The next chapter is a Terra chapter

The youngest residents of the castle had gotten up first, being young has its benefits. Aqua was the first to wake up, staying true to her promise of making breakfast. Terra and Des had woken up next and followed a sweetly smelling aroma to the kitchen. Aqua greeted them warmly and gave them a plate of pancakes to split. Des only had two, not being much of a breakfast coinsure, while Terra had his fill and complemented Aqua on her cooking who haply thanked him. Des left to take a shower leaving Terra and Aqua alone for a brief moment. Brief was the key word as a couple seconds later Evy came in with Dante next to her. she picked up a piece of toast while Dante got his own special plate of pancakes

"Chocolate!" he proclaimed before he dug in to his chocolate chip pancakes.

"So Evy do you have any plans?" Aqua asked as she set took a break

"Actually yeah I do. Ven said he was going to take me to the simulation room to play a game" Aqua looked at her sister and chuckled before grabbing a piece of toast and saying

"Good luck" Evy didn't know why her sister told her that, but shrugged it off.

"You're going to pway a gaem…" Dante said with a mouth full of pancakes "…I wanna paly" Evy was going to say no so, she wanted to Ven all to herself after Des got him alone yesterday. But Aqua had rear in

"Yeah he'd love that. Take him with you"

"Why doesn't he stay with you? You guys really haven't spent much time together" Evy argued

"Well I have to cook for everyone this morning and I don't think that'll be much fun for Dante" she retorted back and got support from a nod from Dante

"Yeah it'll be boring here" with a sigh Evy said it was ok for him to come along, which he joyfully accepted and finished his breakfast then left for the simulation room with Evy.

Ven had woken up earlier than Des and Evy, skipping on breakfast which he seldom did, so he could get into the shower before everyone else. As soon as he was all squeaky clean and dressed he looked around for Des so he could take to the simulation room like he promised. To his luck he found her right outside Terra's room fully dressed

"Good morning!" he said happily, making her crack a smile

"Morning Ven. Now which way are you taking me?"

"Oh umm…" he said as he looked around and pointed to his right. "…that way. Hey I'll race ya!"

"Wait what…?"

"Ready set go!" he proclaimed as he burst down the hallway. Des quickly ran after him and continually told him to slow down, which he didn't.

Meanwhile…

Outside a door with a lot of intricate carvings and no handle stood Evy and Dante, waiting. For what Dante hadn't a clue, but he didn't dare ask his sister why she already looked mad enough for having to take him along. Gladly he didn't have to spend much time with just his sourpuss of a sister because the echo of footsteps came from down the hall.

Ven rushed down the hallway with Des not too far behind him gasping for air, still telling him to stop or at least slow down. It wasn't a surprise to him that she couldn't keep up, after all he was a natural acrobat.

"ANNNNDDD…." Ven said as he stopped on his right foot and turned around to watch Des slowly stop and slump down to her knees and take in some big breaths. "…I win" he said with a grin. It may have been conceded but he loved it when he won, it made him feel good inside. Then he turned around and saw the girl he asked to meet him here first

"Hi Evy" he said with with glee written all over his face. She didn't respond as Dante waved cheerfully at Ven

"Hi!" he greeted Ven without a hint of shyness, guess little kids are good judges of character. Ven quickly swooped down to him and gave him a high five

"Hi little guy" he said as enthusiastically as Dante. Then Ven stopped and stood up straight as he placed his hand onto the wall. Des finally caught her breath and looked up at Ven

"Uh Ven?..." then before she finished a weird blue light went across his hand and opened the door Evy and Dante had been standing next to. Ven then took his hand off and offered them to go in. Evy went in first, with her arms crossed and semi scowl on her face, followed by Dante then before Des went in she looked over at Ven who again offered her to go in. 'This castle certainly is interesting' she thought then walked in followed by Ven who closed the door behind him, making the room pitch black dark. That made Dante scream and even start to cry

"TO DARK, TO DARK!"

"WHOA, relax little guy" Ven said as the room began to light up with a grid design that went across the whole room.

"Welcome to the simulation room, in this place you can play a bunch of action games that feel like you're actually right in the middle of battle" Ven explained as he saw joy go across Dante's face and also a impressed grin from Des. Yet nothing from Evy, which was odd to him

"Soooo…." Ven said as he waved his hand out and brought up a screen in front of him "…what do you guys feel like playing?" Dante and Des immediately ran over to the screen and watched Ven scroll through various simulations that all looked really cool, not noting Evy slowly walking over.

