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Roveth hummed a bit, and lightly nodded to the others, while looking to Mickey and Riku more closely, as if tasting their signatures "one preparation would be clothing or armor of some type which negates the effects of the realm of darkness on you two, since while Riku's been in there himself, it was when he was wielding his borrowed darkness from Ansem, Seeker of Darkness, and no offense your majesty... but you would be -extremely hampered- if not poisoned by the realm with your extreme light." he said, while rolling his neck a bit, glancing to Yen-Sid "i take it you know someone who can help set these two up with something like that?" he queried, since he figured not to leave the old wizard out too much on this, since -technically- he was the senior here and had the most experience. "as for finding this keyblade master, if she -does- have enough light, i might be able to pick up on her signature more when we're inside, but given with the heartless after us we're gonna be bogged down so be ready for a long haul and uphill battle.

Axel meanwhile nodded to Crystal a bit as well as smiled to Roxas lightly "thanks.." he said, unable to really get his head much into the game of things, but nodded at the mention of the coliseum being their next destination as Roveth piped up "oh, Roxas, Crystal, do keep yourselves out of trouble or any shenanigans~!" he said in a sing-song tone, causing Axel to look over to Shiro's dark half, who seemed to grin with an eye-smile and that trolling looking grin on his face.... yup, look at him go trying to lighten the mood up.

Roveth nodded as hr rubbed the back of his head "which means i need to tell Isa, Ienzo, and Aeleus i'm going to be gone for a while too, as well as pick up some stuff i left at the mansion, like my more powerful monster cards and the likes." he said while snapping his fingers, and a Corridor of Darkness opened up for the path back to Twilight Town and stepping in, leaving it open for Riku as he headed back to the mansion to inform the people he needed to to take care of the mansion and for Ienzo to keep an eye on the basement while he was gone. after that he'd be up in his room packing his strongest Shadow Realm monsters as well as the fastest methods to get them out, meaning he was rebuilding that Pendulum Summon trick he used for the fireworks displays and all as he hummed in thought while doing so, as well as picking up a few little things that once he returned to the tower, he'd toss to Axel, one being a cylindrical shaped object, well, two of them actually "if you see Shiro, tell him those are from me as i've been meaning to give those to him for a while." he said, with Axel nodding a bit and putting them away in his jacket for now, letting Roxas and Crystal go hunt down Gilgamesh and all since he left the corridor open for Riku and the others.

when they did get to Twilight Town to look for the errant King of Heroes, well.. he was currently annoyed and holding a sword right near Seifer's throat, with many more bladed implements impaled in the wall around him much like an imprint of sorts "mark my words, Mongrel.. the day i let you besmirch the King of Sword's Honor with those disgusting lips will be the day you breathe your last, is that understood?" of course, small bits of crackling electricity came off the blade, almost as if wanting to be called on to slay the King's foe... yeah, he was not in a good mood, outside of being annoyed by Seifer's gang, the idiot had to once more badmouth Shiro now that he wasn't anywhere in town for the moment to hear him.

Gilgamesh had narrowed his eyes when he had heard Crystal's voice, turning his head to match her gaze a moment before giving off a 'Tch' before the blade dimmed in his hands, and he let it, and the other swords that had impaled in the wall around seifer turn into golden particles, returning them to the gate once more as he ran a hand through his hair "fine... the mongrel and his... entourage.. will have their execution canceled this time." he said while at least perking up a bit more at the mention of returning back to Olympus to stay until Shiro returned, however reminding who -else- was at the coliseum just made him cringe "well.. let us be off then, even if i have to endure the presence of that disgusting death god..." he muttered, walking past Crystal, Roxas, and Xion, without killing Seifer at least.

Roveth nodded as they got their new outfits ready, he himself, well, he just brought out his morpher, and and summoned a key into hand, chuckling a bit "Legendary Ranger mode, Mighty Morphin' Green Ranger, it's Morphin' Time!" he called out, before a flash of green light and energy occurred and Roveth was geared up as the Green Ranger given it was one of the few he knew who had also been attune to darkness before being tuned to Light. once that was done, he'd summon his two deck-boxes onto his morpher belt, and nodded bit before turning to the wall as he brought back that black and blue orb of darkness in hand, forming a second in his opposite hand, and begun spinning them in a clockwise fashion creating a circular line with the black darkness, which quickly formed and etched into the wall, before slowly moving forward a bit and bulging slightly the area of reality, before Roveth reared his fist back and slammed it into the bulge, shattering it, revealing the portal to the Realm of Darkness, specially made so only the three of them could go inside, and nothing could get out, doesn't mean heartless won't be chomping at the bit to get at them the moment they step in "agreed, Riku, let's do this gentlemen." he said with a poise of actual grace despite the fact of how he became a spandex clad fighter.

