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Plot: The story splits after this. One chapters deals with Bus Alpha, one chapter with Bus Beta, one chapter with hometown. I may decide to split it into three seperate story arcs.
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CHAPTER 05: CHASER AND CHASED Part 2A
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The Spider Wars
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In the ruins of a large city covered in cables and webs of spider silk, two armies clash.
One of the most popular outfits for Halloween was Spiderman and they didn't all become the same person, as the result a race of spider-powered humanoids were born. The Spider men (and spider women) were crippled by psychological problems that plagued Peter Parker and the others with Spider Powers. They were forced to hide away and support each other, becoming what would be communities.
They were joined by similar creatures and other spider-related characters, but problems arose. The reluctant heroes rose to the fight the evil that had been hiding amongst them. Now, the two armies faces each other, everyone dressed either in crimson, blue, white, black, or a mix.
The good are lead by the 616 Council. They are people who were transformed into the most canon versions of Marvel comics' characters.
The Leader of the council is Peter Parker, the original Spiderman, husband of Mary Jane Watson. He stands five foot ten with hazel eyes and brown hair and is dressed in the classic red web pattern and blue outfit. He stands like a symbol for the others. He was the one who bite by a radioactive spider and gained it's powers.
The second is Scarlet Spider. He was created from Peter Parker's DNA by the insane geneticist Jackal, who was obsessed with Peter's late girl friend Gwen Stacy. Ben Reilly was made to fight him but he was seemingly killed during the battle, but he later returned years later. The last thing Ben remembers is his death at the hands of Green Goblin. He stands with his brother dressed in his red costume with a sleeve-less blue top marked with the spider.
The third is Spider-Woman, a woman named Jessica Miriam Drew. Jessica's father Jonathan was geneticist who was funded by uranium deposits on his land. He later injected Jessica with a untested spider serum to save her from radiation poisoning. This serum, combined with years in a genetic accelerator gave her superhuman physical abilities, immunity to toxins, poisons, drugs, and radiation, wall-crawling, and bio-electricity manipulation she refers to as Venom Blasts. She can also fly, which separates her from the others.
She stands five foot ten with green eyes and long black hair dyed red. She's currently in a red costume with yellow front, boots, gloves, and webbing under the arms.
The fourth is Arachne, a woman named Julia Cornwall Carpenter. A secretive government group called The Commission decided to create their own superhero. She was injected with a mix of spider venom and exotic plant extracts in a government experiment,which gave Julia powers very similar to those of Spider-Man, except her spider powers are psionic (psychic) in nature
She stands five foot nine with blue eyes and strawberry blonde hair. She wears a black costume with a white spider on the front and white patches on forearms, forelegs, and shoulders.
The fifth and final council member Toxin, a man named Patrick Mulligan. He was a New York Cop who gained his powers from bonding with a alien symbiote, the grandson of Venom, a symbiote who bonded with Peter Parker earlier in his career. The symbiote granted Patrick all of Spiderman's powers plus the symbiote ability to alter his appearance and generate solid weapons.
He's the most menacing form. He stands six foot two, two hundred fifteen pounds with blue eyes and brown hair in civilian form, but as Toxin his body is covered in a living costume, black below the waist with red veins, red above the waist. His fingers are long sharp black claws and his mask has a mouth filled with sharp fangs.
Others that stand with them are symbiote Hybrid (Scott Washington), a magical Spider-Woman (Mattie Franklin), Peter's daughter from an alternate future May "Mayday" Parker, Miguel O'Hara the Spiderman of 2099, and alternate versions of Peter Parker (a younger version) and Jessica Drew (a clone of Spiderman). There are hundreds of people ranging from alternates and clones, to what that person would have been if given spider powers.
In the colony, the children and civilians are protected by the Peter Parker and his daughter May Parker, the current host of the Venom. They both come from a world filled with super humans, where everyone has superpowers. Now they find themselves protecting another world with a profession wrestler from a world ruled by mutants and the House of M. They are also helped by Kumo-Otoko (Spider Men) and Jyorougumo (Spider Ladies), people who were transformed into Japanese spider youkai.
There is also a colony of Driders, centaur-like creatures, appearing as drow (dark elves with black skin and white hair) from the waist up, with their lower portions replaced by the abdomen and legs of immense spiders. They flee from the coming army
The Leader of the Invaders is an "exquisitely beautiful" female dark elf, sometimes covered in clinging spiders. She is Lolth, Demon Queen of Spiders, is the chief goddess of drow elves. She is known as the Spider Queen and the Queen of the Demonweb Pits, a demon lord of chaotic evil currently sealed in her drow form by the chaos magic.
Her army is composed of drow warriors and various evil Spiderman and women.
The four most dangerous of her army is a sociopath named The Spider and mass murderer Spider Carnage, both alternate versions of Peter Parker bonded to the insane carnage symbiote. They both possessed enhanced spider powers combined with there symbiote ability to create solid weapons. The Spider Queen controls by magically binding the symbiotes to herself and making it so if they ever betray her, they will burst into demon flame.
The others are Spiderman's Doppleganger, an an evil, near-mindless duplicate of Spider-Man that was created by Magus during the battle known as the Infinity War. He resembles Spiderman except for four extra arms, three claws at the end of each limb, compound eyes, and a mouth full of fangs. This one's powers have been enhanced by demon magic, granting it evil intelligence under her control.
The last of the four most dangerous is Zombie Spiderman, a version of Peter Parker from another reality that was infected by a Zombie Plague virus. The first victim of his zombie nature was Mary-Jane and he soon grew to be a member of the Zombie Galactic after consuming the body of cosmic entity Galactus. Lolth cleansed the contagion from Zombie Spiderman's necrotic flesh after draining the fragments of cosmic energy that remained within him. She didn't want the virus to spread to her army, she prefers a living army instead of undead like a Lich's army. She was also able to manipulate the Zombie by making him only enjoy eating the flesh of her enemies.
The Queen's General is not a Spiderman or even from the Marvel Universe. He's actually a spider-like shinobi from the same world as Tsunade, Anko, Tenten, Ino, and Hinata. He's a dark skinned man standing five foot two with six arms, dark hair, and headband with a music note. His name is Kidoumaru, former personal warrior of the snake sennin Orochimaru and now General of Lolth.
Slowly, a seal on his dark skin glows and spreads in a flowing, vine-like pattern. As the fully covers his body is glows like fire and Kidoumaru. The seal ends up covering their entire body, the skin color changes first to red then to black, his black hair lengthens into a wild white mane, and protrusions sprout from different parts of the body making him resemble a demon. His eyes have changed to glowing gold with black sclera and a third eye opens on his forehead between his horns.
He forms a bow made out of his Kumo-Nenkin (golden spider-thread) from his mouth and then a huge golden arrow connected to his mouth by a thread of webbing. He takes aim then with a nod from his Queen fires.
The golden arrows enhanced by chakra moves at many times the speed of sound, far too fast for even the precognitive powers and superhuman reflexes of a Spiderman.
One Spiderman saved the multi verse from Spider-Carnage and was looking for the real Mary-Jane Watson, lost who was lost in realities after a battle with the Green Goblin. He never found her and now he never will. The golden arrow pierces his chest, threw the heart, and propels him with enough force he's nailed to the side of a concrete building creating a small crater. If he wasn't impaled threw a vital organ and his spine not crushed by the explosive impact, he would have died by Lolth's demon magic.
Magic which enhanced Kidoumaru threw his cursed seal and magic which causes the dead Spiderman to rot away in front of the horrified heroes and heroines.
The War has truly begun.
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Bus Alpha on the Road.
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A group of Ghouls and Jack O' Lanterns sit in the middle of the road devouring a few human corpse, while the there victim's ghosts watch in horror unable to leave.
Suddenly, a huge armored bus collides with them. The man-eating plant freak are smashed like Pumpkins hit by a large truck. The ghouls and corpses not splattered are pulled under the wheels, where there crushed and shredded.
Inside the Bus, Willow takes a stance as the ghosts pass threw the bus. She moves using Shunpo (Flash Steps), a technique taught to Rukia by Yoruichi and her brother, and hits each forehead with the hilt of her Zanpaktou. As the ghosts exit the end of the bus, they sink into a white light, a portal to the after life.
On the bus, as the spiritual shields are reactivated, there is some clapping at Willow's performance
"Nice work, Willow." says Oz
"Thanks Oz." she says as she sits back down next to him, "Sometimes I have to wonder."
"Wonder what?"
"When I perform Konso - Soul Burial- the soul is suppose to be sent to the Soul Society, Rukia's version of the afterlife. I wonder where the souls I send are going."
"Was the Soul Society Heaven?"
"Rukia compared it to it, but I don't think so. There were higher planes of existence, like the one ruled by the King, so I think Soul Society was an intermediate place. A place where souls with high reiatsu - spiritual power - go until they can pass be reincarnated or break the cycle and ascend. It would explain why people could die in the Soul Society and why it resembles a giant feudal Japanese city."
"It's possible one of those places exists or was created during the Halloween event." says Oz
"That would explain how those guys dressed as Ghostface from the movie Scream became Hollows. When we were brought into creation, we brought the rules with us."
Gendo listens to the explanation and thinks about possibilities. If Gendo and those that dressed as people from his world brought there rules into this world, then the Angels could appear in this world. If this change to the world was an Impact, then 15 years from now other event could happen. He would have to be ready just in case.
Brad doesn't need to look at Gendo to know what's going threw the man's mind. He checks the ammo for his PPK. Each bullet is a polished silver color with complex patterns of blue lines. The 9 mm rounds are not only made of a special alloy, but charmed by the local magic users to penetrate supernatural flesh and explode violently inside the target, giving them far more power than a PPK would indicate.
He remembers how a 8 foot armored demon laughed at his "sissy gun", before his bullet penetrated it's thick skull threw the forehead and then exploded in the center the the head, reducing the thing's small brain into smoke and mist.
Kabuto is experimenting with his Chakra Mesu - Chakra scalpels. The scalpels allow him to cut muscles and tissues of a patient or victim without needing to break the skin. He's recently learned that having Faith in an object, such as a Cross or a Star of David, actually infuses it with the person's spiritual energy in a way that harms malignant supernatural creatures.
Chakra used by the shinobi of his world to enhance there physical abilities, generate illusions (genjutsu), and release elemental attacks (ninjutsu) is composed of a mixture of physical and spiritual energy. Hand to Hand (Taijutsu) experts can use pure physical energy taken from every cell in the body to perform attacks, so he decided to create pure spiritual attacks to harm preternatural monsters.
He remembers with a grin what happened when he used them on a vampire. The vampire collapsed in pain when the scalpels cut threw the veins leading to it's necrotic heart. It also caused the blood to rapidly heat and the flesh to smolder. A single fire technique ended the vampire experiment before someone could complain about torture, but the world is filled with vampires and more potential test subjects.
Roberta is checking her weapons and ammunition, which looks strange since she's still dressed as a maid. She has a wide selection of ammunition ranging from Holy Forged silver rounds, anti-fey cold iron, magically enhanced tracer rounds, special liquid filled bullets that would be banned in most countries, and even Jade and Wood bullets for special entities.
Roberta occasionally looks back at the younger members of the group, as if making a promise to protect them. She may not be in the Loveless Home anymore, but she will protect the people under her care.
Janna is talking with Ceil while drinking tea. Ceil talks about her hunt for Roa since the massacre of her village and learning of her curse. Janna tries to cheer her up with stories of Polgara and how she encountered a demon called a Polgara. There is no way you can compare a immortal beautiful Sorceress like herself to the semi-sentient species of demons, which is why the demon ended up in a hundred twenty eight pieces.
"Why a hundred twenty eight?"
"A used one of my newer spells that slice him up. It a spell that slices a target in half. If you shoot twice, it slices the halves into quarters. I used it seven times because I was pissed after another demons remarks."
Fuu is talking with Shiori about the Senjoku Jidai (Japan's Warring States Period).
"So your father was Tsukuyomaru, the leader of the bat youkai who fell in love with a human? Then your grandfather Taigokumaru murdered your father, his son, and forced the villagers to hand you over??"
"I don't know what I would have done without Inuyasha. He helped expose what Taigokumaru had done and I was able to throw him out of my barrier, where Inuyasha was able to slay him. My father's spirit then protected me when grandfather's evil spirit attack me and mommy."
"I guess.. you miss your mom."
"My mother was ill when I appeared in this world. Youkai don't age the same rate as humans. There a little fox kit named Shippo looks between five and seven, but he's actually fifty years old. My hero Inuyasha, he looked seventeen when I meet him, but he's two hundred years old."
"Two Hundred!?!?"
"He spent fifty years stuck to a tree, but I learned his older brother Sesshoumaru is five hundred years old and looks nineteen "
"So your mom?"
"She was very old. My aging slowed down and I watched my Mom live longer than most people, then it was time for her to join daddy."
Fuu pulls Shiori into a hug and allows the little one to cry. She remembers how she cried when she returned from Cephiro. They thought they were summoned to save Princess Emeraude from Zagato, but they learned Zagato kidnapped the pillar because he loved her and Emeraude summoned them to kill her. She also misses the world after they returned forever after saving it a second time from crumbling and the other invading worlds.
Jio, Dawn, and Setsuna are playing cards. Jio likes the money, Dawn like the strategy, and Setsuna has the experience from her time at Mahora. She remembers the poker tournament they had at the massive all girls school and how they tried to keep it a secret from the staff and teacher's pets.
"You want to play strip poker next time??" asks Setsuna.
Jio passes out with a nose bleed and Setsuna and Dawn grin at each other.
Priss is currently testing the edge of her massive Claymore. The huge sword was magically strengthened and sharpened by the mages back in Sunnydale, one of the Eastern Wizards also modified the sword to channel yoki, the energy used by those of youkai and yoma blood. One of the mages said the only true difference between mortal humans and immortal youkai is mortals are creatures with spirits limited by flesh and youkai are flesh limited by there spirits.
Priss notices a small cut on her fingertip, then brings it to her lips and licks it. Aerith wonders if she should watch her back around the silver-eyed girl. The last time she didn't she got a huge blade threw the back by a long-coat bishounen bad-ass.
In the back, Buffy's group is talking weapons.
"Where did you get your sword?" says Remus "It doesn't look part of your outfit."
Jill looks down at the black scabbard and simple crimson hilt. It contrasts against her form fitting blue/white kimono and protective arm and leg guards. She also has long red-black hair and porcelain white skin, which contrasts against her classic Japanese features
"I wanted to dress as a fantasy mermaid. So I wore blue scale pants and blue-and-black shoes to resemble a tail. The arm bands and silver necklace were later add on, but Mom didn't want me to go around in a bikini top, so she had her boyfriend give me his kimono as a jacket. When the spell hit, I landed on the grass next to an old broom stick. That piece of wood became a work of folded steel."
"It doesn't..."
"It shrank to fit me, while I got my memory surge. Several centuries of memories were fired into my head."
"I don't remember a memory surge."
"Poor Remmie." says Lilith with a giggle, "You and I devoured our hosts. There's nothing left of the kids we use to be. Not a drop of blood, faint memory, or particle of spirit. Jill, Amy, May, and Phil are still the same kids they were before Halloween, just with older altered bodies and additional memories."
"Lilith, you are such as B!#$!" says Phil, "We are trying to cheer Remus up."
"Careful Zombie Boy, if I can shatter Lord Raptor across the battlefield, I can certainly send you across country!
Amy and May watch the argument between the atypical zombie and the incarnation of power.
The red-eyed purple-haired "S-Class Noble" succubus was created from a third of her sister Morrigan Aensland's power sealed in space by her father Belial. She formed a mind on her own and the dark messiah Jedah Dohma gave her a body. She needs be mentally or physical stimulated to remain healing due to royal succubus biology.
She's very aggressive because she never had anything in her life, no possessions and everything belonging to her body she now possesses is solid and is slowly gaining power over time. She doesn't want anything stopping her from reaching Morrigan's level or perhaps surpassing it. As she once said, "I long to be of one soul and body."
Phil, once known as Phillip James Livingston III, was a rich kid living on the upper side of Sunnydale. His father was from an old wealthy family with a large business and his mother was a lawyer working for Wolfram & Hart. He would have stayed home and bought a mountain of candy, if one school councilor hadn't protested saying he needed to socialize.
He wore a little blue-gray make up and stenciled in a few scars. He wore an expensive suit he wore to his cousin's wedding and said he was a zombie fresh from the casket. That night the magic transformed him into an undead, but a spell cast by his magic-trained mother protected his mind and soul. The two forces fought and a compromise was meet based on a book in Phillip's book case, Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.
After Halloween he returned to find the mansion destroyed, his father a rotting corpse and the ashes of his mother. Looking threw there things, he discovered his mother dealt with a lot of supernatural creatures and was the Mayor's personal lawyer for dealing with the town's night life. His father was also one of her clients, who sold his soul for eternal youth and tribute the soul of one of his children every thirty years. If Halloween hadn't gone wrong, his parents would have killed him at age 15.
As a result, his ideals have been tainted.
Suddenly, they hear a loud roar and look out the back window to see a large dragon-like creature attacking. It's an immense creature, 8 meters long with 12 meters of tail covered in thick dark purple scales and black metal spines. It's black leathery wings are over 30 meters tip to tip and it's mouth has a double row of sharp dagger-long fangs. It even has five huge black claws on the end of each limb and is firing blasts of blue flame at the bus.
"Play Time!" yells Lilith before she fades away.
She appears outside the bus, floating in the air on her small wings. The dragon fires a monstrous blast of blue flame, but Lilith easily blocks the fireball shattering it into a falling cloud of blue sparks. She then throws a punch and fires a bat-shaped blast of demonic energy. The blast hits the side of the dragon's face, tears threw scales and flash and collides with one the eyes destroying it and the eye socket.
The creatures turns and screams, then circles around for a vertical attack.
The draconian demon attempts to swallow her like a bird, only for Lilith to be surrounded by glowing bats and in a flash vanishes from nearly in the dragon's jaw to near it's spiky tail. A red mist fills the air which turns out to the dragon's blood as one of it's wings comes off, completely severed.
The creature tumbles out of the sky and collides with the ground hard enough to send up clouds of dust and road fragments. The dragon finally stops rumbling and ends up impaled threw the shoulder by a broken road side. The dragon barely has time to look up with it's terror filled eyes, before Lilith's glowing youki-charged fist propelled by her falling body smashes into it's head.
Buffy's group winces as the bus stops and even the zombie looks a little green.
The carnage covered succubus walks up to them leaving a near headless dragon behind.
"So, we are having Dragon for dinner tonight?"
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CHAPTER 05: CHASER AND CHASED Part 2B
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Toho Trails
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Toho Company Ltd. is a large Japanese film studio. It is headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, and is one of the core companies of the Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group. In the West, it is best known as the producer of many daikaiju (monster) and tokusatsu (special effects) movies, the Chouseishin tokusatsu superhero TV franchise, the films of Akira Kurosawa, and the anime films of Studio Ghibli. Its most famous and worldwide creation is Godzilla, known as the King of the Monsters.
Toho Trails is the name given to the areas in which Toho's dreams gave birth to living nightmares after Halloween night. While ancient gods and demons awoke from the slumber and the ancient forests filled with youkai, creatures of the silver screen manifested in the real world.
In chaotic Tokyo, Ikurou Hashizawa and Sumire awaken in the fiery chaos. Ikurou transforms into a blue-skinned superhuman monster Baoh to fight the monsters that threaten him and the young psychic girl.
In the skies above, a man with a pig's head flies a red plane.
In the depths of the cold pacific ocean, a giant radioactive mutation of a dinosaur that never existed moves threw the depths. With a height of a hundred meters and a mass of sixty thousand tons, the massive leviathan was channel a nuclear explosion into atomic ray from it's sharp teeth-filled mouth, release nuclear energy from it's pores in the form of a nuclear pulse, and can regenerate injuries from military artillery faster than it's takes the bullets to hit.
This monster isn't the originally from the films. In it's world, the original Godzilla died in '95 when the radioactive Birth Island reached critical mass. Godzilla survived the destruction, but it's super-charged body entered a fatal meltdown, which threatened to set the entire world on fire. After a long battle with the military and a giant monster known as Destroyah, Godzilla melted and irradiated Tokyo. It was saved when his son, another mutated Godzillasaurus absorbed the radiation and grew to adulthood.
Since then, the child monster in giant adult monster form has slept in the ocean until it's mind matured and it was ready to takes it's father's mantle as the King of Monsters.
Infant Island, a tropical oasis in the Indonesian Archipelago that appeared after Halloween gave birth to the great guardian Mothra, a moth kaijuu, over sixty five meters in length with a wingspan of a hundred seventy five meters and a mass of twenty thousand tons. The ancient guardian of the earth possesses great powers to protect it's people the Cosmos such as the ability to fly at Mach 3, travel through space, generate hurricane force winds from it's wings, and release energy beams from it's eyes
In the depths of Chinese wastelands, the King of Terror, the three-headed dragon King Ghidorah sleeps in the depths of the Earth waiting to reduce the world to ash.
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BUS B en route to Magic Town
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The Lady Cordelia sits in next to the driver. She is writing on a note pad making various plans and notes and occasional looking out the armored windows.
The wind shield is a special laminated glass with a grid of ultra fine wires. The wires are holy forged and warded to prevent various supernatural creatures from cutting or tearing threw the window. It's also be coated with a special material that combined with the charmed glasses worn by the driver, allow him to see magic and entities not normally perceived.
The driver is dressed in body armor because he's the greatest and first target. It's standard police SWAT Kevlar with embedded plates made of holy forged metal with Eastern wards edged into them. He strapped into the reinforced chair by a racing harness, also made of the same holy body armor. There's also a modified 12-guage shotgun and a butterfly sword next to the driver, and a pair of Desert Eagle semi-automatic pistols hidden under the dash board.
The driver pulls out a cigarette, only for a blast of fire to incinerate it. It's only due to the special scarf around him mouth that he doesn't get second degree burns. He turns to Cordelia with smoke trailing from her fist. "Those things will kill you."
A few seats back, the kunouchi (female ninja) are talking. Anko, Hinata, Tenten, and Ino are from the same village and know each other. Temari is from a rival/ally village on the same world. Only Sheena is new, but she has experience crossing worlds.
"Those Advance Bloodline Limits of your world are interesting." says Sheena Fujibayashi with enough sense not to compare Summon Spirits or Ninja Summoning Creatures, "Is Shiki from your village?"
"No." says Hinata, "According to the files, he and Ceil are from the Nasuverse. He does have a doujutsu Chokushi no Magan. In English Demon eyes of Instant Death or Mystic Eyes of Death Perception. It allows him to see the he eventual fated destruction of an object or entity expressed as small points on the object or entity's body and as thin black lines that extend from those points and crawl over the body."
"It would rank with the Big Three - Sharingan, Byakugan, and Rinnegan in our world." says Anko, "Imagine a clan that could destroy anything or anyone, even spirits and prevent creatures from reincarnating."
Anko smirks at the thought of Orochimaru, he snake-like former master and inhuman traitor facing Shiki and being sliced to pieces and then his destroyed so he couldn't jump bodies.
"So, Hinata, there's one thing I've been wondering about Hyuugas, but I never asked." says Ino, "I know the Byakugan allows your clan to look threw objects, but have you ever used it to check out how big the guys are?"
Temari is giggling and then adds, "I heard a rumor that bloodline clans like Uchiha and Hyuuga have fertility problems because of the methods used to cultivate the advance bloodline limit. It's the real reason there a bunch of arrogant ass, because there over compensating."
In the world of shinobi, there are those who possess Kekkei Genkai (Blood Inheritance Limit), the abilities passed down from parent to child. These genetic inheritances grant the ninja unique abilities and physical traits not found anywhere else in the world. Some bloodlines are sensory such as Byakugan and Sharingan. Some are chakra based such as the Shodaime Hokage (First Leader of Village Hidden in Leaves)' ability to combine his affinities of Earth and Water to manipulate wood. Some are body based like Shikotsu Myaku (Corpse Bone Pathways/Dead Bone Pulse) used by the Kaguya Clan, which allows them to manipulate there bones and use them as weapons.
A bloodline clan is born when a mutation occurs that grants a shinobi abilities they can develop. The person must them breed with many and those children that possess the same bloodline will reproduce it. This has lead to inbreeding problems leading to low fertility and cases of heightened aggression and insanity, which is a reason the bloodlines were feared and eventually wiped out in the Water Country.
"There are exceptions to the rule." says Sheena, "I saw Hinata changing and she's very advance."
Hinata feels all of the blood in her body going into her burning face.
"If you dressed a little less." says Anko, "I'm sure you would be Miss Uzumaki by now."
THUMP!
A few seats back, the sailor senshi trio - Usagi, Makoto, and Rei have grouped together with Monet and Lavender Brown. They are chatting away while Usagi snacks on a bag of cookies.
"I have a question. Nearly all the people on this bus can speak English, but most should only speak Japanese." says Rei, "How did that happen?"
"According to your friend Ami" replies M, "Perception is a major factor. A person may watch a Japanese show, but most hear it in English so if they dressed as a character they would speak both English and Japanese. Ceres' anime character is from England so she speak Japanese and accented English. Lust is from a parallel Earth version of Germany, so not only does she speak Japanese and English, but German as well."
"So have you been collecting your books?" says Lavender Brown, holding up a copy of Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"
"I have." says Rei, "but Usagi keeps on stealing them."
"Your so mean Rei! I just miss Mamoru and look!"says the dark-skinned Usagi opening her mouth, showing a pair of small cute fangs, "I grew fangs! I want to remember what I looked like."
"According to Ami, you all ceased to be human Halloween night." says M, "Your civilian form is a sealed state to hide your true youkai forms."
Usagi looks like she's about to cry.
"You don't have much tact, do you Monet." says Makoto
"You wake up and find out your life was watched, that every thing you suffered was amusement to others and see how you feel. Oh wait, you do know so stop complaining about tact."
Suddenly, the bus slows to a stop a few feet from a side road. The driver turns to Cordelia and pulls out the map. It's a rubber back reinforced piece of paper enchanted to show current location and important locations. This is important since the GPS satellites were all destroyed in the Halloween Event.
"There a gas station and restaurant a couple kilometers down that road. It hasn't been checked by our scout teams. We may have supplies, but our supply of gasoline is low, only a few liters beyond going to the town and back according to the calculations."
"Tenten!" yells Cordelia to the Chinese-dressed weapon specialist.
"Yes, Ma'am."
"Do you have many of those sealing barrels in your scrolls?"
"I have 20 empty barrels capable of holding nearly 160 liters each and 10 empty drums capable of holding 200 liters each."
"We are taking a detour to a gas station to increase our supplies." says Cordelia, "Gas is rare these days, which means it's also valuable."
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Gas and Restaurant
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The Bus pulls up to the gas station. The building's restaurant is in bad shape with all the windows shattered and several wrecked cars, but the eight fuel pumps look in good condition. There's also a huge propane tank near the edge of the parking lot.
The first group to depart the bus is the older fantasy group and includes wind sorceress youkai Kagura, part-alien Ripley, homunculus (artificial human) Lust, half-dark elf Arshes Nei, alien Hepzibah, and techno vampire queen Seth Nightroad.
Kagura walks in the front door and looks at the convenience store. There is food and broken bags on the ground, two the glass windows of the refrigerator cases are broken, and the slush machine is oozing looks like the place became a mad house after Halloween.
Suddenly, a creature rises from a pile of torn chip bags. It's sad that before Halloween, a mother dressed there child as spotted dalmatian because they thought it was cute and nice. Now, that child is part-human part-dog creature standing in front of the wind youkai.
It's a small thin humanoid four foot one, about the size of a ten year old with a body covered in short hard dense spotted white fur. It has a canine-like head with large black ears, digigrade feet, and small black claws on it's hands and feet. It also has a mouth of sharp teeth and numerous scars from fighting other Halloween horrors. It growls at Kagura, drooling like a rabid hound, and it's eyes filled with anger and madness.
