Chapter 10
Demons and Dragons
At a long cave made out of dark red dirt, lit up yellow by something unknown.
"I guess that girl is using her powers to light this cave up." Link theorized.
"Just keep your eyes peeled for any traps or monsters, I don't wanna stumble on any!" Frog said.
"So I guess we just keep going through this thing?" a boy with black hair wearing a black belly-shirt, Sai, asked.
"That's the idea." Molly answered.
"Yeah, there isn't much else to do." Zach added.
"Geez man, what if this cave NEVER ends?" a yellow bulldog standing on two legs, Jake, wondered.
"I wouldn't put it past this Darkness really." Steven said in agreement.
"Hold on." Stranger ordered, putting his palm out.
"What is it?" asked Chowder, looking at the bounty hunter.
"There is something heading toward us."
"Oh no..." Gaaranooki mumbled worriedly as Ivory started to play suspenseful music.
"Yoshi yoshi?" the green dinosaur exclaimed as they all heard faint rumbling noises. Maxwell pulled out his notebook and summoned a 'flying undetectable video camera' and the winged electronic fluttered forward.
"Rotom ro rotom!" the Pokemon exclaimed, jealous of the summoned object.
"Don't worry about it Rotom, its just better safe than sorry." Miroku assured. After a moment of silence, the camera returned to Maxwell and he watched the footage it had captured. The human seemed surprised and handed it to Link so the swordsman could see what had happened. Kirby, a pink puffball with red feet, jumped on Links shoulder to get a look as well.
"Its some kind of...mechanical dragon thing with two huge cannons on its back." the Hyilian said, both confused and alarmed.
"Wait, let me have a look at that." Zach ordered and snatched the camera. "Oh crap, its Machinedramon!"
"Question, who the heck is Machinedramon?" Jake asked.
"He is really powerful that's what. Get ready for a heck of a fight guys." Zach said, clenching his fists as the rumbling got louder and louder.
"Th-there he iiiiiiiiiisssss!" Chowder exclaimed and pointed at the Digimon.
Machinedramon aimed his cannons at the heroes. "Hmhmhm, just what I was looking for, VICTIMS."
"I don't know who you are, but I can see you going down. Going DOWN!" Miroku exclaimed and Ivory started playing the music to the song 'In My Head'.
"Giga Cannon." the Digimon said in a creepy monotone and fired two red beams from the cannons on his back. Link jumped forward and took out his mirror shield, reflecting one of the beams right back at the machine and Maxwell summoned an 'indestructible wall' to block the other.
"With Maxwell's broken summoning power, you cant beat US!" Steven gloated.
"I wouldn't be so sure about that." Machinedramon stated and his other beam blasted through the wall and knocked Maxwell backward, the wall at least weakening the beams power.
"Its the Darkness, he is disabling Maxwell's better summons." Sai theorized, took out a paintbrush, and summoned six black and white wolves. The beasts charged at Machinedramon and jumped at him.
"You must be suicidal." the Digimon said and blasted the wolves to ink splatters with Giga Cannon. Stranger aimed his crossbow at the mechanical monster and fired a couple of Boombats at him, but the explosions failed to even make a dent.
"You'll have to do better than that." Machinedramon said, spun his spiked other arm like a drill, and shot it forward. This nearly gored Stranger in the chest, but he was agile enough to dodge the fast weapon.
"Go for the chain! Go for the chain!" Molly exclaimed. Kirby flashed white for just a second and he was suddenly wearing a golden knights helmet and wielded a blue sword. He and Link charged and slashed repeatedly at it, but all it left was scratches and Machinedramon slowly retracted it, not fazed at all.
"This dude is indestructible!" Jake exclaimed.
"Yoshi Yoshi!" Yoshi exclaimed and transformed into his Super Dragon form. He spat fireball after fireball at the Digimon, but no matter how many he spat, it did no damage at all.
"Its useless to try and stop me." Machinedramon said and pinned Yoshi to the wall of the cave with his spiked arm and started drilling into the dinosaurs body, turning the chain red with blood. Stranger quickly smashed the wall nearby Yoshi and yanked the dinosaur free, but he was barely alive. Maxwell summoned an 'antidote' and Yoshi swallowed it in an instant using his long tongue, and his wound slowly began to close up.
"Just how long do you think you can keep that up?" said Machinedramon as he retracted his spiked arm and shot his clawed arm forward.
"No you don't!" Gaaranooki yelled and grabbed the chain with a bunch of sand arms and pulled it back, halting its momentum.
"Giga Cannon." Machinedramon fired his beams at Gaaranooki, his sand shield doing little good, and the redhead was knocked away, leaving a trail of blood as he skidded to a halt on the cave floor. Machinedramon chuckled as he retraced his arm and watched Gaaranooki struggle to even lift his head.
"Guys! Why do you keep taking turns trying to hurt him! Just get him all at once! Pow! Bam! Smash!" Chowder exclaimed, waving his arms.
"Kids got a point." Zach said and blasted two torrents of water from his hands.
"Rotom rotom!" Rotom shouted and shot Thunderbolt after Thunderbolt while Molly shot Links light arrows. Kirby, still in his Cutter form, threw boomerang-like projectiles, Stranger shot Super Stingbees, Link threw bombs, Sai painted a couple of hawks, Ivory created multicolored shockwaves while playing fast-paced music, and Maxwell summoned a 'giant bazooka'.
"Alright frog, lets go, you're helping too." Jake said, stretched out his arm, and grabbed Frog.
"How can I help?" the amphibian exclaimed.
"I dunno...but we'll think of something!" the dog replied and stretched out his other arm toward Machinedramon, making his fist big as well.
"Um, kid why aren't you helping?" Miroku asked, pointing at Steven. "Even Chowder is attacking him." the monk added, pointing to Chowder who had just regurgitated up a gigantic watermelon, hopped on top of it, and rolled it toward Machinedramon.
"You have no room to talk!" Molly exclaimed.
"Well, I'm the defensive kind of guy...so kid, why aren't you-"
"Because my power is...evil." Steven replied.
"I'll just slap some cleanse tags on you then."
"Do you have...something inside of you?" Gaaranooki asked weakly, dragging himself toward Steven and Miroku.
"HEY MAXWELL! An antidote would be-" Miroku was promptly hit in the head by Molly throwing the antidote that Maxwell just summoned.
"Thank you." Gaaranooki said and drank it.
"What do you mean little badger man?"
"Its a raccoon suit." the redhead grumbled. "And I mean...a demon." Steven looked shocked at Gaaranooki's statement.
"A demon? Does that mean you guys are possessed?" Miroku asked.
"No, I don't know if he has one, but my demon only possesses me if I fall asleep. I could also release it willingly, but I only do that as a last resort. Its pretty sad, nobody liked me and-"
"I do." Steven said.
"Huh?" Gaaranooki and Miroku said in unison, looking at him.
"Yeah." Steven said as all of the attacks collided with Machinedramon.
"I don't like it." he continued, Links bombs had no effect while his arrows that Molly fired just bounced off of the machine pathetically along with Strangers Super Stingbees and Kirby's boomerangs, and Zach's torrents only made Machinedramon wet while Rotom's Thunderbolts didn't even give him a jolt.
"I don't like talking about it." Steven went on, Maxwell's bazooka blasts were just as effective as Yoshi's fireballs and Machinedramon knocked him and Ivory away with his Giga Cannon move, the musical insects shockwaves did nothing to the machine anyway.
"And I defiantly don't like it when it takes over." Steven explained, Machinedramon blew Sais hawks to inky bits with missiles and he grabbed and slammed Jake into the wall of the cave using his claw arm, hurting Frog as well.
