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Who: Sora, Roxas and Ven
Content: The boys realize there are somethings they should not be discussing over Cambot.
Time: Shortly after Ven's first Cambot post
Warnings: None
Notes: Possible spoilers for... the whole series |D

With the decision to meet up in person, Sora, Roxas and Ventus also decided on meeting in the cafeteria. Talking over snacks usually helped a little.

Roxas wasn't overly surprised that he'd arrived first, if mostly because he hadn't been far from the cafeteria when he'd seen Ven's first appearance on Cambot. Deciding he had time while he waited for the others and not entirely trusting the synthesizer, he poked about in the kitchen for a tea kettle and hopefully a pot too. And he was kind of surprised that Pinkie Pie wasn't in there at the moment, but that was okay because the stuff they were going to discuss needed to stay between them for the moment. They would likely discuss these things with the others from they're world, universe, whatever.

Tea accoutrements at hand, all Roxas really had to do while waiting for others was wait for water to boil and see what kind of snacks were available that went with tea. Maybe one day he'd ask Pinkie Pie if she knew a good recipe for tea cakes or scones or something like that. He knew one recipe for scone and it was... not the best recipe, though he was pretty sure he knew what it needed. Considering he had time to kill, he started mixing up a batch.

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It took longer for Ven to show up than Roxas, since Aqua and Terra wanted to give him the tour and get him a room, and of course he wasn't at all reluctant to do that. Seeing that they were both okay made the entire day - had it really just been one day? - worth it, even the near-death. And now there was all this new information to take in, some of it he wasn't entirely sure he wanted to know, but he wasn't going to run away from it either.

Still, when he popped into the kitchen, he didn't expect to see... well, himself, and especially not baking. And just because he knew that he and Roxas looked the same over a screen, that didn't mean he was any less taken aback by it in person. "R...Roxas?"

Sora showed up not that long after Ven, also thankful to talk about some more of this out of the way of the Cambots. There were some things that were just better said face to face.

When he arrived in the cafeteria, he stopped for a little bit at finding Roxas and Ven already there. Seeing the two in person together was especially strange...no wonder Terra and Aqua had said that Ven and Roxas could practically be twins. What's more, they also sounded almost exactly the same.

He waved to the two. "Uh...hey, guys!"

Roxas had just put the scones in the oven when Ven arrived, so all that really needed doing after that was waiting for the kettle and cleaning up. Rather than ask Ven to help him clean up, he pointed out the teapot and its strainer insert and asked him to measure out the tea and put it in the strainer.

He didn't look up from what he was doing. The kettle was going to be whistling soon and he wanted to finish cleaning the stuff he'd mixed up the scones in before then.

"Hey."

Ven's experience in the kitchen was... negligible, really, to the point where he wasn't sure exactly how to work the strainer. He'd never made the tea at home, he just drank it when it was pushed in front of him. But after fiddling with it for a second, he was pretty sure he had the idea, and he scooped some of the loose tea into the strainer, securing it. Roxas was apparently determined to be quiet, so Ven didn't break the silence either, because this was already awkward enough and wow this was going to be so much fun. Ugh.

When Sora walked in, Ven looked up from his place beside the counter and waved. "Hey there. So, this is gonna be different."

Sora had never really made tea himself, either...he could cook some basic things, but he'd never been that big on tea anyway. Having a synthesizer did make things quite a bit easier, sometimes.

However, figuring out what to do with the three of them probably wouldn't be so easy. He scratched at the back of his head. "Yeah..." A part of him wondered if Ven was thinking how much he looked like Vanitas the way Roxas and Ven looked like a mirror of each other. "Do either of you remember anything else now? About what Roxas suggested, I mean."

Roxas didn't right away, partly because he was finishing up with the stuff he'd dirtied and partly because the kettle had started whistling. He thought over his answer while he was fetching the kettle and pouring the water into the pot to brew the tea.

"I think we created more questions for ourselves than we answered," he remarked with a sigh, "But, I kind of interrupted you guys. Ven, what were you going to say before I jumped in?"

Ven couldn't help it; he kept sneaking looks at both of them, because people really hadn't been exaggerating. Their faces were all pretty much exactly the same, same heights, same builds - the only reason Sora looked at all different from him and Roxas was his hair and slightly darker skin color. Ven had never met anyone that looked anything like him, so now going from Vanitas to these two in such little time was knocking him for a complete loop.

But he was able to keep his composure pretty well; he looked a little uncomfortable, but he didn't voice it or show it too much, except in his eyes (which he could never, ever control and didn't realize he couldn't). Glancing from Roxas back to Sora, then back to Roxas again, Ven finally let out a heavy sigh and pushed himself up to sit on the counter behind him, letting his legs dangle. He and Roxas even had the same wristband, almost.