Kagura stares into the dog-creatures eyes and wonders what kind of human child it was before Halloween twisted it's bones and flesh, and warped it's soul.
"Fujin no Mai!"
It doesn't stop her from using her "Dance of the Wind", when the creatures leaps at her throat. Also known as the "Dance of Blades", it's a technique that fires multiple crescent-shaped wind blades towards her enemies with a single swipe of her fan. In the enclosed store area, the dozens of blades slice the creature into pieces that fall across the back wall.
Ripley walks in after her and doesn't even look at the carnage. Instead she carries a couple of containers with her guns strapped over her shoulder and on her back. She grabs the snacks and candy bars from the counter and begins to fill the first container.
"Could you fill the other with cigarettes and tobacco products."
"Nothing effects you does it Ripley."
Ellen Ripley 8 pauses and thinks back threw her genetic memory.
The original Ellen Ripley born in 2092 was emotional. She remember her fighting to survive the first Xenomorph on Weyland-Yutani corporation vessel Nostromo. Waking up after 57 years of hyper-sleep and learning her daughter, Amanda, died at the age of 66, just two years before Ripley would be found and awoken The return to LV-426 and fighting an entire colony of Aliens and escaping with one colonist a little girl survivor, an injured marine, and half of an android. They also died when she found herself marooned on Fiorina "Fury" 161, a penal colony, and was forced to kill herself to kill the last alien growing inside her.
"Ripley."
She is a clone of Ellen Ripley created 200 years after the real Ripley's death from samples found on Fiorina 161. A alien/human hybrid possessing superior strength, endurance, caustic blood and the ability to sense and communicate with the creatures. She also possesses genetic memory allowing the clone to learn at an extremely rapid rate and recall some of the originals memories and personality, but is not an exact mental duplicate as she is more violent, fatalistic and sadistic than the original. She also has a mild empathy for the xenomorphs and antipathy for humans.
"Ripley!"
The first time she ever showed real emotions was when she walked into the lab containing the previous seven clones of Ripley and was forced to mercy kill the deformed Ellen Ripley 7 and then destroyed the other preserved specimens.
"RIPLEY!"
Ripley turns to Kagura, who says, "I guess I was wrong. You get lost in memory like a normal human."
"or Humanoid."
Ellen Ripley 8 sacrificing herself to destroy the prototype super-soldier and save humanity. She is a new Ripley will a new life and she will protect what's hers.
In the kitchen, Lust faces several Jack O Lanterns that had been hibernation in there gourd forms. The plant-like monsters are fast and agile, and experienced from surviving many months, but they are no match for the ultimate lance. As fast as they move, they can't escape blades thin as hairs but sharp enough to cut wood and stone.
Seth walks in snacking on a candy. She notices piles off green and orange coleslaw dripping off the walls and tables. Lust flicks her claws to clean them of the green goo.
"Bad Salad?" says the small vampiress with a smile
"The Worst."
There is the sound of a thunderous explosion, but the group inside barely reacts.
Outside, Arshes Nei and Hepzibah face an automobile monster. Someone must have gotten creative and dressed as an autobot from the series Transformers. What started out as a helmet and pieces of colored cardboard has become a towering mechanical monster.
In the Transformers universe, the robots were created by the alien Quintessons on the planet Cybertron, the autobot ancestors for labor and Decepticon ancestors for military and gladiator The matrix, soul of the god Primus, gave the sparks - machine souls- of each transformer and computer vector sigma gave them life.
When the human became a transformer, his human soul was twisted into a spark (machine soul), the chaotic energy and trauma warped his mind reducing him to the level of a vicious animal. It killed nearly the entire town before going inert in the back parking lot of this building.
It was extremely dangerous with it's numerous energy and advance projectile weapons, until the Thunder Empress nearly burnt out it's systems with "Bavolt!! Thunderous Blast!!"
The cybertronian creature roars as Hepzibah's sniper shots destroy it's optics. As it stumbles around, Arshes gathers her power and makes a punching motion
"WOLF'S FANG! HELL'S THUNDER!!!!"
A massive explosion of electrical force hits the insane machine making it release an distorted electronic scream. It's popular belief that rubber tires protect a car from lightning, when it's actual the frame. A Transformer's body is connected to it's outer frame to perform it's transformations, making it very vulnerable to the electrical blast, especially when you talking about lightning. The massive surge burns and arcs across the armor surface, the numerous electronic systems overload in a fraction of a second and explode, and the power systems melt and burn.
The smoking humanoid machine collapse to it's knees and Arshes' Sword of the Thunder God pierces it's chest, where it's heart would be. The mystical weapon pierces it's laser core, where the old model cybertronian's house there sparks and extinguishes it.
Arshes Nei and Hepzibah back up as the machine goes silent and stops moving. It seems to age as life drains from it, turning from an old blue and white paint job to deathly shades of grey. The dead machine collapses in on itself leaving a pile a rubble as other girls gather around.
"Well that was interesting." says Hepzibah
"Darshe's Iron Golems were more of a challenge." says Arshes
"So were the Sentinels from my husband's world." says Hepzibah remembering the time she had visited her step-son Scott on Earth, "I think this thing was slightly smarter then those purple toys."
The last two members of the group, Ceras Victoria and Kiyone Makibi are on the bus, checking it's weapons and defenses.
"I know this isn't my world, but part of me wishes I was in England." says Ceres, "I don't know who this body was before the change, but England was my home."
"I know what you mean. Even if a wasn't born on Earth, I still consider Okayama home."
"I know home is more than a place, it's the people." says Ceres, sounding lost in thought, "When I first meet Alucard, I saw him torn to pieces by Ghouls, then regenerate and wipe out the Ghouls. He then asked me if I was virgin right before he shot threw me to kill the vampire vicar that was about to rape me. It's strange but while Master may be a Heroic Sociopath, he and Hellsing are my family."
"I even miss Mihoshi. She's the ultimate Ditz, but she and the others have become my family."
Suddenly, a pair of gargoyle-like creatures swoop down. They are both small grey-skin human each with glowing red eyes, tapered ears, bony eye ridges, tusks, sharp claws, bat-like wings, and a tail They screech and hiss as they try to attack the two women.
Kiyone swings around and aims her GP Blaster and shows her great sharpshooting skills, blowing off the wings of the first one causing it to tumble across the roof and land a foot from her. Then she fires a couple shots into it's head and kicks the corpse off the roof.
Ceres primary weapon is Hellsing ARMS Anti-Midian Cannon 'Harkonnen'. Weighing a hundred twenty pounds (~60 kilos) unloaded, this 30 mm, single-shot breech loader cannon uses various types of shells, including depleted uranium with silver for piercing armored targets and incendiary napalm rounds for destroying large groups of opponents both on land and in the air. It's so immense, no normal human could use it, but vampire strength allows the young woman to move it with ease.
Ceres doesn't both grabbing the cannon, considering it overkill and instead grabs the second one. With her monstrous vampire strength she rips it's arm off causing it to collapse to the armored roof. As it's screeching in angry and pain, she grabs both wings with one hand hard enough to crush the bones, and throws it without letting go of the wings. The bat-like appendages are torn from the creature's back as the rest of it's body is sent flying high into the sky.
Ceres and Kiyone watch as the spinning form gets closer and closer to the red sky, which glows brighter as the object approaches, then a bolt of lightning lances out and strikes the gargoyle. The lightning over 10,000 °C (18,000 °F) and a billion volts reduces the creature to ashes in the wind.
"Flying, at least by normal aircraft, has become almost a death sentence. The amount of electromagnetic and mystical energy means there a 60-80% chance of the struck by lightning over non-populated areas and 80-100% over heavy populated areas or areas that were heavy populated like the major cities."
"Makes me glad I can become a bat." says Ceres.
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A/N 1: If your wondering where I'm going with this story, it depends on my mood. Halloween World could be a Happy Ending with the sky clearing and the sun returning or like End of Evangaleon and Gilgamesh with humanity destroyed (difference between the two: EOE people can come back from red goo, Gilgamesh is dead beyond hope of rebirth!) or even an Earth Shattering Kaboom.
A/N 2: I hope nobody dressed as Haruhi Suzumiya or the Universe is really doomed.
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CHAPTER 06: CHASER AND CHASED Part 2C
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Monster Colonies
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Most people believed monsters and demons were creatures of myth and Hollywood After Halloween, the world became very aware. The creatures created by Halloween were more powerful than the average "natural" creature because part of there creation came from the minds of there creators and the people wearing them.
When a person at a costume party goes as a vampire, they don't imagine themselves as a weak minion or a fledgling, they imagine themselves as powerful masters with many supernatural powers. A child dressed a witch hunting candy does imagine themselves as a dabbler or dedicated person, but as powerful mistress of mystical power.
It's Darwin's survival of fittest and the demons that were left behind with the loss of Old Ones are now replaced by chaos transformed humans. Some monsters are destroyed by the stronger, some monsters flee into other realms, and other monsters are assimilated by the new masters of the dark.
After several months, the monsters have formed into colonies across the world.
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After Halloween and the initial destructive aftermath, the surviving people started to organize themselves by profession, skills, and/or powers.
The Hospital contains all those with medical training. They range from modern medical doctors to futuristic scientists to priestesses and clerics with healing powers. It even includes an Asian witch doctor and vets which help with not only the pets and animal partners, but the semi-animal patients. It's run by master medi-nin Lady Joyce (Tsunade) with help from youkai healer Xander (Chou Hakkai).
Lady Joyce possesses vast ability to heal, but is also the head of Sunnydale.
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"What's on the schedule, Xander?" says Joyce drinking coffee
"Surgery. One of the civvies was trying to retrieve personal items from the rubble of his house, when his leg went down a hole and hit a rock. Tendon damage. It also looks like he broke the bone and it didn't heal correctly."
'We need to guard the Centers better. They may not be prisoners, but they'll end up killing themselves going into the ruins."
"Next, Washu Healing Tanks are operational. It should cut down on our power consumption."
"That's good. We may have many healers, but using there powers constantly is draining. I'm losing chakra, your losing youki, mikos lose reiki, and the magical ones lose mana rapidly."
"We also have... never mind. Moving on."
"Wait! What was it, Xander?"
"They are setting up a Poker tournament and wondering if you would like to join."
The Tsunade part of Joyce smiles at the thought. She was known as The Legendary Sucker in her world for her gambling habits which nearly eclipsed her title as the World's greatest medical ninja.
"It's strip poker." adds Xander making her frown, "Apparently someone let out that your young face and body is a hundred percent real not an illusion like in the files."
"No matter the reality, there are always perverts."
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The Holy Forge contains the priest and priestesses, numerous skilled weapon forgers, wrench wenches, enchanters, and black smiths. They generate the weapons needed to protect Sunnydale and also recycle the metals from the destroyed areas of town. The Holy Forge is run by a man only known as the Pope and and Emiya Shiro.
Pope Alessandro leads the various religious groups trying to keep them peaceful to each other. He's not very impressive, but he's kind, just, and is helped by the others. His second in command handles most of projects, despite his own limitations.
Shiro has the power of Reinforcement, the power to analyze the structural composition of objects, and with an understanding of their chemical and physical makeup, increase said object's effectiveness in its given purpose, such as increasing a blade's sharpness, a shield's durability, or his body and eyes. Emiya may not have gained more spells when he was created in this world, but Reinforcement power has been enhanced by several hundred fold.
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Shiro, a red-haired Japanese High school student dressed in jeans and t-shirt covered by a protective leather coat looks at stored weapons. Some rest on or against the walls, while some stand in the middle of floor like a miniature field of blades.
The collection mostly contains Long Weapons (staff and spear weapons) and Swords.
There are many Long Weapons, which makes sense from a tactical point of view. No one actually wants to get into a demon's killing range, so a blessed blade at the end of a pole makes sense. There are Chinese Guan dao and Binsento to Japanese Nagamaki and Naginata, all blessed by Shinto, Taoist, and Buddhist practices of there native soul. There are seven meter Sarissa long pike blessed both Christian and Greek magic used by Macedonian phalanxes. There are Christian blessed European Poleaxes and Halberds that resemble the ceremonial weapons of the Swiss Guard in the Vatican. There are even Christian and Druidic blessed scottish Lochaber axes.
He almost laughs at the shillelagh, the Irish clubs are made of blessed wood with a combination of Christian blessings and powerful faerie magic. He always thought they were funny, it one struck a vampire causing it's head to burst into a cloud of dust followed by it's body.
The swords range Chinese Dao to Japanese Katana to Egyptian Khopesh to Roman Gladius to scottish Claymore to Bastard Swords. Most of the swords are blessed and charmed in many ways as possible, but several special swords are bless in the ways of there native origin, such as the blessing of Ra on the Khopesh and the Islamic style blessing of the Saif scimitars
There are also special weapons such as Deer Horn Knives (Lujiaodao) edged with Taoist spells, living spirit Keris blades, Christian blessed European Sabres, and Shinto-blessed Tonfa from which the modern side-handled police baton is derived.
There are even several magical weapons such as exotic Chinese Hook swords with the power to manipulate lightning and Fantasy Long Sword that produce purifying white flames as long as it's in contact with blood.
"Sir!"
Shiro turns to see a young mage, whose name escapes him.
"We have a new supply of silver."
"Where?"
"One of Civilians owns Mark's Jewelry. After Halloween, he hide his store collection in the lining of one of his personals trucks. He finally revealed it hoping to get more food rations."
"Stupid." says Shiro shaking his head, "We could use a Jeweler's skills here in the forge. The silver is worthless today except in a blessed weapon."
"The Library also found a new weapon spell. It's a water cleansing spell for daggers and was created in France during Poison Affair scandal of 1675. It allows a person to cleanse there drinking water by dipping the tip of there dagger into into it."
"That will increase the amount of available clean water, without replying on Science Center."
"A modified version is lethal. If a dagger pierces a animal's body, it cleanse the blood leaving clear water flowing threw the veins. It causes the target to asphyxia even if you miss the vitals. Also, if the blade is blessed, it'll turn a vamp's blood into holy water."
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The Library is filled with the researchers, reporters, librarians, historians, and language experts. It's filled with books, scrolls, and computers ranging from nanotech to magitech and there purpose to gain and supply knowledge from the various other groups inside and outside Sunnydale. They are run by Mr. Giles and Sorceress Janna (Polgara). While the Sorceress is on a mission, Yumiko Readman has taken over her professional duties.
A subsection of the Library contains the Files Zone and contains fan boys and girls. These people were looked down at pre-Halloween, but after Halloween they found themselves surrounded by there favorite characters. The Files contain information, such as world history and character history for each costume. They help determine if the character is a hero, a villain, a bad ass anti-hero, or any other trope. They are written like fan sites, but have become critical to determine if a character is a child is harmless or Enfante Terrible (child sociopath) like Masato from Mermaid Saga or The Village of The
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Andrew Wells sits at a desk in the back of Library reading. He notices the various titles being read by the others, while he writes his own notes to be added to the computer and hard copy files.
One man is reading The Digestive System of The Dragon: An Overview, which may be a good idea since the number of dragons has grown since Halloween. There's colony of Lesser Slayer world dragons in southern Baja, a large number of Wyverns in the United Kingdom, and a large number of chromatic and metallic DnD dragons in the Heartland.
One woman is reading a technical manual so she may be a Wrench Wench trying to avoid the others. Most of the books around her are advance science, physics, and engineering books. There are also several rolled and unrolled blueprints on the table.
The third closest is his friend Jonathan Levinson currently reading a Latin scroll on summoning earth and stone golems. He's becoming a skilled sorcerer after he dressed as Master Sorcerer version of himself. He could be part of the Mage Guild, but he has a lot of bad luck. Despite his magic, he was nearly killed forty five times during the week after Halloween. He figures he could summon walking piles of clay to take the lethal attacks, while he can escape.
Andrew is glad he's in a place where his obsession with Star Trek, RPGs, and comic books is appreciated. He's currently using a Star Trek PADD that became real after dressing as a Starfleet ensign to help organize his growing comics collection. He also hope he can finish before the next lot can comes in.
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The Mage Guild is filled with various magic wielders and magical creatures. They range from Sunnydale's original witches and wizards to half-demon daoshi (taoist sorcerors) to half-demon fantasy mages. They set up the magic defenses beyond those created by Holy Forge and the Hunters. It's currently lead by the former Mayor, Janna, and the other five strongest mages in Sunnydale.
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"So what's on the agenda today, Voldie?"
"That joke is getting old."
Mayor Richard Wilkins arrived in California in the 1800s, looking for gold. He founded Sunnydale after the last Slayer died there. Wilkins found a place infested with demons, with whom he made a pact to avoid being killed. He agreed to found a town atop the Hellmouth for "demons to feed on", on the promise of an Ascension and subsequent immortality once a full century has elapsed
Halloween ruined his plans only a few years from completion. The magic twisted the immortal sorcerer's body covering it in a bone-armored scaly hide, sharp teeth and mandibles, and a spiked tail club mostly hidden by his robe. Instead of becoming the embodiment of the demon Olvikan, he became a part-demon sorcerer out of a fantasy novel. The red eyes and snake-like appearance causes the kids to refer to him as Voldemort from the Harry Potter books.
"We have a new protection spell that makes buildings immune to all temperature extremes including spells like the 'Showers of Phlegethon' and 'Fenrir's Ice Breathe'. The only problem is it requires human fat as a spell component."
Everyone is about to protest, but the (former) Mayor holds his hand up.
"It doesn't have to be flesh and there is a large supply of corpses. You may be a little green at using bodies, but after the numerous fire showers the protection is needed."
The Fire Showers refer to a phenomenon in the Red Sky, when there is a peak in activity and it begins to emit energy back to earth in form of thermal radiation. These radiation storm causes everything flammable below to ignite and super heats the air. Which later causes hurricane force winds in other parts. Sunnydale has been hit twice by the Fire Showers and three other towns were completely destroyed. The few injured survivors of two of those towns came to Sunnydale, while the third town had no survivors.
"Let's put it to a vote."
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The Hunters are the knights, vampire hunters, ghost-busters, bad ass archaeologists, dragon slayers, and various heroes and heroines that have banded together to hunt dangerous supernatural creatures, Halloween horrors, and old hostile species of Sunnydale. The Hunters are divided into several groups with there leaders working a council. Buffy leads Group 1 known as the "Death Dealers", which is now under the command of 15th century special vampire hunter Sonia Belmont.
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"R-76 Nanoblaster Bombadier" says a blond hunter holding a black gun out of a sci-fi film, "It uses a magnetic launcher to fire high velocity streams of nano-explosives"
"Where did you get it?"
"Someone was dressed a future RPG soldier, but was killed by wizard's spell thinking he was a Hell Knight."
"Is that the same thing you used on the cyborg, War...Warden.."
"Warren Mears."
Warren Mears was a misogynistic genius of robotics who dressed as John Corben, the comic book villain known as Metallo. He was transformed into a insane cyborg powered by radioactive heart. Warren Mears built an android girlfriend to sate his lusts and Corben was a hedonist criminal, finding himself in sensory deprivation drove him insane.
He tried to attack the blond huntress, but unlucky for him she found the Bombadier first. The black gun seemed to fire stream of black/gray dust, but as it collided with Meer's alloy face like the ultimate sand blaster. The revolutionary alloy emitted a fiery glow and then crumbled into glowing red dust. The nano-explosives destroyed Metallo-Meers' head layer by layer, bit by bit at a microscopic level. Thankfully, the cybernetic thing stopped screaming after it's frontal lobes were destroyed.
"At least the two pounds of green kryptonite makes a good energy source."
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The Civil Centers is the name given to the protected groups of civilians, non-hostiles, and non-combatants. They mostly contain the civilians that didn't wear costumes or the families of those that did. They're are also many refugees from Los Angeles, after the city fell. The heads of Civic Centers handles salvage and creation of food, clothing, and shelter.
The last group is the Sunnydale Science Center, also known as the feared Washu Zone.
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"But I'm a Hero!"
"You throw forks."
"I can get them blessed."
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Sunnydale Science Center (SSC). It is the group for brilliant scientists, mad scientists, there beautiful daughters, the omni disciplinary scientists, the hot scientists, the horny scientists, the super powered nerds, the best of wrench wenches, gadgeteer geniuses, genius bruisers, genius ditzes and insufferable geniuses. The Library may be full of information, but these are the people that use that knowledge and find new knowledge.
The SSC is lead by Washu Hakubi. The twenty thousand year old Greatest Scientific Genius in the Universe is the main reason for Sunnydale 's rapid transformation into California's greatest fortress against the dark. It was her Idea to have ninjas with Doton Jutsu (Earth Release Techniques) and mage with earth-manipulation magic to recreate the caves as underground chambers and take stone from the earth to form walls. It was her who harvested nanomachines from Rommie and reprogrammed them to refine raw materials. It was also her who set up lines of communications with other colonies.
Ami Mizuno, Yuki-joshin (Ice Goddess), is Washu's second in command and primary assistant. The young genius helps Washu using data found on her magitech Mercury Computer. She is the head of the computer division and handles most of data processing. She's also one of the few powerful magic users not in the field by choice. She has not been the same since she accidentally flash froze and shattered a punk attacking a bunch of refugees.
She currently helping Washu's second assistant a brilliant red-haired amazon named Caitlin.
Caitlin Fairchild was a brilliant, but rather mousy young woman in her world. Her academics lead her being accepted to Princeton University where she double-majored in computer science and electrical engineering. Everything changed in her sophomore year when she was recruited into Project: Genesis which she believed to be some sort of government internship.
"It's called Gen-factor. Dr. Tsung obtained this additional genetic code from Ethan McCain, a reincarnation of the extra-dimensional hero, Sigma. It allows allows multiple dimensional access, thus giving a person psionic powers or other talents.'
'Our fathers were experimented on by International Operations and successes were given the name Gen 12. The leader Craven hoped that the younger subjects were easier to control and that being born with the Gen-factor made their powers more stable."
One night, Caitlin began to feel ill (due to secretly being fed drugs designed to activate latent Gen-Active abilities), and in a single night was transformed from a mousy computer geek to a powerful, towering amazon. Physical Growth Augmentation is how Caitlin was affected by her gen-factor causing her mass to increase and her muscle density to grow exponentially granting superhuman strength, durability, stamina, agility and eventually expressed superhuman reflexes.
"When you appeared in this world, you grew from six foot four to seven foot?"
"My strength is also greater, which is not good. I was already able to lift (press) a hundred tons!"
"I need to run a few tests, but I think because this and neighboring dimensions are flooded with energy, your body was forced to re-augment to handle the surge."
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Washu is working on her holographic computer set up a subspace interlink with the other colonies. Normal telephone lines burned with the power lines and radio communications are badly distorted in most areas by the red sky. She set up a simple E-Mail system between the major colonies, but is having problems with smaller colonies, and unique colonies such as those the Buses were recently sent to. The subspace interlink requires a powerful external power source do the subspace damage done by the surge.
Message 13445
From: Professor Maggie Walsh
NID Government, Washington Colony
Subject: Dr. Blight Deceased
Dr. Blight conducted an unauthorized experiment. She downloaded her artificial intelligence MAL into prototype Project 314. The resulting program incompatibility resulted in the unit went on a rampage killing Dr. Blight in the process, despite her enhancements See File: CPO - Tree of Life. It will take time to create a new prototype, so my interest in your developments...
Washu is glad Walsh's biomechanical demonoid project was destroyed. Her design enhancements were actually designed to stop the modern Frankenstein's monster. They already have enough problems with superhuman demons, rampaging robots, and sociopath humans without some nut-case fusing them together. With the prototype destroyed, she now has time to collect evidence and convince the military to abandon the project and Walsh.
Message 13446
From: MD
NCID, Georgia Base
Subject: and Virus
There has been a outbreak of mutagenic viruses in several southern towns. The Gargoyle Viruses were engineered by Dr. Anton B. Sevarius. See File: Gargoyles. The subject's Mad Scientist HC contained several sealed test tubes containing water and marked with Biohazard stickers. The subject was killed by local transformed, but the test tubes containing carrier viruses were later broken.
Virus 1 causes human subjects to mutate into humanoid felines with functional bat wings, and the ability to generate large amounts of electrical energy similar to an electric eel. It is believed this virus is based on Mutate Project stated in files
Virus 2 causes subject to become Gargoyles found in subject's universe including stone sleep ability. It is believed to be developed from the Chameleon Mutation Gene. See Word of God Sub-File
It is believed the massive energy surge supercharged the contents of test tubes creating two highly contagious mutagenic diseases.
Washu makes several notes and sends a message to list the species of Gargoyles and Mutants under the non-hostile alerts.
Message 13447
From: Captain Mayuri Kurotsuchi,
President of the Shinigami Research Institute
California Power-plant Base
Subject: Test Subjects
Washu quickly deletes the message and thanks god she got a warning from Doctor Ritsuko Akagi. A Mad Scientist she can deal with, not a amoral sadistic sociopath.
Message 13448
From: Colonel Samantha Carter
Texas SG1 Base
Subject: Naqahdah Generator Designs
She promised to help create a new generator for Texan Colony. She also sends a copy to Mr. Freeman in the Library. The two physicists have a lot in common.
Message 13448
From: Professor Hojo
Shinra Base
Subject: Jenova
In twenty thousand years, you learn many, many swear words.
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"I heard we got a message from Susan Storm?" says Caitlin, "She's the woman with the ability to create invisible force fields."
"Her husband, or at least he was her husband, is Reed Richards. Washu said he's almost her rival which is impressive since his only gained powers was Elasticity" says Ami
"I heard they plan on getting back together, but she wants Washu to work on a special drug."
"She's going to drug him!?!?"
"With Washu-Brand Viagra. Apparently being able to stretch, deform, expand and contract one's body into any form they can imagine doesn't stop a person from being a work-obsessed nerd."
"Miss Mizuno! Miss Mizuno!"
Ami and Caitlin turn to see a blond Dojikko (cute, clumsy girl) secretary stumble up to them, then trip and fall.
"Are you OK, Wendy?"
It's interesting to note that Wendy wasn't wearing a costume Halloween Night. She was an ordinary blond girl, whose real name was Wendy, reading a Read or Die manga. It was her friend, Karen, who was dressed as Yomiko Readman and was completely transformed. Somehow being a close match to a person from a character's fictional history was enough to transform the pure white California university student into Wendy Earhart, a smiling half-Indian, half-English personal secretary and member of British Library's Special Operations Division.
"I'm OK, Miss Mizuno, Miss Fairchild."
It's also interesting to note that according to the Files, Wendy is mature and professional agent, when not a klutz. She's actually very intelligent and is actual The Dragon, second-biggest Big Bad, posing the greatest physical challenge to a hero. It's brought up an interesting conflict with her pre-Halloween friend as she hates Yomiko after she crippled her obsession/boss Mr. Joker, a man who destroyed Hong Kong for his conquest.
"There are four special reports from the other colonies" says the blue-eyed blond pulling out four computer-printout files. The electromagnetic pulse of All Hallow's Eve wiped out nearly all active computer systems, but any computer that was turned off survived, which is a very good thing for a secretary.
"Dr. Benton Quest is having problems with Dr. Venture."
"I knew there would be problems" says Ami, "Dr. Thaddeus S. Venture is a bungling inventor. He's also bitter about his father, which resembles. According to the files, Dr. Venture is a deconstruction of Dr. Quest."
"Dr. Leonard Samson and Miss Jennifer Walters have reported finding a woman named River Tam up north. She possesses an extremely high intellect and military training, but can't control her emotion."
"Due the loss of amygdala according to the Files. The military in her world gave her Klüver-Bucy syndrome trying to turn her into an assassin. I thought they located Miss Walters' cousin."
Wendy scans threw the file and replies, "The person they located was a different Bruce Banner. This one wasn't accidentally caught in a gamma explosion, but deliberately tried a super soldier formula. He's also a sociopath who eats people for fun according to Dr. Samson."
"The darker, edgier version?" says Caitlin with a sneer.
"We may have found a computer expert named Ed and a combat engineer named Hayashida Heihachi."
"Which Hayashida Heihachi?"
