A/N: The Shadowmoon are trouble aren't they? It's a shame they treat Aqua horrible isn't it? Like she's some toy whose only objective of playing is to break. That's just evil...Anyways, we move on to where I take Sora to Castle Oblivion. I bet you can guess what I'm about to do with the boy.

World: Castle Oblivion

After we left Radiant Garden, we travel throughout the World. During our travels, Sora kept asking me where we're going or what it is I want from him. We land on a floating path in the realm of nothingness. We start walking down the path. I take the lead while Sora is slowly following from behind, looking around. He isn't scared, just cautious.

Sora is in a place he hasn't been in before and it's dark and hollow...Or has he been here. For some reason, he's getting this feeling he's been here before.

"Sora." Soras mind returns to reality and faces me. "Did it ever occurred to you how you fell asleep."

"What do you mean?" Sora asks.

I stopped and turned to look at Sora. "Tell, me. Do you remember anything that happened after you sealed the door to darkness?"

"Of course I did. Me, Donald and Goofy were on search to find Riku and the King and then..." Sora hesitated to answer, then he starts to look clueless.

"And then...?" I ask.

"Now that you mean it...I don't remember anything after that. The next thing I knew I was waking up in some weird chamber in Twilight Town." Sora says. "What did happened?"

"Naminé happened." Sora looks at me, shocked.

"Naminé? The...person I'm suppose to thank...wait, what was I suppose to thank her for?" Sora asks.

I turn to continue walking, Sora follows as well. "It's a long story, but it will all be revealed." Me and Sora walked for a while, I stopped as we reached our destination. "Here we are."

Sora looks to find an ominous misshaping castle in the middle of the hollow realm. Castle Oblivion.

Sora couldn't help but stare at the castle. It's very strange, but to him, it certainly does feel familar. Sora walks up ahead, with no attention. I was able to reach him by grabbing his hoodie and pulling him back.

"Careful. The Organization maybe gone, but this castle is still dangerous." I say.

"Organization XIII?" Sora asks.

"That's right. The Organization ruled this castle after it was abandoned years ago.' I say. "I've been here many times before they came around, just stay close to me."

I approach Castle Oblivion and Sora follows me from behind. I open the door and we enter the first hallway. Sora looks around the hallway as we walk towards the door.

"I think...It's coming back to me...What happened exactly?" Sora asks.

"You wondered into this castle while you were looking for your friends. Because you did, Marluxia and the others used Naminé to change your memories." I say. Sora is surprised to hear that.

"How come I don't remember any of it?" Sora asks.

"You were bounded by the Chain of Memories, to serve as a puppet to the Organization. Naminé made you forget everything, little by little, but you were able to fight it. After you defeated Marluxia, Naminé spent nearly a year to fix your memories. By doing that, you won't able to remember anything about this castle."

"Wow...That's...wow." Sora says. "So...you are here often? Why?"

I turn to face Sora. "Two reasons: One. Cause this castle was once my home."

"You're...home?" Sora asks, shocked.

I nod. "This castle was once the Land of Departure. A grand castle where the great Master Eraqus trains Keyblade masters. My friend, Aqua, lived here along with Terra and Ventus. This is where she found me and took me in. But, a year after my arrival, Xehanort attacked this world and it fell darkness. Under Eraqus's orders, Aqua used her masters Keyblade to transform the Land of Departure into Castle Oblivion."

"That's...pretty deep." Sora says.

"Yes. It is. The second reason is because, in the this castle, you can visit illusions of the worlds you have visited in the past. You could say it's like you're literally reliving your memories. I usually come here...cause I miss my home and friends. Visiting my memories just makes me feel like I'm still with them." I explain.

Sora moves his hands behind his head, laying her head back on his hands. "What does that mean?"

I turn, facing towards the door. "You'll soon see." I right up on the platform right in front of the door. I stand straight, place my hand on my heart, close my eyes and concentrate. Three rings filled with cards surrounds my body and spins around.

Sora gasps, he's shocked to see this. I slightly open my eyes. The first ring of cards slows, then I grab the one card that has the picture of the Land of Departure, and the rest of the cards vanish. I hold the card up high in front of the door, and the door absorbed the card.

The door opens. Inside, there's nothing but light. "Whoa." Sora says, amazed.

I turn, looking back at Sora. "Well? You coming?"

"Uh...sure." Sora runs towards the door as I walk right in.

We both wonder into the light. We stop in place as the light shimmers and fades, revealing the hallway of the Land of Departure castle at night.

"Where...where are we?" Sora asked.

"We are in the Land of Departure. However, what we are seeing is only an illusion created by my memories." I say.

"Uh...okay." Sora says.

