Hey guys! Well, it's been well over a month so I'm sorry about that! I do wish I could do something for the 2nd anniversary of this story since it all happened last month but I think I might, who knows. But with college in the way at the moment the only thing I can really have time is this one. But otherwise, yay for the 2nd anniversary of this story!
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devo333100: It's not something I have planned on getting into which is also the reason why I only put the restriction that the memory lacrima can only be used when the magic from the user is put into it. I don't really want to get all science-y and all that but I've made it that the time patrollers won't/can't use it. Amber won't be in this story at the moment, but she'll be coming in the future. The bout between Iowa and Black will be explained later.
Shadow Joestar: Thank you! It's not gonna happen any time soon though unfortunately.
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Guest (1): I don't have the Time Breaker's planned to show up until later but no alternative chapter for them as well.
Guest Reviewer "fairy saiyan": No promises whether or not I'll be able to check out the crossover fiction since I'm busy lol.
Guest (2): I'm glad someone have said they like the pairing, I try to make it as enjoyable as possible and I have fun writing about them. I am only making that the only pairing with him and no one else. I've already gone past where Yusuke would have adopted parents in this story. If anything, his adopted mom would be the Supreme Kai of Time. I don't know too much about the DC universe unfortunately other than some characters that exist there so I wouldn't be the go-to guy about it. But thank you for sticking to my story from Chapter 12 ever since! I'll never give up on this story.
Guest Reviewer "xBUBBA1995x": Thank you!
Elvisfonz23: Thank you for being apart of these 1k reviews I've got, I have plenty of more character development planned out for the Time Patrollers with the other Fairy Tail members.
CobraAssassin: Since I'm writing this and that Ultra Instinct Goku has now made his debut, I gotta say that I really really like it, very frightening as well as he was able to keep up with Jiren.
Guest (3): I got no plans on making another brand new story as of now since I don't have the time lol.
myfunvideos: I could use Beat and Note but they're mostly just use as advertisements in the DBH commercials, I don't think they have some kind of character behind them since they're really just kids outside of the game lol.
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But yes! This story Has reached over 1,000 reviews! I want to thank everyone who has done a review on my story (even though there were a couple of bad ones lol), just having that is another milestone achieved. Not to mention that this story also almost has 350 favorites and followers, so I thank the people who has this story on their alerts whenever it is updated and take the time to read it and enjoy it.
Onwards!
"Ugh! It's so humid!" Marissa whined, walking through the trees while wiping off the sweat from her face with both of her hands.
"I wouldn't have thought that so many trees hugged the mountain…" Carla said.
"You don't think we missed it, do you?" Cana asked.
"No… I hope not." Yusuke exasperatedly sighed.
The Fairy Tail group was currently walking through the forest for some time now after discovering that the trees had obscured all the way around the mountain. Due to that, they had a hard time discovering the entrance to the cave from above and had decided to head to ground level to try and find it instead.
So far, they had little luck trying to locate the opening. With the sun still high up in the sky and the forest giving off enough humidity for the group to sweat as they kept walking.
"But there's definitely something inside…" Ann said, looking to the side at the mountain as she sensed multiple energy signatures.
"There is a lot of them…" Yusuke added in.
"It shouldn't be too far now." Wendy called out in the front.
"Why do you say that?" Marissa asked.
"The air is going somewhere… I can feel it close by. It must be where we can go inside." She answered.
"That's really neat… how does she do that?" The Earthling asked, looking back at her surrogate brother.
"She's the Sky Dragonslayer. Similar to Natsu as he's the Fire Dragonslayer and Gajeel being the Iron Dragonslayer. Each have their own little perks. Wendy can do a bunch with the air around her." Yusuke explained and complimented.
"I-It's nothing really." Wendy said with a bit of pink on her cheeks.
"I heard she can heal as well… can she…?" Ann hushly asked the male but he shook his head slowly.
"Not for us… you can't blame her though." Yusuke answered with a shrug.
"... oh well."
In the front, Wendy continued walking with her hands slightly clenched when she heard both Saiyan's small conversation with her hearing. She shook her head quickly as she refocused, trying to locate the cave.
'There are other ways that I can help them with. This can be one of them… I don't want to feel useless any longer!' Wendy encouraged herself in her mind.
The petite girl continued to track down the entrance with the group following right behind her until eventually she stopped and looked around in front of her, smelling something unusual up ahead.
The Time Patrollers put their guards up as they sensed a presence in front of them. Seeing them ready to fight, Cana placed her hand inside of her blue purse to gather some cards while keeping her sights ahead.
The shrubs in front of them rustled for a bit before they all heard growling within it. A moment later something fast came out from behind it and went straight towards Wendy.
"Wendy!" Carla screeched out.
"Watch out!" Yusuke dashed forward and grabbed Wendy in his arms while rolling away on the ground right under the attacker.
The male stopped after a few rotations on the ground and held himself up on one knee while holding Wendy in one his arms and looked back as he saw what had leaped out of the bushes. He widened his eyes at the sight in front of him.
