After everyone had left Wonderland and set out to the next world, everyone traveled through space to find another world, it often took a while to reach another world, some would take up to half an hour to get closer too. So it meant Spike had a lot of time to think to himself.

While he's still glad to be going on an adventure like this, with what happened with Alice back in Wonderland, it's making him very worried, if there was something that kidnapped her, it means that something may happen to other people like her too. And despite they're growing strength, they still needed ways to get stronger, Spike still has some skills he needs to learn with these Keyblades he has, duel wielding is pretty cool to him, but there isn't much of a point to it when you don't have proper skills, while he will get better overtime with the more Heartless they face, there are some other ways he has to train to get stronger.

And he's also had to think about how long he's been gone from his home at this point, from what he can tell, it's at least been a couple days since he set out with his new friends, and he's pretty sure his friends have noticed he's gone by now. It has Spike worried on how long this journey of his is gonna last, he's already gained a lot more skill then before, and he's probably gonna get stronger, but when he may get home is a question that may not be answered for a while.

But thankfully, after another long time of traveling through space, they soon came upon another world once again. It looked like a battle coliseum of sorts, and if it's like how it looks from just the worldview, this may just be the place to go next.
"Looks like we're at our next stop, you guys ready for this?" Spike asked while he was getting out of his seat.

"Yeah, let's see what this world has!" Sora said with an excited look while Donald and Goofy were making sure the ship was close enough.

"I wonder what this world will have to offer, it looks like a place for fighting?" Goofy asked while looking out the window.

"Only one way to find out guys, let's see what this world has, hopefully there's something left from the King here." Donald said with hope as he waved his staff around once again, and everyone vanished in a bright light, and they all went directly into the world before them.

We open to a shot of a majestic looking Coliseum, it was among a large arena across from the entrance, with ancient structures built all around it, there were two large golden statues near the entrance striking a special pose. Spike and the others had just came into this world, but even with these first few seconds here, this world was so ancient yet proud at the same time, it was like he was seeing something out of an ancient tell of a god or something.
"Wow.. this place is amazing.." Spike said with awe as they looked around the place.

"It looks like a fighting coliseum, you think we could see what they have here if we ask?" Goofy asked hoping they could see what was here.

"I think so, come on guys, let's see if there's anyone inside there." Donald insisted while he was walking to the front entrance.

"Sounds good to me, come on Spike, let's go." Sora advised while he was walking ahead too, Spike was curious on how this was gonna play out, if this was a fighting arena or something like that, then maybe it'd be a good way for them to train up and be more prepared for bigger threats coming they're way.

Once the group decided to head into the place, they made they're ways through the doors and went into the lobby, it was pretty small for most places, but they could see the entrance to the arena just ahead, but it was blocked off, and they probably needed to sign up or something like this first so they can fight. Spike and Sora saw a small looking guy in the front of the room, he was currently turned away from them and was doing something else, so maybe he's the one in charge of this place?
"Um... " Sora said with a nervous look before the person heard him already and thought they were someone else.

"Good timing, could ya give me a hand? Move that pedestal over there for me? I gotta spruce this place up for the games." The guy asked while he pointed at a nearby pedestal that was very large, and probably very heavy.

Spike looked at the thing with interest, something tells him it's important for something else. So maybe it's best they move it over for now. Spike walked over to the pedestal and motioned Sora to help him. Sora gladly did so, and they tried pushing the thing together to move it, but it didn't even budge one bit.
"This thing is.. heavy!" Spike said with frustration while he tried moving it with all his strength.

"This thing ways a ton!" Sora added as they finally pulled away and took heavy breaths from simply failing to move that thing.

"That guy clearly mistook us for someone else, let's just tell him we can't do it, sound good guys?" Spike suggested which they all agreed too.

Sora went over to the figure and just tried saying it as polite as he can.
"It's way to heavy for us!" Sora reported which made the figure a bit surprised hearing it.

"What? Too heavy? Since when have you been such a little..." The guy asked while he turned around to face him, but he was cut off as soon as he saw Spike and the gang, they were clearly not who he was expecting to be here.

"Oh.. Wrong guy, what are you doing here?" The guy asked while he hopped down to face them, and he was around Spike's size to put it lightly.

"This here's the world famous Coliseum, for heroes only! And I got my hands full preparing for the games! So run along pipsqueaks!" The guy ordered which Spike and everyone else were not wanting to let happen so easily.

"Look, sorry for the mix-up, but we just came here to see what this place is, what is it?" Spike asked while he looked around the lobby.

"You don't know huh? Well to put it simply for you, heroes from all over come here to fight ferocious monsters, right here in this Coliseum!" The guy said as he walked around the place to keep their attention on him.