"But my buddies are in danger." Steven said, Machinedramon gored Chowder with his drill hand and pinned him to the ceiling and the Digimon melted his watermelon with streams of fire from his cannons. Machinedramon then began to rapidly use Giga Cannon, aiming both at the heroes and the cave itself in order to exterminate them once and for all, weather it be from a cave in or the attack itself.
"So I have to do something!" the boy exclaimed. Suddenly, his body became hunched over, his arms spread out while his hands formed a permanent 'C' shape, his eyes turned yellow and his hair stood up straight and stuck out in front of him. Most unusual of all, blue bubbles made of some kind of energy were flowing around him.
"Steven? What's going on with you?" Molly asked, trying to avoid the Digimons blasts.
"Don't worry about me." he assured, his voice sounding a bit like he was underwater. "I'll handle him." Steven stepped toward Machinedramon, but the Digimon didn't seem to care about his new look.
"Hey Machinedramon! Prepare to be turned into scrap!" Steven yelled. This caught the mechanical dragons attention as he stopped firing wildly and turned to face the human.
"Is that right? Very well then," Machinedramon pointed his cannons right at Steven, "you will be the first to perish."
"I doubt it." Steven retorted and narrowed his yellow eyes at the beast.
"Giga Cannon." Machinedramon fired, but Steven swiftly jumped out of the way and began running along the wall of the cave by his hands and feet. He ran up the ceiling over to the other side and jumped at the Digimon, grabbing his cannons with his 'C' shaped hands.
"You think you can stop me just because I cant hit you? What a fool." Machinedramon launched missiles that made a 180 degree turn and headed right for Steven. The boy didn't move though, he took the blasts head on but still maintained his grip on Machinedramon's cannons, even though he had a couple large wounds on his body.
"Rotom rotom!" Rotom exclaimed.
"I know man, DUDE you are gonna get yourself killed!" Jake yelled.
"Look again." Sai said and pointed at Stevens body. To his shock, as well as many others in the group, the wounds were slowly closed up by what looked like bubbles forming around them.
"Just what IS this kid?" Link wondered and Ivory started playing the underground music from Mario.
He does have a demon...but what is it? Gaaranooki pondered mentally.
"I cant hit you, but I can still kill your friends." Machinedramon said to Steven and pointed his drill arm at Molly and his other at Zach.
"Leave my frerfs ALONE!" Steven yelled and started pulling the robots cannons backward, hoping to rip them off.
"Its futile." the Digimon said, both in Stevens threat and his attempt to break his cannons. Machinedramon fired both of his arms at his targets, but his attacks were redirected by Miroku who aimed them at himself by a vortex of wind from his hands pulling them.
"That wont save them." Machinedramon explained and, faster than anyone could react, his arms went straight through the monk, killing him on the spot and gored both Zach and Molly in the chests, pinning them against the cave walls and killing them as well. Miroku's body fell limp, supported only by the chains as blood trickled through the openings in them and down to the ground. Zach's and Molly's blood ran down the sides of the cave, creating two slowly expanding pools. Machinedramon slowly retracted his arms, chuckling evilly as the two bodies fell to the ground with a sickening crack and Miroku's landed face don in his own blood. Machinedramon's hands were crimson and he spun his drill arm, scattering blood droplets all around him.
"You...you..." Steven fell silent and let go of Machinedramon's cannons, falling off of his back and onto the ground behind him.
"I told you already." the Digimon said and knocked Steven into the wall nearby with a swing of his tail. The boy was seriously injured from the close range attack and was not moving at all, nor were the gashes in his body healing.
"This...this is horrible. Why Machinedramon? Why did you do this? Why did you heartlessly KILL THEM!" Link shouted in anguish.
"Irrelevant, telling you why wont bring them back to life. Don't worry, you'll soon be joining them." the Digimon replied, aiming his cannons at his next targets.
OOO
Steven awoke in a dark and mysterious room. The only things he could see were the black sand he was standing on, and a gigantic cage filled with water that mysteriously did not flow out through the gaps in the bars.
"Where am I?" he wondered. "Last thing I remembered was...am I DEAD?" he exclaimed, his voice cracking.
"You would have been if it weren't for me." a deep and demonic voice said.
"Who said that?"
"Look right in front of you." the voice ordered. Steven was shocked to see something gigantic and red crawl its way right to the bars. It grabbed them with its four gigantic pinchers, all of them covered in knife-like spines. Its six legs were long and sharp and its gigantic tail swung back and forth, ending in two huge spikes. Its face was the most unusual, its rather small mouth for its size was rounded like a lampreys and had rows and rows of teeth, two large pinchers were on the sides with curved spikes along the outer edge of them, its two bloodshot yellow eyes had red slits and were full of malice and rage, and it had large antenna that were covered in small poison spines. Steven was horrified at the beast before him and started to back away.
"I don't know who you are but I am getting the heck outta here!" Steven exclaimed and started to run.
"Don't waste your time trying to escape, you cant." the beast said, making Steven stop in his tracks.
"Then who are you?"
"You know who I am little boy."
"Wait a second...NO! You cant be!"
"That's right."
"Y-you're my demon! You're More!"
"Now you've got it."
"Just what am I doing here? Let me out of this place and get out of my body!"
"As much as I would love to escape from this prison and be free, I'm afraid I can not leave. I am stuck within the conscious of a little brat and if you die, then I die."
"So you lend me your power to keep me alive, right?"
"Precisely."
"But your power wasn't enough! It was good, but it-"
"I know that you brat! I know that you are so weak and pathetic that you cant win when I generously give you MORE of my power than I usually do!"
"Shut UP!" Steven yelled, his voice cracking again. "I don't see why you are so reluctant to give me your power. I mean its not like you can get any use out of it while you are trapped in here!"
Steven jumped back as his demon slammed the bars of the cage with all four of his arms. "YOU BRAT! How DARE you talk down to me! I must admit though, for a scrawny twerp you have a lot of moxie to say that. Very well then, I shall lend you MORE of my power, but do not take this for granted. We will meet again Steven, I am sure of it." More said. Steven looked down as blue bubbles started to build up all around him.
OOO
"Now perish, Giga Canno-" Machinedramon stopped just before firing when he heard bubbling noises nearby him. He turned around and saw Stevens body being lifted up by blue bubbles.
"What's this?" he said as the bubbles encased Steven and, in one huge pop, he was standing and glaring right at the machine. Steven had the same features as his previous form, only this time he had a blue lobster shaped aura around him, the claws around his curved hands, six thin legs dangling along his, three on each side, two antenna were hanging in front of his face, and a lobster tail was pointing up right around his tailbone area.
"Now you'll pay for what you did Machinedramon!" Steven growled, his voice sounding even more underwatery than before. (yep, underwatery)
"This kid..." Sai said to himself, at a loss for words.
Machinedramon chuckled evilly. "Looks like I get to kill you twice. Giga Ca-" Steven didn't give the Digimon any time to finish and extended his lobster arms, grabbing Machinedramon's cannons, then extended and enlarged his lobster antenna, shoving them into the cannons holes. "You never learn do you?" he taunted and fired both of his arms at Steven, but the boy dodged by supporting himself on his lobster tail and extended it. He then quickly shot his 6 lobster legs downward and pinned Machinedramon's arms to the ground by the chains.
"I don't understand, how can your barrier be strong enough?" Machinedramon wondered, his voice still monotonous.
"Because...I have a demon!" Steven replied and squeezed Machinedramon's cannons as hard as he could...and managed to crack them.
