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Keybearer

by Chaos Nightmare

Chapter 38: Chapter 38 back to the realm of darkness

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Chapter 38 back to the realm of darkness

As I finished talking to Applejack about letting Ven stay at there place as she was growing weary about letting people stay at her house...which lead me to my biggest problem Twilight. How to face her. I took a deep breath as I opened the door to the library where I saw an angry Twilight standing there. “Look I know you don’t want to see me again I’m just here to grab my stuff.” i said as she looked at me.

“That's not why I’m angry, for the past week I’ve been worried that I made you go out and kill yourself and when you do come back you just run out with eleven other guys.” Twilight said as I climbed the stairs “Hey where are you going I’m talking to you.” She said.

“I know but I need to grab my stuff, I’m leaving.” I said.

“Wait leaving?”

“Yeah because this is starting to sound like an abusive relationship and I don’t want that.” I said as I placed all my items in a box and walked out the door towards Lyra and Bon-bon’s place. As I got to the the door I knocked and Lyra opened it.

“Oh Huxley come on in.” Lyra said before noticing the box “What's with the box?” she asked.

“I’m moving out of Twilights place and thought I could live here.” I said.

“Well okay I mean we are dating so it would be alright.” She said as I walked into the house.

“Hey Huxley.” Bon-Bon said.

“Hey Bonnie.” I replied.

That night I barry got any sleep as Bonnie and Lyra wanted to ‘celebrate’ me moving in with them.


A week passed as The organisation got to working with the old castle I introduced them to Aqua, Terra and Ven proper. ”Alright all of you work for me basically so when I’m not here you listen to these three.” I said as the Organization looked at each other.

“And why would we listen to them?” Braig asked.

“Because you promised to be good remember they can still kick your but plus I may be as strong as them.” I said as he backed down looking at Terra. “Any other questions or can I get back to explaining.” I said “Good anyway when they aren't here Elzin is the one in command.” I said pointing to Elzin who was just reading a book and not paying attention. “Anyway you all are technically my apprentices and I’m going to do my best to train you.” I said.

“And what if we don’t want to be your apprentices?” Braig said.

“Than I don’t know. You don’t have to stay here but you're going to have to leave your Keyblade behind.” I said he looked at his Keyblade Sharpshooter as he called it before sighing.

“Well its better then what the old man promised.” He said

“Alrighty then first we’re going to take you all to Traverse town.” I said “That includes you three.” I said turning to Terra, Aqua and Ven but as I turned around I was hit by a blast of cold water. “Hey who did th- oh who am I kidding only one of you controles water Myed.” I said looking at him as they all stared at me “What...why do I feel cold on my chest?” I asked to see that my shirt had torn open revealing my chest I quickly covered up “Lea, Myed hot water blast Now!” I ordered.

“Why?” Lea asked

“Because it reverses the curse I am under.” I explained with a female voice as he rolled his eyes and blasted Fire with Myed’s water blast “Thank you. Also just for that Myed you going to stay behind and head over to Twilight Sparkle and have her get us the permits to legitimately use this castle because I forgot...” I said as they all looked at me.

“We need permits for this place?” Dian asked

“Look I have an in with the leaders of this land they can get me the permits and pay for the restoration.” I explained.

As I opened my book to take us to Traverse town and we all walked in apart from Myed who looked at Elzin “Well he did say I was in charge so let’s meet Twilight.”

“Man you people have weird names.” Myad said

“Would you believe there are supposed to actually be ponies?”Elzin replied

“Weird” Myad said


In traverse town

As we stepped out of the DTL I saw bartz and the others fighting a Twilight Thorn “What's that doing here?”

“Isn’t that a Nobody?” Terra asked

“I’ve never seen one like that before” Braig said

“We only fought it once in the games.” I said before pulling out Avalon “Quick we need to give them back up” I said as we all jumped on the Twilight thorn.

After the fight we regrouped with Bartz’ group at the hotel to talk “Have nobodies been attacking recently?” I asked Bartz.

“Nobodies is that what they are called? I thought they were just a new form of heartless” He said

“Yeah they use to be under the control of a group called the Organization but something happened to them.” I said

“What happened to them” Bartz asked

“They became human again I didn’t think that the Nobodies would start attacking worlds.”

