//------------------------------// // Chapter VIII: New Allies and New Visit Awaits // Story: KINGDOM HEARTS: Dark Order // by OliverSparkle //------------------------------// Back at the Crystal Empire, everycreature and the guardians were still in the room trying to figure what was going on and what was Vanitas and Cozy Glow on about earlier. Oliver was pacing back and forth, with Flurry Heart on his back, trying to figure out what was on the card Vanitas gave to Lightning while the others were trying to figure out what truth the two villains meant. As for the children, Lightning was still scared after Vanitas tempered the darkness that was somehow in his heart for a very long time as he was in Silverstream’s left talon arm with his head resting on her soft fur chest and Smolder gently stroking his mane in comfort while the other four watched but can’t help but feel worried about the poor colt. After a few more seconds, Oliver stopped pacing and let out an annoyed sigh. “It’s no good,” he said before levitated the card in front of him with his magic, “I still can’t figure out what this card means or what it’s suppose to do, and most importantly, why did Vanitas and Cozy Glow give it to Lightning like they actually want him to enter their hideout.” “It’s probably a trick they’re trying to play on us in order for us to make a mistake,” said Terra. “Do they often do that to you guys?” Sunset asked. “Yeah,” answered Sora, “They try to fill your heads up with lies that can lead you into making a mistake and, possibly, send you to the side of darkness.” “And that only happen to us a couple of times,” Riku added since both him and Terra had their heads filled with lies that made them go to the side of darkness. “But we know not to believe any of their lies after everything we’ve been through together,” said Axel proudly. “Although,” Aqua wondered, “What if this isn’t another one of those tricks? Maybe Vanitas was right about a truth yet to be discovered.” “You’re gonna believe what Vanitas and Cozy Glow just said before they disappeared?” Asked Donald in annoyance, “You’re just as bad as Sora when Vanitas told him that Ven was inside his heart.” “Hey!” Sora said crossly at Donald, “At least it was true what he said after Aqua reopened up the Land of Departure!” “Even after all the other lies and tricks the other Seekers said to you while you were still giving your power back! That makes you even more dumb as ever!” “Don’t talk to Sora like that, you mean duck!” Lightning said crossly. Donald was not at all happy after being called by that. “Mean duck?! Why you little scaredy pony!” “Don’t talk to my special somepony like that!” Said Smolder angrily. “Oh yeah?! What are you going to do?! Burn me to a crisp?!” That’s when Smolder quickly went up to Donald’s face making him more scared than he was before as the orange dragon glared at him while saying, “You dare me to do that?” Donald shivered before answering, “Uh...M-Maybe, later?” “Enough already!” Shouted the voice of Roxas. Everyone turned and saw that Roxas had a very angry look on his face. He was getting sick and tired of the arguing, name calling and threats that was going on right now in the room. “Can’t we just focus on saving both our world and Equestria from the darkness that Vanitas and Cozy Glow will be unleashing instead of just arguing, calling names and threatening each other?! Because that’s all I’m hearing right now and it’s driving me insane! Just stop it and just focus on figuring out what’s going on here!” Axel quickly hugged his friend in comfort and trying to calm him down a bit while saying, “It’s okay, Roxas. It’s alright, don’t let the anger get to you. Just let it all out.” “Is he going to be okay?” Rainbow asked worriedly. Axel continued to hug Roxas while looking at Rainbow and said, “Yeah, don’t worry. He’s just not use to being angry after everything he went through before having a whole body of his own.” Rainbow nodded in understood as Axel broke the hug now that Roxas has calmed down. Donald now felt guilty after happened and grew a sad and guilt look on his face. “Yeah, you’re right, Roxas. I’m sorry, Sora, Lightning and Smolder.” “I know I let some of the Seekers’s words get to me a lot and sometimes, Donald,” Sora began to explain, “But that’s just