Chapter 4: Clash of Warriors
Natsu and Luffy both grit their teeth at the clash before jumping back.
"HOT HOT HOT," Luffy yelled comically as he began blowing on his smoking hand.
"Damn, what is your hand made of?" Natsu asked while gripping his wrist, before he started breathing in and unleashed a stream of fire. "Fire Dragons Roar".
Luffy's eyes quickly changed into a shocked look before he bounced himself into the air, dodging the attack, before kicking both his feet towards Natsu.
Seeing the attack coming, Natsu barely managed to dodge before he charged his fist with fire, and launched himself towards Luffy.
"I'm takin your ass down rubber man". Once Luffy landed on the ground he swung both his arms back with an annoyed look on his face.
"Bring it on pinky, Gum Gum Bazooka". Luffy then sent the attack forward and slammed it into Natsu's stomach, with so much force it sent Natsu rocketing directly into a large pillar of rock.
Off to the side several spectators were in shock and awe.
"That stretchy guy has quite a bit of strength behind him doesn't he captain?" Ban said curiously.
"Yeah, this might actually be a pretty fun tournament. But if that is the best they got, then their team isn't much of a threat," Meliodas said while staring at the other members of Luffy's team.
Once Ban saw where Meliodas was looking, he decided to enact a plan of his own and rushed towards their entire group.
"What are you doing Ban?" asked Diana.
"Don't do anything stupid Ban". King stated firmly.
Ban simply smiled once he heard that, "Come on guys. You know damn well they can't kill me. Besides, they don't even have any magical energy".
As Ban approached them all he noticed Akainu looking off to the side, seeing him not paying attention he started thinking. "That guy looks like he could be the leader of that little team. So if I take him down, then the rest should be a piece of cake"
Once Ban got close he jumped towards Akainu before he pulled out his three-sectioned staff and punched at Akainu's head.
"I'll try to hold back a bit so I don't kill you", Ban said wildly. However, his face of excitement was changed to one of shock, when his fist went completely through Akainu's head and his entire arm was melted to the bone in the process.
He started screaming from the pain before he looked towards him with an angry look in his eyes.
"What the hell? Merlin said your entire group didn't have any magic. So how the hell did you do that?"
Akainu merely looked at him, before he walked over to Ban and kicked him on his back, before stepping on his chest.
"How foolish could you be, attacking an enemy that you have never faced before. Magic is a mere parlor trick, what your seeing is the power of my devil fruit, the Magma Magma Fruit".
"Devil Fruit?" Ban thought before he could feel his chest starting to burn.
"Don't worry, since killing isn't allowed I won't turn you into ash right now. But I will slowly burn you until you pass out, then I will throw your unconscious body off the stage".
"Damn, I got cocky", Ban thought with anger as he tried to remove Akainu's foot. "This guy is strong, if I get eliminated so easily, the others will never let me live it down".
Fortunately for Ban, before his entire midsection became charred he was teleported back to the group thanks to Merlin.
"Are you ok Ban?" Gowther asked in a monotone voice.
"Yeah, give it a minute, and I should be back to normal", Ban said in a calm yet agitated voice. No sooner did those words leave his mouth, did his skin, flesh, and bones start to repair and reassemble themselves.
This caused many spectators, including the members of the One Piece team to express shock.
"No way", Zoro said surprised.
"He can regenerate his whole arm", Sanji noted. "That's quite a formidable ability.
"His healing is on par with the Mitotic regeneration", Tsunande noted with curiosity. "And it appears that it doesn't even require chakra".
"It's almost impossible to do any harm, to a guy that can even regenerate his arm, fool ya fool", Killer Bee rapped, much to the annoyance of several of the people around him.
"More importantly", Gaara stated watching him from a distance. "That man he attacked turned completely into lava in order to dodge the attack. If it is anything like lava style, we need to be very careful against him."
Seeing Ban regenerate, Akainu decided to end this fast. So he began to real his fist back before shooting a huge ball of lava towards the entire seven deadly sins group.
"HOLY CRAP", King and Diana both screamed as the large amount of lava barreled towards them.
Unfortunately, the face of amusement that was on Akainu's face was wiped away by one of shock as the attack was sent flying back towards him twice as fast. As Akainu allowed the attack to hit him, forcing the rest of the One Piece team to dodge, he looked towards the culprit with an annoyed look and saw the Captain of the Sins, Meliodas smiling back at him.
"Sorry about that", Meliodas said with a carefree look. "Couldn't just let you take out one of the sins, that's the captains duty".
