A/N Finally back to some shorter chapters! 8k isn't necessarily that short, but def a lot less than the 20-40k parts of Chapter 10 (and the first part of this chapter that will be the longest one in all of 11). Hope you enjoy!
Nexus HWR 11.1 Spriggan 12:
Riding south on the back of a flying bison, ten people looked off the sides of their ride at the devastation all around them. Two boys sitting in the back of the saddle stared out to the north. They could still see the great tree, Pon, even from hundreds of miles away. And even from this distance, Ben and Dash could see the smoke rising from the tree. The plumes themselves the kids could not see, but considering the entire sky to the north was black, and blacker closer to the tree, it was not hard to figure out what they were looking at.
Ben looked away from the dark sky and down to his right at a motionless form on the saddle. He looked at the kid a little older than him, lying flat on his back with his eyes closed. His chest was not visibly heaving up and down, and he really wished Killua would just get up already. The sight of the fourteen year old's face so peaceful and still left a haunting mood in the air. Any time someone would start speaking, they would catch a glimpse of their half-dead comrade and fade out. They had been riding all night, but Killua had not made a single sound since Kirito saved him with the Lazarus Pit water he had stored in his pack.
Natsu was not far from Killua, also badly injured, but at least not on death's door. He sat with his back up against the side of the saddle. Nami was on her knees in front of him, wrapping up one of his wounded arms. He ignored her though and stared right past at Killua. He whispered in a quiet voice, "I, was so mad at him."
Nami continued to wrap up Natsu's arm but she did raise her gaze to his face. Natsu was staring over at Killua and she felt a pang of dread as she looked over in the corners of her eyes. He continued in that quiet voice, "All he did, was give me a small cut on my neck. And I, I pretty much told him he couldn't come with us south. Damn," Natsu winced in pain as Nami pulled a bandage tight, and also from his anger at himself. "The kid risked his neck for us, for me, even though I treated him like crap."
Luffy was sitting on the back bench of the saddle. There was a space behind him where the injured and the young boys all were. Luffy could hear what Natsu was saying and at the moment he did not even want to fight the annoying pink haired bastard. He did not turn around, but he imagined Killua's body lying there in his mind. Why does this always happen? Why can't I protect my friends?
Usopp sat on Luffy's right, and he was thinking along the same lines. He had his elbows on his knees and his face in his hands. "Kairi," he whispered. "I'm so sorry."
"You have nothing to be sorry about," the man on Luffy's other side said. He spoke in a deep tone and his voice was nerve-wracking even though they knew who it was really speaking. Usopp lifted his gaze and turned left to the other side of the bench where the tall man with long silver hair was sitting. He had tan skin and dark yellow eyes, and his fists were clenched over his legs. "I did not think Ansem would try to take control again. He let Gohan's Nobody take Kairi. There was nothing you could do."
"I was apologizing to Kairi," Usopp growled over, "because I didn't stop you from letting him do it."
Riku stayed quiet. He was still in Ansem's body. His form looked more menacing but Usopp would not care who was really inside it at the moment. Every time he had looked at him over the past months he saw Riku and Ansem seeming like more and more of one and the same person. And now, Riku looked more like him than ever, and he really did not know what the difference was anymore. "I should have never let you give him Kairi."
"I know," Riku growled back, getting angry now. He had first spoken up to ease Usopp's conscience, but now he was getting more annoyed at the long-nosed sharpshooter. "She was closer to me than anyone here, do not pretend like-"
"Like what? You voluntarily gave yourself in to the Heartless?" Usopp asked, and there was silence. Franky, Sanji, and Robin did not say anything from the row in front of them but all of their facial expressions changed. Usopp glared into Riku's eyes, "Oh wait, we all saw that memory of you accepting Ansem. So then why do you keep pretending like him taking over isn't your fault?!" Usopp was panting and he found that his fists were clenched too. He got up out of his seat and glared down at Riku, "I kept telling myself it was Ansem and not you, but you accepted the darkness. Who does that?"
"Usopp," Luffy snapped. He did not turn to either of the men on his sides, but he had had enough.
Usopp kept panting hard and glaring at Riku, but he closed his mouth and sat back down. He stared to his right off the side of the bison and looked into the distance of Aebrith. "Zoro didn't come with us," Usopp said in a soft voice. The others all felt pangs in their hearts, even Sanji who just clenched his teeth in anger at the mention of the shitty swordsman. "Juvia died, and her crazy zombie self is now missing. So is Gray, our only other reason for being here." Usopp sighed and whispered even softer so only those on his bench hear him, "Ansem was right. He said that he was staying down because he thought Timmy would kill him if he emerged, but Timmy didn't come. Timmy's gone. Goku's gone."
He fell silent for a few seconds and then whispered, "What are we gonna do now?"
Luffy heard him louder and turned a little to see Usopp was not looking off the bison but was staring at him. The question was not rhetorical. He really wanted to know what they were going to do in this situation.