With the situation with Gilgamesh successfully defused for the moment Crystal would open the path to Olympus Coliseum and they would leave Twilight Town behind them for the time being.

*~Olympus Coliseum~*

When they arrived in the courtyard they would find Zidane engaged in a sparring match with a similarly sized boy whose most distinguishing feature was probably the fact that he had a small pair of angelic wings sticking out from his back. The two didn't seem to notice the arrival of the group from Twilight Town as they went back and forth, with Zidane alternating between wielding twin daggers and combining them into a double-bladed sword while his opponent did the same, although his double-bladed sword was actually a bow and he would occasionally fire arrows of light at Zidane which Zidane rather expertly deflected with his own weapons. The two would appear to be fairly evenly matched and seemed to be very much enjoying themselves.

Cloud and Leon looked more banged up than usual, being covered in bandages after that little visit from Sephiroth. There wasn't any sign of Sephiroth still being in the area so in all likelihood he must have left Olympus Coliseum after having his fun with Cloud. Poor Leon, for all the cuts and bruises he sustained for his good intentions, was really only an afterthought to Sephiroth. They were leaning against the wall, waiting in the shade, while watching Zidane and the mysterious angelic newcomer going at it. Hercules was still busy with his last minute training having lost none of his fervor even in Gilgamesh's absence. And then there was Sora who watched the group arrive from Twilight Town and immediately pounced on Roxas.

"Gah!" Roxas struggled as he was knocked on his back by Sora's boundless enthusiasm and unnecessary hugging. "Sora, get off of me!"

"Sorry, I was just really happy to see you again Roxas!" Sora apologized without removing himself in the slightest. "You know, you haven't been back to Twilight Town as often since you started traveling with Crystal and her friends and I've missed you."

"At least now we don't have to go looking for him," Xion pointed out as she watched Roxas trying to pry Sora off of him.

"Well, I'm not going anywhere for a while," Roxas mentioned as he tried to coerce Sora to stop clinging to him. "We're going to be staying for the Games and until Shiro comes back. Plus, Master Yen-Sid just put Crystal in charge of your training."

Sora blinked in confusion. "Wait, what? You don't mean he's suddenly giving me even more training, do you?"

"No, he isn't, but I am," Crystal smirked mildly at him. "Anyway, what you'll be getting from me is totally different from what you'll be getting from Phil's training methods."

"Yeah, she's going to be training you when you're asleep," Roxas decided to help with explaining it a bit. "Since you still haven't mastered that power of waking thing like you were supposed to."

Sora looked pretty embarrassed about that to say the least as he finally climbed off of Roxas and tried to help him up. "Oh yeah, that. I guess it just doesn't come so easily for me like it did for Riku."

"Well, we're going to get to the bottom of that and get you into shape for what's ahead," Crystal reiterated. "My methods will probably be a bit different than what you're used to so that might make a difference."

Xion glanced over to Cloud and Leon, as well as glancing a bit to Zidane still going at it with the angelic newcomer. "It looks like things have been pretty busy since we left."

Riku and Mickey would follow Roveth into the portal. It was going to be a long journey through the Realm of Darkness not only because they didn't even know where to start start searching for Master Aqua, but also because the Heartless were much more ferocious and aggressive than Riku or Roveth would be used to although Mickey had encountered them like this before. Riku's Dark Shield was probably going to prove invaluable as a defensive measure and Mickey could help with healing whenever they were in a real pinch. Nevertheless, with the Heartless in such a frenzy, it was going to be slow going for a while.