“You sound like you're responsible for this.” Bartz said

“Well I did sort-of help return these guys back to normal so it might be my fault.” I said

He took a sigh before saying “Well I can’t fault you for having good intentions but you have to think what your actions have on the worlds around you.” He said

“Thanks.” I said looking down

“And why is Ansem here?” Leon asked

“Oh right meet Terra he’s a keyblade wielder that lost his heart to a man named Xehanort before calling himself Ansem.” I said as he just looked blank.

“Alright then not going to question it.”

“Okay then I just wanted to show these guys this world just if something happens they can come here and be safe.” I said opening a DTL to Ponyville “You guys return I’ll be back in a few days.” I said

“Where are you going?” Aqua asked

“I have a meeting with King Mickey it might take a few days don’t wait up.” I said as they all left to Ponyville.

I took a breath as I opened another DTL to Disney Castle.

As I stepped thought I saw the people of Disney looking at me as I just kept on walking till I got to the castle where I was stopped by some guards “Stait your business.” they said.

“I’m here to see King Mickey he’s expecting me tell him Huxley’s here.” I said

“Wait here.” a guard said as a few minutes passed as King Mickey came with the guard.

“Hello Huxley.”

“Your majesty let's talk in the library.” I said as he lead me to the Library. As we got to the library I saw his wife reading a book “Oh hello Queen Minnie.”

“You must be Huxley.” she said “Micky has really been looking forward for your little adventure.” She said.

“I’m sure he has.” I said as she stepped out. I turned to mickey “Are you sure you want to do this Core has probably fortified the realm since the last time we went there it’s not going to be easy.” I said

“I’m sure of it.” he said as I took a deep breath and snapped my fingers as a DTD to the realm of darkness opened.

“After you your majesty.” I said as he place the coat on and walked through I followed soon after.


In the realm of darkness we saw a… crashed space ship? I took more looks around and suddenly realized… this was what was left of the star wars world that fell.”No no no.” i said panicking.

“Golly, such advanced technology. They must have put up one heck of a last stand against the heartless.” Micky said.

“They probably could have won too had I helped.” I said as Micky looked at me.

“You knew this world Huxley?”

“Yeah i guess you could say that... I promised to help them but was too late, Core took it down to make me fight Zeke the X-blade wielder.”

“I know, Aqua said that Elzin told her a bunch. You two didn’t start off on the best of footings, did you?”

“He told a friend of mine about the outside worlds and I was trying to keep it a secret not to get her involved.”

“Huxley, I’m gonna be blunt. I’m a two foot tall talking mouse, you think I’m seen as normal on every world? No. They would have learned eventually, and better from a reliable source than in mid battle.”

“I guess you're right.” I said chuckling. “I actually took Zeke here in our first fight called him what this world refers to as a ‘Sith lord’ and tried to get him arrested to get out of my hair.” I said.

“Wow, what possessed you to go that far?”

“I didn’t like the guy...had I known about his heritage I might have taken it further to be honest...his family are not nice people, slavers, murders and what ever else you can think of that's horrible.” I explained “but he's the black sheep of the family so don’t blame him for his family’s evil.”

“I didn’t plan on it. From what Elzin told Aqua, a man took you all based on how you acted on a day of chaos. If this Zeke came from the same world, then I had already assumed he was on our side, and nothing like his Kin. Still, I can see why you took caution, but blaming someone innocent because they share a name and blood with bad guys is like blaming a baby for it’s parents wrongdoings. It makes no sense.”

“Look let's drop this. We need to focus on finding the Keyblade of darkness”

“For now, but one day you should talk this out, if not for others sake, for your own, otherwise… you may end up like Terra did.” Micky says, taking lead in a random direction.

“I know...” I said following him.

What felt like hours passed as we found ourself face with a few demon towers I pulled out my keyblades and readied myself for battle.

With Micky and I working together, we managed to attack them at their core, scattering the shadow heartless and then just picked them off with ease. We moved on, following the only road and finding several other areas of fallen worlds. More various heartless were around but the two of us make rather quick work of them.

Some hours into our journey we found a crossroads with three signs on it. The one leading right said “Library” the one to the left said “Laboratory” and the one in the middle, which had an arrow pointing at the ground, said “deal?” “What does the middle one mean?” Mickey asked.

“No clue but I say we take the one on the right.” I said.

Micky nodded as we headed right. We found a large tower with a face at the top. Oddly enough there was no door. “How do we get in?” Mickey asked.

Then, the top of the tower bent down and looked at us. “Is knowledge what you seek?” It asked.

“We are looking for the Kingdom Key D” I said.