"Where are we even headed?" Usopp whispered, looking around to see if anyone had a response for him.
Ben walked forward on the saddle and he squeezed in between Luffy and Riku. He leaned forward as he sat down and looked over at Usopp. "The people evacuating Pon-Gatso were heading south, so hopefully we run into some people we know."
"South is a big direction," Usopp mumbled. He did shut up though as a few people glared at him after that last comment. He decided to go back to just being quiet and sitting there in silence like everyone else.
The dozen people riding the bison kept flying south in relative silence. After a few more hours their ride started to dip down out of the clouds. They had ridden through an entire night and a good part of the day, and the bison seemed like it was getting tired. "Let's go find a river to get you some water big guy," Kirito whispered to the back of the animal's head. He was sitting up front holding the reins and he started to ease the creature down. He had carefully observed when Black Canary flew one of these on their way north and was definitely glad he did now.
The flying bison descended further and started to slow down. They had traveled over an entire Scorched landscape, past a few forests, and crossed a canyon that was almost as wide as it was deep. Considering they could not see the bottom of the dark canyon, it was pretty wide. At the moment they were flying over plains of red grass, and the flying bison spotted a lake in the distance. It dropped down to the ground just at the outside of the lake and then walked forward on its six furry legs to the edge.
Its riders hopped off, except for Killua who was still unconscious, and they went to the lake to wash off and get drinks as well. "We should filter this water before-" Sanji began, only to turn his head right and see half the boys with their faces over the edge of the lake plunged under the surface, already guzzling down buckets of water. He thought about yelling at them but sighed instead, wondering where they would get the means to filter the water around here anyway. Natsu could boil it, but they didn't have any pots to put the water in so that option was off the table. Sanji looked over at Franky and had an idea, but frowned as he remembered the cyborg's back was still human.
Franky turned around from where he was chugging a bottle of Cola and he felt a weird sensation to move away from Sanji.
The group took a break, one that was not all-that necessary considering all they had been doing all day was sitting around anyway. It was good for their bison friend though who went swimming into the middle of the lake and rolled around in the water playfully after they took Killua off his back.
"At least someone's having a good time," Dash mumbled jealously as he looked out into the lake. He wished he could go out there and enjoy himself, but the mood really did not call for that kind of horseplay right now.
"You should have left me behind," Natsu growled. The one he was talking to was in the middle of chugging some water, but the rubber pirate lifted up his head and then turned around to face Natsu as he stood up. The two of them were around the same height so they could glare into each other's eyes at an even level. "Did you hear me? You should have left me in Pyraxas."
"Why should I have?" Luffy questioned. He was frowning at the Dragon Slayer and did not know what Natsu was talking about all of a sudden.
"If you were going to leave behind Gray and Juvia, you should have left me there so I could look for them," Natsu growled. He was keeping his voice quiet as to not make a scene but he was getting his tone across anyway.
Luffy stuck a finger in his ear and twisted it around like he couldn't care less how serious Natsu was being. "Too bad. I didn't," Luffy stated.
Natsu clenched his teeth angrily. "Juvia always talked about you like you were the greatest guy, you know that?" Natsu asked him. Luffy took his finger out of his ear and his gaze turned darker as he glared at Natsu. "She would say, 'Luffy-san's a pirate, but not like the ones you've heard of. Luffy-san cares about his friends, and doesn't leave them behind.' Well I call bullshit. This is twice now you've left her behind."
Luffy ground his teeth angrily now and his fists balled at his sides. Natsu's fists were balled too though and smoke was coming off of them.
Nami looked over to tell her captain something when she saw the two with their heads only inches apart. "Idiots," she muttered and started walking towards them. She opened her mouth to say something, when a gust of wind hit her and she shivered. The navigator looked around in confusion that quickly became worry. Her job on the ship was to predict the weather so as to navigate her friends in safe waters, and she was even more of a master of weather creation and control with the weapons Usopp made for her. She knew every weather pattern known to man, yet at this moment, every part of her body was screaming that something was wrong.
"Hey guys," Nami called out in a nervous tone. The group scattered around the lakeside looked over at Nami and saw her expression get much more afraid in the next few seconds.
They followed her gaze up and to the east and each one of them dropped their jaws at the sight. Out of the clouds, dozens of airships were descending. The one at the front was the largest, had masts with sails, and looked like any other galleon ship, except it was flying through the air somehow. The ones around it did not have sails but looked more like zeppelins except sleeker and completely made of steel.
The group of people staring up at this fleet of airships started to feel something was wrong. The ships were heading directly towards them. There was no redirection, no change of flight path like the ships saw them and decided to come down and check it out. The ships came out of the air and their target was clear.
"What do you think they want?" Sanji questioned.
"Nothing good is my guess," Kirito replied and lifted a hand up to the black hilt over his right shoulder.
