Well crap, where to begin... Hey guys! It's been almost three months... hehe, boy that sucks. But I'm back! And with the filler-not-so-filler finish of this chapter! A bit longer than some but I did wanted to end this part and move onto the next. Anyway, onto reviews!
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JKL98: Yeah I'm aware Grimm has two "m's", but I just put one in the title of the last chapter on purpose lol.
Yavin Yams: It's nice to hear from someone new! First, thank you very much for reading my story up until this point. Second, this will be the final chapter where there will be the RWBY aspect to it. I don't plan on having the RWBYverse interact with this story at all. Instead, it'll be apart of a completely new story that I plan on having in the future, but at this point, only just having that one story. I've already dug myself in the past chapters of having the RWBYverse put in, but mostly crossing over with DBXV. Not too much apart of the FTverse will be in it, in fact, nothing major from the FTverse will be apart of it. You don't sound selfish at all, I do kind of agree with you though that having a third element will be a bit much. But, I do tend to make that story short and then head back into FTXV. Once again, thank you!
Guest (1): This chapter is considerably longer than the last one lol, enjoy!
Omni Warrior: Looking up on the wikia it said that Kagura's age was 23, I just deducted 7 years from that since this is the pre-timeskip, making her 16. Thank you as well!
Elvisfonz23: Yusuke's Final Kamehameha training is going well, just a few chapters left!
Guest Reviewer "fairy saiyan": Oh no, don't do that, we need Trunks xD, but regarding the RWBY x DBZ fics, I've taken a look at them and their summaries only but never really delve into it. I'll have to check it out later.
Guest Reviewer "AntiHero627": In my opinion, if they are not enhanced, I think that mages in the FTverse can take on the Grimm and survive, looking at the information in the recent RWBY episodes of Volume 5 that is. By not enhanced, I mean by, not Towa lol. But if by Lilias, they could pose a challenge, similar to how Kagura was put in last chapter. Thank you for the review!
Guest Reviewer "CobraAssassin": It definitely Would be terrifying to see in the RWBYverse... but just like up above, Salem and natural Grimm are not on Earthland. And I do know it's been awhile, but my thoughts on DBS 111, it was good, but expected of what happened to Hit. Sad to see him and them all go. The recent episodes of DBS though is getting thrilling again, I can't wait to see Vegeta's new power.
Guest Reviewer "JustPasingBy": Not in this story, no, but in the next one!
devo33331: I'll consider it, but it's to a point where I'll be focusing on other things in the future chapters :x, but as for the Grimm chimeras and Yusuke vs. Salem, it's all a maybe!
LifeByTheCreed: It's definitely not a bad idea at all, and I have considered the fact of the both of them fusing, but it wouldn't even be enough to take on 1st form Frieza in my opinion. Maybe on a spinoff where nothing matters, I could definitely do it haha.
Guest Reviewer "Fairy Tail Ball": Not in this story unfortunately, if I ever happen to make a completely new story full of "what-if's" then I definitely would.
Guest Reviewer "HanzoHasashi24": I don't think I'll have SSJ4 Broly appear at all lol, that can stay in the games and commercial. But, things could change in the future.
DragonBreath99: I love Kale, Caulifla, and Kefla. There's alot of hate going on in the fandom on them but I absolutely love them. They're like, the first serious female Saiyan's that appear and fight in a long time, and I like it! I just hope that Toriyama touches on them more in the future, if they do get wished back. And about the S-Cells, it's honestly nothing new, we knew about it the whole time during the series lol.
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That's all the reviews there is! I'm sorry again it's taken me awhile, and no promises that the next one will be sooner but I'll try.
Onwards!
Yusuke continued running through the torch-lit paths for some time now after the detour from fighting three of Lilias' Chimeras. He felt the others still travelling downwards inside the mountain, more over at Ann's side as she, Wendy, and Carla were quickly descending downwards.
Resolved on finding Lilias once more to confront him, the male Saiyan sped up and began dashing forward, twisting and turning through the maze-like paths. The blue fire torches all but became a blur in his line of sight now as he kept moving at a fast pace through the caves.
Eventually, more blue came into his vision and he widened his eyes as he slowed down considerably to get a clearer view. He had now past by all the torches behind him and came up to another cavern, larger than the previous one. All around him, can be considered a motherload of how much raw lacrima was embedded within veins that glowed all around him.
"Oh no…" Yusuke muttered in worry, looking back and forth from side to side at all the blue crystals.
"Ah, so you must be the one Lilias has mentioned."
Yusuke perked up at a new voice from a short distance away and looked ahead to see a new person, a man with a hooded dark robe on him. He can make out the glasses and gray facial hair he had and hair from the crown of his skull on either side of his face.
"Who are you?"
"Grusbalesta is my name. I am fully aware of who you are, Mr. Yasai." Grusbalesta introduced.
"Where is he?" Yusuke questioned.
"That is a question that I do not have to answer."
"Then let me ask you this then, are you from that world he called Remnant as well?"
"Indeed I am. And he has told me that you are not from this world either. Tell me Mr. Yasai, what is your objective?" The man asked.
"Objective? I don't have one. I was forced to come here after I finished a battle, and haven't found a way back." Yusuke explained.
"Is that so…?"
"Lilias reacted to the name Towa. Do you know that name as well?"
"Towa? It seems we share some common knowledge." Grusbalesta said.
"Then you do know her." Yusuke said as he tightened his fists.
"An acquaintance is all she is. The three of us share the same skill set in the scientific field. Her's… being somewhat intriguing from what little that I have seen of what she is capable of. While Lilias is more adept in mutation processing, I, on the other hand like to see myself more in the alchemic field." Grusbalesta hovered a hand in front of him as it began glowing white. It made a humming sound as it dimmed and glowed back down as he concentrated.
Right in between Yusuke and Grusbalesta, the latter formed multiple golems from the normal rocks that were part of the mountain. More and more were made until they surrounded the male Saiyan in a circle. Observing more closely at the golems, Yusuke could see the blue raw lacrima in a hexagonal shape embedded onto their foreheads that was different to the ones he had fought earlier.
The Time Patroller took a stance as he lifted up his arms and spreaded apart his legs to take action until he saw Grusbalesta reaching inside of his robes. The older man had his hand closed until he threw multiple items in the air. Yusuke observed upwards as he saw multiple crystals floating in the air, glowing in their respective color. There were multiple red, yellow, blue, and white crystals shining above the golems before they all erratically swirled around in the air before seemingly merging within rocky creatures.
"This world's main source of energy could be considered a blessing from what I've studied. Very, very compatible and resembles of the source of power we use back on Remnant." Grusbalesta said, tossing a few of the same crystals in his hand.
Yusuke observed more closely at the golems around him. They were very still for a moment before their eyes flashed red and growled lowly. The blue lacrima on their foreheads lit up in a white light for a split moment before it was revealed as a different color. Various golems had their new lacrima's in a red, yellow, and more darker blue color, all separate on each golems.
"Rocks are a humble material… they can stay still and wait for years to come. They are patient and silent… and in some cases, just waiting to come out with its true potential when the time is ripe." Grusbalesta lectured, catching the crystals in his hand.
One of the golem's lacrima that was now the color of red glowed, and it shot fire out of its crystal towards the Saiyan.
Yusuke leaped in the air to avoid the flames. As he looked down to see the fire brush off of the other nearby golems, he saw a glow of yellow at the corner of his eyes and looked over towards that direction. It was a golem that had its lacrima turned yellow. Sparks appeared around it before its entire body lit up in a bright yellow hue, and multiple streams of lightning was shot out of its body and travelled towards the Saiyan. Yusuke phased out of sight with the lightning going past him and hitting the ceiling. He appeared back on the ground in front of the golem that just shot out the lightning and lunged forward with an arm in front of him, immediately destroying the creature.
Arriving in front of the group of golems, Yusuke looked up ahead to see ones with the dark blue crystals they wielded. The lacrima on them glowed, and they all rapidly fired off shards of ice towards the Saiyan. He leaped back as the ice that missed was shattered on the ground, and he fired off a Ki blast strong enough to destroy the golem.
"What the hell did you even do?" Yusuke demanded.
"I simply combined both worlds sources into one into my creations that stand before you. Dust… just like lacrima can be used in many various ways. This is an example of one, of how all of these soldiers are as of now." Grusbalesta showed off a white crystal in between his index finger and thumb. "The potential within Dust is extraordinary… just waiting to burst! Combine it with lacrima, and you have results reaching as high as the sky!"
Several other golems began firing off different kinds of elemental attacks just like before at the Saiyan, and he nimbly evaded each of them but was also pushed further away from Grusbalesta.
Yusuke looked around him again at all the raw lacrima that was still intact within the cavern they were in, and looked ahead again at the golems and the old alchemist.
'I need to be careful to not fire off any blasts in here recklessly… a single reaction could have this entire mountain blow up. Not to mention there might still civilians be in here too…" Yusuke thought out with a bit of sweat dripping down his brow.
