Act III: The Galaxy and Chaos
Chapter 3: Alliances forged and rejoined
Time before prologue: 11: 15: 29 to go
Morning. The sun rises over the forest. But in the middle of the forest, a flash a metal flashes. Miles away from the metal, the ship known as Number 50: Blackship of Corn flies. Number 82: Heartlandraco looks through a telescope at the top of the tallest mast of the ship hoping to find Jake and his allies but was blinded by the flash.
"Aaaaah!" Heartlandraco yells as he falls from the mast and onto the floor of the ship. Dark Mist and Shogi Rook comes up to their fallen, obese ally.
"What now, Heartlandraco?" Dark Mist hissed angrily, "You complained too many times in this hunt. This better be good."
"Something shiny blinded me." Heartlandraco explained as he handed Dark Mist the telescope, "See for yourself."
Dark Mist grabbed the telescope and walk to the bow of the ship. He looks through the telescope and looks around the forest and something blinds him as well. He pulls back and said, "There is something from the distance. Lets observe."
Before the ship heads toward the direction of the shine, a stick hits the bottom of the ship. The ship keeps going forward but after the next couple of sticks hits the ship, Backship of Corn gets "annoyed". The ship stops in its track and everybody in the ship falls down due to the unexpected stop.
"Number 50!" Dark Mist yelled, "Why are you stopping?!"
Dark Mist looks around the ship to see the problem as the other members of his party got to the deck.
"What was that?" Number 7: Lucky Straight said as Focus Force, Zombiestien, and Diamond Crab King appear behind him on the deck.
"Thats I want to know." Dark Mist replied.
Then a log tied to a rope is thrown onto the ship and got stuck to the ship's side. Dark Mist sees this looks at his comrades and they shrug back. Then a fiend with an organic mane and and green, furry coat climbs up the rope and lands on the ground on his back.
"Finally, I'm save!" the fiend said as Dark Mist picks him up.
"Who the hell are you!?" Dark Mist hissed.
"I'm a distant traveller looking for salvation." the fiend replied.
"Don't forget about us, Brron!" Another fiend wearing a lab coat and glasses get on the ship. After him, more fiends appear from climbing the rope.
"What the hell is this?" Heartlandraco exclaimed, "A fiend's pirateship? No its a Number pirateship! So get your asses out of here or we will let dark and broody here to beat you up!"
"Number 22…..beats up….intruders." Zombiestien said as he walks to the intruders.
"Oh wait!" Brron said, "You want to know why we are in this predicament."
"Try me." Dark Mist said as he signals Zombiestein to hold off his attack.
"We lost our original ship six days ago." Brron says, "You see we are hunting a certain boy."
"Jake?" Dark Mist growled.
"Number 39: Utopia. The one boy in the same." Brron said in a wicked grin, "The name's Brron."
Dark Mist puts Brron down as Brron signals the last fiend who got on the ship to drop the log anchor. The ship flies smoothly to its target again.
"Okay, how you cross paths with the boy?" Dark Mist asked.
"Oh." Brron said as the lab coat wearing fiend, Kozacky, walks next to him, "He...well...interrupt me in a plot."
"What plot?" Number 52: Diamond Crab King asked.
"Ooooh! Story time!" Brron said as Dark Mist slowly loses his temper, "I came up with the plan to kidnap the sweet, kind apprentice of the great Dark Magician so I can forcely marry her and return to my status. But that boy put a stop to that. So I want to get back even after the girl, Mana, is said dead."
"Dead you say?" Dark Mist looks at his comrades and back at Brron, "Are you sure?"
"Yes, I'm sure!" Brron said, "But with this knowledge to my advantage, I got a trump plan to ruin that boy once for all!"
"If it ever succeed." Kozacky whispers to himself but Brron hears it and grabs Kozaky by the neck.
"It will succeed! Am I clear!" Brron exclaimed as Kozacky shakes his head, "I may beaten in the past by a duel but not a Ordinary nobody is making a fool out of me!"
Dark Mist looks at this surprisingly and devilishly. So much insanity and rage. It creates intense darkness in his heart. Dark Mist thought, This might be great to my advantage.
"So you know that teenage brat is an Ordinary?" Shogi Rook said as Brron and Kozaky turn to him.
