//------------------------------// // New Threat // Story: My Little Kingdom Hearts: Hearts Are Power // by Ultimauser50 //------------------------------// -The next morning- Celestia is taking a stroll through the garden until she spots Luna on the ground seemingly lifeless. “Luna!” Celestia runs to her sister and helps her up. “Sister! Are you alright?!” Luna’s eyes slowly begin to open. “T-Tia? I-Is that you?” “Yes! It’s me Luna! What happened?!” “L-Last night, I was, a-attacked, by a boy. With a…keyblade.” Celestia’s eye pupils shrank at the word ‘keyblade’ “Could it be that ‘he’ attacked?” Celestia then took a quick look to her left and saw that Discord’s statue had disappeared causing her to shiver. “No! It cannot be! It’s far worse than I thought. Guards!! Guards!!” Two guards approach Celestia and salute her as they halt in front of her. “Yes, your highness!” “Take my sister to the infirmary, and call my students! It seems there mark of mastery test will be held earlier than planned.” “Yes ma’am!” the two guards shouted as they took Luna and left. Celestia slowly approached where Discord’s statue once stood. “To think he enlisted that lunatic. I can only hope this’ll work.” -2 hours later- Twilight, AppleJack, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, and Rarity are in throne room wait for Celestia to arrive. “That’s odd.” said Twilight rubbing her chin. “What’s that Twi?” asked AppleJack. “I thought our mark of mastery exam was supposed to be next week. It’s kinda out of the blue to just have it today.” “Maybe something came up?” asked Fluttershy. “I hope not.” replied Rarity. Celestia then walked into the throne room and sat on her chair. “Welcome my students, I’m sorry for calling on you on such short notice, but I’m afraid we ‘must’ have your test today.” “But why princess?” asked Twilight. “What came up?” “If you pass your test, I will inform you, but for now I need you all to focus on your test.” Everyone saluted the princess. “Yes ma’am!” “Now you’re test is this: Do you remember those two individuals that cause trouble in the market place?” “Yes ma’am.” replied everyone. “I heard that even the royal guards can’t catch them.” said Rarity. “And that is your mark of mastery test, if you can catch those two and bring them to me, you all will pass.” “You can count on us ma’am!” said Pinkie Pie whimsically. “Let’s go girls!” shouted Twilight. “Right!” The girls ran out of the throne room. “Good luck girls, for you’re next adventure maybe more dangerous then I had hoped.” -In the market place- A homeless kid is sneaking about and sees an apple on a kart and takes it and runs as fast as he can. “Hey!!” shouted the merchant as he chased after the kid. “Get back here and pay for that!” The kid keeps running as fast as he can and ducks behind an alley but stops in horror when he notices it’s a dead end. The merchant catches up with the boy and slowly begins to approach him. “Alright, kid. Last chance, give me the apple, and I won’t call the guards!” The kid clutches the apple and slowly backs up. The merchant was about to grab the kid until a trash can lid flies out of nowhere and slams into the back of the merchants head. “Grah!!” shouts the merchant as he falls to his knees and looks to see who threw the lid. “What?!?! I-It’s you two?!” Two figures in brown cloaks walk up to the merchant. “Let the kid go.” said the first figure. “Get outta here kid. It’s not safe for you here.” said the second on the right. “Th-Thank you.” the kid said weakly as he ran at top speed out of the alley. “Curse you two! That kid is getting away!!” yelled the merchant. “So? That kid was obviously have a hard time getting by, it was just one apple anyway, I don’t see what the big deal is.” said the second figure. “Grr! You two, you’ll regret this!” the merchant then ran off. “I’ll call the guards on you two.” The two figures began to laugh as they took off there hood revealing them to be Rainbow Dash and me. “HAHAHAHAH!!! He obviously doesn’t know who we are!” laughed Rainbow Dash. “HAHAHAHAH!! Like calling the guards will do much, we’ve been evading them for years!” I laughed. “So, what should we do? Stick around or just leave?” “Meh, lets leave we can get our exercise after lunch.” “Right.” Rainbow Dash and I disappear. The merchant runs up to his shop and begins to write a letter until he sees Twilight. “Oh, miss Twilight!” “Hm? Oh, hello mister. How can we help you today?” “Those two thieves just helped a child steal one of my apples!” “Perfect timin’ we were just lookin’ fer those two.” said AppleJack pulling out Cider Buster. “Thank you girls, I saw the heading off over there.” the merchant points to said location. “Please catch them.” “Don’t worry sir!” said Twilight in a heroic voice. “We’ll catch them, we promise! Let’s go girls!” “Right!” The girls run off with there keyblades in hand. With me and Rainbow Dash we slyly walk by a pear kart and as we walk away we start to eat a pear while gently laughing. “That was too easy.” I laughed. “It’s like they don’t even pay attention anymore.” Rainbow Dash chuckled as she took a bite of her pear. “Stop right there criminal