Nexus HWR 1.6 Not Just Sharks:
Natsu yawned as he walked out of the boy's quarters and down the hall towards the door to the deck of the ship. When he got close to the door however, he noticed two others standing at the exit to the cabin, peeking out through the cracked open door. "What's up?" The pink haired mage questioned the two standing in front of him.
Sora and Ben snapped their heads back together and both held up a single finger in front of their mouths. "Shh," they whispered at him. Ben waved his older friend over and Natsu came over to the door with them. They had to open it a little wider than last time to make room for Natsu, and the boys were all amazed by what they saw outside.
There was only one person on the deck right now, yet at the same time there were thirty people out and about on the ship'a surface. Up at the helm, there was a teenager with messy black hair standing still with his arms held out to the sides. Four other black teens of the same height and body stature kept charging at him and attacking with their fists, knives, or even balls of glowing blue light. Whenever the four attackers got close to hitting the one standing still however, a golden sphere of light surrounded him that protected him from their attacks. High up above the five of them, were six others sitting across the boom at the top of the mast.
The horizontal piece of wood was rounded, but on either side of the mast sat three teens with their legs crossed. Their eyes were closed and their hands were on their knees, looking completely relaxed as they tried to maintain their balance. Closest to the door the three boys were looking out, there were two more black haired teenagers floating a few inches off the grassy ground of the main deck. One of the two lost control as he was hovering and he spun out of control, crashing into the other and making them both fall to the floor. They tumbled into two other teens who were in the middle of trading blows, and one of them missed his punch, slamming it into a wooden wall instead.
The teen tried to lessen the force of his punch as to not splinter the wood, but it still caused enough of a tremor that the six teens sitting cross-legged on top of the boom opened their eyes in surprise. Their distraction also cost them their balance and they all fell off the high mast, only one of them managing to grab on with his hands as he toppled off.
Five teenagers crashed down to the ground below. One fell on top of the boy surrounded in a glowing golden sphere and in his surprise he dropped his Borg. The protective barrier fell as one of the others was pushing forward a spinning ball of blue energy. The Rasengan collided with the black haired teen inside the barrier as four other teens crashed down on the floor around them, some even falling on top of the others. All of them yelled out as the blue attack exploded.
Sora, Ben, and Natsu were trying desperately to hold it in, but Natsu was leaning too far forward to see over Sora's spiky hair and tripped forward on accident. His fall caused all three of them to push through the doorway onto the grass outside. They got back up to their feet fast, but they couldn't help it anymore and all burst out in laughter.
All the injured black haired boys around the deck poofed out in puffs of white smoke. Then the remaining ten or so who were glaring at the three boys on the grass deck all vanished as well. Once all the Shadow Clones were gone, they looked up at the ship's sail where one last one was hanging from the boom.
The final teen, and really the only one who was actually up here, swung off the boom into a triple backflip. He came down fast, but when he was about to hit the ground in front of his three crewmates, he expelled a lot of ki from the bottoms of his feet to soften his fall.
Natsu was laughing the hardest of the other two after watching Kiritos tumble all over the ship. "Ahaha! What are you doing?!"
"Great job," a voice called down from above them. Three of them looked up in surprise, while Kirito just looked up expectantly at his trainer. "Do you remember what the clone on the left was thinking when he was flying a minute ago?" The muscular man in the air with large black spikes of hair on his head smiled at his comrades as he descended towards them.
"Goku?" Natsu asked.
"What are you doing up here?" Ben questioned the former mayor of Pao Town.
"Just helping Kirito with some early morning training," the Saiyan replied. He turned back to the other black haired male on the deck, "You're improving rapidly. Naruto was definitely right with this training method. It seems the more Shadow Clones you produce, the more information you retain." Goku scratched his chin thoughtfully, "Everything your clones think during their training, you can recall it correct?"
Kirito nodded his head, ignoring the other three who were staring at him. "You want to learn how to do it?" Kirito questioned him.
"It's okay," Goku replied. He held up his right hand and said, "I've already got a similar technique. We call it multi-form," his body suddenly split into three different figures. The one in the middle kept speaking while his fellow travelers each took a step back in surprise.
Kirito thought they might just be afterimages so he reached a hand forward, but that version of Goku just chuckled when Kirito felt his solid form. "And this is real? Not just a clone?" He questioned in amazement.