Wendy opened her eyes only to gasp out loud and froze at the attacker. Along with Cana and Carla from the opposite side who took a step back in slight fear while Marissa and Ann rushed in front of them, coming up front.
In between them was some sort of animal, but it wasn't the ordinary kind that they all know of. This animal, but more of a beast that had its four legs on the ground, had black fur all around it with pitch-black, feathered wings protruding out of its back. It wielded white, bony, sharp claws and donned a white mask on its bird-like face with dark red trims around its blood red eyes and was designed horizontally and vertically from it. A large, long tail was present on the beast as it swung on the ground, destroying the surface to show its strength.
The black animal leaned down as it stared right at Yusuke and Wendy, sensing the fear in the younger girl and it spreaded out its large wings. It opened its mouth and bellowed out a large screech that had everyone wincing from the noise. After doing so, it dashed forward, straight towards the duo.
Yusuke leaped in the air with Wendy in his arms to dodge the creature. When he looked down he slightly gasped as he saw the beast flying towards him. With his free arm he aimed it at the animal and shouted as he fired off a Ki wave at it. His blast made contact with it head on and the large beast crashed back down on the ground with a quake.
Everyone else on the ground cautiously walked near it. Yusuke landed down with Wendy safe in his arms and briskly arrived with everyone else.
"What the hell was that?" Ann questioned.
"Those… must be those things that the Mayor was talking about." Marissa said.
"It's definitely not a Wyvern, that's for sure…" Cana observed.
Movement was heard beneath the rubble before it was all shoved away by the black beast again and went straight towards Yusuke with a screech.
The male Saiyan guarded himself up by lifting his arms in front of his face. He saw the creature quickly coming towards him with one of its claws ready to swipe at him until he saw it halt. He blinked once and looked past his arms at the beast to see it struggling right in front of him. Looking down, Yusuke saw a bright golden blade of Ki sticking out of its chest. It started wailing in pain once it fully felt the blow from the blade and fell down on the ground once again on its side.
Ann retracted her blade back and walked closer to the fallen body of the beast to take a closer inspection at it. Everyone with their own eyes began to see its body beginning to disintegrate, similar to how burnt ashes would be blown away by the wind. Eventually, there was almost nothing left of the dark creature until its mask remain when that too, also went away just like the entire body.
"That's not normal at all…" Marissa voiced out.
"Has this happened to you before on this planet?" Ann questioned the male Saiyan.
"Never… I've never even seen this kind of thing until now. All I've fought were oversized monkeys and birds." Yusuke answered with a shook of his head.
"What about you?" She asked Cana next.
"Same as him… Vulcans and Wyverns are the main ones we usually fight against." The brunette answered.
"... and to think there are more of them." Wendy shakily said.
Carla flew over to her shoulder and rested one of her hands on her reassuringly. "Come on child, you said yourself that you need to be stronger. Don't back down now."
"Don't you worry Wendy." Marissa walked near her and looked at her with a confident smile. "We're here if anything bad happens."
"You're right… the both of you. I have to be brave." Wendy said, pumping up her fists.
"Wendy, can you still track the entrance to that cave?" Yusuke asked.
"I can still." She responded with a firm nod.
"Let's hurry… if any more of those things come running loose and get into town, then it's not going to be a sight worth seeing."
Everyone nodded at the male's predictions. With Wendy in the front of the group once again, she began to talk with everybody else following behind her towards inside the mountain.
"Is it really necessary to conjure up this many? She is just a child." A man sighed with very long brownish-silver hair that was braided behind him. He wore a large purple robe with a white layer covering parts of his purple clothing on him. He looked ahead and his purple eyebrows frowned at the panting young girl with dark purple hair, her still-sheathed sword propped up in front of her ready to defend herself with.
"A child, yes. But unexpectedly she's able to fight back a few of my golems. She has even managed to slain a few of of those creatures you have been experimenting with. Are you going to allow that, Lilias?" Another man, looking much older with his gray hair than the first now known as Lilias. He wore a large black cloak with a red color within with his hood over his head.
Ahead of the two men talking were several rock like creatures that has been mentioned as golems. A dark miasma covered their dark, sand colored rocks and they inched closer to the young girl as she took a step back in caution. On each of their foreheads were different colored gems, all either having one color or two.
"Honestly Grusbalesta, they are nothing more than experiments. We've plenty back in the other world." Lilias sighed.
"Be that as it may. However, her appearance is troublesome. Not to mention a few of those people as well that reside in that small town that stumbled upon here." Grusbalesta said, adjusting his glasses with his hand.
"... and what do we do with those people?"
"We'll just leave them. We've spent enough time in this world already as it is." Grusbalesta said. He and Lilias had opted to imprison the villagers and the small militia group that had entered their cavern in order to prevent any suspicion arising if they would have wiped their memories to begin with and set them along the way.
"Very well then. We should hurry however, it seems more has come." Lilias said with closed eyes, feeling more people just outside their hideout.
"Stronger than the rest we've encountered as well… I'm curious as to how they may fare as well." Grusbalesta held out a hand, and it glowed white. Several of the golems began to mobilize themselves closer to the young girl to attack.
