Chapters Kingdom Hearts: Harmony of Hearts
Chapter 1: Alleyway Ambush
Green is to play music, Red is to stop music.
Kingdom Hearts: Harmony of Hearts
Dream Traverse Town : First District
A few minutes of closed eyes and the feeling of wind rushing past was all that Sora could feel before it stopped. Upon opening his eyes, he saw that he had woken up in the entrance of an alley in Traverse Town. More memories surfaced, as he had remembered how, in that same alley, he had found himself in awe at arriving in a new world.
His memory high ended as soon as a pair of muscular arms grabbed him and pulled him into the alley. Sora struggled and tried to shout for help, but whoever grabbed him tightened his grip and covered his mouth.
“Can it, yo!”
Sora immediately stopped his struggle as his captor checked around a corner. He saw what his captor saw and it did not look good. He saw the trademark coat of Organization XIII.
“You can release him now, Beat. He knows the severity of the situation now.”
Sora suddenly perked up at hearing that voice. Both him and his captor looked back at the bearer of the voice. The voice belonged to none other than Neku Sakuraba.
“Neku!” Sora nearly shouted, considering that his muscular captor had his mouth in a vice grip.
“I said, let him go, Beat,” Neku said with some firmness.
After grumbling a bit, he released Sora, who rushed away from him. After calming himself down, he got a good look at Neku and Beat. Having never met Beat, Sora was a bit wary of him.
“Hey, Neku,” he said, motioning towards Beat, “Who’s this, and where’s Shiki?”
“Don’t go asking him questions about me, while I’m still standing here!” Beat retorted, “Name’s Beat, and Shiki and Rhyme completed the Reaper’s Game.”
“They did!?” Sora exclaimed with a jump. In his excitement he nearly skipped a thought. “Wait...if they completed it, you would have too and should be back in Shibuya. Why are you still here?”
Neku folded his arms and closed his eyes, apparently lost in thought. He then opened his eyes and spoke. “I not really sure myself. My best guess is that one of the Reapers want me dead more than anything else.-” He leaned against some boxes with his gaze away from Beat and Sora “-All I remember was awaking, here, in the First District and having to run for my life with no Partner and more Dream Eaters than I could even try to handle.”
“How did you get to safety and find a Partner?”
“This is where I come in!” Beat exclaimed, with a pump of his fist. “I came by from the Fifth District with the same problem. I saw Neku barely managing to keep himself alive…”
“Long story short, we made a Pact, and we are Game Partners now,” Neku cut in, “Even with a partner, we struggle against Dream Eaters so often that we have to summon our Dream Eaters just to get a five minute break.”
“No, we don’t!” Beat whispered as quietly and harshly as possible.
“Beat, I see you summon your Dream Eater when you think I’m not looking!” Neku retorted.
“Arrgh! You’re as bad as Rhyme! She always went and...and...garnished my reputation!”
“Guys!” Sora shouted, effectively ending the argument. “Now is not the time to argue! Let’s just find Joshua and then fix the problem with the guy in the black coat!”
The statement didn’t bring an immediate reaction. Beat started shuffling his feet and smiling sheepishly. Neku started to fidget and look everywhere except at Sora.
Neku then spoke up. “Sora, that’s the problem.”
“Huh?”
“Put two and two together, yo! Joshua vanished,” Beat commented.
“What!? How!?”
“Beat’s just blowing things out of proportion. He probably just left by choice.”
“Why? Isn’t he supposed to help you?”
“Yes, but he may have his reasons.”
“Before he left, he told us to leave the Realm of Dreams with you and to give you this,” Beat said, holding a touch screen phone for Sora to take.
As Sora took the phone, Neku chuckled lightly. “He must have known you were coming.”
“One step ahead of me, I guess,” Sora said, hanging his head a bit, before perking back up, “I guess we should leave, no point moping about Joshua being gone.”
“Why were you looking for him anyway?”
“Well, I’ve been having these strange dreams lately. I don’t know what to make of them. And one that I had most recently...it was...odd...yet terrifying...in a way.”
“What was it about?” Neku inquired.
“I hate to interrupt, but…” Beat began to say. Before he could finish, the sound of roaring flames, and Dream Eaters materializing happened almost simultaneously. Both Sora and Neku looked to where Beat was standing and found the Alleyway entrance wreathed in flames, as well as Beat and his Spirit Dream Eater, Kooma Panda, grappling with several Nightmare Dream Eaters.
After overcoming their shock, Sora and Neku joined in the brawl with their respective Spirits. The fight was brief, but the ambush put the group on edge.
“I’m not one to rush, but could you get us out of here!” Beat shouted.
With no argument, Sora began working on starting up the portal (not easy when one is under pressure). The ethereal keyhole appeared just as Beat shouted, “Hoodie alert!” Sora turned towards the Alleyway entrance and saw the Black coated figure, roughly his and Neku’s height. Sora turned back to the keyhole and fired a beam of light from the Kingdom Key. The spell then brought the trio in a state of sleep and transported them to reality.*********************************
“I think what you had me do scared them more than save them,” said the shorter of the two.
The taller spoke, “I understand that, sis, but if we hadn’t interrupted that ambush, things could have been a whole lot worse. Got it memorized?”
Author's Note
Who could the two Unknowns be?
Kingdom Hearts: Harmony of Hearts
Green is to play music, Red is to stop music.
Kingdom Hearts: Harmony of Hearts
Equestria : Friendship Castle (Twilight’s bedroom)
It was only a few minutes after the message to Luna was sent, that she showed up in a flash of light. Flash had gotten his armor on to watch the proceedings from a professional standpoint. Spike had cleaned and lit up the bedroom for the impromptu meeting.
“I was told that this was urgent. What has transpired?!” Luna quickly said.
Twilight took a deep breath and began to explain, “I had a nightmare…or something similar.”
“I understood that something like that may have been the case,” Luna agreed, “As Princess of the Night, I sense all dreams. But even though I sensed yours, for reasons I am unable to explain, I couldn’t enter.”
The moment she said that, everyone was shocked. Luna picked back up, “What do you remember of the dream? Perhaps, if given enough details, we can piece together a meaning of this phenomenon.”
Twilight suddenly realized something… “I don’t have any clear details to give.”
“What do you mean?” Luna asked.
“What I do remember of the dream was jumbled,” Twilight said, with her head down. “That’s the reason I asked you to come here. If you saw the dream, you could help me understand it. But...if by some crazy chance, you didn’t get to view the dream we could use the dreamscape to piece together what I have and work from there.”
“Piecing together a dream from fragments is a difficult process,” Luna commented, “It will take a lot of time and any enemies you might have made could strike in that time.”
“Nothing that we can’t handle,” boasted Spike.
“Ugh, Spike, just keep a clear head,” Flash said, “we don’t know what to expect, either from the dream or anything else.”
“Guys, why don’t you wait outside,” Twilight suggested, “we’ll handle things in here.” She watched as both Spike and Flash exited the room before turning back towards Princess Luna. “Can we start?” She asked.
“Verily, we shall!” Princess Luna exclaimed.
Twilight laid back down on her bed and waited for sleep to take her. Princess Luna levitated as she prepared and cast a spell to put Twilight into a deep sleep. Twilight eyes closed and she let sleep envelop her.
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Equestria : Dreamscape
Twilight opened her eyes and beheld a white void filled with images of the many dreams she had in the past of the friends in the island paradise. She took an uncertain step forward, relaxing after finding she was on a solid (albet invisible) surface. She walked forward glancing in wonder at every other image that crossed her field of vision. Before long, Twilight found Princess Luna walking alongside her.
Twilight looked up and asked, “What do we do now?”
“We are in the memories of your dreams,” Luna responded, “choose from one of the images for us to view the contents.”
Twilight stopped in her tracks and began looking for the image that corresponded to the nightmare she had. She was scanning so intensely that she nearly missed a humanoid figure in a white coat. The coat had a hood that obscured most of the figure’s face. The figure was standing next to an image that didn’t hold any of the scenes of the nightmare.
The figure gently pushed the image closer to Twilight. She looked at the image. It showed what looked like a castle in ruins but seemed to hold most (if not all) of it’s structural integrity. Amazingly, the castle was maintaining a perfect balance on a rock with underwater caverns.
Twilight looked back at the figure, who beckoned her to choose it. Glancing back at the image, she heard a voice in her head.
“This will give you the answers you seek and more.”
Twilight then looked at where the figure was standing, only to find that the figure was gone. Looking up to Princess Luna, she saw that she didn’t see her brief encounter with the figure.
“Princess Luna,” Twilight said, getting the taller alicorn’s attention, “I think this is the one.”
“Then let us enter.” Luna pressed her horn to the image and all the other images faded. The image Luna touched, expanded until they were enveloped in it. Before long, they were standing on a slab of stone amidst floating chunks of rock in a waterfall that was falling backwards.
“Oookay, this is weird,” Twilight commented, “It feels like Discord all over again.”
“Except that this is your dream,” Luna countered, “it can be as chaotic as your mind sees fit.”
Three additional individuals landed from onto the stone platform Luna and Twilight were on. One was a dog-like humanoid, wearing orange pants, green sweater with a black vest over it, and a hat that was somehow balanced on the individual’s head. The next was a young, scrawny human with brown, spiky hair that was wearing red, baggy shorts, a black vest with white sleeves, and yellow boots that were bigger than his feet. The last was a duck-like humanoid that was shorter than the other two and wore clothing that reminded Twilight of a sailor.
The dog pointed towards a castle in the distance and said, “Gawrsh, look at that!”
The other individuals and the two alicorns looked towards the castle ruins.
“I know this place…” the teenager commented.
“Hmm, that’s strange,” the dog said.
“I wonder why,” the teen continued, “I feel this warmth inside, right here.” He placed his hand over his chest.
Looking up at the castle, Twilight couldn’t help but feel as if she knew the place as well.
“Aw, you’re just hungry,” the duck said.
The teen turned towards the duck and quickly snapped, “Hey, I’m serious!”
The group (including Twilight and Luna) jumped when a roar sounded in the distance closer to the castle.
“What was that?!” Twilight asked.
“I’m guessing we shall find out,” Luna answered.
“Let’s go!” the teen commanded the trio.
Twilight and Luna took flight ahead and flew to where the roar was heard and began to see a conversation between a silver haired teenager and a strange beast.
“No vessel, no help from the Heartless…” the teen stated with authority behind his voice, “So tell me, how’d you get here?”
With a growl, the beast answered, “I simply believed. Nothing more to it. When our world fell into darkness, Belle was taken from me. I vowed I would find her again, no matter what the cost. I believed I would find her. So, here I am. She must be here. I will have her back!”
“Take her if you can,” the teen taunted.
“What is he doing?!” Luna exclaimed.
“Just watch,” Twilight calmly responded.
With a roar, the beast lunged towards the teen. The teen back flipped away from the attack, and summoned a sword that resembled a dark dragon wing. He then delivered a powerful slash to the beast’s chest. The beast then collapsed, the sting of the blow having taken a toll on his energy.
“Stop!” The teen with the brown hair shouted, coming from behind the beast and stood defiantly. The other two individuals showed up behind him.
“So, you finally made it,” the silver haired teen said in a cocky tone. “About time. I’ve been waiting for you.”
“What?!” Luna exclaimed.
“Shhh!”
“We’ve always been rivals, haven’t we?” the teen continued, “You’ve always pushed me as I’ve always pushed you.”
“Riku…” the brown haired teen said, ready to say something more.
“But it all ends here,” Riku continued, “There can’t be two Keyblade masters.”
“What are you talking about?” the brown haired teen asked.
“Let the Keyblade choose it’s true master.” Riku extended his hand out towards the brown haired boy.
A strange key weapon, the Keyblade as Riku called it, appeared in the boy’s hand, but started to move towards Riku. The boy gripped the blade for all it was worth, but it was for naught. The Keyblade vanished from his grasp in a flash of light. Luna and the group were surprised as the blade reappeared in Riku’s grasp.
Examining the Keyblade, Riku spoke, “Maleficent was right. You don’t have what it takes to save Kairi. It’s up to me. Only the Keyblade master can open the secret door and change the world.”
“But that’s impossible. How did this happen?” the boy asked, “I’m the one who fought my way here with the Keyblade!”
“You were just the delivery boy,” Riku cockily stated, “Sorry, your part’s over now. Here, go play here with this.” He tossed a wooden sword to the boy, who in turn, fell to his knees. Riku then walked towards the castle.
The duck turned to the dog. “Goofy, let’s go. We have to remember our mission.”
“Oh!” Goofy exclaimed, “Well, I know the king told us to follow the key and all...but…” he turned to the boy and groaned with reluctance before following the duck.
The duck paused and turned towards the boy. “Sora, sorry.”
Princess Luna had tears in her eyes. Never before had she seen such a scene, a young “knight,” of sorts, lost his weapon and all his friends that he held dear. “Is this all?”
“No,” Twilight stated, “There’s more. The scene will shift.”
They then heard the beast struggling to follow the group that left. Sora rushed to the beast’s side after he collapsed again.
“Hey, don’t move,” he said in concern, “You’re hurt.”
“Why...Why did you...you come here?” the beast questioned, “I came to fight for Belle. And though I am on my own, I will fight. I won’t leave without her. That’s why I’m here.”
The beast struggled back to his feet and continued limping towards the castle. Sora turned back towards the wooden sword on the ground. He picked it up and followed after the beast.
“Me too,” Sora confidently said, “I’m not gonna give up now. I came here to find someone very important to me.
The beast and Sora then began their trek to the Castle, with Luna and Twilight following. After a long walk, and a few fights with some creatures strange to Twilight called “Heartless”, they arrived at the gates. The gates, however, were closed. Sora and the beast walked in a different direction to find the way to open the gates. Before Luna could follow them, Twilight put her hoof on her shoulder.
“Let’s wait here; I need to say a few things before we watch more,” Twilight said, motioning for Luna to sit next to the railings on the balcony they were standing on.
“What is it?” Luna asked as she sat.
Twilight gave no response to her question. She pawed her hoof on the tiling for a few moments before giving her response. “Before the nightmare, I had these dreams that showed images of Riku, Sora, and another on an island as friends. The nightmare showed a blurry and vague vision of their friendship falling apart,” Twilight sighed and continued, “this, here and now, looks as though it is a more clear and complete version of that nightmare. Seeing all of this makes things seem more clear, but it’s still confusing.”
“The more we watch, the more clear things will be,” Luna said.
The clanking of gears and the groan of stone was heard behind them. Turning towards the gates, they saw them opening slowly. Sora and the beast came into view and stood before the open gates.
“You ready, Beast,” Sora asked.
“I am.”
Beast and Sora walked in, with Twilight and Luna following. They soon came to an open lobby-like area, with a fountain and a few balconies.
“Be on your guard,” Beast warned, “They’re close, I can feel it. Are you ready for them?”
Sora began walking forward, but Beast suddenly sensed something behind him in the doorway. “Belle?”
Luna and Twilight looked in the direction that he was looking and saw a beautiful woman in a golden dress. Beast and the two alicorns were shocked to see Belle enveloped in a dark shadow and was replaced by a weak Heartless. Beast was enraged by this and rushed after the Heartless as the door closed behind him.
Sora heard Beast’s roar and looked to see him rushing off.
“Quit while you can,” a voice said.
Sora, Twilight, and Luna turned to see Riku, Goofy, and the duck standing in front of the fountain as if they have been for a while.
“No. Not without Kairi,” Sora said defiantly.
“The darkness will destroy you,” Riku said, as a dark, muscular bodysuit materialized over his body.
“You’re wrong, Riku,” Sora stated, “The darkness may destroy my body, but it can’t touch my heart. My heart will stay with my friends. It’ll never die!”
Both Twilight and Luna were touched at Sora’s bravery and his wisdom.
“Really …well, we’ll just see about that!” Riku shouted as he fired a dark plasma bolt...directly at Sora!
Sora braced himself for the blast and both Twilight and Luna couldn’t bear to watch. But, to the surprise of all three, the attack never made connection. Sora, Twilight, and Luna looked and saw that Goofy had pulled out a circular shield and intercepted the shot.
“Sora ain’t gonna go anywhere!” Goofy firmly stated.
“You’d betray your king?” Riku asked.
“Not on your life!” Goofy answered, “But I’m not gonna betray Sora, either, ‘cause he’s become one of my best buddies after all we’ve been through together!”
“This sounds like my friends and I,” Twilight commented in awe, “Nothing, not even Discord, could break or separate us. We’re stronger together than apart.”
“See ya later, Donald.” Goofy continued, “Could ya tell the king I’m really sorry?”
“Hold on, Goofy!” Donald shouted, “We’ll tell him together.” He ran over to the two and continued, “Well, you know…All for one and one for all.”
“I guess you’re stuck with us, Sora.”
“Thanks a lot…Donald, Goofy,” Sora said, almost apologetically.
“How will you fight without a weapon?” Riku asked.
“I know now I don’t need the Keyblade,” Sora said, confidently, “I’ve got a better weapon. My heart.”
“Hmm. Your heart? What good will that weak little thing do for you?”
“Although my heart may be weak, it’s not alone. It’s grown with each new experience, and it’s found a home with all the friends I’ve made. I’ve become a part of their heart just as they’ve become a part of mine. And if they think of me now and then, if they don’t forget me, then our hearts will be one. I don’t need a weapon. My friends are my power!”
With those last words, the Keyblade vanished from Riku’s grasp and appeared in Sora’s ready hands. Both Riku and Sora were surprised at the change. Riku then summoned his sword and attacked. The fight was long and hard. Sora pressed hard with strong offensive moves, Goofy following up with a bash or two with his shield, and Donald kept a distance, firing spell after spell with a staff. Riku, on the other hand, fought with rage in his eyes.
The fight ended with Riku exhausted, his dark bodysuit vanishing. He then fled from the trio, all of whom were exhausted as well. Beast then reentered the room.
“So, your heart won this battle,” he commented.
Sora nodded the affirmative. Before the six could continue after Riku, Twilight and Luna heard one word that shut the vision off.
“INCOMING!”
Author's Note
For those of you who don't know, The Dreamscape is where Princess Luna can have individuals or groups in a specific or collective dream (like in "Do Princesses Dream Of Magic Sheep" when isolating the Tantabus).
Kingdom Hearts: Harmony of Hearts
Chapter 3: Destiny Awaits
Green is to play music, Red is to stop music.
Kingdom Hearts: Harmony of Hearts
Destiny Islands : Sora’s bedroom
The morning light streamed through the window, landing directly on Sora’s snoozing face. With a snort, he awoke and looked around his bedroom before laying his head back down. A few seconds later, his eyes shot open with realization.
He shot up in his bed and took a better look around the room. Seeing Neku and Beat asleep on his floor nearly gave him a heart attack. However, his memories got to his heart before what he saw did. It was a brief shock, but considering what had happened, anyone would be shocked. Knowing that his mother wouldn’t like the...sudden appearance of guests, Sora nudged Neku awake.
“We better get you guys out of here,” Sora stated, “I don’t want mother knowing more than she should.”
“Kay, I’ll get Beat up.”
Sora nodded and began to tie his clothes and sheets to make a rope, having experience in sneaking off to the island. As he was working, he noticed one of the pockets of his knotted shorts was moving. He put his hand in it and pulled out…
“Jiminy?” Sora asked in bewilderment, holding the small cricket. “What are you doing here?”
“Well, I…” Jiminy started.
“Who’re ya talking to?” a drowsy Beat asked, as he walked toward the window.
Thinking quickly, Sora deposited Jiminy into the hood of his vest. He then said, “No one.”
“Good. Let’s go,” he said and grabbed the rope Sora fashioned. Beat tied the end to one of the bed posts and climbed out the window.Neku stepped past Sora and readied to climb down.
“You coming?” he asked.
With a pause, Sora answered, “Meet me at the docks. I’ve got to check on something.”
Neku nodded and started climbing down the rope. When he was out of sight, Jiminy jumped out of Sora’s hood.
“That was close. Sorry about being here at a bad time,” Jiminy said, “How did they get here anyway?”
“It’s a long story.”
“We do have a bit of a trip to the docks.”
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Destiny Islands: Seashore
“Interesting,” Jiminy said as they sat on the seaside shack, watching Neku and Beat spar with wooden swords and their psych magic. “They were in danger and this Joshua character asked you to get them out of the Realm of Dreams.”
“More or less, yeah,” Sora said, “It was indirect, but yeah. But how about you; how did you end up in one of my short pockets?”
“Well, I heard that you were in recovery after defeating Master Xehanort. I wanted to visit you and see how you were doing. However, there were some things that couldn’t wait, so I had to take care of those…”
"What were those?”
“Transcribing my journals into a more readable size. Everyone that goes to read them hates using tweezers and a magnifying glass. It took me all of your recovery time to get it done.”
“It’s okay. I needed to sort out my thoughts alone during that time.”
“What sort of thoughts?” Jiminy asked.
“Uh, about a month ago, I started having these weird dreams. It showed a bunch of multicolored, magic ponies.”
Jiminy lightly chuckled before clearing his throat in brief embarrassment. “You know, I wouldn’t doubt that there is a world that has such creatures.”
“If there is, it hasn’t been discovered yet,” Sora said. He suddenly blurted, “Speaking of which, how are Riku and Kairi doing in exploring the Lanes Between? Any new worlds?”
“They seem to be doing okay with the exploration. They set up a few beacons to get those worlds charted at least, but we haven’t heard from them for a while.”
“They probably got caught up in something,” Sora said, not even trying to hide the disappointment in his voice.
“Maybe, but that is yet to be said,” Jiminy said without noticing Sora starting to get up.
Sora got up and started walking towards the Secret Place. Before he got to the edge of the shack, he heard and felt Jiminy jump onto his shoulder.
“I get the feeling that you want to be alone, but I think you should have some company,” Jiminy said.
“Thanks, Jiminy,” Sora responded, as he walked on towards the Secret Place.
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Destiny Islands : Secret Place
After crawling into the cave that made up the Secret Place, Sora stood and walked directly up to the drawings on the side of the cave. All of the drawings held a memory of Sora and his friends, but one in particular held the most.
The drawing was a crude (yet well done) drawing of Kairi and a more clean drawing of Sora. Accenting the drawing was two arms, one for Kairi and one for Sora, each arm holding a Paopu Fruit. Each Paopu was being offered to the two people depicted in the picture. A symbol of his and Kairi’s love for each other.
Tears welled up in his eyes as he thought of all that he had to go through to save her...twice. Nearly losing himself to darkness to bring her back from a magical coma of sorts, and having risked his life to save her from Organization XIII.
He heard the sound of moving fabric. Thinking quickly he summoned the Kingdom Key and barely managed to parry an attack from the Unknown visitor. As per the norm, he wore a black cloak and had his hood up. His weapon was a red, ethereal blade, much like the ones used by…
“Xemnas!? But...How!?” Sora said in frustrated bewilderment.
