Chapter 26: Order?
Sora opened the door to his room and jumped on his bed. He lay on the bed and looked at the ceiling. He could hear the others walk pass his door while either going to their room for a quick rest or heading to the Bridge. Sora thoughts were on something else though. He then turned his head to see Roxas in an armchair.
"Is there something wrong Roxas?" Sora asked, concerned that his nobody had to speak to him in person instead in his mind.
"It's safer to talk here." Roxas explained, guess he could tell by Sora's curious face.
"What do you mean?" Sora asked, what danger could there be in his head? There was a pause of thought before Roxas began to talk again.
"Do you remember that voice that guided us through the last two journeys?" Roxas asked. Sora nodded in response. "Well, something is wrong."
"What is it?" Sora sat up on his bed
"I was talking to that part of you while you were still in Ohana and I was asking it if it remembered anything before you hit that tree." Sora nodded to show that he understood before Roxas carried on. "While I was talking to it, its voice started to go jumpy and then started to say 'Something is troubling, don't listen to me' over and over before fading. Now its voice seems different and it's something I don't trust." Roxas looked over to Sora to see that he was completely lost from everything that he just said. "I'll try to find out more about this ok?" Sora nodded in response, not saying a word. He watched Roxas disappear back into him before he felt sleep fall on him and ended up falling asleep on his bed.
BOWBOWBOWBOW
"Is this where that Colonel is holding da King and Kairi?"
"Where are we?"
"........... ............."
"Never heard of it."
"It's ....... ....... you palooka"
"The only palookas here are you, Goofy and Riku, you duck!!"
Sora had fallen into a dream and was watching the event below like he had when he had fallen into one of Kairi's memories when she lived in Radiant Garden. He couldn't see the surrounding well as there were all blurry but he could see Donald, Riku, Goofy and that guy from his dream.
Sora could see much better detail in the guy that before. He had white, spiky hair and it was more gravity-defying than Sora's hair. His garments were all ripped as he wore Sora's old black and blue ¾ lengths, black boots and white t-shirt with the right short sleeve ripped. He could still see that his right hand was a white shadowed claw with two white curved spikes coming out of his right forearm and his skin was slightly darker than his. His face however was blurred out like the surroundings.
"....!! Now is not the time to have an outburst!" Riku shouted
"It is when you guys are being idiots as always." The guy growled. His voice growled much more than any evil person that Sora had faced.
Sora was starting to dislike this guy, even if tried to save Kairi or not. That's where it hit him.
"You useless excuses of fighters can go save mousey boy while I'll go save the princess" The guy said darkly before heading in another direction.
Sora felt some force that was making him follow this guy, seem the dream wanted him to see something that he didn't want to see again.
The guy reached a white room with a dark portal that revealed some stairs. He heard his name get called and turned to see Donald, Goofy and Riku behind him. He growled under his breath and cast a reflect spell at the passageway. Riku managed to pass the barrier but Goofy and Donald was trapped behind it. The guy just grunted in anger and carried on through the portal.
Stairs had appeared and another portal was at the top. The guy started running up the stairs and Riku soon joined him. The guy got to the top and ran thought the portal without a second thought. The room he appeared in was white as well when he ran down the hallway. He quickly cast reflect on the portal entrance so Riku wouldn't be able to follow him and was about to enter the room when a barrier formed.
Sora looked away from the guy and looked in the room. He could see that the Colonel was smirking when he put the barrier up and then looked over to Kairi who was holding on to Oathkeeper for balance and dear life. He started to laugh when he summoned a two handed heavy sword similar to Cloud's and started to approach Kairi.
"I don't want to see anymore." Sora shouted and tried to wake up but the force he felt earlier was keeping him there. "Hey! Why can't I wake up!?!"
Because this will happen if you don't find out the truth from your fellow friends.
Sora would have questioned the voice if he wasn't watching his worst nightmare.
Kairi gathered all of her strength she had left and tried to defend herself. The Colonel put his sword in the ground and grabbed the Oathkeeper with his green shadowed claw. He laughed evilly as he pulled the weapon away from her and kicked her to the ground. He then broke the keyblade in half with the force of his hands and kept the half with the keychain in his claw while throwing the other half at Kairi. He pulled Kairi's lucky charm off the broken Keyblade; he looked at it and laughed before looking at the Princess of Heart who was struggling to get up.
