Chapter 137: Chaos of Light
The corrupted orbs that had revealed Sky to the two teens removed themselves from his body and started to blast themselves rapidly though the Little Devon Academy beside them, smashing through the windows before the room itself exploded in a bright light. The lights began to move towards the houses, only to find their path blocked by multiple blue shields.
While Riku was deflecting the attacks, Brian looked around to see a hint of yellow and red features trailing across the area. "Steve." Brian gasped as he raced over to the other side of the campus, seeing his poor chocobo in the corner. "Here." He pulled out some greens for the chocobo as he looked at Steve with a serious expression. "We need help, Steve." He told her as he pulled his a notebook out of his pocket and quickly writing a note, placing the note in between the banana and her wing. "Go to Kyle. Give him the message." He tells her before healing the chocobo and releasing her to her mission.
The corrupted holy attacks stopped, Riku didn't even have time to look at Sky before he ended up face to face with the infected Keyblade Wielder, leaning against their keyblades as they battled for strength. Riku pushed forward, making Sky lean back slightly. "Fight this, Sora." He told the Endless. "Don't let it beat you."
Sky chuckled at Riku's words, pushing him toward slightly in their struggle of strength. "What makes you think I'm gonna listen to you?" He laughed. "With this power, it will be you that lives in my shadow."
Riku stepped forward, glaring at the teen. "You think I haven't live in the dark before?" He argued. "I did that to save you. To wake you up."
Sky pushed forward once more. "I bet taking the keyblade from me and trying to kill me was you're way of saving me too!" He spat at him, the anger in his voice building. "I will never forgive you for what you did to me!"
"Then you won't forgive me for this." He grunted as he kicked Sky back before teleporting behind him. As he slashed down at the Endless, he found that no matter what position he teleported and struck, whether it was above or behind him, Sky was able to block or counter every strike that he made. As he appeared above for his usual final blow for his Dark Slicer attack, Sky simply rolled out of the way before pointing his keyblade in his direction. "What the-" Riku gasped.
"Ruin." A bright light formed at the end of Sky's Keyblade, blasting Riku across the damaged campus and into the cold hard ground.
Brian quickly runs into to catch the Endless by surprise, just as he was about to strike, he spun himself around and quickly countered as he managed to catch Sky's attack. The power of his Keyblade was too get to be compared to his staff, as the counter backlashed and sent Brian through the academy building.
Sky smirked at his destruction before looking back at Riku. "You know you can't win." He told him before looking down at his infected arm, pure white as it glowed. "When you're fighting light, you can never really catch it. Light is just too fast." He smirked before adding. "Of course, you wouldn't understand the powers of light."
Riku chuckled at this. "Light or Dark, Sora. Being the bad guy doesn't suit you." He told him, wiping the smirk off Sky's face.
"Take this!" Brian laughed his attack, once again turning on the spot before landing his attack to counter Sky's strike, sending the mage skidding beside the Wielder of Dawn. "He's quicker than I remember." He concluded.
"You fought him before?" Riku quickly questioned.
Sky raised an eyebrow at this. "What do you mean I've fought you before? Surely that time in the simulation doesn't count." He stepped forward, aiming his keyblade at Brian. "Tell me."
Brian kept his ground at the stern look he was receiving. "Why ruin the fun?" He smirked before clicking his fingers. He watched as Sky looked down to see a collection of hot spots appearing underneath him. "Take this!" He shouted as he shot his staff upwards. As the motion took place, Sky was struck by huge amounts of fire made pillars; the heat was at an intense level from where Riku and Brian were staying. With the pillars in place, Brian rushed toward and stuck the pillar only to bounce back unexpectedly. "Huh?" He drew back his pillars only to find that Sky was protecting him with a gigantic shield, his infected arm turning pink as he held the shield. "God dam it!" he cursed.
"His arm…" Riku glazed upon its colour change.
"This is worse than I thought." Brian looked at the infected wielder nervously; he knew that the Sky he knew in the future was out of practise when he had met him. "Sora's a Heart-struck."
Riku looked at him in wide eyes. "Like Vanitas?" He questioned.