"This is gonna sound strange... I just found out about all of this. I haven't gotten to tell Terra and Aqua this, 'cause after I found out we went right into fighting them, and then I was here. But about four and a half years ago or so, I was training under Master Xehanort. I don't remember before that, but I must have then because he kept pulling out Heartless to send at me. He wanted me to make something called the χ-blade - not like our Keyblades, but some old letter that could also be said like 'kye.' And Light and Darkness have to face each other and fuse in the Keyblade Graveyard to do it, and he was trying to make my Darkness stronger so I would do it for him. But it scared me too much and I wouldn't do it, so he took his Keyblade and used it to unlock the Darkness in my heart, and took it right out of me completely. It made another boy - Vanitas - and that's when I lost all my memories."

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Sora listened carefully to Ven's story, his brow furrowed. He didn't know you could take all of the darkness out of someone with a Keyblade, but from the sound of it, it was a terrible idea. "So, Vanitas came out of the darkness in your heart...but he looked like me?" He couldn't have lost his heart that long ago...so their hearts had been connected even then? "And why did Xehanort want that X-blade so bad anyway?"

He knew that Xehanort was definitely bad news, what with all that he'd done to both his friends and the worlds. This just confirmed that Xehanort had been up to no good for a long time!

However, that led to another question in Sora's mind...he knew that Xehanort looked like a young adult, at least when he lost his heart and then became both a Heartless and a Nobody. But if all this happened to Ven ten, even fifteen years ago...wouldn't that just have made Xehanort a teenager; almost their age? How could he command that much power even then? "Also...how could Xehanort do all that if he was as young as us? He was already a Master then?" Terra and Aqua had made it sound like their teacher was older and wiser than them, and Ven made it sound the same.

Sora had a point there. Roxas thought on it a bit. It was a bit weird learning that Xemnas's Other had been a Keybearer and it raised the question of why he never used it when his Organization's goals called for it. But one thing at a time. Picking up the thread of the conversation where Sora had left it, Roxas added his two cents.

"Yeah... His Nobody looked to be about thirty, so when you fought him, he would have to have been around twenty then."

And Ven couldn't do anything more to that question than shake his head. "That's gotta be another Xehanort then, 'cause Master Xehanort is... I don't know how old, but pretty old. He's completely bald and walks around hunched over and can't even stand up straight. But he's really, really powerful - when we were fighting him just now, he could make the ground shoot up a hundred feet in the air just by waving his hand." Clonked Terra good when doing that, too.

For a brief moment, he wished he was back in Disney Town eating ice cream - it was a lot easier being there than talking about the worst weapon in history. "The χ-blade can only be created when a heart of pure Light - me - and a heart of pure Darkness - Vanitas - meet and intersect. That's why he split my heart, because he couldn't do it with just one. He needed two. Vanitas fused with me while we were fighting just now, or he tried to at least, and the χ-blade was made. It's supposed to be able to summon Kingdom Hearts and open it, releasing all that power. I don't know what he wanted with it, but I think he wanted to recreate the Keyblade War. That or he just wanted the χ-blade itself - he was kind of rambling at the end, I just wanted to hit him instead of listen to him."

Sora's eyes widened at Ven's description. On the hand, that was scary enough to hear. He'd thought it had been difficult with Xemnas's swift moves and endless lasers, and his Heartless's giant ship. But being able to move whole mountains seemed somehow worse.

However, the bit that confused him was Ven saying that he was an old man. The Xehanort he'd fought definitely hadn't been that old. "That's weird...Aqua and Terra made it sound like he was the same guy I had to fight a few times. The Xehanort I knew was trying to take over all the worlds, too."

"I've never heard of that X-blade thing before...and I've seen the door to Kingdom Hearts," Sora said. They couldn't see all of what was beyond it, but at least they knew there was light in it. And this weapon could open the door to it? "'Keyblade War?' What's that supposed to be?"

Roxas was quite for a while, for one because he was seeing to the tea and for another because he was thinking. Something didn't add up.

"The odds are kind of slim that there's two separate villains with the same name, same goal and similar powers running around," he said after a moment's thought and another few moments to pour three cups of tea, "I wonder though. Whether it's one guy or two, is the goal really just conquest? His Nobody drew the others in the Organization to the cause of finding Kingdom Hearts in the first place with the promise that it had the power to restore their hearts. But that kind of power might have other uses..."

