Chapter 16: Mistakes Are Made
Everything was quiet, in in one of the other rooms of the Guild Hall, Chopper and Sakura were taking care of Makarov, Azusa and Robbie. Inside of the main hall Chiyo and Marvelous were using their healing powers to heal anyone that was injured.
Which was doubly amazing as Chiyo had to deal with Ranma sleeping on her lap.
Everything was quiet, Naruto was the most quiet out of all of them. He just sat there, silent looking down.
Sakura and Chopper came in.
"How are they?" asked Wendy.
"They're stable." Said Chopper, "They're injuries were pretty bad. But Markarov should recover soon."
"What about Azusa and Robbie?" asked Pinkie.
"They're injuries are really bad." Said Sakura, "Azusa seems to be recovering okay, but Robbie's in worse shape."
"It makes sense, Robbie's just a normal teenager and Azusa is a marital artist." Said Erza.
"What she do again?" asked Sasuke.
"Figure skating." Answered Pinkie.
That was when Ranma woke up.
"Oh man… what happened." Said Ranma.
He looked at Twilight and sighed.
"I don't remember what happened but I'm going to guess it was to fight Rainbow Dash."
"Yeah." Sighed Twilight.
Ranma looked around.
"How did the guild get rebuilt?" he asked.
"I'm just that super!" said Franky.
Ranma looked at everyone else.
"Even we're confused." Said Rainbow Dash.
"I guess we should talk about Naruto." Sighed Cologne.
Naruto gripped his pants.
He took a breath.
"On our world there exist 9 demons called Biju." Said Naruto, "Each one is gigantic and can chaos by just walking. There is a way to stop them, to seal them within a human. They are known as Jinchuriki. All but one of the demons are sealed."
"One of them is sealed inside of you, right?" asked Bickslow, "And you're not the only one."
"Me and Gaara are Jinchuriki." Said Fu.
"Wait, does the demon talk to you?" asked Mabel.
"Just me and Naruto… Gaara's seal is much different than ours." said Fu.
"So that's why you two sometimes start into space." Said Natsu.
"I was a bit coincidence about that, but everyone on your crew said you were fine." Said Applejack.
"Nope… just demons talking to us." Said Fu.
"Please don't put it that way… it's kind of creepy." Said Lucy with a sweat drop.
"Chomei is my friend and always has been." Said Fu, "Even if she is a giant bug demon that lives inside of me."
"That's even worse that before!" said Lucy.
"Even so Jinchuriki have a hard time." Said Fu, "And are looked down upon."
"Naruto had a hard growing up, many people would treat him like a monster." Said Hinata.
"I don't want to talk about my childhood." Said Gaara.
"We get it you were treated badly." Said Gajeel.
"It's not important… even if you have demons inside of you you're still our friends." Said Rainbow Dash.
"So you don't have a problem with demons?" asked Kiba.
"Well there's Bill." Said Mabel.
"But we met plenty of demons back home that were cool." Said Natsu.
"And we once met a really cool half demon." Said Rainbow Dash.
"Who sounded a lot like Ranma for some reason." Said Ukyo.
"No really!" said Pinkie, "It's chapter 66 if you're curious."
"What is she talking about?" asked Kiba.
"I don't think I want to know…" said Bickslow.
"Naruto it's fine." Said Mirajane, "Trust me I know where you've been."
"It's not that." Said Naruto, "I don't care about that!"
"Then what's wrong?" asked Luffy.
"I screwed up big time! Makarov was needed to stop whatever is trying to eat the universe!" said Naruto, "Not only your planets but he mentioned there's probably aliens!"
"There are." Said Twilight.
"See! So many people are going to die because I screwed up and injured Makarov!" said Naruto.
Everyone was quiet realizing he was right.
"See!" said Naruto.
"You had no choice." Said Diana.
"What?" asked Naruto.
"She's right Naruto, if you didn't take the hit for Hinata who knows what would have happened." Said Ino.
"Not to mention all of it that perverted demon inside of you." Said Akane.
"How do he's a pervert?" asked Sakura.
