A/N 1,000,000 WORDS! ONE MILLION! Not even Nexus reached this many, so I really want to thank all you guys for reading this far. Those of you who review I really appreciate hearing from you guys and all the feedback. Final part of chapter 11 before the final chapter of all of the First Third of the Aebrith Saga. And I know I said that the daily chapter updates were done after the last one, which is why it took a few days for this one to come out, but I already have the next 3 after this one finished too! Anyway, hope everybody enjoys and once again, thanks y'all for all your support!
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Nexus HWR 11.9 SUBMIT!:
"Do you feel that Brandi?" A blonde woman with bandages around both her arms and her forehead asked. Despite her recent defeat at the hands of a child, she had a huge grin on her face and she was literally shaking with anticipation. Dimaria spun to her younger friend and looked at Brandish who continued walking straight towards the meeting hall with an uncaring look on her face. "It's in the air," Dimaria exclaimed, her excitement bubbling over.
"I feel it," Brandish replied calmly. "I figure it must have something to do with High Lord Spriggan's summons."
"Of course," Dimaria said, turning the same way as Brandish now and walking by her side towards the open doors at the end of the hall. They could see a large table through the doors and they grew more quiet as the people in that room were not making a lot of noise. The two girls walked through the doors and looked around to see the room was crowded. Spriggans and Tartaros demons filled up the chamber, and as they came in one side, a muscular man in shiny armor came in the opposite side of the room.
Brandish smiled at an elderly man near the door she just entered who nodded back at her and motioned at the chair on his left. Brandish walked over to the empty chair and Dimaria pouted as the seat on Brandish's other side was filled up too. She walked around the table to find another seat, while a demonic woman with a tight purple outfit on that revealed parts of her butt, chest, and most of her body smirked towards the opposite door as the Spriggans entered from. "Silver," Kyouka chided over, "I heard that you also failed to kill your chosen targets." She had a smug look on her face but the man with spiky black hair and a scar down his face ignored her as he walked towards the table.
He glanced her way after sitting down and smiled over in a relaxed manner, "It was unavoidable. Not even the Spriggan 12 managed to kill their targets," he added, and instantly Dimaria started glaring his direction. Silver did not show signs of being worried though.
Sitting on Silver's left side was a skeletal figure wearing a black-and-white-checkered cloak and a golden crown over the top of his skull. Keyes, The Black Archbishop, turned his head as he felt the presence behind him earlier than most others. "My Lord," he greeted, and everyone else in the room looked towards the door Silver came in a minute ago. Zeref, or High Lord Spriggan, stepped into the meeting room that had a large round table at it for his demons and trusted advisors to sit at. They were in the middle of the city of Vistarion, two thousand miles north of the Cataclysm line in the direct center of Aebrith.
"Thank you all for coming on such short notice," Zeref said. He looked around the room and smiled softly as he noticed a few of both the Tartaros demons and the Spriggan 12 were missing from their seats. "I am surprised so many managed to come," he admitted, not expecting such a big turnout.
"What is going on?" Invel questioned. The man with long white hair tied in a single braid that fell in front of his right shoulder had on a pair of spectacles and a black and white suit and tie that's colors were split down the middle. He held a book in one hand pressed against his chest and he pushed up his glasses with the other. Zeref's chief of staff and a member of the Spriggan 12, Invel Yura's red irises narrowed up at the black haired High Lord ahead of him. "I have received reports from all around the continent that Meruem's forces are mobilizing."
Zeref nodded his head, then motioned to the center of the table and said, "August, if you would." The old man sitting next to Brandish nodded his head and waved a hand in front of his body. In the center of the table, the air started to shimmer and an image appeared. As the image formed, the group gathered at the table felt the floor beneath their feet shake. A few of them looked around, but most of the others who wanted to know what was going on just looked closer at the image August was creating for them, assuming it had to do with whatever was causing the ground to shake.
The Black Wizard smirked as the ground started shaking harder beneath his feet. It has begun sooner than I thought, he walked away from the round table towards some windows on the wall. He stepped to them and heard his advisors and demons gasping behind him while he stared out into the western distance. He looked at the black and purple sky and the glowing golden light that flared inside it. Bright white auras mixed with red, and dark blue pushed against those. The deep purple that covered most of the sky made Zeref's lips curl up in a smirk. Once again he has leapt forward in power. That Ant is King, but can he keep his title? This day will mark a change on Aebrith one way or another.
"I thought he was going to exterminate the Resistance," Eileen mentioned and hummed to herself afterwards. "I find this much more enjoyable however."
"It will be more interesting," Tempest mentioned. The hairy demon with a serious expression on his fur-covered face stared at the image in the center of the table carefully. "To see which of the Kings comes out victorious."
"The Ant King or the King of the Saiyans," Zeref said, and his lips curled up even more. "What an interesting world we live in."
Pao Town
Inside a house in Pao, Gwen Tennyson lifted her gaze from her studies and looked at the glass of water on her desk. The surface of the water vibrated with ripples over and over, and then the ground beneath her shook and the glass fell over and completely soaked her papers. "Ah!" She jumped out of her seat as the water spilled towards her, then she fell as the ground beneath her shook even worse than the one that knocked over her water. An earthquake?!
"W-wha-at i-ss hap-p-pen-ing?!" Goten shouted as the ground beneath him shook so badly he could barely stand. The boy running down a paved road of Pao with his best friend at his side could not tell where the shaking was coming from, but it was not letting up.
"I don't know!" Trunks yelled. His voice was not shaking like his friend's and Goten turned to see why. Five year old Trunks was floating a few feet off the ground and though Goten thought the older boy would be grinning at him and teasing him since he knew how to fly and Goten didn't, Trunks did not look in the joking mood. He looked afraid. He spun around and around but did not feel a thing with his ki-sensing. "This is really weird though!"
A few miles away from Pao, Gohan and Vegeta stood ten feet across from each other on a training field. Both of them looked worn out and were panting, but as their Super Saiyan auras faded, they spun around in confusion too. "These earthquakes," Gohan said in a dark tone. "They don't feel natural."
"Someone is powering up," Vegeta growled, "but we can't feel them."
Both the Saiyan and demi-Saiyan turned their heads in the same direction. They looked east and Gohan started, "You think it's my dad?"
"Kakarott could not make the ground shake like this. Not here. Not on this planet." Vegeta snarled as he wondered what that meant. If the power is across that ocean, there should be no way for us to feel it here. Even during the most destructive battles in the past, those in Pao said they felt tremors, but nothing like this. And many of those battles were on the same continent no less.
Inside of the town Vegeta was thinking about, Laxus was standing in the doorway of Fairy Tail. "Get out of the building!" He yelled inside. The wooden guild hall was structurally sound, he knew it because he was the one to build the place, but this earthquake was making wooden beams on the ceiling fall down.
"Come on, keep moving," a girl farther back in the room was ushering people out as well from the side of the bar. She opened up the back door and her younger sister with shorter white hair, though down to below her shoulder-blades now, hurried out ushering an older man whose arm she had over her shoulder to help him walk. Mirajane saw her younger sister struggling to help the old man and she jogged to his other side to get under his other arm.
