Chapter 61: Sudden Departure

Sora dropped to the side of the base as he avoided any patrols around the base. He currently had his hood up and his jacket zipped up, hiding his hair and shadowed his face. Sora quickly hid behind a pile of dark crates as another patrol came pass. Sora then sighed in relief as he rested against the crates and looked at his claw. His arm looked kinda bruised from his arm turning slightly grey while the spikes that were coming out of the side of his forearm started to get on his nerves as it caused him agonising pain. If that wasn't enough, his sight was completely blinded by light and was lucky to sense where he was going.

You're lucky I'm telling you where everything is, aren't you?

The best part is; Sora has his annoying voice to control his body and heart and he can't do nothing about it, only the pain that came with it was the only thing he could feel. No! Sora replied to the voice.

Just keep using your senses, I can't look everywhere for you.

Sora growled at the voice's commands before slightly moving from behind the crates to see what's going on. Sora could now understand about seeing things in the dark expect Sora could see in blinding light even though it didn't feel like it. Sora shook the thought out of his head before looking up ahead. Sora managed to sense two dark-auras ahead that looked rather large with a couple of small energies. What's with the energies? Sora asked the voice.

It's the energy that Endless carry. If you look in the mirror; you'll see yours.

Why? I'm not an Endless.

Man, my original self is an idiot.

Hey!

Back on subject, the large energies seem to be Snake and Abroc while the other energies are just Endless soldiers.

Abroc? What's he doing here?

Properly after the Princess.

Princess! Sora managed to gain control of his body and heart again as his sight came to, annoying the voice. Sora looked to see that the base was inside the grey mountain and that Snake and Abroc were standing by the newly build gummi as Snake gave orders to his men. Sora lowered his head in shame as the memories of the previous conversation with Kairi. "I should have never pushed her away or yelled or threaten her. She was only trying to help." Sora said quietly to himself as he dropped to the ground. "All you have managed to do is push me away from my friends, not protect them." Sora raised his voice, refereeing to the voice.

Speak with your mind so we don't get caught.

We? It's just me! Your nothing but a voice inside my head that's managed to get rid of Roxas. Sora suddenly remembered of Roxas' disappearance.Bring Roxas back now!

Why have a Nobody give you advice? They have no hearts.

Roxas does have a heart, unlike you.

Fine! I'm done playing secret ninja. Sora's eyes widened as the pain in his head became worse then ever and saw that his right infected arm was glowing white again. Sora lost control of himself once more as he felt himself get trapped within his mind.

Without Roxas, who knows how long the voice wants to play?

BOWBOWBOW

Ten minutes later, Kairi and the others found the entrance to Dark Mountain which was a huge cavern. They could tell that Sora had been through the entrance path as most of the guards that were guarding the pathway were destroyed by wind-typed attacks. Lucky, they hadn't come across any more Stone Gorillas since they didn't want to kill any more gorillas and have Tarzan question about his family's disappearance. Storm looked out for any sign of Endless before looking at the others, "I'm going ahead. I'll try to get a gummi for you guys." Storm placed his helmet on his head to cover his face before running ahead.

Zidane told the others to stay alert and to look for any signs of Sora as he stayed at the back of the group while Hikari was at the front. The group journey through the carven that lead to the Order's base and to where Tarzan and Jane are. Brian asked Hikari and Kairi if there were alright but Hikari just seemed too interested in waiting for her brother to come back while Kairi was too busy either worrying about Sora or energising her anger towards him; Brian wasn't sure, he couldn't tell.

Barriers suddenly appear around the group, making them summon their weapons. Hikari was the first to dispose of her weapon when she saw who had summoned the barriers and was soon at the back of the group. Brian was confused by this and turn to see that Hikari's face was written with fear, this was not a good thing. Brian turned back to see Sergeant Abroc standing there with his broad-sword ready and with his claw raised in the air, glowing amber yellow. "We didn't seem to get a chance to catch up back at Notre Dame, did we?" Abroc questioned in his fearful tone of voice.

"There's nothing to catch up on if I don't even know you." Brian said nastily as he readied his staff.

