Welcome to Chapter 10! This chapter will be in Aqua's P.O.V. I know your all wanting to know what happens with the Dark Rise and Riku's gang with Terra, well you will! So just bear with me for this chapter!

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!

I walked by the shore of the Dark Margin and sat on a large rock and sighed. I'm never getting out of here am I? I sat up and stared out at the endless Darkness. I sighed and got up, deciding to look for a way out of here again. I had tried a million times over the past ten or eleven years and found no way out. But I can't let that stop me. I am a Master of the Keyblade and I will not fall to the Darkness.

Riku noticed Kairi's situation and he dashed for her, pushes her out of the way just as the monster's foot comes down, crushing Riku in the process. "RIKUUUUU!" Kairi, Sora, Xion, and Terra screamed. Sora, now infuriated, runs at the monster full force, swiping his Keyblade around like he was surrounded by Heartless. He wasn't. He sung across the monster's legs and it stumbled backwards, releasing its hold on Riku's body.

Terra dashed forward and grabbed the broken boy and jumped back away from the monster and the others, in hope of saving Riku's life. If indeed it wasn't already too late for the young Keyblade bearer. "Riku? Riku, can you hear me?" tries Terra. The silver haired boy does nothing. Terra looks back at the teens with the monster. They were holding their own. In fact, their newly found anger was causing them to make not so guarded attacks, and they were winning.

I walked about the shore of the Dark Margin's black waters looking as far as I can in each direction searching for a way out. Trying to find the Door to the Light so it could lead me away from this place full of nothing but Darkness. I sighed, seeing nothing that would help me. Then I felt a presence besides my own here. I turned around to see who was now with me and I gasped.

Terra contemplated on whether he should leave the boy so he could help the inexperienced teens or stay with the boy to make sure no harm came to him. he didn't have to make a decision, as soon as he turned to check on the teens, the monster falls in defeat and the teens smile and high-five tiredly. Sora then turns his attention to Terra and his silver haired best friend in Terra's arms and he runs to Terra. The two girls follow him.

I smile at the little mouse wearing his usual red clothes and he smiles back. "Your Majesty!" I exclaim. "Aqua, I had a feeling you were here. I just had to come and find out if my feeling was right. And it seems it is. The Light was right again, and led me right to you." the friendly Disney King said with a happy face. "So you've come to take me out of this light forsaken land?" I asked hopefully. "Exactly!" he says. I smile once again.

"But, here's the thing, Aqua. A few friends of mine have been tricked by Vanitas, and they are trying to find you, Terra, and Ventus, and bring you all to Vanitas. I don't know what Vanitas is planning, but it can't be good, and we can't let them get hurt. They already have Terra with them, they are bringing him back to the Light. They mean well, they want to help you all. But Vanitas has something bad in mind once he gets you all out." the King explains. I frown, not knowing what to do now, and from hearing that Vanitas is still alive. I thought I killed him years ago.

"Is Riku okay?" asks Sora, fear of losing his friend, plain on his face. "I'm not sure, Sora." sighs Terra. "Maybe, Namine can help him?" asks Kairi. Xion sighs, "No, Namine was taken by someone remember?" "Oh.." mutters Kairi sadly. "He won't die will he?" asks Sora. "I don't know. Aqua was the healer, not me." whispers Terra. He closes his eyes and a tear falls down his face. "Terra?" asks Kairi, "Why does the name Aqua sound so familiar?"

"So Vanitas escaped huh?" I asked, now sitting on a rock beside the King. "It seems that way," says the King, "He saved himself by stowing away in Sora's heart. He also almost plunged Sora into the Darkness, never to return. To be truthful, Sora is still in danger of fading. But also, so is Kairi. Darkness entered her heart when she fought Vanitas and lost. Because Sora had Vanitas inside of his heart, his heart still harbors Vanitas's Darkness."

"Is there a way to save Sora and Kairi?" I asked in concern. "Maybe." he answered, "There is, but I'm afraid, there is only a way to save one of them." The King looked so sad. I just wanted to hug him. So I did, "Don't worry, King Mickey, I'm sure we'll find a way to save them both if we both give it all we've got." "But I talked to Yen Sid, he said it's futile, one of them will fade to the Darkness or fade in general." says the King sadly.

"What about the witch Namine? I hear she can tell the future, and in some cases, change it." I said in hopes of finding a way to save the young Keyblade bearers. "Namine has been kidnapped by the Organization. I can not defeat all of them at once, Aqua. It must be the young Key bearers who save her. But Riku has been greatly injured, and I believe, from what Master Yen Sid has told me, he is dying." says the King sadly. I sigh and release him. "Surely there must be a way." I said.

"Aqua!" Mickey said suddenly. "Yes?" I asked, looking at him again. "You are a magnificent healer, yes?" he asks. "I am." I answer. "If I can bring you to them, do you think you could save Riku's life?" he asked me, hope filling his eyes. I nod with a smile, "I'm sure I can do something as small as that." "It may be a difficult task, Master Aqua. He was smashed by a Giant Dark Rise." he warns. I smile, "So was Ven at one point. King Mickey, I can do it." I said with a smile.

He returns my smile and hops off the rock he had been sitting on. I get off mine as well and follow him to a white portal a far way off, behind a huge boulder. We got there uninterrupted. Which is always good. No huge monsters to fight. Once we got to the portal the King turned to me, "Aqua?" I looked at him. "Are you sure you're ready to re-enter the World of Light? With your heart being the World of Darkness so long, will your heart be able to take it?" he asks.

I laugh lightly. "Your Majesty, I am one of the new Seven Princesses of Heart, like Kairi, my heart can not be overtaken by Darkness. We can save her heart, and Sora's. So yes, I am ready to rejoin the World of Light, have been since I first got here." I said with a confident smile. Being one of the Seven Princesses of Heart did keep my heart pure. And I'm glad it did. If not, I probably would have subcomed to the Darkness by now.

He nodded his agreement and stepped through the portal of Light. I took a deep breath. "I am ready to rejoin the World of Light, and I am ready to face Terra and Ventus again." I breathed. I then whispered, "I am ready." Then I faced the glowing white portal, took another breath for confidence and stepped through the white with my eyes still closed.

I heard a gasp then, "A-Aqua?" I opened my eyes to see three teens staring at me, the King smiling at me in satisfaction, and a one stunned Terra with tears in his eyes. I looked at him and smiled as warmly as I could. "Aqua? Aqua, is that really you?" he asks dumbfounded. I continued to smile, then I parted my lips and said, "It's me, Terra. I've come home."

Sweet ending right? I just had to put that nice ending in the end of a sad chapter. Sorry for the slow update, I've been like super busy with chores and watching my two-year-old baby sister. So make me happy, faithful readers, and press that little review button right under here and review to your heart's content! Go on. Push it!