//------------------------------// // To Explore Nothing // Story: Balance // by BioQuillFiction //------------------------------// The following days where an adjustment. Chara and Asriel woke up and were readjusting to… well, being alive. Chara had no memories of what Core did to him, and honestly that relieved me. This new information involving regrowing a person’s heart might be just what we need. If I can somehow get to the place between light and darkness, where the Nobodies are born, and bring a Heartless, would all of the Nobodies go for it, or just the one who’s heart is within it? Any ways on getting there X? Not really. Not much is known about Nothingness, but getting there can only be done by a Nobody as far as I know. It isn’t exactly a realm, yet it’s endless like light and darkness. Then that leaves a few options. We could try and find a Nobody, and use it to go there, but I’m not sure that would work. Maybe it’s too risky…. Damn it, we finally have a possibility of getting the people lost to darkness back, and we have no means to get to the place that can pull it off. Noble actions aren’t easy to pull off. Maybe going to another world will take your mind off of things? I dunno. I guess I’m just getting restless. Knock, knock, knock. Someone knocked on my office door. “It’s Cid, open up!” I rolled my eyes. “Enter Cid.” Cid came in, looking a little shaken. “You alright?” “Not entirely. Some of the teams sent to rebuild the rest of the world went into the castle, where that jackass that killed everyone was, and they found notes… I’m gonna have nightmares for months…” “Where are they now?” “Notes are in my lab, but that’s not why I came. We found something…” Cid pulled out a Keychain… it was a yellow eye that looked kinda crazy. “When someone tried to place it on their Keyblade, things went to hell fast. It rained chocolate milk from cotton candy clouds, and the floors turned to soap! And it turned my underwear into a fish!” I walked up and took the Keychain. “Well that’s odd. X, which Keyblade does this belong to?” “Uh, none. I’ve never seen this Keychain before.” “Really, then what is it?” “A… I have no idea. It has to go to a Keyblade, but none of our siblings have a Keychain like this. We may have to make the body from scratch.” “How do you do that?” “A Keyblades body isn’t really all that complicated, it can be made from anything really, the Keychain is where all of our power and consciousness are stored. Once the two are connected the Keychain will change to weapon it’s attached to to look like it should.” “It’s that easy?” Cid asked. “That only works if the Keychain has no body. This guy might have just reacted when it attached to an already owned body.” “So when a wielder switches out the Keychain… the body is borrowed?” I ask. “That’s about right.” I looked around, and spotted a sword with a slot for an accessory at the bottom or the handle. “Here goes nothing.” I say as I place the Keychain on it. At first nothing happens, then the sword is engulfed in a dark aura, and changed. When it was done, it looked… odd. “Anyone there?” Where the, where am I?! Relax, what’s you name? Discord. What happend to my body! Why can’t I move! You’re a Keyblade… where have I heard that name before? I am, was, I was a spirit of chaos. Fluttershy managed to befriend me and… wait, those silver men! What happened! Calm down Discord! Fluttershy is fine, but majority of Equestria was… gone... ... Is the one who did it… are they dead? Finished him personally. Good. How am I a… you called me a Keyblade, what is that? Cid left and I explained everything to Discord with X explaining some of the more… advanced information. That’s about it. Everything that’s happened and what you now are… though a living being turned into a Keyblade, and here I thought Zeke was the only one to become a Keyblade. Then why does he still have a body? Our father, and maker, Kingdom Hearts turned him into a human Keyblade, you were turned body, soul, mind, and heart, into one. That bastard that nearly killed this world must have known some dark stuff to pull that off. Am I going to be stuck like this? Can I even use magic? Maybe, but maybe it has to be cast like a spell. I stood up and pointed Discord at the wall. “Here goes nothing. Ice!” A blast of ice hit the wall, freezing it over a bit. Well, it’s not exactly the same as what I used to do, but I guess this will have to be trial and error. So, X can talk through you, could I? Probably, what for? I just want to let Fluttershy and the others know I’m okay… also… so you’re married to Fluttershy, sunbutt, moonbutt, Sparkle, Rainbow, Chrysalis, and two others I can’t remember? Was a surprise, but I learned to love them. Now I can’t imagine life without them. I guess I can live like this so long as Fluttershy is alright… do me a favor though... What? ... could you name a child after me? … Let’s let Fluttershy and the others know about you first. I let Discord talk though me, and it was rather emotional. Fluttershy was a mix of sad, happy, and scared for her friend, the others were worried. So was I. I knew Core could do this, that fight at Olympus Coliseum proved his Keyblade forging abilities, but that was different. Yellow Core changed into a Keyblade at will, Discord is stuck like this, and he was a reality bending demigod of sorts. This is bad beyond words. After the talk was over, Discord swore he’s keep what happened to him, from happening to others. He agreed to become my second Keyblade, and since I can activate his magic through spell casting, it would work out since normally I can’t use magic. I also decided to try out all the things I could do with Discord in terms of magic. We were in the snowy lands just outside Daybreak Empire’s border. So far, cure, fire, ice, gravity, stop(finally, gonna do that to Huxley next time I see him) and a few others worked without fail. Should we try something more… unusual? Please do, I’m dying to make something abnormal. I pointed Discord up. “... Cake!” I shouted the first random thought in my head… and a rather large cake fell from the sky. “... well that worked…” I hope it’s chocolate cake! Perhaps we should try and use Discord’s… unique magic and cast a spell to take us somewhere. Specifically, Nothingness. That would be? The place between light and dark. Where beings that shouldn’t exist are born. I pointed Discord to the empty air in front of me. “... Portal to Nothingness.” I say, as a beam of light shoots from Discord, and it opens a grey portal. “That actually worked?!” That felt tingly. I like it! Well, I may be breaking house rules, but technically I’m going ‘nowhere.’ I walked into the portal, and found myself in the same final boss area of Kingdom Hearts two, the FINAL boss battle against Xemnas. “Well… this place looks weird.” I could have some real fun here If I still had a body. Well, time to put my theory to the test. I managed to summon a Soldier Heartless… and things went to hell fast. Countless Dusk Nobodies appeared. Oh fuck this! I disbanded the Heartless and ran back through the portal. When I got out, it closed. Well, that answers that. So they just want a heart, they don’t care if it’s theirs or not. Animals! They barely have enough function to attack, and move. When a heart is near they go crazy. “Well, we still learned something. If I cast it as a spell, Discord’s magic will cast… seemingly anything.” Hello, spirit of chaos, remember… er, former spirit of chaos, but still. “Then we might have a trump card against Core. Finally, we have something he doesn’t.” A reality bending crazy Keyblade? “Exactly.”