I was not a happy baby. Eclipsa had me stuck in a stroller while she walked… slithered, through a mall. It was nice but all in all I was bored.
”My god this is boring!” I mentally snapped, trying not to fall asleep from the boredom but having this grumpy pout on my face all day wouldn’t solve anything either.
Well, at least I brought a toy from home. A chibi Dusk Nobody plushy. Har Har Heart, fitting but still, har har.
”Cause why not be a butt…” I mentally grumbled at the joke even if I still hugged the thing. ”When are we going to do something?”
As Eclipsa shopped around and I kept trying to nap I was awoken by a small cone of ice cream. I happily took and began eating it.
”Wonder who gave me the ice cream?” I mentally wondered while looking around as to who gave me ice cream.
As we went along I realized Eclipsa was pushing me along while talking to someone else. I know that voice… Octavia? From the clip clops she's a pony pony. They were talking about this and that and looking to my left I realized there was another baby in a stroller next to me. He was a pony, dressed in an all blue onesie and with A coat the same as Octavia's but a mane that was a golden blonde.
I softly waved to the pony with a smile. “Hello.”
"Hi." He replied.
“Who are you?” I asked kindly.
"Echo Song. You?"
“King.” I said honestly.
"So, bored too?"
“Only reason why I woke up is because Ice cream.” I said honestly.
"Hm. Here, watch this." Echo said, now making whimpering noises while he tried to push himself forwards towards something. Eclipsa and Octavia stopped, Octavia looking over at Echo Song and snickered. "The playpen is not too far away Echo. Just be patient." She said. Echo just gave a light cry.
"This mall has a playpen?" Eclipsa asked.
"Are you surprised? There's a store for only selling door knobs here." Octavia replied.
"Fair point." Eclipsa then kneeled down and looked at me. "You wanna go to the playpen then King?" I gave an eager nod. Eclipsa laughed. "Right then, let's go drop them off and you and I can continue our chat and shop."
Once we were moving again, Echo Song cleaned off those little tears he made in his display and gave me a smile. "Prepare to be bored no longer."
“Hooray.” I cheered, overjoyed at finally being able to do something. “Thank you… but isn’t it a little bad to trick Octavia like that?” I asked nervously.
"She was gonna drop me off there anyway, I just sped up the drop-off time. Besides, in case you haven't noticed a lot of us babies pull little acts like that to get our way. One of the perks of being one. Shame we forget these years around three or four but, eh, enjoy it while it lasts and all that."
“Sounds about right.” I nodded. “But that’s for later, right now we have a ball pit to enjoy.”
"Just wait til we get there and I'll show you around." The playpen looked amazing and once Echo and I were placed inside, Eclipsa and Octavia giving us each a kiss and went about their way, Echo tapped my arm. "Follow me." He said.
“Sure.” I nodded. “Off on an adventure!” I cheered adorably.
He laughed as we crawled our way to a large turtle meant to be crawled under and maybe climbed if you were tall enough. Once under it he knocked on the plastic belly of the thing above us… and I watched as it opened and he started to climb into it. I followed and… woah.
What I crawled into seemed to be the baby equivalent to a club party. This turtle thing must be a pocket dimension.
“Whoa…” I blinked. “The heck is all this?”
"The real fun." Echo said as we crawled up to what looked like a bar table, but served soda, not booze. "As you know, whether we are born to the same father, mother or not we're all siblings in this family, and some of us have an earlier understanding of how our powers and such work than others. So those who do understand how to make them work build things like this for us to enjoy."
“So...this is a thing.” I blinked.
"Very much so a thing yes." He said, handing me a cup of soda.
“Oh sweet mercy I have soda again.” I sighed out happily as I took the cup of soda. “Thank you.”
"Heh, hey so long as we can't be seen almost anything goes. There's some gambling for candy down that way, dance floor is to the right and the second floor is the buffet."
“Wow...this is amazing.” I said as I took a sip of my soda.
"And there's so many places just like this or better. Both for family born and the other infants of reality."
“That’s fantastic.” I said in awe at how much our youth could do.
"Well, go and explore. Odds are your mom and my mom won't be back for about two hours. So explore."
I did just that, finishing my soda and heading off. The gambling was fun but I didn't have candy to gamble with so I headed up to the buffet. At first I was confused as they all looked like milk bottles, then realized it's liquid versions of the food. And it… tastes just like the food, not some blended junk that tastes nasty, this bottle of pizza tastes like pizza, same for the doritos. So weird, but neat and makes sense. None of us have teeth.
“This is so weird…” I muttered to myself, not believing there was this strange hidden world for the children.
Part of me thought that maybe a realms version of KND exists… then I realized, it's the realms, of course it does. I have to find that when I get older.
When time was up I left and Eclipsa picked me up, giving me a kiss as she put me back into the stroller. "We'll be heading back home now King, Once there you can nap."
I nodded with a warm smile, glad to have experienced something really fun without having been bored to hell.
Once home Eclipsa carried me inside, giving my head gentle rubs that felt nice. "Are you ready for your nap King?" She asked me.
I yawned in response to their question, having been a little tired from all the excitement of learning about the Rugrats world...the...underground world of…”I’m just gonna stop that train of thought right quick…” I thought to myself worriedly.
"Alright then." And with that… she swallowed me.
In hindsight, that should have been obvious, but eh, it's warm, soft and quiet here save for the sound of Eclipsa's heartbeat, which sounded so soothing.
“This is nice…” I hummed to myself as I curled up and yawned again, starting to drift off for a nice little nap.
When I woke up in the sleeping worlds I felt my body was different. I wasn't an Adult but I wasn't a baby either… maybe like a toddler, four at most for my physical age. I was wearing a green shirt and shorts with no shoes. I was also in someplace new looking and… not quite finished? Some buildings were half done, the sky itself looked a mix between day and night and there was not a single person around.
“Uh...okay, where the hell am I?” I wondered, starting to walk around the place wondering where I am.
As I was walking I spotted something. It looked like… code? I ran over and saw a girl, dressed In a white and pink cloak with a fox mask on. From her hands code flowed out and began taking the shape of a building… Kira?
“Kira?” I asked, walking over to the person I swear is Kira but...I don’t remember her being an admin...but I also remember that it’s been way too goddamn long since I last saw the Foretellers.
"Hm?" She said, looking over at me. "Oh… hello? How'd you get here little guy?" She asked, kneeling down to my eye level. She grew. Not by much but, easily an inch or two. "I swore I kept Dreamers from spawning her with that field."
“I have been meaning to hang out with you and the others for like...way too long, I’m so sorry for not appearing…” I whined sadly, my ears flattening against my head as I whimpered in sadness, Kira hearing the familiar tone she hadn’t heard from in a long time.
"Hang on… Ben? Is that you? Why are you a wolf person? And… tiny?" She asked, now petting my head. "So soft…"
“It’s...practically been an Eternity since we last met…” I softly nuzzled into her hand, glad to see an old friend was still doing good. “But...the better question is, why are you a Vampony...and an Admin.”
"Wait, how did you… oh, you smelled it." Kira said, taking off her- Eye! Kira has an eye patch!? "We got adopted into Cript's family, like you did and a Vampire Fluttershy is our mother."
“The only vampire Fluttershy I remember is Alushy…” I started. “Also when did you get an eyepatch? What the hell happened...and again I am so sorry for not visiting...shit’s just been...getting way out of hand a lot of the time…”
"Hey, it's alright." She said, giving me one more pat on the head before standing up. With a snap of her fingers code came out and formed a bench she sat on. I joined, having to climb up given I'm still pretty small. "Well, to start off, yes our mom is Alushy, we even got a few guns from her. Jokes were made at Lan's expense cause he is dating our world's Fluttershy, but all that craziness settled fairly quickly. As for this." She placed a hand over the eye patch. "Happened in a battle. As an admin and a vampire I can easily regrow it, but I decided not to. Makes me look somewhere between cute and badass if I'm honest.”
“Well welcome to the family, I’m technically one of your mothers...and fathers...I’ll get to that later.” I started sheepishly. “But why am I so tiny? Because for some reason the dream world wanted me to be a toddler...after I’m an infant so I can relax for a while from work because…” I clapped my hands as a table appeared with a cup filled with whatever Kira wanted and an empty plate. “The plate gives whatever food you want, and the big cup gives you whatever you want to drink, it’s auto refilling, and be prepared cause there’s a lot I need to talk about...ranging from sweet and adorable, steamy and lewd, to depressing and worrying.”
"Yeah… can you leave out the lewd? So, what's happened on your end? The others and I have largely been out of the loop for the past year."
“It’s...going to be long…” I said sheepishly. “So, let’s start with some basic cliff notes. My name’s actually King because...I gave my name to Truth for a lot of knowledge...don’t know how to said my old name, I won’t question it though.” I shrugged. “Zeke’s new name is Heart cause he finally became Kingdom Hearts after Kexez kind of forced his hand with nineteen others...including the Master of Masters, now named Pecator...Eclipsa is now both a female and Naga...apparently me and Eclipsa are some weird reincarnations of two other people along with Heart who are basically destined to be together...the three of us are Admins, me being the Admin of Nothingness, yes I finally became King, Heart is Admin of Hearts because duh, and Eclipsa is the Admin of Grey, a new and literally infinitely expanding energy source that magically appeared and has also kind of...made the Matrix we’re all in have to reset a lot…” I took a deep breath. “Input before I get onto the rest of the cliff notes before getting into much greater detail…”
Kira blinked. "Huh… wow we missed a lot… how is Ze- I mean, how is Heart doing?"
