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In The Underworld

After a conversation with King Triton Sora and his friends swam back to the Gummi Ship. They turned back after boarding the Ship. Selphie immediately ran to her seat. Sora, Donald, Goofy, Kairi, Tidus and Wakka quickly hold somewhere before the girl in yellow could do something. Irvine sat next to Selphie already. The engine came to life after a few seconds and the ship blasted off. Sora and his friends sat down in the cosy seats after the start off. It was late, so they just sat there, relaxing and covering themselves with a blanket. The Key Bearer, Donald and Goofy fell asleep right away. Wakka and Tidus talked about their favorite topic, Blitzball, while Kairi read an old comic.

The Gummi Ship came in to a land the next morning, after Selphie flew all night. Irvine fell asleep a few hours ago. To be precise, the cowboy fell asleep immediately after sitting down. Everyone woke up after the Gummi Ship stopped. Selphie stood up.

"I go sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep", she said, hardly stiffling her yawn. "I'll come after you."

"Alright", Kairi said. "We'll take a look around here."

"I'll stay with her", Irvine said. "We'll come after you."

The others nodded and left them. They saw a giant coliseum with two statues, crossing their swords, just outside the Ship. Between the statues, just underneath the crossing swords was a door.

"Well, if this isn't Olympus Coliseum", Jiminy, who sat on Sora's head, said. He was the chronicler of the journey, under orders of Queen Minnie, just like he was in the previous the adventures. The cricket was always in the background but he did his job.

"Looks like Hercules managed to rebuild to Coliseum", Goofy said.

"Rebuild?", Tidus repeated.

"The Coliseum was destroyed?", Wakka asked. Sora nodded and told them about the Coliseum's destruction by the Hydra and Hercules' loss of self confidence which he got back when Megara, or Meg for short, was in danger.

They entered the Coliseum after Sora finished telling the story. There was a little, fat man with the abdomen and horns of a goat. He sat on a bench, his back directed to the friends and he read a scroll. Donald silently instructed the others to be quiet. Then the duck tiptoed to the satyr and shouted very loud. This caused the satyr to jerk and to loose the scroll. After he recovered, he turned around to see a laughing Donald. The Royal Court Magician rolled on the floor laughing and hammered his hands with his eyes closed on the floor. In the meantime the satyr has noticed the others. They waved at him and the satyr, Philoctetes, or Phil for short, waved back. Then he tiptoed to the behind of Donald, who was still laughing, and kicked his butt which caused Donald to fall on the bench and then the bench to fall over. Donald's friend snickered while he got up. He jumped angrily around, quacking some unintelligible words.

After a while everyone calmed down and Phil arranged the bench the way it was before with Wakka's help. He, Tidus and Kairi introduced themselves.

"Say, Phil, what's this?", Sora asked, picking up the scroll.

"A message from Herc", Phil said while Kairi read the letter over Sora's shoulder. "Hades had kidnapped Meg again and Herc went to rescue her."

The satyr sat down with a sigh.

"He's been gone for too long and I don't know wha- Wait a minute, YOU could go look for him!", Phil suggested. Without waiting for an answer he pushed the friends out of the building.

"And come back after you found those two!", he shouted after them before disappearing. With a sigh Sora led his friends to the gate on the other side of the field, the gate to the Underworld.

"Remind to kill that little fatty", the Key Bearer murmured.

"What fatty?", the curious, childish voice of Selphie asked. She and Irvine had come from the Gummi Ship to them. Both looked at their friends with a curious expression. Goofy came forward and explained everything, while continuing. The dog finished telling them everything just as they arrived at the gate of the Underworld.

"Let's go", Sora said and went through the gate to the Underworld, followed by his friends.

"You can easily get lost here", Sora warned his friends. "Better stay near me, Donald and Goofy."

They continued. Soon they found a hologram of a Moogle. Goofy went to the Moogle and bought some Potions and Hi-Potions. He packed them and the friends continued their journey to the Underworld.

Rinoa attacked Riku with her pinwheel. He dodged but not fast enough. So the pinwheel briefly touched his shoulder. The weapon returned to Rinoa and the silver haired teenager looked at her impressed.

"Wow, you have really improved your strength", he commented.

You really think so?, Rinoa asked modestly.

"Sure, no one, who wasn't an experienced fighter, managed to hit me while I dodged before."

Rinoa could not help herself and began to smile proudly. She had managed to hit a strong and fast fighter, even though she just recently arrived in Radiant Garden. Both packed their weapons and went to the Borough. On their way Rinoa oticed how much they rebuilt the town every day. There were now tenements and a library, too. Right now they were building a school which was almost finished. Over time everyone from the Restoration Committee moved onto a house of their own. Rinoa stood in front of her house. It was a little house with a little front garden. She said good bye to Riku and entered her house. Rinoa went to her room and put her pinwheel away. Then she went to the bath room to take a shower.

