Nexus HWR 15.5 My Brother My Burden:
Southern Wastes
"What?!" Gray shouted at Nami.
She nodded quickly at him, and Gray sprinted past her and into the hall beyond the orange-haired navigator. What is he thinking?! He ran down the hall, barged into his room that was on the third floor not far from the cockpit he was just in, and he sprinted to the side of his bed. Gray tossed a capsule from his backpack onto the floor, then he rummaged around his belongings and grabbed a metal bracelet. He sprinted back out of his room and down the hall, then down the stairs, before sprinting into the kitchen where Goku was sitting on the counter in the middle of the room eating a snack Sanji had made for him.
It was still morning, but Goku had worked up a post-breakfast appetite after training for the past two hours straight. Sanji had only just started up on making lunch for their group of almost twenty, but he had taken a pause to make the Saiyan with an insatiable appetite a snack. Goku looked at Gray in confusion at why he was panting and glaring at him, and the Saiyan man asked, "What?"
Gray held up a silver bracelet, and he snapped as he stopped panting, "Why aren't you wearing one of these?"
Sanji turned from the stove where he had gotten back to cooking lunch, and he looked at Goku's wrists to see that neither had one of the silver bracelets that he himself was wearing under his right sleeve. Goku was in the middle of chewing, and Gray continued before he could finish, "Did you break through yours?"
Goku started shaking his head, then his swallowed his food with a big gulp. "No," he finally responded. "I just left it behind on Mount Vegeta."
Gray rubbed his forehead, grumbling in annoyance at how calm the Saiyan was as he was in the middle of panicking. At least it seems like Cartman equipped the ship with Power Blocking technology, because we would have been attacked already if it wasn't. "Here," Gray said, deciding not to scold the Saiyan for taking his off. "It's an extra I brought along in case Timmy didn't have his when we found him."
Cartman had kept Timmy's PB-6 on the entire time he was a prisoner, so Gray did not need to give the boy the extra he had brought along. Goku remembered something though as he clipped on the bracelet (mainly because he thought Gray would stay mad at him if he didn't), and he brought it up before taking the next bite of his snack. "Dash needs a new one too."
Gray sighed and rubbed his forehead some more. Luckily I did bring more PB-4's just in case…
"He broke through his, so he probably needs a stronger one," Goku added, then he continued eating.
Sanji froze after he had gotten back to cooking, his eyes opening wide. That kid… Sanji turned to his left, and telling from the shocked expression on Gray's face, he was not wrong to be stunned himself at what he had just heard. "Oi Goku," Sanji started, looking over his shoulder. "Dash, did he run too fast or something?"
Goku shook his head, then a frown formed on his face even though he was in the middle of chewing delicious food. Goku recalled why Dash's Power Blocker broke, and he recalled the scream of anguish coming from the boy whose body distorted because of that rage. The shake of Goku's head followed by that look made both Gray and Sanji go wide-eyed, but Goku did not notice. He put the empty plate down on the counter next to him and said, "Thank you," then he turned and started back for the training room on the same level.
I need to get Dash an extra, Gray thought, and he turned as well only the other way as Goku. He ran off though with less urgency than before, calming himself with the knowledge that nothing had attacked them so far. As he headed back up the stairs at a light jogging pace, he thought about how the trip up north was taking longer that the journey south. It had been almost twice as long already, but the Wizard King really had teleported them a long distance on their initial travels across the Southern Wastes. The Wizard King did not give them the same boost this time, so they had to drive the full twelve thousand miles back to the Great Wall.
Timmy had offered flying earlier that morning after waking up. However, they were already moving at the top speed the truck would allow. Any faster than that, they quickly realized, was a very uncomfortable journey for anyone inside. The truck was so large and heavy, but driving at such a fast speed despite it anyway, that Timmy really did not increase their speed enough to make it worth the bumpy ride. Nami had called out Timmy's name to get him to stop, and they continued driving the old fashioned way.
Gray got the Power Blocker he needed and then headed back down the stairs only all the way to the first floor this time. He walked down a hall towards the room he knew the youngest boys were sharing, and the door was opened up a crack. He reached it and was about to knock when he heard Sora's voice on the other side. What Sora had said the morning before had gotten to a lot of them, but Gray had tried staying optimistic. Sora had apologized for his rant at lunch, and though most of them told him not to worry about it and that he was right, Gray was happy he retracted it. They had beaten the Fire Lord, saved Timmy, reunited with Goku and Sora, and now they were all on their way towards the Resistance. As much as everyone else was having problems, he thought things were going pretty well for them at the moment.
When he heard Sora's voice though he paused, then he knocked twice at the low and serious tone he heard behind the door. He did not want to stand there and intrude into the conversation, and telling from the way their voices cut short at his knock, he knew that was the right move. Gray pushed the door in and looked over to see Sora stand up next to Dash's bed that he was sitting on the side of, and the little blond boy rub his eyes only to look towards Gray with a smile. "What's up?" Dash asked.
Sora was in front of Dash so the younger boy could not see his expression, but Gray saw Sora wince at that cheery greeting. "Um, I've got a new PB-4 for you," Gray said. He lifted the bracelet, and Dash got a confused look on his face before slowly lowering his eyes down to his wrist. He stared at his naked wrist for a few seconds, a distant look in his eyes as he imagined a blurry vision of that bracelet shredding into pieces in an aura that exploded off of his body. Sora ground his teeth as he thought about that moment as well, but Gray pretended not to notice any of this while thinking of how Goku had reacted in a similar way. Dash's reaction unnerved him the most- the fact that the boy did not even seem to know what Gray was talking about when he brought it up.
"Oh," Dash said, his voice quieter than a moment ago. "Yeah, thanks," he said, looking back up and then holding his hands out like he was ready for a toss.
Gray passed the Power Blocker over, then he said as Dash caught it, "When we get back to the Resistance outpost, we'll get you a stronger one. PB-5, or PB-6 even," Gray added while looking to Sora to see if it was needed. Sora nodded back at him, and Gray felt even more amazed as he looked towards Dash again. Those bracelets aren't supposed to break, I doubt I would bust out of a PB-2 using my strongest magic. It's just a precaution going higher, but I mean, damn… "Okay," Gray said, turning around and heading back for the hall.
Down the hall that Gray was about to walk out into, in the huge living room where they had decided who their group's new leader would be two nights ago, Ben stood at a window on the starboard side of their truck/ship. He was staring out at the landscape blurring by at their side, but when he looked farther out it looked to be moving slower to a point that he was actually able to focus on some creatures. Ben stared straight at some giant dark mammoths that had bone structures on the outsides of their bodies and glowing red eyes in the center of their boney skulls. One of the Grimm Goliaths turned its head towards their ship, and Ben stared at its long, sharp tusks that looked to be capable of cutting straight through flesh.
