Kingdom hearts 4- The Lost Masters Saga (the beginning)
My pal Dark Master Archi inspired me with the idea presented in 'chapter 0' (you heard that correctly ZERO).
I'm trying out new things with this concept.
The World Ends with you and it's switch final mix version (the one with secret reports) and all Kingdom hearts characters and elements belongs to Square Enix and The heart-blade theory by Noir Lilbomber was inspiration for the MOM's original keyblade.
Green and Ainozomi belong to Nazo the mysterious hedgehog and Blake belongs to 5UP3RN0V42015.
The Yen Sid Knew theory by HMK will be additional inspiration and slightly referenced as well.
There's are spoilers for 'A new day' and the TWEWY final mix in this. so be careful.
Prologue
In 'The World Ends With You' Shibuya, Neku and Beat had been brought back to the Underground under a 'Expert mode'. They were given one mission: escape Shibuya. They came across Shiki and Rhyme; Shiki being in her Eri form and Rhyme still having her memories of Beat.
Neku kept getting visions and met a reaper he didn't recognise called Coco.
Coco has pale beige hair that is shoulder-length, along with sky blue eyes. While not as noticeable, the left side of her hair is slightly more purple in colour; although it can be dismissed this as a shadow of the head, it is actually her hair that is shaded slightly darker into a light purple. Her skin is light and almost white, while her overall stature is child-like.
Her attire is vibrant and pastel coloured, consisting of lots of cute pink and candy blue, which contrasts her role as a Reaper. She wears a candy blue button-up top with a matching thigh-high skirt, both with frills and fluffs. Over that, she has a sky blue ribbon at her neck and a pink hoodie jacket, where the hood has bear ears marked with hearts. Around her wrists on the outside of the jacket are multi-coloured flashy bracelets, while the bottom-left end of her jacket has a light-purple heart accessory with a "confused" expression upon it. She wears thigh-high socks that are patterned with candy purple and sky blue in alternation. She wears normal sneaks that are pink with candy blue laces and white soles. On her back, she carries around a purple pack which also has frills.
Like all Reapers, Coco has her own set of Reaper wings, which matching to her size, is small in comparison to other Reapers. Because of her overall looks, her wings are probably the only way to distinguish her as a Reaper.
Rhyme got erased when saving Beat again just like Neku's vision.
The Joshua in this Shibuya was timid and the complete opposite of the real Joshua.
Upon reuniting with Mr Hanekoma, he exposed Coco as a fraud and revealed that this Shibuya was actually a huge noise created by a powerful Reaper (possibly Coco).
Coco sent a large noise at them which Neku and Beat defeated.
They all returned to the Real Ground (where the alive people are) but Coco shot Neku before Joshua shot Coco.
An unknown girl holding a brown bear similar to Mr Mew, Shiki's plush cat, was walking through the streets of Shinjuku as the city is Inverted.
She had long hair that was the same colour as Joshua's and brown eyes which resembled Rhyme (along with her posture) wearing red skirt and white button-up shirt paralleling Beat's colour scheme clothes (his white tank top with a red one under it) with red and grey headphones like Neku's fondness for headphones.
Her eyes glowed red.
The real Joshua spoke to Mr. Hanekoma about the unknown girl, Neku's visions, Coco and Shinjuku's erasure (described as an inversion).
Joshua claimed he didn't need Neku anymore.
Coco, either talking to herself or to Joshua even though he wasn't present, claimed Neku was still needed. In this case, SHE needed him.
She proceeded to revive an old rival to be Neku's new partner: Sho Minamimoto.
Mr. Hanekoma wrote in his journal after his little talk with Joshua:
A New Day 3 — Secret Addendum C
It turns out the enormous Noise under that little Reaper's control was actually a pseudo-parallel world artificially constructed by breaking down and forcibly rebinding the Soul from various Noise.
This sort of unusual and unstable dimension is extremely fragile, so we gave up on the idea of down-tuning our vibes to launch an infiltration. Instead, I interfered with the Noise from the outside by using an advanced method of imprinting.
My goal was to save both boys.
Unfortunately, I could only save one.
A pseudo-parallel world like that one is special in that it is heavily dependent upon its creator.
A considerable Imagination is required to create such a world—far greater than that of any run-of-the-mill Reaper. I suspect someone must have given that little girl a hand.
And what about those mysterious visions that invaded Neku's consciousness? What about that abnormal power and whoever created it? What about the Reaper resummoned into the UG via a refinery sigil?
