Author's Note: Sorry that it's late(again, ugh!). Wanted to post this before the new trailer of KH3 comes out tomorrow/Saturday.
I don't own Kingdom Hearts or Final Fantasy. Warning: The opening text is a spoiler to the real KH3(and I think this will be the same opening text to the actual game). Oh, and I don't even own Mickey's sister Felicity who is known in the Disney Danish Comics in the mid 1930's as Mickey's older sister and the mother of his two nephews, Morty and Ferdie.
CH2: Unusual Request.
{OLYMPUS COLISEUM}
By the time Sora and his friends landed in a gap between two buildings, it was already early afternoon and the sun was shining brightly on a rather nice sunny day. Most of them had already warned Jack Sparrow about the certain rules of the World Order; meaning that he wasn't allowed to tell anyone where he came from or that there were other worlds, though some like Hercules, Phil, and Meg already know some parts of it, but the Pirate was still to keep his mouth shut and to his dismay, not even comment on the fact that he's a Captain.
The group made their way to the streets of Thebes, which, for Sora, Donald, Goofy, Kairi, Skuld, and Roxas, and even to Isa, was rather new to them since they never ventured this part of Olympus Coliseum before, and the world itself was most definitely new to Captain Jack Sparrow.
"Whoa!" Sora gapped, gazing around the Greek buildings. Stores were almost next door to each other. The city itself was amazingly huge, and still you could see the sky. "Never been to this part of Olympus Coliseum before." He admitted.
"Not even in your previous visits?" Terra asked, finding himself rather surprised, as did Aqua and Ven. The three of them recongised this part of the world when they first came here twelve years ago, and nothing seemed to have changed much.
"Nope." Goofy shook his head, "Usually it's just the Coliseum or a few times the Underworld." shrugging.
"I would've thought you'd known the entire world of this place by now." Myde thought, surprised himself. Back in his days as Demyx, he'd usually just sneak off to these kind of areas of the Coliseum to slack off since he'd rather relax than work.
"Only because, given what Rox' told me a few months ago, you'd rather slack off here, so of course you would know this town." Lea pointed out with a skeptical look, which only made Roxas groan at the memory of the time when he and Xigbar came here on a mission and had caught Demyx when the two thought he was the imposter, and how Demyx, weirdly in Roxas' opinion, pleaded them not to say anything to Saix, and how Xigbar threatened to use his ammo on him since he was more than annoyed at mullet-haired young man's slacking off to here.
Myde squeaked a little, eyes wide in horror when Lea said this, before fearfully turning to Isa who gave him an very annoyed and exasperated look. The next thing the youngerish man knew, Isa tugged him roughly by the right ear which caused him to cry out in pain comically.
"You're lucky that I'm not your superior anymore, but that's just for good measure." Isa told him bluntly.
When Isa finally released him, Myde immediately held a hand protectively to his abused ear, tearing up a little, "I'm just lucky that I managed to survive as long as I did. Back then, you were more like my grandmother when she did that to me when I was a kid, and I didn't even to anything!"
"My mom did that to me whenever I got into trouble." Riku shuddered.
Even Mickey looked rather uncomfortable as he caressed his round ears, "So did my sister." He admitted.
"Your sister?" Riku asked, blinking in surprise. "I didn't know you had a sister."
"Well..." Mickey began, rather awkwardly. "It's kinda complicated with my family history and, well, you know, my current position as a you-know-what back at home. Short version of it, Felicity is my older sister and she lives in another town that takes about a few days to get to from Disney Town. Last I heard was that she got married, but ended up having a divorce. I used to get visits from my two nephews once and a while, but I haven't seen them in like three years."
"I thought Donald was the only uncle here." Sora thought, surprised, quickly adding, "No offence, your majesty."
"None taken." Mickey replied.
Jack rolled his eyes and pointed out, though even he was rather too uncomfortable to admit family history, "What you lot have when it comes to relatives are minor compared to me grandmother. She always did more pain to me rather then just pull me by the ear."
"My grandmother never did anything like those." Kairi shook her head, a little saddened that it's been more then a decade since she last saw her. "She used to always tell me stories when I was a little girl."