"Samurai Seven Anime version. Why?"
"He's also an expert swordsman able to cut threw giant mecha."
"Finally, a Dr. Ed "Braz" Brazzelton is producing Unobtainium in Chicago."
"Someone actually dressed as that guy!"
"Actually, no, he was in a video store in Chicago. He work standing next to the bargain bins holding The Core on DVD"
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The Rubble of Ethan's Costume Shop
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Since Halloween night, Ethan's rubble of costume shop has been left mostly untouched. The release of the massive energy wave reduced the entire building to tiny fragments. Even after several months, the ashes of the costume shop is still warm from the mystical energies.
As a faint wind blows, swirling the warm ashes into the air, it uncovers a strange pile of papers. It a thick list of costumes and prices, a checklist to see which costumes were sold. It also contains a brief summary of the costumes and there source. When one looks closer, they notice something is wrong.
ID2804 Selene "Death Dealer" Costume from Underworld: Evolution (2006)
ID3823 Yomiko Readman "Hot Librarian" Costume from Read or Die manga 2003
ID4284 Chou Hakkai "Green" Costume from Gensomaden Saiyuki manga 1997
ID4990 Rukia Kuchiki "Shinigami/Soul Reaper" Costume from Bleach manga 2001
ID6249 Ciel "Vampire Hunter" Costume from Tsukihime visual novel 2000
The Event occurred on October 31, 1997, yet the costumes were based on manga and Anime, not yet produced in North America. If some were to discover this list of costumes, a lot of questions would arise.
Suddenly, the papers are covered in mysterious blue flames and soon the papers turn red and burn away. The blue light fades leaving a cloud of fine gray ash that is blown away by the wind.
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End of Chapter 6
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CHAPTER 07: CHASER AND CHASED Part 3A
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Family
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Family denotes a group of people affiliated by consanguinity, affinity, and co-residence. Although the concept of consanguinity originally referred to relations by "blood," many anthropologists have argued that one must understand the notion of "blood" metaphorically, and that many societies understand 'family' through other concepts rather than through genetic distance.
Family is an interesting subject when referring to those converted by Halloween and those who remained what they were.
A protective older brother finds himself with new siblings to protect.
A rich hedonist criminal dressed as a saint-like character, goes from closing an orphanage to adopting all the children within it's walls.
A person who dressed as an orphaned character finding himself with a family. He may have never had a family before, but he will not give up what has been given to him.
A loner found himself with parents who love him and forge bonds he can't wander from.
The family not changed by Halloween night are changed by there bonds with those who have. The spiritual pressure of those who deal with spirits and supernatural creatures, causes those around them to develop spiritual powers. Those people that lives in areas with powerful magic will develop magical traits as a form of adaptation. Blood magic was powerful in this world before Halloween, so the blood that once flowed in the veins of the changed links them to those that share the blood, but didn't turn that night. Even those whose powers and abilities are based on technology are copied, as the base of science is the ability to replicate the results.
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A strange forest
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A figure slowly walks threw a thick dark forest.
Once the forest was small area between two towns with many young trees and only a few animals.
The massive amounts of spiritual energy and magical forces flowing into Earth charged the waters beneath the Earth and was drawn into the roots of the forest. The strange light of red sky above was absorbed into the leaves of the trees to form a new energy within. Trees barely twenty years old grew to the sizes of thousand year old trees within a month. The grew and changed, adapted to the new world with an immunity to fire and the ability to cleanse the poison miasma.
The forest has grow a thousand times in size and age, and now is filled with creatures of ancient times, giant animals and old gods. The young spirits of the forest grow in it's depths while the Forest Spirit watchs over all beinging life and death in an eternal cycle.
The figure is a bishounen (an extremely beautiful feminine man) around nineteen years old, standing five-foot-ten with golden eyes and long silver-white hair. His pointed ears and red facial markings and blue crescent on his forehead indicate he's a youkai, a Japanese supernatural creature/demon. He's dressed in a white Japanese kimono with honeycomb and flower crest at the collar, sleeves, and shoulder. Over that he wears a chinese-style cuirass and spiky pauldron made of bone. He also wears a flowing sash and a Sashinuki Hakama, which are gathered at the ankles producing the "ballooning" effect. . His footwear consists of flat pointed ankle-high boots, also reminiscent of Mainland (China) influence.
He is Sesshomaru, a five hundred year old Akita inugami youkai (dog demon), pure blooded first born son of Inu no Taisho (Great Dog General), and the Lord of Western Lands. He with help from his younger half-brother and his mate had finally destroyed Naraku, when he awoke to find himself in a large village filled with youg lesser youkai and abominations.
He found himself carrying three swords First is Tenseiga (Heavenly Life Fang), the sword of healing created from his father's fang by the demon sword smith Totosai. A single slash to bring the recently dead back life, which he used to revive Rin, a young village girl killed by wolves who followed him since then. He wanted his father's other fang sword, Tessaiga (Iron Crushing Fang), which could kill a hundred foes with a single blow, but learned he could not weild it. He discarded the Tenseiga after it lost it's recently acquired attack Meidou Zangetsuha.
The second sword is a fully restored Tokijin (Demon Fighting God), an evil sword forged by Totosai's evil rival Kajinbo from the fangs of Goshinki, an incarnation of Naraku who managed to break the Tessaiga during a battle. It's evil aura was enough to possess Goshinki, but Sesshomaru was able to master it. The blade shattered after battling Moryomaru, another more powerful incarnation of his enemy and was discarded. He instead searched for a replacement, which he found in the Meidou Zangetsuha ability of the Tenseiga.
The third sword is his own true signature weapon, Bakusaiga (Blast Fang). The Bakusaiga manifested itself in the hand of Sesshomaru's fully regenerated, and longtime-severed, left arm during his battle with Magatsuhi. The sword has the power to decompose any organic material that its blade comes in contact with, nullifying any regenerative abilities in doing so. Its birth signifies Sesshomaru's graduation into a full-fledged dai yokai (demon lord), which was long compromised by his obsession with Tessaiga. The Bakusaiga proves he's stronger than his father and can release massively powerful amounts of yoki (demon energy), enough to slay thousands of demons with one swing.
Following him are Jaken, an imp demon who became Sesshomaru's servant after he saved his life. He's a small green demon with bulging yellow eyes and carries the Nintojo - the Staff of Two Heads, a creepy tool with a young woman and old man's head ona long wooden staff. A staff which can spit fire from the old man's mouth to incinerate enemies, such as the "vampire" creatures and small youkai they encountered in the town.
After Jaken is Rin. She's the young child that tended to Sesshomaru who was recovering from Inuyasha learning the Kaze no Kizu (Wind Scar) attack of the Tessaiga, the same girl that was resurrected by Sesshomaru-sama. She's about seven year old with brown eyes and long black hair with a tail on the side. She's dressed in a peasant's yellow and white "checkered" kimono with a green sash.
Sesshomaru recently learned Rin has gained a minor ability to heal others. He thinks it may be related to her carrying the Tenseiga, the Meido Seki test, and the world's strange power.
Next to Rin is Kohaku. He was eleven years old at the time of his death, but that was only the beginning of his story. He stands five foot one with black brown hair and brown eyes. He's currently dressed in his Youkai-taija (demon slayer) armor with black and amber-color armor with topaz green ties and sash. His weapons are a katana with white and blue tsuka (hilt) and a green saya (sheath) and Kusarigama (chain and sickle) made from demon bone.
He was once the young child of demon slayer village sent on his first hunting mission, when Naraku took control of his body and used him to kill the entire team including his father and badly injured his sister. He was killed by a shower of arrows, but was raised from the grave by his killer Naraku using a corrupted shard of Shikon no Tama (Jewel of Four Souls).
His mind erased he was Naraku tool and used to attack Naraku's enemies, including his sister who survived the massacre at the castle. In time his memory returned and vowed to stop Naraku to atone for what he did. After the death of his ally Kagura, he joined the undead priestess Kikyo, the Sesshomaru after he rescued him from the latest incarnation of Naraku, Byakuya. After several more battles, the shard was finally removed.
The Kohaku behind Sesshomaru has been changed. He was once a zombie animated by the Shikon shard, then by Kikyo's light that was left behind after her death and the shard's removal. This Kohaku is now completely alive and the strange power that changed the lands around him have fused the spiritual power of the miko into Kohaku's soul. This has allowed Kohaku to charge his weapons with Senki (puriying divine energy) to increase the damage done to evil demons.
The next is Princess Sarah Emma Danann of Aes Sídhe. Sesshomaru quickly learned she was a young princess of foreign youkaim, the Children of Goddess Danu. The small pointed ear girl with long red in a long white dress floats threw the air using fragile transparent wings. She said she was celebrating samhain when she found herself in the town, her power increased, but her control weakened. She can create powerful barriers and illusions, which Sesshomaru believes would be useful and she offers more intelligent conversation than Jaken
The last in the group is a thief named Emily Isabella Jones, the most disturbing to Sesshomaru.
She remembers her life before Halloween. She was a green eyed brown-haired daughter of a local mechanic and a mother who died of cancer a year ago. She and her sister Emma dressed up for Halloween with there friend Catherine, a girl whose mother had also died of cancer years ago. Catherine and her father Sam went as Rin and Sesshomaru, while Emma dressed as a fairy princess and she dressed as a fantasy RPG Rogue. Sesshomaru doesn't like the idea of once being human.
After Halloween, she found her sister, best friend, and best friend's father consumed by there costumes. Her father had been killed by Jack O Lanterns leaving her alone, which left her with travelling with Sesshomaru's group. The only thing she can thank Halloween for is her is her ability to dodge attacks, detective skills, stealth, and her impressive skills with daggers, which now include shuriken she took off a dead ninja.
Suddenly, a huge animal emerges from the forest. A giant boar larger than a full grown Rhino with four long tusks and coarse dark brown fur. One of it's eyes is injured, the eyeball destroyed and the flesh around the crushed bone an angry red.
"Humans!" says the immense boar in a growling voice, "Why have you brought three filthy humans into my forest, Dog!? Why do you walk in human form!? TELL ME!!!"
"I have no need to explain myself to you." says Sesshomaru dismissing the giant boar like an insect.
"How dare you, you mutt!!" roars the boar. Around his eyes, the red flesh glows and moves like a mass of worms. Slowly a dark miasma like smoke is emitted from the wound and it's begins to spread. More and more crimson "worms" growing from the corrupted flesh as it spreads, turning a god of the forest into a demon.
As the now demonic boar attacks, Sesshomaru vanishs and then reappears several meters behind the Boar resheathing his Bakusaiga. As it enters the Saya with a click, the Boar collapses to ground it's head tumbling off it's shoulders and it's body seperating from it's legs.
The boars head lands in front of Kohaku, whose protecting Rin and Princess Sarah. It manages to say "Curse you, filth..." before the flesh rots away leaving a skull. The legs and torso also rot away leaving only the bones and a crimson pool of liquified remains.
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Yuuko Ichihara's Shop
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Yuuko Icihara is her adopted name. The kanji in her first name means"to help, assist, repay kindness" coinciding with her role in life as a mentor. She looks like a tall thin woman with eyes that change color and extremely long black hair that seems to move on it's own. The beautiful young-looking woman is dressed in a sexy dress that hides her true strength.
She is known by many names throughout the multiverse, most notably as "The Dimension Witch", a title that reflects her unique reach in time and space. She is a dealer in wishes as she will grant the sincere wish of anyone who is willing to make an appropriate sacrifice in return; the price is always equivalent to the weight of the wish, no more, no less. She is a Sorceress capable of creating gods and is one of the most powerful even in the world of Eternal Halloween
She is unique in that when a young girl dressed as her, she became an incarnation. A part of Yuuko's soul and mind given form in another demension, acting as an extension of the multi-dimensional sorceress.
Next to her are Mokona Modoki two rabbit-like creatures that were stuffed animals until Halloween. They are now living creatures, the white one with red jewel is named Soel and the black one with blue jewel is named Larg, both possessing an array of abilities ranging from writing and playing chess to magical abilities such as Time Traveling and Teleportation. The originals were created by Yuko Ichihara and sorcerer Clow Reed, which themselves were copies of an original Mokona from a magical world called Cephiro.
On her left are two little girls, one with chin-length pink hair with red ribbons in spiral ornaments and the other with long blue hair tied into ponytails on either side of his head. The girl have the same eye color as there hair and there dresses also match there eyes, but have opposite styles to eac other. They are magical contructs and like the originals possessed no souls, so when Yuuko appeared in this world it was easy to form them from CLAMP PV keychains. Since, Maru and Moro's concentration is what is keeping Yuuko's shop in existence, there recreation in Halloween World resulted in the house becoming a copy of shop, with it's existance tied to Maru and Moro.
One the right is Yuuko servant, Kimihiro Watanuki. He's a young man with short black hair and brown eyes hidden behind glasses dressed in Chinese style clothing. He was once an orphaned street boy named Kevin Walters, with a supernatural past His father made deals with the old world demons and died because his gambling addiction. His drunken mother was killed by demons in front of him, but he managed to escape with hidious scarring. He arrived at Yuuko's shop moments before the chaos wave changed the world and wished he could forget his life, escape the demons, to become a different person. When the chaos magic consumed the world, Kevin was erased and a copy of Kimihiro Watanuki, an orphaned boy cursed with the ability to see youkai (spirits)
He now works as the original does, Yuuko's assistant (rather, her very indignant indentured servant) who not only cooks, cleans, and complains (all with great skill), but finds himself performing very odd jobs and learning more about the occult.
Infront of her are clients Kurogane, Count D, and Howl.
Kurogane. An impressive red-and-black outfited ninja from feudal Japan (Nihon) weilding a katana named Ginryu (silver dragon). He also wears a red head protector wirh a black crescent black bracers with crimson crescent moons. He's a copy of the friend/servant of Princess Tomoyo of Shirasagi Castle and companion of Syaonan and now seeks to find a new purpose in life.
Count D. An extremely bushounen Chinese man with pale skin and chin-length black hair covering one eye. The right eye under the hair is gold, but looks green in the light and his left eye is purple. He's dressed in Chinese-style clothing and carrting a suitcase. He's a pet shop owner who sells unique pets, including some that can become lethal if you break one of it's three rules and is completely OBSESSED with sweets, sugar, and sugar products, and can talk to animals.
His family secret is D's clan goes back to ancient China, where they were held as priests and priestesses who had the ability to communicate with animals. Humans killed D's entire clan (because one of the women refused a high ranking mans proposal) and only D survived and has been cloning himself, meaning Count D is a clone of his father, as his father was before him. The animals D sells now are a method of revenge.
D's father came and tried to kill off all humans with a human-specific airborne disease, but was killed by D's friend Leon and D was forced to leave his China town shop. He's now found a home for him and his animals with the Dimension Witch. A small pet shop connected to many towns and forests.
The last is the wizard Hauru and his wife Sofie. He's a handsome man in his early twenties with aqua bleu eyes and short black he no longer dyes blond. She's a young woman standing five foor two with brown eyes and silver hair.
He was once known as the Heartless Man, a wizard whose heart was stolen by the demon Calcifier. Without his heart, his thinking became clouded with vainness, using his magic for purely "selfish uses.", devouring the hearts of beauties. It wasn't until he meet Sophie Hatter, that his life began to change. He rescued to her from soldiers, which caused the jealous Witch of Wastes to curse the young (19-20 year old) woman with the body of an old woman (90). A curse that when it was broken, left her with silver gray hair. She taught him to be brave and protect others and fell in love with her and she rescued him and returned his heart.
It was Hauru, also known as Howl, who created the special doors for Count D and Yuuko. These doors are designed to open to different places depending on which color the dial is set to. It allows the door to be open in many places and for people to find the shop in many places even if there's only one. Yuuko could have created them herself, but it was Hauru's idea.
"So do we have a deal,..."
In the shadow is a teenage man with red hair and green eyes. He's dressed in dark red clothing resembling jacket and pants with a huge object strapped on his back. On his forehead the Japanese kanji for love glows a menacing red.
"Subaku no Gaara?"
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Bus A, a few minutes from Sunnyside
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Sunnyside was once an average small town in California. It's interesting to note the spell Mayor Wilkin's cast on Sunnydale was designed to make the Boca de Inferno appear and feel like a hybird of the neighboring towns, including Sunnyside. It caused a normal person's ability to repress or ignore, so strong they didn't remember the strange happenings that plague the town and look more attractive to people than the neighbors making it bait to attract more victims.
As a result, Sunnydale looked like a smaller version of Sunnydale on economic decline before Halloween. The chaos wave destroyed the Mayor's spell, so for a couple months, Sunnyside was beautiful to those not consumed with thoughts of Halloween Horrors. Now, Sunnyside is a ruined town.
Most of the buildings are either destroyed by fire, reduced to burning rubbles or ashes, or scenes of massacre with doors and windows torn out, and interior soaked in dried blood. The only surviving buildings is a large school that looks abandoned, a craft store at the edge of town, and a large church near the center of town. The church stands like a white fortress against the darkness with a large wall made of scavenged material, destroyed school buses act as a second wall with barrels of burning trash and a mess of bobwire and razorwire forming the outer defense line.
Currently there is an army of monsters pounding the wall. The perimeter around the church has a radius of a hundred meters, a circle of over six hundred twenty eight meters, and a height of three meters, but the dense mass of monsters goes out from the wall by twenty they pound on the concrete, steel, and wood, more and more breaks.
For the past month, the only sound outside the church during the day and the night has been the sound of hungry and/or violent creatures spawned by Halloween in other towns
Now, a Jack O' Lantern feeding on a corpse wonders what loud sound is. He stops thinking all together as an armored Bus runs him over, splattering it's pumpkin head all over the road.
On the Bus, super- death dealer Buffy Summers yells out the orders.
"We are approaching Sunnyside Church, but there seems to be a large collection of monsters in the way!" she yells, then turns off the safeties on her gun, "It's time to cut a path!"
The bus screechs to a stop in front of the army of monsters and for them, Death jumps out.
Willow draws Sode no Shirayuki from it's saya and yells out the first release command, "Mae! Sode no Shirayuki (Dance Sleev's White Snow)". The entire sword including the blade, hilt, and handle, becomes white with the tsuba becoming a circle and a white ribbon forming from the pommel. She moves with inhuman speed and lands half way between the wall and the outer edge of the ring of monsters. "some no mai, tsukishiro (first dance, white moon)". She slashs with her blade causing the ribbon to form a circle in the air. The variious Halloween world feel a wave a cold spread from her in a circle. They feel there bodies beginning to freeze solid starting at there feet. Two of the monsters with small wings leap into the air, but the effect forms a pillar that reachs the sky like a white flare. Everything within the circle freezes solid and shatters.
Oz throws off his leather long coat and calls his inner wolf and transforms into a massive Man-Wolf form, a huge muscular fur-covered humanoid body and a fully lupine head. He then proves he's an Alpha Werewolf badass by ripping some of the larger monsters apart, literally ripping off limbs
Janna the Sorceress fires an immense wave of fire at a group of three dozen, a magical fire that burns the stronger monsters and incinerates the weaker ones.
Gendo and Crawford take sniper positions with rifles not willing to get close to the monsters. Brad's precognitive powers allows him to predict his targets movements, making sure every shot is perfect. He prefers hand-to-hand with human targets, but he's had too many encounters with demon poison, blood, and slime. Gendo doesn't need to be as accurate since his modified rifle fires Holyforged fragmentation bombs, so unlease one of there power is extreme durability, even a close hit can be lethal.
Kabuto makes the string of hand signs for Kasumi Enbu no Jutsu (Mist Waltz Technique) then proceeds to blow a large combustible mist at the mass of monsters and demons. When the mist hits the flames of the burning trash cans, it ignites into an explosion of fire that consumes the abominations. Those that escape the flames are introduced to an elite ninja's speed and skill with Holyforged kunai daggers each as sharp as surgical scalpels. One huge monster, over two meters tall and covered in bone spikes, asttacks with a blood thirsty roar, but is stopped cold by the killer intent in Kabuto's eyes, the pause is long enough for Kabuto to slice it's head off with one of the ultra sharp blades.
Roberta is like the first movie Terminator in a police station. She slays demon after demon, like a relentless killing machines. She proves why she's called "Bloodhound of Florencia" for her relentless drive to achieve her objectives and whu she is a match for the badass mercenary Revy of Lagoon Company. A woman who killed several boat fulls of pirates (jumping boat to boat and finishing the last with a grenade).
Ciel shows her many years of skill using her Black Keys, sword hilts with blades materialized by sorcery, though the Keys are treated more as daggers than swords and can be thrown. She tears threw the masses of creatures and stops the attack of one giant demon by pinning it's shadow, runs up it's body, then slashes it's head off. She proves why she's one the greatest hunters of the Burial Agency, a secret organization within the Catholic Church made up of skilled assassins.
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Shiori on Jio Freed's shoulder produces a protective barrier around Xander's Upper Half gang, while Raven releases a massive black blast like a battering ram crushing and sending monsters flying. Raven creates a path directly towards the Church's gates.
As the monsters fall and the other monsters regain there footing, Setsuna takes to the air and Priss charges forward to hold the lines.
Setsuna Sakurazaki uses her wings to attack the flying and jumping monsters.
"Zanganken!" (Stone-Cleaving Sword!)
A technique that infuses ki into the sword to cut a boulder in half, used now to cut a golem's boulder-size head in half.
"Raimeiken!" (Thunderclap sword!)
A slashing attack with lightning energy infused onto the proves extremely effect on a monster made of blue watery liquid, causing it to explode into steam and droplets.
"Hyakuretsuoukazan!!" (Hundred-Strike Cherry Blossom Slash!!)
She lands and draws a circle with the sword, and cuts multiple enemies at once. While one demon grabs the blade, a group of demons try to jump the crow girl from behind.
"Zankusho-San!!" (Air-Cutting Palm, Scatter!!)
She releases multiple ki projectiles like bullets, boosted by her enhanced power, tear threw the demons. She then turns at the demon holding her blade, who looks terrified of the small girl.
"Shin Raikouken!!" (True Lightning Sword!!)
He infuses lightning energy into the sword and causes an explosion that destroys the sorrounding area. The demon impaled and holding on to her blade is incinerated by the ki forged lightning.
Priss, silver eyes changed to gold, uses the massive Claymore to slice monster after monster apart. Her superhuman strength allowing her to weild the massive blade like a feather. She has a savage grin on her face as she kills, which disturbs the monsters that see it.
She slices a head clean off, cuts a body in half at the waist, cuts a head in pieces, and continues to kill until it's nearly raining different colors of blood.
One demon grabs her sword, but Priss rams her fist threw it's skull. For a second the swelled veins make her look like a golden eyed devil, then she reverts to something more human, but continues the relentless slaughter of demons and monsters.
Jio, Shiori, and Aerith reach the Church and make it threw the now open door.
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Buffy is using her automatic pistols loaded with special rounds and Jill Nanashi uses her sword. They form a powerful fighting pair as any demon not stopped by Buffy's exploding blessed rounds are cut to pieces by Jill's Nihonto (Japanese Sword). Soon they are sorrounded by two rings of corpses, an outer ring killed by Buffy and the inner killed by Jill.
Remus Lupin doesn't like to use his werewolf abilities, so he's using his skills as a Wizard, waving his wand and cast spell after spell in rapid succession. A couple of Cave Inimicum to strengthen the bus and church from the attacking enemies.
He fires a Confringo (Blasting Curse) at a troll-like creature aiming at the axe it's holding. The explosion of shrapnel kills the fantasy troll and the monster next to it. A powerful Incendio sets one demon clad in rags and bandages to burst into flames. A Protego (Shield Charm) stops a couple of poisoned arrows and Protego Horribilis to stop black magic fire balls. A Reducto (Reductor Curse) blasts a hole threw the very solid head of the undead archer and Severus Snape's original curse Sectumsempra against the dark creature that shot the fireballs. The curse causes severe wounds like those of sword, causing the demon to collapse in a pool of it's own life fluids.
Succubus Lilith is a laughing as she tears threw demon after demon, the excitement making her stronger by the second. She even begins to devise and use new techniques as she fights. Her wings becoem scythe-like blades as flips between two demons, decapitating both of them.
A large fiery energy bat tears of the head of a zombie and a thick cloud of tiny energy bats strip another of rotting flesh leaving a standing skeleton.
She grabs the arm of a huge bear-like creature with her claws, then pumps her demonic energy into it's body. The bear seems to decay as if injected with acid, then bursts into flames.
She laughs loudly as she flares her demonic aura, creating a circle of purple flame around her and incinerating those stupid enough to get to close. She then forms the circle into a giant shining purple fireball above her head and tosses it while jumping into the air. The fireball creates a fiery explosion and twenty demons are reduced to ashes. The fireball also creates a wave of purple flame, like crescent shockwave, that burns two dozen more and destroys three abandoned buildings.
Amy and May are working together for once. Amy uses her insane archery skills to take monsters with arrows to the head, neck, or chest. Those not killed by the barbed holyforged metal arrows are finished off by lightning spells. The spells use the metal arrows as lightning rods, channeling ther electrical power deep into the bodies of the monsters. May doesn't let Amy have most of the fun, thoe, using a couple of spell taught to her by Arshes Nei to barbeque large numbers of creatures.
Phil's weapons of choice are unique.
On his back in a holster is a three section staff also known as sanjiegun. It's made of traditional white oak with a diameter of 1.25 inches, but it and the connecting chains are plated with a silver-based holyforged alloy, one end covered in Christain bible verses and Jewish Tanakh scripture, the other is covered in Buddhist sutra and Shinto writings (The Kojiki and The Nihon Shoki), and the center is covered in Hindu sutras, Jainism sutras, and Islam Qur'an writing.
The other weapon, which is in Phil's hands, is "Philinator", a special bless metal plated Gatling-type Machine gun built by the HolyForge and designed to fire armor piercing and incinerary ammo at over four thousand rounds per minute . It's a massive weapon that one would find bolted and welded to air plane, not hanging from some one's hand. A normal human wouldn't be able to use the massive weapon, even if they managed to life it, the recoil would shatter there bones to dust, but Phil is an enhanced zombie and has implanted devices, and special straps and cables in his outfit help him absorb the shock.
As Phil fires his gun it produces a burst of fire that extends almost a meter from the barrels. It's interesting to
note that special charms cause the heat from the barrel to be transfered to the fired rounds, keeping the barrel below red hot and keeping the bullets hot away from the gun. Another spell that can be used causes the bullets and casing to return to a special container so they can be recycled int new bullets.
The add ons don't matter to the monsters, they are just torn apart like if there bodies are made of plasticine and with all the explosive and armour-piercing military-grade firepower being tossed around, it actually makes sense. In seconds the zombie reduces hundreds of monsters, demons, vampires, and ironically zombies into extra chunky Ragu sauce.
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A small group of surviving demons run towards the Church hoping to take hostages and/or refuel on human flesh and/or blood.
One demon falls back back a smoking hole threw his head caused by a .45 blessed bullet moving at 800 ft/s (244 m/s). The source is a Colt M1911 in the hands a woman standing in the Church Doors. The teenage woman stands five foot six, a hundred thirty six pounds with long blond hair and blue eyes. She's dressed in an odd Nun's outfit with slits up the sides of the skirt for quick movement, a gun and utility belt around her waist, and dark brown leather gloves and boots.
She is Sister Rosette Christopher, a woman born 1912 and died 1928 in arms of her demon protector Chrono. They stopped many demons togther and they died together after defeating the demon revolutionary Aion. When she awoke in this world, part of Chrono was apart of her and he life force was increased dramatically by the overloaded Ley Lines, the streams of spiritual energy that have been growing since Halloween, as Chrono's horns once allowed him and Joshua to draw power Astral Line, a stream of energy in which all things come and go.
She helped defend the town until her Gospel bullets ran out. In the last battle, a week ago, she had to use a dagger dipped in her own blood to escape a demon.
Bang!