scum!” shouted Twilight. “Really? That’s really what you’re going with?” asked Rarity. “What, it’s a great heroic line!” “I liked it!” shouted Pinkie Pie with a wide smile. “Thank you Pinkie, now let’s-” Twilight was then interrupted by my and Rainbow Dash’s laughter. “BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Are you serious?! Are you guys really the chosen five trained by Celestia herself?!” laughed Rainbow Dash. “HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Stop! I can’t breath! HAHAHAHA” Twilight and her friends became irritated and they all pulled out there keyblades causing me and Rainbow Dash to stop laughing for a moment. “Hm, maybe they are for real.” I said taking a bite from my pear. “There swords remind me of that one guard that was chasing us.” Huh? A guard with a keyblade? Twilight thought. “Oh! You must mean Shinning Armor!” “Was that his name?” I asked. “I dunno, I didn’t ask.” “Shinning Armor is my brother! And I don’t know how you two got away from him, but I can assure you both that neither of you will get away!” “Is that right? Well then little lady, come and get us!” both me and Rainbow Dash pull out smoke pellets and toss them to the ground causing the girls to cough while Rainbow Dash and I made our escape. Twilight barely saw Rainbow Dash and I run off and her keyblade began to glow. “Oh no you-*cough* don’t! Wind!” raising her keyblade to the sky, Twilight summoned a powerful gust of wind to form blowing the smoke away. “Don’t let them get away!!” “Right!” replied everyone as they charged off. “Yo! Rainbow!” “Yeah?” “Let’s split up! We can regroup later!” “Right!” With that me and Rainbow Dash took off in opposite directions causing the girls to stop. “Pinkie Pie, you and Fluttershy, deal with the boy. Me, AppleJack, and Rarity can handle the girl.” “Right!” Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy took off with the others heading off to get Rainbow Dash. Rainbow Dash looks around her checking to make sure she wasn’t followed. “Well, the coast looks clear so far. Who knows, maybe we already gave em’ the slip.” as Rainbow Dash looked in front of her she saw Rarity and AppleJack in her path with keyblades at the ready. “Uh oh. Not good.” Rainbow Dash stops quickly and runs down an alley path and wall jumps of the narrow walls and begins to jump from roof top to roof top trying desperately to escape the two keyblade wielders. With Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie, they were checking in all the alleyways and behind every crate and barrel making sure I wasn’t hiding behind anything. “Man, where could he have gone? He couldn’t have gotten very far.” said Pinkie Pie scratching her head. “Maybe he’s hiding on the roof tops?” “Nah, I doubt he’d do something that crazy.” Just then Fluttershy saw me jump over Fluttershy’s head. “Uh, Pinkie?” “Not now Fluttershy, I’m thinking. Hmm…maybe he went home?” “Or maybe he’s up there?” Fluttershy pointed at a roof top and Pinkie Pie nearly dropped her keyblade. “Fluttershy! Why didn’t you tell me?!” Pinkie Pie then dashed off in hot pursuit. Fluttershy had an annoyed look on her face. “I did tell you.” Fluttershy then ran off to catch up with Pinkie Pie. Meanwhile, Rainbow Dash was starting to get descent distance between her and AppleJack and Rarity. “Finally, I think the worst is over.” suddenly Rainbow Dash bumped into Twilight. “Huh?! What the-?! How did you get up here?!” “I can use magic with my keyblade, duh.” “Oh, right.” “Now, are you gonna surrender? Or does this get ugly?” “Alright, I guess it’s no use to-PHSYCE!!” Rainbow Dash instantly pulls out powder from her back pocket and throws it in Twilight’s face hitting her eyes and causing her to cough up a storm. “Haha! See ya sucker!” Rainbow Dash jumped off the roof and landed in a mobile kart undetected. “W-*cough* *cough* Wait! G-Get ba-*cough* *cough* back here!” Twilight then fell to her knees coughing. “Haha! She’ll be coughing for hours. Now All I’ve gotta do is ride this kart all the way back to the hideout.” Meanwhile, Pinkie Pie was already catching up me until I had slipped and fell off the roof top and landed inside a pile of boxes. Pinkie Pie jumps down and lands in front of me and holds out her hand. “Are you okay?” “Y-Yeah, I think so.” “Good. So are you gonna surrender now?” “Sure, I just need to check one thing first.” I started to search in my pocket for something. “Goodie! So, what are you checking on?” “My smoke bombs!” I quickly throw it on the ground and dash out of the alley way and run at top speed. “There getting closer and closer. I gotta stop fooling around and just get back to the hideout!” Pinkie Pie slowly walks out of the alley coughing with Fluttershy finally catching up. “Pinkie? Are you alright?” “*cough* *cough* Y-Yeah, I’m al-*cough* *cough* alright.” “Which way did he go?” Pinkie Pie pointed behind her. “Th-That *cough* way.” “Right!” Fluttershy ran at top speed eventually catching up to me. “Oh come on! Do theses people ever give up?!” I reach into both of my pockets and grab a handful of smoke bombs and drop them leaving a huge wave of smoke behind me. “Ha! Try