Cha 1: The Beginning.
Once everything was One. One Universe. It held a power. A power called Kingdom Hearts. Light and darkness fought each other for the light of each world. The light to protect it. The darkness to consume it. One world had beings that would protect these worlds for the light. They were know as...Keybearers. They possessed magical weapons called Keyblades. They made up the owner's heart. One known as only the Master of Masters had six students. One disappeared while the others form groups as instructed by their master. Their groups became known as...Unions.
Master Ira of Unicornis. The Union of balance. He teaches his union members to balance their speed, power, and magic for the best effect. He also teaches them to be leaders. To lead others to battle the darkness.
Master Aced of Ursas. The Union of Strength. He teaches the more physical aspects of the Keyblade . Makings strong bodies and hearts to tackle through any hardships that may come.
Master Invi of Anguis. The Union of stealth. Her Union focuses on assassin-like tactics. Art of the silent kill. Keeping a cool head in and out of battle.
Master Gula of Leopardis. The Union of speed. His Union focuses more on speed. Plowing through opponents with relentless attacks that only end in their opponents defeat. They use their speed to outpace the darkness.
Finally. Master Ava of Vulpes. The union of Magic. They focus more on sorcery and tapping into the power within. Always showing compassion for everyone, their healing magic is unrivaled.
Each of these Unions had many students with keyblades. Gaining lots of lux. The source of the Union's power. The more lux a union had the stronger they were. The same for each Keybearer of the unions. Alongside each member was a spirit called Chirithy. They were the guide to each member. They sensed were the minions of darkness was and led them to vanquish them.
These minions were normally the Heartless. Creatures created when the darkness in a person consumes them. The stronger the heart that was consumed. The stronger the Heartless. Heartless take many shapes and forms. Normally depending on the worlds theme their from. Although those from the realm of darkness itself can be more dangerous. The most common kind are the shadows. While weak alone they are massive in numbers, and are always in pacts. While the heartless have no master per say those with dark hearts and strong will can control them.
That's why the Foretellers train their students to combat the darkness. This struggle of light versus dark that wages on since existence.
"But. We are not here to discuss just the Unions." A figure wore a dark brown suit with blue pants and black boots. Has dark brown hair. His eyes are darker than darkness itself. Almost as if they were like the Void. Because they were. "I'm sure you can guess who I am. Most know me as 'The Outsider', but my name...is Hollow. I represent an infinite plane known as the Void, but I'm not here to discuss this. We are here to talk about a special individual. No not Sora. This is before his time after all." He held out his hand and an image appeared.
The image shows a young man. About eighteen. He was five foot two. Had dark brown hair that was a little spikey but flat on his head. He has light green eyes and a small goatee on him. He wore a dark green jacket with a white button up shirt on underneath. Has gray pants with black sneakers on. He also wore red arm guards on his forearms.
"This is the life...and death of a Keybearer known as Drex. Drexel Quake. Now he isn't the strongest by far. He doesn't stand a chance against someone like the Foretellers normally, but in his death was the start of another life. My brother God. Yes just God. Don't ask why our parents named him that. Took his souls as after Drex died, but that's a story for another time. Now. Let's begin shall we."
We come across a town. This town looked like a normal town. It had parks, shops, residential apartments. Most of the building were yellow with the roads having a similar color. There were many people in this town.
Right in the center of this town though we're two towers. These towers connecting them was a massive clock like structure. This town was known as Daybreak Town. This is the home of both the Foretellers and of their Unions.
The Foretellers normally stayed in the towers. Known as Foreteller tower. The member of each Union were forbidden to enter unless brought forth by the Foretellers themselves. There was no normal way in for the entrance was secret.
We look to a certain part of the town to see a figure sprinting down the alleys. He was chasing something that was moving in the shadows quickly. He eventually cornered it in a dead end alley. The creature was a few feet tall covered in Darkness. It had white eyes and long antenna like appendages on its head with claw like hands. This was a heartless. A Neoshadow. A stronger version of the shadow heartless.
The person chasing it stopped about the feet from it and summoned a key shaped sword known as a Keyblade. It had a blue handle with the shaft of the key being gold. The 'teeth of the key was a hollow looking star with a flower shaped pattern on the other side. The tip was a orb with two gold rings overlapping it. This was known as Starlight.
Behind him a poof of smoke appeared and a small catlike creature appeared. It was white with dark gray spots. It had a small red cape around its neck along with a small pouch. This was the companion spirit to Keybearers. A Chirithy.
