Nexus HWR 2.7 Day of Fire:
Over the Great Ocean, the sky for hundreds of miles in every direction was clear except for the sparsely scattered cirrus clouds. Behind the thin white clouds, the three suns burned brightly, too brightly. Down on the Thousand Sunny, not a single person, animal, demon, cyborg, or Saiyan was out on the deck, for it was the Day of Fire.
Two times since arriving on the planet full of creatures and people from every universe, the sun had burnt this hot this before. The first time was thought to be an anomaly, but once it happened a second time a year later it became considered an annual event. Unfortunately, no one had yet to make a calendar so the pirates and their companions were not prepared for the Day of Fire.
Earlier that morning, after breakfast had finished and everyone was out on the deck of the ship, it had started. As the three suns rose higher in the sky, the air over the water's surface started to show little haze marks. The humidity rose and the sky became hazy with the heat. Everyone on the deck and around the outside of the ship started to notice it was much hotter than the day before. Sure it was the hotter part of the year, but the change in temperature from the day before was drastic.
It was Nami who had figured it out, and not a moment too soon. She was staring up at the sky, while leaning back on a deck-chair in her bikini, with a pair of sunglasses on. She lowered them from her face when all three suns had gone behind a cloud, solely to wipe some sweat away from her eyes. After she had wiped her eyes though, she caught a glimpse of the red sun coming out from behind the clouds. She instantly recognized the flaming look the sun had to be the one only seen on the Day of Fire. It was no longer just the color red, but instead looked like a large bubbling pool of lava with huge red flares shooting off of it.
"INSIDE!" she had shouted, right before the other clouds up in the sky got pulled away from each other and the other two suns became visible again. The rest of the crew looked up in that moment as the sky looked to burst into flames, the heat lines becoming more defined and red.
The grass on the ship shriveled up while they ran into the cabin, leaving only Goku, Natsu, and Franky out on the ship to cover everything up. Natsu was able to handle the intense heat easily, always being on fire and even eating it. Franky's metal body handled the heat well, not as good as the other two, but he had to stay outside to explain to the two idiots what needed to be done. The grass was unsalvageable, but they covered up the sails with tarps, and boarded up the windows as best they could to keep the heat out from inside.
Soon it became even too much for Franky to stay outside, so he went in too, leaving Goku and Natsu to finish up. While they were finishing up building a protective walled-in area to save Nami's tangerine bushes on the back of the ship, Natsu asked Goku, "Back on the planet you were born on was it hot like this?" The pink haired mage lowered his hammer and wiped some sweat from his forehead, though the heat was not bothering him too much.
Goku turned to him and chuckled, "I don't know."
"Huh?" Natsu wondered, turning back and hammering a nail into a board again. He picked his nose with one hand and said, "Gohan never talked much about the whole Saiyan thing, but he said he was only half, so that means you're a full one right?" He was never great with math, but he was pretty sure Igneel once told him two halves made a whole.
"Uh huh," Goku nodded, lifting up one more plank and closing up the area they were building, a smile on his face as the tangerine grove inside still looked alive. "But I'm still from Earth. Well, my Earth, hahaha," he laughed.
"Yeeaaaa," Natsu said slowly. "Because you guys are aliens right?" He asked.
"But I grew up on Earth," Goku explained as Natsu hammered in the final board he held up. "Vegeta grew up on planet Vegeta, you would have to ask him if it was this hot there."
Natsu nodded, understanding that at least, though still with more questions. The main one was the reason he had asked in the first place though, and he asked the muscular man, "So, why aren't you sweating then?" Natsu occasionally glanced at the Saiyan's face, and there was not any water on it, he didn't look hot at all.
"Haha, I'm not?" Goku asked with a bright smile on his face. He looked up and scratched the back of his head, "It is pretty hot."
"Pretty hot?!" Natsu shouted. "It's not even noon yet and I can already see the water starting to steam!"
Goku laughed as the two of them finally finished up. The muscular Saiyan warrior stood up and swiped his hands across each other, then turned back to Natsu and said, "The Hyperbolic Time Chamber was pretty hot too. It was a lot hotter than this," he said with another small chuckle. The Saiyan man thought back on the year he spent with his son inside the chamber, and how sometimes it felt like he was sitting inside a volcano out in the void.
Natsu was pretty surprised by Goku's statement. Hotter than this? Man, these Saiyans are impressive for more than just their genetics. The Dragon Slayer wiped some sweat from his brow and chuckled, "Guess that's why you're the mayor."
"Huh?" Goku asked the younger man.
"Nevermind," the Fairy Tail wizard said. The two of them only stayed outside for a little longer after they finished up with protecting the ship. It was more fun being surrounded by all their friends though, so the two of them walked over to the door of the kitchen.
The moment Goku opened up the door they felt a cool breeze rush into them. The inside of the cabin was being kept much colder without heat coming in through the boarded windows and with all the shade and cooling devices Franky and Usopp had set up. Still, as soon as Goku opened the door, that cold air rushed outside and everyone who was close to the door spun towards them and yelled, "CLOSE THE DOOR!"
Goku and Natsu ran inside and closed the door behind them, but the damage was done. Usopp was close to the door when it was opened up and the sharpshooter was now lying on the ground crawling away, "So, hot," he gasped out dramatically.
"Oh shut up," Nami scolded from over at the couch in the next room. She pulled out a fan and started fanning herself off as the heat had filled the entire ship again, not that it ever fully left. "It's hot for all of us."
"It is the Day of Fire after all," Natsu said, laughing as he walked over to the table. "The best day of the year," he added on with a smirk at all of their miserable looks.
"For some people," Dash corrected, though he was too hot to argue for long. The little kid sat with his back against the dining room wall, sweat pouring down his face. "This heat is killing me," he moaned. Even though it was cooler than outside, so Goku and Natsu thought it was actually chilly, the rest of them had been sitting in here as it progressively got hotter.
"Now that no one's outside, why don't we have Franky seal up the cracks in the door?" Nami suggested, a smile coming to her face as her fan was not keeping her from sweating much.
"But, won't that keep the ship airtight?" Ben asked from a chair at the dining room table where he had his head down. "Then we won't be able to breathe. Especially with twenty people on board."
"Nineteen," Usopp corrected from where he lay on the floor
"No one cares," everyone else in the room retorted except for Goku. That only made it hotter and they were all feeling miserable.
"Franky!" Nami moaned loudly. "Build more of the air conditioners," she yelled, while leaning back on the couch near the aquarium and doing nothing herself. Even the fish on the other side of their glass wall that showed the ship's aquarium were swimming slower than usual. Everyone was just too hot to care today. "FRANKY!" Nami shouted again as she received no response.
"Sorry Nami-san," Sanji said, the blond haired chef walking into the room from the hallway. He looked as hot as ever, "I think he's downstairs working on-"
"Good," Nami muttered at the sweating chef who was wearing a white t-shirt with the small sleeves rolled up. She leaned her head back, "It's only going to get hotter."
"Well, I'm making cold cuts for lunch," Sanji stated. "I was going to cook something, but I don't think the suns need any of my help boiling us." Everyone nodded in agreement with the chef as just turning on the stove would add unnecessary heat to an already hot environment.
