As promised R&R

Everyone was surrounding Ven in his room. He was slowly breathing as he slept with his two best friends crouched down next to his bed with their master behind them

"What was he doing?" their master asked.

"Maybe he just lost control of his glider, after all he hasn't had that much practice on it" Terra stated out, though he didn't believe that. He knew that Ven was actually was very good on his glider, being that he taught him, and wouldn't have crashed so easily.

"You're probably right Terra..." his master said not really knowing how well of a glider rider Ven was. He knew that possibly one day Terra would have to train a apprentice, so he let him teach Ven how use his glider. Though he wouldn't blame Terra for what happened to Ven, after all a kid doesn't learn to ride a bike without falling down once. Master Eraqus took one last look at Ven before he turned around and began to exit his room "… may one of you please keep a eye on him while I take care of your family's accommodations." Terra and Aqua looked at each other immediately after their master spoke. Aqua nodded to say that she'll keep a eye on Ven, Terra nodded back to say thanks as he pulled himself up and walked out

"Good night and have fun" he said as he walked out the door and towards his room with a yawn echoing through the hall that made Aqua laugh.

When they brought Ven in earlier it was hard to miss the scorch mark on Terra's door. The second his master saw he began to glare at Terra and mouth the words

'Oh not again' Terra snickered at that remembering how a year ago Ven stole his family picture, not knowing what it really meant to him. They ran and ran all around the castle, tearing it up, all while Terra yelled "GIVE THAT BACK". Eventually Terra cornered him near his room, Ven was shaking as he held the picture in one hand and had the other on Terra's door. Terra kept a stern look on his face as he slowly stepped forward and reached out for the picture. Ven in a panic opened Terra's door and ran into his room. Terra was about to rush in but before he even got another step in the door shut abruptly with a couple of clicking sounds indicating Ven locked it. Terra was now beyond mad, not only did he steal his picture but he was in his room too. Out of rage he quickly drew out his keyblade and pointed it to the door to try and unlock it. When he tried a light shimmered at the tip of his blade then quickly went out. He growled because he knew what that meant. Ven had locked his door with his keyblade, and when something is locked with a keyblade only the same key can unlock it. Terra clenched both of his fists in anger as Ven laughed

"HA what'cha gonna do now" Terra growled at the door then raised his keyblade and slammed it through his door which made Ven scream out like a little girl. Terra kicked some of the wood that still clinged onto the supports and stomped into his room and grabbed the picture from Ven, keeping his scary glare up, Ven shook as Terra edge his way down to Ven's level and growled through his teeth

"Get out" Ven quickly scurried out of there as fast as he could. After that day Terra and Ven learned two things, one stealing is wrong and two hand carved mahogany doors cost a lot of munny. When he finally got to his door he was shocked to see someone already in his room. This tall man with a big build turned to look at him with disappointment written all over his face

"What do you want dad?" he asked as his father who continued to look around his room

"So this the 'special training place' he told us to take you away from me?" he asked sarcastically as he slowly walked over to Terra. "Quite honestly I'm not impressed" Terra kept his mouth shut holding back the urge to say 'well why the hell would I go here to impress you'. His father stood in front of him waiting for him to respond, after five minutes of silence he just sighed then pushed Terra out of the way and left his room.

"This place is a dump" he heard his father say as he clenched his fist to hold back his anger. He took a deep breath to try and bury his anger inside him

"Wow…" Terra quickly looked over his shoulder and saw his sister outside his door. "…are you really my brother?" she asked as she walked into his room. Terra gave her a look that said 'are you joking?' before he said

"Of course I am, why would you ask that?"

"Because the Terra I remember wouldn't have done that…" she said as she sat on his bed. "… the Terra I remember would've yelled at dad and told him how wrong he was" Terra knew she was right, a couple of years ago he would've been all over his dad trying to beat him in a fight to make him take back what he said.

"Is it a bad thing that I don't want to be a rage fueled lunatic for the rest of my life like him?" he asked sarcastically as his sister laughed. When they were young that's what he always call his dad, because it was the truth.

"You know Terra you changed… in a good way" she said as he grinned and collapsed onto his bed causing his sister to bounce a little. He desperately wanted to go back to sleep, but at the same he didn't because he didn't want to jump back into that memory he was dreaming of. He let out a sigh as he turned himself around to stare at the ceiling.

"Did you need something Des?" he asked as she nodded

"Yeah your master said there aren't enough rooms for everyone so he told me to ask you if I could stay with you" Terra was actually surprised at what she said. He figured a castle this size would have enough rooms for everyone, but then he remembered a lot of those rooms were filled with training equipment, books, and his master's secret wine cellar.

As Terra was thinking his sister was staring at his face, it was in a resting position of sadness mixed with anger. At first she assumed that was only from seeing his father, but as she looked at him she recognized that expression.

"Terra are you ok?" she asked as he looked over to her.

"Yeah" he said unconvincingly. She knew that expression on his face, it meant he had a nightmare. She only knew that because of the nights where he would wake up screaming, which intern woke her up to. When he did that the first to come was his father who would just yell at him to stop, which he eventually did but with tears still running down his face and sniffles still in his nose. After that, their mother would come in and hold him close till he fully stopped, every once in awhile Des would go in with her to help soothe Terra.

Terra would never say it but he wished someone would've held him after that nightmare he just had. So Des, knowing he was lying, leaned back onto the bed and wrapped her arms around him, like she did years agi. Terra quickly looked to his side and starred at his sister

"Is there a…?"

