Chapter 46: Diagnosis

Sora slowly fluttered his eyes open only to find the dark abyss surrounding every inch of him apart from the ground which was the stained-glass platforms that he had visited before. Sora groaned with the sharp pain that was coming from his head before he pushed himself up onto his feet. "Roxas!!" Sora shouted, trying to summon his nobody. "Roxas!!!!" Sora repeated no avail. Sora sighed and looked down at the mural. The mural was of Destiny Islands with him, Riku and Kairi resting on the paopu tree. Sora studied the mural thoughtfully, oblivious to his surroundings. Sora looked at Destiny Islands that was pictured behind them. I hope the Islands are alright right after seeing what happened to Port Royal before that light appeared. We'll have to visit their again to visit our parents as well as Wakka, Tidus and Selphie.

Sora bought his attention to the picture of his two best friends; he first looked at the picture of Riku. It seems that you're starting to return to your old original self, no more talking about darkness and looking at everyone with regrets, at least his knowledge and being wise is a handle thing too. Sora then looked at the picture of Kairi. I can't understand why I can't say anything to you. All I know is that everything I get the courage to say something, I'm either feel something pull me back from making a move or someone interrupts us. I just want to say what my heart is saying.

"SORA!!"

Sora came out of his own list of thoughts as he remembered where he was and started to look around. Sora saw a burred image heading straight for him, as it got closer; Sora recognised the blob as Roxas. Roxas rushed towards his somebody, "Sora! I know what's wrong."

Sora faced him with a confused expression, "What is it?" he asked.

"You-"

Their surrounding suddenly changed from the Station to Awaking to a white room with dark blue markings starting from the corner of the room. Sora and Roxas looked around to see that the room felt familiar but could not remember where from. Roxas started to get angry from the sudden chance of appearance, knowing that it was watching them. Roxas summoned both Oblivion and Oathkeeper as he looked around his surroundings. "Come out! You coward!!" Roxas shouted.

Sora went over to Roxas, "Roxas, calm down." He said to him, making Roxas face him, "Who were you talking abo-"

Suddenly, Sora and Roxas became transparent as other images of people formed. Sora cut his question short as he turned his attention away from Roxas and onto the two people. They both appear to be fighting, one fighter had a two-wielder sword while the other had a-

Sora's eyes widened and tried to look away from the fight as he recognised the two people and where he was, he was watching Kairi's last stand again. "N-no, not this again." Sora said with a hint of pain in his voice.

Roxas sensed the pain in his somebody's voice and soon recognised the scene himself. Roxas went over to Sora and turned him forcefully by the shoulders make him face him, "Sora, don't set your heart and your decisions on this dream." Roxas instructed him, "That's exactly what he wants you to do."

"Who?" Sora pondered. Chains appeared and wrapped themselves around Roxas, pulling him away from Sora and covering his mouth in the process. "Roxas!" Sora went to save him when he suddenly froze in mid-air and couldn't move a muscle.

Your time should not be wasted here, young Keyblade Master.

Roxas watched as Sora was faded out of the conversation as well as his mind. Roxas's eyes cornered to his side as he watched a figure approach him.

If you know what's good for you then I suggest that you keep that arrogant mouth of yours SHUT!!

BOWBOWBOW

Sora groaned as he started to wake up from that bazaar meeting with Roxas. Sora was just glad to get out from watching that dream again, he had already lost count to how many times that dream had appeared. Sora was about to open his eyes when he heard this loud string vibration right next to Sora's right ear. Sora jumped up with surprise and fell off the bed that he was on. Sora groaned with pain and rubbed his head before using the bed as a support to pull himself up.

Sora looked up to see Brian laughing at Sora's reaction to him playing his guitar. Sora noticed that Brian was back into his usual attire except that he had a black and white T-shirt instead of a white and red T-shirt. A sudden thought then struck Sora, how the hell did Brian get here? Better question is where am I?

