Chapter LXXVIX: The trials of the Coliseum part XV
Jumping back Zeus breathed heavily as it had been harder to fight back then he'd imagined, especially on his own. He'd managed for the most part to dodge more of the lethal attacks that had come flying his way, however he'd still been hit by a variety of still deeply piercing blows.
That strange girl with the iron wings had first started off the onslaught as she had chased after him, ablaze with electrical scarlet charged light she created strikes of red and had sent them thundering towards him. However he'd been successful in striking back against her attacks with his trusty thunderbolts on hand given to him by his loyal blacksmith Hephaestus. Unfortunately though he hadn't accounted for the two nobodies who were now also fighting alongside the girl and had unleashed their own attacks of piercing arrows along with waves of swirling unrelenting water.
He had to concentrate on not just one enemy but also three! Gasping trying to get his breath back now, Zeus looked down to his right side and saw to his dread he had a dwindling supply left of thunderbolts to fight back with, " I've got to do something!" He whispered angrily to himself.
Distracted then for a moment suddenly once more Hari came rushing forwards her wings still ablaze with her keyblade drawn back in her right hand, as her eyes looked on ice cold.
Seeing her quickly approaching Zeus acted quickly as he once more dodged out of the way, a smash and then a cloud of wispy cloud was sent flying into the air. Seeing this as he flew into the air Zeus couldn't help but smile at his agility as he then laughed out, "Ha think you got me the lord of the heavens! You've still got a-"
However he was too quickly to assume as suddenly once more a whole storm of arrows came raining from the skies, looking above himself Zeus then saw quickly that the same small nobody boy was now upon a surfboard creation of some kind as he was aiming looking on with fierce determination flying upon a wave of swirling water.
Seeing him do this Zeus looked on with annoyance as he quickly floated left and right trying to stay clear of the barrage as it rained down by the second. Gritting his teeth he was almost tempted to use one of his lightning bolts to smite the bothersome pest down, however he had to hold himself back from doing so. He had to think of something! Anything!
However there was no time to stop and think, as he had to concentrate not just upon the waves of arrows but also for Hari who was once again heading straight towards him with another burning strike at the ready.
Seeing her Zeus looked on with agitation as she let loose another attack, however quickly batting away the many arrows that were still coming down Zeus once more dodged the blow as it thundered fast underneath him.
Glad he'd made it past it he sighed with relief but then suddenly before he could say anything at all another sound echoed over and with dread he recognised that same haunting violin playing, as he then looked to his left and then saw with dread that other nobody girl who had her head down her violin playing away as then another spiral of water came flooding out rushing straight towards him.
However unfortunately this time he was unable to dodge since it came in so quickly, striking him with high pressure it sent him flying high into the air, "hey! Whoa! I can't-"
But then once more Zeus was cut off as the water had now gushered him straight up and had now ceased as then coming in fast and furiously was the horrible monstrosity that had swallowed his fellow gods as it now had all of its dragon heads reared straight to swallow him.
Seeing the horrible creation coming straight towards him Zeus looked on with horror as its huge hurricane belly mouth was wide open and trying now to suck him in as the sound of howling winds echoed all around.
Seeing this and feeling the horrible pressure all over him Zeus then without hesitation drew out one of his remaining thunderbolts as he quickly took aim and swung it hard sending the thunderbolt into the creature's mouth.
A huge amount of dust and sounds of static were heard as then suddenly the monster cried out seemingly in pain from the blow, seeing that he'd succeeded in making a substantial blow Zeus then spoke out proud, "ha! Now that's how you pack a-"
But then before he could say another word once more Hari rushed straight at him again taking his distraction to her advantage as she raised her keyblade to strike, however quickly Zeus took out another thunderbolt as he used it to bar her attack.
Looking at the struggling gods expression Hari gazed at him with ice-cold eyes as she then told him, "disillusion will kill you."
Hearing these horrible words Zeus though once more could not reply as Hari removed her keyblade and then turned striking him with a hard fast kick as she then chased after the king of the Gods. Hades watched on from a high distance within his chariot an evil smile decorating his features.
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Back upon the grounds of the coliseum Nozomi and the others were struggling just as much against their own enormous opponent, the Cyclops. They had all been striking against his legs mainly when they had gotten the chance, doing their best as well to steer clear of his enormous tremor footsteps.
Jumping over another footstep that the creature had made Nozomi quickly landed back on the ground as Riku and Mickey did too as she then heard Riku cry out, "go for the legs now!"
Hearing him both Nozomi and Mickey replied, "right!"
Then quickly they all rushed and then at once reaching their destination began to unleash their series of attacks upon the colossus. Feeling the fast and awful blows upon his feet the Cyclops cried out angrily once again as he said, "annoying flies!!!"
