A shadow of the past
Keys and darkness
Previous ChapterNext ChapterThe sun rose slowly into as its light slowly spreading over Ponyville. Kronos was hovering a few feet above the castle. He appeared to be deep in meditation, which was interrupted by the light of the sun washing over him. He opened eyes and slowly descended back into the guest room. He stood there for second silently replying the events of yesterday in his head.
“That Hydra was far stronger than it should have been,” He thought. “There is only one explanation their finally making their move, if they really are on the move then I might be screwed especially if HE is getting involved.”
Suddenly there was a knock on the door.
“Breakfast is ready!” A young male voice said.
“I'll be down in a minute,” Kronos replied.
“Don’t take too long.” The young boy laughed.
Kronos chuckled a bit and grabbed his sheathed sword off the bedpost and his cloak off the chair. He clipped the blade around his waist and draped the cloak around his shoulders, but he kept the hood down.
He opened the door and went down the floor following the energy signature of whoever came to get him. He arrived in a large room that a round table in the center of it. Twilight was already sitting at the table reading through some paperwork, while her foal was strapped in a high chair playing with a block. There was also a young Dragon who balancing a huge pile of pancakes as he made his way to the table.
The foal was the first one to notice me and dropped his block in excitement. He giggled and outstretched his front hooves obviously wanting Kronos to pick him up, this made Kronos smile despite himself.
The foal’s giggling caught Twilights and the dragon’s attention causing them to also notice Kronos.
“Oh good mourning Kronos.” Twilight said warmly.
“Mourning.” Kronos taking a seat on a throne with across from them.
“Did you sleep well?” The young dragon asked.
Kronos laughed but said nothing.
“I don't get it,all did was if you spelt.” The dragon said in confusion.
“It's funny because I haven't slept in around 3,000 years.” Kronos chuckled.
“W-what how,why?” Twilight asked in confusion and hint worry.
“I don't see how that's any of your d-,” He began before he remembered there was a foal present, “ business.”
“But we're your friends!” The dragon protested.
“Dude I don't even know your name,and I just met Sparky here.” Kronos said right before a block hit him in the face leaving a slight bruise.
“Ow!” Kronos said grabbing his head.
“Dusk!” Twilight scolded. “ We don't throw things!”
“Wah!” Dusk protested probably sick of waiting for Kronos to play with him.
“I think he wants Kronos to pick him up.” The dragon said.
“Oh I get it Dusk must like you because you saved him!” Twilight a huge smiled as her eyes sparkled.
Kronos sighed, “Alright, bring him here.”
Dusk patiently waited while his mother took him out of the chair before squirming out of her hooves and zipping to Kronos.
He tightly hugged Kronos’s chest before giggling and nuzzling the him.
Twilight and Spike ‘awed’ and cooed much to the cringe of Kronos.
Kronos cradled the infant in his arms giving him slight tickle under the chin.
Dusk squeaked cutely,once again making Kronos to smile warmly at the infant.
“Aww you're just a big softy.” Twilight with a smirk.
“Im no softy!” Kronos protested.
“Really cause it looks to me like you foal soft spot for foals.” The dragon chuckled.
“Okay squirt who are you anyway?” Kronos demanded.
“I’m spike! Twilight's number one assistant!”Spike said.
“Hmph, spike huh? typical dragon name, they may have impressive physical power, but they're not too creative.”
“Hey!” Spike protested.
“I meant on average, on the other hand, you are different from the other dragon,” Kronos said.
“Yea I'm-” Spike began to say proudly.
“A servant to another species, I guess your Dragonic pride was washed out of you,” Kronos said cutting him off.
“Hey, I am assistant not a servant.” Spike said in anger.
“Yea, those are two totally different things.” Twilight began.
“Are they really though?” Kronos said. “ I'm not saying there is anything wrong with it, I'm just pointing out he’s...unique.”
“I’m not her servant!” Spike protested.
“Are you on equal standings with her?” Kronos asked.
“No.” Spike said.
“Are you learning anything worthwhile in return for your services.” Kronos asked.
“I'm learning the magic of friendship!” Spike said proudly.
“Okay that's a no,do you have to do all of her cleaning and other such chores,and do you receive any compensation for it other than food and board.” Kronos asked.
“Yes and no.” Spike said before saying, “ Well I help her study and-”
“Do you have a life outside Twilight and her castle.” He asked.
“Not really.” Spike said sadly.
“Final question do you take care of her because you have to or because you care for her.” Kronos asked.
“I do it because I care!” Spike said without hesitation.
“Well then your not her assistant” Kronos began.
“But I-” Twilight began.
“But your not her servant either,your family so act like it.” Kronos bouncing Dusk on his knee much to the enjoyment of the young foal.
“So basically what your saying is that I shouldn't call myself her assistant?” Spike asked.
“Bingo,but who cares what I think, I'm just some dude you just met.” Kronos shrugged.
