Chapter 132: Brotherly Love

With the Aversion Endless on board, it didn't take long for the team to return to the hidden world of Little Devon, parking the red gummi tightly back into the gummi port, with much more ease now that their wasn't loads of woman waiting for their arrival. As soon as the ship had landed, Brian and Hikari quickly called the others into the bridge. "Looking at the time, Little Devon should be organising their Annual Festival." Brian told them. "Meaning that my brother is going to throw me on stage again for some songs and get Hikari and Max to aid backstage so you might as well use this time to prepare for the mission ahead."

Kairi yawned as she nodded drowsily. "I'll rest up. Get my strength up." She leaned on Sora as she rubbed her eyes, leaning in to him as he wrapped his arm around her.

"I've called Daniel earlier. He should have organised some form of sleeping quarters for you guys before we set off." Hikari quickly told the three, smiling at them kindly.

Riku smiled at this. "Thank you, Hikari." He turned around, looking outside the window. "Looks like your brother is outside, Brian." He pointed out.

"Which one?" The Aversion Endless quickly asked.

"Daniel and his friend, Takeru."

Brian groaned at the information given to him. "Great! He's just going to moan." He said, looking out the window to Daniel, gulping slightly at his brother's impatient look. "This is going to end bad."

Hikari offered as she leaned a hand on Brian's shoulder. "I can stick around if you want."

Brian quickly shook his head, smiling at Hikari with gratitude. "I should be fine. I'm only giving him the items after all."

"How long will this Annual Festival be?" Sora asked with concern.

"A couple of days." Brian told him, crossing over the room to reach the main doors, pressing the controls as he prepared to open the gummi ship door. "You will properly have to report to Kyle in those days to check on the cure. Hopefully, it will be ready by then." He held the empathises on the last couple of words before opening the gummi ship door, leading down to Little Devon.

'I hope so.' Sora breathed in deeply before helping Kairi down the stairs.

Daniel stood there with a smile as he watched the five exit from the gummi ship, along with Steve the Chocobo, placing his hands wide from his side as the group approached the two of them. "Welcome back, Heroes of Light." Daniel greeted happily. "And Brian." He added with a form of annoyance.

Brian shook his head at this. "Don't I get any sign of gratitude?" he questioned.

Daniel ignored Brian's comment as he addressed the others. "Takeru will take you three to your very own shared quarters, as well as service for on-suite delivers at your every call. We will collect you when we have finished the portal to Disney Castle." He informed them.

"And when will that be?" Riku questioned.

"At dawn, Riku." Daniel patted him friendly on the shoulder, grinning down at him. "When the sun rises, we will be able to march into Ultimate Castle and save the king."

Sora's voice kept firm as he spoke. "We better rest then." It didn't take long for Takeru to lead Sora, Kairi and Riku out of the Gummi Port and into town while Hikari took Steve and quickly bid her goodbyes to find Ventus, Max and the others.

Daniel and Brian waited for the others to disappear before shooting each other a glare. Brian's glare caught Daniel off guard slightly before focusing on his thoughts. He poked Brian in the chest while looking at him angrily, "Why the hell did you go to Destiny Islands?" he demanded.

Brian rolled his eyes. "I was being a friend." He answered him, folding his arms as he looked away from him.

"You were being stupid!" He told him. "From what I heard, the Colonel had nearly disappeared with Kairi in his arms. You could have easily destroy three years' worth of work to this town and ruin our only possible chance to balance the worlds!"

"Yeah and I prevented that!" Brian pointed out.

"You wouldn't have to prevent it if you did your job!" Daniel replied angrily.

"You know what would be helpful?" Brian spat. "Knowing that the job was to change the future!"

Daniel's eyes widened at this as he grabbed hold of Brian and covered his mouth, looking around the gummi port to find that none of the workers seemed to be bothered much about the noise. Knowing that the coast was clear, he let go off the Aversion Endless, only to earn a dirty look from him. "What did you want me to do? Tell you that you're not my brother and that we're all from the future the minute you had woken up?" He questioned.

"You could have told me the truth!" Brian shook his head. "Instead, I had to struggle when I hanged out with friends; You could at least told me that I wasn't like the others in town."

"If I had told you that you was an Endless then—" The Little Devon Leader sighed as he begun to feel aggravated. "Do any of the others know?" He asked.

Brian paused. Should he tell him? It wasn't his intentions to tell Riku or Hikari. They were just there when he had remembered where he was from. Surely one secret won't hurt. After all, Daniel had kept a thousand from him.

"Please tell me you didn't tell the-" Daniel spoke in fear.

"No." Brian cut him off. "I didn't. I'm not an idiot."

"Good." The leader sighed in relief. "So they don't know about Kasper?"

"No."

"Did Kasper see you?"

"No."

"Good. At least you remembered to avoid Kasper-"

"Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Kasper didn't see me. Can you tell me the reason why you didn't tell me the truth?" He demanded, his claw beginning to pulse as his anger slowly grew inside.

