CT311998: To be truth with you, originally I was planning to have Dom to go with Donnie to fix the water heater instead of Mary, and the second idea was to have both Dom and Mary to go with Donnie, but I ended up putting Mary to go with Donnie because I yearned for another brother and sister time after Mikey and Arcee had that honor already. But not to worry, I'm planning to give Dom the episode/chapter saga of his own and include him to some other adventures with the significant role.
animegamefanatic: Geez! I didn't remember that April O'Neil from the Mirage Comics was the living drawing too, created by her father with the magic of the crystal. Thanks for reminding me for that.
Guest99: I was long ago suggested the same by Tornado Man. You'll see here. And as for the latter (The turtles getting so injured that they actually need the physical upgrade via robotic technology), you shall see that as the story goes.
=Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003=
=The King, Part 2=
"GEROMINO!" Kirby shouted as he and Mary came out of the other end of the portal, which unfortunately happened to be hovering high above of the ground, causing them to fall down.
Donnie, however, caught Kirby in his arms while Mary landed rather safely onto her feet next to the turtle in purple.
"Gotcha!" Donnie said before he put Kirby down. "That last step's a doozy, huh?"
"Well, no kidding, bro." Mary agreed, glancing up at the portal and noticing that while it wasn't very high, it wasn't close to the ground either.
"Good catch, Don." Kirby remarked. "Thank you."
"No problem, Kirby." Donnie assured.
The three of them then looked around to see where the portal had taken them.
"WOW! HOLLY SHELL!" Mary gasped in total amazement, her eyes flying wide open at the sight.
The turtles and Kirby had ended up to a strange world that most certainly wasn't Earth. This world had a grassy hilly fields and trees like back in Earth, but only with the purple, pink and black sky filled with planets of various colors, shapes and sizes, along with the bright sun-like stars, a huge burning red sun high above of them, and the purple shooting stars streaked across the sky. And nearby, there was a beautiful-looking floating city in the end of the pink arching bridge.
"Donnie?! Where exactly are we?!" the turtle in turquoise asked.
"Apparently that door you drew, Kirby, brought us into some sort of alternate reality." Donnie assumed, amazed himself as well. "A different dimension."
"A different dimension?" Mary repeated, baffled by this. "Is it even possible that other dimensions do exist? I thought they were just the stuff of science fiction movies."
"Well, scientifically speaking, at least so far the existence of parallel dimensions has only been theorized albeit could not be proven." Donnie said. "But actually seeing the one with my own eyes. It's... it's incredible."
"Yeah. It really is beautiful." Mary agreed, marveling this world.
"And it all looks familiar." Kirby said, looking around with the look on his face as if he recognized this place. "Actually, too familiar even."
"What do you mean, Kirby?" Mary asked, confused.
"Look." Kirby said, opening his sketchbook and showing to Mary and Donnie the one drawing, which depicted the world they were standing on very identically. "See?"
The turtles in purple and turquoise gasped with surprise.
"OMG! You... you've created this whole place?" Mary asked, amazed that their new friend had actually brought this a whole new world and a whole new dimension into existence.
"Indeed, I did." Kirby confirmed. "I drew this world and dubbed it as Ebrik. And look. I even drew all of its inhabitants. See here." he added as he started to go through the pages, showing the two turtles these "inhabitants of Ebrik" he mentioned.
He showed to them the drawing of the blue insect-like monster with the armor, which Kirby had dubbed as "Insector."
Then he showed another drawing of the hulking monster with the yellow horned head, dubbed as "Yellow-head."
Then he showed the drawing of the dinosaur-like monster with the club in the end of its tail, dubbed "Ankylodon."
Then the drawing of the featherless giant chicken-like monster with the head of the vulture, dubbed "Skrerrior."
Then the brown long-toothed insect-like monster with the purplish armor, dubbed "Dieskrad."
Then the red-armored green and yellow-striped feline-like monster, dubbed "Kittynator."
Then the bat-like creature Donnie and Mary had encountered earlier, dubbed "Man-bat."
And then the gray and rather beastly anthropomorphic goat-like monster, dubbed "Goat-man."
The next drawing, however, did not depict a new monster but a tall and muscular red-haired and -bearded human man in the brown armor while wearing the golden shoulder guards, golden wrist guards and golden helmet. He was also wielding the pair of golden broadswords. Kirby had dubbed the man in the drawing as "King Midaleas."
Next drawing too depicted a human warrior in the blue armor and the red helmet which covered his face and had the turquoise blades on each side. This warrior was armed with the red and light-blue shield with one sharp point at the bottom and two spikes at the top, dubbed "Shieldinas."
