Terra walked steadily to the entrance hall, the recent talk with his mother still lingering in his mind. Moving his mother and of course his sister to another world wasn't as easy as just moving to a new house. There are certain laws of the worlds enforced by the keyblade wielders, and Master Eraqus, while being understanding of the situation, would not be swayed to this idea so easily. Terra finnaly go to the enterance hall to find his master in a chair he hadn't seen before looking at the watch he bought.

"Master?"

"Oh yes Terra" Master Eraqus said as he hopped of his chair pressed a button and watched it turn back into a tiny cube

"Whoa" Terra said as his master picked up the cube and put it in his pocket

"That's what I said when I unwrapped this little gift. Also thank you very much for the watch Terra, it was very thoughtful of you all to get me gifts"

"It was nothing master"

"Well I feel a little bad that I didn't get you anything but I do have some great news. You'll be able to take the mark of mastery exam in a couple months my student"

Terra's jaw almost dropped, he was beyond happy to hear that. The years of hard work were about to pay off and end. He was going to be a keyblade master

"Oh my… Thank you master thank you" he said trying to hide the ecstatic tone in his voice, but failing. His master let out a chuckled as he patted his student on the shoulder

"You're welcome Terra merry Christmas" he said beginning to walk away. Terra was so happy he almost forgot why he was here. When he snapped out of it he quickly turned around and called out to his master to stop. "Yes Terra?" His master asked as he turned around. Terra gulped any doubt in his mind then spoke clearly and sincerely to his master

"Master… I implore you more than I have with anything before to do this for me. I do not want my mother and sister to go back to my home world. If they go back my father may actually kill them. As a keyblade weilder my duty is to protect people from the darkness and…"

A little while ago

Aqua was running down the hallway as she came across Dante who was exiting her mother's room

"Dante" she said catching his attention

"Hi Aqua" he said with a wave of his hand

"Is are the other three still in there?"

"Yeah and…" then they heard there mother shout something that they couldn't make out but it was defiantly aimed at Evy, Des and Ven was only still in there because she didn't have the opportunity to sneak out like Dante so she was stuck in there for that rant. "…I'm glad I'm not in there" he said getting a small laugh out of his sister.

"Hey Dante my master told me what you did back there with my keyblade"

"He did?" he said surprised he saw it

"Yep and he was really impressed"

"He was!" he said a little excited as Aqua nodded

"Yep and he told me to do something for you"

"What's that?" he asked as Aqua summoned her keyblade then knelt down to his level

"He told to make sure you know that one day in the future you can be a keyblade weilder like me"

"Seriously!?" he asked enthusiastically as Aqua nodded again

"And I'll be able to teach you"

"Oh man that's so cool!" he said practically jumping up in the air out of joy

"Whoa calm down, I won't be able to teach you till you get bigger"

"Awww" he said disappointedly as Aqua chuckled a little then rubbed his head with her free hand

"But you get to take the first step towards becoming a weilder"

"Well what's that?" he asked as grabbed her keyblade by its body and had the handle pointing toward him. Aqua cleared her throat as she looked her little brother straight in the eyes, locking in the seriousness of this oath.

"Dante, in this hand take this key and so long as you have the makings then through this simple act of taking its wielder you shall be, and you shall find me brother. The forests that surround are world shall no longer contain you, the seas shall show you no limits. No more borders around or below or above, so long as you champion the ones you love" she said as Dante store at her for a few moments, seeing the seriousness in her eyes. In the past few days he got to know Aqua, he really did learn to love her. She was fun, energetic, and a lot like his mom so he knew he could trust her. But when the tables were down with Terra's dad she was willing to fight to help her friend. Even though he was young he could tell when someone was a good person when they'd get hurt for their friends. And after all that he wanted to be like her, a great person that helps others. So something came naturally inside him that caused him to reach out and grab the handle and finish the oath. They stayed there locked in that position for a good couple of seconds before

"DANTE!" Their mother yelled as they both snapped out of their oath

"Guess you better go back in"

"UGH!" he yelled as he turned around to the door before Aqua quickly grabbed him

"You've gotta keep this a secret, mom might not like the idea of having two keyblade wielders for children" she said as Dante turned his head and nodded

"DANTE!"