Donald scoffed a bit and crossed his arms hearing this.
"You got heroes right in front of you!" Donald replied with an annoyed look.

"Yep! Spike and Sora here are real heroes chosen by the Keyblade!" Goofy added while patting both they're backs which made Sora feel a bit proud.

"What?! Heroes? Those runts?!" The guy asked before he started to laugh hysterically which annoyed the group a lot

"We've already taken down some large monsters before coming here, and I don't see you properly fighting against monsters the size of buildings!" Spike pointed out while he summoned both his Keyblades to make an example of it.

The guy calmed down after laughing a bit and tried making an example back.
"Hey, if you guys can't even move this...( the guy tries to move the large pedestal from before, but wasn't making it budge either), you can't call yourself.... a hero!" The guy shouted before he finally fell down and looked exhausted from failing to do it.

"And what do you call yourself then?" Spike teased which made Sora chuckle a bit from hearing it.

"Alright... I admit.. it takes more then brawn I see.. so let's see what you two can do... the names Phil, what are yours?" Phil asked which made Sora come up to answer for him.

"I'm Sora, this is my friends, Spike, Donald and Goofy. So your saying you could train us right?" Sora asked which Phil nodded in response from.

"I can at least give you guys some pointers on what you can do when in fights, when your outnumbered over a dozen to one, it's important to focus on which enemy you wanna fight first. Come with me, I gotta couple courses you can go through to help you see it." Phil insisted as he took the sign down and started walking through the lobby to the arena ahead of them.

Spike and Sora looked at eachother and knew it was probably for the best they do a little training. So the two of them quickly made they're way into the arena to train, while Donald and Goofy were to watch from the sidelines. Spike and Sora were tasked with taking out a large amount of barrels over a large but understandable obstacle course, it looked a bit tough, but was what they needed to help get trained up.
"I'll go for the high ones, you go low, that sound good Spike?" Sora asked while he planned out they're form of attack.

"Sounds good, let's go!" Spike said confidently as they drew they're Keyblades while Phil counted down for them to start.

"And.. go!" Phil announced which made them quickly run onto the course to begin fast.

Spike did what Sora suggested and went to take out the barrels from below while Sora took the ones above, Spike used his Fire to shoot down multiple barrels at once, he then quickly jumped on and ran across the wall to not only improve his own skill, but also to reach another group of barrel's nearby, Spike twirled both his Keyblades around and delivered a strong slash to them all, taking out at least half of them.

For Sora, he quickly went above and used his combo's to smash more of them as he continued climbing upwards, Sora used his Ice magic to shoot multiple ice blasts at the barrel's on floating platforms nearby, Sora then flipped in the air and delivered a strong slash to the last few of them, leaving only one of them left.
"Sora, now!" Spike encouraged while he quickly climbed back up and ran alongside Sora, Sora quickly grabbed Spike's tail and they used a new combo move they came up with, Sora twirled Spike around as Spike held out his Keyblades and they soon began twirling fast enough to make the wind move past them. Sora and Spike made a battle cry together before Sora threw Spike at the last barrel, and Spike finished it off by falling to the ground, and delivering a strong finishing smash that created a crater as a result.

Phil was really surprised with they're ability to get through it so fast, and they had good combo moves that would help in future fights, and Donald and Goofy looked proud of the two for being able to handle things together.
"Hey, you guys are better then I thought!" Phil complimented which made Spike and Sora feel pretty proud for hearing it.

After that small training lesson, Spike and the others went back into the lobby to talk with Phil who was still impressed with they're work together.
"You know, you two ain't bad kids, you certainly know good moves together I'll give you that" Phil complimented which made Sora smile proudly.

"Heh, looks like Spike and I are heading for the games!" Sora said with a smile while he high fived Spike, but Phil still wouldn't allow them in for one simple fact.

"Afraid not!" Phil revealed which made all of them gasp with surprise.

"What? Why not? We just went through that whole course! I thought that was a way to prove we're tough enough to take it on!" Spike pointed out with frustration.

"I can't allow you to enter them, because of two words: You guys ain't heroes!" Phil reminded again which made them all groan in response from hearing it.

"Oh come on!" Sora said with disappointment at his refusal to let them in.

Phil sighed hearing they're whining and figured there may be one way to help them if they wanna get into the games.
"Look you two, if you wanna try and become heroes, try mastering this spell." Phil said as he handed them a strange yellow orb which suddenly poured a new power into them, Spike felt some electricity go through his body, and Sora felt himself get a bit stronger just feeling it be awakened.

"What kind of magic is this?" Sora asked while he and Spike looked at themselves.

