After Aqua was out if his sight, which was as soon as she'd turned the corner, the young man, Ventus, let out a depressed sigh.
"Good going idiot. That was the first time you've seen her face to face and the first time you've spoken to her in eleven years and the first time she's seen and spoke to you as a real person and you made her suspect that you're a creep." He muttered under his breath in the way his 'wonderful' cousin would have said it.
It was a good thing his obsession with stars had brought him out tonight or those creeps would have gotten her. Speaking of the creeps, two men stepped out of the darkness of the alley wall with demented looks on their faces. They both pulled out guns from somewhere and prepared them for shooting. They walked over to him and the closer they got, the closer his hand got to the dagger he had with him.
"Hey you Bastard!" One of the men said when they were standing right in front of him. He felt like saying a smart ass comment in return but he knew these men were people who shouldn't be messed with. "You cost us a woman! A pretty one at that! So now you're going to have to pay." The man said before a smirk appeared on his face and both men prepared to shoot him.
But he didn't care about the guns. He wasn't bullet proof but the chances that they'd have the time to shoot him were very slim. He finally grabbed the dagger. The men just laughed. "You think something like a dagger is going to save you? You're even more stupid then we thought!"
He just copied the smile that his 'wonderful' cousin often wore when he was about to do...well just about anything.
A flash of light surrounded his hand, the dagger and some of the area around it. The men let out yowls of shock. When the light cleared, a strange weapon was in his hand. He flipped it around in his hand so he was holding it backwards.
The men backed up in fear and surprise. "What witchcraft is that?!" One called out in shock.
"You must read to much, which surprises me. I won't expect people like you to read more then..." But the men had already dropped their guns and broke out into a run.
He rolled his eyes. "All I did was show it off and they start running away. Most don't run off that fast. Those two put up a tough exterior but really they're a bunch of wimps on the inside." He then let the weapon, that he called a Keyblade, fade away.
"I love having this power." He said in a happy tone. He didn't think that those two creeps would be hurting any woman, or anyone for that matter, for a long time.
His thoughts quickly turned from the creeps to Aqua. As he made his way back to the place he called home, he thought of how much she changed over the years. Though she never knew it, and she would never find out, he had been watching her off and on over the years. He was happy that she had done so well in life and in her writing and that she had gained many friends over the years, though he couldn't help but feel a bit jealous of those friends, especially that Terra guy. The friend that intrigued him the most was her friend Naminé. He was pretty sure he knew who she really was and it pained him a little to think about it.
The extent of his powers were pretty good. Basically, anything he could imagine, he could create, and no one would be able to tell any difference, unless he let his imagination get the best of him. He could also make non-living things disappear from existence, even if he didn't create them in the first place, which could lead to terrible situations if used in the wrong. He could make living beings too that functioned just like normal humans, but he had only done it four times, because unlike the other things he created, it was impossible to erase them. All of those four created were based on the memories Aqua gave him but two of them he mostly created himself due to Aqua not thinking up much about them.
He knew that he hadn't been real. He knew the memories were fake. But he couldn't help but consider them real.
He wasn't quite sure how he came to be real. He had just woken up in a forest, outside the town Aqua moved to, a few years after Aqua had ended his existence. He had discovered soon after that the powers he now had.
Eventually, he made it to the rock in the forest that covered up the entrance to where he'd been living for the past few years. He willed the large rock to disappear and then stepped into a sizable hole underneath. He then willed the rock to appear again.
He walked down the tunnel that the hole was the start of until he reached a door. He looked at the time and tried to decide whether or not he should go in. He wasn't sure if the fight was still going on and he really didn't like getting into the fights. He finally decided to go in.
Surprisingly, silence met him as he walked in and shut the door behind him. 'They must have taken their fight outside.' He thought as he looked around and listened for sounds. "Hello? Anyone home?" He called out.
He heard the sound of someone coming. A few seconds later, a tried looking young man a bit taller then him appeared in the door way that led to the kitchen.
"Hello Ventus." The raven haired man said with a smirk gracing his tired face. His hair reached to almost his shoulders and spiked a bit. His eyes were a golden yellow that made many girls almost literally melt.
Ventus smiled in return. "Hello Vani, where are the 'Resident Dimwit' and the 'Smartass'?" He asked using nicknames instead of real names.
'Vani' rolled his eyes. "They're hiding from me. I spent all day looking for them and I couldn't find any sign of them them. I guess they're sleeping outside with the creeps tonight."
Ven let out a sigh. "They were so much better behaved before they started getting along. I hope nothing to bad happens to them." He then took out his pony-tail and let all of his hair flow free.
'Vani' agreed with him before saying that he was going to bed. They exchanged good nights before 'Vani' went to bed.
He knew that 'Vani' needed some sleep do to how out of character he was acting and the fact that he had gotten away with calling him Vani. Honestly, he preferred 'Vani', when he wasn't tired.
Vani's real name was Vanitas. He was one of the people he created based on the memories Aqua gave him. In those memories he was his cousin so he called him such. They had a weird relationship. They could be the best of friends one day then trying to kill each other the next, and that was only half of it. Vanitas had the power to create too, but to a much smaller extent. He could only create these mostly mindless creatures that he called Unversed. He loved being able to.
He lied down on the couch and grabbed a book off the coffee table. It was one of Aqua's books. He studied the cover like he had done so many times before.
"Stella...could it really be you?"
He put the book back down on the table and closed his eyes. An image of a young smiling blond haired girl that resembled him in many ways appeared in his mind. "It might just be you."
He opened his eyes again. "Something seemed wrong with Aqua. I need to find out just what happened and help her. It would also be the perfect opportunity to find out if Naminé is really Stella and find out what happened to her that day. But that's something for tomorrow."
He closed his eyes again and a few minutes later he was asleep.