Author's Note: This will be AU for Kingdom Hearts, parts of Sailor Moon as well.
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Chapter 7
Olympus Coliseum:
Sora, Asami, Donald, and Goofy all look around in curiosity. It was then Asami heard the yips of what she thought was a lot of puppies, and not just five Cerberus pups. The three males are blink when they see an Asami shaped dust cloud beside Sora, then their eyes and brains catch up to Asami. The teen is silently cooing over five Cerberus pups, doing her damnedest to pet all fifteen heads, " Hail and well met, Asami. Your maternal grandfather left that litter here in hopes one of them might become your familiar. I'm your maternal first cousin once removed Hercules, son of Zeus and Alcmene. "
Asami lets her magic rise to the surface, and two pups bound over to her, stumbling slightly as they hadn't quite gotten their coordination down properly just yet. " Yeesh, she's powerful enough for two Cerberus pups as familiars? Kid, you're training them. For those of you whom don't know I'm Phil the Satyr, trainer of heroes. "
Asami looks at her new pups, both female as well, and cocks her head to the side. What was she going to name them anyhow? You two your names are Mayhem and Anarchy, because I do believe we will be causing a lot of both over the course of our journey with Sora to stop the Heartless, and seal the worlds to keep the Darkness from taking them wholesale.
Mayhem and Anarchy both yip happily at the names they had been given, and the reasoning behind said names as well. Sora looks at his girlfriend, and she senses his gaze. The platinum blonde haired teen turns to look at him, -What did you name them, and what gender or genders are they?-
-They're both female, and I named them Mayhem and Anarchy. I figure we'll be causing a lot of that while traveling with you battling Heartless, and sealing worlds as well. They seem to like their names.- Asami concentrates and collars appear around the neck of the middle heads with their names on them.
Hercules groans when he sees the names, apparently Asami took after her mother when she was younger, and not yet tainted in soul as she had been. " Alright, time to get training. Hades has guaranteed you all entry into the tournaments as well. "
With that said Hercules begins training them to be able to coordinate their attacks, work as pairs, and on solo training as well. They'd need the basics before anything else, and the mages especially needed to learn how to fight physically as well. It was always good to have a hidden ace up one's sleeve when it came to dealing with unknown enemies. To be fair Asami put in her due diligence, it wasn't from a lack of ambition she had no physical combat skills, she hadn't had any teachers. Yuffie was thrilled to have a student of the Ninja Arts, though they had yet to find a melee weapon that matched Asami. The closest Hercules could find was the Bo Staff. Needless to say he drilled them all in weapons combat. Sora was given a training sword the same length as his Keyblade to work on sword combat forms. It did take Hercules a little while to find a style that suited the agile and speedy Sora.
Sora was the exact opposite of him as a fighter. Sora capitalized on the fact that he was faster than most of his opponents, and was not above dirty tactics, which showed Hercules that Sora was a true warrior, doing whatever it took to win, but not at the cost of his honor. No one fought fair in real combat, you did whatever you had to do in order to survive, and go home to your family. Those that felt honor belonged on the field of battle outside of Honor Duels were the ones to die first. Asami was currently working on Anarchy and Mayhem's coordination. She was going to have kickass familiars that wouldn't hesitate to rip a person's throat out in her defense, add into the fact that they were also Hellhounds, albeit three headed Hellhounds they were more inclined to violence anyhow. She needed to learn how to work with them anyhow, and doing so in the relative safety of Olympus Coliseum was the intelligent choice.
Unlike the Beast Tamers Aerith had told them about Asami was a White Mage, and Mages did happen to have familiars. Donald fit into the Red Mage category, and Goofy was easily a Paladin, only he chose to use a Shield as his weapon, and he was damned good at it too. Hercules was hard pressed to get past Goofy's defense, instead he worked on the Captain of the Guard of Disney Castle's stamina, dodging, and situational awareness. Donald was getting the full work up since as a mage he needed to be able to fight should his magic run out. Mages almost never learned how to fight with anything other than their magic, so when they ran out it was rather easy to slay them.
Asami did get to practice her healing spells on the others while she was working with her new familiars. The more practice you had with spells the easier you could cast them, and the less cost they had as well. Asami had it that much harder because most spells were shaped by vocalization, she had to go purely with intent, though Merlin did like the fact he had such a promising mute student. Of course, the fact that she could use Waterja, the fourth tier water spell had nothing to do with it, even though she could control it to the point that she only hit foe and not friend. That had really impressed Merlin, and he delighted in helping her on her way to becoming a first class sorceress.
The first born princess of Crystal Tokyo doesn't react when she feels the Ginzuishou contact her, and inform her that it allowed Mars and Jupiter to remember, as they were truly repentant about what had happened through no fault of their own. She knew her maternal grandmother Ikuko remembered her, along with Yue, whom her great-grandmother Seraphina had taken to Luna to train her in her human form so she would be better able to defend her. She was surprised when the Ginzuishou informs her that Sailor Pallas remembered, and more to the point had never said which princess she gave her allegiance to. Just because Neo Queen Serenity had given her birthright to Small Lady did not mean that Asami was incapable of using the Ginzuishou, at present, other than Seraphina, she was the only one who could use it.
