I'm back guys! Thanks for the reviews, I really appreciate it! :) So I realised that I hate boss battles but hey, doesn't mean I'm going to cut them out! So, without a further ado, enjoy!

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When Sora woke up, he headed towards the bridge of the ship, only to stop, hearing Charlie's voice coming from her room. His curiosity heightened as without realising it, he was right in front of her door. He then placed his ear against the wooden surface.

"23, 24, 25…"

Charlie was on her stomach on the floor. She pushed herself up then eased herself down. Up, then down, up then down. A bead of sweat appeared on her head as she attempted to breathe easily during her exercise. Sora then opened the door abruptly.

"What are you doing?" He asked.

"Push ups" She continued with her exercise.

"Why?"

"So I can kick your butt, got a problem with that Spike?"

"You'll never kick my butt!" He smirked.

"Tough words from a guy who's scared in losing to a girl!" She teased.

He then started doing push ups himself! No way is he gonna let Charlie beat him! She had told him she was already thirty pushups ahead of him but he said to start from the beginning. So it was on. A competition of genders fighting to be better than the other, until Donald had to be evil by stopping the competition and told the teenagers to report to the bridge.

"We'll continue this later." She told Sora and he nodded.

They walked in unison to the bridge where Donald was waiting impatiently for them. Goofy was already at the navigation station and it was Charlie's turn to shoot the Heartless ships while Donald was steering again. They then started the ship, left Wonderland and continued the adventure. Half way across space…

"Pew, pew pew!" She called as she used the cannons against enemy ships.

"You're not that bad… for an amateur." Sora commented.

"Takes one to know one." She smirked but then the ship swerved suddenly.

"Hey! I nearly had that ship!" Charlie complained.

"Well maybe if you shot the ones in front of us, I wouldn't have to swerve!" Donald shouted which made her pout.

"Hey, guys we're nearly at the next world!" Goofy announced.


Soon they arrived. Goofy said it was called Olympus Coliseum. This made Charlie smile. This was the opportune moment to show the guys what she's made of! She'll prove that she can be as good as Sora, Donald and Goofy! She smiled , ran back to her room, grabbed her camera and left the ship with the others. She was ready for this!

They entered the world through two large doors. The sun was shining ever so bright on this glorious day. The world was definitely Greek themed especially with the architecture. In front of them was the coliseum itself. Beside the double doors were huge golden statues standing tall and proud. Charlie whipped out her camera and filmed the magnificent spectacle.

She then saw the leader boards from the games and of course, Hercules was on top. She then thought he wouldn't be for long now that she and the guys have arrived. Sora motioned her to follow him. She nodded and ran to catch up. They all entered through the double doors in front to enter the golden lobby, on a pedestal, a satyr was tending to a sign.

"Um…" That was all Sora could say.

"Good timing. Give me a hand, will ya? Move that pedestal over there for me. I gotta spruce this place up for the games." The satyr asked.

Sora and the gang saw the pedestal beside them. He stood behind it and tried to push. This gained a snicker from the only female of the group and acted innocent when the other teen turned his head at her.

"If you think it's that easy, why don't you try?" He dared her.

"Fine, I will!" She replied.

The teens switched places. He folded his arms and waited for her to fail. She then spat in each of her pale, fragile hands and rubbed them together to gain some friction. She then performed some stretches which started to irritate Sora. She then readied herself. She pushed and pushed only to fail miserably. Sora couldn't help but laugh.

"Shut up." She sulked. They both then went to the satyr.

"It's way too heavy!" Sora complained.

"What? Too heavy? Since when have you been such a little-. The satyr then saw Sora, Donald and Goofy while Charlie smiled and waved at him. "Oh. Wrong guy. What're you doing here? This here's the world-famous Coliseum-heroes only! And I got my hands full preparing for the games. So run along, pip-squeaks. Look, it's like this. Heroes are coming from all over to fight ferocious monsters right here in the Coliseum." The Satyr said.

