Zexon summoned an entire battalion of Berserkers. He sent them to patrol the castle. "May I have a look?" Zexon asked. Jaxial nodded and handed it to him. Zexon looked closely at it. "Hm... this thing looks like it would be activated by hearts, or by an energy on the same frequency as it. Or it could be a key to some door." He handed it back to Jaxial. "Hold onto it. it seems interesting."

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"Well then, shall we?" Ellxios summoned a portal.

"Lady's First" Jaxial said still examining the rock

"Let us go then..." mumbled Norias as he began to hover his hand over a heartless emblem next to his seat. As the emblem began to glow, the ship rose and fired off onto the sky.

"Finally, we're all most there." Brandon said checking the map on the console. "Soon We may have another one like us to help collect hearts."

zemina looked at the portal with one eyebrow raised,
"uh you know what just meet me there I`l take my own transport" zemina said looking at the portal he then disappeared via teleport to Olympus coliseum.

"ok then....let's go then Ellxios" Jaxial said

"Er...ok." Ellxios walked into the portal.

Zexon created his own portal. He walked though it, making sure no-one was following him. They might think it strange he never went into anyone else's portal, but he had a good reason. If he went though the dark corridor, his chaotic powers made everything weird. If anyone was with him, there was a good chance they would be killed. "See you there." He waved as he walked through. He stopped and laid down in the DC. It was one of his favorite places. Dark, quiet, and peaceful.

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a flash of light could be seen soon followed by the sound of feet hitting the floor but not in the grand halls of the Olympus coliseum instead it was in a white room which had no doors and no windows, a bed and several tables along the edged all of littered with several machines and chemicals.

"well time to check on my experiments" zemina said walking up to one of the lab`s many tables and fiddling with what appeared to be a heart made entirely of metal with small crevices along the sides that were currently dark and a small red button in the center zemina picked it up and opened up a small panel in the back as he begun to fiddle with the inner workings.

"okay just connect these wires...mess about with the transistor...put the connector pad in place...aaaaaand done" zemina said to himself as he messed around with the machine's parts before finally placing it back on the table and pushing the button, a small whirring sound could be heard before the machine lit up and started to glow with energy.

"yes,yes it`s working" zemina said a joy in his eyes but the joy was soon cut short as the machine quickly shorted out indicated by a small spark shooting forth from the machine.

"dang it, well they`re probably wondering where I am right now so best get over there" zemina sighed before teleporting again this time to Olympus coliseum.

The Heartless ship landed in a circle of trees near Halloween Town. Brandon stepped out of the ship and took a deep breath. "Ah it's good to be back." Looking around he saw that they had landed in the ring of holidays.

"Urgh," said Norias, walking out of the ship. "So this is your "Home, sweet home", eh?" Norias laughed and kicked up a few woodchips. "Well, would you rather enter a door or roam around here..."

"If you want to go into another door, go ahead." Brandon said opening the pumpkin door. "If you do I suggest Christmas Town." Brandon stepped into a graveyard. He could see spiral hill in the light of the full moon. "Here I come Jack, hope your ready to step down as Pumpkin King."

disregard.

Norias watched Brandon jump through the door and, after some time, made the decision to go through the Christmas door. "This world smells... so pure..."

another bright flash of light erupted this time zemina landed on his feet in a small black circle surrounded by a green river of some kind.
"I appear to be in the underworld, thought it would be at least a few years before I came here" zemina said to himself as he looked around noticing the underdome in the distance.

"hmmm I wonder if Zeus ever relocked that thing" zemina said before turning around coming face to face with two small imps one colored blue the other purple both of them appeared to be busy doing something.

"oh the hallucination that is the underworld" zemina sighed before finding a rock and leaning against it watching the two imps go about their business.

Zexon appeared in the underworld. "Dammit! Not again! Damn chaos! " He then turned around and saw Zemina. "Ah, hello there Zemina. Had a little trouble getting here?"

"eh, I was off by a couple of bits but now I`ve been mostly staring at these two imps I have no idea what they`re doing but they appear to be loading a small boat with something so I guess they have something to do with the underdome there" zemina said pointing at the underdome in the distance.

"so where`d you go or are you just being fashionably late" zemina asked not taking his eyes off the imps.

Brandon walked through Halloween Town. It felt odd to be back walking among his old friends. He could smell their hearts. As much as they thought they were creatures of nightmares, their hearts were pure. But one set of hearts had the most alluring smell. He looked at the tower at the end of the street. The Skellington home. Brandon smiled "It's time."

Brandon walked up to the gate and the three musicians were sitting outside as always. They were asleep so they never felt their hearts being taken. They soon melted into the shadows becoming Heartless. Brandon walked up the steps to the Skellington's front door. When he reached the door he kicked it in with a loud crash. Already he could hear the foot steps from upstairs running down the stairs.

Soon all four of the Skellington's stood staring at him disbelief. Jack and Danny(Jack and Sally's Son)smiled "Brandon is that you? I'm so glad your okay, we thought the worst when you disappeared six weeks ago." Jack said walking towards him but Sally held him back. "No Jack, the worst did happen. Look at him He's no longer the one we all knew."

Brandon laughed "As observant as ever Sally. Your right I have changed. And so will you." He said drawing his scythe "All of you will." He slashed at Jack but he was fast. soon Jack was fighting with his magic. "You've gotten old Jack. You can't keep this up for very long." Brandon said as he sent a wave of darkness to hold Jack. Jack was stuck on the ground trying to get up. "Now Now Jack no reason to struggle your about to be freed anyway." Brandon placed his hand over Jacks chest. Soon Jacks heart was his. the pumpkin king transformed into a Graveyard. Sally and Emily screamed Danny charged and was cut down by what was once his father.