She readied herself as the first one to her right went to slam its hand down at her, only for her to shout as she swung her scabbard and dashed forward, destroying the attacking golem's arm. Having moved past the golems she began sprinting away from them.
"She's getting away." Lilias said.
"It matters not, I'll cast more to block her path. In any case let's head back and prepare." Grusbalesta's hand glowed white once more as he pointed it towards the ground, and began to walk back.
"And what of those outside?"
"Let them come. I'd like to test out the stones we've excavated."
"Here it is." Wendy said, looking at the entrance of the cave as well as the seemingly unending darkness within.
"This doesn't look natural." Ann said, looking at the edges of the entrance.
"What do you mean?" Cana asked.
"Look closely at the rocks, they look like they've been forced out of the way." Ann pointed out.
"You're right… like a perfect half-circle." Marissa commented.
"There's a lot of energy signatures moving around." Yusuke said with narrowed eyes, and began walking forward. "Let's hurry."
Everyone followed the male Saiyan inside the dark cavern, and continued walking deeper into the mountain. It wasn't long the light from the entrance died out and it became pitch black all around them. The Time Patrollers lit up the area around them with a small energy orb on top of their index fingers to guide them. The size of the cave had been the same as they continued within, but at times of observing the walls they could see parts of it chipped away, as if there was something in that particular space in the first place.
"How long does this go…?" Cana asked.
"The mountain was very large from what we saw up above. It might even go down below for all we know." Carla said.
"There's someone fighting right now…" Ann said.
"It has to be that Kagura person, we didn't see her along the way coming here." Wendy voiced out.
"We have to find her then. She's probably all alone trying to fight off whatever it is she's fending from." Marissa said in haste.
"Still, we're lucky enough so far not to run into any trouble." Cana commented.
Sounds were heard behind them and they looked back to see the ground and the rock from the walls forming into something. It was larger and taller than the rest of them, and it showed its glowing red eyes at the group. Similarly the area in front of them began shifting as well, and more golems were formed. Both sides of the group were now surrounded by the enemies with the artificial monsters staring down at them.
"You had to say something." Yusuke pointed out with a deadpanned voice as he stared at the brunette.
"Ehehe… my bad. Guess we'll just have to fight now!" Cana grinned, and pulled out a card out of her purse, now ready to attack.
The Time Patrollers ignited their aura's to life around them to light up the narrow path they were on and kept it up for the time being as they began to fight off the golems from both sides.
Cana threw multiple cards to strike at the golems. Each of her cards spun rapidly as they made its way towards them. Some had managed to pierce into their solid rocky body and some sliced through but none were able to deal effective damage to them.
"Alright, how about this…" Cana reached into her bag to pull out multiple red cards and fanned them out in her hand. She threw them at one of the golems and successfully hit it dead on as her cards exploded on contact. The smoke went away to show the remains of the golems that stood there once. Cana grinned and pulled out more cards out of her purse.
SKY DRAGON'S ROAR!
Wendy's cheeks puffed up before she launched out her attack at one of the golems in front of her, first staggering it back before it was lifted off the ground and collided against the wall. It trembled before standing up again.
"Go Wendy!" Carla cheered.
"I need to try harder!" Wendy said to herself, and prepared herself.
"HA!"
"RAHG!"
"HYA!"
Yusuke, Ann and Marissa continued dashing from one spot to another where each golems stood either punching or kicking them which easily destroyed them. However, whenever one would fall another was produced and took its place.
"This is all about to become pointless!" Ann shouted, and destroyed another in her way.
"We'll have to make a path and continue deeper!" Yusuke shouted back and evaded a swing from a golem.
"What the-!?" Marissa yelped as she felt her legs sink.
"Mari!" Ann yelled in concern as she heard the Earthling
"Marissa!" Yusuke was about move towards her until he felt himself sinking as well. He gasped and looked below that he was rapidly being sucked in by a dark purple portal. "Damn it!"
The male Saiyan kept up his aura as he was about to force himself out, but when he looked up he shouted in surprise as a group of golems piled on top of him, catching him off guard. His voice died out as no one else heard him anymore.
"Bro!" Marissa called out and tried to force herself out as well. But just as what happened to Yusuke, more golems appeared above her before they all fell forward on top of her. The Earthling shielded herself with her arms, losing concentration and fell down.
"Tarok! Mari!" Ann looked back in time to see Marissa disappear before catching a golem to the side as it swung one of its large arms. She swiped her arm up on the side the golem was at and forced out her Ki, destroying it from a distance. "Damn it all!"
"A-Ah!" She heard Wendy yelp.
"No, Wendy!" Carla yelled.
"W-What is this?!" Cana screeched.
Ann looked towards the others and saw that they were also being warped into the ground as well. She saw Cana struggling helplessly and Wendy holding onto Carla as the Exceed tried to lift her out of it.
"Hang on you guys!" Ann began running towards them, however more golems blocked her way and she growled audibly. "Out of my fucking way!"
Ann roared as her golden aura came to life and her energy exploded outwards as the bodies of the golems in front of her were destroyed without being touched. She arrived just near Wendy and thrusted her hand forward to knock the golems away from her. Ann wrapped her arms around the Dragonslayer's small frame and grunted as she pulled her out of the portal.