"Yep!" Goku replied cheerfully. "But it has the same setback in that it splits my energy in three." He looked at the four children around him, "I bet the four of you could take a third of me." If I stay in my base form, he added on for himself with a chuckle.
"Really?!" Ben exclaimed hopefully. Goku nodded at the thirteen year old and they smiled at each other.
"Yeah right," Sora said. The spiky haired boy continued, "You are much too strong Son Goku."
The Saiyan grinned at the modest boy with brown hair that spiked just like his own. Without you they probably wouldn't stand a chance. You are strong Sora.
"I wouldn't need the other three," Natsu said proudly, balling his fists. "I'm all it would take."
"Really?" A voice said behind him. The pink haired kid's eyes went wide as he suddenly noticed the Goku on the left of the center one was gone. Before he could move, two strong arms wrapped under his armpits and connected behind his neck, putting him in a full nelson.
"Hey!" Natsu yelled, "Unfair!" He squirmed around in Goku's arms but the Saiyan's grip was unbreakable.
"This is the move I put my older brother in so Piccolo could kill him." Goku commented nostalgically as he thought back on the fight with Raditz. Saying his thoughts out loud turned out to be the wrong idea though as all four of the others gawked at him in horror. He didn't notice this yet though and scratched the back of his own head, releasing Natsu as he did. He continued, "Though he wound up killing me too!" Goku started laughing at the old story.
"You killed your older brother?" Ben whispered, his voice a little scared.
Goku stopped scratching the back of his head and looked around at the others noticing they were all staring at him nervously. "Well, he was threatening to kill Gohan," the Saiyan argued, "and he wanted me to kill all humans... Oh! And he slapped Krillin through Kame House!"
"Well then that's unforgivable," Natsu said with a stoic nod. The pink haired wizard tried to keep a straight face as he said it but he wound up laughing again with Goku and Sora who joined in with them.
Ben was still staring at the older man with a little bit of fear though. He could kill his own brother if it meant saving others. What if- What if I have to face a situation like that? His fear wasn't directed at the man he was looking at. It was fear that he was going to have to make hard decisions like that in his travels, giving up on one person to save many...
"Breakfast!" A loud voice shouted through the speakers all over the ship. They recognized the blond haired chef's voice who was probably in the kitchen and they all turned back towards the cabin. As they turned, they saw the door had already swung open.
The four teens on the deck looked back behind them but not one of the three Goku's were still on the deck. "Quickly!" Natsu yelled, panic spreading across his face.
Ben started sprinting inside, forgetting his fears as he shouted, "If we don't hurry, Goku will eat everything!"
Everyone on the ship was sprinting the same direction. When they reached the kitchen they found Sanji desperately trying to stop the four monsters from devouring all the food at his table. He kicked the rubber captain across the room and then yelled at the three Goku's to combine so they would stop eating so much. All of Goku's multi-forms combined together and the spiky haired Saiyan felt himself get a lot more full with all his food in one stomach. That wasn't to say he couldn't still eat, and he continued diving into the mountains of food set up for them.
"Every day," Usopp muttered, wondering if his stomach could take watching this much longer. He thought he was used to it watching Luffy eat, but the Saiyan's stomach wasn't even made of rubber yet his mouth seemed like a bottomless pit.
While the crew ate, Ben turned to Kirito and asked, "So, what were the clones sitting on the boom doing?" He took another bite of his breakfast while waiting for an answer.
Ben could figure out what the rest of the Shadow Clones were doing, but the ones on top of the mast seemed to just be sitting around doing nothing. Kirito took another bite himself and swallowed. He looked in at Ben, "I was attempting Sage Mode. It was one of Naruto's best techniques."
"Sage Mode huh?" Timmy asked between bites of his food. The normally quiet twelve year old looked up a little and over at Kirito. They weren't very close, but they did share the bond that they each knew Naruto well. "How's that going? Naruto and Goku are the only ones I know who can do it."
Kirito froze and his head snapped to Goku. Goku looked just as surprised though and turned to Timmy confusedly. Timmy looked over at Goku and saw the older man's confusion. "Remember when we fought Madara? You couldn't see those invisible guys, so I wished that you could see them, which meant giving you Sage Mode."
Timmy kept eating casually while most people stared at him in either confusion or awe. Nami remembered the battle with Madara vividly and she looked away, confusing Luffy who had no idea what they were talking about. "What's Sage Mode?" Luffy asked.
