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Chapter 26: Epilogue

2 weeks later after the defeat of Organization XIII...

Fayt, Sophia, and Fayt's parents were all onboard a shuttle heading for home. Outside the window was the pinkish color of gravitic space. Fayt's parents were asleep, Sophia and Fayt were having a conversation.

"I feel kind of bad for Nel and the others, they have a lot of work on their hands thanks to the damage caused by Organization XIII," said Sophia.

"Yeah, the timing couldn't have been worse. 1 year after the Executioners on top of the war with Airyglyph and the Vendeeni attack," added Fayt.

"Do you think they will be alright?" Fayt nodded without having to put much thought into it.

"I think so. Within a year they had made quite a bit of progress, but now it will take many years before Aquaria is completely rebuilt. And I heard that Albel has quite a bit to do himself. But it seems that the damage in Aquaria was far off worse than in Airyglyph."

"I wish them the best of luck with rebuilding their kingdoms."

"They should be fine. Especially Aquaria since a certain someone is with them." Sophia nodded and looked out the window. About a minute or so later she looked back at Fayt.

"This was quite the interesting adventure, don't you think?" She asked.

"You got that right. Learning that Alex was still alive, finding out about that other universe, and meeting inhabitants of that universe... it isn't your average adventure," answered Fayt.

"Speaking of Alex, I wonder how he's doing."

"He's probably doing pretty well, even though he is starting a whole new life."

Meanwhile in Aquios...

Inside the throne room of the castle, Nel, Clair, and Luther bowed before the Queen.

"And that is what happened, Your Majesty," said Nel. The Queen opened her eyes.

"I see..." She said.

"Had the events of last year not happened I would find it hard to believe," commented Lasselle.

"So would I, but what's happened has happened. And now we must focus on rebuilding our kingdom... and it's strength," said the Queen.

"I saw the destruction that the Nobodies and Heartless had caused. It's worse than I had expected," said Nel.

"Had Luther not been there to take out the incoming army of those Nobody things, there wouldn't be an Arias. And I don't think I would be here right now," added Clair. The Queen looked at Luther.

"I must thank you for the work you have done for us. And we cannot thank you enough for bringing back the Sacred Orb." said the Queen.

"Your welcome, Your Majesty," said Luther. "I just did what was right. And in fact, as you may well be already aware of, I have sent in then papers for joining the Aquaria military."

"Yes, we received your application. Naturally, it was accepted. You will be under Lady Clair's command," said Lasselle.

"Thank you."

"You are all dismissed. Lady Nel, tomorrow you will have a mission to carry out. We will give you the details at that time," said the Queen.

"Yes, Your Majesty," said Nel. The three of them stood up and left the Throne Room. As they were walking, Adray came around the corner and walked towards them.

"Father? I thought you were out on a mission right now," said Clair.

"That's not until a few days from now," said Adray. He looked over at Luther. "So, did you make it in?"

"Yeah, they said that they didn't have to think about it," said Luther. Adray started laughing.

"What I tell ya? I told you that they wouldn't hesitate to recruit you," said Adray.

"That's because we don't have that many left," said Nel. Adray nodded.

"Yes, and numbers are very important." He looked over at his daughter and grinned. "And I bet that my little Clair is happy to have Luther under her command."

"F-father! What is that supposed to mean?" Asked Clair who seemed a little bit flustered at her Father's comment.

"And it's about time, especially at your age."

"Father! I thought I told you I would take care of THAT business!" Exclaimed Clair.

Meanwhile in Airyglyph Territory...

Albel was walking down a mountain passageway. He was coming back from his most recent mission, one that he had enjoyed

"And I was starting to worry that I wasn't going to get any interesting job any time soon. I'm glad this came about," said Albel as he looked around. He had been sent to take care of a dangerous monster, it did put up some fight. But that wasn't enough to take Albel down, not a chance in hell. At least it was better than that last time when he had to do chores like gathering firewood.

Out on the fields outside of Aquios...

