//------------------------------// // Faith // Story: My Little Kingdom: The Key to Harmony // by Mekapix //------------------------------// The beast that stood before barely resembled the lord of chaos it grew from. It towered over the ponies, being around one and a half times the size of a Stealth Sneak. Its only feature that gave away its origin was its face, long with a small beard at the end. The rest of it had become pure monster, the dirty yellow pony gulped ass his eyes laid upon his new enemy. Everyone else who resided in the room looked at it as if it was the end of the world itself. The beast let out a low growl before raising its claw and slamming it down, attempting to crush Sora. The colt rolled to his side as his wits returned to him, he recovered from the roll quickly and charged towards the creature’s claw, slamming both Keyblades down onto its wrists. It only growled in response, sliding its hand sideways to slam into the colt and sending him into the wall then collapse to the ground. Their companion slamming into the wall caused the six ponies to snap out of their fear filled states and realize what they had to do. “Applejack! Rainbow! Rarity!” Twilight yelled, quickly getting their attention. “You three distract Discord, Pinkie!” The mare quickly shot up to the unicorn’s side and saluted. “You make sure that the Princesses don’t get hit by any of Discord’s attacks and Fluttershy, me and you will go help Sora!” All the ponies nodded and shot off to their stations. Rainbow flew up to the side of the monster Discord’s face as his claw balled into a fist to crush the colt. She swung across the beast’s face but just gave it a scratch, only causing to redirect the anger of the monster from the colt to herself. He turned and brought his fist towards the pony, she just managed to swerve out of the way to notice that his claw was following close behind. She tried to get away but was quickly caught by the shadowy hand, she struggled in its grasp, gasping for breath as she felt the grip tighten. The beast yelped in pain and released the pegasus, looking down at the earth pony who had stabbed her Keyblade into its leg. Rarity took advantage of the situation and caught Rainbow with her magic, easing her towards the ground while the pony coughed and hacked. The pegasus gave an appreciative nod before taking to the sky again. Applejack was able to jump out of the way as the dark Discord tried to crush her under his massive hoof. Rolling back upright she attacked the stationary hoof once again, ushering a growl from the monster. He repeated that same move, lifting up his hoof to crush the cowpony but did not expect it when Rainbow Dash swooped by and struck the lifted hoof while Rarity attacked the grounded one. The monster lost its balance and fell forward, using it’s claws to catch itself off of the ground while the three attacking ponies took the chance and began attacking the monsters face. While the three ponies were distracting the monster, Pinkie had taken her place in front of the Princesses, holding out her Keyblade in case the beast decided on them as its next target. As Pinkie kept her eyes locked onto the enemy, she heard Princess Celestia begin talking to her. “What is going on Pinkie Pie? What happened to Discord and where did that…thing come from?” She asked. Pinkie began answering but kept her eyes on Discord. “Well there are the heartless who are mean, nasty meanies and then there was Discord who is the meanest, nastiest meanie so the heartless obeyed him because of his meanieness buuuuut because Discord couldn’t handle or control all the mean nastiness that the heartless were pushing onto him with each heartless summoning or something, he lost control of all the nastiness and some witch who seems to be the meanest, nastiest meanie of all nasty meanies made the heartless combine with him, turning him into a sup-mega-ultra nasty meanie!” She explained at such a high rate that the speed of light was like a snail’s pace. Celestia blinked and waited for her brain to catch up with the pink pony’s explanation of the events. Once she assumed she had pieced together the information in a way that made sense to her, she turned to see her favourite student and her butter pegasus friend healing the wounded earth pony. “Miss Pinkie Pie…who is that?” Princess Luna asked. Pinkie looked at the gesturing obsidian hoof and followed it to Sora’s location. “Oh that’s just Sora, it looks like he transformed again.” She said with a slight shrug. The two Princesses and the guards blinked a few times. “Excuse me Pinkie Pie, did you say transformed…again…?” Celestia asked. Pinkie smiled and nodded. “That’s right, he was an earth pony but then he became a red pegasus when we fought the big lizard thing. Rainbow Dash said that when fighting against the fake nightmare moon, he turned into a dark blue unicorn and back in Ponyville he turned into a dark evil Sora because of Discords power.” She stated. “B-But how is such a thing possible?” Luna asked. Pinkie just shrugged. “I dunno, magical key weapon?” She replied. The Princesses gathered that she had no idea to