Nexus HWR 3.6 Arrival:
"Hey Ben, you see that?" Natsu asked. The Fire Dragon Slayer and the boy next to him on the bow stared out to the east with rising anticipation. "There it is. The adventure starts now," Natsu remarked.
"Really?" Ben said skeptically. "I feel like we've had plenty of adventures just getting here."
"Yeah, but that was just the journey. Now we actually-"
"The trip isn't over yet," Gray said, walking up to the two he heard talking in front of him. "Just because we can see a blur across the horizon, doesn't mean we're at our destination. That's still probably a hundred miles away, maybe more." The ice mage looked behind him and saw the suns nearing the western horizon, "We won't make it today for sure, and considering the water closer to shore is harder to navigate than the open ocean, we'll have to anchor for the night, maybe not even make it by tomorrow."
Ben and Natsu groaned. They were about to start arguing with him when Nami spoke up from her spot next to Franky at the wheel. "That's right," she agreed, "Gray tells me that the coast lines are scattered with islands and rocky outcrops. Of course I can get us there, but we will have to slow down our approach."
"Aww," Natsu and Ben groaned again, this time not planning to argue if the navigator said it too. They watched the shore for a little longer, but it was so far away they got bored of looking at a barely visible blur and left to go enjoy time on the ship that had become sort of like a home to them in the last few weeks, almost a full month.
The Thousand Sunny kept going for as long as Nami saw fit, until the orange haired navigator finally told the crew to pull in the sails and drop anchor. The suns dropped below the horizon and night slowly fell over the Great Ocean. The nineteen person crew, and their cat, ate dinners that Sanji made for them and had another rowdy feast. Even Kuro got a delicious meal; Sanji made five-star cat food that had the cat purring on its back in bliss by the end of the meal.
Nico Robin sat at the table eating quietly like normal. She enjoyed their feasts, even if she did not partake in the boisterousness of her comrades. She also enjoyed noticing the changes in the crew from their first night on the ship to this point so close to their destination. Robin saw Ben arguing with Killua about the last sausage on the platter plate in front of them, and then they both spun and started yelling at Dash as the sausage vanished and the younger boy's cheeks puffed out. At a different part of the table she saw Rin stretching Luffy's mouth and wrestling with him over his own missing plate that Luffy would not give back, and the half-demon was only appeased when Sanji brought out a full other platter to put in front of the black haired teen.
"Hey Goku, I never asked, but when we met in the Underworld base, did you recognize me?" Kirito asked. Robin's ears perked up and she looked directly across the table at the two sitting next to each other. Natsu and Juvia both heard the teen's question too and looked in at him, Natsu with a more annoyed expression, but also looking intrigued. The small boy with spiky black hair on Kirito's side tilted his head to the side confusedly though as he took another bite of his food. "Didn't think so," Kirito chuckled.
"Why? Did we meet before that?" Kid Goku asked the teen.
Kirito shook his head but had a small smile on his face. "You were actually the first person I saw on Nexus," Kirito said. Goku looked surprised and he tried thinking back that far but was coming up blank. Kirito continued, "You were in a hurry, but when I first saw you, I thought I was in virtual reality. You started flying right in front of me, really freaked me out."
"Haha," Goku laughed. "I got in a pretty big fight right after I showed up. Cell wasn't very far away from me-"
"The wind from your fight knocked me off my feet," Kirito added. "I got out of there as fast as I could."
"Huh," Goku said.
"Small world," Natsu said, chuckling a little himself. "Like, what are the odds two years later you would meet the same guy?"
Kirito shrugged his shoulders and grabbed another takoyaki ball from the platter in front of his own plate. "Never thought I'd see Gray again either," Kirito mentioned, looking over at the ice mage on Juvia's other side who was talking to Timmy and not in their conversation. Natsu and Juvia both nodded as they remembered how Gray told them he recognized Kirito which is why he approached him that first day they re-met in Pao, before he learned that Kirito used to be an Underworld member and started avoiding him.
Robin smiled as the two mages and the teen ninja swordsman kept talking. The first day on this journey, those Fairy Tail mages treated him with such disdain. I do not believe they imagined that they themselves would become friends with Kirito-kun. She looked around and kept smirking in a knowing way. Killua-kun has also opened up. I do not recall seeing him converse with anyone within the first week. As she thought it, she saw the white haired kid start laughing at something Dash said, even though Ben went a little red in the face and snapped at him.
"Ohh, who's this Lisanna?" Killua asked the kid next to him.
Dash leaned in front of Ben before the thirteen year old could respond and he said, "She's Natsu's girlfriend. Ben's a little jelly," Ben reached out and pushed the younger boy who yelped and fell out of his chair. Dash was fast but he wasn't expecting it and the older boy started chuckling. Dash jumped up and ran to Ben's seat, pulling him down from behind and making Killua laugh even more.
The two kids started wrestling and Robin crossed her arms. Ten hands appeared on both of them and pulled them apart, "Not at the table boys. Mind your manners."
