DISCLAIMER: I don't own the Kingdom Hearts nor Fire Emblem Three Houses characters, Square Enix, Nintendo, and Disney are the owners.

ShadowMario1994: I initially wanted to write the same harem story in the English version but some people didn't like it and I received some discouraging and disheartening messages so I had to make some changes.

The biggest reason that both Spanish and this version are different is because I researched the net and I found out that trying to literally translate everything is extremely difficult so I had to start from a scratch and write differently, which this resulted in two separate stories in terms of pairings as you say. Also, I dunno how many people will react if they see the same ending in the English story.

And yeah, I'll be back resuming the Spanish story when I reach the timeskip arc.

Antex-The Legendary Zoroark: Constance is a fun character to play with, so yeah.

FabledLife: Certain worlds can have Sora magically switch clothes like when he went to the pirates of Caribbean world or even jack skellington's for example.

CHAPTER 23 – THE BIG TROUBLES BEGIN

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PASSAGEWAY

Constance ran as faster as she could to head to the passageway and meet with the others until she was worn off.

"Oh, my poor, abused legs! I have been remiss to neglect my lower… body exercise as of late…" she panted after running a lot.

"Don't give up… we're almost back to Abyss! What a damn mess we've gotten ourselves into…" Yuri said asking her to keep it up.

"We should give up. Just throw the chalice at the big one and be done with it. It doesn't seem like they're gonna ease off." Hapi gave an opposite suggestion, asking her to destroy the chalice at the golem. "If that doesn't work, I guess we're dead."

"Aaahahaha! I think not! I shall never surrender! I shall not die until I have achieved my glorious aim!" Constance was back into her usual flattering attitude stating that she wasn't willing to give up that easily.

"I can't believe that those things have been chasing us! I guess that picking up the chalice was a bad idea!" said Sora recognizing his mistake.

"For crying out loud… Those creepy toys must love a good chase. They won't let up!" Balthus spat in annoyance.

"Not to mention the enemies that look like phantoms, besides of those dark creatures." Yuri seconded. "Further measures to protect the chalice, I'm sure. Maybe Hapi's right, and this won't stop so long as we have the artifact."

"We can't lead them back to Abyss, or the people will be in danger!" Ashe said in concern about the people's safety.

"We have no choice, we have to fight them." Byleth advised them to defend the place.

"Agreed. But first, let's run just a bit farther. I know a good place to keep the enemy at bay." Yuri accepted her request.

"Oh yeah! The gates! They're so damn sturdy I nearly broke one of my priceless first on one once." Balthus mentioned them remembering that moment.

"You did what?! Punch one gate like a brute?! Ugh! Why must you always behave in such an infantile manner?" Constance scolded him.

"He probably thought that was the best way to test its sturdiness. He doesn't have bad intentions, he's just that dumb." Hapi explained his attitude with such brutal honesty.

"Listen, Balthus." Yuri warned him about the consequences of his acts. "If you broke the mechanism, I'm sacrificing you to the creepy doll."

As they expected, some golems along with the phantom soldiers and the heartless appeared across the passageway, they had to reach the Abyss as soon as possible to lose the enemies.

[KINGDOM HEARTS II Final Mix BGM: Deep Anxiety]

"The enemy's caught up to us. If we try to up against it, we're finished." Edelgard was aware of the big problem.

"That thing's worse than what we saw at the chasm. Looks strong enough to flatten me. Me, of all people!" Balthus expressed his wishes to start a brawl with the enemies.

However, a gate behind one of the golems was closed, gasping everybody.

"No, the gate! Even I won't be able to force it open." Said Sora in that state. "We gotta find a switch quickly!"

"This is bad… There's more where that came from too, let's go, now!" Yuri seconded asking everyone to move fast.

[INFORMATION: Head to Abyss with everyone!]

Everybody searched for a gate to cross but they all seemed too far away until they noticed something.

"Oh my. I believed this to be a shortcut, but the way seems closed." Constance let the others know the location.

"Eerrr… Who wants to do us a favor and pull the lever? Though you might get left behind." Hapi saw a lever aside of the gate.

"I'll do it, cover me guys." Byleth volunteered herself commanding her students.

"Alright! Guys let's give Byleth cover!" replied Sora indicating everyone else to shield her.

While they dealt with the heartless and the other phantom soldiers, Byleth ran quickly to the lever and pulled it.

Immediately, the gate was opened so the gang could get pass it.

"The gate is open, let's go!" Ferdinand called them to move up.

Byleth soon followed them through the gate while ignoring the enemies and then they noticed another gate blocking their way.

"That passage over there is blocked too. I believe the controls for it are on the other side at the far end." Balthus mentioned the next lever's location.

"I'll look for it!" said Sora ready to open the gate.

