Chapter two: Unwelcome change
Previously on Awakening of OOO these three things happened:
One: John Roberts wakes up in a new land and meets the Shepherds and a strange boy.
Two: The group came across a town being pillaged by bandits and ran to assist.
Three: John gained the power of OOO and helped beat the bandits attacking the town.
Night had fallen and the group had made camp and were now having dinner, John was happily eating a piece of meat on a stick.
"This actually has a pretty nice taste, what was it again?" John asked.
"Bear." Frederick answered in matter of fact tone.
"Huh, remind not to be on the receiving end of your lance." He said sweat dropping and then continued devouring his meal seeing as he hadn't eaten all day.
"It's not natural eating bear; you're wrecking the food chain." Lissa moaned, grimacing as she ate each bite.
"Hahaha, it builds character my lady." Fredrick commented with a chuckle.
"Oh, so why aren't you eating any." She asked glaring at him.
"I er had a large lunch." He replied
"Yeah right, I still think it's not natural, isn't that right Robin?" she asked the tactician, but all she got was chewing sounds as Robin –who hadn't eaten for god knows how long- also devoured his meal. Ignoring him because he hadn't said anything she turned to john. "Hey John can you show us your medals, I want to know more about them, please." She asked with puppy dog eyes.
"Fine." He chuckled at the look on her face – he had a feeling that look was going to cause trouble later in his time with the Shepherds – and reached for the O Medal Holder as the others crowded round him trying to get a look at the medals that gave him the power he had shown earlier that day. Opening up the Holder the rest of the group was able to see what was inside it. Seven sets of three all in different colours, Red, Yellow, Green, Grey, Blue, Purple and Orange, each one with a different engraving on them that looked like animals.
"So pretty." Lissa commented mesmerized by the different coloured medals.
"They're very interesting, you said they give you different abilities, could you tell us what kind of abilities these are." Robin asked.
"Sure." John said as he pulled out the middle grey medal and showed it the others, in the centre there was a gorilla design. "This is the Gorilla medal, what this does is that it gives me large armoured fists which increase my punching power and also allows me to shoot the fists at enemies."
"Wow, oh what about this one." Lissa commented.
John placed the grey medal back in its slot and then picked out the top green medal that Lissa had pointed at and showed it to the others, on this medal a stag beetle was depicted on the centre. "This is the Kuwagata – or stag beetle- medal , this gives me a helmet that allows me to launch lightning attacks at enemies." The rest of the group gasped.
"You can use magic with this medal?" Chrom asked "Can any of the others do this sort of thing?"
"Yeah, this one is the Sachi – killer whale- medal, it allows me to shoot high powered streams of water at my enemy as well as stay under water for three hours." He said after he placed the green medal back and pointed to the top blue medal that showed a killer whale on the front.
"I have a question." Robin spoke up.
"Fire away." John said looking at him.
"I noticed these medals come in sets of three, when you transformed you used three medals of different colour, what I want to know is what happens if you use all the medals of the same colour?" he asked.
"Very good question Robin, now when I mix and match they give me amazing abilities on their own, however when they are used together their power is increased and new abilities are unlocked, take the yellow medals for example." He said pointing to the three in the book. "When I use these together they create the Latorartah combo or scorching combo, now originally the lion medal would give my helmet the power to shine a bright light at people temporarily blinding them, in Latoratah it increases in power allowing me to burn what I look at."
"That's incredible, such power within the palm of your hand." Frederick commented.
"It comes at a price though." he responded drawing their attention. "It's draining physically so it's a double edge sword, I'll only use if I really need it." He explained.
"But where do these medals originate from anyway? They couldn't have just appeared from thin air." Robin asked.
"A story for another night, I'm tired from today so I'm going to sleep, good night guys." He said placing the book in a safe place and laying down on the ground, hearing the others groan in annoyance for having to wait for the rest of the story also when to sleep, the fire crackling providing heat to the sleep group.
