This is where I start Chapter 2, I know Candace leaving was kind of like a child running from home, but I needed a reason for to leave, like abosolutezero001 did with Naruto, in Naruto: Keyblade Master, good story, but I still question why everyone had to betray Naruto, not everyone did anything wrong to him. I chose to give Candace the wand because not very many people chose the wand in the kingdom hearts games that I have seen. Also Candace telling Perry that she knew what he was, a secret agent was a shout out to two of my favorite fanfic stories called If Candace Knew: Across the Second Dimension and If Candace Knew: The Series. You rock Wii guy keep up the good work.
I do not own Phineas and Ferb or Kingdom Hearts.
Redemption Keyblade belongs to nachtwulf of devinart.
Chapter 2 Keyblades and Wayfinders
The Land of Departure-
Candace was outside staring into the night sky, looking up at all the stars. After being told by her teacher, Master Eraqus, that every star up there was the heart of another world and often stared out into the night sky wondering which one of those stars was her home. 'Which star is the heart of Danville' she thought. She also wondered about her family and friends. Did they think about her? Did they miss her? She had wondered that for about a year now and still had no answer. She missed all of them, Stacy and Jenny, her best friends, no, her sisters, Jeremy her boyfriend, her parents, Isabella who she also came to view as a sister, Buford, Baljeet, Perry, she missed them all. But most of all she missed Phineas and Ferb. Her little brothers, whom she greatly hurt. She wanted nothing more than to make things right with them. She decided she would return to her world when she became a Keyblade master, it also became a life's dream of hers just like the rest of the students who worked under Master Eraqus. She smiled as she remembered the day she decided to become an apprentice.
Flashback: One year ago-
When Candace came to she was in a small room. She looked around and saw the room was empty. She looked around to find that there was no one else in the room. She looked to the right and saw a bookshelf. She walked over to it and was about to grab one of the books when she heard a voice behind her.
"So you're finally up?"
She jumped in the air, like a startled cat. She turned around and saw a man with black hair and mustache, he also had a scar running across his right eye and left cheek. He wore a white and red coat that had a hood, along with small light-colored pants. Underneath his coat was a navy blue shirt with a large white X pattern on the front. He also had gold and black armored boots and had a dull blue-green section of armor that covered his abdomen.
Standing to his right was a man with brown hair that reached to the base of his neck and styled into a rather messy, vertical spikes and bangs that frame his face. His eyes were blue and had slightly tanned skin. He wore two intersecting straps over his chest, like the man, only it was the color red, instead of white. He also wore a skin-tight, black, high-collared shirt. His pants were dark grey near the top, with several loops for his belt and two buttons, both of which were undone. The rest of the pants were tan with a lighter stripe of tan on the bottom hem. He also on his right arm was a black wristband, while on his left arm had armor that had a large, ornate crest that was the color of gold and a long, segmented section with each segment alternating between dark grey and dark red. On his right hand was a black fingerless glove, also on this belt was an oddly shaped gold-colored emblem, he had armored boots that were dark brown and gold.
On the man's left was a woman with blue eyes, along with blue and short hair. She wore a black and blue, high-collared halter top with two pink intersecting belts over her chest which also had that weird emblem on them, only hers was silver instead of gold, and she also had black shorts. On her hands were white bell-sleeves and tan fingerless gloves. Like the brown-haired man she too had armor, only the armor was smaller and was on each of her upper arms. She wore black socks that seemed to go reached about halfway up her thighs. She was also wearing two strips of blue cloth that drape over either side of her hips, along with a smaller, white strip of cloth tied around her waist and draped the same way. Lastly, she wore pointed, armored, silver boots with a sharp hook on the outer side of each one.
"Glad to see you're okay" said the man with black hair.
"Where am I?" said Candace getting hysterical. "How did I get here?" "What is this place?" Who are you guys?"
The blue haired women giggled at her antics while the two men just sweat dropped at her.
"In order, you are in The Land of Departure, you fell from the sky, this place is my castle specifically the hospital wing, and my name is Eraqus and these are my students. The woman on my left is the one that found you her name is Aqua." The now named Eraqus said. Aqua waved at Candace and she waved back. "And the man on my right, his name is Terra". Terra nodded at Candace and she nodded back.
