Quick Note: There won't be any new chapter in december. I just can't upload a chapter about ninjas doing ninja stuff in a ninja-inspired world in christmas! Also, sorry if this seems rushed, I didn't really think of the plot before making this fic so I'm making it up as it goes.
Anyway, that's all I wanted to say. Read and review. :)
(Outskirts of Hidden Gravity)
The red cypher piece laid dormant at the outskirts, glowing continuously a red color and appalling each and any thing that came nearby. Stan managed to get to the cypher piece, get close to it and then use the tattoo on his hand on it, which somehow managed to make the glow of the piece disappear.
"Okay, Stan, remember the procedure: get the cypher piece, contain it and wait until the rest of the cypher hosts have been taken care of." thought Stan, right before hearing an explosion that came from the village, "I need to do this fast, the battle's intensifying far more than I expected."
With that said, Stan took out a bag, grabbed and put the piece in it and went running as fast as he could. Once he had left, the feminine hooded figure returned, but this time with another familiar figure: Tobi, who's single sharingan eye was seen through the hole in his mask. "This going to go smoothly, Isn't it?" asked Tobi.
"Yes, definitely."
(At Hidden Gravity)
The battle between Mabel and Gideon intensified as Gideon attacked with all he got, including flying kunais, shurikens and light red energy balls that he shot from his palms. Mabel effortlessly dodged all the attacks, counterattacking when the window of opportunity arrived.
"Just give up already, Mabel! You know this battle cannot be won!"
The girl didn't respond at first, preferring to dodge Gideon's attack and mock him before she got on top of a building, "You're right Gideon, this battle cannot be won." replied Mabel in a determined tone, taking out a kunai before rushing towards the boy, "Not by you that is!"
Mabel kicked Gideon's stomach, the boy howling in pain right before Mabel continued her attack with a few punches and kicks. When the chubby boy managed to recover his balance, he tried to attack the girl by unleashing a some fast punches at her, most of wich she blocked with little trouble.
Once the opportunity presented itself again, Mabel kicked him in the stomach strong enough to stun him, the girl pinning the boy on the ground before she took off some ropes from her pockets. She quickly tied him, the boy struggling as the girl got up and stared at him with a scowl.
"Now, before you're kicked out of this place, I have two questions to ask you: who gave you this power, and why are there red pieces of the cypher beast?" questioned Mabel, aiming her kunai at Gideon.
All the boy did was laugh like a maniac, which only served to anger the girl further. "You definitely need to do you home work, Mabel! All you need to know is that the prophecy will be fulfilled, and the ninja world will be conquered by It's true ruler: me!" stated Gideon.
The boy's eyes started to glow a dark red color as he flew up high in the sky, ripping off the ropes with little effort. Just then, Mabel heard a familiar voice coming to her: Stan's voice.
The old man was returning to the village, following the red cypher piece which was now flying towards Gideon. "Don't let him catch it!" called Stan as he fell.
Hearing the words as clear as crystal, Mabel jumped up high and blocked the path between Gideon and the piece, he boy intervening and trying to move the girl away. When the cypher piece collided with them, the duo was surrounded by a light red ring, which continued to expand until the two had been engulfed inside a light red sphere.
"Please Mabel...make sure he doesn't get his hands on that piece!"
(Inside the sphere)
Mabel looked around to see the inside of the sphere: a place where dark red shadows-like ghosts flew around while disturbing laughter was heard, some strange ghoul-like things were walking around and a concentrated orb made of darkness was in the middle of the place, with the red cypher piece inside.
All of this was accompanied by a fiery background, with the solid floor Mabel and Gideon stood on being made of rock. "What is this place?" asked Mabel, looking around before remembering Gideon and turning to him.
"It's a yin sphere, it manifests when somebody gets in between a cypher host and a cypher piece of the yin half of the cypher beast." explained Gideon, who glared at the girl with a furious look, "And you, will be a nice girl, and get out of here so I can take what's rightfully mine: the yin cypher piece!"
"Now hold just a minute, what do you mean yin cypher piece?" questioned Mabel, the boy looking slightly surprised at her question, "And why are you so intent
"Seeing that your petty little mind would not comprehend the complete version, I'll try to tell you what your chipmunk brain can let you understand." The girl groaned and narrowed her look as Gideon explained, "You see, we know the cypher beast: giant, huge chakra, became your brother's soon-to-be-activated-bomb inside him. However, what only the cypher hosts can understand, is that the cypher beasts is divided in two halfs: the yin half and the yang half."
Behind Gideon, the kanji for yin appeared surrounded by light red flames. "The yin half represents the beast's feminine side, his passive abilities and the concentrated darkness and negativity surrounding It's story."
The place completely changed once Gideon finished: everything turned into light blue-ish, the ghoul things now looked like normal humans and the ghosts now looked happy. The orb in the middle of the room remained intact, however.
Behind him materialized the kanji for yang, the boy expression some resentment about it for some reason. "The yang half, however, represents the masculine side, the active abilities that the beast's uses the most and the light and hope the creäture possesses. Understandably, the cypher beast uses the yang half more than the yin half, very few even knew it existed...until the first cypher host was made."