"Well as the Fleet Admiral of the Marines my first duty is to get rid of any threats to peace, and as of this tournament, every single member of these enemy teams shall be considered obstacles to that peace".
"Well as the Seven Deadly Sins Captain I'm gonna have to do whatever it takes to stop you".
(Natsu vs Luffy)
Natsu was currently climbing out of the ground from where he was knocked with a major ringing in his ears.
"Damn, this guy is stronger than I thought" he thought with a grin as he jumped back on his feet. "Guess I really can't hold back".
Luffy then landed in front of Natsu before he looked over towards Natsu and started cracking his knuckles.
"You done yet pinky? Or do I have to kick your ass again."
Hearing this Natsu started getting angry both from Luffy looking down on him, and the insult of his hair.
"My name is Natsu you rubber bastard, and what do you mean kicking my ass? I'm just getting fired up", he said with enthusiasm letting out a large amount of incredible flames.
"Nachu huh?" Luffy said completely butchering his name. "My name is Luffy, the Future Pirate King".
"Lucy? Isn't that a girl's name", Natsu said oblivious.
"It's not Lucy dumbass, its Luffy", He said angrily.
"How are you getting pissed? You're the one who called me Nachu, its Na-Tsu you idiot".
As the two went from a serious fight to glaring angrily at each other some of the spectators were taking amusement in the fight.
"Those guys don't seem too smart, do they?" Gokuderu said rudely.
"Come on Gokuderu, if they're in this tournament they must be pretty strong. Don't underestimate then", Tsuna said sheepishly trying to prevent Gokuderu from making a mistake.
"They are like the Herbivore, strong sometimes and weak sometimes", Hibari said while watching them with narrowed eyes. "But let's see how strong they are".
Before Tsuna could protest Hibari was already racing towards the two fighting, intent on attacking them both.
When Zoro noticed this, he drew one of his swords and prepared to intercept the guy before he could get to Luffy, but somebody beat him to the punch.
"Time to bite both of you to dea-"
"Iron Dragons Roar". Hibari was immediately forced to dodge to the right upon hearing this before he pulled out his tonfas.
Gajeel then appeared out of the smoke with a frown on his face. "Don't you know not to go in and interrupt other people's fights."
"Shut up herbivore, before I bite you to death", Hibari said threateningly while lifting both his tonfas in the air.
"Never heard that before, Gajeel said questioningly. "But you're not taking a bite out of anything". He then turned his arm into a sword before getting into a battle stance against Hibari.
"Fire Dragons…Natsu then sent a flaming kick towards Luffy's chest….Wing Attack". Once the attack hit Luffy was sent back from the force, but managed to avoid major burns thanks to his armament haki.
Natsu then jumped towards him while covering his head in flames, "Take this you bastard, Fire Dragons Swordhorn". Once the attack hit Luffy was sent spiraling towards the ground, but managed to land on his feet before he slammed headfirst onto the ground.
"Time to end this, with the flames of my right hand, and the flames of my left, put em together and you get Fire Dragons Brilliant Flame", As Natsu sent the large ball of explosive fire towards Luffy, he failed to notice Luffy's entire body turn pink before it hit.
Once the fireball hit the ground and exploded Natsu landed on his feet with a smile on his face.
"That'll teach you never to underestimate Fairy Ta-"
"Gum Gum Jet Pistol". Natsu was immediately, and painfully, ripped away from his thoughts by Luffy's pink fist smashing into his face and sending him flying painfully back.
"What the hell?" Natsu thought. "When did he get so fast?" Unfortunately for Natsu, the only answer to his question was a Gum Gum stamp from above sending him into the ground bellow.
Luffy then started slamming him into the ground repeatedly with a jet stamp Gatling.
Once Luffy stopped he landed on the ground a few feet away from Natsu. He turned his back and was going to regroup with his friend before he noticed Natsu getting up.
"Oh, your still conscious, just give up you can't beat me in Second Gear", Luffy stated.
This only made Natsu start laughing, "You're not the only person to tell me I can't win. But you know what? That just makes me wanna win more".
Hearing this made Luffy start to smile as well, thinking about all the times he never backed down as well.
"Alright Natsu, but I'm not gonna hold back."
"Good, I couldn't claim real victory if you held back on me", However, right as Natsu was getting ready to take it a step further Luffy's feet were suddenly frozen to the ground.
"What the hell is this?" Luffy asked confused. "I thought we were on the same team Aokiji you bastard".
Luffy's rants were unfortunately cut short as he was blasted with a huge amount of lightning. When Natsu looked behind him he was surprised to see Gray with his hand on the ground, and Erza in her lightning empress armor.
