Hey guy's I'm back with chapter 10!
Yeah, I planned to post this chapter around eight hours ago, but i fell asleep while writing, so i had to finish it early in the morning.
Lets go to the shoutouts!
khheroxasora: I'm actualy playing FF7 at the moment, so i can remember all the Limit Breaks. And Cloud really has motionsickness, just like Yuffie. Only his is at first depressed by his mental problems and then because he had to concentrate on hunting down Sephiroth. He even advices Yuffie to read, so she would concentrate on it.
TerraKH: Yeah, your name didn't show up. Yep he is, and i know^^
Then let's get started with the chapter.
I don't own anything in this chapter!
After a long and hard battle, Riku fell down on his knees.
The walls of the round coliseum they fought in where torn apart and great parts of the wood around the arena were either burning or completely smashed.
On the higher, much safer, ranks of the coliseum, two persons where watching the ending of the battle between the silver haired teen and the Chocobo head.
"Looks like you won…" the red haired girl grumbled and pulled a bit of munny out of her pocket.
The brown haired boy pushed her hand away "I'm not taking your money, Kairi. It was fun enough to see Riku getting beaten up by Cloud." He said with a smile before walking down a flight of stairs that almost lead into the arena.
He jumped over the wall that separated the visitor ranks from the actual arena. Kairi jumped over it close behind him.
Sora spread his arms as he walked over to his friends "I knew you wouldn't stand a chance against Cloud!" he said with a grin on his face.
"Screw… you…" Riku groaned as he got up from the ground again.
Their surrounding started to flicker and then was replaced by the dark appearance of the simulation room.
"Why, Riku? Why?" Kairi asked in fake desperation. "I bet all my munny on you and you just lose!"
"Sorry Kairi, you get your money back. How much was it?" Riku asked and dug with his hand in his pocket.
"Two hundred." The red haired girl said without hesitation.
Sora looked shocked at Kairi, but before he could say anything, Riku handed her the money.
"Thanks for the trust in me, Kai…" Riku said and walked out of the room.
"Yeah, and thanks for your money." Kairi whispered before she left as well.
The winning of that bet left a bitter taste in Sora's mouth.
"We arrive in Olympus Coliseum in an hour. Meeting in the Command Central." Cid said over the ship's intercom.
"Then we should go there, right?" Cloud asked and left the room too.
"Yeah…" Sora said and followed Cloud.
The Command Central was filled with technical wonders. Like stations all around the wall, that showed different worlds and their status.
On the big table in the middle was a picture of the coliseum. Around that picture, much information of the world was shown and if it was in danger of being consumed by darkness.
On the table was also a steaming cup of coffee. The captain of the ship grabbed the cup and took a big sip of the hot coffee.
"So, as soon as we arrive, we prepare to have a new person on board, Right?" Cid asked after he put the cup away.
Sora nodded "Right."
"Good, then I'll send someone into the town under the coliseum to buy new food." Cid said and typed something into the table.
Sora was surprised that the table had a touch sensitive input.
"Who do you want to take with you, Sora?" Kairi, who stood right next to him, asked.
"Uhm what?" Sora asked surprised.
Riku facepalmed "Down on the world Sora…" he sighed.
"Oh! I thought we would all go down?"
Cid shrugged "I have no problem with that. Then let's make it a day off!" he announced and then pressed a button on the table "Here's the Captain. You all get a day off as soon as we arrive in Olympus Coliseum."
The crewmen around them started to cheer.
"Wow, I never thought I would see how the great captain Cid gives his crew a day off. Except he expected them to die soon…" Cloud said only to be grabbed by the ear and pulled over to Cid's mouth.
"Don't be too funny Cloud…" Cid warned him.
Half an hour later, the Shera reached its destination.
"So, how do we go down there?" Riku asked Sora ask they reached the hangar of the Shera.
"On the Highwind, we either landed or jumped down. And for places like Atlantica we had a special teleporter, but that thing needed a massive amount of energy." Sora explained.
"So what? Do you want to jump out of the ship?" Riku asked surprised.
