Takeo shifted around and groaned. He put his hand on his head, and sat up. "Where... where am I?" asked Takeo as he looked around a very empty room.
The last thing that he remembered was fighting that man in the black coat, and then collapsing after seeing his face. Who was that man, and why did Takeo feel such horrible pain once he was near him? Furthermore, how was he holding the same Keyblade that Takeo had? Nothing that just happened was making any sense, and it was hurting Takeo's head just thinking about it.
After about ten minutes of just sitting up, Takeo decided that he would stand up and try and figure out where he was, and what was going on. He hopped off of the stone bed that he was laying on, and looked around the room. It was empty, and it felt as though there was no kind of life anywhere.
It was freezing too. "Wasn't this place a desert? I thought those would be really hot!" Takeo thought to himself, as he rubbed his arms. He walked towards a door, but stopped once he got to it. Something was strange about it. He couldn't see anything through it other than just darkness. Was he dreaming? Or was this real, and he was too late to save this world? Takeo looked down at the floor, and saw that there were black tendrils slowly crawling towards him. He stepped back while letting out a gasp, but the tendrils quickly caught up to him, and grabbed him around the ankles.
The black tendrils hoisted Takeo up into the air, and held him in the corner of the room. Suddenly, a dark portal opened up in the center of the room, and a man stepped out of it. It was the same man that Takeo saw earlier in the arena! What was he doing back here?
The man looked up, his hood masking his identity. Takeo let out a worried groan, as he tried to struggle free of the tendrils that were holding him in place. The man suddenly shot up towards Takeo, and hovered just in front of his face. He pulled down his hood slowly to reveal the same haunting face that Takeo saw in the arena, red eyes, cracks in his pale face with a black smoke slowly coming out of them. What did this man want with Takeo?
"Well, who do we have here? Another hopeful Keyblade wielder? Perhaps. But something is special about you... What is it?" asked the man, as he eyed Takeo up and down. "Ah, that's right. You are Takeo. The boy who just recently discovered that he could summon the all-powerful Keyblade, correct?"
Takeo squirmed, trying to get free of the tendrils holding him in place, "What do you want with me?"
"Oh, I don't think it's so much of what I want with you, I think it's more of what you want with me!" said the man, letting out an evil sounding laugh. Takeo was confused for a moment, but quickly began to put the pieces together.
This man, the same one who could use the same Keyblade as Takeo, who seemingly knew everything about him, and somehow knew what his goal was. Takeo looked at the man's face and spoke the truth, "You... You're the other half of my heart!"
The man began to laugh again, and the tendrils began to disappear slowly. "In time, Takeo, all of this will begin to make sense to you. But you have so much farther to go. Don't take too long!" said the man as he faded away, the black tendrils disappearing with him. When Takeo dropped to the floor, it was as if he woke up again, and had never even gotten out of the makeshift stone bed!
But this time when he awoke, there were actually people in the room with him! There was the short red man from before, who was talking to a taller woman dressed in a long pink dress. Takeo decided to speak up, "H-hello?" The two turned around quickly, and with a gasp.
"Kid, you really scared us out there, you know that?" said the short red man as he waddled over.
"Oh... I'm sorry, I didn't mean to frighten you!" said Takeo, looking to the floor, then back at the red man. The woman let out a short laugh.
"Don't let Phil here bother you. He's just upset that the games have to be cancelled now. People jumping in from the crowd then passing out in the middle of the arena just doesn't resonate well with them, ya know?" explained the woman.
"Right..." Takeo said as he looked back down at the floor. "Well, can either of you please tell me where I am?" The short red man, who Takeo now knew as Phil, spoke up again.
"Are you serious? You're in Olympus Coliseum! The place that hosts The Games every single year! Hero's come from all around to see if they have what it takes to make it to the finals and face Hercules!" explained Phil, wildly gesturing and flexing during his speech.
