Me: I really loved writing this chapter!
Sora: Questions and answer time!
Me: I won't be adding any extra worlds in this story but I most likely will when I write Kingdom Hearts II. However, there are a few surprises that I will have in this story regarding characters who may or may not have lost their worlds and make surprise appearances. If anybody has certain requests, just ask and I'll see what I can do.
Olympus Coliseum:
"We're here." Donald announced, stopping the ship and unbuckling his belt. "Remember, say nothing that we come off-world, got it?"
"Yep!" Sora grinned, placing her hands behind her head as she followed Donald and Goofy out the ship and passed through a huge light brown door (it looked like it reached the sky!).
Her mouth dropped open as she saw two huge statues in either side of another door further on. They seemed to be in some kind of rectangular clearing , with pillars on Sora's far left and far right. There seemed to be some kind of huge coliseum passed the doors north of Sora.
Sora's head was turning left and right at speeds so fast, she could hear the distinct whoosh as she turned her neck to get a good look at everything. Her excitement was also fuelled by the sun shining down brightly, giving Sora the sunlight she craved that Traverse Town didn't have.
It reminded her of home.
"What're those?" Sora asked, looking at the wall behind her to her left and seeing a blackboard with a whole bunch of names. "Olympus Coliseum Competitors?"
"Yep." Goofy smiled. "Garwsh, maybe we should try to get our names up there?"
"Hehe, that would be awesome!" Sora grinned back even as Donald had stars in his eyes as he eagerly rubbed his hands together.
"And we'd probably win a trophy or maybe even some money! Wak, wak, wak!" Donald laughed.
"Well, let's go!" Sora said eagerly, already running inside the next set of doors (all the while looking awestruck at the huge statues). "I'm going to get super strong and kick Riku's butt! I'll show him that I can beat him!"
"Hey, wait for me!" Donald grinned as they all caught up to her and she shot them a smile.
"Garwsh, you and this Riku fellow sound close." Goofy smiled and Sora grinned (she had decided to wait for them at the doors-a case of nervousness washing over her).
"Yep! We're best friends!" Sora smiled as she opened the doors and walked in to reveal a smaller room with trophies behind a glass counter on either side of them and a huge block at the side looking much out of place but much too heavy to move. "Me, Riku and Kairi! Riku and I always compete and stuff and Kairi's the judge! Kairi's really smart too! But he's always nagging us to do our homework…"
"Hyuk!" Goofy laughed. "I think I'd like to meet your friends, Sora!"
Sora grinned back even as Donald rolled his eyes and shoved them forward. "That's great. Now let's go and start your training, Sora!"
Sora shared a small grin with Goofy before going up to the…weird half-human, half goat man who had a tail (the goat half of his body was covered in red fur). He was looking down at a paper with his back to the three arrivals, too occupied with what was written down.
"Um…" Sora began but the man stopped her before she could actually continue, putting his hand up and pointing towards the huge block while still scanning the page in his hand.
"Perfect timing. Can you move that block out of the way?" he asked and Sora looked at Donald, who seemed equally as surprised.
"Err…I guess…" Sora muttered as Donald nodded to her silently while mouthing 'this must be part of your training'.
Does…Does he really expect me to move it! It must way tonnes! And who asks some random stranger to move tonnes of blocks?! Hmm…Other worlds are pretty weird…BUT! I will never give up on a challenge….Never…
Frowning a bit, Sora gritted her teeth and started to push the block for the second time….
And again…
And again…
She felt her body moving downwards and grinned as she realised she had moved it…only to sweat drop as she realised the block hadn't even budged and she had just been losing her grip, pushing herself away from the block instead.
Donald rolled his eyes and shooed her out of the way, ruffling his tail feathers before giving a huge run and slamming into the block to try and force it to move.
He only ended up with a flattened beak.
"Ow…" Donald winced, rubbing his beak as Sora turned to the weird half man (who was now on a stool checking out a sign on the wall).
Weird people or not, that block is too heavy!
"It's way too heavy!" she said, a bit annoyed.
"What?!" the weird half man laughed (he was around half of Sora's height) as he turned around to reveal a red goatee on his chin. "Since when have you been such…a…Oh."
The man had originally been looking up, as if expecting somebody a lot taller than Sora. It was only then that Sora realised he must've been expecting somebody else. Because nobody normal would've been able to move that huge block.