Sanji got hearts in his eyes and yelled in agreement with Robin before spinning over on a foot and bonking both of the restrained kids on the heads with his other foot himself. They moaned and climbed back up in their seats after a second, and the meal continued. It was one of their longer meals, and even when they finished eating they stayed for longer, everyone enjoying their conversations with each other and not feeling a big need to go to their own rooms or beds yet.
After a while though, certain people got tired and got up from the table. Franky busted out some drinks, but half the crew was underage and the older people wouldn't give them any. Goku did not drink either, and to explain why he said that it was not good for the body, then he left to go train before bed. The drinking pirates and mages laughed as the Saiyan was always training day and night.
The anchored ship got quieter later into the night and even the heavy partiers went to bed sooner or later. The lights went out on the ship, Goku finished training, most people went to sleep, and the two watching from barely above the water a hundred meters away nodded at each other. They dropped underwater and the breathing apparatuses on their mouths kept them from needing to go up for air for as long as they wanted. They approached the pirate ship in front of them silently, wearing goggles that let them see in the dark and underwater.
As they reached the outside of the ship, one of the two popped over the surface first. They were wearing tight black uniforms that accentuated the curves on their chests showing that the thin figures were women. The one who popped over the water first had black hair tied in a soaking wet ponytail behind her head. She lifted higher over the water and two appendages broke out of the black coverings on her back to keep them dry: long thin wings that she flapped above herself to get off the water.
The second figure broke the surface when the first started flying. She had long blonde hair and she removed the breathing apparatus from her mouth when she emerged. The woman's goggles were dark green unlike the dark yellow ones her flying friend had on. She reached up her arms and the winged figure reached down and grabbed her hands. The one with wings lifted her comrade out of the water and flew them up above the deck of the Sunny. They stayed close to the edge of the ship and peered up at the crow's nest, but did not see anyone up there on guard.
The one being held by the hands nodded her head down at the deck and the two of them lowered. They touched down softly as to avoid making a sound, and turned their heads towards the cabin. The one with yellow goggles lowered her wings to her back and reached down, pulling out two tiny pistols from her waist while the girl next to her pulled out a six inch long, thin knife that looked almost like a tiny katana. She held it in front of herself sideways and stepped forward, and then both women froze in place.
Neither of them knew why they did it, all they knew was that their faces and bodies covered in sweat. "Who are you?" A voice asked behind them, so close it felt like the person's head was directly behind each of their own. His voice was quiet, and it sounded very young. Timmy floated there behind the women, staring at the backs of their heads interestedly. "Assassins? You definitely picked the right time, even Franky's asleep up on the crow's nest right now. Really, you got us when everyone was sleeping."
"How did you know we were here?" the one with wings asked, her voice desperately trying to mask the fear she was feeling. She started turning around and the girl next to her felt it was okay to turn as well. They looked back, and froze again at the sight of the four foot tall boy floating a foot behind them. They took steps back, the boy did not follow them, yet they still felt it was a bad idea to turn and run. The one who spoke first started again, "We were silent, how could you have-"
"The vibrations you made when you landed on the deck, they woke me up." The two girls who touched down so softly as to not make any noise opened their eyes wide in shock. Not only because this boy woke up from their vibrations, but also because they had only been on the ship for a full second or two before the kid was floating behind him. He knew what they were doing there, his power was immeasurable to them, and their heart rates skyrocketed.
Timmy could see how heavy they were breathing and how terrified they were even though the two of them were doing well at hiding it and keeping their weapons firmly grasped in their hands. "Hmm," Timmy hummed as he looked back and forth between the two of them. "So you're Bumblebee," he began, and the girl with yellow goggles flinched. He turned to the other and added, "And, Artemis?" The girl with green goggles flinched a lot more than her friend, and Timmy shook his head, "Sorry, Tigress. My bad, though, you know you haven't given up on him yet."
"Who the Hell are you?" Artemis snapped, though she tried keeping her voice quiet as to not wake anyone else up.
"I'm Timmy," the boy responded. He started smiling, "And you two can leave." The girls staring at him opened their eyes wider than ever. They thought they were caught, doomed, and yet this kid just told them to leave? "It's okay," he continued. "I read your minds, you aren't bad people. Just to let you know, neither are we, so you don't need to worry about that. Not all pirates are bad you know?"
The women looked at each other, and then slowly backed towards the edge of the ship they came over. "Why are you-" Bumblebee started, before remembering the boy just said they weren't bad people and that was probably the excuse he would give her, which is why he already said it. She was so nervous about his many impressive powers that the hesitation she felt about abandoning this mission faded completely. "Let's go girl," Bumblebee said to her comrade. She turned and flew away from the ship fast, while Artemis spun and climbed up on the side of the deck.
Artemis stopped as she stood on the railing, and looked carefully back at the child behind her. "Why did you say…" She stopped herself and clenched her teeth. She spun before Timmy could give her an answer and dove off the side. The girl in black went underwater and then put her breathing apparatus back over her mouth. That was insane. Just how strong was that kid? An easy pirate elimination my ass, that's a top level assignment right there.