"H-he's doing it!" Gaaranooki said in awe while Kirby jumped up and down in excitement.
"I wont let this happen." Machinedramon said and fired a black beam from his mouth, hitting Steven directly in the chest and causing him to fall on his back as well as retract all of his limbs. "I underestimated you, but I assure you that will never happen again." the Digimon said and turned his cannons 180 degrees. "When we cross paths again, I will not hold back." and Machinedramon, using his cannons like jetpacks, dashed off at a speed too quick for our heroes to pursuit.
"Shoot! And I thought we had that guy!" Jake exclaimed and snapped his finger in disappointment.
"I tried guys, I really did." Steven said, standing up and back to his original form.
"It isn't your fault Steven, you at least drove him off. He would have killed us all otherwise!" Frog assured and Maxwell nodded. Yoshi began jumping up and down with a shocked expression and pointing behind the group. "Yoshi yoshi YOSHI!"
"Hm?" Stranger turned around and Zach, Molly, and Miroku stood before them. Zach's hair was even spikier and his arms were coated in dark-blue flames, Molly looked rather feral and was on all fours, and Miroku had black robes and was carrying a black staff with a red skull on the end.
"Looks like we got ourselves more butts that need kicking!" Jake said and stretched his arms forward with large fists and Stranger fired Super Stingbees.
"They are trying the same strategies they used against Machinedramon..." Sai mumbled and painted three Komodo Dragons that clambered toward the evil heroes.
"Ya got a point there, the Darkness is omnipresent and he sees everything." Link said with a nod and took out a hookshot.
"It doesn't matter if they are made of flesh and not metal." Stranger retorted, but Miroku sucked up the projectiles with a miniature black hole. Jake saw this and quickly stretched his arms back, but Molly jumped at him.
"You are crazy lady!" he exclaimed and stretched sideways out of the way.
Frog ran at the girl as fast as his legs could carry him. "Yaaaaaaaaa-" he was simply knocked away with a backhand from Molly. "OW!"
"That was lame dude."
"Rotom ro!" Rotom threw some Shadow Balls at Zach, but the human overpowered them with a red fireball that Rotom zipped by. The Pokemon then flew next to Maxwell as he was writing something down in his notebook. "Rotom rotom ro rotom ro ro rotom!" Rotom said to him and Maxwell nodded, summoning a 'washing machine' which Rotom promptly possessed, turning into its Wash form. The Komodo Dragons threw themselves at Molly and she knocked two of them away with swipes, but the third managed to bite her on the leg and infect her with its inky septic saliva. Sai smirked and Molly slashed the reptile in half.
"Why are you smiling if she just killed your lizard?" Chowder asked.
"Because all she needed was to be bitten just once by one of them." the ninja replied.
"Why? Does she taste bad or something?"
"No, the Komodo Dragons saliva is filled with so much bacteria that its practically venom."
"That's intense." Chowder said and coughed up a pink ball with holes all over it.
"What is that?" Sai asked, pointing to the object in the chef apprentices hand.
"THIS!" Chowder yelled and threw it at Miroku, timing it just right as the monk created a black hole to suck up the blue boomerangs Kirby was trying to bombard him with. As soon as the orb came in contact with the defensive move, it exploded, creating a huge cloud of smoke as well. This blinded Miroku and Zach as blood flowed out of their eyes.
"Wh-what was THAT?" Link exclaimed and pinned Zach to the wall using his hookshot.
"No taste at all Link, NO TASTE!" Frog yelled.
The swordsman just looked at the amphibian and blinked. "Huh?"
"That is how Machinedramon killed him, but it doesn't matter since we need to kill them to get them back to normal." Sai explained. The pseudo-poison was flowing through Molly's body, but it only appeared to be a minor hindrance to her as she had no trouble running at Yoshi with full speed. The dinosaur just extended his tongue though, swallowing her, and laid an egg.
"I did NOT need to see that man!" Jake exclaimed, covering one of his eyes with his hand. Yoshi then took the egg and threw it at Miroku, who was blocking rapid flurries of punches from Kirby, the puffball donning a headband now in his Fighter form. Maxwell got Kirby away using a 'distracting cake' and Miroku was hit straight in the face by Yoshi's egg, Molly, who was inside, falling right on top of him.
"Time to send you two packing." Stranger said and shot two Boombat Seekers followed by some Riot Slugs for good measure. Meanwhile, Zach had regained composure and grabbed Links hookshot, heating the chain as it crawled toward the swordsman.
"Crap!" Link exclaimed, dropping the tool. Rotom quickly flew right in front of the blonde haired human and blasted Zach with a torrent of water. Ivory started playing the Hydrocity Zone from Sonic, hitting Zach with multicolored shockwaves.
"Just making sure he isn't coming back." Stranger said and aimed his crossbow at Zach's lifeless body.
"Wait!" he exclaimed, jumping up almost instantly.
"That Bigfoot guy was about to REALLY kill you." Miroku joked.
"Where is Machinedramon?" Molly asked, looking around for any signs of him.
"He ran away, that guy scared him off." Gaaranooki answered, pointing toward Steven who was barely conscious.
"STEVEN scared him off?" Zach repeated, jumping back a bit in shock.
"Its not THAT unbelievable Parker, there was something odd going on with Steven before." Molly replied, remembering the odd appearance and stature he had.
"Trust me Molly, that is not the weirdest form you nor I have ever seen. You have those alter-egos and that wind sorceress form, and I- well you know..."
"What are you talking about Zach?"
"Wait! You don't know? I never told you?"
"Again Parker, what are you talking about?"
"Wait, this guy has a secret to hide too?" Sai said to himself.
"Yeah he does! And why are you always talking to yourself? Its...weird." Chowder wondered, waving his hand in front of Sais face.
"I'm just not the most friendly or social guy around."
Yoshi walked over to Sai and stood in front of him. "Yoshi yoshi yoshi."
"Yeah, I know we are all a team and working together in battles is no issue, I just don't chit-chat."
"He'll come around Yoshi." Chowder assured and hopped on the dinosaurs back. "Yip yip!"
"Lets keep moving forward." Stranger ordered and the gang continued their journey through the cave.
"So what is this all about?" Molly asked Zach.
"You aint gonna believe this, and especially since it is coming from a dude like me but...I am a water deity." he replied, looking away from his friend.
"You're right Parker, I don't believe it...but that doesn't mean it is impossible. As much as I want to call you a liar or an idiot, the things my friends have done makes it hard for me to dismiss anything that is weird."
"Like Jordan turning into a purple volcanic dragon?"
"Exactly, or Britney Lynn being the one chosen to stop Crisis."
"Too bad that dude is nothing compared to the Darkness."
"I wont ask you for proof or anything, I'll just wait for you to display your powers in fights. I'm not gonna lie, I am a bit skeptical and defiantly wouldn't put it past you to stretch the truth from simply having watery superpowers to flippin' Poseidon."
"Whatever Molly, I aint a god or commander of the oceans, but I am no friggin Aquaman or whatever either..."
"Okay then, now I need to talk to someone else I know..."
"Demon boy?"
"...Yeah, demon boy." Molly replied, deadpan and ran up to Steven who was already talking to Gaaranooki and Sai.
"...And whenever I got ticked off, some presence took over me and I went a little nuts with power or some shit. I had no proof that I had some demon or something within me, but that was just the conclusion I reached." he explained.
"Hmm, rather logical conclusion at that..." Sai said with irony.
"Just don't go insane with power, otherwise the demon inside of you will take over and you may never get back to normal." Gaaranooki advised.