Natsu walked across the dining room and looked around a little, "Hey, where is everyone?" he asked. It really seemed a little empty up here considering they were a pretty big crew and no one was out on the deck in this heat.
"They're down below," Goku said, the Saiyan the only one there who could actually feel their friends.
Ben and Dash looked over at the Saiyan who pointed down at the floor. "Right below us actually," Goku added.
"All of them?" Ben asked, his interest piquing a little.
"Mm hm," Goku hummed affirmatively.
Ben looked back over to Dash, who glanced back at him in turn. "Want to go check it out?" the little boy asked his older friend. Ben looked to hesitate for a moment, as walking around seemed like it would make him hotter, but then he nodded and got up off his seat.
Dash stood up and he and Ben walked down the hall with Natsu not far behind. Usopp reached an arm up as Goku walked past him to follow the others, "Please, carry me," the long nosed man lying on the floor begged.
"Okay," Goku said, then reached down and grabbed Usopp by the arm, lifting him up off the floor simply and carrying him away.
"W-Wait," Nami called over as Goku was walking away. "Me too, please," she added as the man looked her way.
"Alright then," Goku agreed, smiling still and not seeing why he couldn't carry his comrades.
Nami cheered mentally, as doing so physically would make her hotter. While she was being lifted up she looked towards the kitchen and the chef whose eyes were on fire with rage of jealously. "Sanji-san, please call us up when lunch is ready."
His jealous eyes went away and he swooned for her with eyes that looked like hearts. "Your wish is my command Nami-sannnn!"
As Sanji started up on their lunch, the rest of them walked downstairs to see what everyone was doing. They reached the boy's room, but the door was locked. There were noises coming from the other side. Not the sounds of moans, and of complaints about the heat, but of... laughter.
"What is going on in there?" Ben wondered aloud and looked at the boy next to him.
Dash shrugged back, and then got surprised as he was pushed out of the way, so was Ben. Goku had put Nami down who pushed between the two younger boys and reached the locked door. She saw Ben fail, and it ticked her off. The woman slammed her fist against the door over and over, "Let us in there!"
The laughter on the other side of the door stopped and Nami stopped her pounding, panting heavily where she stood with a look of annoyance on her face. "What is going on in there?" she mumbled in annoyance.
"... thought it was supposed to be a secret club." A voice was mumbling as it got closer to the door.
"Just let them in already," another voice said loudly, sounding pretty cheerful.
The doorknob made a clicking noise as it was unlocked and the door opened up a crack. "What's the password?" Rin asked, the black haired teen with pointy ears looking through the small crack at them.
"It's called," Nami kicked the door open and sent the boy behind it flying backwards. "Let me-" her voice caught in her throat and the others behind her all went wide-eyed.
Inside the boys' room it was... snowing. The floor had a coating of white on it, and everyone else on the ship was in here, all smiling and having a good time in the snow. Robin was laying back on a hammock with a book in her hands, reading it casually but happily as the temperature in here was much better than where she was reading it previously. "Oh, Nami-san," she said over to the door. "It is nice to see you."
"What?!" Nami yelled over. She was fuming so bad she wanted to explode. "What's going on here?!"
"Hey," Killua called over from where he was playing cards with Kirito and Timmy. "We don't really want all the snow melting, so if you don't mind closing the door. That would be great."
Nami's face turned red and she was starting to get very, very angry. She heard cheers on either side of her and looked down to see neither Ben nor Dash shared her angry look, instead just diving onto the snow-covered floor and rolling around in it to cool themselves down. "Why didn't anyone tell me about this?!"
"You have to find it on your own," Kairi called over, and Nami looked to see the girl wearing ice skates. Kairi came to a short stop on an icy area of the room to speak directly to her older friend, "The five of us agreed on that when we started."
"What are you talking about?" Nami groaned, not following in the least.
Sora looked around and saw some of the snow melting now that the door was open. "Hey Goku," he called over to the door where the Saiyan walked in and put down a still-shocked Usopp. "Could you close the door?" he asked.
"Sure thing," the Saiyan replied, tilting his head a little in confusion though as Sora lifted up his hands and formed a Keyblade in them. Usopp and Natsu heard the door close behind them, but they were too focused on Sora to turn around. Nami lifted up her eyebrows at the sight of the Keyblade in Sora's hand, then turned to her left to see Riku grin and form two Keyblades of his own. Kairi giggled and rose up her Keyblade, while the girl behind her who was also ice skating came to a stop.
"Go for it Juvia," Kairi told her blue haired friend.
"Alright Kairi-san," the woman told the red haired teenager next to her. Juvia held up her arms and they glowed as she used her magic, forming a large cloud that filled up right below the ceiling of the room.
"Now!" Sora called out. "BLIZZAGA!"
"Blizzard!" Kairi added.
"Blizzara," Riku called out as well.
All three of the Keybearers shot blasts of swirling light blue magic up into the clouds, all at different intensities with Sora's being the strongest. A few seconds later, the storm cloud started pouring down buckets of snow. The clouds weren't large enough to stay while the snow was falling fast, so they were disappearing pretty quickly, but no one was watching the clouds as they were all too excited by another layer of snow.
The orange haired navigator of the crew held out a hand and felt the snow touch it. It was cold, and the snow gave off an icy chill that was what filled the room and made it so chilly only in here. "Alright, so it was you four," Nami grumbled, her head bent a little so her face was shadowed, "and who was the fifth?"
Juvia and the Keybearers looked at each other nervously at Nami's evil-sounding tone. They didn't know if they should say, but they didn't need to. "That was me," Killua admitted over from his card game that was paused for the moment because Timmy was jumping around in the new snow. "I came up with the idea, thought Juvia's water magic could be put to some good use, but getting wet wouldn't be a long term solution." He could tell she was angry and continued, "I also chose not to tell anyone, and told the others not to either. But some people," he looked over at Juvia, "couldn't help themselves."
"Juvia just wanted to tell Gray-sama," she whispered sheepishly.
"And I just happened to hear them," Robin said while continuing to read her book. Her just happening to hear them was really her creating another ear on the wall near where they had their secret discussion since Juvia was acting stranger that usual, but no one else needed to know that.
"And they did it in the room we all sleep in," Kirito added skeptically, "so we were all going to find it anyway."
"See, that's why I said we should have gone up to the training room," Sora said, looking over at Killua.
"Yeah yeah, you were right," the smaller boy with white hair said with a small frown. "I didn't think going out in the heat to get there would be worth it."
"If we had," Riku chimed in from over at the wall he was leaning on, "it would have felt so much better when we made it snow."
"That is true," Kairi said, giggling at the little boy's annoyed reaction as even she was agreeing now.
"At the time it seemed like here would be-"
Their little argument was interrupted by Nami screaming at them. Everyone looked over at the woman as she babbled words too hard to understand for ten seconds straight, all of them sounding very angry, but were rushed too much and became incomprehensible. After ten seconds of everyone just staring at her with a blank look, she finally stopped shouting nonsense and took a deep breath.
"Well umm," Sora looked around. "Why don't you join us and make up for lost time?" he suggested, shrugging his shoulders. There was not much he could do to apologize at this point, but if they could make Nami enjoy this as much as they were, then perhaps she would forgive them.
