Serena and Shados appeared on the outside of Radiant Garden and sighs "Home, sweet home" she said moving towards one of the bubble transporters. The girl always wondered how Robinson always managed to come up with weird inventions that still improve the overall quality of all… with sometimes questionable side effects.
She has just to look at the Time Machine incident several months ago. The mage then wondered if Youta's version of her dad also when through the same as her father. She sighed and suddenly everything was dark. She blinked as she didn't recall that the way from the town's outskirts to the stations next to her home leads through a tunnel. Then she felt that the bubble lands and it popped, the remains falling on her and covering her with black color.
"WHAT THE HELL?!" she shouts, looking at herself and finds that she alone and is on the complete wrong end of the town.
The girl heard snickering around her and demanded. "Alright, who's trying to be funny? If you don't come out, I'll have my robot dragon dragging out of your ass here!" With that said, Shados teleport behind Serena readying its rifle.
She didn't see anything so she switched to her sense of darkness to point out where somebody might be. She found two sources of darkness… strong ones and… moving in speed and patterns that she only saw on Darkrai. But… the Pokemon of Nightmares only did that emerged in darkness.
Turning to Shados she states "Change of plans. Trail these dark signatures. I follow up once I cleaned up."
The robot immediately uses its scanner to locate the two unknown being. Once found Shados dashed towards a wall covered in shadow and to Serena's surprised his hand went into the shadow.
"Hey! Let me go!" A female voice called out. Shados pull his out and hold a black white imp with looks by flowing hair, duo colored eyes and have glowing green tattoos on her body. "No fair! Using robot is so uncool!"
Using a combination of crystals to create a spell that has the desired effect, Serena got herself cleaned up and moves over to the girl, staring her into the odd eyes "Who are you?" and wondered why she runs into so many odd eyed people recently.
"You think I'll tell you mine name in this situation, Serena?" The imp girl asked
Serena looks surprised that this imp knows her name… then again it is hard to find anybody in this town who haven't heard of the name of any keybearer or members of their family.
"I got a few nice things. And if you are responsible for that prank I have ways to repay that" stated Serena before she suddenly conjured a shield spell, barely blocking an attack from behind her from a second imp. This time it was a male one and had odd eyes as well, but in reverse. "Let go of my sister!"
Serena ignores him as the attack he used were blades conjured by his arms… blades of darkness. Suddenly the boy found himself in dark chains and dragged in the air to prevent him to merge with the shadow. "Siblings eh? Well, that town was always a place to get the weird things."
"What did you do?" The male asked Serena.
"Simply chained you with darkness. Quite effective once you know how to do that." mused the mage before she conjured two crystals "And you two are coming with me so I drop you off by the authorities by your little prank here."
"You are such a spoilsport! I can't believe that dad raises you to be stiff!" The girl imp yelled.
"You talk like we two have the same father. And I am pretty sure my da-" she stopped and then she looks at the two and groans "Don't tell me you are Twili."
"Took you long enough!" The male grins.
"Oh sorry for not having actually seen one before!" stated Serena "And I thought I would be a fatherless girl as dad told me about Hyrule… now, dad is really dead once mom hears it."
Then she turned to the two "Not to mention that Midna would let her kids be pranksters."
"Not our fault that dad was drunk and made love with mom." The girl state.
"And this relates to your prankster nature how?" she deadpans. The two wanted to say something but… none of them had a real answer to that. "Anyway, you two are coming with me if you like it or not."
The two of them pounded as they were sitting in the crystals that Serena had made to "store" them as she was on the way to her home, wondering what she should tell her mom once they meet.
On her way, she saw that… a lot of chaos was running in the streets and upon buying a special newspaper she reads that the town was hit with a pranking spree and the culprits weren't caught yet. Taking the crystals from her belt she eyed the siblings and guessed "it was you?"
"You mean our master pieces, then yes we did!" The girl Twili said.
"Even the property damage the pranks caused?"
