Terra

My life changed so much in twelve seconds, let alone twelve years. One second I was me, and then I was someone completely different. I fought back though, part of my mind had settled into my armour, as resistance to the possession, and I tried in vain to regain my body. It had been unbelievably hard for me both before and after the moment I changed. I had fought hard against Master Xehanort, but yet no matter how hard I had tried, I had still failed to save Ven. The χ-blade was forged. There was nothing else I could do.

He stole my body, but my mind somehow had survived inside that armour. I fought him, but still I had failed. I defeated him, but could not separate his heart from my body. My body and my heart, still clinging to its shell was pulled into the lanes between and the lingering sediment that was my mind waited and vowed to help my friends, and for years it remained in the Graveyard, waiting.

My heart was weakened and temporarily it was Master Xehanort who had control. The body that had been mine had drifted through the Lanes to Radiant Garden, City of Light. My mind had done some good, though. Xehanort was confused and the battle had left him disorientated and confused. His heart had begun to lose the grip it had on his mind. Terra-Xehanort, was beginning to become independent, but he wasn't going to let that got without a fight. I'd sent Aqua a message (more of a prayer than anything) for her to put an end to this, to kill me. It was almost as if I knew where she was, and that Ventus would be OK. I led Aqua right to me, but I noticed when she looked at what I had become, she was not disgusted. She was sad, and angry with what Master Xehanort had done. She nevertheless drew her keyblade and demanded him to release me. He refused, and the battle started.

It was painful to watch that battle from behind my own eyes, and be able to do nothing. I saw the pain on Aqua's face, every time she struck the body with that keyblade. She was brave, and she never stopped believing that she could get me back. That's why she mattered so much to me.

Aqua.

I didn't see her again really after that battle.

She vanished and the independent mind of the New Xehanort began a new life in Radiant Garden. Master Xehanort and I battled constantly for control of the heart, but neither of us managed it. The New Xehanort created monsters (Heartless and Nobodies) and then eventually surrendered to the darkness itself. With his heart destroyed, both the hearts of myself and Master Xehanort were shattered and the pieces were scattered inside the two beings created.

We weren't divided equally though. A lot more of Master Xehanort was in the Heartless body. We found the one I had chosen though. Having grown up, that boy, Riku, submitted to the Darkness and helped the Heartless to grow stronger. If it hadn't been for that boy with the keyblade who destroyed it with light, the Heartless may have coated the worlds in those things. Part survived though, inside Riku, and no matter what happens it will remain there. I am still there. But so is aster Xehanort.

The Nobody though, was a different matter.

Xemnas.

Although it was Master Xehanort's obsession with the χ-blade that added the "X" to all members of my Organisation, mostly Xemnas was me, as the body had originally been mine. The only thing that concerned me was my lack of a heart. I wanted it back, but some of me had broken through the barriers of the "Xehanort" apprentice. I recognised Aqua's armour and brought it to my Room of Sleep. I realised where Aqua had put Ven, and sent members of my Organisation to her castle to find him. The Thirteenth, I noticed, also bore a very strong resemblance to Ven. I set out to search for them and find out more about my past (although some things came through not all did), but it was Aqua who I felt closest to. I used to talk to her armour and pretend it was her. No one else knew about it, or they would have thought I had lost my mind as well as my heart. But sometimes I even felt as if she really answered, and memories of someone I had loved (whatever that felt like) came back to me.

Aqua.

But he came back that boy, and one by one struck down every member of the Organisation, leaving just me standing. Even I was defeated in the end. The interesting thing was though, that as I faded into my own Nothingness, dying, for a second I did not see that boy anymore. I saw Ventus, looking at me with sorrowful eyes. I never got a chance to really look though.

I was lost to Oblivion.

My scattered remnants find themselves in the Realms I find myself in. Somewhere out there, I know Aqua and Ven are there too. We're all waiting I know.

Everyone is waiting for their Birth by Sleep.

It's been twelve years, and that boy with the keyblade is still a saviour of worlds. Maybe he could be the one to fix me: fix us all?

Aqua

Ventus

Terra

"Sora…"