He ran towards the next lever to pull it and get the gate open. "The gate is open! Move!" Edelgard called them to get past the gate before it closed behind them.

"It really closed, didn't it? Good thing we made it through in time." Said Linhardt relieved for not being left behind.

"Don't stop, we have to keep moving. That was the first of these things, come on!" Yuri told them to not let their guard down.

As he had predicted, more enemies came in. They were some bandits invading the place, however, some of them were willing to face the phantom soldiers.

"Whoa! Just like the boss said. They came back!" one of the bandits spoke looking at the gang.

"Did you find the treasure-majig? Treasure thingy? Whatever it's called! Doesn't matter. Hand it over!" a second thief tried to order them.

"These bandits are discussing treasure… How much can they have surmised?" Constance said with intrigue.

"Damn it." Yuri muttered in deception.

Sora performed a Strike Raid to knock the thieves off and proceeded to open a door with the kingdom key to get pass the next gate along with everyone.

"Sora… Did you just open the door… with your keyblade?" Edelgard reacted with surprise just like everybody else. "Anyway, let's save this chit-chat for later, we gotta move."

As soon as they got through it, more thieves appeared in front to confront them.

"You're not getting away you idiots! Ya hear me? Hand it over!" a female thief warned them in a threating voice.

"Like we'd obey your orders!" Sora replied in a challenging tone. "You're not getting the chalice, you thieves!"

"This is getting annoying, let's defeat those guys and get the hell out of here!" Balthus advised them to engage the thieves.

"And get through the last gate, let's go!" Byleth nodded and commanded her students.

The whole team went to take on the thieves and took care of them with ease, Sora, Yuri, Byleth, Dorothea and Edelgard subdued the remaining ones and everybody got past the last gate.

"Heh. That takes care of that. And last but not least..." Said Yuri relied of getting to the safety.

[END OF MUSIC]

"Run though this gate, open that one, run through another one. Gezz…" Linhardt expressed his frustration of having to be in a hurry with everyone. "That's enough gates to last me a lifetime. I'm overdue for some shuteye…"

"All is well though! We've safely retrieved the Chalice of Beginnings. Aaahahaha!" said Constance satisfied with their successful, but dangerous mission.

"Well, that was awful. I'm never going back down there, that's for damn sure." Yuri looked stressed due to the big dangers that they had to go through.

"Ha! With things like that wandering around, you couldn't even if you wanted to." Balthus replied making him understand that he couldn't go back there for obvious reasons.

"It was a valuable learning experience." Byleth told them that it was an important lesson to learn.

"Aren't you optimistic. There were a few times I was sure we were done for." Said Yuri admiring her positive point of view.

"But we did survive, that's all it matters." Sora agreed with his teacher.

"Has Aelfric yet returned? We must present the chalice to the church at once!" Constance was enthusiastic about it

But, their relaxed moment was short-lived because two people appeared in front of the gang, their faces were telling them that it wasn't some good news at all.

"You! You're all safe! How could you sneak off at a time like this?!" a resident scolded them for doing that reckless action.

"Did something happen?" Byleth asked them for the reason for being freaked out.

"Some strangers from the outside have kidnapped Master Aelfric!" a rogue informed the news, scaring the group in the process.

"They did what?! They kidnapped Aelfric?!" Constance said in disbelief and concerned for his safety.

"It happened as soon as he returned from the monastery. Bandits were lying in wait." The rogue explained more details about Aelfric's kidnapping.

"Shit! How the hell could this happen?!" Balthus clenched his teeth in frustration.

"This was clearly premeditated. I am certain it is connected to the bandits we fended off earlier." Constance spoke suspecting the thieves' actions due to the chalice.

"Have you alerted the church?" Yuri asked him if let the church personnel know.

"Not yet. It all happened so suddenly…" the rogue denied doing this action. "Do you think we should? Can we trust them? If we cause too much trouble, Abyss is doomed…"

"Now isn't the time to worry about that, man! We're not in position to cover something like this up." Yuri interrupted him. "The church has eyes and ears everywhere, so they may already know what's going on. Either way, go tell them the news. Now."

"Sure thing, understood." The rogue nodded with his head.

"Also, if anyone was wounded, send them here. We'll patch them up with healing magic." Yuri gave him the last indication to do before realizing that something was missing. "Wait… Where's Hapi? And Linhardt?"

"Hapi! Wherever did you disappear to! Aelfric has been-." Constance was about to scold her when the other interrupted her. "I know. Take a look at this."

Linhardt and Hapi had retrieved a mysterious letter from anywhere and gave it to the gang to read it.

"What's that?' Looks like some kind of fancy letter." Balthus said apparently not caring about the letter.

"That's because it is. It was lying in the classroom." Hapi replied him.

"What does it say?" Sora asked her.