Natsu glared back at Luffy after looking at the ships, and Luffy did the same. The two glared at each other for another second before Natsu spun around with a whole new look of shock on his face. He took a step back and had sweat all over his face. "Holy-" Natsu muttered and he started to look really nervous.
If Luffy did not know him so well he would have taunted Natsu for being afraid without even seeing the enemies yet. But he did know Natsu, and for him to react like this, something bad was coming.
Another gust of wind flew in and hit the group but this one continued on for longer. "We should run," Usopp shouted as a suggestion.
"No way," Luffy said and punched a fist into his other open palm. "I'm done running."
"You guys don't feel that?" Natsu asked and glanced around. He gulped and looked back up at the front airship that had three big sails on it. "I felt a massive magical power, and then I felt two more of the same strength. They're mages with more power than any I've felt before."
"Yeah, well they haven't met us before," Ben called out. He lifted up his left hand with his Omnitrix on it and looked pretty smug as he did. "I'm on a roll. Whoever this is, I know I can take 'em."
All of the ships stopped sailing through the air at the same time. They were still about three miles out and really high up in the air. Despite the distance though, they all saw a single figure step up to the bow of the front galleon. He had crazy spiky hair and light black skin, and he held his arms out to the sides as he laughed. "Those are the ones the Emperor is so interested in?" Ajeel called out. "Let's see how they do!"
"What is he doing?" Nami wondered, taking a step back nervously.
"Maybe we should call back the bison and fly out of here," Kirito suggested.
"See! Great idea!" Usopp exclaimed in agreement.
The sniper turned his head right to call the bison back from the middle of the lake. When he turned though, his smile dropped and his tongue shot out of his mouth. "EeeyaaAAA!" Usopp screamed. His friends looked back, and Usopp yelled out in the shock that they were all feeling, "Where did the lake go?!"
The lake was gone. It was all dried up and the flying bison was standing confused at the bottom of the empty crater in the middle of the fields of red grass. The red grass all around them started wilting and the wind picked back up. Underneath the ships flying in the distance, a funnel of sand appeared. The funnel covered the sky from the bottom of the sailing airship all the way to the ground. And in the next three seconds the funnel expanded a hundred times.
Every member of the group next to the dried up lake backed up in fear. Everything in front of them was getting engulfed by the sandstorm, and the edge of it slammed into them and then covered them completely. They became surrounded by the sandstorm that was so thick it felt like they were getting hit by constant waves of sand.
The buffeting wind made it hard to hear anything, but one voice did carry over the wind. "How do you like it? My Sand World?!"
"Who are you?!" Kirito shouted. He lowered his arm from in front of his mouth to shout then rose it right back up to stop sand from getting in his nose and mouth.
"Heheh! I am Ajeel of the Spriggan 12! King of Sand!" His face appeared in the middle of the sandstorm up above them.
As the rest of his body appeared, Nico Robin crossed her arms and made more arms stick out of his upper body. Her hands grabbed onto him as if they were going to snap him back as was Robin's signature move, but it was Robin who screamed out in pain. Those who could see Ajeel through the sandstorm watched the man laugh as the arms sprouting out of his skin turned into sand.
"Anything that touches me turns to sand! Try it again! See how it works out for you," he offered, and smirked down at them insanely. "Inside this sandstorm, I am God! You will revere me-"
A fist slammed into Ajeel's face and the sandstorm faltered. Winds slowed down and sand fell to the ground making everything a lot more visible. Ajeel went flying backwards and hit the ground once, twice, three times before flipping and skidding back on his feet. He had a swollen right cheek and he glared at the enemies with furious eyes. "How did you do that?! Your fist should have turned to sand!" He shouted at the rubberman glaring across the field at him.
Luffy lifted up his right fist and grabbed his right bicep with his left hand. Ajeel stared across the sandy field at the man's fist, a fist covered entirely in Luffy's own blood. "You used your blood to harden my sand?!" Ajeel shouted like the idea had never occurred to him and seemed crazy.
"That was, really quick thinking Luffy," Ben said, more shocked than anything.
"His power is just like Crocodile's," Robin brought up.
"Luffy's already faced someone like him?" Dash asked in amazement.
"Well," Robin continued. She looked back and seemed a little nervous. "I believe Crocodile's power is not nearly as powerful."
"Now that you've done that though," Ajeel shouted over at Luffy. "Know that you will not leave here alive!" The sandstorm started back up more intense than ever. It became hard to see the person next to them and they all squinted their eyes, barely able to keep them open.
"Ahh!" Nami yelled as the sand was starting to cut up her skin at the speed it was moving.
"I can't see!" Usopp shouted.
"Luffy where are you?!" Ben shouted at the pirate he thought was right in front of him. He held out his arms but did not touch anyone and had to squint open his eyes a little more. When he did, his heart rate sped up as Ajeel was appearing right in front of him. The King of Sand lifted a hand and grabbed Ben around the throat.