"Uhm… why not?" Sora asked back and summoned his armor.
"'Cause you'd end as a red splat on the ground if you do it, dumbass." Cid said, smacking Sora on the head.
Sora rubbed the part Cid hit "Ow! And how do we get down?" he asked.
Cid walked over to a case and pulled a few backpacks out of it.
"For this time, with these." He said and offered Sora and Cloud each one.
Cloud's face lost all color "I- I changed my mind… I'm staying on the ship." He said, panicking.
"Why not Cloud?" Aqua asked surprised.
"Yeah, don't be a chicken Cloud." Kairi teased him.
Cloud groaned and grabbed one of the parachutes "Because I don't want to throw up again…" he said angry as he put it on. "Who's first?" He asked after he finished.
Cid held out a hand with small sticks in it "The short one's first. " He said and offered Cloud to pick the first.
With a sigh, the spikey blond pulled out one of the sticks.
Cid immediately began to laugh "Looks like you got to jump first."
Cloud looked shocked at the captain of the ship, as Cid started to laugh again.
"Relax, we don't need to jump down. We use a teleporter." Cid explained and walked over to a room next to the hangar like room.
In it were a panel where easily ten people would fit on and a control central with a technician who operated it.
As all six where on the panel, Cid looked to the technician "Mr. Scott, bring us down."
The man nodded and pushed a button.
The air started to flicker and with a flash, six people stood in front of the Coliseum's gate.
Two of the walked forward and pushed the gate open.
The destroyed coliseum was completely rebuilt in all its former glory. The group entered the hall leading into the arena.
A small creature stood with the back to them and did something on his clipboard.
It was a satyr, half man, half goat.
"Ah, you're back champ. I have a new challenge for you. What do you say?" he asked without looking back.
"First of all," Sora said with a grin "look who you speaking with. And second, I'm in."
The goat man turned around.
"Sora!" he said happy "And Cloud too…" he added not too happy as he saw the swordsman.
His eyes wandered over the others and widened as he saw the blue haired woman.
"A- Aqua?" he asked surprised.
"Hey Phil." Aqua greeted smiling.
"So, about that challenge you talked about…" Sora said.
"Oh yeah, a pretty damn creepy guy appeared here a day ago and wanted to fight the next hero and or champion who arrives. Talked about his destiny or something. Pretty creepy that guy…" Phil explained to Sora.
"Sounds interesting…" Sora said and scratched his chin.
"If you want, you can fight him. Be he looks tough." Phil warned, writing something down on his clipboard.
Sora grinned wide "Sign me in!"
Kairi, Riku, Aqua and Cloud sat down on the arena's tribune while Cid tried to get some snacks. A few moments later, Cid joined them with a box filled with popcorn, hotdogs and other stuff you can normally buy.
The group didn't bother to ask where he got the food, but thankfully took it.
All around them, the crew of the Shera gathered to watch the fight to watch the fight between their new commander, like many crew man say to Sora much to Cid's dislike, and the mysterious guy Phil talked about.
On the other half of the arena was almost the whole city of Athena that laid beneath the Coliseum.
"Now greet with me probably the biggest hero that ever fought in this coliseum. The undefeated Sora!" Phil announced Sora.
To the cheering of the whole arena, he entered the coliseum in his new red and black armor, but without a helmet.
Phil didn't announce Sora's opponent, probably because he didn't knew his name.
A red drop fell from the sky and landed in the sand. The red liquid quickly started to spread, while slowly spinning around itself.
Out of the red liquid came a figure that almost resembled a human, pulling the liquid like a cape in the air.
The liquid became solid, and spread into two torn apart, cape like wings. The man who the wings belonged to, wore completely black, with the exception of a red bandana around his head to hold back the long black hair.
The man's orange-golden eyes seemed to pierce right through Sora's heart and send shivers down his spine.
The wings folded again and a part surrounded the man's shoulders. At the spot they touched, two black belts appeared to hold the leathery wings together. As the belts closed, the wings went completely limp and were like normal leather.
