And now we go back to when Ven just left his room

Ever the persistent woman Evy was outside Ven's door, waiting for him to come out so she could ambush him and… do something that will make him like her. But as anyone would know waiting is tiresome and she fell asleep a little after dinner.

"Zzzzz…emeh get away from him…zzzz… mmmmhh… mine…" our little female stalker was slumped up next to Ven's door dreaming of protecting Ven from Des like she was some kind of walking disease. Then just when she was about to kiss him in her dream

BAM

She was rudely awaken by the slam of Ven's door as he rushed out his room as fast as he could, never seeing a reason to slow down for anything. When he was a good 20 feet away from his door, it slowly creaked away from the wall and revealed Evy looking squished and in pain. A slow stream of blood began to come out of her nose as she tried really really really hard to not admit to any pain. She took in a couple deep breaths, trying to hold back tears, as she clenched her hand into a fist and tightly shut her eyes. The only thing she allowed to show any pain was in the form of a tiny noise

"Ow" she slowly picked herself up, using the wall for support, and when she was halfway up on feet she felt a big shock of pain finally rush up to her head, breaking her range of tolerance and making her silenty freak out in the hall, putting a hand to her mouth to make sure she didn't attract any attention from yelling. Then to make matters worse, when she retracted her hands from her face she noticed the large amount of blood that had leaked from her nose "…Eeekkkkk! Blood!"

She had a big fear of blood, it just made her skin crawl whenever she even saw a drop even if it was hers. So while she held the ever growing knot in her stomach from coming to surface she quickly made her way to the bathroom to clean herself up as quick as possible. Now if this doesn't scream karma for hurting Des earlier then Evy must be as dumb as Terra's father. Evy ran down the hallway looking at the many doors to the various rooms of this almost warehouse like castle. She got greatly irritated every time she opened a door to not find what she wanted.

"Empty room…empty room…empty room…empty room…empty room! Why the hell are there so many empty rooms!" then she opened up a white door and bursted in to a sight to see. Of all the many room she could've entered, what was the possibility of finding her room?

Everyone looked ro her with shock , worry, and fright at the blood on her face

"Oh my god" her mother said as she and Aqua both stood up off the bed

"Evy, what happened?" Evy was too embarrassed by how this happened to tell them. So before they could even reach out and help her she ran down the hallway again, this time not looking for a bathroom but just running away from her family. Aqua quickly stepped out of her room with her mother holding Dante and called out to Evy to come back so that they could help her but she just kept running away and soon enough disappeared into the maze that is this castle. Aqua quickly ran after her with her mother following her close behind with Dante

"Evy come back!"

"Evy we just want to help you!" They yelled out as they turned corners and kept their eyes peeled out for her. Dante felt like he was in the middle of a earthquake from all the jumping up and down in his mother's arms. If he bounced any faster he was gonna throw up

Evy was running as fast as she could away from the sounds of her family's voices. She'd rather look this stupid then have to explain her actions.

Meanwhile…

Our favorite brown haired protagonist was walking down the hall whistling some tune to himself. After listening to his mother tell an old but classic Christmas story all he wanted to do was fall asleep. Not a big surprise, after all his mother did always read to him before he slept when he was little. It was only natural that his body would have almost a instinctive nature to want to fall asleep to the sound of her voice

"Evy!" But that shook him wide awake

"Huh?"

"Come back we just want to help!"

'Aqua?' he thought to himself as he saw someone come around the far corner at the end of the hall and storm right for him. On instinct he quickly got out of the way and watched her zoom past him. 'No that wasn't Aqua… was that her sister though?' he thought as he looked back down the hall way and noticed a treckled trail of something on the ground. He knelt down to one of the many dots on the ground and poked it. It was thick and had a crimson tint. He instantly knew what it was, he'd been around a lot of it at his father's fights

"This is blood." He said as he stood back up" I should go OGFH!" he began to say before something went under his legs and caused him to lose balance and fall on his back. He sneered out in pain as he quickly sat up and saw who tripped him

"Evy! Get back here!" he heard a Dante yell out with the patter of his quick tiny feet following him.

"Dante you get back here!"

"Ugh what the hell hit me? Huh…?" then once again another set of fastly approaching footsteps were coming towards him. 'Oh not again!' he thought as he jumped up on his feet, summoning his keyblade as he did with a angry expression that halted the two coming at him in the dust "…alright what's the big idea!"

