AUTHORS NOTE: here we go my friends! the final battle between light and dark! Who will prevail!? And will Kasai and Ventus ever admit that they love each other?! Will she return home!? Read on to find out
Ventus and Kasai landed back in the Badlands, on the barren dirt. Ventus held out his keyblade in front of him and then Kasai did the same. "Friends forever?" Ventus asked with a shaking in his voice.
"Friends forever," Kasai answered his question as they both put away their keyblades. "Ready Ven?" She began to walk forward but then he grabbed her wrist. She looked back at him and he held his head low. "Ven?"
"Kasai, if we go through with this, there will be a huge fight between us, Vanitas and Xehanort. Terra apparently has given in to the darkness, and Aqua is going off on her own. You are my only friend left. If we go into this fight you may be killed."
"Ven, I won't-"
"But what if you do?" He looked up at her with tears in his eyes, "I won't have any reason to go on! Terra would be gone! Aqua would be gone! And you would be dead! I don't want to lose you Kasai." He had already lost her once, and he knew that if he lost her again he wouldn't live with himself if he never told her how he felt. "Kasai, I just want to tell you something."
"Ven, we don't have time." She said as she pulled him along toward the keyblade graveyard. But he yanked her back as he pulled her in a tight hold. He held her around the waist and then he kissed her. He squeezed his eyes just while hers where wide with surprise. But the kiss, it was full of passion and love. She felt something she had never felt before. She slowly closed her eyes as she kissed back. She wrapped her arms around his neck as she pulled him closer to her. The moment seemed like it lasted forever, as time and the world just slipped away from them. She knew at that moment he was her light.
The two pulled away as they starred into each other's eyes. "Kasai, I love you. I don't want you to leave. I want to stay with you. I want to be your light. Please, let's just forget this whole mess and just find a world where we can just hang out and be happy all the time."
She touched his cheek lightly as she cupped her hand, "Ventus, if we don't kill Vanitas, he will continue to come after you and me. We have to defeat him."
He sighed as a tear streamed down his face, "Just promise me you will be safe."
"I promise Ven." He let go of her as he arms fell to his sides. She walked away and toward the graveyard. He didn't want to lose her, and if he had to sacrifice himself to save her, he would.
The two made their way to the graveyard where there was a crossroad made out of lifeless keyblades stuck in the ground. There were thousands upon thousands, possible millions. In the center there stood Terra and Aqua. Ventus still was silent as Kasai walked to the two with determination in her stride. They reached the two and they stood there for a brief moment of silence.
"Xehanort wants me and Vanitas to fight, and make some kind of "X-blade." But the Master said we can't let that happen...and he tried to destroy me for it," Ventus said to them, even though they already knew.
"X-blade?" Aqua asked Ventus, who finally decided to look up.
"I still don't know exactly what it is. But...it scares me to death. Even just the thought of it." Kasai placed a hand on his shoulder, he looked to her with a frown.
"Relax, Ven. We're here and we're gonna take care of you," Terra said trying to make his friend feel better.
"I may have to fight Vanitas after all. If I do, guys... I want you to-"
He was cut off when Terra butted in, "The three of us can never be torn apart, all right? I'll always find a way."
"I'm asking you, as a friend... Just...put an end to me."
All three friends gasped at Ventus' extreme request. Kasai held tight onto his shoulders and looked into his eyes, "Ven, are you crazy?! Have you lost it?" Suddenly the wind began to pick up. All three look in the same direction and see Master Xehanort walking towards them. Vanitas comes out from behind Master Xehanort, walking right along with him. But then the two just stop.
"Behold... These lifeless keys used to be full of power-united with the hearts of their masters. On this barren soil, Keyblades of light and darkness were locked in combat...as a great Keyblade War raged. Countless Keyblade wielders gave up their lives, all in search of one, ultimate key. And it will soon belong to me..." He then pointed at Ventus, "X-blade." He was acting like Ventus was some sort of living weapon.
The four friends all don their armor as they stand there for a moment, as if waiting for an attack. Kasai turned to Ventus as he just stared at Xehanort and Vanitas. "Ven, listen to me. I can't put an end it to you. I love you Ventus."
