Aqua was fuming. She had never wanted to even think of her home world again but now she found herself inputting the quadrants into the Gummi ship's navi computer. The young woman would have given anything not to be going to her own version of hell but she could not help it.

Apollo's hints had stirred up too many questions within her to be ignored. What would the oracle have to say that could possible be worth all this pain? Most likely nothing, but at least she would get the Sanzu. It would be nice to have something like that of her sister's and the ship it's self would no dubitably come in handy.

The Sanzu was a work of art; a machine with so many tricks up it's sleeves that Aqua doubted that even Aero herself knew them all. It could carry at least twenty people comfortably, split into three separate ships, and only needed two people to pilot the craft. (One if it was Aero)

"Is someone going to explain what exactly that flake was talking about?" The new guy-Emmett- said.

Aqua couldn't help but give a little laugh. She had thought nearly the same thing about the god, she just would have put it a little differently. It was apparent to her that Emmett wasn't the sort to actually think about what he said, instead, he probably said exactly what came to mind. It was truly refreshing, if not a little over blunt.

"Remember how I told you that my sister and I ran away from home?" She asked, fishing out exactly what her companions remembered.

"Yes." Kairi said, speaking for her and her friends.

At the same time Emmett gave the opposite response.

"We'll fill you in latter." Riku whispered, causing Aqua to give a little smile of gratitude. The only thing she would have hated to do more then go to Delphy is to have to tell the whole sorry tail once again.

"The world I grew up on, Delphy, would probably have gown unnoticed by everyone if it wasn't for the Oracle. Anyone with any psychic ability at all was forced to take a turn. Although now that I think back on it, most of those who took a turn were probably just good at guessing rather then actually clairvoyant. It was considered an honor above any other to be selected but that was only because no one knew the truth.

"One day I saw the inauguration of a new oracle through the window. I wasn't suppose to be around the temple at the time but I was young. I watched as they held a little boy, no older then myself down and shove a potion down his through.

"That potion is what turned him into the statue everyone sees. You see, to everyone else the oracle is just a statue that can talk. But as I learned that day, it is more then that: It's hell for those chosen."

"What's this have to do with why you ran away?" Sora asked, earning him a slap on the back of the head by Kari. That boy had less tact then a porcupine.

"Unlike everyone else, my sister wasn't just good at guessing things, she really could see the future. Aero knew things that no one could possibly know.

"When I saw what happened to that boy, I knew I had to get her out of there; I had to save her from that."

"Wow." Sora whispered.

"So do you think the oracle Apollo wants you to go see could be your sister?" Kairi was trying vary hard not bring up things that would hurt Aqua any more then she was already hurting, but the princess was genially curious.

Aqua just shook her head slowly.

"It's impossible for the same reason the general public was unaware of what's going on. For some reason no oracle lasted longer then about two years, sometimes three. Then they died and someone else was selected to replace them."

Everyone besides Aqua had a mask of horror upon their faces.

"I know without a doubt that my sister is dead." The sorrow in the mystic warrior's voice could not be denied.

Grief pored off her in waves so strong that for a second Kairi was tempted to hug the girl, but decided against it. Something told the red head that the best thing she could do for her new friend was let her greave in peace.

Delphy was a warm murky place full of swamps and bogs. It was almost never clear weather and Emmett Cullen could not have been happier.

The first rule of being a Cullen was to not attract unwanted attention. Going out in the sun in the middle of town on some odd backwater world would be the worst thing. He didn't need these hicks thinking he was some sort of god just because he glittered in the sunlight and there was no way in hell that he was staying on the ship. There was too many questions for him to just give a list to the little punks and hope they get it right.

It was with this mindset that the vampire found himself trudging up a cobblestone path in a city very reminiscent of ancient Greece.

Every step she took in her hometown sent a knife through Aqua's heart. It was agony being back here, and she was beginning to think that that was all the future was going to hold for her.

