Chapter 1

It happened years ago. A Keyblade war ragged the worlds and created mass murders of the lands and consumed thousands of helpless victims. People were killed as two sides fought one another. As darkness and light dueled to see who would rule over the world, and all the while, a power Keyblade was formed from both light and darkness.

A new power was formed from this war.

Kingdom Hearts.

The two sides fought until there was no more blood to shed. There now lays a graveyard for those who fell to the Great War. The Keyblade Graveyard. There was peace and everyone lived in harmony, but few still remembered that horrific war. They all remembered as they hoped another war would never rage.

But they were wrong.

About twenty years had passed and a new war had begun. The two sides once again clashed Keyblades and fought for their side to overtake the other. Soldiers who could use a Keyblade or could be helpful in the war left their homes and joined the army on either side.

The commanding sides of the light were separating into units, and that's were our story begins; it begins in the castle where a high general gave orders to his troops to attack the darkness.

Master Eraqus was the name he was given, and he was well respected by everyone in the world.

"Master Eraqus," a high soldier said as they walked into the room.

Eraqus looked over and smiled, "Ah," he said, "it's nice to see you again, Terra. How was the fight on your half?"

"It was successful," Terra said as he bowed before Eraqus. "We defeated the darkness on our half, and I thought to come back here and give you my report."

"I see, did he show up in the battle?"

"No, he didn't show his face in the field. If he had though, I don't believe I would be here talking to you right now."

"Aww come on, Terra, have some more confidence," a young girl said as she trotted into the room.

"Emika," Eraqus said, "I'm guessing you were victorious as well?"

"Sure was," Emika smiled, "we kicked ass out there."

Terra rolled his eyes at the girl and Emika chuckled slightly. Sometimes I wonder if she even knows that there's a war going on right now, Terra thought.

"Is Aqua not back yet?" Emika asked.

"She was actually the first to return," Eraqus said. "She's in the library right now."

"Is Aqua still on that mission?" Terra asked.

"Yes," Eraqus said, "she's still protecting the princess, Cinderella, one of the last remaining pure hearts. You know they're essential in this war. Without them then all light would fade away. We're trying to create a balance, and we can't do that when there's no light to shed."

"Yeah," Terra said, "we lost the hearts of the other princesses to unsuccessful battles. Have you located the other heart yet, Emika?"

Emika shrugged, "It's coming closer to me, but I haven't felt much lately."

"But you know there's one out there?" Eraqus asked.

"Yes," Emika said. "I will let you know as soon as I find the pure heart's container. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go visit Aqua."

Eraqus nodded and Emika turned around and left the room, leaving the two men alone. The master turned to Terra and said, "I wish to give you a mission, Terra."

"What is it, Master?" Terra asked.

"When the time comes and Emika discovers the next pure heart, I want you to go and protect it."

Terra seemed a little shocked, he never thought that his master would ever give him a job as important as protecting a pure heart container. "Are you sure sir?" he asked.

Eraqus nodded, "I'm positive that you can do it, Terra, I have faith in you."

"Thank you, Master Eraqus," Terra sad as he bowed before his master. "I promise to protect the pure heart with my life."

The master smiled and walked over to Terra. He placed a hand on the teen's shoulder and tightened his grip. Terra looked up to see his master smiling softly at him. "I sure that I can count on you," Eraqus said. "Now," he said, "why don't you join up with Aqua and Emika, I bet they wish to talk to their friend for a bit."

Terra nodded, "Sure thing, Master Eraqus," he said before he bowed once more and left the room.

His master stared after him for a bit and sighed. "The reason why I did this," he mumbled to himself, "was to help you see something other than war. I want you to see something rather than darkness."

…...

"So, instead of going outside for a sparing practice, you wanna stay in this room with all these dusty books?" Emika asked Aqua.

Aqua laughed slightly, "Emika," she said, "you should apply yourself to your studies more often. Knowledge is a powerful thing when you use it correctly."

Emika groaned, "But that old man has me reading books left and right about the old war. He said 'it'll help me find the next light,'" Emika said making quote marks with her fingers.

Aqua smiled at the smaller girl, "He's also doing it to help you learn. How do you think you win all your battles?"

"I go on instincts sometimes," Emika said.