Once more then on cue everyone saw his left foot being moved back and once Mickey called out, "scatter!"
Then at once everyone got out of the way as then the Cyclops kicked his left leg out trying to send them all flying, however as the impending missile limb came they all leaped out of the way, then as they got back onto the ground they all jumped again over another tremor that was sent spreading into the ground.
Again they began their cycle to bring down the enormous behemoth, watching on from the sides still Phil stood next to Vincent was on guard duty as he held his gun at the ready in case the monster tried again to snatch Hercules.
Watching as the battle went on Phil then spoke, "those guys are doin quite well, hey?"
Vincent silent for a few moments as the battle carried on then responded himself, "indeed…"
Phil seeing Vincent say this then went on to say, "I reckon that twinkle toes and those guys will have this battle over in no time!"
At this one though Vincent did not reply a word, as it was clear though that anyone could tell that he quietly did not agree with the trainer satyr.
Meanwhile the spoken about hero was behind Vincent and Phil as he was held by Meg as she looked at him with worry in her eyes as he continued to struggle still with his painful heart from the wound Hari had inflicted upon him. She also now and again turned and looked at the continuing struggle that Nozomi and the others were going through as she whispered under her breath, "come on you guys!"
Hercules still upon his knees feeling Meg's arms around him then looked up to see how they were doing himself, looking he could see that obviously they had all managed to inflict quite a substantial amount of damage upon their enormous adversary. He smiled at this despite the pain he was feeling, he then watched as once again they all began to rush forwards to attack the legs. But as he watched he suddenly noticed a huge shadow over them all and then his smiled dropped in moments as he cried out, "guys look out!!"
Hearing this being cried out everyone on the arena floor turned and looked at him distracted but then suddenly they all noticed the shadow as well as Nozomi asked shocked, "what is-"
But there was no time to say another word as suddenly the black shadow came thundering down as a massive bar as it then came coming straight towards them all at a terrible speed. Everyone saw quickly that it was the Cyclops's arm, seeing it coming Riku and Mickey quickly leapt out of the way.
However Nozomi was not fast enough as she was then caught and sent flying back by it as she was slammed into the wall painfully gasping as she then fell to the floor sliding onto her legs her back against the wall.
Seeing this occur Riku Mickey and everyone looked on with severe worry as this occurred to her, then quickly her comrades came to run to her aid as they both cried out,"Nozomi!"
Unfortunately though the Cyclops began to move now quickly forwards again as his foot steps made tremors in the ground making Riku and Mickey unable to move forwards as he had now a target in his eye.
Nozomi raising her head which ached from the blow opened one of her closed eyes cringing in pain as she then spoke, "man that hurt!"
Moving her head up trying to get her focus back she saw then everyone looked panicked as they cried out to her distressed, confused for a moment she spoke out, "huh?" Then suddenly she saw a huge shadow coming towards her and then saw with dread that it was a huge palm coming straight at her!
"Oh no!" She cried now quickly back to her senses as she then tried to get up and out of reach of the oncoming palm.
However she wasn't fast enough for as she began to take even a single step forwards to move away the palm opened up and quickly massive digits surrounded her as they then encaged her! Looking at this with widened eyes the fingers then quickly squeezed around her holding her tightly around her middle. Feeling this as she was then held tightly around her centre and legs as she then cried out, "hey! Let me go!"
Mickey and Riku still running over towards her seeing what was now happening then were more worried as then Mickey cried out, "Nozomi hang on!"
Coming quickly Mickey jumped up fast as he then cast aloud aiming his keyblade, "Thundera!"
At once the electricity flew out of his keyblade quickly as it then struck its target in moments making huge sounds of static in the air. The Cyclops cried out in pain at this impact, Nozomi then felt his grip lessen on her slightly much to her relief.
Then at once Riku ran forwards as he then quickly leapt forwards as he cried out, "now let her go!"
With that he struck the monster near his wrist making him once more cry out in infuriated pain, Nozomi seeing this occur looked on with delight as she saw Riku land nearby as she cried out, "Snowball!"
Hearing her call out his nickname Riku looked at her as he then said with a sarcastic smile, "you've really got to learn to stop calling me that!"
Only smiling at this further Nozomi then moved to speak but unfortunately Riku and Mickey's plan had backfired as she was then moved higher into the air away from her friends as quickly her expression turned into that of horrible worry.
Looking up as she was lifted into the air Riku and Mickey looked then on with wide eyes themselves as suddenly the Cyclops had now turned his focus to them as he then cried out lifting his other fist, "you all puny!"
With that he began to smash his other fist down on the ground trying to get at the two of them as they then both ran around darting left and right to get out of the reach of his thunderous smack downs and avoiding his earth trembling stomps.
