Chapter 92- The Dream
"Hey guys!" Kairi spoke as she appeared from the teleporter into the gummi, "Do you think that we would ever-" She was cut off by her own gasp as it held shock and humour behind it. She continued to look at the surroundings of the gummi as Sora, Donald and Goofy teleported behind her to find themselves in the same shock. The entire bridge was covered in multiple amounts of different coloured flavoured cream, sauce, pieces of icings from cakes and crust from pies. All of this was scattered across the walls, floor and furniture. The furniture itself was cornered together to make three small bases on each side of the room, the two bases that were placed from the left and right of the teleporter had their own flags while the other base remained opposite.
Sora chuckled slightly at the state of the gummi, "Good thing we made it out when we could." Sora grinned as he rubbed his nose, hearing Donald and Goofy agree with the statement.
Goofy turned his attention to one of the walls that was covered in whipped cream and remains of a apple pie, whipping its contents off the wall with his finger and placed it within his mouth. "Yummy! Ah-yuck!" Goofy grinned as he started to eat more of the whipped cream covered wall.
Donald looked at his friend strangly before going over to the other wall, taking a piece of cake and whipped it against some cherry filling from a pie. He placed the weapon-like sweet into his beak, tasting the combination of flavours. "Wow! It is yummy." He said in shock as he joined his friend in consuming the wall.
"You guys don't know how long that has been there for." Kairi said with concern as she watched Donald and Goofy eating the contents of the walls as it they were up for a all you can eat buffet. She turned towards her friend, hoping that he will back up her worries, only to see him doing the exactly same thing over at one of the sofa bases. "Sora!"
Sora turned back around, month full with thrown cakes and broken pies with whipped cream, only to see Kairi's annoyed expression glaring in his direction with her hands placed on her hips. "What?" Sora asked with a clueless expression.
She shook her head at this before looking back at the portal, watching it shined brightly as Brian walked into the gummi causally; his head was struck in a woollen shirt from the Land of the Dragons, blocking his view as he walked in the gummi. "The quicker we get the gummi started, the quicker we can find Jun-" He managed to pull his head through the new shirt to see the state of his gummi. The expression that showed on his face looked as if Skullo was controlling him once more, "WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO MY GUMMI?" He yelled.
"Oh boy." Sora groaned at Brian's anger once more.
"MAX!" Brian called, watching his dog like friend appear from the hallway.
He watched in, camera in hand, as he glazed his vision on the group. He raised an eyebrow at the site of Sora's new white roots in his spiky brunet hair, before facing his angered friend to see that his garments looked ripped up. "What happened to you?" Max asked him.
"What happened to me?" Brian replied in disbelief before raising his voice once more, "WHAT HAPPENED TO MY SHIP?"
"I shouldn't stop them." Max gasped with fear.
"Stop who?" Sora asked.
"Riku and Hikari." Max answered, "At first, their war was sealed in the battle simulator but then system broke and they-"
"YOU MEAN THE WHOLE GUMMI IS LIKE THIS?" He raged.
As Max tried to explain himself, with Kairi making sure that Brian kept his temper to a minimum, Sora noticed that there was no sign of Riku or Hilkari since they had returned to the ship. After looking around the dessert covered bridge, Sora turned his vision to Donald and Goofy. "Maybe if I can grab Riku's attention, wherever he is, he and Hikari will halt their war." Sora suggested to them, unnoticed by the others.
"We'll help." Donald told him.
"Yeah, we'll come and find Riku with ya!" Goofy smiled. The Keyblade Master chuckled at this as the trio quickly snuck out of the bridge without Brian, Max or Kairi noticing, trying not to slip on the banoffee pie that was on the flooring.
"Max! I want everything cleaned as punishment for letting this happen." Brian told his friend, earning a shocked gasped as a response.
"THIS IS NOT MY FAULT!" Max argued with him, lifting a camera in front of him. "I have proof and everything."