Third drawing of the human warrior had a long purple hair tied in the ponytail while wearing the purplish armor with the shiny silvery shoulder guards, the silvery helmet and the silvery shin guards, and he was wielding the long silvery staff in his hands, dubbed "Silverous"
The fourth drawing of the human warrior was a female this time, who was a lot of thinner than the first three male warriors albeit with the broad shoulders. She had the long brown hair, some of which was braided into two braids over her shoulders, and she wore the pearl-white armor with the dark-blue cape and the pearl-white helmet with the wings. As her weapon, she wielded the spear with the pear-shaped blade. She was dubbed as...
"Roz Kirbyrie?" Mary questioned, noticing something familiar about that dubbed name - not the mention of the female warrior's face which also looked to be familiar - as she looked up at Kirby. "Is this one's name and facial traits based on... Roz Kirby? Your wife?"(1)
"And even a little bit more than just that, Mary." Kirby confirmed with the nod. "You see, after I died and I brought myself back to life by drawing myself on the page, I asked my beloved Roz if she too wanted to go through the same process."
"So you drew your own wife by using a younger version of her as a model just like you did with yourself, and even as one of the warriors of this world you created?" Mary asked with the raised brow.
"Well, the warrior part wasn't actually the original design for her." Kirby admitted, looking at the drawing of his late wife with both love and longing in his eyes
"Originally, she agreed to let me draw her on the page so that she would come back as a living drawing - just like me - only because she didn't want me to spend my whole life alone as a freak of nature among the "real" people after her own death. But I guess I was so immersed in this world that my imagination kind of ran wild and I ended up making her a fantasy warrior. But actually, she didn't mind at all. Roz had always been so fascinated by fantasy worlds as a child that she actually wanted her drawing to be part of the world I created. Her only regret was that when she died and then the drawing of her would disappear immediately after coming to life like all my drawings do, she would be alone here and I would be alone on Earth, separated from each other forever." Kirby explained, letting out the deep sigh as he closed his eyes.
Both Donnie and Mary looked at Kirby sadly, both of them only able to think and imagine how hard it had been for Kirby to live alone as one of his kind - after all, he himself technically wasn't a human - ever since the real Roz Kirby passed away in 1998, which is about over five years ago.
"So was that the reason why you drew that portal into the existence in the first place? So that you can come here to find her?" Mary asked sympathetically.
"Well, if I had thought about that a long time ago than just a couple of weeks ago, maybe I could have. But I had no idea where my drawings went to after they disappeared, and I didn't dare use the portal myself because I didn't know exactly where it would lead." Kirby told them.
Mary gave the man a chuckle and an encouraging nudge in his arm. "Well, now you do. So I guess all you need to do is to go to check and find out is she here, since I think that it is safe to assume that everything and everyone you've ever drawn ends up right here in Ebrik after disappearing, in the world you've created."
Donnie then heard some noise and looked off, till he saw the cause of the noice on the top of the nearby ridge.
"Speaking of the devil, check out those two weirdos over there." the turtle in purple said, catching their attentions and pointed his finger at the top of the ridge.
On the ridge was walking two monsters: One was a hulking green ogre-like monster with the white beard and horns, who was wearing the gauntlets and the spiked clubs. The another one was a brown-skinned monster in black armor and horned helmet that covered its face, only with one large eye-hole for the big glowing yellow eye.
"They do look like one of the monsters out of your notebook, do they?" Donnie asked as the two monsters walked past them.
Kirby went through the pages, until he came across of the drawings of the monsters that matched exactly to the appearances of these two.
"They are! I remember drawing these two!" Kirby gasped proudly. "The green-one is dubbed "Clobber" and the one-eyed one "Cyclonys".
Donnie looked up at the monsters again, seeing that they were walking away from them and behind of the ridge. "Well, these Mr. Clobber and Mr. Cyclonys appear to be ignoring us and booking it over that ridge." the turtle in purple said.
"I wonder what's so interesting in the other side that those two chose to ignore us?" Mary wondered.
"Come on. We better follow them to check it out." Kirby suggested. "These guys weren't quite friendly when they came out of the pages, so I have a good reason to assume they're up to no good.
Donnie and Mary nodded to Kirby, before the three of them ran uphill after the monsters. Once they arrived to the top of the hill...
"AHH!" they gasped, when they saw the small horde of monsters, Dieskrads, Yellow-heads, Insectors, Clobbers, Man-bats, Kittynators, Ankylodons, Skrerriors, Cyclonyses and Goat-men, charging towards the floating city in the end of the pink arching bridge.
"What's going on in here? Where are these beasts going?" Mary asked.
"Looks like someone's in store for a monster-sized beatdown!" Donnie exclaimed.
"Look! Over there!" Kirby gasped, looking and pointing his finger at the base of the pink glowing bridge, where the horde was heading.
In front of the bridge stood eight fantasy warriors. King Midaleas, Shieldinas, Silverous and Roz Kirbyrie were there, along with four other fantasy warriors.
