Hey, guys! Here is the tenth chapter of Super World Chronicles! Members of the Union venture a mysterious island in search of treasure; Todoroki in particular, to find a gift to Yaoyorozu. Hope you like it.
Chapter 10 - Treasure Hunting
Atlantic City, New Jersey
It is currently the third day of the Union's five day trip to Atlantic City, now split in different groups to have a look around the city itself.
One group is at the Absecon Lighthouse to have a look inside, comprised of Sakura, Lee, Rukia, Kisara, Rinwell and Hootle, Dohalim, Shoto and Tokoyami.
Kisara left Nala to look after Eri and Kota as a "guard lion", but strictly told the lioness to not cause any trouble.
"Man, this lighthouse sure is amazing." Rinwell said.
"Even the top has something to offer." Rukia said, looking through the camera to see the top of the lighthouse outside.
"I wanna look and see!" Lee hollered, already making his way to the top.
"Lee, wait- and he's gone." Sakura said.
Sakura noticed Shoto thinking to himself intensely hard. She walked over and gave him a tap on the shoulder to get the dual elemental user's attention.
"Watcha thinking about?" Sakura asked.
"Uh… nothing." Shoto replied.
"Oh really? Nothing to do with a certain class vice rep?" Sakura asked, teasing.
Shoto blushed a little when Sakura was mentioning one person on his mind.
"Please don't…" Shoto muttered.
Sakura giggled.
"Still thinking about when she cleaned the milk off your face?" Sakura asked.
Shoto couldn't hide anything if he could get a beating from her, so he nodded to answer.
"Well, if you wanna do something to repay her, you probably need something that she likes." Sakura explained.
"And don't think too cheesy." Sakura continued.
Shoto didn't know what to think. He's never experienced love for a person aside from family, and the sudden affection Momo Yaoyorozu displayed him the day during their second part of Hero Exams has been stuck to his head for a while.
"Hey, guys!" Lee hollered, coming to the gift shop.
"What is it?" Dohalim asked.
"You all gotta look up top! I just saw something!" Lee hollered.
The group didn't need to question what Lee was doing and decided to go up top and see for themselves.
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Sakura and Shoto's group managed to reach the top and were surprised by what they're seeing through the telescope that Lee is currently using.
From an average distance of a likely five kilometers from them is an unknown island.
"Is that an island?!" Rinwell exclaimed.
"But we didn't even see any near the beach." Kisara said.
"That's because no one ever goes on that island." An old man explained, just showing up.
"What do you mean?" Tokoyami asked.
"Rumor has it that island is dangerous. Houses tons of dangerous beasts even the military wouldn't want to mess with." The old man replied.
"So we basically ignore it the best we can." The old man continued.
"But if you're able to defeat those beasts, it's said that treasure lies on that island." The old man finished.
"Treasure?!" Rinwell and Dohalim asked in unison, now intrigued.
"Oh boy." Kisara thought, having a sweat drop on her forehead as she knows what the two treasure lovers were thinking.
"I think we should go there." Shoto said, surprising Sakura, Rukia, Kisara, Lee and Tokoyami.
Hootle was wide eyed as he started to fly a little.
"Uh, Todoroki… you're not serious are you?" Rukia asked.
"I am." Shoto said.
"Oh great." Rukia muttered.
"If you guys are the ones who did that amazing display two days ago, then you might have a better chance of facing those beasts." The old man said.
"Well, since you asked - we might as well investigate." Kisara said.
"Indeed. It should help the people feel at ease if we take care of those beasts." Tokoyami explained.
"But how are we gonna get there?" Sakura asked.
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The group found a way to get there thanks to Shoto's Ice Stalagmite moving continuously, carrying the group on for a good few minutes.
They managed to reach the mainland before Shoto was getting exhausted, allowing him to catch his breath.
"You alright, Shoto?" Sakura asked.
"Yeah. Guess I'm getting better with my Quirk." Shoto replied.
"We best hurry. It's dangerous to be out in the open." Tokoyami explained.
The group nodded as the started to walk forward.
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"So you agreed because you wanted to get something for Yaoyorozu-san?" Rinwell asked, as the group started walking through a large forest.
"Give him a break, Rin. It's not like he had it easy when he's around her." Sakura explained.
"Sorry, sorry." Rinwell said.
"But you could've bought anything back at the gift shop." Tokoyami explained.
"That would be too tacky." Shoto said.
"Never thought you would say that." Tokoyami commented.
