Dante looked in awe at the things around him, training dummies, turnabouts staked into the ground with metal tied on the ends (or whatever that thing Ven hits in the beginning of bbs is), and disk shooters.

"Aqua what is this place!" he asked with glee as his sister came to his side

"This is the training grounds, this is where my master taught me how to use the keyblade" Dante then looked at her, curious as to the last thing she said

"Key…blade?"

"I knew you'd ask that, it looks like this" she said as she gave him that same wooden toy that she dug out of the closet. Dante looked at with curiosity and gave it a swing, falling into the snow the instant he did. Aqua giggled at him then helped him up

"Try hitting one of those dummies with it"

"Ok!" Dante said energeticly as he ran towards one of the dummies with toy in hand and started sockin'em. Dante had a little trouble with the first few swings because of the weight of the toy. But eventually he figured out a way to use that to his advantage and kept hammering through the single dummy.

At first Aqua thought this wouldn't be anything special but just watching him have fun. But as Dante smacked the dummy around Aqua began to notice that he was actually pretty good with that toy. Like he had been swinging a blade like that for years. Maybe handling blades ran in her family?

Eventually he got tired and walked back to his big sister with a tired smile on his face

"That was….huff… fun" Dante said as his sister responded with a smile and ruffle of his hair

"I bet it was, you looked with really cool out there with that toy"

"Yeah I bet I did" Dante said proudly as he struck a heroic pose. That just made Aqua laugh as proceeded to ask him

"Hey do you want to see what a real keyblade looks like?" she got a response instantaneously when Dante quickly nodded. Then she placed her hand out and in a flash of light summoned her cerulean keyblade. All while Dante looked at her with awe

"COOL!" he said as with a giant grin. She could see Dante was loving this, then she got a idea

'Might as well show him what this key can really do' she thought as she pointed her blade at one of the many training dummies

"FIRE!" she yelled out then a small ball of fire rushed out of her blade and lit the dummy on fire and melted some of the snow off the other dummies.

The flames shimmered off Dante's mesmerized eyes as he got really excited and struggled to get his blade pointed at a dummy

"Fire!" he yelled out then stood there for a couple seconds thinking he could do it to. But as he realized nothing was happening

"Hey what the…?" he asked himself as wacked the toy on the ground a couple times thinking that if he did that it would make it work. Aqua gasped then ran over and grabbed the blade before he struck it again

"No, Dante don't do that… "

"But it doesn't work"

"What just because it can't do that" she asked as she pointed over to the now blackened dummy. Dante did a quick nod then grabbed the toy from her and pointed it at another dummy

"Fire!..." he said then waited a couple seconds then looked back to his sister "…see I can't do it"

"Well the toy can't do it because it isn't a real keyblade"

"Oh…" Dante said then looked at her blade "...well can I see yours?" Dante said rather than asked as he grabbed her blade without letting her give a answer

"Uh Dante…" she tried to say but was cut off when Dante said

"Fire!" then in a flash of light Aqua's keyblade disappeared from his hands and reappeared in his sister's. Dante looked at her with confusion as he asked

"Whoa how'd you do that?"

"I didn't do anything, the keyblade did" Dante starred at her with confusion as he poked her keyblade once, still wondering how it did it as he asked

"It did what?"

"It went back to its wielder, which is me. Not everyone can hold this key Dante, only a special few can like me, Terra, and Ven"

"Oh… so I'm not special?" he said sadly as Aqua shook her head

"No I didn't mean it like that Dante. It's just that…" she began to say then stopped when she heard the sound of voices coming toward them.

"Who's that?"

"I don't know, but come on we gotta move" she said, grabbing his hand as she rushed over to the path that lead to the summit and hid with him in the shadows. Aqua was only being cautious, because if it was her master then she would be in a little bit of trouble. Being that no one but keybladers were suppose to be in the training grounds.

"So this is it?" they heard a deep man voice say as he came into the pale winter light.

"Yeah this is it and may I point out again how no one but me, Aqua, Ven, or my master can be up here" said a voice that both of them knew as he stood in the same light that the other man stood in.

