A long, long, time ago. In an age where the Worlds and its people were so much more, an age those who came after call [The Age of Fairy Tales]
There was once a child who loved to explore and dreamt of being a Hero, this child was among the first who were selected Keyblade Wielders of the five Unions and moved to Daybreak Town to live among their fellow apprentices. Though confused at the turn of events the child gave everything to protect others and became the hero they had heard of in stories, throughout their journey the child was accompanied by a Chirithy. A Creature of Dreams given physical form in the waking world.
In time the child grew in power, their light putting others at ease and protected them from the approaching Darkness, and would become second only to the Masters themselves. Though, this power had its own costs. In the competitive nature the Masters cultivated in their Unions the child was view as a means to rise through the ranks, and as a comrade merely being an afterthought.
As such, the child joined and left those who created their own little groups. Forming shallow friendships with the genuine ones being far between.
One day; while hunting Heartless the child came across another Keyblade wielder who hailed from another Union, the two hit it off as the child felt the young man before them was different.
The young man known as Ephemer was a curious sort who wished to uncover the truth of the world, the child shared with Ephermer a dream they had. A dream where the Masters of the Unions, known as the Foretellers, met with a mysterious man in a black cloak inside the clocktower at the Heart of Daybreak Town.
They found a way in together, but the child hesitated at how late it became were as Ephermer was eager to continue. Ephermer offered to meet up again the next day so they could go together, the child agree excited that they would spend the day with a new friend.
The waited at the fountain at the town square for Ephermer, but he never came, the child waited until the moon replaced the sun in the sky and was forced to accept their new friend broke their first promise.
The child continued onwards in their duties to protect the people and worlds from darkness, whether it was by aiding seven dwarf miners in defeating a vain evil queen, saving an innocent child from a tyrannical queen's misplaced judgement, battling alongside and against gods or helping to clear the name of a man.
One night; the child dreamed of the day they waited for Ephermer, he arrived and apologized for being late, the two set off for the clocktower together. However, the child still hesitated. Ephermer nodded in understanding and told the child he would be waiting for them, he disappeared as dandelions appeared and the child's dream ended.
The child wanted to return to the clocktower to search for their friend, however their Chirithy warned against as the Foretellers had began coming into conflict with one another. Undeterred the child began to ask other Keyblade Wielders about Ephermer, traveling across many worlds to ask their fellows, the child found a clue to where their friend could be.
That clue rested with the Foreteller who wears the mask of the fox, Master Ava, the leader of the Vulpines Union.
The child returned to the clocktower to search for Master Ava, something quickly achieved as the child ran into the Foreteller soon after arriving.
The child explained their reasoning for being there, how they were searching for a missing friend and that a rumour connected that friend to Master Ava, the child spoke no lie to the Master of Vulpines.
Master Ava commended the apprentice keybearer for their honesty, explaining that while she knew what happened to Ephermer she couldn't go into detail, she summoned her Keyblade and forced the still apprentice Keyblade Wielder to fight her one on one.
The battle between the two were brief, the child's efforts barely phasing the Vulpine's Master. Master Ava praised the child, seeing a lot of potential within them, before warning the child of how the sadness within their Heart will lead them to darkness and that they should let it go.
The child is made to leave shortly afterwards, however Master Ava wasn't finished with the child quite yet. While the child slept she entered their room and questioned the child's Chirithy, confirming that it was not the Chirithy that gave the child a dream of Ephermer, and concluding that it must have been Ephermer himself.
Ephermer, the Keybear who drew close to the truth and entered an [Unchained State], who has found himself in another realm and reached out to the child in their dreams. A feat possible if the child too was close to entering that same Realm, the Master of Vulpins orders the Child's Chirithy to watch over them and protect them from Nightmares.
Days passed as the child continued to battle the Darkness and gather Light, returning to many worlds and arriving at a new one where a Beast's Curse would be lifted by true love.
Among these days the Darkness grew stronger, the child's training was hastened under order of their Master and was tossed into the Realm of Darkness to build up immunity to Darkness's effects with only a single magic item giving them any protection.