"And I'm surprised you haven't been killed by that, Emika," Terra said walking into the room.

"Oh haha very funny, Terra," Emika rolled her eyes.

"How long have you been back, Terra?" Aqua asked.

"Not very," Terra said sitting down at the desk.

"Are you tired?" Emika asked.

"I was actually thinking about a nap actually," Terra said stretching his arms.

Emika sighed and got up from her seat. "You know that it's good to train your mind but if your body doesn't have the strength then you lose in the battle," she said.

"That's true," Aqua said smiling.

"She's not keeping up on her studies again?" Terra asked.

"Shut up!" Emika exclaimed. "I was getting ready to do that right now!" Emika walked over to the bookshelf and fumbled through a few books until she pulled out an old book on the war before their own. She blew the dust off of it and flipped trough the pages. She stared at it bored and quickly shut it.

"I'm so sure you just read that in a few seconds," Terra scoffed.

Aqua smiled slightly at the young girl.

Emika turned around smiling, "Maybe I'm just that quick. How do you-" Emika began before she suddenly dropped the book from her hands and fell to the floor with her hands clasped around her skull.

Aqua and Terra quickly ran to the girl and kneeled down to her. "What's wrong, Emika?" Aqua asked.

"The light, the light is," Emika gritted her teeth.

"What's wrong with the light?" Aqua asked frantic. "Emika, you have to tell us!"

"I'm trying to find out," Emika said before it became quiet. Suddenly, she began to scream and her purple eyes grew wider and wider. After a few moments she calmed down and began to sob slightly.

"What happened," Terra asked putting a hand on the girl's shoulder gently.

"It's gone," Emika choked out, "the last light is gone. Cinderella's heart has been taken away from her. I felt it, I felt her pain as she lost it."

Aqua looked fearful, "But how could this have happened?"

"I don't know," Terra said. "We need to go tell Master Eraqus right away. Let me go get him," Terra said as he stood up, but Emika grabbed his hand with both of hers.

She gasped and tightened her hold, "Hold on," Emika choked on her sobs, "I feel something else. There's something in the distance that's getting closer. I-I can almost touch it." Emika kneeled her head down as her shoulders shook violently.

Terra lowered himself to her and held both of her hands in his. "Just take a deep breath and try to calm yourself down," Terra said in a brotherly tone.

Emika sighed and closed her eyes. After a few moments of silence, Emika looked up at Terra and Aqua and smiled.

Terra looked confused, "What is it?" he asked.

"I found it," the girl whispered, "I found what I've been looking for."

"What is it?" Aqua asked a little relieved.

"I found the last pure heart," Emika beamed before her two partners.

…...

"Hey, Ven, hurry up!" a boy with red hair yelled.

"Do you have to yell so loud, Lea?" the young boy with blue hair beside Lea asked.

"Aww," Lea said, "come on, Isa. Ven won't wake up unless we're loud enough. Hey, Ven wake up!"

Isa rolled his eyes at his friend, "Why don't we just go inside and wake him up?"

"Oh, oh yeah," Lea said scratching his head, "I guess we can do that."

Isa took out a spare key that their friend, Ven, had given them in case something like this happened. They opened the door and headed upstairs to find Ven still sleeping. His soft blonde hair moved as a soft breeze made its way through the opened window.

Lea snickered and put a finger to his lips and winking at Isa, who just rolled his eyes again.

Slowly and quietly, Lea placed himself over his friend on the bed. He clasped his hands over Ven's wrists and the redhead straddled the blonde's body. Lea took a deep breath and as loud as possible yelled, "VENTUS!"

Ven immediately jerked up as his eyes flew open. Lea fell off the bed in hysterical laughter. Ven blushed as he saw Isa standing in the corner smiling slightly at the blonde.

"Lea!" Ven exclaimed.

Lea stopped laughing and got on top of Ven's bed. "Sorry, Ven," Lea sighed, "but you're just too funny when you wake up in a shock."

Ven frowned and punched Lea in the shoulder. "You could have tried yelling at me through the window," he said.

"We tried," Isa said, "but you're too much of a heavy sleeper, Ven."

"Whatever," Ven shrugged, "so why did you guys want to wake me up so badly."

