Tsuna Dragneel ch 14
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"Hi, Tsunayoshi-kun!" Byakuran greeted, and tried to hug him but Tsuna stepped aside.
"Should we move this to another location?" Tsuna asked before Gokudera was able to yell at Byakuran. "Like to where Hibari is maybe?"
Byakuran pouted, but nevertheless led them deeper into the marshmallow building (that was surprisingly not all marshmallow). He stopped in front of a double door and turned to them.
"Before I let you in, I ask that you to keep the physical fighting low to nothing at all." He looked at two in particular who would more than likely cause the most destruction. "If there is a lot of damage, I wouldn't hear the end of it from Mikyoa."
With that he opened the door and they walked into a meeting room. Hibari was already sitting down and looked like he was asleep with Hibird on top of his head. He opened one eye slightly to acknowledge they were there before he closed it again.
'Byakuran must have made a deal with Hibari for him not to attack Mukuro on sight,' Tsuna thought. 'That, or he mellowed out over the years… He thought, but quickly dismissed the idea. 'Nope, a deal is involved somewhere, and I don't want to know where.'
Pushing that thought aside, Tsuna brought out the two fliers.
"Byakuran, can you please explain these?" he asked as he placed the fliers on the table.
Byakuran looked at both of the fliers and nodded his head, leaning back.
"That is actually one of the things I wanted to discuss," he said. "The first one was sent by a group of people who call themselves the 'Oracion Seis'."
Tsuna blinked.
"The Oracion Seis? They are a powerful dark guild right? Why would they want the rings?" he asked.
"The Oracion Seis have a Celestial Spirit mage who is very good at getting information. I'm not sure how she got it, but she did, and they decided that the rings could help them reach the Nirvana," Byakuran told them. "But we can go deeper into that later; for now, I will explain about the rings."
Byakuran noticed the not-too-happy faces in response to what he said, but ignored them. Instead, he pressed a button on the side of the table and someone came into the room – and handed them the half-rings to their rightful owners.
"Why are only half of the rings here, and why did we find the lightning ring on one of our missions?" Gokudera asked when he was handed his ring.
"There was a trader among us who thought he would sell the ring," the servant replied—she had short, light brown hair and an all-white outfit similar to Byakuran's. "My name is Mikyoa, (AN: This is a made up name! I don't even know if there is a name like this one in anything I watch and or read.) Byakuran's head servant and sugar limiter."
"'Sugar limiter?'" Lambo asked with a slight fear before he thought, 'I shouldn't eat any candy in front of her then.'
Mikyoa nodded and grabbed a bag of his sweets from a hiding spot in the room. "Yes; as you can see, Byakuran loves marshmallows. So I try to limit how many he eats in attempt to keep him healthy."
'Good luck with that,' was the general thought.
Byakuran seemed to pout with the reminder.
"Anyways, the other halves of the rings are in a parallel world called Edolas. Tsunayoshi, as you are the only one with a complete ring, you probably noticed that they don't work here, in 'Earth Land' as the people of Edolas call us. Don't ask us why, even we don't know. However they will work in Edolas," Mikyoa said since Byakuran was still pouting, trying to get her to give him some of his sweets back – in which he was failing.
"Hey, Tsuna, can we trust any of this information we get from this guy?" Lion asked. "He seems stranger than the people in our guild."
"We can," Tsuna said. "In our past life, I would have more than likely agreed with you, since we didn't exactly start off on the right foot. But, my intuition is telling me that we can trust him and that he could have just tried to take the rings to do something—and he didn't, so you could use that as your proof if you want."
Lion seemed satisfied with this answer and Ryohei decided to voice his opinion.
"I extremely don't get it. If we can't use the rings here but it is possible there, then why do we have half of them?" He closed his eyes to concentrate. "Hmm, I don't get it."
Gokudera gave Ryohei a wary look. "That is actually a good question, Lawn Head."
"Better than what you could do, old man," Lion shot at him.
The two started glaring at each other and Yamamoto tried to calm Gokudera down when Byakuran started talking again.
"The magic here in Earth Land comes from within the person here, much like the dying will flames, whereas the magic in Edolas comes from objects. The world of Edolas is slowly losing its magic," he said with a sense of rare seriousness. "And now that Edolas is losing its magic, little by little, flames are starting to surface since magic seems to be dominant."
"That does not explain why we have half of the rings," Mukuro pointed out.
"Well, who else would you trust with your rings, other than yourselves?" Mikyoa asked anxiously, as if to prove a point.
"So we would basically be starting the Vongola up again in that other world?" Yamamoto asked.
"Only if you deem them worthy; think of it as another battle for the rings like you did with Xanxus, only this time you would be fighting yourselves instead of the Varia," Byakuran said.
Tsuna nodded his head at this, but another thought occurred to him.
