Author's Note: ….. Sorry for the delay, for real, writing Portorosso has been, quite the challenge and the Portorosso chapter is still not done, so… instead, I'll post something, a bit earlier, this chapter would be an "Interlude" that'd happen after the first 2 worlds, and after this chapter, then I'll post the rest of Luca, I hope you enjoy it..
The Ancient City of Revelations.
The camera focuses on the night sky, stars covering it fully, shining stars, shooting stars.
But in the group of the shooting stars, one of those was falling down instead, approaching the ground at a fast speed, after few seconds, it crashes down, with a bright flash coming out of it.
And from the flash, a small silhouette steps out, it summons forth a Keyblade, and looks around, this silhouette is, King Mickey, and the place he is looking at…
The introduction plays out, a massive orb of darkness is shown, which is then covered by water and waves, out of the water, buildings starts to rise, as a big floating island with many White buildings appears, at the left and right of it, a white and silver chess piece, and a black and gold chess piece lands, and each turns into another floating island with buildings.
Scala
ad
Caelum
"Well, here I am. I'm glad that Master Yen Sid could let me borrow this once again." The mouse said, looking at something on his hand, a blue star shaped objects, with a green circle and a smaller green star on the middle.
The mouse looked around at the big night city, even though he was in a mission, he could still appreciate its beauty.
He was in an area that was basically intact and in a perfect state, though he could see at some distance the destroyed buildings and ground from when Sora, Donald and Goofy fought Master Xehanort.
"So I must research information about the ancient masters, and see if they have any information about the Unreality." Mickey thought to himself.
He looked at the city he was standing in, and then to the sides to the other 2 connected cities, and scratched his head.
"Gee, exploring the entirety of this place will take some time, especially if I require entering in someplace."
Suddenly, the mouse heard a familiar sound, and got ready, as he heard Heartless appearing around.
Circling him were a few Water Cores, dozens of Shadows, 3 Large Bodies, many Red Nocturnes, Blue Rhapsodies and Yellow Operas, and a decent amount of Neoshadows
Information: Defeat all of the Heartless!
A few of the Neoshadows went inside their dark puddle, and jumped from behind Mickey, but the King predicted that and jumped too, striking the Neos with several spins, and for combo finisher, 4 Mickey sized Light pillars rotated around him for a second, quickly destroying those Heartless.
The three different types of mages started to blast at Mickey as many Shadows moved inside the ground towards him, the Mouse defended himself with Reflega, sending back the projectiles, and when the Shadows emerged, the barrier shattered in several bursts of energy, defeating the Shadows.
One of the Large Bodies started to slide on its belly towards the wielder, but Light appeared for half a second on the tip of the Keyblade, as Mickey casted Pearl, stopping the big Heartless on its tracks, and while it was distracted by the surprise, the King jumped over the Large Body to strike several times on its back.
Suddenly, Mickey felt energy flowing through his Keyblade, he released it to let the Key do its thing, afterwards, his Star Shard appeared above the Keyblade, then lowered until it reached the top, and after a flash of light, the mouse saw how apparently, the Shard had turned into the weapon's tip.
Star Shard.
Mickey felt the shard's energy flowing from the Shard at the tip through the Keyblade and into him, he faced the Heartless, and then suddenly, disappeared in a flash of light, for then reappear in another flash and alongside small star shaped sparks in front of a Neoshadow, he quickly strikes at it, his first attack was a super quick spin, with star energy increasing its range and also hitting other enemies too, his second attack had him go behind the Heartless and do a powerful vertical spin, sending it into the air, and for finisher, he does several rising spins up to the air, striking many times the Neoshadow and vaporizing it.
When he landed, Mickey saw too many Heartless approaching him at once, but, he had an answer to that.
"Stopga!" Exclaimed the mouse, suddenly, almost every Heartless froze in place besides some farther away ones like the mages.
Mickey took this chance, and used Pearl and Thundaga to hit several Heartless and hurt them well, and slashed through many others with his long range spins.
And finally, after some seconds, the remaining Heartless got back their movement, but Mickey felt the peak of the energy coming from the Star Shard, and used the form's Finisher, turning himself into light, and piercing through the enemy group at light speed several times like a shooting star, defeating what was left.
"Wow, the Star Shard really reacted to my Keyblade. I should ask Master Yen Sid to explain me more about this Shard when I finish the mission." Mickey said to himself, as his Key vanished for now.
And so, Mickey Mouse proceeds through the city, looking for something that could give him a clue regarding the ancient masters, though what the clue could be, he had no idea.
The King kept on walking and looking around, some more Heartless spawned during his walk, but he was able to quickly take care of them. After a while, he stopped, as he apparently reached the center of Scala, where a big fountain filled with pure water was standing, in the middle of the fountain was a statue of someone with a Keyblade pointing up to the sky. The person in the statue looked pretty young, with curly hair and wearing a scarf.
In front of the fountain, Mickey found something written.
