Chapter 54: Cricket Moment

The sun shone dimly between the gabs of the wooden walls and floor that was reinforced with strong metal. Eyes wondered as they moved to the view of the bars holding them captive as well as a hand and red shadowed claw grab the bars and tried to see if the bars will break. No matter how much strength it took, the bars wouldn't budge. Brian sighed and sat back down against the wall before looking at his shadowed claw with a thoughtful look. I can't be an Endless. If I was then I would have been the first one to know. What's wrong with me...? Brian brought his knees to his chest and placed his crossed arms onto of his knees before sinking his head in the middle of his crossed arms.

You're different to the others.

"Huh?" Brian lifted his head from the sound of Kairi's voice and turned to face her. Kairi was still asleep though along with Sora and Hikari. Brian was confused; he could have sworn that Kairi had just spoken. "Just my imagination."Brian shrugged before placing his head in his arms again.

You're not like the others, Haru.

Brian raised his head again and looked at Kairi to see if she was really awake or not. He watched as Kairi turned around to face him, showing him her peaceful face as she slept. Wait, if Kairi is asleep then... Brian was really confused now, someone or something is speaking to him in his mind using his friend's voice, calling him another name that he had never heard off and is making no sense what so ever.

You're not like the other Endless, Haru.

Brian started to look around for the source of the voice but found that it was only him and his friends in the weed walled prison. Where is that voice coming from? Brian though as he searched the room again with his curiously eyes.

In the same place as always.

Even though that the voice sounded cheerful, Brian still jumped when he heard the voice radiant in his mind instead of his surroundings, explaining why no one woke up from the sound of the voice. Brian sighed with annoyance before closing his eyes. Why do you sound like my friend and why are you calling me Haru?! Brian demanded.

You already know the answer to the first question and your birth name is Haru.

Brian was getting just as frustrated as he was confused. Why would he ask questions if he knew the answers to them and he was pretty sure that his name was Brian, not Haru. Brian shot his eyes opened after he let the voice's previous comment pass through his mind. What do you mean that I'm not like the other Endless? My friends already treat me like it without giving me a chance... Brian looked at the sleeping form of Hikari with sorrow in his eyes.

You're friend doesn't understand as well as you.

What makes you think that I understand? I always thought my hand was a damaged birthmark and nothing more.

Many years it has been since we have last spoken. I guess that your father's death took a stronger toll on you that I've thought.

My father has nothing to do with this. Brian said firmly as he tried to avoid the glimpses of his memories flashing back. I'm not an Endless but you talking to me right now is not proving my innocents.

You'll understand soon...

Look to your left

And with that, the voice was gone.

Brian couldn't run through his mind on what the voice meant, he knew that the soul of the Endless had their own mind which is the main cause and control of the virus as the corrupted soul would take over the body and heart and would be the person's new personally. The thing that didn't make sense is that the soul's voce should be the same as the original person's and that if he has been the Endless for that long then the voice would have been bugging him for a long time, not when he suddenly finds out that he is an Endless which still has high chances of being false. He still wondered on why the Order more about him that he does himself when he hasn't met them before. If only he had someone explain it to him, if only his brothers told him the truth to begin with so he wouldn't end up in this situation, if only Hikari would judge him for this lie that has been told.

Brian cleared his mind of all thoughts as he would need to think about this later and faced his left to see Sora. He watched as Sora muttered someone's name in his sleep with distress and horror written on his face. Sora tossed and turned as he dreamt. Brian noticed the armguard that Hikari had given Sora had broken off and looked at Sora's corrupted arm. He could see that the spikes, that Riku had mentioned to him, had slightly grown longer, thinker and sharper than before that it must have cut the armguard off. Brian also noticed that Sora's arm wasn't faded back to its orginal skin colour like Riku had thought but was actually turning from black to grey.

Sora shot up from his dream and immediately grabbed his arm in pain. Brian watched as Sora struggled to get up and gain balance. Sora lost his balance again and fell against the wall as he grunted from the pain that was coming from his arm. Brian knew not to approach someone when having these sort of attacks, he wasn't watching just to be cruel to him....well, maybe a part of him did.