"I remember." Aqua spoke up, "I saw her when Mickey and I saved you twelve years ago, but you probably don't remember, Kairi."
"Anyway," Donald quickly said to change the subject, still fierchly loyal to King Mickey, and instead replied to Myde's earlier comment, "We were too busy training with Phil and fighting off the Heartless to worry about exploring the rest of the world!"
"I've been here too, but since I was busy running away from the Organization, I never had much time to explore this place." Xion nodded in agreement.
"I remember being with Roxas searching for you in this town." Lea recalled while placing his hands behind his head, before making an expression of slight distaste, "Though one time, we were encountered by some creepy smuggler who was selling sundials."
"I don't think I want to know about this creepy person." Skuld said thoughtfully.
"Good thing I never saw that guy." Ven nodded in agreement, "When I first came here, Phil was running away from Zack who wanted him to train him to become a hero after Phil agreed to train Herc'."
"I guess that was before I came here." Terra thought, "Long story short, and not something I'd like to remember. Then again, I saved Zack from Hades' control in my first ever games."
Aqua nodded in agreement, "And that was before I first came here, and that I heard that everyone was going crazy over you, Terra."
"Still..."
All of the sudden, there was a scream that followed a hard whack, causing Sora and his friends to turn and to their shock, surprise and confusion, a familiar styar came flying towards them after being whacked by apparently irate but gorgeus woman before he landed hard onto the ground on his front, grumbling in sheer annoyance.
"Phil!?" Sora, Donald, Goofy, Roxas, Lea, Ven and Aqua exclaimed in shock, worry and slight annoyance.
"Oh, geez!" Phil grunted, pushing himself up while rubbing his butt that had a red hand-print on it, as did his right cheek. He was unaware of the familiar seven friends at the moment, and instead, gazed up at the rather dumbfounded, confused and stunned Kairi, Skuld, Terra, and especially Jack, while Mickey shook his head and Riku tried not to laugh. Myde just shared a look with Isa.
When Phil saw the expression from Jack, he asked, "What's the matter? You never seen a styar before?"
"...Not really." Jack replied, rather sheepishly. "I have heard a little about you lot, but never thought to even see one before."
"Just how much history have you looked up?" Skuld asked, slightly suspicious.
"Told you, luv'. Plently in my lifetime. Savvy?"
Kairi giggled, "I'll believe it when I see it."
"Not sure I'd like to believe this guy." Phil rolled his eyes as he somewhat agreed, only to get a better look at Kairi, Skuld and even to Xion and immediately his eyes went wide in astondment. "Whoa!"
Much to everyone else's embarrassment and slight disgust, Phil then smoothed his hair and edged closer to the three young women, saying as he tried to be charming, "On the other hand, sweet cheeks. You can believe what I can do."
"Did he just call Kairi, Skuld and Xion 'sweet cheeks'?" Goofy whispered to Donald, obviously slightly disturbed. To them and Sora and pretty much everyone else, is was something entirely new. To Aqua, she sighed and shook her head.
"He called me sweet cheeks when I first met him, and I was...well...I felt very awkward and weirded out." Aqua replied.
"I can see why." Terra said, dryly.
Sora, while happy to see Phil again, got annoyed and walked up to the goat-man, scolding, "Phil, no offence, but if this is how you treat girls the first time you meet them, no wonder you got knocked away just then." crossing his arms disapprovingly.
"Who asked you?" Phil asked, only to realise who spoke to him and this time he cried out happily as he recongised Sora, Donald and Goofy, "Hey, if it ain't the new true heroes!" and giving the trio a high-five.
"True heroes?" Jack asked, puzzled.
"Long story." Roxas chuckled.
Sora then introduced Phil to Kairi, Skuld, Xion(and while keeping in mind that they were off-limits, much to Phil's annoyance, but denied that there was any relationship going on), Riku, Mickey, Jack Sparrow, Isa, Myde(whom Phil recongised as Demyx, as well as recongising Roxas, and had recongized Lea as Axel, which the redhead commented his real name and that Axel is his nick-name now), and Terra.
"So you're Terra, huh?" Phil questioned, gazing carefully at the young man who felt a little uncomfortable, before the goat-man shook his head, saying, "Geez, for a guy who ever won his first games and caused everybody in Greece to go completely gaga, you disappeared for twelve years and only now you show up again!?"
