Chapter 143: The Story of Aversion

The Aversion Endless sat within the fields near the outskirts of the town, Paupo Fruit in hand as he watched out for the rising sun. It has been a day since they had returned, since they had learnt of Sky and Kairi's fate. They had discovered that the only reason Kairi had woken up for the short amount of time, just in time to stop the Colonel, was because of the bottle of Elixir that Sky had given her beforehand. Kyle had placed recurring medical on her but there are no signs of her waking up.

Sky's injuries were breath-taking as his dive to save Kairi had managed to create a slash down most of his chest. He had lost a lot of energy in that fight. As much as everyone feared, the cure had been rejected from Sora's system, it wasn't enough to pass the defences that the virus had placed. It had been the same case for those infected during the Order raid.

Brian watched the sun deep in thought. Could he have had prevented this happening if he realised his destiny sooner, something that he has failed to recognise? This isn't what he thought would happen when he had travelled through time, he wanted his friends to survive but they are only on the edge of losing themselves. He looked at the star shaped fruit within his claw. "I have to try." He thought as he got up and began to head back into town.

The Aversion Endless had a plan, since Daniel and Kyle are occupied by King Mickey, he would sneak back into the house and try and find found as much information from the Jealously Endless as possible before he was seen. Naturally, the main reason he wasn't in the house in the first place was because Daniel had kicked him out, mainly for breaking out of jail and going to Ultimate Castle.

When the news was told to them, Riku had tried to break the down door to where Daniel was, demanding why the cure hadn't worked before he had left the house. It took everyone hours to calm the Wielder of Dawn down, seeing that the news had put him on the edge of light and dark once more. He remains silent now, unmoved on the Devon's sofa as he waits for more news with Hikari trying to get through to him.

"Poor guy." Brian sighed. The possibility of losing both your friends in one day, it was hard. As arrogant as the thought sounded but maybe this would teach Daniel a lesson for not listening to him about the cure. If his brother had just listened to him about his warnings…perhaps none of this would be happening.

When he arrived at the house, he saw Riku in the same state as before, staring into space, remaining silent, with Hikari trying to get his attention. "Riku! C'mon! Say something!" Hikari begged him, only to receive silence.

As much as he would like to aid Hikari in her task to reach out to Riku, he didn't have the time. One word and the Devon brothers would be ready to throw him out of the house again. He carefully crossed the living room without grabbing attention before he headed down the hall. Seeing that Daniel's guards were preventing anyone entrance into the room where Colonel Devil was being held, the young mage thought on his feet and spotted a wire vent. He quietly opened the vent and began to crawl through the small space.

As he crossed, he had past the meeting room that King Mickey, Daniel and Kyle was in. From the sound of the conversation, the King of Disney Castle was not impressed with Daniel's actions. "You didn't send them to see Yen Sid?!" The King questioned. "He had the information needed from Jiminy's journal. About the trouble that was coming."

Brian raised an eyebrow at this as he felt Jiminy jump onto his shoulder. "What trouble does he mean?" He whispered.

"When we had returned to Disney Castle after defeating Organisation XIII, I found a message within one of my journals." Jiminy explained. "It came up with messages like, 'We must return to free them from their torment. '

"Strange." Brian commented.

"Strange indeed." Jiminy agreed. "The King had managed to discover what the message meant and reported it to Yen Sid. Before he would explain the situation to Sora and the others, the Unbirths began to appear so the King's Message was short."

Within the room, Daniel kept himself calm as he tried to explain his actions. "With all due respect, your majestic, there was no time to take them to Yen Sid. The Order was taking more and more worlds and Sora had gotten infected with the virus. We needed to gather the items." He told him, he didn't notice Kyle shake his head at the comment.

Brian only growled at the comment. "How could he just lie like that?!" He muttered quietly, knowing full well that Sora didn't get infected until their first world thanks to his efforts. He had even remembered Ventus mentioning going to Yen Sid's beforehand. If they would have seen the Great Wizard Yen Sid, would it have made the difference? "C'mon Jiminy." He continued on his way, knowing that if he listened to any more, he could easily blow his cover.

Reaching his destination, he slowly lifted the vent hatch open, dropping into the room without making a sound. He smiled at this; all of those times of sneaking around trying to escape the Order have paid off. He walked over to the restrained Colonel Devil, seeing that he had finally converted back to his original form, breathing heavily as the virus within him was slowly taking his life away. Seeing the Colonel in his original form, there was no doubt in his thoughts now.

The Colonel was David Devon, the father to the Devon brothers.

