Nexus HWR 7.1 We're All Going To Die:
"Natsu where are you going?!"
"Stick together!"
"From above!"
"Everyone get down!" Kirito yelled, tilting his head up and bringing his arms down to his sides. "AaaeeeEEE!" His screech caused the red birds diving towards them to spin out of control violently. They all went off target from their original marks and slammed into the dark black ground they were all running on.
Nami screamed and crossed her arms in front of her face as debris came flying at her. One of the reptilian-like birds hit the ground not far from her, sending black rocks in her direction.
"Ahh!" She screamed out in panic rather than pain. Nami wasn't feeling the collision of a lot of rocks into her arms, and she uncrossed them to see one giant hand in front of her with its palm facing the other way. "Fwew," she breathed out a sigh of relief and turned around, "Thanks Robin."
"You are welcome Nami," Robin jumped up in the air as the ground beneath her feet trembled. She had a sudden premonition showing her the ground bursting upwards. Her Observational Haki was not perfect, but it did warn her in time as after she jumped, the ground where she was just standing burst open.
A three headed creature stuck out of the ground with eyes narrowed at the rising woman. The ground all around the Dugtrio started to shake badly as it used Earthquake on these people all around it. The Ground type Pokemon shook half a square mile of the landscape, and most of the group did not manage to stay on their feet.
Natsu was sprinting across the black rocky ground and he stumbled a little, but he was already far enough from the epicenter where the Dugtrio was that he did not feel the full effects of the Earthquake. "Get back here you jerk!" Natsu roared as he chased after the two foot tall metal creature sprinting away from him.
"Stop chasing me you crazy monster!" The robot shouted over its shoulder, then its red eyes turned huge at the sight of Natsu cupping his hands to his mouth. "Oh no, oh noo! Stop it!"
The Decepticon lifted up its right steel arm and fired out a scatter shot of bullets at the Fairy Tail Mage, but Natsu rose up a hand and blocked the bullets while keeping his other hand cupped to his mouth. "Fire Dragon Roar!" A huge beam of fire shot out of his mouth and slammed into the small metal creature that ambushed him after pretending to be a toy car. Natsu grinned as he closed his mouth to see motionless robot parts all over the ground, and then lifted his palm to look at it. The bullets had barely broken the skin, but when he looked at his chest he could see a lot more blood coming out of the horizontal slashes across his chest from when the robot caught him off guard before.
"I got the bastard!" Natsu yelled with a victorious smile on his face. He spun around to smile at his friends, and then dropped his jaw at the sight behind him.
About twenty seconds earlier, a Dugtrio pretty far behind him used Earthquake. When it did, cracks shot out on all sides of the three headed Pokemon. There was a reason the landscape was made out of black rocks, molten rocks. Lava filled up the cracks from the large amount of it trapped under the surface.
Nami was pretty close to the Dugtrio where it popped up under Robin. She saw its eyes widen as it must not have dug far enough down to have realized there was a lot of lava under it. Her bottom lip started lowering as she saw the sad, shocked, and terrified reactions of the three heads of the Pokemon, right before a pillar of lava shot up from under it and high into the air.
There were cracks going out on all sides, but the fissures closest to Dugtrio were the widest, and getting larger still. "Ahhh!" The orange haired woman screamed in horror, turning and running away.
Nami turned and got up to her feet, then started running as fast as she could away from the pillar of lava shooting up in the sky. Robin formed wings on her back after she jumped away from the Dugtrio, and now dove down towards the orange haired pirate navigator. She grabbed Nami under the armpits and then flapped her giant wings made of a few hundred hands that she morphed together using her Devil Fruit powers.
Luffy was looking over his shoulder and he saw the two girls on his crew make it high up in the air right before the ground under Nami's feet crumbled into the lava below. He nodded his head, but before looking back forward his gaze lingered on the spot where the poor Pokemon was a second ago. When he saw how strong it was he kind of wanted to catch it with the pokeball Nami bought for him back in Dressosa, but now he frowned at the pillar of lava that dropped back down and just started spilling out all over the black rocky area.
"Juvia!" Gray called out, seeing a crack near them getting wider and lava about to spill out.
"Water Wave!"
"Quick Freeze!"
Juvia lifted both her arms up while Gray pushed each of his palms out. A wave rose up and then froze instantaneously. It was perfect timing too, blocking a large splash of lava that shot up as a chunk of earth collapsed down into the molten sea beneath.
"Nice job," Gray told the girl next to him, which made her eyes glow bright and her entire face turn red. "Come on, let's keep going," Gray waved his arm forward and shouted louder, "All we need to do is make it to the top of that mountain!"
Everyone running away across the black landscape looked over at their icy leader. The young man with spiky black hair and no shirt on had his hand pointed far to the east at a single mountain. "That's the mountain I mentioned, Ha'gar's Peak! I know where we are, at least relative to some other places..."
Gray faded off and looked to his left, farther to the north, and in the opposite direction that they were going. It wasn't long after leaving Lake Town... He shook his head, forgetting about the town surrounded by mountains where he lived for a few months. All that mattered now was the present, and he had to focus on it to keep his comrades alive.
"Let's go!" He called out, slamming his hands together and then putting them both on the black rocks beneath him. Two lines of ice shot out from his hands a half mile in front of him, and while the ice extended the young man leapt up and landed on the ice. His feet slid across the ice extremely fast, and little ramps formed at the end of the trails that flung him up in the air. At the top of his arc he threw his right hand down in front of him and a spike of ice flew out and crashed into the floor near where he was about to land. The ice shard hit the ground and morphed into a downwards ramp followed by another upwards one. He landed on the downwards slope, then accelerated and shot back off the ramp into the air, doing a three-sixty spin in the air and throwing two more spikes to either side as huge purple birds were heading towards him. His ice spikes hit them in their open mouths, causing their heads to freeze over and their feathered bodies to fall out of the air.
