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Chapter VIII
Guardians and Fairies
1700hrs, June 25th, 2024
RGRC HQ, Radiant Garden
"It would be cool if we had a symbol too," Ventus said. He and the other Keyblade wielders were talking in the house of the Restoration Committee since their guild was still being built. They couldn't see the building since Phineas and Ferb wanted to surprise them, so they have to wait a little longer.
"A symbol?" asked Kairi, tilting her head to the side.
"Yeah, so people can recognize us by just looking at it," the blond replied.
"I see," Sora said, "but, what kind of symbol could suit our guild?"
"Well, I already thought of something," Ven said proudly.
"Really?" asked Terra, and the boy nodded before showing to the others a paper with the guild's symbol he wanted.
"Hey, isn't that my crown?" Sora asked when he saw that Ven drew in the paper a crown that was exactly the same as the one of his necklace.
"Yes, it is," Ven said grinning. "A lot of people know you out there, so I thought that if we put this symbol in our clothes, maybe they'll know that we're your allies. Besides, you're the Guild Master, so it's a good idea, don't you think?"
Sora chuckled. "Maybe you're right, but we'll have to find someone who can print the symbol in your clothes. Maybe a badge would be better."
"We have to do something with our black coats too," Terra said. "Maybe we should put the symbol on them too since Roxas, Xion and Lea surely will wear those coats as their combat outfit."
"Hey, guys," said Leon, who walked to the table where the Keyblade wielders were.
"What is it, Leon?" asked Sora.
"Someone wants to talk with you," Yuffie replied, pointing with her thumb at a young woman who had brown hair and eyes and was wearing glasses. She was also wearing the uniform of the Military, which puzzled the Keyblade wielders since they wondered why a soldier wanted to talk with them. The six walked to where the woman was, and when they arrived she greeted them.
"Hello, everyone!" she said with a smile. "My name is Hange Zoë, nice to meet you!"
"Likewise," Aqua said politely, "we are-"
"Oh, you don't have to introduce yourselves, I already know who you are," Hange said, looking at the Keyblade wielders. "Anyway, as Leon told you, I wanted to talk about something with you."
"Something about the Heartless?" Riku asked.
"Yup, take a look at this," Hange said before showing to the Keyblade wielder something that she was saving in her pocket. It was a sphere with the same green color as the one that Sora found. Kairi was very surprised to see the same sphere she had, so she also took it from her pocket.
"They are identical…" Kairi said.
"Where did you get that, Hange?" asked Sora, looking at the woman with a serious face.
"My squad fought against a big group of Heartless, and this little thing was inside of one of them," Hange answered. "I was about to take it when another Heartless approached me, however, it ignored me and started looking closely at the sphere before eating it."
"The Heartless ate the sphere?" asked a confused Ventus.
"Yeah, it surprised me too," Hange continued. "But what was more disconcerting was that just after the Heartless ate the sphere, more Heartless appeared. It was as if this was a Heartless magnet."
"You said that the Heartless ignored you until it ate the sphere, right?" asked Terra.
"That's right, but it attacked me after that," the young woman replied. "You guys are more experience with…magic things, so I thought that maybe you would like to know this. It's possible that someone's using this to attract Heartless to specific places."
"That is very useful information, thanks for sharing it with us," Aqua said gratefully.
"Come on, you don't have to thank me, we're all together in this fight, right?" Hange said smiling, and then she noticed the brown-haired boy who was looking at the floor. "Oh, you're Sora, right?"
"Uh, yes, I am," Sora said after coming back to his senses, and then Hange grabbed his hands, which took the boy by surprise.
"I heard a lot about you," she said. "You've been fighting the Heartless for a long time, so I suppose you know a lot about them right? You see, I'm really interested in these creatures, so I'd love if someday you and I can talk about the Heartless. I'm sure I can learn a lot from them thanks to you!"
"R-right, I don't mind," Sora accepted. He couldn't say no since Hange was looking at him with sparkles on her eyes, besides, she also looked kind of obsessed with the Heartless, so he thought it would be better to not argue with her.
"It attracts other Heartless…" Ven muttered, so only the Keyblade wielders could hear him.
"It seems that it doesn't work unless it's inside of a Heartless, otherwise we would have been attacked," Aqua said.
"But she said that a Heartless ignored her when it saw the sphere…" Terra said, crossing his arms in a thinking gesture. "Maybe the effect changes when the sphere is inside a Heartless."
"That would explain it," Kairi said.
"Explain what?" asked Terra.
"The reason Sora feels weird when he is close to that sphere," Riku answered. At first, Aqua, Terra and Ventus didn't get what Riku and Kairi said, but it didn't take him long to remember that Sora was able to transform into a Heartless due to his transformation when he sacrificed himself to save Kairi.
"Right, I almost forgot about that," Terra said while scratching his head. "Has he tried to control it?"
"Yeah, we trained in Destiny Islands, and he's now able to transform at will," Kairi said, and it was obvious that she didn't like to talk much about this issue. "But, he ends up losing control if he is in his Heartless form for too long."
