Chapter 106: Fourth Sign

"Miss me?"

Sora immediately shot his eyes open and jumped on his feet, Kingdom Key in his hand as he looked around for the source of the voice, noticing that he was once again in the Station of Awakening. It had been a good while since he had heard the soul's voice, only knowing that it not only meant trouble for him but for Kairi and the others as well. The lights from the station that he stood on shined brightly as the dark voice echoed into the darkness, making the Keyblade Master cautious as he wandered across the station, keyblade ready. "Show yourself!" He demanded.

"If you insist." His laughed echoed through the darkness.

Sora quickly turned around to block the on-coming strike that was aimed at him, blocking the cloaked figure's glowing claw before quickly flipped back to glare at the figure. "So, you were my darkness all along!" Sora growled.

The figure chuckled at this. "Think again, Sora." The figure clicked his fingers.

Sora quickly looked down at his shadow, catching that it was beginning to move on its own; he quickly moved back and pointed his keyblade at the forming shadow. "Light!" An orb of light shot from the Kingdom Key and made its way towards the forming shadow, only to watch the light move away from it. "Wha-" Sora kept his sights on his attack, watching it as the light was absorbed by the figure, into his white pulsing claw. Sora turned his keyblade back at the figure as he looked at him with shock. "How did you?" How long the virus has have been able to absorb light attacks?

"There is no point fighting back, Keyblade Master." The soul told him. "I have by near full control of your heart."

Sora looked at the figure strangely before placing himself in his battle position. "No one controls my heart but me!" he shouted as he charged towards the figure. His eyes shot wide open as a painful stab came from his heart and head, making the boy drop his key shaped sword and drop to his knees. "Ahhhhh." He yelled in pain, it was like he was fading away again, it felt so painful, so strange and gasping.

"You're an idiot!" The figure crunched his claw shut, causing Sora to yell in even more agony than when Lizza managed to control his heart from his affections. "You have no idea what your heart is truly capable off, do you?" The dark creature laughed at its own question. "Of course you wouldn't! You're nothing but a pathetic boy who is too naïve to see the troubles within his own heart!" He realised his hold on the Keyblade Master, slamming his dark leathered boot down on the teen, forcing him down to the ground. "Too busy caring about your friends than yourself. Too busy caring about her."

Sora cringed from the force but managed to summon his keyblade. "Leave Kairi out of this!" Sora swinged his Kingdom Key behind him, making the figure back away from the Keyblader wielder.

The soul chuckled slightly in humour from the Keyblade Master's anger. "You will fall because of her." He watched as the shadow of the Keyblade Master moved its way over to him, extending its claw towards the shadow creature. "Your darkness may be small but remains strong and trapped in this prison, because of her."

Sora glared at the figure as he watched the cloaked soul move its pulsing claw away from his shadow and wave it in front of him, creating transparent forms of three people, two of them were girls while one of them was a boy. Sora's eyes widened as he recognized their faces. "ROXAS! NAMINÉ! XION!" Sora shouted with shock before looking away in confusion, how did he know that the girl with black hair was Xion?

"More suffering connections of you, her and him because of your sacrifice from her." He huffed angrily as he clicked his claw once more; making the transparent figures disappear into sparks of light.

"Wait!" Sora looked back at the figure with confusion and anger. "Him? Who's him? Who are you talking about?" he demanded.

The soul chuckled again as he grabbed his cloak and ripped it off of him, showing off the battle scarred outfit of a dark blue sleeveless top, showing parts of a scar that centred in the middle of the virus's chest. His dark black trousers with white marking creating a heart symbol near the bottom of them reaching to connect with the black bronze boot like amour that connected with the bottom of the trousers, his white claw extended up past his elbow as sharp like claw extended from his shadowed arm, similar to Sora's arm, while his other hand was covered with black bronze armour that reached up to most of his forearm. His golden eyes glared mockingly at him before turning completely white, his spiky blonde spiky blew widely as if wind was passing by as the golden locks turned white, his skin stayed pale and white as if he was a ghost to the Keyblade Master. "Time is up, Sora." The soul relaxed his voice, making the Keyblade Master gasped in fear of what he saw in front of him. "I've given you your break but now the connections that made you are being gathered as we speak, it's time to get rid of your distraction!" The infected soul slammed his white claw into the station, cracking the stained glass as it began to shatter. "Hope you enjoy your sleep." He smirked as the cracks got bigger and as the shadow that stood next to him formed into him.