Then Candace went wide-eyed when she remembered something Eraqus had said and basically just screamed out the next question, "WHAT DO YOU MEAN, I FELL OUT OF THE SKY, AND HOW DID I LIVE? HOW AM I STILL BREATHING? HOW COME I HAVE NO BROKEN BONES? HOW COME..."
And she went on and on and on with the questions. Aqua was about to try to calm her down when Candace stopped and notice another bed in the room. This one had a teenage boy laying on it. The boy had golden brown hair that was spiky on the right-side of his head. He wore a jacket that was two different colors that you could refer to as the ancient yin and yang, black on the left and white on the right. Underneath the jacket was a grey vest with a single button and several white, angular patterns on it. He also had something underneath the vest was a plain, high-necked, black shirt. His pants were colored in shades of grey, black, and white. He also had a chunk of dull green and blue armor on his midsection that appeared under his vest, he also had another similar piece of armor on his left shoulder. On his left arm was a black and white wristband. He wore two crisscrossing straps on his chest, on which had the silver emblem that was similar to Aqua's and Terra's. Lastly, he wore normal street shoes in shades of dull green and blue.
"Who is this?" said Candace as she pointed to the boy on the bed.
"His name is Ventus," said Terra looking a little down.
"What's wrong?" asked Candace.
"It's my fault; he is like this," answered Terra.
"Will you stop it? It's not your fault, you didn't know, "said Aqua.
"What happened?" asked Candace now curious.
This time it was Eraqus who answered, "Ventus has no memories of his past," Candace went wide-eyed at that, this boy had amnesia. Then he spoke again "One of my colleague's Master Xehanort brought him to the castle, so I could teach him the art of the Keyblade, because for some reason he couldn't train him anymore."
"I began to ask him a lot of questions, it was too much for him and he grabbed his head, screamed and just passed out. He's been like this for a week now." said Terra. Candace got a sad look on her face. He probably felt really guilty about causing this boy pain as she did when she said horrible things to her brothers before she left home. She was about to speak when they all heard a groan. They turned to see that Ventus was starting to wake up. He opened his eye lids to revel cerulean blue eyes. He sat up and looked around the room to see four other people in the room.
"Glad to see you are okay Ventus" said Eraqus.
"Where am I?" said Ventus.
"The Land of Departure," said Eraqus.
"Huh?" said Ventus.
"Welcome to the club, kid" said Candace.
"First of all, my name is not kid, its Ventus, but call me Ven," he said.
"Sorry," said Candace.
"Its okay, what's your name, are you an apprentice to Eraqus too?" said Ven
"My name is Candace, and no I am not an apprentice to Eraqus," said Candace.
"So who are you an apprentice to then? Master Xehanort?" asked Aqua.
"First of all, I have no idea who this Xehanort is, "said Candace," secondly an apprentice for what exactly?"
"Why a Keyblade, of course, " said Terra.
"Key...blade?" asked Candace with a raised eyebrow.
All four people held out their right hand and in a flash of light, a sword appeared in each of their hands, but it did not look like any kind of swords, Candace had ever seen before. Terra's blade was a dark brown color, with brass edges. Instead of a pointed head on the blade there were teeth made up of two pick-like points, with two hammer-like protrusions on the opposite side. The guard was an off-blue color, and seemed like it was crafted from two Omega insignia. The pommel was a dark blue cone. At the end of the guard was a silver keychain that had a token made of what appeared as a reddish rock fragment with brass armor-like plating.
Aqua's blade was thin and predominantly a dull, metallic blue color. There was a teardrop-shaped gap in the base and near the tip of the blade's head of the blade was roughly diamond-shaped, though the left corner of the diamond was absent and there is another, small, white diamond on the inner edge of the right corner. Like Terra's, hers also near only the teeth were formed with four blue spikes lining the outer edge of the blade's head. The handle was smooth and black. The guard was angular, predominantly white, and did not fully connect to the blade. There was also a keychain on Aqua's blade, but it was light blue like the token at the end, you cloud say they were made of water droplets.