Timmy walked back into the ship and he went and woke up all the boys in their room. He went over what just happened and everyone started talking at once. "Why'd you let them leave?" Gray growled, his eyes shadowed over by his black hair. "They're going to tell their superiors they failed. They'll be back with stronger-"
"Well, considering they're your superiors too, I felt it wouldn't be a good idea." Timmy's sentence made Gray's eyes pop wide. "Yeah, that Resistance you always talk about is still around apparently. However," the kid scratched the back of his head, "they're fading fast. When I read their minds it seems like they have even less land than you thought. Still though, they manage to carry out missions in the Emperor's land this far west, so they must still be pretty capable. Even if they don't have any land on the west coast anymore…"
"Doesn't sound too good," Killua stated from his hammock where he lay back with his hands behind his head. "Didn't you say that Black Witch person already controls the entire east coast?" Gray nodded his head and the kid with spiky white hair sighed as it sounded like their group was definitely joining the losing side. Though if I had to guess, that's probably where Gon would be.
Luffy stretched his arms up over his head and walked back towards his hammock. "Good," he said. "I didn't want this to be too easy."
Gray growled at his remark but he sighed and still felt tired despite this turn of events. "Let's all get some rest," he suggested. "Hopefully we make good time tomorrow, and we'll be at shore by Wednesday afternoon."
"Sounds like a plan," Goku agreed. He hopped back into his hammock and passed out almost instantly, still looking beat up from his late night training session.
"Night guys," Ben said as he climbed into his own bed again too. They turned off the lights and Ben added, "Oh, and thanks Timmy. Owe you one."
The younger boy on a hammock next to Ben's smiled, and then smiled more as as a group, another dozen boys all said simultaneously, "Thank you Timmy."
Outside the ship and a half mile away, a woman floating high in the sky lowered down to the water's edge. She stopped in front of the girl in yellow goggles who flapped her wings every few seconds to keep herself in place, and above the other girl who just popped out of the water beneath them. "Well that did not go well," the older woman said. She was wearing only a black sash around her chest, tight black pants, and a short white cape that wrapped around her neck like a scarf. The woman had spiky black hair farther back on her head, though right above her forehead her hair fell down so her bangs just reached the tops of her eyes. "What happened?" She asked the two.
"I've got no idea Matsuri-san," Bumblebee told the older woman. "Did you see that kid?"
"Yeah, I saw him," Matsuri replied. "We really should not have messed with those guys. It's a good thing the boy was merciful. He could have killed you both before you even noticed him."
Artemis, or Tigress, was panting heavily after she rose out of the surface of the ocean. "He could read our minds," she whispered, her voice sounding far off. "He knew everything just by looking at us. He knew we were Resistance, he knew our names, our pasts," she shook her head and clenched her teeth as she thought about it. The blonde girl looked up at the woman floated above her without any wings, "What should we do?"
"Run away of course," Matsuri replied. She chuckled at the girls' surprised expressions, then turned around herself and motioned in the direction of shore with her head. "Meet back at the base in Daedra. Travel separately." The two younger girls nodded up at her and Matsuri covered in a white aura. She had a metal bracelet on her right wrist so even though she powered up to fly away fast, those in the ship behind her could not feel her at all. Matsuri looked back as she flew away though, looking at the silhouette of the ship fading into the distance behind her. He spared them. Thank God. I really thought those two girls were dead for a minute there. Just who was that boy?
"We're here," Gray said as they neared the coast. They had been able to see the mainland for two days now, a blur on the horizon at first, and then the mountains that were visible in the distance. The amount of smaller islands really picked up off the coast as well, so Nami had been constantly navigating them through pathways in the water.
They were finally close to their destination and Ben pointed a hand off the bow. "Look," he said, and pointed at a city right on the edge of the water. It was in the direction they were going and he said, "We should go to that port."
"Sounds like a plan," Luffy said and looked back from his special seat on the figurehead to grin at his younger friend. "Franky! Steer us towards that port!" The captain called out.
"Hey," Dash mentioned. The kid was leaning up over the rail and he pointed his hand at the water closer to the front of their ship. There were rocky islands on either side of them that they were currently sailing through, but there was something in between the outcrops as well. It floated in the water with a little red dot on top. "Isn't that, the same type of buoy that that island Sora was stranded-"
"Yeah," Gray told the kid on his left. "Those buoys surround the entire continent and make the people inside undetectable by anyone outside. It works both ways though, so once we go in there, we won't be able to feel our friends back on Awul anymore." He looked back at Timmy and Goku who were both standing behind him. "You guys are okay with that?"
"Yea," Goku said. He smiled and said, "I've been here before, I know how it works." The Saiyan kid chuckled, "Besides, I know they can all take care of themselves."
"You do know you have a four year old son, right?" Nami questioned the irresponsible child standing behind her. She said it and instantly felt silly saying that to a boy who looked no older than ten.
"Haha, Goten's strong, and Gohan and the girls are looking after him," Goku felt out his family and smiled feeling they were alright. Stay safe guys, I'll be back someday.
Mandy, Nightwing, Lubba, everyone, Timmy thought. He searched out their ki's and smiled at the feelings he got. I hope I see you all again.
The ship passed through the buoy and Goku got excited as he expected to start feeling all the energies of the people of Aebrith. "Huh," Goku wondered aloud. His friends looked in at the spiky haired child who continued, "It's weird, I can't feel anyone outside of the port."