"Hehehe! Try to escape, but it is futile. I will drain all the fluid from your body," Ajeel boasted and Ben's skin was starting to lose its color. He gasped for air as his mouth and throat dried out. The spiky haired man in front of him kept laughing, and screams came from all around as Ben's friends were hurt by the raging sandy winds.
Then, the sandstorm stopped spinning so fast. The sand suddenly became much darker. Ajeel's smile faded and he jumped backwards, letting go of Ben's throat as he did. He jumped just in time and a blade swung down where his arm was just extended. The sandstorm continued to rage only away from the group facing Ajeel.
Nami stopped screaming because of the sand, but she did not feel much better standing on top of a black floor that radiated evil and had black wisps seeping out of it. "Everyone get out of here!" Riku shouted. He floated at the front of their group in Ansem's body with a muscular black form sticking out of his back. He held a black and red curved sword in his right hand that he slashed in front of his body. Out of the ground around him rose an army of Neo Shadows that all glared across the field at Ajeel who looked back with widening eyes.
"Riku!" Ben shouted towards one of his best friends.
"I'm not going," Luffy shouted. "We can take them-"
"Luffy there are two more people as strong as this man on those ships," Riku shouted. "If you don't get Killua and get out of here, someone is going to die!"
Luffy froze and he snapped his head around. He looked to the edge of the dried-up lake where they put Killua before to let the flying bison go roll around in the water. The pirate looked around at the rest of his nervous-looking friends, then tssked as he turned to the flying bison that just climbed out of the empty lake. "Alright guys, let's-"
KA-BOOOM!
The flying bison Luffy was staring at got hit by a beam of blue light that created a massive explosion so hot that Luffy could feel his skin searing. Everyone stared at the spot their furry friend just was in shock and horror. When the blue explosion was gone, so was their friend, and Killua who was lying close to the explosion had been tossed backwards and his body was smoking having been burnt by the blast.
"Killua!" Dash shouted and was at the boy's side in a second.
At the airship with sails on it, a short man with crazy eyes and wavy black hair started laughing as he lowered the cannon from his arms. "Haha! Look at that expression on their faces. Right when they were about to run away too! Hahaha!" Wall Eehto laughed. He had bangs parted down the middle and going down over his left eye, and distinctive eyelashes on the sides of his eyes instead of on top and bottom.
"Did you see that Dimaria?" Wall asked excitedly to the taller blonde woman on his right. She was wearing only a black bra and a pair of long red pants with black stripes going down the sides of her pant legs vertically.
"Yes, it was an impressive shot from this distance," she complimented him.
"Ah, I coulda made that shot from ten times this distance!" Wall exclaimed. "The great Wall-sama never misses!"
Over with Luffy and the others, things were not looking good. The sandstorm was picking back up and a huge whirlpool of sand just opened up beneath Riku and his growing army of Heartless.
"Everyone run!" Riku shouted. At that moment a giant black hand shot up out of the swirling sand. A Darkside started pulling itself out of the ground as Riku delved father into the darkness. More black swirls shrouded him even as the sandstorm surrounded his whole area of darkness.
"Dash!" Ben shouted to his younger friend. Dash looked up from Killua's body that he was leaning over and looked to his taller friend. "Get Killua and run away! Go south!"
"What about you?!" Dash shouted back over the rising winds.
"We'll be fine! Just go somewhere safe, and come back later to look for us." Ben shouted. He could see his friend didn't like it so he added, "You have to protect Killua! Don't let anything happen to him!"
Dash started nodding his head and he did it faster as that set in. "Okay, I'll do it." Dash turned and picked up the older boy with spiky white hair. He got him up and then sprinted into the dried up lake, across it, up the other side, and away into the distance.
"Dimaria they're getting away," Wall said to the woman next to him. "I can't shoot anything that fast," he added.
"I'll handle it," she said.
Time froze.
Dimaria jumped off of the airship and fell about a mile to the ground. The sandstorm looked like a lot when the sand was all moving fast, but when it was frozen, the individual particles of sand were not really all that bothersome. She casually walked through the sandstorm to the edge of it and then kept going. She followed the trail of dust leading away from the edge of the lake and started jogging once she realized how far the kid had gotten in such a short amount of time.
The blonde woman finally spotted the kids in the middle of a cloud of dust. The shorter one was holding his older unconscious friend in his arms carefully. "The Emperor has ordered us to try and kill you. Nothing personal," she said, while lifting up her sword at her right side.
"You can say nothing personal all you want," someone said behind her, and Dimaria's eyes opened up wide. She froze in place, slowly turned around, and the brown-haired boy standing twenty feet behind her finished, "It doesn't mean we don't take this personally."
"You," the blonde woman began in a much angrier tone than she was just speaking in. "How are you moving? This is my time! There should be no way for you to-"
"Shut up!" Ben shouted at her. He felt a glowing warmth in his right pocket and the kid smirked wide. It's the Eliacube, just like with Mephisto, it's letting me move around even though she froze time. Ben chuckled as he stared at the woman's surprised and angry facial expression. "Unfreeze time so my friends can get away, and I might not kick your butt," Ben threatened in a smug tone.