Ventus's blade was weird to say the least, it looked like it could held in reverse. It had a black handle that was offset from the blade and the guard was also misaligned. The guard was a dull gold color that joined with the shaft of the blade that fully enclosed the handle. The shaft was grey, thin, and had a very slight curve that went out. There were three thin, dull gold lines that decorated the middle of the shaft. Two short bars connected the main blade to the teeth. The teeth were grey, like the blade and had a wing-like shape. They were comprised by five curved bars that decreased in size the lower they were on the blade. The keychain looked light black and the token at the end it was a green gem with two sliver feathers spiraling around it.
Eraqus's blade had a smooth, cylindrical, grey shaft that tapered out at both ends. It had a boxy guard, made up of two small, light grey boxes and a copper rod. The base of the guard connected to the grip, and both sported several small indentations lining them up. The grip, however was different, while the other blade's grips were cylinder shaped, this grip was squared. The teeth were in the shape of an "E". The keychain was dark black, and the same as the badges they all wore on themselves only this one was black, instead of gold or silver.
"These are Keyblades," said Eraqus.
"OK," said Candace, a little put off by. "But I don't have one of those."
"Yes, you do," said Aqua. "You had it in your hand last night."
Candace just gave a face like. She never heard of Keyblades before. Suddenly a thought appeared in her head. She remembered her father, Patrick Flynn, had a sword that kind of resembled a key before. He even showed it to her many times, but never knew what it was called. He used to show it to her and her older sister Sophia Flynn all the time, even to Phineas once when he was one year old. Now a question appeared in her head.
"Do you know a Patrick Flynn?" asked Candace.
Eraqus's eyes widened, so did Terra and Aqua's when they heard that name. Then Eraqus spoke "Yes, he was one of my best pupils before he became a Keyblade Master and then decided to go and live in one of the worlds that he had grown accustomed to a few years later, why?"
"He was my father," said Candace.
"...WHAAAAAAAAAAAT?" shouted basically everyone in the room except Candace and Ventus, who covered his ears from the screaming.
Eraqus looked over Candace like he had just seen a ghost. Terra looked at her with a wide-eyed expression. Aqua looked at her in awe. Ventus was the only one who looked like he did not know anything.
"Who's Patrick Flynn?" asked Ventus.
Aqua spoke, "As Master Eraqus said, Master Patrick was his pupil before he left after becoming a Keyblade Master as well as a great mind, maybe a genius. But, we had heard he died about 10 years ago, in some accident after one of his inventions went wrong and burned down the house, but later after discovering his body, they found out that he was stabbed in his chest, but no murder weapon was found, they tried to look at the machine but, it was destroyed, so they could not investigate it, so the killer got away scott free. They never found out who did it? "
Candace stiffened at that. She knew all too well who her father's murderer was. But she was always too scared to say who it was. She also could not believe that person did it. She kept it a secret for two reasons. One, she was scared if she told who it was, she was afraid she would be killed. Second was a personal reason that we won't get into now.
"So I take it your father never told you about me, the worlds, or the Keyblade right?" asked Eraqus.
"No," said Candace, "But he did show me and my siblings his...what's it called again?"
"A Keyblade" said Terra.
"Yes, thank you," said Candace.
"So, I guess that is why you can wield a Keyblade," said Ventus.
"For the last time, I don't have a Keyblade!" said Candace a little irritated.
"Hold out your hand and concentrate on your heart," said Eraqus.
"But,"
"Just do it," said Terra.
Candace decides to just go with it. She held up her right hand and concentrated on her heart and in a flash of light something appeared in her hand. The guard was silver with holes and spikes that were in the shape of wings, on the top of the guard was a pair of golden wings, and on the handle were three blue opal stones. The handle seemed wrapped in purple straps. The blade was half silver and gold with golden spikes on the right-side that turned pale the closer it got to the head. On the left were silver spikes that looked wings, at the center were three blue opals at the center of the blade. At the top of the head was a golden point. The teeth were made up of a silver wing and a smaller golden wing. The keychain was silver with three gold spikes sticking out the end. In her head a voice whispered "Redemption."
"How?"
"Have you had your Dive to the Heart?" asked Master Eraqus
Candace looked a little confused by all of this, Keyblades, Dive to the Heart, worlds, what on the heck was going on?
