Hello new readers and to those who read my first story, welcome back. This time, I'm gonna try something new. I hope you guys like , all characters used belongs to their rightful owners. If I owned them, I'd be rich, but Im not. Enjoy. First chapter is called The Darkness Rises, New Blue Hope.

Hi. My names Edge. Im just a simple Riolu in the world of Pokemon. I have a few friends that talk with. Two other Riolus, ones a shiny, and a Lucario. However, they're all out, traveling together. Its been three months since I've seen them and Im a bit sad because of it. They help me control my Aura so I can become stronger. They asked me to go with them, but Im not a traveler, even though I want to try. Im just kinda scared of the unknown.

Even though they are the only ones I talk to, I do communicate with other Pokemon. I just do talk to them. If they ask how Im doing, I just give them a thumbs up. If they say hello, I just wae in responce. Im a little anti-social, not rude.

I started to think that waiting for my friends wasn't gonna haelp me with my training, so I started training on my own. I find strong looking trees and I practice creating and launching Aura Spheres. But they all end up in faliure. They never last long enough to reach my target or they don't form at all. I stuggle a little, but thats why I had friends to help me out.

All of a sudden, it got darker out and rather quickly too. The clouds where white, but then quickly turned dark. "Maybe its gonna rain. Better find somewhere to stay till the storm pass. As I started walking to find a place to claim for a while, something felt...off. Like something was here that wasn't suppost to be here.

I then saw an uncouncous Gardivor, laying on the forest floor. I quickly ran to the Pokemon to make sure it was still breathing. From the details, it was a female. When I got to her, I shook her gently. "Miss? Miss, are you alright? Can you hear me?"

She then opened her eyes, stairing at me and I staired back. She then began to speak. "Black...creatures...dangerous...get... ...here..." Here eyes then fell shut. There was nothing I could of done for here. I found some white flowers and I set them on her chest with her hands on them. I didn't know where, but its the lest I could do for her. "What is going on?" I said to myself. I then heard some distant screaming and turned to it.

I was about to run in the direction the screaming came from, but then I found myself surrounded by...black holes in the ground? Then out of the holes came out these weird looking black creatures. Wait, black creatures? "These are those creatures that Gardivor warned me about" I gasped. Oh no. Im surrounded by ten of those dangerous creatures. This looks like a lossing battle. I readyed myself as the first one lunged at me. I managed to take it down with a force palm and it quickly disappeared.

"What are these thing? Why are they attack us?" All my questions where left unawnsered as more started to attack me. I managed to beat six more, but I started tiring out as more started pop up. "I can't keep this up" I huffed. Im so out of breath, I can bearly talk. "I guess this is how it ends for me. Killed by unknown creatures." With one last look, I saw a one of the creatures jump at me to finish me off. I closed my eyes shut, prepairing for the worse. After three seconds, of that felt like minutes, I reopened my eyes and looked up to find someone, or something, standing infront of me with an unusual item in its hand. It was in a shap of a key and was gold color.

It turned to looked at me giving me a better look at my savior. "Gosh, Im glad Im not too late. Are ya alright there?" I could tell that it was a male being and looked like a mouse and was as big as me. "Yeah, Im fine. Some of them got some lucky shots on me and Im a bit winded. Over all, nothing broken."

Suddenly, another creature jumped at use, but was quickly taken down with one swing of that mouse's key. "What is that thing your holding and who are you?" I asked. "My name is Mickey and this is a keyblade." Three more jumped at use and Micky took them down with one swing. He is really skilled at fighting for someone who don't seem to fight so much.

Then, with a mightly swing, he pointed his...what was it called again? Keyblade! Thats it. He swung his keyblade so it was pointing to the sky. Then he shouted "Thundra" and lighting shot down from out of nowhere and took out those creatures, just to have more replace them "They just keep coming! What are these things?" "Heartless" Micky awnsered. "Heartless?" "Dark creatures that are formed from the darkness in peoples hearts. As long as there are those with a little bit of darkness in their hearts, no matter how good they are, the Heartless will never be gone."

