Midnight Serenade
Disclaimer: Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, SSBB & The Kingdom Hearts Series belongs to Nintendo and Square-Enix. Don't flame me for this!
This story will be in 1st and 3rd point of view.
Chap.9: The Forest Temple ~
We all stood before the Forest temple as I took a step forward and stared up at the large temple doors, I sensed multiple presences from where I stood.
Almost every presence was filled with Evil here, and there was very little light from within the temple.
"I've got a bad feeling about this..." Diggs said (With the voice of Zack Efron) as he reached his arm back into his old ripped back-pack and took out a night-stick.
I wanted to say something, but I couldn't say anything nor open my mouth.
"Link, Zelda and Red are just up ahead." Fox said as Ike nodded silently as Mist stood next to her dad. I knew she was scared, but I knew that she had to be brave someday soon.
"Hey Ally, you frozen or something?" Boyd asked. I jumped and shook my head to him.
"Nope, I'm okay. Everybody ready?" I asked everyone as they nodded. Except Shinon.
Soon Boyd, Ike, Ryuo and I went up to the doors and pushed them open.
Darkness greeted us as everyone else headed in. Ike, Boyd and I followed as Ryuo left a crack of light streak out of the half open doors.
"I'll take out the lantern just in case!" Diggs said.
"That's fine with us Diggs." Marth replied as Diggs took out a Chinese lantern that had cut outs of stars and a crescent moon.
"Hey Fox!" Boyd called out.
"What?" Fox replied.
"Where did you see the creatures before you and Falco were forced to leave?" Boys asked.
Fox went on ahead and looked about, trying to remember where he and Falco were before the creatures arrived. Ike, Marth and I were a few feet away from Fox as he stopped and looked around.
"It was right...about-" Just before he could finish, shadow bugs emerged from the shadows as they swarmed in front of us.
"There they are!" Falco shouted as everyone got out their weapons.
I was ready for them as the Primids soon formed and lunged at us, but as soon as I took a step forward...I saw a flash of two different heart symbols: The Heartless symbols and another heart symbol only there were no spikes inside the heart, three Spikes were at the bottom of the second heart on the outside.
I gasped loudly from this as it went away from my vision.
"Ally, what's wrong?" Kamui asked.
I was puzzled by this, was I seeing things?
"it's nothing, I'm alright." I replied before slashing away a Primid. "I just...saw something, but I'm probably seeing things." I said.
"A vision?" Pit asked, dodging another Primids punch before slicing it in two.
"I have no idea, I only saw two heart symbols though..." I recalled.
"Memorize!" Shiki said, moving away from the fight.
"Oh don't worry, I'll remember." I replied to her.
Soren's magic swept away many Primids before more appeared, Griel slashed away plenty of them with his axe as he stormed through.
Pit shot an electric blue arrow that pierced through three Primids before striking into another on its side. After I slashed a Primid in two with my sword, I sensed multiple dark presences coming fast.
"Heartless!" I exclaimed as the heartless soon swarmed in from the shadows, their glowing yellow eyes gleamed at us.
"Oh no," Falco spoke. "Not those things!" He cried in horror.
"Yeah, it's a tragedy." I replied with a sarcastic tone. The heartless soon swarmed in as we lunged into the crowd of Heartless.
.:.~*• •*~.:.
Ten minutes later...
"This is going no-where!" Keiichi shouted. He was right, there was no end to the Heartless and the Primid invasion. They just kept coming.
Soren reminded us that we had to find Link, Zelda and Red before it's too late.
Griel slashed away and told us all to follow him as he lead the way through the heartless and Primid swarm, while this was happening, the heartless and the Primids were not far behind.
"Link! Princess Zelda! Red!" I called out as I was starting to fall back from the group. Pit saw this and quickly took my hand and helped me.
"Thank you Pit." I thanked him.
"You're welcome." He replied back.
"Ally! Pit!" Ike called out from afar as he, Marth, Boys and Roy stopped and waited for us to catch up. Falco stayed behind too.
"Are you okay Al?" Roy asked. I nodded.
"Yeah, I'm alright." I replied.
"Good. Cause we need to keep going." Falco spoke as we continued on.
I looked back to see no Heartless or Primids, I was puzzled by this. There was so many of them, and it looked like we were out numbered by them...But now, I couldn't even sense a single shadow lurking about. It was as if they vanished from existence...
I didn't pay attention to what was happening in front of me and bumped into Marth and Ike.
"Manya!" I howled as I almost fell over, Marth soon caught me in his arms as I looked up to him.
