Along the way to Olympus Colosseum Princess Hi told her teammates about her call home. Leopan listens with his thinking face on.
"Wow, our fathers were there when you called," says Igneous. "That's dedication,"
"Yes," agrees Princess Hi. "Our fathers are really showing how much they care by being there when I called."
"You weren't the only one who was making a call last night," says Igneous. "I asked Mickey to make more Communicator Stars so that we can talk with Pupa Ningyo."
"Hey you two jaw dancers," says Leopan using the name he calls anyone who's talking. "We're almost there." Sure enough they see Olympus Colosseum heading towards them (picture what it looks like when you are about to visit it in KH II and KH BBS and put them together).
"Get ready to land," says Princess Hi.
They land in front of the entrance to the underworld. Princess Hi and Leopan still wearing the outfits they wore to the party on the last world. Before they even open the double doors Princess Hi takes out the three steaks she brought and handed one to Leopan and one to Igneous to feed the three headed dog. When they had opened the doors to the underworld they are greeted by the growling three headed dog, Cerberus. Cerberus stops growling when he recognizes Princess Hi's scent, and smelled the steaks. After each of them feeds Cerberus they walked to the door that leads deeper into the underworld. Before Princess Hi even touched the door it opens. The ones that opened it were two souls dressed in maid uniforms.
"Welcome Princess Hi of The Radiant Garden, Lord Leopan and Future Master Igneous," they both greet the keybladers. "Lord Auron is expecting you in the throne room. Follow us." The keybladers follows the maid souls through all the rooms. Since Sora imprisoned Hades and took his place as God of the Underworld he made major remodeling. The inside is a whole lot brighter then what Hades had it and not like death. Not just to the design of the inside, but also making it so that only evil will be weakened from the curse.
When they enter the throne room they see Auron standing beside an ivory throne. The throne has a cushion on the seat.
"Welcome Hi, Leopan and Igneous," greets Auron. "The throne awaits you Hi."
"Thank you Auron," says Princess Hi. "But I'm tired and want to go to bed for now."
"Of course," replies Auron. "If you need anything tell it to any Servant Souls. You know what they are, do you?"
"Of course," answers Princess Hi. "I learned it in Worlds of the Universe lessons. Servant Souls are the class of souls that in life had mistreated their servants. Those souls are punished by suffering the same thing they put their servants through. When they're done they will be tested by them serving whoever runs this place. When they pass they will be on the list of souls to be reincarnated and put in the Awaiting Reincarnation area of the underworld."
"You have studied well," comments Auron. "I'll inform King Sora of your arrival while you three get some sleep." Auron gave the orders to the two Servant Souls that guided the keybladers to the throne room and the keybladers are lead to their individual rooms. Princess Hi give her traveling clothes to a Servant Soul to have them cleaned after she changes into a nightgown and before climbing into bed.
Princess Hi wakes up the next morning with the lights turning brighter. In the underworld there is no sun so the passage of day is signalized by how dim or how bright the lights are all around the underworld. Princess Hi takes the horn from her bedside table and blows through it to call for a Servant Soul. A moment later a different Servant Soul from last night comes into the room.
"You called?" asks the Servant Soul.
"Yes I did," answers Princess Hi. "I want a bath drawn up and when I get out I want a hot breakfast waiting for me."
"As you wish," responds the Servant Soul. "I shall bring a menu for you when I inform you of the bath being ready."
Five minutes later the same Servant Soul comes back into Princess Hi's room carrying a sheet of paper. Princess Hi is wearing just a bathrobe she found in the closet. As she follows the Servant Soul she orders her breakfast. She orders two eggs and sausages. She enters the bathroom alone, takes the bathrobe off and steps into a not very hot bath.
After the bath she changes into a dress (the style Meg wears) and calls for a Servant Soul. A different Servant Soul comes this time. That Servant Soul guides her to the dinning room. The other keybladers and Auron are already there. As Princess Hi is eating her hot breakfast Auron strikes up a conversation.
"Sora told me you would want to train here a while," he says.
"That's right," replies Princess Hi.
"Well the Underworld Colosseum is open from sunrise to sunset," continues Auron. The Underworld Colosseum was the new name King Sora gave The Underdrome while he was redoing that and The Underworld.
"Thank you," says Pricess Hi. "I could go after breakfast."
"Me too," responds the other two keybladers.
"Are there any Boat Master Souls to take us over The River of the Dead?" asks Princess Hi.
