It has been close to a week when the group went into their tasks. The first to have returned was pinkie pie who had found discord and let him in on the situation. The second to return was rarity with a large amount of diamond dogs. After that was rainbow dash with Gilda shedding tears clutching a letter in her talon. The cyan pegasus explained that apparently Gilda's farther past away making Gilda the griffon's ruler. Pinkie was instantly giving the griffon a shoulder to cry on. The fourth to arrive was Fluttershy leading the zebras and Timberwolves out of the everfree. The fifth to arrive was twilight, James, the princesses, and the rulers of the crystal empire with the changelings. And finally over the last three days of the week was the dragons, Buffalo, and minotuars in the same group confusing those already there. It wasn't until applejack arrived with a Armored figure holding a keyblade did James get a surprise.
"Spike! Is that you! Holy beast core I read the report but I didn't know you gained keyblade armor! You sure know how to surprise a person" said James in shock.
(My POV)
After my little outburst rarity and everyone else gasped and the now tall dragon dismissed his armor with a chuckle.
"Figures you know what that was I have some question that need to be answered later" said Spike.
With that out of the way the group was moved to town hall where the leaders of each race was put in town hall for the meeting.
At a circular table the order of seating went as thus. I sat at the far end with my 'sisters' on both sides of me, twilight next to Luna, the dragon representative titan to her left, Gilda to his left, Zecora on her left, Fluttershy was standing next to a timber wolf acting as translator and introduced him as woodfang, on woodfang's left was iron will, to his left was Cadance and shining armor, that left the diamond dog representative st George to dying,s left and finishing the group was Chrysalis and thunderhooves.
"I now bring the meeting to order. Before we discuss the heartless threat let's do some introductions. I'm James del light, keyblade weilder and brother of celestia and Luna" I said.
"Luna del light princess of the night" said Luna.
"Twilight sparkle leader of the elements of harmony" said twilight.
"Titan gemseeker dragon historian and current teacher of Spike Stormslayer" said the red dragon.
"Queen Gilda of the griffons daughter of the late king steeltalon" said Gilda.
"Zecora spiritwalker shaman of the zebra" said Zecora.
"Woodfang of the everfree" translated Fluttershy.
"Iron will representing the minotuars" said will.
"Princess Cadance and prince shining armor of the crystal empire" said Cadance.
"St George representing the Diamond Dogs at your service" said the what looked like a golden retriever in a blue vest.
"Queen chrysalis of the changelings" said chrysalis.
"Chief thunder hooves of the buffalo nomads" said thunder hooves.
"Princess celestia del light" said Celestia.
"Now that role call is over let's discuss the treaty. In return for helping to survive against the heartless some offers were already made that we can agree to. The Timberwolves will get Forrest isle where they can live in peace after the heartless are expelled from this world, the diamond dogs will mine the cavern under canterlot as long as they don't force ponies to dig for them, and the zebra learn to synthesize from the moogles in return for acting as medics when needed. The changeling offered to trade resources in return of getting food for their hives which is emotion. So what do the griffons want in return to help us alongside the buffalo and Minotaurs" I said looking over the reports.
"For what the griffons want equal rights as the pegasi and also a trade agreement we can offer ore to forge armor and weapons to fight off the heartless provided you can enchant them appropriately" said Gilda from her own notes.
"That's a fair agreement the minotuars want to work with the diamond dogs and offer training to better defend our homes" said iron will.
"The buffalo want some land to call our own and some technology to help keep it running" said Chief thunder hooves.