"Thanks girls," Macao said, before coughing up a storm. "I don't know what's gotten into me, but I'm sorry I'm such a burden."
"It's okay Macao," Lisanna promised the man, right before the ground shook again and she stumbled to the right and slammed her side into a table. "Ouch," she let go of Macao's arm and reached down to her side.
"Lis," Mira exclaimed. "Are you okay?" She and Macao turned and Lis got out of her hunched position to turn to them and give them an affirmative smile. When Lis turned though, her eyes grew huge and she opened her mouth to shout but it was much too late. Mira saw the shadow coming down when the wooden beam was just over her head. She had no time, but she was able to use the hand she had on Macao to push him.
"Mira!" Macao exclaimed as he fell away from her and the thick beam that was about to fall on their heads.
Mira clenched her eyes shut, and then nothing. She opened back up her eyes and there was a hand right in front of her eyes and a few inches up. The thirty foot long beam was sitting in the open hand of the man who rose it, and Laxus lowered his gaze down to her. She looked up into his eyes and Laxus grumbled, "Who's gonna fix this place back up if you're not here?"
Her surprised look lifted up into a happier one and she nodded her head at the muscular blond man. Mira turned and helped Macao up, and her little sister gave Laxus a big smile too before the two white haired girls helped the older man out of there. Laxus watched them leave and then looked around the empty guild hall covered in overturned chairs and tables. He gazed towards an empty bar shelf where all the liquor bottles had fallen and smashed behind the bar. He grimaced at the sight of the place, and in his mind he imagined an old man standing behind the bar, facing the wall with a hammer in his hand.
"No matter how many times those damn Saiyans get in battles that knock this place down, we'll always bring it back again. Fairy Tail isn't just a building." Laxus saw Makarov's image turn around and flash him a smile and then the former Master faded from sight.
The Lightning Dragon Slayer chuckled once to himself then turned around. He started walking back for the doorway as more wooden beams fell down from the ceiling. Holes ripped in the roof and windows cracked under the pressure. It's been too long since we've had to rebuild this place, old man. Too bad you won't be here this time to do it.
Across the continent of Awul, on the western edge and much farther north, a drunk woman stumbled out of a bar in Port Royal. The entire Cape of Veilthorn was shaking just as hard as Pao, and a sudden bigger shake made a shabby building down the road from the black haired woman start to crumble. Cana Alberona turned and sprinted down the boardwalk, shaking away some of her drunken stupor as she did.
The Fairy Tail mage on a job in the port ran up to the door of the crumbling building and she reached her hand down into her pocket. She could hear screaming from inside and she pulled out a few dozen playing cards that all started glowing. She swung them in front of her and then flipped them around. On some of the usually-empty faces of the cards were the faces of people with terrified expressions on their faces. Cana sighed in relief as the building in front of her completely collapsed with the next shake of the ground, but then she stumbled back on the wood of the boardwalk as the ground shook twice as badly as a second ago.
Cana turned and released the people who were screaming inside her cards. A few of them who were not terrified by what just happened turned and thanked her for saving them, before running off with the others towards the water. Cana nodded her head as she saw that was where most people were heading. Guess it's safer without any buildings to fall on- She heard more screams coming from the water and turned her head, only for her eyes to grow huge.
The water was not choppy, it was not rough, it looked like someone had a massive invisible spoon and was stirring it too hard in a pot of water that was the ocean. Enormous waves were smashing into each other in the sea and making explosions of water that flew up a hundred feet in the air. A few of the waves were coming towards the port and the dozens of docks sticking off of the port were getting ripped apart. Some of the ships on the docks had untied and there were crews of people on board trying desperately to keep their ships from flipping over in the mysteriously-caused waves.
"What the Hell is happening?" Cana muttered and she scratched the side of her head. Someone screamed behind her and the mage sighed but turned around and ran back off into the terribly shaking port.
A few hundred miles to the east of Port Royal, and fifty miles to the north of Awul's northern coast, Erza and Wendy stared into the southeast as they stood on top of a hill overlooking a town. They looked down into the town below them and heard the bells ringing for people to leave their homes. Short green and blue people were crowding onto the streets and out of their buildings like they did occasionally for earthquake drills, except this was in no way a drill.
Max Alors ran out of a building with Droy, Jet, and Laki right behind him. The sand mage called out to some of the aliens they met on the exploratory mission on this island to get away from the buildings, then he stumbled forward himself as the ground beneath his feet shook. They were leading the green and blue people out of buildings like Erza told them to, while their mission leader left with Wendy to "find out what's going on."
Erza spotted their comrades who she led to this island in the town below, then she lifted her gaze back to the increasingly dark sky to the east. Wendy lifted her gaze that way again too, and she gulped at the dark feeling that made her shiver. Wendy turned nervously to her older friend and asked, "What's going on Erza-san?"
Erza had her head pointed to the darker part of the sky, and she narrowed her eyes in that direction. Gray, Juvia, be careful. Natsu… don't do anything stupid.
Hell
"Why did you call for me?" Yukio Okumura growled as he walked into a room of red walls filled with thick haze because of the intense heat in this layer of Hell. As he stepped in, the teenager's eyes opened up wide and he darted them around the room. The one he snapped at originally was in the center of the hall, but there were a half dozen other figures gathered around as well. He spotted a demon he recognized, a short man with green hair that spiked up once directly in the center of his scalp. Amaimon, Yukio thought, and he looked around to see the others in the room all had tails sticking out of them as well, just like he had coming out behind his own flaming-blue waist.
Satan turned towards the door and his dark blue eyes glowed bright for a second in anger. Yukio tensed up but Satan's mouth twisted into a smirk as he gazed at his son. "Come here boy," Satan growled towards the door. The distance between them halved and Yukio felt like the entire room was distorting around them. The other Demon Kings were moving farther away from him, and he spotted some movement in the left corners of his eyes that made him look over. His jaw dropped at the sight of the purple haired figure with a demonic and terrifying appearance. Mephisto! He's been here the whole time?!
A hand grabbed around Yukio's face interrupting the boy's train of thought. Satan's seven-fingered hand of bumpy red flesh wrapped around his son's face, and he yanked it back towards him pulling Yukio another twenty feet so that the boy would be standing next to him. He let go and the boy gasped as Satan's hand had been wrapped around his mouth as well as his eyes. "Look," Satan snarled, and grabbed the back of Yukio's head this time, pushing him towards the altar in front of them. There was a bowl wider than the alter itself on top of it, full of what looked like blood. Yukio's face covered in sweat as Satan made him stare at a pool of blood, but as his eyes focused on it, it stopped looking like a bowl of red liquid and more like the red was filling his entire vision. Even his peripheral vision filled with the sight of the blood, and then the blood shimmered and images appeared in front of him. They were hazy at first, but became clearer as Satan pushed him closer, at least he thought the King of Hell must have, although Satan started smirking ear to ear as Yukio leaned in, because his hand was no longer on the back of the teen's head.