"Hurry up" she said giving him a pat on the back as he entered back in the room. With her job done she hurried back to her master to tell him she was done. When she got back to the entrance room she heard her master talking to someone, who she thought was Terra.

"…my duty is to protect people from darkness and I ask you. Master please let me move my family except my father to another world" he said shocking Aqua and their master

"Terra the laws state that this cannot be done"

"Please master don't let them go back there let them stay here if you must" he pleaded as their master shook his head

"I cannot do that either, this land is only for a select few choosen. And also Terra where would they go? If you put them somewhere else they'd struggle to get on their feet and have a place to live? I ask you to think this further through"

"Please master I must get them out of there"

"Terra i…"

"If I can say something…" Aqua interjected as Terra and Master Eraqus looked over at her "…I know it's rude to eavesdrop but I couldn't help but over hear your situation Terra" She said as she took a couple steps forward toward them "My mother and your mother do seem to get along well and if I may ask my mom may be able to house your mother and sister till they get enough a foot hold in say my world to where they can live on their own"

"Aqua are you sure?" he asked as she nodded

"Yes my room at home was rather large and I'm willing to surrender it to your family" she said with a smile as Terra smiled back then to his master

"Master I know this breaks the rules, I know you want me to think this completely through, but please let me do this. They'll be safe, they'll have shelter, and with my mother being as smart as she is she'll have a job so I implore you again please" he said as his master store at him and Aqua, stern and stagnant as ever. He weighed the options, pros and cons of if he let him and didn't let him. Then finally reached his decision

"I'll let you go through with this on one condition" he said as Terra's ears pricked up to him saying that

"Yes anything master"

"Tell your sister to keep a eye on Aqua's brother Dante" he said before finally turning around and re-taking his leave

"Wait why?"

"Ask Aqua" he said as Aqua and Terra had a little conversation

Meanwhile with Ven…

All the yelling had stopped, Claire had calmed down and told everyone to leave her be for a little while and that she was glad that they were alright. Everyone left the room, Ven digging in his ears to try and get the ringing out of it.

"Man your mom can yell Evy" he said stressing on the word yell

"Heh yeah sorry guys" she said

"Yeah mommy isn't usually like that" Dante said as Des just shrugged

"It's alright, it's what moms do besides loving you"

"Exactly" Evy said

"And make you cookies!" Dante said as everyone let out a laugh. Out of all the kiddish things Dante has said while in this castle that one really seemed to hit their funny bones

"Alright come on let's head back to the tree, besides I haven't given you guys my gift" Ven said as everyone looked curiously at him

"And what would that be?" Des asked but Ven shook his head

"Can't tell you till it gets dark out"

"Aw your no fun" Evy said playfully as Ven struck a grin

"I just don't want to spoil your surprise is all" he said as he began to walk down the hall with Evy and Des walking by his sides. Dante was trailing behind them as they headed for the entrance hall

"So can I say something guys?" He asked Des and Evy, who both nodded for him to go on "I'm sorry how things went down last night for the both of you" He said as both girls looked down to their sides, both embarrassed by the events of last night. Evy because she needlessly hurt someone for her own gain and Des because her agreeing to meet up with Ven started a tension between her mother and Evy's mother, granted the tension was leavened a bit by Terra and who she assumed was Aqua who got her mother to settle down for Christmas but she still felt bad about inadvertly causing it. Especially since they were starting to become friends

"No I'm sorry" Evy and Des said at the near same times, Evy a word faster than Des. Evy and Des looked at each other amazed that the other said what they said

"No I'm sorry guys, you both did nothing wrong. I over reacted…" he said as he Looked over at Evy "… and tried to push things to fast" he said as he looked at Des "So lets just reset and be friends and all be friends is that all right?" He asked as both girls took a moment's thought before nodding

"Ok then well…" he said before he poked Evy randomly "…tag your it!" he said before rushing off. It took a second or two to process before Des and Dante ran off saying "you'll never catch us!" Evy let out a chuckle as she rushed after them and yelled out "oh yes I will!"

