Kingdom Hearts:Birth by Sleep Zero-Book 1-Chapter 14
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"Ven!"
Please let him be okay. I prayed silently, remembering the sound that was made as his head collided with the white marble stone.
Nothing was wrong with him except for the fact that he was still a little pale, and his breaths had become gasps for air.
"Is he okay?" I hadn't even noticed Aqua was there.
"I think he's just unconscious." The blond teen's fainting reminded me of when he had sleepwalked straight into the wall of my dorm, making him fall over from bumping his head too hard.
"What happened?" Ven instantly cocked his head up.
"Well, you had anger problems, knocked stuff off of Terra's desk, threw Master Oni to the ground, and fainted." Aqua summed it up harshly, her hands on her hips. I assumed she was waiting for an explanation from Ven, but the teen just lay his head back down and said nothing.
"My head hurts." Ven stuck his tongue out while grimacing from his headache.
"Did I really do all that?" his eyes were filled with disbelief and confusion.
How could not know that? He's the one who did all that stuff! I looked at him in deep thought. Was he being controlled by some unknown force? Remembering the power that had controlled me when I had become angered made it seem possible.
The only question I had was, Was it the same unknown wave of power that possessed me? Could Ven have been sunk into so many dark thoughts and feelings, that it had invited the dark power in? It was all very perplexing; I mean, he was pretty bummed about making a bad first impression on the other students in our math class, but stuff like that just didn't bother him. So why would it bother him now?
Maybe he was thinking about his forgotten memories. I guessed silently. That's about the only thing that makes him upset; that, and Aqua getting angry at him.
But Aqua wasn't actually angry at him when she harshly laid out his faults in front of him, she just gets that way when she's upset; harsh, cranky, and overly concerned.
Even though Ven never admitted it to me, unlike how he admits everything else to me, I knew that Aqua had stolen his heart and affections. That's why he was angry at the fact that Aqua had her eyes on that other apprentice.
I had never really had a crush on anyone, so Ven never talked to me about that stuff. The only crush I've ever had was in second grade. It was a crush on Aqua; but that only lasted until I was eight. Besides, I don't think Aqua would ever like me back. I thought Ven had a better chance with her than I did, anyway. The depressing part was that Aqua was oblivious at the way he would stare at her all the time. Being ignored by the one who has stolen your affections must be painful. I didn't know if that was true or not, because I never really liked anyone. But I was sure of it because of the way Ven acted when she was angry at him, or unhappy with him. Even his emotions were invisibly tied to her; most of the time, if she was content, he was content. If she was angry at something, then Ven would despise what she hated.
How can Aqua not see his obvious crush?
By now the halls had been filled to brim with students rushing to their next class. If it hadn't been for me and Aqua standing around Ven, he would have been trampled by the sprinting apprentices.
"A cool person has been knocked to the floor!?" Yamada instantly jumped up and down in front of Ven in horror.
"I shall save you, cool person!" he thrust his right fist into the air, pretending to be a flying Superman.
Ven was "saved" as Yamada held out his hand to help him up. "Thanks." Ven mumbled as he grabbed Yamada's hand to help himself up.
"You better get to your next class." Surprisingly, Yamada didn't obsess over the fact that we were "cool".
"Are you okay?" Aqua poked at his shoulder to make sure he was real.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Yamada's eyebrow was raised in suspicion.
"Well, see you." he waved as the bell rang, echoing across the hall and becoming silenced as the students in uniforms and armor rushed to not be late.
We all looked at each other in confusion. "What's wrong with him?" Aqua questioned.
"I don't even want to know." Ven chuckled while rubbing the back of his blond spikes.
"Ventus, come over here NOW." Master Oni said the "now" part in tremendous fury. "What?" Ven looked at Master Oni in confusion while he walked over slowly.
I didn't hear anything from their conversation; I only saw Master Oni shaking his finger a bunch of times and Ven staring at his feet in shame. He's getting chewed out. I surmised silently.
"Yes, I understand." Ven admitted in apparent shame.
"Are you going to be punished?" Aqua looked at him in concern.
"Yeah, it's a really weird punishment, too."
Before we could ask him what his punishment actually was, he answered our silent question. "I have to sit in an empty room for a whole day and do nothing."
"Wow, I wish I could get punishments like that." I admitted, knowing that all my past punishments were way worse than sitting around and doing nothing.
"He'll probably do something fun with you guys to make me feel left out, or something similar to that.
"You are exactly right, Ventus; I am taking Terra and Aqua to another world without you." He smiled at Ven's disappointment.
"Different, worlds?" Aqua had become puzzled.
"You haven't heard of them?" Master Oni raised his eyebrow.
"I have." I raised my hand while remembering Sakura's words. "Don't tell me Master Oni didn't tell you about the the other worlds yet."
"What world would we be going to?" I asked.
"It's not a very exciting one." Master Oni admitted quietly, as if not to let Ven know that he wasn't missing out on much.
Ven's blue eyes glinted with shame and disappointment. I knew that he didn't mean to knock Master Oni over; he was being controlled. Maybe I should mention that to Master Oni.