"You must be open with your feelings, Shoto-kun! That's the meaning of one's youth!" Lee hollered.
"What does youth have to do with this?" Rukia asked, having a sweat drop on her forehead.
"Regardless, the treasure were looking for will be worth our while." Dohalim said.
"How are you able to know if treasure would even be on this island?" Sakura asked.
"My love for arts is a considerable gift. When there is treasure, I can find any kind." Dohalim explained.
Sakura, Rukia, Shoto and Tokoyami deadpanned.
"Don't worry. It's just his personality," Rinwell said before thinking to herself, "which still needs some work."
Hootle chirped while laying on Rinwell's head nice and comfy; the group continued their route with no sign of stopping to search for treasure.
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The group continued to venture the forest, until they see something within their vision.
Standing right out in the open of the forest, there seems to be a horde of treasure like gold, old armor, and the like.
"Is that the treasure?" Shoto asked.
"It must be." Dohalim said.
"But why out in the open? I have a bad feeling about this." Kisara said.
"Please don't jinx it." Rukia said.
But the jinx came true when out of nowhere, a VERY large cobra, scorpion and rat showed up in front of the treasure.
"WHAT THE HECK?!" Sakura exclaimed.
"Guess these are the creatures guarding the treasure." Tokoyami said, calling out Dark Shadow.
"We got ourselves a monster problem!" Dark Shadow hollered.
"Guess our only way is to fight them. And get that treasure for Yaoyorozu-san." Shoto explained.
Rukia swallowed a Soul Candy and entered her Soul Reaper form, while Dohalim and Kisara summoned their weapons. Rinwell already had hers prepped to go.
"Then let us fight these creatures." Lee said, getting into his stance.
Sakura sighed, seeing no way out of this.
"Then let's do it." Sakura said.
"Here they come!" Dohalim hollered, seeing the gigantic rat, cobra and scorpion all charging at them.
"Hide now, Hootle!" Rinwell hollered.
Hootle didn't need to be told twice as he already ran to find a safe hiding spot.
Sakura, Lee, Rukia, Rinwell, Kisara, Dohalim, Shoto and Tokoyami all moved out of the way.
Sakura charged first against the cobra clenching her right fist.
"CHAAAAAAAAAA!" Sakura shouted, punching hard against the cobra and sending it several meters away.
The scorpion and rat attempted to attack the medical ninja, but Dohalim was quicker.
"Prehendere!" Dohalim shouted, generating vines uprooted from the ground and wrapping against the scorpion and rat to restrict their movements.
Lee was the next to attack, starting with the rat.
"Leaf Hurricane!" Lee shouted, delivering an extremely hard low kick after doing a feint with a high kick straight at the rat's face.
Tokoyami was the next to attack, using Dark Shadow to punch the rat extremely hard to the ground.
At the same time, the scorpion clashed against Kisara's shield, with Kisara holding her ground to give Rinwell time to prepare an Astral Arte.
Once finished, Rinwell moved to the right.
"Spread!" Rinwell shouted, summoning a large column of water that blasted the scorpion into the air.
"Go, Kuchiki-san!" Rinwell hollered.
"Hado #33: Sokatsui!" Rukia shouted, firing a blue fireball that slammed the monster into the ground after exploding in midair.
Shoto made his move next to take care of the two giant beasts in front.
"Ice Stalagmite!" Shoto shouted, using his signature ice attack to freeze them in place.
"This ice won't hold them for long." Shoto said.
"Also, you've used up most of your strength to get us to this island. Try and take it a little easy." Rukia explained.
"I appreciate your concern, but I've been through worse." Shoto said.
"Yeah…" Rukia said, forgetting the pain Shoto went through in his past.
"Then let's grab some of the treasure and make a run for it." Dohalim explained.
"Wait? Not all of it?" Rinwell asked, a little surprised.
"No need to be greedy. Just a gift for Yaoyorozu and some for souvenirs." Dohalim replied.
"And here I thought Law was worried you two were gonna be treasure hunters." Kisara thought.
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After managing to grab at least some of the treasure, Sakura, Lee, Rukia (carrying her Gigai), Rinwell, Hootle (who just rejoined the group), Kisara, Dohalim, Shoto and Tokoyami quickly ran back to shore and hope to find an alternative to escape the island.
Suddenly, the three giant beasts got back up and immediately gave chase.
"Looks like we'll have to fight them again!" Lee hollered.
Shoto growled.
