Nexus HWR 16.0 The Chosen One:
Day 1
"Guys!"
Natsu and Luffy were panting hard but the two of them turned to the entrance of the large white room together. Usopp was standing there with his arms out on the sides of the entrance and he was panting almost as hard as the other two covered in scratches and bruises in the empty training room. The muscular man with a long nose yelled into the room, "Have you seen Sora?"
The two fighters were somewhat annoyed that their first sparring match since their big fight a week earlier had been interrupted was interrupted again. They glanced at each other then turned back to Usopp and Natsu called over, "What do you mean?"
"He's missing!" Usopp shouted back. Now, Natsu and Luffy both started jogging his way and behind Usopp they caught a glimpse of Riku sprinting down the hallway.
"Missing?" Luffy mumbled to himself. "Do you mean he left?" The pirate questioned.
"Left?" Natsu asked and turned to the pirate who wore a red tank top open down the middle that displayed the huge X-shaped scar on his torso.
"Yeah," Luffy said like it was a casual thing to do. Usopp and Natsu both stared blankly at him and they all stopped moving. Luffy looked from Natsu to Usopp and he said, "Sora said he was going to look for Kairi when I saw him this morning-"
"WHAT?!" Natsu and Usopp shouted together.
A few others running down the halls checking individual rooms heard the shouts and came running their direction. "What is it?" Gray asked the others in the entrance of one of the training rooms. Riku turned around at the other end of the hall and was jogging back over too, while Franky stepped out around the corner behind Gray.
Usopp turned to Gray and Franky and muttered in a deadpan voice, "Sora told Luffy he was leaving to look for Kairi."
"What?!" Riku yelled at Usopp's back. Usopp turned and he made eye contact with Riku and the two of them closed their mouths. Usopp was about to repeat himself and Riku was going to go on a rant, but the eye contact they made caused both of them to freeze. Riku closed his mouth as Usopp's eyebrows narrowed down, and then Usopp turned away from him. Riku looked to his right at Luffy and Natsu in the doorway though and he said to the pirate captain, "Why didn't you tell us?"
Luffy tilted his head to the side confusedly, "He didn't tell you?" the pirate asked. Riku's eyes widened and he opened his mouth to respond, then closed it as he saw Luffy's questioning look. The fact that Sora told Luffy and not Riku confused some of them, but Riku clenched his fists at his sides. He knew I would tell him I was coming. Damn it Sora, you tricked me. You said we were going to let Roxas and Axel handle it!
"What happened to his whole, let's train for a month, thing?" Natsu muttered in annoyance. "Becomes leader and the first thing he does is run off," he scoffed. "I would have been a much better-"
"Where do you think Sora-bro is going to look?" Franky asked.
"He must have some idea," Gray began, while Natsu sweatdropped that everyone ignored him. "He wouldn't have just wandered off without a plan…"
"Gray Fullbuster," a voice called behind Gray and Franky. The two of them turned and everyone else in the hall looked behind them to the other corner where a man none but Natsu and Gray recognized.
Natsu's eyes widened a little and Riku turned to him, "Someone you know?"
"That's Hiei," Natsu muttered back without looking away from the short figure at the end of the hall with big spiky black hair. "He's the one who sent us after the Fire Lord. A big Resistance player," he narrowed his eyes at the short man with a sheath on his side, "and I don't like him one bit," Natsu finished.
"Follow me," Hiei ordered Gray who took a step towards him. "You have new orders."
"Just him?" Usopp called over.
The shorter man looked Usopp's direction and the sniper instantly regretted asking from the look in that man's eyes. "Yes," Hiei stated a one word response. He turned and started walking away so Gray had to jog to catch up.
Usopp called after Gray's back, "What about Sora?"
Gray looked over his shoulder and shouted, "It's Sora we're talking about. He probably has a plan and will be back before we know it."
sc
Alvarez Empire
Inside a tavern just north of the Cataclysm line, three thousand miles east of Pyraxas, only a few people were sitting around drinking at midday. The wooden double doors of the bar opened up but only the barkeep wiping down the counter looked over. The others were too distracted by the drinks in their hands and the thoughts on their minds.
The swinging doors that did not touch the floor or the ceiling of the doorway swung back out and then in until they slowed down their swinging and came to a stop. The figure who just walked in tipped up the brown cowboy hat on his head and looked around the room. He had on a black leather jacket open down the middle revealing a red shirt with black highlights on it. He had on a pair of dark blue pants with a single chain on his right hip looping down over his pocket.
"Hmm, less people in here than I'd hoped," the teenager mumbled. He walked through the bar and around a railing, walking up to the bartender and talking to him for a moment. As they were talking, a man sitting at a small square table against the wall on the opposite side of the room lowered the shot glass in his hand and lifted his gaze to the bar. He had three empty shot glasses in front of him and one more still with some clear liquor in it.
The man at the table had short dark-blond hair that was almost brown, unkempt over his head and looking like he had not washed it in a while. He wore a leather jacket like the one the teen had on only all black, but he was almost twice the eighteen year old's age. He furrowed his brow at the back of the kid's head, wondering how he got his hair to stick up in such perfect spikes without hair gel as it did not look like he had product in. The teen suddenly turned around and the man's eyes darted back down to his drink. He had a deep frown on his face and he reached forward, picked up his fourth shot glass, and tilted his head back to down it. As he lifted the glass and knocked his head back, he fumbled the glass because his eyes passed over a figure standing directly in front of his table. Most of his liquor spilled and he just barely caught his shot glass so it did not drop to the floor.