“Kingdom Key D, the darknesses answer to light. There are four in existence within the whole of the reflections, and one already has acquired a wielder.”

“Who is it the one here?” I asked.

“No. It’s wielder is a being you would refer to as a Thestrial, though, that in itself is a disguise to hide the being it once was, a being like you boy.”

“Like me? A survivor?” I asked.

The tower nodded. “Why are there only four?” Mickey asked.

“Like the five legendary Keyblades, darkness made the four dark Kingdom Key’s, that when wielded alongside the X-blade, can pour the rest of darkness into Kingdom Hearts, corrupting all worlds and those who live on them. Sadly for darkness, the Kingdom Key D’s are alive as well, and rather than be evil, are unaligned. They will aid either light or darkness depending on their wielder.”

“That's great...now where is the ones here?” I asked as the tower looked at us.

“They only appear when a Kingdom Key is summoned in the realm of light and that world is then swallowed by darkness.”

“Huh… wait.” Micky said, turning to me. “Huxley, you said you took Zeke to fight on the fallen world we arrived standing in, did you use the Kingdom Key?” Mickey asked.

“No, I switched out the Keychain before I went there,” I sighed.

Micky hung his head, but then looked back up. “Well, when you revised your Kingdom Key, this God person gave it to you when you were on your world. You said it fell into chaos, do you, and sorry for bringing this up, think it fell?”

“No its part of god's imagination so i don’t think it fell.” ...but it doesn’t hurt to ask, Hey mister tower do you know if a world called earth is in the realm of darkness?” I asked.

The tower seemed to be thinking, it’s eyes glowing as it did. After a bit, it’s eyes stopped glowing. “Many worlds with that name have fallen, please be specific.” It said.

“It fell to something called the Mayan calendar, is that more specific it also was a part of an imagination of a being known as God.”

“Ah… the world of reality that exists in fiction. While God himself is holding onto what he can, the darkness has taken it’s toll on both him and the worlds he keeps alive. From what I know, half of all the reflection earths in his mindscape have completely fallen, others are crumbling, but he is hanging on to one specifically, one that was meant to fall first he holds on to with all hope. It’s half in darkness and half in light. To reach it from the realm of darkness, you must find the location of God, Core, and Hollow’s birth world, or rather, the chunk that has long since fallen into darkness.”

“Do you know where that is?” I aksed

“No, but the sign does, strike a deal and it will guide you there.” With that, the tower resumed a straight upwards form.

“Thanks.” I said as Mickey and I went back on the road to the three signs.

“Uh, we’d like to strike a deal?” Micky said. The ground shook as a blued eyes shadow Micky crawled out of the ground.

“The price for a deal is equal to that of the request.” The blue eyed shadow Micky said.

“What is the trade for finding us God’s, core’s and Hollow’s birth world?” i asked.”

THe shadow shifted into a version of me, blue eyes also. “The price for that is the price of your sins. Relive three times your darkest moment and then passage will be granted.”

I looked at Mickey as he took a step forward. “I’ll do the tests Huxley, it's my mission to find the Keyblade of darkness so It should be my burden to bare.” Mickey said as the shadow morphed into Pete with blue eyes.

“You left me to rot away in a prison of my own darkness!” The Pete shouted. “All I wanted was your attention! We were friends since day one, then you get crowned king and get some fancy key and suddenly everyone you knew from before was second, no, third important to you!”

“Pete I told you, you were welcome at the castle anytime.” Mickey replied, his eyes turning the same blue.

“I tried Mickey I came five times and you were ether too busy for me or turned me away.” Pete said

“Ruling a new kingdom isn’t easy. I offered you a job so we could stay close.”

“Some job! Chief repairman is just a handyman with a fancy title!”

“It was all you were qualified for Pete! I thought you’d enjoy it given how much you loved working on your old steamboat.”

“And look what happened to that, my old steamboat your royal hide had confiscated cause I couldn’t afford to recertify it!”

“I gave you three years!”

“Yeah, that was three years of war, nobody was trading so I couldn’t pay the fines. Not that you cared. I took us out of the heck hole we were born in in that boat and you let it get turned to scrap!”

“Pete I-”

“Save it! You watch yourself mouse, next time you see me I might be after that crown of yours, just so I can break it with my own two hands!”

The scene repeated two more times before Mickey’s eye’s returned to normal, the shadow shifting to a shadow Mickey and a door appeared in front of the sign. “The price has been paid, you may provide.”

