The Destiny Trio

Thanks to Blue Pegasus, the Fairy Tail team was able to return to Magnolia instead of spending the night in the open air, although they could have used the rooms in Master Bob's guild, however Natsu, Gray and Sora didn't like the idea very much. The day after the encounter with Pete, since the Heartless attacks decreased, Sora and the others decided to take a break, although Natsu and Gray trained with Sora instead of resting. The Keyblade wielder could improve his Fire and Blizzard Magic thanks to them and the other two improved their resistance to other types of Magic like Thunder and Aero.

On the other hand, the girls were thinking about what Pete said at the old mansion. He mentioned that he thought Sora was dead and he was going to say someone's name too, but Sora froze his mouth and no one could hear the complete name and most of them didn't give it importance since they knew that Sora, being who he is, usually put his life in danger, however the girls were curious about the person Sora didn't want them to know about.

"Sorry, but the book doesn't mention any names," Levy said, who was reading the book about Keyblades since Lucy asked her if there was someone with a name that starts with "Xeha", but it seems that the book wasn't going to be helpful.

"Erza couldn't get any information from Master either," said a disappointed Lucy. "Although she told me that he was dodgy so maybe he knows something."

Levy closed the book and let out a sigh. "Don't you think we're meddling too much?"

"What do you mean?" asked Lucy while tilting her head.

"Don't get me wrong, if Sora had a problem, I'd love to help him," Levy answered, "but I had the feeling that we shouldn't pry into Sora's affairs, we could end up finding out something that we wouldn't have liked to know."

"I know but…" Lucy said, remembering what happened yesterday, "he has been acting a bit different since we returned."

"Well, everyone has their own secrets, right?" Levy said but the Celestial Mage was still concerned. "Although, to be honest, I also would like to know if something is bothering him."

"Then why don't you ask him?" Mirajane said to the two girls, it looks like she heard a bit of their conversation so the S-Class Mage decided to give them an advice.

"Mira, do you think that's a good idea?" asked the blonde mage.

"Of course," she answered. "It's better if you ask him directly, I'm sure he won't mind and will appreciate your concern."

Lucy thought that it was a good idea and then she started to look at Levy, which confused the bluenette at first, but then she understood why Lucy was looking at her.

"Oh no, forget it," Levy said crossing her arms.

"Aw, come on, Levy-chan," Lucy pleaded. "Sora and you get along pretty well, it should be easy."

"What do you mean by that?" Levy said, blushing slightly. "Anyway, I've already asked him a lot of things, he'll think I am a busybody. Besides, aren't you the one who met him first?"

"I know, but I wanted to have someone by my side when I talk to him," Lucy explained.

"What about someone from your team?" Levy suggested.

Lucy thought about Erza, but then she realized that the redhead could make things more difficult, maybe Gray and Wendy were good options, but what she had to do first is to find Sora. The blonde was walking near a water canal with Plue by her side, she got warnings from the men in the boats and, when the girl was near her house, she saw the Keyblade wielder and waved to him and he did the same.

"Hi Lucy," Sora greeted, then he noticed the white creature next to the blonde and he crouched to look at it. "Hey, what kind of bug is this?"

"It's a dog, not a bug," Lucy corrected. "His name is Plue and is one of my Spirits."

"This is a dog?" thought Sora perplexed, looking at the shivering creature who greeted him, although Plue only said "puu-puun". Plue jumped onto Sora's head and the boy raised his hand to pat the dog's head.

Lucy smiled at them and then she noticed that Sora looked tired and she asked the Keybearer what he has been doing.

"Sparring with Natsu and Gray," Sora answered, "although we ended up fighting seriously after a while."

Lucy laughed nervously. "I guess that was expected to happen," she said and then the girl had an idea. "Hey, would you like to take a drink at my house? Maybe you could rest a little after fighting against those two."

"Sounds good," said Sora after thinking about it a few seconds. The two, or three if you include Plue, went inside the building and reached the door that led to Lucy's apartment. When the blonde opened the door, she saw the other members of Team Natsu, who invaded her house like always.

"Welcome home!" everyone said.

"Sorry, we entered without asking," mentioned Wendy.

"My room!" exclaimed Lucy. "What are you doing here!?"