One day, the child had a chance meeting with a kindred spirit. A girl named Skuld who didn't see the point of the Union competing against each, believing it would be better if they all worked together and forgetting the notations of leaderboards. As they talked the child came to learn that Skuld was also a friend of Ephermer, though ones that hadn't talked to each other for a time until Ephermer reached out to Skuld in her dreams to find the child.
The two decided to go to the place the child and Epermer were meant to meet, much to the dismay of the child's Chirithy.
However, the whole of Daybreak Town shook as an explosion took place nearby.
Above the rooftops of Daybreak Town The Master of the Ursus Union who wears the mask of the Bear, Aced, battled The Master of the Anguis Union who wears the mask of the Snake, Invi.
The child and Skuld watched in shock from the street as the two fought and disappeared among the buildings of the town, Skuld tells the child the warning Ephermer told her.
The end of the World is near.
Spurred on by this information the child went to the clocktower immediately, showing Skuld the pathway in. But before they could enter the clocktower, they were attacked by a trio of unknown creatures of darkness who spoke of their desire for the child's Light
The child and Skuld were able to fight off the creatures and gave chase when they fled, only to be stopped by a discolored Chirithy.
A Nightmare Chirithy, one who spoke of ending the fighting amongst the Unions by taking away the Light they fought over, revealed the truth of the dark creatures the child just fought.
Those Darkling were once human, Keyblade Wielders who were changed by Darkness into what they were now.
With a vague clue of who was the Nightmare Chirithy's wielder it disappeared in a puff of smoke, thrown off balance by this encounter the child and Skuld made their way to the clocktower.
They ascended the the tower of gears and pathways to a secluded room, a room that functioned as both the meeting room of the Foretellers and a study for their Master.
It wasn't long until one of the Foretellers found the two in the room, the Foreteller was displeased as the area was off limits.
The Foreteller went onto to recall another Apprentice Keybearer who they caught in this room, Ephermer, and told the child he only befriended them to gain information on their Union as the child's and Emphermer's Unions goals contradict one another.
The Foreteller explained that Emphermer had been dealt with, that he was gone forever.
The child and Skuld looked horrified at the news, fearing that the child and Skuld would meet the same fate the child's Chirithy took the blame for the situation they were in.
The child stopped their Chirithy before stepping forward, taking responsibility for trespassing and taking up their Keyblade against the Foreteller to avenge Emphermer.
The child was bested by the Foreteller, the surroundings faded away to reveal they were at the bottom of the tower. The Foreteller congratulated the child for fighting admirably before a white light covered their form revealing Master Ava.
Master Ava had cast an illusion over the group making them believe they climbed the tower when in truth they never left the lowest floor, Master Ava healed the child of their injuries sustained from the fight.
Master Ava explains that the end of the world was truly near, and that her duty was to select Keyblade Wielders with great potential to survive the coming end, and that Emphermer was chosen as the one to lead the survivors. To lead the Dandelions.
Master Ava offered the child and Skuld to join them, Skuld jumped at the chance whereas the child hesitated.
The child asked of the fate of those who weren't chosen, Master Ava answered.
Those who weren't chosen, would have no choice to fight in the upcoming Keyblade War. An inevitable outcome made only possible by the work of the Foretellers.
The child asked for some time to think it over, shocking those present, Master Ava said that it would be fine but they were to keep the coming war a secret.
The child and Skuld went back to the fountain, Chirithy asking why the child was hesitant to join the Dandelions.
The truth was that event though the child considered Empermer a friend, and wanted to meet him again, so was everyone else even though of opposite unions. The child couldn't abandon them to that fate, the child made a vow in their Heart to try and save their friends from the coming end.
Time passed and the animosity between the unions and Foretellers grew worse, the child stopped a fight from breaking out between two keyblade wielders. However, there was no way to resolve things peacefully as a crowd began to gather.
The child knew what this was, a prelude to the Keyblade War.
Master Aced came across this event and spoke his mind.
"We can only trust our own Unions, we can not determine who has fallen to darkness with a mere glance" "Why do you fight over Lux? Light is not a measurement of strength, victory is a measurement of strength. And a strong Union is proof of Justice"
The child stepped forward to Master Aced, after being asked and answering which Union the child was from, The Master of Ursus summoned his Keyblade and battled a shocked child.
