"Terra?"
"Shhh." he said. He pulled me out of the cave.
"What the? What, c'mon we can take them." I said.
"No."
"No? What do you mean 'no'. You're Terra, the strongest Keyblade wielder who ever lived. You're a hero."
"I'm no hero."
"Yes you are. You ridded the world of the Unbirths.
"Killing doesn't make me a hero. It doesn't matter now, anyway."
"Huh?"
"C'mon, there's a village nearby, I'll tell you what's going on there."
We walked a short distance to a small Chinese village. There was a smal tea shop called the 'Jasmine Dragon'. Terra went inside.
The inside of the tea shop was tranquil. It was peaceful. The color scehem was brown and white. There were few tables, but less customers. Terra sat in one with no windows around it.
"C'mon, kid." he said.
I sat down with him. There were a few questions I had.
"Listen, Riku is it?"
"Yeah, how'd you know."
"Bro, everyone in the dungeons of Hollow Bastion knows you. You set us free."
"Wait. Terra, none of this is adding up. I have tons of questions but no answers."
"I'll do my best to give you them."
"Okay well. Why were in a dungeon in Hollow Bastion?"
"Well once Ansem came, he arrseted all rebels. Those who were, were locked up. Those who weren't left. Ihad no reason to fight him. One huge mistake is to take on someone who you know nothing about. Now I just thought I'd get the word on him while I was in the brig, but Ansem the Wise was down there, too. He was tortured by some guy at Olympus to rig the walls with so much darkness that no keyblade could be summoned. So with the help of Ansem, I figured out evreything about Ansem. It turns out he..."
"Was a former student of Ansem who became a heartless and took the name Ansem to bring down his former teacher?"
"Exactly. You should know since you beat him. Well no matter how much dirt I dug up on Ansem, I still had no keyblade. But when you killed him, We were set free."
"Hmm? I have to tell that to a friend. Next, why couldn't we fight Maleficent in the cave?"
"They had us cornered. It's not wise to fight someone when you're outmatched."
"But you took on all five titans at once."
"True, but the Bahamut is way stronger than any titan, so is Sephiroth. It would've been us killed, and the Bahanut on the loose. We'll fight it with more help."
"So..." I took a look at him. He hadn't aged much. He was just the same as he was in the photo. "So, could you teach me? Ya know, like all of your moves and stuff?"
Terra looked a little flustered, but not enough to tell. "Look, Riku, you got potential and some mad skills. It'd be easy to make you great. But I'm kinda on the..."
"There he is!" shouted to men thourgh the window.
"Gotta run," Terra summoned his keyblade and smashed thourgh a wall and ran away. I could only look in disbelief.
I walked back the the encampment only to see it in flames. Mickey and Could were laying uncoinsince on the ground.
"Mickey!" I ran over to his body.
He coughed a few times, "Sephiroth," he caughed more, "Bahamut," he looked down the path toward town square, "Another Keyblade."
"Where? Where are they?"
"Sephiroth, Bahamut, gone. Keyblade, Imperial Square." He weezed.
I got up and ran to Imperial Square as fast as I could. Sephiroth and the Bahamut were on the loose. No time to think about them. I had to find this other keyblade.
I reached Imperial Square. It was a inaugural of a new emporer. I looked at the roof of the temple behind him. There was a woman crawling around on it. I ran thourgh the crowd, to the side of the temple, up the wall.
"Stop." I said. The woman looked at me. She was beautiful. She had blue hair and deep blue eyes. The way her body looked was incredible. 'I-I mean..."
"No," she said, "Don't lay off because I'm a woman. Fight me." She summoned her keyblade and charged at me.
I kept that hit in a lock.
"You're pretty good," she said and took her keyblaade back, "I'm Aqua."
"Riku." I said.
"So you're the one who set those rebels free?"
"I guess. So what are you doing here."
"Looking for my master. What are you doing here."
"I don't know."
"You look down. Tell Aqua your trouble."
I looked at her. Anyone that beautiful couldn't be harmful. "Well my master an I were looking for the Castle That Never Was, but we getting really sidetracked."
"Well, my master is also my boyfriend, but I never knew the Hero of Hollow Bastion was so cute."
I blushed, "Thanks."
"So tell me about your master."
"He's the King. He was..."
"King Mickey?"
"Yeah."
"Wow, I thought my master was famous."
"Who is he?"
"Terra."
"No way. I just got done having a talk with him. It turns out he's on the run."
"I know. He did some things niether of us are proud of."
"What were they?"
Aqua looked at the sky, "Well it all started when he was released. He and Ansem the Wise went looking for all of thier past apprentices. Eventually they went thier seperate ways. Ansem found out that all of his apprentices betrayed him and became heartless. So he came to Terra for help. Terra refused to help bring down the apprentices. He said that he was done killing. Apparently Ansem the Wise had shown him that mindless killing isn't the answer. Ansem became ashamed that he turned the worlds greatest fighter into another him. So he went into exile, but they weren't done yet. Ansem couldn't just vanish. He needed to have a way for everyone to know his shame. He asked Terra to kill him. Terra obviously refused, but according to Terra, Ansem said 'Don't worry, the world's not done with you yet'. To this day I don't know how he got Terra to kill him, but the cops have no idea that Ansem died on his own request, but Terra can't tell anyone that he did either. If the world does need Terra again, I hope it's soon."
I took in the story, it's another answer but even more questions. Why did Ansem have die, how did he come back to life, how did he get Terra to kill him, what does 'The world's not done with you yet', mean?
"Riku!" Shout a voice from behind him. It was Mickey. "Thank God you're alright. C'mon, we need to get out of here."
I looked back at Aqua, "Not with out Terra."
"What? Riku, Terra's dead."
Aqua and my eyes widened.