Nexus HWR 8.3 The Dread Fort Part 1:
A giant green boar marched down the side of a hill towards the walls of the city ahead. Most of the people on top of Mama Hawk were not inside the bar, but standing near the giant pig's head so that they could look at the city they were approaching.
"Whoa," Rin gasped out. When Meliodas called the place they were approaching a 'city,' he had underestimated what that word meant. Most cities in his mind were much smaller than Metropolis, and though this one did not have the towering skyscrapers the capital of the NEG had, the wall in the front of it extended miles to the left and right of the gate they were approaching. The wall was about thirty meters tall from what they could see, maybe a little higher. There were armed towers every hundred meters or so, though the guards were also scattered along the wall itself.
The gate itself was much taller than the rest of the wall. It had two large towers rising up from both sides of it. The wall and towers were all made of black steel. The gate on this side of the wall looked like a double doorway to be opened up, and considering how tall it was, some of those approaching it wondered how tall some figures were that needed to get through those gates.
Nami looked to either side of the gate and saw some tall buildings dispersed throughout the city. One building caught her eye because of its pyramid-like shape and because of the big flashing sign near the top of it. Her eyes turned into dollar signs and she started rubbing her hands together in anticipation.
"Look," Riku muttered to the boy on his left. He turned a little and saw the kid he was talking to already staring at the same thing.
Killua nodded his head. The white haired kid stared at the top of the gate where several turrets sat. They did not look manned, but he noticed them moving around so he figured they were automated. Snipers on the gate. Turrets with sensors, high walls, I really don't know what would have happened if we had attacked last night.
The fourteen year old was not the only one thinking about that as they approached the gate. Luffy stared at the top of the gate where the defenses looked strongest. Would my nakama have survived if we went when I said? "Hmph," he hummed. He was trying not to think about it but it kept creeping back into his mind.
"Alright," Meliodas clapped his hands together and the group turned around. The short man with wavy blond hair smiled at them from in front of his bar. "We're going to set up shop in the market. The rest of you are going to have to spend some more time at the gate."
"Why would that be?" Robin asked the older man who looked like he was a child.
The leader of the Seven Deadly Sins turned to the black haired woman. "Gray never told you?" He asked in a surprised voice. Most of the group shrugged their shoulders, not knowing what Medliodas was referring to.
"You were planning on just walking right in?" Weiss scoffed as she walked out of the bar behind her. The teenage girl with a white ponytail was wearing a nice brown coat that fell almost down to her ankles. It had three buttons on the front of it where the right side was overlapping with the left. She had on a pair of white gloves and the sheath with her thin sword in it was on the outside of her coat, strapped to a leather belt over her waist.
Sanji's eyes popped out as hearts and his heart pumped out of his chest. "W-W-Weiss-channn!" Sanji spun around and stopped next to the female swordsman. "That jacket covers you up but makes you pop at the same time!" He reached out his arms to pull her in for a hug.
A white circle appeared underneath Weiss's feet and three more appeared behind her. Her feet quickly slid across the top of Mama Hawk's back without her moving a muscle. She humphed angrily towards the pirate chef who fell flat on his face when the girl he tried hugging vanished from between his arms.
Rin laughed as Sanji snapped his head up with tears coming out of his eyes that the lady vanished. Weiss turned from the perverted man and looked ahead towards the other girls with her. "Are you wearing that into the city?" She motioned at Nami's shirt that had small sleeves and left her belly exposed, and at both her and Robin's short shorts. "The Dread Fort isn't the safest city in the South."
"Hmm," Nami hummed to herself. She looked down at her legs and wondered aloud, "Maybe I should put some pants on. It is a little chilly."
"Summer is on the way out," Robin added. "Though I would like to wear shorts just a little longer," she admitted to herself, looking down at the nice pair she got from Dressrosa. "Since I won't be able to wear them soon."
"Suit yourselves," Weiss said, shrugging uncaringly, not going to feel guilty if something happened after she warned them.
"Back to what you mentioned," Robin continued to Meliodas. The short man with a green sword hilt over his shoulder looked back at her as the archaeologist continued, "Why will we need to stay at the gate?"
Ban came walking out of the bar with the others who were still inside with him. He walked out with Elaine walking next to him, Gowther behind, and the pink pig, Hawk, walking on his other side. "You nine will need to get identifications if you want to get into any cities in the Cooperative." Ban told them.
