Chapter 8: Olympus Coliseum: What Makes a Hero
Ventus and Davinia are walking through as a satyr runs behind them and towards a wall.
"Huh?" Ventus and Davinia ask confuse.
"The kid's relentless!" satyr said about a kid.
Ventus and Davinia approach him.
"Hey, whatcha doin' there?" Ventus ask the satyr.
The satyr jumps up and screams.
"I told ya, I'm booked solid. N-O spells forget it!" the satyr said to them.
"Uhh?" Davinia ask confuse.
"And who in Halicarnassus are you two? Can't you see I'm busy?" the satyr said to them.
"I'm all signed up! Phil!" a boy said running to the satyr.
"Herc, all right, I hear ya! Now would ya keep it down already." the satyr said to the boy.
A soldier appears.
"Aha!" the soldier said and he runs toward them.
"Beautiful... You happy now? You blew my cover!" the satyr said to the boy.
"'Fess up. I asked around, and everybody says you're the guy. The trainer of heroes!" the soldier said to the satyr.
"True heroes!" the boy said correcting the soldier.
"You can teach that?" Ventus ask them.
"'Course he can. C'mon, please, Phil. I really wanna be a hero." the soldier said begging the satyr name Phil.
"We've been through this... I got two words for you-student-teacher ratio!" Phil said to the soldier.
"One, two... Um?" Davinia said counting on her fingers.
"I already got my hands full with this one. C'mon, Herc." Phil said as he and Hercules walks away.
"I'm low-maintenance, I swear!" the soldier said to Phil.
Suddenly Unversed appear in front of Hercules and Phil.
"Unversed!" Ventus and Davinia shout summoning their Keyblades.
"Monsters, hey Phil! Watch this! I'll show ya what I'm made of." the soldier said joining them.
"I'll help, too!" Hercules said to them joining also.
So Ventus, Hercules, Davinia, and the soldier fight the Unversed. Ventus, Davinia, and the soldier destroy three Unversed. Hercules loses his balance and then destroys an Unversed.
"Whew! Ha ha!" Hercules said.
"Change of plans. The Games are comin' up. I'm gonna watch both of your matches...then I'll decide which of you rookies' I wanna train." Phil said to Hercules and the soldier.
"Thank you, thank you! I'm gonna go sign up right now." the soldier said running toward the Coliseum.
"The Games, Sounds fun!" Ventus said as he and Davinia run towards the Coliseum, too.
"Sorry kids, Captain Eager there just took the last spot." Phil said to Ventus and Davinia.
Ventus stops and looks disappointed.
"I don't understand! Phil, I thought you were my trainer!" Hercules said to Phil.
"You wanna be a true hero, Herc? You're gonna hafta go out there and show me that everything I've taught you so far is gonna pay off." Phil said to Hercules as he starts walking toward the Coliseum, "No more trainin' sessions for a while. Wouldn't be fair if I helped you and not him."
Hercules is disappointed.
"Cheer up! So, you gotta fight a couple of matches, no big deal." Ventus said cheering Hercules, "I'm Ventus. Want me to help you train?"
"You'd really do that for me?" Hercules asks them.
"Sure." Ventus and Davinia said.
"Thanks, Ventus. I'm Hercules. Herc for short." Hercules said to them.
"Just call me Ven. You're gonna do fine." Ventus said telling him his nickname.
"And I'm Ashlyn but everyone calls me Davey." Davinia greeted to Hercules.
The three shake hands.
"Thanks. I'm gonna head over to the Coliseum and warm up. Meet me in the vestibule, okay?" Hercules said to as he runs to the Coliseum.
Ventus, Davinia, and Hercules are training in the Coliseum by breaking urns. Ventus and Davinia stop and look into the stands where they see Phil watching them. Phil then turns and exits the Coliseum. Hercules was walking through the vestibule when...
"You want to become a true hero, huh?" Ventus asks him as he stops and turns around.
"More than anything. See, my father is Zeus, the king of the gods up on Olympus." Hercules explains to them about his father.
"Herc, you're a god?" Ventus asks him.
"No. I'm mortal. When I was a baby, somebody stole me from my parents, and... figured out how to take away my godhood." Hercules said explaining about his life.
"This true hero thing?" Davinia asks Hercules about becoming a hero.
"The only way I can become a god again. If I become a true hero, I can rejoin my father and go back to Olympus." Hercules said explaining to them about becoming a hero.
"I guess you really got your work cut out for you!" Ventus said to Hercules as Davinia nods her head in agreement.
"But what about you two?" Hercules asks them, "How come you two are here?"
"We're just trying to make some friends." Davinia said to him as Ventus nods his head.
"Well, hey! You two have done that already." Hercules said to them.
"Huh?" Ventus and Davinia ask him.
"We're friends, aren't we?" Hercules said to them.
"You bet!" Ventus and Davinia exclaimed to Hercules.
The soldier enters the vestibule from town. Phil enters from the Coliseum, he explains the rules to them. Phil, Hercules and the soldier enter the Coliseum.