"You have a lot of nerve coming here." A voice said from Aqua's left. She didn't even have to look to identify who the voice belonged to. It took all the warrior had not to turn and assault the speaker, but she decided it was best to try the high route.

"I'm not here to cause trouble, I was just told Aero left something here for me." Her inner strain was more then event in her voice.

The middle aged woman gave Aqua a calculating look, but the chaser simply stared strait ahead. In fact the blue haired young woman hadn't even looked at the seeker.

"She left a very sophisticated piece of equipment here and I want it." Aqua said through gritted teeth as her friends looked on wondering who this woman was. She reminded them of Maleficent even though they looked nothing alike.

"I know what a damn Gummi ship is! Take it. Gods know we've tried to sell it but that doesn't work if you can't get in it. It keeps asking for some sort of password."

Knowing her sister, it was probably something stupid that not a soul in there right mind would guess. Luckily there was a backdoor, a way around the passwords. Aero put the same one on all her ships, only because she had a tendency to forget the code or get then mixed up.

"I can get into it. Where is it?"

"I'll show you." The woman said leading the group to the south east.

When the mysterious woman was out of ear-but not eye-shot Rikku asked what everyone was wondering.

"Who is she?"

"My Mother." The curt reply made it obviously time to drop the subject

"So that's where she gets the bitchiness from." Myde whispered to his brothers as the followed well behind the rest of the grope.

"Not every trait is hereditary." Ienzo reminded him.

"Yah, both our parents were smart and look how you turned out." Lea continued.

To say Neisse Cullen was scared was an understatement. All her life she had lived in the same small town surrounded by the same people. Now she unexplainably found herself in one of the oddest towns she could imagine surrounded by strangers.

She hadn't said a word since she had woken up in a small room surrounded by piles of books, drawling boards, and computer equipment. At first she was all alone but then four strangers entered, lead by a tainted man with white hair. He seemed vary kind and Neisse was tempted to trust him.

"Ah good, you're awake."

The girl was stoic and silent to the point that had she not been sitting up with her eyes open, the old man may have thought she was still asleep. Ansem could not tell if the girl was able to talk or if she could even understand his words.

Ansem went on to explain the situation to her and as he did so he began to realize that the girl understood every word he was saying. The scientist watched as the truth sunk in; as the new comer realized that her world was gone and her family more then likely was gone with it.

Ansem could easily sympathize with the girl. The same day she realized that Terra wasn't coming home his wife had begged him to leave; to take the few things in there life worth saving and hide where Thanroe could never find them, but he refused to leave his life's work. It was infantile and petty but it was his way at getting back at there son for leaving, for dieing.

His wife could not stand by his choice, for she saw it for what it truly was and she left taking the one thing that meant the most to both of them with her.

After Ansem had finished his explanation to the girl he turned to leave but stopped with his hand on the door frame.

"If you need anything just need to ask. I'm called Ansem, by the way."

The girl looked at him for a moment, before replying.

"I'm Neisse."

"Damn it! It's not working." Aqua huffed, after trying the back door for what must have been the millionth time. For some reason the one password that was always suppose to work didn't. Aero had obviously changed it but the real question was why.

Like all her passwords the backdoor wasn't something easily guessed, so it wasn't for security reasons.

"I thought you said you could get in it." The old woman sneered, trying to bait her daughter, but Aqua remained silent.

"Maybe you could ask the oracle. It might just tell you what you want to know."

With a great hollow thump Aqua's fits hit the vassal's metal siding. .

"If the oracle knows so much then why did you not go to it and ask for the passwords. Then you could have sold it, not that it was your's to barter."

The woman just shrugged.

"I did, but I didn't understand the answer. 'The wind's greatest desire will no longer grant you yours.'"

Aqua gave a little snort as a tear slid down her face. The master password was a simple five letter word. Terra. The one thing Aero had always wanted but could never have.

During her brief second in her own world Aqua did not notice her mother come up behind her and put her hand on the girl's sunken shoulder.