The child was defeated by Aced and it was only due to the intervention of Master Ira, the Master of the Unicornis Union who wears the mask of the Unicorn, that prevented things from escalating.
Once he crowd disperses, Ira confirms that the War was near and that the child should prepare themselves. The child fell unconscious, their injuries and exhaustion finally getting the best of them.
The child dreamed of a graveyard of Keyblades with two forces opposing each other. One of 7 and one of 13.
Skuld took the child back to their own room to recover, the situation began worsen for all as even the Dandelions had began to lose morale with the disappearance of Master Ava.
The child and Skuld went out to find Master Gula, the Master of the Leopardus who wears the mask of the leopard, for any clues to Master Ava. much to the dismay of the child's Chirithy who insisted they'd rest.
When they found Gula, using the child's Keyblade to point them in the right direction, he told them there was nothing they could do to save their world. Master Gula shared with them a message from the book of prophecies.
One that spoke of a traitor, and how that traitor was the one who would end the world.
But by then, it was too late.
The bell had already began to toll at the destined time.
The Keyblade War was about to begin.
The child and Skuld went their separate ways, Skuld went to join the other Dandelions as the child was left alone with their thoughts, the child asked their Chirithy a question.
"If I disappear, what happens to you? Would you disappear too?"
The child asked Chirithy what they should do, Chirithy said that the child shouldn't fight saying it as not a mentor or a guide but as a friend.
However, this Heartwarming moment in a time of crisis is cut short by a nearby voice.
The nightmare Chirithy from before returned, disappointed that the child would be running away with the Dandelions and abandoning a lot of their friends.
The child asked the Nightmare who it was, and the creature of nightmares answered.
It was born from the child's Heart, the child was the wielder of the Nightmare Chirithy. For the one truth the Unions and their Foretellers overlooked was a simple one.
The brighter the Light, the greater the shadow.
The child battled the Darklings the Nightmare had brought forth, easily beating them. The Nightmare Chirithy was happy to see how strong the child had become, it told the child it was glad to see how much they had grown, the Nightmare lifted the three Darklings and merged together to create a powerful new Nightmare to challenge the child.
The child fell the Nightmare, who was glad that the child overcame their trail and now the connection between them was severed.
The child looked at the Nightmare and felt sadness at seeing it disappeared, even as it promised to meet again within another dream.
Keyblade Wielders from the child's Union soon found them and all but dragged them to their meeting place.
Within a few short days, the Keyblade War began.
The child did everything in their power to help those there, their friends who had lost themselves, for it wasn't the end quite yet. But sadly, it wasn't enough.
The Foretellers themselves took notice of the child and battled them personally.
Aced of the Bear attacked with vicious melee attacks, using spatial magic to drag the child to him whenever they tried to attack at range. Aced defeated the child, he applauded them for their strength but it was that same strength that meant he must strike the child down. The child tried to get away from Aced as his prepared for the final blow, a blow never struck as Master Ira intervened to battle Aced.
A remorseful Invi of the Snake was next to battle the child, her mastery of elemental magic being without equal save for the Master of Masters himself. Flames, Wind, Lightning and Ice were her elements of choice as she used them to battle the child and to use the child's own use of the elements against them. Invi speaks to herself, saying that the child's master raised them well, before leaving the child where they were.
Injured and exhausted from two fights with the Foretellers, the child pressed on. Even as the Hearts of their fellow apprentices, fellow children, began to rise up into the sky. The child reached out to them, begging them not to go.
Gula of the Leopard approached the child, remembering them and asking if they were alright, after learning the child could still stand he raised his Keyblade at the injured apprentice. Though Gula was considered the weakest of the Foretellers his speed allowed him to make quick strikes before escaping out of range, the child was left with every little options other then predicting Gula's moves to counter them. The child was able to force Gula to retreat, earning praise from the Foreteller and a wish for them to meet again.
The child falls to the ground, they were growing weaker as more and more of their friends fell on the accursed battlefield they had found themselves, as more Hearts began to float up into the sky and dead Keyblade fell to be planted in the ground.