Brian nodded. "Sora is Light but he's still a Heart-struck. We need to take him down!" Brian said slightly panicky. "Better yet, take me down!"
Riku only looked at Brian in confusion. "What? Why?" No more questions were made as the two felt a strong pain in their hearts, collapsing on the floor in pain. Riku's eyes widened as he remembered this pain, he, Kairi and Sora had experienced this same sort of attack back at Christmas Town when they were fighting Lizza.
Sky chuckled at this, sending his corrupted holy orbs out once more to attack the campus as he walked towards them. "I can see why Lizza had so much fun with this attack." He chuckled, looking down at the two sufferers. "I could question the pain just to gain that last bit of control but playing with my powers is more fun." He grinned sickly before disposing of his keyblade, turning into pure energy. "Wind!" He cast strong gust of wind in the Wielder of Dawn's direction, dragging him across the ground before blowing him against the rubble of fallen buildings.
Riku pushed himself up, finding that his chest pains had faded. When he had looked up to Sky, he could see that his claw was now dark red instead of the rose pink colour it was before. What happened with red? He thought. He turned to see Brian's position, only to feel the heat of a fireball edge past him. He quickly dodged the attacks that were being made by Brian, scowling at the mage. "What are you doing?"
"Like I'm doing this on purpose!" Brian shouted as he felt his body move against his will, feeling like a controlled puppet once more in the control of an Endless. "Just dodge!" He told him.
The fireballs kept coming, Riku wasn't sure whether he was failing to roll out of the fireball's path due to its speed and tracking ability or the fact that Brian was trying to shout out the direction that each fireball was going and ended up getting it wrong. "Right. Now I'm telling you to fight it!" He shouted back, not sure how much more fireballs he can take.
Brian breathed heavily, feeling his magic drain from his body, as he looked at Sky as much will as possible. "Aren't you not bored of Skullo's power yet?" He asked him.
Sky hummed as he thought. "You're right." He simply shrugged before clicking his claws.
The control was released but only after a huge form of energy surrounded him and exploded through him from the inside, sending the Aversion Endless crashing through the ground.
Sky smiled as he looked at his claw with interest. "Heart-Struck, you say?" He smiled before adding. "What else can I do?" He wondered as he raced before Riku, seeing his keyblade raised. He shot his claw towards him, the colour changed from blood red to golden yellow. "Disarm." He casted.
Withing seconds, Riku's keyblade had disappeared. Much like the time they had first encountered Abroc in Norte Dame. The Welider of Dawn quickly formed into his Eath ability as he took Sora on, hand to hand. Though he was able to block the Light Endless' attacks, the speed was hard to keep him with. He was beginning to question whether it was more like a battle between power and speed. With the thought, crossing his mind, Riku quickly slammed on the ground, trapping Sky within a rock formation before punching him across the face as hard as he could. The force of the attack had sent him across the ground, slamming into some fences and rubble.
"Heal!" Brian quickly cast upon him and Riku, as well as handing him an item to get rid of the disarm effect on him and Ether for himself. "Even if he isn't in Outburst, we need help if he's going to use those abilities!" Brian puffed, the battle taking his breath.
"We need to be faster." Riku told him, catching his breath as well.
"Faster…" Brian thought before looking around on the rooftops, as if searching for someone. "We could use some help!" Brian hollered as loud as he could. He could feel Riku's glace on him as if he was looking at a crazy person but he ignored it as the sight of an orange blur caught his eyes, making him smile.
Being distracted, the two were open to Sky's ruthless attacks with Keyblade in hand, striking to two at a fast speed with brute force behind each attack. As he attacked the two, he slowly began to see that the two fighters were slowly begun to catch up, speed wise. Thought it took Brian longer due to his staff, the two managed to start parry Sky's movements before battling him away from the two. Sky glaced at the two, seeing that an orange clock appeared in front of the two fighters, the Endless growled at this. "Jun…" He shot around and aimed his Keyblade in the direction of the rooftops, sending his corrupted orbs after the orange blur on the rooftops.
Riku sped towards his friend, catching him by surprise, catching him from behind as he shot him up in the air, attacked him more in the air, before slamming him back down to the ground. Coming down for the last strike, Sky quickly rolled out of the way before aiming his claw in front of Riku's face. "Try and see through this!" He said before flashing light in Riku's face.