"Nope, they are the one who broke it." The male told.
"Because of your pranks?"
"Pretty much."
"Handing you to the Authorities are such a welcoming offer." she deadpans. "But knowing your species power, you two would escape in a flash. So instead I go home, do why I came here and hand you to Yen Sid for safe keeping until Will can bring you home."
"Oh come on! We want to stay!" The female Twilight whine
"And I want to examine that robot!" The male add.
"I don't know if the town survives a few days with you two pranksters" states Serena "And I doubt he would like to be examined by you."
"Come on! It wouldn't end like the cannon I first destroyed and then fix it afterward."
"When it comes to tech, Dazi is the best!" The girl Twili explained.,
"At least I know the name of one of you" stated Serena with a shrug "Still it is a no. Or I am wrong Shados?". The robot shakes its head.
"There you have, Dazi." The mage said, which makes the Twili mumbled. Then she grins "Since we are family… what is your sister's' name?"
"The name is Shaldi."
"Nice to meet you. So… how did you know my name is Serena?"
"We have paid Herito for the info," Dazi told Serena.
"Typical Herito… what did you pay him?" she asks.
"A lot of money. Being the kids of the ruler of the Twilight realm have huge advantages!" Shaldi said.
"You are impossible…" Serena said, mumbling to herself. "Note to self, make sure they don't meet with Lucina." Then she slapped her head "I have to go to Ansam because of that one idiot. Totally forgot because of you two nutcases."
"Which idiot?" Dazi asked.
"Mozerath." Was her only reply and she opens a dark portal, as Ansem has a room for her family to appear in without triggering the security of the town. "You wait outside the town until I call you," Serena ordered the robot, before entering the portal.
She appeared in a room filled with weaponry in case it is an intruder but once the guards recognize her, the door blocking the way out of the room opened and she was let through. Upon her request to see Ansem the wise, the guards guide her to his room and asked if he had time.
Soon the door was opened for her to enter and see the ruler of the town.
"Hello, Serena. It's not very often to see you here." Ansem said. "I took you here on business?"
"It is." she stated and took the crystal of Mozerath out "He caused trouble on two worlds and the usual kidnapping for power stuff."
"So, the self-proclaimed sorcerer still lifes. I never thought he would be still alive after the last encounter."
"I was surprised as well," Serena said, putting her hands on her hip. "Also, I found something interesting during my trip. A robot named Shados came to me and is following anything I said. I am still trying to figure out why he is so willing to follow my orders."
"That is strange…" Ansem stroke his goaty. "Where is this 'Shados' right now?"
"Waiting at a corner of the town for my call." replied Serena moving to the window, opening it "Shados! Get over here and show yourself to the good old Ansem the wise." As Serena ordered Shados teleported in front of the window, surprising the wise man.
"Yeah, he can do that. Along with a few other things, I don't get…" she stated before looking at Shados "You don't happen to have blueprints for the smart guys or a corpse of a comrade to be examined lying around?"
"I believe me and Tron can look into its mainframe to find our answer," Ansem told. "Still, it quite a remarkable machine. I can tell that this robot uses some unknown technology just by looking it."
"And I am not really looking forward having Tron in him. Because given what I learned so far, Tron couldn't stand against any defense systems against hacking or such." Admits Serena, wondering if Shados is soon answering her question. The corpse was more of a dark humor thing, than serious but still... "Anyway, I'll leave him with you. I have to do something real quick."
"Where are you going?" Ansem asked.
"Going get something at home and then to my room," Serena told. "Got something from Will that can help me with this new situation I'm stuck with. And if you look for the pranksters… I took care of them already. Made the mistake to use me for their latest prank."
"And we could have got away if it wasn't for that pesky robot!" Shadi groaned from her crystal, making a Scooby Doo reference.
Serena was wondering if Ansam heard her while rolling her eyes a little.
"That good to hear. I hope you give them the punishment they deserved?" The old man asked.
