Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts. The rights to it belong to Disney and Square Enix. Seriously, don't sue me...

We ended up in a coliseum this time when we flew in the gummi ship. Sand was surrounding the area and golden statues of warriors stood in front of the cream colored building. Everything about this place just screamed greek. There were marble collums holding the building up. Golden pots were scattered around; glowing flames coming from the tops of them. We walked inside of the building and came into the lobby. Gold and whites adorned the place as it was lit up by candles. All sorts of patterns were carved into the walls along with greek words.

Sora approached a satyr that was trying to put up a sign. "Umm..."

"Good timing. Give me a hand, will ya?" The guy asked, moving the sign a bit. He pointed to a big boulder in the corner of the room. "Move that pedestal over there for me. I gotta spruce this place up for the games."

Sora walked over to it and attempted to move it out of the way. He put his entire body weight on it but the rock just would budge. "It weights a ton!" He groaned, still pushing on it. I walked over and pushed on it too. It didn't move the slightest bit even with me helping him. "It's way too heavy!" I told the satyr, backing away from the pedestal.

"What? Too heavy? Since when have you been such a little-" He said, turning around. Once he seen the four of us he crossed his arms over his chest and sighed. "Oh. Wrong guy. What're you doing here? This here's the world-famous Coliseum- heroes only! And I got my hands full preparing for the games. So run along, pip-squeaks. Look it's like this. Heroes are coming from all over to fight ferocious monsters right here in the Coliseum."

"You got heroes standing right in front of you." Donald and I said in unison, crossing our arms over our chests. PIP-SQUEAK?! Who was he calling pip-squeak?! I'll have him know I'm five foot three! "Yup. He's a real hero chosen by the Keyblade!" Goofy cheered, putting his hands on Sora's shoulders.

"And we're heroes, too." Donald added, pointing to himself.

"Hero? That runt?" The guy asked, pointing to Sora. He burst out laughing so hard tears started spilling out of his eyes. He fell over and started rolling around on the floor. "What's so funny? I've fought a bunch of monsters!" Sora defended, clenching his fists. The guy stood up and wiped the tears from his eyes. Though he had calmed down he was still laughing.

"Hey, if you can't even move this-" He said, pointing to the rock. He pushed on it but it didn't move. He switched positions and tried again."You can't call yourself..." He grunted, pushing it as hard as he could. I crossed my arms over my chest and smirk. Show's him right. He fell onto the ground and panted heavily. "... a hero! Okay, so it takes more than brawn. Well, well, let's see what you can do. This trial's tough, you got what it takes? You ready?"

"Yeah, I'm ready!" Sora smiled, excitement covering his tone. The guy rolled his eyes slightly and sighed. "Okay, kid. Let's see what you've got." He smirked, leading us to the arena.

I sat on the stands with Donald and Goofy while Sora did his time trial. The satyr set up barrels around the area and turned to the brunette. "The rules are simple: Bust all the barrels within the time limit. You have to break twenty in thirty seconds. Ready? Go!" He shouted, blowing a whistle.

Sora sprinted at them and slashed them with his keyblade. Three barrels burst into tiny pieces as he moved on to the next four. They were smashed to pieces as well as the two behind them. So far it was nine down with eleven more to go. Scratch that; now it was fourteen down and six more to go. He swung his key three more times and destroyed the remaining barrels with four seconds to spare. "Not bad! For a beginner, that is. You know, you ain't bad kid." The guy said as Sora stepped out of the arena.

"Looks like I'm headed for the games." Sora smiled, putting his arms behind his head. I raised my hand in the air and jumped up and down, "Ooo, me too!"

"Afraid not."

"Why not!?"

"Two words: You guys ain't heroes." He answered, crossing his arms over his chest and turning away. He held his head high in the air and took a deep breath. "Wanna become a real hero? Start by mastering this spell."

He tossed two spheres over his shoulder to Sora and I. This one was yellow and sounded as if it was sizzling. I crushed it into my hand like last time; it dissolved through the skin leaving nothing behind. We walked out of the lobby so that Donald could teach us how to use whatever magic this one was.

"Rather a stubborn old goat, wouldn't you say?" Someone asked as we walked down the steps. A man with gray skin, flaming blue hair, and wearing a black robe stood by the front of the building. "Who are you?" Donald questioned, pointing to him and narrowing his eyes.

"Whoa, hold on there, fuzz boy. Wait, let me guess. You want to enter the games, right?" He asked, walking behind Sora and putting a hand on his shoulder. The man was really tall compared to the rest of us. "Well, then, hey, get a load of this."

He held out his hand and two tickets appeared in it. "Passes?" Sora asked, looking at them incredulously.

"It's all yours. Good luck, kids. I'm pulling for you, shorties." He said, giving them to Sora and walking through the front doors. We ran back into the lobby to get into the games. That'll show that guy for calling us non-hero pip-squeaks! Sora walked over to him and handed him the tickets.

"Hey, how'd you get this?" He asked, holding them up to the light to see if they were real. Indeed, these tickets weren't counterfit. "Can we enter the games now?" Sora asked, crossing his fingers.

