A/N Hey guys! Here's the final part of Nexus Heroes Will Rise Chapter 6! Little bit of a break over the weekend, but now there'll be a part uploaded every day for the rest of the week, as now that I finished this one, I have the next six-eight parts already finished! Hope you enjoy!
Disclaimer: If you haven't got it by now, I don't own anything. Not the characters, not the monsters, not the settings, nor attacks, nor proper nouns of any kind in this story. Alright? Alright.
Nexus HWR 6.9 Alpha Dragon:
"Dash! What did you do?!"
The little boy who sprinted ahead only a minute ago and just came sprinting back yelled out, "It wasn't my fault!"
The entire landscape shook again and the seventeen people and one cat staring into the fog that started just ahead of them opened their eyes huge. Inside all that fog, they began to see a silhouette of something. "I swear! I didn't mean to run into it! I didn't see it in the fog-"
"You ran into it?!" Nami screamed, grabbing the boy by the collar and shaking him around with razor sharp teeth in her mouth. Another thud made Nami drop the kid and she spun back towards the looming form dozens of times as tall as them and more than that wide.
"Is that…" Sanji began, the newly lit cigarette falling out of his mouth as his bottom lip dropped.
"I believe it is," Robin said, beads of sweat forming all over her face.
"I was not expecting this today," Ben whispered, rubbing the side of his head as he suddenly felt a headache coming on.
The monster stepped forward again and its head stuck out of the thicker part of the fog. It lifted up its head that was five times as tall as Franky, their tallest member. A tiny cat on Rin's left side puffed out to fifty times its size and the pirates around it jumped away as they were not expecting the sudden transformation.
Usopp grabbed his chest, "God Kuro, you're going to give me a heart attack!"
"I don't like dragons," the cat said in its high-pitched voice that reverberated in their minds as the familiar itself did not open its mouth to speak.
"Dash," Gray seethed through his teeth, stepping backwards as he did. "Did you just, antagonize, an Alpha Dragon?" Gray looked up at the giant dragon's head that was glaring right back down at their group and specifically at a small boy with blond hair who nervously started sputtering about how he didn't mean to do it.
"What's the big deal?" Natsu said, a huge smirk on his face. "Sure it might be big," he stepped forward, "but it's got nothing on Igneel. My dad's a hundred times stronger than this wimpy-looking dragon!"
The "wimpy-looking dragon"'s eyes darted down away from Dash to the pink haired mage who froze where he stood. The look in those eyes excited the Dragon Slayer who punched his fists together and made them burst into flames. "He's mine," Natsu said, a grin spreading across his face.
The dragon opened its mouth and roared, a bellowing roar that made all the fog around it start pushing away from its body. "You idiot!" Gray yelled at Natsu. The fog spread out faster and thinned as it did, revealing other silhouettes in the gray getting closer and more defined. Natsu's smirk wiped from his face and their entire group dropped their jaws as the numbers continually rose, and those silhouettes started flying out of the fog and into the air directly in front of them. Gray backpedalled faster and he yelled, "An Alpha Dragon has its own pack!"
The Alpha roared once more, stomping a foot down as it did, and all of the fog dispersed at once, revealing over a hundred dragons around it. The monstrous Alpha Dragon was the biggest, its head hundreds of feet off the ground. It had gray bumpy skin over most of its four-legged body, but when it spread its wings out to the sides, it made gusts of wind so strong that chunks of ground on its sides ripped apart. All of the dragons flying around it were various colors of the rainbow and more, there were three-headed ones and ones with giant overbites, six-legged ones and ones with claws instead of feet.
"What do we do?!" Nami screamed in panic.
"We have to run!" Gray shouted, but when he turned his head his eyes bugged out at the sight of dragons lifting over hills to their north and south, flanking them from the sides.
"You think we can all outrun dragons?!" Usopp yelled at the mage. He was all for running, but even to him that sounded like a stupid idea.
Gray kept spinning around and around as the dragons closed in on them from all sides. The Alpha Dragon flapped its humongous wings again, and it lifted off the ground, an amazing feet for a beast of its size. Ben's eyes opened huge and he turned to Dash next to him, both of them thinking about the second day they were on Nexus when they saw a similar sight. Godzilla, the boys thought. Ben was about to mention something about it, then his jaw dropped and he pointed a finger forward like he just figured a way out of their situation. About half of his friends saw his reaction and they all looked his way wondering what he was going to say. "It was Krillin!" Ben exclaimed, and all of the crew around him lost their hopeful looks.
