"What!?" yelled Sora and Donald.
"By who?" asked Goofy.
"We don't know who did it yet. All we're sure of is that it was a guy in a black-hooded cloak. And he had accomplices-a bunch of creatures in white" explained Hercules.
Sora looks at Doanld and Goofy, who nods.
"Someone you know?" asked Hercules
"I think so. Hey, if we can get the Olympus Stone back, can we borrow it for a while?" asked Sora.
"Sure. By the way, you haven't seen Meg around, have you?" asked Hercules.
They shake their heads.
"Oh, okay..." sighs Hercules slouching his shoulders in defeat.
"What's wrong, your hero-ness? Feeling under the weather?" asked Hades as he appears and places a hand on Hercules's shoulder. He ducks away from Hades.
"You know, I thought staying in perfect shape was part of the hero job description...you know what I'm saying?" said Hades as he turns around and turns his eyes toward Sora and the others.
"Oh, right... Hades, we gotta talk!" said Sora as he gets tough. Hades flicks Sora to the ground.
"I came to share a bit of mildly-interesting news:" says Hades as he disappears in a puff of smoke as Hercules sneaks behind Hades for a punch.
"Seems your dear, sweet little Nutmeg..." said Hades as he teleports behind Hercules.
"...went and got herself lost in the Underworld" explained Hades
"You mean you kidnapped her!" yelled Hercules as he turns to face Hades.
"Well, maybe... But why get caught up in the details?" replied Hades.
Hercules whistles and a brilliant winged horse flies over the Coliseum walls, landing next to Hercules. Hercules rubs the winged horse on the neck.
"Uh-uh-uh! You can't leave now, okay?" continued Hades.
Hercules is stopped from getting on Pegasus.
"You've got a very important match today, against, um... the bloodthirsty Hydra! I mean, if you don't stick around, who knows what kind of "accidents" might happen"
"Yeah, accidents you cause and where's Andi!" yells Sora from behind.
"Like I said: details, who needs 'em? Oh and your girlfriend is fine, although she would make a good collection of the dead" replied Hades.
"Let her go!" Yells Sora glaring at Hades
"And leave Nutmeg by herself? Shouldn't have left her in the first place"
"You took her without our knowledge and you know it!" Exclaimed Donald.
"Hmmm...maybe" smirked Hades
"You're just a coward" yelled Hercules as him and Pegasus glare at Hades. The horse flaps its wings and shakes its head.
"Ah well. Can't all be heroes" replied Hades as he vanishes in a puff of smoke. Hercules crosses his arms. Sora walks up to Hercules.
"Can you handle this?" asked Hercules.
"You got it! We're heroes!" said Donald proudly beside Goofy.
"Junior heroes, Donald" corrected Goofy.
Donald shakes his head and glares at Goofy.
"You take care of the Hydra. We'll handle the rest" said Sora pointing at him and the group.
Hercules puts his hands on Sora's shoulders.
"I'm counting on you" replied Hercules.
Sora nods. Pegasus trots over. Hercules pets him
"You gotta find Meg!" said Hercules to Pegasus.
The horse nods and flaps his wings. It flies into the air and over the Coliseum walls. Hercules sighs. They walked to the gates of the Underworld as Sora and the others followed behind.
Sora, Donald, and Goofy return to the Underworld Entrance and see Phil on the floor.
"Phil!" yelled Sora
"Ooh, ohh..." whined Phil standing up, as Sora and the gang run over.
"What happened?" asked Sora
"I spotted this strange guy all dressed in black. I chased after him, but he turned on me. Next thing I know, I'm seeing stars" explained Phil.
"All dressed in black!?" said Donald.
"He's the one who stole the Olympus Stone" explained Sora.
"Where did he run off to?" asked Goofy.
"To the Underworld. He's a bad apple, all right. And all I wanted was to find a backup hero. Just in case Herc needed to take a break" explained Phil.
"Heroes, eh? You could've just asked!" replied Sora.
"You know someone!" exclaimed Phil.
Sora and Donald get out their weapons.
"Oh, good one..." laughed Phil.
Sora, Donald, and Goofy enter the Underworld Caverns.
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Hercules does battle with the Hydra. He strikes it with his sword. It lifts his head high into the air after a chop from the sword on its head. It collapses to the ground on top of Hercules. Hercules crawls out from underneath it.
"Hercules! Hercules! Hercules!" cheered the crowd.
"Heh, thanks! Thank you! Hope you enjoyed it!" smiled Hercules waving at the crowd as he stands and runs back to the Foyer.
