Chapter 114: Fear

The Fear Endless smirked as thunder strikes began to surround him, protecting him from any sudden strikes from the group of teens. A collection of blue and yellow lightning pulsing around him, through his short blonde unruly hair, into his Endless muscles armour before striking the ground fiercely. Before anyone could question the Endless' moves, the infected being yelled with might as he shot forward as fast as light itself, covered in an electric shield as he speared Brian in the mid-section, knocking the teen down to the ground hard. The sudden thunder charged spear had knocked the others to their senses and turn towards Abroc to make their attack, with Sora and Riku being the more faster ones, they were able to reach Abroc and Brian first.

As the two keybearers set themselves for a pre-emptive strike, they didn't expect Abroc to turn around as such speed with his pulsing claw in front of him. "Disarm." He spoke. Keyblades disappeared from the wielders' hands and was easily struck back to the ground from the forgetfulness of Abroc's older ability. "You guys are pathet-" The Fear Endless quickly shot around, sword in hand, blocking Hikari's strike as the two began to attack with fast strikes.

Brian forced himself back to his feet, grabbing an hold of his chest for a second when he was balanced. He shook away the fatigue of the recent attack and summoned his staff. "Protect! Shell!" Brian raised his staff in the air, beginning to cast the two spells on his team members, starting with Sora and Riku as a blue barrier covers them first.

"Hikari!" Max shouted for his friend as he watched Abroc strike powerfully across her face, sending her spinning to the ground. "Leave her alone!" His bow separated into his two swords, slamming down his sword at Abroc's thunder shaped sword, ignoring the random sparks that formed from the weapon.

"You think you can fight me, Maximus." Abroc smirked, pushing his sword up to level with Max. "Your fear is a assuming one."

"You know nothing about me or anyone!" Max forced his strength on the sword, groaning slightly as it didn't make much difference .

"Really?" Abroc hummed in doubt as spun around, forcing Max to stumble forward from the amount of force he placed on his long daggers, before digging his golden claw into Max's shoulder with a deep grip. "Because fears can show a lot in a person's personality." He grinned he watched Max's expression turn into an expression of fear. "Even if it led from certain embarrassments." He quickly turned Max around to face him, grabbed him by the collar and threw him across the arena, slamming into the electrical barrier.

"Max!" Sora quickly sped to Max's side, seeing the dog teen look at his hands with shock and fear. "Max! Snap out of it!"

"No." Max gasped as he looked up only to see a copy of himself, watching as the other Max transformed. His hair was gone, his goof like teeth grew bigger, his front mouth grew longer, his garments were more guard like, the sounds of his dorky laugh echoing in his mind as he looked at the dorkier version of himself with golden yellow eyes. He looked just like his father.

"Hikari! Go!" Riku looked over to the teen mage to see that he was finishing casting the last of protect and shell on himself as Hikari quickly dashed to her position. "Brian! Now!" Riku turned his attention towards Abroc, who was turning away from the sight of Max rocking in the corner. "Dark Firaga!" The Wielder of Dawn began to cast his magic at the Endless.

"Firaga!" It didn't take long for Brian to be by Riku's side by blasting his own spells at Abroc.

It took a couple of shots of fireball at the shoulder for Abroc to block the guys attack with a couple of thunder spells, making the fireballs explode in mid air. The smoke and sand from the multiple explosions blinded the two, allowing the sergeant to burst towards them with another shocking spear, this time knocking the Wielder of Dawn to the ground. The Endless quickly turned around, facing the young mage about to strike with another spell. "Silence!" he yelled, leaving the young mage defendless. "Outta my way." He struck thunder near the Aversion Endless feet, knocking the teen off balance. Abroc only chuckled at this. "The minute I get rid of that boy, I'm gonna take you and that Princess to the Colonel once and for all."

"Take this!"

Abroc gasped in pain as he felt a blade slash his upper arm, raising his anger towards the opponent as he shotly turned around to face the girl. "Disarm!" He didn't waste any time to kick the girl down to the ground as he prepared to destory one of the opponents. "Sorry Lieutenant, you placed yourself in this." He quickly said as he slammed down.

"EARTH!" Riku fell into his element and thrust his rock like hands up.