A second shot rings out a Holy forged bullet tears threw the head of another demon. The large eared green skinned gargoyle-like creatures has an almost comic look on it's face from the bullet hole in it's forehead, then it's head ignites into white flame. The flesh is quickly reduced to ash and then a wave expands like a wave incinerating the flesh off the rest of the body before it can hit the ground. As it hits the broken concrete, the bones shatter into dust.
The next gun slinger turns out to be a woman with short blond hair and round glass dressed as a priest with a long coat. Her partner holding a sword is busty Japanese woman with wild hair and dressed a Nun who slowly whispers, "Shimabara Battouryuu"
Heinkel Wolfe is a pistol wielding assassin for the Iscariot organization, partners with Yumie, and thoe a woman dresses like a priest. Heinkel Wolfe nearly cried when she saw Yumie alive. The last time she saw her, she was cut to pieces by Walter C. Dornez, a former member/traitor of Hellsing who had been transfrormed by Millenium into a younger, more powerful vampire.
"Shiden!" says the sword weilding Yumie now behind the demons clicking her blade.
Yumie Takagi. A katana-wielding Japanese nun. She is a fanatical Catholic and seems to genuinely enjoy killing people with her superhuman sword skills. She knows various Battoujutsu (kill-from-the-draw) sword techniques, but is quite capable of smashing men's heads into walls with her bare hands.
The crimson-skinned devil with fangs, claws, horns, bat-like wings, and arrowhead tail is split in half from the top of his head between the curved horns to crotch with it's tail cut apart. The impossible cut cause an eruption of black blood on the church steps as the two halves seperate and fall.
The only thing Heinkel can complain about is after Yumie's resurrection, she now possesses a semi-split personality. She has her normal, blood thirsty persona with no memory of her or Father Anderson's brutal deaths and a bespectacled and pacifist nun persona named Yumiko. One of kids said, before he died of demon injuries, that it was "Crossfire Syndrome".
The last demon, a blue-skinned fish-like monster who moves quickly for someone with webbed feet, tries to flee, but is shot in back of the legs by Heinkel, a Gospel bullet from Sister Rosette hits the creature in the back and burns a hole out of the chest, and before it can hit the ground, Yumie slices it's head clean off.
Heinkel ran into trouble last week, when her supply of ammo ran out and at the same time, the demons developed the tactic they tried to uses on Setsuna and Priss, allowing a regenerating demon to be impaled and grip the sword, then have the other demons attack. Yumie escaped with her life, but the mytical poison in the claws of one demon made her unable to move. What's worse is Sister Rosette's healing ability wasn't able to cure her, only prevent her from dying for the entire week.
A healing spell by Aerith on the other hand cleansed Yumie of the poison and there combined healing power restored Yumie to full strength. The Scoobie bus also had a fresh supply of blessed ammo putting the team back at full strength.
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Two figures stand near a window on the top floor.
One is seventeen year old man standing five-foot-ten, a hundred nineteen pounds with short light brown/dirty blonde hair and reddish-brown eyes He was an agile, athletic body with a handsome face. He's dressed in a black shirt, tan pants, and white shoes with a white jacket
The other is a nineteen year old woman standing four-foot-nine, under eighty pounds with blue eyes and long blond hair. She is beautiful and has the body of a model with measurements 30-20-28". She's dressed in a lace black top, red shirt, black leggings, and designer black boots. She also wears a black coat with a white fur collar. She also has her hair done in two small ponytails on her head and perfect makeup.
"Our ride has arrived." she says with humor in her voice.
It's strange since this gothic woman she was died at twenty four, commiting suicide jumping off a rooftop when she learned her obsession was dead. She awoke with her love in world consumed by hell, no longer human. They were forever changed by how they lived there lives in there own world.
"What is it?" asks the woman noticing her lover staring down at one of the fighters. She follows his stare and sees woman in a black kimono using a white sword that creates ice. "I see."
"She like us, but her power is towards the positive." says the man with a calculated look, "I don't think she needs to feed."
"We will have to introduce ourselves."
Behind them on the wall, cast in shades of red, are there dark silhouettes. As the light dances across them it seems to sparkle and form the feathery wings of an angel.
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The entire army of Halloween horrors has been massacred and the Sunnydale troops and the three Church defenders only have minor injuries, some which are healing on there own, while others can be healed by a potion or quick spell.
The Sunnydale Team leaders, Buffy, Willow, Janna, and Raven and the Church defender takes a set inside the church.
"I never thought I be glade to see a group of demons." says Heinkel with a East European accent.
"Thank you for your help." says Yumiko, the Yumie persona now repressed, "The numbers kept on growing and our resources were running out."
"How many of you are left?" asks Buffy
"Twenty One including our protectors." come a voice from the stairs as the two people who were watching Willow descend. They are followed by twelve children ranging from six to twelve years old, both male and female. "Father Miguel Angel and Sister Natalie are helping the Parkers pack."
"This is Mr and Mrs. Yagami." explains Sister Rosette, "They act as our tacticians and thinkers"
"If it hadn't been for them, the Church would have fallen shortly after Halloween."
"Unfortunately, the few vehicles in our town were too damaged to repair, so we couldn't send for help or leave this town. The church once held ninety-three people, but attacks during repairs and while scavenging cut down our numbers. The worst has been this month with the increasing numbers of demons searching for food." say Mr. Yagami, "Where are you going from here?"
"We are currently travelling to Northern Colony. It's suppose to have advance technology and ruled by robots and cyborgs. According to intel, there friendly and our own town Sunnydale hopes to open trade with them. Your group can travel with us, either getting off at the Northern Colony or return with us to Sunnydale Colony."
Suddenly, there is a loud rubbling sound.
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One more demon has appeared, but's it's not in the same size category as the others. Most of demons and monstersa range from the size of a human child to slightly larger than normal adult human male, which makes senses considering they originated from human Halloween costumes. The larger monsters started smaller but grew as they feed and now range from two to four meters in height.
The demon that has appeared could star in a Toho Daikaiju (Giant Monster) film. It's a immense reptile standing on two thick legs with mmense three serpentine dragon heads, each with glowing red eyes. Phil thinks it resembles a blue and gold Ghidorah and is a hundred and forty meters tall and has a estimate length of a hundred and fifty meters. It shakes the entire town as it moves because he must weigh a hundred thousand tons.
How something so massive to reach Sunnyside without alert the enhnaced senses of Buffy Bus is a mystery, but it causes a wide array of reactions.
Oz, "Not Good"
Gendo Ikari, "Iamgonnadie!Iamgonnadie!Iamgonnade!"
Brad Crawford "I didn't predict this."
Kabuto Yakushi, "Even Manda wasn't this big."
Roberta, "..."
Ceil, "..."
Shiori, "Not good."
Jio Freed, "No kidding."
Setsuna, "I need a bigger sword."
Priss, "..."
Aerith Gainsborough, "Oh my."
Jill Nanashi "Kami-sama"
Remus Lupin "We are history."
Lilith Aensland "Looks like fun."
Amy and May "Are you crazy, Lilith!?"
Phil, "OH S!#!"
The head on the left opens it's mouth wide and blue-white lightning seems to travel from the chest up the next, concentrating in the sharp toothed mouth. Even at a distance, the human defenders can see a pitch black mass form in the mouth, solidifying into a pulsating sphere. It's head rolls back then swings forward as if tossing the black ball like a baseball pitch. The ball explodes out of the mouth as a blue-white blast of energy sorrounded by swirling black mist.
The beam's energy is so immense the remaining buildings near the beam collapse from it's warped magnetic and gravity fields. It shatters all remaining windows including the stain glass of the church. The group can only watch as the beam goes over there heads, destroying the second floor of the church and the bell tower with it's wake, and continues on to create a mushroom cloud -level explosion on the other side of town. The shockwave nearly causes the church to collapse.
The head on the right opens it's mouth and begins to gather energy, and the Sunnydale heroes realize it's adjusting to hit them directly and there's nothing they can do. Shiori forms a barrier and Remus and Janna reinforce it with magic, but they serious doubt it will be enough to deflect or weaken the blast enough to save there lives.
The dragon head whips forward and releases a more powerful blast. Instead of an energy beam, it's spherical blast with a comet-like tail. The ball of blue-white fire held within black bands and blue lightning moves at incredible speed to annihilate the humans and there allies.
Suddenly, a red and silver-white blur jumps over the Church, over the heroes in front of it, and into the parh of the blast. Those possessing superior vision sees the blur as a teenage half-demon. It's hard to tell in air, but he stands five-foot-six, a hundred forty three pounds, with gold eyes and long silver hair that looks white in the light of the dragon blast. What indicates his demon blood are claws, fangs, and triangular dog ears on the top of his head. He's dressed in red Hakama (pants), red Hitoe (Jacket), white Kosode (shirt), and obi (belt). He holds an immense sword resembling a giant fang with fur flickering at the hilt.
"BAKURYUHA!!" (Blasting Flowing wave/Backlash wave!)
As wind swirls around the blade, the half demon cuts threw the ball. As he swings the blade, he forms enormous charging twisters that sucks the foes power into his own attack and forces it to flow backwards. The wind and the power twist together into a vortex, pushing it backwards and the three headed dragon is attacked by its own demonic force and sword's might combined.
The group watchs as the dragon's immense destructive energy is consumed by horizonal twisters, that hit the dragon monster and drills threw him. The winds spiral like a hurricane, tearing flesh and bone, before exploding leaving the monster missing right head including the neck and the entire right wing. Beyond the missing limbs, the right side of his torso and part of the middle head shreeded and smoking.
The creature roars in pain and rage, loud enough to deften a city. It's left head quickly gathers energy for another blast, but is stopped by a concentrated energy in the shape of a blue crescent moon
"GETSUGA TENSHOU!!" (Moon fang heaven stab!!)
The energy blasts pierces the growing sphere in the dragon's mouth and the back of mouth, shooting out the back the head. The small amount of gathered energy explodes, destroying the right head, and sends fire down the neck shreeding and burning muscle, bone, and connective tissue.
The teenage man who fired that energy blast stands five foot nine, a hundred thirty five pounds with brown eyes and short spiky orange hair. He's dressed in same outfit as Willow with an even larger sword. It resembles a huge cleaver with no hand guard and a long ribbon trailing from the hilt.
The dragon monster down to it's last head is weak and struggling to move. It's bleeding badly from the wounds not sealed by fire and running down the neck and chest. The crimson liquid is raining down on the destroyed town like rain.
Slowly, it's remaining mouth glows a faint and then it releases of cone-shaped spray of blue-white flames. The beam has both crushing force and extreme heat, smashing the ground it hits to gravel and super heating it enough to cause the rocks to explode. As the dying drqgon raises it's head, beam moves forward towards the burning church.
The two new arrivals launch a Kaze no Kizu (Wind Scar) and another Getsuga Tenshou. The Wind Scar is stopped by the vortex of the dragon beam. The moon fang heaven stab pierces the beam and the Dragon's scaly hide, but the thousands of tons of demonic flesh is too massive to be stopped by single hit. The beam is about to hit the Church appear and heat and wind are barely blocked by the shields.
Suddenly, like a miracle from the sky, a green blast of energy hits the one remaining good eye of thes dragon causing a large explosion. A blast that causes the monster to turn it's head causing the beam to change course, going off to the side and then finally dying as the Dragon's energy dies.
The dragon stands for several minutes, it's last head blinded and blood falling like tears, then it collapse to the ground with a thunderous boom. It's breathing slows and finally stops, the remaining life fluids draining from the corpse.
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A clay figurine of the dragon also missing two of it's three heads and a wing, crumbles into powder. The figuires in the darkness watch as the powder is blown away in the faint wind.
"The Dragon failed."
"There will be other chances."
"What should we do withthem."
"They were only good as hostages. We don't have the resources to raise them as weapons."
"Understood."
The night is quiet except for the sound of something hard smashing and something wet. It almost sounds like crushing egg shells, but much louder
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"ICHIGO!" yells Willow running up to the orange-haired shinigami.
Ichigo Kurosaki and Rukia Kuchiki first encountered each other when she tracked a Hollow. Rukia was unable to sense the Hollow due to high school student Ichigo'r immense spiritual pressure and was injured protecting the Kurosaki family. To save there lives, she transferred her power to Ichigo causing him to become a substiture shinigami. That was the start of the adventures.
"Rukia!"
They defeated the Hollow born of the brother of Ichigo's friend Orihime and helped another friend Chad free a soul from a Parakeet and send the murderer who had been using the kid as bait to hell. Rukia and Ichigo learned it had been a powerful Hollow called Grand Fisher that killed Ichigo's mother and after a competition with the last Quincy, Ichigo managed to scare away a Menos Grande - a giant Hollow the size of a skyscraper.
"Well... Part of me is."
He even travelled to the Soul Society to rescue her from being executed, fighting Leutenants and Captains and exposed Aizen as a traitor and she followed him into the Hollow World to rescue Orihime.
"INUYASHA!" yells Shiori running up and hugging him, if she had wings like her father and the other pure blood demons, she would have flown
Inuyasha is a two hundred year akita inugami-hanyo (half dog demon), the son the Great Dog General and the human noble Izayoi, the younger half brother to Lord Sesshomaru, Lord of Western Land in his time. After the deaths of his parents, he was left alone in a world that shunned him for being half-demon. He came to a village searching for the powerful mystical Shikon no Tama (Jewel of Four Souls) hoping to become a full demon, but ended up falling in love with it's protector, the great priestess Kikyo and she with him. She convinced him to become human, eliminating the Jewel, so they could live there lives together.
"Shiori?!"
A human, named Onigumo, plotted to take the jewel for himself. He was once a bandit who was obsessed with Kikyo and became jealous that she had fallen in love with InuYasha. Unable to take any other action, Onigumo gave his body to a horde of demons for power. Their union created the most evil demon in his world's known history, Naraku.
A shapeshifter, he tricked Inuyasha and Kikyo into hating each. Inuyasha was sealed to a tree for fifty years and Kikyo died of wounds inflicted by Naraku in Inuyasha's form
"How did you get here, Shiori!?"
He was freed from the seal by Kikyo's reincarnation from the future, a girl of modern Japan known as Kagome Higurashi and after a battle with a crow demon, the resurfaced Jewel was shattered and scattered across Japan. That began there adventure searching for the jewel shards and trying to destroy Naraku. It was during one of who adventures, trying to destroy Naraku's barriers, they he meet Shiori.
"I awoke in a town called Sunnydale to the South." says Shiori, "Did Kagome come with you??"
"She wasn't with me, when I awoke. I dn't know where she could be or even if she's in this weird world."
"Someone must have dressed as her, somewhere in the world."
"Dressed as her???"
"I learned that in this land, they celebrate an autumn holiday in which the spirits of the dead return to the world of the living, like Obon. They dress in costumes and go from home to home asking people if they want to give them treats or do those people want mischief. A dark sorceror in Sunnydale cast a spell and people bacame there constumes and the spell torn itself from his hold and changed the whole world."
"So, some people dressed as us and we possessed them body and soul." says a disturbed Inuyasha, "Why would someone dress as me??"
"As Willow explained it, people in different world precieve each other in different manners. What can be myth and fiction in one world, can be legend and history in another. The events of our world are recorded in this world in form of adventure stories with you as the hero."
Over with Willow and Ichigo, Willow explains that she's a hybrid of Willow Rosenburg and Rukia Kuchiki. She has Rukia's body, but Willow is the dominant mind with Rukia's memories and few traits. Her soul is part Willow and part Rukia, which explains how she use "Sleeve's White Snow", a weapon forged from her own soul. She also explains how her Willow shaped body was converted into a strange Rukia-shaped Gigai that merges with her, when she enters Shinigami form.
"The same thing happens to me. When I need to become a Shinigami, I come out of my body and it vanishs into me." says Ichigo, "At least I won't have to deal with Chappy again!"
"Aah. Chappy is the most popular Gikongan with female Shinigami." says Willow, shifting between Rukia and Willow traits, "The bunny is so cute"
"Cute!?!?" yells Ichigo "While you were fighting that Arrancar D-Roy, she wrecnched my arm."
"So she likes playing." says Willow, not noticing she responded to being Rukia
A few meters away, Dawn floats in the air and looks towards the giant corpse of dragon monster. She's positive she saw a green energy blast hit the dragon.
"Raven!!"
Dawn is suddenly in a bone crushing hug. The woman holding her is tall and athletic with green eyes, orange kin, and long auburn hair. She dressed in a purple top with a metallic collar, a tight shorts with a metallic belt, boots reaching mid thigh with a metallic rims, and metallic arm protectors going from elbow to the back of the hands. She also a band on her right upper arm.
"Starfire!"
Starfire was born and raised on the distant planet Tamaran before arriving on Earth and joining the Teen Titans. Starfire's alien physiology constantly absorbs ultraviolet radiation and converts it to energy, for various purposes. These include flight which leaves a distinctive energy contrail behind, looking as if it is coming directly from her hair and the ability to channel and project that same energy into destructive blasts called "starbolts". She is also capable of assimilating other languages through physical contact with another person and possesses superhuman strength--the uppermost level of which is not known as yet, but it is well over the level of her teammate Cyborg's strength who can lift/press at least 15 tons.
The last ability is currently on Dawn's mind.
"Starfire. Let go before you snap me in half!"
"Sorry, friend Raven, but I am so glad to find you."
"My host Dawn persona is dominant, Starfire. So you can call me either Dawn or Raven." says Dawn floating back a few feet, then she notices how tall Starfire is. She now stands over six foot!
"Starfire, how did you get so tall??"
"The person who became me was very tall, so I became a more mature version of myself. Her name according to the wallet I found was Kory Anders, which sounds like my name in Temaran, Koriand'r. Many mail lists accidently spell my name that way. She decided to go as me with her husband to costume party."
"What's the last thing you remember?"
"We returned after fighting the Brotherhood of Evil and our trip to Tokyo"
"Wait a minute... Husband!?"
Starfire blushs and points behind her, towards the ground.
"Kory's husband Richard decided to wear a similar costume."
On the ground, is an athletic man standing five foot ten, a hundred eighty pounds with blue eyes and black hair. He's dressed a black costume with blue on the arms and upper chest and a black mask.
"Robin??"
"It's Nightwing in this outfit. Sorry I wasn't able to help with the dragon."
Suddenly, there is a whimpering sound and Dawn nearly falls out of the air when Nightwing takes a package off his back. Inside the bag is a baby carrier holding a black-haired baby girl.
"Where? How? What?" says the studdering Raven, a nearby light pole twsiting into a spiral.
"The Anders couldn't find a babysitter for there daughter Mary so they took her to the party. When the magic warped the world, she was changed as well. I managed to gather resources at a hospital in another town before it was destroyed by a mega monster and did a DNA test, genetically, she's mine and Starfire's."
It takes several minutes for the normally ice cold Dawn/Raven to recover from the shock. Then she rights herself in the air and turns back to Starfire.
"So, where did you guys come from? Most of the towns have been destroyed by monsters or the red sky's fire storms. North and South are mostly gone."
"We came from a town in the East and having been moving west to Sunnydale since it's growing to be the most powerful colony in the new world." say Starfire, "We have a lot of families that wish to stop running and settle down."
"Where are they? We didn't see any vehicles entering town and if they had been on the other side of town, they would have been destroyed by the dragon creature's first attack."
"There a second way out of town near an old gas station restaurant Our buses and RVs are parked there."
"Give me a minute and I'll get some of the others."
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Buffy, Willow, Oz, Ichigo, Inuyasha, Shiori, Janna, and the Glasses Group stay to help the Vatican Trio and the Yagami tend to the children and bury the bodies of Father Miguel Angel, Sister Natalie, and the Parkers who were killed when the upper floor collapsed during the attack.
Dawn leading the Upper Halves - Jio, Setsuna, Priss, and Aerith- and Jill Nanashi leading the Monstars - Remus, Lilith, Amy, May, and Phil- travel with Nightwing, Starfire, and there daughter.
The vehicles are much weaker and primitive than the Sunnydale Buses showing a lack of resources and skilled people in there creation and signs of hurried conversion.
There's a large commercial passenger bus that was converted into an RV is now painted black-and- red with shutters over the windows and tinted glass wind shield lamented with some form of plastic. The Sunnydale troops can tell by small blobs of plastic near the edges. The wheels are also covered by metal plates and the roof an antenna sorrounded by rows of metal spikes.
There's also a grey Class C motorhome with metal plates replacing the plastic and bars and sheets of metal covering the windows. The cab has a caged windscreen and spiked bars over the doors.
Finally, there is the oddest, a Volkswagen Type 166 'Schwimmwagen'. The Type 166 is the most mass-produced amphibious car in history, arguably the most capable light military wheeled off-roader in World War II. Fifteen thousand were produced from 1942 to 1944. Only one hundred thirty three are known to remain today, and only thirteen have survived without restoration work
"That's from the same party." says Nightwing, noticing where the group is looking " Some idiot came dressed as a Nazi , Waffen-SS officer and was killed within seconds after the transformation. He arrived late and was outside in his Jeep Wrangler with a toy 'Schwimmwagen' in his pocket. The magic which made his uniform and weapons real, it also converted the Jeep. For some reeson, it's metal is many times stronger and heat resistant than normal Thankfully, the paint was wasn't and we were able to burn off the Swastika."
"Don't forget that symbol was ancient before Nazis." says Jill, "It has first been used in Neolithic India and is a sacred symbol in Mithraism, Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism, religions with over a billion adherents worldwide, making the swastika ubiquitous in both historical and contemporary society."
The group looks at her oddly.
"I have memories of meeting another immortal called Manji and that was his symbol. He said he had been having problems since 1910 and especially after the 1940s. He said he wasn't going to change it since he was born centuries before that lunatic was born."
"Were you good friends." asks Starfire
"Not really" says Jill, "During our first meeting, he stole one of my swords. During our second, I tied him to a post and force fed him a pound of Tsukiyotake, a type of poisonous mushroom found in Japan."
Nightwing shivers remembering when Beast Boy accidently brought home jack o'lantern mushroom , which is a companion to Japanese Tsukiyotake and has the same poison. It looked and smelled good and wasn't lethal, but it caused very severe cramps, vomiting, and diarrhea.
The Bus is hidden in the shadows and opens to reveal an odd collection of people.
The first is a five-foot-eleven bishounen with long dark lavender hair and green eyes. He's dressed in a dark blue business outfit. The only strange thing about him is his companion, sitting on his shoulder. She's only six inches tall with red eyes, long greenish yellow hair, and green skin. She's naked, but is sexless as a Barbie doll, with large webbed wings like a dragon or bat.
"Detective Tatsuhiko Shido. Kanagawa Prefecture, Yokohama" he says with a smile, "My little companion here is urban fairy Gumi."
Zap!
The group sweatdrops at the scene. The urban fairy zapped Tatsuhiko with a mini lightning bolt.
"Oops. Sorry. Halloween gave me a power boost."
The second is a beautiful European woman standing five-foot-nine with red eyes and shoulder length blond hair. She's dressed in a white long sleeve shirt and purple pants with dark shoes.
"Arcueid Brunestud." she introduces herself
"What a minute! Arcueid Brunestud?" says Remus, "The White Princess? The Princess of the Shinso??"
"How do you know that!?" demands the true ancestor, "I haven't told anyone about my past."
"We know because Ciel is also part of out group and Shiki is in Sunnydale."
Hope shines in the eyes of the White Princess.
The next to get off the bus is a young man and a small boy. The older is tall with long black hair and brown eyes wearing black shirt, red jacket, red pants, and a black belt. He also wears leather gloves, tall red hat with a black belt and carries a silver sword. The younger is the opposite, short, blue eyes and short blond hair, he looks far more innocent. He wears a poofy old fashion white shirt and tan pants with black shoes and gold edge leather vest. They both wear goggles around there neck.
"Jiro and Kotaro Mochizuki" says Nightwing, "Brothers and yes, adopted."
The last person to exit is six foot five bishounen looking around eighteen with long brown hair and turquiose eyes. He moves with unearthly grace and is dressed in dark clothing of the 1800s and also have a large hat of his own. He has the perfect poker face, which is spoiled when his left hand says "Another group of weirdos."
"D. His name is D, as in the letter." says Nightwing, "The human faced symbiote with the big mouth is Left Hand, because that is where it is."
"So, a vampire detective, a vampire princess, an old vampire with the reincarnation of his sire, and a half vampire demon hunter?" asks Dawn
Everyone looks a little stunned, she figured it out.
"Sunnydale has a system called The Files, we keep records of fictional characters, the ones used to create the costumes. Your names are listed under the small Friendly Vampires title. Since the Northern Colony is technology based they may be tollerant to vampires."
"I want to see Shiki, again" says Arcueid, "I wonder..."
"No problem. We may have the largest concentration of hunters, but we also have resident vampires. In fact, one of our leaders is biological super-vampiress and vampiress Ceras Victoria is on Bus currently travelling to a Southern colony on a similar mission our Bus. Thank god, we didn't get her sire. I would stay away from the female priest and Asian nun the Church"
"Why?" asks Kotaro
"There are a pair of fanatical Vatican vampire hunters."
That makes people nervous.
Suddenly, the door on the motorhome opens and two men are thrown out on to the tarmac.
One of the men an embaressed man in his thirties with yellow-green eyes behind thin glasses and short cut black hair. The other is a twenty nine year old man with longer black hair and onyx eyes. He's also shorter at five foot eight. They are both dressed in a blue and white uniforms with gold cords on their shoulder. The younger man also wears white gloves with odd symbols in red on the backs.
They are followed out by two women.
The first woman is between thirty five and forty standing five-foot-eight with an athletic build. She's pale with dark blue eyes and long black hair done in microbraids. She's dressed in a white sleeveless long jacket, dark green pants ending halfway between the knee and ankle, and sandals.
The other woman is around twenty five standing five-foot-six with red-brown eyes and blonde hair done in an odd style. She wears the same blue uniform jacket and carries a gun, but she's dressed in looser casual clothing. The reason being several months pregnant.
A group of children also run out.
A little girl with yellow-green eyes and dirty blond hair done in two ponytails on the sides of her head. She dresses in a white-and-pink dress with old white sneakers
"Dad, are you OK??"
"Yes, Elisa. I'm fine, Riza just got mad." says the man with glasses.
The next is a Hispanic boy standing five-foot-eleven with dark eyes, dark skin, long black hair. He's dressed in a sleeveless black shirt and shorts with black armbands and black-and-white sneakers
"Roy has a big CENSORED mouth."
The older woman smacks the back of his head.
"Watch your language."
The last is a young boy with blue eyes and black hair. He has an angelic face with a devil's smile.
"Mustang, if you ever talk about that again," says the pregnant Riza, "I'm going to shoot your best friend and I don't mean Hughes!"
Dawn turns to Nightwing as asks, "The Halloween Party??", which Nightwing nods.
"Lukas and Laura Meyer. A policeman and his lawyer wife went to the costume party dressed as characters from there son's manga, Brigadier General Roy Mustang and First Lieutenant Riza Hawkeye. She was pregnant at the time with her second kid and the first, Robert, was at home with the babysitter.'
'Lukas best friend Julian Weber was dressed Lieutenant Colonel Maes Hughes, best friend of Roy Mustang. His wife was killed in a hit and run leaving him to raise Elisa alone, which was hard considering he barely saw her and he was having marital problems. He left Elisa with Robert at the Meyers'
'The older woman was Laura's secretary Victoria Santos. A immigrant from Brazil and expert in the Afro-Brazilian martial art Capoeira. She was a widow whose police husband died in the line of duty. She wasn't dressed as anyone, but she told people she was dressed as her art teacher from her home town'
'Her son Gabriel was with Robert and Elisa during Halloween. Apparently, a tainted treat scare last year, caused many parents to keep there kids home and appease them with store bought candy ''
The Sunnydale group watches as Riza contnues to berate Roy.
"When the magic hit, Lukas and Laura became Roy and Riza, and Julian became Maes. Victoria became Izumi Curtis, the extremely skilled teacher of Mustang's golden boy, some famous child prodigy named Elric. Apparently, she resembled the woman enough for a proximity transformation.'
