Analia sat in a room with Umbra and Aqua, the trio watched over Ventus who was sleeping on a bed. Umbra had been leaning against the wall while Analia was sitting on her knees next to the bed while Aqua was standing behind her.

Aqua seemed to look a bit upset, frowning. "Ventus, why won't you wake up?" She asked.

Analia sighed as she looked back at her blue haired friend. "He'll wake up." She told her. "You just gotta have faith he will. Without faith, almost nothing would be achieved, Aqua."

Umbra looked at his sister, raising an eyebrow. "You think faith is going to solve everything?"

Analia shrugged. "It might."

Umbra tilted his head. "That's not how the worlds work."

"We should go." Aqua told her friends as she turned away to leave, Umbra doing the same. Analia frowned as she looked back at Ventus, sighing as she went to stand up. That was, until she noticed something. She looked back with a gasp.

"Aqua! Umbra!" She called. "Look!"

Analia's words made Aqua and Umbra turn and look at Ventus who started to move and open his eyes. Aqua gasped as she watched said boy awaken. "You're awake! Ventus, oh, it's a miracle!" She cried.

Umbra nodded as he turned to Analia who ran for the doorway. "Terra! Tessa! Liviana! Father!" She called out. "Ventus is awake!"

Terra and Tessa ran into the room happily but Liviana and Master Eraqus were missing. Analia figured the reason Liviana wasn't here was because she was busy or something but she figured her father would have at least came when she called. She ran into the hall, looking for her father.

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Reaching the throne room Analia had found her father. She seemed to stop for a moment before calling, "Father!"

This caught the man's attention and he turned to her, humming. "Yes?" He asked her.

She frowned. "Did you not hear me? Ventus is awake." She told him.

He nodded. "Yes, I did." He then hummed as he thought before he focused his attention on his daughter again. "Actually, Annabelle, that is what I wanted to talk to you about." He told her.

She tilted her head. "What?" She asked him.

He chuckled. "Annabelle, I want you to teach him about the way of things here." He said to her. "I fully trust that if my daughter is anything like her mother, she can do this."

Analia nodded. "Yeah, that seems easy enough." She crossed her arms. "And even if it wasn't, I'd still try."

Master Eraqus chuckled, smiling at her. "One more thing, give these to him." He said, giving her a few armor pieces and black belts connected to a Keyblade Master Crest.

"Thank you father." She said with a bow, heading back to the room.

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When she made it back to the room she took a moment to look at the people in said room before using her free hand to knock on the wall to get everyone's attention. "Guys, can I talk to Ventus, alone?" She asked the four.

At her words, Umbra nodded. "'Course sis." He told her before turning to the others. "Alright, let's go." He said as he and the other three left the room.

Analia smiled as she watched the group leave before she walked over, sitting next to the blonde on the bed. "Hey Ventus, it's me Analia." She had said, waving her hand. "You know, the girl from earlier?" He looked at her with his hazy and dull eyes. "Here these are for you." She said to him, holding out the things her father gave her. The boy looked at them and Analia looked toward the door. "You can put those on while I'm gone, I'll see you later." She then stood up, heading for the door.

To be honest, she expected a bit more than the silence she had received but she knew that, or at least what she was inferring was that the boy wasn't really ready to talk, which was fine with her, people should go at their own pace, especially people like him.

She finally made a decision to keep walking, leaving the room and leave the boy alone.

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Hours later around midnight, Analia had finished training and was ready to head back to Ventus' room. To be honest, she was tired because training sessions always wore her out but she couldn't just leave the task she was given undone. She began waking down the hall to Ventus' room with a smile.

For a boy who didn't remember anything he seemed to be a great guy. Not only that but he seemed like a sweet one too. She giggled to herself before she had stopped at his room placing her hand on the handle. Well, she obviously wasn't scared of him but something was stopping her. She looked around the area before taking a deep breath and opening the door.

"Ventus?" She called as she looked for him in the room. The boy then turned to see her, his hazy eyes staring straight at her.

He wore a jacket that was white on the right side and black on the left side, the collar of the jacket is red and pleated, underneath this, there is a grey vest with a single button and several white, angular patterns on it, under this, in the form of a plain, high-necked, black shirt, he also has a chunk of dull green and blue armor on his midsection that appears to be under his vest, and another piece of armor on his left shoulder.

Well, now that she had been focusing on his clothes and not his seemingly broken eyes, she noticed how strange they were. Well, that's not a bad thing if anything, she should be used to 'strange' considering Aqua's choice of outfit. His outfit technically wasn't strange, it was special. Just like him.

He blinked at her and she smiled, walking over to the bed and sitting down.

"Come on, sit down." She said in a sweet voice as she patted the spot on the bed beside her. Ventus tilted his head before nodding and slowly sitting down. She smiled before turning her body to the window, moving over to it and placing her hands on the window. "Look out there, do you see all that?" She asked him before she pointed out to the distance. "There's the path we like to train at. There are a whole bunch of targets over there." She gasped. "Oh! Look!" She pointed out further. "There's the Summit. You can see a lot from up there. Hanging out there is fun in itself."

