Me: I'm so sorry about the long wait on this

Alex: Things have been getting busy

Me: Yeah, so… anyone remember this chapter?

Alex: *an aura of depression appears*

Me: Opps ^^' oh well

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A sense of dread filled Alex as they neared the next world, the Enchanted Domain. And for two good reasons;

Reason number 1: Maleficent.

Reason number 2: Maleficent will tell Ven lies about Terra taking Aurora's heart.

"Hey Alex, you think Terra's on that world?" Ven asked.

Alex shrugged "Who knows but we should still check, right?" She asked.

"Yeah." Ven said and both entered the world.

They landed inside an empty castle, people were locked in a deep sleep until Aurora wakes up.

"Still no sign of Terra." Ven said as Alex peered through the hallway.

They saw a wooden door to there left.

"Wanna check it out?" Ven asked.

"Okay." Alex nodded she pushed the right door while Ven pushed the other and they opened.

A sensation of loneliness welcomed them from the room giving Alex a sense of familiarity, she inwardly sighed 'This is almost like-like…' she furiously shook her head.

'No, don't think about it, don't think about them anymore' Alex breathed heavily.

A hand grabbed hers, startling Alex as she looked at Ven "I-I'm fine" she smiled.

Ven looked concerned but before he could say anything Alex pointed at something ahead of them.

"Look" she said looking at the bed.

On it laid a woman with golden blonde hair and red lips it was Aurora, her eyes were closed and she looked pale she almost appeared dead if not for the steady breaths she exhaled.

A cold sensation returned to Alex, yet it was light and not as bothersome, it came from Aurora. Unlike Cinderella and Snow White she didn't radiate the same warmth as they did as a Princess of Heart.

'It has to be because of Maleficent' Alex thought.

Ven took a step closer to examine the sleeping princess.

Alex reached out for him "Ven, wait-"

"Stop, you two get away from her!" Both teens jumped and turned around to see three fairies one wearing red, the other green and the last one wore blue, looking at them angrily.

"Wait! We're really sorry, we didn't mean to just barge in we just wanted to see if she was okay" Alex said nervously wringing her hands.

"Yeah, it's just; I've never seen anyone so beautiful." Ven said.

"Who are you two?" The red one, Flora asked floating to us.

"I'm Ventus, but you can call me Ven."

"I'm Alex, please to meet you." Alex said politely as Flora, the green one circled them, examining them closely.

"Oh you don't seem bad, dears." Forna said finally losing her guarded look. "I'm certain the both of you have pure hearts just like our precious Aurora."

"Especially you dearie." She added looking at Alex. She tilted her head but shrugged it off.

"But how did she get like this?" Alex asked looking back at Aurora.

"Long ago Maleficent cursed her. Now she's stolen her heart." Flora said sadly.

"Hm... Well then, why don't we get it back for her?" Ven suggested.

"Yeah, just lead the way." Alex said nodding.

"That's impossible, dears." Forna said hopelessly.

"Maleficent's home is at the Forbidden Mountain. It's not safe."

"We're not afraid." Ven pointed out.

"Yeah, and we can't leave Aurora like this forever. She may never wake up if she doesn't get her heart back." Alex said looking at the fairies pleadingly.

"Please you have to have faith in us we'll get her heart back, I promise!" The fairies thought for a moment, but they knew the had to do something to help Aurora.

"You know, you both are absolutely right." Flora said looking determined. "The Forbidden Mountain is through the forest. Come along- follow us. After all, we wouldn't want the two of you to get lost." The both of them nodded.

They made their way through the castle, fighting Unversed, and going through the forest. They got near the end of the forest where a large wall of green and black fire blocked our path.

"Looks like we're stuck." Ven said folding his arms.

"This must be Maleficent's doing." Flora said as Alex turned to Merryweather.

"Isn't there another way to the mountain?" She asked.

"No, this is the only path." Merrywhether said, shaking her head.

"I know." Forna said and tapped her wand on the wall and it broke apart in a shimmering light. "Shall we?"