"There it is Drex! Don't let it escape!" The Chirithy yelled at Drex. Drex in return smirked and held Starlight in stance.
"Don't worry Chirith. I won't let I get away again." Drexel told his friend.
He charged at the Neoshadow with a blitz that knocks it back. It retaliate with a swipe that Drex blocked with his Keyblade. They started to trade blows with Drex getting a hit in now and then, but the Neo was also getting a slash in as well.
Drex jumped back and pointed Starlight at the heartless. "Fire." He launched a blast of fire at the heartless which jumped out of the way. Drex saw it trying to escape again by the sides of the building. He had to act fast or it will get away again.
"YOU'RE NOT GETTING AWAY! RAID!" Drex yelled out throwing his Keyblade at the Neoshadow. It knocked it down to the ground and was stunned from the fall.
"Gotcha now. Thunder." He held his Keyblade up pointing it up when a blast of lightning came out and hit the Heartless. It was stunned and weakened.
'One more his should finish it off.' Drexel thought. He saw it get up and was about to leave. He quickly attacked to finish it.
"Sonic strike!" Drex propelled himself and stabbed at the heartless with Starlight. It gave a small shout before dispersing into darkness. Drex stood there with his Keyblade not moving from its position. He was breathing heavily. He then started to give a small chuckle. Which grew into full on laughing. He fell down on but laughing.
Chirithy appeared next to him looking glad. "Congrats Drex. Finally got that heartless. It just took oh I don't know…Fifteen tries haha" it laughed a little.
"Oh shut up Chirith. Not my fault this thing was slippery." He said getting up. He then left the alley and walked towards a certain place. After a few minutes he finally came across it. A fountain in the town. Most of the Union members come here now and then. Drex comes here to listen to the sound of the water. It helped him think. Clear his mind. He sat here for while. His Chirithy was sitting near him as well. Liking this area as well.
"Taking it easy are we Drexel?" A voice said. walking up to the pair was a man in unusual robes. He wore white robes with golden accents, the lower half was a cyan blue and almost reached the ground. Upon the upper half of his face was a white unicorn mask with crimson eyes and a cyan horn with matching long, flowing hair that protruded out the back. This was Ira, Master of the Unicornis Union.
"Master Ira!" Drex said surprised. He gave a small bow to his Union's master. "I was just resting for a bit. Took out a heartless that's been escaping me for about a month now."
"So I've been told." the master said with a smile before resting beside his union member. "Everyone needs rest from time to time. Even leaders."
"I know master. These Heartless are getting stronger. So rest is important now and then. Can't fight your best if you're exhausted, but I have to keep training and gathering Lux as well." Drexel said.
Ira nodded, "Yes, I've noticed this as well, we all have. But don't forget, so have we, you me and the other Unions. It's just the world's way of keeping the balance. All we can do now is get even stronger, to protect what we have build."
Drex nods. "I know. Thanks." Drex suddenly has a thought. "Hey, Master Ira. How about a quick spar?" He said jumping up summoning Starlight.
"Hm? What brings this on?"
"I just wanted spar with you. You're my master so I wanted to see if I've grown much from when we last spared." He said getting into stance a few feet away. His Chirithy was waving a flag saying 'Go Drex!'. Where he got that he'll never know.
"Alright, I accept." the master summoned his keyblade and pointed it towards his student. "But don't expect the easy treatment"
"Let's go! Fire!" Drex launched a blast of fire at Ira.
Ira swiftly sidesteps out of the attacks way and charged at Drex, swinging his keyblade in a downward arc. Drex blocks it but is pushed to the ground. He quickly moves back and throws Starlight at Ira with a strike raid. Ira returned the attack with a strike raid of his own. The two collided, canceling each other out. Both combatants charged towards their respective keyblades hoping to get the edge on the other. When they both obtained their weapons, they began trading blows once again.
Drex was giving it his all while he can tell that Master Ira wasn't even trying. He jumped back and let loose a thunder which Master Ira blocked with just his Keyblade. Seeing an opening he used sonic strike hoping to score a hit in which was block by Ira's Keyblade.
"I can see you've improved much since basic training, but you still have a ways to go before you can hold your own against me. Now, it's about time this spar reached its end." Ira's Keyblade started to shine a brilliant gold.
'Ah crap.' Drex thought.
In the blink of an eye, Ira was suddenly behind Dred in a stance that showed that he had already slashed his blade. Neither of them moved a muscle, until Drex fell to his knees.
