Ok, now that we have our first chapter down...
Let's get going with the story!
Though I usually do disney crossovers... this will be treated no different...
I wonder if this story will only have 15 chapters as well...
We will see soon enough...
Ok you know what? I don't like the name Uberta so I'm just gonna change it... to... Bethany! Yay!
Begin!
Xemnas's threat was soon forgotten and all attention was focused on Terra and Surane. Seven years went by like the wind and soon summer set in. Now Terra was 9 years old and Surane was 7. It was now that they needed to start being together so a marriage in the future could be solid. Eraqus, Bethany, and Terra traveled over the sea from their kingdom called Land of Departure, to Ansem's kingdom called Radiant Garden, for the summer. Once at dock, they rode horseback to the castle. Ansem and Surane waited at the gates for them.
The servants helped Terra get off his horse, while Eraqus assisted his wife. Surane gave a sweet smile to the young boy, while he had a look of disgust on his face. Terra's father nudged him forward.
"Father, she has cooties!" Terra whispered to him, struggling to hide behind his parents.
"There will be none of that, Terra. Go up to her and introduce yourself like a gentleman." the king urged.
Terra reluctantly walked forward and bowed deeply to the princess and her father. Surane was wearing a small pink dress that offset her black hair. Terra was wearing a black silk shirt and thin tan pants. His dark brown hair spiked up just a little. No doubt, they both looked adorable. Once they grow older, she would be extremely beautiful and he would look handsome. But, not yet.
Surane curtsied the best she could and walked up to him, holding out her hand elegantly. Terra took one look at the hand and cringed. He had to kiss her hand?
Eraqus coughed behind him, trying to get his son to do the proper thing. Ansem watched the scene with a little pleasure. Children were so cute at that age. Terra took the princess's hand reluctantly and gave it a quick peck.
Surane pulled her hand away and wiped it on her dress. Terra wiped his tongue off on his sleeve. Both children glared at each other.
"I can't believe I'm stuck with you all summer. I bet she doesn't wrestle, hunt, or box." Terra sang in his head.
"He looks conceited..." Surane did the same.
"What a total bummer..."
"If I get lucky, I'll get chicken pox!" they both thought at the same time.
The prince turned back to the princess and put on a fake smile. She grinned with gritted teeth.
"So happy you could come..." she said.
"So happy to be here..." he replied.
"How I'd like to run..." they both thought.
"This is not my idea..." Surane glared at him.
"This isn't my idea..."
"Of fun..." Both children said aloud.
All the royals went inside the castle. The adults wandered to the library for some chatting while the kids played a rough game of swordfight using wooden swords.
"The children seem to get along quite nicely." Eraqus sang heartily.
Behind them, Surane was hitting Terra across the head with the sword. He yelled ow and proceeded to attack her.
"We'll join our lands if this arrangement clicks." Ansem replied.
Surane was just stabbed in the back. She screamed in pain and wrestled Terra to the ground.
"My dear, King Ansem, that's our point precisely." Bethany sang as well.
"It's such good parenting and politics." Eraqus smiled.
Though they weren't paying attention, Surane had won this swordfight by pinning the prince to the ground with her body. She was a strong 7 year old!
"So happy we agree." Ansem sang.
"I think we have a deal." the other two replied.
"Terra's quite a catch." Bethany giggled.
"This is my idea..." Eraqus sang.
"No, this is my idea..." Ansem interrupted.
"...of a match!" all three agreed.
"Oh, this is so much fun!" Bethany laughed with delight.
Once the summer had ended, fall and winter swept in. Terra and his parents went back to Land of Departure soon after the summer left. Ansem and Surane waited for the next summer they could see them again which would be another five years. During these five years, Terra, now 14, was developing his hunting skils. Surane, now 12, was earning some book smarts and princess lessons. Surane and Ansem traveled to Eraqus's kingdom that summer.
Surane was trying everything she could to hold up their packing progress. Her puberty seemed to make her tomboy-ish.
"Good heavens, child! Don't dawdle! We can't keep Terra waiting!" Ansem shouted at her from outside.