"Yes, I knew." Brron said as he lets go of Kozaky, "One of my spies told me that he confessed to Mana that he is an Ordinary."
"I just got a change of heart." Dark Mist said unexpectedly, "I'll let you and your group on this ship considering we both got similar goals."
"So this is a partnership you're proposing?" Brron said as he held out his hand.
"Yes, I am." Dark Mist said as he grabs Brron's hand and shakes it.
Both of the fiends let go as Brron commanded, "All right set the sails! Lets find that scurvy rats once and for all!"
Number 7: Lucky Straight walks to Dark Mist and says, "Are you sure you want this?"
"I do." Dark Mist said, "But I suspect he lied about how he knew Jake is an Ordinary. So we keep an eye on him and his companions." Dark Mist looks at Brron's group. He estimated about around thirty in Brron's group. Dark Mist needs to plan carefully now with Brron as a "partner". Very carefully. Dark Mist thought.
Then three figures fly through the sky and caught the ship by surprise. The figures' speed is so great that the ship rocketed. Many of the ship's passengers lost their footing.
"What now?" Heartlandraco yelled as he looks through the telescope to take a better look at the figures. Brron grabs the telescope from the obese dragons and look at the figures himself.
"They look like a couple dragon pretenders." Brron said, "No harm."
"Let me see that!" Dark Mist said as he grabs the telescope from Brron and looks through it. He immediately recognizes one of the figures as the one who fooled him when he first attack Jake. The armored warriors with wings and a tekko on the big right arm. "Junk Warrior." Dark Mist growled as slid the telescope to a smaller form.
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Jake's and Summoned Skull's groups walk near the map's final point. Whether its a key to saving Mana or a doorway to another world. We don't know until we get there. Jake thought to himself. During last night, he had the same dream again. But this time Yuma and Astral is teamed up with the same person that owns Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon. Jake saw how Photon Dragon was so powerless and empty. Later in the duel, even when his own chaos armor failed against the duo's opponents (who look strange to Jake), he has sacrafice by Photon Dragon's user to summon something up. Jake never knew the end results of the duel but it did puzzled him.
They kept walking until they hear noises from the air. They stop and listen to the noise.
"Sounds like a bunch Mecha Beasts flying by." Gauntlet Launcher said as he looks around the air.
Jake turns to Summoned Skull, who just shrugs. Then three figures fly by the air very fast.
"What the hell!?" Zubaba General yelled as the sound of engines hits his ears. The three figures turned and approach the group. They land at front of them. The left being is four armed with five orbs on the chest and four bladed wings. The armor is black, wears a weird head piece, and is slightly taller than Summoned Skull. The right being is the biggest of the group wearing red and have bladed wings. The beings carries a huge melee weapon at the back as well as a beast-like head piece. The middle of the bunch is purple, grey armor with the right arm bigger than the left arm carrying a tekko. The being is also wears a scarf, a face mask, and a pair of wings that folded behind. Jake's group know the middle being.
"Junk Warrior!" Jake yelled as he runs to his his bumps Junk Warrior's right hand which contains the weapon. Jake jumps back in pain as he grabs his right hand.
"Sorry about that." Junk Warrior apologized, "Should have gone with my left."
"No you're all right." Jake said as he fights the pain.
"Who are they?" Summoned Skull said in a unwelcoming mood.
"Seriously you don't know who they are?" a surprised Gauntlet Launcher said.
"We are the Junk Group." said a armored warrior in the woods. The warrior jumps and lands next to his friends. The warrior's armor is orange, white, and black and wears a helmet with only eye opening on the right. The warrior also carry a bow and sharp-pointed arrows on his back as well as a backpack.
"Of course we're not surprised that our reputation hasn't gone far." The four-armed being says.
"We only cared that if the world flies free." The big, red armored warrior says.
"I was planning to come back alone but my own friends were on to me." Junk Warrior explained as he introduce his comrades the order they are introduced, "This is Junk Destroyer, Junk Berserker, and Junk Archer."
Gauntlet Launcher looks at screams like a fangirl as they are introduced. "My childhood heroes!"
"Calm down, Launcher." Excalibur said as he calms down Gauntlet Launcher, "They are just everyday warriors just like us."
"So which of you is the Ordinary boy?" Junk Destroyer asked.