"Woah! What's with you Terra?" Aqua asked as she and her mother held their hands up palm flat to their chest to show they didn't mean any harm

"Oh… oh geez I'm so sorry Aqua…" He said blushing red out of embarrassment as he put away his keyblade. "… sorry, it's just that someone came out of nowhere and tripped me and I didn't want to get stomped on" the brown haired man said while rubbing the back of his neck, defiantly had some whiplash going on back there from Dante.

"OFFF!" they then brought their gazes to the end of the hall way to find two people squirming on the ground, almost looking like their wrestling. "LET ME GO YOU LITTLE BRAT!"

"NYH NO!" Dante said as he tightened his grip around his sister's legs and rode through her flailing him around. Both Aqua and her mother gasped before running towards the two wrestling siblings and tried to get Dante off of her. Now Dante would let go if it weren't for the fact that if he did it would send him reaching for the sky.

"Evy stop shaking your legs!" Aqua reasoned with her sister but to no avail. Her sister just wasn't listening. She wouldn't even listen to her mother when she commanded her to do so.

Terra observed this from a short distance that grew ever shorter as he walked over to his friend. Something about this seemed familiar to him… it was like she was going through a tantrum fit… kind of like how his little sister use to go through when she was little. And his mom knew a way to stop her in her tracks that she taught him. Well since he did feel a little embarrassed about what happened just now he felt like he owed Aqua. So right then he gently pushed Aqua to the side

"Here I have an idea" He said as he laid his eyes over Evy, scanning for something specific. Aqua looked at him curiously, wondering what he was doing and she was about to ask before he took a deep breath and drew back his flat hand. Then with a quick flinch he gently tapped her neck, instantly making Evy go stiff and stop. Aqua and her mother gasped yet again as Aqua, seeing the opportunity, grabbed Dante and checked him over

"Are you ok?" she asked him, seeing no physical injuries. He nodded as a response

"No I'm good." He said then he looked at Terra with admiration like he was some kind of super hero "Hey how did you do that!" He asked excitedly as Terra chuckled then knelled down to his level "Well…"

"No, the right question is what did you do?" Aqua's mother asked, angry as she knelt down and looked at her now unconscious, bloody nosed, and now apparently hysteric daughter. Terra knew he was in some trouble now, since he did that without asking, but he didn't panic. He thought that when he explained himself that she wouldn't be as mad

"I'm sorry I did that without saying first but I thought it would help. All I did was hit a pressure point is all"

"A pressure point?" Aqua asked as her brown haired friend looked at her as he looked at her

"Yeah you know. The body is filled with nerves and at certain spots on the body if you hit them just right they cause something to happen to you but don't harm you. All I did to your sister was knock her out into a blissful dream… or at least that's what my sister said happened whenever my mother did it to her" Terra explained and stressed on the fact that he didn't cause any additional pain to Evy. Even though he didn't hurt her it didn't lessen Aqua's mother's anger. She was still a little sore at Terra, only because he did that with little warning, though she was a little grateful that he made her stop. She then picked up her daughter and looked down to her son and egged him over to her side.

"C'mon Dante we're heading back to the room" she told him as he let out a whine

"Aww but mom I want to hang out…"

"Don't make me ask again" She said firmly with a touch of scariness in her tone. Dante and Aqua were both a little scared now, Aqua a little more than Dante because she knew very well how scary her mom could get. Aqua looked down to her little brother and gestured to their mom to say 'Go with her before she really gets mad'. Dante followed his sister's instruction without hesitation, though he still looked disappointed from not being able to hang around Terra a little more.

"Ok mommy" he said then quickly hugged his sister's leg, making her giggle, before scurrying back to his mother's side.

"Thank you Terra but please warn people before you do that next time" she said as Terra nodded then said

"I'll keep that in mind in the future and I'm sorry about that mame" he said one more time so he wasn't on any bad side of her's, only because he could tell from Aqua that he didn't want to be on that. She left him with a nod before leaving with Dante next to her

Aqua stayed by Terra as she watched her mother walk off with Evy and Dante to go clean her off and figure out what happened to her. While Terra rubbed the back of his head and started for his door, which was only a foot or two away from where he was, and opened it

"You alright?" she asked as he turned around at his door

"Yeah I'm ok, Dante and Evy only took me off guard and I really didn't hit anything. So no harm no foul" He said as he walked into his room with Aqua following him in. He only said that so she wouldn't worry, in reality his back was killing him from the fall he took.