After the pain passed and Sora relaxed, Brian slowly approached him, "Sounds like you just had a nightmare. I managed to guess just by the way you woke up." Brian sat next to him.

"I don't know." Sora said darkly as he carried on breathing hard, "Just that it's...very painful...every time I have that dream..." Sora pushed Brian away forcefully, making fall back to the floor.

Brian grunted as he fell on his red claw and looked up to see Sora face outside of the prison. "C'mon Sora, I just want to help you out." Brian said truthfully as he pushed himself back up.

"They're my dreams, not yours!" Sora said firmly to him without looking at him.

"Why won't you tell me?! Is it because I'm apparently an Endless?!" Brian demanded.

"No..." Sora trailed off.

"Then why?" Brian waited.

"It's none of your business." Sora sighed, wanting to end the conversation.

"Is it about someone in the dream?" Brian asked. Sora didn't answer. "Who was the person, S-"

"Will you just drop it?" Hikari shouted angrily at him as she had apparently been awake the entire time, listening in on the conversation or Brian's pestering to be more precise.

"What?" Brian faced Hikari and shrugged his shoulders at her. During this, Kairi begin to wake up from the shouting.

"Can't you see? It's obvious that right now all his dream is doing is hurting him physically and emotionally." Hikari sat up and looked at the two.

"I can see that." Brian replied angrily, "I'm just trying to find a way to help him."

"You've help enough." Hikari said bitterly to him before turning away from Brian, not wanting to face him again. Brian opened his mouth to say something to his friend but soon dropped to the floor in his misery and mysterious thoughts.

Kairi rubbed her eyes as she woke up to the new surroundings that they're in, "Where are we?" Kairi asked drowsily.

"The best guess is African Depths." Brian quietly answered, "I was still awake when we arrived."

"This place looks similar." Sora said as he looked at the surroundings.

"Of course it would look familiar." Brian said, "African Depths is Deep Jungle." Sora looked back at Brian with a shocked expression.

"Deep Jungle?" Sora repeated, "This must be the tree house." Sora looked at the surroundings again before looking at Brian with the same expression. "When did the Order get Deep Jungle?" Sora desperately asked.

"I think about a year ago. Even Organisation XIII didn't notice the strange active here with the balance." Brian answered.

"Bet one of his Endless friends told him." Hikari muttered under her breathe.

"We need to get out of here." Sora said before turning back to the bars of the cell, looked at his claw before striking the bars. All Sora managed to do was make his claw swollen and whined in pain as it fobbed.

"Nice plan, porcupine." Brian replied sacristy as he watched Sora jump up and down from the pain of his claw. "Were you hoping it would chop in half or something?" Brian then rose and started to pace up and down the room for an idea.

"I like to see you think of something to get us out." Hikari rose and said to Brian's face. Brian didn't listen as he carried on pacing. Soon, Brian halted as he was left with a raw red patch across his face where Hikari had slapped him.

"OW! WAS THERE ANY NEED FOR THAT?" Brian shouted angrily in Hikari face. Hikari was about to strike again but Brian grabbed her wrist with his claw and forced her arms behind her back. Hikari elbowed Brian in the gut and flipped him to the floor. Brian quickly reacted by swinging his legs in a clockwise direction, tripping Hikari to the floor as well. Sora and Kairi took that to separate the two before anyone got killed.

"Guys! We have no time to be fighting." Sora said firmly to the both of them as he held Brian back and Kairi held Hikari back. Kairi seemed to have a bit of trouble holding Hikari back as she wanted to continue the fight.

"Haven't you guys got any conscience!?" Kairi added. "You shouldn't be breaking your friendship over something that either of you two knew about. It has hurt both of you so just leave it aside like me and Sora with Riku joining the darkness and forgive each o-"

"Wait! What did you say?" Brian asked urgently as he was hold back.

"You don't even have the decently to listen." Hikari scowled at him.

"I said that you shouldn't be breaking your friendship over-" Kairi began to repeat.

"No, not that bit." Brian cut her off again, "The bit before that."

