Chapter 91: New Found Joy
The Sorrow Endless breathed silently as he held a crushed like picture in his claw while taking a slip of his canned drink. He remained in the former library, sitting on the computer table as he waited for the computer system to find other endless. The discovery of the old picture in his casual garments had caused him to forget about the search as past memories soon began to pass his mind, showing his nature once more. "Are you alright, Nikolai?"
The teen snapped out of his thoughts as he turned to glare at the Shock Endless, seeing that his hair had turned completely grey, showing a slight shine in the hair. He quickly looked down at the casual garments that he had on, it was in the similar style of the Little Devon's lightweight armour expect that it was black armour with sliver marking over the chest of his woollen shirt instead of a chainmail and black armoured gloves instead of bronze. He quickly shook his head before looked back up at Storm's face, "What do you want, Storm?" Nikolai said coldly, still not having good terms with him.
"I just wanted to talk to you about something?" Storm shrugged, "But if you still being cold with me then-"
"Why don't you talk to the other members!" Nikolai told him before looking up at the computer screen, "I'm just a netrual." He added as he saw that his search had failed him.
The Shock Endless chuckled at this as he sat on the computer table with him, "You're still part of the group and you seem like the most I can relate too." He said to him.
"How did you come up with that then?" He spoke with an attitude as he took another sip of his drink.
"Major Snake told me your story." Storm said, making Nikolai halt his actions, "He said that you're in the Order the same reason I am."
"Hmmmm." Nikolai lowered the drink in thought, thinking on whether to trust Storm's words or to just walk off like usual. Deciding to give him a chance, he handed the crumbled picture to him, "Here."
Storm took hand of the crumble picture with a smile before his face turned into confusion as he looked at the picture, "What's this?" He asked as he looked at a picture of two stick figures draw with crayons.
"A picture that my sister drew." He answered, having his attention turned to the computer screen and he began another search.
"Your sister." He repeated as he continued to look at the drawing.
"She disappeared when I was forced back into the Order." Nikolai began to tell, grabbing Storm's attention away from the picture. "She's the reason that I haven't tried a escape this hellhole." The computer beeped once more, it showed no results from his search. "STUPID COMPUTER!" He yelled with frustration before taking the picture back off of Storm, looking at the picture with deep thought, " So long I stay in the Order, they won't hunt her down. If only I knew where she was..."
"Maybe one of the members know." Storm said to him.
"Only one Endless knows." He said, "I left my sister in his hands when I was captured. He said that he had hid her so that she was safe but—" Nikolai shook his head as he placed the picture in his pocket, "The minute Haru remembers his past, I can save her and stop the Order without any of our love one's suffering. I can finally commit my deeds to the worlds."
"Haru?" Storm questioned the name.
"He means Brian." The two Endless turn to face the Colonel, watching him approach them as the large door behind him closed loudly. His mind seemed to be deep in thought as he spoke, "We'll all lose someone when it comes to the virus. Whether it's family, friends or even your love ones...it happens." He told them.
"You didn't lose them." Nikolai said angrily, "You killed and abandoned them."
The Sorrow Endless didn't finch as the Colonel's huge two wielder sword was aimed at his neck, feeling the Colonel's glare on his damaged soul. "You want to repeat that, Neutral?"
A chuckled appeared from where the bookshelf stood, as Link watched the little show with amusement, "It seems that everyone is remembering their past and present regrets today." He saw as he pushed himself off the bookshelf and towards his fellow members.
The Colonel drew his weapon away from Nikolai's neck as he glared at Link, "Try and cheer me up and I'll make you the happiest Endless in all of the worlds." He threatened as he disposed his weapon with wines and leafs.
Link could only chuckle at the threat, "I'll keep that in mind, Colonel."
Storm looked around the huge computer room before looking at Link, "Where's the Lieutenant?"
"In his happy day." He answered.
The Colonel looked back at him with a glare, "What do you mean, 'in his happy place'?" He questioned him.
