Keybearer 2: Inquisition

A few hours passed since I talked to Xehanort and I was ready to make my big announcement. “Alright wardens I have an announcement to make.” the wardens and my students all gathered. “The wardens have been corrupted for decades and today that ends.” I said as the crowd looked at each other “Today is the end of the Wardens of the Griffon Lands and the rise of the Inquisition.” I said as the wardens muttered amongst each other and Gilda stood up.

“Hey you said I would be the leader of the wardens!” Gilda shouted

“First off I never promised that, and second you can always challenge me for control.” I said as Gilda looked at me remembering what I did to the previous commander of the wardens.

“Nevermind.” Gilda said sitting back down.

“Anyone else having problems with the Inquisition?” I asked as everybody just sat there quietly looking at each other. “Good.” I said as I continued my speech.

A week passed since the wardens became the Inquisition and things were improving...mostly because I was technically king though I claimed to be the Grand Inquisitor and now the people were willing to help... for a price.

As I walked through the castle which was in bad shape I needed to find somebody to supply us, and there was a food shortage too which I would have to find...I didn’t want to rely on Equestria for both but at the way things were going I would have too. As I made it to the gate passing people looking for directions on what to do I heard a familiar voice “I’m looking for the grand Inquisitor.” the voice said as I got closer.

“I’m sorry but the inquisitor is very busy you’ll have too- Oh sir” the guard saluted.

“Stand down, he’s always welcome here.” I said as the guard left. “Shall we talk inside?” I asked God.

“Sure after you.”he said as we walked to a private meeting room.

“So what have you come here for?” I asked.

“Well first did you get that scroll I gave to your students?” he asked.

“Yes I did I’m still trying to find somebody to translate it but I got it.” I answered.

“Good, good anyway I hearded of your little resource problem and I have a solution.” He said

“So what's your solution?” I asked.

“Well there is a small world nearby that can supply you with the supplies you need, there is just the one thing.” God said.

“What is it?” I asked

“You're going to need to find a man named Steve and you will need to help him with some stuff, should only take a few days.” God explained.

“Alright give me the location and I’ll head there.”’

“Your ride should be arriving any-.” God was cut off by a guard coming in.

“Sir you need to see this.” the guard said as we followed him. “This thing just appeared out of the sky.” he said as we got outside and I saw a gummi ship.

“Okay bring me Gilda, Zecora and Trixie I need to speak to them.” I ordered as the guard that showed us the gummi ship left. After a few minutes my three students showed up. “Good you are here.” I said

“What is it master?” Trixie asked.

“I’m going to be gone for a few days and I’m going to need you three to take over my duties while i’m gone.” I explained.

“What are you going to be doing?” Zecora asked.

“I’m going to be securing a supply line for the Inquisition.” I explained

“Let us come with you master.” Trixie said.

“Sorry but I need you three to make sure that things don’t...well get worse.” I explained.

The three apprentices looked around and saw that the fortress was barely keeping itself together. “Right good luck with that” Gilda said.

“Yeah we’ll keep things from getting worse.” Zecora said as I got into the Gummi ship.

After landing on this new world I took a look around and noticed that the world was made of blocks. “Well time to find this Steve.” I said throwing one of my keyblades into the air and turning it into a glider before flying off.

About an hour of flying later I came across a village surrounded by a stone wall. I landed and was walking the exterior of the wall. It was so...I dunno. Feeling it, you’d think it was smooth, being perfectly flat, yet it had the texture of a rock wall. Man that’s weird. I kept walking around the wall till I came across a green monster with no arms, weird face, and walked on four small legs, staring into the town from a set of metal doors. I snuck up behind it and thrust my Keyblade though it’s back. It turned red, fell over and a small...thing that looked like gunpowder was hovering and bobbing on the ground where it died...as well as a few glowing orbs that came up to me, then my body absorbed them...oddly enough, I felt a bit stronger when they did that.

I heard a rather cartoony sound of metal doors opening. Reacting, I jumped back, and went into the doors before they were shut. I fell down on the landing, and had a blue sword at my face. I looked up, and saw a cubed man in slightly roughed up clothes holding it. “Hey you wouldn't know a steve by any chance?” I asked.

“I am Steve and I take it you're that new guy the old man said he was sending?” Steve said.

“I guess he said you would be the solution to my resource problems.” I told him getting up

“And he said you would be able to help me kill the Ender Dragon,” He said as I wondered what the ender dragon was.

“Whats an Ender Dragon?” I asked before saying “I mean I’m guessing the ender dragon is a dragon?” I said.

“Let me show you.” he said taking me to his house

Steve’s house was a nice sized place, high roof and lighted with some kinda glowing rock. Steve pulled a book out from one of his bookcases which was in a room with some kind of altar in the middle. “The Ender Dragon is a fearsome dragon that lives in the end a ruined world.” He said before turning the page “In order to defeat it we have to destroy its ender crystals which continuously heal it.” He said as I stopped him

“Why do the crystals heal him?”

“From what the legend says they were used to heal the ancient dragon that defended the world before some shadow beasts came and corrupted it.”

“Heartless.” I said.

“I don’t know what those are. Steve said as he went to his chest to retrieve some items.He returned with a bag “Okay I was about to do this stuff on my own but the old man told me that somebody would come to help me and luckily you came.”

“So you have everything?”

Once we got outside, Steve carrying his stuff in some kinda homemade backpack. I summoned my glider and Steve got on. We were flying for a while, then found a dessert and after a bit, a temple. “Hey you want to check out that temple?” Steve asked.

I looked at it and decided that it wouldn't hurt...five minutes later I was carrying Steve out of the temple as it was about to explode “Remind me the next time we see a temple like this to not say yes.” I said as we got back on the Glider.

