Chapter 1: Abduction
"Have you finished preparing the portals?" a rough male voice asked.
"Yes, Master. Preparations are complete, shall I begin?" replied a gentle female voice.
"Proceed; I want those candidates here now. How many realms are we taking from again?"
"Seven, Master."
"Good, now follow that list exactly. If not, we might accidentally kill a few of them."
"Yes, Master. I shall start the abductions now."
"I wouldn't call them abductions, more like borrowing." The man laughed coldly and then left the girl to do her work.
As the man left, the girl began to draw seven circles on the ground with chalk. Each circle had a name in it. She then connected the circles with white chalk lines to a giant gold prism in the middle of the room. She slowly placed her hands on the prism and closed her eyes. "Hock nel Savaheli tila molki chi Earthland." She chanted several times and the circle with Earthland written in it began to glow, and the chalk lines connecting it to the prism began to fade.
FairyTail
Four miles from Magnolia, the home of mage guild FairyTail, five figures were walking down the main road. Three of them were human, two teens and a child. Beside them were two walking cats, known as Exceeds. The five of them are all members of FairyTail, who were just coming back from a job.
"Thank you so much Natsu, Erza, and Happy. I don't think I could've finished that job on my own." Wendy said softly, looking up at the two older mages happily.
"No problem! It was an easy job." Natsu replied, putting his arms behind his head as he stretched. "Happy, got any fish left? I'm hungry."
"Aye!" the little blue exceed said, getting a fish out of his backpack and handing it to the dragon slayer.
Erza smiled as she watched Natsu gobble down the fish and ask for another one. Then she looked at Wendy. "You're welcome Wendy, if you need help again just ask."
The blue haired mage nodded, and then Carla sighed and looked up at Erza and Natsu. "She can handle jobs by herself, so I expect this is the last time she receives help from you two."
"You forgot me, I helped too!" Happy whined, walking over to Carla, who just looked away in disgust.
"The only thing you did was eat fish and goof off!" the white exceed retorted, refusing to look at him.
Happy frowned and looked at the ground sadly. "Carla, stop being mean to Happy!" Wendy scolded her. "And I know I could do a job by myself, but I wanted Natsu and Erza to come with me in case I messed up."
Carla just sighed again and didn't respond. They then decided to keep walking to Magnolia. After about twenty minutes, they were now three miles from their guild. Then Natsu spotted something on the dirt road a few feet ahead.
"What's that?" Natsu asked, walking over to the object and picking it up.
The rest of the group gathered around him to look. It was a small blue rock that had the word "Erogos" carved into the side.
"Erogos, what does that mean?" Erza questioned as she took the rock from Natsu. As she held onto it, the rock began to glow brightly, and soon the rock was brighter than the sun, blinding the five guild members.
"What's happening?" Wendy shouted as visibility was gone from the brightness of the rock, the air around them seeming to distort as well.
"I don't know, I can't sense any magic from it!" Carla yelled back, their voices seeming to drone out as a loud buzzing sound emitted from the rock.
"Whoa, I'm floating!" Natsu exclaimed as the ground below them disappeared and they were now floating in the air, the rock getting brighter and brighter.
Then before they even realized it, everything went dark. After what seemed to be hours, the five FairyTail members found themselves lying on a dusty ground with clusters of dead grass and other plant life. The sky was a dark grey, looking like it was about to rain any moment. Natsu was the first to get up, looking around, and taking in the sight of the new landscape. "Where are we?"
Erza and Wendy slowly got up after him, the two exceeds laying unconscious a few yards away on top of a hill. "Carla! Happy!" Wendy screeched and started to run up the hill towards them, tripping a few times.
"I don't know Natsu, look at this place. It's all dead grass and dirt." Erza said softly, examining the sight before them.
Natsu nodded and then turned around and his eyes widened a little. "Erza, look." He said, pointing to a sign on top of the hill, several feet from the exceeds.
"A sign?" Erza said curiously, walking up the hill after Wendy, followed by Natsu.
Wendy was trying to wake up the two exceeds as the mages reached her, looking at the sign. The sign was made of rotten wood, and had scratched in words on it. Natsu then walked up to it and began reading it, looking back at Erza when he finished. "Erza, what did the rock have on it?"
"Erogos, why do you ask?" She replied, holding up the rock, which was now severely cracked.
"The sign says Erogos, Population 26, Town number 212." He said, pointing to the beat up piece of wood.
Wendy and Erza quickly looked at the sign for themselves, gasping as they read exactly what Natsu just said. "What does this mean?" Wendy asked, nervous and scared.