Time skip
Chrom woke with a start and got to his feet, Lissa was next to wake up and also rose to her feet.
"What's wrong big brother?" She asked.
"Sorry I woke you up, it's just that I feel that something is amiss" He said looking around the clearing just in case they were being watched. "I'm going to have a look around."
"Not on your own you're not, I'm coming with you." She said as she retrieved her staff. They then set off checking around the area for anything out of the ordinary.
Sometime later
"Hey Chrom isn't a bit too quite." Lissa gripping her staff tightly.
"Yeah, even the birds aren't making any noise; I've got a bad feeling about this." He said as he went to withdraw his sword.
RUMBLE
Suddenly the ground started to shake and cracks started to form in the ground.
"Lissa run." Chrom said turning to her, they ran just in time too as the cracks in the ground widened and larva started to pour forth like blood from a wound. As they created enough distance between them and the larva Chrom looked back and stopped in his tracks, Lissa noticing this turned to see what the matter was and came to a halt herself, up in the sky energy was gathering, when enough had gathered a ring appear with the zodiac symbols on it and in the centre of it a semi-circle formation of crystal. The crystal opened making it look like an eye, Chrom and Lissa noticed two silhouettes fall from the eye and hit the ground.
As they watched the beings rise they saw that they were human, but they saw red eyes once the things where looking at them and the beings growled in challenge at Chrom and Lissa.
"Lissa stand back." Chrom warned as he withdrew his sword, the being growled and groaned, black smoke pouring from its mouth, it then charged towards Chrom, as it drew near Chrom preformed a straight slice through it supposedly killing it instantly. The neck of the enemy cracked as it looked round at Chrom jumped backed to get a better position.
As Chrom tried to deal with his assailant, the second creature advanced on Lissa, who having no means of attack backed away from it, until she hit a rock, she saw the creature continuing its advance and gripped her staff tightly and brought it up in a defensive stance even if she knew it wouldn't do much good.
Meanwhile within the eye a new figure emerged and hit the ground running heading towards Lissa and the undead like creature. As Lissa saw the axe come down she cried out in fear as she closed her eyes.
CLASH
Lissa opened her eyes and saw that someone had stopped the creature from killing her. The person in front her was wearing blue clothing that looked like something a noble would wear, but what drew her attention was the mask that the person wore, a blue mask that expanded out to the sides on her face.
"Help!" The person grunted/called out as they held off the axe that was so close to their neck, Chrom –who had finally dispatched the first creature – ran to attack the other target, his sword cast a blue glow as he advanced on his new target. The creature turned to attack Chrom leaving the mysterious figure room to manoeuvre as he also prepared to strike; together they struck with a swing of the swords, the enemy died by turning into the same fog that came from their mouth earlier.
"An interesting entrance you just made, who are you?" Chrom asked, silence was his only response until there was more growling but as they turned to engage their new target they were surprised at the look of it. It was humanoid in appearance, two arms and legs donned in brown armour that looked organic with a light brown chest with a red stone in the centre on it hand it had hook/claws coming out over the top of the knuckles the shoulder pads had a spike each poking out from the top coming up half way on the beings head. The head looked like a person wearing a helmet, however the face was orange/red. The 'helmet' was also the brown of the rest of the 'armour' and a beetle's horn sticking out from it; this is the Kabuto (Rhinoceros beetle) Yummy.
"Another one?" Lissa asked as she looked at the being before them.
"Most likely, could be a commander, looks important enough." Chrom answer preparing to strike.
"No." The stranger spoke. "You must run, now!" The stranger charged the Yummy stopping it from attacking the others by keeping them in deadlock; looking back to them he urged them to run again.
"No. We will stop them here." Chrom said as he circled round to get better shot at the creature.
"Just go." However because of the distraction the Kabuto Yummy was able to press the advantage and knocked the masked warrior to the ground and charged for Chrom who prepared to defend himself.
