Midnight Serenade
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Midnight Serenade ~
Chapter 18: The World of Twilight
We followed we followed YinSid outside his enormous tower and went around the back.
"Did we see this on the Virtual Map?" Falco asked.
I shook my head.
"The map I created with N.I.C.O.L.E only showed limited areas that are important, but the longer we stay here and explore; the map of this world, and any other world we head to, will gradually expand out." I replied.
"I get it … But will it also show hidden items or marked areas that are important, like: 'Go to this place to face the villain!' or something close to that." Roy said.
I giggled from how he used his dramatic voice, he kinda sounded like Ike when he did that.
"Yes Roy. Also the virtual map is also portable, meaning that I can bring it up from my phone or anything I have that has a small card holder." I spoke.
"A card holder?" Sora brought up.
I took out what looked like an SD card, only smaller.
"Oh, ok then." Sora spoke as I placed it back into my hand-made headphones.
"So it has to be that tiny thing?" Ike asked.
The look on his face; he looked at it as if it was gonna lunge at him.
"Yes. But if anything technological doesn't require this, then I'll have to use N.I.C.O.L.E to hack into the system." I said.
"Hacking …" Sora said.
"?" I was puzzled by that.
"Since when can you do that?" Falco asked.
"I learned how from a friend of mine, it's not really that hard." I replied.
"I don't mean to interrupt, but we arrived." YinSid said.
We all looked forward to see the building we were gonna stay in for now. It looked like a fancy hotel for only those who wish to learn from YinSid.
"Wow." Diggs spoke in awe.
"Pretty fancy." Karin spoke, speaking as if she had a lisp (which she doesn't really).
"Did this hurt your budget at all?" Ryuo asked.
YinSid looked down at him.
"Why would you ask me something like that?" YinSid asked.
"Just curious." Ryuo replied.
"Of course not, I created it with a flick of my wrist after-all." YinSid spoke as almost everyone was amazed.
'He created that building, all by himself? Well, I can believe him since he's got quite an aura, let alone that his magic is too strong.' Spoke my mind as he led the way inside.
We all followed after him, seeing every bit of this place.
It had a lot of space, let alone that he had fancy furniture and items. This place was like a million dollar mansion.
"The rooms are upstairs; theirs about seven floors, each floor has individual rooms. This is the only main living room, dining room and kitchen." YinSid said.
We were in awe, even I couldn't speak.
"Even the restrooms?" Roach asked.
"Of course, each floor has three bathrooms; they all have signs on them." YinSid answered.
As soon as he said that, Roach scrambled up to the first floor … I guess he had to go really badly.
"Alright, we better go to our rooms and sleep, it's getting late anyway." Riku said.
We all agreed and picked our own rooms; almost everyone stayed in the first floor, the rest stayed on the second floor.
I managed to get a room in the first floor. I placed my bag down and looked out the window…
The sun was nearly gone as night slowly covered the whole sky.
I sighed deeply before turning away and letting my hair hang down, it reached down to my knees.
I lay down on the bed and just looked up at the ceiling.
'I wonder what's going to happen now…' spoke my mind as my eyes began to close on their own.
Soon I fell into a deep sleep…
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I was now lost in my own dreams … in my own realm as I laid there all covered up and warm.
Darkness greeted me in my sleep … But why? Why must Darkness seek me out in my dreams and whenever I'm alone … They're nothing here, in my little realm of slumber, that is important …
"[… Home is behind …
The world ahead …]" An unknown voice sang out in the darkness.
'Who…? Who is singing?' Spoke my mind as I stirred a little in my sleep.
"[And there are many paths to tread …]" The unknown voice sang once again, ignoring me.
'I have to see who is singing that song …' spoke my mind as I slowly opened my eyes to see nothing but darkness; I blinked more than once to see if I did open them.
I sat up and looked around to notice that I wasn't in the room anymore.
I was surrounded my darkness, even the bed and the sheets I was in was gone. The only thing that was there was an enormous Cherry Blossom tree, this tree had long white drapes that was hanging and wrapped around the branches. The area I was in was slowly covered by many pink petals.
"[Through shadow …
To the Edge of Night …]" The voice sang as its voice echoed.
"!" I looked around to see no one, and then a single long trace of colored wind, which almost looked like smoke, wrapped around me and began to take form of a circle … it then began to show the illusion of stars in the midnight sky.
