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Chapter 1: A New Beginning

World: Land of Departure

Ventus once again fell asleep, while enjoying watching the meteor shower. He woke up when it was all over. He sat up for a few moments, he had a big yawn. Then he went to lay back down when he saw a young woman with blue hair towering over him. "WHOA!"

He turned to see Aqua, one of his best friends, giggling at him. "Gimme a break, Aqua." Said Ven.

"Ven, you hopeless sleepyhead. You know you should have at least brought a blanket. Said Aqua. She somehow knew Ven would sneak out just to see the meteor shower, and fall asleep while enjoying it, so she decided to check up on him as an older sister would look after her young brother. "But - Did I dream that place up? It felt like I been there before...looking up at the stars..." He wondered.

He dreams of looking at stars of some sort of island. It was peaceful but was it real? Aqua just rubbed his hand and said, "'Cept you've always lived here with us."

"Yeah...I know." He said. Though he couldn't remember anything before he was 10, he knew his home would always be here with his best friends Terra and Aqua. Train alongside them by Master Eraqus. They were his family to him. Both Ven and Aqua sat by the edge of the cliff to enjoy watching the stars. But one thing was on his mind. "Hey Aqua."

"Hm?" She wondered what his question was. "Y'ever wonder what stars are? Where does light come from?" he asked. He always thought stars were big balls of gas miles and miles away, but he was curious what his friends thought. "Hmmm…Well, they say…" She began.

"…that ever star up there is another world." Terra finished. The two friends turned to see him there. "Terra." Said Aqua.

"I guess I'm not the only one who wanted to check in on Ven." She thought to herself as Terra continued, "Yep, hard to believe there are so many worlds out there besides our own. The light in their hearts, and it's shining down on us like a million lanterns."

"What? I don't get it." Said the confused boy. Terra just smirked and said, "In other words, they're just like you Ven."

"What does THAT mean?" he asked. He was still confused. "You'll find out someday, I'm sure," Terra responded.

"I wanna know now." Said Ven. "You're too young to know now." Said Terra.

"Quit treating me like a kid." Said Ven. He was 16, and they still treat him like he's still 10. Aqua couldn't help but laugh. "Hey, what are you laughing at?" asked Terra.

"I can't help it. You two would make the weirdest brothers." Said Aqua as she continued to laugh. The two were confused until they got what she meant and laughed with her. After what felt like hours, they continued to enjoy the stars.

Then Aqua remembered, "Oh yeah! Terra, you and I have our Mark of Mastery exams tomorrow. I made us good luck charms." She then pulled out three star-shaped stars. One blue, one orange, and one green. She tossed the orange one to Terra. Ven was impressed and then Aqua got his attention. "Here." She tossed the green charm to Ven, while she kept the blue one to herself. "I get one too?" Asked Ven.

"Of course. One for each of us. Somewhere out there, there's star-shaped fruit...and the fruit represents an unbreakable connection. So as long you and your friends carry good luck charms shaped like it nothing can ever drive you apart. You'll always find your way back to each other. Technically, I think you're supposed to make the. With seashells, but I did with best with I had." Aqua explained. "Oy, sometimes you are such a girl." Said Terra in a teasing manner.

"Hey, what do you mean 'sometimes'?" Aqua said back with the same tone. Ven however looked disappointed. "So this isn't a real good luck charm?" he asked.

"Well, that's yet to be seen," Aqua answered honestly. "But I did work a little magic on it."

"Really? What?" Ven asked. "An unbreakable connection," Aqua said with a smile, with that everyone raised their new Wayfinder in the air.

A few minutes later, Terra finally spoke, "Well, tomorrow's the exam. Anyone wanna spar."

With that Ven summoned his Keyblade, the Wayward Wind, and said, "I take you on." Terra smiled a Ven's enthusiasm, and then summoned his Keyblade, the Earthshaker. They were about to spar when white creatures appeared and surrounded them. The Keybladers gasped in surprise. "Uh, guys? What are these things?" asked Ven. "And what's that symbol on their heads?" He pointed to the cross and upside-down heart on their heads

"I don't know. But they don't look too friendly. Don't let your guard down." Said Aqua as she summoned her Keyblade, the Rainfall.

Meanwhile, in the place, Ven went to train a door appeared and Sora and Riku came out and fell on the ground with Kairi right behind them. Sora got up and said, "Ha! I win."

"Not even close. Quit making stuff up." Said Riku. Sora just stuck his tongue out while Kairi laughed at them. "Hey, what are you laughing at?" asked Riku.

