Kingdom Hearts:Birth by Sleep Zero-Book 1-Chapter 10
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(Aqua's is probably the lightest one) ANOTHER ALSO: I know Ven is right-handed in newer scans and screenshots, but since I personally think it would make Ven look cooler, he's left-handed in my story.
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Anyways, to the story:
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My eyes opened slowly as dawn rose upon the starry sky. The Sun had shone through the window and had woken me from yet another dreamless slumber.
What time is it? I asked myself in wonder as I glanced at the ticking brown clock hung on the wall.
The white face had it's hands pointing to six and to the smaller, black notch of thirty.
Way too early to wake up yet. Even though I told that to myself, my body protested as I rose from the crimson velvet that lay upon the golden bed.
The burnt umber cupboards that hung off of the red wall in the sun-stricken kitchen held many breakfast foods.
Pop-tarts sound okay. I shrugged as my fingers triturated the metallic silver foil off of the frosted cherry pastries.
Dropping them into the onyx-black toaster, I watched as the wire inside turned into coal red.
The wires started to give off a burnt aroma, so I backed off and waited for my breakfast to pop out of the toaster.
As I waited, I stared off onto the sparkly grass that was pressed under an orange sky. The few trees that stood alone here and there had their leaves rustle in the soft but forceful wind.
I watched as dew drops of water slid down the blades of green in a slow manner, making them scintillate.
They reminded me of the waterfall room that lay beyond the door in the training room; the small trickling waterfalls that scattered drops of water upon the gray stone.
Grazing through my hair with three of my fingers, I noticed that some strands were plastered to my temples from last night's abrupt humidity.
I should open the windows. I suggested to myself as I paced over to the human-sized windows that were bordered by crimson and black.
I unlocked the white latch and opened the window to the late June morning, the wind greeting me as it played with my hair.
Ding! The Pop-tarts shot out of the toaster with lightning-fast speed.
I searched through the fridge for something to drink.
Prune Juice? No wait, I hate prune juice. I reminded myself as I reached out to the plastic bottle.
Moving my hand closer to me, I searched for something else. I decided on apple juice.
Didn't Sora love apple juice? Or was it paopu juice?
I struggled to remember, but to no succession, my mind failed to latch on to it.
All of the sudden, Ven burst onto the kitchen wearing only a t-shirt and briefs. It reminded me of the time I had run away from the venerable man, Xehanort. Not that i respected Xehanort, but he was ancient. I mean, he was the twin of a one thousand, six-hundred and thirty-three year old man.
"Can't you put some clothes on before you barge into my dorm?" I asked the blond teen in disgust.
"Sorry, I just had this awesome dream, and I didn't want to forget it before I told you about it." Ven admitted with excitement.
"What was it?" I asked him in impatience.
"Well, I was falling through darkness and there was nothing around except this twinkling noise and the faint howling of wind." he started with the dream still fresh in his mind.
"Then all of the sudden, I was standing on what seemed like nothing, until I took a few steps forward."
"Doves were everywhere and there was a blinding light, and as I looked down, there was mural of a guy that was in gold and black medieval armor and a pillar that stood under a heart-shaped moon." The dream Ven was explaining to me had seemed almost exactly like the one I had before Xehanort had kidnapped us.
"Then three pillars appeared out of nowhere and three things came out of nowhere above them." he made his dream sound more exciting than mine, in which the "Chaser" had ruined almost all of it.
"There was a star-shaped staff, a shield with a star on it, and a-" I interrupted him, which made him angry and mystified at the same time. Or at least I thought he was angry.
"A sword with a star on the hilt." I finished.
"How did you know?" Ven asked in immense curiosity.
"Keep going with the dream."
"Okay, so this voice comes out of nowhere and says: "This is your Destiny." ."
"I thought it sounded kinda cheesy, but I didn't say anything."
"Then he told me that I was a much better listener than my spiky-haired friend." I smiled from remembering the Chaser.
"Then, he started on this "number eight" thing and how you didn't appreciate his work."
"The worst part was when he told me about being on the toilet for eight hours straight."
"He told me to choose a weapon, so I chose the shield."
"Then it turned into this Key-thingy; it was black and gold, and had only one hand guard, so I had to hold it in a really weird way."
"Then at the end, it had a piece of metal that had five prongs sticking out."