Me and Sora walks down the hallway of the illusion world. We arrived at some Parlor. The door is slightly open and there's burning light coming out of it. Me and Sora approached to the Parlor. Inside is Aqua and Terra in their pajamas. they're both sitting on the couch in front of the fireplace.

Me and Sora are standing beside the couch. Sora looks at them, wondering. "Are they...your friends?"

"Yes." I turn to face Sora. "It's them, but it's only illusions of them from my memories."

Sora sets his eyes on Aqua. "So...I'm guessing this is that Aqua girl you talked about."

"That is right." I say.

Me and Sora stays silent as the illusion Terra and Aqua speaks. "No way." Terra says, surprised.

"I'm just as surprised as you are. The Heartless came out of no where and attacked him." Aqua says. "The poor kid. He was so scared, he could barely leave my side."

"Well, I don't blame him. I know I would be scared if I was him." Terra says.

Aqua and Terra are silent. As they were, my younger-self walks right in the Parlor. My and Sora turned to see him. Sora is surprised, I on the other hand am not. I'm use to seeing my young-self in these memories.

Young me stands in front of me and Sora, hanging by the couch arm. "Mommy?" Aqua looks down at young me, Terra looks past Aqua to look at him as well. "I can't sleep, I'm scared."

Young me crawls up on the couch, sitting on Aqua's lap as she wraps her arms around me. "Another nightmare?" Aqua asks, receiving a nod for an answer. "It's okay, don't worry. You're safe now."

Young me rests in Aqua's arms. Terra however stands up, leaving. "I guess I leave you two alone."

Me and Sora just watches Aqua and my young-self. They do nothing the whole time, of course my young-self is mostly asleep. After a while, I leave the Parlor and Sora follows me.

"So...you really called Aqua your mother?" Sora asks.

"Yes. I told you Aqua was like a mother to me." I turn to Sora, who looks surprised. "What did you expect? I was a five years-old with no memory of anything!"

Sora crosses his arms, looking up. "Uh...you got a point there."

I turn. "Of course." I walk forward, then stop as a memory door appears right in front of me.

Sora was startled to see the door come out of nowhere. I stand in front of the door, raising a Key to Beginnings card above me. The card vanishes and the door opens. Both me and Sora walks right in.

We walked into the light, then the light clears revealing the courtyard of the castle. When the light clears, it also revealed a ton of Shadow's and Soldiers Heartless.

"Heartless!" Sora summoned his Keyblade, then charges at the Heartless, yelling. Sora swings his Keyblade, only the Keyblade swings through the Heartless like ghosts. Sora is surprised to see this. "What?" Sora swings his Keyblade three more times, all phased through.

Sora stands back. A singe ring of cards surrounds each Heartless, then stop and vanish leaving a single attack card in front of them, and the Heartless strikes. Sora gets hit by each of them and the last one knocks him back.

"That's not going to work." I say. "In this castle, you battle with the cards of your memories." I step forward. "I'll handle this." Rings of cards spins around the Heartless again, as they prepare their next attack.

I stand in place, hand on my heart, concentrating. Three rings of cards surrounds me. The first ring stops at a number 8 Ruin card, then the second ring stops at a number 5 Thunder card then the last one stops at a number 1 Water card. The rings disappear and the cards coming together and I absorbed them, unleashing Ruin Storm. Ruin magic appears at the tip of my Keyblade. I wave my Keyblade around then I shoot a large Ruin orb into the skies.

After a moment of hesitation, multiple Ruins fall from the sky. The Ruins destroyed all the Heartless then ends shortly afterwards. I turn towards Sora. I concentrate again, all three rings ends with a Cure, and the whole thing turns into Curaga and I use it to restore Sora's health.

Sora gets back on his feet. "What are Heartless doing here?"

"They're the Heartless from my memories. It happens sometimes, nothing serious." I say. I walk up to the spot where the Heartless spawned. I bend down and picked up a card. A card that has a picture of the Mark of Mastery symbol. Key to Hidden Secrets.

Sora walks up to me. "Hey, Patrick. Why did you bring me all the way out here?"

I turn to Sora. "I'm here to save an old friend." I turn and walk towards the castle doors. On the door is a crown symbol glowing in magic. "Five years ago, when I passed my Mark of Mastery exam, I kept a friend of mine hidden in this castle to protect him. And it's a good thing too, cause when the Organization took over his castle, I heard they were looking for the Chamber of Awakening he was kept in."

"Why are they looking for this chamber?" Sora asks.

"I'm not sure. I never did figure that out." I say. "I couldn't do anything to stop them, so I hoped that they would never find the chamber. I was actually relieved to hear from Naminé that you and Riku took out the Organization that ruled this castle."

I raise the Key to Hidden Secrets card, it vanishes and so does the symbol. The door opens, a bright light shines and me and Sora walks right into the light.