"You know that he's quite sensitive to the darkness, so he's trying really hard to control it," Riku said.
"Well, at least he can control it more than before," Ven said, trying to cheer up Kairi since he noticed that she was a bit sad. "I'm sure he'll be able to fully control it soon."
"Maybe you're right," Kairi said, and she started smiling, and then they could hear someone outside using a megaphone, and Sora and Ventus recognized the voice, it was Phineas, one of the kids who were in charge of building their guild.
"Attention, Keyblade wielders!" Phineas said using the megaphone. "Come outside, we have something for you!"
The Keybearers went outside and saw Phineas with the megaphone, but what left them astonished was the building that was at their left and next to the committee's one. Their guild was finished and it looked awesome, it even had a board on the façade with the name of the guild.
"The exterior design is similar to the other houses of Radiant Garden since it looks more natural, but the inside is more modern," Phineas said with a smile before walking to the entrance. "C'mon, I'll show you!"
Sora and the others followed the boy and crossed the door of the building, and they couldn't believe what those two kids made, it was amazing, and as Phineas said, it was more modern than the exterior design.
"Woah," the Keybearers said as soon as they saw the interior of the building.
"As you can see, the main room is very spacious, so you can relax and talk about missions or whatever you want," Phineas explained. "There's a kitchen behind that door, and a game room behind that one. In the lower level there's a training room, Ferb thought you might want to stay in shape when you're not on a mission."
"You've thought of everything," Ventus said very impressed. "What's on the top floor?"
"Your rooms," Phineas answered. "If I'm not mistaken, Riku told me that you were going to be at least ten people, but we made more rooms just in case. There's a bathroom in every room, so don't worry about that."
"That's good to hear," Aqua said, and Kairi nodded in agreement.
"Hey, what's that?" Terra asked, and Phineas turned to see what the Keyblade wielder meant, and saw that he was looking at a computer that looked like Cid's.
"Oh, it's a computer, and a really good one I have to say," the redhead boy said proudly. "You can communicate with different worlds if you want to, and that's just one of his multiple functions! I recommend that only someone who knows a lot about computers uses it thought."
"Then, you better not touch it, Sora," Riku said jokingly, and the brown spiky Keybearer glared at him while Kairi giggled.
"Naminé is good with these kinds of things, so we should let her take care of this," Terra said, and the others agreed.
"Well, there are more things, but I'll let you find out by yourselves," Phineas said. "I hope you like it."
"You did an amazing job," Sora said. "How much is it?"
"Oh, don't worry about the money, this one is free," Phineas said, which surprised Sora. "We can't charge the people who have been saving the universe these years."
"Wow, thanks," Sora said really grateful, "by the way, may I ask you a question?"
"Go ahead," the boy said.
"How did you get here?" asked Sora. "I know you're not from this world, and I'm curious to know how you managed to get here."
"Well, let's say that we're good at building things," Phineas replied smiling. "But don't worry, we can return to our home whenever we want."
"That's good to hear," Riku said. "By the way, are you the ones who are going to build the coliseum?"
"Yeah, some members of the Restoration Committee are going to help us too, and maybe some we bring some friends of us here too," Phineas said before start walking to the exit. "Well, see you around…oh, I almost forgot, Leon told me to give you this, Sora."
"Oh, thanks," said Sora as he took a paper from Phineas' hand, and then the kid left.
"What is it?" asked Aqua curiously, and Sora grinned when he finished reading the paper.
"It looks like we're official now," he said, and the others started smiling too. "From now on we are…the Light Guardians."
-TLG-
The Light Guardians Guild has been official for a month, and they've gained a good reputation in Radiant Garden by defeating all the Heartless that the Military couldn't handle, however, they didn't know which worlds they should protect apart from Radiant Garden since they couldn't know which ones Maleficent was going to attack. They went to a few worlds where they've been before, but everything was all right there. Sora even tried to see if he could feel the spheres, but it looks like if you're not a full Heartless, it doesn't work unless you're close to it.
"Where could I go now?" thought Sora. He was lying on a couch as he thought about which world he should visit now. The only ones who were in city were Aqua and Terra, the others were still in Radiant Garden, but they went to visit the other towns that were outside. Roxas, Naminé and Xion were still in Twilight Town, and Sora wondered when they were going to come.
"Hey, lazy bum," said someone, and Sora turned his head to see that it was Yuffie, who used the door that connected the guild with the committee's building.
"Hi, Yuffie, do you want something?" asked Sora.
"We saw that you guys were a bit frustrated because you don't know which worlds are under the attack of Heartless," Yuffie replied.
"Yes, that's right," Sora said in a low voice.
"I think you'd like to know that we have the solution for that," the ninja said with a grin on her face. "Come on, stand up and follow me."
"All right," said Sora, and he followed the black-haired girl to the committee's building. They walked to where Cid was, and Sora saw that he was working on his computer, as always.