"It's called Thunder, it'll help you out in future battles, once you do enough that shows your heroes, I'll let you in, that or you need an Entry pass to participate, but for now, you'd best go along and let me get back to work." Phil insisted as he was going back to the board in the wall.

As much as Spike wanted to participate in the games, they just weren't ready enough to him, and Spike thought it would be best to come back at a later time.
"Whatever he says, come on guys, we'll come back soon, let's just see what else we can do next." Spike advised as he started walking out of the lobby with the group.

"Good indeed Spike, what a waste of time!" Donald said with frustration as they all left Phil alone to do his job.

Spike and the group were heading to the exit just ahead of them and were about to leave this world, but just before they could leave, a new voice seemed to catch they're attention.
"He's a bit of a stubborn old goat, would you say?" A figure asked while he came out of the shadows, he was extremely large and wore black clothing, had blue fire on his head, and he looked like a bad guy of sorts, Spike already was suspicious of this guy just from seeing him here.

"Who are you?" Donald asked while pointing at him as he walked up to them and was getting even bigger the closer he came to them.

"Whoa hey, hold on there you two, let me guess, you both wanna enter the games right?" The figure asked while he came right besides them while Spike was uncomfortable with him being this close.

"And how do you know that?" Spike asked with a stern look which only made the person chuckle strangely in response.

"If you wanna enter the games, then just get a load of this..." The figure said before he held out his hands and suddenly formed what looked like an Entry pass out of thin air.

"A pass? How did you...?" Sora asked with surprise as it was handed to them.

"It's all yours, good luck kids, I'm rooting for ya." The figure said with a sinister look as he was walking away to leave them alone.

Spike already didn't trust this person the moment he saw him, he's seen people like this before, and if he was here, it may mean bad news for the games.
"Guys, I think that guy is up to something, if he just gave us this pass to let us enter the games, he may be planning out something bad." Spike theorized as Sora looked at the thing with concern.

"Are you guys sure we should enter guys?" Goofy asked while Sora put it away and thought over it for a moment.

"I got a strange feeling something may go wrong if we don't enter the games, I'd say we enter them and see what's going on here, I got a bad feeling about this." Sora suggested which the others were glad to agree to.

"I've seen bad guys many times before, he may be trying to cheat in some way, whatever he's planning, we can't let him go through with it, you ready to take them on?" Donald asked as all of them turned back to the door to the lobby with a serious look.

"Let's enter these games.." Spike said seriously as the whole group began walking to the lobby to talk with Phil again.

Phil was still currently working on the stuff he had to take care of, but the sound of a door opening caught his attention, and he turned around to see Spike and the others had entered the room once again.
"Hey, what are you doing back here? I thought I told you...." Phil didn't even finish his sentence before Sora pulled out the Entry pass and handed it to him, Phil was extremely shocked with them suddenly having one and took a close look at it.

"How the heck did you get this?" Phil asked while he looked at it.

Sora and the group didn't want to give the reason away to avoid trouble, so they just wanted to get things to the point.
"It doesn't really matter, so can we enter the games now?" Sora asked really hoping this is what they needed.

"Hmm... I guess so, if you wanna enter them now, we'll start with the preliminaries!" Phil announced which made the group smile knowing they can enter them now.

"Sweet! Let's do this!" Spike said with an eager look as Phil took down the sign blocking the way to the arena.

"You guys ready to go?" Phil asked while Sora and the gang looked at eachother with a confident look.

"Let's take em on!" Donald said with a smile as all of them walked past Phil to get things going, Phil was still concerned with how they got the pass, could've been the work of Hades, but if they wanna prove themselves, this may be the only way.

Spike and the others made they're way out into the arena once again, now with the permission to take part in the games, Spike and the others drew they're weapons while Phil watched from the distance. Spike and the others soon saw Heartless spawn in as opponents for them to fight, which proved Spike's theory was correct.

Match 1: Shadow Scout!

Spike and the others got ready to fight as they saw a few Blue operas and knight heartless together, there were a few of them, but nothing to big to be concerned about.

"Let's take em out guys!" Spike shouted as he ran to the whole group and dragged his Keyblades on the ground, Spike quickly slashed down some of the Blue operas with his Keyblades, and shot down some of them with his fire since they're using ice powers to attack, Sora blocked one of the attacks from the knights and countered it by jumping in the air and delivering a slash down to take it out. Donald followed this up by using his magic to shoot down thunder from the sky, that attack hit in a wide area which took out even more of them at once. And Spike finished off the last knight by stabbing the thing through the chest before it disappeared like all the others.

"Ha, that was a good match! Great job guys!" Spike complimented while they all high fived eachother for winning that match.

