Breezy: "YESH

Breezy: "YESH!!YESH!!YESH!!"

Riku: "WHAT?!"

Breezy: "OMGEEE!! I MADE SYM. 1!! 1ST CHAIR, BABY!! YESH!!"

Demyx: "That's a good thing?"

Breezy: "If it wasn't, then I guess I wouldn't have given ten minutes of worship to this letter then, huh? Poor mailman. Anyway, hello all! Greetings from somewhere in Tennessee! I'm with friends and my mom up here for a while, and that means my brain has opened its doors to no writer's block! As you should all know by now, I don't, under ANY circumstances, own the KH franchise. This is FANfiction, guys. All for fun, right?"

Sora: "Now that I can hear and see again, can we start?"

Breezy: "PUSH THE BUTTON, RIKU!"

Riku: "God, you're hyper."

"Sora, I'm pretty sure that slamming into flying rocks isn't a good way to make it to that Coliseum- thing."

"You wanna take over the controls?"

"Um, guys…"

"Sure spike-boy! I'll bet I could do a better job than you!"

"Guys…"

"OH REALLY?!"

"H-LL YES, REALLY!"

"GUYS!!"

Mary, being as calm as she usually is, hates it when people get in her face. And Sora had done just that.

For the past hour and a half, we'd all been flying along our way to Olympus Coliseum. Mary had caught up to us before we left The Land of Dragons, and I'd begged Sora as far as the puppy-dog face for her to come along.

I'm pretty sure he was regretting ever giving in. After we had visited the ever-so-wonderful Beast's Castle, Mary and Sora had been fighting about countless things.

Donald and Goofy were sleeping below the hull in the bunks, and somehow we hadn't woken them up with Mary and Sora's screaming at each other.

"WHAT?!" They both shouted at me, Sora still keeping his eyes on the space in front of the ship.

"Guys, calm down. Not only are you shattering my eardrums, we can't be screaming at each other if we'll be together for the rest of this journey." I calmly stated, even though I wanted to rip both of their throats out. They shut up, and Mary went back to her seat, already looking guilty.

"Sora, how much longer till we're there?" I asked, trying to beak the uncomfortable silence.

"About another hour." Sora grumbled.

More silence. Mary started rummaging through my bag, and I sharpened my arrows. Haya, the hawk we'd picked up, nuzzled against my face, and I could tell he was still quivering from being woken up so roughly. I pet him and stared out at the stars above our heads. Mary found my tokens from Merlin, and fingered them before putting them back.

"Hey, Sora?" Mary mumbled.

"Yeah?"

"Sorry. I guess I just kinda…" Mary stopped when she looked up. "Uh, what's that?"

Sora and I both looked up to where Mary was pointing to a giant mushroom-shaped kinda thing in the abyss above us. Half of the thing was a dark black/blue building on the bottom, and the other half was yellow and white.

"Uh, I think that's where we get off."

"Man, this place reeks!" I covered my nose and breathed through my shirt as we walked through a black cavern covered in the stench of death. Sora and Mary did the same thing, until we got used to it. Haya squawked and buried his beak in my bag, where he snuggled his way in. Donald and Goofy had stayed behind on the ship, still fast asleep. Mary handled her sword from China shakily as we walked.

It was dark, spooky, and smelled like wet dog. Creepy lights flew around us, and some of them had faces and screamed in our ears. Mary usually screamed back.

"Something tells me this isn't the happy temple you told us about back on the ship, Sora."

"AHHH!"

A shriek startled us; so much that Mary jumped a foot in the air and landed in a puddle. Sora and I, (after I helped Mary out of her puddle and Sora stopped laughing) ran for the source of the sound, while Mary followed.

A brunette girl lay sprawled on the ground, rabid heartless attacking her. In a few seconds they were gone, and Mary helped the girl up.

"So, you guy and gals are supposed to be…?" She said, a small smirk on her face.

"I'm Sora, she's Liz and that's Mary. We came to see how Hercules was." The girl shifted her weight and stared at us, in turn.

"You guys know Wonderboy?"

"Well, Sora here does. We're just kinda hanging around him." I said, patting Sora on the shoulder.

"I guess we've got something in common. I'm Megara, but my friends call me Meg." She stuck out her hand, and I shook it.

"So, how is Herc, anyway?" Sora asked, dismissing the Keyblade while doing so.

"Wonderboy? Uh, well… he's been duking it out every day at the Coliseum. 'A hero's work is never done,' and all that jazz. The way he's been fighting, he'll be ready to drop any second, but the monsters just keep coming. Hades' special deliveries always-"

"Hades!?" Sora interrupted, shocked. Meg continued, a bit of annoyance on her face.

"Yeah. Lord of the Underworld- this place. I was actually on my way to see him. I was going to try to get him to cut Wonderboy a break, but… if anything happens to that kid…" Meg broke off, looking into space.