"So then, I fought these things called the Unbirths, and then I had to battle this gigantormous Unbirth." Ven informed me in a childish way; something that he did often. "He told me that he surprised to see that I wasn't such a sap as you were."
"Then when I won, I woke up." he finished.
I had a feeling that Ven left out some other important parts. Such as some of the conversations between the two, or if the voice told Ven about his true "identity" at all.
"You had the same dream too, right?" Ven asked, half knowing the answer anyway.
"Yeah, but mine was...different." I struggled for the word.
"Tell me what yours was like." Ven ordered impatiently.
So, I told him what my dream was about. But at least I was trying to be more specific, and the fact that I told Ven who the voice was made him grin.
He toppled over to laugh;another thing Ven had a habit of doing.
"Can you still summon your Keyblade?" I asked.
"Yeah, I think I can." Ven thrust out his left hand in unison, almost the same as I did on the night of arriving to the castle.
In response, his hand was enveloped by a pure white light. Then, the light formed into a wind that howled around Ven's hand for a few seconds. The wind transformed into a black blade with a tarnished, golden hand guard. At the end, there was a silver piece of metal with five prongs, just as Ven described.
"How come your Keyblade isn't cheesy?" I asked in jealousy.
Ven shrugged and smiled at the same time.
"Summon your Keyblade." Ven ordered in excitement.
"I can't." I admitted in renewed frustration at my inability to summon the Keyblade once again.
"Oh." Ven said in disappointment.
"You wouldn't think it looked cool anyways." I sighed at my Keyblade's ugliness.
"Your oufit was cooler than Aqua's or mine." Ven pointed out.
I chuckled from wondering how my outfit could possibly look "cool". I mean, I looked like a hillbilly, a knight, and a samurai mixed together.
Talk about different time periods.
"Does everyone think that?" I questioned to myself out loud.
"You don't?" Ven asked.
I chuckled once again at Ven's clueless personality. Well, at least I thought he was clueless.
"Well, if we had the same dream, don't you think we should tell Master Oni?" he asked.
"Yeah, maybe he'd know something about it." I guessed. Since Master Oni had been around for a extremely long time, he'd probably know something about twin dreams.
Ven and I headed for our bedrooms and changed into our uniforms quickly.
We met out in the main hallway and headed for Master Oni's study in order to inform him about our similar dreams, and to also ask him how Master Geezernort was mystified about how I held the knowledge of the Keyblade.
When we got to the door, Master Oni opened it and we flew through the open space. Landing on the floor, I asked Master Oni how he knew we were coming.
He simply answered: "With the way you two run, I would've thought you were a stampede."
"Sorry." Ven and I muttered in unison.
"Oh well, it was time for me to awaken anyways." I glanced at the clock. The time shown was seven-forty-five.
"Now, what do you require?" he questioned us with one silver eyebrow raised.
So, Ven and I told him about our similar dreams in hoping he would know something about it.
"Why didn't you tell me this before?" Master Oni asked, slightly in a petulant way.
"Well, I had my dream from before I even met you." I pointed out to him.
"You had it beforeyou knew about Keyblade wielders?" Oni asked me in astonishment.
"Is that wrong?" I don't know how having a dream before I was supposedly supposed to was horrible, since I couldn't control when my dreams came, but Master Oni ignored this fact.
I nudged Ven in the shoulder and asked him a question. "What did the voice call your Keyblade?"
"It was..." Ven searched for the name.
"Divided Fate."
Man, that name is even cheesier than Eternal Horizons.
Hey, I remembered it's name! I exclaimed to myself in victory.
"What did you say?" Master Oni ordered.
"I said the voice in my dream called my Keyblade "Divided Fate"." Ven repeated in a somewhat louder voice.
"Divided Fate, huh?" Master Oni asked and repeated at the same time.
All of the sudden, Aqua burst in and started explaining that she had an "awesome" dream last night. By her description, it seemed as if she had the same dream as well.
"So all three of you had the dream?" Master Oni asked in disbelief.
We nodded in reply.
"Then, summon your Keyblades." Master Oni ordered. "If you truly did have the dream, then your Keyblades will show proof."
Ven and Aqua both thrust out their hands in unison to do as Master Oni ordered.