"Let it go. She's with the gods now." The words she spoke where probably the first the woman had spoken as an actually mother but it was too late. She had lost that right fifteen years past.

"Screw your gods. All they have ever done is destroy. Do you even know what is done to innocents' so that people like you don't have to take responsibility for your own actions; so that you may be content to let some phantom being tell you every thing from when to plaint your crops to whom to marry?

"No, you don't. And you don't care. All you ever cared about was the prestige giving up you child to the gods would bring. You didn't care what she was giving up." Aqua was yelling, something that her companions could tell wasn't usual for their teal hared friend. No one made a move to calm her. It was obvious that getting these issues off her chest was the only way she was ever going to begin to heal.

"Did you know that Aero was the best mechanic out of all the hundreds and hundreds of worlds? Or that she used to tell me stories of what her future would be like for with the one man she would ever love?"

Their was several moments ringing silence before the woman said something that would shatter her daughter's world for the umpteenth time in the past few days.

"Aqua, Aero came home of her own free will. No one forced her to do anything."

In that moment Aqua looked so small, so venerable.

"Why? Why would she do that?" She breathed.

"I can't answer that. I asked her the same thing but she wouldn't tell me. There is one person that may be able to tell you. If you can ask right."

"Blaze, are you ready? After this we won't be able to talk as much, so you need to know what you're suppose to be doing." Aero whispered, her voice already beginning to take on the mystic quality it always did when she was expecting 'gusts.' If she had had any say in it, she would have told them all to go to hell, but seeing as those damn enchantments bound her so tight, in truth she had no choice.

"I know, we've been over this a million times…" He began but was quickly cut off.

"Good. They come. Now go." He really couldn't tell if it was irritability or excitement that was causing his friend to be so rude, but he listened none the less.

The moment the last whips of his shadow the door flew open. Aqua burst in without a modicum of ceremony that other natives would show. It was clear that she was angry and that the oracle was to be her outlet. If she could have, Aero would have laughed. Here Aqua was ready to defend her sister's memory to the vary thing that had taken her life, which unbeknownst to her was actually said sister. The entire situation was vary Shakespearean.

"You may each ask one question and one question only, so you best make it count." Aero said in the raspy voice she was forced to use; the same voice which hid her identity from the one person who she wanted to know it.

"It would be prudent for the Chaser to hold her question for last, seeing as it will take the longest to answer." She added, trying to bide her time.

As Aqua fumed, Emmett stepped forward. Aero could tell that he didn't like the idea of having to almost literally beg for information, so she speared him the indignity.

"I cannot speak for the rest of your family, for I do not know, but your niece is at a place called Radiant Gardens safe and sound."

Aqua had spent her last five conscious years going against her native religion. She had committed every kind of blasphemy and gone against everything she had once held sacred. She didn't think that adding one more 'sin' to her list wasn't going to hurt, so she did the one thing everyone does at some point in there lives: she cut in line.

"Why did she do it? Did she not realize what she was giving up? Did she not care? What could have possibly drove her back to this hell whole?" Aqua was throwing the biggest fit Aero had thought she would never see. Her sister had always been dignified, sure she had fought and argued and bickered, but never like this. Never in her life had she ever come so close to looking like a mad woman.

"Did I not say that I would only answer one question? You asked many. Which do you truly want the answer too?" Aero ignored the fact that all the questions her sister had asked were in essence the same.

Of all the time she had spent paining her escape, she knew this was the one variable; the one thing she could not plain. Seeing as it was physically impossible for her to come straight out and tell her sister all her secrets or even hint too strongly at them Aero was in a bit of a jam.

At first she had intended to drop enough subtle hints that Aqua would figure it out and presto, no more miss statue. Didn't work that way. The main flaw in her ingenious plain was she had assumed that Aqua would have come with a cool demeanor as she did most everything.

What she had gotten was the opposite; a bicthing , raging harpy. There was nothing that could be said to calm Aqua as long as she still believed her sister dead. It was a good thing Aero was relatively good at thinking on her feet, so to speak, or this might just be for naught.