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After fighting a few Heartless, the four enter The Lost Road. Sora works out the kink in his shoulder; "Man... This Underworld curse is really getting to me" said Sora
"We've got to get that Olympus Stone back fast!" agreed Goofy
They continue into the Atrium, where the find the hooded man, who turns around to face them.
"Huh? Ah! You!" said the hooded man as he takes off his hood.
"Wait a sec... Roxas?" he said
"Excuse me?" said Sora
"Roxas?" he repeated again seeing they looked at him weirdly. He shrugs, "Oh, it's no use" he said disappointed.
"Huh? What are you talking about?" asked Sora putting his hands on his hips.
He pulls out a note; "Let's see, here..."If the subject fails to respond, use aggression to liberate his true disposition"... Right...Did they ever pick the wrong guy for this one..." he muttered to himself as he put the note back in his cloak.
"You're bizarre..." insulted Sora.
He takes out the Olympus Stone. Sora, Donald looked surprised.
"He's gotta be the thief!" suggested Goofy pointing at the cloaked figure.
"Now that's just plain rude!" He replied
He holds the stone up and glows with light. He takes out his sitar and begins playing it. As Sora and Donald bring out their weapons and Goofy bringing out his shield.
"Dance, water! Dance!" he yells
He conjures water clones and musical creatures. As they come close to Sora and the gang. Sora uses Wild Dance with the water musical creatures by spinning it over his head and attacking all the other Musical creatures and water clones.
Sora continued on his Wild Dance on the water creatures. After a few minutes, Sora and the others defeats them all.
"Not bad, Roxas!" He commented
He turns to Sora and the gang holds his shoulder, "Roxas, come back to us!" He begged as he vanishes.
"Guy's a broken record" commented Sora as he puts his keyblade on his shoulders.
"Hey, look!" said Donald as he walks ahead of the gang.
Donald picks up the Olympus Stone that got dropped. He gives it to Sora, who holds it up. They glow with light and feel their power return. Sora gets in a fighting position and looks at his hands.
"Let's go! Meg and Andi needs our help!" ordered Sora looking at his friends.
They enter The Lock, where they see a rock with an outline of Meg and a keyhole imprinted on it. Sora unlocks the gate and the rock vanishes. The pillar of energy behind the rock turns from black to light green.
"Andi! Meg!" quacked Donald.
"Almost there" muttered Sora
Sora and the gang enters the pillar of light and ends up in the Well of Captivity. Sora and the gang ready to battle. Hades is there with a chained up Meg and Andi.
"Now that's what I call a key. Gee, thanks for your help! Now have a nice day" laughs Hades
Hades vanishes in a puff of smoke. Meg is distracted by something.
"Sora, behind you!" warned Meg.
Pete appears behind them with several Heartless. He laughs.
"What's wrong? Can't fight in the Underworld? Ohh, boo-hoo-hoo!" said Pete pretending to whine.
"Better think again!" replied Sora.
Pete looks to his Heartless and points to Sora's group.
"Charge!"
Hook Bat Heartless charge at Sora, who bats them away with his keyblade. As Andi and Meg try to stay away from the fight and heartless. As more keep appearing Sora, Donald and Goofy get in front of the girls.
"There's too many!" said Sora
"Let's go!" said Donald.
Sora breaks Meg's and Andi's chains with the keyblade. Hercules arrives and knocks Pete down with three bat hooks.
"Sorry I'm late" apologized Hercules.
He whistles. Pegasus flies in and hits Pete on the head as he tries to standing, knocking him over again. Hercules picks Meg up.
"Get Meg outta here. I'll meet you back at the Coliseum" ordered Hercules
Hercules places Meg on Pegasus's back.
"What about you?" asked Sora
"I'm gonna show these guys what happens when they mess with a true hero" replied Hercules showing his muscle.
Hercules pats Pegasus on the behind and he takes off with Meg. Sora, Donald, Goofy and Andi run to the pillar of light as Pete gets up.
"Now, wait a sec!" said Pete jogging.
Hercules blocks Pete. Pegasus flies out of the other side of the pillar of light back at The Lock.
"Sora...I won't leave him" refused Meg
"He'll be okay" persuaded Sora
"Look, even Herc has his limits. He can't keep winning forever" explained Meg.
"She's right Sora. Hades has been set up Coliseum fights to slow him down and if he beat that Hydra who knows how much fight he has left" said Andi.
"Then we'll go back him up" replied Sora hitting his chest with his fist.
"Get Meg outta here!" ordered Donald to Pegasus pointing the opposite direction.
Pegasus flies away. Sora, Andi, Donald and Goofy return to the Under dome, where Pete has gathered even more Heartless. He and Hercules nod to each other. Fighting Pete is a piece of cake for them.