Fifth male fantasy warrior, who had the long blue hair, wore the orange armor with the silvery-blue shoulder guards and the brown helmet. As his weapon of choice, he wielded a single huge war-hammer with the knuckle-guard. He was dubbed in Kirby's scetchbook as "Thrar".(2)
Sixth male fantasy warrior, who had the long blonde hair, had the crimson tunic with the silvery chest plate along with linked dark shoulder guards, and the crimson helmet along with the yellow curled goat-like horns. As the weapon of choice, he wielded the pair of clubs. He was dubbed as "Hornculus".
Seventh male fantasy warrior had a large red beard and he wore brown armor along with the red shoulder guards and the thigh guards, along with the bull-horned red helmet that gave him an impression of the viking. He was wielding as his weapon of choice the large two-bladed battle axe. He was dubbed as "Vikinga".
And eighth fantasy warrior was a woman too with the long and full golden-orange hair, and unlike Roz Kirbyrie, she was as muscular as the men and wore green armor with along with the black spiked helmet, spiked black shoulder guards, spiked wrist guards, and shin guards. And as her weapon of choice, she wielded the pair of spiked maces. She was dubbed as "Spikylia".
"Brace yourself!" King Midaleas told his men, who all prepared themselves to fend off the monsters.
"Those creatures are going to rip all of them apart!" Kirby gasped.
"Not to mention that they're vastly outnumbered." Mary noted.
King Midaleas led his men into the battle. First he knocked the Kittynator off its feet with his right shoulder, before he slashed both of his golden swords down at the Yellow-head, cutting him down, and then he swung them both up and struck with them the attacking Ankylodon, both knocking him back and mortally wounding the beast. He then wrapped his arm around the Clobber's waist, spun around, and tossed it into Dieskrad, knocking them down, before he crossed his arms as Cyclonys attacked him and then pulled his arms back, severing the monster's head from its shoulders.
Roz Kirbyrie swung her spear at the Skrerrior and Dieskrad, knocking them both off their feet and sending them flying over to their stomaches to the ground. She then swung her weapon over her head and struck down Insector on her right, then she swung her spear over her head again and then struck down Clobber on her left, before she ran her spear Kittynator through, killing it.
Vikinga blocked with his axe Cyclonys' spiked mace, before he moved the monster's weapon away and whacked it in the head with the flat side of his axe's blade, knocking Cyclonys off its feet and flat on its back to the ground, stunned, before Vikinga brought his axe down in its chest, killing it.
Thrar charged at the group of seven monsters that attacked him and whacked all of them down with his hammer. Insector suddenly landed onto his back, pinning Thrar down on his knees to the ground. But before the monter could've killed him, Hornculus came to his comrade's aid and kicked Insector in the face, knocking it off Thrar.
Shieldinas charged at Clobber, who attempted to hit him with its spiked club, only for Shieldinas to block it with his shield before he struck the monster in the chest as it tried to whack him again, knocking it back. Shieldinas then tried to help his fellow warriors until Yellow-head caught him off-guard as it punched its clawed fist really hard against his shield and then punched it again, knocking him back. Shieldinas then back-flipped out of the way as Yellow-head lunged at him and struck its fist to the ground where Shieldinas had stood, causing it to explode from the impact!
Spikylia swung her right mace at the three attacking monsters, sending them flying back and knocking a couple others down. Then she swung her mace at the four other monsters and sent them flying back while knocking three others down. And as Kittynator tried to attack her, Spikylia brought her left mace down on the monster's head, knocking it down. But as she was about to swing her maces again, three Skrerriors lunged at her, knocking her off her feet.
Silverous spun his staff wildly in his hands before he whacked Dieskrad in the face, knocking it back. Then he blocked Cyclonys' strike with its mace before he struck the monster in the stomach with his staff, hard enough to cause it to moan in pain and bend over before falling over to its side to the ground. Silverous then stepped to his right to avoid the attacking Goat-man's attempt to ram him down with its horns before he caught it by the left horn with his staff and maneuvered the Goat-man to ram into Yellow-head instead, knocking them down. However, he was then attacked by the Man-bat that came screeching on him from the sky, knocking him over and pinning him down.
Hornculus backed away from the several monsters, with him whacking the Skrerrior down with the blow in the head and spin-kicking Goat-man in the head. Yellow-head and Dieskrad then tried to lunger at her, knocking him over his back to the ground, but Hornculus kicked them off as he back-flipped back to his feet. However, he was approached by Ankylodon who roared at him and then spun around and whacked Hornculus away with the club of his tail.
Using her spear like halberd, Roz cut Insector half from the waist before she kicked Yellow-head in the knee, causing it to fall on its knees, before she struck her spear into the monster's back, killing it, before she turned around and was instantly rammed into the chest by Goat-man, who knocked her back.