Seeing what he was trying to do to her friends Nozomi cried out mad, "hey what're you doing?! Leave them alone you-" however she was halted as then the monster increased his squeeze making her gasp in pain as she had to hold her breath in to stop herself from crying out.
Things were quickly becoming dire for them all.
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Back upon the top most clouds of Olympus Zeus had now ran out of thunderbolts and had been caught to his dismay by the gravity spell of an arrow launched by the small nobody boy as it's dark purple aura surrounded his body making a dome over him.
On his knees the king of the Gods looked at the three of them with agitated eyes as he clenched his teeth, Hari Ori and Saria gazed upon Zeus with mixed expressions. Saria and Ori had the same look of quiet seriousness while herself was still as cold as before.
Agitated at these expressions Zeus then spoke out mad, "none of you will ever get away with this!"
Ori quite tired of this same dribble muttered, "sure whatever old man," as he only moved his hands from a fold and then instead put his hands behind his head unimpressed by the whole events, though it was thanks to him that Zeus had been brought down to his knees.
Saria hearing Ori saying this looked at him with concern, as she didn't like it when he insulted people but before she could say another word suddenly a sound of wings echoed and the cry of a beast.
Everyone turning around then all saw that same dark chariot as its wheels landed upon the now stone floor of Olympus as the griffin who was drawing it reared itself back for a moment before quickly settling down. Seeing that everything had proceeded even better than what he could have envisioned Hades then began to clap, "bravo, bravo and bravo!"
Zeus seeing his brother emerge from the chariot looked at him enraged as he then shouted, "Hades you're the one behind all of this!?"
Seeing his once superior sibling cry this out Hades only smirked as he then casually said, "indeed you're correct sir…" with that he then walked between Hari, Ori and Saria as he then put his hands upon the one who had made it all possible as his fingers dwindled on her shoulders as she made no reaction whatsoever as Hades continued, "and it was all accomplished with the help of these guys you see here."
Hearing this being said Zeus immediately spoke back still agitated, "you're not going to win here! When Hercules comes here you'll-"
However he was interrupted as Hades then simply said, "ah old sun spot? Well I'm afraid I'm gonna have to disagree with you there since he's… permanently disposed of," he added with quiet sinister glee.
At the mention of his son Zeus looked on with horrible anxiety as he then began to speak out, "Hercules?... What have you done to-"
However he was interrupted as then Hari began to speak as Hades, Ori and Saria moved away slowly from her as she spoke to him, "the fate of your son was dealt by me… but that is now insignificant, your time is over."
Hearing her say this Zeus was speechless as he then watched as she flew into the air and then suddenly the giant dragon titan creation flew over him as all it's heads now gazed upon the lord of the God's with thunderous eyes.
Now floating beside his awesome creation Hades then spoke once more continuing to smile away, "and now bolt boy… time for you to be out of the picture…"
With those words the monster than began its work to seal away Zeus as all of its mouths opened wide…
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Watching as the monster thrashed around left and right Vincent was unable to move into assist, as it was now more dangerous than ever to leave Hercules with only Meg and Phil for his protection. Though inside he was torn inside as he wanted to assist the poor keybladers.
Phil feeling the tremors was angered as he cried, "oi cut out all that rockin and rollin! That's three words there! Totally annoying!"
Meg holding onto Hercules still looked on anxiously at the continuing battle as she saw now that the battle was going on really badly, then looking to Hercules she saw that the tremors were making his condition worse. For he now was truly weaker and he was before, he was now becoming paler by the moment!
Seeing this she became more worried as she cried out to Phil and Vincent, "hey we gotta get wonder boy to more steady ground! He can't handle this!"
Turning as she said this Phil and Vincent then saw too the state that Hercules was in now as well but then another problem arose that Phil voiced as he cried, "where are we supposed to go that's more stable!
For it was true there was barely any ground that was stable at that moment but then looking with his quiet serious gaze Vincent looked to the left side and then said, "take him to the far side of the arena, the tremors should be weaker there."
Hearing this sound reasoning everyone quickly confirmed with this idea as it was truly not a time for discussions, so then Meg replied taking Hercules over her shoulder, "all right then." With that the three of them quickly began to make their way towards that end of the arena floor.
Meanwhile on the main focus of the battlefield it was clear that Riku and Mickey were exhausted from having to dodge and concentrate so hard to get some damage in as they were on their last legs.
Though Nozomi herself as well wasn't fairing any better since she was still being squeezed quite tightly by the Cyclops who had refused to let her out of his clutches leaving her with a lot of pain around her middle.
"Man when is this guy gonna let up?" She spoke to herself annoyed above anything else as she was still trying with little success to push herself out. But she was just as even more concerned for her friend's safety as she saw that they were exhausted as they stood on the ground together breathing hard after another barrage of tremors had taken place.