"Who do you think you are talking to?" The woman snarled. "I am Dimaria of the Spriggan Twelve. Known as the Valkryie because of the amount of battlefields I single-handedly devastated." She rose off the ground and started to glow white.
"And I'm Ben Tennyson!" Ben yelled at her. He rose off the ground as well and flew higher than she was. He formed a white aura around his body and glared at the woman who lost the white glow to her eyes that was replaced with shock as she stared at him. He held up his left hand and pointed the symbol of his watch at her, "And this, is the Omnitrix!" The top of his watch popped up with a black silhouette of a tall figure with two long legs and arms in the middle of the green hourglass symbol.
Ben slammed down on the top of his watch and his skin started to morph. His bones extended immensely fast and his entire body composition changed. Dimaria snapped her head up and gawked at the sight of the three hundred foot tall alien standing in front of her. "Now, I'm Way Big!" Ben yelled down. "And you're dead meat!" The giant white and red alien punched down his giant right fist towards the glowing woman below.
Dimaria's shocked look stayed on her face as he fist descended, and then gradually curved up into a smirk before his fist reached her. She held up her right hand and Way Big's fist stopped right in front of it. His hand did not even collide with her palm, it just froze there in midair. Ben's giant face started to sweat and his opponent's body covered in a bright white glow. "I am the chosen vessel of the God of Time: Chronos!" Dimaria yelled in a voice that got more booming by the second. Her eyes glowed white again and pulsed over and over as Ben stared down into them with his enormous green eyes.
Dimaria pushed Ben's arm back and then she flew up in the air. She flew past Ben's stomach and slashed her sword across him. Way Big arched back as a slash cut in his left side. "Raa!" He roared in a deep voice.
The woman stopped behind him and turned to look at his back. Ben turned his head first and glared at her, but she started speaking in a voice different from the one she used before. Her thunderous voice echoed around and it sounded like there was someone else talking over Dimaria. "Human child, you will not stop me! Emperor Spriggan commanded your deaths, they are absolute."
Ben crossed his arms in front of him and the point where they crossed started to glow. The blue light grew and Dimaria shot forwards with her glowing sword right as Ben fired the beam. A huge explosion ripped out from the middle of their attacks. Ben got lifted off the ground and tumbled backwards. The giant slammed a hand down into the ground as he slid and dragged a trench through the red grassy plains. He saw his opponent flying fast at him and he grabbed a fistful of earth and slammed up with it.
Dimaria swerved out of the way of his attack and Ben released the chunk of dirt up in the air. "You are too slow!" She yelled at him. Ben just smirked though and his giant eyes looked up above her. Dimaria snapped her gaze up and lowered her bottom lip at the sight of Ben's thrown debris smashing through several of their airships. Her body started to shake and she snapped her head back down, only to see a fist already coming at her too fast for her to lift up her arms to stop.
The fist taller than her body slammed into her at full force and Ben pushed into the punch as hard as he could. He followed through and sent his opponent flying into the distance so fast she looked like a blur of white. Ben stood up fully and glared after her, then started taking massive strides to give chase.
Over with the rest of Ben's friends, they could not tell a fight was going on. They all stood there in mid-panic, in the middle of turning around and running away now that their flying bison was dead. Time finally unfroze after an amount of time none of them knew, but what they did notice was a lack of Ben around them.
Sanji spun his head around as the kid who was right in front of him a second ago was now gone. He vanished completely and Sanji shouted, "Oi! Ben!"
"Where did he go?!" Usopp screamed.
"Run!" Luffy shouted. The sight of one of his friends vanishing before his eyes made him flash back to Sabaody Archipelago four years before. He remembered watching each one of his friends vanish before his eyes and the pain he felt after it. "Everyone let's go!"
Luffy ran ahead and made sure he kept looking around to see if all his friends were still there. "Keep going!" Riku yelled. "Ben's alright, he's just far away! Keep running and we'll catch up!"
Natsu was stepping backwards but he was not running like the rest of Luffy's crew. Unlike them, he actually felt one of the three massive magical powers vanish at the same time that Ben went away. Wherever he is, he took one of them with him, Natsu thought. He started running forward and charged right through Riku's army of Heartless.
"Natsu where are you going?" Riku yelled up at him as Natsu charged ahead recklessly.
"I'll take the one on the ships!" Natsu yelled out. Ajeel started laughing and he taunted Natsu saying that he would never let him get past. As he shouted it though, the bottoms of Natsu's feet erupted in flames. His legs surrounded in swirling whips of fire and then out from the soles of his feet shot huge jets of flames. "Fire Dragon's LEAP!" Natsu shot up in the air and arced right over Ajeel and up above the top of his sandstorm. Some of the wind slammed into him but Natsu's flames were shooting out so fast that his trajectory barely changed at all.
