Kingdom Hearts: Young Hearts in Light

Twilight’s P.O.V.

"Twilight!" Spike called, "Breakfast is ready!"

I groggily opened up my eyes and looked around.  I still wasn't quite used to waking up in the castle yet, but at least I had a good night's rest.  I trotted out of my bedroom and into the kitchen.  When I arrived, there were plates of four stacks of pancakes on the table, and Nyx and Spike sitting there, but Joshua wasn't.

"Where's Josh?" I ask.

"He's not up yet," Nyx replied, "When I tried waking him, he didn't respond."

Joshua hadn’t woken up yet?  I was getting a little worried.  He never slept this late.  I excused myself from the room to check on Joshua.  When I peeked into his room, I saw him tossing and turning in bed.  Uh oh!  I hurried over to his bedside and tried to wake him up by lightly shaking his shoulder, but it wasn’t doing any good.  About half a minute later, he still hadn’t woken up.  I was getting really concerned now.  But just then, he quickly sat up, opened his eyes, and yelped.

“AH!” he exclaimed.

“Josh?” I said to him.  He turned to look at me and instantly wrapped his arms around my neck.  I brought my foreleg around him as he shivered from whatever nightmare he was having.  “Are you alright?" I asked, "You had me worried there.  I tried waking you up, but you weren’t responding.”

“I... I... It all seemed so real," he said, "Those creatures, that sword, what does it mean?"

"Josh?" I asked pulling back to look at him.  I almost wished I hadn't.  He had a far off, troubled look on his face.  "Sweetie?" I said waving a hoof in front of his face, "Are you there?"

"Huh?" he said shaking his head, "Mommy?"

"There you are," I said in relief, "What happened?"

"It was so strange," he said, "There was a mysterious voice that kept popping up telling me what to do and where to go, and stained glass floors of you and everypony else, and black, yellow-eyed creatures, and a key-shaped sword."

"Calm down, Joshua," I said to him, "Why don't you get dressed and tell us what happened over breakfast, okay?"

“Okay,” he said hopping down off his bed and over to his dresser.  Since the library got destroyed, that meant all of Joshua’s old clothes got ruined too.  Rarity was nice enough to make him some new ones though.  I walked out of the room to give him privacy while he changed.  Afterwards, he walked out and joined me in walking to the kitchen.  When we all sat down, Joshua told us what had happened.  Like he said, there were stained glass floors of us and our friends, a strange voice telling him things, black creatures with yellow eyes, and a mysterious sword shaped a key.

"Whoa," Spike said after Joshua finished, "That's one weird dream, bro."

"No kidding," Nyx added, "But what does it mean?"

"I don't know," Joshua replied, "But I have a feeling that dream was trying to tell me something.  But what?"

"How about we look in the castle library after we finish breakfast?" I asked him, "There might be a clue or two there."

"Sounds good," he said.

Meanwhile...

Fluttershy’s P.O.V.

I was concerned.  My little Toby was usually awake by now.  He never slept this late.  I walked over to his room and opened the door.  He was still sleeping, but he had a troubled expression on his face.  Was he having a nightmare?  I moved to his bedside and lightly shook his shoulder.

"Toby?" I whispered in his ear.  He didn't wake up.  I tried again shaking a little bit harder.  "Toby?  Toby, wake up."  He opened his eyes and gasped.  He then looked at me.

"Momma?" he asked.

"I'm here, sweetie," I replied.  He sat up and wrapped his arms around my neck.  I put a hoof on his back and lightly rubbed it.  What could've happened in the dream he was having.  "What happened?" I asked.

"I was... in a dark place," he said, "And, there were pictures of you and Sister Sunset on the floor.  Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo were there and they asked me strange questions.  Then a strange voice said that I had an adventure that's going to begin at dusk."

"Oh dear," I uttered, "Are you okay?"

"I think so," he answered, "But, I'm kind of worried.  What did the dream mean when it said my adventure begins at dusk?"

"I don't know, sweetie," I replied, "Maybe we should ask your Auntie Twilight about it after breakfast, okay?"

