Speak to self
Speak to Ghost
"Ugh…" Joseph said as he walked from bookshelf to bookshelf.
"None of these things tells me about the last fireteam that went into the garden…" Joseph says in frustration whilst he keeps his voice down.
"You think it's in the Vanguard's possession?" asked Xeno
"Maybe, but this library should have what we need, and besides, Zavala and Ikora are having themselves in a pickle with finding a new Hunter Vanguard." Joseph said.
Xeno materializes out of Joseph and helps him to look for what he needs to find. "I see… well, they did have eyes on you for a while…" Xeno said
"No, I will not be the Hunter Vanguard. I don't have time leading a bunch of Guardians, a fireteam or platoon, hell, I'm fine leading a small faction but Vanguard will be too much for me." Joseph said.
"Well, who do you think will be the new Vanguard?" asked Xeno.
"My best bet will be Uldren… I need to talk to him whenever I get the chance…" Joseph said.
The duo continues to look for a book that talks about the recent Black Garden incident.
Suddenly, they feel an energy spike out of nowhere in the library.
Joseph quickly turns around as they detect it from behind. "Woah what the hell?" Joseph said.
"That came from two stalls back!" Xeno said, he turned to Joseph, "we should go check it out." he said.
"Yeah, lets…" Joseph runs to the shelf that had the energy spike.
"Look at that book!" Xeno said.
The book glows a bright white. Joseph grabs on to the book and then suddenly time becomes still.
Joseph recoils back as a portal was made right in front of him. He takes a deep breath, "this is new… X, is this a new world?" He asked Xeno.
Xeno heads towards the portal and scans around it. "Hrmm… this is truly strange… it's another world alright, but… it feels off…" Xeno moves away from the portal "I don't know… should we enter it?" Xeno asked.
"Well, if we ignore it, how will we go back to regular time? I don't see an exit. The only route I see is forward." Joseph said.
"I guess you're right…" Xeno said.
It's unnatural to see Xeno like this… better be on guard… Joseph walks through the portal, keeping his hand close to his waist where his sidearm is.
Joseph enters into the new world, screams of terror as civilians are being attacked by monsters. The sky is filled with a crimson red.
"This aint good…" Joseph said. He grabs his M1911 and starts to shoot the Lizard mutants, letting the civilians escape. He runs down the road of the forest killing any monster that gets in his way and helping civilians in need of help. Joseph then stops and comes across a big fat bird fighting the monsters accompanied by a girl with a sword, protecting the civilians as they flee.
One monster was about to attack the girl, Joseph dashes to the girl as he cuts it down with his knife. Joseph turns to the girl, "You alright?" he asked.
The girl nods, "Yes, thank you." she said.
Joseph looks in front of him, a large wave of enemies staring them down. "Shit… more of them…" he looks at the girl and bird, "Hey! I got these guys! Go make sure those civilians get to safety!" Joseph said
The girl nods, "Ok… Filo, let's go back to Naofumi." she said. She runs to the bird and looks back, "thank you!" she said
Joseph gives her a thumbs up as he stares down the large amount of monsters.
"Alright Filo, back to Naofumi and the others." said the girl
"Kay!" said the bird. The girl mounted on the bird and the bird started to run towards the civilians.
Joseph looks back at the two, Did that bird just talk?
"Joseph eyes up!" yelled Xeno
Joseph looks up as a giant ogre hits him back to a tree. He collapses down and gets up, "Shit… hehehe, drop my guard on that didnt I?" Joseph said.
Joseph gets up as Xeno heals him. "Please don't make this a habit…" Xeno said.
Joseph chuckles, "No promises." He grabs his M1911 off the floor, "So... giant Ogres, skeleton knights, ghouls and slimes…" he sighs, "this is sure a pain in the ass. Whatever, can't let them pass me or the civilians are at risk." Joseph runs to the army of monsters and starts firing at them.
A wave of skeletons and ghouls started to charge towards Joseph. He dodges their attacks and shoots them. The ghouls went down as the skeletons continued their pursuit. Joseph grabs his knife and parries the attacks, countering with a headshot. Joseph grabs his Whisper of the Worm and starts to sniping the ogres.
The slimes jumped and widened, trying to consume Joseph. Joseph then unleashes an arc lingering explosion around him, disintegrating the slimes.