Abroc halted his action as he felt the ground groan and shake from underneath him, beginning to step backwards as the sandy arena began to spike up violently. It didn't even take long for Abroc to lose his balance, allowing the spiking up ground to shoot the Fear Endless up in the air.

Sora turned around from Max to see Abroc getting lifted into the air. Taking the chance he fell into his element as he focused the air around himself before blasting himself into the air, approaching Abroc at a fast speed. "Blizzaraga!" The Keyblade Master shot his spell from his claw, watching as ice began to trap the Endless before spearing into him, breaking parts of Abroc's armour as he crashed to the ground, losing grip of his weapon.

The Endless groaned from the pain that he was feeling in his chest from the sonic boom attack, he looked up to see that Hikari was getting aid from Brian. "You're next!" He growled as he sped over to Brian and Hikari, quickly grabbing Hikari with his claw while keeping Brian away from them. He looked back at Hikari, seeing that she was trying to fight out of his grip. "Your fear as always been the same." He snickered at the sight of her face preventing to show her fear. "A rather funny fear."

"Get away!" She screeched as she slipped out of his grip, watching as Abroc's appearance began to change. His short blonde hair changed into a green coloured afro, his face was placed with make up and her ears only picked up the sounds of the circus. She gasped as the sight of Abroc had fully changed to what she dreaded in the world. A clown. "Back pie demon!" Hikari began to crawl away from Abroc and closer to Max, who was still looking around with the same fear on his face. "I said back!"

"Hikari!" Riku tried to run over to the panicky Hikari, only to get slammed down by Abroc. The boy only groaned as Abroc knelled on his back, grabbing his face with his infected claw. It didn't take long for Riku to get out of his grasp but he could see Abroc change into a familiar face. "You can't scare me."

"And why is that?" Abroc questioned as his short blonde hair turned to long, spiky and white, his skin turned tanned, his armour changed to dark garments. It didn't surprise the Wielder of Dawn that he changed into Xehanort's Heartless.

"Because.." Riku stepped toward. "No matter what fears to you. Courage is the key to overcome them."

Abroc only hummed in amusement. "So like you to say." He even sounded like Xehanort now.

"Then you don't know me." Riku only smirked as he felt an relief flood over him as the spell covered him. Without a problem, his summoned Way to Dawn and slash down at the Xehanort copy, knocking Abroc to the ground. "Besides, You can project our fears but you can't mask their sense."

Abroc pushed himself up from the ground, only to get blasted back to the ground by a huge fireball. The Endless grunted in pain before slamming his fist down on the ground, glaring at Brian. "You was silence!" he growled with anger.

Brian only shrugged at the Endless' anger. "More that one person knows Esuna." He pointed his staff down at Abroc's neck. "Give up! Go back home."

"And let that monster loose?" Abroc huffed. "I think not."

"He wouldn't be dangerous if you guys didn't infect him in the first place." Hikari and Max's fear had wore off as the two ran up beside Brian.

"Maybe your fear is blinding you." Abroc growled, beginning fidget slightly as he began to laugh madly. "None of you have no idea what you are doing? Just following some theory that magical items from the worlds will not only cure the infected but defeat the Order as well." Sparks of lightning began to form of him, causing the others to step back slightly. "You kids are just following a fairytale! Hoping to create a make belief world!" Abroc's skin turned jet blue, looking like a huge Unbirth as his yellow eyes shot through. "I will not let Light destroy us! I will not let Darkness consume us! She must die! Kingdom Hearts must fall! The Order must have control!" His entire being sudden spilt into two, making the others jump with surprise before getting ready to battle. His mad laughter aided the horror that they were seeing as the two split into four and then once more to make the grand total of five. Five Endless stared down at the five heroes that stood opposite them. Face to face. Opposite sides of the destroyed arena. All of the copies raised their golden claw in the air as the one in the center spoke. "Prepare to fall to your fear." The Endless clicked their claws and within a second, the arena was covered in darkness.

Follow the rainbow, my lucky omen
There ain't no pot of gold, just copper tokens

The group huddled together, their backs facing each others and each person faced into the darkness, weapons in hand. "Remember guys! It's not real!" Riku told them. "It's just a trick of the mind."