"Ann!" Cana called out.
The Saiyan turned around ready to rescue the Card Mage but made a sound of surprise as she caught a card in her hand. "What?"
She looked ahead again to see Cana get swallowed up within the portal before it closed up. Leftover golems that were still present still lingered, and began making their way towards the three that were left behind.
"Damn it…!" A vein popped out of Ann's forehead and she thrusted her free hand forward, launching a large enough energy blast at the group of golems and destroyed them.
The cave shook from the impact for a long moment before the debris and dust that were made slowly died down. Ann panted slightly as she calmed down and looked at the card that Cana threw at her. It showed the brunette herself in a cartnooish art while grinning and giving the piece sign.
"What is this for…?" Ann muttered.
"Ann…" Wendy called out as she and Carla walked over to her.
"Wendy." The female Saiyan looked back to look at them. "Are you both fine?"
"Yes, we are. But…" Wendy looked around her to see no one else but them and the pile of destroyed rocks surrounding them.
"They're fine." Ann said, closing her eyes as she went and sensed the three that they had been separated from. Just then the card that Cana threw at Ann began to glow and emit a sound that caused her to look at it. "...huh?"
"Ann!"
"Cana?"
"You can hear me… thank goodness. Are you alright?"
"Yeah. Wendy, Carla, and I are fine. What about you?"
"I'm alright… I don't know where I am though. It's pitch black around here too."
"You're below us… whatever took you wanted to separate Tarok and Mari from the rest of us as well."
"They got taken as well?" Cana surprisingly asked.
"Yeah, you're all near each other. If you can you should try to find them. I'm sure they'll try to find you as well." Ann said.
"… will the three of you be fine?"
"Of course. We'll be making our way to the rest of you as well."
"Alright… the card I gave you is a way to communicate with each other. One of us just has to talk through it and the other person should be able to talk back. If you need anything just do so." Cana explained.
"Same goes for you." Ann saw the card dim down until no light was present anymore. She tucked it away in her jacket pocket and turned around to look at Wendy and Carla, who had also heard their entire conversation.
"Will the others be okay…?" Wendy said with a downcast look.
"You should know us by now Wendy, we can take on a lot of things that's thrown in front of us." Ann answered as her teal eyes looked and the younger girl's brown ones when she looked back up at her. The corner of her lips went up to show some assurance. "They'll be completely fine."
"It is Yusuke, Marissa and Cana. We know how they are, and they won't go down without a fight. Not that they will go down anyway." Carla added in with a grin.
"You're right." Wendy smiled again, and saw Ann walk past her and further into the cave.
"Let's get moving and meet up with them as quickly as possible." The female Saiyan said and lit up an orb of Ki from her fingertip to brighten the space around her.
"Right!" Wendy jogged to catch up with Carla flying behind her. "You're not as scary as I thought you'd be."
Ann was taken back by Wendy's comment and flinched slightly with a slight blush on her face. "What's that suppose to mean…" She muttered.
"Agh! Damn!" Yusuke cursed as he fell flat on his face. He immediately stood up and looked around to see that it was still pitch black. He closed his eyes briefly as he began sensing the others.
He felt Marissa not too far away from him compared to Cana, Ann, Wendy and Carla. Speaking of Cana though, she was the second closest away from him with the other three being where they were at originally all the way… at the top.
"Great…" Yusuke sighed as he opened his eyes. He took a step forward, wanting to go in the direction where the Earthling was at until multiple torches lit up in front of him in blue flames.
Each torch lit up one after the other as far as Yusuke can see, which led all the way further into the path in front of him.
'Are they inviting me…?'
Against his better judgment, Yusuke narrowed his eyes and proceeded to follow the path, hoping to find out the people behind the scenes.
"Oof! Ow…" Marissa winced as she rubbed the back of her head from falling through the portal. She hissed slightly when she stood up and looked around the dark surroundings around her.
She felt the others away from her but sensed Cana was the closest. "...we all got separated somehow."
Marissa heard a faint clash from the distance that caught her attention. Honing in on her senses, she felt another person's energy signature that she didn't recognize.
"Is someone fighting over there?" Marissa muttered, and began running towards the direction where she heard the sounds.
Eventually, the Earthling came across a large opened area with stalagmites and stalactites all around her. There were sounds of clanging and grunting of a woman nearby from what she can hear, and one of the rocks from the ground up was destroyed with a person flying out of the dust and skidding on her feet, panting.
Marissa's assumption was correct when she was barely able to see a dark-haired woman that looked to be around her age with a sheathed nodachi that she clutched in front of her with both of her hands. She wore a white blazer with gold linings decorating it from what the Earthling can make out, and a white ribbon decorated her hair around her head that was tied similar to that of bunny ears.
Multiple golems appeared, marching towards the woman and she readied herself by taking a stance by spreading apart her legs on the ground, and lunged forward at the golems. Marissa saw the motion as she swung her weapon, not taking it out of the scabbard, and effectively sliced through the multiple golems in front of her in half.