Cliff and Maria were waiting at the specified place to be picked up by Lancar. The fields hadn't changed all that much through the chaos caused by Organization XIII. But they were much quieter.

"So you're coming after all, huh?" Asked Cliff as he looked over at Maria.

"Yes, I have decided to lie low for a little while. It's the only choice I have at this point," she said.

"Can't blame ya, those feds are persistent as hell."

"This 'New Pangalactic Federation' is just about the same as the old one it seems."

"Not too surprising, the majority of the senate members are from the old federation. And Hermes is still the admiral." Suddenly Cliff's communicator went off.

"Hey, sorry to keep you waiting," said Lancar.

"It's okay, be prepared to receive 2 via transportation," said Cliff.

"2? Who are you coming back with?"

"Believe it or not... the former leader of Quark."

"Well, I was wondering when we would get a visit from her. Alright then, give me a moment." Within a few seconds, Cliff and Maria were transported onto Lancar's ship.

Meanwhile at Disney Castle...

I was walking down one of the many hallways of Disney Castle. It had taken me some time but I had finally gotten used to the size of this place. When we had gotten here, King Mickey gave me a room in the east wing on the 3rd floor. Speaking of my room, that is where I am currently headed. I finally arrived at my room a little less than a minute later. Each room had a symbol on the front door. My door had two Keyblades in the shape of an 'X' marked on it. Apparently your job in the castle determined the symbol you have. I asked the King about this but he told me I would find out soon enough... that was two weeks ago. Maybe I will find something out at today's ceremony.

I opened the door and walked in. My room was small, but comfortable. The room was just like the other rooms in the castle. Covered in stone that could arguably be considered white marble. At the top right corner was my bed with a small night stand standing next to it. At the top left corner was a desk and a chair. The desk had several books lined up on the top shelve that were given to me by King Mickey. In one drawer was various things needed for writing like paper, and feather's used as pens. I was a bit surprised when I saw feather's being used as pens, whenever you needed more ink you would have to dip it into the ink and then continue writing. It took awhile but I finally got used to it... such an obsolete method of writing things by hand.

The last drawer was empty, so I modified it by adding in a personal computer. All I have to do in order to access it is turn it on by pressing the switch. The screen I chose to use was holo-screen, to put a sense of my old home here. In the back of the room was a large chest that I used to put in clothes. During the past two weeks I have gotten various types of outfits... mainly cause I was tired of wearing that Organization XIII outfit 24/7. Currently I was wearing a pair of olive green pants and a dark blue T-shirt. On the back wall were two medium sized windows with curtains. In the bottom left corner of the room was a small closet with barely any room. I stored whatever I could in there. After looking around my room I yawned and stretched. I realized that I had some time before this ceremony, so I could get some rest. With another yawn I got in bed and closed my eyes. What seemed like a second later I heard a knocking on my door. I opened my eyes, got of bed, and opened the door. Outside of my room was Goofy dressed in a very obscure armor suit... With the helmet being a small hat you wear on the top of your head I don't think it would do well as a means of protecting your body. The only part of real armor on Goofy was a metal gauntlet that looked a lot like his regular hand.

"Good afternoon, Alex. It's time for the ceremony," said Goofy.

"Wow, it's time already?" I asked. "Time really flies when you take a two hour nap..."

"Now that I think about it, it seems like yesterday that we got here. And next thing ya' know it, it's the Appointment Ceremony."

"Yeah..." I said as I looked down at the ground, still amazed at how quickly time flies by... in both my example and Goofy's. I looked back up towards Goofy. "Well, at any rate I am going to get changed into this 'suit of armor' that I received a few days ago."

"Alright then, a-hyuck. Then I'll go downstairs and wait for you with His Majesty and Donald."