Joseph looks around for any more monsters. He holsters everything, "That looks like the last of them… let's go see if the civilians are safe." Joseph said as he ran through the forest and to a village. Joseph sees a group of knights fighting a large group of monsters. "Looks like they need help." Joseph said. He materializes Zhalo Supercell and starts shooting. Monsters that were shot by the gun, were then hit by an arc attack which chained nearby enemies. He regroups with the knight and to what it looks like, an old woman.
"What the hell is going on!?" asked Joseph.
"A Wave of Catastrophe is hitting Melromarc! We need to defend this village!" said a young knight.
"Is that so… well, how do we stop this… wave?" Joseph asked.
"The heroes are fighting the boss. If they defeat it, the monsters will retreat!" said the knight. He points to a swirl in the sky, "That's where the heroes are right now." he said.
Joseph nods, "Thanks friend." Joseph summons his Ghost as he materializes a crate of blades, "here, just in case your sword breaks." Joseph said. Joseph then puts down some turrets, "turrets to soften up the enemy, just don't get in its line of fire or it'll kill you."
"Thank you!" said the knight.
Joseph gave a nod and a thumbs up and started to run the direction where the swirl is. Joseph summons his sparrow and full throttles to the battle. Joseph stops on a cliff, he sees a man with a bow making their way to a flying ship. "That just be where the battle is taking place… we need to go there!" Joseph said. He looks around to find anything he can use to get to the ship.
"Joseph on you're 10! A dragon rider!" Xeno said.
He looks to the left to see a skeleton riding a dragon. "Good eye!" Joseph activates daybreak and flies to the dragon, he kicks the skeleton off the dragon and steers the dragon to the ship. Joseph sees the same girl and bird fighting a giant fish spirit. It unleashed a powerful ball of energy to the people fighting the spirit. Joseph jumps off the dragon and charges a kamehameha. As he lands, he unleashes the blast, "HA!'' The beam clashes with the ball and is obliterated by Joseph's attack but the spirit quickly dodges Joseph's beam.
"Who the hell are you?" asked a blonde man with a spear.
"Don't worry about me!" Joseph yelled at the man. Joseph summons a golden gun and shoots at the spirit as it dodges all three shots. Fast bastard… "focus what's in front of you! Cause if you don't, you'll die!" Joseph said. He surrounds himself with arc energy and readies himself. "I'll keep this thing focused on me! If you guys are planning something then hurry the fuck up and excecute it! Don't know how long I can keep this fucker at bay!" Joseph yelled
"Ok!" said a man with a shield, "I have a plan, just keep him focused on you!" he said.
"Alright, no problem!" Joseph said, he looked at the spirit and pointed at it, "eh you faka!" Joseph provoked, "I'm your target!" he points to himself.
The spirit looks at Joseph and starts to unleash another powerful beam, Joseph jumps up so the spirit wouldn't harm the people on the ship, Joseph instant transmission behind the spirit and strikes him down with a powerful savage arc punch. Joseph lands and forms a solar war hammer and slams it on the spirits head and then jumps off of the spirits head and starts to shoot down a barrage of deadfall tether arrows near the spirit, making him vulnerable and still. "All yours!" Joseph said, he leaps back to the group, he grabs his Whisper of the Worm and aims at the spirit.
The wind intensifies behind Joseph, he looks behind him as he sees the man with the shield activating some kind of attack, his body surrounded in red glyphs. He starts to roar as the glyphs glow brighter. Then, a flame swirls around him, black armor, mixed with his green cloaked armor and a flaming shield. He lifts his shield in front of him and he starts to yell, his eyes turning red, pupils still visible.
Joseph notices that the bird's eyes has their eyes glow red as well. Her stomach shows a spot that glows violet. She starts attacking the spirit, having the tether effect wear off. "I thought he was going to do some finisher! Damn…" Joseph turns to the girl he saw before, "Is that guy alright?" Joseph asked.
Then another girl starts to talk, a scarlet red haired girl, "He's basically turned into a wild beast and that's certainly how a hero is supposed to fight." She said it was like mocking the man with the shield.
The girl, who has animal ears and a fluffy tail, Hazelnut colored hair started to snap back at the red haired girl, "what the hell are you people standing around for!?"
Four people, one with a sword, a spear, a bow and the red haired girl looked at her.
"Miserable demi-human, how dare you!" the red haired girl said.