Drexel's Chirithy hurried to his side."Drex!? You ok?"
"I'm fine. Don't worry about me." He said. Chirithy opened his pouch and pulled out a potion. It then proceeded to shove the bottle down his throat making him choke a bit. "I said I'm ok!"
"Now, now Drexel, don't fault your spirit for worrying about you. He is your companion after all, and friends need to look out for eachother." Ira said, dispelling his Keyblade.
Drex signed. "Sorry for yelling at you Chirith. Just caught me off guard when you shoved the bottle down my throat." He then finished the potion with his wounds healing. He then turned to Master Ira and bowed. "Thanks for the spar master."
"Anytime Drexel, and I mean what I said. You have improved so much, your keyblade is a reflection of that."
Drex looked at his Keyblade, Starlight. He remembered when it changed its look after a battle. "I have a question though. It feels like...this isn't what my Keyblade should look like. I've seen other union members with a Starlight, but I've also seen others with different keyblades, and not from acquiring other keychains so...how?" He asked looking confused.
Ira nodded, "That is a good observation. You see as you are a part of a Union, it works differently with those whose keyblade appears naturally. The other Foretellers and I performed the inheritance ceremony on each of you, so in a sense the ability to manifest a Keyblade was forced a bit. That is why all Union members start with the Starlight. Think of the starlight as the sheath of the Keyblade, when your heart is ready the blade will unsheath and reveal what is truly within. The true Keyblade that dwells within your heart."
Drex looked at starlight again. Feeling amazed. "Right. I'll do my best master. Although I won't be alone right Chirith?" He looked to his spirit who was nodding and jumping.
"That's good to hear, Drexel. I don't want any of my students to feel weak after all. Now, I must return to my duties. May your heart be your guiding key." With that said, the Master left.
Drex watched him leave before turning to his spirit. "Ok. Let's go home. We start training again in the morning."
"Got it!"
"Now, let's get this meeting started shall we?" Ira said.
Master Ira sat at a round table, with four other individuals that wore similar robes like the one he wore. The room looked to be a rather large office, books upon shelves, a large work desk in the corner, and the round table had the symbols with each Union on it.
The individuals with him were the four other Foretellers. A young woman that wore pink robes and the fox mask, Ava of the Vulpis Union. A tall, sturdy looking man that wore bronze robes and a bear mask, Aced of the Ursus Union. Another woman with blue robes that covered the bottom half of her face and a snake mask, Invi of the Anguis Union. Finally, the young man who wore yellow robes and a leopard mask, Gula of the Leopardis Union.
They were having a meeting to discuss the Unions. How each is faring and if any members caught their eyes.
"I'll tell you what. Marinette is one of my most promising students. She's tough as nails, just like me. Even let her take charge of one of the classes, no mercy! Hahaha!" Aced boasted.
Gula sighed, "Alright, settle down Aced. We understand you're proud of your disciples, we all are. Take Krux for example, he embodies what my Union teaches. Speed is everything."
"But not the only thing Gula." Invi interjected. "Stealth is just as important. How do you expect to infiltrate and assassinate with just speed alone? My student, Tomoe, can prove that. Her Ability to hide her presence is almost at my level."
The rest could hear Ava giggling at their enthusiasm. "I guess we all have students we are proud of. Then again, I can't say any different. Ephemer and Skulld both have potential to be great Keyblade wielders." She noticed that Ira looked deep in thought. "What about you Ira?"
Ira paused for just a moment. "Well, you all know about my student Serena, she is a natural born leader and all around good fighter. Although, recently there has been someone else that has caught my attention."
Aced tilted his head in confusion, "And who would that be?"
"His name is Drexel. Drexel Quake. I remember him from basic training, but recently his potential has caught my attention. There is something… more to him, but i can't quite place it."
Ava giggled again, "Sounds like a certain unicorn we know. Always more than meets the eye."
The others agreed and laughed with her, even Ira let out a chuckle.
Drexel was fast asleep in his bed. His Chirithy watching him from the window. It then looked outside to the moon. "Rest up Drexel Quake. You have a lot to prepare for." It then disappeared.
If it had stayed. It would have seen the figure standing on the roof a few buildings away. Looking right at Drex with its red eyes. Before it vanished to.
AN: Hey. Deatchwatch here. This is a slightly edited version of chapter 1. Thanks for reading. Please leave a review to let me know what you think.