I looked at Aqua's Keyblade. It was a tarnished, royal blue, silver, and a faint purple color. The handle was like any other; oval-shaped with a rod in the middle for someone to hold on to it. Then, the blue metal at the top of the hilt was shaped like two diamonds that formed the beginning of the blade. The blade was normal as well, and at the top was a piece of metal shaped like the three prongs of a key, in which they struck out, then formed a roughly shaped number three. In the middle of the key part were three white pieces of metal, two shaped like boxes by connecting the blue part, and another diamond-shaped one in the middle.
Master Oni looked at me expectantly. "Where is your Keyblade?"
"I can't summon it." I admitted in dolefulness.
"And why not?" he raised his silver eyebrow once again.
"Is it because you lied to me, and you really didn't have the dream?"
"No, no, it's not that." I defended quickly.
"Then explain." he commanded.
"I don't know why I can't summon it." I answered simply.
"Then you didn't have the dream." Master Oni claimed, much to my frustration.
"It's not my fault I can't summon it again!" I cried out, suddenly angry and furious. I even asked myself of why I had such a random burst of a snappy additude.
Why am I mad?
"If you can't summon it, then you didn't have the dream." Master Oni repeated again.
I shut my eyes tight in anger, feeling it starting to consume me. Something came along with the anger; some kind of power, but I didn't know what it was. It was a very slight feeling, but very apparent as well. I didn't know if it created a menacing feeling or if it created a feeling of tremendous power. I'll admit, I was slightly scared of how tempting it was, even though I didn't need power right now. All I needed was someone to believe me.
At that, my anger and the mysterious power disappeared.
"Why don't you believe me?" I questioned him.
Master Oni said nothing and stared at me in a melancholy way.
"Don't let anger consume you, young apprentice."
Why did he dodge the question? I asked myself, my frustration rising again.
"Don't do it." Master Oni ordered, confusing Ven and Aqua about what he was talking about.
I knew, and I didn't know what he was talking about.
"Letting negative emotions control you leads to your demise." With this, my anger came back to the present.
"Stop talking!" I randomly ordered Master Oni. Ven and Aqua looked at me in horror at my sudden outburst, no different than Mickey's reaction from when I insulted Xehanort.
"Do you feel guilt for lying to me?" he asked me.
"Are you feeling anger because I don't believe your obvious lie?" It was like Master Oni was actually trying to make my emotions control me, contradicting what he had just told me.
The frightening power came back, and was more apparent than before. I was afraid that if Master Oni said another thing to make my anger rise, it would consume me and the power would come even closer.
I fell to my knees and covered my ears, hoping that Master Oni would see my despondence.
Either he didn't see how desperate I was, or he just didn't care. He walked next to me and pulled my palms away from my ears.
"You don't want to hear the truth?" he smiled the same way Xehanort did.
I couldn't move from the sudden rush of hopelessness and helplessness;I hated feeling that way. Not able to get away from the dark power made me feel like I couldn't depend upon myself, like an innocent baby who has to cry and depend upon others to survive.
Out of all feelings, helplessness was the one I contemned the most.
One more word from Master Oni was all I needed to become consumed. Much to my consternation, he did say another sentence, but one that was familiar: "Yes, the heart is always the most obvious weak spot."
He did know that I didn't lie to him! By now, I had already been taken over by emotion, but since I knew that he knew that I didn't lie, the inscrutable power had consumed me as well.
For the next few minutes, all I could see was darkness. I heard things such as "What's wrong with your eyes?" or "Are you okay, Terra?" . I felt no emotion, nor any thoughts came to mind. My spirit alone was left in the abyss of nothing.
After a while, Ven and Aqua gasped and Master Oni told me to not let darkness consume me. Seeing where I, my spirit was, I knew that I already was in darkness.
"Ven, Aqua, leave now!" Master Oni commanded the two startled teens.
I heard the office door squeak open and slam while closing. I knew that even though Master Oni ordered them to leave, they were probably listening on the other side of the door.
"Terra, snap out of it!" Master Oni ordered. Was he ordering me: my spirit? Or was he ordering my spiritless body?
"I believe you had the dream." he admitted.
"In fact, I know you had the dream, otherwise you wouldn't have had so much emotion."
I came out of the abyss of nothing and returned to the present. The blue and silver desk that used to sit in the middle of the room was crushed from being thrown at the wall. Some holes littered the wall and a few were present on the windows.