She wasn't just mad because of having to bring Dante along with her, what really made her mad was what she saw in her sister's room yesterday. She thought that Des had gotten Ven to be her boyfriend or something in only a matter of not even a day and she couldn't stand to look at Des without getting pissed or look at Ven without imagining Des wrapped around him like in that chair.

"That one!" Des said pointing to a simulation that looked like a urban city

"No that one, it looks like the future!" Dante said as Des just shook her head

"No on second thought this one…" she said as she made Ven scroll back to another one "… that's like something out of a comic book" Evy was standing next to Dante and watched Ven scroll through some more while her brother and 'rival' argued about what to pick

"Don't fight I'm pretty sure there's something in here you'll both…" he began to say then saw Evy's hand come out of nowhere and press down on one, making the screen disappear and the room change.

"Hey what did you do that for?" Ven asked as the grid layout of the room began to morph into a enchanted forest with birds and butterflies flying everywhere as it materialized. Evy just took a couple steps away from them and loosened up a little

"Less talk more game" she said as dark creatures started to emerge from the forest and surround them. That made Dante and Des back away toward Ven who stared at the creatures with excitement in his eyes

"Well in any case. Let the game…" he began to say as a circle appeared below his feet then quickly zipped up him and engulfed him in light. As it faded away, a green tunic appeared on him with black pants and a green cap on his head. Dante and Des looked at him with awe as he drew out a long and shiny sword and spun it around so he could hold it back handed, the way he preferred.

"You guys might want to get suited" Ven told them as he got into a fighting stance.

"Well how do we…?" Des asked then saw another flash of light. She quickly spun around and saw Evy in a short blue dress with a feather in her hair. Then she drew out two twin wands and took a furious pose. All while Dante looked at her in awe

"Woah Evy you look so…" he said taking a step toward her, then that same circle Ven was under a couple of seconds ago appeared below him and transformed him just like his sister. When the light faded this time he was in a green tunic just like Ven but his ears were pointed and he didn't have a cap and in his little hands were two twin daggers. Dante took a long look at himself and a big smile immediatly went across his face, making him do a flip in the air out of all his excitement

"This is totally Awesome!" Des grinned at him then took a step forward and sure enough that same circle appeared and gave her a cool new costume just like the rest. She was wearing loose brown wool pants with a black top and a blue scarf that wrapped around her mouth and neck. She took a quick spin to look at herself before she said

"Aw sweet, I look…" she began to say but was stopped short when she saw a wolf rush up to her. Before she could even shield herself Ven jumped in just in time and slashed through the wolf right down the middle then watched it turned to black dust as a little counter appeared above his head that read 'one'

"Not gonna be much of a game if you don't move Des" Ven said as he got back into his fighting pose and charged at some more monsters. While on the other side of the room, Dante did a short chuckle as he cocked back his daggers and rushed forward

"I'm gonna beat you!" he said confidently as he jumped in the air and landed on one of the wolves back and rode him like some angry bull. "GETTY UP LITTLE DOGGY!" he said aloud as he made the wolf ram into anything that didn't look friendly.

While on the opposite side of him his sister just stood there and waited for the enemies to get really close to her. So close that Ven almost jumped in to help her just like he did Des, but at the very last moment before one attacked her she raised both her wands and clashed them together in the air and created a big BOOM that blasted them away. Ven was left in awe as he saw her score go up from zero to thirty in a blink of a eye as she looked over to him and actually cracked a grin for the first time since they entered. As it turned out hitting things actually took away some of the frustration she had

"Whoa…" that's all Ven could say as she kept her grin up. Then it quickly faded as she ran toward him and leapt over him. Ven quickly spun around to see what she was doing then got his answer, something big and scary was behind him.

"You might want to keep your guard up" she told him as she pointed both her wands at the beast and was about to strike it before something started to rapidly fire something at the beast. It didn't stand a chance and went up in smoke like the others before it, both Ven and Evy looked behind them to see Des with two weird arrow guns strapped on to her wrists. Evy scowled at her while Ven applauded her

"Not too bad for noobie" that made Des giggle while she walked over to him. Evy was needless to say sick of Des hogging all of Ven's attention. So with a quick flick of one of her wands she made a vine slither out of the ground and cause Des to trip and fall on her face.

"Ow!"

