A New Life Chapter 7
AN: Holy Shit, I actually managed to finish this chapter!
Neptune: Well, uhhhh... congrats?
AN: Why Thank you! You're really kind, aren't you...
*Ahem Anyway, without further ado
Disclaimer: I do not own Hyperdimension Neptunia nor Dragon Ball Z, they belong to Idea Factory, Compile Heart, Toei Animation and Akira Toriyama
Chapter 7
The group currently found themselves facing off against the giant red-orange colored metallic bird monster, which had managed to piss Neptune off.
" You shall pay! Feel the wrath and agony deserving of tainting pudding time!" Neptune in her transformed state declared as she pointed her Odachi towards the Hraesvelgr.
While her teammates... weren't as enthusiastic as she is, especially when they just finished a marathon of monster slaying progress off-screen, somehow managing not to increase their level in the slightest.
" It looks like anything pudding related can jolt her. Good. She's ready. " IF commented, " Well, pudding doesn't make me ready, I'm still tired..." Compa sighed out loud.
" Compa, Iffy! Stop talking and let's beat the hell out of this monster!" Purple Heart yelled as Gohan already started the battle with a thunderous dropkick delivered right into the monster's head, sending it crashing into the ground.
Within a second, Purple Heart enchanted herself with Ki and dashed towards the monster in a speed faster than before.
Upon reaching the gigantic metallic bird, she rapidly swung her sword in a coordinated fashion, calculating what will be her opponent's next move, and is proven successful as she dodged multiple consecutive strikes aimed towards her.
While Purple Heart is busy dodging all the attack aimed towards her, Gohan is standing at the side, couple meters away, with his hands in front of his forehead, Ki began to gather around giving off a yellow aura that engulfed his palms and glowed brighter and brighter.
Gohan charged the attack further as the ground began to shake and winds began to swirl around him, electricity sparked violently as he yelled out the name of the attack.
" MASENKO HA! "
Noticing the fast incoming attack, Purple Heart leap back just in time as the metallic bird is suddenly engulfed by the yellow beam of death.
Even though Gohan had been extra careful while trying not to pour too much Ki into the attack, but it seems that as the dust cleared, the monster was completely annihilated, it was overkill.
Victory!
Item Obtained
Phantom Bird Wing - 1
Level Up
Neptune lv 33
Compa lv 33
IF lv 33
" Wow..." IF and Compa commented on awe, at one point, they stopped questioning how did an eleven years old kid even got to this level of strength.
But just when Neptune was about to undo her transformation, she stopped and turned around, staring into a bunch of rocks laying on the ground.
" Is something wrong?" Compa asked " Yes... I sense someone's Ki, it's hiding behind those rocks." Purple Heart explained.
" Are you sure you aren't imagining things, Nep? Because I can't sense anything." IF commented, " No, I'm certain." Purple Heart replied while Gohan is in his thinking post again.
' Strange, I can't sense anything... But then again, I can't sense Neptune's Ki too...' " Gohan?" The familiar voice of Compa snapped him out of his thoughts " Can you sense anything?"
" No... excluding us, I can't sense any Ki nearby." Gohan answered " Well, Nep. Maybe you're just imagining things." IF concluded as Purple Heart was about to argue back " But there might be a possibility..." Gohan thought out loud.
" What do you mean?" Compa asked " To be honest, Neptune. Your Ki is a bit... strange." Gohan explained " Strange?" Purple Heart repeated in confusion " Well, I can see your Ki, but I can't sense it..." Gohan answered.
" Now that you said it... So, you mean whatever that person Nep is sensing, might be same as Nep?" IF asked as Gohan nodded.
" Well, we won't know until we tried." Compa commented as Purple Heart faced toward the bunch of rocks again " Hey, whoever you are, I know you're here, come out!"
And as expected, a woman appeared out behind the rocks.
She has teal colored eyes and pure white hair worn down with a few inches cut off and her bangs that are a bit messy. Her clothes are quite similar to Purple Heart as she's wearing a black turtleneck leotard that has sliver and white segments with a cleavage window at the chest, like Neptune, she has boots armor above the knee and six pieces of blue colored scalene triangle shaped wings attached to her back.
" I didn't expect you to notice. Well done." The women appraised " It's been a while, Neptune. Of course, you probably don't know me now..." Gohan raised an eyebrow " Who are you?" He asked " Me? I'm Black Heart, the CPU of Lastation!" Black Heart declared out loud.
' Goddess?! Not only she's addressing Neptune as someone she knows, but her outfit is also very similar to Neptune's, she even got the same symbol in her eyes! Wait, does that means Neptune is a goddess too? ' " Do you know Neptune?" Concluding his thoughts, Gohan asked.
Black Heart smirked " Indeed. I know Neptune very well." Earning a surprise look form Purple Heart " Really?! Then tell me, who am I ?!"
Black Heart laughed " Being asked for help by Neptune! Very well, let me tell you..."
Which seems to lighten the mood " Really!?" Purple Heart asked, " But it's on one condition..." Black Heart replied as Purple Heart tile her head in confusion " Condition? What's that?" In response, Black Heart smirked once more " Do you have to ask...?"
