Chapter 27. Assault on the Castle!

Ven put on his helmet then stood up.

"Now that I finished suiting up, I can go meet Terra in the control room," Ven thought.

Ven walked out of his room and down the hall until he got to the control room. Ven knocked on the door, then he heard footsteps inside. A few seconds later the door opened and Ven saw Terra standing there.

"Ven, you're here," said Terra "Are you ready to patrol the desert?"

All of a sudden the castle shook violently. Terra almost fell on top of Ven.

"What was that?!" cried Ven, struggling to stay standing.

Ven turned around slowly. What he saw Terrified Him. The door had been knocked down and countless heartless were flooding into the castle.

"Ven, go tell Aqua. I'll hold them off," said Terra, summoning his Keyblade.

"Ok!" said Ven running down another hall.

He would have argued had it been someone else, but by now he knew it was pointless to argue with Terra.

Aqua was sitting in her room reading a book when all of a sudden a portal of darkness appeared in front of her.

"Who's there?" said Aqua.

A man stepped out from the portal.

"Come with me," he said.

"Make me," said Aqua summoning her keyblade.

"This isn't necessary," said the man.

"Who are you?" asked Aqua.

"My name... is Zexion," he said.

"Well, you're not welcome here," said Aqua.

"I've gotta get to Aqua," thought Ven as he sprinted down the halls.

All of a sudden, Aqua came flying down a hallway and hugged Ven.

"Aqua, the castle is under attack by a huge army of heartless," said Ven quickly.

"Ven," she said, looking up at him scared, "a man named Zexion appeared in my room and he won't leave."

All of a sudden, a man wearing a black coat was coming down the hall from which Aqua had come running. Ven summoned his Keyblade.

"Get out of our home!" yelled Ven, charging with incredible speed towards Zexion.

Ven leapt through the air and swung his keyblade at Zexion.

All of a sudden, Ven got hurled across the room and crashed to the floor.

"Ven!" cried Aqua, running over to him.

"What you hit was an invisible force field," explained Zexion.

"Aqua, go help Terra at the entrance. This guy's mine," said Ven, getting up.

"Ven, its too -- "Aqua started.

Go now!" yelled Ven charging again, "There isn't much time."

Aqua nodded and ran away.

Ven shot out a beam of light from his keyblade, and it apparently destroyed the force field, because Zexion got thrown back through the air and landed on his back.

"Gah!" grunted Zexion as he hit the floor.

"Now that's what I'm talking about," said Ven grinning.

All of a sudden, Zexion's body faded away.

"Don't think I'll be that easy," said a voice from behind him.

"Oh No!"thought Ven.

When he felt something hit him in the back of his head, he fell to the floor dazed.

He looked up to see the blurry figure of Zexion.

Right before he passed out, he could have swore he heard Aqua scream