Whoops…Well, at least I know I'm just as good as the next competitor! But I wonder who would be able to move a super heavy block…?
"Wrong guy." The half-size man (literally- he was so small!) said suddenly, a scowl coming onto his face as he put his hands on his hips. "What're you doing here, kid?"
"I'm NOT a kid!" Sora huffed, fed up with everyone assuming she was a kid just because she wasn't that tall (Riku and Kairi teased her enough about her height as it is!). "And anyway, you're the one who's smaller than me!"
"GAH!" Donald quickly launched at her, putting a hand to her mouth to shut her up. "Just ignore her! She has no manners!"
The half man scowled but accepted the apology, even as Donald continued to hang onto Sora and shut her mouth with his hands. Jumping off the stool, he started coming menacingly towards Sora (or as menacingly as he could being so small) and started speaking.
"This here's the world-famous Coliseum-heroes only." He said, emphasis on the heroes only which made Sora scowl harder and it seemed, get Donald to loosen his hold on her.
He's probably angry too!
By the look in Donald's eyes, he too knew he had been insulted in a way.
"I've got my hands full preparing for the games!" the half man said, a scowl on his face again (Riku said that if the wind changes and somebody looks like that, their faces would be stuck like that and Sora couldn't wait to see goat man's face stay like that). "So run along, pip squeaks."
This time it was Goofy who held back both Donald and Sora from launching themselves at the half man. Unable to attack the half man and show him just how much of a hero she was (she had saved lots of people from the heartless back in Traverse Town, not to mention that one time she saved a butterfly from one of the orphanage kids killing it), she settled for speaking instead.
Of course, at the moment she chose to speak that stupid short half man guy decided to cut her off at seeing her look, his scowl easing up a bit.
"Look, it's like this. Heroes from all over come here to fight ferocious monsters and win tournaments." he said and Sora felt both her eagerness and irritation at the man increase.
I can totally fight a bunch of ferocious monsters! It'll be easy!
"You've got heroes standing right in front of you." Donald hisses, his eyes red with anger.
"Heroes?" half man asked with incredulously, his eyes flickering to Sora before bursting out laughing. "That little runt?! Ha haha! No way!"
This time it took the strength of both Donald and Goofy to keep her from launching herself at the guy who dared call her a runt.
I'm the second strongest on my island! How dare he call me weak!
Testament to her strength, she had nearly succeeded in throwing both Donald and Goofy's grips off of her with just physical force. Of course, what fuelled her strength was the half man going to the pillar and laughing harder.
"If you can't even move this…" he laughed, pushing against the block with all his strength but not even causing it to move a bunch. "If you can't even…Hah…hah…You can't…ha….call yourself a hero…hah…."
Sora stopped struggling as she saw the half man was already starting to get tired. A smirk found its way onto her lips as she folded her arms and waited patiently for the half man to give up and admit the block was too heavy to push.
"Okay…" he huffed, getting up (he had a short break resting on the ground for a few seconds) and glaring at her (though it wasn't as heated as before). "So it takes more than brawn. Well, well, let's see what you can do!"
Sora grinned, smiling at both Donald and Goofy who smiled back.
"The name's Phil. When you're ready, come through here for some training." Phil said, taking his notepad and walking through the door to (most likely) the arena.
Sora lost her smile at hearing she had to train to prove she was a hero. Couldn't Phil already see she was one?!
"Grrrr…" Sora glared at the retreating form of Phil who still refused to even consider they were heroes.
"Come on!" Goofy smiled. "If it's training for heroes, it should be easy! After all, we are heroes! Hyuk!"
"Hmm…" Sora shrugged (she wasn't built to hold a grudge and she could kind of get why he was grumpy-he was preparing for the games and it seemed he was alone so he must've been tired). "Alright! We'll just prove we're heroes to him!"
What proceeded for the next few hours was a bunch of obstacle courses (breaking barrels, running laps, swimming (where did he get the pool anyway?), sprinting up hills with a huge rock tied to their backs…Laughing and cheering each other on as they raced each other to carry more or complete the training the quickest.
Anyhow, when they were finally done, Sora, Donald and Goofy dropped down to the ground in an exhausted heap in the middle of the arena, too tired to go back into the tournament room to rest.
"H-How…W-was…that?" Sora huffed out, face red from extortion.