Gilgamesh had a thoughtful look on his face at the mention of Sephiroth, he didn't really know the name well, but he has heard of him at least here in the Coliseum "ah, right.. that silver haired guy who comes in once in a while to trounce random mongrels whenever they get past the usual brackets." he said, shrugging lightly but he did raise an eyebrow at hearing about Sora defeating him, but at the same time the fact that Crystal and the King of Swords lost to him.. that was telling "i wonder if the King of Swords could take him on better now since he has grown quite splendidly..." of course, he didn't have long to wait as while Hades was no where in sight for now, the doors the the coliseum entrance did open once more, revealing two people who had been waited on to return from their trip.

of course said people.. were currently bickering at each other like brothers in spirit "as much as it was funny seeing you out-drink Cid and Jecht once we saved the latter, did you- have- to throw me into a pack of hungry ravenous behemoths?" Auron just adjusted his shades a moment before looking at Shiro with a sarcastic smirk. "you're still alive aren't you? besides, i could have done much worse and sent you into the Monster Arena at the Calm Lands." Shiro paused a moment, and deadpanned "not like you didn't try to get me killed through Ultima or Omega Weapons, but those things were a -joke-." Auron just eyerolled at Shiro behind his shades "how was i to know that you had long since maxed out your Sphere Grid along with training alongside Yuna as a Summoner? i figured they'd be a decent challenge, not for you to just start spam dual-casting Ultima in their faces." Shiro of course waved it off, shrugging "maa, well... either way... despite the fact you used me to save your world twice, and made me take in the Fayth at their behest.. thanks, Auron." Auron just smirked a bit, Shiro would be wearing what looked to be a set of black and blue robes not to similar to an ancient japan swordsman or summat, with intricate designs and arrays on it, not to mention his overly large staff he wielded, but with it, his presence seemed magnified in a more.. charismatic manner, more.. uplifting and upbeat? compared to the cold killer intent his presence usually brought when he actually got -serious- on someone. Shiro's prismatic eyes would gaze out away from Auron towards the others and smiled a good bit "well, seems a missed a good bit, hey guys~!" he said, giving off a wave, while Auron just gave off a smirk, and turned to walk off for now to at least to let them get reacquainted and all.

Axel had turned to see Shiro actually walking towards them after his greeting, and sighed, smirking "welcome back to civilization, Shiro. so how'd it go with Auron?" Shiro raised an eyebrow, before chuckling "it was... an interesting experience, that's for sure." Axel chuckled a bit before nodding as he pulled out the two cylindrical objects from his jacket and tossed them to him, when given a raised eyebrow after he caught both one handed Axel responded "Gift from Roveth, he's kinda indisposed at the moment so he couldn't give them to you directly, nor could he chew your a** out for disappearing like that." Shiro winced, rubbing the back of his neck while setting the objects within his robe sleeves hidden for now "yeah yeah, i know.. i'm sorry, but Auron was.. persistent." he said, while grinning afterwards "though i did play a crazy fun sport though." he said, digging in his other sleeve a moment, to pull out a recording sphere, grinning lightly "think of it as a video recorder and player, in a sense." he said, grinning lightly given he knew Roveth would be -all- over this.


Meanwhile, once the two were through, the portal slammed shut, which was just as well as Roveth tossed his keyblades in the air, starting to use martial arts combat to beat a few Heartless down or toss the larger ones around to crush the smaller ones, , and then whipped out a couple of cards, bringing them up into the air "with this Scale one Stargazer Magician, and this Scale 12 Pendulum Statue Dark Sun... I SET THE PENDULUM SCALE!" he called out, the two cards flashing before dispersing into light particles as two pillars of blue light appeared from the ground, with both monsters rising within, revealing an umber 1 and a number 12 respectively, with a pendulum like pendant swaying in the background "Sway, Pendulum of my Soul! Draw an Arc of Light across the very Aether! Pendulum Summon! come forth, my monster partners!" he called out, each word swaying the pendulum side to side, before it started spinning around creating a circular portal in which five monsters came out, all looking to be Light based warriors: Black Luster Soldier - Sacred Soldier (3000 ATK/2500 DEF), Galaxy Knight (2800/2600), Gilford the Lightning (2800/1400), Luminous Soldier (2100/1400), and Elemental HERO Neos (2500/2000). once they were summoned, all five warriors got ready, and once Roveth caught his keyblades once more, all six people would charge in with a warcry, and unleashing blasts of light, sword slashes, so on, to start decimating the -crap- out of the heartless, leaving a trail of being released hearts in order to allow the trio to make headway in moving about the Realm of Darkness.