"Master Ephemer, founder of Scala ad Caelum, looking for a brighter future from the past." Read Mickey.
"Well, I guess this is some progress, I got the founder of this place and his name, so maybe I could find something about him." He thought.
But as Mickey was thinking that, he heard enemies appearing, the king turned around, and saw not only Heartless, but also several Nobodies, many Dusks, and a few Reapers and Ninjas, Mickey summoned his Star Cluster once again.
Information: Defeat both Heartless and Nobodies!
The Ninjas attacked first, moving very fast, two of them leaped towards Mickey and began to spin, so the mouse countered with Reflega, making the Ninjas strike it, and be destroyed from the counter impact.
Many Dusks slithered towards him, alongside many Shadows, he casted Thundaga to stop the Dusks, and jumped away from the Shadows, while casting Pearl towards the Reapers, hitting some, which then retaliated and hovered towards him to slice with their Scythes, which Mickey blocked with another Reflega, though this time it did not quite destroy the enemies, the Nobodies shielded themselves with their bud, and released many petals, some of which hit the wielder, dealing some damage.
Seeing how this time, there really was a big amount of enemies, Mickey decided to do something else he jumps away, and looked towards the enemies as he pointed at them with his Keyblade, focusing energy for a bit… as he did his incomplete Shotlock.
Several big pillars of light appeared from the ground beneath the Heartless and Nobodies, filling that area with a pure white glow, as most of the creatures were destroyed by the pure light, with only a few Nobodies left standing that weren't right in middle of Mickey's Faith, which he took care of with a few Pearls.
All the enemies were now gone, and Mickey had now landed in the part behind the fountain, as he vanishes his Key and inspects it further, there, he saw something else written on it… and it made his eyes open in surprise.
"For King Mickey:" It started.
"What? Was someone… expecting me?" He asked confused as he quickly kept reading.
"For King Mickey: You are very confused right now about this message, and hey! I can't blame you, no one expects to get a message in a very old fountain, but luckily, I got the way for this to happen."
"I'm Ephemer, founder of this town, I was given a way to look some of the things that will happen in the future, among those, your arrival to this place, so I decided to leave behind a message for you."
"King Mickey, I ask for you, to go north of this city, near the water, there, you will find people I know, if you brought them to a safer place, I'm sure you could get the answers you seek. See you, Ephemer."
Mickey kept looking at the message, still surprised about this happening, but also glad that he apparently got such a big lead now, after looking again to the founder's statue, he started to head north.
On that way, no Heartless or Nobodies appeared, it was just a silent night, he keeps walking, and eventually, he reaches the edge of Scala, from here he could see the other 2 parts of the place at the sides, and only water on the horizon.
Mickey looked down… and thought he saw something down there, he started to walk towards that direction, and after a minute, he saw what it was… 2 knocked out persons.
But when he saw who they were, the king made a single step back in surprise, one was taller with long pink hair, the other person was shorter with yellow hair, and some hair that looked like antenna…
Marluxia and Larxene were there, or, as Mickey assumed, their Somebodies.
"Well, this is not what I was expecting when I came here, and given what the message said… wait, did Ephemer somehow know the Somebodies of Larxene and Marluxia?" The king suddenly realized.
The mouse began to walk towards the unconscious duo.
"Have they been here ever since they recompleted? So probably for around a year? With so many Heartless around, this is strange…" He wondered.
As he got closer, he suddenly stopped, since Mickey saw… a weird white aura covering Marluxia when the king was getting closer.
"What… what is that?" He asked, now carefully approaching the glowing Marluxia.
He instantly had to jump away to evade the silver scythe that nearly slashed him.
When he landed, Mickey already had his Keyblade on hand, as he looked at Marluxia, a silver scythe was floating in front of his unconscious body, then, an ethereal hand came out of Marluxia, grabbing the scythe, then the hand's body, Mickey stepped back and still looking.
He saw, white, from the former Nobody's body came a tall white figure, due to being fully covered in a White Coat, the white coat held better the scythe, as it looked towards Mickey, who thought he barely saw for a moment a silver lower part of a face, which looked a bit, feminine.
The being raised the scythe, and made a barrier surrounding itself and Mickey, leaving Marluxia and Larxene out of it, they both get in a battle stance…
Information: Defeat the White Coat Sentinel!
Right after the battle began, the Sentinel teleported in a bright flash, and appeared right behind Mickey with the scythe up, which the King barely managed to slide away from in time, he casted Pearl right after, but the White Coat had already teleported away.
She? Now appeared in middle of the arena, beginning to spin in place with the scythe, dozens of petals began to appearing until a silver tornado was made, which went towards Mickey, who quickly began to run away, the tornado kept going for some seconds, and eventually stopped, but before Mickey could catch a breather, the sentinel quickly came from inside the tornado and attacked with the scythe, which Mickey could not dodge this time due to the sudden move, being struck painfully.