'Whoa, she didn't even take it out.' Marissa observed. From behind the swordswoman, the rocks began forming again so that it began to take shape.
Marissa narrowed her eyes and sent out a Ki blast at the resurrecting golems, pushing it away, and destroying it to bits. The action caused the young woman with her weapon to turn around with a slight gasp as she held out her weapon again, ready to attack.
"W-Wait! I'm not an enemy!" Marissa voiced out. She jogged over to the woman and revealed herself with her hands out in front of her.
"Who are you?" The woman demanded, not letting down her weapon for a second.
"My name's Marissa, and I'm from Fairy Tail. I came here with a group of friends to investigate what was going on here." The Earthling introduced. She saw the young woman in front of her ease up a bit as the tension lessened. Then, she remembered the fact that there was another person who had come to take on the job alone. "...Are you Kagura by chance?"
"Yes… I am." Kagura answered, and she finally lowered her sword. "The clients told you of me?"
"Yeah, they did." She nodded. "Coming here to take on the job by yourself can be tough, I figured that we should help each other out. What do you say?"
Marissa held out a hand and let out a toothy grin. Kagura looked at her and her hand. With a slight smile she nodded, and accepted it.
"The enemies here are troublesome…" Kagura said with a serious tone. "I've managed to locate two people that seemed to be behind this but…"
"But what?" Marissa questioned as both her and Kagura let go of each other's hand.
"I had to get away… their numbers overwhelmed me so I chose to escape." Kagura said, looking away in shame with narrowed eyes.
"That's smart. If you know you can't break through then getting away is the next best thing to survive." Marissa said for reassurance.
"I suppose you're right. You said that you were with a group?"
"Yeah, but we all got separated. I can only think that the ones that's been attacking us did it. I need to regroup with them and I feel one of them close by."
"You feel? As in… you feel their magical power?" Kagura inquired.
"Not necessarily… it's not their magic I can feel but more their energy or life force." Marissa answered.
"Energy…?" Kagura wondered.
"I don't use magic actually, I have another source of power I use." Marissa said as she held out her hand and a Ki sphere flickered above her palm. Light was shone around them from the orb, and Kagura looked on in interest. "And part of that power allows me to sense where other people is located… as long as they're not dead of course."
"I see." Kagura saw the ball of light shrink until it eventually vanished with the dark surrounding them again.
"Come on, follow me. We'll meet up with one of my friends nearby, then we can focus on taking out the people behind all of this. Let's make sure the village outside can feel safe again." Marissa said.
"I agree, let's go." Kagura nodded.
Yusuke continued walking along the dirt path inside the cave. The blue torches that were hanged up against the walls on both sides of him continued on and on as far as he was able to see.
Just as he was wondering when it will end, he soon saw other lights blinking just up ahead apart from the blue flames. He narrowed his eyes and prepared himself as he sensed several signatures just up ahead, and arrived in a spacious room that looked to be made similar to how the entrance to the cave was when Ann first pointed it out. Yusuke blinked and gasped out loud in surprise, looking around him as he spotted multiple alters spread apart within. The base of it was dark gray in color with its base a square shape. Four pillars were erected on each corner with multiple red colored runes etched all around it.
There were five altars all together in the spacious area around him and right in the middle of each of them were the black beasts, similar to the one he and the others faced outside with a black miasma swirling around them. There were three that were identical to each other, and they had the figure very similar to that of wolves, but standing. In the other two, their shape resembled bears due to their large sized body and arms. One very common thing they all sported were white bone-like masks they held on their faces with red outlines to match their blood red eyes.
"What the hell…?" Yusuke muttered as he looked at each of the black beasts. Each one glowed a dark-bright aura around them of various colors along with the black miasma polluting them. The Saiyan narrowed his eyes further as his memories of his past flashed in his mind when he was just a wild child. 'These things… it's just like-'
Yusuke's thoughts came to a halt as he had remembered sensing someone nearby and looked slightly to the side at one of the altars as a man with long, braided brown-silver hair and large purple and white robes came into view from behind a pillar.
"Greetings, fellow wanderer." The unknown man said as he bowed his head slightly.
"Are you the one behind all of these things?" Yusuke questioned as he looked back at the altars.
"Indeed I am. But not these ones specifically as I hold no responsibility to making them. What I do next however, I can say that I am partially responsible then."
"What?"
The unknown being turned around and waved an arm to the side. The beasts roared all of a sudden that caught the Saiyan's attention as he watched on. The wolves were the first to change as they seemingly disappeared for a moment from the light that surrounded them before it turned bright red. The three orbs of red light from the three wolves all floated in the air above their respective altars before joining in the middle, merging into one. Red sparks crackled around it before the light shrunk and took on a shape. It dimmed down eventually until a new creature was seen and fell down on the ground, shaking it slightly.
The three wolves had all combined into one single creature as it stood up on its fur-like legs and walked forward a few steps, next to the unknown man and showed that he only went up to the beasts knee. Three heads were now present on its single body with the bone white masks on each of them. It growled audibly from its mouth as it snarled and showed it's teeth. The black, three-headed beast went on all fours as it continued glaring down at the Saiyan.