"We came to play," Natsu said.

"Aye!" Happy added.

Lucy looked at them with a plain face, she wondered why everyone was in her apartment, but what worried her was that now it was going to be more difficult for Sora to open up, since they were many people around. Erza walked to Lucy and started to whisper something in the blonde's ear.

"Mira told us what you were going to do, so we came here to help," Erza whispered.

"Don't you think that it's will be more complicated if we're all here?" asked Lucy, without raising her voice.

"Sorry, everyone was curious about that guy called Pete and I couldn't convince them to go to the guild," said the redhead.

Lucy was still doubtful, she didn't know how they were going to do it, but maybe they could come up with something. Now she was going to offer the boy a drink, then she would try to bring up the subject.

"I suppose you're all here because you want to know about what happened yesterday, right?" Sora said and the others looked at him slack-jawed.

"We got busted," Gray said.

"He's really perceptive," Happy mentioned.

"What do you expect?" Carla asked. "It was obvious that he was going to realize that we were going to ask him about it after seeing that we're all here."

"You don't mind?" Erza asked.

"Nah, I knew that you were going to ask me about Pete sooner or later," Sora replied, "so I talked with Master about it."

"Great, we're all ears!" Natsu said, the others sat down and looked attentively at the Keyblade wielder.

"All right, I'll try to be brief," Sora said as he sat down too and put Plue on the floor. "I've already told you about Pete, he's just someone who causes troubles to other worlds. The name he was going to say before I shut him up was Xehanort."

"Who is he exactly?" asked Lucy.

"As you know, there are other worlds that have problems with the Heartless," Sora said and they nodded. "Basically, he is responsible for putting at risk the worlds' safety and my biggest enemy."

The mages didn't look very surprised since they expected that answer; however they wanted to know more about Xehanort.

"I take that he's really strong," Erza said. "What kind of warrior is he?"

"Xehanort is a Keyblade Master," answered the spiky boy and his friends looked dumbfounded at him. That was something that they didn't expect and took them by surprise, someone like Sora was the one causing troubles to innocent people and that was hard to assimilate, although the only thing that Xehanort and Sora had in common is that they can use a Keyblade, nothing more.

"Wait, did you say "Master"?" Lucy asked and Sora nodded. "What's the difference between a normal wielder and a master?

"The same difference between a mage and an S-Class one, I guess," Sora said and the mages started to get nervous.

"Sora-san, you are a Keyblade Master too, right?" Wendy asked nervously.

"Nope, I took the exam to become one, but I failed," Sora said nonchalantly which worried the others. "But, hey, it's just a title so don't worry. There will be a battle against Xehanort soon and I'll make sure to make him pay for what he has been doing."

Sora's confidence reassured the mages, you could tell that he was more than determined to defeat Xehanort, but, as expected, they wanted to help him.

"Hey, how about we lend you a hand?" Natsu asked but Sora crossed his arms, forming an "x".

"Sorry, but none of you can intervene in this," said the Keybearer which surprised them. "I can't take you out of your world, besides you have to stay here to protect Earth Land in case something happens."

"Not even one of us?" Gray asked and Sora shook his head.

"You better win, then," Natsu said. "Not just as a Keyblade wielder, but as a Fairy Tail Mage too."

"Losing is not part of my plan," Sora said while smiling

"There's one more thing, but I'm not sure if I want to know," Lucy commented. Sora immediately understood that the Celestial Mage wanted to know why Pete said that he thought Sora was dead.

"Oh, about that…" Sora said. "Before coming here, I was in another world helping to defeat the Heartless and Xehanort decided to pay me a visit. I had some problems there and he beat me up really hard, however thanks to the friends I made there I could solve it and return him the beating, but he escaped and I couldn't go after him."

"So you won against him once, huh?" Gray said. "That's great, you just have to do it again and everything will be fine."

"We'll see," Sora said with a nervous smile. "It was his younger self, but I guess that counts."

"Thanks for trusting us, Sora-san," said a happy Wendy.

"Yeah, this has been easier than I thought," Erza said. "I was thinking of ways to make you talk."

"That sounded scary, you know?" Lucy said with a scared expression.

"I wonder if some day we could go to other worlds," Happy mentioned.