The Time Patroller shouted as he began glowing in power around him. The winds can be felt by Grusbalesta as he shivered and took a step back while shielding himself with an arm.
'Incredible… is this his Aura?' Grusbalesta thought in a combination of fright and wonder.
Yusuke shouted once more as he dashed forward towards the golems in front of him and began destroying one after the other. He punched one through its head after jumping to meet its height, spun and kicked another away while appearing above it to smash the lacrima with the heel of his boot, and even spun another around so that he threw it at another golem so that both are destroyed.
Grusbalesta watched with wide eyes at the display of the Saiyan's power and the continuous potency of his aura as one by one his golems continued to be destroyed one after the other. They kept firing off their own powers of fire, electric and ice to no avail as Yusuke had too much power and speed for all of them.
'This is a battle I cannot win… Lilias is right. We'll need to head back for now.'
A portal had opened up just behind Grusbalesta as he sensed it and looked back.
'Good timing…' Grusbalesta thought and turned around fully, putting one foot into the hole.
Yusuke finished up with the last of his golems and looked ahead to see a large rift near the older man. "Stop!"
The Saiyan began sprinting towards him until another golem, larger than the rest he had faced just now appear with most of its body having lacrima embedded onto it. More crystals of Dust were seen above it before they all dove down to merge with the golem in front of him. A brief flash outlined the golem as the lacrima now transitioned from its natural sky blue color to other various hues such as red, yellow, dark blue, and white. The golem held out its arms in front of him as particles of light began charging in between its hands as a few sparks of electricity crackled.
Yusuke narrowed his eyes slightly as he aimed one of his hands towards the golem with his fingers pointing it while it was charging its attack. It was only for a moment that the Patroller allowed the golem to charge up more of it attack before a beam of his Ki shout out of his fingertips and pierced through the particles of light and went straight into the head of it. The tip stuck out just a few inches behind the monster made out of rock before it began glowing brightly. Yusuke shot forward more of his Ki into his blade as it traveled towards the golem and imploded from within his blade, destroying the large rock with ease.
Dust and debris littered the Saiyan's line of sight in front of him and he swiped his arm to the side to blow it all away. When it completely cleared up, Grusbalesta was nowhere to be seen or was close by to be easily sensed.
"Damn it…" Yusuke cursed.
He looked around the cavern past the rubble he made from the bout and found that there was no other paths opened besides the one he came from. Yusuke closed his eyes and honed in on his senses. Apart from the others in his group, he searched further out within the mountain and near it. Upon expanding his mental radar, he felt both Lilias and Grusbalesta even further down below the mountain.
"How deep does this go…?" Yusuke wondered as he opened his eyes. He looked down on the ground and held up a fist. "Might as well start digging."
The Saiyan crouched down on a knee and placed a hand on the ground while bringing back his opposite arm. He grinned slightly as he slammed his fist down, inevitably shaking the entire mountain as the ground below him cracked by a large margin, and he sunk a few feet down.
"Hope the others won't mind while I do this." Yusuke said, and continued punching the floor under him.
As the cave around them shook, Marissa, Kagura, and Cana continued venturing down the mountain with the Time Patroller leading the other two.
"Geez, what is he doing…" Marissa said in annoyance.
"Is all of that coming from Yusuke?" Cana asked.
"Yeah… only weird thing is that I don't think he's fighting anymore. He's not powered up at all."
"... it makes me wonder how strong this person you two speak of really is." Kagura commented, keeping a grip on her sword as she continued running.
"He's plenty strong." Cana responded back to her with a grin.
"Aside from Ann, I'd say they're pretty equal at this point." Marissa added in.
"Let's just say that… if either one of them were to go up against a large army of Rune Knights with no repercussions, they can definitely come out of it unscratched." Cana said.
"I find that hard to believe." Kagura responded.
"Ah just wait till ya see them in action then."
"Hold on." Marissa stopped running, forcing the other two to stop just behind her.
"What's the matter?" Kagura asked.
"I'm sensing other people near us…"
"Is it the enemies?" Cana questioned.
"No… it's different."
Marissa ran again towards a group of people up ahead. Kagura and Cana began following the Earthling once more as they continued through the narrow cave.
The path widened as they kept going until they reached an area large enough to be considered a room. Or in this case as all three looked around, a prison was what they saw as people were caged up inside solid rock small cages that were part of the mountain itself. Small torches in a red fire were mounted all around the walls of the spartan room, and the prisoners themselves looked towards the trio with hope lighting up in their eyes.
"What the…" Cana muttered.
"These must be the people that have gone missing from the village." Kagura said.
"Please, help us!" One of them shouted.
"We don't know how long we've been in here at this point…"
"I need to go see my wife and daughter… they must be worried sick about me!"
'Let's go free them." Marissa said, looking back at Cana and Kagura.
Both wizards firmly nodded and the three of them separated to free the people from their cells.
Kagura went to the one nearest to her that contained three men inside. The Mermaid Heel member propped up her sword in front of her diagonally.
"Stand back." Kagura demanded, and those in the cell did so by her command. She shouted as she swung her sword, still sheathed in its scabbard, across from her. In an instant, the rock-made cell bars were sliced in a diagonal line with enough space for the prisoners to be freed.
Cana ran over to a few cells over at her side and brought up several cards in both of her hands that were firmly in between her fingers. She crossed her arms in front of her, ready to fling them.
"All of you are gonna have to take a few steps back, preferably all the way to the wall." Cana said, and those mentioned did as she suggested, staying as far away from the bars as possible.
The Brunette grunted as she uncrossed and threw her arms, letting go of the cards in between her fingers. All of the cards she threw pierced the bars with their corners. As Cana snapped her fingers, the cards shined for a moment before a small explosion occurred from all of them and destroyed the barricades, freeing the prisoners.
Marissa ran to the farthest side of the room, opposite of Cana and Kagura were there were other prisoners imprisoned. She came up to one of them with a reassuring smile.
"We'll get you all out of here soon, stand back a little bit." Marissa said as she hooked back an arm with a fist ready.
"B-Behind you!" One of them said in fear.
"Huh?" Marissa perked up and heard growling behind her. She snapped her head back, only for her to duck instantly from a swipe at her head. The Earthling touched the ground with both of her hands and kicked the attacker away with both of her legs and immediately stood back upright.
Marissa took a closer look at the red eyes, white mask and bone-like material protruding out of its body. The creature stood back up on its hind legs, and growled again that almost resembles a wolf.
'I guess they found us out…' Marissa thought as she brought up her fists. She looked both ways to see more appear from a portal that was present above them. Scouting ahead, the Earthling saw more where Cana and Kagura were at and that the prisoners that they had freed were being protected behind them. 'They should be fine for now… I should give them a hand though.'
One of the wolves lunged at Marissa and she ducked one more. She grabbed it by one of its leg and slammed it down on the ground, following it up with a punch straight towards its skull. Landing a clean hit, the creature began to flake away from existence as it was killed.
Several more went to leap at Marissa soon after, and the Earthling extended two fingers from her right hand in front of her. At each of the black creatures, she aimed at each one and shot off small Ki bullets at each of them. The enemies were all hit dead-on, and all of them soon disappeared into thin air.
Finished with the attackers on her end, Marissa dashed forward to where Cana and Kagura were currently fighting. She appeared above one of the beasts and slammed her elbow down at the top of their head, causing it to crash down from where it stood. A moment later, it began disappearing.
Eventually with Marissa, Cana, and Kagura all fighting to defend the people, they all came out victorious in the end. With the last of the creatures fading away into the air, the rest of the prisoners were freed from their cells with Marissa's help and they all regrouped with each other.
"What do we do now? We can't move on without bringing them along, it'll be too dangerous." Cana said glancing at the prisoners.
"I can bring them back no problem, I'll just use my Instant Transmission… huh, I probably should have done that sooner actually." Marissa realized.
"The Instant Transmission?" Kagura questioned.
"Here, let me show you."
Marissa went over to the group of prisoners and cupped her hands around her mouth.
"Everyone! I'm going to need all of you to make physical contact with each other! Without having a big hassle come up, it'll be better if all of you held hands! The sooner you do so, the faster I can get all of you back to your homes!" Marissa announced.
With excitement growing in them, they quickly did what Marissa had asked and soon, all of them practically created a human chain with most of them holding hands or touching each other shoulders. The Earthling went over to one of them and placed a hand on their shoulder. She looked back at Cana and Kagura with a grin.
"I'll be back in a few minutes." Marissa said as she waved at both of the female mages and placed an index and middle finger on her forehead. She closed her eyes and a moment later, she and the entire group all disappeared from their eyes.
Kagura widened her eyes significantly and gasped out loud. She looked all around her inside the cavern but only found herself and Cana.
"W-Where did they all go?!" Kagura asked frantically.
"Haha! If you can see the look on your face right now, it's hilarious!" Cana cackled.
"They are gone! We should be finding them!"
"No worries… that's just her teleportation-like technique. We should just sit tight for a few minutes like she said and she'll be back in one piece." Cana said as she wrapped an arm around the Mermaid Heel wizard's shoulder.
"...if you say so."