'Fortunately, she doesn't suffur the same medical condition as the original. The original lost her all the organs in her abdominopelvic cavity namely her reproductive organs and part of her digestive system. This left her weak and coughing blood, until she finally died years later."
"and the kids?"
"It wasn't just for me and Starfire that I did a DNA test.": says Nightwing, "Mary's transformation was close proximity. but the child inside Riza must be Riza and Mustang's child. The other children were far way and weren't transformed by Halloween, but close proximity with there surrogate-former-parents after combined with the blood magic that emerged from sharing the same blood is causing effects.'
'Elisa is mostly unchanged, except she has a closer bond and better hand eye coordination, but those could be natural. Gabriel and Robert on the other hand seem to be developing the same ability as Roy and Izumi, the ability to use Alchemy."
"As in Magic?"
"They call it science, but it seems more like functioning magic where some underlaying magical rule system is applied. It is a technique used to transform one material into another by analysing it's molecular composition, breaking it down to there base components, and then reconstructing in a new form. It follows a law of equivilant exchange, which is similar to conversation of mass and uses seals"
Suddenly, a bunch of surviving monsters jump out of the trash-covered bushes and run across the empty parking lot towards the humans and aliies. Most of them are humanoid with bulging yellow eyes, diseased green skin, big ears, long tusks, and sharp claws.
Roy turns his slightly bruised face and smirks at the horde. He raises his gloved right hand and snaps his fingers. There is a large fiery explosion and the goblin-like creatures are reduced to ashs and charred bone fragments. One goblin creature manages to escape the blast and contnues to charge in rage and stupidity. A second snap of Roy's fingers, this time Dawn sees the seal on the back glow, and the creature is reduced to ashes that are blown far away.
"They say there alchemy is far more powerful now. Roy said his Fire Alchemy is now as powereful as it was during a war when they had access to power boosters. Izumi says that the source of there alchemic energy has changed"
"Is everything, OK??"
Willow turns to see more people exiting the motorhome.
One is tall, muscular man with brown eyes and curly shoulder-length brown/black hair. He's dressed in a white-edged black jacket that almost looks like a robe with metal pauldron (shoulder armor). He's bare chested with a wide white belt, black pants, and black boots. He also wears fingerless black gloves with plates on the back connected to thick metal wrist bands and a thin necklace with a pendant.
The next is a young man in his twenties standing five-foot-eleven, one-hundred-eight-six pounds with blue-green eyes and spiky blond hair resembling needles. He's dressed in long red coat and black pants with hip-length pleated boots with studs, metal soles, anmd knee armor. He wears a leather glove on his right hand and the same leather and armor on his cybernetic left arm going from just below the shoulder down. He also wears a pair of round orange glasses with odd ear pieces and is currently holding a box of donuts with one in his mouth.
They are followed out by a woman in her twenties standing nearly as tall as spiky haired donut man with blue eyes and long brown hair and another man in his late twenties early thirties with short black hair and blue eyes. She's dressed in a green and yellow-green outfit, while he's dressed in a white shirt, black jacket, black pants, and shoes. They also carry strange weapons. The woman carries a huge multi-barrel riot gun and the man carries a huge cross covered in straps and fabric. Willow blinks and wonders how they managed to get those things threw the door of motorhome.
The last man to step out is an impressive man in his early twenties standing six-foot-three, two hundred twenty four pounds with gold eyes and long spiky punk silver hair. He's dressed in black with a horned skull belt buckle and a long silver coat. He has a metal/cybernetic piece fitted to the right side of his face and is currently wearing sun glasses. He also carries a strange sword, it's huge like Ichigo's Zangetsu with an edge of chain saw teeth. Willow notices the machine hilt and realizes it is a chain saw sword!
Nightwing makes with the introductions since it was his detective skills that uncovered there pre-Halloween indentities
"Leon Garcia. A rich hedonist who spent most of his time doing drugs, alcohol, and soliciting prostitutes. He dressed as a punk, but wearing a necklace that used to belong to his wife resulted in him becoming Leon Garcia de Asturias, a once decorated professional soldier with a penchant for showing off turned soldier of the Vatican in the 31st century. Interesting to note, Asturias was sentenced to a thousand year prison term for the killing of his wife and thirty clergymen and is only released to help the the AX, as they are called, with their cases.'
'Leon Garcia had one daughter by his late life named Maria. She was spoiled rotten by her neglectful father and had a long juvenile record and a minor drug addiction. She was traumatized by Halloween and her transformed father is taking care of her.'
'The person next to him was John Jacob Michael Smith. A over stressed workaholic perfectionist working as an accountant at an insurance company. He was forced to go to the party by his boss, which revealed Mr. Smith's secret passion for old western. His jacket lost a sleeve in the wash, so his wife replaced it with a long leather glove. That event gave birth to Vash the Stampede, known as The Humanoid Typhoon due to the destruction which surrounds him'
'His wife Marron Smith who worked next to him in insurance, wore a simply coat with a pair of derringers as a joke. She was transformed into Meryl Stryfe, Vash's female friend who uses many derringer-style "throwaway" pistols under her coat. She's still inside then bus.'
'John and Marron had a son John Jr and a daughter Serenity. They were with the sitters, but they are beginnning to show strange abilities we think is related to Vash's nature as a humanoid plant"
"A PLANT!?!?"
"Don't ask. He's actually some hundred and thirty plus year old black box experiment designed to supply power to space colonies. Vash doesn't have s clue how it will effect the kids. He mentioned someone called Legato was given powers by his brother Knives by grafting Vash's arm onto Lagato's body, but he didn't get much info.'
'The two that came with them were there boss at the Insurance company and his wife, his former secretary. Nicholas and Camille Thompson became Vash's companion, a priest named Nicholas D. Wolfwood who carries around guns in his cross and Meryl's partner Milly Thompson, known as Stungun Milly for using that giant riot gun loaded with rubber bullets'
'The Thompsons had three daughters - Emily, Isabella, and Ava - so now Wolfwoods do as well.'
'The last guy was Galen Anderson. Another police officer skilled in swordsmanship who came dressed a 80s rock band leader, but because he bought that weird chainsaw sword at the prop store, he became S0 Class criminal Gamma Akutabi. An extremely skilled swordsman hunting for the Rings of the Dead, mystical artifacts on his world that can bring the dead back to life and grant the living eternal life.'
'His wife Lalla, was almost nine months pregnant at the time, but demanded to go, leaving there three other kids at the home. She dressed as a journalist, since there weren't many costumes that would fit her. As a result of that camera and her (blushes) swollen breasts, she became Wolfgangina Lalla Getto also known as Gamma's adventuring friend and journalist of justice Wolfina."
Willow stares at Nightwing, "Swollen Breasts!?"
"One of Wolfina's most notable traits is.." says Nighwing, "..a 40 inch H-Cup Bust."
Willow stares.
"Well it could have been worse. Galen and Lalla's oldest daughter, Belle Rose, is eleven years old, five-foot-nine with deep blue eyes and long honey blond hair and there son, Jonathan, is thirteen years old, five-foot with short black hair and blue eyes. According to Gamma they resemble people he knows. John Elwood Shepherd, his level headed knife-throwing partner and his preteen stalker Angelle Belle Rose Cooney. Gamma says his youngest daughter Gem resembles a younger Nazna Gemini, a mad scientist he once took Wolfina to in order to cure her brother."
Willow stares
"Gabriel, Robert, Elisa, Maria, John, Serenity, Emily, Isabella, Ava, Belle Rose, Jonathan, and Gem, plus Wolfina's baby and Riza's baby." says Willow finally, "That's fourteen kids!"
"Actually, not including the vampire bus or Nightstar, there are twenty children. There are six more still in the motor-home." says Nighwing, "All orphans."
"Orphans?"
"Some parents were killed by the monsters, other became monsters and abandoned them or even attacked them. We found six that weren't taken in by the other groups, either ignored or missed. One was an runaway escaping a bad home. The six are very lucky we found them, as a large orphanage in the town had been massacred and most likely devoured."
Starfire squeezes her eyes shut and holds her daughter close.
"How would you feel about twelve more?"
The fighting stops and the people of the bus and motor-home stare at Willow.
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The Forest
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He's an attractive twenty year old Japanese man standing five-foot-eight, one hundred twenty five pounds with shoulder-length black hair and black eyes. He's dressed in a black cloak with red clouds, white leg guards, sandals, and headband with a metal plate on the front. The metal plate has a spiral leaf symbol stamped into it, which has been slashes by a sharp weapon. As he moves his cloak, he reveals manicured finger and toe nails, painted a light shade of purple, and a signet ring with a black kanji "Shu" meaning scarlet, against a red background.
"My name is Itachi Uchiha"
The other is another aloof member of a noble clan. He stand five-foot-eleven with black eyes and long black hair with a ceremonial hair piece that make a strict hair style. He wears a white kosode (short-sleeved under-kimono), a black kimono and hakama, and a white obi sash. He also wears a white haori over the usual black clothes, with the number six on the back, inside a rhombus symbol, and an expensive scarf around his neck. His weapon is a nihonto (Japanese sword) resembling a Katana.
"Byakuya Kuchiki"
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CHAPTER 08: CHASER AND CHASED Part 3B
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In a world beyond the reach of mortals, a man stands as ruler of an endless white sand desert. A world with a dark red sky with a full golden moon hangs in the eternal night sky.
He's a very tall man and is dressed in a hooded black robe that makes him look like an incarnation of death. Nothing can be scene within the depths of dark hood, but his hands are color of ash with chains around his wrists. He stands like statue amongst the field of blades that surrounds him. There are countless millions of swords with there blades embedded in the earth, turning most in crosses.
As time passes, the shine of a blade increases, the suddenly fades. The sword breaks apart and turns to dust. As time passes, a new blade appears and falls into place.
Only the tall man knows what each of the blade represents.
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When the world was changed Halloween night, an immense amount of energy surged threw the planet. This surge not only effected the Ley Lines, the lines of flowing spiritual energy also known as the Dragon lines, but also the planets Geographic and Meteorological characteristics (Land and Weather)..
Sudden increases in the temperature and pressure of molten magma caused the eruption of multiple volcanoes, include several undersea which created new islands.
The surge increased the stress on the tectonic plates, causing immense earthquakes triggering multiple tsunamis. One occurred when the India Plate sub ducting under the Burma Plate, a event that wouldn't have happened for another Seven Years. Another occurred in the Pacific ocean sending devastating waves to Japan and to North America's west coast.
The weather was changed by crimson sky, which increased the planet's temperature and accelerated the melting of ice caps. The increase of energy and moisture in the air has created storms ranging from heavy thunderstorms to massive tropical storms (cyclones) that ravaged the twisted world.
Those humans not plagued by Halloween horrors or resurrected creatures of mythologies, now had to deal with a world in which the Land and Air had turned against them..
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Black Lagoon Bar
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The Black Lagoon Bar is a large bar and restaurant resting near a large port on the new west coast. It used to be a biker bar, until they were torn to pieces by the monsters and the survivors were torn apart by Lagoon Company, a team of mercenaries who smuggle goods in and around the seas of Southeast Asia. Sometime they used guns to get goods on the seas, making them modern pirates.
When the Halloween Event occurred, a group were having a drinking party on a former military PT boat that they had named Black Lagoon, after the 1954 science fiction monster film, "Creature from the Black Lagoon". They even drew a picture of the titular character Gill man on the side. The magic warped and recreated them as the Black Lagoon mercenaries.
Not possessing there usual contacts and connections such as Hotel Moscow, a branch of the Russian mafia. They became suppliers of goods to other coast and near coast colonies. They no longer need to smuggle the goods, as the law of modern world has broken down and most government beyond colony rulers and/or council is gone. Problems occur from monsters and raiders trying to steal from other colonies, and various exiled colonists trying for revenge.
The Lagoon Company takeover converted the biker haven into a private bar and food supplier, that acts as a Headquarters. There boat, Black Lagoon, is currently in a armored boathouse housed between the cliffs in front of the Bar.
Revy is a Chinese-American woman in her mid-twenties, standing around five foot five or so, with a trim but still curvy build that she manages to maintain despite a diet apparently consisting only of alcohol, cigarettes, and take-out pizza. She has dark purplish hair, an intricate "tribal" tattoo on her right shoulder and upper arm, and dresses in unlaced combat boots, partially undone Daisy Dukes held in place by a military web-belt, a short black tank-top, and a two-gun shoulder holster that contains her customized twin 9mm Beretta 92F automatic pistols.
Revy provides the muscle for the Lagoon Company. She grew up in New York and is exceptionally skilled with using firearms in battle, but is not much of a people person. She enjoys killing her enemies and seldom stops to negotiate.
"What do you mean, I should cut down?"
She has become even more dangerous with the reveal of a recent secret. Apparently, the people they had been before Halloween had been intimate with each other, leaving Revy to face something she never thought she would have to deal with. Being Pregnant.
Rokurou Okajima is of average height for a Japanese male (five foot six), with a slender build. He still dresses like a salaryman, in slacks, white dress shirt, and tie, and apparently never bothers to wear anything else.
Rock is a Japanese salary man who joins the crew of the Black Lagoon after they kidnap him. Rock does not fight but is an excellent negotiator and translator. He is often scared by the methods Revy can use to achieve her goals.
"Our... supply is low and you know how the transport lines are."
He's currently trying to get Revy to cut down on the booze for the sake of there child. If someone had told him a couple months ago that he was going to have a baby with Revy, he would have laughed and then hoped Revy hadn't heard and decided to castrate him. He barely got her not to use a military knife to take care of the little problem.
Roughly six foot four in height, Dutch is the tallest of the group. He's bald, well muscled, with a well-trimmed black goatee/beard. He wears small rings in his ears (three per ear), sunglasses virtually everywhere, and dresses in fatigues (boots, trousers, tank-top, and a vest).
Dutch is the African-American leader of the Lagoon "trading company". He captains the PT boat Black Lagoon, and coordinates his crew. Although he seldom participates in battle, he is still a deadly adversary, stemming from his time as an American soldier in the Vietnam War.
"I wonder if this thing is edible?" he says dragging in a large dead bird the size of an ostrich. It's covered in light blue feathers with a large beak, dark blue wings, dark blue tail, and bright yellow also has large eyes, a large turf of blue feathers on it's head. and it's tongue sticking out. It's clearly dead from the twisted and crimson stained neck. "It was sure fast."
He's also in charge of bar. He the man who managed to find the cooks and waitresses willing to work cheaply. Apparently being a stronghold in this hellish world is enough to make people work for near nothing. He's also developed a reputation as a hunter, bring home his kills to see if there edible.
Standing five foot eleven, with a lanky build, Benny has long shaggy blond hair he keeps tied up in a pony tail. He wears glasses, is often in need of a shave, and wears Hawaiian shirts most everywhere.
Benny is a former post-graduate student at the University of Florida. He serves as the Lagoon's technical expert. Like Rock, he is not a gunfighter and does not have the capacity to kill in cold blood. However, he is hardened to the job and willing to over look almost anything just to get the job done.
"That's a Roadrunner? As in Wile E Coyote!"
He repairs and monitors the Bar's electrical and radio systems. With the red sky, it's important to keep a close eye on things at all times. He also helps Rock with the account books.
"I asked if it was edible. I guess we will find out." says Dutch, "Any news on the radio?"
As the Lagoon company have very spirited conversations (snicker), the customers relax in the bar's dark atmosphere.
"Only the Federal Communications Commission building was destroyed down to the foundation on Halloween and the hole became a community toilet for the demons."
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At one table is a beautiful woman of average height, with long dark brown hair. She's a dressed in a a black one piece swimsuit under a black leather jacket. She also wears leather biker pants with a belt and choker. The name she gave at the door is Sandra Hollis.
Her real name is Laurel Jane Juspeczyk, but she became famous in her world as a costumed crime fighter, the second Silk Spectre and her later incarnation. She is the daughter of Sally Jupiter, the first Silk Spectre. Sally pushed her daughter into being a 'superhero' at an early age, forcing her to follow in her mother's footsteps. Laurel never felt comfortable with this, and was more than happy to retire in 1977 after the passage of the anti-vigilante Keene Act.
Laurel became an active superhero in 1966 (at the age of 16), with the meeting of the Crime busters. There, she met the god-like Dr. Manhattan, falling in love with him and eventually living with him until 1985.
In 1985, Manhattan left Earth and Laurel moved in with Dan Dreiberg (aka Nite Owl II). She then fell in love with Dreiberg. Together, the two of them broke Rorschach out of prison, at which point Manhattan took her to Mars. There, she realized who her father really was (the Comedian, the man who once tried to rape Sally) and returned to Earth to confront Ozymandias in his Antarctica base. They failed to stop Ozymandias's plan to stop an impending nuclear war by faking a alien invasion, which resulted in the deaths of over 3 million citizens of New York. In the end, they couldn't even arrest him to preserve the peace. Afterwards she took up with Dan Dreiberg and assumed the identity of Sandra Hollis.
When she awoke in this world, she wore an almost transparent shirt of her old costume identity instead of biker leathers. She once told Dan, "Silk Specter's' too girly, y'know? Plus, I want a better costume, that protects me: maybe something leather, with a mask over my face... Also, I oughta carry a gun."
She sits next to man known as the Collector. He's a tall, thin black man with a large afro and piercing eyes behind dark glasses. He dressed in dark clothing with a cane and sounds a little like Samual L Jackson. He sits talking about how he used to read comic books and how life has become a twisted dream. He holds a piece of red fabric with a hole torn threw it.
"This piece of fabric is a Superman's cape. I was there when Ka-el defended us from a demon attack. It was like Joe Shuster art had come to life to defend Truth, Justice, and American way. He defeated a hundred monsters until, one clever monster managed to get a magic-laced claw threw his defenses"
He pulls out a black piece of fabric that includes a cowl.
"This is Batman's cape and cowl. He defended a bunch from a vampire attack, but got bite by a master before he died. The bite of that type was enough to transform him, so he staked himself to protect the others. His flesh and bones turns to dust, but his clothing and gear stayed. The others took his belt and gloves, but I managed to get this prize."
He puts the capes back in his backpack pulls out a polished gold tiara with a red star
"This is Wonder Woman's tiara. I saw her before her battle with some demons. A tall, leggy brunette with muscles dressed in a great patriotic costume."
"Let me guess, she lost the battle."
"I wouldn't blame her too much. She's used to fighting criminal, super villains, and major threats to the world. That half-demon princess Miko Mido and her Miroku ninja clan use very interesting techniques. I managed to snag this object as her and other girls dragged her off. Funny thing is Miko is one of the good guys, Diana just objected to her political views Wonder Woman amazon pride verses a very liberated influential woman."
Laurel is annoyed at the look in the man's eyes. She can guess what Collector means by Liberated.
The Collector puts the tiara away and pulls out a battered red and gold helmet. It's covered in dents, cracks, and burns with several wires trailing inner electronics.
"Not all of my little treasures come from DC comics. This is from marvel comics, Iron Man. This very of Tony Stark got drunk and too close to the red sky. One massive electrical discharge and it took me nearly a week to find the helmet."
Laurel wonders how she ended up next to an insane comic book geek. As she rolls her eyes, she does notice a piece of black-and -white fabric resembling an ink blot test.
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At another table is a larger group. The four that sit around the table share a common theme, which is Mecha, giant human-piloted humanoid robots used by civilians and military, at least that is what they look like at first glance..
The first is a busty twenty nine year old woman with brown eyes and long purple hair. She wears a black shirt and mini shirt with a red jacket and white cross. She also wears black boots and is currently drink beer after beer.
The woman next to her is between fourteen and sixteen standing five-foot-two with strange purple eyes and short (almost shoulder-length) teal hair. She's dressed in a white and blue uniform with blue shorts and blue-edged white boots. She also has a gold ring around her neck and a couple of hair pieces.
The man holding her hand is around fourteen with wild brown hair and blue eyes. He's dressed red and white jacket, green shorts, and red-and-white sneakers. He carries a red-edged white board like an extremely advance snow board.
The last is a tall, athletic seventeen-year-old woman with tanned skin, red eyes and short wild silver hair. She's dressed in a tight black top with a cross on the front and tight black shorts with a tasseled leather gun belt holding twin Desert Eagles. She also wears cowboy boots, black fingerless gloves, and a long red scarf. All of that is covered by a long fur collar jacket
Major Misato Katsuragi was the Bottle Fairy -the cheerful, playful, often inebriated party girl - when she's not being a scarily hyper-competent military officer.
Misato remembers shot in the back by the Japanese Strategic Self Defense Forces while rushing her charge Shinji Ikari through the launch bay's door She gave him the cross she wears around her neck now, which was bloodstained and gave him a kiss good-bye. The last thing she remembers is asking (the now dead ex-boyfriend) Kaji if she did "the right thing" and dying as the entire area is decimated by the JSSDF, tearing apart her body in the process.
"Are you, Miss Katsuragi?"
She awoke in pre-Second Impact United States surrounded by monsters and strange people. Late in the war with the angels, she watched a Giant Robot Anime that one of Shinji's friends brought over and realized the parallels with her own life. Now she found herself in a perverse fusion of a thousand Animes and Mangas mixed with the western holiday of Halloween.
"Please, call me Misato, Eureka. Miss Katsuragi makes me feel old"
The teal-haired girl is Eureka. In a far distant future, the Earth was transformed by the alien life known as Coralians. A world covered in coral-like substance, on which sentient Coralians and Humans live. Eureka is actually a Coralian in human form, sent by the sentient Scub Coral to understand and communicate with humans. She was meant to be a blank slate, so that she would be shaped by her experiences with humanity, and bring these experiences to the Coralians. In the end, she fell in love with her future husband Renton and he with her.
"We were in our Nineties, before this Halloween mess. You're a kid compared to me and Eureka"
The man next to her Renton Thurston, son of military hero, grandson of greater engineer, and amateur lifter - a sport in which use special boards to fly threw the air like surfers on water. He is a very outgoing and emotional person possessing strong ideals and compassion, but was naive and tended to jump into matters before understanding what's going on when he was younger. He fell in love with Eureka at first sight when she crashed into is grandfather's shop and has been with her every since. He and Eureka have been separated a couple time, but in the end they came together with a promise to always protect her and be at her side. In the end he married her and adopted three war orphaned children Maurice, Maeter, and Linck as there own.
"Maybe, but your teenagers again. The same ages you were when you first met and fought together."
The one thing that connected Eureka and Renton the most was Nirvash typeZERO, the first archetype discovered, and the LFO created from this archetype was the base model that many other LFOs were designed around. The LFO being bio-mechanical hybrids: armor and control systems are built upon an organic humanoid "skeletons" excavated from the Scub Coral, and able to use trapar-based propulsion, using ref boards to ride trapar waves (planet thoughts/energy) in the same manner as the sport of lifting.
"We can certainly feel the difference." says Renton, getting an elbow from a blushing Eureka
Misato nearly cried when she heard there story and is the reason she drinking so much. Her entire world was destroyed, according to the Files she could get from others. Everyone in her 21st century world was either killed and melted into primordial ocean. Shinji and a badly injured Asuka were the only ones not to be destroyed and there's only a faint chance for them to be resurrected. Eureka and Renton on the other hand, managed to defy the odds and save 13th Millenium Earth.
"I guess we get to start all over again and have more adventures." says Renton holding Eureka close
Another sore point is Misato was left barren by the Second Impact, unable to have children outside adopting kids like Shinji and Asuka. Eureka being a humanoid Coralian was thought unable to have children outside her three adopted children. In fact, there last memories is the wedding of the youngest adopted child Linck's young granddaughter, when they found themselves on this twisted past version of Earth.
Now, it's revealed like many other costume wearers in the United States (teenage birth rate is fifty three per one thousand women and increasing with poverty rate), she is pregnant with her and Renton's child. The owner Eureka costume was already pregnant at the time and when she became a humanoid Coralian, the child became a hybrid of Coralian and human with her closest connection Renton becoming the genetic father.
"What do you think, Jo?" asks Misato, indicating the kissing teens.
The silver-haired woman in the cowboy boots is Jo, also known as the Bakuretsu Tenshi (Burst Angel). She a mysterious person who when not fighting, enjoys watching horror or gore related movies. She was found amnesiac on beach by a girl called Meg and became extremely close to close. So close, she puts Meg's safety above all other things. Jo eventually rediscover her past a genetically engineered war machine in human form and fought her creators to protect Meg. The last thing she remembers is breaking into RAPT - corrupt police force/government - HQ and destroying the bio-tech brain running the place, causing the whole building to collapse.
"I'm not into romance films and where is the food?"
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The last table contains three characters with British accents.
The first is a British woman with green eyes and long brown hair. She's dressed in a 19th century dress with a red scarf around her neck.
Wilhelmina "Mina" Murray was born in England some time in the mid 19th century. As an adult, she lived the life of school teacher, specializing in etiquette and decorum. She met a young barrister named Jonathan Harker and the two fell in love. By 1897 the two were engaged, and they were wed shortly after Jonathan took on a dangerous business trip to the mountains of Transylvania. Harker's encounter with a vampire named Dracula proved traumatic for Mina as well. Harker, as well as his confederates Arthur Holmwood, Quincy Morris and Abraham van Helsing destroyed Dracula before the changes could take effect. Mina was free of Dracula's influence, but she still bore the scars of his vampiric bite across her throat.
"I swear to God, those Bloody Vampires are worse than cockroaches."
Those scars and memories lead to her divorce in 1898. In the may of that year, Mina met a man named Campion Bond. Campion served as the liaison for a member of British Secret Service known as "M". Through Bond, M recruited Mina into a menagerie of undercover operatives in service the British crown. This group became colloquially known as the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. She was the one to enlist the other members of the group and was critical on there cases despite the attitude towards women.
When she awoke in another world, a hundred years since the adventure against Dracula, the mystical energy combined with traces of Dracula's taint in her blood to transform her into a vampire-like creature. She possesses the strength of twenty men, the ability to defy gravity (climb wall and fly), and the ability to regenerate making her immune to what would kill a normal human. She also possesses powerful hypnotic and mind control abilities, and is also able to command the loyalty of nocturnal animals such as wolves and rats. She does lack her supernatural stalker's ability to manipulate the weather or shape shift. She needs blood to survive and rejuvenate her powers, but she doesn't age at an accelerated rate. She also lack a fear of holy objects and Dracula's other weaknesses, save her powers are weak during the day.
The second is a tall man covered in bandages wearing sunglasses, pants, and shoes covered by a long coat and hat. If a person were to look under the bandages, nobody would able to see anything
"That's another point to add to my 'Proof that I'm Dead and in Hell' List. This world is too messed up not be a version of Hell."
Dr. Hawley Griffin is known as The Invisible Man. A genius in chemistry, Griffin developed a chemical process that made his skin, nails and hair have been rendered completely invisible. A process that was stolen by another man and used to terrorize the village of Iping in H.G. Wells' 1897 novella The Invisible Man. Griffin isn't that criminal, but his inability to return to normal eventually affected his sanity.
A year after Griffin used a serum to render himself invisible and has been taking advantage of this gift by violating several women at Miss Rosa Coote's Correctional Academy for Wayward Gentlewomen in Edmonton, resulting in three pregnancies. It was Mina who finally exposed Hawley, but tossing a bucket of plaster at him. She then battered him across the head with the bucket, rendering him unconscious.
He remembers dying after he was brutally sodomized by Mr. Edmund Hyde, only to awaken in this new world with enhanced powers. His invisibility now extends beyond the visible spectrum into the infrared and ultraviolet ranges, so he no longer fears an animal's ability to see heat such. The invisibility is no longer limited to skin, nails and hair, but every cell every drop of blood. His body also generates a energy an energy field that enables him to make his clothing and the paraphernalia he carries invisible, so he no longer needs to be invisible and can also mutes sounds making him silent.
"Trust me, this place isn't hell. It's going there in places, but were still between angels and devils."
The third is a rough man standing six foot with blue eyes and short blond hair. He's a rough looking person resembling the singer Sting and underneath his clothing he has magic sigils tattooed over his body. He's dressed in a loose shirt and trousers with a loose tie and a tan raincoat.