Later, after the shower and getting dressed, she heard a knock on the door. She went to the door and opened to see Yuffie.

"Oh, hello", Rinoa greeted her friend.

"Hey, Rinny, wanna take a walk?", he lively girl asked. Her best friend nodded and together they were on their way.

After walking for some time they decided to eat an ice cream. So they went to the café that Scrooge has opened recently.

"Hey, Rinny, you still owe me money for the ice cream I spent on you", Yuffie said.

"Oh, right. How about I spend an ice cream on you?", Rinoa offered which the female ninja accepted. Rinoa bought two sea salt ice creams and gave one to Yuffie.

"So? Is there something going on between you and Leon?", a grinning Yuffie suddenly asked.

"What are you talking about?", Rinoa asked confused.

"You like him, don't you?"

Rinoa looked down with a red face before nodding. Yuffie grinned and then continued to eat her ice cream. Well, she wanted to but when she looked, it was not there anymore. She turned around with a horrified expression and saw three fairies flying away with her ice cream. Angrily the ninja jumped up and followed them. But Rinoa just remained on her seat and laughed.

In the meantime Sora's team were near Hades' Chamber. They just had to go through the Valley of the Dead and then the would be there. So the friends followed the path, fighting Minute Bombs and Driller Moles on the way. Soon they reached at the end of the path. Sora took a deep breath and opened the door. But who did they find in the chamber? No one! Neither Hades nor his lackeys or Hercules or Meg.

"Weird, there's no one here", Sora said.

"Hm, buuut you saaaaid they have to be heeeeeere", Selphie said while looking around.

"Maybe they're gone?", Tidus guessed.

"I think we should-", but Kairi could never finish her sentence. Suddenly the earth quaked and everyone fell down. They could ot see anything thanks to the smoke. After the smoke cleared they were at a different place. This place was arena. There was a big figure on a stage. On his left and on his right were two other figures.

"Ladies anbd Gentlemen, welcome to the tournament in the Underdrome!", Hades, who stood in the center of the stage, said. "Our participants are the Key Boy and his friends against the Heartless and Nobodies!"

The enemies appeared after the Lord of the Dead finished talking. There were some Snipers, Dragoons, Dancers, Rabid Dogs, Trick Ghosts, Air Pirates, two Large Bodies and two Hot Rods. They attacked the friends without any hesitance. Two Dancers grabbed Tidus and Irvine and tossed them around. But they were saved by Wakka, who hit one Dancer with his Blitzball, and by Goofy, who drove against the other one. The two Dancers let go of the boys and they took revenge by attacking those Nobodies with the sword and rifle. Soon they defeated one Dancer and Tidus and Irvine started to take down the other one. Wakka meanwhile fought against the Air Pirates. The fist of one Air Pirate glowed and he flew to the boy, ready to attack the boy. But he dodged and attacked the Heartless with his Blitzball. The Air Pirate fell down and Wakka picked up his ball before attacking the enemy. Thus he did not notice that another Air Pirate was ready to attack him from behind. Luckily Selphie finished the Heartless off before it could do something. Then Wakka and Selphie fought against the Air Pirates together until they defeated everyone of them. Afterwards they helped the others. The Blitzball player helped Tidus and the lively girl went to Irvine. Together those four friends fought against the Dancers and Dragoons. Sora, Donald and Goof fought against the Snipers.

After some time they had defeated every Nobody and now there were only the Heartless left. The Rabid Dogs and the Trick Ghosts were gone in no time but the Large Bodies and the Hot Rods were a little tougher. The friends attacked the car-like Heartless together but they lost their temper and sped through the arena, injuring the girls, Goofy and Irvine in the process. They got up, except for Goofy who was too weak. Without any hesitance Kairi took out a Potion to heal Goofy. The dog stood up with new energy. He saw a Hot Rod coming his way. Sora appeared behind him and shouted

"Teamwork!"

Then the two friends attacked the Heartless until they defeated it. Afterwards they, along with Kairi and Tidus, fought against a Large Body, while Donald fought the remaining Hot Rod with Magic. Irvine and Wakka helped the duck by attacking the Heartless from afar, with Selphie attacking it from close up. Soon this Hot Rod was gone, too. Then they helped fighting the Large Body, which they defeated soon. Hades got really mad as a result. He turned red and threw some fireballs at the friends. They dodged them, which mad the Lord of The Dead even madder. Suddenly, he disappeared from his place only to reappear in the arena. He attacked the friends once before he surrounded himself with a pillar made of fire.