"NO!" Sora snapped out of his shock from his soul's appearance as the pain in his mind, heart and claw increased with every crack the platform made. He ignored the pain as he rushed towards the evil Roxas look alike with Kingdom Key up high but with every step taken, the cracks on the station increased. "Your corrupted light won't control me!" Sora shouted with determination.

"We'll see about that." The white spiky teen smirked.

Suddenly, Sora felt his footing slip as the flooring below him crack completely, breaking into millions of shards of stained glass, sending the Keyblade Master falling into the darkness as the soul's control of his light control his heart once more.

BOWBOWBOW

"LIGHT!" Kairi flipped back as she shot orbs of light from Oathkeeper into a couple of Shadows, making them disappear. Breathing heavily, she looked around the empty field for any more signs of Heartless or Unbirths only to see the sunny scenery. She lowered her keyblade down, allowing her eyes to take sight of the weapon, as well as the charm that added in its creation. Sometimes, it's still hard to believe that one weapon can have so much meaning of friendship, promise and trust, that it had guided both of them during this journey. The thought made the girl smile that she needed, her worries for the disappearance of Naminé and Sora's virus had made her feel slightly lost but so long as she has her charm, her oath then she can never truly be lost.

"Changing scenery!" The A.I announced.

Kairi snapped out of her train of thought as the empty grassy field disappeared. "What's going on?" She asked out loud, she never programmed the simulator to change scenery. The lush green grass fizzed out of sight as it changed into the yellow sandy beaches she was so familiar with, the sounds of the grass movement changed into the current of the waves, the empty view of fields changed to the sight of a tropical island. The Princess of Heart looked at the sight of her home in confusion, why was the battle simulator changing the scenery and out of all the simulations, why Destiny Islands? As much as it was to see sight of her home, she needed to get back to training before Sora wakes up from his nap and before the others return. With that in thought, she began to walk towards the secret place, where the exit door should be located.

"Up in a castle, all so high.." A voice echoes along with the on-going sea. "…remains a princess in the sky."

"Who's there?" Kairi looked around the beach wary, keyblade ready. She looked around in fear as she recognized parts of the voice that could be heard, wondering how he managed to get into the simlutator when she had locked it for some privatise.

"Waiting for the day, her true love will say, 'I love you. I'll take you away'." The taunts continued within the sea breeze.

Memories of her and Sora's night flashed back into her mind, remembering both of the happiness and sadness that she felt in that one night. Knowing that he felt the same as her but didn't want to say it for fear of the Order using their feelings against them like they already have. A part of her knew that her was right but the true self wanted to say that no matter what they did, the Order would know their every move anyway, because of their abilities, that they should work together to beat the enemy but she held back not because of the Order but because of the enemy within him.

"Sadly Princess, I'm afraid to say, your true love won't be here today;" The voice informed her, making the Princess of Heart lower her weapon slightly with worry. "Swallowed in the darkness, full with fear of losing you, it can shed a tear."

"Sora would never fall into the darkness!" Kairi shouted back into the sky, she knew the dream was the main reason that he has be more protective over her during their journey but he had come to accept that she can take care of herself back at Little Devon and the worlds they visited after that. She also knew that Sora was too strong to let the darkness control him, she knew it was something else, something else that was saying these taunts, making her worry if she can pull through this till the others returned from the worlds below.

"Now comes the truth between you and I, you can face me or face your lies." The voice went darker as it spoke, as if angered.

"What are you talking about?" Kairi demanded, she had no clue what the voice was referring too.

The voice however continued its rhyming words. "But one thing that will never change...You're still a damsel in distress, A distraction in every way."

"Enough!" Kairi shouted. "Hiding in the shadows while verbally insulting me in nothing but showing how much of a coward you are!" She told the sky, as if the mysterious person was in them. "Why don't face me?" She challenged, only to hear silent on the islands, not even the sea was making any noise. She began to look around as fear began to cover her; it was bad enough that no sound came from the dark voice that was taunting her moments ago but when no sound came from the island itself, it made her feel like she had just been placed in some sort of horror movie where she would be trapped by the monster anytime soon. "I said come ou-" She turned around only to feel a tight grip on her throat, making her drop her Keyblade.