it either but if it helped their current predicament then they wasn’t going to argue against it. Meanwhile Twilight had her Keyblade up much like Pinkie to guard the fallen earth pony behind her while Fluttershy held out her Keyblade at Sora, firing a stream of green energy into him. Eventually his eyes began fluttering, eventually opening and looking up at a relieved pegasus. “Are you ok?” She asked him, he nodded while getting back on his hooves. “I’m fine, how are we doing?” He replied. Twilight looked back and sighed in relief at hearing the sound of his voice again. “We are doing ok for now but he’s stronger than any other heartless we have faced, our attacks seem to be doing next to nothing but get on his nerves.” The unicorn told him. Sora picked up his Keyblades and stood on his hind legs once more, walking next to his friend and looking back at Discord as he battled their friends. “I underestimated him a little, I won’t be doing that again” He said with a smile and a sigh. Spinning his Keyblades around a few times before getting a good grip, Sora took his stance and narrowed his eyes. Twilight looked up at the dark Discord while Fluttershy came up to Sora’s other side, both of the mares took their eyes off Discord and looked up at Sora, seeing a determination they hadn’t seen before. It didn’t last long as Sora ran forward to join the fight, Twilight following behind and motioning Fluttershy to take care of the Princesses alongside Pinkie, the pegasus nodded and moved to their aid. Rarity jumped over Discord’s tail as he swung it round, she landed and quickly took aim at the tail, firing a blizzard spell at it and making a direct hit. It did little but make the monster snarl, he moved his spiked tail up in the air and threw it down towards the marshmallow unicorn. She watched in fear as the tail flew towards her and shut her eyes, waiting for the fatal impact. Twilight jumped in from the side and smacked the tail with her Keyblade, sending it off target and slamming into the ground. “Come on, we got to stop him quickly!” Twilight said as she helped the Rarity up. “But how do we do it? Nothing we do seems to have any effect on him…” Rarity said disheartened. Twilight put a hoof on her shoulder and smiled. “Don’t worry, Sora can do it. We just got to trust him.” They both saw a growing shadow on the ground and looked up to see the monsters tail come down at them again. Their mouths opened in shock as the spiked club plummeted in their direction. They were caught off guard as Twilight felt a weight quickly shift on then off of her back, seeing Sora jump into the air from her back. He yelled as both his Keyblades were glowing with energy. He pelted the length of the tail with a flurry of attacks, swiping his Keyblades in every direction before slapping it upwards. “Disaster!” He shouted. He span in mid-air, causing wind to gather round him and move into the tail as if cutting through it. He slowed his spinning down to a halt while still in mid-air, all the air that spun round him gathered to the tips of his Keyblades and he swung them forward, releasing a great force of wind to drill into the air made mark on the beast’s tail and pierce through, causing the spiked club along with half of the tails length to fall to the floor and burst into wisps. The monster Discord threw its head back and released an ear piercing scream at the pain. It quickly spun round on its hooves to see Sora land on the ground, scowling up at him without moving a muscle. “Twilight, Rarity. You may want to move out of the way or I won’t be able to guarantee you’ll be safe.” They looked at him with concern but the expression on his face was completely calm, cool and collected. That look made them feel that, with unknown confidence, Sora was about to fight with more power than they had seen so far. The pair quickly moved away while Sora looked down at the earth pony and pegasus on Discord’s other side. “You two as well, I’ll take care of him now.” They gulped as they saw the determination on his face and ran to the other ponies in the room. Sora looked up at Discord who was snarling, the tip of his curled tusks glowing with dark energy that moved towards his mouth. As the dark energy moved into his mouth, the beast reeled his head back then threw it forward, a black and violet flame firing from his mouth and engulfing the pony as he threw his Keyblades into a X-shape in front of him. The others gasped as they thought their biggest hope had just been roasted alive and the end was near. “Aeroaga!” They heard a familiar voice yell. The dark flame burst out in all directions, leaving a hole where Sora jumped up through. Able to look Discord right in his dark eyes, Sora threw both his Keyblades forward, the obsidian Keyblade cutting straight through one of the two tusks while the other embedded itself into the other tusk. While Discord yelled again at the loss of his horned appendage, Sora caught the black Keyblade and brought his back legs up as if crouching in mid-air, the air warped around Sora then covered him as he dashed into the air. After gaining a little more height above the