Chapter 50: Aversion Endless
Sora, Kairi and Hikari couldn't believe what they were seeing as well as hearing. Sora felt anger pulse through him as well as realising that the voice had been right about the sense of betrayal from Brian. Kairi was disappointed that Brian couldn't come up to them and tell them straight but instead he decided to play an act on all of them and from the look of Hikari's face, it seem like he didn't tell his best friend as well. Hikari was the most upset, never knowing that her best friend was a spawn to the creatures that killed her brother.
Hikari faced Brian, who was still glaring at Major Snake, "It's not true." Hikari stammered quietly. This caught Brian's attention and despair appeared on Brian's features after seeing tears appear in Hikari's eyes. "Tell me it's not true."
"It not true, Hikari." Brian said truthfully before glaring at the Major again, "It's nothing but a birthmark."
Major Snake laughed once more, "I never knew that birth marks could glow." he said with an sarcastic tone.
"It's know as a lambent birth mark." Brian informed him.
"Boy, you just made that up." Snake replied with a accusing tone.
"How would you know? You still live in the 18th century." Brian shot back.
Snake growled like a demon at the insult, "You aren't in a position to be cocky, boy." Snake warned him, "Besides, I'm sure that you would want your friends to know all about you." Snake steeped away from Brian's cage and looked at the others. "But I'm a respectful and responsible Endless so I'll make sure not to tell much about your life in the Order."
Brian knew he had to do something to convince the others. Brian started to shouted at the others for their attention, "Guys, don't listen to him. He setting you into his trap by making you look at this in a bad way."
"Is there a good part to you not trusting us?" Sora questioned but not in an accusing way. Brian didn't answer; instead he kept his eyes on the steel flooring of his cage.
"Maybe he didn't tell us because he didn't know." Kairi defended him. "A claw isn't enough proof to accuse him of an endless." Brian looked up at Kairi and smiled at her gratefully.
Snake looked in the direction of Brian's defence to see Kairi. He smirked as he approached her cage, "Well, if it isn't the Princess of Heart?" Snake said, acknowledging her for the first time since he entered the room. "Nice to see you alive and well, Princess."
"What's that supposed to mean?!" Sora demanded as he placed his hand and claw around the bars. Snake looked over to Sora and noticed the colour of his right forearm and claw as well as the small spikes at the side of his arm which the Keyblade Master has failed to notice due to the armguard.
The Colonel was right then. Snake then smirked as he looked at Sora, "Oh, you'll find out soon enough Keyblade Master." Snake then walked back into the centre of the room, "But if it's proof you want then I'll run a little test." Snake then raised his claw up and clenched it as hard as he could. The group could tell that it was some kind of dragon claw or something. As soon as he claw started to glow, he began to explain, "Every Endless is immune to the other Endless' emotion, meaning that they would not get affected from my expulsion. If Brian is an Endless then his behaviour shouldn't change, if he isn't then he should be looking at the situation that he is in in the worst possible way."
"Like being captured isn't bad enough." Brian muttered under his breathe.
"To show you that the spell actually works, I'll test it." Snake suddenly turned to Kairi's cage and blasted a light blue energy all around Kairi.
Sora, Hikari and Brian called out to Kairi and watched as the blue energy cover Kairi's cage. The energy started to fade away and revealed that Kairi didn't have a single scratch on her. Snake smirked as he watched Kairi dropped to her knees and began to cry. "We're never going to get out of here." She cried as she hugged her knees.
Sora watched painfully at Kairi's state and wished that he could brake out of his sphere like cage to go and comfort her. Sora gritted his teeth together out of anger and looked at Major Snake, "What'd you do to her!" Sora demanded.
"I just letting her be more pessimistic." Snake answered before surprising Brian by casting the spell on him too. Sora and Hikari watched with curious as the energy began to fade away. They watched as Brian sat lazily on the cage floor with expressionless face. Snake watched him as well as soon approached him. Major Snake slammed his fist into the cage bars creating a slight dinging noise. Brian automatically jumped from the unexpected noise and rumble of the cage. Snake laughed at this as he faced Sora and Hikari. "People that live in the negative way of life are never surprised."
