Chapter 108: Banned

"Go get some rest kid. Tomorrow is the day where you prove that you deserve to be in the tournament of heroes."

Another day worth of training at the Olympus Coliseum, the sandy surface was rough against the seventeen years old skin as he pushed himself up from his final push up of the day. The boy let out a sigh as he moved parts of his wavy brown hair away from his face, muttering to himself about getting a new headband before dusting parts of his Greek orange armour. On his armour he wore two silver pauldrons on his shoulder, a brown guard over his abdomen that is worn over the armour, two belts over the aforementioned guard and some black trousers, his brown sandals with black socks underneath them finished his outfit, the boy digging into the sand slightly out of habit. He looked down at his goat like trainer with a sigh, "Can't I train a little more?" The boy asked.

"You don't want to overdue it." His trainer told him. "Last thing I want before the games start is that my newest student decided to pull a muscle from training too much."

"But Phil-" The boy stepped toward.

"No buts, Chris." The satyr told him. "You're not like Herc. Your body is not one of a god so go rest up." With that said, the trainer returned to the restored coliseum.

The boy sighed at this as he slowly began to head to head back home, leaving the coliseum behind him, his mind slipping back to the beginning. It all started two years ago when some thieves tried to hurt his family, he had stepped toward to protect his family with his father's old sword, only to be knocked to the ground and nearly beaten to the afterlife. He would have gone to the afterlife if it wasn't for the world's hero-Hercules, defeating the thieves and saving his family. After a while of healing, Hercules had come by again, giving him the offer of whether he wanted to learn how to become a hero or not, saying that he saw that his heart was in the right place and that he had potential to become a great hero. The boy thought about it before deciding to accept the hero's offer as he began his training at the coliseum.

The boy chuckled at the memories, making his way through the town. He remembered when he met Phil, remembering him mutter something the lines of preferring Roxas, who Roxas was? He never asked since he was pushed into training straight away. The first couple of weeks were tough but his body had begun to change over time, he could say that he a good build on him now but not as overbearing as Hercules. His thoughts soon went over to the times that he had trained with Hercules, seeing that his workout wasn't as hard as Hercules, from that he wanted to train just as hard as his friend. He chuckled as he remembered the outcome of trying to lift Hercules' weights, a good month in the hospital with a multiple number of broken ribs, he recovered only to find the coliseum is pieces as it had been a year before and to see that Hercules had become a true hero, allowing him to gain his godship back.

Memories of his last two years in the coliseum slipped past him though as the smell of smoke covered his senses, allowing him to take sight of the rock path road that lead to his street, more importantly where the source of smoke was coming from. "That can't be good." The teen pulled out his trusted broadsword out as he ran down the street, coming close to the corner that led to his beloved home. "What?" The boy gasped.

His house was up in flames, the pillars that supported the house's structure was knocked down, yells for help were coming from inside. It didn't take long for the burnet to burst into his flaming house, feeling his metal armour pads on his shoulders heat up from the temperature change. He looked around the collapsing house, looking for any sign of his family, looking for the ones yelling for help. He looked around the room that he was in, already seeing some hearts form out from the rubble. He shook his head again, not wanting to think of a floating heart meant as he continued to follow the calls for help. The more his searched deeper into the house, sword ready, the more his armour heated up from the amount of heat that was coming from the flames, the more hearts that he saw coming from the rubble, the more sense of fear burst through him. "Hey!" He called out, coughing slightly as the smoke was beginning to affect his breathing. "Where are you?" He called out, only to receive silent. Despite the silent, he used his sword to push through the rubble, only to find a silhouette staying within the flames and smoke.

The boy looked at the silhouette, seeing the shape of spiky hair, a cloak and within the shadow's claw shaped hand was a blade that was shaped as a key. His expression turned shocked as he remembered a similar description that Hercules had told him of his friend, the one from another world that had become a true hero along with Hercules. "W-who are you?" he demanded, trying to hold his ground despite his surrounds collapsing around him.

"You will know soon enough."

