SHONEN ALLIANCE
THE ROAD TO KINGDOM HEARTS
Chapter 7
Beginning of a new Adventure
Chapter Written by ZETT0
Opening Theme: We Are! (One Piece OP 9)
Vine stared down the armored man, his sword and alchemy at the ready.
"Such fools, just another one to fall into the void." Exdeath declared raising his blade.
"I think you might have a lot more trouble than you bargained for." Vine said raising his sword at him.
"I doubt that you truly understand who you are dealing with!" Exdeath shouted, his dark aura flaring greatly sending a shockwave. Vine and Riela covered their faces as he did so.
"Nice light show, but it'll take more than that to scare me." Vine said, now rushing in. His blade glowed with his raging blast power.
"Such ignorance." Exdeath declared as he caught the sword easily.
"Or maybe you're the one who's ignorant." Vine said with a mischievous smile as the energy in his sword exploded in Exdeath's face, knocking him slightly off balance but not truly hurting him. Vine span around, going for strike to his gut.
"Don't get cocky." Exdeath said blocking his attack.
"I should be saying that to you. Raging blast attack!" Vine shouted, launching his beam into Exdeath's face. Much to his surprise, the move didn't seem to have an effect.
"Ok… this will be harder than I thought…" He said about to try and escape. Much to his chagrin, the armored enemy grabbed hold of his arm.
"Now you will know pain." He said; ready to slash down at him.
"No!" Riela shouted, launching her Valkyrur blue flame. This in hand pushed Exdeath off of Vine, who sighed in relief.
"Thanks for the save Riela." He said, but glared at Exdeath determined.
"We'll fight him together." Riela said raising her Keyblade.
"I think we might be a bit in over our heads on this one… go get Goku and the others, I'll handle him for the moment." Vine declared raising his blade offensively.
"The only thing you all will do is die!" Exdeath shouted enraged. "Fall into the void and be consumed!" He said, about to swing his blade until it was stopped by a hand.
"I don't take kindly to my friends being threatened like that." The figure said sternly, revealing to be Goku. The Saiyan sent a powerful elbow to the armored mans stomach, sending him skidding backwards. Surprisingly he was able to stand still, but a dent now where Goku hit.
"Strong… perhaps I have underestimated your new allies." Exdeath said as he watched the rest of the heroes rush up the stairs. Exdeath turned around, opening a corridor of darkness.
"We shall meet again, and you all shall fall to the void in time." He declared before disappearing through the darkness. Everyone now relaxed, Vine putting his sword away and sighing.
"Are you two ok?" Goku asked, his expression now much less serious than before.
"Who us? Pfft we're fine, we could have kicked that tin cans butt if you hadn't showed up but uh you know thanks for the concern." Vine said crossing his arms.
"That means 'good timing, I was about to get massacred by the tin can'." Edward said smirking.
"Shut it short stuff before I plant you in the ground." Vine said glaring.
"WHO'RE YOU CALLING SHORT STUFF?" Ed shouted angry, being held back by his brother.
"He's really sensitive about that, isn't he?" Ven asked Luffy who laughed.
"Yeah, it's fun to tease him with it." He said smiling, making Ven sweat drop.
"To think that they would try a direct attack like that… I should have been much more prepared." Master Yen Sid said standing up and beginning to sway his hands. They were glowing and finally a spark shot out of them, flying high above the castle before exploding and making a large barrier. The heroes peeked out and made an "Ooooh" sound.
"Why don't we ever try something like that for our castle? It might reduce the amount of times we get a bunch people knocking on our door ready to try and kill us." Vine asked, looking at the princesses.
"Shut up we don't have that kind of magic." Said Rene, a bit annoyed.
"Just sayin, we could hire somebody to do it."
"This place is now protected. Those of dark intentions and black hearts cannot enter this place. Lea, you will not be able to come here by a corridor of darkness to come here nor leave. You will have to travel with the others in the gummi ships once they are ready." Yen Sid explained making the former nobody sigh.
"Great, more time with the new guys. Joy." He said waving his finger in the air in fake enthusiasm.
"You two are a bit alike." Imca said to Vine.
"No we're not!" Lea and Vine said at the same time. They looked at each other and turned away both grumbling.
"So what do we need to do from here?" Riku asked, getting back on topic.
"For now we should plot out the worlds that you all will visit. There are much more than a few that the Unknown are spreading through." Yen Sid declared.
"What about Sora?" Kairi asked.
"He will come back soon with his friends. They will provide us with the reinforcements that we need. Until then we should converse about our next step." Master Yen Sid said.
"I wanna hurry up and get going!" Luffy shouted happily.
