"My KH Adventure"
By cdc100
Summary: After Sora's trial, we embark on our journey once again. This time, we head to the Olympus Coliseum, where we fight a multitude of Heartless, and test our limits.
Disclaimer: This is a work of pure non-profit fan fiction. I do not own any of the characters, their weapons, their abilities, or any of their universes, nor do I own any of the lyrics that will appear in later chapters, or any of the products mentioned in the story such as Coca-Cola, or Playstation.
Chapter Six
"The Olympus Coliseum"
We came out of the courtroom feeling relieved. If it hadn't been for Alan Shore, Sora would no longer be with us, and we would have to fight the Heartless ourselves.
"HEY!" yelled a voice.
We looked in the direction of the voice, and saw Alan walking towards us.
"Sorry about that. I was hoping that before I returned to my office, you would allow me to accompany you to the Impound."
"We would be delighted if you came," replied Tanya.
"Thank you."
As we walked to the Impound, we had a conversation with Alan Shore involving the Heartless' tactics.
"I am still having a hard time believing that the Heartless would try to use the legal system to bring us down," I said.
"Who knows what they'll try to pull next?" asked Jack.
"No telling," said Alan.
"We're here," said Kari.
We had just come to a stop in front of a small building stationed in front of a fenced-in parking lot.
"We need to get Mr. Hikaru's Gummi Ship back."
"One second…" he paused and looked over a few papers.
"Would that be the red one with the cannon under it?"
"That'd be the one," said Alan. "I don't believe we'll be required to pay the fine. The judge handling his case has issued a court order, ordering the return of the vehicle."
"Fine. Just let me see the court order, and it's yours."
Alan took a sheet of paper out of his jacket and handed it to the man. He scanned it and folded it back up.
"I'll have someone go get it. It should be here in five minutes."
"It'd better not have any scratches in it!" said Jack.
After five minutes, we took the ship back to the hangar bay, to which Mr. Shore accompanied us.
"I will see you all later."
"Do you see yourself handling our cases in the future?" asked Ryan.
"I might." With that, he turned around, and headed back to Howard & Brock. As he left, we fired up the Gummi's engines and blasted out of Traverse Town once again.
"Do you suppose we'll ever see him again?" asked Jack.
"I suspect so," answered Kari.
"I hope so," I said.
"Why is that?" asked Sora.
"He seems like he knows what he's doing 99.9 percent of the time. We could use a guy like him," I replied.
"You're probably right about that," said Maya.
At that moment, I took a quick glance at Maya, something seemed strange about her, different. I decided to dismiss it and revert my attention back to the business at hand.
"I saw that," said Kari.
"What?" I asked. I honestly did not know what she was talking about.
"I think you know," she answered with a mischievous grin.
I continued to wonder what she was talking about. Suddenly, I thought, Did she see me look at Maya? She was grinning at me like she had just won the lottery.
"Oh, come on," I whispered.
"You like her, don't you?" she asked.
"That's RIDICULOUS," I said, putting heavy emphasis on ridiculous.
"Sure, it is," she said, continuing her grin.
"Will you knock it off?" I asked. "How could I like her? She's a friend."
"Whatever you say, lover-boy," she said. "but you're going to have to face the facts sooner… or… later!"
After a few minutes, I went back to work. Donald began plotting the course for the next world.
"How long till we reach the next world, Donald?" I asked.
"We should arrive in about an hour."
"Do we have enough of a defense if we get attacked again?"
"During our last battle, we picked up a laser cannon from an enemy fighter," replied Sora.
"We still need to figure out how some of this stuff works," I said.
"We'll figure it out once we get back from this next world," said Goofy.
"Good idea," I replied.
We decided to play a game until we reached the next world.
"'S' out of 'dangerous,'" said Goofy.
"Goofy's almost there! I've still got twelve letters to go!" yelled Ryan.
"What are they doing, now?" asked Kari.
"It's called the Alphabet Game."
"How is it played?"
"It's used basically just to pass time."
(I am about to explain the Alphabet Game.)
"The players stay on the lookout for signs on the road. They have to pick letters out of words that they see on the signs. Players cannot use letters from the same words that someone else uses. Example: Donald could say, '"Q" out of "Quikstop,"' but if Goofy were also to call, '"Q" out of "Quikstop,"' it would not count. He would have to find Q somewhere else. The first one to get to 'Z' wins. As far as I've seen, 'Q' is the hardest letter to find."
I finished and took a deep breath.
"But, there aren't any signs out here. We're in space," said Kari.
"Right, so they decided to use labels that they find around the ship."
"I see."
"Like I said, they mainly just use it to pass time if they can't find anything else to do," I explained.
She began typing away at her computer again, this time working on the "Ifrit" blueprint that we found earlier.
