Chapter 5: Radiant Garden

Akira's Pov

So....this is where we get to met a special person here....and a couple dark moments happen here... unfortunately...

After a little while...

Ven groaned and opened his eyes, feeling light headed. He went to move his hand on his face but something was holding it, "Huh...?"

" Oh!! Uta-chan!! He woke up!!" He heard Shōtsu's voice cheer.

Ven came more to his senses and noticed he was suspended to the wall by his wrists and ankles, "H-hey! Let me go!" Uta shook her head, "Nyeh... I don't see why we should..."

" I wonder if that woman is going to come...she sounded mad along with that man.." Shōtsu asked outloud, curious.

"Well, it'll be fine just as long as we get him under our spell in time." Uta shrugged and Ven struggled with his bonds and looked nervous. "Wha-what spell?" "I say we start the motivation." Uta gave Shōtsu a knife as sge came closer to Ven. "H-hey, get that thing away from me!" His voice was nervous, as he gulped.

Shōtsu started to giggle, excited as she started to knick his skin with cuts, some not so deep, and some very deep.

It made him yelp in pain as he said. "S-stop it! T-this actually hurts!!" Uta gave Shōtsu the controller, "I'll keep watch in case those adults do come. Ven saw her leave and a a shout of pain accidentally escaped from his mouth.

Shōtsu giggled as she cut him more, as she asked after more cuts, " Aw what's wrong~" she giggled as she then heard Uta knocking which was their code for something was wrong.

"Shōtsu, I think I saw two adults on keyblade gliders! They must be keybladers just like Ven-ven." Uta called, "Should we bail?"

" Maybe! We can't get caught or else he'll get mad!!" Shōtsu said, dropping the control.

She dropped the knife as Ven let out a sigh of relief and struggled against the bonds, hearing the girls panic and knowing Aqua and Terra were nearby, "Aqua! Terra! I'm in here!" Uta grabbed Shōtsu's wrist and ran off with her. Ven was very relieved they were gone so he tried to move more. The leg that was struck by a throwing star and wrapped in a wrapping bandage ached. He screamed in pain.

Shōtsu held Uta's hand as they ran before they saw Terra land right in front of them, as they tried to run the other way before Aqua stopped them as the girls knew they were cornered.

"Where is he?" Terra darkly asked as darkness surrounded him. Uta pushed her lips together and teared up, whimpering as she hid behind Shōtsu, pretending to be scared. "WAAAAAH!! He's meanie as he is scary!!"

Aqua noticed this and saw the darkness around Terra as Shōtsu said," Not telling." She told him as Aqua frowned, seeing Terra like that and how he had darkness around him like that. Terra growled as Uta grinned without them seeing, sensing Terra's. "Tell us now or else!" Uta jumped up. She kicked Terra in the face and made him stumble back, darkness fading. Uta landed and threw a throwing star precisely at Aqua, but Aqua dodged it.

Aqua growled as she looked pissed as Shōtsu giggled as she got her knife out as she held the knife real close to Terra's neck as she said, " Move another step and I kill him, I promise you I will kill him." She warned Aqua, digging the knife a little into Terra's throat making him wince in pain as Aqua stopped momentarily, growling.

Uta sighed, annoyed by Aqua and Terra. She had a scythe summoned but then dropped it, "Meh, I'm sure there's more teens to torment. Let's go, Tsu, before dad arrives and grounds me." Terra groaned, "Your dad?"

" Yep! Master's waiting and waiting and waiting for us to be done with our game for today. Oh, btw, your little boy toy is in the locked room, k? Byee!" She giggled jumping back as she grabbed Uta's hand and ran off still holding her knife as Aqua helped Terra up.

Terra held his throat and growled, not amused one bit, "Who the hell raised them?"

" ...I don't know." Was all Aqua could say as she used heal on him to get rid of the cut he had on his throat, " Better?"

