This is the third chapter. I might not upload the next chapter for the next day because my exams, anyway enjoy it.
Chapter 3: The Rock Titan Cup
While Riku was gone, Sora, Kairi, and Aqua decided to take a break as the next match would begin in 30 minutes.
"So Sora, care to tell us about your adventures in this Coliseum in the past?" Aqua asked while sitting next to Sora.
"Yeah, you haven't told us before, even when you and Riku were asked to take the Mark of Mastery exam in the Realm of Sleep." added Kairi while sitting next to him too. This situation made Sora very nervous as he never faced things like this before, being cornered by two girls. Finally regained his composure, Sora decided to tell the girls.
"Okay so it was like this, when the first time we came to the Coliseum, I was with Donald and Goofy. When we entered the lobby, Phil had mistaken us as Hercules. I wanted to enter the preliminary course of Hercules Cup, but Phil didn't allow us because we were not qualified yet to enter. As we walked away from the Coliseum, suddenly Hades appeared before us." Sora told the blunette and the redhead, Aqua was quite surprised, especially after hearing the part where he met with Hades who had been known as the cheater for his contract and trades.
"Huh?! What did Hades do to you?" Aqua asked, raising one of her eyebrows in curious.
"He gave me a ticket to enter the Preliminary Cup, when we made it to semifinal match, we had to face Cloud, he was very strong, we couldn't even defeat him in that match." Sora said while remembering how it was when he faced Cloud along with Donald and Goofy on his side for the first time in Semifinal round but lost. If Cloud didn't hold his urge to kill, maybe he wouldn't be there for now. But thanks for that he could learn how to solve his weakness, even became the Keyblade Master with his friends and destined for greater things, like stopping Xehanort's plan and finding Aqua's friends.
"Then what happened?" Kairi asked.
"When Cloud stopped from giving me a final attack, suddenly Cerberus came, catching him off guard and knocked him out. If Hercules wasn't there, maybe I wouldn't live enough to live until now." replied Sora.
"Who is this Cloud, and why did Cerberus attack you?" Aqua asked again.
"Cloud was one of the Hades's victim. He made a contract with Hades by killing Hercules, he would find the person he was looking for. But I believe Hades only wanted to get rid of us by releasing Hades to the arena by all of sudden." Sora answered, putting his hand under his chin.
"I wonder who was the person this Cloud looking for, tell us what happened then." Kairi asked.
"Well after Hercules rescued Cloud, we fought Cerberus altogether, it was hard but I was glad we were able to defeat him. After that Phil awarded us with the Junior Heroes title, so we can participate in the future games. As for the person Cloud was looking for, maybe it was… Sephiroth." Sora answered her with a frown look on his face which made both girls nervous. Again he remembered how Sephiroth almost killed him with his 7 foot long nodachi in Platinum Match, and how he had to fight him again at the Radiant Garden in the Dark Depths. Even though he managed to defeat the One Winged Angel for the first time, Sora knew he wasn't giving all of his strength, but still Sora was quite troubled especially his Flash attack and Descend Heartless Angel attack that almost killed him in one hit. Didn't want to talk about Sephiroth, Sora decided to continue his story at his second adventure before the girls could even asked who is this the Sephiroth guy.
"And well, the second time I came to this Coliseum, it was when I was looking for Riku. We landed in the Underworld where we met Meg for the first time. Then we learned that Hades tried to make Hercules exhausted by making him fight in the Coliseum without taking a rest. Meg wanted to see Hades if she could ask him to give Hercules some rest." continued Sora.
"So how it turned then?" Aqua asked.
"We volunteered to talk to Hades by ourselves, but when we made to his chamber, someone was fighting with him, his name was Auron." answered Sora.
"Then who is this Auron guy?" Kairi asked again. Surely every time Sora mentioned a new name, she couldn't help but imagine how he/she looked.
"A man who was brought back alive by Hades. He wanted to use him to kill Hercules, but he refused to do that, telling Hades that he wasn't a part of his story. When we wanted to get out from the Underworld, once again Cerberus attacked us. We defeated it again, but when we arrived to the Coliseum, Hades had released Hydra and destroyed the Coliseum. Second time we went to check the things, we met again with Auron, but he didn't recognize us, then it turned out that Hades brainwashed him in order to kill Herculles, but we managed to get Hades's mind control doll and gave Auron's mind back to him. After we defeated Hades, Auron was nowhere to see, I guess he finally began to create his own story." answered Sora. "Well, that's all I can tell to you. Oh look! The second match is going to start." He continued while pointing the arena.
"Thanks for waiting ladies and gentlemen, and now here is the Rock Titan Cup, lets see how our contestant will face the monstrous Rock Titan. From the challenger side is RIIKUUUU!" said the announcer while Riku walked in. As he walked inside the arena the crowds yelled in happy, especially the girls (except Aqua, Kairi, and Meg) to see Riku fought.
