The Changeling hive was once ruled by the evil Queen Chrysalis, until Thorax got his new form and began the new king of the changelings with all the other changelings having new forms as well and the hive got destroyed into a sort of green bushy half hive like with small green bushes and pink flowers making the place look more Changeling friendly.
Anyways, Spike and the three friends were at the hive helping out with the changelings getting ready for any unversed attacks and in case of a big fight with Vanitas, Cozy Glow and the unversed is at hoof.
Axel was at the throne part of the hive talking with Thorax and his brother Pharynx about something while Spike, Roxas and Xion were at the library part of the hive as the purple dragon told the two about how he and Thorax first met before he finish writing a letter to Twilight about how the changelings training was doing.
“And that’s when I sang a song to them on that a Changeling can even change like the other villains we faced before the legion of doom, and it worked,” said Spike as he was sitting on Xion’s lap and Roxas sitting next to her, “And even though Thorax was still a good Changeling before Chrysalis returned, they still believed he was indeed a good Changeling.”
“Oh Spike, you were so brave to continue believing Thorax was a good guy,” Xion said in amaze.
“Well, a dragon’s gonna do what a dragon’s gonna do. Especially since I’m growing up now that I have wings.”
“And you never know you can do it unless you try, even while growing up,” said Roxas.
“Now that I can memorise,” said the voice of Axel.
They looked forward and saw Axel walking towards them with a happy smile on his face.
“Hey Axel, how did it go?” Xion asked politely.
“It went alright,” answered Axel nicely, “Thorax said the changelings are making some progress on their training. Before you know it, they’ll be ready for the fight against Vanitas, Cozy Glow and the Unversed in no time.”
“That’s great to hear, Axel!” Spike said cheerfully.
“It sure is, Spike my friend,” said Axel while smiling, “It sure is.”
Axel walked towards the rock that was near the rock Xion was sitting on and sat on it.
“So, how about you three? Are you having a nice time together?”
The three nodded in response to Axel’s question.
“Yes we are, Axel,” said Roxas happily, “Spike has been telling us how he and Thorax first met and how he manage to get everyone to see that Thorax wasn’t anything like Chrysalis since he was a good Changeling.”
“Sounds exciting,” Axel said in happiness and interest.
“It is,” said Roxas before turning to Spike, “You have to tell him all about it, Spike. It was so interesting.”
“Oh don’t you worry, Roxas,” replied Spike before continuing writing a letter to Twilight, “Let me finish writing this letter to Twilight and I’ll tell Axel everything about the day I met Thorax.”
“Is it about the success the changelings are doing in their training?” Xion asked with interest.
Spike nodded his head for a yes before putting his quill down, after finishing writing, and gently rolling the letter up.
“But wouldn’t it take days for it to get delivered by the time we defeat the Unversed along with Vanitas and Cozy Glow?” Axel asked confusedly.
Spike gave Axel a friendly grin.
“Not the kind of delivery you might think I’m on about.” Spike took a deep breath in and blew on the letter with his fire as it turned into a green grasp smoke and flew away from the Changeling Kingdom to the Crystal Empire.
Roxas, Xion and Axel were both shocked and amazed by this.
“Spike, that was so cool and amazing!” Xion said in amaze, “How’d you do that?”
Spike thought about it before shrugging his shoulders and saying, “Not sure, to be honest. Guess Celestia gave me that magic fire when she gave me to Twilight after she hatched me, I might have to ask Celestia about it once this is over.”
“Well, you must be very lucky to have that magic fire, Spike,” said Roxas kindly, “You should be proud of yourself to have it.”
“Oh yes I am, Roxas,” replied Spike happily, “I’m also glad to somepony to take care of me as their friend, son and brother.” But then, Spike looked down in sadness, “Although, sometimes I feel bad for the things I did to Twilight in the past that made me feel like a bad dragon.”
Roxas, Xion and Axel got confuse by this.
“What do you mean?” Roxas asked feeling worried about him now.
“Well,” Spike began to explain, “Before Cozy Glow made all the magic fail, Oliver and Lightning Twister came to the family, the legion of doom and now this, a dragon named Sludge crashed into Ponyville and broke his arm. After we helped him get better and helped him fly again, he told me he was my dad...but he wasn’t, he was lying to me from the beginning.”