The last thing the boy saw was the silhouette of the key thrown towards him and a sight of golden yellow eyes before his world became black, his sword becoming nothing but ashes within the burning house.

BOWBOWBOW

Hikari and Max pushed open the huge doors that lead them to the coliseum while Brian, Sora and Riku simply entered in pace of each other. While Donald and Goofy stayed behind on the ship to look after the resting Kairi, the others set down to the familiar Greek like world, having a feeling that the item that they were looking for would require them to enter the games in this world, they just hoped that Sora doesn't lost control of his virus while they are in the tournament. There had been some debates on whether Sora should actually go to another world in his condition but the Keyblade Master ended up agreeing to the Aversion Endless, saying that if he was going to lose control, he couldn't lose control near the injured Kairi. Despite Sora's wishes, Riku knew that he had to help his friend somehow.

"Woah! Would you look at this place?" Max awed as he and the others entered the coliseum, the sun up high in the sky for the world's competitions.

"Yeah. Yeah. Amazing." Brian simply brushed off before smiling slightly as he took a proper look of his surroundings. "I remember this place." He said quietly to himself.

"Really?" Hikari raised an eyebrow, making Brian gulp with nervously, properly expecting no one to hear that. "I don't remember you having any missions here." He queried.

"Ummm." The teen quickly thought from the top of his head. "Musta been a mission with the Order or something. You know, scouting mission, hid away from people, that sort of thing." He shrugged innocently. Hikari looked at him with some suspicious before dropping the thought away.

Sora looked around the grounds, placing his hands through his bright white hair as he looked at the sight in confusion. "That's strange."

"What is it?" Riku looked over to him.

"Normally there isn't as many people here when we normally come." He pointed out. The five teens looked over near the entrance to see a group of warriors, all dressed as if they were warriors from all across the world, taking their time to take in some of the other fighters appearances as they walked closer to the group.

One fighter looked like he was practising some punches near the edge of the court, his fighting styles strangely different for one of this world. The teen looked around their age but looked like he could be a good bit taller than Riku, parts of his light blonde hair came out from the black Greek pattern cloth as he managed to use as a bandana. His low cut tunic styled work shirt was styled as only the sides were longer, looking as if it was some kind Greek styled long coat, the blonde teen adjusted his black gloves before he became to relax against the court wall, showing his grey trousers, a blue scarf that was tucked in between his tunic shirt and his trousers and his brown sandals with grey socks underneath them.

Another fighter was talking to Hercules before the hero headed back inside. His spiky black hair pointed back as one lock of hair hanged down in front of his face. He looked nearly as build as Hercules as he adjusted his grey armour, one that was similar to Hercules. He wore on his armour were two silver shoulder guards, black gloves, a brown guard over his abdomen that is worn over the armour, two belts over the aforementioned guard, and some black trousers and turtleneck, resting underneath the armour. He looked around the court with a smile, showing his bright blue eyes and a 'X' shaped scar at the size of his chin before heading inside himself.

Soon, the other fighters began to make their way inside, giving no time for the others to survey the other fighters. "So.." Riku spoke up as he crossed his arms. "What's the plan?"

"It's simple." Brian answered. "We each enter the tournament, in teams or on our own, so we can gain the grand prize, which is said to have been made by the Greek gods itself."

Sora took the information in, "I would have thought that the Olympus Stone would have been the item." He spoke before grabbing his claw in pain.

"Sora!" Riku ran over to his side, watching his claw flash from grey to white. "Control it, Sora." He told him.

Time for some fun.

Sora's arm just flew out to his side, summoning the Kingdom Key into his hand. What th- The Keybearer tried to make the Keyblade disappear from his hand but the weapon just stayed put in his claw. "It won't go." He growled slightly before giving up and placing the keyblade to rest on his shoulders.

Riku raised an eyebrow at his friend as his claw faded back to its original infected colour. "You alright?"