"That isn't weird at all," Gray brought up. He rose an arm and pointed ahead at the left edge of the port on the coast. There was a tower there with a blinking light at the top, and Gray motioned with his arm to the right and a tower on the other side. He kept spinning and pointed at either of the rock outcrops they were about to pass completely. On top of each one were other small towers with those blinking red lights. "Most cities use Power Blocking technology to keep their cities off the radar. It helps reduce attacks, and also makes it so people don't have to wear PB's inside the city."
"PB's?" Ben asked the man next to him. "Does that stand for-"
"Yes, Power Blocker," Gray said. "Once we get in the city I'll go looking around for some." He did a full spin and looked at all the others gathered with him. "I'd say we need PB-2's for Nami and Usopp, PB-4's for most everyone else, and two PB-6's for Goku and Timmy."
"Hey! Why do I only get a PB-2?!" Usopp shouted. Then, after a second he asked, "Also, what's the difference?"
"The higher the number, the more energy they need to hide. That way, even if you get in a fight and raise your strength, as long as you have on the right Power Blocker you'll be good to go without worrying about monsters showing up." Gray explained.
"Man, we just got here and this whole place already sounds confusing," Killua said and scratched the back of his head. "And you sure about those measurements you just made?" He questioned the ice mage. "I'd rather a monster didn't jump out at me because I trusted your judgement on this one."
"I'm sure," Gray replied. "I picked at least one higher than I thought we each needed. Most of us probably only need 2's or 3's but I feel like maybe I don't know everyone's full powers yet so I said fours. Sound alright?" Gray asked. At first he was annoyed that Killua brought it up, but as he mentioned how he did not know everyone's powers he thought about the times he had seen Killua fight. He never looks like he's exerting himself. I wonder if he has more strength than I've seen? Either way, I had him at a three so a four should be good insurance.
Killua thought about it for a few seconds before nodding his head. "Yeah, sounds good."
"You're gonna give me and Luffy the same level Power Blocker?" Natsu asked loudly as he walked forward. "You should probably give me a PB-5 instead."
Luffy turned back to Natsu and frowned at the Dragon Slayer who was smirking up at him. He opened his mouth to counter that Natsu should only need a PB-2, when Natsu's face suddenly turned blue. Out of nowhere the Dragon Slayer collapsed to the ground and his cheeks puffed out. His friends dropped their jaws and Gray and Juvia started laughing. Natsu reached his hand out towards the shore. "So, close," he rasped out. Wendy's Troia magic made it so far, and ran out just in time as they were finally at their final destination.
Luffy laughed hardest at Natsu's collapse because one, it was funny and two, because he wanted the pink haired idiot to hear him laughing over the others. He turned back around after laughing some more and saw the shore was much closer now. He jumped up on top of the lion's head in front of his ship and grinned ear to ear at the approaching port. They were heading straight towards a long wooden dock that looked much nicer and more structurally sound than the ones in Port Royal. There was a wide open space at the end of it that looked like it was waiting for them, and there was something else waiting for them too. More precisely, 'someone' else was standing at the edge of the dock looking out towards them.
He had a wide smile on his face and had short but unkempt blond hair. The man stood ten feet tall and wore a white button down, red pants, and a huge puffy pink cloak made of feathers that he wore like a cape, wrapped around his neck and falling down his back all the way to his feet. He had on a pair of horn-rimmed sunglasses with red tinted lenses. His white button down was open down the middle revealing his muscular abs and chest.
As most of the people on the ship examined this man for the first time, two people were looking at him with much more surprised looks. "That guy," Luffy began. "I saw him before," Luffy thought back to the War of the Best when he saw this man. "He was a Shichibukai," Lufy remembered.
Usopp, Franky, Sanji, and Nami all opened their eyes wide. Ben asked what that was, and Nami explained, "The Shichibukai were seven very powerful pirates on our world who worked for the World Government. They were only second to the Yonko like Shanks and Blackbeard."
Kirito heard these names and the person in front of him suddenly became a lot more intimidating. I got cured several times when fighting Blackbeard, I don't pretend to think that I was actually stronger than him. And Shanks, he split the sky with a swing of his sword. He sliced Naruto's Rasenshuriken in half. If this man is even half as strong as those two, I just hope I don't have to end up fighting him.
"Luffy is correct," Robin brought up. "That man, is the Shichibukai known as the Heavenly Demon, Donquixote Doflamingo."
"Eee!" Nami and Usopp both exclaimed.
"I've heard that name," Franky said, also sounding a little unnerved.
"Isn't Doflamingo supposed to be the scariest of the Shichibukai?" Usopp hissed back at Robin, who chuckled darkly at the question and made Usopp cry out in horror.
"Well, we'll see what type of guy he is in a minute," Goku said. He hopped up in the air so he could see over the others and he smiled at the man they were approaching. "Wow, he's the strongest one in the city."
"Oh that's great," Gray muttered sarcastically.
"What's wrong?" Juvia asked her boyfriend.