"I don't care, Max!" He shouted back at him, "I need to start some research but HOW CAN I IF THE ENTIRE GUMMI IS COVERED-"
Kairi quickly stepped at Brian's side, looking at him with concern, "Brian, calm down."
"I will not calm down!" Brian growled at her, "This is the second time I've come back with Hikari and Max left on the gummi only to find it in some form of ruins!"
"Maybe you should talk to Hikari before blaming this on Max-" She suggested.
"HIKARI!" Brian yelled, making Kairi sigh at his anger.
The three halted their actions all of a sudden as they turned their attention towards the hallway, where they could hear a number of yelling. Riku was the first to yell, "SORA! DON'T YOU DARE-"
"KAIRI! The impossible has happened-Hikari! Get off me!" Sora's voice could be heard, making the three realise that Sora, Donald and Goofy was no longer in the room.
"He speaks nonsense!" Hikari yelled from the hallway.
"Sora! I'm warning you!" Riku's voice was heard once more.
"Donald! Goofy! Operation: Stall."
"Hey! What the-"
"SORA!"
A number of noises could be heard from the hallway, banging against the floor, squishing against the sound of a puddle of cream, and the sound of clashing weapons as Sora emerged from the hallway into the bridge with Brian's Chocobo, Steve, flapping behind him. He seemed to have an excited expression on his face as he ran over to the others, Brian having his attention draw to his Chocobo as Steve flew over to him, "Whatever it is, Sora. Make it quick." Brian told him, seeing that Steve's red tips of his features had gotten slightly bigger.
"Riku and Hikari were-" He began to tell them.
Donald went shooting through the bridge unexpectedly as he landed in one of the home made bases while Goofy was battled into the kitchen, getting his head shot into the vent once more. Max groaned at this at quickly when over to help get his dad out of the vent again, just as Riku and Hikari emerged from the hallway and in front of Sora, Brian and Kairi. "Hey guys! We didn't hear you come back." He said casually, managing to give Sora evil death glares without anyone else noticing.
"That's because your region with those pie demons have made you deaf. " Hikari said smugly, hopping to annoy the silver head.
Riku smirked as he commented, "And because I said 'we', not 'I', you are now part of the pie lovers." He laughed as he watched Hikari's expression change.
"Only as a double agent." She quickly answered, soon leading the two into their arguments again.
Brian, being in a bad mood from the state of the gummi, summoned his staff and yelled, "ENOUGH!" He slammed his weapon between the two, making both of them step back with caution and glare back at the spiky red head, "Just end this stupid war now! Your fighting has ended up destroying the gummi once more. I have never seen anyone that cares about what desserts they prefer so much! IT'S STUPID!"
"Fine." Riku spoke with his arms crossed, "We'll stop if you guys tell us which one is better."
"Yeah!" The broadsword wielder agreed, "Cake or Death?"
"You mean pie." Riku corrected.
"That's what I meant." Hikari smiled at him before muttering, "Pie means death."
Riku simply ignored her muttering as he waited for everyone to make a decision, watching them band together before facing the two of them with a smile on their faces, "Well?"
"Ice cream." Everyone apart from Riku and Hikari said at once, including a 'kwek' from Steve and groaned responses from Donald and Goofy.
"Screw you all." Riku said with annoyed expression, seeing Sora whisper something to Kairi. Knowing what it was, he quickly headed to the hallway on his way to his room.
Kairi gasped from the information Sora had just told her, turning to look at Riku just to see him leave the room, "Riku! Come back!" She called him as she followed into the hallway.
Sora chuckled at Kairi's departure as he began to follow, "Tell us about your alliance." Sora demanded from the hallway as he followed his two best friends.
As soon as the word 'alliance' was heard, Hikari gasped slightly before shouting, "THERE WAS NO ALLIANCE!" She yelled as he ran into the hallway, making Brian shake his head as he attended to his hand size chocobo.
Max came from the kitchen, after freeing his father from the vent and resting him against the wall, as he looked down the hallway. "Do I still have to clean the ship on my own?" Max asked as he faced his friend, seeing that he had calmed down slightly.