"Are you okay now?" Master Oni asked in concern, which confused me because I had just trashed his office.
"Yeah, I don't know what came over me." I admitted.
"Fortunately, I do." Master Oni informed me.
"You fell so deep into negative emotions, which is my fault, since I drew them out." I glued my stare to my feet in wonder and excruciating embarrassment.
"Unbeknownst to me, Darkness took the opportunity and controlled you." Master Oni told me, wondering how the darkness could even draw near the castle of the Keyblade Master of Light.
"Why would you want to make me angry?" I asked him.
"I was testing you." he informed me.
"A test?" I asked in slight confusion.
"To see if you were lying or not." he claimed.
"And now I see you weren't." his normally pale cheeks became a slight pink as he stared down at his boots.
"I'm sorry." Master Oni apologized in sincerity.
"Then if you didn't believe me, how did you know what the voice said?" I asked him, knowing that I didn't tell him about that part of the dream.
"Mysterious, isn't it?" he grinned with a twinkle in his eye.
As expected, I heard Ven laughing his head off behind the door and Aqua ordering him to be quiet.
"I know you two are still here."
Ven and Aqua opened the door and bowed.
"We're sorry." they apologized with Ven awkwardly shaking from trying not to laugh.
"I don't care." Master Oni claimed with an incomprehensible expression.
"Don't you have that sheet to fill out still?" Ven asked, getting off of topic.
"Yeah, I guess." I rubbed the back of my head in wonder of how they were just ignoring the fact that I was going berserk a few minutes ago.
"Well, that settles it;no training today." Master Oni glanced at the clock afterwards to show us that it was WAY past twelve. It was kind of weird though; it seemed like it was only an hour that had passed.
"Go off and ...what term do teenagers use again?" Master Oni asked.
"Hang out?" all three of us answered him.
"Yes, do that."
"Also, feel free to wander the castle and mingle with the other apprentices." Master Oni offered.
As we walked out of the office, I looked back at the clock. It was only eight in the morning.
Master Oni saw that I was looking and winked at me.
How cheesy...I raised my eyebrow and smiled at Master Oni at the same time.
"So, Terra, what happened to you back there?" Ven asked, thrusting my happy thoughts back into the ones of my previous
outburst.
"I don't know." I admitted with a darkened expression.
Aqua noticed this and nudged Ven in the shoulder; Ven ignored her and reminded me once again of his immaturity.
"Your eyes turned yellow, and it was really creepy." Ven shuddered to make it look even worse than it already was.
This time Aqua pinched Ven really hard on the arm, resulting in Ven asking her why.
I laughed at this and convinced Ven and Aqua that I was fine, and that I didn't need cheering up. Actually, I wouldn't really call it cheering me up since Ven made me feel even worse than before.
I knew they were trying, but...
"Let's see the other apprentices!" Aqua suggested as she jumped up and down in exaggerated excitement.
"Sure." Ven and I agreed.
As expected, the castle hallways were filled to the brim with students. All of them were either crowded around each other talking, hurrying to some unknown place, or just standing around doing nothing.
I liked this setting much more than my dorm. It seemed more like a high school than anything.
"It seems like a high school." Aqua repeated my thoughts.
"Hey, are you the new kids?" a voice called from behind us.
"Yeah." I answered before turning around.
The voice turned out to be a boy about my age with a group of people behind him. The boy had blond hair, a little lighter than Ven's, and purple eyes.
Does everyone in this place have weird eyes? I remembered Xehanort's orange-yellow eyes, Master Oni's white eyes, and now this kid's purple eyes.
"Hi, I'm Dirk." the boy introduced with his hand protruding out in order to shake mine.
So I responded and shook his hand. "Terra." I repeated my name.
"Isn't that a girl's name?" one of the people behind Dirk rudely asked.
I ignored the comment and told Dirk it was nice to meet him. Ven and Aqua both introduced themselves as well.
"This is Yamada." Dirk pointed to the guy who asked about my "girly" name. Yamada was about fifteen with curly, shoulder-length brunette hair and blue eyes.
"And here is Rein." Dirk pointed to a girl about Aqua's age with red hair and matching eyes.
Another point goes to the weird eyed people.
There was one more person behind the three;one that I knew too well.
"Hi, porcupine." he greeted casually.
"Hi, carrot-top."