Looking at them saddened she wished in her heart and mind that she could do something to help and then suddenly she saw with horror herself as she cried out, "guys!!!"
Hearing her Riku and Mickey looked up but then suddenly it saw too late as the two of them due to lack of energy were late in their reaction time as they were both thrown back as the Cyclops's arm struck them as they then too were smashed into the arena walls as Nozomi had been.
Seeing this she looked on with terror at what had occurred and then suddenly once more she was reminded of the squeeze upon her as suddenly the Cyclops lifted her further into the air as he brought her nearer and nearer up close as he then said with glee, "me bite off head!"
Hearing this Nozomi looked at the monster first with perplexion but then that quickly changed into fury as she looked at the monster, as she then spoke, "you won't do any such thing!" As she then quickly called on her keyblade and then her rage fuelling her magic her one spell evolved once more as she shouted out loud, "FIRAGA!!!"
With that a massive fireball quickly erupted from the end of her keyblade in a fiery storm as it pierced the Cyclops's eye in mere seconds. At the brunt of the destructive spell the monster screamed in agony as he all at once forgot Nozomi as he released her and quickly put his hands to his only eye.
Nozomi still in her blind fury gritted her teeth as she then yelled, "I'll teach for laying your hands on my friends!!!"
With that all at once the wings on her shoes ignited in moments as she fell through the air and all at once she started to climb into the air as she then shouted madly, "AAAAGGGHHH!!!!" Then quickly she unleashed a whole fury of kicks and blade moves upon the creature almost like lightning fast wasp stings.
On the ground recovering from the blow that they'd been dealt with Riku and Mickey opened their eyes almost at the same time, Riku aching spoke, "that really smarted!"
Agreeing the king nodded his head as he then spoke, "yeah it did…" then the two of them heard a whole lot of angry shouts and cries of pain.
Then looking up they saw Nozomi's furious rampage as everyone else in the arena did the same thing and looking on… it seemed almost ridiculous now. Silent watching the onslaught Riku then spoke, "wow… she's scarier than usual today."
No words coming to his mind all the king could do was nod as there were no other words that he could nor anyone else could say.
Nozomi still on her hell bent fury was now upon her ending strike as her power was at its top limit as she then shouted out," Astral Aerial Smash!!!" With that she then let the Cyclops have it with one last kick and then the keyblade itself as the arena filled with light.
The Cyclops feeling the full impact of the attack was then dumbfounded as he then fell onto his knees his head up in a daze as stars and birds started to flying around in a perfect circle around him.
Breathing hard as she saw that her work was done now Nozomi's breathing calmed down gradually… then turning around she withdrew her keyblade in moments as she spoke aloud letting out a sigh, "well I'm glad that's done with now, at least we-"
But then suddenly stopping her from saying another word there was a cry from below on the arena, "Ahhh!"
Turning quickly everyone then turned to see Oralee was trying to run out of the coliseum entrance, however as she made it down a couple of the steps suddenly she was grabbed by the arm by an all too familiar foe, Pete.
Seeing this occur Nozomi cried out distressed as everyone looked on with worry, "Oralee!"
Struggling against the enormous villain Oralee tried to back away and get out of his grip as she cried out trying to free her arm, "let go of me!"
Only grinning at this comment Pete only laughed out as he replied," no chance there sweet cheeks! Yer comin back with me to-"
But then suddenly before he could finish his sentence Cait sith landed on his face as he then started to claw away at him as he cried out, "get yer mits off my highness!!"
At once Pete released Oralee from his grip in moments as he cried out," oi get off ya furball! Agh! Eh!" He was now busy trying to get Cait sith off of his face making him release her.
Oralee then fell backwards as she landed on the hard sandy ground making her cringe in pain from it as she spoke, "ow…"
Seeing that she'd been rescued at least Nozomi felt a little calmer as everyone else did as well but then suddenly she felt something and then noticed with horror that suddenly the Cyclops was now leaning forwards as he started to topple down.
Quickly manuvering she dodged out of the way as she ran forwards and then up as the creature continued to fall forwards, but then suddenly as she made it further above she saw with horrible dread that Oralee was in the way of the creatures massive palm that was going to come crashing down upon her.
Seeing this Mickey cried out horrified, "Oralee! Look out!!"
Hearing her name being called Oralee turned as she noticed the enormous shadow coming over and then saw with widened terrified eyes what was coming towards her.
Nozomi seeing what was going to happen quickly began to run forwards to try and do something as she ran in the air as fast as she could.
Scared out of her mind Oralee was petrified in place as it came closer impending down upon her but suddenly she felt something come flooding around her as she was wrapped around covering her vision in moments as the world closed over with darkness and a huge echoed everywhere making a huge deafening rumble in the ground.