I was in awe from this.
"[Until the stars are all alight …Mist and Shadow…]"
Soon it began to show various images …
One showed an odd world that was slightly covered in darkness, but a large mountain stood tall in the distance. For a second there, I thought the mountain moved … Must be seeing things.
It then showed another world, this one showed a small city … it looked like Paris. Bu the whole place was all in flames … My eyes shrank as it then showed a man who looked like a judge, he looked evil an corrupted as he held a sword in one hand and looked over his shoulder to see a couple teenagers all looming and protecting one person…
No … they weren't regular teenagers …
It was us … We were protecting Riku who was badly hurt.
"[Cloud and shade …]" The voice sang out.
"!" I was shocked by this as I couldn't look away from this.
The man sneered and charged at us, the image of me saw this and immediately charged to him with a sword in hand. The image and that man swung and clashed swords many times as Riku tried to move his wounded arm.
"Ally no! Don't do this, you're already hurt as it is!" Sora shouted as she kept going, clashing her sword upon his and dodging his attacks.
She swung at him and hit his arm; he staggered back and dropped the sword as he held his wounded arm in pain. She quickly spun around and made her way back to the others.
"Riku, are you okay?" She asked him as he only nodded. She smiled and ran back to him.
"! Ally, no!" Someone shouted as she looked up to that person.
'That voice! …' spoke my mind.
"RUN!" Oz shouted loudly as the man was suddenly behind her and slashed at her back.
I gasped at this as I watched in horror, the image of me lean over and slam onto the ground on her side, it winced in pain as blood began to seep out of the side she landed hard on.
"ALLY!" Oz shouted as the whole image began to fade away.
I was still terrified by that …
'Was that … A vision?' spoke my mind. 'But ... why was Oz there? I thought he was still in the Abyss? ...'
"[All shall fade…]" The voice sang.
I began to cover my ears in horror with my bare hands.
"No more, stop singing..." I said out loud as I tightly closed my eyes, I felt the tears slowly emerging.
"[All shall…]"
"STOP IT!" I screamed out.
"Stop what?" Spoke a new voice from behind me. My eyes snapped open from this as I turned around to see a boy with light ash brown hair and wore a light violet collared shirt, dark grey jeans and white sneakers.
I slapped my hand over my heart (intentionally) and sighed in relief. I looked away from him and calmed down.
"I – It's nothing … I'm sorry for shouting out like that." I spoke at last to the male teen.
"It's alright, but did you have a nightmare? Or perhaps a flash back?" He asked.
"Huh?" I howled in wonder. That was the one statement I did not want to say, really. I mean I know my mind was trying to figure out what the hell I just saw, but still ... I should've said something else.
The teen chuckled to my response, which made my heart curl up in excitement and skip a beat. I didn't know if I was losing it or I was just being a girl. I sharply looked back to him, my hair whipped around behind me as my face began to burn up slowly.
"To put it simple really; maybe you're having flash backs of either your past or pieces of the future … But I could be wrong about that." He said.
I removed my hand over my heart and looked at the lines on my palm. Perhaps I was seeing things?
-B-BMP!-
"Ally, no! RUN!" Oz's voice screamed as the flashback of me running toward my friends and was blindingly attacked from behind in the burning world of Paris …
-B-BMP!-
I held my head in pain from that flash back.
'Was that … A vision?' spoke my mind. 'But … Who was singing back then?' Spoke my mind in wonder as I let go of my head and looked around.
"Where am I anyway?" I asked out loud.
"This is Traverse Town … Well, another Traverse Town I mean." The male teen replied.
"!" I looked over to him and saw that he was a little angered by this but was very calm.
"Another Traverse Town? Is that … even possible?" I asked.
"It only happens if someone tends to mess with time, perhaps maybe trying to make a real world and a fake world." He spoke.
"A real world … and the fake world" I spoke out.
"Oh I'm sorry; I forgot to tell you my name." I spoke out as he slightly looked over to me.
"My name Is Alyssa Sakura Starheart, but everyone calls me 'Ally'." I spoke.
He smiled. "Nice to meet you Ally. My name is Yoshiya Kiryu. But mother and father call me Joshua, so I guess you can call me that too, hehe~" Joshua spoke.
I smiled back to him.
