The day started normally, people rushing to the bathrooms first then going about their business for the day. Aqua spent a majority of her morning with Dante in the simulation room playing various levels of the game. Aqua to greater view of Dante's prodigy nature with weapons and fighting while playing with him, beginning to make her wonder even more…

Terra spent his morning with his mother and sister, purposely excluding his father not like he would of come anyway, walking outside in the thick blanket of snow. He showed them the area's where he would train (only showing not taking them directly there) and would relax. His sister loved the beauty of this world and couldn't get enough of it. While his mother became more and more proud of her son, loving how much he had matured away from the things his father tried to make him. She was so proud that he was his own man now

Ven spent his day helping his master finish up on the last details on the dinner feast. His main was just to put things in the over to slow cook or light them done with a firaga. He left all the additional seasoning and last minute fixings to his master, since he was more of the cook type anyway.

As for Aqua's mother she was wrapping the gifts she had bought for her children and the last minute things she got for Terra and Ven. She could barely wait to see Dante's face on Christmas morning when he would see what she got him. Quite frankly she was amazed she even got it her without Dante noticing. She wasn't wrapping alone, Evy was with her. Though she would of rather have been with Ven instead.

Around five, Ven and his master began to set up the table. Ven setting up the silver wear and plates while his master set out the food and pitchers of various drinks

"Well that's done, should I go get everyone master?" Ven asked as his master shook his head

"No Ven I think I shall" he said as brought out his keyblade and held it so the tip of the was right under his mouth. Ven looked curiously at what his master was about to do

"Terra, Aqua…" he said, his voice reaching both his students telepathically. They both immediately stopped what they were doing and stood to listen "…dinner is ready, so if you could please come down with you families to the training room" Aqua and Terra nodded as the ceased what they were doing. Terra telling his mother and sister that dinner was ready and them following him back to the castle without question. Aqua quickly wrapped up the game with Dante and picked him up to hurry to their mother's room to inform them of dinner, making sure not to go in and not ruin Christmas morning. The two families were now heading to dinner, and unfortunately Terra's dad came to. Terra accidently bumped into him on the way back in while he took off his snow stuff, so he had to deal with his father's sickly sounds stressing how hungry he was.

They all arrived to the dining room and each found a place to sit. Evy tried to get a seat next to Ven but the only seats next to him were being occupied by Terra and Des, which really made her mad. As much as she would've liked to kick Des out of her seat, she had to keep up her regular non threatening self for her family… at least for now. So she took a seat next to her big sister who was holding their little brother in her lap with their mother in the seat next to her.

On the reverse side of the table Ven was sitting on the near far end next to Des while Terra sat next to his mother. And next to Evy at one of the table's end corners was Terra's father, who picked that seat to be next to Eraqus. The table was covered in Silver containers that contained the delicious meal made by the two mother's, Aqua, and Master Eraqus. And speaking of him, he stood at the end of the table and humble smiled at everyone and began to say

"Greetings my students and their families, I must say that it is a great pleasure to have you all here on this Christmas eve. But before we enjoy this delicious meal created by the two beautiful mothers of the hour…" he said then gave them both glances as they returned them with a smile to say thank you. "… please let us say grace" everyone then bowed their heads and put their hands together.

"God bless the meal we are to enjoy and bless my students and their families for the future that is to come" he said as the man next to him just went fot the food. He opened his right eye and saw Terra's father beginning to dig into a big turkey leg

"Excuse me"

"Oh you're excused" he said as a response and continued to eat. By that point Terra, Des, and their mother were glaring at him for ruining the grace. But he didn't care and just kept stuffing his face. The master just sighed then looked to everyone and sighed before putting a smile back on

"Amen, now let us eat"

The Instant Eraqus said those words everyone dug into the wondrous feast before them. Terra went for the turkey first and loaded his plate with mash potatoes and stuffing, the same as Destiny and his mother. Aqua didn't get her food first; she decided to help her mother by preparing a plate for her Dante. While Ventus on the other side of the table was trying to maintain his manners, so as to not make Des think he was a pig. While on the other side of the table next to Aqua was Evy who was hiding a look of disgust as Terra's dad really stuffed his face, little bits of his food falling a inch or two off his plate.

For the first couple of minutes everyone just ate, occasionally throwing a complement to the two mothers and Master who made the meal and shooting a glare at the man who had the worst table manners or just manners of anyone in the universe.

"What?" Terra's dad asked with food still in his mouth as Des looked at him

"Dad can you please close your mouth when you eat" he just did a short chuckle making a few tiny chunks of food escape his mouth making everyone a little sick.

"What you don't like 'see' food?" he asked sarcastically then continued to pig out, while everyone else pushed their plates forward.