A force field appeared around the battle ground.
The black haired man had an extremely dark aura surrounding him.
(Forze del male, Kingdom Hearts)
He extended his arm in Sora's direction and with a flash of darkness, a big three barreled revolver appeared in his hand. Sora had a bad feeling and summoned his Oblivion in the moment the man fired his gun.
He somehow managed to block two of the bullets, but the third hit him into the shoulder. The force of the impact made Sora turn a bit to the side.
The man lowered his gun a bit and watched Sora emotionless.
"You need all the speed you can effort." Roxas reminded him.
Sora readied himself to block or dodge the attack the man would soon launch at him.
Within the blink of an eye, the man lifted his gun again and fired at Sora, who quickly dodged the bullets. They were vaporized by the force field.
The man continued to fire at Sora, who barely managed to dodge all of the attacks.
As the man stopped and reloaded, Sora took his chance and leaped at him. But before he even reached him, the man fired his gun right into Sora's stomach.
The armor resisted the bullets, but the force sent Sora crashing into the force field.
As he came up to his feet again, the man pointed his gun at him.
"Oh Shit! Reflect!" Sora yelled in the moment the gunman pulled the trigger. A millisecond after the Reflect appeared, the bullets hit it and where returned to the sender. With a wave of his hand, the man made the bullets disappear, but also gave Sora time to storm forward and hit him.
He landed a hit on the man's side, and made him jump a few feet away.
While jumping, the man fired all of his remaining bullets at Sora and reloaded as soon as he landed.
"Six shots! His gun has six shots!" Roxas said happy in Sora's mind.
"Thanks, I can't count that high…" Sora thought.
The man fired again at Sora, who immediately dodged the bullets. This continued five times, until the man had to reload and Sora stood right in front of him.
He kicked the feet of the man away under him and made him fall to the ground.
Sora pointed Oblivion at him, the teeth of it pressing against the man's throat.
(End Forze del male)
"You… are pretty strong…" he said breathing heavy. Only now he realized the pain in his left arm. It was probably broken by the force of a bullet that hit his arm.
The man nodded and didn't move, waiting for Sora to end the fight once and for all.
But Sora thought different and dismissed Oblivion to offer the man a hand.
The man looked surprised, but accepted Sora's offer.
"Ha! I knew he couldn't beat Chaos!" a hooded woman said to her also hooded companion.
"He only spared him… The boy defeated Chaos…" the hooded man replied with his deep voice.
"Oh, I forgot he defeated you. He probably defeated Chaos, hire of Darkness, too. Because the boy defeated the oh-so-mighty Xemnas after all!" the woman said sarcastic.
The man ignored the comment of his companion and looked over to Sora's friends.
He saw an older blond male he didn't recognize, Cloud who killed one of his henchmen as a teen, Riku, who defeated him together with Sora, Kairi, the Princess of Heart and a blue haired woman.
Xemnas couldn't describe it, but his heart, that Xehanort gave him, skipped a beat. Somewhere deep down in him was something that made him desire to be close to that young woman.
He suddenly knew the woman's name "Aqua…" he whispered.
"Did you say something?" the hooded woman asked.
Xemnas looked to her "No, let's head back." He said and summoned a Corridor of Darkness.
The woman walked through first. Before he walked through as well, Xemnas looked back at the woman, who looked up in the same moment and their eyes probably met.
Xemnas quickly turned around and entered the Corridor of Darkness.
Aqua watched the battle between Sora and the creepy man very interested. She was surprised how easily Sora dodged the bullets the man fired at him. It reminded her a bit of Ventus.
She was also surprised as Sora dismissed his Keyblade and offered the man a hand to help him up.
Somehow, Aqua suddenly felt as she was watched. She looked around and suddenly spotted a person in a black coat watching her. The person immediately turned around and disappeared in a Corridor of Darkness.
"Uhm guys…"
So, yeah... I was too lazy to write the fight between Riku and Cloud, so i only wrote the ending of it. I hope you liked it anyway.
How was the other fight in the arena?
Hope you all liked it!
Till then!