On the upper parts within the mountain, running footsteps were heard on the dirt ground of the cave, mostly coming from two people with the white Exceed flying beside them.
The ground shook once more for them, causing Ann to growl and grit her teeth.
"What the hell is he doing…" Ann muttered.
"How close are we getting? Carla asked.
"We're still a ways away… damn it, if only Mari was here with her Instant Transmission." Ann looked back Wendy behind her. "How are you holding up, Wendy?"
"I-I'm… doing… fine…" Wendy managed to say through her pants, but Ann could see her heavy breathing, along with her staggering behind.
Ann stopped running, prompting Wendy and Carla to stop as well.
"What's… what's wrong, Ann?" Wendy asked as she took deep breaths.
"Come on." Ann crouched down on a knee with her back facing Wendy.
"What…?"
"Get on my back, it'll be faster that way. I can hold Carla in my arms."
"A-Are you sure…?" Wendy asked with a stutter.
"I suggested it, didn't I?" Ann said, narrowing her eyes a little.
"O-Okay."
Wendy went over to Ann, placing her hands on her shoulders. She jumped forward as her knees were placed on the female Saiyan's waist, and Ann pulled her legs in so that she was secured behind her back. Still feeling the smaller girl's hands on her shoulders, Ann turned her head to the side to look at Wendy.
"You're going to want to wrap your arms around me, we're not going to be slow." Ann suggested.
Gulping away some kind of uneasiness in her, Wendy did as Ann said and wrapped her arms around the Saiyan's neck. They both looked back down at the white tabby in curiosity.
"Carla, we need to hurry." Ann said.
"Well, I don't doubt that you'll get us there in a much shorter time than we have had before." Carla said as she walked over to the two and hopped up towards Ann as the female Saiyan caught the Exceed with an arm, and held her tightly against her in front of her.
"Make sure you hang on tight, Wendy."
"I will!" Wendy responded, and couldn't help but shiver with some excitement welling up within her.
"Let's go then."
Ann crouched forward a bit as one of of her arms held Carla tightly and her opposite was behind her, keeping Wendy in place. White aura glowed around them suddenly as Ann powered up.
A trail of dust was seen behind her as she began sprinting through the caverns, carefully avoiding running into the walls as she kept going. Carla and Wendy held their eyes shut from the winds in front of them with the latter's hair blowing back constantly.
The three continued deeper down the mountain.
"Thank you! Thank you so much young lady!" A citizen praised as she held Marissa's arms joyfully while shaking them with tears at the corner of her eyes.
"It was no problem ma'am… I'm just glad they're all safe." Marissa chuckled.
Marissa had transported every single person that had been inside the mountain a while ago in front of the Mayor's building. Confusion ran through each of them from the sudden shift in scenery until the citizens who were already inside the city, while startled by their sudden appearance, instantly recognized them as the missing people that had vanished.
Soon, there was a large crowd gathered up in the middle of the town where the relatives of the captured soon reunited, all with tears of joy in their eyes. Husband's kissing their wives and hugging their children, sisters throwing themselves at their brothers and mothers hugging their sons that had returned safely.
"Thank you for rescuing the missing people. We truly are grateful." Lennard bowed.
"Yes, this puts our minds at ease that there has been no casualties. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts." Rhea said, bowing her head a bit.
"It wasn't too much trouble…" Marissa scratched her cheek. "Are they all accounted for?"
"Yes, every person that had been missing has all returned… but, what of the source of the problem." Lennard asked.
"We're still trying to get them… I should head back actually, they're gonna need me." Marissa said as she looked towards the giant mountain.
"We will let you get back to it then, the sooner the better." Rhea said.
"Of course." Marissa nodded, and faced the mountain as she placed two fingers on her forehead.
She closed her eyes and concentrated more closely as she tried sensing where Cana and Kagura were at. However, the rise in energy from Ann caught her attention first as she felt her moving at a rapid pace in the mountain.
'She's still so far up… I should go help her out.'
From where Marissa stood, those that could see her from a small distance away saw her disappear from her spot.
Back within the mountain, the Earthling arrived that appeared to be a random area. She opened her eyes that looked ahead, until a voice yelled out from the side of her.
"Mari?!"
"Huh…?"
Marissa looked to her left as she heard her name called, but instantly widened her eyes as she saw Ann, carrying Wendy and Carla, running straight towards her with no time to stop.
"Oh shi-GAH!" Marissa yelped as the trio yelled and collided against each other.
All four of them rolled on the ground before hitting a nearby wall that forked the cavern. Marissa gritted her teeth as she was the one who softened the other's collision, being the only one to have her back against the wall. Ann was sprawled on the Earthling's legs before she got up, shaking her head. Her attention was immediately directed towards Wendy and Carla, who was also on the ground in front of them with spirals in their eyes. The female Saiyan quietly let out a sigh of relief that they weren't critically injured.
"Ow… Ann…" Marissa groaned as she rubbed the back of her head.
"You can't blame me on this one Mari… you're the one who appeared in front of me…" Ann sighed and offered her friend a hand.
"Yeah, yeah…" Marissa responded as she took Ann's hand and stood up.
"Mm…" Wendy and Carla also slowly stood up as soon as they had their senses back.
"Wendy, Carla, are you both okay?" Ann asked.
"Yes, I'm fine."
"I am too… what gives, Marissa?" Carla asked, placing her paws on her hips.
"Ehehe… my bad." Marissa uneasily answered. "Though, I figured I would help you guys get down further. I just helped all of the people that went missing back to their town."
"That's good to hear… what a relief." Wendy said.
"Was Cana with you?" Ann asked.
"Yeah, and that Mermaid Heel member too! She's pretty cool!" Marissa eagerly said.
"You found her?" Carla asked.
"Yup! C'mon, let's hurry back to them." Marissa held out a hand as she placed two fingers on her forehead.
Ann held Marissa's hand and brought out her other hand towards Wendy and Carla. Both of them nodded with Wendy eagerly holding onto Ann while also making physical contact with Carla. Knowing that everyone is linked together, Marissa closed her eyes briefly to sense Cana's energy. Ignoring the constant shaking of the mountain that was happening down below, she locked onto the Card Mage's Ki, and all four disappeared from their spot.
"She's been gone for quite some time now… are you certain she is safe?" Kagura asked, pacing around.
"Of course I'm sure. Hell, she's the third strongest person I know of. She can take of herself." Cana reassured.
"It sounds as if you haven't interacted with a lot of people if you say she is the third strongest person you know..." Kagura said unsurely.
"Keep underestimating her like that and she'll be bound to show you one way or another. I definitely don't want to be in that position." Cana said as she re-positioned her purse on her. "Bit of sass on you, eh?"
Kagura said nothing in response and continued pacing around the jail-like cavern they were still in. Cana stood still with her arms crossed as she kept blankly staring ahead.
Just behind the two women, a group of four immediately appeared in the middle of the room. Kagura stopped her pacing as she managed to eye the group from the side, mostly recognizing Marissa among them. Cana caught the swordswoman stop and followed the direction she was looking at, and grinned.
"Took you long enough. And you brought the rest of them!" Cana said, walking over to the group of four. "Well, except for one person."
As Cana finished her sentence, the mountain shook again.
"Where are the people?" Kagura asked, walking up near Cana.
"They're fine. I just took them all back to their town." Marissa answered as she walked forward with Ann, Wendy and Carla behind her.
"Cana! You're okay!" Wendy greeted as she went up to her.
"Hey there Wendy, yup, thanks to Marissa and the other fellow mage from Mermaid Heel." Cana said as she patted Wendy's head.
With Kagura mentioned, Ann, Wendy, and Carla all looked towards the swordswoman who looked back at them as well. She slightly bowed her head.
"I am Kagura from Mermaid Heel." She introduced.
"Nice to meet you, I'm Wendy!" Wendy waived.
"So young as well, it seems that it was not a lie when her age was said as well." Carla commented.
"And over here is Ann, not too much of a greeter though." Marissa introduced as she leaned one of her arms on the female Saiyan's shoulder.
Kagura observed Ann the most. Taking note of the all black colored clothing she wore from her jacket, tank top, denim pants with her white boots being the only different aspect of her look. The most boggling detail however, was a little more worrying for the swordswoman as she narrowed her eyes a little.
'Just like Marissa I don't feel any magical energy from her…' Kagura thought in her head.
"Cana, here." Ann said, ignoring the stare from Kagura as she walked over to the brunette. From her jacket pocket, she pulled out a card that Cana had threw at her earlier before they all separated.
"Keep it, think of it as a souvenir when we complete the mission. You'll have fun memories when you look back on it." Cana said with a grin.
Ann looked at the card with Cana's cartoonish figure on it for a moment before putting it back in her pocket. "If you say so, I'll keep it then."
Everyone felt the mountain shake once more as some small rocks fell down from the ceiling.
"I think it's about time we go down further and see what Tarok has been doing this entire time… I'm getting sick and tired of feeling the vibrations at this point." Ann said.