"Wakey, wakey, Bigfoot." Brian said tauntingly while placing his guitar in the corner of the room where no one would damage the guitar.

Sora climbed back onto the bed and looked at Brian with a confused expression, "Where am I?" Sora asked without looking around the room.

"What do you mean where ar--- You're in the medical room back on the gummi ship." Brian first questioned before answering Sora's question. Sora gasped and looked around the room, Brian was right he is in the medical room. Sora wouldn't forget even if he wanted to, he could still taste the catfish's lips from Brian's prank. "It's a good thing that I got to you in time otherwise you would have been captured."

KNOCK KNOCK

Sora and Brian looked towards the door as it began to open. Sora smiled as his two best friends walked into the room. Sora noticed that Kairi had also changed back into her original garments and noticed that she was wearing her gold locket again.

Riku walked next to Brian while Kairi went over to Sora. Riku and Brian just shook their heads as the two drove into a conversation. Riku quietly said something to Brian, keeping his glaze on Sora and Kairi. Brian chucked at the joke before turning serious.

"Glad to see that you woken up right away." Riku spoke, breaking Sora and Kairi's conversation.

Sora looked at both Kairi and Riku, "Where are the others?" he asked.

"Everyone is getting ready to rest after having a two hour shower to get all of the slime from the Kraken off of them." Kairi answered while finding a seat next to the bed.

"Kraken...Kraken!" Sora braced up from his bed, only to grab his right shoulder in pain. Riku rested Sora back on the bed while Kairi and Brian scowled at him. Sora and Riku looked at the two.

"It's best if you rest." Kairi and Brian said in unison.

Sora and Riku carried on looking at the two strangely, "Wow…" Sora said with shock.

"That's just creepy." Riku added an actual sentence. Brian and Kairi looked at the two strangely before looking at each other in the same way. Sora then remembered the reason why he braced up in the first place.

"Wait! What happened to Jack and the others?! We have to help them." Sora went to brace up again when Riku pushed him back down on the bed. "You know, you don't have to keep pushing me back on the bed." Sora said to Riku.

"There's nothing we can do." Brian told him, "I couldn't warp any more people on the gummi when I had found you and the barrier is surrounding Port Royal now or should I say Caribbean Waste."

"But-"

"Don't worry, Sora." Riku cut him off, "Even though he had a screw loss in that head of his, I'm sure that Jack Sparrow will find a way to bring balance back to Port Royal, no matter how much of a coward he can be."

"Yeah, you're properly right." Sora shrugged off. Little did they know; Jack Sparrow was half way down the Kraken's stomach.

"What about the heart? What did you do with it, Brian?" Kairi asked.

"Davy Jones Heart and the White Rabbit's Watch are safety locked in the safe like all the other items. There is nothing to worry about." Brian relaxed a bit against the wall with his hands behind his head. Brian then yawned, "I think its best that we all get some rest before heading towards the next world."

Riku nodded in agreement, "Brian is right. We better rest up."

"Come on, Sora." Kairi offered a hand, "I'll help you to your room."

"Woah! Help him to his room. You sure you guys are gonna behaviour while in there." Brian joked. Kairi walked up to Brian and slapped him around the arm playfully before turning to Riku and gave him a slap for chuckling at Brian's joke. Kairi then helped Sora up and the two left the room. Brian just shook his head when the two departed, "I bet they're hitting it off without us knowing." Brian said to Riku.

"Yeah right. Like that would happen." Riku and Brian walked out of the medical room and into the bridge. They were about to head towards the bedrooms when Riku's pervious thoughts came rushing back through his mind. "Brian!" he called him back.

"Yeah?" Brian turned to face Riku.

"What if Sora hasn't got the virus but something that has just affected his heart?" Riku asked

"Depends. That's a big 'if'." Brian answered, "What has given you that idea?"