Sora nodded. "Yeah, I think so." Sora placed Kingdom Key in front of him and looked at it questionably. "Why just summon the Keyblade? I known it to dispose of it while I've been fighting but-" What are you up to? He tried to communicate with his infected soul only to receive silents once more. Great! He only talks when he takes control.. but what did he mean about just having some fun?

Brian sighed at this. "On the plus side, at least you're still in control."

"Yeah but why just summon the Keyblade?" Hikari questioned.

Riku sighed at this, not really understanding the virus' reasons either. "C'mon. This world knows you as the Keyblade Master that helped Hercules out anyway. A true hero here. So it shouldn't be questioned much."

Sora nodded to his friend, still trying to get rid of the Keyblade in hand but finding that the Kingdom Key was very comfortable remaining in his grip. "I guess you're right."

"You!"

The team turned around to see a teen, longer more to Riku's age, his clothes burned and scarred from slashes, his expression cold as he glared at the group with pure hatred. Before any of them could question the teen's appearance, the teen charged through the group and began to run over to none other than Sora. Sora quickly placed the Keyblade in front of him for defence, only for the Keyblade to disappear just before the boy had speared the Keyblade Master to the ground. Sora looked up at the boy on top of him, seeing him preparing to take a swing when the Keyblade Master quickly grabbed the boy's punch and pushed the boy off. As soon as Sora managed to get up though, he was sent to the floor again by a strong punch to the jaw.

"HEY!" Brian and Max pulled the boy away from his friend by grabbing his arms and holding them behind his back.

Hikari and Riku quickly went over to Sora after noticing that his claw had flashed again, turning red for a short while, holding the Keyblade Master back. "Woah Sora, calm down." Riku told him.

"He started it!" Sora proclaimed, trying to get out of Riku and Hikari's hold on him.

"With good reason!" The teen growled as he tried to get out of Brian and Max's grip. "You killed my family!"

"Huh?" Sora looked at the teen with pure confusion.

"Hey! What's going on over here?" A familiar voice shouted as two people could be heard running over to them. Brian and Max could see that it was Phil and Hercules. The small goat looked at the two that were behind held back, looking back at the boy with burned clothes. "Chris? What happened to you?" he asked.

Hercules looked between the two fighters, looking at Sora with surprise. "Sora? When did you get here?" he asked, taking in his new appearance. "What happened to your hair?"

"Long story." Sora said soberly as he felt Riku and Hikari let him go, seeing that he had calmed down but looked away as he was reminded what had happened to Kairi because of his outburst.

However, the boy named Chris was still trying to get out of Brian and Max's grip more violently. "I tell you what happened to me! Your precious hero in the stars destroyed my home, killed my family and tried to kill me in the process!"

"What?" Everyone gasped.

"Sora would never do that!" Riku defended his best friend.

"Besides, we've just got here ten minutes ago." Hikari informed him.

"Yeah, there is no possible way that it could be Sora." Brian added his opinion.

Chris growled with anger from the comments. "I know what I saw! A keybearer with the same 'key' as yours and who else would have outrageous spiky hair like that!" There was a moment where Brian checked his spiky hair, allowing Chris to break out of their grip. The teen didn't attack though; he only glared at the Keyblade Master. "You sound just like him too."

"You sure it was Sora, Chris?" Hercules questioned his enraged friend. "I remember that there was a number of keybearers that have come to this world to take part in the games."

"I'm sure." He growled once more.

"Well Chris, we can't just go on your word, you need more evidences." Phil informed his student. "But rest assured, we will placed a full investigation on the situation as soon as the games are over. Now go get yourself sorted."

"Whatever." He said coldly, bumping hard into Sora's shoulder as he walked past him before heading inside of the Coliseum.

Phil sighed as he turned to face Sora. "Sorry kid, until this situation is solved, I'll have to relieve you of your hero status."

"But Phil, I didn't-" Sora tried to defend for himself.

"Look kid, there is nothing I can do on this." Phil told him. "Just like I've told Chris, if you can prove that you wasn't there then your hero status is restored and you can enter the games."