"No need to tell us twice… c'mon, everyone link up together. I'll get us there quickly." Marissa said as held out a hand while placing two fingers on her forehead.
Ann was the first to join up with her, following up with Wendy who had Carla on her shoulder. Cana went over to the Sky Dragonslayer and placed her hand on the smaller girls head. The Card Mage looked over at Kagura and held out her free arm.
"You coming? Or do you wanna get left behind." Cana said.
"... is it safe?" Kagura uneasily asked.
"Oh please, I wouldn't be doing this if I knew it wasn't." Cana rolled her eyes, and raised her arm higher.
With some reluctance still, Kagura went over and grabbed Cana's hand.
"All ready!" Cana shouted.
Marissa honed in on Yusuke's Ki easily, and the entire group vanished.
Deeper down in the mountain as it continued shaking, Grusbalesta came up to Lilias as the latter was just finishing up putting away the last of their belongings in a different space.
"Are we all ready yet?" Grusbalesta asked.
"Yes, everything is secured and should be ready." Lilias said, and stood his ground once more from the mountain shaking. He irritably looked up. "We should hurry… every time that happens he is closer and closer."
"I never expected that person to be that powerful… as if easily taking on my golems and your chimera's were child's play to him. Dare I say… Salem may not even be a match."
"What I am curious about is his connection towards Towa… we know nothing about her except that she has had meetings with Salem behind closed doors alone and that she holds her fair share of knowledge in some odd experiments… more odder than ours. I doubt those under her know anymore than us. I plan on talking to Salem when we go back."
"Do you think she'd be willing to listen? After all, we didn't exactly agree to help her in the beginning."
"I'm sure that won't be a problem." Lilias said, and the mountain shook once more.
"I suppose I should give Towa my regards, this world full of that blue lacrima is pleasant. I'm sure some more testing infusing them with Dust will be promising."
"I do have to agree, a world where Salem has no eyes on gives me plenty of free space to use her Grimm without her pestering me. I'm pleased with the results."
"I will miss this rock though, I won't lie. I do plan on a going away present for them." Grusbalesta said as brought out a moderately large crystal in both of his hands that appeared out of nowhere. It was diamond shaped with a dark purple color. If one could see closely within the crystal, they can see swirls of black moving around within it.
"That's…" Lilias trailed off.
"Something Towa presented to me when she told us about this world. Before coming here she told me that it was a special type of dust that she had created on her time on Remnant. Her words were… 'Use it how you see fit over there. But I imagine that the bigger the rock will yield better results. I'm sure you'll know how to use it, considering how interested you are in those dust crystals and other various stones' Something close to that."
"Is that it? Who knows what she did to that."
"One way to find out, it does intrigue me…" Grusbalesta shrugged.
The crystal shined a dark bright purple before dark mist spiraled around it. Grusbalesta let go of it as the crystal floated in midair, before it descended down into the ground, and sunk into it.
Marissa, Ann, Wendy, Carla, and Kagura, who jumped at the sudden shift of scenery, all arrived at another cavern where the inside of it was illuminated in a blue color all around them. They looked around, and those that has resided on Earthland immediately knew why there was a blue glow.
"Are… are all of these lacrima crystals?" Wendy asked in awe.
"It is… there's enough here to destroy an entire city several times over…" Kagura answered, bewildered at how large the amount was.
"But, where's Yusuke?" Cana asked.
"HA!"
As they heard a shout, the ground shook violently for all of them again, but this time at a much greater magnitude than what they felt above. Marissa and Ann spreaded apart their feet on the ground to support themselves, however the rest of the group all tumbled to the ground from the quaking. Up ahead, they could see rocks and lacrima crystals being destroyed from below and blown away in all directions.
Irritated, Ann flew over to where she felt Yusuke's energy. Upon arriving, she discovered a large crater that took up almost a third of the cavern they were currently in. Just in the middle of all of the debris, she can see a figure standing up, instantly recognizing the male Saiyan.
"Tarok!" Ann shouted.
Yusuke was startled as he heard his name being called, and looked up. He squinted as he saw Ann descend down from the air, arriving just at the edge of the hole he had made. He jumped up from below and arrived next to her.
"What took you?" Yusuke asked.
"You're endless punching… it shook the entire damn rock to the point where I just want to smack you on your damn face." Ann scolded as multiple tick marks appeared on her.
"Well I couldn't just let the enemy get away." He defended. He looked to the side to see the rest of the group, plus one more person he didn't recognize, come up towards them.
"What are you even trying to do Bro, cause a cave-in?" Marissa chided.
"We had to go through some other problems along with you punching the ground a bunch of times." Cana flatly said.
"U-Uhm… it was bothering me a bit." Wendy said meekly.
"Honestly, are all the males of your species this wild?" Carla bluntly said.
Yusuke scratched the back of his head uneasily and averted their gazes.
"Okay, I apologize… but I didn't want them getting away, not after I got attacked by them." He said, and turned around with a hard gaze at the bottom of the hole. "Not after what I learned anyway…"
"Which is…?" Ann pushed on, and was met with a serious look from him.
"They know Towa."
"... what?!" Ann and Marissa exclaimed.
"They're not from Earthland either... "
"I don't believe this… this all has to be coincidental." Ann said with gritted teeth.
"I… I took this mission thinking we could breeze through it but… if they're with her…" Marissa trailed off.
"It's not your fault kid, but… I don't think they're actually aligned with her." Yusuke said, grabbing their attention again. "They talked like they hardly knew anything about her, and only have seen her a few times. But they didn't give me much of anything else…"
There was silence between the three Time Patrollers until Cana clapped her hands, causing them to look at her.
"Yusuke, I don't think you've met the Mermaid Heel member yet, have you?" Cana asked.
"Uh, no, I haven't actually." Yusuke said, taking his mind off of the stressing topic at hand before. He saw Cana grab the girl he didn't recognize by her shoulders closer to her.
"Meet Kagura! The one and only!" Cana introduced.
"Uh, hello. I'm Kagura." Kagura introduced with her head bowed slightly.
"Hi, I'm Yusuke... Uh, sorry if you were bothered by all the shaking I caused." Yusuke introduced, and apologized.
"No it's… fine I suppose…" Kagura slowly said as she observed the only male of their group. She took note of the black tank top and cargo pants he wore. Similar to Ann, he wore white boots in contrast to what he wore above, along with furry wristbands on his wrists. Just like with both Marissa and Ann however, she felt no magical power being emitted from him. She walked forward to observe the hole he had created from the supposed punching she had heard, and gasped as the crater Yusuke had made was several meters down from where she was current standing. "You… did all this?"
"Yeah... my bad, I just wanted to get to the ones who did all of this. I don't have Instant Transmission like this Kid does." Yusuke said, pointing his thumb over at Marissa.
"Not my fault..." Marissa muttered at the side.
"Then, you don't have any sort of magical power at all?" Kagura asked.
"Nah, not a speck on them. Though they do have their own type though." Cana answered.
"And I do not wish for any of you to demonstrate it at this moment, especially since there are so many lacrima crystals all around us." Carla chided. "Honestly, Yusuke, even I'm a little bit taken back that none has been set off from all of your countless barbaric actions."
"Well there wasn't a faster way at that time like I mentioned before… anyway, we need to get to them as soon as we can. Otherwise they're gonna get away." Yusuke said.
However, just as the male Saiyan was about to jump back into the hole, the cavern they were in suddenly shook.
"Tarok?" Ann questioned.
"Not me this time, I swear." Yusuke defended.
The shaking got more violent as the seconds went by to the point where rocks began to fall from the ceiling. A low rumble could be heard throughout the caves that eventually turned to a growl.
Yusuke, Marissa, and Ann however, all perked up as they sensed a tremendous energy all of a sudden.
"Y-You guys feel that right…?" Marissa asked, causing the mages to look at her confusingly.
"Yeah…" Yusuke answered.
"This feels like Towa when she's using her magic to control someone…" Ann added in.
They felt the shaking become more violent as a sudden roar was emitted across the entire inside of the mountain, causing everyone to cover their ears from the loud noise. It ended after a minute or so, resulting in some people from the group being dizzy for a few moments.
"Agh… w-what was that?" Cana groggily asked.
"I'm… not sure myself." Kagura answered as she shook her head.
"Wendy…!" Carla went over to her friend on the ground while wincing.
"I'm okay Carla…" Wendy assured.
"That energy is growing…" Ann muttered.
"We need to get out of here and see what's going on outside. Marissa…" Yusuke looked over towards the Earthling.
"Yeah… give me a sec…" Marissa said as she shook her head and took a deep breath. She slapped her cheeks with both of her hands to wake herself up. "Alright, grab onto me."
Marissa held out a hand for everyone to join up. As soon as the group were all physically making contact, they all disappeared from the mountain.
The citizens of Lineaqua all stopped what they were doing as they looked towards the forest, and beyond that the giant mountain in the late afternoon. Even those that have come back have all stopped celebrating with their loved ones to see what was happening. Lennard and Rhea, looked on in dismay and worry.