Jake and some of his friends went eye shot as they turn to Summoned Skull. At the same time Summoned Skull turn to Jake.
"What?" Summoned Skull said in a angry but surprising mood.
"Oh no." Junk Destroyer said.
"Thanks a lot, Destroyer!" Junk Berserker whispered to Junk Destroyer.
Summoned Skull walked up to Jake. "You're an Ordinary and you didn't tell me or my companions." He then turned to Jake's group and says, "You knew?"
"Yes, we know he's was an Ordinary." Gigo said. Kisara, Winged Kuriboh, and Flip watch frighteningly as Summoned Skull turn to Jake. Don't want their friend get killed, Excalibur and Skill Gainer slowly unsheathe their swords. Junk Warrior slowly signals his warriors to prepare for anything.
"Summoned Skull." Tori said as the fiend turn to her, "I knew he's an Ordinary since last night. Don't judge him by his type. Judge by his actions. If it weren't for him, I would be incredibly injured by Photon Dragon last night!"
Summoned Skull look around and looks at Jake, who looks at him at the eye. Where does all this remind him?
Flashback
A young magician of thirteen in purple armor fights a purple dragon. He used every spell his teacher taught him, now he's done for. Nearby, a younger fiend stands watch. He was exiled out of his own society because he's got a different view from the Archfiend rule. For that, he also got beaten up bad and left out to fend for himself. The skull bone covered fiend now tries to figure is to interviened to save the young magician's life or let nature takes it course.
The fiend starts to walk away until a green staff lands next to him. The fiend turns around to see the young teen about to be killed by the dragon. No, I can't let that boy die, the fiend thought as he grabs the staff, It will not happen.
The fiend gets out of his hiding spot and throws the staff at the dragon. The dragon yells in pain as the staff pierces it's skin. The dragon moves back giving the magician more room to get out of the way. The fiend then covers his arms with lightening with all of his might and shoots it at the staff. The attack resulted in the dragon to be covered by lightening and getting baked in the inside. The dragon falls dead on the ground as the lightning fades.
The fiend walks up to the dragon as the magician cautiously walks up to the fiend. The fiend turns to the magician. The fiend grabs the staff and gives it to its owner. The teen grabs it and looks at the fiend. The fiend smiles as he faints and falls to the ground.
Later, the fiend wakes to see a campfire at front him as well as the same young magician he saved before. He looked at his body to see he's covered in bandages.
"Whats your name?" the magician asked.
The fiend turn to look at the boy and replied, "I don't have one. I'm just an outcast."
"Oh." the boy said, "Well, my name is Mahad."
The two turn to the direction of the voice. Both of them see an elderly man in purple clothing more ancient than Mahad's.
"Master Dark Sage!" Mahad said as he runs up to his master.
The fiend smiles at the situation. Dark Sage looks up to the fiend and says, "Well, at least you're not dead. Who are you?"
"Master, he doesn't have one!" Mahad exclaimed, "But if it weren't for him, I wouldn't be here!"
The wise magician walks up to the fiend and says, "You save my apprentice. Why?"
"My thoughts are in question." the fiend replied, "But my heart tells me otherwise. I couldn't let an innocent soul die."
"But you killed a dragon."
"The dragon, I had seen it flew from Azrael's territory many times." the fiend said, "This dragon is an agent of Azrael who helps Azrael in his slaughter of innocents."
"Hmmmm." Dark Sage hums to himself, "Maybe I could let it slide. But killing other beings other than yourself is not a pleasure but a curse. Kill one too many and you might accidently kill what is most precious to you."
"I will remember that, wise one." the fiend said as he gets up.
"Where do you think you're going?" Dark Sage asked the fiend.
"Nowhere." the fiend replied.
Mahad blocks the fiend's path. "Please stayed with us until you're all better. You're all beaten and torn up."
The fiend smiles and pats the magician's head. He looks at Dark Sage who smiles back at him. The fiend looks at the young magician and says, "I'll stay for a while."
End of Flashback
Summon Skull thought of his first encounter of his best friend and his mentor. They saved him despite of his even gave him a name later on. So does this apply to Jake? Spare him? He's was an Ordinary said his friends. But what gives him the right to kill some innocent.
