Chapter 24: Report

Sora jumped off of Brian's gummi with Lilo and Stitch in his arms. He let them go and then turn to look out to the sea. The gummi ship doors slowly began to open and Kairi, Riku, Brian, Hikari and Nani came out. Donald, Goofy and Max was still parking or repairing the damage that the mini gummies had received from the Heartless ships. Only four words can describe that gummi battle...It was not pretty. Nani stepped off the ramp and then shouted out to Lilo with joy, knowing that her sister was safe. Stitch started to walk towards the two went someone came out of the bushes that 'happened' to be close by and quickly cuffed him.

"HA HA! I've got him." The person cheered, everybody turned to this person and most of them knew who he was. This guy wore a red bandana over his hair, wore a black t-shirt with orange markings, dark blue trousers and white trainers. He was also wearing a grey waistcoat which had a symbol at the back of it.

The symbol of Little Devon.

"Scott? What are you doing here?" Brian asked, surprised

"We're here to pick you guys up." A voice came.

The group turned and saw Daniel and Kyle come towards them with David leading the way. Their gummi ship could be seen at the edge of the beach so it wasn't that far away. Hikari came to attention while Brian tried to make a run for it but Riku grabbed him by the collar of his shirt. Sora started to walk back towards the others and stood next to Riku. "Scott! Take him to my ship." Daniel instructed and Scott started to walk away with Stitch in his hands.

"Leave him alone!" Lilo instructed and went to stop Scott but was stopped by Mr Bubbles who mysteriously appears out of nowhere. The man wearing an agent looking suit told her to listen to the conversation. Scott decided to stay for the hell of it with Stitch in his hands. Daniel then looked at Brian.

"Since you didn't capture 626. You and Hikari are coming with us." Daniel told them. The three Devon brothers then started to head for their ship. Hikari came out of attention and simply glared at Brian in disbelief. Brian felt rage built in him and he approached Daniel once they were closer to their ship.

"We did catch him!" Brian shouted, "We had caught him just a couple of hours ago but we had meddled in this world's affairs so we went to fix them." Daniel, Kyle and Scott stopped in their tracks and turned to Brian. Behind him, everyone else was catching up.

"What about the item from this world!" Daniel shot back, "I bet that you didn't get that yet." Brian was about to explain when he saw Kyle reveal an glass container full with light blue energy.

"How did you..." Brian asked, confused

"There's more that one family on this island, Brian." Kyle informed. Kyle threw it to Brian and he quickly placed it inside his brown backpack.

"What about us?" Hikari asked, "What's going to happen to me and Brian?"

"The both of you will be coming back to Little Devon with us." Daniel confirmed.

"Why do Brian and Hikari have to go back to Little Devon?" Kairi asked

"Nice to hear your opinion sweet thing."

"That's why." Daniel answered Kairi's question. Hikari hit Brian around the head and told him to act serious. Riku turned to Sora and saw that he was clenching his fists.

"Hey Sora, are you okay?" He said quietly to him so the others couldn't hear. Sora felt upset that Brian and Hikari were getting sent home. Sure, Brian can get on his bad side lots of times but there was something about him that felt so familiar.

Like he had met him before.

Also, Hikari was a good ally and Sora found it funny when she would tease Riku. Sora then turned Riku who was still waiting for an answer.

"We have to do something." Sora whispered, "Do you know any good points about Brian?" Riku thought about it for a minute and then shook his head as a response. Sora started to think about it while the two continued to listen to the conversation.

"Brian, did you remember to fix the keyhole while you are here?" Kyle asked.

Brian's eyes widened in realisation. "Oh crap, I completely forgot." Brian cursed himself.

"Good thing this world wasn't unbalanced otherwise we would have never had locked this world's heart." Daniel said, glaring at the mage. Lilo, Nani and David was just dumbfounded; Mr Bubbles was listening to the others. Scott had set Stitch down to see that he wasn't actually struggling. Hikari still shouldn't believe that she had to go home and Sora and Riku was still thinking of a good comment for Brain. Kairi looked at Brian as if she had met him before where else before. She didn't have a chance to think it thought as Daniel's angered voice broke her thoughts."You're the cause of all this Brian!" The leader of Little Devon growled at his brother. "If you and Jumba didn't create 626 then none of this would have..."

"Stitch."

"Huh?" Daniel turned to face Stitch who was standing by his gummi ship.

"My name Stitch." He announced

"Stitch then." Daniel said and turned back towards Brian, "If you and Jumba didn't create Stitch then..." Daniel stopped half way through his rant and then turned back to Stitch with wide eyes.

"Does Stitch have to go in the ship?" he asked, rather happily

"Yes..." Daniel replied still unsure about Stitch's actions.

"Can Stitch say goodbye?" he asked again

"Yes..." he repeated in the same tone. Stitch thanked him and went towards Lilo and Nani who was both sitting down on the sand, watching Stitch. Daniel watched Stitch as he sat down besides Lilo and she hugged him. "Who are they?" Daniel asked.

