Everyone has seen through the eyes of Sora. The Keyblade's ultimate Wielder. It's okay to love a princess of the heart. It's easy, it's understandable. But how is it to see through the eyes of someone who can't possibly be loved in return?

fire spirit: I'm glad we think the same thing! Doesn't Xaldin look like a gorilla woman?

jackie: Thank you!

squirrelluvr8: Thank you also for the compliment, and better yet, the muffins! How did you know I loved them? My preferred flavor is banana, by the way. :)

kingdom219: I'll keep going, thank you for the encouragement.

Page-Chan: Speaking of sideburns, have you seen the ones of everyone from Clamp School Detectives? Wow. Except, y'know. They don't look like gorilla women.

Angel of Blacksouls: Here's the update!

I love you all. No, seriously. I'm hungry though, so I'm gonna leave you guys here to do your thing so I can eat my muffin.

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"I wonder what's up," Sora said to himself as we walked to Merlin's house. "Maybe big sister wanted something for us to-" I stopped as Soldiers danced(they always looked like they did) out of Merlin's house, then disappeared. Sora had a worried look on his face(we all did) as he took his Keyblade out. "C'mon!" We ran into Merlin's house, to see him groaning. "Well, now.." He looked to us. "Took your time, did you?" "Oh, was it you who summoned us, Merlin?" Goofy asked. "Yes, yes.. But it seems I used too much power in doing so, and those infernal Heartless.." "So what's up?" Sora asked, not really wanting to hear Merlin rant about Heartless all day long. "Well, I happened to stumble upon this in the Zero District. A book popped up on Merlin's hand, and on the cover page were me and Sora with our backs turned, holding a little stuffed bear's hands. Sora and I beamed at this. "Pooh's storybook!"

"That's right! I know you're good friends of Winnie the Pooh, the two of you- that's why I summoned you. And when I did, I was attacked by the Heartless. Of course, I fought back with rather powerful magic, but then I began to fear the book would be damaged, so I.." Merlin stopped. "Now just a moment. Leon and the others need to hear this too. I-I'd better go find them. Be back in a jiffy." He poofed away. "I wonder how Pooh's doing?" Sora asked. "Wanna find out?" Donald asked. "You bet!" I replied excitedly, and Sora and I positioned ourselves in front of the open book being held by Donald and Goofy. "Cover for us, okay?" The two nodded, and we jumped into the book.

Pooh's house popped up on the book and we walked towards it. "I wonder if Pooh's home." "I hope so!" I smiled, thinking of our last 'adventure' with Pooh. Sora and I beamed as we saw the little stuffed bear sitting on the log outside his house, in his thinking stance. He seemed to notice us as he stopped 'thinking' and waved. "Hey little guy! We missed you!" I reached down to pick him up and hugged him. Pooh didn't mind, and Sora laughed at Pooh with a wave. "Hey, Pooh bear! How you doing? Find enough honey lately?" Pooh smiled at the both of us as I put him down. "Oh, yes. In fact, I was justa bout to do my stoutness excercises. Would you like to join me, Kumei and Sora?" "Sure, I'm game! Sis?" Sora looked at me for my answer. I smiled, "Of course, Pooh! If it makes you happy." Pooh nodded and jumped off his log- when he was stopped in mid air. "Huh?" Sora looked at Pooh with much surprise. "Oh no," I muttered, and when Sora tried to touch Pooh, we were pushed back and out of the book.

"Sora! Kumei! Hurry up!" Donald yelled from outside. What happened? "They must be in trouble!" Sora replied to what he knew I was thinking, and with a nod I followed him out of the house. We found Donald and Goofy fighting with Heartless, as expected. Goofy looked at us in the midst of flinging his shield at one of the Heartless. "Did ya bring the book, guys?" He asked. Sora and I looked at each other with gasps as we looked to the door- the Soldiers were making away with the book! "Hey!" Sora yelled after them. "Give that back!" Donald followed. We ran after the Heartless, and after beating them up we got Pooh's book back. Sora looked at me with a worried look. "Do you think it's okay, sis?" I shook my head, "I don't know." "Gawrsh," Goofy said as we walked back to Merlin's house, "Maybe ya better go back and make sure Pooh's alright." "What about Merlin?" Donald asked. Goofy shrugged. "Well I guess we should explain."

"Pooh!" Sora and I called as we ran to his house. He was sitting on his log again. "You're okay!" I hugged him. Pooh looked at us. "And I'm glacd you came to visit. But you see, I was just about to begin my stoutuness excercises. Perhaps we could visit a bit later.. Somebodies-I-Don't-Know." Sora had an odd look on his face, very similar to the one on mine. "Oh.. Sure." Pooh then got off his log and started to do his excercises. "So, uh, Pooh, how're Piglet and the others?" I asked. "I don't think I know anyone by that name. Now where was I? Oh, yes. My stoutness excercises." Pooh replied, not facing us. "Pooh? Hey! Pooh?" Pooh seemed to ignore us, and Sora crossed his arms. "Something very weird is going on here." I nodded, "Absolutely. We should check it with Merlin."