I found the key to life, but the lock was broken
All my accomplishments are best left unspoken

Sora nodded at this. "Courage is the key guys! You can overcome this!" Sora looked across to where Hikari was standing next to him, seeing a pair of yellow eyes stare down at her but the way she was trembling slightly seem make it more than that. "Hikari. What ever you are seeing, it's not real."

I dug a hole so deep
I gonna drown in my mistakes
Can't even sell my soul
Cause it ain't worth shit to take

Within Hikari's mind, she saw herself as a young girl again, lost at the annual fair held downtown in Radiant Garden, trying to look for her older brother as huge man with round fluffy green hair and a bright red nose approached her. "C'mere little girl. I'll love to make you laugh." he laughed manically as he reached to grab her.

I got the devil on my shoulder

"Hikari!" Sora tried to call her back as he watched her slowly walk towards the golden eyes as if she was being pulled into the darkness. "Hikari! No! Snap out of it!

Over and over

The same thing was happening with Max, feeling himself being pulled towards the darkness. His vision was placed back at Disney Castle, as he watched his father hover over him with his laugh filling his ears. "Why do I have to become you?" He muttered as he was slowly drifted towards the pair of eyes looking back at him.

And I just can't sink any lower

"Max! Overcome it! Snap out with it!" Brian disposed of his weapon and tried to pull his friend back.

Lower and lower

Riku didn't waste any time with his vision, he took his Keyblade out and aimed it at the hooded figure, their surroundings being nothing more than Destiny Islands. "Your tricks won't foul me, Abroc!" Within his mind, he rushed over to the hooded figure and slammed his keyblade down at the figure, only to be blocked by the Kingdom Key. The Wielder of Dawn gasped as he quickly pulled the hood of the figure, only to see his best friend, staring back at him darkly. "Sora..."

The hounds of hell are getting closer

"You did this to me." The dark like Sora spoke, stepping towards as his yellow eyes glowed. His entire body was covered is scars and bruises from lost battles, his skin was pale, his chest was covered in darkness, his Endless infected claw had moved up to his shoulder. "If it wasn't for you, we would be living peaceful lives on Destiny Islands but now our home is destroyed!" When he announced the last word, the scenery turned to an burned down version of the Islands, the sky was dark, the islands were burning, the sea was deadly calm thought. "Because of you, we lost Kairi and now I'll take care of you!" The yellowed eyed Sora began to charged towards Riku, weapon in hand.

Closer and closer

Sora and Brian continued to try and attempt to free their friends from their trapped fears, being surrounded by darkness didn't really help the situation that they were in. While Sora continued to try and free Hikari from getting any closer from the glowing eyes in the shadows, Brian pointed his staff at the golden eyes that was leading Max and shot at it with a fire spell only to watch it disappear, an humour chuckle echoing in the darkness. Brian growled with frustration as he yelled out into the darkness. "Abroc, you coward! Come and fight!"

I've got the devil on my shoulder

"You will fight me only after fighting your fears!" Abroc's voice echoed with laughter. "Endless or not!"

Over and over

"What does he mean by that?" Sora turned away from Hikari for a mere second only to turn around to find her gone. "Hikari?" He looked around for any sight of her.

Brian turned around to see that Hikari was gone, as well as seeing Riku trying to resist the vision his was experiencing. "Sora, where's Hikari?" He questioned before looking back to see that Max was also gone. "Max?" He called out.

"Max is gone too?" Sora looked around for any sight of his friends before seeing Riku slowly began to walk towards his eyes. "Riku!"

"Sora! We need to find our copy." Brian told him. "If we can beat our fears then we can face the coward." He looked away from Riku and started to run into the dark, looking for his copy.

"Brian! Come back!" Sora could only watch the young mage disappear into the dark. "Ok. Riku is still here. If I stand by Riku then I'll be able to-" He turned back around only to find that his best friend had disappeared as well. "Riku!" The Keyblade Master called out for his friends, only for the sight of doves to appear. His blue eyes followed the doves fly into the darkness before looking down, finding himself on a stained platform of himself once more, only of him as an fully developed Endless, images of the islands burning remained in the back ground.

"You can never defeat me!"

