Hello, Readers. Sorry that I've been inactive, it's just the end of my college semester and I have finals to do so yeah. Anyways let's get on with more darkness...MUHAA! HAAA! HAAA! Eh, eh. Sorry.
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Chapter 13: The Fall of Olympus
Terra was sitting against the wall of his cell after experiencing another illusion, this time where he was once again possessed by Xehanort and was forced to kill his friends and witness the beginning of another Keyblade War. He's experienced so many illusions now, he could almost predict the next one that happens, but was very unlikely since something always changes. The room suddenly darkened again and he quickly summoned his keyblade to defend himself. He suddenly heard footsteps in front of him; he turned to the source and saw Aqua, but she was in her dark form and was now older.
"Aqua?!" Terra said in surprise, dropping his guard. Aqua quickly charged at him with her keyblade, but Terra quickly put his guard back up and blocked her, but she was easily pushing him back.
"Wrong. Aqua is no more, my name is Scarlett," she said. She eventually broke his guard and struck him across the chest, sending him flying into the wall. Terra slowly started to get up, using the wall to support him and saw Aqua preparing a Firaga spell and judging by how gigantic the fire ball was, it would easily kill him. Once the spell was ready, Aqua fired it at him and it flew towards him very quickly.
"Enough!" Terra yelled and stabbed his keyblade into the ground, creating a shockwave that destroyed the illusion before the fire spell hit him. He looked around to see that the room was no longer dark and that Aqua was gone.
'Okay, now that the illusions are gone, it's time to get Ventus and get out of he-' He was brought out of his thoughts when he heard glass breaking. He looked to see Xion standing there with both of her keyblades out.
"Oh, Terra. Did you really have to destroy this room? Took the heartless a while to build it," Xion said while walking around Terra.
"Xion, please. Come back to the light. Sora is going to destroy all of the worlds and we have to stop him," Terra pleaded.
"I know, Terra. How many times have we told you? The worlds need to be destroyed in order to be remade. The Realm of Light constantly draws attention to itself and that light is like a beacon to those who wish to do harm. But what Sora is doing is snuffing that light out, so that everything can live peacefully in the darkness," Xion explained.
"But that is why we are here, to protect it from those people," Terra countered.
"And that is why we are getting rid of you first, the guardians who are too blinded by the light to actually do anything," Xion said evilly then charged at Terra. Terra quickly put up his guard, but was quickly overwhelmed by Xion's attacks. She was constantly bashing away at his defenses with her dual blades and not even giving him a chance to attack. She eventually broke through and slashed him through the wall and into Ventus's room. After recovering, he looked around, but couldn't find Ventus anywhere in the room. He turned towards Xion who was walking through the broken wall.
"Where is he?! Where's Ventus?!" Terra yelled.
"You'll see soon enough," Xion said before throwing one of her blades at Terra, but he was able to dodge it and it impaled into the wall behind him. Seeing this, Terra destroyed the glass wall to his left and quickly made his way out of the room with Xion right on his tail.
(Olympus Coliseum, Underworld)
Deep in the Underworld, Hades, Lord of the Underworld, was sitting on his throne brainstorming over how to defeat Olympus's champion and hero, Hercules, the mortal son of Zeus. He has sent every known Titan and the Hydra to defeat him, but they all were defeated by the hero. His minions, Pain, a small round and red demon, and Panic, a skinny, small, and blue demon, were sitting on his round table in the middle of his throne room awaiting their master's orders.
"Ah, I need something else if I'm going to send old Jerkules packing to the Underworld. But what, all of the Titans and even the Hydra were wasted by him," Hades said to himself, before erupting in flames in anger. He was about to start hurling fire everywhere, but was interrupted when he heard a corridor of darkness open. He looked to see four figures appear, two were young adults and the others were children.
"Calm down Hades, before you blow up again," the hooded figure said.
"Who in the name of Zeus, are you?" Hades said to the group. The hooded one removed his hood revealing his white, spiky hair and yellow eyes.
"Key-boy?!" Hades yelled and shot a ball of fire at Sora. But one of the kids grabbed the ball before it could hit him, infused it with darkness and shot the dark ball back at Hades. Not expecting this, the ball hit his gut and sent him flying back to his throne.
"Don't threaten my daddy," the child said. Hades looked up at Sora in shock.