It didn't occur to Roxas until the words were out of his mouth that Sora, Riku and Lexaeus were the only ones on the satellite who knew of his previous involvement with the villainous Organization whose leader they were discussing. Though Lexaeus seemed as eager as Roxas to put the whole affair behind him.

"The Keyblade War was something that happened so long ago that there were only legends of it, and even those are just bits and pieces. I didn't even believe them until we had to go to the Graveyard and fight them - there were all these old Keyblades there, just stuck in the ground where their wielders fell. Thousands of them, all up to the horizon - it was really, really creepy." Ven couldn't hold back a slight shudder at that - he and his friends had come so close to leaving their Keyblades there as well. "The War happened when Keybladers of Light and Darkness clashed, destroying or completely rearranging most of the worlds. Master Xehanort said they were trying to summon Kingdom Hearts, so maybe they were trying to have equal Light and Darkness face each other to get the χ-blade, but whatever reason they had to do it, they didn't get it. I'm pretty sure me and Vanitas are the first ones who've made it." And then he broke it. Didn't regret that at all.

But Roxas said something that didn't make much sense at all, and Ven turned to look at his... twin full on. "Your Xehanort made a Nobody? What's this Organization?"

With all the other not-coincidences that had happened between him, Roxas, Ven and everyone else, it didn't seem that likely that two Xehanorts was a coincidence. Yen Sid did say he was the key that connected everything, after all. But he had to admit, he couldn't figure out an explanation for Xehanort being old in the past and young in the future...unless he was aging backwards, which was kind of weird.

The idea of something like a Keyblade Graveyard was pretty sombering to Sora. "I've never heard that legend..." he said in a tone that indicated he was glad he hadn't heard of it before. "But why would he want to make a huge war, anyway? Why'd all those Keybearers want to open the door to Kingdom Hearts?" When he'd seen it, they'd definitely been in a hurry to close it, more than anything!

Sora did step in to answer at least part of Ven's question...if Roxas wanted to elaborate, that was up to him. "The Organization was a group of really powerful Nobodies, and they were led by Xehanort's Nobody. They were trying to make their own Kingdom Hearts by gathering lots of hearts together, so we had to stop them."

Roxas did picked up the Sora's explanation to elaborate on it... while grabbing those scone out of the oven. It wouldn't do to let them burn...

"Quite a few of them had their own agendas. Most of them really did want their hearts back, but they didn't trust the Organization. A couple of them seemed happy without hearts... if that's even possible."

He fell silent for a moment, thinking. There was more, especially now that he remembered certain things. There was still a lot he didn't know, just because he'd never learned it. He took a sip of his tea before continuing.

"They picked me up because they needed a Keyblade for their plans. All I was ever told was that the Organization's goal was to make their own Kingdom Hearts so that we could all get our hearts back. They never did tell me that mine was actually still running around somewhere rather than lost in darkness like every other Nobody's heart. I wonder if that was why I could use the Keyblade anyway, even without a heart..."

"Okay, I really don't get this - how does all this Nobody stuff work? You said the body without the heart could get up and start moving again, but mine never did. And you have to have some kind of heart if you could use the Keyblade, they're tied to our hearts."

This was getting far too confusing. If it kept going like this, Ven was going to call a time-out and just start everything over from the very beginning. Maybe get a lot of graph paper to plot it all out. It was that crazy.

"I don't know why he wanted it - I just know he did. Probably just for power; it's always for power." Ven shook his head a little, almost sadly. "I think the Keybearers are the only ones who know those legends anymore. I never heard anyone mention them or anything like them when I was traveling around the worlds."

"I guess it doesn't happen every time...I mean, the Princesses of Heart's bodies stayed fine when they lost their hearts. But their hearts didn't have any darkness in them, so I don't know if that speaks for anyone else."

As to the rest of the Organization...Sora couldn't speak much to their motives; just their methods, which he couldn't tolerate. And he definitely agreed with Ven that this was all getting too confusing.

Well, that could do it...all that Sora had heard about the Keyblade itself came from non-Keybearers, after all, considering he had never met any new ones before coming here. "Just going after power sounds like Xehanort, too...his Heartless wanted the power of the darkness in Kingdom Hearts itself, and his Nobody wanted the power of hearts."

"Sounds like they had differing opinions on which source of power was best," Roxas remarked thoughtfully before a thought occurred to him, "Xehanort's Heartless also when and did a little body snatching, if my information is correct. I wonder why he would bother though..."

That was troubling and if there was any significance to the body snatching, which he thought there might be, it was staying out of reach for the moment.

"...I don't have any darkness in me now, so maybe that explains that. If losing your heart's supposed to create a Nobody and I didn't..." It was the only thing that made sense to him. And after that first forceful separation, his heart really didn't have any darkness. If it could happen to girls, why not guys too?