"It ends here," Ventus said as he started to charge at the stop but then was stopped by Terra, who rushed instead. He prepared to attack but was hit when Xehanort caused the ground beneath him to rise. Terra slide across the elevated earth but after regaining himself, he watched Xehanort and Vanitas rise on another plateau that Xehanort has created. Xehanort stretched his arm down toward the Keyblades. The sky began to grow dark as Xehanort created a keyblade cyclone. Then the cyclone was sent flying at Ventus, Aqua and Kasai. The three gasped and began to run from the wave of weapons. Kasai looked back and saw Vanitas on top of the cyclone riding it and commanding it. Aqua dodges but Ventus is hit when he covers Kasai to protect her. Vanitas then rode the cyclone into the air and went after Terra. Terra was knocked off the cliff and sent into the air by the wind. Aqua was then lifted up as a wave of keyblades erupted from the ground below her. She landed with a thud and Kasai and Ventus ran over to see if she was okay. She lifted up her keyblade and aimed it at Terra, she called out his name a magic spell came out and flew to Terra who was being lifted into the air by the cyclone of Keyblades. When it reached him, now in front of Xehanort, it formed a barrier around him and stopped the Keyblades from hitting him. The barrier then exploded as Xehanort watched, smiling. Aqua, who had lost her helmet, Ventus and Kasai looked up at the top of the cliff but then suddenly Ventus ran toward Terra. Terra was thrown across the plateau's ground after the explosion where he landed in front of Xehanort, who readied his Keyblade. Just then Ventus tried to attack from behind only to have Xehanort disappear and reappear behind him, as he grabbed his by the back of the head.
"Ven!" Kasai screamed in horror as she sat there and watched as Ventus flailed and struggled to break free. Xehanort tightend his grip as Ventus' mask began to break. Terra charged at Xehanort but was thrown to the ground below the cliff by the Keyblade cyclone slamming into him after Vanitas jumped off it and landed next to Xehanort. Kasai could see as Ventus looked down at Kasai and a tear was in his eye. He reached a hand out to her but was then covered in a dark mist and frozen. Kasai gasped as she watched as Xehanort dropped Ventus off the cliff. As he fell he hit the side of the cliff breaking his keyblade. Kasai looked as Aqua ran and slide to catch Ventus before he hit the ground and shattered to pieces. Kasai ran over and her heart stopped when she saw his blue eye frozen solid. "Ven, please answer me! Are you okay?!" She screamed out slightly in horror, fearing that she had lost him forever.
Xehanort, was now holding a ball of dark flames, he laughed coldly, and held his arm to the sky, as he fired the dark flame into the clouds. The clouds moved away revealing a blue heart shaped moon, Kingdom Hearts. Kasai gasped as Aqua looked upon it in amazement. Kasai looked away and back to Ventus as she held him close. The sky began to grow lighter and Ventus began to move a little. Kasai sighed in relief seeing that he was alive.
"How 'bout you leave the popsicle with me, so you can go have your little fight with Terra." Kasai and Aqua turned around to see a man with pointing ears, yellow eyes, and he wore a radiant garden guard suit. "You can't be too happy about him deep-sixing your Master." Kasai ignored him for she was too worried about Ventus, but Aqua stood up and questioned who he was. "You think you two have got some grand role to play. As if. You're only here so that when I finish you off...Terra will succumb to the darkness. So...who wants to go first?"
Ventus growled and yelled, "SHUT UP!"
"Ven, stay still. Calm down," Kasai said trying to keep him calm.
"Oh, so this kiddo thinks he's a full-fledged Keyblade wielder? He's got the angry look down," now Kasai was getting mad at him making fun of Ventus.
Aqua stood up and walked toward the man, "Go ahead if you want to waste your time. Keep trying to drive us apart with your mind games. It'll never work! Terra will prove to you he's stronger!" Aqua summoned her keyblade and charged toward the man.
"Aqua! Aqua no!" Ventus and Kasai called out to her as she fought the dark man. Being a keyblade master she of course easily won. The man fell down to one knee and dropped his weapons.
"I keep forgetting-don't mess with Keyblade wielders. But you know what? That just means I made the right choice!" Aqua looked at the man confused, but then charged at him again. "Well...he wanted me to buy time, and I'd say he got it." With that the man ran off like the coward he was. Kasai left Ventus as she stood up and ran toward Aqua.
"Aqua! Kasai!" They heard Ventus call. They looked up and Vanitas struck them both down in one blow. Ventus struggled and squirmed trying to free himself from the ice. He saw Vanitas walk over above Aqua and Kasai as he lifted his keyblade high in the air, ready to give the finished blow. "NO! GET AWAY FROM HER!" Ventus had freed himself from the ice as he tackled Vanitas to ground and stood before him in a fight stance.
Ventus had to fight Vanitas. It was the only way to save Kasai. The one thing he didn't want was for her to perish, and he would perish to protect her. He took a deep breath and lunged at Vanitas. In his rage he went after Vanitas with a fury that a woman scorned didn't want to go against. The clanking of the metal echoed through the Bad Lands as Ventus weakened Vanitas. He growled as he lunged one last time at the dark boy and with a final slash Vanitas fell to his knees.
