Monster Rancher-Souls of New Evil
By VTamer01
Disclaimer- I do not own the awesome MR series. Tecmo and all its MR products belong to them.
Author's notes- Hello everyone! Thanks for reading this fanfic if you are. I know that it is the same but I'm trying to revise and make a lot of changes to this. I am too busy with work nowadays that I won't be able to get out a lot of chapters in decent time but I'll try my best.
Chapter 2- Mistakes and Old Friends
Inside Genki's 'dream'
Genki at a young age of 13 years old had just been transported to a world where only monsters exist with humans and live in peace and harmony. He had met up with certain people along the way in which he had befriended them. It's been a whole year since he was first transported there at the age of 12 years old.
His friends were five monsters, which were his Mocchi, Golem, Tiger, Hare, and Suezo. There was another friend of his and she was a human that went by the name of Holly. They had first met when Genki was transported to a shrine in the monster world. And after he had proven to her that he can help out along the way of their journey, they had become very close friends.
Genki had a flashback of his precious roller blades in which he would skate and fight some baddies if he had to. The flashback had then gone to a sequence in which they were enjoying a delicious feast they had prepared for themselves and were sitting around a campfire telling jokes and singing songs.
The next flashback was of one that he and his friends had first encountered Moo. They were on their way somewhere to find a mystery disk when Moo appeared from his floating castle and challenged them to a battle. They put up a decent fight but they weren't strong enough just yet because they didn't learn what it takes to be a team. Moo kidnapped Holly, which later was revealed as Holly's father. They rescued Holly with help from Pixie.
Another flashback was when they encountered Moo a second time and found out that Moo is Holly's father. They battled him and won because of the energy from Genki and his team that Moo had cockily squeezed and burst it into a mountain, which exploded and exposed sunlight.
After the encounter with Moo the second time another flashback showed Holly crying out of happiness when her friends gave her a birthday party to cheer her up out of depression. The next flashback was when they had finally found the Phoenix's body trapped in an ice block. They were happy that their journey had come to an end but realized that they couldn't revive it without the Phoenix's soul.
Scenes shifted through the flashback as to when Moo appeared for a final time ready to destroy the rebels. The last flashback showed when they had found out that the five monsters had the Phoenix's soul in them the whole time. The five monsters had fused with the Phoenix with the help of Genki and defeated Moo.
After Moo and the Phoenix were destroyed, everything was returned back to the way it was before evil had enveloped it. Genki returned back to his home world and noticed that he was really in the monster world after all but something was amiss that he didn't know of when he returned. Something strange and dark, something evil lurking in the shadows that he didn't see…
End Genki's 'dream'
Genki snapped his eyes open and realized that he wasn't falling anymore. He rose up on one arm and took a peek at his surroundings. The wind was blowing hard as he saw that he wasn't home anymore. There were mountains, trees, and hills every direction he turned to. There was a certain feel of familiarity washing over him but he shook it off.
As he started to gaze over the land with awe, something had caught his attention. There was a town that was being attacked by creatures but he wasn't too sure what it looked like. Genki was about to stand when something landed on his head. He held his head in pain and turned to see who did it but no one was there.
"Come on out you chicken! That wasn't very nice you know," Genki yelled angrily.
No one answered his call as he looked around to see what fell on him. He looked at the ground and saw his fresh new pair of roller blades and his new backpack, which was a lot bigger than his old one. Genki grabbed them and smiled as he started to put them on. The roller blades were black and had a silvery rim at the edges. The blades were made of titanium alloy that was stronger than metal.
When he had finished putting them on, he took his boots and put them in his backpack. His backpack was black also and it had a lot of pockets to hold certain items. The things he had in there were some first aid supplies, extra clothes, tee shirts and underwear, boxers, bathing supplies, grooming supplies, cooking utensils, a flashlight, and a sleeping bag.
Genki took out the sleeping bag and took a piece of thin rope from his small pocket in the backpack and strapped it on the top of it. He stood up and after a little bit of stumbling, he picked up his backpack and skated to the town that was being attacked.