"On that, I am still working. But they are secured, be assured." Nodded the mage. "Call me If you found anything inside Shados's head." and with that she began to leave, using the fastest course to get to her home.
She got relative fast there and used her keys to open it, as well a few security measures which cannot be bypassed by a Keyblade… their parents told her they installed it after catching Lea a few times sneaking in with a camera to see if they can record them for bedroom activities.
As she entered the entry room of her home, she called. "Mom! I am home! You're here too?"
Faith came out of the living room with a book in her hands "Welcome home Serena! How was your mission so far?"
"Stressful, mind blowing and not over. Also, I have killing intentions to one of the "team mates" I gathered on that."
"Also a typical thing for the Yuma family." chuckles the woman.
"And that is just the tip of the iceberg!" Dazi called out from the crystal.
"Who said that?" asks Faith "Serena! Did you imprison again school bullies in your crystal?" before using her own crystal power to snatch the crystals hanging from Serena's belt.
"No, she just put her half brother and sister in here." Shadi giggled.
Faith saw the two Twili and got soon what they meant with brother and sister. She looks at her daughter and asks "Do you know where your father is? I have to have a serious word with him about his understanding of self-control. With a frying pan."
"He's in another reality, where a version of him married Hibiki and have a pain in the ass daughter named Youta," Serena answered.
"Ok, now I admit this tops the things I have seen with your father." stated Faith "If you see him before I do, tell him he is in deep trouble!"
"Dad got in trouble! I can't wait for this!" Shadi smirked. Diza looks at his sister "Shouldn't we wait until we actually know him before we begin happily for him in trouble?"
"Not so fast young girl!" Started the purple haired woman "Serena must have a reason to put you two in there! What is your side of the story?"
"We just want to see our dad, and we made a couple of harmless pranks here and there," Dazi told.
"So it was you two who made sure that the kitchen I ordered got destroyed because you made one of the delivery crew slip on a banana peel?" asks Faith "With all the other pranks that had terrorized the town?"
"New kitchen? Did dad try to cook again?" asks Serena
"No, Lea tried to make flamed pancakes." deadpans Faith. "Should have never given a spare key to Xion." before she looked at the twins again for answers.
"We… are in a whole lot of trouble now, are we?" Shadi asked, scratching her cheek.
"When I am done with you two, you cannot sit for a week." stated Faith "And you two will replace me the kitchen!"
She looked at Serena. "I borrow these two. You can have them back once I am through with them."
Serena shrugs "It will take a while. Uncle Will gave me a book for a summoning method I haven't tried yet."
"Don't forget to clean up your magic room once you are through. And careful with the east wall. Your brother hit it in his training room to hard again and the repair group had not the time yet to fix it." explains Faith, looking at the twins "Namely because of the aftermath of certain pranks."
"Will do." Serena said before she winked "Have fun you three." and heads to her room, hearing her half siblings crying and begging for Serena's help.
She didn't help them as these sounds were right now music for her ears as she moves into the cellar where her room for magical training and experiments is. Next to the gym of Ancelot and the rooms many households have in the cellar.
She read the book, learn about everything about the Servants, their classes, and how to summon one. Following the instruction she made a magic circle, the only problem was she need a Catalyst to summon a specific hero she needs.
Since Serena was just trying to get any hero for her purpose, she decided against to actually try and use a couple of crystals as the Catalyst. She took a deep breath, lifted her right arm and chant the magic words. "For the essence, silver, and steel. For the foundation, gems and the archduke of contracts." The circle glows while Serena keeps chanting. "Close the cardinal gates, be bound to the circle, and follow the three columns of the Sephirot to descend from the Crown to the Kingship. Fill and lock, fill and lock, fill and lock, fill and lock, fill and lock. Repeat five times. But those moments should cease to be once passed. Set." The circle started to glow a bright red as Serena poured more of her mana into it. "I hereby propose. Your fealty shall be mine, and my fate shall be yours. If you heed my call and obey my will and reason, then answer me. I hereby swear… that I shall be all the good in the world. That I shall repress all the evil in the world. One of seven heavenly beings bearing the three great words of power, come forth from the cycle that shackles you... Guarding of Scale!" Serena pushed her mana to the limit when there were a bright light and a strong gust of wind blow everything away.
