AN: Hello and welcome to the second chapter of my story! This will be first chapter with Terra and Ven in it. Sora and King Mickey will be in it as well. Also, I would like to give a big shoutout to the Aquanort Facebook page! Also, I apologize if this is taking longer than it should. This particular chapter was harder to write than the previous two. Please enjoy.

Warning: This chapter may contain some graphic imagery. So the rating may go up.

Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts. All rights go to Disney and Square Enix.

Sora and Aqua's Ages: 14

Terra's Age: 16

Ventus' Age: 12

Chapter 2: Nightmares and Friends

-Land of Departure, Aqua's home-

-Three months since Aqua summoned her Keyblade

Aqua's Nightmare:

Aqua had found herself in a dark room. It was rather large and quite ominous as she looked around. It looked as if it was falling into disrepair. The black stone walls and marble floor had seen better days. The doors behind her looked as if they had been forcibly opened and barely hanging on to the hindges. The Royal blue carpet with silver trimming had been collecting a rather fair amount of dust. The twelve pillars, six on each side of the long carpet had looked as if they were crumbling into dust or just barely standing, ready to topple over. A thirteenth pillar stood behind a throne made of pure silver, which was the only thing not to be in any shape of disrepair or to be damaged.

Aqua shivered as she felt an air of forboding as she gazed upon the throne with wide eyes. Taking a step back, she gulped as she noticed the figure sitting upon the throne, looking directly at her. No, not at her, through her, as if she was directly looking into her soul. She couldn't believe what she was seeing. This couldn't be real, could it? Aqua was in such a state of shock because the figure on the throne staring back at her was, in fact, her. Well, that's what she thought. There were quite a few differences between them, but she knew, without a doubt, that was her.

As Aqua continued to stare at, well, herself, she had begun to take note of the differences between the two of them. The woman in the chair was a few years older than her, as she looked around to be the age of eighteen or nineteen. Her hair was a bleached blue, almost white in color, and her skin was a ghostly pale white. She wore a dark blue halter top with a blue and black corset with black lace and a pair black shorts and stockings that reached her thighs. She wore a pair of armored pointed boots. She wore two black straps intercepted over her chest and back, held together by a small piece of sliver jewelry. She wore a black hooded cloak with sliver trimming and a pair of red and black gloves to finish her outfit off.

Though what frightened Aqua the most were the woman's eyes. Those cold, hauntingly beautiful, golden-yellow eyes. They stared into her soul. She couldn't detect any trace of emotion in them. Her eyes glowed in the dark, shadowy ruins of this throne room. She gulped as she watched the woman smile at her. It was a cold, sadistic smile that shouldn't have been on her face. Aqua unconscious took a step back, fear slowly overtaking her mind.

"So, we finally get to meet face to face. I've been waiting for this moment for a very long time." The woman spoke in a calm, yet cold voice. There was another emotion, hidden beneath the calmness and coldness, but Aqua couldn't tell what it was. "I was finally started to get bored until three months ago. When you summoned your Keyblade. Though it wasn't the one I expected you to call upon and summon, then again, you are still just a novice after all."

"What are you talking about?" Aqua spoke up at her counterpart(?), causing the woman to frown for the briefest of moments, before she smiled again, a cruel one. "And why do you look like me?"

"Oh, you don't know? What a pity. This could of been a lot more fun if you knew about this, but I guess I can help you out." The woman spoke with a mockingly sweet tone, her voice was laced with a hidden anger Aqua couldn't place. Without saying another word, the woman raised her right hand out in front of her. A dull, golden light blurred her vision as the keyblade summoned before her for a moment. Her eyes widened at the sight of it. It looked just like exactly like Sora's in shape and size, but the colors were inverted. The blade and the teeth, and the keychain and token were gold. The rain guard was red, while the gaurd itself around the pommel was silver. The only thing that was the same between the two was the pommel had a nice, black leathery grip. The woman chuckled softly at the shocked look on Aqua's face. "Judging by the look on your face, you are probably wondering why this Keyblade looks exactly like your Sora's Keyblade, am I right? Well, that's my little secret."

Aqua's bit down on her lip as it seemed the woman seemed to be reading her thoughts. The woman then disappeared from the throne, alarming Aqua as she began to frantically look around trying to find her counterpart(?). "Just how inept are you?" The woman taunted as Aqua turned around, only for the woman to reappear and slam the Keyblade into her skull with tremendous force, sending her flying into the silver throne, which surprisingly wasn't damaged. Before Aqua could move, the woman pinned her to the throne with the blade of the Keyblade pressed down on her throat, but not enough to suffocate her. "Don't tell me, that's all you got? I'm just getting started." The woman continued to taunt her. "After all, you are going down the same path as me." There was a sadistic glee laced in her voice.

"What are you talking about? I'm nothing like you, I will never end up like you!" Aqua spoke up before wincing in pain as the woman increased the pressure on her neck slightly. The woman lowered herself so she was now at eye level with the fourteen year old girl. Those cold, glowing golden-yellow eyes stared into her warm deep blue ones. All Aqua saw was rage, pure, unadulterated, destructive, rage. Her fear went up exponentially as the woman began to speak in a cold, venomous voice. No hints of the sarcastic tone from before.