"Huhhh?" Luffy asked, looking back with an annoyed expression. "That sounds boring."
"It is," Ban admitted, looking away in annoyance himself.
"You won't have to sneak into every city if you get one though," Elaine mentioned. She held up a finger and continued, "Some countries won't even let you in at the border if you don't have an I.D."
"Makes it easier for them to banish you," Meliodas mentioned with a chuckle. "You friend Zoro is not permitted in several countries. Not that that stops him from entering anyway."
"So if we get I.D.'s and Luffy makes a commotion," Nami began darkly. "We won't be able to go into anymore cities?" She turned and glared at the rubber pirate who started grinning at the idea of becoming Wanted again.
"Not always," Gowther began, pushing up on the bridge of his glasses. "Some Lords welcome all citizens no matter how infamous they are. Those cities are often the most dangerous-"
"And fun," Ban interrupted with a wide, toothy grin.
"Truth is," Meliodas spoke. "We are already too close to the wall to turn back now. When they stop us inside the gate and ask for I.D.'s, you'll have to make your story believable."
"Huh? What story?" Usopp asked confusedly.
"Well, you don't expect they're really going to believe we don't have I.D.'s do you?" Killua asked the long nosed man next to him. Usopp looked at the younger boy confusedly and Killua continued as if it were obvious, "They'll probably assume we did some bad things in some other city and ditched our identifications to try and start over."
"Smart kid," Ban told the younger boy with spikier white hair than his own.
Meliodas added, "Shouldn't take you guys too long though. Since your prints won't be in their data, your story should work fine."
"Oh man," Usopp groaned. "We're going to tell the truth and I still feel nervous!"
"Get over it," Nami said in a confident voice. "We need to get into this city. Zoro could be here," she declared determinedly.
She turned to Usopp and all he saw were dollar signs in her eyes. "What?! What are you planning?!" He shouted in panic.
"Oh relax," she told him with a wave of her hand. She smirked deviously and looked ahead at the giant gates they were approaching. Get ready Dread Fort, here I come!
The outer gates opened inwards when Mama Hawk came close to the walls. The giant boar marched through the gate into a large open area between the inner and outer walls. Ahead of them was another tall gate leading into the city, but that one was not opening up yet.
A figure dropped down from the top of the gate behind them and landed on the back of the giant pig. The man walked forward with a sniper over his back, a black bandanna around his forehead, white army gear on his body, and a pistol at his side. "I.D.'s," he demanded.
While half the group pulled out their identifications, the other half didn't move. The guard looked at them and growled again, "Identifications."
"Um," Nami began, taking a step forward towards the guy. "We just came from Awul."
"Awul? What's that?" The guard grunted at her. "And what does that have to do with your I.D.'s?"
"We don't have any," Sanji scowled at the man who was speaking rudely to Nami. He turned to the chef in surprise and then looked around at the rest of the group. Sanji looked at the guy coldly and scoffed, "You've never heard of Awul?"
The guard grimaced at Sanji for a second then looked over his shoulder. "Hey Hue, Farlan." Two others near the top of the gate looked down at the man below who continued loudly, "You ever heard of a place called Awul?"
The two thin men at the top of the gate looked at each other thoughtfully for a few seconds. They each shrugged, but another guy who was on the inside of the gate, down on the ground near Mama Hawk's feet, called up, "Yeah, I've heard of it. On the other side of the world."
"We've come a long way," Robin began to the man in the bandanna who turned back towards her. "We would greatly appreciate it if we could get through the identification acquisitions as quickly as possible." The dark haired woman's eyes bored into the guard's and he gulped at her.
"Alright," he muttered slowly. "You nine," he pointed at the group of pirates and their friends. "Head down there and we'll try to get you through the gates as fast as possible." The guard turned back to Meliodas and his comrades, "And you-" he continued. The guard looked at the identifications that the Sins were showing him, and he gulped when he saw Meliodas's. "Oh, I-I'm sorry sir. Um, yeah, you may go right in."
"Sir?" Franky asked the short guy next to him.
Meliodas lifted his I.D. a little and showed the cyborg it. He pointed at a filled-in gold circle next to his face. "That shows I'm recognized as Lord level. Even if I don't want to be a Lord," he added with a small laugh.
A few of the pirates looked at Meliodas with varying gazes. While Usopp wondered if maybe these Lord guys were not as strong as Gray made them out to be, Killua and Luffy thought differently. Just how strong is this guy? Killua thought as he stared at the figure who looked about as young as he did, but told them he was in fact an adult.