"Actually," Gray began softly as they were nearing the dock that the strongest man in the city was standing in. "I have also heard the name Doflamingo before, which means that this port is Dressrosa. Just a quick warning before we go in, this is a Co-op city." He saw a few blank faces and sighed. "It's a member of the Cooperative. Doflamingo is a Lord, so-"
"So then he's our enemy?" Natsu asked.
"No, well yes, but not now," Gray grumbled quickly. "We're here to stock up supplies and hopefully find some means of transportation across Aebrith. If there's no reason to fight him, we shouldn't. We don't even know if he's a bad guy yet or if he just follows the King so he doesn't die."
He faded off towards the end as the ship was now so close that if someone didn't say anything it was going to get awkward. "Hello," Luffy greeted the man on the dock. He did not know what type of facial expression to have but he did not really like Doflamingo much so he chose a frown. "What do you want?" Luffy asked.
"Straw Hat Luffy!" Doflamingo called out to the pirate. "Uuhahahaha," he laughed in a deep tone. "What a surprise to see a familiar face! Welcome, to Dressrosa!" He spread his arms out to his sides to welcome them.
Luffy's frown did not go away but a few of his comrades did seem a little more at ease since it looked like Doflamingo was trying to be hospitable. They ran the ship right up alongside the end of the dock and a few of them jumped off with ropes to start tying up. The others jumped down and stood in front of Doflamingo. "You've got a nice looking crew with you," Doflamingo told the pirate captain in front of him as he examined Luffy's crewmates.
"We're not all actually on his crew," Killua stated to the much taller man. Doflamingo glanced down at the kid who nodded his head up at him and said, "I'm Killua."
The confident way in which Killua addressed the Lord of the city made his comrades look at him in surprise. Idiots, Killua thought smugly. Even Doflamingo must think I'm pretty strong right now, but really I just know Goku or Timmy could stop this guy easy if he tries to attack me.
Doflamingo actually did not care, and the fourteen year old was getting on his nerves with that look of his. Killua started to feel nervous, and then a child flew up in the air in front of Doflamingo. He had spiky black hair going to his sides and up above his head. He held out his right hand and Doflamingo frowned at it for a second, until the child smiled and greeted, "Hey! I'm Son Goku."
Doflamingo's bottom lip lowered and a bead of sweat rolled down the left side of his face. "You are huh?" He reached out a hand and shook the little flying kid's, whose grip turned out to feel like a grown man's. Goku? Son Goku? Is this kid serious? Doflamingo smiled at the group again and he said, "Dressrosa welcomes you. Its citizens and myself ask you to refrain from any violence inside the city and to make sure you do not break any Cooperative rules. Well then," he turned and rose up his right hand. Most people couldn't see it, but a few spotted the super thin string fly out of his hand and connect to a cloud in the sky. Doflamingo's feet lifted off the ground and he flew up in the air and into the port towards the enormous fortress on a hill in the back of the city away from the coastline.
"You know, I liked that guy," Ben said as he started walking forward on the dock. "I don't know what it was about him, but he just seemed like a genuinely nice person."
"Really?" Dash asked his friend he was walking next to.
Ben laughed, "Ha! No! That guy was totally evil. Everything he said gave me shivers and I really thought he was going to kill Killua there for a second."
Killua chuckled behind Ben and thought, Yeah, me too. He tried not to let it show how nervous he became when Doflamingo glared at him through his sunglasses. These Lord guys are no joke. He turned to Goku as the "younger" boy flew up next to him and landed. "Hey Goku," Killua began. The shorter kid with spiky black hair turned to the teen and Killua continued, "Who do you think is stronger, me or that Doflamingo guy?"
Goku scratched the back of his head while smiling. "I don't know Killua, why don't you fight him to find out?" He suggested casually.
"Couldn't you sense his energy?" Killua asked, as he did not see a Power Blocker on the man who greeted them just now.
"Yeah," Goku replied and a bunch of the others were staring at the two of them now. "But he was holding back a lot of power too."
The way he said 'too' made Killua frown a little. Without looking around he spotted several people staring at the two of them, and some of them also heard the way Goku worded that and darted their eyes at Killua. He pretended not to notice their stares and kept walking calmly, but thought, Damn, how does Goku know? I haven't stopped hiding my power since I got on the ship.
"Alright guys," Gray started up loudly, trying to get the attention of their whole group while they were still together. Some of them were walking down the dock like they had somewhere to be so he figured he'd say what he needed to before he lost them all. "Dressrosa is still pretty far north of where we're heading, and we need to head far inland too. It's going to be a long trip, and we need supplies. We need food, sleeping bags, hopefully a vehicle. Look around for a capsule shop so we can store all our stuff."
"What's a capsule?" Ben called to him.
"It's a-" Gray began but Goku interrupted him.
"Hey! We had capsules on my world! Bulma and her dad made them," Goku said excitedly. He was glad to be the one who knew something for once that the others didn't.
"And what are they?" Ben asked the man who was shorter than him.
"They're uh, um, these little things, that have bigger things inside them!" Goku explained.
Most people there sweatdropped as they stared at him, but then Gray spoke up, "He's actually, right." He sounded confused himself as he admitted it. Gray continued, "You can hold capsules between your fingers but a capsule can store a car, a house, food..."