He stood by his side, prepared to wake him up, only to jump in shock when the Colonel's eyes shot open. "Holy crap!" Brian gasped, trying to keep his voice down.

The blue eyes stared back at him, glaring at the boy for disturbing his sleep. "What do you want?!" His voice was rusty and dry, yet cold and dark.

"I want answers." Brian simply said. The former village leader only laughed at this, the restrains held him down as a result from his movement. "Why has nothing changed?" He demanded sharply, recovering from the shock that the Colonel had just pulled.

That was one thing that was in his mind since they had returned to Little Devon. With the spell that was cast on them at the Resistance, they were supposed to return to the future once they had saved Kairi. But they remain, does Kairi not wake up? Does Sora fall from his injuries? Do the Order still win?

"How should I know?" He shrugged as he relaxed on his bed. "We had come back to stop you and those Devons. The fact that I'm being held captive shows the progress of that." He remained calm by that fact, making no signs of struggle.

Brian shook his head at this. "You must know something." He said firmly.

"How about I just raise my voice?" He simply suggested; a smirk drawn across his face. "The guards will notice you and take you out." His smirk grew as he watched Brian eye the door with concern. "Why else would you come through the vent?"

"And I can just kill you right here, right now." Brian replied in a dark matter. "Then search for you from this time and kill him too." A part of him has no idea where the death threat had appeared from but he has had enough of being fooled around. There was no more time for him to discover the answers for himself, he wants the answers now.

The Colonel was taken aback by the comment. "Rather dark…" He commented.

"Then answer my questions.." He demanded once more.

He only chuckled at the anger behind the voice, smirking at the sight of his glowing claw hidden behind the black glove. "Ask away." He promoted.

"Why has nothing changed?" He asked again.

"It's simple." He replied. "It's because you haven't achieved anything. Your aim was to stop me from killing the Princess of Heart, the One for a Thousand. But not only did I escape, both Sora and Kairi are fighting for their lives." He explained.

"But Kairi is still alive." Brian pointed out.

David hummed in amazement at this. "She's still dead, it just won't be by my hand."

What's that supposed to mean? Brian questioned. He will have to ask later, there were so many questions to get through. "Do you know what you would do now? Meaning yourself from this time." He asked.

"No clue." He shrugged. "My only guess would be is strike with all the might I had, everything to take the Princess and the Keyblade Master out, especially after seeing him dive into an attack like that, the one that was supposed to win it all. Jealously can be as blinding as Love."

"So he could possibly attack Little Devon?" Brian asked, only to see him shrug once more. I'm not sure we could deal with a full on attack, we're still recovering from the last attack. We should prepare just in case. He quickly thought before moving to his next question. "What actually is Vanitas after?" he asked.

"C'mon Brian!" David spoke up, annoyed from the chosen questions being asked. "We both know what sort of questions you really ask. You know that my virus will take me soon so why are you wasting your time getting me to answer questions some other Endless can answer for you."

Due to the Colonel's virus taking its time in destroying him, the fact had been forgotten by the Aversion Endless. He had been meaning to save those questions till last, knowing that whatever he found out might affect him in some way. Knowing this, he took a deep breath as he asked his next question. "Who am I?" He asked.

Silent covered the room after the question was said; the Colonel took his time to answer. "That's a long answer." He replied, deep in thought.

"We're not going anywhere." He quickly informed him as he grabbed a chair from the side and took a seat.

The Colonel chuckled at this, coughing slightly as his virus took its toll. "Let me ask you some questions….why is it that you are so focused on saving the past?" He asked.

Brian only glared. "You know the answer." He spoke spitefully, his torments at the last battle proved it enough.

"I want to hear it from you." He looked towards him, truth in his voice.

The Aversion Endless looked away at that point. "I guess…I just wanted to save everyone from their hurt. No matter what happened to me." He said honestly, his thoughts trailed on to his friends, both in the past and present. "No matter the cost."

"I see…" David quickly took in before he began. "Well, there is one problem to your methods for a bright future. You have forgotten one important fact. That fact has the power to change the balance or the future itself. The decision between life and death, of peace and destruction." He told him. "We, the Order, wanted to fix the balance but the worlds will only crumble now."

Brian raised an eyebrow at this. "And what is this fact?" he asked.

The Colonel smirked at this. "How did your master's virus stop?" he simply asked.

Brian froze at that point. That fact had never crossed his mind much. He had been too focused finding himself and the cure to help Sora. A part of him was so focused on getting the cure to work, that he forgot about the outcome if they were to fail. As he thought about it, he could hear his old master's voice speak to him:

"I guess there is one thing I can be glad for...My virus had turned broken. As part of my heart has left, the virus has to focus on making sure the rest of the heart doesn't fall into the darkness. They cancel each other out."