"This place gives me the creeps. I'll deal with you nitwits next time!" yells Pete as he proceeds to leave.
Andi throws her keyblade and hits Pete in the head before he disappears knocking him face first rubbing his head, "Next time I see you again you'lol be sorry for kidnapping me" said Andi as the cave started to collapse. They all start running to the light.
"Could today possibly get any better? This time Wonder-breath is going down for good" said Hades
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The four race to the Underworld Entrance.
"Well, if it isn't everyone's favorite hero washout. You really blew it this time"
"No one likes a sore loser, Hades" replied Sora.
"Can it, key boy!"
"Then let me" said Hercules
Hercules takes a step forward.
"No one likes a sore loser, Hades"
Andi chuckles under her breathe.
"Yeah, yeah, Styx and stones. Hey, maybe you should go check on that Hydra you neglected to finish off. I hear things are really FALLING APART up there, champ" replied Hades as he vanishes in smoke, Andi glares at where Hades stood.
"Wait!" yells Sora.
"Hate to run, but I've got another little diversion to attend to" continued Hades
They all run back to the Coliseum Gates to see that the Coliseum was in shambles.
"This can't be..." muttered Hercules as he fell to his knees.
A large rock almost hits Sora as he enters. The Hydra roars out the smoke and rubble. Phil, Meg, and Pegasus approach Hercules. Phil shakes him.
"Champ! You're safe!" commend Phil
"I failed..."
Hercules looks around to all the destruction. The great statues are sliced in half and the coliseum not really recognizable anymore.
"It's not your fault!" said Meg
"I left everyone unprotected" Hercules slams the ground; "Hades was right. I'm just a...a washout" upset Hercules.
"Aw, come on, champ! I didn't train you to think like that" replied Phil
"Wonder boy..." whispered Meg.
"Phil's right. This is no time to beat yourself up" commented Sora kneeling down to Hercules.
"I'm some hero..." said Hercules.
The Hydra is running rampant. Meg helps tale some of Hercules weight as she helps him move out of the way as the Hydra walks over the rubble of the Foyer into the courtyard.
"Herc needs help!" yells Donald.
Everyone gets ready for battle.
"Yeah!" agrees Sora
"Don't suppose you got room for one more?" asked Phil
Phil does a series of fighting moves. Meg and Pegasus join them, the horse making its best fighting stance.
"We're in!" said Meg.
The Hydra roars again. Andi runs toward the Hydra and gets whipped by it's tail with the others. Once they regain balance. Sora charged for it. Something black came from the Hydra as it stared down at Sora. Black things started shooting up out of the ground everywhere. Making everyone scattering to dodge the attacks and the tail whipping. It brought its head down looking at the group giving Sora and Andi an advantage to attack, as Sora runs at the Hydra Andi jumps and kicks her foot off his shoulder and slashes an X on the hydra (Star Flight) vanquishing the head.
"Hey Sora!" yelled Phil
Three Hydra heads popped from the ground. Sora, Andi, Donald and Goofy attacked individual ones. Sora's head shot up and vanquish the head.
"Get on the Hydra's back" yelled Phil repeating it a few times.
Sora ran and jumped on the Hydra's back and Phil had a vase and throws it. Sora jumped and it the top of the vase making it slam on the Hydra's back. Stunning the popped heads. Andi and Sora attacked them and vanquish them. The Hydra pops more heads but not underground this time. The heads went to bit and caught Andi in the process. She hits it with her keyblade and Sora and Andi join in using Star Flight again.
Heads came down to look at the group it wasn't easy as the last time since black orbs popped out of the ground and started to attack. The Hydra's heads started biting again and the made dark shots in the air. Sora called Pegasus and they few and attacked the heads. He and Andi attacked it a few times until Sora cuts off the heads of the Hydra. Sora relaxes.
"Humph" said Sora as he pushes his noise in victory.
Hercules's confidence is completely shot.
"I let you down. I'm just...no use" said Hercules.
"It's not your fault. Hey, even a god would be exhausted" replied Meg.
"She's right. Give yourself a chance to rest" agreed Sora.
"There won't be any games for a while, anyway" explained Goofy.
"Don't worry about Wonder boy here. I'll look after him. Sora, Donald, Goofy, Andi, I owe you big time" said Meg.
"Hey, it's no big deal. Just let us know if Hades or the Heartless start acting up. We'll take care of it" replied Sora.
"Yeah, that's what heroes are for!" agreed Donald.
"When did you four make hero?" asked Meg resting her head on head and her elbow resting on her hand.
"Four heroes?" Asked Andi confuses
"Let's save that for another time... We have to hit the road" avoided Sora.
