So chapter 14 is here! Sorry that took so long- school has finally arrived (Booo) which means I will only be able to update weekly (Double Boooo). So this chapter is kind of short, my apologies. I have one question and two requests! I did one of the requests (Sorry Sweet Nightmares Goodbyes! I will work on getting another slap-happy moment in though!) So here is the one question I received:

Young Gun Kid: does Namine still have her power to change people's hearts?

And the answer is: read like the 1st paragraph of this chapter (aren't I the worst….well actually that isn't all that bad. Whatever though read the chapter!!)

*Namine*

I sighed as I ran my brush through my hair. Riku and Lauren's usual morning argument/ battle for the bathroom could be heard from even my room! And I was in a completely different hallway than them! We were supposed to arrive to Olympus Coliseum in about an hour so I decided to just stay in my room and finish up a sketch that I had been working on. My drawings could still re-write the memories of whoever I drew so I needed to be very careful to only draw things that were real. I was working on a drawing that included Sora, Roxas, Kairi, me, Riku, Axel, and as I recently decided, Lauren and Fury. I was using a separate sheet of paper for every person and their Nobody but I was going to put them all together as one big picture when I was done. I had finished drawing Sora and Roxas and, as of two nights ago, I finished drawing Kairi and I. The layout was the same for each person: The Other was standing on the smaller island, the same one the party had been on, staring out towards the ocean (which wasn't in the picture), the sun was setting and their shadow was behind them. Except their shadow was their Nobody. Sure it was a little degrading to me Roxas and Axel but it was the truth, Nobodies were just shadows of their Other. I took out my colored pencils and started drawing Riku's outline. Eventually I got to the coloring part. The thing I wasn't looking forward to drawing was his eyes. Why couldn't his eyes just be green or blue?! But no they had to be aquamarine! The color was fairly easy to mess up and it took me a few minutes just to find the right color mixture. They needed to create an aquamarine colored pencil. If they had already made one they forgot to tell me. As I began to draw Axel I started to wonder about how to draw Lauren and Fury. Fury wasn't her Nobody so that wouldn't be right, plus she would probably be pretty pissed if I made her Lauren's shadow. I decided I would draw them back to back, with Lauren having a white wing and Fury having a black wing. I had just finished Axel's outline and was searching for my black pencil so I could start on his boots and work my way up when there was a large bump, signaling our landing in Olympus Coliseum.

Our landing had been so rough all my pencils tumbled to the ground.

"Crap!" I said before getting down on my knees to pick up my pencils before they rolled under my bed. I could here Riku yelling at Sora from down the hall.

"Sora that was the shittiest landing ever! I could've done better blindfolded!"

"Oh I'm Riku! I'm sooo cool! I can fight with a blindfold! Except I can't beat anyone! I can't even beat Roxas and he sucks! Oh I wonder why! MAYBE IT'S BECAUSE I'VE GOT A BLINDFOLD ON AND CAN'T SEE WHAT THE HELL I'M DOING!!!"Lauren yelled, doing a surprisingly good Riku imitation.

"I don't suck at fighting!" Roxas yelled.

"Well today will be interesting" Kairi said. I had been so focused on getting my pencils back I hadn't noticed the door to my room open. She bent over and grabbed the black pencil, the last one I needed and handed it to me.

"Thanks. And your right, I'm sure today will be interesting" I said before getting up and dusting myself off. We headed to the control room where Sora was lowering the ramp that led off the ship. The sun blinded me for a moment before I could see Olympus Coliseum.

"Wow" was all I could say as I walked down the ramp. The place was truly magnificent and I gawked at everything there was to see; true the world's name, there was a large coliseum directly in front of us. To large bronze gladiators with clashing swords stood over the entrance. The rest of the area was covered in sand and was closed in a large rectangle of white marble. I stepped off the ramp and did a 360 turn, taking in everything. I also noticed that behind me was a large open door leading downward. The way down was dark with swirling black clouds surrounding the entrance. That must be the entrance into the Underworld.

"Well that's where we are going." Sora said, pointing to the entrance into the Underworld. I gulped, the place looked incredibly unpleasant.

"Don't worry; the place isn't too super bad. A little dark and dreary, but not to awful." Sora said, putting a hand on my shoulder. Roxas shot him an angry look. Sora walked off towards Riku and Kairi. I wonder what that was about…

"So you ready to go Namine?" Roxas said, walking up to me.

"S-sure" I stuttered, showing that I was anything but ready. He gave my hand a comforting squeeze before heading towards the entrance to the Underworld. I noticed Sora heading towards the entrance to the grand coliseum.

"Hey where are you going?" I called.

"I'm gonna tell my friend Hercules that we are here" he replied

"Can I come?!" Anything to delay my going into the Underworld, I'll do that when I'm dead. Sora laughed and motioned me towards the Coliseum. I ran towards him, no, sprinted towards him. I didn't even stop when I heard Roxas stomp his foot in frustration. I wonder what his problem is…

*Riku*

As soon as I stepped into the Underworld I felt a surge of cold air hit me and noticed goose bumps immediately begin to appear on my arms. Two small…things were approaching us. One was fat, short, and red and the other was tall, skinny, and blue. I'd rather be the blue dude. Why do I even care?! Both were only about three feet though at most.

"Who are you?" the blue one said, his voice was shrill and he sounded kind of panicked.

"You know me Panic!" Lauren said, pointing to herself. Panic and the little red guy looked at each other.

"We'll call up Hades right away!" Little Red Guy said. Lauren quickly waved her arms in protest, alarm flashing in her eyes. She knows Hades? Well of course she does. Because almost everyone is best friends with the Lord of the Dead!