"Wait?! Did that girl say daddy? Jeez, since when did you grow up and make a family, kid?" Hades asked while getting up from the chair.
"Not that long ago, low life," Sora said while walking in front of Hades. Hades scowled at the nickname, but ignored it.
"Alright, so what do want this time, keyboy? Can't you see that I'm brainstorming here?" Hades said.
"Oh, it's simple. I'm here to get you out of my way," Sora said before grabbing Hades by the throat and lifting him in the air. Kairi then destroyed the round table in the center, revealing the portal to the Underworld's dungeon.
"Though I can't kill a god, I can definitely contain them for all eternity," Sora said before tossing Hades into the portal, locking Hades into the dungeon. Scarlett and Ava then kicked Pain and Panic in as well.
"Well, now that he's out of the way, we can focus on the Coliseum. Let's head back up to the surface," Sora said, with Kairi, Scarlett, and Ava agreeing. They walked out of the throne room and made it to the entrance. However, before they could leave, the three-headed dog, Cerberus dropped down in front of them. The dog roared fiercely in front of them, making Sora's cape flutter around and the children hiding behind Kairi. She immediately summoned her keyblade to attack, but Sora forced her blade down.
"Don't Kairi. Let me deal with Cerberus," Sora said, before walking up to the dog. It lowered its heads to face Sora. The center head roared very loudly in front of Sora, making his cape fly around more, but Sora didn't even flinch.
"Shh. I know that you saw what we did to your master. But let's be honest, he wasn't treating you fairly, always sending you out to take care of things when he could not," Sora said. Cerberus just continued to watch Sora, but Sora could see a hint of emotion within. Sora then summoned darkness into his palm and held it up to Cerberus's face.
"Don't worry. When you join us, my family and I will take of you better than Hades ever did," Sora said, while Kairi and the children watched on. Cerberus simply lowered its head and Sora placed his palm on Cerberus's snout. The darkness quickly overtook Cerberus transforming his body and loyalty. It took a bit longer than normal, but eventually the darkness dissipated, revealing that Cerberus has transformed into the Dark Hide Heartless, but instead of having one head, it had three heads and was now black and red. The Heartless, after getting used to it's new body, bowed before Sora.
"Girls, come say hi to our new pet and guardian, Shadowclaw," Sora said while gesturing Kairi over. Scarlett and Ava ran over and started petting Shadowclaw. Kairi walked over and started petting it as well.
"Before I send you back to our base, Shadowclaw, I must ask for your assistance in destroying this world. Will you help us?" Sora asked. The Heartless looked at Sora and nodded.
"Good boy," Sora said. He then turned towards his family.
"Now let's destroy the Underworld, then the Coliseum," Sora declared.
(Meanwhile, back at the End of the World)
Terra was running up a flight of stairs, with a whole legion of heartless and Xion behind him. He eventually reached a hallway of rooms that he didn't know. He opened the closest one and closed it. He leaned his ear close to hear multiple footsteps move past the room he was hiding in. Hearing the footsteps disappear, Terra let out a sigh of relief and started looking around the room, but what he saw shocked him. Ventus was floating in a sphere of dark energy asleep, but the thing that worried Terra, was that Ventus looked younger, he had a mixture of red and black hair and his clothes were red and black. Seeing what they were doing to him, Terra ran over and destroyed the sphere and grabbed Ventus before he fell to the ground.
"Ven, Ventus? C'mon wake up," Terra said, constantly shaking Ventus. He suddenly felt a stir in his arms and saw Ventus waking up, but when he saw Ventus's eyes, he was scared. Ventus's eyes were now yellow like Sora. When Ventus saw Terra, a look of fear and panic came onto his face and Ventus quickly summoned his keyblade and started wildly swinging at Terra.
"Leave me alone! You're the man from my nightmares who is trying to take me away from my family!" Ventus yelled while swinging at Terra, but Terra was able to dodge, though he fell to the ground while trying to avoid Ventus. While Terra was down, Ventus quickly ran to the door and opened it and ran outside.
"Wait, Ven! Don't go out there!" Terra yelled, quickly getting up and running outside. He looked down one side of the hall and saw Xion and the heartless standing before the young Ventus. Xion nor Ventus moved, but they just stared at each other.