"It's Stitch's family." Sora stepped forward. Daniel looked at Sora and then turned his glaze to Kairi who stepped forward as well.

"He found it all on his own." Kairi supported

"Stitch may have been created for darkness..." Riku joined

"...but his heart is strong..." Hikari carried on

"...and fights for what's right." Brian finished.

Daniel looked confused at them all and then looked at Stitch who had stepped forward as well. "It's little and broken but still good..." Stitch looked back at Lilo and Nani and then back at Daniel, "Yeah, still good." Stitch started to walk back to the ship.

Daniel looked at Brian and Hikari and the two of them nodded sadly, making the two of them waved to Sora, Kairi and Riku with weak smiles and started to head for the ship as well. "Daniel!" Sora called, running up to him with Riku and Kairi by his side. "Brian and Hikari have been a great amount of help. If it wasn't for Brian then I would properly still have lots of pain coming to my arm."

"And he was able to protect me while we were stuck in the outskirts." Kairi added

"He also able to give us information on the worlds we're going to." Riku pointed out. Sora and Kairi agreed to that montion.

"Sorry guys but I'm not changing my mind." Daniel told them.

"What about Hikari?" Riku argued, "She was able to help me and Kairi fix Brian's gummi in no time flat."

"That and she makes fun of Riku yet makes him happier than me and Sora had seen him in a long time." Kairi smiled as Sora nodded in agreement, Riku blushed slightly for a second before confirming it as well.

"Can't we just let them stay with the Keyblade Master?" Kyle asked, "Brian will get destroyed by the amount of fan girls back at home and we'll never hear the end of his gloating."

"It wouldn't be gloating! It would be screams of pain!" Brian shouted to them.

"Even worse!" Kyle growled darkly

"Kyle! You're supposed to be my right hand man. You're supposed to agree with me." Daniel moaned before looking at Scott. "Scott? Who's right? Me or Kyle?" he asked.

"Er..." Scott looked between Kyle and Daniel continuously before laughing nervously and started to run away from the group.

Everyone watched Scott run away while Kyle and Daniel sighed in embarrassment. "That idiot. He got to come back some time, we're his ride home." Kyle muttered to himself.

Daniel nodded in agreement with his brother before looking back at his younger brother and his friend, sighing in defeat. "Fine! Brian and Hikari can stay." Daniel announced.

Brian and Hikari jumped in joy and joined Sora, Kairi and Riku. "What about Stitch?" Sora asked once the two had calmed down.

"I would if I could but like a explained to Brian, both Little Devon council and Radiant Garden council have agreed on this so I can't do anything without any proof of family." Daniel explained.

Lilo watched Stitch go up the ramp when Mr Bubbles started to talk to her. "Lilo, didn't you buy that thing at the shelter?" he asked.

Lilo started to search through her pockets until she found a pink letter from the law of Ohana on it. Lilo then ran up to Daniel and started to tug on his trouser leg to get his attention, it wasn't working. "Hey!" Lilo shouted, Daniel turned as a response and saw no one there but then looked down to see Lilo. "Three days ago, I brought Stitch at the shelter. I paid 200 munny for him." Lilo unfolded the letter and started to point at it, "See this stamp. I own him." Lilo gave Daniel the letter so he could have a closer look. "If you take him, you're stealing." She finished. Kyle had a quick look over the letter and agrees to the official important of this letter, making Daniel sigh in defeat again.

"Little Devon always follow the rules." Mr Bubbles simply said.

Daniel gave the letter back to Lilo and then looked at him. "You look familiar..." Daniel said slowly

"Are you the one that got their hair shaved off by Lt Skullo a couple of years back?" Kyle asked while trying not to laugh. Daniel recognized him and tried not to laugh as well.

"I would appreciate it if we are not reminded of that day." Mr Bubbles growled. The two didn't listen and started to laugh their heads off. "I'm leaving!" he growled and left without another word. The two come down after he had left.

"I didn't mean to be rude but that will still be funny from years on end." Kyle chuckled

"Agreed." Daniel said

Scott finally came back and saw where everyone was. "Hey, why is Brian over there?" he asked.

"Scott, take note of this." Daniel instructed. Scott quickly jumped into action and got his notepad out. Daniel walked over to Stitch and picked him up in his hand. "This creature has been sentence to be destroyed and then sentence to stay in Radiant Garden." Daniel took Stitch's cuffs off and started to walk over to Lilo and Nani. "A sentence that now will be set here..." Daniel placed Stitch between Lilo and Nani and leaned back up. "On Ohana." He finished.

Lilo started to hug Stitch while Nani petted him on the head. Sora started to jump up and down like a little kid which made Kairi giggle. Riku shook his head at Sora's behaviour while trying to keep himself from laughing. Hikari however started to laugh at Sora which made all four of them join her. Brian stopped laughing to himself and walked over to Daniel who had asked to talk privately with him. "I'm glad you are staying Stitch." Lilo said after finishing hugging, "Now we can play that Sora game all the time."