"You don't want to know." Said Akane.
"Ms. Valentine?" Sakura asked.
Ino, Hinata and Naruto all nodded and the crewmembers that witnessed that all knew what they were referring to.
"Not to mention that if you did not defeat him, he could have easily killed most of us." Said Diana, "Not to mention I am partially to blame for unleashing the creature."
"What do you mean?" asked Naruto.
"Remember the thing came to our world because of the fire connection to Equestria." Said Twilight, "A special connection that Luna brought over when she came to earth."
"Eh… who cares. It doesn't matter who's to blame, only that we can find a way to fix this mess." Said Stan.
Erza looked at Stan sighed knowing this was him partially blaming himself for the mess. After all it was the portal in the basement that part of the mess.
"Wait… how was Makarov going to do that thing again." Said Luffy.
"Okay!" said Twilight.
She projected the plan using magic.
"The plan is to use magic, ki and chi and figure out a way to project it onto a giant." Said Twilight, "And as you know that is where Makarov comes in."
"Wait! Naruto maybe you can take his place, you can turn into a giant demon." Said Mabel.
"He can't." said Chopper, "The Rumble Ball only lasts three minutes and if he takes two in the course of 6 hours he can't control his forms."
"Yeah…" said Naruto.
"What about shape shifting?" asked Luffy.
"I don't think it works that way." Said Naruto.
"Wait you're a shape shifter?" asked Rainbow Dash.
"Yeah…" said Naruto, "I guess I never had to bring it up before."
"But form the sounds of it." Said Dipper.
"Naruto can't take that place." Said Twilight.
"Wait!" said Luffy, "I can't belier I didn't think of it before does the person have to be completely gigantic or can it be a giant body part?"
"We don't know…" said Twilight.
"Remember those two things told us and they don't seem like the type to give us all the information." Said Zoro.
"Because I have an idea that might work!" said Luffy.
They all looked at Luffy.
"You don't mean…" said Naruto.
Luffy had a big smile.
They went outside where Luffy popped his tomb into his mouth an began to blow really hard inflating his arm, he transferred the air to the other arm.
"Gum Gum Giant Pistol!" he called out.
He giant arm punched the barrier causing a ripple.
"Hey weren't you expecting his arm to bounce back and hit him?" asked Gray.
"Well… about that… I think the thing is starting to absorb energy that hit the barrier instead of being reflected." Said Kyubi, "You might want to repeat that by the way."
"Oh yeah…" said Naruto who repeated.
"That would explain that attack earlier." Said Levy.
"Wait… what is Luffy doing exactly." Said Twilight.
"Inflating his bones." Explained Robin.
"He's inflating his bones?" asked Dipper.
"Are there any sort of side effects." Said Twilight.
Luffy deflated from that, showing off that he was now tiny.
"I believe that answers your own question." Said Robin.
"So you feeling better?" asked Hinata to Naruto.
Naruto smiled, "Thanks… everyone…"
"that could have gone worse… trust me…" said Kyubi, "The author has more against idea including a total breakdown. You should be glad she went the light route."
"What?" said Naruto.
"never mind…. Just enjoy everyone no longer being confused when you talk to me out loud." Said Kyubi.
Naruto sweat dropped.
"Okay." Said Erza taking charge, "We have less than 24 hours until it makes it's move."
Everyone nodded in agreement.
Meanwhile with Bill and Discord they were watching everything going down of course.
"So looks like the stage is all set." Said Discord.
"No let's see if my plans and your freedom will be ruined." Said Bill.
Both of them looked at each other.
"Should we help a bit more?" asked Discord.
"Maybe a little." Said Bill, "Let's see how it goes down first."
Indeed the stage was set for the final battle, less than 24 hours to go. And only time will tell if they would be able to defeat the thing or not…
On the bright side, Naruto managed to work through his guilt… after he even if he wasn't the giant, he still was important.
Next Time: The Final Battle Begins! However the Guild Hall is attacked by many of the smaller monsters thankfully the group in charge of the defeating the thing has backup... what will happen? Find out next time!