"Okay," he said with a small nod.

"I'm making you your favorite today," I said giving him a smile.  He gave a small smile at that as we headed towards the kitchen.  I just hoped that dream he had wouldn't affect him too much.

Meanwhile...

Nys'x P.O.V.

After we all finished, and brushed our teeth, we went over to the castle library and began looking through the many books in there.  I could hear Joshua mumbling to himself on where to find those black creatures he saw in his dream.  All four of us had been leafing through the books trying to find answers, but we weren't having much luck.

As I was flipping through a book called Mythical Creatures, I thought I caught a glimpse of a picture of the creature he talked about.  I flipped the pages back to where it was and saw a creature that fit Joshua’s description.

“Joshua?” I said looking up at him.  He turned to look at me.

“Yes, Nyx?” he said.  I turned to book around to show him the picture.

“Is this the creature you saw in your dream?” I asked.

“That’s it!” he exclaimed pointing at the book.  He put the book he was holding down and ran over to me.  Twilight and Spike joined us as I turned the book back around and began to read the description.

Heartless

The Heartless are beings of darkness that manifest in two forms, "Pureblood" and "Emblem". While most Heartless are, in fact, manifested hearts, they behave entirely devoid of emotion, and thus were named "Heartless".

Pureblood Heartless are natural Heartless, born from the darkness in ponies' hearts. They are ink-black in color, with yellow beady eyes. They are more common in places that are close to or saturated in darkness. Upon their destruction, they simply disappear in puffs of darkness, without a heart leaving its body.

Emblem Heartless, on the other hoof, were originally created from machines that reproduce the process of a heart being consumed by darkness. Afterward, stolen hearts can become Emblems. They have more varied shapes, colors, and are branded with a heart-like symbol to differentiate them from the Pureblood ones.

“‘Born from the darkness in ponies’ hearts’?” Twilight said confused, “What does that mean?”

“Heartless?” Joshua said slowly, “That’s what those creatures are called?  What about that sword shaped key I had?”  None of us could figure out what that meant.  We all went back to looking through books.  A few more minutes, I heard Spike grunt in confusion.  Suddenly, he exclaimed, surprising us.

“Ah-ha!” he exclaimed, “I think I found it!”  We all rushed over to him as his book was open to a page of what was a silver colored sword with the teeth of a key at the end of the blade and a yellow hand guard with a blue handle.

“‘Keyblade’,” he read, “‘The Keyblade only lets a chosen wielder hold it, but those with the strength of heart to wield a Keyblade are able to give or take them from others, or take control of them if they have been abandoned.  Those incapable of wielding a Keyblade cannot keep it, even if a wielder hands it to them.  A wielder is able to summon or dispel their Keyblades at will; however, it is implied that one can only wield a single Keyblade at a time, even if they have possession of more than one.  The Keyblade can also unlock and lock anything and is most commonly used to fight Heartless.’”

“Keyblade,” Joshua said looking at his open hand.

“It said that you can call it at will,” Twilight read again.  She looked up at Joshua.  “Could you try calling it?”

“I’ll try,” I said.  Joshua looked at his hand again and seemed to be concentrating.  His brow furrowed a little but nothing came up.  He then let out a sigh of defeat and lowered his head.  “I can’t do it.”  Twilight put a hoof on his shoulder and he looked up at her.

“Don’t worry about it right now, okay?” she said to him, “We’ll worry about it later.”

“Okay,” he said nodding still sounding dejected.

Meanwhile...

Fluttershy's P.O.V.

After we had breakfast, Toby and I headed to Twilight's place.  When we got there, Toby told her the dream he had.  Spike was there too.  Afterwards, Twilight put a hoof to her chin and thought for a minute, but she shook her head sadly.

"I'm sorry, Toby, but I have no idea what it means," she said.

"Oh," he replied sadly.  I put a hoof on his shoulder and rubbed it.  I then looked back at Twilight.

"Is there anypony who might know?" she asked.  Twilight suddenly perked up.