She stared at him and lifted up a hand, opening her mouth to shout, but then closed it. She growled and opened her mouth again, and held both arms up in exasperation. The woman lowered back down her arms and closed her eyes. "It's not hot enough to stay angry," she stated, opening her eyes a little and grinning. The rest of the room started smiling again and they started cracking up and continuing their snow party, this time, together
"So hot," a boy whispered. The sky all around him was blurry, the haze of heat too intense to handle. He swung one hand in front of him, then the other, and shot across the air again. He was staying as low towards the water as possible, but it was doing nothing to cool him down from the intense heat of the day.
He kept going across the top of the water and occasionally skimmed it to cool him down. The boy had dirty blonde hair sticking out from under his blue hat. He had on a yellow shirt and blue shorts, with a white cloth belt around his waist. His light colored skin was covered in sweat, but he had to ignore the heat in order to keep himself going. "This is," he mumbled, feeling tired from the heat. "Not looking, good," he muttered, his eyes getting a little hard to hold open.
Again he swung his arms in front of him, and again and again. The child's head dipped every few seconds and his head was burning. The blue hat on his head drooped down over his back, but with every jump it bobbed up and down, allowing the back of his neck to start burning up like his arms and lower legs. He looked more and more red every few minutes, and it was getting hotter still.
He looked up in the sky and had to close his eyes at how bright the suns were, so bright he couldn't even tell where each one was. Closing his eyes meant he could not see where he was going and he felt his feet touch the water's surface. "Oh noo-" he tripped forwards as his feet skid across the water, making him tumble over and over across the waves. He finally managed to spin around and slam one hand down on the surface where he was about to fall.
The boy reappeared twenty feet above the water, panting heavily like before, but now dripping wet and still as hot as ever. "If I don't make it to an island soon," the boy gasped out, sticking out his tongue as he had swallowed some salt water when he tumbled across the surface. He turned his head, looking either direction and wincing as his neck hurt because of the sun burns. He lifted his arms to send himself forward again, but his arms were screaming in pain.
All of the water evaporated off of his skin within seconds of appearing back above the sea. His arms became dry again, and the sun was burning worse than ever, searing him with pain as his sun burns started to become worse than just that. His burnt skin tore with the slightest movement, and when he lifted up his arms, they started to bleed. "Ahhh," he yelled out, and clenched his eyes in pain.
When he opened them, he noticed he was falling again and needed to keep himself up, but swinging his arms or even moving his legs was tearing at his body. "Oh man," he muttered. "I, don't," he whispered, opening his eyes wider and looking up ahead, "I don't know, if I can make it all the way," he whispered. I feel so low on energy after traveling for so long. Though this heat probably isn't helping any. The kid looked up with a frown and wondered how he could get himself out of this while he lifted his arms and threw himself forward again.
"Wait," he uttered, his eyes catching a glimpse of something in the distance. He turned towards it and threw his arms in front of him, yelling out in pain as he did, but keeping his eyes open and seeing the something get closer. With a closer look at the object in the distance, a small smile came on his reddened face, followed by another look of pain. "Go go go," he expressed, sending himself flying faster and faster still. He held both arms out in front of him and flew ahead at his top speed, flying as fast as he could towards the ship sitting on the Great Ocean. "Go GO GO!"
"These sandwiches- munch munch- are delicious!" Luffy yelled between bites of entire sandwiches at a time. It was still hot up in the dining room, but it was bearable and the only place to have a meal on the ship.
"I could make a thousand of these and there still wouldn't be enough," Sanji mumbled from the kitchen where he was already making more, knowing he would hear them shout for it soon. He sighed and then laughed, shaking his head as there was no point in complaining with his situation now. There were too many members of this crew whose hungers were near insatiable to have the hope of ever waiting more than an hour or two after each meal before starting up work on the next one.
The massive pile of sandwiches piled on the dining room table was decreasing fast, but one person who normally ate the most out of them all was just sitting in his seat with a surprised look on his face. Natsu had five sandwiches in his mouth and as he chewed he turned to his left where the man was sitting right next to him, "Wh-at's wr-ong, Mayor?" He asked, finally gulping down all his food in one big swallow.
Goku stood up out of his seat and looked over the pile of sandwiches and into the kitchen where Sanji was looking over at him now. The chef started to sweat nervously at the serious look Goku was giving him, "Did I say-"
"GOOOOO!"
"AHHHH!" half of the people in the kitchen and dining room screamed. They screamed because a huge blue circle of glowing light appeared in the side of the kitchen directly to Sanji's left. The chef saw the portal suddenly appear next to him and he stuck out his lips while falling backwards in shock.
The entire group at the table jumped up to their feet as the portal appeared and a figure came flying through it. His body was smoking as he came through the portal, and he flew across the kitchen from the wall the portal opened in. He crashed into the kitchen counter and screamed out, "Ahh!" in horrible pain. He bounced off the counter and over to the table where he landed right in the middle of their sandwiches, which actually gave him a soft landing.
Everyone stared at the pile of sandwiches which collapsed on top of the person who crashed into it, covering him up. A small trail of smoke seeped out of the cracks in between sandwiches and everyone on the crew stared at the table.
"Okay, umm what just happened?" Ben asked. He turned to his left and saw Dash grabbing at his throat. He realized his friend must have been so shocked right in the middle of swallowing his food that he gasped and started choking. "I got you!" Ben exclaimed, getting behind his friend and making one hard Heimlich maneuver tug, getting Dash to cough out a chunk of chewed up food.
Nami didn't even exclaim how gross it was when it landed on the floor near her feet. She was too distracted staring straight at the pile of sandwiches. "Was that-" she started.
"It looked like a child," Nico Robin stated as she also looked at the table, one of the less shocked-looking people in the room. She turned to Goku who was looking at the table with a smile now, having lost the serious look she noticed earlier when staring at the far wall. He must have felt the boy coming.
"Hey wait a second," Natsu growled, "he's in our food!"
Luffy's eyes lit up as he realized it too now. The two of them charged at the table together and pulled sandwiches away to get to the kid beneath them. Natsu was just pushing them to the side, whereas the pirate on the other side of the rectangle table from him was shoveling the sandwiches into his mouth.
The two of them moved enough of the food away to get to the figure below, and Luffy grabbed him by his yellow shirt. The pirate Captain lifted the figure up in the air and everyone finally saw who they were so afraid of. A bunch of them had gotten a glance when he bounced over the kitchen counter, but now they could all see the child, and he did not look so good.
"Oh no," Kairi said, lifting up a hand to form her Keyblade. Riku put a hand on the girl's shoulder to stop her and she looked up at him. She saw his gaze and followed it over to Sora who made her smile as he already had his Keyblade risen and glowing.
"Cure," Sora said, and a green dome surrounded the boy in Luffy's hand.
The kid's eyes were closed, and his body covered in burns, a few of them bleeding. Once Sora called out his magic though, the green dome fixed up his injuries like it was nothing. His skin lightened up to what they assumed was his normal skin tone, and he looked fine. Luffy didn't put him down though, he just turned the kid and held him up so his own face was right in front of the kid's.
As the boy's eyes fluttered open, he came face to face with the pirate staring back. "Who are you? Why are you on my ship?" Luffy asked sternly, then much louder, "And why were you attacking our food?!"
