Why is this damn place so bright? I thought to myself as I walked through the town around me the townspeople were a little hesitant in talking to me, understandable, since I do have wings, and feathers covering the majority of my body. The old man was more than willing to help me though. Hell, he even taught me a bit of magic!

Why did he teach me anyway? I mean, I didn’t ask for it, and I’m a heartless, he just started explaining how to cast the fire spell in both defensive and offensive. It was pretty nice of him though, wish I got his name...

I continued my walk, making sure to fold my wings just right so that they blocked the heartless symbol on my back’s one featherless spot. As I delved deeper into my thoughts, a circle of light appeared above my head, and opened up into a container, holding a glowing ball in the middle.

“Shit!” I shouted as I dodged the growing cylinder only for another to appear as I landed. I was actually dodging pretty well considering I wasn’t using my wings. The fifth cylinder I dodged managed to scrape my shoulder as I jumped away. After roughly 4 minutes of dodging the cylinders to live. I even did a few wall runs to try to get away from them, but they just kept appearing. I eventually just resorted to running as fast as I could, shouting “WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!” and so on.

After about a minute of running and screaming, I crashed into someone, I think it was female, knocking her to the ground.

“SORRY!” I shouted as I barreled past.

I heard a voice from near the person I crashed into, “MIRUM?!” The voice was familiar somehow, but I can’t quite place it.

“NOT NOW LIGHT THINGS ATTACKING ME!” I shouted as I ran.

The voice said something else I couldn’t quite hear, to which I shouted, “IF YOU WANT TO TALK WE’LL DO SO LATER!” and with that, I ran up a huge wall and jumped over, landing me in a different area, I broke into a run again ,still chased by those DAMNED CYLINDERS OF LIGHT!

A few seconds later, the cylinders stopped appearing, and I slowed down, before ducking into an alleyway and collapsing behind a dumpster. Several minutes later I was almost ready to get back up again when I was seen by a... pegasus.

“Mirum? Is it really you?” It asked warily.

“Who’s asking?”

“Um, I already said so earlier. Noctis, remember? You saw me in bed with...you know, let’s just forget that part.”

“Not ringing any bells, sorry.” I stood up unsteadily, and looked him in the eyes, “Now, why did you follow me here.”

“For one, we’re trying to find you, as well as Lumos and Malum. We’re hoping we can make you guys whole again, help you get your hearts back.”

“Um. If you haven’t noticed, I’m not exactly a Nobody here. I have a heart... Sort of.”

“Yeah, well your other half doesn’t. Malum, remember him? You two have to become one again, or neither of you will last long when Akumu and Umbra come after you.” The creature named ‘Noctis’ said calmly.

“Malum... Where have I heard that name before?” I asked as I looked up at the gap between buildings, trying to find an escape route.

“Malum, his name means evil, just like yours means paradox, and mine means Night.”

“Yeah, I know my Latin, I know what it means, so why,” A black circular blade appeared in each of my hands, “Do you want me to join with a being named ‘Evil’?”

“Dammit, it’s just a name. Don’t make me fight you, Mirum. I don’t want to have to hurt you.” I said.

“Yeah, you just want me to stop existing by fusing with a different being.”

“You won’t stop existing. All it means is you’ll become whole again, you’ll get your memories back. You have the heart but no memories, Malum has the memories but no heart. You need him, just as he needs you, but if you’re gonna be too stubborn to listen,” He summoned a giant key, “then I’ll just have to beat some sense into you! INFINITY SPECTRUM!” He attached a small chain to the end, and it completely changed. (link in SONAD)

I just gave him a death glare through slightly widened eyes. Once my escape route was figured out, I muttered “Light mode.” and all of my feathers turned a brilliant golden as I charged forward. The pony met my charge with one of his own.

We met near the middle, where I jumped over him, and ran out of the alleyway, and then I kept running.

“OH NO YOU DON’T! STOPZA!” He yelled, and I fell over, frozen. As I fell, a passage of darkness opened under me, and I almost fell through it, if only I hadn’t missed and landed NEXT to the damned thing.