"You okay Ally?" Marth asked. I felt my cheek burn up.
"Y-yeah. I'm fine really." I replied nervously as he helped me get on my feet again.
"Which way do we go?" Boyd asked as I turned my attention to see Griel and Soren looking at three different paths.
The left and right paths were on land, the middle path however was surrounded by deep clean water (this path stood about ten feet tall), it looked very weak...let alone the fact that it could break anytime.
"We better choose quickly before the Heartless and the Primids swarm in." Rolf said in a worried tone.
"Hey Tails, do you sense them?" Kamui asked.
"Sadly, no." I replied back. "It looked like that we were out numbered back there...but they suddenly disappeared, as if they vanished from existence." I explained.
"Good description." Griel said to me.
"Thanks." I said.
"Get back on track everyone," Shinon reminded us. "Which path should we go, and we better choose fast before those creatures come back..." Shinon said.
I sensed three light presences straight ahead as I felt a good aura from them.
"That way." I said, pointing to the middle path. I was about to walk on over to the path but was stopped by Soren again.
"Can you stop guessing which pathway is right and look around you! That pathway looks like it will break any second, it's too dangerous for you or anyone else to cross!" Soren said.
"I'm not guessing! I can sense three light presences coming from that door on the other side, they could be in trouble!" I replied.
Silence filled the air after I had said that.
I took Soren's empty hand and removed his hand off of my shoulder.
"Don't you guys believe me?" I asked them.
"Why should we? You're the one that's acting strange." Shinon replied coldly.
"Shinon." Griel said with a tone that stated 'Don't start this again' within.
"What, I'm not kidding about this! She's starting to see things that we can't see, let alone that she can sense both good and evil presences. That's letting us know that she's insane." Shinon replied.
"Hey!" Ryuo shouted, pointing at Shinon. "Tails speaks the truth! Ally can sense good or bad auras from afar, she even has the ability to see pieces of the future. So what ever she sees, she can decide on if she wants to change it or leave it the way it is!" Ryuo said.
"That's why Ally is the leader of The Freedom Fighters, if she decides on doing something or going somewhere, she'll do it." Keiichi said to him. I sighed and didn't say a word.
"So Ally can see pieces of our future?" Roy asked. Rika nodded.
"Permision to speak further into Ally's abilities?" Shiki spoke.
"Half way." I replied.
"Okie Dokie!" Shiki said.
"First things first, Ally does have magic." Travis said. This has raised a few eyebrows.
"Her magic stretches out to about ten feet all around, the more she uses her magic, the stronger she gets." Karin said. "She gets her magic back from both the sun and the moon." Karin spoke.
"But there's one problem about that part." Keiichi brought up. "If a New Moon arrives, Tails's magic cannot be stored back until the sun arrives." Keiichi explained.
"Can she still get it all back inside buildings or temples?" Mist asked.
"Unless if the sun's light or the moon's light streaks out of the windows or cracked areas, then yes, she'll get it back." Keiichi replied.
"What about an Eclipse?" Marth spoke.
"That...I have no idea, Tails never spoke much about whenever it comes around. She tells us to stay back until she returns, after that, she looks normal really." Ryuo said.
"Normal?" Griel recalled.
"Yeah; her wounds go away, her skin gets a little tanned, her senses are sharper than usual." Chiharu spoke.
Roy was seen looking around for some one.
"Maybe we should ask her what happens when ever an Eclipse comes around." Boyd said.
"Hey, where is Ally anyway?" Roy asked.
Almost everyone soon looked around for Ally, but she was no where near them. Rika looked over her right shoulder to see someone walking onto the middle path, and that person was halfway through.
"ALLY!" Rika cried out as everyone turned around to see Ally calmly walking along the middle path, small chunks of the middle path escaped underneath her feet as she kept on walking.
"Ally wait!" Marth shouted. He tried to get onto that path, but as soon as he placed his right foot down, a huge chunk of that middle path crumbled and broke away. Marth staggered back from this.
Ally sensed this and looked back, it soon stopped a couple inches away from where she stood. She sighed in relief from this before looking up to where everyone else was, Ally's golden teardrop pendent glowed radiantly seconds later.
"Come back Leader!" Shiki spoke. Ally blinked and looked over her shoulder to where the door was.
"Ally!" Chiharu said as she tried to follow her, but Travis held her back.
"Chi no! Let Ally continue on." Travis said.
"B-But..." Chiharu spoke.
"Trust me on this Chi! Ally's lighter than you, Karin, Rika and Shiki." Travis said.