"No, there aren't," answers Auron. "Pain and Panic does that."
"Then that's who we are going to see next after breakfast," says Leopan.
"I scheduled lunch at twelve!" calls Auron as the keybladers leaves the dinning room.
At the dock to The River of the Dead inside the entrance to The Underworld they see both Pain and Panic sitting at a table on the dock next to the boat playing with cards. It seemed that they are finishing a game of Go Fish.
"Got any aces?" asks Pain holding three cards.
"Here," says Panic handing Pain the only card in his hand. Pain takes it and lays all four cards down.
"OK," Pain says slowly. "Now we count our matches to see who wins."
"It's a draw," says Igneous making Pain and Panic jump in surprise. "Sorry, I counted your matches while you were playing."
"Wow, it's been a while," says Panic.
"Yes it has," agrees Leopan. "It's been ten months since we last came here."
"We want to go to the Underworld Colosseum for some training," says Princess Hi.
"OK," says Pain as they stand up. "Where's Masters Aqua, Terra and Ventus?"
"I don't know," shrugs Leopan as the five of them climbs into the boat. "We came here on our own."
"Why are you on your own?" asks Pain as he and Panic starts rowing.
"We are taking a break from our adventure," answers Igneous.
"Ooh," squeals Panic. "Tell us about it."
"Well, we don't know much," says Princess Hi. "All we know is that the real enemy is Maleficent. All she ever did so far was to help the bad guys in two worlds try to take over their world. We don't know what she's after." A few moments later they pull into the dock just outside the Underworld Colosseum. Once they climbed out of the boat Pain and panic stands side-by-side in front of the three keybladers.
"We will go in ahead of you so that we can announce your arrival," says Pain.
"You do that," says Leopan. As Pain and Panic walks in front of the keybladers they talk among themselves.
"What are you thinking of doing during training?" asks Igneous.
"I was thinking of making up our own group move," answers Princess Hi.
"You mean Trinity Limit," says Igneous.
"Kind of," says Princess Hi. "But this move will take everybody working together. Even if it's not three party members."
"You mean a move where not just three but more or less then three people link their powers for one big attack?" asks Igneous.
"Yes, that's right," responds Princess Hi.
"Well, for a great group attack it will need a great defense," says Leopan.
"Yeah, you're right," says Igneous.
"What if we make a link to each other and formed a shield around us," begins Princess Hi. "Then we can shoot rays of power at our enemies."
"Yeah but, when we're together we can link with our hands together in the middle," says Igneous. "What about when we are in completely different places?"
"Remember what Sora said during the first part his adventure?" asks Leopan. "The one he said when my dad took The Keyblade from him. Also, we've added it to our play we once did one year for The Keyblade Wars' End festival." The Keyblade Wars' End festival is what they call a festival celebrating the end of The Keyblade war that made the countless worlds, and The Keyblade War, Sora finished.
"Even though my heart may be weak, but it's not alone," says Igneous. "It has grown with every new experience, and found a home with all the people I've met. I've become a part of their heart just as they've become a part of mine. If they think of me, if they don't forget."
"Then our hearts will be one," finished Princess Hi. "I don't need a weapon. My heart is my power."
"So if we make a link with our hearts," says Leopan.
"We can use it to make the shield," continues Igneous.
"And be able to do the move even if we are in completely different places." finishes Princess Hi.
"But we might want to destroy the enemies inside the shield too," adds Igneous.
"Then the shield can also be a box of power designed for that situation," replies Leopan."But we need to have a barrier around ourselves while we focus on making the link. "
"We'll practice it in the arena," says Princess Hi.
"Which we've arrived at a little more then five minutes ago," says Panic. Indeed they've arrived at the entrance while the keybladers were talking, and Pain had also made it to the other side of the arena to where the gong is. Panic waves his hand as a signal and Pain hits the gong as hard as he could and walks to the middle of the arena. Signaling to all the fighters working out to stop. Once they've stopped Panic takes out a megaphone and turns it on.
"Attention everyone," says Panic through the megaphone as the four of them walk towards the middle of the arena. "Princess Hi of The Radiant Garden, Lord Leopan and Igneous, are here to do some training. So if you don't mind making making room for them they will be able to do it." Not only some, but all of them moved to sit in the stands around the arena with the girlfriends they had in life. Panic turns off the megaphone and turns to the keybladers.