"Hey, gramps, tell Sora what we did," Yuffie said, and Cid grunted when he heard the nickname the girl used.
"Did you find a way to detect the Heartless in other worlds?" asked a really expectant Sora.
"You could say it," Cid said. "Thanks to the spheres you and that crazy woman found, we are able to detect other spheres. Restoring the city isn't the only thing we've done these years, we also travelled to other worlds, and while we were on the space, we put special satellites and we're using them to do this."
"Satellites…whose idea was it?" asked Sora.
"Ansem the Wise," Yuffie said, which really surprised Sora, but he was glad that the man had the idea of doing that, now he and the other Keyblade wielders were able to know where to go.
"We should put more satellites since at this moment the computer only detects one sphere," Cid said, and then he realized something. "Hey, I think I know this world."
"Really?" asked Yuffie. "Let me see…hey, isn't that the world where you were two years ago, Sora? I remember that we called you because I heard Maleficent saying that she was going to attack it….Earth Land, was it?"
"Earth Land?" asked a surprised Sora, and when he saw the world on Cid's computer he could confirm that is was Earth Land indeed. A smile appeared on the boy's face when he remembered the friends he made there, and besides, that's where he got the idea of making the guild, so he thought that now was a perfect opportunity to see them again.
"You should go there as soon as possible," Cid said as he started typing something. "I'll prepare a Gummi Ship for you, and maybe you should someone to go with you."
"Yeah, I would ask Riku and Kairi to come with me, but they're not in the city at this moment," Sora said, "but Terra and Aqua are good options too."
-TLG-
1320hrs, July 26th, 2024
Fiore, Earth Land
"What a drag…" said a girl who had brown eyes and shoulder length blonde hair tied in a small ponytail to the right side of her head. "I can't believe Natsu got lost in the same city again."
"Well, it's our fault for taking that carriage again," said the blue cat that was walking with the girl. "You know how Natsu is when it comes to vehicles, he couldn't do anything when the horses panicked and ran off."
The blonde sighed. "I just want to finish this job as soon as possible so I can go sightseeing. The last time I couldn't do it because of that stupid talking stick."
"Don't worry about that, Lucy, I'm sure that we'll be able to finish this job quickly without Natsu," the cat said. "Erza and the others came with us too after all."
"Maybe you're right, Happy," the girl called Lucy said. "There's something about this job that bugs me though, but I don't know why…"
"I don't see what the problem is," the cat, who was called Happy, said. "The person who sent the request said that this city was attacked by a monster, and we have to take care of it."
"Yeah, but we haven't seen any monster since we arrived," Lucy said concernedly.
"Excuse me," Lucy and Happy heard, so they turned their heads and saw a young woman with blue hair and eyes.
"Hello, can we help you?" Lucy said kindly.
"Yes, I'm looking for two people and I was wondering if you've seen them," the young woman replied. "One of them is a boy around my age with brown spiky hair and blue eyes, and the other one is also a boy with the same features, but younger and with messier hair."
"I haven't seen anyone who fits that description," the blonde said. "And you, Happy?"
"Me neither," the blue cat said. "Actually, we're looking for someone too, a guy with messy and spiky pink hair, did you see him?"
"Sorry, but I can't help you either," the bluenette said, and then she knelt and started to pet him while smiling. "Your name is Happy, right? Not every day I meet talking cats like you."
"Aye, Happy is my name!" said the cat. "And not every day I meet kind people like you."
"Why do I feel that he was referring to me?" thought Lucy, and then she decided to introduce herself to the blue haired woman since she looked like a good person. "By the way, my name is Lucy."
"Oh, I'm Aqua," the bluenette said with a smile, "nice to meet you, Lucy and Happy."
"Say, how did you separate from your friends?" asked Lucy curiously as the three walked together around the city. "Although this city is really big, so it doesn't surprise me."
"Well, we were looking for something here, so we thought we'd find it faster if we split up," Aqua answered. "But as you said, this place is really big, and none of us have been in this city before."
"What were you looking for?" asked Happy.
"Well, we heard there's a monster in this city, so we came to defeat it," Aqua replied. At first she was reluctant to answer, but she realized that there was no reason to not tell Lucy and Happy about it.
"Really?" said Lucy surprised. "We're also here for that. We came with other people to this city because someone sent us a request asking us to take care of that monster."
"A request?" said Aqua. "Oh, you must be from a guild then, am I right?"
"That's right, we're from Fairy Tail, the most powerful Mages Guild in Fiore," Lucy said proudly. "Have you heard of it?"
"I think so, but I'm not from here, so I don't know much about it," Aqua said. The name of Lucy's guild sounded familiar to her, but she didn't know where she heard it before. "Hey, do you mind if we look for our friends together? Maybe we can find them faster this way."
"I think it's a good idea," Lucy said smiling. "Maybe the other members of our guild have seen your two friends, let's see if we can find them."