We got out of the book and saw Merlin with Goofy and Donald. Merlin turned to us. "Couldn't be bothered to wait up for an old wizard, eh?" Sora and I laughed nervously, "Sorry about that, Merlin." Merlin just shook his head and asked, "How are things in there?" "Well.. Pooh seems to have forgotten all about us," Sora answered. "Yeah, Not just us. All his other friends, too!" I added. "I was afraid of that." Merlin muttered, walking towards the book. "I suspect it has something to with the pages those Heartless stole. You'll have to collect the torn pages and repair the book to put things right." I groaned inwardly. Didn't we already do that in the first adventure? Not to mention the 101 dalmatians! They were cute, and we had a dalmatian back home at Destiny Islands when I was a child(she died when Sora was three), but how could two dogs produce.. So much! Well, I continued listening to Merlin anyway. This book is one of the world's most cherished elements. I'd been meaning to tell Leon I'd found it, but perhaps we should keep it between us for now." I nodded in agreement, "Yeah, not to mention all the yelling and his prissy screaming we'd have to go through with him knowing. Right, boys?" Without thinking, they yelled, "RIGHT!" I smiled. They're my boys.

Merlin nodded. "Good, good.. Now, the book isn't all that's cherished.. This is for the both of you, Sora and Kumei." "What is it?" Sora asked. "Simply concentrate on it with all your heart, and you need only say the word to summon an ally who will help in times of need." I nodded, "Like Mushu and Simba and Dumbo(I love Dumbo!) did." Merlin nodded, "Precisely. Now go forth with your friends by your side!" Sora nodded. "Thanks, Merlin. Sis is really worried about Pooh.. So we'll be back once we've found these torn pages." Aw, Sora was the sweetest little brother ever. We entered the gummi ship, and I reviewed in my head everything Merlin told us. "Hey, you ever notice how wizards seem to like telling us to go forth?"

I can't remember what we went through to get to the Olympus Coliseum, I just know that I got through it. I had decided to be the one to drive the gummi ship today, despite the boys' protests:

"Uh.. Maybe you shouldn't drive, sis. Don't you feel sleepy? Maybe you should just sleep.."

"Gawrsh, Hakumei, Sora's right. You might fall asleep! It sure would be better that ya rest, right?"

"No way, Kumei! Your driving is horrible!"

You can guess who quacked the last one out. But I got what I wanted(meaning I got to kick them out of the control room) after telling them that there were still a few cookies given to us by Aerith in the 'living room'. Heheheh. I locked the door and the boys only seemed to realize their mistake when the gummi ship swerved left and right, going upside down and maybe even inside out because of my terrible driving. Yeah, so that's how it went. The boys ran out of the gummi ship and instantly started kissing the ground. I rolled my eyes, "Very funny, boys. Then again, I don't feel so good." I looked around. "Hmm.. This doesn't seem to be the Coliseum.." "It's that way!" Donald called our attention, pointing at some stairs leading to the light. This place certainly was dark. "Oh, I guess we were a little off." Sora shrugged. "I wonder why!" Donald muttered, looking at me. I stuck my tongue out at him and was about to retort(I swear!) when we heard a scream. I sighed. Freaky doors, freaky water, dark place. Why wasn't I surprised?

We turned around to see a woman(she looked older than 20, but not over 30) running and tripping from some Dog-looking.. "Heartless!" Sora yelled. We ran over to the woman and the Heartless ran away at the sight of us. The woman got up, refusing Sora's offer to help her up. "Thanks, but.. I'm fine." I didn't resist the urge to laugh(I had to when she tripped) as she dusted herself off. "That's certainly not what it looked like." She frowned, but then looked at us with a confused look. "Who are you supposed to be?" "I'm Sora, this is my sis, Kumei, he's Donald, and that's Goofy. We came to see how Hercules is doing." I nodded at her in acknowledgement as I was introduced, and said, "Though I bet that big lug is still bulking himself up." This seemed to perk her interest up. "You know Wonderboy?" I chuckled at the nickname. "Yeah, 'Wonderboy' owes me a good fight!" "AND we're heroes, too!" Donald added. "Hyuk! You mean junior heroes, Donald." Goofy said. The woman laughed. "Looks like we have a friend in common. Name's Megara. My friends call me Meg."

I smiled. "Okay, Meg. How's Herc?" "Wonderboy. Well, he's decking it out at the coliseum everyday." I laughed. "I should've known." Meg nodded, "Yeah. You know, 'a hero's work is never done' and all that." I knew that all too well. Meg continued. "He's ready to drop, but he keeps on fighting, something about being a worthy fight. Even Wonderboy has his limits, though. These opponents are bad news- special deliveries from Hades himself." I groaned as I seemed to do in every world. "That freakshow!" "Hades?" Donald shrieked after I did. Meg nodded, "Right. Lord of the Underworld. I was on my way to see him. Maybe I can get Hades to give Wonderboy a breather. If anything happened to that kid.." She trailed off. "Gawrsh, sounds like you're more than just friends!" I burst out laughing, "Goofy, you read my mind!" Meg turned red and muttered, "Oh- uh, I mean.." "We'll go have a little talk with Hades. I'd hate for anything to happen to you on your way to see him." Sora interrupted. "Yeah, take another step closer to that weirdo and you'll be 'fine' no more." I agreed, then grinned. "Besides, Herc wouldn't like it if you weren't fine.. If you catch my drift."

She gasped at me, and I just laughed. "Who'd you think you're kidding? He's the earth and heaven to you. Try to keep it hidden, honey, I can see right through you! Girl, ya can't conceal it, we know how you feel and who you're thinking of.." Woah! Where'd that come from? Since when did I start singing in the Underworld? To my surprise, Meg replied. "No chance, no way! I won't say it, no, no.." I grinned, "You swoon, you sigh! Why deny it, uh-oh." She sighed, "It's too cliché. I won't say I'm in love.." I smiled and put my finger to her lips. "You just did. I'd love to keep singing here but we have a bald-headed Lord of the Underworld to take care of. Take care!" I said in a breath, and the boys and I ran off. "Hey, let's keep the whole chat-with-Hades thing our little secret, okay?" She yelled after us. "Our lips are sealed!"