"Actually," she said, "Princess Luna might know."

"Auntie Luna?" Toby asked.

"Maybe," she replied, "Hey Spike?"

"Yeah?" Spike replied.

"We need a letter sent to Princess Luna," she said.

"Alright," he said pulling out a quill pen and paper, "Ready and waiting."

"Toby, how about you say what to write?" Twilight said.

"Me?" he asked.

"Why not?" she replied, "It is your dream, after all."

"Okay," he said.  After thinking for a minute, he started dictating his message:

Dear Auntie Luna,

Last night, I had a strange dream.  In it, there were circle floor pictures of Momma and Sister Sunset, a door that wouldn't open, and my big sisters Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo were there.  They asked me some really strange questions, and after that, the door opened up.  There was also a strange voice saying that I was going on an adventure at dusk.  I'm worried about this, and Auntie Twilight said I should ask you if you know what it means.  Please let me know as fast as you can.

Love,

Toby

After he finished, Spike rolled up the scroll, sealed it, and blew his delivery flame on it, sending it to Canterlot.

"I hope she does answer quickly," Toby said twiddling his fingers.

"Don't worry," Twilight said, "She will."

BURP!!!

That was fast, I thought as Spike grabbed the letter he burped out.  He walked over to Toby and handed it to him.  Toby unrolled the letter and read it out loud.

Dear Toby,

I cannot say for sure what your dream was about, but it is my belief that you had a vision of sorts.  A vision is a dream that tells you something is going to happen.  If what you say you saw and heard is true, then a strange adventure is going to be happening for you this evening.  All I can say is be prepared for the unexpected.

Love,

Your Auntie Luna

"A vision?" he asked, "She means, I am going on some kind of adventure?"

"It sounds that way," Twilight said, "I'm sorry I couldn't be of any more help, Toby."

"It's okay, Auntie Twilight," he said hugging her, "I appreciate that you tried."

I was now worried.  My little boy was going on an adventure?  What did that mean?  Would he be going alone?  Would he be alright?  I hope this doesn't mean something bad.

Meanwhile...

Joshua's P.O.V.

Dusk...

That vision I had of the Heartless and that Keyblade were still in my head.  What did it all mean?  I was looking out from the balcony of my bedroom in the castle watching the sunset and wondering if it did mean anything or not.  Just then, I noticed some strange black clouds appearing in the sky and thunder coming from them.

"Huh?" I mumbled to myself, "Was there supposed to be a storm tonight?"

"No," said a voice behind me, "There wasn't."  I turned around and saw Nyx coming up next to me.  She put her forelegs on the railing and looked at the clouds forming with me.  "And I don't think this is an accident from the weather team."

"Is Mommy back yet?" I asked a little worried.

"No, not yet," Nyx answered.  Mommy went out to run some errands.  The sky got darker as more dark clouds appeared.  Just then, something appeared off in the distance that made my body get a cold chill.

"Heartless!!!" I yelled pointing at the black creature.  Just then, more appeared all over the ground.  "They're here!  The creatures from my dream!  They're here!" I exclaimed now feeling scared.

"Uh oh!" Nyx exclaimed looking down the balcony, "They're climbing up the castle!"

I looked over and saw that she was right.  They were climbing up the castle.  What are we going to do?!  And where's Mommy?!

"Hey!  Get down from there you shadows!"

A rainbow blur whizzed right by and at the Heartless, knocking them off the castle walls and down to the ground.

"Rainbow Dash!" I called to her.  Rainbow stopped in front of the balcony and looked at me and Nyx.  She then gasped and pointed a hoof behind us.

"LOOK OUT!!!" she exclaimed.  We turned around and saw a Heartless jumping at us.

"AAAAHHHH!!!" Nyx and I screamed.  Out of reflex from my dream last night, I closed my eyes and swung my arm at the Heartless.  Unexpectedly, I heard the sound of it being defeated when I hit it with the Keyblade from my dream.  I opened my eyes and saw the Heartless was gone, but I felt something in my hand.  I looked and gasped.  It was my Keyblade.