"Soon much for this bringing you luck." His dark accent growled as he crushed the charm in his claw.
Sora quickly looked at the guy to see that he had stopped his attempts to break the barrier and just watched the two, not knowing the emotion in his face due to it being blurred out. "Why are you just standing there!!!!!? SAVE HER!!" Sora yelled at the guy but no matter what he did, he couldn't be heard. Sora turned back to the fight to see what was happening.
"l won't lose." Kairi whispered, the Colonel just laughed as he grabbed his sword without her knowing, "I WON'T LOSE!!" She shouted as she cast lots of magic. The Colonel dodged every single attempt and ended up teleporting behind her.
"You just lost." Kairi turned around only to meet her end as she felt the cold, sharp weapon went though her chest.
"NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!"
Sora jumped out of his nightmare and fell of his bed. Breath was quicker than before. Sweat fell from his forehead and there were more tears than usual. Before he got up and tried to clean his thoughts, one question kept running though his head...
Where was he?
BOWBOWBOW
The rest of the group were in the bridge sitting on either the floor or the sofas. There was a screen set up for what looks like a presentation. Brian had explained to the others that he was properly going to explain why he has to come and what the Order and the Unbirth and Endless were considering Daniel didn't give them a proper description and he did own them for convincing Daniel to let him and Hikari stay with them. However, he couldn't without EVERYONE in the room and Sora had locked his door when he had entered. So everyone was just getting to know each other better while waiting for Sora.
"Hey Riku, when did you lose your voice?" Brian asked
"That has got to be the most randomest subject who have EVER come up with." Max laughed
"What makes you say that?"
"We were talking about fighting styles." Hikari huffed; Brian rolled his eyes and waited for Riku's reply.
"I lost my voice even before I thought of the idea to build a raft to travel to other worlds back at Destiny Islands." Riku answered Brian's question.
"You must have been an idiot to think that a wooden raft was able to achieve intergalactic travel, Silver." Hikari commented
Riku rolled his eyes at his 'nickname' and looked over at Brian. "When did you lose your voice then Brian?" he asked. Brian lay back against the sofa and thought about the answer.
"I-I don't remember." Brian sighed
"You do realise that you have crap memory, don't you?" Hikari asked, concerned.
"Memory isn't considered when I have my looks to worry about." Brian replied smugly.
"I think that your memory is more important than your looks." Kairi said to him. Brian was about say something which involved saying that Kairi has short-term memory loss due to her beauty but decided to hold his tongue so he'll be able to keep it.
"When did you guys lose your voice?" Hikari asked, appointing the question to Donald, Goofy and Max.
"Well I...." Donald began
"...Never lost your voice because it's as high as ever." Brian commented. This resulted to Donald to jump out of his seat and pouch on Brian. Goofy got up and dragged the raging duck off the freak-out red-head. Goofy then said that they need to get ready for the next world and the two headed to their rooms.
"Hey Max, when did you lose your voice?" Kairi asked. Max looked uncomfortable before sighed in defeated and looked at his feet before answering.
"My dad signed me up to a choir went I was younger and my voice broke right in the middle of King Mickey's ceremony." He said miserably. Brian and Riku burst in laughter but were stopped when Hikari slapped both of them around the head. Kairi could still hear a soft chuckle; she turned around to see Sora leaning against the wall with an ice-cream stick in his mouth. Sora quickly threw the stick in the bin before joining the others.
"Hey Sora, when did you lose your voice?" Max asked.
"Yeah, I always wondered that." Kairi said out loud.
"C'mon Sora, tell us." Riku demanded. Sora started to think about it like Brian had early, then he laughed nervously.
"Promise you won't laugh?" Sora asked
"Promise!" Riku, Kairi , Hikari and Max said in unison. Brian however, leaned back in the sofa and crossed his arms.
"I can't promise that." He replied.