He slowly put his small glass down while wiping his face with his other arm's sleeve. He snapped his cold gaze up at the teen in front of him, "What do you want?" His voice was not friendly, and he was pretty pissed off that the kid's sudden appearance in front of his table made him spill his drink.
The boy with spiky brown hair looked down at the sitting man and asked, "Do you know about the Nobodies?"
The figure grumbled and glared into the kid's blue eyes. "What do you want to know?" He asked in annoyance.
Sora did not take this as an annoyed voice though, but the first shred of hope he had found all day. "So you do know about them," Sora said excitedly. He reached forward and pulled the chair across the table from the man out, while the guy looked at him in surprise and then even more annoyance as Sora sat down in the chair and smiled stupidly at him. "What do I want to know?" He repeated the man's question, then smirked and said, "Everything."
The guy nodded his head and he leaned over the table, ushering the teenager to do the same. Sora anxiously leaned in, and the man growled at him, "Screw you." He leaned back and looked at the kid's face to see his reaction. The teen did not lose the strange grin on his face though and just leaned back himself with a thoughtful expression.
"What if I go buy you a drink?" Sora offered.
The muscular man wearing a tight black shirt under his jacket looked Sora straight in the boy's blue eyes. His eyes were cold and green and he tried intimidating Sora by narrowing them. "Screw you," he repeated, this time curling his mouth on the 'you' and making the kid stop smiling. He figured he finally got the boy to leave him alone as the teen had a frustrated look on his face now. Let me just drink in peace, the man thought and mentally groaned as the kid still did not get up after a few seconds.
Sora was frowning though, and he did not get up because the man did not tell him that he did not know anything about Nobodies, he just did not seem to be in the mood for talking about it. Yet, this man's mood could not deter him from getting the information he needed. He looked back into the figure's eyes and leaned forward over the table, "The Organization kidnapped my fiancé," he said. The man's eyes opened wide and Sora continued in a serious tone, "So if you know anything about them, please tell me. I have to save her."
For a long time the man sat there. He closed his eyes and slouched in his seat, groaning out loud this time. "Whatever," he conceded. "But you're still buying the drinks," he added.
Sora smiled again and his hopeful look returned. He reached up a hand and the bartender looked his way, "Can I get another one of these." Sora had one of the shot glasses in his hand which confused the man across from him who never saw him pick it up.
The guy ignored that for a second though, and he said to Sora, "Make it two." Sora looked back at him with a semi-confused look and the man continued, "I'm not gonna be the only one drinking. Get yourself one."
Sora held up his other hand in front of him. "It's fine. I'm not legal age."
The man scoffed, "On what world?" Sora opened his mouth to respond, but the guy did seem like he was willing to help him find Kairi. Although he usually got away with it on the Thousand Sunny using that excuse, he decided he could accept it if it was for Kairi's sake. He sighed and rose the shot glass again, calling to the barkeep to give him two more of the drinks.
The bartender walked over with a couple of drinks for them and put them down on the table. The teen thanked him while the other man just grunted. The boy figured it was time to introduce himself, and he stuck a hand out over the table. "My name's Sora," he greeted.
The guy with dark blond hair looked at the hand for a second, then nodded down at the drinks with his head. Sora watched as the man picked up his shot glass, so he did the same. The figure clanked his glass against Sora's, then knocked it back and downed it in one gulp. Sora looked at his drink hesitantly, but he shrugged his shoulders and tilted his head back before taking the shot. He scrunched up his face after and ground his teeth, making the other man chuckle a little. Sora saw him laughing and the kid regained his smile, though he still had a bad taste in his mouth and a burning sensation in his throat.
"Dean," the man said. Sora smiled more that the man finally told him his name, and the guy just stared at him like he was a very weird person. What is up with this kid? Why is he smiling so much? Didn't he say his wife got taken or something? Dean Winchester grumbled to himself then held up two more fingers in the air. Sora looked at him in surprise and was about to argue that one was enough for him, but Dean started speaking first, "Alright, what do you want to know about the Nobodies? I lived in one of their cities for a while."
Sora lost his surprised look and became more serious again, looking like he did when he first brought up his fiancé. "If you know where their cities are, that would alone be a big help. Mainly, the location of their capital. That will be where Xemnas has Kairi."
"Xemnas?" Dean muttered. He was about to reach for his new drink, but he stopped himself and looked at the kid in confusion first. "You think the High Lord himself has your girl?"
"Probably," Sora replied. "I have friends in the Organization who are probably protecting her, but her Nobody is there too, and I don't know if she's safe in their clutches."
Dean looked a little more interested, and he reached forward for his glass and motioned for Sora to do the same. The frowning boy took his glass and knocked it back with Dean, and the man started speaking before Sora was done scrunching up his face again. "You seem like you know all about the Organization. I thought you were the one who wanted answers, but I don't understand half the stuff you're talking about." Sora asked him to just say what he knows, so Dean sighed but started telling the kid where the cities he had been to under their control were.
"Northwest?" Sora asked during the explanation. "Huh, I thought since Saix ruled the Dread Fort… but I thought that was a Fire Nation city he was in charge of 'cause they were such good allies. Their land goes past the Cataclysm up here?"