Vikinga clashed with Kittynator, who slashed its pair of swords at him, roaring savagely, while Vikinga blocked its attacks with his axe. Vikinga then caught one of its swords and moved it out of his way before Vikinga struck it in the stomach, killing it. However, shortly after his victory Vikinga was then immediately tackled by Ankylodon, who pinned him to the ground before the beast raised up its fists and brought then hard down on Vikinga's armored chest, knocking the air out of him.
King Midaleas was meanwhile struggling to fight a losing battle against another Clobber who had caught him by the throat, strangling him while pushing his head back. Cyclonys then came from behind and whacked Midaleas in the back with its club, knocking him away.
King Midaleas, Shieldinas, Hornculus and Roz Kirbyrie were all knocked back by the monsters, making them land roughly at the base of the bridge.
Thrar then got up from the ground and glared furiously at the monsters. "YOU SHALL NOT PASS!" he swore aloud and tossed his hammer at the monsters.
The hammer flew towards the Yellow-head, who pulled its fist back and then punched hard against the incoming hammer.
KA-BOOOOOOOOM!
The impact created a bright blue explosion that engulfed most of the battlefield, the warriors and half of the horde, and also caused Mary, Kirby and Donnie to cover their eyes. But when they finally opened them, they saw that the explosion had knocked all the warriors to the ground, leaving them severely weakened, while half of the horde that had been caught by the explosion lied on the ground injured or even dead.
The Yellow-head who had punched the hammer and caused the whole explosion, growled weakly before it fell to the ground, severely injured by the explosion itself.
The remaining half of the horde raised up their fists/weapons and cheered in victory, before they began to advance towards the downed and defenseless warriors to kill them all without mercy.
"We gotta do something!" Kirby said, pointing out that they couldn't just stand still and watch as the warriors were about to get killed.
"We're on it, Kirby." Mary said as she pulled out her Naginata.
"You stay here, Kirby." Donnie told him as he brought out his Bo-staff. "Me and Mary will handle this."
Spinning their weapons, Mary and Donnie charged downhill towards the battle, narrowing their eyes with determination while tightening their grips on their weapons.
The eight warriors all moaned in pain as they weakly began to pull themselves up from the ground while the monsters were still advancing on them.
"COMING THROUGH!" Donnie shouted as he jumped up in the air and flew towards the monsters, who turned to look up at him.
"HIIIIIIIIIIIIIII-HYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Donnie shouted as he spun his staff over his head and then brought it hard down on the monster.
BASH! BASH! BASH! BASH! WHACK-WHACK! THOCK-THOCK! THOCK-THOCK!
Donnie then landed down after delivering the series of punishments upon the monsters, until at least two Clobbers, two Cyclonyses, one Man-bat, one Goat-man, one Dieskrad, one Kittynator, one Insector, one Skrerrior, one Yellow-head and one Ankylodon lied knocked unconscious at his feet.
More monsters, regarding Donnie as a threat, approached the turtle in purple, about to attack him, until...
"THERE'S MORE FOR EVERYONE, YOU UGLIES!" Mary shouted as flew down towards them.
"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-HYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" she cried as she spun her Naginata in her right hand as she raised it over her head before pulling it down with both hands.
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
After delivering the series of slices upon the monster, Mary landed down in middle of her defeated enemies, thrice the number Donnie had defeated, with many of them missing their heads or having received the deep gashes across their chest, or even missing several arms and legs.
"Show-off!" Donnie remarked, before he dodged first the stab and then slash at his head from the sword wielded by Dieskrad before the turtle in purple punched it away. Then he ducked under the swing of Cyclonys' mace, before he struck one end of his staff down on the monster's foot, making it growl in pain, and then struck it under of its chin, knocking it back, as he flipped backwards.
Skrerrior then attacked Mary and caught her Naginata, only for the turtle in turquoise to flip over the monster's head, landing behind of it, before she pulled the monster over her own head and sent it flying away. She then spun to her right out of the way of the Goatman as it charged at her with its horns, cutting its horns off its head with her Naginata, before spinning around and raising her right leg up before slamming it down on Goat-man's neck, knocking it down.
Donnie then backed away from the Clobber as it approached him, before Donnie swept its legs from under with his staff. He then turned around and caught the Kittynator's sword with his staff before he struck it down to the ground and swung himself around of it, kicking Kittynator and Yellow-head in the face, knocking them back.
Insector attempted to attack Mary, who countered by sending the several slashes at the monster, slicing its armor into pieces that then fell off the monster before Mary kicked it in the face, knocking it back. Then Mary struck her Naginata to the ground and flipped on top of it, before she swung herself down and polevaulted herself upwards, sending the flip-kick in the Man-bat's chin and knocking the beast off the sky. Mary then landed onto the back of Ankylodon and wrapped her Naginata around the beast's throat, before she somersaulted herself over the beast's head and back on her feet in front of the monster, flipping it over her head before slamming it onto its back to the ground.