"You remember now?" David questioned.

Brian knew the answer. Sora had turned Broken because the Colonel had killed Kairi. But they had just prevented that…. He shook his head, glaring back at the restrained man. "It doesn't matter." He told him. "Like you mentioned before, Sora and Kairi are currently fighting for their lives. The damage that you had dealt to Sora was close to death. We have no clue whether he would wake up from injuries." He told him.

The Colonel huffed at this. "Let me assure you. My attack didn't completely finish him off. I could still sense some form of energy within him when you were dragging me away to this man-made world." He informed him.

"Then we will find another way!" He told him firmly. He wasn't going to give up. He has come too far and lost so much to give up now.

David Devon only shook his head. "You are wasting your time, boy!" He told him. "As we speak, Vanitas is making his move. He will stop you and destroy everything."

"When why did you revive him?" Brian questioned arms in the air from the disbelief and confusion. "If you knew that he had his own plans, plans to destroy the worlds, why risk it?"

"Because the Order needed power!" The Colonel leaned forward, pulling at the restrains once more. "We wanted to make a difference to the world that wouldn't give us a chance, a world that judged us for our abilities and claws. If we wanted acceptance, we needed more than a group of us. We needed the Unbirths." He clashed back on his back, calming down as Brian resumed his original position on the chair. "He wasn't trouble before." He told him. "I could work against him without him noticing but his knowledge of our time, of what's to come had backfired against me. He became one step ahead of me. He knew that the 'One for a Thousand' was a key event in time; he knew that he couldn't intervene. …The One for a Thousand was the only chance to stop him…." He muttered his last sentence, disappointment crossed his face.

"Stop him doing what?" Brian questioned. He and the rest of the Devon knew that Vanitas wanted destruction but they just didn't know how he was going to do it. What is he after?

The former villager coughed his eyes on his darkened claw as it twitched slightly. "You will find out soon enough…" He spoke.

We have to stop Vanitas. Whatever he is doing. Perhaps King Mickey will know. He thought as he went to rise from his seat, only to halt, glaring back at the weakened man. "You still haven't answered one question." Brian sat back down as he moved the chair closer to David's bed. "Who am I?" He asked.

Once again, there was silence between the two, as if the Colonel was deciding whether to tell him or not. "If you want to save your friends, it's best if you don't know." He warned him, concern laid within his words. "The answer will drive you insane."

"I don't care!" Brian shouted a bit too loud as the guards seem to notice him within the room. He quickly shot around to the door and melted the metal within the door frame, jarring the door shut as the guards struggled to get in. "Tell me!" His claw glowed brightly behind his black glove; his eyes flickered from blue to violet.

"You are someone who shouldn't be." The Colonel simply said.

"In detail!" Brian demanded.

"Fine!" David reluctantly agreed to the angered Endless before he began to explain. "You know the theory of the heart, that when a heart is created from two souls, normally from their parents. Well, you know the story of 'One for a Thousand'? The story of the Order's rise?" He asked.

"When you killed Kairi and destroyed Kingdom Hearts…" Brian spoke darkly, the sound of guards still trying to break in.

"Well, as you know, when a Princess of Heart passes away-" He begins to explained.

"Murdered." Brian sharply corrected.

David only glared at him because of this. "When a Princess of Heart passes away—" He repeated firmly. "—their heart shows the backdoor to Kingdom Hearts. Preparing to pass the power to another maiden. When Kairi had fallen, her being, heart, body and soul, returned to Kingdom Hearts, only to find that her being was attached to another, a part of an infected heart…"

Within seconds, Brian's firm and angered expression disappeared as he looked blankly at the Colonel in disbelief, everything forming together. "Sora's Heart…" He muttered.

The Colonel nodded at this. "Because part of Sora's heart had followed Kairi's being, Kingdom Hearts didn't pass on her abilities to another but instead attempted to recreate them as a new being." He looked seriously at Brian, seeing his skin turn pale from his words. "There was a reason you was born with Endless abilities; that you were referred to as the one and only Birth Endless, instead of Neutral or a Regular Endless."

Brian gulped as fear struck across him. "A recantation…" He gasped. "I'm a recantation?…" He shook his head as panic began to consume him, jumping off the chair as he looked at the Colonel in disbelief. "You're lying! TELL ME THE TRUTH!" He demanded.