"All fair we can discuss boarders later it's time to inform you of just what we are facing. You all have seen various heartless but you all don't know how exactly they came to be. That's where I come in to inform you. The one who started this mess is a keyblade wielder who lost sight of his light. His name is xehanort. He is the cause of so Many conflicts that he is a threat to the multiverse. He intentionally split his apprentices heart into both light and darkness. If it wasn't for my predecessor reaching out the apprentice would have died from the fracture. His darkness formed a being called vanitas. His very existence created beings of negativity called unversed. The apprentice called ventus or ven for short and his two friends aqua and Terra traveled to many worlds trying to find the truth of the unversed. Terra was sent to do this mission and track down Xehanort. Xehanort tricked even in following Terra making a just made keyblade master aqua to go after ven to bring him home. But it was all according to xehanort's plan. He was trying to make even fight his darkness in hopes of creating a forbidden keyblade the x-blade. The keyblade able to reveal and open the heart of all worlds kingdom hearts. Ven managed to prevent that by destroying vanitas who returned to his heart trying to take him over. This casted his heart out of his body and into my predecessor giving him the ability to weild a keyblade. Terra though was at the time fighting Xehanort but didn't realize what he was planning. Xehanort used his keyblade to transfer his heart into Terra so he could stay alive leaving Terra to be trapped in his keyblade armor as a being known as a lingering sentient. Aqua fought the pocessed body of Terra managing to defeat him but opened a rift to the realm of darkness and she dived after Terra and expelled him with her keyblade and keyblade armor leaving herself trapped in his stead. Xehanort lost his memory and with Terra's body became a scientist apprentice to a man known as ansem the wise. He was studying the nature of the heart. But xehanort used the research to create the heartless. He banished his mentor and took his name. Regaining his keyblade he used it to force the other five apprentices and a hitman he hired once before and turned them and himself into heartless. Xehanort's heartless was called ansem seeker of darkness. This is where my predecessor sora and his friends come in. Sora lost his entire world to darkness and spent a year looking for his friends kairi and riku. Kairi is a princess of heart one of seven maidens without darkness in their hearts. They were litteraly pure of heart. They also held a connection to kingdom hearts. Kairi lost her heart when their home vanished. Her heart had found refuge in sora's heart so in away she was with him throughout his search. Riku ended up ansems pawn. It ended up a repeat on Terra. In order for kairi to wake up her heart had to return. After a long journey sora clashed with the processed riku and used a false keyblade forged from the hearts of the other six princesses of heart to free kairi's heart. This made sora turn into a heartless himself. But somehow he managed to not fade into a mindless being. He kept his sense of self. Kairi managed to restore him and he went into the realm of darkness to defeat ansem. That's all
The info I got so far history doesn't know much the following year after that" I said using a spell twilight taught me to show what xehanort has done to my knowledge.
"So this xehanort is the reason why the heartless exist" asked Gilda.
"Yes but the one leading them on this planet is someone well known to Cadance and shining" I said changing the image to king sombra.
"This is sombra the tyrant of the crystal empire before Cadance took control. When he returned I found reports of his abilities from when the crystal heart was found. I'm afraid to say it but his abilities show he is in fact a heartless himself now. My guess is that some time before he became the tyrant he became he lost his heart to darkness. My guess was the dark magic he discovered. It corrupted his mind a bit. From there he just got worse until he became what he is now. He's the one letting in the heartless until they find the keyhole leading to the heart of the world and send this world to darkness. Thankfully no one knows where the thing is. Until we can beat sombra I can't seal it off to get rid of future heartless so we can clear out the ones already on the planet in time without worrying about them replenishing their numbers. With that it's time to sign the treaty and make the alliance official" I said as spike came in and placed the contract down. One by one all of the representatives signed it and I placed a wax sigil of a keyblade on it making the alliance official.
"Okay you all discuss how we are going to work defences I got some explaining to Spike here about his armor" I said standing and motioned Spike to follow me.
As we walked I noted there looked to be a hoof mark on his cheek.
"Rarity give you that mark" I asked him.
"Yeah she berated me for being reckless against a storm rider. She understood that It was out of my hands though. Though to make up for making her scared for my safety I have to help her replicate the keyblade armors for when she and the others gain their keyblades" said Spike.
"Guess I better help on that front I'm the only one that knows what the keyblade armors can do. If you manage to replicate them give me one I fell that I'm going to need it soon. I'm already making a book to help train future keyblade wielders so making a section about the armors should help you. Now the first thing about those armors is that they turn a keyblade into a vehicle called a keyblade rider. The shape varies on the rider. Second is that the armors allow you to travel the lanes between worlds on the riders thus allowing you to travel to other worlds. Sora had to use a spaceship called a gummi ship to travel. Ask a moogle about those I'm not a expert on the exact material of them just that they allow world travel. You already worked out the basics of the armor so does this answer most of your questions?" I said.
"Yeah but what else does the armors do there" asked spike.
"They give you access to some abilities called action commands. You said something about a dragon's flame slash in your battle. That's your personal action command. I will train you in some skills like strike raid and it's variants to help you get started. Now get going to rarity and get started" I said.
"Thanks I'm going to need it" said Spike.
I watched the dragon walk to Rarity's place and turned to head to the library when I felt a urge to do something now. With my keyblade a forged a summon charm with a image of two keyblades crossed in a x and spoke channeling some of my magic into it.
" I am James del light key bearer of equestria, if you ever need my aide for justice attach this to your weapon and thrust before you and turn it like a key and I shall come to your aide. If you have evil intent then fear my blade, if you have a just heart know that you have found a worthy ally and friend in me"
Then I let go and it hovered as my keyblade flashed into existence. I thrust it before me and turned it like I was opening a lock and a portal opened and the charm flew into it releasing a light that formed a station of awakening before the charm multiplied and shot off into the void. The portal closed and I blinked dismissing the keyblade.
"Something tells me that the keyblade armor will be handy in that place" I said before I left to make my book for the alliance.
(End chapter)