"Fire Style: Fire Ball Jutsu!" Sasuke shouted, appearing in the sky on his summoning hawk and shooting his signature move at the three beasts, surprising Sakura and Photos group.
"Sasuke-kun!" Sakura hollered.
Sai appeared behind Sasuke on an ink falcon, and immediately drew more with Super Beast Scroll to help the group down below.
"Climb on board!" Sai hollered.
Smiling, Sakura and Shoto's group ran towards the large birds.
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A few minutes later, the eleven of them made it safely back to the mainland where they ran into the Acts of Hope, Kon, Nala, Momo Yaoyorozu, Kyoka, Eri and Kota.
"Where the heck have you guys been?" Kyoka asked.
"Let's just say we had a fun adventure in search of treasure." Dohalim explained.
"Sounds something you would do, Dohalim." Alphen commented.
"My Rukia~!" Kon hollered, hoping to dive into Rukia, only to be met with a kick in the face that slammed him to the ground.
"How did you guys found out what we were doing?" Rukia asked, rubbing her foot all over Kon to keep him silenced.
"Well, you didn't answer our calls, and we ran into this old man who told us eight people and a bird ice skated to some scary island." Kyoka replied.
"You had us so worried." Momo Yaoyorozu said.
"We're sorry." Kisara said, petting Nala to calm her lioness since she was really worried about her master.
"Well, at least everyone's safe." Naruto said.
Sakura gave Shoto a nudge with a teasing look on her face.
"Don't you have something to give to your Momo?" Sakura teased.
Shoto blushed and slowly walked to Momo Yaoyorozu with hands currently behind his back, holding the one treasure that could be a nice gift.
"Uh, Todoroki-san?" Momo Yaoyorozu asked.
Shoto removed his hands from his back before holding them outward, revealing in his palms a lovely silver bracelet.
Almost everyone, except Sakura, Lee, Rukia, Rinwell, Hootle, Kisara, Dohalim and Tokoyami were in total surprise.
"I want to give you this as a thank you for that morning." Shoto explained.
"You know… I…" Shoto continued.
Momo Yaoyorozu slowly took the bracelet from Shoto's hands and put in on her right wrist.
"It's lovely." Momo Yaoyorozu said.
"Thank you, Todoroki-san." Momo Yaoyorozu continued, smiling with an angelic grace.
Shoto smiled brightly, almost revealing too genuine.
Everyone in the area began to smile at the development of Shoto and Momo Yaoyorozu.
"So… they're a thing?" Naruto asked, only to receive a fist to the head from Sakura.
"Ow!" Naruto hollered.
"You dummy." Sakura said.
Everyone in the area laughed at the sight. Shoto and Momo Yaoyorozu chuckled.
A fine third day for the Union with a new love blooming.
Preview Skit:
Rinwell: That was one crazy adventure we went on.
Dohalim: It was rather thrilling if I must say.
Kisara: But we had it a little close for comfort with those monsters.
Rinwell: We fought tough Zuegles before, Kisara-san. Not to be rude or anything.
Kisara chuckles.
Kisara: I know what you mean, Rinwell.
Dohalim: We should write a poem about this endeavoring tale.
Kisara: Always the poet.
Rinwell: It can be a little annoying. But his music is amazing.
Dohalim: Next time: Chapter 11 - Encounter.
Kisara: That doesn't seem good.
Did you enjoy it? Quite a developing chapter with ShotoMomo being the focus, and it's really romantic.
I have some important announcements, and I'll repeat the same for the next chapters of the other stories I'm working on!
One, I won't be updating any new chapters for the rest of May and the entire summer until the start of September. No, I'm not changing anything this time - just taking a whole summer break to give my mind a rest so I can do more on building the story from behind the scenes. But I will be using this summer time to edit and revise all of the chapters from each story already done for any mistakes, grammar errors and add a bit more to make "some" sense.
Two, I'll be spending the rest of May and all of summer updating on the Fun Files of each respective series (Holy, Super and Grand World Chronicles), and while I'm at it, I'll also re-do the whole World Chronicles Summer Tales (now that I've and maybe add a few more chapters in the mix.
Three, I've got a new story (not related to the World Chronicles series) called Super Galaxy Adventures: a crossover of the Dragon Ball franchise, Shaman King, Edens Zero, Soul Eater, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, and The Legend of Korra, with the ! I've got other stories and one-shots in mind, but will be revealed in upcoming future announcements.