Spike and the others soon went back to Phil who was still impressed with they're work together as a team, it was impressive with how much they were able to take on together.
"Your still no heroes yet, but you guys ain't doing to bad either, lucky you all came to me for coaching." Phil complimented which made them look at eachother hearing it.

"Hey, as long as we keep this up, I'm sure we'll make it through just fine." Spike said while giving a thumbs up. But as they all were talking with eachother, they all saw a new figure walking right by them, the person was very tall with blond and spikey hair, he had a cape on his back, and wore tough looking armor around him while holding a very large sword in his hands, the figure only glanced at the group before he walked away to wait his turn to fight.

"Hmm.. something tells me he'll be a tough one to beat..." Phil said with concern with how tough he looked.

"Let's just focus on getting strong enough to take him on, alright guys?" Sora asked the others who all agreed to it.

After that small talk, Spike and the others got back into starting positions as the next round of Heartless came out next, Spike had worry's about why these Heartless are here specifically, but he wasn't gonna let them cause more trouble here, so they just had to keep pushing through whatever round came next.

Match 2: Sinisters!

They're next opponents were of more Shadow heartless and Blue operas, Spike and the others quickly charged at them all and made sure to avoid any slashes they threw at them.
"How did these guys get signed up for the games?" Spike asked with surprise while he avoided an ice blast and shot a fireblast in response at one more Heartless.

"Something tells me that person we saw has something to do with this!" Donald declared as he shot a few Ice blasts at the shadows for widespread affects.

"I honestly think it's a good thing we signed up here, because who knows what else he may have rigged!" Sora shouted as he raised up his Keyblade and used a Thunder Spell to take care of the last of them.

Everyone took deep breaths and felt glad that that match was cleared up like the others as well.
"Let's just keep up with our progress until we get to the last match, alright guys?" Spike asked the others who were all on board with that suggestion.

Match 3: Heat & Freeze!

Spike and the group soon faced another gauntlet of Red and Blue operas, both of Fire and Ice powers, and while it's they're strengths, it's also they're weaknesses.
"You guys go for the Red ones! They're weak to Ice!" Spike encouraged while he flipped across a few ice blasts coming at him from the large group ahead of them.

Sora quickly rolled away from more fire attacks and twirled his Keyblade around and prepared another spell to use against them.
"Freeze!" Sora screamed as he used his Ice powers against the red Operas and took most of them out easily, Goofy assisted with this by using his Shield and bashing against the rest of them until only the Blue ones were left.

Spike took a deep breath as he was surrounded by the Blue operas, and once they all were in the right place, Spike shot a large stream of fire against the remaining Heartless, since they all were weak to Fire, Spike was able to deal with them all pretty quickly, and soon enough, they all were the winners of this match once again.
"Take that you monsters!" Spike cheered while all of them twirled they're weapons around in victory.

Phil was really impressed with they're way to handle these monsters together despite all the odds.
"Say, you guys are better then I thought! I wish Hercules was here to see this." Phil wished which confused them on who that was.

"Who's that? Some kind of big hero around here?" Spike asked while they all came up to him again.

"Yep, a real hero is there ever was one, he'd be proud of your ability to work together that's for sure. It's just a shame he's off visiting his father." Phil informed which they didn't mind hearing.

"Hey, it's always important to spend time with family, I'm sure he'll turn up again soon, even if we're not here by then." Sora assured which Phil agreed with.

"I hear that, now let's go to the next match! Only a few more until you face the last opponent." Phil advised which gave them all a determined look hearing it.

Everyone soon got back onto the arena once again and awaited the next group of Heartless they had to face together once again.

Match 4: Shadow Platoon.

This next match they had to face was of multiple Shadow, Knight, Red and Blue opera Heartless all at once, there was a larger number of them then before, but with the monsters they've faced together, this wasn't too much of an issue. Spike used his Keyblades again and threw them to the large group like a Boomerang, it twirled around the air and slashed through each one it hit in an instant before they came back to Spike easily. Sora used his Thunder magic once again to take out the remaining enemy's, this wasn't too new to them at this point, and they knew they're weakness since they're ones they've faced before.
"That's all? Come on, keep em coming!" Sora cheered while he twirled his own Keyblade around to strike his own pose.

Match 5: Blue Revenge.

This next match consisted solely of a large number of Blue opera Heartless from before. And this wasn't anything too hard for them, Spike was able to deal with them all really easily with his Fire breath, he only recently got the Keyblade and has been learning to fight, and the more he fights with the Keyblade, the smarter he's able to form off strategy's in a fight.
"Wow, your getting really good there Spike, we've only been too one or two worlds by now, yet your able to take on that many easily, I'm gonna have to keep up with you if we keep running into that many Heartless." Sora complimented while Spike stretched his arms a bit.

