This is an update that I should have issued a long time ago though I doubt anyone is still following the story and waiting for the next chapter. Still, since I plan to start posting a new story immediately on New Years Day, I should at least put something up in case people start asking why I haven't been working on Heroes of Light. As well as for any new readers that stumble across this story and wonder why it's not finished.

Let me put this out there that I haven't stopped caring about this story. Far from it, I've actually thought of way too much. Not only did I have the heroes visiting 19 other worlds, each one spanning about 8 chapters or so and the overall story being split into three parts, including Adventure Time, Monster Allergy, Total Drama Island, Avatar the Last Airbender, The Simpsons, Gravity Falls, Phineas and Ferb and so on, but additionally 5 sequels that would include shows like Steven Universe and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (the 2003 version). I was psyched to write all of this but I experienced some problems.

I was entering college at the time and naturally I didn't have as much time to work on these, and even then I didn't have as much drive. While I did want to finish the story and I did enjoy writing these, it felt like I had an obligation to continue for the sake of my readers then just to write a story for fun. In other words, laziness. That and sometimes I'm just bad with planning this stuff out. The other reason I didn't continue, if it isn't already obvious, is that I was in way over my head. For one thing I planned on introducing an insane amount of characters that was getting too hard to keep track of. It would take me years to upload everything that I had planned unless I condensed the stories down greatly but in order to do that I would have to cut out a lot of scenes I found critical to character building and even get rid of a few planned characters.

So for the time being, I'm putting this story on hiatus and working on more manageable stories. Plus it's been far too long since I've published fanfiction and I need to get accustomed back into my writing ways. There may be a chance that I will resume this series or release an updated version in the future but I can't make any promises. I hope that any readers that are still waiting for me to start this story up and will give my upcoming stories a chance.

As a small consolation, I will give away some ideas of what I was planning since I kind of end the last chapter on a cliffhanger. After Jake Long's world, I planned on having the group visit the worlds of Jimmy Neutron, Monster Allergy, Phineas and Ferb, and Fairly OddParents where that would be the end of Part 1. Part 2 would feature the return of Rose in addition to Vlad Plasmius and the Huntsman playing a larger role working alongside an additional third villain that I will keep anonymous to try and beat Maleficent and the heroes to the Well of Darkness. I wish I could give away more details but if I do decide to continue this story I don't want to give everything away.