All of these phenomena occurred almost simultaneously with the aforementioned incident in Shinjuku—that is, the Inversion. But is it possible a single event could truly have such widespread repercussions? I'm determined to find out.
-In Shinjuku (in the Kingdom Hearts' universe)-
"We're gonna need more players" Coco stated.
"I know where to get more….Shibuya" Sho stated with a wild grin.
-End of Prologue-
Chapter 0- Another's beginning…
In the land of fairy tales before the 6 apprentices were trained, were a group of prophets known as the 'Dark Masters'.
They all studied the X-blade, forging keyblades that imitate the X-blade from people's hearts and the ways of foresight (seeing the future).
One of them was called Hokori, the one who did things by following his heart much like Sora.
One of his eyes was cat-like much like Sephiroth in FF7 and the other was red like Yozora.
With his three fellow prophets, he was naturally curious, playful and comedic.
"Do you ever wonder if there's other timelines we're unaware of?" Hokori asked.
"Perhaps but we can pick which timeline or 'worldline' to follow" one of his peers replied.
Hokori looked at the sky.
"Kingdom hearts still gives this world light even when hidden from sight. What if someone tried to use its power to reshape the world?" he questioned.
"We'll make sure it only happens once" a different peer replied.
Hokori summoned his keyblade and smiled.
"I hope you all get apprentices as well" he said, hopefully.
His original keyblade was a gold, red and white keyblade with a lion engraved on it.
He went on to study darkness and light in people and how it worked in the world.
From there he forged his next keyblade: A keyblade with a dark black handle with a raised spiral carved around it. Its pommel and guard resemble black, demonic wings. The base of the blade is an etching of a goatand the shaft is formed from two black, barbed blades, etched with a white icon resembling a bramble of thorns. The teeth are formed in the shape of a demonic wing.
The Keychain is made of small, grey links, and the token is an entangled, grey talisman.
He placed his blue cat-like eye on the teeth of the keyblade which he used to see the future with his power and knowledge on foresight.
Due to this insertion, a copy of the eye appeared on the talisman as well.
He eventually wrote the book of prophecies using his gazing eye and gained 6 apprentices.
When he forged their keyblades from their hearts, he placed copies of his gazing eye on these weapons, allowing them to transfer other copies of said eye on other weapons in due time.
The other Dark Masters went their separate ways, some were aware of the multiverse outside the world they inhabited and left to explore the outside with journals in hand.
-Years later when Hokori, now 'The Master' or 'The Master of Masters' (AKA MOM), was giving Luxu his role-
"You have a grand role to play Luxu. Part of it is finding someone who lives my moto without realising. The person who follows their heart even if it leads them into a trap" The MOM began.
"I think I understand but… is there an end goal to this?" Luxu asked.
"Of course but first…" The MOM summoned his keyblade.
"Here, you'll be needing this"
Luxu took the keyblade.
"The gazing eye?" he guessed.
"That's not what it's called. No name in fact" The MOM revealed.
"No Name, I like it" Luxu said, playfully.
"Well it does an eye in it, mine in fact…" The MOM began.
After explaining how the eye and Luxu passing down the keyblade from apprentice to apprentice for generations to come allowed him to make said book of Prophecies and the black box, The MOM whispered something about the box to Luxu.
"But why?" Luxu asked.
"You'll see" The MOM stated.
-20 minutes later-
"Now then, about what happened after your role ends, I'll need this 'guiding key' individual in a special place to observe their potential. Then you can start phase two: manipulating the foretellers…." He continued.
-Later-
When the MOM left, he went into a starry void waiting for the time when he was to return and study the next generation….
Chapter 1 – grieving, searching and answers…..
-Grace's POV-
A few days had passed since Sora disappeared, Everyone was dealing with his loss in different ways: Terra tried meditation with Ven after slowly adjusting to having his chirithy around, Kairi opted to get help from Aqua to get even stronger, Roxas went for the distraction route to avoid Riku by accompanying Axel, Isa and Xion track down the girl known as 'Subject X' and Namine stayed on Destiny Island for a little while.
As for Green – or at least his nobody-, he went to the mirage arena again to try to connect to Sora via memories.
Blake was busy getting extra lessons with Yen Sid in his spare time and as for me…I was keeping Namine and Riku company.
"It's so quiet without him here" I said, softly.
Riku chuckled softly.
"That's very true. I spoke to Master Yen Sid yesterday, even he isn't quite sure if we can bring Sora back without getting lost in the process" Riku revealed.
I sighed.
"Do you have a plan?" I asked.
"Well, I'll just do what he normally does: follow my heart. That's the old master motto right?" Riku questioned.