"Hmm, looks like those rumors were true." Abroc said with amusement, "Looks like the crash didn't just leave you with just cuts and bruises."

"What's that suppose to mean?" Brian questioned.

"Don't ask."

"Tell me!" Brian demanded.

"Or what? You and your non-endless friends are going to fight me." Abroc chuckled at the though, "They can't even looked at me in the eye."

"Wha-" Brian turned around to see that both Hikari had hid behind Zidane, who looked completely petrified with fear as he was open to Abroc's attacks, while Kairi wondered what had got into the both of them. "Guys, what are you doing?"

"Yeah guys, snap out of it." Kairi added. Hikari and Zidane stayed in their fearful states as looking at Abroc would bring the image of their worse fear.

"Face it, Brian. You'll be reading your story book again in no time." Abroc raised his claw at Brian again, "THUNDERAGA!"

Brian's eyes widened as a huge thunderbolt began to head to him and his friends. "Protect!" A blue barrier appeared from his white staff and protected all four of them. The spell was more powerful then Brian was excepting as the thunderbolt struck at the barrier and made it shatter into pieces, blasting Zidane and Hikari out of the barrier. Brian and Kairi ahead in the opposite direction to each other. Abroc looked outside the barrier to see that his fear affect on Zidane and Hikari had wore off and was about to come through the barrier again.

Abroc struck his lightning ability towards the barrier, making the barrier electrified so anyone that would touch the barrier would know how it feels to be tied to the electric chair with 1000 volts going through your body. "Let's see how much fear an Endless can withstand." Abroc said to Brian. Brian stood in his fighting position, ready to fight when Abroc turned his back on him. Brian raised an eyebrow at this and slowly came out of his battle position. Abroc smirked at Brian confusion as he began to sprint towards Kairi, who was currently getting up. Brian was surprised by Abroc's change of action and quickly shouted over to Kairi.

Kairi managed to look just in time to summon Oathkeeper and intercepted Abroc's thunder shaped broad sword. Abroc's broad sword seem to have a static affect that soon past onto Kairi's Oathkeeper. Kairi kicked Abroc in the mid-section to make him step back but dropped Oathkeeper from the reaction of the shock that the keyblade gave off. Abroc when to strike the princess when Brian struck the sergeant at the side and hit the Endless with his staff at multiple times until Abroc ended up backing into the barrier and shocked himself. This resulted the barrier to disappear and Abroc had trouble getting to his feet as the others approached him.

"Give up, Abroc!" Brian commanded him, "You're surrounded." Abroc started to laugh from Brian's comment, making it sound like the funniest joke in the world. "What's so funny?"

Abroc chuckled slightly as he tried to calm himself down, "How many times I've heard that line appointed to you." Abroc snickered, "'You're surrounded, Brian. Get out of the gummi ship.' 'You're surrounded, Brian. Don't waste your time' 'Stop reading the those stories, Brian or-' Wait, that wasn't one of the lines." Abroc rambling seemed to confuse not only Brian but everyone else.

"What are you talking about?" Zidane asked.

"It doesn't matter what his talking about." Hikari said out loud, none of them notice Brian holding his head with his claw and losing grip on his staff slightly. "He's gonna give up."

"What?" Abroc snapped out of his rambling, "Who said I was going to quit. I WON'T QUIT UNTIL I HAVE THE PRINCESS!" Abroc said determinately.

RING RING RING RING RING RING RING BANANA PHONE

"Huh?" Abroc got off the ground and quickly began to search for his communicator with his specialized ringtone. Abroc found it and began to speak to the person on the other line. "Hello? Hey David. Okay, I'm won't call you that. Yeah, the princess is right here. What? Why? That's what I say. I guess so. Okay, see ya." Abroc placed his communicator back in his armour pocket before looking at the confused party. "I quit. Bye." Hikari drew her Eternal Blade and ran towards Abroc went he summoned his portal and left the world, leaving the group bewildered.

"Okkkaaay." Zidane averted the awkward silent, "That was random." Zidane placed his daggers away. "Let's find Sora." Kairi agreed and Zidane and Kairi started to walk towards Hikari.