“What the...” the pony walked over to me. “Mirum, please. If you don’t become one with Malum again, a lot of innocent people are going to die. Do you really want the blood of hundreds, if not thousands, on your hands, just because you were too stubborn to do the right thing?” He asked with venom in his voice as I undid whatever the fuck he did to me. I had calmed down while I was frozen.

“... Fine, I’ll fuse with this ‘Malum’ guy. Happy? Now where is he?”

“That’s the problem. We don’t know. We were hoping you might have an idea where to look. He is your Nobody, after all.” He said in an embarrassed way.

“Yeah, well, shows how much you know.” I rolled my eyes.

“Just as humorous as Lumos. So, you gonna come with us to save the world?” He asked.

I let out a scoff, “Do you have any idea how cheesy you sound right now?”

“At least I didn’t put emphasis on the last part. Anyway, let’s go find Discord and everyone else before they send out a search party.”

He sighed, and said “I won’t be getting out of it will I?” While his blades disappeared.

“Sorry, but no. Anyway, you know you wanna kick Umbra’s ass.” I said, smiling a little.

“Who?”

“Oh right. Basically, before you got separated into the four that exist now, you, Malum and Lumos shared the same body. This guy Sanguine took over your body and....” (Exposition, exposition, talk shit out, AS, AP.)

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“WHAT THE FUCK?!”

“Dude, calm down before you hurt yourself.” The pony said.

“WHAT DO YOU MEAN CALM DOWN?! IF SOMEONE LIKE THAT IS ON THE LOOSE THEN HE HAS PROBABLY RUINED AT LEAST ONE WORLD ALREADY!”

“Ok, I am gonna say this once. CALM THE FUCK DOWN! If he has ruined a world, then we’ll just put it back together. That’s all there is to it. I don’t give a damn if everyone else says it’s impossible. We’ll do it!”

“Yeah, I gue- AH!” I was interrupted as a man jumped out of nowhere wearing a strange outfit, and pinned me to the ground. (Link in SoNaD)

“Ventus, please release Mirum before I kick your ass.”

“It’s Mirum? I saw the heartless symbol on it’s back and just reacted.” The new guy said, leaping off, “Also, we both know I would win if we fought.”

“Yeah yeah. Sorry about that Mirum. You ok?” The first one, who I think called himself ‘Noctis’ earlier asked.

“My face... ow...” I mumbled, while faceplanting.

“Ven, apologise to Mirum. Then, we’ll go find the others.” ‘Noctis’ said

“I already found them earlier, when I said I was going to go do so. Also, sorry bro.” The guy called ‘Ventus’ added, looking down at me while I stood and tried to get the dirt off my face. Followed by shooting him a death glare.

“Seriously, why the fuck would you do that?” I saw out of the corner of my eye a small paper airplane falling.

“Because he can be an idiot sometimes. Anyway, let’s go find the oth-AGH MY EYE! FUCK!” Noctis yelled as the piece of paper hit him dead in the eye.

“Where did that paper come from?” Ventus asked

“You didn’t see it falling?” I responded.

“Does it matter? Let’s read it before I get pissed off and burn it or something!” Noctis said impatiently.

Journal of a Nobody: Entry 1:

I won’t write the details of the first four days, which were just getting used to the organization. I’ve remembered how my metal works, and how to infuse powers in them, but thats about it. I’ve managed to convince Xemnas to lend a small amount of his power to creating a new weapon with me, I call it the Nihl, since Xemnas’ power is Void control, which is basically antimatter. Anything Nihl cuts will disintegrate within a matter of seconds. I have also noticed something rather odd, all the members of this organization sound and look exactly the same. Something... just seems off.

~Lux

“What?” Ven asked, looking confused

“Oh, crap.” Noctis said with a horrified look.

“What?” Noctis jumped as a woman in the shadows spoke.

“Hey princess,” Ven greeted in a surprised tone as the woman walked out from the shadows. She had flowing, multi-colored hair and was wearing a white dress with a rapier strapped to her back. (LINK IN SoNaD)

“Don’t do that Celestia, you almost gave me a heart-attack.” Noctis said with wide eyes.

“They can’t fix you having a weak heart, Noctis.”

“Shut up Ven. We have a problem if you didn’t realise. Namely the fact that Lumos was found by Organization XIII.”