"Hey, it's all a team effort, whatever comes next, we'll do it together!" Spike cheered which everyone else cheered along with too.

But as all of them were getting ready for the next match, the same person from before was watching them from the gates ahead of them with the opponent they had to face soon.
"Those little punks are your next opponents, they may seem skilled, but your far stronger then they are. Don't hesitate with them, and just take them out!" Hades encouraged to the swordsman from before who scoffed hearing this from him.

"The great God of the Underworld is afraid of a kid and a talking dragon? Sorry, but my contract says.." The figure said before Hades interrupted him with annoyance.

"I know! You think I wouldn't know?! I wrote that contract! I know it says your only meant to kill Hercules in this tournament, but you gotta fight those guys, to get to em! It's like that old goat says: Rule #11, it's all just a game, so let lose and have fun with it!" Hades said mimicking Phil's own pieces of advise which the person didn't believe one bit.

"I mean.. a casualty or two wouldn't be too big a deal right?" Hades asked nervously which made the figure glare at him with a stern look before walking away and awaiting his match against Spike and the others which made Hades a bit nervous.

"Sheesh.. he's stiffer then the stiff's back home. But still.. suckers like him are hard to come by.." Hades said with interest as he looked into the darkness and could hear loud growling and the sounds of a large monster awaiting it's moment to attack..

Spike and the others stood in the arena once again and were ready for the next match again, and soon enough, more Heartless spawned in and were ready to fight.

Match 6: Big One.

This match had Spike and the others face off against Knight heartless, Blue and Red operas, and one of the larger heartless they've faced against before.
"You guys go for the others! I'll go for the large one!" Spike advised as he flipped over more of they're attacks and went behind the large one and struck the thing behind the back.

"Thunder!" Spike screamed as he raised his Keyblade in the air and shot a large amount of Thunder from the air which took out more of the Heartless around them. The large heartless charged at Spike in an attempt to take him down, but Spike put his Keyblades together and blocked his attack quickly, and he looked behind and saw Sora was coming up to finish things. Spike smirked seeing that and parried the Heartless away before he backflipped over him once again and landed right by Sora, they both quickly raised they're Keyblades in the air and took down the last Heartless just like all the others.
"That's all of them, we're onto the final match next." Spike said with a serious look which the others were glad to hear.

But as all of them came to their positions like before, the final opponent came out to face against them, and to they're surprise, it was the same figure from before who looked incredibly strong.
"Wait.. we have to face him?" Goofy asked with worry as he drew his large sword and got ready to take them down.

"We've faced the last ones together, we can take on this guy too! Let's go." Sora encouraged as they all faced against the last match they had to go through.

Final Match: Cloud.

The figure known as Cloud didn't waste a single second to strike first, he made a loud battle cry and leaped into the air, he threw down his sword to the ground and created a large cloud of dark energy which knocked most of the group back, Spike saw Cloud coming up to him next and he raised his sword at him, Spike quickly ducked under more of his slashes and quickly blocked another one with both his Keyblades, but he was struggling to keep him held back with how strong he was.

"This guy's tough! We have to be careful guys!" Spike warned just before Cloud broke through Spike's block and delivered a strong slash against him which knocked Spike back into Sora.

Sora quickly helped Spike back up and looked back at Cloud again with anger, he stood against them with no hesitation. Sora quickly stood against him too and raised his Keyblade in the air to try and knock him off guard for a moment.
"Thunder!" Sora screamed as he shot more thunder from the sky which was able to harm him just a bit, but Cloud didn't show any signs of pain, and he simply charged up his large blade and suddenly did a super fast move that allowed him to move past them all at super fast speeds.

"Look out!" Donald shouted as he tried rolling out of his fast slashes, Spike quickly saw Cloud coming at him again and managed to avoid another slash, but he saw Goofy get hit really hard from his attack. Cloud then turned his attention back to them and swung his blade around with no signs of holding back.

Spike quickly blocked more of his slashes while Sora tried taking him down from behind, but Cloud was able to see that attack coming and he turned away from Spike and delivered a strong slash against Sora which knocked him back a good distance.

Spike gasped with shock seeing his skill and knew he had to find a way to beat him without getting hurt, but they were getting weaker as the fight went on, and Cloud looked like he was just warming up for this fight.

"is that the best you all can do?" Cloud mocked while he ran up to all of them once again and slashed his sword against them once again, but as Spike tried rolling out of his attacks once again, Spike noticed something off behind him, he saw the gates behind them had opened up, and as he tried to avoid another slash from Cloud, he saw a huge 3 headed monster emerge from the darkness.