"I think it's the name of that place over there." Erza said, pointing at a cluster of small wooden buildings a few miles away behind the sign. A dirt path lined with small wooden posts leading the way at the bottom of the other side of the hill.
Natsu started to walk down the hill towards the beginning of the path, looking back at Wendy quickly. "Get Carla and Happy, we're going to that town."
"Natsu, we don't know if we should. I mean, where are we? I've never seen a place like this at home." Wendy replied, shaking nervously.
Erza then rested her left hand on Wendy's shoulder and smiled. "The only way we're going to find out is if we go to that town and ask. I'll take Happy, ok." She said softly, picking up the blue exceed and walking after Natsu, followed by Wendy who was carrying Carla.
One Piece
"Luffy!" Nami yelled from the small campsite the Straw Hat Pirates made on this uncharted island in the Grandline. "Where the hell are you?"
Luffy, the captain of the Straw Hats' jumped down from a tree smiling. "I'm over here, what do you want?"
"What do I want? I want you stupid head you rubber freak!" she yelled loudly, holding up a ripped sheet of paper with drawings on it. "Look at what you did to my map!"
The rubber man walked over and looked at the torn map. "What did I do?" he asked cluelessly.
Nami screamed and bashed him on the head. "You ripped a piece of my map off while you and Zoro were fighting each other!"
"I'm very sorry." Luffy apologized, crossing his legs and sitting, bowing his head which had a large bump on it where Nami hit him.
"Sorry is not enough, especially since it came from you!" She shouted and then sighed. "We need more food to stock our ship. Take that lazy swordsman with you and go get some fruit or something."
"Ok, sounds easy!" Luffy laughed and got up, running into the forest on the island.
"You forgot Zoro!" Nami called out to him as he disappeared. Then suddenly his hand came flying out of the forest and hooked onto the sleeping Zoro's shirt.
"Heh?" Zoro grunted as he was woken up from the feel of a hand on the back of his shirt. "Oh crap, Luffy! Don't you dare aaahhhhhh!" he tried to finish saying his sentence, but screamed as he was pulled into the forest, getting smashed against a few trees and landing face first on the dirt floor in front of Luffy.
"Haha, I almost forgot you Zoro." Luffy laughed, standing over Zoro smiling.
"I'm going to kill you Luffy, why did you just do that?" Zoro asked angrily as he slowly got up, brushing the dirt from his shirt.
"We got Nami mad and now we have to get food for the ship."
Zoro sighed and then looked around. "Fine, where should we start?"
"This way." Luffy said, heading towards the other side of the island, with Zoro following him. About an hour later, they reached the beach on the other side of the island.
"Luffy, are you sure this is where the food is, I don't see any." Zoro asked, looking through a couple of bushes.
"Nope," Luffy laughed, and then jumped in excitement. "Ooohh, what's that?" He shouted and ran towards a stone wall covered in vines near a large boulder."
"Why did I follow you?" Zoro sighed, walking after his captain and looking at the wall. "Looks like some old ruins."
"Whoa, there's writing on this stone! What does it say Zoro?" Luffy asked excitedly, pointing at a loose stone brick in the center of the wall.
Kneeling down, Zoro examined the brick. "It looks like it says Erogos. What's that?"
"I don't know, let's pull it out!" Luffy said and started to tug the brick out of the wall.
"Wait, Luffy!" Zoro yelled, but it was too late. The brick slipped out of the hole, and a blinding white light shot out of the spot the brick was.
"Whoa!" Luffy shouted as he and Zoro were blinded. A few minutes later, the two pirates were engulfed in darkness, seeming to float in space. Then Luffy found himself lying on a dirty wooden floor, looking up at a ceiling that was covered with cobwebs. Getting up, he looked around, seeing barrels and crates in the small room. He then saw Zoro lying down in a pile of dead grass in the corner of the room. "Where are we?"
"I have no idea, whatever that light was, it seemed to bring us to this place." Zoro said, getting up and picking pieces of grass from his hair.
"Weird place, oh there's a door!" Luffy yelled and ran over to the door, pulling and pushing on it. "It's locked."
Rusty Hearts
"Ugh, Frantz why did Nadia send us back into the canals?" Angela asked the dark haired man next to her as she walked through the underground tunnels of the canals, holding Graestra, the demon sword over her shoulder.
"Apparently there have been sightings of unknown monsters in these canals, and we have to check it out. So keep your eyes open." Frantz replied, holding his long sword in his left hand.
"Another monster sighting? We've been getting way too many of those lately. We should have Tude or Natasha do this job instead." The spiky red haired mage complained, walking slowly through the canals.