"Sora's energy is similar to when he turns into Anti-Drive, indicating that the problem is around the heart not around the soul that the virus does and from what you had said." Riku explained.

"Sooo….you think that it's affecting Sora's heart instead of his soul?" Brian made sure that he heard correctly.

Riku nodded as an answer, "It's the only explanation." Riku said, "You said that Sora's arm would have to get worse to show signs of the Endless Virus but Sora's arm is beginning to heal."

"Wait! It's healing?!" Brian gasped, "That's not supposed to happen."

"What do you mean 'that's not supposed to happen'?" Riku questioned, making Brian curse himself muttering something about letting something slip. "You're acting like you don't want to help Sora at all."

"I-I was just…er…surprised to hear that, that's all." Brian assured him before walking away from the window and looked outside the window. As Brian looked into the cosmos, a voice from the past told him something that he had heard long ago…

The Sun must be careful not to tell too much while fulfilling its purpose otherwise the Sky will fall.

Brian sighed as he couldn't remember who had told him the warning, he could only remember their voice and it just ignored him that no one else would answer his questions. He knew that his brothers knew but also knew that Daniel would never tell him and would command Kyle and Scott to do the same.

Brian shook himself out of though as he knew that Riku was still there, waiting for some kind of response to break his silence. Brian then spoke, "Are you sure about this?" Brian asked, "The last thing we need is to make Sora worse by making the wrong diagnosis."

"I'm sure, Brian." Riku responded from behind him. Brian then turned around and faced him.

"Alright, I'll test Sora for HDS tomorrow morning." Brian said as he approached Riku.

"HDS??" Riku raised an eyebrow while crossing his arms.

"It stands for Heartless Displacement Syndrome." Brian explained, "It only affects people who have managed to turn back to their original self after turning into a heartless."

"But there have only been two people who had managed to turn back from a Heartless, Sora and Xehanort." Riku debated, "How can you get a diagnosis from only two people." Brian could tell by the sound of Riku's voice that he was starting to get suspicious. "Come to think of it, I've never even heard it from Diz and he had studied the Heartless as well as the Heart."

"Well…uh…my brothers have journals about the last Keyblade war as well as past diagnosis." Brian stuttered and bit his lip nervously.

By the look of Riku's face, he wasn't buying it, "Really. Okay, where did they get the journals from then." Riku questioned.

"Where they got them?"

"Yeah, I mean they would have to get them somewhere, right?"

"Yeah, of course." Brian said nervously as he tried to explain the question to Riku without saying too much, "Uh….. From an ancient world." Brian quickly said.

"An ancient world." Riku repeated.

"Yeah and it's the last kind of journals in all of the worlds as that world was the first world to get destroyed by the Heartless." Brian laughed nervously before looking at the clock on the wall. "Well, would you look at that? We better get to bed now, see ya." Brian said and quickly dashed to his room before Riku could say anything else.

BOWBOWBOW

While Riku and Brian was having their conversation, Sora and Kairi were first walking towards Sora's room before eventually running to Sora's room. Sora had insisted that he felt fine that he would be able to run like crazy which lead to Kairi saying that her running had improved and that she had a chance of beating Sora in a race. Sora being Sora, accepted the challenge and started to race towards his room. The two had to dodge other members of the team in the hallway as they were either heading to bed or jumping in the shower. Both of them slammed on Sora's bedroom door at the same time and started to say 'I win' to each other at the same time before laughing it off.

Sora and Kairi entered the room with blue coloured walls and had a half a dozen of pictures of Sora's friends at his bedside. While Sora jumped onto his bed and went into his relaxing position, Kairi kneeled by the bedside to look at the pictures, most of them were of Kairi, Sora and Riku during that month when Riku and Sora had returned. Kairi smiled at the pictures before sensing the feeling that she was being watched. She turned her head to see that Sora was looking at her, "What is it?" she asked him, making him jump a bit, "Is there something wrong?"