Serena fell on her knees, exhausted as she never spends so much mana into one single spell not able to look up at the result of her casting "Damm! Never felt that drained since Yen Sid made me casting my first fireball…" She then notices a flame rose like a symbol on her hand. "Looks like I did the right… But where…?"
As the mage wondered, she heads a huge explosion came from her living room. "Mom is going to kill me!" Before grabbing a bottle drinks it to revitalize her and rushes up, wondering why it happened up in the living room and not in her room.
Once she arrived, Serena sees some of the furniture of the room destroyed and notice a blonde-haired young woman of short stature, dressed in a military-style red dress with a translucent portion in the front of the lower skirt sitting on the broken furniture, crossing her arms and legs. The girl open her green eyes, seeing Serena and asked. "Are you my Praetor?"
"If you came through my spell, then yes, I am. I am Serena. Serena Yuma." replied the girl and looks at the damage "And I get a cut on my allowance… wonder what went wrong. Is it because I don't use a catalyst? "
"A young maiden like you summon me? You must have a strong gift of magic to summon like me. A compliment is in order indeed." The girl said, getting off her 'chair'. "And using no catalyst! Truly you're a fitting Praetor to me! You should be honored."
"Strong enough that I need a seal to be not killed by it." Admits Serena. "And what for the class are you? Because I have not an idea who you are, except for the obvious."
"I'm a Saber. A fitting class for someone from my states." Saber said, looking around. "I assume this is your house?"
"Yes, it is." Replied Serena. "Thought… if mom isn't here… where did she take the twins?"
In a secret place, Faith was laughing while the twins were begging for mercy and one could think she is having demon horns on the head.
Back at Serena and Saber, Serena's has used a couple of spells to remove the mess her spell caused… but she never learned something to fix the broken furniture. To which she sighs. "I need a holiday job." She then looked at Saber said. "I don't know how strong you are, so I hope you don't mind if I test you?"
"I assure you, I'm quite strong. But if that is what you want, so be it." Saber said.
"Just need to get the right sparring partner..." stated Serena "And I think I know the right one." before picking up the phone and call the headquarters of the Defense Committee (Formerly the Restoration Committee) and waits that somebody was picking it up.
Hearing the phone being picked up, a female voice greet "Radiant Garden Defense Committee, Aerith speaking. How can I help you?"
"Hello Aerith, It's Serena." Replied the mage. "Can you send Leon outside of town? I want to test something."
"Are you trying to get him to the hospital again as you wanted to know how strong you could push your Fireball spell a few years ago?"
"Hey! He wasn't the target as I tried that one!" Stated Serena "it was a rock you guys wanted to blow up anyway. Anyway just get Leon over there on the double!"
"He is already on the training field outside the town. Just go there. I inform him about your arrival."
"Alright, thanks," stated Serena before turning Saber. "Can you ride?"
"Of course. Even though I'm not a Rider class, I'm a skilled driver." Saber boasted.
"I don't know where you learned how to drive, and I asked about riding. We going on back of a Dark Predator," replied Serena, heading to the kitchen to leave a note for her mother about where she is.
A couple of minutes of riding the Dark Predator, the two make their way towards the training's field and Serena was feeling very annoyed about Saber and she complaints that Dark Predators were no steeds for her position.
The two landed in front of the entrance and saw Leon, training some new recruits. Serena got off the ride, she called "Hello Leon. Did you got Aerith's call?"
The man looked behind, seeing Serena walking towards him. "Something about test out." He then noticed Saber and asked. "Who's your new friend?"