"Thanks..." He smiled and looked where the girls left, "That girl said her name was Uta. And she looked like Akira... You don't think that girl was the hermaphrodite that Lova told us about, was she?"

" It could be possible...but that other girl...she was filled with a terrible darkness...like she lost her mind into insanity.." she said, looking at where Shōtsu used to be at.

"Both of them seemed like it... They looked to be Akira's age..." Terra said, kind feeling sorry for them, "Wait, we need to get Ven and go back to your brother's house in Radiant Garden."

" Yeah, I had to drop off Akira and Shoto there before coming here..." She sighed as she sensed Ven's light near by. "Terrrra! Aquaaaa!" They heard Ven shouting out for help. "Ven!" Terra and Aqua ran towards his voice.

They found him restrained to a machine, his face looking like it had some cuts as "Ven! Are you okay?" Terra asked and Ven pouted. "Just... Get me down please..." He asked them.

" Alright...just hang on ok?" Aqua then noticed the controller that the girls had used before as she hit a button that released Ven from the wall.

Ven collapsed to the ground and landed on his bad leg. He winced and stood up a bit, nervously laughing, "T-thanks guys..."

" Are you ok Ven?" She asked worried about him as she then noticed some blood on his pants as she asked, " Did you get hurt any where else?" She was concerned about him as she noticed he was leaning on his other leg, trying to relieve some pressure from the bad leg, as she also noticed he had cuts as she poured a potion on the cuts to help as he winced.

"Y-yeah, Uta threw a throwing star at my leg and, well..." He lifted up his pant leg and it showed a wrapped, cleaned leg. "...They helped that at least."

" That's...good I suppose." She said with a faint smile. " Does it still hurt though?" She asked in a concerned voice

"Just a bit, but it'll be fine!" Ven grinned brightly and Terra sighed, it was a mix of relief yet he still was worried.

"...alright, but can you tell us what caused you to be captured?" She asked, still worried.

"Those little brats saw me when one of the girls was like, 'Oooooh, can I kill him, please?!' then the other girl was talking about my soul being bendable and even breakable! I hid but they found my hiding place and I bolted when I found out my cover was blown! Uta struck me in the leg, I tried to crawl away while calling you guys, Uta took away my phone when you did pick up, they tied me up, and knocked me out." Ven trembled unpleasantly, "Next thing I know, I was in that thing, where they started to cut me!"

" You were trapped to the wall....what does this thing even do?" Aqua asked, looking at the machine confused until they heard an explosion from far away making her jump and drop the controller as it turned the machine, as they then saw weird looking hands/tentacles as Ven got scared.

Ven screamed and hid behind Terra, "GET THOSE DAMN THINGS AWAY FROM MEEEE!!!!" Terra sweat dropped, "These things?" Terra poked one and another slapped his behind. Terra suddenly froze, but Aqua saw his fist tremble with rage.

Aqua narrowed her eyes in anger as she got her Keyblade at and cast it on fire, burning the machine to a crisp and then putting water on it to not cause another explosion.

Terra sighed, still ticked, as he walked past Ven, muttering things and cuss words. Ven heard them and blinked, not knowing Terra could cuss that much. He nervously laughed, "You okay?" "I need to kill some Unversed or something." Terra said and they heard another explosion. "Let's just leave this damn place." "Terra! No cussing!" Ven said and Terra glared at him. "Grow up." "I will when you start... not cussing!" They bickered at each other like normal.

Aqua took a deep breath as she then hit their nerve points making them slump to the ground and unable to use their magic and Keyblade, " Are you 2 done?" She asked them, as they couldn't move as they were paralyzed on the ground.

Ven pouted, "What did I do? I was telling him not to cuss!" "I was done when he started to nag me." Terra simply stated, not really feeling happy at the moment. Ven pouted at him, "Terra..." Terra just stopped talking. Ven sighed, "Okay, fine... I guess I'm done..."