The Remorse Endless smirked at his questioning, "Skullo had no chance with the combine strengths of the calmness of the sea and the courage of the sky." He answered, watching an angered expression come on the Colonel's face.
"Sky and Sea?" Storm questioned out loud.
"He means Sora and Kairi." Nikolai answered, making the wind Endless worry about his sister once more.
The Colonel yelled in frustration as he quickly went over to the computer and typed in 'Aversion' into the mainframe, over for the results to come back with nothing. "The days of action are approaching!" The Colonel yelled, "Without Skullo, we can't track them."
"Calm yourself." Link spoke with no care for the Colonel's frustration, "There was a good side to our travels."
"Which is?" The Colonel waited impatiently for the good news.
"A new female neutral has joined our ranks. With her ability and emotion, we will be able to find where the others are based." He told them.
"Another girl?" Storm repeated while Nikolai listened in with curiosity.
A yellow portal appeared in the middle of the room as Abroc quickly appeared, "Did someone say that we have a new female?" He said with excitement, rubbing his newly shaven chin and ran his claw through his newly shorten hair, making the same length as Nikolai's hair.
"She's half your age, Abroc." Link said with disgust, making the Fear Endless whine to himself.
"What's with the appearance change?" Devil questioned his friend, pointing to his shortened blonde hair.
"I didn't want to get my hair caught on fire from Skullo's anger bursts." Abroc explained before looking around the room, "Where is the anger management brainiac anyways?"
"He's dead." Link simply answered.
"Shawn's dead?" Abroc repeated in disbelief, watching Link nod his head as a response. "Ohhh, all that effort to cut my hair was all for nothing." He whined.
"It looks like it still needs work." Link said to him before stepping sideways from one of Abroc's thunderbolt.
"Get back on the subject of the new member!" Devil commanded the two, not believing that at the moment, the Neutral and the new member was acting mature than the other two.
"The new 'female' member." Abroc corrected with a smirk.
Devil slapped Abroc around the back of his head, "Shut up, Abroc."
"She's properly going to be just like Lizza within a week." Nikolai posted his comment into the conversation.
Storm jumped off the table at this, "NO! I rather have Link commit eternal happiness for me then face two witches." He protested.
Link turned his sight on the Shock Endless, "That eternal happiness can still be arranged." He said to him.
"Enough!" The Colonel's yell brought attention from all of the members."I'm sick of the bickering!" He shot his attention towards Storm and Nikolai, "Since you two like to ignore me to the depths of hell themselves, you will be put in charge of the new member." He told them.
"What?" Link said in disbelief while Storm and Nikolai said it in surprise.
"How come they get the girl?" Skullo questioned his friend's decision.
"You plus her will equal complete chaos on this world." Link growled at the Endless with similar anger to what his teacher once made.
"Can we meet her now?" Storm said with an bored expression.
"Yeah! We have things to do!" Nikolai added.
"Fine. I'll introduce our new Joy Endless. Jenova." Link created a portal, waiting for the new member to come through. "Jenova!" He repeated, waiting for the member to come out of the portal, earning a couple of laughs from his fellow members. "For Order's sake..." Link turned his attention towards the portal, "JENOVA! GET IN HERE!" He yelled, bringing him out of his usual character.
"Say my real name!" A female voice echoed from the portal. The Sorrow Endless felt that the voice sounded familiar but quickly shook it away.
"That is your real name!" Link pointed out.
"My other real name!" the voice called through the portal again.
The other members watched as Link stormed into the portal, sounding as if there was a struggle on the other side, as he appeared once more with a teenager woman brown hair with orange highlights being dragged into the room as he pushed her forward. "THIS IS JENOVA!"
As soon as she entered the room, Nikolai was the first to react in shock as he spat out his drink before turning to face what the Colonel's expression. The Colonel seemed to remind calm about the sight of the new member, making him dumbfounded. "Oh!" He didn't even have a chance to watch the newly member move as he found his canned drink out of his claw, watching her drink it with a satisfied look on her face, "Hi! I'm Jun!" She introduced herself, only to receive the cold shoulder from him.