Kirito hesitated for a moment, not wanting to explain it. However the question was directed at him and he sighed. "After reaching a perfect state of meditation you have to absorb the nature energy around you." Kirito said, trying to give just the gist of it.
"And how many times have you actually done it?" Natsu asked the teenager.
Kirito grimaced but tried not to let it show. "Zero. I've been practicing it since my training with Naruto. Over two years now."
"And you haven't done it once?!" Ben exclaimed. He received a glare from Kirito and closed his mouth fast, realizing that probably sounded a little harsh.
"Well," Goku said between bites of food. "Only way to get stronger is by training. Keep at it Kirito."
Kirito's annoyed expression faded a little. "Yeah," he mumbled, then got back to his food.
Kirito stood at the top of the Thousand Sunny's mast on one foot. He had his other leg bent up to his thigh and his eyes were closed while he meditated. The rounded roof of the crow's nest was hard to balance on which made it the best place to make sure he was focused solely on his meditation. The black pirate flag of the Straw Hats flapped in the wind behind him.
The teenager standing at the top of the ship listened to everything around him. He could hear Ben training inside the crow's nest beneath him. The younger boy was sparring with Riku who was clearly winning by the sounds of Ben's frustrated grunts. From the sounds they were making though, Kirito could tell Ben was not transforming into any of his aliens while fighting. Kirito listened past the two of them down to the grassy deck below where Luffy, Dash, and Usopp were running around playing tag. The sniper kept complaining about Dash's speed, Luffy and Dash kept laughing, and Kirito heard Robin chuckling from her lounge chair not far from them.
He tried to hear inside the ship, to the other presences he could feel with his Haki, but the wind was picking up. The flag flapped harder making a buffeting noise that blocked out the sounds of his crewmates. Kirito looked back at the flapping flag and then up into the sky. Now that he looked, he realized that the sky had been getting darker for a while now. "Hmm," he looked to the bow of the ship and out into the distance of the ocean. There was no land for hundreds of miles, or at least as far as the horizon. The waves were picking up and getting choppier.
"Looks like a storm's coming," he muttered, putting down his other foot. He hopped off of the crow's nest and dropped to the front deck where Franky stood behind the wheel.
"Sup little bro," the cyborg greeted. The smiling robot turned the wheel a little to head right over a large wave. "Want to get Nami for me?" Franky added seeing as the water was getting rougher each second.
Kirito replied, "No need."
The cyborg turned to ask him why, but when he turned he saw Nami walking up the steps behind them. "Heh, forgot you know Haki," Franky said while turning back to the water. "So Nami," he called out, "what's going on?"
The navigator walked up between Kirito and Franky to look out over the water herself. She had a semi-serious look on her face as she looked both directions. "A cold front, and a warm front," her eyes opened wide and she called out, "Hard to port. Get us away from here."
"On it," Franky said, not going to question her orders after all this time.
Kirito's eyes narrowed out off the front of the ship. "What is it?" he questioned. The teen looked to the woman on his right who was starting to look confused while staring ahead. He looked back ahead and finally noticed something in the water other than the waves. "Are those-" he whispered, seeing some fins sticking out of the water.
"Sharks," Nami whispered in reply. Once she saw them, there was no un-seeing them. It was not one, or two sharks, but hundreds. The fins sticking out of the water went on from a hundred feet in front of their ship to farther than they could see. "But, there are other things we have to focus on," she reminded them and mainly herself. "Franky, turn to port and get us out of here."
"Hey, what's going on?" Natsu walked up to the front of the ship and asked. The Dragon Slayer's eyes bugged out at the sight of the fins sticking out of the choppy water, "Are those sharks?! Cool!"
"Not the time Natsu," Nami scolded in between giving Franky directions. She felt a gust of warm wind hit her and froze. "I," she began, turning to her left where the front of the ship just was. They were already turning so now most of the sharks were just on their starboard side. "I don't think this is very good."
Kirito was staring up at the sky and Nami followed his gaze up. She gasped, making Franky and Natsu look up as well. Robin stood up off her lounge chair and stared into the clouds where a thin funnel of wind was coming down. The wind was spinning around faster and the cloud funnel was getting wider as it lowered towards the water. Everyone watching the funnel coming down looked down to where it would touch down.