However the Yummy was suddenly thrown from it feet and sent flying into a tree snapping it in half and crashed on to the ground. Chrom stood surprised looking to the downed opponent.
"You guys alright?" Chrom looked to the source of the voice and saw OOO standing there but his legs were different, instead of the green Batta legs this time it had yellow plating with black spots on the side, these are the cheetah legs. "Glad I made it here quickly."
"How did you get here so quickly?" Chrom asked lowering his sword but keeping it in his hand ready in case of the new monster's return.
"Cheetah medal, gives me super speed, it's quite a rush." He looked to the area the yummy had landed as he heard movement. "The better question is how's that's here?"
"You sound like you know what that thing is." Chrom said, all the while Lissa and the stranger listened to the two of them talk.
"Damn right and its nothing but bad news, but it'll have to do, get back to Fredrick I'll deal with the yummy." Chrom looked ready to argue but OOO cut him off "there's no time to explain, I'm not if your magic or sword will work on it, only I stand a chance, now go!"
"Don't you dare die on me." Chrom finally told him sternally.
A hearty chuckle came from OOO before he responded. "Wouldn't dream of it, now go." Chrom and the gang left as OOO got ready to fight the Kabuto Yummy that had now risen to its full height after being knocked into the tree.
"Right, let's take you down."
Growling in response the yummy charged OOO, who swiftly rolled to the side coming up into a crouch. With the tiger sounding in his ears the Tora claws activated, Leaping at the yummy OOO swiped the claws across the beetle type causing spark to fly and the yummy to stumble back a bit. Seemingly uncaring at the scratch it acquired the Kabuto yummy charge to fast for OOO to dodge punching him square in the chest knocking him to the floor, not one to let up the yummy picked up the down rider and with great strength threw him at a nearby tree.
John cried out in pain as he crashed against the tree. 'That freaking hurt, I need a heavy hitter for this.' Slowly rising to his feet he pulled out a new medal this one was grey with a gorilla on it, removing the Tora medal and placing it into the slot. Pulling out the O Scanner he swipe the coins.
TAKA
GORILLA
CHEETAH
The medal span around OOO before three medals came to a stop in front of him and slammed into form the new arms. Gone were the yellow arms and claws of the Tora medal now it was replaced with large fists that where mostly grey with large shoulder pad that look bulky but at the same time easy to move in that were of the same colour, both shoulder pads and fists had black lines highlighting the new arm weapons.
"OOO" The Yummy growled threateningly as is look at its opponent.
No response was given as OOO rush the Kabuto Yummy punching it in the chest, the monster was hurled from its feet at the blow that was considerable more powerful than a strike from the Tora claws. OOO gave no quarter, quickly channelling the cheetah medal's power he closed the distance to his target in a second who had barely got up before have a large grey fist slammed into him at top stop, increasing the power of the punch in the process. Needless to the yummy was hurt from the blow…. A lot.
OOO pulled the O scanner from his belt and proceeded to scan the medals in the driver the medals chiming as they were scanned.
SCANNING CHARGE
Red, grey and yellow energy fuelled OOO as he prepared to strike; the yummy was still sprawled out on the floor from the previous blow and so was defenceless against the coming attack. Three rings, one red, one grey and one yellow formed in front of OOO as the cheetah legs glowed with power OOO charge through the rings gather energy as he went before jumping up high and delivering a mighty punch with both fists down on the Kabuto Yummy. The monster sparked as John moved away from it knowing what was about to happen. The Yummy finally exploded spectacularly as gunmetal grey coins rained down in the small clearing.
"Well done." OOO swiftly turned to the source of the noise. Standing next to one of the trees stood the masked person from earlier. "Watching OOO in combat never ceases to amaze." The person continued to speak as they walked toward the 'remains' of the yummy and bent down to pick up one of the medals. "Such power from something so small."
"You know speaking like that is going to lead me to think your next on my hit list." OOO responded as he raises one of the fists towards the stranger.
