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Keybearer

by Chaos Nightmare

Chapter 5: Chapter 5 The Games

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Chapter 5 The Games

Today was finally the day of the tournament. And I was late! I quickly got up from the floor where I was sleeping, and put on my cloak that I had been using as a blanket, opened a Dark Corridor to Olympus Coliseum and ran into the lobby where Phil stopped me. "Your late kid." He stated as I apologised several times. "We almost started the Games without you. Two words. Now. Get. In. There!" He screamed as I ran into the coliseum, prepared for a fight.

In the seats waiting for my match to start and I saw Ringabel standing around on the other side of the arena. "Hey Ringabel" I called and when he spotted me he came over.

"Hey there... Umm... I'm afraid I never caught your name pal."

"Oh, it’s Huxley."

"Well, Huxley, I wish you luck in today's tournament."


“Same.”

“Ringabel! Enter the ring!” Phil called from the announcer booth in the front of the arena.

“That’s my que.”

I sat there waiting wondering where the other combatants where? Maybe there is another room or maybe Ringabel and I were the only ones in this tournament? Then again this place always seemed empty in the game. I thought to myself as I looked around to see if there was something I could do while I waited to be called on. Sadly there was nothing but the show Ringabel was putting on.

Half an hour passed as I waited for my turn. Ringabel finished a while ago, what the heck? “Up next, Huxley! Get your butt in there!” Phil yelled.

"Finally!" I said to myself as I walked out onto the Arena where the crowd was cheering for me. Wait, where did the crowd come from?! I swear there wasn’t anyone here before… Then again I did nod off… Never mind that!

I took out my keyblade and prepared to fight my opponents. As I stepped into the arena I was greeted by four heartless. One Soldier and three Blue Rhapsodies . "Okay." I said calmly as I ran towards the soldiers and cut it down with my key as a heart flew out of it before turning around to see a two of the Blue Rhapsody's using ice magic on me. I dodged, feeling the ice pass me. Wow that’s cold! I retaliated and yelled, "Fire!" Twice as two blast of fire magic came out of my key and blasted them, destroying them with the little hearts appearing over heads as the dissolved into nothing. This is fun!


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As the final round approached I wondered where the other contestants where as all I did was fight heartless. Which was interesting to say the least. As I wondered I walked onto the arena I saw Ringabel already there waving to the crowd "Hey Ringabel." I said, gaining his attention.

"Oh, Huxley! it’s so nice to see you here." He said as he got his sword out and got in a combat stance. I was shocked to say the least, but then figured this might be how the games work. Two competitors fighting enemies, if both beat all of them then they both face off against each other… Winner moves on to the next tournament.


"Hey, before we fight, did you ever fight other people before? Or just heartless?"

He was silent for a time. "I can't say I have fought another person before. So this will be a new one for me." I shrugged and summoned my keyblade, which caused Ringabel to take a step back in surprise. "A Keyblade?" He said before shaking his head. How does he know what it is? "After the fight you wouldn't mind me seeing that blade up close?"

I stood there for a second, then smiled. "Well you will be seeing it up close pretty soon." I went for a stabbing motion with my keyblade, lunging at him as he blocked with his sword and I began to slash at his. He blocked it when I decided on a change of plan. I stopped attacking and shouted, "Stop!" As Ringabel froze in place. I took a few good cheap swings at him while he was frozen in time. When the spell wore off he received all of the hits at once. He fell to the ground, defeated.

As soon as the match was over I offered my hand to help him up "Thank you." He replied weakly. Once he was up and able I walked off to see Phil.

"Hey Phil." I said as I entered the lobby. He turned around and stopped what he was doing. With a smile? That’s new.

"Hey it's the winner of the tournament! how ya doin?" Phil asked as I scratched the back of my head.

"I'm doing good. Just wondering what I won."

"Oh right, I almost forgot to give yous this." He handed me a piece of paper with writing I didn’t understand.

"What’s this?"

