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Ch.12 Making Deals
With a shout I swung Ultimatum one more time, destroying the last of the Unversed. I had been down in the underground of Pete's Rec Room for probably the past hour, taking down one Unversed after another. Every time I destroyed one another took its place; not even my new Command Style Sky Climber helped. I was just about to stop and take a breather when I pack of Scrappers appeared, accompanied by a trio of Bruisers. I groaned and thought aloud "How many of these things are there?!"
Not surprisingly I received no answer, and so I resigned myself to dealing with this new pack of Unversed. The Scrappers all ran towards me and I unleashed Spark Raid, hitting them all with an electrically-charged Keyblade before activating Ars Arcanum. I swung forward in a deadly stream of slashed and stabs ending with an overhead blow that caused a small explosion. The move itself destroyed half of all the Scrappers, leaving only six left, while the Bruisers came lumbering forward.
Not giving them a chance to attack I focused for a second before unleashing my Shotlock. With Meteor Shower I created a destructive barrage that successfully destroyed two of the Bruisers and three of the Scrappers. Now that the numbers were down I ran forward and swung at one Scrapper, cutting it across the chest before stabbing it, turning to the next even as it disappeared. A Bruiser came forward and I had an idea, stopping my assault until it came up close.
Then I used Brutal Blast, smashing the Bruisers straight in the stomach and sending it back until it crashed into the last two Scrappers, the three of them landing in a tangled heap. Then I used Spark Raid to damage and electrocute the Unversed, turning the pile of them into a live electrical show. I smiled as they twitched and jerked like in a cartoon, ending with them all exploding a burst of shadows.
It was then that my adrenaline faded and exhaustion caught up, making my eyes widened and I took a step back. I took another, and another, until I backed up against the wall and slid down to sit on the floor. I sat there for a while, breathing heavily from the exertion of defeating countless Unversed. Even my mysterious powers didn't help much; the simple number of enemies was overwhelming. My Keyblade faded away and I didn't even notice, having already fallen asleep.
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When I awoke it was to the sounds of someone shouting and struggled, and I began a struggle of my own to wake up. I succeeded, and when I opened my eyes I saw Captain Justice, only in a different outfit. He was being carried by a group of broom with hands, and it looked like being carried by them was not something he was enjoying. "Hey, let me go you dumb broomsticks! I learned my lesson! Let em go!" The brooms didn't respond, and as they passed by he saw me.
"Hey, you! Help me out here! These brooms are taking me against my will! Save me!" he yelled. I stood and was about to help when one of the brooms handed me a note. It said "By order of Queen Minnie, Pete is hereby banished from the areas of Disneytown and Disney Castle." I looked at Pete and asked "You did something to get the queen mad?" "I didn't do anything; all I wanted was my prize from the Dream Festival!" he protested.
"Well, I would like to help you but this is n order from the queen. Sorry," I said. "Hey, now you can't just abandon me like that! Help me out here! Get these brooms to let me go!" he yelled. A hole opened up on the wall, and Pete struggled more as they got closer to it. The brooms lifted him and higher and pumped their arm once, twice, and threw him into the hole yelling. The hole closed, the brooms walked away, and I smiled. Looks like that was the end for Captain Justice.
I took one last look around to see if there were any more Unversed, but I saw none. So I waited until the brooms had left before I summoned my armor and glider, leaving Disneytown.
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The next world I landed in was an ancient city, full of architecture and a wide open square. I looked around; the city was abnormally empty. I wonder why. Then I found out the answer to that question in the form of a pack of Unversed. A pair of Buckle Bruisers, five Axe Flappers, and four Floods; just what I needed. I drew my Keyblade and used Spark Raid, destroying all the Floods and damaging the Flappers, but when My Keyblade hit the Buckle Bruisers it just bounced off their fronts.
Grunting, I ran forward and jumped over a Buckle Bruiser, hitting it with Dark Haze from behind. The move also hit two of the Axe Flappers, and in five seconds all of them disappeared. That left me with three Flappers and one Bruiser, and I had no intention of losing. The Bruiser threw both of his buckles at me and I dodged, swing at one Flapper and knocking him out of the air. I slashed and cut off both wings before I used Brutal Blast, aiming and knocking the fallen Flapper into the other.
The impact destroyed the Flapper with no wings and damaged the other, who I finished off with a quick side-slash. That left just the Buckle Bruiser, who looked at me and knocked its buckles together in challenge. I smiled and moved in a battle pose, and I raised my hand to wave me fingers, saying "Come and get me." It did, and ran forward before jumping, landing on its stomach and creating a shockwave. I jumped out of the way to avoid the shockwave and used Spark Raid, hitting the Unversed on its back.