Danny turned into a White Knight. Brandon laughed "This is almost sad. The great Pumpkin King and the Pumpkin Prince both are Heartless." The White Knight and the Graveyard chased Sally upstairs, she was still screaming. Soon the screaming stopped. "Now it's just you and me Emily." She had backed against the wall and sat down as she watched her family's hears be taken. She looked at him in horror. She stood after a minute and walked up to him and slapped him as hard as she could. "How dare you. We treated you with nothing but kindness since we met. you were like family to us. I loved you!" Brandon smiled "I know, but that changed when I lost my heart that day six weeks ago. But you going to be standing next to me as I take the hearts of others."

Brandon put his hand out and Emily's heart was soon in his hand. Her body melted into the shadows. He waited for her Heartless to appear. He was surprised when she stood up again but with the Heartless symbol on the front of her black dress. Her red hair and stitches were still as they were. She smiled "Why do I suddenly not care if my family's gone, and why do I still love you." Brandon held her close "That is something I've bee trig to figure out myself." He whispered "I don't know why I still care about you but I do and there is nothing we cab do about it." They stood there together for a long time.

Jaxial was almost flung out the portal and fell on his face

"stupid portal...." Jaxial said while spitting out sand

"huh...where is everyone else?"

as the sun was beaming down on him looks for his friends around the giant pillars

"Neither. the DC just decided to drop me off where i didn't want to go. Say, as long as we're here, i think we should go practice in the Underdome. I can't think of any stronger enemy that those in the service of Hades. Sound good to you?"

Jaxial was soon surrounded by heartless

"well this is good workout" Jaxial said while stretching

"LET'S G....." Jaxial stopped because he saw a great light that blinded him and the heartless

When Jaxial opened his eyes he saw a man with black spiky hair_auron

"are you ok" the man ask

"yeah..." Jaxial said feeling weak

"good i guess we were destined to meet " he said

"definitely but we`re gonna have to get past those two imps guarding the boat shan't be too hard" zemina said returning to his feet and picking up his scythe he teleported behind the two imps and crept up close to them until his face was near theirs the imp turned around and nearly lept out of it`s skin as it started quivering at the sight of zemina, zemina leaned in even closer and whispered.
"run" the imp immediately turned around and ran back into the underworld the other one following.

"well looks like we have a boat I`l row" zemina said jumping in the front.

Zexon walked into the boat. "Very well. Let's go. Tell me if you want a break." Zexon took a closer look at the imps Zemina had scared away. "row quickly, for i believe the imps you scared off are the personal assistants to Hades. I feel like fighting the mutt in the arena, don't you?"

"Aaaah!" Ellxios was thrown out of the portal into a dark coliseum.

"Ow...ok, this is why I don't trust those things. They make me dizzy-" She stopped short due to the heavy breathing and bad breath behind her.

It was Cerberus. And apparently, she had landed on their rather large bone.

She picked it up and waved it above her head. "You want this, boy? You want the bone?" Cerberus wagged his tail and crouched excitedly.

"Okay, well, go get it!" She hurled the bone and Cerberus chased after it.

"excuse but have you seen 3 people:a girl and two other guys" Jaxial asked

"no....i dont recall i have"the man answered, Jaxial then looked at the entrance to the underworld

"well only one place left they could be" Jaxial said

"no your not"

"sorry but dont try to stop me" Jaxial said summoning his gauntlet

"what i mean is your not going alone,you need a guardian...myself"

"thanks, my name is Jaxial" he said walking towards the portal to the underworld

"Auron" the man answered

They both entered to the underworld, then Jaxial then tripped on the entrance's steps

"owww...."Jaxial said in pain

"........."Auron was silent

Zemina and Zexon reached the Underdome. They saw Ellxios playing with Cerberus. "Ah, hello Ellxios. I see you are having fun. anyway, get ready to fight, 'cause we're gonna be in deep in 3...2...1..." Suddenly an area of the ring blazed up in flame. Hades stepped out of the flames, his two imps clutching his toga, using it as a shield. "I hope you're ready to fight!" Hades yelled. He raised his hands and sent wave after wave of heartless after them.

Auron walked down slowly and helped Jaxial up

"thanks,again" Jaxial said, then he noticed the giant ring of fire

"knowing my friends there over there"

"unless you can fly we cant get over there" Auron said pointing to the giant black sea

"i have an idea,Blizzaga!!!" i burst of snow came from his gauntlet and made a frozen path

"hmm...." Auron said slyly

zemina threw his scythe into a crowd of heartless letting it teleport back into his hands.
"you know you`d think they`d get some heartless that were`nt cannon fodder" zemina sighed as he turned around to see Cerberus behind him zemina quickly dodged a swipe of his massive paw.

"damn and things were going so well too" zemina sighed as he lept up into the air. scythe raised above his head.

Cerberus barked, sending Zemina backwards.

Ellxios sliced her way through more Heartless. "Hey! This is easy!"

Jaxial and Auron ran across the frozen path making sure not to slip, when they approached the underdome they were stopped by the ring of fire that almost melted the path

"what now?"Jaxial wondered

"my turn....Fortress Divider" Auron said in a powerful voice

The fire was split almost like Auron commanded it, Jaxial was stunned

"don't you have friends to save?" Auron reminded him, while jumping the through the open path

"yeah" Jaxial moving towards the underdome, "Hey guys im here!!!" Jaxial said announcing himself

Jaxial looked around and saw dozen of heartless, Hades, and Cerberus

"What have you guys got into?" Jaxial said chuckling

Zexon was on the middle head of Cerberus. "No, boy, down!" He slammed his armored fist into Cerberus' head. "Don't ask. anyway, how do you like my new ride? Hey Ellxios, want a puppy?"