As I wake up the next morning, I notice that Rose is laying on my chest. This was one thing I had to get used to: having Rose sleep in my bedroom. “Morning', Sleeping Beauty,” I say to her as she yawns, licking her muzzle.
“Good morning, Jakub,” she says as she jumps off the bed and lands on the ground. “So what are we doing today, Jakub?” She asked.
“Well, I was planning to go and help Fluttershy at the animal shelter,” I answer while getting out of bed, still wearing my wolf t-shirt. As I get up from my bed, I noticed that Rose really wants to come with me to the shelter, because she’s giving me the puppy dog eyes. God, I forget that she’s so cute when she does this.
From what I heard from vice-principal Luna, today was going to be nice so I know what to wear for the trip to the shelter. As I go to my wardrobe, I roll up my blinds so the sun shines down to my room. I start to check what t-shirt should I wear for today, because let’s face it, I like to change my outfit every week, so today I plan on wearing my Reshiram t-shirt, which I had ordered from Rarity two weeks ago and camo trousers, as well as my diamond dust keyblade jacket and an exact replica of Sonic’s shoes from the riders series, which I love.
As I finish changing my clothes, I go to my desk and open my drawer that had all my keyblade keychains in it. At this point I should choose wisely because who knows what might happen. In the end I chose two, Two Become One and Diamond Dust.
As I leave my bedroom, I put a note in the kitchen telling Luna that I went to help Fluttershy at the animal shelter and that Rose is coming with me, plus I was getting a bit hungry, so I’m probably going to stop by Sugarcube Corner to get something to eat and drink. Usually Rose stays at home most of the time when I go somewhere, but she does have a collar which I personally made which has a white rose pattern. The times she actually goes somewhere with me and Celestia or Luna is to the vet, which she doesn’t like because she’s afraid of needles. I start laughing when I remember her first visit to the vet and she was terrified of the needle, but that was when she wasn’t used to her new body, now she asks me to be there with her when she’s getting a check up.
As I turn to the garage door, I remember that the car I own is at Flash’s garage where he promised that he’ll fix it, because he accidentally broke the brakes when me and him were getting it out of the junkyard. It was about to get crushed, so I asked the junkyard owner if I could take it, and he said that I can, and showed me that it was functional, but needed to have some parts changed and a new coat of paint on it. I hope he fixes it before the Fall Formal, because I want to show off the car to the other students, so the only other option for me to get to Sugar Cube Corner is on the identical replica of Roxas’s skateboard.
As me and Rose go out of the house, Rose stops dead in her tracks.
“This is the first time I’m actually going somewhere with you, Jakub, somewhere other than the vet,” Rose said. “I’m scared of what others will think of you, Jakub, because I’m a wolf,” She’s on the verge of crying, so I do the only thing sensible.
“No, I don’t care what people will think of me just because you’re a wolf, Rose. I’m happy that you’re a wolf because you helped me get through tough times when I was younger, remember?” I say to her and she looks up to me with eyes that are asking for a hug. “Yes, I remember Jakub. Thank you,” she finally says and I pull her in for a hug.
After two minutes of hugging we head over to Sugar Cube Corner, which is open; I see that both Mr. and Mrs. Cake are behind the counter. I don’t see Pinkie Pie anywhere, so she might still be asleep at home or in the kitchen.
“Good morning, Mr. and Mrs. Cake,” I say as I approach the counter.
“Ah! Good morning, Jakub. How are you?” Mr. Cake says.
“I’m good, Mr. Cake,” I replied.
“So what can I get you today, Jakub?” Mr. Cake asked me.
“The usual, Mr. Cake. And tea” I replied.
“Ok that’ll be $5.50, Jakub,” Mr. Cake said back to me as I hand him the money.
A minute later he comes back with a roll and a cup of tea for me.
As I head to my usual spot in Sugar Cube Corner, I notice that Rainbow Dash is sitting there. As I walk up to the spot, she finally notices me and gives me a look that means she needs my help with something, plus we do have this week off because Trixie thought it was funny, had literally set off the mother of all stink bombs in the school, but sadly for her, she has to clean up the school.
“Hi, Rainbow” I say as I sit on a chair.
“Hi Jakub, how are you doing?” she replies to me.