Grimm, he recognized, having seen the creatures a few times before in his early days on Nexus, as well as more recently after they had traveled east from Dressrosa.
"Hey Ben," Luffy said, and Ben spun his head to see Luffy standing only ten feet away from him. The pirate did not try to sneak up, Ben was just so focused out the window that he had not seen the pirate's approach. Luffy stared out a different window at the Grimm in the far distance, then he looked even farther past them and saw monsters he had never seen before. They were beings that he realized he was only just able to see, ones that Ben still had trouble noticing if he was not focusing closely. The giant Gillians, or Menos Grande, traveled in a pack of eight and rose high in the sky with their massive black bodies before their white masks even started. Luffy could see a pack of flying Aragami much closer to them, flying the other direction that they were rolling so that they passed by much quicker than the others in the distance.
"Yeah?" Ben said.
"Remember what you said, about destroying all the monsters?" Luffy asked. Ben's eyes opened wide as Luffy brought it up. It had happened right before they crested Ha'gar's Peak, right before Ben faced Nox, right before he saw all his friends die in front of him. When he had returned from that future, he had forgotten about that completely, but Luffy didn't. Luffy had been impressed in that minute after Ben said that, right before the boy broke down in tears as his body ripped apart out of nowhere. Luffy turned to Ben and continued, "After we beat the King, you could come back here to start. Looks like a good place for it," Luffy said, and he smiled at the kid who turned back to the window and stared back over the landscape.
It would be, Ben thought while staring out at the Goliaths, and then at the Menos Grande that he saw behind them. For some reason he did not feel like they just appeared out of nowhere, only they had been in his peripheral vision the entire time but were only now in focus. Doubt filled his mind, and he watched as Nox killed all of his friends again. He glanced down at his left wrist, imagining the Omnitrix he had lost, his strongest weapon. Without it though, Ben thought while glancing back towards Luffy who had turned back to the window himself while still smiling. I saved Luffy. I can't use the Eliacube anymore, and maybe Luffy wouldn't have died anyways, but if Cartman was just a little more sadistic… Luffy would have melted.
Ben refaced the distant sky and watched as some pitch black Grimm descended from the gray sky, only to rise back into the clouds that sparked lightning as they re-entered. Ben nodded his head and Luffy grinned more as he saw it out the corner of his eyes. "I do want to clear this area of the world," Ben admitted, confidence in his voice as he said it. He turned to look up at Luffy and added, "But maybe after we clear some parts where there are actually people living too." He cracked a small smile, and Luffy laughed.
"Shishishi, that makes sense. Not 'we' though, you've gotta-"
"I know I know, you've got your own stuff to do once we're all done here," Ben said, waving the pirate off. "I meant we as in me and Gohan, and Timmy, Goku too if he wants." He added Goku's name hesitantly since he could never really tell what Goku was going to do.
Luffy grinned that Ben had not been including him in that, then he looked back out the window again. Once I find Zoro, or he finds me, and I get him to come back, then we'll still have to find Chopper. I can't become the Pirate King without them. A determined look replaced the smile on the pirate's face, a look more matching the one Ben had as he imagined what he would be doing once this was all over too.
But before we can start getting rid of the monsters, Ben thought, his expression darkening as he watched lightning fall in the distance. First we need to stop the King.
At lunch everyone was being loud and the meal turned into a party (as it often did). Stan found it hard to keep up his dark, Sith-like demeanor when Luffy and Usopp had chopsticks up their noses and pushing down on their bottom lips while singing. Kirito and Goku showed up late for the meal, and then both of them left within ten minutes. Goku looked to be enjoying the atmosphere like the rest of them, but he was just as quick as Kirito to get back to training.
While Goku was at the table though, Natsu brought back up the demon of Zeref that had transformed to look like Gray's dad. While he was angrily talking about going after Zeref, Nami had lifted her gaze straight across the table to the spiky-haired Saiyan who had stopped eating his food for a moment. Nami locked eyes with him and then looked away, only to turn back as she knew he had seen her make eye contact. She had a guilty look on her face, then she said in a soft voice to the man across from her, "I'm sorry to hear about your father, Goku."
Natsu was still speaking too loud for most others to hear her, but Goku smiled at the woman across from him. He had already been thinking about it, and he just said, "Thank you Nami." He guessed that Sora must have said something about it to her, and then he realized he must have said it to everyone as the others on Nami's sides and his own had all looked towards him with similar looks.
"You never mentioned him before," Ben said to the man on his right side. Dash looked next to him at Ben, then over at Goku as he realized what they were talking about. He did not remember Goku's dad dying, but he did not remember all that much from that day anyway.
Goku kept shoveling food into his mouth while Ben asked, and he mumbled back with his mouth full, "I didn't even know I had a dad until I got there." Dash frowned at the sound of that, having thought for a moment that he and Goku might have been in the same situation. Ben nodded at Goku though and felt better knowing that Goku did not go through the loss of someone really close to him.
A few of the others felt a little better too, and Nami murmured in relief. Nami's relieved look disappeared as Robin nudged her thigh with her own leg from Nami's left side. Nami glanced at Robin, then back at Goku who despite the food in his mouth, despite his tone of voice, had a sad look in his eyes that Nami had never seen the Saiyan have before. Right as she noticed it though, Goku lifted up his plate and dumped the rest of his food in his mouth, then he hopped up on his feet just as Kirito did the same from a few seats down on his right.
Natsu grumbled after they ran off that they should give others a turn in the training room as well. Cartman had made it powerful enough to withstand Goku's training which all of them were amazed at, especially since they could not even feel the shaking of the training Super Saiyan while on the same vehicle. Luffy told Natsu that he could go join them at any time, only for Ben to cut in saying that he had tried going in that morning for a little, but the wind crashing into him from Goku training alone made it impossible for him to focus on his own practice. Natsu argued back that if Kirito could handle it in there, then he could as well. Gray cut in though before Natsu could rush off just to prove it to everyone, and he stood up to get everyone at the table's eyes on him.
"Alright, so we have our plan now, but with this time we're taking to train, I feel like there's a lot you guys should know-" Gray got cut off as Sora suddenly spoke up.
"A month." Everyone looked towards him and saw Sora looking around at each of them in the eyes. "From the minute we get there, we're going to take thirty days exactly and then continue on."
"A whole month?" Ben whispered.
"That's a long time," Usopp added a little louder.
"We're not going to get any stronger in a shorter period than that," Sora argued right back.