"Depends." Brian replied, "What's this alliance that Sora speaks of?" Max thought about it for a second before his face brighten from remembrance. He quickly grabbed his camera that he held from evidence, began to flick through the pictures that he took before finding the one that he wanted. He chuckled slightly at the picture before showing it to Brian. The second Brian placed his sight on the screen, he couldn't help but gasped out of shock. "Max!" He said while chuckling, "You get out of cleaning if you print me this picture and send Vaan a copy too." He instructed him.
"You sure about this?" Max asked him with concern, "Hikari might-"
"Do you want to clean the gummi?" Brian asked him
"No."
"Then print me a copy." He repeated before setting down on the computer, his mind filled with questions as he looked at the Dragon's Crest in his shadowed claw.
BOWBOWBOW
The wind blew strongly on the plain fields as a pair of icy blue eyes opened up to take in the sight of the empty field. His chin length silver hair blew with the current of the wind as he felt the wind press across his pale face, making his clothing move with the wind. A cheer of courage appeared behind him as he looked behind him to find an army of warriors, wielding weapons that had different sort of pies as ammo, pie crusts as part of their armour and a huge flag in the sky that had a picture of a slice of banana cream pie on it. He watched as the direction that the flag was blowing changed as the wind began to blow past the pie warriors and passing him, making him turn his sites towards the other side of the empty field. On the opposite side stood Hikari, the light blue haired cake lover herself, having her own army behind her as they held high a flag with a slice of coconut cake on it.
It didn't take long for the two sides to drawn their weapons and began to run across the field, a multiple amount of cakes and pies flying through the air from a far distances as the two leaders clashed their swords together. Both of the armies battled it out, using their favourite dessert to try and defeat their enemies as the two leaders began to strike against each other heavily. As the battle proceeded, Hikari placed her footing under a forgotten slice of cake, making her fall against her enemy, against Riku.
The Wielder of Dawn disposed of his weapon as held her close, preventing her to fall before looking down at her. As she looked up, it seems like that everything that had happened to him these past few years never happened so long as he was able to continue to look into her sparking eyes looking back at him. He felt his hand reach up to her cheek, forgetting about the battle around them, his attention pointed only to her alone, to Hikari...to his light.
The silver head quickly shot up from his bed, his sight showing him the real world as he looked around his and Sora's room. He shook his head as he woke, his mind still on how close he was to Hikari in the dream before heading to anothing image that had happened when Sora had found them. He shook his head again before groaning at the reason why he was thinking like this. Does she balance my heart? He thought before muttering, "I didn't think I end up like this..." He groaned into his hands.
"Kairi..." A mutter was heard.
A confused expression was placed on the Weilder of Dawn's face as he pulled them away from his hands and looked over to his roommate, seeing that Sora was moving around in his bed while muttering Kairi's name. He shook his head at this, "At least I'm not as bad as Sora." He chuckled slightly before he began to make himself comfortable again, placing the covers over him as he set his eyes to hand back to sleep.
"Save her..." His roommate said with more distress.
Save her? Riku threw the covers off of him once more to turn to Sora's muttering when he saw that he wasn't trying to get comfortable while dreaming, he was struggling as if he was having a nightmare. "Sora?" He whispered.
"SAVE HER!" He shouted in his sleep as he sat up on his bed, his eyes still closed as he still dreamt, as he began to punch the wall with his shadowed claw rapidly. The spikes of his forearm spiked up as his claw glowed brightly as he slept
"Sora!" Riku quickly jumped out of his bed and jumped onto Sora's bed, pinning him down onto the bed. "Sora! Wake up!" He shouted at him, trying to wake him up while preventing him from destroying anything. He went flying against the cupboard as he felt the impact of Sora's fist on his face right before watching his friend collapsed on the bed. He held his jaw as he watched Sora shot up with fear in his eyes before turning into confusion when he faced his friend. "You punched me." Riku answered his unspoken question.
"I did?" He raised an eyebrow at this.
