Chapter 19:

Kingdom Hearts

"Aqua, guys what?" Ventus sat up from where he had been sleeping on the floor. He had given Aqua his bed to sleep in for the night in his place.

"It's only seven in the morning Ven, I really don't care," Aqua muttered, pulling the sheets over her head.

"Would you care if I told you that Roxas explained to me what the prophecy means and how it relates to?"

Aqua poked her head out of her blanket. "Really? Wait…you can talk to Roxas? I though he was you?"

Ventus rolled his eyes. "That's what you care about?"

Aqua shrugged. "Hey, it's early."

"How long do you think until everyone wakes up?" Ventus was so excited he was practically bouncing up and down. It had more to do with Roxas's excitement than his own, but he accepted in either way.

"You're more peppy than usual." Aqua noted, staring just past him in a sleepy daze.

"Yeah, it's because of Roxas." Ventus noticed her confusion and started to explain. "It's like I can feel his emotions and hear his thoughts, but they're separate from my own."

"I'm going to tell everyone that you have Multi-Personality Disorder," Aqua laughed. Ventus frowned. She stretched and sat up, patting Ventus on the head. "Nah, I believe you, Ven."

An hour later Sora, Miku and Cloud had finally converged on the dinning room for breakfast. After the all sat down, Ventus stood up. "Everyone," he glanced down at Aqua for a second, "I have an announcement to make."

"You and Aqua are getting married?" Sora asked.

Aqua nearly spit out a mouthful of cereal. "What?"

"Sora!" Miku snapped.

Ventus looked completely dumbfounded. "Uh, no, that's not what I was going to say."

"I just thought, because you were…never mind." Sora mumbled.

"Okay, well anyway," Ventus cleared his throat, "last night Roxas explained to me what the prophecy meant and why the Land of Departure was created." Everyone quieted down and leaned in to listen. "The first part: when land becomes lands and the Darkness grows strong, hearts will not waver. That of course means that the world split into worlds, which we already know and that even though things seem bad we will get through it.

"The next part: the Sky boy and his companion of darkness will rise from the waters and bring everything as one. It says that these two will put the worlds back together again. So the sky boy comes from waters, think about it our father's name was Skye and mom's name means water. That means that it has to be either Sora or I.

"But then who is the companion of darkness, I thought that if the sky boy was me then the companion of darkness would be Terra, but Terra is dead so it can't be him. Roxas said that he thought that if Sora was the sky boy then the other would be Riku. Here's where thing start to get interesting. The prophecy stats that both rise from the waters, or in other words, would be our kin. Neither Sora or I could qualify as the companion of darkness. Roxas has the same blood as us, and is a Nobody, a creature of Darkness.

"Roxas believes that if he were able to come in contact with Kingdom Hearts, not that my heart and my body are one again, then his body would be restored, just like what our ancestors were talking about in the story Mom told yesterday, how Namine could be given a body again if she came in contact with Kingdom Hearts."

"But how do we get to Kingdom Hearts?" Sora asked.

Ventus smiled. "Kingdom Hearts is in this very room." He let the thought sink in before continuing. "Think about it. Sora was able to hold my heart within his and then he was able to hold my Nobody within his heart as well."

"Kingdom Hearts is supposed to be able to turn Nobodies back into their original state, Sora has done that. The only reason Roxas is still here is because my body was still alive when he returned to me, most Nobodies lose their original bodies."

"That actually makes sense." Aqua nodded in understanding. "But what does that have to do with the Land of Departure?"

"Yeah, this is where it gets kind of weird," Ventus laughed awkwardly. "I needed to have a place where I could recover and so what better place than home? The thing was I couldn't go back home, so the recreated home, only it was it's past that was recreated. That way, if for whatever reason, if things didn't work out with Sora or I, they could still have the chance of redoing things…have you ever noticed that both Sora and my name's mean sky and both Kairi and Aqua's names mean water?"

An awkward silence filled the room.

"So you two are getting married!" Sora joked. Ventus and Aqua blushed.

"Now that you know all of this," Cloud spoke up for the first time since Ventus came home, "What are you going to do?"

"Once Sora is back to normal, we should try Awakening Roxas through Sora so that Roxas and I can form the X-Blade and-"

"Wait wait wait!" Aqua interrupted him. "The X-Blade? The last time anyone tried to create one, you lost your heart."

"That was a forced creation, the Darkness holding too much power and so therefore it wasn't going to work. Xenhort needed the X-Blade so that he could connect the worlds in darkness," Ventus explained, "We need it so that we can connect them with the light."

After a while Aqua sighed, "Alright, alright."

"So then meanwhile when Roxas and I are doing that, Sora can give Namine her own body back." Ventus concluded.

"I'll send a message to the King," Cloud started to get up, "we can work on it once he writes back."

A/N: I hope everything finally makes sense. I think it does, but then again I made up this story, so I really don't know. Anyway, please tell me what you think! Thanks for reading! :D