Everyone running behind Gray started to speed up seeing how far ahead he was getting. Natsu was the only one close because he was already pretty far ahead, but someone else in the main pack suddenly sped up intensely.
Killua was in the back, talking to the boy a few years older than him named Rin. The younger kid with white hair said 'goodbye' and before Rin could ask what he was talking about, at his next step he was gone. Killua vanished and appeared thirty feet ahead between Nami and Robin who were running again. They started to turn in towards him, but his next foot touched the ground and he shot ahead again, landing a few feet to the left of the large cyborg named Franky.
Kirito went wide-eyed as he could barely see that young boy as he appeared in front of him. The eighteen year old started speeding up, but Killua kept moving at insane speeds and shot away from the rest of the group. Kirito started doing his Ninja running, leaping forward with each step, looking like a blur to the pirates around him.
"Gray-sama! Wait for Juvia!" Juvia formed a ten foot wide and tall wave of water and she floated up on top of it as if she was surfing, riding the wave forward and putting in more and more magic to keep it going.
"Ah hah heh ah," Nami was panting pretty hard, and she looked to her far right to see Usopp running over there, looking a little less tired than her, but with more blood on him. His overalls' left strap was ripped off, and his shoulder was bleeding pretty bad. "Ah agh, Robin," Nami started, making her sweating comrade on her left look her way for a second, and then over at Usopp who was slowing down a little more.
"Usopp-kun," Robin called over, and the muscular sharpshooter looked her way. "Would you like some assistance?"
The guy with a long nose stared at the grown woman in a purple tank top with slightly torn black shorts, and at the younger girl in a bikini top and even shorter shorts than Robin. This is pathetic. They think I need their help?! Usopp pushed his feet harder down and picked up the pace, along with a lot of dust as he raced forward.
Nami gawked at him a little, while Robin chuckled, "I guess he is fine."
"Yeah, whatever," Nami replied, now realizing she was in the back, since Robin was probably slowing down for her. She looked over her shoulder and smiled a little, seeing that the teenager who joined their group last was still behind her. "Hurry it up Rin," she called out between panted breaths. "Wouldn't want to get left behind would you?"
Rin was looking over his shoulder back towards the lava area, and he had a pretty big frown on his face. Around the cracks in the ground back where they were before, maybe a mile or two back, some other creatures had crawled out of the lava. I spent too much time in Castle Oblivion, I kind of wish I had some Pokemon. He was slowing down because he could see some red and yellow creatures back where they were. Rin remembered watching a Pokemon battle in the time between the battle in Metropolis and their departure from Awul where someone used one of those Pokemon, called it a Magmar.
The lava-like, fiery Pokemon were crawling out of the lava, but there were also swirling tornadoes of flames, Fire Elementals, along with little balls of fire with eyes jumping out from beneath the cracks. I don't recognize any of those other things. I better not risk it. He looked ahead of him and sped up a little, but everyone else were already pretty far away from him on their ways to that mountain up ahead. "Alright, Kuro help me out here," Rin reached over his shoulder and opened up the flap on his backpack.
A small black cat leapt out of his backpack and onto his right side. "Ouch," the cat exclaimed in a high-pitched voice that echoed in Okumura Rin's head. "The ground here is hot!"
"Then transform," Rin called out. "I'm sure your big paws can handle the heat better."
"Yeah you're right!" The black house-cat jumped up and turned into a massive cat larger than three lions put together. It charged forward like a horse and Nami and Robin could hear the galloping getting closer from behind them. They each looked back and Rin started laughing out loud at the shocked expressions on their faces.
"What is that?!" Nami yelled, sounding a lot more horrified than Rin was planning on. He stopped laughing and then became nervous himself as he could see an afraid look on the older woman's face who had long black hair. If it could scare Robin, then he did not really want to turn around to see what they were actually looking at.
Rin looked back behind him, and he was glad he did not go back to try and catch some Magmars. His jaw lowered as did his familiar's who also looked back. "Rin I'm scared!" The cat named Kuro yelled at him.
The teen did not respond, he just gulped and looked back ahead. "Nami! Robin! Grab hold!"
The women turned inwards to see the cat about to run between them. They each jumped and grabbed onto the cat's black fur, getting yanked with it away to the east.
Usopp turned his head to the left and saw the two women had gotten on the large cat to help them. He was already tired when he sprinted ahead, but now he stopped and moaned that they were getting so far away. He bent down and put his hands on his knees, but as he did he heard them all shouting his name. It was more than just the three on top of the cat; every single person ahead of him was shouting back in his direction telling him to move.
"Go Usopp!"
"Get out of there!"
Usopp started lifting up his head, and he could see the corners of his vision glowing red. He slowly turned left, and then did a full one eighty degree turn to look behind him. It seemed like their disturbances awoke something great, as all of the black rock covering to this molten sea had shattered. It all melted into the lava, and right in the middle of the lava pool behind him, a bulge had formed in the surface. Something was pushing up from underneath the lava, but that wasn't right either, because two eyes opened up on the front of the large mound of lava coming out of the surface.
The liquid creature started to get a more solid form, hardening into a magma head and body, with two arms rising on either side. It had two legs that started to split at the bottom, and it rose almost eighty feet up in the air. The magma monster reached down with its left arm and grabbed a huge chunk of black ground, ripping it from its loose hold, lifting it up in the air and roaring with a mouth that formed on the front of its face.