Lea smiled, "Silly, today is school. If we didn't wake you up, you wouldn't be able to get to school on time."

"Oh shit, I forgot," Ven said getting up from his bed and rushing to his closet.

Isa quickly moved out of the way of his friend. "I'm going to wait outside," he said leaving the room.

Lea sighed and fell back on the bed.

Ven looked at the redhead, "Aren't you going with Isa, Lea?" he asked.

"Nah," Lea said, "he wanted to take care of a few things before we went to school anyways. Besides," he eyed Ven curious.

"What?" Ven asked confused.

"Hmm? Oh, it's nothing important. Just forget I said anything."

"Uh, okay," Ven said as he got dressed the rest of the way. He went to the bathroom and brushed his teeth. After he was done, he walked over to Lea and grabbed his book bag. "Are you ready to go?" Ven asked.

"Sure am," Lea said jumping off the mattress.

The two boys headed downstairs and outside to find Isa leaning against the brick wall. He looked up at his friends, sighed, and started walking to school.

"Shouldn't we hurry up?" Ven asked.

"Well," Lea said, "you got ready so fast that we have about thirty minutes to spare."

"WHAT?" Ven said appalled.

But Lea and Isa both laughed at their friend as they continued to walk around the town. After about thirty minutes, the three friends made their way to school.

The bell rang and Ven took a seat next to Lea. Their teacher walked in and coughed a bit before speaking.

"Class," he said, "today we're taking a trip to the laboratory in town."

Lea groaned as he leaned back in his seat.

The teacher acted as if he didn't hear Lea and continued. "Let's head out today, class," he said as he directed everyone outside to the courtyard in the school.

"Isa is sooooo lucky," Lea said. "He doesn't have to go on this stupid field trip."

"Aww come on, Lea," Ven said, "it can't be that bad."

Lea groaned again as his friend smiled and laughed at him. The two of them followed the class until they reached the doors to the lab. Nobody could really get in there unless they had permission from the head scientist.

Once everyone was inside, and tall man with long blonde hair walked to the teacher and shook his hand.

The teacher turned to the class. "Everyone," he said, "this is Professor Even. He's going to show us around today. Make sure you pay close attention to him because you'll have a quiz once we get back to school."

All the class groaned and soon followed the tall man through the halls.

"Now," Even said, "who can tell me what these machines here are used for." He motioned for everyone to look at the tall machines. They had guns and other weapons attached to them.

Everybody was quiet as they starred at the machine.

"Nobody can tell me?" Even asked.

No one said anything.

Evan sighed, "We have created these machines for the warriors who are fighting against the darkness in the war that's going on right now."

Suddenly everyone got interested. One boy raised his hand, "Have you ever met any of the warriors?" he asked.

Even smiled, "Why yes, young man, I did meet some of the high ranked soldiers. Actually, one of them came in a few days ago."

A girl asked a question, "Why did they ask this place to help them in the war?"

"It's because of our high intelligence," Even said in a matter-of-fact tone. He continued to show everybody around until they got to a large pair of doors.

"What behind there?" Lea asked.

"Its top secret," Even said, "only authorized people are allowed back there."

They all walked past the doors and after so long, the tour ended. Even asked if anyone had any more questions and as many people raised their hands, Lea and Ven slipped out of the laboratory and outside.

Ven sighed as Lea sat down on the ground. "I don't get what was so great about that," Lea said. "That Even guy creped the fuck out of me the whole time we were in there, and he acted so smug the whole tour too."

"A lot of people were interested in the war," Ven said.

"I guess you right on that part. A lot of us want to know what's going on outside our world."

"I don't get why everyone's so interested in it."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, it's all just a bunch of pointless battles. If one side doesn't get their way then they'll fight the other side. We need balance for both sides. I just don't get why nobody else sees that," Ven said ruffling his hands through his hair.

Lea didn't say anything. He stayed quiet until he saw the class coming out of the lab. "Looks like we're heading back," Lea said as he started to walk over to the class.

Ven looked and turned to follow Lea, but he tripped over his feet and was about to hit the ground. He closed his eyes tight preparing himself to meet the concrete hard, but nothing happened. Slowly Ven opened his eyes and looked to see an arm supporting him. He looked up and saw a tall muscular teen with deep blue eyes and dark brown hair that spiked past his neck.