"The bit about the conscience?" Sora asked him.

"Yeah. I know what to do now." Brian then whistled.

Brian looked over across the room where his bag had been place to watch Jiminy Cricket slowly come out of the bag as he was starting to wake up. "Gosh, we've been though a lot." Jiminy yawned, "It took me all day and night to get my journal up to date." It seem that Jiminy didn't notice the others in their cell.

Sora and Kairi let go off Brian and Hikari and the four of them rushed towards the bars of the cells. "Jiminy!" All of them called him in their own way.

Jiminy looked at his surroundings before seeing Sora, Kairi, Brian and Hikari in the cell. "What're you fellas doing in the cell?" Jiminy asked.

"What's important is that you need to get us out." Brian said to his new conscience, "I need you to go through my bag and look for a purple looking sphere; it should be the size of your head." Jiminy nodded and went back into Brian's bag. After waiting for Jiminy to come out and Brian catching some of his possessions that Jiminy decided to throw out of his bag; Jiminy came out with a purple ball in his hands that was the size of a small marble. "Good Jiminy. Now carefully bring it over here."

Jiminy nodded again and jumped off the table but lost grib of the purple marble as he landed. The marble began to roll and was heading straight towards a hole in the floorboards. Everyone in the cell held their breath as Jiminy began to hop after it. The purple marble was about to go through the hole when Jiminy managed to grab in time, making the others sigh in relief. Jiminy then hopped over to the others and landed in Brian's hand, who placed Jiminy on his shoulder and took the purple marble off of the cricket.

"Nice one, Jiminy." Brian thanked him.

Kairi and the other looked at the pearl strangely, "What's that?" Kairi asked.

"This?" Brian showed them the purple sphere marble. "This is one of my brother's inventions. It's you know, what you might call being prepared."

"It's dangerously isn't it?" Hikari asked him straight away as she crossed her arms and flicked her hair back, which was hard since she still had sticky oil in her hair.

"No! It is not dangerous." Brian said in a mocking style.

"Wasn't that the experiment that you and Max were testing back when we were on the gummi?" Kairi asked him.

"Errrrrr......no." If his voice wasn't suspicious enough, seeing his eyes go side to side would obvious tell that he was lying.

"What's all that racket!" A guard shouted as it opened the door.

"Well, you'll see for yourself." Brian added to the replied he made to Hikari. "You use it like this." Brian waited for the guard to come towards the cell before throwing the purple sphere at the Endless solider. The sphere exploded, making the guard drop to the ground.

Brian gulped as he didn't expect that, "Uh-oh! I think he's dead."

"No. No. No. Wait. He's getting back out." Jiminy pointed out as the guard slowly got up.

The group watched as the guard got back up and looked at them confusingly, "He went that way!" Brian shouted randomly as well as pointing in a random direction, earning a smack around the head from Hikari.

"Uh, excuse me?" The guard asked, making everyone confused. "What am I doing here?" The guard looked at his surroundings.

"What's with him?" Hikari whistled to the others, "Has he forgotten his job?"

"It looks like that the pearl has made him lose him memory" Kairi concluded.

"YES! IT WORKED!" Brian cheered, "Let me handled to rest." Before anyone could object, especially Hikari, the guard faced them once again.

"Um, why am I... What's going on?" The guard asked them.

"You, sir, are a soldier. Act like one." Brian explained firmly to him.

"Huh? Ok. But how come?" He questioned.

"Listen, we're just your normal Endless residences as well as family as it's me, my brother that's a hedgehog with huge clown feet..." Brian began to explain.

"Hey!" Sora complained.

"...My sister that has a heart of gold that you can always rely on..."

Kairi smiled at this.

"...and my crazy girlfriend who would punch someone for no reason and should still trust someone even when they are sorry."

Brian was so glad that he was talking to the guard otherwise he would be die for more than one reason.

"Anyway, there was this misunderstanding. And we got throw in this cell. I hate to ask, but I have a meeting with the Order." Brian made up.

"But don't I need permission, you know, to release you guys?" The guard asked out of confusion.

