A/N: The Olympus Coliseum. I bet revisiting this world is going to be pretty awkward for Patrick, after what he's done when he made that deal with Hades. But I'm sure he has nothing to worry about, Hercules did forgive him and, hopefully, probably forgot all about it.
World: Olympus Coliseum
Hades paces around in his chambers. He grows impatient, turning from boiling hot into volcanic rage. He looks over his chess board on the table. Hercules is the only one standing at on end, with all destroyed black chess pieces that represents the monsters he's been throwing at Hercules.
"I have thrown everything at that Jerkules and he's defeated every single ONE OF THEM!" Hade slams his hands on the table, unleashing a burst of fire.
"Oh calm down, hot head." Xanamad says.
"DON'T you tell me to CALM DOWN you heartless creature!" Hades barks at Xanamad.
Xanamad shows no signs of any fear. She just chuckles quietly. "Oh, you're so cute if you think you can scare and flatter me. I wonder how you became lord of the dead. By a landslide? Cause you're not really all that." Hades sits on his throne, all made at Xanamad's insults. "Cool down. I was just teasing. Look, all jokes aside, why not just summon one of the strongest warriors from the dead?"
"I tried something like that before, and I end up losing the little puppet." Hades says, remembering what happened when he tried to use Auron.
"Are you sure there isn't one who can be so easily manipulated?" Xanamad asks.
Hades strokes his chin as he thinks carefully. "Hmm...you might actually be on to something. And I know just the warrior."
The next day, we arrive at the coliseum. I had just injected Aqua with the Paralysis Medicine.
To be honest, it feels weird returning to the Olympus Coliseum. Last time I visited, I nearly took out Hercule's life over some stupid deal I made with Hades. I just hope Aqua doesn't find out, even though it'll be all right since I decided to spare his life.
"Man. I miss the Coliseum." Sora says.
"So this is the Coliseum you've been talking about?" Riku asks. "Would be nice to try out in the tournament."
I look up at the skies. It's day time, but the skies are black red. The Nightmare is here. "The keyhole is here somewhere." I say.
"Why don't go talk to Hercules? He might know something." Sora suggests.
"That's a good idea. I wonder how he's doing after so many years." Aqua says.
I get a bit of a bad feeling about this. We walk into the lobby. It's pretty empty. Not even Phil is in here. Still, they must be here. Training and tournaments never stops for Hercules. We hear the roar of the crowd. That's when we realizing what could be happening. We walk into the arena to see a match going on.
Hercules against the molten titan and ice titan. This should be interesting.
The Ice Titan is sending hundreds of ice shards at Hercules. Hercules spins his sword fast to block the shards coming at him. Molten Titan spews molten lava. It hits Hercules, he ends up crashing against the coliseum wall.
Molten and Ice Titan's have Hercules cornered. "We should help."
Sora summons his Keyblade, only to be stopped when I put my arm out. "No. He'll handle this."
Hercules regains conscious. He now sees that he is in a situation. With quick thinking, he jumps on the Molten Titan, not too much of a bright idea, but he's a god. Standing on lava isn't gonna kill him...that easily. Hercules gets Ice Titan's attention and taunts it.
Ice Titan roars and unleashes ice breath. Hercules leaps off and the ice breath ends up freezing the molten Titan. Very clever I must say. Once it's frozen, Hercule punches the frozen titan hard, destroying it.
Now that just leaves the Ice Titan. Hercules faces it head on, striking it hard with his sword. The Ice Titan fights back, but he does not last long in fight.
The crowd cheers and chants for Hercules. Me and the others are quite impressed with the battle.
After the battle, Hercules heads back into the lobby, where we meet him. "Sora. Patrick. When did you guys get here?"
"Long enough to see your battle against those two monsters." I say. "Very impressive I must say."
"Why thank you." Hercules turns his attention to Aqua and Riku. "And who are you two?"
"I'm Riku." Riku says.
"Aqua. We've met before." Aqua says.
Hercules didn't recgonize Aqua, but now that she mentions it, she does look familiar. "So, what brings you guys here?"
"This world is infested by the Nightmare. We are here to cleanse it." I say. "Have you seen anything suspicious?"
"No, I'm afraid not." Hercules says. "But there's a tournament coming up. We could use more fighters."
We all think about this, exchange looks even. We have a job to do, we can't simply drop everything to enter some tournament. We tell Hercules we're gonna discuss this outside of the coliseum. So that's what we do.
"I say we should enter the tournament." Sora says.
"We have a job to do, Sora. We must find the Keyhole." Riku says.
"Riku does have a point, but we don't have any leads so far." Aqua says. "And who knows, maybe we'll find some clue in the matches?"
I can see where Aqua is going with this, but I am Riku on this one. Just our luck, someone interferes, by appearing with a puff of death smoke. Sora and I are on alert, summon our Keyblades, held and ready to attack, while Riku stands by Aqua's side and protects her.
