Chapter 148: Last Words

With Keyblade in hand, Daniel rushed through the crowd of enemies that had invaded his world. He had still not found any sign of the Order Members from this time, but the army that they had brought was impressive. With every solider he, Kyle or Max took down, it was replaced by another two. It was like an ongoing battle, never to end. Due to this, the three began to struggle with the multiple forces. The Leader of Little Devon blasted his enemies away with a huge flood of water, urgently trying to get the communication badge on his shirt working to contact the others. With the final adjustment, the communicator begins to buzz with noise. "What's going on?" Daniel questions, battling the Unbirth away from his house.

Kyle's voice just burst through the communicator's speakers with urgency. "Daniel! We've just lost the west side of town! They have the Academy!" He reported.

"It can't be!" The Leader of Little Devon said in disbelief, slashing another Endless down before changing his communications to open. "Basch! What's the report?!" He called out. The only form of contact that he achieved from the head of the academy knights is that the sound of gun fire, sword slashes, and calls to escape the academy. "Damn it!" He changed the open channel. "Max! We need to get the academy back!" He ordered.

"I'm just about holding the docks!" Max told him sharply, the sound of his bow firing and changing form could be heard. "I can't spare any."

"We're being overrun!" Zidane called in within the line, trying to fight the enemy on his side.

"No!" He shouted, grunting in pain as the Unbirth stuck him while he was distracted. In anger, he revealed his blue claw and grabbed onto the Unbirth, filling it with water until it burst. "We are not being overrun! I will not let the town fall!" He yelled, slashing through the Unbirth and Endless.

"What choice do we have?" Kyle pointed out. "We're being taken over. We need to get the people out of here!" He reported.

"Everyone is staying!" Daniel said stubbornly.

"As much as I appreciate your passion dude, but we can't stop them here. We need to stop them before they stop us and then stop the others on Neo Mansion-" The sounds of thunder could be heard on Max's comm, only suggesting that the younger Abroc had found him.

"Max! Max!" Daniel called, only to hear that Max was in a struggle at the current moment. The communicator rang, making the leader switch channels while trying to get rid of the rest of the Unbirth in the area that he was in. "What's the report?" He asked.

"Let me free. I can help." It was the weakened David.

The Leader of Little Devon just halted his actions, looking back at the house in question and disbelief. He had guarded the area so that no one could get to his father, including a good handful of guards. "How the YELL did you get on our lines?!" He yelled.

"Killed a guy." He simply admitted.

Kyle could only reply in sarcasm. "That's going to help your freedom."

"Why should we trust you?" Zidane questioned through the line.

The former Colonel groaned on the other line. "You're all failing and dying. You need a healer." He pointed out. "You don't accept my help and we are all going to be dead!"

"Forget it!" Daniel yelled.

"No way!" Kyle agreed.

The Communicator buzzed as the exhausted Max could be heard. "Daniel….Kyle….Abroc has the docks….I've lost so many men…" He told them.

"Let me help." David offered again.

"How can you help?" Kyle questioned as he tried and fight against the soldiers on his side. "I thought that you lost your powers when your Endless' heart was balanced." He pointed out.

A slight cough was heard on the other line before David responded. "I have a little power left." He answered. "Listen boys, I'm not going to say that the virus was your enemy. I did everything that you hate me for. I just want to try and face my mistakes, for my crimes." He explained to them, leaving silence between the boys, before he added, "Besides, someone has to fix the mistakes that you boys have made—"

"Goodbye." Daniel didn't waste any time to cut their father off the line, yelling in anger as he slashed through the enemy. Using Devon's Soul, he took out the rest of the enemies in the area. The North was clear. When he heard his brother's thoughtful sigh on the communicator, his anger had turned back to the conversation beforehand. "Don't you even suggest it!" He warned him. "I had just cleared the north. I can help Max and Basch—"

"Even with one area cleared, there are only so many people that I can heal!" Kyle explained. "If we want to give Brian and the others a chance, we either need to leave and destroy the world with the enemy on it or we accept any help we can get." He told him.