"But you said you let your demon take over." Steven reminded.
"Yeah, but all I have to do is wake up. Once you figure out what triggers your demon to come out, you just do the reverse to stop it."
"Well...More comes out when I get pissed so I should just relax to stop him, right?"
"Interrupting here, but waking up is a lot more simple than calming yourself. Depending on the circumstances when you get POed, such as your friends being killed, it isn't gonna be easy to cool your temper, believe me!" interjected Molly.
"Then I need to teach him how control his demon so he can tap into its power without being taken over." Gaaranooki said.
"Awesome, then I can just go all powerful when we come across Machinedramon or something!" Steven exclaimed.
"Dumbass, he just told you not to go insane with power." Sai said with a sigh.
"You can only get so much power at one point, if you try to tap in anymore then the demon will come out." Gaaranooki explained.
"I see, I see, so do I go and have a little chat with More or something?" Steven asked.
"You cant talk to your demon whenever you feel like it, not until you have more control over it. I cant help you with that, but each time you get to meet it, you gotta try and get a good relationship with it."
"Oh god." Steven mumbled.
Molly slapped him upside the head. "This is serious!"
"You and your demon have to become acquaintances, maybe friends if you can pull it off. My demon sees me as a business partner and our relationship is solid."
"So becoming Mores frerf is the key to getting control?" Steven asked.
"I don't know what 'frerf' is, but having any kind of good relationship, even a neutral one may work, is the key."
"I see, so its just up to me and More."
"Yeah, that is exactly right."
Molly was a bit surprised at the redheads words of wisdom "Wow, no offense Gaaranooki but I have never seen this...side of you."
"Yeah, you always seemed all gentle and childish." Zach added, a more harsh and laid back version of Molly's statement.
"Well...I know a lot about demons is all. I have had one all my life and I never met anyone else who has had one...at least not someone I could talk to. I know Naruto has one, but he-"
"Is a blonde asshole?" Sai interjected.
"No, that's not it. He's just-"
"Look, I see the end of the cave." Zach stated, interrupting Gaaranooki and suddenly changing the subject.
"Look sharp, something is going to ambush us out there." Stranger advised as the gang got closer to the exit.
"Yeah, get ready everyone!" Link exclaimed and right when they stepped out into the open circular space surrounded by a cliffside, a purple-tinted white ghost with red eyes wearing an emperors crown suddenly appeared.
"ZOINKS!" Frog exclaimed and hopped behind Stranger.
"Yoshi YOSHI!" Yoshi exclaimed, remembering who this guy was.
"King Boo? Any idea on how to defeat him?" Sai asked.
"Hahaha, you cant KILL ghosts! In fact, you idiots cant even touch me!" King Boo gloated.
Link took out his bow and loaded a light arrow. "We will see about that!" he said and fired it, but the ghost just teleported to the side.
"Nice try swordsman, but I already told you guys you cant touch me!" King Boo repeated and a ring of blue flames appeared around him. He laughed evilly and flung them at the heroes with a flick of his tongue.
"I don't think so!" Miroku shouted, jumped in front of the gang, and absorbed the flares by sucking them into a miniature-void in his palm.
"So you can absorb attacks can you?" King Boo then floated up high. "Then lets see you deal with my minions!" the ghost then summoned a whole bunch of similar looking ghosts right out of thin air.
"Rotom RO!" Rotom, still in its Wash form, shot many Shadow Balls at the opposing ghosts. While the attacks succeeded in poofing the ghosts away, more just appeared.
"What was that about us not being able to hurt you?" Zach said with a smirk.
"I didn't realize your flying washing machine was part ghost. I'll just have to take care of him myself!" King Boo then swooped down at the Pokemon, but Miroku slapped a cleanse tag right on the ghosts crown and Stranger knocked him backward with a left hook.
"Aggggh! What is this thing?" King Boo exclaimed.
"Its a cleanse tag, now you are as tangible as the rest of us!" Miroku explained.
"You fleshies wont get away with this! Now my underlings, COMBINE!" King Boo ordered and all the other Boos melded into one gigantic Boo with yellow eyes, Boolossus.
"Bigger isn't always better you know." Molly said, not really impressed by his elite minion.
"No sweat, I'll just slap a tag on this one!" Miroku took out another cleanse tag and ran at Boolossus, but a regular Boo flew out of the larger one and knocked Miroku down.
"Hey mister, how many of those pieces of paper do you have?" Chowder asked.
"As many as I need." the monk replied, slapped a tag on the Boo that ambushed him, and blew it right back into Boolossus with a flurry of wind from his hand.
"You humans are so predictable." a voice that sounded like a creepy little boy said from behind them. The humans of the gang turned around and a shadow full of red eyes and teeth covered the entirety of the cave as well as the cliff walls behind them.
"Its THE DARKNESS! Why are you here!" Frog yelled, terrified.
"That's WHAT I WANNA KNOW!" Link yelled, enraged instead of scared, and stabbed the shadow right in one of its eyes. This maneuver was reckless and useless as it did no damage and the shadow pinned Link to the ground with a spiked tendril right through the warriors stomach.
"Like I said before, predictable. By the way, I am not the Darkness, but that doesn't mean you should think any less of me." the shadow creature explained.
"Then just what are you?" asked Sai.
"My identity should be the least of your concerns, you have those ghosts to deal with and I'll step in the fight any time I deem necessary, so I would watch your back."
"Aww man, this sucks! We already had to deal with one of you guys, now we have three at the same time!" Jake complained.
"That's quite funny considering you all greatly outnumber us." King Boo replied.
"King Boo, you haven't even SEEN outnumbered yet!" Molly boasted, "TRANSFOOOOORM!" the girl then separated into her 7 alter egos.
"Hahaha, EXCELENT! I haven't had the chance to fight in a LONG TIME!" Sirias yelled.
Zach smirked at the insane chaotics exclamation. "Heh, looks like Molly is getting-"
"Don't say it." James warned.
"Getting-"
"Don't say it!" Jade yelled.
"Getting-"
"Don't fucking say it or I'll STRANGLE YOU!" Sirias shouted, not kidding at all.
"Sirias." Steven finished.
"This is going to be easier than I expected." the shadows said and shot 7 tendrils out, one at each alter ego, but Zach blocked them with a large wall of water.
"Nice try shadow guy." he said. Meanwhile, Jake and some of the others were dealing with the ghosts.
"Hey big bad ghost!" Chowder taunted, "Take this!" the boy ran at Boolossus, Yoshi running right at his side, and took out a cleanse tag from under his hat. Boolossus charged right back, sending a horde of Boos at them while doing it, but this is what he and Yoshi were counting on. Quickly, Yoshi encased himself in an egg and Chowder swallowed it. As the Boos got closer, Chowder then spat out the egg. Each time Yoshi hit a Boo, the ghost poofed away and the egg flew backward, and every time the egg flew backward, Kirby, who was wielding a mallet with a star on it in his Hammer form, would smack it back, starting the whole cycle over again.
"How? Boolossus is intangible!" King Boo was teleporting from Rotom's Shadow Balls while countering with blue flames that the Pokemon easily weaved away from.
Jake, who made himself nearly the size of Boolossus, stretched his face over to the king. "It was a distraction, as those guys kept the big dudes attention, Miroku and I struck from behind and slapped a tag on him!" Jake then smashed King Boo into the ground with an inflated fist.
"Guys, listen to me." Kaisen said, "I have been observing Boolossus and every time one of the Boos that emerge from him is destroyed, he gets smaller."