Dean nodded and continued explaining the locations of their territories. He explained how the Organization's land was the longest of any region, stretching from south of the Cataclysm line to over fifty thousand miles north of it, covering most of the west coast of Aebrith. Then he got into talking about the capital which he had never been to, "…Around Mount Vegeta outside of the Saiyans' territory."
"The old Saiyans' territory," Sora interrupted with a grim look on his face. Dean looked at him confused and the kid lifted back up his gaze from the table. He looked into Dean's confused eyes and said, "King Bardock got killed by the Ant King. Saiyans are probably under his control now."
"You're serious?" Dean asked, seeing no hesitation on the boy's face. "How do you know this?"
Sora grimaced and muttered, "I saw it."
The grim expression on Sora's face was not what Dean was looking for during a day of drinking. He lifted his hand with two fingers, then put them down and just called out. "Bring out a tray." The bartender chuckled and shook his head, but started filling up a dozen shot glasses that he put on a circular metal tray and just brought out to their table to leave it there. He was happier to do this than having to walk back and forth the whole time anyway.
The two continued talking to each other, and Dean smirked as he noticed Sora reach forward and grab a drink without first him motioning to do so. "Lexaeus?" Sora asked as Dean explained about the Lord of the city he used to live in. Sora scratched the back of his head and looked up at the ceiling while humming out loud. "You know, I don't remember that guy. He may have been someone Riku beat-"
"What are you talking about?" Dean asked. Sora looked back down at the man who was staring at Sora stupidly, wondering if he was imagining what he just heard. "How do you know so much about these Organization guys- wait a second," Dean started frowning. "You aren't one of those Resistance are you? If so, you guys must really be in trouble if you're getting your information from random shotty bars."
"I'm definitely a friend of the Resistance," Sora said. "I don't know if there's a special process to get in, but…" He faded off and then snapped his fingers as he remembered what Dean asked first. "Oh, I fought the Organization before, but before Nexus. Those guys have always been on my ass. This isn't the first time they caught Kairi either," he added with a frustrated look.
"You should keep a closer eye on your woman," Dean said. "Letting her get kidnapped twice. Doesn't seem-"
"Shut it," Sora snapped. The man looked surprised as this was an emotion he had not seen the boy with before. The kid looked pissed and his hands were clenched into fists over the table. "Sorry," Sora mumbled after a few seconds. "I just," he shook his head, "this world is so difficult sometimes. It's so big, so much bigger than my own world, and-" he stopped himself and shook his head again as he remembered to keep some things quiet. "I can't always be by her side," he whispered.
Dean nodded his head and he took another drink himself. "Yeah," he muttered, somewhat regretting messing with him. That next drink went down smoothly and he gasped out a nice breath of relief, before shaking his head around fast and grinning. He looked back into the younger man's eyes and went, "You're telling me!" Sora looked up in a little surprise at the man's demeanor that seemed to switch a little. "This world is hard for you? I'm sitting here in a bar getting drunk at one in the afternoon."
"Hey, so am I," Sora argued with a grin.
"Yeah, but only 'cause I dragged you into it," Dean countered. He frowned again and leaned back in his chair, the drunkenness hitting him hard only after he took that last drink, so it still had not fully set in yet. He really only started drinking ten to fifteen minutes before Sora entered the bar, so even though he had a couple more drinks than the kid, they were close to each other in terms of how much they'd drunk. That actually meant it was worse for Sora though, as the smaller boy himself had never gotten drunk before and had no tolerance for the drinks he was downing at the same pace as the man before him. Dean chuckled at the sight of the boy's expression as he spilled a bit of vodka down his chin on the last shot he took.
"So," Sora mumbled, leaning back in his seat like Dean was doing. "This Nowhere City, you said it's floating? How do I get there?"
"Don't know," Dean muttered in response. "Never been there myself, only heard rumors. The place is dark though, that's one thing that everyone who's been there talks about. They say the city never gets any sunlight."
"Not surprising," Sora said. He did not seem too interested which made the man in front of him aggravated. Sora looked down at Dean's face and he figured he got most of what he wanted to know from the man. Still, he was not having the worst time ever, and without any of his friends around, this was the first fun interaction he had had since he left. "So Dean," Sora began, leaning forwards again. "Why are you drinking in the middle of the day?" Dean frowned and looked over to his left at a wall. Sora continued, "Because, you know, there's other stuff to do here."
"Like what?" Dean mumbled, not in the mood to answer personal questions right now. He was feeling pretty drunk though and this kid did not look like he was going to leave him alone now even though he had answered his questions about the Nobodies.
"Well, you could catch Pokemon," Sora suggested. He motioned at the wall behind Dean and the man turned around in his chair. He looked at the window Sora pointed at on that wall and his eyes widened at the sight of creatures outside of the bar walking around on the dirt. He could only see a few of them from his chair, but a flying green fairy thing flew outside the window while he was looking back there and he rubbed his eyes wondering if he really saw it.
Dean spun back to the grinning teen in front of him. "You caught those?" He asked in surprise.