"Oh but you will." The woman spoke as she leaned in forward and whispered in her to her. "You'll end up exactly like me. You'll fall in love with Your Precious Sora, just like I did with My Precious. Then next thing you know, Your Precious Sora will rip out your heart and split it into seven pieces, just like MINE was. My Precious was claiming that he was protecting me, that he loved me and didn't want me to be safe, but all he did was hurt me." The woman paused for a moment before continuing. "But then something wonderful happened. We were called upon and summoned this Keyblade here, the Kingdom Key D." Yes this Keyblade came to us in our most desperate time of need. It responds to our wish of vengeance. So we took our chance and impaled Our Precious upon the blade of this Keyblade here. It was glorious. The way his blood coated our hands. The way he writhed in pain. Oh, you should of seen him. The way he asked us "why". You'll be just like me, Aqua. After all, we are destined to share the same fate. Just like Your Precious Sora is destined to share the same fate as My Precious."

"You're sick! I would never do that to Sora!" Aqua choked out as She glared at the woman who only smiled back in response. The woman then removed the Keyblade from Aqua's neck as she slowly stood straight up, looking down at Aqua.

"But, sweetie, you've already done the deed. Your hands are already covered in his blood after all." The Woman smiled sickenly as Aqua slowly looked down at her hands with wide eyes, only to see that were indeed covered in blood. Her head shot up to question the woman only to see that she was gone and replaced with a horrific sight. There, lying on the ground a few feet in front of her were Terra, Ventus, and Master Eraqus all lying in pools of their own blood. King Mickey and Master Yen Sid were both chained tightly to the nearest two crumbling pillars, their bodies heavily injured and on the verge of death. Her eyes slowly widened even further as she heard the sound of ragged breathing and looked down slowly at the source. To Aqua's absolute horror, there was Sora, kneeling in front of her as she sat upon the throne, with his very own Keyblade piercing his heart, impaling through his body, and her own hand wrapped around the pommel of the Kingdom Key. His eyes were wide with shock as this was the last thing he saw. "Don't you see? You're already like me. All you need is time to fully realize it." The woman's voice echoed in her mind. It was at that moment that the shock had finally wore off and Aqua let out a loud, high-pitched blood curdling scream that echoed throughout the dark, cold ruins of the throne room.

End Nightmare:

Aqua sprang up in her bed immediately as her eyes shot open. Her breathing was loud and erratic as she feel and hear her heart pounding. It was just a nightmare, but for some reason, it felt so real and remembering what she last saw. At that thought, Aqua felt herself become sick. She quickly sprang out of her bed and rushed into the bathroom that was attached to her bedroom, lifting up the seat to the toilet and kneeled over it, let up and out, heaving up the contents of her dinner from last night into the toilet bowl. After a couple minutes of vomiting, she slowly began regaining control of her breathing, it took a few minutes to get her slow raggedy breaths into a controlled rhythm. That's when she heard banging on her front door. Aqua then slipped on a pink, fluffy robe, pulling it close and tied it tightly around her body as she proceeded out of her bathroom and down the hall to the front door. When she opened it, she saw Terra and Ventus in their pajamas standing there with worried looks on their faces.

"Terra, Ven, what are you guys doing here?" She asked. The only reason how they could of heard her is because their houses were located next to her house, one on each side.

"We heard you scream, so we came to check on you." Terra spoke, his voice laced with concern for the girl he saw as his little sister, when Ven chimed in.

"Yeah, it was a really loud scream. It woke me up. Terra was still up as he was hoping he could get in a few extra hours of training in. Are you okay?" Ventus asked as he took a step forward.

"Yeah, I'm okay now. Thank you for checking up on me. It was just a nightmare, that's all." Aqua replied softly, feeling a warmth in her heart as she heard the concern and sincerity in their voices. She really did view them as her brothers. "I'll be okay, please don't worry, you two."

"Alright, if you say so, just know that if you ever want to talk about it, we're here for you." Terra smiled in a comforting manner, which made Aqua smile as well.

"Yeah, and don't forget, there's always your "Prince" Sora, there to rescue you if you ever need it." Ventus teased her playfully with a mischievous smile on his lips, causing Aqua's cheeks to go turn red as Terra joined in on the teasing.

"All he needs to do is kiss you on the lips and all your nightmares will go away." Terra chuckled as Aqua stammered out an incoherent response before shutting the door close with a loud bang. Terra and Ventus stood there for a moment in silence before bursting out in jolly laughter as they had always been teasing Aqua in a playful manner about her crush on Sora, even if she denied having such a crush.

Leaning against the other side of the door was Aqua, a small smile graced her lips as she thought about how grateful and thankful she was to have such people as Sora, Terra, and Ventus in her life. As long as they were with her, she would never fall into Darkness. Unknown to herself, she placed her hands over her heart as she thought of Sora. She was determined never to let that nightmare come to pass and prove the other "Her" wrong.

-End of Chapter 2-

A.N: This chapter was much harder to write than I anticipated. Not because of Writer's block or anything like that, just that I doing something like this so early on, was indeed, difficult to pick out the right emotions I wanted to display for this chapter. Thank you for being patient with me.