At the town, there were houses being burned to the ground by weird creatures that looked like aliens from a sci-fi movie. They were a silvery-black color and they had two eyes that were red. Their hands had three fingers and one thumb and it curved slightly to give it a reptilian look. At the top of their head were three spikes each indicating some sort of telepathy transports.
One alien was approaching a human with a screaming baby in her arm when another human came out and attacked it. The alien received the blow at full force but didn't stumble. The human was a male, apparently the woman's boyfriend.
The man began to attack again but the alien outwitted the man and blew him up with a beam of yellow energy. The woman gasped in shock and began to run when another alien appeared out of nowhere and grabbed her.
It was about to take her away when a blur of black color scooped her up and dashed toward the end of the town. The aliens looked at the speeding figure and started to shoot beams at it. The figure was none other than Genki speeding with the woman in his arms. The woman gazed up at her savior and thanked him.
"Thank you for saving us. My boyfriend died trying to save my baby daughter and me. He's gone now and I'm alone again," the woman sobbed while the baby was asleep.
Genki looked down at her and tried to cheer her up but she kept on talking.
"I know it must be a real pain to have you come rescue me like this, but I honestly think you are a very heroic and attractive young man," she said looking at him, while giving him a flirtatious smile.
Genki looked at her and blushed but he shook it off.
"Miss, I can ex-mmpf!" Genki stopped in mid sentence, as the woman kissed him on the lips passionately.
After she finished kissing him, they had come to a stop at the far end of the town where a building stood with at least fifty people inside. Genki lightly placed her on the ground, bowed, and skated off back in the town to fight off those aliens.
The woman looked back at her hero and blew a kiss to wish him good luck. Genki spitted out the remains of the kiss he just have received from that stranger.
"Why would someone kiss you like that? She doesn't even know me," he said in disgust.
Genki stopped skating and noticed that the aliens have left. He looked around the place where he had last left them before he took off.
"Where could they have disappeared off too? They were just here a few minutes ago. I better go and get back to that buil-," he cut in mid sentence, as he watched the building explode when he turned around.
Genki stared at the explosion in shock. Then suddenly, an object flew into the sky at full speed and Genki somehow thought that it was the alien's ship flying away. Genki skated back to the remains of what's left of the building and it was not a sight to see.
There was a huge crater of where the building was and there were dead bodies everywhere. There were bodies lying around him and some bodies in windows of some houses on the far end of the town. He looked around and noticed the body of the woman and her child black and burned. He walked up to them and dropped on his knees.
"I killed them. I led them to a death trap and they suffered the same fate as the rest of the townspeople. I killed them!" Genki yelled while pounding on the ground with his fists.
Tears were forcing their way down to the ground. Guilt was washing over him and he cried even harder.
"I should have gone in the building and stopped those aliens from blowing it up. I should have checked it out instead of going back, now they're all gone," he said through muffled sobs.
As he looked at the dead bodies, he did a silent prayer then got up before starting to skate away, when the alien ship he saw earlier came down from the sky at top speed. The ship suddenly stopped and opened up a compartment in the bottom and a red beam started to form.
Genki's eyes went small and he started to skate as fast as he could. When the beam finished forming, it shot at full force toward the town. The sky was turning dark and the winds were blowing menacingly as the beam came closer and closer to its target.
Genki was skating furiously as he tried to get out of harm's way when the beam hit the town and an explosion so big erupted from the ground that it started to shake. Lots of debris was flying everywhere and a huge fireball started engulfing the town at a rapid rate. Genki didn't even look back as he continued to skate out of danger. He noticed a house fly by over him and he knew that the fireball was getting closer to him.
Genki skated to an edge of a cliff that was overlooking an ocean. He looked back at the fireball that had already engulfed the large town and saw it approaching him. A sign flew by and it had the town's name on it. Oceania was the name of the town that had just been disintegrated.
The winds were getting stronger and the fireball was getting even closer. Genki looked at the fireball and then at the ocean. He knew he would die at both choices so he decided to take a dive into the ocean. Genki did a graceful dive as he plunged toward his demise.