"Well... I guess so. We start with the preliminaries!" The guy sighed, putting away the tickets. I was practically jumping up and down at this point. "Some real weirdos signed up for the games. Better watch yourselves."

"Match one: Shadow scout!" The announcer yelled, starting the match.

There were a bunch of those twitchy Heartless in armor and those elemental ones that shot out lightning. Sora swung at one and it disappeared. I used the fire magic that Donald gave me and two of them caught on fire. This is so cool!, I thought as I burned up three more. Donald and Goofy got rid of the last ones easily.

"You're not heroes yet, but you're not that bad." The satyr said as we stepped out of the arena. He strocked his beard and looked at us with a cocky look on his face. "Luckily you guys are being coached by me."

Just as he said that a man with spiky blonde hair, really pretty blue eyes, and a burgundy tattered cape walked passed us. I looked up at him and he stared at me as he walked by. He looked mysterious with just one glance. He stepped into the ring and I turned my attention back to the satyr. "Something tells me he'll be a tough one to beat. Who knows, maybe you guys'll end up facing him." The guy sighed, crossing his arms over his chest.

"Match two: Sinisters!"

In this match there were the same lightning element Heartless as well as the ant looking one's from the island. Sora charged at them and wiped half of them out with two hits. That Keyblade must be really powerful. I froze a few of them and Goofy broke them into pieces with his shield. Donald blasted the rest of them with his lightning magic.

"Match three: Heat and freeze!"

Heartless with fire and blizzard elements surrounded the arena. One of them flew at me and I kicked it, making it crash into one of the other ones and both of them disappear. Sora threw his key at a crowd of them and they disappeared into thin air.

"Say, you're better than I thought, kid! Wish he was here to see this." The guy told us as we walked off of the arena. I tilted my head to the side and raised an eyebrow. "Who?" I asked, curious as to who he was referring to.

"Hercules. He's a hero if ever there was one. Too bad he's off visiting his father..."

"Match four: Shadow Platoon!"

All previous types of Heartless were in this match. Donald shot lightning though the air and half of them vanished. Sora and Goofy attacked the remaining ones, finishing them off like it was nothing. Maybe they were getting a litle too good at this.

"Match five: Blue Revenge!"

The blizzard element Heartless flew around the ring as they tried to frreze us in our tracks. I used fire and burned out five of them before they could. This left four left after they were gone. Sora quickly took out the rest of them.

"Match six: Big one!"

A big Heartless with a giant stomach stomped around the ring with the fire Heartless around it. We left the big one to Sora and took out the small ones, seeing as he could do the most damage. Once I was finished taking care of mine I turned around to help Sora, only to see him get gut-bumped by the Heartless. He fell and dropped his key. "You okay?" I asked, rushing over to him. I held out my hand and helped him up but as soon as he grabbed it he whinced.

"I think I sprained my wrist or something." He said, standing up on his own. The big Heartless swung at Sora but I jumped in front of him, bracing myself for the impact. The blow never came after a few seconds of waiting. I opened my left eye and looked around for an explanation. Seeing nothing, I opened my eyes and looked into my hands.

THE KEYBLADE WAS THERE! THE KEYBLADE WAS THERE! THE KEYBLADE WAS FREAKIN' THERE!

"I did it, Sora!" I yelled, hugging him and spinning around. He wheezed and tried to get out of my grip. All that did was make me tighten it. "H-hey! Injured boy here! Now's not the time to celebrate!" He gasped, trying to get the air back into his lungs.

I dropped him and swung at the Heartless's back. It disappeared along with the one's Donald and Goofy defeated. Sora walked out of the ring as the blonde guy from before stepped in. I looked over towards the brunette. "Can you still fight?" I asked, watching at he sat on the blechers. "No, I need a potion and we don't have anymore. Just fight without me." He replied, craddling his brused wrist. I slowly nodded before going back into the ring.

"Final match: Cloud!"

The one named Cloud ran over to me and attempted to hit me with his huge sword. He was insanely fast; I could barely dodge him. I swung my keyblade at him as Donald shot fire at him. Surprisingly he dodged both of them. With every hit I got on him he gave me two back. I didn't want to admit it but, he was too strong for me. With one last hit I fell onto my stomach.

He slowly appoached me with his sword in his hands. He raised it above his head and I prepared to get hit. This was the second time I was going to die! I did SO not like this feeling! I looked up and Cloud lowered his weapon. He seemed to ignore me as he turned around. A huge black dog with three heads was behind him, growling with dark smoke coming out of its mouths.

"Here, kid!" The satyr yelled, throwing a hi-potion to Sora. He instantly took it and flexed his hand. By the looks of it he wasn't feeling any pain like before.

"Oh, right, there was one other rule I forgot: Accidents happen." That same man with the flaming hair told Cloud before leaving in the darkness.

I stood up and looked up at the dog. It was lifted off of its front paws by a guy with orange hair and big biceps. "Herc!" The satyr shouted upon seeing him. He turned around to look at him while he held back the dog, "Phil, get them out of here!"

Sora hopped off of the stands and we ran back to the lobby. It didn't help that Donald and Goofy were yelling like lunatics.

