[A/N: This will probably be the last new chapter for a couple of days, but the next chapter is in the works. Kingdom Hearts belongs to Disney and Square Enix. Reviews are all appreciated.]

As Juliet and Akio entered the new world they found that it was dark and full of twisting tunnels. Juliet pulled out the map and unfolded it. "According to the map we're in Olympus Coliseum." She looked around the dark world from the puddle of green liquid in the middle of the room to the two large doors on either side of the room. "Doesn't look like a coliseum."

Akio was also looking around the room when he saw a small doorway that led up to what looked like a bright upper part of the world. "Maybe the coliseum is up there." He began to walk over to the bright doorway when he heard something behind him. "Did you hear that?"

"Yeah I heard it." Juliet summoned her Keyblade and began to walk towards the noise. "Could be a wraith hiding somewhere."

Coming out from behind the rocks came two demons. One was red and pudgy while the other was green and skinny. They saw Juliet and Akio and quickly darted past them and through one of the doorways.

Juliet began to walk after the pair of demons when she heard a voice call out to her.

Standing in the bright doorway was a tall boy with red hair wearing a white toga. "What are you doing in the underworld? It's not safe down there."

All though she would have liked to follow the demons deeper into the underworld Juliet thought better of it and instead began to walk over to the red haired boy. "What did you call this world? I thought it this was the Olympus Coliseum."

The boy blinked in confusion and pointed back the way he'd come. "Up there is the Olympus Coliseum. Where you're standing is the underworld. Why don't you come up here with me? It's much nicer up here." He suddenly looked excited. "The games are going on right now why don't you enter?"

Juliet looked back at Akio and shrugged. "I don't know what he's talking about games….but it could be fun." She began to walk over to the boy. "Sure we'll join in your games."

The boy looked even more excited and he grabbed Juliet's whole arm pumping it furiously. "My name's Hercules. This is so great. It will be so much fun to have somebody new participate in the games. We've got some strange competitors this time around."

Akio walked after Juliet and also found himself getting his whole arm shook by Hercules. "What kind of competitors are they?"

"They look like animals."

Juliet and Akio looked between each other knowing that the wraiths were probably behind it. "Yeah, we should check it out." As they walked into the upper part of the world both of them were struck at how blindingly bright it was and had to shield their eyes.

Hercules on the other hand seemed completely used to the light and was bounding ahead of them through a walk way that was lined with pots. Up ahead of them was another large wooden doorway guarded by two large stone gladiators who had their swords crossed above the doorway. As they neared the doorway they could see a chalk board and in front of the chalk board was a short pudgy little man who was half goat.

The pudgy goat man turned around to face the trio. "Oh Herc, glad you're back. Do you have everything set up for the games?"

Hercules sighed as he walked up to the goat man. "Phil, this is Juliet and she wants to enter the games."

Phil turned around and looked Juliet up and down. "A girl participating in the games? Don't make me laugh."

Juliet scowled at Phil. "Just because I'm a girl doesn't mean I couldn't participate in your games. Just give me the chance to prove you wrong."

"Fine, fine girl I'll give you a chance, but one chance only." With that Phil hopped down from the stool he'd been on and pushed the doors open to reveal a small stone chamber within. "The games are ten rounds. If you can win all ten rounds then you win the games."

"Sounds easy enough." Juliet followed Phil followed by Akio and Hercules though another doorway leading to an area. She walked to the center of the area; Keyblade ready. "So, where's the first competitor?" As soon as she said this a monkey came out of nowhere and began scratching at her face. Wraiths, I should have known.

The games didn't last very long since Juliet knew how to fight her way through a pack of wraiths. She sighed heavily and allowed the Keyblade to disappear. "So, did I win the games?"

Phil's mouth was hanging up, but he quickly closed it before Juliet had time to notice. "Well, that was impressive for a girl, but you want to be a hero then there's one more thing you need to do."

"What's that?"

Phil walked over to the room that they'd come from and pointed at the entrance the underworld. "A couple of demons by the names of Pain and Panic have been causing trouble down in the underworld. If you can stop them then maybe I'll give the title of hero."

Juliet looked back at Akio who looked like he would be more interested in staying in the bright Olympus Coliseum then going down to the gloomy underworld. "Sure we can do that. What do these demons look like?"