"Screw that Terra, now just show me how much stronger that crazy old man made you" Terra sighed then looked at one of the dummies and without any effort gently tapped it with the edge of his knuckles. Aqua had to cover her and Dante's mouth so that their laughter couldn't be heard. But his dad didn't take it as a joke

"Don't fuck around with me, actually try you pathetic excuse for my son" Aqua quickly covered Dante's ears before he swore so he couldn't hear. Terra just grunted at him and actually hit the dummy hard enough for it to shake (like about 3 centimeters). Aqua and Dante were silently chuckling to themselves again; it was actually pretty funny to see the angry faces his dad made when he did this. Then almost out of the blue Terra's dad ran up to him and punched him hard in the back. Aqua gapsed as she covered Dante's eyes and mouth while she felt him try to mumble something. Terra fell to the ground while he held onto his stomach and glared up at his dad who was pissed to say the least

"Is this what he fucking taught you? To be a smart ass who doesn't listen to his father when he gives you an ORDER?"

"No…" Terra grumbled out as he dealt with the pain of that blow while lying in the snow. His old man may have been old, but he still had enough muscle to make any man or woman think twice about crossing his path. "… he taught me what monsters are" he said under his breath as his dad kept a scowl on his face then grabbed Terra's jacket and tore it off him.

"You're going to do some actual training now, I want to see the rest of these dummies turned into timber while you stand here in the cold…" he said as he shook the remains of Terra's jacket "… and if I even see you in that castle without ice cold sweet going down your head then… hehe you know" he said then gave Terra a punch on the shoulder then headed back to the castle to see if dinner was ready. Terra growled as he mustered enough strength to get up and rub his arms to keep warm.

Aqua couldn't believe what she had just seen, how could someone as nice as Terra be the son of such a monster? It just didn't make any sense…

As she thought this she didn't even notice Dante slip out of her arms and run to Terra

"Hey you alright?" Dante asked aloud as Aqua noticed where he was

"Dante!" Aqua yelled to him as Terra got into a fighting stance and faced Dante rather quickly

"HEY LEAVE ME ALONE YOU FREAKIN' BAS…!" he began to yell before he got a good look at who had said it. "…Dante?" he asked the now frightened little boy. Terra immediately felt bad when he saw his sad face. So he quickly started to explain himself

"Woah Dante I'm so sorry I didn't mean to yell at you I thought that you were…" he tried to explain but only got Dante's frightened scurry back to his sister as a reaction. Dante clanged onto his sister's leg as he looked away from the frightening Terra.

"Aqua? What are you guys doing here, I thought you knew that we shouldn't bring anyone but us up here?"

"I know, I know…" Aqua said as she stroked Dante's hair to comfort him "… I wasn't thinking. I just wanted to keep him occupied is all"

"Oh…" Terra said as he looked at Dante who was still a little scared of him "…well I won't tell besides no harm came of it. Besides you know I'm not like that anyway"

"Thanks Terra…" she said then struck a smile as she did a small tug on Dante's arm "…come on little guy let's get back to the castle" Dante simply responded with a nod then grabbed on to his sister's hand and walked back to the castle with her.

But she couldn't help but feel a little sorry for Terra as she took a look back at him over her shoulder. He had to take out all twenty of those training dummies by himself, and she knew that he wasn't (and couldn't because his father would definitely check to make sure he did as told) going to weasel out of it. She didn't even notice that she had stopped in her tracks as Dante tried to go forward but found it impossible to move his sister, no matter how many times he tugged.

"Aqua come oonnnnn!" he said in a whiney tone that made Aqua snap out of her thoughts

"Huh what?" she said as she looked down to Dante who was still trying to tug his sister forward

"Come ON! It's c-c-cold!" Dante whined and shivered a little, making Aqua giggle at his comment.

"Hold on one second Dante" she said as he sighed then stopped trying to drag her forward and walked back with her to Terra, who had already taken down one dummy and tore it apart. He didn't do it because he was told to, he just wanted to take out some anger he had toward his father on that one training dummy.

"Stupid jerk, trying to control me and make me like him…." he said under his breath then took another big swing at another dummy and broke it in half. Both Dante and Aqua gasped when they saw him express that much of his power. They made his ears prick up as he turned to see the two behind him and staring at him weirdly

"Uh something wrong Aqua?"

"Huh? No no nothing it's just that it just seems like you'd be out here for awhile in the cold just doing this" she said as she looked at one of the dummies

"Yeah I guess…" he said as he shivered and rubbed his arms "…but if I don't do it then…. Well you saw didn't you?"

"Yeah I know, but…" she said as she handed Dante that wooden keyblade he found and then she drew out her keyblade which made Terra raise a eyebrow. "…he didn't say how you should do it" then she rushed up and with a couple quick hits brought down three of the dummies. Then Dante following her lead ran and jumped on a dummy causing it to fall over as he beat it with his wooden toy. Terra chuckled, originally he was going to beat up the dummies by hand. But if he did that he'd be listening to his dad's order and that didn't float his boat. So with a quick swing he extended his hand and drew out his keyblade.

