Chapter 10

I woke up on another island but I saw a sunset" Now where am I?". I looked around noticing a star shaped fruit tree" That fruit?". I pulled my wayfinder out" Aqua told me about it". As I was walking I saw some cabins and noticed a cave. I walked in seeing some drawings"Drawings?". I looked and touched them. I heard a voice"What are you doing in here?". I jumped as I saw a brown haired boy with blue eyes and a silver haired boy with blue eyes" This is our cave!". I blinked surprised and said"I'm sorry I didn't know. Where am I?".the silver haired one said"Destiny islands. Your not from here are you?". I blinked surprised as the brown one was shocked"So your from another world!?". I was surprised they knew"How do you know about the other worlds?". The silver haired boy said"A boy long ago lived here and left. No one heard from him again. He must have escaped the outside world". I nodded as I thought"These two remind me of ven and terra". I kneeled down"I'm sorry for coming in your cave. My name is alyssa". The brown haired boy smiled"Its okay, I'm sora". The silver haired one said"Riku". I said"Sora...Riku". Sora and riku walked in"Are you really from the outside worlds?".

I nodded"Yes I am but do not say anything okay?". Riku and sora nodded as we left the cave feeling the wind through my hair. I looked at the boys as I touched their heads and rubbed it which made them laugh"May your hearts be your guiding keys". They blinked as sora said"What is that?". I smiled" One day when your older and if we meet again I will tell you. But for now, promise me you won't tell anyone I am here and treasure those words alright?". Riku and sora looked at each other but smiled at me and nodded"Okay its a promise". We did a pinky swore as I walked away from them to the ocean. I smiled as suddenly my head was hurting"Wha? What's going on?".

I felt my head as I saw mickey injured"Mickey!". He was hurt, I saw he was at the place when we first fought vanitas. I used my keyblade with my armor and flew off to the place. As I was flying I saw ventus"Ven!". He looked at me"Alyssa! Mickey is in trouble!". I nodded"I know, I don't know how but I saw him in a vision like he was hurting". We noticed a portal and made it through. Once we landed we saw mickey hurt"Mickey!". We held him in his arms"Who did this to you?". I heard a voice"We meet again boy". We slowly turned shocked to who we saw"Master Xehanort". Suddenly ventus was in pain"Ven!". I crawled over to help him.

Master Xehanort chuckled" So your starting to remember what you lost...oh, but not for good. You had to lose in order to find. Now it can all be yours again, if you only reach out and take it. Reclaim the part that left you. Clash with him! Pure light against pure darkness, to forge the ultimate key. The all-powerful X-blade!". I glared confused"What do you mean? This X blade? What did you do to mickey!". He chuckled"he was in the way so I had him weakened". I glared"How could you?". Ven screams and then falls forward, hitting the ground"Ven!". He said" Key...blade?".

He nodded" Not the Keyblades you and I carry". Master Xehanort holds out his hand and a stylized X appears floating in it" X... A most ancient letter. Some say "kye," but the meaning is the same". He closes his hand and the letter disappears" Death... A letter that spells endings". He holds his arms up and summons a dark portal above us" And I have the power to make it?". Xehanort smiled" Correct". I glared"How can you know this stuff and why ven? Ven has no darkness in him". Xehanort smirked" why not go ask your father this alyssa?".

My eyes went wide" The master?". He said" Eraqus knows it, too. He knows exactly what you two are". Xehanort chuckled" Haven't you ever wondered? Why he never granted you permission to leave his side, to grow stronger? Eraqus was frightened of you. If you were to learn the truth, realize what you are... He never trusted you. Why else would he keep you within his sight at all times?". I thought"That can't be true". Purple lightning comes from the dark portal and strikes just in front of Ven's face" Yeah. He never let me see other worlds, no matter how much I asked". I helped him stand up as xehanort said" Go". Master Xehanort pushes his hand forward and causes wind to rush at ven and I" You can ask the man yourself. Learn the truth, and remember you have two have a greater purpose". Ven and I were thrown back and the three of us are lifted into the swirling vortex of air heading into the dark portal.

I woke up in my armor by ventus, it can't be true. If so, why was I at radiant garden?. Ven slowly woke up"Ven are you alright?". He nodded"Yeah but was what he said?". I said"I don't know, but we need answers now". We got on my glider and flew off back home, to the land of departure. When we got there we got off looking at the castle. Before deciding to move forward we stop feeling anxiety and anger. I heard a voice"Ventus, Alyssa!". We looked and saw eraqus and said" You're alone? I though Aqua would...". He approaches us and said" Well, what matters is that you're home. You don't belong outside this world yet. You need to stay here where you can learn-".