Usopp fell backwards as he stared at the creature. The ground he was on cracked, a line forming behind his back and separating his little segment from the rest of the ground. He looked up into the giant magma creature's white glowing eyes, and it seemed to look back, right before throwing the huge chunk of rock down at the sharpshooter.
"Luffy!" Nami yelled far up ahead of her as the black cat she was riding was catching up to her Captain. "Luffy! Usopp's still back there!"
The pirate captain turned his head around and his eyes turned huge at the sight of the rock falling down towards an unmoving Usopp. He started bending down to get into Second Gear, but stopped before he even pumped his blood. A large blue beam went flying over his head, and it flew all the way to the huge black rock chunk, slamming into its right side and blasting half of it apart, while sending the other half flying harmlessly to the side.
Luffy turned his head back, and everyone else looked over to the mountain Gray had them running towards. Already high up on the mountain were two forms, the two forms of their youngest remaining members.
"Damn I missed," Ben muttered as he lowered his arms back down having finished his Kamehameha Wave.
"What are you talking about?" Dash asked his older friend who ran here as XLR8, the fastest alien that he could turn into, and who was taking a break with him when they saw the mega magma monster about to get Usopp. Dash continued while looking at Ben, "You hit it. You saved him."
"Yeah, but I was looking to blow the rock completely up. I aimed a little too far to the left..." Ben faded off as the huge monster reached down with both arms and grabbed two more large black rocks. Usopp had gotten to his feet and started running again, but it did not look like Big-Hot-and-Ugly over there was going to let him escape that easily. "Time to charge another," Ben muttered in annoyance, as he had wanted this break to last a little longer.
"Hey, I've got it," Dash assured, stepping forward a little and cracking his knuckles on each hand. "Alright, here goes," the twelve year old boy clenched his teeth and held his arms out in front of him. "AhhhHHHH!" He got progressively louder and his body covered in a thin white veil. "Double Boom Balls!" Two five-foot diameter balls of light formed in front of each of Dash's hands, pushing against each other because he did not hold his hands far enough away. "Whoa!" He exclaimed, falling backwards as the large balls in his hands that were taller than he was pushed him down with their power. He released them, but off-balanced as he was, they did not go where he wanted them to at all.
One flew somewhat towards its target, but a few dozen yards to the right and a hundred feet over the magma creature's head. The magma beast paused for a second to turn its head and watch the ball hit the ground a half mile away from it. Its large eyes burning white grew larger at the sight of the huge dome of energy rising up after.
Meanwhile, Gray was looking to his right where the second ball that was way off target flew away from the lava fields covered in molten rock and crashed into a gray wasteland he was avoiding because of the thick fog covering it. The energy ball disappeared in the fog, a few seconds later he felt an explosion, and then he saw the movement. It looked like a leg, only the leg was as big as a fortress, and he really hoped that whatever was over there hidden in the fog did not get too mad about that attack.
The magma beast watched a pillar of lava fly up from Dash's closer explosion, then looked ahead where a dozen people were running away, or riding a cat away from it. The beast pulled back its right arm, and threw the huge black rock chunk. The chunk arced up in the air, and then a thin beam of light shot up and shattered it.
Franky grinned and lifted up his sunglasses a little after using his Franky Super Radical Beam. Even the shattered pieces up in the air were getting even smaller and ripped to little dust particles. He had on a huge purple backpack with straps around his two large round metal shoulders. The pack was made for pretty much one thing; Cola, and he had a lot in there. He also had a few tools for building if he needed, and a belt around his metal waist that also had a dozen bottles of Cola to charge up his systems with.
"SUPER!" He shouted as the dust rained down on them. He posed with his arms up in the air, then watched as the magma giant threw another huge rock shard at them. "Who's got this one? This super robot needs to recharge on Cola!"
"I got-" Dash started.
"No you don't," Ben told the boy who was only making things worse with his uncontrolled power. "I still wonder why Timmy gave you that power," the older boy mumbled in annoyance, kind of wishing he could have been the one who was magically wished powers out of nowhere.
"Come on Ben, let me do it," the shorter blond boy moaned.
"No way," Ben replied, a green light surrounding him as he said it. His body morphed in front of Dash, who watched carefully as normally when this happened Ben's skin would shift, but the speedster became confused as the green light faded and Ben looked exactly the same.
"What alien is that?" Dash asked, as normally his friend had a cool alien Hero name to go along with it.
A long brown tail shot out of Ben's backside and he grinned. "Saiyan Ben!" The thirteen year old kicked off the side of the mountain, and the ground that was around his feet dented into a small crater. Ben shot across the sky and started flying towards the rock chunk flying their way. He pulled back his right fist and slammed it into the flat side of the debris, blowing it into ten smaller pieces which his friends below would be able to dodge easily.
Ben could see the monster back there reaching down for some more debris, and he called out, "Oh no you don't!" The flying boy with a tail sticking out his green shorts lifted up his right hand and caught the largest chunk of debris from the rock he just shattered. He twisted his body and pulled back the chunk, "Ben Tennyson winds up for the pitch," he announced. The kid threw the rock forward, "He throws a fastball. It's too fast for the batter to see. It's right in the strike zone! And BAM!" The rock slammed into the magma creature's chest and knocked it falling backwards.
Enough of the black rock ground had been broken apart by now that most of the landscape they just ran across now looked like a red sea. His huge opponent fell backwards and the lava splashed up over it. Ben half expected the creature to get back up, but it just sank down into the lava, groaning loudly until the groans turned into muffled gurgles. The lava continued to bubble for several seconds, but then became still.