“But what you said does make sense,okay from now on we're equals at least where family is concerned.” Twilight said with a smile,which spike returned.
“God ,you guys are so cheesy.” Kronos commented.
“So I guess we should get to eating.” Spike said.
Kronos handed Dusk to Twilight and began to walk out the door.
“Where you going.” Twilight asked.
“Not hungry.” Kronos said as he kept walking.
Kronos walked outside and frowned he closed eyes and seemed to be concentrating,he the placed two fingers on his forehead, before vanishing into thin air.
He reappeared in a field of grass a few feet in front of bipedal being in a black full body cloak.
“Damit the author actually took the idea of using Organization 13 from Sornos. God dammit Sornos you've ruined everything!” Kronos said glaring at what seemed to be nothing.
“Yes Kronos ,Sornos the changer of names has given us life and now I'm going to steal your bitch...oh wait don't have one.” The super mysterious cloak person said.
“Oh shit Poseidon you fucking savage.” Said another cloaked figure who appeared out nowhere.
“Shut up Hermes.” Poseidon said.
“Aw okay.” Hermes said.
“Hey Poseidon?” Kronos asked with smirk.
“Yea?” Poseidon asked.
“I just wanted you to know ,your mom is feeling great after last night.” Kronos smirked.
“Oh shit Kronos you fucking savage!” Hermes said.
“Shut up Hermes.” Kronos said.
“Thats funny, I didn't think an orphan would even know what a mother is.” Poseidon said with a smirk.
“Oh shit Poseidon you fucking savage!” Hermes said again.
“Oh my god, hermes shut the fuck up.” Poseidon groaned.
“Oh you think your funny eh, dude the only one who pretends that you funny is your girlfriend over there.” Kronos said with a big smile.
“Oh shit Kronos fucking sav- wait you roasted me too...now I'm sad.” Hermes said.
“Oh you good fam same time tomorrow?” Poseidon asked.
“Yea sure so what's you guys evil plan again?” Kronos asked.
“Oh you know make kingdom hearts and chaos and such,you know bad guy stuff.” Poseidon replied.
“Oh ok thanks, see next time you become relevant again,” Kronos said.
“Oh and the heartless are attacking ponyville just thought you’d like to know.”Poseidon said.
Kronos turned to see a giant darkside stomping around ponyville in the distance.
“Oh, thanks for the tip dude,” Kronos said.
“Yea go do that it will in no way help us in our plans.” Hermes said.
“Okay I believe you,” Kronos said before teleporting back to ponyville.
When Kronos teleported into ponyville he a ton of shadow heartless being spawned by the giant Darkside.
“Well fuck that's no good,” Kronos said.
“Kronos oh thank goodness please help us!” Twilight said when she caught sight of me after shoving a shadow off her back.
“Well since you said please,” Kronos smirked holding out his hand.
Suddenly a glow of dark energy appeared in his hand and formed into a giant black key, with a silver chains like accents and a purple gem in the “hilt”.
“What is that a giant key?” Rainbow Dash asked.
“A keyblade to be more precise,” Kronos replied.
“So you're going to smack them with a giant key, that is the dumbest thing I've ever heard,” Rainbow Dash said giving Kronos a look.
“Hmph just watch,” Kronos smirked before dashing forward.
Kronos zipped around at speeds to fast for the ponies to see as he cut down shadow after shadow. He flew into the air and began to go to town on the Darkside. The Darkside tried to fight back but it was too slow to even follow Kronos’s movements.
Meanwhile in strange pocket dimension.
A group of cloaked figures were sitting around a round table, and watching Kronos destroy the Darkside through the magic surface of the table.
“No no this is no good! At this rate he’ll kill all the heartless before the elements awaken their keyblades!” One of the figures said in dismay.
“In that case one of us should go slow him down.” Another one of the figures said.
“Oh are volunteering Hades?” One of the figures said.
“What? Oh hell no he'd kill me!” Hades said waving his hands frantically.
“I'll go I've been wanting to fight him for sometime.” Said a rather large figure as he stood up.
“Heh but if course you would volunteer Ares,you alway aid have an obsession with Kronos and Zeus.” One of the feminine figures said with a chuckle.
“I'm not obsessed, Athena I just enjoy fighting worthy opponents!” Ares protested.
“Whatever you say,” Athena said smirking under her cloak.
“Hmph,I'll be going now,” Ares said before being surrounded by a dome of black energy and disappearing.
Back in ponyville.
Kronos continued to attack the Darkside, and the beast was almost down. It fell to the ground panting, before looking up to see Kronos going for the kill. He charged forward his keyblade raised. When he into range he brought down with all his might,but the blade was stopped by a huge greatsword that came out of nowhere. Kronos back flipped away from the new opponent.
“Kronos we meet again,” Ares said bring his hood down to reveal his short red hair, battle worn face,and red eyes.
“Hmph,Ares come to lose?” Kronos asked with a smirk.