"He-he… sounds like you guys are a little more than friends…" Mary snickered. I rolled my eyes, while Meg started to stutter.

"How about we go talk to Hades for you? It'd be bad for you to get hurt down here." Sora took the hero role again, and grinned.

"You'd do that? I guess I'll take you up on that, but let's keep the chat-with-Hades our secret, ok?" Meg smiled.

"Sure!"

"Our lips are sealed!"

"Then, see you, Sora, Liz, and Mary." Meg ran off, headed for a staircase leading into some light. We started off to see Hades.

The passages to the deep depths of the underworld are not a picnic. Sure, there were quite a bit of chests to unlock as we slipped deeper into the abyss, but it was an easy place to get lost. Just stall for one second to knock away a floating spirit, only to find your teammates had gone on without you.

And then more spirits would show up.

Joy.

We spent most of the time down in the underworld getting lost, looking for lost teammate, yelling at found teammate, chucking spirits across the room, and getting lost again. So, it was pretty serious when we started to hear footsteps coming in our direction from in front of us. It especially freaked me out when those footsteps revealed themselves to belong to a black-coated and hooded Organization member, running towards us like he was gonna ram us. And if things weren't weird enough, he ran right past us.

"Run, run AWAY!" He screeched, and by the sound, I could tell it was Demyx. Then he ran into a portal and fwooshed away.

We all stood there, processing what had just happened. Sora kinda just gaped at the empty air where the portal had been.

"…Okay…"

We walked into a damp, stinky, green room with mist all over the ground. We were standing on a floating rock platform, below us was nothing but creepy neon green mist, and then nothing.

What a great place for tourists.

"Okay, well, any idea where this 'Hades' guy is?" Mary asked. Sora stared up at the space of rock floating above us, where sounds of metal clashing could be heard.

"Up there, I guess."

As we walked into Hades' chamber, we were greeted with a fire assault. The Almighty God of the Underworld was standing before us, and he was chucking fireballs like some five year old. Another guy, in a red cloak with a big sword was dodging said fireballs.

"Hades!" Sora yelled, yanking out the Keyblade and an ether. The giant red demon king turned to a blue color as he looked back at us and made more fire.

"You again?!" He yelled as he threw fireballs and ducked a blow from the guy with the sword. Who ever the other guy was, he wasn't winning.

"FIGHT!" The red cloaked man shouted at us, while blocking more fire. Sora and I nodded, instantly jumping in, and Mary following. Sora seemed slower than normal, and all of my arrows weighed as much as lead plates.

"Anyone else think something's wrong?" Mary voiced.

"I feel kinda funny…" Sora lowered the Keyblade. Hades laughed and threw more fireballs.

"That's right! See, that's the thing. In the Underworld, heroes are zeroes; comes with the territory." The fallen guy in the corner brought his sword down were Hades was standing, just for him to disappear in smoke.

"Go! NOW!" Red guy yelled before being pushed back.

"But we've got to talk to Hades!" Sora yelled back. Hades then appeared next to me, with his fingers in his ears.

"What was that?" He asked, ticking Sora off a good deal. The guy in red and I pulled both Sora and Mary off, seeing as we were getting beaten to pieces.

After we outran Hades, the new guy introduced himself as Auron, saying he was jailed for something I don't think any of us understood. We all agreed that 'talking' to Hades would do no good, except to the Coliseum doctor's wallet, and headed on our merry way back up to the surface to tell Meg the bad news. We fought through the heartless and annoying spirits again and got back to the last chamber, just to stop because, apparently, 'Underworld Custodial Services' forgot there were tourists down here and locked us in. That, or Hades didn't want us to leave so early.

Sora brought out the Keyblade.

"Will that open it?" Auron asked, still griping his own sword.

"I think so…" Sora answered and raised it to unlock the door.

And a long shadow cast Mary and me in the dark. Growling and a strong breeze flew past us. Mary and I both turned around.

"That's a BIG dog."

Breezy: "Sorry the chap. so short guys, but I've been everywhere here in town looking for school stuff and supplies. I've also had to go out of Tennessee a few times to get flute stuff, which hasn't given a lot of free time for me. I'll try to get the next chapter in before the middle of September, but since that whole month is filled with football games, I can't make it set in stone."

Sora: "That stinks."

Riku: "Wait… you play football?"

Breezy: "Heck no. If you've seen our team play, then you've seen too much injury. I'm in football band. And concert band. And maybe jazz band, later. OH! Before I forget, I may be at Crisiscon this year! It's an anime/sci-fi convention at home during Halloween. I might – might be going as Rina from Higurashi no naku koro ni, covered in fake blood. Maybe. If you wanna know more about Crisiscon, take a look at this site!

Demyx: "As always, please review!"

Breezy: "C ya!"