"ARRGGG!" Riku stumbled back, shielding his eyes from the burn that the light had caused to the pupils in his eyes. The intense of the attack had nearly blinded the wielder. "My eyes!"
"Riku!" Brian called out, only to find himself on his knees; He looked up at Sky to see that his claw was pointed to him, pulsing as it turned from white to red. "How about you fight with your own abilities?!" He demanded.
"How about you sit back while us real fighters have our way!" Sky suggested as he made Brian throw his staff in his direction, allowing him to stamp on the weapon, the force of it broke his weapon in two. He smirked as he watched the Aversion Endless' reaction to his weapon. "I'm pretty sure you'll find another stick." He snickered as he forced him away once more with the same explosion attack he had used earlier.
Out of breath, hurting all over, Brian pushed himself off the ground, watching helpless as Sky attacked Riku with such aggression. "I've gotta do something!" He slowly crawled towards the two, his memory playing tricks on him as he saw the older versions of the two in front of them. He shook the images away. "I need light." He begged to himself.
You've always had it, Haru.
The Aversion Endless froze. He hadn't heard his soul voice since it suddenly spoke up back when they were captured in African Depths. After all of this time, why speak up now. "You help me now?!" He said in disbelief and anger. Despite his frustration, he wasn't sure what he had that the soul meant.
The Charm…
Brian quickly pulled out the broken charm that rested in his pocket, placing it in his left hand, only to gasp as the charm shone brightly, making the Endless shield his eyes. The glow in his hands felt as if part of his heart had stopped, his eyes filled with realisation.
You know what to do.
Sky kicked the blinded keybearer down, appointing his keyblade down at Riku while holding the Way to Dawn in his claw. His scowl covered his face as he looked down at the Wielder of Dawn. "Don't worry about being in the emptiness alone. I'll personally make sure that the Princess of Heart accompanies you." He told him darkly.
Riku scoffed at this. "You won't win."
Sky smirked. "I've already won." He shot the Keyblade down. The Endless' eyes widened as he saw that his keyblade had clashed with something else, something that was covered in light. "What the-" He looked up at the wielder.
Brian stood, determination written across his face as he held the weapon in his hand, smirking as the light faded away from it. Within his hands was a unique Keyblade, the handle was similar to the way that the Ultimate Weapon but as the weapon trailed down, it forms into more of the Oathkeeper, as well as keeping a couple of features from the Destiny Island Keyblade. "What's with the face, Sky?" Brian chuckled. "You looked shocked."
Sky jumped away from the two, looking at Brian's keyblade in disbelief. "When did this happen?" he question, looking at Riku at the possible conspirator.
"Way before you and I met." Brian told him as he lifted his Keyblade, showing the Endless the details. "This is the Ultimate Oath. Its wielder is one that understands what a true oath is. Knowing how powerful a promise is." Placing the Keyblade to his side, he pointed at the Endless opposite him. "And I know that you still fight against Sora!"
"You think so!" Sky looked at him with amusement, throwing the Way of Dawn back over to the newly wielder as he watched Brian aid Riku. "There isn't much control when the heart was broken to pieces." He laughed. "Sora is gone forever! Once I destroy this town, I can start cleaning his friend's list…one-by-one. Starting with you two." He smirked darkly.
Brian smirked at the announcement. "Surely, with being in control, you should be counting me as your best friend. After all—"He looked over to the remains of the fallen Unbirth, the one that had pretended to be Kairi. "You wouldn't have gotten control without me." He told him, watching the Endless for his reaction.
Sky looked coldly at the Aversion Endless. "I would have gained control, with or without your interference." He told sharply before turning his back towards the two. "It's been fun, Gents, but this town as my name on it." He laughed as he dissolved his keyblade, falling into his element and took began to elevate up into the sky.
"No!" Brian ran over to him, using haste to his advantage and jumped in the air, colliding with the Endless in the air as the two crashed into one of the campus rooms, the walls burnt from the attacks of the corrupted orbs. As soon as they had crashed, Brian pushed Sky against the wall, keyblade up to his neck while he grabbed a piece of sharp stone and struck Sky's claw, making it lose its glow. "I'm not letting you get away."