“Yeah, yeah, still, a joke never killed anyone... except that one rubber chicken...” He muttered the last part. Wait... he killed a guy with a rubber chicken?!

“This isn’t the time. They have Lumos, and he’s making weapons for them. So either he doesn’t remember anything, or he’s being controlled, in a sense.” Noctis said.

“Yes, that is the most logical of assumptions.” Ven muttered.

“So, the question is, what are we gonna do about it? Oh, and where’s everyone else Celestia? Weren’t Discord and Luna with you earlier?” Noctis asked the woman.

She shrugged her shoulders calmly. “Luna said something about finding a flower shop, and Discord went with her.”

“And what about Die?”

“She’s touring the town with Tox, Sparky, Shade, Aqua, and Clare. They said something about finding somewhere to practice.”

“Ok then. Well we’ve found Mirum, and we got a message from Lumos, or Lux, I guess. So we should continue looking for more info and then head to our next destination. Which world is it again?” Noctis said, looking to Ven, who just shrugged.

“We never decided, we already know that our info from this world would determine that.”

“Well so far we know that Lumos is in the World that Never Was, most likely, while Malum is in the wind, so to speak.”

“That means our next location would be Twilight Town. Since that’s the only world with any sort of connection to the world that never was.”

‘Celestia’ cut in, “Well then, I’ll go find Discord and the others. Where will we meet?”

“The Dark Depths?” Ven suggested calmly. “It’s probably closer to wherever Die and the others found to train.” Noctis looked a little anxious.

“There gonna be any heartless there? I’m wondering if Mirum might be able to command lesser heartless to an extent.” I went deep into thought for a few moments, before the woman called Celestia disappeared in a flash of light

Once our eyes adjusted to the light again, we walked out of the allyway.

“I’ll go on ahead,” Ven said, already beginning to fly away.

“Yeah... I think I’ll walk.” I said, still concerned about hiding my mark.

“Same. Gives us a chance to talk without trying to kill each other.” Noctis said...

Finally, they're here. I thought as Jolt, noticed Noctis and Mirum approaching, and walked up to them.

“What took you guys so long?” He yelled.

“Q/A Session Sparky.” Noctis said with a grin, putting emphasis on the nickname ‘Sparky’

“Don’t call me Sparky... Tia! We’re all here!” Jolt shouted, looking back to the disguised princess.

“Thank you Jolt. Now, the reason we are here, is because we have two pieces of news to share. One, we have found Mirum,” She gestured towards towards Mirum, who shrugged in response, “And the other thing is that we have discovered Lumos’ whereabouts. Unfortunately, he is in the clutches of the Organization.” She said.

“Wait, Organization XIII found him?! Oh this is bad! This is very bad!” Clare half-shouted with wide eyes.

“Calm yourself Clare. We will rescue him, no matter what. I promise you that.” Celestia said in a stoic way

“No, you don’t understand, if he makes a weapon fused with Xemnas’ power, do you have ANY idea how powerful it would be?!”

“I know it would be bad Clare. It doesn’t matter though. We’re gonna beat him, we’re gonna save Lumos, and we’re gonna stop Akumu and Umbra. DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR!” Noctis said, slipping into ‘Drill sergeant mode’

“Why are you going drill sergeant on us at a time like this?!” Clare shouted

“Because somebody has to keep us from losing our heads because of one piece of bad news. That answer your question?”

Clare had a blank look for a second, before sighing, “Whatever... Damn I need a drink.”

“So, Lumos is with Organization XIII? Does that make him a captive, or an enemy?” Luna asked.

“Neither, from what we read, I think he lost his memory, like Mirum did.” Ven said, looking deep in thought.

“Well, if ‘Lux’ is on the World that Never Was, then why are we here? To Twilight Town!” Discord exclaimed, and snapped his fingers, moving us all back to the ship.

“Uh, Discord, we still had to meet Aerith and the others to get info on Sora, Riku, Kairi and the others y’know?”

He got a disappointed look on his face, “Oh,” He snapped again, and teleported me, Noctis, and Die down, putting us in the middle of town.