"Let me explain, things to you, said Eraqus. "You see you can wield a Keyblade is powerful weapon that either goes to those with a strong heart or have inherited from a Keyblade master that has performed the Inheritance Ceremony on children they view as worthy successors. The job of the Keyblade Masters is to make sure the balance of light and darkness stays intact in all worlds."
"Worlds, how many are there exactly?" asked Candace.
"Look up at the stars outside the window, all of those stars are the hearts of the worlds, when a star goes out it means a world has been lost to darkness, "said Eraqus. "To continue, Keyblade Wielders go through the Dive to the Heart when it is time to unlock your Keyblade abilities and chose what abilities would they would be best at depending on what they chose as their path and what they gave up, after that happens you are found and trained by a master, usually by the person you inherited the abilities from. Sometimes, they just teach themselves. After a few years of training, Keybladers go through the Mark of Mastery Keyblade Exam, where they are tested to see if they have the skill and the heart to earn the title of Keyblade Master. Where they may eventually take apprentice or apprentices of their own and teach them continuing the legacy of the Keyblade. After you reach a certain age Keybladers goes around the worlds looking for children that have strong light in their hearts, and pass on the ability to wield a Keyblade through the Inheritance ceremony that I mentioned earlier."
'Could this be what I have looked for,' thought Candace. 'A chance at redemption.'
"There are those however that uses the Keyblade for evil," continued Eraqus. "They have let the darkness in their hearts corrupt them, so they go around the worlds with other beings of darkness, destroying other in habitants and helping the world fall to darkness."
Candace went wide-eyed at that, so some people who wielded the Keyblade were evil.
"So basically, there are those of light and darkness?" asked Candace.
"Yes," said Eraqus.
"Now, why don't you tell us about yourself?" asked Ventus.
Candace gave a sad look and just stared at the ground. Before anyone could ask what was wrong, Candace began to tell her story, from her birth to how she believed she got there. She told them everything except about her father's death. When she was finished, Aqua and Terra each had a frown on their face, Eraqus had a hardened look and Ventus looked a little angry.
"I can't believe you said that to your own brothers," shouted Ventus.
"And I regret it every moment since I left home, I plan on going back when I believe I can be a better sister, and to be honest I think I was jealous of them that they could do all of this amazing stuff at such a young age and I felt like I was just their shadow," said Candace. "So I left to seek my redemption, which just so happens is the name of this Keyblade, " she said showing her Keyblade to everyone.
"So do you have any idea, how you got here?" asked Eraqus.
"No," answered Candace. "Like I said, I saw a dark portal, walked up to look at it, and then I felt someone push me from behind."
"How did you survive the dark portal without becoming corrupted by the darkness?" asked Terra.
"I don't know, I just saw a light and went into it, and then I went through that Dive to the Heart thing you said, and her I am," finished Candace.
"Well it seems you have been given a second chance after all," said Eraqus.
"What do you mean?" asked Candace.
"How would you like to become one of my apprentices?" asked Eraqus. "I can train you like I trained your father."
Candace went wide-eyed, "Really," she asked.
"Really," answered Eraqus. "This could be the chance at redemption, you have sought, think about it you could see worlds not even your brothers could get to well as of right now any ways, you could save lives, meet new people, and vanquish evil, what do you say, " finished Eraqus with a smile.
Candace began to think, be places where not even her brothers could get to see yet, meet aliens but were still people through and through, save lives and vanquish evil. Seeing the look in her eyes, which was determination, the three apprentices and the master knew her answer.
"Yes."