"What are you?" Hikari stammered while rubbing the remaining tears off her face and waited for Brian to answer the question. Brian only gave her an apologising look as he didn't know how to answer a question he didn't know.
"He was once an Order member that served under the Dark Master, until he ran away of course." Snake answered for him. Brian had enough of some stranger telling all of his friends stuff that he can't even remember.
"Ok. You're talking a bunch of crap now. I was and never will be part of the Order." Brian said coldly.
"You were boy!" Snake shot back bitterly, "You were the Colonel's rebellious son, all ways causing trouble." Snake looked at the corner of his eye to see Sora clenching the bars that he was holding harder than before. Snake then looked at Brian to see that he was replying the same way.
"He's not my father." Brian said darkly to the Major.
Snake took off his hat and quickly dusted it before placing it back on his head, "You always used to say that too." He replied. "At least you showed your emotion that way as you was known as the Aversion Endless(A1)."
Brian, Hikari and Sora looked over towards the door as another Order member walked in and bowed to the Major. From the look of his armour and silver and his purple shadowed claw, they could guess that it was Corporal Link. "Major Snake, Sergeant Abroc has arrived and is waiting for us in the bridge."
"Very good." Snake started to followed Link out of the room but halted to look at the angered Endless, the sorrowed tom-boy, the former Heartless Keyblade Master and the pessimism princess who had fallen to sleep due to the after affect of the spell when it's cast on non-infected beings. "Hope you have a good talk now." And locked the huge steel doors without saying another word.
BOWBOWBOW
Riku sighed with annoyance from inside his helmet as him and Max looked up at the ship's map. The only thing that they have managed to learn from this complicated map was its name and it wasn't even creative. Of all the names they could pick for a deadly elite ship.Riku said sternly to himself. Riku then looked back at the map and tried to find the room where they could find Sora and the others. Riku first pointed to the simulator room, the room he and Max fell into and guilded his finger upwards as he followed the hallway.
Max placed his hands in the undergarment's pockets and started to swing back and forward while lifting his feet up and down. Riku wouldn't let him check the map, saying that he would do something his father would do. Max muttered angrily at the thought, he would never do anything stupid that would blow their cover. Well, there was that one time where he slipped on a soap bar and it lead to the academy to get blown to pieces but that wasn't his fault.
"Max!" Max jumped from being shouted out of his memories and crashed to the fall, causing a lot of noise. "Stop goofing around and come here." Riku instructed him. Max muttered something under his breathe, something about making a silver string for his bow. Max weaved his armoured covered self off the ground and walked over to Riku.
"Check this out." Riku said as he pointed to the map, "I've managed to find where the prison blocks are. Problem is, both are opposite side of each other." Riku pointed to one prison block that was on one side of the ship then pointed to the other one that was on the other side of the ship.
"Can't we just take a prison each? There are two of us." Max suggested.
"One of us could easily be caught or get lost." Rikureplied while looking at the map, "We need to stick together while we're in a place that we're unfamiliar with." Max huffed before walking away from Riku a bit. Max didn't manage to see the broken piece of steel flooring tilting up from the rest of the flooring. Max tripped from the unstable flooring and skidded across the floor until he passed several laser traps and crashed into the wall.
As the alarm sounded, Riku turned away from the map and started to look around for the cause. As soon as he found Max, Rikugroaned with annoyance and ran up to Max. As he tried to wake Max back up, he didn't notice the alarms shut off or hear footsteps approach him. "Come on, wake up." Riku shook the unconscious dog to try and wake him up and even tried hitting hit across the head to see if that would work.
"Is there a problem here?"
"Err..." Riku slowly turned around and saw two Order members behind them. Riku quickly searched his memory and remembered that it was Major Snake and Corporal Link from looking at their appearance. Riku was now glad that they were in disguise. "No-" Riku quickly coughed to change his tone of voice, "No, everything's fine." He said in a deeper voice.
"It doesn't look fine." Link said with an monotone voice as he pointed to Max.