We entered the way to where Hades was, supposedly, and we saw a cloaked man running off. The Organization!" Donald gasped. "Could be," I nodded. "Then again, everyone has cloaks these days! I swear, we should get cloaks too, maybe then everyone would stop trying to kill us." "But then it wouldn't be an adventure." Sora pointed out. "Hmm.. Good point." After that we were pretty much just wandering around, following the map we found in this random chest. Seriously, who makes a map of the Underworld? Well, we took it how we could get it anyway, and this was where we were now. We entered a corridor, which looked like any other corridor, except for one thing- an Organization freakshow was running towards us. It couldn't be him, he doesn't run like a sissy. Only one person I knew from the Organization ran like that. We prepared our weapons, when he screamed, "Run, run away!" He stopped in front of me. "Oh, hey pretty girl!" He looked behind him, then ran off screaming again, "Run awaaaay!" Yep, that was the sissy running. We stared after him, and Sora was the first to speak. "Okaaay.." I shrugged. "I guess that works too..?"

Finally, we got to Hades' room, to find a man defending himself against the Lord of the Underworld. "Hades!" The boys gasped. I grinned. "Hades, baby. It's been so long since I blew your head off! Come on, let's reminisce." I held my Keyblade just in case he would take the fight up, but Hades only looked at us in surprise. "You again!" He was distracted enough for the older man to push him away with his sword. "Fight!" The man shouted(wow, I hope he wasn't retarted or anything), and lunged at Hades. Hades only held the man's sword with his hand, pushing the man away. Hades summoned his fire and was about to finish the man but we jumped in front of him. "Get up!" I yelled to the man, who did. Hades frowned. "That's it!" He said angrily, and turned to fight us. This certainly would be easy. We did it before, why not do it again? Once again, I was wrong. None of our magic or attacks affected him. Not only that, but I felt weakened and when he sent his fire at my leg I fell limp at the pain. Hades laughed and mocked my injured state. How could one of the Keyblade Wielders, one of the saviors of the worlds, be so weak against a simple fire attack? I wasn't wearing any bangles or accessories against fire, and even with them I usually dodged Hades' or anyone else's fire attacks, because I was particularly weak against fire. Very weak. "Sis!" Sora gasped as I fell. He tried to carry me up but I was too heavy for him. "I feel kinda funny.." Goofy said. I then realized it. "It's his territory.. I don't think we can beat him.. Not on his turf, anyway."

"That's right!" Hades laughed. "See, that's the thing. In the Underworld, heroes are zeroes- comes with the territory." Hades lunged at my direction, when the man stopped him. "Go, now!" He ordered. "Sorry, but we have to talk to Hades!" Sora said, as he and the other two got up. "Go, now!" He ordered again. "I can't!" I yelled, pointing at my injured leg. The man frowned, and stopped the boys from attacking Hades. "We can't fight him here! We have to go— now!" He told us for the last time, and as the boys nodded, he grabbed me and carried me as they ran away from Hades(who was still throwing fireballs at us). "Let me down!" I yelled at the man. "What do you think you're doing? You can't carry me like this! Only he can carry me like this!" The man gave me a look as he and the boys drove a few Heartless in our way away and protected me from Hades' attacks. "Would you rather die in the Underworld?" I paused, then pointed forward. "Right! Giddyup!"

Finally, we got out of the room. Sora and Goofy closed the doors, and the man still didn't put me down. Donald panted. "Is he gone?" "Don't count on it," the man replied. Little brother wiped his forehead in relief, when Hades appeared beside him. "Leaving so soon?" "Damn," I muttered. "RUN!" The man stood up and so did Donald, and we started running away again. "Feel the heat!" Hades would yell, before trying to kill us with a freaky fire attack. "No thank you!" I gasped, and we finally ran out to the Inner Chamber of the Cave of the Dead. The man finally set me down as he and the other boys sat down. "Sis, are you okay?" Sora asked. I nodded, "Thanks to him." Sora then remembered the man and turned to him. "You're really good. Are you some kind of hero?" The man shook his head. "No, I am no hero. I'm just.." He stopped. I looked at him too. "Just what?" "Auron."

"What?" I had a confused look on my face. "My name," he told me. Suddenly feeling very stupid, I nodded. "Oh, nice to meet you. Call me Kumei." Sora then stood up. "I'm Sora." Donald jumped on Sora's back, making little brother fall. "Donald." Goofy then jumped on Donald's back, making the magician fall on the already-fallen Keyblade Wielder. "Goofy!" I laughed, "Hahaha! These're my boys!" Auron nodded. "It seems we were fated to meet. Maybe you need a guardian." He offered. I shook my head, "Nah, I'm no high summoner." Sora seemed to agree as he shook Donald and Goofy off and stood up. "Guardian? Thanks, but no thanks. We kinda are what everyone makes the guardians." Auron chuckled, and I already felt safe with him. Kind of like how one would feel with an uncle. Then again, I never had an uncle. After Auron bandaged my leg, I could stand. My enchanted clothes seemed to help do so. Once I was able to walk, we moved on to the Dead Passage, then to the Entrance. Donald ran to the door, then frowned. "What! It's closed!"