how things go with us guardians. And besides, we never know if they are lying or not.” “And if we do find out they’re telling us something,” added Goofy, “There gives us the chance to find a way to stop them as they suddenly realise they shouldn’t open their big mouths.” Donald’s smile grew back on his face as he let out a laughter after hearing what Goofy just said, “That is very true.” “That’s a new friendship lesson we’ve now learned,” said a new male voice that only the heroes of Equestria recognise. They all turned towards the throne room doors and the heroes of Equestria, except for Constantine and Vincent, gasped in shock as to who they saw at the doors. Standing in front of the opened doorway was none other than Dragon Lord Ember and King Thorax the Good Changeling with happy smiles on their faces and Ember’s arms crossed. “Thorax! Ember! You’re in the Crystal Empire!” Said Spike in both shock and happily. “Yep,” Thorax replied, “And first time being here for Ember and me in my new designed body. Hi Twilight, hi Starlight, hi Ocellus.” “Hi Smolder, hi Lightning,” said Ember while waving to the two lovebirds. Twilight, Starlight, Ocellus, Smolder and Lightning, still in Silverstream’s talon arm, all waved at Ember and Thorax while smiling happily at them. Thorax then saw Lightning being held by Silverstream and smiled at him. “Hello. Don’t think we’ve met.” Thorax reached his hoof out to the hoof, to shake hooves with him, while saying, “Thorax, king of the changelings.” Lightning placed his hoof in the Changeling king’s hoof and the two shook hooves. “I’m Lightning Twister. It’s nice to meet you, Thorax. Ocellus has told me so much about you.” “Has she now?” Thorax smiles happily at the young colt, “Because she’s told me so much about you too. And it seems she was right, you really are adorable.” That made Lightning blush. Just then, Ember saw Sora as a big happy smile appeared her face. “Sora! You’re back!” “Hi Ember,” said Sora happily, “It's so good to see you again.” Ember walked up to Sora and gave him a tight dragon friendship hug. Sora chuckled a bit before saying, “Wow, you really still enjoy giving hugs to your friends, don’t you?” “Like I said before,” the dragon lord said happily, “I got use to it.” After a few more seconds, Ember broke the hug as Thorax walked towards the two. “You must be Sora that Ember and Ocellus has told me about. I’m Thorax, king of the changelings.” “Nice to meet you, Thorax,” said Sora politely before reaching his hand out to him. Thorax placed his hoof in Sora’s hand and the two shook hooves and hands. After shaking hands and hooves with the Changeling king, Sunburst walked up towards the three and stood by Sora while politely asking, “How can we help you, Ember and Thorax? It’s not very often we see you two coming in during a threat like this.” “We’ve come to lend you a hoof and claw,” answered Thorax, “We’ve heard that the Crystal Empire was in danger of a new threat that nocreature has fought before and we refuse to let you lot deal with this alone. We believe that dragons and changelings can be at use of help for this one.” Twilight placed a hoof on her chin and began to think. It would nice for Ember and Thorax to lend them a hoof and claw to help them stop Vanitas, Cozy Glow and their unversed, and they do need a lot of help for this one. “Hmmm...” She said before smiling at the two while putting her hoof back on the ground, “That would be most kind of you two. We could do with some more help for dealing with this new threat, so we accept your help. Do you think you could train the dragons and changelings in case we go into battle with Vanitas and Cozy Glow?” “We’re the rulers of our species,” answered Ember proudly, “Getting dragons and changelings ready in case for battles is what we can do for our friends, yes.” “That’s great,” Shining said happily, “Because we could use some royal dragon and Changeling guards to help get rid of the unversed. There’s just too many for us to handle with just our royal guards.” “But we still more info on what Vanitas meant by “discover the truth” before both him and Cozy Glow disappeared,” said Amore, “Is there anycreature that can help us?” Cadence sadly shook her head to the ex-ruler of the Crystal Empire. “I’m afraid not, Amore. With nocreature