"Well, looky at what the cat dragged in. The key boy, Maleficent's little puppet, the deal breaker and the bluebird. How nice of all of you to drop on by." Hades says. He sounds friendly, but we all know he's not too pleased.
Once he's close, I have my Keyblade pointed at his face, inches away from connect. "What do you want, Hades?"
"Nothing from you, that's for certain." Hades says. "Unless you wanna resume with...our little deal." Sora, Riku and Aqua are confused, then look at me with concern. Hades looks over my shoulder to Aqua. "I mean, you may have gotten back your little bluebird friend, but I can see she's having a little bit of a struggle. Maybe I can be of some assistance."
"Shut it, corpse breath." I shout at him in a hostile tone.
"Okay, okay. Yeesh. No need to be hostile." Hades says. "What I'm really here for is I'm just checking on the competition."
"What? You're entering the tournament?" Riku asks.
Hades gives Riku a stern serious look. "You haven't chanced a bit, have yea kid? No, but my new friend here is." Hades moves aside. We wonder what he's talking about, then we see him coming.
Walking towards the coliseum from the gates is a strange man. Has spiky black hair, long on the sides of his face, with those on his forehead only on a eyebrows length. He wears a black jacket with skull-motif buttons and sequenced details on pockets. He keeps it unzipped and the tag on the zipper also has a small skull. Underneath he wears a steel gray shirt with skull prints. Noctis wears black cropped trousers and black buckled boots with red soles. He wears a black motorcycle glove on his left hand.
Noctis.
He walks right by us, non stop and without seeing a single word. He just gives us a gazed glare as he walks right past us, and then he enters the lobby.
"What are you up to, Hades?" I ask.
"Excuse me? What did you just say?" Hades puts a finger in his ear and starts wiping it clean. "Must be something stuck in my ears, cause I could have sworn I just heard you are wondering what I am up too." Hades appears right next to me, an arm around my shoulder. "I mean...come on, isn't it obvious? Hello?" Hades bangs on my head. "Anybody in there?"
Hades vanishes and reappears right in front of us. "Whatever you're up to, we're gonna stop you." Sora says.
"Oh, looky here. Someone's gotten serious when we last met." Hades says. "Oh, don't even bother trying. This is a foolproof plan. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have an underworld to prepare for Wonder Breath's permanent visit."
Hades vanishes. Even though he is gone, I can still feel my blood boiling. "I hate him."
"So...what now?" Sora asks.
"Well, I guess we should enter the tournament, see what Hades is up too." Riku says.
What Riku says is true, so that's what we have decided to do. We enter the Lobby, to see Noctis is speaking to Phil to sign up for the tournament. Once he is done, he enters the arena. Phil notices the four of us.
"Hey there, champs...and helllllo there sweet cheeks." Phil is playing the charm on Aqua. Makes me wanna barf. There's no way I'm calling Phil 'Daddy'.
I groan quietly and roll my eyes at that act of charm. "Hey, Phil...We're looking to sign up for the tournament."
"Oh, all the greatest warriors keep falling on my plate, huh?" Phil asks. "You're in luck. I have one opening left for the East Bracket. So. You all competing together?"
"We are." Riku says. "So, what are the rules?"
"Here are the rules: We've got two brackets. One in the east and one in the west. You fight your way through the matches, and the two finalists on both brackets face each other for the championship against Hercules." Phil says. "Gotta warn yea, Mr. Shady guy back there is in the west. It might be possible you'll face him."
Noctis is entering the tournament so he can face Hercules. And kill him. "So that's Hades's plan. Should have known."
"Well, his plan is not gonna work. We're gonna enter that tournament and stop his little puppet." Riku says.
We all sign up for the tournament together. Aqua sits this one out, literally.
Our first match is the tournament is against Flowbermeow's and Escarglow's. I am well aware of the Dream Eater snails. They are not slow like normal snails, but they're dangerous.
The three of us get into battle stance and we all attack the Dream Eaters. One annoying thing about the Escarglows is when they hide in their shells, which defends them against all of our attacks. Even Magnet break their defenses.
The best thing Sora and I did against them was we cast Magnet spells. They all gathered and get stuck by the magnetic magic orb. While they are all stuck, we attack them with all of our might.
They become defeated so easily.
The tournament lasts for about ten matches. Each one either no different or tougher from the last. For the fifth match, Sora and I did a limit skill: Shadow Crusader.
Me enhanced in darkness and Sora enhanced in light, we stand, back to back, slashing down Dream Eaters with sweeping strikes, then we switch elements, Sora in darkness and me in light, and rapidly jump and perform dive attacks repeatly. For a finale, we jump high, close together back to back, and perform a final dive attack of Twilight Energy.