Donald claimed that the satyr had heroes standing right him. Goofy then explained that both Sora and Charlie were real heroes chosen by the keyblade. Then Donald added that him and Goofy were also heroes as he said it with pure pride.

"Heroes? Those runts?" The satyr began to laugh. "Heck, girls can't even fight!"

"Excuse me?!" Charlie began to object. However just as soon as she was about to charge at the satyr, Goofy held her back.

"What's so funny? We've fought a bunch of monsters!" Sora reasoned.

The satyr then argued that if the teens couldn't even move the pedestal, even though he struggled to move it himself, they couldn't call themselves heroes. The group smirked as the satyr turned out to eat his words as he fell in exhaustion.

"Okay, so it takes more than brawn. Well, well let's see what you can do."

"Go on Spike, show him what you're made of!" Charlie encouraged.

Sora then told the satyr, known as Phil, that he was ready for the trial. The spikey-haired teen gave a thumbs up to his companions and left for the arena. Charlie spoke to Phil and asked if she could run the trial too.

"You can if you want just don't expect to pass." Phil replied.

"Thanks for the encouragement." She thought.

Sora ran back into the lobby and was breathing slightly heavily but smiles nonetheless. Phil told the male teen that he wasn't that bad and Sora's smile grew. Charlie stepped forward claiming it her turn. This gained a gasp from the other keyblade wielder.

"You're doing the trial too?" Sora asked.

"What's the matter Spike? Afraid I'm gonna be quicker than you?" Charlie smirked.

"No way are you gonna beat me! Go ahead and try!" He joked.

She nodded and headed to the arena. She gulped and summoned her weapon. The timer was counting down to start and she positioned herself into her stance. She looked at the barrels and started to mentally plan which barrels she should destroy first and which ones to hit next.

Go!

She charged.


Sora finally regained his breath and started to look into the arena. He didn't want to qualify for the games while she didn't. They're a team. He couldn't help but grow a sort of bond with her. Don't get him wrong, no one could ever replace Riku or Kairi but Charlie is his friend too. He hoped Charlie would feel the same, after all, they have been through some challenges together already.

"Sora?" Donald asked.

"Are you okay?" Goofy asked as concern began to grow.


Charlie had made it to the second round and this was the part she worried most. This round would sometimes beat her. Not this time. She hacked and slashed the barrels into shattered remains. All she needed to do was jump onto the platform and finish these barrels off.

"Do you think she'll finish in time?" Sora asked his companions.

"And time!" A familiar voice shouted.

They all turned to the female keyblade wielder. She was panting heavily and beads of sweat covered her forehead. She was smiling until she saw Phil. She wiped the sweat off her brow and walked to the satyr who crossed his arms. Before she was ready to speak to Phil, her breathing returned to normal and gulped nervously.

"So… do I pass?" Charlie asked.

Everyone's eyes were fixated on the girl and the satyr. Sora's heartbeat became fast while Charlie clasped her hands together.

Phil nodded.

"Looks like we're headed for the games!" Sora cheered.

"Afraid not."

"Why not?" Sora asked.

"Yeah I earned it!" Charlie argued.

Phil then explained that they aren't heroes. Sora began to object but Phil gave the group the thunder spell to learn. Much to Charlie's pleasure. The group decided to leave, as there was no point in staying any longer. As they were leaving…


"Rather a stubborn old goat, wouldn't you say?"

The group jumped and turned to the owner of the voice. He was rather a tall being. His skin was the colour of baby blue with a matching flame burning on his scalp. He was dressed black robes or other known as a toga. Charlie thought that the Lord of the Underworld was far stranger looking in person especially with his pointed jaw and creepy teeth.

"Who are you?" Donald asked.

"Whoa hold on there, fuzz boy." Charlie couldn't help but snicker at Donald's nickname. "Wait, let me guess. You want to enter the games, right? Well, then, hey, get a load of this." Hades said as an Entry Pass magically appeared in Hades 'hand.

"A pass?" Sora asked.

"What's the catch?" Charlie asked, raising an eyebrow.

"It's all yours. Good luck, kids. I'm pulling for you. Little shorties." Hades said before he left.

