Cloud is the first to make his move. He pulls his blade back and thrusts it forward as he rushes Aimala. Aimala dodges to the right and points the staff towards cloud. She yells "Fire" and shoots a large fireball from the tip. Cloud block that attack with his blade. He then goes to strike Aimala slashing at her. Aimala shouts "Blizzard" and shoots ice towards Cloud. She then shouts "Freeze" and clouds sword is trapped on the ground by an ice block. She aims her staff at the sky and yells "Thunder" suddenly a cloud forms over Cloud and lightning strikes down hitting cloud. Cloud is still on his feet after that attack. She twirls her staff in the air and yells "Thundera." An even bigger cloud forms over cloud. Just before the lightning could come down and strike Cloud. Cloud uses his left hand that had a small claw connected to it to break the ice holding his sword on the ground. He then jumped backwards dodging the strike. He lifts the sword in the air and slams it to the ground. An energy wave comes out of his sword heading straight towards Aimala. Aimala yells "Shell" and forms a magic barrier in front of her. The wave of energy, however, breaks through the barrier and strikes Aimala knocking her to the ground. A little staggered, she picks herself back up. She then points her staff towards Cloud and yells "Zero Gravity." A black energy flashes on the tip of Aimala's staff before disappearing in the blink of an eye. Cloud suddenly finds himself floating in the middle of the air. Aimala smiles and then yells "Fira" causing an even larger fireball to shoot out of her staff." Cloud suddenly grows a small wing out his left shoulder blade. He uses this wing to dodge the attack. And then flies towards Aimala. Aimala quickly yells "Wall" surrounding her entire body in a small orb barrier. Cloud proceeds to strike the orb and it to rise in the air with Aimala still inside. Cloud then uses a fury of strikes while the orb is still in the air breaking apart bit by bit. The orb then breaks and cloud goes to attack Aimala who was now defenseless in the air. Aimala then removes her cloak and spreads out her wings just barely dodging cloud's strike. Cloud was shocked by this. At that moment, Aimala charges at cloud with the tip of her staff glowing. Cloud does the same with his sword. The two clash and a huge explosion triggers in the sky. Both Aimala and cloud fall to the ground. Cloud is able to pull himself up and stand on his feet. Aimala struggles as she was blown back pretty hard from that attack. Cloud walks up to Aimala and offers a hand to help her up. Aimala takes the hand and Cloud helps her up.
"Not bad at all" said Cloud
"You're pretty strong yourself" said Aimala "I'm surprised you broke through my shell barrier with your energy attack. My shell barrier reflects all magic attacks back but it didn't affect yours."
"My blade beam isn't a magic attack it's an energy wave emitted from the force of my sword. It's almost impossible to counter."
"I see"
Cloud takes a look at Aimala's wings. "Were you born with those wings?"
"Yes I was"
"Do you know a man named Sephiroth?"
"Never heard that name before."
"Your wings remind me of him. They are very similar."
Hades walks up to Cloud and Aimala. "Alright that's enough you too" said Hades "We need to get you both ready for the games. They take place two days from now. It's important to get your teamwork down pack."
"Two days to get teamwork down pack?" said Aimala
"Don't worry" said Hades "Two days is plenty of time to master teamwork I even have the perfect spot." Hades snaps his fingers and the three of them disappear in smoke. They all reappear in a black corridor with a bunch of ghost looking creatures wandering around. Heartless suddenly start forming. Aimala gets out her staff and cloud draws his sword. Aimala aims at a shadow heartless and yells "Fira" a fireball launches out the staff but for some reason was smaller and weaker than it was previously. The shadow heartless walks through the fireball.
"What the hell's going on?" said Aimala
"In the underworld, your powers are severely weakened. Same with your strength" said Hades "This will force you two to work together."
Hades then snaps his fingers and disappears leaving Cloud and Aimala to battle heartless by themselves. Cloud steps in front of Aimala and strikes one of the heartless. Two more jump up and attack. Clout strikes them two but one manages to injure him. Cloud drops to one knee and heartless start to swarm him. Aimala uses Blizzard to strike the heartless and then says "Deep Freeze" to freeze all the heartless in place. She then yells "Heal" and a green aura surrounds Cloud. The feels refreshed and the pain he felt was gone. He then spins around striking all the frozen heartless at once breaking them all to pieces.
"Thanks" said Cloud
"Don't thank me yet" said Aimala "Hades won't get us until we get teamwork down pack."
The two of them continue fighting none stop, constantly battling heartless. Two days past as they fight the endless horde. Hades then appears suddenly and the heartless disappear.
"Looks like you guys are ready for the games" said Hades
"Took you long enough" said Cloud
"Is that how you thank me after bringing you here to the underworld and letting you train?" said Hades
"Don't mind him" said Aimala "I'm shocked we've been here for so long."
"Don't be two days of non stop fighting in order to force teamwork is perfect" said Hades
"Two days? We've been fighting for TWO DAYS?!" said Aimala
"Yeah and it gets even better" said Hades "Sora just arrived here a couple minutes ago."
"It took him two days to get here?"
"Actually he went to another world after leaving the one you found the princess in. He managed the find the keyhole in both worlds and sealed them."
"What does that mean?"
"In other words, we can't take over those worlds."
"Great what do we do now?"
"Simple we take him out."