else to help or knowing any other attacks those two did, we’re stuck.” Just then, everyone heard a strange buzzing coming from somewhere in the room, and a weird ringtone that Equestria has never heard before. Sora quickly know what it was and reached into his pocket to take his Gummi Phone. Rainbow Dash was the first one to be curious about the strange object in Sora’s hand. “What is that, Sora?” “Oh it’s my Gummi Phone,” answered Sora. “Gummi Phone?” Pinkie asked in confusion while raising an eyebrow, “What’s that?” “It’s kind of like how you lot send letters to each other, but less paper to write,” explained Sora, “But on the Gummi Phone, you play games, take photos and even do calls so you don’t have to send letters and wait for their reply. Speaking of calls, I better take this.” Sora gently pushed the answer button on the Gummi Phone, and a video call appeared on the screen revealing an adult who dons a purple ascot as well as a pair of knee-high silver-trimmed boots. His steel-blue hair is long and is parted in a messier style. He also wears a white dress shirt and a grey sweater-vest under his coat. It was Ienzo, one of the apprentices of Ansem The Wise, but he was also known as Zexion from the old Organization XIII. “Oh, hey Ienzo,” said Sora politely and happily. “Hey Sora,” replied Ienzo on the video call, “I hope I didn’t call at a bad time.” “Oh, no, of course not. You called us at the right time.” “Great,” said Ienzo happily, “Because there’s something important that we need to tell you. But first, are you and the others at Equestria right now?” “Uh, yes, we are,” he answered now feeling worried about the question, “Why? Has something happened in the lab?” “I’m afraid something did happen in the lab,” Ienzo answered, “Someone or, someTHING, broke in and stole some of the dangerous experiment pieces that we’ve ever discovered.” “And we think it could have something with the unversed attacking in two different worlds,” said another apprentice that just moved onto the screen. This apprentice wears a long white lab coat, grey vest, white collared shirt, and a purple ascot. He also seems to wear black pants and silver lined boots. He has platinum blond hair worn long with two slightly shorter (but still long) bangs that frame his face. He also has rather large, bright green eyes. It was Even, also known as Vexen from the old Organization XIII and one of the backups for the real Organization XIII. Sora got confuse when Even appeared on the screen as he has never seen him before. “Huh?” Even quickly realise that both him and Sora haven’t really met each other yet after being a Nobody and secretly pretending to help Xehanort complete his Thirteen Darknesses. Plus Sora wouldn’t have remembered him as Vexen since he forgot about Castle Oblivion a long time ago. “Oh, sorry. I totally forgot we’ve haven’t really met yet. I’m Even. Ienzo probably told you I was known as Vexen.” After hearing the name “Vexen”, Sora suddenly remember about Ienzo telling him that Even went missing after waking up and told him he was known as Vexen during the old Organization XIII. “Oh yeah. You’re the one who gave Roxas the vessel. Thanks so much for doing that!” “No problem!” Even said happily, “Glad I was able to help.” Ienzo smiled at Even for a few seconds turning back to his Gummi Phone and said, “Anyways, Sora, the break in happened a few minutes ago just after you arrived at Equestria. We’ve manage to caught a small look on who broke into the lab just as we’ve entered, and it was something that could be from Equestria and has somehow ended up in our world. Is anyone from Equestria with you right now?” Sora nodded his head before answering, “Yeah, I’m with my friends that I’ve met when I first entered Equestria. Do you need a word with one of them?” “Yes I do if that’s alright,” Ienzo answered politely. That’s when Oliver volunteered to do the talking with this Ienzo guy. “He can have a word with me, Sora.” Sora gave the future prince a nod as Oliver walked towards him, with Flurry Heart on his back, and looked at screen on Sora’s Gummi Phone. “Hi there,” said Ienzo kindly, “Are you one of Sora’s friends from Equestria?” Oliver nodded his head before politely answering, “Yes I am. My name’s Oliver Sparkle.” Flurry Heart started to climb into