A few of them hummed in disapproval, but Luffy shrugged his shoulders and got back to eating. Natsu spotted this across the table and sighed himself, Guess that's why we picked a leader. Now they did not have to have a drawn-out argument about this, and Natsu just started thinking about how he was going to spend his time training.
"Alright," Gray continued, though still wrapping his own mind around that length of time Sora gave them. "As I was saying, there are a lot of training methods we can use, and there's a lot you can train in as well. I know everyone here already has their specialties. You know what you're good at, and that's fine. But there are a lot, and I mean a lot, of different powers and weapons at the Resistance's disposal. Powers you never thought were real on your own worlds, might not be as hard to learn as you think they are. You guys all know Kirito had no powers when he got to Nexus, right?"
Many of the people in the room stared at Gray in shock, and Gray nodded his head at them. "I met Kirito in the first days here, and he was powerless. Now, he's stronger than I am."
Natsu looked over in surprise as Gray said that, and then he frowned deeper and stared back at his food. What the fuck happened between them? Gray lost an arm and Kirito's still fucking pissed at him. They won't tell me, and it's getting on my fu-, it's getting on my nerves. Natsu was cursing too much in his own thoughts, and he shook his head of the irritating annoyance he felt at Gray keeping this secret from him.
"What powers are you talking about, Gray-san?" Robin questioned.
Juvia looked at her boyfriend on her right side in some confusion, while Usopp had an interested look and pulled a notepad out and a pen as he prepared to write down easy-to-acquire powers. "As starters, there are Haki trainers, along with Nen experts who can tell you what aura types you are." Gray pointed a thumb at himself and said, "I'm an Emitter, but I never learned how to use Hatsu- I never created my own Nen ability," he specified as he knew most of them would not know what Hatsu was. "I only learned how to use two of the four major principles of Nen: Ten, and Zetsu for stealth, though I had tried using Ren as well but could never get it. I think if I had focused more on it I may have been able to, but focusing on Haki was hard enough. I have better Observational Haki than Armament, but I can even make a visible Armament Haki around my weapons if the situation is intense enough."
Robin nodded along with what Gray was saying, but she thought to herself, I asked Killua all about Nen on the Sunny-Go after he explained Zetsu to us. My attempts at any practical training of those teachings have not gone well.
"There's stronger and more complicated magic," he began while looking to his left and Juvia and Natsu past her. "But also easy magic," he added while looking back around at some of the pirates and kids.
Timmy even looked interested by that, and when Gray looked at him in surprise, Timmy said, "I wished for all of my powers. I never knew there were other simple ways to do it."
"It's not as simple as you think," Gray said, hesitating as he thought he may have made it sound too easy. "But within a month," he continued. He nodded his head while looking back around, "Mastering some simple spells, as long as you have the natural skill for it, should not be tough at all. Magic covers this entire world, and even if it wasn't on yours," he added while looking to his right at Robin and Nami, "you might be surprised at the abilities you can master here. I doubt Haki existed on my own world- the power of will itself. Ki, Reiatsu, chakra," he shook his head and then got back on topic. "Anyway, I can introduce you to some teachers at the bases we go to, but you can also just join in any classes already going on. There are tons of members in the Resistance who would be happy to help you get stronger. We- they always want more people willing to fight the Cooperative to be better fit to do so. There are sword masters, beast tamers, etcetera."
"Beast tamers?" Ben asked.
"Sure," Gray replied. He grinned at the interested look on Ben's face, then explained in more detail, "Fight alongside bears, or direwolves, or giant scorpions. Tame eagles or dragons, gryphons or windriders. You could have your own flying mount even if you don't know how to fly."
"You ever do that?" Natsu asked his friend in surprise.
Gray shook his head, but then said with a grin, "However when I caught Articuno, I taught it how to use Fly."
"Really?" Sora asked in surprise. Gray looked over and Sora added, "A few of my Pokemon know Fly too."
Gray thought about Lugia and the times he had seen Sora riding on that massive Pokemon's back. "Really?" He asked though, pretending like he did not remember to the teen who had mentioned it like Gray didn't already know.
"I barely ever see you use that Pokemon of yours," Natsu mentioned over to his fellow Fairy Tail mage. "You brought it out that day you showed up in Port Royal, but you never used it once in the Underworld bases or even in Metropolis."
"Pokemon aren't weapons to 'use,'" Sora said to the pink-haired man on his right who spun back in surprise at how stern Sora sounded right there. Sora smiled after Natsu spun though, and he continued, "If you catch any you'll know. Pokemon, don't like fighting people."
"That's exactly it," Gray said, and Natsu turned back to him now. "Articuno was pretty territorial and would fight people back when she was in the wild, but after I caught her," Gray smiled softly. "I realized the first time I asked her to fight against my enemies that she was not into the fight. And against monsters, well Pokemon aren't exactly master fighters on their own." Gray sat back down as he was finished with his little speech, but he continued as he took his seat, "If you send out your Pokemon and then focus on your own fight, they won't always know what moves are best to use. You really have to focus on their fights, fight as a team with them, to protect them, and Articuno and I just aren't at that level for intense battles. Only Pokemon Masters really fight in battles and big wars with their Pokemon at their sides, and those Pokemon have usually been specifically trained in warfare too."
Sora frowned at the sound of that. Pokemon weren't meant for war. I mean, I know there were Pokemon wars in the distant past. Those stories Mew told me, the Great Pokemon War at the end of the Cretaceous Period. The calamities that wiped out entire species of Pokemon, leaving only fossils behind.
Luffy reached an arm down over the table and grabbed a serving plate that he brought back over to his side where the food was more scarce. Sanji got up to go grab more from the kitchen where there was a lot still left under a heat lamp, while his Captain devoured the new pile of meat on his plate. As he chewed, his eyes narrowed at the teen on his right side who had a cat on the table next to him. He stared at Rin while thinking about something Natsu just mentioned. "Rin," Luffy said, then he gulped while the half demon turned towards him. "Weren't you in Castle Oblivion?"
Nami opened her mouth to correct Luffy, but he got the name right for once and she just let out the breath she took in for the correction. She stared at her Captain confusedly though, as did most of them since they all knew Rin had been there (except for Stan who just pretended not to be confused since no one else was).
"Yea-aahh," Rin replied slowly. "Why?" He asked, as this was kind of out of nowhere.
The feast Luffy had in front of him though, the mention of Port Royal, and of the Underworld bases that followed, it confused the pirate who asked, "Where did you go afterwards?"