"Don't you think it would be unfair to our Edolas selves?" he asked. "I mean, we have memories of fights and experience from this world. We could easily beat them."
Byakuran grinned like the madman he probably was.
"Oh, don't worry about that. We sent the Arcobaleno from here ahead of you to train your other selves!"
The group, minus Lion since he didn't know the Arcobaleno, grimaced.
"Should I start praying for them?" Ryohei asked.
"Go ahead, they have the Arcobaleno times two over there," Gokudera said.
"Actually that is not entirely the case," Mikyoa told them. "The Arcobaleno in Edolas are the strongest seven, of those who are not aligned with the king, but they do not know how to use the flames. So they are not only training your other halves but themselves as well."
"Your Edolas selves will be first generation in that world after all," Byakuran said and then stood up, motioning for them to do the same.
"Follow me to the back; I will show you how we are going to get you to Edolas," he said.
They got up and followed him. In the back there seemed to be nothing special and Mikyoa started explaining.
"There is something similar to a wormhole here. You can't see it but it's sucking the magic from the land," she told them. "We are going to send you one at a time over to Edolas to try and minimize the chaos you could cause. You can choose the order to go in."
'If you wanted to control the amount of chaos you should have thought of that before you sent Reborn over there,' Tsuna thought, but said, "We might as well go in the order the first battle went; Ryohei, Lambo, Gokudera, Yamamoto, Chrome/Mukuro, Hibari, then me. Is everyone ok with that?"
After a round of agreement Ryohei stepped forward.
"What do I have to do? Run into the wormhole to the extreme!?" he asked, pointed at the rather mysterious warp gate.
"Yes, but before you-" Mikyoa started but Ryohei was already gone. "Go…"
Tsuna sighed.
"Is there a way for Lion to go with him?" he asked.
Mikyoa just nodded and told Lion to follow Ryohei. But before Lion left, she told him what she was going to tell Ryohei.
"As I was trying to say to Ryohei, we will be sending the rest of you a week after another. We are not sure if time passes at the same rate as it does here so we are trying to make sure you have enough time," she said. "We also gave the Arcobaleno pacifiers that will glow once you arrive with the other half of the ring to let them know and lead them to you."
With that Lion left and Tsuna turned to Byakuran, who had his normal smile on.
"Can you explain more about the Oracion Seis?"
Byakuran's smile faded and his voice became monotone.
"We have a neutral agreement: 'You don't mess with me, I won't mess with you.' However, it's not hard to figure out what they are doing. They're after a device called Nirvana that does your typical turn good-to-bad and bad-to-good thing. Completely uninteresting."
'Of course he would say that,' was the general thought running through everyone's heads.
Tsuna cleared his throat.
"Well, we should probably be going now. Even Hibari left already," he said after he looked back to his group.
Mikyoa nodded.
"I'll show you the way out."
OVER WITH RYOHEI
"WOAH! THIS PLACE IS EXTREME!" Ryohei yelled as he looked around.
Edolas was beautiful, no doubt about that. There were rivers in the air along with other things he couldn't identify, and the plants were colorful. He was about to go exploring when something hit his head.
"What do you think you're doing?" Lion asked. "You left before you got all the details!"
Lion was floating in the air when a few moments later, his wings disappeared.
'That's odd; I didn't want my wings to leave. Maybe it's the magic draining.' He thought.
Ryohei rubbed the spot where Lion hit him and grinned sheepishly.
"Hehe, sorry, I was just extremely excited," he said. "So what else do I need to know?"
Lion huffed at that.
"For starters, we should stay in one area. Apparently, those Arcobaleno people you know have a pacifier that will alert them that the other ring is here and lead them to you."
"So it's time to get serious," Ryohei said as he nodded his head.
Lion blinked at Ryohei, who seemed to have lost all air of his playful stupidity that normally surrounded him.
It was about five minutes later when a guy with blond hair and wearing a military outfit approached them. He also had a rifle strapped to his back, a blue pacifier around his neck, and a hawk on his shoulder.
"Yo, Ryohei! Long time no see! Kora! We already got the place set up like the first time. We can catch up on the way there. Kora," he said and then he noticed Lion.
He grabbed his rifle and pointed it at Lion, glaring.
"What is an Exceed doing here? Kora."
Ryohei stepped in front of Lion.
"Master Colonello," he said. "I don't know what an Exceed is, but I do know that Lion is Tsuna's partner and does not need to be held at gun point."
Colonello stared at Ryohei for a moment before he came to a conclusion and put his gun away.
"Alright. But we will have to disguise him somehow. Kora."
A FEW MINUETS LATER
"Why am I doing this again?" Lion asked.
He was more annoyed than he could remember at the moment. He had a giant leaf on his head that somehow made a hat and his tail was shoved in his pants, while smaller leaves covered any exposed orange.