Joseph notices something is wrong about the line she just said and he whistles, "some mouth you got there girl! Where'd you get it from?" Joseph asked.
"And who the hell are you?" said the girl,
"Nunya." Joseph said.
"Nunya?" the girl said in confusion.
"Nunya business bitch, now shut up, and go hide behind your meat shields." Joseph said as he made a shooing gesture towards her.
The man with the spear, a blond haired man stomps forward. "How dare you talk like that to princess Myne!" he yells.
"Oh Sir Motoyasu! You're so brave!" cheered Myne.
"Oh, she's a princess? Heh! That's precious, what are you simping for her? Cause she got "verbally" attacked? You make me laugh." Joseph said. "What are you gonna do? Kiss her when this battle is done?" Joseph starts laughing.
Motoyasu starts to charge towards Joseph "Shut up!" he thrusts his spear, but Joseph catches it "You must be a real simp for girls aren't you? You know, that's going to kill you" Joseph yanks his spear away from him "go sit down." he said. Joseph turns to the rest of the men and the demi-human, "look, the man with the shield is going to get hurt or even die if we don't do anything. So, why don't we get off our asses and start helping. But, if you're scared, you can always just sit with… Well, I was going to say spear guy, but I have his spear, so Imma call him the king of simps." Joseph said.
The demi-human was happy to see that they are getting a taste of their own medicine, she doesn't know who this mysterious man is so she walks to him, "Thank you for helping Master Naofumi and Filo, I'll be with you!" she said
"No problem, but… let's see… this spirit is pretty powerful… to what I see, it shoots out powerful energy blasts… honestly, if it wasn't very fast, I might be able to take this bastard on myself but it isn't so oh well." Joseph said. He surrounds himself with solar light, activating daybreak. "What's your name young lady?" joseph asked
"Raphtalia." she replies.
"Nice to meet you, I'm Joseph. Hey you two!" Joseph called the two heroes.
"What is it?" asked the man the bow
"Could you support us with ranged attacks? Box him in, preventing it from dodging our attacks."
"Okay," said the man with the bow, he looks at the man with the bow and they start yelling out their attacks "Arrow Rain!" he said
"Thunder sword!" said the man with the sword
A barrage of projectiles starts to box in the spirit.
"Raphtalia! Lets go!" Joseph said.
"Right with you!" Raphtalia said
Joseph and Raphtalia charge towards the spirit, Joseph jumps up and does a barrage of slashes to the spirit as Raphtalia stabs and slashes the spirit.
"We gotchu braddah!" Joseph said. He continued to attack the spirit, the spirit launched another energy ball that was too fast for anyone to react. Joseph notices that the ball was going straight to the man with the shield, Joseph instant transmission in front of the ball as he took the hit for the man with the shield.
"Joseph!" Raphtalia cried,
Joseph, still standing up, his arms bloody and burnt, "I'm fine! Just a flesh wound!" Joseph looks at the man with the shield. "Hey! You there?" Joseph asked, he didn't get a response.
"Master Naofumi must be succumbing to the Rage shield!" Raphtalia said.
"Rage shield? Well, the name doesn't sound pleasing…" Joseph said.
"Joseph, we better do something! It's about to attack again!" Xeno said.
The spirit started to get closer to Raphtalia but Joseph grabbed his sidearm and started to shoot the spirit so it wouldn't go near Raphtalia.
"Shit… hey Raphtalia! Go to… Naofumi right? Go to him, maybe you can calm him down!" Joseph said
She nods and heads towards Naofumi.
Joseph looks at the sword guy and free bow guy, "Hey! You two!" Joseph calls, "while Raphtalia is trying to help Naofumi, help me protect her and Naofumi!" Joseph said.
"You got it!" they said.
The bow guy started to shoot arrows to the spirit as Joseph, the sword guy and the bird prevented the spirit getting to Raphtalia and Naofumi.
Joseph dashes to the spirit, he focuses arc and solar energy in his right fist and launches a devastating blow to the spirit and fires a Nova Bomb point blank, damaging the spirit and himself, sending himself crashing to the mast.
"Hey are you alright?" asked the bow guy.