"Well, that's what you came here for right?" Brian said to him, "You came to let us "falsely accused prisoners" these are your words, not mine, out of the cell. It's obvious there was a mistake."

Sora decided to help Brian out as he faced the guard, "We heard your boss tell you to come down and let us go." Sora added,

Brian smiled at Sora's aid, "Yeah. And then you slipped on your head. Looks like you've forgotten your duty." Brian and Sora waited for the guard's reply.

"Oh, ok. How embarrassing." The girls went wide eyes at this. Did he just fall for it?

"Look, see that claw print thingy there?" Brian continued as he pointed to the laser lock system that seem to only work for normal Endless. "It's probably applies with your claw. I don't know...maybe it will open the door." Brian shrugged innocently.

"Yeah, yeah, okay. I'll try that." The guard walked over to the pad and placed his claw in the locking system.

With a slight flash and click, the cell door opened.

As Sora, Kairi and Hikari nodded their gratitude to the guard and walked towards the exit; Brian placed his possessions in his brown bag that Jiminy had thrown everywhere. After Brian had everything, including Jiminy, in the bag; he turned to face the guard. "Hand in there, Solider." Brian saluted to the guard.

"Oh, okay." The guard saluted back and greeted Brian farewell before walking up to the others. Brian immediately faced Sora, "Thanks for the help. I was running out of ideas." He thanked him.

"No problem." Sora smiled. Brian couldn't understand Sora's sudden change of moods. He was depressed two seconds ago.

"Hey Brian." Hikari grabbed his attention.

"Look I know that you-AHHHHHH!" Brian fell to his knee and crawled up in a ball as he struggled with the kick that he had just received to his private. "Owwww...." Brian whined in a high pitched voice.

Hikari smirked at her achievement and leaned down so her lips were near Brian's ear. "If you ever. EVER! Call me you girlfriend again, I will forcefully tie you to the front of the gummi ship and crash into an asteroid." Hikari quietly threatened in his eye.

"What did you want me to say?!" Brian grunted from the pain, "That you were a monkey's uncle?"

Hikari turned away from the three and began to walk towards the door. "I just rather not have any connection to Endless; even Nikolai isn't worth trusting so why would I believe that he knew you." Hikari opened the door to the exit and pause and said, "But I guess he was right all along." Hikari then stepped outside and shut the door.

Brian struggled to get up, Sora and Kairi came by his side and helped him up, "I'm not an Endless." Brian said again.

"Even if you are, you're still our friend and you're still the same Brian that Hikari had first met. She'll understand soon." Sora said.

"Yeah..." Brian trailed off before managing to get up. "I wonder what Max is up too?" Brian wondered all of a sudden ashe, Sora and Kairi leaved the treehouse to find their weapons and possible some answers to this sudden mystery.

Mad: AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! STUPID LAPTOP! I HAD ALREADY WRITTEN THIS CHAPTER ABOUT A WEEK OR SO AGO BUT MY SO CALLED LAPTOP DECIDED TO RANDOMLY ENTER THIS ENDLESS CYCLE AND DIE. So I've been trying to remember what the hell I wrote as well as hanging out with some friends and playing my xbox (which I like doing anyway) Now I have to hunt for a another computer again like I did in college. That's the reason for the late update and I'm sorry for the delay. Hope you enjoyed the chapter cause I was looking forward to writing this chapter.

Sora: Now for messages....

Kisdota-The Freak Gamer: I know the feeling mate. I really do.

DarkAngel555: haha. I was kidding. I wouldn't do that to Traverse town....I would do it to Wonderland though.

Future Keybearer: I'm just not a fan of the card system on chain of memories. I'm more of a gummi route fan.

Shadow Sylph: Hiya Shadow. Wish you could come to the fest. Jess-Chan was there. Uni stuff is important though so it understandable. We have to meet up before the summer ends. I still don't know what's going on with my dad so I will try to contact so we can hang out and do random scenes that would be good for the story....damn crumbly laptop.

Artism: Yeah bur you got to admit, it's great to watch.

Good this chap is done and the next chap will be back with Riku and co. Warning. Disney craziness next chap.

see ya next time

kingdommad.