Kairi failed to notice the slight blush that appeared on Sora's face as he jumped out of his sudde daydream. "No, no. It's just that...th-that it's late and you would properly want your rest." He quickly made up.

"Yeah right." Kairi huffed as she took a seat on the bed by Sora's side. "What's the matter?"

Sora wasn't sure what he could tell her. He couldn't just say something clique like 'It's nothing I just got draw in by your eyes' or something like that. Those are cheesy and the only person who is good as well as being a fail at being cheesy is Brian. On the other side, he couldn't just made something up like he did just now, Kairi knew him too well. The only time that works is when he's upset about something and he was nowhere near the depression mark. He only had one choice...

"Uhh...I can't remember."

"Fine. You don't have to tell me if you don't want to." Sora could tell by her voice that she was trying to be dramatic, "I'll just leave you and you can tell your thoughts to the guys but not me."

Sora laughed at her poor acting skills, making Kairi along as well.

BUZZ

"Who is it?" Sora shouted to the other side of the door, being too conformable on the bed.

"It's me." Max's voice came from the other side, "Brian and Riku had just gone to bed and Hikari said not to talk all night since she's sick of waking up in the morning to find people sleeping unconscious in the hallway."

"Thanks for heads-up, Max." Sora shouted back.

"Night guys." Max's voice started to part away from the door. Soon after Max had headed to his own room, Kairi began to yawn loudly.

"Well, I better head back to my room." Kairi tiredly said as she got up from the bed and started to head towards the door.

"Kairi, wait." Sora jumped off his bed and went over to Kairi.

"What is it?"

"I-I...er...just wanted to say..." Sora began to stutter before taking a deep breath, "Ithinkyoulookreallygoodinpirategarments."

"Sora, you could repeat that, please?"

"I think you look really good in pirate garments." Sora said more clearly but making sure not to look at Kairi to hid his blush and to try and prevent any more embarrassment that he has throw himself in to.

Sora eyes went wide with surprise when Kairi just suddenly hugged him like she did in the Castle That Never Was. Sora turned his head to face Kairi, making the uninspected happen.

Mad: Hey everybody, been busy doing coursework and volunteering stuff as well as trying to find some inspiration to get me to write. I've been nothing by in the dumps all week, kinda sucks. Anyway, I would like to point out the bits that I used from Shire Folk story were only the movie bits from Pirates of the Caribbean and I would like to leave the point at that. No more talking about it, it should be broken from our chains of memoires. NO MORE. Beg of you! No questions about that bit but I will say this...

Shire Folk is a great author and I say that you should try to have a go at reading Annual of Darkness series, if you don't might crossovers that is. Overall, good stories.

Now messages

Shadow Sylph: That snowball hurt *rubs head* thanks for the cookies and you just have the fact that Riku and Hikari argue when the world was about to end.

Shire Folk: I have said what I have said in the PM and hope that a clear slate can be created and the conversation will end.........NOW. I hope that you liked this chapter and have you found out what Xion is? I couldn't believe it when I found out.

Kisdota-The Freak Gamer: Thanks for the good comment Kisdota, I needed that. Anyways, I know what Xion is and you can ask me if you want to know or not and if you do then I PM you the knowledge. To make your story better, I think that you should do a new paragraph when there is a new speaker and write a bit about that person's feelings or something. That's all the advice I can give you really.

Future Keybearer: The bit about Riku being called captain has its purpose and will be mention later on.

Soragirl4ever: Nice to hear from you again, I did read the chap but I didn't have time to review, meaning Sora has to scrub the toilets. (evil laugh) anyway, I still think that you should have made Kairi sneak on board. *Mad's magical thought*

...Riku's driving

...Sora's looking out window

....Riku tells Sora to cheer up

...Sora opens closet to get some potions ready

...Out comes Kairi.

That what I think you should have done but your way sound alright too. (::) (::)

See ya next time.

Kingdommad