Author's Note: I do not own ANYTHING pertaining to Kingdom Hearts. I only own Blastbone Clarkson, Charlotte Amaturie (to appear in later chapters), and their nobodies (and maybe these Seekers...to a certain extent).

Chapter XIV: Battle for Mount Olympus

"I wouldn't get too comfortable, Hades!" Hercules shouted, bursting through the golden gates.

The other gods, who where chained together, looked up and saw four figures moving towards them. They all suddenly were excited as Blaster took the lead, summoning his Keyblade in one fluid motion.

"This should even the odds," Blaster exclaimed, swinging at the chain, breaking it and making it dissolve, freeing all the gods.

"Get them!" Hades shouted, pointing towards Hercules on his winged horse. Meanwhile, Sora, Riku, and Kairi charged into the horde of Heartless and Nobodies, trying to get at the Air/Wind, Rock, and Ice Titans respectively. Nox and Xarch were dropped off to help with the ever-growing army of Heartless and Nobodies. Hercules flew over to the molten mountain that was his father, and Blaster made a bee-line for Ventisca. She jumped and flipped out of the chariot, hastily summoning a new Keyblade and blocking Blaster's strike and creating a barrier at the same time, encompassing her and Blaster.

"So, Inferno said that you were weak," Ventisca said. "I should have no problem in defeating you." She brandished her new Keyblade. The shaft was white and looked like one long snow drift. The teeth were semi-transparent, ice blue snowflakes. The guard was a set of curved icicles, and the keychain on the end was a white snowflake.

Blaster smirked as he floated about 10 feet in the air. He suddenly dropped and, as he prepared to fill his blade, his heart flared up for the first time in a while, causing him to fall backwards, clutching his chest. Ventisca rushed forward, blade ready for blood, humming through the air. Blaster watched as time stopped again, and he fell backwards into a dive. Before he reached the ground, everything melted into blackness, and Blaster found himself on the same mural as before, only this one was an icy blue as well.

You have much to learn, young Key-Bearer.

"Who are you?" Blaster demanded to the voice as he landed on the mural, feet first.

You have much to learn, and little time to learn it.

A new set of pedestals appeared, each one with a note on it. The one in front of him was green, the one to his left was brown, and the one to his right was red.

Answer the questions carefully and truthfully, so that your path will be chosen.

Blaster walked to the green sheet, grumbling all the way. He read the letter aloud.

"What are you afraid of?" Blaster read. "Well, I would be afraid of getting old. Although that wouldn't be a bad thing, I wouldn't be able to do the same things then as I would now. Besides, getting older means you're closer to dying." The paper vanished. Blaster walked over to the brown piece of paper, reading it aloud as well. "What do you want out of life?" He thought. "I would like to see rare sites and search for ones that are even rarer." This paper vanished as well. Blaster walked over to the last paper. "What is most important to you? Friendship, hands down." The final paper disappeared.

You are afraid of getting old, you want to see rare sights, and friendship is important to you. Wise choices. The path is set.

"Would you mind telling me what you want?" Blaster demanded.

Your fiery temper may end up killing you. Just like your ability to control fire. If you use fire angrily, you will end up hurting the ones you love…the ones you call friends.

Ursula appeared in the center of the mural. The purple sea witch smirked as her octopus legs scuttled along the glass. Blaster quickly summoned his Keyblade, shooting balls of fire out of the end.

As you continue on your journey, you must also keep a cool head to keep your fire in check. Water is a nice extinguisher for a fire, but it also can boil over or cool and solidify as needed. Remember, keep a cool head and a cool heart, and Ice will be your friend.

Ursula shot several little missiles of ice at Blaster, who deflected each one with a spinning Keyblade. Ursula thrust more at Blaster, but this time, just like in Blaster's fight against Inferno, the ice swirled around Blaster, as he concentrated, rejoining the missiles into one big ball of ice. The ball was then thrown across the ring, shattering on impact with the ground, impaling the sea witch with ice shards.