The three friends let out a gasp of shock before Spike continued,
“And while I was doing what Sludge told me to, because I wanted to be real dragon, Twilight sensed something wrong and I thought she was saying that he wasn’t my dad. And then, I said somethings to her that made her heart break into two. And once Sludge told me the truth and flew away, while also taking my pillow, I felt guilty for hurting Twilight, especially since she took care of me ever since I hatched. I couldn’t forgive myself for what I did or think Twilight would forgive for what I did to her.”
Spike looked down in sadness as his eyes began to tear up.
He then felt a gentle hand on his shoulder. He looked up and saw Roxas giving a friendly and gentle smile.
“Hey, don’t feel bad, Spike,” he said, “I’m sure Twilight’s able to forgive you.”
“How do you know?” Asked Spike confusedly.
“Because everyone makes mistakes sometimes, even when someone is helping you in the wrong way and made you think and say things to someone that was trying to help you.”
“Roxas is right, Spike,” said Axel, “I made a mistake once when we were in the Organization. I thought these two didn’t want me around them anymore after they became friends while I was gone dealing with traitors. But, turns out, my friend Isa, also known as Saix in the Organization, told me lies about them in hopes it would break our friendship.”
Spike gasped in shock after hearing that. “Why did he do that to you?”
“Because, when me and Isa got turned into Nobodies,” Axel explained, “I went off and made a new friend which is Roxas, and then Xion afterwards. He thought I was now leaving him, and that girl, in the dust, like I was ending our friendship, and...he was jealous. But when he joined the real Organization, he was a double agent. He was planning on helping us win the war and save Kingdom Hearts, and bringing back both Roxas and Xion since, well...I missed the fun times we had together. Which is my upside down tear marks under my eyes are now done.” Axel pointed a finger at his left eye.
“What were they for?” Spike asked curiously but with interest.
“They were, to stop me from crying. But, I no longer need them. Because I’ve learned that it’s okay to cry, even at times when you wanna prove that you’re stronger and better at this. I didn’t tell Kairi that when we were training to become Keyblade wielders, because I still felt bad for all the trouble I put her through.” Axel slowly raised his hand near him. “But, we’re friends now, and that’s all that matters to me now.” He then placed his hand on his chest. “My heart, is stronger than my fears of crying in front of my friends. Nothing can stop that.”
“And we're sure Twilight will be able to forgive you for breaking her heart,” said Xion, “Do you know why?”
Spike tried to think of an answer. “Because, she’s my friend?”
“Exactly!” Roxas said, “And she has the heart to care for you. You said she took care of you when you hatched and tried you like a friend, brother and son, so I hardly doubt she would stop doing that for you after accidentally hurting her. The point is, breaking someone’s heart can be hurtful, but it can’t break the bond that you have that puts the pieces back together again.”
Spike looked down at his chest before placing a claw on it. He then felt his heart bumping inside, with love and friendship, as a smile slowly grew on his face before looking at the three friends.
“Yeah. You’re right. I don’t know why I should continue guilty for what I did to Twilight, I should just believe that Twilight’s forgiven me for breaking her heart.”
They all smiled at the baby dragon as Roxas gently punched Spike’s arm while saying, “That’s the spirit, Spike! We knew you’d find it in your heart!”
“And we knew you would believe in it, kiddo!” Axel said before letting out a laugh.
The three let out a laughter as well before they all smiled at each other.
“Oh! That reminds me!” Axel went into his pockets and gently pulled out four sea-salt ice creams. Two in one hand and two in the other. “Here.”
The three had big smiles on their faces after seeing that Axel had brought them ice cream.
“Wow, Axel! You brought ice cream for us?” Spike asked happily.
“Sure did,” he answered politely, “After speaking with Thorax and Pharynx, I figured I get us some ice cream so I went back to Twilight Town and brought some. You know, we did form a friendship together, so why not celebrate?” He pasted the ice creams to Roxas, Xion and Spike as they gently took their ice cream and smiled at Axel.
“You’re so kind, Axel,” Spike said kindly and happily.
Axel let out a chuckle before saying, “I try.”
Roxas, Xion, Axel and Spike began to their ice creams happily with nothing to worry about and nothing worst to come.
