-Dream-
Ventus once again fell asleep, while enjoying watching the meteor shower. He woke up when it was all over. He sat up for a few moments, he had a big yawn. The he went to lay back down when he saw a young woman with blue hair towering over him. "WHOA!"
He turned to see Aqua, one of his best friends, giggling at him. "Gimme a break, Aqua." Said Ventus.
"Ven, you hopeless sleepyhead. You know you should have at least brought a blanket." Said Aqua. She somehow knew Ventus would sneak out just to see the meteor shower, and fall asleep while enjoying it, so she decided to check up on him, like an older sister would look after her young brother. "But - Did I dream that place up? It really felt like I been there before...looking up at the stars..." He wondered.
He dream looking at stars of some sort of island. It was really peaceful but was it real? Aqua just rubbed his had and said, "'Cept you've always lived here with us."
"Yeah...I know." He said. Both Ventus and Aqua sat by the edge of the cliff to enjoy watch the stars. But one thing was on his mind. "Hey Aqua."
"Hm?" She wondered what his question was. "Y'ever wonder what stars are? Where light come from?" he asked. He always thought stars were big balls of gas miles and miles away, but he was curious what his friends thought. "Hmmm…Well they say…" She began.
"…that ever star up there is another world." Terra finished. The two friends turned to see him there. "Terra." Said Aqua. Terra continued, "Yep, hard to believe there are so many worlds out there besides our own. The light is there hearts, and it's shining down on us like a million lanterns."
"What? I don't get it." Said the confused boy. Terra just smirked and said, "In other words, they're just like you Ven."
"What does THAT mean?" he asked. He was still confused. "You'll find out someday, I'm sure." Terra responded.
"I wanna know now." Said Ventus. "Your too young to know now." Said Terra.
"Quit treating me like a kid." Said Ven. He was 16, and they still treat him like he's still 10. Aqua couldn't help but laugh. "Hey, what are you laughing at?" asked Terra.
"I can't help it. You two would make the weirdest brothers." Said Aqua as she continued to laugh. The two were confused until they got what she meant and laughed with her. After what felt like hours, they continued to enjoy the stars.
Then Aqua remembered, "Oh yeah! Terra, you and I have our Mark of Mastery exams tomorrow. I made us good luck charms." She then pulled out three star shaped stars. One blue, one orange, and one green. She tossed the orange one to Terra. Ven was impressed and then Aqua got his attention. "Here." She tossed the the green charm to Ven, while she kept the blue one to herself. "I get one too?" Asked Ventus.
"Of course. One for each of us. Somewhere out there, there's star-shaped fruit...and the fruit represents an unbreakable connection. So as long you and your friends carry good luck charms shaped like it nothing can ever drive you apart. You'll always find your way back to each other. Technically, I think you're supposed to make the. With seashells, but I did with best with I had." Aqua explained. "Oy, sometimes you are such a girl." Said Terra in a teasing manner.
"Hey, what do you mean 'sometimes'?" Aqua said back with the same tone. Ventus however looked disappointed. "So this isn't a real good luck charm?" he asked.
"Well, that's yet to be seen." Aqua answered honestly. "But I did work a little magic on it."
"Really? What?" Ventus asked. "An unbreakable connection." Aqua said with a smile, with that everyone raised their new wayfinder in the air.
-End Dream-
Sora bolted up from his bed inside his room on the ship. Right now he along with his friends and new allies were on a quest to find the King and stop Xehanort and his organization 13 from covering the worlds in Darkness. after they had left Wonderland. Donald took them into the training room in the gummi ship and started their lessons on magic. He worked with Kairi while he let Lea supervise the others in their training to work on her tier 2 spells.
"Ven? Terra? Aqua? Who are they? Why did the feel so familiar... Like he somehow knew them? Sora got up and he exited his room and headed down to the kitchen of the ship and saw that Kairi was also up. she was wearing a pink nightgown and on her lap slept Lucy. Sora blushed on seeing Kairi in her sleepware seeing her long creamy white legs. The same with Kairi seeing Sora's muscular body and his shorts "Sora? how long have you been up?" asked Kairi looking at her boyfriend.
"i just woke up after having a strange dream" said Sora.
"Really? about what?" asked Kairi as Sora told her the dream he had about the three people who's name was Terra, Aqua and Ventus. "Aqua. i think i have met her before..but i can't seam to remember" said Kairi
"Yeah and the funny thing is that Ventus looked alot like Roxas." said Sora.
"Werid. What do you think it means?" Kairi asked.
Sora shrugged, "I don't know."
just then they heard movement as Goofy came into the kitchen wearing his red pajamas and bunny flippers. "Good morning you two" said Goofy as he went over to the oven and turned it on and pulling down a skillet. "What are ya doing Goofy?" asked Sora.