He managed to push him off of himself and began to fight. Xemnas rushed forward slashing his blades left and right, Sora parrying each slash. Sora ran to slash left, but ran into an ethereal barrier and got shocked in the process. Sora raised the Kingdom Key, blocked a downward slash from Xemnas, and managed to knock him back with a quick counterattack. Taking the opportunity, Sora ran back to the entrance of the cave.
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Destiny Islands: Seashore
After clawing his way out of the cave, he began to run towards the small dock, but a Portal of Darkness appeared. Out rushed Xemnas, ethereal blades extended and ready. Sora readied the Kingdom Key and began to match his opponent's attack speed with his defense speed. Ever so slowly he started to get pushed back, inch by inch.
But almost as quickly as the assault began, it stopped. Beat had tried to sneak up on Xemnas, but he spun around with one of his blades, nearly shaving a few inches of height off of Beat. After that initial shock, Beat and Neku began to fight Xemnas as fiercely as he had been fighting Sora. Taking another opportunity, Sora turned to run, but felt a boot to his back, causing him to fly forward into the fresh water spring.
Just before he hit the water, he could almost swear that his reflection was that of a light red pony with his hair color and hairstyle.
Author's Note
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Kingdom Hearts: Harmony of Hearts
Green is to start music, Red is to stop music.
Kingdom Hearts: Harmony of Hearts
Equestria: Friendship Castle (Twilight’s bedroom)
“INCOMING!”
That voice brought Twilight out of her slumber in a jolt. Princess Luna staggered from the shock of being forced from the Dreamscape. Before she could get her bearings, something came flying through the door, ramming into her and causing both her and the something to hit the wall opposite the door.
Twilight looked at the tangle of limbs that composed of an unconscious Princess Luna and Flash Sentry. Flash got up quickly and was ready to fight, but his composure changed and his eyes widened. He opened his mouth to shout, but Twilight felt a spell being cast behind her as he did so. An ethereal clock appeared above his and Princess Luna’s head. Both were then as solid as stone.
Twilight turned to where she felt the spell cast and saw a pony in a black robe or cloak. The only indication of who this was was the horn and the grey, square muzzle sticking out of the hood.
“Who are you?!” She asked with a royal air of authority.
The Unknown looked at Twilight, almost as if he was a warrior, gauging an opponent. He (or at least Twilight assumed it was a he) said nothing during the stare down.
Twilight readied a spell to send the Unknown out of the castle, but he pulled a dark crystal out from behind the door. What was inside the crystal caused Twilight to pause in her magic charge. Inside the crystal, in a pose depicting pure fear was…
“SPIKE!” Twilight cried as she rushed to the crystal. Before she could get close, two clear, crystal swords materialized in his telekinetic grasp. One pointed at Spike and the other pointed at Twilight, causing her to stop her movement. The Unknown made it plainly clear without words, Don’t make any wrong movement, or you will regret your decision.
“What is it that you want?!” Twilight asked angrily. Without speaking, the Unknown reached his hoof into the folds of his robe/cloak and pulled out a clear crystal that was shaped like the Element of Magic. He held it up for her to see, and cast a spell on it. Whatever he cast, Twilight felt it on a grand and painful scale, almost like when Tirek stole her magic from her a while back.
Looking at the crystal, she saw it gaining color and resembled the Element of Magic more fully. Twilight felt the spell end and fell down as if exhausted. She felt as if something was missing from her. Before she could dwell on it, the crystal containing Spike was slid towards her. Looking up, the Unknown nodded in her direction and turned to leave.
Twilight suddenly felt magic build up in her horn. Looking up at her horn she expected to see a purple aura surrounding her horn. However, she saw a bright pinprick of light at the very tip of her horn, and it seemed to be gathering light.
The Unknown turned to the unfolding scene and Twilight barely heard him mutter, “Impossible! He...he should be dead.”
The point of light then focused into a beam that hit the crystal Spike was imprisoned in. That beam refracted into three separate beams. Two of the beams hit Flash and Luna respectively, while the last beam, hit the wall perpendicular to the door. The spots that the beams hit became so bright, that she had to shield her eyes with her wings. She then heard a voice say, “A scattered dream that’s like a far off memory...A far off memory that’s like a scattered dream...I wanna line the pieces up...Yours, and mine…”
When the light cleared, Twilight saw a change in the room. Spike was unconscious, but free from the crystal. Luna and Flash were free from whatever spell they were held by, but only Flash was conscious and Luna was shaking the cobwebs from her head. A few feet from the wall where one of the beams had landed, was a light red pegasus pony. He had a brown, spiky mane and was wearing an interesting, open, red vest with a hood and a few pockets as well as a chain with a silver crown on it.
The pegasus was carefully getting up and examining himself, much more in wonder than checking for injuries. He moved his legs, head, tail, and wings in an experimental fashion and examined his cutie mark (a silver crown, like on his chain) in a combination of awe, wonder, and confusion.
Twilight suddenly saw a blur of black as the Unknown rushed towards the pegasus with his crystal swords ready to strike. She got up and was about to cast a shield around him, when Flash rushed forward and parried the strike. The Unknown then ran towards the door to the hallway, with Flash hot on his hooves.
Just as Flash was going to pursue out of the room, the pegasus ran forward and held him back. With a look of worry and determination, he shouted to Flash, “Don’t follow him! It's too dangerous! I’ll take care of him!”
The pegasus took off through the door, leaving Flash bewildered and confused. He turned to Twilight with a look of, ‘What just happened?’ plastered on his face.
“Watch Princess Luna and Spike; I’ll try to figure things out,” she told him. She cast a life locator spell and then teleported to a balcony overlooking a garden area in the castle grounds.
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Equestria: Friendship Castle (garden)
Peering down from the balcony, she saw the Mysterious pony with the pegasus hot on his hooves. They both arrived in the main garden area, the Unknown skidding to a halt and the pegasus stopped a safe distance away.
The pegasus immediately began to grill the Unknown for information.
“Just when I think you guys have been taken down for good, silly me, you pop up again! What is the Organization up to this time!?”
The pegasus shot the Unknown a glare that could have rivaled Fluttershy’s Stare in the terror category. His face radiated pure rage towards this unicorn and whatever Organization he was part of.
The Unknown turned to the pegasus and responded, “Your time meddling in the Organization has come to an end. You have been nothing but a thorn in our side. Since Xemnas failed to eliminate you, I will take the pleasure of eliminating you.”
Two crystal swords materialized in the Unknown’s telekinetic grasp and he lunged towards the pegasus. The pegasus jumped back from the attack and placed himself in an aggressive stance. There was a flash of light around his mouth and when the light cleared, the pegasus was holding the handle of…
“A Keyblade!” Twilight whispered in amazement. Suddenly, images of the dream she had shown Princess Luna. The Keyblade the pegasus was using looked exactly like the one Sora used. Then, going further, he had the same spiky hairdo and a similar vest as Sora. Before she could line any more similarities up she heard a yell that broke her from her trance.
Looking down at the fight, she saw that the Unknown had impaled the pegasus with one of the crystal swords and was turning to run away further into the garden. With what strength he may have had left, the pegasus latched onto the Keyblade with his front hoof and threw it at the fleeing pony. The Keyblade struck the fleeing pony in the flank, sending him careening through a dark portal of sorts, one that disappeared as soon as the Unknown flew through. The pegasus then fainted.
Twilight flew down to the unconscious pony and began to check on him. She checked his pulse, and cast a spell to determine his vitals. After feeling satisfied that he was still alive, she levitated him off the ground and turned around. She saw Flash and Princess Luna walking to her from the door entering the garden.
“I’ll be right back,” Twilight said hastily before vanishing with the strange pegasus in a flash of light.
Author's Note
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Kingdom Hearts: Harmony of Hearts
Chapter 5: Remarkable Recovery
Green is to play music, Red is to stop music.
Kingdom Hearts: Harmony of Hearts
Equestria : Ponyville Hospital (ER)
Sora felt pain, his head throbbing like the beating of a bass drum. Except, his head was the drum. Sora slowly opened his eyes and shook his head, but the sunlight and the movement only made his apparent headache worse.
“He’s waking up!”
“Inform the Princess, I’ll attend to the patient.”
After his vision cleared, Sora found himself in a hospital of sorts. Looking around, he saw a light yellow pony with a brown mane looking at him. What he found odd about said pony was the clothing, the horn on it’s head, and the mark on it’s flank. The pony was wearing what looked to be a doctor’s uniform with a stethoscope around it’s neck. The mark on it’s flank resembled a monitor from a hospital (typical of thinking that while in a hospital).
Turning to examine himself, he noticed something was off. For one thing, he was an equine. Not that he had a problem with that, as he had been in a leonine form in another world. The problem was that unlike in that world, this form in this world--whatever world he was on--seemed more natural. It was almost as if he had visited this world already.
Trying to shift himself into a sitting position, he felt a sharp pain in his midsection--front and back. Hissing as he looked at it, he found a huge bandage wrapping around him.
“You should be careful,” Sora heard a male voice say.
Turning to the pony, Sora saw him walking to the bed with a look of concern.
“You just had an emergency surgery,” he said, “you shouldn’t be moving much.” He paused in thought before commenting, “Come to think of it, you shouldn’t have been moving for a few more hours. We just barely finished patching you up after what shape you were in.”
Sora looked at him in wonder. The pony...or unicorn...caught onto his look.
“You seem confused,” he stated bluntly.
“Where am I?” Sora asked.
“You’re in the Ponyville ER,” the unicorn answered, “I’m Doctor James Horse.”
“Ugh...my head,” Sora complained.
“Considering how much blood you lost before we intervened, your headache is a reasonable side effect,” the doctor explained.
“No, it’s not that,” Sora said, “It’s just...this place seems so familiar, but I’ve never been here before.”
“I’m not sure I could explain it. Best case scenario, just dé-jà vu,” James stated, “In the meantime, I suggest getting some rest and fluids to help in recovering your blood.”
Reluctantly, Sora drank some water from a nearby glass (although, he didn’t realize that he was grasping the cup until he set it down), then laid down his head to rest.
“One more thing,” the doctor said. Sora turned his head towards him and saw that his horn had a cyan aura around it. “What is your name?” he asked.
Sora suddenly felt sleepy, but he was coherent enough to answer his question.
“Sora,” he said, before falling into slumber.
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Equestria: Ponyville Hospital (Front entrance)
“You healed up remarkably quickly,” Doctor Horse said, “A pegasus your size and build would have taken a week to fully recover from being impaled.”
Sora was standing in the entry of Ponyville Hospital, having taken a mere day and a half to fully heal from the impalement and surgery. “I guess I’m just lucky to have a fast healing body.”
“Perhaps,” Doctor Horse agreed. “Just make sure you don’t strain yourself for another few days.”
“No promises,” Sora said as he walked out the door only to meet a pink projectile. Sora quickly ducked to avoid an overeager pink pony with pink frizzie hair. Turning to James, he flashed an apologetic grin as James held the pony in his telekinetic field.
“PINKIE!” somepony shouted. Sora turned and saw six other ponies of various types and colors walking up the path towards them. The lavender alicorn spoke, “You can’t just tackle him in a hug! He just finished up in surgery! Do you want to hurt him!?”
The bubbly mare turn to the alicorn and said, “Well, DUHH! I was just going to give him the Standard New Pony To Pinkie Pie Intro!”
“What’s that?” Sora asked in curiosity.
“Well!” She exclaimed as she suddenly got into Sora’s face in a silly, non-threatening way. “I get close to the New Pony, like this! I then take a deep breath,” she took a deep breath, “Like this; and then I talk! Hiimpinkiepieitsnicetomeetyouareyounewhereyoulooknewifyournew thatmeansthatyouhaveyettohaveyourwelcometoponyvillepartyillgetitreadynowbye!” Pinkie Pie then zoomed off in a flash. Sora turned to the armored stallion and the five mares.
“Did I just miss something?” he asked in confusion. All the mares laughed and giggled at Sora’s brief moment with Pinkie. The stallion had a look of mild amusement. Sora could only laugh at himself.
“That’s Pinkie for ya,” said the orange mare.
“She’s always like this?”
“Of course, Darling,” the white unicorn said, “She always gets this excited around newcomers.”
“Sorry if it bothers you,” the yellow pegasus said quietly.
“That’s okay,” Sora said, “I’ve had to deal with excitement in many forms.”
The armored stallion cleared his throat, getting everypony’s attention. “Before we get too far with the conversation, introductions are in order,” he then gestured to the lavender alicorn, “Presenting…”
“There’s no need for the formalities,” the alicorn interrupted, “I’m Twilight Sparkle and these are my friends; Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Rainbow Dash. You’ve already met Pinkie Pie.” She then gestured to the armored stallion, “And this is my bodyguard, Flash Sentry.”
Flash looked at Twilight with a mixed look of annoyance and...affection? Sora smiled as he could see more than the ‘bodyguard’ in him.
“And you are?” Flash said, his attention on Sora.
“I’m Sora,” he said in his outgoing voice, “It’s nice to meet you all.” He saw a wide variety of reactions from the various ponies. Applejack had a scrutinous look to her, as did Rainbow Dash, except more out of curiosity. Rarity seemed distracted by something in her saddlebags. Fluttershy looked...shy. Flash was hard to read with his hard-as-stone look.
Twilight, however, had a look that he dreaded...one of burning curiosity. The curiosity seemed to outmatch Rainbow’s. It seemed to have a form of recognition laced in. If she had seen him before, he didn’t know when. He could say that there was something familiar with her too, but he couldn’t place what.
Deciding to break her thought process, Sora spoke quickly, “Do you know where my clothes and necklace are? I lost track of them in the hospital.”
Rarity then looked up, her horn having a light blue aura and something lifted out of her saddlebags. His necklace floated from the bag to him. Sora reached out to it, but as soon as his hoof touched the chain, the chain and the crown changed from silver to gold. He found it odd, but it still felt good having his necklace back.
He put it on, but he started to feel strange. The golden crown on the necklace flashed brightly and the sensation of his old Drive Form magic lifting him slightly off the ground. The magic caused a brief spasm in his body, followed by a flash of light and a fractured magical shock wave. Unlike the many times he changed, instead of feeling stronger in a particular area, he blacked out.
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Equestria: Canterlot Throne Room
Princess Celestia felt that something was off. She had felt it for days after Luna had returned from Ponyville. Roughly three days later, her feeling of unease was amplified tenfold when she felt a surge of magic from an enchantment cast years ago.
Luna walked into the room as Celestia half-collapsed in her position on the throne. Luna rushed to Celestia’s prone position, but stopped when Celestia waved her off and got back up. She had visible distress on her face.
“What is the matter, sister?” Luna asked.
Celestia remained silent for a few moments before speaking, “Guards, clear the room, please..”
The guards left the room silently and obediently. After the doors closed, Celestia raised her hoof forward. In a flash of light, a Keyblade materialized. The blade was slightly curved and had a light blue color. The teeth of the blade was the symbol of a sun. The guard looked to be made of clouds and the handle looked like sunshine on a cloudy day. At the end of the keychain was Celestia’s cutie mark.
The tip of her Keyblade flashed a bit before a beam of light shot from it and hit the door the guards exited from. The sound of a lock clicking into place sounded through the chamber. Celestia looked to Luna and saw a shocked look on her face.
“I thought that you said that after I was banished to the moon, you vowed never to use the Keyblade again.”
“I vowed not to use it unless circumstance required. And, if what I felt is true, I will need to have Twilight ready for what is to come and the Keyblade is the only way to prepare her.”
Author's Note
What do you think of Celestia having a Keblade?
Kingdom Hearts: Harmony of Hearts
Chapter 6: Unanswered Questions
Green is to play music, Red is to stop music
Kingdom Hearts: Harmony of Hearts
Equestria: Outside Ponyville Hospital
“Do you know where my clothes and necklace are? I lost track of them in the hospital,” Sora said. Without saying a word, Rarity levitated said necklace out of her saddlebags. Twilight knew that Rarity would have considered the clothes as a lost cause. They had a considerable amount of blood on them and had two huge holes on them.
Sora reached for his necklace, but as soon as he had touched it, Twilight felt a surge of magic come from it. The necklace had changed from silver to gold. Sora, unfazed by the change, placed the necklace on himself. Twilight felt another shift of magic come from the necklace. The necklace glowed and lifted him slightly off the ground. He then gave a brief spasm and the area was lit up from a flash and almost everypony near her was knocked over from a fractured magical shockwave of some sort.
Once the light eased, Twilight looked and saw Sora was now lying on the ground. But he was different, he was wearing golden colored clothes that seemed to be modeled after the ruined clothes and his chain was back to it’s silver color.
“What the hay just happened!?” Rainbow Dash asked.
“I’m not sure, but that was a strange magical display,” Flash replied.
“Should we check and see if he’s okay?” Fluttershy asked timidly.
“I’m not sure, Sugarcube,” Applejack answered, “he doesn’t look like he got hurt.”
“Other than the fact that he’s out like a light...” Twilight muttered to herself.
“And clothes appeared on him from nowhere,” Rarity commented to Twilight.
Twilight looked to Doctor Horse, who was still in the doorway of the Hospital. “Is he okay?” Twilight asked him. The Doctor walked to where Sora was and did a magical medical scan.
“He’s unconscious, but he doesn’t need hospitalization. Just some bed rest and maybe a few explanations...both to and from him,” he said.
“Alright, we’ll get right on it,” Flash said, as he hoisted Sora onto his back. Directing his attention to Twilight, he said, “We can have him rest in the Castle and we can explain what had happened when he wakes.”
After bringing Sora into one of the spare bedrooms, Flash had rushed to Twilight, informing her of him waking up. When they arrived to the bedroom door, they found Sora messing with a small black slab of something.
“Ugh ! Jiminy, could you help me?” Sora shouted in frustration. After he said that, a small cricket dressed in a dress coat and top hat appeared out from his hair and looked at what he was frustrated at. What surprised Twilight and Flash was that the cricket, apparently named Jiminy, spoke.
“Are you having trouble operating it?” he asked “Because I barely knew what I was doing when I had my journal digitized.”
“It’s not that,” Sora countered, “I can’t get in contact with Lea, Leon, or Neku; so I’m trying to contact Tony to try and get him to relay a message and send some blueprints for something that can boost the signal here. I just need to remember his number.”
Twilight felt a light tapping on her shoulder and found Spike standing there. He held a message in his hands. Before he announced the message arrival, Twilight shushed him and had him leave the message with her. Turning back to what was going on, Twilight saw him tapping on the device before hearing a strange noise. The noise carried on for a few moments before a click was heard. After the click she heard muffled speaking.
“You have reached Tony Stark’s Identical-Sounding Voice Chip, or you can call it his answering…” Twilight heard before Sora cut off the voice.
“Just stop it, Tony!” Sora said sharply, “I need help and it’s urgent!”
“Then leave it urgent,” the voice, Tony, said.
“I just need blueprints!” he shouted.
“That doesn’t sound urgent,” Tony said.
“Consider the fact that I’m on another world with very little phone signal, and no way off,” Sora said.
“Oh. That makes it urgent,” Tony contemplated, “So what blueprints do you need?”
“A computer system, a beacon, and a signal booster.”
“Is that it? Do you want me to throw in an order of fries with that?”
“Just get them sent, Stark!” Sora retorted.
Alright, but it may take a while,” he said before there was a beep. Sora groaned in frustration before flopping back onto the bed. Sora began talking to Jiminy, but Twilight wasn’t paying attention to that. She was trying to digest what she had heard. Another world? Twilight knew that she kept the Mirror that led to Canterlot High elsewhere in the castle. He couldn’t have appeared in her room if it was in another room. Were there worlds other than Equestria and Canterlot High?
She considered contacting Princess Celestia, but she remembered that she had sent a message to her already. She picked up the message that Spike had given her, but noticed immediately that the message was different from the others she had received. Rather than a red ribbon and with the Equestrian Royal Seal, The ribbon was blue and had a Silver Heart crest seal on it. She opened the message cautiously and read silently:
Dearest Twilight,
In light of the attack at your castle and of other events that have come to pass, I ask that you and your friends, including your fiancé, come to Canterlot as soon as possible. See to it that Sora, a light red pegasus with a brown mane and a silver crown as a Cutie mark, is also brought to me so that an apprentice of a Lost Master can speak with him.
Twilight was confused about the message. She tapped Flash on the shoulder and showed him the message. “Can you understand any of this?”
After reading the message, he replied, “The best translation I have of that is: ‘Bring everypony you know, plus one, to Canterlot so I can talk to them’.”
“No!” Twilight exclaimed quietly, “It’s the fact that she know’s that Sora is here, and she said something about a Lost Master. What is a Lost Master and how did she know that Sora was here?”
“I’m not sure. But I think we should at least get ready to go to Canterlot. I’ll go find your friends and have the other guards in town ready a few chariots. You get Sora ready.”
Flash trotted off to take care of preparations. Twilight went to Sora’s bedroom and opened it quietly. Sora was now asleep, despite it being close to noon. She trotted to the side of the bed and tapped his hoof. As soon as their hooves made contact, Sora’s eyes shot open and he leapt up in fright with a shout.
“Don’t do that Twilight!” he shouted, after he landed, “You know I...don’t…”
“Sorry, I...forgot…” Twilight responded. She caught herself almost acting as if she knew him. She suddenly started hearing voices in her head .
“She’s beautiful!”
“I know!”
“What should we call her?”
“Twilight Sparkle.”
“And the colt?”
“Silver Crown.”
Once the voices ended, she looked at Sora with a confused look. He had the same look on his face, as if he heard the same voices. Their faces turned to surprise when an explosion of confetti and streamers came from the door. Both Twilight and Sora shouted out in surprize as the room was decked out for a party in very little time. Pinkie Pie appeared next to Sora, earning another yelp of surprize from him.
“Pinkie! What’s all this for!?” Twilight asked loudly.
“It’s for Sora’s ‘Welcome to Ponyville Party’!” Pinkie answered.
“We’re leaving in less than ten minutes!” Flash shouted through the doorway. “We don’t have time for a party!”
“Then we make time for it,” Pinkie said enthusiastically. “I’ll just be a cupcake, a quick game, and then: Off We Go!”
So, one cupcake and one quick game of ‘Pin the Tail on the Pony’ later, the Elements, Flash, and Sora were on their way to Canterlot.Unknown World : Unknown Location
“The Elements, the Guard, and the Loser are heading to Canterlot to talk to the Lost Master’s Apprentice.”
“What do we do now, Oh, Somber One?”
“The first thing you can do is not call me that.”
“Whoa, dude. Don’t make me a crystal pincushion. I was just joking.”
“I noticed. The second thing is to obtain the other Elements’ essence.”
“Who’s going to do that?”
“Vanitas, you and Xigbar will go and obtain the essences. While Xigbar outranks Vanitas, Vanitas is in charge of the operation. Understood?”
“Yes...Master.”
Author's Note
What mysteries are in store for the Main 6?
Feel free to leave a comment or ask questions.
