Whew I am finally done with my summer reading project! Now I can go back to with no distraction! For now I'll be working on this story more often but a new chapter for my other story will be up soon! Thanks again to Neassa, Lady Sonora and ECHO230 for the OC's! Hope you like reading this chap! Now on with the story!

Return to the Coliseum

So we left for the Coliseum. As you know I made my own little change to the Gummi ship so we were basically blasting through space since the ship was so light. Really bad move.

"AHHHHHHHHH!"

That was the first thing you heard after Cid hit the ignition. We were swirling and turning as Cid tried to decelerate.

"Who in the hell replaced my engine!"

I meekly raised my hand as I was thrown into the wall by the speed of the ship.

"Um, that would be me…sorry…"

Everyone shot a look at me and I could see that they were pretty angry. Sora and Daya lunged at my throat and started to throttle me…

"WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD YOU GIVE THIS LITTLE SHIP THE BIGGEST ENGINE AROUND?"

The ship scraped against a meteor, shaking the ship and tossing Sora and Daya off of me. Everyone scrambled to their feet and Leon and Cloud ran to Cid and the controls. Leon started to search for the brakes.

"Cid, what's taking so long? Where the hell are the brakes?"

"Found them!"

We all turned to see Yuffie press a red button. The ship came to an immediate stop and we went flying to the cockpit window. I fell to the floor, it didn't hurt that much but I hit my head on the window. I got up and felt the spot where I got hit.

"Uhhh…that hurt…is everyone ok?"

I saw everyone else get up and give me a nod. Cid went back to the controls and started it up to a cruise speed.

"Whew, that was a close one…"

Everyone agreed but the pain in my head started to get worse. I felt my head throbbing and beads of sweat started to form on my forehead. More pain came and suddenly I was on my knees clutching my head. I was expecting another vision, but it didn't come.

(What's…wrong…why has…nothing happened…)

I felt a hand touch my forehead. I looked to see Aerith and Daya checking to see if I was alright. Aerith took back her hand and whispered something to Daya. Daya ran off somewhere, probably to get something.

"Oh dear, you're running a high fever"

"I…feel…pain…in my head…like when I have my visions…problem is…no vision yet…"

I spoke too soon as a great jolt of pain ripped through my head as I went screaming. Before my sight faded I heard people yell out my name. Then everything became black…

ENTER VISION

Everything was black for a moment until a white flash blinded me. I regained my sight to find myself surrounded by rubble of what used to be a town or something. I saw that I had my One-Winged-Angel drawn and I had 5 people with me. One I immediately recognize as Sora, and the other Daya, but the other 3 were new and I never met them. A boy and 2 girls. Another thing was that I had entierly different clothes on! I was wearing a blue t-shirt with a silver-white dragon on it. I had on blue jeans with and blue and white sneakers. Around my neck was a silver necklace with a gold crown pendant like Sora's. On my left ring-finger was a sliver ring engraved with 2 hearts that were glowing blue.

(Great, somehow I get new clothes...but what about the people?…wonder who they are…)

The boy looked a whole lot like Sephiroth but at a younger age. No wings, but still the same black get-up. His hair looked like Vegeta's from DBZ but silver and he had 3 locks of hair go over his gold eyes. He looked older than anyone else here. His weapon looked like Riku's Souleater but the bottom and hand brace was a bright gold. The rest was a dark jet black.

The first girl looked slightly older than me, probably Sora's age. She had long dark raven black hair with blue streaks. Her skin was a close to grey color. Purple eyes and on her cheeks were black stripe tattoos. She was wearing a black vest with silver fastenings. It looked like she wasn't wearing a shirt underneath all of that. Her pants were also black with a red belt and a silver belt buckle in the shape of a wolf's head. Her weapons I immediately knew. Talim's shoulder blades, Syi Sarika and Laka Luha, was in her hands. How she got them, I couldn't say. I noticed something on her wrist. It read AZU0998. A label perhaps? Other than that she looked pretty dark, but I guess she was a friend I was going to meet.

The second girl seemed right about my age, on account that she looked only a little taller than me. She had long white waist length hair in a ponytail and clear jade colored eyes. She wore a black shirt with a silver dragon on the front. She had black pants, boots and a black trenchcoat. She also had a black choker with a silver cross. She looked like she had 2 weapons. At her waist were 2 long knives in their scabbards. Right now she was holding a red staff with a sharp looking blade at the end.

I finally noticed that they were all giving hard stares at something in front of them. I looked too to see Sephiroth. The only difference in him now was that he looked angry, very angry.

"You've all caused enough trouble for me. I'll get rid of all of you, and then Adept, you're going to become what you saw"

I gripped my keyblade tight and I took a step foreword.

"You'll never get me! I'll avoid your crazy plan and kill you once and for all!"

(Ok, guess I still don't have any control over my body…but this seems serious. Where is this place and why do I feel so angry?)

"Oh Adept, I would like to see you try…when you're dead!"

Sephiroth dashed right toward me and caught me off guard. He stabbed his sword at me and I was sure I was going to get hit, going to die. I closed my eyes in fear but heard someone run and then the next sound was the sound of a sword piercing a body.

(…What does he mean… I thought he wanted me alive…and why don't I feel any pain…somebody must've…no…that can't be!)

I opened my eyes to see the first boy, the one who looked like Sephiroth in front of me. His arms out and I saw Sephiroth's sword go through him and pierce his body. Blood dripped from the wound as he let out a smile.

"Guess…I failed…but Adept…remember…you have to restore the worlds…and seal the door to the dark…later…"

He let out a little laugh before Sephiroth pulled the sword out and he fell to the floor. I heard everyone yell "Raiku!" before he hit the floor.