The next roars came from the bears from the other two altars just behind the first three. Similar to how the lights around the wolves acted, it enveloped the last two beasts in a bright red light. This time however, they didn't merge as Yusuke anticipated but instead they grew larger. Both light around the bears grew twice in size before the sphere took shape around the body of the creatures and disappeared, revealing the new look on them just like the first three wolves.
Both bears were shown with a large tail swishing back and forth between them and they now look slimmer in size of their bodies. Their legs were shown to be longer as they stretched for a few seconds on the altar below them. The masks held a different design to them now it resembled more of a head of a lion. As if it was possible, the mane on both of the beasts were spiked in several directions with the same bone-like material from their mask.
The last two of the creatures leaped away from their altars, and one landed down next to the unknown man while the other arrived right next to the three-headed black monster. They both landed at the same time, resulting in shaking the ground, and most likely the entire mountain, to shake once again.
"Fascinating, is it not?" The unknown man looked back at each of the three creatures and marveled at them.
"If that's what you call fascinating then I don't want to be apart of it at all. What the hell are they?" Yusuke questioned.
"They are called Grimm from my world. Such… dark things, but interesting."
"...other world?" The Saiyan muttered in surprise. "What world are you from?"
"Why do you ask, I wonder?"
"It's because I come from another world as well. I'm not from here originally."
"Is that so? My apologies as well for being rude. Shall I start by introducing myself to a fellow foreigner then? My name is Lilias Petal. I come from the world known as Remnant." Lilias introduced, slightly bowing his head.
"... Yusuke Yasai, Earth." The Patroller courteously introduced back.
"Earth? Intriguing. It's similar to this world I assume?"
"It is… in a lot of cases."
"I see." Lilias heard the anxious snarls from the three creatures beside him, and he looked at each of them. "It seems that they are getting restless. I apologize in advance, however time is of the essence for me and I must get going."
"Hold on, answer me this one question." Yusuke called out.
"One? Very well, what is it Mr. Yasai?"
"Are you with the Time Breakers?"
"Time Breakers? I have never heard of such group." Lilias answered as he turned around and began walking away.
"Towa! Does that name sound familiar?"
At Yusuke's second question, Lilias stopped. He glanced back at the younger man with a frown. Upon seeing his reaction, the Saiyan narrowed his eyes suspiciously.
'Does he know her…?' Yusuke thought.
'... I'll have to have a talk with Salem after all.' Lilias inwardly noted, and continued walking away.
"Wait!" Yusuke shouted, and began running towards him. However, the roars and growls from the three creatures forced him to stop as they blocked him.
"Please, allow my Chimera's to indulge in some fun." Lilias lastly said, and disappeared into the shadows.
"Damn it…!" Yusuke cursed as he stared up at the three Chimeras, all of them showing off their teeths and ready to lunge at him. "I'm not letting you get away, you know something!"
The Saiyan's roar echoed throughout the caves as he dashed forward with the three black beasts leaping forward at the same time.
The ground trembled slightly as Ann and Wendy continued walking the path further down the mountain with Carla floating beside her partner.
"How are the others doing?" Wendy asked Ann.
"They're doing fine at the moment… Tarok must be livid at the moment though…" Ann answered, slightly muttering the last part.
They had been walking for some time ever since they had separated from everyone else and at this point, the female Saiyan was getting anxious. She felt that Marissa had met up with someone else but it wasn't either Yusuke or Cana as they were still far apart from each other. But Cana was getting closer to the Earthling, so she didn't have to worry about them too much.
Her rival on the other hand, was fighting down below and was also the reason why she and the Sky Dragonslayer were feeling the quakes ever so often.
"We should get to Mari first… Tarok is further down below so we won't be getting there soon." Ann said.
"It's amazing how you can easily feel the others out… I almost wish I could do that." Wendy praised.
"You don't have to use and attack with Ki to try and locate them, just concentrate hard enough and you'll be able to do it. You're able to sense magic right?"
"Yes, I can." Wendy nodded.
"It's similar to that… I think."
"I see, not right now perhaps."
"You're quite right… we do have to find the others first before we can relax as well." Carla voiced out.
Their brief conversation ended as the three continued down the path. Wendy eyed Ann curiously as she walked behind her, and couldn't help but think back to how she looked in her Super Saiyan state compared to now as she was looking normally.
The contrast was drastically different from what she thought. From Ann's spiked up golden locks that would instantly changed whenever she wanted to the silky black hair she was naturally born with. The more Wendy thought about the two different scenarios about Ann she couldn't help but think about how Yusuke can do it so easily as well. Then another thought occurred to the young girl between the two Saiyans.
"Ann… do you hate Yusuke?" Wendy asked in wonder.
Ann looked back at Wendy in surprise but continued walking. "Why are you asking?"
"It's just that… the way you act towards him seems harsh at times."
"I don't… hate him. He just annoys me at times." Ann grumbled as she looked back ahead.
"What does he do that annoys you?" Carla questioned.
Ann was silent for a moment, pondering on what exactly he does that bothers her. There was definitely the fact she had thought Yusuke died during his fight against Demigra back in their universe and later discovered him here on Earthland.