"Phew, that was close! That was Cerberus, the guardian of the Underworld. Herc should be able to handle him." Phil explained, stroking his beard. I was pacing around the room trying to grasp what just happened. "But then again, maybe not... This doesn't look good."

I ran back to the enterance to the arena. There was no way I could let him handle that dog on his own. It was bigger than the Coliseum itself! "Kid, you're not entering the arena, are ya?" Phil asked, stopping me from going. "This ain't just some match. This is for real!"

"I'm not afraid. You can decide if we're hero material or not." I muttered, leaving through the enterance. Donald, Sora, and Goofy followed after me. Phil crossed his arms over his chest and shook his head.

Hercules was trapped in a corner with an unconsious Cloud over his shoulder. Cerberus snarled at him as we ran out onto the field. We couldn't have come any sooner. The dog turned its head around to look at the four of us, giving Hercules a chance to escape. He retreated indoors with Cloud. "Kids, I've got one word of advice for you: Attack!" Phil shouted, pointing to the dog.

Sora went for the head on the left while I went for the one in the middle. We hit it with a countless amount of attacks as Donald and Goofy covered us. Donald shot fire at it causing it to go for him. The middle head bit at him, sending him backwards. The dog suddenly spit out a bunch of black fire towards the ground. Black spots appeared beneath me before shocking me with lightning. They were all over the place. We ran around trying to dodge them while Cerberus shot fireballs at us. This guy is cheating more than the juggler!, I thought, flipping away from one of them. When it was weak enough, Sora nodded his head to the dog's back and I nodded back. He wanted to do the finishing blow.

We hopped onto the Cerberus's back and held on tight. It began running around like crazy trying to get us off. Sora held up three fingers... then two... then one. We jumped into the air at the same time and brought the keyblades down on the guardian. It fell over in defeat as we fell to the ground. Sora landed on his feet; so did I, I just fell onto my stomach after I did. I quickly jumped up and jogged back to the lobby. I didn't want to stick around this thing much longer.

"Thus, I do hereby dub thee junior heroes, and confer upon thee full rights and privileges to participate in the games. Further-" Phil announced, reading a scroll. The four of us stood in front of him as he read it off with Hercules at his side. My eyebrow twitched at his words. "Hey! What do you mean 'junior heroes'?" Donald snapped, cutting him off.

"You rookies still don't understand what it means to be a true hero." Phil replied, putting his hands on his hips. Donald huffed and puffed out his chest, trying to act tough. "Well, what does it take to become a true hero?" Goofy asked, cocking his head to the side.

"Well, that's just something you'll have to find out for yourselves. Just the way that I did." Hercules answered, crossing his arms over his buff chest.

"No problem. We'll start by proving ourselves in the games." Sora smiled, putting a hand on his small biceps. Phil shook his head and looked at the enterance to the arena. The was a 'CLOSED' sign hanging on the wall. "There ain't gonna be any games for a while. Gotta clean up the mess from that last battle first." Phil explained.

Sora nodded and waved. "Okay, we'll be back." He said as we walked to the exit. We stepped outside to the sandy courtyard. It was empty... except the fact that something was sitting on the stairs by the front gates. I quickly walked over to see Cloud sitting there with his head down. I couldn't tell if he was depressed, upset, tired, or bored; his expression was hard to figure out.

"Hey, are you alright?" I asked, sheepishly scratching the back of my neck. He slowly lifted his head up to look at me.

"Yeah."

"So why did you go along with him, anyways?" Sora asked, raising an eyebrow. Cloud put his head down again and didn't say anything. It took him a while until he spoke again, "I'm looking for someone. Hades promised to help. I tried to eploit the power of darkness, but it backfired. I fell into the darkness, and I couldn't find the light." He answered, standing up and looking at the sky.

"You'll find it." I told him. He looked down at me and didn't say anything. "I'm searching for it too."

"For your light?" He asked, reaching into his pocket. I gave him a curt nod as he walked over to me. He dropped something into my hand and went passed me. "Don't lose sight of it."

"How about a match sometime? Fair and square. No dark powers involved!" Sora and I asked in unison, waving our arms in the air after him. He turned around and flipped one of his spikes before continuing to walk. "I think I'll pass." He told us, not giving it much thought. I looked down into my hand. He had given me Ifrit's Horn, a braclete that was a type of armor. I slipped it onto my wrists as we walked out of the gates.

3rd person P.O.V.

"He's strong. He's kind. He's always there for you, and he's handsome too. He's perfect. Perfect. Perfectly infuriating! He makes me crazy." Hades growled, looking at an image of Hercules. He got so angry the flames on the top of his head turned red. He calmed himself down and chuckled. "Wait a minute. What are you worried about? All the pieces are in place. Relax. Here's what you do. Let Hercules train the kids. In the next games, I'll take care of the three of them." He told himself, clutching his fists. When he heard slight rustling behind him he sighed, "Who invited you to the party? Stay out of this. This is my show."

"As you wish. Fight to your heart's content." Maleficent said, leaving through the the front gates.

Yay, Cloud! I missed that chocobo... Anyways, review and tell me how you liked it. Have any questions? I'll answer them!