"Distraction….." The dark voice hissed in front of her, the shadows covering his entire appearance as if he had truly given to the darkness, as if he was Heartless once more but the white marking from his claw and shadowy body proved otherwise. He lifted her from the ground, looking up at her deadly as she tried to free herself from his grip.

No!

The shadow's golden yellow eyes turned blue, looking up at the girl that he was choking in sorrow and he quickly through her away. "Heart….!" He hissed once more as he grabbed his head, fighting against some form of force inside.

She choked as she caught her breathe, feeling the burn of her lungs from the sudden lack of oxygen. She looked back at where the shadow once stood to find that he had disappeared once more. She hastily pulled out the communicator and switched it on, bringing it close to her as she spoke fearfully into the device. "Brian! Riku! Anyone! Sora has gone into Outburst! I need help! Pleas-" She screamed as a huge amount of light shot the communicator, placing her slights back on the shadow like friend once more.

"Begone..." The Heartless form hero wasted no time to rush over to his friend like an hungry animal chasing after its prey as he jumped from all of his limps and pounced for the attack.

Kairi quickly summoned Oathkeeper back into her hand and batted the Heartless away before pointing her Keyblade at him. "HOLY!" She watched with watery eyes as a number of powerful orbs of light blast into her best friend. She looked at the damage once the light faded only to gasp with shock. "Impossible…"

He appeared intact; the light markings across his body had stretched further, his claw and markings flashed brightly as his golden yellow eyes flashed like a ghostly white. "Such light…" he muttered before charging at her again.

As if the light had sped him up, Kairi didn't have time to bat the Heartless away like before, only to have enough time to block his animal like attack. "Sora! You have to fight against this. This isn't you!" Why was it that the virus is absorbing the light now? It made no sense.

The shadow looked monotone at the female before flipping backwards, catching Kairi by the chin as he kicked up, sending the wielder to the sand. She didn't have time to summon her weapon again as she felt a huge weight jump onto her, knocking some of the wind out of her chest. She looked up breathlessly as she watched the Heartless friend raise his claw, ready to take her heart. "Sora! Fight this! You don't want this! You have to fight it!" She hasn't felt so useless since the fight on the gummi ship but this time he was going to physically hurt her and she couldn't fight back since her arms were trapped under his knees. She closed her eyes tightly, tears escaping her. Sora! Fight this! She screamed her final words, hoping that Sora could still hear her.

Surprised that no form of pain came from her chest, she opened her eyes to see that the Heartless that hovered over her was still in the same position as before, his risen claw shook in its position as if it was trying to move out of the position it was in, his eyes had lost the white within them but they fought between the colour golden yellow and sea blue. She looked up in surprise, seeing that the blue win over the golden yellow. He's still fighting… She gave a weak smile; it felt as if being close to him was absorbing the light away from her.

"HEY SORA!" The shadow looked up, only to jump off the Princess from the number of rapid fireballs heading his direction. The Heartless ran across the sand, dodging the fireballs before one sent the Heartless into the waterfall.

Brian looked wary at where Sora was blasted before running over to Kairi, despite having a pulsing headache the minute he entered the simulator. He kneeled down to her and pulled her close to him, seeing that she was slowly falling asleep, as well as seeing a couple of claw marks on her throat. "Oh no." He gasped slightly, slapping her face lightly to keep her up. "Kairi! You have to stay awake!" he begged of her, feeling tears beginning to form in his blue eyes from seeing the state that she was in, his mind pulsing as he saw an image somewhere else, in his arms once more with the Colonel's laughter and Kairi fading away in his arms. He annoyed the possible image, he needed to focus on the present, he needed to focus on her.

"Sora…" She looked up at Brian weakly. "I'm sorry."

Brian felt a lump in his throat as he quickly looked around for any signs of the Heartless Hero, feeling a hateful feeling pulse though him, making his blood red claw glow from jealously. Wait! I shouldn't even be jealous. Why am I jealousy? "It's Brian." He told her, holding her close to him.

"Brian…" Kairi looked up at him again, noticing the red spiky hair. "You were right."

"It doesn't matter." He told her. "You need to stay awake."

Within the waterfall, a pair of golden yellow eyes watched the two together, creating the light that covered parts of his shadowy body to pulse into a leaf green as jealousy consumed the creature. "Brian…." The markings turned from green to red as the Heartless burst out from behind the waterfall, picking up his speed on the sand before diving right at Brian, knocking him away from the Princess of Heart. The Heartless hovered over the Aversion Endless, only to notice something that was reflecting within him. "Light…." He muttered, raising his white claw ready.