Suddenly, another person walked into the room. It was a girl. "Well? Is he awake now?" she asked as she walked into the room. She had long, wavy brown hair, and big blue eyes, with a tattoo going over her left eye. She had on a light green shirt, with a dark green travelling cape draped over her back and her shoulders.
"Hey, you're the girl from the arena, the one who tried to fight the man in the black coat!" said Takeo, pointing his finger at the girl.
The girl let out a slight laugh, and then spoke, "That's right. I was worried about you, and wanted to see if you recovered all right or not." she said as she walked over to the stone bed that Takeo was sitting on.
"Oh. Well, I'm fine. No need to worry." said Takeo, brushing off any dust that might be on his shirt after laying on the rock for so long.
"Say, what happened out there anyways? We've never seen someone drop so quick like that before." asked the woman in the long pink dress.
"I'm... not sure. Although, I do have an idea." Takeo said, as he put his hand over his heart. He looked back up at the three who were surrounding his stone bed. "Who are you guys, anyways?"
The woman in the long pink dress went first, "My name is Megara, but most people just call me Meg. This one with the temper is Phil, he is the host of the games." said Meg.
"And my name is Emileigh Skye Hiroa! Although, you can just call me Emileigh!" said the girl with a smile on her face. Takeo eyed all three of them.
"Right... Well, if you guys don't mind, I think I'll be going now." Takeo said. As he stood up, it felt like his legs were made of water, and he almost collapsed, but Emileigh caught him.
"Are you sure that you're okay to walk on your own? You still don't seem like you're at one-hundred percent." said Emileigh, looking at Takeo with a worried look.
"I'm fine. It's just... Weird walking again, is all. I feel like I've been out for days." said Takeo.
"That's because you have been out for days! We thought you weren't gonna make it kid!" said Phil, jumping up and down. Meg looked over at Phil with an irritated look on her face, and he stopped almost immediately.
"Anyways, I'll be off now. Thanks you guys, for helping me and taking care of me while I was out." said Takeo. He limped over to the exit door, but was stopped by one of the three that had helped him.
"Wait, I'm coming with you!" said Emileigh, putting her hand on Takeo's shoulder and pulling him back.
"What? Why would you want to come with me?" he said, truly curious. She did see what happened to him in the arena, after all. The man in the black coat obviously knew Takeo, which meant there was bound to be danger wherever he went.
"Well, I'm looking for someone too. I figured it wouldn't be as bad travelling with someone else. Travelling alone gets really boring and lonely." said Emileigh with a smile on her face.
"You know that man in the black coat is who I'm looking for, right? That means that wherever I go, there is bound to be a good amount of danger." said Takeo, looking out the door and up to the sky. Emileigh let out a small laugh.
"That's okay! Where there is danger, there is usually adventure! I'm always looking for more adventures!" Emileigh said, as she walked up to Takeo's side.
"Well, alright then. It'll be nice to have some help out there. You seem like you've been around a few other worlds at least, and that'll help me since I don't really know anything about any other worlds other than my own." said Takeo.
"I've only been to a couple of other worlds, but I'll try my best to try and help you!" said Emileigh. She looked down at the floor, then back up to Takeo, "Hey, you said that you were looking for the man in the black coat. What for?"
Takeo slowly put his hand on his chest, and covered his heart, or at least the half that he had, "He has something that belongs to me."
Emileigh nodded, and the two headed for Takeo's Gummi Ship, which was landed just outside the walls of Olympus Coliseum. Once in, Takeo started up the engine, and lifted the Gummi Ship into the air.
Emileigh looked over to Takeo, "So, where are we heading first?"
Takeo looked down at the floor, then back to the navigation screen, where a red blinking light had appeared. Takeo looked at it for a minute, then got an idea. "Hm. We'll have to see where this leads us."
Takeo fiddled with the controls, and put in the coordinates for the world that had appeared on the screen. He wasn't sure what exactly this world was going to have in store for him, but he hoped for the best. He pressed the launch button, and the two set off for another world.