"Now we can be in the games!" Donald commented.

"I have a bad feeling about this guys." Charlie twiddled her thumbs.

"What's up Charlie?" Goofy asked.

"Haven't you guys heard of 'stranger danger'? I don't trust him…"


The group returns to the lobby and reveals the entry pass to Phil. While the satyr had questioned the group about the origins of the pass but Sora ignored the interrogation and asked if they could join the games. At first, Phil was reluctant but as he had no other choice in the matter, he gave up in defeat and allowed the outsiders to take part.

"Some real weirdos signed up for the games. Better watch yourselves." Phil warned.

The first round was, in Charlie's opinion, rather easy. The round consisted a horde of Soldier and Blue Rhapsody Heartless. It was decided that Donald and Charlie would hang back and cast magic against the blue flying Heartless while Sora and Goofy, the heavy hitters, would take out the Soldiers. They quickly defeated them with ease. Phil was watching from the sidelines

"You're no heroes yet, but you ain't doing bad. Lucky you came to me for coaching." Phil commented.

"Lucky?! You didn't want us here in the first place!" Charlie thought.

Suddenly a familiar character was walking towards the gang. His spikey blonde hair defied gravity, his oceanic eyes pierced into your soul. He was clad in a blue suit covered in armour and a gauntlet clung to his left arm. He also has a torn cape that hung over his right shoulder. As he walked past he stared right into Sora's eyes while the teen returned the gaze defiantly.

"Cloud." Charlie thought.

"Something tells me he'll be a tough one to beat. Who knows, maybe you'll end up facing him." Phil said.


The next two rounds were easy enough as well. While the second round had Shadows and Blue Rhapsody Heartless and the third round had Red Nocturne and Blue Rhapsody. Unfortunately for Charlie, she had ran out of magic so she had to drink a bottle of Ether. She was getting tired while her teammates were fine.

'I'm really out of shape.' She thought.

Phil gave the group a break. The satyr complimented the two keyblade wielders and would want to tell someone he knew. When Sora asked whom, Phil replied a man named Hercules, who was currently visiting his father.

The fourth round was a little tricky, according to the group. This round had the same Heartless as the last but this time, with added Shadows. Charlie had told Donald to save his magic as they both were running low on Ethers. Donald obliged, for once . The fifth round was easier, if counting dodging blizzard spells is easy, as they had only needed to defeat a bunch of Blue Rhapsodies.

Meanwhile hidden on the sidelines….


Hades and Cloud had watched the group succeed in the tournament so far. The lord of the Underworld told Cloud that the outsiders were his next opponent and not to blow his chance. Cloud, looking a little disinterested, mocked Hades claiming he was afraid of a couple of kids. He then started to say about his contract.

"I know! You think I don't know? I wrote the contract! I know it says you're only required to kill Hercules in this tournament. But you've gotta fight that kid to get to him. Come on. Hey, it's like that old goat says: Rule 11: It's all just a game, so let loose and have fun with it! I mean, a casualty or two along the way is no big deal, right?" Hades said.

Cloud walked off without saying a word. Hades had made a comment that he was stiffer than the other villains. However, people like Cloud are hard to acquire. The next round, Charlie was beginning to get nervous. While fighting a group of Red Nocturne, Blue Rhapsody and a Fat Body could be tolerable, that was not what Charlie was worrying about. It was who they were going to fight next.

The final round. Standing before the outsiders was Cloud. Charlie couldn't help but gulp at the group's rival in front of her. She shook her head. What was she worrying about? This isn't like her! She knows he has dark powers, she knows his moves! She has the upper hand here!

The match started and the group scattered. Charlie held back in the corner and planned carefully. She thought just give it her all but that wouldn't be the best idea. She decided to deal little combos and dodge out of the way. She then called to Donald to keep back and cast spells. She then started to charge.

Until Goofy was flung back towards her.

She rolled with the knight in unison. They scrambled off each other and Charlie made sure her teammate was fine before giving him a potion. She then jumped up and ran back towards Cloud. However he slowly kept creeping towards Sora. This is her opportune moment!