"Or a time machine," Goku mentioned. His friends stared at him and Goku added, "And a spaceship!" Although those things sounded interesting, they all decided to ask Goku about them later.
"How does it get bigger?" Nami asked confusedly. The little kid stared at her blankly and she got a bead of sweat on the side of her face. Like Goku would understand the science, she scolded herself mentally. "Nevermind," she muttered at the spiky haired boy.
"I can go look for them," Goku offered. He smirked and added, "Once I get some food first."
"I'll go with Goku," Luffy threw a hand up and said immediately after hearing where Goku was heading.
Sora rubbed his stomach and he looked at the girl standing next to him. "Want to go with them?" He asked. Kairi smiled back and nodded at her fiancé. Sora grabbed her hand and walked towards Goku and Luffy who were about to run off. "Care for two more?"
"Sure Sora," Luffy said.
The four of them started walking off and Nami held Kairi back for a second. "Make sure they don't forget to get the capsules after they eat," she told the younger girl.
Kairi giggled and nodded her head, "Alright, got it."
Gray watched the four of them leave and then he turned and started giving out jobs to the others with him. A few looked annoyed they were being told what to do, but Gray knew them enough by now to know what they would be best at gathering: Sanji to get food, Franky for a vehicle, etc. The crew started to separate and Timmy told them that he would use telepathy to get them all back together later on, so they didn't need to worry about a meeting place or anything right now.
"Alright," Gray said once they were all leaving. The ones who started walking other ways looked back at the mage who was standing only next to Juvia now. He looked around at them all and said, "Be careful. Doflamingo may have greeted us with open arms, but he's still a Lord of the Cooperative. Stay on guard." The rest of them nodded at the young man, then broke up to enjoy the beautiful city of Dressrosa.
"This is whack," Natsu grumbled. The Dragon Slayer walking down the road with his hands interlocked behind his head looked around and his frown twisted into a more annoyed one. "Everybody went and split up again. This city's so cool, we gotta find something to do!"
"O-kay," Ben started slowly. "I'm gonna ignore the fact that you just said 'whack' for a minute." Dash laughed and Ben couldn't help but smirk as Natsu frowned at him. "Actually no," Ben said and could not hold in his laughter as he shook his head. "Who have you ever heard say whack like that?" Ben asked.
"Everyone," Natsu said, though he looked away to hide his bad poker face. "But really, I'm bored already," the oldest of the three muttered. They'd been walking aimlessly and none of the three could figure out what they wanted to do most in the gorgeous city full of people and animated toys. They were surprised by them at first, but everyone else seemed to treat the fact that toys walked around like people as if it was a normal occurrence around here, so they ignored the strangeness of it.
"Hey look," Dash pointed down the road from them and the other three spotted who he was pointing at.
Timmy was walking on his own down the road away from them. They were about to run over to catch up with him, but they stopped as Timmy did. Timmy looked down the street and he saw a tall man walking his way. The guy was the same one who greeted them on the pier earlier, and his arms were open wide as he walked towards Timmy.
Donquixote Doflamingo was ten feet tall, looking down on a boy barely over a third his size. "One of our esteemed guests," Doflamingo greeted and held out his hands. "What are you doing wandering around Dressrosa without your friends? Are you lost?" Doflamingo asked.
The twelve year old looked up into the city ruler's eyes. Since he saw him on the dock he had a bad feeling about the man, and it only intensified as Doflamingo walked towards him. Do it. You can't trust him.
Doflamingo walked up to Timmy who started glaring into the pirate's eyes. The Schichibukai stared back at the boy and his huge cocky smirk faltered.
The three boys watching from down the road started to get nervous as they stared at the two of them. Doflamingo looking down and Timmy staring up, they could not tell who looked more menacing. For most people who saw the two, they became very nervous at the sight of their Lord glaring at the child. They were nervous for the child, unlike the three who wondered what Timmy was about to do to this guy.
Doflamingo saw the boy's eyes widen and his own mind started racing at what the boy was thinking. One second Timmy was staring at him like he was trying to figure something out, and the next he appeared to have a realization as if whatever he was looking for, he found. "No," Timmy whispered, "you bastard."
"I don't know what you think-" Doflamingo began. He reached out but Timmy swung his right hand forward faster than Doflamingo saw coming.
The pirate was still a decent length away from Timmy, so he was not expecting to be hit. That's why when a force like a freight train slammed into him, Doflamingo went flying at three hundred miles per hour.
Timmy's friends dropped their jaws, just like every other person nearby. Citizens screamed and Natsu, Ben, and Dash ran forward. Dash arrived in a second and started yelling, but he stopped as a voice shouted in his mind. "GUYS!"
Goku, Sora, Kairi, and Luffy looked up at each other. They were eating at a restaurant and all four of them heard the voice in their heads. "Timmy?" Luffy wondered aloud.
Gray and Juvia were in the marketplace buying some food. Gray was pointing out the best foods to take with them that would last on a journey. Sanji was on the opposite side of the market checking out the fish stands. They all lifted their heads at the sound of the voice yelling in their heads.