The fireball went over him as he descended to the waters. He closed his eyes as he went face first in the hard warm water. Genki floated to the surface but he wasn't moving. The current was moving at a fast pace because of the strong winds and Genki's body was moving with it eventually leading out to the ocean.
A ship that had a picture of a Suezo at the front was sailing the ocean waters moving in tune with the gentle breeze of the wind. It has been two hours since the incident that had occurred at Oceania and no one notices the town had disappeared. A Suezo with a horn at the top of its head and a captain's hat had just come from the bunker of his ship, when a Rockie called from his post up at the hilt.
"Captain Horn sir, we spotted something in the ocean. It appears to be a young man with an orange cap on his head!" the Rockie exclaimed.
The pirate who was called Captain Horn (the Suezo/Tiger breed that Genki and Holly met seven years ago when they had to cross the ocean to get to the other continent and who had a crush on Holly) looked at the figure that was unmoving and called back to the Rockie.
"Bring that drifter in boys. It's a friend of ours," the captain ordered.
"Aye, Aye Captain!" the crew complied before turning the ship towards the floating body.
When they had reached it, two Rockies tied some rope to a wooden pole and dove into the water to retrieve the body. They then wrapped rope around the figure and started to pull it up out of the water. The two Rockies then hoisted the body on the ship and dragged it to one of the cabin rooms below decks. Captain Horn told one of his Rockies to lay some food on the table next to him when he wakes up.
One of the Rockies came in, examined him briefly before giving a full report on his condition.
"Sir, there is a deep wound on his right leg. And look at his face; it is pale. We have to put blood in him or he'll die," the Rockie, who was a doctor, stated, while bandaging up Genki's leg after adding some balm to it.
Horn looked at him, then at Genki, and came with a decision.
"I'll have to hit him. I'll hit 'em with my tail. If that don't work, give him some of my blood," Horn concluded.
The doctor looked at him before finishing up Genki's leg, and nodded before adding as he got ready to leave the room,
"Try your best, Horn."
Horn nodded as he prepared for a tail assault, when the boat shook heavily. Horn had an anger vein in his head.
"What in the world was that? Who attacked us!" Horn shouted.
A Rockie rushed down the stairs and went in the room to give an update on what happened.
"Sir, there are a lot of weird ships outside and we can't even get a good hit at them. What should we do!" the Rockie panicked.
Horn hopped out the cabin and went down a hall into one of his cannonball rooms. He looked out the opening of the cannon and saw that there were ships but they were in the air.
"Those aren't ships me lad, those are very big 'iron-birds'! Man the battle stations we are going to attack! Aim upwards in the air, we should be able to get them!" Horn yelled at an angry tone.
The Rockies did what they were told and aimed the cannons in the air. The 'iron-birds' were shooting beams at them, destroying parts that weren't necessary to the ship. Horn went back into the room Genki was in and did his tail assault on him. Genki spitted out the water really quick and rose up off the hammock.
He looked around the room he was in and noticed a few upturned eyebrows looking at him. He frowned before scrunching up his face in pain as he grabbed his leg. He noted that it was bandaged up a bit and looked at one of the upturned eyes and realized that he looked familiar.
"Um…thanks for rescuing me, whoever you guys are," Genki said, while bowing his head.
Horn opened his eye and looked at the young man carefully.
"You are Genki, right? Don't you remember me, your old pal Horn?" Horn asked.
Genki looked at him with an awkward expression and shook his head. Horn looked at him puzzled.
"We fought Googi together. Don't you even remember that lad?" Horn asked once more.
Genki thought about it carefully and shook his head again. Horn fell to the ground with a huge sweat-drop. The boat shook again this time rougher than before. Explosions could be heard and water was dripping through the porthole of the room. Horn thought of something else but it made him turn crimson.
"Do you remember Miss Holly?" Horn asked embarrassed by his tone of a suavely voice.
Genki looked at him confused by his turn of expression and gave it a thought. He tried to remember as hard as he could but all he could come up with was a blank.
"No, I don't remember her either," Genki said while shaking his head.