"Your purpose. Your destiny. You're whole life have been guided by those selfish keybearers to save their lives in place for yours." The Colonel looked at him firmly as he could see Brian's hands shaking. "You are nothing but a puppet! Destined to die for the chosen one. Just like those that are locked in the torment and sadness. Just like Sora's Nobody! Just like Sora's Clone. It doesn't matter if you do save the future or not, because Kairi is still alive, you will never be created. You will never be born!"

Brian froze in place, as he raised his hand, finding that a bright light formed in his left hand, grabbing a hold of Ultimate Oath. "No!" He threw the keyblade to the ground, his breathing getting heavier. "My destiny isn't to die!" He firmly told him, only to gain fear in his eyes when the keyblade appeared in his hand once more.

The Colonel hid a smirk from the distressed boy as he tried to comfort him. "I tried to protect you." He told him. "Maybe if you stayed in the Order, you would be safe." He told him.

Brian's distress quickly turned to anger as he threw the keyblade into the wall, just above the Colonel's head. "If you knew…Maybe if it wasn't for the fact that you had us beat for not believing in the way we live!" He yelled. Hearing the guards move away from the door, Brian quickly summoned the keyblade once more and shouted, "Time!"

The whole room froze, there was no sounds travelling within the room, the sound of footsteps or bashes from outside the room were gone. It was just him and his adopted father. "You pushed me away. You lead me down this path" His voice echoed within the room, as if it had lost its walls and the items within the room.

"If I wanted to lead you down the path of destruction, I would have just killed you when you were young." The Colonel told him. "You were supposed to be my final wish, Brian. The deal with the virus was to start over. I had killed my wife and abandoned my children, killing Kairi and taking over had not satisfied me like I wanted it too. When me and Abroc had found you, I decided against killing you and thought that raising you in the new world I had created you be the new start."

Brian scowled darkly at him. "Then your virus is insane to think that striking at me would make me love you like a father." His fist tightened as he spoke. "And now I'm going to die…."

"There is one way." The Colonel mentioned to him, grabbing his attention. "One way to save yourself."

"Which is?"

David looked darkly at him as he grinned. "Finish the job."

"No!"

The Colonel looked at him in disbelief. "Don't you want to live?"

"I do." Brian admitted as stared at the former Endless with an angry glaze. His mind thinking back at all the hints. Daniel's warning about his existence fading away, the pains he would receive when Sora and Kairi were together, the Order's riddles and his arm fading out of existence. He had the theory about his existence back when they were heading to Neverland and Atlantica as he had tried to keep Sora and Kairi away from each other's. Maybe a part of him struck to what Abroc had said to him, his fear of death but after recovering his memories, he didn't seemed worried about his own existence, more on saving his friends.

"Then why protect them?" David questioned

He took a deep breath, calming himself down as he continued. "I want to see Sora and Kairi together; I want to see Riku and Hikari together. I want to see Nikolai and Storm cured, I want to see Aiddie." He halted as he thought of Aiddie. If he was to fight to time catches him, Aiddie would be safe. His mind was made up." But if I just give up, everything that I have done would have been for nothing, even if I am to fade out of existence." The panic in his eyes had faded; colour began to return to his skin, time began to move again as the spell worn off. "Maybe it's having Sora and Kairi within me; maybe it's the fact that my soul is properly Kairi herself. But I know that so long as I'm remembered, I will live forever."

"So…you will still give up your life for someone to relive their life?" The Colonel shook his head in disappointment. "I expected more from you, Brian."

Brian only smirked from the comment. "The name's Haru."

The conversation turned to a halt as the door was broken down, revealing Daniel as he glared at the Aversion Endless. "How did you get back in?!" He frowned.

The Colonel chuckled at Daniel's appearance. "I have to tell you, son. This is the worst room service I have ever received. Tell me, how is Sora? Did you cure him?" He smirked; his joke tone words grabbed Brian's attention as he went deep in thought.

Daniel only ignored the restrained man as he pointed out of the room, keeping his eyes on Brian. "My room! NOW!" He instructed.

Brian rolled his eyes at this. "You sure you're not done lying to King Mickey?" he commented before walking out of the room, looking up at his older brother. "You better listen to me." Brian firmly told him.

"You are not in the position to boss me around." Daniel growled at him as he watched him enter his room.

The Colonel smirked as he spoke once more. "So, when will you be disappearing to the better future?" He chuckled, only laughing when Daniel slammed his door as a response.

BOWBOWBOW

Beep! Beep! Beep!

The heart monitor carried on within the room as Kyle watched into the room, holding his chart with question. "The cure should have worked…" He thought out loud as he went over to check on Kairi, seeing that she was in the same result as the last check, not showing any sign of waking. "What did we miss?" He raised his hand over Kairi and cured her once more, with no avail thought as no improvements showed. "C'mon Kairi, fight on." Kyle told her before walking over to the window and opening it before leaving the room.