"Alright," Meliodas said, looking around at everyone. He turned to Luffy and said, "If you want to stop by the bar we'll be in the market for at least a few days. See ya!"
The guard motioned for the group without I.D.'s to get off the giant boar and they looked back one more time at their new friends. "Later," Killua said to the man with spiky white hair like his own. Ban nodded at the kid as Killua turned and jumped off the boar.
The rest of the pirates' group got off and the gate on the inside of the city opened up. The Seven Deadly Sins started heading inside and Elaine whispered, "I liked them."
"Yeah, I can see why Zoro was their nakama," Meliodas agreed. "But on to business! Elaine, get on your waitress uniform! We need some customers!"
"I can't believe we spent four hours answering those stupid questions," Nami groaned as she sat on a bench near the inner walls of the city.
"At least we finally got inside," Usopp offered optimistically.
"Hungryyy," Luffy moaned from Nami's right side. He slid down and slouched so much that his butt fell off the bench.
"What is taking those three so long?" Sanji muttered as he took another puff of a cigarette. He looked back towards the smaller doors next to the giant inner city gates. They were on a road with buildings on one side and the wall on the other. The intersection with the main road from the gate into the center of the city was not far away from them, but they couldn't go anywhere until their entire group was ready.
Okumura Rin kept looking down at the ID in his hand disdainfully. Usopp noticed his looks and leaned over the younger teen's shoulder, then burst out with laughter. Rin spun around in surprise hearing the laughter right next to him and bobbled his ID, dropping it on the floor in front of the bench.
Franky, Sanji, Nami, and Luffy looked down at the ID on the floor. Their cheeks puffed out, and all four of them burst out laughing just like Usopp. "What?!" Rin snapped at the group as he snatched up his ID. "They wouldn't let me take a re-take of my ID photo, okay?" He grumbled in annoyance as their laughter didn't stop for a few more seconds.
"At least it isn't a drawn picture," Usopp mentioned, making Sanji stop his laughter.
Luffy thought about the Wanted poster that the Marines made for Sanji and he started laughing like crazy for a new reason. Sanji turned to Usopp with a look that said 'I'm going to kill you,' and the long-nose sprinted away until he was at a safe distance of a hundred feet.
Franky turned from the others and looked back towards the gate. "Look, here they come," the cyborg stated. Coming towards them were the three others of their group.
"Took you long enough," Nami mumbled loudly towards those three. Killua, Robin, and Riku walked in a line, all of them looking smug.
Killua smirked, thinking about how their interrogation of him turned around so that he was finding out all sorts of things from the guards. He started casually, "The walls surround the city on all sides, though there is an airfield to the north of the city that is not inside the city boundaries."
"Tonight, a Lord from another city is visiting," Nico Robin brought up. "There will be a feast in his honor and all those Orange and above are invited."
"Orange?" Nami questioned confusedly.
"Remember when they asked you to punch the machine?" Robin asked her friend.
"Oh!" Luffy exclaimed. He held up his ID and pointed at a small orange circle next to his face. "I got orange."
"I kicked the machine," Sanji admitted, "and I got orange too."
Franky grunted in annoyance and Usopp looked at the robot in surprise. "You didn't get Orange rank Franky?"
"Yellow's good too," the cyborg said. "What did you get?" He asked following, turning to the muscular younger man.
"Well you see," Usopp began with a smirk, "I opted out."
"Me too," Nami said.
"Me three," Killua added.
The others all looked at him in surprise. "What? I'd rather not tell them how strong I am."
"That is why I punched it," Robin stated, and she turned her ID to Killua. It had a little green circle on it and she continued, "If you held back I am sure they would have given you a green circle as well."
"Huh," Killua mumbled as he saw the green circle. His ID had no circle there at all, and now that he thought about it he realized that might look suspicious. "Good idea, I'll do that at the next city."
"But you won't get to go to the feast now!" Luffy exclaimed to Killua. The younger boy frowned and shrugged his shoulders, wondering if maybe he would be able to sneak in later.
"So what do you guys want to do first?" Usopp asked as they were finally all together as a group.
"I need to buy some food for our journey North," Sanji admitted. "And hopefully find one of those bottomless pouches. Being able to keep a full inventory of food on me at all time would be amazing."