"That's true." Ryuo spoke, nodding his head. "So true." He repeated.
"Ally weights around 90 to 100 pounds, and thatis what I call 'Light as a Feather'." Keiichi said.
Ally calmly spun around and kept on walking as tiny pieces of the path below her crumbled and broke apart as they fell into the water below.
"I dunno about this guys..." Diggs spoke as he watched nervously. "What if the path breaks underneath her?" He asks.
"Tails is lighter than all of us, she'll be fine." Keiichi replied.
Ally then made it to the other side as she sighed and walked over to the door, the sound of wings flapping filled her ears as she stopped and looked around. She closed her eyes and didn't move an inch as her pendent glowed, she opened her eyes seconds later and looked above her to see Pit descending next to her.
"You might need back-up, just in case." Pit said to her, she blinked and nodded.
"Alright then." Ally said as she and Pit opened the door and entered in.
"Should we follow them?" Boyd asked.
"Nah, Ally can handle things on her own." Ryuo said. "I have seen her in solo combat before, she can take down an army of monsters both on her own and with her team." He spoke.
"And Pit can handle things own his own too." Ike said. "He'll be fine." Ike spoke.
Boyd blinked and watched the door close as he waited for those two to return.
.:.~*• •*~.:.
-Ally's Point of View-
I took about five steps forward and stopped to look around. There wasn't much here; just a spiral stairway that led down to the water below.
The three presences were still in this room, but there was something odd about this room.
Down below was the ground, but there was water down below that probably goes up to our ankles.
I was puzzled by this as I headed down the spiral stairs, Pit soon followed behind as I stepped in the clear water. The water did reach up to my ankles.
"This is an odd place to put water in...yet why is it here?" Pit asked.
"I have no idea, I'm confused by this too." I replied as I placed my left hand on my head, close to where my temple was as I tried to sense oher auras. My magic slowly swirled around my left hand as I shook my head.
"I don't sense any other presences here besides the three that are in here." I said before moving my hand away and looking over to Pit.
"So you were speaking the truth." Pit said to me.
"I don't usually lie about auras, if it's bad, I'll let everyone know." I explained calmly. "But I can do more than just sense good or bad auras: I can see pieces of our future here and there, it just doesn't always happen everyday...I do have magic, but I use it sometimes, it depends on how bad the problem can be." I said.
"So you're the main tracker in the group, huh?" Pit asked.
"Huh?"
"What I meant is that since you can sense every living thing around you and plan ahead, that makes you the main target for what ever is coming or not." Pit explained.
"You could say that," I said to him. "I mainly do this because I don't want my friends to get hurt, that's pretty much the main reason why I jump into a fight first." I explained.
Pit didn't say much after that, he looked away and glanced in another direction.
"Anyway, do you know where those three presences are?" Pit asked.
"Straight ahead." I replied simply, we soon walked into a small hallway to see three male teens kicking the walls around them; they were tied up into a chair as they kicked harder and harder.
Two of the teens were dark skinned and the third was a little tanned, I blinked from this and grinned a little from this. I knew these three boys, they wanted to be part of the Freedom fighters before the team was cornered by the Heartless in the very beginning.
"Hey there Mitchell. Whatcha' doing?" I asked him.
Mitchell stopped and looked over to where Pit and I stood as the other two noticed this. Mitchell glanced at me for a second and frowned.
"What does it look like we're doin', we're trying to escape!" Mitchell shouted as he kicked the wall again. I sighed.
"Really? It looks like you three are having fun." I replied, teasing them. Pit sweated a little from this.
"Aw, shutup Tails! Help us out here!" Mitchell shouted as I shrugged, Pit and I soon un-tied them as they told us what happened.
[-Meanwhile, in another world...-]
"Do you think those two guys were telling us the truth?" spoke a teen with silver hair as another male teen nodded. This teen had spiky brown hair and wore black and white garments.
"I'm sure." Spoke the spiky haired teen.
"I don't know man, those two guys that told us that information looked very familiar in some way." Spoke the other teen as he leaned back against the chair and looked out the window.
"So, are we going to go and look for the group of fighters?" Spoke another as a teen girl arrived. She wore a short pink dress that went down and stopped above her knees, her long red hair hanged down to the middle of her back.(A/Note: Ugh, I hate the color Pink!)
"Of course we are, after all, since they allowed those purple creatures to take over Olympus Coliseum we can't let them take over another world." Spoke the brunette as he kept his hands on the steeing wheel in front of him.
"But do you know where they are? They could be anywhere." Spoke the girl.