"So…" Master Eraqus began to say, trying to divert everyone's attention from the 'elephant' in the room. "… Terra, Aqua why don't you show your families what I've taught you in these 3 year short years"

"Yes master" they both said in unison as they stood up and walked away from the dinner table for some room. Gladly this room was initially used for training not dinning so it was it was fairly big. Normally they ate in the kitchen or in their rooms

"You can go first if you want" Terra whispered to Aqua as they walked away from the table, she just shook her head

"No you get it out of the way first, I know how much you like being with your mother and sister" she said as they both stopped then turned around.

"Yeah but… your magic is a lot like you, amazing" Terra said followed by a grin that made Aqua blush a little bit. From the table both of the mothers could see the small awkward and silly gestures that told them there was something between them, and it made them laugh.

"Whenever you two romantics are ready" Master Eraqus said snapping both Aqua and Terra into line. Aqua took one step forward as Terra took one step back, focusing all eyes on her.

First she drew out her keyblade in a dazzling display of light and sparkles that mesmerized everyone but Terra's father. Then she charged up a chilly blue aura at the end of her blade that she swung to the ground and then with grace she began to spin in a figure eight forming a medium sized solid ice eight on the ground. Just as she finished it in the center of the eight she jumped into the air and let the rest of the aura out, forming a giant snowflake ice carving that showered down small amounts of pure white snow. And to finish it off, Aqua landed in front of the sculpture and with one quick swish of her keyblade produced a small gust that made the snow swirl around the sculpture. The room began to echo with the sounds of clapping and cheering over the beautiful performance, Aqua humbly bowed to say thanks then began her return to her seat.

"Aqua that's awesome!" Dante shouted out as he tried to whistle with fingers, only spittle and air coming out.

"Dante stop you're getting spit everywhere" his mother said as she took his fingers out of his mouth. Aqua soon got back to her seat and smiled at Dante, and he smiled back her.

"Thanks for the complement little guy" Aqua said then tussled his hair making him giggle. Then all eyes laid on Terra as he took two steps forward and drew out his blade. His father actually stopped eating to watch his son, only because he wanted to know what kind of ridiculousness the nut next to him taught him.

"So what did he teach you? The waltz?" his father insulted as Terra took in a deep breath and let that comment bounce off him. This demonstration was more for his mother and sister than that monkey he called a father. Terra began by slowly raising his blade into the air, building up a yellowish brown aura at the end of it as he did. Then when his blade finally stood erect to the ceiling he slammed it back down abruptdly making a giant earth pillar appear causing him to release his grip and let his blade rise with forming pillar. Terra then quickly started to claw his way up the pillar for his blade that he yanked out pillar when making it to the top. Causing the pillar to begin to crumble down to tons of tiny pebbles that cascaded like a small avalanche that Terra rode down on his keyblade like a snowboard. When he reached the ground he kicked up his keyblade then quickly swished it across the pebbles that started to roll up on one another forming solid rock like figures that when completed looked like stone Terra's in his classic fighting stance equal to his height. Then with another quick slash he made them rush toward him with their stone keyblades pointed out to him. Terra braced himself for them as he cocked his keyblade back, then with one powerful slash reduced them down to the same rubble from wince they were made from before they could hit him. He took one deep breath to keep his heart rate down as his keyblade vanished. Everyone minus his dad started clapping up an uproar as he turned around and in the same manner as Aqua took a bow.

"Terra that was incredible" his sister said as he rose back up and headed back to his seat where once he was seated was welcomed back with a kiss from his mother.

"Mom" Terra said embarrassingly as he rubbed the kiss off his cheek

"Oh don't be a baby, I'm just so proud of you" she said as she gave him a hug.

"Well thanks mom" he said humbly as he returned the hug making everyone go aww. Everyone, minus the man who had his arms crossed at the end of the table.

"You know I have to give you props…" his father said as everyone looked to him. "…that must've taken a lot of special effects to make all that that happen" Terra immediately shot him a glare, his father just loved to make him feel down.

"That wasn't a special effect it was Real"

"Yeah right and I can turn into a giant purple elephant by just wiggling my nose" he said with a chuckle as his son just kept a fierce glare on him.

"Sir if I may be so bold…" Master Eraqus began to say as he gave Terra a look to tell him to draw back his glare. "… that was no manner of smoke and mirrors, it was real and you know it was. Because how could earth appear out of a solid wood floor?" he said pointing out the fact the floor was one solid piece of wood made from the same magic that Terra and Aqua use.

"Pssh whatever" he said then went back to eating, still not believing in any of that. Master Eraqus could clearly see that to, but instead of pushing this into a situation he took what solace he could out of the fact that his mouth was finally shut, for the most part.