"We've been in Edolas, remember?" Carla said.

"Oh, it's true," Sora said, "Master told me that you've been in a world that is a parallel version of yours."

"That's right," said the blue cat. "I wonder if there's an Edo-Sora in the other Fairy Tail."

"He's not from Earth Land so I don't think so," Erza said.

"How do you think Edo-Sora would be?" Natsu asked Lucy and she started to imagine it.

"Well, he would have the same face, maybe a different hair color and probably he would be evil with a dark personality," Lucy said.

"Now you're the one saying scary thing, Lucy," Happy said and Sora laughed, although, for some reason, Lucy's description reminded him of someone, but he didn't know who.

"All right, now that all is clear, we should get a good sleep," the redhead mage said. "Some towns could need our help tomorrow."

The next day, Natsu and Happy ran to the guild to see if there were more requests for Sora, they were eager to go on another mission. They went to Lucy's house before going to Fairy Tail of course, thing that she didn't like but couldn't do anything about it and she ended up going with them. When they arrived the Dragon Slayer went directly to the board and saw that there were some requests for the Keyblade wielder. Gray was also there, looking at the board and next to him there was Lucy who was talking with Levy about what happened in her house yesterday.

"So, he ended up telling you everything and you didn't even need to ask," Levy said surprised and her friend nodded. "I don't know about Xehanort but surely Sora will be able to achieve what he has set his mind to."

"I agree," Lucy said as she looked at the Request Board. "Today I wanted to keep writing my novel, but it looks like Sora has some requests now."

"I was hoping that the Heartless didn't attack today either," said Gray, who listened the blonde mage. "I wanted to fight against Sora again, I have the feeling that he wasn't going all out yesterday."

"At least you guys work with him a lot, I only worked with him once," Levy said.

"Ah, you have grown fond of Sora, huh?" Lucy said teasingly.

"Cut that out, you are starting to act like Mirajane," said a flustered Levy. "Besides, I-"

"What is it?" asked Lucy.

"Nothing, forget it," said the bluenette.

While the mages talked, a man with a bag entered the guild. He was the courier who people used to send the request to different guilds and take the ones who are already fulfilled. He approached Mirajane and gave her some requests and told her that the ones who were for Sora were already done which surprised the people who heard him.

"Someone already protected those towns?" Lucy asked in disbelief.

"Did Sora travel alone again?" Gray asked Wendy since the last time she was the one who knew that Sora left, but the girl shook his head.

"I don't think so," Erza said. "I saw him talking with Juvia in Fairy Hills before I came to the guild."

"That makes me nervous for some reason," thought the Ice Mage. "Then who could have done it?"

"Oh, you don't know?" asked the courier. "Lamia Scale and Blue Pegasus have Keyblade wielders in their ranks now. I heard that they're looking for your Keyblade wielder so you will see them soon."

"WHAT!?" everyone in the guild exclaimed and Master Makarov spat out his drink.

"That's right," said someone and everyone looked at the entrance of the building to see that the one who spoke was Lyon Vastia from Lamia Scale. He was with his team and the Trimens were also there.

"Lyon," Gray said surprised. "What are you doing here?"

"Ichiya…" Erza added.

"As you know," Lyon began as he walked to his rival, "Lamia Scale has a Keyblade wielder too and he was looking for Sora, so we escorted him up here and. We encountered with the Mages of Blue Pegasus when we arrived here."

"Now three guilds of Fiore have Keyblade wielders," Ichiya said. "However, I have to say that ours has the best parfum."

"Sooo, where are they?" Lucy asked.

"It looks like our Keyblade wielder knows the one of Blue Pegasus," Sherry said. "They've been arguing about some kind of accident."

"Look, there they are," Hibiki said, looking at the entrance.

The people of Fairy Tail looked at the entrance of their guild and they saw two teens, a boy with short silver hair and a redhead girl.

"I'm just saying that it wasn't my fault," said the boy.

"Anyway, you're not driving anymore," the girl retorted.

"They look about the same age as Sora," Lucy said.

"So, who of the two is yours?" Gray asked Lyon.

"The boy, his name is Riku and let me say that he could be stronger than Sora," Lyon said proudly.