The recovering warriors all looked up at Donnie and Mary - with the turtle in purple kicking Dieskrad away and the turtle in turquoise slashed across Goat-man's chest, killing it.
"What new strange creatures are these?" King Midaleas wondered.
"I don't know, your Majesty. Some kind of green monsters, I believe. Only not fighting us." Roz Kirbyrie assumed unsurely.
Mary was clashing with the pair of Kittynators who were slashing their swords down on her from both her left and right, thought she managed to repel them with her Naginata with ease that she started singing at the same time.
"Eeny, meeny, miny, moe, caught between a monster two, don't you know, what to do, my master told me to pick the very best one and you are IT!"(3)
Mary struck with her weapon's blunt end the Kittynator on her left in the forehead, knocking it back, before she dodged under the second Kittynator's sword swing and slipped behind its back, roundhouse-kicking this one into the second one before the turtle in turquoise ran them both through with her Naginata's blade at the same time, killing them.
Donnie blocked and evaded several attacks from two Dieskrads armed with the morning star and the sword, before he caught the morning star by its chain around his staff and yanked the weapon off one Dieskrad's hands and then whacked another Dieskrad in the back of its hand, causing it to drop its sword, before he swept their legs from under.
Donnie then gasped in surprise when he saw Insector charging at him from behind, before he caught the beast by the throat with the end of his Bo, keeping it at bay while preventing it from reaching him with its claws before the turtle in purple flung it over him and away.
Donnie then ran away from Yellow-head as it tried to strike him with its axe, before the turtle in purple pole-vaulted himself away from the range of the beast's weapon's swing, then he spun around in the air and split-kicked Ankylodon and Skrerrior in the heads, knocking them back, before he somersaulted backwards in the air and landed on his feet to the Clobber's chest, knocking it off its feet and pinning the beast to the ground.
Mary meanwhile was fending off Skrerrior as the monster slashed its sickle-like weapons at her from both sides, before she caught its right sickle-weapon's blade with the top part of her Naginata and its left sickle-weapon with the bottom part, before she spun her weapon around clockwise, knocking the weapons off its hands before she kicked it in the head, knocking it back,
The turtle in turquoise then gasped and jumped away as Cyclonys attempted to whack her with its mace, but missed. Mary then flew over Yellow-head and Insector before she struck her Naginata's blade to the ground behind them, and then she swung herself at them, kicking the two monsters in the chests, knocking them away. Then she swung back and kicked from above diving Man-bat and from below charging Goat-man in the heads, knocking them back. Then she swung herself upwards, snap-kicking the same charging Cyclonys under its chin in the process, knocking it back as she flew away.
Donnie then back-flipped off the Clobber's chest and landed in front of the warriors, with Mary landing beside her brother. Both of them then spun their weapons around - Donnie above his head and Mary on her left - before Donnie pulled his Bo behind his shell and held his left hand forward, while Mary held her Naginata pointed at their enemies.
As the new wave of monsters charged at the two turtles standing protectively between them and the warriors, with the latter group becoming convinced that the two turtles were indeed on their side.
"They're on our side! MY LORD, THEY'RE STANDING ON OUR SIDE!" Silverous exclaimed to his fellow warriors.
"Then let us stand by their side as well! Up on your feet, men! Now!" King Midaleas ordered and he pushed himself off the ground and picked up his swords.
"To arms!" Thrar said as he lifted up his hammer and stood beside his king with eagerness to cut off some monster heads.
"CHARGE!" Roz Kirbyrie shouted as she pulled herself up, pointing her spear at the monsters.
"ONWARD TO THE BATTLE!" King Midaleas roared, pointing his sword at the monsters.
One by one, King Midaleas, Shieldinas, Thrar, Hornculus, Roz Kirbyrie, Vikinga, Silverous and Spikylia charged past Donnie and Mary and towards the monsters, letting out the battle cries as they did. Donnie and Mary looked at them, momentarily surprised, before they smirked and exchanged the looks with one another, before nodding to each other.
"LET'S TURTLEIZE THEM!" they both shouted as they charged at the monsters alongside the warriors.
Standing together as one, and showing their enemies no mercy, the eight warriors and two Ninja Turtles delivered the series of severe punishments that violently knocked the entire wave of monsters back or sent them flying in the air.
"HAZAR! HAZAR! HAZAR! HAZAR!" the ten warriors cheered after repelling the creatures.
Apparently realizing that they were outmatched, the monsters retreated over the hill hence they came from, leaving their wounded, ones knocked out cold or dead behind.
With the battle over, Kirby came laughing downhill towards Mary and Donnie.
"Ha-ha! You did it!" he cheered.
"WE CAME...!" Donnie said.
"WE SAW...!" Mary said.
"WE KICKED SOME MONSTER BUTT!" they both cheered, high-threeing each other before putting their weapons away.
"Wow, guys, you got some moves!" he remarked, amazed by the two's fighting skills. "I've never seen anything like that. Except maybe in the comics."