"Uh oh" Stitch muttered slightly.

"What game?" Sora asked as him and Kairi approach the two. Nani had gotten up and gone to explain things with David.

"The game when Stitch would be Sora and I would be this princess called Kairi and my toys would be the bad guys. Stitch would defeat all the bad guys and would pretend to kiss the princess like Stitch had told me in the story." Lilo explained happily. This made Sora and Kairi both blush really badly. Kairi was now darker than the colour of her hair and Sora looks like that he has a really bad sunburn. Sora turned to Stitch who grinned sheepishly and started to run away from Sora.

BOWBOWBOW

Daniel had pulled Brian away from the group far enough so they could have a private talk. Kyle and Scott would have come with them but decided to head back in their ship. The two stopped and Daniel turned to Brian.

"Have you seen any of the Order these last couple of days?" Daniel questioned

"Yeah... Sgt Abroc decided to make an appearance at Notre Dame but I haven't seen any of them here though." Brian reported

"Then who attacked you here?"

"Gantu."

"What." Daniel growled

"I'll get him for you Daniel, I'll promise." Brian assured

"You always keep your promises." Daniel said quietly to himself with an grateful smile on his face.

"What?"

"Oh nothing." Daniel quickly replied, "What about Sora and Kairi?"

"What about them?" he asked

"What is the status on their relationship?"

The mage raised an eyebrow at the question before answering. "Well, Sora had already said 'I love you' to her but it was by accident and I think Kairi definitely knows about Sora's feeling towards her." Brian explained

"This isn't good...What about Sora? Does he know about Kairi's feelings?" he asked

"I don't think so but lemme talk ya, that Keyblade fool is more naive than I thought." Brian replied

"When you see them together, do you feel something familiar or anything that seems familiar to you?" Daniel asked

"Kairi's charm and Sora's necklace seems familiar and the two feel like that I've met them before and...waitwaitwaitwait! What's with the 20 questions? Why would I find it familiar?"

"Just asking" He simply replied and the two fell in silent.

Brian turned his head and saw Sora chase after Stitch while Riku and Hikari were giving him a look saying 'What the hell?' and saw Kairi looking rather red. I've just missed something funny, haven't I? He thought in his head.

"Brian?" Brian turned back around and faced Daniel again, "How did Sora get that bite mark?"

"He was attacked by a Heartless." He replied

"You sure it was a Heartless?"

"Well personally I don't think so. Heartless don't normally attack like that and the Heartless at Notre Dame seem very familiar." Brian said, he then added on to his opinion after Daniel didn't reply to his comment. "Should I test him?"

"It's the only thing we can do at the moment and hope for the best." Daniel replied, "Send every test sample possible."

"Every single one?" Brian whined

"Yeah Brian, every single one." Daniel said angrily but then calm himself down, "You'll know what will happen if Sora gets the Virus right?"

"The Order wins."

"Exactly... We can't let them succeed. If we do then our work would be wasted." Brian nodded in agreement. "If the results come back positive then I want you to gather those items as fast as you can. With those items, we can..."

"...cure anyone with the virus and unlock worlds that are under the Order's control." Brian finished for him.

"Very funny Brian." Daniel replied sarcastically. "Did you find out anything else?"

"We actually found someone's name at the back of Sora's necklace, someone called Ventus."

"Ventus was one of the Keyblade apprentice to Master Erauqs about 12 years ago along with Terra and Aqua." Daniel explained

"How do you know about these things?" Brian questioned

"King Mickey fought side by side with the apprentices years ago when he was apprentice to Yen Sid. He didn't say much due to his memory not being so good after that final battle they had with that rouge master and his apprentice." Daniel informed

"Again, how old is King Mickey? What he like 500 years old now." Brian commented

"The King is not that old and it doesn't matter how old he is; he is still a great fighter." Daniel told him, "I'll get Kyle to do research on that while you carry on with the journey." Daniel then stood to attention and done some strange salute formed by having his right forearm pointing upwards while his left hand holds onto his wrist. Brian did the same and he turned to walk to the others.

"Brian?" Brian stopped AGAIN and looked at Daniel

"Hmm?"

"Inform them about the Unbirths and Endless again."

"Got ya!" Brian grinned at his brother and then ran towards the others who were now entering his Gummi. Daniel watched Brian head towards his ship and only one thought went through his mind before he entered his own ship.

He's so much like his father

A/N: I'VE BEEN LOOKING AT 358/2 DAYS AND I HAVE NO CLUE TO WHAT XION IS? COMPLETELY CONFUSED. ANYWAY, I DON'T OWN KINGDOM HEARTS AND I HOPE YOU LIKED THIS CHAPTER. R&R PLEASE!

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