"Terra what do we do? Aqua hasn't come out of her room in almost a week! She won't even answer me behind her door anymore...she's starving herself T-Terra."

Terra looked over his shoulder to Ven and sighed. 'He hasn't stopped crying once this week, he deserves better. Actually, we all do. Everything was suppose to go back to how they were before, we were suppose to heal together, get better together, but Aqua, she's getting worse every day.'

Before Terra could even think of a response to calm the boy they heard the sound of a ship landing at the courtyard.

"Huh? Oh! That must be Kairi!" Ven practically sprang from his chair and ran outside, tears forgotten for the time being.

"Least that'll keep him occupied for a while." Terra mused, chuckling at his friends childish antics.

Kairi had been visiting the Land of Departure weekly. After both her and Aqua has discovered she was accidentally bequeathed as a child, Aqua had decided to follow through and take Kairi under her wing for more training.

"Maybe this'll coax Aqua enough to leave her room today." It was a foolish thought Terra knew that, but still, one could hope.

"Hi Terra! Is Master Aqua with you?" the young red head chirped.

Both Terra and Ven cringed at that.

"Actually Kairi Master Aqua has been...ill for the past few days."

"She hasn't left her room since,she won't eat, she won't even answer me and Terra..." Ven whispered the last part out, bowing his head, focusing on his armoured shoes instead.

"Oh... I'm sorry. Hey, do you think I could try talk to her? It probably won't do much, but it's worth a try, right?"

Both boys nodded a small smile on their faces at the red heads enthusiasm. "Sure Kairi, and could you bring this up to her as well please?"

Terra handed her a tray of food, 'smells pretty good too!' "Sure, I'll see you guys in a bit." Both boys felt a bit brighter, hope returning to their hearts as Kairi rose up the stairs.

Three knocks, "Master Aqua? It's Kairi, I brought you some breakfast. May I come in please?" Nothing but silence answered her.

Kairi sighed, leaving the tray on the marbled floor, moving towards the staircase when suddenly she heard a scream come from Aqua's room. The girl scrambled to the front door, banging a fist against the cold wood.

"Master Aqua? Master Aqua!?"

Aqua's screams continued to fill Kairi's ears until they abruptly stopped. Kairi gasped and summoned her keyblade 'I know I'm not suppose to abuse the keyblade's power, but this is an emergency.' She took a step back and aimed her keyblade, light shooting directly into the lock, unlocking it. Wasting no time Aqua burst through the door, she almost wished she hadn't.

Never had Kairi seen Aqua look so weak. Her skin was paper white, her lips lost of any colour, her once bright blue hair was now dark, covered in grease, her tank top drenched in sweat. Not only that, she was thinner, far too thin. Her shoulder blades were completely visible underneath her skin, you could easily count each rip sticking out from under her top, her arms even shook as she tried to hold herself up, her entire body shaking with every cough and hack. The girls Master started heaving - 'black ooze?' Kairi's eyes widened 'And was that blood!?'

'She's dying...' was Kairi's sudden realisation.

The girl let out a whimper, traumatised of what had become of her Master, and that was when Aqua finally noticed someone was in the room with her. Pulling her crumpled form to stand was getting harder each day 'Weakling' a voice whispered, "Shut up" Aqua grumbled back, smacking the side of her head to knock the voice out, it still hadn't worked for her. She didn't dare turn to face Kairi, she had seen the hurt she'd caused on Terra and Vens faces too many times, she didn't want to see Kairi with the same expression.

"Why are you here?" Aqua cringed at the coldness of her voice which caused the younger girl to take a step back.

"I-I, for training M-Master"

"There is no training." 'Refusing to teach? You were never worthy of being a keyblade master..' the voice whispered again, a shiver went down her back, "Get out."

"But Master your sick! At least allow me to-

"I said get out!" All but burst out of the blunettes mouth, tendrils of darkness starting to leak out of her body, the sight caused the red head flinch but she did not make an exit.

"N-no...I can't leave you like this, your gonna-

The girl was caught off by a tight first now holding her by the throat, she felt nails - no, claws dig into her skin, her feet left dangling in the air, with her hands grasping and scratching the arm holding her up. She swore she saw Aqua's eyes flash gold for a moment.

"Leave me alone!" Aqua wasn't sure if she was talking to Kairi or the multiple voices screaming in her head, maybe it was both.

The claw released its grip dropping the young apprentice to her knees gasping for breath before she bolted out of her masters room, gliding down the staircase. She could already feel her neck bruising from the harsh abuse.

As she saw her apprentice flee Aqua's hands were soon getting tangled in her filthy hair, yanking it. 'Monster' 'Demon' 'You should have stayed in the Darkness...' The girl let out a cry of frustration, slamming her fist into her already broken table. Only then did she notice the tints of red at her fingertips, the blacking of skin traveling up her arm. An all too familiar feeling.

'Only your heart is hallow enough to be a Demons' Her breathing became erect, her vision blurring as she scrambled to her bathroom, a stab of pain ran through her chest causing her to double lever in pain once again. Quickly finding the mirror, shaky hands slowly pulled off her sweat drenched top, her eyes widening at the sight in front of her.

Black jagged veins riddled her body, branching off from where her hearts was. Already making their way up her neck and down her thighs, every pulse of pain from her chest would only cause the veins to move further across her body. Her fingers following the trails marred on her bare skin.

"What is happening to me?" Voice breaking as she finally aloud herself to cry.

Notes:

I'm not sure how long I'll take to keep this story updated, I'll aim for once a week though, hopefully. I also wnt to thank everyone who has follwed and reviewed this story so far thank you all so much!

If anyones would like to DM me on story directions or if I can make the characters better feel free to tell me!

On a side note anyone see the Frozen 2 trailer that dropped a few hours ago? I saw tons of comments saying Elsa is in the Realm of Darkness they made me laugh XD