Reunion with Terra

(Age of Fairy Tales)

"This is bad, very bad." The Master said after he recorded the fight with Vanitas.

Something was different about Vanitas and there was no recent distirbences with the timeline since the major one after the Mark of Mastery.

Something that was missing during what he had seen of Roxas's original timeline.

Not taking any chances, he summoned the X-blade and used it to view the timelines.

While the X-blade couldn't alter time, it combined with his ability to see the future allowed him to briefly glimpse any and all timelines. Even those erased from existence. Although he couldn't use it for more then 10 seconds. The backlash for 0.5 seconds was enough to being about a migraine. 10 seconds was enough to knock him out for the rest of the day.

Thankfully he had plenty of practice.

The blade glowed a soft silverish blue and the Master could see everything.

Everything that once was, everything that was happening right now, and everything that will or might happen.

It was easy for a normal mind to have become lost under this sea of endless possibilities.

Thankfully he had plenty of expierence with viewing multiple timelines at once.

Still it took some time to locate Roxas's old timeline and once he did what he found surprise him so much that he cancled the spell and collapsed onto the floor due the backlash.

"I should have known something like this could have happen." The Master groaned out as he summoned a glass of chocolate milk.

For some unknow reason that stuff helps alieve temporal headaches. He would need to reasearch into it someday.

"How am I going to break this to Roxas." He sighed out.

Things can never be as clear cut they seemed, can they? Looks like Ava has caused a bit of a bigger mess then what he had thought.

He was going to need some of Gula's tea and his allergy medicine. He needed to the tea inorder to help with the upcoming headache. And the allergy medicine inorder so that he wouldn't go into shock from drinking that tea.

He would rather not be in anaphylactic shock when he had to break the bad news to Roxas.

(Dwarf Woodlands - Modern Era)

Roxas could only groan as light returned to his vision.

"Took you long enough to wake up." Terra said as he handed Roxas a canteen filled with water.

"Thanks." Roxas said before downing the whole thing of water. Fighting an ancient Keyblade wielder was something that was nothing short of exhausting. "So how long have I been out Terra?" He asked.

"Only around 45 minutes." Terra said, causing the Nobody to breath out a sigh of relief.

He hadn't been knocked out for hours again, well that was good. He had already been comatose enough in his short life, thank you very much.

"How are you feeling Roxas." Terra asked as the younger Keyblade wielder stood up.

"I'm feeling much better then I was an hour ago." Roxas said honesty, getting the older apprentice to nod.

"Then you wouldn't mind explaining why are seperated from Aqua or who that figure was?" Terra questioned.

"I don't mind, but have you seen Ven anywhere?" Roxas inquired.

"I haven't, so he is gone too." Terra said.

"He left shortly after you did, I guess he was following you. Me and Aqua were about to go after him when we were seperated by Vanitas, the person I was fighting." The Nobody said, holding his ground as wisps of darkness flickered around Terra for a aecond before it dispelled.

"So your telling me that this Vanitas not only kidnapped you from the Land of Departure, but also possibly tricked Ven to leave too." Terra groaned out.

"Yes and he seems to be controlling the Unversed as well." Roxas said, while omitting the fact that Vanitas was an ancient Keyblade wielder. How was he supposed to explain that to him without mentioning that he was a time traveler aswell.

At that Terra could only sigh.

"That's it, you are traveling with me till we find Aqua. And we are locating Ven while we are at it. Can't exactly have him out on his own with a rogue Keyblade wielder on the loose." Terra sighed out. "Especially one that was capable of injuring you like this."

"I'd agree with you more, but my condition was partly my fault and a powerful Unversed he siced on me." Roxas said.

"How so?" Terra asked.

Deciding it was better to show him, Roxas summoned a gigantic pillar of light right next to Terra starting him. A moment later he dispelled it and the Nobody once again collapsed with steam emitting from his hands.

"That is why." He groaned out as the burning sensation faded and the steam disapatted.

"No wonder why. You mentioned that you could control light, but I never expected that your light was on par with Master's. But it seems like your body can't handle using it too much at the moment. I suppose we should work on it when we start training." Terra sighed out when he summoned his Keyblade.

"You mean we are going to start training." Roxas said as he stood up.