"Alright," Nami started, pulling out her own bag and reaching inside it. "We still have a lot of the money from Dressrosa, so I'll split it up. Everyone gets a hundred except for Sanji since he's buying our food."
She started distributing the money and Killua noticed she was keeping a whole lot in her bag. "And what will you be doing?" He asked suspiciously.
Nami grinned at the young boy and turned her head to look into the city. She looked over some of the smaller houses and shops near the edge where they were, over towards a giant pyramid sticking out like a sore thumb. The others followed her gaze and gawked at the sign that flashed red over and over. The sign was just a bunch of capital letters, spelling, 'CA$INO' and actually using a dollar sign for the 'S.'
"Figures," Killua muttered with a small shake of his head.
"Food!" Luffy exclaimed, as this was taking too long already.
"I'm with Luffy," Usopp agreed, putting his hand up in the air. "Let's go get some food."
"That sounds nice," Robin agreed.
"Someone should go with Nami to the casino," Riku spoke up. Sanji opened his mouth but Riku cut him off, "You need to buy food." He looked around at the rest of them, then sighed and stated, "Alright, I'll go."
The orange haired pirate smirked and started leading her bodyguard down the road in the direction of the giant pyramid "Ooh! Riku!" Nami exclaimed as she suddenly had a great idea. She turned to the teen and whispered something to him while their comrades looked over wondering why Nami shouted.
Riku chuckled and lifted up his right hand. In his hand appeared a red and black Keyblade. The end of it glowed bright for a second, and he and Nami's bodies were surrounded in white light at the same time. When the lights vanished, along with Riku's Keyblade, most of the others dropped their jaws. Even Nami looked stunned as she looked down at her own body, the light blue dress that sparkled as she spun around a little, the white gloves, the heels. Riku was standing in a suit next to her and he smiled at her awed reaction. Never been to a casino before, he thought as he held out his arm with his elbow crooked out to the side. But I'm going in style, "Shall we?" He asked.
Nami turned to the slightly younger man and her eyes sparkled as she smiled at him. "We shall," she said in just as much of a fancy person voice. She locked arms with him and the two of them strolled off down the street in style.
"Well they sure look the part," Usopp muttered, though he did find himself staring at Nami for several seconds longer than usual after that change in appearance. He heard a muffled roar on his right and turned to see Sanji chewing on his shirt collar and glaring down the road at Riku's back with fiery eyes.
"Yosh!" Luffy exclaimed, getting attention back on him. "Let's go get some food!" He held up the money Nami just gave him and licked his lips, ready to spend it all on his lunch.
"Wow, I'm truly amazed," Usopp said as he walked out of a shop with a smile on his face. "I can't believe I've never tried doner kebab before. That was delicious!"
"Yeah, we should tell Sanji about it when we see him," Killua agreed. Usopp looked down at the younger boy next to him who was also licking his lips. The long-nosed sharpshooter frowned a little as he thought about what the kid said last night. He was a spy for Luthor… But he's just a kid, let it go Usopp. He shook his head and smiled, agreeing with the kid on the telling Sanji idea.
"To find Sanji-san we would have to go to the market first," Robin announced to her friends who walked out of the shop with her. There were only five of them now, as Luffy and Rin walked out next to her too.
"Franky might be there too," Rin suggested. "He did say he would look for parts to make us a vehicle. I wonder if Nami gave him enough to make something that fits nine." The teen with wavy black hair scratched his chin thoughtfully.
"Ten," a voice called out from Rin's back. Rin's cat poked its head out of the bag with a fish in its mouth that Rin gave it a few minutes ago, only the fish was mostly bones now. Kuro had a big grin on his face but he yawned and popped his head back down, closing the bag's flap behind him.
"Anyway," Luffy started, and pointed his hand to the left. The others followed his point and he was pointing straight at a castle in the center of the city. It looked like a fortress with large towers, stone walls, and no doubt a large number of guards. "Let's go there!"
A couple of the others looked at each other nervously, and Rin spoke up, "Shouldn't we wait until we're all together before-"
"Nope," Luffy said in just as carefree a tone.
The captain turned to see if Killua was going to argue with him, but the boy just shrugged his shoulders. He said what he needed to the night before and he could tell Luffy was at least being a little more cautious. "Hey, he never said anything about fighting," Killua offered as a consolation to the two nervous older teenagers. "But if it comes to that, we can handle it."
