A/N: After all these years, Ventus is finally awake. What about Terra? I'd include Aqua in the question but the girl is already the main plot of the story. But let's see where the journey takes next:

World: Ville De Roses

I have brought Ventus back into the wakening world. After fifteen long years, I actually begin to believe that he would never awaken from his slumber. Bringing him back has brought me some confidence that I'll be able to rescue Aqua. I guess I'll have to say the same thing for Terra, since Aqua would want to free him from Xehanort's control. I am going on as her living legacy after all.

I now walk in a small village. As I walk, I take a look around. Everything seems a bit...old fashioned. Have I returned to La Cite Des Cloches? I can only imagine. I leave the streets and noticed a ton of villagers gathering around one house.

"What's going on over there?" I wonder, heading towards the crowd.

"And you! Lefou! When Belle and I come out that door..." Gaston says.

"Oh! I know! I know! I strike up the band!" Lefou waves around his baton, and the band plays the wedding march in many instruments, except the piano of course.

I make my way through the crowd. I reach to the front and noticed the short man with the large nose, and the large muscular man jamming a tuba in Lefou.

"NOT YET!" Gaston says, angrily.

"Sorry." Lefou says through the tuba.

"Hey." Gaston looks at me. "What's going on?"

Gaston gets a good look at me. "You new here?" Gaston points at himself, smiling that his teeth are shining. "The name's Gaston. The world's greatest hunter."

I look at Gaston, head to toe. "So I hear." I say doubtfully.

"If you must know, I've chosen my bride and I'm going to go propose to her." Gaston turns, he straightens his collar shirt and walks right into the house.

I stand by watching even through Gaston is already in the house, then I come to my senses when Lefou smashes into me. He tries to pull the tuba out, then I give him a hand at removing it. We keep pulling on the tuba until it finally pops out.

"Thanks man." Lefou says.

"Don't mention it." I say. "I betcha 1000 munny she rejects him."

Lefou chuckles. "You're on! No girl has ever turned down on Gaston!"

Just then, Gaston gets tossed out of the house and into the mud pit. Not even paying attention, Lefou starts up the band. I just stand by, arms crossed, feeling disturbed by Lefou's stupidity. He's clearly not seeing Gaston's been dumped.

Lefou turns to face Gaston, then notices the situation and stops the band. "So. How'd it go?"

I slam my hand on my head, groan in irritation. Gaston grabs Lefou by the shirt and lifts him off of his feet, facing him. "I'll have Belle for my wife!" I become shocked hearing the name 'Belle' "Make no mistake with that!" Gaston drops Lefou into the mud pit then leave.

When Gaston leaves, the rest of the citizens returns to the village. I just stand in place, looking at the small farmhouse. "Belle?"

I'm familiar with Belle. I have met the seven princess's of heart back in Hollow Bastion, all through I still wonder how Alice and Kairi are princesses. I'm just surprised that Ariel's not one of the princesses. I do not want to talk about Atlantica, that world was a total nightmare.

I walk up to the house and knock on the door. "I told you! I'm not interested!"

Belles voice was hostile, but I don't blame her. "Belle, it's me. Patrick."

A ton of locks click and I hear chain noises, guessing that one was that Belle was removing the chain lock, then the door opens. Belle's just dressed in a simple blue dress with an apron.

"Oh. I'm sorry, I thought you were Gaston." Belle says.

"If you think I'm that charming air head, you're sadly mistaken." I say. Belle stands aside, letting me in. I take a look around the house. "Nice place you have here..."

Belle closes the door. "You don't like it?"

"No. Just not what I was expecting from a princess." I notice the large bookshelf. "I see you're still into books."

"Oh of course. So, how's Sora doing?" Belle asks.

"Ah, well you know. Cocky as ever." I say, earning a laugh from Belle. "You by yourself?"

"Yes, my father is out of town for the inventors convocation at the festival." Belle says.

"I see." I say. "So what's up with that Gaston fella? I heard he tried to propose to you."

Belle sighs in disappointment as she moves to a chair and sits on it. "He's just some rude selfish jerk who thinks he all special."

"I can tell the fact he thinks he's the worlds greatest hunter." I say, mocking Gastons arrogance tone.

Belle laughs at my little joke. "So...what brings you here?"

"I'm looking for someone. A friend of mine." I say.

"Oh yeah. That's right. You mentioned that back in Hollow Bastion." Belle says.

"It's Radiant Garden now, and yes." I say. "I recently discovered she's still alive, but she doesn't have much time left. So now I'm trying to find her."

Belle seems worried. "What do you mean she doesn't have much time left?"

"I have learned that she's been fighting in the Realm of Darkness for fifteen years, and by the looks of her struggles, it was nonstop." I say. "She's about to reach her limits, so I have to save her."