Hours have passed, and the four friends were still sitting at the library after finishing their ice creams. Spike was flying in mid air juggling the three empty ice cream sticks with Roxas, Xion and Axel watching him in amaze. Axel had his empty stick in his mouth, but he took it out afterwards and placed it in his pocket.
All was quiet, until a dark corridor appeared near in front of them. Spike was the first one to see it as he stopped juggling the sticks and held them in his claw.
“Whoa! What is that?” Spike asked before the other three saw it as well.
Suddenly, a black coated figure walked out of the dark corridor, as it then disappeared, and towards the four.
His skin was dark and his eyes were yellow. His hair is long, reaching to about mid-back, silver in color, and some of it falls over his shoulders. His hairstyle is reminiscent of Xehanort's hair, including his bangs, the colour and the length. It also shares traits with Terra's hair, including its layered, messy look and the spike on the top of his head. It was Xehanort’s Nobody, Xemnas.
Roxas, Xion and Axel jumped up onto their feet while letting out a small gasp of shock and anger and glared at him as Axel then said, “Xemnas?!”
“You know him?” Spike asked.
“Yeah,” Roxas answered calmly while still glaring at Xemnas, “He’s the Nobody of Xehanort and was once leader of the old Organization. He used us to create his own Kingdom Hearts while being vessels for Master Xehanort’s heart.”
“How is he still here?” Asked Xion angrily.
While still walking towards them, Xemnas said, “Axel...I need to have a word with you.”
Axel let out an angry growl at the superior. “With me? So now you continue to mock me when I joined the guardians.”
“Do you recall working with Ansem the Wise with your friend Saix?” He asked as he stood near Axel, “Among all the test suggests he had, was a girl, that you two brought in after she had lost her memories, just as Xehanort had. But, he told you what really happened to her, he only tells the trusted ones everything, he did with the king.”
“What do you want?” Hissed Axel.
“Where did Ansem the Wise put the girl?”
Axel knew what girl he was on about, so he decided to lie and try to make him go away before things get ugly. “What girl are you on about?”
Xemnas could tell he was lying so he decided to do this the hard way.
“Very well.” He reached his hand out to Axel like he was about to hurt him, “If you won’t tell me where...”
However, before Xemnas could grab Axel, Spike blasted green fire from his mouth and towards Xemnas making him move back from the fire before looking at him and saw Spike was glaring at him while still flying in mid air.
“I think, you should leave,” the baby dragon said angrily.
Xemnas softly glared at Spike for a few seconds before saying, “A dragon with a guilty heart?” He then grinned evilly at him while letting out a small evil giggle, “I mustn’t leave you unharmed, while the others get harmed.”
Xemnas raised his arms up in the air and what raised behind him was a giant gargantuan Nobody that seems to be clad in a white bodysuit, as evidenced by the large, silver zipper lining its front. Its simple round head's only feature is a white Nobody logo on its front where the creature's face would be. It has rather thick, short legs with spikes on its hips and long pointed feet. Its waist is quite thin and has dark grey sides. Its shoulders each sport a gigantic diamond-shaped spike and its arms are very long and reach the floor when fully extended down. The Nobody only seems to have one distinct digit on each of its hands, the thumb. They also seem to have high-heels on their ankles. It also has four long blue tentacles with tips resembling the spikes on the Nobody sigil that wrap around its neck. Its overall body shape seems to be meant to resemble the Nobody symbol. It was the Twilight Thorn.
The three stood in battle mode while Spike let out a little scared scream, he has never seen a creature that big before.
“That thing again?!” Roxas said angrily remember that Nobody thing.
Xemnas let out a evil chuckle as he quickly vanish in a flash leaving the four with the Twilight Thorn.
“Hey! Come back!” Axel shouted, but he didn’t come back.
Suddenly, two of the Twilight Torn’s tentacles raised out and smack Spike really hard sending him flying backwards and smacked against the rock wall as he collapsed to the floor.
Xion gasped in shock. “Spikey-wikey!” She then quickly ran towards the poor baby dragon.
“Xion, wait!” Axel cried out, but Xion continued to run towards Spike.
“Go with her, Axel!” Said Roxas as Axel quickly looked at him, “I’ll handle this creature!”