We tried to open the door, but nothing we did worked. Suddenly, I felt very stupid again. "The Keyblades!" I said, pointing to the keyhole above the door. Sora nodded, and just like we used to close the keyholes of the worlds, and just like we opened the gates, we pointed our Keyblades to the keyhole. "Will those open it?" Auron asked. "They better," I replied, and Sora and I opened the door. "Hurry!" Auron told us, as we all saw Cerberus come into view. Donald and Goofy already ran in and I was about to, but I shook my head and ran to help Auron when I saw Cerberus bite his sword. Sora followed. "Sora, Kumei, wait!" Donald called. "No way, Auron helped me!" I replied. Sora nodded in agreement, and Donald and Goofy were instantly motivated to fight. I frowned at the three-headed dog. "I thought we already kicked your three-headed ass on our first adventure?" Auron chuckled at this statement. "Apparently, not enough."

Cerberus bit at us, but he wasn't as hard as he was in our first adventure. And was it me, or had he gotten smaller? Maybe it was the enclosed space. He was actually easy, considering he didn't attack like he did in our first adventure. I hated it when he puked that crap out of his mouth! Who pukes black crap? Also, we didn't have to jump on his back(although I did enjoy that), but we did have to jump when he did because, as you know, ginormously big three-headed dogs make quite an impact when they jump. I still liked Cerberus over Clifford, though. I was too busy wondering if Cerberus still puked that black stuff out of his mouth when we weren't there to notice that he had already grabbed me by his teeth. "Kumei!" The four gasped, and I snapped out of my thoughts, noticing my situation. I started hitting it with my Keyblade. "Hey, let me go! Your saliva is disgustingly slimy! I'm not a chewtoy, you oversized, over-headed Doberman!" Or was he a Labrador? Anyway this seemed to stun him, giving the boys the chance to attack and Auron the chance to jump and grab me from Cerberus' teeth. "Are you okay?" I smiled and nodded. "Yeah, thanks." A few minutes later, Cerberus was already worn out and lying on the floor. I hit him on the heads with my Keyblade. "Stay! Stay! How many times do I have to say it? Bad dog!" At this it started to get up again. Oops. "Come on!" Donald yelled, already at the door with Sora. "Uh-oh. Let's go!" I'm such a poet. I grabbed Auron who was behind me and we got out of the door before Cerberus could turn me into a chewtoy again.

"NIYE!" The boys(save Auron) and I made faces at Cerberus' annoyed face as the door closed on him. "Wow!" I looked at Auron. "You are a good fighter." He nodded, "So are you." I smiled. "I seem to be more targeted these days, though." I paused, and looked shyly up at Auron. "Hey Auron?" He looked at me with his calm face. "Yes, Kumei?" I looked down. "Could I uh.. Could I call you da- I mean.. my uncle?" "..Why?" "Well, I've never had an uncle. My mom was an only child and so was my dad." Auron chuckled again, and in my mind, this was named as his uncle-ly chuckle. "If that's the case, then of course." I happily turned to the boys who were still panting. "Whew!" Sora laughed as he panted. "Huh?" Donald looked at me. "What happened to Auron?" I looked at them oddly. "He's right-" I stopped as I turned around. "Well, I guess he can take care of himself. For now, we have to find Meg, then later on we can maybe try this whole talking-to-Hades thing again, without the almost-getting-killed part."

"Gawrsh, this sure does bring back memories!" Goofy commented as we entered the Coliseum Entrance. "Yeah!" I laughed. "Remember when we beat big sister Leon and big brother Cloud and annoying Poofy- I mean, Yuffie and.. Uh.. Herc? Whoo! What fights." Yeah, everyone seemed to have a title. Herc had one too but I forgot what I called him. Speaking of, we saw him walk out of the Lobby. He looked pretty gloomy, but lit up when he saw us. "Kumei, Sora, Donald Goofy! When'd you get here?" I grinned, "Hey there, hero!" "Hey, Herc!" Sora smiled. Donald and Goofy waved and greeted him, too. "You on another adventure?" He asked. I rolled my eyes, "Oh yeah. Same old story, different adventure." Herc laughed. "Junior heroes, always busy!" "You know it!" Sora laughed too, and the five of us high-fived. "So, did you find those friends of yours?" Herc asked. I shrugged. "Still working on it. When we got here, we ran into Meg-" Sora suddenly jumped and covered my mouth and my nose. Remind me to thank him later. "Meg- mega trouble! We encountered mega trouble!" He stuttered, trying to cover the whole Megara thing up. "We had to help someone out." Okay, Sora was suffocating me now, so I licked his hand for him to let go. "Ew! Sis!" Sora cried, wiping his hand on his shirt. I rolled my eyes. "It's your saliva too, y'know."