Hikari turned around after placing her Eternal Blade away to see Brian not following the others. She was about to question it when Brian collapsed to the floor as he held his head. "Brian!" She began to run towards Brian. Kairi and Zidane turned to check on Brian after Hikari's scared call to notice that he had collapsed and soon followed her. Hikari was soon at Brian's side as she watched Brian gritted his teeth together from the massive headache. "Brian! Brian! Can you hear me?"

"Brian!"

"Brian!"

Flashback...

"Brian!" The red headed boy jumped from the sound of his foster-father's voice, having fallen asleep to the story of Kingdom Hearts. He quickly sorted out his armoured uniform out before looking at the door to where his angered father stood. "Why aren't you completing your duties and reading that history book?" He roared through his armoured helmet.

"It's so interesting. How the beginning of this war was the ending of everything pure and light and how the princess of heart is taken from the world." Brian then looked up at his 'father', "Why did you do it?"

"Because one life saves a thousand." The Colonel said, "Now get moving before you get double torture for that escape attempt two days ago." He pointed out of the door and Brian whined. "NOW!" Brian forced himself up and out of the room, muttering about the comment 'one life saves a thousand'.

End of Flashback

"Huh?" The pain suddenly when awayas if it was never there. Brian looked up at his friends with confusion as they helped him up. "One life saves a thousands? That makes no sense." Brian said to himself.

"Brian? Are you alright?" Kairi asked him.

"Huh? Oh yeah yeah I'm fine." Brian nodded his head at his worried friends. "Let's get to base already." Brian, Kairi, Hikari and Zidane headed towards the base.

BOWBOWBOW

"Such a negative vibe coming towards you." Snake chuckled, "You think you can just appear out of nowhere and destroy my animal-Endless machine, free the gorillas and the mystery link? You wait to I have the princess in my hands. You'll be sorry."

"What makes you think I'm with the princess? I'm not with her, am I?" Sora questioned darkly as he was currently trapped between rocks that Snake had placed when he noticed the Keyblade Master destroying his base and tried to make way with his gummi ship.

"You'll say that now but when the time comes, you're gonna wish you were their at her last breath." Snake's western breath was breathed in by Sora, making him gag. "Now, all I have to do is to get rid of you." Snake summoned his snake sword and quickly changed its form into a whip. Snake was about to strike Sora when a purple beam comes out of nowhere and shoots Snake into the mountain's wall.

Sora looked to the side to see Zidane appear. He watched as Zidane merged his two daggers together to form 'Swallow Blade' before slicing at the rocks that was keeping Sora captive, "Sora, are you alright?" Zidane asked.

"What do you think?" Sora replied in the same sort of tone that he had with Snake before looking at him, "Why do you bother?"

"You don't need a reason to help people." Zidane simply shrugged before going to make sure that Snake was still in the wall. Sora turned around to see that Hikari, Kairi and Brian began to head towards him. Sora growled from the sight of Brian but was glad that Hikari was between Brian and Kairi.

As soon as the three approached, Hikari went over to Sora to hit him over the head when Sora reacted by grabbing her wrist when it was a inch away from his head, "I'm not gullible." Sora said to Hikari as she, Kairi and Brian were shocked by Sora's quick reaction. Sora let go of Hikari, not pointing his gaze at either Brian or Kairi, before noticing the missing Endless, "Where's your brother?"

"Surprise!" Sora and the others look behind them to see a gummi hover near them with Storm by the door, "C'mon, you don't have much-" Zidane was blasted right into the gummi ship that Storm had found them, making it take a drastic landing. Brian, Kairi and Hikari covered their eyes from the dust that formed from the crash while Sora lowered his hood a bit more as it continued to cover his face. "I'm okay!" Storm shouted after the crash.

"I'm not. I think my tail is broken." Zidane in the same area.

"Since when did your tail had a foot?"

"Oh god, I can't feel my legs." Zidane yelled in agony, "Now my chances with the ladies are gone."