Oliver’s head so she can see the screen too. “And that’s Flurry Heart, my little sister. She said hi to you.” Flurry Heart gave Ienzo a wave with her tiny hoof while giggling. Ienzo let out a giggle of his own before saying, “It’s nice to meet you too, Flurry Heart. Anyways, Oliver, I’m Ienzo.” “And I’m Even.” “We’re the two apprentices of Ansem the Wise,” Ienzo began to explain, “But Sora probably didn’t tell you that we’re also under control of Xehanort when we got turned into Nobodies, meaning that we were helping his Nobody, Xemnas, complete what Xehanort wanted him to do.” “Huh? Xehanort?” Oliver got confuse by this, but then suddenly remembered fightining a young version of Xehanort when Sora was in Equestria two years back, “Wait, you use to serve the darkness and both versions of Xehanort?!” Flurry Heart let out a gasp of shock. “Oh don’t worry, we’re not with them or Xemnas anymore,” Ienzo quickly said as Flurry Heart then let out a sigh of relief. “Thanks to Sora and Riku, they were able to defeat our Nobodies therefore re-completing us. We are now back to the students of Ansem the Wise.” Ocellus walked up to the future prince. “Do you think we should trust them even after what he just said?” Oliver began to think about it. “Hmmm...Well, Sora told me that Axel, Roxas and Xion were once part of the Organization while Riku and Terra serve the darkness when he entered Equestria two moons back. But look, now they’re good guys again, and Roxas and Xion have a body of their own.” “Plus we’ve been through what Sora has gone through with villains,” added Twilight, “Sunset Shimmer, Starlight Glimmer and Tempest Shadow were once a threat and had a reason for being evil. But after defeating them, they were shown by the true meaning of friendship and changed from bad to good.” “And now that I think about it, Neighsay’s on our side now,” Spike said while flying next to Twilight. “So if we can trust Axel, Roxas, Xion, Riku and Terra, then we can trust Ienzo and Even as well,” said Oliver proudly. “Yeah!” Rainbow cheered happily while flying in mid air, “Well said, Captain Oliver Sparkle!” Oliver smiled at his friends, with John Constantine giving him a thumbs up while smiling, before he turned back to the screen on Sora’s Gummi Phone. “Glad we can gain your trust straight away,” said Ienzo happily, “Because we’ve heard that your world was under attack by unversed as well, and we wanna help. I quickly manage to catch photos of the intruders before they got away and translate them onto the computer.” Ienzo tapped the keyboard of the lab computer to upload the photos on screen, while holding his Gummi Phone, “And what we saw in photos is three intruders. One of them was a pony, the other two, are something we’ve never seen before.” “Interesting,” Oliver said in interest, “You think they could be from Equestria?” “Yes,” answered Ienzo politely while nodding his head, “The photos may be a bit blurry, but we manage to keep up a few hints that two of the intruders don’t look like they’re from our world but still be apart of darkness that now lurks in both our worlds.” Oliver got more interested after hearing that. “Most interesting indeed,” Oliver said while rubbing his chin. “The scents from the other two intruders had the same one as the one from our world,” Even said, “But also had something in the scent that we’ve never seen before. We figured that half of the scent could from your world.” “Yeah, could be,” said Oliver as he stopped rubbing his chin and looked back at the chin, “It could also help me figure what that other scent I suddenly picked up while looking after Flurry Heart. There were about four scents. Two of them were Vanitas and Cozy Glow, as we all know now. The third one was, my old mother, Chrysalis.” “Don’t be silly, darling, the evil queen’s gone,” Rarity interrupted, “There’s no way she could have returned from that place she, Tirek and Cozy Glow were banish to...” “Can you let him finish, Rarity?” Rainbow stopped her, “He has more information about the Chrysalis part.” “Yes, thank you, Rainbow,” said Oliver to the Wonderbolt before turning back to screen on the Gummi Phone, “Anyways, the scent belonged to not the real Chrysalis, but to an unversed double like Sora and his friends told us about. But I can’t say much