Shiro would of course chuckle a bit, idly pressing a couple of buttons on the Recording Sphere, and it would float up out of his hand before letting off a soft light, which began projecting around the area.. well... "this, is Zanarkand, a... well lost city, but i managed to visit it before it was destroyed, one of the sports they had going on there was called Blitzball, think of it like full-body contact soccer while in a giant sphere of magical water." he said, of course, the game playing was the one before the finals, which showed Shiro being touted as the Ace of the Zanarkand Abes along with a boy surprisingly similar in looks to Tidus in fact, but definitely much older than the Destiny Islands inhabitant. "trust me, both in Zanarkand, and around the rest of Spira... Blitzball is probably as popular as the Struggle Tournament in Twilight Town or of course, the Games right here in Olympus." he said, wincing a few times when he saw some of his more... well, less reckless plays not only getting blocked but he kept nearly getting slammed around "keep forgetting they usually targeted me as the greater threat of me and Tidus..." he said, shaking his head "Anyway... yeah, i did have a lot of fun, if not embarrassing moments, and a few rage inducing ones that'd probably anger even you Crystal." he said, scratching his cheek with his free hand "but i did learn a lot, both about my magic, the Drive forms i seem to use, as well as.. something special." he said, grinning "as for the Games..." he would at least use his other sleeve to store his staff away and proceeded to crack his knuckles, grinning a bit cheekily "bring it on, cause i've been wanting to take a crack at a few people here." he said, looking right towards Cloud and Leon especially with that challenging smirk.

Gilgamesh just chuckled a bit, hearing the Bravado of the King of Swords, and just walked over, smirking "oh-ho...! so the King of Swords is actually much more willing to fight?" Shiro had immediately paused, and looked to Gilgamesh "... nothing personal Gil, but if you and i fight, well... we'd have to hold back -a lot-, you know, otherwise i'd have to deploy my reality marble lest we accidentally destroy the coliseum, so let's avoid that shall we?" the King of heroes just gave off a head-shake and smiled a bit "either way, Shiro-san... i have a gift for you as well. consider it a token for beating me fairly like you did." he said, reaching behind himself to grab something from the gate, and proceeded to pull out the key short sword, which had Shiro on Guard for the emergence of Ea, but instead, Gilgamesh did two things, one, reach back into the gate once more to pull out a vial of pinkish red liquid, and after that, he would literally split the key sword in half, and Shiro would watch as the two halves rebuild themselves into two identical keys, only gilgamesh could do it, as he -was- the King, before he tossed the second one and vial to Shiro "that vial right there is a fairly strong youth potion i managed to find in my travels and stored within babylon, a few drops should reverse your age enough to what it would be normally, and given you -technically- don't have a high divinity rating like i do, the youth would actually stick, and make you age normally once you've de-aged." Shiro nodded while Gilgamesh continued "as for the key.. well.. you are worthy, King of Swords.. my treasures, the Gate of Babylon.. rests in your hands." Shiro went wide-eyed hearing that, of course, he just stared at Gilgamesh in shock as the former Servant turned reincarnated human just laughed "don't look so surprised, Faker! you did best me fairly, even if you used your Reality Marble to counter my gate, you still held your own fairly well against Ea, and my other attacks." Shiro of course just blushed at the praise, while shaking his head "it's not that Gilgamesh... i'm just surprised that you actually -would- do something like this, given you hated my mentor with enough passion that i thought you'd make sure to send me to the depths of the underworld." Gilgamesh had tilted his head, pondering it "well, you could say that i've had.. quite a few revelations ever since i started traveling beyond my original world. it has humbled me quite a bit, and seeing you, one of the most hard working fighters i know... struggle so much, and yet never falter or give up... you've earned my respect."

Axel whistled a bit, hearing the conversation ,but he was also curious on this Blitzball game, though he did wince in seeing some of the players sometimes might get tackled hard enough to be knocked into the stands from out of the play area, however Shiro seemed to do quite well underwater "huh, you did do pretty well in that huh? makes me wonder how everyone held their breath for so long though." Shiro looked over to Axel and answered "extreme cardiovascular and breathing exercises to maximize oxygen use for longer periods of time, especially when under exertion, our little... ragtag group during our journeys had at least four people, including myself and Tidus, who could sustain underwater battles against hard as hell enemies to defeat either underwater or on land, and sometimes those battles took an hour or -longer-, so yeah, breathing underwater as my normal self and not like when we're in atlantica has become quite the second nature for me, no thanks to Auron's training of 'throw Shiro into random den of monsters in a harsh environment and tell him to 'survive' whenever he pulled me away from the group." Axel nodded, shuddering a bit "while the sport seems fun if a bit.. brutal, i don't think i could stand being within water for longer than a few seconds if i'm not taking a shower or something." Shiro chuckled at that comment afterwards.