The thirteen year old sighed and lowered his arms, a green light surrounding his body. Never let it fall into the red again. As long as I am careful, and don't overuse it, I will always be in the green. Ben turned back into his normal self, which wasn't much different except for lack of tail, and he looked at his wristwatch where the Omnitrix sat. Wonder if this still counts as the strongest weapon in the universe? Neptune's trident sure seemed pretty strong, but maybe one of the aliens in here could have beaten its strength. I know Ripjaws is fast enough underwater to dodge the beam, and of course XLR8 could dodge on land, along with Rollout and Quicksand.
"Ben let's go!" Someone shouted at the boy floating up in the sky, daydreaming about something.
The kid looked back and saw everyone already at the base of the mountain Gray was leading them to. He flew back towards Ha'gar's Peak and landed near the top where Dash was still standing. "That was awesome!" Dash shouted, holding up his fist and making Ben laugh and fist-bump him.
The group of older people down below at the base of the mountain were walking up and staring at the two kids higher on the slope. The smaller one was racing around like a blur as he retold how awesome that last attack was, and Ben was laughing along at the over-exaggerated effects his blond friend was making.
"Would have never thought those two would be our two tanks," Gray stated as he walked up near the front of the main group. "They were nowhere near that strong when we attacked Castle Oblivion."
"They've gotten stronger," Natsu commented from the right side of his friend. "We all have."
"You sure?" Luffy asked the pink haired mage up ahead of him a little. He was only walking in the back because he was talking to his crew members, but he looked up at Natsu now and smirked, "'Cause you don't seem much stronger than when we met you," the pirate continued.
"What was that?" Natsu snarled, looking over his shoulder with a pissed off look. "Sorry, you're right. I didn't mean all of us, especially not a rubber idiot like you."
"Ehh?" Luffy said back, making a dopey face and sticking a finger in his left ear. "What was that? I just heard a tiny bird tweeting."
"I'm a Dragon!" Natsu yelled back at him. "I mean, a Dragon Slayer!"
"A birdie slayer?" Luffy asked with a grin.
"Rrrggghhh-" Natsu started storming back down the mountain, but Juvia stood in front of him and gave him her worst Erza-glare. The pink haired boy cowered off a little, and Luffy started cracking up.
He only laughed until a fist slammed into the top of his head and slammed him down on the mountainside. "God Luffy, stop antagonizing him. One of these days you guys are going to break something."
"Not my fault the weakling thinks he's a big shot," Luffy said with a humph and a turn of his head. He saw Natsu glaring back at him and he stuck his tongue out a little.
"I'm going to..." Natsu began, then saw Juvia looming over his shoulders. He clenched his teeth together and forced a smile, "Play nice and be friendly to you Luffy," he corrected himself, seething the words through his teeth.
If Luffy had not seen Nami polishing her fist for another beating, the pirate with a bump on his head would have been laughing at the fire wizard. Instead they all continued walking up the mountain with a considerably less amount of arguing.
Usopp fell back a little as he was still thoroughly exhausted and the last one to reach the mountain's base. Sanji was walking back with him a little, half because he was worried for their crew member, half so he could look at Nami and Robin's backsides as they walked in front of him... Okay maybe it was one quarter to three quarters for the reasons, but either way he did turn to Usopp who was looking up at the group thoughtfully. "What is it Usopp?" The blond haired chef asked him.
Usopp shook his head, "It's nothing," he said, but then looked back up with a thoughtful look again. He watched Natsu walked forward with his friends and start laughing loudly, a wide smile on his face as he forgot all about that confrontation a minute ago, then he turned and saw Luffy gawking with a huge smile and shiny eyes as Franky did a cool trick with his robotic parts. "It's just," Usopp continued, then paused for a few seconds, "have you ever seen Luffy argue with someone like that before?"
He did not hear a reply, and just shook his head. "Me either. Natsu must really annoy him for him to actually take the time to make him angry. I wonder why though, the two of them are pretty similar when you look at them," Usopp watched the two of them again and nodded his head. "Don't you think?" He turned to his right and saw Sanji with two trails of blood coming out of his nose.
"Nami-san, Robin-chan, ladies ladies ladies!" He whispered it in a cheerful way with his eyes in the shapes of hearts, watching the two women walk away as happy as a man could be.
Usopp sighed, then looked up in the air at the clouds high above. For the moment they were not under attack and finally he could catch his breath. While he was looking up and walking up the mountain, the sniper bumped into Sanji's back and stopped himself. "Why'd you stop?" Usopp asked loudly as he bumped straight into the chef who had stopped moving without warning.
Sanji was looking up towards the peak of Ha'gar's Peak, and Usopp followed his gaze up. While the sharpshooter lifted his gaze he saw everyone in front of him and Sanji looking up as well. "What is-" he started, then stopped and stared in awe at the three figures descending out of the clouds.
"Whoaa-hooaaa!" The first figure out of the clouds exclaimed. It looked like a person except their skin was blue. His hair was spiky and brown and he held onto the blue flying creature under him carefully. The beast had a long slender blue neck that the teenage boy was sitting on, leaning forward as they dove out of the air. There was something strange about this teen however. One of the brown spikes on his hair extended out behind his back and turned into a long braid that attached to a thin blue appendage sticking out of the bird's neck. The two of them were attached, the boy with blue skin covered in little black stripes, and the blue bird with a twenty foot wingspan.
Not far behind him falling out of the air was a girl on the back of a green bird only a little smaller than the blue one. The girl had very dark red hair that was almost black, and blue skin like the boy's. Her chest indented out a little and she also had a long braid of hair that attached her to her bird's neck. Both of the teens were wearing nothing but brown rags around their waists, though they had a lot of bead necklaces and bracelets on.