"What?" Usopp asked, totally confused by Killua's reversal from the night before.
"Hey, I've seen the outside of the city. We got past the hard part. I hear there's a Lord here, not a High Lord or anything. So let's go." He smirked and started walking forward, "If Luffy gets in a fight with some asshole Lord, I'm sure the rest of us can back him up just fine."
"Right!" Luffy agreed. He started walking forward too, and Robin walked right after him. Usopp and Rin glanced hesitantly at each other again, then followed after their captain. Killua kept a calm grin on his face, but despite what he just said he had a bead of sweat rolling down the left side of his face.
"Hey Luffy," a voice said behind the five of them and they all stopped. Luffy froze in place and his eyes widened. He spun around just like the others with him and looked behind them on the street where a single figure in a brown cloak stood. He had his hood up, but he lifted his head a little and smiled out at them. "Long time no see."
Luffy started, "So-"
The teen in the cloak lifted up a hand to his mouth and put one finger over his lips. "Shh," he whispered to them. He turned back and forth and saw a few others walking by on the street. They looked like normal people, but he saw a few glance at him oddly and he turned back to his friends. "Follow me." He turned and walked back over to the shop they were just at, only a little to the left of it.
The group looked at each other, shrugged, then chased after the cloaked figure into an alley between the doner shop and the building next to it. The teenager jogged down the alley for a little until he hit a turn and turned down that one into a darker alleyway between the backs of two buildings whose front doors were on parallel streets.
Finally he stopped moving and turned around to the five chasing after him. The teen lifted his hands up to his hood and lowered it for his comrades to see. "Ohh," Usopp said in a understanding tone. The others looked at him in surprise that he didn't recognize the teen sooner, but Sora just smiled that his disguise was working. "What are you doing here Sora?" Usopp asked.
"Shh!" Sora put his finger in front of his mouth again and shushed Usopp. "Don't say my name."
His attitude was making most of them nervous. Killua whispered, "What is it? Are you being hunted?"
"No," Sora whispered back, then paused for a second. "Actually, kind of," he admitted as he thought about what Roxas told him.
"What's going on? Did you catch that person you were chasing?" Rin asked the teenager who was just a little older than him.
Sora frowned and closed his eyes for a few seconds. "Not yet," he muttered sadly, but his smile came back to his face not long after. "Anyway, I saw you guys and wanted to say something, but I needed to be careful. The Lord in this city is pretty strong."
"You faced him already?" Luffy asked in surprise. He pouted and crossed his arms, "I wanted to do that." Usopp clenched his teeth angrily that the Captain was already planning on that while Killua was telling them that they weren't going to try and pick a fight.
Sora nodded, but spoke up, "Not here though. I fought him before coming to Nexus."
"Whoa, really?" Rin asked in surprise. "Did you win?"
Sora nodded his head. "But I had Donald and Goofy to help me back then," he admitted, as was true about most of his fights in the past.
"Well if you could do it-" Luffy began.
"He's much stronger now," the boy with spiky brown hair interrupted his good friend. He looked Luffy in the eyes, "It would be a hard fight even for you."
"What do you mean?" Robin asked the teen. "You seem to be hiding something."
Sora's mouth opened wide, but he closed it and started chuckling. "Yeah, I'm kind of paraphrasing because I need to be on the lookout." He lifted back up his hood and whispered, "I snuck into the city a few nights ago." A few of them went wide-eyed as he continued, "You won't believe how difficult it is to move around the city without an ID. The casino won't let me in, I can't get anywhere near the Dread Fort."
"Wait," Usopp swung his arms in front of him. "Aren't we in the Dread Fort?"
"Technically, the whole city is the Dread Fort, but it was really only built around the original Dread Fort. The ones who built the fort got crushed in a war a while back, but their fortress remained so now he's in charge. His name, is Saix." Sora became quieter and started whispering everything Roxas had told him the night he left his friends.
His friends started nodding their heads together as a group every time Sora finished a sentence, even as half of what he said went right over their heads. "… and the Nobodies are taking their Somebodies and merging them… The original loses all sense of individuality while the Nobody takes control… Saix already found his Somebody, and Roxas said that after he merged with Isa, Saix's power increased ten fold." Luffy, Rin, and Usopp kept nodding until they realized that Sora was done speaking.
"Hmm," Luffy hummed, "so they're Mystery Enemies," he said in a confident tone.