Ira of the Unicorn, he who was made leader of the Foretellers, was the next to come across the child. He promised to make the child's end as peaceful as possible before he attacked, mixing might, magic and speed Ira proved to be the most difficult Foreteller the child had faced thus far. He was remorseful to lose a Keyblade Wielder of the child's calibur, but it didn't stop him from raising his weapon for the final blow. It was only due to the intervention of Aced, gone mad and promising to be the King of their world, that stopped Ira from ending the child's life.
As the two Master's fought each other the child saw a familiar face amongst the chaos.
Ava of the Fox stood as she watched the battle unfold, the child approached Ava to ask her why she was her. Her only answer was the summoning of her weapon and raising it against the confused child, left with no other choice the child fought Ava. Her mastery of Illusion and Healing made her a much more tricky enemy to fight, a fight the child was in no condition to fight. The child looked up at Ava, a feeling of betrayal gripped the child's Heart, asking why.
All she did was walk away, leaving the child at the heart of the battlefield. A battlefield that would become a Graveyard of Keyblades.
It was only thanks to the child's strong will and the timely arrival of the Dandelions that made it so the child wouldn't join so many in that Graveyard.
The child was taken to another world with the Dandelions, the child's memories of the tragedy erased. Replicas of the fallen were created so the pains of the past could be forgotten and healed.
But, such a thing was not meant to be.
The child remembered the tragedy of the Keyblade Graveyard in time, memories they refused to be erased again as they wished to hold onto the memories of their departed friends.
The Dandelions leaders, who counted Ephemer and Skuld amongst them, knew they couldn't force the erasure of the child's memories due to the power the child held. So they imprisoned the child in a false World within a book, a prison where the child's memories would continually be erased and live within a looping world. A World where the child could relive the two year from the formation of the Unions to before the War, yet their prison was flawed.
The child's memories kept returning, loop after loop after loop, their efforts to change events only causing the next loop to start.
The child's Mind and Heart began to fracture with each new loop as instead of themselves they became another Keyblade Wielder, one of the countless among the Unions.
Although a few things remained the same so the child was able to hold onto their sense of Self, they had long since lost their memories of before the Unions along with any memories of family.
The child called out for those outside the book, of their Hellish prison, and though no human or Chirithy heard them. The child's Heart connected to other Hearts, those of other Worlds within Books the Master of Masters created.
The first book the child connected with was Ivalice, a book of War, Strife, Heroes and Lies. within this World the child would regain the pieces of themselves and become a Hero who would show throughout the long history of Ivalice.
The second book was one of many stories, a library that held the tales of heroes of ages past. The child learn much from the storied heroes of this book gifting them those they could aspire to emulate, heroes that could overcome any obstacle.
The third book was one of Love, Tragedy, Imprisonment and Monsters. A living tower that acted as a prison for countless people, filled with monsters that took joy in the suffering of people, the child broke open the doors of this prison and freed those who were trapped within it and a looping story of Love and Loss.
The final book was one of Darkness and Sin. A failure only allowed to live on as an example of how wrong things could become, it was the first the Master of Master made and the first he abandoned after it had served its purpose. The world within this book were dark reflections of those the child visited and fought so hard to save, the child came to this world and even though they suffered every step of the way, they became the Light that guided those forsaken in a broken world and who led that world to it's rebirth.
These four worlds, forsaken by their own creator, were freed and were able to begin anew. The child would strengthen the connection the four had with their own book, freeing themself from their loops for a time, so the child could bring their friends together.
The child wished their new peaceful days could last forever, a wish that could never be fulfilled.
The reborn worlds in the books began to suffer from the imperfections left behind in their creation, bugs and fundamental limitations warping or destroying what the people had gained, the four datascapes were coming to an end.
Refusing to let their friends die, the child gathered their friends and with all their power they joined the worlds in the books together in the child's own book. The world's and their people celebrated together, for by their own hands and those of the child, they were free with a new home for them all to live.
The people of this new world called it a miracle, but such a miracle came with a cost. The child had grown weak and fallen into a slumber, one they would awaken from at an unknown time, the friends and heroes that had stood with the child watched over them. Awaiting the day their hero would awaken from their dreamless sleep.