Kingdom Hearts: Harmony of Hearts
Chapter 8: Canterlot Escapade (Part 2)
Green is to play music, Red is to stop music
Kingdom Hearts: Harmony of Hearts
Equestria: Canterlot Airspace
As soon as Sora jumped off of the chariot, she concluded that he was either brave or crazy. She panicked briefly as he plummeted into the melee below them, but calmed down a bit when she saw that he had survived the fall and was helping the guards at the gate. She turned to Flash, “Fly to Sora and make sure he gets to the castle.”
He saluted her and flew off of the chariot to make sure Sora got to the castle. No sooner had he done that, the chariot began to get peppered by Sniper fire. The chariot rocked back and forth to avoid the bolts that were coming their way. Despite the evasive action, one of the Sniper shots hit one of the guard’s harness and the chariot began to plummet to the ground.
“Hold On!” Twilight yelled to the other passengers. With the exception of Rainbow and Fluttershy, everypony on board held onto the sides of the chariot. With a loud crash, the chariot landed hard and broke to pieces.
Twilight pulled herself from the wreckage and carefully moved her appendages, checking for broken bones. Finding none, she turned to the chariot wreck and called out, “Is everypony okay?”
A few moaning sounds came from the wreckage, indicating that at least somepony was okay. Twilight used her magic and lifted the wreck and saw Pinkie, Applejack, and Rarity laying on the ground. Pinkie was giggling hysterically. Applejack was unconscious underneath Rarity, who was laying on her in shock. Twilight looked up just as Rainbow and Fluttershy flew into view.
“Rarity! Applejack!” Both pegasi shouted out. They both flew the two on the ground and began checking on them. Pinkie Pie, after getting over her laughing fit, got up and stood by Twilight. Her smile lessened when she saw the others’ condition. She moved to comfort them.
Twilight looked around her and heard a large battle raging near the castle. She decided to go and help with what she could, considering that her former mentor could be in danger. “Girls, meet me at the castle when you can. I’m going to help the princesses.” The girls gave no objection to it, so she took flight towards the castle.
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Equestria: Canterlot Castle Gates
When Twilight got within sight of the castle, she saw the guards fighting against a bunch of strange blue creatures. She flew towards the fight, but she paused when she heard a strange sound. Turning to the sound, she saw a Sniper bolt headed at her. Twilight moved to dodge the bolt. The bolt missed her, but it did graze her wing.
Twilight gasped in pain as her injured wing brought her down to the ground with a thud. As she was standing up and clearing the stars from her vision, six portals appeared on the ground around her. From those portals came strange, slender, silver, humanoid creatures. They surrounded her and five of them started to jump around in anticipation for a fight. The remaining one slowly approached her and almost seemed to beckon her forward.
“We have come for you, my lady,” she heard, as if it came from the creature. Twilight was confused at those words. Before she could ask what it meant, she heard the sound of several zippers. Looking at the beckoning creature, she saw said zipper unzipping and opened what looked like a fanged mouth. Carefully observing, the fangs were the teeth of the zipper.
The creatures began to advance. Twilight charged her horn and readied for a fight. The beckoning creature got too close and she blasted magic at it. The creature jumped back and contorted it’s body, narrowly avoiding the attack. She was so surprised at the creature’s ability to contort and move like living rubber, that she was caught off guard by the other five. They wrapped themselves around her like ropes, restraining her legs, wings, and horn.
The beckoning creature then moved forward to try and move Twilight and her restraints to another portal that formed just behind it. Before it reached her, she heard the sound of spontaneous flames and something being thrown. The creatures that held her suddenly hissed and jumped off of her as two literal wheels of flame flew by, narrowly missing her and the creatures. She turned to where they flew, but there was only another portal that was just barely closing.
“Royal Guard! To The Princess!” Twilight heard from the Castle Gates. Looking up, she saw a Royal Guard in purple armor rallying the guard. She recognized the armor and the voice.
“Shining Armor!” She called out.
“Twilight, I’m coming!” He responded. The rallied guards pushed past the fight at the gate and charged towards the creatures. Three of the creatures fled into portals while the other three attacked the guards that approached the scene. The creatures were a hooffull, but they were dispatched.
Once the creatures were gone, including the blue ones at the gate, Twilight directed some guards to go and find the chariot wreck. Before she could do anything else to try to direct efforts to flush the creatures out of Canterlot, Shining Armor pulled her aside in his command tent.
“I’m glad you’re okay,” he said to her.
“Me too, BBBFF,” Twilight responded with a hug. The hug lasted a few minutes before Shining broke the hug and gave a serious yet worried look.
“Shining, what’s wrong?” She asked.
“Twily, how much do you know about our family?”
The question caught her off guard. “Why? I don’t know why you ask.”
Shining rubbed the back of his head and said, “Well...it was like this…”
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Flashback: Shining Armor’s POV
“My Lord .”
Shining Armor awoke with a start. His wife, Princess Cadence, also stirred, but more gently. He looked outside and could see the moon in the sky. He turned to the door and saw a Night Guard standing in the doorway with nervousness on his face.
“Ugh, why are you waking me this late?” He grumbled, “I’m trying to sleep.”
“Well, Sir, there is somepony that wishes to speak with you,” the guard said nervously.
Groaning again, Shining responded, “Then tell him to wait. I’m trying to sleep.” He covered his head with the blanket.
“He said it can’t wait.”
“What can’t?” He asked, almost shouting. The guard didn’t respond but held his nervous face. Shining dropped his anger when he felt that the guard wouldn’t go away. He sighed and got himself out of the bed to handle the problem. Not knowing what to expect, he placed on his armor and then followed the guard out to the mysterious pony.
The guard led Shining Armor to the Canterlot Castle gardens, where the mysterious pony was sitting on a stone bench. The guard left Shining to deal with the pony. Shining marched up to the pony from the side. Before he could demand what was so important to wake him that late, the pony spoke. “You have arrived.”
“I’ve been to see him,” he said in a deep voice that seemed devoid of emotions. Turning to Shining, he continued, “He looks a lot like you.”
Shining was confused at the statement. “Who are you and what are you talking about?!” He demanded.
“I am what’s left...or...maybe I’m all there ever was.”
Slowly losing his patience, Shining said, with his voice raised, “I meant your name! And what are you trying to tell me!?”
The pony stood up off of the bench and continued. “My name is of no importance. And as for what I’m to tell you…” The pony pulled back his hood to reveal a silver unicorn horn, “...What better way to know than to see for yourself.” He then lunged at Shining with his horn, giving him no chance to put up a barrier spell in time. The horn made contact with his and images started flooding into his mind.
He saw a bipedal creature with a spiky mane fighting a variety of strange creatures with a strange sword that looked like a key. Fighting alongside the creature was a bipedal dog with a shield and a bipedal duck with a strange staff/wand. The rush of mental images overwhelmed Shining and he fell over from exhaustion. He looked up at the mysterious pony and saw that he was walking towards a black vortex. The vortex and the pony vanished.
Shining got up and walked to where the vortex was and scanned the spot, looking for the magical remains to see if he could track the mysterious pony. He didn’t find any, but when he turned to leave, he saw a folder on the bench where the pony had sat earlier. Picking it up with his magic he examined it and found birth record documents from the Royal Census Archives.
Shining read the birth records, finding info on himself and his LSBFF and newest Princess, Twilight. He found one last record of somepony’s birth. He read the info carefully, trying not miss any details. What he found on that record surprised him greatly. He turned to the castle to tell his wife and then later grill his parents for information.
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Equestria: Canterlot Castle Gates (Twilight’s POV)
Twilight looked at the birth records that Shining Armor had given her when he got to that part in the story. She examined the records, finding nothing out of place or odd in her’s or her brother’s birth records. The things she found odd were in the last set of records. The first thing she found that she thought was odd, was that it was implying that she had a younger brother. The second thing was that made it odd, was that the younger brother was just barely two minutes younger than her. The third thing that was odd, was that her parents, Twilight Velvet and Night Light, hadn’t mentioned anything about this younger brother. And it all extremely coincided with what she heard when she heard the voices when talking to Sora.
The voices were that of her parents naming herself and her twin brother, Silver Crown.
“You okay, Twily?” Shining Armor asked out of concern.
“I’m just confused,” she said, “I don’t know anything of this younger brother, nor do I have any idea as to why Mom and Dad kept it a secret.”
“Me neither, but…” Shining started to say, but was interrupted when a pegasus guard ran into the tent.
He bowed quickly, “My Lord and Lady, we’ve received a report that the creatures have fled the city, but there has been no word about the Princess’ condition!”
Both Twilight’s and Shining Armor’s eyes suddenly got big with realization. They both simultaneously shouted out, “Cadence/Celestia !” They then bolted to the castle.
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Equestria: Canterlot Castle Throne Room
Twilight and Shining Armor burst into the throne room just as they saw a dark grey pegasus, with a long salt and pepper mane, and had various facial scars and an eyepatch get blown across the room. He impacted a pillar and was immediately buried in rubble and stone. They both turned to where he was blasted from and saw Princess Celestia pointing a Keyblade at where the pegasus was blasted.
Twilight did a double take...A Keyblade?! Why and how did Princess Celestia have a Keyblade?! Before she could try to figure out any more, groaning was heard from the pile of rubble. Looking back at the rubble, she saw that he was still alive and was digging himself out of the rubble.
After he dug himself out of the rubble, he glared at Celestia with his one good eye. “I keep forgetting-Don’t mess with Keyblade wielders.” He panted a bit, trying to regain his energy lost from the fight he had, then continued, “But you know what? That just means I made the right choice.” He creeped to the side, placing himself between Celestia and the other two. “Well, he wanted me to buy time, and I’d say he got it.”
The pegasus then took off, knocking Shining Armor and Twilight to the side. Shining got up and went to cast a restraint spell on him. The pegasus turned around, mid-flight, and took aim with a strange weapon that wasn’t in his hooves earlier. He then shot off a Sniper bolt from the weapon, hitting Shining in the helmet, knocking him down.
Twilight ran to her brother, checking his head. He was unconscious and the spot where the bolt hit was bruised, but otherwise unharmed. Twilight then ran to Princess Celestia, ready to embrace her in a hug. She stopped when she felt that something was off. She scanned the room, left and right, up and down, until she spotted the problem on the chandelier. A blood red unicorn with a black tail and his head was covered by a dome-like mask. In his hooves, he had a keyblade, one that looked like it was made of evil looking chains and gears.
The masked unicorn dropped from the chandelier over Celestia. Twilight saw that he was angling himself to attack Celestia. Before Twilight could shout a warning, the unicorn slashed downward. Princess Celestia flinched from the attack, not seeming to have been affected by the attack, but then fell over, unconscious. Her keyblade clattered against the ground when it fell from her hooves.
Twilight looked at the unicorn and then to her former mentor’s keyblade. The unicorn was preparing his keyblade to stab Celestia. Twilight quickly ran and grabbed Celestia’s keyblade and readied it to fight the attacker. The unicorn saw this and laughed like a maniac before speaking.
“Well, I was hoping for some sort of challenge. It seems you’ll have to do,” he said in a dark boredom, “Besides, you need to be broken in anyway.” He then readied his keyblade to fight.
He teleported, leaving an afterimage of himself, and made the attempt to attack from above. Twilight sensed the move, having kept an eye out for magic attacks/moves. She jumped out of the way and made to slash at him. He flipped backwards and fired a slow moving ball of fire at her. Twilight backed up and kept away from the fireball. The fireball split into three faster homing fireballs. Twilight fired up a barrier, blocking the fireballs, and readied for his next attack.
The fight then went into a pattern, where Twilight was mostly on the defensive and the unicorn was on the offensive. For every attack she made, the unicorn threw out three. Despite the energy conserving strategy, Twilight began to tire out. This made her a bit sloppy and she began to receive a few gashes and burns until he knocked Celestia’s keyblade out of her hooves.
“So pathetic,” he said as he shook his head, “Ventus put up a better fight than you did.” He raised his hoof to strike her down with his keyblade, but with the crash of breaking glass and the clang of metal striking metal, his keyblade was intercepted by Sora’s Keyblade.
“Speak of the Devil…” The unicorn swung Sora’s keyblade off of his, “...And he shall appear.” Sora and the unicorn began to fight more fast and furious than she was able to. Twilight was still in shock that she was almost killed, but had held her own in a fight. As she was processing these thoughts, she saw Flash enter through the same window that Sora broke through. He approached Twilight with concern in his eyes, having seen her shock. He quickly hugged her and held her in that embrace, working to comfort her.
Sora then was blown back from the fight, landing next to Twilight and Flash. Both of them looked towards the unicorn and saw that the dome mask was cracked. The unicorn dropped his keyblade and removed the mask, swearing up a storm as he did so.
Behind the mask was...Sora?
Author's Note
A Real Shocker! Right?
Kingdom Hearts: Harmony of Hearts
Chapter 9: Canterlot Escapade (Final)
Green is to play music, Red is to stop music.
Kingdom Hearts: Harmony of Hearts
Equestria : Canterlot Castle Throne Room
The flight from the Plaza to the castle was quite hectic for Flash and Sora. The battle for Canterlot was raging in different parts of the city and Sora couldn’t hold back his desire to help drive the Nobodies and other strange creatures. Both of them stopped every so often to help a group of guards fight, then they would fly off towards the castle. The cycle repeated enroute to the castle. The battle was over by the time they got to the throne room of the castle.
Flash was about to open the throne room door, but he heard voices and noises behind the door. Sora heard as well and pressed his ear to the door. After a few seconds, his face seemed to fill with rage. “Xigbar,” he whispered, with anger laced in. He crept away from the door and moved to one of the windows.
“What’s Xigbar?” Flash asked as Sora opened a window.
“Not what, Who,” he answered, “Xigbar was a mercenary named Braig that worked for a guy called Xehanort. He later joined a group called Organization XIII and he became Xigbar. I took down the Organization twice, but it seems to have come back.”
Sora then flew out of the window with Flash behind him. They stealthily flew to a window that connected to the throne room. They carefully peered through and saw Xigbar and who Sora assumed to be Princess Celestia, fighting. He saw that Xigbar was using his signature Arrow guns and Sora saw that Princess Celestia had Keyblade.
Sora was amazed at the fact that the Princess had a Keyblade. Apparently, Keyblades were more common than he had thought. The fight between the Princess and Xigbar went predictably. Xigbar was slammed with a massive Firaga spell into a pillar in the room, causing it to collapse on top of him. Just as he was slammed into the pillar, he saw Twilight and a unicorn guard enter the room. Xigbar said something he couldn’t hear and then he bolted from the room. Knocking over Twilight and the unicorn guard. The guard got up and prepared to fire a spell, but got a sniper bolt to the helmet.
As soon as the unicorn was knocked down, Sora felt a strange feeling in his heart. A pain that he had felt when Goofy was hit hard in the head with a boulder and thought he was dead. Why did he feel this way? He didn’t know him...Did he? He was then flooded with voices in his head.“Mom!”
“Shining! Shh! Your brother and sister are sleeping.”
“Sorry! I'm just excited to see them!”
“They're over in those cribs.”
“Wow. They're so tiny and...and...frail. Its cute in a way, but they seem so...unprotected.”
“What are you thinking, son?”
“I'm a big brother now. I now have to help protect them.”
“Don’t think too much like that.”
“Dad! I'm just saying that I want to be the best big brother they'll ever have.”
"Okay. Just be careful.”
"Don’t worry Twily...Silver...I'll keep you both safe. I promise.” Looking into the throne room, he saw Twilight using Princess Celestia’s Keyblade to fight a mysterious unicorn that was also using a keyblades. The fight went on for several minutes before Twilight was disarmed. The unicorn lifted his weapon to strike her down!
Some unforeseen instinct suddenly kicked Sora into high gear and he dove through the window and parried the strike.
“Speak of the Devil,” the unicorn said, before swinging Sora’s Keyblade off of his, “And he shall appear.”
A full on Keyblade duel broke between the two ponies. After locking blades for a moment, Sora said four familiar, yet foreign words, “Don’t...Touch...My...Sister!” He then swung his Keyblade hard and cracked the unicorn’s helmet. Sora was then blasted back and he landed next to Flash and Twilight.
Looking back at the foul-mouthed unicorn, he saw the helmet removed, thus confirming who the unicorn was.
“It's nice to see you again, Vanitas,” Sora said with cocky sarcasm. Vanitas had features similar to Sora’s, except for hair and eye color (black and amber respectively). Vanitas looked him up and down before replying.
“Right back at you,” he replied with venom in his voice, “I hope you enjoyed the show, because I need to leave with these.” He then used his magic levitating five differently shaped and colored crystals. Sora heard Twilight gasp. “You know what these are then?”
“The Elements of Harmony! But...How?” She said in disbelief.
“Remember last week?” When he said that, Twilight’s eyes widened. “Yes, that crystal we we created is now the Element of Magic. We have all six and they will become part of something great. Something that will change the worlds.”
Sora realized what Vanitas was talking about. Without thought, he charged Vanitas and leapt to attack him. Vanitas, forgoing his keyblade, promptly slammed a hoof into his face. That was the last thing he saw.
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Equestria: Canterlot ER
Sora awoke to the sound of a heart monitor. Sora opened his eyes and saw that he was in yet another hospital. A bit more fancy than what he had seen in Ponyville, mostly because he had his own hospital room. What surprised him was that, sleeping in a chair in the corner of the room was a white unicorn with blue hair. His Cutie mark was a shield with a six point star in it with three white stars above it.
Sora took a moment to examine the unicorn from a distance. He felt as if he knew the unicorn, but as far as he could recall, he doesn’t.
The unicorn stirred in his sleep and when he saw that Sora was awake, he was looking at him in wonder. The unicorn slowly moved towards him. When he was a foot or two from the hospital bed, he spoke.
“Silver Crown? Is it you?” The unicorn said. When Sora heard his voice, the voices he heard came back to memory. The voice he heard from the unicorn was older than one particular voice he heard, but it was the same voice. He looked into the unicorn’s eyes and he was suddenly flooded with memories he never knew he had. Those light blue eyes were the same ones that marveled over him as a foal.
With tears in his eyes and joy in his voice, he replied, “Shining Armor,” he sniffled a bit, “I missed you...I...I…” From there, tears began to flow freely as the two brothers embraced each other, having had been separated for nearly 18 years. They both silently vowed that nothing was ever going to separate them again.
Author's Note
Please leave some positive feedback. I was trying to get the last part in the hospital as emotional as possible and I personally feel it went well, but what did y'all think of it.
Kingdom Hearts: Harmony of Hearts
Green is to play music, Red is to stop music.
Kingdom Hearts: Harmony of Hearts
Equestria: Canterlot ER
Twilight had tears in her eyes. Looking at Celestia in the hospital bed with a few bandages on her head, her mane and tail not flowing ethereally, and being hooked up to a heart monitor, it practically broke her heart to see her mother figure broken so. She didn’t understand why the unicorn, Vanitas, heartlessly attacked and threatened her, but she wasn’t going to let it slide.
Also, hearing what he said about the Elements of Harmony put her on edge. Remembering what had happened in her castle a week prior, she knew that Vanitas had somehow gotten their Elements from them, just as how the hooded pony had gotten her Element. As for what he was going to use them for, she was clueless as to how they would do it. The elements could only be used by herself and her friends and it could only be used to spread Harmony and Light, not Chaos and Darkness.
Twilight’s ears twitched when the door to the hospital room opened. Looking up she saw Princess Luna and Princess Cadence entering the room. They both had been helping the hospital staff with helping heal the wounded and defend the hospital during the battle. As the battle was over now, they had a chance to relax, but not easily, seeing as a fellow Princess had taken a hit in battle.
“How does she fare?” Luna asked.
“She’s alive at least,” Twilight said, “She suffered a strike to the head from a weapon just like that one.” Twilight pointed a hoof at Celestia’s Keyblade that was leaning on the stand next to her hospital bed.
Cadence looked at the weapon with curiosity. She lit her horn and tried to lift the weapon, but found that she could not. “The keyblade is a hoof and mouth weapon,” Luna suddenly said after Cadence tried lifting it with her magic.
Cadence and Twilight turned towards Luna in confusion. “How do you know about that?” They both asked.
“She used to wield a keyblade at one point,” a partially raspy voice said from the bed. Everypony looked to see Celesta was awake, but her hair still wasn’t flowing. She pulled herself into a partial sitting position on the bed just as Twilight rushed over to hug her, almost upsetting the hard work she made to sit up.
“Twilight, it’s nice to see that you are safe,” Celestia said.
“Just as it’s nice to see that you’re awake,” Twilight responded.
“We’re all glad to see you safe,” Cadence said, “But I’m curious about this ‘keyblade’.”
“I’m also curious about it as well,” Twilight said.
Celestia closed her eyes in contemplation before lighting her horn and teleporting in three cushions. “You may want to get comfortable,” she said, “It a very detailed and long story.”
Everypony got comfortable (which for Twilight, included grabbing a quill and paper). Celestia cast a soundproof spell on the walls and door, then began the story.
“Keyblades have a long and bloody history, spanning almost one and a half thousand years of time,” Celestia began, “Before that, all was peaceful and was bathed in light. All worlds were one.”
“So, there are more worlds than this one and Canterlot High?” Twilight asked.
“Correct, Twilight,” Luna said, “The worlds as we know them now became such because of a conflict known as the Keyblade War.”
“The Keyblade War started because everyone wanted the light they were bathed in.”
“That doesn’t seem like a reason to start a war,” Cadence said.
“True,” Luna said, “But it was greed that compelled them to fight. Each individual wanted the light for themselves and nobody else.”
“But the light, known as Kingdom Hearts, was guarded by a weapon known as the Χ-blade.”
“Keyblade?”
“No, Χ-blade,” Luna corrected, “Many pronounce it 'chi', but it meant the same.”
“Those who fought over the light created copies of it, the keyblades that we speak of. The initial fighting began with only a few fighting. But eventually, their fighting drew in more combatants, and with those combatants and the fighting, darkness was born. It desolated one world and shrouded the rest.”
“And the Χ-blade was shattered into twenty fragments,” Luna contributed, “Seven of Light…”
“And Thirteen of Darkness.” Celestia shuttered for a moment before continuing. “To this day, the destruction I saw and the hopelessness I felt was almost overwhelming for my young mind.”
“How did the Darkness not destroy the other worlds?” Twilight asked.
“That is what was amazing. Despite the destruction and hopelessness, the light from mine and Luna’s hearts was enough to dispel the Darkness enough for other survivors to rebuild the world we now live on.”
“As for the survivors that wielded keyblades,” Luna said, “They all vowed to use their keyblades to protect and serve others rather than fulfill their own wishes.”
“Luna and I came to wield keyblades shortly after a survivor of the War took us in as apprentices. Master Starswirl the Bearded and his other apprentice, Clover the Clever, treated us as family.”
"When Clover became a master, she built a tower between worlds and worked to watch the balance between the Light and the Darkness,” Luna said, “When she was nearing death, she passed her task to her apprentice, Yen Sid, and sealed her heart in a Crystal Ball that he keeps in the tower.”