"Kairi, you take Selphie and free Hercules and Meg", Sora whispered to his friend. The red haired girl nodded and went with Selphie to the prisoners.

"I'll help them", Tidus said and followed them. He was scarcely away when the flame pillar disappeared and the now invincible Hades continued to attack. All they could do now, was dodging, since they could not damage him.

Meanwhile, Kairi, Selphie and Tidus had less problems. They ran as fast as they could to the place whre Hercules and Meg were located. The threesome were almost there when they noticed Pain and Panic standing off the road. But, luckily, they were too busy watching the fight that they did not notice everything behind them. So the threesome tiptoed their way to Hercules.

It did not take long to arrive at the place were the two prisoners were but Dusks, Assassins, Shadows and Trick Ghosts suddenly appeared. The three friends immediately grabbed their weapons to fight against the enemies. Together, the girls defeated the Trick Ghosts, while Tidus fought against the Shadows. Soon they were defeated and the friends fought against the Nobodies, which were defeated soon after. If there was one thing they learned in the short amount of time, then it was to look around after the enemies disapperad. After all, you never know. They breathed a sigh of relief, while putting their weapons away. When Kairi turned around, she was surprised to see that the prisoners were not kept imprisoned.

"Thank you for saving us", Hercules said.

"But how did you get outta there?", a very confused Tidus asked.

"No time to explain", the hero said. "We have to hurry if we want to help the others."

Kairi, Selphie and Tidus nodded and the five ran off to the others.

In the meantime the boys were still busy dodging Hades' fire balls.

"I don't think I can hold on much longer anymore", an exhausted Irvine said.

"I sure hope the others have rescued Hercules and Meg", Goofy replied. Wakka, who just jumped so that the fire ball could not hit him, saw his his three friends arrving with Hercules and Meg in tow.

"They have!", he said cheerily. Everyone, including Hades, looked to where Wakka was looking and saw the five people. Kairi and Tidus waved and them while Selphie bounced happily. The other two just smiled. But Hades was not happy at all. He screamed in fury, drawing everyone's attention to him. Without hesitation, Hercules, Tidus, Kairi and Selphie ran to the others.

"Attack with Blizzard, he's immune to Fire", Sora explained to his friends who nodded. Meanwhile, Hercules had summoned some green sphere around him. Sora shot one at Hades, shouting "Aura Sphere!"

Shortly afterwards they heard an "ow" and Hades was blue again. Irvine immediately shot at him and Wakka attacked with his Blitzball while the girls and Donald were using Blizzarga. Goofy, Sora and Tidus attacked the Lord of the Underworld in close combat. Some time passed and Hades screamed in fury, again. The three friends jumped back in shock and Hades was surrounded by the fire pillar once more. The fire pillar disappeared and Hades was once again red. He spread his arms which ignited and slowly rotated, damaging everyone in his range. Afterwards Sora and Goofy sat on the floor, having nearly no energy left.

"Here!", Tidus said and gave each of them a potion. Both, being healed completely, stood up and thank their friend. Now there were some new Aura-Sphere scattered around. The Key Bearer shot one in Hades' direction but missed. So he tried again and and this time he hit his target.

"Now!", he shouted and he, Donald and the girls used Blizzard in Hades. The very exhausted Hades stumbled back and his henchmen Pain and Panic ran over to him. With all that distraction, the friends could escape from the Underworld.

Soon the party came to the Coliseum, being greeted immediately by Phil. Of course he wanted to know what happened, so Hercules explained everything:

"Well, Hades had kidnapped Meg and I went to the Underworld to rescue her. When I found her, I accidently triggered a trap and got in a magical cage that I couldn't escape from. The only way to get out was to defeat the Heartless and Nobodies that watched us but they were too far away."

"Fortunately the two girls and the boy arrived and finished them off", Meg added before looking at Irvine, Kairi, Selphie, Tidus und Wakka: "By the way, who are you?"

"I'm Kairi and those are Irvine, Selphie, Tidus and Waakka", the redhead said, pointing everytime she said a name of a friend to the owner of the name.

"Nice meeting you all", Meg said. But Phil just looked confused which Hercules seemed to notice:

"What's the matter, Phil?"

"Well, when I sent Sora and his friends to the Underworld weren't Selphie and Irvine with them", the satyr replied.

"Selphie was resting at that time and Irvine was with her to look after her", Sora explained before getting ready to leave. "Gotta go, see ya."

And so the friends left the world after saying good bye.