“Huh, that’s convenient. We’re here.” I said, pointing to a building, and walking forward slowly.

“HEY! You can’t enter without permission y’know!” A voice I instantly recognized said from above

“Sure we can’t Yuffie.” Noctis said sarcastically. “So, is there a reason you stopped us? Cause I know there’s no restrictions about entering a building.”

“Ok, ya got me. There’s actually nobody in there except for Merlin. They’re all at the castle right now.” She said.

“Oh, ok, thanks,” I said, before beginning to fly off.

“Ok, so the castle is that way.” I muttered under my breath as I readjusted my flight.

I got to the area above the castle gate, and came to a stop, only to be crashed into from behind.

“GAH!” I shouted as I fell, softening both my own landing, and the one who crashed into me’s landing with my wind. I looked over to see Die in pegasus form.

“Owwwww, dammit. What the hell did you stop for!?” She said, switching back, getting off me and cracking her various joints.

“You were following me?” I asked, tilting my head a little.

“Well duh, I don’t wanna hear some old guy talking about the type of magic only Noctis could use. With the changes to both his physical and emotional states, he’d probably start lording it over me or something.” She said irritatedly.

“Fair enough.” I said as I checked to make sure I hadn’t broken anything in the fall.

“So, why the sudden stop anyway? I mean besides wanting to be tackled by a beautiful girl.” She said, smiling.

He chuckled, “Because we’re here.” he said as he pointed to the castle doors behind him.

“Oh, right. Hey, who’s the guy over there?” She asked, pointing somewhere behind me.

I turned to look, and saw Leon in the outfit used in KH2. “Leon,” I said, just quiet enough that he probably couldn’t hear.

“Ok, I’ll ask you once. Who are you, and why are you here?” He asked in a stern tone, reaching for his gunblade.

“We’re here looking for information on some people.”

“Information on who?”

“For one: A group called Organization XIII.” I started.

“Well, some of them have come back here, but they’re not with the Organization anymore. They’re helping us by researching various things which I won’t be discussing with you.” He said.

“Yes, I know about them coming back, I’m talking about a group called the ‘True Organization.’”

“The True Organization? That’s....not good.”

“Ever heard of Xehanort?”

“Of course. He was Ansem the Wise’s assistant. Why?”

“The True Organization is, in the most blunt of terms: 12 versions of him, pullen from different points in time.”

“Pullen?” He asked with a raised eyebrow. I chose to ignore him.

“I don’t really know the details myself. Apparently they can also make copies of him by injecting a small amount of his ‘heart’ into another.”

“That would explain why there are still members of the original Organization missing. They’ve probably been made into copies of him. So, anything else?”

“I also am looking for two specific Nobodies, and a pair of heartless who may be a bit of a threat.”

“Well, what are their names? If they’re a threat, they have to be taken care of.”

“The nobodies aren’t the threat, their Names are Lumos, or ‘Lux,’ as he’s calling himself in this journal entry we found, and Malum. The heartless we’re looking for are called Akumu and Umbra.”

“Sorry, never heard of ‘em. Try asking Lea if you can find him. He’s probably at the that tower with Yen Sid, Sora and the rest.” He said.

“Which tower is that?”

“It’s called the Mysterious Tower. That’s where Sora and his friend Riku are, though they wouldn’t say what they were doing there.” Leon said, shaking his head.

“So it’s already begun...” I muttered

“What’s that supposed to mean?”

I sighed, “It’s not important, anyway, see ya.”

“Alright then. When you get to the tower, tell Sora that I’m looking forward to testing just how strong he’s become.” Leon said as he headed inside.

“Ven, what’s begun and why did you lie to Leon about it not being important?” Die asked with a serious expression.

“Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance, the 5th game in the KH series. I lied about it not being important to not screw up the timeline too much.”

“Oh, well that makes sense. But what if Akumu and Umbra mess it up themselves?”

“That’s an uncontrolled variable in this situation, we’ll just hope everything falls in place as it should, lets get back to Merlins to get Noctis again.”

“You know the second Noctis finds out what storylines going on, he’s gonna demand to go to the Mysterious Tower and learn to wield a Keyblade from Yen Sid, right? Hell, I won’t be surprised if he insists on helping Sora and Riku out if they’re still in the sleeping worlds.”