"Who are they?" Nami asked in awe as she saw the two birds start spinning around each other while descending out of the air. She went even wider eyed at the sight of the much larger orange beast flying down above them, covered in black swirling patterns that looked menacing and a mouth full of sharp teeth unlike the smaller ones which just had beaks. On top of this orange bird was another blue figure, with light black hair, almost gray in color, which was much longer than the two below him though still with one extra strand that connected him to his creature's neck. This one looked harder to control than the others and the young man riding it had two orange appendages coming off the creature's neck held in either of his hands like reins. The beast was easily fifty feet wide with its wingspan, a huge beast, which only made the one riding it look all the more impressive.
Ben and Dash looked up the mountain a little to the peak where all three birds flew down to and landed. The blue skinned people removed their hair strands from the connecting points of their mounts, and then hopped off and pet them a few times. The largest one in the middle gave its rider a small nod before lifting back off and flying up into the clouds.
"Goodbye Elli!" The red headed blue girl called up, waving to the green creature as it flew away.
"I'll be sure to call on you often!" The one with spiky brown hair yelled, cupping his mouth to make sure his blue one heard him.
The tallest person with dark gray hair narrowed his eyes down the hill at the two boys closest to the top. Both Ben and Dash took a step back, as the figure who could ride such a huge beast must be pretty impressive. The figure started walking towards them, and then as they leaned backwards even more, he started smiling. "What's with those looks you guys?"
Ben and Dash opened their eyes huge hearing that voice. "Wait a second," Ben looked at the guy in front, then to the other two higher up who finally turned back down the mountain. They each looked at him and Dash and smiled. "Riku!" Ben shouted, turning back to the taller figure with a huge smile of his own.
"Took you long enough," Riku replied with a chuckle. He scratched the back of his head, "Though I guess I do look a little different like this."
"That was a lot of fun Sora," Kairi said as she walked down and stopped behind Riku on his right side. Sora stopped a little higher up than Riku but on his left, and Kairi turned to him, "But I kind of want my own body back now. Do you mind?"
"No problem," the blue figure which was apparently Sora exclaimed. He held up his right hand and a yellow hilt appeared in it, with a long silver blade and a key at the end.
"A Keyblade?" Natsu wondered out loud as they all climbed up the mountain, running to catch up with Ben and Dash. "Whoa! Is that Sora?!"
"Must be," Gray replied and kept running.
"They turned into those blue people?" Rin asked as he jogged up the hill, trying to stay with the main group this time.
"Guess we shouldn't be too surprised after Atlantis," Kirito muttered. He was wondering why he thought he recognized those people he had never seen before, but they had kept some characteristics of their old selves.
Killua was in the front of the group behind Ben and Dash, and he finally reached them first where they were a little below the mountain's peak. The mountain was entirely made of rock, but the slope was just gentle enough and with enough bumps that it was easy to climb. The kid with spiky white hair appeared in between the two kids younger than him who were the only ones who managed to go faster than him. He stopped and looked up as Sora's Keyblade lit up brightly.
Killua and the two boys next to him shielded their eyes, and when the light went away they lowered their arms. The former assassin sweatdropped, "What are you doing?" He asked the three teenagers up ahead of him.
"What do you mean?" Sora asked, tilting his head to the side. As he did, he noticed he felt a little close to the ground for some reason.
Riku sighed and looked back at Sora, making the younger boy hop up in surprise. "Ah! Riku you're a-" Sora started, then realized what had gone wrong. "Oh haha, sorry," he told the black panther in front of him with a silver stripe on his head.
Sora turned to see what Kairi turned into, and she looked at him at the same time. The two lions came face to face, and then started cracking up at each other's appearance. Sora was a six foot long lion with a huge mane and Kairi exclaimed, "Wow Sora, you look like Simba!"
"I do?!" Sora shouted in surprise. He started doing circles on his four furry legs and went wide-eyed at the sight. "It's been a while since I was on his world, when I last transformed into a lion. Back then I looked like a cub, but whoa!" He shook his head around and his big thick mane shook with him.
"I wouldn't say you're as big as Simba," Riku said. The older boy continued as Sora turned to him with a pout, "And I thought we were going back to our normal forms?" He said, lifting up his black furry head and looking at his brown-furred friend expectantly.
"Oh, yeah, sorry about that," Sora said again, having gotten caught up in the transformation.
"Wait!" Kairi exclaimed, doing a few turns of her own and admiring her soft, slender, lioness body. She looked at her two closest friends and shifted her weight from one front paw to the other. "I mean, um, well Sora did just mess up the transformation, maybe he needs to take some time before trying again." She suggested, lifting up her furry eyebrows and smiling her rows of sharp teeth at the two teenage boys in front of her.
Sora opened his mouth to complain that he did not need more time and he could do it right now, but Riku said first, "You're just saying that because you want to see what it's like being a lion." He finished and Sora looked at Kairi expectantly, then gawked as the girl giggled and stuck out her tongue.
"Alright, you caught me," she admitted and pulled her tongue back in. "But don't you want to see what it's like to feel the rush of wind through your fur?! I never knew what fur felt like before, I mean, my own fur that is."
"Well," Riku stepped forward on his black panther legs and grinned. His grin sent shivers down Ben and Dash's spines as they saw the sharp teeth in his mouth. "I guess it couldn't hurt," he accepted, "but we are definitely getting our real bodies back sometime tonight."
"Agreed," Sora said, then lifted his head up in the air and opened his mouth.