“Their doing fantastic, they are currently a Floof Noodle, a Dire Wolf Naga hybrid that’s tanky as all hell and is stupid fluffy.” I said honestly.
Kira tried and failed to hold back laughing. "Floof Noodle? Who came up with that?"
“It was a joke name, it’s not my fault, existence made it the main race name.” I pouted cutely.
"Heh, well, glad they're doing better… last time we saw them… didn't end well."
“What happened?” I asked nervously, hoping to listen to their plight as I tried to figure out where the hell I was going to continue with my recap.
"It was… some time after Daybreak fell. We went to check in and… nothing, just chunks of rock. We called Heart and, he had recently become Kingdom Hearts, that much we knew… we argued. Words were tossed and thrown and blades almost clashed… almost." She summons her… Keyblade? Her Keyblade looked… different. Thinner definitely. "They were Kingdom Hearts… how could our Keyblades turn on them? It was stupid in the end. We both were at fault in some way. Shortly after, we met the Admin of dreams. She passed on her title and power to us, before dying. We've mostly been world traveling and rebuilding parts of the dream realm, making it better."
“Huh...that’s very interesting and I’m going to need to have a word with Heart.” I frowned. “But...the destruction of Daybreak…” I sighed out. “I’m sorry, I tried to help out the best I could...but there was just too many Heartless swarming after...Pecator fucked with the Crystal Heart way back when...and Heart’s clone sacrificed himself to make sure the people were safe.”
"Did you… even find him? Imprison him? Or…" I saw her grip her Keyblades handle tightly. "Kill him?"
“Given he finally has a body and heart after being nothing but a Lingering Will for god knows how long...and after some proper punishment...uh…” I trailed off, not really knowing how to even explain this. “So remember when I brought up the nineteen other people Kexez needed to force Hearts hand and become Kingdom Hearts? Pecator was one of them...somehow he had a Balanced heart when...he didn’t have one...don’t ask, I couldn’t really do much in any of that.”
"Bastard." She huffed. "So he's the reason Daybreak fell…"
“He’s the one that made the Crystal Heart to begin with apparently.” I said honestly. “But there’s still a lot to cover on my end…” I said, giving Kira a quick hug. “I’m still sorry…” I said bitterly. “I really did mean to visit…”
"Hey, we could have visited too." Jenny said, petting my arm. "Blame's not always one sided King."
“I know...still doesn’t not make me feel bad.” I sighed out. “So...anything else new with you and the others or should I go back to my...what feels like decades worth of escapades?”
"Well, Jenny finally started dating Flash Sentry, Pinkie and Alex had a pregnancy scare that was only surprising in the fact she wasn't pregnant, Dan's been organizing world peace and green energy efforts, Lan is in college at the moment, probably will graduate in the week, and I'm graduating high school early cause having an Admin's brain makes all normal math stuff so easy it's amazing I used to struggle at it."
“That’s fantastic.” I said warmly. “I’m running an entire multiversal wide Kingdom with my family...which ranges from Heart and Eclipsa, both of their herds, and Cript and his entire family, as well as Jericho...so yeah.”
"Huh. And, what was this about you being a baby in the waking realm?"
“Admin’s don’t have a concept of age anymore, and with some special admin stuff, people get to...relive being a child again. And I’m doing this because...Eclipsa and Heart and many, many others wanted me to take a break from work because I’ve been trying to carry most of the work by myself...again.”
"Heh, you and Lan could be brothers." Kira laughed. "Well, I guess technically you're his dad… or mom? Eh, I gave up on understanding relationships in this family day one."
“I mean...I am both genders.” I said honestly. “Honestly, kinda wish I woke up as my Den Mother form, you’d get a kick out of it.” I chuckled.
"Den Mother? That some kind of special breed of wolf?"
“Yes and no.” I said honestly. “But uh...am I allowed to show you my Den Mother form? Given this is your realm I can’t really do what I want at the moment besides some small stuff.”
"Oh, sure. Let's just…" She let code flow over her hand, passing over my head. "There we go, Lucid Dream privileges are active."
“Yay.” I said while getting off the bench and turning back into my Den Mother form. “Ah, that feels better.” I said happily, all my beautiful and fluffy grace back in action.
"Woah… Alex would love to screw you." Kira said with a laugh.
“So would half my kingdom.” I rolled my eyes. “Considering I’m, even in the dream world, wearing some enchanted stuff to keep my...assets kept down, I am the ‘Face’ of the kingdom.” I said honestly.
"Heh, well it's clear why. So, care to see my work so far? Since becoming an Admin I get school work done really fast and spend most of my time here so I've been making a… Fun Town."
“What’s your Fun Town?” I asked curiously. “And is it as adorable as I think it is?”
"Well, I ended up playing Dream Drop Distance and wanted something between Traverse Town and Pranksters Paradise."
“Yeah that works.” I nodded. “So it’s basically a massive carnival? Do they get to keep any prizes?”
"That's actually a key thing I'm working on but haven't quite got right yet. I want to make it so when you wake up after winning a prize, you wake up with the prize. It's the same principle of how we make and summon our Keyblades, since these are made from dream energy over light and darkness like the old ones. We can manifest them in the waking world but getting the same to be done for objects with a script has been… problematic."
“How so?” I asked curiously. “Mind if I take a look? I’ve been using Code for a while now and I think I can help.”
"Maybe." Kira said, code flowing in her hand that quickly formed into a scroll. "This is the set up I have now. It works but not always right." She said handing me the scroll.
I took the scroll and looked through it very carefully. “Alright, where is the conversion problem…” I muttered, thinking this was a problem with the conversion of energy on the Dream level not fully syncing up with the Material Level.
Let's see. Huh, this is pretty well done and there it is. The conversation. I expected as much. Oh and hmm… a few things here and there can be fine tuned.
“Alright yeah, it’s a conversion issue.” I said while turning the scroll over and pointing to the problem lines. “Besides this major problem, and some fine tuning of a few other things, this is actually pretty well done overall. How long have you been working with Code if I may ask?”
"Well, one of the few things I figured out easy was time alterations in the dream realms compared to the waking realm. I fine tuned it so one minute was one day. That was a month of waking realm time ago, so probably some years dream realm time."
“Hyperbolic Time Chamber rules huh?” I asked. “Nice.” I nodded. “Want me to fix up the code here?”
"Yes please."
“Sure.” I nodded while starting to fix up the code that needed to be fixed. “I can also teach you some stuff about code if you need it, or at least give tidbits if you want.”
"That would be amazing. Code has been a hit or miss thing when you're self teaching yourself."
“A lot of things are hit or miss when your self teaching.” I said honestly. “How’s everyone else on their Code work?”
"Dan, Lan and I so far have the most practice. Jenny has been on and off with it, mostly using it in attacks and Alex has been… well, we had to soundproof his bedroom."
“How many times have you had to do that?” I inquired, given my own personal experience needing soundproofing spells.
“Using code, just once. So long as he keeps the door closed we can’t hear a thing.”
“Just be glad you haven’t had to use magical soundproofing and then needed stronger versions of it.” I said sheepishly.
"Speaking from experience?"
"A lot of experience." I said simply.
With her script done Kira began showing me around. "My idea is to make sorta all the main game stalls self run, and the building will all be able to have people put their own things in them they can run, be it a market place, snacks, whatever really. The self run stalls will all give out toys as prizes."
“Just toys?” I asked curiously. “Or would there be room to get other stuff like actual gear or something along those lines?”
"That can be done by the dreamers who set up their own stalls. The set up so people can bring their own items from the waking worlds to here I managed to get done fairly easily. The reverse is oddly the hard part. Heh, well was til you showed up."
“Sounds about right.” I said honestly. “But...I should probably get back to explaining my side of what the hells happening cause...there’s still a fuck ton to cover.”
"We can walk and talk I guess." She said. "I just finished the park here, come on. There's free ice cream."
“Hooray, free ice cream.” I cheered.
The park looked quite nice, well kept and lots of trees and flowers. The ice cream stall was run by a dream eater and once we had our cones we headed to a bench. "So, what else has been happening?"
“Alright...uh...so I married Cript, Jericho the Admin of War...and all of Cript’s wives...and Hearts and Eclipsa’s….” I said nervously. “It’s a lot harder to explain that than it should be and I don’t know why…” I sighed out. “So...uh...I want to explain who me and my side of this are fighting now but...that’s massively complicated, but to keep it brief, me and my side are fighting against the person that literally created the Void, who also happens to be the very first version of a person who also gave birth to Admins, and the Admin of...would it be Anti Life considering he looks over all the negatives of Life?”
"Not sure. We have seen and felt the void dream realm, not ready for that place just yet. It defies our will as the Admins of Dreams."
“Sounds about right.” I nodded. “Uh...okay, so remember Void Key from way back when Luxu showed us that vault of deadly weapons Pecator made? Yeah, so that rat bastard is running around trying to find a perfect host after he managed to escape Daybreak exploding.”
"Somehow I knew that thing was going to come back to bite us in the butt."
“I’m going to subject it to tortures unimaginable for the shit it’s caused and no one can stop me.” I said, just casually bringing up my absolute rage towards that sack of shit.
"Uh huh… what did it do to you?"