I nodded.
"Are you gonna bring Kairi?" I wondered.
"Hmmm…She has a Gummi-phone now, so when she's ready to join me, she'll know when to call" Riku stated.
"I…should probably try to find Charis…" I began.
"Please Grace, I want to help too" Naminè pleaded.
"Um…I don't have a ship. I have my World jumper device…" I trailed off.
Naminè's eyes lit up.
"I can ask for one too and then we can search for Charis together!" Naminè suggested, excitedly.
"Ok, why not?" I smiled.
Just then I felt a cold sensation in my heart, everyone connected to Sora felt it too.
"Is it…?" I began.
Naminè nodded.
"It's Sora. His connection to all of us is gone!" she revealed.
"Donald!" I called.
He and Goofy came running.
"Is something wrong?" Goofy asked but then he noticed everyone looked slightly paler.
"Sora…" Donald said, sadly.
"Yeah, we need your help to get to Yen Sid as fast as humanly possible" I urged.
Donald nodded and whistled for the gummi ship.
"Before I head off, I come with you guys. I have a feeling Yen Sid will have more information" Riku noted.
I nodded as we took the gummi ship to the Mysterious tower.
"I have gone through the reports Xehanort had written when he had been travelling and gained a lot of knowledge. The part that intrigued me the most was the 'Keyblades of hearts'. When you were possessed by Ansem SOD, you used one of these to open the keyhole in Holow Bastion, Riku. That keyblade is known as the 'Keyblade of the human heart' or 'Fallen Darkness'. The X-blade seems to fit this category as well. There's a chance that there's more of them that haven't been forged yet. For all we know, these keyblades aren't just artificially created" Yen Sid began.
"You see…if one of these keyblades are created from hearts then it's possible there's an alternative to the power of waking"
Everyone was shocked.
"Like a non-lethal alternative?" I asked.
Yen Sid nodded.
"It's called the 'Keyblade to return hearts' or heartblade. In theory, this should help you return Sora home but….there's not loads of information on these 'Keyblades of hearts' and it may need 7 new hearts just to be created or worse…." Yen Sid finished.
"Putting the New Seven Hearts in danger…? Isn't that risky with two still missing" Riku pointed out.
"Yes, but Riku, Naminè and Grace; Your mission is to find a way to obtain this keyblade to get Sora back. See if the worlds have any clues and make sure no ancient keyblade masters get it" Yen Sid warned.
"What about Ven and his very length past? Given what we recovered from Twilight Town" I questioned.
"It's alright, Terra and Aqua can help him figure things out" Riku reassured me.
"Master, I still need to find Charis, my former Nobody" I pointed out.
"It's alright, you can still look for her while Naminè assists" Yen Sid stated.
"Master Yen Sid, is it ok if I speak?" Patch asked.
Yen Sid nodded.
"Everyone, I'm glad I got to help you in some way with the keyblade war battle and I'm sorry we lost Sora. I know you'll find a way to rescue him, but I can't stay to see that. My associate has a ship waiting for me outside" Patch announced.
He then turned to me.
"Grace, I have to go again. But you'll see me again soon just….not for a little while" he added in a soft voice.
I gave him a big 'bear hug'.
"Thanks for coming, angel cat" I said with a sad smile.
Patch smiled at his long time nickname I gave him.
"Will we get to see you again?" Riku asked.
"Maybe depending whether we get called to help again" Patch replied with a wink.
"See ya around" Naminè smiled.
Donald nodded as Goofy waved.
"Bye Patch" I said, softly.
"See ya soon, Grace" Patch replied while waving back as he headed outside.
Master Yen Sid was in deep thought when we returned to his chamber.
"Now then, Naminè will need some combat magic training before going with you, Grace. I have been studing peculiar symbols lately due to what I read from the stars. A book that my master inherited with a heart symbol, the exact one on my chalkboard, is called 'the book of Prophecies' from the age of fairy tales itself" Yen Sid began.
"Wait….did you know about the dangers of the power of waking this whole time?" I questioned.
"Well, yes. I did tell Sora and Riku about it in their exam, but Sora has always been reckless. That's not the point right now. We will address that later, the main focus right now is Namine getting some training to defend herself in battle to assist you" Yen Sid stated.
I sighed.
"Fine but don't think you can brush this over" I said through gritted teeth.
There was a call on the Gummi-Phone.
Donald answered quickly.
"Donald, I need you and Goofy to go to Radiant Garden and speak with Leon" Mickey requested.