Aqua sighed as she noticed Unversed in the corner of her eyes as she noticed a masked boy as she muttered, " What in the world..?" She asked as Terra and Ven both heard her say that. , but they couldn't see where she was looking at due to being unable to move.

Ven saw what she was looking at and gasped, growling and summoning his keyblade, "That boy needs help! Aqua, undo the paralyze!" Ven dashed in after him without a second thought after she did. "Ven! Wait!" Terra called out.

" Ven!" Aqua called out as she ran after him after she undid the paralyzation on Terra as she started to run after Ven.

As Aqua ran a dark corridor arrived under her feet as she dropped down as Terra tried to grab her before she fell though too late' she was gone as the same thing happened to Ven and him as they all arrived in a familiar world..

Meanwhile...

Uta and Shotsu were kinda cowering in fear from a god named Hades as he was pissed at them for trying to take over the world, and for doing that to a young man.

"W-why couldn't we daddy? You're the king of hell, s-so why can't the princess cause hell herself?" Uta asked, tearing up and sniffing, "I-I just wanted to be like you..."

" Because I'M supposed to take over the worlds!! You and your little...devil spawn are supposed to be my 2nd and 3rd in command!" he said.

Shotsu pouted a little as he said, " You 2 are grounded!! You're not allowed to use your weapons or have fun!!! Go to your rooms!!!" he shouted, his flames red in anger. "But, daddy! I'm sorry!!" Uta hugged him and cried into his toga, full on sobbing. "I-I-I'm sorrrrrry!! Please don't lock me in my dark room, daddy!! It's dark!!"

" GO!!!!" he shouted angry.

Uta sobbed louder and tighter to his toga, uncontrollable letting off a type of gas that makes others feel sad though it didn't affect Hades or Shōtsu since they were used to her quirk, "Please!! I won't do it again!! I promise!! I wanna stay in the dark!!"

He growled as he picked her up and brought her to her room with Shotsu and put them on the bed and closed the door behind him as he said, " You're staying here till dinner!!" he said, slamming it behind him.

Uta trembled with fear as she whimpered quietly and curled up into a ball, "W-why was I put here... Daddy hates me J-just like my past ones did... H-he rather throw me to Cerberus... S-since I'm a monster a-anyway..." She whispered and felt Shōtsu hug her. Hades was hearing all this.

" You're not a monster...and I'm sure he cares about you in his own way! He has his good days and bad days, remember?" she asked her, holding her close.

She sniffed and hugged her, scared as she buried her face into Shōtsu's shoulder, "... I-I caused it to be a bad one..." " No, he was in a bad mood already, you didn't do anything, promise!" she giggled, still hugging her tightly.

She sniffed and calmed down a bit, pulling away but still holding her hands. She looked around and trembled unpleasantly, "S-scary... With all the despair we cause to the adults... Darkness is scary to me... Adults should feel both despair and scared!" She trembled again, trying to find comfort, "T-to work with darkness, I have to face my f-fear but it's scary..." She looked into Shōtsu's eyes, blinking as she blushed slightly, embarrassed.

" I'll protect you and kill anyone who will try and hurt you! Promise!!" she giggled to her. Uta slightly smiled and scooted closer to her, "...T-thanks, Shōtsu." She yawned and laid her head down on Shōtsu's shoulder, closing her eyes. "I... I lo..."

" I love you too Uta-chan..." she giggled, still hugging her.

She was trying to stay awake and finish her sentence, "...ove you..." She sneaked a kiss on her cheek, "I'm not old enough for family making myself but... When I'm older, you're gonna be first..."

She blushed as she giggled, hugging her, happy.

Uta grinned and closed her eyes again, falling asleep in her arms. Seems she ignored her fears when Shōtsu held her.

Shotsu giggled as she held her close

Meanwhile...

Terra, Aqua and Ven all woke up in Radiant garden as Terra woke up feeling something jabbing his side as he woke up and saw 2 kids, one had blond hair and one had green hair, " Oh! Kacchan! He woke up!!" the green haired boy said with a smile.