"No! We are saving this world without his help!" Daniel growled, quickly flipping throughthe communication lines. "Zidane! Can you call Radiant Garden or Olympus Coliseum for help?" He asked. Kyle was right about one thing, they needed help.

"All communications are cut. Without the dock, we can't contact or even leave the world." He reported.

"Damn it!" Daniel growled, full of frustration. "What about Minnie?" He asked them.

"She's in no condition to fight!" Kyle told him down the communicator. "We have no choice, brother. We need his help."

"Don't you remember everything he has done?!" Daniel reminded him. "He killed our mother! Experimented on me into an Endless half-breed! He had even ordered the attack to kill you!" He was basically yelling down the communicator.

"That was you!" Kyle raged in response, "You had gotten obsessed with trying to keep Brian from changing your plan that you are revealed our ship's location to the Order. If you don't swallow your pride, you are going to ruin all the hard work that we've put into this town and lose lives because of it! You message me when you've decided to accept father's help. Until then, I'm getting everyone out of here!"

"Brother….I…" Daniel was lost for words, he had never heard Kyle yell at him like that, he had never heard his younger this angry at him. When his communicator cut, he sighed in regret as his comm went silent. Has he made stupid choices? Of course he has. Ever since the experiment that had given him water based Endless abilities, he has become obsessive and he had become blind because of it. "What have I done?" He questioned, taking in the sight of his beloved town, covered in flames. His choices has destroyed everything. All of his family was gone. His town was destroyed. Why did he even accept this mission? He lost more than there was to gain.

"And so you finally see the destruction that your actions have caused." His father spoke through the communicator.

Daniel grabbed hold of his communicator and threw the device into the ground, before crushing it with his foot. He had made some huge mistakes but freeing his father wasn't going to be one of them.

BOWBOWBOW

Crush rushed towards the King of Disney Castle with his rigged sword, yelling with all of his might as he tried to make a strike on him. He gasped with surprise as he found himself falling to the ground, light shining everywhere around him. "No!" He breathed, exhausted from the battle as he turned to face Mickey, watching as he disposed of his keyblade. "I won't fall to you, keybearer! Your kind killed my family! Ruined my life! I will have my wr—" He was taken back as he felt his strength recover, looking at his enemy in disbelief.

King Mickey sighed at his expression of surprise and shock. "You've been tricked." He spoke with a concerned voice as he stood in front of him. "We're not the bad guys…" He told him.

"It doesn't matter if you're the good or bad guys!" He spat darkly, looking away from the King. "You're a keyblade bearer. The same as that murderer upstairs." He hissed as he referred to his new master.

"We're not like him." Mickey assured him.

Crush only huffed, smirking slightly before kicking his opponent away from him, causing the mouse king to jump back, keyblade back in hand. "It doesn't matter." He huffed as he turned his back towards him. "I'm outta here!" He announced as he began to walk away.

"What?" Mickey was taken aback by this. Moments ago, when the others had made their way into the Neo Fortress, Crush had gone all out against the mouse king, using his dark and magnet magic to try and take him down, cursing every word possible about how he will end all of the keybearers. Now, he stood with surprise as the Wrath Endless withdrew his sword from battle and summoned a dark portal to prepare to leave. "Wait?!" Mickey called to him. "You have no loyalty to the Order?" He asked.

Crush huffed at the thought. "I was forced into the Order." He told him. "I was taken from my home by Vanitas after all." He growled as he realised who he was talking to, "You think I'm going to help you, you better think again." He told him sharply before entering the portal.

"Come back!" Mickey called to him before shooting light at the portal. He watched as the dark portal turned light as quickly shot the Wrath Endless out of the portal, preventing him from leaving. "I'm sorry. I can't let you leave." He told him. Crush's actions didn't make sense. Why would he choose to leave now? Why wouldn't he try and leave when he was forced into the Order in the first place.

"So you rather kill me than let me leave?" He looked at him with pure anger.