"Now, what's a nice girl like you doing in a distorted world like this?" Joshua asked.
"I was going to ask you the same thing. Well, to answer your question, I'm –"
Just as I was going to answer, my body began to glow in multiple colors. Joshua saw this and took a step back.
"Ally?" Joshua called out.
"What the? What's going on?" I spoke out.
My legs suddenly gave out as I fell onto my knees. That's when I noticed that my body was slowly turning into tiny stars and small pink petals.
My eyes widened from this.
'! This is just like when I was being separated from Oz.' spoke my mind.
"Not this again!" I shouted.
"Ally, are you … not from this world?" Joshua asked.
I looked over to him and nodded.
"I am not from this world … The reason why I'm here is because all this is a dream, possibly. But my main goal right now is not to dwell in sorrow, I have to be brave and carry on … I have to find my friends who have been captured by evil and tossed away to other worlds, I have to stop the evil that is coming. Let alone that my memories have to be found as well…" I spoke out.
Joshua breathed in and walked over to me, I saw this.
"!" I quickly stood up, ignoring the fact that I was starting to fade away.
"Joshua no, don't come any closer! You'll get hurt by my power!" I said as I held out my left arm and tried to stop him, but he kept coming.
I'm not afraid. I might be able to help you." He spoke.
He was now up close to me as I brought my arm back.
"I don't think you can, as you can see I'm almost gone…" I said as we both saw that the lower part of my legs was gone, let alone that the bottom part of my hair was slowly fading. So at this point I was floating.
"But you're still here, so I can still try to help you out." Joshua said.
"On what exactly? Keeping me here?" I asked.
"No."
"Huh?" I howled in puzzlement.
"I meant on helping you on your journey." He said.
"!"
Joshua reached out his hand to me as I looked at it dumbly.
"I know you might need all the help you can get on this journey, that's why I'm going to help you out." Joshua said as he patiently waited for me to reach out.
I did so seconds later as a tiny bit of my power quickly emerged and went to him; he didn't react in pain, but I also saw that he was slightly glowing, but his was a plain white light. Was I doing that?
Soon his light went to me as I felt a strong surge of what felt like the heavens' light … but also the work of Control … Perhaps being a leader?
My pendent suddenly reacted and caused a small explosion of light, this not only hurt Joshua and I but that got rid of my thighs and half of my lower midriff area.
"!" I gasped from this as Joshua ignored the pain and still held on.
"I hope this works out…" I spoke out as I stopped the connection.
"It will." Joshua said.
We both let go as I immediately checked my left arm for any damage; I was bleeding from where Joshua's light wrapped around my arm.
"Sorry." He spoke.
"Nah, it's ok. I'm fine." I replied as I waited for the time to come.
Soon I was starting to fade much faster.
"I hope I get to see you again." I said to him.
"Perhaps. But who knows, it might just happen." Joshua said. "I'll also let a couple of my friends know of this too." He brought up as I nodded in agreement.
"Ah, there you are!"
"? … !"
I looked over to see a boy with bright orange spiky hair, wore a purple tank top shirt that had what looked like a giant stretched out turtle neck that covered his mouth and neck, white long shorts and purple shoes. He wore headphones over his ears; I'm guessing that he loves music.
"Oh, hi Neku." Joshua spoke out, Neku came over and had a pissed off look on his face.
"What the hell – You didn't tell me that you going to head to the 3rd District! It took me at least an –" Neku stopped and noticed me who was still floating and fading away before his eyes.
" …. " Neku blinked and stared at me for a good five seconds.
"… Should I ask what the hell is going on here?" Neku asked.
"This is Ally, Neku. She's from another world that just happened to drop by." Joshua spoke.
"An outsider?" Neku brought up.
"For now though, she's about to leave in a bit." Joshua spoke.
"I'm sorry, I wish I could stay much longer, but I can't." I spoke.
"Ah, don't worry. We don't need a wimpy girl like you here." Neku said.
I jolted up and gasped from this.
"How dare you say that to me! I hope you know that I am a High-Class Leader of the Freedom Fighters, who doesn't hesitate to kill."
"Oh how shocking, I'm trembling in fear." Neku teased. This struck a nerve.
"Neku, stop it. She's not kidding, I felt her power." Joshua spoke. Neku huffed.
"Oh really? Was it weak?" Neku spoke.