The endeavors he had gone through for Trunks and the Supreme Kai of Time when he began patrolling. His strength improving immensely from each era in their universe's history the day he started in just a short amount of time. The tendency of him seemingly one-upping her from time to time whenever they had been assigned from one mission to another.
… the relationship between him, Erza and Mirajane bothered her constantly however.
Ann quietly sighed as she raked back the front of her bang and ruffled her hair vigorously from their past.
"A lot of things." The female Saiyan simply answered.
"It seems like it." Carla joked.
"I don't think he's that bad at all… Yusuke was the one who invited Carla and I to join Fairy Tail when we almost had nowhere else to go. We couldn't be more relieved when we agreed. I still miss my old guild but, it was for the best." Wendy solemnly explained, catching Ann's interest.
"Why did you leave your old guild?" Ann asked.
"We didn't leave…" Carla started off sorrowfully.
"Our old guild didn't exist in the first place. I first showed up with a past friend's help when I was very young, our old Master used the magic he had to create the people and the guild just for me. During that time… I also met Carla, and we've been friends since then." Wendy explained, giggling towards the end when she looked at the white Exceed.
"Indeed, quite the history we have with each other." Carla responded with a fond smile.
"I see… I understand then. He did that huh? Yeah, sounds like him alright." Ann commented.
"Is that partially why he annoys you?" Carla couldn't help but ask.
"No… I can't blame him for being like that considering what the Supreme Kai of Time taught him." Ann answered. 'Gohan and Goku could act like that… I guess it isn't too weird.'
"This Supreme Kai of Time, Yusuke spoke about her in a good light. What do you think of her?" Wendy asked.
"The Supreme Kai of Time…" Ann smiled at this when she thought back to her. "She's something else… managing the timeline and having to watch over it is a heavy task. I admire her for it, and I'm glad to be able to help her. I'll do what I can for her."
"Are you from the future as well? Where they get the other people to help out?"
"... no, actually. My situation was similar to Tarok's. Except I wasn't wished by Shenron. The Supreme Kai of Time was the one who reached out to me, and I took it. I… needed it during that time the most." Ann replied with a forlorn expression.
Wendy and Carla studied the female Saiyan's features with what little light she was supplying with and was slightly surprised. During the time they have known her Ann had always held up a stern and serious expression, especially towards Yusuke whenever they had interacted. It was clear that the topic of the Supreme Kai of Time was something soft for Ann and they were glad to have seen such a side to her.
However, with the way Ann spoke brought up a thought within Carla, and wanting to know more about the Time Patroller she asked away.
"Ann, are you jealous perhaps?" The white Exceed asked.
"Huh? Jealous? Of what?" Ann whipped her head back to look at Carla incredulously.
"Well, there was the story Yusuke told about how he was taken care of by her for five years when it really only happened in one week outside of it. By the sound of it, it seems they have quite the relationship." Carla said. "Does it bother you?"
"It…" Ann looked away in embarrassment. "It doesn't."
Wendy and Carla looked at each other with a small frown, but the feline quietly sighed and shrugged.
Ann continued walking in the front with her head down in thought, her face expressing a saddened look.
Cana sighed as she continued to look side to side of her surroundings as she went further into the cave. Using one of her cards she held in her hand as a small light source, she was grateful that she hadn't ran into any other enemies so far as she kept on venturing. She was however, a bit cranky and thirsty at the moment.
"Man, why did I agree to not drink as part of that deal. I really want a sip right now…" The brunette whined and grabbed her knapsack from behind her.
She opened it up to reveal various small bottles of liquor with a couple of larger ones among them. Cana sighed sadly as she licked her lips and swallowed the lump in her throat from the sight.
"So tempting…" Cana whined and forced herself to close her eyes, closing her bag and putting it back behind her.
However, she looked back at the bag again with a glint in her eyes.
"A little couldn't hurt, would it?"
Rubble was heard nearby and Cana immediately went on alert. She reached into her purse and held up the card that provided the light in front of her, ready to pull out more cards to attack.
Just as she suspected, multiple red dots were seen in her light of sight, and slowly they moved forward so that she can get a clear visual. More golems had turned up to block her way, and Cana took a few steps back cautiously.
"Great… just my luck…" Cana muttered irritably.
She waited whether or not the golems in front of her would make the first move and kept her hand inside of her purse. Cana made a surprised noise as she heard and saw multiple explosions in front of her. The golems that were just in the front lines all of a sudden were destroyed and sliced in multiple pieces, their rocky bodies falling down on the ground.
"What…" Cana stared at the fallen rocks.
"Cana!"
The brunette gasped as she heard Marissa's voice from a distance and looked ahead to see the Earthling running towards her while keeping up a ball of Ki in her hands to keep the area lit up.
"Marissa!" Cana said in relief and relaxed as she began walking towards her.
"Are you alright?" The younger girl asked when she arrived in front of Cana.
"Yeah, now that I've met up with you." Cana responded with a smile. She looked to the side in wonder to see another girl walking beside Marissa with a sheathed sword in her hand. "Who is this?"