"It's an ancient martial arts called as Ninjutsu we use to defend ourselves and the others, Kirby." Mary explained to him. "Always comes in handy when dealing with the bullies like those creatures."
King Midaleas then approached them with his men standing behind them. "Hail to you, strangers." he greeted them.
Donnie, Mary and Kirby turned to face King Midaleas.
"Uhhh... Hi. I mean, hail." Donnie said, correcting himself as he returned to the greeting.
"Hail to you, King Midaleas, I presume." Mary greeted, recalling the name from Kirby's sketchbook.
"Yes." King Midaleas confirmed with the nod as he put his hands over both Donnie's and Mary's shoulders. "Thank you for your help in the battle. For that, all of you are welcome here as our friends and guests."
"Thank you." Donnie said. "Happy to help."
"Yeah. We just couldn't stand by and watch how those bullies keep picking you guys on while you lie in the ground beaten and defenseless." Mary added with the wink, before she gave him a curious frown. "But what is their reason to attack you like that, If you don't mind me asking?"
"They have been doing this ever since forever, and we few are all that stand against the Dark Horde. The exact creatures which you helped us defeat. We owe you our gratitude." King Midaleas explained.
The warriors behind his back nodded their heads in agreement while giving the turtles and Kirby a small smiles of gratitude despite their rather tough-looking exterior.
Roz Kirbyrie then took her helmet off as she stared at the two turtles talking to their king, eyeing them both from head to toe with rather a curious look on her eyes, yet she couldn't help but also feel impressed by their fighting skills in the battle.
Then her eyes landed on the third stranger next to them... which caused her eyes go wide and her let out a surprised gasp upon recognizing him.
"Kirby?" she said, stepping forward towards him. "Is it really you?"
Hearing his name being called by the voice he knew all too well even after all these years, Kirby turned towards Roz and let out the gasp of surprise himself as well.
"Roz?" Kirby said, smiling happily as he walked/ran up to his wife, or at least the drawn warrior-version of his wife. "Roz! It is you!"
"Oh, Kirby, dear. Am I glad to see you at long last." Roz said as she ran up to the man she loved so dearly.
Upon reaching to each other, both Kirby and Roz immediately pulled each other into the hug, earning everybody's attention. While Mary and Donnie looked on with the smiles on their faces, happy for their new friend and his wife's reunion, while Roz's fellow warriors were left somewhat baffled that their comrade knew this "stranger" in their eyes. After savouring the moment in each other's arms, Kirby and Roz pulled apart to face each other.
"How long it has been since the last time we saw each other, anyway?" Roz asked.
"Over five years already, at least back on Earth." Kirby clarified.
"Five years?" Roz gasped, both taken aback by the amount of time and feeling awful that her beloved had been forced to live that amount of time all by himself as one of his kind. "How have you been out there all by yourself, honey?"
"Oh, I've been a pretty fine out there, thanks for asking." Kirby said casually, behaving like it hasn't been a big deal for him to last five years alone in the world of humanity.
However, when Roz crossed her arms and gave her husband and pointed look, knowing that he was merely bluffing with that, Kirby chuckled with the innocent shrug before he dropped all the pretence for the sake of his wife.
"Well, okay, it's been quite a long lonely life living without now-long-gone friends and my lovely wife, whom I've been missing so much." Kirby corrected. "The only thing that has brought me some comfort has been making new drawings on my sketchbook, which still reminds me of all the good times we had when we worked together on the comics."
The pointed look on Roz's face turned into the love-filled smile.
"Well, I've missed you a lot too, Kirby." she told him. "For the years of living here I've always thought of you and how you will fare out there separated from me... but I never thought that I'd see you one day in here? In the world that you created."
Another thought then came up to Roz's mind and she couldn't help but ask. "Did you create the some kind of way to get here to find me?"
"Well, technically, I did create the portal here, but I never believed that it could lead me here, thus I dared not to use it. If I'd known that earlier, I would've came to look for you a long ago." Kirby said with honesty, just before he turned to Donnie and Mary. "But thanks to a little encouragement from these two fellows I just met, I managed to find you."
Roz turned to both Donnie and Mary and smiled at them kindly, politely and with gratidue.
"Thanks you, you two," she told them and held out her hand towards them. "For bringing my beloved Kirby back to me, Mr. and Mrs. ..." she said, remembering that she didn't even know the two yet.
"Donatello, or just Donnie." Donnie said, accepting Roz's hand and shook it.
"Marietta, or just Mary." Mary said as she too shook hands with Roz. "And we're just siblings, by the way."
"And you're welcome." Donnie added with the nod. "Even if discovering your husband's world and bringing him here to you was just a coincidence."
"Yeah, but nonetheless, it is a great honor to meet the wife of the "King of the Comics"." Mary added with the smile.
"Thank you, Donatello and Marietta." Roz thanked, flattered by the two.