We leave the memory world of the Land of Departure and enter another hallway of Castle Oblivion. But this hallway isn't like how it is in the Chain of Memories. The hallway is long, you can barely see the other side. Me and Sora move on ahead.

"Fifteen years ago. My friends have fallen into terrible fates thanks for Xehanort." I explain. "One of my friends, Ventus, he was destined to be a powerful weapon known as the χ-blade. But he simply refused to accept it, and cause of that, he lost his heart and put him into an eternal slumber."

"That's horrible." Sora says.

"Yes. It is. However, Aqua and Yen Sid believed that his heart will return one day." I turn my head, barely looking at Sora over my shoulder. "That is why I brought you here. Sora, Ventus's heart is inside you."

Sora stops, shocked. "What? ...How can you tell?"

I turn, facing Sora. "When I saw you back at Marlin's house, I thought I saw a resemblance of Ventus. But I had to make sure, so I looked deep into your heart. As I looked, I saw everyone who was within your heart. Roxas. Xion. And then I saw another person. The other person's identification was very fade, so I couldn't tell if it's exactly Ventus, but, there was another theory that made me believe it was him."

"And what's that?" Sora asks.

"Let me ask you this, Sora: What's the one thing that makes Roxas different from the rest of Organization XIII?" I ask.

"Well...he can wield a Keyblade." Sora says.

"Yes, but besides that?" I ask. Sora thinks for a moment, now he doesn't really know. "I'll spill it for yea. Roxas looks nothing like his person." Sora seems confused. "Members of the Organization have identifies that match to who they were as humans. Vexen as Even. Saix and Isa. Axel as Lea. Roxas looks nothing like you."

Sora looks up, fingers on his chin. "Now that you mention it, that is true." Sora says.

"Yes. Roxas bears the identification of Ventus." Sora is shocked to hear that. "When I first saw Roxas, I was shocked. I even thought it really was him, but then I learned that he's really your Nobody. I never really understood why he looked so much like Ventus...until now."

I turn, moving forward down the hallway. "We should arrive the Chamber of Awakening soon."

Me and Sora walks down the hallway. At the end of the hallway is two large doors that has a crown symbol on each door, with a big keyhole in the middle. Sora takes the first step towards it, but stops as I grab him by the shoulder.

Sora wonders why I stopped him, but his question is answered. Bits of light appears all over the area and they all gathered in the middle. Blinding light brightens the room, me and Sora had to look away. When the light clears, a man is looking down, kneeling on one knee. The man stands and faces us.

"Master Eraqus." I say.

Sora is surprised to hear me say the man's name. "This is the great Master Eraqus?" Sora asks. "I thought you said he died."

"He did, but this Eraqus is really a memorial spirit I created to protect Ventus." I say.

"What are you doing here, Patrick?" Eraqus asks.

"I'm here to see Ventus. I have his heart that'll awaken him." I say.

Eraqus slowly shook his head. "Sorry. But I can't let you pass."

"Excuse me?" I ask, irritated.

"You hold darkness within you, young one. You created me to protect Ventus from the darkness that trespasses in these chambers." Eraqus says.

"I wield the power of Twilight, Eraqus. I carry the strength of the light with the power of darkness. I keep the light and dark within me balanced, it what keeps me strong." I say.

"I see your point..." Eraqus summons his Keyblade, a duplicate Master's Defender. "But I still can't let you in. If you wish to pass, then prove your strength."

Sora summons his Keyblade. I hold my hand in front of him. "No...this is my fight." I step forward, summon my Keyblade and battle Eraqus.

I start with a number 8 attack card, I charge at Eraqus attacking him repeatly. When my attack was done, Eraqus uses a number 5 magic card, casting Spark at me. I concentrate a sleight. As I do, Eraqus attacks with a number 7 attack card. I get three attack cards, two 9's and a 8, granting me Barrage. My sleight cards breaks Eraqus's attack card and I strike at him then throw my Keyblade at him.

Me and Eraqus are at a stand still for a moment. "Your strength is great, youngling." Eraqus says.

"Glad to see you're noticing." I say.

Eraqus concentrates. So do I. Eraqus finishes with three magic cards, a 7, 6 and 9. Chains of Light. Light glows at the tip of his Keyblade, and Eraqus raises his weapon. chains made of light come out of everything, striking me in every direction. My rings ends with a number 8 Elsa card, a number 4 Blizzard and a number 2 Stop. Freeze. When Eraqus was done with his attack, I unleash my attack. A large blizzard spawns as I channel ice energy, then Eraqus becomes frozen solid.

