Chapter 7-The Stories Never Spoken

Spoilers if you have not completed BBS (Birth By Sleep) all the way to the Final Episode! BEWARE!

The man, who sat on the ground, sighing in happiness and relief, had brown hair with bangs framing his face and slightly spiked at the top, and long in the back, blue eyes, a yellow ripped shirt with a master symbol barely on it, brown wide pants, also ripped, and red and yellow armor on his arms and the same for his shoes.

"You're the guy that let me touch the Keyblade…" Riku remembered it, although faint it was.

"…It seems time has really passed." The man sighed, standing up on his own.

"…I'm Riku, that's Dualnade…" Riku introduced himself, and his pal.

"Terra, now…I need some help, if you don't mind." Terra told them, "And It might be beneficial for all of us."

Indents from the ground formed cracks around the red headed girl as Vanitas slammed her down into the concrete with his Keyblade. She sat up, and then rolled to her left, dodging a blast of darkness from Rikai. Summoning back her Keyblade, it was thrown at Rikai in the face, sending her into a brick wall. Vanitas finally, after this had been dragged out to an hour, announced, "Rikai, we're leaving."

"Already?" Rikai sighed in annoyance.

"We'll play with the Princess later." Vanitas smirked under his mask, and left with his female accomplice thru a corridor, leaving Kairi alone.

"Stupid…Stupid…" She got up and ran away from the area, thinking they were just deceiving her. Her eyes shut, she ran as fast as she could, until she ran into someone and fell down, "I'm so sorry-…Sora?"

"Kairi! Are you okay?" Sora helped her up, examining her wounds.

"I ran into trouble with Rikai and Vanitas." She replied.

"Well, at least you're safe." Akira came walking over with Scott.

"Don't worry Princess Kairi, we'll make sure Sora shall protect you." Scott told her.

"Hey! I always-" Sora began to state but was ignored.

"Anyways, we have to go now. Boss wants us." Akira replied, "So good luck."

"…You're leaving us?" Sora and Kairi asked in unison.

"Sadly, yes, because if we don't R will yell at us and I get enough of it on a daily basis." Scott replied, "Granted I don't deserve it."

"…That's what you think." Akira mumbled under her breath, and then told the teens, "Someone's waiting for you at the Beach, the one you two first were on."

"Oh! Her! She's awesome!" Sora knew who they were mentioning. He thought she'd be great inspiration for Kairi, even though he didn't want her to be involved in any Keyblade affairs.

"Okay, bye." Kairi waved bye to the white coated pair, who left in a corridor, leaving them to survive here with what Kairi knew as an awesome woman at the dark Meridian.

"So, you want us to come with you to the Realm of Darkness?"

Terra had explained to Riku and Dualnade how it was his fault his best friend-and secret lover as Dualnade mumbled constantly and Riku thought in his head-was in the Realm of Darkness because he left himself be consumed by the darkness and his body taken over by a mad evil man out for the world to bow down to his power. The man was Xehanort, obviously, as Riku speculated at the beginning of their chat. However, since he had his body back, Terra wanted to make amends to his dear friend.

"Yeah." Terra nodded, "But…There's another issue."

"And that is?" Dualnade asked, leaning against a wall of rock.

"My other friend, Ventus." Terra replied, looking at the ground. He didn't know what happened to his little friend at all. Though, he knew something horrible must've, he was never told of anything about the poor little guy.

"What about him?" Riku asked.

"When we were fighting Xehanort and Vanitas, I don't know what happened to him. Aqua came alone when I was possessed, that I do know." Terra replied, "Otherwise, I don't know where he would be."

"I've never heard of Ventus before." Riku thought about, and nothing ringed a bell.

"I think I've heard DiZ mention him once or twice…" Dualnade thought about it as well. DiZ had said he was a young boy who befell a horrible fate, all because of Xehanort, but was still alive. That was all Dualnade had heard a while back, "Oh yeah, he said something bad happened to him, but he's alive."