The princess came out to a balcony and yelled down to her father.
"I haven't packed or washed my hair. Father, I get seasick!" she complained.
On the other side of the sea, Queen Bethany was having a hard time getting Terra to behave. He was also going through puberty and expressed his way by killing hunting game. One of his favorite targets was a crude drawing of Surane hanging on his wall. The prince never missed an opportunity to shoot an arrow or two at the picture.
"They soon will be arriving. Is that respect your showing?" Bethany scolded, pointing to the abused drawing.
"Don't make me kiss her hand again, I swear I'm gonna be sick!" Terra complained.
Eventually, King Ansem and Princess Surane made their way over to the castle. Eraqus and Bethany greeted them as always.
"One day, Prince Terra will be her intended." Ansem grinned.
"Splendid!" Eraqus grinned back.
During the previous five year period, Terra and Surane had made some friends. Ven was Terra's best buddy. Iris was Surane's BFF. Iris accompanied Surane to Terra's kingdom for the delight of travel. Ven loved to pull off pranks with Terra behind the adults' backs. Surane was starting to achieve her mother's beauty but there was a long way to go yet. Terra was becoming muscular soon, and his hair was just getting spikier. Several times during the visit, Surane or Iris would find a rubber snake in their bed or a pinecone in their chair before sitting down. Surane took the jokes as offensive and rude. Iris thought they were funny and amusing regardless if she was the victim.
One fine summer day, Surane and Iris chased Terra and Ven around the castle. The boys were intent on loosing the girls so they could run to their secret treehouse.
"We've tried all summer, but we just can't loose them!" Terra complianed to Ven.
"Quick, we can earn some speed!" Ven urged.
The boys made it to the treehouse in time. They hoisted up the ladder and put out a sign that said 'No Girls Allowed'.
"When picking teams..."
"...or friends!" Ven piped up.
"I never choose her!" Terra continued.
"You think she'll take a hint and learn to read?"
Finally, the girls ran up the tree supporting their treehouse and glared up at them. Surane yelled at them with anger.
"This really isn't fair!"
"I don't think they care..." Iris replied.
Surane picked up a rock and threw it up at one of the support beams. It produced a thick nick in the wood and caused the beam to crack. Once this happened, the rest of the support broke and sent the house, boys and all, crashing to the ground. Unfortunately, it landed right on top of the girls as well. The boys had some broken bones and the girls went home with colorful bruises.
"This is not my idea...of fun!" all four teens said.
As Surane, Iris, and Ansem returned back to Radiant Garden. Everyone was getting excited for the arranged marriage. They had to wait till Surane was 19 before they could legally marry.
"Long before they met, who could forget? They're destined to be wedded! However, everyone can see that the only point that didn't disagree, is that the very thought of summertime was dreaded." the peasants sang.
Another five years went by without a hitch. Terra was now ready to legally marry anywhere in the worlds. His chosen bride still had another two years to wait. But let's face it, neither of them didn't really like each other at the moment. Maybe two years wasn't such a bad wait. It was Terra's family's turn to visit with Ventus tagging along. The prince was looking more and more handsome as the days went by, to Surane's disgust. She herself was growing more beautiful as well, but both of them were too busy hating each other to notice.
One day, Surane decided to be the polite one and offered to take a carriage ride with Terra. Of course, he didn't like the idea one bit, but his mother and father forced him to. Terra did admit that Surane was acting a little strange lately. That rainy afternoon, all four teens sat in the library to play a game of cards.
"She tries to talk me into playing dress up. She's always flirting with her castle guards." Terra said to Ven.
"I think you really sort of like her, fess up!" Ven taunted.
"I'd like her better if she'd lose at cards."
Terra lowered his card hand to reveal all four 7 cards with a 10 on the side. Surane giggled at his hand.
"Four sevens and a ten..." Terra grinned.
The princess laughed pleasantly and lowered her own hand. Iris laughed as well a their shocked look of 4 aces and a king card.
"I think I've won again." Surane giggled.