"That's not the reason." King Mickey tried to assure him.

Crush could only growl as the mouse as he shot multiple amounts of dark magic at him, yelling with frustration as he watched him dodge every last attack. "How does this make you better than Xehanort!" He yelled.

"We're here to help!" Mickey told him, before looking at the Wrath Endless questionably. "How do you know that name?" He asked.

Crush smirked at this, laughing at the question itself. "You don't know?" He cackled.

Mickey's heart dropped slightly from the Endless' laugh. "Don't know what?" He questioned, begging for the answer. "Tell me, Crush."

Crush smirked at this. "Why would I ruin the surprise?"

"If you tell me, you can leave." Mickey offered.

Crush huffed at the suggestion. "And if I refuse?"

"Then I'm sorry…" Mickey quickly told him, raising his keyblade up in the air.

Before Crush could comment on Mickey's words, he suddenly felt weak in less than a second. All of his magic power that he had recovered was gone; he was huffing and puffing like he was a couple of minutes ago. "What the-" He gasped in pain, finding himself on the floor once more, Mickey standing in front of him. He was in this position a couple of minutes ago. "How is this possible?" He looked up at the king in confusion and slight fear.

"An ancient time spell." Mickey explained. "It's only supposed to be used to undo the last couple of minutes, most people would just think of it as Déjà vu. Only some Keyblade Masters learn this spell." He pointed his keyblade firmly at Crush's neck. "Xehanort was one of those people."

Crush held a strong face, ignoring the blade at his neck. "Is this the part where I'm supposed to quiver in fear?" He said mockingly. "I can imagine the spell is powerful. Exactly, how many times will you have to use it to get me to talk!" He sneered.

"Just the once." Mickey simply shrugged as he moved his keyblade away. "Because this time, I'm not healing you."

"Healing?" Crush questioned before coming to realisation, seeing that the King of Disney Castle had reversed time up to before he was given the kind gesture of being healed. Crush smiled at this, despite feeling weak. "That's quiet clever. I can see why Hercules and Phil liked you guys so much."

Mickey sighed at this. "I want to help you, Crush. I want to help you home."

Crushed looked away at this. "I have no home." He said sadly.

Mickey held his hand out to him, earning a questionable look from the Endless. "We'll find you a new home." He smiled.

Crush shook his head. "No…I placed myself here. I'll get myself out." He covered himself in darkness, earning a gasp of surprise from mouse king. "You won't win." He told him. "There are many plans. You can't fight them all." He told him before disappearing from the King's sight.

"Wait!" Before Mickey could avoid him leaving, the Endless was gone from sight. With worry, King Mickey looked up at the fortress. He didn't like the sound of this. Not with Xehanort's name mentioned.

BOWBOWBOW

Huffing and puffing as his heart began to race, trying to get out of the restraints that he was placed in, the pain coming from his claw was horrid. He knew that his virus was trying to stay alive as long as possible, meaning lying in pain until his heart gave up the fight. He could hear Kyle giving orders over the communicator that rested on the side, along with an unconscious body on the floor. He knew his time was nearly up now, when you can't kill a person from head-butting them, it just says how weak your body has become.

David, the former Colonel, tried to steady his breathing from the pain that he was experiencing, only to watch his door slowly open. "Wh-Who's there?!" He questioned. His eyes widened with surprised as he saw Daniel standing at the door. "I didn't think you would come." He muttered with shock.

Daniel didn't look at his father, only to grab the communicator on the side. "I came for this." He looked down at the soldiers on the floor, seeing they were groaning slightly in their unconscious state. "You said they were dead." He glared at the restraint being.

David coughed hard as he responded. "So I over exaggerated…"

Daniel looked at the form that his father had turned too. He looked exactly like he did back before the virus had claimed him, only paler as the virus took his life away. "Why offer to help when you obviously don't have the strength to fight?!" He questioned. "All you're doing is wasting your time."

David remained silent, only to shrug slightly. "I wanted to amend for my wrong doings."