"Here let me take a look just to be sure" she said with concern. Terra, knowing that Aqua would just keep bugging him about it, told her alright and sat down on his bed where Aqua sat on her knees next to him and pulled up the back of his shirt and looked for any bruises, first by just looking then by feeling it out

"Ow!" Terra winced out in pain making Aqua immediately pull back her hand

"I think I found it. Don't put any pressure on your right shoulder and you'll be fine"

"Thanks Aqua" he said with a grin as he carefully slumped into his bed, trying not to put much pressure on his shoulder.

"Tired huh?" Aqua asked as Terra nodded with his eyes shut

"Yeah I'm pretty beat" He said with a yawn rolling off his words.

"Do you want me to leave?" She asked as Terra shook his head no

"No you don't have to… Unless you'd rather be with your family?" he asked as he shuffled his way up and opened his eyes to look at his friend

"No I think my mom wants to be alone with my sister for a little bit"

"Yeah I was meaning to ask about that what happened?"

"Don't know… You think that Des did that her?" that caught Terra by surprise.

"What makes you think that?" He asked surprised that she'd even think she'd do something like that to Evy, she hates blood so why would she cause it to come out

"Well I just thought that your sister liked Ven is all and I know that my sister likes him to so…"

"So you think that they fought over him?" Terra asked in slight disbelief. Aqua shrugged her shoulders as a response

"It's like said, I don't know"

"Only because I want to defend my sister, she's not that violent. She's actually scarred of violence and blood"

"Why?"

"Mostly because of my dad" Terra half lied. It was true that his sister's fear of violence did originally come from her scary father with his questionable ways of bringing up Terra. But it was only a small intolerance of it till that one night that almost claimed her life. Since that day she was frightened by the smallest forms of violence, sometimes having little flashbacks to that day. It made

Knowing that anything involving his dad would bring up bad blood, Aqua decided to change the subject. Well now was a better time then never to ask him

"Say Terra can I ask you something?"

"Depends on what it is"

"Well…" She was starting to think of how stupid it would be to ask him for this and maybe him laughing at her for asking. Wait… what is she thinking? Terra wouldn't do that and worse case he'd just say no. So she just went out and asked "…Can you do me a favor and dress up like Santa for Dante?"

"What?" he said with a chuckle rolling off his words, not being sure that he heard her correctly. Immediately Aqua started to panic

"You don't have to if you don't want to but I just wanted to ask because…" Aqua said in a rush as Terra told her to slow it down

"Woah Aqua slow down. I'd be happy to do that for ya" he said realizing what she said was really what he thought she said

"Really?"

"Yeah why not?" figuring it would be a nice thing to do

"Aw thank you!" She said gleefully then wrapped Terra in a close hug and gave him a slight peck on the cheek to really express her gratefulness.

Terra's face immediately turned the color of a ripe tomato in the summer. He was stunned to say the least, so stunned in fact that he couldn't even move his arms to return the hug. All he could do was try to say a simple phrase that came out jumbled

"Mention don't it" Terra said dumbly, mentally slapping himself afterword's

'What are you stupid! You just embarrassed yourself in front of her you idiot!' Terra scowled himself as he watched Aqua let go of him and stare at him. He expected her to say something like 'what was that?' or think there was something wrong with him. Instead she laughed as she asked him

"What was that Japanese?" She said through muffled laughter. He mentally sighed in relief, could've gone worse than that. At that moment, after Aqua got her second breath, she got off the bed and waved bye to Terra "See ya' in the morning, I have to go wrap a couple of gifts for my mom"

"Ok good… oh wait what should I do for the Santa thing" He asked as Aqua peeked her head back into his room

"Oh meet us by the tree at midnight, I'll have him situated by then" Aqua explained as Terra confidently nodded, telling her that he got it. Aqua waved bye one last time before saying

"I'll see you tonight Terra" Then she left, making Terra cave back into his bed and finally get the rest he wanted. Though he wasn't going to completely fall asleep for the night, he still had to put the gifts out for his family under the tree and now have to dress up for Dante. So he was only going to take a power nap, and he was going to take what little solace he could get from it.

I really have to stop making promises I can't keep. Sorry for the month of no update, I really don't have a excuse beyond laziness. I know that this chapter really doesn't have much to show but its setting up for future chapters. Next chapter is going to be mainly about my favorite couple in this story so be expecting that

Well till next time