“Besides being a raging dick about things, he took control of my Coco Pommel and damn near killed her, having put her in a comatose state for way too long after I kicked it out of her…” I said sadly. “Made me scared shitless I couldn’t save her because of the kind of Void it was using…”
"There's more than one kind of Void?"
“Uh...last time I checked there’s like...six.” I said nervously. “Void Key using Fear based Void which we barely know anything about...then there’s the Positive Void that is used for healing and a bunch of positive stuff...there’s the Delete kind of Void, basically Void born Psychopaths that are effectively Galactus from Marvel.” I explained. “And...I don’t remember what the other three are...but I’m still researching all of that.”
"Huh. Neat. Sorta like Dreams."
“Yeah, and there’s also several different versions of Nothingness, the one that’s very bad against Fear Void is Bravery Nothingness.” I said honestly.
“Neat. Let me guess, hard to make?”
“Yes.” I nodded. “It’s really hard to make.” I sighed out. “But there are a few people who are helping make it...and one of them figured out how to create a lot of it...at a massive downside because the little bastard wouldn’t just talk to me for ten seconds.” I grumbled the last part.
“Huh. Anything else?”
“There’s still so much to explain...” I sighed out. “But I don’t know where to begin, continue, or end on...uh...well, I basically own Nexus now...at least the vast majority of Nexus that hated Vincent and his ‘let’s be evil for evil's sake’ thing.” I said honestly. “Got that because of...some very important things during an Admin Games.”
“Admin game… That’s where you get reborn as a normal person or overpowered right? The old Admin of Dreams left a few notes talking mostly about our abilities but also a few basic admin things and rules.”
“For me, it was either reborn with my memories or no memories, and you get to pick any world you want. My current game is me as Kite Cooper, younger brother to Sly Cooper and...the entire world is a hell of a lot different than the games as I learned rather quickly… really should have known that would have happened…” I muttered.
“Heh. Sounds like fun. So, you got any hobbies? Since becoming Admins we all started using code to make little things here and there, collecting stuff basically.”
“Honestly...no.” I said honestly. “I mean, I do collect stuff, like cards and the like but...full blown hobbies...I’ve mostly been busy with a lot of stuff I haven’t thought much into it.”
“So, you’re boring.” She said so bluntly I almost dropped my cone. “What kind of cards do you collect?”
“Well I’m sorry that I have to juggle paperwork, being the face of an entire multiversal kingdom, studying and developing new things, and going on adventures all at the same time.” I frowned. “But what kind of cards? Well, mostly trading card game cards like Magic the Gathering, Yugioh and stuff like that.”
“Hmm… Wanna start a new collection?” She asked me, her hand held out and in a poof of dream energy appeared a pink and purple card with the dream eater symbol on one side and a holographic Meow Wow on the other side. “Take these into the waking world and the corresponding Dream Eater can exist there.”
“Always wanted to get Dream Eaters, but I always thought Dreams were your whole thing so I didn’t want to try to...do way too much with it.” I said sheepishly.
“Heh, That’s the thing with it. Dream abilities in the waking world were more on top of more than doing dream things in, well, the dream realm. That’s just natural so, as long as you keep it either on your person or in your own mindscape, that’s fine.”
“That’s pretty easy for either of those honestly.” I shrugged simply. “Plus...actually, I remember something a long time ago, when me and Joy were messing around with Destiny Links, Luna’s super move can actually summon a stampede of Dream Eaters.” I said, randomly remembering that little tidbit. “Just a random thought I remembered...which brings up if you are also able to use those things as well.”
“Of course. Dream Eaters can bring in and out of the waking world, Luna and her reflections are capable of this thanks to their Link to the moon. Even our world’s Luna has a connection to it.”
“Well that and their connection to the dream world.” I added. “But yeah...an asston of things are going on and it won’t stop….it won’t stop.”
I found an empty ice cream cone on my nose. “Shut it. As your friend, and apparently as your family, stop stressing. Everything will work out.”
“That’s not the first...or the last time I’m going to hear that…” I sighed out
“Tell you what?” Kira said, standing up now. “I made a movie theatre here, currently I’ve loaded… several thousand world’s versions of movies into it. I can alter the time flow here so one minute Waking World time is one year here. Wanna binge for a few centuries? Huh, there’s a sentence I never expected to say.”
“That would be nice.” I said with a smile. “It could be...a nice parent daughter day.”
“Heh, that sounds nice. Come on, it’s this way.”
Kira led me to the theatre and… Woah… Fancy. Looks more like it’s for Opera.
“You sure this is for movies and not opera?” I asked curiously.
“I modeled it after an Opera house but it is made for movies. Unlimited snacks, drink, foods, and the best sound and video that can exist on a two dimensional screen.”
“Perfect.” I chuckled. “So, which movie do you want to start with first?”
“Hmm… How about Skyrim?”
“I thought we were watching movies, not video games.” I chuckled. “But sure, why not.”
“In some realities, it is a movie, as well as all those things.”
“Yeah that sounds about right.” I shrugged. “So onto watching some Skyrim.”
The movie began, Popcorn, ice cream and soda in hand as the two of us began watching the Skyrim movie.
And what a glorious six hours it was.
“I’m surprised it was only six hours.” I said honestly.
“The director's cut is twenty.” Kira said, tossing her fifth box of popcorn aside.
“Damn, Tod Howard must have had a field day.” I chuckled, having also learned that Skyrim was ported to basically any console in existence for some strange reason.
“Heh, so now onto another movie. You pick.” Kira said, handing me a tablet with the long list of movies for this Theatre.
“Hmm…” I hummed while looking through a whole lot of things. “So many movies...Final Fantasy, let’s go with that.”
I loaded up the Final Fantasy X movie.
It was… way better than I ever expected. Like, wow…
“The game that good?” Kira asked me.
“The game is great.” I said honestly. “I’ve played it a few times, not as much as my one friend Anna...wonder how she’s doing?” I wondered, only to feel like someone making fun of my old name. “Rude.” I called out through the veil of realities to whoever made fun of my old name.
“Heh, one of the few realities where game movies are good are the ones where they were always movies. My turn.” Kira said, taking the tablet. “What shall We watch next… How about… Have you seen Moana?”
“I don’t think so.” I said with some thought. “I’ve heard it’s good though.”
“Then our world’s version it is. Just not the live action version… Disney can’t ever get those right.”
“Christ, live action disney movies? Who the hell thought that was a good idea?” I asked with a frown.
“No idea.”
And so we binged watched every good Disney movie from almost every reality where Disney existed. They were good. Kinda weird seeing Snow White in 3D but it was good.
“Glad to know the classics are still good.” I said thankfully.
“That was good. So, what were you doing in the waking world before clocking out?”
“Being bored out of my mind as Eclipsa shopped, but because I’m an infant I learned that there is...weirdly a secret world for those children...strange but very interesting how they can make pocket dimensions at such a young age.”
“Seriously? Heh… wow… So got put to bed or nap?”
“A nap.” I shrugged. “It was a very interesting day after I nearly passed out from boredom.”
“Heh. Shall we continue onto Action or Horror movies?”
“Action, never been a fan of horror movies.” I said honestly. “Plus, I have been to the horror Admins realm to save it from a Delete once...a long time ago.”
“Huh… are they someone I have to look out for, Nightmares are still kinda a bitch to deal with.”
“They should mind their own business but…” I looked a little nervous. “I’ve heard Void Key is after the previous Admin of Fear...thankfully nothing’s happened yet.”
“Previous? There’s two?”
“Well, even though I have...basically no experience with this, I think someone can give the title of Admin to a successor without dying...I just don’t know because every time I see it, the previous Admin has to die...like the old King of Nothingness.”
“But he wasn’t an Admin, you became the first Admin for Nothingness, but did become it’s second King.”
“Uh...actually yeah...I forgot that I had to kill the worst person to ever exist and Cript gave me that.” I said honestly. “I just don’t want to remember...the person I murdered.” I shivered in disgust at that guy.
“Yikes. Guess it’s a comedy then.”
And so we binged every comedy movie in existence. So far. Most were good, some were hit or miss, all in all that was fun.
“Ah, that’s much better.” I said warmly.
“You find it weird how our perception of time is different? I mean, we’ve been sitting here for…” She checked her Assistant. “Three hundred years watching movies and it honestly feels more like a few hours.”
“You get used to it.” I said honestly. “Trust me...I’m honestly a little desensitized by all the time differential stuff after I kind of...hold myself in my lab which is the exact same thing…” I said sheepishly. “And then the training...and then just life in general…”
“Heh. Even though it’s in the realm of dreams, it still throws me off. I spend a week or a month here and wake up and it’s just the next day. At least we have our family… being immortal like this alone would be torture.”
“Oh yeah, without my family I don’t know what I would do.” I agreed wholeheartedly.
“Okay, now onto the Action movies.”
“Let’s hope these won’t be cheesy crap.” I said honestly while getting more popcorn.
“One can only hope.” Kira said, refilling her soda and grabbing a chili dog. “Even better part of being an Admin… absolutely no weight gain.”
“That is a plus.” I shrugged. “But at least Heart’s Celestia would beg to differ.”
“Dare I ask?”
“She likes to eat quite a lot of sweets and...well it all went to the right places as it were.” I said simply.
“Magically I take it?”
“No idea, never asked.” I shrugged. “But whatever makes her happy.”
“Heh. Fair enough.”