Dash gawked at Ben that that was what he had to say at a time like this, then the younger kid's eyes opened huge as well and he shouted, "Oh man! It was Krillin!" Dash spun and he and Ben smiled towards Riku, "Hey Riku!" Dash called over. "Did you-"
"Yeah, I knew it was Krillin," Riku replied, not taking his eyes off the enemies in front of him, which made the boys who lost focus spin back towards the Alpha nervously as Riku did not seem to be in the playful mood. Riku stared up at the Alpha Dragon's face, and in his mind he was thinking about Brogy fighting Godzilla, the monster killing their giant friend, and then the huge monster getting destroyed by a Kamehameha Wave. Huh, I totally forgot about that. Gotta thank Krillin next time I see him. A black Keyblade with a red hilt formed in Riku's right hand, and he pointed it up at the Alpha Dragon that was glaring down at them while dragons surrounded them on all sides. "Hey Dash, just what did you do to make it this angry?" Riku asked, as the dragon was back to glaring at the tiny speedster with fury in its eyes.
"I didn't do anything!" Dash exclaimed. "Well, I might have ran right into it… and it might have been sleeping…." The Alpha roared and dozens of dragons around the group moved in at the same time.
"We need to-" Gray started shouting.
"Everyone, circle up!" Sora yelled. Gray spun to his left in surprise and saw Sora standing there with Keyblade raised, turning from the Alpha Dragon and yelling behind him. "Kairi! Get in the middle! Luffy and Rin with me!"
"Ehh?!" Natsu yelled. "Why are you giving orders? And why am I not in the front group?!" He sounded more annoyed at the second part than Sora taking some control.
"Why should Kairi be in the middle?" Nami questioned loudly. "Just 'cause she's a girl? I saw her take out a Sith in-"
"Got it Sora!" Kairi called to her fiancé. She turned to Nami and said quickly, "It's not because I'm a girl. I like to take position as healer during fights."
"That's right," Sora shouted. "Riku! Go!" The others Sora called up to help him had not gotten there yet, but Riku was at his side and already knew what he had to do.
Riku leapt up in the air and he crossed two Keyblades in front of his chest. "RaaaAAAA!" A dark aura surrounded him and then pulsed out through the air. Above the crew on all sides of them and twenty meters up in the air, black circles of darkness appeared. Out of those dark circles came red-skinned beasts with white stomachs and a wide wingspan. Their heads were slanted like hair being slicked back and their ears pointed behind them. They had beady yellow eyes, slender bodies, and the ends of their long wings were tattered. The Heartless had no arms, but three sharp claws on either leg, and a long tail sticking out behind them.
"Wyverns?!" Sora called up in surprise at his best friend. "You made fifteen of them!"
"Impressed?" Riku questioned, looking down at his friend who was not doing a good job at hiding it.
Sora's eyes widened and he turned away, "Not really." How can he make so many?! I can't even make fifteen Shadows, let alone powerful Heartless like those! The Wyverns flew out of the dark circles in the air and intercepted the closest dragons to the group, slamming their claws into them or just ramming them in midair. Still, the crew only gained a few seconds as there were a lot more than fifteen enemies, and although the Wyverns were strong, each dragon they were facing was in its own right as well.
"Let's go!" Sora shouted, and he ran forward with Rin and Luffy. Rin had his sword drawn on Sora's left, and his body burst into blue flames. Luffy turned his fists black, and he ran on Sora's right side with a smirk across his face. "You remember Strategy 3 Luffy?" Sora questioned, confusing Rin who looked in at the two of them wondering what they were talking about. Luffy's eyes turned huge and his smirk widened even more as he nodded his head.
"Shishi, yeah!" Luffy pumped his legs down on the ground and Sora's body surrounded in white light.
"What's Strategy 3?!" Rin shouted, as there were literally twenty dragons dive-bombing them in that second.