"Hehe," Sora laughed. "We tried to teach Hades a thing or two, but the Underworld drains away all our strength. Don't suppose you have any ideas?" Herc nodded. "Well, there is a stone that guards against the Underworld's curse. The gods on Mount Olympus use it whenever they have to go down there." "Think we could use it?" Sora asked. "Sure, why not? I'll go get it for you." I smiled, "Thanks, buddy." "Real nice of you!" Goofy nodded. "But Hades is no pushover even if you've got the Olympus Stone. And I have a match today, so I can't go with you.. Know what you need?" Hercules gave me an evil grin. My eyes widened. "Don't say it, I hate it! I hate it!" I screamed, covering my ears. He said it anyway, Herc that jerk. "Hehe.. Training!" "NOOOOOOOOO!" I pretended to fall on my knees in defeat. Herc laughed and pulled me up. "Suck it up, princess. Why don't you go talk to Phil?" "Good idea!" Sora nodded. I frowned, "Did you not hear my screaming in agony? Don't do it, little brother!" The boys laughed as Herc threw me over his shoulder like a sack and brought me to the arena. He set me down and ran away before I could beat him up. "Come on, sis, can't we train at least a little? I know you hate it but pleeeaaase?" I huffed, "No way!" Sora pulled me to look at him, "Pleeeaaase?" No, Sora was doing the eye thing! Say no, say- "Okay, Sora. Since we're here already." I groaned to myself. Stupid eye thing. It's every little brother's weapon.

We walked towards Phil who had his back turned, and I tapped my foot. "Hey champ, how ya feeling? Better rest up for tomorrow's match. Nobody's gonna pay to see a worn-out hero.. Capiche? Remember what I told you. Vicotry in the games comes down to two simple words:" The boys and I looked at each other, Donald and Goofy getting ready to count. "Eat, bathe, sleep." The boys and I snickered as Donald and Goofy mouthed, 'that's three!'. Phil turned around and gasped, running to us. "Hey, if it ain't the junior heroes!" Sora smiled, "Lookin' good, Phil." I laughed, "How's my favorite goat-imp thing?" Phil rolled his eyes and glared playfully. "Haha, funny. Never better! How you guys been? Have you earned your 'true hero' wings yet?" The boys were in their thinking positions and I just shook my head, 'nah'. "Nope, you ain't got what it takes." Phil said. The boys gasped, but these were ignored by Phil. "So, what's up?"

"HA HA HA!" Phil laughed, pointing at us. Remind me to kick him later. "You four are gonna take on Hades?" "What's so funny?" Donald demanded, looking annoyed. "You got nerve. I like that. Hey, you never know- stranger things have happened, right? Better get cracking, boys! ..And girl." I rolled my eyes. Why was it always 'boys! ..And girl.'? Well, I'll go on a rally against male chauvinists later. Right now, we had to.. Ugh. Train. With pots. Why couldn't we just kill Heartless? That was training too, plus we actually did stuff. Unlike the training Phil gave us, the Practice and the Maniac, we actually diminished the number of Heartless. Anyway, in those two (damned) practices, we had to destroy pots in under a minute or something like that. Psh, like I needed it.. We finished the horrid training(the boys had fun, apparently), and Herc came into the arena. "Listen, I gotta take off for a bit." Phil told us. "Where to?" Sora asked. "None of your beeswax." He replied, and left. "Sheesh, what crawled up his ass and died?" I asked no one in particular. "I was the one he made train the most!"

"Well, I guess we can just ask him later," Sora sighed. I noticed Herc again. "Hey, there's Herc." We ran up to him, but before I could ask about the Stone, he replied already. "Sorry, guys. The Olympus Stone has been stolen." "What!" Sora gasped. I think we all did. "By who?" "We don't know who did it yet. All we're sure of is that it was a guy in black-hooded cloak. And he had accomplices- a bunch of creatures in white." The boys and I looked at each other, nodding. "Someone you know?" Herc asked. "Unfortunately," I replied for all of us. What I didn't understand was how a mere Organization member could steal from Mount Olympus, if the 'gods' resided there. They just needed a reason for us to do everything, huh? "Hey, if we got the Olympus Stone back, can we borrow it for a while?" Sora asked. Herc nodded, "Sure. By the way, you haven't seen Meg around have you?" We shook our heads. Come to think of it, I hadn't seen her since we saw her in the Underworld. Herc's face fell. Poor guy. Well, not my problem. We were all wondering where Meg was when an annoying voice came from behind Herc. "What's wrong, your hero-ness? Feeling under the weather?"

"Hades!" The boys prepared their weapons. He ignored them as Herc backed away from him. "You know, I thought staying in perfect shape was part of the hero job description.. You know what I'm saying?" Nobody replied, until Sora piped up. "Oh, right.. Hades, we gotta talk!" Hades sighed and flicked Sora down with a finger. I growled, "Don't touch Sora, you bald freak!" He frowned at me, "You can't do anything about it, little miss." "I can here. Unless you're too chicken to fight somewhere that's not your turf." Hades backed away from me and turned to Herc. "I came to share a bit of mildly interesting news, not to fight: seems your dear, sweet little Nutmeg.." He disappeared and reappeared behind Herc. "Went and got herself lost in the Underworld." "You mean you kidnapped her!" Herc hissed. Hades shrugged. "Well, maybe.. But why get caught up in the details?" "My Keyblade would like to get caught up in your throat." Hades backed away again. Herc whistled, and Pegasus, his flying horse came down. Hades shook his head. "Uh-uh-uh.. You can't leave now, okay? You've got a very important match today, against um.. the bloodthirsty Hydra! I mean, if you don't stick around, who knows what kind of accidents might happen?"

"Yeah, accidents you cause!" Sora accused. "Like I said: details, who needs 'em?" "You will when you find out how I'm going to tear you up!" I prepared my Keyblade, and wondered how many times Hades would back away. "You're just a coward!" Herc shouted angrily. Hades shrugged. "Ah, well.. Can't all be heroes." With that, he disappeared. Herc sighed, shaking his head. "Can you handle this?" He asked us. "You got it! We're heroes!" Donald nodded. "Junior heroes, Donald." Goofy whispered. I stifled a laugh, and Sora nodded. "Just take care of the Hydra. We'll take care of the rest." Herc smiled and turned to Pegasus. "You gotta find Meg." Pegasus neighed and flew off.