Terra flinched, apologetically saying, "I...didn't have much of a choice in that matter. Let's just say, I was left in a real bad place." referring to the fact that Xehanort had used his body for that long.
"Same here with me." Ven spoke up, apologetically.
"Ventus? That you?" Phil blinked, surprised, before his gaze turned to Aqua and was even more shocked. "And Aqua too!? You both haven't changed a bit!"
"Like Ven said, we were in the similiar position as Terra." Aqua said, awkwardly.
"Well, I'd ask if the three of you are gods or somethin', but since you're not all glowing and such, that just kinda seems a waste of time." Phil shrugged, before smirking womanizingly, "So, Aqua...you and the other three ladies got any plans for later?"
"Phil!" Sora, Ven and Aqua scolded in unison.
"Okay, okay. I get the point, so don't slap me or dunk me into the river or somethin'." Phil quickly replied, holding his hands up in defeat.
"Dunk you into the river?" Donald asked, skeptically.
"That's what Meg did when Herc and I first met her." Phil grumbled sourly at the memory.
"Can't imagine why." Riku muttered dryly to himself.
"Why did she do that?" Sora asked, skeptically, though he had a feeling he knew the answer.
Phil gave Sora an annoyed look, saying as he held up two fingers to count his sentence, though as usual to those who knew him as well as they did, it was never the right number, "Two words; She, was, a pain!"
Kairi, Xion, Skuld, Terra, Isa, and Mickey shared a glance of confusion, while Jack counted his fingers, realising that Phil said four words and was just as confused as everyone else. When the six of them glanced at the others glanced at the rest of the group, they shook their heads as Lea sighed, exasperated, "Don't ask."
"Speaking of Herc, how's he doing lately?" Sora asked, quickly remembering what they actually came here for. "'Cause, well...everybody's in a lotta trouble, and that isn't just Hades or the Heartless."
"Champ's been fine, taking it easy and breaks when he needs it and thank Hera everybody else in town know that, especially after last year's Hydra disaster." Phil shrugged, gesturing everyone to follow him towards the stairs that lead to the Coliseum itself.
"Hydra disaster? What happened?" Aqua asked, worriedly.
"Hades happened." Sora replied for Phil. "He sent a lot of giant monsters to slow Herc' down and well...despite being told to rest, Hercules kept on competiting in competitions as he didn't want to let anyone down."
"Even I couldn't get the kid to take a break, and neither could Meg either." Phil nodded in agreement. He then gazed up thankfully at Sora, Donald and Goofy and added, "Thanks to these guys when they came here last year again twice, they, Herc' and that other guy Auron lifted Herc's confidence and whipped Hades down the River."
"Hey, no one hurt my friends and gets away with it." Sora said, confidently. "Plus, it was Hades' fault to stumble into the River of Death when he did." before grumbling a little given the down-side to that. "Too bad he still doesn't know when to quit."
"Anyway, Phil, that's kind of a reason why we came back here in the first place." Mickey spoke up, slightly hesitated. "See, uh...we're were just wonderin' if Hercules can give us a little bit of advice with what we're dealing with right now."
As they were climbing up the stairs, the very high and long stairs, which was the longest stairs Captain Jack Sparrow ever endured and by barely halfway, he was quickly becoming exhausted. Myde was already panting after the first few from the first flight of stairs, but no one wanted to carry him. Anyway, Phil, hearing what Mickey requested, suddenly looked troubled.
"Well, actually, now that you guys are here, I have a bit of a favor to ask ya's. Might go against the rules but at the moment, I don't think the rules are being kept in order at the moment." Phil admitted.
"What's wrong?" Isa asked.
"I'll tell you guys when we reach the Coliseum." Phil told the blue-haired young man.
The more they went up, the more Jack felt his legs were about to give up. Myde, every five or ten seconds, kept on complaining which was starting to get on most of the group's nerves.
"Are we there yet?" Myde asked.
"No." Lea answered.
Five seconds later.
"Are we there yet?"
"Not even half way, mate." Jack groaned.
Another five seconds later.
"Are we there yet?"
"No." Aqua said, a bit more sharply than she wanted.
