Chapter 19: Olympus Part 4Sora felt like his heart was aching. Something was not right. It began to hurt so bad, he felt as if he was having a heart attack. Just then, he closed his eyes and saw Vanitas laughing. Sora imagined trying to kill him with something and in that moment, Vanitas looked over in fear and disappeared. He then saw what appeared to be Kairi, helping Ventus up from the ground of the platform. Something was not right. Sora wanted to speak to them again and help them. But then, the siren began to make noise. Sora woke up from his sleeping bag with his eyes wide open. The games were about to start.
"Everyone is going to have a date with death when we all win! Free drinks for all!" proclaimed Hades who was present in the tournament. The Citizens of Theieves were all watching in their seats with excitement as the games were about to begin.
Sora, Donald, Goofy and Dinahi were ready for battle. "I don't like this one bit. That freak with the blue fire on his head thinks he's going to win. I don't think so." said Dinahi.
"If we lose, we all are going to be rotting in some hell." said Donald.
"Gwarsh! The idea is feeling me with dread." said Goofy.
"We are not going to lose! We will show these people what we are made of." said Sora.
"You sound confident." said Donald.
"Not really." said Sora.
Cloud and Squall were on the battle arena armed with their large swords. The others walked forward to meet with them. "Keep it clean guys." said Phil nervously. Hercules was watching from the sidelines with Arthur by his side.
"Do you think we'll win?" asked Arthur.
"If anything happens, I'll do what I can to fix this. Hades loves making deals. And I have a deal he won't refuse." said Hercules.
"Which is?" asked Arthur.
"My soul for everyone here." replied Hercules.
"What? Why would you do that?!" cried Arthur.
"My father told me that the strenght of a true hero comes from the heart. And my heart is telling me to do what I can to save everyone." said Hercules.
"That's very brave, yet I feel like it's too much." said Arthur.
"A true hero and a man means to be self sacrificial and thinking of others before one's self. I learned it the hard way." said Hercules.
Sora stood in front of Squall and the young man looked at him deep in the eyes. "They'll keep coming at you out of nowhere. As long as you continue to wield the Keyblade." said Squall.
"What is that supposed to mean?" asked Sora
"Why did the Keyblade choose a boy?" said Squall to himself.
"Focus." said Cloud coldly.
"Get ready, and FIGHT!" cried Phil.
Donald quickly shot fire spells and Goofy threw his sheild. Dinahi stood back and pulled his spear forward. Cloud then jumped into the air and swinged his large sword to strike. Dinahi saw it coming and quickly jumped backwards. As Cloud pierced his sword on the ground, Dinahi moved forward to strike him with his spear. Cloud saw it coming and quickly kicked Dinahi on the stomach. Goofy saw this and ran towards Cloud to hit him with his shield. Cloud didn't let Goofy hit him either. He moved in the ground swiftly and kicked Goofy on the chin.
"Goofy!" cried Donald as he shot fire spells at Cloud.
Meanwhile, Sora was fighting against Squall. Fighting with him was just like fighting with Riku back on the islands. The way he fought was familar, but this was not a game. This was life and death! Sora did everything to guard himself against Squall's terrifying sword attacks.
"Kill them all! And make them suffer!" cried Hades.
"Shut up!" screamed Phil.
Hades clapped his hands with delight. "As the God of the Underworld, I'm allowed to break a few rules. Let's make this game more exctiting and dangerous!" he then snapped his fingers and a ton of Heartless appeared on the ring.
"Aid my warriors! And while your at it, take on the audience as well! I have this game all wrapped up!" said Hades.
"Hold it! That was not part of the deal! You promised that the boys would get a fair fight! And the audience were not part of the deal either." said Hercules.
"But they are from the city. Part of the deal is that the city would belong to me! And since my warrirors are about to win this thing, I might as well get a head start. You are still naive as ever wonder boy. No wonder why tricking you into this was so damn easy." said Hades.
Hercules couldn't take it any longer. He punched Hades in the face, deforming it.
"Everyone! Get out of here!" cried Hercules as the audience began to panic with the Heartless flying all over.
Squall and Cloud see this and they both shake their heads in anger.
"Putting people in danger was not part of our contract. Let's say we betray the God of Death and join the good side." said Squall.
"It's not the first time." said Cloud. Sora, Donald and Goofy along with Dinahi got the message. "Let's get the Heartless out of here! Let's join forces!" cried Sora.
"Only until the Heartless are gone." said Squall shaking Sora's hand.