Daniel snared at the words. "Bit late for that, father."

"Listen to me, please." He begged, only to gain a darken expression from his eldest son, but he stayed in place, showing that he's listening. " I have hatred everything that the virus had done, yet I still take full responsibility for its actions. It's because of me that you and Brian…Kyle, Angel, Scott…Julie….I have hurt everyone one way or another. No many how I try to amend for my mistakes, I'll end up causing more damage." He looked up at his son, seeing that he showed a bored expression. "It's because of me that you're become who you are….a monster like me."

Daniel glared at his father. "That's what happens when you try an experiment on your own son."

"You were a monster before that, boy!" He told him firmly. "You're stubborn, you're controlling, you think that because both of your parents were gone, you could be in charge of everyone since you had to grow up faster than everyone else." He sighed. "Yet you hold a good disguise of emotions when you want to."

"I could just quicken what your virus is doing, if you like." He threatened as he summoned his keyblade.

David yelled in pain, breathing deeply as small lights began to form off him. "That won't be necessary." He grunted. "Just think of that recon mission! If it wasn't for me, Kyle wouldn't be here."

"How did—" Daniel quickly asked before shaking his head. "You were the one that told him." He growled.

David laughed and coughed at the same time, shaking your head. "I had overheard your request over to comms. You think that I wasn't going to arrange a meeting with Kyle after hearing that." David gulped slightly as the keyblade came closer to his neck. "Don't you see how numb your own heart has become?! You would kill your own brother so that you didn't have to listen to Brian! And what of your sister?! You realise that since that day, you have listened to no one, only yourself."

"I don't need to listen to this." Daniel growled as he disposed of his keyblade and turned to move out the room.

"Daniel!" David called out to him. "If you keep denying what you have become, you will lose everything." He told him.

The Leader of Little Devon halted in the doorway, changing the communicator channel, "Kyle….you there…" He tried to call.

"You will become like me, boy." David tried to warn him. "You will become an Endless like me, you just don't see it."

Daniel shot back around to face his dying father. "I will never be like you." He snared like venom, before walking out the room.

"I know you won't. I won't let you….." David breathed heavily before he closed his eyes, muttering his last words. "Heal my son…" He whispered, as a green trail of energy left from his dull shadowed claw, leaving the room and attracted itself onto Daniel's right hand.

"What the hell?" Daniel looked at his right hand, to see that a light green form spirit wrapped around him. He watched with shock as the green spirit revealed his light blue, fish scale like claw, falling apart to reveal his normal hand once more. It was only after all signs of infection were gone that the green spirit disappeared. With amazement, Daniel looked at his hand with a smile. "It's gone." He whispered. From the corner of his eyes, he saw a mirror reflection of him, only to notice something different. He fully turned his attention at the mirror, only to see that all of his hair was no longer ocean blue but back to its sandy blonde colour. "My hair…" he gasped in surprise. How is this possible?

With a drop of restrains, Daniel returned back to his father's room, only to see orbs of light in his place, his heart gone. "Did he…" He looked at his hand and back at the empty bed in front of him.

BEEP BEEP

"What do you want?" Kyle growled slightly. "You have better come with some useful news."

Daniel picked up the communicator that rested in his left hand, keeping his sight on the empty bed. "Father has passed." He told him, looking at his hand before adding. "He just got rid of my virus." He spoke in surprise.

"That isn't possible." Kyle spoke with the same level of surprise and shock. "No Endless can cure another. Not even with the power to heal…." It sounded like he was lost of words.

"Carry on getting everyone out of here, Kyle." Daniel instructed him. "I'm going to the docks."

The Devon mage chuckled from the announcement. "Glad you're now on board, brother."

Daniel smiled properly for the first time in years. He had never felt so free in a long time.

A/N: Hey everybody. I hope you like it. Please leave a review and tell me what you think. I do try to update as fast as possible when I'm not doing coursework or looking for job or future house and everything in life. The next chapter should be Riku vs Link so get ready for some fun.

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