We kept flying, and Steve decided it was time to start hurling Eyes of Ender. I had to slow down in order to not miss the direction they were going. He had a lot but we flew low to pick up the ones that fell after they stopped. We entered some kinda jungle, then, ironically, right over a temple, the Eyes of Ender kept getting thrown, but kept floating over it.

“I think that the fortress is down there.” Steve said as I slowly went down into the temple. And it's almost night you want to wait till morning before we explore the temple?” Steve said pulling two beds out of his bag.

“How do you have...nevermind let's sleep for the night.” I said as he placed the beds down and put down some wood around it and torches down.

The howling wolves and the passing crickets made the night pass mostly uneventfully. The torches somehow protected us from monsters which should not be scientifically possible. I had to stop questioning things otherwise I would be driven insane. Steve rumbled first getting out of bed and tapping the side of my bed with his foot.

“C’mon. Let’s get going.” Steve said as I grumbled the entire way out of bed. I didn’t feel like a morning person on this world.

We trekked off for the last place that the ender eyes hovered over near where the temple was. It was covered in moss and vines. There were several cats roaming around as well. Then Steve pointed out they were ocelots and fed one a few fish where it turned into a cat… fuck this world’s physics.

“Ok let’s head in and watch out for any traps. Old temple like this is obviously full of them. You don’t touch any raised platforms otherwise they go off.” Steve said as he pulled out his sword taking care to tap some spots out with his sword at arm’s length.

This probably wouldn’t be as bad as anything else that happened to me. A few arrows and nothing else wouldn’t be a problem in the long run. We went into the halls while Steve placed a torch every ten blocks from each other to maximize the light while he tapped the floors with his sword. Every fifty blocks he would hit one and an arrow coated in poison would buzz by melting through the stone it hit. So… poison arrows was apparently a thing which made things worse than they should be.

“Tch… annoying.” I said as I took a few steps forward. I accidentally touched a switch the floor fell out from under me forcing me to grab the edge as a whole red light enveloped the room and I could only see a lake of lava around.

“I told you to watch out for traps.” Steve said as he lifted down his tools allowing me to grab onto it as he pulled me back up.

I grumbled the entire way as we went further into the depths and the sight of torches giving off light was the only comfort out in the darkness. Deep in those depths we finally found exactly what we were looking for. In the center of the room suspended above a lava pit was a platform flowing out with darkness while being surrounded by several pedestals glowing an eerie green light.

“So… is this it?” I said as I looked around noticing that nothing had come out to fight us just yet.

“Yup. This is the ender portal I just need to power it up and we’ll get to see what’s on the other side.” Steve said as he pulled out some ender pearls.

After all of them were in place the portal opened up with an ominous hum. Both of us took a long look at the portal taking a deep breath. There was only so much that we could prepare for before heading into it. Unlike the doors to darkness it wasn’t actually a real darkness to the portals. Taking our weapons out and ready we charged into the portal… only to find nothingness around us. There were several towers while Endermen patrolled the area warping in and out of the area.

“Pleasant…” I said as I looked around for anything that looked like an enemy. There wasn’t anything around us though. Out in the distance was the flapping of wings amongst the curled screams coming from the endermen.

“It’s coming…” Steve gripped his sword as several bolts of energy burst out of the spheres on top of the towers… each of which were made of obsidian blocks and seemed to be sturdier than anything else.

A giant dark dragon dive bombed straight for us smacking us off to the side as it flew back up into the air screaming in pure anger as more bolts of energy shot towards the dragon. I managed to take a few potshots of fire at it burning off partial bits of its scales which flaked off… up until the energy bolts strike at the dragon healing it and regrowing the scales back on.

“Crap… Steve we gotta deal with those spheres first.” I said as I noticed that several of the endermen started to run around in fear for some reason. Steve pulled out a bow and started firing off some arrows at the spheres trying desperately to line up the shots while the dragon immediately took umbrage with that diving straight for his.

I flung myself in its way using my keyblade to fling it off course while it put its full force in its attack. Every time I felt it attack it felt as though the keyblade would break from the attack only to keep up its diving runs trying to break the defense as another arrow found its mark breaking a sphere. There were several all around on top of all the towers.

Another flash of light and another crystal shattered as the dragon kept up its physical assault slamming down harder on the keyblade though no cracks appeared on it. After the last crystal shattered I shot forward slicing through its wing but the scales were shorn off instead of the wing. It flew straight back up roaring and screaming in rage and fury.

Steve joined in stabbing at it whenever it came in range but it still kept the fury it held at the max chomping at us with whatever attack it could muster. Slowly we whittled it down to the bare minimum as it flew off into the air. The crystals were all shattered so it wasn’t healing and the flaking of its scales and scalded flesh overpowered it’s body. With a fling of my keyblade I sliced off the head of the ender dragon as it burst into a flash of light as several thousands of those little light balls rained down upon us. The place where is vanished was a platform with a small egg on top of it.

“Well all I have to do is Fight the Wither but I can do that on my own time let’s head back to the town.” Steve said grabbing the egg and placing it in his back before jumping down into the portal that appeared in the center of the area we were in. Jumping in I was taken an area near the village I found Steve.

We returned to Steve’s house where we discussed the matter of the resources I had came here for. “Alright the amount stone should be ready in a few weeks as for the food well I can get you vegetables a few days but meat will take a while maybe a week or two.” Steve said. As I handed him a small bag “What’s this?” he asked.

“Payment.” I said as he looked inside.

“This is a bag full of emeralds.” he said surprised.

A few weeks passed since I met with Steve and got some supplies from him. We had begun the reconstruction of the Inquisition Fortress ” Master Huxley we have a letter from equestria.” One of the couriers said.

“Let me see... I’ve been invited to the Grand Galloping Gala.” I said reading out loud.