"Looks like we don't have to go dumping water on him!" Kacchan growled, a little disappointed. Terra groaned and looked around, "... Radiant Garden?"

" Yep! Are you ok Mister?" 8 year old Deku asked, worried a little. " We found you on the ground passed out...so we were worried something was wrong with you.." Deku told him.

"Oh... Thanks guys." Terra smiled and rustled their hair. Bakugou growled, not liking it. Terra pulled away, "I'm Terra, and I'm a keyblade wielder."

" I'm Izuku Midoriya! That's Kacchan, or Katsuki Bakugo!" Izuku smiled at him with a smile. "Yeah, but I call him Deku." Kacchan said with a smirk. "Oh I see..." Terra looked at Kacchan and sensed he had explosive power (literally). However, Izuku didn't.

" Is everything ok Mister Terra?" Deku asked, noticing he was quiet. "Yeah, I just have a lot on my mind..." Terra rubbed his head, "Have you seen a lady with blue hair and a boy with spiky blonde hair?"

" Hmm....Oh, wait, I think we saw a blue haired woman running after the monsters that's been around here for awhile..." Izuku then remembered.

"Yeah, she was protecting Kairi and Kishi." Kacchan said, slightly worried even though he won't show it. "We're trying to find her actually. Kairi has the quirk of light, she has peach skin and auburn hair, and Kishi has the quirk of a kitten, as she is dark skinned and dark brown hair. They both ran of somewhere."

" Yeah, Kairi was picking flowers with Kishi when those monsters showed up and they ran off in fear..." Deku explained, worried.

"I'll find them for you." Terra nodded, "See you later." " Thank you Mister Terra! Stay safe!!" Deku called out to him as he walked away.

Kacchan looked at Terra but followed Deku and Terra sighed, going to find Aqua.

Meanwhile....

Shoto and Akira were walking together, as Akira still held his hand as they walked together as Akira asked, " Hey Shoto, can we go pick some flowers for Lea and Isa?" she asked him, looking back at his one eye, as his burned eye was wrapped up again.

Shoto had a small smile as he nodded, "Sounds like fun."

She giggled with a smile as they walked to where the flower garden was as she picked some flowers with him as she picked some roses, snowbells and daisy's and lilly's with Shoto as she noticed the Unversed running around, " Aren't those the monsters we found before? When we were with Aqua?" she asked him.

"Ye-" he was cut off when several of them appeared around them, Shoto growled, getting some ice out as he was ready.

" Hang on Shoto!...maybe they won't attack.." Akira said coming near one and gently petting its head, wanting to see if it would attack her or not but it didn't it just nuzzled into her hand.

" Hey this one isn't trying to hurt us.." she said smiling at it as she started to pet it more thinking it was kinda cute.

Shoto tilted his head, not sure about this. He saw a big one come up to him and hug him, picking him up and nuzzling him. He was confused, "What is happening?"

" I don't know, maybe they're being nice!" Akira giggled a little as more of the little ones came near as she kept petting them, giggling as they didn't seem to hurt her or Shoto.

The big Unversed held Shoto like a baby and he tried to move, which caused the Unversed to growl as it was saying stay. Shoto blushed, embarrassed, and the Unversed treated him like he was its baby. Shoto felt sleepy as it rocked it back and forth, "...Could you... stop please? I feel... Sleepy now." Shoto closed his eyes and the Unversed patted his head. It looked at Akira, curious if she wanted a nap. It sat next to her.

She shook her head with a giggle, " I'm not sleepy." She told him.

It sighed and put down Shoto, picking her up. It rocked back and forth as the other small ones climbed on its shoulders and head. It changed its form of a young woman with purple eyes and black hair in a dark purple dress. She had a small smile, "We could sense you both had a traumatic experience. Can we stay with you so we can stay with you through hardships?"