I snarled at him as my left arm began to shake, I closed my eyes and lowered my head a little.
"Aw, what are you doing to do to me? Strike me?" Neku asked.
I looked up and opened my eyes seconds later; my eye color wasn't a blue violet color anymore … it was now a golden yellow, and looked almost cat like.
"!" Neku jolted up from this.
I quickly lifted my left arm up and snapped my fingers.
Seconds later, a huge bolt of lightning struck down dangerously close to him, making him jump back and land on his butt. The smoke went away as a huge crater from where the bolt struck was left.
"Whoa—!" Neku spoke out.
"That was only a warning … and to be honest, I can unleash five to maybe ten lightning bolts, just like that one, in a heartbeat." I spoke.
"I can wipe out an entire army with just a flick of a wrist or with only a snap. But honestly, I don't want to take an innocent life. The things I'm only after are monsters called Heartless and Primids. Any other monsters that are a part of the journey I'm on will also be killed. So please don't get on my bad side." I said to him as he got up.
"Alright then, I won't." Neku replied as my eye color came back and I stopped my power.
I sighed deeply and looked at myself.
Now it was up to my ribcage. And my long hair was also catching up.
"Hey, can you guys do me a favor?" I asked.
"Sure, what kind of favor?" Joshua asked.
" … My memories must be somewhere around the world you're in … They're in a shape of a star, it can fit into your palm, so it's very small. But don't take it for yourself, or else you'll be corrupted by the power. You can tell when it's nearby through your heart, it'll be warm and would try to bring you in. when you find it, try to catch it and keep it safe." I said.
"How can we get it?" Neku asked.
"You can catch it with a jar. But don't use a net; it'll burn straight through it."
"Alright then, we can do that." Joshua said.
"Thank you." I said to them before finally fading away.
I didn't want to leave yet … But I couldn't stop this power…
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I opened my eyes and noticed that I was back in my room.
I sat up and rubbed my forehead.
-KNOCK- -KNOCK-
"Ally? You awake?" It was Rika.
I got up and opened the door. "Yeah I'm up." I replied.
"YinSid needs us." She said.
"Oh, ok then." I spoke. Just as I said that, YinSid's magic took Rika away.
"!" I gasped from this and immediately closed the door.
Thinking that I was safe … YinSid's magic also came back and gotten me as well.
"Aw, crap." I muttered before I was taken away.
I felt discombobulated as I was suddenly brought over to where he was; I collapsed onto the ground in my night clothes. Not only that, but my allies were already there before me. Oh how embarrassing.
Ryuo and Diggs were cracking up from this as I got up. I went over to them and slapped them, they fell silent after that.
"Alright, you got me. What did you need?" I asked.
"I brought you all here because I have gifts for The Freedom Fighters." YinSid said.
"A gift?" Dimentio spoke.
"What kind of gift?" Diggs brought up.
He snapped his fingers and brought out what looked like Sterling and Gold Pieces of Armor along with slip on bracelets that had a different colored jewel on each individual bracelet.
"Eh?" Karin howled.
"These are the gifts." YinSid said as the group came over to the large desk and looked at them.
"You can only take two armor Pieces and the matching bracelet that has your colored jewel." YinSid said.
"Why give bracelets to the guys?" I asked as I took a Sterling Silver shoulder blade piece and a sterling silver chest plate that only covers my chest (but not my ribcage), and grabbed the bracelet that had the multi-colored jewel on it.
"Because those bracelets has a spell on it. The spell itself was from me, it actually stores your weapons in the jewel whenever you want to." YinSid replied.
"Thanks." Ryuo replied. "We'll get over it anyway." Keiichi said as he already put on his armor on along with the bracelet that was worn on his right wrist.
"Those who use both arms to call out weapons have an extra bracelet." YinSid brought up as I noticed another bracelet for me. I grabbed it and kept both on my wrists.
"Now for the Armor…" I brought up as Rika tied up the chest armor for me in the back.
"Those pieces of armor were created from me just for you." YinSid said as he continued. "This armor is different compared to other armor; this is Evolving Armor, meaning that it evolves once you individually experience more and use your power wisely. If you try to hurt your ally or play around only, it will either back fire at you or fade." YinSid explained.
"Makes sense." Kamui spoke.
