Remember when I said should be the final chapter? Yeah sorry I bit off more than I could chew and needed to break the final chapter into 2 chapters otherwise I'd be rushing through this. I'm sorry but hey anything to make sure this is the great story it deserves to be
Dante watched from the hallway as he saw Terra surrender and begin to enter the portal with Travis and Aqua. Dante cringed at the sight of Travis and his smug look, and forcing his sister to come with him. There was only so much Dante could take before he broke. He rushed back out there and stood as tall as he could as Travis was on the near of brink of entering the portal.
"Hey!" He yelled getting Travis and Terra's attention "Out my sister down now!" he yelled as angry as he could, which only made Travis erupt in a torrent of laughter.
"Ahahaahhhahaha! Look at the wittle baby all fuscled up because of his sister" He said through laughter as Terra looked down at him
"Dante get out of here i…"
"No Terra!" He yelled as he looked at the ground and found Aqua's keyblade and picked it up by it's handle with both his hands, struggling to hold it. Travis began to lighten his laughter as he saw what Dante was holding.
"Oh look shrimp is gonna use that useless thing!" he said as he looked at with another laugh and a snort, but that didn't folly the determined look on his face. Terra knew there was some truth in what his father said, only one worthy of the keyblade could use it, otherwise the blade would disappear and return to its rightful wielder. "Listen kid, I'm going to say this simply for you. Even if you were tall enough for this ride there's no way you could even try to hurt me and not hurt your sister"
"I DON'T CARE!" he yelled out as Travis eyes went wide as did Terra's "I don't care because even though I'm just a kid, I know my sister wouldn't want to go with a jerk like you!" He said anger radiating off him at this point. Travis looked at him taking in the seriousness in his scowl, the anger engraved in his face… and merely laughed at it.
"BWHAHhahahahaha! What have you been smoking? Or rather what tity have you been sucking on to even think you stand a chance against me?" he said starting to laugh his ass off as Terra just remained silent. Dante growled before he steady his grip on the blade and pointed it at Travis.
"WIND!" he yelled out as Terra looked away knowing what would happen next. Spell doesn't work, keyblade goes back to Aqua, his dad punches Dante into the ground. He closed his eyes shut expecting this. But…
"AHAHAhaha… huh ah Ahhh!" Travis went from laughing like a hyena to screaming like a little school girl. Terra opened his eyes and looked at a amazing sight. Dante had casted a great cyclone onto his father and it was greater than the one Ven casted earlier. It was juggling him in its center and a unconscious Aqua too.
"Terra!" Dante yelled at him snapping him back to reality
"Huh?"
"Grab Aqua!" He yelled at him as Terra looked in the cyclone and saw Aqua twirling around in it. Terra, working fast, reached into the vortex and using all his strength tore Aqua out of there and held onto her tightly in his arms as he rushed away from the strong vortex.
"Got her!"
"Fire!" Dante yelled as a firball rushed out of Aqua's keyblade and into the vortex where it ignited and turned the vortex into a flame-nado. Travis screamed out in pain causing Des, Ven, and Evy to stir from their unconscious states and see what was happening. Ven and Des were awestruck at the sight of Seeing Dante do this. Evy didn't notice she was to busy keeping her head down. The fire began to slowly die down as Dante slouched his arms down, the weight of the keyblade starting to weigh out his arms. Travis was on the ground of a semi charred floor. Parts of his body were chared, most notably his the left side of his face. He was breathing heavy as he looked up and saw Terra holding Aqua and looking shocked that his father was still conscious
"Why won't you just stay knocked out already?" Terra asked angrily as Travis got up and slowly, painfully, started walking to his son
"You are coming home… Now!" He yelled as Terra glared at his father and started to set Aqua down. One more punch or two should force him into the portal
"Please Terra don't stop doing what you're doing…" Someone said as Terra and Travis looked over to the stairs that lead to the front doors. Terra smiled as Travis scowled
"Yes master" he said as he picked Aqua back up
"You little shit I'm gonna…!"