"...who are you..?" Akira asked, a little bit sleepy, rubbing her eyes curious.

"Shizuku. Although, people call me Shizu." She politely said, with a gentle smile, "I could never have a child of my own so I use my powers and knowledge children cope with horrible experiences from their lives."

" You're really pretty..." Akira yawned more tired, " You can stay...I don't mind and I don't, Shoto does ether....did Vani send you..?" She asked her.

She blinked and looked like she was thinking, "I believe I haven't heard of anyone who deem themselves as 'Vani', but are you referring to Vanitas, perhaps?"

She nodded, " Yeah, Vanitas...he lets me call him Vani if he's in a good mood.." she giggled a little.

"I was created four years ago by him and he can control me at single glance." She sighed with a frown, "It's a pain sometimes but I owe him my life. He's my master... Though he isn't a strict master. He lets me do whatever I want."

" That's good...right?" She asked with a small smile.

"I suppose, though, the Master's heart is diving further into someone else's darkness." She seemed worried, "Like Ventus, he clings to life and damaged by the heart fracture. If he falls or is killed, his body will be taken by his teacher."

" Is Ven and Vani going to be ok?" Akira asked worriedly.

"I don't really know, but I am scared." She closed her eyes as a tear escaped her eye, "I am scared that I have the fear of losing my master. I do not know what will happen to me either."

"..." Akira gave her a hug, to try and help her feel better.

Shizu blinked and hugged her back, sensing she was trying to cheer her up. "Are you trying to cheer me up?" She nodded a little, " You seemed really sad.." she explained

She smiled genuinely and stroked her hair, caring for her like a mother would. "...Thank you. I want to return the favor. Can I get you some ice cream or maybe some pizza? Maybe some chocolate eclairs or cream cheese danish from the bakery?"

" Oh! Jelly donuts! Jelly donuts!" She said in an excited voice.

She giggled and looked at Shoto. She turned into that big Unversed and gently shocked him, "... Wake up, young man. Come on, wake up." Shoto cracked open his eyes and blinked them open, "...Am I crazy or the Unversed talk?" "It is a side effect of my other form." She smiled and changed form again, to her human form, "I'm a heart created from Unversed, created by Vanitas. I'll be your protector along with Akira. Would you like some ice cream or something from the bakery?" Shoto sat up, interested, "Red Velvet Cupcake... or maybe a Blueberry Muffin!" He licked his lips.

" Yay! Sweets!" Akira giggled excitedly.

Shizu giggled and led them to the bakery. Shoto looked around and sighed, thinking about his mother. He wished he could go to the bakery with her again. "Hey, there you are, Shishi..." A man came up to them. He had purple hair and was short with a 'trustworthy' expression. She frowned and hid the children from him, glaring at him, "You... What do you want?" "Eh, call it what you will, revenge. Either I'm your new master or I'll tell the guard that you disrupted the peace of my people." She growled at him again, "How about you go jump off a cliff, you lying little abortion. You stole my master's jewel encrusted charm bracelet! It was proof he owns me!" "Huh..." He looked at the kids and gave a menacing grin, "You finally have kids? Heh, if you wanted kids, you should have just asked... I could have made you some~" "That will not be said in front of the children." She glared at him, trying to stay calm, "Now move." "Pushy as always, but don't worry... I'll own you and the price. I'm a better man than your master-" "AHH!!" Shizu dashed up to him and knocked him off his feet. She did a flip in the air and kicked him in the head, knocking out. She sighed, fixing her hair. "Come on, guys. We need to get going before DICE shows up." "DICE?" Shoto asked and she picked up Akira. "I'll tell you later, let's get to the bakery!" She ran with Shoto.

" W-Who was that man?!" Akira asked, confused as they ran.