"Hahaha! He's coming right for me!" Wall shouted. The short Machinas man jumped up on the front of the bow of the main airship and he lifted up his arms. Out of his mechanical body emerged a hundred rockets. They came out of his arms and out of his back, all different sizes. All at once they shot forward at Natsu while Wall cackled loudly behind them.
Natsu was flying straight at his opponent. The rockets flew at him, and then when they were only twenty yards away, Natsu did a flip in midair and pointed his legs down below him. He changed course and flew up in the air, then spun his right leg in a swipe down below and in front of him. He blasted out flames and engulfed the rockets that erupted in massive explosions all across the sky.
The explosions were so large that they covered up Natsu as well who had to cross his arms as they rose into him. Wall held out his arms and laughed loudly as Natsu disappeared in his explosions. "The mighty Wall-sama demolishes his enemy in one strike! Hahaha! Haha, ha-" Wall's eyes opened wide as the explosions in front of him started swirling around.
They all pulled into one giant funnel of flames that moved towards one point. That one point was right above Natsu's mouth, and the Dragon Slayer who started falling out of the air gulped them down. He grinned a toothy smirk after the flames were inside him, and then he grinned wider as his body erupted in flames. As he fell from the air, lowering to the level of the ships below him, his body started sparking lightning bolts and an aura of electricity mixed with his flames. He kept falling and in the next second a bright orange tint surrounded the already huge aura already around him. "LIGHTNING ARCOSIAN FIRE DRAGON'S-" Natsu began and pulled his upper body back. His mouth bubbled over with bright orange energy that made Wall lean back on his ship nervously. "ROOOAAARRR!" Natsu yelled.
The pirates running south stopped and spun around. Their eyes opened wide at the sight of a pillar of flames spiraling around and flying off to the east. The pillar was easily a hundred meters wide in diameter and it not only surrounded the head airship in front of Natsu, but most of the ones on its sides too. The Straw Hats looked back with a collection of varying degrees of dropped jaws.
"Should, should we go back?" Nami wondered. She stared back at the enormous pillar of flames that kept flying into the distance and the dome of darkness rising closer to them. "Riku and Natsu might need our help."
Luffy frowned and he nodded his head. Why are we running? We can take- Luffy froze and his entire body tensed up in fear. He turned right and his body was shaking. He was farthest back out of his crew so they all looked at him with terrified expressions seeing how scared their captain looked. "What is that?" Luffy whispered, his whole body filling with warning signals telling him to run.
Riku and Ajeel backed away from each other and both snapped their heads to the southeast. Natsu finally dropped to the ground and he spun to the southeast as well, his heart racing faster than ever. All of the soldiers on the remaining ships up in the air started cheering and Ajeel's mouth curled up into a smirk. The King of Sand looked across the battlefield to Riku who was staring that way with a worried expression. "It's all over for you now! Emperor Spriggan himself is coming!"
Riku's yellow eyes widened as he stared into the distance. Ben, he thought, his heart rate speeding up. Behind Riku rose up two giant Darksides and Riku snapped his gaze back to his enemy. "I have to help Ben, so I apologize for what I am about to do."
Ajeel smirked and opened his mouth to call out Riku's bluff, but froze when the ground on all sides of them darkened. The black ground beneath Riku's feet started to rise up and out of the darkness arose something red that Riku was standing on top of. He leaned back and his body started to morph with the giant red ship climbing out of the darkness. The front of the ship rose up in front of Ajeel and the King of Sand's eyes widened at the evil eyes that glowed white on the front of the ship, and its open mouth that rose up next, top and bottom jaws full of sharp teeth and a pitch darkness in its throat. Riku's body connected with the ship and he grew fifty feet taller. His body became darker and the black form on his back transformed. "USING THIS MUCH POWER! DID YOU REALLY THINK I WOULD STAY DOWN?!" Riku roared in a voice not his own. Everyone nearby snapped their gazes over in horror at the sound of the voice.
"YOU WILL STAY DOWN!" Riku screamed. He lifted up his right hand and pointed it to the front of his massive Heartless ship where Ajeel was backing away and soaring up in the air to the top of a sand tornado. Ajeel looked freaked out by Riku screaming at himself and by the giant dark figures in front of him. On either side of Riku's dark, red, living Heartless ship rose hundred foot tall Darksides with swirling tentacles of black for hair and creepy yellow eyes that were directed straight at Riku's enemy.
"Alright," Nami whispered as she stared ahead into the crazy dark realm that started ten feet in front of her. "I take back what I said. I want to run away again."
"Luffy, what's wrong?" Robin asked her Captain who was still staring east, completely ignoring the battle in front of him.
Usopp was glaring at Riku who was using all of Ansem's dark powers and risking letting the man take over again. When he spotted his Captain's expression though, he turned back to Luffy and started sweating even worse. "L-Luffy?"