"It isn't safe in this city! It's all a lie!" Timmy's friends nervously got out of their seats or looked around at the city Timmy was warning them about. Timmy read Doflamingo's mind and he was panicking at what he heard. "The toys!" Timmy yelled in his mind. "They're all actually people. One of Doflamingo's crew, she can turn people into toys and once that happens, they are erased from the minds of everyone they know!"
"Oh shit," Sanji whispered. He thought about what this meant and his eyes popped open wide. The ladies! He spun and jumped fifty feet up in the air. He looked back at the market and saw Juvia with Gray, but he could not see the others anywhere near him. Sanji kicked off the air, flying over buildings while sensing for the ladies.
As Sanji lifted off, Timmy kept shouting telepathically to them. "Doflamingo was thinking about how Sugar, his crew member, was already going around turning us into toys." Timmy sounded scared and his mental voice got quieter, "I don't know, if she got to any of us yet. How do we know?"
Luffy jumped out of his seat and he shouted both out loud and in his head, "I would never forget my nakama!"
"Yeah," Natsu caught up to Timmy and he spoke out loud to the boy. "We would know if we forgot someone. I know everyone who got off the ship with us a little while ago."
"Do we though?" Ben whispered and he looked up at Natsu. Ben looked at the two younger boys too and he said nervously, "What if, what if we've already forgotten?"
Sirens started going off around the city and something exploded a mile north of the group. "Guys, if we don't think anyone is gone, maybe, maybe we should run away." Timmy thought to his group of friends. The others around him looked at him in surprise, and Timmy kept thinking, "If she gets us, we could wind up leaving here without someone. We might leave someone behind."
"What if she already got one of us though?" Robin said, getting her voice to echo in their minds thanks to Timmy's mental connection. "I believe our only course of action, is to make sure we find and neutralize this Sugar person."
Gray's eyes opened wide and he yelled mentally, "To take on one of Doflamingo's executives is to declare war on not only the Lord himself, but the High Lord Doflamingo reports to!"
"Good!" Natsu yelled mentally back at his friend. "This is why we're here!"
"No!" Timmy yelled aloud, looking straight at Natsu. He looked into the Dragon Slayer's eyes and Natsu saw true fear in the kid's. "I, don't want, to lose anyone here," Timmy said softly and his friends all heard him. "I'm going to count us off in my head. There are seventeen of us in total, don't forget that number. Seventeen: Me, Natsu, Ben, Dash..." The boys around him looked at each other.
"Luffy, Goku, Kairi, Sora, Riku..." The four in the restaurant who ran outside heard their names and snapped their heads around, on the lookout for anyone who might look like one of Doflamingo's goons. Riku stood on top of a building down the block from them and he kept a watchful gaze on everything around him.
"Robin, Franky, Usopp, Killua..." Four others at a street corner closer to the docks stood back to backs making sure they had eyes on every road touching their intersection.
"Sanji..." The chef up in the air dropped down towards a street corner as he spotted his crewmates and Killua. "Robin-chan, thank goodness you're safe!" Sanji exclaimed. I saw Kairi-chwan with Goku, so that makes all three women safe. He thought as he landed.
Timmy only had a few names left, but he felt a hole in his chest and his face scrunched up. He finished though, "Kirito, Gray, and Juvia."
Back in the marketplace, Gray and Juvia stood next to each other, snapping their heads around to look for anyone suspicious. People were screaming and running around in absolute panic. Guards with guns went sprinting by on a street near the market, and Gray ducked and pulled Juvia down with him.
"Seventeen names," Timmy repeated in their minds. "Don't forget. There are seventeen of us. Seventeen. Seventeen of us."
"Mommy! Mommmmy!"
Gray and Juvia were on guard, but Juvia turned her head a little hearing this shouting child. She looked back and saw a small girl walking aimlessly towards them. People were running around in fear, and this girl had her hands up to her eyes rubbing them with her hands. "Gray-sama," Juvia started.
The black haired man turned back and saw the girl walking towards them. Juvia was looking at her sadly and Gray figured they needed to help this girl too. "Hey," Gray called out, taking a step towards the child. Juvia smiled brightly at her boyfriend and her heart raced in her love for him. "Where was the last place you saw your mommy?"
The girl kept crying and Gray sighed, stepping closer and bending down. "Can you at least tell me what your name is?" He questioned her. In their minds, Timmy repeated the number 'seventeen' over and over again.
"Why are you taking off your shirt?" The little girl said as she lowered her hands from her eyes. Gray looked down and saw himself pulling his shirt up, and Juvia turned to him with her face turning red. When they looked back forward, the girl was a few steps closer so she was right in front of them. "And my name," she said, while lifting her hands up towards them. "Is Sugar."
The green haired girl touched the wide-eyed mages in front of her and the two of them vanished. In their places were a couple of toys, a wooden puppet with long blue hair and a robot covered in flashing lights. Sugar stopped her fake crying and she laughed at the toys in front of her who stared at her in horror.
Timmy's voice no longer echoed in Gray and Juvia's minds, but for everyone else in the group rushing around the city, they kept hearing his voice in their heads. "Don't forget. Fifteen. Fifteen of us total."