I took all of this information in, thinking that it might be important. "And really, Im getting tired of looking at them. They are more of a pest then a threat." "Not in my case." I said. I fell to one knee. My legs just couldn't support me. They demanded rest. Mickey took notice to my stiuation and then did the same motion when he called for the thunder to strike his enemies, but ended up calling something else. "Stopza!" Then all the Heartless stopped moving like they,re frozen in time. Mickey then turned to me and pointed his keyblade at me and the said "Cure". "Feeling better?" He asked. "Yeah, I feel better. Thanks a lot." I said while giving a little bow in thanks.

"Please, no need to bow. Lets just get out of here. I can't hold them like this forever." He said with a serious exspression on his face. I nodded and we head off. Wow. Someone I just met and Im following him. Well, his aura does seem good and pure, unlike those Heartless. I couldn't read anything off of them, but their looks is enough to tell me that they aren't friendly as well as their actions.

We kept running and running unti? we reached a clearing with some sort of ship in the middle of it. We then started walking towards it and I noticed that I didn't introduced myself. "Oh hey, I didn't tell you my name. My names Edge." "Oh don't worry. I already know who you are. Your special." "What? Special? Im sorry, but you must be mistakened. I can't be special. Im not even that strong. You took out those Heartless with one swing for each of them. I had to use my moves to take them down. Im really sorry, but Im not what you think. I said, explaining myself to Mickey. "Oh nonsense. Otherwise, master Yan Sid wouldn't have gotten me to retreave you." "Wait. You where sent for me?" I started to think that I might be used somehow. Im not gonna be turned into some minion for anyone. I got into a fighting stance, just in case I was gonna be taken by force.

"Calm down. Im not gonna force ya to come with me. But if you want your wrold to be saved from Organization XIII, then you'll want to come with me so you can help use and save your world, cause as we speak, your world is becoming more and more in control by the Organization and the darkness." I thought about that. This is my home and I wasn't about to lose it. "Alright. I follow." "Then lets get on the Gummi Ship" As we made our way to the... Gummi Ship...we got ambused with some kind of dark void popping up in front of us and a hooded figure stepped out. "Master Xehanort! Edge! Run! Get to the Gummi Ship!" I nodded and ran past the hunch back figure named Xehanort and made my way to the ship. While I was doing that, I looked back and noticed that he snapped his fingers.

Then I found myself on the ground witha tall, black armored figure standing in front of me. I must of ran into him when I wasn't looking. He looked like he was young and had spikey, brown hair. Something tells me he wasn't friendly. I got up and started backing away in fear of what might happen if I tried fighting him. He then started walking slowly towards me. Then out of nowhere, another black armored figure appeared, looking like he was young as well, and had spikey white hair. Then, they both made black keyblades, similar to Mickye's and swung at me, just to have Mickey run to my aid and block both attacks at the same time. "Sora, Riku, please. Come back. Wake up. The Darkness has taken you guys over. Your not thinking clearly. Please come back to us, my friends." Friends? Why would his friends try to kill me with they'reblack keyblades? This isn't making any sense.

The two remained silent and got into they're fighting stance. "As you can see, they obay me now. Words are useless."said annold voice, from which I assume would be Xehanort's voice. "I'll break your dark hold on them and set them free from your control." "Ahhh, thats where your wrong, little king." Wait. King? Mickey? WHAT?! Im just completely dumbfounded. "As soon as your little blue friend there is dead, there will be no threats to my plans, with the help of all of the other villains in the other worlds. But since this world does not have such a being, I'll just destroy it,using the darkness when my plans have been fulfilled. But we can't have you getting in the way now can we, Edge?" I flinched as I heard him mention my name. He wants me dead? For something that Im completely clueless on? Well ain't this nice?