"Here it is" Terra said as he stood in front of an unremarkable stone wall, he summoned his Keyblade and pointed it at the wall, a beam of light shot out of Terra's Keyblade and struck the wall. The wall glowed before he split apart as the illusion magic used to keep it hidden receded, Terra searched for possible traps in the event Master Xehanort managed to keep them hidden from him, not seeing any he walked forward with a cautious step.
"So this is Master Xehanort's lab, gotta say, a lot more dusty then what I was imaging" King Mickey said as he followed behind Terra, he kept his Keyblade summoned in case of any sudden attacks.
"It hasn't been used in over 10 years, he left behind everything that wouldn't have much use before he" Terra paused for a moment before continuing "Before overseeing mine and Aqua's mark of mastery exam" he picked up a book and examined the cover "Still, he might have left something here that might help us find Sora"
"Still, there's a lot of stuff here" Mickey said looking over the collection of books and notes scattered around the half lab half library "It'll take us ages to go through it all. Unless"
Mickey hummed for a moment before taking out his Gummiphone "Chip, Dale, warm up the scanner. We have a lot of things to scan!"
Terra gave Mickey a confused look.
"So, this thing can digitize items and store their data" Terra as he handed Chip and Dale the books.
"Yep, and it's pretty quick about. Even getting information you wouldn't have been able to see before" Chip said as he jumped around a keyboard to start up the process again.
"Even works on people too, though we try to avoid that" Dale continued as he helped Terra organize what he and King Mickey recovered from Xehanort's old study "Looks like we're almost done, just these loose pile of papers and that box is all that's left"
As Dale took the papers Terra opened the box, inside was a single book surrounded by ash with it's pages stuck together.
'A Relic from the Age of Fairy Tales, the last book out of a set of five Xehanort destroyed trying to learn what secrets they held. In the end he kept the last book as a trophy' Terra thought as he placed the book to be digitize "Are you sure this thing will be able to recover the books data, the book is extremely old"
"No worries!"
"Yeah, no harm will come to the book with this" with those words the beam of light hit the book.
A bright flash engulfed their vision.
When the light faded Terra found himself facedown on the floor he pushed himself up as Chip and Dale got up as well.
"That, isn't suppose to happen" Dale said slowly as he got up, he turned to the book to see it shining with it's pages turning at random.
"This doesn't look good!" Chip exclaimed as he tried to contact the king, but finding there was no signal.
"I'll go get Mickey" Terra said, exiting the room to find the entire had been effects.
The walls had a fading and reappear square grid while patches of the ceiling had flickering patches of greys, the only area not affected was the room Terra was in and a few feet from it.
"What's happening!?" Terra asked moments before floating pink eggs with faces and lanky humanoids with clocks for faces appeared in front of him.
Terra made quick work of them, he turned around to see another floating egg try to get to the room Chip and Dale were in but it turned to dust the second it entered the non affected area.
Knowing that Chip and Dale would be safe Terra made his way to find the king, as he searched the castle he encounter more and more of these new monsters that came in three versions. Red, Green and Blue.
Hearing the sounds of a fight around the corner Terra ran to where it was coming from to hopefully find Mickey, instead of King Mickey Terra found two people he never saw before standing over the body of a large monster as it broke off into 1s and 0s.
"Hey, brother, is it just me are do the monsters seem weaker than usual?" a petite girl with long hair and glasses wielding a scythe asked as she kept her eyes on the remaining enemies.
"I believe so, sister. Though I'm more confused on where we are, hopefully we'll be able to get back home soon" an androgynous boy wearing loose clothing and wearing a face mask wielding a two headed forked spear answered, idle running through a number of monsters as he had a concerned expression "I hope we have some kind of breadcrumbs to follow"
As the two were talking to each other, a large monster with a massive mouth in it's stomach began to materialize behind them.
"Look Out!" Terra yelled, summoning his keyblade and striking the monster. The creature was sent flying overhead of the siblings, bouncing before striking the remaining enemies like a bowling ball.
The siblings tilted their heads before turning to Terra.
"Oh, I think we might have found a knight sister!" the boy said as he looked at Terra head to toe before turning to his sister.