"The entire planet is shaking," a voice from inside the blood spoke. The liquid vibrated with the voice of the Demon King of Light's voice, and Lucifer continued from the surface world that he was currently on. "Meruem is taking on the Saiyan King. Watch carefully Yukio," Yukio's eyes widened as the person talking was speaking directly to him, not Satan like he thought. The visions he was looking at in the blood became clear and Yukio's face covered in even more sweat. The other Demon Kings around the room all stepped closer and gathered around the alter, looking in as did their father who watched it as well. Lucifer continued speaking to the teen even while they all watched the incredible battle going on through the red veil, "The winner of this battle will be the ultimate vessel for our father. He will rise and take his place in the most powerful body this world possesses."
They're going to try and take on one of them? Yukio thought with a face drenched in sweat as he watched the epic battle go on worlds away. This is insanity! The entire vision filled with a bright white light and the demons, and half-demon, all reeled back from the alter as they were blinded. Lucifer, the Demon King of Light, did not look away as he watched from inside the surface city of Gehenna where he ruled in place of his father. His eyes did widen as he stared through that light though, and he stated in a surprised voice that reached the deepest parts of Hell, "Is that…"
North of the Cataclysm in central Aebrith, an airship flying east through the sky jolted hard making everyone inside stumble or fall over. The blimp-like airship had two long ovular inflatables sticking up over it with jets sticking out the backs of them. The body to the ship looked more like a boat, with most of the passengers above the lower decks exposed to the harsh winds whipping around.
The captain of the airship dragged himself back up to his feet by pulling up on the steering wheel at the bow. "This is crazy!" He shouted, though with a giant smile on his face. He spun the wheel to the right and started laughing as the ship rocked back and forth with giant gusts of wind.
Far ahead of their ship, the captain and the others on board could see past the pylons above them into the dark purple sky, a sky full of lightning. There was no rain anywhere around them, but lightning shot in every direction around them, filling the air with a static that had all their hair standing on end. A man standing with his back against the railing to the right of the captain looked back towards the stern of the ship and frowned. The lightning in the direction they were heading was intense, but behind them it dropped like rain out of the sky. Something strong is stirring in the west.
"Ahh, that's an unusually serious look on your face Gintoki," the captain chided to his right at an old friend of his. Sakamoto Tatsuma smirked and almost started laughing, but before he could, he heard growling on his left that made his skin chill and his laughter to come out more like nervous chuckles.
"Turn us around," the low growl behind him started speaking words, and Tatsuma almost jumped out of his boots at how close the guy was to him. He turned, and in front of him stood a ninja with spiky black hair and a giant sword on his back as well as a katana at his waist. Usually the man was also wearing a white mask over the bottom half of his face, but after he spoke, he coughed, and the white mask turned even more red than it already was.
Blood dripped off Zabuza's mask, and the ship captain in front of him spun around and yelled, "Why are you traveling with so many scary people?!"
"Oi oi," Gin muttered back at Tatsuma. "Don't call him scary, you'll hurt his feelings."
Zabuza glared towards Gin, but Gin still had not taken his eyes off the distant west and the dark colors filling the sky in that direction. "We're not turning around," a woman's voice started, and Zabuza turned to glare towards the staircase on the starboard side of the airship that led down from the bow. Two women were walking up, and the girl in front with darker hair scolded with her arms crossed over her chest, "We just made it away from the old Fire Nation, we're not going through all that airspace just so you can go off and die." Lin Tohsaka did not even look at the ninja as she said it, she just strolled right up next to Tatsuma at the wheel. "Keep going," she said in a serious voice, "we need to get away from that."
Saber followed after her friend, but she continued glancing over her right shoulder every few steps when flashes of gold or purple filled her peripheral vision. Unlike Lin, she was not putting on a brave face, and she looked nervous as she could feel the pressure of the power in the air. "You're all too afraid," Zabuza growled. Saber turned to the ninja and looked him up and down, and he turned to her and did the same. Both of them had bandages wrapping their arms, though Saber's skin did not look nearly as pale as his did. "I'm sure Zoro agrees, we're turning around," Zabuza said, this time leaving no room for argument with the tone of his voice.
The woman in front of him with long blond hair styled in a single braid frowned and narrowed her eyes at her comrade. Saber reached down to her right side and put both hands on the hilt of her broadsword. Zabuza narrowed his eyes back at the woman, and Saber spoke, "We will not turn back." Lin heard the tone of her friend's voice and turned her head to the side, and when she did she caught both Zabuza and Saber in her gaze which made her face turn pale. The two reached for their weapons, Gin's eyes darted back in front of him, the captain of the ship let out a scream. CRASH!
Everyone on the bow stumbled around as the entire ship jolted again, this time much harder than a minute ago. Beeping noises sounded from behind the steering wheel where some mechanical devices were connected to it, and Lin shouted at the airship's captain, "What happened?!"
Tatsuma was holding onto the wheel of his ship for dear life. He turned his head to Lin with a shaky smile, then let go with one hand and pointed above her head. Lin spun and looked up, and she stared with a dropped jaw at the pylon over the port side of their ship that was letting out a thick plume of smoke. Flames raged above them from a stray lightning strike, and more bolts zipped around above them as they started to descend. "Doesn't look like we're going back or forward," Gin mentioned, a nervous smile on his face as he grabbed onto the railing behind him with both hands. Zabuza and Saber glared at each other for another second, then the two of them let go of their blades.
On the stern of the ship, Jewelry Bonney grabbed onto one of the supports holding up the starboard pylon for dear life as the ship turned on its side and dipped towards the bow. They were falling out of the air, and she shouted farther towards the stern right below the engines, "What do you plan to do?! We're thousands of miles away and that fight still might kill us!"
Zoro's teeth clenched and the swordsman shook where he stood. His body looked less beat up than most of his comrades' did, but he was not in peak condition. In fact, he felt worse than any of them. He was not thinking about Ulquiorra though, nor the Espada's second Resurreccion release that still had him in recovery, his thoughts were solely on the world-shaking battle going on not far from them. I could make it. Others around the world probably think they are too far, think they would never make it in time to take part, but I could. This power though, pressing down on me from thousands of miles away like Ulquiorra's did from point blank. Is this the top? Is the top, still this far away?! Zoro's eyes burned with passion and rage, and the fists of his gigai clenched so hard that he cut into his own palms with his nails.
"We're going down," Zoro muttered, and he turned to look at the woman behind him. "Think you can survive a fall from this height?" Bonney looked at him in confusion, then shook her head slowly as she was currently concerned about that, though she had hoped the guys up front would figure out a way to steady the ship. She glanced over the railing next to her, wondering how much time they had, and her eyes bugged out of her head as the ground was approaching so fast it would not be ten seconds before they crashed. She spun back to Zoro, but he had already tapped the button on the side of his neck, capsulizing his gigai and bringing himself into his shinigami state.