"Are you okay?" the man asked.

"I-uh I'm," Ven stumbled for words.

"Hey, Ven!" Lea yelled back to the blonde.

Ven stood up and yelled back, "I'll be there in a minute!"

The teen looked down at the boy and began to walk away.

Ven turned around, "Wait a second," he said.

The brunette stopped and turned to face the boy. "What is it?" he asked Ven.

"Th-thank you for saving me," Ven said slightly intimidated by the older male.

The man sighed and walked over to Ven. He put a hand on the boy and ruffled his blonde hair. "Just try to be a little more careful next time, okay?"

"Uh, sure," Ven said as he felt his face get warm.

The man didn't say anything else as he walked away from Ven and disappeared behind an alley way. Who was that guy? Ven thought.

"Ven," Lea said startling Ven.

The blonde gasped and turned around to face his friend. "Sorry, I kind of tripped and I dropped a few things from my bag."

"Uh, okay then," Lea said confused. "Well, the class is leaving so we better hurry up."

"Alright," Ven said as the two of them ran after their classmates.

Behind Ven and Lea, there stood the tall male who had caught Ven before he fell. He stared at the two boys as they ran back to school together. He didn't smile or move at all. He just stared at the young blonde whose name was Ven. The teen turned around and walked into a hotel, which he was staying at, and opened his communicator item.

There was a radio wave noise and then it cleared.

"Hello?" a young girl answered. "Hey, Aqua, how do we use these things?"

"You're using it right now, Emika," Aqua said.

"Really, oh, hey there, Terra," Emika said. "So how's the mission going for you?"

"It would be going easier if you told me who the person is I'm looking for," Terra said.

"Sorry," Emika said, "but my powers aren't that good. Try using those skills you've developed over the years."

"Combat skills?" Terra asked.

"No, use your common sense, you idiot!"

Terra moved the communicator away from his ear for a second until Emika was finished yelling. Terra sighed. She can be so short tempered sometimes, he thought. "So what should I be looking for?" he asked.

Emika sighed, "A feeling of warmth."

"Warmth?"

"Yeah, light is technically supposed to give off a warm feeling to anyone around it. Since this a pure heart, it emits a stronger light than anything else, so finding it should be easy; plus, you control darkness so it'll be even easier for you. The hard thing is that this person may not know of their pure heart like the princess did, so they may not show their light as easy as we would think."

"So this might be close to impossible then?" Terra asked.

"I'll talk to the old man and get him to let me come and help you out on your mission," Emika said.

Terra sighed, "You do know that's not his name."

"Oh shut up. Until I come over there, go do something good like a save a lost puppy or something like that. I'll be there as soon as I can. Later," she said before she hung up.

Terra put his communicator in his pocket and lay back on the bed. He stayed there for a few seconds until he got up and headed outside to walk around the town and find this so called warmth the Emika talked about.

…...

Ven and Lea were walking outside to the roof of their school to eat lunch. They both sat down and opened their lunches.

Lea smiled, "Looks like Isa is late, again."

"Looks like it," Ven said taking a bite of his sandwich.

After a few moments, Isa walked through the door and sat down by his friends.

Lea snickered, "Well, look who decided to show up."

"I was asking the teacher a question after class," Isa said taking out his lunch. He looked at Ven. "So how was that field trip?" he asked the blonde.

"Hey," Lea said, "I went to, you know?"

"I know, but I wasn't asking you."

Lea snorted and Ven laughed at his friend's bickering. "It wasn't very interesting," Ven said.

"Really?" Isa asked. "And here I thought a trip to the lab would be amazing to see."

"They just showed us a bunch of machines that they're building," Lea said carefully so he wouldn't say anything about the war.

"I guess that is kind of lame," Isa shrugged.

All three of them sat in silence until another group entered the roof, the gang at school that did nothing but make a lot of trouble for everyone. Nobody really knew their names, they just knew that there were three boys and all they did was cause trouble.

"What are you guys doing here?" Lea asked.

The boy with black hair made a smug look. "That was my line, idiot."

Lea shrugged and smiled, "I don't see your name on it."