"Just do like when you were coming here with, Masters Terra, Aqua and Ventus," says Pain. "Call out what type of opponents you want and where you want them to come from. The arena will obey you. We'll be minding the boat." with that Pain and Panic leaves the arena.
"Send twenty heartless out of each gateway!" calls Igneous. There are only two gateways to the arena. Once the heartless finished coming out of the gateways the keybladers grasps each other's hands in the middle. They waited until the heartless has surrounded them to activate their group attack. The shield took the form of a pyramid. While they were shooting beams of power a heartless lands a swipe to the shield. The shield held like nothing happened to it. Once all of the heartless are defeated the keybladers pauses to take a breathing break and get into position to try doing the move when their not together. They are near the wall in three different spots.
"Same amount of heartless through the gateways!" calls Leopan. Each of the keybladers puts up shields and makes their connections. They waited until all three of them are surrounded to put there move into action. The plan worked again. They walk back to the center of the arena.
"Well," sighs Princess Hi catching her breath. "That made me tired." the other two agrees with her. They are just as tired as she is.
"Let's give the arena back to the other fighters and rest in the stands until lunch," suggests Igneous. The others agrees and Leopan relays the plan to the fighters as the three of them walks to the stands. For the rest of the time until half an hour to twelve the three keybladers watches the fighters spar with each other.
At eleven thirty the keybladers makes their way to the boat. They walk into the dinning room of The Underworld with five minutes to spare, the Servant Souls are just coming out with the dishes. A few minutes later Auron comes in and they all sit down and enjoy their lunch.
"So, what did you teens work on in the arena?" asks Auron.
"We came up with our own group move," replies Leopan.
"One that two or more keybladers can do," continues Igneous.
"And it focuses is both a defense and an offense move," finishes Princess Hi.
"Wow," says Auron. "That's great."
"But we need to see how it goes in a real fight," says Leopan.
"Oh I'm sure we'll have a chance to use it in a real fight," says Princess Hi.
"Yeah," agrees Igneous. "All we have to do is wait for Maleficent to make her move."
An hour after lunch the keybladers are sitting in the throne room playing a game of Chinese Checkers. Princess Hi is on the throne and the other two are on wooden chairs with Cushions on the backs too around a table. Suddenly something beeps in the star pouch on Princess Hi's backpack. She takes out the Communicator Star and threw it on the floor. As it hits the floor a holographic image of King Sora appears.
"Sorry for interrupting what could be a good break," says King Sora. "But Maleficent is on the move again, with the same power boost she had leaving United Camelot. She's heading right for the world you're on right now. The only thing I can think of that she'll want in Olympus Colosseum is something to do with Hades. You three must go to The Dungeon Pit and find out what she's planning and put a stop to it."
"We're on our way Father," responds Princess Hi as the three of them gets up and after Princess Hi deactivates the Communicator Star and puts it back in the star pouch they run out.
The Dungeon Pit is what the name implies, a pit that's a dungeon with bars of light imprisoning what's in there. In it is where Hades and all of The Titans were imprisoned after they tried to take over Mount Olympus. There is a row of bushes growing around the area. Nobody else is there at the moment so the keybladers discusses their strategy behind the bushes.
"One thing we do know about this, Maleficent, is that she can control the heartless," states Leopan.
"But that's OK," says Igneous. "We have that new group attack we created for this very reason."
"Yeah," agrees Princess Hi. "Our main worry is Maleficent and that power boost she got."
"Then we'll need a plan," states Leopan.
"You can say that again," sighs Igneous.
"Well I can go in for a sneak attack," offers Princess Hi. "One of you can hide behind the bushes on the other side. If the sneak attack fails and Maleficent sends out heartless we use the new group attack. You two destroy as many of the ones around me as possible and I'll focus on Maleficent." Igneous and Leopan plays Rock, Paper, Scissors to figure out who will to to the other side of the pit, Leopan is the one. So he and Princess Hi makes their way around the circle. Princess Hi stops half way while Leopan goes onto the other side of the ring of bushes, all the while keeping a link between them.
It wasn't long before a Dark portal opens and Maleficent steps through.
"Hades!" calls Maleficent. "I need you!"
"Oh yeah," replies Hades from within the pit. "What can I do? I'm as useless in here as a piece of fingernail that's been clipped off."
"Ah,"says Maleficent. "But there is one thing you can do for me, even if you're in there. You can give me some of your powers. With it I am one step closer to completing the ultimate power."
"What is this ultimate power?" asks Hades.