"I can't help it. You two would make the weirdest brothers." Said the princess of heart as she continued to laugh. The two were confused until they got what she meant and laughed with her. Then Sora said, "Huh, for some reason, I felt like I had this conversation before."

"Déjà vu?" Riku guessed. Sora smiled as he put his hands behind his head and said, "Yeah, your probably right."

"So, where do you think we are?" asked Kairi as she got back on her feet. "Don't know. Never been here before."

"The Land of Departure." Said Sora. Riku and Kairi looked to Sora with confusion and he responded, "This world. I've never been here before but the name sort of popped up like Roxas's name. This is the Land of Departure."

"Okay, whatever you say." Said Riku as he walked and saw a castle up ahead. "But I do admit the Castle up ahead looks similar to Castle Oblivian."

"You mean the place you said that Naminé wiped my memories." Asked Sora. Riku, Mickey, and Naminé told the others the events that happened to Castle Oblivion and what the only message in the journal was, 'Thank Naminé.' Riku nodded and said, "Yeah, and it's the place we first met the original Organization XIII, and when I had my final clash with…his Heartless." Riku said, realizing he couldn't remember Ansem's real name, "I guess Naminé was right. I can't remember the guy we're going to stop. His name or even what he looks like."

"Really? Because I can remember his name perfectly." Sora said with a smug. "Okay, then. What's his name?" asked Riku with his own smug.

"That's easy! It's….Ansem." Said Sora. Kairi giggled while Riku shook his head. "He wasn't Ansem, remember? It was his apprentice's Heartless pretending to be him. Try again."

"Uh okay, um…Xemnas."

"His Nobody."

"Xurge."

"Nope."

"Xephyr."

"Not even close."

"Old man Jenkins?" Sora shrugged. "Okay, now you're just making up names. Give it up, Sora. You have no clue what his name is." Said Riku.

"Never! I know it starts with an X." He said proudly.

"Sora, you're just saying that because he is fascinated with the X-blade and how he put it in every original members' name. Even if it was, what are you going to do with that information?" Riku asked while Kairi was still cracking up at Sora's attempts.

"I'm going to guess every name starting with that letter X until I get it right."

"Okay, if you do get it right before I will personally pay for everything when you finally go on a date with Kairi but if I do I'll tell Kairi of the secret tree." Whispered to Sora blushed. He couldn't let Kairi know about the secret tree but the reward did sound cool, he just needed to tell Kairi his feelings about her so… "Deal but the loser also has to sing the song that our neighbor Mabel made her Great Uncle sing when he was wrong."

That Riku eyes widened in horror and made Kairi laugh even harder and fell over. But Riku said, "You're on." With that, they shook hands. They turn to see Kairi still rolling on the ground in laughter.

"If you're finished, we have a job to do." Said the new Keyblade Master. Kairi was started to calm down took deep breaths and said, "Okay…Okay, I'm stopping…heh…I'm okay."

Sora then helped Kairi up on her feet but then Riku smelled a familiar scent. He then summoned his Keyblade, the Way to Dawn. "Riku, what is it?" asked Sora.

"Nobodies. They're already here." Said Riku as ran in the direction he caught the scent. Sora and Kairi summoned their Keyblades and ran after him.

Meanwhile, Ven struck down another Dusk. "FIRE!" Aqua shot as she disintegrated and another dusk. Terra used his Shotlock and took down three more Nobodies. However, there were still plenty of nobodies to go. "Okay, this is getting, ridiculous! How many of them are there?"

"This is what we've been training for. We can handle this." Said Terra. One Nobody was about to attack Aqua. She raised his Keyblade in defense but it was cut down by a boy with silver hair, who looks a little older than Ven but also looked sincere like Terra and he could wield… "A Keyblade?"

"Hey, Riku! Save some for us!" Said a female voice. They turned to see a girl with red hair and a boy who look similar to Ven but had different hair color and style. They too had Keyblades. They joined the other in a circle each got into their battle stances. "Who are you? Why do have Keyblades?" asked Aqua.

"We'll explain everything later but first we have to stop the Nobodies." Said the one called Riku. "Well, that's not a very nice thing to say." Said Ven.

"No, that's what the monsters are called. Nobodies." Explained the other boy. "Ohhhh….that makes sense. Why are they called that?" asked Ven.

"Like I said, we'll tell you after. All you need to know now is that there coming out a keyhole. If we can lock it we can stop them from coming." Said Riku. "Alright. Lead the way." Said Terra.

