To say my time with Zeke was good would be a understatement. He gave me more strength, showed me his family, and let me see how powerful I can become. But the best thing he had done for me...was helping me get my sister back. After seeing Zeke and Unum off Twilight and I decide to call it in and just spend the rest of the day together.
We started by going home and making breakfast for Twilight. Apparently, with Twi being used to me making most of the meals she forgot to eat. Some pancakes later we started talking. I told her about what I saw on Zeke’s world, even about meeting the anthro version of her. To say she was inspired was to say that Discord only likes chaos. She even had a notepad out to record what I said. When I finished my story I gave her a hug. “Don’t focus too much on it Sis, you’re drive yourself insane trying to get it all done.”
“Heh, like you're one to talk. You probably held back from asking a million questions.” She responded, hugging me back. “So, are you going to train some more?”
“Naw, I thought I’d use today to relax. Overworking is just as bad as being lazy.” I say, breaking the hug and ruffling her mane.
“No it's not….”
“....You’ve been in the lab again haven’t you.”
“Yes…..”
“Tried to figure out Pinkie?”
“......Yeah.”
“I naped the whole time?”
“I was so bucken pissed.”
I sighed. “Well, I’m going to ask Spike to send Luna a letter.”
“Oh right! You have to send a report about how you are doing in your studies!”
“Nope!”
“....No?”
“Nope. I don’t need to send reports to Luna at all. I’m sending a letter to her to ask if she has any free time later tonight.”
“Why?” Twilight asked as I turned my back to her and walked in the direction of Spike’s room
“Simple. I’m going to ask her out on a date.”
“Oh okay.” She said before it clicked on what I had said. “You’re going to do what?!”
After calming Twilight down (Thank you conveniently placed Starswirl book) and having Spike send the letter, I decided to hit the hay. After all, Luna is nocturnal. It would be rude to end our date early because I fell asleep. Anyways I fell asleep until about five pm when I got up again. The letter Spike left at my desk said that she’d be down in ponyville at around 9 so that left me four hours to kill….and plan for the date because I realised one flaw in my mad plan. It was a simple problem really.
I didn’t have anything planed.
I wish I could say I didn’t start to have a panic attack, but Twilight and I have a few traits we share as twins. Panic attacks are one of them. I quickly started to pace and run my hooves through my mane. I didn’t even notice how long I was panicking until Twilight told Spike to go to bed. That means it’s already eight damn it! I quickly started to think. Would she like night clubs? Maybe just a moonlit stroll? What the hell am I going to do?!
Suddenly there was a knock on the door and my blood ran cold. I went down stairs and opened the door to see Luna standing there.
“Greeting.” She said… Holy fuck she was so dolled up!
Nerves...I hate you. “H-hey Luna. you ready for tonight?” I said with a small, quiet gulp.
“Yes, I am. And I can tell you are as well. Do I smell cologne?”
“Heheh, Yeah… Too much?” I asked. Even on Earth I never got a date. It was always something about me girls hated. So this is really my first date, cut me some slack!
She got in real close to my face, took what was a purposefully long sniff, and smiled. “Just right.” She whispered seductively.
“Heheh. You look beautiful tonight Luna. Did you doll up especially for me?” I asked.
“Sister helped. This is my first date in… ever, so I didn’t know how to dress.”
“Heh, this is my first date ever, so you have more experience than me in this.” I admitted.
“Least you don’t act like the nobles, so, where to?”
Think Eclipse, THINK DAMNIT! “Uh...How about we go out for dinner? I know of a place I’d think you like. After, would you like to walk around town, enjoy your night?”
“I would love that. Lead the way, parum pudici~”
“Parum pudici? What does that mean Mistress Luna?”
“I’ll tell you later, and please, no mistress. This is a date.”
“Heh, yeah, I guess I can do that~” I say, offering my hoof
She took it and we walked off. I barely caught Twilight pulling out a blank note book. What is she writing? We walked to the restaurant, and to say the staff and ponies there were shocked would be an understatement. From the second we entered it was five star treatment… where did the red carpet come from though? “So, what is this place?” Luna asked.
“Well, it’s the only non-bakery or fast food joint in town. Luna, Welcome to the place I eat once in a blue moon….Blue Moon…..yea that was bad.” I said, facehoofing.
She chuckled. “Bad puns you laugh at regardless aside, I took your advice and played some video games.”
Finally, a topic I can talk about and know what the buck I’m saying! “You have? Do you enjoy them?”
“Yes, they are really exciting. So far I’m enjoying Sandbox and RPG games, which do you like?”
“RPGs are my personal favorite. The act of putting yourself in the hooves of a random pony going through that kind of adventure is amazing.”
“I agree. I have to have a staff member buy them for me though, you can imagine that if I walked into a game store how press would go wild. I got a few portable consoles, stationary ones, and such. Though, I am really enjoying these two games I think are connected? The main character in one looked very much like a character in the other.”
“Really? What games?” I said
“Birth By Sleep, and 358/2 Days. I haven’t gotten far in the first one, but I’m close to finishing the other one.”
