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It's strange how this world is one of the most recurring ones in the KH series...
Also in KH Birth by Sleep its was mostly implied that the Coliseum itself was somewhere on Mt Olympus (even if mortals aren't really allowed in said place, and it's nowhere to be seen in KH3). So I'm going with the head canon that the coliseum is somewhere along the summit that normal people can easily travel to.
Chapter XIII- Olympus Coliseum (Part 1)
"Hey Koga, wakey wakey!"
Koga groaned as he was shook awake by Sora. His back ached as he slept on the chair the whole night. Apparently the cockpit made up almost all of the ship's interior. There were no kitchen, bedroom, or even a couch! There was at least a bathroom, though it lacked a shower...
"Mornin' Koga!" Goofy smiled.
"How can you tell it's morning?" He yawned. "It's always night."
"Oh I just assumed. You've been asleep for hours."
"Well there's not much to do in between travel to worlds. Staring at the stars gets a little boring after a few hours. Just a boring ride to the next world."
"Speaking of which, we've made it to the next one." Donald said
"Really?" Koga immediately jumped awake. He looked out the window and saw they were already entering the world. He saw rolling hills with marble structures and a lot of people wearing togas. Off in the distance was a large mountain that reached over the clouds.
"Alright, let's land on top of that mountain!" Donald said pulling the ship over the clouds and towards the summit. Suddenly the ship shook and alarms blared as everyone stumbled.
"Just what was that?" Jiminy asked as he straightened his hat.
"There some kind of energy coming from the mountain that hit us." Donald said. "It's like something doesn't want us landing there."
"Guess we're gonna have to find someplace else." Goofy said.
"How about there?" Sora asked pointing to a Coliseum along the ridge of the mountain. Donald landed the ship and the group entered.
"Look at this place!" Koga said looking around at the flaming braziers and large bronze statues of warriors. He took a quick snapshot with his camera. Sora joined his brother and took it all in.
"This isn't a vacation! Let's go inside and look for the king." Donald said
"And Riku and Kairi?" Sora said.
"And Alice?" Koga added.
"Right." Donald mumbled. They want inside and they saw some short pudgy man with goat legs working on something against the wall.
"Is that a Satyr?" Koga mumbled to himself.
"Um, excuse me?" Sora asked.
"Good it's you." The Satyr said not even turning around to look at them. "Do me a favor and move that block over there will ya?"
Sora looked and saw a large stone block against the wall on the other side of the room. He shrugged and gave it a hard push but he could hardly make it budge.
"Wow, too heavy." Sora panted falling on his back.
"You wimp, let me try it." Koga boasted stepping forward.
"I think it might be too much for you." Sora warned.
"Sora, who's the stronger one here?" He said flexing his arms as if he had something to show off.
"Goofy."
Koga's eyebrow twitched. "I meant of the two of us."
"Oh, you." Sora said. It's true, back home Koga was always the physically stronger of the two, he once carried an entire log with one arm. He felt so proud of himself until Riku showed up carrying two logs, one on each arm.
"Exactly, now watch and learn." He said as he bent his legs and pressed the palms of his hands against the stone. He gritted his teeth as he kept pushing. He lasted longer than Sora and if you look closely it budged by at least half a centimeter, but he then let go and flopped to the ground. "Okay, maybe it is too heavy!"
"What? Too heavy? Since when have you been such a little..." The satyr turned around and finally looked at the people in the room. "Oh, I thought you were someone else. Sorry, I wouldn't have asked if I knew you were just a bunch of scrawny losers."
"Hey, we're tough!" Sora shouted.
"Yeah, we've fought a bunch of monsters!" Koga said.
"You two think you're some kind of heroes?" The Satyr sneered.
"Yeah, they're the heroes chosen by the Keyblade." Goofy said.
"And we are some of our King's best fighters!" Donald shouted.
"Keyblade? I haven't heard about the Keyblade in quite some time." The Satyr said.
"You know about the Keyblade?" Sora asked surprised.
"Yeah, I met a couple of people back in the day who used Keyblades. One of them participated in the Games and became a legend."
"The Games?"
"Yeah the ga- Who come's to the Coliseum and doesn't know about the games?" He shouted. He pinched between his eyebrow and exhaled. "Alright so it's like this, heroes from all over come here to fight other warriors or monsters that are 'donated' to the games. We've even had the occasional hero from other worlds as well."
"Well then let us join the games!" Koga shouted. "Then we will prove that we are heroes."
The Satyr laughed loudly. "Really?" He walked towards the block and pushed. "If you can't even push this then you can't call yourselves heroes!" He made even less progress than Koga as he quit and glared at them angrily. "Okay, so it's more than brute strength that makes a hero. Why don't you show me what you two got then I'll see if you're hero material." The group murmured in agreement. "Good by the way, the name's Phil."
"I'm Sora, this is my brother Koga and these two are Donald and Goofy." Sora introduced.
"Well then let's head to the arena and put that Keyblade to the test."
"Alright, you're first Sora!" Phil said. The area had platforms and barrels all over.
"You got it Phil, tell me what I gotta do?" Sora said.
"You gotta smash all the barrels as quick as you can. Now start!"
Sora ran as fast as he could around the arena. He swung his keyblade around taking the barrels out in two sometimes one hit, he even took a few out at once with one swing. He was used to doing stuff like this back at home, and with the skills he got fighting the Heartless he handled his weapon with efficient skill. He jumped to the top platform and took out the last one.
"24 seconds, not bad." Phil said. "Alright Koga, you're up." He said as the barrels reappeared out of nowhere. Sora gave his brother a high five as they passed each other. Koga summoned his weapon and prepared to begin. "Wait..." Koga turned to Phil in confusion. "Using a ranged weapon is cheating. Switch to something else."
