Author's Note: After fifteen chapters, do you seriously think that I now own Kingdom Hearts? I sure hope not.

Chapter XV: Hades

Everyone hurtled back to earth, Hades in the lead by a good quarter mile. Hercules was next in line with Pegasus, followed by Sora, Riku, and Kairi. Behind these three were Blaster, Nox, and Xarch. Blaster was busy giving the nobodies a device to allow them to control their own decent. After that, he launched himself down as hard as he could, passing the trio from the Islands and Hercules. Just ahead of him was the Lord of the Dead.

Hades turned around just in time to see Blaster closing in at a high rate of speed. If he had anything to say about it, Blaster would be the first in a LONG line of people that would want to kill Hades. Even though, being a God himself, he's unable to die. Hades fired a stream of fire at Blaster, who dodged it. The others behind him were able to dodge the fire as well, scattering to avoid being burnt to a crisp. As Hades finally broke through the cloud base, Blaster was right on top of him.

Blaster pulled alongside the right of the black, horseless chariot. Hades shot a Fireball, which Blaster dodged by flying under the chariot, and around to the left. Another fireball, and Blaster was now dodging above Hades.

"Pull your vehicle over!" Blaster demanded over the wind. "You are going 200 miles an hour over the legal speed limit!"

Hades threw another fireball, and Blaster was unable to completely dodge out of the way. The fireball hit Blaster in the left leg. Blaster cursed, and, as he spun around to the left side again, he summoned Thirteen Order Crystal. By this time, Hades was ready, and threw Blaster away with a punch. The rest of the group, now led by Sora, Riku, and Kairi, had caught up. Riku got there first, and, using some Dark Firaga, was able to fight fire with fire for a bit. Hades was quick to disrupt the wielder of Darkness long enough to catch him in the gut with a flaming fist.

"I gotta learn something other than Dark Firaga," Riku muttered. He fell back and let Kairi do some damage. Since she learned all her magic from Sora, she was able to quickly dodge every burst of fire, and even deflect some with Blizzaga. While she was occupying Hades, Sora pulled up as well, attempting to deliver some strong blows to The Lord of the Dead. Hades' hands were full, leaving him unable to get out of the way of the Demi-God himself. As Hercules and Pegasus pelted towards Hades, Herc swung his sword in an attempt to at least injure him. Hades had other plans.

Hades burst into his "charged-up" mode, leaving him virtually invulnerable. The intense flames were enough to be felt by everyone, even Nox and Xarch, who were still back about half a football pitch away. Blaster was the first one to approach the flaming god, and he was taunting Hades by flying next to him on his back, both arms behind his head, almost like he was resting.

Neither two saw the walls of the coliseum rushing up to meet them. Hades looked a bit too late, and ran face first into a column. His chariot disappeared in a cloud of smoke on impact. Blaster ended up crashing head-first into one of the walls, leaving a kind of silhouette of himself in the wall. The rest had landed more gracefully, surrounding the dazed Hades.

"Looks like someone forgot to look where they were going when trying to get to Meg," Nox said, his chain whip ready to strike.

"He's not the only one," Blaster replied. He walked out of the Blaster-sized hole (because, well, he made it himself), and started wobbling around, almost like he was drunk. "A multi-ton wall is not the best thing to ram your head into." He sat down near the wall as Hades got up, still in his "Anger Mode." "With a headache this big, I'm not so sure that I'm going to be able to help."

"Then let me," Sora said. Placing a hand upon Blaster's shoulder, Sora shouted "Give me strength!" Sora and Blaster disappeared in a ball of light, and Blaster felt himself joining bodies with the Keyblade Master. When the light cleared, Sora looked completely different. His entire outfit was a brighter blue than his Wisdom Form clothes, and, instead of flames, the pattern on the bottom of his shorts was of a square spiral that revolved three times around a central dot. In his hands, Sora summoned the Ultima Weapon and Oblivion. Behind him, two more Keyblades appeared, floating in mid-air a la Final. One was Blaster's Thirteen Order Crystal, but the other was completely new.

This new blade was completely rust colored. Along its straight shaft, there were three triangles for teeth, attached by the base. Four pieces of what appeared to be wire spiraled around the shaft like a quadruple helix from the teeth to the hilt. The guard was a cracked metal archway, and, right at the pommel was a triangle attached to the keychain by one of its points. There were white colored circuitry lines, similar to those found in Space Paranoids. The term Ancient Legacy came to Sora's mind as he inspected the floating blade.

"Woah," Sora said. "I feel powerful."

Be careful, Blaster advised. In the words of Spiderman, "With great power comes great responsibility."

"Let's see what this form can do," Sora said. Hades blew up the entire arena, and left himself, Herc, and Sora inside one of those convenient "boss barriers." From around the corner, Donald, Goofy, Meg, and Phil appeared, preparing to watch the action. Sora made the first move, and it was fast. Lightning fast. In fact, it was as if the two spinning keyblades behind him were helping to propel him forward to Hades. Hades blocked Sora's first swing with the Ultima Weapon, then disappeared to a different part of the arena as Oblivion came to meet him. Sora quickly turned around.

Wow, Blaster said. I didn't know you were that fast.