"What are you doing?" Dash asked the teenager as a Keyblade formed in his mouth. It started to glow bright white and the others were confused as they all had just agreed on staying in this form.
"ROOOAAAARRR!" A loud lion's roar came out of the light and as it faded, a lion a little larger than Sora dropped down on the mountainside. It looked around for a second, and stopped on the smaller lion right behind it. "Sora!" It exclaimed, diving on him and pushing his friend on his back. The two of them rolled around on the ground but the bigger one, Simba, pushed him down again and said, "It's been so long! How are you? Why are you a lion? Wait!" He stopped and jumped off his friend, "Where's the enemy?!"
"Haha, not this time friend," Sora replied as he got back up on all fours. "I just wanted to see you! Turning into a lion made me miss you, and I remembered I didn't have to!"
"Well don't forget again!" Simba told the boy, turning to him with a smile, "You should summon me more often. Where are we now? What world is this?"
"Still the same one old buddy," Sora replied. "I think my days of world traveling might be done," he admitted.
Ben and Dash looked up ahead at Riku who had told them a few things back in the first months they traveled together. All of them knew what Sora was talking about, except for the kid with spiky white hair who was just staring at Sora wide-eyed. "You used to travel to different worlds?" The kid questioned the lion.
"Whoops," Simba brought a paw up to his mouth and covered it.
Sora looked over at Killua and nodded his head, but then brought up a single finger on one of his claws and made a 'shh' noise that sounded like a low growl coming from a lion, which was actually quite threatening. The lion boy turned back to Simba, "We're all trapped on this world, big purple barrier in the atmosphere won't let us leave. But it's not so bad," Sora said, smiling again after looking a little down there for a second. "This is like a mix of all the worlds, or at least a lot of them. Anyway, you want to run around with us?" Sora looked over his shoulder, but Riku and Kairi were already leaping up towards the peak.
"Don't fall behind Sora!" Someone called from his right and he turned to see Simba chasing after his friends, already higher up than him.
"Hey hold on!" Sora shouted. Turn them into lions and summon you from a different universe and I get left behind?! Sheesh! "Come on, wait up!" The teenage lion called out as he leapt up the mountain after them.
The three kids staring up at the large cats heard voices behind them and turned to see the rest of their crew had finally made it. Most of them were panting and looking exhausted. Usopp put his hands on his knees and lifted his head a little, tipping the brim up on the white hat he had on his head. The long nosed man sighed as he watched the two lions, one lioness, and panther hop over the summit and get on the other side. "How do they have so much energy?" He moaned and fell down to his knees.
"Probably because they didn't have to run all the way here," Nami grumbled in annoyance, right before collapsing next to Usopp.
Gray thought about shouting up at them to be careful, but the ice mage was pretty tired himself and needed to catch his breath. He panted a few more times and then lifted his head up. Those three are going to get themselves killed here. They don't take anything seriously! Arrgghh! Every time I tell them to wait they go anyway, it's getting ridiculous. At least they didn't run away completely.
Juvia saw Gray turn to the left, looking out way over the distance towards some mountains far to the north. Those mountains were just blurs in the horizon, but they reached up so high that from up close they must be a hundred times taller than the mountain they were currently on. She knew why he was looking that way with an angry look too and she held her hands together, putting a smile on her face, "Gray-sama, Juvia is sure the Mayor, um Goku-san will come back soon."
"Yeah, Goku won't just leave like that and never come back," Natsu said with a laugh. "You just wait, he'll come back any minute now."
"Neither him nor Timmy have come back," Gray growled, annoyed at his friends' optimism. "If they aren't dead, then they either forgot about us or were caught."
"Hey!" Nami yelled at the ice wizard a little in front of her. "I don't know about Goku," she paused. She thought about the Saiyan man/kid who she had just started getting to know, but even from when they first met she had had a good opinion of him. She shook her head, "Though he doesn't seem like he'd abandon us. But anyway, I don't know about him, but Timmy will be back!" She said it assuredly, more for herself than for Gray, needing to believe that Timmy was alright to be able to keep going.
"Yeah, Timmy Turner will be back for sure!" Ben exclaimed. "Wouldn't be too sure about Goku though."
"What?" They all asked the boy loudly. Even Natsu and Juvia who lived in Pao Town with Ben and Goku were looking at the thirteen year old in surprise.
Ben chuckled and scratched the back of his head, "I mean, I've known Goku longer than anyone else here, but I'm sure you all know him by now." The kid held up his hands as if he were giving up, "That guy has no sense of responsibility. He's probably off fighting the strongest guy on this continent, or eating, or training, but I doubt he's heading back here."
"You're serious," Gray stated in a deadpanned voice, looking at the boy blankly. "Arrgghh!" Gray clenched his fists and growled angrily. "And here I was really thinking he was going to be a big help saving my friends! Ahh! He and Timmy left us-"
"Leave Timmy out of this," Nami yelled at the ice wizard again. "He's just a kid."
"The strongest kid in the world," Dash said out loud to remind Nami, who in turn glared at him to get him to shut up.
"I don't see what they're doing wrong," Luffy said with a shrug. "They went off on an adventure. Sounds like fun."
"This isn't supposed to be an adventure," Gray growled over at the pirate captain. "This whole continent is a death trap, haven't you noticed that by now? We have not reached a safe zone since Dressrosa, and I don't know when the next time we might find one will be."