"Of course!" Meichen exclaimed, punching her open palm in realization. "Since he is simply a bunch of them combined together, it makes perfect sense!"
"Cool story bro." James sneered, "But that doesn't help us at all in killing him."
"And I thought I was the negative one..." Sai murmured and painted a large Chinese dragon that Maxwell enhanced with an 'ice-breathing potion'.
"It just might be my time to step in." the shadows said, still holding Link down. "What's the matter human, aren't you going to try and break free?"
"You're a living shadow right?" the swordsman asked with a smirk.
"And what are you getting at?"
"THIS!" Link then shot a light arrow at the being, while this did no damage, the giant flash of light caused the shadows to dissipate. Ivory flew to the blonde haired boy while playing the Pokemon Center theme, having an antidote summoned by Maxwell atop his body. Link took the medicine and drank it, closing his wound.
"What did you to that shadow?" Steven asked.
"Well while its true that shadows require light to show up, blinding gigantic light will drive them away."
"That's what happens with people who get cocky, they underestimate their opponents and are unprepared for what tricks they have up their sleeve." Sora explained.
"You should follow your own ADVICE!" the shadows quickly came back and shot a tendril at the thoughtful passive girl, this tendril having a huge row of teeth and opening up like a pair of scissors.
"I don't think so!" Kaisen said, shoved the other alter ego aside, and sent the shadows cowering again with a huge beam of light.
"Is there any way to beat that thing?" Kane wondered,
"Everyone has a way to die, we just don't know how to kill it!" James answered.
"Exactly, I mean just look at those ghosts for example." Meichen added. Meanwhile, Gaaranooki shot a fist of sand at King Boo, but the ghost teleported just before he was struck.
"You guys got lucky, but I can tell you I wont let it happen again!" King Boo then summoned some huge spiked balls and rolled them toward the group. Sora threw a spinning blade of energy at each one, slicing them in half, but inside were more Boos that then fused with Boolossus, making him bigger than ever before.
"Congratulations Sora, YOU JUST MADE IT WORSE!" Jade shouted as he shot bolts of lightning from his fingers at the aforementioned alter ego.
"What are you doing?" Link exclaimed and blocked the attacks with his shield.
"We are supposed to be working together!" Gaaranooki explained, uppercutting Boolossus with a giant fist of sand.
"I like your style raccoon man." Jake said and did the same thing with his own fist.
"Perhaps its time to let Molly regain control..." Kane murmured, but Sirias slugged him.
"We cant you dumbass! Kaisen's over there keeping that darkness monster at bay!"
"We gotta hit that ghost harder you guys." Zach said after noticing his torrent of water was barely doing damage to it. Kirby got the idea and suddenly the top half of him looked like a silver jet and he was wearing sunglasses, he was Jet Kirby. The puffball got in a running position as a ball of fire slowly built up in the exhaust tube on the back of the jet, after doing this for a moment, Kirby started flashing white. He then jumped in the air and shot forward at an incredible speed, going right through Boolossus and causing hundreds of Boos to escape.
"Now's our chance!" Sai started freezing the Boos in blocks of ice using his dragon and Yoshi spat fireballs to melt them, causing the ghosts to poof away, Stranger shot them with Thudslugs, Chowder distracted them by spitting out watermelon seeds like a machine gun, letting Ivory finish them off with a shockwave while playing the Ghost House music from Super Mario World.
"You fools! I'll just bring back more Boos!" King Boo exclaimed, but he was to distracted by Rotom's attacks to do anything about it. In fact, he didn't notice Jake stretch behind him and grab him in the palm of his gigantic hand.
"He's all yours Rotom!" the dog said and Rotom hit the ghost with a Hydro Pump, not stopping the blast of water for nearly a minute, during that time, the rest of the gang had vanquished all the Boos. Jake dropped King Boo to the ground and both he and Rotom went back to their normal selves.
"You...will all...pay for this! Once I...remove this seal...I'll deal with Rotom and...kill you all!" King Boo uttered, heavily injured.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you." Miroku advised, walking over to the ghost.
"And why...not?"
"It will banish your eternal spirit to a dark oblivion."
"But aren't we already in a dark oblivion?" Chowder asked.
"You're...you're bluffing!" the ghost protested.
"Is that so? Well then remove it." Miroku replied. King Boo did, using one of his blue flames, he burnt it to pieces. As soon as he done that, just as Miroku said, the ghost vanished in a black vortex.
"Wow, I didn't think he would do it." Steven said.
"You humans think you got it all figured out, don't you?" the others turned around and noticed that the shadow creature was back, and Molly was as well.
"Wh-what happened to that white haired guy that was keeping him away?" Frog asked, trembling.
"Kaisen is strong, but he isn't unstoppable. He kept that attack up as long as he could, and as soon as he became weak enough that he couldn't keep it up anymore, that THING gored him right in the chest. Good thing the others decided to merge back because otherwise, I'd be dead." the girl explained.
"So if even one of them dies, YOU die?" Steven asked.
"Exactly."
"Like I said, you humans think you have it all figured out." the shadow creature repeated.
"The hell you talking about?" Stranger asked.
"You think you stopped King Boo? You're wrong."
"Yoshi yoshi yoshi!" Yoshi exclaimed.
"He didn't care, he had nothing to lose, and do you want to know why?"
"Erm, not really, you're scary enough as it is!" exclaimed Frog.
"I'll tell you why, its the Darkness. He has no problem with any dark oblivion, as that gray kid said, we are already in one. You see, the Darkness can just bring him back to life with some newfound powers as well."
"Damn it, we were idiots to not expect that..." Sai said to himself.
"Oh I wouldn't worry about it TOO much, because this is the last time you all will be alive." the shadow creature then shot out a spiked tendril at each hero, aiming straight for their hearts. Luckily for our heroes, a green barrier appeared around them and blocked the tendrils.
"Whoa, what was THAT?" Steven exclaimed, his voice cracking.
"We're up here." a rather dull female voice said from atop the cliff. It was Killdra and the rest of her gang, Locke, Ichigo, Luigi, Knuckles, and Mumbo. Along with them were Horton, Launcher Spider, Patrick, Pit, Deidara, and two newcomers, an anthropomorphic green platypus wearing a hat, Perry, and a blue skinned humanoid with stitches on his mouth wearing a loincloth, Abe.
"What in the WORLD are you guys fighting?" Pit asked, squinting at the shadow creature.
Ichigo studied it as well and then got angry. "Hold on...I think I know who it is!"
Killdra rolled her eyes, not believing him at all. "Then tell me spiky, who is it?"
"Its gotta be Crisis with some new trick!" Ichigo then swung his sword, sending a horizontal energy slash at the being which did nothing, only creating a deep impression on the wall where it hit.
"Crisis you say?" the shadow creature then spread along the cliff walls all around and then on the ground under Ichigo's group.
"This not good." Mumbo said.
"Yeah, no. This isn't Crisis, you just jumped on that gun because of your precious Naruto!" Killdra sneered.
"Shut the hell up!" Ichigo yelled.
"My my, it seems that neither of your groups can get along. Typical humans." the shadow creature said.
"Hey, how come you're not attacking us?" Patrick asked, mesmerized by one of the beings eyes.
"Eager to die? None of you can even hope to hurt me, so I have no problem waiting."
"You've got quite a lot of pride there, everything has a weakness." Knuckles said.
"His weakness is bright light!" Zach shouted to the others.
"Oh how fitting, a shadow creature weak to light." Deidara said, flicking the hair that was over his left eye.
"That isn't entirely true, light only keeps him at bay." Stranger explained.
