I want to dedicate this to the memory of Stan Lee, co-creator of many of Marvel's heroes. After we lost his Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko earlier this year and his wife Joan Lee 2 years ago. 1922-2018. RIP Stan.

Sora was humming to himself on the horse provided to him not far behind the horses being ridden by Hinata, Oboro and Takumi. He was doing his best to stay on and Oboro looked behind him and asked "not used to riding horses, are you Sora?"

Sora shook his head and told her "not many worlds I went to really use them so I never had to." Hinata questioned about him saying worlds and then Takumi whispered to Hinata to just humour him. Soon they reached the peak overlooking the village.

Takumi then faced the men and was about to direct them about their strategy when Sora jumped off his horse. He then summoned his Keyblade and then began running towards the Faceless monsters as he spotted them swarming the monsters. Takumi shook his head with Oboro looking concerned, Hinata however spoke up asking "sorry, I think I am being delusional from working too hard but did Lord Sora just charge in there wielding a giant key?"

Sora used Strike Raid to charge right through several Faceless monsters, now that he knew what to expect of them he found himself having an easier time with them. Especially with his experience being an advantage.

He paused when he saw the houses on fire around him and any remaining villagers trying to get to saftey. He was taken aback from all of this, even in his fights against Xehanort, Maleficent and her forces, the Organisation XIII and the Heartless... He had never saw destruction like this.

He was so taken aback that he looked like he was blindsided by several Faceless monsters, he was about to try and get up as he grunted when he was then saved by Oboro taking care of them with her staff. The rest of the men came charging in fighting at the Faceless.

"All this destruction and bloodshed, I have never seen anything like this..." Sora muttered shaking a bit, while the Heartless liked to steal hearts of people... hardly any foe he had faced showed this kind of bloodshed before to him. With the monsters looking like they were trying to kill the victims.

Not Xehanort, who wanted to remake the entire universe in his twisted sense of balance but preference over darkness, not even Maleficent who proud called herself the 'Mistress of All Evil'...

"Sorry you had to see this Sora, but this is Nohr and the entire War in a nutshell..." Oboro told him with harshness and slight venom in her voice. She then grew sympathetic in her voice as she told him "I can see this sort of destruction is new to you, I will understand if you want to turn back..." Oboro told him but Sora shook his head.

"I will not run away from evil monsters, they not only hurt innocent people but they taint the names of the good ones..." Sora muttered looking determined to smiles at Sora's courage but then raised eyebrows at his comment on good monsters. "Yeah they do exist; I met two of them on my latest adventure before coming here. Mike and Sully, you would love them." Sora told them managing to smile, the thought of his various friends made throughout the universe helped cheer him up a bit.

He then spotted a nearby group of Faceless going into the nearby forest, "You think they spotted someone..." Hinata asked but then Sora then grew determined as he then began running after them. If they did they will not claim any victims on his watch.

He charged at the Faceless unleashing his fury on them, he then spotted a figure hiding behind a tree. He then looked to see a younger brown haired girl looking afraid and muttering about the Faceless killing her mum when she helped her escape.

Sora then kneeled down and told her softly "it's alright; the monsters are being taken care of..." Sora told the girl putting her into a hug. The girl said her name was Mozu and Sora told her that they will make sure she will go somewhere safe. Sora then led her to see the others.

*PB*

"I am sorry but I must have misheard you, it sounded like Takumi let C... Sora come with him to a Faceless attack on a village?" snapped Hinoka at the servant in the throne room. Hinoka had been searching for Sora when she got up and Queen Mikoto had asked a servant to find out where he was.

The servant told her nervously "my apologies Lady Hinoka but Lord Takumi told us that he would make sure that Lord Sora was under his guidance for this..." Queen Mikoto then had the servant excused.

Hinoka cracked her fists and began muttering "Takumi let our brother be in danger the day after we finally get him back, when I get my hands on him..." Ryoma and Sakura then tried to calm her down. Queen Mikoto got up to get their attention when Hinoka was calmed down a bit.

"Make no mistake Hinoka, I am not pleased that Takumi done this without consorting us first as well. But still it does sound like Sora did end up wanting to go and if it turned out to have been too dangerous for him, we will see about his role in helping out the war." Queen Mikoto told them and Hinoka was about to protest that Sora shouldn't have any role in the war.

"If he turns out to have what it takes to serve and has the desire to, you would still want to stop him? Do you plan on having him confided to the castle for the rest of his days?" Ryoma asked her sister and she was silent. "Takumi was right yesterday, trying to have him kept safely in the castle despite any protests will do nothing but alienate him." Ryoma told her firmly and she just glared.

"Plus if we try to make him stay in the castle against his will, won't he decide to just go back to... his home?" Sakura asked speaking up. Hinoka just ignored her sister's words, she was thinking that Sora was already home.

I admit I wanted to include Mozu in this story, after I accidentally let her die in one playthrough I had sworn it would never happen again in anymore play throughs of Fates.

Plus since it was released today, I have been watching and enjoying the new Netflix cartoon She Ra: Princesses of Power. I am all for it standing on its own but hope it can lead to some appearance by He Man as I remember the 2003 reboot growing up. I knew I would be a Catradora shipper before I even finished watching the trailer of the show. Why am I bringing this up here? Well for those who played Birthright (again I didn't), this might seem similar to you:

A royal raised by an evil empire during a war who ends up going to the other side while those closest to him on the other side wants him or her to return while the one in charge is not as concerned. Their main weapon is even a sword!

Funny enough I am a conquest fan and yet I am rooting for Adora going against the Horde and hopes that somehow Catra ends up joining her. Some of my opinions are an oxymoron.