about her now since the unversed double is no longer a problem to us now. Sora and his friends saw to that before arriving here in the castle.” “Interesting,” said Ienzo with concern and interest. “But the fourth scent, do you know who it belongs to?” Oliver slowly shook his head before answering, “I’m afraid not. But the scent, however, was very similar to one of the threats Aunt Twilight and the girls have faced before.” “And yet, they somehow manage return, did they?” Even asked earning a nod from the future prince. Even placed a hand on his chin before saying, “This truly is curious indeed.” “I agree,” said Ienzo who was now gently tapping on finger on the keyboard table. “But with the photos being blurry, we can’t be for sure if they are from your world or from a different world. Do you think you could come here at Radiant Garden and take a closer look at the photos?” Oliver smiled at Ienzo and nodded his head in response. “Sure I can. I’ll take Sora, Donald and Goofy with me since they know the unversed better than we do.” “Great,” Ienzo said happily, “We’ll be waiting for you to arrive. I’ll keep in touch.” With that said, Ienzo ended the call as Sora then putted his Gummi Phone away in his pocket. “You think it’s safe for Oliver to go to Sora’s world, Twilight?” Asked Applejack with concern and worried, “None of us have been to his world before, and we don’t know what might happen to him?” “It must be done,” answered the princess of friendship politely and happily, “Plus I trusted Sora ever since he first entered here, so I’m sure Oliver will be just fine in his world.” Kairi walked towards Sora and said, “I’ll come with you. You’ll never know when you might need an extra Keyblade in battle with the unversed.” “And me too,” added Aqua. Sora smiled at both Kairi and Aqua. “Sure. We could use some extra help since we’re going there with Oliver.” Just then, a royal guard came running into the throne room and towards the new captain. “Captain Sparkle,” He said while saluting to him, “One of the guards have seen some strange and evil darkness lurking about in the door below the castle.” This made everycreature, except for the guardians, go into shock. The door below the castle was a very dangerous place to go to. It was once filled of Sombra nightmares which makes you see your greatest fear. Nocreature has ever stood hoof into that room ever since Sombra was defeated and destroyed twice and they refuse to check it out, even if something’s wrong with it. “But but but, that’s impossible!” Amore said shockingly, “That door should have been a long time ago when Sombra was defeated and destroyed yet again and when I was finally freed from his darkness! What’s it doing back?!” “I honesty have no idea, Amore,” answered Oliver, “But unfortunately, I can’t check it out since I already planned to go visit Ansem the Wise.” “And you won’t have to worry about going there as well,” said the voice of Terra. Oliver turned and saw Terra walking towards him. “Because I’ll be going there to check it out for you.” Aqua and Ventus let out a small gasp of shock after hearing Terra say that as Ven then asked, “Are you sure, Terra? I mean, aren’t you afraid you might fall to darkness again if whatever’s behind that door, beneath the castle, makes you see your fears?” Terra looked at his friend. “Yeah, I am a bit, Ven. But after being controlled by Xehanort and unable to escape the darkness, I still wanna try to cast away my fear of falling into darkness again. Everyone needs to face their fears sometimes. And I don’t want anyone else to go through the same fate as I did once, especially my friends.” Aqua and Ventus smiled at Terra before hearing Starlight’s voice. “We’ll come with you. You don’t really know much about Equestria or what lurks within that door, do me and Sunset decided to tag along with you.” Sunset nodded her head just before she felt Celestia’s hoof grabbing her left hoof. “No! Sunset, you can’t!” She said in a scared tone. Sunset looked at the princess of the sun in a shock and confuse way. “Huh? But why?” “Because like Ven said to Terra, if your greatest fears get to you, you might fall to darkness and become who you were in the past before Twilight helped you see the road of friendship! And I can’t let that happen to you!” “Celestia, I’ll