I had managed to find my new lair with minimal difficulty, I was greeted by some changeling guards. “My Queen you’ve returned.” One of the guards said as I walked past them towards the throne room.

“Take me to my throne.” I ordered as they complied and lead me to the throne. As I entered the Hive I felt my magic being drained if I wasn’t careful it could cancel the possession spell and from what the memories told me that getting thrown out of this body would be a fate worse than death.

When I got to my new throne I took a good look at it before I used a changeling spell to smash the throne “MY queen what are you doing?” A guard asked as I looked at him.

“Redecorating.” I said as he raised his blade.

“You’re not the queen, who are you?” He asked as I smiled at him.

“Oh, but I am your queen... Queen Sombra that is.” I said as I picked up the changeling and started choking him before I snapped his neck.I turned to the other guard that escorted me. “Are you going to attack your queen to?” I asked as he just kneeled.

“Forgive me my queen, but the throne was the only thing keeping the shadow monsters out.” He said.

“Shadow monsters?” I asked snapping my fingers summoning one of my shadow creatures. “You mean these ones?” I asked as a voice came behind me.

“Enjoying the power?”

“Who?” I asked as I turned around seeing a man in a purple robe and a blank face mask with only a gash over it. “What are you doing in my new lair?” I asked.

“You broke the only thing keeping me out of it.”

“What?” I asked looking at the smashed throne.

“Interesting little trinket. Was one of my brothers more… darker creations. How it made it’s way here I’ll never know.”

“So who are you anyway?”

“I am Core, the first born Emblem Heartless.”

“Heartless? You mean those shadow creatures?” I asked.

“Yeah. The names you people give us before you find out.”

“So you’ve been trying to get into my new Hive, why?” I asked

He summoned a strange sword, that looked like a claw grabbing a heart. “I hate having not every area of a world reconned. Lack of any information can be bad.”

“So information is why you want my lair?” I said as I motioned the Changeling next to me

“Keep the dump, I just need to study it then I’m gone. Besides, what’s a weakling like you gonna do about it?”

“Could a weakling command such power?” I asked as a massive heartless appeared behind him.

“Uh, yeah, any five year old with a temper tantrum could summon that, try and summon this.” He raised his hand. “But can you keep control of it.” The massive heartless stood up, and kneeled to him. “Good Darkside.”

“Hmm I guess i’m still weak from the blast.” I muttered as I had control of five of them back in the empire’s invasion.

“So, what are you anyway? I sense a heart in you, two actually, but those lesser ones I don’t sense anything from them.”

“I am Kin-er Queen Sombra, Rightful ruler of the Crystal Empire and these are my newest toys the Changelings” I said as I saw that my forces were ready to attack. “And you are surrounded”

He looked around. “Oh my, you set out a feast. How generous.” He lifted his mask off, revealing a pair of pitch black eyes that held crimson pupils, like a demons, and teeth that were as sharp as daggers. “I haven't had a good meal in over sixty three trillion years.” It was all a black blur as he ran, chunks of changelings, ripped off and some devoured whole. It was less than five seconds when he stopped, munching on the last of the attacking changeling’s legs. “Taste like.... Flour? Odd.” After he finished the leg, he placed his mask back on.

I began to back up scared what he might do to me. “W-w-w-what are you?” I asked he couldn't be a Heartless they were a merciful death compared to him.

“I am Core, the first born Emblem Heartless, the first to lose himself into darkness… the only one to know all it’s secrets. I’ve been alive since before the stars sat in the sky, and I will live on til it all returns to the darkness we were born from. So, what does that make you compared to me?”
I simply kept backing up till I reached the edge of the cliff where the throne was standing ‘I could try a possession spell escape while he devours this body or I could try to take over his’

“Don’t bother trying to escape me. Your magic is dark, any attempt to use it, I can make it backfire. And that thought in your head, the one you know I’m talking about, just don’t if you value your life.”

“W-w-w-what do you want from me?”

“I need to start a fight between someone who I know can be easily manipulated, and one who I have grand plans for. I just need to show them just how much I can do, and how easy it is for me to do it.”

I started to calm down as I saw he wasn’t trying to kill me, which took the edge off a bit. “*coughth* So what do you need me to do?”

“At some point I expect the two to meet again on this world. I need you to set the one visiting up to make it appear he is leading Heartless to attack the world. That will advance Huxley’s reasons.”

“My changeling can do that but I will need to see what they look like before I agree” I said

He lifted his hand, and a photo of a brown haired man with a grey shirt and jeans floated towards me. “Typical illusions won’t work on him, his Mark of Mastery exam proved that.” He looked over to a changeling that was cowering near one of the tunnels. “Mind if I take one?”

“If it means you will leave us without killing me yes take one.”

In another haze of black, he reappeared with the Changeling that was cowering, holding it by the neck. “So, you shapeshift… this will make a good test subject.”

“I hope you find what you are looking for.” I said hoping that he doesn’t come back to examine me. I did not envy that changeling.

“One moment.” Another haze, and he was in front of me, holding me by my neck over the cliff. “I’m gonna keep an eye on you. You could prove a vital asset. I’ll be back later when this Changeling has been properly… mutated. So don’t try and run, I can feel your darkness my little… puppet.”

“Yes sir.” I gasped as he let me go.He vanished into a dark portal, that changeling screaming and pleading for mercy until her screaming was gone when the dark portal disappeared.

“My queen was that a wise option?” A nearby Changeling asked as It came out of hiding

I sighed. “No it wasn’t.” I said. “But you saw what he did to those changelings and how that Heartless kneeled before him. I doubt I could do anything to him.” I said, defeated I didn’t even have a throne to sit on. This day went from bad to good then to worse to quickly. “What food items do we have?” I asked

“None mam, all we have is liquid love and we are running out.” The changeling said.

“Great.” I said not even a drink and I doubt I can move on the Crystal empire without this Core. Thinking I’m trying to get allies against him this day was horrible.

“Hello bug bitch!” I looked up, and a man dressed in black with strange weapons and a blind eye walked forward. “See you met the boss.”

“The boss?” I asked as I guessed he was an associate of Core.

“The man who just ate like fifteen of your people and made you his bitch.”

Great I was right. “Are you always this vulgar? I was a king you know”

“Yet now you have a D-cup. Life is weird like that. Anyway, Core sent me down to be your handler. Step out of line…” I heard an explosion as the Changeling that was next to me head exploded. I looked at the man and he held one of his weapons. “And I’ll cap you so fast you’ll need to think before you realize you’re dead.”

“Great. If you need me I’ll be in bed hoping this was all a bad dream.” I said as I jumped down from the cliff where the throne was.

“Hmmm she’ll be useful alright. Now, where’s the whisky?”

for those of you wondering who Core and who the guy at the end are... well Corew is the villan of Bioquillfiction's Balance and Josh the man at the end is Zeke's uncle and leader of the Ventral family