Joseph gets up as he is being healed and yelled by Xeno "Yeah, I'm good." Joseph sees the spirit heading towards the bow guy, Joseph forges a sentinel shield and throws it at the spirit. He runs to the bow guy and tanks the spirits attack, protecting the bow guy. Joseph lets out a suppressive wave out of his shield "there! It's weakened! Attack!" joseph yelled
The bow guy was surprised that Joseph wielded a shield. "You use a shield!?" he said.
Joseph looks back at the bow guy, "what? Never seen a shield in combat before? Heh, weirdo." he snarked.
"What did you-"
Joseph interrupts the bow guy, "Shut up and shoot through my shield. You're arrows will pack more of a punch than before"
The bow guy gave an annoyed look at Joseph, "they're all the same…" he said under his breath. He started to shoot arrows through Joseph's shield as the spirit began to flinch. "Woah… they do pack more of a punch than before…" The bow guy started to send a barrage of bows as the spirits' health slowly decreased.
Raphtalia started to call everyone's names "Joseph! Ren! Itsuki! Naofumi is ready to unleash his attack!"
Joseph nods, "Alright!" Joseph dissipates his shield and falls back with Raphtalia and the others. Joseph brings out Thunderlord and aims it at the spirit.
"I've been meaning to ask but… how do you have that?" asked the King of Simps.
"This?" Joseph asked as he brandishes the Thunderlord.
"Yes! How or… why do you have that?" the King of Simps said.
"What? Is that?" asked Raphtalia
"Its a Machine Gun…" Joseph said, "hell, why the fuck are we even having this conversation? Get ready!" Joseph said as he aimed for the spirit.
"Prison Shield!" said Naofumi. Then, a bunch of shields starts to consume the spirit as the shields form a sphere. The shield guy yells again, "Change Shield!" then blood starts to gush out of the small spacings from the prison shield. The shield guy then spoke again but in a more demonic voice combined with his normal voice, "Within this virgin of cold ore, who shall swallow even your screams with her embrace, suffer in anguish as your entire body is stabbed and skewered! Iron Maiden!"
A void rift appears in the sky as a giant Iron Maiden appears in the sky the eyes glow a bright purple. The door opens as it reveals huge spikes from the inside. The spirit trapped in the prison shield is put inside the Iron Maiden.
Joseph looks at the Iron Maiden with awe and interest.
The Iron Maiden closes her doors as it brutally kills the spirit. The Iron Maiden's eyes glow red as the area shines bright like day. The Iron Maiden then dissipates as the spirit falls into the valley.
Joseph lowers down his gun, dissipates it and gives out a relieved sigh. "Whew, thank the traveler that's done…" Joseph said. He looks at Naofumi and walks to him. "Man, you look exhausted." Joseph chuckled, he gave out a hand to Naofumi as he accepted it. "Here's a pick-me-up" Joseph tosses a Divine Protection towards Naofumi.
He looks at his arms and body as his wounds are all healed. "Thanks…" he said.
Joseph pats Naofumi on the shoulder, "No problem, but what you did back there was pretty intriguing." Joseph said. "How'd you do it?" he asked
"I'm… not sure… but it popped out of nowhere when I activated the Rage Shield…" Naofumi said.
"Is that so?" Joseph feels a presence behind him, "Speak of the house devils…" Joseph turns around, "Eyes up guys, we got another one." Joseph aims his sidearm to the spirit that slowly rises up from the poop deck.
All of a sudden a shower of blades hits the spirit, killing it with ease. "How very disappointing." said a female.
Joseph looks up to see a robed woman with long black hair falling down towards them. She lands as a strong gust of wind fills the whole ship.
She walks towards the group. "Oh pardon me, whatever happened to my manners? I am called Glass and that's all you need to know for now, feel free to consider me your enemy." Glass said.
Joseph looks at Glass trying to make sure she doesn't attack, he whistles out of being impressed, "Damn, taking that thing out in one go makes these guys like amateurs." Joseph chuckles
Naofumi stares down at Glass, "I'm Naofumi." he said
"Naofumi… well well…" she spreads a bladed fan, hiding her nose and mouth, "then may I suggest that we begin?" she said as she raised her fan up in the sky and then pointed it at Naofumi, "the only battle of this wave only worthy of the mane."
A stand still of everyone on the ship trying to see what move Glass will take.
"Why are you waiting to attack? Hero Naofumi? Why not try sending those servants of yours at me first?" Glass asked
"Servants? What the hell?" the sword guy steps forward
"What did you just call us?" the bow guy steps forward
"Naofumi's servants?" the King of Simps steps forward
The three drew their weapons, "SCREW YOU!" they all said.