Then Sora and Riku vansihed in a blink of an eyd and then Riku reappeared, pinning Mickey to a nearby tree. I was about to rush to help him but then got pinned to the ground by, who I assume, by Sora, getting some dirt and grass in my eyes. After blinking a couple of times, I managed to get some of the grass and dirt out of my eyes just to see Xehanort walk ovef to me and place a hand on my head. "Darkness, take over and destroy." I then began to feel a burning pain inside me. Sora released his hold on me and was able to squirm around in unbearable pain. "No, please! Stop this! Stop this right now!" I heard Mickey say, just to get no results. This pain felt like it was gonna kill me and I didn't know how to stop it. Seconds later, I seen myself get surrounded by a blue glow and it got brighter and brighter. Then it got absorbed inside of me quickly. Then, just as quickly, exsploded out of me, along with black smoke that I would assume would be the darkness that got put into me. I began to feel the pain go away, but then I felt winded again but managed to stand up. Not knowing where this power came from, I concentrated on it and made another blast, pushing Xehanort, Sora, and Riku away, freeing Micky from Riku's hold.

I smirked at my results and began to feel tried all over again. Dega vu much (Not sure if I spelled that right) I was about to fall forward until I felt a pair of hands catch me and help support me by putting my arm around him. "Told ya. Your special." I slightly chuckled at that comment and we made our way to the Gummi Ship. He put me in one of the passanger seat and he took the driver's seat. "Mickey. I feel weak. And cold. I..can't feel my arms. I feel tired." "Oh no. We need to get you to master Yen Sid, and fast!" He then started the ship and we where off. I seen us heading towards some kind of bright light before I blacked out.

I woked up in a bed and I looked around, just to a empty room with tan colored walls. After a few seconds, I seen the door swing open and Mickey running through the door way towards me. "EDGE! THANK GOODNESS! I almost thought we lost you to the darkness!" He said as he pulled me in for a hug. Its been three months since I last felt a hug. The last time I felt a hug was when my friends where still around. Remembering my friends, I hoped that they where alright. That Gardivor and the distant screaming from the forest made wonder if the attack affected the whole world or not. Wait. Where am I? "Um Mickey. Where are we?" "Master Yen Sid's tower. He'll be joining us soon." I nodded and then asked another question. "That guy, he called you "little king". What does he mean by that?" "Well, in a place called Disney Castle, Im the king and a strong keyblade weilder."So is there a queen?" "Yep. Queen Minnie. And if your wondering, yes she's a mouse like me.

I chuckled at that remark. Seems that he knew my next question. But now I had to as a serious question. "What do you need me for?" Mickey's smile went to a frown. "Well, there is a power inside of you that can help with our problem. That is that we need to free Sora and Riku from the dark hold on them. Xehanort has control over them, the Heartless, and The Nobodies." "Nobodies?" There seems to be so much to know about what I got myself into. Jeez. "A Nobody is someone without a heart. Those dark parts of a person's heart is what creates a Heartless. By defeating Heartless, the trapped hearts in them are released and are able to move on and removes the darkness from the hearts. But we need your help to help free Sora and Riku. Though they aren't Heartless, but their hearts still need to be freed from the darkness."

"Okay, but you still haven't anwsered my question. What do you need me for?" I asked with mild irritation."Well, Edge, we need your help to complete this task. We are new few in Keyblade weilders. Though you are from a different world, Yen Sid was able to use his power and-" "And was able to find another being with the power to weild a keyblade." " Master Yen Sid!" Mickey said in suprise as he saluted to his master. Heh, a king who salutes to someone. Now I have seen it all. Take about a brain over load.

"So, this is our little power house?" Yen Sid sain with a smile. "It is very nice to finally meet you." He continued. "Likewise. So um...I still don't understand what going on. All I understand is the you guys need me to stop some...dark plot and save other worlds. Right?" I directed the question to Yen Sid. "Yes. And believe it or not, you have a keyblade of your own, you just got to unlock that power." "Well if you haven't already known this, I can't even use Bone Rush. How do you exspect me to summon a keyblade with lack of knowladge of it?" I said with even more irritation. For people that know my name, they don't seem to know anything else about me.