be okay,” Sunset said trying to get Celestia to stop worrying about her, “I’ve been through evil magic before when I was in the human world, I can do this.” “No! I already lost you once, I am not gonna lose you again!” “Enough, Celestia!” The moon princess said making Celestia look at her. “We know how much you care for Sunset ever since she went through that mirror, but you can’t keep trying to protect her from any dangerous threats and adventures like this forever. She’s a grown mare.” “She’s right, Celestia,” agreed Twilight, “And after helping her and the girls defeat the Dazzlings, also known as the Sirens, she was able to handle new threats on her own with her friends without even asking me to come to the human world to help.” “And didn't Starlight handled the Chrysalis threat all by herself without her magic or help from any of us even while we are all captured?” Asked Spike earning a nod from Twilight. “She sure did, Spike.” The princess of friendship then turned back to Celestia, “If Starlight can handle a dangerous without my help anymore, then I don’t see why Sunset Shimmer can’t do the same as well.” “But how can I know she will be safe through that horrible door?” The dramatic Celestia asked. “She’ll be fine, Princess Celestia,” answered Riku, “As long as Terra’s with them, she’ll be fine. Don’t just have faith for her safety, have faith in Terra.” Celestia looked at Riku, with a worried and scared look on her still, for a few seconds before hearing Sunset’s voice again. “Celestia, I can do this. I’m not just doing this to save Equestria, I’m doing it to save Lightning Twister.” While still looking at Sunset, Celestia started to see and release about the unicorn has changed ever she returned to Equestria. After a few more seconds, she let go of her hoof and said, “You’re right, Sunset. I know you can.” Celestia walked up to Terra and gently placed a hoof on his shoulder. “Please promise me you’ll keep her safe.” Terra gave the princess of the sun a friendly smile before gently removing her hoof from his shoulder while saying, “Don’t worry, Princess. I’ll make sure Sunset Shimmer is safe and bring her home safe and sound.” Celestia gave Terra a friendly and hopeful smile before Pinkie quickly rushed to Terra’s side. “Ooooohhhh!!” She said cheerfully, “It looks you've just made your first Pinkie Promise here in Equestria!” Terra got confuse by this. “Pinkie? Promise?” “Let’s just say that if you’re a friend of Pinkie’s and you make a promise, she calls it the Pinkie Promise,” explained Rainbow Dash, “And it does mean you have to keep that promise...” “FOORREEVVEERR!!” Shouted the hyper pink pony making Terra move back a bit while letting out a small scream. “Uhhh...Okay...” All Terra had to say. Rainbow flew up to him and quietly whispered into his ear, “Trust me, you do not wanna know what happens if you break a Pinkie Promise.” “I think I’ll trust you on that one,” whispered Terra. “Anyways,” began Starlight, “Shall we get going? The more we stay here, the more darkness that door powers up and gets ready to unleash it.” “Right,” agreed Sunset while Terra gave Starlight a nod. Sunburst walked up to his wife and gave her a kiss on the cheek before smiling at her. “Good luck, Starlight.” Starlight smiled at her husband and kissed him on the cheek back. “You too, Sunburst.” “Guard, take Terra, Sunset and Starlight to the room where secret underground room is,” ordered Oliver. “Yes, sir!” The guard saluted before walking out of the throne room with Terra, Sunset and Starlight following him towards the room where the secret underground room is. “Me and Ember better head back to our kingdoms and start training the dragons and changelings,” said Thorax with Ember nodding in agreement. “Take Roxas, Xion and Axel with you, Thorax,” suggest Twilight, “With the unversed invading, there’s no doubt they could be anywhere around Equestria attacking poor innocent creatures. And I can assume that there’s enough lava to stop them from attack the Dragon Lands, right?” “Sure can!” Answered the dragon lord while smirking, “With our lava around the Lands, those unversed creatures will be no match for us!” “And we’ll be more than happy to tag along with you, Thorax,” said Axel happily, “It’ll be fun helping you out in case the unversed