AUTHORS NOTE: last time on Fire and Wind, Ven had ran off to find Terra leavin Kasai all alone. Now Kasai ran off to find Ven alone, or will she find someone else?
Kasai flew from world to world asking if they had seen Ventus. No one had seen him or heard of him. The next world she came up on looked like a desert area. She shrugged her shoulders and flew into the world. She was right it was nothing but desert. Tumble weeds blew by her as she looked around. The ground was dry and cracking and there was no life anywhere. She wondered around the world looking for any people that could actually live there. She saw a figure walking in the distance. She smiled and ran toward the black shadow. When she got closer she saw it was the masked boy that was talking to Xehanort. She stopped and he turned to look at her. He was still wearing his mask so she couldn't see his face. He disappeared and reappeared in front of her. She fell backwards in surprise as he stood over her.
"Who are you!?" She asked sternly trying to act brave.
"My name is Vanitas. I am the dark side of Ventus." His voice was deep and cold, it sent a chill down Kasai's spine. He looked into the distance and said, "I am all of the emotions he doesn't have. Wrath, pride, envy," he looked back at her, "lust." She gasped, even though she couldn't see his eyes, she could feel their gaze. "I will do what Ventus doesn't. I'm not afraid of hurting people like he is." In the blink of an eye Vanitas had her pinned down against the ground as he straddled over her. "I don't know what he sees in you. But because I am half his heart I have his feelings. Well the dark side of his feelings." He raised his hand in the air and was about to back hand her. Kasai braced herself for the smack, when she heard a familiar voice yell.
"GET AWAY FROM HER!" At that moment Ventus came charging and knocked Vanitas off of Kasai. Vanitas tumbled on the ground as Ventus reached his hand to Kasai. She took it and he pulled her up beside him. Ventus looked back to Vanitas who stood up, dusting himself off. "All right! What did you mean about Terra being a different person?"
"Exactly what I said, idiot. The Terra you know will be gone forever."
Kasai gasped as she looked to Ventus, why did he keep this conversation away from her? "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard!" Ventus yelled in defense.
"Stupid or true?" At that moment Vanitas reached his hand out and summoned a keyblade.
"A keyblade?!" Ventus and Kasai asked in surprise. Ventus and Kasai both summon their keyblades and get in a fighting stance.
"Good, let's see what you two are made of." The battle ensued, a ferocious battle that Ventus could not afford to lose. But within a minute both Ventus and Kasai where knocked back by Vanitas. "That really all you got? Man, you are worthless. I'd be going against the Master's orders, but so what? As far as I'm concerned, your job here is done."
"Job?" Kasai asked as she rose up. Ventus rose up and rubbed his head. Then Vanitas charged at the two, and fired an explosion at the two. The ball of energy hit the ground and dust flew everywhere. Once the dust settled neither Kasai nor Ventus was there.
"Don't worry you two. You're safe now," a squeaky voice said. Vanitas turned around and saw Kasai and Ventus standing beside a mouse that was walking on two legs and wore light tan clothes. The mouse then summoned a keyblade that had stars and moons all over it and raised it into the air, "heal." He was all he said and a green ring went around Ventus and Kasai and fully healed them. The mouse then turns to face Vanitas. "Tell me where you got that! Keyblades are not something you use just to bully somebody around! Here, I'll show ya!" The small mouse got into a fighting stance and then Kasai and Ventus ran up beside him.
"All of us will," Ventus said as he narrowed his eyes at Vanitas. Not only was he made that he bad mouthed Terra, but he was about to hurt Kasai as well. Now he had two reasons to beat this masked boy. Ventus charged in full fury that hell hath no; no one hurts Kasai, not while he is around. Vanitas was shocked and stumbled back as Ventus landed in front of him swinging his keyblade down on the ground. Kasai ran in from behind and knocked the boy forward. Then the mouse hit the boy in the legs causing him to fall to the ground. Kasai jumped into the air and landed on the ground, because Vanitas had disappeared. He reappeared behind her and knocked her toward Ventus. Ventus caught her when she fell back. She stood up and growled. Ventus charged in but slide down on the ground, as the mouse flew right into Vanitas' face causing him to fall back, right where Ventus could hit him in the back flailing him onto the ground.
The three heroes stood beside each other as Vanitas pushed himself up, "Hmph, fine you win." He reached his hand out and there appeared a dark portal. "Consider yourself on probation." He walked through the portal and disappeared.
"Probation for what?" Ventus asked with his head tilted to the right. He shook it off then looked at the mouse, "Thanks for earlier. I owe you one. We both do. The name's Ventus."
"And I'm Kasai. What's yours?"
"I'm Mickey," the mouse said with a little smile and gleam in his eyes.
"I see you have a keyblade," Ventus said motioning toward the star dotted key.
"Yep, I've been training under the great Yen Sid," the keyblade then disappeared. "He found out the worlds are in trouble, an' I sorta took off without tellin' him."
"Well it looks like we have something in common," Kasai said as she looked at Mickey.
"We ran off to," Ventus finished her statement.
Mickey nodded, "But all I have to do is think it and the star shard will take me anywhere I want to go." He pulled out a blue and green star rock from his pocket. The he laughed nervously, "At least I thought it would. I haven't quite got the fine points down, like...when, or where... It just kinda kicks in whenever it wants to. But I wouldn't have met you if it hadn't brought me here." Kasai and Ventus slightly laughed at his little nervous look. "Ya know, it might not be an accident. Maybe it starts workin' 'cause it's reactin' to somethin'."
Suddenly the shard began to glow bright. Ventus and Kasai took a step back and closed their eyes from the light. Suddenly, the three shot into the sky an out of the world.
AUTHORS NOTE: yes I know short chapter. but I figured you all needed a break from long chapters. so now enters the king and we see that Vanitas is after Kasai! What to do! oh the terror!