Hikari looked at him and shot him a look
"But changing habits just this once wouldn't hurt." He laughed nervously. Hikari turned back to Sora as he took a deep breath before answering.
Flashback
Sora, Donald and Goofy had been chasing after Pluto to get the King's letter but the trio had soon lost him and the sun began to set. The three stopped to catch their breath before walking along the endless path again.
"Aww, why can't we rest? My feet hurt!" Goofy complained
"We can't stop until we find the King." Donald raged.
"But Donald, we've been running for hours and you have flat feet." Sora argued with his high, young voice.
"What's your point!?!" Donald shot back, "We need to find the King and Riku."
"I know we do but we need to...." Sora started to cough from his throat feeling weird.
"You okay Sora?" Goofy asked. Sora carried on coughing until Donald handed him a bottle of water for him to clear his throat.
"Are you alright now?" Donald asked, Sora nodded as a response. "I guess we can set camp up a little way up." The trio started to walked again.
"Thanks Don-"Sora grabbed his throat in surprise. It voice sounded different. Goofy and Donald stopped and looked at Sora weirdly. The two then looked at each other and started to laugh. "What's so funny!?" Sora asked, irritant and confused about his two friends laughing.
"Gawsh Sora, this is a part of growing up." Goofy smiled
"What my voice sounding like I have a cold?" Sora asked
"No. Your voice sounding like a croaking frog for the next couple of hours before your voice truly breaks." Donald smirked as the trio started to walk again.
"Break? I'm not gonna become mute am I?" Sora asked worriedly while grabbing his throat. Donald and Goofy just shook their heads while holding their laughter and carried on walking.
End of Flashback
"So let me get this straight." Riku began while looking at Sora seriously, "At least ½ an hour after me and King Mickey were trapped in the Realm of Darkness and Kairi went back to Destiny Islands; you lost your voice."
"Yeah..." Sora replied nervously
Awkward silence was the only thing that could be heard until you could hear Brian's lungs explode of laughter.
"God damn it!! That's hilarious!" Brian laughed and started to grab his sides. Soon, Riku and Max had joined Brian's laughing fit and Kairi and Hikari tried their best not to laugh while Sora just pouted.
"Guys!! You promised you wouldn't laugh." Sora whined.
A couple of minutes later, the group managed to calm themselves down as Brian, Hikari and Max when to get the presentation ready. Sora just sat on the sofa and pouted like a little kid. Riku and Kairi saw this and set themselves aside him.
"We're sorry we laughed, Sora." Riku began; he formed a fist and put it in front of him. "Forgiven?" Sora smiled happily and nodded before forming a fist and clashing it with Riku's.
"We? I kept my promise unlike you who started laughing out loud." Kairi complained
"What're you talking about? You were laughing under your breath." Riku argued. Kairi grabbed the pillow that was behind her back and threw it at Riku which cause him to fall of the sofa. Sora chuckled at both of them.
"I'm sorry about laughing, Sora." Kairi said warming.
"I forgive you." Sora mimicked and pulled Kairi into a hug. Riku sat up, rubbing his head and smirked when he saw the two.
"Hey!" Sora and Kairi pulled out of their hug and looked at Riku, "Where's my hug?"
"Well when I'll make a promise to you, break it accidently and apologise to you then you can have a hug." Kairi replied
"Well you threw a pillow in my face; don't I get a hug for that?"
"Nope, just another pillow" Kairi said innocently
"Huh?"
Before Riku knew it, Kairi had grabbed the pillow behind Sora and threw that in Riku's face, knocking him to the floor again. Sora started to laugh and put his arm around Kairi's shoulders, making both of them blush. They managed to get rid of their blush before facing each other.
"You know, I think you've been hanging around Hikari too much." Sora laughed
"If I've been hanging around with Hikari too much then I should called him Long John Silver and beat Brian every time he chooses to flirt." Kairi smiled as she jested the 'Long John Silver' to Riku who was still currently on the floor.
"Well, at least Brian would learn some matters." Sora joked. Kairi giggled but was then caught in Sora's glaze. She blushed as she saw Sora leaning closer to her; she started to lean closer as well until...