"Of course, but only some light training. I saw the condition of Vanitas before I rammed into him. Considering your current state and how injured he was you can benefit some light training. At least until you fully recover that is." Terra said, getting the Nobody to nod.

"Sure just as long as you throw teaching me Esuna if you know it. Vanitas used it on me after being poisoned from my fight with his Unversed. He did want to fight me at my fullest after all." Roxas said.

"Fair enough, but we should save that for after looking for Ven. If he did follow me here, then he should still be on this world. I will need your sensing abilities for this." Terra said before facing Roxas. "By any chance do you know what a Keyblade Glider is?"

"Not a clue, but I take it that is what you guys used to travel off the Land of Departure." Roxas speculated.

"That is correct, now I recommend that you take a few steps back." Terra said and Roxas complied.

Terra threw his Keyblade into the air and it began to glow. Once mid air it gave off a ton a light and in its place was a flying device similar to the one Riku and Sora found during their fight with Xemnas. Only it lacked a sidecar and was the coloration of Terra's main Keyblade. It soon gently descended and floated down to where the Nobody once stood.

"I didn't know that they can do that." Roxas said as he looked between Terra's glider and his Oathkeeper, which had appeared in his hand.

"I had the same reaction when Master did the same thing to bring me and Aqua back to the Land of Departure when he picked us up off of our homeworld." Terra chuckled out, intriguing Roxas. "And once again your similarity to Ven is impressive. He had the exact same reaction when Aqua mentioned it to him."

"I can imagine, the two of us agreed that our resemblance is a little creepy." Roxas said with a shudder.

"It sure is, but I'll tell you the story another time." Terra said.

"Fair enough, but how do you do that with a Keyblade?" Roxas said while pointing at the Keyblade Glider.

"It's an advanced technique that takes weeks to master. You have to have a certain connection with your Keyblade for it to work though and only that Keyblade alone. Though to be honest I'm probably the wrong person to ask about that though. I mastered this technique much faster then Aqua did or Ven if what you described was of any was still struggling with maintaining hiss glider last time I saw him practicing it four days ago, so he must've only just mastered it." Terra said with a sigh.

"I see." The Nobody said with a sigh of his own, he was honestly looking forward to using this technique. "Do you know when I'll be ready to learn it?"

"I can't tell you that, literally I can't. I asked Master that question and he said that skill is one taught by all Keyblade wielders when they become a Keyblade Master so they will recognize when it is time to teach their pupils how to manifest their Keyblade Glider. Best I can describe it is that you'll know when your heart and soul seem to scream out a desire to move beyond your earthy bonds and your Keyblade resonates with that and changes form to grant your desire to fly becomes a reality." Twrra said with a smile. "That is the closest that I can describe the feeling towards it. Sorry if that doesn't help you out."

"It's alright Terra." Roxas sighed out.

Looks like learning how to summon a Keyblade Glider was going to be more problematic then he thought. He was lacking a heart and the ability to feel what Terra was describing. Add in that he didn't know if it was possible to create a Keyblade Glider out of two Keyblades and he was sure that it was going near impossible to learn it.

Still doesn't mean that he wouldn't stop trying on how to figure it out though.

"Anyway hope on, we've got an entire world to explore." Terra said while hoping onto his glider.

"Alright." Roxas said before something hit him square on the back. "Ow."

"You alright Roxas?" Terra asked as the Nobody scanned his back and surroundings for what hit him. A moment later he picked up what had hit him.

"Yeah, a stick just hit me in the back." Roxas said while frowning upon what he had found.

The end was cut way to clean to be natural. But since the area was littered with other stocks such as this from his battle with Vanitas, he concluded this one must've been among the many scattered around due to their battle.

"You sure you're alright?" Terra checked.

"I'm alright, probably won't end up with nothing but another bruise. Kingdom Hearts knows how many I'll end up with after that battle with Vanitas." Roxas said as he clamored behind Terra, unknown to the two of them a pair of golden eyes flickered on Roxas's back before disappearing.

"Fair enough." Terra said with a shrug. "Anyway hold on, because it is usually a little bumpy on your first time riding a Keyblade Glider."

With that in mind the Keyblade Glider took off beyond the treeline and into the skies as they began their search for Ven from up above.

(Chapter 29 end)