"Made any progress?" I asked.
"Some. We don't have all of the parts needed to build it, though."
"Damn."
"But we still have plenty of worlds to go, and lives to save. I'm sure we could find a whole bunch of Gummi parts by the time this is all over."
"And the block that we found in Wonderland?"
"We could probably ask Leon about it back in Traverse Town."
"Yeah, we'll wait until then to worry about it."
BOOM!!
The Gummi Ship shook.
BANG!!
"Enemy ships!" yelled Goofy.
"They're coming right for us!!" yelled Ryan.
"What are those things?" asked Sora.
"We'll know as soon as we get rid of one! Fire the laser cannon!" yelled Kari.
"I'm on it!" I replied.
I fired one shot at the ship, but it didn't even scratch it.
"I'm gonna need some help! Fire the backup guns!"
Donald immediately took hold of the machine gun controls and started shooting at the ships while I charged up the laser cannon.
"Target acquired!" yelled Kari.
"Terminating!" I yelled.
I fired one more laser cannon shot, and the ship exploded. We picked up another blueprint.
"What have you got, Kari?" I asked.
"According to this, it's called, 'Alexander,'" she answered. "It's basically just a floating mine of a ship."
"It doesn't have an engine?" I asked.
She shook her head.
"Nor does it have a cockpit."
"That is one screwed up ship."
"Excuse me, I hate to interrupt, but… wait, no I don't. There are more ships headed our way!" yelled Tanya.
"Fire the machine guns!" yelled Sora.
Donald fired the machine guns like crazy. He hit every single ship.
"Hang on, everyone! We're almost there!" yelled Goofy.
"This seems oddly familiar…" said Jack.
We felt that sense of nothingness overtake us again.
When we opened our eyes, we were at the entrance to some kind of stadium. We saw two statues in front of us, their swords drawn, clashed over the entrance.
"God, do I feel dizzy…" said Tania.
"What is this place?" asked Jack.
"It looks like we're in some kind of arena…" said Goofy.
"Well, we won't find out just sitting around here!" said Sora, rushing inside.
We all followed him inside. Once inside we saw a square room. It had a torch in each corner, and it had indents in the wall, which looked like they were meant to hold something. We also saw a passageway that was closed off.
"Damn!" said my brother when he spotted the sign that said, "Closed."
We looked at one of the walls and saw a small being standing on a stool, hanging up a poster. We walked over to him, and he spoke to us.
"'Bout time you showed up! Move that pedestal over there, would you?" he asked without even looking at us.
We looked over at a giant stone block behind us.
"Might as well give him what he wants," said Sora.
We all got behind the stone and PUSHED! We pushed and pushed and pushed, but it was just too heavy. We walked back over to the midget and told him about it.
"It's way too heavy!" said Sora.
At this, the midget jumped, and began turning around.
"What?! Too heavy?! When did you get to be such a…"
He stopped as he finally saw us. When he was turned all the way around, we noticed that he had a bowling ball-like physique, goat horns, and the lower section of a goat. He was a satyr. But I thought those only existed in legends! But, then again, we were in another world, so just about anything is possible.
"Oh. Wrong guy. What are you all doing here? This is the Olympus Coliseum, for heroes ONLY! And I've got my hands full preppin' for the games! So move along, pipsqueaks!"
Donald got ticked at this.
"You've got heroes standing right in front of you!"
"Yeah! Huh-hyuck! These…" he pointed at all of us, "are real heroes, chosen by the Keyblade."
"And we're heroes, too!" said Donald.
"What! That runt?" chuckled the goat-man. He cracked up laughing.
"It's true!" said Sora.
"Yeah, we've fought a bunch of monsters!" I said.
The satyr moved over to the pedestal. He put his back against it.
"Hey, if you can't even move this…"
He began pushing. It didn't move, and we all watched impatiently.
"You can't call yourself…"
We kept looking. It was fun to see a little midget try to move a giant stone block seven times his size.
"A hero!!" he finished, straining himself.
"So what do you call yourself?" Kari asked. "A sidekick?"
The goat-man finally collapsed from exhaustion and began panting.
"Okay! Okay! So it takes more than brawn!"
"Come on!" I said. "You could at least give us a chance!"
"Okay! Fine! Let's see what you can do."
He ushered us out into the stadium. He gave us each a bunch of barrels to break. Our objective was to break all of the barrels within the time limit. We were getting good. The barrels were broken about ten seconds before the time ran out.
"Well, that was a nice warm-up!" I said.
"Not bad for amateurs."
"Well, looks like we're headed to the games!" said Sora with a smile.
"Afraid not!"
"Why not?!" asked Sora.
"Two words: You guys ain't heroes!"