Oh crap. What the hell are Kingdom Hearts games doing in this reflection?! Thankfully I have a good poker face when I want, but Zeke and the others need to know this. “I like those two, and they are connected, but in order to understand it completely, you need to play every game, and I mean every single one. But of the two you have? I really like 358/2.”
“Oh, so it is a series of games then. That makes some sense. So far I am worried about the Xion character, for an E rated game it’s rather dark. I like them though because somepony made a game about Keyblades, Celestia and I can relate to that, and I feel you can too.”
“Heh, Yea. And the rating is because of the other games really. Those two are the darkest of the series, but the entire series is dark if you pay attention.”
“I could tell. I’m still rather lost, but I suppose I’ll have to find and play the others. I’m real close to beating 358/2 Days, I just ran away from the Organization.”
“Oh...that is rather late into the game.” I said, slightly afraid. That means she is close to seeing Roxas with both Oblivion and Oathkeeper. This is bad.
“One thing that kept coming up in both was a character named Sora, how does he fit in all of this?”
“Well...He is the main protagonist. He was the main character for a good chunk of the games. Beyond that, I can’t say much else without spoiling it. And trust me, you don't want that.” Shit shit shit shit!
“If you insist. Still, I never heard of the company that made it, nor are there anything online about it. That makes finding out all the secret stuff I think it has hard to find… though, something did catch me as odd.”
“What was odd?”
“You use these… panels to change what your Keyblade looks like and it’s power, right?”
“Oh that system…..You see, 358/2 Days has a different system than the others. The panels are not in any other game, thank god for small favors.”
“Ah, well I placed one on…. And it looked so much like Twilight’s Keyblade. I’m sure I was just seeing things, but they did look a lot alike.”
Fuck...I forgot about that. Time for some Keyblade lore I’m surprised she doesn’t know. “Well, that can actually be explained. I don’t know how whoever made the game knew about the Keyblades, But you notice how on the end of every Keyblade is a keychain?”
“Yes, my parents explained that to sister and I.”
“Well then, it can be explained that Roxas found the keychain to Twilight’s Keyblade.”
“But how does a game relate to real life?”
Sigh. I promised no more lies. Now is the time to hold true to that. “Well...You see Luna…. You know how I had a Nightmare a few days ago about telling something to Twilight?” I said, looking at the menu so to not make eye contact.
She was blushing. “Ummm. No… I was up all night playing the game…”
It is my turn to chuckle “Hehe, anyways, I did...and she found out the secret yesterday. Now...I don’t want to have a relationship with you where I’m constantly holding secrets with you. Please...don’t flip when I drop the knowledge bomb.”
“You tell me your secrets, I’ll tell mine. Deal?”
I smile “Deal. I’ll start with one, and we’ll take turns.” The waiter came and we ordered our food before we continued. “Well, to start, I wasn’t always a pony. I used to live on a world called earth that fell thanks to everyone being idiots. I was given a second chance and was reborn as a pony.”
“Huh, reincarnation with all your memories intact. Impressive. Well, my sister and I got our Keyblades from our parents. They left one day to fight in a war everypony with a Keyblade at the time was preparing for… they never came back.”
“Oh….I’m sorry.” I said, knowing what war she was talking about.
“Eclipse… I remember how their Keyblades looked like…”
“Really? What was unique about their Keyblades that was so memorable?”
“Like sister and mine’s, they were twins… you have them.”
[Tire screech. Crash!] “They wielded….Oblivion and Oathkeeper?”
“Mother had Oathkeeper, father had Oblivion. They say that if twin Keyblades chose separate wielders, ones that are not kin, then they are destined to be together. When they both chose the same wielder, then it’s because their heart can hold the weight of every world in battle.”
“That’s….wow…” I said “I certainly don’t feel like I can. I was freaking out about our date tonight.”
“That only proves your heart is caring, yet in battle you fear little so long as those you cherish are safe. Qualities both Oathkeeper and Oblivion search for.”
I smile at Luna...god the night complements her so well. ”Thanks Luna. So, next secret? The games you're playing originated from my world. They are actually named after the Heart of all worlds. Kingdom Hearts.”
“Oh… well that makes sense. Now for me… I, and sister doesn’t even know this, have two Keyblades.”
...wat. “Thats….heh, that's coincidental.”
“Well, When going through some of my parent’s things years after they were gone, I found a recipe to make a Keyblade called Ultima Weapon. I at first was surprised to see only a keychain came out, but when I placed it on a sword for decoration, it changed into a Keyblade.”
“Wait, You have Ultima Weapon? That Keyblade is one of the most powerful to exist, legendary keyblades aside.”
“It’s name my give off that impression, but I think that if you have to make it then that means there might be lots of it out there. If I found the recipe then how many others did?”
“Not as many as you’d think, but more than I thought.”
“Meh, so, your next secret?”
“Well, next secret is that those games...as far as I know they ether really happened or have yet to happen if my cousin Zeke has anything to say on the matter.”
“Oh, so they are a form of prophecy. A modern take as well. Well, for me, I’ve actually met another Keyblade wielder other than you before.”
“Really? What was their name?”