"I thought i fix us some breakfast before training" said Goofy as he began making Breakfast. Sora and Kairi moved to help him make breakfast but he said/ "I got this after all i do this all the time for my men."
The two nodded as they watched Goofy cook breakfast. soon the smell of food went everywhere in the gummiship and a matter of minutes. Everyone else came into the kitchen smelling food in their sleepware.
"Something smells good" Said Prince Phillip.
Dad's making breakfast" said Max opening up the fridge and pulling out orange juice. Soon Goofy had made a complete breakfast of Eggs, Bacon and Toast with fruit and jelly. Everyone soon ate the breakfast made by Goofy before going into the training room to continue their training with Lea, Donald and Goofy watching Tifa make them all lift weights and doing jogging around the room. An hour later in the cockpit, Donald was checking on their course to Olympus since it too was under the threat of Darkness. "Look there it is" said Goofy pointing to the world in question.
the world was right in front of them. A Greek city with a statue of a muscular hero was at the bottom of the world. a Tall mountain and at the top of the mountain was a heavenly place. "Whoa" said everyone checking out the world. Donald began the descent and he landed the ship in a small cove somewhere near the mountain. The guardians of light disembarked the ship and came out of a small cavern they was not anticipating to be staring into mountainous region,Everyone looked over the cliff edge marveling at the place.
"Wow, it's beautiful," Kairi breathed placing her hand over her chest.
"You said it Kairi." Xion replied also taken back at the beauty of this world,
"This is Olympus, A World where Heroes come to the Great Olympus Coliseum to compete in games, Battle monsters and train underneath the Great trainer Philoctete." said Tifa.
"Wow, Sounds Awesome. We gotta battle some monsters" said Roxas looking eager to battle some monsters.
yess but you all must know that this World is governed by beings known as the Greek Gods. their king is Zeus. The God of the Sky. so please be respectful to the Greeks. okay?" asked Tifa.
"Yes Mom/Tifa!" said Sora, Roxas and everyone else.
"so where do we go?" asked Riku looking around the mountain.
"We head for Thebes, That is the city where the Coliseum is and where we'll find Zack and Cloud" said Tifa as the group began to head out. The group started walking up to the cave area from the mountain ledge that they were standing on. They both marveled at the amazing mountain that they were standing on; the mountain was beautiful and a majesty of something that they had never seen before. They continued to walk through the small caved area until they reached an amphitheater carved into the mountain. The group stopped and gazed into the circular area mesmerized by the giant statue of a man sitting carved from the mountain side and the mosaic patterns that surrounded it. His stone eyes bored into their souls, as if this man was daring them to not step a toe out of line, or else face the statue's powerful wrath.
"That is Zeus, The King of the Gods." said Tifa. The group moved closer to in order to inspect the scenery that laid intricately before them. The moment that they reached the circle, heartless appeared, waiting to ambush the unsuspecting souls that were before with them were new ones that had wings and gladiator helms. "Air Soldiers" said Jiminy.
"Heartless!" Sora cried as the guardians of light summoned their weapons.a Fat Body Heartless slid on its bloated belly towards the two wielders. Before Sora and the others could even react Kairi deflected the large heartless making it spin around and become confused. She ran quickly slid around behind the Heartless' back and began a quick combo. "Whoa nice combo Kairi" said Sora looking at the girl who smiled back at him.
Sora took on a few soldiers with a few swings with his keyblade before casting Water on a large body soaking it. He stabbed it in the back as a heart floated away.
Riku with his Keyblade took on a cluster of shadows. "Want some?" He asked as he fired a Fire taking them down. He kicked a large bodie away before he took it out with a single swipe.
Adam with his massive strength took on many of them charging into the horde and knocking down many of the shadows before engaging a Large Body. Phillip backed him up taking down the ones he missed with his sword. Tifa punched a large body in the stomach before she sky uppercut a soldier into the air sending it flying.
Max was now using his Bow and Arrow as he used his archery skills to take down the Air Soldiers. "Fire Arrow!" shouted max launching an arrow with a bit of fire magic and took down three Air Soldiers.
Goofy with his shield mostly sticked to bashing the shadows before using his famous Goofy Tornado on the Air Soldiers his son missed.
Donald with his magic mostly casted spells like fire, Ice and Thunder. When a heartless was close enough he bashed it with his staff like a club. Lea with his keyblade slashed two shadows before he dismissed his keyblade for his chakrams. "No you Dont!" He shouted before coating his chakrams in fire before tossing them at a few soldiers about to attack Kairi and Xion from behind. His chakrams took them down before he called them back to him.