"...Analia." The boy said her name. She looked at him with a hum, a smile still on her face as she tilted her head. If she was being honest, the blonde was catching her interest. "Can you see stars from there?" He asked her.

"Huh?" Analia had asked him as she shifted positions to place her hands on her knees.

"Can…can you see stars from there?" Ventus had repeated, tilting his head at her.

Analia took a minute to process the question the second time he repeated it before nodding. "Yeah. You can." She answered before gasping as she looked over at the doorway. "Oh! I should probably show you the library, I spend most of my time there usually." She had said as she went to stand, holding her hand out to Ventus. "So, shall we?" She asked him.

The boy didn't understand her gesture but took her hand and nodded. Analia giggled, taking the boy with her out of the room.

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When Analia and Ventus reached the library, Analia told the boy to stand for a moment before she swung open the door to the library, smiling widely.

"Ta-da!" She had said, giggling. "This is the library." She had told him. She looked around the room, noticing another person there. "Kit?" She had questioned- well, called for their attention.

The person's hair was a lilac shade, similar to Analia's as their hair was faded black at the bottom of their bangs while there is a black fade in the center of the back of their hair as well. A black streak in the front of their bangs like Analia's along with a darker shade of similarity to her brown colored eyes. Their hair was held by a dullish pink hairband and they had a yellow flower like accessory in their hair on their face was a makeshift blindfold that was hot pink. The blindfold was a hot pink color as it was folded over twice, a belt wrapped around the fabric he had been using a blindfold, the belt buckled in the front and not the back. Around their neck was a hot pink choker and a dark red bandana with a white streak in the center. On their shoulders were three transparent light green things that they had tied to make them have an appearance like wings and they wore a dark plum purple colored small jacket, a black turtleneck under the small jacket while they had on a lavender belt above their waist in their stomach area. The sleeves that they had on were plum purple bell sleeves that jingled due to the chains hanging down from both ends on the normal dark purple color on the borders. On their wrists were dark brown fingerless gloves that went to their forearms and they had on a taffy pink cape that was torn with multiple holes and reached down to their knees while the cape faded hot pink at the bottom. Around their waist was a dark red jacket cardigan and it had a brighter red at the bottom and on the sleeves as a border. They had on light brown shorts in which they tied white fabric at the ends of the legs while they were wearing fishnet leggings along with hot pink high heeled boots that were white in the middle but were laced with a bubble gum pink color of strings.

They looked up at Analia's call, humming as they closed a book they were repeating opening and closing with, considering they couldn't actually read at the moment. "Oh. Hey An." They said to her with a wave.

When they stood, Analia seemed surprised. "Hey! You're walking again!" She had commented, walking over them with Ventus. "I see Kitten is persistent."

'Kit' as she had called them earlier, nodded. "Yeah." They then gave her a look as they lifted their blindfold a bit. "Though, I'd appreciate it if you didn't call me Kitten."

Analia shrugged. "I don't want to miss your reaction."

Kit tilted their head. "Oh." They dropped their blindfold, sighing. "Well, that's not fair, Li-Lei."

Analia huffed at hearing the nickname, crossing her arms. "Seriously?"

Kit nodded. "Mhm." They replied. "Thought I should probably make it even." They said with a shrug.

Analia rolled her eyes. "Yeah, yeah. Very funny."

Kit smiled a bit at the girl's words before turning their head to look in Ventus' direction. "Who's your friend?"

Analia hummed, turning her head to the blonde next to her. "Oh, him?" She asked. "That's Ventus."

Kit nodded slowly at her words. "Ventus…" They repeated to themself before snapping their attention- or well, what they could of their attention back to Analia. "I'm assuming you're showing him the Library?"

Analia nodded. "Yep!"

Kit chuckled. "Well, don't let me stop you!" They told her, nudging her forward a bit.

With that, Analia took Ventus over to the center of the library and he was somewhat amazed. She walked him over to the bookshelves and they read books together about Hearts, Worlds, Light, Keyblades, Etc. Everything except Darkness. Anything involving Darkness was thrown out by Master Eraqus before Analia and her siblings were born. Soon, they were done reading and Analia looked at him, closing a book.

"You know…" She looked around the area. "There's something about this musty old library that keeps gnawing at me…"

The girl moved to stand, inspecting the book she had in her hands. Sure, the book was normal but it was the only book that actually mentioned a war. A war between Keyblade Wielders. For it to be the only book holding this topic, it was strange.

She heard the blonde in the room with her hum behind her. She swiftly turned around, smiling at him. Well, she'd be lying if she said she wasn't actually spooked by the sound. When she turned back around she decided to head over to the bookshelf where she had gotten the book in her hands from, placing it back. That was when she noticed a shining book in the corner of the library, heading over to the bookshelf in said corner.

"Kit, is that-" She turned around, looking for her sibling. When she realized they weren't around anymore she sighed, facepalming. Of course they weren't around. She looked at the blonde who seemed to be confused as to what she was looking for and she flicked her head to the side before shrugging.