"What in the..." Rainbow said surprised, "Where did you get that?"

"I... It was a dream I had last night," I replied.  Nyx's eyes were wide as she stared at my Keyblade.  She then looked back down the balcony.

"They're climbing up the castle again," she said worried.  Rainbow looked down and flew at them, knocking the ones she ran into off the walls.  I looked at Nyx, then back to Rainbow, and then at my Keyblade.  I was then filled with determination and ran back into the castle to get to the front door.  "Josh, wait!" Nyx called as she ran after me.  While running through the castle, Heartless were popping up out of the ground around us.  I got rid of the ones I could with my Keyblade as Nyx stayed close next to me.  It was tough, but we made it to the doors.  I didn't see Spike though, and I was worried about him.  He stayed at the castle with me and Nyx to look after us.  Nyx and I called out to him as we made our way through, but we couldn't find him anywhere in the castle.

Nyx and I ran out the front doors, but to our surprise, Ponyville was gone!  The castle and a big piece of land it was standing on were in the air.  Wind was blowing really strong too.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!!!!"  I turned and saw Nyx flying up into the sky towards a big black ball.

"NYX!!!" I called.

"Josh!" said someone behind me.  I turned and saw Mommy standing there.

"Mommy!" I exclaimed and ran to her.  We both hugged each other tightly.  "What happened?!"

"I don't know!" Mommy said to me over the wind that was blowing, "One minute I'm coming back from my errands, the next Ponyville is gone and our castle is the only-AH!"  I looked back at what Mommy screamed at and my body went cold again.

"It's the big Heartless from my dream!" I exclaimed, "We have to stop it, Mommy!"

"Get on my back!" Mommy said to me.  I did what she said and climbed on with one arm around her neck and my other hand holding my Keyblade.  Mommy then began flapping her wings and took off into the sky.  The big Heartless did the same things it did in my dream.  It punched its fist into the ground making a dark pool around the fist.  Some of the smaller Heartless appeared from the pool, but Mommy fired her magic at them to get rid of them.

The big Heartless then began shooting black energy balls from the hole in its chest.  They flew right at Mommy and me, but I got rid of them with the Keyblade.  Then the big Heartless sunk its hand into the ground, pulled back up, and had a big orange ball of energy.  The big orange ball then floated up and split into smaller balls that rained down.  I got rid of the ones that were going to fall on top of me and Mommy with my Keyblade.

"Listen, Joshua," Mommy said, "We need to finish this now!  When I get close enough, you hit that thing as hard as you can, okay?!"

"Got it, Mommy!" I replied.  Mommy flew circles around the big Heartless getting closer each time around while it kept on doing the same attacks.  When we were finally close enough, I held my Keyblade tightly in my hand.  We got close to the head, and I jumped off her back towards the Heartless' head and swung my Keyblade as hard as I could at the head.  The Keyblade hit the head and the big Heartless stumbled back.  Mommy and I landed down on the ground and we watched the big Heartless fall off the piece of land that was ripped off the ground we were standing on.

Suddenly, the wind began to get stronger.  It was too strong for me and Mommy.  Mommy and I each grabbed a piece of what was left of our castle and held on tightly as the wind tried to pull us off.  My Keyblade suddenly disappeared.

"Hold on tight, Josh!" Mommy called to me.

"I'm... trying!" I said, "But I'm... slipping!"

I tried to hang on as hard as I could, but my fingers slipped from the piece of our castle and I began to fly up.

"MOMMY!!!"

"JOSH!!!" Mommy called back.  The last thing I heard before being swallowed by the darkness was a dark chuckle.

Meanwhile...

Toby's P.O.V.

When we got back, I was still thinking about that vision I had.  I was going on an adventure?  What kind of adventure was I going on?  Would there be problems I would have to face?  This was really confusing for me.  I could tell Momma was worried about it too.  As the day passed on, we did our chores, but didn't say much.  Angel Bunny tried to help us through the day, but we were still worried.  After dinner, I decided to go to bed early.  I was about to change into my pajamas, but a noise outside caught my attention.  I looked out the window of my room and saw that a storm was coming.