Later…

Des was walking back to her and her mother's room with her gifts in her arms, thanking Terra's master for using his magic to fix them when her father destroyed them in his fight with Terra. As she opened the door she saw her mom hugging her brother, her head leaning into his chest, and what sounded like crying emanated from her

"Whoa mom are you ok?" she asked as her mother lifted her head and looked at her daughter. Des was shocked by her mother's expression, instead of a sad expression it was joyous. "Mom?"

"Oh Des you won't believe what your brother just did for us!"

"Wh-what did he do?" she asked as Terra looked at her with a smile

"Dad is no longer a problem, you don't have to go back you have new home. With Aqua's family"

"What?" she asked thinking she miss heard

"You'll never have to deal with dad again. He may be strong but he's not strong enough to hop through worlds to find you guys" Des let a gasp as a small smile came gently on her face as tears began to build up on the edges of her eyes.

"Oh my god… thank you Terra" she said then rushed over to her brother and wrapped him a hug like her mother did moments ago.

"And that's what you walked in on" Terra said as Des let out a chuckle as kept hugging her brother who hugged back. Their mother watched her children celebrate their liberation as tears still gently rolled down her face with a smile still on her face. For the first moment in years she was in truly purely happy. And now did she truly feel she had control of her life again

With Aqua…

Aqua did eventually had to apologize to her mother for letting Dante and Evy fight with Travis. So as soon as Terra was brought up to speed on Dante she went back to her mother's room again. Her mother surprisingly wasn't as mad at her as she was at her younger children. She did say that she wished she could've tried just a little harder to get them back to her room but for the most part she was happy that she kept them safe.

"What kind of sister would I be if I let them get hurt?" she asked rhetorically as he mother let out a small chuckle

"Still thank you Aqua"

"Don't mention it but um… mom can I talk to you about something?"

"Um yeah sure anything dear" she said as Aqua took a deep breath then spoke. She asked her to let Destiny and Elise stay with her. That they wanted to move but there was nowhere in their world they could go where Travis wouldn't find them. So the only logical way for them to be safe was to go to a completely different world. She asked her to let them use her old room at least until they could get enough money to get a place of their own. Claire thought long and hard about this, she did like Elise as a friend and the travesty of a husband made her feel even more sympathetic towards. But then again she had only gotten to know her for a couple days, not enough to gage if she was a good enough friend to have her live in her house for a bit. Plus what of Des wouldn't she have any friends? She asked her daughter that, about how Des would feel about this, and Aqua told her what Terra told her. That his childhood wasn't easy, that all his life was training and that people who knew never wanted to hang out with him, he really didn't have any friends till herself and Ven. He said how Des' life was exactly the same minus the training. She had no life in her world because of her father, in a new world she could have a clean slate. With that last bit of information her mother began to think, really think. She thought for what seemed like hours but was only roughly about 15 minutes. Then out of the silence she finally said the something

"Tell them… my house is open to them" she said as Aqua smiled at her mother then walked over to her and hugged her

"Thank you mom thank you"

"You're welcome my sweet little girl" she said as she wrapped her arms around her daughter and shared a nice little heartfelt moment.

6 days later, New Years Eve…

In the last couple of days Terra had helped his family by running back and forth to their world and picking up his mom and Des' clothes, a couple mementos, and Des' bed then moving them to Aqua's world where she and her mother helped set up their room and moved Aqua's stuff to the castle.

While Aqua was in her world she paid her respects to her father and visted his grave. She let out a couple tears but kept a gentle smile on as she looked at his grave and said hi to him and what she has been doing since she last saw him. If it wasn't for her mother and Dante going up to her and giving her a pat on the back and a hug to tell her there here for her she probably would've stayed up there all day. She left her dad with a kiss on his grave stone and a promise that she would look after their family.