Ven made a worry expression. Lea always loved to get people like that mad, but sometimes it went too far. Lea would get into fights and that worried Ven. He wouldn't get hurt too bad but it still worried the blonde. That's how the two of them met in the first place. When they were younger, Ven was cornered by a gang at the school and they even had him at knife point.

"Four against one?" Lea said from behind all the gang.

They turned away from Ven and looked at Lea. "Get lost punk," one of them said.

Lea just shrugged his shoulders and walked over to Ven. He stood in front of him and posed to punch the other guys around him.

The gang members laughed. "What are you doing, did you want to share this guys same fate?"

"Nope," he said, "I just plan to save this guy."

After a few moments of fighting, Lea walked over to Ven and held out his hand. Ven looked up to see Lea smiling brightly. "Don't worry," he said, "I won't let those guys hurt you. You'll be safe with me for sure."

Ever since that day, Lea and Ven have been best friends. The redhead still protected the blonde from dangers and he didn't care if it took a few punches to do so. But Ven would always panic when Lea went into a fight for his sake even though Lea didn't mind it.

"I suggest you move out of here," a blonde kid said to Lea.

"Just try it," Lea smiled.

Ven put a hand on Lea's. "Lea," he said, "don't."

"Ven," Lea started as he looked at his friend's worried expression.

"I suggest that you follow your friends advice," a guy, the leader, with brown hair said.

Some of the gang members moved closer to the boys and Ven stood up. "Please," he said putting up his hands, "we don't want a fight here."

The boy with black hair smiled and grabbed Ven's arm making the blonde stumble into him. He twisted Ven's arm behind his back and the guy put his hand on Ven's neck.

Lea growled and Isa stood up. "Look," Isa said. "We'll leave, just let Ven go."

"Just give us everything you have and we'll let the kid go," the leader said.

"Fine," Lea said as he slowly reached into his pocket. The leader looked at him but then he was knocked to the ground by the sudden impact of Lea's fist.

"Crap," the blonde kid said as he rushed to his leader.

Lea then punched the guy holding Ven in the face, which made him let go of the boy. The redhead grabbed Ven's arm and ran to the door with Isa following close behind him. The leader yelled something but the door muffled all the noise when it was shut.

Lea began to laugh as all three of them ran down the stairs. "Did you see his face?" Lea asked laughing. "That was just priceless man!"

"Yeah but now they'll be after all of us for sure thanks to you, Lea," Isa said.

They all quickly turned the corner and stopped behind the stairs. Lea let go of Ven's hand and laughed, "Aww come on, Isa, don't be like that."

"You never think before you act," Isa sighed.

"It's my fault anyways, Isa," Ven said. "I'm sorry."

Lea frowned and flicked Ven in the forehead.

Ven put his hands to his head, "Lea wha-"

"It's not your fault," Lea smiled.

"Yeah," Isa said, "you were just trying to stop a fight from happening."

"But I just-" Ven began.

Lea ruffled his friend's blonde hair and smiled. "Hey, didn't I say when we first met that I would protect you from these sort of things? Everything will be fine as long as we all stick together."

Ven smiled, "R-right."

Both Lea and Isa smiled at Ven. The bell rang and they all headed to class.

…...

"Come on, old man, Terra can't do this on his own," Emika said crossing her arms.

"He must overcome this on his own, Emika," Eraqus said.

Emika sighed, "And what'll happen if he can't do it?"

Eraqus was speechless.

Emika smirked, "Do you think it's a good idea to test him in something this serious? This is the last pure heart that you're gambling on right now. If Terra losses this then we all lose forever. I can feel the light easier then he can so let me go to help."

Eraqus sighed, "Alright, you may go, but you must give Aqua the signal if something goes wrong."

"Sure thing," Emika smiled as she ran out of the room.

She went to her room to get ready when Aqua walked in. "Are you leaving?" she asked.

"Yep," Emika said changing her clothes, "Terra needs help and we can't risk this lost."

"I understand what you mean," Aqua said sitting down on Emika's bed. "But do you have to make the master feel so bad."

"He's never really liked me from the beginning," Emika said frowning.

"I doubt that," Aqua said, "you're really hard to hate. Not even Terra hates you."