The moment I did however it turned around and flung itself at me, hitting me with its huge stomach and sending me back. I countered with Payback Fang, which caused it to attack again, and for a few minutes we kept trading blows. He would hit me, I would counter, he would counter against me and I would hit him back. Then I jumped back and cast Curaga, healing Myself before jumping over the Bruiser and using Dark haze, hitting it from behind and dooming it.
The Bruiser panicked and ran toward me, trying to knock me to the ground, but just it got close to me the doom effect activated, and the Buckle Bruiser exploded in a burst of shadows. I stood there for a moment, breathing heavily, until I dismissed Ultimatum and was about to walk off when I heard someone behind me. "Now that is what I call a battle!" I turned and saw a huge guy walking towards me. He had blue skin and was wearing black toga, with blue flames actually coming out of the top of his head.
"I mean, honestly, the last time I saw fighting like that was when Theseus fought the Minotaur, and we're talking about a guy with a bull's head! Am I right? Of course I'm right. I see in you, young sir, the potential to make it great!" he said. "Uh… thanks?" I said, confused. "But while I see you having the potential you for greatness, you have yet to fully unleash it. And by 'it' I mean those powers of yours," he told me. My eyes widened. "You know about my powers? What can you tell me?" I asked.
"Well, that power within you resonates from your heart, but I'm sure you already knew that. I'll bet you also know that your heart itself isn't filled with either darkness or light. This makes you special because that means you are not haves your decisions controlled by either one. You don't have any light within you saying to save the world, and you have any darkness telling you to destroy you. You have the freedom to make your own choices, unaffected by what's in your heart."
I raised an eyebrow. "And what does that have to do with my powers?" "That's the thing- your ability to make your own decisions is tied directly to your powers. If you can awaken those untapped abilities, that kind of freedom will be yours! Now how do you unlock those powers? Honestly, it's not going to be easy. It's not just gonna hit you on the head and say 'Holy Hephaestus, this is how to do it!' You need some good hard practice using those powers," he said, before placing a hand on my shoulder and leaning down to talk in my ear.
"And hey, I know just the place for you to get that kind of hard practice," he said. "And where might that be?" I asked. He chuckled before standing, lifting his arms into the air. "The games! Nowhere else will you get the kind of experience. Locked in an arena, battling for your life against people and monsters alike! But to get in the games, you need to properly sign up." Then he again leaned down next to me. "And lucky for you, I might just be able to get you in," he said.
I looked at him, my eyes narrowing. "All right, what's the catch?" I asked. "You got a good eye, I like that in a person. In exchange for me getting you into the games, you have to do a little thing for me. That is, I've got another guy I already got signed in. You go head to head with him in the championship match, and that way I get to see which one of you two is the more powerful. Deal?" I thought about it for a second, and decided that I couldn't see a downside. Not yet anyway.
"Deal," I told him. He stood. "All right, we have ourselves an agreement! Now, let's just get you signed up. In a burst of smoke there was a scroll in his left hand, and in another smoke burst a feather pen appeared in his right. He began writing. "Let's see…. Name?" "Dexal," I replied. "Yours?" "Name is Hades, Lord of the Dead, God of the Underworld, take your pick; I've those names for centuries. Now… name, weight, favorite god? Come on, it's Hades of course!" He wrote all that down and the scroll disappeared, and he smiled.
"Written, signed and entered. You my new client are cleared for the games!" he said. I smiled, maybe this guy wasn't as bad as I thought. I walked through the vestibule and summoned Ultimatum, awaiting the first round.
Back in the Coliseum Hades smiled, one a lot more sinister than he wore in front of Deiru. "Perfect, with both him and Terra in this tournament, I've got a shoe-in to find a person that I can use to get Zeus! Terra's got the chance of falling into his own darkness, and once Dexal is able to awaken his own powers, I can convince him to help his puppet of a friend. It's foolproof!" he said, smiling.
There was of course the possibility of Terra not falling to darkness n the tournament, and Deiru's powers not awakening. But he tossed those aside, if nothing else he could do as he said and make them go head-to-head. Then he would definitely see if ether of the two of them were worth his time. And if neither of them were, well, then he figured Cerberus wouldn't go hungry. And neither of them could be strong enough to defeat the Underworld's guardian.
"Everything is working out just nicely. The only thing missing is for this show to get on the road. And when it does I'm certainly going to enjoy watching," Hades thought to himself. Laughing all the while.
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Well, that marks the beginning of Olympus Coliseum. I certainly hope you enjoyed it!
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