Zoro's black hakama was still torn to shreds as his Reiatsu had not fully recovered, but he was easily fast enough to fly to Bonney, then to the other dozen people on the ship, long before it crashed into the ground. Zoro dropped to the floor a hundred meters away from where their ship would crash, far enough that it would not harm them but close enough that they could walk back in a minute to put out the flames when it crashed and gather their things from inside the wreckage. When he dropped all his confused comrades who figured out what had happened at various speeds though, his gaze was already back focused on the west. He narrowed his gaze as a blinding white light erupted in the distance and shook the ground beneath him, right as a dome of fire erupted behind him.
On the quaking ground under a dark sky, Hattori yelled at Zabuza to go use water jutsu on the burning ship before his comics burned up. Everyone started yelling at him to move when he ignored Hattori, not caring about the other ninja's magazines, as they all had things they wanted to save as well. The earthquakes stopped though while everyone was mid-scream, and their screams all caught in their throats. Zoro and Zabuza were both still just staring into the west, and those who were yelling at Zabuza watched as his eyes grew huge and sweat formed on the sides of his face. Even Zoro felt himself get cold, and he did not even have a physical body, as sweat formed on the side of his face. No, Zoro thought, the top, is so much higher than I thought.
In the middle of Resistance lands in south Aebrith, one of three trucks traveling fast across a landscape of red grass started swerving from the shaking of the planet. The driver could not hold the wheel straight and it spun to the side as a few of the wheels bounced up for a second and slammed down hard. The truck swerved left and almost hit the one next to it on that side, so the driver pulled as hard as he could the other way, and the truck swerved that direction instead so hard that he could not stop it from slamming into the truck on his right.
All three vehicles came to a stop, and most of the people in two of them were glad they had decided to wear their seatbelts considering how fast they were speeding across the region. Gray Fullbuster unbuckled as soon as the truck came to a full stop, and he ran to a man near him who was foolishly standing when the truck crashed. He grabbed the guy on the floor and rolled him over, then he pressed his right hand to the man's forehead where there was a small gash that was spewing a lot of blood. Gray froze the wound shut and hoped the unconscious man in front of him would survive until better medical treatment could be given.
"Gray-sama," a voice said behind him, and he turned to see Juvia getting out of her seat as well. "What is happ-en-" Juvia stumbled forward and Gray jumped up, steadying her before she fell from the massive tremor.
"What's going on?!"
"The world is shaking apart!"
Gray kept his hand on Juvia's shoulder, but he looked around the truck at all the panicking men and women around him. His teeth clenched hard, Beta Squad's a mess without their leader. Dino, was this mission really worth losing your life over? After making it through so much… Gray's teeth ground against each other, then he opened his mouth and yelled, "Beta Squad get it under control!"
Rin spun from the back of the truck where he was lifting the handles to pop the steel doors open. He looked at Gray and grinned as the older man calmed down the truck and told them all to head outside. He opened up the doors and hopped out himself, and the black cat sticking its head out of his bag leapt out at his side. Kuro looked up at Rin and whispered telepathically once they were standing on the shaking earth, "Rin, what's happening?"
"I don't know," Rin whispered back, as he lifted his head and watched the blue sky darken shade after shade. Swirls of red and purple turned black after a few seconds, and occasional flashes of white or gold would illuminate the sky. Rin followed where the lights were all coming from, and he had to walk around the outsides of the smoking trucks that were unloading a few dozen Resistance members.
Only half of Beta Squad remained, which was the main reason they were returning to Resistance Headquarters when they spotted Gray, Rin, and Juvia trekking across the vast expanse of Resistance lands. Their leader had fallen in a mission to the northeast, and when they found Rin and the others, the temporary leader of Beta had mentioned that the other teams with them were trying to finish the mission even with the largest squad taken out.
Gray heard which squads were up north with Beta, and he wished he could have convinced them to take him to that forward base. Omega and Lambda. That means that Gajeel and Levy are up there in dangerous territory with little backup. Gray stepped out of the truck after ushering most of the people inside it out, then he and Juvia turned to their lefts as Rin called them over. The tone and shakiness of his shout unnerved the two mages more than they already were, and they jogged over with a few of the more composed Beta Squad members.
As Gray jogged over to Rin's side, he kept thinking about his friends farther to the north for a few seconds. The shaking was coming from the west, not the east, but it was also coming north of them where he knew many of his friends were. If this is somehow related to Father's armies, I hope you can handle it Gajeel, you too Ren. With Omega's leader Asato Kido killed too, you're going to have to lead both squads. At least Omega stayed with you though, unlike Beta… Gray's thoughts were shaken and he became mentally speechless. All thoughts unrelated to the swirling dark sky in the northwest were removed from his mind. Anything unrelated to the shaking of the planet he stood on, it just faded from thought.
"What's going on Gray?" Rin muttered. "You've seen something like this before, right?" The half-demon hoped Gray had, since Gray had lived on Aebrith for a long time and spoke of it in such a way that something like this happening often could be believable. A look at Gray's neurotic, anxious expression had Rin's fears confirmed though.
"I've, never seen," the ground shook again and many of the people around Gray fell. He tried to focus some ice around his feet to keep him standing in place, but his ice shattered because his mind was too foggy to properly use magic. "The, last time the planet shook like this," Gray whispered, his skin paling and covering in sweat. "It was the day of the Cataclysm. Back then though, I was closer to where everything was going on. I could see it." Gray gulped and whispered in an even softer voice, "To feel it this bad, from this far away…"
He trailed off, but the message was clear. This was not a common occurrence. This was not something that happened often on Aebrith. Juvia and Rin had already suspected as much from everyone else's reactions, but they had held onto hope anyway. The sky lit up with a blinding white light that had every one of them pulling back and covering their eyes with their arms. When Gray lowered his arms and looked towards the source of the light, his breath caught in his throat. Is that you, Goku?
Organization HQ
"Axel look out!" Roxas yelled behind him.
The taller, spiky red haired, Nobody only twenty yards from his friend looked towards Roxas, then snapped his head up where Roxas was pointing. The building he had been rushing people out of had cracked too much, and the clock tower that was the tallest building in the town had broken off. The huge tower was falling towards him, and thirty people on the road around him screamed in fear.
Roxas lifted his arms and two Keyblades formed in his hands. He pointed them up, while Axel brought his own arms up and created a Keyblade of his own. The two friends watched as their favorite place in all of Twilight Town fell towards them. "FIRE!" The Nobodies yelled, and while two huge fireballs shot from the tips of Roxas's Keyblades, a pillar of flames rose up from Axel's and engulfed the top of the tower that was falling lowest down.
The citizens of Twilight town stopped yelling, putting down their arms and looking up in awe as their clock tower broke into tiny pieces. Then they screamed again as those tiny flaming pieces fell out of the sky like rain around them, igniting every other building on the block. "Well, win some you lose some," Axel said, and then the loudest noise he had ever heard nearly shattered his eardrums. BA-KRRRACCCKKK! The ear-splitting noise sounded almost like an explosion, but like none anyone had ever heard before.