"Okay. Don't be strangers" replied Meg crossing her arms, smiling.
"Gawrsh, I hope ya feel better soon, Hercules" said Goofy.
"Yeah..."
"Phil?" quacked Donald.
"Oh, well, take care you guys! Stay a little longer next time. We got some serious training to catch up on" said Phil
"Well, time to go. Oh, I almost forgot. The Olympus Stone" said Sora.
Sora takes out the stone. Hercules weakly stands up. Before Hercules touches the stone, it glows brightly. Sora smiles at Goofy who nods. The Olympus Stone glows bright as Sora opens another gateway.
As Sora and the gang get in the Gummi ship and leave Olympus Coliseum. Andi sits in her usual place and stares out at the window. Sora looked at Andi and looked at Donald who nodded. He gets up and walks over to Andi and sits down cross legged on the ground smiling at her. Andi looked down at Sora as she comes down to the ground on her knees. She just looks at him closely. Sora tilts his head at her, "What?" He asks.
Andi looks away and and shakes her head. Sora frowns and leans forward towards her; "Are you mad at me? Because if you are I'm sorry about-" asked Sora
"I'm not mad" interupted Andi.
"Then what's wrong?" chuckled Sora.
Andi turns toward him and opens her mouth and then closing it with a sigh and looks down.
"It's nothing" she replied.
Sora thinks crossing his arms and then looks at her. She looked sad and confused as her eyes just seemed to watch his every move.
"You know. If something's bothering me. I would tell somebody about it" said Sora.
Andi stays quiet as he lifts her chin with his hand as she looks up at him looking through the same blue eyes that reminded her of Roxas'. She puts her hand on his hand on her chin and pushed it off.
"Can I go with you the next time you go to see Pooh?" asked Andi
"Sure! I would really like that!" said Sora surprising Andi with his excitement.
Andi smiles and then looks down again. "That's not what really is bothering you is it?" asked Sora
Andi gasped as she looks back at him. "No I just disappointed in myself that's all" explained Andi
"Why?"
"Because I got caught and I couldn't help you guys" replied Andi
"It happens, You're learning. Anyways we should have made sure you weren't caught" said Sora scratching the back of his head.
"Yeah, I guess it is you're guys faults for leaving me there" said Andi
Sora looked at her "Huh?" couldn't believing she's blaming them. "Now wait-" Sora stopped and sees Andi smirking at him taking in the joke. He smiles.
"Sora!" yells Donald
"Yeah! I'm coming" said Sora as he turns around and heads for his seat.
"Hey Sora!"
He glances over his shoulder at Andi. She has what looks like a page to a book; " I found this when we were trying to run away from Hades before I got jumped" explained Andi giving the page to him.
It was the page to Pooh's story book. "Hey! Good eye!" Commented Sora as he took the page and sat down showing Donald and Goofy what Andi found.
They smile at her as she smiles back and sitting back in her seat as they head to the next world...
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In the dark tower in Hollow Bastion, Maleficent stands looking out past large spinning cogs
"And where is everyone else?" asked Maleficent.
"Beats me. They musta had some other matters to deal with" replied Pete
"Matters"?" exclaimed Maleficent.
She turns around to face Pete.
"You mean they have more important affairs to attend to than my return?"
"Well, see, there's this Organization XIII that keeps gettin' in the way-"
"Let those fools play their little game!" said Maleficent as she turns back around.
"But what about that runt with the Keyblade? He's been a real pain, too" whined Pete.
She turns around towards Pete
"Oh, has he? Very well then. I suppose you'd best tell me what's happened during my absence"
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Queen Minnie stands in the Library of Disney Castle as several brooms walk around doing chores.
"Oh...hmm. Now I wonder where that old album could be" said Minnie
"Queen Minnie!" yells Chip
"It's horrible!" yelled Dale.
Chip and Dale run in as the Queen faces away from the books.
"Somethin's wrong in the Hall of the Cornerstone!" exclaimed Chip jumping up and down with Dale.
"There's real sharp thorns everywhere!" finished Dale.
Chip and Dale lead Minnie to the Hall of the Cornerstone, where the Queen is amazed at what she sees as she jogs further into the room. She frowns and looks at her folded hands sadly.
"Oh, King Mickey, I wish you could hear me. The castle is in danger! We've got to do something soon! Donald... Goofy... Where are you?" yells Minnie desperate looking up...
To Be Continued...
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Author's Notes: Hey Guys I decided to post two chapters this time since I did not post on Sunday. I'll still have another chapter posted on Sunday as well so don't worry. I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. Please Fave and Review!