"As for your clothes, you will need to see the three fairies that are in the dressing room; besides," YinSid spoke. "Fighting in your summer clothes doesn't go well with the armor, even if you're wearing your night clothes." He said.
"!" I blushed from this and looked away. "Sorry." I muttered.
We made our way to the dressing room to meet them.
"Why hello there; Heroes of Light." Spoke the lady in red.
"If you're looking for clothes, you've come to the right place." Spoke the lady in blue.
"I'll do the designing!" the lady in green said as we all headed inside and was ready for new outfits.
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-SHINNNE-
"Oh wow! Thanks." Chiharu squealed as she headed over to the others who were already in their new clothes.
"You're welcome." Spoke the fairy lady in green.
"Okay, you're the last one." Spoke the fairy lady in red as I took a step forward.
"Okay, I'm ready." I spoke as the lady in green was the first to make a move.
She flicked her wand and …
-POOF!-
"Eeekk!" I shrieked.
I was in a kimono. Not a good start, as usual.
"Oops, wrong outfit." She spoke.
Then the lady in blue was next.
-POOF!-
"Eeep!" I shrieked.
I was now in a dress. Nope.
"Oh my, you put her in a dress. That won't do." Spoke the lady in red as she flicked her wand.
-POOF!-
I was now in a two piece bathing suit.
The guys except Kamui, Travis, Marth and the other mature guys, drooled from this.
"Oh this would get your attention, as usual." I spoke sarcastically.
"Perverts!" Chiharu shrieked as she lightly hit Ryuo on his shoulder.
-POOF!-
"Nope."
-POOF!-
"Try again."
-POOF!-
"Aww, it's cute. But no."
-POOF!-
"…"
-POOF!-
-POOF!-
"There, that's better." Spoke the lady in green.
I looked at myself in the mirror:
I wore a short two buttoned sleeveless shirt piece that only covered my upper chest area, underneath that was a blue tight strapless shirt that had two black thick straps stitched right onto the strapless blue shirt, the shirt covered my chest and stopped right in between my midriff. My armor and the two bracelets were I had them; the shoulder blade armor on my left and my two bracelets on both my wrists. Half of my skinny midriff was showing, but I don't mind. I wore a white short but stretchy skirt (really good to run in, which is bad for me but I'm okay with that) and white knee high small-heeled shoes.
"This is prefect, thank you so much." I said. Soon YinSid entered into the room.
"Ah, I see you're all ready to go then." YinSid spoke.
"Yes sir." Sora said.
"I must let you know; the worlds have returned to their original states. So the pathway to the worlds has disappeared once again." YinSid brought up.
I looked over to Sora who frowned but looked up to YinSid.
"But do not fear, you will have to find Special Gates in order to find the pathway to the worlds." YinSid said.
"It's the same like last time, and my keyblade will be the guide…" Sora spoke.
"That is correct." YinSid said. "But the Heartless and the Primids will be using their own path; they may link their pathways to the gates as well." YinSid spoke.
"It's alright; we'll get rid of them." I spoke.
"That is all the information I can give you. Go forth, Heroes of the Light! Everyone is waiting." YinSid said as we all nodded and hurried off to the ship.
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I hooked a blue belt over my shirt, unbuttoned the sleeveless shirt and adjusted the chest plate.
"Okay, where to?" I asked Sora, who was driving the ship.
"Let's try to go to your world, is that alright with you?" Sora asked.
"Sure." I replied as we set the directions and put it on auto-pilot.
"Hey! Why did you put it on Auto-Pilot? I was driving!" Sora asked.
"So that you don't have to damage my well-made creation, that's my answer." I replied.
"But I'm the Key-Blade Master" Sora brought up.
"I don't care who you are! No!" I shouted.
"Don't let him drive; he's still working on his piloting skills." Riku spoke, butting into the conversation.
"Riku!" Sora shouted. Riku laughed.
"That's good enough for me." I spoke as Sora lowered his head in defeat.
-Meanwhile …-
"I hate that mage soo much!" someone spoke angrily.
"Don't fret over it; he doesn't know what our little scheme is anyway." Maleficent spoke.
"We just need to think of something smarter anyway…" Spoke the green hedgehog.
"Well, they already fell for our little lie, so that worked." Bowser spoke.
"Let's just hope they don't go anywhere near our plans…" Hades spoke.