He looked downstairs to see that Riku was still in the same state as before, refusing to move. He sighed sadly at the sight of the Captain; he will have to talk to him after checking up on Sora. Perhaps he will show some progress. He carried on down the hall until he reached Sora's room and entered it. Within seconds, he had ran over to Sora as he began to struggle against the restrains that were tied to him. "You're awake!" He spoke with relief as he tried to calm him down. "Sora, calm down." Kyle looked around to see where the assist button was, if he carried on like this, he will break the restrains.

"Sora's not here right now! Can I take the message?" A dark demonic laugh spoke from him, his eyes golden.

BOWBOWBOW

Daniel closed his door behind him as he approached Brian, who was sitting at the table. "What were you doing in there?" He questioned.

"Why did you never say to me that you were the Colonel's son?" Brian quickly countered as he stood up from his seat. "Why was it that no matter what we did, fight together or against each other, why didn't that come up?" he demanded.

"Because you didn't need to know." Daniel told him.

"Like I didn't need to know who I was or where we were from or when the deadline was!?" Brian raged. "I'm sick of the cover-ups! I'm sick of the lies! I want the truth, brother! I want you to listen to me!"

"You wanna know the truth?!" Daniel eyed him wildly as he went into his closet and pulled out a huge hard case book and slammed it on the table in front of him. "Your master's plan to cure the Endless was a bust! We have destroyed any chance of a bright future."

"The Stories of Balance?!" Brian spoke with surprise as he flipped through the book. Though it's a mere old history book, they have chanced history itself; the book itself tells them what is going on in the future. He reached the page of the One for a Thousand, seeing that there was an ink picture of him, Riku, Mickey and Kairi taking the Colonel down. "It's changed." He muttered, knowing that the original picture was of the Colonel fighting Kairi with Sora trapped behind the barrier.

"Change to the next page." Daniel instructed him.

Following the command, Brian gasped at the sight of the page. He closed the book as he looked at Daniel. "Let me try the Paupo Fruit!" He told him.

"We don't have the time." He told him, closing his fist in his hand. "There is only one thing we should do." He said darkly as he summoned Devon's Soul into his hand.

Brian shook his head. "This isn't the way!" He told him. "We should try the Paupo Fruit first!"

Daniel looked at Brian coldly, "I'm not wasting any more time on your master's stupid ideas. It's time that I corrected things, get my family back!"

Slamming his claw on the table, Brian raged at his brother. "Killing Sora or Kairi won't change anything!" He told him. "At the state that we are in, we haven't got anything to lose. If the Paupo Fruit is a bust then we'll think of something else but having the back-up plan being to kill the ones we came to save is idiotic."

"We have no choice!" He yelled. "When I agreed to this mission, I done it so that my family could have a better life! That's it! So far, I've lost two of them, I don't want to lose anymore. My patience has dried up!" In response, a blue claw quickly formed in Daniel's right hand as he shot a blast of water at him.

Summoning his keyblade, Brian quickly countered as he froze the water in front of him. He watched as the spell froze the attack but had completely frozen Daniel himself, only to move his mouth and eyes. He walked over to the door as he disposed of his weapon. "I'm going to talk to Kyle. See what he thinks of this." He told him. He halted at the door as he turned to face his older brother, seeing that he was glaring at him, trying to get out of the ice. "The Order was like the Colonel's family too. You are both exactly the same."

"You are lucky I'm frozen….." Daniel muttered under the coldness of the ice.

"Let me ask you this then." Brian questioned him. "If Angel was here, would she agree to this?" After that, he left the room.

Now in the hallway, he quickly made his way upstairs towards the newly build medical area. He sighed with relief as Sora and Kairi were placed in separate rooms. As he approached the room, Kyle came out of Sora's room. "Kyle!" He called. "I need to talk to you."

"I have to check on Kairi." He quickly said before he went up the hall.

"Kyle—" Brian gasped, seeing that Kyle had left Sora's room door open, but there was no sign of Sora in his bed, the bed destroyed, only to see a robotic arm from behind the bed. He shot back around, "Get back here—" In a flash of light, he was out cold.

A/N: BWAHAHAHAHAH This chapter is done! The next chapter will be a sweet one. If it wasn't for all this coursework T~T. On the plus side, I'm doing an animation of Brian and Aiddie for my final project so you guys get to see one of the scenes for Balance of Memories ^^…That is, if I do it right. And if that goes well, I can animate the entire story :D

Hope you enjoyed this chapter, please review to let me know what you think.

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