We took the stairs down to the path to the Underworld(who knew you could do that?) to see Phil sprawled on the ground. "Phil!" We gasped, and helped him up. "Phil, what happened?" He groaned. "I spotted this strange guy all dressed in black, I chased after him, but he turned on me. Next thing I know, I'm seeing stars." "All dressed in black?" Donald repeated. "That's the guy who stole the Olympus Stone! Where'd he run?" Sora asked. Wait, wait, wait. Phil got beaten up by sissy boy? What the..? The Underworld really turned everything topsy turvy.. Anyway, the world being inside out aside, Phil told us he went to the Underworld. "He's a bad apple, alright." Phil added. "And all I wanted was to find a backup hero just in case. Herc needed to take a break." Sora grinned. "Heroes, eh? You could've just asked!" Phil's eyes widened, "You know someone?" I burst out laughing, no offense to the boys or anything, but I wasn't into the whole 'I'm a hero, not a junior hero' claim. Sora and Donald disregarded my fits of laughter, doing their fighting stances. Goofy just shook his head. Phil realized why I was laughing and did so too. "Oh, good one." "What?" Donald and Sora looked at Phil. "But we're not jo-" "Let's not waste time, boys, come on!" I grabbed Sora and Donald by the hands(by the wings for Donald) and Goofy followed as I entered the Underworld.

Woah, weird! We stepped onto this room full of mist, took a few steps forward, and fell! How annoying. My back was still recovering from Beast's castle, you know. No one gave me a painkiller! "Man," Sora twisted his shoulder around(if you get what I mean), "This Underworld curse is really getting to me." I nodded. "We better get that Stone now, or this won't just be a visit to the Land of the Dead." We entered a few more paths until we found the Atrium. The boys gasped as the Organization man(should I really call him that?) who stole the Stone had his back on us. "Hm?" He seemed to hear them, and turned around. "Ah! You! And you.. Pretty girl!" He ran to hug me and I was about to punch him in the face for it, but Donald came ahead of me and Fire-d at him. He was pushed back. He got up and rubbed his back, "Ow.." I put my arm before Donald. "Not yet." I groaned in annoyance. "Demyx.." "Do you know him, sis?" Sora asked. I shook my head. "Hardly."

He took his hood off to reveal his smiling face- just like Axel.. His smile was bordering on a genuine one. Bordering. "Pretty girl, that's so mean!" I rolled my eyes. "Wait a sec.. Roxas?" He asked, looking at Sora. I wanted to punch him now. Donald, why did you take that away from me? Sora looked at him oddly. "Excuse me?" "Roxas? Oh, it's no use. He did say she didn't tell you!" "Huh? What're you talking about?" I could tell even Sora thought this guy deserved to be in a looney bin. Of course, he hadn't the chance to get to know the guy yet.. Well, he'd go crazy. He took a piece of paper out and started reading. "Hey, annoying. In case you forget, I wrote it down on a piece of paper. Tell her I'm really sorry I couldn't come to see her today, because- Oops! Heehee. Wrong paper," He waved it at us, and shoved it into his pocket. He took another one out, and started reading again. "Ah! This is it. If the subject fails to respond, use aggression to liberate his true disposition! ..Right. Did they ever pick the wrong guy for this one." Sora shook his head. "You're bizarre.."

Demyx shrugged, "You are related." And took the Stone out, as if parading it to us. "He's gotta be the thief!" Goofy exclaimed. Demyx frowned. "Now that's just rude!" He raised the Stone in the air, and both the Stone and Demyx glowed. We went into our fighting stances. "Are you ready, pretty girl?" "Shut up, Demyx." He smiled and took his weapon out- a sitar. He started playing, and water clones of him came out. They got ready to attack us. I grinned and looked at Demyx. "So these water clones do have another use aside from singing like psychopaths." He pouted, "They sang wonderfully!" I sighed, "Tru dat. But I'd like to see YOU use 'aggression' for once." He shrugged. "Like I said, they got the wrong guy. Dance, water, dance!" I groaned as the water clones came at us. "Didn't I tell you not to say that stupid line?" "I can't help it!" "Sis, a little help here?" Sora called. "Yeah, stop chatting with the enemy!" Donald yelled. "Be there in a minute!" I replied, before grouping the Demyx water clones together, and having the boys attack them at once.

Demyx nodded, "Not bad, Roxas!" He grimaced, holding his shoulder. It seems defeating his clones hurt him, too. I resisted the urge to throw a potion at him, and he looked at Sora still. "Ugh.. Roxas, come back to us!" I sighed, "Demyx, that's enough." He turned to me with another smile. "He told me to take care of you here, but I guess you don't need anyone. Boss sent him on a job so he couldn't come today. He really wanted to see you, so please don't get mad at him. Well, that's all. I'll see you later, pretty girl!" With that, he disappeared. He really wanted to see me? He did say he'd come see me again, but he didn't mention when.. "Sis?" Sora caught my attention as he tapped my shoulder. I didn't notice my hands placed above my heart when Demyx told me, so I instantly put them down once I did. "Sis, what was he talking about?" I shook my head, "No idea, he's a lunatic." Sora accepted this reason, as it sounded logical to him, with a nod. "Guy's a broken record." "Hey! Look!" Donald gasped(this was one of his cute moments), and ran to pick the Stone up. Seems Demyx left it there for us. Sora took it and raised it in the air just like Demyx did, and we glowed just the same. I turned to the boys, "Great, our energy is back. Let's go!" "Right, Meg needs our help!"