"Man, that's quite a crowd for me." mumbled Riku to himself as he activated his armor, Aqua was surprised when she saw Riku's battle stance since she never paid too much attention to Riku, it was really identical as Vanitas's battle stance. 'Snap out of it, maybe it's just a coincidence.' thought Aqua, she was still traumatized about how Vanitas almost killed her mercilessly.
(The Deep End - Kingdom Hearts)
Riku tried to make his first move by charging at one of the Titan's legs, but when the Rock Titan walked, every step it did created a massive tremor that made him difficult to keep his balance. Knowing that he made a bad start, Riku tried to make a distance between him and Titan then fired Dark Firaga to one of its heads, but the Titan took the dark fireball attack as it was like eating a bubble-gum candy. Instead harmed by the Dark Firaga, the every step that the Titan made now had the shockwave of darkness. Now quite troubled by his previous strategy, Riku had to think another plan. On the other hand Sora, Kairi, and Aqua was sitting on their seats, watching how he fought the Titan until Kairi asked something to Sora.
"Did you ever face that Titan before?" Kairi asked.
"Of course I did, at the final round of Hades Cup to be exact, why?" replied Sora.
"Then why don't you tell Riku its weak points?" Kairi asked again.
"That's because I want Riku become stronger too just as he wants me to become stronger too. Simple, right?" replied Sora as he watched Riku fought with his hands behind his head as usual. Hearing his answer, Kairi only nodded her head as her understanding.
'This is bad, I only made him stronger than before.' Riku thought as he tried to find a safe area where he could think another strategy. As he made to the corner of the arena, he realized that the Titan was searching him without knowing that Riku was right on the corner. Realizing that the Titan was blind, Riku tried to attack its back from behind, however the result was only a loud 'CLANG' sound without leaving even a scratch from the attack. Riku was surprised with the Rock Titan's durability, even a Keyblade wasn't enough to bring it down.
'There must be a weak point somewhere.' Riku thought as he desperately tried to pinpoint its weakness. After observing the Titan for a while, he saw the crumbling rocks near the Rock Titan's legs. 'Hmm, could that be..' He then tried to attack one of the Titan's legs. As he thought, the attacks had made the rock shattered a bit.
'Now for more power.' "DARKNESS!" as Riku yelled suddenly a dark aura surrounded Riku from below, transforming him into in his Dark Mode with his black and purple bionic looking bodysuit with Heartless insignia on the chest and his Way to the Dawn replaced with his Soul Eater. Again Aqua was surprised by how similar his Dark Mode with Vanitas's appearance, still she thought it just a conscience, so she let it slide again and focused on the match.
"This one's mine!" Riku said before then he attacked the Titan's legs with Dark Aura attack. His attacks were so fast that even the audience couldn't see him moving. As he attacked the Titan's legs repeatedly from every side the Titan finally began to collapse as it lost its balance. However, the Titan wasn't defeated yet, as it fell on the ground, it created a gigantic tremor that shook the whole Coliseum. But Riku wasn't finished yet, he began to charge his Soul Eater to use another attack Dark Break.
As Riku attacked the Titan's heads repeatedly, the Titan began to scream in pain, it then tried to counterattack Riku by swinging his heads but failed. Soon after Riku finished his attack, the Rock Titan began to crumble into giant rock pieces. Believing he had finally won, Riku turned off his Dark Mode and raised his fist to the air as his victory pose. (End of The Deep End)
"Aaaand we have the winner here, RIKUUU!" said the announcer, again the crowd yelled happily to celebrate Riku's winning against Rock Titan. As Riku walked back to the lobby, Sora, Kairi, and Aqua greeted him, although Aqua was more curious about why Riku had such a power like that, or where did he get it at the first place.
"Congratulations for your victory Riku." Kairi said in her cheerful tone as she hugged the silver haired Keyblader.
"Yeah, you really showed who the real boss is." Sora congratulated him too while patting his shoulder which made Riku smiled. Aqua then began to approach Riku, she wanted to congratulate him too, but she almost couldn't hold his urge to ask his Dark Mode.
"Congratulations Riku, you won. But tell me one thing Riku… Where did you get that power?" Aqua asked, still wondered why Riku could use the dark power without being consumed by the darkness itself.
"I'll tell you later Aqua." Riku replied before turned his head towards Kairi "Hey Kairi, you're next. Go ahead, the arena is yours."
"Okay, wish me luck in my first real arena battle, everyone." Kairi said as she walked away to the arena.
"Careful out there Kairi." Sora said with a worried tone. He actually wanted to stop Kairi as he didn't want to see her hurt, but Sora knew that only meant that he still didn't trust Kairi. Also he never saw Kairi battling before. But still, he only could hope everything would be okay and walked back to the seat along with Riku and Aqua, waiting for the next match: The Ice Titan Cup.
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