A/N: Now we all know that Aqua is alive. Who is Rasputin you might wonder. He seems like a dark and evil villain, wouldn't you say? We now move on to another world, where a dark desire awaits.

World: Olympus Coliseum

I arrive at Olympus Coliseum, in the Canyon Gorge. I have just found out that Aqua is still alive, but she needs my help to save her. So now I have begun my journey to find her and to bring her home.

As I walk in the dark rocky area, I stop and take a look around. "Now...where am I?" I wonder.

"Help!" The call for help is fainted, but I heard it enough to be on alert. I stat running, making my way down the canyon to find the people in trouble.

The path is long, I even ran into some Heartless on the way. I had to attack them fast, cause someone's in trouble. I defeated all the Heartless in two minutes, then continue down my path.

I arrive at the Gorge. So far, there's nothing but rocks everywhere. "Hey! Anyone here!?" I shout.

"Help! Over here!" I turn to the direction where there's a large boulder about twenty stores tall. I'm guessing there's been an avalanche. I rush up in front of the boulder.

I look down to see a small crack of opening. Inside are two little boys. "Are you boys all right?"

"We're fine, mister." One boy says. "Go get help."

"No time. I need to get you out now." I stand up.

"No! It's okay. Just go get Hercules." The second boy says.

Outside, I remain serious, but inside, I'm surprised to hear the name 'Hercules' I'll worry about that later. "Don't worry, I'll get you boys out."

I summon my Keyblade, then take out a special potion. I drink the potion and it causes me to instantly enter Critical Impact. I take my position, gather all of my strength. With a shout, I strike hard on the large boulder, shattering it into a thousand pieces.

The pieces fly in the air, but then start falling. I stand in the middle of that rock slide. When the boulders fall close, I cast Zero Gravity, causing the rocks to flow in the air. The two boys seems impressed. "Whoa."

I look down at the boys. "Get out. Now."

The two boys climb right out of the cavern. the three of us moves out of the way, just in time cause the Zero Gravity wore off and the boulders fell.

"Okay, you boys were lucky I was here." I say. "You two be careful, all right?"

"We sure will, mister." The first boy says, and then the two of them take off.

I stay behind to watch the boys leave, but when they're out of sight, the two boys transforms into Pain and Panic. Pain and Panic hides behind a rock, in worry, looking at me.

"Oh man! Oh man! Hades is going to kill us!" Panic says. "It was suppose to be Hercules who falls for the trap.

"Let's just hope he doesn't find out!" Pain says.

"Finds out what?" Pain and Panic screams in fear, they turn to see their lord, Hades. "Pain? Panic? What's going on?"

Panic chuckles nervously. "Uh, yeah...you see.. everything we going according to plan...until...Pain?"

Panic pushes Pain in front of him. "Well...some man rescued us instead of Hercules."

Hades looks mad. "You WHAT!?" Hades bursts into red flames.

"It's not our fault! We-we told him to go get Hercules, but he insists on rescuing us!" Pain says.

Hades pants angrily and growls. "Oh! I swear! I'm gonna-"

Hades becomes interrupted by the sound of a monstrous roar. I become on alert and look inside the cavern. Low growling happens and then I can see bloodshot eyes in the darkness. A large claw pops out of the ground and the monster comes out.

I slowly back away as I see a large Hydra coming out of the cavern. The Hydra is big and it's neck is like thirty feet long, with razor teeth and a lizard tongue.

The hydra looks down at me and roars. "Oh great. Just what I need." I say. I summon my Keyblade and battle the Hydra. The Hydra snaps its teeth in front of me. I dodged at the neck of time. Man, this thing moves its head damn fast.

The Hydra bites at me three times, I dodge them all. At the fourth one, I strike at the Hydras face, clashing my weapon with it's teeth. I slightly slide back, even with my feet planted on the ground. This thing is strong too. I shift my Keyblade to repel the Hydra. The hydra hisses and strikes, I strike to, causing the Hydras head to be knocked back.

I position my Keyblade over my shoulder, shout and throw it. Strike Raid. My Keyblade cuts right through the Hydras neck. The Hydra's body falls out cold, and the head falls on the ground as well. My Keyblade returns to me and I catch it.