-TLG-
Sora was also a bit lost in the city since it was the first time he visited it. He was looking for Terra and Aqua, but he couldn't find any of them and was starting to get kind of frustrated, besides, there weren't any signals of the Heartless they were looking for either.
"This city is huge," Sora said as he walked around the city where, according to Cid's computer, there's a Heartless with a magic sphere. "We shouldn't have split up…"
The Keyblade wielder continued wandering around the city, and when he started walking down some stairs, he saw a guy leaning on a wall and looking at the ground, and he didn't look very well, but what surprised Sora the most was that he knew that person.
"I-I feel so sick…" the guy said. He had messy spiky pink-colored hair, and was wearing a scale-patterned scarf around his neck.
"Natsu?" said Sora, and the pink-haired boy turned his head to look at the Keybearer. A wide smile appeared on Sora's face when Natsu looked at him, but the mage just looked at Sora with a perplexed face mixed with sickness.
"Great, now I'm seeing visions," Natsu said after he looked at the ground again.
"Hey, don't doubt my existence," said an amused Sora as he approached Natsu. "What happened to you? Did you come to this city using a vehicle?"
"You even sound like him," Natsu said, still not being able to walk by his own.
"I'm telling you I'm the real one," Sora said, and then he put Natsu's left arm around his own shoulder to help him walk. "Here, let me help you."
"You're a good guy, just like him," Natsu said with a smile, but he still had a sick look on his face. "I'm Natsu, a mage from Fairy Tail."
"Yeah, I know that…" Sora answered as he and Natsu walked slowly.
"T-the most powerful…Mages Guild, haven't you…heard of it?" the pink-haired boy asked.
The Keybearer sighed when he realized that Natsu wasn't going to recover soon, but he thought of something that could help him doing it. Sora cast a fireball in his right hand and told Natsu to open his mouth, and then he put the fireball in it and the mage swallowed it.
"Say, how are you feeling now?" asked Sora, and Natsu removed his arm from Sora's shoulder when he started feeling better, in fact, he felt great after eating Sora's fireball.
"This magic…I've eaten it before…" Natsu said while trying to remember from whom was the magic he just ate, and then he looked at the boy who was next to him. "You're Sora!"
"About time you realize it, don't you think?" said Sora smiling.
"Man, I'm so glad to see you!" Natsu said, returning the smile, but then he noticed something strange and started looking closely at Sora while rubbing his chin.
"What is it?" asked Sora.
"You look kind of young," Natsu replied, which confused Sora. "You're definitely taller, but I don't think you look older than Erza."
"Well, it's been almost two years, so it's normal I've grown up," Sora said. "And why would I be older than Erza?"
"Two years?" said Natsu. "It's been seven years since you were here. It was year 784 when you joined the guild, and we're now in 791."
"What?!" said Sora, who couldn't believe what Natsu said, but there was something that wasn't right with what the mage said. "Wait a moment, how's that you look just like when I met you? You haven't aged one bit."
"Oh, about that…" Natsu said while scratching the back of his head. "Hey, how about we eat something and we talk about it?"
"Sounds good to me," Sora said with a grin on his face.
-TLG-
In another part of the city, two people from the same guild as Natsu, Lucy and Happy where also looking for the monster that it's supposed to be in the city, but they weren't having much luck either.
"Geez, this is supposed to be a collaborating work, we shouldn't have split up," said one of them. He was a young man with spiky black hair and dark blue eyes.
"I forgot how big this city is," said the other person, who was a young woman with long scarlet hair and brown eyes. "I'm sure the others are fine, but you're right, we should look for them."
"We don't even know what we are looking for," said the man, referring to the monster. "The request just said that a monster attacked the city, but we haven't seen any monster yet."
"It's strange indeed," the woman said while nodding.
"Well, let's look for them and finish this job at once," the man said before someone walked near him and hit his arm by accident.
"Ah, sorry for bumping into you," said the person, who had brown spiked hair and blue eyes.
"It's okay," the black-haired man said, and when the other guy was about to continue walking, the redhead woman stopped him.
"Wait a moment," she said, and the man stopped. "How old are you?"
"Uh?" the brown-haired man raised an eyebrow at the woman, confused by her question.
"Hey, Erza, why are you asking him that?" the male mage asked. "You can't go asking people their ages just like that."
"I'm twenty two," the man answered slightly amused, and the woman, who was called Erza, looked at him with a stunned expression, which confused the two men even more.
"Do…do you recognize us? I mean, do you think we've met before?" Erza asked. The redhead mage had the same feeling she had when she met a certain person a time ago, and she wanted to know if that man was that person.
"I don't think so," the man said. "My name's Terra, does it sound familiar to you?"
"Oh, sorry, I thought you were someone I know," Erza said, kind of embarrassed. "The features are similar, more or less, but it looks like it's not him."
"You could have just asked that last question instead of interrogating him," the black-haired man said.
"Don't worry about it, I didn't mind," Terra assured, and the mage smiled. Terra looked like a good guy to Gray, so he decided to introduce himself.