"Just follow our lead!" Sora yelled from inside his white light. It faded, but Sora shot out of it in his Final Form. His jacket and shorts had turned white, his undershirt had black over his chest and white lower down, his shorts had dark black highlights over his thighs, he had on fingerless white gloves with black over the knuckles, his shoes had turned with with only a little black on top of them, he had a white hood bunched up behind his neck, and his expression had turned a lot more serious. He did not hold any Keyblades in his hands, instead, a floating white Keyblade and a black one crossed behind his back, then spun away from him as he leapt straight into the air at the approaching dragons.
Luffy threw his steaming arms far behind his body, while the Keyblades that shot away from Sora arced up then dipped down right beneath where the boy who summoned them started to fall. They turned horizontal to the ground and Sora pressed his feet right on the shafts of them, at the same time that Luffy threw his steaming arms forward and yelled, "Jet Bazooka!" Sora's hands lit up right as Luffy's fists hit the bottoms of his Keyblade shafts. Putting the Keyblades in the way prevented Luffy's attack from hurting the bottoms of Sora's feet, but the attack still transferred all the force into Sora, sending him flying forward with a lot of momentum. The Keyblades that Luffy hit vanished into light particles, reappearing in the same instant in Sora's glowing hands, while the spiky haired teen spun his body and looked like a drill flying through the air with his Keyblades sticking out.
Rin gawked as half of the dragons coming towards them got either slammed by the Keyblades, or slammed by slashes of wind that flew off the ends of his weapons. He finally stopped gawking as there were still dragons diving towards him. "How am I supposed to do that?!" Rin yelled. "What's the rest of the Strategy?"
"Shishishi, that's it!" Luffy yelled. He bent his knees, then leapt up in the air and yelled, "Next step-"
Sora flipped out of his spinning drill and pointed his Keyblades behind him at the dragons he flew past. "Is improvise!" He yelled, and a stream of fire shot out of his white Keyblade while the tip of the other sparked electricity and then the sky opened up over a half dozen dragons and rained lightning down on them.
"Gum Gum Jet Gattling Gun!"
Rin shrugged his shoulders and leapt up in the air, bringing his sword down and yelling, "Demon Slash!"
"I'm going!" Natsu yelled from forty meters behind the three taking on the majority of the dragons. A few were coming in on their sides, but Riku's Wyverns were handling most of them. "The big one's mine!"
The pink haired Dragon Slayer ran forward even as Gray shouted at his back, "We need you here! Damn it Natsu!"
A large force of dragons following one that was five times the size of the average twenty-feet long ones swooped down from the west, directly behind the group. They all got ready to block attacks and fight back, only for the squad of dragons to open their mouths and all of their throats to glow.
"Everyone!" Gray shouted, spinning and grabbing Juvia by the arm as he did. "MOVE!"
Natsu turned his head around wondering why Gray was shouting so loud, and the fire mage dropped his jaw at the sight of the area all his friends were just in, completely engulfed in flames. "Mina!" The flames coming out the soles of his shoes spun the other way in midair and sent him flying back towards the flaming grass.
"Everyone!" Luffy shouted back towards his crew.
"Pay attention Luffy!" Rin shouted, and Luffy turned his head just in time to see some claws about to hit him that he was too distracted by his crew's shouts to feel coming with his Haki. Rin blocked the claws with his sword though, and he yelled, "Go to them! Make sure they're all okay!"
"Cure! Cure!" Kairi called out. "Ack agh, uck-uck," she started a coughing fit but then rose her pink Keyblade again and yelled, "Cure!"
"Thank you Kairi-chwann!" Sanji exclaimed as the burn on the right side of his face from shielding Robin from the flames faded.
"And thank you Sanji," Robin said to the man next to her who was turned the other way towards Kairi. He had appeared literally out of nowhere when the fireballs were about to collide with her, and she was very grateful. She leaned towards the chef and pecked him on the cheek, then turned and crossed her arms to create three dozen arms that wrapped up the wings of dragons turning back around to swoop their way again. She spotted bright red behind her and thought maybe more flames were incoming, but when she turned she just chuckled at the sight of a faucet spurting up in the air from Sanji's nose. Robin knew that she truly made the chef's day, or life, but either way she had to snap him out of it and she mentioned loudly, "More are coming."