"Oh, and pick a trusted friend to come with you" he added.
"Ok, your majesty" Donald replied.
Once the call ended, he turned back to Master Yen Sid.
"Master, can we bring Blake on our mission once we have received information?" Donald asked.
"Very well, I'll pass on the message. Blake is busy in the chamber next door, practising the new techniques I have taught him so far" Yen Sid replied.
Donald and Goofy nodded before leaving.
Yen Sid turned to Naminè.
"I'll help you harness your magic in offence and defence forms. You can now. We will finish this discussion another time" Yen Sid stated.
We obeyed and left Naminè to begin her magic combat training.
-Shibuya(Third POV)-
Sora was in shock.
"Joshua?" He asked.
"Ironically, you look kinda familiar but I don't think we have met personally" Joshua stated.
"This is the reaper's game. You need to find a partner or you'll get erased" Neku added.
This was Neku from the world ends with you main Shibuya.
Sora's right hand became painful as a red timer appeared just like the one he saw in 3D.
He went running through the crossroads looking for anyone who could see him as everyone in the real ground walked past due him not being visible to them.
The unknown girl with glowing red eyes bumped into Sora.
"You're not the guy with headphones but you'll do. Can you make a pact with me?" she offered.
"Um how do we…" Sora began.
The two were synced together with light magic just as he tried to ask the question.
"We're now partners. Do you have a weapon?" The girl asked.
"Yes, it's a keyblade. Why?" Sora replied with suspicion.
"Check your pocket" The girl stated.
Sora checked his right pocket and found a black pin with the reaper skull symbol in white.
"That's the player pin. It will allow you to use the power of different pins to fight noise and heartless in some cases" the girl explained.
"Who are you?" Sora asked.
"I….I can't tell you yet" The girl said, sadly.
"Well, I'm Sora. Nice to meet you, partner" Sora smiled.
Then he felt a sharp pain and faltered as he held his hand on his heart.
What? I don't feel my connections anymore! He thought in horror.
"In this game, the entry fee is what you cherish most. You have to survive 7 days with me by completing mission and then we face the Game master" The mysterious 'Hype-chan' explained.
Does that mean….I can no longer relay on my friends as power? Sora thought.
"That is right, young man. Whatever you cherished most has been taken away so you can learn to survive without it" A man with a brown hat covering his face with a red hoodie and a green shoulder bag stated.
Sora's face fell.
Then his gummi-phone and his game partner's phone received a message:
'Clear all the noise around 104 or face erasure. GM'.
"To get past the wall and reach 104, tell me why you relay on your friends as your power excessively?" the hooded man asked.
"How did…..because they help me feel strong like together we can do anything" Sora admitted.
"That sounds like a truthful answer from the heart. Do your best to be strong alone because you won't always have friends by your side"
Sora gave him a confused look.
"Who ARE you?"
"The name's Tenho. I'm a support Reaper. Good luck….Sora" Tenho said as he removed the wall to allow the pair to pass.
Does this mean I have to not rely on my friends as power? Sora thought.
Yes, Sora. Why else would your connections be gone? a slightly familiar voice said in his head which originated from his heart.
-In the Keyblade Graveyard-
The dust cleared as Luxu knocked Maleficent back while smiling.
"I don't intend to dying so soon, mistress of evil" He stated.
"So, get in line" he added.
Maleficent glowered at him.
"How did you survive my attack?!" She demanded.
"When you've been around for more than a millenia, you learn tricks along the way" Luxu replied.
Maleficent relented very reluctantly.
So Luxu finished telling the four foretellors about his role at last.
"But what does this mean?" Gula asked.
"It means you four have to find and create one of the other keyblades of heart using hearts of darkness. That will be plan A" Luxu explained.
"And Ava?" Invi asked.
"Well, she WAS the traitor" Luxu pointed out.
Aced was still confused.
"Why do we have to wear different robes? I like my normal ones" he complained.
"Do you want to give away the fact that you're from a different time?! And that brat is bound to remember everything soon along with four of the 13. Once the master is back, everything will be set back on its rightful path and Sora is the key to it all" Luxu pointed out.
"And what will you do?" Ira questioned.
Luxu laughed.
"Set the pieces in place" he said with a grin.
He looked at Maleficent.
"And you're going to help" He added, deviously.
-To be continued-
I hope you enjoyed this surprise. I'm once again in the 'guess the plot of the next game' phase which is where all the fun begins.
Let me know if you liked it.
I have to try to iron out a few things once the DLCS hit in winter.
Note: Hokori(pride in Japanese)
See ya!