The Actions movies were alright. Fell into a lot of the same tropes or patterns but overall not that bad. You can only do so much with your genre being largely depicted by Explosions or Gunfights.
“Well that was entertaining.” I said simply.
“Eh, the guns mom gives us are better.” Kira stretched. “So, if I remember correctly you said you’re both a father and mother in the family?”
“Yes, given I’m both genders I have given birth to hundreds of adorable pups, and made sure my wives were all pleased.” I said honestly.
“Heh, wow… pups as in actual pups?”
“Yep, ranging from you’re normal, pure blooded dire wolf pups to any hybrid under the sun.” I said honestly. “How Floof Noodles were made was...well from me and Eclipsa funnily enough when Kexez needed a new body...or...was that for Heart...things keep getting jumped when I try to remember a billion and one things sometimes…” I sighed out.
“Heh, cute. So, you already know for us it’s only been a year, at least since we last saw Heart anyway, what about you? How long has it been for you?”
“Since I last met you or last met Heart?” I asked curiously.
“You.”
“Uh...I don’t know…” I said nervously. “It could either be a year like with you and Heart...or it could have been hundreds of years, at least thirty because Kexez shoved me into a stasis pod in a Rapture place after he knocked me out like an asshole.” I frowned.
“Yeah… What did he do with that Keyblade he made from our basement Terminal anyway?”
“I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about so I have no idea.” I said simply. “Seriously, I haven’t seen any of you, and I haven’t even heard rumors about what you were doing…”
“Heh, fair enough… Well, a while ago, well before the argument with Heart a man appeared, had two followers with him and we tied them up. They fought well but clearly Magic was new to them so we had the upper hand. He used our Basement Terminal to make a Keyblade, program one? Anyway, he used Balance energy to make it a real Keyblade after using the terminal to bring it into the real world. Told us his name was Kexez and was on his way out. Lan called him out and… got shot.”
“Well...that was probably way before he fuzed back with Heart or was collecting people to make into X-blades...twenty in all…”
“Twenty? Huh… funny.”
“Ironic honestly.” I shrugged. “Twenty balanced hearts, all of their reflections molded into one form...except Heart because he’s a special case.”
“That’s the funny part. Heart is a reflection of Cript, one of many, yet he was the only one merged into that. Makes you wonder if that is what Vincent built him for?”
“Yes. That is exactly what he built him for.” I sighed out. “I...have the blueprints for it, and Nexus people to prove it.”
“Christ…” Kira sighed. “Now I’m really starting to hate Vincent.”
“You’ll learn to hate him even more than you think you would.” I said simply.
“Have you fought him?”
“Yes…” I took a deep breath. “While I was horribly depowered because I was Kite Cooper and didn’t have my full powers at the time...he was about to make sure I didn’t wake up forever until someone else came in to help.”
“Cript?” She asked.
“No, someone completely different that I have never seen before.” I said honestly. “Someone that gave Vincent a taste of defeat...and now he’s basically handing me a whole lot of things if it means he can lose again.”
“Wait wait wait… he wants to lose?”
“He apparently...remembers past cycles somehow...and all he knows is that he’s won ever time.” I said honestly. “He’s basically Saitama at this point if you know what ‘One Punch Man’ is.”
“Saw the anime and read the manga. Part of what I collect.”
“Genos and Sonic are actually a part of my Council, cause apparently Organization 13 had the right idea, just didn’t have the final leader.” I said honestly.
"Sonic the Hedgehog or Sonic the ninja guy with a one sided rivalry with Saitama?"
“Ninja guy.” I said honestly.
"Ah. So, any idea who this mystery ass kicker of Vincent is? Cause anyone that strong is either something to be cautious of, or someone on our side."
“Not a single clue, their entire body was covered without any defining features showing...they might have felt familiar, but I couldn’t tell who they were.” I sighed out.
"So more questions than answers. Got it. Heh, guess when I wake up I can inform everyone else. I know Lan, Dan and Jenny will wanna jump into helping everyone. Alex too but only after his perverted priorities."
“I’m gonna have to talk to each of them soon honestly.” I shrugged. “Cause...well I wanted to go on an adventure with you five again since it’s been forever and a half.”
"Heh. True. Last time we were all together was back in Daybreak and… I think it's when Heart got gender bent and ended up pregnant. Heh, that was hilarious."
“And then we saw that Twilight Thorns are better than Darkseids.” I said proudly. “Still was, and is, awesome.”
"Maybe. Though since becoming an Admin of dreams I'm gonna have to say Dream Eaters might be better than both those. Unversed still suck though."
“Listen, Dream Eaters are adorable.” I said while picking up the Meow Wow she gave me. “Those are awesome, but this is just plain adorable.” I said, the creature meowing in joy at the positive energy in the area.
"To each their own then." Kira laughed. "So, do you still play the Kingdom Hearts games despite… all this?" She motioned around to the air.
“I played, and beat, Kingdom Hearts 3, it’s DLC, and I just learned that there’s a Rhythm game with even more lore behind it that makes Kairi useful and damn it Nomura needs to stop.” I said incredulously at the fact that KH had a god damn rhythm game that’s important to the overarching plot.
Kira laughed. "Oh wow… that's just… wow. I hated the rhythm mini games in those games. Who thought that was a good idea?"
“Nomura.” I deadpanned.
"I wonder if he did that to piss off fans or to see if people would actually buy it?"
“I don’t know, I’ve heard good things about it, but it just makes me angry that there’s important plot stuff in a rhythm game of all things.” I chuckled.
"Like the mobile app was any better?"
“True, but you and the other Foretellers are the only ones I know about that actually gave a crap about the Mobile App, I just liked the movie that they gave.” I shrugged.
Kira shook her head. "We saw the movie, God let us watch it, that's why we went with the Foreteller get up. We didn't know about or care that much about the app."
“Is it...also a reason why I keep seeing the spirit of the Foreteller you represent behind you?” I asked curiously, having noticed the ancient Foreteller several times but wasn’t sure if I was going crazy, it was just in the dream world, or something else.
"Heh… yeah, turns out my family and I are… their reincarnations. Or, one Reflections versions of them. They knew God and made a deal with him for it."
“I mean, how wouldn’t they when Yen Sid is God’s father?” I asked. “And...same with Core...and whoever is training John...I forgot his name for some reason god damn it.” I groaned.
"Hollow." Kira said. "I remember John and that Core called that guy with the black eyes Hollow. So… you heard about Huxley?"
“He dead.” I said bluntly. “Just straight up, tried to take out Core with him...kind of worked.”
"Kind of? Core's still alive?"
“So kind of in the context that Joy found Core’s Nobody...I think, considering he was already a Nobody...after the final fight with Core, working for Kexez, and then massively later on Core became one of the twenty that was needed for Heart.”
"Wait, Core is one of the one's fused with Heart? Is he… still evil?"
“No thankfully.” I said honestly. “And that’s because he finally started caring again...also because we found his wife...er, well Joy found his wife...moreso a Lingering Will of pitch black bones that trained an entire island worth of Keybladers on the One Piece world.”
"Huh… What about the Embodiments of Darkness? Whatever happened to them?"
“Fused with Heart, and by extension, Core fused with his mother.” I said. “Given...Eve was the main Embodiment of Darkness...and his mother.”
"Yeah, I think Steven Universe and Core might wanna make a club then." Kira said with a laugh.
“Oh thank god you know about Steven Universe, cause I haven’t even gotten into the fusion’s yet.” I said happily. “There’s even more family based on fusions, and there’s one fusion kind of...living inside me, because they’re a Symbiote.”
"How the heck does that happen?"
“I don’t know, but then there’s…” I chuckled. “Symbi is a fusion of my Coco, Jericho, and Kexez, who is a floof noodle by the way. And then there’s the fusion of me, Kexez and Jericho that made the most overprotective Floof Noodle, and probably the most tankiest at that, called Mother Russia because she is...she has that ‘aggressively russian’ accent that Kraven the Hunter has in marvel shows.”
"Huh. And the others?"
“Well, there’s Kico, my and Coco’s fusion that can bend dark monofilament like it’s nothing, Cerex who’s a walking talking tank...I don’t remember what the four of us combined was called...Kat is mine and my Rarity’s fusion, don’t ask, we were just thrown on the spot with a name.”
"Wow. Is it fun? What's that like?"
“It’s basically like in Steven Universe, two people becoming a whole new person, but still being your own...and then we had Starfish clones completely negate the ‘diffusion’ part.” I chuckled. “We can try it out if you want Kira, it’s actually really nice.”
"I'll think it over." Kira said. "So, what's with the green stone in your chest up there? That a necklace or something?"
“Oh this?” I asked while touching the green stone on my chest. “It’s uh...so as a branch on the fusion...me, Eclipsa, Jericho, Cript, and Heart and I believe everyone else in our massive harems kind of...fused together, and then starfish cloned ourselves new separate bodies.” I said nervously. “So that gave me the ability to turn into an X-blade, and this gem here...uh, have you heard of Rising of the Shield Hero?”
"Yes- wait what?! You can turn into a X-blade?!"
“Yes I can.” I nodded while turning into my X-blade form real quick. I reverted back after showing her that. “So this gem is basically the gem that the Shield Hero and the other ‘heroes’ weapons have.”
"Woah… so, does.it work the same way then? Does that mean you have various weapon forms?"
“Yes I do.” I said while shifting into Lunatic for starters, the weapon being in it’s evolved form where it looked more like a sword mixed with a scythe with all the lunar motif’s on it.