"Don't hurt him, Xion!" Terra said, drawing his keyblade, but what Ventus did and said next made him lose nearly all hope.
"Auntie Xion!" He yelled while flinging himself into Xion's arms. Xion let out a laugh, while hugging Ventus back. Xion looked over at Terra and saw him fall to his knees with tears in his eyes.
"Good to see ya too, Ven," Xion said to the boy. Terra couldn't believe it; he has failed everyone: he couldn't protect anyone, he even lost Ven, who he always promised to protect no matter what. But he was brought out his thoughts when he felt a sharp pain to his neck and he fell to the ground, revealing Yuffie who was standing behind him. After making sure that Terra was completely knocked out, Yuffie walked over to see Ventus.
"Hey little guy," Yuffie said to Ventus. Ventus looked towards Yuffie and reached out to her. Yuffie grabbed him from Xion and gave him a hug too.
"The rock head woke him up a bit too early," Xion said.
"Maybe, but it was actually at the right time. Definitely destroyed his spirit and little Ven here is at the right age, three years old, like his sisters. We should contact Sora and let him know," Yuffie suggested.
"Sounds good. I'll put Terra back in a cell," Xion said while walking towards Terra and picked him up. The two guards walked away from each other while the heartless went back to their posts.
(Back to the Coliseum)
Sora, Kairi, Scarlett, and Ava walked out of the Underworld and entered the Coliseum. They destroyed every structure down there and released multiple souls trapped in the Underworld. They sent Shadowclaw forward in order to ambush the coliseum. Before they could enter the main arena, a dark hologram of Yuffie appeared before them.
"Yuffie, what's going on? Did something happen?" Sora asked with a little concern.
"Don't worry, Sora. Terra broke out and tried to escape with Ventus, but when he discovered what we did to Ventus, we were able to catch him. No one was hurt in the process," Yuffie said. After hearing this, Sora was a bit concerned.
"And what about Ventus?" Sora asked. Yuffie turned around and pushed Ventus in front of her, revealing him to Sora. Sora kneeled down to match Ventus's height.
"H-hi Daddy," Ventus said nervously.
"No need to be scared Ven. I'm your father. I would never hurt you," Ventus was now calmer around Sora. "Are you okay Ven? Did the bad man hurt you?" Sora asked.
"No Daddy. I was able to fight him off and Auntie Yuffie was able to take care of him. He doesn't scare me anymore," Ventus said. Ventus then saw Kairi, Scarlett, and Ava behind Sora. Noticing this, Sora gestured them over to see Ventus.
"Ventus, these are your new family members. This is your mother, Kairi and your two sisters, Scarlett and Ava," Sora said. Ventus was happy that he now had a family.
"Hello Ventus. I can't wait to be home to hold you in my arms. We'll be home in a little bit, okay?" Kairi said. Ventus nodded.
"Hi, Ven. I'm your sister Scarlett and this is Ava. We can't wait to see you in person and play games with you," Scarlett said.
"Yeah, we are going to be such a great family together," Ava said.
"It's so nice to meet you all. I can't wait either to meet you all," Ventus said.
"Alright Ven, like your mother said. We'll be back home soon and then we can do whatever you want, okay?" Sora said. Ventus nodded, before disappearing with Yuffie.
"C'mon dad. Let's finish up with this world quickly so we can go back and play with Ventus!" Scarlett said. Sora nodded before walking towards the main arena. They walked in to see the main trainer of the Coliseum, Phil, watching the son of Zeus, Hercules, training. But they were brought out of the training when they heard the door open. They looked to see Sora and his family walk in. Getting a sense of danger, Hercules got into his battle stance.
"Who are you?" Herc asked while Phil watched.
"Really Herc? You don't remember the one man who has defeated you," Sora said while removing his hood.
"Sora?!" "Kid?!" Herc and Phil said at the same time.
"Yes, it's me. And before you ask, yes, I turned to the darkness. Enough talk, I have a son to visit!" Sora said before charging at Hercules and kicking him to the other side of the arena. Hercules felt the wind get knocked out of him as he flew through the air and landed on the ground. Sora then snapped his fingers and the ground started to shake. Eventually, the wall opposite of Sora was destroyed revealing Shadowclaw, who ran in front of Sora.