While Eraqus is frozen, I concentrate again. I get three Quasimodo cards, a 7, 4 and 0. Saint De Bell. I channel light energy and hold my Keyblade high. A large light bell appears above Eraqus and swings back and through on him, like he's the center of the bell that triggers the dinging. Eraqus suffers great damage from the first strike since he's frozen.

Saint De Bell ends after the seventh ding. Eraqus concentrates, so do I. I get a number 9 Dusk, number 6 Spark and number 5 attack. Shadowbreaker. Eraqus makes an attack with his Chains of Light sleight, a number 13, but since I have the greater number, my attack breaks his. I strike Eraqus with two sweeps, first with dark and second with light.

I defeated Eraqus. And cause of that, I have learned Heaven's Light, an advanced Command Style.

Me and Eraqus stands in place. Eraqus lets his guard down. "I see...you are powerful indeed." Eraqus kneels down with his Keyblade planted in front of him. "You may enter the chamber." Then Eraqus fades into the light.

"Whoa." Sora says, amazed.

I say nothing. I just stand in front of the double doors. I hold out my Keyblade, aim it directly at the keyhole. The tip of my Keyblade glows then shoots a beam of light. The doors unlock as the keyhole disappears. I open the doors and enter the Chamber of Awakening with Sora behind me.

The Chamber of Awaken is just a small circular room with a throne in the center. Me and Sora walked around the throne, standing in front. We stand in front of the throne. "Sora...this is Ventus."

Ventus sits on the throne, still asleep. "This is Ventus...He's been asleep all these years?"

"That is right." I say.

Sora crosses his arms. "Okay...So how can we wake him?"

"We can't." I look at Sora. "You can."

Sora looks at me, surprised. "What? Me?"

"You hold Ven's heart within your own. If you can call his heart, it will be released and return into it's vessel." I say.

Sora nods. He gives it a try. Sora stands right in front of Ventus. He looks down, hands around his heart, closes his eyes. In his mind, he tries to reach Ventus's heart.

Nothing happens, but then I notice there's a twitch in Ven's hand. He slowly raises an arm. He's not waking up, but his body is moving on its own. Ven's Keyblade appears in his hand, facing ahead instead of backhanded like Ven usually does it.

Vens Keyblade charges then shoots a beam directly at Sora's heart. Sora makes no reaction to it, almost like it never happened. In the end, Ven's heart leaves Soras. Sora opens his eyes, becomes shocked to see the heart. The heart floats in the air then floats its way to Ventus.

The heart enters Ven, and the kid glows for a moment then the light fades. Sora still can't believe all this. He even checked himself for any signs of changes or something bad happening, but it's not.

I stand next to Ven, gently shaking his shoulder. "Ven? ...Ventus." Ven moans in his sleep. "Ventus, wake up."

Ven lifts his head, his eyes slightly open. Ven looks at me, dazed and confused. His vision is pretty blurry. Can't blame him since he's been asleep for fifteen years.

"T-Ter...ra?" Ven mumbles. Ven stretches his arms up, yawning. After that, he looks around tiresome, then his eyes set on Sora and he's on high alert, eyes widen open and worried. "VANTIAS!"

Sora is confused then surprises at Ventus gets up to attack him, only Ven instead trip on the first step and falls into Soras arms. "Easy, Ventus." I say. "He's not Vantias."

Sora helps Ven stand up. Ven turns to face him. "Wait, how do you know my..." Ventus gets a good look at me. When he sees my face, he's shocked. "P...Patrick?" Ven slowly stands in front of me. "B-But...how...you were just a...a..."

Ven gets lightheaded and falls back, fainting. Sora rushes to catch him, but was too late and Ven crashes onto the ground. "Probably should have seen that coming." I say.

Sora and I make our leave from Castle Oblivion. Sora had to help Ven walk. It was a tight squeeze on the Hoverbike, but we make it work. On the way, we explained everything to Ventus.

We're now in Marlins House in Radiant Garden. Ven lays on the couch, resting. "I can't believe it...I've been asleep for fifteen years?" Ven asks. "But...how come I haven't changed?"

"That confused me too." I say. "If I had to guess, I'd say your timeline was asleep as well. In other words, you were in an ageless slumber, just like Aurora was."

Ven sits up. "So...everything you said about home...About Terra and Aqua...it's all true isn't it?"

"I'm afraid so." I say, looking down in shame. "But it won't be for long." I turn, walking away. Serah walks up with a cup of tea. "Take care of Ventus." I say as I walk past her. Serah stops and watches me leave when I spoke to her, then she continues serve the tea to Ven.

"Uh...what is he doing?" Ven asks.

"He's on a journey to find someone." Serah says.

Ven seems surprised to hear that. He looks at me as I open the door and leave. After I left, Ven reaches into his pocket, he takes out the Wayfinder and looks down at it. "Terra...Aqua..."