Luffy took a step back, and then the ground beneath them started to shake. His whole crew snapped their heads to the east and they stumbled backwards. Sanji backpedaled and almost tripped like half of the others. Nami, Usopp, and Franky all fell to the floor while their jaws dropped as far as possible. Every single one of them went blue in the face and they lost the ability to breath. There were only supposed to be three suns in the sky, so why was it they could see a fourth one out in the east? It was huge, a bright burning sun that gave off so much heat they could feel it from a hundred miles away.
"Go," Luffy whispered. "Go go go GO GO RUN!" He turned and started sprinting. As he did, pieces of the sun started ripping off. Little pieces of lights flew off of the sun and slammed down into the ground in the distance. When they hit the ground they could feel it from a hundred miles. They all ran northwest, the opposite direction as the massive rising sun.
While they ran, Luffy looked back over his shoulder and his eyes opened wide. He could see the bottom of the sun now, and flying directly underneath it was a massive, terrifying beast. It had a wingspan hundreds of feet wide and when it flapped those wings, hundreds of balls of yellow broke off of the sun and scattered in every direction.
"What the Hell is that thing?!" Nami screamed at the top of her lungs. She looked back and then turned forward and ran faster than ever.
Riku just shouted the same thing and his enemy who was backing away from him stopped and turned east. Ajeel chuckled and his nervousness went down a little. "Looks like the Emperor brought Bahamut with him."
"Bahamut?" Riku questioned and glanced forward at Ajeel.
The man laughed at Riku's look that showed he did not know what he was talking about. Ajeel stopped flying back and he shouted, "Ever heard of the Cataclysm?" Riku's eyes widened and Ajeel cackled, "Well who do you think it was that made such a scar in the land? Bahamut that's who!"
Riku snapped his head right, then glared forward furiously. He flew forward with his army around him and yelled out, "Even more reason to beat you now! I need to get to Ben!" The red ship Riku's body was sticking out of grew hundreds of dark cannons that fired white lights at their enemy. Ajeel flew backwards but the white lights honed in to him and all collided in the same spot. Riku started slashing the giant swords in his arms and slashes flew off of his weapons into the man who kept getting knocked farther and farther back. "Take THIS!" The front of Riku's ship opened its mouth wider and the black aura inside its throat shot out.
Ajeel was just recovering from the attacks when the darkness hit him. He screamed as he was pulled into an alternate dimension. He arrived and there was nothing to turn into sand around him, but there was plenty of darkness to create a hundred demons there holding long black swords. "Where am I?! Where did you go you bastard?!"
"You said you were the God inside your Sand World," Riku's voice echoed in the darkness. "Well in this world you have no power. Only darkness can reign here. And I have denied it for too long. The only way to make sure Ansem stays down is to accept who I am. As the one who controls this much power, is I, Riku, The Lord of Darkness!"
The hundred demons charged at Ajeel at the same time. Riku was not even there any longer though. He was speaking purely through his own mind to a dark realm he created, but he was already inside a different dark realm, courtesy of a portal he created. He was sprinting through the portal, and he gazed down at his arms with a satisfied look. His skin was lightening and he closed his eyes as he lifted his head to look back forwards. When he snapped them back open, they were no longer yellow but a bright green. You will never rise again Ansem, Riku thought. I do not even know if you have the strength to respond anymore. All of the darkness that makes you is mine. This body is mine. I am not sharing it any longer. You are my dark prisoner no longer. You are nothing.
He kept running and he rose up his hands in front of him. In his right hand formed a black Keyblade, the Keyblade of Heart. It had a sharp point at the end and a red hilt that curved around the bottom of the shaft. And in his left hand formed a different Keyblade, a new Keyblade. This had a white hilt and extending out from it was a thin silver shaft with two thinner parts on its sides. They were two inches apart at the hilt and then got closer near the tip of the blade, where there was a star-shape set of prongs spiking out in every direction from the tip of the lighter Keyblade. I feel stronger than ever before, Riku thought to himself as he stared at his Keyblades. He kept running and lifted his head to look at the light at the end of the dark tunnel, But even still, a creature that could create the Cataclysm is too much. I need to get Ben and get out of there as fast as I can.
Riku sprinted out of the portal and he appeared ten feet behind his close friend. He sprinted a few feet up and then came to a total stop. He was directly underneath that giant sun and the dragon Bahamut beneath it. The dragon roared and the sun exploded, chunks of it flying in every direction insanely fast, including straight down at them. There were four people below the giant dragon. One of them was Riku, and the next was his younger friend down on his knees in front of him. There was an unconscious blonde woman with bruises and cuts on her face lying thirty feet to Ben's right, but the final figure was one standing in front of Ben. He was a man with jet black hair and eyes of the same color. He stood there in a black cloak with a white sash draped over his left shoulder and wrapped around the lower half of his body.