"We got that all figured out. Usually it takes a long time to master the keyblade, but we've found away around that, specially for you. Mickey..." Mickey nodded and pulled out a little box and placed it on my lap. "This should help." Mickey said to me. I began to open the tiny box and it revealec to have, inside it, a little blue gem. "Um... is this like some kinda joke? Its just some neckless." "This "neckless" can help you use your power to summon your own keyblade but it won't make you stronger, it will act as your teacher until your familiar with the summoning." Yen Sid explained. Okay, now this neckless seems alright. I was about to put it on, until I felt a familiar burning feeling inside of me again.

I dropped tbe gem and it hit the floor. I tossed and turned on the bed in agony. The pain felt like it was getting worse. I couldn't see anything cause my eyes were closed in pain, but I felt Mickey trying to help calm me down and tried holding me down so I didn't fall off the bed. "Master Yen Sid, its the darkess from Xehanort. Please, can't you do something for him?" I couldn't tell what was going on, but I managed to open one of my eyes to see a bright light, coming from Yen Sid. I reclosed my eyes from too much pain, but then felt some kind of fabric go around my neck and the pain went away a second later.

"There, this scarf has the power to keep the darkness away. Any darkness that attempts to control or eleiminate you, shall be despelled. Your safe from the darkness as long as that stays with you. Also, the darkness can't even touch the scarf." "Why is it black?" I asked. "I assumed thats the color you wanted. I can change it if you want?" "Naw, its fine. Actually..." I started while getting up from the bed. "...I think it makes me look kinda cool and heroic. Don't you think?" I said with my paws in a fist and on my hips. "Wait." Mickey said. He then bent down and grabbed the gem neckless, went behind me, and wrapped it around my neck. I readjusted the scarf and neckless so the scarf was over my neckless. "There. Now you look cool and heroic." We both ended up laughing at the comment and Yan Sid just chuckled at us.

"Well this seems to be a happy, fun group." I looked around to figure out where the male voice came from only to see some black portal open. Then a figure in a black, similar to Xehnaort's, stepped out of the portal. "So, this is our smallest keyblade weilder? If it wasn't for his looks-" "Axel! I have told you, using the the darkness is reckless!" Mickey said with irritation. "And I have told you, my names not Axel anymore. My name is Lea. Got it memorized?" What is it about this guy that I can't take seriously? Oh well. "Nice to meet you Lea. Im Edge. Course you probibly already knew that." "Yep. We got to know all of our new keyblade weilders. And I see that you got Yen Sid's gift. And more." Lea said, interested at my scarf.

"It protects him from the darkness. Xehnaort tried to kill Edge, using the darkness. This scarf acts like his shield." Mickey explained. "I got one more gift to give you before you start your training." Yan Sid said. He reached his hand out towards me. Light shot out from his hand and hit my scarf. "There. Now you can use the magic that other keyblade masters can use." "Even the ones that Mickey can use?" I asked with excitment. His powers where really strong. If I had that kind of power, I can feel more useful and help out in their problem and my world's problem. "Yes. Now then, we must see if you can your new powers and summon your own keyblade." "Im gonna tell you one thing Edge. Its not easy materializing a keyblade. I've had trouble doing it." Lea stated.

Wow. So im the third other keyblade weilder here huh? Well, at lease I got people to learn from. "Its all the flick of the wrist." Lea said. I got a little confused. He makes it sound easy, but he first said that it was hard. Jeez, these people need to make up their minds. Is it hard or is it easy? Mickey seen me look a little confused and discouraged, so he showed me what to do. He held out his hand and his golden keyblade appeared out of thin air. "Alright. Here it goes." I held out my hand and flicked me wrist a little, as Lea tolded me. Then in an instant, a blue colored keyblade, similar to Mickey's, appeared, in my hand. I quickly grabbed the handle of the weapon and learned that it didn't have much weight to it, despite the look of it. The bottom of the handle had a chain on it and at the end of it, had a small pokeball.