"Am I the only one who thought that was a little too easy?" Alex asked as they walked on reaching the base of the Forbidden Mountain.

"I mean why did Maleficent put up those barriers in the first place if it was that easy to break them down, is she really that confident about her strength?"

"She must not have expected us to come and retrieve Aurora's heart." Flora said as they climbed up the mountain.

"That's right dear, Maleficent doesn't know anything about love or kindness or the joy of helping others." Forna said.

"So basically, she's just a heartless witch?" Alex said as Merryweather nodded. Once they got to the grounds of the castle Ven and Alex took care of Maleficent's guards, which were easy to take out. 'This is just too easy' Alex thought zapping another guard with thunder 'Unversed are more challenging then these guys.'

They finally reached another doorway and it was guarded by two of Maleficent's guards.

"Careful, they're Maleficent's."

"Well they ain't guardin' nothing." Ven and Alex pointed out, Ven smiled and ruffled her hair. Alex giggled she always wanted to say that.

"Mm, maybe she had them guard Aurora's heart?" Alex said as Ven readied his keyblade. It was the perfect time to attack after all the guards seemed to fall asleep it would be a good surprise attack.

"Ten-shun!" Ven called out as they ran at them. "No sleeping on the job!" Soon, a bunch of guards came running in Alex grinned and summomed Heaven's Heart.

"Can't have any slackers now, can we?" Alex called running towards them.

"That was easy." Alex said when they quickly defeated all of them "We'd better keep going." Ven nodded and the group made their way into the large hall Alex felt a warmth in her chest again but it was faint.

At the other end was the Aurora's heart; encased by in green flames as soon as they got near it a maze appeared, blocking their path.

"Now how are we supposed to get to the heart?" Ven asked, staring at the walls that stood in our way.

"Just, keep going until we get to Aurora's heart?" Alex said.

The portals came to be a problem Alex realized when she felt sick and drained every time they entered one, the dizziness became too much and she stumbled in the last one and fell forward hearing the others cry out in surprise. Alex could feel someone picked up her upper part of her body and shake her gently "Hey, Alex wake up!" It was Ven "Alex?"

"Nnngh…V-Ven…?" She tried to say.

"What's happening to you?" Ven asked worriedly.

"It must have been the darkness in those portals" Flora said yet Alex could faintly hear her. "It must have been too draining for her"

"But why is it affecting her and not us?" Ven asked still holding on to Alex, her head was cradled against his chest.

"It must have been because of her heart" Founa said.

"Her heart?" Ven asked "Why?"

Merryweather answered this time "Because-" that's when Alex couldn't take it anymore and completely blacked out.

Ba-bump!

'What's happening?'

Ba-bump!

'What am I?'

Ba-bump!

'What…is…my…purpose?'

Alex gasped snapping into focus, breathing heavily 'Where'd that come from?' She thought.

"Alex, your awake!" Ven exclaimed, Alex lifted her head up noticing that he was carrying her on his back.

"W-What happened?" Alex asked feeling a bit groggy after he gently put her down.

"You passed out dearie" Founa said "That darkness must have been too draining for you" Ale. looked at them "Draining?" She asked rubbing the side of her head.

"Don't worry about it" Ven quickly assured.

"We're just glad your okay now."

"Uh, yeah" Alex said a bit unsurely.

'Am I missing something?'

Alex looked ahead and saw Aurora's heart, already in reach. "C'mon let's free her heart" Ven nodded.

Ven summoned Wayward Wind and Alex summoned Heaven's Heart, sharing a smile they both stood sideways back to back and pointed their Keyblades in sync with each other, two beams of light appeared and extinguished the green flames, once free the heart quickly flew away to Aurora.

"That should do it." Ven said.

Alex smiled when a warm pulse bloomed inside her "I'm sure it worked" she grinned placing a hand on her chest.

They had only walked a few steps when a bright light suddenly covered everything in the room, including themselves.

They were no longer in Maleficent's castle instead they appeared in a forest with an awake Aurora and a young man with brown hair.

"Don't you remember? We've met before." Philip said to Aurora.