"Des!" Ven yelled out as he ran over to her and Left Evy alone, who was snickering to herself. While behind them Dante finished off the last of the creatures along with the one he was riding on. When he was finished he ran over to his sister and punched her in the shin

"Ow, hey what did I tell you about hitting!" she told her brother and waved her finger at him. Dante just glared at her and said

"That wasn't very nice sis, just look at what you did" he pointed over to Ven helping Des up while she held her hand over her nose to stop the bleeding. That didn't even make her feel one bit of guilt for what she did

"Dante sometimes people just need a good kick in the butt" then after she finished that statement Dante kicked his foot as high he could so he could kick her butt.

"OUCH!"

"Yeah and your one of them" he said as Ven walked over with Des holding onto his shoulder while she kept her hand on her nose.

"Sorry but we'll need to play again later, she needs to lay down for a little bit" Ven said to Dante who nodded and Evy just gave a look that said 'whatever'. Ven helped Des walk over to a clearing in the forest that he knew was the door out. But before he could get there the virtual sky went pitch black with storm clouds that began to roll in and crack red lightning that made Dante jump and clench onto his sister's leg, only because she was the closest thing next to him

"W...w-what was that?" he asked as Ven looked around and heard a faint noise, like something gently tapping onto something. Then a sinister laugh echoed through the room and lead them to the source of this commotion. It was a man in black armor and a shredded black cloak that blew in the wind. They could not see his face for it was covered in a visor like helmet that covered his whole head.

"Ven, what is that?" Des asked as Ven's eyes went wide.

"I think that's a boss, and what's worse I can't get us out until we beat him" Des immediately got off his shoulder and aimed her arms out at this so called boss.

"Wait Des your hurt" he said as a glimmer of joy shined in her eyes.

"And that's when you know you're having a lot of fun" she said as she began to rapidly fire arrows at the dark warrior, which broke on impact with his armor. When she finally ran out, he chuckled

"Best you got?" he said as he rose his hand and drew out a big black buster blade.

"Nice try Des but let a better player do it" Evy said as she rose both her wands and pointed them toward him.

"Ok that was uncalled for" She tolf her as Evy swayed her wands back then clashed them together creating a large lightning blast that raced toward the dark warrior. Ven gasped then looked to her

"Wait stop!" but it was too late. When the lightning hit it didn't do anything but conduct its way through his armor then up to the tip of his sword.

"Thanks" he said as he raised his sword toward the sky and slammed it back down into the ground, causing the lightning to course its way through the ground zapping everyone and making the dark forest light up.

Everyone but the warrior was now on the ground looking like they were in pain, but in actuality it was just the game pushing them down to look like it. The warrior began to walk toward them, chuckling as he shook his head

"Wow I expected more from yo…" he said then cut it off short and let out a small gasp when he saw the little bits of blood going down Des's face. He quickly began to sprint over to her as fast as he could with all the armor on him weighing him down a little

"Woah what happened…" he began to say but got cut off when Dante, out of nowhere, jumped him and started scratching away at his armor with his daggers.

"Hey back off!" he told him as he tried to swat him off. But Dante just kept on him till he hit a strap that caused his heavy metal tunic to fall off with his shoulder guards. Then Dante quickly got up and pointed his daggers at him

"Ah ha I got you…" he began to say then he looked at what he was wearing under the armor. He was wearing a black tight shirt with bits of loose tannish pants peaking from under his leg guards. The same thought went through everyone's head as they all said aloud

"Terra?" he nodded then took off his helmet and rushed over to his sister and took a good look at her face

"Des what happened?" he asked as he wiped some of the blood off of her upper lip

"I fell down is all, stop it" she said as she swatted away his hand.

"Ven open the door out of here" he commanded Ven, who did what he said without question. When he opened the door the whole forest setting went away and it just became the same dark room it was before. Terra walked Des out and lead her down the hall before he turned back and looked at Ven

"I'm gonna take her to get cleaned up. Why don't you go bring them to to Aqua she's in the front hall hanging up some decorations" Ven looked at him and struck a little confused look

'What's a decoration?' he thought to himself before he shook it off and told his friend ok. Then he turned to Dante and Evy and told them to follow him, which they did. But all the way there Dante glared at his sister because of what she did. He had always looked up to her and thought she couldn't do anything wrong up until now. So it made him a little mad when he realized that she wasn't as good as he thought she was.

Personally Evy couldn't care less, about anything