Sora lowered his bottom lip for a second, then smiled at his old friend who he traveled around Awul with. "Yeah Luffy, they're Mystery Enemies. Organization XIII is strong. I'm glad you guys are here though," he added. His friends turned to him in confusion and Sora lifted up a fist, "Now, we can stop them."
"EHH?" Usopp exclaimed, only to be met by half the people around him shushing him. He whispered in a loud way at Sora, "Didn't you just say all this scary stuff about them?!"
"Yeah, but that's why I was waiting for you guys," Sora said. "I know that the eighteen of us can take the Dread Fort easily."
The group in front of him froze. Sora continued speaking, not noticing their shift in mood, "Speaking of which, where is everyone?" He looked at his friends and a few of them had nervous looks on their faces. Sora's smile dropped and he whispered, "What happened?"
"Everyone's fine Sora," Robin began, seeing that the boy was misunderstanding their looks.
"We split up," Luffy stated flatly. Sora turned to the pirate in surprise, but Luffy continued, "Gray wanted to go South, but I wanted to go North."
"So," Sora began, letting that news sink in. "Who went with Gray?"
Usopp held up his hands and started putting down fingers each time he listed off a name. "Natsu, Juvia, Ben, Dash, Kirito…" he gulped and added one more, "and Kairi."
"What?!" Sora exclaimed. He rose his voice without caring that he had been hiding for days. "And where was Riku during all this? What was he doing?"
Rin coughed a few times to clear his throat and said in a nervous tone, "Riku, was the one who sent Kairi with them."
"Oh," Sora said, tilting his head to the side. It was a much less harsh reaction than Rin was expecting. "Okay then," he said, bringing up a hand and scratching the back of his head, "I'll have to ask him about it later. It still sounds like most of the team is in the city though. Would you guys be willing to help me out?" He asked his friends. Sora looked around at each of them, and added, "It's Saix and his comrades in Organization XIII that are forcing Roxas to do their bidding."
"Hold on," Usopp began before anyone could answer Sora. "This Roxas guy attacked us didn't he?" Usopp looked around wondering if anyone else remembered that cloaked figure coming out of nowhere and kicking ass.
"He only did because Naminé is being kept hostage," Sora replied. He saw Usopp open his mouth again and held up a hand to stop him. "Just trust me," Sora started. He looked into the pirate sharpshooter's eyes, "Roxas is a part of me. Take my name, Sora, and rearrange the letters. Now throw an X in the middle. What do you get?" He looked around and one by one they figured out what he meant, well, except for a confused Luffy. "He was my Nobody, but now, now he is his own person."
"Doesn't matter," Luffy stated. Everyone turned to the pirate captain and Luffy just smiled at his old friend, "We're going to help you anyway. This Saix guy is a jerk, right?"
Sora grinned at Luffy and nodded his head. "Yep," the boy responded.
"It's settled then," the captain called out. Usopp started moaning at him and Luffy just crossed his arms, "If he's Sora's enemy, then he's my enemy too."
Usopp stopped complaining and sighed. "In that case," he began, "he's our enemy as well, right guys?"
"Yep," Rin, Killua, and Robin all replied.
Sora smiled at each one of them. "You guys are the best!"
A/N And so it begins. The Dread Fort has some enemies lurking inside it as Sora recruits his friends to help him free Roxas and defeat Saix. There are lots of twists and turns these next few chapters so hold on tight! Who is the visiting Lord who Robin mentioned? Sanji and Luffy got rank Orange during their identification process so they'll be at the feast to see who it is. The Seven Deadly Sins are still in the city too, wonder what their role on the upcoming battle is going to be? What about other Organization members in the city? And the Ca$ino that Nami and Riku are heading to, what about that?! Haha, let me know your predictions for the upcoming chapters in a review below! I hope you all enjoyed! The reviews for the past couple of chapters have finally uploaded on Fanfiction, as did the ones for chapter 40 which I'll respond to below!
joebob323 chapter 40 . 23h ago
I got you. I tried to see the reviews on my story as well, ans it appears that the most recent reviews are not showing up. I hope this message gets to you no later than the 5th, but good job on this chapter. I like these sorts of chapters, But I can't wait for more action!