"The people of Edolas either praise Exceeds, fear them, or both. Kora," Colonello said. "And this is the only way to disguise you for the moment. Kora. We also don't want any information getting to the King, kora, something's up with that guy. Now follow me! You're about to get the shock of your lives! Kora!"
So the two of them started following Colonello, both wondering what the "shock of your lives" could be, but Ryohei stopped them along the way.
"Master, why are you an adult?" he asked. "What happened to you being an infant?"
'Now he asks.' Colonello thought while Lion looked at both of them confused.
"We aren't cursed here, so the only time we were infants was when we were born in this world," Colonello told them and continued walking.
The sun was setting when they got to where they needed to be. There was a boxing arena in the middle of the clearing and a group of people standing next to the arena in a huddle.
'They must be our Edolas selves.' Ryohei thought.
The people in the huddle broke apart with a yell and one went into the arena. When Ryohei saw them more clearly due to the lights around the structure, his eyes widened, and he couldn't find himself agreeing with Collonelo's statement more.
WITH BYAKURAN AFTER TSUNA LEFT
Mikyoa returned, after showing the guest the way out, to find Byakuran munching on the marshmallows she hid with his back turned toward her. The aura around her darkened as she walked to him with a smile on her face.
"Byakuran," she said. "Just how long did you think I'd be?"
Startled Byakuran slowly turned around and found her with her hand out in a demanding manner.
"Ah, Mikyoa, that was faster than expected," he said as he reluctantly handed over his treat. "I thought I would be able to eat a few more before you came back."
She grabbed the marshmallows and then thought of something.
"By the way, Byakuran, why didn't you tell them the real reason for helping them?" she asked.
"What fun would that be? They can figure it out on their own. Besides, if I tell them that the Arcobaleno asked me for help and messed up, they would kill me. They really are perfectionists," he told her, and walked off.
WITH TSUNA
Tsuna felt like he was going to be sick… again.
"Kufufu. It seems that the healing magic only works once," Mukuro said as he looked at Tsuna who sat across from him.
They were on the way home the next morning since by the time they were done with Byakuran it was close to midnight. So for that night, they stayed at a hotel.
"That, or the healing magic has to be reapplied every time the tenth gets on a vehicle," Gokudera said, holding back the urge to ask if there was anything he could do since he knew he couldn't do anything.
'Why me?' Tsuna thought as the ride slowly turned into a mini brawl, due to a wrong comment in the wrong place.
AT THE GUILD
"Mira! I need twenty-five of your cake deluxe! I'll eat one now, please," Tsuna said when they got back to the guild, ignoring the fact that the whole guild seemed to want to kill Gajeel and the fact that the building was complete. "And those are on Lion's bill."
"Sure Tsuna, coming right up," Mira told him, ignoring the rest of the guild like Tsuna.
As Tsuna waited for his cake, humming happily to some random tune, Jet walked up to him.
"Tsuna, please do something about this!"
"Do something about what, Jet?" Tsuna asked as Mira put the cake in front of him (they kept cakes stocked up just for Tsuna and Erza).
"Can you not see?" he asked, then pointed to Gajeel. "Master let the guy who destroyed the guild and beat up Levi, Droy, and I join! I mean, what was he thinking!?"
Tsuna took a bite of his cake and smiled at the taste.
"Ymmmm, sugary goodness." He then turned to Jet. "I can see why you are upset." Another bite. "However, this is the master's wish, and Gajeel won't be doing anything like that again to us. Right, Gajeel?"
Gajeel, who was eating a pile of iron, grunted at the attention. He glared slightly at Tsuna, trying to give him a silent message to not help him.
'If I am going to get the guild to trust me, I'm going to have to prove my loyalty to them. And right now the only way I can think of is not doing anything at all,' he thought.
Jet, along with others, were not happy with this answer and they figured that they would just wait until Natsu found out.
Tsuna caught the message and gladly went back to his cake. He knew that Gajeel wanted to make his own way in the guild, and he respected that—he really did—but there had to be a way to speed this along. However, he felt that something was going to happen soon, so they needed to have a bond somewhere, even if it's small.
But what was the one thing that most of the guild members have that they can quickly give Gajeel to form even a small bond? Heck, even pity or sympathy would work here.
'Pity or sympathy,' Tsuna thought. 'Most of the guild members give a look of sympathy when I drag someone from Natsu-nii's team, except Erza, for training.'
Tsuna put his fork down and smirked.
Mira saw him and quickly figured out what Tsuna was planning. She just hoped that Tsuna went easy on him, since he was new.
"Hey Gajeel," Tsuna said as he walked over to him.
"What, Dragneel?" he asked with some iron in his mouth.
"Want to go training with me tomorrow?"