Bet you guys thought I was going to ramble on like last time. Well, I'm not so there! Ha, ha, ha.… Creativity, lacking. Honestly, if I really owned Kingdom Hearts, would I actally be sitting here writing this awful fiction? Maybe, but you wouldn't know it was me!

The dawn on the Land of Departure is unlike any that you have ever known. The first rays shine over the golden peaks of the castles just right so that everything on the world shimmers as the finest jewels. The dew on the grass releases all of the most fresh scents of nature, these scents being the likes of which have never been smelled by the noses of modern Earth. The lakes and rivers shimmer as if they held captive separate Suns. The fish leaped, the squirrels stirred, and the birds chanted in complex melodies that purified the very air.

There was a sword, black, bronze, long, and wing shaped with chains encircling the length of the blade, floating horizontally in midair above one of the many mountains in the distant land. A boy sat on the flat of the blade looking out over the scenery towards the castle where his new "friends," as the Master had put it were surely waiting. Though he knew it to be true, this fact puzzled him. From the moment his training had begun, Venitas had been taught that nature was a balance between light and darkness, or in other terms, order and chaos. This went alongside with his lessons of light and darkness being used equally. So why was it that these apprentices were not outside in the morning, enjoying the wonders of their beautiful, not-dried-up world? Venitas then decided that these students must be trained twice as hard as he was for them to still be in bed. "That must be it."

Aqua stepped into the kitchen sleepy eyed and still in her Winnie the Pooh jammies. She looked to the breakfast table to see Terra in his Cars 2 pajama bottoms and a plain white t-shirt that he must have slept in. He had his head face down on the table with no breakfast in front of him. She sighed at the repetition. "You know, I'm not always going to be here to feed you." She stepped over to the stove and started the burner. Setting up a frying pan for eggs, she nearly jumped out of her sleepwear when she felt the body behind her reach for a comb that was always kept close to the stove. This was changed to relaxation when she felt said comb being pulled through her hair.

"Of course, that also means that I won't be around to fix your hair for you every morning Miss Cook."

Aqua then realized that, once again, she forgot to make up her hair after getting out of bed. She once more thanked all of her luck that Terra had been a child of seven, with six younger sisters. If she had gone out in the world looking like she just woke up, everyone would have laughed at her. Again.

"Say, terra," she began.

"Yes?" Terra did not pause in his work to answer.

"What do you suppose the Master was speaking of when he was talking about all of that positive and negative stuff last night? I assumed he meant that my magic was my positive and my physical abilities were my negative."

This did make Terra pause, but only momentarily. "Really, to me it sounded more like crappy writing."

This answer shocked a giggle out of Aqua. "That isn't nice at all!"

"Crappy writing my hakama."

Aqua recognized the voice of Master Eraqus and did not bother to turn around to see who it was for herself. The voice was confirmed as the Master's when she heard a thump on the table, signaling that he had his head down to wait for his eggs. Honestly, in Aqua's opinion those two were too much alike sometimes.

"Mmm, I like eggs."

Aqua could feel Terra freeze behind her just as she did.

The castle of The Land of Departure had only four inhabitants. Aqua herself, Terra, Master Eraqus, and Consuela the cleaning lady being those four. This voice belonged to none of them.

Aqua, like most Keyblade wielders, had the ability to sense the energy of those around her, but she had not felt this person, nor could she feel him now though his voice had an unmistakable weight to it. Even as his first word entered the room there was certain stillness the likes of which Aqua had never before encountered. It was as if everything in the room stopped at once because everything understood that this man wanted himself to be heard. She and Terra turned in unison and, apart from seeing that Master Eraqus had not been fazed in the least, recognize the face immediately from the portrait of him in the master's office.

This man was Master Xehanort.

Aqua took a deep breath and began to speak.

And then the world around her shattered into a billion multifaceted shards.

Venitas paused in chasing butterflies to look out toward the castle. It felt like the master had lost his grip on his strength for a split second and the darkness writhed out over the small room where the powers were located. Two of the three lights disappeared while the third, as far as he could tell, had barely even taken notice of the surge of energy. The third light must be Master Eraqus, while the two faded lights must have been the apprentices.

"How sad." He looked back to the butterflies when he felt the lights steadily growing, the initial shock behind them. "They cannot even keep up their own energy under a brief look into the power of chaos."

How were these apprentices trained under someone the likes of Eraqus but still so weak? Did some sort of disability inspiring accident happen to them? No, this could not be, else they would not be in training at all.

He summoned Voided Maelstrom and rode it toward the castle. The master told him to take as much time as he wanted to explore this world, but Venitas was interested in seeing these people for himself. "Perhaps I should make my presence known to them."

So, I decided that Venitas could not have Ventus' keyblade or Vanitas' keyblade. He should have both. And that gave birth to Voided Maelstrom. Looking at the apprentices in comparison to Master Xehanort, I decided that if either of them had encountered him before leaving the Land of Departure, they would both be squashed horribly, so his momentary slip of focus caused the two of them to feel the power of true darkness for the first time and collapse. Tell me what you think and give me any criticisms you deem appropriate. Supreme King is out.