The Nighmare That Always Was

The boy awakens.

All is rotating.

His sight is a mess.

He remembers where he is.

"But the aura of peace that once was. It is no more…"

He is at Radiant Garden.

So he gets up to his knees. The world is different. "Feels like it has been passing through bad times".

There is a puddle and he looks to his own reflection. His hair is white. His skin is darker. So he remembers. He is incomplete. His body and heart are together again. And his soul is waiting to be free and join them. But there's something else.

Eraqus and Xehanort are still there. "And thinking on the monster".

A Dark Corridor appears in front of him. A man in a black coat appears. In an identical coat, a boy is held by. "It is … Impossible…The boy is…Vanitas.

Terra jumps backwards and summons his Keyblade. Correcting: Xehanort's Keyblade.

The man in black coat pulls his hood down. His face shocked Terra. "How could…!?" Master Xehanort was staring him with a smile on his face.

-Well…Here we are again…Me, you, Vanitas and MY heart. What a big happy family reunion. And also convenient. I came to claim what it is mine. Hand it over.

-How…!?" – He couldn't finish the question.

-How am I in front of you if my heart is inside your body? Be patient and you'll know. Because I am not even supposed to exist. When a heart leaves someone's body or is consumed by darkness. Its body and soul don't entirely disappear, they form a new being. A Nobody. But you knew that, didn't you? You were the one who discovered, right?

-And Vanitas? Wait… if he is here. Where is Ventus? Has he awakened? – Infortunely he remembered all "his" doing during the time he was possessed.

-No, he hasn't. But his body and soul have been busy. He's still waiting for someone to wake him up.

-What do you mean with "his body and soul have been busy"!? What did you do to him?

-Me? Don't be fool. I did nothing but I couldn't say anything about your chosen one, Riku.

-Riku!?

-He has fallen to the darkness and lost the right to wield the Keyblade and forced his own best friend to become a Heartless. And doing this he saved their friend and became both a Heartless and a Nobody but fused with his heart was Ventus' heart. Their friend is nothing less than a Princess of Heart.

-Riku…And what happened then?

-As her heart was freed, the boy's body and soul became her Nobody but the boy also lost his heart so Ventus' abandoned body and soul became his Nobody. Oh, don't worry. Different of you. Riku won over the darkness. Now back to business, my heart… - And he disappears in a flash.

He appears right in front of Terra, wielding a strange huge red sword with a Nobody symbol on it. He tried to slash Terra, who evaded he steps back and summon a dark sphere.

The sphere is actually a cloud with a gravity pulse barrier with two arrowguns in the middle of it. So the cloud take form of a man in a black coat. "Braig…"

-Braig!

-No, it's Xigbar, his Nobody or even better, what is last of it. His Absent Silhouette. -And the two disappear. Xigbar appears above Terra and shots. He jumps backwards where Xehanort appears and cut his arm.

So Terra performs a Dark Volley at Xigbar who teleports to where Terra also teleports using Xehanort's power. He is able to perform an Ars Solum at him and jumos back to use Strike Raid but he disappears again. He puts his arrowgun at Terra's head. It was over.

"Or it was not yet". He disappears from Xigbar's sight and takes his Keyblade mud-air but Xehanort appears and attacks him. He dodges his sword and Xigbar's shots. He clashes with Xehanort and is able to push him to the floor. He decides to finish him for good but Xigbar shots and he evades but again there is an arrowgun pointing at his head. He casts a Quake spells which sends the ghost to the air where Terra finishes him off with an Aerial Slam.

All of that gave enough time to Master Xehanort make him an easy target.

He slices the boy's chest and summons his Keyblade from Terra's hand.

-Now it is time to me be complete again but first…- holds the Keyblade high and aim his own chest and stabs. A heart get away from there and goes to Vanitas, who awakens.

The evil people stares Terra on his knees.

-Haha! What a sight – And he summons Flood Unverseds to hold Terra.

-Haven't you been destroyed by Aqua and Ven?

-Kind of. But just like your little friend. My heart was just broken and found its way to the Nobody of the old man and waited to restore itself until be ready to join my body and soul. And here I am now.

-Enough of talk. Now … the final reunion! – And he stabs Terra's chest but just one heart comes from there. The heart travels to Xehanort and he is once again complete. – Now you will join us again and become one of my vessels… - And Terra is diving into an dark infinite abyss.

"Terra. Has the darkness taken you again? Don't give up. Aqua and Ven wait for you. I wait for you. I'll be right with you. Inside your heart." And a light shines. From there Terra emerges on his feet and covered by light and … hope.

-Don't worry. I haven't given up. I'll save Ven and Aqua. I'll be there to Riku. … I will figure out a way to save you… - And all becomes pure light. Terra wouldn't go down so easily.

He opens his eyes. Vanitas is about to take him. He burns in rage. He is covered by a light aura. Vanitas flies back. His hair becomes brown again. His skin becomes lighter again. And his Keyblade leaves his Lingering Will to serve for its true master.

-I won't go down so easy. I won't be taken by the darkness … Master…Aqua…Ven… - He embraces his Wayfinder and the aura burns stronger.

-So be it as you wish – And they are engulfed by darkness.

They are teleported to the World of Nothingness. At the right side of Terra was Vanitas who laughs and jumps to the nothing aback leaving Terra and the man inside the Keyblade Armor on his throne wielding the strange sword. The man on the throne performs a Galestrike and Terra is sent flying to the nothing.

He is floating at nothing. Vanitas is flying around him with his Keyblde Glider (a red and black version of Ven's) and in front of him there is an enormous white dragon Nobody, which makes a movement and various focus of light float in front of Terra who dodges with his Keyblade Glider when they shot light beams.

Vanitas shots Firaaga, Blizzaga and Dark Thundaga on the brown haired boy who evades them and Blizzaga spells that home to the evil boy. Using his Keyblade Glider, Vanitas attacksTerra the same way Ven did. He transforms his Keyblade and performs a Thunder Surge which damages Vanitas.

The dragon prepares another attack and Vanitas performs a Dark Salvo (a dark version of Flame Salvo).

Terra transforms his Keyblade into a whip and casts Magnega at the tip of and starts to swing defending him and absorbing the energy. When the two attacks stop, he transform it into a cannon, not needing charge energy he shots an Ultima Cannon at the shield of the dragon, which holds the pure destroying energy balls but Terra transforms the cannon into bow and shots on it, which explodes.

He tries to fly to the throne but he has to evade every shadow version of Vanitas trying to slash him. So when they stop, Vanitas tries a Sliding Dash, but Terra also evades. So he teleports upside down in front of Terra and tries to hit him but he uses a Limit Storm, throwing Vanitas far away from his way and he is able to fly to Xehanort.

Xehanort gets up. Summon his Keyblade and split it into two blades and performs a Dark Volley which Terra evades.

So he transforms into gloves, boots and wings and performs a Shadow Flash which consists in hitting a combo, finishing it with an upper slash to send the enemy to the air, continuing the combo mi-air, throwing the enemy to the floor and shooting him.

The battle was over. Master Xehanort and Vanitas unsummon their Keyblade and Keyblade Armors and also the World of Nothingness.

Now they were back to Radiant Garden.

-Master…Aqua…Ven…I'm sorry…

-Too late – Vanitas taunts even being very tired.

-Now, join us, Terra – Xehanort says and all turns black…

This was so exciting to write. As you see this happens after DDD

Sorry to whom doesn't like the idea of MX creating a Nobody when he fused with Terra and also to who doesn't like the idea that the man fighting Sora on the No Heart Keyblade Armor was MX's Nobody but it fits anyway so…