"You always were eager for a fight." The stranger muttered before responding to OOO. "I am not your enemy, that I can promise you." Picking up more of the cell medals as they spoke.
"Then you better start talking because I'm about to retrieve those medals by force if necessary." Dropping into a combat stance ready to throw the first punch.
However the strange pulled a bag out and emptied the grey medals into the bag and then walked over to OOO and handed to him, well handed it to him after he de-henshined upon realising what the person was trying to do.
"All the cell medal from this fight, you will make better use of them than I ever will."
"Who are you. You aren't Greeed that's for sure, but you know things cause I've told no one what those are so… "
"I can't tell you that." The stranger replied as though they were trying to be careful with their words.
"Oh no you tell me what the hell's going on, and I think you can start with that sword you have their because that is a rather unique sword, and remove the mask, I always find it easier to talk to a person face to face." John said forcefully take a slight step forward ready to make a move if necessary.
Under the mask the strangers eyes widened. "I'm sorry but I must keep the mask on, however my name is Marth." The now identified Math responded.
"Ok Marth what's with all this?" He responded, gesturing to the surroundings.
"A great evil, that is what all this is. It is my mission to help destroy this evil."
"Okay hold up. Then what's with the whole masked warrior get up it makes no sense…." A confused look crossed his face "Wait a minute I'm doing the same." He said more to himself than to Marth but was heard none the less. "Rephrase that, what's with the mysterious warrior get up?"
"Unfortunately we are out of time, I must hurry or everything thing I've risked will be for nothing. But I will tell you this check the ruins nearby, it may be worth your time." With those cryptic words said Marth turned and ran in to the trees quickly disappearing from sight.
"Okaaaay, that was weird." John said aloud as he withdrew three Core Medals and slotted them in to the driver and proceeded to scan them.
TAKA
TORA
CHEETAH
Clad in the armour he took off in the direction Chrom and Lissa had ran off in when he took over the battle with the Yummy.
It didn't take him long to catch up but when he did he saw that a battle was in full swing. More of the undead like creatures were attacking Chrom and company their moans and grunts echoing across the battlefield. To civilians and maybe even soldiers fresh out of training it could be unnerving or maybe even scary but the shepherds were fighting back hard. Frederick was untouchable upon his horse. Traveling towards his numerous foes at such speed that the 'zombies' couldn't react in time and was met with a lance to the head before being disregarded for the knight's next target.
Meanwhile Chrom was fighting a group himself with Lissa nearby. Decapitating the heads off of one enemy before blocking an incoming strike from another, He proceeded to push another back then cutting it across the chest. Meanwhile Lissa would provide support by healing Chrom if a lucky strike every got through.
But what caught OOOs attention was the two new humans on the field. Using the Taka head he was able see that one was a knight like Frederick but with less ornate looking armour also the rider was a female with short red hair who was charging into the fray cutting down her enemies further showing OOO why cavalry was such a scary thing to have against you -against an ordinary enemy anyway, but this was anything but normal – her flanks seemed to be covered because whenever the 'zombies' would attack from the sides they would receive an arrow to the head, though some seem to resist the arrow but were very quickly dispatched by another. Looking to the source he found a man with blue hair that came to his shoulders, his left arm was lightly armoured but the rest of his clothes looked rather fancy.
'A noble or something perhaps?' OOO thought to himself as he noticed something of interest towards the centre of the battlefield. A tower perhaps, but whatever it was, now it was nothing but rubble, a ruin of what it once was.