"The others are all on tasks like you and me, and it's quicker to complete them all if we're in small teams like this." The half human, half vampire said.
Angela sighed and continued walking. Thirty minutes later they reached the end of the canals. "We're done, and guess what, nothing again!"
Frantz nodded. "Yea, fifth sighting in a row that was false." He said softly and turned around to head back, stopping as he saw someone. "Angela, who is that?" he whispered to her, looking at the girl that was standing the way they came from. She was looking back at them with big blue eyes, and she had long blonde hair that fell down loosely to her waist. She was wearing a light blue dress, and had a pendant of the sun around her neck. She looked to be 16 or 17 years old.
"I don't know, hey little girl, what are you doing here?" Angela called out to her.
She just stood there and stared at them, and then softly spoke. "I am Sola, and you're going to Erogos."
"Erogos, where is that?" Frantz asked, getting ready to draw his sword. "And why are you here?"
"Erogos portal activated." She said quietly, and then a giant ball of light engulfed the canals.
"Frantz, what's happening?" Angela shouted, covering her eyes from the light.
"I have no clue, but get ready, something else is about to happen!" he yelled, squinting against the light, trying to see what the girl was doing. Then darkness fell and the ground gave way underneath them. Soon they were lying unconscious in a field of dead crops and grass, a dark grey sky looming overhead.
School Rumble
Friday evening, Harima Kenji was walking home from school, cursing himself. "Dammit, why can't I do it!" he yelled out, punching a nearby wall. "Why can't I confess to Tenma? Is it because I actually don't like her anymore? Nonsense, what am I talking about?"
He sighed and continued walking, holding his head. "Man, I wish I could start all over again or at least get a new change of scenery." As if on cue, he stepped on a manhole with the words Erogos written on it. As soon as his foot made contact, bright light shot out and the ground disappeared. "What the hell is this?" Harima yelled as he was blinded, even though his dark sunglasses. A minute later, he suddenly appeared three or four feet above a small pond, surrounded by dried up grass and dirt. "Oh crap!" He shouted as he fell into the pond, which was full of mud and murky water. After a few minutes, he eventually climbed out of the pond, soaking from head to toe and covered in mud. "Great, not only am I soaking wet, but I have no freaking idea, where the hell I am!"
He sighed and looked around, hearing some faint voices coming from a small wooden shed facing the pond. Deciding to check it out, he walked over to the shed and went to go grab the handle, stopping as he heard a man's voice shout loudly. "Gum Gum Pistol!" Suddenly a fist came smashing through the door and nailed Harima in the face, sending him flying back into the pond face first.
Luffy then burst through the door laughing. "Freedom!"
Zoro followed him out and looked around. "Where are we, and did you hear something when you broke the door?"
Luffy shook his head. "Nope, oh what's that?" he shouted and pointed to a pair of legs sticking out of a nearby pond.
"Quick, get that guy out of there!" Zoro shouted at Luffy.
Luffy nodded and stretched his arms and pulled the man out of the mud. "Who is this guy?"
Harima coughed up some water and looked up at the two strangers. "What the hell was that for?"
"Huh?" Luffy tilted his head, confused.
"You punched me in the face! I was trying to help you get out of there also! Some thanks." Harima said angrily.
"Hey we didn't know, it's just that this idiot acts before he thinks." The green haired guy said, pointing at the guy with the straw hat.
"Haha yea, sorry," Luffy laughed, and then suddenly looked at Zoro. "Hey I am not an idiot!"
"Never mind that, who are you?" Zoro asked the man with the sunglasses.
"Well at least it wasn't on purpose or I'd kick your sorry butt all the way to hell, but still, that punch hurt, it sent me flying!" he shouted, rubbing his cheek where Luffy hit him. "Oh, I'm Harima."
"I'm Monkey D. Luffy, and this is Roronoa Zoro. We just got here, you live in this place?" Luffy asked.
"No, I was brought here by this weird light." Harima replied, taking off his sunglasses and cleaning them with his shirt.
"So were we." Zoro said, looking around at the barren landscape. "So I guess this is Erogos."
"Yea, let's see if we can get some answers from the town over there." Harima suggested, pointing to a cluster of small buildings not that far from the shed.
Luffy and Zoro nodded. "Yeah, Adventure!" Luffy yelled and ran towards the town.
"Damn that idiot, come on Harima, we can't lose track of him, and especially in a place we don't know!" Zoro said and chased after Luffy, Harima right behind him.
End of Chapter 1
Chapter 2: Wave One
Will be up soon.