"Come guys! If you want to act like that then either wait till I've done explaining things or go have some alone time in your rooms." Brian complained as he entered the room. Sora and Kairi backed away from each other and started to blush while Riku jumped up from the floor and looked at everyone.
"What did I miss?" Riku asked
"Nothing important. The presentation's just beginning." Brian replied
BOWBOWBOW
"Okay before I start, do you guys know what the Unbirths are?" Brian asked
"They're creatures created without a soul and are only brought out if there is unbalance in than world." Riku answered confidently.
"Good but what my brother didn't mention to you is that Unbirths had actually appeared before. All I know about their early appearance is that they were around before Heartless, Nobodies, The Virus, Endless, the whole lot. And research says that they were created to balance out life."
"They're the opposite of human life?" Sora asked. Brian, Hikari and Max nodded as a response.
"How come Donald and Goofy aren't in here?" Kairi asked
"The two were informed about it when Daniel had crashed on Disney Castle." Hikari answered
"Why am I standing up here again!?" Max asked with annoyance in his voice.
"You're standing up because you have to change the screens so Hikari and I don't look like fools. Now could you please change it to the Endless Screen?"
"Well as least he said please." Max muttered under his breath as he changed the screen to the Endless.
"Endless are highly ranked Unbirths but with their souls corrupted due to the virus. The Endless and the Order run like Organisation XIII did. They have normal Endless which are able to take any form and are mainly used to effect people with their virus. You also have the elite Endless who form the Order. There are three types of the virus; normal, neutral and Heart-struck. What's the different between them? I have no idea."
"What does this virus actually do?" Sora asked.
"Well like my brother said the virus will gain your emotion in your heart and do the complete opposite from what you really feel but that happens over time. The main signs are anger burst, blackouts, memory loss, behaviour changes, twitching, and sometimes horrible illnesses if your body can't handle the change. There have been some cases when the virus had turned that person into a Heartless or face death itself. Kinda makes you sorrow over the less fortunate."
"That's terrible." Kairi gasped
"That's why we're journeying with you guys. The items we're collecting while balancing the worlds are the items we need for the cure and we'll be able to open the dark shield that is covering Disney Castle and Twilight Town." Max explained
"We'll be able to save Mickey and Minne?" Riku hoped. Hikari and Brian nodded in response as Max changed the screen to the some wave system.
"How can these items bring down the shield though?" Kairi asked.
"It's quite simple." Brian began, "The shield is powered by negative energy that was created when the Order unbalanced that world. The items that we're collecting are known as the world's greatest treasure to the heart of that world. Examples of this are the Gypsy Gold I got from Notre Dame and Family Aura from Ohana. The items contain some sort of pure light similar to the Princesses of Heart but it is not as strong so these items can't be used to open the Door to Darkness." Brian turned to Max and singled him to start the screen. Max turned the screen on and the wave started to move.
"On the screen, you see two waves. The red one being darkness and the blue one being light." Max explained.
"The items would be able to create just enough light to measure with the dark energy used to create the barrier around Disney Castle and Twilight Town. With the energies matched, they would cancel each other out and the barrier would fade." Brian then looked over to Sora, Kairi and Riku. "You guys understand so far?" He asked. The three nodded as a response while Max changed the screen to the Order members.
"During this journey, we'll be facing some of the Order members while they attempt to unbalance the world they're on or trying to gain another base…." Hikari explained.
"Base?" Riku questioned
"The Order unbalances the worlds so they can create a huge army against anyone who fight for light, darkness or nothingness. The Order thinks they represent death itself as technically Endless are related to Unbirths." Brian cleared up, "Anyway, every time the Order gain a new base; they re-name the world and change it completely."
"How does the Order know you, Brian?" Sora asked.
"I've had been captured by the Order as well as Daniel. All I know Kyle said is that Daniel was experimented on and we were freed before I was next." Brian admitted
"We're getting off subject here!" Hikari complained
"Oh right!" Brian jumped and laughed nervously before singling the first member. "Sora, you should know this member. He's the one who lead the attack on Disney Castle."
