Chapter 136: Final Sign

At this moment of time, Sora wasn't sure what was hurting more, his virus, the pain he felt from the possibility of Kairi dying or the sight of Kairi being with another man. The Keyblade Master had to look away as he pulled himself around the corner, his back against the wall as he slid down to the ground. He sat there with his legs out, looking like a doll, as he felt a tear fall down his face. He didn't understand it. He truly didn't. All of those times they has had shared with the Princess of Heart, from their ups and downs, the drawings of giving paupo fruit to each other, holding her heart, their reunion at The Castle That Never Was, their promise in Christmas Town, he would have thought that those memories meant something to her.

'Sora. Sora. Sora.' The virus spoke sensitively to him, unnoticed by the Keyblade Master that the shadowly infection was creeping up his arm, nearly engulfing the entire part. 'I must really thank that worthless princess of yours.' He chuckled as Sora grabbed his chest, suddenly aware of the virus' movement. 'She has broken part of your heart for me. You must be angry at that your doom will come out from the betrayal of your two friends.'

"No." He shook his head in disbelief, fighting the urge of his rage and jealous to overcome him, a loose tear escape him. "There's another reason!" He told himself. Brian was his friend, he has known from the beginning how he felt about Kairi. He had assured him back at Mousedom that he felt nothing for Kairi, Kairi knows of his feelings towards her. They wouldn't. There just had to be another reason. As much as he didn't want to look back, he looked around the corner once more, seeing the two only hug each other. "I'm gonna find out." He told himself with determination as he pushed himself up from the ground.

The virus laughed at this, the claw flashing from white to red and green. "Let's see how much control you can keep."

As soon as he stood up, he could feel the virus trying to take over him fully, his vision going blurry and his body growing weak but he fought through the pain and the struggle as he looked back at the two red heads. Every step that he staggered towards the two, he felt his strength slowly fading to control as he looked up at the two. He has always known that his friends were his power, he would have never thought that they would be his weakness. "What's going on?" His voice cracked in a high pitch tone, still looking at the two in disbelief.

Kairi pulls away from the Aversion Endles and turned to face the Keyblade Master, smiling happily at him. Her smile had never caused him so much pain. "Sora! You're here!" She said with relief. "I was afraid that you'll get hurt when the Order came—"

"Why didn't you tell me?" He asked them, looking at the two of them. While Kairi looked guilty, Brian looked more confused as to what was going on, yet the feeling of guilt was still shown. Sora felt slightly enraged at his expression, what is there to be confused about? He had kissed Kairi even though he knew how he felt about her.

Kairi sighed as this as she stepped forward toward him, placing a hand on his shoulder. "Sora, plea-" She halted as she watched Sora shot away from her touch, as if it had burned him. "Sora, I didn't want to hurt. I wanted to tell you." She sighed sadly as she shook her head. "This isn't a good time. We have to help the others." She told him.

Brian huffed at the comment as he stepped pass Kairi's side to in front of Sora. "Don't listen to—"

Within two seconds, Sora had aimed his claw towards Brian and shot him with a powerful blast, blowing the Aversion Endless into one of the houses.

"Sora!" She looked at him in disbelief, grabbing a hold of his claw to prevent another attack.

He began to breathe deeply, his aching heart was racing face, his vision was getting worse as everything was beginning to blur. His pulsing arm turned red before it turned blue as he faced Kairi once more, snatching his arm out of her grip. "Tell me why." He demanded darkly. "You have time to kiss him. You have time to tell me why you lied about having feelings for me." He grabbed his chest; he wasn't sure how much longer he could fight the virus.

"I didn't lie-" Kairi told him, her eyes begin to water. "You were the one that shot me down!"

Sora was left befuddled by her words. "What are you talking about?"

"Back at Christmas Town, when you said that we couldn't be together." Kairi reminded him before looking away. "I felt so broken from your words."

"But—I said that we'll be together when we had stopped the Order." Sora looked at her in disbelief. Was he actually talking to Kairi at this moment? This sounded nothing like the Princess of Heart that he knew. "Where has this all come from?"

"You didn't make it clear-" She spoke.

"I kissed you that night. How doesn't that make my feelings clear for you?" Sora reminded her. "Didn't that mean anything to you?"

"What do you want me to say Sora?!" Kairi raised her vocal, keeping the Keyblade Master quiet. "I'm sorry! I'm really am! I never wanted to hurt you." She stepped towards him.

Every step Kairi took forward, Sora took a step back, away from her. "Well, I'm hurt." He said darkly, his eyes looking watery as he looked sadly at her. "I'm hurt that my own friend would drag me along all of this time."

"I didn't drag-"

"Yes you did!" He shot back, his anger growing. "Two years!" He lifted his claw and placed two fingers up, signalling the number of years. With his claw raised, the Princess of Heart noticed the progress that the virus had made, seeing that some of it was now preceding to his chest. "Ever since we agreed to make that stupid raft, I promised not to change." He turned away from her.

"Sora. You need to calm down." Kairi tried to grab his attention, her attention more on his infected areas. "Your virus." She tried to point out.