Another five seconds later.
"Are we th-"
"MYDE!" Isa snapped, glaring angrily at him, "If you don't shut up, I'm tossing you all the way back down and make you start climbing all over again!"
"Can I help ya' with that?" Lea teased with a smirk.
"Some things never change." Roxas sighed with slight dismay, and Xion giggled while she nodded in agreement.
By the time the group finally made it to the familiar and newly restored Coliseum, Jack and Myde both collasped onto the ground halfway between the stair-way entrance and the front entrance of the Coliseum itself, moaning.
"Sheesh, you two guys are completely out of shape! Unbelievable." Phil critized at the two men.
"QED, goat-man, I'm more of a sea-worthy man than a land-worthy man." Jack admitted, groaning. He missed feeling the ocean waves underneath a ship, and most certainly missed his beloved ship. In fact, he was missing his home-world already, and the very thought of not being able to go back made him feel rather nauesous.
Lea nudged Myde's side with his boot while having his hands on his hips, saying, "C'mon, you lazy slacker. You can't just lie there all day."
"Besides which, if Phil's up to train us while we're here, we'll be training at the obstecle course." Roxas added.
Myde just whined, trying to smouther himself on the ground which he was currently kissing. "I'm not gonna survive it...that's it, I'm done for...goodbye cruel world!" and played dead.
"Oh come on, you big baby." Terra scolded, rolling his eyes as he and Ven helped Myde to stand up, while Sora and Riku did the same with Jack. "You'll live."
"For the record straight, I am not doing any stair excersises!" Myde told Phil, point blank after a moment.
"I think you whine just as much as Prompto." A new unfamiliar voice spoke up, causing Sora and everyone else to turn to the doorway of the Coliseum building, where a tall man, close to his mid to late twenties, shaggy/spiky black hair with brown eyes, large tattoos on his upper arms and part of his chest, which was only covered barely by a small black leather jacket, cotton black jeans with leather boots, a chain necklace, and two scars on the left side of his face, just over his eye.
"Who're you?" Jack asked, wiry at the new young man. He didn't even hear him coming. From what he was seeing, the lad didn't look like he was a resident of this world. More closer to the Midgar World he'd visited after Yen Sid disappeared. He was still adjusting to different apparent past-ristic and futuristic ways of other worlds.
"Name's Gladiolus. Most people call me Gladio." Gladiolus, or Gladio for short, introduced himself, though the apparent pirate of the group made him slightly discomforted. The others seemed generally good people, but one couldn't tell.
"I'm Sora." Sora introduced himself politely with a smile, holding a hand for a shake, which Gladio, seeing the teenager actually being nice, smiled and accepted it, while careful not to crush the kid's hand off.
"I'm Riku." Riku introduced himself.
"My name's Kairi." Kairi added.
"And I'm Mickey; Mickey Mouse!" Mickey added happily.
"Donald Duck." Donald said, proudly.
"Name's Goofy." Goofy said, happily.
"C-*Ahem* Jack Sparrow." Jack said awkwardly, quickly correcting himself when Sora and the others gave him a warning glare. It was going to take a while to get used to not call himself 'Captain Jack Sparrow'.
"Name's Lea. Got it memorized?" Lea introduced himself, tapping the side of his head as he said his catch-phrase.
"I'm Isa." Isa politely added.
"I'm Roxas." Roxas added.
"My name is Xion." Xion added.
"I'm Terra." Terra added.
"My name is Aqua. Please to meet you." Aqua added kindly.
"I'm Ventus, but you can call me Ven." Ven said optimistically.
"My name's Skuld." Skuld added.
"And this guy's Myde." Lea jerked a thumb at Myde who waved sheepishly. "Don't mind him, he's a decent fighter, but he's also kind of a slacker."
"So, new guy." Phil spoke up to Gladio quickly as he approached the younger man. "How's trainin'?"
"You're training Gladio, Phil?" Sora asked, surprised.
"Yeah, this kid showed up about two days ago, ranting about needing some training." Phil answered, before admitting, "Which is also a good thing that he's got a winning streak at the Games since Herc' left."
"Wait a minute, you mean Hercules isn't here?" Ven asked, surprised.
"I'll explain later." Phil whispered.