"Oh you don't have to worry about that for now." Someone spoke as the man came down and stood two feet away from Maleficent.
"Ah, you've arrived." Eggman spoke. "Back from that world Ganondorf?" Eggman asked.
He smiled evilly and nodded.
"They won't be even near our plans, not even close." Ganon said as he looked over to Eggman.
"Oh right, He's still there." Eggman spoke, remembering someone in the world that Ganondorf just left.
Eggman chuckled. "They'll have a surprised guest waiting for them huh?" Eggman asked.
"Indeed, especially since that world is now undergoing through a familiar event, Keheheh." Ganon laughed.
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"We're here!" Karin spoke as we arrived back home.
"Ah, home. Home sweet home." I muttered to myself as I brought up the world screen …
"Eh?" I howled as everyone saw the same thing I saw.
Part of the world had a dark shield; as if it wouldn't let anyone in.
"What happened here?" Ryuo shouted.
"What the hell! Who did this to our world?" Keiichi shouted.
"Dammit, they must have known that we left …" Griel spoke.
"Which means that they decided to block off half the world while we were gone." Shinon spoke.
I punched a nearby seat, nearly breaking it.
"Why? Why here? Why our world?" I brought up.
"Probably to piss us off." Ryuo spoke.
"Well, we gotta stop crying over it and find an entry way into that blocked area." Riku spoke as I moved the ship forward and looked for an entry spot.
I blinked and spotted one. "Over there." I said as I steered it right over the spot.
"Alright, so how many people can go now?" Diggs asked.
I brought up an information tab on the screen and looked at the list of how many people need to come.
"Wait … Was this information tab thing here, this whole time?" Falco asked.
"yeah." I replied.
"Why didn't we use it for the last couple worlds?" He asked.
"Because it wasn't finished loading yet." I replied.
"I thought you said that you had the fastest little gadgets in your world?" Falco brought up.
"We do. But when it comes to traveling to many worlds, that little connection comes and goes once a while. So this tab information on the worlds here has to have a good connection in order to do its job for us." I explained.
"I see…" Falco spoke.
"Huh?" Sora muttered as he looked at the screen, he looked at the number of members that need to be in this part of the world: only 11 people need to go.
"11 …" Sora muttered.
"That's not enough people." Karin spoke.
"Well, that's what it says, and we gotta follow it." I said as I walked over to the transporter area.
"Who's with me?" I asked out loud.
"I'll join you." Marth spoke. Roy followed behind him along with Ike, who only nodded to me.
"Same here." Link spoke as he, Dimentio and Dimentia followed.
"Wait for me!" Sora shouted as he charged over. Riku gave a silent nod to me; I smiled and nodded back to him. He came over as soon as I did that.
"I'm coming with you Ally, a girl like you should never be alone with all those boys around you. You never know what's going to happen to you the second they tag along." Zelda spoke as she made her way over to me.
"I'll be fine, besides, if anything happens, Riku's gonna be on my side." I brought up, getting Riku's attention.
"I might help you out, it just depends." Riku replied.
"Depends on what exactly?" I asked, placing my hands on my hips.
"If you won't become a total sap like someone I know." Riku spoke. Sora jumped a little from this.
"Say that again, I dare you." Sora spoke.
"AHEM. We need one last person to come along, who wants to be the last one?" I interrupted as the two stopped.
Pit then raised his hand. "I will." Pit spoke as he came over.
"Great." I replied as the transporter started to go.
"Time to go, bye guys." I spoke.
"See ya later!" Diggs said.
"Bring a souvenir!" Falco shouted.
I rolled my eyes as we were beamed out and straight down into the world.
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I looked around and saw all the little black particles that floated up to the golden yellow sky, this gotten my attention.
-Ziiimmm!-
"!" I placed my right hand on the side of my head as a dark presence was trying to get into my skin...
'What the..? What's happening to me?' Spoke my mind as I looked over to Ike, Dimentio, Dimentia, Marth, Pit and Riku who just arrived here... Nothing was happening to them, they weren't in pain at all; they're actually okay. But why am I in pain?
Dimentio looked around in awe, "Geez, what's wrong with this world?" He asked out.
Dimentia giggled, "Same as your face." She replied in a teasing tone. Dimentio glared over to her, but never said a word.