Con man and magician, John Constantine tries to keep humanity safe from both demonic and heavenly forces. When the London-based fighter-sorcerer found himself in a demon infested alternate United States, he set himself up as a local hunter and as before unlike most magicians, Constantine rarely uses magical spells, unless he really has to, especially in combat.
"That Dutch guy better have my payment ready."
He has used magic in this new world. He possesses an ability known as Synchronicity Wave Traveling: An instinctual supernatural ability to be in the right place at exactly the right time. This has led John to uncanny luck, like winning incredible amounts of money from Arcade machines and Casinos. Avoiding harm. And more times than not - to meet the right kind of ally to help prevent or stop an apocalyptic event from happening.
This lead him to a catatonic woman whose was raped by demons. After killing the demons, he used his magic to erase her memories of the attack so she could take care of her children.
This lead him to a bunch of enhanced demonic vampires feeding on a town. When the master drank a bit of tainted blood, which contains a blood transfusion from the demon Nergal and the side effect of succubus sex (Demon STD?), it burnt him like acid and destroyed him. He then used a blessed dagger to send the rest to join there sire in hell.
He recently ended up at the Black Lagoon Bar and set up the Spirit Wards to protect the heavily armed mini-fortress. He also created a bunch of special golems to act as guards, which added to his price tag. Since money has become worthless, he only accepts supplies, like clean water, food, booze, and smokes
"I have a question Griffin. You managed to a modern DVD player and for your first modern movie you watch Pollyanna?"
Mina glares at Griffin. "Damn pervert."
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On the Road Again
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Sunnydale Bus Beta has left the Gas and Restaurant with five barrels and two drums filled. The group is packed inside again and has returned to there conversations.
"Meatball Head!" yells Rei rubbing holding her bleeding cheek
"Waahh!" says Usagi avoiding a small fire ball
"Hey! Knock it off." say Makoto zapping both of them with a small amount of electricity. "Now, what's this all about?"
"Usagi hit me in the face with her wings and some of those feathers are sharp."
"I'm sorry, Rei! I forgot about them."
"Is there anything you don't forget?" asks Monet
"She's special, Monet." says the witch Lavender Brown, "Give her a little compassion."
"Special? More like special needs." says M, "I'm not some devoted follower of a fraud like you are, Brown"
"Hey! Professor Trelawney did..."
"make a couple of true predictions in her life." finishes M, "That still doesn't mean she a drunken..."
The language Monet uses is in several languages, all if translated would have made the senshi pass out with steam flowing from there ears.
The Kunouchi group has gathered and is currently talking about the male ninjas they know. Just because they are lethal and cunning warriors, doesn't mean they don't gossip.
"What do you like about Naruto, Hinata?" ask Ino
"He's strong, confident, and believes in others." replies Hinata, blushing.
"He's got confidence alright." says Anko, "He brags more than me!"
"Can he back up his bragging?" asks Sheena
"He did defeat Kiba and Neji." admits Ino
"He also fought against Orochimaru in the Forest of Death."
"He fought a Sennin?" says a shocked Tenten
"As Orochimaru's former apprentice, we share the same summoning contract. They told me some time ago, that Naruto managed to escape one of them and stop the charge of another."
"How big?" asks Sheena
"It's head has larger than Naruto, but the little brat managed to stop it cold."
"Well... Sasuke did fight the snake as well." says Ino with little confidence
"I read one of Kakashi's unedited reports about there C-Class mission to the Land of Waves. It was upgraded to a A-Class mission because of an attack A-class missing-nin Zabuza and his accomplice. It was Naruto that defeated the accomplice that nearly killed Sasuke." say Anko, she says unedited because the Council altered the records to remove mentions of Naruto and make the Sasuke seem stronger.
"It was Naruto that defeated Gaara." says Temari.
"No way!" says Tenten, "That guy that defeated and later rescued Lee and became the Kazekage. Naruto actually defeated him?"
"He created hundreds of clones to battle my brother in his semi-transformed state and he summoned a giant Toad to fight Gaara's full transformation. It was because of Naruto, Gaara started to regain his humanity."
Hinata's eyes are shining. She always knew that Naruto was special, but when you think you know about him, he shows you something more impressive.
"So, why haven't you jump him yet, Hinata?" asks Anko with a leer.
Thump!
Towards the back, Seth is having a large sweet snack, Kiyone, Hepzibah, and Ceres are cleaning there guns, and Arshes polishing her lightning sword.
"I don't know what is inside those metal golem hearts, but it ruins the color of the blade."
"The Files said a Transformer's spark, there machine souls, contain high amounts of Positrons. The Positive-charged anti-matter counter to an electron and when they come in contact with the electrons in the metal blade they annihilate each other, break the bonds and releasing a large amount of heat. Hence the scorching" says Kiyone
Arshes Nei stares at her
"O yeah, I forgot your from an Fantasy world. Let's just say the spark contains something that causes your sword to burn."
In the front, Cordelia, Ripley, Lust, and Kagura are looking over a map.
"In will take a week to reach the colony." says Ripley after typing on a calculator. She's used to navigating a star ship across the galaxy, so Earth travel is not a problem. "Washu forgot to calculate the trip."
"We shouldn't have too much trouble." says Lust.
Cordelia sends a fireball at Lust burning half her hair and face off. As it grows back she asks, "What the was that for?"
"Don't you know anything Lust? You never say something like that, it's tempting fate!"
Suddenly, the bus shakes as if there was an Earthquake and they all hear a loud roar.
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A couple minutes ahead of the Bus
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In a world of eternal conflict, there is always a battle happening. Some times it's one and one battle between two mortal enemies, some times between two great armies, and sometimes it's a group against one powerful opponent. The battle ahead is the third type.
The threat is a hideous beast with two large arms, numerous legs, and three tails, each with a head and a pair of legs. It has a bald human-like head with a wide mouth and eyes filled with pure hunger. It's pale body is covered in red markings and bleeds a red liquid. It's clearly the threat as it tries to devour it's opponents, devouring the landscape in the process.
It's opponents can only watch in horror as one of the mouth tails manages to grab a fat, balding man with a wand. The wizard cries out, then the mouth snaps shut and the man's severed legs and one of the arms falls to ground below.
The first is a fourteen year old boy with brown eyes and short light brown hair in a simple style. He's dressed in a pale blue t-shirt and brown pants with red socks and brown-and-white sneakers.
Riku Miyagusuku was a ordinary boy for most of his life. He was a very kind and intelligent boy who loved to cook. His kind, gentle nature even rubbed off on others. His life was ruined when he encountered his adopted sisters' twin Diva. Diva, a Chiropteran queen, drank nearly all of his blood and forced adopted sister Saya to convert him into Chevalier, a powerful form of Chiropteran created to protect and breed with Queens. Diva later attacked him again, this time raping him and then killed him by using her blood to crystallizing him. According to Saya
all that was left was a pendant that his adopted brother Kai wore in his memory.
When he awoke in this world, he found himself with his sister again, and his powers as a Chevalier increased further. His speed, strength and endurance are now far greater than Diva's strongest Chevalier and can now heal instantly from almost any non-lethal wound with greater efficiency. He's currently using his enhanced speed and strength to wield a huge axe against the gluttonous monster.
The next person appears as a sixteen year old woman standing five-foot-two, eighty nine pound with red eyes and short black hair. She's dressed in a seifuku - a sailor -style Japanese school uniform with a leather jacket and using a katana with extreme skill.
Saya Otonashi may look like a teenager, she's actually a hundred seventy three Chiropteran queen. Many years ago, a bat-like creature Saya was uncovered and two cocoons were found in the stomach. The man who found them Joel dripped blood on the cocoons causing them to open, revealing a pair of twin girls. He raised Saya as his daughter and locked the other Diva away. When Saya released Diva, giving her that name because of her voice, it released a new terror in the world. Diva created more Chiropteran and only Saya and her blood could stop them.
In the end, she managed to kill Diva stopping the transformation of many people across the world into chiroptera. With her sister crystallized and turned to dust, her adopted brother Kai Miyagusuku raised Diva and Riku's twin daughters. The last thing she remembers was entering another period of hibernation after talking to her nieces. She found herself in this messed up world with her powers enhanced to Diva's level (a result of drinking large amounts of blood) and even as she fights monsters, she worries that a more powerful Diva could exist in this world.
The next is a fifteen year old woman with green eyes and short pink hair. She's dressed in red shirt, black shorts, and toe-less black boots (sandals with leg guards). She also wears pink guard over the shorts, a kunai holster on the left leg with bandages, elbow guard, and gloves. The most important piece of clothing is a headband in her hair which has the same symbol as Hinata, Tenten, Anko, and Ino, the symbol of Konohagakure no Sato (The Village Hidden in the Leaves).
Sakura Haruno was once a useless kunouchi. She became a ninja to get close to her crush Sasuke Uchiiha and spent more time obsessing about looking good and getting dates then training. When she joined Team Seven under Kakashi-sensei, she ignored her other teammate Naruto and spent most of her time trying to impressive the last Uchiha with her intelligence and looks. During the mission to the Land of Waves, she started to see how far behind she was in Training and skill. She was forced to watch on the side lines as Sasuke and Naruto fought for there lives and when they returned Sasuke told her she was weaker than Naruto, the dead last of her class. She was forced to grow during the Chunin Selection Exam, discarding her long hair fighting a sound nin and fighting Ino as a Kunoichi, not as a fan girl.
Then the day came when Sasuke abandoned the Leaf village for the power the S-Class criminal, the snake sennin Orochimaru possessed. She made Naruto promise to bring him back and the team sent returned nearly dead. She promised Naruto before he left with the toad sennin Jiraiya, that they would get Sasuke back together. She became the apprentice of Legendary Slug Sennin and Medi-Nin, Godaime Hokage (5th Leader Fire Shadow) Tsunade becoming a medical ninja.
She not only learned Medical techniques, but Tsunade's brand of Taijutsu, Gouwan (Strong Arm). She builds up a high amount of chakra to her fist and then release it in an instant, which she uses to shatter the ground beneath her for a ten meter radius with a single punch. She then send large boulders flying into the side of monster, where they imbed themselves deep into the flesh. She then moves close and strikes the huge rock causing them to explode into shrapnel that tears threw the monster.
A twelve year old boy standing five-foot-two, around ninety pounds with blue eyes, light skin, and is bald with a blue/purple arrow marking on his head. He's dressed in the red/yellow clothing of a monk with brown boots and staff ending in a fan. He twists and turns in a circular motion releasing blasts of wind.
His name is Aang and he belonged to group of people known as Air Nomads on his own world. These people learned how to manipulate the wind from the Sky Bison and created a techniques known as Air-Bending. He was very young when he learned, he was not a prodigy Air Bender, but the Avatar.
The Avatar is able to bend all four elements - Earth, Fire, Wind, and Water and is the world's connection between the living world and the spirit world. The Avatar is reincarnated over and over again, each life serving as a keeper of the peace. When the last Avatar Roku died, his former friend the Fire Lord started a war for genocide. The Air Nomads were wiped out and only Aang survived frozen in ice for a hundred years.
He awoke in this strange world with his friends to find his link to spirit world severed, worse then when the Fire Princess Azula hit him in the back with a bolt of lightning while in the Avatar state. He found his element manipulating abilities enhanced by the new world, which he uses to protect those precious to him. He;s currently using barriers of wind and blades of wind to fend off the demon he's fighting..
A fourteen year old girl standing five-foot-three, a hundred ten pounds with blue eyes, dark tan skin, and long brown hair done in a flowing style. She's dressed in blue clothing with white edges and a blue crystal necklace. She uses fluid Tai-chi movements to manipulate water into slicing whips and sharp tentacles that cut deep into the flesh.
Katara was the last Water Bender of the Southern Water Tribe and lived a simple life until she and her brother Sokka found the Avatar inside a iceberg. After they awoke him, they joined him traveling across the world to learn to wield all four elements and stop of Fire Nation's war of conquest. She learned many techniques including how to heal from Northern Water Tribe and learned to manipulate plants from a group of water-benders that lived in the swamp. She learned to draw water from her own sweat. She was also forced to learn blood bending, the manipulate of the water in a person's body to manipulate them like a puppet, from another Northern Water Bender named Hama.
In this new supernatural world, her power has been enhanced to level that frightens her. She can now manipulate water at all times like during the full moon (which is the source of water bending) and during the full moon, she can almost feel the power flowing threw every vein.
It's very strange, but the red water that flows from the creatures wound is not effected by blood-bending, which Katara is forced to use to fighting demons in desert areas. The red water instead hardens and turns into solid crimson stones
A sixteen year old man standing five-foot-eight, a hundred forty pounds with gold eyes, light skin, and short shaggy black hair. He also has the features of a noble and a large burn scar on the left side of his face covering his eye. He's dressed a loose red pants and sleeveless jacket with gold rim with black boots and black arm bands. He uses fast, aggressive attacks and techniques that produce bursts of white flame.
The man is Prince Zuko of the Fire Nation. Years ago, the young boy was burnt and exiled by his father for speaking out against him and then refusing to fight. He left with his Uncle Iroh and searched for the Avatar, trying to reclaim his honor. It was luck that he learned the Avatar lived and it was cruel fate that he was forced to fight the Fire Nation to stop a General attempt to kill the moon. He was hunted by his sister Azula, until a critical battle in Earth Kingdom's capital in which he helped Azula defeat the Avatar. In the end, he learned his destiny was help the Avatar and left in search of them after confronting his father after a major battle during an eclipse.
When Zuko awoke in this world he found his fire-bending had been changed and enhanced. A style of fighting learned by sun worshipers and taught by a near extinct race of fire-breathing Dragons, the purpose of Zuko's fire bending is to protect those close to him. He now produces ethereal white flames that burns creatures of darkness, but not the innocent.
A energetic fourteen year old standing five foot two, a hundred fifteen pounds with gray eyes, light skin, and chin-length brown hair with a long braid. She's dressed in the red/pink outfit.
She moves with the skill of a Master Gymnast and Acrobat, avoiding the monster's attacks and flying rubble.
Ty Lee has been a long time friend of Azula and Mai since their time at the Royal Fire Academy for Girls. She was the daughter of a nobleman. She is one of seven sisters, whom all seem to look alike. However she wanted her own identity and one day ran away to join the circus. She later joined Azula hunting the Avatar and her brother using her gymnastic skills and he mastery of pressure point attacks, attacks which are useless against an immense rubbery monster.
She helps by confusing the insane monster enough to cause it to bite itself.
A passive fifteen year old with pale gold eyes, pale skin, and black hair done in an odd style. She is a cold, calm, and reserved young woman and seems to be bored even fighting the multi-ton creature. As she moves, she throws small, fletched darts that are thrown from her wrists and ankles.
Mai is a cold, calm, and reserved young woman, and a longtime friend of Azula and Ty Lee, with whom she attended the Royal Fire Academy for Girls. She is an extremely skilled warrior in the art of Shurikenjutsu, the art of throwing small hand-held weapons. Sakura compared her to a master from her village named Tenten and gave her explosive tags which turn her darts into powerful explosions.
A twenty year old woman with red eyes and long purple hair with two lochs in front of her ears and two long pony tails on her back. She's dressed in an odd form of combat suit with loose pink clothing covered by a dark brown sleeveless haori with gloves, boots, and a blue scarf and belt. She also wears a pink band around one arm like a sacred rice rope and odd head gear that darkens the skin and places two slash-like marking on each side of the face.
She is Princess Ayeka Masaki Jurai, First Princess of Jurai's royal family. She was born on the alien planet Jurai and was suppose to marry her half-brother Yosho, but an attack by the space pirate Ryoko and her living ship Ryo-ohki ruined her future. Ryoko caused massive damage and escaped being chased by Yosho. She spend over seven hundred years in hibernation looking for her brother when she followed Ryoko trail to Earth. In a second battle with Ryoko she caused Ayeka's own living ship Ryu-oh to crash leaving her stranded.
In time, she fell in love with Tenchi Masaki, a descendant of Yosho, who she meet in her first battle with Ryoko on this world. She was also rescued by Tenchi from the Galaxy's most wanted Kagato and from a black hole created by Clay. She also learned her mother was counter-actor, a god like being with the ability to strangle a goddess that only Tenchi could reason with.
When she appeared in this world, she first thought it had been another experiment of Washu, Ryoko's mad scientist mother and greatest scientific genius in the universe. Now, realizing she trapped on this strange world she has let out her more aggressive warrior side she hides behind modest, well mannered, traditional, and aristocratic ways of her heritage. It's also revealed a sadistic side which Jurai noblewoman love of bondage, discipline, and sado-masochism (BDSM).
It's extremely scary to watch the armored Princess tear threw where the pelvic would be and explode out the other side in a spray of red water. A shower of purple blasts shreds the back skin of the monster and nearly blows off one of the arms.
The last is another sixteen year old woman with large gold eyes and long golden blond going below her waist. She wears a tight pink shirt with a sleeveless white vest that draws attention to her large bust. She also a large pink obi (belt) and tight white pants with the upper right leg cut away. Resting on the bare skin is a gun holster with the strap resting on her left hip. She also wears pink gloves and a wide rim white-and-pink hat. Her gun of choice is a six shooter which she reloads in a unique manner. She spins causing the bullets hidden between her breasts to fly out and catches them in chambers of gun.
Rushuna Tendou fights to end strife and chaos.A senshi - one who is skilled to some degree in the use of guns in her world - who was trained in the positive teachings and kind ideals of Tenshi, Empress of Tento. She was taught the best tactic is eliminating the opponent's willingness to fight without fighting. She has excellent tactical analytical skills, being able to discern her opponents' weaknesses in the heat of battle and adjust accordingly to exploit them with the tools at her disposal. She also hugs opponents who are difficult to negotiate with to her chest in order to pacify them.
Rushuna is having problems with the monster since it's too large to hug, completely insane with hungry and blood lust, and her bullets are having little effect. All she can do is shoot the monster in eyes over and over again. Normally she would never shoot to kill, but the shots don't kill. The eyes and what brain matter behind them just regrow over and over.
One of tail mouths lunges to devour the busty warrior when there is a cry of "Silver Eclipse Kiss" and a blast of black mist and sparkling white energy hits the tail. The tail is reduced to cloud of dark red crystalline powder. Rushuna turns to see a black winged angel swooping down to help her.
"Hello, my name is Usagi Tsukino, Senshi of the Moon" she says with cute fanged smile.
"My name is Rushuna Tendou, the smiling Senshi." replies a smiling Rushuna
Rei in her warrior miko uniform sweat drops at the thought of two blond bubble heads, then rushes into the battle.
"Mars Flame Sniper!"
A bow and arrow composed of white flames forms in her hands, then she fires the arrow into the arm that reaching for Usagi and Rushuna. The entire arm glows and shakes as the divine energy burns threw the sin-filled flesh. The entire arm turns a translucent red with the white light flowing threw it like venom in veins, then it explodes into a shower of sparks and glowing red dust.
There is thunder and Arshes Nei and Makoto stand on a hill surrounded by lightning.
"Prince of the Realm of Magic, Mighty Tonimoore. Fulfill the Pact of Ancient Days. Raging Billow! Thunder Riot!"
"Dark Star of the Forest unleash your Wrath. Jupiter Forest Dragons!"
Arshes Nei's ancient spell Thunder Riot produces a massive magical lightning strike, while Makoto's new youjutsu (demonic magic) enhanced spell produces a massive eruption of lightning that splits into several dragon-shaped blasts before colliding with the monster with Arshes lightning strike. It a little know fact that a magical effect is boosted when two people cast similar element spells at the same time. Which explains why the beast shakes and fries like Octopus hitting a high voltage power line.
The beast recovers rapidly, the charred skin shattering away, and another mouth shoots out, only for a large boulder to intercept it. The boulder thrown by the fly Monet is heavy enough that the "neck" of mouth tentacle is stretched back. The tense skin and muscle tissue are cut by a Cutting Curse from the wand of Lavender Brown causing the entire top to be torn completely off.
Anko stands on another hill, bits her thumbs, and rams her palms into the ground. Spider-web shaped seals appears from both hands and there's an explosion of white smoke. When the smoke clears there are two immense snakes. Both snakes are blue-gray with gold eyes with black sclera and both are so large that Anko is the size of one of there eyes!
Anko points as if doing her Senei Jashu (Hidden Shadow Snake Hands) and the two immense snake move with supernatural speed wrapping tightly around the monster, binding his limbs before latching onto him with there fangs inject four drums worth of extremely toxic venom, which is overkill for normal creatures since a single drop is enough to kill ten men and full immersion would melt a human including there armor and bones. Eight hundred liters of poison is enough to slow down the constantly regenerating monster. The creature's white skin bubbles and blisters as the chemicals break apart tissue and release large amounts of heat.
Temari, Tenten, and Hinata are the next attackers.
Tenten performs Soushouryuu (Twin Rising Dragons). She removes two scrolls and sets them on the ground, then form hand seals. The two scrolls rise into the air and begin to swirl around a middle vortex. The visual effect is two white ghost dragons swirling around a pillar of purple light. Tenten then uses this vortex space to launch herself into the air between the spinning scrolls and rapidly summons and throw weapons. A barrage of Tobidougu (Projectile Weapons) ranging from metal senbon and kunai daggers to swords and spears all shot towards the flesh between the snake coils.
Temari unfolds the giant fan on her back revealing three blue stars and uses (Great Cutting Whirlwind). Named after a mythical creature, Temari uses her fan to blow a concussive wind that is imbued with her chakra. This technique is a bigger version of the normal Kamaitachi no Jutsu, having the ability to cause a great amount of cutting damage to the nearby area. She blows the wind along the same path as Tenten's Soushouryuu barrage causing the weapons to be propelled faster.
Hinata perform her own personal technique, Shugo Hakke Rokujuuyonshou (Guardian Eight Divination Signs, Sixty-Four Palms of the Hand) She emits chakra from her palms and moves her arms in sweeping pattern movements to provide a full 360 degree range of protection for her body. She's close enough to the monster that her barrier slices the few remaining free limbs apart as they collide. This prevents the monster from stopping slicing winds and supersonic thrown blades.
The beast collapses and the snake squeeze out more of the red water creating a large pool beneath the slowly regenerating creature. The beast manages to bite the two snakes with mouths that appear causing the snakes to vanish. With them out of the way, Sheena uses her cards to summon a massive lightning attack that travels down the wires Tenten connected to her blades (which is connected to a sword instead of fingers like normal) into the Beast causes another massive explosion.
Ripley, Hepzibah, Kiyone, and Ceres provide cover fire with there BFG, while the near indestructible Lust and insanely fast Chevalier Ino move towards the head. The blob tries to defend itself, but the pseudo pods it sends out are destroy by Kagura whose flying above on her giant feather.
Suddenly, Cordelia appears behind the creature, her arm glowing blue-white with lightning and making the sound of a thousand birds. Azula was a prodigy fire bender and was able to manipulate lightning. Anko told her of Konoha's own fire prodigy who used a lightning attack. The boy was Sasuke Uchiha and the technique Chidori (Thousand Birds). To prove her own superiority, she recreated alone the superior technique developed by Sasuke's teacher Kakashi.
"RAIKIRI!" (Lightning Blade!)
The lightning blade tears off the creatures head, which arcs threw the air and is impaled on Lust's claws. Ino makes a hand seal and her eyes glow. Ino makes a single command, "Wake up, Gluttony!"
Slowly the hunger maddened animal eyes change into more intelligent eyes, hungry and child like, but intelligent. The large tongue hanging from it's open mouth twitches and a symbol appears on it. A red serpentine dragon swallowing its own tail and forming a circle, the ouroboros. It has been used to represent many things over the ages, but it most generally symbolizes ideas of cyclically, unity, or infinity. It also represents the mind of a Homunculus.
Gluttony's body has reformed, no longer the beast, but a short heavy built fat man with thick limbs marked with red lines and now dressed in a black jumpsuit. The rest of Homunculus' beast body dissolves into the red water, which then partial hardens into red stone. Lust makes sure she and Gluttony are not standing in the goo, as the alchemic charge could cause problems.
"Lust? Lust is back! My Lust is Back!" says a now cheerful Gluttony, he then looks around at all the women and three men, "Who they Lust? Can I eat them?"
"No Gluttony, but we now have plenty of red stones for you to eat." says Lust holding Gluttony, "There are also plenty of evil monsters for you to eat."
Gluttony drools with one finger to his lips in a curious pose.
"Your different Lust. How did you change?"
"My old body was killed by Wrath and my new body was created from a teenager."
Gluttony looks confused
Ayeka and Rushuna walk over to the two Homunculi.
"Excuse me, but I would like to know who are you and what kind of monster the bald one is." says Ayeka
"That's rude, Princess Ayeka." says Rushuna, "I'm glad we could stop him."
"My name is Lust. Me and Gluttony are Homunculi." says Lust, "In our world, when a human tries to bring back the dead using Alchemy and fails, it creates an artificial human with the appearance of the deceased. There are no more than seven at any given time and they are named after the Seven Deadly Sins of the old Christian Religion. Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Envy, Wrath, and Pride. We are living incarnations of that sin and each possess a superhuman ability based on that sin."
"Why was Gluttony a beast when we arrived?" asks Ayeka
"I was dead at time, but according to the Files back in Sunnydale, our master Dante wanted Gluttony to devour Alphonse Elric and create the true Philosopher's Stone, a stone with immense power that can transfer Dante's soul from one body to the next. Gluttony was upset with my death and couldn't be reasoned with, so Dante sealed away Gluttony's mind leaving behind an animal that only eats. Years after eating Dante, a piece of the Philosopher stone, and the damage to the seal caused him to become that giant monster. Ino, the blond over there, possesses powerful mental abilities and was able to awake Gluttony's mind and restore him."
"I'm so happy your OK now!" says Rushuna giving Gluttony a hug. When she lets go, Gluttony looks a little dizzy and mumbling something about being hungry for melons.
"What powers do you and Gluttony have?" asks Ayeka, now sound calm, "If you don't mind me asking."
"I am the Ultimate Lance. I can extend by fingernails into long lances thinner than a human hair. It allows me to cut and pierce my opponents. Gluttony, other than his impressive strength, can devour anything and has corrosive drool."
Ayeka looks a disguised at the drool comment.
A few meters away, Cordelia is meeting Azula's friends and enemies.
"Azula! How did you get here?"
"I got her on a bus." says Cordelia, "and I'm not Azula."
"What kind of twisted trick is this?" asks Katara looking ready to slice off Azula's head. The lastly time she saw Azula she nearly killed Aang. "She certainly look like the Fire (Censored)!"
Aang stares at Katara's language.
"Halloween night. Everyone dresses in costumes to get candy and play pranks. Someone cast a spell and the entire world was transformed into there costumes. The people you were have been must have been weak-willed fools, so you consumed them completely. I may have Azula's body, but I'm the one in charge. My name is Cordelia Chase, Queen C of Sunnydale, and I don't lose!"
"So Azula got beaten in a battle of wills?" says Ty Lee, "Woah! I didn't think that was possible."
"How depressing." says Mai, getting close to her boyfriend Zuko, "I was hoping to talk to Azula, but she got eaten by a town princess."
"I possess all of Azula's memories, Mai." says Cordelia, "Including that diary entry about Zuko you wrote."
The stoic, Gothic Mai blushes to her roots. She burnt her diary after Azula read that entry and had to do favors for a month to prevent Azula from giving the entry to Zuko.
"How did you create that blade/" says a curious Aang, causing Katara and Zuko's defense stances to collapse, "I've never scene anything like it."
"It's an attack used by the pink-haired one's sensei."
Sakura stares at the group in front of her.
"Ino! Hinata! Tenten? Anko?"
"Sakura!" says Ino holding her friend.
"Your all here." says Sakura, "I didn't think I see you guys again."
"We all appeared in a town called Sunnydale."