"How can they be so strong!?" shouted Toby and Yuka told him to calm down.

"Riku…" Happy mused.

"You heard about him before?" asked Carla.

"I think Sora mentioned that name when he slept in our house," the cat answered.

"Then the girl is in Blue Pegasus," Lucy said looking at the redhead. "What's her name?"

"She's Kairi, an amazing fighter and a real beauty," Ichiya said which left the Mages of Fairy Tail astonished.

"So she's Kairi," Lucy said. "Sora's going to be very happy to see her."

"She's really pretty," Mirajane commented.

"Sora wasn't joking when he said that she looked a bit like Erza," said Levy.

"I hope you three haven't been trying anything with her," said Erza, looking at the Trimens with a deadly glare.

"We didn't, don't worry," Eve said, trying to calm Erza.

Riku and Kairi finished their arguing and went to where their teams were. The two were looking around but couldn't spot their spiky friend.

"Hey, Lyon," Riku spoke, "I don't see Sora around here."

"Oh, right, do you know where he is?" the Ice Mage asked the Fairy Tail team.

"He should be here soon," Levy said and then she saw the brown-haired Keybearer crossing the guild's front door. "Speaking of the devil, there he is."

When Sora entered the guild, he couldn't believe what he saw, his two best friends were right there, looking at him and smiling. He walked towards them, still looking at them in disbelief and when he was near the group, Kairi spoke.

"Sora, I'm-" she stopped talking because the spiky boy started to pull her cheeks. "What are you doing?"

"Checking that you're the real Kairi, because I still don't believe that you two are here," replied the boy and the people in the room sweat-dropped.

"I see that you haven't changed a bit," Riku said.

"Of course we're here, silly," Kairi said, then she hugged Sora and he returned it with one hand while he used the other to fist bump with Riku.

All the mages couldn't help but smile at the happy reunion; it was obvious that those three were close to each other so they were glad for them. Makarov mentioned that it was incredible that three Keyblade wielders were in Fiore at the same time, but he knew that it was good for the kingdom. After introducing his friends to the Fairy Tail crew, Sora asked Riku and Kairi why they were in Fiore.

"Well, we wanted to get out of the tower a little," Riku replied, "and Kairi missed you."

"Why did you have to say that!?" asked a blushing Kairi. "I only wanted to know that he was all right after what happened."

"What do you mean?" Sora asked puzzled.

"Yen Sid told us about what happened in your last mission," Riku told him and Sora started to get really nervous.

"Oh, you…ah…" Sora didn't know what to say, but fortunately, Yen Sid didn't know exactly what happened in Death City or, at least, he didn't tell Riku and Kairi everything.

"He told us that you fought against young Xehanort and he beat you up," Riku said with a serious expression, but then it turned into one of satisfaction. "But, he also told us that you returned the beating and won against him."

"Right…" Sora said. "It seems that they don't know about the other thing."

"You're fine, right?" Kairi asked Sora, she was concerned about the boy and wanted to know if he was completely fine.

"Of course, I'm perfectly fine," he assured. "I see that you two joined a guild too."

"Oh, yeah," Riku began, "the man called Lyon told me that you joined a Mages Guild called Fairy Tail and I thought that it would be fun to do the same. Besides, it was easier to find you this way."

"I thought the same thing," Kairi said.

"I'm not sure if I like that she's in Blue Pegasus, but I won't say anything," Sora thought. "How is that you two ended up in different guilds?"

"You see…" Riku began but Kairi interrupted him, she told Sora that Riku didn't know how to pilot the King's Gummi Ship and they ended up in different places.

"I thought I taught you how to pilot a Gummi Ship," Sora said.

"Yes, but the King's was different from yours," Riku explained. "Anyway, I don't want to talk about it anymore. How is the situation around here?"

"Heartless pouring from everywhere, but I managed to keep the attacks under control with their help," Sora said, pointing at Team Natsu. "And we encountered with Pete."

"Then Maleficent is also behind this invasion," Riku deduced and Sora nodded in agreement.

"Well, with the three of us this should be a piece of cake," Kairi commented. "Now we can cover more ground and protect more towns at the same time."

