Greetings everyone, a little note before you start reading. I have made some edits to the other chapters, mostly grammer edits. Also, after studying how Roxas was in the 358/2 days manga when he joined the organization, among other people who started out emotionless, I've decided to take a...certain approach to Rito, considering he is kinda in a strange state at the moment. So I've edited Chapter 2 in reguards to his relationship with Yuffie...what little you heard of as of now.

One more thing, I'm taking "creative liberties" when it comes to aspects of the story, like locations. Enjoy!


The Assault Of The Heartless & The Mark of A True Hero!

Greece - Mount Olympus

Momo looked ahead and around herself as she walked. Grass and flowers littered the ground below her and the mountainsides had tall green shrubbery next to them. A ravine was flowing down the mountain, occasionally making a small waterfall, and near where the ravine was blocked off was a statue of a sandaled foot. The statue had moss covering most of it, indicating it had been there for a while.

"That's odd, the river's never this full." Hercules observed as they continued to make their way up.

"Really?" Momo asked with curiosity.

He nodded "Yeah, It's usually a lot more shallow." They stopped as they came across a large waterfall with a trail off to the side leading further up the mountain. Within moments, several large splashes were heard behind them as they turned to face the noise. Out of the ravine rose five of a new type of heartless. They seemed to have parts of their forms be made from water, particularly their insides, which were 'tearing' through their lower halves in the form of watery tendrils. The outside layers of these heartless were pitch black and had small wings which flowed into thin, bendy arms and two clawed hands. Their jagged mouths showed water inside them and the pointed top of their forms had light blue veins that pulsed on occasion. Also, like most if not all heartless, they had glowing yellow eyes.

"Heartless!" Sora shouted as he and his teammates spotted them. Soon after, two Soldiers spawned in with one rather large heartless. It had a very round body with massive arms and hands, very stubby legs, big feet, and a very small head. This Heartless was clothed in a purple sleeveless bodysuit edged in gold trim; the trim also laced up the front of the body suit across its big belly; which had the heartless emblem on its upper area. Underneath this bodysuit was a blue full body suit that even covered its arms and hands. It was wearing black curl-toe shoes and was also boasting a large cuff in purple and silver on each wrist with three links of chain dangling from each of them. It was topped off by a silver collar that covered its lower face, and a tiny silver wizard hat that ends in a curl. Last, but not least, its face was black, had a jagged mouth, and had glowing yellow eyes like all heartless. This heartless was known as a Large Body to Sora, Donald, and Goofy.

Sora, Donald, and Goofy summoned their respective weapons, getting into their battle positions along with Momo and Hercules. Sora began the battle by shooting a Blizzara spell at the Large Body, freezing the heartless in place when the spell hit it's mark. As this was happening, Donald, Goofy, and Hercules began fighting the other heartless. Donald cast Thunder at one of the soldiers while Goofy got on his shield and slid into the other one, knocking it into the air. Meanwhile, The water heartless surrounded Hercules and shot strong streams of water, which the greek hero dodged with ease. Herc, being a seasoned combatant, took advantage of his position by lowering his body while crossing his arms as he started to glow a yellow godly aura. The surrounding water heartless were being pulled in closer to him as the aura got brighter. Once they were in range, Herc straightened his body while pumping out his chest making the aura explode, sending the water heartless flying with two of them disappearing in a puff of black smoke and water as they crashed into the mountainside.

Momo used her d-dial to summon her flower cannons that rose from the ground next to her. The flower cannons shot large seeds at the three recovering water heartless that were not destroyed, only for the creatures to create spherical water shields around themselves and cause the seeds to phase right through them.

"Eh? But how?" She questioned as she and Herc stared in confusion. Not to long after, they teleported away from the two. Unbeknownst to the two, the large body had unfrozen itself and was sliding straight for Momo, who still had her back turned.

Sora had just finished helping Goofy and Donald take out the two Soldiers when he noticed the large body making it's attack "Momo, behind you!" Sora shouted. As she looked behind herself she raised her tail and shot a STRONG pink-purple lightning beam from the tip at the sliding Large Body. The beam hit the large body, sending it sliding out of control.

"Woah! Wasn't expecting that!" Sora exclaimed in earnest enthusiasm. "I'll finish it off!" he declared before he locked the large body in his sights, or rather, he attempted to before he saw out of the corner of his left eye, the water heartless were charging him in a water formation. He dodge rolled out of the way of their attacks as Herc thew a large boulder at them, only for the boulder to phase right through them as well, in which they responded by teleporting to just out of Sora's reach.