King Midaleas then stepped onward towards them, turning to Roz for explanations for some questions he wanted to ask.
"Kirbyrie, my lass, you actually know these strangers?" he asked, gesturing towards Mary, Donnie and Kirby.
"Well, not personally them." Roz said, referring to Donnie and Mary, until she turned to Kirby. "But him I do. His name is Jack Kirby, and he's my husband from the world where we all came from."
King Midaleas, Shieldinas, Hornculus, Thrar, Vikinga, Silverous, Spikylia all glanced at each other as they took this unexpected information in, taken aback.
"My lord and fellow comrades." Roz added. "I know all of this might sound absurd to you, coming from someone who has lived and fought with you for five years already till Kirby and these two strange creatures showed up." Roz then gave Kirby a questioning look. "Are they too a drawn creations of your mind, Kirby?"
"Not exactly." Kirby said, shaking his head.
"We are technically turtles." Donnie revealed.
"And we're both pretty much a real things." Mary added.
Roz nodded her head to them before continuing. "Anyway, what I am trying to say here that my husband here, Kirby and that crystal-pen of his, are the sole reasons why all of this and all of us have come into the existence." she explained.
"He brought us into the existence"?" Silverous repeated, confused "What are you talking about, Kirbyrie?"
"I'm saying that my husband is the one who created this world, every single detail with it. And he also brought us all, including myself, into life." Roz revealed, though she deliberately left the certain details about the circumstances about their origins unmentioned, not wishing her king and her friends to have a complicated thoughts of their existence being not as the ordinary people but a living drawings out of Kirby's scetchbook.
King Midaleas and the other warriors gasped as they were left in complete shock and disbelief that they were staring right at the man before them who has just been claimed to be their "God". However, as predicted, they were rather skeptical about Kirby being truly in charge here with that little crystal-pen of his, even if they didn't know full details.
"By my beard! That's the most strangest things I've ever heard!" Vikinga exclaimed.
But while pondering it over, he eyed Kirby skeptically as one thought came into his mind. "But if he claims to be truly a creator of us and all of this, which I still doubt, then maybe he also created all those monster pests thay have been a thorn in our sides every day for five years!" he assumed, pointing his axe at Kirby as if accusingly.
This gesture prompted Mary, Donnie and Roz to stand protectively by Kirby's side.
"Easy, Vikinga." King Midaleas said, holding his hand up to his warrior authoritatively, making Vikinga to obediently stand down and leave Kirby be.
However, that didn't mean that he wasn't thinking exactly the same thing, so he stepped forward towards Kirby to confront him about the matter without throwing accusations on him... yet.
"Is this true what Vikinga said?" King Midaleas asked directly from Kirby, his voice soft yet stern.
"To my regret, your Majesty, I don't deny it that I created those monsters." Kirby said sincerely. "But I swear to you that when I created them, I never intended anyone to get hurt because of that."
"My husband never means to hurt anybody, my King." Roz said in Kirby's defense. "You have to believe that."
"And we too will stand by that statement " Donnie declared, to which Mary nodded her head in agreement.
King Midaleas was fair enough to take into note both Kirby's honesty, as well as both Roz's and the turtles trust in Kirby that his creation of those monsters was never meant to have such of consequences he had just witnessed with his own eyes.
"Well, perhaps you indeed never meant to harm anyone when you brought them into the existence, master Kirby. And for that, we shall not bear you ill will." King Midaleas said as if giving his final judgement, before he grew grave serious. "In the end, it doesn't really matter. With your help, we may have managed to repel their biggest attack yet, but we must prepare. They will not stay gone for long."
"You mean that those thing will yet return?" Mary inquired.
"Yes, dear." Roz said, confirming this with the grave nod. "When we do beat them back, they'll always come back."
"They can bring it on." Donnie said, as he began to show off by holding up his muscles. "I was looking up for some fighting to let out some steam anyway, thanks to our hot-headed brother back home. Besides, that was just getting warmed up."
"As much as I agree with you, Donnie," Mary said as she grabbed Donnie by his shoulder to make him stop showing himself off. "I think this is far more serious than just a warming up exercise."
"She is right. Do not underestimate these things, master Donatello." King Midaleas cautioned, agreeing with Mary. "Every time we beat them back, they will be back in greater numbers. And this time, there can be much greater number than we can possibly defend against. And when they come in force, we may lose the Rainbow Bridge, And, with it, our city and kingdom, Asgard.(3)
Inside the city, at the market area just behind the huge blue archway gate, a large number of non-combatant inhabitants, men, women and children were enjoying their time, laughing and playing happily together.
Among of them were also a mother and daughter, who were happily tossing ball to each other before the mother bent down and embraced her daughter in the loving hug.