Launcher Spider made some machine noises, "You're right, but its defiantly a start." Locke replied.
"Well I'm an angel so I can illuminate this area." Pit said and flew up above the area that the first group was in. The shadow creature shot tendrils from the walls of the pit right at Pit (lolz), but he simply took out a golden bow and spun it around at an amazing speed, blocking each one as he made a quick 360 degree turn. Then, the brunettes wings turned light-blue and lit the area with a brilliant blue glow, causing the shadow creature to retreat into the cave.
"How long can you keep that up for?" Molly asked.
"Heh, this is simple stuff! I can keep doing this all day!"
"Oh man, if only there WAS day." Horton said to himself.
"Forget about it elephant, we are going to take this Darkness fellow down and return our worlds to the way they once were." Locke told him, clenching her fists with confidence.
"Um, why don't the rest of you guys come up here? Just in case that thing comes back and traps you again." Abe suggested to the other gang.
"I have it covered." Deidara said and summoned a flock of birds that swooped down, picked up the others, and dropped them at the top of the cliff. He then sent the birds back down and detonated them near the cave, causing the walls around it to crumble and block the entrance off completely.
"And that should keep the monster away." he said.
"Monster is shadow, shadow get through anything." Mumbo explained to the ninja.
"So we are done for?" Frog exclaimed.
"Looks that way." Killdra said casually.
"We can't give up now guys!" Abe said.
"Well why don't we just leave that fairy guy there?" Patrick suggested, pointing at Pit.
"I'M AN ANGEL YOU JERK!" the brunette yelled.
"I like the way you think starfish." Killdra said with a smirk.
"Rotom rotom ro rotom ro ro ROTOM!" the Pokemon glared at each and every one of the other heroes while rambling.
Luigi nodded in agreement. "Yeah, Rotom is right. We need to stop fighting and think of a way to win."
"Then shut up and lets think of a plan!" Ichigo yelled.
"Yeah, the sooner we beat that shadow monster, the sooner we can look for Naruto!" Killdra added, obviously making fun of the substitute Soul Reaper.
"Well since he is a shadow, he has all the weaknesses of one." Horton started.
"And what can stop shadows?" Chowder asked.
"The lack of any light for one." answered Sai.
"Well how is he able to strike here then? This place has no light at all, hmm." Deidara queried.
"Yoshi yoshi yoshi!" Yoshi exclaimed.
"Yeah, the cave! It was lit up for some mysterious reason!" Zach said, his eyed widening in realization.
"Then the Darkness must've had this planned." Stranger stated.
"But there's no way we can stop it if its hiding in there, and I doubt it is stupid enough to just come out here." Knuckles pointed out.
"Then whatever the source of the shadow is, its in that cave." Molly theorized.
"Even if that true, shadow kill whoever enter cave." Mumbo said.
"Yeah, and my light isn't large enough to keep it away throughout the entire cave." Pit added, still glowing. This gave Yoshi an idea and a yellow fruit appeared in front of him. Chowder tried to run over to consume said food, but Horton held him back with his trunk. Yoshi swallowed it whole, turned a bright yellow, and illuminated a bright yellow light.
"That's good Yoshi, but I dunno if it'll be enough." Luigi said. Maxwell then summoned a 'big bright glowing light bulb' and put it in Launcher Spiders pinchers.
"That's excellent Maxwell, I believe that will be enough light to get us through." Sai said.
"So you guys ready for this?" Miroku asked the others.
"Keayh, lets go! Naruto is waiting!" Killdra replied, both serious and snarky at the same time. The group of heroes jumped down to the pit and Launcher Spider blew apart the rubble, heading in first due to his strong metal body. As more and more heroes went inside the cave, the shadow creature was forced to retreat deeper and deeper as the combined lights managed to keep it from attacking.
"I've got a gut feeling that whatever that thing is coming from is at the other side of this cave." Locke said.
"Yeah, I agree." Chowder said, lifting up his shirt and looking at his belly. The albino girl was right, because in the open area right outside the mouth of the cave was a creepy looking little boy, the shadow creature emanating from behind him. Pit stood right in the cave entrance, preventing the shadows from using the light inside to attack.
"So, you're the one creating that monster." Ichigo said.
"Not quite, that 'monster' IS me, think of this human as a puppet that I use to get around and attack from." the boy explained.
"Not smart using a little kid as a host." Stranger said, aiming his crossbow right at him.
"Then go on and shoot me." he replied with an evil smile.
Stranger lowered his arm and said, "Heh, I'm not stupid enough to fall for your-" he was interpreted by Launcher Spider bombarding the boy with missiles. One the smoke cleared though, the boy was still standing, unharmed.
"Are you finished yet? That can't be your best shot." he said and Ivory started playing the tune to the song 'Hit me with Your Best Shot'. Ichigo took the bait and charged at the child, and the blonde-haired swordsman would've been stabbed in the heart had Jake not stretched out and pulled him back.
Link was surprised that the boy was able to attack. "Wait! How can he cast shadows if-"
"Hmhmhm, looking for someone?" and, right where Pit was standing, was none other than Crisis who had the angel wrapped up in his tendrils.
"OH NOOOOO!" Frog screamed and hid behind Luigi.
"C-C-C-C" Ichigo was at a loss for words as he was both freaked out and very pissed off.
"Let him go!" Link ordered and tossed his gale boomerang, but Crisis just smacked it away like it was nothing.
"He is useless to me." the Dark Earthling said and threw the angel at the swordsman.
He didn't absorb him, that isn't like him at all. Crisis, just what are you planning? Locke pondered.
"Cr...Cr...CRISIIIIIIIIIS!" Ichigo yelled, his eyes wide and filled with rage and bitter hatred.
"Is that ALL you have to say...?" Killdra joked, not taking this situation very seriously.
"Why did you decide to show up Crisis?" the boy asked, sounding rather smug.
"Don't be a fool Pride, they had you cornered." the Dark Earthling answered.
"Your names Pride huh? VERY fitting." Sai commented.
"CRISIS! YOU'LL PAY FOR WHAT YOU HAVE DONE!" Ichigo yelled and charged at his arch-enemy head on, but Crisis simply wrapped his tendrils around the swordsmans Zanpakto and ripped it right out of his arms.
"Hmhmhm, would you like to know something Ichigo?"
"I couldn't care less on what you have to say!"
"Not even if it is about your friend Naruto?" Ichigo's demeanor lessened at the mention of the ninjas name. Crisis smirked at his sudden change in emotion. "That's right, I paid him a little visit."
"Wh-what did you do to him?"
"Hmhmhm, I merely reminded him of the truth and the rest he did himself."
"What the hell are you talking about?"
"He went 6-tails again, didn't he?" Deidara guessed, not surprised in the slightest.
"That's correct." Crisis replied.
"N-Naruto..." was all Ichigo could say about his friend losing control of his emotions again.
"And there is one other thing I told him."
"And what would that be?" Ichigo exclaimed.
Crisis smirked, and before anyone could react, he had Ichigo wrapped up in his tendrils. Pride then set a barrier of shadows between them and the other heroes. "I wanted you to join me." Crisis said threateningly and sunk into the ground, taking the swordsman with him.
"Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no, OH NO!" Frog stammered over and over again.
"What? What's gonna happen to him?" Abe asked.
"Crisis is gonna turn him evil." Zach answered.
"I wouldn't worry about Crisis at the moment." Pride said, shadows flowing all around him.
"This is gonna suck." Miroku muttered.