Gladio on the other hand, sighed before saying, "Yeah well, those guys at the Games are nothin' compared to what I've come up against lately. Anyway, gotta warm up for round 15. Later." He casually waved a farewell to the group before heading towards the stairs, as Sora and everyone else watched him go.
After a few moments of silence, Jack then asked to Phil, "Just out of curiosity, mate...What was he talking about?"
"The Games are the Competitions of the Coliseum." Sora answered before Phil could speak. "It's a long story."
"I've got no idea where that guy even came from." Phil admitted with a shrug, turning to gaze at Terra before adding, "The kid's like you; shows up, competes in his first games and wins! Sort of a bit like Cloud, too."
"That spiky-haired blond swordsman?" Jack asked, blinking. Since when was Cloud Strife here in this world too?
"You know that kid?" Phil asked.
"It's a long story." Sora quickly said. "Anyway, here is Herc'?"
"Well, that's the thing..." Phil said harshly, before looking slightly pleading as he explained, "See, word on the street is that there was some trouble up at Mount' Olympus; Ya' know, where most of the Gods live. Anyway, Herc thinks that Hades is up to no good again, and he had me pretty convinced on that part. So he left with Pegasus to check it out, and that was a couple of days ago. A day later when he didn't show up, Meg went to talk to Hades whether he was behind the kid's sudden delay or not. Haven't seen them since then. That's when that Gladio guy showed up, askin' to be trained and to compete in the Games. Since Herc' wasn't here and everybody's been going nuts for wantin' to see action, I couldn't say no, but I'm really worried about Herc', his horse and his girlfriend!"
"So I take you want us to see what's wrong." Aqua correctly guessed. Two days without any word from Hercules worried her greatly, as it worried everyone else.
"If you're not too busy." Phil said, pleadingly.
"Sure thing!" Sora quickly replied. "Plus, after what you just told us, I'm worried about Herc' too. I can head up to find him. Which why is it to Mount Olympus, anyway?"
"If you wanna climb up, you'd better be ready for it, kid." Phil said, before adding, "Though Zeus recently set up a mountain-side short cut that isn't too hard to climb; well, not too hard for guys like you."
"Piece of Cake! I climb almost all the time." Sora nodded, before saying to the others, "So, who's with me?"
"I'll go!" Donald held up a hand.
"Ay-yhuck, me too!" Goofy added.
"Count me in." Ven nodded with smile, "Plus, I did promise I'd come back once Herc' was a true hero, anyway. I'd better keep to my promise."
"I'll go with ya's. I've met Zeus before, so he'll recongise me." Mickey added.
"I'm coming too." Kairi added, before quickly adding, "I'm not staying behind and make myself useless or worried sick."
"I'll head to the Underworld to see if Meg's there." Riku voulenteered.
"I'll go with you." Terra declared.
"So will I." Aqua added.
Myde immediately shook his head, waving his hands out to everyone, "No way! I'm not goin' to the Underworld!" remembering the awful times when he went there. The second time was a failed attempted to convince Sora to return as Roxas.
"You would rather climb instead?" Lea asked, annoyed.
"I'd rather stay here." Myde shuddered, before quickly adding, "B-besides, Heartless might show up in town and try to ruin the Games!"
"As much as I'm thinking this is more of his excuse to slack off, he has a point. So I'll stay and search around town." Isa decided.
"Yeah, me too." Lea shrugged with one shoulder, before asking Roxas, Xion, Skuld and Jack, "So, what 'bout you guys?"
"I think I'll go with Riku, Terra and Aqua. Just in case." Skuld spoke up.
"I'll stay around town too. You never know that Hades might show up with the Heartless." Roxas decided.
"Same here." Xion nodded in agreement.
Finally it was Jack's turn, and when it came to his decision, he was hesitating. Going to the Underworld didn't sound appealing, as it was the land of the dead, but climbing up to Mount Olympus wasn't a fun ride either. And to climb back down the stairs back into town and all the way back up again wasn't appealing either.
At last, he suggested, "Perhaps I'll just stay at the Coliseum and make sure those black thingies don't attack anybody." only for Jack to have his ear tugged rather painfully by Kairi.