"Wow… uh… can I… ya know… wield you for a bit? Does it feel weird to be wielded?"
I turned back. “Normally I ask for a date, but we’re friends so it’s all good.” I joked.
"So… that's a yes on the 'it feels weird' then?"
“It doesn't actually feel weird.” I said honestly. “Here, what weapon do you want me to turn into?”
"What's available? So far I only know your Claymore and X-blade forms."
“Yes.” I said. “But more simply all of my weapons as a start.”
"Okay… that includes the book form?"
“Yes it does, as well as an arch staff.” I said while transforming into Book of Retribution and Staff of Leniency.
Kira picked both up, opening up my book half and looking through the pages. "Woah… you sure know a lot."
”You have no idea.” I mentally told her
She flipped through my pages more. Having someone read me like this was… different. It kinda felt like a one sided conversation where I talked and Kira was listening. Well, reading but still. "This is neat, and kinda funny. Like a mix between your autobiography and an encyclopedia."
”Kind of feels like a one sided conversation.” I mentally told her. ”And don’t worry, I have a built in NSFW filter on my pages, just in case you don’t want to see the...hundreds of extra pages…”
"Something tells me that number is missing a few million zeros." Kira said with a laugh. "So, is it okay if I read you like this? I know talking might be better but…This feels more personal."
”Trust me...it’s better you just read it cause I don’t know where to even explain half of this crap…” I mentally sighed out.
"Okay then. This will probably take a while to read everything."
And a while it did take. Time was passing differently in the dream realm compared to the waking realm but even so I felt the years pass, decades, centuries as Kira silently read and learned everything I held within. Save for the NSFW parts I censored out. This was also the longest I've ever been in the form of an object and, honestly I got really used to it. My body, not being organic I felt no aches or stiffness or any of those little annoyances. I just felt Kira holding onto my edges and flipping my pages. The whole time my perception was a sorta 360 angle of my outside cover and also my inside pages. So for all this time I've basically been staring at Kira, as well as the floor, her knees, you get the idea.
I didn't fall asleep at all either. Would be weird to sleep in the sleeping realm but, that is a possibility. Eventually though, about two thousand years later after Kira started it from my birth to the parts of her reading about reading me she finally closed me and hugged me. "You are a good person King." She said gently to me.
”I try my best Kira.” I told her, my book form giving off a comforting warmth as if I’m hugging back.
"You've… all been through a lot. And I can officially say I hate Vincent and Void Key just as much as you do."
”Thank you, now can I turn back into my den mother form and give you a proper hug? Cause Den Mother hugs are amazing.” I mentally told her.
"I bet. Still, having you like this is nice too." She said, giving my book for a tighter hug. "We should… do this again. Maybe next time I can get the others all here and talk and all that. Maybe even finally meet back up in the waking worlds."
”That would be great.” I mentally told her with a smile. ”You can meet the family, all my adorable kids, hell, you can even meet Joy who I keep teasing might date you even if he has a harem of his own because...well last time I saw you, you two would have been perfect together.”
"Heh. Well, I kinda have my eyes on someone already… just need to work up the guts to ask him out."
”Let me guess...Pipsqueak?” I asked, taking a wild guess as to who would be with this adorable bundle of cute and strong.
"That predictable?" She asked me with a blush. "He started off as a student of mine for Keyblade training, but after a while we became friends and… heh, next thing I knew I'm daydreaming about holding his hand and holding onto him and… kissing. Heh, at least becoming an Admin and therefore a super computer didn't affect my emotions."
”Not so much ‘predictable’, as more I just saw you’re strong and adorable, and Pipsqueak has always been an adorable ball of determination and strength, even if he’s not the biggest.” I said honestly.
"Heh, well, I guess you should shift back to normal now." Kira said as she placed me on the seat next to me.
I shifted back to my Den Mother form, picked up Kira and gave her a hug. “This feels better.” I said warmly.
"Woah… you're way softer than I expected… also why are your breasts this soft? I'm into guys and I could touch these all day." She said, pressing a hand into my milk makers.
“Because no matter the gender, breasts are nice.” I said warmly. “Also I make sure to keep myself clean, healthy, and also because I’m from...like, the first Dire Wolf race in existence, so it’s racial bonuses are always a plus.”
"Huh… did turning bi make you way more perverted?"
“Honestly no.” I said honestly. “My wives were always happy to prove I’m a pervert, but after I became like this and learned a bit more...I suppose I stopped being so ‘vanilla’ about things...still pretty vanilla though to be honest.” I said sheepishly.
"Too bad Alex and Pinkie aren't Vanilla… saw their browser history once. All I can say, is Damn." Kira said with a laugh. "So… are you always anthropomorphic or can you also be on all fours?"
“I can turn into a Feral form yes.” I nodded. “And also...trust me, whatever is on their browser history will never match up to Rune and Lyra.” I shivered nervously.
"Rune as in Heart's Rune? Lyra as in Cript's Lyra? Hmm… I don't know if they'd scare Pinkie and Alex or just ascend them to new perverted heights. Kinda wanna know."
“Then give them this.” I said while bringing up a simple leatherbound book. “It’s a copy of Rune’s fetish book...yeah...also on my world, she basically ran the entire Diamond Dog kingdom into an economic revolution with the power of merchandising porn.”
"... I don't know whether that's impressive, disgusting, or hilarious." She said simply.
“We can both agree that it was something alright.” I said honestly. “And the only reason why I fully learned this...my Derpy Hooves was my biggest fan way before we fought Core.”
"Awh. Cute. And I remember that, you censored some parts of that encounter out but I'm guessing… that body pillow has a rather… identical accessory, on it?"
“If memory serves it could become a golem and...do the things it was made for.” I said sheepishly.
Kira laughed. "Wow. Did you at least get paid for all those adult toys they made of you? I can't remember if I read that you did in your book form."
“No, I didn’t, but I was already loaded because I was dating Luna anyways, and then...well you saw how I wrangled my way into getting Rune as my wife.” I said sheepishly.
"As well as every other royal on your world, yes. So, what do you wanna do now? We still have about… half an hour in the waking world so… maybe three, two hundred years before I wake up in my world."
“Hmm…” I hummed. “Not really sure honestly. There’s still a lot we can do."
"Well… I have a few ideas, if that's alright?"
“Have at it, we have all the time in the world.” I said honestly.
"Well… first I was hoping… maybe I could ride on your back while you're in Feral form?"
“You could have just asked that simply.” I chuckled. “But we’re gonna need a proper place for a run, opera houses aren’t good for that.”
"Say no more." Kira said. She snapped her fingers and suddenly we were in a massive… hotspot of various types of lands and echo systems from nature. "Dan built this place to try and help us hone our vampire side… hasn't worked out as well as he wanted."
“Well that depends on what kind of vampire you are.” I said while turning into my Feral form, a towering pique of hunters strength and power, but also the grace and gentleness of a Den Mother. “Cause believe it or not, there are different versions of Vampires.”
"I know that… and Holy Cow you're huge!" She said, floating herself into a proper spot on my back. "Oh wow this feels so nice… " She said, almost melting into my silky soft fur happily.
“Careful there, if you go too deep into my fur you might...accidentally go into a demi plane in my fur...don’t blame me, blame racial traits.” I said sheepishly. “So, just want me to run?”
"I remember reading about that, your fur underneath is a pocket dimension between your fur top and skin. Does anyone live on you?"
“I think there is, but I haven’t checked in a while.” I said honestly, prepping for my run. “But what area do you feel most comfortable with as a Vampire?”
"Doesn't matter really. Technically I'm a half vampire, at least until I drink Virgin blood according to mom. But, I have yet to do that… for many reasons."
“Ah, that’s why.” I said. “So, waiting for that special someone you want to sink your teeth into?” I asked curiously. “Cause consenting virgin blood is a fuck lot stronger than unconsenting...don’t remember why though, there’s too many blood related magics.”
"Well… that and the fact the person has to be not only willing but… well, she said to fully unlock our potential and powers as Vampires we'd need to drink a body's worth of blood. Meaning… we'd kill them. That's the main reason none of us have tried it yet."
“Yeah...that is always a problem.” I sighed out while starting to run. “Does it need to be fresh blood or could you just create a blood bag filled with enough blood to get the job done?”
"Fresh, right from the body while the heart is still beating." She sighed. "It's why, after this, can you maybe teach me to be a predator? I read about you learning to be a true wolf, teaching family and all that. It seemed fun."
“Well…” I started. “I can show you Dire Wolf hunting, I don’t know how different Vampiric hunting tactics are between the two, but the basic principles should still work.”
"Hopefully."
“So, what do you know about hunting?” I asked as I started to run towards a spot I smelled some prime prey.
"Well… I know you're heading towards some prey. What it is, age and how far I can't tell. Can't hear it either. I know our senses are higher now, but it feels like we're sick and can't make full use of them. Mom said that's normal, and sadly won't go away til our… first kill and drink. She says whoever we eat will become part of us, their soul sticking around as long as they were willing when eaten… it still feels wrong though. I mean, it's murder."
“Okay, I see the problem…” I sighed out as I carefully slowed down into the shadows. “I know you’re scared...that you might lose something if you commit to that...but that’s not true.” I said carefully, starting to prowl closer and closer to our prey, even with Kira being right on top of me and with heightened hearing she couldn’t even hear any of my steps. “Whether or not you finally devour someone...know that they were willing to give their life for you.” I said softly, the two of us seeing a pretty delicious looking boar. “But let’s take this boar, what do you think of letting your vampiric thirst take hold and leap into the air and break its neck, and draining it dry because of nature?”