"Auntie Rainbow didn't say anything about a storm tonight, did she?" I wondered aloud.  I heard a loud knocking from downstairs and walked out of my room to see who it was.  Momma got to the door when I reached the bottom of the stairs.  When she opened the door, I saw Auntie Twilight standing there.  She looked worried.

"Twilight?" Momma said, "What's wrong?"

"Fluttershy!" Auntie Twilight exclaimed, "Get Toby and come to the library!  Hurry!"

Auntie Twilight then turned around and ran back to the library.  Momma looked back at me as I came up to her.

"Climb on, Toby," she said as she lowered down for me.  I climbed onto her back and wrapped my arms around her neck.  She then started running after Auntie Twilight.  I held onto her neck as tight as I could as she ran.  I then saw some scary, black looking creatures ahead of us.  They had two claws, two jagged antenae, and yellow eyes.  Momma opened her wings and flew over them, but they began chasing after us.  Suddenly, a lightning bolt struck the ground in front of Momma and she stopped and screamed.  When she stopped like that, it made me let go of her and I fell backwards away from her.  Momma turned to look at me and gasped.

"TOBY!!!" she called.  I turned and saw one of those dark creatures jumping at me.  I covered my head with my arms when I heard magic being fired from behind.  I looked up and saw the creature turning into dust.  I looked behind to see who fired that magic and saw who saved me.

"Sister Sunset!" I called as she ran towards me.

"I'm coming, little buddy!" she said to me.  She then turned back to Momma.  "Go Fluttershy!  I've got Toby!"

"O-Okay!" Momma called over the wind that was now blowing.  She turned and ran towards the library when Sunset got to me.

"Climb on, Toby!" she said lowering herself down to me.  I climbed onto her back and she was about to run after Momma when I saw something.  Two red glowing eyes were looking at us.

"Sunset, look!" I said pointing at the red eyes.  The red eyes disappeared as Sunset looked.  We looked around wondering where they went, when they appeared behind us.  They began to come at us really fast.  Sunset quickly turned around as I held onto her neck and she fired magic at whatever it was that was attacking us.  The thing jumped over us and dodged Sunset's magic blast.  "What is that?" I said fearfully.

"It's called a Heartless," Sunset answered.  The red eyes appeared and looked at us again.  "It's a creature born of the darkness in ponies' hearts."  The Heartless ran at us again, but Sunset jumped out of the way and fired another blast of magic at it.  The magic hit the Heartless and exploded.  Just then, the Heartless roared as the eyes turned yellow.  It was all black before, but now it looked dark purple with purple claws, dark pink horns, a long dark purple tail, light blue stripes, and chains on its forelegs.  It sure looked scary.  It began jumping around us as Sunset kept firing magic at it.

I held on tight to Sunset as she fought against this Heartless while trying to protect me.  While she looked in front of her, I looked behind her to see if it came from behind.  It did a few times, but Sunset was able to stop it from attacking us those times.  It tried attacking us by swinging its claws at us, swinging its tail, flipping with its chains swinging at us, running at us with leaving fire paths behind it, and spitting dark balls at us.  Thankfully, Sunset was able to jump out of the way or make a magic shield around us.  Just then, after Sunset fought the Heartless a little longer, it spit out some strange colored smoke that began swirling around us and it.  It then made red, purple, and green copies of itself every now and then that tried to attack us, but Sunset was able to dodge them.  Finally, Sunset fired one big magic blast at the Heartless that hit it and turned it into dust.

"You did it, Sunset!" I exclaimed, "You won!"

"Thanks, buddy," Sunset said looking back at me, "Now let's hurry to the library.  Your momma is probably worried about you."

But before Sunset could begin running, the wind got really strong.  It got so strong that it lifted Sunset and me off the ground and into the air.

"Hang on, Toby!" Sunset said.  I held on as tight as I could as we floated up into a dark ball.  I was about to pass out, but I then heard dark laughter.

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