Up on the eight match, Riku enters Vemonscythe. Enhanced in dark poison. Each attack he throws at the Dream Eaters, they become poisoned.
We have made it to the final match. Against Drill Syes, Eaglider and Shadowy LePew, Skunk Dream Eaters. This is going to be challenging.
Sora and I fight our hardest as Riku fights deadly with his Vemonscythe commend style. In the end, he unleashes Vemonscythe. Shaping and extending his Keyblade with poison magic, into a scythe. He strikes murderously at his enemies and unleashes it with a heavy blow, that unleashes three waves of poison in front of him.
We won the match, now it's time for the finals.
We gather in the lobby. It's only mere minutes before the final match begins. Just from the looks, we can tell that Noctis is tough. Plus, I've heard of how powerful he is. He took down "Lost Song" in two seconds...before the match even started.
"Okay. Here's the plan: Sora. You distract Noctis. Riku, attack from behind and I'll ambush him while he's occupied." I say.
"Why do I have to distract him?" Sora asks.
"Because Riku and I are more powerful and skilled." I say. "Don't worry. The plan will work, and once we got him, we'll all jump at him at once. Go for the final blow."
"Sounds like a good plan. Let's just hope it'll work." Riku says.
Phil walks right into the lobby. "All right, champs. It's time for the match."
The audience is packed tonight.
The roar a cheer as the three of us enter the arena. Once when we're in the center, that's when Noctis makes his entrance. I can scene a dark presence within him. He's working for Hades all right.
Phil stands in between us. "All right, boys. I want a good clean fight. No one come here to see a bloodbath or any cheats, capiche?"
Phil makes his leave. We all gaze at Noctis. He gazes back at us. "Don't try to get in my way." He says in a cold attitude.
We don't say anything, then all of us stand ten feet away from each other. Next, we turn and face each other. Sora, Riku and I summon our Keyblades. I go Dual-wielding since this is a serious match. Noctis takes out a greatsword.
Positioned to fight, we wait for the match to start. At the sound of the gong, the match begins.
Sora is the first one to charge. Riku and I move to the sides, getting out of Noctis's sight. Sora does a thrust strike. Noctis stands still, not a single fear to be shown on his face. At the very last second, another .1 second, the Keyblade would have impaled through his head, Noctis dodges the attack.
Sora is speechless. It's unbelievable. To be able to dodge something that fast, so sudden, it's impossible, even for me. Noctis appears right next to Sora, does furious attacks, ended by knocking him away.
Riku comes at Noctis from behind. But Noctis senses him, just as Riku strikes, Noctis rolls his eyes to the side, turns and blocks the attack with his sword. I leap towards Noctis with both of my Keyblades aimed for a dive attack. Noctis gets Riku on a hold and uses him as a human shield from me.
Riku and I are both surprised in nervous. Luckily, Riku blocks my attack with Dark Shield. While I'm staggered midair, Noctis spins Riku once then throws him at me. We both crash land close to Sora. "Damn. This guy's good."
Noctis puts away his greatsword and takes out two guns. He spins them in his hands then starts shooting the second he gets a grip on them. We act fast into moving out of the way as he was shooting. None of us got shot thank goodness. Noctis focuses his target on Riku. While he is, Sora and I try to attack him from behind.
We both attack him with fire spells. Noctis dodges each of them, switches his weapon to a lance and comes at me. I block his charge attack. Sora attacks from behind. At this moment, we both attack and Noctis dodges, parries and counterattacks, with us blocking most of his attacks.
His dodge is incredible. Avoiding. Ducks. Side turns. Spinning his lance in between his actions. Noctis leaps back, switching weapons midair from lance to two swords. The second he lands, he charges and attacks us at a burst of speed.
Sora dodges out of the way, I block both swords with my two Keyblades, locked in quite a blade entanglement. I am able to hold Noctis for Riku and Sora to strike him quickly.
For the first time, we actually hit him, but he is not too pleased with it. Noctis leaps back, to the other side of the arena. "We've got him! All together!"
We ready ourselves to attack, but just as we do, Noctis is doing something pretty big. The ground shakes minorly and energy pulses through. Next thing that happens is all of Noctis weapons come to life. Swords. Greatswords. Lances. Spears. Daggers. Guns. Phantom Swords. Every single one of them surrounding Noctis.
"Oh dear. We are in some deep trouble." I say.
With a single snap of his fingers, all of his weapons charges at each of us in a high burst of speed.
We try defending ourselves and fighting against the weapons. But Noctis's power is proven to be incredible. Noctis just stands in place, watching his weapons do the dancing for him.
In the end, the three of us a weak, exhausted and injured. None of his weapons have been defeated other. We all collapses and fall unconscious. We are defeated, and the cheer roars a cheer for Noctis's victory.
If he can defeat us this easily, Hercules is doomed.