The shadow dug itself back into the ground and Micky fell to his knees. “That was… not my best moment…” He said.

“Hey we all have our bad moments...its what we do after...what were you going to say to Pete?” i asked.

“That I managed to get his ship in time, had it fixed up and converted into a gummi ship, so he could trade up in the stars. I was called away by master Yen Sid before I could show him though… Then when I did manage to come back Minnie tells me he’s locked up in a prison for his crimes at the Dream Festival.” Mickey said as he got up.

“I’m sorry...look i’ll talk to Zeke when we get back, maybe we can mount an offensive on Maleficent and get Pete back... It’s a long shot but he could still be saved.” I said

“I hope.” Mickey says, opening the door. When he opened it we walked into a house, it was small, two beds and some other things scattered around. “Is this… their home?”

“It has to be... start searching we have to find my world.”

Micky and I took different area’s, but weren’t finding much. After a search of the beds we found three books, one had a heart over it, the other had the symbol I recognized from the Dishonored games, and the last had an eye drawn on the cover. “Think these are journals?” Mickey asked.

“Probably.” I said putting them in Mickies bag “Zeke's people would want to see these, remind me when we're done.” I said as he tapped on the back to close it.

With nowhere else to look we opened what had to be the door to outside the house, and when we did, we were greeted with clay houses built up from the ground, many with very old straw roofs, scattered bones and other things like pots and such across the ground. “Wonder… what was this place like before.” Mikey said, taking it all in.

“Well 9/10 chances it was better than this.” I said as we walked along the road.

We came across what looked like a festival was being held, and in one area was the burned in image of what looked like a person… and the X-blade, scorched into the ground. “So… this is where the first wielder of the X-blade… met their end.”

“Ouch i guess i had some right fearing the X-blade wielder...before I fully met him I mean.”

“This is like a tombstone, let’s leave it be.” Mickey said as we walked around the scorched image. We kept walking until we noticed something odd, there was a rather modern looking house here. “That’s not convenient at all…” Micky said sarcastically.

“Wait...” I said running arounds the house...”This is my house.” I said surprised.

“What? How?”

“Well...it must have been dragged into the realm of darkness when the world fell...lets check inside” I said trying to not think of my family made it out.

When Mickey opened the door… I felt sick. There was blood splattered on the walls, floor, and even the ceiling. We kept going, finding that, from what Elzin told me, everything still seemed to be as he described it. When I opened my bedroom door, I nearly had a heart attack. I saw me… hanging from the ceiling fan with a nuce. “Uhh... “ Was all Mickey could say.

“Yeah...i was not expecting that...wonder how he tied the rope?” I asked knowing that i’ve never been good at tying ropes

“Really, that’s what you ask?”

“What? Me and Elzin have never been good at tying ropes... but yes the more important question is why this is here?”

“Maybe he was dragged in here for a long time…”

“That can’t be i was the survivor of earth, Elzin was the clone and there should only be three of us in the multiverse so how to explain him.

“Two now.” Mickey and I turned around, seeing God walk up behind us. “Not long after you made the request, your earth started falling.Your family Huxley… I’m sorry, but I lost them in the chaos. So much happened at once, if they fell with the part of the world then they might be here… like him.” God said, pointing at the dead me.

I stood there in silence my mother Father and sister were most likely dead... I just fell to my knees how was going to tell Elzin...and why was I so calm. “How long did this happen?” I asked

“... two months.” God answered.

I just looked at him “where is the keyblade of darkness? That's what we came here for and we going to leave after we...is that my cat?” I asked seeing a dead cat in the room. “Mickey cut him down.” i said coldly.

Mickey nodded, jumping up and cutting the rope of the hanging me, showing the Kingdom Key D. He took it. “Well…”

“Good we found it.” I said turning to God “Make yourself useful for once and summon a shovel we need to bury these two.” I said as God gave me a look “I’m sorry for being like this i’m both sad and angry right now just please give us a hand.” I said

God nodded, summoning Two shovels, one for me and one for Mickey. He then summoned one for himself. “Let’s go… would you like them buried in this place, or what’s left of this village's graveyard?” He asked.

“The graveyard would preferable.” I said as we carried the corpse out to the graveyard. After some digging we found an empty grave that we placed the two in. “I don’t know what this me has been through but hopefully he’s the only one I have to burry of my family.” I said as we filled the hole up with dirt.