monsters face, gravity took hold again and Sora took a nose dive towards his other weapon, grabbing onto it and spinning round the tusk, feeling his Keyblade rip through it before shooting up into the air with his recovered momentum. The tusk fell off of Discord’s face and burst just like the one before it, Discord’s eyes began glowing and then fired a twin set of dark orbs towards the colt. He span in the air and slapped both orbs to either side of him, both of them hitting the walls and exploding, causing surprisingly little damage to the structure. Sora came down towards Discord and the beast threw his arm up to grab him. The air around Sora’s back hooves warped once more before he dashed again, quickly moving between two of the claws digits and running down his arm. Discord’s eyes widened as he saw the colt run down his arm and leapt towards his face, holding his Keyblades out towards the horns on Discord’s head. Grinning as he got in close to the horns, Sora swiped across the two appendages before channelling magic into his weapons and taking aim at the horns point blank. “Blizzard!” A scatter shot of large shards of ice collided with the horns and blew them into pieces, causing Discord to grab his head and scream once more in pain while Sora landed on the ground. The beast turned to view Sora, his eyes wide with fury as he roared at the small pony, Sora gave barely any notice and crouched slightly, holding his Keyblades in a cross shape in front of his chest. Discord threw both of his claws forward and fired a continuous blast of dark energy at the pony, Sora throwing up a reflect barrier to protect himself from the attack. He felt the strain of the attack as it seemed to start breaking through the barrier, small cracks forming in the transparent shell. His confidence fading a little as he felt himself being overpowered. “You can do it Sora!” He heard a voice yell from behind. He managed to turn his head slightly to see all six of his friends staring at him with hope. “We now you won’t lose!” Twilight yelled. “We know you won’t give up!” Applejack cried. “We know you’ll stick by our sides!” Pinkie shouted. “We know you can save us!” Rarity screamed. “We know you’ll beat him!” Rainbow bellowed. “We know you’ll be there for us!” Fluttershy squealed. “We know that you’ll win, we have faith in you because you are our friend!” They all cheered. Their Keyblades suddenly appeared at their sides and began shining brightly. In unison, lights fired from their Keyblades and flew through the reflect barrier and into Sora’s body. The dome filled with light as Sora felt immense power flow through him, his coat changing into a light grey while lights shone brightest out of his head and back. The light blinded all the ponies present. “Reflega!” The barrier suddenly burst outwards, pushing away the dark blasts as streams of energy shot from the broken barrier and skewered Discord’s arms, causing him to stumble back in pain. As the light died down and everypony looked at the fighter, their jaws dropped at the sight. Instead of the dirty yellow earth pony that stood there a moment ago, there was now a brown maned, silver coated alicorn with silver streaks running through his tail. The alicorn ignored the shocked looks from everypony in the room and looked up at Discord, who just roared at the sight. “Let’s end this…” Sora said. The Oathkeeper Keyblade from his time as a pegasus now accompanied the obsidian Oblivion Keyblade, appearing and hovering behind Sora’s back as he stayed mounted on his back hooves. Without another word, Sora shot forward and threw his hooves forward, his Keyblades following them in the air and slamming into Discord’s chest. He span round once while in the air then unleashed a barrage of attacks into the torso, slamming and stabbing his weapons into Discord. He plunged his Keyblades into the beasts chest and placed his back hooves onto Discord’s body, crouching onto the body before jumping off and pulling his Keyblades out with him before spinning round. “Final Strike!” He pointed his body towards Discord’s shoulder as he span round faster and faster, air surrounding him as he shot forward and drilled onto the monsters joint. Discord screamed in pain before Sora shot through the arm, causing it to fall to the floor and disperse in black wisps before landing back onto the ground and turning to face his enemy again. Discord didn’t turn this time, he was too busy holding the area where his arm once was with his claw. Sora frowned at the steps he had to take to win but knew it had to be done. Sora jumped towards Discord’s back and threw his Keyblades out in front of himself. “Blizzard!” Two large icicles shot out from his weapons and exploded into smaller icicles upon hitting Discord. Sora followed up the attack by copying his earlier motion towards Discord’s other shoulder. “Fire!” A fireball shot out from the ends of the Keyblades. As Sora shot through them, the fire coated his spin causing a flaming tornado to blast through Discord’s other shoulder, his other arm falling to the floor and bursting into black wisps. The fire dissipated as Sora landed