There was only one thing left to do and it was the simplest trick in any war-mage's book: use your opponents' weakness against them to the point it becomes your strength.

"What's wrong Oh Great Tempered One? Can you not decide?" She asked using the sarcastic nickname she had for her sister when she threw those rare fits. The ploy worked. Aqua was seeing red.

She grabbed the oracle by the shoulders and began to shake her.

"Haven't you taken enough from me you stupid piece of--" One sight caught her attention enough for her to realize that this was not the enemy. It was a single violet ringlet the had come lose from the oracle's thick white cloak.

Aqua sank to her knees in front of the statue and gently lowered the hood. Now unveiled, she could see the stoic face of her sister. Aero's face was as expressionless as blank paper but her eyes told a different story. Aqua couldn't read the emotions running behind her sisters navy orbs. Pride? Relief? Worry? Whatever it was, the girl was undoubtedly inside the fleshy statue.

"Oh Aero, how do we fix this?" She whispered, not truly expecting an answer.

"How do you release any lock of darkness?"

Aqua didn't understand. A lock of darkness? Once the inevitable epiphany struck she gave her first true smile of the week. A lock. So simple. So genius.

Calling forth her keyblade she had it do what it was made to do. The click of the lock had to have been the greatest sound she had ever heard.

"Hi sissy." The girl whispered, causing Aqua to scoop her up in a bear hug that would have made Emmett proud.

"Can't breath." Aqua immediately let her go.

"Just let me get up and then we'll leave." Aero said as she tried to lean forward to catch her bearings. Apparently something was wrong because she simply fell forward.

"Well damn." She muttered into the cloth of her cloak. "Umm… a little help here?"

"What's wrong?"

"You wouldn't believe how freaking stiff I am. Thank god they didn't sit me oriental style or my legs would be screwed. Permanently."

In the end Emmett wound up carrying her out the window, over the brick fence and into the woods surrounding the long path that lead to the temple. The acolytes would not notice one less person leaving the sanctum, but they would notice one carrying the oracle out over his shoulders. And although they would probably win, it was truly far better to avoid the fight altogether.

They all decided to meet back up at the ship. It had taken quite a bit of convening to get the others to agree to this plain. They were concerned that Emmett would not be able to carry the girl the entire way. Phh. Please. In fact, because Aero already knew about Emmett's 'condition' they were able to make it in mere minuets. It would take the others about an hour to make the long trek back, maybe half if they all ran the entire way but that was unlikely considering the amount to civilians that were in the group.

With all the time to spare, Aero was able to convince the vampire to go on a miniature hunting excursion. It wouldn't do to have him be so hungry he takes a bite out of some one on the ship.

While he hunted, Aero sat on the ground trying to work the kinks out of her muscles. Slowly she would move her arms as far as she could (which wasn't much at all). When her arms would start to protest too much, she would move her legs, then her torso and then she would start all over.

Soon the others arrived they were ready to go.

"So what's the password; your sister must have tried everything." Riku asked.

"It was something the old bitch would never guess: Kostose the home of the chasers." She replied, perhaps a little over smug as the door to the vassal opened.

"I tried Kostose three times!" Aqua snapped indignantly, causing her sister to give her a slightly blank look.

"Three times? Um… you have heard of Einstein's theory of insanity…" She cut off mid sentence at the look her sister was shooting at her. Good to see some things haven't changed a bit.

"Actually, the password wasn't Kostose. It was 'something the old bitch would never guess: Kostose.'"

Every single one of her companions were staring at her as if she was the one who was insane.

"If I had set it to something predictable, you would have gotten the Sanzu and left me. And this way there was no risk of someone actually saying the password while they were trying to sell it or something."

Aqua just rolled her eyes and ushered everyone inside.