"Sounds good to me," Riku said and then he looked at his new team. "We'll have to do the same thing we did before coming here, would you lend me a hand?"

"Of course, you don't even have to ask," Lyon said with a smile on his face.

"Kairi-san, we'll help you to defeat the Heartless too," Ichiya said and Kairi thanked him.

"It looks like we have competition," Gray said looking at the three Keybearers.

"This is amazing!" Wendy exclaimed. "With the help of Sora-san's friends, our world will be saved in no time!"

"It's a pity that they will have to work separated, now that they are reunited," Lucy said.

"It was their decision, we can't do anything about it," Erza said, smiling a bit.

"By the way, I'm surprised that you could defeat young Xehanort after taking a beating from him," Riku said with admiration. "You've become stronger."

"Well, what do you expect?" Sora said with a bit of cockiness.

"But you're still a sap," Riku added.

"Oh, yeah?" said Sora. "Well, this sap is the one who defeated you several times back in the island."

"Really?" said the Keyblade Master. "If I'm not mistaken, I defeated you more times."

A tense silence covered the room, Riku and Sora were staring to each other and then they started to stand up.

"Uh oh," Levy said.

"Don't tell me they're going to fight," Lucy said.

"Don't even think about it," Kairi said and the boys stopped.

"What? We haven't done anything," Sora said.

"I know that look on your faces, you two were going to fight right here," Kairi stated.

The people in the guild were impressed at the girl; she stopped the two boys from fighting just by saying a few words. Then Mirajane let out a small laugh caused by what just happened.

"It's like seeing a reflection of you three," she said, looking at Erza, Natsu and Gray.

"Do you think so?" Erza said.

"I can see it, too," Lucy said, laughing a little.

"Aww, I would have liked to see them fighting," Natsu said.

"I have to agree with you there," Gray said.

"If you want to fight, do it outside," Kairi told them.

"Wait, are you serious?" asked Sora and Riku in disbelief.

"Sure, I could learn a few tricks if I watch you," Kairi said with a smile on her face. "Besides, you will end up fighting sooner or later."

"What do you say?" Riku asked Sora.

"Let's do it," replied the spiky boy with decision.

"They're going to fight after all…" Levy said.

"Master, shouldn't we stop them?" asked a worried Wendy.

"I'd rather not interfere in a battle between Keyblade wielders," Makarov said. "Besides, I'm curious to see who will be the winner."

"I think it's a great idea," Lyon commented. "You'll see how strong Lamia Scale's Keyblade wielder is, Gray."

"You seem to be very confident," Gray said, crossing his arms. "I wouldn't look down on Sora, Lyon."

"Ah, now I remember," Happy said and everyone looked at him. "Sora said that Riku was his best friend and that he was a Keyblade Master."

"It's true, I remember that too," Natsu said and then he also remembered what Sora said about Keyblade Masters the last night. "Oh…"

"That fight is going to end sooner than expected…" Carla said.

"I don't know," Lucy said. "Sora looked really confident."

"Yeah, as confident as Natsu when he asks Gildarts or Erza for a fight," Happy said.

"Hey!" the Fire Dragon Slayer exclaimed.

"Anyway, I think Sora is going to win," Gray stated. "As he said, it's just a title and if he took that exam, it means that his level must be the same as Riku's."

"However, we haven't seen Riku in action," Erza told him. "But I'm with you; I think Sora will be victorious, he isn't someone who would give up easily and I'd really like to see him fighting seriously."

"Wait, what do you mean?" Lucy asked confused.

"Come on, do you really think that he was going all out against the Heartless?" Gray asked. "The only time we could have seen him using all his power was when he fought Gajeel, but Master stopped them before it happened."

"He could have protected all those towns on his own," said Erza, "but I guess he prefers to work in a team."

"I think you're right," Lucy said, looking at Sora and then he turned his gaze to the other members of Team Natsu. "We'll have to root for him, then."

"Let's hope they don't destroy the town," said the white cat.

That's all for now, Riku and Kairi found Sora and joined a guild like him. The classic Sora vs. Riku will take part in the next chapter, although it's more like Fairy Tail vs. Lamia Scale, to see who has the strongest Keyblade wielder. I hope you liked the chapter, leave a review if you want and see you in the next one.