Luffy was glaring at him from the second he said it wasn't an adventure, but Ben jumped forward in front of his old pirate friend and the wizard who was friends with Natsu and Juvia. "It might not have been supposed to be an adventure, but isn't it?" Ben asked, looking at Luffy. "Come on, don't tell me you aren't having fun?" the boy said, lifting his eyebrows and seeing Luffy start smiling after a few seconds. Ben spun to Gray, "And we are heading southeast, just like you said. Sooner or later we'll find your friends and everything will be great! Just like on Awul!"
Gray stared at the kid for a few seconds, then turned around and started walking up towards the top of the mountain. "This place could never be like Awul."
Ben looked around him and saw the others had similar looks as Gray's. A few of them walked past him and they kept going towards the top of the mountain.
Nami sighed and looked off to the south, "Timmy, where are you?" She sighed as she received no response, then continued walking up the slope with her friends.
Ben sighed as even Nami and Juvia looked depressed and kept walking. He looked down, but then he felt a hand on his shoulder and looked up to see Luffy smiling down at him. "Of course it could be like Awul."
Ben lifted up his frown a little and asked, "You think so? Really?"
"Don't you?" Luffy asked the boy who now seemed doubtful.
"Yeah!" Ben exclaimed, not wanting to look like he was doubting himself. He and Lufy walked in the back of the pack, but a few other people in front of them listened as Ben continued talking. "Once I'm strong enough, I'll clear out all the monsters on this continent. Just like Gohan did on Awul."
"Really? That's why there were no monsters over there?" Luffy asked in amazement.
Ben nodded, "Mm hmm," he hummed affirmatively. "Gohan, and all the Z fighters. His dad, Krillin, Tien, Yamcha, even Vegeta," Ben went on, and Luffy nodded his head as he thought about the Saiyan Prince who fought alongside him multiple times during the War against the Underworld. "It wasn't just them though, Superman helped too, and so did Vegeta's son I think, the older version of him. When he erased everyone's minds I'm sure we forgot, but he seemed like the kind of guy who would have helped..." Ben faded off. "Tetsuo helped too," he mumbled.
Luffy frowned at that sentence and looked at the younger boy to see he looked conflicted. "Before... everything," Ben started, "Gohan told me about the guy who led the NEG. he said they had fought together to defeat an army of robots. There were hundreds of thousands of them he said, with super strong red beams they could fire out of their machines. This was back during the first week or something, but Gohan told me that Tetsuo saved his life. Still, even then Gohan didn't sound like he liked the guy, and now we all know why..."
He and Luffy silently walked towards the peak where everyone else was getting to now. Franky, Kirito, and Sanji walked right in front of them, having listened to the whole conversation, and now they were all looking a little down too. It only increased when Ben kept talking, "And now Tetsuo's gone, and Superman, Future Trunks... Krillin's disappeared, and no one has seen Tien in over a year. Yamcha lost a leg, and not enough strong people are left to empty out a continent as big as this one of all its monsters. That's why," Ben's voice rose in less of a depressing tone and more of a happy one. "That's why it's up to me now. When Gray told us what this place was like, I hated the idea that most of the world didn't have it as good as we do on Awul. After we save his friends, and find Zoro," Ben added as he looked up at Luffy, who smiled back down at him in turn. "Then I'm going to rid Aebrith of its monsters! Me, and Timmy, and Gohan, Riku and Dash if they want too!"
"Haha, sounds like you've got a Super plan there little bro!" Franky exclaimed, turning around and walking backwards up towards the peak right behind him. The cyborg reached the top and posed with his arms over his head in an excited way.
Sanji nodded his head and looked back at the boy, "Saving the ladies of the world is a noble goal and I will help in any way I can."
Kirito nodded his head from in between the two pirates, and he looked back at the boy. Ben made eye contact with the teenager who called him weak the first time they really talked to each other, who fought him to try and prove he was a weakling. "I'd like to help you too," Kirito stated. If Sachi, Liz, and the others all came back, there's no telling who else is here who may need saving. Klein? Sugu? Who knows? The black haired teen turned back around and walked a few steps over the rounded top of the mountain. Up ahead of him he could see their group all standing a few feet away on the other side of the mountain, staring off towards the other side.
Ben smiled at the three in front of him who all gave him words of encouragement, then looked to Luffy. "Good luck on that Ben," the pirate said with a smirk. "I've got my own adventure for once we find Zoro, and Chopper," he added. He still had not heard any word of the small furry doctor, but he still wanted to find him too.
The younger boy looked a little disappointed for a second, but then chuckled and nodded his head. "Yeah, but once I have ki-sensing powers, I'll be able to visit you whenever!"
The rubber man smiled and nodded at him, and then the two of them reached the crowd of people looking over the other side of the mountain. "What's wrong?" The short thirteen year old asked and pushed his way in front, so that he could see down the other side of the mountain with everyone else.
"Umm," Nami began, turning her head towards the ice mage on her left. "What was that you said about foggy areas?"
"We should stay away from them," Gray replied, but still stared down off the mountain towards the foggy area below.
"And what was that about forests?" Rin asked, his face covered in a little sweat and a small nervous smile.
"Stay away from them," Gray replied again. He continued to stare down into the dense covering of trees that started halfway down the mountain and continued as far as the eye could see to the south, southeast, and southwest. There was not a single direction where he could see a better alternative than just turning around and going back the way they came.
"That's what I thought," Rin said, and looked back towards the jungle full of dense fog that gave it quite the spooky vibe. The trees were not all green too, many were brown, and gray, and black, giving off auras of darkness to them.
Nico Robin stared at the forest down below, the woman with long black hair chuckling a little with a quaint smile on her face. Usopp turned to her, his face pale as a ghost and when he saw her happy expression he pointed at her and yelled, "You're enjoying this!"