From the outside the Sanzu had not been an overly large but on the inside was a different matter entirely. The inside included seven bedrooms, two baths (one for the girls, one for the guys), a library, a big living room, a gym, kitchen, dining room and the cockpit. The one thing about the Sanzu that make it so special was that it was as big as it needed to be.

"This isn't possible. With the outside dimensions there is no way all this could fit." Ienzo muttered, truly confused for once.

Aero just smiled a chestier grin.

"Oh it's possible, but I won't tell you how. Not even Aqua knows how I do it. But I will give you a little hint. It's not magic. Not really." She said as she limped over to the cockpit and sat down. It was clear that she was still extremely stiff by the way she moved like an old women, but she would not let anyone help her. In fact the only reason she had allowed herself to be carried in the first place was that she had no choice then. She did now.

She pushed a button on the control panel at the same time she slipped on a head set complete with speaker.

"Shuttle Highwind, this is Shuttle Sanzu. What is you're agenda." She was being very businesslike and professional for some reason. It was unnatural.

"Sora is that you?" Asked a squeaky voice from the other end.

"Wait a second. Let me turn on the video. Ah there we go." Aero said. "Sorry about that, it's just something a saw in a movie once and I've always wanted to try it."

"By golly, is that you Aero."

"The one and only. I just wanted to let you know we're all safe and sound."

"Oh, well we're you goin' next?" Mickey asked with a worried expression.

Aero turned the pilots' swivel chair around to give her friends a look that said 'well…' She wanted them to choose.

"Well, what paths are open?" Myde said, asking his first intelligent question of the adventure.

Aero gave a little snort.

"You don't worry about that. If there's not a path open to where you want to go then the Sanzu will make one."

Before anyone else had a chance to answer, Emmett spoke up.

"We're going to that Radiant Garden place. I'm going to find Neisse."

"Well you heard the man. Radiant Garden it is then." Aero said with a little laugh. "By the way Mickey, you may want to get back to Disney Castle pretty soon."

Panic shoot through his face.

"Why?"

"Nothing bad." The reply was filled with good nature, but it was clear she wasn't saying anything more on the subject.

As soon as she cut the monitor off Aero got up and started walking out the cockpit but was stopped by her sister's voice.

"Were do you think you're going?"

"To have a nice long soak. That should get rid of my tin-manitis." The seer replied.

"Don't you think you owe us and explanation or two?"

Aero stopped and looked her sister straight in the eye.

"I do, don't I?" She replied and kept on walking, giving no indication that those explanations were forthcoming.

IMPORTANT!!!!!!!!!!!!

It seams as if the Rebirth/Unbirth thing has everyone confused. I'll try to clear it up a bit.

First lets review some KH cannon;

1: The name 'Heartless' is a misnomer. In fact heartless are the disembodied hearts of people.

2: Nobodies are the body and soul that is left by a heartless.

Now let's take a little trip into my fanon.

1: In my story Nobodies can be further divided. When this happens, the body stays a nobody and the soul becomes an unbirth.

2: You can't tell the difference form a heartless with a soul and one with out.

3: When a heartless and it's corresponding nobody are destroyed they are able to become whole again. That is how entire worlds and their inhabitants were able to come back at the end of KHI and KHII.

4: Naturally the soul goes into the heart and the heart goes into the body.

5. When a heartless and a nobody join in the natural order (see #4) it creates a somebody, which is what Lea, Ienzo, and Myde are. Somebodies are no different from those that have never been turned into a heartless, except they may come out of the experience a little stronger.

6: If a heartless and nobody come together in the opposite order (body into the heart, the heart into the soul) its parts are unable to bond correctly and it becomes a rebirth. THIS WILL NOT HAPPEN ON ITS OWN. IT MUST BE FORCED. Once it is beaten the parts are able to mix and a somebody is created. (Think of it like a glow stick. All the chemicals are in there but you have to break it to get it to work.)

7: Because of the energy and time it takes to make an rebirth, it only makes sense to use them as bosses.

I hope that clears things up for you a bit. Let me know if you have any more questions.