"Are there any more from Konoha?" asks Sakura hopeful
"I know Lady Tsunade merged with a woman named Joyce Summers." replies Ino, "There's also Temari over there from the Sand Village and Kabuto from Sound is with a different bus. We don't know where the others are, if they have appeared in this world."
"Excuse me."
Ino turns to see Saya Otonashi and Riku Miyagusuku standing with Ceres Victoria.
"Yes?"
"Are you a Chevalier?" asks Saya, while Sakura mouths the word.
"Yes." replies Ino, then comes to a realization, "Your Diva's sister!"
Saya tenses, but Ino holds up her hands.
"Diva is currently in hibernation and we don't know how's she changed." explains Ino, "She went into Hibernation after Halloween, so we don't know how much of Harmony's persona remains. She's the one who dressed as Diva and was transformed into Diva during Halloween. The only reason I know about you is because of the Files, the costume information we managed to recover."
Saya is tense and thinks about her nieces, Riku's daughters. She almost killed them thinking they would be monsters like there mother, but they were nurtured and became normal people. Part of her wonders if Diva had not become a lab rat, would she and Diva have been close. Is this Diva's second chance at life? She finally relaxes and tells Ino, "I'll need to talk to Diva when she awakens."
"Saya, how come your not in Hibernation?" asks Riku, "Shouldn't you be sleeping like your blood sister?"
"I guess this Halloween Effect messed up our cycles."
"LADY SETO!"
Princess Ayeka Masaki Jurai just learned that her grandmother Lady Seto and Washu are in the town of Sunnydale. This is extremely important as Lady Seto is one of the most feared people in the galaxy back in her home reality. Not only for her pursuit of space pirates and her fighting skills, but because the Devil Princess of Jurai loves playing match maker.
She's happy that Washu is around because, she awoke in this world with Ryu-oh seed and she needs to have her Space Tree regrown. The nobility of Jurai are bonded to the ancient Space Trees, descendants of there Goddess Tsunami's physical form. It's a a symbiotic relationship, bonding with the tree extends the youth and life span of the human to that of the tree and the tree gains the human's mobility allowing it to enters a variety of new environments.
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Bus Beta - Cordelia's Crew - Current: 30 Limit: 56
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Riku, Saya, Aang, Katara, Zuko, Mai, Ty Lee, Sakura, Ayeka, Rakusho, and Gluttony board Sunnydale Bus Beta with the rest of the group
The small group had fourteen members before there battle with the bestial Gluttony. The four pf there members were killed and eaten before Cordelia's Crew arrived to save the day.
"The first person to die was a white-haired knight called Griffith. The man was like a Hawk, swooping down with his sword and slaying demons. He had incredible charisma and was the leader of out group until, Gluttony managed to devour him from below. All that was left to bury was that weird necklace of his. The strange egg thing looks like it had a mixed up face like a Picaso painting'
'The second person to die was Crazy Survivalist who gave his name as Mr. Blackmore. He walked around with small arsenal all the time, he even slept surrounded by his weapons. We had to bury one of his daggers since that was all we could find.'
'The third person to die was nihilistic alchemist named Kimblee. That nut had the ability to touch a living target and turn the fluids in there bodies into chemical explosives, turning people and demons into living bombs. The traitor tried to use Riku as a bomb, when he couldn't get close to Gluttony. Saya managed to kick the bastard away right into the open jaws. We buried his odd watch.'
'The last person to die was an overweight, balding wizard named Peter Pettigrew. He was the one you saw in Gluttony's mouth. He was a timid man who used Latin spells. The only thing they recovered was one of the arms with silver hand floating in the red water."
Everyone notices Gluttony looks like he's having a pleasant memory.
"Why did you want us to collect those red stones in the barrels?" asks Kiyone
"Two reasons. Red stones act as alchemic boosters, which means they could be used by the mage and magi-tech users." says Lust, "The other reason is food for Gluttony so he doesn't eat one of you."
"The stones are food?" asks Usagi
"Only to homunculi. If I remember correctly, they contain high amounts of red mercury sulfide, Cinnibar. That ingredient by itself is highly toxic used as a source of quicksilver. The fumes from red water cause acute sickness and the old method for creating large red stones, was to use the placenta of a pregnant woman. A process which killed both the baby and the mother."
"That's horrible! Why did they want the stones so badly."
"They make alchemic reactions far more powerful. The military's State Alchemists used these stones during the genocidal war with Ishabal. An alchemist that could kill a dozen, could kill a hundred."
"Genocide?"
"Homunculi stimulate and escalate wars. People during or after Wars becoming desperate and look for hope. They find false hope in the Philosopher's Stone, which we Homunculi search for."
"That is so disturbing." says a shaken Usagi
Up in the front, Cordelia and the Avatar Aang are talking.
"So the reason, I not longer have my connection is because it's a past belonging to the real me." asks a depressed Aang, "So I'm completely fake, a copy."
"Listen, Aang. My friend Willow was transformed into a Shinigami, a spirit that cleanses evil spirits and sends ghost to the afterlife. Her kind uses weapons forged from there own souls. So it's not just, body and memories, you are basically a another reincarnation with the past life's memories."
"I no longer have to fight your fa... I mean Fire Lord Ozai." says Aang, "So what do I do now?"
"Well Aang, there still a world that needs protecting." says Cordelia with a smirk, "I also learned about the Chakras you needed to control the Avatar form. I was wondering what you were doing, when Azula struck you from behind. Without the Avatar, you don't need to break your earthly link, so you can be with Katara."
Aang blushes a deep red.
"Why... Why are you being so nice?"
"I don't want my warriors having emotional hang ups." says Cordelia with a calculated look, "I'm not nice, I'm a strategist. Don't forget that."
Aang swallows and says "Yes, Ma'am!"
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A Library in a small town
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Sarah is the name of a twelve year old girl with green eyes and long brown hair sits in the corner of an abandoned library dressed in an old brown dress. She was sick months ago, that Halloween night and did not join her friends in becoming zombies, vampires, and pumpkin monsters. When her house was destroyed she ran to the one place she had always loved.
She has always loved reading books, especially fantasy stories. Her favorites have always been Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, and Journey To The West by Wu Cheng'en. They were classics, each an award-winning example of Literature.
Now, she sees her favorites twisted into horrors before her. Sitting a few meter away from her at a desk talking to each other are three warped characters.
The first is the priest Genjyo Sanzo from Journey To The West also known as Saiyuki. He's a twenty-three-year-old man standing five-foot-ten, a hundred-forty-one pounds with wild shoulder-length blond hair and purple eyes. He's dressed like a stylish monk with scripture over his shoulders. He also carries a handgun, smokes, drinks, and is currently gambling.
The second is Alice from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. She is now an older, dark-brown haired young woman with emerald green eyes. She's currently dressed in a blood stained white apron over blue dress with a large butcher knife next to her hand. She's currently drinking a cup of strange colored tea that smells of sulfur
The third is a young teen who goes by the name Peter. He has pale skin, golden eyes, and short dark brown/black hair. He's not dressed in leaves of wild child, but the leather clothing of a teenage rebel with a dark green shirt. On the shirt is the words, "Never land Nevermore." What's terrifying about him is the pointed ears, long sharp nail, and fangs that mark him as a vampire. He's currently playing cards with the Priest drinking a glass of warm blood!
"I can't turn every guy I meet into a vampire. I want people I can control like my Lost Boys, not those freak Pirates. That's why I pick orphans and runaways" says Peter, "I also like my girls submissive. So I pick ones willing to change there name to that of my first girl Wendy. Not to say the Lost Boys don't have there own Lost Girls, but only my Wendy rules them."
Bang!
Peter collapses to the ground with a smoking gun wound in his chest. Peter twitches in pain as the blessed metal burns him, then he passes out.
"He talks to much." says Sanjo
"and he was cheated with that vampire speed of his." adds Alice
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Bus Beta - Cordelia's Crew - Current: 30 Limit: 56
3 Days Later
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The past seventy two hours since Cordelia added eleven new members to the group has been quiet. There have only been a couple dozen minor demon attacks and one shower of fire that managed to ruined the buses paint job.
Currently, the group is eating, except for the driver. There food was prepared by Sunnydale cooks and stored in Tenten's food scroll as Bentos. A Bento is a single-portion takeout or home-packed meal common in Japanese cuisine. A traditional bento consists of rice, fish or meat, and one or more pickled or cooked vegetables as a side dish. Containers range from disposable mass produced to hand crafted lacquer ware. Although bento are easily available in many places throughout Japan, including convenience stores, bento shops, train stations, and department stores, it is still common for Japanese homemakers to spend considerable time and energy producing an appealing boxed lunch.
Those not eating there Bentos are eating junk food they found at the Gas and Restaurant
"This Bentos are good." says Aang
"Yes, I am surprised." says Ayeka, "How did you manage to produce them in this world?"
"Never underestimate the power of Japanese housewife." says Cordelia, "or twenty world class chefs feeding a mostly Japanese
population."
"There were people who dressed like cooks and professional chefs Halloween night" explains Anko, "A large portion survived and since they follow the personal ideal, they are world-class culinary masters. They also makes some great Dango"
The group watches as she packs away another serving of Japanese dumplings, but one was to wonder where they found the mochiko (rice flour) to make them. Dango seems to be Anko's obsession and her name actually comes from two varieties of dango. Anko is commonly known as (sweetened) red bean paste and Mitarashi is a syrup made from shouyu (soy sauce), sugar and starch.
"Most of the Japanese population, created from Anime and Manga, possesses great cooking skills unless there character possessed comical bad cooking skills. Makoto's character was always shown as a great cook, so she makes some of the best bentos, while Usagi is kept away from the Kitchens."
"That not nice, Cordy" says a pouting Usagi.
"As for how we could get the ingredients. You have to thank Washu's hydroponics bay and a little time dilation magic. According to the Files, she also has cooking skills as proven when she took care of Taro, baby cousin to the series hero Tenchi"
Lust notices a strange site. Gluttony is reading, not eating, a book while he eats his Bento. The title of the book is "Bento - A History of the Japanese Lunch Box" and he's currently reading about the different types of Bentos such as Shokado, the traditional black-lacquered Japanese bento box, and Chuka Bento filled with Chinese food. Gluttony looks very focused, which makes Lust nervous. She then relaxes after Gluttony finishes his Bento and begins to eat the box.
Suddenly, a wave of energy passes over the bus causing most of the people inside distress. The kunoichi can sense of the immense chakra and killing intent. Those that possesses even the tiniest amount of spiritual awareness nearly collapse from the crushing spiritual pressure. The vampires (vampire-like creature) Riku, Saya, Ceres, and Ino can sense a monstrous blood lust, something that shakes them to there bones and makes there blood sing for combat.
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The Battle
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The red sky crackles with power as the earth shakes. The ruined buildings of an old town collapse into rubble and fragments of stone begin to float into the smoke-laced air. A howling wind blows the rubble into a vortex around the cause of the destruction.
It's an immense animal, not composed of flesh and bone, but of dark red energy. It's body is red flame with long sharp fur, sharp fangs, and claws. It also has long ears and nine long tails. The crimson demon resembles a wild fox, but so immense an average human is smaller than one of it's eyes.
It's a Kyubi no Yoko (Nine-Tailed Demon Fox) out of Japanese folklore, a Kitsune of an immense age, wisdom, and vast magical power, possessing the abilities to see and hear anything happening anywhere in the world. This Kyubi is an immense god-like evil being, like a demon lord from depths of hell and the only thing that stands in it's way are a small group of heroes.
The first is a young man standing five-foot-eleven, a hundred-forty-six pounds with blue eyes and spiky gold hair reaching his shoulders. He's dressed in the dark clothing and green flak jacket of a ninja of Konoha including the leaf forehead protector. He also wears a long short-sleeve coat with flames on the bottom rim and the Kanji for "Fourth" on the back in red.
The man is Yondaime Hokage (Fourth Leader Fire Shadow), Minato Namikaze. He was a famous war hero of Konoha who turned the invasion of Iwa (Stone). With his two original techniques, Hiraishin and Rasengan he defeated an army of enemy nin and earned the name "Konoha's Yellow Flash". In time, he was selected to become the Fourth Leader of the village hidden in the leaves and secretly had a child with Kushina Uzumaki, a talented kunoichi from the former Whirlpool Country.
He died saving Konoha one last time, by summoning the death god against the tailed beast that attacked his home, the Kyubi no Kitsune. He sacrificed his soul to the Death God, so it would seal the soul of the Kyubi into his infant son and died hoping they would treat little Naruto as a hero.
Now, Minato finds himself fighting a new Kyubi and unable to use the same technique. He bites his thumbs as he flips back threw the air avoiding the huge pieces of flying rubble. As he lands he slams his palm into a ground creating the spider-web seal and explosion of white smoke found in most summonings. As the smoke clears, the Yondaime stands on Gamabunta, the Toad Boss. The eyes of the other heroes bug out at the immense multi-ton red Toad dressed in a dark blue haori and carrying a multi-story tanto dagger.
The second is a sixteen to seventeen year old woman with purple eyes, short silver hair, and red markings on the side of her face. She wears a dark brown robe with light tan jacket over it. She also wears fingerless gloves, brown boots that leave a little bare leg between them and short pants, and a dark brown cap. She carries a staff roughly the same height as she is made of silver metal with a red ball suspended between the arc of the head piece.
Her name is An Shouji, but people in the VR MMORPG (Virtual Reality Massive Multi-Player Online Role Playing Game), The World know her as Tsukasa. With her mother deceased and an abusive father in the real world, she lost herself in escapism. While existing in the online world twenty four /seven, her real body was left in comatose. Her problems only increased when an entity known as Morganna erased part of her memory and linked her emotions to the Ultimate AI Aura to prevent her from awakening. The reason being if Aura awoke Morganna would no longer have a purpose to exist.
It was only threw interactions with her online friends, that not everyone is selfish and dumb, that there are truly people capable of caring for her in the real world. In the end Tsukasa declares that he is no longer afraid of Morganna or his reality and that he will log out and meet Subaru - another player she had gotten into a relationship with, triggering Aura's awakening.
It the real world, Ryo Sakuma, the player behind her online friend Bear, became her legal guardian and allowed her to go to a boarding school. She and Mariko (Subaru's real life ID) started dating and the only time she returned to The World was for reunion and celebration at Net Slum with her friends and other heroes of the world.
The young woman awoke in this bizarre world in a female version of Tsukasa and quickly learned no matter how horrific this world is very real. She uses her celebration at Net Slum (Spell Caster) abilities to enhance the strength and health of the others.
It's interesting to note that the person who became Tsukasa was female and that was deciding vote on gender. Some men who dressed as female characters became women. Some women who dressed as male characters became men. Tsukasa's host was a woman who dressed a male game character, whose a lesbian woman in real life.
Another strange case is the third person facing the Kyubi. It's a a young, beautiful woman standing six foot with grey-ish blue eyes covered by her blue-and-green stripped hat and messy blonde hair. She's currently dressed a dark green robe covered by a black outer robe and wears large sandals on her feet. Her unique weapon is a shikomizue, a blade hidden inside a cane, which she draws out.
"Okiro, Benihime!" (Awaken, Crimson Princess)
The sword transforms in her hands. The blade becomes a bit wider the hilt curves, adding a crimson ribbon and other elaborate decorations around it. She points the blade at the Kyubi and fires a crimson-colored energy blast that nearly knocks the immense beast off it's feet.
During Halloween, a young woman decided to dresses as a male samurai and called herself a god of death. She carried the authentic shikomizue and wore a goofy hat as a joke. Halloween's warp transformed her into a female version of exiled shinigami captain Kisuke Urahara. The Distaff universe version, known as Kishi Urahara,was also the former Captain of the Eleventh Division and first head of Shinigami Research Institute, and was also the owner the Urahara shop. Events in her universe followed the same pattern as events in her male counterparts with the exception of her and Ichigo's gender.
The last thing she remembers was Aizen's Arrancar invasion of Karakura Town. Now, she finds herself fighting a monster with more spiritual power than a Vasto Lorde -class Menos, which is terrifying since it would only take ten to wipe out the Soul Society.
The fourth fighter is a twelve year old girl with green eyes and short brown hair. She's dressed in a white-and-black Japanese school uniform with knee and elbow pads. She also wears a white beret and carries an odd pink staff with a gold five-pointed star on one end. A wand she strikes a floating card with.
"Shield Card!"
A shell forms around Sakura Kinomoto, stopping the fires and burning rubble from hitting the girl. Sakura was once a normal little girl two years ago, until she accidentally opened the ancient book, The Clow in her father's study. The book contained the half-English half-Chinese sorcerer Clow Reed's greatest creations known as the Clow Cards, deck of 19 magical cards with incredible powers. She accidentally released those card and was forced to hunt down the sentient spirits as a Card Captor.
In time she captured, The Light, The Dark, The Windy, The Earthy, The Firery, The Wood, The Watery, The Flower, The Fly, The Jump, The Erase, The Mirror, The Maze, The Illusion, The Sword, The Shield, The Shadow, The Thunder, and The Glow with the help of Syaoran, a distant relative of Clow Reed who later became her boyfriend. When she became the true master of the cards, she had to converted them into Sakura Cards and started to create her own cards.
The fifth fighter doesn't need a shield, knocking away the massive pieces of rubble with her inhuman strength. The girl looks ten years old standing four-foot-three with green eyes and very long blond hair. She's currently dressed like a Gothic Lolita with a long cape.
The girl is Evangeline A.K. McDowell and is a five hundred year old vampire mage. She's currently wondering how she ended up fighting a demon fox in some strange world without Chachamaru or her other friends at Mahora Academy. She wishes that Negi was with her since he makes her feel better with his panic, but she also glade he isn't do to the extreme danger. She doesn't even notice a piece of steel impale her, she just explodes into a cloud of bats that reform into a her a few meters away, completely unharmed.
The sixth is a mysterious blond man who wears distinctive crimson-red clothing. He moves with incredible skill cutting flying rubble apart with his twin swords. It doesn't matter if a piece of plaster board, a broken telephone, and a large chunk of concrete the size and weight of a tank. He slices threw all of it leaving smooth perfect cuts that defy the laws of physics.
The rest don't know him other than his name is Kyuzou and that he's a Samurai a body guard for a wealthy family and died defending a small rice village from bandits. He was accidentally killed by friendly fire and he dies in the leader Kambei's arms, saying he will wait for him in the afterlife. Now he finds himself something out of a child's worst nightmare times a thousand.
The seventh character is a seventeen year old boy with dark eyes and wild spiky black hair. He's dressed in a sleeveless red-brown shirt with torn white pants and gray pants. He also wears bracers and carries a sword, which is mostly decorative.
His name is Carrot Glace and is a Sorcerer Hunter. He like his father, Onion Glace, rescues maidens in the hopes that he will be able to date them afterwards. He was the weakest of his group, lacking great strength or weapon skills. Carrot was born with two special abilities, which has become in the magic rich world he found himself in. Aranjun, the ability to absorb magic, and Zoanthropy, the ability to transform using the magic.
"Oh (Censored)!"
The Kyubi is shaking releasing millions of tiny (compared to it) chakra bubbles. The little translucent spheres of energy rapidly flow and merge together to form one huge red-black sphere in from of the fox's roaring mouth and curved tails. It pulsates and contracts into a smaller, denser sphere. The group watches as the fox opens it mouth wide and swallows the black sphere.
"We have to get out the way!" yells Yondaime as Gamabunta leaps high into air
The Kyubi's body swells up like a balloon from the internal pressure. White mist-like energy slowly comes out of the fox's demonic mouth like steam from a predator's mouth in winter. The Kyubi leans back, then shoots forward as if shooting the world's largest spit wade. A massive burst of energy shoots from the creatures mouth causing everything it's path to shred and vaporize. The heroes are thrown clear by the hurricane force winds and the blast hits the other side of town causing another massive explosion. The blast is so powerful it destroys all of the remaining buildings and sends up a mushroom cloud.
Minato is glad Gamabunta absorbed most of the shock wave. The Toad badly burned is forced to puff away returning to the spiritual world of summons. Sakura, Tsukasa, and Urahara are glad to have shields. Evangeline is glad high level vampires are immune to physical attacks and that the magic was able to shield Kyuzou. Carrot Glace is kissing ground, thankful that the absorbed ambient magic made him extremely durable. He then runs over to the eighth and final member of the group.
He's a goofy, brown haired man dressed in a blue and large blue hat. He is Schmendrick the Magician and he is capable of awe-inspiring magic, the trouble is, he can hardly ever get it to work, and usually it doesn't do what he expected. He managed to gets it under control after helping the Unicorn rescue her kind from King Haggard and his demonic servant the Red Bull.
He's currently covered in minor cuts, a couple lacerations, and many burns. His left leg is crushed under a piece of concrete, shards of glass in one of his shoulders, and a twisted metal pierces his left side into the ground beneath him. There's even a piece of metal wrapped around his broken wrist, a length of steel that deformed when it collided.
"You look horrible." says a worried Carrot Glace.
Schmendrick coughs up a little blood and says in pained voice, "I feel worse."
Carrot turns to see the Kyubi puffed up with a second chakra bomb. He bites his thumb and runs the blood across a seal on one of bracers. It's a seal Minato created to seal his special abilities until they were needed. The reason being that the immense amounts of ambient spiritual (especially magical) energy caused him to transform at random and caused him to stay semi-transformed into a chimera-like beast until he meet Minato. The small blood sacrifice is the trigger to unlock the seals.
As the others call out to him and call him an idiot, he runs up a piece of rubble like a ramp and jumps high into the air, directly into the path of the Kyubi's energy blast. The immense amount of demonic physical and spiritual energy mixed with absorbed ambient magic collides with the small human form, then shatters into a billions fragments in the opposite direction. The shower of blasts collide with the fox knocking it back and actually damaging it.
Carrot having absorbed the insane magical charge has transformed into a giant werewolf standing over four meters tall Man-Wolf, a fur-covered humanoid body and a fully lupine head. A closer look reveals red-brown fur, long ears, and gold-on-black eyes of the Kyubi it faces making it a demonic Man-Fox.
Carrot leaps forward and grapples with the Tailed Beast. Carrot has the physical advantage, as Kyubi is used to using energy attacks and his tails to create earthquakes and storms, and a fox's body even with opposable thumbs is not good for hand-to-hand combat. The Kyubi has the advantage of infinite stamina and regeneration, and it's aura is so strong even Carrot's energy-absorbing hide is burnt.
Suddenly, a second head made of red chakra shoots of of shoulder of Kyubi and bites Carrot's shoulder creating a crimson shower. As Carrot lets go and falls back, the Kyubi lets out a loud roar and shock wave that sends Carrot flying over the heads of the other heroes. He crashes into a ruins and passes out, but the Kyubi shows no mercy and rushes forward for a quick kill.
A young man suddenly appears in the Kyubi's path. He around twenty years old standing six-foot-three with blue-gray eyes and long silver hair done in a ponytail with two thick lochs in front. He's dressed as a Catholic Priest with a silver-lined black coat, white gloves, and glasses.
"Crusnik 02 Loading. Limitation at 100... Acknowledged."
The man turns into a humanoid creature with dark skin, black bat-like wings, and blue markings that cover his entire body. He also carries a double ended scythe-like weapon and is now emitting lightning.
In a distant alternate future, the Mars Colonization Project discovered the Bacillus and Crusnik nanomachines. When the Bacillus nanomachines were embedded in humans, they were infected with a virus that changed them into vampires who had to feed on blood to survive. The vampires -- who now call themselves Methuselahs -- and the humans ended up in a war against each other that resulted in Armageddon.
Nine hundred years later the surviving humans are still trying to recover from the war's devastating affects while trying to find ways to co-exist with the Methuselah despite the distrust and hatred still evident on both sides.
The man, Crusnik 02, releases a blast of lightning that stops the Kyubi's charge. It followed by five more blasts that hit the fox's side. The creature howls then cries to claw the man, only for him to move out of the way using his metallic wings. He swings his scythe as the fox passes by, hitting the shoulder. The effect is like a tazer gun being used on a actual living fox and the tailed beast is sent flying back down to earth.
Abel Nightroad is a Crusnik. They were created by Mars Colonization Project, who injected the Crusnik nanomachines into genetically enhanced human. Crusniks are vampires who feed on the blood of other vampires. They possess immense power and destructive potential and are nearly invincible.
The last Abel remembers was hunting his brother Cain and Rosenkreuz Orden terrorist organization with Methuselah friend Ion Fortuna. He knew his sister Seth would continue to lead the New Human Empire (Methuselah Empire), the kind Pope Alessandro XVIII leading the Vatican, and his friend Esther Blanchett ruling as Queen of Albion.
As the Fox hits the ground, it collapses into a immense hole larger than the Kyubi. There is a loud cry of "Ryuusa Bakuryuu!" (Quicksand Waterfall Current) and a tidal wave of sand explodes from ground and broken rubble of the desert town, then covers and fills the Kyubi's pit before it can react
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Near the edge of the town on a hill is a boy with his palms to the ground. He's a twelve-year old boy standing four-foot-ten with red-brown hair and green eyes. He's dressed in dark clothing with dark rings around his eyes and the kanji for love tattooed on his forehead.
"Sabaku Taisou!" (Desert Imperial Funeral)
The earth quakes as Sabaku no Garra (Gaara of the Desert) causes the sand to constrict and harden, thereby crushing everything it is covering.
"Not much time." says Gaara, he then pulls out a scroll and tosses it to flying priest, "Abel! Get it to the Yondaime!"
Gaara has had a tragic life. His father the previous leader of Sunagakure no Sato (The Village Hidden in the Sand) tried to turn him into a weapon, sacrificing his mother to seal the weakest of the Bijuu into him, Ichibi no Shukaku (One Tail Shukaku). His mother died he hoping he would avenge her and her brother Yashamaru later volunteered to assassinate him. Alone in the world and betrayed by the one person he thought loved him, he descended into darkness and lived as a demon who only loves himself. He spend many years killing all those who opposed him.
The ground continues to shake as Kyubi struggles against the sand. The amount of force applied to the demon could crush a skyscraper to powder, but the fox is slowly gaining strength.
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Minato catchs the scroll tosses to him by the dark angel. He opens it to reveal three connected spiral symbols surrounded by kanji-like symbols.
"What is it?" says Urahara
"Do you have something called Hogyoku?"
Urahara freezes at the mention of that device. Also known as the Crumbling Orb or Orb of Distortion, the item is a small orb that dissolves the boundary between a shinigami and a hollow. It can allow a shinigami to use hollow powers and vice-versa. It allows a Hollow to seal away it's hungry and become a Arrancar or allow a Shinigami to tap into there inner darkness becoming a Vizard. It was that item, that Rukia almost got killed for, and it was what allowed Aizen to create his army to attack the human world. That is why it's strange that she found the item in her pocket after Halloween.
"Why do you need it?"
"A solution if this Yoko woman is right."
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Abel watches from the sky as the ground continues to shake and ripple. Suddenly, the ground beneath him glows red and expands in a near perfect circle. Abel barely manages to fly out the way as the circle explodes and a pillar of molten sand streaks into the air. As glowing droplets rain down from the glass volcano, the Kyubi emerges from the caldera like a devil escaping the fires of hell.
The Kyubi leaps into the air and spins, hitting Abel with two of it's nine immense tails. Abel is sent flying into the surface of the desert hard enough to create a three meter radius crater. The Kyubi goes to pounce on annoying pest, when a second giant Kyubi appears. It cause the real Kyubi to back up before the power of Sakura's Mirror Card fades and reverts to it's original form. The Mirror Card can copy anything like a mirror, but it can't replicate the Kyubi's energy, which is vital to support and create the body.
Suddenly, there is a strange noise and a shock wave collides with the fox causing it to scream and collapse in pain as it enters it's god-like sense of hearing. The sound based attack was powerful enough to reduce an entire building to dust. Abel's eyes widen in recognition and slowly speaks.
"The Fire of Sound? Seth?"
Seth Nightroad appears in her own Crusnik form, with red eyes, greenish-blue lips, and a pair of giant tuning forks made of blood in each of her hands. She speaks with a deep voice.