'Wait, ruin's?" OOO thought to himself for a few seconds thinking about what Marth had said. Chances were it could be a trap – a pointless one seeing as she could have killed him after he had removed his armour while they talked but a trap none the less – but decided to check it out. The Cheetah sounding in his ear he felt power flood his legs, and began to run to the ruins, taking only a few seconds to get to the ruins he walked in through the crumbled door way and looked around. Rubble was everywhere but something was sticking out of a pile of rubble in the corner of the 'room' that caught the light drawing OOOs attention to it. Walking up to it OOO grabbed hold of what looked like a sword and pulled in out from the rumble. To anyone else it was a sword, a rather funny looking sword to be honest, but to OOO it was a very unique sword. The sword was primarily black with a silver blade a blue line on the blade edge as well as two blue linew going from the base of the sword to the top of it, towards middle of the blade was a rectangular section that you could see the inside of the sword from . At the hilt was a black 'box' that had a slit in it that looked as though you could put coins in and a lever that went over it. This is the sword that OOO uses in battle the Medajlibur.
OOO stared at it for a few moments. 'How is this here, it makes no sense' one side of him thought while another part of his mind decided to give a bit of a test drive. Quickly exiting the ruins he looked around the battleground and spotted that Chrom was still dealing with a large group of enemies with the others preoccupied with the last of the enemy forces. However he also noticed that a 'zombie' was making its way towards Lissa, while they were slow they seemed to pack stronger swings with their attacks from what he observed earlier. Lissa was no fighter and would surely be killed seeing as Chrom was too busy with the rest of his opponents.
Running towards the fight without the need for Cheetah he jumped into the fight slashing the 'zombie' across the chest throwing it off balance before being finished off by another strike from OOO directly into the chest of the creature reducing it to dust as it growled. Turning to Lissa he saw that she was ready to attack the enemy that had been shambling towards her.
"You okay?" OOO asked upon turning around.
"I'm not as delicate as you think I am you know." She huffed out. OOO chuckled at the response. "But thank for the save all the same." She finished. Looking at OOO she noticed the strange sword in his hand. "What's that sword it looks weird?"
"Medajalibur." At her confused look he elaborated. "It's my sword and it can do something very interesting watch this." He said as replaced the Cheetah medal with the Batta and then scanned them.
TAKA
TAORA
BATTA
TA-TO-BA! TATOBA, TA-TO-BA!
OOO began to walk towards the rest of the 'zombies' as Chrom noticed that OOO had returned, OOO came to a stop right next to Chrom after another one of his opponents was killed leaving three left nearby, perfect for John's test drive of his new weapon.
"Hey Chrom, mind if I take these three I wanna show you something." Chrom with a look of intrigue just nodded and moved back to where Lissa was standing. OOO on the other hand took out three of the cell medals that he had just acquired and slotted them in the coin slot on the sword before pushing the lever, the three medals appearing in the window on the sword. Removing the O-scanner from its holding he ran it over the sword with each medal scanned a chime played climbing in pitch with each medal scanned.
TRIPLE SCANNING CHARGE!
With that declaration OOO swung the sword while energy radiated off it. Suddenly a diagonal line appeared across the 'zombies' and some of the trees and rocks in the background. To the disbelief of the observers everything above the lines slides to the side including the terrain. However to their relief the terrain slid back into position while the creature tumbled to the floor before becoming dust.
Turning around and the armour disappearing once more John walked over to Chrom and Lissa it seemed the battle was coming to a close seeing as the other were cleaning up the rest with one being burned to 'death' via Robin's magic judging from the flames.
"You bring more surprises to the table with each passing day John."
John chuckled before responding. "I've got a few more just you wait and see."
"I don't doubt it. Now that this battle is pretty much over we can continue on to the Capital. Let's find the others and head on our way." With a nod from John and Lissa they headed off to find their comrades.
At long last I've finished this, after months of writer block and stuff happening IRL I've been very busy and haven't had much time for my stories. Writing the scene with John and Marth was difficult seeing as I was trying not to reveal too much seeing as I know what I want to do with certain things later on in the story but trying to make sure that John didn't really take things at face value (most of the times). Still I've now done a harder part of the story should be easier from here. So anyway hope you enjoyed it. Remember to leave a comment on the couple if you want a specific pair of course certain people are already set in stone such as Chrom and Sumia, Robin and Tharja as well as John and Maribelle. See you next time. Spartan234