Terra had calmed his glare and just went back to eating his food while his sister and mother did the same, feeling a little embarrassed because of the jackass they called a father or husband. Aqua and her mother looked at them from the other side of the table and felt sorry for them, even Ven felt the same while he nibbled away at his food. Soon enough the casual conversation resumed, stuff like Aqua telling her mother about the other stuff she learned from her master or Des telling Terra what has been going in their home town. Even Evy talked, mostly just failing at attempts to try and relate to Ven

"So do you like music?"

"I don't listen to much"

"You like movies?"

"Haven't seen many"

"You like TV?"

"My master won't let me watch any" Evy cocked her head to the side and asked

"Why's that?"

"I don't know" Ven was really starting to get irritated by all her questions. He would never say out loud but he didn't like her. Granted Ven was always the happy go lucky who would always give people chances to be his friend. But to him her questions were just starting to get annoying and he really didn't want to keep talking to her if this was all she was going to do. He'd rather be talking to Des across the table, at least then he wouldn't be bored.

Thankfully Evy ran out of things to ask, leaving Ven to look at the girl who was looking back at him with the same funny look in their eyes that only young people in love could have. This caught Terra's attention, it was really hard to miss. He could only chuckle at the fact that his sister liked his best friend, he would have never expected something like this ever happening. Not that he minded, if she liked Ven then he was alright with it because he knew wouldn't try to do something funny. So instead of saying something to his sister about this, he decided to just finish off his food and let them keep making gaga eyes at each other.

As the dinner ended, most of the boys just slugged back in their seats with their stomachs distended. The girls however weren't pigs like the boys and ate within their limits. Mater Eraqus was sitting up straight in his seat, he always made sure that he showed his manners and patience when around company. He finished the last bit of his drink to wash down what was left of the turkey he ate, before he looked to the mothers and said

"That was a truly marvelous feast" he said with a humble smile that thd mothers both smiled back at

"Well your quite welcome sir" Aqua's mother said

"Yes but you did the last minute additions, we should really be thanking you" Terra's mother said making Eraqus nod to say thanks.

"Turkey was kind of dry" Terra's dad said, picking his teeth as he did, getting a glare from his wife which he just ignored. No one responded to what he said, knowing that if they did it would probably escalate into something worse that no one wanted, especially on the holidays. Then just before a awkward silence could begin, the situation bells began to ring from the front room. Eraqus and his students all stood up in near unison because of what they knew they signified.

"What's that?" Evy said as she covered her ears along with her mother and everyone else at the table besides the residents of the castle.

"It's nothing. Terra, Aqua please come with me…" Their master told them then turned to his youngest pupil "…Ventus if you please, will you entertain our guest in my absence?" Ven did a quick nod for a answer as his master looked back to his guests "Please pay no mind to that, we shall be right back" and with that Eraqus gestured his students to follow him and in a rush exited the room.

In no time at all the three were in the entry room in front of the throne that their master sat on. He halted his students before he continued any further, once he was assured that they were still he continued his walk to the stone behind his throne. Leaving Aqua and Terra alone

"So what do you think is going on?" Terra whispered to Aqua who did a short shrug

"I don't know, maybe it's Master Yen Sid calling for him"

"Or maybe something is going on with the worlds" Terra said assuming a worst case scenario. Aqua just shook her head at him

"No I don't think that's the case, even if Master Yen Sid isn't doesn't have the keyblade anymore he could still handle quite a bit on his own"

"Well…" before Terra could get another word in their master returned to them with his signature blank expression.

"That was a dear relative of mine" he said as he took in a deep breath, almost like he was trying to hold something back. Both Aqua and Terra noticed and asked him out of concern

"Master is something wrong?" They asked as their master looked to the ground of his castle.

"No, it's just…" he said as he rose his head and started to walk to his students till he stood directly in front of them. "… I need to leave for a short while; I should be back before Christmas day has ended"

"Um Master if I may be so bold, has something occurred?" Aqua asked knowing very well that she most likely wouldn't get a answer.

"Something has occurred within my family that requires my immediate attention" He said telling both of them to not press him any further for information as to not get him upset. So in place of saying anything they just nodded and stuck with their master till they were outside and down the steps of the castle. Then Eraqus pressed down on his shoulder guard behind his cloak and summoned out his samurai like armor in a burst of light. He took one quick step around and looked at his students and said this

"Now farewell my pupils, I shall be back" he said humbly as he gave them a bow that they returned back. Then their master threw his keyblade into the air and watched it transform into a bike kind of like Terra's. He then bursted off in a rush, as he began to climb higher and higher into the sky, aiming for a portal that his keyblade opened while it was up there. He took one last look down to his castle and saw his students waving goodbye, to which he did a short finger salute then finally left castle. But while all this went on, in one of the many windows stood a muscular figure who seemed to be chuckling wickedly

"Finnaly that pussy's gone…." Then his head slowly swayed over to his son who was climbing up the steps with Aqua, or to him that blue haired chick. "… I'm going to make you come back with me wether you like it or not, Terra"

Wow this chapter was long