Finding out that her Mako-baa-san had continued to make Snickerdoodles even though she didn't understand why she did has her frowning internally. The Ginzuishou also relayed Mako-baa-san's whispered bow to her. Apparently there was more going on behind the scenes than she realized, but as far as she was concerned Crystal Tokyo was not her problem. She'd be happy with Sora wherever he settled down, even if it meant gaining Misao as a mother-in-law. She wouldn't be surprised if Takuya decided to take advantage of this unique opportunity afforded to him, and relocate himself and Sora far away from Misao. The White Mage in training keeps focused on the task at hand, getting her familiars combat ready. She also goes through the glaive and staff forms she had learned.
Hades smiles in the shadows though even he was surprised his granddaughter had enough power to support two cerberus familiars. Unknown to him, the lad he had tricked before he had realized his granddaughter was caught up in all this mess as well was also watching, and his eyes narrow thoughtfully in Sora's direction, the kid would do well with his style of combat, no doubt about that. He had so enjoyed Maleficent and Ansem's howls of rage when they couldn't extract young Alice's Heart, and neither of them understood why. He knew because she was wearing the single most powerful symbol in this known universe. Maleficent really should have paid better attention to the goings on, on Merlin's original world. It was going to come back and bite her in the ass.
Once Hercules deems them ready he says they are ready for the Phil Cup, but it won't be set up for a while. The arena was still being rebuilt from the last time Hades sent a monster to test him. Apparently Asami's grandfather felt that Hercules needed to be kept on his toes which was why he sent monsters after him all the time. Asami cocks her head to the side when she learns this from him, -Makes sense, skills stagnate if not tested constantly. You could end up being Olympus' last hope at some point, so it would be prudent for my grandfather to make sure you were up to the task.-
Hercules cocks his head to the side at this, " I honestly never thought of it like that. Suddenly I'm understanding my uncle a lot more. "
Hades smirks, leave it to one of his blood to actually understand the real reason he kept sending monsters after his nephew, well that, and to make sure that Hercules didn't get a big head as well. The ego on Zeus alone was massive, so massive that Hades was stunned that his nephew Hephaestus didn't have to build a separate room for it! -Grandfather is not the Hero type, he's not going to save people because it's the right thing to do. He's more in between Chaotic Neutral and Chaotic Evil. Sora is firmly a Neutral Good, he's not going to respect you because of a mere title, you have to earn his respect before you get it.-
" Sounds about right. " Sora says, " I'm a Kanbara, dammit! A Kanbara's respect has to be earned, but we will do the right thing, not the easy thing. "
Hercules leads them on a tour of the world outside the Coliseum. He did need to truly bond with Asami after all. He had been shown by Hecate exactly what his first cousin once removed had suffered through, and he realized that Hades was right, she needed blood kin that would actually give a damn about her that wasn't constrained by outside factors. He knew Regnant Queen Seraphina stayed on Luna to protect the prayer towers, and hopefully find a way to save his cousin from what had been done to her in such a sly manner. From what he understood not even the Ginzuishou had noticed anything was wrong until it was far too late. He also accepted the fact that Asami and Sora were a package deal, so getting to know Sora was a must. If he had to he would also bond with Anarchy and Mayhem.
Since he was with them no one said anything about the Cerberus pups with the group, and he winds up at his mother's home, introducing them all to Alcmene. To say Alcmene was surprised to meet Serenity V's eldest daughter would be understating things, but she welcomes them all into her home. While Asami is taken aside for some mending lessons the guys help out around the farm. Sora didn't mind a little hard work, and he knew Asami needed some older female role models, and Alcmene did happen to be her great-aunt through Hercules. Alcmene makes sure to demonstrate as she explains how to mend clothing to Asami, as the teen could not vocalize her questions. Sora had told Alcmene that Asami was a disaster in a kitchen, but she could try out the other household chores with her.
Alcmene understood that everyone had their own individual strengths and weaknesses. She watches over her student for the moment, perhaps Asami could learn how to be a seamstress. She couldn't be on quests all the time, and should have one skill set that would earn her Munny. Asami was just happy to have an older female take an actual interest in her. It had been Selphie that made sure she actually knew how to apply make up as none of the older females on Destiny Islands would have even thought of something like that. So far Heartless had yet to spawn in Hercules' home world outside of the Coliseum. All told the team was getting a mini break from all the world saving they were having to do.
Sora's Spells:
Fire-Fira
Flare
Blaze Spikes
Pyrohelix
Burn
Deodorize
Invisible
Phalanx
Protect
Blizzard
Stone
Quake
Sneak
Asami's Spells:
Water-Watera-Waterga-Waterja
Fire-Fira
Thunder
Protect-Protect II-Protect III
Barsleepra
Barpoisonra
Raise
Reraise
Dia
Bind
Esuna
Invisible
Drown
Teleport
Donald:
Thunder
Bind
Sleep
Dispell
Distract
Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts, Sailor Moon, or Digimon Frontier.