The kanji disappeared and the place soon returned to normal, the humans now decaying back to the ghoul things and the ghosts changing back to their disturbing forms. "So, to let you understand which part belongs to which half: the blue cypher pieces belong to the yang, while the red pieces belong to the yin. Did your pea brain got that?"
"That answered one of my questions, Gideon, but it didn't answer why you want the piece so much." stated the girl, trying to contain her fury.
"It's my nature as a cypher host, a yin cypher host." replied Gideon before explaining, or I should expose about the prophecy he mentioned earlier, "The prophecy speaks about this: divided in 16 pieces, 8 yin and 8 yang, the corresponding cypher hosts will immediately engage in battle upon eye contact, and the winner half will become the dominant half of the cypher beast. For my master's plan to work, the yin half must win, and with me on the yin side, not only your brother is doomed, but the rest of your village!"
Unable to stand the boys chatter anymore, Mabel gripped her kunai and rushed at him with a furious look. "I don't care what are your intentions, nor who is your master! I'm not letting you get that piece, Gideon!"
(Back outside)
It didn't took long before somebody came out of the sphere: Mabel. The sphere vanished to show Gideon, now with red skin and empty, soulless eyes and a dark red aura surrounding him. So he had simply turned into a more obvious version of himself.
"Come back here, you coward!" Mabel's call fell on deaf ears as Gideon started to cackle like a maniac, the girl frowning and crossing her arms as he went out of view and Stan walked to her, "And he's gone."
"At least Gideon retreated, and hopefully we won't see him for a long time." remarked Stan.
"Yes, but he has the red cypher piece. The yin cypher piece." added Mabel.
The girl looked down and started to think about what she had heard, turning to Stan with a curious look and getting his attention immediately. "Grunkle Stan, did you knew the cypher beast has yin and yang halfs?"
(With Dipper and Sasuke)
Dipper and Sasuke continuously clashed, with neither boy showing like they were going to get tired anytime soon. Dipper took out some shurikens and, charging them with the cypher beast's chakra, threw them towards Sasuke, who effortlessly dodged them before rushing towards the kid, punching him with enough strength to send him flying to a wall.
Once the boy recovered consciousness, he jumped off and rushed once again at the teenager, clashing in the process. What followed was a lot of pretty fast clashes between them, a few still images appearing that showed the two delivering hits and blocking them in quick succession. It finally stopped when Sasuke struck Dipper in the stomach and punched him, sending him down the ground and causing a small crater once he fell.
With a slight chuckle Sasuke went down just as Dipper got up, looking extremely bruised. "Pine Tree, I recommend that you leave now." told the Cypher Beast to Dipper, who rolled his eyes, "Besides, that guy doesn't look like he's gonna stop anytime soon, and you're not in the best condition."
"Tell me something I don't know! I can't escape just yet, what if his friends try to stop me from leaving?!" replied Dipper, dodging another sneak attack from Sasuke, "We need a distraction if we wanna get out of here at all!"
The battle then continued, Dipper slowly but surely failing to dodge Sasuke's attacks more and more, up until he was far too weak to fight back. Grabbing and lifting him, Sasuke grinned maliciously before throwing Dipper against a wall, accumulating energy on his palms before running towards him, his malicious grin turning downright psychotic as he jumped and got ready to rip off the cypher pieces from him...
"SASUKE!"
Hearing the shout, Sasuke somehow stopped mid-air as he and Dipper turned to see where it came from, and finding two familiar sights that jumped from behind some pillars to the battlefield. One of them was a girl with pink hair, a sight which shocked Sasuke, and the other was a blonde guy in an orange jumpsuit, which enraged him.
"S-Sakura? Naruto?!"
"We finally found you!" exclaimed the guy in the orange jumpsuit, Naruto, as he and the girl, Sakura, jumped down to the battlefield.
"Don't put your nose where it doesn't concern you, Naruto!" scolded Sasuke as he was ignored once again, Naruto walking to the bruised boy and helping him get up, "This is between the prime cypher host and me!"
"I'll deal with this psycho, now's your chance to flee." told Naruto to Dipper as he patted his head, "Meet me at Hidden Leaf once you're feeling better. I might be able to teach you a few things that will help you in your journey, whatever that is."
Nodding in response, Dipper went running to the exit, Sasuke for some reason being unable to do anything but stand there as he saw Dipper leave and Naruto take his place. "Well, Sasuke, now It's between you and me. If you wanna get to this little guy, you'll have to go through my dead body!"
"NARUTOOOOOO!"
(Outside)
The ANBU, Yamato and Pacifica had just arrived and were ready to blow up the door, just as they saw Dipper running to them with Sakura near him. "Let me take you to the Hidden Leaf, we got the best medical-nin over there, she should be able to cure those pretty awful wounds of yours." told Sakura to the boy, who smiled in response.
The duo stopped once they saw the ANBU and Pacifica outside, leading to a long silence as the everybody stared at each other, a tumbleweed passing by in before the silence was broken by Pacifica. "Dipper, who is this girl?"
