Freedom from Fate

"So..." Sora was still speechless. He was expecting for Twilight to look like an old witch or something like that, but instead he saw a lighthearted pony.

Twilight smiled, "Welcome to Ponyville. These are my friends." Twilight pointed to the ponies behind her.

"And they are called..." Kairi started.

"The orange one is Applejack, the blue one is Rainbow Dash, yellow is Fluttershy, the white one is Rarity, and the pink one is Pinkie Pie."

"Okaaaaaaaaay..." Riku didn't know what to say. Who could blame him? He didn't know whether to believe that this was real or not.

"C'mon, we'll show you around." Rainbow turned around and headed east while the others (including Riku) followed.

JACK-IN-THE-BOX

"And this is, well, my home." Twilight showed Sora and his friends to what seemed to look like a library.

"This looks more like a bookstore." Riku commented.

"Well, I am a bookworm." Twilight smiled.

"That's true. You should've heard her excuse to not attend my pet Gummy's after-birthday party!" Pinkie added.

All of the ponies laughed.

"What was the excuse?" Kairi asked.

Before Pinkie answered, a light beam started going away from the sun and headed directly next to Twilight's house.

"LOOK OUT!" Sora pointed to the beam.

Twilight laughed, "No, that means that our beloved Princess Celestia is visiting us."

"Oh." Sora frowned. Then he remembered:

"Go through that portal to the three of you's destiny. This is the only hope to save your world and mine.

-Princess Celestia."

Princess Celestia.

Sora did notice that the ray started to form into the shape of a unicorn – wait, a pegasus- no, a unicorn- no, a pegasus.

Sora finally realized that the figure was an alicorn (both a pegasus and a unicorn) by the time it was totally not shaped like a sun ray anymore.

"So I guess that our three heroes have arrived." Celestia said.

As Twilight and the others bowed down, Sora backed up from Celestia and waved. "So you must be Celestia..." He started.

Then he noticed Riku and Kairi bowing as well, and he remembered something:

Yen Sid...

Hey.

Sora, be respectful! Bow down!

"Words fail me." Sora mumbled to himself, then got down and bowed.

"Welcome to Equestria Sora, Riku, and Kairi." Celestia smiled and did a hoof gesture. As she did, the other ponies got up. Sora and his friends decided to play along and did so too.

"How did you know our names?" Riku asked suspiciously.

"Well, Twilight here told me." Celestia pointed to Twilight.

Twilight blushed.

"Uh, OK." Kairi muttered.

"SO, what do we need to do to stop this 'evil force' from invading this world and the world me and my friends came from?" Sora asked.

"Spike," Celestia called.

A little dragon walked out of the library, "Yes?" he replied.

"Take a note."

Sora, Riku, and Kairi didn't say a word as that dragon got paper and a pen and started writing what Celestia said.

"Dragons here can..." Kairi paused, "talk?"

"Yes, they can." Twilight responded, "That's Spike, my roommate."

"How did you get him?" Riku asked.

Twilight shruddered, "Long story."

"OK, done." Spike put his pen down, "Here you go 'Sora'." He chuckled a bit as he handed Sora a scroll.

Sora growled a bit, "OK, I happened to me two years in a row, and Sora is not a girls name. So quit laughing."

"Sora, calm down," Kairi said, "he's just a little kid- I mean dragon."

Sora sighed, "OK, I will." The he opened the scroll:

THINGS FOR JOURNEY TO FIGHT XEHANORT AND CATRINA:

0 WITCHWEED POTION

0 THE FOUR MOST POWERFUL NOBODIES

0 THE HUMAN VERSIONS OF TWILIGHT SPARKLE AND HER FRIENDS

0 ALL THE MAGIC YOU HAVE

MEET ME WHEN YOU HAVE ALL OF THESE ITEMS.

-PRINCESS CELESTIA