"I'm Gray Fullbuster," he said. "You looked in a hurry before you bumped into me, it is something wrong?"
"I was just looking for two friends of mine," Terra replied. "We split up when we arrived because there's something we're looking for, and we thought it'd be better that way, but none of us have been in this city before, so…"
"I see, this city is pretty big, so it's normal you can't find them now," Erza said. "We'll help you find your friends. I'm Erza Scarlet by the way."
"I don't want to bother you, I'll look for them on my own," Terra said.
"I must insist," the redhead said. "If we don't help someone who needs it, we couldn't call ourselves mages from Fairy Tail."
"Fairy Tail?" said Terra while crossing his arms as a thinking gesture.
"Haven't you heard about it?" asked a surprised Gray.
"I'm not from here, but I do have heard about that guild," Terra answered. "Not sure where though…anyway, if you're willing to help me, I'll gladly accept your offer."
"That's good," Erza said smiling, and then they started to walk together.
"What do your friends look like?" asked Gray.
"One of them is a young woman with blue hair and eyes, and the other one is a boy with messy brown spiky hair and blue eyes too," Terra replied.
"You said you were looking for something in this city," Erza said. "Could you tell us what is it?"
"They are from a guild, so maybe they could help us," Terra thought before answering the question. "We're looking for a monster, I don't know if you've heard something about that."
"You too?" asked Gray surprised. "We're here because someone sent us a request, saying that a monster attacked the city not long ago."
"We can take care of it together then," Terra said.
"Are you from a guild too?" Erza asked curiously.
"Yeah, I'm from-"
"Erza-san, Gray-san!" called someone, interrupting Terra. It was a girl younger than them, about twelve years old, and had long dark blue hair tied into two ponytails and brown eyes. Terra saw that behind the girl there was a white female cat, and it surprised him when he noticed the two wings it had on its back.
"Wendy, Carla, could you find Natsu?" asked Erza to the girl and the cat.
"No, we couldn't find him," the cat said. "This city is too big, so I think it'd be better if we wait until the monster appears. Natsu will go after it and it would be easier to find him."
"I hope he's all right after what happened with the carriage," the little girl said before realizing that there was someone who she didn't know. There was something in Terra's outfit that caught the girl's attention, a small silver crown that was in Terra's belt. After looking at the crown, she raised her head to look at the man's face, and her expression was just like the one Erza had when Terra told her his age.
"Excuse me, who are you?" the cat asked.
"His name is Terra, he's going to help us with our mission," Erza replied, and Wendy came back to her senses. "Two friends of his are in the city, so we're going to help him with that too."
"Oh, my name is Wendy, nice to meet you, Terra-san," Wendy said while bowing. "The crown is just like his…"
"I'm Carla, it's a pleasure," the white cat said. It surprised him a little when the cat talked, but it wasn't something strange to him since he knew a mouse, a duck and a dog that were able to talk too.
"Likewise," Terra said before looking at Erza. "Do you know what the monster looks like?"
"Unfortunately, the person who sent the request didn't give us any information about the monster's appearance," the redhead replied. "But according to some people, it's really big and black-colored."
"It's really strange since we haven't seen it yet," Gray said. "I know the city is big, but even so…"
"A Heartless, without a doubt," Terra thought. He was about to ask Wendy and Carla about Aqua and Sora when more people approached him and the others. This time they were a blonde girl and another cat, but it was blue and male, and to Terra's surprise, Aqua was with them.
"Hey, guys!" the blonde said.
"Could you find him, Lucy?" asked Erza, referring to Natsu, and Lucy shook her head.
"But we've met someone," Happy said before flying around the blue-haired woman. "She's Aqua, and we're helping her to find her friends, who are lost in the city."
"It's a pleasure, my name's Erza, and these are Gray, Wendy, Carla-" the redhead mage said, and when she was about to introduce Terra to the young woman, he interrupted her.
"Aqua!" said Terra, and the bluenette looked at him.
"Terra!" said a surprised Aqua. "Finally, I thought I was going to look for you the entire day."
"I told you that we shouldn't have split up," Terra said, crossing his arms. "Well, at least we're together again."
"Aqua, is this one of your friends?" Lucy asked, and the blue-haired woman nodded. "Well, nice to meet you then, I'm Lucy."
"And I'm Happy!" the blue cat said.
"It seems that now we're all missing someone in this city…Natsu is still lost," Gray said, and then he looked at Terra and Aqua, "and you two still have another friend to look for too."
"True…you haven't seen him, have you?" Terra asked, looking at Aqua, who shook her head, but neither of them looked very concerned since their friend was able to take care of himself perfectly.
"Maybe Natsu it's with him," Happy said.
"It's a possibility," Lucy said. "I just hope they don't start fighting each other like Natsu did when he met Haru."
"I wouldn't worry about that," Terra assured with a smile. "He likes to fight, but it's not like he picks up fights with every person he meets."