"Yeah, you did." Riku rubbed his jaw, "I tried to wake you up when you punched me." He grunted.
"Sorry." Sora brushed his hand through his spikes, "I was having a bad dream."
Riku understood as he placed himself at the edge of Sora's bed as Sora relaxed against the bed frame of his single bed. "The last time you had a bad dream, we lost our islands to the Heartless." He reminded him, "What was the dream about?" he asked.
"It doesn't matter." Sora looked away from his friend.
"You punched the wall in your sleep!" Riku pointed above Sora's head, showing him the fist size hole that now showed above Sora's bed.
"It's nothing." Sora looked away from the hole as he tried to get off his bed.
Riku quickly pushed him back on the bed with a serious expression, "Sora! What happened in the dream?" He repeated firmly to him. After receiving no reply, he let go off his friend as he stood up. "Fine! Have it your way. I'll just have to tell Kairi that you're having bad dreams since it does mainly involve her-"
"NO!" Sora halted him, making Riku turn back towards him, "I'll tell you, just don't tell Kairi. If she knew about the dream, let alone what happened in it, her confidence will break again." He begged him friend.
Riku stood as he thought about it, he knew that Kairi wouldn't like it that Sora is hiding this from her but then again, the rest of the group were trying to keep in cover that about knowing about Sora's virus. If Sora was acting his normal self then he would have questioned it but he also wanted to know the reason Sora haven't been sleeping during their journey. "Okay. I won't tell Kairi."
Sora smiled sadly at his friend before closing his eyes, watching visions of his dream flash through his mind. "There's this guy..." He began to tell his dream. "In this castle, you, Donald and Goofy tried to follow him but only you could to intent. This guy ran to the top of the stairs when a barrier stops him, a barrier that was casted by the Colonel. On the other side of the barrier, remains Kairi." Riku's expression changed into a more worried expression, his mind quickly realising why Sora might not want to tell Kairi. "All the guy could do, the Endless from the look of it, was to watch as the Colonel goes over to Kairi and-" Sora halts his story as he looks away from Riku.
"Sora..." Riku placed his arm around his friend, giving him a brotherly hug, knowing the reason why Sora halted. "Kairi will not fall to the Colonel!" He said to his friend, "We promised t o protect her."
"But I wasn't there!" Sora shot back towards him, his eyes starting to water. "Before we even left the Isands, I promised that I would protect her while travelling other worlds and I'm not even there. I'm gonna break my promise to her and I'm gonna lose her forever!"
"It was just a dream, Sora." Riku assured him.
"It felt so real this time, Riku." Sora said in a low tone, "It was like I was that person trying to save her. I could feel her last breath brush against my skin; watch her body fade into a sparkle of light." Sora looked away from his friend as he held his chest with his claw, "The dream was bad enough but if it was to become true...my heart...I wouldn't bear to live without her."
All Riku could do was try to comfort his friend.
BOWBOWBOW
Brian shot up from the table in the bridge as a pair of hands slammed down on them, a number of papers scattered to the floor as he shot up to glare at the silver head that sat opposite him. The gummi was once again, dessert free and all of the furniture was put back into their proper place, thanks to Hikari cleaning skills, that doesn't explain Riku's appearance though. Before he could speak any colourful words in Riku's direction, the silver head managed to speak first, "I need to talk to you." He looked at him seriously.
"Can't you see I'm busy." He yawned angrily as he picked up the pieces of paper from the floor.
"You were asleep!" Riku pointed out.
"Which shows how important this research is!" He told him as he placed the sheets of paper back on the table, making Riku pick up some of the papers and look at them in search of important information. "By the way, I'm not going to Halloween Town with you guys." Brian informed him while looking at some papers.
Riku placed the paperwork back on the desk and looked at Brian with an questionable expression, "We're heading to Halloween Town?" He spoke.
Brian nodded at this, "Donald managed to find a path that will allow us to warp there, cutting our journey from days to hours." He explained, "We'll reach there by morning."