"You shall be leaving now!" Master Eraqus barked as he preceded forward "You have been nothing but a nuisance, a disturbance to my other gracious guests, and a major pain for one of my best students! You shall leave this castle, Force!" He yelled out as with a swipe of his hand he began pushing a unknown force onto Travis causing him to be pushed back slowly to the portal. He tried to fight it but all his might was failing him to this magic
"He's my son! I CHOOSE HIS DESTINY!" he yelled as Eraqus glared at Travis
"Only one person holds control of a destiny and you hold no power over Terra's. He chooses to be hero rather than you. Get that through your head! Now leave!" he yelled as with another shrug of his arm he finally pushed Travis into the portal. "Terra close it!" Eraqus said as Tera nodded then redrew out his blade then pointed it to the portal. A beam of light shot of his blade and quickly took care of the portal. Travis with his last amount of energy tried to run back into the portal but was given the door and crashed into a wall in the first district as random pedestrians looked at him like some homeless bum.
Eraqus looked around at his castle as he drew out his keyblade
"I leave you all for a day and this what becomes of the castle?" he asked rhetorically as he raised his blade up, a small ball of light building at the end of it. Then it a burst the ball popped and streams of light began to go everywhere, fixing the damages caused by Travis. Walls uncrumbling, the already opened presents rewrapping themselves, even the decorations coming back into place, in the end Eraqus looked at his castle with a smile as he saw everything put back into place. Then looking at those still on the ground wound her pointed his blade toward them and uttered his last spell to make everything right "Heal" he simply said as a green aura engulfed the room. Ven, Des, and Evy found strength return to their legs and Aqua had reawakened in Terra's arms.
"Terra?" she asked as Terra grinned down at her happy that she was alright. "Terra?"
"What?"
"Could you please put me down?" Terra felt a shot of embarrassment rush through him as he quickly put her down on her legs.
"Sorry" he said as Aqua let out a small laugh and leaned in and gave him a peck on the cheek, which Terra blushed to.
"Bleh!" Dante said as he saw his sister do that. Now he knows his sister has cooties
"Ventus, Aqua, Terra line up" Eraqus said as Aqua and Terra snapped out of their moment and walked over to their master. Ven quickly got to his feet before Evy and Des did. They stood shoulder to shoulder as their master looked at them, not mad but definitely didn't look happy "What happened?"
"Master the fault is mine…" Terra spoke up his master restricting his gaze on him "… my father tried to force me to go home with him and I refused. We were the ones who wrecked the entrance hall and I apologize. I'll take whatever punishment you shall give me master" He said as the expression on his face very slightly changed to surprised
"Terra I do not wish to give you any punishment" he said shocking Terra "I merely wished to know what happened in my absence. Besides for the most part it seems you kept this castle well and protected" He said
"But my father…"
"You defended everyone from him, in my mind you still you job even if I had to use a little magic to fix up some odds and ends" he said as he gently smiled at his students "Come on it's Christmas get happy" he said as he patted Terra on the shoulder to snap him out of his rut, to which Terra grinned
"I missed you master"
"We all did" Aqua said as she got close and hugged him and then a second later Ven joined in
"Please never leave us again!" he said as his master let out a laugh
"Geez maybe I should leave more often" He said as he enjoyed the hug while Des, Dante, and Evy watched on the scene and saw the love that was in this family. Their master then broke the hug and asked them to go make sure the mothers were ok.
"Aqua if may if I may ask could you stay here I must have a word with you" He asked as Aqua remained in line as Ven and Terra walked over to everyone else. Terra went to go see that his mother was alright while everyone else went to go check on Claire. Des was going because Evy told her that she did the pressure point thing on her mom and she needed her to wake her up quick, Ven was going just to make sure everything stayed cool between these two girls. When everyone left the room Eraqus store at his pupil
"Are you going to retrieve that?"
"Huh?"
"Your keyblade" he pointed over to the ground where Dante used to be standing
"Oh" she said as she stretched out her arm and summoned her keyblade back to her
"The keyblade is a truly mysterious weapon" he said as Aqua turned back to him "It only chooses a select few to wield it. And I now see that we have a additional wielder in the castle"
"Huh?"