"Who knows, but since that skinny guy left this necklace and this tracker behind...this could lead to us where they are." Spoke the brunette as he pointed to the tracking device next to him and took out an odd necklace piece that had a clear crystal wrapped around with two sterling silver bands that ran cross-wised over each other, a silver chain was wrapped around his wrist.
"What an odd necklace." Spoke the red-headed girl as the brunette put away the necklace and kept watching what was in front of him. He was driving a small ship that was heading North into the unknown.
Suddenly, the tracking device began to activate and had a location of where they were.
"We've got a location!" Spoke the silver-haired teen as the brunette pressed his two fingers on the tracking device, it soon showed an image of where the group was.
"They're they are! They are in that temple!" Spoke the girl as the brunette stepped on the gas and was already off to that world.
[Meanwhile, back to our heroes...]
[-Ten mintues later...-]
-Pit's Point of View-
"So you three were dragged in this temple by a black monster?" Ally asked them. Mitchell nodded.
"That's kinda funny." Ally said, I gave her a confused look. She noticed this and smiled sweetly.
"And how is our story funny?" Mitchell asked.
"Because nothing can out-run you or blade, 'cause you two are B-L-A-C-K! Black!" Ally replied with no problem.
I sweated even more from this.
'Is she begging to be attacked by him?' Spoke my mind.
"Just because Blade and I can run fast doesn't mean that we can out run everything!" Mitchell pointed out. Ally shrugged from this.
"Hey at least Josh, Pit and I are a little close to your speed level." Ally spoke.
"Umm, Ally..." I began.
"Yes?"
"Can you leave me out of this please?" I asked.
"Rapo? Oh sure." Ally said. I sighed in relief.
"Aren't you suppose to be an Angel?" Blade asked him.
"I am an Angel." I replied.
Mitchell lead the way up the stairs and opened the door as we arrived where the others were.
"See, Ally and Pit are just fine." Keiichi said.
"And Tails was right about her aura senses..." Ryuo said as Griel was impressed by this.
"Hey Josh!" Roach shouted as the other Josh (he was also tied up with Mitchell and Blade) waved back.
"Yo! Hold on, I'm going to make a path." Josh spoke as he took off his small navy blue backpack and took out a sterling silver Trident staff and held it up high, seconds later, the water down below was then brought up and swirled around us.
I was stunned by this, how can someone like josh here can bend water? Is Josh a mage too?
Josh pointed his trident staff at the ruined path before him as the water quickly responded and formed into a strong walkway. Mitchell and Blade walked onto that water way as it never gave under or gotten their clothes wet, Ally was a little cautious about this as she made her way through.
I soon followed closely behind her as Josh was the last person to walk across, he then snapped his fingers as the watered pathway broke away and fell down below.
"Whoa, that was awesome!" Roach said to Josh who shrugged.
"It takes a lot of work to make water harden up on the outside, let alone concentrate." Josh replied.
"And you three must be Ally's friends?" Griel said to them. Mitchell, Blade and Josh nodded.
"I'm Mitchell, a friend of Tails." Mitchell spoke.
"I'm Blade." Blade said after Mitchell.
"And I'm Josh, a good friend to both Blade and Mitchell. Oh and Ally too." Josh said.
"It's a pleasure to meet you three." Griel said to them. "But I fear that our safety here is at risk." He said.
We all then told Mitchell, Blade and Josh what was happening on our journey. Shinon didn't mutter a word as Mitchell nodded, understanding our story.
-Ally's Point of view-
"So you guys are trying to stop them..." Blade recalled as Ike nodded.
"And we may be getting into something much deeper and more dangerous than what we expect." Titania said.
Blade crossed his arms over his chest.
"Fighting villains to save our world..." Blade began
"Let alone the fact that you guys are going all over to face many dangers and challenges..." Josh spoke.
"ROAD-TRIP!" Mitchell exclaimed with a grin on his sly face.
"Huh?" Everyone said out loud.
"Oh heck no!" I shouted. "You three cannot come with us, it's too dangerous! You guys might lose your lives from this journey." I explained.
"Come on Tails!" Blade said to me in a begging way. "We have to come with you! Besides, that dude said that this world was connected and he-" Before Blade could finish, Marth stopped him.
"Wait a second, who said that to you?" Marth asked.
"We couldn't tell much from that guy, he wore a long white jacket and had his hoodie cover his face..." Josh paused for a few seconds to swallow. "And, he says that he knows you Ally." Josh said.
I flinched from this.
"Did he say his name or anything else to you guys?" I asked.