show up while learning more about your species.” “Excellent!” Thorax said cheerfully. “Twilight, can I go with them as well? Please?” Spike placed his claws together and gave Twilight the puppy eyes. Twilight grinned at her number one assistant plus brother plus son before playfully rolled her eyes and said, “Go on then, you can go with them. Besides, you earned a trip to the Changeling Kingdom after helping us save Lightning from Cold Wind during the Grand Galloping Gala a few moons back.” Spike smiled with joy before flying towards his friend plus sister plus mother and hugged her as she hugged him back. “Thank you so much, Twilight! You’re the best!” “I try,” chuckled Twilight but they broke the hug, “Now, run along.” Spike flew towards Thorax, Roxas, Xion and Axel. “Ocellus, would you like to come along with us?” Thorax asked politely. “Sorry, Thorax,” answered Ocellus, “But I wanna stay here and help take care of Lightning Twister since Vanitas and Cozy Glow are still planning to do something with him.” “I understand,” replied Thorax before turning to the four, “Come, you lot, let’s get going. See you all!” Ember flew out of the throne room and towards the Dragon Lands just before Thorax, Spike, Roxas, Xion and Axel began to make their way out of the throne room and towards the Changeling Kingdom, even though it will be a long walk to the Kingdom, unless Spike knows a shortcut to it. “We better get going too, Ansem and the others will be waiting for us,” suggested Sora. “Right,” agreed Oliver while giving Sora a nod. Flurry Heart flew off her brother’s back and towards her mother as she placed her tiny hooves together and gave her the puppy eyes. She wanted to go to Radiant Garden with Oliver, Sora and the other four. Cadence gave her baby daughter a playful grin. “Flurry Heart, are you trying to tell me you wanna go see Ansem the Wise with Sora and your big brother?” Flurry Heart nodded her head to Cadence while still giving her the puppy eyes. This made Cadence giggle and decided to let her go with them since she can’t say no to the puppy eyes. “Alright, you can go with them. But you are to be a good filly and do what Oliver and Sora tell you, okay?” She said softly and playfully. The baby alicorn smiled happily and nodded her head in understood before flying back to Oliver and sat on his back. “Awww, do we have to take her with us?” Donald whined like a drama duck. “Come on, Donald,” said Kairi playfully, “Let Flurry Heart come with us. She really missed Sora after his first visit here in Equestria anyway.” She then began to gently tickle Flurry Heart’s belly making her laugh. Donald let out an annoyed sigh before saying, “Alright, fine. But I’m not changing diapers!” This made the five laugh at the duck wizard after what he just said. Just then, Sora saw Lightning looking at him with a scared and worried look on his face while still in Silverstream’s talon arm. “Please be careful, Sora,” Said the poor scared colt, “I don’t know what kind of darkness Vanitas tempered inside of me, but I’m still scared of what it might do to me.” The Keyblade wielder smiled at him before walking towards the hippogriff and bent down to make better eye contact with the colt. “Don’t worry,” he said with a friendly smile, “Whatever Vanitas unleashed inside of you, I’ll make it go away along with him and Cozy Glow.” Sora then took out the rubber crown chain from his pocket and showed it to him, “I swear it on this, the crown chain you’ve gave me.” After a few more seconds of looking at the chain, Lightning smiled at Sora as he smiled at him before placing the chain back in his pocket. “See ya.” Sora turned to Riku, Mickey and Ven before saying, “Riku, King Mickey, Ven, make sure everyone’s okay while we’re gone.” The three friends gave him a nod in understood as he then looked at the Young Six. “Guys, look after Lightning.” The six friends gave him a nod in understood as well. Sora turned to look at his other Equestria friends and said, “We’ll be back as soon as we can.” “Good luck, my dear friends,” said Celestia, “And do be careful out there.” Sora just smiled at the sun princess. “Don’t worry, we got this!” With nothing else left to say, the five friends and two ponies made their way out of the throne room and headed towards the Gummi Ship.