"I suppose you three belong to the same guild, right?" Erza said when she remembered that Terra told her that he was a member of some guild.
"Yes, the three of us are here to take care of that monster, just like you," Terra answered.
"You're from a guild, Aqua?" asked a surprised Lucy.
"Right, I forgot to mention that," Aqua said smiling a bit embarrassed. "The guild has been official for twenty days only, so we're kind of new in this."
Lucy was about to ask about their guild when a great number of dark monsters appeared behind Terra and Aqua, and this shocked the mages, who recognized the creatures immediately.
"Terra, Aqua, behind you!" Erza exclaimed, and then, as fast as lightning, the two summoned their weapons. Terra's weapon was a large sword that had an extravagant brown blade with teeth on both sides at the tip of it, and the hand guard was blue and had a wing-like shape. Aqua's sword was grey and black and it looked like a big key, just like Terra's but smaller in length.
The brown-haired man performed a spinning attack, which created a whirlwind that picked up all the dark creatures and sent flying the ones who weren't destroyed by the attack.
"Took them long enough to appear," Terra said, and Aqua blasted the rest of the monsters with a bolt of lightning that shocked all of them when it hit one of the creatures.
"There were a lot of them, it's strange that they didn't show up before," Aqua said, and then she looked at the mages, who were looking at Terra and her speechless.
"Those were…Heartless…" Lucy said wide-eyed.
"Those weapons…" Carla said, looking at the swords with the same expression as Lucy.
"You guys are…Keyblade wielders?" Gray asked, and Terra and Aqua turned around to look at the mages.
"You know about the Keyblade?" asked a surprised Terra, and the mages of Fairy Tail nodded. They were still shocked since they didn't expect Aqua and Terra to be Keyblade wielders, although some of them had the feeling they were.
"Of course, Fairy Tail," Aqua said when she remembered where she heard about that Mages Guild, and then she noticed the mark Wendy had on her right shoulder.
"W-what is it, Aqua-san?" asked Wendy nervously when the young woman looked at her.
"Is that the mark of your guild?" the female Keyblade wielder asked, and Wendy nodded. "Then, your guild is the one he told us about...you know Sora, right?"
"Yes, we know him!" Lucy said with a smile that appeared on her face as soon as she heard the boy's name.
"I thought so," Aqua said. "He has that mark on his left hand, so you must be friends of his."
"So, you two know Sora too?" Happy commented.
"Well, it would be strange if the members of a guild don't know each other, don't you think?" Terra said. "And besides, I think a lot of people know about him, after all he's done around the worlds."
"That's true," said Gray smirking.
"Your guild name…is Light Guardians, by any chance?" Erza asked, and this surprised the two Keyblade wielders.
"Wow, you know about it already?" asked the blue-haired Keybearer really surprised.
"Here, news spread faster than you think," Carla said. "And after Sora's last visit, the people of this world got interested about Keyblade wielders, so it's not very strange to hear that kind of news here."
"How is Sora-san? Is he all right?" asked Wendy, wondering how the young Keyblade wielder was doing.
"Yes, he's perfectly fine, same Sora as always," Aqua said with a smile that Wendy returned.
Before they could continue talking, more Heartless appeared in the same place where the others emerged. Gray could react faster than the others, and used his magic to create several lances made of ice that impaled some of the creatures.
"These guys are as persistent as ever," the Ice Mage said as more Heartless charged at the group. Air Soldier Heartless tried to attack the mages, but Wendy stopped them before they could do it.
"Tenryū no Hōkō!" the bluenette girl exclaimed as she breathed a hurricane-like blast at the Heartless, destroying all of them with it.
"What an amazing magic," thought the Keyblade wielders, impressed to see how strong the mages were. There was still some Heartless alive, but then someone burned all of them with an explosion of fire, which almost hit Terra and Aqua, but they could step back before the flames could get them.
"What was that!?" asked Terra.
Lucy sighed. "That would be Natsu," she said, and then a boy with pink hair landed where the Heartless were and approached the group.
"Hey, guys!" he said.
"About time you appeared, flame-brain," Gray said. "How did you find us?"
"I saw Wendy's attack, so I came here as fast as I could, and I smelt Heartless too…actually, I think there's still one around here," Natsu answered, and then he noticed that Lucy was looking at something that was behind him.
"I think I found the Heartless," the blonde said, pointing at the Darkside that emerged from the ground. The mages of Fairy Tail had already seen a similar Heartless to the Darkside, but that didn't mean they weren't shocked to see a Heartless with that size.
"This must be the one that has the sphere," Terra said to Aqua as he prepared to fight.
"Sphere?" thought the mages as they prepared to fight too. Aqua and Terra could destroy the Darkside in a few seconds, but when they were going to charge at the Darkside, the Heartless fell to the ground, as if someone knocked it out.
"What happened?" Erza said, looking at the unconscious creature with a perplexed face. The Heartless started vanishing, and that meant that someone defeated him before the group could even start fighting. The mages of Fairy Tail noticed that someone was standing on the Heartless, a boy with brown spiky hair and black clothes, and they recognized him immediately…it was Sora.