"Oh well...err...my friend got confused by the map since we're new here and...err...forgot about the self activating lasers." Riku quickly made up. Major Snake seemed to buy it but Link looked like he knew better.
Link stepped towards Riku, "What's your name?" Link asked with a suspicious tone.
"My name?" Link nodded, "Oh my name is...." Tom, no. Jerry, no. Ralph, no. Bill, no. Ansem, no I've done that. Peter, no. Lucas, hell no. Crap, I need a name.
Max started to wake up, not noticing the Endless. "What the hell is your problem, Ri-" Max looked up and noticed the two Order members, "Ri-Ricky." Max quickly said.
Ricky? What the hell?! That's worse than Lucas. "Yes, my name is Ricky." Rikuwent along with it. "Me and my friend Lax..."
"Lax?" The Order members as well as Max giving him a questionable look, though it was hard to tell with Max since he had a helmet on.
"Yes, his name is Lax." Riku confirmed, this is what he gets from naming me Ricky."Isn't that right, Lax." Riku pulled Max off the floor and pushed him in front of the two Order members.
Max gulped and quickly went into attention to hopefully show that he was respectful while in disguise, "Yes sir. My name is Lax. We're new recruits here at...err..." Max quickly looked at the ship's name, "St DragonKnight."
"Hmm, maybe we should take these go getters to the meeting with us." Snake whispered to Link, "I'm sure that they'll enjoy the weapon demonstration on this flying horse."
"I'm not sure, sir." Link replied and kept his eye on Riku, "Something feels familiar with one of these...recruits." Link sounded the word 'recruits' with emphasis, showing that he wasn't trusting these so called recruits.
"Hush your mouth, Corporal." Major Snake told him, "Where I come from-" Oh great, another 'where I come from' speech. Maybe if I pretend to listen I always do, he might not notice. "-did you get all of that, Corporal?"
Wait. What? "Yes sir." Link just nodded.
"Alright then, we're in agreement. While I take the boys to the bridge for the meeting, you'll go get me a cowboy style caramel milkshake. Don't forget the marshmallows now." Riku and Max watched Link's face sudden drop and muttered something under his breathe below opening a portal and going through it.
Snake then started to point them to the bridge, heading away from the prison blocks. Max and Riku, known as Lax and Ricky, caught up with Major Snake, "Sir, what is the meeting about?" Max asked.
"Ohh, we're just discussing some Order information with another comrade which I'm afraid you guys aren't allowed to hear." Snake informed them. Well, there goes our chance of hearing their plan. "On the plus side, you fellows will have front row seats to watch our brilliant flying machine at work."
"Which is?" Riku asked, not caring if he was respectful or not.
"Our new weapon system." Major Snake answered, "It's said to destroy entire worlds." Max and Riku eyes widened at this. This is not good.
BOWBOWBOWBOW
He could feel the two pairs of eyes watching him, glaring at him, and possibly waiting for the first of their thousand questions to be answered. He did not even have to look up to notice the icy cold glares that he was receiving, he could just feel the coldness as he shivered. As much as he would want to give them the answer that their were looking for, the answer that would either make them sigh in relief or burst into anger, he knew from his heart that he wouldn't be able to give them the answers that they were seeking if he doesn't know the answer.
Brian slowly and regretfully looked up from the cage floor and looked at his friends that were waiting for his response. The silence that was surrounding the air was pressuring him, making it even harder for him to speak, to explain. Brian opened his mouth, as if to say something, only to close it again and sigh and he would repeat that as he truly did not know what to say. For the first time since this journey began, he was god-smacked.
After what seemed like hours, Brian finally spoke, "It's not true." Brian said. Silence pressured the room again as it was the only thing he said. The silence seemed so dense and deep that it would act like fresh oxygen coming to naked flame. This just shows that Brian is the naked flame in the situation, he was to say the wrong thing then the room would blow with anger and pain towards him like fresh oxygen heading towards the naked flame.
Hikari was resting her head on one of the bars, looking down at the floor as she could not bear to look at her best friend. Lies; all this time. Nothing but lies.More tears of anger ran down her face, she hadn't cried like this since her brother had died but this time was different, the person that had comfort her last time had gone and was the cause of the pain. "Why..." Hikari said quietly, only Sora was able to hear.