“Yes. It was long before my banishment. She was a strange mare, though I doubt she was actually a pony given the things you’ve told me, she was searching for friends and such. Never got her name.”
“Hmm. Well, it might be someone from the games, but you can't be sure really. My turn. On earth, the world apparently was really good at prophecies because there was a show that would play that told of the events of this world….mind you without the heartless and Keyblades but a version of this world none of the less.”
“Multiverse then. Interesting. Well, I don’t think I have anything else to tell off the top of my head? So, I’ll just ask you a question… was… what we did in the field that night… your first?”
I blushed so hard. God, you really hate me don’t you? “Yeah…..You are honestly my first relationship….”
“Same. Heh, that was my first time too.” We were both blushing as our food came.
I had a nice salad that was way to pricey for what it was made out of and Luna had pretty much the same. “So...Why did you ask?” I said after we ate a little.
“Well, given that you were reborn as a pony I figured you might have had sex before that happened.”
“Heh, most of the opposing gender, hell even the same gender, didn’t like me, even when I did nothing wrong.”
“Sounds like your old race was… rather selfish.”
“They were for the most part. You had the occasional gem, but most were stupid and selfish. Our world had a prophecy that our world was going to end, and everyone was so stirred up by it, they caused it to be a reality.”
“How did you escape it? Or be reborn as a pony?”
“Well….Our god had the prophecy as a test. Those who participated in the chaos or added to it stayed, the rest of us were given a way out. He asked us where we wanted to go, and granted us powers. He is the one who gave me my Keyblades, and when he asked for a world I wanted...I chose this one. I actually wasn’t expecting to be reborn, but he took my wording of ‘new life, new adventures’ litteral. Not that I’m complaining.”
“Heh, he must have had some sense of humor.”
“I’ll never live that down.” I didn’t even notice the grey maned, white fur elderly stallion next to our table.
“God?”
“In the flesh.” He replied.
“Wait, he is your god?” Luna asked, pointing a hoof at him.
“Well, he looked different last time I saw him.” I said shrugging before turning to god again “So, any reason you’re crashing my date?”
“Two, one is that you're getting really strong now Eclipse. Oathkeeper and Oblivion’s true power might be unlocked sooner than expected.”
“Wait...Their true power? What the buck do you mean?”
“You don’t think twin Keyblades exist for collection purposes, do you? Each set both are needed to unlock an amazing power shared by both. For Luna and her sister, it’s to tear holes though dimensions, for yours, it’s to both restore, or destroy life.”
“Hold on, I could in theory wipe out a planet, and turn around and heal it all over again? That doesn’t sound right.”
God whacked the back of my head. “Not like that dummy. When Oblivion’s true power becomes unlocked… it creates a hole, a hole that whatever falls in, or is sent there in any way, vanishes from existence, as well as all its reflections. Oathkeeper, can bring something out of that place, but just one of them. None of their past wielders have gotten close to that like you have recently.”
“First, why tell me this? Second, what was the second thing you wanted to tell me? And Third, again, why now, during my lovely date?”
“First; because you can unlock it and gain an advantage over Core. Second; it involves who you must bring out of Void. and third… is because Core is no longer going to hold back.”
“....Great. I have yet to beat any threat other than Nightmare moon, and even then that was Luna, and that was while on training wheels.” I sigh, holding my head. “Who do I have to bring out when I finally unlock this power?”
“You’ve already met her.”
I looked down at the green wayfinder that I now keep with me. “It’s the original Unum isn’t it.”
God nodded. “His wife was killed in a time where death by heartless was being sent to a place known as Void. The place where everything, even nothingness will go when they die, and it is where everything was first born from. After the world broke apart during Core’s war against the X-blade’s second wielder, he searched the newly made reflections, all of them til he found one that somehow existed. That is the Unum you know, but the Unum Core cares for was different in many ways.”
“Makes sense. That's how Multiverses work. There can be nearly everything the exact same, but there is always one detail that is different.”
“Exactly.”
“So, no pressure. I have to somehow take a mark of mastery, Unlock the true power of my keyblades, and bring someone who’s been dead of eions back to calm down big bad. And you couldn't have waited until after my date….I really have to learn that I don’t get a true break.”
“Relax, Core is still planning his moves, so there is time for rest, but it’s best you tell that Justin what I told you, and have him inform Zeke. I know that kid is planning something and I think it could work, but it will be risky.”
“Whatever it is, he’ll have my support. So, anything else, or can I get back to my date?” I said.
‘You can, but here’s a gift before I leave.” To my and Luna’s shock, he placed a rather large box of condoms on the table. “I know what you both were thinking.” WIth that, he vanished into thin air.
“......You know, for a god, he really is immature.”
“Yes… but, he wasn't wrong.” Luna said, making my jaw drop. “Wanna see how many we can go though after dinner?”
Now it was my turn to stutter….damn it I thought I broke that habit. “S-sure, Why-Why not?”
“Good, when dinner is done I shall teleport us to my bed chambers… I knew I had a waterbed put in for a reason~”
Oh my….god, one of these days I will hit you followed by giving you the biggest hug ever.