Roxas lowered his hands from his ears after screaming from the blast, and then before he could shout towards Axel to ask what that was, the ground below them got hit by an earthquake off of whatever scales humanity had invented for them. Axel's feet lifted off the ground and he was thrown ten feet up in the air. He opened his eyes wide and looked around to shout at everyone to brace themselves, but the citizens were in too much panic to listen. They hit the ground hard, slamming into pavement and screaming as bones broke from the falls.
"Cure!" Roxas shouted, then he shouted it again as he ran down the road. "Cure! Cure!" He swung his Keyblades at every person he saw, then spun to Axel when he got close and exclaimed, "What the Hell was that?!"
Axel was busy staring down the street where a fissure had opened up in the road. He watched as the fissure expanded to cross from one side of the road to the other, and then buildings on both sides started falling apart and collapsing into the new ravine in the center of town. "Those bastards are going to destroy the entire plan-"
"OH MY GOD!"
"The mountain!"
Axel and Roxas heard the shouting of the people around them, and they snapped their heads to the east. Twilight Town was only ten miles off the west coast of Aebrith, but another ten miles to the east of them, the elevation was the farthest thing from sea level a person could get on Nexus. The tallest mountain range in Aebrith rose out of Organization territory, and the area around the tallest mountain in that range was a different country that the Organization had no jurisdiction over. "Those Saiyans," Roxas muttered, trying to steady himself, "what are they-" he stopped talking as he finally saw what the people of the town were screaming about.
The closest mountain to Twilight Town was also one of the smallest in the mountain range. It was far enough away from the most giant mountains that rose into the upper atmosphere that it was not even within the fifty mile radius range of the Saiyan King's territory. That mountain had a giant crack down the middle of it leading all the way up towards the summit in the clouds. Closer inspection would tell anyone looking that there were not actually clouds in the sky up there though, despite the lightning bolts zipping through the sky, or the dark colors that one would not usually expect the sky to look like. No one was looking at the crazy sky though, not when the mountain was falling apart in front of them. It looked like the mountain was covered in snow and an avalanche was in the process of breaking apart the surface. Entire slabs of rocks slid down the mountain and broke apart as they fell, turning into massive boulders that rolled in every direction.
Several of these earth-shattering boulders were heading straight for Twilight Town, rolling faster every second. Roxas turned to Axel and shouted, "We have to get the rest of the Organization to help!"
Axel frowned and lifted his head to look straight above them. He stared above Twilight Town at the floating castle high over their heads. Even though it was not touching the ground, the air itself was shaking enough from the pressure of being so close to the epicenter of all this that the castle was trembling. Even if it wasn't, Axel thought grimly, those bastards wouldn't help us out. Hell, I'm risking blowing my own cover just by being down here, though I can say I'm only doing it for Roxas's sake. Still, a Nobody saving people? It's no surprise these people aren't thanking us. Well that, and the fact that we just set the street on fire.
"Come on," Axel called out and started running forward. Fire surrounded his body and the flame grew larger as he leapt up in the air towards the east. "We have to destroy as much as we can before it reaches the town!"
Roxas clenched the hilts of his Keyblades tightly. He knew as well as Axel that there was barely anyone in the Organization they could rely on here. As he leapt up to follow after Axel though, he spotted someone flying out of the sky like a missile from the castle above. He and Axel lifted their gazes to this man, blond-haired, kicking the air behind him to accelerate as fast as he could, shouting about how he would save all of the ladies of Twilight Town.
Jixsan huh, Axel thought, and he chuckled darkly. I'm glad he never saw Sora back at the Dread Fort. Would have had to silence him like Malx Lewx. Could have done with Larxene seeing him though. Axel stopped laughing and got serious again as he neared the mountain. There may have only been three of them there, but they were going to put their full effort into saving the town below.
Far above the three Organization members who were rushing to save Twilight Town, inside the floating castle of the Organization's Headquarters, a teenage girl standing in a cell held her hands together in front of her chest. Kairi was feeling the tremors like everyone else in the world, but she felt something else as she stood there with her eyes closed. Sora, she thought. Somehow she knew that Sora, her reckless fiancé, was right in the middle of it all.
"You are right to be afraid for him," a deep voice spoke in front of her. Kairi's eyes opened calmly, and she did not jump or even flinch when the man spoke. She stared forward at the figure with long black hair styled in dreadlocks. His sharp eyebrows and sideburns that pointed in on his cheeks gave him an even more menacing vibe than his persona already did, but Kairi stared him down with no fear in her eyes. Xaldin continued to frown deeply and added in his dark voice, "Those Sora fights are not like the Organization. They do not deal in hearts and darkness and light." Xaldin stepped closer to the bars and looked down at the girl shorter than him. "They fight in battles of life and death. Kill or be killed. I am afraid, as are many in the Organization, that Sora will not-"
"He'll survive," Kairi declared. There was no hesitation in her voice, no doubt. She continued to stare Xaldin in the eyes, and she smiled as she added, "He promised after all. He'll be back."
Xaldin looked around in Kairi's eyes, searching for the shred of doubt he knew he would find. When he found nothing, he felt unnerved by the girl's calm stare in her situation. While the entire world shook and the strongest on it felt fear of what could cause such tremors, this girl smiled calmly and assuredly told him what she believed without fear that she could be wrong. I should have expected nothing less, from a Princess of Heart.
Xaldin turned from the girl and walked away. As soon as he turned, he missed Kairi's smile vanish and her eyes close again. I said that, but Sora, I know how reckless you are. Please don't get hurt, you stupid, stupidly brave man.
Resistance Southernmost Outpost
"AHHHH!"
"Stop screaming already!" Nami slammed a fist down on Usopp's head and smashed the sniper's face into the dirt.
The shaking of the entire base had just intensified for a moment, but some people were getting used to the constant trembling. Even the sirens and alarms that got everyone to evacuate the buildings of the base had shut off after ten minutes of rumbling earth.
Everyone stayed gathered outside though, as it was dangerous to be inside during earthquakes like these. Many inside the base clustered together near the northern gate that was opened up and let these men and women step outside. Luffy and Natsu were out of the hospital, both still covered in bandages, both staring straight north, both completely silent. At first they had asked the same questions as everyone else: "What's going on?" "Why is everything shaking?" Etc. Now though, just like Sasuke, and Logan, and a dozen others, they stared in silence at the northern horizon. The sky was painted purple and yellow and red and black all swirling around with each other and making the air feel heavy. Despite not being able to see this distant fight that was beyond the horizon, the pressure from it made it difficult to breathe.
Luffy watched as a swirl of purple grew darker and flared to engulf all of the other colors around it. He had sweat all over his body, but as he gulped, his fists clenched hard at his sides. Sora, is this what you were talking about? You should have taken me with you... No matter how many crazy and unbelievable things Luffy had seen his close friend do over the years, he could not help the following thought from creeping into his mind, Don't die. Don't die Sora.