"Firaga!" Brian had the same idea as he quickly placed his pulsing red claw on Sora's chest and blasted him far away from him, feeling his anger began to pulse through him. His anger was at a point for the fact that he has hurt Kairi so much but to strike him has sent him over the top. Already being in his element, the flames blazed from his hands wildly as he felt himself getting hotter as he approached the darkness covered ally. "FACE MY RAGE HEARTLESS!" He dug his pulsing claw into destiny's sand, watching as the colour of the sand underneath his opponent, creating a huge lava like pillar to blast from under at the Heartless.

"No…" Kairi watched weakly as she watched Brian fight fiercely again Sora. "Stop!" She said slightly louder.

Brian looked back at the fallen female, allowing him to calm down slightly. He should be getting Kairi out of this simulator before Sora notices her alone; he would never forgive himself if he was to harm the redhead female. He came out of his element and quickly ran over to her, kneeling down so that he could pick her up. "Don't worry, Kairi. I'll get you out of here." He told her as he began to head towards a cave near the waterfall, ignoring the drilling headache that was making him shake slightly.

"NO!" The lava pillar disappeared from a sudden slash as Anti-Sora stood with no form of damage taken on him, a keyblade in his hand.

Brian turned to face to him, only to find the scene impossible. Heartless can't have Keyblades! Why is he still able to hold a Keyblade in Heartless form? Brian saw that he was holding Kingdom Key but it looked like that there was some blue spikes coming from the side if the blade, the same sort of spikes that would be seen on Ultima Weapon. "Fight this, Sora!" Brian told him, beginning to worry whether to deal with Sora now that he had a keyblade in his hand. "Is this what you really want?" He asked him. "You really want us to suffer like this?"

"Your fault…." He replied darkly, slashing him newly formed Kingdom Key, creating a large gust of him, blowing Brian off his feet and him and Kairi was sent into the shallow ends of the sea.

Both of them could only look up weakly, Kairi felt weak from having some of her light absorbed while some many flashbacks consumed Brian's mind and heart that he couldn't see straight. The flashbacks were blurry and muted but he knew it was something about this Island. All the two red heads could do was watching their fallen friend approach them, keyblade in hand.

"Simulation cancelled!" The A.I spoke once more, the scenery of Destiny Islands disappeared into the grip of a battle simutator. Anti-Sora didn't even have time to react as he felt a shooting pain come from the back of his head, feeling his white eyes close, his keyblade disappearing and he began to fall, only to be caught by the Wielder of Dawn.

"Hikari! I'm going to need help in here!" Riku shouted for help as he flipped Sora over his shoulder, seeing that he was coming out of his Anti-Form. He was surprised that Sora could wield a keyblade while in Anti-form but he was also surprised how he could cast some magic in Valor form, he was just glad that he was able to knock him out clean and simple, seeing that he had done enough damage in his form.

The blue haired tomboy and humanoid dog rushed into the room, only to see the Princess of Heart and Aversion Endless on the floor, looking as if they were going to lose consciousness. "Goofy" Take Kairi to medical. I'll deal with Brian." Goofy nodded as this as they both approached the fallen red heads.

Riku watched the scene, wanting to make saw that his friends wasn't harm too much before taking Sora into his room where he could be treated away from Brian or Kairi. Why isn't the remedy working? The Devons said that he wouldn't have an Outburst until he reached Little Devon again? His concern on the medicine immediately dropped as he watched the scene.

As Goofy lifted Kairi into his arms and began to head out of the simulator, there was look on Brian's face that looked like that he didn't care about all of the fatigue that he had, he just wanted to follow Kairi like some lost puppy that didn't know what to do without her. It even looked like that Hikari had to keep him down to prevent him from following her.

Riku knew that look all too well from Sora and he didn't like it on Brian one bit.

A/N: Seeee. I told you that Brian would save someone! Sorry for the late update, been busy with coursework and had a bit of writer block. Hope you guys really enjoy this. It be nice to see some old reviewers again, Kisdota, Soragirl4ever and other reviewers, I miss your comments, I'm sorry if I haven't had the time to review your guys stuff, I haven't even had time to write chapters, which sucks so if you guys are reading, it be nice to hear from you guys again.

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