"You have food?!" the boy exclaimed in surprise. He sniffed in once loudly and turned his head as he smelt the food right behind him. The kid reached up his right hand which started glowing blue. A small blue portal appeared above it, and a little portal less than a foot in diameter appeared right over the table. His hand went through the portal over his hand and came out of the other, before pulling back out the other side and letting both portals vanish, only now he had a sandwich in his hand.
The kid chomped down on the sandwich and exclaimed with a mouthful of food, "Wow, this is really good!"
Luffy shook his head in shock, then snapped it back to the boy with amazed eyes. He narrowed his eyebrows as he remembered he was supposed to be angry, but then smiled in awe as he remembered the cool portal things.
After he chomped down the first one, the kid seemed to notice he was being held off the floor. Actually, he was realizing a lot of things. "It sure is cold in here. I don't know how you guys did it."
"Cold?" Usopp asked, sweat pouring down his face from more than just fear of this mystery child. "It's like, a hundred degrees in here," he moaned.
"Whoa really?" the boy asked, still sounding amazed. "That must mean it's gotta be like two hundred out there."
"Two hundred," Sanji whispered the boy's words again, whistling afterwards with a hint of amazement. "That's crazy. How long have you been out there?" the chef asked.
"Hours," the boy replied in a tired voice. "So thanks for being here," he added.
Luffy decided. He put the kid down and smiled at him. "Hello. I'm Straw Hat Luffy. This is my ship. I'm going to be the King of the Pirates."
"Pirates? Whoa," the kid said, looking around at everyone. "I've always wondered what it would be like to be a pirate."
"So what are you then?" Kirito asked, the teen still not seeming too keen on this random person being free to walk around after appearing out of nowhere.
"I'm an Eliatrope. My name's Yugo," he greeted.
"I don't know what an Eliatrope is," Kirito stated before anyone else could get in a word. "I meant what type of person are you?"
The little boy smiled wide and pointed at himself, "I'm a hero!"
"Awesome!" Luffy exclaimed.
"Welcome to the club buddy," Dash said, appearing in front of the boy with super speeds.
The kid gained a surprised look on his face and he made an 'ooh' noise at the sight of Dash running up in front of him super fast like. "What was that portal thing?" Dash asked excitedly.
"Oh this?" Yugo lifted up his right hand and a blue portal appeared next to it.
"Whoa," Ben said, stepping closer to this random child.
"A hero huh?" Sora asked, putting his arms behind his head. "Sure you aren't a junior hero?"
Ben looked back over at Sora and tilted his head to the side, "Is there a difference?"
"Yep," Sora replied, chuckling to himself as he thought about the Olympus Coliseum and Phil's hero rankings.
"So umm, I'm going to be the only voice of reason here and ask: How in the Hell did you get here?" Gray asked the boy. "We're in the middle of the ocean. You were covered in enough burns to kill you. So-"
"Like this," the boy explained, throwing his left hand up and creating a blue portal four feet up in the air and five feet in front of him. He pushed his right hand in front of him and did a front flip into another portal. As his body moved through the portal he appeared out the one in the air, and created two more to start hopping around the air with. He would bounce out of one, then on his downward arc put a portal beneath him and one in front, and the one beneath would shoot him out of the other with the same momentum he was falling with.
"That's a new one," Sanji muttered with a look of surprise on his face.
"Portals," Robin said in slight awe. "I wonder how they work?"
"Is it a Devil Fruit?" Kirito asked, this time actually directed at the kid jumping in the space above him. "Or some kind of magic?"
"Nope," Yugo said, falling down to the floor behind Kirito, "all of the Eliatropes can do this."
"Is that a kind of race or something?" Riku asked, his interest piquing now.
"Yes," the boy responded. As he did, Ben got a large smirk on his face and walked over towards Yugo. When the boy was turned around, Ben bumped the glowing green watch on his left wrist into the kid. Yugo turned with a confused expression, but Ben just started whistling and walked away casually, tucking the blinking watch on his wrist away.
"Hey Yugo," someone called at the kid, distracting him from Ben and making him look back at a pink haired figure near him. Natsu Dragneel smirked at the boy, "You can spend the rest of the Day of Fire with us, on one condition."
Luffy frowned at the Fire Dragon Slayer who was making rules on his ship. Natsu continued while looking Yugo in the eyes, "Tomorrow, I want to fight you."
"Fight me?" Yugo asked, looking taken aback.
"Yeah!" Natsu exclaimed. "I want to see what your portals can do," he said, a competitive glint in his eyes.
Yugo looked to be thinking it over, and Luffy spoke up, "You can stay no matter what. You're cool and I like you," he added with a grin.
Natsu looked at Luffy with an annoyed expression. He didn't really mean that he would kick the kid off if he didn't accept, it was just a joke, and the fact that Luffy was adding this sentiment made Natsu out to be an ass. Yugo smiled however after a few seconds and stated, "That's alright. I'll fight you if you want. I'm warning you though," the kid said with a bright smile, "I'm pretty good."
Natsu lost the annoyed look at Luffy and grinned back at the kid. "Bring it on!"
For the rest of the Day of Fire, Yugo stayed on the Straw Hat crew's ship and got to know each of the people aboard with him. They all introduced themselves and everyone wanted a turn with the strange portal-boy.
At one point, Dash and Ben made an effort to take the weird hat-thing off of the kid's head, but he got really defensive about it and told them to stop seriously. He threatened to leave if they were going to try again so they knew he really meant it, so despite how much more that rose their intrigue, they accepted and just had to live without knowing what was underneath his hat... except for Ben who looked at his Omnitrix and wondered what he would look like if he ever did transform into an Eliatrope.
That night Yugo stayed in the boys' room and told them a story about him and his friends back on his old world. He talked about dragons and his people the Eliatropes, and how every Eliatrope had a dragon brother or sister they were born with. He mentioned how when his people die, they return to an egg to be reborn with their dragon counterpart, yet as he did not remember these past lives, he really was still just a kid. He talked about one of his own people who betrayed their race and caused the destruction of their planet. This Eliatrope, Qilby, tried to take over the new world Yugo was reborn in where he had made all his friends in this life. Yugo talked about how Qilby used the Shushus from the demon dimension to invade the planet, but how he and his friends stopped them.
Everyone had so many questions to ask the strange boy, but he was exhausted from his trip earlier that day through the scorching sun, and Kirito noticed it while everyone was pestering him. He told them all to go to bed and ask him more tomorrow, and Natsu agreed loudly, saying he wanted Yugo at his best for when they sparred. Franky set the kid up his own hammock, and they all went to bed.
The next morning, breakfast went smoothly with the boys going on and on to the females of the crew about Yugo's adventures that he had told them last night in their room. When it was over, they all got real excited and gathered out on the deck of the ship.
Natsu and Yugo got ready on the main deck, but Franky jumped up in the air and landed down in between the two of them. "Hold on a minute!" The cyborg yelled, posing with his large arms up above his head diagonally. "The Sunny-Go can not handle all of these fights, so..." Franky lifted up a remote and everyone watched in anticipation and confusion as he pressed the big red button on the center of the metal device.