Sanji shook his head and with a face still covered in blood from his nose down, he roared at the top of his lungs and shot towards the dragons. He would take them all down on his own if it meant another kiss from his dear Robin-chwan, which Robin realized as she watched him run off and she sighed wondering if maybe she should not have done that.
The flames were spreading across the field, and Natsu dropped down right in the middle of them to suck most of them in. Once he gulped, instantly more of the field burst into flames as other fireballs shot down towards them, and the Fire Dragon Slayer glared up in the air at the monsters who hurt so many of his friends around him who he could see with burn wounds.
"Heatblast!" Ben yelled, shooting out of some flames as an alien made of molten rocks. He pushed his hands down and jets of flames shot below him to let him fly towards his enemies that would have burned him if he had not transformed in time.
This is nuts! Maybe I should get out of here. No, it's safer to stay with them, even if they do constantly get me in situations like this, no one has died yet. Killua stood on the back of a dragon that he jumped on when it swooped too close to the ground. He was using Zetsu and staying low to its back in his crouch to prevent other dragons from seeing him, but the one below him must have realized it had some extra weight on its back, as it started violently shaking around to get him off.
Killua would not be thrown from its back so easily, but the erratic movements of the purple dragon he was riding drew the attention of others that turned and shot towards him.
Within seconds, the compact group of travelers had been scattered by their enemies. The dragons were everywhere, and the strongest of them were focusing on the two giant dragons and the one humongous Alpha that lead them all. The other dragons were not weaklings though, and after seeing a tiny green ball turn into a bunch of vines that wrapped around one of their comrades, all the dragons started dodging Usopp's Pop Greens as he fired them into the air.
A cloud of black appeared in the sky on one side of the field, and a dozen lightning bolts rained down from it on five dragons. Nami spun her Clima Tact around with a successful smirk on her face, one that vanished as she noticed all of the dragons not falling from the sky. Instead, the monsters turned their heads down to glare at her, many with black marks on their bodies and pissed-off expressions on their faces. They snarled mouths full of sharp teeth and smoke come out of their nostrils as they huffed at her.
"Uhh, Lu-" she turned her head to start shouting for her Captain's help, but spotted Luffy, Sora, and Natsu all in the middle of fighting the giant Alpha Dragon together… over a mile away from where she currently was. She spun around in a full three-sixty and her eyes opened huge. Everyone has their own battles. There's no one to save me! She spun back and saw three of the five dragons start diving towards her. She stumbled back, and then her face lit up and she smiled. That's not true. There's always one person.
Nami cupped her hands to her mouth, and at the top of her lungs she screamed, "TIMMY!" She lowered her hands and grinned confidently at the dragons diving towards her. She smiled, and kept smiling, and then when the dragons got ten feet away a look of sheer panic came to her face as they lowered their claws. Nami dropped to her stomach fast, and she felt the wind of the claws going right over her back, and heard ripping as one got close enough to tear through her shirt even.
The orange haired pirate woman scrambled up to her feet, and she saw the ones that missed her turning around for a second go, while the two that did not charge originally were flying towards her now with their mouths open. "Timmy!" She shouted and started running to her right while spinning pieces of her Clima Tact. Black clouds formed above her and rain started coming down, but she did not yell an attack while the dragons that tried firing fireballs at her found their flames sizzling out before they reached their target. "Timmy!" She shouted again, tears starting to form in her eyes.
"I was worried! Don't leave my sight Timmy, I'm keeping my eye on you for now on."
"We can't always be together Nami. I need to-"
"You need to protect me. What would happen if you weren't around and I got in danger? Hmm?"
"I would come to you right away!"
"But how would you know Timmy? That's why we need to stay together!"
"That's not true. I already made a wish…"
"What wish?"
"… Well, when I first found you again, I realized I never wanted to lose you. So, back when Wanda was still, alive, I wished that if you were ever in danger, I would know. It would be a tingling feeling on the back of my neck. If you shout my name, I'll hear it. If you get hurt, I'll be hurt too. Whenever you need me, I'll know exactly where you are. That way, I'll always be protecting you, even if we happen to be apart!"
"…Baka, I'm the one trying to protect you…"
"TIMMY! TIMMY!" Nami screamed it over and over and over and over. The others in the middles of their fights with dragons looked over and saw Nami screaming her lungs out, but she no longer seemed to be in any immediate danger. She kept yelling Timmy's name, and seconds passed but the boy never appeared.