OOO
"Hey guys, look! There's a thingy on top of that mountain thingy!" Nario said, he and the others still flying through the sky on their dragons.
"Well what is it?" Jane asked, unable to tell from where she was sitting.
"I'll tell ya what it is." Julia said "Its some kind of weird monster with black tentacles and it has a sword along with some blonde asshole wrapped up!"
It can't be! Britney exclaimed mentally.
"Oh great, its that Crisis freak again..." Jane mumbled.
"So lets swoop down there and take him out then." Temari said and Britney's and Julia's dragons, along with Slifer, descended toward the large mountaintop, which was covered in dark-grey snow.
"Just as I expected." Crisis said to himself as the dragons got closer, and as they did, Naruto saw Ichigo in the Dark Earthlings clutches. The ninja jumped down to the mountain, not even bothering to wait for the dragons to get close enough. Ichigo tired to yell something to his friend, but Crisis had a tendril around his mouth. Naruto was already in his three-tailed form when he landed and his enraged and demonic stare would have sent chills up most peoples spines.
"Uhh, I think we should stay back!" Jane advised, the dragons still at a safe distance.
"LET HIM GO CRISIS!" Naruto yelled.
"Hmhmhm, I'm afraid I can't do that." Naruto dug his chakra coated claws into the ground and got into a pouncing position. "You would kill your best friend just for a shot at me? Looks like some of my teachings have stuck with you." Crisis taunted.
"I SAID LET HIM GOOOOOOO!" Naruto stretched out two chakra claws and Crisis held Ichigo out like a human shield, knowing Naruto would cease to attack, but his claws stretched around and almost got Crisis by the neck, but the Dark Earthling sunk into the ground.
"COWARD!"
"What you call 'cowardice'" Crisis rose out of the ground once again, "I call 'survival'. Now my former apprentice, would you like to know why I have your best friend in my grasp?"
"NO! BECAUSE I AM GOING TO RESCUE HIM!" Naruto extended his claws and melded them together to create one giant claw. Crisis threw Ichigo aside like garbage and was ready to take the attack at full force like he usually does. Naruto picked the Dark Earthling up and, instead of slamming him into the ground, chucked Crisis right off of the side of the mountain.
"Ichigo!" Naruto exclaimed and ran over to his friend, no longer using his demons power.
"Naruto, stay back!" the swordsman shouted, but the ninja didn't listen.
"Come on Ichigo, lets get on a dragon, hurry!" Naruto said, picking up his weakened friend.
"I got ya signal ya happy couple." Julia said and her dragon swooped down, grabbing the duo. For some reason however, the dragon couldn't take off, it was held down by something.
"GYAAAAH! Its that freak again! LET GO!" Julia screamed. Crisis had tendrils wrapped all around the dragons tail along with one around Ichigo and one around Naruto.
"I believe you are taking something that doesn't belong to you." the Dark Earthling said in a sinister voice.
"If you all wanna live, GET OFF!" Julia ordered and the passengers on her dragon hopped on Slifer, who was nearby.
"Now for you." Crisis said and wrapped another tendril around Julia's body, going around her like a boa until he had a tight grip on her neck. Julia, who was normally bombastic and fearless, was terrified that the grey and white being was going to kill her in some horrific way and she couldn't do a damn thing about it.
"CRISIIIIIIIIIIIS! RRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGH!" Naruto screeched and became encased in a black sphere that exploded with such force that it knocked Julia's dragon back and freed it from Crisis' grasp.
"Lets get the hell out of here!" the girl yelled as her dragon started flying away from the scene.
"NO! I have to stop Naruto!" Ichigo yelled, clambering on top of her summon.
"Besides, you can't just LEAVE the rest of us man." Jordan added.
"Well I aint going near those things!" Julia snapped back. There on the mountain top was Crisis and Naruto, but not in his six tailed form as expected, but eight tailed. It would be wrong to even say it was Naruto, because what was standing there looked like an eight-tailed skinless version of the Nine-tailed Fox, complete with exposed bones and organs.
"Sweet shooting stars, what in SPACE is that?" Ristar exclaimed.
"Woah, that kid was really an alien in disguise, who knew?" Mark said.
"Its not an alien...its...its..." Ichigo tried to spit it out, but it was too unbearable, he couldn't believe Naruto would get so angry as to nearly unleash his demon fully.
"So do we fight them or run away? Honestly, I'm cool with either one." Jane said.
"Never run from a fight." Bryce replied.
"Well how the hell do you expect us to even hurt them?" Renji exclaimed.
"I don't know, but we cant let those two just be." Sam said, studying Naruto's horrifying form.
"Then Slifer, would you do us all a favor and wipe them both out?" Temari said and the dragon shot two blasts of energy from both of his mouths, one at each of the monsters. The demon jerked its head in the direction of the deity and waved its tails rapidly, creating a barrier of chakra around himself and Crisis which blocked the projectiles.
"Looks like Naruto doesn't want us interfering." Samus observed.
"Don't call that...that THING Naruto!" Ichigo yelled, glaring at the bounty hunter.
"Damn Ichigo, chill out." Renji said.
"Yeah, we will defiantly save your boyfriend dude." Mark added.
"I'm not in the mood for JOKES!" Ichigo exclaimed.
"Jokes? I seriously thought you two were gay with each other. I mean, the way Naruto talked about you was totally-" Mark stopped when a ghastly shriek filled the air.
"Oh I hope its not another monster, we already have two of them." Jordan said.
"I don't think so Jordan, because they are dragons with people riding on them." Sonic replied as Toothless, Stardust Dragon, a mechanical 3-headed serpentine dragon with flat wings, and a long crude-looking yellow serpentine dragon with lots of tiny wings came into view.
"Cool, more dragons!" Nario said. On the dragons were Zane, Pastel, Sam I Am, Squall, Tayuya, Towelie, WALL-E, Mewtwo, Konan, Peach, a grey alien in a white jumpsuit, Crypto, a raven haired boy with long bangs and die earrings, Duke, an aquatic creature with a large foot and an orange sonar embedded in its head, Munch, and a blonde spiky haired boy wearing a blue armor with Daxter on his shoulder, Jak. Zane and Towelie were on Toothless, Crypto, Mewtwo, and WALL-E were on Cyber End Dragon, the mechanical dragon, Duke, Konan, and Squall were on Stardust Dragon, and Pastel, Tayuya, Sam I Am, Peach, Munch, Jak, and Daxter were on the yellow dragon.
"Uhh, I wouldn't exactly say that man!" Duke exclaimed uneasily.
"What do you mean?" 9 asked.
"Long story short, we killed this demon, it came back even stronger, we couldn't do enough damage, it killed someone in our group, and we came across some others while running away with our freaking tails between our legs!" Squall explained.
"Iiiiiiiiiis thaaaaaaaat iiiiiiiiiiit?" Glowmoss said, pointing a stretched out finger at a buffed version of Scorch with dark blue skin and dark green wings.
"That's the piece of shit alright." stated Tayuya.
"And it looks like you humans have your own problems already." Crypto pointed out, looking at Crisis and 8-tailed Naruto.
Konan was in awe at the sight of the demonic canine. "Wait...is that...it cant be..."
"It is, that's Naruto...well it used to be." Ichigo confirmed solemnly.
"Why would you do this Naruto?" Konan said to herself with tears in her eyes.
"Oh that's JUST what we need! ANOTHER monster!" Julia yelled ironically.
"Things just go from bad to worse." Sam mumbled.
"So just what are you all going to do about it?" Mewtwo said.
"I don't know, but we have to think of something and we have to do it fast." Temari replied, a bit worried about Scorch.
