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The Zeus cup

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"Sam, can we at least take a break" Sora complained as he knelt in the middle of the arena, Sam in front of him and the sun high in the sky

"No breaks! Now come at me again!" Sam ordered. Sora slowly rose to his feet before cooperating. Sora charged at Sam and slashed down at him. Sam merely grabbed the Kingdom Key just under the blade. As he did, Sora was sent flying away and lost his grip of the Kingdom Key, leaving it in Sam's grip, "Not good enough!" Sam shouted as he threw the Kingdom Key to the ground before Sora. Sora rose to his feet as he picked up his weapon, this was embracing. Spectators had already began to fill the seats for the tournament, looks like they were getting some pre-fight entertainment called 'Sora getting his ass kicked by a kid'

"Come on, you're in your first Youshike form, this isn't fair!" Sora complained

"It's-called-Youshiki!" Sam shouted, "Damn it! How the hell are you supposed to master a technique you can't even pronounce? Besides, do you honestly think your opponents are going to be fair?" As Sam said this, he sped to Sora with such sped that Sora didn't even see him move, after Sam had positioned himself, he struck Sora in the chest with an open palm and sent him flying again. Sora was surprised to say the least. Sam wasn't physically strong so how was he doing this?

"You want to know how I'm beating you around so easily don't you." Sam said. Sora simply nodded his head

"Kihonteki Youshiki increases everything we do by about ten percent. For example" Sam said as he walked towards Sora and tapped him on the forehead, this made Sora stumble back, "A simple tap can send someone stumbling back"

"So that means if you struck with full force then" Sora began

"Yes" Sam interrupted before jumping at Sora and slashing Outcast at him. Sora parried the strike with the Kingdom Key however the sudden impact caused by the combined strength of Outcast and the Kihonteki Youshiki forced Sora to stumble back and fall onto his behind

Sora groaned in announce, "Come on, Sam. Can't you just teach me how to get into Kihonteke Youshiky?"

"It's Kihonteki Youshike...No wait it's...Damn it, now you've got me doing it!" Sam shouted, "You're not ready yet, if you can't even stand against it then how the hell are you going to control it?"

"Well..." Sora thought about it a bit, "How do you mean?"

"I mean, if you use it without the ability to control it then you will just destroy everything in your path. Your friends...your enemies...And even that girlfriend of yours" Sam said making Sora's eyes widen, "You will become no more then a wild fire burning absolutely everything that comes near you"

"Alright, I get the picture" Sora said seriously, "But still, I need more direction then just getting smacked to the ground"

"Why, that's all the direction I got" Sam stated not bothering to turn and face the brunette "My reward for doing well at the end of the day was not getting beaten"

"Are you serious?" Sora asked

"Yes, why? It's not that bad. Not bad in the least" Sam said as he turned around to face Sora before frowning, "Get up you lazy bastard!" Sam scolded before he fired a projectile black blast from his Keyblade at Sora

"Ahh!" Sora screamed just before he jumped up and rolled out of the way, "phew" Sora wiped the sweat from his forehead

"Hey, look behind you!" a voice called from the crowd. Sora did so and to his shock the projectile was coming straight towards him. Sora quickly rolled again, just dodging the attack. Sam merely ducked to avoid the strike which shattered a pillar behind them. Luckily, the pillar repaired itself. Sora looked to whoever warned him, when he did a smile crept onto his face

"Thanks Rinoa" Sora called as he looked at the raven haired woman who was sitting in the audience. It wasn't just her here though, they were all here. Rinoa was surrounded be Leon, Laguna, Quistis, Selphie, Cloud, Cid, Yuffie, Setzer and even Riku, Donald, Goofy and Kairi. Sora's smile widened as he looked at Kairi, she had a worried expression on her face

"Look out!" Kairi called. Sora turned back to his opponent just in time to see Outcast lunging down at him. Quickly, Sora blocked the strike however this sent him stumbling back but he remained standing

"So how am I supposed to defend against it?" Sora asked

Sam only let a small smirk creep onto his face, "I'm not telling" He answered, "You'll have to figure it out on your own"

"Why" Sora whined

"Because I said so that's why!" Sam retorted

"That's not fair"

"Yeah well life isn't fair, deal with it" replied Sam

The two continued this argument for who knows how long, they stopped as a figure in black walked past from the lobby, Shadow. His eyes never leaving Sora even when he took his seat in the front row of the seats. The very sight of this man sent shivers down Sora's spine especially those eyes, those ominous and empty eyes.

"Hey you two" Came a voice from behind braking Sora's concentration, he turned around to face the owner of the voice

"Hey Phil!" Sora called

"I see you're getting some extra training in before the games" Phil observed

"Yeah" Sora replied before he walked forward and jumped out of the arena

"Must you say games like that" Sam complained

"Like what, what's wrong with the way I say games?" Phil asked defensively putting the enthuses on the middle of the word as he always did

"Ah, just forget it" Sam gave in rather then pursuing the rather pointless argument. In stead, he decided to head over and take his seat at the now rather crowded seats. At the same time, Donald and Goofy jumped up and rushed over to join Sora

"Alright" Phil began as Sora, Donald and Goofy stood in front of him, "So, you guys now how the tournament is split up right"

"I think so" Sora answered, "The first five matches will be the preliminaries, right?"