Timmy leaned forward in his chair and looked over interestedly as well. He was the one who Rin came to a few months ago to ask for assistance in getting to Aebrith, after apparently being told by Mandy to ask for his help. Timmy had suggested then that Rin come with them in their journey if Mandy thought he was a good guy, but he did not really remember Rin all that much from before then. He thought he had seen him before, but back in Castle Oblivion he had been stopped on the floor below the one Rin was left guarding. Then, he had wished his way up through the castle without really stopping on the other floors, and Luffy was right, Rin did kind of disappear after that battle.
"Oh," Rin started at Luffy's question. He looked around the table while avoiding the gaze of the boy directly on his right, as well as the one at the opposite head of the table. Out of everyone else at the table, only the two at the heads did not have intrigued expressions on their faces. "Well, about that…" his gaze reached the far end of the table to his left, and he looked past Stan at the tall man at the head who locked eyes with him.
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This is so weird, Rin thought as he walked down a dock of Port Royal. Two pirates he recognized on his right lifted up their mugs as he was walking by, and Rin lifted his own and grinned back at them. They all knocked their drinks back, then the older pirates started laughing as the teenager coughed after chugging his beer. Rin wiped his mouth and laughed along with Shanks' crew before continuing on his way, not really having any set location he was heading to.
They're telling me it's been two years here already? That's wild! I look the same I did back then. Rin turned on the dock he was on that connected all of the extending ones. He faced a store window near him and looked at himself in the glass. He could see his reflection thanks to the bright lights illuminating the lower part of the port where all the citizens and their heroes, as well as all the recently freed people in Castle Oblivion, were having a massive celebration. He had come to the port with the Red Hair crew, but the party only started in full swing when the second group returned on Straw Hat Luffy's ship. Rin stared at the window that flashed brightly as someone set off a firework in the sky behind him. I still look sixteen, but, but I… Rin lowered his gaze down to his hands. He opened up the one not holding a mug in it, and he stared at his open left palm, images flashing through his mind. I remember, the last year and a half. It was like one long bad dream. Unlike my usual dreams though, these memories aren't fading. They're blurry, but if all of them are real… how many people did I hurt?
Rin turned and continued walking down the boardwalk. Forget about it. That wasn't you. Those things, those half-memories, they were all Ansem's doing. He was walking past another building when he spotted some people in the alley to his right. The alleyway was darker than the rest of the lower port, and Rin turned that way to see what was going on. The seventeen year old, who looked younger than that, was drinking for his first time. It was part of his mentality of missing out on a year and a half of life. Since he recalled that time and knew it had passed, he believed he was older than his body showed. He did not know whether or not he would have been drinking by that point in his life had he not been transformed into a Heartless, so when the pirates broke out the ale and offered him some, he just went with the flow and accepted. That was why, in Rin's best half-drunken judgement, the sight of people talking in an alley in secret made him grin sneakily. I should go check it out, he thought, and immediately pulled back so the people talking down the alley would not see him.
He peeked his head around the corner, then he scurried over to some large wooden crates with garbage cans next to them. They were leaning up against a building, so Rin pushed himself up into the corner of a four-foot-tall wooden crate and the building on his right. His breathing picked up, an excited look came to his face, and he took another sip out of his beer that he knew was contributing to the fun he was having. In the port, Rin had no friends. He knew not one person, and he felt strange drinking alone as most of the others who were freed seemed to have comrades at the party who had come to save them. No one I know came, Rin thought while crouched behind the box. He forgot why he had gone there for a moment, as his breathing calmed down and he stared across the alleyway at the wall of the building he was not leaning on. Still don't know if anyone else from my world is here.
Rin slouched back against the wall and slid onto his butt. He put his mug down next to him, deciding against finishing the rest of it as a more serious look came to his face. This was the first time he had been alone since he woke back up from that long, terrible dream. He was alone in a darker area than he had been in since the darkness shredded off his body in Castle Oblivion. The pirates, the Anti-NEG League, their allies, the people of Port Royal, none of them were around him anymore. What do I do now? He thought, staring at the wall across the alley with a blank look on his face. I guess, I should start by looking for… What are they talking about? Rin Okumura blinked a few times, then he turned his head right to the wooden crate at his side. He suddenly remembered the people he had seen farther in the darkness of the alley, and he got sweat on the sides of his face as he leaned forward and peeked around the side of the crate.
The teen's eyes rose up past the crate and he stared at the figure fifteen feet past the other side of the clumped garbage and crates. That spiky-haired boy was staring at the wall and a taller man leaning against it who had much longer hair that fell down his back. "…two years. Two years Riku. Don't talk about going away anymore. I'm sure your friend Ben would say the same thing." Sora grinned at him and then added in a more intrigued tone, "So, Ben has a Keyblade, huh?"
The older teen leaning against the wall in front of Sora looked back and then humphed at the look in Sora's eyes. "Don't try changing the subject," Riku began. "It's not safe for me to stay around."
"I won't let him resurface," Sora said. He reached forward and put a hand on Riku's shoulder, "He won't come back for a while, not as long as Timmy's around. And by the next time Ansem makes his move, you'll be strong enough to push him back down on your own." Riku's brow furrowed and he bit down hard at Sora's unfounded faith in him. Rin meanwhile, was staring forward with widening eyes, wondering if alcohol was actually a hallucinogenic and no one had told him. Sora got a more serious look on his face at the sight of Riku's uncertain, hesitant expression. "I promise, Riku," Sora said. "I'll make sure Ansem will never take control of you again. So don't go anywhere, okay?"
Riku stared back into Sora's eyes, and he finally nodded once without a word. Sora smiled so widely at that nod that Riku could not even keep his straight expression and cracked a small grin too. Sora lowered his arm, then Riku crossed his in front of his chest and leaned his head back on the wall behind him. "You find anything out these past two years?" Riku asked.
Is that Ansem?! His, real body? They weren't talking like he was possessed like one of us. "Push him back down?" Oh man, what am I… The sweat already covering Rin's face intensified, and his heart started pounding so much harder.
"Kairi and I spent the whole time after you were taken over trying to find you and get you back. A lot happened, but we haven't come any closer to discovering the secrets of this world." Sora paused and looked up. "We never talked about what happened. When we found you, everything happened so fast. And today too… but that's why I'm talking to you now, just the two of us," he specified. His face had a darker look to it, and Riku nodded back at him so Sora continued, "At the edge of the Realm of Darkness, we were at the end of the line. I never thought we would get out of there."
"Me neither," Riku said. "But then, that light… and that, man."
"Was it a man?" Sora whispered. "I saw the silhouette, and then when I tried calling out to him, you vanished."
"So you were still in there?" Riku asked. "How long?"