We stood over the graves for a time, God made some grave stones for the clone and my cat. After that we were about to leave the graveyard when we spotted a large Tomb building… with a statue of Unum standing over it. “Look at that.” Mikey said, running over to it.

“Mickey No it's obviously a trap...and if it's not it's a place Core is likely to visit often...we should leave now...before he shows up.” I said

Mickey didn’t listen, so God and I walked over to him. We saw it had a plaque reading.

Here lies the only proof that Unum ever existed.

She was the first wielder of the Keyblade of Kingdom Hearts, a brave warrior, a caring wife, and loving mother. May she find escape from void…

...and may the embodiment that sent her there rot for eternity.

“Mother? Core has a child?” Mickey asked.

“We should leave I don’t like the feel of this he could show up at any moment.” I said

“Not likely.” God said. “He avoids this place like one avoids rabies. Even with all his darkness he can’t look at this place. And… yes, Core had a son Mickey.”

“That's great now can we please return to master Yen Sid?” I asked.

“One moment Huxley.” Mickey said. “What happened to him?”

“When Core left to fight in the realm of darkness til he became what he did, I took the child in… and hid him, he grew up and lived his whole life in the place Huxley came from, though, it was a different time period.” God explained.

“What happened?” I asked.

“He became a doctor, then I stopped watching after that.”

“What was his name?” I asked scared that it was related to the ventral family.

“If you are thinking it’s Ventral… I made that name up to better hide him…”

“Of course the ventrals are related to Core...”I said.

“Core is likely unaware of this fact.” God said. “(brb

“Great..mary sue” I said unimpressed...”by the way what’s a Killing mood X told me it's something the Ventrals have...but I have no clue.” I asked

God shook. “A long time ago, a being of the greatest evil known only as a Psychopath, broke into earth somehow, gave the middle child of Core’s grandchildren it’s blood in a potion so he could see. He was able to see, but lost the ability to heal, forever stuck with the ability to only bring death. When it awakes, triggered by first blood. When that happens, they tap into something stronger than magic, Fact, and anything unfortunate enough to be near them when that happens, their time is up. It wore off on earth with a time frame of an hour or two… out here, in reality, it may never.”

“Ouch hate to think what would happen If Zeke actually killed somebody.”

“It already has happened.” god said. “To everyone’s suprise, Core stepped in, somehow extracted the blood and made Zeke normal… but, since the Ventral that first took the blood was blind, given sight by it, guess what their eye color was.”

“Red” I guessed.

“Yes. Zeke no longer has the blood in him, and the price of it’s absence is blindness.”

“Crap we sort of need him to fight.”

“You know the funny part. On earth, modern times, a simple laser eye surgery would have corrected it, but not many worlds are that far ahead, and the ones that are Core has been picking off. He knew this would happen.”

“Great so all i have to do is tell him lasers will fix everything...has he started picking them off in my reflection?”

“Yes, the world you saw fallen was one of the first he picked off. It’s technology threatened him and his plans to incapacitate Zeke greatly.”

“Okay so has he taken care of ALL the worlds like that or is there still one safe?”

“There may be some in other reflections. Finding them is the hard part.”

“Great...Let's get out of here now Core may not come here but there are still heartless to deal with.”

God opened up a DTL for Mickey and I. “Say hi to dad for me.” God said as we entered.


As we exited the DTL we saw Master Yen Sid standing in front of the tower waiting for us.

“Ah, glad to see you returned safely.” Yen Sid said.

“Safely yes unscaved not so much.” I said.

“What happened?”

“Well mickey had to relive his worst memory of Pete three times in a row and i saw my own corpse while also learning my family is most likely dead...so fun time all around.”I said sarcastically.

“I can tell you two need rest then. Did you succeed in your mission Mickey?” Mickey replied by summoning the Kingdom Key D. “Excellent. Two down, two to go.” Yen Sid said.

“You knew of the first one?”I asked.

“Of course, to you seeing me in another reflection would be thinking it’s a reflection of me, but not exactly. You could say I’m something close to omnipresent, a me I made for every reflection all connected to one mind. A copy of me is actually training the first to pick up the Kingdom Key D, which my son seems to have given him.”

“We’ll anyway i’m heading home I have to break the news to my brother.” I said as I opened my book to create a DTL.

“Good luck, and please Huxley, open your heart more before you lose it to the wrong side. Better to give your heart to another than to have it stolen by darkness.” Yen Sid said as I entered the DTL.

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