"Look out!" Spike warned as he pushed Cloud out of the way just in time which shocked and confused him with his sudden move, but then he turned to see the large monster suddenly lunged at all of them at the arena directly and landed on the ground, it towered over them all and it roared at all of them with huge anger. Sora gasped with fear seeing how huge it was. It was a large 3 headed monster with black skin all over it, and it had demonic red eyes and spewed black from it's mouths. Cloud looked really mad with Hades's attempt at backstabbing him and saw him at the gates ahead of them.

"Hey! This wasn't the deal! You never said you'd bring Cerberus into this!" Cloud shouted as he tried blocking one of Cerberus's heads with his large sword.

Hades chuckled sinisterly and only looked back at him one last time.
"Oh right, sorry kid, but there's one more rule I forgot: Accidents happen." Hades mocked as he walked into the shadows to leave them all to die here.

Spike came right next to Cloud and tried holding this monster back from doing any worse damage to the place.
"How do we beat this thing?!" Spike screamed while he was trying to push back against the monster's large heads.

But as Cerberus was about to attack them again, a familiar person ran past them both and delivered a strong punch to the monster which knocked it directly into the walls for a bit. Spike and the others had a look of surprise as they saw a large and strong looking person come into the fight, and Phil knew exactly who it was.
"Herc!" Phil screamed as the hero known as Hercules was trying to hold off against Cerberus.

"Phil! Get them out of here now!" Hercules ordered as Cerberus recovered from his attack and roared at them all, it glared at them all and took a deep breath before it shot a powerful fireblast at all of them. Cloud came in front of Hercules for this and used his blade to block it the best he can, Spike looked back at the others who were trying to run off with Phil into the lobby, but Spike wasn't just gonna leave them behind, and so, Spike ran to both Hercules, and Cloud's sides and drew his weapons and stood ready to fight.

"What are you doing kid? Get out of here now!" Hercules shouted as he flipped away from one of Cerberus's heads which tried biting at him, Spike twirled his weapons around and he used his Thunder magic to attack each of the heads at once to keep it down for a bit.

"I'm not about to run away and let you guys possibly die from this! I'm not giving up on this, and I'll stand my ground!" Spike shouted as he threw one of his Keyblades at Cerberus and it stabbed the monster in one of the heads which made it roar with rage feeling it pierce through him.

"You've got guts kid, I'll give you that." Cloud remarked as he lunged into the air and delivered and smashed his weapon into the monster like before, Cerberus roared again feeling his attack and he had enough with this punk. One of Cerberus's heads suddenly grabbed Cloud by the leg and shook him around widely, Cloud tried to slash his sword against the things face, but Cerberus threw Cloud to the wall extremely roughly which put him out of commission for the rest of the fight.

"Cloud!" Spike shouted with fear as he saw Cerberus stomping his way to Cloud to finish the job, but Hercules quickly ran in and grabbed Cloud just before Cerberus could do any worse damage to him. Spike tried to attack Cerberus with his weapons again, but Cerberus only whacked Spike away with it's large tail which sent Spike across the arena, and that only left Hercules cornered while he carried Cloud on his shoulder as he faced against Cerberus alone.

Spike groaned as he tried getting back up, but he had a look of fear as he saw Hercules was about to be taken down too without any help alongside him.
"No!" Spike screamed while he tried running to save him. But just before Spike could, he heard someone run besides him to help him out, and Spike had a look of surprise when he saw Sora and the others came back in to help him out.

"Spike! Are you okay?" Sora asked with worry while Cerberus turned his attention to them, Donald and Goofy.

"I'm fine, but we gotta deal with this monster first, you guys ready to take it on?!" Spike shouted as Hercules ran past them to get cloud to safety.

"Let's take em!" Donald shouted while he got ready to use his magic.

Phil saw they were willing to take them on and felt it was best to give them one more piece of advice to help them out.
"Kids, I got two words of advise for you: Attack!!" Phil screamed as Cerberus marched over to all of them and roared in a monsterous way.

Spike and the group ran across the large arena as Cerberus tried shooting large fireballs at them all, Spike quickly raised his Keyblades and blocked them, but he wanted to counter against Cerberus, so he made sure to deflect the attacks back to him to weaken him.

"Guys! We gotta keep those heads distracted! I'll go for the middle one! Donald and Goofy, you go for the right, Sora, go for the left!" Spike advised as he ran directly to the middle one like he said he would.

"Got it!" Sora shouted as he quickly ran under Cerberus's body and rolled directly to the left one. All 3 heads were facing against Spike and the others on their own, and Spike decided to strike first by taking another deep breath and shooting a large stream of fire against it, that made Cerberus roar in pain and it gave Donald and Goofy they're moment to strike.