The ship started to shake and a loud clanking noise sounded out from beneath them. "What's going on?!" Nami yelled, stumbling to the side and having to grab onto a very happy to oblige Sanji in order to keep herself standing. The clanking sounded like it was coming more from the port side of the ship, and everyone ran over to the left and looked off the side to see something coming out of the Sunny's side. There was a large rectangular piece of wood extending out from the level of the main deck. It went from almost at the bow all the way back to the stern, and everyone watched in awe as it stretched out ten feet to port. Then, the arena doubled in size as half of the extended area on bottom stayed where it was, and the other half on top slid out, off of the bottom, before connecting with the first half, making the battle area wider than the Thousand Sunny itself.
"This is amazing Franky," Ben told the cyborg to the right of the railing he was leaning over. "When did you have time to make this?"
"Before everyone woke up," he admitted. "Only took five minutes," Cyborg Franky said, grinning wide at all the stunned reactions he got from those not as used to his mad shipwright skills.
Natsu leapt up in the air and landed over on the bow side of the large rectangular battlefield. Gray sweatdropped as he looked over and turned to Franky, "You just had to make it out of wood."
Franky chuckled nervously a few times as Natsu's fists burst into flames, wondering himself if his new battle arena would make it through a single fight. "It needs a test run anyway," he said with a shrug of his huge metallic shoulders.
"Go for it Yugo!" Nami cheered.
"You can do it Yugo!" Kairi called out, punching a fist up into the air.
"Yugo-kun, do your best," Robin encouraged with a smile over to the small boy.
Natsu gawked as all three women started cheering for his opponent and not him, then he heard another voice speak up a little and he looked over to see Juvia call out, "Natsu-san, Juvia thinks you will lose."
Natsu's jaw dropped and everyone else started laughing. Juvia looked over at the other women and Nami was giving her a thumbs up while giggling madly. Juvia couldn't help it and she joined in with her friend, Sorry Natsu-san, she thought, even while she laughed in his expense.
Natsu mumbled and grumbled under his breath while Yugo formed a portal on the other side of the arena and dropped down to face him. The Fire Dragon Slayer muttered to himself, "I'll show them." He looked across at his opponent and grinned competitively again, "Let's do this Yugo!"
"Whenever you're ready, come," Yugo said, suddenly sounding much older than the child standing there appeared to be. His big blue hat swayed a little with its two pointy ear spikes and confusing positioning on his head. He stuck his arms out down to either side of him and stepped forward a little, so that he had more balance.
Goku was watching and the Saiyan warrior smiled at the sight of this boy's stance. A lot of the people here could fight with strong powers and awesome abilities, but he always noticed flaws in their fights, ways they could be fighting better if they trained more. He looks like he's been training a lot.
Yugo grinned. He accepted Natsu's challenge knowing full well that he would be able to stay on the ship without doing so. They want to see my powers, well, here goes nothing! He saw Natsu start taking a step forward and in that moment, a blue portal appeared next to his right hand. He put his hand through the portal and as Natsu finished his step, he felt a tap on his left shoulder.
The Dragon Slayer's eyes went wide at the sight of the portal next to him and the hand sticking out, but he was going with his plan anyway and smirked wide. He dove for the hand, but Yugo pulled back his hand into the portal. However, it seemed like his arm was not what Natsu was going for anyway, as the Dragon Slayer opened his mouth and dove straight through the portal, "Fire Dragon's-" Natsu began as his upper body made it through the portal.
Yugo went wide eyed and jumped backwards as Natsu flew out of the portal next to him at point blank range. The older mage opened his mouth ready to fire his Fire Dragon's Roar, but Yugo frowned at him nervously as he jumped backwards and said out loud, "You shouldn't have done that."
"ROA-" Natsu flew fully out of the portal and they both closed. As he was about to fire a huge breath of flames at the kid, he suddenly felt very nauseous and his cheeks puffed out. Natsu hit the ground and rolled to a stop before puking on the ground and making all the spectators go 'EWWW' and turn away.
Ten minutes later, the arena was cleaned up and Natsu and Yugo stood on different sides of the platform again. "Sorry," Yugo mentioned again to the frowning Dragon Slayer across the platform from him. "I should have mentioned that when other people go through my portals they don't usually feel very good after."
"Whatever," Natsu grumbled, still embarrassed as his comrades kept laughing ten minutes later. "Let's get this started for real!" He yelled, the joking competitiveness from before mostly gone from his voice. He narrowed his eyes across the platform at the kid, and Yugo could see Natsu was taking this seriously this time. This was no time to tap on his shoulder jokingly, it was time for battle.
"Alright," Yugo stood back in his fighting stance, with his arms out to either side. He looked closely at Natsu, waiting for the hot-blooded mage to make the first move. His hands started to glow blue as he stood there, and Natsu's hands glowed red as flames covered them.
The two of them kicked off the ground at the same time. Natsu brought back his right fist far as he flew towards the kid, spinning his body so that he was completely covered in flames. As he was getting close to Yugo, the smaller boy created a portal in front of himself and appeared out another one behind Natsu and up a little. Yugo spun back towards the portal he flew out of and slammed a hand into it, creating another portal on top of this one, and firing a blue beam of light out at Natsu who was turning around to face him.
Natsu's eyes widened at the sight of the beam, but he leapt up in the air and managed to avoid it. The beam crashed down beneath Natsu's rising feet and helped lift him up faster. He spun his left leg towards the kid, "Fire Dragon's Talon!" His leg missed the front of Yugo who leapt backwards, but his leg was coated in flames and some of those flames whipped off and slammed into his smaller opponent.
"Ah!" Yugo yelled out as the back of his yellow shirt caught fire. As he flew backwards, a portal appeared and he flew right into it, then out of a portal directly above the water next to the ship. The kid fell into the water and put out the flames, then swam up and out the surface of the water right into a blue portal.
A different circular portal appeared on Natsu's right and the fire mage spun while already throwing the fist he was preparing forwards. "Fire Dragon's..." he began, right as Yugo started coming out of the portal, "Iron Fist!" His fist slammed into the kid's gut right as he appeared out of the portal.
Most of the spectators oofed as they could almost feel that one, seeing Natsu's fist indenting out on Yugo's back, while the kid's head and legs snapped forward. Natsu finished his punch and flames flew out, while the boy shot backwards, hitting the edge of the platform he started on and breaking a chunk of it off. Yugo kept flying and hit the water, skipping on it once, then twice twenty yards farther back.
Nami watched the child get sent flying and then she snapped her head back to Natsu angrily, "What are you doing? He's just a kid!"
Natsu lowered his fist a little and wondered if he might have gone a little overboard there himself. As he thought it though, he saw a blue portal in the sky far off the platform in front of him. Yugo came jumping out of it with a serious expression on his face, and a hole in the front of his shirt with a bruise behind it. The boy leapt from this portal to one fifty feet to the right, then up on the left near the Thousand Sunny's mast. The boy landed down on top of the boom that held up the sail. He caught his breath down on one knee and a foot, lifting up a hand and wiping his lip where a trickle of blood was coming down from the corner.
"You're pretty strong," Yugo called down to Natsu, a smile coming back to the young Eliatrope's face. A few of the crew were surprised as the kid got back up to both feet after such a devastating attack from Natsu. The boy did not block it at all, so they thought he may have been injured pretty badly, but he just held up his hands and smiled, forming two new blue portals next to his hands.