Goofy counted the words off his fingers as the goat-man said them (it was four words in reality).
"Oh, come on!" yelled Sora.
"You want to get in? Start by mastering this."
Suddenly, I felt a crisp feeling go through me. We all walked out of there feeling rather disappointed.
"What was that that he gave us Donald?" I asked.
"I'll find out…"
He took out his staff and pointed it upward. He then bent his knees and jumped into the air!
"THUNDER!!" he yelled.
Sparks came raining out of the sky.
"I was right. It was the Thunder Element."
"So, how many does that make for us?" asked Lisa.
"I gave you the Fire Element to train with. We received the Blizzard Element from the Cheshire Cat in Wonderland. Just now we received the Thunder Element, so… that gives us three Elements."
"What others are there?" I asked.
"I'll tell you later. Let's get out of this place," replied Donald.
We were just about to head out of the Coliseum when…
"He's a stubborn old goat, don't you think?" said a man.
We looked behind us to see a tall man with blue skin, bulging yellow eyes, a black toga with skulls all over it, and what looked like blue fire for hair.
"Who are you?" asked Jack.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a sec, kiddo. Let me guess. You want to get into the Coliseum, right? Say no more.
"But, we didn't say anything…" said Kari.
The stranger put his hand on Sora's shoulder. He put out his hand and flames appeared in it. After a few moments, the flames turned into a slip of paper.
"A pass?" asked Sora.
"It's all yours," said the stranger. "Go get 'em, kids. I'm pullin' for you, little shorties."
We went back in, and found the satyr once again. He turned around.
"I already told you, you ain't heroes. So-"
He was cut off by Kari.
"I could be wrong, but I believe that THIS (She shoved the pass in the satyr's face) gives us the write authorization to enter the stadium."
"What are you, a lawyer?"
"Yes."
The satyr looked up. He then looked back at the pass.
"How did you get this, anyway?"
"What does it matter how we got it as long as we got it?" asked Ryan.
"Okay, okay."
"So, can we get into the games or not?" asked Jack impatiently.
"Easy does it, Jack," said I.
"Yes, you can go in. Follow me. By the way, call me Phil."
We followed him out into the arena.
"We start with the prelims. You ready?" asked Phil.
"You know it!" said Sora.
"Better be careful, though. There are some real weirdoes in the contest."
"Don't worry about us, Phil," I said.
We started off fighting a pair of Large Bodies and two of each of the Element Choir(That's what we decided to call the team which includes: Red Nocturne, Blue Rhapsody, Yellow Opera, and Green Requiem.).
"All right, we need to take out the Requiems, so that the enemy can't heal them selves," said I.
"The good news is, they don't know any offensive moves," observed Kari.
"Next, we need to take down the Operas, their Thunder spells can hit more than one person," I continued. "After that, I think it would be best to get rid of the fatties. Once we're done with them, we shouldn't have a problem."
"Ready?" asked Kari.
Everyone nodded in agreement.
"All right, let's move!" yelled Sora.
Sora proceeded to get rid of the Yellow Operas while Goofy used a new technique to get rid of the Green Requiems.
"Come on!" he yelled. He spun in the air with his shield in hand and took down both Requiems.
"Hey! Goofy's got a new attack!" yelled Ryan.
Sora finally managed to take down the Operas by delivering a direct blow to their heads. While my brother, Ryan was taking care of the Red Nocturnes and being careful not to get burned, I was busying myself with a Large Body. I tried striking it on the belly, but I did so in vain. I finally managed to finish it with a blow to its backside. Jack had taken care of the other Large Body. Lisa took care of one of the Blue Rhapsodies and was trying to do so while avoiding the balls of ice that it kept hurling at her. Maya and the others finished off the last Blue Rhapsody. We finished with the fight and clashed our Keyblades in victory.
"That's the power of the Keyblade!" yelled Sora.
We looked at Phil. He seemed impressed.
"You're not heroes, yet, but you're not bad. Keep it up."
Just then, we spotted a man walking past us. He was about 5'11" and he had a dark blue outfit, a long, red cape, a shoulder pad with spikes on it, and he had spiky blond hair. He looked at us with determination as he walked by, his mouth concealed by his cape. Little did I know that that man would play a major role in our story.
"Something tells me that he's gonna be tough to beat. Be careful," said Phil.
"We will," I said. I looked at the man one last time. He seemed to be waiting for something, but what?
The next match turned out to be less of a challenge. It was me and my friends versus a group of five Soldiers and five Shadows. The shadows were more difficult to get rid of, but the fight took us less time than the last. After that fight, we were on the third round. Our opponent was the man who had walked by us, and him alone.