"One of them short, fat, and red. The other is tall, skinny, and green. They go by the names of Pain and Panic. They're minions of Hades so don't take them lightly."

Akio perked up upon hearing the names 'Hades'. "Hades? You mean the lord of the underworld?"

"Yeah that Hades. Why you heard of him?" Phil asked looking a little suspicious.

"The one programmed me mentioned a Hades once." Akio saw the confused looks he was getting from Juliet, Phil, and Hercules and smiled back at them. "Its nothing don't let it bother you." He saw that Juliet was starting to walk back to the lobby that they'd come out and quickly followed after her. "Why are you going so fast, Juliet?"

Juliet pushed the doors of the lobby open and walked down the few steps back onto the path leading back to the underworld. "Because we need to find the seven pure lights and there might be one of them in this world." She looked enthusiastic about the idea of fulfilling the task that Erik had set out for her.

Entering the underworld again Juliet felt a chill go up her spine. "I feel bad….do you?"

Akio nodded. "It almost feels like this place is sapping our strength."

Juliet summoned her Keyblade when she heard the familiar scratching sound of oncoming wraiths. "You think this Hades might be using wraiths too?"

"He might be."

Taking a few steps forward Juliet was nearly knocked over by a pride elephant wraith that came stampeding out of the underworld only to be struck down by the Keyblade. She had to lower the Keyblade imminently after attacking the wraith; her arms feeling heavy. "I feel exhausted already and there was only the one wraith."

"I think it would be a good idea for us to avoid fighting wraiths in this world if it's taking away our strength."

As they continued their descent into the underworld Juliet and Akio had to duck and dodge several more wraiths. All the while they could feel themselves getting weaker. They entered a lower level of the underworld full of twisting halls when they heard the sound footsteps.

Coming out from the lower levels was a tall woman with wild black hair that hung all over the place wearing red. She looked at Juliet and Akio smiling at them ever so slightly before she disappeared around a corner.

Juliet scurried after the woman, but by the time she got to where the woman had gone around the corner she had vanished. "That's strange. Wonder where she came from." She walked back to Akio who was now looking around the corner that the woman had come from.

Akio pointed at Pain and Panic who were arguing amongst themselves. "I think we can get the jump on them if we go now," he whispered. He readied his disk.

Juliet also readied her Keyblade and took a step forward. "They don't look like they'll cause much of a problem. Probably can take them out easily." She jumped out from behind the corner Keyblade out. "Stop right where you are."

Pain, the shorter fat red demon looked back at Juliet. "Who do you think you're talking too little girl? We're not doing anything wrong."

Panic, the taller green skinny one also piped up. "We're not doing anything wrong yet." He yelped in pain as Pain stomped on his foot.

Both Juliet and Akio exchange and look of confusion before turning their attention back to Pain and Panic. "Do you two work for a guy named Hades?" Juliet asked.

Both demons grew evil smiles; their shadows seemed to morph and change behind them. Panic was the first one to speak up this time. "You'll never find Hades."

Juliet and Akio had to back away as the two demons began to change appearances into two large snakes.

Pain and Panic both lashed out at the same time prompting Juliet and Akio to jump out of the way. Panic went to bite Juliet, but was smacked upside the head by Akio's disk. The snake demon hissed in response and backed off for a second only to attack Akio instead.

Akio stumbled backwards and tripped over Pain who had gotten under his feet and fell to the ground. He managed to grab his disk in time to block a bite from Panic and knocked the demon hard in the jaw.

Pain and Panic were both looming over Akio and were poised to attack again when the Keyblade struck in the neck and wound them around the neck of the weapon.

Juliet began to wind up her arm before stopping the Keyblade in mid air sending Pain and Panic flying off into the distance. She bent down breathing hard and let the Keyblade disappear. "This place is really starting to get to me. We should probably get out of here pretty quickly."

Unknowingly to Juliet and Akio they'd had an onlooker during the fight with Pain and Panic. Hades was fuming. Behind the lord of the dead was a giant black dog with three heads; three drooling mouths full of sharp cruel fangs. "Cerberus go!"