"If all you are going to do is make me learn to use my abilities again…" Blaster began. He never got to continue because the glass exploded, propelling him upwards, as opposed to downwards like before, to where he was prior. Blaster knew what to do as time returned to normal, and swiftly raised his Keyblade in defense. The clang of metal on metal was heard as Frost Bite, the Keyblade of the Ventisca, hit Thirteen Order Crystal. This time, the test of strength was won by Blaster, who ended up pushing the Seeker back.

"We Seekers have a special ability," Ventisca said. "Aside from the Dark Heart Curse, we have a special attack based on our element. For example," she continued, her breath now visible, "I can decrease the temperature of any given area and create an all out blizzard."

"Yeah," Blaster countered, "I have a special ability too. But I'm not gonna show it off unless I absolutely have to. Let's just call it an ace up my sleeve."

Blaster began to charge his blade up with fire, as the teeth of Frost Bite began to crystallize into more deadly flakes of snow. At the same instant, the two launched their attacks.

"FINAL BLIZZARD!" Ventisca shouted, causing a whole blizzard to erupt from the tip of the blade

"VOLCANO BLAST!" Blaster retorted, making lava and flames erupt from the tip of his blade. The two attacks met in the center and canceled each other out. The entire area was covered in steam, leaving the two inside the cloud, hidden from the battle, and each other. Ventisca was kneeling on the ground, breathing heavily when the steam cleared, and the lava rocks cooled to…well…rocks. Blaster approached cautiously. "An attack like that takes a bit out of you, huh? Lucky me I use the power of the Sun."

Ventisca removed her helmet, revealing a beautiful woman, with long blonde hair with an icy blue highlight. Her lips were the same blue as her armor, possibly due to lipstick, and her eyes were a deep, sky blue.

"I again apologize for the curse," she said. "You know, Inferno says that you and your friends have to die. But I think you're cute. Perhaps you could become one of us. A Seeker of the Keyblades. I would really enjoy that."

"You can cut that out," Blaster said, disinterested. "Mainly for two reasons. One: That will never work on me. I'm 'immune' to those effects. Two: I'm already taken."

Blaster forced a smile and walked backwards as the barrier collapsed and Ventisca disappeared in a flurry of snowflakes, pouting the whole way. "Must be a seductress," he muttered to himself. The then thought for a second, then shrugging it off to go help defeat Hades.

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Sora raced to his Titan, the Air Titan, taking out any Heartless on the way. He had a single job; distract the Titan long enough for Hercules to rescue Zeus. Hercules flew overhead, and, after passing the Lava Titan got chased by a stream of Lava. Hades, who was in the way, got covered in the lava.

"No!" Hades shouted, pointing at Hercules on Pegasus. "Not me! Get him! Follow the finger and get him!" Hercules flew by again, this time with the Ice Titan following close behind with a blizzard breath. Hades was encased in ice, pointing in the opposite direction. "Get the yutz on the horse!" Hades shouted through gritted and frozen together teeth.

"OY!" Kairi shouted. "ICE BREATH!" The Ice Titan turned around. "How about something a bit more manageable!"

Sora had no time to respond because he was right on top of the Wind Titan. Sora lunged at the Titan, and passed right through.

"It'll take more than a mere Keyblade to kill me," the Titan growled, forcing a powerful gust of wind at Sora. Sora was unable to block the blow, but he did manage to use his special ability to glide to even out the gust a bit. "No Keyblade can harm me, nor can any Keyblade Master."

Sora was suddenly blown away by a powerful gust of wind, knocking him out of range and onto the clouds. He got up angrily and charged at the tornado shaped Titan. That's when he realized his problem. He was constantly going in unprotected.

"I sure hope this spell still works," Sora muttered to himself. He lifted the Ultima Weapon and shouted, "Aeroga!" In an instant, Sora was surrounded by a vortex similar to the Titan, but it was going the other way. Sora charged towards the titan. Seconds later, the Titan had dissolved into nothing as Sora sucked all the air out of him.