"Well… I've sorta done that before. An elk that ran near the house a month ago. It's just killing a person I'm more uncomfortable with."
“What would you do if you were given someone’s life?” I asked. “Not just some hyperbole...I mean someone literally giving their life to you, for you, and only for you?”
“I dunno… As heroes and Admins we should be giving our lives for others, not the other way around.”
“Sooner or later, you’re going to have to make that choice, whether you want to or not.” I said sadly, completely avoiding the fact that she can just use her admin powers to remove that negative and get all the bonus but knowing she’ll have to grow to learn that...sometimes death happens. “Plus, if you ever do it...Starfish Clones….er….do you even know how to do that yet?”
She shook her head. “We don’t have that yet.”
“Well...I can teach you that if you want.” I said honestly. “It won’t stop the...draining of someone’s blood, but you can maybe give them a body afterwards.”
“Can you use that Ability to make someone else a body?”
“Yes, you read up on how me and the rest of the family have separate bodies even though we fused together.” I said honestly. “As long as you have the soul, which you will have cause they’ll be bound to you, in blood which is really powerful, you can easily make a new body for them. Plus with your Admin abilities you can make that body just as good if not better as the one before.”
“Huh… I guess that’s true. Still, won’t it be painful for them… and traumatic?”
“Pipsqueak wouldn’t care, as long as he’s with you.” I said, dropping the ‘subtlety’ of it and just getting to the point. “For when you finally reach that point in your relationship, he would sooner give his own life to see you happy and healthy rather than injured and sad.” I told her, my voice holding experience and the will to do just that for my family.
“I guess… It just feels weird. I mean, how do I ask him ‘hey, I really like you and wanna date you, and also can I eat your body to gain my full power as a vampire?’”
“Sometimes, the simplest of things is the best solution.” I said honestly. “Just talk to him about it, maybe don’t start with the vampire eating right off rip, but just start by dating the guy first, then go into the more...finer details of being a vampire.” I said honestly. “Just make sure you don’t do the dirty beforehand.”
“I’m not Alex. Pinkie shows off his bite marks like trophies… So, you wanna get that boar or do I?”
“I want to see how you do some good ol boar murder.” I said honestly.
“Alright… So, mind if I get a drop of blood?”
“Have at it.” I said while giving her a drop of blood.
I bit my paw, letting some blood drip as Kira kicked a drop away. Immediately her eyes shifted to crimson and her aura… changed a bit. It was the aura of a top predator, a hunter with no natural predators of its own. She looked over at the Boar’s direction. There was a gust that followed a sonic boom over my back as Kira grabbed the boar by its neck in her mouth, her teeth now thousands of needles that dug deep into the creature’s neck. It twitched and Kira drank its blood rapidly before taking it out of her mouth. “As you can see, Sentient blood gives us power, animal blood just feeds us. That drop will only last about… fifteen minutes or so. Two hours if it’s virgin blood but… you are not one.” She said, tossing the boar’s corpse over to me.
“Nice job.” I nodded. “Also...kind of thought Gargoyles were natural enough…” I muttered to myself, knowing that feeling of a predator with no natural predators against it but thinking that Gargoyles were their natural enemy.
“Well, guess you can teach me about Starfish Clones now... So how does it work? Just a limb or… hair or something?”
“Well, do you know how Starfish regeneration works?” I inquired, wondering if she knows about that.
“When they lose a limb it regrows, but the limb also grows a new body, multiplying the two.”
“Exactly.” I nodded. “When you start off, you’re gonna have to get them new clothes and it’ll need to take an arm, but once you master it, only a drop of blood or some hair will give you a full clone with matching clothes you were wearing...also you share a hive mind so there’s no weird freaky shit happening there.”
“Hive mind? Huh… So almost makes us Omnipresent then?”
“Kind of yeah.” I shrugged. “Need to be at a party but also need to study? There’s a clone for that.” I started. “Need some quick back up to help rescue people from a burning building? There’s a clone for that.”
“And now Alex and Pinkie can do their jobs and screw to their hearts content… You do that too don’t you? Cause when that book form of yours switched from things you were doing to other clones some were completely censored and I guessed you were doing that.”
“I mean...yeah kind of.” I said sheepishly. “Not all the time, but when there’s not much to do or just hanging out with the wives...it can happen.”
“Heh. Well in any case, how do we start this… also, if I remember Correctly Didn’t Cript literally just… snap his fingers or something and you had the ability? Can you do that?”
“Well...I got it from a mix of the CopyCat ability Cript gave me and...well cutting him in half.” I said sheepishly. “But I think I can just give you the ability without doing that…” I said while putting a paw on her head as I focused on giving her the ability to make Starfish Clones.
It was tricky. Turns out I have to use Copy Cat and another Ability, Imprint, an ability that normally just imprints your will onto another to turn them into either an ally or servant, but when used with Copy Cat let me Copy and Imprint Starfish Clone onto Kira. Huh, that was easier than I expected.
“So, is that it?” She asked, looking herself over.
“Yep, just have to give it a try now.” I said honestly. “I don’t know if you’ll need an arm or just some blood, check your assistant for that.”
“Nah.” Kira said… She then bit into her hand, tearing it off while her teeth were still sharp and deadly and spat out the limb. Her hand regrew on her arm and the one on the ground began growing. Slowly but surely. “Cool… ow. No idea how mom makes that look so easy.”
“You get used to it.” I said honestly.
"So how does it work when making someone else a clone?"
“Uh...I suppose when the body is forming, you just put the soul and consciousness into it and...the regeneration does the rest.” I said honestly. “Souls tend to have quite a bit of leeway when it comes to regeneration, for the soul remembers it’s true form, so that’s why regeneration never accidentally fucks up where you have to rebreak something so it can heal properly.”
"So I'll just need a limb or blood from the person then?"
“And considering you’re a vampire, who will have their blood and spirit, it’ll be simple.” I shrugged.
"But you haven't even done that before? How do you know it will work?"
I looked down at the boar corpse below me… perfect, time for a display.
“Let’s take this boar for example.” I said while starting to devour the boar, which tasted pretty good even if it was a dream boar, and after I ate enough i pulled a strand of hair off my body and let it fall,it regenerating into the boar I just ate, it taking a little longer than my usual clones since this is the first time I’m using it on something that didn’t have the clone ability but it still came to life rather quickly.
With that the boar ran off into the tall grasses. “Huh. Well that’s good to know. So, what kind of Vampire am I then? Mom never said really.”
“Sometimes it’s hard to tell what species a Vampire is...but considering your race cares a whole lot about the Sanctity of the Blood you consume, the strongest you can be, as well as how you even get your full powers being of a willing participant, without any magics involved…” I thought for a moment, trying to cycle through all the species names for Vampires. "Ironically, they're called the Seraph, cause of how they accept blood, and later in their generational line they gain quite a bit of holy abilities, and irony takes hold because of their origins."
"There's a lot of irony in monster lore."
"Oh yeah." I agreed. "But if memory serves, your race is the monsters that the faithful need.
"Heaven's Devil. At least that's one of mom's titles."
"Yeah that sounds about right." I nodded. "So, want to continue hunting?"
"We do still have a few hundred years. Wanna hunt something that fights back?"
"That would be fun." I nodded with a smile.
"Neat. How about… sky sharks?"
"Just Sky Sharks?" I inquired, wondering if there was something else to them.
"Well, they range from ones like the great whites, hammer heads, Megalodon, to giant planet eaters. Still want more?"
"Sounds like fun." I chuckled. "Let's go shark hunting."
And so, we did. Once we killed them we stored their meat and bones away, for later use if nothing else and went on to taking out Sky Sharks the size of the moon! It was fun, because I was with Kira. It also taught her a lot about her more primal instincts and abilities as a vampire.
Sadly though we were down to our last day. A few seconds left in the waking world and only a day's worth of time for us here. Kira and I were spending it cuddled in a grassy field. "You are so freaking warm." Kira sighed, half blanketed by my fur.fur.
“I have heard that a lot.” I chuckled. “And it’s always nice to know I’m a good cuddler.”
"Heh. So, wanna hang out again?"
“Of course.” I said happily. “And we can get the others in and have more fun.” I said, my massive tail wagging in joy at being with old friends again after so long.
Kira laughed, shuffling her felt more under my fur. "I've missed you all a lot. I'd think back often and wonder if we could have spent more time together, if that stupid argument could have just been avoided. Hey, when you wake back up in the Waking Worlds, Tell Heart I'm sorry all that happened, both the argument and everything he went through. I know he only ever wanted a normal life. At least he learned to love the life he has it seems."
“I will...and I’m sorry, I was either too busy or...just kind of forgot given all the craziness to actually visit…”
"Same on our end, life just took the wheel."
“Sadly that tends to happen.” I sighed out.
"So, anything you wanna talk about in general? Been anyplace new?"
“Well...I was planning on a new Admin Game when I was done with Kite’s stuff…” I said honestly. “Have you heard of a show and Card Game called Chaotic?”
"Not completely. I think Alex talked about it once or twice but I don't fully remember. I didn't grow up with much tv and only recently got multidimensional television/Netflix."
“Surprising.” I said honestly. “What about you? Anything you want to talk about?”
