"Phew, now where were we?"
Sora stretched his arms for a moment. The gummi ship was flown out from Hollow Bastion, and now we were at a a crossroad in the ocean of stars. There were routes still open to the other worlds, but we were looking to head to a new and, hopefully, unexplored world.
"Huh, I got nothing," Sora shrugged his shoulders and leaned back in his chair.
"Lazy bum..." I huffed, rolling my eyes at Sora. Of course we had something to work with. Although, I had also been in a bit of a slump thinking about what we were supposed to do now. That was until I regained the thought to peer into my heart for answers. It'd be what Master Yen Sid would suggest. "We're going..."
"Where?" Donald asked sarcastically while I shot a beam into a section of space.
It took a minute for it to react, but a burst of light followed to show us the way to the world we needed to be at.
"There," I nodded, putting away my Keyblade. I sat back down so that Sora could safely pilot us through the danger zone of the gate.
"Groooaaarr!"
Collapsing to the ground, the Rock Titan let out a roar as Hercules spun it around with his mighty strength. The true hero threw the titan with all of his godly strength and dismissed the threat that had once disturbed the peace over Olympus and Thebes.
Hercules was sporting a bright smile as the crowds cheered him on. Raising his sword above his head, the young god posed to let his great spirit shine.
"Good game, Champ!" Phil called out to him and clapped his hands.
"You sure this is the right place?" Donald asked. It was evident in how close he walked to Goofy's leg; Donald was spooked. He did have a right to be, though. This place gave me the creeps, too. So dark and gloomy as if someone just died. "Good job, you two. You got us lost!"
"Don't blame me," I mumbled. I stuck my tongue out at him, but then turned around quickly upon seeing a ghost-like figure following close behind him. "Hm..."
"What was that?" Donald asked, but I shook my head.
"Nothing," I told him, ignoring the ghost. "Anyway... Does anyone else feel totally sapped?"
"I could go for a nap," Sora stretched his arms. He stopped a moment after we walked for seemingly hours. At one point, we were walking down some kind of cavern that had no end. Now we weren't sure where to go since one way was blocked off by blue flames. "Great."
"Are ya sure this is the coliseum?" Goofy asked, shooing away the ghost that was bothering him.
"It's that way!" Donald walked ahead, pointing to a stairway that seemed to glow harmoniously. "See, I know where we're going."
"Guess we were a little bit off," Sora laughed the subtle insult off.
"One of us was..." I muttered but followed along to the stairway to Olympus. This place had to be the Underworld, judging by how it looked.
"Help!"
Before we could get near the stairs, there was a loud scream and cry for help. I turned around as the others did and spotted a woman being chased by a pack of blue, fat dogs. One of them tugged at her dress, causing for her to fall to the ground with the other wild dogs surrounding her. But a closer look explained to me that those were no ordinary dogs. There, on their behinds, were Heartless emblems.
"Heartless!" I shouted, running to the woman who was being attacked. The canine Heartless fled, however, but we were more concerned about the poor woman on the ground. "Are you okay?"
Sora tried to help her up himself, but she denied the offer and stood up on her own.
"Thanks, but... I'm fine," the woman said, rubbing away an ache in her head. It seemed like she was a little irritated seeing us coming to her rescue, or maybe it was just a heavy bit of sarcasm. "And you're supposed to be? Never seen you kids here before."
"Oh, I'm Sora, he's Donald, that's Goofy, and over there is Kara," Sora introduced us all. "We came to see how Hercules is doing."
Her interest was captured when Sora mentioned Hercules, I noticed. She gave us all one more look over and smirked.
"You know Wonderboy?" she asked.
"Yeah, because we're heroes, too!" Donald proudly declared.
"You mean junior heroes, Donald," Goofy pointed out.
"Aw, phooey..." Donald folded his arms.
"Heh," the woman giggled softly. "Looks like we have a friend in common. Name's Megara. My friends call me Meg."
It was safe to say that Meg was no longer in any danger. We could talk easy now that the Heartless were gone. I found it strange, though, that she'd be wandering around in the Underworld. After all, wasn't Hades the ruler of this part of the world?
"So how's Herc?" Sora asked Meg. "It's been a while since we've seen him."
"Wonderboy?" Meg raised a brow. "Well, he's duking it out at the Coliseum every day. You know, a hero's work is never done and all that. He's ready to drop, but he keeps fighting. If he keeps it up, he'll finally reach his limit."
"Is he... fighting the Heartless?" Sora asked. "Like those things that attacked you?"
"I'm not sure, but I know these opponents of his are bad news- straight from Hades himself." Meg's words were alarming to us. It was true, then, that Hades was still up to no good. And seeing that the Heartless were involved once again, Pete had to be involved. Or maybe the god of the dead is taking control over the Heartless.
"Hades?!" Donald quacked.
"I had a feelin' he'd be involved," Goofy said.
"Right, the Lord of the Underworld," Meg nodded. "I was on my way to see him. Maybe I can get Hades to give Wonderboy a breather. If anything happens to Herc..."
"Gwarsh..." Goofy sighed. "Sounds like you're more than just friends!"
"Oh... uh, I mean..." Meg stuttered.
"Eh heh." We stifled our amusement. It was so romantic that Hercules found himself a girlfriend.
"We'll go see Hades for you," I nodded to the others, who agreed to the task. "With the Heartless running around, it'd be awful if anything happened on your way to see him."
"You'd really do that?" Meg asked in surprise. "Well, you kids seem to know what you're doing. I suppose I could take you up on your offer."
"Yeah," Sora smiled.
"But... let's keep this whole chat-with-Hades thing our little secret, okay?" she asked.
"Our lips are sealed!"