"What the-" Franky began, sweat dripping down his metal face. The water beneath the funnel was starting to rise up, but the scary part of what they were seeing was that the sharks looked to be swimming right towards the rising water. The funnel of lowering clouds hit the rising funnel of water and created one giant tornado.
Kirito's eyes tripled in size and he yelled, "Get us out of here!"
Natsu turned to the teen next to him, "Huh? What's-" He stopped as Kirito reached behind his back and drew a sword with his right hand. The teen swung it forward and Natsu dropped to the floor in panic. "What are you doing?!" Natsu yelled up at the guy swinging a blade where he was just standing. His jaw dropped as out of the air came a shark with its jaw open, a mouth full of sharp teeth trying to bite down on Kirito's arm as the teen slid underneath it. Kirito dragged his sword from the front of the shark all the way to its tail and cut the beast straight in half.
Blood splattered on the front deck and got all over the boy who cut the shark up. Kirito stood up straight and slashed his sword out to the side, getting the blood off it. The boy soaked in blood turned to Nami who was staring at him in shock, and stated, "We need to get out of here, now."
She nodded her head at him. "Franky," she started, turning to the cyborg. "Use a Coup de Burst."
"You got it," he replied. He turned and took a step, then spotted something out the right side of his eye. He spun to the port side of the ship where the tornado was picking up more and more sharks from the water. He turned because one of the sharks came his way and chomped down on his right arm. Franky frowned and punched his metal arm down on the ground, bashing the shark's brains in.
"What's happening?!"
"Whoa! Sharks!"
Everyone was running up on deck hearing the loud crashes and fast winds up there. They freaked out at the sight of the huge tornado full of sharks spinning next to them. Usopp ran up on the deck and the sniper pointed to the side, "What is that thing?!"
Kirito turned to the entire crew behind him. He leaned over the railing and shouted, "It's a SHARKNADO!"
"A WHAT?!" Twelve people shouted back at him at the same time.
He ignored them and spun around, drawing his second sword as he did. He cut up another shark flying towards him, then jumped up and did a backflip to avoid the next one. While flipping backwards, the wind picked up and Kirito was slammed by a gust of wind, being sent flying up into the sharknado.
"No way," Ben whispered. The boy had just left the crow's nest and was about to climb down when Kirito went spinning past him up into the wind funnel. He looked up to follow the teen, but the spinning tornado was too thick to see his friend. All he could see were sharks. "Damn it!" Ben yelled.
"Get down Ben!" Riku yelled, jumping forward in front of his friend and pulling out a Keyblade as he did. He swung in a circle and hit both of the sharks that were closing in on the younger boy. They went flying back up into the tornado, and Riku pointed his Keyblade after them, "Fire!" A fireball shot into the sharknado and exploded, sending fire spinning in the wind and burning some of the sharks.
He turned and smirked at Ben as flaming sharks fell behind him. The boy looked at Riku in surprise, and his jaw dropped at the sight of a flaming shark falling behind Riku. That shark was flying right towards them and it grabbed Riku by the right arm, dragging him up into the sky. Ben just stared in shock as blood splattered out and flew into the spinning wind along with his best friend.
"Using a Coup de Burst!" Franky shouted from the inside of the ship.
"Hold on! Riku and Kirito just got sucked up," Sanji yelled back at the shipwright.
A shark slammed into the sail and ripped right through it. Another crashed into the cabin and bounced off, but took some of the wood with it. The winds were so fast that sharks came at them faster than they could follow. Nami dove to her left as a shark flew by her head, and Sanji tackled Usopp to the floor as a shark headed for the sharpshooter's back. "The ship won't take much more of this!" Sanji yelled as the railing behind where he tackled Usopp got smashed off.
Franky stared at the button in front of him and kept hearing screams of panic up above him mixed with the sounds of destruction. He closed his eyes and whispered, "Sorry." The cyborg pressed the button, "COUP DE BURST!" He yelled.
"Wait!" Ben yelled, leaning off the crow's nest and shouting down at the ship below.
Goku stared up at the sharknado with a ball of blue light in his hands. He kept looking at it for a few seconds, then closed his hand around the ball and dissipated it. The ship was lifting off the water and the jet behind the boat shot out a bright blue light. It sent them flying fast enough that they did not get sucked into the funnel behind them, though some sharks were chasing them through the air.
"I've never seen anything like this," Nami shouted as sharks flew side by side with their ship.
"What about Riku?!" Kairi shouted while looking back off the stern of the ship.