"Well, at least he's alive." Terra held something close to his chest. The two younger boys saw a hint of orange in his hand.

"What are you holding?" Riku asked out of curiosity.

"…A Wayfinder my friend Aqua made for all three of us." Terra replied, hesitant, "Because even when we're separated, we'll find our way back together someday."

"Then, let's make someday be today."

Kairi and Sora slid down the slope onto the purple sanded beach where only a moon gave light. A woman with blue hair sat on a rock, looking out into the ocean. Sora seemed excited and looked like he'd burst into fireworks any moment.

"Hey! Aqua!" Sora shouted to her, waving as he approached her with Kairi lingering behind at a slower pace.

"Huh?" Aqua looked up and spun around. She smiled as she saw the goofy teen trip, and then get right back up and continue running. He was so much like Ven.

"Sorry for taking so long, but we found Kairi!" Sora apologized, gesturing to Kairi who stood behind him.

"It's nice to meet you, miss." Kairi politely said. She was usually pretty polite to nice strangers not out to kill her friends or take over the world.

"Yes, it is nice to meet you again, Kairi." Aqua smiled. She remembered the little girl of light from Radiant Garden. Though, she did have to say to herself, Kairi did resemble her and reminded Aqua of herself.

"…Again?" Kairi was puzzled. She did admit the woman before her looked fairly familiar, but fuzzy in her head.

"You were very little." Aqua explained, "I saved you from those little mon-"

"Oh! You're the one who saved me from the Unversed…" Kairi remembered once it was mentioned. Aqua was shocked Kairi had paid attention when she had said the name of the Unversed over a decade ago.

"Yeah, well you've both grown up to be wonderful people." Aqua's smile became sad, "I have to tell you a story, about three friends, me, Ventus-or Ven as he wanted to be called, and Terra, so what happened to us, won't be repeated." Sora and Kairi sat on the beach, listening like children.

"It was over 10 years ago, and our Master, Master Eraqus, was training us to be Keyblade Masters. Terra and I were old enough, unlike Ven, to take the exam. Our Master's brother came as well to help. After the exam, I was deemed master, but Terra wasn't, because he used his darkness. So, our master sent him out on a quest to look into these creatures known as the Unversed. I was sent to make sure he was keeping out of trouble. Ven, also left, to go tell Terra something when he wasn't supposed to…So I also went to go get him. Things happened, we had disputes, made up, and I saw Terra was trying to restore the light and to push back the darkness.

"But, Master Xehanort killed our Master, as I found out from Master Yen Sid. We all then went to the Keyblade Graveyard, as it is called. It's what left of the ruins of the Keyblade War. Terra was going to make Xehanort pay for what he'd done, I was going to make sure they all stayed safe, and Ven…Ven was going to confront Vanitas. He'd told us, even if it meant death. Terra and Master Xehanort became locked in battle. Ven and I were confronted by a freak with an eye patch and scars and Vanitas. I was knocked out from a blow. When I woke up, Vanitas had possessed Ven, and forged the X-blade, which is a blade that unlocks Kingdom Hearts, or so I've heard. King Mickey and I were forced to fight him, and then I coded out.

"I woke up at Master Yen Sid's, and Ven was okay, except that in the process of the X-blade's destruction, his heart was lost and was comatose. I was instructed to take him somewhere safe. I returned to our home world and found it was dying. I found my Master's Keyblade and used it to make a castle that would send intruders into Oblivion. I set Ven in a bed, until I found his heart again. After that, I found Terra, though, he looked different. Master Xehanort must've possessed him now that I think about it. We battled, and he almost fell into darkness, but I saved him, and sacrificed myself to spend time here…

"About a few months ago, while I sat here with a man who told me of you, Sora, a corridor of light appeared, and we went through. I recovered my armor and Keyblade. I also not a while back, visited my friend Ven, and met some Nobodies…Anyways, I was then instructed recently to save your Riku once we found out about Master Xehanort's return. And now, the rest you know."

Before the children could even respond to the sad tale of woe, Heartless appeared like crazy, surrounding all three.