"Listen, Konan and I will deal with that 8-tailed demon and Crisis, the rest of you can take care of that devil thing." Ichigo said.
"But we'll need to borrow someones dragon." Konan added, sweatdropping in embarrassment.
"Fine." Zane said and flew Toothless between Stardust Dragon and Julia's. He grabbed Towelie and got on the girls dragon while Ichigo and Konan hopped on the Night Fury.
"And just how do you reckless retards plan on getting past that barrier?" Julia exclaimed with a glare.
"We'll find a way." Ichigo answered confidently and Toothless flew off toward the two monsters.
Sonic was rather confident as well. "Heh, this should be a piece of cake then. That beast wont stand a chance against all of us if we use the real superpower of-"
Jak cut the hedgehog off, reminding him of what Squall said earlier. "Fraid it wont be that easy, not even the combined force of MY group was enough to do anything to it."
"Well we weren't really using teamwork though." Peach pointed out.
"Oh yeah, we all just kinda attacked like an angry mob didn't we?" Daxter said.
"Then it looks like we have a plan of action." 9 said.
"Yeah, that's great and all, but that doesn't guarantee we will win!" Duke exclaimed.
"Not with an attitude like that man." Jordan told the raven haired boy.
"Ya know, its a little weird for a dragon to sound like some kind of hippie."
"TOTALLY agree with you on that one, but he's really a human with a freaky dragon transformation." Jane explained.
"Ah, I got it."
"Well lets get 'em." Munch said.
"It would be easier if we all had our own dragons." Nario pointed out.
"No problem." Pastel said and drew a small green dragon for each non-dragon hero to ride on, except for Crypto, Mewtwo, and Ristar, who could all fly using a jetpack, levitation, and shooting star power respectively, Temari, Britney, and Julia, who stayed on their own dragons, Daxter, who stayed on Jak's shoulder, and Zane, who stood on the middle head of the robotic dragon, Cyber End Dragon.
"Here we go!" Sonic exclaimed and all of the dragons got in position to attack.
"Take this you winged cretin!" Crypto pulled out a silver gun and pointed it at Scorch, the huge targeting laser positioned right at his head and after a few beeps, gigantic meteors started falling from the sky around the demon. Scorch wrapped his wings around himself for protection, leaving burn marks here and there on his wings, but otherwise doing no damage to him.
"Then try out MY meteors!" Jordan sent down many more meteors than the alien, but while they were smaller, they were way faster. Scorch just tucked himself down, spread out his wings, and dashed right at the molten dragon.
"I don't think so! Rocket!" Sonic turned into an orange rocket and blasted off at Scorch, but the demon just smacked him in the other direction with his tail as he kept on flying forward.
"Bring it on man! I'm thrice your size!" Jordan outstretched his arms and flew at Scorch, but he had no idea that the demons wings were like knives and Scorch slashed him right in the middle, nearly splitting the dragon in two. As lava poured out of the massive wound, Pastel drew a blue bird with huge lips that healed Jordan fully after fluttering over and giving him a peck on the cheek.
"You lucky duck!" Nario exclaimed.
"Hey, if getting kissed by a bird is what it takes to save me from dieing, then I'll take it."
"I know! Its a win-win!"
"Um, I don't think he is being sarcastic about it man." Duke told the volcanic dragon.
"Oh that orange fella is quite the riot eh?" Daxter said as he and Jak's dragon flew by.
"I dunno about that, he seems like more of a fool." Jak replied as he pulled out a chrome shotgun-like weapon and started firing at Scorch.
"Uh Jak, I don't think that's gonna do anything!"
"I know that." Jak replied as Scorch started flying toward the duo.
"Oh god here he comes!" Daxter yelled and hid his face in his friends hair.
"That's just what I want Dax." Jak said as a purple orb built up in his gun.
"I hope this works!" Daxter said, peeking out of Jak's hair.
"Oh it will." Jak fired and the orb exploded and electrocuted the demon upon contact.
"It DID work!"
"Told ya."
"Taste acid, bitch!" Julia shouted and her dragon spewed acid at Scorch, who was still dazed from Jak's Peacemaker blast.
"Kyaaaahhhh!" Squall jumped from his dragon onto Scorch and slashed him right across the eyes. The demon roared in pain and rapidly barrel-rolled, flinging the swordsman off himself, but Squall was caught by his dragon and held out his had, a yellow sparkle appeared, and Scorch was zapped by a huge bolt of lighting that sent a huge pillar of electricity up from the ground to the sky.
"We might be able to take this bitch out again after all." Tayuya said and played Saria's Song on her flute, summoning a serpentine ghost covered in mouths that began floating toward Scorch. Britney's golden dragon circled the demon as the ghost entered its body, paralyzing it. The girl pulled out her spiked ball and chain, swung it over her head, and flung it forward, the spikes spraying liquid nitrogen from their tips. Scorch roared in fury as parts of his body froze up and he started falling toward the earth below.
"This is it!" Jane exclaimed and wiggled her fingers, sending brown-orange damageless pillars of energy down from the sky through Scorch.
"What good will that do?" 9 wondered.
"Oooooh, that looks like its doing good." Towelie pointed out when the pillars of energy solidified into grey metal poles, pinning the monster to the ground.
"Heh, that gives me an idea." Sam said, turned into Voltic, and jumped onto the side of a pillar, sticking to it using an electrical charge. The I-Hero then grabbed the pole, sending a current of electricity down it that spread all throughout the other poles, shocking Scorch with a brutal dose of volts.
"Well he should defiantly be dead after that." Mark said and the group landed, all of the dragons drawn by Pastel fading away, Britney, Julia, and Zane desummoning theirs, and Jordan transforming back to normal.
"Do not let your guards down, he could still be alive." Bryce ordered. There was a long silence and Scorch suddenly started making choking and gagging sounds, as if there was something stuck in his throat.
"Is he going to spit out another egg?" Sam I Am wondered.
"Wouldn't that make him a she then? Unless he is part seahorse or something..." Nario stated.
"No, Scorch has this weird ability to spit out eggs which hatch into more things we have to kill." Squall explained.
"Then I'll REALLY give him something to choke on!" Renji boasted, making Nario giggle. The swordsman released his Bankai, which was transforming his sword into a skeletal snake-like creature with a red mane. He grabbed on to the tail end of the weapon, which was still the hilt of his sword, and manipulated it to strike forward and go right into the demons throat.
"Words cant describe how wrong that is." Temari said uneasily, but Jane wasn't quite as disgusted.
"Yeah, its like that demon is getting deep thr-" but she was stopped by Samus covering her mouth.
"The only way this could get any more disturbing is if-" Duke stopped short because what he was going to say just happened, Scorch exploded, sending blood and innards all over.
"That's just gross man." Jordan stated, wiping a chunk of the demons guts off of his shoulder.
"Now its a black egg?" Sam I Am said incredulously, in Scorches place was a gigantic black egg and it hatched into said demon, perfectly healed.
"Son of a bitch!" Tayuya yelled.
"What does it take for this guy to just STAY DEAD?" Squall exclaimed as well. Things got worse when Scorch spat out 3 black eggs that exploded into a trio of familiar dragons; Blue Eyes White Dragon, Volvagia, and Rayquaza.
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The whole thing with Steven and the demon More, in a nutshell, he believes a split persona takes over when he gets ticked off which totally reminded me of Naruto and the kyuubi, so I took that idea and ran with it. Hope he didn't seem like too much of a Mary Sue. Zach secretly being a water deity is from, you aint gonna believe this, A DREAM!