"Thanks Lea!" said the two girls before Xion moved to engage a Red Armor. a Slighly smaller version of the Guard Armor only it's entire body was shaded a dark red instead of purple. The Red Armors attacks were similar to the Guard Armors as well as Xion and Roxas engaged it with Namine. The three of them attacked together and defeated the Red Armor in a matter of seconds after Stitch finished it off with his strength. Pluto was protecting Lucy who was on top of his head. The last of the Heartless dealt with did the gang regroup.
"Well that takes care of them" said Sora with a grin.
The guardians then continued down the mountain until they reach the City of Thebes. Thebes is a Greek city that had many Greek style buildings and statues of warriors everywhere. the city was full of civilians wearing togas and riding on chariots being pulled by horses. Sora approached a civilian to get directions. 'Excuse me but where can i find the Coliseum?" he asked.
"oh new warriors? Old Phil is looking for warriors for his new Tournament. The Zeus Cup. Just follow the signs and you will reach it no time" said the civilian.
"Thanks" Sora said as the group then followed the directions given to them by the man. soon they reached the coliseum. The building like the other buildings in the city was greek styled and were two gigantic golden statues of two men in Grecian armor, holding their shields and swords, their blades clashing dramatically over another set of doors just below. These doors were similar to those that comprised the main gateway. At the feet of the golden statues were small torches, which were currently lit, even though the sun had brightened the scenery.
"So, this is the Coliseum?" Namine stared at the huge building.
Xion nodded, "It's bigger than I imaged it to be."
"Look!" said Donald pointing to two men standing in front of the building. A man wearing a black 1st Class SOLDIER uniform, and on his back is a Buster Sword as well as an X-shaped scar on his cheek. His spiky hair grows out and becomes wilder with a single lock of hair hanging down in front of his face. He now has a silver earring in his left ear.
The other man has long blonde spiky hair and his outfit is a black robe with with a high collar sleeveless indigo shirt, black pants and boots, and black cloth covering his left leg and arm. The costume also includes a new pauldron, and Cloud's chest is covered by two straps, held in place by a badge representing Fenrir, a wolf that has come to be associated with him. His Buster Sword covered in cloth is on his back. Sora and Roxas seeing their father run towards him. "Dad!" they both shout.
Cloud turns when he hears their voices before he felt Sora and Roxas hug his waist. He quickly returned the hug to his boys before Tifa came over to them, she also joins in the hug before the family breaks apart and Tifa and cloud share a brief kiss. "Where are the girls?" asked Cloud.
"Aerith is watching them back at traverse town. They taken a liking to her just as i thougth they would" Tifa replied.
"You know Aerith. She loves kids" Zack replied with a chuckle. The rest of the team came over to them.
"anyway back to the point. We know the hero of this world and we told him that you guys are in need of some training and he offered to help us out" said Cloud before leading them inside the Vestibule. Everyone could see someone placing up wavers. The odd thing was about the guy he was a short half man, half goat.
Xion leaned to whisper in Kairi's ears. "Is it just me or is that a man who is half goat?"
"No," said Kairi whispered back to her sister
Sora was about to speak, when the goat man cut him off, "Great timing! Move that pedestal over there for me. I gotta spruce things up for the Zeus Cup tryouts." Sora looked to the pedestal and walked up to it. Riku raised an eyebrow, "Um...Sora? I don't think he was talking to you? I think that he thinks your someone else?"
"Probably, still...it's nice to help out others." Sora replied to his best friend.
"Uh no offense guys but that thing looks like it weighs a ton. not even Damian could move this"Namine said looking at the pedestal. Sora placed his hands on the pedestal, "Only one way to find out." Sora started pushing but that thing wasn't moving after a minute of trying Roxas and Riku decided to help him out. They pushed together but the pedestal still won't budge. Then Lea, Adam and Phillip also decided to help move the pedestal. but the pedestal still wouldn't move. Kairi and the girls looked at the boys concerned. that was until the pedestal moved on it's own knocking down the boys. They looked to see that it was Stitch who moved it. "well it's done now" said Lea
The girls helped the fallen boys back on there feet. As Kairi helped Sora up, they looked to eachother and blushed once more. Sora decided to turn to the goat man, "Well, we did it. Is right there good?"
"We?! Since when do you need help moving a..." He looked up to see that the man he was looking for wasn't there he looked down to see Sora, "Whoops, wrong guy." He then noticed the other people in the room, "What are you all doing here?" He jumped to ground level and he barely looked as big as Stitch. He walked up to them, "This here is the world-famous Coliseum heroes only! And I got my hands full assigning more heroes to participate in the games. So move along, pip-squeaks."