“But what about you?” Cadence asked, “Did you and Luna ever take on apprentices?”
“Yes, we did. Luna took one, while I took many.”
“My apprentice became corrupted by Darkness and became the infamous King Sombra,” Luna said.
“As for my apprentices, I mentored them with hopes of finding a suitable keyblade bearer. None of them except you and Sunset Shimmer came close. She came the closest in terms of magical strength, but not strength of heart. You surpassed her in strength of heart and are magically powerful as well.”
“So you were training me to be a keyblade wielder?” Twilight asked.
“Yes, although, at the time I saw more of a heart of a Princess than that of a keyblade wielder. I never really thought of making you a keyblade wielder until after Silver Crown…”
“Ugh!” Twilight exclaimed in frustration, “What does Silver Crown have to do with any of this?! First, Shining is given his birth files and a vision from a mysterious pony, then you mention him just now as the reason to consider a keyblade!”
“Twilight, I didn’t give you a keyblade because I hadn’t thought of it.”
“I’m not angry about not having a keyblade,” Twilight snapped back, “I just want to know what Silver Crown has to do with everything that has happened so far! He’s dead!”
“Twilight Sparkle!” Celestia shouted in near Royal Canterlot Voice tone. After the Twilight settled down briefly, Celestia continued, “Do not disrespect your brother! He is alive and has done many great things for the safety and protection of this and all worlds!”
“Then why do the records say that he died shortly after birth?!”
“Twilight!” Cadence shouted, getting Twilight’s attention. “Calm Down! Breathe!” Twilight took her former foalsitter’s advice and used the breathing exercise she was taught to ease her stress. Once she calmed down, Celestia began to explain more.
“When you and your brother were born, there was nothing out of the ordinary at first. However, roughly two weeks after that, some doctors came to me with an issue they were experiencing involving you and him. Silver Crown had an excess of magic in his system, something unusual for a pegasus foal. The thing they had called me in for, however, had to deal with you.”
"Me?”
“Yes. Unknowingly and unconsciously, you were siphoning the excess magic off of him and the doctors were concerned. I looked into it and couldn’t find any way to stop it short of separating you and him. But there was a problem with that. It would involve taking him to another world and the knowledge of other worlds’ existence was forbidden except to a select few.”
“So you took him away and had the doctors say that what happened killed him?”
“Yes, but the problem is now non-existent.”
“How so?” Cadence and Twilight asked.
“It was when I had transported him to another world. As we arrived, the excess magic that you didn’t siphon off, dissipated and a chain necklace with a silver crown on it appeared around his neck,” Celestia paused to let the info sink in, “That was the time, I believe, he received his cutie mark.”
“At that age?”
“Twilight,” Luna said, “Foals receiving their cutie marks that young are about as rare as ponies reaching adult age without a cutie mark.”
“Yes, and his cutie mark, from what I’ve been told about him from Yen Sid, means that he was crowned as one of few destined to keep the worlds at peace.”
“So, then the pony that my husband won’t leave is Him?” Cadence asked. Celestia nodded. Without another word, Cadence left the room, leaving a slight distortion in Celestia’s sound barrier.
“And Silver’s pendant didn’t revert back into his cutie mark because…?” Twilight said, expectantly.
“I placed a spell on the pendant so that if he was to return to Equestria, whether willingly, unknowingly, or accidentally, he would still have the physical pendant and anything that he would find familiar and I would be alerted to his arrival.”
“Well, that explains the golden clothes, but how did you know his pseudonym?”
“Yed Sid keeps me informed of various happenings off world. As it turns out, his name and unorthodox apprenticeship was some of what he told me.”
“Is there anything else I need to know?”
“It’s nothing that your brother can’t tell.”
“Okay, I’ll talk to him,” Twilight said, and began to leave.
“Twilight,” Luna called out, “Remember, the knowledge of other worlds is to be kept secret. You may tell Shining, your fiancè, and your friends if they are sworn to secrecy.”
“The Force is strong with this one,” a raspy, almost robotic voice said.
“Yes, as a Princess of Heart, it is to be expected,” a motherly, yet sinister voice answered. “However, upon closer inspection, it seemed unusual for a common child to be a Princess of Heart. Thankfully, the Book of Prophecy shed some light on the reasoning. Born with the Royal blood of a...unique world, she has been endowed with a rather powerful heart.”
“What of this unique world?”
“More information would have been gleaned from the Book had that clumsy oaf, Pete, not misplaced it!” The female voice said, rage evident in some of the words. “However, despite that setback, one important detail was found. A Crystal Heart that radiates what nearby people feel to the rest of the world it’s on. Think of the possibilities, we could shroud an entire world in Darkness.”
"Perhaps Pete may have his use after all.”
“And what would that be?”
“Have him placed there to obtain the Crystal Heart, one way or another.”
“He would probably fail, but I suppose having him there to start a dark influence wouldn’t hurt.”
“I can sense Darkness growing in the brightest recesses of the Light. It would do well to take advantage of this shift in the Force. Send Pete and the group known as Beagle Boys.”
“Yes, that may be what is needed to obtain our goal.”
Author's Note
For what Kingdom Hearts fans mixed among you Bronies and Pegasisters that doesn't like Star Wars with Kingdom Hearts, I say unto you, Bingo Bango Bongo! For me it can work. If you don't like it, do me one favor...don't crucify me.
Kingdom Hearts: Harmony of Hearts
Chapter 11: Family Reunion
Green is to play music, Red is to stop music.
Kingdom Hearts: Harmony of Hearts
Equestria: Canterlot ER
Shining and Sora held their embrace for a few minutes longer before they broke it. “Eighteen years,” Shining said.
“Eighteen years,” Sora agreed. He looked around before asking, “Where’s Twilight?” He looked to Shining. “Where’s my sister?”
“She’s visiting the Princess in her hospital room.”
“The one she said I was to visit and was attacked by Vanitas?” Sora asked.
“I believe that’s the one,” Shining confirmed. “I spoke with the doctor earlier, and he said that once you wake up, you were allowed to leave.”
Sora got up from the hospital bed and began to leave the hospital room. Just as he opened the door, a pink alicorn walked in, almost bumping into Sora. “Woah, sorry!” Sora and Cadence said at the same time.
Shining snickered a bit, but Sora and the alicorn caught his laughing. He attempted to cover it with a cough, but it only resulted in Sora and the alicorn laughing at his attempt. “What?” He asked.
“It’s just funny that you’re laughing at your brother for such a silly thing,” the alicorn said. Sora looked to her in amazement.
“So, you know my brother and you know that I’m his brother?” Sora asked.
The alicorn nodded. “Princess Celestia told me of you. As for how I know your brother, I’m his wife and he’s my husband.”
Sora was surprised. “You’re Married!” He blurted in his surprise.
“I don’t think you would exactly know that, considering you’ve been gone for 18 years,” Shining commented. “Thinking about that, where have you been all these years?”
Sora then had a look of nervousness. “I...well...uh.” Before he could think of a suitable cover story, a pink-ish aura formed around the interior of the room before vanishing.
“He’s been on another world.” Everypony in the room looked to the door and saw Flash and…
“Twilight!” Sora rushed to his sister and embraced her in a hug. Flash looked at Sora and seemed ready to draw his sword. Shining noticed this and placed his hoof on his shoulder. Flash took notice and saw Shining shaking his head in disapproval. “Let my siblings bond, they haven’t been able to see each other for 18 years.”
“Siblings?”
“It’s hard to believe, yes, but it’s true. And judging by what Twily said, he’s lived most of his life in a world like Canterlot High.”
“Destiny Islands,” Sora said.
“What?” Everypony said in confusion.
“That was the name of the world I’ve lived on for 15 years of my life,” Sora explained as he broke his hug.
“What about the other three years?” Cadence asked.
“Sporadic living on three different worlds. Traverse Town, Radiant Garden, and the Mysterious Tower.”
“What can you tell us of these worlds?” Twilight asked.
Sora looked around and saw that he had no way to escape answering more questions. “It’s a long story.”
“We’ve got time,” Shining said, eliciting a laugh from the group. “Let’s head to someplace more comfortable.” He led the group out of the hospital and to the place that Shining probably dreaded would be Sora’s death by their mother’s hug...Home.
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Equestria: Sparkle Residence
“Honey ! I’m Home!” Night Light called out to his wife as he walked through the door. Eagerly, his wife, Twilight Velvet, rushed to her husband in the entryway of their large yet modest home.
“I’m glad that you’re okay,” She said with a kiss, the worry thick in her words.
Night shrugged. “The lockdown was a bit of an overkill, considering the battle yesterday only lasted a few hours at most.”
Velvet giggled a bit before kissing her husband again. “I understand that you missed me through the night, but I would wait a thousand years to see you, if it meant that you would be safe.”
“Don’t go thinking that I’ve been sent to the moon.” Night nuzzled his wife and gave her a kiss on the cheek. “Anyway, I’m going to check our bill status, so I’ll see you at dinner.” He started heading to his office when his wife called out to him.
“Shining sent a message to us earlier. He told us that he will be home around then with Cadence as well as Twilight and her fiance. They will be bringing a surprise with them.”
Night entered his office and mumbled to himself, “I hope it’s Donut Joe’s.”
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A Few Hours Later
Night was having a hard time staying focused on the paperwork on his desk. His mind was currently focused on the donuts and pastries that Shining would be bringing home. He had to remember to wipe his mouth every so often to keep his watering mouth from leaking onto the paperwork.
Finally, the Celestia blessed sound of Shining’s voice sounded through the house. “Mom! Dad! We’re home!”
“Finally,” Night grumbled to himself as he got up from his desk, the bills and other paperwork barely touched. He walked out into the main room. “I hope the wait was worth...it?” Night , upon entering the entryway, saw not only his gathered family, sans Velvet, but also a familiar yet unfamiliar pegasus.
“Shining, who’s this?” He asked in a casual, yet warning voice. The pegasus turned and took notice of Night and his scowl. Shining stood between him and the pegasus.
“Dad,” Shining said in an equally warning voice and scowl. Standing barely a head taller than an average pony, he could intimidate almost everypony with that combination...except Night.
“What is he doing here?” Night shifted his scowl towards Shining. “Is he the surprise your message mentioned?”
“Yes,” Shining replied in firm defiance, “But this is not one of those times when I’ve spent the night drinking and I end up allowing one of my drunk friends to crash on the couch.” Everypony present gave him either a confused or unapproved look. He caught on to their looks. “I was young, stupid, and single. You can’t blame me for wanting to have a social life, even if alcohol is involved.”
The pegasus facehoofed. “Of all the things you had to say, you tell me that you were a drinker.” He shook his head. “And I can guess that you still drink a bit.” Shining looked as if he was a bit flustered. The pegasus looked to Night and pointed at Shining. “After he said that, I could just tell that he still has a lingering habit. Not much of a role model, are you?”
Night shook his head in confusion. “It don’t care if he is a drinking buddy or not! I want to know. Who! Is! He!”
At this point, Velvet decided to make an appearance. “Nighty what’s the fuss about?” She asked to him before she stopped in her tracks. Her gaze was focused on the red pegasus. Her eyes had a look of curiosity that shifted to surprise, then wonder, and finally started shedding tears of joy. She then rushed to the pegasus and gave him a hug, surprising him and Night. He couldn’t wrap his mind around what she was doing.
“Honey, do you know him?” He asked. She then looked at him with teary, yet annoyed eyes. Velvet’s horn lit up and Night suddenly felt the pain of something blunt making connection with the back of his head. Shifting his head, he could see that it was a photo album.
“Of course I know him!” Velvet practically shouted. “I gave birth to him, you Dim Light!” Night cringed a bit from the nickname she used whenever she was angry at or near him. Twilight intervened, causing Night to silently give a prayer of thanks.
“Mom, I understand that you haven’t seen Silver for eighteen years and your sensitive. But did you have to hit Dad over the head with the family album?” She took the album in her magic and briefly leafed through it. “Speaking of which, why did you choose to hit him with the family album, rather than the psychology textbook you usually use?”
Velvet looked a bit confused at first, but then realization dawned on her. “To be honest, I didn’t realize I grabbed it. But the reason to hit him is still the same.” She took the book back and looked at him with a glare. “Knock. Some. Sense. Into. Him,” she said, punctuating each word by hitting Night’s horn.
Silver then walked forward and grabbed the album out of Velvet’s magic and looked it over. He then began smirking . “Shining, you never told me that Twilight dressed your hair up like that.” Shining suddenly grabbed the album and held it to himself, blushing the whole time.
“Don’t let Cadence see that!” He shouted out. “To this day, I regret letting Mom take that picture.” His grip on the album increased as Cadence drew near.
“What’s the matter, Shiny?” Cadence asked, slowly walking closer. “Are you scared of me seeing your sister’s hair job on you?” Shining looked to his wife and gave her a slight nod. Night decided to save his oldest son from embarrassment...for a price.
“Shining, since you decided to bring your long lost brother home, you can go and get some donuts and muffins from Donut Joe’s for our dessert celebration.” He pulled the album out of Shining’s grip and pushing him to the door. He then whispered to him as he was heading out the door, “At least you won’t be around when they get to the part when you blew up the kitchen in an attempt to test a shield spell.” Shining’s eyes shrunk to pinprick at the mention of that memory. Without another word, he continued out the door.
Smirking, Night turned around and looked at Silver, his son. Shaking his head, he decided to spend some time with him, whether or not he was his son.
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More Time Passes
Shining Armor entered the house with the confectioneries in tow. He heard laughter coming from the kitchen and he headed straight there. Upon arriving, he found everypony, except Twilight, laughing at something in the album. Shining set down the box of desserts and looked at the solitary picture on the page and began chuckling. “The Reverse Gravity incident?”
Twilight groaned and covered her face. “Worst week ever.”
Shining nodded. “Yeah, but I wish that Mom would have allowed me to make it more embarrassing.” He laughed.
“How so?” Night asked, leaning forward.
“Flying her like a kite.” At that, Night, Silver, and Twilight fell off their chairs, the first two out of laughter, the last out of embarrassment. The album was then levitated by Cadence and it was hurled into Shining’s face.
“How can you be that cruel to your sister?” She said, with a playful look on her face. Shining removed the book from his face and smiled slyly.
“I’m pretty sure you realize that most of these pictures are from when us three either pranked each other or embarrassed ourselves.” He then turned to a picture of young Twilight with invisible string in her magical grasp. Showing the picture to his wife, he asked, “Don’t you remember the time that Twily managed to tie your wings to your back without you knowing it?”
Twilight shot back into her seat as Cadence tried to make herself invisible without magic. “Not my best take off.” She muttered. At that point, even Flash was trying to not hurt from the constant laughing.
Silver managed to recover enough to get back into his seat. Wheezing, he said, “Well, that’s nothing compared to when you…” Before he could finish, Night’s and Velvet’s hooves speedily landed in his mouth, effectively silencing him.
“Let’s not recount that.” Night said, firmness in his voice. “Shining has had enough embarrassment, and everypony here that knows that story has been sworn to silence after hearing it.” After he and Velvet carefully removed their hooves from Silver’s mouth, he muttered, “That was the worst day for all involved.”
“What about you?” Flash asked. “In your 18 years away from home, don’t you have anything embarrassing that happened to you?”
Everypony turned their attention to Silver in anticipation. Shining found a seat to enjoy the show. Silver looked as if in thought, but practically everypony knew he was stalling. He then looked up and said, as calmly as he could (that is to say, he practically shouted in embarrassment), “I’m not giving any details! The most I’m going to say was that it involved a gorrilla, a few banana peels and a mango!” He then started bashing his head against the table. “I don’t want to remember that moment! Donald never did let me forget!”
“Who’s Donald?” Velvet asked innocently.
“He’s a friend of mine.” Sora answered. He shook his head with a slight chuckle. “He’s one of my best friends out there. He’s a bit of a hothead, not very smart, and when he gets talking, he’s hard to understand. But he’s a really strong mage, and handy in a fight.”
“So, he’s a unicorn?” Night asked.
Twilight seemed in thought about something before speaking. “I thought he was a d…” Before she could finish, Silver grabbed the nearest donut and forced into her mouth.
“Before you finish that thought, I need something of everypony.” He turned to the family. “Anything that is now said, we need to keep to ourselves. Nopony else is to know any of this. Understand?” Silver’s sudden seriousness caused everypony’s eyes to widen and they nodded their heads. “Okay.” He turned back to Twilight. “You may continue once you finish that donut.”
Twilight finished bite she was forced to eat, and finished. “Isn’t Donald a duck?” Everypony gave her weird looks, although Silver had a surprised look.
“How did you know that?” Silver asked, causing everypony else to change to surprised.
“I had a dream about you and your friends when you fought your former friend, Riku ,” Twilight said. Suddenly, a hoof slammed onto the table. Silver seemed upset at what Twilight said.
“Twilight.” He said as gently as his pained face would allow. “You don’t know the whole story.” Twilight then threw her hooves into the air.
“What’s to know?!” She asked a bit too loudly. “Your friend succumbed to the Darkness and tried to kill you! How can you still trust him after that?” Everypony was silent after she said that. Sora then teared up and nodded his head down.
“You weren’t there when we closed the Door.” Silver then bolted from the table and ran up the stairs. Shining looked to Twilight briefly.
“Handled that well,” he commented, before chasing after Silver. He followed him and managed to get to the hall just as he slammed the door to Shining’s room. “Silver?” No response. “Silver, it’s me, Shining. I just want to talk to you.” The door was suddenly enveloped in light and the sound of the door’s lock sounded loudly. Disappointment marred his face as he went down back to the ruined dessert celebration. As he entered the kitchen, Velvet stood up.
“How is he?” She asked, worry covering her face.
“We’re not going to be able to talk to him for a while.” Shining shook his head. “He sealed the door to my room shut.”
Night snorted out of mild amusement. “You make it sound like he used…”
“Magic.” Night looked at Twilight in confusion from her interruption. She looked up to him with a sad expression. “He is the bearer of a weapon called a keyblade. I don’t know all the properties of it, but I can assume, based on the name, that it can lock and unlock any lock or chest.” She pointed to Shining. “So he used the correct word combination.”
She got up and headed for the door. Velvet rushed to her daughter, stopping her before she got to the door. “Where are you going?”
“I’m going to talk to Princess Luna and get her to help me see the remainder of the dream that I had.” She sighed and turned back to the door. “I’ve got a feeling that I’m missing some details of the picture.” She then left.
Awkward silence reigned for the duration of the time that everypony else went and cleaned up the kitchen. Soon, after the seated themselves in the living room, Shining decided to break the silence.
“I think the evening went off smoothly until the last part.” He shook his head. “I’m not sure as to why Silver blew up like that, but it must have been something that was sensitive.”
“It was.” Everypony was startled by Silver’s sudden appearance. “It took me a few years to keep Riku from putting himself down for succumbing to the Darkness.” He sighed. “After that, I have had a hard time keeping my cool whenever someone brings it up in the wrong way.”
“Someone?” Night and Velvet asked.
“He’s lived on other worlds for a while, so the term can apply.” Flash stated.
“What?”
“I guess I have some explanations to do,” Silver commented. Everypony nodded. “So to start off, I’ve lived most of my life on a world called Destiny Islands.” He then began to gesture with his hooves to help describe the world. “It is a group of islands surrounded by a vast ocean. After 14 years of living with only the islands and the ocean, me and two of my friends decided to build a raft and try to see if there were other worlds.” Shaking his head, he continued. “Little did we know, we would find out, but not in the way we planned.”
“How did you find out?” Night asked.
Sora sighed. “There was a storm.”
Author's Note
So now, the Family has be reunited. The meeting was a bit bumpy, but overall, we see them together again.
Kingdom Hearts: Harmony of Hearts
Chapter 12: Spirits and Nightmares (Part 1)
Green is to play music, Red is to stop music.
Kingdom Hearts: Harmony of Hearts
Equestria: Canterlot Castle Throne Room
Luna hated Night Court. Simple as that. The nobles of her day requested aid for reasonable things, but nobles of now seemed to ask for help with really petty things. She could have sworn to have denied nearly 20 requests to finance the construction of random statues of nobles in conspicuous places for varying boastful reasons in that evening alone.
“Jet Set!” Luna shouted without her Royal Canterlot Voice. “I don’t care if Fancy Pants is your most hated rival, my sister and I will not allow such a statue to be built!”
“Your majesty,” he began to complain, but Luna cut him off.
“Enough, you are dismissed.” Jet Set left the room with a disappointed scowl. Rubbing her hoof to her temple, she called to the guard. “Tell the remaining nobles and other ponies that the Night Court is on break until I say so.” The two Thestral Guards that were posted at the door nodded and left the room to carry out their commands.
“Why do they think that I would allow such abominations to be built when Tia refuses?” She asked to nopony in particular. Throwing her hooves in the air, she shouted briefly in frustration. “They don’t understand that if I was to approve what my sister refused, it would set us against each other.”
The Thestral Guards reentered the room, one of them approached Luna with a bow. “Your Majesty, Princess Twilight Sparkle has requested to speak with you and has refused to leave until she has spoken with you.” Luna thought for a moment.
“Allow her in and dismiss the rest. Night Court is officially over for tonight.” The Thestral bowed and went to carry out her orders. A few minutes later, Twilight and the Thestral entered. “You wished to see me?”
Twilight nodded. “It’s about my brother, Silver, or Sora.” She sat down on her haunches and teared up slightly. “I said something about his friend, Riku and he got upset as if I didn’t know the whole story.” Sniffing, she continued. “He may be right, so I was hoping that we could view the rest of the dream, as it may have some details we may have missed.”
Luna seemed intrigued at her request. “To be honest, I had a feeling that the dream we saw those weeks ago was incomplete.” She rose from the throne. “I’m also curious as to how the dream will play out.”
Luna walked to the hidden entrance to the throne room, with a slightly fuming Twilight following. “You mean you knew that what we saw wasn’t all of the dream?”
Without missing a beat, Luna responded, “Yes. If we saw the whole of the dream or I ended the dream, you would have awoken peacefully rather than to what happened to Spike and Lieutenant Colonel Flash Sentry when we last tried.”
They were approaching the guest wing as Twilight asked, “So, we’re jumping right into it?”
“Verily.” Luna led Twilight into one of the guest bedrooms. Twilight jumped onto the bed on top of the covers. No ceremony, no ‘Good Night’ or ‘Sweet dreams’. Luna ignited her horn and cast the dreamwalking spell.
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Equestria: Dreamscape
Twilight and Luna reentered the Dreamscape and found the dream’s memory. Upon entering the dream, the found themselves in a different great hall. On the walls of the hall, there were six capsules, three to each wall. In the capsules were five women and one girl. They seemed to be sleeping but there wasn’t any indication of life either.