What is that power?! It's insane! I-I-I... I need to breathe! "Ahh-haaa," Natsu let the breath out slow to calm down but it did not help much. They're so heavy. Those powers are weighing down on me. One of them's gotta be the Mayor, but if the other isn't Luthor, then who in the world could it be? Is it the King? Can that creepy Ant guy actually threaten Goku?
Riku stood at the front of the group still inside the Resistance Base. They were closer to the gate now than when the shaking first started, but unlike Natsu and Luffy, they did not rush out of the base in a hurry. Riku glanced behind him when the ground shook again. He looked over the heads of the pirates behind him, in the direction of a three-story hospital one of his closest friends was in that he hoped was still standing. After staring towards Ben for a second, his gaze started to shift back, but it hesitated when it shifted over an orange-haired woman behind him. The look of fear on her face, her shaking legs, the sight of them steadied his own expression and made him even more certain that this was the place he needed to be right now.
Sora, Riku thought, looking back to the north with everyone else. I want to be there, I just-
"RESISTANCE!"
The shout of this word was accompanied by a tremor that shook all of Aebrith. The sky flashed white while everyone in the Resistance base looked up, and those who had left the northern gate turned to look behind them. The sky was not so bright that everyone who looked up could not see the silhouette of a man flying above them. "SUBMIT!" The man in the air above the Resistance outpost yelled.
Sasuke was the first back inside the base out of everyone outside, though Natsu and Luffy were running back towards their friends fast. Their friends inside the base were gathered up in the largest group of people there, directly underneath this man who was shadowed by the bright light that filled the sky. Sasuke ran back and yelled up at him while drawing his new katana, "Who are you?!"
"What's going on?!" Usopp shouted in panic. He pulled his slingshot out and held it as steady as he could while staring up at the eight foot tall muscular man in the air above them. The bright white light in the sky was fading and it was returning to its dark color from before.
"I am a messenger of the Wizard King!" the man above them yelled.
What the, Nami thought, her face twisting in confusion.
Wizard King? Luffy thought, his eyebrows lifting up.
Wizard King, Sasuke thought and grumbled under his breath. "We've told you before," Sasuke called up. "We won't let you take over Leam, or any Resistance lands-"
"You will submit!" the man above them yelled. The figure was shouting very loudly because he floated so much higher above the people below that his voice needed to reach. He started floating down though, crossing his arms in front of his chest and flexing so that he looked even more jacked.
Sanji wished that he had not just smoked his last cigarette. Even Robin's eyes grew huge as the man floated down above them. He wore an all black body-suit pressed tightly to his body to accentuate his muscles. The man had long brown hair falling behind his head and halfway down his back. "Wait a second," Usopp muttered as he stared at the man. A few people around their group started looking at him in confusion, while each one of the pirates and their friends dropped their jaws and grew wide-eyed.
"Everyone's making power moves, it's my turn too!" Although this person said at first that he was a messenger for the Wizard King, he was using the first person so much that most people there were thinking that this was the actual Wizard King talking to them. "You can't stop me, not anymore. Not that you could before! But now…"
The man above them uncrossed his arms and lifted his right palm facing-up in front of his body. Over his palm formed a small ball of white light, around the size of a golf ball. Sasuke eyed the ball hesitantly, but while he looked at it, he also felt strange sensations from the two men behind him on either side. He almost turned to look at them to see what was up, when he caught a glimpse of one of the others in their group standing below the Wizard King's emissary. What are they-
"If you do not submit, I will destroy this entire base!" The man above them yelled. Sasuke's thoughts were derailed while everyone else started staring in shock and horror at the man in the sky. "And if you think I'm bluffing, observe." The man in the sky smirked in a way that made those staring at him in shock question even further whether or not they were seeing things. The muscular flying man lifted his right hand some more, then he flicked his thumb up and sent the ball of white energy flying high into the sky behind him. It arced like it was a real golf ball, lifting up high in the sky and then dropping so far to the south that it easily cleared the long wall that stretched the back of the Resistance base and for an unknown number of miles in either direction on its sides.
For a split second after the sphere of light dipped below the distant wall, nothing happened. Then, the flash of white light erupted and nearly blinded them all. A half-second after that, BOOOOOOM! The sound of the blast hit them, and then the wind and the sounds of shattering windows around them followed. "Wooo!" The man in the air shouted. "Did you see that?! I mean, that is my power! I can use it to destroy-"
Nami had been shaking long before any of her friends around her. Before any of them got a good glimpse of the man, she felt all of her hairs stand on end and her breathing became ragged. The shock turned into disbelief at the first sight of his figure, and the disbelief persisted even as she recognized him more and more every second. "Ti-" Nami stopped herself. She could not finish the shout while the man above them had such a menacing look on his face.
"We will not submit," Sasuke said. His voice was deep and everyone near them heard how serious it was. Many started to run, others pulled out weapons, while the man in the sky looked down with a more annoyed expression on his face again. "Now!" Sasuke yelled right as the man opened his mouth to shout something back at him.
Meta Man flew through the sky at a hundred miles per hour with his right fist pulled back. The hero with a large yellow letter 'M' in the center of his super suit flew forward and punched his right fist at the man threatening their base.
"Wait!" Usopp shouted into the air.
Natsu spun to his left at the ninja in charge of the base, "Tell him to stop!"
Sasuke ignored the Dragon Slayer. As much as he wanted to know why these people did not want him stopping this threat, watching Meta Man's fist slam into the other figure's face only for their strongest fighter's attack to do absolutely nothing, it put him into fight mode. "Amaterasu," Sasuke said, and an instant later, the figure above them who just smacked Meta Man into the dirt with a wave of his hand burst into black flames.
"S-STOP!" Sanji yelled. He spun towards Sasuke angrily and glared like some of the others did at the commander of the base.
"What is it to you?" Wolverine growled at the pirate, getting in between him and the commander who was about to ask the same thing.
"Hahaha, HAHAHA! What is this?" The laughter came from inside the black flames above, and Sasuke grimaced deeply at how little effect his attack seemed to have. The black flames of the Amaterasu died on their own, making Sasuke sweat as those flames were supposed to burn forever. The figure inside them did not have a scratch on him, nor a burn, and he just grinned down at the people below who could do nothing to stop him. "You're all afraid! So why don't you just give up already? I let you live above my realm and kept all the dangers of it behind my walls. Now, it is time for you all to repay the favor, and bow down to ME!"
As the man was shouting, his gaze was shifting from one person to another on the ground below. He was looking at each one and reading their minds, and then he stopped when he looked straight down at a woman with long orange hair. What the? What is- hey!
Nami watched as the man's eyes stopped gazing around at everyone. They stopped on her, and she looked right back into them. She watched as the man's head twitched, almost like he was trying to pull away to look at the next person but for some reason couldn't. Nami's face covered in sweat and her disbelief vanished. Tears formed in her eyes and she screamed, "TIMMY!" The muscular form of Timmy Turner floated in the air above her, looking down into her eyes with a frown on his face that started baring teeth after his name was called.