"Quite lucky of us brother, though with the monsters around I suppose it was only a matter of time before the castle's defenders showed themselves" The girl said to her brother with a wide smile, she turned to Terra and bowed her head "Thank you for your help mister knight, I am Gretel"
"And I'm Hansel, you really saved us mister knight" the now named Gretel bowed his head along with his sister.
"No problem, I'm just glad I got here on time. My name is Terra, wish we could have met under better circumstances Hansel and Gretel"
The three kept together as they continued to fight more of the monsters, with Hansel and Gretel leading Terra down seemingly random directions as they chased after more and more of the monsters.
Hansel and Gretel told Terra that they were experienced monster hunters and were in the middle of hunting a horrid witch when the forest they were moments before suddenly turned into the castle around, Terra promised to help the brother and sister get back home. Already suspecting they were original in the book.
As they were running around Terra saw, from one of the windows on the higher floors, a group of people he never met before running through the halls with the book that was the cause of the current situation. He made a beeline to follow the unknown group, the moment he turned around he was shot in the back.
"Seems like this charade is finally over sister" Hansel said, his spear transformed into a bow with a vicious mouth at its center where the arrows were fired from.
"Indeed brother, let's not keep the others waiting and get out of here" Gretel removed her glasses as her eyes began to glow "But first, we'll need to ensure this Keyblade wielder doesn't give chase"
Not a moment later, more monsters appeared with some far more human in appearance while others were far more grotesque monstrosities.
Terra grit his teeth as he turned to the siblings, who had a steadily growing force of monsters standing with them "What are you doing!?"
"Doing what we must, for our freedom and for those we love. The Tale of Hansel and Gretel shall not be a tragedy this day!" the siblings said as one, their weapons trained on Terra as the smaller monsters charged forward.
Terra held his own against Hansel and Gretel with their army of monsters, in the middle of the fight both Hansel and Gretel paused as if they overheard something.
Without uttering a word they and the monsters disappeared in a light of 1s and 0s, leaving Terra alone in the halls.
Terra soon met up King Mickey, who had his own fight with a man called Ashley Riot, Mickey's gummiphone had started working again as the castle was beginning to return to normal as the grid and glitches began to fade.
"Minnie! Are you and Daisy okay?" Mickey asked the second he saw his wife was the one the calling him.
"Mickey! Thank goodness we were able to get through" Minnie said, a smile on her face knowing that her husband was okay.
"We're fine, but a bunch of kids took a book you and Terra brought back" Daisy said, knowing that time was of the essence and that a tearful reunion would need to wait.
"They told us you and Terra sent them to guide us to safety, they brought us here to Chip and Dale, where the monsters wouldn't be able to get near us. Once we were inside they took the book Chip and Dale had and ran, causing whatever was protecting the room to disappear" Minne explained, moving the camera to show the destroyed to show the destroyed digitizer.
"I saw them running before Hansel and Gretel attacked me, they were heading in that direction" Terra pointed, Mickey furrowed his brow before he realized where the unknown people were headed.
"The Gummiship hangar!"
Once the two Keyblade Wielders reached the hangar, they found scores of lightly injured guards and one gummiship gone. Mickey rushed over to the command console to try and track the ship to figure out where they went, sadly, the computer system couldn't pick up anything.
The mysterious invaders disappeared, just as suddenly as they appeared.
Everyone had gathered at Mickey's study, they had just finished going over what they do as Chip and Dale were in the middle of recovering footage from the hangar.
"The second the digitizer made contact with the book it caused the abnormalities to appear, along with monsters and people controlling them. They stole a gummiship before leaving with the book that they likely came from" Mickey said aloud as he looked down thinking on what course to take.
"The gummiship they took wasn't too big, how would they be able to fit inside it? And if they could move between worlds under their own power, why steal a gummiship at all?" Terra asked
"Hmm, I wonder. Is it possible they weren't moving between worlds, but rather moving between our world from there's. From inside the book" Minnie said, remembering the reports she read regarding the Jimmy Journal incident.