Zeref lifted his head from Ben to look at the portal behind him and the silver haired teen who came running out of it. Riku had to keep running as explosive fragments of the sun above them were flying down fast. All around him he could see those lights exploding and ripping enormous chunks out of the landscape. The closest beams to the part of the ground they were on had almost collided and Riku created a portal right in front of Ben between him and the evil-looking man in front of the kid. He grabbed Ben by the collar of his shirt and dove into the black portal. Then, as the explosion happened outside, he closed it off and stopped the blasts from following them into his dark realm.
Riku collapsed on the ground and started panting heavily. They almost just died and if he had taken another minute fighting Ajeel, Ben would have been a goner. Riku got up to his butt and turned to the kid next to him, "Are you okay Ben?"
Ben was on his hands and knees with his face pointed at the ground. Riku could see Ben's face a little, and his green eyes widened at the sight of Ben's eyes clenched shut and tears pouring out of the cracks. The tears poured down and dropped off his chin like a faucet. "Ben, what's wrong?" Riku asked seriously. He leaned forward and put his hand on Ben's shoulder, lightly pushing him up. As Ben lifted, he opened his eyes and stared into Riku's with a look of despair on his face.
"It's okay Ben," Riku assured and gave his friend a little squeeze on his left shoulder. "You're alright. That guy can't follow us here."
Ben shook his head a few times. Riku didn't understand. Ben sniffled, and he lowered his gaze down to his hands he had pressing against the black floor below them. Riku followed his gaze down and the older boy's eyes turned into saucers. He let go of Ben's shoulder and stared down at his hands, specifically his left. He looked at Ben's left wrist, and the blackened, dead skin all around it. The dead skin spread to the back of his hand, and up his forearm a little, but it was mostly centered around his left wrist. The injury in itself did not look so bad, what made Riku open his eyes wide was something else.
The fact that he could see Ben's wrist meant one thing: Ben was no longer wearing a watch. The Omnitrix was gone.
A/N Oh nooo! The escape south is cut short by Emperor Spriggan (Zeref)'s elite soldiers, his giant dragon, and the High Lord himself. The flying bison explodes, Dash runs off with a still-comatose Killua, and Ben's Omnitrix is gone! Silver lining: Riku's back to normal, accepting his powers of darkness and overpowering Ansem. The bad guys in this chapter were all from the Fairy Tail manga who we mostly haven't seen before, though Bahamut is a little different... Hope you all enjoyed! Thanks for reading!
Limit-Breaking chapter 68 . Nov 16
OMG maka and soul are broken that was so sad to see them like that, also zarbon and dodoria i love how you potrayed them i mean really i love dbz it's my favorite but it's amazing how good of a job you did with them. I mean i watch lots of other animes like soul eater for one, so seeing thoses characters become like that was crazy. Amazing job with zarbon and dodoria i always felt dbz didn't make them evil enough to be honest. I mean they erased planet civilizations and we never saw a story of how evil they can be. You my friend did and amzing job, an poor maka and soul. Either way it's a good thing they escaped. Besides that the character king just letting you know he actually have a power level of 39,000 in the manga or something like that but thats later on in the seven deadly sins story. so it makes sense that he is weaker than zarbon and dodoria if he is from season 1 anime and without his weapon. And yes if you want to see those power levels those are the latest chapters of the manga it actually shows us there power levels not kidding but still he didnt have his weapon so it makes sense and awesome job. Besides that it surprises me thats the way to spell dodoria name, I swear i remember it being spelled dedoria ehh whatever mandella affect probably. I also look forward to meruem and seeing how much stronger he is. Last but not least will goku ever use the fusion at some point in this story cause i remember him mentioning it in the previous story, Well i look forward to the next chapter and here's to hoping for ssj4 to come XD.
Sad to see them like that, but it makes it so much better to know they're out of it now. Glad you liked Zarbon and Dodoria, we'll see them around sometime. Haven't read the 7DS manga, though I have been tempted to recently, but I'm waiting for season 2 to come out in January. I'll probably decide when in their universe's timeline they got taken from after binging that season, but if King does get super strong even without his weapon then it'll have to be before then I guess. Wonder if the power level of the 7DS sins characters though matches DBZ characters? Are power levels universal? Multiversal? XD More Meruem coming, no spoilers on his strength or on Goku's upcoming stuff though! Thanks for the review! Hope you enjoyed the new chapter!
joebob323 chapter 68 . 22h ago
Oh my god... Well, looks like the King is going for Goku's head from the way he is talking... And also, what the heck happened to Tien? They should know that this will only end in disaster... I still cannot gauge the King's strength, but other than that, I can't wait for the next chapter! Woohoo Goku and Timmy!
Thanks for the review! Who knows what the King's true plans are? Tien, what happened?! (Sure there'll be a flashback about that...) Hope you enjoyed the new chapter! And thanks again everyone for reading, favorited, following, and reviewing! 'Til next time!