With that 6 wielders of the Keyblade charged and struck down any nobody that stood in their way. Sora knew that they were still outnumbered so he shouted, "DRIVE! VALOR FORM! GIVE ME STRENGTH!"

Sora's clothes changed into red and he had something in his other hand that shocked the other three, "TWO?!" Terra and Aqua exclaimed.

Indeed there was another Keyblade, the Oathkeeper." Wow, two Keyblades! Can you guys do that?" asked Ven.

Both Terra and Aqua shook their heads; they were just as surprised as Ven. Who were these kids, how powerful are they, and who was their master? Sora using his Keyblades struck down most of the Nobodies without stopping while the others finished off the rest.

They eventually found the way to the keyhole in the side of a cliff, and Aqua asked, "So, this keyhole is responsible for bringing these monsters to our world."

"Yep." Said Sora.

"Then if we just need to lock the keyhole, that should stop them from coming, right?" Asked the Roxas look alike.

"Pretty much." Said Riku.

"How do we know for sure that keyhole is responsible for this?" Asked Terra. Just then, something came out of the keyhole and it was huge. It was the Twilight Thorn, the same Nobody boss the Roxas fought in the Virtual Twilight Town. "Does that answer your question?" Kairi asked rhetorically.

"Quick somebody, lock it before more Nobodies come out." Said Sora as he went back to only one Keyblade.

"I got it!" Both Riku and Terra said, they looked at each other in surprise then smiled.

The others kept the Nobody distracted while Riku and Terra could get two the Keyhole. Once they got there, they pointed their Keyblades at the Keyhole and a bright light came out from the tips of their Keyblades and lock the keyhole. It vanished and the two went to go help the other in the fight. A bright light shined around Sora and with a flash he was somehow chained to an invisible wall in the air. The creature tried hitting him but he managed to dodge and smack his Keyblade in Nobody's face. It grabbed Sora and tossed him in the air. It pulled his fist back to try to hit him but Sora dodged it a smacked it on the head again. Nobody's body fell off the cliff. "Well, that's that." Said Ven with a grin.

However, Sora knew better than that because Roxas fought this thing the Station of Awakening and he saw its moves in Roxas's memories. "No, not yet. Everyone hold on to something!"

Right, when he said it, they were all of sudden pulled to the edge of the cliff only to stop when they stuck the Keyblades into the ground. They could see the Twilight Thorn was holding on the edge of the cliff with his feet and in its hand had a giant ball of energy. It let go and all the Keybladers were sent into the air and tried to ram them with the energy. They then looked at each other and nodded Like they were all thinking the same idea, they all threw their Keyblades at the ball of energy causing it to blow up in the Twilight Thorn's face. They all fell to the ground and got back on their feet and attacked the Nobody's head.

The monster got back on its feet tried to trap them under its body and sent in Nobodies called Creepers to eliminate them but while Sora, Kairi and, Ven defeated all Creepers, Riku, Aqua, and Terra attacked the Twilight Thorn's head. Realizing it was almost finished Sora and Riku performed the limit attack.

"LET'S DO THIS!" Sora shouted.

"OUTTA MY WAY!" shouted Riku at the same time.

Together they repeatedly struck the nobodies head in mid-air. "Is that all you got?" Taunted Riku as they both hit the creature with Fire and Dark Fire attacks. "I'll take them!" said Riku.

"Okay!" said Sora as they crossed blades striking the Nobodies on all sides. "GIVE ME STRENGTH!" Sora shouted.

"GOING TO LOSE IT ALL!" shouted Riku. With that, they threw their Keyblades in the air and they blasted the largest Nobody in the chest with powerful energy on both sides finally ending the fight. As the Nobody began to stumble, Riku and Sora gave each other a high five as it faded back into darkness. "Show offs," Kairi said, rolling her eyes.

The three pupils felt their jaws fall to the floor. Did those two just somehow combined their Shotlocks. They didn't look any much older than Ven but it looked like they had more experience out of all of them together and the girl was just a skilled as them. Ven was the first one to speak, "That… was… AWESOME! How did you guys do that?! Could you teach me that?! How did you manage to use TWO KEYBLADES?!"

"Easy Ven. I'm sure the Master will teach you how to do that. If he does, remind me to ask you because I'd like to try that too." Said Terra. "Boys." Said Aqua, shaking her head.

"I'm sorry about that. We never introduced ourselves. I'm Ventus but you can Ven." Said the Roxas look alike. The older boy smiled and introduced himself, "Terra."

