Hey everyone, Bropower125 here, already working on the third chapter now that the second is out and has had some time to be read by people and what not.

Last time Gray was dragged away by an Ancient Dragon and now we are picking up from there, also in between the actual writing of this chapter and the last I did some actual plot writing, now that I feel a bit more confident with the fanfic itself. Needless to say this should make things more consistent from here on out.

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A stranger watched from the shadows as the Ancient Dragon carried Gray off to it's home, a cave underneath the area it was currently in. As it took heavy earth-shaking strides it's stalker followed behind while the dragon itself was completely unaware of the hidden threat.

The stranger hopped from bush to bush ever so slightly closing in on the Ancient Dragon and waiting a while whenever he got a little too close.

Eventually the dragon had reached its home, a large cave underneath the area it had been hunting in when attacked by Gray before sniffing the air around it and smelling something it shouldn't have, the person following it.

It quickly turned around and spewed flames towards the area it had smelled the intruder but didn't notice it had completely missed it's follower and could no longer smell him either to make sure due to the smoke created by the ensuing fire.

As soon as it turned around and started walking into it's den it suddenly felt a stinging pain as it's tail suddenly separated from it's body and it finally saw its attacker.

As it inspected it's opponent it could see green hair which did not hang down at all but did cover its owners forehead, the owner itself was asian and had purple eyes, he wore a blue jean jacket with a white undershirt underneath, and on his lower body he had a pair of black sweatpants and black shoes, all of which had patches all over indicating quite a few tears, whether it was from fighting or not.

The Green Haired opponent pulled out two short green and black blades and began to slice and dice the dragon before it finally collapsed, not allowing it a moment to even react, and forcing it to let go of Gray before drawing its last breath.

At some point before the short and one sided fight had ended Gray had manged to wake up from his unconscious state.

"Thanks for saving me, I didn't know I was going to get knocked out like that." Gray said before extending his hand.

"You clearly underestimated your opponent, you were in a hopeless fight from the start, also you forgot to say your name" The green haired stranger deadpanned at the end.

Gray took a moment before realizing what his saviour had said,

"Oh, sorry! My name is Gray, and you are?" Gray apologized and said his name before asking the green haired individual in front of him his own name.

"The name is Argent, and yes, that is like the mineral, and no my hair doesn't have anything to do with the name because the element that turns green when rusted is Copper." Argent goes into unnecessary depth about his own name.

"Anyways, I was sent by someone in Planeptune who had been worried about you and asked me to keep an eye on you, thanks to them you didn't become dragon chow, either way I am to follow you until you get back to the basilicom" Argent then explains why he was there in the first place.

It had seemed like people were watching out for Gray in the end and for that he was thankful.

-X-

Half an hour later

As the two walked through an abandoned part of Planeptune to get to the basilicom quicker Gray tripped on something unusual.

"What's a grey necktie doing here?" Gray asks out loud, not entirely noticing the pun he unintentionally made.

His companion Argent stiffened like a pole at the comment before quickly scanning his surroundings.

"I can't see who placed that necktie there but keep your eyes peeled, I have a feeling we are about to be ambushed." Argent says as he continues to scan around.

Suddenly out of nowhere a person popped up.

"Thanks for finding my necktie, it's a shame I have to tie up some rather loose ends. Do you know them? One has green hair and purple eyes and the other goes by the name of Gray." The owner of the necktie says as he speaks in a haughty tone and puts his rather dully colored article of clothing back around his neck.

"Oh, well, since you two match the descriptions I guess you two must be them, it's a shame I have to kill you, it really is, I hope you have no hard feelings." The man says as he turns off a concealment spell and reveals what he really looks like.

The man has grey buzzcut hair and white pupiless eyes with an almost ghostly white complexion. He wears a black suit, with a white undershirt and the grey tie mentioned before.

He also wears black dress pants and white shoes, definitely giving off whatever spooky feel he was going for.