Before they could question anything more of their current questions, the Dream Sora/Silver, accompanied with Donald and Goofy, ran through the great hall and up some stairs at the end of the hall. Both alicorns followed the trio by flying up to the elevated platform the stairs led to. Silver and Donald managed to get onto the platform, but Goofy hit his head on an invisible magic barrier that wasn’t there a second earlier, and he was knocked back down the stairs as a result. Donald noticed instantly, but Silver wasn’t paying attention to them. His attention was riveted on a prone figure on the floor.
“Kairi!” He ran to the unconscious girl and began shaking her, hoping to wake her up. “Kairi! Kairi! Open your eyes!” The only response from Kairi was to remain limp in his arms, as if she was dead.
“It’s no use .” The suddenness of the voice caught Silver’s attention to above a heart shaped portal of swirling color. There, in the bodysuit, like in the last dream, sat Riku on some pipes that were sticking out of the wall. Twilight scowled at him in disapproval, but couldn’t seem to hold that scowl. She had noticed that his voice seemed different, as if it was a blend of his original voice and a dark sounding adult voice. She also noticed that he held an evil, twisted version of the keyblade, black shaft and teeth and red hand guard.
“That girl has lost her heart. She cannot wake up.” Twilight looked at Luna briefly, only to notice that Luna had a look of terror on her face.
“Luna, are you okay?” She asked out of concern. Luna turned her attention to Twilight and whispered so quietly she barely was audible.
“It’s just like the Nightmare!” Twilight was shocked at what she said, even more so when Silver spoke.
"What? You...You’re not Riku.” At his words there, Twilight understood. Riku was possessed by a dark entity that he allowed in by his jealousy. From there, he may have been purged of the entity and he felt remorse for his actions when he was possessed. Much like Luna.
“The Keyhole cannot be completed so long as the last Princess of Heart still sleeps.” As Nightmare Riku jumped from the pipe and floated to the ground, Twilight jerked a bit in surprise when he said that. Looking at Kairi, she didn’t see much of how she could be a Princess, but she wasn’t the only one surprised.
“The Princess…? Kairi’s a Princess?!” Silver shouted.
“Yes, and without her power, the Keyhole will remain incomplete. It is time she awakened.”
Silver stood his ground, standing between Kairi and the Nightmare. “Whoever you are, let Riku go! Give him back his heart!”
“But first, you must give the Princess back her heart.” Twilight was confused until the Nightmare pointed the dark keyblade at Silver. Silver’s chest then flashed in light briefly, before he seemed to fall forward in pain, his hand to where the light emitted.
“Sora!” Donald shouted, having taken notice of the exchange. He rushed to Silver’s side, trying to help support his weight.
“What’s--”
“Don’t you see yet?” The Nightmare said. “The Princess’s heart is responding. It has been there all along. Kairi’s heart rests within you!”
Silver strained with the pain he was in. “Kairi...Kairi’s inside me?”
“I know all that there is to know.”
“Tell me. Who are you?”
The Nightmare spread his arms wide. “It is I, Ansem, The Seeker of Darkness!” Lowering his arms, he began to approach Donald and Silver. Donald seemed to have had enough, as he had summoned his staff with an angry squawk and charged Ansem. He paid Donald no mind, as he easily knocked him through the barrier and off the platform.
Ansem then pointed his keyblade at Silver. “So, I shall release you now, Princess. Complete the Keyhole with your power. Open the door, lead me into Everlasting Darkness!” He then raised the keyblade to strike him. Twilight began to panic, forgetting that this was a dream.
Time seemed to slow as the twisted, dark weapon neared its mark. Twilight shouted out to her brother. “SILVER!!!”
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Meanwhile, back at the Sparkle Residence
Sora/Silver was recounting to his gathered family of his adventures with Captain Jack Sparrow when he felt a strange tugging in his heart. He paused in his story and placed a hoof on his chest, feeling his heart beating a little harder.
“Silver, are you okay?” His mother asked.
“I’m okay, but I have this feeling that Twilight is feeling distressed,” he said carefully. He looked up to his family. “It’s as if she is seeing something painful and needs a friend to help her through it.” He then closed his eyes in concentration.
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Back in the Dreamscape
‘Twilight. I’m here. Don’t worry. You’re safe.’ Those words, wherever they came from, calmed Twilight down as she watched the scene unfold. Barely a second passed when Dream Silver’s head looked up at his attacker in defiance. He summoned his Keyblade and the two blades locked together.
Silver began to push back against his attacker. “Forget it! There’s no way you’re taking Kairi’s heart!” He pushed Ansem off of him and a fight ensued. Ansem rushed forward, taking the offensive while Silver pushed for the defensive. This proved to be to Silver’s advantage, as for every attack Ansem made, Silver would block the attack and counter with at least three strikes, before having to move to avoid a retaliation. Every so often, Ansem charged some Dark Magic into his hand and it seemed to make him stronger and faster, allowing him to get a few strikes under Silver’s defenses. However, with those speed and strength boosts, came arrogance and carelessness. Any time Silver attacked while Ansem had the boosts up, he didn’t react or react in time. After a while of the melee, Ansem stopped and began to shoot small bursts of Dark Lightning.
Ansem then dropped his dark key and began to fall forward, as if Death was claiming him. “Riku!” Silver ran forward to catch his friend, but Riku-Ansem vanished.
Donald began squawking loudly. “Sora! Sora, look!”
“The...The Keyhole!” Goofy urged.
Silver looked to the strange portal. He summoned his keyblade and pointed it to it. After a few seconds of nothing happening, Goofy seemed to realise something. “It won’t work! The Keyhole’s not finished yet!”
Dismissing his keyblade, he asked, “What can we do?”
Goofy pointed to where Kairi laid. “Maybe we’ve gotta go wake Kairi up.”
Turning to Kairi, Silver confirmed, “I think you’re right. If we can free her heart...but...but how?” He threw his arms up in frustration before turning to the dark keyblade. “A keyblade that unlocks people’s hearts...I wonder.” He then walked forward to the twisted weapon.
“Sora? Goofy asked. Silver ignored him and picked up the keyblade. Suddenly, Twilight understood what he was going to do.
Not hearing Donald’s and Goofy’s pleas to stop, Twilight added her own, again forgetting that this was a dream. “Silver! No!”
Silver turned to his friends and flashed them a quick apologetic smile. He then turned the blade around and stabbed himself in the chest.
“SILVER!!! NOOO!!! ”
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Sparkle Residence
Silver had continued on with the story of his adventures. He had just finished telling of Master Xehanort’s ultimate defeat when he doubled over in pain. His family rushed to him as he started to breath heavily, trying to deal with the pain.
“What’s wrong?” Shining asked, in concern. “Is Twily in pain? Is she hurt?”
Silver seemed to have another bout of pain, as he fell out of his seat, writhing and grunting/yelling in pain. Cadence lit her horn in an attempt to relieve his pain, but as soon as the spell hit, she felt the pain too. Recoiling, she canceled the spell and looked to Shining. “The pain he is feeling is emotional, but it’s translating into physical pain.” She looked to Flash. “I’m not completely sure, but it may be related to Twilight.”
Shining and Flash managed to get past Night and Velvet, both of whom were trying to comfort Silver. Shining lifted Silver onto the table so he could try to get eye level with him, with Flash just behind him. “Silver, look at me.” Silver continued to writhe in pain. “Look at me!” He turned to Shining and Flash. “What’s wrong with Twily?” Silver winced and stifled a shout. “Is she okay?!”
In response, two elongated flashes of light came from Silver’s hooves, before the light vanished, revealing two keyblades. Flash recognised the one in his right hoof, being the one he saw him fight with most. The other one was more exotic looking, the handle a little offset from the blade, making it look like it was built for speed rather than strength.
Lifting his right hoof, he offered that keyblade to Shining Armor. “Take it! Find her! Save her!” He winced again, then lifted his left hoof and offered the other keyblade to Flash. “Hurry! Time is short! A trap is sprung!” After they took their respective keyblades, Silver suddenly began to writhe about more jerkingly. His constant movement knocked him off the table. He looked back at Shining and Flash with wide, pained eyes. “Save Twilight! Save Xion!”
Without having to ask twice, Shining and Flash bolted to try and reach the castle before it was too late.
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Dreamscape
Where the blade entered Silver’s chest, a light flashed. Silver let go of the blade and it automatically pulled itself out of him. The blade then darkened and vanished, leaving six orbs of pure light. The orbs then flew to the capsules and went into the five women and the girl.
The light from Silver’s chest intensified and then faded, an orb of pure light coming from his chest that flew to Kairi. When the orb entered her, her eyes opened instantly. Silver then began to glow golden and slowly fall backwards.
Donald began shouting and running to Sora. Kairi looked up when she heard Donald shouting. Her gaze fell upon Silver’s falling figure. Upon seeing him, she got up and rushed to him. She made to catch him, but his body dissolved into a bunch of golden lights and began floating away. Donald began calling for his friend to come back.
Kairi seemed more distraught by Silver’s sacrifice. “Sora, are you really--” She stopped herself and steeled her expression. “No. He can’t be! I won’t let him go!”
Then Kairi, Donald, and Goofy suddenly faded out of Twilight’s vision. She was confused with this, because she remembered enough to know that nobody really fades from the image. “Luna, what’s…” She looked to where Luna was and noticed that she was staring wide eyed in fear at was behind them. Twilight followed her line of sight and saw what was causing her to freeze in fear and it seemed to cause her to feel off.
Standing at full height was a man with a deep tan, amber eyes, and silvery-white hair. He wore a strange assortment of clothes that seemed to shout, ‘I’m from the deepest and darkest pit of Tartarus.’ After a few minutes of staring at him, he spoke.
“It seems that I’ve caught more in my web than anticipated. The Master’s Ex-wife, and his sister-in-law’s pitiful princess protege.” Luna tensed up and took a few steps back, Twilight half mirroring her movements. “You both will provide wonderful assets to the Organization.”
Luna couldn’t hold herself back. “Who are you?” She asked, shakily.
“It is I, Ansem, The Seeker of Darkness! "
Author's Note
There you have it. Sorry for the long wait. I've had some issues with writing and getting things published.
Kingdom Hearts: Harmony of Hearts
Chapter 13: Spirits and Nightmares (Part 2)
Green is to play music, Red is to stop music.
Kingdom Hearts: Harmony of Hearts
Equestria: Dreamscape
Twilight was taken aback at this. “You’re Ansem!” She shouted, taking a threatening step forward. “You are the one that possessed Riku! You turned him into a monster! Just so you could try to cover all of existence in Darkness!”
“Very clever.” Ansem flashed a deceivingly, white smile. “As he was a failed clone of the Master, I felt it was necessary for him to suffer. As it was necessary for Luna to suffer.”
Luna’s already big eyes suddenly got bigger in shock, before narrowing in rage. “IT WAS THOU THAT CAUSED US TO BECOME THE NIGHTMARE THAT PLAGUED EQUESTRIA!!!” She rushed to attack him, but before Luna could form any form of attack, a strange and terrifying black creature materialized and grabbed her by the throat, choking her and driving her mind from rage to terror. The creature then violently threw her from the platform to the lower great hall.
“Princess Luna!” Twilight flew after Luna to try and assess her injuries and protect her from Ansem. Just as she landed, Ansem appeared from a portal of darkness.
“Don’t bother trying to run.” He smirked. “In this realm, The Darkness obeys my command, and the Nightmares run free.” He extended an arm out and several oddly shaped and colored cat-like creatures with red eyes materialized and surrounded both Princesses. “Those who have been claimed by the Nightmares I control can never leave.” He then gestured his hand to the capsules in the hall.
Twilight looked at the capsules and noticed that the women and the girl were gone. In their stead were five mares that she had come to know and love as the best friends she could ever have. “Girls!” She made to try and run to Applejack’s capsule, but the cat creatures blocked her way. She turned to Ansem with a look of rage. “What have you done!”
“Your friends are on the brink of an eternal sleep.” He walked to Rarity’s capsule, examining her mane in his hand. “As it is better for them and for you.”
“Why!? How can this be better for them and me?!” Twilight pawed at the ground while giving a death glare at Ansem.
“It is very simple.” He walked over to Fluttershy’s capsule and examined her mane. “The bonds of friendship bind us down with oaths and promises that don’t let us progress and can even pull us back.” He turned to Twilight. “Such is the case with Sora, or as he is known by his family, Silver. He has so many bonds of friendship, that he wasn’t able to become a Keyblade Master on his first attempt of the Mark of Mastery. He even made a small, yet powerful bond with you. That bond links him to you, insomuch that he can feel your current distress and is pained by it.” He held his hand forward and a mist appeared around his hand. Inside the mist was an image of Silver, his face contorted in pain.
Twilight dropped her scowl and had a worried look. “Yes. His pain comes from you. When you were unconsciously absorbing the excess light from his heart, you laid the foundation for such a link to be formed. When you met him, and became friends, the link was forged.” He dismissed the mist. “The only way to end his pain is to break that bond of friendship. Once it is broken, he will no longer feel your distress, and you will no longer have to worry over his pain.” He then held his hand out, as if expecting her to reach for it. But Twilight hesitated, thinking of how this could work. Almost as soon as she hesitated, she felt the correct answer burning in her heart.
“No.” Ansem suddenly, took a step back in unseen shock. “Sora puts up with the pain of having friends, no matter how the pain comes. Whether by betrayal, their antics, or even pain as he now receives it.” She began to charge her horn with energy. “No matter how painful friendship can be, it is worth it. If he can deal with the pain and lethargic results of life because of it, then I can too.” Her horn’s energy spiked, causing Ansem to flinch. “As the Princess of Friendship, I would die to protect it. My friends are my power, and I’m theirs!”
Ansem lowered his hand. “You have made your decision. You are now a liability that needs to be dealt with harshly. You shall sleep, even as your friends!” He began to walk forward, but suddenly Twilight’s vision became blurry for a brief second. When the blurring stopped, time practically was.
“Twilight Sparkle. Your time has come to Dive into the Heart.” Twilight jumped a bit in fright. She scanned the room trying to find the owner of the voice. In her searching she saw somepony she hadn’t noticed. A bright, yellow unicorn with mane and tail color matching Ansem’s. He nodded to her and her vision was enveloped in light.
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Equestria: Dive into the Heart.
When the light faded from her vision, she saw that she wasn’t in the great hall of the creepy castle. She found herself standing in a strange dark void, with the only light coming from a stained glass platform that she was standing on. Looking at it, she was surprised to find that it depicted herself and some of the many friends she’s had.
“Okay, that is just weird,” She said to herself.
“This is actually the very depths of your heart.” Twilight jumped again in fright, and managed to find the source of the voice. It was the yellow unicorn she saw in the creepy castle. He was standing “standing” in the void area, practically floating. “It is here that you are put through trials that will make you strong enough to handle what is to come.”
Twilight ran towards him, but stopped when she felt an edge to the platform and gravity. She nearly lost her balance, but the unicorn “stepped” forward and helped her regain her balance. As she steadied herself on her hooves, she got a better look at him. His eyes were a light turquoise and his cutie mark was a heart shaped symbol that looked similar to the symbol on the strange cat creatures, but it had softer features. He was also wearing a denim blue vest.
“You might not want to do that. It can be bad for your health.” He chuckled a bit at his own joke. Twilight just gave him a deadpan stare.
“I know that now, but I want to know who you are and what you meant by ‘what is to come’.” She looked at him expectantly, but he just shook his head.
“For now, you will know me as Black Heart. As for what is to come, I can’t really say entirely.” He sighed and shook his head. “There is so little time, yet so much to do.” His horn lit up with a grey aura and three weapons materialized in the air behind Twilight. One was a staff with Twilight’s Element of Magic on the tip. The next was a sword with the same Element on the hilt. The last was a shield that had the image of the Element on it. Twilight turned and saw the weapons and had a look of confusion on her face. “Choose well.” She turned around and Black Heart was gone. “Once you have made your choice, my Dream Eater will guide you further.”
Twilight nodded and walked forward to examine the presented weapons. She carefully checked each of them and thought for a moment. The shield seemed to be built so sturdily that it could resist a strike from Celestia’s strongest combat spell. The sword seemed so razor sharp that it could cut through the hardest and toughest of materials. The staff seemed to be brimming with magical power. She decided to go with the staff, as she had more of a feel towards magic.
Thinking that using it worked like the keyblade, she reached her hoof to it and grabbed it. Shortly after grabbing it, it vanished in a flash of light and a short-ish keyblade appeared in her hoof. The blade was a metallic blue with a metal grey guard.
A fancy door suddenly appeared at the edge of the platform. She walked to it and tried to open it, both with and without magic, but the door didn’t budge. She looked at the keyblade before she pointed it at the door. The keyblade charged up and fired a beam of light at the door. A loud click of a lock unlocking was heard and the door cracked open, a bright light shining through. Twilight then opened the door and walked into the light. The light around her faded and she was on a different platform with no door behind her.
She looked around for the Dream Eater that Black Heart mentioned. The only thing she could see was a strange looking bat that was flapping its wings rapidly to stay alloft. She held her keyblade at the ready, in case it attacked her, but it made no move to attack.
Suddenly , more of the strange cat creatures and even bats appeared. However, she noticed a difference between the colors of the first bat and the other bats and even the cats. The first bat had brighter, more festive colors. The other creatures had darker, more somber colors. She didn’t dwell on that, as the darker cats and bats began to attack her. She began to hack and slash through them and they dissolved with each strike. While she was fighting, she noticed that the brighter bat was helping, scratching at and screeching loudly at the darker creatures.
After a few minutes, the darker creatures were gone, leaving her and the bright bat. It flew towards her and landed on her back and gave her happy squeaks of approval. A few moments of doing this, and Twilight realized something. “You must be the Dream Eater that Black Heart was talking about.”
The Dream Eater flapped its wings and squeaked in confirmation. It then moved closer to her head and nuzzled it a bit before flapping off to one side of the platform. When It got there, a pathway appeared leading to another platform. Twilight followed the Dream Eater up the pathway until she arrived on the platform, one that again depicted herself.
She looked around expecting to see more of the darker Dream Eaters, but found that the area was devoid of anything except herself and Black Heart’s Dream Eater. She kept her guard up, thinking that if she lowered it, she would be attacked. She did a full 360 in looking around and when she got to direction she was facing when she got onto the platform, she saw a humanoid figure in a black robe.
From what she remembered from her time at Canterlot High, she could at least tell that the figure was female, in figure. Other than that, the figure was completely foreign to her. The figure then lowered her hood, revealing a face that she didn’t expect.
A face like her human face.
However, she knew the face wasn’t all like the face she had. For one thing, her face seemed rather downcast, as if she never had a happy day to speak of. Another thing was that her hair was pitch black and not purple with magenta highlights.
“Who are you?” Twilight asked. The girl didn’t respond, but extended her hand and summoned an interesting keyblade. The blade was a combination of silver and crimson, while the guard was a combination of gold and crimson.
The girl still had a sorrowful look as she charged Twilight. Twilight managed to get her keyblade in position to block the attack from the girl, locking blades with her. “I am you…” Darkness began to cloud her vision. The girl then pushed herself off of her and vanished into the Darkness.
The Darkness then receded and Twilight found herself “standing” in the air outside the Friendship Castle in Ponyville. She could see the various features that make up Ponyville very clearly. Everything was clear as if she was actually there. She looked around and saw the girl with her hood up, “standing” in the air as well.
Suddenly , Darkness began to envelop her and she began to increase in size, easily dwarfing the castle. When the Darkness stopped, what was left was a giant, dark cloaked beast, with dragon wings and had two black versions of her keyblade in her hands. To make the beast even more intimidating, was the symbols on her wings. They looked like Black Heart’s Cutie mark, but with sharper, demonic features.
She swung one of her keyblades to attack. Twilight managed to get her keyblade between the attack and herself, but she was knocked off of her hooves. She managed to recover from the daze and charged to meet the beast in hard combat. She started to use her wings to gain an aerial advantage over the beast. While the beast had wings, it seemed to either not know how to use them or refused to use them.
Twilight dove in and out, striking the beast’s head and hands and managing to dodge most of it’s attacks. The attacks that did land, were ones that Twilight didn’t anticipate or were follow up attacks to a magnet spell of some kind. After a while of this, the beast apparently had enough and began to fly, but without use of the wings.
Twilight kept at her hit and run strategy, but it was getting difficult to land strikes and dodge the beast’s. As it was now flying, it was able to keep a visual on her to defend and counter Twilight’s attacks. Twilight began to get desperate and began casting various spell of every kind she could think of. The spells fired from both her horn and her keyblade, striking whatever wasn’t protected by it’s weapons.
The beast then lowered it’s hood, revealing an armored head. Part of the helmet was a spike that seemed to resemble a unicorn horn. It briefly glowed a grey color, like how a unicorn casts a spell. The blades of the beast’s keyblades glowed the same color before doubling in length. Twilight learned that, while it did increase the range and strength of the attacks, it made the blades slower. Twilight was able to increase her attack rate and was able to dodge practically every attack that was dished out.
The beast then gave a loud roar and magically tore the cloak off revealing that underneath the cloak was an armored alicorn with hand appendages, instead of hooves, holding the twin keyblades. The beast started to get more reckless, lowering its defences, but it got significantly faster and more erratic. Twilight practically had to go all defensive in order to stay alive.
Twilight had started to feel tired at the beginning of the fight, but it started to catch up to her at this point. Her fatigue caused her to take a hit and “land” on one of the many balconies of the Friendship Castle. The beast seemed to gloat in its victory, but Twilight wasn’t really paying attention to that.
“What am I to do?” She asked herself. “I don’t want to die. I have a family and friends to live for. Help...Anypony?” She didn’t hear any response, but felt the need to look up. She saw the dark keyblade coming down, but something was different. The edge of the blade that wasn’t facing her was shimmering in a weird way, but she knew that it was important.
Twilight managed to roll out of the pathway of the blade and jumped. As she jumped, she felt an instinctive pull towards the shimmering blade edge. She angled herself to land on the edge, and when she did, It was as if gravity switched on her and she began to perfectly slide up the edge until she reached the guard. She jumped off of the blade and propelled her wings to send her towards the beast’s horn.
As she neared the horn, she spun herself in a corkscrew fashion, using her keyblade to drill a hole through the horn. Partway through, the beast roared in pain and tried to shake her off. She pulled her keyblade out of the horn and slashed at it, taking it clean off.
The beast then screamed in intense pain before plummeting to the ground. Twilight kept herself aloft as the falling form fell and shrunk. Her vision briefly went white and she found herself hovering a few feet over the platform she had begun the fight on. She dropped onto the platform and looked to see a crumpled mass on the opposite side of the platform.
Twilight carefully approached the unconscious body with hopes of finding out who this was. The body stirred, causing Twilight to jump back and ready herself to fight. The figure stood, but made no move of aggression. The figure then spoke.
“You have passed the test.” The figure turned to her and removed its hood, revealing the girl’s face. “The connections will be made clear.” She then raised her hand and images of Human Silver, Human Vanitas and two other, yet identical boys. She then gave Twilight a nervous smile. Twilight lowered her guard a little bit, but not entirely.