Axel was about to refuse to do that, but he didn’t want to make the same mistake about with his friends so he decided to do what Roxas said. He gave him a nod while saying, “Alright. Good luck!”
Roxas gave Axel a quick nod before he ran off towards Xion and Spike leaving his friend to deal with Twilight Thorn. Roxas glared at the giant Nobody and summoned his two Keyblades.
The Keyblade in his left hand, Oathkeeper, shaft displays two hearts, and its handle bears two angel wings, contrasting the bat wings that comprise Oblivion's handle. The teeth are fashioned in the shape of the Kanji for "light", corresponding to the Oblivion's kanji for "darkness". Its Keychain token is Kairi's Wayfinder, a star sewn together from Thalassa Shells.
The Keyblade in his right hand, Oblivion, is similar in shape to the Kingdom Key, though is black and has a longer reach. The hilt guard is comprised of two bat-like wings extending downward. The teeth are in the shape of the Kanji for "darkness". The Keychain's token is a black version of Sora's crown icon. Like the Oathkeeper, the Oblivion's blade is hollow, but it has a chain passing through the gap. The diamond in its hilt also resembles the diamond in the original logo of Hollow Bastion.
But before Roxas could try to attack the Twilight Thorn, a sphere of white light appeared on his body making everything go all white for a few seconds before fading away revealing Roxas in the air outside the hive trapped tiny white spheres on his hands and feet while still holding his Keyblades.
The Twilight Thorn spun up in front of Roxas before lending forward a bit and lending back again while raising its left fist back ready to punch Roxas. But before it could do that, Roxas managed to jump up to dodge the attack and smack its head with his Oblivion Keyblade sending it spinning backwards on the ground.
It spun back onto its feet before its hands started wiggling towards Roxas, grabbing him and pulling him towards it.
While still holding Roxas in its right hand, it tossed him up in the air and got ready to smack him down to the ground. But just as it was about to smack him, Roxas quickly dodged the hand and smacked the back of its head with his Oathkeeper Keyblade making fall on its front.
But it wasn’t done yet, the Twilight Thorn wiggled up as its hands and legs dug into the ground, while its head faced towards Roxas, and white pointy wines rose from the ground and tried to attack him.
However, Roxas was able to dodge the wine attacks while quickly sliding up and forwards before smacking the head of the Twilight Thorn with his Keyblades four times.
“This is it!” Roxas said before giving the giant Nobody a final big smack on the head.
The Twilight Thorn then shot up from the ground, spun around in the air, raised its hands up as a big giant white and darkness ball slowly floated down to its hands. Roxas quickly jumped high in the air just as the giant Nobody threw the ball towards him.
While floating in the air, Roxas closed his eyes while placing his Keyblades forward as thirteen light long sticks with a Nobody symbol on them appeared around him and spun around. He then opened his eyes again and shouted, “Come on!” Roxas quickly raised his Keyblades up and the thirteen Nobody sticks blasted into a big beam of light and shot towards the giant ball.
It made a big explosion causing Roxas to fall to the ground as his Keyblades magically disappeared and the Twilight Thorn wiggled wildly before it got shot into pieces meaning that it is now destroyed.
Roxas managed to land on his feet safely on the ground, but he bent to his knees as he held onto them with his hands and began to breath heavily after falling that high and fighting that giant Nobody again.
“That...was so...not worth it!”
While he was still breathing, he didn’t heard Xemnas appearing behind with his hands behind his back while staring at him.
“You are way too dangerous now,” he said to himself and unable for Roxas to hear. He raised his right hand out as a red ethereal blade appeared. “It will ruin the king’s plans. I must take your life...with darkness!”
Xemnas raised his hand back ready to stab Roxas with his ethereal blade, but before he could, Axel’s voice was heard from the distance.
“Roxas!”
Roxas let out a small gasp while quickly looking forward and saw Axel running towards him with one of his Chakrams in his right hand.
“Duck!” Axel threw his Chakram towards Xemnas. Roxas did what he said and ducked as the Chakram sliced through Xehanort’s Nobody making him let out a painful moan.
Roxas got up and looked behind him to see Xemnas falling to his knees before thick darkness smoke rose up around him. But he was able to slowly glare at Axel before shouting, “You, traitor!!”