Sora looked back out the window himself and watched as Azumarill walked by next to Scyther. Blaziken was behind them, punching and kicking in the air as it trained, and Celebi did another dip down out of the sky as it flew around. The kid's eyes got darker and he said softly, "No. I only caught one of them. Most of the rest, I got from dying friends who wanted me to watch after them. But some," his voice got even darker and the surprised man leaned back at the boy's grim demeanor. "I had to take from a monster," Sora continued harshly, "so he couldn't hurt them anymore."
He stayed staring down at the table for a few seconds before drunkenly shaking his head clear of all those dark thoughts and looking back up at the man in front of him. "Like I said, it's a hard world out there. Still, you have to keep going, right?"
The guy saw what Sora was doing and he grunted, looking away as he did. "You say it like it's so easy. This world though," Dean shook his head and spoke softer, "I've got no purpose being in it."
"Ah that's not true," Sora told him. Dean looked at the kid with an exhausted look but Sora continued, "Really! You helped me out, and your help is going to help Kairi. Not to mention everyone else I'll save by stopping the Organization…"
"Stopping the Organization?" Dean asked, making Sora freeze again and realize what he just said. To shut his mouth, he put another drink in it and swallowed, which was only contributing to the problem going on. Dean started laughing after a few seconds, "You did mention fighting them before. You saying they're from your own world?"
"Eh, kinda," Sora replied. "But hey," he grumbled and pointed at the older man across from him. "Stop changing the subject! I'm trying to talk about you. What are you doing just moping around in a bar on such a nice day."
"Such a nice day?" Dean muttered. "Are you on the same world I am? This world has no 'nice days.' Every day people get eaten and murdered and enslaved and-"
"And other people catch Pokemon, and go swimming, and spar with each other just for fun," Sora countered. Dean frowned at him but Sora smiled, "Really. I've seen thousands of people who enjoy life on this world. Millions even. Sure, it may not be perfect, and there may be a lot of problems with it, but no world is perfect. They all have their flaws, their own forms of darkness. I bet even your own world had its own problems."
Sora was hinting hard there, and a drunk Dean sighed but obliged. "Yeah," he admitted. With a look of nostalgia on his face he said, "There were monsters all over the place. Most people didn't know they existed, but I used to fight them with my brother."
"See!" Sora exclaimed and smacked a hand down on the table. "That's what you should be doing on a day like today!" Dean stared at the kid like he was stupid and Sora started looking a little confused, "Well, if you were fighting monsters, you must be pretty strong, right?" Sora asked.
Dean opened his mouth to snap at him, but he closed it after a second and picked up another shot. "No," he said and downed the drink. "I'm not strong at all."
"Huh," Sora mumbled defeatedly. He thought he was getting somewhere with him for a second and he started grumbling under his own breath. "What kind of monsters did you fight?" Sora asked.
"Vamps, werewolves, djinn, ghosts, demons," the man listed off some monsters he fought regularly back on his own world. Dean looked tired as he mentioned demons though, and after he did he finished with, "Angels."
This had Sora scrunching up his face and the boy looked at Dean funny. "Angels aren't monsters," he said like it was obvious.
"Yeah, well these ones were dicks," Dean said.
This made Sora frown and he spoke up, "They were 'dicks?' Did you kill them for that?"
Dean looked at the teen in surprise and he felt something for the first time since the boy sat down. He felt nervous. The teen mentioned taking on the Organization and he just brushed it off as the younger man being annoying, but now that he thought about some of what the kid had been saying, he started looking at him differently. Is this kid, strong? The boy was not very muscular, but he was not too thin either. Dean saw the kid still waiting for a response, but he realized he totally forgot what the question was. "What?" he asked.
"Did you kill angels?" Sora asked him harshly.
Dean thought about Zachariah, an angel he stabbed in the head with an angel blade. He saw the blade go up through the bottom of the angel's chin, and up through the top of his skull. "Yeah, I've killed an angel-"
"Why?!" Sora exclaimed. He slammed his hands down on the table and looked at Dean with an upset look on his face. "I thought you were a good guy. You looked like, a good guy to me," Sora mumbled. Dean was surprised by the kid's choice of words and watched as Sora leaned back with a depressed look on his face. "So why would you kill an angel?"
The man sighed and he figured the lightweight in front of him was drunk enough that he would not think this was too insane anyway. "Because," Dean began. "They were trying to start the apocalypse." Sora's eyes bugged, opening wide and his bottom lip lowered.
"Really?" Sora asked.
This time it was Dean's turn to lower his bottom lip, then he started laughing at the kid's expression that showed he really believed him. "Yeah, really," Dean said with a chuckle. "Michael and Lucifer, bastards wanted to use me and my brother's bodies as vessels to fight each other, which would have destroyed most of the Earth in the process. We wouldn't let them." The man sighed and he rubbed his forehead, "I thought we were so important. I hated it. I hated that all the time everyone kept telling us we either had to accept or had to deny them because the fate of the world was in our hands," he looked back into the kid's eyes and saw Sora looking at him intently, not disbelieving a single word which made him shake his head at how gullible the kid was. He could imagine if anyone else told him a story like this, he would have laughed right in their face.
"But then," Dean continued. "Right when we thought the world was over, right when Lucifer got a hold of my brother's body, I see a bright white light."
Sora nodded his head in understanding and finished for him, "And then you were here."