“My name is Xion . And you are part of the connection for my existence.”
“I’m not sure I understand what you are talking about,” Twilight responded.
Xion turned to the images of Silver and Vanitas. “Take a look at look at the images. Ignore the fact that they are different individuals. What do you see?”
Twilight looked at the images. “I can see they are almost the same.”
“How so?”
“They have practically the same facial features, same hair style, and I could guess that their voices would be similar.”
Gesturing to the other two, Xion spoke. “And the other two?”
“They look exactly the same, but one seems more familiar than the other.”
“Why do you think that is?”
Twilight was stumped. She never liked pop quizzes, as they take her completely by surprize and, on occasion, forces her to say her least favorite three letter phrase. “I don’t know.” She lowered her head in shame, looking down trodden.
Xion stepped forward and lifted her head up. “There is no need to fret. What one doesn’t know, one can learn.” She then waved her hand forward, causing the images to manifest in holographic like states. She walked to the images and moved Vanitas and one of the blond boys to the center of the platform.
“Years ago, a boy named Ventus used to be an apprentice of Master Xehanort. One day, in a world known as the Keyblade Graveyard, he tried to pressure Ventus to use his Darkness in a fight. He was reluctant, and Ventus nearly died as a result. Xehanort was disappointed. So, he used his keyblade to separated the darkness from his heart to create Vanitas.”
“The process, however, fractured Ventus’s heart. So badly, that he barely clung to existence. So Xehanort decided to bring Ventus to his former home, Destiny Islands, so that Ventus could live out an existence of some kind, if there was for him.” Xion paused. “This was the same time that your princess and protector transported your brother, Silver Crown, to the same world.”
“Your brother had an excess of light in his heart at the time of birth. When Celestia brought Silver to Destiny Islands, his heart sensed the damage in Ventus’s heart and repaired it. That was how he gained his cutie mark and how the connections started.”
Twilight was shocked. If fate existed, which considering what had happened with her life so far, she believed it did, then fate had guided everything for the connections to start. How else was fate involved?
“When Silver had repaired Ventus’s heart, it caused a physical change in Vanitas, making him as you see him.” Xion gestured in Vanitas’s direction. “Four years later, Xehanort, using lies and trickery, managed to get them both to fight each other, a source of pure light and of pure darkness fighting to create the X-blade. While it was successful, it didn’t last. Ventus put up a final stand in a setting similar to where we are to destroy the X-blade and he succeeded, but at the cost of his heart. However, the connection Silver made with Ventus allowed for Silver to hide Ventus’s heart in his for it to heal.”
“Ten years later, in Hollow Bastion, Silver’s sacrifice for his love, Kairi, turned himself into a Heartless. When that happened, what was leftover created what is called a Nobody, a being that wasn’t meant to exist.” She then pointed to the last unidentified boy. “His name was Roxas. He was indoctrinated into the First Organization XIII. He was able to wield a keyblade, which the organization used to collect hearts to form a puppet Kingdom Hearts, a means to try and create thirteen vessels of darkness.”
“However, they felt that Roxas gaining friendship with a fellow Organization member, Axel, would make it harder to control him, so I was created as a backup should he question the Organization and go against them. I was meant to be a perfect replica of Silver to replace Roxas, should the time come. However, there were...complications. Complications that you had unconscious involvement in.”
“The fact that you had a fraction of Silver’s light in you, combined with his love for Kairi, made me how I am. Rather than like Sora, I was more like you.” She sighed and summoned a keyblade, but it was Silver’s. “While I could use the keyblade, there were times that I kept second guessing myself, thinking less of myself at times.” She almost teared up. “There was a time that I briefly lost the ability to use the keyblade. In that time, I felt fear. I feared that the Organization would eliminate me, remove me from what existence I had.”
Twilight dismissed her keyblade after hearing this and understanding what she said before the long fight. Xion truly was her, in a fashion. She had a tendency to second guess herself and would think less of herself. She even felt fear of being abandoned by Princess Celestia if she didn’t meet her own expectations. Such fears and second guessing were mostly unfounded.
Twilight could not hold herself back. She rushed forward and gave Xion a hug, calming her down. “Thank you,” she said, laying a hand on her head in thanks. After taking a breath, she continued. “I later became friends with Roxas and another Nobody, named Axel. During this time, Silver was going through a restoration of his briefly shattered memories. Both Roxas and I were unintentionally intercepting some of those memories. The Organization recognized this and tried to force more interceptions. It strained Roxas and I to the limit. I then learned my role as a replica to keep Silver from being restored. I fled the Organization, I was captured and repurposed to absorb Roxas. Roxas left the Organization by the time I found him. I couldn’t let Xemnas win. When him and I fought, I let him win.”
“What happened when you lost?” Twilight asked.
“I died,” she stated, somberly. Twilight had a look of horror on her face. “It was the only way for Xemnas’s plan to be foiled. As I died, everyone’s memory of my existence was erased and Roxas instead absorbed me. Roxas was then captured and was fused back with Silver, who then went on to defeat the two Organization XIIIs and Master Xehanort. All of this was done with the aide of his friends, who gave him the strength of heart to push forward.”
Twilight absorbed this information, but one thing stuck to the forefront of her mind. “I find it odd that I entered this dream to find out more about Riku, but I learned this instead.” She looked back to Xion, but found that she was no longer there. She looked around to find her and could find nothing.
She then heard Shining Armor’s voice. “Twilight! Wake up! Silver’s in pain! He needs you!”
A few minutes passed before Flash Sentry’s voice spoke up. “Twilight. Your brother...no...OUR brother needs you to wake up. This Nightmare is hurting him.”
Moments later, Black Heart then spoke. “Your Dive is complete. AWAKE!”
Author's Note
Kingdom Hearts: Harmony of Hearts
Chapter 14: Spirits and Nightmares (Final)
Green is to play music, Red is to stop music.
Kingdom Hearts: Harmony of Hearts
Equestria: Canterlot Castle Guest Wing
Shining Armor and Flash Sentry barged into the bedroom that Twilight and Princess Luna were using to enter the later’s dreams. When they entered the room, they found Twilight on the bed, her face grimacing as if in pain or in a horrid nightmare. Luna was unconscious on the floor, a tendril of magic coming from her horn and attaching to Twilight’s forehead. Luna also held a grimace on her face.
Shining ran to the bedside and began to shout to her as he shook her. “Twilight! Wake up! Silver’s in pain! He needs you!” The only response Twilight gave was a groan of discomfort and shifting.
Flash stepped forward and tried, a bit more gently. “Twilight. Your brother...no...OUR brother needs you to wake up. This Nightmare is hurting him.” No response.
Shining shed a few tears. “Why won’t she wake?” He asked to nopony in particular. “She’s not this deep of a sleeper. What’s going on?”
“Ansem has her trapped in a Nightmare, along with Luna.” A voice was heard. Both the stallions turned their heads to the voice and found that an offshoot of Luna’s magic had taken a 2D silhouette form that flickered between the form of unicorn and a bipedal creature. “I’ve placed her in a Dive into the Heart. There, she should unlock her potential as a Keyblade bearer and be able to stand a chance against Ansem.”
Shining and Flash looked at him with confusion. “Who are you?” Flash asked.
The flicker sighed. “I’m the son of Princess Luna and King Sombra.” When he said that, Shining and Flash summoned the Keyblades that Silver gave them and readied themselves to fight. The flicker “stepped” back without hands/a hoof up. “Hold on! I’m not finished talking.” Shining and Flash relaxed a bit, but didn’t put their Keyblades down. “Thank you.”
The flicker took a deep breath and explained. “My name is Black Heart, and as I said earlier, I’m the son of Princess Luna and King Sombra. That may sound impossible, but it’s more possible than you think.” He turned his gaze to the window. “Over a thousand years ago, before King Sombra became corrupted, him and Princess Luna were married.”
“WHAT?!”
“Completely true. However, for one reason or another, Mother was not able to bear foals. So, Father took what research that Starswirl the Bearded had done on cloning and set to have a son and heir for them both to raise and love. He took a portion of his flesh and sample of her blood and bound them together to form me.” He shook his head. “However, Dark Magic was the only method that could bind the two together. While it did bring me into existence, something within himself snapped. He considered me a failed clone and made the attempt to destroy me. Mother saw and intervened, forcing the spell that was to destroy me to instead transport me to safety. And it did.” He turned back to Shining and Flash. “I was sent to another world into the future...well, technically 19 years ago, but it was the future in the past perspective.”
“From there, I made friends, lost friends, fell to Darkness, and now live for the Dawn.” Black Heart then summoned a Keyblade in his hand/hoof. It was angelic, in a demonic way. The blade was a maroon dragon wing with an angel wing to make the teeth of the key. The guard was an angel wing and a dark blue dragon wing. The Keychain had a strange heart symbol on the end of the chain.
“With my mastery of the Keyblade, I’ve become an expert Dream walker, like Mom. However, I have to take the form of a Dream Eater to do so.” He then looked at Shining briefly, and then dismissed his Keyblade. “Speaking of Keyblades and Dream walking, why are you trying to wake her up?”
“Our brother, Silver Crown, is in pain for some reason. We know it’s connected to Twily and what she’s dreaming about,” Shining explained.
“Who’s Silver Crown?” Black Heart asked.
“He used to be called Sora,” Flash said. Black Heart jerked his head back in surprise.
He chuckled lightly. “So Sora has an Equestrian background as well. I just hope that Joshua isn’t joshing me.” His form then lit up a bit brighter. He turned to Twilight’s sleeping form. “Her Dive is complete. She should have the power to force Ansem out of the dream.” He turned back to Shining and Flash. “But it’s best to be prepared for the worst. But first, Shining, may I see that keyblade?”
Shining tentatively hoofed over the keyblade he was given. Black Heart looked to be in concentration and Silver’s Keyblade was replaced with a brown bladed keyblade with a blue guard. It seemed rather sturdy and heavy.
Black Heart gave the keyblade back to Shining. Before Shining or Flash could say anything about why he changed the keyblade, they were enveloped in a dark grey aura and began to feel a bit sleepy. Black Heart then spoke. “Your Dive is complete. AWAKE!”
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Equestria: Dreamscape
Shining’s and Flash’s vision went from black to white and back to black. They regained consciousness just as they heard the sound of a blade passing through flesh. They both jumped to their hooves, with their respective keyblades out and ready. What they saw surprised them.
Twilight had a blue keyblade outstretched in her hooves as if she had slashed something. Looking behind her, there were a large number of strange creatures that were in pieces and slowly dissolving into darkness. Just in front of her was a bipedal creature (human, if Flash could guess) with no fur, was wearing clothes that sent chills down their spines, and had long white hair. The human had a look of angry bewilderment. “How is this possible?”
Aside from those two, Flash and Shining also saw Princess Luna frozen in fear, staring at the strange man. Beside her was a yellow unicorn with a white mane and tail and an odd heart shaped cutie mark. He was comforting her, whispering, “I won’t let him harm you, Mother.”
The man looked from Twilight to the unicorn and then back again, gaining a smirk. “Ah, Black Heart…”
“Cut the talk, Ansem, and just leave!” The unicorn, Black Heart, spouted out.
“I don’t follow the demands of a failed clone,” Ansem said back.
“Then follow our demands!” Shining shouted, as he stepped forward in front of Princess Luna, with Flash by his side. “Leave now!”
Ansem just stared angrily at the group. He held his glare before softening it into a smirk. “Fine. Since you asked. I’ll leave.” He summoned a portal of Darkness and turned to leave. Just as he stepped into its threshold, he turned around, his smirk still on his face. “Before I leave, I wish to leave something in exchange for these.” He held out his hand, showing six jewels, The Elements of Harmony, floating in them.
“NO!” Black Heart, Twilight, and Shining shouted. All three of them fired a spell directly at Ansem as the portal was closing. When the spells hit him, he was knocked into the portal and the after effects of the spell combination traveled to the Elements and they vanished from sight. The portal then sealed closed.
Darkness then flowed across the floor towards Princess Luna. It then started to form the physical form of an alicorn. It was completely black, mane, tail, and body. Its mane moved much like how a Gorgon’s hair moved. The Dark Alicorn stared down at Princess Luna with red draconic eyes. “No,” Princess Luna whispered, “Not again!”
“Behold, The Night Terror!” The Night Terror moved forward towards Princess Luna, but found four keyblades and their wielders in it’s way.
“Mother,” Black Heart said, “Go! Run! We’ll hold it back.” Before he could say more, four mane tendrils grabbed him and the other keyblade wielders and began to open up a massive portal of darkness. Before long, everypony that held a keyblade were sucked into a black void. They could see each other and the Night Terror clearly as day.
The Night Terror began its assault, it turned into a mass of black tendrils and attack Black Heart. He jumped back, turning into a small orb of darkness briefly. Shining came from behind and gave the mass a bash or two before having to erect a barrier to avoid getting hit.
The Night Terror reformed and began to attack Shining with a red ethereal sword. Shining was able block the attacks, by both barrier and blade. Flash then did a flyby slash, diverting its attention to him. It fired a multitude of red beams at him, but by both luck and Flash’s aerial maneuvers, they missed.
A purple beam of magic struck the Night Terror in its face and it turned to Twilight. She began firing spells, both from her horn and keyblade to keep its attention on her. Black Heart then dark rolled behind it and struck one of its wings. The Night Terror turned to attack him with its red sword, but Shining struck out and the sword was knocked out of its hooves. Flash then did another flyby slash, this time taking its horn off.
The Night Terror began to convulse, as if it was dying. Then, the group was feeling as if it was being pushed by a powerful wind. The Night Terror then dissolved into darkness and the void they were in were lit up by a bright light.
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Dream Traverse Town: Fifth District
Twilight shook the dizziness from her head and stood up. She felt unstable and placed her hand on a nearby building to...wait...HAND!?
Twilight jerked her hand back when she realized that she wasn’t a pony and wasn’t in the original dream. She walked to the edge of what looked like a community pool and looked in. She saw what she looked like when she went to Canterlot High, but her clothing was slightly different.
For one thing, she noticed that she was wearing jeans, replacing the leg warmers she had on. They weren’t too tight, nor too loose, seeming to promote that movement wouldn’t be hindered. She was also wearing fingerless gloves, ones that had small metal nubs that covered each knuckle, and her cutie mark on the backhand side of the glove. On her shoulders, strapped with leather (ick) straps was a set of purple leather (ick) pauldrons. She was also wearing a belt that had what looked like a small pouch with a zipper.
Looking around, she saw the building she was trying to lean against and saw that it was huge and brightly colored. Above the door hung a sign that said “Flower & Plant”. As curious at the building was, she felt a slight pull to explore the rest of the town. She followed the pull away from the pools and the large building.
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Dream Traverse Town: Fourth District Fountain Plaza
As Twilight wandered, she arrived at a large area with a large fountain in the area away from another building and graffiti covered walls. She walked past the fountain, towards the building. She walked over a large grate-like manhole cover. Just as she had walked over the top of it, she heard something scraping and a shadow loomed behind her.
She turned around slowly and saw a strange cat like face growl at her. She was scared a bit from the surprize, but the poorly done growl didn’t scare her, even with the plaque-stained teeth. What scared her was his size after he climbed out of the manhole. She didn’t see any chance of escape or chance to reason with the giant peg-legged cat. So she summoned her keyblade and readied for a fight.
The monster cat began to try to pummel Twilight with his fists, but every time he tried to strike her, she would bat those fists away with her keyblade. Any attempt he made to slam her, either with his fists or body, she would cartwheel out of the way. He would charge her and she would slide under his legs, catching his peg leg with the teeth of her blade and causing him to trip and fall face first onto the pavement. Even summoning lightning was countered by quick thinking with a shield spell.
After a while, the peg-legged cat began to tire and Twilight went on the offensive until he was scrambling to get back under the manhole cover. Once he was back in the manhole, Twilight dismissed her keyblade. “That was...interesting.”
After taking a brief moment to rest from the fight, she continued searching the brightly lit ghost town.
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Dream Traverse Town: First District Plaza
Twilight found that the town seemed to have been abandoned. There wasn’t sight nor sound of anything living. She arrived in a portion of town that had two or three shops and a small cafe. She guessed it was probably the main center of the town. She began to walk to a large set of double doors on the opposite side of the plaza. Just as she was about to open them when she heard voices. She summoned her keyblade and crept to a nearby alleyway, where the voices were coming from.
She peeked around the corner and saw two cloaked figures. One in a black cloak with his or her back to Twilight, the other in a white cloak and facing her. The figure in the white cloak was speaking, but Twilight couldn’t make out what he was saying.
The Black Cloak spoke in response to what the White Cloak said. “I don’t care if you wish for me to keep time in balance. If my true self is to be revived, it won’t be for you to keep time in place.” White Cloak seemed to object, but Black Cloak summoned a crystal sword and pointed it directly at his opposite’s face. “I don’t care if time is completely ruined. In fact, if all of the worlds are bent to his will and the Crystal Empire wasn’t restored, he can bring it back and it will serve as the Capital of…” He paused, taking a few sniffs of the air.
“That scent...I’ve smelt it before.” Black Cloak turned around facing Twilight’s direction. Twilight hid before he could see her, but she knew it was going to be a short lived victory. She heard footsteps coming closer to her hiding place, so she readied herself to bolt at the first sign of a black cloak.
She was instead greeted by the sight of White Cloak’s...well...White Cloak. “Where do you think you’re going,” he said. “We’re not finished talking.” Twilight silently thanked whatever divine being she could think of.
“The conversation ended when Princess Twilight Sparkle decided to eavesdrop on the conversation.” Twilight froze up in surprise. He had known where she was.
“How would you even know she’s there?” White Cloak questioned.
“I was in her castle. Her scent was thick through the whole building. I smelt her just behind you.” Before Twilight could even try to run, she heard the sound of something being teleported and then something impaling the ground. To her shock, she saw that a barrier of clear crystal had been erected...or dropped...between the two figures and herself.
“Twilight! Run! Head to the Portal! I’ll hold him back!” White Cloak shouted out as he pulled a phone out of his pocket and began to frantically press buttons. Twilight didn’t pay much attention to that, but she did heed White Cloak’s first warning. She ran to the double doors she was at earlier, but there was an orange orb with spikes in front of it. Inside the orb was what looked like Equestria. Canterlot was obvious, the Everfree Forest was noticeable next to Ponyville, and the Crystal Empire was a shining beacon for that world. Orbiting that world in full glory was Equestria’s Sun and Moon.
Before she could even get close to the door and the orb, dark crystals emerged from the ground and blocked her escape. She then felt the impact of someone hitting her back. Both her and White Cloak tumbled into the crystal barrier. After they untangling from each other’s limbs, they stood and faced Black Cloak.
Black Cloak dismissed his swords and walked closer to the two. White Cloak stood between him and Twilight. “Don’t you dare harm her!”
Black Cloak then laughed and lowered his hood. He had a square-like jaw, grey skin, and long black hair. “I’m amused that you think I would be the one to harm her, Yoshiya Kiryu.”
Yoshiya was about to respond, but Twilight cut him off. “Who are you?”
Black Cloak raised his hands in the air and the air around them seemed to become distorted with black and dark purple energy. He opened his eyes, which turned green and began spilling shadow, and answered. “My name...is Sombra.”
Author's Note
It's been a while, yes, but when Writer's block hits, you feel like this -->
Kingdom Hearts: Harmony of Hearts
Chapter 15: Truth and Forgiveness
Green is to play music, Red is to stop music.
Kingdom Hearts: Harmony of Hearts
Dream Traverse Town: First District Plaza
Twilight was shocked. How could this be Sombra? He died when they restored the Crystal Heart back when the Crystal Empire returned.
The air above Sombra’s hands suddenly got more distorted and two strange monkey-like Dream Eaters materialized. Sombra then summoned a Portal of Darkness and left. “Really?” Yoshiya questioned as he pulled his phone out again. “You, Sombra, are following too closely to the “Cliché Villain's Guide.” Summoning Boss level monsters to cover your escape into the shadows. I just hope that he doesn’t go Mega boss at the end of this story.”
The two Dream Eaters attacked Yoshiya and Twilight. Twilight worked on fending off the attacks from the one that had legs while Yoshiya started to levitate and use his phone to command light and crystals to focus on the one without legs. “Why don’t you focus on fighting rather than complaining about how Sombra does things,” Twilight scolded.
“Alright!” He caused a white crystal to knock the floating Dream Eater away and took the other’s attention. “Start working on cleansing the barrier while I give these guys punishment for messing with the Composer.”
Twilight nodded and turned to the barrier. She raised her keyblade up to it and fired a beam of light at it. As soon as the beam hit, she focused her love for her family into the beam. She thought of all the good times she had with her friends. She remembered the sorrow her brother had and knowing of his pain, she poured her love and happiness into that and then some.
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Meanwhile, back at the Sparkle Residence
Cadence, Night Light, and Twilight Velvet had done everything they could to help Silver Crown through his pain. His convulsions were handled by restraining him when they happened and his pain had to be constantly dulled by low level Cure spells.
“What is taking Flash and Shining so long?” Night complained as he held his son in his magical grasp. “They’ve been gone for more than an hour.”
“Night!” Velvet scolded. “Try to be patient. They will save Twilight when they get it done.”
“Mother!” Cadence shouted out. “How can you be so optimistic during this?”
“She’s right,” Night agreed. “She’s the Princess of Love, so her getting worried is a big thing.”
“Dad, that’s not the point. The point is that one of your children is in a questionable state of sleep, another is visibly in pain, and most importantly, the third is risking his neck to save them both. And I have almost more reason to worry about the last one. He’s my husband.”
“And my brother.” Everypony’s head’s turned to where Silver was being held.
“Silver!” They all shouted and rushed to his pained figure.
“Has Twilight been saved?” Cadence asked.
“Yes and no,” he responded. He continued, not allowing any questions. “She’s still within the snare, but she’s banished her fear and uncertainty and replacing it with love and hope.” Placing a hoof on his chest, he took a deep breath. “It’s freed me from the pain, but I can still feel that she can’t get out. I need to be taken to where she is so that I can provide an escape for her.”
“How can you provide such an escape?” Night asked. In response, Silver summoned his Keyblade, showing it to his father.
“I have my ways.” He was set down gently and he went to walk to the door. He stumbled from his weakness and Cadence rushed over and let him lean against her for support. “Thanks. All that pain took a lot out of me.” He then began walking towards the door with Cadence keeping him supported. “Let’s go help Twilight .”
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Back to the Realm of Dreams
Twilight cartwheeled away from a punch that the legged Dream Eater tried to deliver. She retaliated with a swipe to it’s face. If she wasn’t worried or frustrated earlier, she was now. She couldn’t remain at the barrier to purify it and break it, otherwise she would be open for the Dream Eaters to attack. If she focused on fighting, the barrier would repair and corrupt itself.
Regardless of her worry and frustration, she still kept her love for her brother, family, and friends strong. After once again dodging a punch from the Dream Eater, she voiced help to nopony in particular. “Silver, Shiny, Flash, anypony. I need help.”