. "Now 's not nice" said a man's voice. The guardians turned to see a man with Extremely muscular, with broad shoulders and a comparatively thin waist, He is wearing orange-brown armor that ends in metal kilt. His armor does not extend to his arms, nor to most of his legs. He wears a brown belt around his waist with a gold emblem with the symbol of Zeus printed on it. His sandals are knee-high and have cross-shaped straps and are brown, as are two wristbands he also wears. He has a reddish-brown headband tied around his forehead, pushing back his rust-colored hair, save for one bang that falls over it in the form of an S-curl. The only aspects of the man's appearance not colored in earth tones are his sky blue eyes and short, deep blue cape./He must be the Hero of this world./ thought Sora.
In his arms was a women with a slender body with long, dark auburn hair tied into a high ponytail with its most notable feature being the curly fringes on its tip. She has purple eyes with lavender eyelids. She wears a lavender Greek dress with golden straps, a long skirt with the hem ending just above her orange-sandaled feet, and two purple sashes; a tight one under her bust to give her a tiny waist and a loosened one tied at her right side by a golden spiral pendant around her wide hips.
"Hey Champ, how is things with you Dad?" asked Phil.
"Not good i'm afraid, A man in a Black coat came and stole the Olympus Stone. He was accompanied by white creatures." said Hercules before he looked at Roxas. His eyes widen before he said. "Ventus? is that you?'
"Ventus? no my name is Roxas" said Roxas as Sora looked confused to what Hercules said. "Ventus? as in guy i was dreaming about."
Hercules smiled before he said, 'sorry, you look like an old friend of mine. My name is Hercules."
"my name is Megara but my friends call me Meg. who are you all?" said Meg holding Hercules hand.
"Were the Guardians of Light. My name is Sora, my girlfriend Kairi and my other friends nd my friends. , Riku, Namine, Xion, Lea. My brother Roxas and my Mother Tifa. and Adam and Prince Phillip., ." said Sora.
"Don;t forget about our Dad Sora." said Roxas looking at Cloud.
"Hole Hera...There your kids Cloud" said Phil not expecting Cloud to have a family.
Nice to meet you all" said Hercules before he looked at Cloud and Zack. "Are these the people you wanting me to help train?"
"Yeah, They been chosen by the Keyblade." said Zack as the eight of them summoned their keyblades before their eyes. "C'mon Phil, we should help them out. after all Sora and Roxas are Clouds sons and Rule # 52 states" said Hercules.
"'If the participant is not a hero yet but the parent is or was, then if the participants had passed the trails, they too can enter the games.' I know Herc but we need heroes right now like you, Terra, Aqua, Cloud or Zack. Not a son of one who received little trianing and his buddies." Phil replied. Kairi kneed down and tapped the trainer of heroes on the shoulder, he turned to see Kairi giving him the puppy dog pout, "Please, just give us a chance..."
"Oh no! I know what your doing...it's not going to work..." Phil tried to resist, but then Kairi whimpered while a tear slide down her check. Phil began to panic, "Okay, okay!...how about...uh...you guys... go threw the tryouts and if you pass I'll give you some guys a shot...starting with Sora!" Kairi grinned, "Thank you."
Sora and the others ran though Phil's trial in the arena of the coliseum. All Phil had them do was break barrels within a Time limit in which he was mostly impressed with how quickly they were able to break the barrels. they passed with flying colors. After the last challenge, the others regrouped with Phil. The trainer of heroes looked to them. "You kids aint half bad." He said.
Sora placed his hands behind his head and grinned, "Looks like I'm headed for the games."
"I'm afriad not." Phil crossed his arms.
Everyone looked to Phil in shock.
"And why not!" exclaimed Donald a bit mad.
"Two words: You guys ain't heroes!"" Phil said blantly.
"Thats four words" Namine whispered to Riku.
"Ah come on Phil, give them a chance like you give me a chance" pleaded Zack. Phil was silent for a moment before he said. "alright, i'll give them a chance. The Zeus Cup isn't until Tomorrow."
The guardians smiled at Phil glad to see that he was giving them a chance before they went back into the coliseum for more training.
-/Underworld/-
Hades sat on his throne while Pain and Panic were by the table. he was talking to Maleficent's loyal henchman Pete and the Beagle Boys sat by the table, "So, looks like our Keyblade wielders had met my archfoe! Oh, I'm going to enjoy crushing them when i free the Titans" exclaimed Hades.
"So how do you plan to do that?" asked Pete as a corridor of Darkness opened to reveal Vanitas.
"Why did you need me here for Hades?" asked Vanitas crossing his arms.
"Easy there helmet boy. all i need you to do is use your Keyblade to unlock the Titan's prison when the planets aligned tomorrow." said Hades.
"Just remember, no harm is to come to the Heir or the Girl...We need them alive. Kill the others" said Vanitas.
"Yeah yeah. old Goat is going to have them in no time. You have my word" Hades said from his throne. Vanitas nodded before he leaned against the window looking out into the Underworld.