He looked at us with an intimidating stare, and then closed his eyes and brought out a long sword from behind his back. It was about five feet long, one inch thick, and a foot wide. It had a hole in the blade near the guard, and it looked rather like an oversized ginsu knife. It also had some twine strung around the blade.
After a minute, I spoke up.
"Might we have the honor of knowing the name of our opponent?"
He looked at us, and then closed his eyes.
"Cloud," he answered.
"Nice to meet you, Cloud," said Kari. "I'm-" he cut her off.
"I don't care what your names are. Let's just do this."
"O…kay," said Kari.
"Prepare yourselves," said Cloud.
The battle started, and Cloud picked up his sword. He began hurtling it at us with lightning speed.
"Whoa! Look at this guy move, Leo!" yelled Jack. "That sword has got to weigh at least fifty pounds!"
Jack was right, it had to be at least that much, and he was wielding it effortlessly.
"Hah!" yelled Cloud.
He stabbed at me, but missed. He slashed at me a couple of times, missing me the first time, but then hitting me the second.
"Huh!" he yelled.
He jumped into the center of the arena and stabbed his sword into the ground. It sent out a wave of energy in all directions.
After a few more tries, we managed to land a few blows on Cloud, but he just brushed us off, and then repaid our attacks tenfold!
"Is that the best you can do?" he asked.
He began to glow a hazy purple color. Just then, we saw a wing on his left shoulder, resembling that of a vampire's wing. He began flying around and striking us left and right with his sword.
"Cure!" yelled Donald. He used that spell a few more times, and we felt good as new.
"What element was that?" asked Ryan.
"That was the Cure Element!" answered Donald.
We all ganged up on Cloud after his wing went back inside his cape and he landed. We all hit him once with the Keyblade. After that, he fell to the ground. He was just about ready to get back up, when the battle was cut short… by a giant black three-headed dog!
We looked around, and we saw the man who gave us the pass.
"Oh, yeah, and one more rule that I forgot to mention: Accidents happen."
We braced for a blow from it, but it never came. We saw a man standing in front of it holding it up, and preventing its front paws from landing. He had a blue cape, red hair, a red headband, and he had Cloud slung over his shoulder.
"Herc!" yelled Phil.
"Phil! Get them out of here!" the man yelled.
"You heard him! Let's go!" yelled Phil.
We made our way back into the Coliseum entrance.
"That was a close one. Hercules should be able to handle Cerberus, but…"
"There's a chance he won't be able to?" I asked.
"Yeah."
"I'm going back in there." said Sora.
"You can't be serious!" exclaimed Phil.
"I can be, and I am. You can decide whether I'm hero material or not," said Sora.
We all followed him back out to face the giant dog. Cerberus looked around and found us.
"Kids, I got to words for you: Attack!" yelled Phil.
"I can't believe we're taking advice on heroics from a dude that can't even count," remarked Jack.
"Just go with it, man," said I.
We all started attacking the dog. Eventually, after about fifteen minutes, we learned that we needed to take out all three of its heads. It wasn't easy. We had to distract it long enough to get on its back and thrash at its head, and the dark balls of energy that he brought out of the ground didn't make it any easier. After a while, though, we had delivered the final blow to the third head, and it passed out.
"We did it!" yelled Maya.
We went back into the hall and met with Phil. He granted us Hero Status, which allowed us to go into the Coliseum whenever we chose.
"And so, I hereby dub thee Junior Heroes. Further-"
"Hey, what do you mean, 'Junior Heroes?'"
"You aren't there, yet. You still have a long way to go."
"How do we become true heroes, then?" asked Goofy.
"Well, it's something you're just going to have to discover for yourself, just as I did!" said Hercules.
"Okay, we'll start by winning in the games," said Sora.
"You guys will have to come back MUCH later. We still have to clean up that mess that the dog made."
With that, we walked out of the hall. We were getting ready to leave when we spotted Cloud sitting on the steps.
"Hey, man, are you okay?" asked Sora.
"Yeah," answered Cloud.
"Why did you go along with that guy, anyway?"
He looked down, and closed his eyes while he explained it.
"I'm looking for someone. Hades promised to help. I tried to exploit the power of darkness, but it backfired. I fell into darkness and couldn't find the light."
He stood up.
"You'll find it. I know. We're searching, too," said Sora.
Cloud just looked at Sora.
"For your light?"
Sora nodded his head. Cloud walked up and put something in his hands.
"Don't lose sight of it."
He began to walk off, but Sora stopped him.
"Hey! How about a rematch sometime? Fair and square, no dark powers involved," he asked.
Cloud closed his eyes and moved a strand of hair out of his eyes.
"I think I'll pass."
With that, we went our separate ways. He went to the Coliseum, and we went to the Gummi Hangar to leave.
To Be Continued…
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