"We... We have?" She asked hesitantly.

"Why of course. You said so yourself-once upon a dream."

"I never thought I would meet you-outside of my dreams, that is." Aurora cooed, leaning her head against his shoulder.

"Who are you? What's your name?" Philip asked, curiously.

"Oh, my name... Why it's..." Then she gasped remembering the warning. "Oh, oh no, I can't... Goodbye!"

"I must see you!" Philip shouted desperately and Aurora turned to leave.

"I don't know, maybe some day." Aurora gasped, running off reluctant to leave Philip.

"When, tomorrow?"

"Oh no, this evening!" Aurora said excitedly "At the cottage, in the glen." She ran off into the distance

Another flash of light and Ven and Alex were back inside the hallway of Maleficent's castle.

"Did you-?" Ven started.

"Yeah." Alex nodded.

"What was that?" Ven asked.

Alex shrugged "Some kind of…memory? but it wasn't ours." Alex said as the fairies came up to them.

"Aurora's memory, she must have gotten her heart back." Flora said, happily.

"So her dream came true!" Ven said excited.

"She did look happy in that memory." Alex smiled.

"Yes, not long ago." Flora agreed. "Dreams are very strong beliefs. Aurora's led her to her true love."

"I see you both hold strong beliefs too. Don't you, dears?" Forna said looking at the teens.

"Yup." Ven said nodded.

"And we'll keep on believing no matter what." Alex said and the two of them looked at each other and smiled sharing a fist bump.

'I'll never give up my dreams easily and neither will Ven; not while we have our friends beside us.'

"You both also have a strong light." Flora added Alex blinked.

A strong…light?

"All right, hurry; we can't stay here!" Merrywhether said looking worried.

"If we'll want to leave quickly then we need to go back to the maze in reverse" Alex said "I just hope I can handle it this time" she sighed.

"Don't worry, dear. We'll take care of it." Flora said and she and the other fairies turned to the nearest portal. Flicking their wands to send a bit of light at the portal it changed from a blood red to a gold color.

"This way, we can get out faster." Merrywhether pointed out looking pleased.

"Hurry, we have to leave before Maleficent finds us." Flora said, urgently. They nodded and left the hall the fairies were terrified of Maleficent Alex realized but they were still brave enough to have come so far to free Aurora's heart.

The group had just entered the throne room to see a tall figure with horns dressed all in black and holding a staff with a green crystal ball on top and a matching green hand holding it

"Someone has released Princess Aurora's heart." The figure said, not turning to face us. Alex shuddered slightly feeling as if there were ice inside her.

"Tell me, children, was it you?" She said finally turning to face us.

"Maleficent!"

"Only 'cause you stole it in the first place!" Ven shouted.

"Ven don't!" Alex cried trying to stop him but it was too late. Ven jumped and made to slash Maleficent but she vanished in green and black flames.

Alex summoned her keyblade and stood back to back with Ven in case they were hit with a surprise attack.

"A keyblade… you must be Ventus." They looked up at the platform where the throne was to see Maleficent staring down at them.

"Huh? How do you know about me and the keyblade?" Ven asked.

Maleficent had a smug look on her face then she looked at Alex and to Alex's confusion (and slight fear) her smug look grew.

"But you, dear Alex on the other hand are completely different" she said suddenly appearing in front of her, she yelped and stepped back 'S-She knows my NAME!?'

The green skinned witch leaned down closer and placed one of her fingers under her chin, tilting her head up she stared at her closely in the eye and Alex found herself unable to look away from the acidic green eyes that were intensely boring into hers.

"Yes, yes you are the one!" Maleficent said almost gleefully Alex swallowed the lump in her throat "T-the one?" She repeated in a daze.

Maleficent looked at me with mock pity "Oh you poor, poor child you've been kept in the dark haven't you?" She cooed twisting a strand of Alex's hair between her green fingers.

"Do you think your Master really trusts you?"

Maleficent's words stung something deep inside her. And she could only let out a choked gasp "W-What!?"