"Donald, now!" Goofy shouted while he held up his Shield in the air and threw it directly to Cerberus, Donald assisted with Goofy's attack and shot thunder at it to power it up, this gave Goofy's shield a thunder affect to it, and once it hit the right head, it quickly bounced off to the rest of Cerberus's heads to do more damage to it.

Sora was the next to attack Cerberus, and he decided that it would be best to use his magic to handle it.
"Fire!" Sora screamed while he shot multiple balls of fire at the left head directly, Spike then joined in with him and he raised his Keyblades at Cerberus next too to help.

"Ice!" Spike shouted as he shot a large widespread of ice against each of the heads which further pushed it back, and Donald was the next one to assist with the fight as they were holding it back.

"Thunder!" Donald screamed with anger as he shot multiple lightning blasts at each of the heads next which only made Cerberus more furious. Cerberus roared at all of them again and had enough of this whole fight, and it took a deep breath before it shot a large stream of darkness at the ground, and that started to make pillars of darkness pierce through the ground below them to try and finish them off.

"Guys, move, move!" Spike screamed as he quickly was rolling his way out of each blast, Cerberus soon turned to them once again and tried shooting more fire blasts at them to knock them down, but Sora wasn't gonna let that happen, and he used his Keyblade to knock the blasts back at him like Spike was able to do.

Spike quickly ran across the bleachers as Cerberus marched across the arena with it's attention on Sora, Spike felt his power surging up again the more he fought, and he made a loud scream of anger as he ran directly at Cerberus, and he dragged his Keyblades behind him, Cerberus soon heard Spike's scream right behind him, and it turned to see Spike jumping in the air in an attempt to finish it off.

Cerberus's heads quickly lunged at Spike and tried to slash him down, but Spike was able to dodge out of the way and he managed to land on the middle head directly, Spike felt his Keyblades surging up with they're own power, and he raised them in the air to try and finish off this monster.
"This ends now!" Spike screamed as he backflipped into the air to deliver a final air slash, Sora quickly ran across the arena to help Spike with this attack, and he managed to run across Cerberus's right head and he lunged into the air and grabbed Spike by the tail like before.

Spike and Sora both made a scream of rage together, and Sora twirled Spike around super fast while Spike held his keyblades out, they soon became as fast as a cyclone again, and Sora helped Spike finish Cerberus off one last time, Sora raised Spike into the air and he threw Spike directly down to the middle head, Spike roared with anger as he felt fire swell around him from his power, and with one final strike, Spike completely pierced through the middle head and cut through im completely, Spike landed back on the ground and rolled to Donald and Goofy again while Sora landed down besides them. And the only thing they could see was Cerberus roaring with pain as Spike dealt that devastating blow, and not being able to fight anymore, it fell onto the ground defeated, not showing any signs of being able to keep fighting again..

After Spike and the others scored that massive victory for beating Cerberus as a team, Phil and Hercules brought them into the lobby again to congratulate them, Phil was giving a special announcement to them while Spike and the others were standing there with a proud and respectful look.
"And thus I hereby dub thee, junior heroes, and concur upon the full rights and privilege's to participate in the games, furthermore." Phil concluded which made Donald a bit upset with the " Junior heroes thing.

"Hey what do you mean junior heroes?" Donald asked while he stomped his foot on the ground a bit.

"Yeah, wasn't beating that monster enough to prove us as heroes?" Spike added with a bit of an curious look too.

"You all still don't know what it takes, to be a true hero." Phil replied which made Goofy curious on what they have to do about it.

"So, what does it take then?" Goofy asked while they all turned to Hercules for advise.

"That's just something you'll have to find out for yourselves, just like how I did." Hercules said with a smile which gave all of them a look of confidence hearing that.

"No problem! We'll start by proving ourselves in the games!" Sora said with a proud look hearing it.

"Unfortunately, there ain't gonna be any games for a while, it's gonna take a bit to clean up the mess from that last battle first." Phil replied while he looked back at the arena which still needed to be cleaned up from the battle they just had.

"Hey, it's no big deal, we'll be back when we're strong enough, thanks so much for the help Herc!" Spike thanked while he and the others were starting to leave.

Hercules and Phil were waving goodbye as they all were leaving them again.
"I still can't believe those guys actually beat Cerberus!" Phil said with surprise with how they were able to handle him together.

"Just between us, Spike and I were able to wear Cerberus down before Sora jumped in, I would've handled him just fine on my own, but Spike really put up a fight while Sora was away for a bit, even then, Cerberus still wasn't at his full strength by the time this fight happened" Herc whispered to Phil who nodded in understanding.