Crap! Not good! "The Wizard King will give you three days to decide whether you want to die, or join him!"
"TIMMY!" Nami screamed into the sky again. "WHO- WHO'S DOING THIS TO YOU?!"
Sasuke looked down at the pirate woman in shock, then started looking around even more surprised as a half dozen others started shouting into the air with her. "Where is this Wizard King?" A voice asked on his right. Sasuke turned and saw a bandaged-up man with spiky pink hair glaring up into the sky furiously, even though he only spoke loud enough for those right next to him to hear.
Luffy snapped his head down and looked towards Natsu, then he turned towards Sasuke himself with his shocked look turning into one more full of unbridled fury. I let him die once. I have to save him this time! "Tell us."
"Who is that man to you?" Sasuke questioned the men on his sides.
"He's my nakama," Luffy growled.
"He saved all our lives," Natsu added.
Shut up! "Submit or face my wrath!"
"Give us Timmy back!" Usopp yelled up in the air.
"Shitty bastard! What are you doing to him?!" Sanji roared.
"Timmy!"
"TIMMY!"
Sasuke looked at either of the men next to him, then he looked up at the man in the sky who was still making eye contact with the orange-haired pirate woman below. Nami stopped yelling the boy's name and fell silent as she looked back into his eyes. The ground shook beneath her and the sky swirled with strange colors above him, and Nami and Timmy stared silently into each other's eyes. "You, will," Timmy began, his tone still deep, in a strange voice not his own. Then, at a booming volume, he roared, "SUBMIT!"
"As many times as you say it," Sasuke said to the man who finally turned back towards him. The flying man's mouth was twisting in strange ways and his fists kept clenching and unclenching while he floated there. Sasuke frowned and finished, "We will never submit to you."
Shit! I'm losing it! Need to bring him back now! Timmy opened his mouth as he started floating higher up in the air, and he bellowed in a voice that echoed around the Resistance outpost, "You will respect the Wizard King's fucking authoritah!"
No. Fucking. Way. A boy watching from outside of a building a quarter mile south dropped his jaw from under his brown cloak's hood.
Timmy spun after he finished shouting, and he flew south so fast that a visible shockwave rippled through the air and the wind from it knocked dozens of people off their feet.
After she hit the ground, Nami sat there frozen for a few seconds with her eyes opened wide. There's no mistake. She knew what she saw, Timmy! Nami shot up on her feet and spun around fast. "Luffy!" She yelled. We have to save him! "We have to go after him!" Everyone else was standing up around Nami, and she saw Usopp opening his mouth out of the corner of her eye, but before he could say a word she screamed, "RIGHT NOW! WE HAVE TO FOLLOW HIM!"
"Nami, calm down," Luffy began, seeing how panicked Nami looked as she shouted that last bit. "We're going after him-"
"No Luffy, I won't calm down!" Nami yelled at him. Sanji turned to Nami and his eyes grew wide, and the others who were part of their group or just members of the Resistance stared at her in shock, as tears spilled out of her eyes. "Did you see his eyes?!" Nami yelled. She looked from Luffy to each of her other friends: Natsu, then Robin, Sanji, Riku, and Usopp. She clenched her teeth as her heart filled with pain, then she exclaimed, "He looked like he was asking for help!"
Luffy's eyes grew huge, because he saw something in Timmy's eyes that he had not been able to place at the time. None of them understood it until Nami shouted, and each of them felt their own heart rates speeding up fast as she continued, "He was shouting, even if he couldn't out loud! He was screaming for help! I couldn't hear it, but I felt it! I saw his eyes, and he wanted to yell our names with all his heart, and he couldn't do it! Can you imagine how he feels right now?! After threatening us? After not being able to tell us why it was?!" Nami shook her head and tears splashed off to either side of her. "Luffy! Everyone! Please! I'm going after him right now!"
The way she said it made it sound like whether or not they were with her, she was leaving at that very second. This made the decision not a decision at all. Luffy reached up and grabbed his hat dangling on his back by a string tied around his neck. Sasuke stared at the pirate in shock as the thin rubberman lifted his hat and slammed it down on top of his messy black hair. Luffy then reached his right hand to his left arm, and he ripped all the bandages off in one hard tear. Natsu's right arm burst into flames and the cast ignited before turning to ash after only a few seconds and falling off of his still half-shattered right arm.
"You people are crazy," Wolverine growled and stepped towards the group who most other people were backing away from. Bubbles and two small girls who looked like her floating over Sasuke's head, whispering to each other in shock at what the people in front of them were talking about. "The Wizard King is so far south past the Great Wall, you'd never make it to him, let alone survive the Wizard himself," Wolverine snapped at the group of strange people. "And whoever that powerful man was, he's under the Wizard's control now. He'll kill you-"
"Timmy's not a man," Nami snapped at the mutant. "He's a twelve year old boy, and I'm not leaving him in the clutches of this Wizard! I made a promise! I'm going to save him!"
Riku looked towards Nami in confusion, wondering what type of promise she made. Who could she have told that she'd protect him? She could have promised Timmy that she would, but, it also makes sense, if she promised Wanda…
"And Timmy wouldn't kill us," Natsu said, a grin spreading across his face despite the pain he was in as he started moving around his right arm. "That Wizard guy speaking through him said he would destroy you if you didn't submit at first, but look. We're not destroyed, are we?"
Sasuke's frown started to lift, as that did not actually sound stupid to him at all. Nico Robin spotted the shift in Sasuke's demeanor, and the woman with long black hair took a step towards him. "Commander-san, Timmy Turner is the strongest member of our group other than Son Goku." As she said it, the sky flashed white again and the ground trembled, while most of the Resistance members around her gawked or gasped in shock.
Sasuke stared into her eyes to check if she was lying, but she nodded her head at him with a small smile on her face that made Sasuke reevaluate his life choices. These people are friends with the Super Saiyan?
"If you give us the means of transportation to cross the land south of the Great Wall, I am sure that Timmy Turner, with his great power, would be happy to repay the Resistance with his help. In fact, it was one of the reasons he came to Aebrith in the first place, before the Wizard King must have caught him," as Robin finished her sentence, a thought came to mind that unnerved her. Why did Timmy get caught? He said after we left Dressrosa that he felt a fairy. What could have happened to him? With all his strength, to have been captured by this man must mean that he is very strong. Without Son Goku, or Sora, this is not a battle we want to fight.
"Sasuke, let's help them," one of the three girls floating above Sasuke's head began. She floated in the middle of the three, with long orange hair and a red bow in her hair. Blossom had on a pink skirt that matched her big pink eyes, and the girl floated down in front of Sasuke's face before stating firmly, "They want to help their friend. We need to help them."
Usopp looked over at that little girl in surprise, then spun around as he heard someone shout behind him. "Give them a vehicle!" The man yelled, and he gave Usopp an affirmative nod when the sniper looked at him in shock.