Sora was sitting on the cage floor, resting his head on the bars as well. He had questions of his own that he wanted answered, mainly about the colonel and what Major Snake really meant about saying 'alive and well' to Kairi. Sora then looked over to Kairi to see her lying on the cage floor as she slept. Sora softly smiled at Kairi, knowing that she would have a good night sleep unlike the three of them. Sora then looked between Brian and Hikari as he saw Brian noticed Hikari crying and knew that his questions would be answered for him.
Brian looked painfully at Hikari and wished that there was something to say that would cheer her up. "Hikari..." he began to say.
"Why didn't you ever tell me!?" Hikari suddenly demanded, making Brian feel even worse than he was. "All this time, why didn't you tell me, Max, anyone?! All I want to know is why!"
Brian looked at the ground again, avoiding eye contact. "It's all a lie."
Sora pulled himself up by using the bars, "You weren't affected by the spell." Sora said.
"It doesn't mean a thing." Brian quickly shot back before looking at Hikari. "I'm not an Endless and even if I was then I don't remember being in the Order."
"You still should have told me!" Hikari cried. "You could have told us about the Order knowing you instead of making up lies."
"I didn't lie-" Brian defended himself.
"Yes you did!!" Hikari shouted, making Brian stop from what he was saying. "You have been lying to me since day one. You lied about your father being dead just to make me feel a little bit better. I had lost my brother and I only let you in because I thought we had something to relate too. I thought that I wouldn't have to go through this alone; that we could help each other since you was still grieving over your father." Hikari wiped her eyes on the quick to get rid of the blurred vision before carrying on in a calmer, sorrow tone of voice. "When you stopped talking about your father after the Recon mission, I knew that I could always come to you or Max for comfort if I needed." Anger started to rise in her voice again. "It's just the fact that you lied just to get to me and...and it sickens me. It really does."
Brian felt a few tears fall down his face during that speech and was still falling as Hikari faced away from Brian and cried as she held her knees to her chest as she laid on the floor and started to cry herself to sleep. Brian placed his head between two bars as he watched Hikari's weeping form, "Hikari, I was telling you the truth about my father." He began to say, not sure whether Hikari was listening or not. "The colonel's took me in when I was born but I don't remember much. I know I escaped and found my real father. That was the father I was talking about." Brian watched her for a responses but she didn't move a muscle. "Hikari, you have to believe me when I say that I'm not an Endless an-"
"It's no use, Brian." Sora said to him, grabbing his attention. "She's already asleep."
Brian then faced Sora, "You believe me, right Sora?" Brian's voice seemed to be asking for some glimpse of hope.
Sora looked at Brian sadly and shook his head, "Everything makes sense now. Why the Devon brothers treat you different, why you really had that chip in your arm, why you need to calm yourself down."
"You know, I thought you of all people would back me up. You've been a Heartless before." Brian said to him.
"Yeah, I have." Sora admitted. "It's never good to lie to yourself. Maybe you should try admitting that to yourself." Sora then sat down on the ground and placed his arm behind his head, ready to go to sleep.
"I'm not an Endless." Brian said firmly to him but noticed that Sora wasn't listening, most likely fallen asleep. Brian sighed as he fell to the floor and ran his hand and claw through his dark red spiky hair. Brian then paused and looked at his red shadowed claw, which was not glowing anymore. Brian decided to take Sora's words as began to say it to himself while looking at his claw.
"I'm not an Endless." He said quietly and unsurely to himself.
A1- Aversion Endless: can sense the slight despair and anger between people. Stronger than Anger, Weaker than Hatred. Element: Fire
A/N: That's the end of that chap and my 50 chap run. If you want me to continued my story then the reviews must reach to 140, meaning that I must get 9 more reviews or I will work on my one shots or the Prince and the Pauper story or even my coursework. DUN DUN DUUUUUNNNNNNN I'm only doing this cause I was hoping for more reviews on the sudden plot twist. On the plus side, you might see more great stories that will not start rubbish from your's truly. Now for messeges:
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