Just to let everyone know, I was still getting the reviews on my email, I just could not copy and paste them as easily so I did see that I was getting reviews during the time Fanfic wouldn't show them! Thanks for the review though and I'm glad you liked the emotional chapter, though more action is coming... XD
Espada-001 chapter 40 . 18h ago
I thought Killua finally opening up was a pretty good scene. Also Robin leaving him an open threat was definitely hilarious. Here's a question I just thought of but we've seen Heartless all over the place but why haven't we seen any Nobodies, and I know we found out that Beast Boy has a Nobodie. But what I'm talking about are the regular Nobodies they should be just as common as the Heartless shouldn't they? And while my knowledge of Kingdom Hearts isn't the greatest and there's a good chance I'm wrong, but shouldn't there be a Nobodie for everyone that got turned into a Heartless? If so then I'd be interested in seeing the Nobodie of Shanks. Well I think I rambled on a bit there so I'll draw this to a close by saying goodnight and I look forward to the next chapter!
Glad you liked the chapter! Beast Boy's Nobody, Dalgrefxi, foreshadows a lot in the story that I'm glad you picked up on. Don't wanna say much else as lots of what you asked is kind of spoil-y, but the Nobody of Shanks thing I totally thought of only a couple of days before this review! Haha once I thought of him though I realized how cool that would be so who knows when he'll show up! Thanks for another review!
Darugus chapter 40 . 12h ago
Killua finally opening up to the group
Also I like the fact that even though riku killua and rin are against the luffy's idea they would still go with it even because he is the leader of the group also I think you were trying to show that luffy was growing as a leader now taking his comrades advice ocasionally looking forward to there raid on dread fort next chapter
Thanks for the review! The group that followed after Luffy kind of knew what they were getting into when they did it. Before that the "leader" of the group was un-specified, but once Luffy split off to go find Zoro it became pretty clear that those following him would be following him. Kil getting Luffy to agree showed a lot about both him and Luffy, and I'm glad you're looking forward to the upcoming Dread Fort mayhem! XD
7lights13darknes chapter 40 . 14h ago
OMG Kil's character in this story is getting so much better. I am liking his part more and more. I never really new his character before ( i have only seen one episode of hunter x hunter) i was shocked that he told them his secret and how well riku took it( i would expect that from sora if not anyone else.) i figured it would happen at one point but still my mind has been blown( the last few chapters have been doing that lately) and like i said before thus is the fastest i have ever seen a fanfiction updated. How and when do you get all the free time!? Keep up the good work and can't wait for the next chapter.
Killua was pretty minor back in the first part of Nexus, as the rebels in Metropolis were the last main group I added for that final war, and I mainly focused on the Attack on Titan crew, Smoker, and Stan/Anakin anyway on top of that. Glad you're starting to like his character and he really was the one hiding a whole lot from everyone, though there is still someone else in this group keeping a big secret... As for how I keep up updating so fast, it's because I always have chapters on-deck ready to post when I start up a spree like this. When I was writing the Atlantis chapters I got disinterested for a little and went pretty far ahead and kept writing, finishing up about half of chapter 8 while I was still posting chapter 2. Then when I had to write the Forever Kingdom and Dressrosa I was also distracted by chapters 9 and 11, both of which have over 100,000 words already written in them, so that once I finish up chapter 8 I'll start posting chapter 9 right away. Whenever I take a break from posting, it's likely because I'm writing chapters other than the one y'all are waiting for. Haha not the best system as sometimes I have to edit things I wrote in the future to match up with things I changed when writing about the past, but it works out well to be able to post this fast as I'm always interested in what I'm writing! Anyway, thanks for the review!
qwerty chapter 40 . 35m ago
Man who are these other saiyans gonna be?
Bardock and his team: Would be cool if Goku finally meets his father
Cabbe and Caulifla (Fem Broly) from Universe 6: Goku meets Broly... again
Future Gohan: This would actually be pretty sad, he'll have to learn about the fate Future Trunks
Nappa: Vegeta's worst nightmare
Raditz: Nah we don't give a shit
Tarble: Meh
Goku Black: Ohohohoh... too strong... too soon
These Saiyans have evaded being written about for too long! Sorry to keep you in suspense, so I'll just let you know that within the next 10 parts I post, you will get a look at the Saiyans. Not very spoil-y, but it's what I'm willing to share. Lots of good guesses, though Goku Black would not have existed yet as the DBZ crew got brought to Nexus only 2 years after Cell in their timeline. Thanks for the review! Thanks again to everyone who read, faved, followed, and reviewed to this story! 'Till next time!