Sora grabbed his girlfriend by the shoulders and stared out in the same direction.
The ship landed down on the water and bounced a few times. They were out from underneath the dark clouds but everyone was looking back towards the tornado far behind them. "I can't believe it," Dash whispered while staring back there. His eyes were watering and he kept looking back sadly.
"It's okay," Goku stated, while still looking back in the distance.
"Yeah," Timmy agreed while looking the same way. "If something bad was happening, we would have stopped it." He was sweating a little, but he smiled while looking towards the dark clouds.
Ben looked down at Goku and Timmy, then spun to look into the far distance again. They watched the tornado moving across the water for a few seconds, and then out of the funnel on their side flew two people. One of them had four thin black wings like a dragonfly, while the other just soared horizontally next to him. They were both drenched in red, although once they got out of the funnel some green light shimmered down on them and their wounds faded.
Kirito looked next to him to see if Riku did it, but Riku had just let his Keyblades vanish. He turned forward and looked to the ship where Sora had his Keyblade lifted up off the side and was only now lowering it. Kirito smiled at his good friend and flew down to the edge Sora was standing on. "Thanks," he told the other eighteen year old. Sora sighed seeing that he was okay, then chuckled a little at Kirito and then Riku's body as the older teen landed next to them.
"You guys need to go clean up," Kairi joked at them.
Kirito and Riku looked at each other and couldn't help but laugh at all the shark guts they had on themselves.
"Still, what the heck was that thing?" Rin brought back up.
"You guys didn't have Sharknados on your worlds?" Kirito asked the people around him. They all just stared at him stupidly and he shrugged, "Sharknados, Shakicanes, they really messed up the America on my world."
"Wait a second," Rin interrupted and shook his head a few times. "America got 'messed up' by tornadoes full of sharks?"
"Yeah, we were all surprised when it started happening too," Kirito replied. He turned to the half-demon boy on his right, "So wait, your world had an America on it?" Kirito started walking off for the cabin to get washed off and shower, and Rin walked with him talking about his world. As they were walking in the door, Kirito spun to the teen on his left in surprise, "Wait, you're from Japan too?"
"Too? Wow, small giant world," Rin joked and Kirito started chuckling.
"Heh, guess it is."
"Pull in the sails!" Nami shouted. "Hard to starboard!" Okurmura Rin spun the wheel and Nami screamed, "Starboard means right you idiot!"
"Sorry!"
"Geez," Nami rubbed the side of her head in annoyance. She pushed some of her wet orange hair out of her eyes and then called up to the crow's nest, "Hey Timmy! Do you know how much farther the storm goes on for?"
The young boy sitting on top of the training room at the top of the mast leaned over and looked down to the deck. "Sorry Nami, it goes on for quite a bit longer."
Nami grumbled and then stumbled to her right as they hit another huge wave. The front of the ship smashed through the wave and water rain down over the entire ship. It was already raining, but this extra water made it feel like they were underneath the waves at times. "Hey Luffy," Nami shouted towards the bow of the ship. "Can't we just let Timmy or Goku fly us through the storm? Just this one time!"
"No Nami!" Luffy shouted back. He was sitting on the figurehead's head, and he turned his head to look to the balcony outside of the kitchen where Nami was standing with her hands on the railing. He shouted across the ship at her, "That's cheating! Sunny can make it through this!"
"Yeah, she's our SUPER ship!" Franky agreed as he finished tying the sails down on the port side.
"I don't doubt we can make it," Nami yelled back. She sounded aggravated and she yelled, "I just-" she staggered to her left and barely held on this time. "I just think we're taking this a little too far! They can fly us through the storm! Hell, they can destroy the storm if we ask!"
"She's right," Timmy called down from the mast. "If you want I could make the storm go away." All of the rain stopped falling down on the ship below and everyone looked around at the rain droplets floating around them. The moment was surreal and kind of freaky as it felt like the waves stopped moving too. If they could not hear the rushing wind, thunder, and sound of other waves farther from their ship, they would have thought that Timmy froze time for everything other than them.
"No cheating!" Luffy repeated his shout.
Timmy stopped holding on to everything and the rain continued to fall, harder for a few seconds as the rain had built up at the top of the forcefield he had created high above them. The waves also raged about harder like they were upset about being held off for a few seconds. One huge wave was heading straight for them and Nami lifted her head to follow it up in the air. Her jaw started dropping and she shouted out orders faster than every.