At Jake's end, he's ready for anything. But he wasn't prepared this. A pat in the head from the fiend of lightning. Jake's friend, Tori, the Magnet Warriors, and the Junk group watches in disbelief.
"What the hell?!" Excalibur yelled.
"That wasn't expected." Tori said as she takes a picture of the act.
"It wasn't expected at all." Gagaga Cowboy added as Winged Kuriboh fainted next to Kisara.
"So does that means you accepted the boy for what he is?" Skill Gainer asked Summoned Skull.
"It's quite obvious." Summoned Skull replied, "I was myself different when I was younger. I beaten and kicked out by my own kind. But a kind master and apprentice took me in. That apprentice made feel right in their world, I owe him that much."
"But me?" Jake asked.
"You, despite having different circumstances than my situation, are not different." Summoned Skull said, "Mahad helped me, I will help you."
Jake couldn't believe this. He never expect this side of Summoned Skull to have a soft side. Maybe he misjudged as a hard head like any other being he met as a friend.
"I don't know what to say." Jake said.
"The words are "Thank you for understanding and not shocking my ass."" Summoned Skull said as his right arm cackle in electricity.
"Okay! Okay! Thank you!" Jake reply in a worried mood as Summoned Skull settled down.
"So what you guys doing here?" Zubaba General finally asked the Junk Group while Gauntlet Launcher hovers.
"Looking for any trace of Dark Flattop." Junk Warrior said, "And along the way, I was giving Jake an extra pair of clothes."
"What why?" Jake asked.
"Take a good look at yourself." Gigo said as Jake looks at himself. His attire is ragged and torn due to the many months of being in the wilderness and many battles.
"So between you and me." Junk Archer said as he approaches Jake with a bag containing the clothes, "Get these on quick."
Jake does so as he hides behind a tree and changed. "Where did you get these clothes at and how do you got my measurements?" Jake's voiced ask a torn hoody and shirt is thrown.
"From my observation, I say you an average teen boy's shirt/pants size." Junk Warrior replied.
After he was done, he came out from behind the tree in his new attire. The new attire is a black shirt, a black-grey hoodie with a 39 imprinting same as his tattoo, and new jeans.
"Nice clothing." Jake said as he looks at his new clothing. He then picks up his old clothing, "Now what to do with this old pieces of clothing."
"Give it here." Summoned Skull said as Jake gave him the clothing, "I got a good use with this."
Gigo smiled as Kisara and Winged Kuriboh go around Jake seeing his new appearance. The rest of the group watches this but Flip, who is next to Excalibur, starts barking at a different direction.
"What is it." Excalibur turned to his barking pet. He then turns to the direction to where Flip is barking at. "Crap, Its the knaves."
The group turns to where Excalibur and Flip is looking at. They see Blackship of Corn flying towards them.
"Guys, we need to go to that gate or Dark Mist and his posse will have our necks." Zubaba General said as he start going towards their final destination.
"When do we back out of a challenge?" Skill Gainer said as he dodges from an arrow that was aimed at his back.
Jake looks at the arrow very closely at his design and gulps. "This type of arrow is used by Dark World fiends." Jake said. Another arrow appears next Jake. Jake turns around to see a Dark World fiend shooting arrows at him. The most scary part that he sees the fiend on Blackship of Corn.
"So Dark World fiends has joined with Dark Mist's hunting party." Summoned Skull said as he turns to Jake, "Let me guess, they know."
"Trust me, they know I'm an Ordinary." Jake said, "But if it weren't for Brron, I wouldn't be here."
"Brron is a sick bastard, I know." Summoned Skull said, "I would never imagined him going over boundaries to get more troops under his power."
"So what are we going to do?" Tori asked.
"We see your final destination as we flew here." Junk Warrior said, "No doubt they are also going there originally. But we attract them to you all. So me and pals will hold them off until you guys open the gate."
"Gate?" Gigo said, "You mean…."
"Yup." Junk Archer answered before Gigo, "You guys are close."
"Now finish it and save Mana." Junk Warrior said as he flew off to . Junk Destroyer and Junk Berserker followed. Junk Archer then ran to the forest covering his allies.
"Come on! It now or never." Excalibur said as he grabs Flip and heads to the supposed gate.
Jake and the rest of the group soon followed as he picks up Kisara. Here we go again. Jake thought, I'm step closer, Mana!