Robin gazed around as more and more people started agreeing with them. This is… Ah, I see. I never really understood this Resistance at all. The single group facing the Cooperative. Not much land, fighting a losing battle, and yet they still resist. This is why Gray needed to return. Because the Resistance is not just one side of a war, they are also the forces of good. Fighting slavery and injustice, even at the risk of their own lives, the Resistance must be full of kind-hearted people like these. Good, honest people. Robin started smiling and she turned to Luffy who was staring intensely at Sasuke, awaiting a response to what she herself suggested a minute before. Once again we are less like pirates, and more like heroes, not that you would want to hear that, Luffy.
Sasuke saw Luffy's look, and everyone else was awaiting his response as well. They, did beat the Fire Lord. "I'll get a truck set up for you," Sasuke spoke up and it was exactly what Robin's friends wanted to hear.
"Commander?" Wolverine questioned, turning to the younger man in surprise and angry confusion. "It's not only a waste of resources, but we're sending them straight to their deaths."
Sasuke nodded his head, and he continued in a loud voice, "But, you cannot leave immediately. If we send you beyond the Great Wall with no knowledge of what awaits you, you'll be killed before you get the chance to save this Timmy Turner." He turned to Robin and looked her in the eyes, "And I will hold you to what you said."
"Timmy will help," Robin assured.
"How long 'til you can get us that truck?" Natsu asked the ninja who was easier to convince than he thought it would be.
The sky flashed white and immediately following, an earthquake caused half of the people standing around to fall. One of the buildings farther south in the Resistance base shook too hard that its foundations were broken, and an explosion sounded that the group could hear from the gate. "Might be a while," Sasuke muttered, then he started running south and shouting, "Everyone make sure these buildings are evacuated! We still don't know what's going on to the north."
Three little girls flew off over the heads of the pirates and their friends, and Wolverine growled but ran after his comrades after a few seconds. Riku watched as the Resistance ran off, and he saw his friends gathering in a circle to discuss what they just saw. He turned to the north again though, towards the source of all the earthquakes shaking their world. The colors swirling in the sky in that direction made Riku's skin crawl. In his head he saw Sora's memory of their world falling apart, the purplish-black sky full of lightning, with black spheres that had dark red and orange burning cores. He had not been there for it like his best friend, having accepted the darkness already that brought him to another world.
Riku stepped towards the north a step and imagined his best friend's face. He could see Sora smiling at him, and he shivered at the thought of that spiky-haired friend of his being at the epicenter of this event. I wish you were here to help us go after Timmy, and to save Kairi. But I know, you're where you need to be. Whatever it is you're doing, I know it must be important.
Riku believed that Sora was doing something important, but he had no idea how massive the event Sora was taking part in would be. After this day, Nexus would never be the same again. When innocents and Kings and Gods fall all the same, when Hell rises and Heaven descends, all the people of the world could feel the quakes of change.
A/N The world is shaking! Well, the world shaking was most of this chapter, and we got a glimpse of what various groups around the world think about all this trembling. Zeref, Satan, Yukio, Zoro, Kairi, Laxus, Erza, Vegeta, Gohan, Gray, Juvia, Rin, Roxas, Axel, everyone can feel this planet-shaking event that will be the center of focus of the next chapter! But right as there is a fated battle that shakes the world, Timmy reappears! The last time we saw him someone was trying to break into his mind and Timmy was holding him off, but that no longer seems to be the case. If you figured out who the Wizard King is let me know in a review, (I left a pretty big hint XD ), and if you have any predictions for the next chapter all about the event in the north, or for the Wizard King arc after it, let me know! Thanks everyone for reading my million-word-record-shattering chapter! Nexus in total is about to reach two million words! I think that's awesome and I know I've said it a bunch, but that's just 'cause I'm excited. XD Anyway, here's a quick list then reviews:
Fairy Tail: Brandish, Dimaria, August, Silver, Kyouka, Keyes, Invel, Zeref, Eileen, Tempest, Gray, Juvia, Natsu, Erza, Wendy, Max, Jet, Droy, Laki, Laxus, Macao, Mirajane, Lisanna, Makarov, Cana, Gajeel, Levy.
Blue Exorcist: Yukio, Satan, Amaimon, Mephisto, Rin, Kuro, Lucifer
DBZ: Goku, Vegeta, Gohan, Trunks, Saiyan, Goten
Powerpuff Girls: Blossom, Bubbles
X-Men: Wolverine (Logan)
Naruto: Sasuke, Zabuza
One Piece: Luffy, Sanji, Nami, Usopp, Robin, Zoro, Jewelry Bonney,
Fairly Oddparents: Wanda, Timmy
Kingdom Hearts: Riku, Sora, Kairi, Xaldin, Roxas, Axel, Nobodies, Organization, Twilight Town, Larxene
Fate Stay/Night: Saber, Lin
Gintama: Gintoki, Hattori, Sakamoto Tatsuma
Bleach: Ulquiorra, Resurreccion
Yu Yu Hakusho: Asato Kido
Avatar the Last Airbender: Fire Nation, Fire Lord
Hitman Reborn: Dino
RWBY: Lie Ren
Hunter x Hunter: Meruem
Limit-Breaking chapter 76 . Nov 26
Wow a natsu chicken, a luffy chicken, and a emo sasuke chicken. I was just dying of the thought of seeing luffy and natsu as chickens but than i thought of a emo sasuke chicken giving you a glare than i strated going crazy from laughing to much. Aslo goku vs the king i can't wait to see that and if i had to guess i would say he is using ssj2 but will be forced to use ssj3 but goku will also use the kaioken with ssj3 to finish off the king or maybe not the kaioken part maybe that's a little to much to be honest. Also hopefully everybody can return safely and also i have a question how do you write so much material in such a short amount of time i mean seriously it's crazy. Last but not least will goku achieve ultra instinct super saiyan god super saiyan 4 kaioken times 20, Or will he just beat the king as a super saiyan 4 who knows. Find out next time on Nexus Heroes Will Rise. XD
Haha glad you liked it! When I originally came up with the plan for how the battle would go I started laughing really hard because I thought of it as a joke at first, then realized that it totally worked and fit it in there XD ! Nothing to say about the rest of that stuff, though this is still Goku only 4 years after Cell you gotta remember, so ultra instinct is probably not going to show up anytime soon (although that is the most epic transformation ever!). Thanks for the review!
cyber chapter 76 . Nov 24
I like how this is going, underlords make their move, but poor takao. natsu and luffy fight each other, then sosuke come in, sora come in and breaks the fight turning them to chicken so funny, and warns them of meruems move. I see new characters have arrived to, thank you see you later and have a good day.
Thanks! Wonder what the Underlords think of all this shaking? Eh, probably just makes the Joker happy for more chaos! Glad you thought the chicken thing was funny too and enjoy the new characters. We'll see what Meruem's move is next chapter! Thanks for the review and I hope you have a great day too! And thanks one more time everyone for all the support in this story that has reached it's first million word marker! Can't wait to hit the next one ;)... 'til next time!