"Go go go!" The ship started climbing up the wave but the top of it started curling. "It's going to tip us!" Nami yelled. "Luffy, break the wave!"
The rubber pirate on the front was laughing and he jumped up to his feet. Luffy threw his arms far back behind him and he turned his hands black. "Gum Gum- BAZOOKA!" He slammed both of his arms forward and his hands smashed through the wave. It made a hole for them to sail through, but as they were making it through, the rest of the wave collapsed. So much water fell down on top of their ship it was as if they had gone completely under.
Everyone tried holding on and many of them were swept around by the wave. Nami got pulled from the front railing and she slid across the floor until she hit the railing on the port side. Her body was pushed up against it but she interlocked her arms with the wooden bars to keep from flipping over the side. She turned her head left underwater and watched as two people who were running towards the bow before were being pushed back. They slid across the floor on the sides of the cabin towards the stern as the water shoved them backwards, and they hit the back railing at the same time.
The younger one got pushed up against the rail and he tried grabbing on, but his hand slipped and the water was still tumbling him. It tossed him over the ledge and the other one grabbed for him. Kirito opened his eyes underwater and saw Ben staring back at him in fear as the water tried pulling him back. Kirito tried to yank Ben back over the rail, but all of his strength left him and Ben's hand slipped through his fingers, and then he himself tumbled over the rail.
As Ben slipped through Kirito's hands, he reached his other hand out and grabbed the rail. The water was going down as their ship pushed back up to the surface, and all of the events underwater took place in only about five or six seconds. As they popped back up though, Kirito was in the middle of falling off and he fell down towards the water behind the ship. Ben gasped as he finally got some air and he really needed it as being tumbled around from the wave made him exhale all of his oxygen underwater.
Ben jumped up right away though and he shouted, "Man overboard!" Everyone else getting up around the ship looked back. Luffy had been thrown from the figurehead but Rin grabbed onto him as he was sliding past the wheel under the wave, and Luffy spun his head to the back of the ship. Ben's voice echoed out over the wind, "Kirito fell off!" At first no one thought anything of it as they remembered Kirito flying back to them the day before, but then Ben shouted, "He's a Devil Fruit eater!"
Luffy's eyes widened and he started sprinting to the back of the ship. He ran by Gray and Juvia who were jogging that way as well, and bumped into Sanji who was coming out of the upper cabin and running around the side of it. They all ran to the back of the ship right as Nami was coming around the other side and jogging up to Ben at the railing. They all looked out over the water and Nami shouted Goku and Timmy's names, but Ben was not shouting anymore as he had seen something. "Whoa," Ben said, tilting his head to the side in confusion.
"Ah!" Luffy exclaimed as he watched a wave go down and saw what Ben had already seen. Kirito was sitting down on top of the water and he pushed his hands down to get up to his feet. The black haired teen started jogging back after the Sunny, but the big waves on the water were making it hard to focus his chakra correctly. He barely managed not to go under when he hit the surface, and it was getting increasingly hard to stand.
The Sunny is too far away for me to jump to it, and my wings are soaked. Kirito saw the ship getting even further by the second and he stumbled to the right as a wave went under him. "Alright," he reached back behind him and lifted up his black shirt a little. Pinned to his waist was something he had not shown anyone on the ship yet, but he pulled it out in front of him and opened it up. "Come out!" Kirito shouted.
The people on the stern who were looking back at Kirito opened their eyes wide as a giant red light appeared over the surface of the water. Sora had just gotten back there with the others and his mouth curled up into a huge smile. "I didn't know Kirito had any Pokémon."
Goku had flown back as well and he tilted his head as he did not remember the boy having them with him when he took him from the Underworld base. When he saw the creature form out of the red light though, he became even more surprised as he did recognize it. Floating there in front of Kirito was a scary-looking Pokémon that had a few of his friends backing away from the railing. It was like an eel with a twenty foot thick body that stuck straight up out of the water and had a curved head at the top. Its face had a huge open mouth full of sharp teeth and the water dragon roared. "That's a Gyarados," Sora began, though even he looked a little confused, "but that's weird."
As Kirito hopped up on his Pokémon and it started swimming after the Sunny, Sora continued, "I've seen a few of them before, and they were all blue."