"You are completely right Aqua" and with that and a quick swing across four dummies, a smile went across his face. All that rage, all that resentment, just went away in one big swing as he, Aqua, and Dante continued crushing those dummies till there was nothing but wood chips and fake metal on the ground. Once it was done all three of them smiled proudly at their handy work (mostly Dante) as they wiped off the few little sweet droplets that formed on their heads.

"I think we should go in now…" Terra said a little exhausted. He had been through tougher training but having fun really tires you out. "…besides I'm getting hungry" Dante looked to Terra and smiled as he rapidly nodded his head

"Yeah let's head back to the castle already!" then he ran off toward the castle leaving Aqua and Terra alone giggling as they slowly made their way to the castle.

"Your brother is really silly Aqua"

"Well what do you expect he's just a boy" Aqua said as they both watched him try to run up all the stairs to the door. But he only got a third of the way up before he had to stop and fall on his knees to get his second wind. That made Terra strike a grin, not because it was funny but because…

"You know I always wanted to have a little brother…" he said as Aqua looked at him asking him why. "…I don't know I think it'd be cool. But still I'm lucky with the people I already have in my life" he said then looked at Aqua with a smile. Aqua felt a little embarrassed by that and had to hide some of her face behind her hand to make sure he didn't see her blush. Terra did a short chuckle at that just as they got a third of the way up the stairs and looked at Dante who was still catching his breath.

"You ok little buddy?" he asked as he knelt down and helped him up

"Yeah yeah…huff...just can't breathe…" Terra chuckled then picked him up

"HEY WHAT ARE Y…?" Dante began to say before Terra put him on his shoulders and whinnied. Aqua couldn't stop herself from laughing as Dante realized what Terra was trying to do. Playing along he pointed his finger forward and yelled out

"HI HO TERRA!" Terra whinnied one more time before galloping his way up the stairs quickly making Dante shift around on his shoulders. He didn't mind the cold that was rushing onto his face, because Dante basically felt like a small ball of heat on his back. Aqua kept giggling as she watched Terra and her brother rush up the stairs. Then without warning she started running up the stairs with them yelling out

"CAN'T CATCH ME!" that brought grins on both the boy's faces as Dante pointed out his finger and retaliated back

"WE'LL SHOW YOU! GIDDYUP TERRA!" and with that Terra kicked into to overdrive to catch up to Aqua, making Dante rattle around even more.

Aqua kept running forward making Terra eat her dust with a big grin on hsd face and equally big one on Terra's and Dante's. Neither of them could remember the last time they had this much fun doing something silly like this. so they enjoyed every second of it up until they reached the door. Both of them, in a split second between each other, had laid their respective hands on the door both proclaiming that they won.

"No I won" Aqua started as Terra looked at her and shook his head

"No me and Dante won"

"No I won"

"No we won"

"No"

"Yes"

"No"

"Yes!" Terra said with some attitude, getting a little carried away. Then Aqua retorted back with the same attitude

"No!" and they went back and forth for awhile before Dante yelled out

"WILL YOU GUYS JUST OPEN THE DOOR ALREADY?" that made Aqua and Terra stop in mid word and look at each other with embarrassment written all over their faces as they both said simultaneously

"Sorry got carried away" then they looked each other again with even more embarrassment as they laughed a little from that. All while Dante laid his chin on his hand and shook his head

"Oh brother" then when their laughter faded down Terra opened one side of the big two door entrance to the castle and gestured his hand forward.

"Ladies first" that made Aqua chuckle as she did a short bow and said

"Wow what a gentlemen you must be" then she entered the castle leaving Terra with a smile on his face as he silently chuckled. But his small laugh was cut off short when Dante hardly patted him on the head

"Hey! Did you forget that it's freezing out here!"

"Alright alright already" then he stepped in the castle and set Dante down and let him run off to who knows where as he watched Aqua walk up the rest of the stairs. Then he began to wonder

Aqua was like a sister to him since the first day that his master brought her here. So up until quite recently he never thought of her as more than a friend and classmate. But now she seemed different, but in a good way.

I just want to thank my reviewers and alerters, seriously without you guys I think I would have stopped this idea after chapter 3. So really thanks and keep the reviews coming