“Not bad, how about you?” I say back to her.
“Same as ever; so who’s the dog?” she replies.
“Wolf, Rainbow. And her name is Rose,” I say back.
“A wolf, are you crazy!!!!” she almost yells at me.
“She was with me for six years, Rainbow, and she is quite nice once you get to know where she likes to get rubbed,” I say as I start running my fingers in between her wings, which are invisible because of a spell Mickey put on her, so people won’t freak out that a wolf has wings.
As I was about to leave, I hear a wolf howl, which I knew was my phone. As I take out my phone, I notice that Vinyl has finished turning some of the songs I sent her into Nightcore. Why does she do this It's probably because I’m probably the only one that she actually talks to, plus she sometimes uses sign language if there’s a crowd. As I check which song she turned into nightcore, I noticed that she also put Megalovania from Undertale in dubstep. I start to remember playing Undertale with her and she must have loved Megalovania when we were doing the genocide run. As I check the nightcore songs I automatically put my headphones on my neck and turn “La Da Dee” on, and start heading to the animal shelter with my skateboard in my left hand.
As I come closer to the shelter, I notice that Fluttershy is outside, and that she has dog leashes, so I think I understand what she meant by needing help. Also, I notice that there aren’t any dogs to be seen, so they must have ran off somewhere.
“Hi, Fluttershy. I see-“ before I could finish the sentence, I hear Fluttershy squeak and she runs straight towards Rose and starts hugging her as if she was a plushie. As Fluttershy is cuddling Rose, I take the leashes from her hand and start looking for the dogs.
They weren’t that hard to find, because I was covered in Rose’s scent; they started coming to me after five minutes of skating around the shelter. As I return to Fluttershy, I notice she’s still hugging Rose, who is asleep.
“Eh, Fluttershy, I got the dogs back. Can you stop cuddling Rose for me, if you can?” I say to her as she finally looked up to me with a smile,
“Oh, sorry, Jakub, I just saw your pet and I couldn’t keep myself from hugging her,” she tells me. “It’s fine Fluttershy I think you would like to know why my pet is a wolf, yes?” I ask her and she nods,
“Well Rose has been with me for the past six years since I left my home, and I met her when walking through a forest,” I tell her. This of course, is a lie, because I don’t think she’ll believe me if I said she was from another world. But before she could ask anything else I notice a blue puddle coming straight towards me, Rose and Fluttershy.
As the blob comes close enough to see us, it transforms into something that I wouldn’t think would still exist.
An Unversed. To be more accurate it was a Flood Unversed.
Mickey told me about the Unversed when I was learning about the different types of enemies. Apparently they’re made out of negative emotions or energy; I can’t remember which, but he did mention that three Keyblade wielders named Terra, Aqua and Ventus (who preferred to be called Ven) fought the Unversed, but what he said next shocked me. He said that the maker of the Unversed, Vanitas, was made when Ventus’s heart was divided into two separate entities: Ventus and Vanitas.
He also said that Ven struck down Vanitas sacrificing his own heart. But how can the Unversed be here if Vanitas is dead. Unless he somehow came back.
I can’t let them close to Fluttershy, or Rainbow will kill me. As I look at Fluttershy, I notice she’s scared, and I know that I have to use my Keyblades to fight the Unversed. So I give her a look that says “I got this”, and reach out to my right pocket and take out the keychains for Two Become One and Diamond Dust. I place Diamond Dust’s keychain in my left hand and Two Become One in the other hand and raise both hands in the air, and as the first two Floods come close enough for them to attack, I swing both hands down as both Two Become One and Diamond Dust materialise in my hands and hit the Flood, making them disappear.
“Come and get some!” I shout to the groups of Floods coming our way. “Fluttershy, take the dogs and Rose to the shelter, I’ll take care of this and stay there. I’m not letting you get hurt, ok?” I ask her and she nods in reply. As she runs to the shelter with Rose and the dogs.
I can finally take care of the Unversed.
As I get into my fighting stance, which is similar to the Valor drive form stance, I put on Sinister Sundown to make the atmosphere of this fight more battle-worthy.
The fight itself isn’t that hard, because if I heard correctly from Mickey, the Flood unversed act like Shadows and Dusks, then water magic should deal a lot of damage to them and stop them from going underground.
