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Chapter 7: Bonds of the Swift Wind

The Past: Keron: Star Street

Keroro looked around the street with only a short distance from the fog. He looked to be shaking like a leaf. "Gero…" was he can croak. "What should I do? Mom and dad are stuck in the fog somewhere, de arimasu…" But then he heard something; A sound of an aircraft approaching. The green frog turned his head to his surprise, he sees something. He sees a strange person riding a strange vehicle. The person appears to be wearing armor that is colored Steel Blue on most of the top areas and shoes of the armor, gold trimming, and black in the less armored areas, with red lines on the legs of the armor, with the armor on his knees bearing a sharp upward-pointing hook on the outer side of each one. The top of the helmet top looked squashed and flat on the top, with the two prongs on either side of the head point backwards, at a diagonal upward. He appears to be riding in an incredibly altered version of the Wayward Wind Keyblade Ventus normally carries, but used to ride as a board.

When the armored person lands, a light envelops the person to reveal the human's true identity; The armor looked to of disappeared, but without the armor, it was none other than the Keybearer, Ventus. He gave an amazed reaction as he takes a look around, but faces opposite of the fog. "So this is Planet Keron!" The boy said as he takes in the planet's surroundings. "That book I found back home really did explain the civilization… well, except for the fact that this place looks… a lot more advanced than what I read."

Flashback: Land of Departure: Library (4 Days before the Exam)

The spiky haired male's theme (-Ventus-) plays as he walked into the room from a small door to see a large library. He seemed to give an amazed look. "Is this the Library…?" The boy asked. "I've never been in it before. Master didn't allow me into it before until a couple of months ago… I just forgot about it until now."

"That was before you obtained your ability to summon the Keyblade." A young woman said. The woman that walked into view turned out to be the female keybearer, Aqua herself. "Now that you managed to summon your own, Master Eraqus was more than happy to let you into the Library." She said with a slight smile.

"Yeah, but didn't Master said that Terra was in here?" Ventus asked the blunette.

"Yes, he did." The female said, while giving a nod.

"If I know the boy, he's likely to be in the back of the Library." A new older male voice said, and the two Keybearers looked to the door and stood at attention. The person that stands before them is male with black hair, tied into a short high topknot with one bang falling on the right side of the face, with a small triangular soul patch and a mustache. He also wears a white, red lined haori with a slightly shorter than normal light-colored Hakama. Underneath the Haori is a navy blue shirt with a large X pattern on the front of it. He wears gold and black armored boots with a dull blue-green section that covers his abdomen, with the symbol seen on the other's belts on the armor near the top. He had two jagged scars on his face- one over his right eye, and the other on the left cheek. "Long before you became my apprentice, Ventus, there was a book I had in my possession regarding a race that we Keybearers are allied with. Terra seemed to take a good amount of interest into this race, so I gave the book on the race to him so he could read up on it. But after you had arrived, he didn't have time for reading it anymore." The older man explained.

"What kind of book, Master?" Ventus asked, easing up alongside the blunette.

"You'll see." The man Ventus referred to as Master answered.

In the deeper part of the Library, we see a male wearing the exact same clothes the Keronians seen Terra wear, but reading into a book with some ancient writing on the cover of the book, something in which the older man can read. "I see you found the Legends of the Alliance, Terra." The man said, catching the male's attention.

"Hey, Master Eraqus." 'Terra' Acknowledged as Aqua, Ventus, and 'Eraqus' walks up to the male. "Uh, yeah. I suppose you guys want to read this book? "

"I didn't think you were into reading, Terra." Aqua said, jokingly said.

"Well, this book titles back to during and the end of a war. It appears to be about an ancient Partnership between the Keybearers…and a sentient race known as the 'Keronians'." The male said, giving some detail to the book to his fellow allies.

"Keronians?" The female parroted. "What do they look like?"

Terra placed the book on the table and shows a picture of what a normal male and female of the Keron race would look like. The male's usual body is a lot like Keroro, while the female actually looks quite similar to Pururu. "They say that Keronians can exist for over thousands of years, but no one really knows how long. They could perhaps have their bodies adjust to the annual rotation of the cycle the planets to possibly keep their actual age a secret." 'Eraqus' explained. "The females of their species often mature later than the males but other times they share the general appearance in their youth."

"So, no one really knows how old are they?" Ventus said in confusion.

The Older man shook his head in response, and the boy gave a look to a quite old illustration of a human, who looked…suspiciously like the brown haired boy Keroro and the others are trying to find, as well as another Keronian, who looked to be illustrated in appearance to look quite similar to Pururu, when it comes to eyes and appearance (a Tadpole Keronian) but the hat is a cloth that's wrapped around the head makes it look like a turben, yet resembling Dororo's hat at the back. The symbol is the Yin Yang Symbol, but with the black symbol on the right of her body. "But this is the two who resolved to stop a war over thousands of years ago." The man said to his three pupils. "What that war is I cannot tell you. You are not ready to learn this secret. But what I can tell you that over 1 Million years is equal to 6 years on their time- ergo, 100 million years on our time is just a mere six years to them."

"Aww…" The youngest male replied with a bit of a disappointed look. "But out of curiosity, where do they live anyway?"

"According to the book, Keron, the name of the planet, is better known to some as the 58th Planet in the Gamma Planetary System." Terra responded while looking up the page.
"The worlds go in a large cycle, and passes by the location at the passing of the Summer Solstice every 'earth year'. That's going to happen a few days from now, so maybe we could check it out if we ever get time."

"Whooooa!" The blond haired boy exclaimed, looking excited.

"Master, how or when did you get a book like this in your possession?" Aqua asked.

The older master actually gave a bit of a soft chuckle and smile as he said, "That answer you must for yourself, as I am sworn to secrecy to that answer." The music ends as Ventus looked at the image.

After the Flashback: Keron: Star Street

Ventus, gives a bit of a smile before noticing something wrong. "Strange… You'd think there would be...Keronians? Yeah, Keronians- you would think that they would be around." He said, looking around. "Where is everyone?"

"Um…" Keroro asked, as he tapped his side.

"Huh?" The boy said, and he looked down to the green Keronian before bending down to his level. "Oh, hello there!"

"Gero!" The Sergeant croaked in slight nervousness before asking, "Um…you wouldn't happen to be a Keybearer, would you?"

"I am one, why?" Ventus asked curiously.

Just then Keroro got right up to boy's face with tears coming out of his eyes, and exclaimed, "I need your help, please, de arimasu!!"

The young Keybearer gave a confused grunt before Sergeant lets go and lands on the ground. The boy asked cautiously, "Why? Is there anything wrong?"

"Of course there is! The Keronians tried to send out a distress signal for help hours ago, de arimasu!" The Sergeant panicked. "Keron is under attack!"