"You had a nightmare, that's the reason" she said interrupting him. Terra just grinned and let her hug him as he tried to go back to sleep. Des kept hugging him till she heard his breathing steady down to short hushes. She let go of him and took a look at him sleeping with a smile on his face which made her smile too because she knew she had helped her brother. She pulled herself up and looked around his room and was amazed how much it looked just like the one he had back home. It was all there the posters of fights and games, his radio, some drawings she drew for him when she was eight, and all the messy laundry scattered across the floor. As she looked around her eyes were drawn toward a picture he had on his night stand. She picked it up and looked at it, it was taken when she was twelve and she had a big smile on her face and a cupcake in her hand. Her mother and Terra were there with smiles on their faces too, at the edge of the picture there was some writing that could be roughly made out to say 'happy birthday Destiny, love Terra and mom'. She loved that birthday because her brother and mother tried their very best to make it the best day ever for her, which they succeeded. She took a big sigh then set the picture down, her smile faded away as the memories of that year went through her head. Those memories brought a small tear in her eye as she remembered the most horrible night of her life.

The night she almost died

3 years ago

"If you're gonna be this much trouble I'll just have to make you…" the sound of a gun cocking back echoed through air as she felt it hover over her."...damaged goods" Des cringed up and prepared for the worst as the thug was halfway through pulling the trigger.

"NOOOOOO!" Terra yelled out in a mixture of anger and sadness. Then a faint glow started to emanate from Terra that made the two thugs who were constraining him cover their eyes.

"What the…?" that was the only two words the two thugs got out before they were thrown forward. One was thrown toward their boss that accidently fired his gun into the air as he fell down. The other was thrown toward the smaller member of their four man four man group who shrieked out in pain when he hit the pavement. Terra was breathing deeply as he clenched his fists. The boss thug furiously hit the man who was on him and yelled out

"WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU GUYS, GO POUND HIM INTO THE GROUND!" the thug quickly found his way up along with the other one who was on the short runt thug. They quickly bolted toward him with fists held up high. The glow on Terra started to focus itself completely on his right hand where it started to form into a big blade like object. When it finished forming it shimmered one last time then began to fade to reveal a brown, bronze, and steel gray blade that looked like a key. The thugs didn't stop to notice the weapon that had formed in his hands as they started to throw their punches which Terra hit with his new formed blade. They both yelled out in pain, thinking their hands might be broken, and kneeled down to the ground where Terra hit them both hard on the back with his blade. He slowly walked forward, anger burning on his face as he glared at the now shaking boss. He fired his gun rapidly four times at Terra to which he rose his blade and formed a invisible shield that absorbed the impact from the bullets, then he pushed out his hand and a small ball of light came rushing out of him toward the thug and knocked him down. Terra took a deep breath and finished walking to his sister. She shook with fear as she saw her brother glare down at her, then he cringed then put his hand to his head as he fell to his knees.

"Rrgh… what happened?" Terra asked as he looked around then locked his eyes on the blade in his right hand

"What is this thing?" he asked, knowing it wasn't like any sword he'd seen before.

"Terra…" Des asked still slightly scarred of what her brother just did. Terra shook a little then quickly crawled forward toward his sister and looked her over

"You ok?" she nodded then Terra turned around to let his back face her. He quickly patted his back to let her know he wanted to piggy back her back home. She quickly latched onto her brothers back and held on tightly as he rose up. He quickly started running away from the thugs but before he even got pass the point where the two big thugs held him and beat him, a large bang went off and echoed through the streets. Terra cringed up and fell to his knees, a emmense pain began to build in his left leg. His sister looked behind her and saw the boss thug half way up and holding a smoking gun in his hand as he laughed

"Nice one, but you're not getting off that…" before he could finish something blunt hit him in the back of the neck that made him fall face first to the ground to reveal a man in a white robe with a hood that covered his face. He quickly ran over to Des and Terra and raised a blade in his hand that looked a little like the blade Terra had only a minute ago.

"Heal!" he yelled out as a green glow went over Terra and mended the skin around the wound on his leg to seal it up and even made the bullet vanish. Des quickly got off her brother and looked at his face to see both his eyes were shut and cringing in slight pain. She rapidly shook him to try and wake him

"Terra TERRA WAKE UP!" she said frantically as she shook him. Before she tried again, the man in white put his hand on her shoulder and shook his head.

"Don't, we need take him to your home…"

"Who are you?" she asked as the man wrapped his arm around Terra and brought him to his feat

"Eraqus, now please we need to get him home" not really having any options, being that she couldn't lift him up herself, and for the fact that he just saved Terra and herself she trusted him and decided to lead him to her house.

"It's this way come on!" she said as she ran down the streets with him not to far behind with Terra

Now

She sighed as she grabbed her stuff outside of Terra's room and started to unpack her pj's. It may have been a little early to sleep, even though the sun had just set and welcomed night, but that trip in really tired her out.

As she got dressed, she thought more of that year. How soon after Terra left them for this training with Eraqus and how her father completely hated the idea. The only reason he was actually here was because of her mother and a little whisky to loosen his grip on Terra.

She remembered how before he left he gave her the longest hug she had ever had. She knew how much Terra would've rather stayed there with her and his mother. But they urged him to go, not only because he could be a hero like Eraqus told them, but because he's be away from 'Travis the terror'. After one last sad goodbye he left and Des felt a sense of pride in her brother, he was finally being what he always wanted to be. Anything that his father didn't try to chart out for him

When she finished getting dressed she looked around Terra's room to find no other comfortable surface to sleep on besides his occupied bed. 'well…' she thought as she scouted Terra over a little and laid down next to him '…better than the ground and he makes such a nice pillow' she joked as she grabbed some of his covers and fell asleep.

"Night Terra"