I take a moment to look at the dead body then turn and move on. When I'm a couple of feet away, I hear rumbling noise. I stop. It know it's not an earthquake or a rock-alanche. But I fear what it really could be.

I turn around, noticing the body is moving. It stands back up and three heads pop out of the Hydra. I was shocked. "Whoa!" All three heads looks down and roars at me. I position myself to strike. "Okay! Chopping heads: BAD!"

I start running at the Hydra. The left head dives towards me, its razor teeth open. I jump, avoiding the attack. The head hits the ground, I land on the head and start running up the neck. The other two heads pay close attention to me. I run my way up the neck towards the body.

The right head rushes towards me. I cast a Dusk at that head, interrupting its attack. The middle head rushes towards me, I strike it with my Keyblade, parrying it's bite attack. The left head removes itself from the ground and rushes towards me.

I jump off the neck and land on the body. I turn to see the three heads are coming towards me. I jump high, causing the three heads to sink their razor teeth into the body. Oh, that's gotta hurt.

The three heads eyes shot wide open and they all roar. I jump high in the air, waving my Keyblade at hand. I begin diving down with my Keyblade pointed down. Aerial Dive. I impale the weapon into the body. The Hydra screeches in agony, then dies and it's body collapses.

I stand back up, removing my Keyblade from the corpse. "Well, that should do it."

I jump off the body and make my way out of the gorge. From above, Hades watched the whole thing, fingers on his chin thinking. Pain and Panic are nervous, afraid Hades is gonna get mad.

"Hmm. Brave. Strong and a fast learner. Interesting." Hades says. "Pain. Panic." Pain and Panic flinches hearing their names. "I think I've found my little ticket to Hercules's demise."

I leave the Canyon Gorge and arrive at a large greek city known as Thebes. The place is packed. Tons of traffic in the streets.

"Okay..." I say, walking around. "I take it this must be the Olympus Coliseum Sora mentioned." I take a walk, looking around. I suddenly stopped when I realize I was about to step on a street and a high-speed cart zoomed by.

"Hey! Watch where you're going, jerk!" The man shouts.

Now that's just rude. I turn and keep walking on the sidewalk. This is a very strange city, probably dangerous too. As I walk, I noticed a poster on the wall.

'The Zeus Cap. Come to the Coliseum and make it to the top. Plus earn the chance to face Hercules in battle.'

"How interesting." I say. I continue to look around town. What I've noticed is that Hercules is pretty popular. Countless merchandise, banners, and a large statue in the heart of the city.

The one thing that surprises me is that the Heartless ratio is zero. That goes for Nobodies and the Unversed as well. I guess the darkness is afraid of Hercules, since he is a god in this world.

I become on alert when I felt something rubbing on my feet. I look down to see it's only a cat, rubbing against me. I give a single chuckle, kneel down to pick up the cat.

"What are yea doing here, little fella?" I ask.

The cat looks at me, then down. It meows and starts playing with my Wayfinder with its paws. I slightly pulled the cat away. "Nah-ah. That's not for you to play with." But that doesn't stop the cat. It manages to reach the Wayfinder and swipe it off. "What the..."

The cat jumps off of my hands, it grabs the Wayfinder by the mouth and runs off. "Hey! Get back here!" I start chasing after the cat.

I follow the cat out of the city, into the forest. I had to fight my way through a ton of Heartless on the way. Mostly Angel Stars, Large Belly's and Soldiers. The Large Belly's were the most annoying ones since I can only attack them from behind and I can hardly do that since they keep on turning to me.

After taking out the Heartless, I followed the cat into a dark, eerie forest filled with nothing but fog and dead trees.

The cat runs deep into the woods. Just then, it stops and it splits into Pain and Panic. Panic is the one who's currently holding the Wayfinder, and he starts panicking.

"Oh man! He's gonna kill us once we finds out we took...whatever this thing is." I stop at a distance away to see those two. I realized that I have been tricked. Panic tosses the Wayfinder to Pain. "Here. You take it."

Pain catches it then tosses it back. "No! You take it!"

They both constantly toss the Wayfinder to each other. "I don't want it!" Panic says.

"Neither do I!" Pain says.

"I have a life to live!" Panic says.