Joseph puts his arm in front of the trio, "hold on a minute," Joseph said. Joseph walks towards Glass stopping a few meters away from her. "So, Glass huh? Do you break easily like your name?" Joseph jokingly said.
Glass chuckles and stares Joseph down, "Oh? And who might you be?" Glass asked.
"My name is Joseph Anderson. These guys here had their trouble trying to take down that spirit, it'd be a waste if you take them on in their tiring state." Joseph said as he smirked. "Naofumi!" Joseph called.
"What is it?" Naofumi replied.
Joseph's arc energy grows more ferociously "Your shield, I've grown an interest in it, I'd like to study it for a bit." a combination of solar energy with arc energy swirls around him, "so, get outta here! All of you! Get your asses off this ship!" Joseph said
"What about you?" asked the bow guy.
"Don't worry about me, worry about yourself right now!" Joseph said. Now a void aura is combined with the other two elements. Joseph, like everyone else feels exhausted, but… he doesn't care…
"Right…" said the sword guy, "He said he got this, and… if he wants us to leave, then we have to… lets go guys" the three heroes with their party make their escape.
"Master Naofumi, we can't leave him," Raphtalia said. "He did more work than the other Cardinal Heroes! He must be exhausted!"
"Dah! I said don't worry about me just get out of here!" Joseph said.
"How touching…" Glass sarcastically said.
"Heh, I won't die easily." Joseph said
Naofumi, Raphtalia and Filo escaped and now it is just Joseph and Glass.
Glass chuckles as she stares at Joseph, "Your mana levels don't scare me, Joseph."
"It doesn't need to scare you. I'm not here to boast about my power, I'm here to defeat you or even kill you." Joseph dashes towards Glass and throws a punch, Glass nearly dodges it, only to be grazed by Joseph's attack.
Glass wipes the blood off her cheek, "Not bad Joseph… hehehe, maybe you will be a challenge after all." Glass then swipes her fans around to send out sharp wind attacks.
Joseph dodges them all and heads towards Glass as he attacks from behind but Glass, without looking, cuts Joseph's chest down to his stomach and she blasts Joseph away with her powerful gusts.
Joseph crashes to a wall and he struggles to get up, kneeling down as he coughs out blood, "Shit… she's strong."
Glass walks slowly to Joseph and taunts him, "my my, done already? You disappoint me." she swipes the air again as one wind slice heads towards Joseph, he takes the hit and he gets up.
"Sorry ma'am, but, you- will… have to try- harder." Joseph said
"Are you really going to use that transformation?" asked Xeno
"What other choice do I have?" Joseph asked "If I lose, I won't be able to catch up if she plans on chasing down Naofumi. I have no other choice…" Joseph said.
He starts to chuckle. "C'mon Glass… .this!" Joseph's aura Solar, Arc and Void combined with a crimson red aura, his muscles getting bigger, "Hhhhrraaggghhh!" Joseph roars, the ship starts to fall apart, small rocks and splinters start to levitate as Joseph's roars turns into screams of pain, "Aaagh! Times, three!" Joseph yells. He dashes to Glass, faster than she could ever be. Joseph now has his back to her back, she turns around but before she could even attack, Joseph strikes her on the stomach.
The surprised expression could tell everything about what she was feeling right now.
Joseph then goes to her face and throws a Nova Bomb point blank, both of them are launched to the fencing of the ship, Joseph slowly gets up, but everytime he moves, the more and more heavy his muscles are. Joseph then went to his knees and fell to the ground. All of his aura is depleted. His energy and mentality, depleted. "I-I can't mo-move…ngh…"
Glass struggles to stand up as well, limping her way to Joseph "Impressive Joseph… it seems I have underestimated you…" said "thanks to you I can't fight anymore… till we meet again Joseph…" said Glass.
Damn it…
Everything fades to black… a loud crash and nothing.
This is a new approach instead of feeling a disturbance. I think this one is better what do you guys think? Also, the Guest who's suggesting about the super saiyan powers, those are good ideas, I like them. But I plan on not using the super saiyan powers in this fanfic, but maybe another time. Thanks for the suggestion, I will never forget that. If you guys think there is something odd about this first chapter, please tell me thank you for reading this chapter, stay safe guys!