"Is that possible? Didn't Donald, Goofy and Mickey need the digitizer to travel to and from a data world. Even if we consider the book itself it similar to that one book Sora regularly jumps into, it doesn't explain how they got out of it" Daisy asked Minnie, general curious if such a feat was possible.
"It's likely whatever happened was a result of some different about the book, for now we'll just need to wait to see if Chip and Dale can recover anything-"
"King Mickey, you gotta see this!" Dale shouted as his voice came through on the monitor on Mickey's desk, on the screen was footage of the gummi hangar as the unknown invaders made their escape.
One of the guards sealed the hanger preventing the Gummiship from leaving, the picture zoomed in to show a figure wrapped in white blankets reaching out their hand and summoning a keyblade to open the doors. As the ship began to take off all the monsters and people of the unknown invaders disappeared in 1s and 0s at the same time flashes of light took place in the stolen gummiship's cockpit.
"A Keyblade!?" Everyone in the room exclaimed.
"Not only that, we got a picture of this mystery Keyblade wielder. We found it when we were going through what little data we had gotten from the book" Dale said as a new image popped up on screen.
The photo was of a boy who looked as young as Sora during his first adventure, his keyblade seemed to glow with Light, the photos themselves showed them in a lot of different outfits. Including a bear costume without the head, and another outfit with the missing bear head.
The photos showed the Keyblade Wielder had short white hair with green eyes and an almost pale complexion.
"Better send these to the others to keep them updated on the situation, good thing we gave everyone a gummiphone" Mickey said, earning a salute from Chip and Dale as they proceeded to do just that.
Once the message and photos were sent, the guardians of light became aware of the unknowns that emerged from a book dating back to the Age of Fairy Tales.
As for a certain Chirithy with Ven, they took one look and teleported away to deliver the message to a certain someone.
"Hey, Chirithy!"
"Hey, Chirithy. How's your wielder doing, did they get their memories back yet" a second Chirithy asked as they laid back on the ground.
"No, sadly. But that doesn't matter, I got big news!"
"Hmm?"
"Your Wielder Haru is back! King Mickey found his book and he's-" Ven's Chirithy didn't get to finish as the second Chirithy leap to their feet and jumped to them with stars in their eyes.
"Haru's back!" Haru's Chirithy wasted no time and teleported away, using their weak connection to guide them.
Unfortunately, Chirithy wasn't the only one who found Haru.
"Is that possible?" a blue haired boy with blue eyes, named Jack, asked aloud as he looked to the eye patch scientist.
"Yeah, it's mostly a theory but if we gather crystallized essence of several Worlds we could use it to bring our entire world into this Realm. Or, at least make it so it could exist in both Realms simultaneously" the eye patched scientist, Haru but not the one with the Keyblade, said as he handed out a list of Worlds "Specifically these Worlds, while any Worlds would do if we used the essence of the Worlds recorded in the book it should give us a hell of a lot more bang for our buck"
"What about the World's themselves?" a Moogle wearing a librarian's outfit asked as he looked over the Worlds listed "Wouldn't they react negatively to what we'd be doing, or even if our actions attract Heartless?"
"If we go slowly and only take small amounts at a time shouldn't we be fine?" a muscular man in light armour asked "Sort of like a small bug"
"As for the Heartless, we have many warriors on our side. If need be I'm sure there are those among us willing to be Heartless bait to protect our operations and the people of the Worlds, though for how long I'm uncertain" A woman wearing mostly white with red trimming said, she held up her sheath sword, signing that should counted herself among these warriors.
"Uh, everyone!" the assembled people turned to the person who poked their head in "Update, Haru stirred a little and somehow got his hands on two stuffed animals that are glaring at each other"
In another room, a sleeping Haru was hugging his Chirithy and Nightmare Chirithy who were glaring at each other. Those who were guarding him, which included two sleeping beauties, were at a last as to where the creatures came from.
Back at Disney Castle, Chip and Dale found something that was copied from the book.
A long, long, time ago. In an age where the Worlds and its people were so much more, an age those who came after call [The Age of Fairy Tales
Author's Notes:
For those of you wondering, yes Chip and Dale found the 'story' from up top. Except a lot of it is incomplete, but enough remains that they can get a basic idea.