"No Pain don't do that" she cried. There was a poof of smoke and Hades stepped through.

"Noooo" Lauren groaned

"Well if it isn't Lauren my man! Err, girl!" Hades cried, heavily putting his hands on her shoulders, looking genuinely excited. Lauren just looked upset. "Boy do I have good news for you! A new tournament is about to opened in the Underdrome and guess who the final opponent will be?!" he said conversationally. Lauren and Hades reminded me strangely of that relative you hate who absolutely adores you and has to talk to you about things you couldn't care less about for your entire visit. Hades just then seemed to notice us.

"And who are they? Last time I checked you seemed like more of a loner. Other than Fury of course" And on that note Fury stepped out of Lauren and gave Hades a full toothed grin, which was probably the scariest thing I had ever seen in my entire life.

"They're with me" Sora said, running down the steps towards us with Namine running a little bit behind him. Hades' smile immediately vanished

"Well if it isn't the little Keyblade twerp" he said before flicking Sora in the side of his head. A small flame came off his fingers and Sora went flying backwards. Someone needs to gain a few (hundred) pounds.

"So what lame Underworld monsters are you in the mood to watch me defeat today huh?" Sora asked, putting his hands on his hips. Hades' eyes lit up.

"I have a tournament I'm sure your just dying to enter" he said, putting extra emphasis on the word dying. That probably isn't a good sign coming from the Lord of the Dead. I noticed Lauren give just the slightest shake of her head. Didn't think so.

"Well Lauren, I have so much that I need to tell you about the Underworld since it has been so long since you were here last." Hades said, waving his hand around.

Oh I wonder why

Why did Fury smile?

Because I enjoy freaking you out. Anything else?

Why are you and Hades BFFs? And since when did the Lord of the Dead, or you for that matter, have a BFF?!

Hades told me he likes me because since I came around the Underworld has never been fuller.

Do I detect sadness?

Not from this half!

Your enthusiasm scares me.

It scares everyone. Even me.

Are we actually having a friendly conversation here?!

You're a bastard

Shut the hell up bitch!

Aahhh that's better

Then Lauren was dragged off by Hades to what I assumed was his personal throne room or death chamber or whatever you want to call it.

*Sora*

"The Underdrome Cup? Sounds like a big deal that comes with an even bigger trophy!" Tidus said when Pain told us about the tournament. It sounded like we weren't going to get much of a chance to talk to Hades and I could only hope that Lauren remembered to. After a few minutes of planning we decided to go ahead and enter into the tournament to a.) Kill some time and b.) Give Kairi, Selphie, Wakka, and Tidus and chance to get some Heartless fighting in. And since you couldn't really die in the tournaments (Thank you Gods) this sounded like a pretty safe way to do it.

"So are you guys interested in entering?" Pain asked

"What are the details?" I asked

"Group fighting, no items or Summons, limits and drives last longer than usual. No time limits or points. Just plain old fighting." Pain said in a bored voice. Well I sure hope Auron didn't enter or we're toast.

"Alright count us in!" Panic led us over to one of the magical boats. Once we were all inside it began to glide smoothly over the black water towards the Underdrome.

The rounds had been fairly easy so far. And that meant a lot considering we had just finished the 8th round. We got a small break though before the semi-final and final round. So far we had fought:

Round 1: 3 Darkballs, 5 Invisibles, and 10 Neoshadows

Round 2: 10 Gargoyle Knights and 10 Gargoyle Warriors along with 5 Dragoons

Round 3: an Anti-form of everyone (Anti-me, Anti-Kairi, Anti-Riku, etc)

Round 4: 10 Angel Stars, 10 Bit Snipers, and 5 Invisibles.

Round 5: 5 Assassins, 6 Dancers, and 10 Creepers

Round 6: A Chimaera

Round 7: A Behemoth

Round 8: 2 Stealth Sneaks

"The Keybladers (nice name Mr. Commentator) are now entering the Underdrome for their semi-final match!" a voice boomed and I could hear the crowd roar and cheer. With a sigh I got to my feet and followed everyone else out and into the rink. What was waiting for us were the Volcanic Lord and the Blizzard Lord. I summoned up Ultima weapon and charged.

The final match! We made it! I was really impressed with Kairi's blizzard spell she used on the Volcanic Lord! I guess Merlin has been doing a good job teaching her! Well I'm sure Lauren is going to be jealous she wasn't with us to win the Underdrome Cup!

The commentator announced us and we all got to our feet and headed out to meet our next opponent(s). Standing before us were two girls; one with blond hair and blue eyes, who was holding the Two Across Keyblade in her right hand and the Ultima Weapon in her left, and the other with black and red hair, red eyes, wings, and a certain deadly black sword in her right hand. The final opponents of the Underdrome Cup were Lauren and Fury.

"Hey guys. Someone told me you were dominating this tournament so Fury and I decided to go ahead and put a stop to that" Lauren said casually. She swung her blades around casually before positioning them, Fury following suit and getting ready for the fight. I tightened my grip on the Ultima Weapon and got into position. This is going to be one hell of a fight.



Yeah that chapter was pretty short. Sorry, it was mainly a build up for the next chapter. *warning* all Riku fan girls (and guys I suppose) out there I'm not sure if you'll particularly like the next chapter but I'm not sure. Sorry-its just one chapter. So that's my little warning (Now you can't say I didn't warn you) If anyone would like to tell me who they would like to win the tournament I really don't have a preference so majority rules. Review please!