"Whoa!" That was all I could say. I just stood there, stairing at the keyblade that just formed in my hand. When it formed, ghere was a bright blue flash of light, then this thing appeared. "Well done. You definitly are the one we were looking for." Yen Sid said. I turned to him and gave him a smile. I then gave the keyblade a few swing so I could get used to it. Then I choosed the fighting stance with the keyblade in front of me, like Im ready for anything.

"Well then. Up for a little spare Edge?" Mickey said to me. "Um...I...I don't know. I don't think I would pose as a challenge." I said. "Don't be worried. I wouldn't use my full power." Then Yen Sid stepped in."Um, the spare would have to wait. One of the worlds are under attack right now. We must lend our help." Mickey had a suprised look on his face, but then turned into a serious look. "Right. Which world master Yen Sid?" "Hollow Bastion. Leon and Cloud are fighting off the attackers right now. But we must lend support right away. But don't take the Gummi Ship. Its not fast enough." "Then how do we get to Hollow Bastion, and fast?" I asked, not really knowing anything of the world.

"I shall teleport you to the world. Every second that is wasted, the sooner the world will fall to the darkness. We must act quickly." Yen Sid explained. "Right. Ready Lea?" He summoned his keyblade. It appeared out of fire and out came his keyblade. It had a round, spikey handle colored in red. At the top of the handle was the blade part. It looked like fire. "Ready Mickey." Mickey nodded, then looked at me. "It will be easier for you to learn in battle. Don't worry. I will stick by you and help you when in trouble. So. You ready?" I stood, with my keyblade in hand, and stood with my back straight. Trying to seem more confident. "R-ready. Lets go."

"We are ready master Yen Sid. Send us to Hollow Bastion." Lea then got beside me on my left while Mickey was on my right. Yen Sid then raised both of his hands up in the air and we got surrounded by a golden light. It got so bright that I sheilded my eyes. Next thing I knew, we were at a town. Buildings looked partially destroyed, holes in the ground. I felt bad for this place. "Lea. You go look for Leon and help him. Edge and I will got look for Cloud and help him." Lea nodded and took off running. Mickey then started running in the opposite dicrection and I followed him.

We then eventually ran into Heartless. "Edge, these are low leveled Heartless. You take them on. I'll stand by in case you need help." Hmm. Four Heartless and me. I guess this should be easy. "Alright." I said. I then began to run right at them, readying my keyblade. Either these Heartless are weak or this keyblade is powerful, cause I was able to take each of them down with one hit. I looked at the keyblade in suprised but then seen a faint glow from the left corner of my eye. My blue gem was glowing. This gem must help with the power of the keyblade. Of course, until I get better with it. "Well done. Lets keep moving." "Right."

Mickey and I kept moving, slashing through waves and waves of Heartless until we heard distant fighting. "Sounds like Cloud is nearby." Mickey said. Realizing this, I concentrated on using my Aura Sight and locate Cloud. "I know where he is. Follow me." I said and I started run with Mickey following after me. We eventually found Cloud, weilding a huge sword wrapped in some kind of bandage. He had on some kind of black uniform with armor plating on his left shoulder and on his right arm. He was finishing up the last of the enemies and then took notice of us.

"Glad you could make it Mickey. Who's your friend?" He said. He seemed kind of interested at my appearence. "My name is Edge. Nice to meet you." "Likewise. So your a keyblade weilder too?" "New keyblade weilder. I still have a lot to learn." "But your still important either way." Mickey said. I smiled, glad that he thinks that I can be of some help. Then out of nowhere, portals opened up, with more Heartless coming out of them.

We all then had our backs to each other, with our weapons ready. "This meet and greeg will have to wait. We got Heartless to deal with." Cloud said. "I hope your ready Edge, this fight looks like its gonna be tough." "Well then, lets get them before they get us." Mickey and I looked at each other, nodded, and looked back at our enemies. Then all at once, they charged at us. "Look out! Here they come!"

-To be Continued-

Well here's the first part. I hope you enjoyed it. I'll work on the next chapter in due time. Remember to R&R. But pleases, no flames.

Will Edge survive his first fight with his keyblade? Find out next time.