"Does she think this is like Metropolis?" Kirito mumbled between exhausted pants as he was constantly flying through the air battling the dragons around her. "I know Timmy said if we called his name he would come, but I'm pretty sure he only meant for that day."
Riku was flying not far from him, and the silver haired Keybearer smashed his two Keyblades down on a red dragon's left head, making the two-headed monster spiral down and slam into the ground. He turned to Kirito and said in a hushed voice, "Timmy and Nami are closer than most of us are to each other. I wouldn't be surprised if he showed up to save her. Not that he needs to." Riku spotted another dragon coming for Nami's back that she did not notice, and he waved the Keyblade in his left hand, creating a ball of condensed gravity over that dragon that brought it crashing to the ground in a second.
Nami did not notice the dragon behind her smashing into the floor, she was much too focused on the fact that it had been almost a minute, and Timmy still was not there. He's far away. That's gotta be it. I have no clue where he's been for more than a week! He could be anywhere! "Timmy!" He's so fast though. He could be anywhere, and, and I thought he could teleport right to me. He said he would know where I was. He was so confident he would be able to get there in an instant to save me. If it was just knowing I was in danger, that wouldn't mean anything, he would know that! He has to have a way to get to me! Maybe, maybe it's because I'm not really in any danger.
The woman who had lifted her Perfect Clima Tact to stop an incoming thirty foot long dragon froze, then lowered her weapon back down to her side. Nami's eyes closed and her breathing was fast and ragged. Riku saw Nami getting ready to protect herself so he had turned away, but when he looked back his eyes opened in horror as he spotted Nami with her eyes closed and a dragon coming close to her with an open jaw full of teeth bigger than her head. "Nami!" He shouted.
Timmy will come. I know he'll come. Nami tensed up as there was still doubt in her mind, but when she knew the dragon would have gotten her, nothing collided and a huge smile broke out on her face at the sound of a whimper-roar from a dragon in a lot of pain right in front of her. "Tim-" her eyes opened as she started calling out in relief, and her relieved look vanished from her face at a familiar blond-haired man's back. Sanji's flaming right leg was extended and the long dragon was flying backwards covered in burns, but Sanji did not shout anything to Nami about how he saved her because of his love or anything. The chef just glanced back with grim eyes and he was right to do so, as the look on Nami's face could not have been more distraught.
"Where is he, Sanji?" Nami whispered. She looked into the chef's eyes but he had no answer for her. Shitty brat, Sanji thought furiously. You're making Nami-san cry! Sanji looked over Nami's head and into the distant sky, Timmy, where did you go?
Nami sniffled in front of her nakama and then turned the same way as him, staring to the south where they last saw Timmy flying off to. Timmy. Please, come back to us. I'm so worried about you. Where are you? Why, why didn't you come? Are- are you alright? Are you even… ali- NO! Of course you are. But, but then, where? Timmy, where are you?
A/N Thanks for reading! Timmy, where are you?! The next chapter is split into 4 parts, and they are some of my favorite parts that I've ever written. I was so into the ideas in them that I wrote these next chapters before I had even finished chapter 13 of Nexus. I paused writing that because I wanted to write this far ahead while the ideas were still in my mind. The following chapters are going to be intense, and they're gonna keep you on your toes! Four parts coming up one every day for the rest of the week! I've got some essays I have to write and a project to do for a class, but I'll find time for this I promise! Alright, lastly I just wanted to mention that the Alpha Dragon is from How to Train Your Dragon! Now, review responses:
joebob323 chapter 32 . Apr 20
Whoa... that's some twisted crap that girl's had to go through. I like this chapter, as depressing as it is, but why is the Kazekage a villain? I thought he was actually a kind person, just distorted by the loss of his wife. And, is Garaa still alive, or did he already die? (I sort of forgot...) Lastly, will the group on Arbirth make their way to the city in time for the jailbreak, or are there too many obstacles?