She ran and slashed at the ex-soldier. She dealt a few hits until he turned to her and attacked her. She was hurt pretty bad and struggled to stand. She could only squint to look at her friends. This wasn't good. Donald was already knocked out, Goofy was nearly there and Sora was running around the arena to avoid Cloud. Was this it? Was it over for her? How could she be strong enough to find Ryan and the others if she can't even fight?

"No! I won't give up! Everyone is counting on me! I won't watch my friends get hurt!"

Somehow she had miraculously regained strength as she slowly stood up. She closed her eyes as power flowed through her body. She will fight! She opened to see Sora still running like a lunatic while Cloud was catching up to his prey. She smirked and slowly stepped forward.


Suddenly in a flash of purple, Sora could see Cloud was somehow getting attacked by something as quick as lightning. What was going on? He ran to Goofy while the group's opponent was occupied and healed his friend with a Hi-potion. He then ran to Donald and did the same. By the time the trio turned around to Cloud, said rival was breathing heavily while Charlie seemed confused.

"What happened?" She asked herself.

Sora was impressed. Did Carlie do this? She must've done! The trio of boys charged again at Cloud and somehow defeated him while Charlie tried to make sense in what had just happened. She had a headache and only could remember being attacked by Cloud and seeing everyone's demise but what happened after? Cloud had dropped his sword.

Out of nowhere, A giant black poor slammed onto the arena.

"Oh, right, there was another rule I forgot: Accidents Happen." Hades mentioned.

The Lord of The Underworld left into the shadows while another lad stepped onto the scene and intervened between the giant three-headed canine known as Cerberus and Sora and the gang. Phil called to the stranger whose name is Hercules or Herc for short and said stranger told his coach to get them out of there.

Sora, Charlie, Donald and Goofy escaped with their lives intact. Phil told the group who that canine is and gave them the reassurance the Hercules could take care of the beast. On the other hand , Phil couldn't believe his own words which made the outsiders worry. Speaking of worry, Sora walked up to Charlie.

"Hey Spike, I'm worried about Hercules." She said.

"Are you okay?" He asked her, causing her eyes to grow wide.

"Um yeah, just got a headache."

"What happened out there?"

"I-I don't remember. I can only recall being attacked by Cloud and I saw you running from him and everyone else was exhausted." She replied.

"Something happened to you..." He said.

"Sora, Charlie what should we do?" Goofy asked the teens.

Charlie said that the group should do something and not let Hercules fight alone. The rest agreed. And began to head out of the Lobby and into the arena. This was about more than being a hero, this was about helping someone in need and all the outsiders knew that.

"Kids, you're not entering the arena are yas? This ain't just some match. This is for real!" Phil warned.

"I'm not afraid. You can decide if I'm hero material or not." Sora said.

"I don't care about being a hero anymore. If someone needs it, I'm gonna help them." Charlie added.


Back in the arena, Hercules was struggling trying to defeat Cerberus while holding Cloud over his shoulder. Sora's group appeared in their fighting stances giving the hint to Hercules to go and rest. Phil came and told them to attack before leaving.

Charlie didn't really have a strategy this time. She was rather worried at the size of the beast but all it was doing was rampaging around. All she could do was attack with either magic or her strength. The only problem was the fact the animal just wouldn't stay still!

"Thunder!" She called as bolts of lightning fell from the sky and electrocuted one of the three heads.

The group kept attacking until Cerberus jumped. Charlie knew what was going to happen next so she jumped on the canine's back and motioned Sora to do the same. Soon Cerberus casted darkness to erupt from the ground underneath Donald and Goofy! Sora started to panic!

"We gotta do something!" Sora shouted to Charlie.

"No."

"Why not?" He asked with worry. What's happening to her?

"If we try to get them up here, Cerberus will try and shake us all of and where would we all be then?" She replied.

"I guess. Then what should we do?"

"Cast spells."