"And then I was here," Dean repeated with a shake of his head. "On this world where instead of having the fate of the world in my hands, I became so unimportant that I can sit in a bar all day, or go out there and try to fight, and either way I won't be able to make a difference. The monsters here are much stronger than the ones I used to fight. Grimm and Aragami tear through werewolves and vampires like paper. Then there are the Heartless."
Sora grimaced and he took another shot. "I hear you there," he said and slammed his glass back down on the table. Dean glanced down and his eyes opened wide in surprise as the tray was almost empty, and he was sure he only had three or four of the twelve shots that were there originally. "But I mean, isn't it a good thing you got to get out of that situation?" Sora asked, bringing Dean's attention back to the drunk teen's face.
"Sure," Dean said. "At first I was relieved. But I slowly realized that my entire life, angels and demons had been pushing me and my brother towards that moment. All our lives we were pushed forward by destiny. And then right when that destiny was about to finish, POOF! I'm gone and thrown into a field covered in people fighting each other with beam lasers and swords that eat giant monsters!"
Sora started laughing as he imagined how crazy that would be to some people he met on worlds without any advanced technology. He smiled at the man in front of him who did not seem to be in the laughing mood. "I think it's good that you didn't have to stay in that situation though," Sora told him. He reached forward and patted the man on the shoulder a few times, "There must have been a lot of pressure on you, so it's a good thing you weren't responsible for all those people's lives anymore. I know it's a tough burden to have." Sora put his hands back behind his head, "So maybe you do deserve a break. Hanging out in bars and drinking all the time doesn't seem so bad now that I have partaken," he joked and was amazed by how great these drinks were making him feel. "I wish I could just relax at a bar and have fun sometimes."
"Well, once you get your girl back from those Nobodies, you can," Dean replied.
Sora shook his head though with a small frown on his face. "If only it was that simple."
Dean finished off another drink and he lowered it down to the table, but missed the side and dropped it. His eyes darted down to the glass and he clenched his teeth waiting for the sound of it shattering. His eyes opened wide though as a foot lashed forward, stopping right under his glass. Sora held his big yellow shoe under the glass and Dean was almost as surprised that the teen caught his glass with his foot as he was by the size of the boy's shoe. "Watch this," Sora said, and he kicked the glass up with a flick of his foot.
Dean lifted his gaze as the glass spun around in the air, and then the spiky haired teen in front of him lifted up his right hand and pointed a finger at the glass up in the air. "Gravira!" A large black sphere formed in the air above them, surrounding the shot glass and making it drop down fast, but right before it hit the table Sora swung his right hand forward and snatched it, using his momentum to stop it from cracking. He finished swiping across his body and flicked his fingers up at the end of his swipe, making the glass fly behind him all the way over to the bar where it landed on the counter in front of the shocked bartender. The other few people around the room were all looking over in shock too, and then they all looked towards the counter as they heard the sound of a glass shattering, as the shot glass Sora landed there slid off the wet counter that the man was washing down and broke apart on the floor behind it.
Sora's eyes bugged out and he jumped out of his seat so fast that his chair fell over. "Oh shi-" he stopped himself and covered his mouth. He looked down at the chair then back at the bartender, and he called out, "Sorry! I didn't mean to-"
"It's fine," the barkeep said, scratching the back of his bald head as he did. "I'll just, add a dollar or two to your tab, okay?"
Sora smiled at the lenient punishment and he fist-pumped in the air. "Thanks! That's fine. Sorry again," he turned back to Dean and started snickering, having to cover his mouth as he finally showed how funny he really thought that was. Dean was staring at the kid with mouth agape, but he finally closed it and started chuckling to himself.
"Guess you really are strong," Dean muttered as the boy picked up his chair and burped while sitting back down in it.
"Oh yeah," Sora responded with a smirk. "I kick major butt," the boy bragged.
Dean laughed and the two of them kept talking to each other. They ran out of drinks but as Sora got ready to call for some more, Dean told him to slow down a little. They were downing these way too fast for just casual day drinking. Sora called him a 'chicken' though, so they wound up getting a lot more rounds on their table. The bartender asked them not to break anything else though or he would cut them off, to which Sora started cracking up, making the barkeep groan.
While they were talking, Dean thought about something the boy said earlier, and he was feeling drunk enough to pry at this point. "You know, when I told you you could just relax at bars after you got your fiancé back, you acted like you couldn't do it. But why not? She wouldn't let you?"
"Not her," Sora said like that was a silly question. "The world wouldn't let me," he said. Dean stared at him wondering if the boy knew how dumb that sounded to him. Sora saw that look and he pointed at Dean, "Hey, I believed you when you told me you were the 'chosen vessel,' why you gotta, like, look at me like that?" Dean held up a hand defensively and told Sora to go on then, and the kid smirked and he did just that. "I can't stop fighting, I can't because I am the real 'chosen one.' So no matter what happens, or what world I'm on, I can't ever stop fighting the monsters that cover the multiverse. I defeat one baddie and another guy shows up right behind him, and I beat him, and I get sent to Nexus, where I have to beat even more baddies! And now!" he shouted, his face getting scrunched up and looking all annoyed. "Now I find out that there's an even bigger baddie outside of Nexus who I'm going to wind up having to fight. And the Gods, and the angels, and everyone on this planet is waiting for me to do something about it! Do they not get the weight on my shoulders? Don't they realize that I really can't do this, again?!"