Terra and Ven grumbled.
"Everytime she's won." they both spoke.
"This is my idea..." Surane and Iris grinned at them.
"This isn't our idea.."
"..Of fun.." all four finished.
Terra and his family, plus Ven, traveled back to the Land of Departure once the summer had left again. Now, everyone was on the verge of excitement. The next time the prince and princess would meet would be their engagement night. Everyone in the kingdoms worked harder than ever to be ready for the wedding of the century. At last they would be neighboring status would be broken. The new world would be called Land of Gardens.
Two years went by slowly. At last, it was Surane's 19th birthday and everyone celebrated with joy. She on the other hand, was disappointed that she couldn't choose her own husband. The peasants cried out in joyous song.
"We need a royal wedding. I'd love to be invited. At least we'll get our holiday to rest our ploughs and axes. Someday, these two will marry and our lands will be united. And with some luck their marriage will result in lower taxes!"
Ansem caught wind of Surane's depressing mood. It worried him that Surane would back out of the marriage in the end. On their next visit over, Surane and Terra were kept seperate from one another until it was their engagement night. Iris comforted her friend the best she could and Ven did the same to Terra.
"For as long as I remember, we were told we'd someday wed." Both Surane and Terra explained to their friends. "Every June until September..."
"All their pushing and annoying hints..." Terra grumbed as they lead him to the ballroom.
"I've got bruises from their finger prints." Surane complain as she was carried against her will to the same destination.
"I can do much better, I am sure."
"He's so immature..."
Once they were thrown inside, they adjusted themselves to look presentable and turned around to face each other. In an instant, their eyes met and everything in the world began to freeze. Terra looked at her with wide eyes. She was wearing a coral button-down shirt with a matching coral skirt that flaired out and ended at her knees. The shoes were flat pink slippers. The hair was a long lucious black that came down halfway down her back and curled just slightly. The eyes were a deep ebony that were warm and comforting. He saw her to be the most beautiful woman he ever laid eyes on.
Surane was entranced by Terra as well. He had a handsome face with sapphire eyes. His black shirt hugged the muscular torso he earned from hunting practice. The hakamas covered his legs, but she was sure he had beautiful legs as well. Not to mention his armor boots that well protected his toes.
"I see him smiling and my knees start buckling. I see him sigh and then my doubts are gone." Surane thought to herself, blushing.
"She started out as an ugly duckling. And somehow suddenly, she is a swan." Terra thought too.
They walked towards each other, still amazed at how stunning they looked to each other. Everyone in the room held their breath as they stood just a foot away from one another.
"So happy to be here..." she said aloud.
"Till now, I never knew..." he spoke.
"It is you I've been dreaming of..." they both admitted to each other.
"This is my idea..." Terra smiled.
"This is my idea..." Surane grinned back.
"What a good idea, such a charming and romantic notion!" their parents cheered with delight.
Suddenly, everyone bussled around to prepare all the food and decor for their engagement party. The flowers were brought out in vases of gold, all the food was served on silver platters, and the band prepared to start playing. Ven stood next to Iris in all of this excitement. He casually reached for her hand ever so slowly. Iris suddenly grabbed his hand in happiness. Turns out, they had small crushes on each other. Perhaps when the royal wedding was done, they could...
The only two people not paying any attention to all of this were the prince and princess. They were still gazing into each other's eyes romatically. The servants cheered around them.
"This is my idea, such a good idea! What a good idea, such a powerful and magic potion! This is exactly my idea, of love!" they sang.
Surane and Terra danced around in a slow waltz. They felt like they were on cloud nine just being so close to one another. It felt as if destiny put them together for this marriage, and it felt right.
"This is my idea..." she sang.
"This is my idea..." he repeated.
"This is my idea...of...love..." they sang.
At the end of the last word, they leaned in for a romantic kiss. Fireworks went off in their minds and their hearts lept. It was the happiest moment in their lives.
Gosh darn it!
I'm finally done!
You don't know how long this took!
I'd better get a crap load of views for this or I am gonna be so pissed!
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