"Just a few seconds," Sora said, but he got a hesitant look on his face as he said it. "But when I appeared here, it felt like… I was the last one." Riku's eyes widened as he stared at his friend, and Sora continued, "The suns were already going down, and the people I came across right after arriving were talking about things that had happened hours earlier. You, didn't feel that way?"
"Just a few seconds," Riku muttered, shaking his head in amazement. "Time here could move faster than the rest of the cosmos."
"Why were all the worlds connected like this?" Sora asked. Riku shook his head, not knowing how to answer Sora's question. "We stopped Xemnas, so I thought the worlds would return to the way they were before. This world, doesn't feel right. I'm not just talking about all the monsters, all the terrible things that have happened and are still going on. Riku, in my heart I know this world is wrong. We have to find a way to fix the world order."
"I agree," Riku said. "After everything Ansem did, that I let him do, saving the multiverse is the only thing I can do now. But Sora, there are things on this world that are too powerful. I might need to use the darkness to stop them, it's the only thing strong enough-"
Rin fell.
Riku and Sora spun their heads at the sound of a garbage can falling over. They stared back through the alley, both of them shocked that they had not noticed the figure now sprawled out among garbage while still staring at them with eyes as wide as saucers. They were so caught up in their conversation, and they each were relaxed having finally defeated Ansem, their goal for almost two full years. They stared at the younger teenager with messy black hair who scrambled back up to his feet and took a step back as the two stepped towards him.
"Whoa, hey hold on," Sora said as he saw the look in the darker-haired teen's eyes. He realized that the teen must have heard something considering that look on his face, and Sora started chuckling before adding, "Just how much did you hear?"
"Rin," Riku muttered, the name somewhere in his mind rising to the surface in recognition of the figure before him.
Rin started stumbling backwards. He stared into Riku's eyes, behind him at his long spiky, silver, hair, and then he spun and started running.
"H-Hey! Wait!" Sora called out.
Rin rounded the corner though, and he was gone. He sprinted as fast as he could down that boardwalk, panting heavily and moving as fast as his legs would take him. He cut into the port and ran up different streets, ducked through alleys, then exited out the eastern side of the port.
He did not stop running until morning.
Present
"Well, about that…" Rin looked into Riku's green eyes, then he grinned which surprised the older man. Rin turned back to Luffy and said, "I started looking around for my friend who I was traveling with before I got turned into a Heartless. It had been a long time so I had little luck finding him. It was pure chance that I was in Metropolis the same time everybody decided to make their moves!" He laughed, while the others stared at him in surprise that something like that could happen.
"I do not think it is that unexpected," Robin said, making the surprised group members turn her way. "After all, Metropolis has a very large population. If one was to search for a friend…"
"That's what I was thinking," Rin said. "Found a census after the Battle of Metropolis though, and he wasn't there." Luckily, Rin added to himself, as he would have been more nervous if his friend had been in Metropolis back then. "Even though at that point I was already pretty much solely focused on getting Yukio back, I've got my other goals too. Kicking Satan's ass and finding Sam are both things I need to do."
"'Kicking Satan's ass,' huh?" Nami said, a bead of sweat on the side of her face. Something she had heard not long ago made her entire body get goosebumps. And she could not even laugh it off like she initially planned on doing. The others made jokes though, while Rin stared at Nami confusedly at the reaction she had, one that Usopp shared not far from her.
Lunch finished up not long after and everyone split up to go do their own things around the ship. Rin was walking down the hall towards his room, when he heard a voice call out from behind him, "Hey Rin, wait up." He froze and grimaced, but then turned around to see Sora jogging towards him with Riku not far behind. Kuro glanced to his left at Rin's head from where he sat on the teen's right shoulder, and the cat got a confused look on its black furry face at the look of apprehension on Rin's.
"Can we talk?" Sora asked as they stopped in front of Rin. "That night," Sora began as Rin nodded at him.
"I thought you forgot about it," Rin admitted, glancing back and forth at the two who did not seem to recognize him back when he got on the Thousand Sunny.
"I'm sorry," Riku began. Rin turned to him in some confusion, and Riku lowered his gaze before lifting it and looking straight in Rin's eyes. "I've told Usopp a hundred times, but, really Rin, I'm sorry for what I did to you-"
"Don't be," Rin said, shaking his head and smiling at the silver-haired older teen. "I didn't run off back then because of you being Ansem. And I know it was Ansem who did that stuff to me, so forget about it, okay?" Rin asked. Riku looked hesitant, but even if he would not forget about it that easily, he wanted to put Rin at ease so he smiled and nodded at him.
"If it wasn't because of that though," Sora began in confusion. "Then why'd you run off like that? You looked really spooked."
Sora had a genuinely interested look on his face, and although Riku was glad it was not because of him, he also wanted to know the real reason now. Rin sighed and he glanced at Kuro who was confused by this whole conversation. "I'll explain it to you later Kuro," he said, then he motioned his head back and Kuro became more surprised. His familiar nodded back at him though, and then it turned and hopped off his shoulder before running back to their room. Rin looked back ahead and then around the Keybearers towards the end of the hall where he saw Sanji and Usopp walking, but the two of them were just crossing an intersection and did not pay the three of them any mind.
"Okay," Rin started. "The truth is," he paused, and he tried to keep a steady look on his face but failed and actually got a little nervous as he brought it back up. "When I heard you talking about that other stuff, the secrets of the worlds…" Riku and Sora grimaced that they were that careless to let someone they did not know at the time hear all of that. "It terrified me," Rin admitted. "When I found out that it wasn't magic, or science, or even demonic stuff that took me over, but something even more powerful! Something way beyond my comprehension," he shook his head and then put both of his hands behind it and leaned back against them to stare at the ceiling. He took a deep breath and continued in a steadier voice, "I'm more okay with it now, after traveling with you guys for a while. If you can handle it all with such confident smiles, I feel like I shouldn't be as worried as I was. But back then," he lowered his head and stared back in the Keybearers eyes. "The idea that I had fallen to a power that had something to do with why the universes had all connected, why Nexus existed, it made me shake so hard that I fell out of my hiding place and alerted you to my presence."
"And why were you hiding?" Sora wondered.
"I don't know," Rin said with a shake of his head and a laugh. "It was the first, and only time, I drank alcohol. Kind of a traumatizer," he added. Rin paused as the other two chuckled along with him, then he continued, "I did go look for my friend like I told the others, but that wasn't the reason I left that night, the very minute I stumbled away and fled Port Royal. I left because I was afraid of you Keybearers. Satan, I can handle. But what you guys are up against," he paused and the other two lowered their smiles a little at the nervous look that came back to Rin's face. "I can't even- I can't find the words…" Rin whispered. He stared at the two in front of him who all of a sudden looked so serious, who he could tell were hiding these massive secrets from him that would scare him even more. I don't even want to ask them about it. If I ask, and I learn about the missions that mean so much to this world, how will I be able to focus on my own goals that I'm still so far from? I just, want my brother back, and to kick that bastard Satan's ass while I'm at it!