"Nice try, but that's not going to happen, Mister!" Kairi scowled in annoyance at the pirate who cried out in sudden pain, before she finally let go and Jack immediately flew a hand to his right ear protectively.
"Was that really necessary?" Jack grumbled. When everyone glared at him, he finally forced himself to make a decision as despite none of the options were pleasent, he didn't have much of a choice. "Alright, fine then. I'll go with Sora to Mount bloody Olympus, because I don't fancy in going to the land of the dead or climbing back down those god-forsaken stairs anytime soon."
Phil stared at him, before whispering to Sora, "Where'd you dig this bozo up?"
"Long story. He's just a little cranky because he's too used to sail on ships through most of his life and well...Like I said, looong story." Sora whispered, sheepishly.
"That's suddenly becoming famous today." Phil muttered.
The group then split up to their assigned arrangements; Sora, Donald, Goofy, Kairi, Mickey, Ven and Jack following Phil as he showed them to the secret entrance leading towards Mount Olympus to find Hercules and see if he's okay while also requesting to ask Zeus about Bhunivelze and Chaos, Riku leading Terra, Aqua and Skuld to the entrance of the Underworld that was set up to find Meg and see what Hades is up to now, and finally, Lea, Isa, Roxas, Xion and Myde checking things up in town to make sure the Heartles didn't ruin the Games or cause any problems in Thebes.
Though neither of them knew what was about to happen.
Meanwhile, halfway towards Mount Olympus, Hades himself was pacing as he grumbled, "No matter what I'm doin', Wonderbreath will end up breaking free from my trap. But at least he'll finally meet his match and so will Zeusy! On the other hand, things aren't lookin' too good."
"Still attempting to destroy Hercules, Hades?" A familiar female voice spoke up.
Slightly startled, Hades turned around just in time to see Maleficent and Pete appear from the Corridor of Darkness. What were those two doing here? Maleficent wasn't trust-worthy anymore, and Pete was just a big fat useless lump who couldn't do anything right! He wasn't in the mood for these two.
"Ugh, you two again?" Hades rolled his eyes. "Sorry, whatever it is you want, I'm not in the joining the leagues thing anymore. Go find someone else to bother. I'm busy enough as it is."
"I understand." Maleficent nodded, "However, there is just one thing I seek to discover. Are you familiar with an ancient black box?"
"Black box?" Hades asked, wondering where he heard something like that, he then shrugged, "Well, I do remember Pandora and her Box thing, but the Black Box?" before finally saying in defeat, "Nope. Doesn't ring a bell."
"I told ya even Hades wouldn't know about the Black Box, m'lady." Pete grumbled, though he was careful on how he was saying it to his 'boss'.
"I see." Maleficent sighed, ignoring Pete's commentary. "Well, should you hear anything about that, I suspect you give me the information that I need. That box itself could be the key to rule all the Worlds."
Hades turned around, saying dismissively, "Yeah, well, I have other things to worry about; such as, I'm still trying to get rid of Wonderboy and Zeus."
"Then I suggest you make yourself more prepared. Sora and his friends have arrived and they will no doubt be coming very soon." Maleficent warned, just before she and Pete both opened up another Corridor of Darkness and vanished once they stepped through.
When she had said this, that made Hades's eyes widen in sheer horror and disbelief, causing him to glow yellow and red as he roared in fury at the mention of the Keyblade brat and his friends back yet again, "WHAT!? THEM AGAIN!? THOSE LITTLE-!" before regaining his composture and returned to his original blue colour, "Okay, fine, fine, I'm cool, I'm fine."
He then thought of something and as he was good of plotting schemes, Hades then smirked evilly. "Okay, so it's a little delay, but hey, those guys get in the way almost as much as that sunspot. Not even Mr. 'High and Mighty' will have time to help them. What's a little Titan or two and Heartless can't handle?" chuckling to hismelf.
Once again, Hades plotted a plan that would end his enemies once and for all.
A/N: Sorry for the lack of action straight away, but I didn't want to make the first few chapters extremely long the point where the later chapters will be waay to long to fit into the last chapters. I'll see you in the next chapter as soon as I can. For those who read the scene with Hades, Maleficent and Pete, I'm certain you'll recongise it as one of the scenes from last month's KH3 trailer.