"Look! If you have your memories then you know as well as I do that we have more important things to focus on." He pointed out. "We can talk about this after the festival."

Brian huffed at this. "Fine." He said reluctantly.

"Good." Daniel smiled at this. "Now, did you get the rest of the items?"

"Yeah. Hold on." Brian nodded, replying in an annoyed tone as he past his brown bag over. "To think, I would have forgotten to get the Sea Salt Ice Cream if we didn't need to save Kairi."

"You keep thinking that, Brian. You're still in trouble for-" Daniel checked the content of his brother's bag, halting in confusion as he pulled out a yellow, star shaped fruit. "What is this?"

"Paupo Fruit." Brian simply answered. When he only got an questionable look from Daniel, he explained further. "It's this fruit that is supposed to link people together-"

"You don't need to tell me about this? I already know! Master wouldn't shut up about it at one point." Daniel quickly stopped him. "What I mean is; why have you got this? It wasn't on your list." He asked.

Brian raised an eyebrow at this. "Yeah it is. I remember the Captain and my Master strictly telling me to get this."

"The Captain nor did the Council tell me anything." Daniel informed him. "Like I've told you before, if it was important, they would have told us." He tried to give the fruit back to him.

"And I'm telling you!" Brian forced the star shaped fruit back in his hands. "You still haven't listened to me after nearly two years." Brian pointed out, earning a groan from his brother. "You promised that you will listen to what I had to say as soon as Kyle and I had returned from that stupid recon mission that you had sent us on."

"We don't need this!" He spoke as if he had repeated those same words over and over.

"I wouldn't have been sent back if there wasn't something wrong." He pointed out.

"Enough of this, Brian!" Daniel said firmly, throwing the yellow fruit back to the Endless "What is important now is creating the portal. You need to get ready for the festival while Kyle and I will work on the cure. Once we've saved Mickey, you can do what you want." He instructed him as he turned his back, beginning to head out of the port.

"What if it doesn't work?" Brian questioned him, halting his brother. "What about Sora? Not only is he in his fourth stage, he was strongly affected in the Outlands. If we haven't got this right then we'll be dealing with two problems instead of one."

"Don't worry." Daniel kept firm and serious as he talked. "We have a plan if anything goes wrong."

Brian raised an eyebrow at this. "Which is?"

"You won't need to know. The cure will work so the plan won't come into action." He glared at his younger brother, starting to get annoyed of all of the questions.

"Daniel-"

"Go to the show, Brian!" He roared slightly. "One more word and I will personality change our defence radars to attack you!"

The two brothers glared at each other out of anger, Brian's concealed glow was glowing rapidly before closing it to a tight fist. "No threats are needed, brother." He said darkly to him. "You better listen to me after the festival." With his words spoken, Brian snatched his empty brown bag from Daniel and stomped out of the gummi port, taking his Paupo Fruit with him.

BOWBOWBOW

Sora slowly closed Kairi's door behind him as he joined Riku into the living room. Their private quarters was designed so that the living room was the first room to enter with five doors leading to someone's bedroom, the kitchen or the bathroom. The living room consisted of a sitting area for the three with a living table in the middle and a couple of shelves and cupboards for their gear.

Riku was examining his Way to the Dawn when Sora had collapsed on the sofa next to him, turning away from his weapon to look at his friend. "How is she?" He asked.

"Asleep but safe." Sora said with a relief, resting his head against the sofa as a grin stretched across his face. "We prevented the dream, Riku." He said happily.

The Wielder of Dawn raised an eyebrow at this. "How so?"

"There was one dream where I had dreamt that we had reached the throne room too late, taking Kairi with him. After that, would have been the dream at Disney Castle." He explained. "Which means Colonel Devil can't kill her if she's safety asleep." Sora lifted his head back up as looked back at his pulsing white shadowed claw. "Which leaves one more problem…"

"The cure should be able to help you." Riku assured him.

"But what if it doesn't?" Sora asked him, halting Riku completely.

The front door slammed open by the hands of Hikari, her foot in the air as she came in with a smile. "Hey guys!" Her loud welcome had made the keybearers give her a look of concern and warning. "What?" She questioned.

"Nothing but it's best to keep it down." Riku informed her. "Kairi's asleep."

"Really?" Hikari looked at them in disbelief before speaking sadly. "She's gonna miss the festival."

"Hikari? What exactly is this festival for?" Sora asked as he looked back at Kairi's closed door. Even with Kairi safe, they still have to prepare to save the Mickey and Minnie at the infected Disney Castle so he couldn't help up fell guilty that they are spending their time, having fun at the world's party.

"The Annual Festival was originally made to celebrate the complete creation of the world, with this being the fourth year." She began to explain. "It was after the second Annual Festival that Mako had attacked Little Devon; so the festival also came a chance to allow the town people to remember the ones that were lost to us during that attack."

Riku folded his arms together. "So that explains why the Devon brothers are more focused on the festival. A chance to remember their sister." He concluded out loud before looking back at Hikari. "Isn't there a way to postpose the festival? At least until after we have Mickey and Minne."