"Well, it goes like this: 'We have abducted Cardinal Aelfric. We can guarantee his safety, for now. If you want to help him, meet us tomorrow evening in the ruins of the old chapel. Bring the chalice. Know that if you alert the knights, the cardinal's life will be forfeit.'"

"What?" the keyblade wielder spoke with intrigue.

"Who wrote this letter?" Byleth seconded in the same tone. "Wait a second… Could it be…?"

"No doubt about it. This letter must have been left by the people who abducted Aelfric." Balthus assured the responsible ones' identities.

"Then our enemy is really after the chalice. All the while, they were waiting for us to locate it for them." Constance said letting out the suspicions towards the kidnappers, but then she realized something didn't make sense. "No… No! Something about this does not ring true!"

"None of it rings true, so which part in particular are you talking about?" Hapi interrogated her.

"How did the enemy know that we were searching for the chalice to begin with?" Constance answered them making this question.

"True, how could somebody tell that we were doing this?" Sora agreed with her.

"This can only mean that someone in Abyss is…" she was about to finish the sentence when Yuri interrupted her.

"You smell a rat. Someone who notified the church of our plan. It's not good talking about theoretical rats right now. First we have to deal with the problem in hand" he suggested to take measures to solve this big issue.

"Too true." Constance replied in amaze for his voice. "For once you are speaking reasonably."

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ABYSSIAN CLASSROOM

The rogue brought some people to Abyss to treat them up, fortunately no many people were wounded because of the incident.

"We really lucked out there. Fewer injuries than I would have expected… and most were minor." Ferdinand felt relieved that there were very little injured people.

"I guess the only conclusion we can draw is that they really were after Aelfric all this time." Edelgard said exposing her theory. "Perhaps they were instructed to avoid unnecessary casualties…"

"Is Aelfric really a cardinal? Are the secret cardinals real? I never had an idea about this." Dorothea wondered about the subject curious.

"Hard to believe. Did you folks in the Ashen Wolves know that?" Linhardt seconded in the same state.

"Nah, that's news to me. The identity of the cardinals is top secret, even within the church." Balthus admitted not having any knowledge about it. "He would never have told us something like that. Oh, except maybe Yuri…"

"He and I talk about a lot of things. But right now, I'd saw we have more important topic to discuss than his title." He said suggesting to talk about something more important. "Aelfric has been kidnapped. What are we going to do about it?"

"Even if it is time to rescue him, we simply cannot hand over the chalice to those scoundrels!" Constance protested refusing to let the said chalice go.

"Let's just give them the thing and be done with it." Hapi said nonchalantly suggesting to surrender the relic.

At this precise moment, Alois and the knights of Seiros appeared in front of them.

"Professor! I came as fast as I could when I heard the report. I had no idea you'd be here!" he called her upon arriving at the scene.

"Is this loud… uh, excitable knight a friend of yours?" Yuri's asked having his face written in cringe.

"Yes, he's a friend of my father's." Byleth introduced Alois to the group.

"Precisely so! I'm Alois, the right-man to the former captain of the Knight of Seiros, Jeralt!" the man introduced himself in euphoric voice.

"Oh my, that means our professor here is the daughter of a captain." Constance said with amaze.

"That's right, my father used to be a captain." Byleth coincided with her.

"Now, about Aelfric's kidnapping…" Alois began. "Since he's an important member of the church, we must use any means necessary to find him. That said… most of the holy knights have been deployed to deal with the Western Church."

"Sure, but any knights are better than no knights, yeah?" Balthus chucked making some teasing.

"I like your attitude, though I'm still embarrassed that we're not in full force… But hey, at least we're quite forceful!" Alois replied in flattering tone.

"Ugh. Here, take this letter. We believe it was left by whoever kidnapped the cardinal." Yuri handed the object over to the man. "In it, the enemy clearly spells out their plan. They're after the chalice that was hidden beneath Abyss."

"A chalice, hm?" Alois knew where Yuri was getting to. "A chalice… Hmmm… Ah! Do you mean THE chalice?! But no, why would it be there? I've never heard anything about it being stowed away in Abyss."

"Then this is gonna come as shock, pal." Balthus said showing him the chalice, much to the man's shock.

"What in the earth is this?! Is that really the chalice from the legends?!" Alois said in shock upon looking at the authentic object.

"It is, Alois." Sora affirmed it.

"The probability of that is unassailably high, so yeah." Constance seconded.

"It was guarded by a bunch of giant, creepy toys. There was a powerful magic protecting it and everything." Hapi explained him.

"I saw it with my own eyes." Byleth assured him. "Please believe us, Alois."

"If you say so. Wow, that means the story of the chalice being bound was true." He said figuring out the truth of the chalice. "Well, what's done is done! Oh, but I guess it's not done just yet. I must report this to Lady Rhea at once!"

END OF CHAPTER 23