and catch me now!” Fluttershy raises her keyblade to the sky and the tip begins to glow. “Wind!” she shouted as a huge gust of wind blew the smoke away in an instant. “Oh so they have magic now? Great, just great.” Unknown to me or Rainbow Dash, the kart she was resting in was about to come into a collision course with me. I kept running while looking behind me still unaware of the kart until BAM! I slammed right into the kart send both Rainbow Dash and I flying across the sky and crashing hard into a brick wall only to land on the concrete. “Ow.” We both moaned. Twilight and the others were quick to surround us. “Great, just great.” pouted Rainbow Dash. -Back in the throne room- “We did it Master Celestia! We captured them!” Twilight announced happily. “I’m impressed my students. You’ve actually done what my royal guards could not.” “It was easy yer highness.” said AppleJack saluting. “Actually no, it wasn’t easy at all.” said Pinkie Pie. “Now why did ya go an say that?!” “What? It’s the truth!” Celestia giggled. “It’s quite alright, but since you have caught them your mark of mastery test is complete.” “Alright!” shouted everyone. “Now as for the two of you-” “Oh great, here it comes.” I whispered to Rainbow Dash. “I would like to know your names.” Me and Rainbow Dash give each other an odd look. “The name’s Rainbow Dash, don’t ware it out.” “My name is David. And as long as you don’t execute us, then I can safely say it’s nice to meet you.” “Don’t worry, I won’t. For I require both of your assistances.” “SAY WHAT!?!?!?” shouted everyone in confusion. “Yes, Twilight.” “Yes princess?” “Remember when you asked me why you were having your mark of mastery test so early?” “Yes.” “My reason is this, as you all know there is a balance between light and darkness in all worlds keeping balance through out the universes, but there have been strange fluxuations in darkness as of late. And my suspicions were confirmed earlier this morning when I found my sister beaten and semi-conscious in the garden.” Everyone looked at Celestia with faces of pure horror. “What?! Princess Luna was injured?” asked Twilight in shock. “Forget about that!” I interrupted. “She was actually defeated?! What type of power are we dealing with that can actually defeat a goddess?!” “A power beyond my expectations. Which is why I needed my students to capture you both.” “You’re speaking in riddles to me.” said Rainbow Dash. “Exactly how was catching us going to help them deal with these bad guys you’re talking about.” “Because I’m going to make you two keyblade wielders.” Everyone’s jaws nearly dropped to the floor. “WHAT?!?!” “But, Master Celestia, I don’t think that’s a good idea! These two are thieves!” “Hey! Do we come into your homes and insult you guys?” I asked offended. “Then please tell us, what do you two do?” asked Celestia. “…okay we steal.” I admitted. “But we only do it so we can survive. We’ve had it rough recently.” said Rainbow Dash. “How?” asked Pinkie Pie with curiosity gleaming in her eyes. “Well it’s kind of a long story.” “Who should tell there side first?” I asked. “Rock Paper Scissors?” “Definitely.” Me and Rainbow Dash play three rounds of Rock Paper Scissors and Rainbow Dash wins. “Dang it!” “Aw yeah, I’m going first! Alright well, I had to start stealing a few years ago. One day I left my house and went off to play at the park until I ran into these strange purple monsters that were slim and quick. They were tearing up the whole park and I barely managed to escape. I thought I was safe until I found out there were other monsters in the city with the same strange symbols and they were setting the whole town on fire. When I reached home, it was nothing more than flames, and in front of the flames was a boy who was holding a sword. I was able to escape and since then I’ve been living on my own.” “I see.” said Celestia rubbing her chin. “And what did the symbols look like?” “I can’t really remember. I was too busy running away.” “I understand. What about you then?” “Well… really don’t remember anything about my past, all I know is that I started out living like this, having to steal just to survive. One day I was trying to steal a loaf of bread and I ended up getting caught. Those salesmen were gonna kill me, until I was saved by Rainbow Dash. She beat all three of them up with just a stick, long enough for us to make an escape, since then we’ve been helping each other survive.” “It seems you both have had it rough.” “Yes your highness.” We both replied. “Which is why I’m giving you two a chance to improve your lives. Will you two become keyblade wielders, and help my students defeat the upcoming evil?” Me and Rainbow Dash stare at each other for a few minuets and smile. “We’re in.” “Excellent!” Celestia stood up and walked towards us. “Now the 1st step for you two is to pass the test of the station of awakening.” “The station of awakening?” we asked in unison. “It’s a weird place where you have to pick your path for the keyblade to adjust to your fighting style.” Pinkie Pie explained. “I don’t get it but we’ll do whatever it takes.” I said. “Good. Twilight.” “Yes Master