All of Kairi's words were ignored as Sora continued his rant. "But I didn't realise how much you had changed until now! Boy, was I blinded!" His voice got more aggressive as he spoke, not noticing his virus once more.

"Sora! Please! Don't let it control you!" She begged him, managing to grab his uninfected hand.

"You were my light!" Sora stared her in the eyes, pulling his hand out of hers once more. "You saved me from the dark. I guarded your heart! You told me that you would never replace me in that very heart I guarded, the heart that saved me."

"Sora-" She shook her, she couldn't look at his face. The sight of his tears was too much for her.

"Just tell me why you kissed him!" He demanded from her.

"Because I care for him, Sora!" Kairi shouted back, tears falling as she looked at Sora's hurt expression. "Look, I've been confused with the way I feel for a while and I kissed Brian so I could figure out my feelings."

"And?" Sora questioned, leaning forward slightly to hear her answer. When he received nothing but silence from the Princess of Heart, he stepped away from the girl. "I'm gonna help Riku. I'm just glad you found some light during this dark attack." He turned away, walking out of the campus area. "Just remember that our friends are getting hurt while you're figuring out your feelings."

"Sora! Come back!" Kairi called out to him.

He felt more anger towards his friend than hurt, jealously and betrayal. She sounded like a completely different person. The Kairi he had fell in love with was gone. His heart had blinded him all along with the fantasy that she would be the same girl forever. But she grew up. She met new people. She moved on. He could hear her call out to him as he turned the corner as he continued his way down the pathway. He needed to find where Jun had disappeared too, help Riku out with Nikolai and save the town instead of getting any more of his time wasted by Kairi's reasons.

He stopped as he looked back, seeing that Kairi wasn't following; only her calls were heard. "Maybe it's for the better." He sighed before looking at his infected arm, following the infection to his chest. He could see that the infection had covered mostly on the right side of his chest, seeing that the infection close to the scar where his heart stood. The sight of it reminded him of just what was currently with him, hearing the voice of the virus laugh in his head. If the virus took his life as price for his fighting, at least Kairi wouldn't be alone, that he was glad for.

"SORA!"

Kairi screamed his name out of distress and fear.

"Kairi?" The tone of the scream had made him turn around, running back around the corner to the where the Little Devon Campus stood, looking back at the Princess of Heart only to lose his breath once more.

"Sora…" Kairi called out to him once more, weakly as she dropped to her knees and collapsed onto the cold floor.

He looked who had attacked only to remind shocked, his infection flashing wildly as he heard the virus snicker. "I told you." The virus said.

Brian placed his staff towards Kairi's unconscious body once more, shaking his head at her. "To think that confession remains wasted." He sounded dark as he spoke, blasting at the fallen body once more, watching the Princess of Heart rolled across the ground from the strength of the attack. Once Kairi's comatose body had moved, he caught sight of the familiar huge boots he had formerly made fun off. He slowly looked up, muttering to himself that it wasn't who he thought he was. He could only curse himself as he was left face to face with the Keyblade Master himself, looking at him in disbelief and anger. He rose his hands up defensively as his back was arched with caution. "I can explain—" He spoke.

"You-" He looked between the Aversion Endless and the fallen Kairi. His former suspensions of Brian rushed back to his head. 'Why do you think that you not in the dream?' 'He's trying to replace you.' 'His plan is working…your heart is fading…' "You're one of them." He spoke with realisation in his voice.

Brian's face flashed with panic from Sora's assumption. "Sora, I'm not an Order member—" He told him.

"You let the Order in!" Sora stepped forward as he summoned his keyblade. "You betrayed us all!"

Brian gulped at the sight of Sora's anger, clearly seeing the advances that the virus has had on the Keyblade Master. "Sora, listen!" His voice shook in fear.

"She cared for you! She choose you and you betrayed her!" He quickened his path, the darkness beginning to surround him. "I won't stand for it! YOU WON'T GET AWAY!" He shot his Kingdom Key upwards. "DRIVE!" He shouted before he was covered in a bright light.

The Aversion Endless covered his eyes from the bright light before looking at the familiar anti-form, the same infected heartless he had encountered back in the Destiny Islands simulator. "Damn it!" He gasped as he shot at the Heartless with shaky hands, every fire spell he made missed as Anti-Sora dodged every one before he started to stagger back from his friend's speed. "Damn it! Damn it! Damn it! AHHHHHHHH!" He yelled as he felt the force of Anti- Sora's body crash into him, sending him to the ground, his staff skidding across the ground.

My Birth is Beginning.

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Riku ran through the multiple pathways, muttering to himself once more how the town was not little at all as he found himself lost. He didn't need this; he needed to find Sora and Kairi. With Nikolai's words haunting through his thoughts, he needed to get by their side. "WHERE AM I?!" He yelled with frustration before grabbing the communicator on him. As he tuned in, he winced from the high pitch sounds of struggles and yells of pain.

It was Brian's communicator.

"What the-" He questioned the strange sounds. The fact that the communicator had picked up Brian's signal first meant that he had to be near. Changing the communicator's settings, the device had quickly picked up Brian's location, providing him some guild through the pathways. The Wielder of Dawn ran through the confusing maze that the town was made of, picking up his speed as he suddenly heard a darkened voice, one that he could never forget.