“Don’t worry, Twilight. I’m on my way.”
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Equestria: Canterlot Castle Guest Wing
It had taken the better part of a half hour to arrive at the castle and roughly another half hour to get to where the guards had directed where Princess Luna was with Twilight. Upon entering the room, both Cadence and Silver were surprised at the scene. Twilight was asleep on the bed and Shining, Flash, and Luna seemed shaken up from something.
“Is everything alright?” Cadence asked, surprising the group. Shining saw Cadence and rushed to her and gave her a hug. Silver moved away from them and Flash helped him stay standing.
“We entered the Dreamscape to help Twily,” Shining started.
“And we were attacked by a monster reincarnation of Nightmare Moon...I think,” Flash said. “With the help of a unicorn dream walker, we were able to destroy it. We’ve been ejected from the Dreamscape, but I think Twilight is still there.”
“Whoever laid that trap for Twilight must really be trying hard to keep her asleep,” Silver commented, moving closer to Twilight. He watched her twitch in her sleep before turning towards Shining. “What did the Dream walker look like?”
“He was yellow, had a silver mane and tail…” Before he could continue, Shining was suddenly grabbed by Silver .
“Did he have a keyblade that looked like it was angelic in a demonic way?” Silver then began shaking him violently. “Tell me!” After Silver stopped shaking him, he was given a weak nod. Silver then released Shining, who then fell to the ground, and began to jump about the room, repeatedly shouting, “That was Riku!”
Silver was then taken by surprise by Princess Luna grabbing him in her magic. “How dost thou know of Black Heart?!” She bellowed in Royal Canterlot Voice, distorting Silver’s face in the process. Silver shook his head from the audio abuse he suffered.
“Aunty Luna!” Cadence shouted. “From how Silver reacted to this...Black Heart’s description, Riku and Black Heart are one and the same, thus meaning that he knew him since…?” She looked to Silver questioningly.
“As long as I could remember,” he admitted.
Luna’s gaze went from Cadence to Silver a few times before pulling Silver into a back breaking hug. As Silver struggled with back pain and the labor that was breathing, Luna teared up. “A link to my son,” she quietly sobbed. “You’re a link to my son.”
“Can’t. Breathe. Cadence. Help,” Silver weased. Cadence pried him out of Luna’s hug and applied another Cure spell to help with the pain and breathing. “Now, Twilight is safe, but she’s still trapped.”
“Then how can we get her out of there!?” Shining almost shouted.
“Just stand back. I’m not sure what will happen.” Silver summoned his keyblade and pointed it at Twilight. His keyblade glowed as did Twilight.
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Dream Traverse Town: First District Plaza
Twilight and Yoshiya were both sore and exhausted. They had managed to defeat the Dream Eaters, but they weren’t given any real rest after that. Lesser Dream Eaters Swarmed the two after the two giant monkey ones were defeated. The strange thing about these Dream Eaters was that their primary focus seemed to be on Twilight. They only fought Yoshiya if he was proving to be too much trouble for them.
Just as Twilight felt as though she was ready to fight again, a panda-like Dream Eater knocked her into the corrupt barrier. She struggled to her feet as Yoshiya kept the monsters at bay while she got up. “We aren’t getting anywhere!” She shouted out in frustration. “How are we going to…” She was cut off by a bright light above her. Looking up, she saw a keyhole surrounded by light.
“Twilight!” Yoshiya shouted. “Forget the Portal! Use that!” He continued, pointing at the Keyhole.
“How?!”
“Put two and two together!” He shouted back. He then went back to fighting.
After a moment of thinking, Twilight could only facepalm at how she had forgotten about what the keyblade could do. She pointed her keyblade at the Keyhole and a beam of light sailed to it and seemed to break a hole in reality. Light then poured through and she felt sleep envelop her.
Her vision blacked out, but she still saw something in that darkness. It looked like a door.
The Door to Kingdom Hearts.*
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Equestria: Canterlot Castle
Twilight’s horn lit up with a golden aura and blasted out a shockwave, knocking against hastily thrown up barriers and Silver’s Reflect spell. Once the proverbial smoke cleared, everypony carefully approached Twilight. Her eyes seemed to slowly work their way open. Silver, Shining, and Flash were the first ones to react and practically tackled her off of the bed and hugging her.
“Guys. Can’t. Breathe,” Twilight weased. Silver reacted first, unlatching himself from her, followed by Shining. Flash just simply loosened his grip and then gave Twilight a kiss, which she returned. After a few minutes of kissing, Silver cleared his throat. Twilight and Flash broke their kiss and saw everypony “staring” at them. With a bit of a blush on both of their faces, they separated and tried to act casual.
Before anypony could start teasing them, Twilight rushed to Silver and hugged him. With tears streaming down her face, she apologized. “Silver, I’m so sorry for earlier. I didn’t know about the Door. I saw what Riku did for the door to close. He may have fallen to Darkness, but he did so much for the light.”
Silver returned the hug, tears coming down his face. “It’s okay, Twilight. I can’t blame you for not not knowing. Black Heart knew what he was doing.”
“Black Heart?”
“As it turns out, Riku is the son of Princess Luna and his Equestrian name is Black Heart.”
Shining suddenly facehoofed. “I just suddenly feel so stupid!”
Silver turned to him, and said, “Nice way to ruin the moment!”
“I’m serious, Silver!” Shining retorted. “You told me that Xehanort is a cunning planner, and if his servants are in this, that means we have a bit of a problem.”
“Get to the point!” Flash shouted.
“I’ll get there, but we need to look at what happened to Silver in the past while. First, he’s attacked by Xemnas, then a robed pony nearly kills him. He’s then knocked out by this Vanitas, and now he’s been reunited with his family.” He paused for emphasis. “If they wanted him dead, or at least out of the picture for this Organization to do their hostile takeover of all existence, then the last event doesn’t make sense unless they had a reason to do that.”
Silver let go of Twilight and began to pace. This went on for a few minutes before he suddenly exclaimed, “Son of a Gun, they’re smarter than they look sometimes.”
Twilight was confused. “What are you talking about?”
“The Organization reunited us or allowed us to be reunited as to distract me. And it worked very well until you fell into their trap.”
“About time you caught on,” a voice said . Everypony looked and saw a magical orb that seemed to be having a hard time staying active. It then pulsed when the voice spoke again. “Come on, Sora. I thought that with time with Stark, you would have gotten smarter.”
“Learning things from a genius and applying what he, or rather JARVIS, taught me are different things” Silver retorted. “But that’s not important right now, Riku. What are you doing? How’s Kairi? Where…” Black Heart then cut him off.
“I don’t have much time. This spell is unstable, so I need to be brief and to the point.” A deep breath was heard. “Some time after we had began to properly chart many of the worlds, the Organization captured us. It was there, we learned of Sombra and him reforming the Organization, as well as my lineage. We were imprisoned for about a month before we escaped, or possibly let free. We were free for about another month before Maleficent captured us. She did what she could to keep us captured, including destroying the Gummi Ship.”
“We were imprisoned for yet another month. I just recently was able to escape in a stolen fighter ship. I then began to more frantically search for home, to the point that I began diving into the Realm of Dreams to try and pinpoint Equestria. That’s how I sensed this trap and recognized a link between you and Twilight.”
“So now what?” Silver asked.
“Since I’ve managed to lock onto your sister’s dreams, I’ll alter my course for Equestria. I don’t know how long that will take and I won’t be able to communicate with you except through your sister.”
“I could make finding Equestria and communicating easier,” Silver said as he pulled his device. “I managed to contact Tony and he should be sending me some blueprints for a computer, a beacon, and a signal booster.”
“Okay, now...Sora...losing...break...soon…” The orb then vanished. Everypony was tense and worried about Black Heart. So tense that when Silver’s device went off, everypony except Silver jumped. He looked over the device and then smiled.
“Stark has excellent timing, and he went the extra mile,” he said.
“What do you mean?” Twilight asked. Silver went to answer, but Twilight cut him off. “Argh, Nevermind! Let’s just get some rest and talk about it tomorrow! I’m tired from all of this.”
“Twilight. You’ve been asleep this entire time,” Flash pointed out. “You shouldn’t be tired.” Twilight’s magical aura gripped his ear harshly.
“Everypony go!” Twilight ordered. She turned to Flash, who was wincing in pain from his ear being pulled. “As for you, we need to talk.” Everypony, save Flash and Twilight, left the room. The awkward silence in the group was broken by Silver .
“I wonder what they're going to talk about.” Shining’s eyes widened and Princess Luna tried to hold back a few giggles. “What?”
“Let's just get some proper rest before we even think of wondering what their talk is about,” Shining responded, eliciting a short lived laugh from Luna. Luna walked away to the throne room while Shining walked off with a bit of an awkward smile.
Silver could only stand in the hallway with confusion written on his face. “Either my adoptive mom or Stark forgot to tell me something about something, or maybe it’s something I don’t know about Equestria.”
Author's Note
*Roll Creditsthis , though more near the end.
Kingdom Hearts: Harmony of Hearts
Chapter 16: Trouble in Ponyville
Green is to play music, Red is to stop music.
Kingdom Hearts: Harmony of Hearts
Equestria: Canterlot Castle Throne Room
After a long night’s rest, Silver and his family (minus Twilight) were gathered just outside of the throne room, waiting for Princess Celestia and Luna to call them in. The past few days had been rather hectic. Discovering family, learning of the Third Organization’s existence and plans, and many other crazy things. Not much of a difference with the past few years.
The doors to the throne room opened a slight bit and a guard peeked his head out. “Night Light. Twilight Velvet. You and your family may enter.” Silver got up and following Shining and his parents into the throne room.
The doors opened and Silver saw that Princess Celestia and Princess Luna were on their respective thrones. Additional chairs were added to accommodate Cadence and Twilight to their sides. Twilight’s friends from Ponyville and her bodyguard were also there, sitting to Twilight’s side. Shining walked to where his wife was sitting, gave her a peck on the cheek and sat next to her.
Princess Celestia, despite the new scar on her face, had a look that rivaled Kairi’s beauty...at least, according to Silver. She smiled as the family walked in. “Night Light, Twilight Velvet, Silver Crown. It is nice to see you all again.” Silver bowed with the rest of his family. “Rise, we have much to discuss. Guards! Leave us.”
The guards, except for Flash, left the throne room at the Princess’s command. As soon as the last of them left, Celestia’s horn lit up, placing sound proofing spells and drawing the curtains. Suddenly, in a flash of light, a keyblade appeared in her hooves and she used it to lock the throne room door.
Luna gave her sister a slight disapproving look. “You always go for the flashy effects, sister,” She muttered. Celestia responded with a playful shove.
“Be quiet.” She straightened up and addressed the three ponies in front of her. “I heard from Twilight and Luna what had happened last night concerning an attempt on Twilight’s life in the dreamscape. While I’m happy that she’s safe and well, I can’t condone the actions of this Organization, nor what they plan on doing to this or other worlds.” She turned to Silver. “Silver Crown. Please step forward.”
Silver took a few scared steps forward. “I would like to thank you for what you had done to save Twilight. Now, before I ask a favor of you, I would like to know of how much you told your family of your adventures and if you could tell us.”
“I told them everything,” Silver replied. “Of course, I asked them to keep what I said secret.” Celestia gave him an approving smile. “Now, it’s a bit too of a long story to tell about ALL of my otherworldly accomplishments. I want to shorten it up to keep some of you from falling asleep.”
“What makes you think any of us would fall asleep?” Rainbow Dash asked. “I’m up for a good story.”
“The entire, unshortened version takes several hours,” Silver deadpanned.
“...Unless it takes too long,” Rainbow corrected herself.
Silver took a deep breath and began, “So, everything that I’ve went through started on the island world I’ve called home for most of my life…”
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Roughly an Hour Later
After having told the abridged version of the story he told most of his family, Silver looked at the gathered “audience” before him. All four of the alicorns seemed to believe his story. His brother, his parents, and Flash had heard the longer story, so he wasn’t too concerned about them believing him. His concern, for the time being, were in the mares next to his sister.
Rainbow Dash had fallen asleep within the first twenty minutes of the story, missing the brief explanation of the Cave of Wonders in Agrabah. Fluttershy seemed to perk up every mention of an animal of some sort, and seemed ready to get into his face to question him about Donald and Goofy. Rarity seemed fascinated about the three good fairies that had given Silver his first set of enchanted clothes. Pinkie seemed rather excited, hearing about Wonderland and the brief jaunt through a tea party garden (though, she was rather put down when she heard about the party crashers).
Applejack, on the other hoof, seemed rather skeptical on most, if not all, of the story. Once he had finished, nopony said a word until she spoke. “That’s one heck of a tale, but I don’t think it’s the truth.”
“Applejack!” Twilight shouted, accidentally waking Rainbow in the process. “Do you really think that Silver is lying, or at the least, joking?”
“All I’m trying to say, Twi, is that he has told us this tale with no real proof, other than the freaky key he has and his word,” she countered. “I’m sure some powerful unicorn could easily enchant a weapon to act like that, but the rest sounds like a bunch of hooey. Ya’know, like all this about talking animals.”
“I may have a friend that can debunk your claims,” Silver called out. Applejack snorted a bit.
“Well, where is your friend? I don’t see him.”
“I’m not easily seen. Then again, that’s not surprising, considering my size,” a voice said, startling everypony except Silver, Twilight, and Flash. Applejack in particular was searching hard for the owner of the voice, but found no one. Nothing out of the ordinary, except the cricket in a top hat and dress coat.
Wait.
Top hat?
Dress coat?
Applejack did a double take at the jumping cricket in front of her. It stopped jumping for a moment and gave her a bow, briefly removing the hat in the process. “Cricket’s the name. Jiminy Cricket at your service.”
While everypony was practically stunned by the cricket being able to talk, but Applejack was more so. The idea of talking animals was proven to her in plain sight and sound. The only thing she could do was stutter out, “A...talking...cricket?”
Once Fluttershy had gotten her senses back, she perked up. “A Talking Cricket!” She unintentionally knocked Applejack across the room in her haste to more clearly see Jiminy. “I didn’t know that a cricket could talk! It’s just...I don’t know what to say!” She cried out in elation.
“All I can say is that I feel stupid,” Applejack mumbled through the wall she was imbedded in.
“Don’t feel too bad,” Silver said. “My adoptive mother didn’t believe a word I said about any of that same story until I actually performed a few unnatural feats.” He shook his head in amazement. “She felt so stupid that she banged her head on the kitchen table so many times that it broke.”
“That’s all good and *yawn* everything, but was there a reason to hear all that?” Rainbow asked.
Pinkie suddenly popped up behind her. “It’s actually quite clear, Dashie! The Princess wanted us to hear what he had done so that we can trust him, as he will be training Twilight, Flash, and Shining on how to be keyblade wielders.”
Everypony in the room was silent for a few seconds. “Well, Pinkie,” Rarity said. “I’m sure that is a wonderful theory, but…”
“Rarity,” Celestia called out. “She is actually correct (amazingly enough).” Silence prevailed for a few minutes before she spoke again. “That is not the only reason for us to hear the story. Seeing as how he was trusted to save all of known and unknown existence, I believe we can trust him to help us save Equestria.”
“How in the hay can he do that?” Applejack asked.
“Yeah!” Rainbow agreed. “We have the magic of the Elements of Harmony in us. What else do we need?”
“We need the power returned .” Twilight’s statement caused Rainbow and Applejack to stare at her questioningly. “If you remember about what I told you guys about what happened at the Friendship Castle the night Silver arrived and what you told me about what that unicorn did to you when I ran here, I feel that the power of the Elements of Harmony has been stolen.”
“Say what, now?” Rainbow stammered. “How can that be possible?”
“Exactly how she said it!” Night Light almost shouted. “We’re dealing with magic that isn’t native to this world. While the magic of this world can’t match the power of the Elements, that doesn’t mean that magic from other worlds can’t exceed it or nullify it.”
“That, actually, makes sense, in some way,” Shining said.
“It makes perfect sense!” Silver exclaimed. “Remember what I told you about that Cursed Aztec Gold?” Shining, Cadence, Flash, and Silver’s parents nodded. “Donald, Goofy, and I could easily pick up one of the 882 pieces and not be affected. In the same way, the pirates that touched the gold couldn’t be harmed UNLESS they were in moonlight and otherworldly magic was laced into our weapons.”
“That is true. Now, let us get back on topic,” Celestia said. “Master Silver Crown, as a Lost Master’s Apprentice and now Master, I confer…” A banging on the throne room door interrupted her, causing her to pause and shake her head in disapproval. “This meeting must have gone for a while if the door must be knocked on for something, be it urgent or trivial. Remember, my little ponies, nopony is to know of what happened here.” Her horn lit, canceling the sound proofing spells and opening the door for the guard that was knocking.
Once the door was open, the guard rushed in, holding a scroll. “Your Majesties, and Council, we received an urgent message from the detachment of Royal Guard in Ponyville.”
Shining looked concerned about this. “Why didn’t it get directly to me? The Captain of the Ponyville Guard should have used the dragonfire message system!”
“Well, Sir. According to the message, the bottle of dragonfire was either lost or damaged in the surprise attack on Ponyville.”
“WHAT !!!” Almost everypony shouted.
“Is everypony alright?” Twilight asked.
“The message has stated that they are doing what they can to hold back the attackers and evacuate the civilians, but the more stubborn ones have formed a small militia to aid in the town defense.” The guard scrolled through a bit more of the scroll before continuing. “While there is a general amount of fighting against the strange creatures that invaded, there seems to be larger concentrations of them in the general areas of the homes of the Element Bearers.”
“Then we shouldn’t hesitate!” Shining shouted. “We need to get reinforcements down there!”
“And we all should come, too,” Silver said, gesturing to Twilight, Flash, and their friends. “With what has happened in the past week, we need all the help we can get.”
“I agree,” Cadence said. “And I’ll come as well.” Shining was about to object, but Cadence cut him off with a glare. “I’m sorry, but if you’re involved, I should be as well.” Once again, Shining was about to object, but this time, Celestia cut him off.
“We have no time to argue, the lives of my little ponies may depend on this battle!”
“Make haste to the chariots!” Luna commanded. At that, everypony ran to prepare themselves for the upcoming trip and fight.
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Equestria: Canterlot Chariot Court
The Royal Guard was preparing as fast as they could to move out and aid in the defense of Ponyville. Everypony running back and forth to get supplies, weapons, and troops loaded into the chariots. However, even during the rush to get everything ready, when Princess Celestia and Luna entered the Chariot Court, almost all activity ceased.
“Continue thy preparations,” Luna calmly ordered. The activity resumed, but the troops gave both of the Princesses a bit of room to move. They moved towards the pair of chariots that would take Twilight and her party on to Ponyville with the reinforcements.
Twilight took notice of the approaching diarchs and quickly made her way to them. Giving Celestia a hug, she asked, “Are you coming with us?”
“Nay,” Luna answered. “We have come to see thee and thy friends off.”
“And I have come to speak with Silver before you leave,” Celestia said. She walked past Twilight and towards the chariot that Silver was helping prepare. “Silver.” He turned to the princess. “I wish to speak with you, privately.”
Silver left the chariot and followed the Princess to a secluded corner of the court. “I must impress upon you the seriousness of the tasks I have given you.”
“Locating the Elements and training my siblings?”
“Yes. The Elements may have been taken off world and may necessitate bringing your ‘students’ with you.” She looked him in the eyes. “Do you think you can handle having them along with you?”
Silver laughed a bit. “Your Majesty, if I can handle Donald’s impatience and temper (and he does have a temper), then a few extra keys on hoof won’t be a problem.”
“I’m glad for that. I also wish to issue another assignment for you and your ‘students’ to accomplish.” Her horn lit up and a file had appeared out of nowhere. “This file used to contain the notes I had taken in observation of you and Twilight growing up. I had checked on them shortly after you had left to prepare for this trip and I had found that the notes have been stolen or scattered. Only the first page is there.”
“I take it that you wish for us to find the other pages.”
“You are correct, but don’t find them for me, find them for both you and your sister.” She looked past him to the chariots. “Now, my little pony, go and save the worlds.” Silver nodded and ran to the now prepared chariots.
“Let’s move out!” Shining bellowed. The chariots began to move and take off, headed towards Ponyville.
Author's Note
That last bit in the chapter is based off of the various journals and reports in the game series. I'll use Celestia's reports as intermission chapters. They don't need to be read, but they can be.
Also, I want to ask an opinion from the readers. I've read some of the manga and there is a scene where Cid makes a meal using Yuffie's cheese cake as the secret ingredient and she attacks him for that. If done correctly, do you think Silver/Sora could make a similar mistake with something Pinkie hid in the kitchen?
Kingdom Hearts: Harmony of Hearts
Chapter 17: Ponyville Problems
Green is to play music, Red is to stop music.
Kingdom Hearts: Harmony of Hearts
Equestria: En Route to Ponyville
“So, how are we going to pull this off?” Flash shouted over the wind to Shining Armor. Shining looked to Flash and answered.
“We don’t know what we’re up against, but Silver may be the best one to answer that question,” he answered while putting a hoof on Silver’s shoulder. Silver, having heard the brief conversation, looked to Shining.
“How do we communicate my plan Idea to everypony else?” Silver voiced his concern. Himself, the other keybearers, and Cadence were riding in one transport chariot, while five of the six Bearers of Harmony rode in the other (well, technically four, since Rainbow Dash insisted on flying alongside the two chariots).
“I’ll help with that,” Twilight said, lighting her horn, which in turn lit up Silver’s throat.
He turned to the other chariot and called out, “Can everypony in that chariot hear me?” Fluttershy waved in confirmation. Silver looked for Rainbow Dash, but couldn’t find her. “Can Rainbow Dash hear me or is she even paying attention?”
“Yes to both,” Rainbow said suddenly behind him, nearly scaring him off the side of the chariot. She laughed loudly at his reaction.
After both calmed down, Silver spoke his plan. “Alright, If we’re facing what I think we’re facing, we need to put top priority on taking out the creatures at you guy’s places. But we can’t just do one at a time in one big group, it’ll take too long,” he stated. He took a breath and continued, “So we’ll split up into pairs. Shining will work with Applejack and clear her place. Flash and Rarity will handle...well...her place. Cadence will go with Fluttershy. Twilight with Pinkie. And I’ll take Rainbow Dash. After all the locations are cleared, we’ll all meet at the Castle and clear it as a team. Any questions, comments, or complaints?”
Everypony confirmed their understanding and not a moment too soon. They had arrived.
Equestria: Ponyville
“Alright, Everypony! ” Silver called out as they were getting close to the center of town. “As soon as we touch the ground, don’t wait for the chariots to stop. Just jump out and get going to your destinations.” The chariots touched down and everypony bolted from the chariots. Rainbow was already flying to her cloud house when they had gotten into the town limits. After the chariots landed, he took off flying in the direction that he last remembered her to have flown.