"Your name is Jenova!" Link told her once more, deciding to keep to his non caring tone.
The new female Endless turned to face him, "Jenova makes me sound like some psychotic alien mother who trying to destroy the world for no apparent reason." She explained her dislike for her new name.
A sudden silence built up in the room before Storm laughed at the comment, "Hey! I like you." Jenova smiled at the comment as Nikolai tried to avoid giving Jenova eye contact.
Abroc looked at the three conversing before looking over to his friend, "You seem very calm about this." He looked over his friend's expression.
"Years of having a pokerface, my friend." Devil said to him before turning round to create a portal, "Coming?"
Abroc nodded to this, "This is too important to ignore." He said in a serious tone before the two stepped into the green portal.
BOWBOWBOW
The Dark Master sat upon his throne as he looked down at Major Snake, "What is the process of our search?" He asked the cowboy like member.
"It appears that his being was sent to the Castle that Never Was." Snake answered as he fixed his hat, "Captured by the witch."
The report made the Dark Master go deep in thought before looking at the lizard through his helmet once more, "Make arrangements for a full scale attack to the Nobody world, make sure that there is no trace of that Heartless-" He began to instruct.
The huge doors opened as Devil and Abroc burst into the room, "Why is Jenova in my castle?" Devil shouted as he walked towards the throne, "Better yet, why is Jenova even in the Order?"
The Major halted Devil's approach as he looked deadly at him, "Now Colonel, that's a stupid question to ask-"
"I didn't ask for your opinion, Lizard boy." Devil spat at him darkly.
Abroc quickly saw the violent tension between the two and pulled his friend away from the western dragon before turning to face the Dark Master, "A moment to speak this matter in private, sir." Abroc requested.
"Why leave me out?" Snake questioned them, "I know just as much as where we come from as the two of you-"
"Major!" The Dark Master said darkly, "Leave us."
Major Snake turned to face the Dark Master with shock, "But my lord-"
"You have your orders." He hissed at him while leaning forward from his throne threatening as he looked down at the Major. "The time of action is approaching." They watched as Major Snake glared over to the Colonel and the Sergeant before creating a portal and disappeared from the darkened room. The minute the remains of the portal had disappeared, Without Skullo, we had no way to know the Keyblade Master's position. Collecting Jenova was the only solution." He explained to his two Order members.
"When we first freed you from your own prison, hiding away in the darkness, we told you where we came from and what our stories had you involved, stories that could come true." Devil reminded him, "We also told you that some beings that our stories had told us that might affect our goal should not be recruited until after the main story was fulfilled."
"Recruiting Jenova this early could mess up those stories." Abroc added.
The Dark Master jumped from his throne as he approached the two, his attention towards Abroc. "So is the fact that the two of you seem to think that my plan seem to be messed up as well. It wants to make me think that the only reason you freed me was only to stop me in the future." He growled at this.
"Now why would you think that, sir." Devil shrugged, making it sound like that their master was just paranoid.
"The Chaos of Light." The Dark Master simply spoke, making the two Order members look at him seriously once more. "While I want the Chaos of Light to appear, you want to prevent his appearance."
"We've been through this before." Abroc growled as he stepped towards the Dark Master, "We can win without the Chaos of Light's appearance. Releasing him would not only throw the worlds more unbalanced that we can't control their state but we'll be throwing all the lives of the universe-"
"Why care for those who are not one of us?" The Dark Master shrugged as he turned his back on them.
"WHY CARE!" Abroc drawn his thunder shaded broadsword.
Devil held him in place as he glared back at him, "Don't be an idiot." He growled. "You and I both know the reason we freed him in the first place." After a second of thought, Abroc quickly disposed of his weapon. As soon as Abroc was dealt with, the Colonel turned his attention to the Dark Master, "Just because you're in charge of our little group, doesn't mean you can try and destroy the worlds. If you free the Chaos of Light, the balance will too unstable to rule anything."