Belle looks down in sorrow. We say nothing, but then Belle comes on alert when she hears a fainted noise. Belle looks at the door on alert. "Phillipe?" Belle rushes out of the house, I lately follow her from behind.

Belle stands out on the yard, looking. She spots a horse neighing in fear and running towards the house. "Phillipe!" Phillipe stops right in front of Belle, jumping off of its front hoofs. "What's wrong?"

I look past the horse to notice wolves chasing after it. As the wolves get closer, I notice they have evil eyes and Heartless Symbols. They're the Heartless. "Heartless!" Belle looks past Phillipe and gasps. I stand in front of Belle, summoning my Keyblade. "I got this, Belle."

The Howling Wolves, Howling Wolf is the Heartless named, surrounds me from the front. I take out my Elsa Charm and activate the D-link. My body glows in frost energy, with a cloud hovering over my head, light snow and I now skate on the ground like it's ice. My Keyblade also becomes completely covered in ice.

I strike at the Heartless, my attacks involve angle strikes and a few Keyblade throws where the Keyblade spin attacks and I control it with my magic. The ice powers on the Keyblade causes the Howling Wolves to slow down on their movement. Those near me attacks me.

I cast Blizzaga, destroying one of the Howling Wolves. Then I do Ice Needles. I plant my Keyblade in front of me, large icicles surrounding me, then I pin the Keyblade into the ground, causing a line of ice shards to raise out of the grounds, chasing Heartless one-by-one. The Howling Wolves that attacks me failed to as the icicles surrounding me hurts them. Ice Needles ends and the icicles surrounding me returned to the ground.

Three Howling Wolves remain. They all attack me at once. I cast Cura, then I reach my full power and unleash Let It Go. I channel powerful frost and ice power. A large snowflake appears right under my feet, I'm standing in the center, and pillars of ice raise out of the end of each of the lines of the snowflake. A large ice crystal appears right above me. I aim my Keyblade at it, shoot a beam of ice at the crystal. The crystal explodes an unleash hundreds of ice shards all over, finishing off the Howling Wolves.

I turn to Belle, who's looking at Phillipe with worry. "I take it this is your horse."

"Yes. But papa isn't with him." Belle says. "Where's papa?"

I turn to the direction where the horse came from, which is the woods. "The horse came from those woods."

"You have to take me to him right away." Belle gets on Phillipe.

I stand beside her. "I'm going with you."

"You don't have too." Belle says.

"I'm afraid I can't let you go alone." I say. "The woods out there is crawling with Heartless, and as the Keyblade Master, it's my job to protect the Princesses of Heart."

"Says the guy who spent his time trying to find a friend while the darkness was taking us in." Belle says.

I roll my eyes and sighed. "You know what I mean. Also, I'm the one who helped rescue you and the other princesses in Hollow Bastion."

"I thought you said you only helped Sora when he lost his Keyblade in Hollow Bastion." Belle says.

"Are we gonna sit out here pointing fingers all day or are we gonna find and save your father?" I shot at Belle.

Belle realizes I have a point there and we make our way into the woods to find her father. We leave the village and head right for the Enchanted forest. The woods are an autumn shade of color. Belle is mounted on Phillipe while I'm walking aside guarding her.

I was right that I had to come, the woods is crawling with Heartless. Not just the Howling Wolves, but also Shadows and few Large Bodies. I fight the Heartless, though it was hard when they start attacking Belle. Now I have to fight them while protecting her.

With each Heartless I defeat, we move deeper into the woods and more and more Heartless spawn. Phillipe leads us to the Black Forest, which is a dreaded dark woods filled with nothing but snow, fog and dark trees. Me and Belle are on high alert in these woods. Good thing too, cause more and more Heartless spawn.

The Heartless is getting crazy. I even had to use my Lightning Charm in my D-linking. I strike at the Heartless, at high speed and with powerful assaults. Connecting to Lightning has made the fights in this forest easier.

In the end, me and Belle arrived at the gates of a large, gloomy castle. "What is this place?" Belle asks.

"Looks like a castle, but seems ominous." I say.

Belle hops off of Phillipe. She opens the gates and walks in. She gasps seeing a cloak and a hat on the bridge. She kneels down and pick them up. "Papa..." Belle stands up and walks ahead, but suddenly stops when I grab her from behind. Belle turns. "What are you doing?"

"If I there's one thing I've learned about dark mysterious castles is that there will be trouble within them." I walk ahead, taking the lead. "Stay close to me."

Me and Belle approaches to the castle walls. We entered the courtyard and arrive at the castle doors. Inside, the castle is dark and empty. Almost abandoned even.

"Hello? Is anyone here?" Belle asks, her voice echoing in the castle. "Papa? Papa?"