Suddenly a large blade of fluctuating light blues and pinks appears inside of the foes hands as he swings it to his side with enough force to blow some leaves away from him signifying more strength than he originally let on.

"Oh, I guess I still need to introduce myself before I slaughter you." The villain gives off a short cackle before regaining his composure.

"The name's NullData, better not forget, there'll be a quiz later if you manage to survive." The newly introduced NullData says before laughing maniacally and charging straight towards Argent.

NullData throws a swing at Argent as he nears him only for the green haired ninja biker to jump back just out of range of the sword flailing madman. Mere moments later a small plume of smoke comes out from where NullData was.

"Tsk. Tsk. Tsk. A bomb? Was that all you had? We both know something like that isn't enough to stop my Data Shield, Argent." Gray turns to look at Argent before NullData lets out another bout of crazed laughter.

"Oh, you didn't tell him? You didn't tell him that I slaughtered your parent's only to leave you alive to vow revenge against me? Oh perfect, you have trust issues. I'd laugh but I don't need to, I'm already just gleeful." NullData prattles on about murdering Argent's parents while Gray tries to sneak up on Null from behind.

"Don't think I don't know you're behind me. Kids like you have no honor these days."

Gray quickly tries to move away only for Null to blast him in the back with a ball of magic data.

"Thought my blade was the only thing in my arsenal? Well surprise! It isn't. Now were we. Oh right! I was about to kill Argent, so do me a favor and wait for your turn over there." Null mocked Gray as he started walking back over to Argent, only to get shot in the back by a large fireball.

"Ooh, now you have my interest! Is that an enchanted weapon! Oh how delightful, I bet you think that thing is unbreakable, right? Well let me show you what the power of data is compared to your puny enchanted weapon." NullData turns around and starts heading towards Gray when suddenly he disappears leaving both Gray and Argent confused until he reappears with his sword swung to his right and Gray's weapon right in two. Null then proceeds to smash up bits and pieces of the staff until he reaches the sapphire and finds his blade can't break it.

"How mysterious, something my blade can't break. Bah guess I'll just have to throw it away!" Null says as he tosses the large blue gem somewhere behind him.

Null then heads back over to Argent only for the green haired ninja to turn into a piece of wood where he was before and to appear above Null.

"Oh my, we both know how this ends." Null says as he grabs Argents leg as he comes down and throws him at a nearby spot of rubble.

"Hmm, you know what, this didn't feel like it was worth my time, I think I'll spare you for now, it's not like me to do this so the next time we meet you should try to be stronger, not that it'll do you any good." Null simply turns and walks away pulling a grey bowler cap out and putting it on.

-X-

Instead of instantly waking Argent up, Gray went and searched for the sapphire that NullData had tossed and was pleasantly surprised when he found it in a pile of rubble not far off from where it had been thrown.

As soon as Gray had found the large blue sapphire Argent had woken up on his own and found himself with a pounding headache and a possible concussion.

"Jeez, this isn't the first time I've gone up against him but that was ridiculous! What has he been doing to get that strong, he was never that hard to fight." Argent asked himself out loud.

"Oh, you're awake." Gray said loud enough for Argent to hear it.

"Any idea what that guy wanted with you?" Argent asks as he gets up off the ground and looks over at Gray.

"Not a clue, but there's definitely something fishy about him, I don't want to leave him out on the loose either so I'm going to help you with defeating him." Gray tells Argent, conviction burning in his eyes as he finds a purpose for the time being. Plus, if he was able to beat NullData he might get answers on why he was brought here and how to get home. The opposite could be said as well, that there isn't a home to go back to, either way he needed answers and it seemed like NullData was the best candidate to give out those answers for the moment. Until a better candidate for info showed up Gray decided to team up with Argent.

-X-

Well, wouldn't you know it, this is the end of Arc 1, I know it was a relatively short arc, and relatively short chapter, but the other arcs will be longer. So no need to worry, the first arc was to simply get things started and give our character some form of purpose and what not.