The Angel's Keyblade~ Chapter 17

"I'm glad to hear that things went well today."

I bowed my head. "Things went smoothly with the girls. I think they'll have an easy time preparing the other fairies."

Queen Clarion nodded. "Good. If it's not too much trouble, I would like you to supervise them tomorrow and assist in any way you can."

"Of course, Your Highness. I'd be happy to." I looked down, the question I was meaning to ask her stuck in my throat.

She seemed to notice this and placed a hand on my shoulder. "Is there something wrong?"

I returned my eyes to her and shook my head. "No, Your Highness, it's just that, well, I have a question concerning the conditions of Chise's arrival."

"Oh, well, there's not much I can tell you, but you'll more than likely have better luck with Terence; He's the one that found your sister," she replied.

"Alright, thank you so much." I bowed respectfully, then left the chamber and headed down to the pool of Pixie Dust that the fairy Terence watched over. When I landed in the clearing, it only took a moment for me to find him distributing Pixie Dust to a Garden fairy. I waited patiently for the female fairy to leave, them walked up to Terence when she had bowed her head in thanks and took off. "Terence."

He turned around and smiled warmly. I had spoken with him earlier that day when Tink and the others needed to get Pixie Dust for training. Turns out that that's what gave them ability to fly, but when Terence had tired to sprinkle some on me, the necklace Ansem the Wise had given me began to glow a strong gold and outlined my body, completely deflecting the magic powder. It had baffled the others at first, but I quickly went into explaining that outside that world,  I could fly without Pixie Dust, so it made sense that I didn't need it. I was worried that I had offended them when they hadn't responded at first, but they simply all smiled and joked how it would be much easier if they didn't have to constantly come get more Pixie Dust. But then again, Terence would be out of a job.

Terence reminded me greatly of my youngest brother, Arashi; They both have dishwater-blonde hair, a small yet agile body, and the sweetest smile and laugh. Though both of them cared deeply for their friends, the one thing that Arashi held over Terence was the ability to seclude himself. In other words, Terence was an open book, leaving his true feelings exposed for the whole world to see; especially his not-so-secret crush on Tinker Bell.

"You caught me just in time," he stated, dusting the excess Pixie Dust off his hands. "I was just about to head out for the night."

"I'll try not to keep you long," I replied. "I just wanted to ask you something."

"Okay. Shoot."

I suddenly felt uneasy and hesitated, just I had with Queen Clarion, not quite sure how to question him about Genji. But slowly, the words began to come out. "W-When you found Chise… was there a boy with her? Similar brown hair and green eyes, wearing dark clothes?"

Terence sighed. "Guess I will be held up." He sat on the ledge of the pool.

"You saw him!?" My hopes suddenly rose and my heart -as well as my wings- fluttered with excitement.

The male fairy nodded. "You figure out he's the reason the Heartless are here?"

I felt an ice pick pierce my chest at the words that had just left him. "What?" I said in hushed disbelief.

"I didn't see it at first, but when you arrived, it all became clear." Terence looked at me. "How do you know him?"

Once again, uneasiness clouded my mind. I couldn't tell him that the stranger was possibly my brother. Otherwise, the fairy would lose complete trust in me and most likely inform Queen Clarion. "I…I thought I knew him, but I guess I was wrong." It wasn't a lie, but it wasn't the full truth. "Would it be too much for me to ask what happened?"

Terence shook his head. "Not at all, but you may want to sit down." He patted the spot next to him beside the pool. When I had settled, he continued. "I normally don't stray from my position here, but on the day your sister arrived, I had gone off to look for Tink… and Clank and Bobble," he quickly added, his face slightly red with embarrassment.

I laughed a little, but allowed him to continue.

"They've lately been going to that clearing near the beach to find parts for their inventions, and I've always seen them carrying a bunch of things. So I decided to head out and help them out. But when I got there, they had already left… As I doubled back, I heard something strange below me in a clump of sage. When I landed to investigate, there was this strange black blob. I started to approach it, but then I began to see someone coming out of it, so I hid. That's when… he appeared; He just stepped out of that thing as though it were some sort of door, Chise unconscious in his arms. All of the sudden he looked directly at my hiding spot and called out to me, saying he knew I was there… I was hesitant at first, but eventually revealed myself to him. Something about him didn't seem right; I mean, along the fact that he wore this black coat-"

"Black coat?" I interrupted. Maybe it wasn't him after all, and just an Organization XIII member. But then, why would they have Chise and bring her here of all places?

"Yeah, but there was something else that didn't feel right. I could feel this weird negative energy coming off of him, making the hair on the back of my neck creep. But he just held this neutral gaze the entire time, as if there was amount of emotion within in. He held Chise out and told me to take good care of her. I didn't know what to do, so for a while I just looked down at her. He obviously wasn't going to take no for an answer, because he groaned and shoved Chise into my arms, then turned around without another word and went back inside the doorway. I was still trying to process the whole event… when those Heartless things started to creep out of the portal thing. My senses immediately told me to run, and that's just what I did. Thankfully they didn't follow us, and when I returned here, I brought her to Fairy Mary and Queen Clarion. Chise was comatosed for about a day and a half, but when she woke up, she became isolated, often crying out several names in her sleep… including yours."

My heart wrenched at the information and for a while I said nothing. Why would the Organization have Chise, only to bring her here? Did they hold my other loved ones captive? And if that really was Genji, what's he doing with a group like Organization XIII? "Do… do you remember the other names… that she had said?" I eventually managed to ask.

Terence put his hand to his chin in thought. "She would cry out 'Mother' and 'Father,' but the other two were kind of confusing," he answered.

"Was it 'Arashi' and 'Genji'? I offered.

"That's it, although she call out 'Genji' almost as much as yours. Who are they?"

"Arashi and Genji are me and Chise's brothers. Chise holds a real close bond with Genji, so I'm not surprised she called out for him." But it looks like that mysterious figure was Genji. So then, why is he working with the Organization!?