"Oh right you were unconscious my dear pupil. To put it simple your brother holds the power too" he said shocking Aqua
"What?"
"He holds the same power as you Aqua"
"There's no way"
"It is not uncommon for the power to linger in bloodlines. I saw it with my own eyes Aqua, he has it" Aqua began to panic inside. While she knew that if this was true it would be great, she'd be able to relate with her brother even more and could even help teach him. But she knew that if her master saw him with this power he was going to take him from her family and train him immediately, he'd miss out on his childhood.
"Master please don't take him from my family. He's too young for training…"
"Aqua.."
"… he needs to be a kid…"
"Aqua…"
"… otherwise he'll feel empty and like he missed out on…"
"Aqua!" He yelled silencing her "Geez what is with my pupils rushing to conclusions today"
"I'm sorry master. I just needed to get my point across" she answered as her master nodded
"As you did and you completely right"
"Excuse me?" She said shocked that her master thought she was correct
"Your right, one day he will need to be trained. He could truly one day be a great master. But without a proper childhood to understand what and who he's protecting from the darkness then he'll mearly be in a manner of saying a rebel without a cause by the time he reaches your age. He shall live normally till he reaches the age of 13 in which case I put it on to you that you will teach him, soon to be master Aqua" when she heard that last part her ears pricked up as she noticed a happy expression on her master's face
"Master are you saying what I think your saying?"
"Yes my dear pupil. In a matter of a couple months you and Terra shall be ready for the mark of mastery exam, and I am so confident that you both shall pass" Aqua was on the verge of tears. Her master believed she was ready, and if she did become a master she could go home, she could be there for her family again. "Do not cry rejoice Aqua" he said as he began to walk toward the tree to find his gifts, not before giving his pupil another quick hug. "Oh and Aqua I must ask something of you" he said making Aqua do a 180 to face him near the tree
"Anything my master"
"Before Dante leaves perform the oath on him"
"Yes master" she said without question
"Good, now I believe you should check on your mother. While I find my gifts" he said as Aqua grinned watching her master find his gifts like a little kid before she ran off to her mother's room.
"What is black cube?" Eraqus asked as he found his first gift
Meanwhile…
Terra walked into his mother's room to see his mom on her bed laying peacefully. She still looked beautiful even with the hand shaped mark engraved on her cheek. Terra make little work of this drew out his blade and casted cure over her. The mark vanished as she stirred in her sleep and began to wake.
"Mom" he said as her eyes slowly began to open
"Terra…" she said as she smiled "…your safe"
"And so are you" he said as knelt down next to her bedside and looked at her "Dad's gone" he said reassuringly as his mom adjusted herself to a sitting up position.
"Really?" she said in mild disbelief as Terra nodded reassuring her. Elise looked down at her right hand seeing the very cheap piece of gold wrapped around her finger. She quickly plucked it off her finger then threw it to the corner of the room. "Finally" she said happily as Terra smiled. His mom was happy now, happy, and he made it happen. But then he realized something
"Mom eventually you're going to have to go back there" he said as she looked at her son
"I know but when I get there me and Des are moving out of the house and get as far away from him as possible. Then I'm going to become a florist to support me and Des"
"But he'll find you, I know he will" he said, seeing how realisticly this wouldn't work
"I know but I have to try, I don't want to be near him anymore" she said sadness brisking into her voice at the end. Seeing his mom sad was something Terra truly hated, but it was true his mom plan was flaued so long as they lived in traverse town. But wait that was it…
"Wait… I know how you can get away from him" Terra said as his mother looked at him
"What?"
"What if I moved you to another world, like Aqua's family's world?"
"Huh?"
"If I moved you there then dad would never be able to get to you no matter how hard he tried. And you'll already have a friend there Aqua's mom likes you"
"That is true"
"Mom please… move there" he said staring intensely at his mom. She saw the sincerity in his eyes, the one desire he had of just wanting her safe. And she melted into his hands
"Ok let's do it"
"Great" he said getting "I need to tell my master and I'll get yours and Des' stuff for you from the house"
"Thank you Terra"
"No problem…" he said heading for the door "…after all what are sons for?"