"Get away from her!" Ven yelled attempting to slash at her again Maleficent disappeared in a cloud of black smoke and reappeared near her throne.

"My powers ensure I'd know of the keys to bringing me hearts and of course the Guardian." Maleficent said answering Ven's previous question.

'What's a guardian?' Alex wondered, there was nothing like this in the game.

"Terra gave me a demonstration of his powers."

"Terra, he was here?" Ven asked, though still angry with Maleficent.

"Why, yes. In fact, it was he who stole Princess Aurora's heart."

"Liar!" Alex yelled "How dare you accuse Terra of doing something like that!" Ven looked just as furious.

"I was asked to leave you both unharmed especially you young Guardian, but it seems I have no choice!" Maleficent shouted, ready to battle.

The fairies, who were still scared also wanted to help they two young teens, they turned into green, red, and blue balls of light and flew over to them in case they needed help.

Maleficent suddenly vanished.

"Where'd she-!?" Ven gasped, narrowing her eyes Alex quickly turning around sensing a dark aura and saw the green skinned witch behind them, her crystal ball glowing signifying that she was about to cast a spell.

"Protect!" She yelled, a sphere with hexagonal plates appeared around them as a bolt of purple lightning crashed down but bounced off the shield harmlessly.

"Wow cool." Ven said staring at the shield in approval Alex smiled "You can thank Aqua for teaching me that spell." She said looking at an exact replica of the shield Aqua casted on Terra in the Keyblade Graveyard.

Maleficent vanished before they had a chance to attack appeared in the opposite wall.

"We've got to be careful, Ven. Maleficent seems like no pushover if we aren't it could end badly." Alex said keeping her eyes on the witch.

"Right. Then what do we do?"

"Attack head on, but dodge when she's about to cast a spell, that's her main specialty I can't keep casting a barrier every time she does I'll run out of energy." She said jumping at Maleficent and managed to land a few blows before cartwheeling off as she aimed more lightning bolts at her.

Ven quickly saw his sister's plan and followed, creating an evenly matched speed tactic distancing themselves between her thunder spells.

Unfortunately Maleficent caught onto their plan and started using close ranged thunder spells making it harder to dodge.

"Argh!" Ven shouted as he was hit with a thunder spell AIex gasped as he fell on the floor flinching badly from relapse.

'She-she attacked Ven…she hurt one of my closest friends! Someone I consider my brother!'

Alex turned to Maleficent angrily "You'll pay for that!" She shouted unknowingly glowing again.

Her chest was both warm and cool mixing together perfectly, wisps of light and darkness swarmed around her body, four black wings, two on her upper and lower back appeared and she began to rise inches from the ground.

Ven and the fairies could only look at her in shocked, the fairies sensing no ill intent in the darkness surrounded her but more like a sense of…protectiveness?

Alex paid them no mind to focused on a shocked looking Maleficent to really care "Dark Waltz!" She yelled lunging at the witch, her keyblade was incased in darkness as she stuck Maleficent multiple times, too fast to see appearing like a black blur, courtesy of her newfound wings.

The final strike forced Maleficent to stagger back looking awfully weak, Alex lunged again, keyblade raised.

But the witch disappeared in a cloud of purple smoke Alex stopped in mid air, still floating looking stunned at her actions 'What did I…?' She looked at her wings 'How did this-?'

"Alex!" Ven called she turned back to see him rush towards her.

"Ven!" Her wings suddenly disappeared and she started to drop, she yelped before Ven managed to catch her inches from hitting the ground.

"What was that?" Ven asked letting go of her.

Alex shook her head "I-I'm not sure" then remembering that he was struck by lightning she started to look over him for any injuries.

"What about you? Are you okay?" She asked worriedly Ven laughed a bit "I'm fine, don't worry." Alex nodded back in relief.

"That's good."

"Now, where is she?" Ven asked looking around for Maleficent.

Alex pointed at Maleficent's throne "Over there" she said watching as the exhausted witch limped slightly over the steps looking close to falling.

Ven ran near the throne "There's no way Terra would hurt somebody like that!" He yelled.