“Oh yeah... we already edited the story quite a bit. Although I don’t want Leon to know what happens for other reasons too.” I said, thinking about what happens to Sora near the end of the storyline.

“Not necessarily. We could have come in too close to the end to make any major changes. After all, he said Lea was at the tower, right?”

“The smallest change can affect the ending. No matter what point we’re at.”

“Dude, you’re blowing this out of proportion. And besides, maybe we can change it for the better, nip this whole clash in the bud or something?” She suggested. “I know Noctis would be up for it, since it would result in saving lives, in a sense. Though it could possibly prevent the rescue of Terra, Aqua and Ven. Hmm, maybe we should wait until we’re sure the storyline has reached the end before we go? After all, the next game hasn’t been made yet, so the storyline from that point is unwritten.”

“There have been rumors of Kingdom Hearts 3 being called ‘the keyblade war,’ though that rumor has existed since before even 358/2 days came out, so there isn’t much ground to it.”

“Meh, good enough for me. So once we’re sure the storyline has reached the end of DDD, we go to the tower, and get Noctis signed up for training from Yen Sid and Mickey, right?”

“And hopefully Lumos won’t have been made into a copy of Xehanort by then... Wait... His blade, Nihl, could theoretically destroy anything, right?”

“Yeah what does that ha-wait, are you thinking what I think you’re thinking?”

“What I’m thinking is that he could kill Riku and Sora, or even destroy their keyblades.”

“Or, as long as ‘Lux’ keeps it in his possession, if he remembers everything, he could kill Xemnas, thus derailing Xehanort’s plans. But only if he remembers.”

“We can only hope.” I muttered, shaking my head.

“Yeah, that’s all we c-OW!” Die said as a door slammed open, catching her in the face.

“What the fuck?!” I shouted, my hand jumping to my blade, but not quite drawing it. I looked into the doorway, and saw Noctis. It was only then that I noticed we had walked all the way back to Merlin's’ house already.

“Oh shit, you ok Die?” He said in a worried tone, running toward her.

“DUMBASS!” She shouted, while giving him a punch in the forehead, “What the fuck did you slam a door on my face for!?” I noticed a small bit of red coming down from her nose.

“Um... Die?” I asked.

“What?” She turned to me, with a look that could almost kill.

“You’re bleeding.” I pulled out a rag from one of the many pockets of my fancy schmancy new outfit (See SONAD chapter 9 for a link to the outfit pic), and held it out to her.

She put a hand under her nose and pulled it back. “Oh, great. Nice going Noctis.” She said with a sarcastic tone, snatching the rag from my hand and cleaning off the blood before using a Cure spell to heal the bruise and bleeding. “You’re just lucky you’re my brother, you know that?” She said with a smirk.

“Yeah yeah. So, what did you guys learn?” Noctis asked. I thought for a moment before responding

“We learned what point in the story we are in, and just how big of a problem we have on our hands.”

“I know, we’re here during the events of 3D, right?”

“Yeah, but that’s not all I figured out.”

“What else?” He asked.

“If the diary entry of ‘Lux’ is correct, then Sora or Riku could be killed if he doesn’t regain his memories. However, us trying to stop it from happening may stop the rescues of Aqua, Terra, and the Ventus from BBS.”

“Crap, so we’re damned if we do, and damned if we don’t?” Noctis said. TOO MANY QUESTIONS! ABORT ABORT!

“Unless Lumos remembers.”

“Then I guess we’re going to have to get involved and make sure he does!” Noctis said confidently.

“You aren’t getting it,” I said “we’re only able to really hope that he remembers on his own, our getting involved will change it even more.”

“Our being here has already done that, hasn’t it?”

“Yes, yes it has, but that--”

“No buts! We’re going to help them, we’re going to make sure that Lumos, Sora and Riku are saved, and we’re going to help rescue Masters Aqua, Terra and Ventus.” he said.

“Ventus wasn’t a master, and Terra failed his mark of mastery exam.” I corrected.

“I know that technically, they’re not masters, but as far as I’m concerned, they are skilled enough to deserve the title.” I retorted. “So therefore, I call them Masters. You got a problem with that?”