"Well…" Kira said thoughtfully. "That… deal you made with Vincent. Are you actually gonna venture outside our Matrix Simulation?"
“I have to.” I said honestly. “If it means breaking this damned cycle once and for all, and showing Truth he’s nothing more than a sack of shit, then I’ll literally drag heaven and hell with me.”
"Just don't do it alone okay? You should never do anything alone."
“So far, it’s just me and you that knows what I’m gonna do...I haven’t told the others yet cause...well this is some serious stuff I don’t want them getting into until after I’ve at least tested the waters.”
She flicked my nose. Ow! "Dummy. Tell them. If you don't then you're just undoing all their hard work towards helping you. You don't want all their good will towards helping you going to waste because of your stupidity do you?"
“My nose…” I whined as I put a paw on my flicked nose. “But again, I’m testing it out first, there’s a difference… besides, they probably wouldn’t fully believe me… Cript and Lord maybe, the others… not so much.”
Ow! Again, my nose! "Despite having been a mother you are still as dense as any guy." Kira sighed.
“I’m sorry I’m more concerned about their safety.” I frowned. “Besides, I’m Deathless, most of my immediate family isn’t.” I grumbled. “I take this shit seriously, less harm done to my family the better.”
"Eclipsa and Heart aren't Deathless?"
“No, the only ones that are Deathless is Cript and Jericho, and both are busy… I at least know about Jericho since he’s fused with Kexez in the Heroes Tomb dungeon at the moment… wait, no he defused to scold Cript for doing something dumb.”
"Heh. Definitely gonna try that fusion thing some time. Sounds fun. So, any other grand plans on places to venture?"
“Honestly… no idea.” I stated simply. “There’s a lot of places to go but...I have a lot of shit to do that’s really important.”
“Shit your family literally pried out of your hands so you can have free time for self enjoyment?”
“I mean, when you have two writers on opposite ends of pop culture knowledge, it can be a little difficult sometimes.” I shrugged.
“When did you start breaking the fourth wall?”
“I have done it a time or two before all of this, but it really came about when I married Eclipsa.” I shrugged.
“Picked up the habit then? Heh, so, build any cool stuff?”
“Well considering Lord is helping me build stuff, it can range anywhere from weapons, to mechs, to a lot of other things.”
“Neat.”
"It is very neat." I said honestly. "Wish you could see it...but you're off somewhere."
"I can see them when we meet up in the waking worlds. So, you heard about Melody of Memory?"
"That was the rhythm game I was harping on before." I pointed out. ut. "So yes, I do know about it."
"Kinda hard to believe it's a thing. Still, as long as it's not another Atlantica level."
"From what I've seen it's actually good." I said honestly.
"Hopefully. So, play the KH3 DLC?"
"Yes I have, and it's both amazing and slightly disappointing." I said honestly. "Amazing because...well it's amazing, it's slightly disappointing on how little you can play the other characters, especially the super bosses."
"I'm still stuck on the data org. And I thought they were hell in the final mix of KH 2…"
"Oh yeah, they are a whole lot harder in this one than in the previous." I agreed.
"Don't even get me started on Critical mode. It felt like Dark Souls 3 on drugs."
"Not...really." I said honestly. "Dark Souls is at least fair when you get hit. KH3 Crit is unfair because you can just...die out of nowhere."
"Why do you think I added the 'on drugs' part?"
"You don't know Dark Souls on Drugs." I chuckled. "But either way, each are difficult in their own ways."."
"Ten rem says next fever dream game is an online mmo rpg."
“You make it sound like it’s never going to happen.” I said honestly. “They almost have it with Union Cross to be honest.”
"Yeah, true. Close enough, but once they make one for PC, all the chips are gonna fly."
“And it’ll only go down hill even faster.” I chuckled.
"Can't be any worse than fallout 76 at launch."
“Oh that’s for sure.” I chuckled. “God that game was...and still is terrible.”
"Heh. Have you even tried to play it all the way through the main quest?"
“No, never played it.” I said honestly. “And never will, doesn’t mean me seeing others play it and prove my point right invalidates that.”
"Har har. Fallout 4 then?"
“Joy did, the game looks fine...honestly I just can’t get into Fallout, same for the Elder Scrolls games…”
"Weird. So, Dead Space? Dark Souls? Spider man ps4? Fall Guys?"
“Haven’t played, Beat, haven’t played, and haven’t played.” I said honestly. “I’ve been busy, especially when I’ve been busy showing people the wonders of everything mostly before the PS3 era of stuff, cause while the Wii and Xbox 360 had great games, it’s before that that really shows what great games are.”
"You mean before devs could update unfinished games after release and had originality?"
“I didn’t know you could read minds.” I joked with a knowing chuckle.
"Even I realized that after first playing Skyrim. Good game… so many bugs…"
“It’s Bethesda, what did you expect?” I pointed out.
"Eh. So, seen My Hero Academia?"
“It’s amazing.” I said honestly. “One of the best anime’s out there.”
"The sequel anime to Inuyasha?"
“I haven’t seen it yet, but I’ve heard it’s good.” I nodded. “Still can’t believe it’s gotten a sequel after it ended in 2004.”
"By the same creator too. That's a bonus."
“Oh yeah, that’s always a bonus.” I said honestly.
Kira sighed happily, hugging my arm gently.
I smiled and softly nuzzled Kira. “This is nice.” I said simply.
"Yeah. Can't do this with the others. Haven't done this in years with Lan, he's just been busy. Dan is never one for physical affection. Part of why he and Dash both work so well. Jenny is too… tough. Alex… nope."
“Sounds like you need more cuddles in your life.” I said honestly. “And at least three of them need to learn how to cuddle from a cuddle master.”
"Oh I'll happily pay to watch you cuddle them into embarrassment."
“I’ll do it free of charge.” I said happily. “Cuddles are for everyone, safe, not lewd, and just wonderful all around.” I said as I cuddled up to Kira more.
"Hehe. Yay. So, what will you do when you wake up?"
“My main point of view is the infant so...whatever babies get up to I suppose.” I shrugged. “Nothing special, I think the next chapter in my story is...more Heroes Tomb, if yes can one of the authors give us candy?”
"You didn't eat your fill back at the theater?"
“People thought I was the new symbol for Vore because I beat an eating challenge that killed the owner of the store.” I stated. “And then it was swapped to Eclipsa cause...well, while I’ve gotten used to it because of all the Naga stuff and I think it’s fine overall...still a little weird sometimes.”
"I read that… honestly it was gonna be that or gluttony."
“I’m still shocked it’s not lust.” I said honestly. “I mean seriously, have you seen my ass and titties?” I asked...and then quickly realising this was getting a little lewd. “Uh...sorry, didn’t mean to say that…” I blushed in embarrassment.
"I might still be young physically but mentally I'm thousands of years old thanks to Admin brain and the ability to alter the flow of time in the dream realms aged me mentally."
“Well, I wanted to respect not getting this all lewd and stuff.” I said sheepishly.
"Yeah, not gonna let that happen. Alex… can't speak for. I prefer wholesomeness."
“Cause you are an adorable little cinnamon roll.” I said while starting to tickle Kira, not knowing if she’s ticklish but willing to figure it out.
She laughed, trying to push my hands away. "Stop! Dang it! Stop!" She begged through laughter.
“Okay okay.” I giggled, stopping my sudden tickle attack. “You’re just too cute Kira.” I admitted as I nuzzled her again.
"Yes I am. Cute, and Deadly."
“Give me a growl Kira.” I said with a smile. “Show me how deadly you are.”
The sound Kira made genuinely did worry me considering the only other being I've heard make anything like that was Cthulu him fucking self. Christ I forgot how OP Alushy is at times.
“I was expecting more...adorable ‘grr’...not eldritch horror.” I said sheepishly.
"Did you forget who my mother is? And dad? Ya know, possibly one of the most mentally unstable and powerful vampires in creation. And then Dad, the most overpowered being rivaling Vincent and Lord. Not sure Dad and Lord have ever fought…"
“I believe Cript has fought Lord before, and he actually lost from what I remember.” I said honestly.
"You sure?"
“Yeah, I think I was told that a...long time ago.” I said honestly. “Even asked who would win considering...well Cript is Cript, but considering Lord was his boss before hand...well you kind of get the idea.”
"Huh. What is Lord like? I've heard this and that from mom but never actually met him."
"So let me preface this with him being a good person...but he's a needlessly cryptic asshole half the time." I said honestly. "But he's helping me and everyone else with a lot of things so...I can at least excuse it sometimes."
"Does he do it on purpose or…?"
“Being a cryptic asshole? I’m pretty sure he does it on purpose but I don’t fully know...I can never read that guy.” I frowned.
“Guess that just comes with being an ancient admin.” Kira shrugged.
“Maybe, also because he might have some brain damage from all the Deletes he’s fought.” I shrugged.
“Odds are we’ll never know.”
“Most likely.” I said honestly. “But we might learn it through some weird shenanigans.”
“Heh. So, are you gonna try and fight him?”
“Maybe.” I said simply. “I doubt I could beat him to be honest, but sooner or later I might give it a shot.”
“That sounds cool, should be good training. Maybe you should try and fight mom, see how she fights.”
“Maybe I should give that a try.” I said honestly. “Haven’t actually fought any of the family to be honest.”
“Surprising.”