"What a mess," Sora said as he got off the Heartless, and when the creature vanished completely, a green sphere rolled to the boy's feet. Sora crouched to grab the sphere and quickly tossed it to Terra, who caught it and put it in his pocket.
"Nice job," Terra said. "I wondered when you were going to appear."
"I told you that I didn't know this city, so it wasn't a good idea to split up," Sora said.
"Don't complain, you agreed to do it at the end," Aqua said. "Whose idea was it, anyway?"
"Yours," Terra and Sora replied.
"Oh, right…" Aqua said laughing nervously, and the other two couldn't help but laugh at her. After laughing, Sora looked at the mages of Fairy Tail, and smiled at them, but when they just looked at him speechless, he started getting kind of nervous.
"Are you going to say something? This is getting awkwa-" Sora said, and before he could finish, Lucy, Wendy and Happy tackled him into a hug and he almost fall. "Hey, not so-oh, whatever…"
"Sora, you're back!" Lucy said happily.
"We're so happy to see you!" Wendy added cheerfully.
"Did you bring me a fish?" asked Happy, who was hugging Sora's head.
"What kind of welcome is that, Happy? Anyway, I'm glad to see you too," Sora asked amusedly as he hugged Lucy and Wendy back. Aqua and Terra smiled at the scene, happy to see how much the mages appreciated Sora. Wendy and Lucy let go of Sora to take a look at him since they noticed he was kind of taller.
"Wow, you've grown up a lot," she said, amazed to see how Sora's changed since the last time.
"I wonder how many people have told me that by now," Sora said, and Lucy smiled.
"Well, you look more mature than before," said Carla, who was also happy to see the Keyblade wielder.
Sora chuckled. "I'll take that as a compliment," he said, and then Gray and Erza approached him.
"At least you're still the same," Gray said smirking. "It's good to see you, buddy."
"Likewise, Gray…I see you haven't changed either," Sora said, and the Ice Mage raised an eyebrow, confused by what Sora said. "Your clothes, man…"
"Argh!" said Gray when he realized that he was only wearing his underwear. Then, Erza got closer to Sora, this time she didn't have to lean to look closely at his face like when they met since Sora was taller, but the serious expression on her face was the same.
"This feels familiar," muttered Sora, who didn't get nervous this time when Erza started to look closely at him with her penetrating gaze.
"You look…younger than I expected you to be," Erza said while touching her chin as a thinking gesture.
"Says the one who hasn't aged at all," Sora said, crossing his arms and smiling at Erza, who realized that Sora was right, none of the mages aged while he was older than the last time he was in Fiore.
"You don't look very surprised," Lucy said. "Besides, you look much younger than you should be too."
"That's because, while here seven years have passed, it has been only two years out there," Natsu said, which shocked the others.
"Two years!?" they asked in disbelief.
"And seven years have passed in this world," muttered Aqua and Terra, and the latter realized something.
"So, that's why you asked me about my age," Terra said, looking at Erza. "You thought I was Sora, right?"
"That's right," Erza admitted. "When I saw you, I felt a power that was similar to Sora's, so I was surprised when you told me your age, but I discarded the possibility when you told us your name."
"How could you think I was this guy?" asked Sora, pointing with his thumb at Terra.
"Hey, watch it," Terra said, and Aqua laughed.
"Hey, Lucy, what day is today?" Sora asked, which confused the blonde a little, but she answered anyway.
"July 26th, why?" Lucy asked curiously.
"The date is the same..." Sora muttered.
"Wait, you think Kingdom Hearts has to do something with this?" Aqua asked.
"Kingdom Hearts? What's that?" Happy asked.
"It's kind of complicated, so I'll explain you later, okay?" Sora answered, and the mages nodded.
"Well, either way, I'm really happy to see you again, Sora," Erza said with a warm smile as she grabbed Sora's head and hugged him, making his head collide with her armor.
"By the way, it was amazing how you defeated that Heartless so fast," Natsu said. "You're much stronger than before."
"I haven't been wasting time these years," Sora said, and then a defiant smirk appeared on his ace. "Why? Do you want to see how strong I am?"
"You bet!" said Natsu, who was now cracking his knuckles, but before they could even start, Aqua and Erza stopped them at the same time. The blue-haired woman grabbed Sora's ear while Erza pushed Natsu's head, almost breaking his neck.
"Leave the fight for later," the two women said, and the others looked amused at the four.
"That was…curious," said Terra.
"It seems that there's someone like Erza among the Keyblade wielders," Happy said while eating a fish.
"Hey, Terra, we heard you were ten Keyblade wielders in the Light Guardians, is that true?" Gray asked.
"We're six at this moment, but we'll be ten as soon as the others join the guild," Terra replied.
"Who are the six members?" asked Carla, who wanted to know if the other two Keyblade wielders that protected Fiore were members of the Light Guardians too.