I let out a sigh, “No, it’s just tha-AAGH!” I shouted as a letter lodged itself in my left eye.

“Well, at least it wasn’t me this time.” Noctis said.

Die hit him. “Shut up Noctis. You ok Ven? What is that? And what did Noctis mean by ‘this time’?”

“Yeah, I’m fine,” I opened the letter, “Huh, it’s another one of the entries of the ‘Journal of a Nobody’ and what he meant was that the last one lodged itself in his eye. Also I think you should wear some sort of sunglasses, just in case.” I said with my left eye squinted.

She looked at me, “Nah, I’ll be fine. If I can take a door to the face and heal up in a snap, I think a paper plane to the eye would only be a minor annoyance.”

“Anyway, lets see what it says...” and he began to read it out loud.

“Journal of a Nobody: Entry 2

I wonder why I keep writing these, with no emotions it just seems stupid and pointless. The rest of the members of the organization all have their hoods up, and won’t talk to me. So there isn’t much to really talk about. Although I did see one of the faces, he looked like a younger version of Xemnas, I wonder if they’re brothers or something? One last thing, a few of my memories have come back to me. One thing stands out above all: a thing called Kingdom Hearts.

~Lux”

“Shit, young Xehanort. Something tells me the next entry we get will not be good.” Noctis said, slightly worried.

“At least he’s remembering.” I added, trying to look on the bright side.

“Yeah, that’s something good, at least. But what if he doesn’t remember everything in time to save himself from being turned into a copy of Xehanort?”

“As I said before, we can only hope.”

“Screw just hoping, let’s get involved!” Noctis shouted.

I looked at him, “I think we should go back to the ship and take a vote.”

“Same here.” Ok, good, so Die is on my side on this one. Or at least she wants to take a vote too, rather than decide for everyone.

“Alright then. Back to the ship. You still got that thing Discord gave you to contact him?” To answer Noctis’ question, I took of my watch and held it to my mouth.

“Discord, we’re ready to come back.”

A bright flash appeared, and by when my eyes adjusted, we were back on the ship.

“Dude, that was infinitely easier on the head than regular teleporting.” Noctis said.

“Yeah, anyway,” I held up my watch again, “Intercom mode: All personnel report to the bridge.” I said, with my voice echoing throughout the entirety of the ship.

A few minutes later, everyone, arrived, waiting to hear what we had to say.

I began, “We have good news and bad news. Good news, we have another piece of the diary of ‘Lux,’ this entry telling us that he is regaining his memory slowly. The bad news is that he might be transformed into a Xehanort clone soon.” I looked up, “This leads me to my next order of business: a vote. Do we go to rescue Lumos this second, or do we wait to let the timeline of Dream Drop Distance carry out first? If we rush in, we may stop the rescues of the main characters from Birth by Sleep.”

“And if we don’t get involved, then Lumos, or ‘Lux’, may kill Sora and Riku, completely wrecking the timeline, unless he remembers everything before it’s too late.”

“Ok, so who is for?” I asked, everyone but me, Discord, Jolt, and Tox raised their hands/hoofs.

Noctis seemed happy with the results of the vote“So that’s seven of us. Wait, Discord, you’re against this? Hmm, kinda surprised, but then again, you are a Spirit of Chaos, so being unpredictable is basically your job description, huh?”

“True, but I also know better than to rupture timelines.”

“... Well, Discord, I guess we’re off to Twilight Town.” I said, head hung, accepting my defeat.

“Wait, what if just go and get Lumos back from The World that never Was before the fight if it hasn’t happened yet, and we make sure to take Nihl with us?” Noctis suggested. I just shook my head.

“The fight will probably start before we get there, considering we have to go through a passage hidden in Twilight Town.”

“Hey, didn’t they rename it Traverse Town at some point? No wait, they’re two completely separate worlds. I think I’m messing up all the names now.” Noctis said, facehoofing.

“Yeah, different world.”

He looked a little embarrassed at this, “Ok then. So, where exactly is the passage that’ll take us to The World that Never Was anyway? Wait, since it’s a sleeping world now, won’t we only be able to access it the way that Sora and Riku did? By entering the realm of sleeping Keyholes?”