"That must be you," Sora replied. Hades rushed at Sora again, dodging Hercules as he charged at the god. Hercules ended up in a crater as Hades deflected the charge to the ground. As the smoke cleared, Hades began to advance on Sora again. Sora rushed again, swinging Ultima Weapon at Hades' head just about as fast as he could register. Hades barely dodged the strike, and deflected Oblivion. Thirteen Order Crystal seemed to come out of nowhere, almost as if it had a mind of its own. The same thing happened with Ancient Legacy. Hades caught one, and, amazingly, dodged to the side of the other. While he was "occupied," Sora tried to strike again, swinging both of the Keyblades in his hands at the same time. Hades jumped backwards, letting go of the blade he held, and disappeared in a puff of smoke.

Before anyone could say anything, Hades reappeared behind Sora and threw a large fireball at his back. Sora took the brunt of it in his back, but some caught his left arm as he quickly turned around. Sora groaned in pain as everyone outside the barrier pounded on the magic sphere to try and get in. In retaliation, the Thirteen Order Crystal slammed into the ground, causing a spike of earth to shoot up from under Hades, sending him flying. Sora slowly got up, noticing the burns he had gotten on his arms were healing over.

I think those were both me, Blaster replied.

Sora smirked as his wounds completely healed. With the two Keyblades in his hands, he slammed on the ground, which caused more spikes of earth to erupt from the ground. In a sense, Sora was now juggling Hades in the air. Sora then started juggling Hades in the air with wind. Hades, angry that he was now a juggling ball, disappeared in a cloud of smoke, and reappeared close to Sora. The Keyblade Master flung his Keyblades behind his back, and grabbed the Thirteen Order Crystal and Ancient Legacy. As Hades approached, every swing from Ancient Legacy expelled fire, while the blue-white teeth of Thirteen Order was spurting out ice every swing. Hades was relatively unaffected by the fire, but, when it came to the ice, he tried everything to avoid both the blade and the resulting block of ice that would cool him down. Just as Sora lined up for a finishing combo with all four blades, he suddenly dropped out of his form. The two extra keyblades disappeared, and Sora was left holding the Ultima Weapon.

In the same flash of Light, Blaster appeared, holding only Thirteen Order. Knowing that it wasn't either one of their faults for being unable to stay in the form long enough to finish Hades, they (without each other knowing) deduced that the form was trying to do an attack too powerful for both of them at the time being.

"He's still standing," Sora said.

"Yes, I can see that," Blaster said, sarcastically. "Try for round two?" He nodded to Sora, who nodded back.

"Blaster!" Sora exclaimed.

"Let's get this started," Blaster replied.

As soon as Blaster said "started," the two Keyblade masters launched at Hades at such fast speeds that he was unable to tell where they came from. They went through Hades, and, before running into the barrier, disappeared in a flash of light. Another flash later, and they were again, rushing at Hades, but this time from different angles. They did this a few times before they launched the Lord of the Dead into the air.

"Let's finish this," Blaster exclaimed.

The two lifted their blades towards Hades and launched Blizzaga at the same time. The ice shards erupted, almost non-stop, impacting Hades every time, knocking him out of his Anger Mode. The last launch of magic was light magic, which hurled Hades into the air. The god, now slightly weaker, ended up falling face first into the ground.

"I think that's a wrap," Blaster said. The barrier fell, and the rest of the group came rushing in. Kairi made a bee-line to Sora, and embraced him, while Riku just walked up. Nox and Xarch just approached Blaster, giving him a pat on the back.

"You think this is over?" Hades shouted as he began to get back up, shakily and clutching his chest. "Well, it isn't! This battle isn't over yet!"

Just as he was about to go back into his Anger Mode, he got a tap on the shoulder from behind. Unbeknownst to Hades, Hercules, who had sat a good chunk of the fight out of harms way, for some unknown reason, was now behind the Lord of the Dead, winding up a punch. Hades turned around just in time to get a wickedly strong uppercut to the chest, enough to make Hades' eyes pop out of their sockets. He flew higher than when Blaster and Sora were in their Drive, and was sent out so far, he crash landed on an island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea (assuming that is the nearest body of water in this world).

"Like I said," Blaster repeated. "That's a wrap."

Meg, Phil, and Pegasus all rushed up to Hercules.

"Why did you have to do that for me?" Meg said. "You could have easily gotten killed, Wonderboy."

"Well, you know," Hercules replied. "People do crazy things when they're in love."

And, while the others looked on, Hercules and Meg began to kiss. And all Blaster could think about was making sure no hyperactive kid had a camera to ruin this special moment. Mainly because it reminded him of his promise to Char, and how he would, one day, return.

(Scenes from the next chapter.)

ON THE NEXT "INTO THE FIRE": With Hades gone ("You have saved the world from Hades yet again," Zeus said), Sora's team must go to another world calling for help ("Pegasus, take us to the next world," Blaster said). And the first of the 7 important stones is revealed. Tune in next week for an all new chapter of "Into the Fire." Fridays at 9/8c.

VIRTUAL JOURNAL:

Sora's Super Drive: While in this form, Sora is able to speed around at break-neck speeds, can use every natural element, can automatically heal injuries, and wields FOUR Keyblades. However, just like Final, Sora is unable to stay in this form for very long.

Sora and Blaster's Kinetics Limit