Dean just sat there nodding his head over and over as the kid ranted. He looked around and saw the others in the bar all looking his way confusedly and he turned back to the kid. "Just calm down Sora. Don't worry about all that other stuff." He shook his head wondering where the teen got all these absurd ideas from. "After you get your fiancé, just go to a bar and relax. Marry this Kairi girl, and live like a normal guy. I'll admit you're pretty strong, but don't go putting everything on your own shoulders."
"No can do," Sora muttered. He took another drink from the table and downed it in a second. "Not until the worlds are all back to normal," he said. This sentence made Dean's eyes turn huge as the earlier rant was spoken so fast and slurred that it was hard to even understand what the kid said. This time though, he knew exactly what Sora said, and he was confused as the teen seemed like he was totally serious.
"What are you-" Dean began.
As soon as he started, he stopped, and he dropped his jaw as the others in the bar shouted and started running away. Even the barkeeper ran out from behind his counter and left the building. Sora noticed the shadow fall over him and he turned left to the spot that Dean, who jumped out of his chair, was staring in shock at. Sora looked at the tall figure standing there in a trench coat and he opened his eyes wide at the man's sudden appearance, which was a light reaction compared to everyone else.
"Cass?!" Dean exclaimed in total shock.
"Castiel?" Sora muttered.
"You know him?" Dean asked, spinning back to Sora, and then looking at Castiel again. After hearing what this teen just said, he looked back at Castiel with huge eyes. "What's up with this kid?"
"Hello Dean," Castiel said. He looked down at the boy on the chair next to him and said, "He is a Keybearer." He left Dean standing there confusedly while looking Sora in the eyes and saying, "I have been looking for this world's Keyhole as you requested. I have found it in the deepest floor of the Dungeon. I could bring you there-"
Sora lifted his right hand and pointed at Castiel, shouting, "NO!"
Castiel looked in Sora's eyes then turned to Dean and glared at the man, "What were you thinking getting the Keybearer drunk?"
"What does that even mean?" Dean asked. He shook his head and was going to shout at Cass for something else, but Sora cut in first.
"It means," the boy said, raising his right hand in front of himself. He summoned his Keyblade and swiped it around a bunch of times really fast. "That I'm a super-awesome-badass Keyblade warrior!" The teen then spun to Castiel and pointed the tip of his Keyblade at the angel that backed up from the weapon, surprising Dean as it looked like Castiel was actually a little afraid of the blade. "And you! You are not helping!"
"What?" Castiel asked. "I found the Keyhole like you asked."
"All I want to do is find Kairi now!" Sora yelled at him.
Castiel became confused and he looked around. Dean had huge eyes and just shrugged at him, so Cass looked back and asked, "Where are the other Keybearers?"
"Riku's back with the Resistance, but Kairi's gone! The Nobodies captured her!"
"Ah, so she is in Castle Oblivion," Castiel said and he scratched his chin.
Sora stopped ranting and he lowered down his Keyblade. "W-Wait, Castle Oblivion? I thought we got rid of Castle Oblivion back on Awul."
"It arose inside the Organization's territory, and Xemnas used it to recreate Kingdom Hearts," Castiel told the teen who finally lowered his weapon completely as this was something he actually cared about. "It's how the Nobodies are now able to regain their hearts."
"Hey Cass," Dean interrupted the other two. The angel looked at the man and saw Dean's pissed off look. "Where have you been?" Dean questioned. Sora looked at his new drinking buddy with a look of confusion as Dean continued, "I prayed. I actually prayed for you to come help me. Where were you man?"
Castiel saw the sad, abandoned look on Dean's face and he turned away. "I-"
"Hey, it's not his fault," Sora shouted, jumping in between the two. Dean looked at the teen in surprise and Sora pointed behind him while still looking at the man, "Cass got brainwashed by some evil criminal mastermind. That's the only reason he didn't come answer your prayers. Right Castiel?" He turned to the angel who looked surprised by Sora's sudden interjection, but had to frown again anyway. Sora backed up and his own eyes widened as he thought that Lelouch's takeover of the angel's mind was the sole reason Castiel couldn't help Dean.
"I am sorry Dean," Castiel started. Dean stared at Cass in shock and the angel looked back into his eyes, "When we were taken off our world, the angels were as shocked as everyone else. One minute we were on the verge of the apocalypse, and the next we're thrown onto a strange world where we were no longer the strongest beings on the planet. There were wars to fight, battles to win, I, I couldn't take time away to answer every prayer."
"You didn't need to answer every prayer," Dean whispered. "Just one. We were friends Cass. How could you just," Dean stopped himself and he closed his mouth. "Nevermind," he turned for the door and took a step, but Sora was suddenly standing in his way.
"Hold on Dean," Sora began. Dean frowned at the teen, but Sora smiled at him. "You helped me, and buying you drinks is not nearly enough to repay you, so let me help you out. Plus, if I help you, Castiel has to help 'cause he's my angel."
"Your angel?" Castiel and Dean both asked simultaneously.
"Yeah," Sora replied. "And the two of us are going to save the world together! But if we can't even save you, our friend, then how could we save the world? No! The universe?!" He held a hand up above him and pointed to the sky as he shouted the last part. Then, Sora's cheeks puffed out and he hunched over next to the table, "Aarrghhhahaahhggg," he hurled all over the floor and Dean and Castiel winced at the sight. Dean got a bead of sweat on the side of his head as he thought about the motivational speech this teen just said and what he looked like right now. They did not match up very well.