"Wak! Knock it off!" Donald snapped in annoyance while shooting a fira spell at one of them in a fit of anger. To their surprise, the spell actually hit the creature, making it's water shield evaporate and knocking it back.

This didn't go unnoticed by the rest and it gave Donald an idea. "Sora! Time for some magic!" he shouted to the teen as he ran up to him. Sora smiled, immediately catching the cue, and raised his Keyblade while gathering flames at it's tip. Momo felt fear for her flower cannons, so she sent them back into the virtual space and jumped out of the vicinity. It was a good thing she did that too, because Donald brought up his wand so it was lined with Sora's Keyblade while gathering fire to the top of his wand.

"Firaza!" they both shouted. A massive explosion of flames surrounded the two, destroying the three water heartless and the large body that was charging at them at a very wrong time.

"And that's the end of that!" Sora cheered as he high-fived Donald.

"Amazing..." Momo was very thankful she decided to trust her instincts to send away her flower cannons, as a large area around Sora and Donald was charred from the flames. But something was bothering her.

'My tail attack should have done more damage that it did to that large one...' she thought. 'I don't think the flower cannons would've done more, the heartless are more resilient than I thought they'd be.'

"Ya know, We've never seen those water heartless before..." mused Goofy out-loud as he walked to the rest of the group.

Sora was in deep thought "Hmm..." He suddenly perked up "Water Core! We'll call them 'Water Cores'." he declared with a nod, satisfied with the name he came up with. Just then, the ground beneath them quaked, shaking the group.

"Guys, this is getting worse by the minute." Herc stated with worry. "I hope I'm wrong, but my family may need me."

He looked into the sky, hooked his thumb and index finger into his mouth and loudly whistled. A few moments later, Pegasus was seen soaring through the air and coming down to where Hercules waited for him. The Greek hero pet and rubbed his mane before climbing on. He then turned his attention to Sora and his friends.

"Sora, I'm gonna fly ahead. You guys have been great help, but...you can leave the rest to me." He assured the team.

"Family?" Momo asked, curious as to why he would bring them up now.

"Yeah, my dad is Zeus; the King of The Gods." With that being said, Pegasus took off with Hercules on his back, leaving Sora, Donald, Goofy, and a confused Momo.

"Wait just a moment! Gods, as in Divine Beings?" The pinkette questioned to Sora and Co.

"Uh...yes?" confirmed Sora with a raised brow.

"But if his father is a god..." she thought, putting two and two together. "...wouldn't that make Hercules a god too?"

Donald nodded "Uh-huh."

"What did you think Phil meant when he called Hades 'Lord of The Dead'?" Sora asked, using his fingers to do air quotes on Hades's Title.

"I thought it was just a title he was given. As in 'Best in bringing death to many heroes'. I mean Hercules looks so...human-like."

"What do ya mean?" asked a confused Goofy.

"I suppose when I think God, I think of something more...spiritual, ethereal, bigger. So I didn't catch on. I thought Hercules was just a great hero of this world." she explained, remembering Sora and his friends passing by a large statue of him while fighting the heartless. She made a mental note, that from now on, she should expect the unexpected.

Whatever that means.

"Maybe Hades is more what you're thinking, Heheheh." Sora laughed in a friendly manner. "You know, your reaction is something like ours when we found out a bit after we came here to train."

"That's right, you said something about training when we met."

"We came to ask Herc for advice on what to do with Sora, because he lost all his strength..." Goofy started to explain to the girl.


Greece - Olympus Coliseum Vestibule (Four Days Ago)

"So Sora, is there a reason you guys are visiting? I'm guessing it's not just for the cheese and olives." Hercules asked. He had just finished up a friendly bout in the Coliseum when he ran into his old friends in the vestibule.

Sora looked toward Donald and Goofy, who both nodded, urging Sora to talk "Herc, we came here so I can ask you something..." he began as he turned his head to face the hero.

"Ask me?"

"Yeah. You remember the last time we were together? You were feeling down and out. How'd you get your strength back; when you jumped in and saved Meg?" Sora asked as he remembered the moment, when after they managed to break Auron from Hades's control, Hades swiped Meg and dropped her into a whirlpool of death. Herc fearlessly jumped in after her despite his lost strength, but he emerged with his power restored.