"Anyway," Rin began again to the two in front of him. "I'm sorry I ran off like I did back then. And if you do need help in, your missions," he added hesitantly, then he hardened his gaze and took a deep breath before smiling wide at them. "You know you can count on me. I might be afraid, but hell, who wouldn't be?"
Sora laughed and scratched the side of his head. "I know I am," he agreed with Rin. Rin thought he would not feel better knowing that the one he expected to save the universe was afraid too, but it actually made him smile knowing that they were just as human as the rest of them. "Alright Rin, sorry we freaked you out so much back then." Sora said. He turned to Riku and motioned back the other way, and Riku nodded at him.
Riku paused while looking at Rin still even after Sora had turned, and Rin's face got a more serious look to it. The younger teenager who had spent a long time as a pawn to Ansem's darkness stared into Riku's eyes, and he nodded his head with a serious look on it that made Riku feel much better. The nod said all it needed to, much more than the friendly tone Rin had earlier when talking about it. Riku nodded back at Rin with a thankful expression on his face, then he turned and followed Sora away. Rin turned away and started walking back towards his room, but his lips only curled farther down. I keep saying all this stuff about fighting Satan and getting you back, but I haven't done anything about it, Yukio.
"Alright guys, we're only six hours out," Gray's voice came over the truck's speakers. "I know that puts our arrival at a kind of weird time, but not much we can do about it."
It was already pretty late in the night, but not too late that everyone was thinking about going to sleep yet. Robin lowered her book and glanced down at a watch she had started wearing recently. She frowned as she had planned on going to sleep in two more hours, but that would give her very little time to rest before she woke up in the morning. Usually she was fine with little sleep, but she had a feeling that they were going to have a long day tomorrow. She tapped a few buttons on her watch to give her a notice when an hour had passed, as she would try and get an extra hour of sleep in. As she moved her left hand away from the watch on her right wrist though, she kept staring at it for a few seconds. Strange that a day here is the same length of time as on our worlds. Three suns instead of one, yet still a twenty-four hour day. Perhaps it has to do with the size of Nexus, or maybe the Gods just decided it that way. Gods… Robin shook her head and refocused on the book in her hands.
Very few things have been published on this world to my knowledge. The Art of Warcraft: A Guide to the Combat Forms of the Multiverse, it is beautifully written. The author goes by a clear Pseudonym though, Wordsmith Letterman. Robin smiled as she looked at the title page of the book again while keeping two fingers inside it on her current page. Along with what Gray has told us, I believe reading this book can help me greatly.
"Hey Robin," Nami began, and Robin looked to her left to see Nami standing up from the bed she and Juvia had been whispering to each other on. Juvia looked hesitant behind Nami, but Nami looked assured and had a serious expression on her face as she started walking over. Nami looked back towards Juvia, then to Robin again and she said, "I have something I need to tell you."
In the hallway outside the girls' room, Dash and Ben were walking back towards their room. They had also planned on staying up later, but when even Natsu thought it was a good idea to get some rest, the two of them decided to head back. They entered the room and stared over at Timmy and Stan who were hovering off the floor in front of each other with their eyes closed. Their legs were crossed and they looked to be meditating, or something. Ben and Dash glanced at each other, then they spun back around as objects started lifting off the ground all over the room.
"Hey guys, mind not touching my stuff?" Ben asked, as he saw his backpack was one of the things lifting up next to his bed. His mattress started lifting up after he asked it, and he saw Stan grin a little, though the boy with the red poof-ball hat was sweating as he lifting the mattress along with everything else he was already holding. Ben saw that sweat on Stan's face, and he smirked before running towards his bed and leaping up. He landed on the bed and the extra weight made Stan open his eyes in surprise, then drop half the things he was holding while throwing the rest harder up in the air at the loss of balance in the Force.
Timmy grinned and opened back up his eyes, while Ben was laughing on his bed, and Stan started glaring over at the older boy. "I win," Timmy claimed.
Timmy looked over towards the door where Dash was still standing, a far-off look in his eyes. He would have thought the blond boy would be laughing along with Ben, but Dash was distracted for some reason. He always looks like that recently, Timmy thought. More than the others, he added to himself sadly, as he had missed so much while he was gone. Except maybe Juvia. I can't believe, I let her die. Killua too. I can't do that. I can't leave them again. My mission is important to me, but not as much as my friends' lives.
Upstairs one floor, Goku was panting heavily while standing in a fighting stance. He had used the multi-form technique, and there was a single other Goku in front of him who was staring back at him with just as intense a look. The other Goku flew towards him and they merged, then Goku frowned in a deep way and turned towards the door. I do need to rest, he thought, but he kept frowning after having the thought. As much as I train, it's going to take a lot more than this to catch up.
"Kakarott," Goku slowed down as he neared the door of the training room. He grabbed the handle and pulled the door open, while that voice continued in his head, "I'm proud of you…" Goku bit down hard as he stepped outside the room, then he stared down at the floor and heard that voice finish, "My son."
Are the Dragon Balls on Nexus? Goku wondered. It had not been the first time he had ever thought about it. When his wife died, when Krillin disappeared, there were several times that Goku had had the urge to search for the Dragon Balls. But without Bulma, he thought, the same argument and realization he had with himself every time he thought about them. This time though, he did not even have the hope that he would one day run into Bulma and be able to ask her for a Dragon Radar. Bulma's gone. I don't know if anyone else could do it. And, I don't know if Dende is on Nexus. Yet, even without the Dragon Balls, they said they brought Juvia back to life, and Killua too.
Goku lifted his gaze and stared at the wall across the hallway from him. Would Bardock even want to come back though? I didn't, last time I died. This time too… I thought. I thought if I died again, I would accept it and that would be it, but if Meruem had killed me that day, if Sora hadn't gotten us out of there, I would have hated it so much. I need to beat Meruem before I die. If I don't, then I hope my friends bring me back to life. Goku turned to the right and started walking down the hall, Because if not, then I'll never be able to face my father.
At my current power though- and Meruem's technique too, it's all too great. I need a power up, I need- "Hey Goku," a voice called from ahead of him, and Goku stopped and focused his gaze. He was so distracted that he did not even notice the boy with spiky brown hair standing ahead of him with his back leaning against the wall. "Got a minute?" Sora asked. He had seen Goku's various expressions since he left the training room, and Sora pushed off the wall to go walk right in front of his older friend.