' Is it just me or is the atmosphere repetitively tenser then befor— '
" To defeat me in battle!" Before Gohan can process his sea of thoughts, Black Heart already summoned her technological blue-black broadsword in her hand as she charged towards her opponent, surprising Purple Heart.
Fortunately, she managed to composed herself and blocked the incoming strike, entering into a blade lock.
" Hey! Why are we fighting!?" Purple Heart asked as she pressed more strength onto her blade, slowly winning over the contest of strength.
" Heh!" In response Black Heart merely smirked in confidence as she sidestepped, redirecting Purple Heart's blade to slide across her's as it plunged into the ground.
Eyes widened, Purple Heart quickly ducked, avoiding a strike aimed for the head, pushing herself off the ground, grabbing her sword back in the process, she landed a few meters away from Black Heart.
" We should go help Nep-Nep too!" Compa said as she prepared to engaged the battlefield ahead, but was stopped by Gohan, who's shaking his head in disapproval " Compa, this is their fight, let's not interrupt them." He said in a calm yet demanding tone, as Compa and IF just stood there, observing the battle worriedly.
" Don't worry, if things go out of control, I'll stop them. Okay?" Gohan said as the two seems to ease up a bit.
Back into the fight, Purple Heart was mostly busy dodging and parrying all the strikes aimed towards her.
" What's wrong? The last time we fought, you were way more aggressive than this! Did you lost your guts along with your memories?" Black Heart taunted sarcastically as Purple Heart parried yet another strike, leaping back to gain some distance. " Stop, I don't want to hurt you!" She yelled, trying to end this fight without resorting to violence.
" What? You scared?" Black Heart closes the distance again with a sonic boom as she swung her blade down, which was parried yet again by Purple Heart.
" No, I'm serious! I don't want to hurt you!" Purple Heart leaped back as Black Heart immediately launched forward as the battle had become a tag battle.
" Ha! I would like to see you try!" The fact that none of her attacks is damaging her foe is beginning to get on her nerves, but nevertheless, she kept her cocky act up.
That was until " I said..." Purple Heart lost her patience as she enchanted herself with her Ki " STOP DAMNIT!" She suddenly changed her direction and charged forward Black Heart in a blink of an eye.
Then she rammed the hilt of her Odachi right into Black Heart abdomen, a strong ring of wind was created upon contact as silence erupted.
Then before she knew it, Black Heart felt the air leaving her lungs as she coughed out saliva, she felt her whole body went numb as she falls on her knees, barely holding her blade as support.
Mustering all of her strength, she managed to leap backward avoiding a strike aimed towards her head.
She gasped for air while holding her abdomen in pain ' What was that?! She turned the table with only one strike?! That's... impossible! ' Black Heart can feel her confidence crumbling ' No, it's not over yet, I can still win! ' Refusing to give up, Black Heart tightens her grip on her blade as she launched herself towards her opponent's again.
" Hyaaah!" Black Heart yelled as she swung her blade horizontally, which seems to surprise Purple Heart as she was caught off guard, the blade ended up cutting a small portion of her hair as she leaped back.
' She's still fighting after that strike?! ' Purple Heart thought as Black Heart regained her confidence " It's going to take a lot more than that to take me down!" She smirked as she dashed forward swinging her sword down on her opponent.
Raising her blade, Purple Heart blocked the strike as the two entered into another blade lock, a large crater was formed underneath the two as they continued their struggle to overpower each other, Purple Heart's eyes darted around Black Heart before swiping her off her feet.
But instead of losing her balance, Black Heart dodged the incoming strike as she pushed herself upward, flying up into the sky, in response Purple Heart too followed her as they took the battle to the sky.
They continued to climb upwards until Black Heart suddenly changed her direction towards Purple Heart, using Gravity to boost her momentum, she had her blade ready to strike down her opponent.
Eyes widened, Purple Heart immediately put up her blade in defense, an explosion was heard upon the impact as a huge ring of energy was released throughout the sky.
" Urgh—!" Purple Heart was launched downwards by the immense force of that strike, as she was struggling to regain her flight, Black Heart took the chance to land the finishing blow.
" Haaaaa!" With a mighty battle cry, Black Heart dashed towards her foe as she delivered a horizontal slashed, leaving a blue trace behind.
Once she's through, she repeated the action from a different angle, leaving yet another trace behind, she continued slashing Purple Heart again and again as she accelerated strike after strike.
Diving towards her opponent, Black Heart landed one more strike as she went past Purple Heart, halting a few meters behind, her broadsword is then engulfed with a rainbow colored energy as winds swirled around her furiously.
Then she dived towards Purple Heart with a speed that only Gohan was able to follow.
" Hyaaaaaaah!" Swinging her rainbow enchanted sword for the final strike, Black Heart slashed right through Purple Heart leaving a huge blue trace behind, completing her EXE Drive skills " Infinite Slash "
" Nep-Nep!" Compa yelled worriedly " Hey! Gohan! Isn't that way overboard!?" IF turned to look at the hybrid Saiyan only to see that he's... grinning?
