Meanwhile at the land of departure
Terra was the first to arrive home as he flew down to the castle with bags in his arms. As he landed his armor disappeared in a flash of light as his glider turned back into his keyblade and dissolved back into him. He walked forward toward the doors of the castle and pushed them open letting in some snow on accident. He quickly closed them then shivered as he began to take his jacket off
"What the…?" he said through chatters as he noticed he could see his breath. He looked next to door at a white box that had a little panel on it. It read the time and had the number 45 on it with a little circle above it. His teeth still chattering, he opened the panel and was greeted by a message from his master
'He who touches the thermostat will feel my ultimate wrath…. That means you Terra' he put his finger to a button on the panel and rapidly started pressing it, completely ignoring his masters warning. As he did the number began to rise with each press. Twenty seven, forty three, seventy eight, then he finally stopped at eighty five as he pressed another button that made the screen say hold eighty five. The temperature slowly crawled up as Terra crossed his arms and gently tapped one of his feet. He waited patiently for the heat to kick in. But after just 5 minutes it only had risen only a couple of degrees. He gritted his teeth and brought out one of his fists
"GOD DAMNIT WORK FASTER!" he yelled out as he lunged his fist foreword. A chill then went through his whole body causing him to quickly wrap up again. He quickly recrossed his arms as he shivered from the cold.
"Damn heater" he said as he walked away from it to go his room. Due to the cold he could only walk slowly to his room wishing he could walk faster, but didn't so he could conserve his body heat. When he got to his door he slowly reached out his hand which was still semi crossed with his other arm and tried to open the door. But the instant he put his hand on the knob he cringed, jumped back, dropped his bags, then started rubbing on his hand vigorously.
'God damn cold knob!' he thought angrily to himself as he drew out his keyblade and aimed it at his door.
"FIRE!" a ball of flames erupted out of the tip of his blade that burned off the knob and scorched some of the door. He proceeded to walk into his room like nothing had happened and jumped into his bed, wrapping himself in his covers still shivering a little from the cold.
He hated feeling cold, it reminded him to much of his father and the way he treated him. As he shifted around in his cold bed, struggling to get comfortable, all the thoughts in his head were of his father. That's all that rested on his mind until his eyes shut.
Flashback about 3 years ago
Terra could feel the chill of his hometown slap him on the face. Luckly he had his sister holding onto him, keeping him warm and he keeping her warm as well. He was just walking around town when he saw a lit sign hanging above a cafe. He licked his lips once, thinking about a nice warm hot chocolate as he quickly looked down to her and asked.
"Hot chocolate?" she looked to him with a warm smile and a nod as they walked over to the café. He held the door open for her as she walked inside then he followed.
It was warm in the shop, a pleasant change from the breeze outside. His sister took no wait and quickly ran over to the counter and ordered for her and her brother. As the man behind the counter started making their warm drinks Terra started wrustling around in his pockets trying to find his wallet. He found it just as the man put the two steaming drinks with whipped cream and chocolate shavings on the top onto the counter.
"Ok little missy and svelte gentlemen, that's gonna set you back about 75 munny" just as the little girl was about to pull some munny out of her pocket Terra put his down on the counter first.
"I got this Des" he said to his little sister, referring her to by her nickname. Her full name was Destiny, his mother was the one who named him and his sister. Their mother was very creative and loving; when they were born she knew that she wanted their names to be unique so that's why their names were what they were because you don't hear those names often. In Terra's case you don't always here a boy being named that. Both Terra and Des preferred their mother over their father because she actually expressed her love instead of just not showing any like him.
Des quickly grabbed her hot chocolate and took a big sip. Terra snickered as he picked his up and blew on it before he took a sip, lessening the chance of getting burned un like his sister
"Have a nice night"
"We will thanks" Terra said to the man as he walked out with his sister close by him. They loved drinking their hot chocolate outside in the cold because you could see more steam coming off it that way. Plus there was something else that made it fun to drink outside. Terra finished off a big sip then quickly kneeled down to his sister's face and blew a lot of the hot steam into her face.
"Nyeh!" she squealed out from the sudden rush of heat as she started to wipe off the Terra air as he drank some more of his hot drink with a sinister grin on his face. Des pouted and glared at her brother as she took a big gulp of hers and blew alot of steam in Terra's face. Terra grinned as the steam rushed to his face, he preferred being hot than cold so this was like a shot of joy to him. As Des stopped blowing Terra looked down to her with a smug look on his face to tell her 'didn't work like you hoped'. Des kept glaring at him while he looked all playfully smug, then his smug look stopped as locks of his hair started falling in front of his eyes.
"What the…?" he asked as he furiously tried to get his hair back to the way he liked it. Des looked up to her struggling brother and began to laugh. She knew Terra loved the heat so aimed for the one thing she knew couldn't stand the steam. Terra was getting aggravated as he kept trying to make his hair stand, but without the gel that he used every morning it was useless to even try. He put his hands down in defeat as he let his hair fall to his eyes while Des calmed down to a chuckle.