"She is called Saber. Will get me a book that gave me a working summoning spell… and I want to ask you to test her strength." Explains Serena "And no, you don't get a second Kairi on your hands."
"I presume this man is my opponent, Praetor?" Saber asked.
"Yes." replied Serena "He is the strongest member of the people defending the town. Also de facto leader. Of course in another place I know is somebody stronger but for a first try out I don't want to send you against a demigod."
"So I have to fight her?" Asks Leon "She doesn't look like much, but again, the same can be told about most key bearers at the time I first saw them. And then they blew the minds with their deeds."
"It seems you understand to not underestimate a person by their looks." Saber said. "And I can tell you're not an ordinary man yourself just by looking at you."
"Learned that lesson with the heartless." Was Leons reply. "We have a free field over there." He pointed out to a field. "We fight in ten minutes." Leon leaves the girls alone, continuing training the recruits.
"Praetor, can you elaborate what kind of man Leon is?" Saber asked.
"Over serious and heavy deadpanned. But reliable when you need him," stated Serena. "And Loen isn't his real name. It's Squall Leonhart. But never call him by his first name. He hates that."
" A man named after a noble animal. I already can tell this fight will be a good demonstration of my strength." Saber said.
"We will see soon enough" stated Serena.
After some moments both Leon and Saber stand on the field, facing each other. Serena kept an eye on the two, waiting for them to start the fight.
"Quite the interesting sword you welding." Saber said.
"And where is your sword?" asks Leon.
The blond haired women smiled as a red and black long sword with a thin but nasty looking blade appeared in her right hand, almost reminding Serena on some of the nastier keyblades she saw.
"A keyblade?" Leon asked, holding his weapon "Or just a fancy way to draw your weapon from the storage?"
"I assure you my blade isn't one of the mystical weapons you speak of." Saber told, point her weapon to Leon. "It's the ultimate instrument! Even the Muses themselves would bow before the sound it makes."
"You remind me too much of a sword fighter I fought some time ago," stated Leon. "So less talk more fighting. Unless you want the same lessons I gave him."
"Then show me that you're worthy be called Lionheart. Strike me with your sword. Show me the extent of your abilities!" Saber declared, holding her sword with two hands. He holds his blade with two hands as well before rushing over to her.
Leon swings his sword horizontal to Saber, but just as he is about to hit the red dressed servant, she suddenly disappeared in a red blur.
"What!" blinked Leon, looking around to find his opponent. When he saw the tip of Saber's sword just above the right shoulder. The man look turned, seeing the servant behind him, smiling.
"You're fast," he stated and hits the blade of hers. Serena watches how her Servant block and counter all of Leon's attack gracefully. She noticed that Saber's power and endurance aren't great, but her other ability is impressive, Serena wondered who Saber was before becoming a Servant as both competitors are in a sword struggle.
Though she also wondered how she will defend against stronger and more straight out opponents… her brother for a simple not lethal example. At least not intentional lethal. When Ancelot meets somebody he wants to test his strength against, he sometimes gets carried away. It is a wonder that no one was hurt serious yet.
Well… at least nobody who couldn't get hurt. Pete, Heartless and villains on the other hand…
Turning back to the fight she saw that Leon managed to get his blade in a favorable position… favorable enough that the sword fighter was able to pull the trigger of his gunblade.
Saber was flowed away by the explosion, but able to recover and landed on the ground. She dashed to Leon, with her sword in flames striking on the brown haired man. Leon defends against the flaming sword stating "Lea can do that as well, but stronger!"
"Lea is professional pyro mage" muttered Serena. "Of course he can do fire spells better."
"Do not underestimate my flame!" Saber yelled, as the fire around her sword burn even harder, as it's intense heat even filled the arena.
"Now that is impressive." whistles Serena, wiping off the sweat of her head before she used ice magic filled crystals to cool herself. Leon, on the other hand, was grunting, not expecting such force behind the attacks. But he keeps up nonetheless.