“Oh, now where is the fun in taking the normal route?” Discord asked.

“Oh right, I forgot you can go anywhere you want, anyway you want.” Noctis said.

Discord put on a pair of shades, “We launch in 5. 4. 3. 2. 1.” the ship shook heavily, knocking us all to the floor but him, “We have liftoff.”

“You added that to mess with us, didn’t you?” I said from the ground. Honestly I was ok with it, because I had broke Die’s fall, but still.

“You can’t prove anything!” Discord shouted.

“He’s got you there Ven.” Noctis said with a chuckle.

“I wasn’t complaining,” I said with a slight smile.

“Yeah, you were whining. And get a room you two.” He retorted, and we both blushed furiously, quickly standing up.

“Um... I’ll be training. I want to be as ready as possible for what is to come.”

“I’m gonna blow off some steam. NOBODY BOTHER ME UNLESS YOU HAVE A DEATHWISH!” Die shouted.

And with that, Die and I were off to the VR Room and Game Room, leaving everybody else to do whatever.
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I walked into the room, laying down Tai Fuu No Me (my sword) in the doorway, and walked to the center, before saying “Enter training simulation: Pain bubble. Level: 5 of 5.” What? I need to be good at ignoring pain to fight against guys who use antimatter as a weapon.

A red bubble appeared in front of me, a small bit floated off and hit me, the pain of which causing me to fall to one knee, and begin to actually bleed from my mouth, I stood up, walked up to it, and said “Soundproof room. Begin Simulation,” before jumping in.

The pain was unbearable, every time I tried to move, a new cut opened on my skin, I fought the urge to open my mouth to let out a scream. I then realized something important: I forgot to set up the auto time limit on it. I fell to one knee, splitting the skin around it at least twice. I let out a scream as I fell to the ground, which caused, you guessed it, more damn cuts.

Maybe... I should have payed more attention when setting that up... I thought as my vision started to fade.

“YOU IDIOT!” I heard a voice yell. “End simulation right FUCKING NOW!” and Die ran over.

I smiled, despite the pain, “I thought I told the computer... to soundproof the room.” I coughed up a bit of blood.

“Yeah well, looks like it didn’t do a very good job of it.” She said. “Here, let me take care of that. Curaga.” I felt my cuts closed, oddly enough, they formed scars that covered my body.

“Thanks, I shouldn’t have put it on level five...” I said.

“No worries Ven, you wanted to be stronger, that’s understandable, though in a way I still don’t get how guys think going through pain makes them stronger.”

“I’m not aiming for stronger. I’m aiming to be less reactive to pain.”

“Ok then. Oh, there’s still a cut on your face. Let me take care of it.” She said, before, get this, pecking me on the cheek. I felt myself blush... and something else...

“I... Um...” I tried to think of something to say, but my brain wasn’t in commission at the moment.

“Ok, I’ll leave you to put your brain back together.” She said, turning to leave.

“No, wait.” I said, immediately wondering why.

“Yes?” She said, smiling as she turned back to me.

“I... Oh fuck being suave about it!” I said, before kissing her.

She was surprised at first, but she eventually started relaxing into it, wrapping her arms around me and trying to pull me closer. I pulled her in as well, and the kiss deepened. Eventually, her tongue started pushing into my teeth, trying to gain entrance. I opened my mouth and let mine slip out as well, and our tongues danced around each other’s mouths. I pulled out for a moment, to say “Change location: generic romantic field.” before going back in, as the scenery changed to a field of tall grass, in the background was a beautiful sunset...

(And so both me and Clearshot decided it would be best [and less awkward] to leave it there, to the sick, twisted minds of you, the audience. although no actual sex happens, just make out scene. :P)
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I stood before my army, noticing the differences between them. Apparently, each sin blade gave them abilities. To explain:

All of the creatures I made have the same physical appearance as heartless, but they are all colored differently, and had an ability, as follows:

Envy gives the ability to create strife and anger between others. Color: Green

Pride gives them a boost to power or speed, but lowers the other. Color: Purple/Violet

Greed simply gives them the ability to steal it’s opponents powers and strength. Color: Golden

Lust... Just made them a bunch of horny bastards. Color: Ocean Blue

I grinned, after all, I made something different from a heartless, nobody, dream eater, or unversed. What to call them... I made them with blades of sin... maybe... Sinners? Eh, if I find a new name, I’ll use it.