Kirito stood on the back of his Red Gyarados as it swam through the water and up to the left side of the Thousand Sunny. Kirito leapt up in the air and landed on the port side of the stern, then turned around and called back his red water dragon. He clipped it back on his waist and turned around to the crowd of people at the back of the ship. Goku and Sora walked up towards him and Sora mentioned how he didn't know Kirito had caught a Pokémon. Then Goku spoke up, "Was that-"
Kirito nodded his head and Goku chuckled. The others looked at the two of them confusedly and Kirito turned to Ben who asked what they were talking about. The older teen sighed and then spoke up, "The day Goku destroyed my Underworld base, when we were flying back to Pao we passed over a lake that had this Red Gyarados in it." Ben nodded while a few of the others frowned as Kirito mentioned his Underworld ties. Ignoring the frowns aimed his way, Kirito continued, "After the Battle of Metropolis, I went looking for that lake again. I knew Gyarados were supposed to be blue so I figured it had to be a pretty rare and hopefully powerful Pokémon."
"Have you tried it out yet?" Sora asked. "I mean, besides just now?"
"Well, I fought it myself in order to catch it," Kirito said. "And it was definitely pretty strong. I told myself I wouldn't catch it if it wasn't worth it."
"Alright, then it's time to test it against another Pokémon," Sora challenged. "I'll go get mine," as he said it the ship got rocked by another big wave.
"Do you guys really think this is the best time?" Nami snapped at them as she started running back up to the bow.
Kirito and Sora looked at her then glanced back at each other. "Hold off for another time?" Kirito suggested.
Sora sighed and said, "Guess you're right. But just to let you know Kirito, I won't be holding back when we go. I haven't forgotten that you're my rival. Now that you have a Pokémon even more so," Sora said and grinned at him.
Kirito sighed, pretending he was annoyed that Sora brought back up their rivalry. As Sora started running for the bow though and Kirito jogged after him, a smile came to the black haired teen's face. Bring it on Sora.
A/N Sharknado! Hahaha, so if you have not watched the movie Sharknado, I am sure you have heard of it. It is so bad, that I found it to be a really funny movie. And the third movie where they fight Sharknados on the moon is definitely my favorite XD! Anyway, when Kirito disappeared after Metropolis we finally learn he headed off to hunt down that Red Gyarados he got a glimpse of once before. Kirito's got one, Gray has one, and Sora has... a lot ;), but who will be the next trainer on the ship? The Thousand Sunny continues to head east and the crew gets closer together each day. Hope you enjoyed! Leave a review telling me what you think!
Espada-001 chapter 4 . 18h ago
Well this is the second time Sanji's encountered someone that has fulfilled his second biggest dream, and those poor children simply don't understand the mind of a pervert yet. lol XD. But the idea that devil fruits are supernatural was mainly a fan theory. I see them as supernatural for a few reasons, one is that after an user dies the fruit doesn't regrow it just appears in another fruit and alters the shape of said fruit, second is that it's impossible for more than one of each kind to exist at the same time. But I do understand where you're coming from so I won't push the matter. I was also wondering how many people actually remembered that Ben had family aside from his gramps. I only remembered them since I've watched a bit of Omniverse lately. It was nice to see Dash set a goal for himself. One thing I've been thinking about lately is that The crew going have to be catious (don't know if i spelt that right) against some of the people/beings that they may encounter. I only think of this now but there are a lot of characters out there that wouldn't be considered the best in a fight but make up for it with thier abilities. I mainly started thinking about it after watching a YouTube video on dangerous anime characters and one of them didn't seem to be all that strong but he was able to make anything he touched explode, so pretty op in my opinion. Oh well I'm rambling now so I'll go ahead and end the message. Goodnight!
Haha, Sanji, the man of many dreams XD. This is the first time Ben's really been around Sanji for a long time, but I'm sure he'll figure the chef's dirty intentions out sooner or later. Ben mentioning his parents was more of just me being like "oh yeah, Ben does have those," lol, so I guess he thought about them in the moment too. Who knows if they'll show up on Nexus or if they stayed behind on their own world? The crew will be cautious, (- correct spelling ;) ) mainly because of how worried Gray seems to be about Aebrith, but there are definitely a few members on the crew who are very non-cautious people. I wonder if that anime character you're talking about is Kimblee from Fullmetal Alchemist who could turn people into bombs with a touch of his hands, he was a monster who has also not been mentioned in this story... yet. Lol, anyway, thanks for the review! 'Till next time!