Sora turned around and watched Nox and Xarch battling the Heartless and Nobodies. Every now and then, the two would be back to back, surrounded, and they would let go one powerful attack that wiped out half of the Heartless surrounding them, and most of the Nobodies who were the same. They were perfect fighting machines, even if they did have a small piece of a heart. Nox kept swinging his whip like it was nothing, blocking a Heartless one second, then killing a Nobody the next, then swinging over the Heartless like he was Indiana Jones. Xarch was just fighting like General Grevious, only with two blades, and the ability to hurl them about 20 feet away and keep them swinging as if they were in her own hands.

Sora turned to Riku watching as he faced off against the Rock Titan. Riku was in his Demonic Form, dodging the boulders being hurled at him by the Titan. Kairi was also having a tough time, in her Angelic Form, trying to avoid the boulder size shards of ice, and the Titan's ice breath. Sora could only watch as Riku and Kairi both took a hit from their Titans. Kairi was flying up to attack when the Ice Titan let out a large breath. Kairi wasn't fast enough to dodge and ended up getting her wings frozen while they were half-folded from being in mid-flap. Riku was a little bit worse, because he didn't dodge fast enough either, and he ended up taking a boulder to his demonic wings, cracking them with a crunch so sickening that Riku literally fell out of his Demonic Form.

Kairi was able to recover first by reverting back on her own. As soon as she did that, she fell about three feet to the ground, rolling out of the way of another shard of ice. The Ice Titan was getting angry, so he attacked with his Ice Breath again. Kairi saw this and barely put up her Keyblade to block. She watched as the icy breath was counteracted by a shield of white light.

Riku hit the ground a little harder than Kairi, but he too was under a massive attack from the boulders. However, each one Riku hit shattered around him. Riku noticed this a split second before a massive boulder that he wouldn't be able to dodge was hurled at him Riku instinctively put up his blade in defense and watched as his dark shield appeared, but it looked stronger than before, deflecting and demolishing the boulder. Before anyone else could attack, a golden light revealed Zeus, with Hercules at the side of the mountain that encased him.

"Thank you, my boy," Zeus said. He turned to the one who made his thunderbolts. "Throw!" Hepheastus hurled two bolts at Zeus, who caught them. "Now, watch your old man work!" He threw the two bolts at the distracted, two-headed Rock Titan. With one shot, the smaller head was blown right off. The other Titans started to retreat.

"HEY!" Hades shouted. "GET YOUR TITANIC REARS BACK HERE AND KICK SOME OLYMPIC BUTT!" At that moment, Blaster nodded to the stealthy Pegasus, who blew out Hades' hair. "Whoa," Hades said, nervously, "is my hair out?"

"Well, looks like everything has gone into the bucket," Blaster said as the gods cheered. They were cheering because Hercules had found the Wind Titan as he reformed, and used him to hurl the other Titans into space, where they exploded.

"Thanks a ton, though," Hades said, wrenching his horseless chariot into high speed, away from Mount Olympus. "But at least I have one swell consolation prize…a friend of yours who's 'dying' to see me!"

Blaster, Riku, Nox, and Sora all stood, too shocked to move, while Kairi and Xarch gasped.

"Meg!" Hercules shouted, mounting Pegasus once more.

(Scenes from the next chapter.)

ON THE NEXT "INTO THE FIRE": The final confrontation with the Lord of the Dead (Hades shot a Fireball, which Blaster dodged by flying under the chariot, and around to the left.). In the end ("He's still standing," Sora said. /"Yes, I can see that," Blaster said, sarcastically.), someone is losing the battle ("I think that's a wrap," Blaster said). And it is EXACTLY who you think it is (coughHADEScough). Tune in next time for an all new chapter of "Into the Fire." Trying for Fridays at 9/8c (again).