The group of Fairy Tail members and the lone member of Mermaid Heel all suddenly arrived within the town. They all looked towards the mountain, causing all of them to gasp and make sounds of surprise.
"What the…" Ann started.
"It's… changing…" Marissa trailed off.
"It… it even seems like it got even bigger…" Cana managed to say, taking a few steps back as she looked wide-eyed at the mountain, or what it used to be.
The mountain that had caused all of the problems prior had suddenly come off the forest ground, uprooting many of the trees that had surrounded it. The rock itself, had changed drastically as it now formed its own arms and legs, and continued to shape as the entirety of it glowed in a bright, but a dark purple color.
One of its arms had fully developed, and it began to draw it back. It seemed slow as the gigantic golem brought back its arm, but then suddenly threw it forward, and a large boulder came coming down towards them that was large enough to level a large part of the town flat.
Yusuke dashed forward and flew into the air as quickly as possible. He flew towards the thrown boulder and brought out both of his arms. Just as the giant rock came closer and seemed to hit the male Saiyan dead on to the people not apart of Fairy Tail, Yusuke caught the boulder in his arms, hugging it while skidding back in the air.
Surprised by his actions, some of the townspeople and Kagura included were left speechless as the male Saiyan had stopped the boulder from destroying part of their town in the middle of the air.
'H-He has that kind of strength…?!' Kagura thought in her head, looking wide-eyed towards him.
Yusuke gritted his teeth as he lifted the boulder above him. He brought it back just a margin before he shouted and threw it back towards the giant golem. Power raged around the Saiyan as he spreaded out his arms for a moment before cupping them sideways in front of him.
FINAL FLAAAASH!
Golden colored Ki exploded out of Yusuke's hands and traveled towards the thrown boulder, destroying it along the way as his attack continued towards the golem. A moment later, his attack collided against the Golem's right shoulder with a bright flash of explosion. Its right arm fell down on the forest ground, dust was picked up in the air as it now laid as rubble.
"Yeah!" Marissa cheered.
"A clean shot." Cana grinned.
"This… this was unexpected…" Kagura murmured to herself as she finally found her voice to talk.
Everyone continued observing the large, headless golem as it stood up straight. It made a low growl before it glowed in its dark purple light. Rocks began to form out of the right side of its body before it fully, and quickly, re-made its right arm once more.
"Great…" Yusuke sighed irritably.
"It regenerated itself…" Ann noted.
The mountain-sized golem began making its first steps, and slowly made its way towards the town in its sights.
A few miles away from the town of Lineaqua, Grusbalesta and Lilias observed from a nearby hill as they both looked up towards the colossal they had just invoked.
"This is amazing… to think an artificially made Dust crystal had this kind of potential… just how did Towa do it?" Grusbalesta wondered.
"It's what I'd like to know too… as well as being wary of her… just look at what's ahead Grusbalesta… it's too destructive for us to handle." Lilias warned.
"True… but, that is simply overshadowed by my curiosity!"
"... when will we leave this world?" Lilias asked after sighing.
"Soon, it's too early since it's just beginning." Grusbalesta answered as he never tore away his sights at the mountain-sized golem.
Yusuke landed back down to where the group was while keeping his sights at the oncoming golem.
"How am I going to do this if it just fixes itself…" He wondered as he scratched the back of his head.
"If you're just going to stand around doing nothing, then I'll allow myself to take over then." Ann spoke up, catching the male's attention.
"I already attacked and provoked it first, back off."
"Hell no, you've already had plenty of bouts in this world already. It's about time I go in, alone." Ann argued back.
"Why do you want to anyway?"
"Why the hell would I just sit back and let you have all the fun? Just standing by and watching you has absolutely no merit in it at all."
"Like you have any room to talk…"
"What was that?!"
"Okay, how about this, let's do Rock-Paper-Scissors. Winner from a best Two-out-of-Three gets to fight it." Yusuke proposed as he readied his hand, formed into a fist, in the air.
"You're on!" Ann mimicked him as she readied her hand as well.
"Rock…!"
"Paper…!"
"Scissors…!"
"Shoot!"
Both Saiyans drew rock.
"Shoot!"
Both had paper.
"Shoot!"
Then they went to scissors.
"Shoot!"
"W-Why can't they both go…?" Wendy asked, sweat dropping as both Yusuke and Ann continued fighting in their small bet.
"Ugh… they're Saiyans… they always tend to fight by themselves. From what I've seen anyway." Marissa said as she facepalmed.
"Ha!" Yusuke shouted in glee, and was seen as he wielded paper against Ann's rock.
"Damnit…!" Ann growled.
"Rock, papers, scissors, shoot!" Both of them continued.
"Honestly… the more time they waste, the more time that monstrosity is coming closer!" Carla scolded, as more of the rumbling from the mountain-sized, headless, golem could be felt as it is close to arriving.
"... what did Marissa say about them being these… Saiyans?" Kagura asked Cana.
"Heh, fun fact time. The both of them over there," Cana started out as she inched closer to Kagura while keeping her eyes towards Yusuke and Ann, and went next to her ear. "They're not human."
"Eh? Is that a joke?" Kagura pulled her face away to look at the brunette with a small smile.
"Nope, usually I am but that isn't one." Cana shook her head.
"Yes!" Ann shouted, catching attention again.
"Tch…" Yusuke pulled away his paper from Ann's scissors and they both continued their game.
As both Saiyans continued, the ground shaking became stronger as everyone in the town saw that the golem was just at the border of Lineaqua. It began to lift up both of its arms, ready to slam them down.
"Anyway day now you two!" Marissa shouted at Yusuke and Ann.
"Rock…!"
"Paper…!"
"Scissors…!"
"SHOOT!"
Yusuke brought out rock as Ann revealed paper.
"Hell yeah!" Ann grinned.
"... damn it!" Yusuke cursed.
"Do something, either one of you!" Carla chided.
Gold aura suddenly exploded around Ann as a streak of her aura was all that was left and seen from where she stood.
The next thing that happened was a crash from afar, and the giant golem was seen staggering back a couple of steps and its arms were halted from slamming down on the city grounds. People could see a person with a gold light around them, and upon closer look they recognized the black clothing that Ann was wearing, and concluded that it was her. The only major difference about her now is that her hair is a bright gold color instead of her natural black color.
"If something big happens, I'm joining in!" Yusuke shouted as he cupped his hands over his mouth for Ann to hear. The only response he got from the female Saiyan was her brushing him off with her arm while not looking back.
Ann shouted as she brought out both of her arms, firing off Ki from her hands towards the large golem, forcing it to take a few steps back, away from the town. Seemingly annoyed, the rock dug into the ground to stop its movements, and swung one of its arms towards her, hoping to swat her away. But Ann blocked it from the side and skidded in the air a few feet before fully stopping. She touched the arm and immediately fired a Ki blast, knocking it away and fired off a few more at it so that it was now separated from its body. As the severed arm fell on the ground, Ann dashed forward towards its body and kicked it back with both her feet, managing to knock it back once more.
Purple and pink Ki glowed in Ann's hand as she brought it back, and she threw it forward at the colossal golem, fully knocking it down as her attack exploded on its body. The ground shook greatly from the impact of its fall, and it destroyed a portion of the forest under it. Ann flew high and came up above it. She brought her hands overhead with the both of them glowing in a bright golden Ki. Ann shouted as she brought them down, firing off multiple Ki blasts down at the mountain-sized golem.
Orbs of light quickly came down onto the forest, causing dust to rise and the ground to shake. Bright flashes repeatedly appeared in the people's eyes with some forcing to look away from the brightness of it and some kept watching due to the ferocity of it. Kagura was one who couldn't keep her sights away, her eyes wide with surprise at the amount of power one person could produce. From being able to knock the oversized colossus back with ease as well as firing off attacks that could, from what she could conclude, be able to actually take out an entire army of Rune Knights.
"So, do you believe me now?" Cana asked the swordswoman.
"... it's mind boggling…" Kagura slowly answered. She looked away from Ann for the first time since she started fighting and eyed Yusuke. "He's that strong as well…?"
"Oh yeah, and Marissa too." Cana pointed to the Earthling. "Well, maybe not like the other two like she's mentioned before, but still pretty damn strong."
"HAAH!" Ann screamed once more, throwing a larger Ki blast with both of her hands down at the ground. Her attack traveled swiftly as a large explosion occurred where the golem laid.
A dome of light appeared before everyone's eyes as some had to shield themselves from going slightly blind. It cleared up with only smoke and dust lingering in the air a minute later. Ann stared below, waiting for the air to clear, but widened her eyes as she saw a purple glow and felt power rise up at the same time. A stone spike with a very sharp point at the end jutted out of the smoke, aiming at the female Saiyan. Ann gasped slightly at the sudden speed and dashed out of the way to avoid being pierced. More spikes came out from under the smoke, aiming at Ann as she nimbly dodged all of them.
The dust was blown away as a large dark purple Ki wave was fired off into the sky, specifically where Ann was at in the air. She crossed her arms in front of her to block the incoming attack as it hit her. Ann struggled a bit in the air before roaring in the sky with power and uncrossing her arms, cancelling out the attack. There was a shadow looming over her and she looked up to see one of the golem's large hands above her. It went to punch the female Saiyan, but Ann moved away with ease from its attack.