"You think you're funny huh?" he asked sarcastically as Des shook her head with a smile on her face. Terra saw her doing this so grabbed her and started giving her a noogie. She sneered and forcefully closed her eyes as her brother kept rapidly rubbing his fist on Des's head
"Well I think this is funny!" He said as a funny smile went across Des's face
"Come on stop! It tickles" she said as she chuckled a little while her brother continued. That's why Terra didn't feel any remorse for this, she always said it tickled whenever he did this. So he kept at it, not even noticing the footsteps that echoed behind them.
"Hey" a deep manish voice said as Terra halted his fist. The sounds of footsteps kept echoing behind them as Terra whispered into Des's ear
"Stay behind me" she quickly nodded as Terra gave her his drink then turned to face 4 thug looking men.
"What can I do for you gentlemen?" he asked nonchalantly. The man in front of the other three glared at Terra knowing he was trying to be smart with them.
"Cut the crap, give us all the stuff in your pockets and you won't get hurt. And don't think we'd think twice about hurting kids like you" Terra wasn't one to run from a fight, in fact he'd probably try to kick their butts right now. But with his little sister behind him and relying on him to get her out of this safe he couldn't risk a fight with these guys. He reached in his pocket slowly then threw his wallet and some change at them. The big man kneeled down and picked up the wallet and opened it up and grinned at the amount of money he had with him
"Thank you for your patronage" he said as his hand waved out the wallet to piss Terra off. He turned around and waved the others guys to go with him, seeing no much more of a job here. Terra was surprised that it was really that simple, usually they ask for more, but he just shook it off and slowly turned around before
"Hey look at that pretty little thing back there" Terra quickly looked back at the gang of thugs to isolate who said that. It was a semi built young guy that only looked like 2 years older than Des. The big guy who had Terra's wallet shook his head as he chuckled and slowly turned back around
"Sorry short round you're not getting any chica today, plus I told you when we don't steal twice from the same guys…" he started before 'short round' said
"Wait she's the daughter of that rich fighter… what's his name?... um…." he said as he scratched his head and thought. Terra gasped as the kid thought then quickly turned around and grabbed his sister
"LOVE TO STAY GOTTA RUN!" he yelled out as the kid took his hand off his head in realization
"TRAVIS THE TERROR!" the other guys went wide eyed in amazement. Then the big guy signaled the other two to rush up and get the two siblings. Terra tried to run faster when he heard his father's fighter name as Des clinged onto him. But the two thugs were just as built as Terra and caught up to him in a matter of seconds and tripped him. Before he hit the ground he quickly spun so he could land on his back and not on his sister. He landed hard on the ground and sneered out in pain as he kept his arms wrapped around his sister. Then those two goons kept heading toward him, he tried to get up but when he placed one of his hands in a position to try and get up it was immediately stomped on by one of the two thugs that tripped him. As he screamed out in pain a clapping sound echoed toward him.
"Beautiful, now take that little chica away from her boyfriend" he said as he pointed to Des, not knowing the fact that Travis the terror had a son along with a daughter. As one of thugs tried yanking Des away from Terra, he tried hard to resiliently hold onto her with his only arm causing the thug to get mad.
"Al! Crunch up his hand" he yelled to the guy parallel to him who started rubbing his foot hard on Terra's hand causing him to cringe with pain. He didn't even notice his waning grip till he felt his sister finally get yanked away from him. He tried to reach out for her but his arm was immediately brought back down to the ground when the thug stomped his foot on it causing Terra to scream out in pain yet again
"TERRA!" Des yelled out before the thug pushed her over to the guy who knew her and started to put his hands all over her while still holding her
"Come on shorty you can play with her back at the hideout, bet'cha we can get a big ransom for this little chicky" he said as the short guy stopped getting frisky and put a hand over her mouth all while having a dirty look in his eyes.
"Boss what should we do with the big guy on the ground?" he said as he pointed to Terra. The boss thug just shook his hand around as he started walking back to their hideout with the short guy
"Have some fun" two giant evil grins went across their faces as they reached to the ground and picked up Terra and pinned him against a wall then started punching him till he would black, blue, and red all over the ground. Des couldn't see Terra being beaten to a pulp by the two thugs but she could hear every smack, hit, and kick that touched her brother. Terra could only bear so much, even though he was being trained to fight he had no idea on how to deal with so much pain at once. Des kept trying to fight her way out of the thug's arms but was over powered by him at every attempt. So after the tenth time she tried, she just decided to bite down on his hand. He screamed out in pain as he released his grip and watched Des run back to try and help Terra
"YOU LEAVE HIM ALONE!" she yelled out at the thugs ready to help her brother. That was before she felt something hit her leg and caused her to trip and fall onto the frosty ground below.
Before she could even attempt to get up she felt the force of something large drive into her back. The two thugs stop beating Terra who was on the verge of fainting and looked over to Des with their boss's foot dug deep into her back.
"If you're gonna cause this much trouble then maybe I'll just make you…" he said as he reached into his coat and grabbed something metal and gray that made clicking noise as he pointed it down on her
"…Damaged goods"