End of flashback-
So Candace began training in the art of the Keyblade, she found she was really good at magic, within two months she already went from the Thunder spell to the Thundaga spell. When she asked Master Eraqus why she was good at magic above all else, Eraqus because she chose the wand when she had her Dive to the Heart, so she would progress better in magic, then attack and defense. But that did not stop from improving in all fields of Keyblade combat, it took her six months, but eventually she had enough skill to last six hours in spar with Terra without the use of magic. Her defense was better than her attack was to say the least. Ventus said she could basically defend against a powerful Fire spell if she had the chance. Candace also had a great personality change, she went from a hyperactive nervous teen, to calm, kind caring and thinking before speaking teenager. If her friends and family back home ever saw her again they would probably ask her what she had done with the real Candace. After learning yoga from Master Eraqus and getting a slight beat down she learned to calm down and think things through, instead of just rushing into them hoping it would work. Candace appearance did not really change at all. She wore the same red and white dress. Her shoes and socks had changed; she had silver shoes like Aqua, just without the points and her socks were now the color gold. She also wore golden straps that went across her chest and on the straps, the emblem that was on the other apprentices, only hers was half gold and half silver. On her left arm stretching from her shoulder to her elbow was gold and silver Keyblade armor. It looked like a combination of Aqua and Terra's armor.
Speaking of the three apprentices, she got to know them and they soon developed a sort of brother-sister relationship. With Aqua, it was like having an older sister again, she went to Aqua when she had problems and Aqua would help however she could. She also had a knack for creating a special kind of good-luck charms and she even taught Candace how to make them. Aqua kind of reminded Candace of Stacy and Jenny, she had Stacy's sense of style and Jenny's kind caring personality. She could not wait to introduce them all to each other.
Terra basically became an older brother figure to Candace; he helped her with her combat training without the use of magic. Terra looked big and tough, better underneath that tough guy exterior was a kind-hearted man. Terra sort of reminded Candace of her boyfriend Jeremy, she admitted she had a bit of a crush on Terra, but he was just a really cool friend to her. She had a feeling Terra and Jeremy would get along great together.
With Ventus, the relationship was a bit of a rocky relationship since she told what she had said to her brothers before she left. But after seeing her go through a personality change, he decided to give her a chance. Eventually, Candace began to view him as a little brother; in fact Ventus's determination and will to keep going kind of reminded her of her brothers Phineas and Ferb. She had a feeling Phineas and Ferb would love hanging out with Ventus and only imagined what kind of stuff they could do together.
As Candace looked out to the sky watching the stars and looking back at those memories, she noticed Ventus running out of the castle, and heading for the mountains near the training ground. She saw Aqua come out of the Castle a few minutes later, and then lastly Terra came out following them at a slower pace. Deciding to see what they were doing she left her room followed close behind.
Scene Break-
Ventus came out to the mountains to check out the meteor shower, he looked up at the sky in awe as the meteor shower. He lay down on his back with his hands behind his head and continued to watch.
"Why does this seem so familiar?" Ventus asked himself.
Ventus soon began to fall asleep, he woke up about a few minutes later and looked out at the castle and yawned and lay down on his back only to find a face looking down on him.
"Whoa," shouted Ventus, he turned around to see Aqua standing behind him, she just giggled.
"Give me a break, Aqua, " said Ventus.
"Ven, you hopeless sleepyhead. You know you should have at least brought a blanket." said Aqua.
"But, did I really dream that place up?" asked Ventus, "It really felt like I had been there before...looking up at the stars."
Aqua rubbed the hair on his head and just laughed. "Except you've always lived here with us." she said.
Since his first episode with his memories, they felt it was best not to get into it anymore.
"Yeah..." said Ventus still looking unsure, but he quickly grew a smile, "I know."
The two of them went to sit on the ledge of the cliff and sat down to look at the stars.
"Hey, Aqua" said Ventus.
"Hm?" she said
"Do you ever wonder what stars are? Where light comes from?" asked Ventus.
"Hm...well, they say" started Aqua.
"That every star up there is another world" finished Terra making an appearance.
They both turned around to see their friend and smiled at him.
"Terra" said Aqua, happy that he was here.
"Yep, hard to believe there are so many worlds out there besides our own," said Terra. "The light is their hearts, and it's shining down on us like a million lanterns and soon we will get to see them all eventually."
"You wouldn't go anywhere without me would you?" said another, yet very familiar voice.
They all turned around and saw Candace, standing there.
"I want to see other worlds to, you wouldn't go without me would you?" she asked in a playful attitude.
"Maybe" said Terra and got a hit on the shoulder from Candace.
"What? I don't get it." said Ventus, "lanterns, hearts, what?"
"In other words, they're just like you, Ven" said Terra.