Sky spat in his face.
He kept control of his rage as he fought against Sky's struggles. Though his abilities were unavailable due to the stone in his hand, Sky kept on fighting. "You are worthless! You know that?!" Sky looked at him with pure hate, his eyes flashing from his golden yellow colour to pure white. "Nothing but a stupid puppet for the Order and the Devons. Doing all of the work for them."
"If I'm just a puppet, why do I have you trapped?" Brian questioned, forcing the Endless back against the wall. He took a deep breath before looking back at the fighter, seeing his Master instead of the young teen. "I can see it in your eyes. You want power. You want control. You want the worlds to rumble and fear you from your unannounced power. You won't get it though, not while the Colonel had Kairi." Brian told him.
Sky looked at the teen with annoyance, the news of the Princess of Heart didn't please him one bit. "If you remember, you killed her." He told her.
"If she was dead, you would be powerless." Brian told him.
Sky's claw glowed once more, quickly turning red as he forced Brian away from him, making the Endless knell down to him. He looked down at him in confusion from his statement. "What do you mean?" He asked.
"You know what I mean." Brian grunted from Sky's control. "You know of the dreams, of Sora's nightmares!" He looked up, glancing at the red claw in front of him. A sudden thought crossed his mind; he remembered sharing a vision with Sora a couple of times when he had aided him off the ground. As he thought about it, those visions of events that were of the near future.
"Of the Princess's fall." Sky spoke up.
Brian nodded, his eyes fixed on the claw in front of him. "Well, if she's not here-" Brian pointed out, looking back at Sky.
Sky didn't looked impressed at what Brian was suggesting. "Are you telling me that I have to go save her! That worthless girl?!"
"If you want to keep your powers." Brian smiled cheekily back up at him, causing the Endless to be slammed into the ground against his will.
"Dreams are not prove that her life controls my abilities." He told him before he grabbed him and pinned him against the wall like Brian had done to him earlier on. "Judging by the way you were fighting me at the beginning and Riku's question, I can only guest that you know more than you are letting on." He hooked Brian across the face, smiling at the sound of impact. "So, tell me why you know so much?"
Brian watched the claw, watching as it faded to its original white colour once more.
Sky hooked Brian once more. "Tell me, Brian!" He demanded.
The Aversion Endless coughed slightly from the punch he had received, only to look at the Endless deadly. "My name is Haru!" He told him before digging his claw into his.
Sky yelled in pain, only to be silenced by the visions that filled his eyes. Brian watched as the visions filled his eyes as well, he could control want Sky was seeing; he quickly showed him scenes of the near future of the events after Kairi's death, and the times he had explained to Brian about his virus' nature, about the future itself. He was careful not to show him certain information, only to tell him the truth about him and his future.
He let go, watching as Sky dropped to the ground, holding his head, hearing his name being called out from outside. He knelled down to face Sky, seeing that he was thinking of the situation given or looking over everything he had seen. Sky looked at him, anger in his eyes. "What the hell was that?! If you think you can just place weird memories in my mind to make me believe you, you're wrong! You're not from the future—"
"Listen." Brian grabbed the Endless' attention. "I came to the past to help you. Let us all help." Brian begged him.
Sky only scoffed as he stood up, "I want physical proof before I do anything." Sky placed his hand out. "Only then will I go to save Kairi."
Brian crossed his arm as he got up from the ground. "Until this ordeal with Kairi is over, we're on truce. No attacking the town or any of us." He handed his hand out. "Deal?"
Sky sighed to himself, questioning what he was doing before grabbing his possible future student's hand. "You better have proof." He glared at him. "Otherwise, this town won't last long."
Brian smiled at this. "Don't worry. Everything will be explained." At least he had calmed Sky down for now, next thing to do is to explain how all of this happened to Daniel. Ohhh how he couldn't wait for that.
A/N: Woop! This chapter is done. Hopefully, the next chapter will be up tomorrow as I had write it when I was writing the previous chapter .
Good Night people
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