She moved to the corner bookshelf, moving her hand to take the book that was shining off said shelf. When she noticed how dusty the book was she grew a bit more curious, humming as she moved her hand to dust off the book a bit. When she noticed a piece of the title, she seemed to recognize the book. She immediately blew some of the dust off, trying her best to dust off the rest.

When she had finished, she headed back over to Ventus, holding the book up in front of him. "Look what I found!" She had said to him, her voice holding a hint of excitement while there was a sparkle in her eyes. By the girl's excitement, Ventus assumed she was happy with finding the book but he didn't understand it at the same time. The girl giggled, sitting down with him and opening the book, skimming through it. "You know, my father asked me to teach you something..." She suddenly said, going back a few pages to scan the book. "Let's see…" She took a few moments to scan a few pages before placing a finger under a part of the book and tapping it. "Oh! Here's something!"

Ventus tilted his head. "What?" He asked her.

She giggled at his question. She'd never get how he could seem so emotionally drained and be so curious. She pointed at the section again. "'Iverene took the sword from the girl, placing it where his sword went on his back before taking his own sword and holding it against her neck. "If you are here to put pressure on Serena, I'm-" The boy was cut off by Esrin scoffing. "Why would I want Serena?" She asked him. Iverene raised an eyebrow, lowering his guard a bit. "You're…not here for Serena?"'

Ventus seemed intrigued by what the girl was reading, interested in the story. He leaned forward a bit to see the book's title which he found was 'The Journey That Lasted A Lifetime' which only made him more interested. How could a…journey last a lifetime?

Analia watched the boy, smiling warmly before continuing. "'"No." Esrin responded, rolling her eyes. "I was actually looking for Avery, you know, my friend?" Upon hearing those words, Iverene immediately dropped his defensive stance, taking Esrin's sword and flipping it over as he handed it back to her. "Wow. That was fast." Esrin had said. "Decide that killing me wasn't the better option?" She asked. At that, Iverene scoffed. "I considered it, then I remembered how Serena would have reacted if I killed her friend." He admitted. Esrin shrugged, taking the sword. "Someone has a soft spot for friendship." She said, sounding almost amused as she put her sword away. At that, Iverene seemed confused. "As someone who has no friends, I have yet to understand your attachment to them." He told her. Esrin smirked. "You and Serena aren't far off the mark, Prince."'

When Analia had finished reading, she shut the book, sighing. "Wish I could actually read you the whole story." She said before turning to Ventus who seemed curious about something regarding the story. "What?" She asked him.

"What's a…friend?" He asked her.

Analia gasped upon hearing the question before directing her gaze to the ceiling. "Well…that's a tricky one." She had told him. She turned her head back a bit, quickly grabbing a book from the shelf behind them. She flipped through that book as well, also pointing at something, reading it off carefully. "'Friends'" She read to him before shrugging. "Basically, Friends are people who care about you no matter what and it's all mutual and real." She explained. "They're always there when you need them and they never give up on you. At all."

Ventus listened to her words, seemingly intrigued by the concept. He blinked, humming. "...Are we friends...?" He asked her.

She hummed questioningly, shutting the book and putting it back. It took her a minute to process what the boy had asked but took no time to nod. "Of course, always!" She told the blonde.

Ventus seemed a bit surprised by her response but didn't say anything, instead he looked down at the previous book she had been reading. "What's that book about?" He asked.

Analia tilted her head. "You mean 'The Journey That Lasted A Lifetime'?" It's about this boy who ran away from his grandfather who treats him poorly and is trying to find his other family. The boy's name is Iverene. Iverene ran far only to run into this girl, Serena. He was at first, afraid of Serena but soon grew to trust her. However, upon meeting Serena's friends he didn't understand what her attachment to them was, he thought it was strange to be able to trust another human. Iverene eventually meets this girl named Esrin who he realizes has knowledge of his status as ..."The Prince of The Stars" I believe? Anyway, Iverene grows not to trust her only to find out she's Serena's friend. Things happen here and there and Iverene eventually learns that Esrin is the reason why a piece of his world is covered with shadows…I don't want to spoil too much but…" She sighed. "Serena is my favorite character despite the fact that Iverene…murders her in the end." She hummed. "Though, I'm not sure it was on purpose…"

Ventus seemed to be pulled in by the girl's words, simply taking the book from her hands. "Do you think you could read it to me sometime?" He asked her. "Like…the entire book?"

Analia seemed surprised, jumping back a bit. Despite how surprised she was, she smiled at him. "Yes. Absolutely."

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Meanwhile, Master Eraqus knocked on Tessa's bedroom door and she opened it, confused. "Master? What's wrong?" She asked him. He held out a letter and she took it, opening it. Upon reading it she gasped, dropping it. "Master Serenity wants me to join her pupils?" She asked him, seemingly surprised.

"That seems to be in the letter." Master Eraqus answered her.

Tessa swallowed hard. "Well, that changes things." She told him.

"I'll keep an eye on Terra for you." He assured her. Well it calmed her nerves slightly as she smiled.

"Thank you, I need some time to think about this." Tessa told her Master. He nodded, leaving her alone to think. She sighed, taking off her collar and looking at the name 'Terra' that was etched in the back.