"Yeah" Phil answered, "Alright, listen. There's a couple of opponents I'm a little worried about, one of which is that guy over there" Phil said as he looked up at Shadow. Sora, Donald and Goofy did the same, when they did they saw that he was still looking at Sora, not even blinking. After a few seconds they turned back to one another, "I don't know anything about him so you'll pretty much be fighting him blind. Anyway I've got to go and announce everything, you guys just get ready. Remember, two words. Stretch. Breath and keep calm" Goofy counted the words on his fingers as he said this. "Alright, get to it" Phil ordered before he rushed on over to the arena. The three fighters did as instructed, all performing various stretches

"Good luck guys" Hercules said as he passed them and took his seat with the crowd. Shortly after he arrived, Strago and Lara passed by as well; they both gave friendly waves as they did so

"Ladies and gentlemen!" Phil called at the top of his lungs, "Boys and girls! Welcome, to the Zeus cup!" As Phil said this the crowd began to cheer. Phil waited for the cacophony to die down before he continued, "From all over the cosmos, some of the greatest warriors have gathered here for one thing and one thing only! For the glory that is the Zeus cup and the honour that came's with it! In just a few moments, the Zeus cup Preliminaries will begin! From there the top sixty-four teams shall compete against one another in a total of sixty-two rounds split in five tears! Tear one well consist of thirty-two rounds, tear two well have sixteen, tear three will have eight and so on! Now, without further a due, our first match of the preliminaries! Sora, Donald and Goofy verses Shadow Storm" At this the crowd once again cheered as Sora, Donald and Goofy jumped into the arena to await there opponent. Shortly after, a large number of shadows appeared. There were way too many to be counted

"So, what's the plan?" Donald whispered

"Goofy, you attack down the right, Donald, you the left and I'll take the middle. That should be enough" Sora said. The truth was that he was nervous. Sora hadn't competed in these games in other a year and he hadn't competed in this arena in over two years; even if they were only Shadows he was nervous. However that wouldn't stop him from fighting with everything he had

Sora ran forward as his two comrades did as they were instructed. A shadow sank into the ground before it scurried behind Sora and rose from the concert. Sora quickly jumped into the air knowing full well that the Shadows next move would be a strike from its claws. He was right, the Shadow slashed at where Sora once was and was now bewildered as to the where abouts of its opponent. Quickly, Sora threw his Keyblade at the Shadow, slaying it quickly. Sora soon landed and pulled out his Keyblade which had impaled itself into the ground, immediately after doing so, Sora charged at the Shadows and began lashing out at them. Slaying a large number of them until they all separated.

Donald raised his staff into the air and called down several lightning bolts which all struck a separate Heartless, all of which burst into black smoke. A Shadow jumped forward and slashed Donald on his face, leaving three separate cuts on the side of his head. Donald let out and enraged 'Wak' before smacking the Shadow on the head with is staff with enough force that it dematerialized. Donald laughed before raising his staff to his face, when he did, his cuts were covered with a green radiating light and they soon turned in to hardly noticeable scars. With his cuts now closed, Donald out stretched his staff and fired a blast of fire at a cluster of Shadows, destroying them instantly.

Goofy began spinning towards his targets, a few Shadows jumped at him however they were just destroyed on his shield others tried to escape. Only those Shadows that sunk into the ground escaped him. As the Shadows rose from the arena concert, Goofy charged at them and his shield forward, destroying one of the Shadows. The remaining three Shadows all jumped in different directions. One of the Shadows sank into the ground and scurried behind Goofy, however as it jumped up from the ground, Goofy slammed his shield down on it and slew it. The second Shadow jumped at Goofy however he merely slammed his shield into it and destroyed the Heartless. Goofy then threw his Shield at the one remaining opponent, as it struck it; the Shadow was sliced in half and was forced to dematerialize.

Shortly after the last of the Heartless were destroyed, an orchestra began to play a small and short victory song (Yeah, the one from the first game)

"Sora, Donald and goofy are our winners! Our next teams are Shadow Verses Martial might!" Phil shouted as Sora, Donald and Goofy all jumped out of the arena

"Great work!" Kairi shouted from the audience. Sora smiled before turning to observe the next match. Shadow had already made it to the arena as had his opponent, an army of Soldier Heartless

"Begin" Phil shouted. Shadow drew two small blades before he made his move. Sora's eyes shot completely wide open. Shadow had rushed to the other side of the arena with such speed that no one saw him move, it looked as if he had teleported or something but of course he hadn't. A second later, the Soldiers dematerialized. The crowd was silent, completely in awe at this sight. Shadow was merely standing there for what seemed like hours until the orchestra began to play

"Shadow...is the winner!" Phil finally spoke

Shadow jumped out of the arena and slowly walked past Sora. Said Key bearer swallowed a large lump in his throat. Whoever this Shadow guy was, he was going to be one hell of an opponent.