The mother, who had the red shoulder-length hair and amber eyes, stood out from the rest of the people, because she was dressed up in the purple and white royal gown and she wore the golden crown on the head, indicating that she was both the Queen of Asgard and King Midaleas' wife. And their daughter, who has a long brown hair and the brown eyes, was dressed up in the purple and orange royal gown and wore the golden crown.
"I cannot bear to think of these dark powers destroying our wondrous city. And slaughtering all of our loved ones, our families, including my Queen and my daughter." King Midaleas said sadly, before hardened his expression into the firm determination. "If those monsters manage to cross the Rainbow Bridge and reach Asgard, they will destroy and kill everything within.
Even if knowing that the people within the city were merely the living drawings created by Kirby, the moral compass and the strong drive to defend the weak and defenseless against the ones who sought to slaughter them - for no any reason except of them being the monsters - was something what neither Mary or Donnie couldn't resist.
"Well, let those savage barbarians try! But we won't let that happen! Not now, not ever!" Donnie snarled angrily, his hands clenched into the fists.
"Your highness, we pledge our weapons to your service, and we'll swear an oath that none of those brutes will get to your city as long as we stand to defend it with our lives." Mary added with firm determination.
"Yes. I brought this plague upon you, your city and your families, so it is up to me to fix this." Kirby said. "And I promise to you that we'll do whatever we can to stop them."
King Midaleas nodded his head at them with gratitude, while Roz smiled both proudly at Kirby and the turtles' determination to defend the city.
"MY LORD!" Thrar shouted in alarm, pointing in the far horizon. "HERE THEY COME! THOUSANDS OF THEM!"
Kirby, Donnie and Mary turned around, only to see that Thrar was right.
From behind of the far hills of the land of Ebrik flowed the massive black swarm of monsters heading this way like the tidal wave: Thousands of Dieskrads, Insectors, Yellow-heads, Clobbers, Man-bats, Kittynators, Skrerriors, Ankylodons, Cyclonyses and Goat-men, each monster of the army thirst for blood and blindly eager for the destruction of Asgard and the people within.
"AAHHH!" Kirby, Mary and Donnie gasped in shock of the enemy's sheer number they're about the face.
"There's so many of them." Mary whispered, seeing how their changes of winning and repelling another attack were drastically reduced to the round 0%.
Roz put her helmet back on and, taking her place by her fellow warriors' and her king's side, raised her spear and prepared herself for the battle.
All the other warriors bravely prepared for a desperate battle against a superior enemy.
Do not lose your nerve, men! Remember everything you're standing here for!" King Midaleas announced to his warriors as he held up his golden swords. "We must defend the entrance to the Rainbow bridge! Even if we have to die where we stand!"
"TO THE LAST WARRIOR, MEN!" Roz declared, raising her spear up.
"HAZAR!" the other six warriors let out, determined to fight in defense of their city and the families, even if it costs them their lives.
Donnie and Mary jumped in front of the warriors, both of them letting out "HYAA!" battle-cry as they spun their weapons over their heads before crouching down, getting ready to the fight.
"LET'S DO IT!" the turtle in purple said, determined.
"AND IF WE DIE, WE'LL DIE WITH HONOR!" Mary added.
The first wave of the seemingly endless monster army showed up from behind of the hill and all of them charged towards the warriors, Kirby and the turtles, growling bloodthirsty!
TO BE CONTINUED...
TRIVIA
1) = Real Jack Kirby's wife, Rosalind "Roz" Goldstein-Kirby's appearance in this chapter as one of the Fantasy Warriors is based on the suggestion by Tornado Man and Guest99, who gave me an idea to give Kirby a girlfriend he had drawn on the sketchbook and then brought to life with the help of the crystal's magic.
2) = Thrar's name is both inspired and the reference to Thor, mostly because he is the Warrior with the hammer.
3) = Reference to the Eeny Meeny, Miny, Moe counting-out rhyme.
4) = Canonically in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003 series and Universe (according to the Wiki), the world and dimension Kirby has created is called Ebrik, and the floating city is refered by the name Asgard, which are trongly inspired by the classic drawings by Jack Kirby, especially his design of Asgard, the home of the comic figure Thor in Marvel Comics.
Invented names of the Warriors
Canon - Leader Warrior - King Midaleas.
Canon - Hammer Warrior - Thrar.
Canon - Shield Warrior - Shieldinas.
Canon - Horn-helmed Warrior - Hornculus.
OC - Roz Kirbyrie.
OC - Vikinga.
OC - Silverous.
OC - Spikylia.
Invented names of the Monsters
Canon - Brown and purplish insect monster - Dieskrad - canon name.
Canon - Yellow-headed monster - Yellow-head.
Canon - Blue and white insect monster - Insector.
Canon - Green club-monster - Clobber.
Canon - Bat-monster - Man-bat.
OC - Kittynator.
OC - Ankylodon.
OC - Skrerrior.
OC - Cyclonys.
OC - Goat-man.