"Only a combination of other worlds' strongest magic," answers Maleficent. "With so much power Kingdom Hearts will be forced to make me ruler of all the universe."
"So, what's in it for me?" asks Hades.
"Why, you'll be the vice-ruler of all Olympus Colosseum," answers Maleficent. "I will use my influence to force the cage open and set you and The Titans free."
"Deal!" yells Hades. Suddenly Princess Hi charges out of her hiding spot holding United Kingdom and Oathkeeper. With a shout she swings United Kingdom at Maleficent. Maleficent blocks with her staff. Upon contact the two weapons sends off sparks of light. Maleficent and Princess Hi are thrown into opposite directions. Princess Hi's the only one of the two to land on her feet.
"What was that?" gasps Princess Hi.
"You like it, that was my new power, but it seems you've somehow got the same power," boasts Maleficent as she stands up. "Now, come army from the darkness to wipe out my foe." With that command heartless swarms out from the shadows surrounding.
"Now you two!" signals Princess Hi. Both Leopan and Igneous stands up from their hiding spots and activates the shield part of their new move. The shield destroys the heartless in front and a bit to the side of Princess Hi, Leopan and Igneous shoots beams destroying the rest of the heartless to the side of Princess Hi and behind her and Princess Hi shoots beams from Oathkeeper and United Kingdom at Maleficent. Both of the beams hit Maleficent dead on. Once the move ends Princess Hi prepares another round of lasers to finish off Maleficent. As Princess Hi shoots off the next set of lasers Maleficent conjures up a dark portal under her own feet. Maleficent drops into the dark portal as the beams are coming right for her. The beams hits the ground that was behind where Maleficent used to be.
"Darn it," says Princess Hi in frustration."She got away."
"Hi, look at the sky in front of you," exclaims Igneous. There is a keyhole in the sky that Princess Hi promptly locks up like the other two times.
"Well this is a real let-down," complains Hades from within the pit. Princess Hi turn towards the pit and shoots a beam from Oathkeeper at the pit. A lid locks in place over the bars of light.
"There," pants Princess Hi in-between breaths. "Now let's go back to The Underworld Castle. I need a rest before I report back to my father." And they walk back there.
In the throne room Auron is there to greet them.
"How did it go?" he asks.
"It went good," answers Leopan as he and Igneous takes a seat on the chairs either side of the throne. "Maleficent got away, but we've weakened her quite a lot."
"Not bad," comments Auron.
"Yes, it is not bad," agrees Princess Hi as she sits down on the throne. "I require rest before I report back to my father."
"I'll have a Servant Soul bring you three a pot of tea then," says Auron. He leave after that.
Half an hour later and after the tea was drunk Princess Hi takes out The Communication Star. She turn it on to calling The Radiant Garden. After she does this she tosses The Communication Star onto the floor in front of them. This time eight images appears before them. The images are of Axel, Masters Ventus, Aqua and Terra, Lord Riku, Queen Kairi and Kings Mickey and Sora.
"Hi, it's so good to her from you," smiles King Sora.
"It is good to talk to you too, Father," replies Princess Hi.
"I was told from Kingdom Hearts that, Maleficent, left that world very weak and the same power boost she arrived with. So I'm eager to hear what happened there."
"Of course, Father," responds Princess Hi. "But before I begin I have a question."
"What is it?" asks King Sora.
"When I left United Camelot I heard a sound like the ringing of a bell in the Star Pouch," explains Princess Hi. "I was wondering what you had slipped in there."
"I'll explain this one," offer King Mickey.
"I have no problem with that," says King Sora.
"After the meeting on the day your powers were awakened Sora asked me to make a star shard that will record your travels," begins King Mickey. "So I made the Jiminy Cricket Star. It is like when Sora was doing his traveling except the records are kept inside the one recording your travels."
"Wait a moment there," says Igneous. "If you had something to record our travels, then what's the point of, Hi, reporting to you after we've saved a world?"
"Well, because I like to hear, Hi's, voice every now and again," answers King Sora. "You don't know how worried we've all been. You three hadn't passed your Keyblade Master Qualification Exams yet, and here you are taking on the kind of stuff we did during our primes."
"Well, what if I call for at least a quick hello once a world before leaving," offers Princess Hi.
"I'd like that a lot," replies King Sora.
"For now we have to think about the new information we have," says Leopan. So the three Keybladers takes turn explaining what Maleficent had said to Hades and the battle. They leave out the part of their new move.