(Why…why did he do it…I don't understand…what's going on…)

I looked wide eyed at his body, then my mood turned from sadness to anger and hate.

"Sephiroth…I'm…I'm…"

Sephiroth let out a laugh as he swung his sword back into place.

"What Adept, what could you possibly do?"

"I'll kill you…"

I felt a tornado of black surround me. I felt my body changing, my mind as well. That is when I lost consciousness.

BACK TO REAL WORLD

I shot up and tried to catch my breath. Next to my island one, this was the scariest vision I had yet.

(What in the world was all that? That was too much…too much…)

I looked around to find myself in a small bed in a small room. The sleeping quarters of the gummi ship perhaps? Shaking that idea out of head, I got up and went out the door. I found my way out and saw that we had made it to the Coliseum. I saw everyone by the 3 giant tournament standing posters and went toward there. Everyone saw me and almost on cue the started to ask me questions of 'Are you ok?', 'What happened?' and 'What did you see now?'. I told them what happened, from the 3 new people to Sephiroth killing one of them. Sora, being the up and go guy he is, waved it off with a laugh.

"Aw forget that now! We came here to train, not worry about what's going to happen"

Everyone reluctantly said ok, and we headed toward the lobby. Inside we found Phil, keeping watch over the arena entrance as he always does. Sora went up to talk to him about entering all of us in the next tournament.

"Hey Phil, we're back!"

"Oh, its you guys. You all here to compete?"

"As we always are"

"Well, the next one's today, but the new rule is that for today, only teams of three can compete"

"I always entered with Donald and Goofy and we were three. What's the catch now?"

"The catch now is that there will be no heartless competing"

The sound of no heartless competing gave us all a questioning look. Even after Sora sealed the keyhole here, heartless kept on coming. Why wouldn't they come now?

"No heartless? There was always heartless competing for one reason or another. Why the sudden change Phil?"

"They just kept coming less and less until we had only human fighters competing. Now there isn't even a glance of them anywhere. I've been so busy trying to get more fighters here since the heartless filled most of the rosters"

"Oh I see, so where do we sign up?"

Phil pointed towards the wall, pinned up with a nail was a sheet of paper and a pencil. Sora turned to all of us and grabbed me and Daya.

"Well, I have my teammates; you guys are on your own"

He started to drag me and Daya over to the hung up paper, everybody just staring as we went along.

(Ok…weird…)

After Sora signed us up, everyone else came with their teams. Cloud, Leon and Yuffie on one team, but Goofy had to hold Donald back from strangling Sora for ditching his long time partners.

After an hour of waiting, the first round began. Our team first went up against some men from Agrabah. They looked pretty tough, but they went down in a few. After we had been declared the winner of that round, we started to walk towards the exit as Phil called in the next team.

"Will the next round of fighters please come to the arena!"

On our way to the exit, we one of the teams enter. I just couldn't believe my eyes. The same boy, the same two girls, all exactly the way I saw them. As we passed them, all of us passed each other a glance. The boy, who I remembered was Raiku, just looked at me for a second and turned away. The black and blue haired girl gave me a hard stare before turning away. The second girl followed the same manner but on her way to the arena, she tripped but caught herself mid-fall. I caught the sight of her blushing before she stood back up and put back on that "tough" look.

(So the boy seems not that bad, the first girl really looks like she hates everything she sees, and the second girl seems to be…well…she looks…um…she doesn't look as tough as she put on…I can't wait to meet them!)

Putting on a smile, we continued our way out. Turns out that Leon's team lost, due to a freak accident by Yuffie. That's all Leon said before storming out, with Cloud calmly following and Yuffie trudging behind, fiddling with her fingers. I couldn't help but have a little laugh out of that image.

After a 2 more rounds of fighting, Phil told us that we were in the finals. Before we went in, I asked him who the other team was.

"The other team? I think it was that strange bunch of a silver haired boy and two girls. Do you know them or something?"

"Oh nothing, just wanted to know. Thanks Phil"

I started to feel anxious and happy that we were facing them. I still didn't know fully who they were, but I had the feeling that we were all going to become great friends.

We made our way into the arena, the other team opposite of us. The invisible barrier shot up and Phil gave us the signal to start. We all drew our weapons and readied ourselves. Before we started, Raiku whispered into the white haired girl's ear. She gave a nod and Raiku faced me.

"Before we begin, can I ask you, the black haired boy, a question?"

I turned to Sora and Daya for a second. They both gave me nods and Sora gave a thumbs up, then I answered.

"Yeah sure, what's up?"

"Our group is looking for the Adept and the keybearer. Do you happen to know who and if yes, where they are?"

"I know the Adept and the keybearer"

"So where are they?"

"We're right here"

I pointed to me and Sora. The boy stood dumbfounded for a second until he shook his head and readied his weapon.

"So you two are the Adept and the keybearer? If you both really hold that title, face us"

"Yeah, you two don't even look strong anyway!"

We put our attention on the white haired girl, her little outburst catching our attention. I chuckled before smiling at her.

"I take it that you're the girl who looked at me earlier and suddenly tripped, right?"

She gave me a meek look before again putting on a "tough" look.

"Nevermind that, let's-"

She was interrupted when the dark haired girl slapped her in the back of the head.

"Hey, what was that for?"

"Shut up you idiot. Let's just get this over with…"

"So I guess you're the secluded one of the group huh?"

It looked like I hit a chord when she started to shake in anger.

"That's it! You're going down!"

She started in a mad dash towards me. I readied my guard and prepared to fight. This was going to be a great way to make new friends.

End Chapter

Yay! Time for a fight! Next chap coming up ASAP!

Gaming quote of the chapter: "I don't like your idea. It sucks"-Yuna, FFX-2