Welcome to Chapter 9! Hope you've enjoyed the story so far! I promise to upload faster on this chapter than I did on chapter 8. This chapter is in Terra's P.O.V.! ENJOY!


"Release Xion." demands Riku. "Very well." says Vanitas. He snaps and the Nobody disappears and I fall, but catch myself on my hands and knees. "Xion!" calls Sora. "Are you all right?" calls Kairi and Riku in union. "I-I'm all right." I say, standing and walking up beside Sora. "I released her. Do we have a deal?" asks Vanitas. "Tell us where to find the three masters and we do." says Riku. Vanitas nods, "Terra, in The World That Never Was. Aqua, in The Dark Margin, not sure where, but she's there. And Ven, he's asleep in the Land of Departure, now known as Castle Oblivion."

Riku nods, taking all this information in. Kairi stands straight, no longer in her battle stance. Sora is standing too, beside me. "So, will you do it?" asks Vanitas. Riku looks at Kairi. She shrugs. He looks at me. I shrug, having no idea who these three masters are. He looks at Sora. "Will they be hurt?" asks Sora. "No." answers Vanitas, "I just need the three of them together is all."

Riku looks at Sora, "You're calling the shots on this one, should we help him?" "I guess so. Ven would get his heart back and be unharmed. So, yes." answers Sora. Riku looks back at Vanitas. "All right, well go, we'll find them. Where do we find you once we have them with us?" asks Riku. "Just call for me once you find Ventus. I'll come." says Vanitas. He then snaps and disappears. Riku sighs, "We better get to The Word That Never Was and find Terra."


I sighed sitting on a rock. I stared around this barren land gravely. "This is where I am destined to walk forever." I sigh. I look down, thinking of my friends Aqua and Ventus. What did happen to them? I know Ven was beaten and his body was stolen by Vanitas, but what happened to him after that? What happened to his heart? And Aqua? What became of her?

I sigh again and stood, staring out at the forever purple sky. "I will probably never know what became of them." I said, shaking my head, "But this is what I deserve, for letting the Darkness overtake me, and fighting back when I knew it was all too late. I should have fought back earlier. I might have had a chance. But now I'm stuck here."

I shook my head, all I ever do here is think. But what else is there for me to do? All I can do is think, and rome. That's all this place I'm cursed to live in is useful for. I break free from Xehanort, and for what? To rome here for the rest of my heart's existence? Sure I got my body back, but I have no way to leave this place. I guess this is what I deserve. For believing in the Darkness over my master's words. Forgive me, Master Eraqus.

I sigh and walk forward. Though still thinking, I see a bright flash in the corner of my eye. Then I see a ship coming this way. Then the ship crashes hard, the ship becomes destroyed. Wow. Someone can't drive, I say to myself. Then, to my astonishment, four people, no, four children appear from the smoke and fire. A young boy with spiky brown hair, wearing black clothes with many yellow and red belts and black and yellow shoes, is the first one I see.

Behind him, or rather beside, is a taller, maybe older, boy with silver hair half way down his back wearing a white and yellow vest with a white shirt underneath and blue jeans with white and black shoes and white wrist bands. Behind him, actually behind him, but to the side, is a smaller girl, maybe the brown haired kid's age, is a girl with shoulder length violet hair, wearing a pink dress with zippers on it and purple ankle boots with some bangles hanging on her right wrist.

And beside her is another girl, with the same build but maybe smaller, thinner probably, with the same style and length black hair wearing a long black trench coat kind of thing with black boots and pants underneath, from what I can see, she also wears black gloves. The four teens, yeah, I decided they are teens, younger than me, well the silver haired one might be my age, seem to be arguing.

About? Maybe who crashed their ship. I stay where I was, not sure on whether or not I should attack or hide from their sight. I decide to stay where I was. The silver haired kid saw me first. "Hey, you there." he said. I stared at him. "Who are you?" he asked me. I smirked, "You should introduce yourself before asking another's name." He rolled his eyes. "My name's Riku. Now who are you?" he asks with a smirk of his own.