I opened up my thought speak, and contacted my hoard, <Hello, my children, I am the dark one in front of you. My name is Umbra, and I am your creator. You were created using four of the seven blades of sin, and as such, shall be called the Sinners, a new kind of creature, capable of great change. We will overthrow the ways of the universe! WE SHALL RISE!> I threw my fist up, and the crowd of Sinners before me began to cheer, except the ‘Lust’ ones, they just kept doing what they did best.

I was puln out of my feel of glory when I... ‘heard’ Akumu’s thoughts, it said UMBRA! IF YOU CAN HEAR ME WITH THAT FREAKY MIND SHIT, I NEED AN ADULT!

I chuckled, and turned to the Sinners. <It looks like a friend of ours could use some help, what do you say, ready to rampage?>

The Sinners cheered again, <Then lets do this!> I lifted myself up with rings of darkness around my feet and shoulders, and flew with the winged sinless. oddly enough, they all looked like a cross between neo shadow and knight heartless, and skeletons, other than the manticores, they became more like the living bones from KH2. A lot of the nova-shadow ones were winged for some reason, even though they had no wings before hand.

It took a few minutes for the army to reach Ponyville, before I sent the message to surround the town to the entire army. I then sent a private message to Akumu.

<Akumu, I have built us a small army, prepare to steal the soul of either the light blue pegasus with the rainbow hair, or the extremely pink one with the hair that looks like cotton candy, I’ll be dropping in on the party in 4 seconds after I tell you this. Find a way to keep as many ponies as possible there, so I can make us more minions, or just kill them if you feel like it, just get one of the souls first... Actually, go for the pink one. I’ll take the Rainbow maned pony of ‘sloth’.>

I was surprised when Akumu replied in thought speech, <No worries. I challenged sloth to a speed challenge and gluttony's the judge. So they'll be in the same place at the same time. And where'd you get an army anyway?>

<The blades of sin, my friend, our army is of those transformed by four of the seven sins.>

<No fuckin' way. Just how powerful are these things?>

<I don’t quite know yet, but they are mostly like skeletons. Oh, and avoid any that are a dark blue color.>

<Why? Will they blow up or something?>

<The dark blue ones were made with the sin of ‘Lust,’ and->

<OK I'VE HEARD ENOUGH!>

I saw Akumu, Rainbow Dash, and Pinkie Pie all exit the Library

<2 seconds to the drop of me, and my army.> I said in public speech.

Akumu chuckled to the confusion of the two ponies.

I smiled, <Dropping now, BANZAAAAIIIIIIIIIIII!>

My army of Sinners began to attack the town, the living bone like ones charging through the streets, trampling anything in their way, as the neowings (what i’m calling the flying ones now.) dropped down and killed the first thing that moved, except the Lust ones, which... well, I don’t need to describe it. I moved in front of the pink mare with cotton hair, picked her up by the neck, and jammed my hand into her chest, rendering her soul.

"OK TIME TO GO!" Akumu yelled as a crowd of angry ponies started to gather, before running in fear from my army. I dropped the pink body in my hand, and my smile became a grin.

<No problem, creating sinblades. Just give them a nick with yours to change them to ‘Sinners’ for the army.> he ‘said’ as a new blade appeared in my hand. In the gloved hand of Umbra, a huge keyblade appeared.

"Nah. Let's just go find our weaker halves and end them."

<Ok, just give me a minute to get us some new soldiers, I wanna see what the complete sinblade is capable of later, just hold onto Sloth and Wrath for the moment.>

Akumu gave a sigh before nodding, and I ran off to wreak havoc on this town.

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So... I have no clue what the hell I just wrote. Also, answer to last riddle I asked you was ‘nothing.’ Today’s riddle is this: What stinks when living and smells good when dead? The answer next time.

~Cloud Nova/Madman12435 Signing out.