"Ough, what are you? A Nobody protecting them?" He asked, trying to see if the Sentinel would answer.
Instead of giving an answer, the cloaked figure decided to point its hand towards Mickey, suddenly, small white flowers surrounded the king, and began to fire multiple small blasts towards him, he used Reflega, reflecting many of the blasts back to the flowers and destroying them, though others had moved out of the way, Mickey used Thundaga to destroy the ones left, and also managed to hit the Sentinel with it, staggering his foe a bit, so he took the chance and leaped, doing a full combo on it, and right afterwards, casted a Pearl, dealing good damage and making the mysterious foe to teleport away.
Next time it appeared, it was wielding two Scythes, the Sentinel quickly hovered towards Mickey and began a barrage of combos with several horizontal slashes, vertical slashes and spins, Mickey was dashing and sliding away out of the combo, though due to its lengths, the being got some good hits in, then the second scythe disappeared and it teleported away.
"It gets away too much, I could see if this works.." The king thought to himself, preparing a spell.
The White Coat Sentinel had appeared once again in the middle, and Mickey imagined what was about to happen, before it began to spin, the mouse quickly casted Stopga, which worked, freezing the opponent, allowing Mickey to strike once again, and enough to actually get to Formchange and use the Star Shard's power again.
Having the tornado interrupted, the Nobody teleported once again in front of Mickey to strike with the Scythe, but now having the Shard, Mickey dodged by teleporting behind the Sentinel, making the hit completely miss, and giving another opening, but instead of teleporting away after this combo, it charged energy for half a second, before releasing it in a burst which sent Mickey away, the Sentinel then hovered high to the air, at the peak of the barrier, and raised the scythe.
White petals and energy started to converge there, forming a massive and powerful silver energy ball with petals flowing, and the Sentinel throws it at Mickey.
There wasn't really any place to run inside the barrier, so Mickey decided… that he had to deal with this head on, and leaped towards the orb.
Royal Deflection.
With a good spinning strike, Mickey attacked the energy orb, and sent it back to the White Coat, but it wouldn't end there as the Sentinel sliced the orb in half with the scythe so that wouldn't hit it, then send those two halves towards the King, who had to do two well timed strikes to send them back once again, which the Sentinel counters with yet another slice, slashing each orb in half again, now there being 8 smaller orbs, which it threw.
And now, Mickey had to do 4 perfectly timed strikes to deflect the orbs in groups of 2, this time managing to hit the Sentinel with all of them after some good counterattacks, making it fall to the ground.
Mickey landed, and looked at his opponent, which was seemingly fading… but then, it stands up and raises a hand… casting a small Cure on itself.
Mickey stepped back at the Nobody still going, and made another step back… when he saw the Sentinel divide itself in 2, there now being two Nobodies.
One of the White Coats teleported far away as its scythe glows, as it fired some half moon shaped beams from the scythe, while the other went to attack the King head on with its slashes, Mickey managed to use a Reflega in time to make one of the beams hit it, so when the other Nobody got closer, it got staggered by the energy burst, but, when Mickey leaped to attack, he only got to strike once as the other clone appeared and attacked, making Mickey need to dodge and unable to take the opening, then it teleported back far away as the first one recovered.
"Gee, now with two of them, they won't just let me hit the other, I'll have to deal with both at once in some way." Mickey said, trying to think in a plan.
The far away Nobody started to spin horizontally the Scythe, making a strong gust of wind that constantly pushed Mickey, while the closer Nobody went to strike, dodging correctly being harder due to the wind, and Mickey was forced to use a Curaga after this dual attack, ending without MP for some time.
"Hm, that's it, there is only one way to deal with both at once, and make sure they can't help the other!" He thought to himself, having something in mind.
They did again the crescent moon combo, and once again, Mickey used Reflega to stagger the Nobody, but when he leaped towards the melee Sentinel, he predicted that the other would appear again, and casted Stopga right then, freezing both.
"Now's my chance!" The king stated, as he pointed at both Nobodies with his Keyblade, and focusing a lot, Stopga was about to wear off…
The Sentinels got movement once again, but at the same time, Mickey managed, to fully charge his Shotlock.
"Ultima!" He exclaimed, as blue and white energy covered him.
A massive explosion of incredible power happened, completely catching the White Coats on it and destroying them, as the barrier was shattered too, Mickey vanished his Keyblade, exhausted, as he uses an Elixir to get back the big amount of energy he just used, then he looked at the still unconscious former Organization members.
"Well, I guess I examined enough for now, if what Ephemer's message said it's true, those two will have the information that we need." King Mickey said as he approached them.
In another world, in a dark castle, someone is walking on its halls, that person finally reaches a room, a big circular room with a glowing table in middle.
"It is time, over a year has passed since the member from that Organization beat me to the Box, but oh, I've done my research, and soon, I will have my own group too, better than the first one, and with it, the Box will be truly mine."
Maleficent said with a twisted smile, grabbing her staff.