The pink haired Dragon Slayer smirked up at the kid and he flew off of the battle platform up towards the boom. Yugo leapt off of the wooden cross-piece of the mast and slammed both of his portals together, creating a blue beam that slammed down into the rising Dragon Slayer mage. Natsu got hit square in the chest by the beam and got thrown back down to the wooden platform where he landed on his back, then kicked both legs up in the air while waving both arms in front of him. "Fire Dragon's Wing-"
A portal appeared on his left side and Yugo flew out of it, tackling Natsu out of the air. The kid did a flip off of Natsu's head as the mage tried swinging his arms at him, then disappeared into a portal and appeared behind Natsu. Natsu turned around but the kid jumped to his right and another portal appeared that he fell into and appeared above Natsu's head, coming down with a punch right on top of the wizard's skull. Natsu felt the fist punch down on his head, but he was very durable and the punch did little to faze him. He reached up both arms and grabbed the fist on his head, then slammed down in front of him and brought the child crashing down into the wooden platform.
As Yugo hit the floor, the floor transformed into a blue portal while another one appeared behind Natsu. Maybe his own momentum wasn't enough, but with Natsu throwing him down hard, he came out behind Natsu flying towards him fast with both legs extended. His legs slammed into the Fire Dragon Slayer's back and sent him tumbling across the platform almost all the way to the edge near the water. He managed to flip himself to a standing position and skid to a stop when his feet were only halfway on the platform.
Natsu took a few deep breaths and looked forward to see how his opponent was doing. Young Yugo did not look any worse for the wear however, and the boy actually started grinning as he looked over at Natsu. "Alright," the older boy started, smirking though his eyes looked serious, "let's step this up a notch." Natsu held out both arms to his sides and his entire body wrapped in fire, and then lightning bolts started shooting out of his body as well.
"Lightning Fire Dragon Mode!" Natsu yelled, and his aura of flames and lightning doubled in size. The ground around his feet lit on fire and Natsu grinned through the aura dangerously at his opponent.
"Isn't this taking it a little too far?" Juvia wondered aloud.
Natsu did not know the definition of too far. He flew forward at much faster than twice as fast as he was before. Yugo saw him coming fast and he knew he needed to speed up too. He leapt up in the air as Natsu was doing a three-sixty kick towards him. He flew into his portal and narrowly missed the kick, appearing twenty feet away still in the air, looking back at Natsu who turned towards him with sharp teeth in a smile and the look of a dragon on his face. He shot through the air with his aura lagging behind him leaving a trail through the air. Natsu spun three times and brought forward his right fist hard. "Lightning Fire Dragon's Iron Fist!" he roared. His hand was only a foot away from Yugo's face, making everyone tense up as it looked like he was about to deliver a very dangerous blow to the kid. A second before it collided though, a portal appeared on the right side of Natsu's face, and one appeared directly in front of his fast-moving punch. Natsu's eyes widened at the realization, a millisecond before his flaming, lightning-coated fist flew through the portal and slammed himself in the side of the temple.
Natsu flew off the side of the ship and out over the water where he bounced, and bounced again, then spun himself and skid across the water's surface, making a trench through the water. He looked back forwards with white eyes, completely into the fight now. Yugo looked over and saw how into it the wizard flying back towards him was, and he started walking towards the edge of the platform.
"Yugo! You don't have to keep going if you don't want to," Nami called out to the child.
"Yeah," Rin agreed, smiling out at the boy. "This fight's going a little far."
A few of the others agreed, but Luffy, Franky, and Sanji all looked out silently as Yugo stepped through a portal and appeared right at the edge of the ship. None of them said anything, but Goku did call out, "It's not over until they say it's over." A few of them looked at the Saiyan and saw a wide smile on Goku's face. He looked way too excited by the match and was leaning over the railing with excitement as Natsu shot back over.
Natsu roared as he approached the ship, moving faster than ever in a trail of orange light. "Guess I'll step it up a notch too," Yugo said out loud, not in a particularly loud voice, but loud enough for those behind him to hear him. He took another step off the side of the ship, and then a portal appeared in front of him and another right in front of it. Before, all the portals would appear far from each other so the kid could teleport. Putting two right next to each other like this seemed counter-intuitive to the idea of having teleportation portals. As he stepped through the portal though, they understood why this made sense, as another portal appeared behind the second one, and then a third in front of that all in the same instant.
Yugo's body turned into a blur as he flew through portal after portal insanely fast in a line that looked like a blue tube of aura shooting around the sky. He flew right towards Natsu, but then the tube arced up in the air before spinning and coming back down. The orange and blue blurs of light shot around through the sky and collided with each other, then hit each other again as and again they started spinning around each other up through the sky. Clashes of their auras made little bursts of orange and blue energy scatter out around the sky and it looked amazing.
Son Goku, Dash, and Timmy were able to watch everything much better than the rest of their friends were. There were others able to watch as well, but the two fighting were continuously getting faster. They saw at the top of the two streams of light, Yugo come out of a portal and Natsu punch towards him. Yugo used another portal to move to his right then slammed two portals into the same spot, firing a beam of blue light towards Natsu who leaned back in midair and let the beam fly over his body. While he bent back, he kicked his legs up and finished a backflip, catching Yugo under the chin with a powerful kick.
Natsu finished his flip and saw Yugo off guard after being kicked under the chin. He slammed both of his arms in front of him and whips of sparking flames slammed into the kid, sending him flying forward. Natsu gave chase and spun around above the kid, slamming his leg down into the Eliatrope's chest and making him fly out of the air like a missile. Right before Yugo hit the water, he created a portal that he fell into, and another one appeared above the fighting platform, spitting Yugo up in the air and then letting him fall back down lightly on the splintered wood.
A few of them gasped at the sight of the kid in his tattered clothes with bruises and scrapes around his body. Yugo took a few deep breaths as he lay on his back and looked up in the sky and saw Natsu nose-diving towards him. The wizard saw Yugo struggling back up onto his feet, and Natsu roared, "I'm finishing this! Lightning Fire Dragon's-"
As Natsu started shouting, Yugo planted both feet firmly on the ground and looked up with serious expression on his face. His dirty blond hair showing underneath his hat started to sway in a sudden gust of wind and the spectators watching leaned backwards as a blue aura surrounded the boy's body. The translucent aura flared like flames around him, and the kid screamed, "AhhhHHHH!" His scream made his aura flare harder and his already ripped up shirt to fall off of his body. On his shoulders, his chest, and his arms, weird tattoo patterns emerged and started to glow bright blue. His canines looked like they grew a little sharper and the kid slammed both arms out to the side.
As Yugo slammed his arms out to the sides, Natsu brought his hands forward that were creating large masses of fire-lightning Dragon Slayer magic on them. "BRILLIANT FLAME!" Natsu slammed both hands down hard and an enormous mass of fire covered in sparking lightning flew down towards the wooden platform. While that happened, Yugo's right hand formed a blue shield made entirely of energy, and in his right hand formed a small thin blue blade that he rose up with the shield and crossed them both above his head.