Saber pushed Leon away and swing her sword to her opponent, Leon tried to block all of her attacks, but the heat gives him a hard time. He was forced to break off his attack as it became unbearable.
But that was a mistake as the blonde swordswoman, dashed and slam at Leon's sword as the gun blade flow towards the wall. Saber points her blade at Leon's neck and asked. "Do you yield?"
"Yes." he grunts, though unwilling but what chance he has now?
"Looks like good old Leon needs to train more" mused Serena "I mean first Ancelot who beat you with raw strength and now Saber who does it with Skill? And a month ago he looked down on me for relying on my magic and to quote "Unwieldable weapon." before she moves over to the field "Very Impressive Saber. Mind if I do one more test?"
"If that is your wish." Saber answered.
"Take some distance and brace for a great impact" stated Serena "You need to know… I have a little brother who loves to fight. And he might get the idea to "test" you in a fight. And I need to know if you can stand one of his simple punches."
She took a breath before continuing "It is simple. I use a trick to hurl a fist sized object at you in a speed that simulates the strength behind his punches. And your job is simply to block it without getting pushed back or get hurt."
"Very well." Saber took a couple of steps and prepared herself. Serena got a crystal out and threw it before it changes into a fist shaped rocket and shoots with great speed. The servant barely blocked the attack as she stumbled a backward a bit. "Quite the force it has. Was that one of your magic, Predator?" Saber asked, using her sword as support.
"Yes. I can create and manipulate crystals at will. I inherited it from my mother." She explains. "From my father, I gained the power to draw upon the darkness to create solid objects or tunnels which can lead to any place I have been before." Serena walks to her Servant and said. "Then we have the normal type of magic… and nobody in the family knows where it comes from." And she laughs "Because my father cannot perform magic in this sense and my mother is mediocre at best with the help of her Keyblade."
"Your family sound very fascinating. I would like to meet them." Saber said, while her sword disappeared.
"And I like to know how big my family actually is." Deadpans Serena "Found out before I summoned you that I got a pair of twins as half siblings."
"What?! You mean your father cheated on your mother?!" Saber asked.
"Can it count as cheating if it happened before he met my mother?" she asks. "Sure mom is pissed about this but still…"
"Speaking of which where is she?" Leon asked, joining the conversation.
"Mom? Dealing with the ones responsible for ruining the kitchen we bought recently," explains Serena
"I see. Why did you father try to cock again?" wondered Leon
"Beats me." shrugs Serena. "Anyway, I need to go back to the other reality. Sad as it is, the job isn't done yet. Also, I take said twins with me."
"Knowing how Faith handles 'things'. You have to wait for awhile." Leon stated.
"Could be worse: I simply pay Yen Sid a meditation session, while dropping Saber here to the three fairies to get a set of clothes more fitting in our general setup. We are in a Kingdom Hearts/Symphogear Crossover after all." She paused "Now that I think of it… we need to bring the Symphogear part a bit out somehow…"
"Crossover?" Saber tilted her head in confusion.
"Don't bother." said Leon "We drove enough people crazy with this aspect of the Yuma Family."
"Alright…." Saber said, not knowing what her master said. "But Predator, you do know that Servant can use switch between it Spiritual Body and Material Body, right?"
"I read it yes" stated Serena "But still. As you are now part of the family by proxy, it would be wise to dress you up that shows your individuality but still fits within the family theme. For example, we Yumas have a preference to wear dark colors with green hints if possible."
"I see. But I personally want to wear something that screams out passion. Something dark wouldn't suit my style." Saber told.
"I am sure there is something" reasoned Serena "Also the dress you wear… it leaves you with certain tactics which could harm or hinder you big time."
"If you're referring to the lower part of my dress, it's not see-through, rather I let people see," Saber told.
"Then at least for the no combat time something more appropriate" she sighs, really not thinking that this dress is good for combat. Afterwards, she opens a dark corridor and walks with Saber into the dark portal heading for her planned destination.