"B-but I..." Koga stammered. He isn't used to using a more melee weapon.
"You got this Koga!" Sora said. "Just do it!"
Koga looked down and nodded. He concentrated and his Shooting Star Keyblade turned back into it's base form. When the round began he ran forward and swung at the first barrel. He knocked it down but he stumbled and fell forward. He got back up on his feet and swung at a group of barrels. He swung too hard and the Keyblade slipped from his hand and clattered on the ground. He felt the eyes of everyone looking at him with pity, making his face turn red.
"Okay, I'm gonna stop right there. This is just sad." Phil sighed.
"Wait, I can do it! Just let me keep trying!"
Phil seemed hesitant but gave in.
It was several attempts later that Koga finally smashed all the barrels without stumbling or dropping his weapon. It still felt awkward for him but he managed to use his strength to smash through the barrels. He was a sweaty mess and his arms were getting tired.
Phil looked rather irritated and slightly relived that he was done. As he looked at the time. "39 seconds, you could do better but I'm just gonna leave it at that."
Sora clapped his brother's back. "Nice job Koga!" He gave a weary smile in response. "Next stop is the games for us!"
"Afraid not kid." Phil said. The twins looked at him with shock.
"What?" Sora exclaimed. "Why not?"
"Two words. You ain't heroes!"
Koga counted his fingers about to say something but was interrupted by Sora. "But we did the trails!"
Phil laughed. "I said I would see if you're hero material. And you guys do not have it! Besides, you two don't have any passes to partake in any games."
Sora and Koga both pouted and stormed out of the arena and to the entrance where Donald and Goofy were waiting.
"So how'd it go?" Goofy said.
"Apparently we aren't heroes." Sora said.
Goofy frowned. "Well that ain't right. You are heroes."
"We don't need some tournament to tell us we are heroes or not!"
"Yeah, but I wanted to see if I'm as good as other heroes." Koga said. "Maybe if I learned to use the Keyblade the proper way then maybe we would've had a chance.
"Koga..." Sora said.
"No, it's alright." Koga said giving a small smile. "I just gotta try to use the Keyblade in it's base form every once in awhile." He said looking at Starlight. It was not in it's gun form.
"That's the Spirit Koga!" Goofy said. "Just like anything, you gotta keep practicing. That's how me and Donald learned to use our weapons."
"Yeah, I didn't learn all my spells just by doing nothing. It took time and skill." Donald agreed.
Koga's smile grew bigger. "Thanks guys."
"Aw, isn't this just sweet." Said a mysterious smooth voice. They looked and saw a figure hiding along the side. He was wearing a black toga, had blue skin, and the top of his head was covered in blue flames like it was his hair.
"Who are you?" Donald asked.
"Eh, I'm nobody important. Now I can't help but overhear, you wish to enter the games right?"
"Yeah."
"I thought so. Well then get a load of this!" He snapped his bony fingers and two small pieces of paper appeared.
"What's this?"
"Why it's a game pass, meant for any two lucky people who get their hands on this." He chuckled.
Sora looked at it mesmerized. "For us?"
"Yep, it's all yours. One for you and one for your brother."
"I don't know, didn't mom say not to take stuff strangers give you?" Koga said.
"Well mommy isn't here isn't she?" The man said. Koga felt a shudder with how he said it.
"Come on Koga, what's the worse that can happen?" Sora said taking the passes.
"Good luck kids, I'm rooting for you!" He said as he watched them go back inside. When they left his demeanor changed. "This is easier than I thought. You can come out now clod!"
He heard footsteps as he turned around and saw his newest recruit come to him. He had blonde spiky hair, a blue eyes that almost look like they are glowing. His clothes were covered by a ragged red cape. He had a long sword hanging on his back.
"I told you Hades, my name is Cloud." He said slightly annoyed.
"Yeah, I know, it literally says it on the contract I made." Hades said. "Now look, you got to face them in the tournament and take them out there."
Cloud looked at Hades skeptically. "The God of the Underworld wants me to kill two kids?"
"Yeah, I know that sounds bad but I got some people counting on me to get something like this done and I don't want those two getting in my way."
"I don't see how this is my problem?" He rolled his eyes.
"Have you forgotten what's in it for you?" Cloud's eyebrows twitched slightly and Hades caught that. He wrapped an arm around his shoulder and leaned in close to whisper. "Now look, the sooner you get this done the sooner we can go our merry way. I go back to my evil scheming and you can go back to recovering your lost past or whatever it was you wanted."
Cloud sighed and shook himself out of his arm. "Fine, let's just get it over with." He said as he walked into the arena.
Hades groaned. "Geez, suckers like him are hard to come by but they are so hard to negotiate with!" He noticed none other than Maleficent presenting herself before him. "Hey, I don't remember inviting you to the party."
"I thought you might need some assistance." She said.
"Look lady, you may have your heartless but don't forget that you're talking before a god. This is my show so stay out of the spotlight, capisce?"
"Very well, fight to you're heart's content." She agreed as she left.
Okay so last year I played Final Fantasy 7 for the first time, and I liked it. Then I looked at the Kh Cloud and the FF7 Cloud and I noticed something was off. Apparently his personality in KH is more lone emo while the FF7 is more likable and caring (I mean he's still kinda emo but at least he gives a crap) So I tried to base his personality on the one in FF7 and give him a different story arc then the one in the game.
Another thing, after playing the other KH games and the 'Xehanort saga' being over, it really helps write new stuff in advance and see how it connects to the story.
Unlike other people who likes to write their story as they go along and don't think about how some stuff doesn't makes sense 13 years later WHEN THE F###ING GAME EXPLAINS STUFF AT THE LAST MINUTE OR DOESN'T EXPLAIN AND IT'S JUST A CONFUSING MESS!
...sorry, got a little salty there.
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