As he shot around the corner to where the Little Devon Academy was, he took a huge breath in at the sight he saw. While one of his friends lay comatose on the ground, not showing any signs of movement, his other friend was covered in his infected shadows as he continued to slash rapidly at the Aversion Endless underneath him. "Hey!" He shouted at them, quickly shooting a thunder spell beside them to ground their attention. "Break it up!" He told them as he ran over, grabbing hold of Anti-Sora.

"Ruin!" Words slipped from the shadow in his hands.

"Shield!" Just as ruin was cast, Riku quickly reflected the attack, making ruin strike his shadow covered friend. The spell had come kick to it as it had sent Anti-Sora into one of the side buildings, making part of the roof collapse onto of him. With Sora down for the time being, Riku quickly received Brian's Staff of Myth and handed it back to him, helping the Endless to his feet. "What happened?"

"This." Brian pointed his staff to the comatose Kairi.

Riku immediately grabbed the staff, removing the option of aim for the young mage. "What are you doing?!" He glared.

"Riku! It isn't Kairi!" Brian quickly told him as he nudged the staff out of the wielder's grip and quickly shot at the Princess of Heart.

"Kairi!" Riku watched as the blast covered his sleeping friend, his eyes filled in disbelief from the attack Brian had just made. His disbelief only turned into confusion as the blast faded away, revealing a mere Unbirth instead of his red headed friend. "What the-"

"We've been tricked." Brian told him as he blasted the rest of the Unbirth away. "We didn't save Kairi. We just brought a pawn back. It's the reason the Order managed to get in to Little Devon."

Riku looked at him in shock. They must have done the switch before they had reached Kasper and the Colonel back in Little Devon. While they had be resting up and partying at the Annual Festival, their friend was still in danger. "How did they get in? You guys have a password for the reason." He asked.

"Storm told them." Brian told him.

"Hikari's brother?" He questioned, receiving a nod before looking at him with a glare. "You guys didn't change the password when you first kicked him out?!" He looked at him with a slight hint of idiotic.

Brian glared back at him. "Not my job!"

The building rubble rattled from underneath, showing movement from underneath before the rubble itself blew in all directions from the orbs of infected light created, brightening the entire campus.

Riku looked back at the Endless beside him. "What happened with Sora?"

Brian gulped at this. "Look! I was trapped in a spell-"

"Brian…" Riku looked at him with slight anger; he was not liking Brian's nervousness.

"Okay. I sorta…kinda…kissed the Kairi Pawn in front of Sora." Brian told him sheepishly.

Riku's jaw dropped as he looked at him in disbelief. "You did what?" He wasn't even sure he had heard it correctly.

"I tried to fix it by trying to reveal the Unbirth's real appearance but he came back when I just took it down-" Brian tried to explain in a panicky voice.

"YOU DID WHAT?!" Riku had moved from disbelief to anger. He wasn't sure what was worse, kissing Kairi in front of Sora or, in this case, kill Kairi in front of Sora. If they didn't have to deal with his friend, he would be killing Brian himself at this moment.

The bright light from the corrupted holy spheres had grabbed the two teenagers' attention. The four lights with shadows around them made their way back to Anti-Sora, who was slowly standing on his two feet once more, as if it was Sora that was standing instead of the Heartless like creature. The light landed on the infected's body, removing the shadows that covered his body. The two saw that Sora's attire had changed into a more battle scared one. He wore a dark blue sleeveless top, showing parts of a scar that centred in the middle of the virus's chest. His wore 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 to his chest, reaching for the scar itself as it kept its sharp like claw extended from his shadowed 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. If his hair didn't defy gravity before, it was now as all of his pure white hair stood high.

Brian stood a gasped, staggering backwards from the sight in front of him. "His final sign." He stuttered, his staff shaking in his hand. Images of his father, his Master, flashed past his eyes. Completely identical.

Riku looked at his friend, watching his infected friend summoning the Blue spiked Kingdom Key. "Sora, Fight This! Don't let this beat you." He stepped forward, only to get a slash of wind strike next to his feet. The impact of the wind was so strong that it had sliced through the ground as if it was a blade itself. "Don't give up for Brian's stupid decision." He glared back at the Aversion Endless.

The infected Keybearer just laughed at the Wielder of Dawn's words. "I'm not Sora." His voice sounded darker as he looked straight at Riku, revealing his golden eyes once more.

Riku took a deep breath for his next question. "Who are you then?" he asked.

"Sky." The Wielder answered before a sick twisted smiled creped onto his face. "Or in the Order's case, the Chaos of Light."

A/N: Dun Dun DUUUNNNN! Sorry that it took a while for this chapter. I thought that I would be able to write this chapter straight away but I had to write part of another chapter while I was doing this one for later. I hope that you enjoy this chapter because next chapter should be interesting. It might be a while since it's a battle so I'm gonna work hard on this fight.

Hope you guys are having a great summer.

Also, this fic has been going on for 4 years. T~T It's like it never ends. I will round up sooooon though. PROMISE!

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