//------------------------------// // Chapter 81: Are You Dating? // Story: Quest For Equestria // by Skyguy626 //------------------------------// Two hours earlier, as the wound appeared in the sky, Morgenstern looked up, "The time is come.", he said to his inner circle, disappearing into blue smoke, making his way towards it. And his theory had been proved true, having Tirek absorb all the magic in Equestria, this World couldn't keep together and showed him the way towards the place where the Worlds were split. Floating through darkness, he saw many smaller platform as he made his way towards the main one. Taking his form, he found what he had been looking for, the weapon he had been searching for all those years. Kneeling with the weapon was an armored humanoid, dressed in bright white armor, a black cape sprout from his back. "It's been eons, since I have seen a face around here.", the armored humanoid, spoke, "Turn away, there is nothing for you here." But Morgenstern summoned his Keyblade, taking his fighting stance, "I don't think so, now give me that sword.", Morgenstern said as the armored humanoid stood up, removing the sword from the ground, taking his own fighting stance. In the presents, the Harmonic Heroes, the royal sisters, Cadance and Discord were sitting in the guys living room, recovering from the battle with Tirek. "Tia, I think you have some explaining to do.", Luna said, turning to her older sister, "Who is Marc Morgenstern and what is going on?". "Marc Morgenstern is a Keyblade Knight First Class, he was my friend, a hero, he once fought together to save Equestria and ended a war. From his speech, he is after a weapon. A weapon so powerful that it can reshape the Worlds, a phenomenon that only happened once before.", Celestia continued to explain, both Luna and Discord knew where this story was going. "At the height of my reign of terror, as I am empowered by Chaos in the World I am on, I was far more powerful than anyone else, I was nearly invincible.", Discord explained slowly. " I don't know how but Caelum, one of the original Harmonic Wielders, used the only weapon that could, Force Calibur, to break my power. But even that came with a cost, he shattered the World into many different ones, he himself and Force Calibur was lost.", the spirit of chaos explained, ashamed at what he had done in the past. "Sorry, but what is this Force Calbur?", Sutakira asked, he still couldn't remember where he had seen or heard about Marc Morgenstern before, but he was sure he heard of him. "For that answer we have to get back to the time before the World existed.", Celestia said as she began to explain the legend of how the World were created. Before the Multiverse existed there was Anu, the unchanging World. Into this stasis came the Primordial's, formless spiritual beings to help populate The World. The first of the Primordial's to form an identity was Omniadeus. Its existence aided other Primordial's in forming their own identities, and soon there were fifteen separate, individual beings. After some indeterminate amount of time, Caelumrai approached his peers with a plan to create a new plane of existence, and to create and populate it with lesser beings of their own design. Caelumrai's plan was executed, resulting in the creation of the World. During this process, it became clear to the Primordial's that their own divine energy was being drained to help infuse life into the World. Some of the Primordial's managed to escape the World, a few Primordial's continued to sacrifice most of their power to finish the creation of The Planet. The last of these was Caelumrai himself, his body becoming the physical mass of The Planet, his heart became the Force Calibur, while his soul spliced into the concepts of Hope and Despair. "It is said that the Force Calibur, is able to bring out a person's full potential, and in the hands of someone like Morgenstern... well he could able to reshape the Worlds in his image.", Celestia finished explaining. Now they weren't only fighting for Equestria, they were now fighting for all the Worlds. As they all took it in, the ruler of the sun turned to the half asleep Skywalker. "Sunset Shimmer, is she alright?". Turning his head slightly towards her, he took a deep breath before he began to speak, "I think she's going to be fine. I left her in good hands. I want to tell you all everything, I do, but I'm just so exhausted from all the fighting.", Skywalker said with a tired smile before standing up, while their guest stood up to go home themselves. As Skywalker was about to move up the stairs, he overheard Phoenix and Fluttershy talk. "So, you and Discord?", the red head asked, the shy mare looked surprised at him. "I notice that you two have been spending a lot of time together... so come on, you can tell your big bro Phoenix anything!", he said with a smile, Fluttershy muttering she was older than him. "Leave her alone, Phoenix.", Skywalker said, standing between the two, the red head smirked, throwing his arms up in the air like he just don't care and walks up the stairs. Turning to the shy mare, Skywalker offered to walk her home. "You don't have to do that, Jason. You must be exhausted and should get to bed.", she started not wanting to further add to his burden. "I can sleep later, I am not letting you walk home alone." And so the two made their way towards Fluttershy's Cottage, neither saying much. On the inside, she was happy that her long time crush was walking her home. He was always such a gentlecolt or gentleman, depending who you asked. "So... I have heard something you might find funny.", she began, him turning his attention to her, "You'll never guess who all the kids want to be when they grow up." "Batman?", Skywalker answered but Fluttershy told they all wanted to become him. "I blame the parents.", he replied dryly, making her look confused. "Its not my fault they want to be orphans. Blame bad parenting.", he added with a straight face, making it hard for her to know if he was joking or not. "No, not that. They know a hero when they see one. Too few characters out there, flying around like you, saving people. People need a hero. Courageous, self-sacrificing people. Setting examples for all of us. Everybody loves a hero. I believe you're the one who brings out the hero in all of us." The two arrived at her Cottage, Fluttershy thanked him for walking her home as she walked up to the door. "Flutters, about what Phoenix said...", he began, getting her attention. "Look, if you don't want to tell me, then you don't have to. It's just...", he started. "You can ask me, Jason.", she said, trying to assure him. "Is it true that your going out with Discord... I don't think I would like that...", he muttered before quickly realizing what he said, quickly apologizing, "Sorry, Fluttershy. That was out of line...", Fluttershy looked up at him, surprised at what he had sad, "Don't get the wrong idea, Jason. Discord and I are just friends.", she added with a shy smile, noticing a slight blush on his cheeks. "I-I see.", Skywalker said, rubbing the back of his head, "Anyway, I'm sorry. It's bad enough that I listened to a rumor, but then I confronted you about it... It was incredibly rude of me.", he said before taking his leave. Meanwhile over a thousand of miles away, Morgenstern's inner circle had gathered in the throne room, each sitting on their own smaller throne, while waiting for their leader, who hadn't arrived yet. "A child like that is too young to wield a power like Hope.", Byron said, as he was seated on the outer left most throne. "That's good for us. He'll just be a good boy in the long run.", Mizuki said as she was seated on the throne right throne, only one away from Morgenstern's bigger throne. "If he doesn't, then he is of no use to us.", Byron shot back, but Jayden sitting on the throne across from his said back, "Then he may be worth the entertainment. Give me a good one!", he said with a smile. "Well, aren't you the cocky one. So whatever happens, you'll handle it?", the female one, sitting on the throne right next to Morgenstern's throne. Her name was Lilium, and Mizuki did not like the old three, there as something off about them. "Huh? Me?! You know heavy labor ain't my thing...", Jayden said as he relaxed in his throne, he was always easy going with his fellow inner circle members. The inner circle member on his left side was smaller than them, around the same height as a fifteen year old, and the other one next to him, none of them had ever seen him. Before more could be said their leader appeared out of smoke, carrying the weapon he had been searching for for so long. Taking a seat on his throe while holding his sword on the ground. "My comrades... It's time. All pions are in there place. Let us show the Harmonic Heroes, the way to their destination. Now go.", he ordered as they all departed.