He flew until he saw what looked like a prismatic tornado knocking several flying creatures around. Once the tornado stopped, he saw Rainbow from where it had stopped, and she looked like she was having the time of her life. She charged into the group of creatures just as Silver was able to identify what the creatures were.
“Rapid Thruster Heartless,” Silver muttered in loathing, “I really hate those things.” He charged into the swarm, sweeping and knocking a number of them around. However, with the size and constant movement of the swarm, he was only doing superficial damage. A few times, a sizable group tried to attack all at once, but he was able to react, spinning his keyblade to catch them and then swinging it around himself, making blades of wind to take out the offending group. He saw Rainbow fly through the swarm, taking out a few Heartless with every pass.
On her umpteenth pass, an idea popped into his head. Thinking and reacting quickly, he grabbed Rainbow’s tail, stopping her forward momentum. “Hey! What’s the big idea?!” Without answering, Silver began to spin. “Whoa! Hey! What are you doing?!” In response, he flung her at high speeds, her wings barely managing to direct her flight into the thickest part of the swarm. An air cone was forming over her head just as she got into the swarm. Recognizing what was going to happen, she flapped her wings harder to gain speed. Eventually, the cone exploded into the Sonic Rainboom, taking out a large chunk of the swarm.
After the Sonic Rainboom sounded off, Rainbow was in, out, and around the swarm faster than they had time to react. In one of her passes, she saw that Silver was flying around doing the same thing. Flying in, out, and around the swarm. A few minutes of flying around like that, and more of the swarm was taken down. Rainbow was in her element.
It wasn’t a few minutes later when Rainbow and Silver were flying side by side in a circular pattern. Their flying went faster and faster until a tornado of white light and Rainbow colors was formed and the entire swarm was sucked in. Silver took his keyblade and tossed it into the center of the tornado. It spun within the wind and destroyed the majority of the swarm, leaving a hoof-full left for the two of them to handle.
“That...Was...AWESOME!!!” She cheered, giving Silver a hoof bump.
Equestria: Sweet Apple Acres
Shining Armor and Applejack ran through the fields with as much haste that could be mustered. Just as they had gotten to a small clearing, several Heartless with green and red apple shaped heads appeared and surrounded the two. No words were exchanged between the two ponies. Shining summoned his keyblade and began to hack and slash at the Apple Heartless, while Applejack did what she did best with apples...Buck them.
While they could have been able to handle the Heartless on their own, Shining had an idea. He had no idea where the idea came from but he put it into action. He slammed his keyblade on the ground, sending a pillar of stone upwards under Applejack, sending her flying. She was taken by surprise, but not for very long. She took advantage of the short flight and used the gravity of her fall combined with a well aimed slam of her hooves and sent the Heartless flying. Shining then conjured a dome shield and he began knocking the Heartless at Applejack, who promptly bucked them back.
They knocked Heartless back and forth like tennis balls for a few minutes, before he teleported both of them out of the barrier. He then compressed the shield into a sphere full of Heartless and presented it to Applejack. She charged up a strike and bucked the shield, shattering it and sending the Heartless out of sight and mind.
Equestria: Edge of the Everfree
When Fluttershy had heard about what the Heartless were, she felt that she wouldn’t be much of a help in a fight. However, when she and Princess Cadence had arrived at her cottage near the Everfree Forest, she wasn’t expecting the Heartless to be cleaning her cottage and its yard.
The Heartless in question looked like short mushrooms. They didn’t seem hostile, nor did they make any move to be hostile. As a matter of fact, when her and Cadence they seemed to respond with a strange joy. One of them, blue with a yellow cap, seemed to be the leader of the Mushroom Heartless and directed them to some hostile Mushroom Heartless, motioning for the corralled Heartless to be taken down.
Cadence wasted no time in taking them down. Meanwhile, Fluttershy began playing with the blue and yellow Mushroom Heartless.
Equestria: Sugarcube Corner
“YAH!!! EVIL CAKE!!! KILL IT!!! KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!”
Those were the first words out of Pinkie’s mouth when she entered Sugarcube Corner. Before Twilight even entered the establishment, Pinkie had pulled a flamethrower out of her hair and began to flambé the cake themed Heartless. Twilight was then resigned to trying to keep the place from burning down.
Just as Twilight finished dousing a blaze on one of the tables, Pinkie randomly grabbed her and started to spin in place. Twilight had her keyblade out at the time, so the spinning caught several Heartless and sent them spinning into each other like a bunch of Beyblades.
After a while of spinning, Pinkie started rapidly pulling Twilight’s tail, causing her and her keyblade to start firing off spells at machine gun speed. Any and all Heartless were hit with all manner of combat spells. Finally, she took firm hold of Twilight’s tail and swung her with it. The holding of the tail caused Twilight to fire a continuous beam of magic until Pinkie stopped spinning. When she did, the Heartless were gone and Sugarcube Corner was, more or less, intact.
“Urgh, Pinkie, why did you do that?” A dizzy Twilight asked.
“How else was the Limit going to activate?”
Twilight just shook her head at her friend’s randomness.
Equestria: Carousel Boutique
When Rarity and Flash arrived at the Boutique and found all of the windows shattered, and all gems were stripped from the clothing in the store. The perpetrators, a bunch of Heartless that resembled bags of gems, were standing...or sitting...ready to attack any attackers. Upon seeing the two ponies approach, they began pelting gems at the two of them.
What the bags didn’t realize (if they could realize anything) was Rarity’s talent with gems. She caught them in her magic aura, a disapproving look on her face. “Seriously?” She questioned, “Using such beauty for something as barbaric and simple as throwing? Such a crime against fabulosity!” She then levitated the gems to her head level with a scowl on her face. “Besides, you’re doing it wrong.” She then shot the gems at the Heartless at bullet speed, vaporizing the bags, but leaving all the gems intact.
Once those defences were down, Flash rushed inside and began to slice down the Heartless while Rarity gather all the dropped gems.
Unknown world: Unknown location
“Your diversion was well played, but short lived.”
“Yes, Loki. As short as the illusion of invasion was, that amount of time is all that is needed for the mirror’s key to be found.”
“And destroyed.”
“No, disabled. That young alicorn will be worrying so much about using the set way, that the keyblade will be far from her mind.”
“We can then strike and take this world.”
“And end that miserable brat that has interfered in my plans for far too long.”
Author's Note
Sorry for taking a while to write this. I just started college about a week ago, so things have been busy lately.
Kingdom Hearts: Harmony of Hearts
Green is to play music, Red is to stop music.
Kingdom Hearts: Harmony of Hearts
Equestria : Friendship Castle (Twilight’s bedroom)
Equestria was a world inhabited by all different types of ponies. Each with their own brand of magic. Much of the time, Equestria was a generally peaceful place isolated from and generally ignorant of other worlds. Not to say that the alicorn Twilight Sparkle was entirely ignorant of other worlds, however. She had, after all, been to at least one alternate world parallel to her own. She had saved that world as well as her own on more than one occasion, but for the most part the inhabitants of both worlds were unaware that the other even existed. Each time she saved either world her friends had been there beside her. She understood the value of friendship perhaps more than anyone in either world. Because of this, Twilight had become the Princess of Friendship. She had faced many frightening things in her lifetime, but evening she was experiencing a nightmare quite different than anything one would expect to find in Equestria.
After defeating the centaur Lord Tirek she had been having strange dreams about a boy with brown spiky hair. And to make things worse, ever since helping Luna the Princess of the Night captured the Tantibus such dreams became more frequent and more vivid. So vivid in fact that whenever Princess Luna visited those dreams, she almost believed them to be real.
Twilight suddenly jerked awake with a surprised and confused look on her face. As realization of what had transpired in the nightmare, tears began to well up in her eyes. She was now wide awake and deeply disturbed. She got out of bed and began pacing the room. Before long the continuing sounds of her hoofsteps woke Spike, the baby dragon that was much like a younger brother to Twilight. As he rubbed his eyes he said “Twilight, I thought we were through with this late night pacing!" It was then that he first clearly saw Twlight’s face and noticed the tears in her eyes. "Twilight... what's wrong?"
Twilight ignored him for a brief moment, then turned to him. “It was horrible.”
“What was, Twilight?” Spike asked.
“My dream. It was a nightmare. Not like the other dreams I’ve had since we defeated Lord Tirek, but very similar.”
“You mean the dreams of those humans?”
With a sigh, “Yes, those dreams.”
“The ‘Flash Sentry’ ones or the ‘Other’ ones?” another voice called out.
Twilight and Spike looked to the bedroom door to see Flash Sentry, Twilight’s fiancé and bodyguard, poking his head through the door. He looked at her with combined look of concern and annoyance. Ever since she accidentally let slip that she liked him because of a human version of him, he gave her that look whenever she (or anyone else) so much as mentioned the word ‘human.’
“It was the ‘Other’ ones, Flash,” Twilight reassured him. His features relaxed to the look of concern.
“So, what was in tonight’s dream?” He asked, with true concern in his voice.
“Well, it was an extremely odd yet frightening dream,” Twilight started, “The dreams I’ve had before this nightmare seemed to set up its horror.”
“How so?” Spike inquired.
“The previous dreams showed brief images of three friends on some tropical island setting. They seemed quite content with their lives and friendship on the island,” Twilight sighed and continued, “The nightmare was more like a vision. I could only grasp bits and pieces of what I saw, but it seemed as though some of that friendship between the three was dissolving.”
Flash suddenly looked confused. “How and over what was the friendship dissolving?” he asked.
“Uh...rather violently and...something about ‘changing the world’ and ‘everlasting darkness’ or something,” Twilight stammered out.
“That bad!?” Spike exclaimed.
“Well, when you see scenes of arguments, mistrust, AND, just before waking up, seeing one of them ready to plunge a weird sword into another...yeah...that bad,” Twilight said, nervously.
Both Flash and Spike looked taken back. The idea that a friendship could dissolve so badly as to cause the members of such a friendship to try to kill each other...it was unfathomable.
“This dream was unsettling AND vague. I want to get to the bottom of this,” She paused before looking at Spike. “Spike, take a note, please.”
“I don’t think we should bother…” Spike began to say, but Twilight interrupted.
“Spike! I need to figure this out! No one is better with dreams than Princess Luna!”
“Alright! Calm down,” Spike huffed, as he readied a nearby scroll and quill.
“Before you dictate the message,” Flash stated, with some stern authority to his voice, “you need something.” Without warning, he embraced her in a comforting hug. She hugged back and let a few tears roll.
“Ugh, can we get on with the message!” Spike exclaimed, with hint of annoyance and disgust, “You can go back to being mushy after it’s sent.”
With a slight giggle, Twilight began the dictation.
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Destiny Islands : Sora’s bedroom
Destiny Islands was a world like Equestria, except that it’s inhabitants were humans. It was generally peaceful with no fears of the abnormal. An occasional storm or hurricane was expected. But with every storm, the Keyblade Master, Sora, always looked at them with nostalgia. Because of one storm, he had quite a few adventures in the outside worlds, and had saved them in countless ways.
During this particular storm his thoughts began to wander to what was going on now based off of then. Master Xehanort, an evil Keyblade Master, had been defeated. This had resulted in a decreasing number of Heartless attacks and the worlds returning to a peaceful state. From there his role of a Keyblade Master had turned into a waiting game.
His thoughts then quickly turned to something that bothered him for about a month. Why were his dreams showing him multicolored ponies? The dream that he had before the storm started up was more vivid and scary than the others. Seeing a corrupted pony trying to mess with the peaceful lives of many others made him feel as if he needed to help.
Sora never did know who to talk to about those dreams. With Riku and Kairi, friends and fellow Keyblade Masters, he couldn’t talk to them. They had been gone for at least 3 months, exploring and charting undiscovered worlds at Yen Sid’s insistence. Sora would have gone with them, but the battle against Master Xehanort had left him drained and he was still in recovery at the time.
He began to think as to what he could do to get answers to his questions. He could consider talking to Yen Sid, but he would probably only get sage wisdom rather than a direct answer. It dawned on him that someone in the Realm of Dreams could help him.
Sora quickly changed into his red and black clothes and mentally prepared himself for what he was going to do. He summoned his Keyblade the Kingdom Key and pointed it at his bedroom window. No sooner had he done that, an ethereal keyhole materialized in front of said window. Sora took a deep breath and focused on opening a portal to the Realm of Dreams. The Kingdom Key flashed and sent a beam of light into the keyhole opening a gateway to sleep.
Sora had one last thought before sleep overtook him. I hope Joshua can help.
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Unknown world : Unknown location
“Well, what do you know. The Keyblade wielder just dropped to the Realm of Dreams.”
“And the Princess?”
“She’s having a rather entertaining emotional fit.”
“Good. It seems that my other half is acting as predicted. Send one of the lesser members to the Dream Traverse Town. Have her keep an eye on things. Do not let her engage with the Players or the Keyblade wielder.”
“Alrighty, I’ll get to it.”
Author's Note
First fanfiction, so be merciful.
Kingdom Hearts: Harmony of Hearts
Chapter 7: Canterlot Escapade (Part 1)
Green is to play music, Red is to stop music.
Kingdom Hearts: Harmony of Hearts
Equestria: En Route to Canterlot
The trip was starting off smoothly. With it like that, it gave Sora the opportunity to try to think of what Organization XIII was up to and analyze the mares and stallion. The only thing he could figure about the Organization was that they wanted him dead. They either knew he would be a threat to their goals, or they didn’t want to take any chances with him messing with their goals.
His Analyzation of the six mares and one stallion went better. The stallion, Flash Sentry, was obviously part of the military of this world. His brief glances at Twilight indicated that he was her bodyguard and, if he went off what he saw earlier in the day, her love interest. Rarity, judging by her over-styled appearance, was the lady of the group. Applejack seemed like a hard worker and wasn’t overly concerned by her appearance like Rarity. Rainbow Dash seemed in the same boat as Applejack in terms of appearance, but seemed less of the worker, despite her restlessness. Fluttershy, true to her name, was shy. Pinkie Pie was just one big enigma that he couldn’t properly figure out.
Twilight, however, was more of a mystery than Pinkie. In the short span of a few hours, he and her had treated each other like family. He felt that, deep in his heart, he knew Twilight from somewhere, and he felt that she held the same feelings. He couldn’t figure out how any of that was possible, considering that he had never been to this world before.
Sora’s thoughts were interrupted when he saw their destination more clearly. It was a city, complete with a castle, on the side of a mountain. Not on the top of a cliff on the side, but, legitimately on the SIDE of said mountain. Must have been some form of magic. All his experience in traveling to other worlds has told him: if there is something that isn’t easily explainable, place magic as the explanation.
However, amid his awe, he felt there was something off about the city, especially the castle. More evidence of that happened when he saw small red flashes from the castle. Within a few seconds, he saw several red dots streaking towards the chariot. Sniper Bolts!
“Look Out!” Sora shouted as he drew his keyblade and instinctively deflected all the bolts back to the Snipers.
“What was that?!” Fluttershy shouted quietly.
“Snipers!” He answered, “We need to get closer to the ground, quickly!”
“How can we trust you?” Flash asked, with hostility in his voice.
“Have I ever give you a reason to not trust me?” Sora asked back. Flash opened his mouth to respond but he looked as though that he had no answer. He turned to the guards operating the Chariot and directed them to fly lower, over the city gates. However, the city gates didn’t look any better than the castle.
Whatever guards were there were fighting a losing battle against Dusk and Berserker Nobodies. Sora saw the chaos at the gate and immediately jumped off of the chariot and into the fray. As he fell, he drew his keyblade and readied for a fight. Readjusting his fall, he moved and sliced a Berserker clean in half, causing it to dissolve into nothingness.
The guards were surprised by Sora’s appearance, but when they saw the Nobody army turn it’s attention to him, they rallied and began to push the Nobodies back. Sora hacked down any Nobody that got within slashing range as they were pushed back. When the Equestrian side got close enough, he began to push the Nobodies back with the guards until all the Nobodies that were attacking the gate were vanquished or they fled through the Dark Corridors.
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Equestria: Canterlot (City Gates)
As soon as it was clear that the battle was won, the guards began gathering the wounded and bringing them to a temporary infirmary. Sora was amazed at how the Nobodies were attacking to get in rather than kill. The ratio of wounded to dead showed that.
As Sora was marveling over the aftermath of the battle, a unicorn guard, probably a captain, approached him. “You are a skilled fighter for a civilian,” he commented.
Sora turned to said guard and said, “I’ve had to deal with a lot in my life, so I had to learn how to fight in order to survive.”
The guard looked at him with an analytical look before pointing out, “You fought those things as if you fought them before.”
Sora was surprised, but he only showed it for a second before he said, “I’ve...had some dealings with them in the past. It’s not something I like talking about.”
“Why not?”
“They held a friend of mine captive, using her to manipulate and control my actions,” Sora said, feeling his emotions rise, “I thought that the Organization was brought down, but it came back. Twice.”
“What were they trying to make you do?”
Sora closed his eyes in anger, remembering from Roxas what the Organization did. “It’s a touchy subject.”
The guard was about to press for more info, but a pegasus guard flew in from the city. He looked as though he was rushed and worried. “Captain Sword Play!” The pegasus shouted, “Orders from Lord Captain Armor!” He held a scroll out and Spear Tip took it with his magic.
After looking over the scroll, he dismissed the pegasus with a nod. “We need to get to the castle gates!” He shouted to the other guards, “Leave a small detail to watch the wounded!” He turned to Sora and said, “You need to find a place to hide. We can’t have civilians wandering in a war zone.”
“I need to get to the castle, and besides, if there are more of those creatures, you need somepony who fought them for years,” Sora objected.
The captain was about to object to his request, but shouting was heard from inside of the city. Before any of the guards could react, Sora had bolted through the gate towards the shouting.
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Equestria: Canterlot (Main Plaza)
Sora followed the shouting until he found a few ponies surrounded by some odd creatures. He was expecting Heartless, but he didn’t expect these things. They were primarily blue and had red eyes that seem to show a form of emotion.
Sora took action and began to hack and slash through the creatures. Each one he defeated disappeared into black smoke and blue fire. Once he had gotten to the gathered ponies, motioned with his head for them to run while he was fighting the creatures. The ponies fled and Sora kept fighting, holding their attention on himself. Within a few minutes, the guards from the gates appeared and started fighting them as well.
Within a few minutes, the blue creatures were defeated and gone. Captain Sword Play checked on the troops, finding no Equestrian casualties. He then approached Sora with a bit of a scowl on his face.
“You’re skilled, but reckless,” he began to scold, “I told you to stay away from the fighting-”
“Hold up!” Two of the ponies that Sora had saved came running up. Both were unicorns. One, male, was white with a blue, styled mane, and had a French style mustache. He wore a fancy, dark blue tuxedo. He had three golden crowns as his cutie mark. The other, female, was white with an extremely light pink, flowing mane. She was slightly slender and had two purple and one gold fleur de lis as her cutie mark.
“We can vouch for him!” The male unicorn said.
The Captain looked at the unicorn and said, “I’m sorry, Sir Fancy Pants, but he had directly ignored an order to stay away from any fights!”
“If he hadn’t shown up, we would have been dead!” shouted the other unicorn.
“That may be, but he still…” The Captain started to say, but was interrupted by an explosion somewhere else. The two ponies, Sora, and the assembled guards started looking around, trying to make sure there was no trouble nearby.
Sora’s ears swiveled upon hearing a sound on a nearby rooftop. He turned around just as he heard an arrowgun fire. Sora summoned his keyblade and deflected the incoming bolt. He then looked to where the bolt came from and saw someone, now somepony, that he had never thought he would see.
“Xigbar !” Sora shouted. His shout brought everypony’s attention to the figure on the rooftop. There, there was a dark grey pegasus with a long salt and pepper mane done in a single ponytail. He had a variety of scars on his face, one forcing him to wear an eyepatch on his left eye. They couldn’t see his cutie mark, as the robe/cloak he was wearing covered it completely.
“Hello, Kiddo,” he responded sarcastically, “I hope you’ve been a good boy.” He looked down at Sora, seeing only the angry scowl on his face. “It doesn’t look like it.”
“SHUT UP!!” Sora bellowed up at him.
“Ha! Same as always. Giving me that face as if I just drowned your goldfish,” Xigbar taunted.
“JUST SHUT UP!!” Sora bellowed back as he flew up to where Xigbar was. Sora went to attack but Xigbar sidestepped the attack. He then turned and bucked Sora hard off of the rooftop.
“Temper, temper,” Xigbar taunted further. “You’re worse than the Somber One.” He then looked at his hoof as if looking at a wristwatch. “I’d like to hang around more, but I’ve got an appointment up at the castle. I’ll give your regards to your brother and sister when I see them.” He then vanished in a Dark Corridor.
Sora would have shouted back at him, but what he said confused him. He would talk to his brother and sister when he saw them. As far as what he could remember, he didn’t have any other siblings. He had friends that he could consider siblings, but actual blood sibling?
“Was he part of that Organization you mentioned?” Captain Sword Play asked carefully.
“Yeah,” Sora said, “Number II in the first group, Number III or IV in the second group. Now, I don’t know his current rank. I don’t even know what they are planning to do.”
“Judging by how you yelled at him, you seemed to be…”
“Sora!” Everypony looked to see Flash Sentry flying to where the group was. “We need to get to the castle immediately!” Without answering, Sora extended his wings and flew to where Flash was as if he knew how to fly. Sora gave him a look of combined sorrow, confusion, and anger. They then flew towards the castle without a word from either.
Author's Note
Kingdom Hearts: Harmony of Hearts
Green is to play music, Red is to stop music.
Kingdom Hearts: Harmony of Hearts
The Heart is a mysterious thing. Unpredictable as fate itself. I’ve witnessed first hoof how a set of twins had shown power in their hearts in a rather unusual way.
I was informed by a few obstetricians of a strange magical anomaly between a unicorn and pegasus foal, both twins to the same parents. I asked for details, but they had no real understanding of the anomaly to give any proper details, so I had to personally investigate (in disguise of course).
After donning the appropriate disguise, I was brought to the family of these foals. Night Light was a professor at my School for Gifted Unicorns, somepony I admired (to a professional degree) for his raw power. Twilight Velvet, a professor’s aide in the school, I could almost consider a daughter. When she was much younger, she struggled with her magic control. I can still remember when a miscast vision enhancement spell had switched her right eye vision with her left, and vice versa.
Upon viewing the foals, I noticed that the anomaly, while it was magical in nature, it was focused on the light in their innocent hearts. Silver Crown, the pegasus, had an excess amount of light in his heart. Twilight Sparkle, the unicorn, was unconsciously, and probably accidentally, siphoning it off of him. In all of my knowledge and experience of matters of the heart, this is the most baffling I’ve witnessed.
Twilight wasn’t doing any immediate damage to Silver, but it was too soon to tell, and I didn’t want them to come to harm because of this. I decided right then and there to separate them. It will be hard on the parents, but I feel that it is for the greater good for my little ponies.
Author's Note
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