"Not going to hit me with that speed." Ann said as her eyes followed its arm, only to make a small sound of surprise as it continued its way towards the center of town.
"Uh…" Marissa began sweating as she, as well as everyone else, saw the mountain-sized golem swinging its arm down towards them.
Ann quickly flew down to join up with the rest of them and dashed up in the air towards the golem's fist and collided her hands against it, resulting in her coming back down on the ground and skidded back, slowly coming to a stop as she gritted her teeth from stopping any sort of destruction in the town.
"Having trouble there?" Yusuke prodded with a small grin.
"Shut it! I'm doing just fine!" Ann snapped back.
"Uh, Yusuke… it's kind of glowing." Cana said, pointing towards the colossus.
He looked past Ann and towards the headless part of the golem to see it forming a large orb of Ki above it. Alerted, he launched himself forward at the same time as the golem released the blast of Ki downward. Yusuke leaped into the air towards the Ki blast and shouted as he punched it head-on, resulting in an explosion of dust in the air. He blew it away with his aura only to find out that a large spike formed from the golem's arm was heading his way at a rapid pace. Yusuke dodged sightly to the side and caught the oncoming spike in between the side of his body and arm, and came skidding on the ground just as Ann had a moment ago with the spike piercing the ground.
"What's wrong, Tarok? Are you slipping up?" Ann taunted as she continued holding back the golem's fist.
"Bite me, Annabelle." Yusuke taunted back with a smirk.
A tick mark appeared on Ann's forehead as she trembled in annoyance. "You...! RAGH!"
Golden aura exploded around Ann once more as she roared and punched the golem's fist, effectively destroying it, up to the middle part of its arm.
"I told you not to call me by that!" Ann yelled.
"Whatever…. HAH!" Yusuke pulled his body back, taking apart the spike that was part of the golem's arm. He grunted lightly as he pulled out the spike from the ground before positioning it so that the sharp end of it faced the colossus. Yusuke pulled back the spike and shouted as he launched it towards the golem, only for it to block the spike with its arm, destroying the spike and the rocky limb partially.
Bright, static purple aura glowed around Ann as she placed her hands at the left side of her body while positioning her legs apart from each other.
Yusuke shouted towards the sky as golden aura erupted around him, turning his black hair into bright gold. His gold aura was then replaced with the bright, static purple aura Ann currently had around her. Just like the female Saiyan, he positioned his body so that his hands were at the left side of his body and spreading apart his legs.
GALICK…!
GUN…!
FIRE!
Both Saiyans shouted simultaneously and launched their arms forward, firing off their attack towards the mountain-sized monster. Two bright purple beams were seen travelling towards the golem as it was just recovering from it's broken arms. Their attacks hit it dead-on on its chest as a large explosion was seen.
Everyone waited for the smoke to clear, and as both Saiyans kept their eyes forward they gasped as they saw a glow from where they hit. Just as the smoke cleared, a gaping opening on the golem was seen and within it was a crystal from what they could make out as it was small compared to the entire body of the mountain.
"That has to be the source of its power." Yusuke said.
"I'm destroying it then." Ann said, and dashed forward, disappearing from the others' sights.
Yusuke followed her movements with his eyes as he saw Ann move up higher in the air. The golem began taking action as it tried to her with its left hand. She hopped higher in the air to avoid it, only to be knocked back in the air by the other golem's hand. Ann staggered a bit in the air before floating upright, and looked ahead in surprise.
'It got faster…?' Ann wondered.
"That's odd…" Yusuke muttered. He continued watching as Ann tried to move in closer towards the golem, but only found herself evading in the air more frequently than moving in. "What is going on…?"
"I think I have an idea…" Marissa said, walking up next to him.
"What is it?"
"It's an entire mountain still, but it has the ability to regenerate? We don't know how Towa did it but think about it, regenerating itself just doesn't come out of nowhere, right?"
"... it's using all of the rocks from inside of it to fix itself, hollowing itself out. Knowing Towa, she most likely made it where all of that power she put into that thing has some solid defenses…" Yusuke pieced it together and realized something. "There should still be an entire cave of lacrima inside of it somewhere… if we can get enough power to attack we should be able to set it off."
"And the entire thing will turn into dust." Marissa finished with a small grin.
Ann was seen skidding back on the ground, now out of the air. She snarled in annoyance as she couldn't get any closer to the golem that she had earlier.
"Ann, let us support you!" Marissa shouted.
The female Saiyan looked back at them with a quirked eyebrow.
"We just got blast it really hard!" Yusuke shouted.
"... fine! But I want the satisfaction!" Ann said.
"Alright, okay, I just want to get this mission over with already at this point."
"We'll go on ahead!" Marissa said, and began running towards golem while cupping her hands at the right side of her body. Blue Ki began to glow as she ran past Ann.
Yusuke began running shortly after Marissa did, and did the same as she did when he joined his hands together at the right side of his body. A moment later, Ki appeared spiraling in his hands.
Ann leaped back in the air and spreaded apart her body, her gold aura bursting out around her as she began charging her attack.
Mariss and Yusuke continued running as they charged their Ki. They both jumped into the air and launched their arms forward.
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Both Time Patrollers unleashed a large blue Ki wave towards the colossus. The golem itself positioned its hands just in front of its chest, and a large, dark purple orb of Ki was quickly formed with electricity coursing around it. It roared as it launched its owns arms forward, firing off the blast of energy right at Yusuke and Marissa's attack.
Both sides attacks clashed at one another just at the border of Lineaqua, immediately creating shock waves as the ground quaked with large winds immediately being picked up.
Marissa and Yusuke shouted in power as they landed on top of separate buildings, and continued to release their energy into their attacks to push off the golem's.
The townspeople mostly fell over from the impact of attacks, and had trouble standing back up. The same could be said for the mages as most of them tumbled to the ground, with only Carla floating beside the fallen Wendy, unfazed by the shaking.
Kagura, continued watching on with widened eyes while fallen to the gorund, at the clash of energy between both sides. While watching the mixture of blue and purple lights in confusion, she also spotted the gold lights above them, and knew that it was Ann but was puzzled on what her goal was.
'... I can't believe what I am seeing! This is insane!' Kagura shouted in her head.
People began to see the golem's attack expand in size to the point that both Time Patroller's attack seemed just like a small beams, and it inched closer by the second. Yusuke and Marissa shouted again to release more of their energy into their attacks, slightly pushing away the golem's. However, they both began to skid back on the top of the buildings they stood on from the force.
"... HA!" Yusuke's golden aura was now decorated in sparks of electricity as he ascended and shouted once more in power to push back the golem's attack.
KAIO-KEN!
Marissa erupted dark red aura around her as her power doubled, helped her surrogate brother in pushing back the enemy.
"Pull yourself together, Marissa!" Yusuke shouted.
"I was going to!" She shouted back, and gritted her teeth.
KAIO-KEN TIMES TWENTY!
Marissa's power went up even higher, and slowly but surely, both Time Patroller's attack pushed back the colossus' Ki blast even further towards it.
"One last push!" Yusuke shouted, and both he and Marissa screamed a final time as they won the tug of war in power between them and the mountain as their clash ended in an explosion, staggering back the golem.
Gold light now filled the vicinity from Ann's power as she had just finished watching the struggle end in their favor. Her hair sharpened and became more rigid as electricity coursed around her. Ann saw past the smoke of the giant golem still standing, and widened her eyes as she unleashed her attack.
FINAL FLAAAAAAAAASH!
All of the energy Ann had powered up was all released at once as a large blast of golden Ki was fired off towards the golem, just missing the buildings of Lineaqua and effectively tore through the forest grounds and the massive golem itself. Her Final Flash engulfed the creature entirely as it roared one last time before chunks of itself was destroyed. Soon, an implosion happened as the entire system of Lacrima inside of it was all set off from inside of itself, breaking apart the golem in half but soon, its body went away with Ann's attack. With intense concentration, Ann directed her attack and curved it up towards the sky, avoiding any other unnecessary damages other than the mountain and forest itself.
Soon, the entire mountain had been disintegrated, and within the light of the energy a purple crystal spun violently within it before it cracked, and was soon shattered completely.
Ann's attack continued roaring and shaking the area violently until finally it all stopped. The mages and townspeople finally felt a sense of calm and those who had their eyes closed soon opened them up, only to find themselves widening them even further as plumes of dark smoke littered the air just outside of their town, where their forest used to be. Now completely gone, there was nothing but littered wood, uprooted tree trunks and debris of rocks filled the entire area of it.
All three Time Patroller's landed back down on the ground where the rest of the mages, plus the mayor and his wife, were.
"We did it!" Marissa laughed, and held out both of her hands towards Yusuke and Ann with a smile.
Smiling back, both Saiyans high-fived Marissa, and reverted back into their normal forms. They were greeted by the cheers of the townspeople, the mayor and his wife, and the rest of their group at successfully defending the city from destruction.