Timmy jumped up in front of the spectators and held out his arms, at the perfect moment too as Natsu's Brilliant Flame crashed down on top of Yugo and made a huge explosion on the battlefield, destroying the wood beneath Yugo's feet and blowing apart in all directions, including right into a large forcefield that appeared in front of Timmy's body, protecting the crew and the Thousand Sunny itself.
Franky would have groaned about his new arena being destroyed, if he weren't in awe from Natsu's powerful attack. The flames billowed out around the ki barrier around the ship and it took a few seconds for Timmy to lower his arms, as the fiery explosion had finally died down a little.
No one could say a word as they all looked over the ship's side and down towards the water where the debris was all floating around covered in large wisps of smoke. Natsu dropped down through the smoke and landed on top of a pretty large chunk of wood. He looked down into the water hoping to see the kid splashing back up relatively unharmed, and then he froze as he heard a voice right in front of him through the smoke. "Everyone look away!"
The crew was looking down into the smoke confusedly, but the kid inside yelled out again. "Please, I don't want anyone seeing under my hat, and it got burnt off by that attack. Look away!"
Luffy was frowning down into the smoke, but he turned around and looked the other direction all of a sudden. Nami saw her captain do it, but noticed a lot of the others looking at the smoke interestedly. "Hey idiots!" she started running around and bonking them on the tops of their heads. She imagined what it would be like if her clothes had burned off in the middle of a battle, and she knew she would not want all of these idiots looking at her body. This kid sounded even more serious than she would be, so she snarled it angrily at the ones who were more reluctant to turn around and got Sanji to help her make them all look away.
Nico Robin turned around just like everyone else, but she did close her left eye, and on the port side of the Thousand Sunny, a small eyeball appeared looking into the smoke. She could see Yugo, and she looked at him in surprise as the kid through the smoke floated up in the air a little. Above his head where his hat used to be, were two antlers that were made entirely of the blue energy that he was using for his attacks, and they seemed to be what was allowing him to fly.
"Cover your head and let's keep fighting," Natsu called out. Yugo looked ahead of him and saw Natsu standing on a piece of driftwood, his power still flaring around him, but his eyes were closed. Yugo sighed in relief and he reached up over his head, grabbing the remains of his hat that had been ripped off to reveal his Eliatrope features. He took the hat and started re-tying it around his head. Can't get hit again or it will come off. Sorry Natsu, I'm going to win now.
"Alright," Yugo's voice called out, and everyone turned back around to look at the kid. His blue hat from before was re-tied on his head only with less going back over his back. Everyone really wanted to know what was under there and some were silently rooting for Natsu to get another hit in and knock that hat off.
Yugo was up in the air, but he was not using portals to float like before. His body was covered in blue light and he looked down at Natsu with his energy shield in one hand and a sword in the other. "Let's finish this," Yugo said seriously, then dove out of the air with a trail of blue light behind him.
Natsu smirked up in the air and leapt up high, punching up for the kid's chin. Yugo suddenly re-entered that blue energy tube thing from before, only this time he was moving several dozen times faster than before. Only those who were able to partially watch them before were able to understand just how much faster he became, which only amounted to five or six of the crew members watching.
Killua looked down from the mast and watched as the blue tube of energy spun around a still-rising Natsu and slammed into his side. The boy wrapped in blue light then shot across the sky and turned back, flying past Natsu again on another strafe while Natsu was still on his way up.
The pink haired wizard got slammed back and forth, even in his Lightning Fire Dragon Mode. He roared loudly and started spinning his body even as he felt slashes slam into him every second. Natsu yelled at the top of his lungs while his left hand covered in flames and his right hand in electricity. "Crimson Lotus: EXPLODING LIGHTNING BLADE!" Yugo tried to strafe him again, but Natsu collided his left and right hand together, creating a vortex of spinning flames and lightning that pulled Yugo in and sent him spinning around and around while screaming out.
The blue tattoos on Yugo's body flared bright blue for a second, and then went out altogether. He spiraled up high in the air, before coming crashing back down hard onto a piece of floating debris. His legs fell into the water and the top half of his body lay on top of the driftwood.
His hat was re-ripped a little, revealing some shining blue light from underneath his hat. Everyone leaned in, then watched confusedly as three hands appeared on top of the hat and started tying it back together. They all turned to Robin and saw her with her arms crossed, using her power to protect the boy's secret that she already felt a little bad about prying into herself.
As Natsu landed down on the same piece of driftwood he was on before, he let out a deep breath of air and his aura left him. He looked over at the kid lying there without any movement and chuckled, "It was a good fight kid."
"I'm," Yugo began, pulling himself up a little and lifting his head to look over into Natsu's eyes. "The king of, the Eliatropes," he lifted up a leg, then another and stood shakily on the platform across from Natsu.
"Wait? He's a King?" Kairi asked in surprise, turning to Sora next to her who looked just as surprised as Yugo never mentioned anything about it the night before.
Yugo looked back forward at Natsu and his chest and arms started glowing blue again in the swirly tattoo patterns he had lining his skin. "If I am going to find my people and my brother on this world," he started again, lifting back up his arms and pointing them in front of him to the also tired-looking Natsu. "Then I must be strong!"
He slammed his right hand forward and a portal did not even appear, a blue beam just shot out of his hand and flew across the space between him and Natsu, knocking the Dragon Slayer off his driftwood and flipping backwards through the air.
Natsu heaved a few times as that blast really hurt his chest, but he snarled angrily and his body covered in red and yellow energy again, sending himself right back into the Lightning Fire Dragon Mode again. Put everything into one last attack, Natsu thought as he continued flipping backwards, then slammed both of his feet down on small pieces of wooden debris on the water's surface.
The small debris did not serve for a great foothold, but Natsu did not care. He leaned his body back, sticking out his chest and rising his arms up to his face. He cupped them at his mouth and his entire aura flared madly for a few seconds, "Lightning Fire Dragon's-" he started loudly, sucking in a whole lot of air.
"Natsu don't!" Gray yelled down at him.
"Natsu-san!" Juvia yelled.
Both of his comrades from Fairy Tail could see Yugo looked to be on his last ropes, even if he could manage to get those glowing symbols all over his body again. A lot of the others were looking pretty nervous as well and Kirito took a step forward, "I'm ending this before someone gets really hurt over something trivial."
As he took his step forward, Luffy walked over and put an arm in front of the teen's chest. Kirito looked at him in surprise and Luffy just kept looking over the side, "Don't interrupt."
Kirito felt like arguing, but he looked past Luffy and all the way over to Goku who was still watching the fight calmly and with a smile on his face. If Goku doesn't seem worried, then I should calm down too. Kirito took a deep breath and just looked at the water as Natsu finally slammed his body forward for the biggest attack of the fight.
"ROOOAAAAARRRRRR!"
As Natsu screamed, a pillar of fire that kept widening larger and larger until it was the size of the Thousand Sunny wide and almost as tall as the top of the mast, shot out of his mouth wrapped in hundreds of flashing lightning bolts. The heat coming off of the attack was incredibly intense as it shot past the stern of the Thousand Sunny and towards the piece of driftwood where Yugo was standing.