As Terra moved stuff between the worlds Travis wasn't didn't come up as a problem a problem at all, Terra looked into it and found out his old withered out grandfather found Travis in the streets in bad shape and took him to a hospital to get patched up. The doctors were keeping him heavily sedated because when he was awake he was forcing himself to get back up and go after his wife and kids again. Terra laughed at his handy work, as mean as that was. Terra helped his mom sell some things they couldn't take with them and knew Travis wouldn't really care if it was gone and raised up some money so that they weren't completely broke when they got there, Elise also emptied out her bank account to make sure she had the only money she could for when she arrived in her new home. When the last thing of any value was taken out of their house Terra, Des, and Elise looked one last time around their world. All the neon signs and bright lights, the beautiful fountain where Terra and Des would play, and lovely night sky with so many stars that they would look up to every night, this would be the last time they'd see them. Terra took a sigh then looked at his sister and mother

"I'm gonna miss this place" Terra said as his mother nodded

"Me too, even if this place does have a lot of bad memories it is where my two favorite memories were born" she said then looked at her children

"Yeah but as odd as it sounds I'm happy were leaving, this place always seemed to… gritty in my mind" Des said as Elise nodded in agreement

"I always kind of thought that too" she said then looked at her son then gestured for him to open a portal, which he did. The portal opened and they took their leave and last glimpse of their hometown before re-entering the castle.

"Are we done?" Aqua asked as Terra nodded

"Yep that was everything"

"Oh good it was hard setting up everything for you in her old room" Claire said to Elise who let out a chuckle

"You didn't have to set it up for us"

"It's ok we were more than happy to help"

"But still…"

"Hey guys!" Evy said as she ran up to the group

"What's up Evy?"

"Ven told me to tell you guys to go outside"

"Why's that?" Dante asked as his sister shrugged

"I don't know all I know is that he said it's a surprise"

"Well let's not keep him waiting let's get going" Elise said as everyone ran over to the front doors got their coats on and stepped outside. When they got out there they didn't see Ven anywhere

"Ven!?"

"Ven!" Aqua and Terra both shouted out to try and find him

"Where is he?" Des asked as from out of no where they heard two whooshing noises past them. They looked to the sky to see Ven and Eraqus on their gliders holding big bags in their hands

"Finally I was freezing out here!" Ven said as his master grinned and looked down at his students and guests

"Thank you all for coming and now if you will be so kind as to count down with me…"

"Wait it's that time already!?" Des asked

"Guess we really got lost in setting up everything didn't we?" Claire asked Elise who shrugged with a chuckle

"All together now 10!"

"9!" Dante yelled out as everyone joined along

"8…7…6…5…" everyone chanted as Master Eraqus and Ven flew off higher into the sky.

"4…3…" everyone said as Terra looked down at Aqua

"2…1!" Then at the stroke of one Ven and his Master threw out some of their individual bags contents then yelled out

"Fire!"

"Happy new year!" then the sky erupted with the fireworks Ven bought. But also as soon as Happy new year was shouted Terra leaned down and kissed Aqua's cheek. She jumped then looked behind her as Terra said

"Happy new year Aqua" Then Aqua reached up and kissed him on his lips, causing their mothers to let out awws as Des, Evy, and Dante were too distracted by the fireworks to notice anything going on. Ven and his master threw the last of their fire works out and let a grand finale unfold in all sorts of dazzling colors. At that moment Aqua and Terra broked their kiss as They looked at each other

"Guess this is a better gift then those fighting gloves I got you?" she asked as Terra looked shocked when she told him that

"Wait you got me those?"

"Yep but I guess they weren't that good if they didn't last long in that fight" she said remembering how torn they got when he was fighting. Terra took a moment to reflect then chuckled as he pulled he let her then put his arm around her and watched the finally

"Yeah a great memory like this is a lot better" He said as the last moments of the grand finale unfold with Aqua in his arm. With all the ups and downs that these three friends went through it was nice to know that from this point on everything was only to get better and stay that way so long as they had their families by their side and stayed together

The end

Wow this is the longest chapter I've written for anything. Thank you all for reading I can't honestly thank you guys enough for reading my story. Really thanks

They'll be one more chapter, a deleted scenes chapter for those of you interested in what could've and almost was in this story. So yeah leave a review on this chapter or the story in general here and really thank you again see ya next time