Sora knew him alright, the Endless who haunted his dreams. The picture was much better than it was at Little Devon and the others could see his features. The Endless had short, grass green hair with was tied up and had the side of his hair shaved. His eyes were piercing green like emeralds, he was wearing his green marking armour and had his right armoured glove missing to show his green shadowed claw and there was a scar just slightly to the right of his fore-head.
"This is Colonel Devil." Brian informed them, "His second in command of the Order. If we face him, I'm telling you now; he's nearly impossible to defeat. The emotion that he can manipulate is jealously and controls the cure element. With his power, he could revive his entire army over and over again." Sora just glared at the Colonel's face, images of him taking the king and stabbing Kairi flashed though his mind. He could still hear his demon-like laugh. He looked at Riku to see he was determent to face this new threat while Kairi looked almost scared of the Colonel as she looked at the picture.
"Kairi, are you alright?" Sora whispered. She nodded weakly while still looking at the picture. The picture changed and showed the soldier they had faced with in Notre Dame.
His hair was in the same style as the Colonel's but was blond instead of green. He had a goatee and had a smirk on his face and his eyes were like a Heartless. He actually looks similar to Luxord except he was a bit fatter. He had yellow marking armour and had a vemon yellow shadowed claw.
"This is Sgt Abroc. He may be dumb sometimes but I wouldn't under estimate him. Like I had said before, he's always a choice for disarming people and making them go silence. His emotion is fear and controls disarm, silence and now thunder." Max changed the picture and a new member came up.
This endless had red markings over his armour as well as a blood red shadowed claw. He had short, scrappy, black and red hair with pure red eyes. He looked thinner than the other two.
"This is Lt Skullo." Hikari took charge, "He's the brains of the lot. We may have trouble with this guy because he is the same element as Brian and all fire wielders can sense each other if they are in the same area."
"No worries though, we let Kyle put a chip in his arm to avoid being sensed." Max laughed
"And it hurt like hell!" Brian showed as he rubbed his arm from the memory.
"Skullo controls the emotion Anger so we have to fight him as calm as possible otherwise he'll know our moves and really Kairi is the only one who can fight him." Hikari continued. Kairi eyes widened in surprise while Sora was worried and Riku was just confused.
"Why Kairi?" Riku asked
"Kairi's element is water and what puts out fire? Water! Use your brain Silver!" Hikari complained
"My name's Riku!" he shot back.
"Guys! Like I said to Sora and Kairi, either wait until I'm done or go in another room!" Brian shouted. Riku sat back down while Sora and Kairi started to blush; luckily for them, no one seemed to notice.
Max showed the next member on the screen. This one was a female and her armour had pink markings on it. She had a pink shadowed claw but her face was like a normal person. She had blue eyes and brunette hair.
"This is Lizza. She is one of the lower ranks in the Order as she's a neutral. She's not that good of a fighter but she can defend herself and arouse guys like us." Brian smiled. Hikari summoned her blade and hit Brian over the head with it, making him go nightly night on the floor for a while.
"He'll never learns." Hikari grumbled before carring on from where Brian had left off, "Well, this slut is able to sense the emotion Love and most properly she will tell Abroc or Devil if she finds any sort of it. She also controls Poisonous attacks and reflect." Hikari spat out in anger. Max changed the scene to show a new member.
This member's claw wad different from the other, instead of being shadowed; it was brown reptiles skin claw. His armour didn't have any markings and he wore a cowboy hat. His eyes were brown and he had a piece of straw in the corner of his mouth.
"This is Maj Snake." Hikari pointed to the screen. "He's a very strong endless with one weird accent. His element is earth and the emotion he carries is Pessimism." Max changed the scene again and their waited for the next picture to load.
"Have much longer is this gonna take!?" Sora asked
"Just two more members and we'll be done." Max confirmed, Sora just sighed as he saw the picture appear.
This endless member had purple markings over his armour and a silver and purple shadowed claw. He has short silver hair and violet eyes. He looked younger that the other members looked around Daniel's age.
"This is Cpt Link." Hikari carried on, "He's normally seen with Lt Skullo. His emotion is Remorse and controls gravity."