"Yeah the Terra that we know would never hurt someone on purpose!" Alex added.

"Even so, all I did was tempted the darkness in his heart." Maleficent said, smugness returning to her face, despite the damaged Alex caused.

"Once I did that, he agreed so easily. I'm sure your heart would've done the same as well, if your heart wasn't consumed by light."

"Consumed…by light?" Alex asked feeling an uncomfortable burn in her chest. Maleficent smirked at her.

'What does she know about me?' Alex thought, frustrated.

"He did?" Ven seemed to have lost hope. Alex knew this wasn't too but a small seed of doubt began to grow in her chest.

"Terra…"

"Ven, Alex! Don't be fooled!" A familiar voice called out from behind them, they turned to see Aqua running to them.

"Aqua!" Alex was glad and a bit scared to see her. It was nice to see her again but on the other hand it was also a good reason to be scared, Aqua's scary sometimes especially when she's mad just Ven and Terra showed her that much.

"Terra would never do that." Aqua reasoned. "You both know that, as well as I do." Ven cheered up when he heard that.

"Yeah." He said with a nod, Alex smiled.

"Ahh… the truth can be most cruel, even amongst the closest of friends." Alex had forgotten for a second that Maleficent was still there.

"After all, one never knows the secrets of another's heart. I'm sure you'll agree… Ventus… Alex… Aqua."

The three of them glared at the witch but Aqua turned to Ven and Alex.

"Enough with the lies!" Alex yelled, angrily. 'I know Master Xehanort told her about the keyblades and the outside worlds but what did he tell her know about me?'

"The master sent me." Aqua said as Ven and Alex looked at each other 'Busted' they thought. "Ven…Alex…let's go home." She extended a hand out to them, Ven looked sad and Alex looked shocked.

'Why do I need to go back?'

"Do you think your Master really trusts you?" Maleficent's words rang in her head making Alex winced a tighten her hand into a fist.

"But Terra-"

"Terra's not ready to leave yet." Ven was silent for moment then glanced at Alex, remembering the masked boys words to him before he left 'I'm not letting anything happen to Alex' he thought with new determination.

"Sorry, Aqua." Ven said sadly turning to look at her, Alex nodded not daring to say it out loud. "But I can't go with you and neither can Alex."

"What?"

"Ven?"

"It's just… I have to find Terra before it's too late and I promised myself that I would protect Alex no matter what!" Ven vowed.

"Ven!?"

"C'mon Alex!" Ven said grabbing Alex's hand and started to run, dragging her with him.

"Ven, Alex!"

'I'm really sorry Aqua' Alex thought turning back to look at her.

"Terra where are you?" Ven asked as they ran out of the castle and off the forbidden mountain. They kept running until they reached the forest.

"Ven, Aqua's right Terra would never do that Maleficent was just lying you know that, right?" Alex said, his back was facing her.

"I know, but I'm still worried."

"I'm…I'm scared" Alex said clasping her hands together worry and fear for her dear friend growing before she could stop it.

"W-What if next time…next time it won't be an accident? What if Terra really ends up doing something bad? What if-"

"That's enough!" Ven snapped shoving Alex, she stumbled falling back letting out a gasp Alex looked at Ven wide-eyed then she sat on her knees, looking down.

Ven had a similar expression on his face but it had a bit of horror on it once he realized what he did.

Alex's shoulders were trembling slightly "Alex…." She heard Ven said, he knelt down and placed a hand on her shoulder Alex flinched and glanced up, she saw a look of hurt pass though his eyes before looking away again.

"I'm sorry…I probably shouldn't…have said that" Alex muttered getting up.

Ven opened his mouth to say something but she cut him off "Let's keep going, or we might not catch up to Terra. You guys have a lot to talk about." Alex's back was facing Ven but she could tell he nodded, she quickly got into her armor and waited for Ven to do the same.

"Alex I-" Ven started.

"Don't." Alex said forcefully "it's okay Ven really" She hopped on her glider and both sped off in silence.

'What's happening to us?'

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