Ventus interrupted" In your prison?". Eraqus blinked in surprise" What?". Ven glared" That's your excuse...for keeping me imprisoned here, isn't it?". Eraqus took a step back" What did you hear?". Ven glared" That I'm supposed to be some weapon... Some kind of... "X-blade!". He looked at me and had his hand over the scar on the right side of his face" I knew it. Xehanort, he could never let it go". I felt a moment of silence and said" Is it true? What he said?". Eraqus said" I failed. I had the chance to stop him and couldn't do it. But I will not fail again". Master Eraqus summons his Keyblade and takes a fighting stance which shocked us both" Master! What are you...".

I saw his heart was being covered by darkness"What is happening?". Eraqus said" The X-blade has no place in this or any world. Xehanort has made his purpose clear...and I am left with no choice. Forgive me...but you must exist no more". Eraqus focuses energy around the tip of his Keyblade and swings it forward towards Ven releasing the energy in strands that look like chains. Ven was standing in front of me as he closes his eyes"Ven! Alyssa!". I blinked as I saw someone blocked it"Terra!?".

Eraqus was shocked"What?". Terra glared"Master, have you gone mad?". Eraqus glared" Terra! I command you, step aside!". Terra shouted" No!". Eraqus eyes went wide" You will not heed your Master?". He shouted" I won't!". eraqus looked down" Why do all my attempts to reach you fail? If you don't have it in your heart to obey...then you will have to share Ventus's fate". I saw eraqus sheds a tear and then attacks Terra. Ven looked down and shouts" Enough, Terra! He's right...". Terra yelled in anger" Quiet!". We jumped"Terra..". Eraqus performs an attack that throws Terra, Ven and I backwards. Terra lands on his feet but Ven doesn't. I pick up Ven while Eraqus focuses another attack. Terra focuses and begins to be surrounded in a dark aura. I thought"The darkness". I looked at ven as terra said" You may be my Master. But I will not...let you hurt my friends!". Eraqus looked at us" Has the darkness taken you, Terra?". I opened a portal and pushed ven through" Wait terra! Allie!". The portal closes when ven disappears. I pulled out my keyblade by terra"I refuse to let you hurt ven and terra!". I got ready as terra and I started fighting him. We kept fighting him til he was worn out. We were shocked what we did" What have I done... Master... I just...wanted to keep Ven and Alyssa safe".

I headed over helping eraqus up" No, you were right. I failed you , Terra. Perhaps I've no one to blame but myself for the darkness inside you. And now I've done worse, raised my Keyblade against you and Ventus and my own daughter. My own heart is darkness!". I said"People make mistakes, So get up". He was going to say something but he was strucked down from behind"Master!". He drops his Keyblade and falls towards Terra and I, fading into shimmers of light. Our eyes went wide"No...No!". I fell to my knees as terra dropped on all four"Master Eraqus!".

I felt tears dripping on my cheeks" What a sight. Why do you trouble yourself with remorse, Master Terra? Master Alyssa? The man was bent on doing harm to your friend, his own pupils!". I glared at his voice ringed in my ears"Xehanort! Why? He was your best friend, how could you!?". All terra and I felt was anger for what he did" You know, at times I find your progress quite striking. But you still fall short. Let all that anger out, my boy. Give your heart over to darkness!". Terra glared" What do you mean?". Terra summons his Keyblade" Still so blind... Then I will make you see. Come to the place where all Keyblade wielders leave their mark on fate, the Keyblade Graveyard!".

Xehanort summons his Keyblade" There you will watch your dear Ventus and Aqua meet their ends, and the last light within you will die!". My eyes went wide as Xehanort raises his Keyblade toward the sky and fires a beam of darkness into it. The sky grows a dark and a large sphere of darkness floats above the castle" You won't need a home anymore where you're going!". We looked around" What?! Xehanort!". Master Xehanort has opened a dark portal and passes through it, disappearing before Terra and I can reach him.

The sphere of darkness left behind by Xehanort begins destroying the castle and surrounding area. Terra and I looked around at what's happening for a moment then takes out his Wayfinder. I thought" Our home, the place I grew up is being destroyed". Terra whispered something as he said"Alyssa we have to go stop him!". I looked at terra as he helped me up. I wiped my tears as I got on his glider with him and flew off. I said"Xehanort said something about vanitas and him. What does he mean?". Terra glared" Vanitas is the darkness in ven heart. He somehow separated them". My eyes went wide as I thought" he needs ven and vanitas to complete the X blade. But why does vanitas want to do this?".