"Here," Castiel said. The angel put a hand on Sora's back and it glowed lightly. The boy throwing up on the floor calmed down and he stood back up with a surprised look on his face. Sora looked at his hands that had some puke on them and he disgustedly wiped them on his pants. He looked at the puddle on the floor in embarrassment and started looking around for the bartender to apologize.
Dean turned to the angel, "Cass, really?" He questioned. "You made him sober? Not cool."
Cass stepped forward and put a finger on Dean's forehead too, and before Dean could back up he completely lost all the effects of being drunk. The man groaned, but no longer drunk he had a much clearer perspective on what he had been hearing in the last hour or so. "Hey Cass," Dean said quietly, while Sora pulled out his Keyblade and started doing some magic to clean up the floor on his own. The angel glanced at the man next to him and Dean whispered, "Just how strong is this guy?"
"Strong?" Castiel questioned. "In comparison to many on this world, not very. But," the angel continued. "He may be the most important."
Dean's eyes grew huge and he and Cass looked back at the teen. "Wow," Sora said as he turned towards them, "I didn't know that getting drunk meant that I would be so, um, drunk," he laughed and scratched the back of his head. "Sorry about that stuff I said Castiel," Sora continued. "And thanks a lot for finding the Keyhole." The teen let his Keyblade vanish and he rubbed his hands together as he turned directly to Dean. "Now, for you," he began.
"What?" Dean said, confused just like Castiel.
Sora grinned, "I meant what I said. Just because I was drunk, doesn't mean I was lying. How can I save the world if I can't even help my friend? So," he said to the man with slowly widening eyes, "let's see what I can do."
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The Next Day
"Come on Cass," Sora urged the reluctant angel standing on his left side and down ten feet. Sora was sitting on top of a giant white beast, behind its long neck on the Pokemon's back. Lugia's neck was flat on the ground with its head pointed forward, making it low to the floor so it was easier for the people to climb up on it. The angel to Sora's side still looked hesitant but Sora started petting Lugia's back and he added, "I know you can get around some other way, but I'd rather have company while I fly." Lugia looked back at him and Sora held up a hand with a small laugh, "More company," he corrected himself.
Castiel sighed but he did walk forward and climb up on the Pokemon's back. He was finding it hard to get a grip, but he saw a hand reaching down in front of him and looked up at Sora who extended his arm for him to take. Castiel took the teen's hand and Sora hoisted him up the rest of the way onto the Guardian of the Sea's back. "Alright," Sora called out, as Lugia stood up fully and spread its wings. He looked off the side of the majestic creature and waved a hand at the other three standing behind where Cass was originally. "Thanks again for your help with that information, Dean," Sora called to the man.
Dean stood there with an arm around a woman on his right, and his other hand down in front of him on top of a boy's shoulder. He glanced at Lisa, and then at her son Ben, and then he lifted his gaze back to Sora with a huge smile on his face. "Hey Sora," Dean called to Lugia's back. He shook his head once as the boy looked at him questioningly. "I have never met someone like you before. You're amazing kid, and I hope you win."
"Thanks," Sora called back down to him. "And I hope if I need your help sometime in the future, I can count on you! Then I'll definitely win," he grinned down at the man who looked surprised, but then started smiling again as he did not know what to say.
"Sure, count on it," Dean replied, and he squeezed the hands on Lisa and Ben a little tighter.
"Let's go Lugia!" Sora called out.
The giant Legendary Pokemon lifted off the ground and flew up in the air. As it did, the mother and son down below shouted after them, "Thank you!" Dean just watched as the beast flew away with Sora and Castiel on its back, but he thought the same thing.
Sora turned to Castiel as they flew off. "Alright," Sora began. "There are a few places I need to go. I heard something from a friend in the Resistance that I need to check out. He told me about how they lost a large portion of their fighting power, and I told him I might be able to help out with that. So though I did get sidetracked these last few days, we have to head to Lagann Island."
"Lagann Island?" Castiel questioned. He turned his head and looked behind him, realizing now why they were heading southeast, and frowning as he did. He faced forward at Sora's back again, "That is in the opposite direction as Xemnas." Sora grimaced but he did not shout at Lugia to change directions. Castiel got louder and he called out, "Why are you wasting time with this while not only another Guardian of Light is captured, and we know where she is, but also the entire world's fate is in the balance?"
"My mission is to save people," Sora explained loudly over the wind rushing by them. "So how can I not help the Resistance when I can?" He questioned. Sora kept staring forward though, as there was not much conviction behind his words. Roxas, Axel, please keep Kairi safe a little longer. I know that Xemnas is waiting for me to show up there looking for her, and with the entire Organization, with Gohan's Nobody there, I don't know if I can save her yet. The troubled teenager who finally found his girlfriend now had the hard decision of what to do with this information, so as he put it off to think more on it, he needed something to distract himself with.
"I have a question for you now, Castiel," Sora called out. He turned his head right and looked out the corners of his eyes at the angel in a trench coat with his legs on either side of Lugia's back like himself. Sora continued but in a normal voice now that he was facing the man, "I know you feel like you owe me for what happened at Lelouch's base, but it feels like you're spending too much time with me. I mean, not that that's a bad thing, it's great actually, it's just you helped Goku, Timmy, and Kirito too, but you're really going out of your way to help me. Why is that?"