"This just keeps getting worse and worse," says Lord Riku. All of the older keybladers agrees. King Sora has his eyes closed.
"You three need to go to the world called World of Swords as soon as possible," orders Sora as he opens his eyes. "Even in her weakened state, Maleficent, is heading there. There are people there. If she's heading there then it's not good."
"You can count on us, Father," responds Princess Hi. "Tell Pupa Ningyo hi for all three of us."
"We will," says Master Ventus. Princess Hi turns off The Communication Star and the three keybladers quickly leaves the throne room.
"You two go ahead to your rooms and get yourselves ready to leave this world," commands Princess Hi to the other two keybladers. "When you're done, meet me outside." After they left two Servant Souls walks around the corner. Princess Hi runs up to them with her powers still on so to identify them.
"Excuse me, Servant Soul Alpha, Servant Soul Omega," says Princess Hi showing them the medallion Queen Kairi gave her when she left for training. "I need you to do something."
"I can't help you," states the one with the sign of the Greek letter Omega on her pin. "I just got out of training and-" The Servant Soul is interrupted by a jab in the gut by the one with the letter for Alpha on its pin.
"What is it you desire?" asks Servant Soul Alpha as it bows to Princess Hi. Then to Servant Soul Omega it says, "Bow to her and apologize. That's the medallion of The Radiant Garden she's showing us. Which means that she's Princess Hi. Daughter of King Sora who's also the god of The Underworld. She's the one who will be deciding how soon we'll be getting out of here." With a scowl Servant Soul obeys the Servant Soul that Princess Hi's powers told her is Servant Soul Omega's commanding soul.
"Servant Soul Omega, I need you to quickly locate, Auron, and tell him to meet me and the other keybladers outside," orders Princess Hi. "Servant Soul Alpha, after making sure, Servant Omega knows how to do the job you make sure that our travel clothes get to our rooms once they're clean quickly. Dismissed." She leaves the Servant Souls behind while she goes to her room and gets ready.
Princess Hi walks outside and finds that she's the second member of her group to arrive at the scene. Leopan's the only other one there. Igneous joins them soon after along with Auron.
"Sorry to be leaving so soon," apologizes Princess Hi. "But evil is on the move."
"Don't worry," smiles Auron. "You are a keyblade wielder. Therefore it is your duty to protect all worlds from imbalance between light and darkness."
"Hey, Hi," calls a voice Princess Hi recognizes. She turns to the sound of footsteps to see Hercules with gray hair, but still has a muscular build coming towards them.
"Auron, called me and told me that you three are here," Hercules says when he gets to them. "Are you leaving already?"
" For now yes," sighs Princess Hi. "I'll be back some other time."
"Well here's a late birthday present," says Hercules tossing something to her. Princess Hi cates it in both hands and looks at it. It is the Olympus Stone, or it was until King Sora took down the curse when he took Hades' place.
"Thank you," replies Princess Hi. Suddenly the Olympus Stone flashes in her hands and turned into a keyblade (imagine Hero's Crest, but all white).
"Hello Gods' and Goddess' Crest," princess Hi says to it. She trys to put it away. That's when it turns into a cloak fastened with the Olympus Stone with a new design (the crown symbol) around Princess Hi's shoulders.
"Wow," says Leopan and Igneous.
"Stop dilly dallying you two," orders Princess Hi. "Maleficent already has a head start." They quickly summon a light portal and got armored up and on the keyblade riders and zips off.
In the passage between worlds they are zooming along in silence.
"Hey, Leopan, Munny for your thoughts," says Igneous.
"Just puzzled by a thought," mutters Leopan.
"Well, spill, what is it," says Princess Hi.
"In one of the stories Sora tells us about his adventures the last time Maleficent made a move herself was a week after we were born," says Leopan. "Therefore she had taken sixteen years to put this plan into action. She spent some of the beginning recovering from the wounds Sora gave her, but what did she do during the rest of that time?"
"I don't know," sighs Igneous.
"But let's face it together," finishes Princess Hi.
A/N
Next world is Dragon Quest Swords'.
Fanfiction update
The Tales of Symphonia separate fanfiction wont be done, that's a personal issue.
The new worlds will be about some new fandoms I got into. The new world I'm thinking of adding to this story is on the TV show called Spider Riders and Soul Eater.
The Dragon Quest Swords chapter will have more changes then I've announced some chapter ago.
Enjoy the story.