"That was quite the show." Lilias commented, looking at the area that was once forest.
"It was, wasn't it? With that amount of power though… just why is Towa trying to provoke them?" Grusbalesta questioned to himself.
"It seems that we'll have to ask her the next time we see her. For now, let us head back home to Remnant. I believe that any longer and our stay here will become unpleasant." Lilias suggested.
"You're right, let us head back."
Lilias held out a hand so that a small crystal orb appeared in front of him. The orb shrouded itself in a dark mist before shattering, and in front of him and Grusbalesta the air tore open, revealing darkness. They both stepped inside, and shortly after, the portal closed.
"Sorry about the forest… it, kinda went away with the mountain." Marissa sheepishly said towards Lennard and Rhea.
"Don't be, we're grateful that the problem has been rid of now." Lennard said, now speaking with confidence. "With that, we might as well expand the city limits now and build more."
"Were you able to find the one's behind it?" Rhea asked.
"No… we didn't unfortunately." Marissa said, downcasting her face.
"No worries then, we'll be sure to contact you again if there is any trouble. With that spectacle you've showed though, I don't think they'll be coming back anytime soon." Lennard reassured with a chuckle.
"Given it was Fairy Tail, I am surprised that there was hardly any destruction, from the rumors that I've heard." Rhea said, looking around.
Marissa chuckled slightly, knowing the fact that whenever Yusuke had gone on missions with Erza, Natsu, Lucy, Gray and Happy in the past there had always been property destroyed by them, and that they had always had to give up most of their reward money back to the contractor so that any damages can be repaired.
"As promised though, here are the rewarded Jewels." Lennard handed out six stacks of bills and handed them to Marissa, to which she took. "If you please hand them out to each person, I'll be grateful. I need to tend to the citizens right away."
"Of course, thank you!" Marissa said, bowing her head a bit.
"Until then, you all have our regards." Rhea said with a smile, and both her and Lennard walked away.
Marissa went over to the rest of the group with the Jewels in her arms as they were currently talking to Kagura, who had several questions.
"... y-yeah, you heard right, we're not exactly human. Why did you even say that?" Yusuke narrowed his eyes towards Cana.
"Ah she's alright, it'll be fine. You can keep a secret, right?" Cana said, wrapping an arm around Kagura's shoulder.
"I… I suppose so." Kagura sighed.
"Catch!" Marissa shouted, catching their attention.
Yusuke and Ann both caught a wad of cash in their hands first, then Marissa went over to Wendy, Cana, and Kagura and handed the rest.
"Oh yeah, a hundred-thousand Jewels for each person, not bad at all…" Cana grinned as she counted the money.
"Yeah, until you spend all of that on alcohol." Yusuke commented.
"Oh, thanks for reminding me! We should totally have that drink-off now! Hehe."
"... maybe later, there's still time to fly back." He said, looking up at the almost dusk sky.
"Back at the guild, eh? Even better then, the alcohol tastes the best there."
"I suppose this is farewell then." Carla said with a small sigh.
"It was nice meeting with you, Kagura!" Wendy said with a bow.
"No, the pleasure was mine. If it was me alone, I do not think I would've made it at all." Kagura said.
"Why did you come here alone anyway? Couldn't some of your guild members joined you?" Marissa asked.
"I… did not want to burden them since I'm looking for someone in particular at the same time as doing this mission. This city was so far out in Fiore I thought there would have been a chance to find him." Kagura said with a forlorn expression. "But… he wasn't here. It's been almost ten years since then…"
"Who are you looking for?" Wendy asked in curiosity.
"My brother, his name is Simon."
'Simon…?!' Yusuke thought in surprise, and made a noise of surprise, catching Kagura's attention. "... was your brother taken away by people when the both of you were young?"
"Y-Yes! Do you know him?!" Kagura answered swiftly, and went up to the male Saiyan.
"Yeah, I do…"
"Then… that means you were also…" Kagura trailed off as she saw him shake his head.
"Someone else close to me was in that situation when she was younger. I only know of Simon recently through her, but last time I saw him he was doing fine."
"He's… he's alive then…" Kagura choked out, and without her knowing it she felt tears going down from both of her eyes. Slightly embarrassed, she looked away and wiped them away. "Do you… do you happen to know where he is currently?"
"No, I'm sorry but I don't." Yusuke shook his head, and saw the disappointment she expressed. "But he's with some of his other friends he had during that harsh time, and they're out exploring the world where they couldn't before. I'm sure they're all taking care of each other."
"Thank you… thank you very much! You don't know how much this means to me… I finally have closure, and now something to look forward to in the future. I'm sure I'll see him again one day." Kagura said with a large smile.
"I hope you'll find him soon, I'm sure he misses you as well." Yusuke smiled back.
The Fairy Tail members who couldn't fly on their own all mounted on the Time Patrollers like they had earlier in the day where Cana allowed herself on Yusuke's back while cheering with a bottle of alcohol in her hands, since the mission was successfully over, and Marissa going over to Wendy and Carla to carry them in her arms. Ann, of course, flew on her own and preferred it that way.
They all floated into the air, and looked back down at Kagura one last time.
"Bye Kagura! I hope you'll reunite with your brother soon!" Marissa called out from above, waving an arm while her other arm kept Wendy secured.
"Thank you! Take care, all of you!" Kagura waved back, and bidded farewell.
With a salute from Yusuke and a nod from Ann, the Fairy Tail group all flew away from Lineaqua, satisfied that the mission was a success.
Kagura kept watch of them until they were out of sight in the sky. When they were, she smiled to herself one last time and looked higher in the sky.
'Simon... I want to see you as soon as possible… thank you again, Yusuke.'
"We're back! Come on!" Cana eagerly hopped off of Yusuke as soon as feet touched the ground in front of the Fairy Tail guild hall, and pulled him inside.
The other four touched ground shortly after, and with some sweat drops and a deadpanned look from Ann, they followed after them inside the guild.
It had just turn night time in Fiore, and the trip back was far faster than earlier in the day. Cana couldn't talk about the fact she'll out drink Yusuke, and the more he heard her, the more annoyed he got and the more eager he got to shut her down.
"Mira! We're gonna need lots of booze!" Cana shouted as soon as she got inside, and startled many of the members that were still inside that hadn't turned in for the day yet.
"You're all back!" Mirajane said with a smile as she spotted the group that had left during the day time. She saw Cana come up to the bar with Yusuke close to her, and she slammed the counter with both of her hands, seeing a large grin on her.
"We're gonna need a few barrels here, because Yusuke and I are having a drink off!" Cana announced, surprising not only Mirajane, but the rest of the guild as well.
"Oh Boy, what have you done…" Makarov muttered as he took his own drink out of his mug.
"She's not serious, is she Yusuke?" Erza asked, now having coming back from her own mission during the day.
"It… it is…" Yusuke answered nervously, causing Erza to sigh.
With a sigh from Mirajane as well, she began heading towards the back of the kitchen. "Kinana, can you help me please?"
"O-Of course, ehehehe…" Kinana, the newly hired waitress for Fairy Tail, obliged as she chuckled nervously, knowing just how much the brunette drank in her short time of working so far.
As Cana and Yusuke both waited for the two woman to bring back some barrels of beer, a crowd began to form at the bar area after hearing Cana's announcement, and those who knew her well wanted to see the two go at it especially.
"They're really excited for this…" Marissa said.
"Wendy, don't you dare take this up from them!" Carla lectured.
"I… I don't think I will." Wendy said with a chuckle.
'I'd like to see how he handles alcohol…' Ann thought to herself with a small smirk.
After a few minutes of waiting, Mirajane and Kinana came out with barrels full of beer, and set them behind the bar.
"Are you both really doing this…?" Mirajane asked.
"Of course we are, he agreed!" Cana said. The white-haired barmaid looked over to her boyfriend and he nodded with an exasperated look on his face.
With a sigh, Mirajane brought out two mugs full of beer, and handed each of them to Cana and Yusuke. They both picked up the handle, and Cana placed hers closer to Yusuke.
"Cheers." Cana smiled, and smiling back a bit as well, Yusuke obliged and clanked their mugs together.
They both began at the same time as the mugs touched their lips, and the guild members began cheering for both sides. Cana began gulping down the beer with eager, while Yusuke had other thoughts in his mind.
'It's so bitterry and fuzzy… she drinks this on a regular basis?!' Yusuke thought with his eyes closed
"Pwah! Now that's the good stuff!" Cana said, wiping her lips with her arm as she finished the first mug. She looked towards Yusuke, and grinned as she saw him still drinking his first mug. "What's wrong big guy? Can't take the stuff? Another one over here Mira!"
Just as Mirajane was finishing refilling Cana's mug halfway, she saw Yusuke already finish his first one. He slammed the mug on the counter and shook his head, his eyes squinted as he felt the buzz in his throat and stomach. Mirajane looked over at Erza, and both held a worried look.
"Yusuke, you don't have to do this…" Mirajane tried convincing.