"You've done it, Ventus," Vanitas' keyblade disappeared and his mask dissolved. Underneath the mask was a boy with jet black spikey hair and golden eyes. "Now that my body is about to perish...you and I will have to join together! The X-blade will be forged!" As his body perished, it released some darkness and there the unversed formed.
"The unversed come from you?" Ventus asked. Kasai groaned as she began to wake up. She looked and saw Ventus standing in front of Vanitas and he had a horde of unversed beside him.
"It happened when you and I were split into two. The negativity took shape as these monsters. They are what I feel-a horde of fledgling emotions under my control. I released them in all the worlds I could, hoping to lure you away from home and isolate you from your Master. We needed to make you stronger. The Unversed were the perfect opponents. And better yet, no matter how many times you defeat them...their negativity flows right back into me." The unversed disappeared and went back to Vanitas. But some of the unversed restrained Ventus by the hands. Kasai stood up weakly and tried to go help him but she fell on the ground. She looked up as Vanitas walked forward to Ventus. "You never stood a chance against us, Ventus." Vanitas took Ventus by the hand as they were surrounded by a sphere of light. The sphere grew and it's force blew Aqua's body away and cracked the ground around it. Kasai stayed firm to the ground as she saw Ventus struggling in the sphere, he screamed out in pain and then the sphere condensed and a red light fired up toward the sky.
"VEN!" She screamed out in sorrow as she saw him disappear. Kasai fell down onto her knees as she cried her blue eyes out. She couldn't stop crying, if she was just stronger, if she had stayed beside him. She took a deep breath and looked up. There stood Ventus in his armor, with a large smile she ran to him and embraced him. "Oh thank God Ven, you're safe." But he didn't wrap his arms around her. She felt an unease around him as she pulled away looking at his face. "Ven? Are you okay?" Kasai looked down and saw the X-blade in his hand, she looked back up and he had glowing yellow eyes as he smiled wickedly. He thrust the x-blade at her but she jumped back. "You're not Ven!"
"Correct. I am not Ventus. His heart has become a part of mine now. This X-blade will open a door-one that leads to all worlds! Then, Keyblade-bearing warriors will flock here from each and every one of them, to battle for the light within Kingdom Hearts! And just like the legend says, the Keyblade War will begin!"
Kasai summoned her keyblade with a growl, "Enough! I am sick of this! NOW GIVE VEN BACK HIS HEART!" She charged at him head on, glowing in a dim light. Her rage had the best of her, she just told him that she loved him and now he was over taken. She fought hard against Vanitas, but she was not the only one fighting.
Ventus and Vanitas fought in another place, the same stain glass that Kasai had seen when she arrived. They fought hard. Ventus knew he had to protect Kasai and if this meant what it took so be it. If he destroyed the x-blade he would perish along with it. His heart would be lost forever. He dealt the final blow to Vanitas as the x-blade slipped away from his hands. He tried to reach for it but couldn't. Then the x-blade and Ventus' keyblade shattered.
Outside, Kasai was knocked back onto the ground by Vanitas. She looked up at the face of her lover, but he had the eyes of her nemesis. He stood over her as he raised the X-blade into the air ready to give the final blow. A tear formed in her eye as she looked up at him. "Goodbye Ventus." She squeezed her eyes shut ready for the blow. But Vanitas stopped, he didn't swing, she looked up as his eyes flashed from yellow to blue. He trembled and a tear formed in them. Suddenly the X-blade shattered! With the shattering it flew into the air and began releasing a wave of energy! The air pushed Kasai back but she fought hard to reach Ventus in that body. She pushed against the wind as hard as she could.
Vanitas fell off the station as he fell into a pit of light and was destroyed.
She looked and saw as his yellow eyes turned to blue again. She braved the strong wind and grabbed his hand in hers. Just then she felt someone grab her hand, there beside her was Aqua and Mickey. Mickey held his star shard as they disappeared into the sky leaving the world behind. In the midst of all the excitement and pain, Kasai had fainted with Ventus' hand in hers.
Ventus stood alone; on the stain glass of his heart, with a smile on his face, as he turned into a heart and flew away. But moments later, he was falling. He fell into the unknown slowly, just like how Kasai fell when she came into the world. He opened his eyes softly with a soft smile. "This place... I've been here. So warm... I remember now. This is your heart. Kasai."
AUTHORS NOTE: there we go. the end...im just kidding! there is gonna be an epilogue, cause I hate sad endings lol! Ps don't get mad at me because he isn't in sora's heart or the fact that Kasai fought him instead of Aqua.