Emika laughed, "Thanks, is that supposed to make me feel better?"

"Maybe, so how long do you think you'll be gone?"

"I don't know. However long it takes to find this light, but it shouldn't be long. As long as he doesn't show up we should be okay."

"Yeah," Aqua said throwing Emika her black jacket.

Emika slipped it on and zipped it over her tank top. She was completely dressed in black, which matched her dark black spiky hair that came to her chin and her purple eyes. "Thanks," she said.

Her outfit showed that she was a high solider and that she's killed many in her battles. Her black pants came down to the floor and she wore a white top under her jacket. "Well, I better get going," she said grabbing her charm and putting it around her neck with the chain ratting against her chest.

"Make sure to call if you're in trouble," Aqua said.

"Gotcha," Emika said as she entered the portal she summoned and walked through it.

…...

The bell rang and all three of the friends ran outside. Ven stopped and looked back at his friends. "I'm going home you guys," Ven said.

"Let's stick together," Isa said.

"No, I'll be fine," Ven smiled at his friends.

"Are you sure Ven?" Lea asked. "Are you going straight home."

Ven rolled his eyes, "Yes, I am."

"I'm serious, Ven, don't go anywhere but home and don't let anyone in except us," Lea said.

Ven nodded his head, "I promise so don't worry about me."

Lea was about to say something but Isa cut him off. "Then we'll see you later Ven," Isa said.

Ven smiled and waved at his friends as he took off. Ven went past a few houses and walked through a street where nobody was at. He suddenly heard something and turned around.

There was nothing there.

"A cat maybe," Ven mumbled to himself as he kept walking. He then heard footsteps and picked up his pace as the other set of footsteps did the same. Ven turned again and again didn't see anything. He sighed and laughed at himself as he kept walking.

Once he got to his house he was about to open his door before he heard something in the alley beside his house. He looked down and saw that a small Chocobo was crying in the alley way. Ven walked over to it and it chirped at him as he stroked the animal's back. It had a broken leg and Ven frowned. "Don't worry," he said, "I'll take care of you now so just relax."

The Chocobo looked up at the blonde and chirped, which made Ven smile at him, but it kept chirping.

"Well isn't that just precious," someone said behind Ven.

The blonde looked behind him and saw the gang from school. All three of them smiled and laughed.

"We knew you would take the bait," the blonde boy said.

"The bait," Ven said looking down at the Chocobo. "Wait, did you do this to him?"

"Why, does that make you mad?" the leader asked.

"How could you do that to something so small and innocent?" Ven asked standing up.

"Like we care," the leader said. "Besides, that doesn't matter right now. We're here for you right now."

Ven was silent.

"So you know that we came to pay you back for busting up our leaders face," the black haired boy said. "That redhead will regret what he did when he finds your beaten body on his front steps."

Ven took a step back, his breathing became heavy and his heart felt like it would burst from his chest. He swallowed hard and took another step back as the three stepped forward.

"This won't take long," the blonde kid said.

"This kid will be easy to break," the black haired kid said. "We'll begin whenever you're ready, leader."

The leader smiled as he starred at Ven's face. "Go ahead," he said as the other two jumped on Ven.

Ven tried to scream for help but it was muffled by one of the boys covering his mouth with their hand. Ven bit down on whoever had their hand on his mouth.

"Why you little shit!" the black haired kid said. He brought his fist down but Ven rolled to the side fast enough to dodge him.

Suddenly the guy was back on top of Ven and he rapped a cloth tightly around Ven's mouth to keep him from screaming again. Ven squirmed but failed to get free as the other boy pinned his hands with just one of his and held a knife close to Ven's neck.

Ven whimpered and the boy smiled. "What," he said, "do you want me to put it lower?" he asked as he moved his knife closer to Ven's pants. The blonde kept still not wanting to provoke the other boy, but he punched him after a few moments and laughed as he saw blood running down Ven's nose.

The kid punched him a few more times and laughed. "Hey guys," he said, "why aren't you joining in?" the black haired kid turned around and his face ended up meeting a fist. He flew away from Ven as the person who punched the kid helped Ven up.

"You okay?" the person asked Ven.

Ven only nodded as he clung to the person's shirt.

"What the hell?" the black haired boy said outraged.