"What's up Sora?" Goku asked.
"You remember what we talked about back on the Mount Salad, two days before the war?" Sora began. Goku shook his head no and Sora chuckled as he did not expect Goku had. He decided to jog Goku's memory, and he said, "I was about to go warn the Resistance, but I told you that I knew why Bardock wouldn't let you try transforming into a Super Saiyan God." Goku's eyes widened and he nodded his head as he did remember that. "Even though he would have taught it to Vegeta at just a Super Saiyan or Super Saiyan 2, he wouldn't let you try until you were a Super Saiyan 3. He even considered teaching that Saiyan woman Okara, right?"
Goku nodded again, and he looked as confused as ever as Sora talked about it. "Was there a reason?" Goku asked. "Could I not do it unless-"
"That wasn't it," Sora said. "You probably could have," Sora said, then he laughed at Goku's confused expression. "I told you that I'd tell you the reason when I got back," he added.
"I forgot," Goku said, and Sora laughed some more. "What is it?" Goku asked, getting a bit of an annoyed look that Sora was taking too long to tell him.
"It was pretty obvious to me," Sora began. "Why Bardock wouldn't let you try it, when he would let the others. I hoped maybe he would just tell you himself, but, well he can't anymore, so I'll say it. Goku, Bardock cared about you." Sora smiled wide while looking into Goku's confused eyes. "Even though you were one of the strongest Saiyans, he wouldn't let you try transforming because of the risk that existed. Even though there was a good chance of you succeeding, he wanted to make sure that there was a Zero percent chance that it would go wrong, and kill his son." Goku's eyes started getting wider, and Sora finished, "Rather than risk the transformation killing you, he told you to transform into a Super Saiyan 3 first. Because if your body could handle that transformation, he would have been reassured that you could handle the Super Saiyan God."
"You really think so?" Goku asked. He was shocked as he had never even considered that idea. It had confused him to no end why Bardock would not let him try it, but this reason never once crossed his mind.
"I know so," Sora replied. He scratched the back of his head then turned around. "Anyway, just thought I'd tell you that-"
"Thanks Sora," Goku said. Sora had just started walking away, but the teen smiled at the genuinely grateful tone of Goku's voice. "That, really helps me out with something," he added.
Sora got confused at what that meant, but he just shrugged and waved a hand over his shoulder. "Always happy to help," he said.
Above Sora and Goku, on the third floor of the ship, Usopp was speaking in a hushed and nervous tone to the large cyborg in front of him. "...I can't get the image out of my head. It doesn't surprise me that Zoro's so different now. Not after- did you hear some of those things Gray described?"
"I heard," Franky replied. His voice was grim and just as low as Usopp's. He normally wanted to just laugh at his crewmate for being a scaredy-cat, but in this instance he could not do it. Sanji was laying back on his bed not far from them, his hands behind his head while staring up at the ceiling with a dark look in his eyes, and a bead of sweat rolling down his face.
Usopp gulped, then he continued, "Gray talked about his group like they were so strong, but they got… so many of them died to just, just one Legion of Hell. Those demons he described, they were like nothing we've seen so far. The hellhounds, and the ones he said wore those cloaks and were doing weird chants. Like, what even is that?"
"Usopp, stop thinking about it," Sanji said from where he was laying down.
"I can't," Usopp hissed over. "I've tried ignoring it, but I keep having nightmares about them. It wouldn't be so bad, if I didn't know that we are going to have to face them sooner or later. Those things, they're the demons we always imagined on our world as being myths. They live in Hell, and they torture souls, and they massacre innocent people- strong and weak alike. We can't take on devils, literal demons. We're just pirates."
"I know what you mean," Franky said. He rubbed the back of his metal head and muttered, "That look in Gray's eyes when he was talking about it, that was some real PTSD there. He wasn't even focused on us anymore, and when he talked about them pouring their own black blood in that Zabuza guy's mouth…" Franky shivered and then finished after a few seconds' pause, "It scares me too man."
"There isn't a sane person on this world who wouldn't be scared of stuff like that," Sanji said in a low voice from where he was laying. "But that doesn't change the fact that we need to be ready to face them when the time comes. Even if Satan wasn't a High Lord, we'd still be going after the bastard." Sanji said it then wished he could go smoke a cigarette. No time, gotta sleep, he reminded himself. "Alright, shut off the lights. Just think about how Goku and Timmy are with us, and you probably won't have nightmares."
"Think so?" Usopp asked. "I don't know. Even with them, I still don't know."
Rin stood outside the door of the room he shared with some of the other guys in their group. He leaned back against the wall and closed his eyes, then opened them and stared straight up at the ceiling. The demons on this world are too much to ask my friends to go after, Rin thought. He thought about all his friends on the ship with him, and his heart started racing faster and faster at the idea of them all going up against those same demons Usopp was just talking about. I won't, risk your lives. I care too much about each of you. When we get back north, I have to go after Satan on my own. It's my brother, my burden.
Rin turned and started walking down the hallway. He reached a room closer to the cockpit on the third floor, and as he was nearing it, a man leaving the cockpit was heading back to his nearby room to get the sleep he just suggested everyone else to get. "Oh, Gray," Rin said, continuing to walk instead of stopping at the door like he had planned at first. "Can we talk?" Rin asked.
"Yeah?" Gray asked, wondering about the serious look on his younger friend's face.
Rin took a deep breath, then he started, "Remember when I told you I was Satan's son, you told me you knew how to get to Satan."
"I said it was complicated," Gray began.
"Could you explain it to me? Exactly how it works this time?" Rin asked.
Gray frowned and questioned, "Why? You're not thinking of-"
"'Course not," Rin said and shook his head convincingly. "But I want to know how to save my brother. There's no telling if we'll all manage to stay together, and in case we get separated again I want to know whatever you do about Satan and the demons of this world."
Gray hummed to himself for a few seconds. "Alright, but don't do anything stupid with this information. We can handle any problem as long as we stick together, okay?"
"Yeah, I got it," Rin said, though he found it hard to force his smile while lying to his friend's face. "So how do I get there?" Rin asked. "How do I get to Hell?"
A/N Thanks for reading! Hope you enjoyed the chapter. Get some past for Rin here, though more questions about his early days on Nexus arise from what we saw too. A lot of setup this chapter for the ones coming up. Only one more part of Chapter 15 (it's shorter than I initially thought it was going to be). Anyway, took me a while to write this one, and I still have most of 15.9 to write too, but then I have a few of the following chapters already finished to post in a row. Okay review responses:
Limit-Breaking chapter 106 . May 18
Well im glad sora finally said it, i always wondered if there fights and taking out a bunch of high lords made any difference. I love how sora became captain and the following chapter he already mad and realizing how bad it really is.