“Well...I’d rather not hurt them…” I said sheepishly. “Fighting family...never feels right…”
“It’s just for training and fun.”
“Yeah...but I don’t want to hurt my family still.” I said sheepishly.
"Then spar with someone on your level, like Jericho, Spike, Squirrel, Tiara, Heart, Cript, Scootaloo. One of them."
“I’ll at least give it a try.” I sighed out. “Doesn’t mean my den mother instincts won’t like it…”
"True. What about simulations? I heard there's a mega simulator that makes the Mirage Arena look like bad VR."
“I mean...I figured out not too long ago that the Mushroom 13 was actually thirteen pieces to the Admin of Challenges, where their Arena is...literally above my castle.” I said honestly. “But I have heard that the Mega Simulators are coming along well enough.”
"Why not try both then?"
“Haven’t fully had the time.” I sighed out. “But I think I can make room in my normally busy schedule for it.”
"Considering they ripped a trillion things out of your hands, that works out."
“That’s fair, but I am still busy.” I said honestly. “But I shall give that a try sooner or later.”
"Good." Kira said with a nod.
All good things sadly had to end. I awoke from my nap, back in baby form, still inside Eclipse but I wasn't alone. I was surprised to see Eclipsa was here… okay so maybe we're inside Heart now. Guess dream realm sleep is just that deep.
Currently Eclipsa was completely coiled around me and she held me so when I wanted I could nurse from her.
”Hey Eclipsa?” I mentally called out, gently patting her cheek. ”Not sure if telepathy still works as an infant…”
She didn't wake up. She was pretty well off snoozing herself. I just nursed and thankfully that woke her up. "Oh, my little puppy is awake I see." She cooed to me and gently hugged me. "Glad you enjoyed your nap."
”Can you hear me?” I mentally called out to the Naga. ”I have important information, I met Kira!”
She simply kissed my head and burped me once I stopped nursing. "There there. Surprised to see me here huh?" Yeah she can't hear me. Wow she really wanted to baby me like baby baby. "I can actually swallow myself. It's a little weird but useful." Oh, so we are inside her still… huh.
”Darn it, I have important things to say.” I mentally whined, gently patting my paws on her and pointing to my mouth, trying to show I have important things to say.
"Still hungry?" She asked, trying to get me to nurse again.
Oh forget it. With a huff I shifted myself back to an adult. Scaring Eclipsa and promptly positioning us in a rather sex ready possission as we now we're eye to eye.
“I met Kira in the dream world.” I told her. “Also seriously? Can’t even talk to you mentally?”
"... Oh. How is Kira, I haven't seen them since the Darksider/Twilight Thorne fight." And so I promptly told her everything Kira and I did while in the sleeping realm, well more of a summarized version cause every detail would have taken thousands of years. "Wow. I'm so happy for them. I was wondering how they've been since we haven't had a crossover with them in years."
“I kept apologizing to them...having wanted to spend time with them for a long time but it never happened cause we were busy.” I sighed out.
"We'll have to go visit them soon. And yes, I loved caring for Heart, King. Being a mom is what I love. I love it. I know you didn't opt for what Heart did, so I… made up the difference."
“I know I know.” I said while softly nuzzling Eclipsa. “And you’re a wonderful mother.” I said warmly.
"Awh." She said, giving me a kiss on the nose. "So, wanna… fool around a bit before becoming a baby again?"
“I’m always ready for fooling around with the one’s I love.” I said happily, kissing Eclipsa happily to show I’m ready.
She kissed back and I didn't even care about where we were. It was passion, it was love, and it was sloppy.
I'd love to get into the sticky, sweaty details but all you need to know is Eclipsa and I just conceived a few… trillion more babies before I finally shifted back into one myself after a shower. Now Eclipsa happily held me, the two of us on the couch with The Nanny playing.
I cuddled up to Eclipsa happily, loving the time we’re spending together.
It was a few hours before Heart came back home. He sat onto the couch, gave a kiss to Eclipsa and one to me as well. "So, what I miss today? King enjoy the Mall?"
I wasn’t sure how to show the mall was boring as shit...but I just shook my head cause the mall was boring as shit.
Heart saw my head shake and laughed. "So, any news?"
“I met Kira.” I told Heart, given I gave myself the ability to talk real quick.
Heart more or less… tensed up at hearing that. He shuttered in his breathing a bit before getting up and going outside to the backyard. I sighed, shifting back to an Adult and walking outside after him. I spotted them next to balcony railings… he was having a smoke? Since when does Heart smoke?
“Since when do you smoke?” I asked curiously. “And we...need to talk about that.”
"I only smoke when I get bad news." Heart sighed. "It's not like it will kill me as an admin anyway. Only side effect from this will be the smell, and even then I could alter that so I smell like an ocean breeze." He huffed.
“So me and Kira spent...god knows how long in the dream realm...and she told me a little bit about your...argument, and how the argument was a mistake.”
"Hm." Heart replied, taking a pull off the cigarette. "They called me over about what happened to Daybreak. I just got Adminhood shoved down my throat and suddenly it was like everything Pecator was afraid of made complete sense. It's like we stand I front of a control panel, every button on it a person and with just a push we can control them, take away free will, split them from their body to make Heartless, Nobodies, half's like Vanitas. Alter, move or erase their memories, their hopes and dreams. Or just kill them. It's terrifying."
“That’s what happens when you have great power.” I said honestly. “But with great power, comes great responsibility.”
"I don't think quoting Peter Parker's uncle is applicable here… They demanded to know why I let Daybreak fall. I told them Daybreak isn't the place, it's the people. The only casualties that day were the guards who helped evacuation. Not a single civilian casualty that day, did they care? No. They said leaving Daybreak in my care was a mistake, that letting all that history and culture fall to rubble prooved that I'm an incompetent leader.
"I never asked to be leader. I created Daybreak's council specifically to avoid being the leader." Heart then summoned the X-blade. "But because I had this… it was like having a crown embedded in my skull." He disbanded it. "I called them children, ignorant and just as stupid as their predacessors for caring more about the world than their people. I told them their unions were just their way of having a disposable army. The Foretellers of the past led a multiversal genocide over a lie told by their master, and they would be leading their current unions down the same path with their way of thinking.
"Then… Jenny and Lan, Dan and Alex tried attacking. Immediately, their Keyblades rejected them, and returned to me. I tried getting their Keyblades to go back to them… but they're loyalties are forever to me… and I saw how afraid they were of me… so I left. I haven't spoken to them since."
“Kira at least wants to try.” I said honestly. “At least give her a try...she sounded like the only one that didn’t want to fight.”
"I know… she just… cried. Softly. I dunno if they just didn't hear her or didn't acknowledge it… I'm barely used to feeling good about myself. One at a time, I guess I can talk to them like that… but not all at once… and Lan… I'll talk to last…"
“That’s fine.” I nodded. “I’m planning on talking to all of them first, but Alex is gonna be last cause...well he just can not keep it in his pants with his Pinkie.” I said sheepishly. “Kira’s words, not mine.”
That managed to get a chuckle out of Heart. "Yeah. Then again, compared to us he's basically a rookie."
"Oh yeah." I chuckled. "I actually had to censor out...a lot when Kira basically read my life's story when I turned into Book of Retribution."
"Heh. Yeah that would need some military grade censoring… still, I can't belive it… so, Admins of Dreams huh? Heh, yeah, that fits."
"Yeah, I always thought they would be dreams all things considered." I said honestly.
"Well… guess meeting them again was inevitable. So, what now?"
"Well...you won't be alone in those meetings." I said simply. "But right now...Kira gave me a suggestion, and that's fighting my family." I said honestly. "Or sparring more like."
"Oh, really? You mean aside from a few rounds in the sack?" Heart joked. "I smelled the sex on you two the second I got to the driveway."
"Well...I needed to talk to Eclipsa, and she did not let me talk in any form, so I had to turn myself back into an adult." I said honestly. "Then...well they asked and I couldn't just say no."
Heart laughed. "Fair enough. She has a scary amount in common with Lyra. So, wanna keep being a baby for a while longer or wanna try something else?"
“Well, what’s the ‘something else’?” I asked curiously.
"You said you wanted to spar. We can try that? Eclipsa tried sparing before, when Cript gave Leon that bullet and gun that knocked her out. I know she wants a rematch and we should be working on a work/life balance. Training sounds the best option."
“Sounds about right.” I nodded. “Well, want to head to an arena to start sparring?”
"Sure."
“Cool.” I nodded. “Just have to tell Eclipsa real quick.” I said while going back inside. “Yo Eclipsa, me and Heart are going to an arena to spar, want to watch?”
"Yes." She replied with a nod. She got up and slithered over. "This will be cool."
"I'm sure it will." I chuckled. "I've only fought Hearts absent silhouette so it's been a while."
"Gonna fight the genuine article then?"
“And the genuine article is going to be a bigger pain in my ass to fight.” I groaned.
"Maybe. Was when we fought." Eclipsa said with a nod. "It's how he ended up choosing me as his wielder. I know you've wielded him too before, but if you win, I bet Heart will add you to his list of chosen wielders."
"It was less about Heart being there and more the 'Wielders of the X-Blade' kind of thing." I said honestly.
"Either way. Well, let's get going. Gonna make an arena or pick one that already exists?"
"Better to pick one." I shrugged. "Cripts probably got one around that won't break under the stress."
"Alright, let's go then." Eclipsa said. With that we joined Heart outside, found the perfect arena and were off.