Out of nowhere, a low moan came out of the middle of the forest a mile in front of the base of the mountain. "OoooooooOOOOooo," the moan faded off, and was followed by a few dozen crows flying up out of the canopy and making the trees shake as they soared into the sky.
"And what's the deal with low, creepy, scary moans?" Dash asked the only experienced guy there, although all of them knew exactly what that meant.
"Yeah, we all get it," Natsu exclaimed, throwing his hands up in the air, "It's a spooky jungle. Stop being a bunch of scaredy cats and come on! Sora, Riku, and Kairi are already way ahead of us!"
The others all looked down the mountainside to see the three large teenage jungle cats jumping around and playing with their real lion friend. "They really don't get phased by much," Killua said and started laughing as he walked down the hill after Natsu who had started running away.
"Neither do you," Sanji muttered as he watched the strange kid walk away. Shows up on our ship out of nowhere. Walks into dangerous situations smiling, but always the most cautious person around. And he's fast. The fact that you don't have any loyalties to the people here gives me the chills, Killua. The blond haired chef watched the boy walk away happily, but he could tell the kid was hiding something.
"Yippee! A jungle! It reminds me of the one I grew up in," Luffy said as he walked down towards it, smiling nostalgically.
"Why does Luffy being raised in a jungle not surprise me?" Ben asked and laughed as he followed his rubber friend towards the spooky jungle.
The rest of the group looked at each other nervously. They were either weaker than the ones who went first, more cautious, or just terrified. No matter what their reasons, they couldn't wait up here for long. "If anyone gets bitten by anything, tell me," Gray stated, "I bought a lot of antidotes in Dressrosa." He started walking forward down the slope, "If you wait too long, it might be too late. Depending on what gets you though, I might not have a cure for it. In that case," he looked back at them as seriously as possible, "you will die."
They all watched as Gray turned back around and headed down the mountain. Then, they all walked as a group after him, except for one long nosed pirate who hesitated a little longer than the rest. "Oh yeah, let's all walk into the scary jungle of mystery!" Usopp whispered loudly, and very sarcastically in his best Gray impression. He got a little louder while still being sarcastic, "That's a great idea! I wish I had thought of it! Oh, and one more thing, you're all going to die!" He followed his friends down the slope, and moaned in his own terrified voice, "We're all going to die."
A/N Thanks for reading. Leave a review telling me what you think. Next chapter... well, let's just say this story earns it's M rating ;) Get ready.
joebob323 chapter 33 . 18h ago
Aww... Why do you keep the suspense up? Its sooo painful to bear... Also, My inference on Timmy's disappearance is that he might be in fairy world, or in a battle where he cannot hear the plea. He also might have a neck injury of a sort, be blind and deaf, and be in a battle. But what are the odds of all that happening at once? I guess I'll just have to wait out for the verdict... Great chapter mate!
Timmy where have you gone?! Thanks for the review! All of those are good guesses... won't tell you if any are right, but Timmy's fate will be revealed... sometime. XD
uest chapter 33 . 16h ago
Well even though this chapter was a bit smaller than usual I still enjoyed reading it. Also I thought of this at the most random times, but when Timmy said he could detect fairies does that include King since he's a fairy king. Anyway I thought of that during lunch of all times and the idea just randomly popped up. I'm gonna follow my gut and say that Timmy was following King's signature. Well that's all I have for now so until next time have a good day and I look forward to the next update!
Could he detect King? Sure, but are those fairies and fairy godparents the same? We'll find out who Timmy found soon enough... maybe! Haha sorry I got no answers for you, but thanks for the review!
Guest chapter 33 . 15h ago
This fight is already awesome and i can't wait to see how it ends. I was wandering how can sora summon heartless anyways that has never made since to me since he is a keblader of light? I also thought of another character idea. Asoka from star wars clone wars or rebels. Maybe her and stan can meet each other. I am hoping she is still alive and wasn't one of the many jedi killed. As for my prediction on Timmy i have three guesses.
1: he found the faries and is taking them to fairy world but i don't think so because he would be abel to come help
2: he is most likely still looking for the fairies but this has the same problem as the first.
3: it was even more likely a trap from some powerful being that tried to get both him and gokou (possible zexion using his powers hoping cause i want to see them get the organizations but.) this is the most likely of the three so i am guessing whoever it is is powerful. I came up with an idea for Lincoln from the loud house ( i know you haven't seen that but look it up on YouTube you would just need to watch one episode to get his ccharacter.) i was thinking maybe he would be the one who found JackJack from incredibles i mean he is the middle child of five sisters i think he could handle him. Also he breaks the fourth wall a lot. I am waiting to see when they find him. Especially dash. Oh i will be putting the name on from. now. On. I will be going by 7lights13darknesses.. Kh reference. Where as king mickey been all this time anyways. Keep up the good work and still like the story. Hey i didn't split it in two this time. That was getting annoying.
Why is it that Sora can summon Heartless? Why, back in Nexus chapter 11, and again in 16, did Sora go Anti-Form out of rage? These questions will be answered by the end of this chapter! As for the others, Asoka could def still show up as she was never mentioned with the slaughtered Jedi, her and Stan is a cool idea! All those guesses for Timmy are great! Won't tell you if any are right though. Also, I may already have a plan for JackJack/ have already written him in later in the story... Where could Mickey be? What about the 7 lights and 13 darknesses? So many questions! So little answers :P, Anyway! Thanks for the review, (and p.s. I looked up Lincoln, him and his sisters seem nuts! Don't know if/where/when I'll put them in, but thanks for the idea). XD Thanks again everyone for reviewing! 'Till next time... don't say I didn't warn you.