I stand next to Belle, getting a view of the castle. "This is a big castle. He could be anywhere." Me and Belle begin our search around the castle.

We start at the West Wing. The area becomes darkened, I had to grab a nearby lit candelabra to guide us in this darkness. We walk through the halls of suit of armors. As we walk down the hallway, I get an uncomfortable presence. My eyes roll side to side, slightly turning my head.

Belle takes notice. "Something wrong?" She asks.

"I don't know." I say. "I'm getting this strange feeling...we're being watched."

"Oh, but you are monsieur." A voice says.

I turn looking at Belle. "Did you say something?"

Belle looks confused. "I thought you did."

"It was me." The voice says.

I turn around, holding the candelabra high. "Who's saying that?"

"Over here." I turn around, seeing no one again.

"Where?" I ask, getting irritated.

I felt a tap on my head, I look up, then hold the candelabra in front of my face, noticing it also as a face. "Hello."

Me and Belle are shocked, Belle gasped and I dropped Lumière. I kneel down, looking closely at the candelabra. So does Belle. "I...I don't believe it."

A clock, Cogsworth, jumps off the table and hops towards Lumière. "Nice going, Lumière. You blow our cover. Just like the other man who trespassed."

"Other man...you mean my father?" Belle asks hopefully.

Lumière stands up. "Oh mademoiselle. You are looking for our guest. Right this way." Lumière hops away, with Belle following him.

Cogsworth chases after Lumière. "Lumière! Don't! The master will not be pleased! And that man isn't our guest!"

We both followed Lumière in the castle. He leads us to the spiral tower which is leading towards the dungeon above. Me and Belle are starting to feel a little uncomfortable approaching this area. I keep my guard up in case they're onto something. I don't have much to worry since I can overpower some lively household objects.

Me and Belle look to find a single dungeon door. "Is someone there?" Belle asks.

"Belle? Is that you?" A voice asks.

Belle smiles with a gasp. "Papa!" Belle rushes to the door. Her father, Maurice, shows himself from the door window.

"Belle. You must leave!" Maurice says.

"Not without you. Who's done this to you?" Belle asks.

"There's no time to explain. You must go!" Maurice says.

But it's too late. in the shadows, something large grabs Belle and tosses her away. "What are you doing here!?"

Belle falls to the ground. I rush in front of her, summoning my Keyblade ready to attack. "Who's there!?" I say, defensively.

"The master of this castle!" The shadow says, growling. Lumière and Cogsworth takes cover, hiding.

I position myself. Then I yell and charge. I jump to make my strike, but the creature swipes, knocking me back. I crash against the wall, I sat down. As I got up, I noticed there's a scratch on the sleeve of my coat, and there's blood coming out of the wounds.

I look to see the figure coming into the light. Me and Belle are surprised, the master of this castle is a monstrous, hideous beast. I change expressions from horrified to battle and positioned myself.

"You being a beast changes nothing!" I say.

Beast roars and charges towards me. I charge back. Beast and I fight each other, striking, blocking and parrying. I only land few strikes while Beast makes painful slashes at me. In the end, I get knocked to the wall, injured.

Beast walks up to me, growling. He's right in front of, raises his claws above him roaring. Belle rushes in and stands in Beasts way, defending me. "Wait!" Beast just freezes his position. "Spare my father, and my friend here. I'll take their place."

"You!" ...Beast starts to calm down. "You would...take their place?" Belle nods.

"Belle? No!" Maurice says, worried.

"Have you lost your mind?" I ask Belle.

"You have my word." Belle says.

Beast moves to the dungeon. He opens the door and drags Maurice out, then grabs me by the back collar of my coat. "He-hey! Let me go you oversized stuff animal!" I say thrashing to get free.

Beast drags me and Maurice around the castle until we're at the entrance. "Please! Don't hurt her!" Maruice bags.

"She no longer concerns you!" Beast tosses Maurice out. Maurice screams and crashes by the bridge doors. Beast holds me up to his level and glares at me growling. "Take him to the village and never return!"

Beast tosses me into the courtyard. I scream until I crash on the ground, then Beast walks back into the castle. "Ouch!" I stand back up. I look back at the castle, wiping the dust off of my clothes. "Humph! How rude!"

Maurice gets back on his feet, he storms towards the castle. I was able to grab him and hold him back. "Belle! Belle!"

I pull Maurice back. "Don't!" I pull Maurice back. "We're only going to make things worse."

"I can't leave my daughter in there! I have to get her out!" Maurice says.

"She can take care of herself." I grab Maurice by the back of his shirt and start dragging him. "But for now, let's just return to the village."

"No wait! I'm not leaving her with that beast! Belle!" Maurice shouts.

Maurice struggles to break out of my grip. Now i know how the Beast felt when I was thrashing around when he was kicking us out of his castle.