"Okay, see you there." Goofy walked off and I closed the door. I walked over to the closet door and opened it. No matter how many times I saw this armor I still found it rather awe-striking. It was crafted in a series of silver looking metal and various colors that were wrapped around to make the wearer look like a monster. The only thing that looked regular were the rough leather gloves. The helmet would cover the wearer's head almost entirely minus one small slit. I think it would be rather hard to see much out of that helmet but... ah I'll worry about that later. I could probably rely on my extra senses to solve this problem anyway. Next to the suit of armor was a black cape with the same symbol as the one on my door only it was gold. I put on my armor and walked down to the hallway outside of the throne room. Donald, Goofy, and King Mickey were waiting for me there. Donald and Goofy starred in awe while King Mickey folded his arms and smiled.

"Wow... you look really different in that armor, Alex," said Donald.

"Yeah... kinda scary..." Commented Goofy.

"I think that the maker of the armor wanted it to look as fearsome as possible. Probably in order to intimidate a foe," said King Mickey.

"It's maker?" I asked. "Who made this armor? You never told me, Your Majesty."

"That's cause I have no idea. I found it when explorin' one of the many worlds out there. It was heavily rusted and in quite bad shape. So I brought it back and had it repaired."

"I see," I said.

"So are you ready?" I nodded.

"Yeah."

"Then let's begin. I will give the opening speech, and then you will come in." King Mickey, Donald, and Goofy walked in. I could hear King Mickey say something but the door obscured it. Then the small door opened up. I walked through the door and I began to walk towards the throne. On both of my sides were the various Disney Castle subjects who had come to attend this ceremony. Some were holding banners, others were holding up trumpets and playing a song. At the front was King Mickey, Queen Minnie, Donald, Goofy, and Daisy. I arrived at the front and I bowed before the King.

"Do you swear loyalty?" Asked King Mickey.

"Yes," I answered.

"Do you wield the ways of honor?"

"Yes." King Mickey summoned his Keyblade and tapped me on both shoulders.

"Then I dub thee... Alex, Commander of the Keyblade Templars." I looked up.

"The Keyblade Templars?" I asked.

"It's a new group formed just today," said Donald.

"The Keyblade Templars is a group of elite warriors who wield keyblades. The symbol on your cape is the insignia for the Keyblade Templars," said King Mickey. Well that explains why it is on my door. He must have planned to give me this job for a little while now.

"While you are out traveling, if you find anybody who wields a Keyblade you can ask them if they'd like to join and then bring them here," said Queen Minnie.

"Alright then, I'd better get going," I said.

"Go? But what about the party?" Asked Daisy.

"There's a party?" I asked.

"Yeah. Party first, work later," said Donald. We all went to the grand dinning room and began to eat. There was a grand selection of food to choose from. It looked as if a lot of preparation had gone into this meal. And it was quite the enjoyable meal. The next morning King Mickey, Donald, Goofy, Queen Minnie, Daisy, and I all went down to Gummi Hangar. Of course I had chosen not to wear the suit of armor, that suit was way too heavy. I mean I could get used to it, but it would weigh me down too much. I saw a black, sleek, jet like Gummi that looked a lot more powerful than the one I traveled on with Sora, Donald, and Goofy.

"So who owns this ship?" I asked.

"It's yours!" Said Chip as he and Dale rushed over towards us.

"Mine?"

"We figured that you would need a ship of your own to travel to the many worlds. And I think that it will come in handy," said King Mickey.

"Thank you, Your Majesty. Thank you everyone," I said.

"Aw, don't mention it."

"Well I had better go."

"See ya again sometime soon," said Goofy.

"Don't be reckless out there," said Donald.

"Good luck with your travels out there," said Queen Minnie.

"Be careful out there, there may be places crawling with Heartless," said Daisy.

"When you are out there, you will be moving on your own accord and discretion," said King Mickey. I nodded.

"Got it. See you all again someday!" I said. I got onboard the ship and activated it. The elevator my ship was on shifted me to the launching dock. I accelerated and I was launched out of the castle and into the stars, towards a grand adventure.

TO BE CONTINUED

Alex's story is not yet over. His next story will be called Eternal Cycle. It will be a Star Ocean, Kingdom Hearts, and Xenosaga cross over. I have no idea when the first chapter will be out, but if I were to make a guess I'd say next month. Until then, see ya!