The last member showed up on the screen; this one looked to be Sora's age. He had blue markings on his armour and his claw was thunder blue colour. He had short black hair and his eyes were Cerulean blue like Sora's. Just by looking at his face, you could tell that he looked trapped.
"This endless is properly the only one that still has a will of his own. His name is Nikolai." Hikari said, "He has been seen helping Little Devon every now and again but he assures us that we're his enemy. His controls Blizzard and can sense sorrow and he's a neutral endless."
"Who's the leader then? You didn't mention them." Sora asked
"No one knows who the leader of the Order is. We're coming close to finding out thought." Hikari then turned to Max, "Okay Max, you can sit down now."
"Finally!! I can sit down!" Max cheered as he turned off the scene and jumped on one of the sofa. Sora and Kairi started to stretch their muscles while Riku when over to Brian and woke him up.
Couple of minutes later….
"Now arriving at destination, Welcome to Agrabah." The gummi's computer announced.
"We're at Agrabah? Yes!! Finally a place that we know." Sora shouted out of happiness. Riku chuckled to himself when watching Sora before discussing something to Brian.
"Who's down there?" Kairi asked
"Aladdin, Genie, Jasmine, Abu…" Sora counted with his fingers
"Wait! Isn't Jasmine one of the Princesses of Heart like me?" Kairi asked, Sora nodded as a response. "Is she the one with the light blue attire?" Sora nodded again. "Yay! I know someone!" Kairi cheered. Sora smiled at her behavior and laughed a bit when she tripped a bit when she was jumping around. Kairi hit him on the arm playfully and then the two locked hands and started to play-fight.
"Hi guys!" Goofy greeted as he and Donald came back in the bridge. Sora and Kairi stopped mucking about and looked at their two friends.
They were wearing suits.
"What's with the suits guys?" Sora asked, Goofy was about to answer but Donald jumped up and grasped his mouth shut. Donald laughed nervously at the two confused teenagers and dragged Goofy into the teleport, sending them to Agrabah. "Okay." Sora left the subject and turned to Riku and Brian who was approaching them.
"Donald said something about seeing if their suits still fit and wanted the opinion on them from Jasmine." Brian made up. Truth was, Riku and Brian had informed Donald of their plan and agreed to help while they were at Agrabah.
"Is it just us two, Donald and Goofy?" Kairi asked. The two nodded as a response.
"I have to send the test samples back to Little Devon and I'll been dueling with Riku." Brian explained
"I'm not going because if Princess Jasmine sees me, she'll send that tiger of hers on me and then Aladdin would jump me and then I'll spend the rest of me life in the dungeon." Riku replied, "When you guys are down there, could you give this to that Genie?" Riku revealed a white envelop and handed it to Sora. Sora was about to become nosy when Riku took it off of Sora and handed it to Kairi instead. "You guys are NOT allowed to read it if you know what's good for you. It's for Genie's eyes only." Riku instructed. Kairi smiled and nodded while keeping the envelop away from Sora.
"No Sora! You're not allowed to read it." She giggled as she when thought the teleport to Agrabah.
"C'mon Kai, you want to read it as well." Sora laughed as he chased after her. Riku and Brian looked at each other and started to snicker to themselves. Hikari, who was sitting on the sofa, looked at the two suspiciously. She put the magazine she had in her hand down and when over to the two.
"Okay Silver, Flame Spill!! What was in that envelop?!" Hikari demanded while using both of their nicknames.
"What is in that envelop is the key item to bring Sora and Kairi together." Riku smirked.
A/N: FINALLY!!! i'VE LOG ON!!! I WAS TRYING ALL DAY YESTERDAY TO COME ON BUT IT WOULDN'T LET ME ON!!!! Anyways, Agrabah is the next world and now you know who the members are. Some members have been killed so I couldn't be bothered to explain those members. This was orginally suppose to go in chapter 6 but I didn't have any clue for the members then and i didn't want to edit that much in the chapter so i moved it to this chapter instead. If you want to see your favorite ff character in one of the worlds then send my a review saying which character and what world they should be at. Disney world only or kingdom hearts world. REVIEW!!!!!!!! PLEASE
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