A/N Oh no! Sugar! Doflamingo! The Dressrosa arc begins as our group does not make it a full hour after landing before causing mass chaos in a Cooperative City. Gray and Juvia get turned into toys, but there are some others missing already too. The group is shrinking fast and unless they find and neutralize Sugar, their friends are going to be stuck as toys and erased from their memories for good! Hope you enjoyed the chapter! Leave me a review telling me what you thought, comments, questions, or predictions for this story! The arrival on Aebrith chapter ends with the Dressrosa Arc, though as I still need to finish this arc myself it may be a few days until the next update... Anyway, review responses for the last 2 chapters since I missed out last time:
joebob323 chapter 18 . Feb 27
Oooh! Kid Goku! That adds a lot more drama into the story. What it Goku can't access super sayian in his child form? What if he has difficulty moving? I don't know if it is a good thing or a bad one... Anyways, congrats on another chapter well done! Hope to see more soon! And yeah, Yamcha does need to do more stuff, as he is actually among one of the stronger people on this continent.
Kid Goku is definitely fun to write, especially since he's already pretty much a child XD. We'll see how he fights without his normal body in the upcoming chapters! Actually, after mentioning Yamcha the other day I wrote a chapter for much later in the future that actually utilizes him pretty well, so I'm glad you mentioned that. Thanks for the review!
Darugus chapter 18 . Feb 27
So kid goku I see where this is going but since the neo marines worked for the emperor they might encounter then again or maybe the emperor hunts then down because they failed
Kid Goku! Thanks for the review! The Emperor sent a hunter for the Forever Kingdom, but luckily for Ain and Binz, Brandish did not destroy them as well!
Espada-001 chapter 18 . Feb 28
Well it's definitely sad to see Zepher get taken down like that. :( But on the upside Goku's a little kid again, and I'm sure everyone can guess what little feature is about to start growing from his rump. Other than that I don't have anything else so until next time have a good day.
Z was def my favorite One Piece movie villain, so yeah it was tough to decide how to end him. Kind of wanted him to be more important, but they were reaching the end of their ocean journey anyway so... :P. Goku gets his tail back, but he keeps up his strength, or so he thinks. Thanks for the review!
qwerty chapter 18 . Feb 27
So then will super saiyan 4 be a thing?
*shrugs* Maybe. No spoilers, but what will Goku's tail mean for this story?! Thanks for the review!
joebob323 chapter 19 . 23h ago
Pretty neat! I like the introduction of Brandish in the end, and I wonder what went on with her and lucy...now that lucy's dead...oh well. Hope to see more Goku fights! The pirates underestimated him, since he's a boy, but if they ever see him in action...
First introduction of Spriggans in that last chapter, hope you're ready because with Zeref going to be one of the main villains in this Saga, there are a lot of powerful subordinates that come with him! Will there be a Brandish flashback? Will she have interacted with Lucy on this world, (since Fairy Tail characters appeared after Grand Magic Games arc and they would not have met before Nexus)? Goku fights coming up next chapters, so hope you're ready! Thanks the the review (again)!
Espada-001 chapter 19 . 20h ago
Well Luffy was seconds from going ape shit on the P.C. world and Sora thankfully managed to avoid turning that place into ground zero. I really can't wait to see all the new characters your introducing for the upcoming confrontations. As a side project I did the math for Goku's age and by my count he's about 8 or 9. Now that he's a child again I wonder how long it's going to be before he discovers the major draw back to being so young with his power. Also we get to see one of the Spriggan's with one of the most broken OP magic powers ever shown in Fairy Tail. Well till next time have a good day!
Luckily for Sora's pirate friends that he was there to calm down his other pirate friends XD! Yeah I decided not to write in Goku's specific age because of all the times he's died, when he kept his body in Otherworld, also since I never really made it specific when they came from their own world only that it was more than 2 years after Cell's defeat. Goku being young again will affect his fighting style of course with shorter arms and legs, but we'll see in the next chapters if he can still handle the enemies of Dressrosa! Brandish's power is so unstoppable that it was a good thing she did not get sent after the Straw Hats and their friends, as she might have been if the Forever King had still been one of the Emperor's Lords. Now that they're fighting another of his Lords though, we'll see if she returns sometime soon... Anyway, thanks for another review!
-Also, here's a quick list of characters since they finally made it to Aebrith, and because there were a couple of new characters this chapter:
One Piece: Luffy, Thousand Sunny, Sanji, Nami, Franky, Robin, Usopp, Doflamingo, Sugar, Shichibukai, Blackbeard, Shanks, Yonko.
DBZ: Goku, Goten, Gohan, Vegeta, ChiChi, Cell.
SAO: Kirito
Fairy Tail: Lisanna, Natsu, Juvia, Gray, Wendy, Brandish
Blue Exorcist: Rin, Kuro
Hunter x Hunter: Killua
Fairly Oddparents: Timmy Turner
Kingdom Hearts: Sora, Kairi, Riku
Teen Titans: Nightwing (Robin), Bumblebee
Young Justice: Artemis (Tigress)
Psyren: Matsuri
Akame ga Kill: Lubba
Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy: Mandy
Naruto: Naruto
Alright, think I got everyone down! Thanks again for reading! 'Till next time!