As they began to walk back out the way they came Juliet heard the sound of something growling behind them. She turned around in time to see Cerberus guardian of the underworld and pet of Hades looming over them; his growls making the stone walls vibrate.

With a roar Cerberus lunged at the pair with a mighty sweep of one of his giant paws. He missed, but just barely as Juliet and Akio jumped out of the way. The giant dog lunged forward with all three of his mouths open with the intent of eating both them.

Juliet had to jump backwards again when the Cerberus came forward, but a well aimed fire spell to one of the giant dog's noses sent the monster reeling back in pain.

Akio came up behind Juliet and threw his disk over the top of her head hitting Cerberus's second head in the eye. He caught the disk as it came back to him and threw it again this hitting the giant dog's third head in the snout.

Cerberus roared in outrage and began to run towards them.

"I think this would be a good time for us to get out of here," Juliet said. They both turned quickly and began to run towards the exit of the underworld.

The monstrous three headed dog only quickened his pace and jumped over them landing right in front of the exit. He leaned down and roared at them.

Juliet stopped in her tracks nearly sliding into one of Cerberus's noses. She quickly turned back to Akio. "I think we can get out of here if you keep him distracted."

Akio also had to slide to a stop almost bumping into Juliet. "What do you want me to do?"

"Use your disk to distract Cerberus, but keep him here I think if I can get up onto his back I can get the door open. "

Cerberus was snarling down at them before he was smacked in the nose with Akio's disk. He thrust a paw out at Akio who had to leap out of the way and threw the disk back at the middle head.

With a bit of difficult Juliet jumped up onto Cerberus's back and ran towards the door. She began to push against the door with her shoulders. She could hear the door beginning to creak open and continued to push until there was a crack just big enough for them to squeeze through. "Come on Akio I got the door open." Before she met Akio, Juliet would have slipped through the door and left behind who ever came with her, but now it just didn't seem right.

Akio caught his disk as it flew back to him and jumped up on one of Cerberus's snouts and ran up the back of his neck and onto his back. By the time Akio got onto Cerberus's back the giant dog had begun to run in the opposite direction which forced Akio to jump down. When he landed he felt a pain go up his right leg. He attempted to get up, but fell back down from the pain. Akio could hear Cerberus running back towards and scrambled up again to try and hobble out of the room when he felt Juliet grab his arm and pull him out.

Juliet pushed Akio behind her and put her shoulder up against the door to push it shut just as Cerberus reached it. She turned to Akio with a smile. "I think that was probably one of the most terrifying things I've ever done. What about you?" She saw him smile weakly back at her through a wince. "We should probably see if you can get that looked at."

Akio felt Juliet put one of his arms around her neck to help him walk; his cheeks reddening ever so slightly. "Thanks, but I don't think I need any help."

"Really? Fine." Upon saying this Juliet moved out from under Akio not noticing when he nearly collapsed.

Sucking up his pride and wanting to make sure that Juliet wouldn't notice his pain Akio walked after her back towards the entrance of the coliseum.

Hercules was busy training when they got back, but Phil was available. Luckily for Akio, Phil had some first aid training and was able to bind his injured leg. "Try to stay off of it," had been the satyr's words of advice.

Juliet sat down next to Akio who was still in a bit of pain. "We got rid of those two demons you were talking about, Pain and Panic."

Phil chuckled under his breath. "You got rid of them for the moment they'll be back."

"You said after we got rid of them that we'd be heroes," piped up Akio.

Again Phil only laughed. "I'd say you two are only worth being called junior heroes."

Akio scowled at Phil. After all they'd done to get rid of those two demons then again it wasn't like Phil knew about the fight with Cerberus. "I guess we can be junior heroes." This time he allowed Juliet to help him up, but still had a bit of a limp.

"Phil, thanks your help with patching Akio up, but I think its time we were on our way."

"Don't mention it kid."

They turned and began to walk towards the exit of the lobby when Juliet stopped. "Tell Hercules we said bye."

"Will do."

As they left the lobby and reentered the sandy pathway leading to the underworld Akio tried to shrug Juliet's arm off of him. "Thanks for the help, but I really can walk on my own."

Juliet hesitantly removed her arm. "If you think you can walk on your own." She looked up at the bright blue sky and sighed. "I think its time we move on."