Xemnas disappeared within the dark smoke as it slowly faded away. Roxas continued to stare at where Xemnas was standing before Axel could up to him.
Roxas smiled at his friend before saying, “Thanks, Axel.”
Axel smiled back at Roxas while placing a hand on his side. “Hey no worries, I’m always there to help my friends. Got it memorized?” He placed a right finger on the side of his head.
Roxas let out a happy chuckle. They looked back to where Xemnas was once standing, they didn’t know what was going on or how is he still alive.
“What is going on here?” Roxas asked in confusion, “How is Xemnas still alive? I thought his replica was destroyed and he went back to the past.”
“I’m not really sure, Roxas,” replied Axel while rubbing the back of his head, “Either he ignored the rules of time travel or Vanitas and Cozy Glow must be planning to use replicas of the Seekers we faced at the Keyblade Graveyard.”
“Even the ones that didn’t travel from the past as hearts and then placed into a replica?”
Axel nodded his head in response. “Possibly. The ones that didn’t use a replica to fill in the vessels were Xigbar, Luxord, Larxene, Marluxia, Isa and Xehanort in his original form and his heart within Terra. The ones that travelled from the past and used the replicas to fill in the rest of the vessels were Ansem, Xemnas, Vanitas, Riku Replica and Xehanort’s younger self.”
“And then there was Xion, the only replica they used to restore her body while her memories were missing,” added Roxas, “Yet she was known as No. i, an imaginary number.”
“Whatever Vanitas and Cozy Glow is up to and planning to do with the poor kid, they must got prepared to stop us from protecting him,” guessed Axel.
“They must have.”
After a few seconds of silence, Roxas suddenly remembered something as he let out a gasp of shock. “Spike! Axel, is he alright?!”
“Don’t worry, Roxas,” said the voice of Xion, “Spike’s fine.”
Axel and Roxas turned and saw Xion walking towards them with Spike in her arms and two Changeling rulers walking with her.
Thorax was one of them as we all know, the other Changeling ruler was his brother, Pharynx. His eyes were moderate blue violet, his mane and neck fin was deep crimson, his chitin was dark cyan with moderate amaranth chest, his carapace was moderate amaranth with grayish blue underside, his horn was moderate amaranth and his wings was moderate amaranth with blue violet elytra. He was even the same size as Luna.
“How is he doing?” Asked Axel.
“He’s doing okay at the moment,” answered Pharynx, “But that smack to the rock did some damages to his back and wings. Whatever attacked him must be very strong and unable for a young lad to handle. That why we suggest you lot take him to the Dragon Lands and get him healed there.”
“Lava can heal any pain a dragon has in its body,” explained Thorax, “We’ve learned from one of the library books about healing when one of the changelings was in pain.”
“But what about you guys? Who’s gonna make sure no Changeling gets harmed by any unversed?” Roxas asked worriedly. He wasn’t very sure that leaving the changelings to train alone and going to the Dragon Lands to heal Spike was a good idea, especially since they were told to stay at the Changeling Kingdom until the training was done.
“Don’t you worry, my boy,” Pharynx said happily and calmly, “We’ll be perfectly fine. Thorax and I already know how to fight and the training is nearly finish anyway.”
“Now go and help Spike get better,” ordered Thorax in a calm and friendly manner, “He needs you.”
Roxas was about to say something but then felt a hand on his shoulder. He looked and saw Axel who was giving him a friendly smile as he said, “Roxas, it’ll be okay. If we continue to stay here, the pain on Spike might get even worse. You have to trust them.”
Roxas looked at Axel for a few more seconds before turning back to Thorax and Pharynx who were smiling at him in a friendly way and hoping he can trust them while they’re gone.
Roxas smiled back at them as he gave them a nod before turning to Xion. “Alright. Let’s go help Spike!”
Xion and Axel gave Roxas a happy nod before he looked at the two brothers again and said, “Good luck.”
With that being said, the three friends ran towards the Dragon Lands quickly as their legs can carry them with Spike still in Xion’s arms.
But unknown to them, Xemnas was watching them from the top of the Changeling Hive with his hands behind his back. He let out an evil chuckle as a black corridor appeared around him and then disappeared along with him.