We ran past the Atrium and everything else until we found a room with a stone that looked like Meg. "How do we free her?" I asked the boys for ideas. "We open her cage, sis!" Sora replied. I nodded, that was one idea, but.. "What if it's a trap?" Donald asked. "But we gotta save Meg!" Sora insisted. And when Sora insisted, you didn't bother. Ever. "Okay.. Let's open it, Sora." We pointed our Keyblades at the stone, and the stone seemed to create a door with a green light inside it. It opened, and we jumped inside without any further thought. There Meg was, tied up and looking glad to see us. But she was still tied up. "Now that's what I call a key. Gee, thanks for your help!" I turned around to see Hades. "Now have a nice day." He disappeared. "Sora, behind you!" Meg gasped, and the boys turned around to face the same thing I did. Pete. Again. The annoyingly recurring villain laughed, "What's wrong? Can't fight in the Underworld?" "No, I just can't stoop so low to-" I was interrupted, as usual, as Heartless popped out of nowhere by his side. "Stupid Heartless!" Pete made a face. "Aw, boo hoo hoo! Too bad for you!"

Sora frowned, "Better think again!" I laughed, "Sorry to disappoint, little brother, but- he can't!" Pete frowned and yelled, "Charge!" His Heartless attacked. Nothing we couldn't handle, but once again, there were too many attacking at the same time. "There's too many!" Sora and Donald shouted over to me and Goofy. "Let's go!" Donald yelled. "While we still can?" I asked with a chuckle, and cut Meg's chains away. "Hah!" We heard from above, and in came Herc, throwing the Heartless at Pete. I waved, "Hey, Herc! You're late for the party!" He grinned. "Sorry about that." He whistled, and Pegasus came down. Herc helped Meg onto Pegasus. "Get Meg outta here. I'll meet you back at the Coliseum." He told us. "What about you?" We asked. "I'm gonna show these guys what happens when you mess with a true hero." We nodded and jumped out with Pegasus. "Hey," Pete protested, "Wait a sec!"

"Kumei.. I won't leave him." Meg told me. I patted her on the back. "Hey, he'll be fine. This is Herc we're talking about. You know, son of Zeus, strongest guy ever(or not)?" "Look," Meg sighed. "Even Herc has his limits. He can't keep winning forever." "We have," I replied. "But if it makes you feel better, we'll back him up!" Sora nodded. "Get Meg outta here!" The duck yelled to the flying horse, who complied immediately. We jumped back into the fight with Herc, who was trying to catch his breath. "Kumei, Sora? What're you still-" "Herc, admit it. You love fighting with us. We were meant to fight together sometime, so why fight it? Besides, Meg was fretting over you like Belle did Beast(not that you know what I'm talking about). I didn't think I could stand the whole 'Herc can be weak' thing, either. Not while you still owe me a good fight." Herc smiled and nodded. "Now let's beat this mangy mutt up. No offense, Goofy.. Or Pluto."

Long story short(since you know we're going to beat Pete anyway), we beat Pete up. "This place gives me the creeps. I'll deal with you nitwits later!" Pete yelled, and ran off. "Coward," I shook my head. The cave started to collapse. "Come on!" I yelled to the guys, and we left the battle site. Suddenly, Hades appeared. "Well, if it isn't everyone's favorite hero wash out. You really blew it this time." "No one likes a sore loser, Hades." Sora teased. "Can it, Keyboy!" Hades yelled. "Can it, baldy!" I yelled at him. Herc held his arm before me like I did Donald awhile ago. "Kumei, let me. No one likes a sore loser, Hades." Hades rolled his eyes. "Yeah, yeah. Styx and stones. Hey, maybe you should go check on that Hydra you neglected to finish off. I hear things are really FALLING APART up there, champ." "Wait!" Sora called, but Hades shrugged him off. "Hate to run, but I've got another little diversion to attend to."

"This can't be.." Herc whispered, as he fell on his knees. We entered the Coliseum. It was.. ruined. Literally. I instantly deflected a rock that almost hit Sora. "Little brother, you okay?" Sora nodded. Meg and Phil ran to Herc, while Pegasus flew to him. Phil shook Herc. "Champ! You're safe!" Herc shook his head. "I failed." "It's not your fault!" Meg persisted. "I left everyone unprotected." He looked up to see the Coliseum in ruins once more, then banged his fist against the ground. "Hades was right. I'm just a.. a washout." I frowned and slapped him upside the head. "Get a hold of yourself, Hercules! It's not over yet." Phil patted Herc on the back, "Yeah, come on, champ! Kumei's right. I didn't train you to think like that." "Sis and Phil are right! This is no time to beat yourself up." Sora tried to bring Herc up as well, but the hero shook his head. "I'm some hero." I gasped as he somehow seemed to lose his color. He used to have a golden glow about him, but now.. There was just nothing.

"Who the hell- what the hell is THAT?" I gasped, as I saw the Hydra for the first time. It roared at us. "Herc needs help!" Donald shouted, tugging at me. I smiled. "Then we better take care of this little nuisance." "Yeah!" Sora nodded. "Little?" Donald asked. I laughed. "It's a state of mind, Donald." Phil walked up to us. "Don't suppose you got room for one more?" I nodded. "The more the merrier, baby! Hmm, that sounded better in my head." Really, it did. "We're in!" Meg joined. Pegasus did a fighting stance, making me laugh. "Alright. A warning though, monsters from the Underworld tend to drool and spit at you, and their blood is most unsightly. Be careful, okay?" Phil shrugged, "You're the one playing superhero." I grinned at him. "I am the superhero."