on the ground in front of Discord’s body. Sora slowly turned to see the beast growl and groan in agony, its eyes filled with unbridled fury that only ushered a sigh from the alicorn. He looked up at Discord gaze with a look of sadness. “I’m sorry she used you...but I must end this now…” Sora’s Keyblades shone bright white as he flew right into Discord’s chest. He swung his Keyblades with great force, swiping them left and right, occasionally thrusting them into the monsters chest. He pulled back a little before flying straight into Discord’s chest. “Final Arcana!” Sora’s Keyblades shone brightly as he slashed them in an X-shape, the bright light forcing its way into and through Discord’s chest, bursting out the other side. Sora landed on the ground and exhaled deeply, the beast before him began shrinking, the dark form turning into wisps and floating into the air before vanishing into nothing. The form kept shrinking at the loss of darkness until it was nothing more than the lord of chaos on the floor, shrouded in darkness. Sora’s form turned back into its normal, brown, earth pony self. His Keyblades vanished with his form only leaving his Kingdom Key their place. As Sora turned to go to his friends, he heard a shuffling behind him. He turned to see Discord getting back onto his legs, arms hanging down by his side and his tail slumped on the floor. “I…Wont…Lose…” He muttered. Sora frowned and faced him. “Give it up! You’ve lost so just stop!” His pleas fell on deaf ears as Discord’s tired but angry expression just stared at him. Discord took a deep breath and yelled out, throwing his claw and paw forward and firing stream of dark energy at the colt. Sora’s eyes widened and he plunged his Keyblade into the beam, splitting it up and sending it away from him. “I will never lose! I will rule this world!!” Discord bellowed. Sora heard his friends cheer him on from behind. “Go on Sora! You can win!” Twilight yelled to him, her Kerblade starting to shine brightly. Sora took a step forward while keeping his Keyblade facing the beam and the one firing it. “You’ve beat him as a giant monster, there’s no way you can lose!” Apple jack shouted out, her Keyblade emitting a great light. Sora took another step closer towards Discord. “We know you can do it!” Rarity yelled out, her Keyblade following suite. Sora took another step towards Discord, his Keyblade shining as if resonating. “You can do it Sora! You can beat that meanie!” Pinkie cried out, her Keyblade shining as well as Sora took a step closer. “You’ve got this Sora, we know you have!” Rainbow Dash yelled out, her Keyblade shimmering like the others. Sora stepped again, feeling his Keyblade getting stronger and even glowing. “We trust you Sora, we know you can do anything!” Fluttershy cried out. Her Keyblade shone brightly as Sora’s copied, becoming engulfed in a white light. “We have faith in you Sora, we know you can beat him!!” They all yelled out. Their Keyblades suddenly shone blindingly bright for a moment before all of them became orbs of light, flying towards Sora and into his Keyblade. Sora felt the dark energy he was pushing through now offer little resistance and he picked up speed, charging towards Discord with Keyblade in hoof. He reached the end of the stream and broke through Discord’s shadowy hands, the tip of his Keyblade at Discord’s chest before the light on the Keyblade shattered like a cocoon, leaving a new Keyblade with a golden hoof shaped guard, a marble white shaft and handle with the symbols for the six elements of harmony dangling from the chain at the end. At the tip of the shaft the pressed onto Discord’s chest was a heart shape made from a rainbow. “I told you before Discord! We have something important worth protecting and that’s why you won’t ever win!” Sora yelled into the Lord of chaos’ face, he pushed the Keyblade into Discord’s chest a little more and felt power surge through from the elements on the chain into the tip of the weapon. There was a brief moment of silence before a loud bang echoed, the dark shroud that covered Discord’s body exploded out into nothing and the tip of the Keyblade shone like never before. A spectrum of colours flew out of Discord’s back and down the halls of the castle, spearing any heartless in the way before exiting the castle doors and flying high into the sky, penetrating the dark cloud and shattering it, a burst of colour taking its place that flew all across the land. Sora took his Keyblade from Discord’s chest and watched as Discord turned to stone from the point of impact, spreading outwards and eventually covering his entire body. With the dark cloud vanishing and leaving a rainbow in its place as well as Discord being defeated and re-sealed, everypony hollered and jumped for joy, even the Princesses were dancing around. Sora turned towards his friends and smiled brightly, all of them smiling back. Sora took a few steps forwards but then felt his head grow heavy and his vision blurred, he blinked a few times but it did little to help. He felt himself topple over onto his side, his last thoughts in his consciousness being: ‘Aww, not again…’