"It’s a hero certificate, It means that you can participate In the next games." He explained. "Oh and this thing I found it earlier and thought you may want it." He handed me the keychain for 'Mark of a Hero'.

"Thank you!" I said as I pulled out my kingdom key and swapped the keychain for it. In a flash it changed appearance, but I could feel it also changed in power. I said goodbye and walked outside, seeing Ringabel waiting for me. So he was serious. "Hey Ringabel" I waved as I walked over.

"Oh hey Huxley." Ringabel said as he looked at the statues. "So are you ready to show me your Keyblade?" He asked as I pulled it out. "Oh, it looks different now?" He said surprised. I handed him the keyblade so he could inspect it. "This is a nice weapon. You’re very lucky." Inspecting it, he gave it a good swing before handing it back to me. "You have a fine blade there. Take care of it." He pulled out a blue star shaped crystal. Guess that’s the star shard. "I bid you farewell, and until we meet again.” The star shard glowed and he disappeared in a flash of light that zig zagged into the sky.

"Well bye I guess?" I summoned a Dark Corridor and headed back to Equestria. Once back I went to Ponyville, which since everyone here is human sounds like an odd name, to buy some food and a blanket with the munny the heartless dropped in the tournament. If they dropped this stuff in the game the Colosseum world would have been more that just a world to grind Xp.

I walked into quills and sofas, since it was closest to where my portal dropped me. "Hey do you guys sell blankets?" The man behind the counter looked at me like I was crazy.

"Sorry we only sell quills and sofas, it’s literally in the store name, you’re going to have to look somewhere else for a blanket." As I walked out of the store where I bumped into, Twilight, who looked like a deer in the headlights.

"Are you following me?"

"Well... yes. I saw you exciting that dark portal of yours and overheard your question with the salesman in there. Why do you need a blanket? If you don't you have one in that big castle you’re sleeping in, figured there would be something in there.”

"Not really. Been sleeping on a rug in some secret room I found."

SHe looked at me for a moment. Like she was a kid with a crush. “Listen, if you need a place to stay I have a spare room that you can stay in if you want."

"Why? Why help somebody you don't know?"

"Well simply put, it’s to say thank you for saving Cadence and stopping Chrysalis." I don’t trust her. Something is up.

"So you would offer me free housing yet when I am starving you hold back food for 20 questions?"

She looked at me sheepishly. "Sorry about that, I just wanted to know stuff about you. You still haven’t really told me anything about you by the way."

I sighed. My only other option is to go back to the castle, I probably couldn't afford a blanket anyway, my luck it’s overpriced of they don’t take munny. I knew something was off, but I guess I’ll just have to keep my guard.

"Sure, I accept your offer."

She smiled. "You will? Great!" She grabbed my hand and dragged back to her Library where she showed me my room. It wasn't a large room, but it would work. "Well here's your room I have things I need to do so make yourself comfortable." She left. I went to lay down in what was my bed and I began to think of home and wondered how everybody was doing. I also wondered if my folks back home where clones or where they the real ones? Why clones? Got could have just wiped me from their memories and any trace I ever existed there, so why make replicas? As I was going deep into my thoughts, they were interrupted by Twilight shouting for Spike a few times. I guess she needs to write to princess Celestia on how she made a new friend even though I wouldn't call her a friend yet, If at all. Was anti-social on earth and that’s not changing now… Great, I made myself depressed.



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I was in the middle of lunch when a scroll came up out of smoke with a green tinge around it. "looks like Twilight or one of her friends has something for me." I said to myself as I unrolled the scroll. I smiled at the contents.

Dear Princess Celestia,


I did as you suggested and asked Huxley to stay over at the Library. When you want to talk to him you can come to Ponyville anytime, but I will warn you. He seems rather reclusive and won’t talk about himself much. Hopefully you can get him to talk, but we should be careful about that since I think he suspects me of scheming.

Wish me luck your Faithful student,

Twilight Sparkle

“So Huxley was now living in ponyville, good to know. Maybe I could figure out what he knows about the worlds. Or about that man Luna met that was looking for him.”

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