“Guess I have to get a bit wet,” I say as I cast a Waterza spell which not only make the Unversed come from the ground, but also make most of them vanish.
As the fight goes on the Unversed start to vanish as if they’re scared of me or they’re needed someplace else, but as I turn to head to the shelter I spot him.
“So, a Keyblade wielder in a different universe than my own world, still it’s surprising that you bare the Keyblade, but I should warn you, kid, get in my way, and you’ll pay with your life” Vanitas said as he vanishes.
Walking up to the spot Vanitas stood, I notice a keychain lying on the ground. The keychain itself looks like a heart, but has only two thirds of the heart filled and two wings on it: one going up the other down. As I inspect the keychain light starts to cover the keychain and in its place was a Keyblade that I only saw when playing Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep.
“What’s Lost Memory doing here, shouldn’t it be with Ventus?“ I say to myself. There’s no doubt about this Keyblade, it’s Lost Memory. As it returns to it’s keychain form I place it in my pocket so no one can take it. I start heading to my actual destination which is the animal shelter, still thinking about how did Lost Memory get here in the first place.
Opening the door, I knew that I had to tell Fluttershy everything about what happened today and ask her to keep it a secret.
After finishing telling Fluttershy about what she saw, she promised me that she won’t say anything to anyone else, plus she is still keeping my secret identity safe as well. I have to head home because I don’t want Luna to be mad at me for being late.
As me and Rose come home I noticed that Celestia’s car is parked in the driveway. She left on Friday to check up on my cousin Nyx who was in the hospital. Nyx is also Equestrian because in her mind lies Nightmare Moon, but to some extent. Moonie, as Nyx calls her, that told me that she was trying to recreate her body, but failed and was sent to the human world with the soul of a little eight year old girl by accident, and after spending two years with me, Nightmare finally understands friendship and love as well as being in a family. Nyx was quite young to die in her old world, but from what Moonie told me, Nyx was an orphan living on the streets. I promised Nyx when I first met her that I’ll protect her no matter what happens, but I couldn’t keep that promise because two weeks ago she had an accident and I wasn’t there to protect her.
From what Celestia told me, that day Nyx had her accident she was hit by a car, but luckily didn’t take serious damage only a few deep cuts, but in turn caused her to go into a coma which is why she was in the hospital. The driver of the car had to pay for the hospital bills, and had his driver's license taken. I didn’t visit her because I never had time, and was afraid that she’ll hate me for not being there.
As I open the door, I start hearing Nyx’s voice talking about how happy she’s going be to see me again. So I do the only thing possible, which is to enter the room and go over to Nyx. She doesn’t even hear the door open or me walking behind her, because she’s talking very loudly to Luna about school tomorrow, and just at that moment I say “booo” and Nyx jumps straight into Luna’s outstretched arms clinging tightly around her neck. “Jakub!!!” Nyx screamed as she stopped clinging to Luna and runs towards me with arms outstretched to embrace a hug from me as I crouch so she doesn’t hug my legs.
While Nyx asked me questions on what she missed in school, I just told her that she doesn’t need to worry about school for now, because she just got out of the hospital and that school will be next week. Nyx asks me, can she sleep in my bedroom, and of course I allow it, meaning Rose will be sleeping on the floor.
As Nyx and Rose fall asleep, I take out a picture of a little girl I met when visiting another world when I was only fourteen. I kept this picture away from Nyx because she would want to meet this girl.
“I hope you’re doing okay, Maeve” I say to the picture as I go to bed. I take one last look on the picture.
The picture shows a young snow leopard in a black dress and blue shirt looking out of a doorway, with silver hair and light blue eyes. This was the only picture I have of Maeve, but this was taken by accident, because the camera on my phone has a unique camera feature that takes pictures of people even if the camera isn’t facing them. This was probably the only work Ignis helped me make before I left Lucis.
Maeve was quite nice when I met her and her mother.
I better get some sleep because tomorrow I plan on taking Nyx and Rose to the park.
As I’m about to fall asleep I notice a shooting star so I make a wish “I wish I could see Maeve again,” I say as the star disappears and immediately after that, I fall fast asleep.