"You know Riku and Kairi, right? I think they were here too, if I remember correctly," Terra said.
"Oh, yes, we know them," Lucy said, glad to know that Sora's closest friends were also all right. "And who's the sixth member?"
"Ventus," Terra replied, "he's a good friend of Aqua and mine, and is the same age as Sora and Kairi."
"It looks like the Keyblade likes to choose young people to wield it," Carla remarked. "Anyway, talking about guilds, we should return to ours."
"You're right," Lucy said.
"Sora-san, would you come with us to Magnolia?" Wendy asked the Keyblade wielder. "The others would like to know you're here."
"I was planning to do that, if you guys don't mind to return to Radiant Garden without me," Sora said, looking at Terra and Aqua.
"Sure, we don't mind," Terra assured. "Surely Cid has located more spheres, but don't worry, we'll take care of it."
"I'll tell the others that you wanted to stay here longer," Aqua said. "Maybe, I'll come back someday soon; I'm interested in the magic of this world."
"I see you're still a magic freak, just like when we were apprentices," Terra joked, and Aqua glared at him.
"So," began Sora, looking at the mages with a smile, "shall we return to the guild?"
-TLG-
So, what do you think? I used the same city where the Fairy Tail x Rave OVA takes place, I thought it would be a good city to use as reunion place. I wanted Natsu and the others to be the first, but the other members of Fairy Tail will be in the next chapter, so I'll make Sora stay in Fiore a little longer while the other Keyblade wielders work on their own.
The guild is official now, but they'll have to work to be known around the worlds since at this moment they're only well-known in Radiant Garden, although in Death City and Fiore there are also people who know about the guild.
Talking about Death City, there's a promotional video of the anime of "Soul Eater NOT!" It's been a while since I watched the anime of Soul Eater, so it'll be nice to see this one, even if it's a spin-off. Who knows? Maybe if we support "NOT", they'll reboot the anime of the main story, just like they did with Fullmetal Alchemist.
To JGM16: I know, but it would be a lot of work and there aren't many things to explain. There'll be some moments in the story where I explain what happened with Kingdom Hearts and the χ-blade, so don't worry if you're think you're missing some things.
To Anthony627AA: Thanks, I hope you liked this chapter too! I know it's a bit late, but Merry Christmas to you too!
To AnimeMasterDub: (1) As Phineas said in the chapter, they're really good at building things, and about Perry, maybe he's around Radiant Garden... (2) There will be a lot of characters in the tournament, but now I can confirm that, apart from the Light Guardians, the Spartoi Unit and the Mages Guilds that participated in the Grand Magic Games will take part in the tournament.
To Daxen123: As you said, the power level of the characters of DBZ are too damn high, so I don't think I'll put them in the story. I haven't planned anything for One Piece, but the story is long, so I wouldn't discard the possibility.
To Sunny Lighter: I'm glad you liked the debut of Phineas and Ferb in the story, it won't be the last time you see them, and I'm sure Perry will appear too. As you could read in this chapter, they went to Radiant Garden on their own.
To The Writer Of Fate: I'm happy to see that you liked the idea! I tried to describe some parts of the guild, but as you could read, they did a great job.
To keys of fate: The first visit to Fiore started in this chapter, so I hope you enjoyed it! It's good to have you in this fanfic too!
To Twisted-turtles: Not the Black Blood, it was his Heartless form the one who felt attracted to the sphere, although it doesn't affect him much since he's not a full Heartless.
To Ultima Z: I haven't heard of Shakugan no Shana, so maybe I'll take a look at it. There are a lot of animes I want to watch, to see if I can put them in this story.
To KH-Hardcorefan4483: I think it's a great idea to put that crazy scientist in the story, and some kind of Make-the-Heartless-obey-my-orders-inator too!
To kingdom hearts guy: Natsu and the others made their debut in this story in this chapter, but don't worry, the other mages will be in the next one!
To Great fan-M: (1) Yeah, luckily Ven saw Sasha with the food before she could eat it (2) It's a bit late, but Merry Christmas to you too!
To TigerOfGuy7139: Unfortunately for me, I haven't played Persona 4, I just watched a walkthrough recently, and I loved it, and as I watched it, an idea to put it in the fanfic came to my mind. Since I haven't played it, I'd like to ask you about the combat system when the story reaches that Arc. Team Natsu appeared in this chapter, and the others will be in the next one, but I'll have to come up with something so Sora can see Hisui again before he returns to Radiant Garden since she's now the around Sora's age.
To anon: Don't worry, the part with Fairy Tail will be longer than the Soul Eater one, but that doesn't mean it's going to be the only visit.
To TehZach1993: I'm glad you like my stories! There will be, of course, Disney worlds in this story too, it wouldn't be Kingdom Hearts if some Disney characters don't appear in the fanfic. About Notre Dame, I'll see what I can do.
To DustierKestrel: You guessed right! I think the hint was pretty obvious, don't you think?