"Destroy this coliseum and then destroy the city," Sora said. The dog nodded before charging through another wall.
"What?! Oh no, the people! Herc, hold him off, I'll go warn the city," Phil said before running towards the door, but he never made it when Ava tackled him and held him to the ground, while Scarlett pointed her blade at his throat.
"Phil!" Herc charged towards the kids, but Kairi stopped him by slashing him back with her blade.
"You will not hurt my daughters," Kairi threatened. Sora and Kairi stood before him, preventing him from helping Phil and stopping Shadowclaw, who has now destroyed half of the Coliseum already. He didn't know what to do, until two bright lights appeared and he felt the weight of two weapons in his hands. As the light dissipated, revealing the Olympia keyblade and the Herc Shield, but was now big enough to cover his body.
"Come on!" Hercules said before charging at the dark couple. He performed a leaping slash to split them up and then took a defensive position to hold them off. They both charged at him and attacked simultaneously, but he was able to fend them both off, constantly switching weapons to counter them. He was doing pretty well until he tried to slash at Sora, but he vanished before he could. He looked around, but couldn't find him, until he felt his legs go out from under him, but before he could hit the ground, he felt someone kick him further into the air and then felt a heavy dark slash send him flying into one of the pillars, destroying it. He looked up to see Sora and Kairi awaiting him. He suddenly felt the ground shake and turned around to see the big, three-headed dog, charging directly at him, he quickly put up his defense, but the force behind the dog sent him skidding on the ground, back to the feet of Sora and Kairi. They both poised their blades at the ready to stab Hercules, but he was able to move out of the way before they impaled him. He quickly got up and put his shield up again, but Sora and Kairi both started to attack the shield at the same time, damaging it to the point where cracks were forming. Eventually, one more slash from Sora destroyed the shield, sending Hercules to the ground. Seeing that the shield was broken, Herc threw the handle away and unsheathed his own sword and started to dual wield. He clashed blades with them, but a single strike from Kairi destroyed his blade, leaving him only with the Olympia. He started to get overwhelmed by Sora and Kairi's constant attacks until Kairi dealt an attack that destroyed the blade, while Sora charged forward and impaled Hercules on his blade. Hercules looked down at the blade while only feeling pain.
"Sora...wh...why?" Herc asked.
"For my family," Sora said in a dark tone before pulling the blade out, causing Hercules to disappear in a burst of light and leaving his heart. Before it could fly away, Sora grabbed it and infused it with darkness, creating a reinforced Morning Star. Kairi walked over to Sora to see if he was alright.
"Are you okay, Sora?" Kairi said, hugging Sora's side.
"I'm fine, Kairi. Just a little tired. You?" Sora said while returning the hug.
"I'm okay. I just didn't want him hurting them," Kairi said with a little bit of concern. Sora comforted her by kissing her, with Kairi returning it. After a good five seconds, they broke apart and just held each other.
"Better?" Sora asked. Kairi nodded.
"Hey, Daddy!" Scarlett yelled, dragging Phil, while Ava dragged Megara or Meg, who were both bound in dark chains.
"What should we do with these two?" Ava asked. Sora looked at them both and decided. He walked towards Phil and slashed him across the chest, killing him. He then corrupted Meg, turning her into another servant. He then whistled for Shadowclaw, who came bounding back to him very quickly. The dog has destroyed the entire coliseum and most of the city below it.
"Very good, Shadow. Now return to the base and protect it and stop anyone who tries to break in or escape," Sora ordered. The dog nodded before licking Sora, covering him in a little bit of saliva. The girls laughed, while Sora worked on getting the saliva out. Shadowclaw then ran into his own Corridor before disappearing.
"Alright, is every one ready to go?" Sora asked.
"Yes, I can't wait to meet our new brother!" Ava said in excitement. Sora nodded before shooting a dark ball into the air, which started to destroy everything. Sora then created a corridor of darkness and entered it while being followed by Kairi, Scarlett, Ava, and Meg. Eventually, Mount Olympus was destroyed, along with the city below it.
And, I'm going to end it here. Sora and his family have added another destroyed world to their list, but is going to take a break to spend time with their newest family member, Ventus. What is going to happen to Terra now? Is there anyone left in the Realm of Light who can stop Sora? Please favor, please follow, and please review. Until next time guys. Peace.