Sora turned to where Zidane came flying from to see Major Snake emerge from the ashes but the energy that came from him was completely different. Snake didn't even look human anymore, he looked like some form of a Komodo Dragon only that it was able to stand on two feet and was wearing western attire. Snake's armoured was cracked from the sudden growth as well as growing a dragon's tail. Snake's skin was now as scaly as a...well snake and his hands were complete claws like his Endless claw. Snake growled demonic as he began to approached them, "You've done a push my buttons now." Snake got his whip ready. "I hope y'all ready for a showdown." Snake's claws then turned to solid stone as the ground underneath them began to rumble.

Brian gasped as he saw Snake's transformation, "O-o-o-o-o-ou-ou-ou-out-out-out-OUTBURST!" He shouted as he started to fear for his and his friends life. "Everyone to the ship."

"I'm not running." Sora summoned Ultima Weapon as he placed himself in the fighting position. Snake smirked at the Keyblader's stubbornness.

"God damn it, Sora. We've don't have time for this." Brian yelled at him, "You can't beat him."

"And what make you think tha-" Snake had already grabbed his neck and lifted him up in the matter of half a second.

"Sora!" Kairi began to help her coughing friend when Brian halted her.

"Kairi! No! You'll just get killed." Brian stood in front of her for protection.

Sora first tried to get Snake to let go of his neck so that he could breath but soon decided to kick him in the mid-section as hard as he could. Snake slightly coughed as he let go of Sora before growling at the Keyblade Master and was about to strike. Hikari pushed Sora out of the way as he was about to get attacked before Hikari slashed at Snake. Snake didn't even flinch from the attack but simply looked at his hat that was slightly slashed. As soon as he saw the cut had ruined his precious hat, Snake slammed his boot on Hikari and slammed her down.

"Hikari!" Kairi and Brian called out. Sora began to strike with a spell when Brian halted him once again, "Your spells won't work. Outbursts are dangerous and strong." Sora just growled and carried on with his attack. "Sora! NO!"

"Blizzaraga!" Huge icebergs were shot from Ultima Weapon and struck Snake perfectly. Sora was smirking at Brian proudly before it was completely swiped off. The attack hadn't done anything to Snake, he just stood there, chuckling at the dumbfounded expression on Sora's face.

Snake was holding Sora's Blizzaraga spell right in the palm of his lizard claw before pointing it down at Hikari's face, "Enjoy the next life, Little Missy."

A burst of wind managed to throw Snake off balance as the blizzaraga spell was shot at the rock. Storm appeared right in front of Snake and forced punched him right in the chest, making him stumble backwards. Storm quickly helped his sister up and passed her to her friends. Storm drew out 'Shadow's Grave' before looking at the other's through his helmet. "Get on the ship! You have not time."

"Wha-" Hikari was left speechless.

"You're coming with us." Brian told him.

Storm looked back at Snake as he noticed the Outburst getting worse, the ground cracks and shot at the others every time the Major took a step. Storm used his wind ability to move his board-sword at high speed as he tried to convince the others to leave. Kari, go! I don't want to see you to die because of me."

This made Kairi slightly confused as for a second, she thought Storm was talking to her while Hikari ignored her nickname. "I'm not leaving you." Hikari summoned Eternal Blade and was about to run for her brother's aid when Storm turned around and blasted her away with strong gusts before creating a barrier that surrounded him and Snake. "NOOO!" Tears began to run down Hikari's face she tried to break the barrier. Storm mouthed 'I love you' to his sister before turning to fight Snake.

Sora watched as Brian and Kairi ran up to Hikari to try and drag her away while the earth below got worse and worse. Sora looked at the escape route that Tarzan and the others had took when he had freed them to see Tarzan perparing to join the battle. Sora pointed his keyblade at the entrance to the mountain and locked it so that Tarzan couldn't enter. Sora just looked at Tarzan with a cold glare before going to help Zidane get in the gummi.

"Hikari, we have to go! The world's falling apart!" Brian tried to push her away from the barrier.

"NO!" Hikari shouted without looking at her friends, "We can't leave without him. There's still time."