"Oh, this is Kagura! She's the one with Mermaid Heel!" Marissa introduced.
"It's a pleasure to meet you." Kagura said with a bow of her head.
"Ahh, so this is the lone member of Mermaid Heel. Wow, she's really sixteen years old?" Cana asked.
"Yup! And she can do so much cool things with her sword without taking it out, how awesome is that?"
"It's nothing special, really…" Kagura said.
"Sword user eh? Well, if you can keep up with two other people in our group I'd say our chances of making it out alright is solid, as if it wasn't already." Cana joked.
"Two more?" Kagura questioned as she looked at Marissa.
"We have two friends that can use Ki as well and just like me, they don't use magic. They're farther away from us, but we should continue going below. Bro's down there and he's fighting right now."
"How far down is Yusuke at?" Cana asked.
The cave shook after she asked her question and all three girls had to steady themselves from the quaking to not fall over. It was only for a few short seconds before it all calmed down again.
"Is that one of your friends?" Kagura asked.
"Yeah… I don't think he's having much trouble but we should go to meet up with him just in case." Marissa answered.
"Lead the way, we'll be right behind you." Cana said.
Marissa nodded and began running back towards the direction from where she and Kagura came from. With Cana now with them in their party, they began venturing further down the mountain to aid the male Saiyan.
A beam of light sliced down on the bear-mutated Grimm in half. Both sides of it collapsed on the ground before it began disintegrating into nothing a second later.
Yusuke's blade dimmed down and he leaped back to avoid an oncoming charge from the other lion-like Grimm. He managed to grab ahold of its tail and bellowed in surprise from the sudden feeling. The Patroller landed on the ground and shouted as he swung the creature towards the Chimera with three heads that was just recovering from being kicked into the wall earlier by Yusuke.
Both Grimm collided against one another and fell on the ground, writhing. Their red eyes looked back to glare at Yusuke who stood from a distance. The Cerberus Chimera was the first to stand upright on all four of its paws and leaped towards the Saiyan with a loud roar. It neared the teen with all three of its mouths open, wanting to maw at him.
However, Yusuke held out his hands in front of him and skidded back on the ground as he caught one of the head's sharp upper teeth and one of his foot stepped on the bottom pointy teeths to balance himself.
"Ugh, disgusting…" Yusuke muttered in annoyance, feeling the saliva on his hands and smelling the foul odor of the Grimm's breath. He gritted his teeth when he came to a stop and grunted as he aimed one of his hands into its mouth, and Ki appeared in front of his palm as it rapidly expanded until it completely filled the inside. It continued to grow inside as the one of the Cerberus' head was forced to widen its mouth, but soon exploded when it was unable to take it anymore.
The Saiyan flipped back as soon as one of the heads was destroyed and wiped off the residue from his hands onto his pants. "Damn it… I didn't bring any spare clothings…"
He looked ahead again to see what remained of the Grimm leap at him. Yusuke brought out both of his arms to aim at the left and right heads of the Chimera left and shot out a Ki wave that was large enough to engulf their skulls within and was destroyed. The body of the Cerberus Grimm collided on the floor as it soon disappeared into nothingness. But just behind the remains of the Cerberus came the last Lion-like Grimm, charging towards the Saiyan as it ran past the Cerberus's body and jumped towards the Saiyan. He let out his blade of Ki once more from his fingertips as it pierced through the mask and went through its entire body. The creature stopped as it was skewered and was soon reduced to nothing.
"Now to find you and get answers…" Yusuke muttered and began running towards the direction Lilias had gone towards.
I have started taken other elements from another franchise or universe that most of you might be aware of. Just a reminder that this isn't the mini-arc I was referring to as that'll happen later. I also was planning on finishing this in this chapter actually but it went longer than I expected so it'll most likely be over in the next chapter. I do ask that people should take note of this chapter as it'll carry on in the future. Not in this story though, but the sequel.
Kagura has been officially introduced into the story! I'll say this now, she currently does not know that Simon is alive and has not met him, Milliana, Sho or Wally. She's still looking for him. There isn't too much about the Mermaid Heel guild themselves except for the fact that we've seen 5 of its members (as far as I know as well from what I researched), during the GMG arc. I don't think there was a specific said time when Kagura DID meet Milliana so I'm going to be placing that during the 7 year time skip that will happen soon. It's kind of weird as well since I have her with the Archenemy so I'm going to try and fit that in since I won't have her unsheathing it at all anytime soon. There also wasn't too much of her taking action, that'll change in the next chapter.
Lilias Petal and Grusbalesta, they are people from the TCG Force of Will. If you guys want a more accurate and clearer image of them you can search it up. I've taken into account of what their play style is into here and they'll be relevant in the future.
Hopefully it'll take me only around a month next to update but I won't let it and college get to me too much. Thank you again for everyone supporting this story though! It really means a lot. If I could, Macs for those who want it! I recently got a MacBook Air with a student discount and got a good deal from it. And I'm loving it so far, along with a free pair of Beat's headphones, I'd say it's a really good deal.
Until then.
Timestamp: October 16, 2017.