But that second bit of info from Roxas draws his attention. "Body snatching? So his Heartless could... take someone over?"

"Well, making a Heartless doesn't always make a Nobody," Sora offered. "Only if you have a really strong heart." On the other hand, you had to have a really strong heart to use a Keyblade in the first place, so it would've been more likely than not that Ven would make a Nobody if he lost his heart. But if you artificially lost all the darkness in your heart, could that prevent a Nobody, too?

"Or just didn't know what the other was doing..." Sora mused. A part of him was unsure the Heartless and Nobody had ever even met...they seemed so completely uninterested in anything except their own goals.

At Roxas's mention of body-snatching, however, Sora was reluctant to elaborate. Yes, his Heartless had taken over Riku, and because of that they had had to fight a lot. But Sora wasn't sure if he wanted to put Riku on the spot there, especially in front of Ven. He knew that Riku had done bad things, but the point was he was better now.

Still, he had to back that up a bit. "Yeah...it did, just for a little bit."

Roxas had been thinking of Riku when he mentioned the body snatching, though he mostly knew of that from getting his ass handed to him and from eavesdropping on Sora later on. That was a little beside the point and he really didn't have any details beyond that, though he wondered if those details might help them come to some answers.

It was obvious the mention had made Sora uncomfortable, so Roxas didn't go into anymore detail on it... at least, he didn't name names, though he gave Sora a meaningful look as he spoke, "I exist partly because of that. Because that Heartless dropped a hint about a Keyblade that unlocks hearts and left that Keyblade lying around after he was beaten in a fight."

If Sora didn't want to mention that Riku was specifically the one who had been possessed, Roxas wouldn't either. That part wasn't the important detail anyway. The behavior of the Heartless was.

And Ven didn't ask about who was bodysnatched, because to him that's not the important fact. He wasn't stupid - sheltered, yeah, with limited knowledge of some stuff, but he wasn't stupid, and Ven was starting to put some of the pieces together.

"Wait a second - if the Heartless could take over a person, and Vanitas could take over me... Both of them would be made of Darkness. And Master Xehanort gave himself over to Darkness entirely. Maybe if something's got enough will and is completely using Darkness, they can take someone over, and so maybe that's how come Master Xehanort is old and your Xehanort isn't."

But who would he have taken over, then...?

Sora was at least thankful that neither Ven nor Roxas seemed to press on who was possessed. That wasn't something he wanted to go into right now. He also wasn't sure if he should go into how Roxas had been made from Sora losing his heart...not that he minded sharing that, since he didn't regret doing it, but it was all just more confusion in the face of everything they were talking about now.

And speaking of, it just seemed to get worse with Ven's idea. He didn't like that thought at all, whether for himself, Riku or anyone else. "Maybe...I thought it was just a one-time thing with Xehanort's Heartless. But if it happened with Vanitas, I guess it could happen again, too."

He crossed his arms, and voiced the question that Ven was thinking. "But if your Xehanort tried that too, then whose body did he steal? And why?" If the older Xehanort had been after this X-Blade, and he was the same as the young Xehanort, then why didn't the young Xehanort or any of his incarnations ever mention it?

Roxas thought about that a moment. It did explain a lot. And he thought he might have an answer on at least one reason why Xehanort would go and snatch a body.

"Well, Ven. You said Xehanort was old, right? And hunched over? Just being old an uncertain of how long he had left could be one reason he'd wante another body." One among many. There was every possibility he could then switch bodies again when the stolen body aged. And there was still another issue.

An issue that bugged Roxas a little, but the reason why was not something he wanted to bring up, "As to whose body he took... I dunno. Too bad we don't have a picture of him or his Nobody on hand. That might help us figure this out."

Well, Ven already knew about Sora losing his heart - or at least he knew that a Nobody was formed when a person with a strong will lost his heart, and Roxas was Sora's Nobody, so he'd have to be a total idiot to not have put that together. But that wasn't the important thing at the moment, so there was no point in bringing it up.

"I don't know what happened to him in that last fight - I was going to confront him, but Terra stopped me and then all five of us were just all over the place. And I jumped to hit him, but he just grabbed me out of thin air and gripped my helmet hard enough to crack it and froze my body over completely, then tossed me off a cliff. Vanitas came down to finish me and Aqua, and then I had to face him..."

And then he died. Or lost his heart. Or came to this place. Whatever, the point was that Ven didn't know what the final outcome of the fight was, only that he'd taken Vanitas out of the picture before it could be finished.

"Riku said that you and he fought his Heartless and his Nobody, Sora - do you think you could draw a picture of him?"