Ven woke up to a blast of heavy metal in his ears. "Van, seriously, you've got to stop that!" he said putting a hand on top of his rabbit-fast beating heart. "I had to wake you up somehow." Vanitas said with a smirk. Touché Ven thought as he got dressed. "Isn't that Dream Festival thing today?" "Uh-huh, and if I didn't wake you, you would've slept the entire day away." The golden-eyed boy retorted putting his ear buds back in his ears with a triumphant smile.
As the two walked to the elevator, "Where the hell is it?" Aqua yelled as the two went beside Terra. "Aqua's wayfinder's missing and she thinks I have it." Terra whispered. "Oh! You mean this thing?" Vanitas took Aqua's wayfinder out of his pocket. "I found it near the doormat to your room this morning when I came down from the rooftop." Aqua snatched the wayfinder from his hand. "Thank you so much, Van!" She hugged him. "I don't know what I would do without it!"
"Apparently she was gonna beat the shit out of Terra." Ven snickered. The elevator door opened. "Wait for us!" Kairi's voice piped up. Sora sighed "I don't know what's the point in going to the stupid festival anyways." He ran his fingers through his spiky brunette hair. "For crying out loud Sora, we all know you miss Riku; But stop with the depressed emo look for just one day." Sora turned and gave the girl a look that screamed 'PSYCHO'. Kairi shuddered. Looks like Riku's name is taboo with him. She thought, worried about her childhood friend.
Vanitas thought back to when he and Sora were on the rooftop. I knew something wasn't right with him. He pondered this, but Ven broke the silence between them. "You okay? You seem out of it." Van shook his head. "Yeah, I'm fine, Ven." He said as they went through the crowd. Sora tugged on Ven's sleeve. "Hey. I wanna show you a great place place I found out." He whispered.
Ven shrugged, completely oblivious to what Sora was really planning for him. "Sure. Hey Van, I'm gonna be with Sora. I'll meet you guys later." He said, taking Sora's hand. "Okay, I guess." Van muttered getting a bad feeling about leaving Ventus with Sora alone.
Ven, can take care of himself, I'm sure of it. He took out his black wayfinder that Ven made him last month. "He'll be okay," he whispered putting the good luck charm back in his pocket and summoned a Flood. But just in case. He casted the notion of paranoia from his mind. "Follow Ventus and Sora." He said to the blue creature staring at him. The Flood nodded to his master and seeped into the ground and disappeared.
"So, where are we going Sora?" Ven asked and Sora grinned "We're almost there, don't worry." They went into an alley. "Sora are you sur-ah!" Ven took a hard blow to the back of the head from the hilt of Sora's Keyblade and fell into unconsciousness. Sora picked up the knocked out blonde and threw him over his shoulder. This is way too easy. He thought happily to himself as he took his new Uke to his room.
The Flood popped out of the ground near the room and hid behind the wall before Sora opened the door to the room and locked it behind him and left. The blue creature seeped into the ground again and appeared in front of Ventus, who was tied to the bed. It nudged its head against Ven's cheek in an effort to wake the blonde up, but failed sadly. The Flood seeped into the ground before Sora got back in the room and hurried to find its master.
Ven woke up with a sharp pain in the back of his head. As he tried to get up, something pulled against his arms in restraint. He looked and found out he was tied to a bed with a chain. Then Sora came into the room. "Good to see you're awake, Ven." The brunette said with an evil smirk. "S-Sora? What's going on and why am I tied to the bed?" Ventus said with a look of fear that made Sora grin.
"Where are they? I thought those two would be back by now." Kairi said with concern in her voice. Vanitas bit his lower lip a little. Then Vanitas's Flood popped out of the ground and tugged on his master's leg. "What did you find out?" Vanitas said picking up the blue creature so it can tell him. …So I was right after all, he thought putting the Flood down. "Okay, it's worse than I thought." He sighed looking at Kairi. "Sora kidnapped Ven." He finally told her and Kairi looked at him with utter disbelief.
"There's no way that Sora would go that low." She said angrily. "Kairi's right, Van; besides we don't even know where he is." Terra said with his arms crossed on his chest. "We don't, but the Flood does." Aqua pointed to the Flood that was nudging his master to go with it s head. "Okay, let's go find Ven and Sora." Vanitas said and the Flood went into the ground and took off with the four after it.