"I'm guessing that you're staying behind to look for clues of your memory." Riku guessed from the amount of reports that mentioned the Order and some resistance. He looked at his distracted friend to see him nod to his question, too busy reading one of the papers. Knowing that he would want to get back to his research as quick as possible, Riku got to the point, "Recurring dreams, what can it mean?" He asked him.
"Ummm..." Brian placed his paperwork down and rubbed his cut on his chin with his gloved claw in thought, "Normally a vision. Whether if it's a vision of the dreamers worse fear or a vision that look to have the ability to take one's heart away." He answered.
"One's heart..." Riku repeated out loud before looking at Brian with a seriously expression, "Do these visions have the ability of becoming true?"
"It depends of what Sora has been dreaming." Brian shrugged before adding, "Like you would come ask me about your dreams, Riku. You would only ask if it involved your friend's safety."
Riku looked away from the mage, thinking whether to tell him or not. Knowing the history of Sora's dreams becoming true, he turned back to face Brian, "Sora keeps dreaming of Kairi's death."
The Endless' eyes shot open, "What?" He nearly shouted.
Riku quickly closed his mouth while glaring down at him, "You can't tell anyone about this., especially Kairi!" He warned him.
The spiky red head pulled Riku's hand away from him before looking at him with an annoyed expression, "No need to hold my mouth. I won't tell." He glared, "So, what happened in the dream?"
"Sora said that some Endless tried to save Kairi from the Colonel but came too late." Riku explained, "He said that he felt like that Endless."
"That's because he is that Endless, Riku." Brian explained, "If he's been judging his actions over that dream from the minute we began this journey then it explains why Sora had been overprotective over Kairi the entire time."
"Isn't there anything we can do?" Riku asked him.
"The dreams must be one of Sora's biggest fears to come true and before he got the chance to empress it, the virus managed to find the dream and use it to its advantage as well as changing the reasons the dream might become true." Brian explained, "Meaning that the virus might be the reason for Sora's anger burst towards me and Kairi. The only thing we can do is to make sure he takes the remedy until we manage to return to Little Devon where we can hopefully cure him."
Riku nodded at the information before letting the table and began to help towards the stairs that lead to the cockpit. Before pushing the door, he tilted his head to the side as he spoke, "Revisiting dark memories in your heart can be hard to understand and to control. Once you find them, keep hold of your light so the darkness in your memories doesn't destroy you." He advised before heading up into the cockpit.
Brian listened to the Wielder of Dawn reach the top of the stairs into the cockpit, taking in the advice about the dark that could be hidden in his clouded memories. He yawned loudly as he pulled one of his named boxes close to him, wondering if he might find anything interesting or forgotten in there. As he opened the box, the first thing that he notices is a handmade rope bracket with a metal plate tied to it. As he picked it up, he noticed a description on the back of the metal plate.
I don't need a heart to -
The rest was faded out.
A/N: Will Brian found out his past, Will Sora control his dream, Will Riku tell Kairi? Tune in next time for KINGDOM HEARTS: BALANCE OF WORLDS.
Hey people, it's time to head back into education...
OH JOY! ¬¬
Going to uni in a couple of days so I am quite sure that I will not be updating until i get my new computer and after I have started my classes. On the plus side, I will be working on some cosplay videos that will be linked to my page the minute they are done. The first one will indeed be SoraXKairi with me as Riku. Yeah...I'm the cool mysterious one ^^.
Messages:
Ultima-Owner- Glad you like the name ^^
Kisdota- The Freak Gamer- Chill, I was joking around with the Halloween town stuff. Hmm, I just randomally though of the names for the bad guys, wish they were better tbh. But I like Nikolai, that won't change.
Future Keybearer- Heheheh, it's gonna be a joy to write her lol
Foxthefox- I don't know the Shyamalan thingy sooo we will have to see. The Jenova joke have been planned since the story began ^^ I'm glad that you reviewed, Fox. Be nice to hear from you again.
Artism- ...I have no agreement to say anything.
Van Pat- There are lots of mysterious to the Order, question is, why do the Order need the Dark Master?
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