"Yeah, well I have a wife and kids!" Pain says.

I start to get mad. I stomp my way to those two. They didn't notice I was coming at them until I grab them by the tails, with one hand. Realizing their situation, they scream. I take the Wayfinder from them and then I glare at them.

"You've got ten seconds to explain why I shouldn't grind you two under my boot." I growled at them. Pain opens his mouth, about to speak but shortly stops when I summon my Keyblade. "Time's up!"

"Wait! What!? What happen to the ten seconds?" Panic asks.

Pain holds his hands together begging. "Please! Please! Don't kill us! We were only following orders! We don't mean any harm!"

I roll my eyes and groans, then I drop those two. "Fine. I'll let you two off with a warning."

Pain and Panic gets on their feet and starts running off in fear. I watch them run off until they're out of sight. I put the Wayfinder back around my neck. I take a look to see where I'm at.

"Now...where to go?" I ask.

I start walking deeper into the woods, looking around cautiously. At one point, I've arrived at a small area with a cauldron in the middle. I'm confused at the cauldron, why would that be in the middle of nowhere in a dark dead forest.

I take a smell, something stinks. Smells like...smoke and death. Just then, my answer is found. "It's a funny thing, right?" I look up to see Hades laying on a dead tree like a hammock. "Some people just take what's most important to us and runs off with it." Hades stands up. "Ah well, what are yea gonna do?"

Hades jumps off, I stand back and he lands right in front of me. "Hey, how yea doing?" Hades holds a hand out. "Name's Hades. Lord of the Dead."

"I'm well aware of who you are." I say. "What do you want?"

"Nothing. Nothing." Hades says. "I just saw you took out that Hydra, I was impressed with your fighting styles back there."

"Well, good." I walk off. "I'll be going then."

I suddenly stop when Hades moves right in front of me. "Wait, wait! Actually, I do have one little favor to ask you."

"Not interested." I say, continuing to walk.

Hades stops me once again. "Wait a moment, just hear me out." I'm surprised this hot-head is keeping his cool. "I'm sure you've heard of a certain hero named Hercules, right?" I give a slow nod. Hades turns and slowly walks ahead, waving his hands in the air. "He's something all right. All brave and super strong. Handsome too. Can take out any monster with a punch." Just then, he loses his cool and burst into red flames. "HE DRIVES ME CRAZY!"

I brace myself for a battle. The flames dies down and Hades is angrily breathing heavy. Then his flames turn to blue and relaxes. "Sorry, lost my cool back there." Hades clears his throat. "Anyways, there's a little tournament happening at the coliseum. All I want you to do is fight Hercules in the coliseum...TO THE DEATH!"

I see what's going on here. "Sorry, but I'm not interested." I was about to leave until Hades comes next to me, wrapped an arm over my shoulders.

"Ah-ha! I see the problem. What's in it for yea you might wonder?" I'm really not wondering what's in it for me. "Well, what if I tell you, my friend." Hades pokes his finger on my chest. At least it didn't hurt like it would from the Lord of the Dead. "I can offer you a special reward, hmm?" I say nothing, but I do raise my eyebrow in curiosity. Hades looks over me. "Oh ladies."

Wicked chuckles happens. I turn around. At first, there's shadows, then out of the fog reveals three ugly undead women. "We are the Fates!" Clotho says. "We know and see everything! Past!"

Atropos takes the eyeball and puts it in one of her sockets. "Present!"

Lachesis takes the eyeball and puts it in one of her sockets. "And future."

If these girls are my reward, I would decline and put Hades on my ignore list. "Would you three be dears and offer our little friend here a taste...of his reward?"

"Oh sure thing." Atropos says.

The three of then gathers materials and throws them all in the cauldron, which starts to react a bit catastrophicly. What they're putting in are rotten meat, old bones, a spider Lachesis blow from her large nose, I reacted disgustedly from that one, bat salvia, a jar of eyeballs, frog legs, snake vemon, worms, dog tongues.

Clotho comes to me and pulls out a single hair from my head. "Ow!" I say. Then she puts it in the cauldron. A ton of smoke comes out of the cauldron.

"Now. Time for the chant." Clotho says. "Double, double toil and trouble! Fire burn and caldron bubble!"