When Horn went into his dream-like state, Genki overheard a few Rockies outside the porthole talking about two special cannons above deck that can probably take out the 'iron-birds'. Genki didn't know what to think of it but kept it in mind. Horn snapped out of his dream-like state and his mouth dropped to the floor.
"You can't even remember Miss Holly. You and her use to travel together and you can't even remember her. You lad, must have a case of amnesia," Horn concluded.
Genki looked at him dumbfounded and looked back out the porthole. He stared at the flying ship in shock as looked at the 'iron-bird' that resembled the alien ship he saw earlier.
'No. It's the same one that attacked that town earlier. It must have followed me here. If I have to die then so be it. At least my death will make up for killing all those people, especially that woman and her baby,' Genki thought bitterly.
He then got off the hammock and pushed past Horn and the doctor. He went out the door and went upstairs to the deck.
Horn followed him and screamed in his face, "Genki me boy, you have to stay below decks because you're in no condition to be fighting! You don't even remember your friends so how can you remember how to use the cannon!"
Genki looked at him and cocked his eye to the left and grinned. Horn followed his look and noticed two cannons that were used for occasions such as these that he forgot. Horn grinned also and nodded to Genki.
"You're very smart me boy, but how did you know about my two special cannons?" Horn questioned.
Genki tapped his forehead with his finger.
"When you were off in dreamland, I've overheard a couple of your men talking about two cannons that were designed for possibly taking out 'iron-birds'," Genki stated.
Horn smiled and then brought up a subject as they ran/hopped over to the cannons.
"How come you don't remember us, kid? We haven't forgotten about you," he questioned.
Genki shrugged his shoulders and pondered.
"I don't know Horn. Have we met before?" Genki asked.
"I just asked you if you remember us below decks. You must have amnesia," Horn said dully.
Genki looked at him and shook his head as they reached the cannons. Horn got some gunpowder and a fuse and gave some to Genki.
"You remember how to use that or do I have to teach you?" Horn laughed.
Genki grabbed the gunpowder from him and put it in his own cannon. He reached the cannon ball and picked it up and placed it in the cannon.
"I remember how to use a cannon Horn. I took History class you know," Genki said adamantly.
"Well I hope your aim is good," Horn stated while looking confused.
Genki looked at him and smiled. They focused their cannons on each 'iron-bird' and took aim. Genki was the first to release his cannon and shot one down.
"All right, I got one!" he yelled while pumping his fist.
Horn took aim and shot one down also.
"Only three left to go Genki!" the Suezo/Tiger breed exclaimed.
Genki nodded and looked at the one that reminded him of the alien ship that destroyed the town.
'It has to be the same one I saw earlier. This is for you Oceania,' he thought bitterly, as he shot his cannon in-between two 'iron-birds' and blew up the one that looked liked the alien ship.
Fortunately, it was the same alien ship. Horn looked at the blown up 'iron-bird' and gasped. He looked at Genki who was grinning.
"Wow! You really got that one down, lad," Horn complemented.
"That was for the townspeople of Oceania, Horn. Those aliens had to pay for what they had done," Genki said angrily.
Horn nodded knowing that it was the same Genki but only suffered amnesia. The two remaining 'iron-birds' had retreated knowing that they would lose.
Horn yelled at them threateningly, "You better not come back you varmints or I'll make a scurvy stew out all of you!"
Genki looked at him oddly with one eyebrow raised and stood up. He then started to stretch as he looked around the ocean to see if he spotted anything.
"Is there a shore nearby Horn? I'm ready to go look for answers as to why I am here," Genki asked.
Horn looked at him and thought carefully before his eye snapped.
"The closest land I know of is where Miss Holly and her friends live at. We'll stop over there and see if they can figure out what's wrong with you," he said as he looked over at Genki.
Genki nodded and sighed to himself as a slight breeze ruffled his hair up a bit.
'Maybe this place isn't so bad after all. But why does he keep saying that I know him and a few other people. And who is this Miss Holly? Whoever she is, she may know why I was brought here,' he wondered to himself as he stared out at the ocean, watching seagulls swoop down to the water, catching fish.
End Chapter 2