And so, everyone there began to fight the Heartless. Hercules began to punch and hit many of them, while Phil charged against them with his horns. Donald and Goofy performed thier usual hits, while Sora attacked the Heartless many times with his Keyblade. Cloud and Squall attacked them all with their powerful attacks as well, and that made Hades angry as he got his face back together.
"You want to play hero? Okay. Well here's a little gift for all of you!" Hades then snapped his fingers and a dark cloud emerged from the sky. Cloud looked up and quickly flew up to attack the dark cloud.
In that instant, the dark cloud disappeared, revealing a man with long silver hair and a very long sword, blocking Cloud's attack.
"Good to see you... Cloud." sneered the man.
Cloud was then thrown into the ground and everyone went over to help. "Who is that?" cried Sora.
"That is Sephiroth. A fallen soldier and the one winged angel of death. He was destroyed in my world ages ago, but Hades must have brought him back." said Cloud.
"So this is the man you were looking for? Well now you can settle things with him." said Squall.
Sephiroth smiled wickedly. "Where is Tifa? And Barret? And that stupid looking cat with the white teddy bear? Are you alone Cloud? And those people are your new partners in your ... Avalanche was it? Well no matter. If they are allies of yours or enemies, it's all the same to me. Death will be upon you all." said Sephiroth.
Hades then walked forward. "Sephiroth Baby! Welcome back to the living! Kill thos who oppose me and you will be greatly rewarded." said Hades.
"Thank you. But before I begin, let me be clear on something. This is my world now. And there could only be one lord of the dead, and I will be the one! When this world is mine, I will be reborn as a God and I will have everything in my disposal." said Sephiroth.
"Did you forget who brought you back to life you ungrateful beast!?" cried Hades.
"Don't flatter yourself. Your reign was destined to end one way or another." said Sephiroth with a sneer.
"You are FIRED!" cried Hades.
"Join us then! Fight alongside us and save the world!" cried Hercules.
"Save the world!? BAH! The only thing I care about is my Underworld! Sure I'll join you, but this one time only! And hear me out Sephiroth! There could only be one God of the Underworld! And guess what?! I'm he!" cried Hades. He then threw fire balls at Sephiroth and everyone did their part. Dinahi threw his spear, Arhtur threw wall balls he found on the ground, Donald shot some fire and blizzard spells, Squall also did the same and Goofy threw his shield.
Sora closed his eyes and imagined a beam of light. He then opened them and he aimed his Keyblade at the mighty Sephiroth.
"You are so not an angel." said Sora as light came out of his Keyblade and hit Sephiroth in the hear. "What is this?" he screamed.
Cloud then flew into the air and striked Sephiroth with his sword, finishing him off. "Stay where you belong. In my memories." said Cloud.
Sephiroth sneered. "I will NEVER be a memory!" And with that, he vanished, utterly defeated for the time being.
"Now Hades, you must leave. We cleaned up one of your messes." said Hercules.
"Oh I'll back down this one time. But next time Hercujerk, you will be finished and I will win! But now, perhaps I should celebrate Sephiroth's updated death with a margarita decorated with a yellow glow worm. Perhaps that will rise my spritis." said Hades as he vanished into thin air.
Just then, Sora saw something glowing in the distance and a large Keyhole appeard out of nowhere.
"What is that thing doing here?! Oh right! That was under the pedestal and I covered it with that." said Phil.
"That was the keyhole that was on the ground? Wierd?" said Hercules.
Sora then shot a beam of light, locking this world for good.
Squall helped Cloud up after he fell on the ground. "We should probably leave. We still have a lot of battles to finish." said Squall.
"Before that. Hey kid!" called out Cloud to Sora.
Sora turned to Cloud and heard him say this: "Don't lose sight of your light." he said as he and Squall vanished in a portal of light.
The group said their farewells to Phil and Hercules and they headed back to the GummiShip.
"So what now?" asked Arthur.
"Can we both go with you guys to the next world? We are still looking for Alice." said Dinahi.
"The Gummi Ship is open for everyone." said Goofy nodding.
"Our ship runs of happy faces." said Donald.
Sora looked up at the sky and breathed in deeply. "That silver haired dude back there... are there stronger people like him out there? Dangerous people?" asked Sora.
"We all defeated him together. I'm sure if we do the same thing, we can overcome anything. Even if they are one winged angels." said Goofy.
Sora smiled brightly. "Thanks you guys."
To be continued.