"What the hell are you two doing?" Natsu asked confused. "I can handle this fight on my own".
This just made Gray start to chuckle with amusement. "That's not what I saw Flame-Brain, looked to me like you were getting your ass kicked".
This caused Natsu to get a tic mark on his head. "Well nobody asked you Ice-Queen".
"What was that?" Gray asked angrily, but before the two of them could start a fight themselves Erza silenced them with a glance.
"Regardless of personal pride, we must take advantage of the teamwork we as Fairy Tail share for this tournament. Losing means that everyone from our world dies. So We must win, for all our friends and comrades back at home".
This speech caused both Natsu and Gray to reluctantly back off from each other, but they were shocked to see that out of the smoke Luffy was relatively unharmed, besides his till frozen legs.
"That's impossible", Erza said in shock. "I know I hit him with my electrical attack".
"Shishishi, sorry but I'm a rubber man. Lightning has no effect on me", Luffy said while smiling. "Now can you get this ice off me?"
"Hell no", Gray said angrily.
"Pretty please?", Luffy asked politely.
"This guy's dumber than Natsu", Gray thought while sweat dropping. "And that's saying something?"
"If lightning won't work, then I will just cut through you", Erza said before switching into her Heavens Wheel Armor and charging Luffy.
"Pentagram Sword", She yelled swinging both her swords towards him.
However, as Luffy was preparing to block it using haki he was surprised when a black katana blocked both the swords in Erza's hands.
"What?" She thought surprised.
Standing in front of her, holding back her attack with one hand, was the famed Pirate Hunter, Roranoa Zoro.
"No way, he blocked Erza's attack." Gray said shocked.
"Longe". Gray turned towards wear he heard the attack only to get kicked by a black foot in the back, sending him flying past Natsu.
"Sorry, but where not just gonna let you sit back and 3v1 our Captain like that", Sanji said before putting his cigarette out on the ground, before angrily turning to Zoro. "You better not hurt a single hair on that beautiful red haired goddesses head Zoro, or I'll kick your teeth in".
This just caused Zoro to grit his teeth in anger, before he pushed Erza off of him and turned towards Sanji. "Worry about your own opponent shit cook". Zoro said before charging towards Erza.
Before Sanji could ask what he meant his observation haki warned him of an incoming threat, allowing him to narrowly dodge several arrows made of ice shot towards him by Gray.
"You sure you wanna do this stripper?" Sanji asked while lighting another cigarette.
"Who you callin a stripper?" Gray asked angrily before he looked down and saw that he was only in his underwear. "Shit, where did my clothes go?"
"Sigh, why do I always get the weird ones?" Sanji thought before he charged towards Gray.
After Luffy managed to break the ice, he looked towards Natsu before he walked over towards him. You ready to continue where we left off Natsu.
Hearing this Natsu smiled before he punched his hand into his palm, "Of course Luffy. I'm just getting fired up now". Luffy then noticed that large amounts of fire, as well as lightning began flowing around Natsu.
"Lightning Flame Dragon Mode".
Before Luffy could say anything or comment about Natsu's new mode, he was forced to block a lightning fast punch that sent him sliding back across the stadium.
(Elsewhere)
Kazuma Kuwabara was currently walking around the stadium, seeing several other people fighting, he decided that he would take out a few people to show his usefulness to the team.
"I may not have helped much in some of the previous tournaments", he thought. "But I'm gonna show them all how strong I am".
He then looked towards the sky and started yelling, "You hear that world, I'm Kazuma Kuwabara the strongest human in the world, and I'm gonna use this tournament to show I'm just as strong as Yusuke".
"Strongest human in the world huh?"
Kuwabara, being a very powerful psychic, suddenly felt a large amount of power pouring out from behind him, similar to spirit energy, but it felt heavier, as well as much more than he felt from anyone besides maybe Yusuke.
He turned around to see a spiky haired man carrying a chipped sword, with an eyepatch and a uniform that said Squad 11.
"Well then", the grinning face of Kenpachi Zaraki said. "Looks like I hit the jackpot".
A.N. Hello everyone. So I decided to write and publish this chapter early, since I felt like this would be a good starting point for this chapter at least. I hope you guys enjoy, and as a side note, ik its depressing, but I would like anyone reading this to pray for the families and people who were lost in Las Vegas. Or if you're not religious, at least keep them in your thoughts. Until next time, peace out.
Coming Up: As more and more people get drawn into the fights the tournament starts to pick up. With Luffy vs Natsu, Gajeel vs Hibari, and Gray vs Sanji to name a few. It's still anybody's game.
Next Time: The Tournament Heats Up