"It would only cause worry for the public." Hikari told them before she leaned down to pick the front door from the ground. "Are you guys coming to the festival?"

Riku hummed in thought. "It sounds fun but we should really plan for our attack-"

"LET'S DO IT!" Sora jumped up in joy, only to lose his balance and fall to the floor after jumping.

Riku knelled down his friend's side as he aided him back to his feet. "Are you okay?"

With shaky start, Sora was back on his feet, holding his head tightly. "My head…"

"Maybe you should rest up." He said with concern.

Sora shook his head. "I'm fine." He took a step forward, his balance going everywhere as Riku had to stay by his side as he walked.

"Sora, I think Riku's right. You should-" Hikari voiced with concern.

"I SAID I'M FINE!" Sora yelled as he nudged himself out of Riku's grip, his balance back to normal, his armoured covered claw glowing. "NOW, are we going or what?" He looked at the two of them before storming out of the house.

Riku sighed at his friend's departure. "I just hope that the cure works." He quickly spoke in concern before following his friend.

BOWBOWBOW

Daniel walked into his humble home, items in hand as he saw his two brothers waiting in the front room on the circled sofas. "What are you guys doing? We have a cure to make." He said with a smile. After three years of worries, horrors and hard work to keep the town safe, he began to feel pleased about everything.

Kyle placed his handful of items onto the table. "Well, dear brother, since we had gathered all of the items, we thought…well, I thought-"

"WE HAVE RUM!" Scott cheered with glee, cutting Kyle off complete as he splashed his wooden pint of rum over everything and everyone.

"Rum?" Daniel chuckled at this. "When did you have time to get this?" He asked Kyle. "Last time I checked, the only place you could get rum is Port Royal but not only are we ban from that world, it's under the Order's control as well."

Kyle smirked as he spoke. "I have my secrets." He told him, wiping drops of rum off his automail before passing a glass to his older brother.

Scott gulped his drink down fast before slamming his cup door, looking at the two with a glaze. "We sent Takeru!" He shouted.

Kyle shook his head at this. "This is why I said we would wait for Daniel to come back!" Kyle glared at his younger brother, only to receive an loud belch as a response. "Why are you even drinking anyway? You have to perform!"

Scott simply waved as he smiled happily at Daniel. "Where's Brian? Why is he not joining us for a drink?" He asked him.

"He's preparing for the show unlike you!" Kyle leaned in and scatched the drink out of his hand before he could drink anymore. "Sober up! NOW!" Kyle pointed him out of the room.

"Fine! Just cut me out of the party! I'll just hang out with Brian and the others." Scott shot up from his seat as he glared down at Kyle before storming out of the house.

Kyle shook his head before standing up, checking all of the items that were on the table. "You seem to be at the gummi port for a while." Kyle pointed out.

"Well, Brian was very keen to talk with me." Daniel took a gulp of his alcoholic drink.

"What did he say?" Kyle asked, examining the Golden Crest from the Land of the Dragons.

"You don't want to know." Daniel shook his head as he took a seat, taking another gulp of his drink before placing his hands on his face. "I wish Angel was here."

"Well we have all of the items now so we'll be seeing her again soon." Kyle smiled as he threw the Golden Crest over to Daniel, who easily caught the item. "We are so close, Daniel." He smiled. "So close to seeing Angel again, all of our friends."

"We're so close to losing everything we have worked for as well." Daniel looked at his brother with a serious look. "Tomorrow is the deadline and if we are not careful then... I want full security on the Princess of Heart."

"Brother! Relax." Kyle stood beside him, placing his automail on him in a form of comfort. "What would Angel say to you now?" He asked.

"Calm your boots." Daniel muttered under his breath.

"Exactly!" Kyle clapped his shoulder as he gripped his brother's drink and passed it to his hands. "So drink up! With the festival and making the cure, we have a long night for us."

"Can we just do one last check up?" Daniel shook his head, taking another gulp of his drink.

"Fine. If it will calm your boots." Kyle chuckled as he quickly went over to the computers and quickly brought up the cameras and raders. The screen showed the Princess of Heart sleeping, the converted town square and other parts of the town while the raders showed two dots on its system. "See! Kairi is resting up. The others are heading to the festival and apart from Brian and Sora, there are no Unbirth or Endless showing up on the radars."

Daniel stared at the screens as if they were going to drop any seconds. After a while, he chuckled before taking in more of his drink. "I guess we better toast then." He lifted his drink in the air as he cheered. "To a better future!"

Kyle smiled at this as he began to turn the screens and radars off the main screens. "To a better future!" He grabbed his glass and tapped it against Daniel's glass, before drinking their rum for the night.

The radars began to show static, showing three dots instead of two before returning to normal, unnoticed by the two Devon Brothers.

A/N: Woo! Back in Little Devon. Back from Disneyland. I hope that you guys enjoyed this chapter.

Kingdommad