Sora did what he was told and the keyblade wielders kept using magic. Cerberus jumped causing the teens to fall off. The canine began to attack relentlessly but with weak attacks. Charlie used cure on the Disney characters and they all attacked in unison. When Cerberus jumped again the group repeated the previous actions until finally the canine was defeated.

"At least it wasn't a Heartless this time." Charlie mentally sighed.


The group gathered in the Lobby to see Cloud disappeared and Hercules fully recovered. Phil was on a pedestal holding a scroll. Everyone tilted their heads at the scene and prepared to whatever was going to happen. Hercules folded his arms and the ceremony was about to begin.

"Thus, I do hereby dub thee junior heroes, and confer upon four full rights and privileges to participate in the games. Further-" Phil read.

"Hey! What do you mean 'junior heroes'?" Donald interrupted.

"You rookies still don't understand what it takes to be a true hero." Phil replied.

Goofy asked what it took to be a real hero but Hercules replied that they should find out like he did, almost treating it like a personal journey or something like that according to Charlie. Sora didn't have a problem to that now that they can prove themselves in the games. However, there wouldn't be any games since the chaos from the fight with Cerberus.

"Okay, we'll be back." Sora said.

"Yeah and I'll prove to you that girls can fight!" She smiled.

The group left the Lobby. Phil was still shocked at the fact the four took down Cerberus, the guardian of the Underworld. Hercules then whispered into his coach's ear that he worn Cerberus down before the outsiders jumped in. Phil promised to keep it a secret so the group would keep their pride.


Sora and the gang saw Cloud sitting, while thinking, on the steps leading to the exit of the world. While they were walking towards to blonde guy, Charlie couldn't help but think about what happened when she was fighting Cloud. Sora had said something happened but what? Before she knew it, they were all in front of the stranger.

"Hey, are you all right?" Sora asked.

"Yeah." Cloud replied.

"Well that was blunt." Charlie thought.

"So why did you go along with him, anyway? "

"I'm looking for someone. Hades promised to help. I tried to exploit the power of darkness, but it backfired. Cloud stood up "I fell into darkness, and couldn't find the light."

"You'll find it. I'm searching, too." Sora said.

This caused Charlie to look at her friend. She started to feel dizzy for some reason. Cloud had said to Sora and advised him not to lose sight of his light and had given something to the keyblade wielder in return for the trouble he caused. This made Charlie feel worse. Her heart began to feel warm and her sight began to blur.

"How about a rematch sometime? Fair and square, no dark powers involved." Sora suggested.

"I think I'll pass." Cloud replied and left.

"Charlie!" Goofy called.

Light.

Light.

Light.

"Charlie?" Sora asked.

"W-what?" She snapped out of it.

"Are you okay?" Donald asked.

"Y-yeah."

"What happened?" Goofy asked.

"I'm not sure. Maybe I'm tired? Let's just get back." With that everyone left.


Meanwhile…

Hades had created a miniature image of Hercules in the palm of his azure coloured hand. He started to describe the demi God that he's strong, kind and is always there for you. He also described him as handsome and perfect while getting mad at him. Hades then decided to let Hercules train the group and in the next games, the Lord of the Underworld would take them all out. He then noticed Maleficent appeared behind him and growled.

"Who invited you to the party? Stay out of this. This is my show." He said to the villain.

"As you wish. Fight to your heart's content." She said before she vanished in green flames.


Back on the Gummiship Charlie headed into her room. As she passed Sora, he grew more and more worried. Something was going on, something she didn't even understand. He wanted to help but what could he do? Charlie collapsed onto her bed and brought her hand to her eyes.

"What's happening to me?" She asked herself.

She was tempted to get her camera and tell her situation to it but decided not to since she doesn't know if it's serious or not. This adventure was getting more confusing and complicated than she thought. She hasn't even found any clues to the whereabouts of Ryan and the others yet.

"I can't let this get to me. I have a mission. I will find them!"


Okay guys did you like that? I've got a question: Do you like the layout of the story for example, one chapter per world? Or do you want me to split it?

I hope you like it so far, see you in the next chapter!

Aqua out! :)