"I suggest you leave before you end up like your friends," the person said pointing back to the other two guys who were covered in blood and hobbling away from the scene.

The black haired boy cringed and turned around only to run away from the person holding Ven.

Ven tried to take off the cloth that was still around his mouth, but his hands were shaking too much to do it.

The person sighed and bent down. "Here," they said, "I'll take that off for you."

Ven took his hands away so they could take off the cloth. When it was gone, the blonde felt something warm come down from his cheek.

He was crying.

The person took Ven's hand and led him out of the alley. Once they were in the light, Ven saw his savior's face. He gasped when he realized that it was the same person who saved him from falling at the lab.

The man with brown hair and blue eyes led Ven to his house. He pointed at it and said, "Is this your place?"

Ven just nodded as he tried to fumble for his keys, but his hands were still shaking too hard.

The man leaned down, "Stand still for a sec," he said as he put his hand down Ven's pocket. The boy began to blush as the man fumbled for the keys and pulled them out after a few moments.

Then he put the key into the lock and opened the door. He walked through Ven's house and sat the boy down on the couch. He sat down next to Ven and put an arm around him.

"You cry if you want," he said.

Ven laughed, "It's too late for that."

The man looked down to see Ven's tear struck face, but the boy was smiling. Why? He should have been terrified but he was smiling at the man before him.

Suddenly Ven gasped.

"What is it?" the man asked.

Ven got up quickly and ran outside.

The man looked shocked as he ran after the boy. He ended up at the alley again as he saw Ven rush by him and back to the house. The guy sighed heavily as he walked in and saw Ven gently setting the Chocobo on the kitchen counter.

The man walked over to the blonde, "What are you doing?" he asked.

Ven turned around and smiled, "This Chocobo was hurt so I couldn't just leave him out there alone."

"But he's the reason why you got caught up in that mess back there."

"It wasn't his fault. He's so young and he was probably terrified just like I was but still it wasn't his fault he ended up like he did. I can at least do this for him." Ven ran over to a cabinet and took out some bandages. He gently took the animal's leg and tied the bandage over it.

The Chocobo chirped and Ven smiled and stroked the Chocobo's head. "You'll be okay now," he said.

The man starred at the boy as he turned to face him with his nose bleeding. "Hey," he said to Ven, "let's fix you up now."

"Hmm," Ven said touching his face and pulling his hand back to see blood. "Oh, I guess I forgot about that," he smiled.

The man sat Ven down on the couch and cleaned his wounds and bandaged them the best he could. "How does that feel?" he asked.

"A lot better, um-"

"My name is Terra," Terra said getting up.

"Thank you very much, Terra," Ven smiled up at the man. "This is twice that you've saved me. I owe you big time for this."

"It's fine," Terra said, "just be more careful from now on, okay?"

"Uh sure, I can do that," Ven smiled up at Terra.

Terra frowned and walked to the door. "See ya," he said.

"Hey wait a minute," Ven said as he looked out the door. But Terra was already gone. "Who was that guy?" Ven mumbled.

He heard the Chocobo chirp and he turned around and smiled. "Oh well," he said, "I can't worry about that right now."

Ven gathered up his things and took the Chocobo up to his room. He made a bed for it and placed it on the pillows and blankets. Then he crawled into bed and after doing his homework, Ven looked at the clock and fell asleep.

Outside of Ven's home, there was another person watching him. He smiled and laughed slightly. "This is very interesting," the guy said. "I've found the pure heart and Terra has already come into contact with him, but he can't seem to notice the boy's true form. What a pity that man is. Well, I'm going to have fun with this kid tomorrow."

To Be Continued...

A/N: The new replacement is here! And I'm super excited to start it. Chapter one and already there's a cliff hanger XD Was it confusing at all? I hope not but things are going to start to play out in the next chapter. Like I said before EMIKA ISN'T REAL! She's completely made up. Anyways, I wanted a gang so bad in this story so here we go =3 *sigh* If only I could have come up with names for them all. Oh well, I'll be working on the next chapter soon enough so stay tuned. Annnnnd like I've sad a thousand times. There's a poll for the next story that I'll write after "An Eternity" and after "Resistance's Trust" has a good start. VOTE NOW!