The platform began to shake violently, causing Sora to stumble slightly as he watched his soul appear from the side of the platform, only to see that his corrupted soul was ten times the size that he was. "What the-" The Keyblade Master could only gasp in shock, the size of the soul clearly shown that this was one of Abroc's tricks. He quickly got his keyblade out as he began to cast spells against the giant version of his soul self but the spells didn't even scratch him, only making him laugh madly.

Brian wondered through the darkness, looking for any sign of Abroc's copy and his friends. As he continued to wander through the darkness, he slowly began to hear the sound of rain feel his ears, finding his view slowly turning from the pitch black to seeing a wasteland from a top of some cliff. The Aversion Endless quickly reached the end of the cliff, looking around to see that he was actually on some tinted rock, the back of it leading to a cave. "Where are you?" He looked around as the rain began to fall hard, splashes against his skin. He stood at the edge of the huge rock, standing up with such pride, as he looked up to look up at the pouring rain, feeling the rain fall down the features of his face. He sobbed slightly, where he was seemed painfully familiar to him, his heart and body remembering what had recurred here only for his mind to remain blank. The teen only sighed, letting some of his tears fall with the rain before turning back around. "Abroc!" The teen grabbed his staff as he watched his huge Unbirth looking Endless approach him.

"You're probably wondering. Why has your fear led you here?" Abroc questioned, his smirk never leaving his face. "Do you know where we are?"

"Does it matter?" Brian looked at the Endless as if he was crazy.

"Yeah. It does." Abroc pointed to the bottom of the huge rock, down on the ground.

Brian looked at the Endless unsurely before looking down only to see something heart-breaking. Abroc had led him on a memory, a very important memory by the look of seeing the younger version of himself running as fast as he could to the body on the ground. He looked to his side to see an transparent version of the Colonel, looking down at the scene with the sign of victory on his face before disappearing in his portal. Brian looked back at the scene on the ground, watching as the fallen body handed over something to his younger self as small fireflies began to flow up into the sky. Unable to watch the scene any more, he tried to control his tears. The memory was the day his father died. "Why did you bring me her-" Brian turned around to face Abroc only to yell in pain from the huge amount of pain coming from his chest.

"You promised your master on this day that you will live on until you had performed your destiny." Abroc removed his sword as he watched the teen stagger towards the edge of the cliff. "Over time, you developed a fear of dying, one that you simply overcome but never got over." He quickly gripped Brian's collar to prevent the teen from falling off the huge rock, the rain hitting hard across their faces. "So you shall die the same way as your old master did. Stabbed in the heart before being kicked off the cliff." And with that said, Abroc happily kicked the Aversion Endless off the cliff before disappearing with a puff of darkness.

All that Brian could do was panic as he began to fall, the ground below him disappeared as he continued to fall through the darkness at a rapid speed. As he fell, he could see small fireflies of light coming from him, his breathing quickened and the pain in his chest got worse as he started to see the ground coming into view. His eyes widened. He was going to actually die if he didn't get himself out of this.

"Courage is the key." A voice echoed. "Your heart is your greatest weapon."

My horror story is nearly over

A bright light appeared within the darkness, the sight of the others appeared. Hikari fell backwards from the amount of backwards walking she was doing to avoid the scary clowns with banana cream pies in their hands. Max remained on the floor with his hands over his ears repeating the names of the greatest skateboarders in the galaxy. Sora and Riku appeared out of breathe with keyblades in hand, the Wielder of Dawn looking at his friend in concern as Sora disposed of his weapon and looked at his hands. Brian was the last to appear as he landed hard on the floor, groaning in pain as he laid on the ground with his knees to his chest.

I said I'm sorry, but I was sober

The light expanded, getting rid of the darkness as the view of the arena was back in their sights but what they saw was a shocking one. They watched as the Abroc copies were quickly taken out by an armoured Keybearer with six blue transparent swords surrounded him like a pair of wings. The armoured Keybearer sped through, grabbing the multiple swords to slash through the fake Abrocs before coming down to the last one, slamming down his swords against Abroc's thunder shaped sword. "Give up!" The Keybearer demanded.

"Not until I protect the worlds!" Abroc grunted as he tried to push the mysterious keybearer away but he stumbled forward as the keybearer rolled out of the way.