"He couldn't help it." I nudged Master Oni in the shoulder.
"What are you talking about!?" Master Oni yelled and asked at the same time. It reminded me of Xehanort; the same twinkling eyes, a serious expression with a scowl at bay.
"Ven was being possessed." The end of this sentence was followed by a gasp of disbelief.
"What gives you that idea?" Master Oni looked at me out of the corner of his snowy eye slyly.
"Well, first of all, he wasn't acting like himself, then his face became really pale, and he randomly fainted after I chased him around the castle."
"Then, when he woke up, he didn't recall any of it." I finished.
"What was he being possessed by?" Master Oni stared into my eyes without blinking. It was kind of funny to see him doing that because he had to crank his neck up to actually see my face.
"I don't know." I admitted with a darkened expression.
"Is there anything that could possibly upset Ventus; one reason that you know of?" Master Oni searched for a possible explanation.
"Well," I wasn't sure Ven would be okay with me telling him about his lost memories, but it was for his sake anyway.
"When he was fourteen, I found him on the beach of our hometown." I started the story and finished it after a few minutes of explaining.
"Why didn't you tell me this before!?" he questioned in fury, his anger starting to rise tremendously.
I shoved my arms in front of me to block any attacks from Master Oni; even if he wasn't going to hit me, I wasn't taking any chances.
"Hey, I'm not Ven; ask him about it." I shrugged, hoping that I didn't make Master Oni decide to chew Ven out again.
"Is it true that you lost your memories, child?" Master Oni had looked at him expectantly. Even though it was apparent, Master Oni didn't even care that he had hit a soft spot on Ven. The teen flinched and stared at his feet in reply.
"So, it is true." Master Oni sighed and looked down at his feet in deep thought; as if calling something from his long span of memories.
"What is true?" Ven looked up from his snowy white and black shoes to Master Oni's pacing about the hall.
"Nothing, nothing at all." he claimed. Though he seemed to be telling the truth, we could tell that he wasn't by the way he was lost in thoughts and memories, and how he restlessly walked back and forth.
A sudden thought came to mind. I should ask Master Oni about Master Eterika.
"Hey,-" I was interrupted by Master Oni.
"You're wondering about Master Eterika, aren't you?" It seemed as if the elder had read my thoughts.
Before I could reply, he answered my unsaid question.
"As you know already, he was the original Keyblade Master of the Light." he reminded me.
"You said he disappeared?" After this, his face became an even lighter shade of white; if that was even possible.
"I am not going to speak about this to you, for I have no reason to." he stubbornly finished the discussion.
Accepting defeat, and also not wanting to make him furious, I walked over to Ven and Aqua, who were arguing over some ridiculous thing.
"No, Pepsi is better!" Ven thrust his fists down at his sides while he disputed.
"Coca-Cola is way better than Pepsi!" Aqua contradicted his statement.
"Terra, what's better; Coke or Pepsi?" Before they could drag me into the argument, I quickly shook my head. "Whoa, I'm not getting in the middle of this one." I took a few paces back from the glaring teens.
"Fraidy-cat!" Aqua pointed her finger at me in blame.
"Well, then Ventus may come along with us to the new world then." Master Oni's declaration jostled Aqua and Ven from the argument.
"When are we going?" the blond teen next to me looked at Master Oni in question.
"Right now."
"Yay!" Ven bursted out with his kiddish attributes showing.
"What is the name of the world?" Aqua's questioned jerked Master Oni away from his deep thinking.
The bald elder glanced at us slyly, obviously having something hiding under his sleeve. "You'll just love it there." he promised while his silvery-white eyes glinted with mischievousness.
"How do we even get there?" Ven asked in perplexity. "Teleporting, of course!" After this statement, Master Oni thrust out his white gloved hand to summon a portal much different than Xehanort's. Instead of darkness writhing within, it had a beautiful snowy white glow along with streaks of many different tints and shades of blue.
All three of us just stared at it for a few minutes before Master Oni urged us to go in. "Go on." he pushed Ven a little closer to the void of color.
"I'm not going in first!" Ven sprinted away from the portal and hid behind me.
"Aqua?" Master Oni waited for her to start walking towards the portal. She obliged and strided over to it slowly, keeping the act of caution fresh in her mind.
A familiar twinkling came from the portal, reminding me of the dream I had with the Chaser and Unbirths. Remembering this created a flashback.
"The heart is the most obvious weak point, Terra. Never forget that." the disembodied voice echoed around the edges of my thoughts.
"Terra, you are next." Master Oni's announcement rushed me out of my flashback. I noticed that Ven and Aqua had already stepped through the endless void, so it was my turn.
I walked over to the portal and stopped hesitantly just before my feet hit the swirl of white and blue. "Go!" A white glove gently poked my back, making me teeter and totter over the edge of the abyss.
Before I fell over headfirst into the void of light, I twisted around on one of my feet to see Master Oni waving to me in glee.
"Have fun while you're there." Master Oni ordered.
While I fell, I ignored the situation and crossed my arms in annoyance. I greeted his grin with a raised brunette eyebrow as everything was swallowed by blindingly pure light.