"Not bad." Phil admitted, writing something on his clipboard. "You're better than I expected."
"Really?!" Sora shot up, excitement plastered on her face before she groaned at moving her overworked muscles too much. "Oww…Anyway, at least we're heading for the games, huh?!"
Donald and Goofy nodded, ear splitting smiles across their faces too.
Look out Riku! I am so going to be stronger for our next rematch!
"Even though we're wasting time, training before and during the match is worth it!" Donald smiled but Sora sweat dropped.
I'm pretty sure you're just wanting to participate in the games to win, not to train…But then again….So do I!
"Games? I'm afraid not." Phil scowled again. "You guys ain't heroes. If you want to compete, show me your entry ticket! Until then, master this spell to start to be a real hero. Now just go home, kid!"
Sora's mouth dropped open as Phil dismissed them and luckily Donald and Goofy had quick thinking to grab her before she killed Phil.
He didn't warn us about needing a ticket! He led us up to believe if we trained, we could enter! AND then he calls me 'kid' again! GRRAAAAA! I'm going to show him what it means to be a true hero!
"Come on Sora, let's just go." Donald huffed angrily, dragging the still angry teen outside as he put the thunder spell book in his bag.
"Stupid old goat-man!" Sora huffed, wincing as her she moved her muscles too much again. "So he trained us for nothing…?"
"Gee, well. Technically he said he wanted to see what we could do." Goofy said lightly. "He never said we'd actually enter the tournament. Besides, we only came here to train so you could get used to fighting with your keyblade, Sora."
Sora sighed and looked at Donald who shared her disappointment. She was truthfully looking forward to entering the preliminaries because that meant she could train more and fight stronger people, as well as see how much she improved.
And it gives me a chance to brag to Riku and Kairi, and maybe even become strong enough to defeat Riku when we have our next rematch! Oh well, I'll just have to train with the heartless! There's plenty of them around in Traverse Town…But still…
"Stupid Phil…" Sora muttered as they walked out into the coliseum square to head back to the gummi ship and go home (their training had went on for the whole day and they were pretty tired).
"Ah. Rather a stubborn old goat, wouldn't you say?"
The trio turned around to stare at the person who had spoken suddenly. He was a weird person with blue flames for hair, blue skin and a weird black robe. He smiled at them, revealing sharp and pointed teeth like a shark.
"Who are you?!" Donald squawked, eyes narrowed as he held his staff up at the person (who still seemed utterly relaxed).
"Whoa, hold on there. Wait, let me guess?" he chuckled, coming towards them. "You want to enter the games, right?"
Sora nodded, staring glumly back at the ground at being reminded she couldn't enter. Putting a hand on her shoulder, the guy waved his other hand near her face.
"Well, get a load of this." He said, just as an entry pass to the games appeared in his hands.
Impossible…
Yet…
It was right there…
In front of her face…
"A pass?" Sora gasped, feeling excitement as she looked at the guy in hope.
"It's all yours. Good luck kid." He said, much to Sora's slight dismay (she wasn't a kid) but she let it pass because she was entering the games. "I'm rooting for you, little shorty."
"YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!" Sora laughed, fist pumping and joining hands with Donald and Goofy as they spun in a circle cheering (well, Donald and Sora were-Goofy seemed more inclined to just go with the flow).
We're so going to show Phil that we're awesome and true heroes!...And maybe I'll brag to Riku later…
-With Phil-
"Where did you get that?" Phil asked, eyeing the pass as if it might be fake.
Hah! Bet you didn't think we could enter the games! This is what you get for thinking we couldn't enter! We'll prove to you that we can beat everyone!
"Can we enter the games now?" Sora asked eagerly, bouncing from one foot to the other she was so excited, her short and spiky brown hair flopping around on her head.
He cast a suspicious glance at them before nodding. "…I guess so. We start with the preliminaries tomorrow. Come bright and early. Get enough rest-you'd done your training for today."
With that out of the way, Sora, Donald and Goofy made their way to the gummi ship to head back to Traverse Town to sleep for the night and get enough rest for tomorrow's preliminary tournament.
Me: So Sora's not suspicious at all about some random stranger giving her a ticket, huh?
Sora: S-shut up!
Me: Find out what happens next time on Singdom Farts!
Kairi: ...That was the worst joke eve-
Me: ...Shut up Kairi.