The Hydra swung its head around for a few times before we were given the chance to attack. We did when it bowed its head, and I was pretty tempted to use our Drives, but the Hydra was too fast for them. It became a routine, dodging its head along with the dark fire shooting up from below his head and attacking when he brought his head down to ground level. We did a few air combos when he brought his head down, as it seemed to weaken him more, but I did get hit by some of the fire jets which came out of the ground. Finally, we Vanquished the Hydra(meaning we sliced its head of quite nicely) and its body slumped on the ground. Suddenly, Phil started screaming, "GET UP ON THE HYDRA'S BACK! GET UP ON THE HYDRA'S BACK! GET UP ON THE HYDRA'S BACK! GET UP ON THE HYDRA'S BACK! GET UP ON THE HYDRA'S BACK! GET UP ON THE-" "I'M GETTING TO IT!" I screamed, waving my fist at him, and GOT UP ON THE HYDRA'S BACK! Sheesh, Phil was so annoying sometimes. He threw an Urn at me, and I nodded, jumping up and hitting it full speed at the Hydra's back. I didn't understand why at first, but..

"Sis, it's still alive!" I looked down from the Hydra's back to see the boys handling the heads of the Hydra- one each. I frowned, muttered a few profanities, and jumped down to help the boys. We Vanquished the three heads after a few more combos and sighed. "Finally, it's-" The Hydra roared once more, to our unpleasant surprise, and it got up, revealing about seven heads or more. Seriously, what was up with the Underworld and its stupid bi-tri-multi-headed monsters? Sheesh.. Not to mention that with more heads(certainly better than one for that damned Hydra), it could bash at the ground with its gross heads(have you seen it up close? 'Cause damn it's ugly), reaching to either eat us or squish us. It summoned a ball of dark energy, and a few other things shot up from the ground. They were pretty fast, so we didn't get to dodge even some. Finally, after a few more annoying attacks, Pegasus came down to help. As Phil yelled at me to GET UP ON THE HYDRA'S BACK! again, Sora flew on Pegasus, attacking the Hydra's heads. This confused the Hydra's, making them wonder where to attack: the ground, the sky, or at its back, and ultimately proved that when you were an ugly multi-headed monster from the Underworld, you were a stupid ugly multi-headed monster from the Underworld.

Once again, like in Beast's castle, we sliced the Hydra's head(s) off, its green blood spurting out like a child drooling on a hot summer's day. "Damn that's disgusting!" I cringed, at the thought and at the sight of the Hydra. We turned to Herc. "Well, it's over." Herc shook his head. "I let you down. I'm just.. no use." "It's not your fault. Hey, even a god would be exhausted." Meg tried to comfort him, and I nodded in agreement. Then again, those 'gods' never seemed to do anything. Sora nodded as well. "She's right. Give yourself the chance to rest." "There won't be any games for awhile, anyway." Goofy added. Meg stood. "Don't worry about Wonderboy here. I'll look after him. Kumei, Sora, Donald, Goofy, I owe you big time." I gave her a thumbs up. "No prob. Just invite us to the wedding, okay?" Sora laughed, giving me a high five. "Yeah! And just let us know if Hades or the Heartless start acting up." "Yeah," Donald nodded, "That's what heroes are for!" Meg raised an eyebrow. "When did you four make the hero?" Sora laughed nervously, "Let's save that for another time."

I nodded. "Right now, we gotta hit the road." Meg smiled, "Okay. Don't be strangers." "Gawrsh, I hope you feel better soon, Hercules." Goofy said as he turned to Herc. "Yeah, you still owing me a fight and all," I patted him on the back. He smiled weakly. "Yeah.." Donald turned to Phil. "Phil!" "Oh, well, take care you guys! Stay a little longer next time. We got some serious training to catch up on." "NOOOO!" "Haha, sorry sis. Well, time to go! Oh, I almost forgot.." The Olympus Stone glowed and as usual, set up a Keyhole. I stopped my whining about training and nodded at Sora, opening the gate to another world once more. I turned to everyone else as we boarded the gummi ship. "We'll see you guys sometime later, I swear something's gonna make us come back. See ya!"

"KUMEI'S NOT DRIVING!" Donald yelled, as we lifted off from the Olympus Coliseum. He dove into the control room, pushing Sora and Goofy inside in the process. "Sorry, sis!" Sora apologized over the door. "Yeah, Hakumei! Gawrsh, Donald, you didn't have to do that.." Goofy agreed. "Oh, fine. But-" "Nah," I interrupted before they gave me the chance to drive again, which I was sure they wouldn't. "I know when I'm not wanted. Besides, I don't intend on driving anytime soon.." My stomach lurched at the thought, and I sat in the gummi ship's 'living room', eating Aerith's cookies. These things never seemed to run out. Yeah, she'd make a good wife for Cloud. Even angsty blonde big brothers loved cookies, right? I nodded to myself, smiling as I searched through another memory..

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Hello! I hope you liked this one, even with the quite-irrelevant Pooh part. But I love Pooh, and I just had to put him in there. Also, I'm sorry if there was too much Demyx-thrashing. He is important, though.