"Kokichi Ouma, leader of them. He and his group do not like me." She said as they were at the bakery. "We've had a few fights. This week, they stole the charm Master has. It's the bracelet that keeps restrictions on me. Vanitas makes them if I do something wrong but... It could mean bad news if I devote myself to the wrong person and they have it." She showed her bangle and it read, 'Cannot disobey orders from your master or the bearer of the charm bracelet.' Shoto looked at it, "Can you take it off?" "I tried but when I did, it gave me a nasty shock... It poisoned me too but master cured me. The man who caused something like this was... Xehanort, Master's saviour and the man who split Ventus heart."

" Are you going to be ok Shizu?" Akira asked worried. "Just as long as I remain loyal to Vanitas then the bracelet will not be of use." She smiled and nodded. "...So, what did you do to make DICE hate you?" Shoto asked and she shrugged. "I was too blunt and said that Ouma-kun was bad at gambling after we were playing Uno and betting. I was too blunt and a bit too aggressive with flirt with his men. Thank goodness it was sly but I think it was naughty... ugh, I do not acquire their company anymore."

" Oh..." Akira said as Shizu put her down as they walked inside the bakery, as they were now safe from DICE.

Meanwhile

Aqua was running after a huge Unverse as she ran to the area that it was in as she saw Ven and Terra there also as they saw the parts of the Unversed they were chasing before merge into one as all Aqua could say was".....fuck." she whispered in a quiet voice.

Ven heard her and sighed, happy she was here, "Aqua!" "Aqua!" Terra saw her too, "Three on one?"

" Yep." Aqua said as they all got their Keyblades out as Aqua then released a fire spell at the machine.

After the battle, they watched the Unversed disappear into nothing, Aqua said, "Looks like we did a good job on it, huh?" she asked with a small smile.

"Yeah! We make a good team!" Ven grinned brightly and put his hands behind his head.

Aqua laughed a little as Ven then remembered what a certain rich duck gave to him.

"Oh! I have things!" Ven pulled out tickets, passing out the other to them, "They're tickets for Disney Town! Scrooge said bring two adults."

Aqua saw Ven pouting a little as she asked, " Do you mean us?" she asked, giggling as Terra chuckled at that.

"...Well, actually." Terra sighed, "You need to go home with Aqua." Terra said and Ven gasped. "What? No way!" Ven asked, not wanting to, "I wanna stay with you guys!"

" But Ven, it's not safe." Aqua told him, frowning a little

"Yeah, we have a dangerous task ahead of us. it would be the best if you did." Terra said, crossing his arms. Ven didn't like that he was going to be left behind.

"..." Aqua was silent, biting the inside of her cheek, as she then asked, " And what is this dangerous task, Terra?...it doesn't sound like what the Master told you to do."

"It may be a different route but I'm fighting the darkness. Isn't that what he wants?" Terra asked, frowning a bit.

"..." Aqua looked away, not looking at him feeling ashamed as she said, " I've been to some of the worlds you've been to, like Enchanted Dominion, and how the fairy said how you took Aurora's heart.." she said, not looking at him.

Ven sighed and looked at Terra, wanting answers. Terra, however, had a hurt look on his face, "Were you... spying on me? Was it Master Eraqus's who asked you?"

"Terra, that's not what Aqua would do!" Ven said, "Right Aqua?" "..." Aqua didn't look up as she said, " He was only worried..."

Terra felt a dagger go through his heart. Shadows covered his eyes and he turned around, beginning to walk away, "...Oh... I see." "Terra! He was only-" "Stay put, Ven!" Terra snapped at him which hurt Ven. "...either stay here or go home with Aqua. I'm on my own now, alright?" He growled at them as Aqua looked at him feeling guilty

" Terra, he was only worried, you know the Master cares for you-" Aqua went to reach for him before he looked back and gave her a death glare as it made her freeze as he never gave her that look before making her halt.

"Quit smothering and spying on me!!" Terra didn't know what he did until it was done. After he yelled at her, he slapped her, HARD.
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...no comment for what happened at the end...I hate what happened here.

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