I awoke in a strange grass covered field, I glanced around as I had no idea how I had gotten here. “Shit, was I drugged last night?” I muttered to myself as I rose from the ground and began looking around for any sign of what happened to me. There were no forests nearby nor any signs of human activity around, recent or otherwise, it was as if I was just placed down here by random chance. “What the hell happened” I muttered while looking around my pockets, my phone was missing, so was my wallet and keys. I had a dark realization as I shouted “Shit.” and pulled my shirt up and frantically started looking for any stitches on my body. I sighed when I couldn't find any indications that I had any of my organs stolen. Which raised the question, ‘what happened to me and where was I?’
“Ah I see you’ve awoken.” A voice spoke from behind me. I quickly turned around to see a man sitting on a leather chair that was definitely not there before drinking from a mug. “Where are my manners? Why don’t you take a seat.” the man said as he waved his free hand in a circular motion and a second leather chair appeared out of thin air.
“What the hell!” I said jumping back a bit.
The man chuckled as he spoke, “I take it the memories haven’t come back yet.” he smiled and with a wave his hand I started to see flashes of light around me. I began to see flashes of memories from the past day. It was all blurry but I could make out some details.
I began to remember. I was returning from camping out in the wilds of British Columbia with some friends when we hit some kind of a military roadblock, apparently something crazy was happening, some kind of doomsday cult or something had been causing problems all over the world and the military was being overwhelmed. Many cities in North America had been taken over by looters and it wasn’t safe to return to the city anymore. My friend who was driving called it a bluff to deal with crazy people and drove onto the off road much to the disagreement of me and my other friend.
My memory gets a little fuzzy after this but the next thing that I remember was that sometime right before midnight I was laying in a pool of blood with a bullet wound in my shoulder and some prick saying something about he would have let me live if I just told him where some girl I had no info about was. The very last thing I remember before waking up here was the sound of a gun firing.
I collapsed on the ground as I began hyperventilating and struggled to ask the question “I’m I dead?”
The man chuckled and said “No, no.” before he took a sip from his mug. “You were saved at the last moment by me.” The man explained as he rose from his seat and the grassy field we were in started to spin and change around us to show what he was talking about. “See yesterday or rather the day you remember as yesterday was December 21’st 2012, the day the Mayan calendar ended as well as the day that some theorized the world would end and those theories were right in a way,” The world around us changed back into a grassy field as the man sat back down in the leather chair and finished explaining “In other words yesterday was a test to see if the end game would Humanity band together to fight the darkness or keep squabbling amongst each other for dominance as a greater threat appeared.”
“So why am I here? I didn’t fight if I remember correctly I was a coward yesterday.” I explained.
“Yes you were but you fell under the rules I had in place for yesterday.” He said as a book appeared in his hands “You were peaceful yesterday you didn’t fight or harm anyone so by the rules I made up for this test you passed, you are of course you are free to return to your world as if yesterday never happened with no memory of it happening, or you can take the more interesting option.”
“What would that be?” I asked curious.
“Power, knowledge, whatever you want. With a catch, once you choose this option there is no going back to Earth, understand?”
“*Gulp* understood. But is it just the one thing I can get or can I get multiple things?”
“Take as much as your heart desires.” The old man explained.
“First I want to know the full story of the Xehanort Saga of Kingdom Hearts.”
“Weird, may I ask why?” The man asked.
“Two reasons, the first is a test, to see what you can offer, the second is to help me learn some things.”
“Alright, but this might hurt.” The old man said as I was about to ask why before a small bolt of lightning hit my head.
“GAH!” I shouted, grabbing my head in pain before falling to the ground as a flash of every Kingdom Hearts cutscene played in my head at once.
“Warned you. Knowledge isn’t an easy thing to add to someone, but eh you got what you wanted, so what-cha gonna do with that knowledge?”
I got off the ground with a heavy breath “I want the No-Name Keyblade and some more knowledge this time on magic.”
The old man smiled as he waved his left hand in a circle and the Keyblade appeared in my hand. “Now I think you know what happens next.” he said as the small bolt of lighting struck me again. “Now this time I didn’t give you all the knowledge you were expecting at once, gotta let you learn and master it after all.”
“Uggg.” I muttered getting up from the ground and shaking myself off. “Okay I think I’m ready to go, just send me off somewhere where I can have an interesting adventure.”
“Alright and ‘May your heart be your guiding Key.” the old man said as I vanished.
In the forests north of Ponyville Trixie Lulamoon sat down at her camp watching the stars, “Tomorrow night is the night Eh Luna?” She mused to herself as she took a bit out of her dinner. She smiled as in a few weeks she’d be in the town of Ponyville, where she could make some bits and then be off to Canterlot. She sighed as she looked up at the moon and muttered “May your heart be your guiding Key”