"She's Sakura, she and a guy in an orange jumpsuit managed to save me before Sasuke finished me off." explained Dipper, "What are you doing here? And who are those people?"
"They're the real ANBU."
"We were issued to come and get him before anybody else got you first, but we arrived a bit too late and you were taken by Sasuke." explained Yamato in a regretful tone, "If you follow us to Hidden Leaf, we can guide you to Miss Tsunade so she can help you recover."
"That's exactly what I was going to do!"
"It doesn't matter who takes me, as long as I'm taken to a place...where..."
Before he could finish Dipper fell unconsciousness, Sakura narrowing her look and jumping to Hidden Leaf with the ANBU and Pacifica following her behind. Once everybody had left, the feminine hooded figure and Tobi suddenly appeared. "Looks like your little champion is in an inadequate state, wouldn't you think?" remarked Tobi in a mocking tone.
"Patience, Tobi, he will be back, stronger than he was before. That is the universal rule of healing after all." replied the hooded figure, "The prophecy will be coming soon, we must reunite the rest of the yin cypher hosts."
"Oh I assure you, they will be chosen pretty soon." before Tobi finished, he opened his eyes, revealing light red irises with shurikens as pupils, "Pretty soon."
(At Hidden Cloud)
Candy and Grenda were sitting near a cliff, looking up at the clouds and pointing at them. One of them caught their attention, one that looked...and that was the one cloud Soos went throughm the girls running away before the man landed at their place. Once the man landed, the two girls got up and reunited with him. "You again?" they asked in unison.
"Hi again. I believe we never met properly, my name's Soos."
"What are you doing here?" asked Grenda as she and Candy walked to the man.
"I saw in the news that a red cypher piece was falling straight to this place, so I came here as fast as I could to give you help." explained Soos, looking around at his surroundings to see that it was peaceful, "However, everything seems peaceful around here-"
"I did have the feeling it was too peaceful to be good." remarked Candy as Grenda took out her giant shuriken.
Another explosion was heard and from this one, a shadowy figure was seen jumping up high to the team, landing some feet away from them and causing the ground to slightly shake. Once the ground calmed down and the shadowy figure walked closer, it was revealed to be a heavy-built woman who was wearing the average cloud ninja attire. She also had light red sclera and a red cypher piece orbiting around her, but Soos didn't really noticed.
"Who's that woman?" asked Soos in a dreamily tone.
"She's Melody, an expert jonin and our teacher." answered Candy.
"Whoa, you have a teacher?"
"Well, where do you think our powers came from?" questioned Grenda, "We certainly didn't teach ourselves how to do them."
"Okay...Melody, I don't wanna do this, but I can't just let get out of here with the cypher piece on your body!" stated Soos, scratching the back of his head as he continued, "So, can I ask you to get it out of your body, or something?"
Melody instead roared and went running towards the girls and Soos, the man grabbing them and jumping away before the woman punched them, hitting the ground instead and causing a crater to form. Once the two had landed and were from a safe distance, Soos released the girls and took out a shuriken. "That was the answer I expected!"
(Hidden Leaf)
Dipper slowly opened his eyes to see he was at a hospital, with Sakura and a blonde woman sitting at a bench near him. A Medical-Nin was also there, if anything went wrong. "Where am I?"
"At the hospital of Hidden Leaf, the woman near me is Lady Tsunade, who took care of your wounds." explained Sakura, "You should be better in a few hours."
"Man, I start to think the hospitals love me a bit too much. I'm starting to go here to recover more often than usual." joked Dipper with a little laugh, the room soon going into full silence as Dipper looked around and noticed someone was missing, "Where's Pacifica?"
"That blonde girl? She was guided back to her clan, though they looked a bit angry at her for some reason." replied Tsunade.
"Lady Tsunade." informed a woman with raven hair that came inside, getting the attention of the blonde, "We got some visitors."
At the door two familiar sights were seen: Dipper's Grunkle Stan and his slightly older sister, Mabel, who looked worried sick. The girl went running towards him while the old man walked with a smile on his face.
"Oh Dipper, you're alright!" exclaimed the chocolate-haired girl as she tightly hugged her brother, the boy letting out a howl of pain and the girl separating immediately after hearing it, "Sorry! Sorry! I got too excited."
"Thanks for coming, guys." it didn't took long before Dipper noticed the absence of two particular members, "Where are Wendy and Soos?"
"Soos went to help Hidden Cloud while Wendy went to her clan, to protect it." answered Stan in a stern tone.
"They went to help Hidden Cloud and the Corduroy Clan? What happened while I was gone?"
(Some explaining later)
Stan and Mabel had explained everything to Dipper about what happened during his absence, though you probably already know that. "So, red cypher pieces fell on Hidden Gravity? That could mean bad news. And since Gideon has one of them, it could also mean even worse news." said Dipper, "Do either of you know about those red cypher pieces?"
"Gideon provided a...peculiar answer to that question."
To Be Continued...