Maka's got a tough job hiding her true feelings from her friends, but hopefully it's all worth it in the end. The Kazekage tried murdering Gaara for most of his childhood, and I know that in Naruto almost every single villain gets their redemption sooner or later, actually I'm pretty sure except for filler villains, only Kagura never gets semi-redeemed. But I don't remember Rasa's motives really being explained too deeply, but either way, as Gray has mentioned before, not all the Lords and High Lords are really horrible people, some just follow the King because they don't want to be killed. Maybe if we see more Rasa some of his motives will be explained, but so far just seeing him gambling on gladiator fights, he's looking pretty bad. Gaara has not yet been mentioned in Nexus, but that does not mean he is forgotten ;P. And for the final question... no spoilers! XD Thanks for the review!
Espada-001 chapter 32 . Apr 20
Ya I figured that's what you guessed after reading your comment. Well I certainly enjoyed this chapter although I'm curious as to who or what broke Kuwabara's will given that he was the largest optimist from his own world. Also I'm interested to see who all's going to be attempting the breakout and I can already tell that for better or worse that arc or part depending on how long the fight actually lasts is going to involve a blood bath one way or another. Also Maka just needs to hold out a little longer since for betteror worse the shits about to hit the fan. Well till next time have a good day and I look forward to the next update.
Nice prediction on the blood bath of the prison/breakout arc. Won't say whether or not it's right, but I def see how that makes sense. Kuwabara's will breaking, Kiba's disappearance from the cells, lots of stuff happening "off-screen" in the Capital, but seeing what they have to go through every time we witness a scene involving them, it'd be tough for anyone to stay strong in that situation. Even Soul seems to be broken now, but we'll see how it goes the next Capital chapter we get! Thanks for the review!
qwerty chapter 32 . Apr 20
Man I really wanna see Yusuke Urameshi in the story, his fight with Sensui on the Demon World was almost as destructive as Goku's fight with Kid Buu... mountains were destroyed and giant craters were left on the ground in both fights.
Have not finished Yu Yu Hakusho yet, and I want to put in really strong Yusuke, so I'm going to watch a little more first, but he is definitely planned on being added to this story soon! Wouldn't say giant craters and destroyed mountains makes it even with Goku vs Kid Buu, considering Buu blew up the Earth and a bunch of other planets before that fight ended, but then again I still have to watch it before making a better opinion on the matter. Thanks for the review!
Guest chapter 32 . Apr 21
...AWESOME! Thats how i describe thks whole story. I like makas and black stars stories. I liked the flashback on how sora kairi and luffy found the crew. Speaking of flashbacks i have an idea for one. Could you do one about kairi's first day on nexus and on how sora found her most flashbacks with her she is already with sora. That would be really cool. Here ate a few ideas for characters that i have some will be the characters others will be the just the name of the show: Samaria Jack, kim possible and Ron stoppable and the twins Kims
Sorry did it again. Her younger brothers, basically anyone from disney like star and Marco, 9 th grade ninja, wander over yander, and older ones like ducktales or darkwing duck,( i am making this list up as i go.) or Nickolodeon shows like my life as a teenage robot, and the loud house.(if you don't know that last one it's about a boy who lives with ten sisters and calls himself the man with a plan. I don't know how old you i am thinking 17 at least so i wasn't sure if you have seen it. It is very funny.) I know that last one may be hard (it is my new favorite show and would like to see Lincoln at least. ) but i was thinking maybe you could do something like you did with the characters from freinds. I will stop here thanks for the story and keep up the good work. Love were this id going
Thanks for the AWESOME review! Glad you're enjoying the side-arcs and the flashbacks. Kairi and Sora's first days on Nexus are a planned flashback, but it's going to be a little later on for... certain reasons :P, but yeah hope you like it when it comes up! As for all those character ideas, I'll say that I knew the first couple you mentioned, as well as my life as a teenage robot, but most of the others I don't know. Never really watched Friends, and I'm turning 20 in a couple of weeks, so I'm guessing some of those other shows you mentioned probably started up after I stopped watching Disney Channel/Nick. Anyway, Samurai Jack, Kim, and Ron sound like characters that def might be added in sometime soon... so thanks for bringing them back up to the front of my mind! XD Thanks again to everyone who read, faved, followed, reviewed! Leave me one below telling me what you think of the newest chapter, predictions about Timmy's whereabouts, or questions you have! Well then, 'till next time!