Atropos continues the chant. "Fillet of a fenny snake! In the caldron boil and bake!"

Now Lachesis continues it. "Eye of newt and toe of frog! Wool of bat and tongue of dog!"

Then they all chanted together. "Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting! Lizard's leg and owlet's wing! For a charm of powerful trouble! Like a hell-broth boil and bubble!"

The three 'witches' raises their arms in the air, and a large blast of smoke bursts out of the cauldron. I become startled by the blast of smoke. The smoke dies down, returning the cauldron to normal. "Soup's done." Clotho says.

The ladies takes out bowls and scoops up some soup. "Wait...What?" I ask, disappointed. "I thought this is my reward."

"Oh no, sweetheart." Atropos says. "It's our lunch."

"And what's with that stupid chant?" I asked.

"Just trying something new." Lachesis says. Lachesis hands me a bowl of the soup. "Come dear, you must be famish." The fates gather around the cauldron eating. I look down at the soup, disgusted. I know if I eat this, I'll die.

I toss the soup over my shoulder and set the bowl down. When the fates are done eat, they gather in front of me. "And now. Let's see what's in store for you."

Lachesis takes the eyeball. The three witches casts their magic on the eyeball. It floats and turns into some kind of vision. The vision reveals the times of me and Aqua in the Land of Departure.

"In the past. You were found with no memory of anything." Clothos says. "You were found and brought to a new family. You were quite fond with the Keyblade wielder, Aqua. You were so fond with her, she became your mother." The visions now move on to the parts where tragedy strikes. "But one day, the darkness attacked and it slowly took away your family. Until it took away the person you cared the most."

Clothos stands back then Atropos takes place. The visions shows everything about my current time on my search to find Aqua. "In the present, you seek to find and rescue your friend. You thought she was dead, but soon realized she's alive, just barely. Now you go on a peerless journey to bring her back from the voids of the dark."

Atropos stands back then Lachesis takes place. The visions now shows a time when I face Hercules in the coliseum. "In the future, when you accept the deal. You will battle Hercules." The visions shows my battle against Hercules, up until the point where I stand above him with a foot on his chest to hold him down. I hold my Keyblade and raise it over my head. "And kill him." That's when I impale the blade through his head. The vision now shows Hades opening a dark portal. "By completing the deal, you will be reunited with your friend." Aqua stumbles out of the portal. Just as it closes, she collapses and I caught her in my arms. then the vision shows a time in Radiant Garden with me and Aqua standing outside of Merlins house, hugging. "You will be together again!"

The fates wickedly laughs, then they instantly vanish. I say or do nothing, just taking everything in that I just saw.

Hades stands behind me, with a look on his face that says he's waiting for an answer. "Well...?"

I take a deep breath through the nose and out of the mouth. "Let me get this straight." I turn to face Hades. "I enter the tournament. Fight Hercules...kill him...and then you give me back Aqua."

Hades cheers. "Oh! Baby! We have a winner! Finally, someone who understands business!" Hades stands next to me, wrapping an arm around my shoulders. "You know, I'm starting to like you. Maybe after we're done here, we can hang out sometime in the Underworld. Have a little drink, celebrate Hercule's death and I can take your soul and watch it go into the underworld."

My eyes widen open hearing that and I stand back, position to fight. Hades laughs a little. "Chill, man. I was just joking on that last part. I use to be a comedian centuries ago. Hey, how come a zombie can't hold down a job? Huh...go on, ask."

I sighed and crossed my arms, deciding to play along. "How come?"

"Because he works himself to death!" Hades bursts out laughing. "Get it? Ha, ha. I kill myself! Ha! Ha! Ha! Get it? Lord of the Dead! Kill! Oh, I'm on fire!" Hades laughs even more. "On fire! That's three in a row! Ha! Ha! Ha!" Hades takes a deep breath, sighs as he wipes a tear from his eye. The tear drops on the ground and burst into flames. "The boys back in the Underworld Cafe would love this." Hades sighs again as he wipes his hands. "So, anyways." Now he holds out his hand in front of me. "We got ourselves a deal?"

I look at Hades hand, then back at him. He smirks telling me to accept the deal. After a moment of hesitation, I shake it. Sealing the deal.