Max raised his eyebrow at this. "Wait! You have to be a hero to enter the games?" he questioned

"Of course you do!" Phil scoffed. "This isn't just any games that the coliseum runs; this is THE games, the true games to place heroes from around the world into the ultimate competition. If you're not a hero then you don't enter the competition." He said before turning away from them.

"I'm sure that we're hero material just like Sora is." Hikari halted the goat's actions.

"Hmmm." Phil thought about it, using this precious time to check Hikari out while thinking. The only reason Hikari didn't sent him into the wall was that they really needed to get into the competition to get the item needed to help Sora and many others infected with the virus.

"Well, they look like hero material, Phil." Hercules voiced out. "They look like they've got the heart for it too."

"Alright. Alright." Phil raised his hands in defeat. "You win. But only three of you can go in." He told them. "We only have three slots left anyway." The satyr sighed as he began to head his way back into the coliseum.

Hercules looked over to Sora. "Wish I could help you but I have to get ready with the tournament." He said sadly.

Sora nodded as he understood the semi-god's reasons. "It's okay. You have the competition to worry about."

Hercules smiled at this. "Maybe Meg can help out. She went into town a little while back." He told them before making his way back to the coliseum himself. "I see you guys inside!" He shouted over to them before finally entering the building.

Sora sighed at this, disappointment feeling his face. "Oh man, I was really looking toward in taking part." He said sadly.

"Well, the scanner said that there was some huge source of Endless energy somewhere on this world. If you find the Endless then maybe you'll find the cause of this." Max suggested.

"Max is right." Brian said. "Someone needed to go search for the Endless anyway." He turned to face the coliseum. "Question is, who's taking part?"

Riku stepped close to his best friend. "I'll go with Sora. You guys go in the tournament." He told them, volunteering himself to stay behind.

"But Riku-" Sora looked at him with surprise, not wanting to ruin his friend's chance to take part of the tournament.

"It's fine, Sora." He told him before smirking. "Besides, when was the last time we worked together on something."

"Too long." Sora smiled, realising that this will be the first time that he gets to side with just Riku since this journey started.

"I dunno." Brian pondered. "Riku is the better sword fighter." He said as a thought.

Immediately, Hikari sharply turned around to glare at Brian angrily. "What's that supposed to mean?" She demanded.

Brian gulped nervously at her angry glare. "I'm just saying that we might have a better chance of getting the prize if Riku is with us. Two sword fighters are better than one." He quickly responded.

Sora, Riku and Max chuckled at this, watching as Brian and Hikari fall into another of their familiar arguments. Riku nodded to Max as the teen archer went to separate his two friends, he looked over to his friend at his side. "You ready?" he asked.

"What about the keyhole?" Sora asked. "It's inside the coliseum."

Riku shrugged at this. "We can deal with the keyhole once we clear you name." He told him. "Now let's hunt down this Endless." He smiled strongly as he held his hand out to his best friend.

"Yeah." Sora grinned happily as he clapped his uninfected hand into his friends, grinning at his friend before looking over to the trio, seeing that the two had settled their argument. "Will you guys been fine?"

"Don't worry, Sora. We'll come back with the item for our victory." Brian grinned.

Hikari chuckled at Brian optimising thinking before facing the two islanders. "We'll keep an eye out on this Chris character. I know he has just lost his family but I don't like where his hatred might lead to."

"That's good to know." Riku nodded to this.

"We'll check out what Hades is doing do." Sora said to them. "Knowing Maleficent, she would have brought him back from the river of the dead."

Brian nodded at everyone's objective. "So, are we ready?" He asked his two friends beside him.

Max grinned, "Let's show them what Little Devon heroes have got!" He jumped with excitement. The group chuckled at Max's actions before separating into their separate parties, Brian, Hikari and Max heading into the coliseum while Sora and Riku headed into town to find Meg for any clues to clear Sora's name.

A/N: See! It's amazing what happens when I don't have to do coursework O.o Now I can get the chapters done ^^ Oh no, Sora can't enter the tournament and now him and Riku have to find out who the real criminal is. Hope you guys enjoy this chapter.

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