"He didn't say his name..." Blade spoke. "But he told us this; Quote 'I found you Chi-sai. Didn't your father, Fujimoto, tell you to never leave your house when your suppose to be training to become a Shrine Maiden?'." Blade recalled.
"Shrine Maiden?" Marth recalled.
"I'm not a Shrine Maiden yet, I'm still a Shrine priestess-in-training." I spoke as I glanced over to Blade who then continued.
"Quote 'Either way, you won't go far on this little traveling plan that you have in store. Plus, if I were you Chi-Sai, the creatures you call Heartless won't stop until the heart of this world is gone. They plan to take out every living thing, but they are after strong hearts...Your friends happen to have strong hearts, but you Chi-Sai, you are special. You are probably the bravest young lady I have ever met, let alone the fact that you are different from everyone else...Maybe that's the reason why the Heartless are after you and your friends. I help we meet again soon, you and your friends.' Unquote." Blade finished.
Silence filled the air for a few seconds.
"So we're being spied on, huh?" I said out loud.
"Looks like it, from Blade's message that is." Soren spoke.
"Scout?" Shiki asked.
"No thanks Shiki." Marth replied.
"Any ideas on what to do?"
"Honestly, I don't know. But we have to look around for this guy. Since this hooded man knows me, he's probably going to try and catch me when ever I'm alone or far away from you guys." I replied.
"We'll keep our guard up up just in case." Marth said.
"Thanks guys." I replied.
Griel soon headed onto the left pathway, suprisingly, nothing bad happened. We all soon followed after him as he opened the door and headed in, he left the door opened for us all as Blade closed the door behind him.
We were now in a huge room that had two more doors across from one another, but were on the second floor. An opened chest was seen up ahead as a set of stairs were seen, leading up to the second floor.
"Okay, now what?" Roach asked.
"Head up the stairs and head to one of the two doors, that's one way." Soren said.
"But that's a bit boring! We should find another way around." Keiichi said.
I rolled my eyes from this while shaking my head.
"So what's the other way?" Travis asked.
"Find Link, Zelda and Red and then get the hell out of here!" Fox shouted. "The more we stay in this place, those creatures will be all over our asses before we know it!" Fox pointed out.
"Fox is right, we cannot stay here." Marth said.
Falco took five steps forward and looked around, he glanced over to the opened chest before spinning around to face us.
"Well, at least we know that Link, Zelda and Red was here." Falco pointed out.
"But we never ran into them yet." Pit said.
I sensed three presences as I jumped up from this, but these new presences were not from here...and the fact that they just came out of no where. The three presences were up on the second floor.
I soon turned my attention to the second floor to my left, I stared up at it for a while before noticing silver hair. I quickly took out my sword and stood in my fighting stance (A/Note: Ally's fighting stance is almost like Aqua's in KH: Birth By Sleep).
Marth noticed this and turned to me.
"What's wrong Ally?" Marth asked.
"Come out! I can sense your presence up there!" I shouted. Nothing happened, seconds later, a male brunette peared over to see me.
"How did you know that we were here?" He asked me.
"I just told you, I can sense your presence. Along with the other two presences up there with you." I replied.
"Are you part of the Griel Mercenaries?" He asked. Ike was about to take a step forward but was stopped by Griel himself.
"And what if I am?" I said.
"Then I need you to come up here." He commanded.
"How about this," I said to him. "You and your two friends come down here and see for yourself, if you attack, I'll attack back." I told him.
"You can fight?" He asked.
"Yeah, I could probably beat you and your friends up there in a heartbeat." I admitted.
"Sounds reasonable, alright then." A teen girl's voice replied as she and her friends soon began to head over to the stairs. I still kept my sword out as they came down.
The brunette took a step forward and noticed my look, it was a mix between a determined look and a calm look. He sighed deeply before descending down to the first floor where I was.
Just as that happened, he charged forward and brought out an odd weapon and was ready to swing at me. However, I saw him coming and countered it, he was shocked from this as I used the blunt side of the blade and tossed him away from me as he skidd back a couple inches away from me.
"Told you I can fight." I told him as he glared at me before charging at me again. He swung his weapon at me again as I fought back.
End of chapter 9
Preview of chapter 10
Hauuau~ We encounter a small group that really packs a punch, but why is he fighting us? What is he talking about? What world? Primids attacking another world? This is too confusing! Can the Griel Mercenaries and the Freedom Fighters take this group on? Where is Pain and Panic? You'll fave to find out on chap.10: The Keyblade Masters. See you then!