Day 77-Three Of Us
The next morning, as I entered the Grey Area, I saw Discord with an excited look on his face.
"Good news, Moondancer," he said. "I asked the Queen about Solaris."
"And?" I wanted to know what he found out from Chrysalis.
"She was on a mission, but never RTC'd." I was disappointed and confused by this news and why he was excited about giving me the update. "I don't know what kept her, but you and me are going to find her. That's our mission today." I was so relieved by this assignment, because not only will we find her, but we'll get the hangout we deserve. After we accepted our mission, we went to Twilight Town, where Solaris was sent on her mission.
"Where is Solaris?"
"Her mission was to find and destroy a giant Heartless. So if we find it, we'll find Solaris." I suddenly had a brief memory of the lavender unicorn watching an orange pony kicking trees to make their apples fall off. I suddenly had a hunch about how this can help us. We went to the forest and I started kicking the trees hoping they would do something. Even though it was hurting my hind legs, I didn't give up. Eventually, when I kicked one of the trees for the umpteenth time, I shook all by itself and something went whooshing towards the old mansion. We gave chase and it revealed itself as the giant chameleon-like Heartless known as the Veil Lizard, the Heartless Solaris was trying to find.
"That must be it." I was confident that it was the target we were seeking.
"That's what took Solaris. It cloaked itself into the background. And I guess Solaris is still trying to find it. But, a Heartless is a Heartless. I don't care who's going to take it out. Let's destroy it before it disappears again." We summoned our Keyblades and started attacking it with everything we had, but halfway through the battle, I saw something fly in, and I quickly realized that it was Solaris, having finally found the target.
"Solaris!" As I said her name, she turned to face me. However, she didn't see the Heartless extend its tounge at her, knocking her out cold. "SOLARIS!" I was so worried out of my mind for her, I didn't know what to do.
"I'll see to Solaris. Just focus on the Heartless." With Discord's reassurance, I went back to my fight with the Heartless and with that, it was destroyed, with its heart floating away towards Kingdom Hearts. I then ran straight towards Solaris, who was already regaining consciousness.
"Are you alright?"
"M... Moondancer?" she asked. I was glad that it was the first she said, although it was the first she said to me when we had our first mission together. She then got herself up and I looked at where she got hurt at.
"That looks like it hurts," I observed.
"I'm alright," she said with a despondent tone. "It's just that..."
"We'll have all the time to talk later," said Discord. "First, let's find a place to sit." Of course, I knew where we're going.
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As we took our places on the clock tower, Discord handed us our ice cream, and I handed Solaris hers. Me and Discord took our bites of ice cream, but Solaris didn't take a single nibble. I quickly took notice of this.
"It's going to melt," I warned Solaris. "Eat up." She just didn't take my warning and just stared down.
"Come on, what's wrong?" asked Discord. She didn't respond to his question and just kept her gaze down.
"Can you just tell us what happened?" Again, she didn't respond or look up.
"Look, we're here for you if you want to tell us. That's what friends are for, right, Moondancer?"
"Exactly." When I confirmed Discord's statement, she finally broke her gaze to look at us.
"I can't use the Keyblade anymore," Solaris squeaked out. We were so shocked about this news that we thought it best not to tell the other members. "Without it, I can't do my missions, because if I don't defeat Heartless with the Keyblade, the hearts they release find their way into other Heartless. I kill them in one world and they appear in another. I'm supposed to collect hearts. That's my job, like you. Without that legendary weapon, I'm useless."
"Well, we'd like to help you," said Discord. "But you're right. No Keyblade, no go."
"And I'm worried they'll turn me into a Dusk once they discover my uselessness." I couldn't believe what I was hearing, so it was my time to speak up.
"Come on, Discord," I said to Discord. "Help out!"
"I'm thinking," Discord assured me. "I'm just trying to figure out how we can--" He stopped suddenly as he beamed with brilliance again. "What if you worked overtime, Moondancer?" Solaris must be confused by his idea that she wanted to know more.
"What do you mean by that, Discord?" she asked.
"Solaris, you should partner with Moondancer until you learn how to use the Keyblade again," Discord said. "Just make sure your missions are with her. If you do that, Moondancer can collect hearts, and nopony will know you aren't doing the same."
"That is the most brilliant plan you ever came up with!" I said in amazement. It's lucky I get to spend more time with her, at least until she regains the Keyblade.
"BUT," said Discord, temporarily cutting off my joy. "Moondancer, that means you have to collect twice as much hearts." I know I don't like much work, but it'll be worth it soon enough.
"Discord," said Solaris. "Does this mean you and me can be friends?"
"Yeah," Discord simply said. "I mean, Moondancer already wanted all three of us to be together. A friend of Moondancer is a friend to me, as well."
"Moondancer, Discord, thanks!" said a happy and joyous Solaris. With her happiness, we enjoyed our ice cream and watched the setting sun as I was ready for our plan to go into action.