"I think he has to… loser gets to listen to the winner for an entire day!" Cana said, reaching towards her mug and began to down her second drink.
"Yusuke…" Erza began.
"No way in hell I'm letting her boss me around…!" Yusuke managed to say and slid his mug over towards Mirajane.
Knowing that he's going through with it, Mirajane reluctantly took his mug and refilled it. Handing it back, Yusuke immediately started to drink it.
Erza and Mirajane looked at each other again with quietly sighed to themselves among the cheering going on. They both knew it was going to be a hectic night.
Yusuke and Cana slammed their mugs down on the counter.
"Another!" The both of them said.
Mirajane and Kinana took their mugs, refilled it, and handed it back to them. Both of the drinkers began to chug them again.
"What is this… like, their twentieth?" Marissa asked.
"Twenty-fifth… and Tarok isn't looking too good…" Ann said as she looked over at Yusuke, slightly wobbling in his seat as he drank out of his mug.
"Least he kinda caught up…"
"C'mon Cana!" Macao cheered.
"Don't let her get to you, Yusuke!" Wakaba cheered.
"Let's just hope he doesn't transform… it'll be worse for him if he does…" Ann said.
"You're not looking to hot there, Yusuke! Why don't you give up?" Cana said, as she and him finished their mug and handed them to the barmaids.
"In your dreams, Cana." Yusuke picked up the mug once more, and began to drink again. Grinning again, Cana did the same, and they both continued.
It was now late at night in Magnolia, and plenty of members were still watching the two drinks going at it. Some had retired, such as Wendy and Carla, but those stayed were eager to see the results.
Yusuke though, was feeling absolutely miserable as he raked his hair with his hand. He hiccuped a few times before downing his sixtieth drink.
"You still going eh?" Cana said, hiccuping as well, but not as much as the Saiyan. She went ahead and drank her sixty-second drink.
"Not… until you keel over…" Yusuke managed to say as he handed his mug over to Mirajane. His vision blurred for a second before he shook his head again to drive it away. He took the mug filled with booze once more and began drinking again.
"Heh... " Cana took her mug back from Kinana and started to drink again as well.
"Don't you think we should stop them?" Marissa worriedly asked Ann.
"I don't know about Cana, but Tarok can have as much as he wants." Ann said with a small grin, enjoying the misery that Yusuke was experiencing at the moment.
"Geez… " Marissa sighed. 'Supreme Kai of Time would make his life a living actual hell if she saw him doing this…'
While the Earthling watched on in dismay, and Ann in entertainment, both Cana and Yusuke continued drinking while members continued to cheer.
By now, it was almost reaching midnight and more members had left and retired for the night, despite wanting to see the results of the two drinkers, who were currently still going at it. Marissa and Ann were still there, with the former nodding off a bit. Mirajane was the only one left behind the counter as Kinana was getting tired, and decided to rest for the night. Both her and Erza, who was also still there to watch over Yusuke, was even more worried for the male Saiyan than they had earlier as they saw his face completely red, his eyes hardly opened and he struggled to drink his hundredth beer.
Right next to him, Cana had just finished her hundredth and tenth drink. Even she was feeling tipsy after both her and Yusuke had gone through three and a half barrels full of beer.
"I gotta admit… I'm surprised you're not knocked out yet, Yusuke." Cana slurred a bit.
"Y-You know…" Yusuke hiccuped. "... I am as well…"
"Was it whoever drank the most wins as the condition?" Mirajane asked.
"Nope." Cana said, popping the 'p' sound in the word. "Whoever loses consciousness first loses."
"... I see." Mirajane handed Cana back her mug full of beer again.
"Thank ya…!" Cana said, and began to drank her next cup.
"Ugh…" Yusuke lowly growled. He kept his hand on his forehead and hair, and looked down at the mug of halfway drunk beer in distaste. "I'm gonna be sick…"
"Ah!" Cana took a deep breath as she finished her recent mug, and looked over towards Yusuke. "You can always give up y'know. We don't have to be here all ni-... huh?"
"You being able to drink this much is beyond me-"
*THUD*
A sound of something falling startled the Saiyan a bit and he looked over to Cana. When he did, he gasped as she saw the side of her head laid down on the bar counter, knocked out.
"Cana-!" He stood up from his stool swiftly, only to regret it immediately as his body started to fall to the side.
Erza quickly caught his body and supported him under his arm. They both looked over at Cana, still alright but unable to respond.
"Did… did I just…" Yusuke started.
"Cana lost?!"
"That's a first… oh my god, someone out drank Cana!"
"Yusuke won! He really did it!"
"C'mon Yusuke, I think it's best you go to the infirmary and lie down…" Mirajane said, coming towards them. She supported the male Saiyan under his other arm, and both her and Erza began leading him upstairs.
"H-Huh? W-What? What happened?" Marissa was woken up by the chatter of the remaining guild members that had stayed.
"Tarok won… I can't believe it." Ann said, surprised.
"Oh… oh! He did?!" Marissa was completely awake, and looked over towards the bar. There, she saw an unconscious Cana, and just at the stairs, both Erza and Mirajane was slowly guiding Yusuke up. "Oh my god he did! That's… not gonna be healthy."
"No… it's not… let's head back. I'm tired now…"
"You're right… we can leave Bro to his girlfriends." Marissa said, and both her and Ann left the guild and back to their apartment.
The infirmary door opened up with Yusuke, Erza, and Mirajane entering it. However, the moment they stepped inside, Yusuke let go of both of them under him, and quickly went inside the bathroom, albeit, very clumsily. Erza and Mirajane both winced as they heard retching coming from inside.
"Why don't you go prepare a bed nearby? I'll tend to him…" Mirajane suggested with a sigh.
"Very well… honestly, what was he thinking…" Erza shook her head, and walked off.
Mirajane went over to the bathroom door and leaned against the frame. With some amusement, she saw Yusuke hunched over the toilet, just having his head over the bowl, and heard him groaning.
"I think that will teach you from drinking that much again." Mirajane lectured.
"I think I learned that I probably won't drink ever again…" Yusuke said, and a moment later he started throwing up again, making the barmaid cringe.
She went over to him and knelt down beside him. With a hand, Mirajane began rubbing Yusuke's back to try and ease him.
"T-Thanks…" Yusuke croaked out.
"You're welcome… I'm just glad it ended."
"Mira… tell me something…"
"What is it?"
"... did you do something to Cana's drink?"
"..."
"... what did you do?" He sighed.
"There's nothing to worry about… I just casted enough magic to put her to sleep." Mirajane giggled.
"I thought so… there's no way she would've been knocked out in that condition she was in… far better than I was…" Yusuke said, taking his head out of the toilet bowl, smelling the air that was not his puke.
"So what will you do with her?"
"Nothing… it wasn't fair in the end…" Yusuke said, and tried standing up. Mirajane went ahead and helped him on his feet, and guided him out of the bathroom and over to the nearby bed that Erza had just finished setting up.
Yusuke flopped onto the bed face-down. He put up enough strength where he forced his entire body into the bed and hugged a pillow. With the events he partook in today from the mission, he allowed his body to relax, and soon fell asleep.
Mirajane and Erza soon heard small snoring coming from Yusuke, and both looked to see him fast asleep. Erza went ahead and covered him with a sheet of blanket so that he could stay warm from the winter cold.
"I suppose this means no training tomorrow…" Erza said with a sigh.
"You're right… he's not going to feel well at all when he wakes up tomorrow." Mirajane laughed.
"You… also felt it earlier, right?"
"... yes. You wanted to ask him what happened?"
"I did, but, Cana was so enthralled that I thought I could ask later. It seems that will have to wait until tomorrow."
"At least they all made it back safe and sound." Mirajane said with a smile.
"Yes, you're right. That's the most important thing." Erza nodded, smiling back. She began heading towards the door. "I'll head back to the dorm or the night."
"I think I'll stay here… he might need some assistance when he wakes up."
"I will leave you to it then. Goodnight Mira." Erza bidded.
"Goodnight Erza." Mirajane responded with a wave of her hand, and watched the redhead exit the infirmary. She eyed back to Yusuke with exasperated sigh, and laid her head down on the bed beside him. "I didn't think you'd be this much of a handful."
The night ended in a draw to just a few people, but in many others, a winner towards the male Saiyan.
Chapter done, and filler done! Kagura Now knows that her brother is alive, this WILL affect the future. In a bad or good way, only time will tell.
Honestly, this work isn't the best of me. I kinda got the large, mountain, golem idea with the recent DBS episodes of Aniraza, I did really like how all five of them took it on in that episode, it was just epic. So, in way, I kinda took that. Talk about unoriginal eh? :S
Next chapter will still be fillers, some slice and life and something more laid back. Knowing that, hopefully it won't take me too long as this chapter as the next time I update, considering I did have slight writer's block with this one.
That's all there is to it folks, not much else other than that I'll get right onto the next chapter. If I could, I'd let everyone have a wish on the Dragon Balls, hopefully you bunch wouldn't wish for anything too excessive haha.
Until then.
Timestamp: January 10, 2018.