"And my name's Aqua. We've all been trained by Master Earqus. Who are you three?" asked Aqua. Sora smiled as he put his hands behind his head, the same way Ven does, and said, "I'm Sora." Aqua could see that this boy's heart was like a spitting image of Ven's.

The girl smiled and placed a hand over her heart as she said, "My name's Kairi." Aqua could feel pure light in this girl, and in her eyes, she saw a bit of herself.

"Riku." Said Riku with a smile. Sora turned to him and smirked, "Don't you mean Master Riku?"

"Wait, what do mean by 'Master'?" asked Ven. Sora smiled and said, "Riku and I took our Mark of Mastery a month back."

"Really? What a confidence, Terra and Aqua are about to take the Mark of Mastery as well." Said Ven but Aqua and Terra were confused. "Wait, aren't you two a bit young to take the Mark of Mastery?" said Aqua.

"Yeah, we are." Said Sora. Both Terra and Aqua were surprised, their Master would allow them to take the test at such a young age. Either they were really good or their Master is very desperate. Maybe, both. "The test turned out to be a trap from a group of people called Organization XIII. I walked right into it but Riku escaped and saved me. That showed our Master he had the Mark of Mastery."

"So that means…YOU PASSED!" Ven cheered. Terra then smiled, "Well, hopefully, that won't be the same case for us but if you can pass, I'm sure the Mark of Mastery will be a snap for us."

Aqua smiled and nodded then she frowned, "Who is this Organization XIII? And why would they want to trap you?" Riku sighed and responded, "Long story short, they're a group of people who use the Darkness for their own benefit, and they're the ones who control the Nobodies. The original was stopped by Me and Sora, with all thirteen members destroyed. But now there's a new one that wants to continue the scheme, and they wanted Sora to give in to the Darkness to achieve it but we stopped them, at least for now."

"So, they're still out there." Terra presumed. Kairi nodded, "Yes, our Master sent us to stop them and their leader, he thinks you and your master might be able to help us."

"Are they that dangerous?" Aqua asked, unsure if this Organization was that much of a threat to send six keyblade wielders to deal with it.

Extremely, especially since they're being led by a Keyblade Master of their own." Riku answered shocking them.

"WHAT?!" The three pupils of Eraqus. "A Keyblade Master who sides with the Darkness?" Aqua asked, unable to comprehend that someone would betray the principles of a master that her own master taught them. "Well then who is it?" Terra asked.

Riku scratched the back of his head sheepishly, "That's the problem. On the way here we sort of… forgot his name and what he looks like when we came to this world."

"Well, that's not good," Ven said, disappointed as he and his friends became worried, "You can't remember anything about him."

Kairi shook her head, "We do know he does exist and there are some things like his Nobody, his Heartless but everything else is a complete blur."

"Well, I do remember something. I know his name starts with an X," said Sora proudly while Riku just groaned and facepalmed and Kairi giggled. Aqua giggled too and Terra just closed his eye and smiled, "This kid is too much like Ven."

"Hate to break to you, Sora, but just because you think you know what the first letter of his name starts with doesn't mean…" He started but was cut off by Ven, "THAT'S GREAT! Then all we need to do is guess every letter the starts with an X until we find the name that sounds familiar…"

"…And we have our man. Thank you. Finally, someone who knows what I'm saying." Said Sora. "What you mean your the only one who sees it?" Ven asked.

He turned about to Aqua and Terra, "Come there's logic in this, right?" He receives blank stares from the two and turned back to the others. "Wow, I see what you mean." He said to Sora.

"In that case, we'll solve it together," said Sora. "Right, can't be too hard, right?" Asked Ven.

"Yeah," said Sora as the two fist-bumped and laughed. "Great now there's two of him." both Riku and Terra said at the time, shaking their heads. They stared at each other in surprise until they started to laugh too. Aqua and Kairi seeing their boys messing around as usual just joined in leaving them all laughing like lifelong friends.

"Well, if you're here to see our master, we can introduce him to you. I'm sure that together we can stop this Keyblade Master gone bad." Said Aqua.

"That would be great. Thanks." Said the Riku Keyblade Master. "Race ya!" Ven challenged.

"You're on!" said Sora, before they ran back to the castle, with the other four looking in surprise. "Yeesh, are those two long-lost brothers or something?" Terra joked while Riku and the girls laughed as they chased after the two boys, but as they ran they just couldn't help but wonder who was this dark Keyblade Master.

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