Celestia?” “You and the others are free to do whatever you want. I need some time to train these two to be ready for the journey ahead.” “Yes ma’am!” the girls replied leaving the room. -Meanwhile, at the keyblade graveyard- This is one of the worlds that have been engulfed in darkness. The only change to this world is that it’s darker and the sky is purple. Xehanort walks out of the portal with Vanitus, Nightmare Moon, and Chaos behind him. “Nice place. I thought I knew what depressing was, being trapped in stone for so long. But I must say that this is a nice change of pace.” said Discord grinning at the drained environment. “Enough, now it’s time I informed you all on the situation.” said Xehanort facing the group. “Finally, the suspense was killing me.” “Do you ever shut up?” asked Vanitus with his irritation starting to show. “You’re such a bore…” “Vanitus.” “Vanitus, just like Celestia.” “Cele-what?” “Enough you two!” said Xehanort slightly raising his tone. “Save your petty squabbles for later. As I was saying the situation is this: A little while ago I had gathered the thirteen seekers of darkness so I could set my future in motion and grow into the man that would live beyond the keyblade war-” “Time out!” called Discord. “What is it?” “You’ve lost me, what are the thirteen seekers of darkness, and how did this set your future in the way you wanted it, and what is a keyblade war?” “I see, I thought you already knew, but it seems I’m going to have to start from the beginning. The seekers of darkness, in a short version, are the thirteen individuals that knew of light and darkness but chose to seek out the darkness, they knew that all worlds began in darkness and all so ended. So they decided to abandon the light that had deceived and blinded them, and sought out to find the secrets of the darkness. They would set my future in motion because I had all of there hearts and minds hooked up to mine so they would all have my heart and thought, insuring that they would all become me. Ensuring that I’d live past the keyblade war to see what answers would lie beyond it. And to answer you final question, the keyblade war was a legendary conflict that took place many years ago. It is as my older self said, in ancient times, people believed that light was a gift from an unseen land by the name of Kingdom Hearts. But Kingdom Hearts was safeguard by its counterpart, the χ-blade. Warriors vied for that precious light, thus beginning the "Keyblade War". The violent clash shattered the χ-blade into twenty pieces—seven of light and thirteen of darkness. And only the real Kingdom Hearts was swallowed by the darkness, never to surface again.” “So you want to forge this ‘χ-blade’ to find this kingdom, right?” asked Nightmare Moon. “Precisely.” “So how are we involved in any of this?” asked Discord. “Like I said in the beginning, a little while ago I had gathered the thirteen seekers of darkness and had it set up so they would turn into me, but we were interrupted by some uninvited guests. But my older self ensured that the thirteen seekers of darkness would reunite again one day. But I found a way to enhance there power so we could become strong enough to easily over throw anyone who tries to intervene in my plan again.” “And how did you manage that?” “Most of the seekers of darkness are from recent time lines, time lines that are near enough for me to jump through and pull them into this time line. I found out that I could infuse people and things with darkness, greatly enhancing there power and speed. And I realized that if I could do that to most of the seekers of darkness, then I could make us stronger, and in the end make myself stronger as well, and that’s why I need your assistances. If we corrode as many worlds as possible with darkness, then I can infuse the seekers that are with me now with darkness, so that when we unite, I will become one with darkness.” “Ah, so that’s your plan huh? So where are these seekers of darkness?” “One of the seekers is right next to you, his name is Vanitus as previously stated, he is the darkness that was once trapped inside a boy named Ventus. He is quite a capable keyblade wielder, he will be a valuable ally to us.” A dark creature born from someone else’s heart huh? I thought I was the only one like that. thought Nightmare Moon “Although there not all of the seeker’s of darkness, most of the members I was able to assemble are here.” Three dark portal open up and Ansem, Xemnas, and Xigbar walk out. “Well, talk about drained of hope, couldn’t you have picked a place less depressing than here?” asked Xigbar rubbing the back of his head. “These are second, third, fourth seekers of darkness, Ansem, Xemnas, and Xigbar.” “What’s up?” said Xigbar grinning. “Xigbar huh? Nice name.” said Discord trying to hold back a laugh. “Yeah, and Discord isn’t a name that’ll get a kid beat up at the park.” “Ah, touché.” “Now, the six of you take as many unversed with you as you can and spread darkness to all worlds, understood?” said Xehanort “Sure. Why not, it’ll be a nice change of pace since you guys had me dealing with keyblade wilders last time.” “Good. Now go.”