"I found you, brother. What's with the giant fox?"
"Please. Keep the fox down until Yondaime can stop it."
"I will try, brother"
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Gaara on the hill looks very tired. He remembers feeling this tired after the battle with Naruto Uzumaki. He thought Naruto was weak for fighting for his friends, but he defeated Shukaku and defeated him. Naruto showed him that he had people who cared about him, his brother Kankuro and his sister Temari. He reaches into his pockets, but comes up empty.
"Gaara!"
Gaara turns and sees his sister running up to him.
"Temari?"
"I found you." she says grabbing her little brother in a hug.
"I am happy to see you again." says Gaara, a single tear falling from his dark-rimmed eyes, "Right now, I need your help."
"With what?"
"Saving a friend, like he saved me."
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Yondaime continues to draw on a remaining piece of rubble using his own blood. The size of the seal drains him of strength with both chakra and blood loss. The fact this is the third seal makes things far worse. He follows the instructions on the scroll and places his Hirashin kunai in the center of the immense spiral seal. The Hirashin kunai looks like a small kunai with one long blade and two smaller ones on either side and a handle covered in writing
"Fuurentan Houin: Gekoku Fuin!" (Alchemic Sealing Method: Final Third Seal!)
The immense spiral contacts and is absorbed into one of the three prongs of the dagger. The name Gekoku means the "final third of a two-hour period", as it would normally take forty minutes for a high level seal master to perform each of the three seals.
Yondaime created Hirashin no Jutsu (The Flying Thunder God Technique), a personal jutsu that allows him to teleport long distances using seal formulas and special kunai. It allowed him to save two of his students from Iwa Nins by having one of them throw his special kunai and summon him. It also allowed him to get into enemy camps by placing a seal on the sandal of an enemy ninja. Minato Namikaze finished each of the seals in four minutes. Twelve minutes is still too long when your fighting a dark god of destruction like the Kyubi no Kitsune.
"The sphere." he says to Urahara, who gives him the tiny black orb known as Hogyoku.
He writes a symbol in blood on the kunai blade where it forks into three, then holds the sphere in it's container just above it and makes a hand seal. As he releases the sphere, the dangerous device stays floating in place. He makes a few more hand seals and cries out
"Fuutobidougu Houin!" (Projectile Weapon Sealing Method!)
The blood seal glows red and the sphere glows blue. The sphere sinks into the blade like water and the seal turns into purple flame that vanish leaving a clean blade.
"It's ready."
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Cordelia's Crew has arrived.
Most of the group was slowed down when the Kyubi's first chakra bomb explosion sent there bus flying threw the air. The thirty people and one driver have never been grateful for safety belts/racing harnesses installed in the bus in case of an attack powerful enough to take the armored bus off the road.
The Shinobis, other than Temari, move towards Sakura Kinomoto, Evangeline, Kyuzou, Tsukasa, and the badly injured Schmendrick. Sakura Haruno and Ino use there medical skills to stabilize the half-dead magician, while Anko, Hinata, Tenten, and Sheena take defense positions.
The Senshi - Usagi, Rei, Makoto, and Rushuna, take offense positions with Ceres, Hapzibah, and Kiyone taking sniper positions. Lust, Gluttony, Arshes, Ripley, Riku, Saya, Ayeka, Monet, and Kagura take positions around the Carrot Glace..
Seth continues to protect her brother and blast the Kyubi over and over with her "Fire of Sound". With Kyubi's powerful sense of hearing and it's regeneration constantly repairing the damage to the ears, it's stunned over and over. The problem is it's rapidly building a resistance to the destructive sound attack.
The Avatar gang Aang, Katara, Zuko, Mai, Ty Lee, and Cordelia move towards Kishi Urahara and Minato Namikaze
"You are Yondaime Hokage. The one that defeated the Kyubi the first time." states Cordelia, "Do you know how to stop it this time?"
"I need to hit the Kyubi in the stomach with this kunai." says Yondaime holding up the weapon in question, "It has to me and I must be within a hundred meters to set it off."
"Well that sucks." remarks Ty Lee
"Right now that thing is curled into ball." says Zuko, "The only way to hit the stomach is to get the damn thing to attack and if it attacks It could incinerate us"
"What can you people do?"
"Aang can manipulate Wind, Water, Earth, and a little Fire. Zuko and I can manipulate Fire" says Cordelia, "Katara can manipulate Water, Ty Lee is good at hand-to-hand, and Mai is a skilled dart thrower."
"Is that a Glider?" asks Yondaime to the object on Aang's back.
"Yup! It's my third one."
"I have a plan."
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Seth is getting tired from the constant energy drain, when a strange bald boy arrives on a Glider.
"I have a message from Yondaime." says Aang, "He says he has a plan to stop the Kyubi. He needs you to stop attacking when the signal goes off."
"What's the signal?" she says as she fires a another blast.
Suddenly, two balls of flame shoot into the air
"That!"
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The Kyubi's rage has explodes after being tortured for twenty minutes. The sensation of his brain imploding and regenerating over and over again. It eyes open to see the object of it's hate, a spiky blond haired human. The fox claws instantly tear threw the human only for hit to explode into a cloud of smoke.
It turns and sees four more blond monkeys and flash of yellow light. He destroys two with his tails, but the other two jump high into air. Hem lashes out with both front paws and hits both of them.
He doesn't see Mai toss a Hiraishin Kunai go it lands directly under the Kyubi, while it's striking at the Kage Bushin (Shadow Clones) of Yondaime. The Kunai flashes and Yondaime appears underneath the Kyubi and as Kyubi's front legs falls back to earth. He pulls out the special kunai, whips it with his blood, and tosses it straight up into the stomach.
"Fuurentan Houin: Bankai!" (Alchemic Sealing Method: Full Release!)
As the kunai pierces the stomach of the Kyubi no Kitsune, there is a golden flash, and three glowing spiral-shaped seals appear on the beast. Each seal is immense and radiating power.
High above the sandy ruins of the town, a seal of sandstone walls created by Gaara forms a larger version of the seal, which also ignites into a red glow.
Suddenly, there is a blue explosion underneath the Kyubi as the Hogyoku is shot into the Kyubi like a BB pellet and activates. The red glow of the Kyubi and the town size seal ignites into ethereal purple-white flames and the demon can only scream as he;s consumed.
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Bus Beta - Cordelia's Crew - Current: 42 Limit: 56
Hours Later
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Where there was once the Kyubi no Kitsune is now a young man resembling Minato Namikaze. He's a teenage boy standing five foot five with spiky blond hair. The only major difference is the unconscious boy has whisker-like marks on the sides of his face. The group also wonder were the clothing came from, since he was naked a few minutes ago. He's now dressed in a orange kosode (short-sleeved under-kimono), a black kimono and hakama, and an orange obi sash.
He's currently surrounded by Urahara, Minato, Gaara, Temari, Hinata, Sakura H, Anko, Ino, Tenten, and Sheena, and behind them are Cordelia, Zuko, Ty Lee, Mai, Aang, Katara, and Kagura. Seth is with her brother Abel, and Evangeline is talking to Saya, Riku, and Ceres. Kiyone, Hepzibah, and Ripley are standing together with there BFGs. Ayeka is also there talking to Kiyone. Rushuna, Tsukasa, and Sakura K is tending to Carrot, Kyuzou, and Schmendrick. Usagi, Rei, Makoto, Lust, Gluttony, and Arshes are standing near each other. Lavender Brown and Monet are near the bus.
"Naruto Uzumaki." says Gaara, " You saved me from the darkness. Now I did the same, my friend."
"My son." says Minato
"Your son?" says Hinata and Sakura Haruno
"I fell in love with woman named Kushina Uzumaki. She was a red-haired tomboy when we first met, did a lot of high level jutsu and a lot of pranks."
"That sounds like Naruto." says Ino, "He once put Graffiti all over the Hokage Monument."
"Our village defenses we weak from the wars and I was number one in Iwa's Bingo Books, so we planned for him to take her maiden name. Since her home country was destroyed, no one would make the connection. I had hoped I could help raise him and reveal his true name after he became a Chunin. Then the Kyubi no Kitsune attacked the village. Kushina... died in child birth and I was forced to use an S-Class Kinjutsu (Forbidden Technique) to summon the Death God. The only way to stop the Bijuu-ou (Tailed Beast King) was to seal him inside a newborn and I couldn't force another family. I hoped he would be treated as a hero... I know how that sounds, but I hoped and prayed that the people would see past there hate."
"His burden was greater, but at least the reason was right." whispers Temari.
"I think I know what happened." says Anko, "According to Washu and few mages, because of the high amounts of ambient energy such as spiritual energy and magic, seals and runes react. There power is enhanced. According to one, if my curse seal was active I would have transformed into some sort of demon. My guess is when Naruto appeared during Halloween, his Jinchuriki (Power of Human Sacrifice) seal kept absorbing energy until Naruto was consumed by the power."
"Jinchuriki?" asks Hinata rubbing Naruto's head.
"It's the name given to the people who have Bijuu sealed in them." says Gaara, "People like me who were turned into weapons for there villages. The power of tailed beast focused and channeled by human intellect. The beasts don't possess much intelligence beyond powerful instincts, so they can't control there immense power with any efficiency. The only reason the Ichibi, the weakest of the Tailed Beasts possessed memories is because the memories of his first host, the mad priest of the sand was absorbed into it."
"It must be a lonely life." says Tenten
"Yes, it was." says Gaara.
"What happened to Naruto after you did that seal?" asks Sakura, "Naruto's alive, but I don't detect any chakra. I don't even sense any vitality!"
"According to the scroll, the Urahara's Hogyoku is normally used to break down spiritual barriers. What those seals I placed on the Kyubi did was alter it so it broke down Chakra, separating physical and spiritual energy. The massive seal created by Gaara is designed to accelerate the process, allowing the Kyubi's near limitless chakra to be converted in nearly an instant."
"Separate? That means you basically ripped it's soul out." says Hinata, "What happened to Naruto?"
"I don't know." says a very concerned Minato, "When the physical and spiritual energy is separated, the spiritual energy is concentrated in the third seal, while the physical energy is broken down and released in Earth beyond the limits of the Giant Seal so they can't recombine. I thought only the Kyubi had been reborn and I didn't suspect Naruto would appear."
"I have an Idea. A very good idea since Naruto is now wearing shihakusho or garment of dead souls" says Urahara, "I think Naruto has become a Shinigami."
"Shinigami? Like Willow?" says Cordelia
"Willow?" says a confused Kishi Urahara
"What's a Shinigami?" asks Aang
"Willow dressed like Naruto is now and became a Shinigami named Rukia. She kept the powers after"
"Small world. I am a friend of Rukia Kuchiki" says Kishi, "How did her Shinigami body become physical?"
"What's a Shinigami?" asks Aang
"The body became a gigai that could be stored inside the spiritual body."
"The same thing happened to me and I'm guessing when Naruto recovers he will generate a gigai for himself. Now that I'm looking for it, I'm detecting traces of a Gigai already forming"
"Hey! What's a Shinigami?" yells Aang, embarrassing Katara
"A Shinigami is a Japanese God of Death." says Kishi using a glare that frightening Aang, "We are spirits that take the souls of dead to the afterlife and send those that were evil in life to hell. We also cleanse corrupted souls that devour the souls of living and the dead. The corrupted are know as Hollows."
"I thought I told you what a Shinigami was." says Cordelia
"Oh yeah." says an embaressed Aang, "You sacred me so much I forgot."
Kishi Urahara kneels down and opens Naruto's kosode and kimono, much to Sakura and Hinata's annoyance and embarrassment. In the center of their chest is a spiral seal, which Kishi traces with her finger tip as she slips into her hot mad scientist mode.
"This is were his Inga no Kusari (Chain of Destiny) was when he died. Death being the point when no physical energy remained. The intense spiritual pressure of the seal and the Orb of Distortion must have destroyed the chain, but the seal prevented him from becoming a Hollow. The Orb's effect goes both ways, so it pushed him until he became a Shinigami.'
'As a Bonus, the Hogyoku was damaged by the stress of the amount of energy traveling threw it. A small amount of energy, a small amount of damage and a large amount of energy, a large amount of damage. The near limitless energy of the Kyubi completely destroyed all traces of the orb."
"So, where do we go from here?" asks Sakura, "The Colony is nearly four days away and the bus is damaged and needs to be repaired. Naruto needs time to recover and we currently can't handle more battles until we all recover.
"The woman who gave me the scroll, also gave me a second scroll." says Gaara, wondering why he wasn't allowed to mention her name, "Perhaps she predicted what would happen."
Gaara pulls out the smaller white scroll and unrolls it. The seal is filled with a large amount of strange kanji and complex seals. There is also a note written in both Japanese and English and a bottle of fifty green-blue pills.
"If you are reading this note, you succeeded in stopping the Kyubi-Naruto and are now looking for a place to recover. There is a special resort that can be reached by placing the scroll in a large body of water. The people there have sensitive noses, so I used a herbal medicine that will remove your scent. There is also a couple of basic rules. The amount of gold or silver you have controls how you will be treated and
do not sign any contracts, at least with your real name."
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Bus Beta with it's crew of forty two and one driver arrive at a large lake, one that managed to survive the increasing world temperature and thermal radiation storms. There are no fish, plants, or other lifeforms beyond trace amounts of durable bacteria. It's basically a very large puddle in the middle of the ruins of the old world.
Cordelia now holding the white scroll unrolls it completely and places it on the surface of the water. The paper suddenly goes straight and becomes a like a piece of wood, hard and floating on water. The symbols and kanji glow a faint blue-white. There is a surge of energy from scroll and the water around the scroll becomes a mist. The mist covers the lake and thickens to the point where a person with extremely acute eyes wouldn't be able to see a foot in front of there face.
"This is worse than Zabuza's Kirigakure no Jutsu (Hidden Mist Technique) back in the wave country." says Sakura to Hinata and the other kunoichi.
Suddenly, the scroll is pulled out of Cordelia hand and into the mist in a straight line. As the scroll moves objects rise from the dark watery depths, appearing directly behind the scroll.
The people on the shore recognize each object as a Torii, a traditional Japanese gate commonly found at the entry to a Shinto shrine, although it can be found at Buddhist temples as well. Each has two upright supports and two crossbars on the top, and is painted vermilion which is common color. There are black inscriptions on each torii identical to the ones on the scroll.
Cordelia stands in front of the first Torii and looks down at the wet Shimenawa, a length of braided rice straw rope used for ritual purification in the Shinto religion now acting like a VIP velvet rope. Cordelia turns to the others, who all nod, then she uses a burst of her flame to tear the rope in half. There is a surge of wind and spiritual pressure, the mist swirls into a horizontal vortex to reveal dozens, if not hundreds of torii, extending into the distance far beyond where the edge of the lake should black words of the Torii glow a faint blue and so goes the mist that forms a tunnel around the torii.
"Our path is set."
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A/N: Inspired by the famous "floating" torii at Itsukushima Shrine. Wikia it!
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Yubaba's Bathhouse
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A large bathhouse, owned and operated by the tyrannical witch Yubaba, where the thousands of spirits in the Shinto religion come to refresh themselves. It's a place in the spirit world, where they can cleanse themselves of pollution of the human world and socialize with others of there kind. The place is filled with male workers known as Ao-gaeru (red frog) and Bandai-gaeru (green frog) and female bath women known as Yuna, which were frogs and slugs before Yubaba created them.
There are various Obake, a general term for Youkai (spirits/demons) and Yuurei (Japanese ghosts), in the immense building run by Yubaba. They are eating, relaxing in baths, watching the shows, and talking to each other. Some are doing more than just talking, but Yubaba and the people that work for her know when to keep the mouths closed.
The Henge are the magical animal animals with Shape Shifting powers and human intelligence. Some of them are in there animal form, but some have taken human form due to the size or limits of there true form, or to get into all kinds of mischief. The two most famous types of henge and those most common are the Kitsune (foxes) and Tanuki (raccoon-dogs).
In fact today, a very large family of myobu Kitsune, lead by the ancient nine tailed sage/patriarch have come to the resort. The myobu is the term given to benevolent, celestial foxes associated with Inari, Japanese kami of fertility, rice, agriculture, foxes, industry, and worldly success, which are easier to deal with than nogitsune (field foxes), that tend to be mischievous or even malicious.
There are a pair of Oni relaxing there muscles in one of the baths. The muscular, mountain-dwelling humanoids have horns, fangs, tapered ears, and claws. One of them has crimson red skin with black, while the other is a dark blue color with blond hair. They normally dress in loin cloths and carry a type of weapon known as a Kanabo, which is a an iron or steel staff used in feudal Japan as a weapon. They left there studded metal covered oak staffs at the door to enjoy the warm mineral-laced water.
There are several objects roaming the halls like Karakasa (umbrellas), slippers, and lanterns. They are Tsukumogami, inanimate objects that come to life after a hundred years.
Some of the employees have to deal with a Nurikabe, a monster that takes the form of an animate section of wall. It has the power to turn invisible, and likes to use this power to impede travelers. Currently, it's preventing costumers from reaching some of the larger baths
Drinking tea in one of the rooms is a family of weasel-like Kamaitachi. The family includes three mated pairs and there nine children. The three males are triplets and so are the mothers, which is a pattern with there kind. Each couple has a set of triplets, which will carry on the traditions of there parents.
One of those old traditions is that they attack humans in trios: the first one knocks down a traveler with a gust of wind, the second cuts the traveler with its sickle-like claws, and the third applies an ointment that stops the bleeding, leaving the victim with a bloodless but inexplicably large and painful wound.
There are several Kappa enjoying the waters. They are water spirits who hold water in a reservoir on top of their heads. They are child size resembling crosses between monkeys and frogs with thick shells and scaly skin that ranges in color from green to yellow or are also enjoying a meal of fresh cucumbers, while avoiding the fire-lite areas.
There are two forms of Tengu, winged creatures, in the bath house. The first type are long-nosed red skinned Daitengu that act as sacred guardians protecting mountains, forests, and sacred places and are currently sitting together enjoying meditation and poetry. There is also a larger number of Karasu-Tengu, the anthropomorphic crows known as Storm Bringers, which follow the orders of Daitengu and enjoy morning flights around the bath house. A rumor is Obaba is part Tengu, which would explain her giant nose and ability to become a giant bird during the day.
There are several youkai that look almost human.
There is a group of Rokurokubi, which are human by day but have extremely elastic necks during the night. They like anything that gives pleasure, boasting, and excesses, and seriously dislike moderation, prudish people, and boring things, which makes them great customers. A Nukekubi, a human youkai that can detach their heads from their necks and float away in search of human flesh, was thrown out trying to pass himself off as a Rokurokubi.
Yuki-Onna (snow woman) which controls snow and ice and can freeze humans solid with a touch. It's strange that you would find a ice youkai in a bathhouse, but the truth is that Yukionna feed on heat which is why they get so close to humans and there homes. The only problems is they have trouble controlling how much energy they absorb, so living in warm area could damage them.
The refined and beautiful Jyorougumo (Spider Lady) appears as a well-to-do lady to most if not all, but with an eccentric penchant for web-themed attire. They have powerful connections to spiders and are the most skilled silk makers in the Spirit World and can even generate the legs of a spider when in danger.
There are also males known as Kumo-Otoko (Spider Man) that possess similar abilities and may share the same bloodline. A group of wealthy silk weavers have come to Obaba's bathhouse and are lead by there daiyoukai Matriach Himegumo (Princess Spider).
There are even merfolk and ningyo in the waters around the bathhouse, who have come to enjoy the rejuvenating powers of Obaba's waters. The ningyo resemble human/monkey faced fish with golden scales and a whistling song, but can change like other Henge into stunningly beautiful aquatic humanoids with gorgeous ruby-red hair and porcelain-white skin. The merfolk resemble humans with the lower halves of fish, but can assume full human forms on land as long as they have a supply of water to drink. Obaba wouldn't go out her way for them if they didn't bring treasure from sunken ships and a form of extremely good sake (rice wine) drunk by many of the guests.
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The Dragon Room
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Since Halloween, Obaba has noticed a massive surge in business and number of youkai and yuurei has increased to the point where she was forced to hire more people and increased the size of her resort by more than five fold. She loves the gold and treasure this brings in, but it takes time from her giant baby son Boh and gives her massive amounts of paper work. She could give the foreman more responsibility, but it's been a mess since Koanashi (No Face), she can only trust her second in the command Haku
On the newest areas is the Dragon Room created for the luxury of the Spirit World Dragons. It's interesting that Chinese Dragon didn't always look as they do now, but became totemic fusions with the perceptions of man kind. The Dragon Room is designed to impress even the Shenlong (God Dragon), thunder god that controls the weather, appearance of a human head, dragon's body, and drum-like stomach and is decorated like a palace of Fucanglong (Hidden Treasure Dragon)
It's a place that once hosted two very special dragons. The first daughter of Jiaolong, the dragon leader of all aquatic animals known as the flood dragon and the favorite granddaughter of Ao Guang, Dragon King of the East Sea. If they had enraged there fathers, the waters would have scattered the bathhouse and Yubaba's corpse to four corners of the world.
Currently, the Dragon Room contains a large group of unique dragons, dragons that appeared after the western holiday of Halloween and Japanese Obon festival.
The first is a young beautiful girl in her early teens standing completely nude with red eyes, pale skin, and long silver hair covering her breasts Godiva style. There are distinctive circular lines and shapes on her body, mostly on her arms and upper legs, with minor on torso, pelvic area, and feet. She also has a dot and two red lines under each other. Yubaba was glade the Yuna got her to wear a robe until they got the room. Public nudity is common in a bath house, but not everywhere you go.
She is the Virgin Princess of the Shadow Dragons. Shadow dragons are born in the ocean and live in the sky. They are fast fliers and shape shifters that feed on humans, but can also form strong psychic bonds with human children. A Virgin Princess is born when a human's soul is absorbed into a maturing shadow dragon creating a goddess among the dragons.
The second is a beautiful woman looking around seventeen years old with blue eyes and hip long light blue almost white hair. She's dressed in a white robe of a priestess waiting with a wide sash around her waist. She looks like a symbol of purity and light.
Her name is Kisara. The last thing she remembered was giving her life to save her beloved Priest Seth. She contained the soul of the Blue-Eyes White Dragon, a powerful dragon of light in world known as the Shadow Realm. When she awoke in this world she found herself in the body a three-headed white dragon and it was only when she meet the Virgin Princess did she learn to take human form again. She stays with her until she can find the reborn Priest Seth.
The third a woman of European nobility, a dark-haired human sorceress with black clothing and dark jewelry. She is Tiamat, a powerful draconic goddess, a queen and mother of evil dragons and a member of the pantheon in a world of magic and monsters.
The fourth in the room is her brother and eternal rival, Bahamut, the Platinum Dragon, is the King of the Good Dragons. His human form is blue-eyed platinum-haired sorcerer dressed in pure white clothing
It there natural forms of a five-headed dragon and a giant platinum scaled dragon, respectively, they would be trying to tear and blast each other to pieces. Within this area of the Spirit world and in limited human forms they play a game of chess. It's interesting to note that all of Tiamet's pieces are colored black, blue, green, red, and white, the same color of her dragons and the colors of her other form's five heads, and the Queen is a dragon has taken the King's place. Bahamut has Brass, Bronze, Copper, Silver and Gold with Platinum Dragon replacing the King.
The fifth is a mysterious man with glowing red eyes, red skin, and black hair hidden under a black hooded robe. He also has a deformed left hand and a dark menacing aura. He doesn't say anything to the others he just watches. He's also extremely annoyed at the child in the room.
The girl looks sixteen in human years, but acts very child like. She has red eyes and bushy red hair. She also was wings, two horns, and a tail. She's dressed in very little clothing and acts like a stereotypical teenage girl, drooling over cute boys, short fused and easily swayed to forgiveness.
Her name is Mink and the child of a perverted human father and a shape shifting white Western dragon. A average girl with the power of flight and the ability to breathe fire from her mouth.
The reason the mystery man is annoyed is he thinks about how to copy of power of Drakon Ismenios, the dragon son of Greek God of War Ares. The power was the ability to convert it's dragon's teeth into a army of powerful fully-armed warriors known as the Spartoi.
Mink on the other hand is talking about Yubaba's second in command, a river dragon spirit named Nigihayami Kohaku Nushi and the return of his beloved. The bubble head Mink doesn't even know if her name is Sen or Chihiro.
"Princess, do you think you will be able to help Chihiro?" asks Kisara
"A normal human spirit would pass on to the land of dead." says the Virgin Princess, "Chihiro awoke in the new world during Halloween so her soul carried a fragment of power. When she was drowned in the river, her connection with the water spirit brought her changing ghost
to him. It's possible to use the fragment within her soul to convert her into a spirit other than a Yuurei."
"That's wonderful Princess! I thought you didn't like most humans."
"Humans are filthy creatures, but the birth of a new dragon is always good."
The mystery man pulls out a pack of playing cards to soothe his nerves. He does notice that the first three cards he draws from the 52-deck are six of hearts, clubs, and diamonds.
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Yubaba's look out
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Three figures stand on Yubaba's look out. They are actually friends of Yubaba's twin sister and rival, Zeniba. They arrived at Zeniba's house a few days ago after they were rescued from the desert by a giant mummy named Anakaris He was the twelfth pharaoh of a vast empire in Egypt who decided to protect his kingdom by moving it entirely into another dimension. It's extremely bizarre that a five thousand plus year old mummy would have a portal to swamp land in the Spirit World.
The man is tall and athletic with short white hair and glowing green eyes. He's dressed in a black robe with a black sash and white gloves.
"I see a mist cloud forming down there. Looks like we are going to have more guests."
The younger girl appears to be a younger sister or younger relative of the man with the same green eyes and white hair, except her hair is longer and styled in a ponytail. She's dressed in a smaller female robe with a white sash. It's shorter around the ankle to feet wooden sandal.
"We are lucky Zeniba was able to convince her sister to let us stay with what money Anakaris could give us." says the young girl, "Who knew that a mummy could be so generous?"
"He is a Pharaoh that protects his people. They may not be the people they were before Halloween, but they are still his memory. If it wasn't for the heat, I would have stayed with him in the desert."
The third person is a woman who stands close to the man like a girl friend. She's a thin woman with green eyes, pale skin, green lips, and chin-length white hair with a hair clip on top. She's also dressed in a black robe and black sash.
"What the? That looks like an armored bus!" says older woman
"This could be interesting!" says the youngest
"Dani, the last time a modern vehicle arrived, it was filled with Shikima and there slave girls! Worst, it contained that succubus Len"
"Your too tense Sam, your hair is turning white."
"That joke is getting old. You know my colors inverted when I went Ghost."
A/N: Len from the Tsukihime sequel Kagetsu Tohya
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The Ruins where the Kyubi Battle was Fought
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Gaara's giant seal rumbles and glows a fiery red and a translucent dome of red light forms over the seal. The crimson sky above becomes a swirling storm and bolts of lightning hit the dome over and over. The dome glows brighter and brighter, then contracts to a single point in the center. There is a pause then a nuclear-level explosion, one powerful enough to superheat seal into glass.
In the center of blast zone is a tall muscular man standing six foot seven with long spiky white hair reaching his hips on the back and nine red tipped lochs in the front. He's dressed in a black kosode, a white kimono and hakama, and a black obi sash. He also wears a black haori with red flames on the bottom which is torn into nine ends and on the back is a white rhombus with the kanji for "Nine". In the center of his stomach is a small round hole going completely threw the body and a piece of a bone mask resembling a jaw bone is attached to the face.
As he raises his head, a sword appears in his hand. The sheathed katana is completely black, the saya (sheath), tsuka (hilt), fuchi (collar), kashira (pommel), and tsuba (hand guard) are pure pitch black not reflecting a trace of light. He opens his eyes to reveal slit pupils, red irises with traces of gold, and pure black sclera. He begins to laugh, which reveals fangs and pointed ears.
"Thank you, Naruto."
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End of Chaser and Chased Part 3B
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