"My lips are sealed." Phil replied respectfully as Spike closed the doors behind them.

Spike and the others soon came back out into the starting place from before, they were all ready to leave and head to the next world they needed to go to. But Spike soon saw Cloud was sitting down and looked upset after Hades betrayed him, and they decided they should help him out if they can.
"Hey, are you alright Cloud?" Spike asked as he and the others came up to them.

Cloud only looked at them and sighed hearing it.
"Yeah." Cloud replied with a stern look which just concerned them a bit.

"So.. why did you go along with him anyway?" Sora asked wondering what had him team up with Hades.

"I'm looking for someone, and Hades promised to help. I tried to exploit the power of darkness, but it backfired. I fell into darkness, and I couldn't find the light.." Cloud said as he looked at the sun above him.

"You'll find it, Spike and I are searching for it too." Sora encouraged with Spike nodding in response.

"For your light?" Cloud asked with a curious look.

"Yeah, we'll find it soon, and I'm sure you will too, just keep holding onto hope." Spike encouraged which Cloud took into heart.

"Then don't lose sight of it you two. You put up a good fight against Cerberus Spike, keep moving forward, and soon enough, you may be stronger then you could imagine." Cloud advised as he gave Spike a Sora a strange looking charm which gave them a strange new power coming from it..

"How about a rematch sometime? Fair and square, no dark powers involved" Sora offered while Cloud was walking away from them.

"Not only that, but we'll be able to find out who'd really win that fight without interruptions!" Spike said with a smile which only made Cloud smirk hearing it.

"I think I'll pass." Cloud replied which only made the two of them chuckle hearing that from him.

"Whatever happens, take care of yourself, we'll be back soon. You ready to go guys?" Spike asked while he turned back to the others who were ready to go to.

"Let's see if the next world can help us find the king." Donald declared as all of them made they're way to the doors, and finally left this world with a sense of fulfillment from saving the day here.

But as they had left, Hades was watching over this happen, and he was not happy with how they managed to stop his chance of finishing off Hercules for good.
"He's strong, he's kind, he's always there for you! And he's handsome to boot, he's.. perfect... perfect... perfectly infuriating!! HE DRIVES ME CRAZY!!" Hades screamed as his body turned red and he shot out a large amount of fire out of frustration for his plan failing this time.

But Hades took a few deep breaths and tried calming down to come up with his next plan.
"Hold on Hades, what are you worried about? All the pieces are in place, just relax. Just let Hercules train those kids, and soon enough, I'll take care of all three of them." Hades told himself while he clutched his fists.

But as he was talking to himself, a familiar witch had come to check on him, and she wasn't really happy with his current worries about failing again, this witch was known as Maleficent, and Hades was able to see her come in from behind him.
"Who invited you to the party? Stay out of this, this is my show." Hades ordered while Maleficent walked up to him with her large staff.

"As you wish, fight to your heart's content." Maleficent replied as she was leaving him alone once again, and Hades was just upset with her remarks from hearing it.

Spike and the others soon got back on the Gummi ship and were heading off into space again so they could head to the next world, Spike was laying back on his chair again and felt pretty great from helping them out for this one.
"That was quite the day huh guys? Pretty crazy that we were able to take on Cerberus together." Spike remarked while Donald was keeping the ship steady.

"Yeah, it really was, we pulled off some cool combo moves too, makes me wonder what else we'll be able to learn together the more we fight?" Sora asked while he was sitting besides him.

Spike only smiled at that and looked at the two Keyblades he had, and wondered just what more they had to them.
"Hopefully whatever we face next, it'll only help us to finding a way to get me home, and for you to find your friends, and Donald and Goofy to find the king." Spike prayed which the others were glad to hear.

"I hope so too Spike. Sora said with a proud look as they flew off to the next world together, hoping that soon enough, they'll be able to find they're friends together.

Author's Note

Hey guys thanks for reading this chapter! I know there's still much to be done with the action in this story, but I assure you that as Spike and Sora learn more magic and limit moves together, it'll make things more interesting, especially when we get to KH2 and the things they'll do there. Sorry if I got the name of some Heartless wrong, but I'm still trying to help people understand which ones they are, but if you've played the games and have seen which ones you face in the matches, it'll be easy to tell.

I will do more of the tournaments back in this world in future chapters, but I will probably lower the match count to save us all some time, since the Hades Cup is over 50 rounds, while most of them go up to 20, it may just be boring for them to face matches going up more and more, I'll only cut to matches that are more interesting when it comes to the tournaments, so I hope you don't mind it. I just hope you all liked this, and have a good day guys!