"Yeah me too!" Naruto said jumping next to him.
"Don't leave me out! I'm all fired up!" Natsu shouted smiling determinedly.
"We'll set up a strategy of who goes where, but first I would like to see the tacticians of your groups." The old master said.
"I guess that would be me and Miria here." Kakashi said walking up with his wife.
"I'll be helping of course." Valeria said stepping up.
"I can help with that." Mustang said, making Ed click his tongue and roll his eyes, muttering how it was bull crap.
"I suppose I could add to this." Law said now walking up, surprising a few since his silence was natural.
"Good then, we will speak and decide on our plans through each world. The rest of you can wait outside." Master Yen Sid said, with the rest nodding in agreement.
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The brains of the alliance had been in the meeting for several hours, leaving the others to either train or wait bored.
"Man, those guys are taking forever." Luffy said with half lidded eyes, feeling quite sleepy.
"I know, what could they be talking about? Let's just go to a world and kick some ass already!" Naruto said exasperated.
"I'd hate to agree with the team clowns, but they're right, let's hurry up and go already." Vine said sighing.
"Will you lot stop complaining already? It's already bad enough having to listen to the idiot trio on normal conditions." Moka said sighing.
"Wait who's the third one again?" Vine asked.
"I think she means Natsu." Imca said
"Probably means you Vine." Ed said snickering.
"Do you really want me to make another small joke?"
"I dare you, I double dare you to say one!"
"We're back everyone, I hope you all didn't go stir crazy." Kakashi said walking out with the rest, making everyone jump up.
"Are we ready to go finally?" Ed asked, happy to see them back finally.
"Yes and no, but we'll explain." Valeria said.
"Yes, to start with only some of you will be going at the moment while the rest stay here until Sora returns." Yen Sid declared.
"I call going first!" Luffy shouted
"I'm with Luffy then!" Naruto said jumping next to him.
"Actually, we'll be splitting up you two, sorry." Kakashi said making the two mope.
"Monkey D. Luffy, Law suggested that you and your crew should go with Ichigo Kurosaki on the worlds plotted on this chart.
"Great so me and tweetle dee will be going together?" Ichigo said sighing.
"It's ok strawberry, we'll be having a lot of fun!" Luffy said throwing an arm around his shoulder.
"Joy, I cant wait… and what'd you just call me?!"
"Naruto, our group and Full Metal and his friends will be coming with us." Kakashi said.
"Who does that all include?" Edward asked.
"If you mean does that include Vine and the Valkyrur girls, then yes that includes them too." Kakashi said, making the alchemist slump in disappointment.
"Darn it, I'm always stuck with the smart ass…"
"I'm sure we'll have lots of fun together shrimp, don't sweat it." Vine said patting his back and chuckling.
"Oi I'm going with you guys." Ikkaku said. "I still need practice with this key thing anyways."
"As do I, I need more sword tested people to get a full understanding of it." Erza said walking toward them.
"You can practice with Erza." Vine said backing up.
"Wussy." Ikkaku muttered, although more pissed that he got it pinned on him.
"Aqua, you will go with Kakashi's group, and Ventus will go with Luffy's." Yen Sid said.
"I'll be sure to help train you guys." Aqua said smiling at Erza and the rest.
"I'm sure we'll have a great time." Ven said knuckle bumping with Luffy who was chuckling happily.
"Aw man, I want to go too!" Natsu said depressed.
"Cool it flame brain, we'll probably be gone soon too." Gray said, making the two bump heads again.
"Ok we're leaving before another fight breaks out, bye!" Vine shouted as he ran for the gummi ship.
"Oi, we still need to have our rematch!" Ikkaku shouted running after him.
"Alright everyone, lets go! To a new world!" Luffy shouted pumping his fist into the air.
"We'll meet you guys when we're done Luffy! Be sure to kick some ass!" Naruto shouted smiling.
"Remember to leave some enemies for us!" Goku shouted, disappointed he wasn't going as well yet.
Luffy and the rest of the Strawhats jumped into a gummi ship with Ichigo and his. They waved goodbye to everyone, the first time really being divided since the alliance came back together.
"Feels kinda weird just being us huh?" Ichigo said crossing his arms.
"I know, I wanted Naruto to come with us." Luffy said disappointed.
"Now that I'm glad didn't happen." Ichigo said relieved.
"We're off guys!" Ven shouted back to them as the ship went out of orbit. The group all looked over the ship, making an 'ooooh' sound as they flew.
"Hey Ven, do you know what kind of world we're heading to?" Luffy asked
"Not much, only that it's a big world called the Four Elemental Nations." Ven answered.
Ending theme: Kansha (Bleach ending #9)