To be honest i never liked the philosophy if you can really call it that but im not sure how to word it. It's mainly the thing goofy and donald told him to always smile i always felt that was never something he should do. There are going to be points were sora needs to make everybody understand that everything bad that happens shouldn't be ignored they should accept them and try to see how they can make a difference.
Even the enemies like luthor, zod realize how much they failed at what they aimed for, and accepted that so they decided to train or find ways for something that stands in their way and overcome it. It's easier said than done at some points but it's really the only choice in my opinion otherwise they will end up dreading and wondering about the what if to much.
Hell gohan, vegeta, meruem realized this as well both gohan and vegeta lost to luthor so they decided to find their own ways of not letting the same events repeat itself. Meruem truly accomplished that by killing bardock he lost to him the first time but he still found ways to improve himself and make better choices so that he can accomplish his goals.
I say there are times when people needs somebody who can smile and bring there mood up, but the one thing that always got to me is when people tried to make jokes and tried to change the subject, to me i always felt that way of handling things is just people trying to ignore the truth of a situation and not really trying to face up to the problems.
I say accepting it and trying to make a difference for the now is the best option that way you can better yourslef and break the obstacles that stand before you.
Either way enough of that, i must say i like the developments for the charcters that you are building up. It's really good and im glad you are making the story a more serious plot it feels just right and i can't wait for the next chapter.
Kingdom Hearts definitely got a bit more serious than a children's game in this, though I have tried to give Sora reasons for why he isn't just acting as carefree as he did with Donald and Goofy too. I liked the philosophy in Kingdom Hearts (cuz well I was a kid and wouldn't like an angsty video game), but it couldn't work in this world and Sora knows it. Then again, Sora seems to have made up with everyone already, having apologized to them for his outburst. And all those characters you mentioned have been getting stronger and stronger. Each time they've survived, they realized how much stronger they could be and had to keep pushing towards it. Meruem's pretty much the epitome of this, though he and Luthor have both come such far ways from what they were at initially. Anyway, glad you're liking the character developments, and they're all building up to the next few chapters... so get ready! Thanks for the review!
flo463 chapter 106 . May 18
Saichi is resurrected, but Kirito does not seem to know.
If he is not, how will he react when he hears that Saichi (who was his first love just before Asuna) came back?
What will be the impact on her relationship with Asuna?
I am curious to know who or what resuscitates the deceased? For what purpose?
Kirito always equal to himself when it comes to saving Asuna.
his propensity to go headlong without worrying about the danger risks playing tricks on him in the future. what would happen if he fell upon an enemy stronger, more cunning, or more intelligent than himself?
a lot of pressure and weariness for our heroes. after Kirito, it's Sora's turn to snapped and reminds his friends that each of their actions has consequences (quite the opposite of Fairy Tail XD). Once Merurem defeated, I would see The Rebellion evolving into the Future World Government.
Sorry to hear that your test went wrong, your teacher could have left you more time.
Ah it's alright (the test thing), I got over it already haha. It's a few points on the average, but I'm pretty good at memorizing Kanji so shouldn't be too hard to boost the average. Alright, rest of the review (since I started at the end XD ). Kirito does know Sachi is there, as I'm pretty sure she's the first one in Metropolis who called out his name when he was fighting Blackbeard. He was with his friends in the days after Battle of Metropolis too, but while he was with them Ace came over and told him some things that Reanimated Marco told him about, including how Kirito's Underworld martial arts master Akuma was the one who killed his friend Marco. This reminded Kirito of all the terrible things he had done, which made him decide that he couldn't just stay with those friends from SAO and he ran off to keep training (where Goku found him and told him to come to Aebrith). Kirito continues his training this chapter, though it didn't focus much on him. Anyway, some interesting predictions there at the end, hope you enjoyed the chapter, and thanks for the review!
Jokering chapter 106 . May 19
Couldnt read the recent chapters thanks to college ( and indirectly to Infinity War ) but after making enough time to read this i've got to say: i am still enjoying it even now, that surprises me since most giant fanfics fall off by chapter 100, you are technically two times ahead of that and still going strong.
Lots of set ups about whats going to happen: What Satan is planning, the aftermath of Pyraxas, the 7 sins reunited and helping out Maka and Soul and Liz, Blackbeard is back, Sephiroth and Cloud are still tsundere for each other (jk), and Sora is now team leader, neat.
I had the feeling it would go typical anime/rpg route, with the characters going on a route and defeating the enemies on the way, but i it seems like the other sub plots might not make it as simple as that, even if it is that way I wouldn't mind, i kinda biased towards the rpg style journey.
Random Dragon Ball trivia for the review: Did you see those new character designs for Goku, Vegeta, Piccolo, Beerus and Whis? They finally went back to og style DB, no more banana SSJ hair as some people call it, no more characters looking like plastic toys, and since Piccolo was one of the first revealed maybe he will do stuff in the movie instead of being fodder ( my personal hope, i miss Piccolo being bad ass, ToP didnt do as much for him and Tien and Krillin as it for everybody else). Btw how are you doing with Saint Seiya? Hope you are liking it, its a really old anime so they dont go as wild with their fights as recent ones do, but its still a pretty cool series.
As typical of my reviews i compliment your work and keep rooting for your story: Well done and keep up the great job you are doing.
Infinity War was distracting... haha, and college too I guess. Glad you're still liking the story 205+ chapters through. A whole lot of setups for the Second Third of Heroes Will Rise which is really still just starting up. RPG, subplots, war, adventure, romance, lot of different ways I could write up this story from this point, but you'll see soon how it goes. I have seen the new designs, and I really like them, also really looking forward to DB: Heroes. Piccolo in the movie... I can see saving Gohan, and that's about it. XD It's his iconic movie role, so I'm really looking forward to it. Thanks for the review!
Guest chapter 106 . May 21
now sora is leading the great!, I also some people are alive again and that's blackbeard who else could be back
Sora takes charge. Blackbeard and Zaratras return, but that's because the two of them were Reanimations Orochimaru brought back to life in Metropolis. They were sealed by Ansem/Riku who used the darkness to suck them into a dark realm, but in order to save himself and the others when they were cornered by monsters after fighting the Spriggans, Riku released them back into the world. Thanks for the review!
cyber chapter 106 . May 22
cant wait for the kingdom hearts 3 game
Me either. The hype is real. XD Thanks for the review, and thanks to everyone for reading! 'Till next time!