Soon Link and Zelda arrived in this world.
"!" Link gasped from this. "I know this place..." He began.
"This is ... The Hyrule Fields." Zelda said as she continued, "But ... it's covered in Twilight." She said.
"Something must have happened here while you guys were away." Sora brought up as I sighed deeply.
"Yet why aren't we changing into a twilight form?" Link asked as he looked around him.
"What do you mean? We're we suppose to look different in this 'Twilight'?" Roy asked.
"Yes, when I had to deal with this, I was turned into a Twilight wolf. Zelda however didn't change." Link explained.
"I don't think I have a twilight form." Zelda said.
-Ziimm!-
"!" I winced in pain as I still held my right hand on my head in agony.
"! Ally, what's wrong?" Riku asked. I looked up to him and saw that the same dark matter was now over him, but a faint purple light was protecting him.
"Something dark is trying to get in my head ..." I spoke out as he came over to me.
I looked over to the others and saw the same purple light protecting them, I couldn't help but look at myself; I too saw the same purple light around me, but mine was very faint.
'Who's protecting us? ... Is this person nearby?' Spoke my mind as Riku looked around.
"Eh? What's that over there?" Roy asked out as he pointed up north. What he was pointing at was what looked like a beast.
It looked like a werewolf; but only dark blue and green eyes.
"Eh?" I howled out as I noticed a good presence deep within it, but it was corrupted by all this twilight. Is it an ally?
Soon that werewolf beast was coming toward us very fast.
"!" I gasped and was the first to react.
"Watch out! Run!" I shouted as everyone suddenly split into two different directions; Marth, Ike, Roy, Link and Zelda ran to the West a little, while Sora, Riku, Pit, Dimentio and Dimentia ran to the East.
"Ally!" Ike shouted as I stood there in place. The beast charged at me, and just when it was close I quickly dodged to the left.
Soon that thing was only focused on me as it still charged at me. I quickly ran further from it as the chase began. It was like a Lion trying to catch its prey, a brave little lamb. But this little lamb was faster, but not for long.
I made sharp turns and jumped over random stone walls that were placed in this field, along with regular wooden fences, but that monster either both jumped over 'em or busted through them like a rhino.
I soon skidded to a halt and ran the opposite way; directly at the monster. Just as it lunged at me, I jumped over and onto its back for just a second. But something side-tracked me.
-B-BMP!-
"Stop running away from me! Help me get this thing out of me!" A voice shouted to me.
"!" My eyes widened from this as I jumped off and made a bad landing onto the ground; my knees were scrapped and bloody from the stone ground I was on, and my side was also in pain (landed on it by accident).
"Oh no!" Zelda cried out as the monster stood there before me and didn't make a move; it just stared at me as I slowly got up.
'That voice ...' spoke my mind as I looked at the beast. 'It came from that thing...' Spoke my mind as I looked over to it.
It didn't attack me or anything as it drew closer and closer to me.
My heart was still in a pace as I tried to calm down; I stared deeply into this monster's eyes as I bravely glared at it and slowly approached it.
End of Chapter 18
Preview of Chapter 19:
[Pandora Hearts OST - Turn]
Ally Starheart: in the next chapter, we discover that the beast is our ally - One of the smashers. Let alone that we meet a couple more people along the way, but what's this? Mewtwo's protecting us from the ship while we're down here? From what exactly? More importantly, how are we going to get this shield that's putting my world into Twilight?
Ally starheart: Roy, why are you freaking out?
Roy: oh don't mind me - I'm just learning that the next little dungeon area is a wide place ... But its surrounded by Boiling-Hot-Lava!
Link: That's the whole point to the dungeon Roy, to make it more tense for us heroes. Plus, it's next to Death Mountain.
Roy: That's not the whole point!
Ally starheart: That's true Roy, it is suppose to make the heroes tense up and become nervous sometimes.
-Arguing in the background-
Riku: ... * looks over to the readers * thank you for reading the Midnight Serenade Series, we hope to see to see you all read the next chapter that's in progress.
Riku: * points at the readers * Make sure you review this chapter and tell us what you think, if you like it or if there's any typos that the author made.
Sora: Thank you so much for reading guys, and we'll see you all later. Bye! :D
The song that plays in Ally's sleep is "Edge of Night" Sung my Pipin from the Lord of The Ring Series.
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