“I am far more powerful than when we last met,” Ares declared before taking his battle stance.
“Alright then,show me,” Kronos said taking of his cloak and with a grin he took his own stance.
The both charged forward at blinding speeds,their blades clashing over and over again. Kronos flew into the air,and Ares followed summoning huge pillars of earth and slamming them into Kronos. Kronos flared up his white aura destroying the pillars. In that moment Ares appeared behind Kronos and swung his huge blade at him. At the last second Kronos vanished and reappeared above him,before launching a flurry of ki blasts.
“Reflect!” Ares shouted raising his blade in the air.
A white gridded shield appeared and reflected shield and reflected the ki blasts back at Kronos. Kronos crossed his arms and blocked every single ki blast. But this allowed Ares to successfully hit him from behind. The blade cut into Kronos’s back ,causing him to bleed a little.
“Ouch, that's smarts!” Kronos said before charging up, “ Alright time to take this up a notch ahhhhh!”
His dark purple hair spiked into a brilliant gold and eyes changed to green.
“Hmph, so you finally transformed….Ahhhhhh!” Ares said before powering up himself. Just like Kronos, his hair changed to gold and his eyes green.
Once again they went at pounding at each other.
Meanwhile back with Twilight.
The elements had split up to fight the heartless,leaving Twilight to fight a group of heartless by herself.
“This is crazy when I get rid of one another just pops up!” Twilight groaned after blasting a shadow into oblivion.
The heartless began to back Twilight into a corner. They then all dog pulled her at the exact same time. The smarmed together before a beam of white light flew into the pile causing a dome of light sending the heartless flying. Twilight opened her eyes to see a large blue key floating around her head. She found that she control the key with her mind not unlike her magic yet different,easier.
“Spellbinder” a voice whispered into her head.
“Huh?” Twilight asked in confusion but the voice did not answer.
The heartless got back up and stopped for a second when they saw the large key but they soon rushed her again. She quickly slashed them with the key blade destroying the shadows in a single blow.
“Ooooo!” Twilight grinning at the key blade.
She flew into the air and dashed to the dark side.
“Those monsters started showing up when that big one did,so if I get rid of him the others should disappear as well,and since Kronos has stopped fighting it I'll have to finish him off.” Twilight reasoned.
She charged forward and flew around the darkside smacking it over and over. The giant swung its arms around trying to hit her. But Twilight zipped around its attacks and attacking when possible. Eventually the giant began to slow down its fight with Kronos and Twilight finally taking it toll. Twilight then charged up a magic blast and firedd. The blast shredded through his head causing the giant to disintegrate in glow of light.
“Yes I did it!” Twilight cheered.
The heartless began disappear one by one, most likely wishing to avoid the fate of their giant friend.
“Alright now where did Kronos and the girls go?” Twilight muttered as she scanned the town for them. It was then that she spotted Kronos.
Back with Kronos.
Kronos was panting heavily his hair was now even spikier and aura now had lightning flickering in it,he had his keyblade in one hand and his other sword in the other. Furthermore he had a few large cuts across his chest and back,which were bleeding slowly. Ares’s arua and hair was just like Kronos’s but instead of a few large cuts he had several smaller cuts,a few if which were bleeding.
“Huff you really huff have gotten stronger Ares.” Kronos panted.
“Huff indeed but unfortunately I was just distracting you,and as much as I want to continue this battle, I can not.”Ares said before disappearing in a dome of dark energy.
“Damn…” Kronos muttered as his returned to its normal purple.
“Kronos!” Twilight cried as she dashed to his side. “ Are you okay?”
“Im fine just a few flesh wounds,” Kronos said shrugging her off.
“You're bleeding!” Twilight protested.
“Im fine.” Kronos insisted as he flew of somewhere.
“Kronos…” Twilight said sadly watching him zip off.
Back in the pocket dimension.
Ares was in a room that appeared to be a medical wing. A woman with wearing black cloak like Ares was tending to his wounds. She had her down revealing her long brown hair and sparkling blue eyes.
“Why did you go pick a fight with Kronos? Your lucky you were strong to hold your own.” The woman scolded.
“Hmph I could have beaten I'm sure of it,Hera,” Ares said confidently.
“Are you sure Kronos used to be the second strongest out of all of us seconded by-” Hera began.
“Zeus,” Ares finished.
“Yes where is he anyway he didn't show up for the meeting.” Hera asked.
“Not sure,but if I had to guess he was busy training.” Ares replied.
“Training...do you think it has something to do with him finding out that Kronos is alive?” Hera asked.
“Maybe those two have some bad blood between each other.” Ares said thinking for a minute.
“Well that should do it try get some rest okay?” Hera said getting up and walking away.
“Sure thing.” Ares said watching her go.
“Kronos why did you leave us? And what are you planning to do about Zeus?” Ares asked out loud.
Author's Note
What you guys think what keyblades the main six should have?
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