"Heavy-hitting contender?" Ventus asks Hercules.
"Ven! Davey! C'mon!" Hercules said to Davinia and Ventus.
"Okay!" Ventus and Davinia said following them into the Coliseum.
During the Games, after the matches Hercules is talking with Phil when Ventus walks over to them.
"Guess we made it." Ventus said to Hercules.
"And it's all thanks to you two, Ven and Davey." Hercules said thanking Davinia and Ventus.
"The other kid'll be happy to hear that." Phil said to them.
"I need you most of all, Phil! How else am I gonna become a hero?" Hercules asks Phil.
"'Bout time ya got it!" Phil said walking off.
Phil walks off and the soldier comes running over to Hercules, Davinia, and Ventus.
"Whoever wins no hard feelings." the soldier said to him as he holds out his hand.
Hercules grabs it and they shake.
"Course not. Holdin' a grudge wouldn't be very heroic." Hercules said to the soldier.
"Hey, just making sure. You're not a hero yet." the soldier said making a good point.
"*Laugh* True." Hercules replied to the soldier.
Hercules and the soldier enter the arena and prepare for their match. Hercules charges at the soldier and tries to hit him, but the soldier jumps back. The soldier then jumps toward Hercules to attack him. Ventus and Davinia are watching from the stands.
"This is really close." Ventus said as Davinia nods.
Ventus and Davinia remember Terra and Aqua sparing.
"We got trouble! There are monsters loose in town and if they gate-crash the Games, you can forget about the match." Phil said to them about the monsters.
"Real monsters?" Hercules asks him about the monsters.
"We have to stop 'em." the soldier said about the monsters.
"Leave the monsters to us. This match is too important!" Ventus said as he and Davinia run to town to deal with the monsters.
Ventus and Davinia run into town to find a few Unversed.
"You won't get past us!" Ventus said readying his Keyblade.
"Huh!?" Davinia said seeing a lot more a lot more Unversed arrived. Hercules runs up.
"What about your match?" Ventus ask him about the match.
"No way could I let my friends fight alone." Hercules said making a good point.
After they get rid of the Unversed...
"Sorry that we made you lose that match" Davinia said to Hercules about the match.
"You two don't have to apologize. It was totally my decision." Hercules said to them.
An Unversed is moving in to attack Hercules. The soldier defeats it.
"What, you didn't save any for me?" the soldier said to them.
"Hey, you're here?" Hercules said to him surprise.
"I've set my sights on being a hero, too. I just don't run as fast, that's all." the soldier said to them.
"So you both threw the match? Who won, then?" Davinia ask as Ventus asks the same thing.
"I left first, so it's not me." Hercules said to them.
"I was only seconds behind you." the soldier respond.
"Still." Davinia pouted confuse.
"I never said I'd coach the winner. All I said was I'd see the match, and then decide. Look, bein' a hero takes more than just muscle." Phil said to them what makes a true hero, "Ya gotta have heart and care about people. And sure, you both get high marks for that. But this time, only one of you cared fast enough. That makes all the difference."
"Then that means…" Davinia said putting the pieces together.
"I was this close! Well, that's life. I never really introduced myself." the soldier said taking off his helmet, "The name's Zack. Congratulations, Herc."
"Thanks, Zack." Hercules said shaking hands with him.
"We'll see if you're still thankin' him when I'm through with ya. You got a long road ahead of ya, champ." Phil said to Hercules.
"Don't count me out. I've still got plenty of big dreams to go with my lousy luck!" Zack said starting doing squats.
Zack and Herc laugh. Ventus and Davinia walk over to Phil.
"You weren't really gonna stop training Herc, were you?" Ventus asks Phil about him training Hercules.
"Of course, not. I know that kid's gonna go the distance. He was stuck in a rut. He just needed a little incentive. It's Ventus and Davinia, right?" Phil said to the two Keyblades Wielders, "Well, thanks to you two, Herc here has really shaped up. I owe ya two."
"We're glad. We made a really good friend." Ventus said to Phil as Davinia nods, "Somebody to share a laugh with. Like Terra and Aqua... We'll patch things up."
Ventus and Davinia turn to leave.
"You two are leaving?" Hercules asks them.
"Our journey's not over yet." Davinia said to Hercules.
"But you two will visit, right?" Hercules asks them.
"We'll stop by once you're a true hero." Davinia said promising him.
"Stop by once he and I are both heroes!" Zack said to them.
"So you mean never come back?" Davinia said to Zack.
"Hey, watch it!" Zack said to Davinia.
They all laugh. Davinia and Hercules shake hands, while they shake hands Ashlyn had a vision. Her vision is an older version of herself with a female yellow fox, a boy with short blonde hair, a creature that's a mixture of a hamster and bat, another boy with spiky brown hair, a girl with short brown hair, a white cat, blue dragon, a boy, a duck, a dog, and the boy from her first vision here. She smiles as she lets go of his hand.
"Who knows maybe we'll meet again." Davinia said giving them a hint.
They left and went on to the next world.