Castiel spoke in his usual bland monotone though it did sound a little farther off than normal, "I admit I have taken special interest in you. Not solely because you are a Keybearer either," he added. Castiel looked down into Sora's eyes, "As long as my superiors do not call me away, I would like to continue helping you."
"Sounds good to me," Sora shouted back over the wind. "You've got a lot of cool powers that will really come in handy. Wait!" Sora shouted, and Lugia thought it was being shouted at so the beast even slowed down in the sky and turned its head. Castiel looked at Sora confusedly and so did Lugia as Sora jumped up on its back. "You can teleport, so, why not just teleport us right to Kairi?! We could save her right now!"
Castiel did not share the same excited look Sora had on his face and the boy lowered his huge smile. "I'm afraid, I can not teleport into Castle Oblivion," Castiel admitted. "As I am sure you know, the castle itself is not just a building. Every floor…"
"Is a passage, to a different universe," Sora mumbled to finish for him.
"I would have to go in the front and then look around for Kairi," Castiel explained.
"No, no," Sora said with a shake of his head. "Xemnas could wind up getting you, and then there would be an angel Nobody." He sat back down and Lugia continued flying as it realized Sora was not calling to it in the first place. He hummed in annoyance to himself at getting his hopes up when he had already accepted it would take some time to free her. "Alright then, so that means Lagann Island it is. Pick up your speed Lug'!" Sora shouted.
Lugia flapped its wings harder and huge visible gusts of wind shot out from the tips of them.
A/N Hope you enjoyed the chapter! Kinda a weird place to end the chapter, but I always end it with someone thinking something special or some cliffhanger and I really just did not have anything for this one XD. Anyway Sora gets blasted at a random bar with Dean from Supernatural, and Castiel shows up with news on the Keyhole as well as information about where the Organization is keeping Kairi. Sora still indecisive though over how to save her without falling into Xemnas' trap, and he heads off on a detour to Lagann Island... The month has started. Thanks for reading!
Limit-Breaking chapter 108 . 6h ago
You want to see some predictions huh, well then prepare yourself...
That is my prediction... ok that was just me writing gibberish nonsense, to be honset i don't really have much to say for a prediction except maybe seeing chapters dedicated soley to about one one or two characters per chapter.
Besides that it was a really cool chapter to read and an interesting one at that, especially since you portay the resistance as a bunch of people that mainly loses all the time. Still im starting to wonder what the hell goku did to become so well known on aebirth at this point...
Hopefully dash can get over hid brother death soon, also kinda find it ironic how you let the kids ben and dash who were both happy children have the worst outcome for them yet, it could have been anybody else but they were specifically chosen for thses kinds of roles.
Besides all that it was a really good chapter and i can't wait for the next one. Hoped you enjoyed the
Thanks for the review! Cut a little off since it was so long (though it looks like some already got cut off at the end there lol). I'm kind of pissed off though, since I have to change the entire story now since you predicted everything and I don't want it to look like I was just copying your review... ;) As for Goku, I think it's similar to how Sora yelled at the Gods when he got to Heaven, asking why they haven't helped out all the time. People who see them help out sometimes will get mad when they don't help out the other times they could have, so all those people in Aebrith living in war and slavery are probably thinking to themselves "where the Hell did Goku go?" But yeah, that's pretty selfish of them which it seems like they realize which is probably why no one's brought it up to him yet. How did Goku get so famous though? ...answers for another time XD. Nice call on the chapters focusing more on individual characters now, as it seems like a few more of them besides Sora are planning on their own solo trips... And Dash and Ben, so excited those first few chapters, they have just had the worst times, but they're holding on, for now... Anyway, glad you liked that chapter, and thanks again!
Smlluffy67 chapter 108 . 5h ago
WHOOOO KID AND PATTY ARE ALIVE WHOOO RISTU IS ALIVE WHOOO NOT A DEPRSSING CHAPTER so the group is meet up the resistance not going to lie I thought Jura was dead but it looks like him in the blue Pegasus Trio are alive doesn't look like ichiya is with the blue Pegasus Trio though don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing but hey on the bright side all the main characters from Soul Eater are alive and relatively well except black star and Tsubaki I really don't have any big predictions except that one of the characters are going to learn something really big to add to their Arsenal maybe the appearance of a Super Saiyan 4 Goku or maybe you Natsu will learn how to use the power he used against zeref in the last Ark a fairy tail well great chapter as usual and if you're wondering my finals went pretty good it looks like I will get to enjoy summer but there's just a little problem and that problems name is summer school
also does anyone know how to change you username
Finally a chapter where we get some living people, and not just news on how everyone is dead! Haha, glad you liked all the introductions, we'll see about some of the others now being thought about after these ones have appeared. I really liked Soul Eater and the style of the show, think I'm probably going to read the manga sometime soon too, but yeah now we have confirmation on all 7 of the MCs still being alive. Nice predictions, won't confirm or deny anything, but we'll see soon... Glad you're finals went well, and that you seemed to have figured out how to switch your username too! XD Thanks for the review! And thanks everyone for reading Nexus up til now, over 2.5 million words down in total! As always guys, 'till next time!