"You never see the true reasons behind my plan, do you?" The Dark Master summoned his Keyblade and shot at the two members, blasting them into the wall. "Hmm, I think it's time for me to visit the other worlds for myself. Maybe gather that one member you didn't want in the Order." He spoke as he summoned a dark portal, looking back at the Colonel. "BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" He madly laughed before entering the portal.
The two Order members groaned as they saw that they were left alone in the throne room of Neo Mansion. Abroc rubbed his head as he watched Devil struggle to stand up, "What do we do now?"
The Devil growled at the remains of the Dark Master's portal before looking down at his friend, "We halt his plans."
BOWBOWBOW
Back at Ultimate Castle, Storm had started to show Jenova around the castle, finding it hard to keep up with the hyper activity girl with her haste ability, while Nikolai watched the two appear in the autumn garden every now and again as he sat under one of the falling red leafed trees. For once, he hoped that the Colonel would return soon, to tell him what the plan might be if Jenova is around. It was bad enough that Storm was recruited, since they were against his sister's party but recruiting someone that-
"HIIIIIIII!" Jenova appeared in front of Nikolai, making him glare at the new member.
He turned his head to face Storm, who was out of breathe from chasing after her, "Ahh...ahh...you run fast." He puffed before relaxing on the grass.
"Yes! Yes!" She nodded with haste before looking at Nikolai, seeing that he refuses to look at her. "Nikolai, are you alright?" she asked him. The Sorrow Endless didn't answer as he got up and began to head into the castle.
"Hmmm, he's more moody than usual." Storm raised an eyebrow at this.
"Such sorrow..." Jenova muttered as she watched him walk away.
I can't say anything! Too much is at risk if I do. Nikolai said to himself as he began to head to his room, his mind filled with his confusing thoughts.
"Nikolai!" A voice called for him down the hall.
The Sorrow Endless quickly turned around and began to approach the Colonel and the Sergeant as they appeared from their portals. "What did you find out?" He asked eagerly.
"The Dark Master wants to-" Abroc began to answer before the Colonel hit him around the head, "Don't ask." Abroc quickly replaced.
"You know that Ventus never was part of the story before, right?" The Colonel asked him, receiving a nod as an answer. "We want you to free him from Maleficent."
Nikolai's eyes went wide at this request, "What?"
"Don't question our request." Abroc told him.
"Just think of this as a day to do good without us coming to punish you for it." The Colonel grumbled, "But the minute you've done this. You have to look after Jenova." He told him.
"How can I do that when she-" Nikolai began to complain.
"We know this is hard for you but what done is done." The Colonel said before drawing an old page from his pocket. "The Stories of Balance has already chosen her fate if our plan doesn't success." He handed over the old piece of paper to Nikolai before turning around, only to hear the crunch of the piece of paper moments later with the sound of a portal appearing.
A/N: HEY PEOPLE! I know I said I would post again at September but I got bored ^^ Messages:
Ultima-owner: Skullo will properly destroy the meaning of anger management...if he was alive.
Future Keyblader: That's the plan ^^. I had to post, i can't bear letting you readers wait...unless it's the ULTIMATE CLIFFHANGER THAT I HAVE PLANNED!
Kisdota-The Freak Gamer: Lol I know what you mean about the good cartoons. Sora's virus is still developing so more trouble is yet to come. I still can't believe you beat me to Halloween Town.
Transitions End: This question shall not be answered.
Shadow Sylph: That 'him' thing was actually a typo lol. NO! DON'T LEAVE TO GO UNI! You're Jenova in our group!
I amke officially making this chapter to Shadow Sylph, just to show that she's always part of the story because of her new character-Jenova. It also means that SHE SHOULD STAY HOME!
As mad as always
Kingdommad