENS CRY

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Chapter4: Darkness

The dream that they shared had come true however none of them wanted it to happen the way it did. Terra was completely broken by his master's words and Aqua couldn't help but worry about Terra all through her sleepless night.

'Terra would never succumb to the darkness' she assured herself, 'he is the most kind and caring boy I know and will ever know'

She would constantly recite similar words through the night till midnight when she heard loud noises coming from the training field.

'Could it be the heartless? That's impossible' Aqua thought

She went to the training ground cautiously only to find Terra in a rampage. He was destroying everything on the field with his bare hands. He was screaming in to the heavens with pain. The pain of the fact that he could become dark and start hurting people. 'What if I hurt Aqua?' he thought. 'I could never….could I?...but she's the only thing that makes sense in my world…she is the source of my happiness and warmth…..I love her' though terra knew that she was far too sensible for that and now with the darkness, he had no chance. He looked at his hands in disgust. These hands could very well be the cause of others misery. His rage was almost palpable. A dark aura appeared around him and he used his fist to break a cliff down to its very foundations! Aqua was horrified at his unimaginable strength. Aqua knew that she had to comfort him.

"Terra!" she called

Terra didn't know if it was his imagination playing tricks. Her voice was so soothing and the thought that he might silence that voice made him shed tears. He relentlessly started punching the air as if he was fighting some invisible ghost. Aqua tried to come closer and the moment she did, Terra's dark glowing fist almost made contact with her face. Terra couldn't believe it. He had come so close to hurting her. He looked in to Aqua's light blue eyes and he knew that he saw horror in them. He couldn't say a word as he shed tears in front of her. Aqua was shocked. She saw something she considered impossible, Terra crying. Terra looked up in to the sky and simply whispered "Why father?"

Aqua was once again shocked. She had never heard Terra mention anything about his past. Aqua tried to put her hands on Terra's cheeks but Terra ran away before she could. Aqua tried to call him back but her efforts were in vain. Seeing terra like that, in pain and suffering, made Aqua shed a tear. It was strange for her as she hadn't cried in years. She ran after Terra knowing he would end up where he always went, looking at the stars.

She found him staring in to the sky just as she thought. She slowly came closer to him.

"Terra, are you okay?" Aqua asked and regretted asking a stupid question.

Terra didn't look back at her and simply said "You shouldn't come near me. I'm a monster"

"No you're not! You're Terra!"

"What's the difference? I have darkness in my heart and will eventually hurt people"

She sat next to him and saw him cry a river.

"I could even hurt you and that thought kills me."

Aqua placed her hand on his shoulder who finally looked right in to her eyes. Aqua saw nothing but tears and that made her cry.

"What's wrong!" Terra asked in shock as he had never seen or heard Aqua cry. Her tears pierced his heart.

"Seeing you cry makes me cry"

Terra felt the same. He was now shedding tears because Aqua was crying.

"Why?"

"You're the closest thing I have to family, Terra. I never had a family. My dad died before I was born and my mother died giving birth to me."

Terra couldn't help but bring Aqua closer to his chest. He wrapped his arms around her.

"I never had a family as well. My mom also died giving birth to me and my father…he…."

Aqua opened her ears only to hear about Terra's father as he mentioned him back at the training ground.

"I never met him but Master Eraqus tells me that he was the leader of the dark forces in the keyblade war. He fought the forces of light who died along with himself. "

Aqua was surprised to hear that. She got disturbed by hearing anything related to the keyblade war. It was a war fought between the forces of light and darkness for acquiring the X-blade, the ultimate weapon. It had resulted in the death of nearly all the Masters of that generation and now only a handful were left.

"I think I got the darkness from my dad. I hate him for that"

"Terra, you're not your father. It's not the darkness what makes you who you are but it's what you do with it"

For some reason her words reassured Terra. He loved her so much that it hurt. He wanted to tell her how much he loved her there and then but he just couldn't.

"Thank you" Aqua said

"Why?"

"For holding me in your arms…I feel…safe and happy….it warmed my heart"

"Any time and thank you"

"For what?"

"For making me realize that I can't let the darkness control me…I will control it….you've made me so happy….I feel warmth surging through my heart….I don't know what I'd do without you….I can't live without you…..promise me that you'll always be my guiding light through the darkness."

Aqua felt more warmth and now the light in her chest lit up more brightly than ever before.

"Always"

Terra too experienced the same feeling and both of them had finally realized what they felt whenever they were together. It was true love and even though they hadn't told each other, they didn't need to. No one else could replace the other because it was true love and a feeling as strong as that is rare, even in the universe.

Terra and Aqua fell asleep next to each other with terra's chin over her head and their hands wrapped around each other. They had slept with the stars shining their radiant light over the two young masters. Eraqus had seen them when he tried to get a midnight snack and he couldn't help but smile at his former pupils who had now become masters.