"Hmm..." Hercules pondered out loud as he wrapped his hand around his chin. "That's tough. All I know is that she was in trouble. Suddenly, I wanted to save her with all my heart, and while I now know that strength of heart is the mark of a true hero...it's not like I can tell you HOW EXACTLY my strength came back to me." he admitted.

Sora's shoulders and head lowered in disappointment "Oh, man." he said with a sigh.

"What's wrong?" Herc questioned.

"All my strength is gone from me too." Sora began "That's why I need you; because I was hoping you might have a solution or something."

Hercules immediately understood what Sora was hoping for after he said that. Sora was planning to use what happened to himself as some sort of guide to obtain his lost strength back. Unfortunately, he can't really explain it in greater detail...

"I'm sorry, Sora..."

"Sounds to me like you guys need a refresher course!" a voice behind the four spoke up. They all looked to find Phil entering the vestibule and walking toward them. "Luckily for you'se three, I got more than enough time on my hands to re-whip ya into shape."

"Phil!" Sora, Donald, & Goofy exclaimed as their moods and faces brightened up.

"You mean training?" The spiky haired boy asked.

"No, I want you to relax and enjoy the sights of Thebes." Phil snarked "Of course I mean training you numbskull! Don't think just cause I'm reaching up in the years means that my memories of ya are up and going too."

Phil looked to the trophies next to the flames at the sides of the room. These trophies were all earned by Sora, Donald, and Goofy fighting valiantly and coming out on top in their respective tournaments; even completing a fifty round tourney for the Hades Cup.

"You sure have come a long way since the Junior Leagues, fellas. I can't let you'se get all soft and pudgy, I'll look bad!"

"Don't forget, Phil trained me to be a hero and go the distance. Trust me when I say you're in good hands." Herc assured the Trio.

"Thanks!"

"You won't be thankin' me when I'm through with you..." he ominously warned.


Momo was listening to Goofy with interest as they continued their walk up Mount Olympus "So that short goat-man Phil trained not just you three before, but Hercules as well?"

Goofy nodded "Yup."

Sora massaged his arm as if trying to soothe it "I still remember the muscle sores..." He complained. "But despite the pain, it was worth it. I definitely feel stronger, now."

"But wait, In that case, Hercules should be fine on his own, right?" Momo asked. Surely if he's a deity then he can handle the situation himself, right?

Sora shook his head "No, Organization XIII is here, he may need our help."

"Yeah, we gotta go! 'Cause heroes never quit!" Goofy exclaimed with confidence.

Donald looked concerned about something, however. "But Sora..." Donald began "Master Yen Sid said you need the Power of Waking. Have you figured that out yet?" He asked.

"Uhh..."

'The Power of Waking, and Master Yen Sid...'The devilukean found herself wondering 'Just what in the world is going on?'

As Sora retreated into the confines of his mind, they passed under an arc made of stone and came into view of a very large stone statue of a man sitting on a throne. All around the team was mountain ranges that blocked most of the sunlight from reaching them. As for the statue itself, the man had long hair with swirls at the side of his head, a long beard, and was wearing a Greek Robe which covered his rather large muscles. The sheer scale of the statue gave off the aura of strength.

"I'm going to guess and say that's Hercules's father?" Momo asked as she stared at the figure with wide-eyes.

Sora shrugged "Don't know, We've never actually met him. But that would be a good guess..." he trailed off as he looked to the right of the statue to find a small opening leading out where the sun was shining down. Sora made his way toward that direction with the rest of the team following behind him.

'Hold on, how did Sora lose his strength?' Momo pondered as her eyes were on the Keyblade Wielder 'He doesn't look too older than myself, so old age is not the cause. More magic; a curse from this 'Organization XIII', perhaps?'

As they stepped into the sunlight, Momo was going to ask how did Sora lose his strength in the first place and why he needed it when a strong quake from above shook the mountain they were standing on. The four looked up to find that the source was from a creature Sora, Donald, and Goofy were all too familiar with...

While a huge shadow overcast the four, Momo could only feel very small in the presence of the massive rock creature.

"Oh...My-"

"Titan!"


I need to figure out mob fights more. Do the Japanese read Greek Myths in school?

And don't worry, the flashback is indeed in the correct order of events. It's not a typo.

Next time, Rock Titan!