"We have no choice!" Brian looks over at Kairi, "Get in the gummi. As soon as I get Hikari in, get the gummi moving." Kairi was about to regret when an attack that Snake had done against Storm had makes the mountain to collapse and could pretty kill them all if they didn't get out of there soon. As Kairi ran back to the gummi, Brian turned back to Hikari, "Hikari, listen to me. We have to leave!"

"He's all I have left. I'm not going to leave him to die." Hikari battled at the barrier. "You would do the same for your father if the Colonel isn't your father." Brian stopped his attempts to drag Hikari away as he knew that she was right. Brian summoned his staff and began to hit the barrier as well, aiding Hikari. Hikari was surprised to see Brian's aid but continued to try and reach her brother. With all of the treblems and the sound of metal slamming against an energising barrier, Hikari and Brian didn't managed to hear thrusters to the side of them. Hikari halted her attempts as she watched Storm get beaten to the floor. The barrier vanished from Brian's new spell 'Erase' on the barrier. They were about to run towards Storm when a beam of light surrounded the both of them.

BOWBOWBOW

The gummi speeded off the surface of African Depths as fast as it could before the entire earth of the world collapsed and caused the world to exploded. The gummi ship started to glow light blue before it stretched as it used the warp gummi that was install to escape the mass destruction. The gummi soon appear in another section of the multi-verse and was clear that they were no longer in Endless territory.

"Wha-" Hikari looked at where she was to see if she could find her brother, she found that they were on a gummi. "Let me off! I have to save Sakuzy." She looked to her right to see that Brian was just as confused as she was.

Kairi, who was waiting for them to appear, looked sombrely at her, "I'm sorry, Hikari." She said. Hikari dropped her Eternal Blade in shock before running to one of the portholes to see that they were in space. Her breathing began to quicken as history began to repeat itself once more as she dropped to her knees and began to soak. Brian was the first to run over to her and kneel by her side before hugging her to try and comfort her. Hikari ended up turning to Brian and cried in his shirt as Brian held her.

Brian looked over to Kairi as he stroked Hikari's light blue oily hair, "Is Zidane here?" He asked her as the two could here Hikari sobs.

Kairi nodded, "Sora took him to the medical room before setting the gummi up." Kairi answered.

"Wait- Sora took off?" Brian said a little too loud.

Hikari's sobs halted before she pushed Brian away and grabbed her Eternal Blade as her eyes filled with rage. Kairi and Brian didn't even have time to grab Hikari as she ran upstairs to where the cockpit was. The next thing the red heads heard was yelling, banging, snaps and smacks. Hikari then came storming back into the bridge before going into a random room which will be her room for the time being.

Kairi and Brian looked back at the cockpit stairway to see Sora standing there with a black eye, his clothes were completely ripped and some sort of paint as Sora's hair was turned completely white. By the look of his face, he did not look happy. He didn't even spare a look at Brian or Kairi as he stormed past them as well and into a random room which would become his room.

From African Depths:

Hikari has turned into a emotional wreck

Brian is actually an Endless

Zidane currently cannot walk

Sora has turned dark natured towards his friends

And Kairi is questioning the roles of Sora and Brian

Can things get any worse?

A/N: I'll make this quick. I've just got 358/2 days and I want to play it. Messeges:

Kisdota- The Freak Gamer: Just got the game today but I wanted to update before playing the game for god knows how long.

Celticskyedancer: I think that Hikari kinda knocked some sense into him, maybe not.

Future Keybearer: I have read your story and reviewed it

Noami. G: Yum! Cookie. ^^ You have to be patient, their will get together soon.

Razgriz1: NO! Defiently no SoraXRiku action. Be patient, its no fun if i put them together straight away.

Artism: YOU HAVE TO GET THE NEW GAME AND YOUR STORY PLOT TO YOUR MESSEGES ARE INTERESTING AND I WOULD LIKE TO READ MORE.

Done? Done. Good. Also, I've done vids on Youtube when I'm known as Axel. Just type Kingdommad300 in Youtube and click on london to buy a heat magazine. Got it memorized?

See ya when I've completed 358/2 days

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