"What does that mean?" asked Ventus.
"You'll find out someday, I'm sure," said Terra.
"I want to know now," said Ventus.
"You're too young to know now," said Terra starting a small argument.
"Quit treating me like a kid," said Ventus.
"You are a kid, Ven," said Candace getting into the middle of the argument.
"I am not" said Ventus.
Just then they heard Aqua giggle.
"Hey, what are you laughing at?" asked Terra.
"I can't help it. You three would make the weirdest siblings," said Aqua.
Aqua continued to laugh while Ventus, Terra and Candace looked confused, soon they were laughing as well.
Soon all four of them were sitting and looking up at the stars.
"Oh yeah," said Aqua realizing something. "Terra, you and I have our Mark of Mastery exams tomorrow."
She pulled something out of her pockets to revel four star-shaped charms, one was green, the second was orange, the third was blue and the last one was special it was half gold and half silver. The five pieces of the star-shaped good luck charms were connected by the same emblem they all wore.
"Candace and I made all of us good-luck charms," said Aqua.
She gave the orange one to Terra, the half gold and half silver one to Candace, the green one to Ventus and she kept the blue one.
"I get one too?" asked Ventus.
"Of course. One for each of us. They're called Wayfinders. Somewhere out there, there's this tree with star-shaped fruit and the fruit represents an unbreakable connection. So as long as you and your friends carry good luck charms shaped like it, nothing can ever drive you apart. You'll always find your way back to each other." said Aqua
"Technically, I think you're supposed to make them with seashells, but I and Candace did the best with what we had." continued Aqua.
Candace moved one of her hands to her pockets and a tiny jingling sound was heard, but only she heard it.
"Oy, sometimes you are such a girl," said Terra.
"Hey, what do you mean, "sometimes"?" asked Aqua.
"So this isn't a real good-luck charm?" asked Ventus.
"Well, that's yet to be seen. But I did work a little magic on it," said Aqua.
"Really? What?" asked Ventus.
"An unbreakable connection," said Aqua.
Ventus continued to look up at the stars for another hour.
"Hey, we're going to head back, " said Terra
"Yeah, me too!" said Ventus as followed the three of them back to castle.
As a shooting star crossed the night sky, Aqua looked up and held her Wayfinder.
"Together...always" said Aqua to herself.
"Aqua come on, you don't want to be tired and cranky for your Mark of Mastery exams tomorrow, do you?" shouted Candace.
"Coming, " shouted Aqua in return.
She caught up to the others and together they walked back to the castle.
'That would be the last night we ever spent beneath the same stars,' they all thought at the same time.
Elsewhere-
A humanoid mouse with black fur, round ears of the same color, and a thin, long, black tail was riding what appeared to be a book and was using it to surf. He wore a black and grey jacket with silver linings, white four fingered gloves and black shorts and shoes. He was starting to panic, and then a whirlpool appeared out of nowhere and started to suck the little mouse in. Then suddenly everything stopped. The book vanished and so did the water. Then it changed into a study room of some sort. The little mouse fell on his rump and walked over to the desk, rubbing his head sheepishly.
At the desk was a man who looked like a sorcerer. He wore a blue hat that had several yellow stars and a yellow crescent moon on it. He also wore long blue robes. He was a rather severe looking man with long, grey, bushy eyebrows, and a long grey beard that parted down the middle. He looked a little concerned about something.
"Mickey," said the sorcerer. "I cannot shake the feeling that something terrible is about to happen.
The now named Mickey looked at the sorcerer with a confused face while outside in the sky four stars were glowing, one was blue, the second was orange, and the third was green and the last one glowed two colors silver and gold.
Finally, done with chapter 2, finding a way to describe the characters was hard. I did not change Candace's appearance for two reason, one, I have terrible fashion sense, second I do not know what her KH clothes would look like. Also I will usually plan on doing a chapter a world, but this one I am making an exception to since it was long. While the story will mainly focus on Candace, I will sometimes cut to the other three apprentices at times. Also I know some people will want to see other worlds apart from those in birth by sleep, but can you send me some ideas please, but no anime stuff.
Now in the words of Candace, gamelover41592 is out. Peace.