Yugo waited until the attack was almost upon him, and then he lifted up his right hand and created a rather big portal. The end of Natsu's attack flew into the portal, and then more and more of the beam of fire and lightning kept flying into the circle of blue light. When Natsu finally closed his mouth, the last of his wide beam kept flying straight across the small gap of water around the length of the Thousand Sunny. Normally an attack like that would go on for miles, but it all just vanished as soon as it hit Yugo, and now Natsu could see why as there was a large portal directly at the end of where his vanishing beam was.
The Dragon Slayer lost his amazing aura and stared speechlessly as Yugo lifted up his left hand. The kid pointed his hand at Natsu, and then lifted it up a little to aim above Natsu's head. Another portal appeared in front of this hand, and Natsu's entire Lightning Fire Dragon's Roar flew out at the same strength it was fired at him with. Natsu's eyes went wide, and then he snapped his head up as the bottom of his huge beam went flying over his head.
Goku had gotten ready for a second on the ship, but now he leaned back with a smile again. Yugo knew Natsu as he is now couldn't handle his own attack after putting that much power into it. The Saiyan with spiky black hair knew who just won this fight, but the pink haired mage on the water did not accept it so readily.
"I'm not done yet!" Natsu yelled, his fists covering in flames again.
Yugo watched as Natsu got ready to attack, and the kid frowned over at him. He slammed his right hand forward and created a portal, then his left hand into it and fired a blue beam out towards Natsu who was too slow to dodge and could only cross his arms. While he blocked the beam, Yugo slammed his right hand back into the portal in front of him and doubled the beam's size with another portal. He was panting hard, exhausted from his injuries and using so much energy, but he still brought up his left hand once more and extended the blue beam's width to cover the entire portal behind it, and then some.
Natsu barely managed to keep blocking when the beam doubled in size, but this time his arms got thrown to the side and the beam crashed into his chest and face. The attack knocked him senseless while also sending him flying off of the debris and backwards across the water.
The small Eliatrope watched as his opponent went flying, then took a knee down on the platform he was on. He panted heavily over and over but when he looked up, he had a wide smile on his face from ear to ear, and held up two fingers in a 'V' shape for victory.
"Woohoo!" Nami called out as the kid she was rooting for won the fight.
Riku started clapping and he stepped forward, jumping off of the ship's ledge. He landed over on the platform next to Yugo and formed a Keyblade in his right hand. "That was impressive Yugo. Here, let me help," Riku lowered his Keyblade over the boy's back and a green light shimmered down over his body.
Just like that, Yugo's injuries were healed and he looked at the Keybearer with wide eyes. "Wow, I feel great. Thanks Riku."
"Don't mention it," Riku replied, then looked out over the distance of the water for his other patient. Yugo hopped up on his feet and then jumped forward, disappearing into a portal and appearing out of one twenty feet away, then through another two and swooped down snagging Natsu off of the water's surface where he was laying. He vanished with the Dragon Slayer and appeared back over next to Riku with one portal this time.
Natsu dropped on the small platform and almost flipped it over with three people now on it making the driftwood unstable. Natsu got queazy from the transport while Riku patched him up. The Dragon Slayer got on his hands and knees and looked angrily down at the platform beneath him, Damn it, I lost. I lost against a kid. Natsu suddenly noticed a hand in front of him and he lifted up his head a little, seeing Yugo holding his hand down for Natsu to take. Oh yeah. He may be a kid, but he's also a million years old, and apparently a King. His maturity as a King showed as he extended a hand for Natsu to take, and after a few seconds Natsu reached up and took the boy's hand, a small, annoyed but accepting smile on it.
Now, everyone started cheering and calling out how great a fight it was not only for Yugo, but for Natsu as well.
A/N Hope you enjoyed the chapter and the appearance of Yugo, the protagonist of the show Wakfu. After I finished watching the show a few months back I decided to write this chapter and had a lot of fun doing so. Most other chapters during the trip to Aebrith were actually written after this XD, but at the time I didn't want to wait until I had finished all the others to write this chapter so I skipped ahead, probably when I was still posting Chapter 14 or 15 of Nexus. Haha, so tell me what you thought of the chapter. Hope I don't get too much hate from having Natsu lose, but the final battles Yugo was having in his show were small planet-buster worthy, smashing through moons and stuff, etc. Anyway, leave me a review telling me what you thought, predictions, or questions about the story!
joebob323 chapter 12 . 21h ago
...Damn...didn't see that one coming...I only thought that he was a witch, not a spy...Great chapter all the same, and good use of flashbacks. I would like to know though, what IS your secret on writing so much so quickly?
Nice! Got you off guard XD. Haha, thanks for the review (and praise ;) ). As for my secret for writing so much so fast, the truth is that I write all the time. Well, actually that's not true, in the last 2 days I spent probably 6 or 7 hours reading the entire Magi manga from when the anime ended. Got a lot of cool ideas for future chapters from it. Other than writing all the time, the main, actually the most important thing, is that I don't write in a straight line. I have a page in my notes on my phone, and a list on my computer, of summaries of chapters going all the way to Heroes Will Rise 11 or 12. Whenever I feel like writing one of those chapters I do, which is why on occasion it will take me a while to post, because I am not into writing that chapter at the moment. But since I know what I will be writing in the chapters I skip, I can accurately write chapters far from now, which also lets me put in a lot more foreshadowing for later, even small, events that will happen. At the moment the next 3 sections are fully written out, but I have not finished the arc that starts in 2 chapters or the one after it. However, all of HWR chapter 6 and 8 is finished, and dozens of parts from now to then as well. So, that's the secret! Thanks again for the review!
Espada-001 chapter 12 . 21h ago
Hello I enjoyed discovering Killua's little secret to be perfectly honest I didn't really know what it was going to be. Anyway I meant to put this out last chapter but I'm pretty sure Killua isn't strong than Luffy. I'm certain that Luffy was physically stronger in their respective worlds even before they ended up on Nexus, also Killua's had a power nullifier on up till recently while Luffy hasn't. Anyway other than that I did enjoy the little training session from last chapter it really reminded me of Netero vs Gon and Killua. Other than that I can't think of anything else at the moment so until next time have a good day and I can't wait for the next chapter! :)
Thanks for the review! I'm glad Killua's secret caught people off guard, as I tried to keep it hidden but only slightly possible to guess. Killua finding everyone to set up the rebellion, him not showing up when the other rebellion members were looking for him after they got the nullifiers off, him being on an upper floor of a building in Metropolis so he was not in danger of getting hit by the bombs (even if Luthor didn't tell him why he should get on an upper floor), and the fact that he knew it was Luthor, thinking his name before the Underworld leader showed himself. Anyway, as for Killua, I'll have to disagree that I believe he is stronger physically than Luffy, at least in their base states. Luffy has shown huge feats of strength yeah, but when Killua was 10 he could push open a 16 ton door, and before he got to Nexus he could open a 64 ton gate, without using any Nen. His speed could have also given him the win in the arm wrestling, as like the Raikage did when he versed Tsunade, he could have pulled his hand back a little at incredible speeds and then slammed it forward to get the momentum with it too. It's not clearly stated he's stronger either too, he just won an arm wrestling match, but I'd like to hear why you think Luffy is stronger in physical strength. (Also, it's never mentioned how long Killua had his power nullifier on, and after he got it off he did think that he was back to full strength, just a thought). Thanks again for the review, glad you liked the sparring match, and 'Till next time!