"Riku?" I asked astonished. I knew a Riku once. But he was a little kid. So this is that innocent child? This just goes to show how long I've been here. "Yes. My name is Riku." he answers. The spiky brunette piped in, "Who're you?" I chuckled, he reminded me of a certain spiky blond I once knew. "My name is Terra." I answered. The violet haired girl gasped. I looked at her in confusion. "So you're Master Terra?" she asks. I nod, not sure how she knows who I am.

"Just who are you kids?" I asked them. Again the brunette spoke. "My name's Sora! You know Riku, the girl in pink is Kairi and the girl beside her's Xion." I looked at all the teens. I remember meeting Sora too. But he didn't make such an impression as now. When I met him he was shy and quiet. Why do I feel I'm going to miss the quite around this kid?

"So why are all of you here?" I asked them. "We came to find you." Riku puts it simply. I was taken back. "Me? Why?" I asked. "Long story." mutters Riku. I insisted they tell me this "long story" and when they finish I am in shock. Who knew Vanitas ended up inside of Sora. And he wants to release Ven's heart? That doesn't sound too good. And he wants his heart back? Something isn't right. Vanitas never had a heart to begin with.

Vanitas couldn't have ever had a heart since he was created from Darkness by Xehanort. These kids fell for his trap. But I won't tell them. I need them to get me out of here. They said they are looking for Aqua and Ven too. So I can use them to escape this place and reunite with my friends. I will help them when Vanitas starts what he really wants though. I can be trusted and I need them to know that.

"So you know where Aqua is?" I ask. Riku nods. He doesn't talk much I conclude. "Yes." answers Kairi, "Master Aqua wanders in the Dark Margin from what I know." "And Ventus?" I asked her. "Master Ventus is asleep in the Land of Departure." says Kairi. "That's called Castle Oblivion now though." says Xion quietly. She hasn't spoken to me the entire time. This si the first I've heard her speak. Kairi and she sound and look almost alike. I wonder why...


"How are we going to get out of here, Riku?" asks Xion quietly, "Sora crashed and broke our ship." "It was an accident! I didn't see the Heartless Shuttle! It blended in too well!" says Sora in defense. Riku sighs, "I'll figure it out. Now don't fight. keep your hearts kind to each other. Get some sleep." he instructed them. I came to realize Riku is a great leader to them. He takes care of them and they do as he says. After awhile we all go to sleep.

The next day we were woken by Sora yelling for us to "come here." We all got up and followed Sora to the place that used to be Xemnas's Castle That Never Was and he led us behind it. "Sora?" asks Kairi in curiosity, "Whatcha find?" "A portal!" yells Sora happily. We get to where he was and sure as the sky is purple here there was a black portal there that leads out of here. We all rejoiced.

Then we heard the sound of a Dark Rise close at hand. We all turned around to see the biggest Dark Rise I have ever seen in all my years. "Get ready to fight!" I called back to the teens. They must have listened to me because when I turn back to face them all of them had a Keyblade in hand. I smirked. Great minds think alike, eh, Riku? I realized right as I said get ready to fight he instructed them to "prepare for battle." I faced the Dark Rise again and breathed, "Let's do this."

We had to make a plan if we were to take this thing down. But, as I had learned a thousand times from Master Eraqus, there is no time to make a plan in the heat of battle. You must go with the things you know. And I knew this creatures weaknesses like I knew Aqua's face. And that's pretty damn well. So I looked back at Riku. Clearly he was used to being the leader. "Your call or mine?" I asked, always keeping my eyes on the monster before us.

He thought only for a second before saying, "You're the elder here, Master Terra, your call." The teens all nodded in agreement. Good, I wasn't about to let a junior master tell me what to do. So I nodded and turned back to the monster. "You all know your fighting style. Just follow my lead and try to stay out of each others way." I called back to them, "Oh, and one more thing. Work as a TEAM!"

And with that I tightened the grip on my Keyblade and ran at the monster. It saw me coming and moved to launch an attack. "You heard him!" I heard Riku shout, "GO!" And with that I heard the teens rushing in after me. This is going to work nicely. I hope. The monster swung its arm down to smash me and I easily jumped out of the way. I then noticed it go off balance and to steady itself it was shifting to the right, about to stomp right on top of Kairi!


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