I beg for mercy from my infernal friend

"What do you mean by protecting the worlds?" The keybearer questioned, disposing of the six swords in place for his keyblade. A keyblade that was noticed by Riku. "You work for Vanitas!"

Abroc only chuckled slightly. "I do not follow the boy." He made himself clear to the teens. "I follow the Colonel and only the Colonel." Abroc relaxed slightly as he faced the Keybearer. "We are trying to balance the worlds. That is what the Order does."

"By taking over the worlds?" Sora raged slightly.

Abroc looked away, as if he was in thought as he placed his sight at the stands. "What?" The Fear Endless looked around before starting to purchase electric shocks from his claws. "Where is he?" He demanded as he began to cast Thungeraga at the group again.

Expect the mysterious Keybearer, the group managed to dodge the thunder attack before looking at the stands, they noticed that there was no sight of Crush. They looked back to see that the Keybearer was shaking slightly as Abroc used his fear ability on him as he slowly approached him, sword in hand. "Ven! Snap out of it!" Riku shouted to him, causing Sora to look at his best friend in shock.

"I will not let the worlds get destroyed! A life under the Order's control is better than the destruction of the Chaos of Light or any Keyblade War!" Abroc slammed his sword down.

The one that drives the nails into my coffin

A beam of light appear, striking Abroc from behind as it struck his heart. He fell out of his Outburst Mode and his golden yellow claw turned dark, his golden eyes turned greyish blue, his blond hair went darker, more of a dirty blond with little amounts of brunet. The former Endless only dropped to his knees, weaseling slightly from the pain coming from his chest. A golden yellow aura surrounded Abroc as its slowly turned to golden yellow fireflies.

Ven sighed in relief only to look up to see the keybearer he was following, his keyblade in hand while the unconscious Crush was held by his shirt collar on the floor. "Vanitas."

"Well done, Ventus." The Dark Master spoke. "You managed to stop the fool that halted our last gathering." He looked down at the shaking Abroc, seeing that he was looking up at the group for help, begging them with his eyes to aid him. "The last thing you want is to help this Endless' old life."

"Please! I beg of you! Don't hurt me!" Abroc spoke in a panicky voice. The next thing heard was a click before darkness appeared under Abroc, swallowing the infected being.

"No! We need him!" Brian rushed over to Abroc and grabbed his claw trying to pull him out of the dark, it didn't take long for the others to try and pull him back to the surface.

"Sooner or later, Ven. You will have to fight me. You and Sora." A portal appeared behind him as he watched Ven rushed towards him. He didn't waste time to walk into the portal with Crush in hand before the dark portal enclosed on him, shielding Ventus from getting to him.

"Damn it." Ven could only sighed before looking back at the others, seeing them all trying to pull Abroc out of the darkness.

"One. Two. Three. Pull!" Brian instructed one more time as the five fighters pulled together to drag the infected man out of the darkness, watching it disappear the second he was pulled out. Brian didn't waste any time as he was by Abroc's side, trying to wake the man up. "Antony. Wake up."

The man didn't move. Only a phase was spoken with his last breathe. "One for a thousand."

"C'mon on! Wake up!" Brian quickly checked his pulse and breathing, only to produce an angered sob, moving away from the passed on body as his anger took over. "NOO! HE KNEW EVERYTHING! HE COULD HAVE TOLD US EVERYTHING!" His anger was enough to make the Aversion Endless cry in disappointment as he looked back with the others, watching as the fearless heart began to make its way to Kingdom Hearts.

All Ventus could do was watch, but he could feel the Keyblade Master's glaze on him as golden fireflies were absorbed by his white claw. Sooner or later, he needed to talk to him.

A/N: Ahhh this chapter actually when quick. WOO! I have my writing mojo back :D No more fight scenes for a while. YAY! I'm looking forward to the next chapter so that might be up soon. But I know for a fact that I need a new planning pad. To make clear of what each fear was, Hikari was clowns (that was funny to write) Max was turning into his father, Riku was seeing his friend fall, Sora was himself and Brian was fear of death.

Name: Abroc
Emotion: Fear
Ability: Thunder, Disarm, Silence
Theme: Devil on my shoulder by Billy Talent
(GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR took ages to find a theme. No wonder he died ¬¬)

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