Black Heart panted heavily as she wiped a bit of sweat of her forehead, she then turned around to check on her foe, her eyes widened at utter shock.
Purple Heart remain frozen in the air, there was no movement nor the scream of agony coming from her, then all of a sudden, Purple Heart blurred for a bit before completely vanishing into the air.
" What!?" Black Heart yelled in disbelief as she looked around trying to find her foe.
Then suddenly out of the blue, Black Heart felt a strong force impacted her back with immense speed, causing her to descend towards the ground at a tremendous speed.
She tried to turn around to see what was the immense force that ran into her, but it was avail as ' it ' was having a death grip on her preventing her to move.
But then soon she knows what ' it ' was, as ' it ' whispered right next to her ears.
" Got'cha~" Purple Heart whispered in a playful tone as Black Heart's eyes widened, and before she knows it, both of them collided into the ground with Black Heart being the one at the bottom.
A thunderous bang was heard along with an extremely huge wave of energy. The tremendous impact shock the whole area as rocks fell off from mountains and an enormous crater was created.
Victory!
Item Obtained
Memory Increase - 128MB - 1
Level Up
Neptune lv 36
Compa lv 36
IF lv 36
Gohan, Compa and IF all floated away from the ground to avoid being dragged into the massive destruction below.
As the dust cleared, two figures were seen unconscious in the middle of the crater, one was Neptune who has de-transformed due to her fatigue, the other was Black Heart laying right next to the lilac-haired girl.
" Wow..." IF just muttered out loud in awe while Gohan and Compa went on ahead to check on the vital sign.
As Gohan is checking the unconscious Neptune, he can feel his heart rate increasing all of the sudden.
Gently placing his index and middle finger on her arteries, Gohan can't help but to notice her slender arms and how smooth her skin is.
His eyes widen as he realized what he was thinking, with a flushed faced, he shook off those thoughts as he finished checking Neptune's pulse.
But as he began to check for her respiration rate, despite his uttermost effort, he failed in ignoring the lilac-haired girl's lips which is exhaling and inhaling in a constant rate, at this point, Gohan's face turned even redder.
' Damnit! Gohan! Calm down— ' " Are you okay? Gohan, your face is all red!" Compa's worriedly voice snapped him out of it, Gohan rubbed his temples before nodding.
" So, What now?" IF asked as Gohan stood up " Well, I guess we can only wait till both of them wakes up before questioning Lady Black Heart can we?" Gohan answered.
" Well, seeing them sleeping on the ground together sure makes me sleepy..." IF said as she sat down next to a tree " Yeah... I'm getting a bit sleepy..." Compa yawn as she laid on the ground.
Seeing the girls' already fast asleep, Gohan decides to enter into a deep meditation as he set somewhere next to the girls in a lotus position as half an hour passed.
However unknown to all of them, while the group is somewhere away from reality, Black Heart opened her eyes and quietly flew away, utterly embarrassed.
She winced in pain as she's covered in injuries, then finally the toll caught up as she lost her transformation and fall unconscious into the area below.
Omake
In response, Black Heart smirked once more " Do you have to ask...?"
' Is it just me or is the atmosphere repetitively tenser then befor— '
" To defeat me in battle!" Before Gohan can process his sea of thoughts, Black Heart already had a red-white colored ball in her hand.
All of a sudden, the screen was filled with blocks of blackness as a catchy tune was played
Dunlunlunlunlunlunlunlunlunlun
*You are challenged by Pokémon Traíner Lady Black Heart!
" Heh!" Black Heart smirked as she threw the Poké Ball towards the area between the two.
" Mewtwo! I choose you!" She yelled as a bipedal feline that is 6 feet 7 inches tall came into view, it has a white body with a pronounced purple tail and stomach, purple pupils, bulbous fingertips, feline head, and a mass of flesh that connects from the center of its back to its head behind its neck.
" No way..." Compa muttered in shock " How is Nep going to win against Mewtwo?" IF hugged her head in despair.
But Purple Heart's confidence smile didn't disappear as she threw out her own purple and pink colored Poké Ball, shocking Black Heart.
" Impossible! A Master Ball..." She muttered as she tried to figure out what Pokémon is captured inside this Pokè Ball.
Then as the smoke cleared " Venonat! I choose you!" Purple Heart declared as a purple bug covered with fur came into view, it has pink eyes, grey antenna, and tiny hands, standing on its tiny foot, it let out a high pitch voice which sounds similar to its name 'Venonat'
Silence filled the scene as everyone except Purple Heart deadpanned " You... used a Master Ball to catch a Venonat!?" Black Heart asked in disbelief " Well, I ran out of other Poké Balls... So, yeah." Purple Heart scratched the back of her head.
It's at this point, Gohan questioned his sanity.
AN: In case if you're wondering, Black Heart,s PL is if not equal to then a bit lower then Purple Heart without enchanting herself with Ki.
Alright, now that I finally finished this chapter, it's gonna be a while till I'll be able to write the next chapter, as final Exam is coming in fast, and I really should spend more time studying.
Anyway! Until then, stay tuned, my friends!