As Sonic/Granolah/Ruby/ and I travel through the Realms to reach our Quest, Mjolnir and I can already sense our target in question; It would appear that this target... No... Targets. It would appear that there's more than one target this time around.
"Fair warning my friends, it would appear that we are facing a group. Mjolnir and I can sense them as we speak, whilst traveling between Realms." I give my fellow Avengers the heads up, each nodding their heads in affirmation, as we arrive to our destination, the One Piece Realm.
The Vortex-Portal haft landed us on a deserted island to the south... our targets are in a Chaotic Sea, at this Realm's center-most Ocean... They're aboard a sizable ship.
"I have found our targets. They are at this Realm's most Chaotic Sea at its center. They're are aboard a ship moving North." I inform my fellow Avengers as I manipulate the Winds, creating a cloud for us to ride on, lifting us off into the air gently.
"Gather your Strength. Steel your Resolve. The Winds will guide us to our destination in a few hours time." I say, mainly using this method of travel for Ruby's sake; Ruby has yet to truly take Life, period. The soulless creatures Ruby called, Grimms, are abominations through and through. However, the targets we face today are Mortals who have yet to become Anomalies; Sentient, yet vile with their desires.
"Phone, tell us about the nature of targets of every scale, found on The Bounty Board." I request of the Phone, as it springs to life.
[The targets found on The Bounty Board are Reincarnators/Transmigraters who have yet to be detected; Like the Anomalies, they aim to misuse/abuse their gifts of cosmic influence for their own agenda.]
[It is unknown whether the target(s) through The Bounty Board have the power to challenge the Realms until the Quest Takers arrive at the Realm.]
[Be warned Avengers, from the moment that the Quest Takers arrived at this Realm, it has been detected that the targets this time round are but a step away from becoming Anomalies. If given enough time, this Quest would have ascended to Emergency Quest-Level Threats... Or in the terms of the Admin - Tsor Thorson's Late Realm, an Avengers-Level Threat.] The Phone haft informed us, jarring the news that today's targets was almost a step from becoming, as the Phone calls it, an Avengers-Level Threat.
(1-hour into the flight Jutsu~)
As we travel to our Target's location with the Winds, our topic of discussion turned into a noteworthy one for another avenue of potential strength.
"OooOo Guys! Remeberfromthelasttraijingsessionwitheveryone? WellIlearnedfrommyUncleQrowtheincantationtounlockev-"
"WoahWoah~ Chill out Red. You're doing your thing again." Sonic said, calming down Ruby a touch with his gestures, as Ruby haft regained her breathe.
"Oopsie. As I was saying, my Uncle Qrow taught me the incantation to unlock the dormant Aura in someone. I was thinking that I could help unlock everyone's Aura the next time we meet up for training." Ruby expressed her desire to help her fellow Avengers.
"A Noble goal indeed Ruby. If I recall from your tales from back at the gathering of fire, In your Realm, the Mortals that are capable use their own Soul, 'Aura', to combat the endless waves of Grimm that plague the Realm."
"The Mortal Champions, Hunters/Huntresses, who successfully unlock their Aura may, in turn, potentially unlock their Semblance, the manifestation of one's own Soul, through events surrounding their Lives; Their own personal flavor of ability, if I recall your words." I reminisce from our last gathering.
"*Gasp* You remembered~"
"Aye, but your method has a cost Ruby; Even before the Incantation to unlock one's latent Aura, the one performing it must have considerable Aura themselves."
"Even after the procedure to your Evolved Silver Eyes, bolstering your Natural Aura Reserves, that is still not enough to unlock everyone's Aura; Not to mention what it would take to unlock the Aura of a Divine." I state to her, as she looks back at me with puffy eyes, on the verge of tears. I rub her head gently as I say my next words.
"Lucky for you then Ruby, that both Sonic and I possess the means to aid your Noble desire to help our friends." I gave my word to Ruby, who regained her cheery self.
"No worries Red, we gotcha covered." Sonic further assures Ruby, as Granolah looks on with a hidden smirk beneath his scarf.
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(3rd-Person POV)
We now set our sights on the ship containing the Targets. The targets in question are 4-strong; Each wearing Silk Clothing, the likes that a Cultivater would wear. Sharp eyebrows that could cut paper, with a gleam in their eyes that if you even just straight up look at them, they'll make you kowtow before crippling you. Their skin is akin to Jade-like beauties that they are even often mistaken for one, as it doesn't help that each of their hairs is tied into a long ponytail. Each equipped with Chinese swords, refusing to even look at other weapons even if they offer better combat advantages, as all they believe that the Chinese Sword is the most noble weapon and that it is the king of the battlefield and refuse to believe otherwise.
All of them surrounding a small boy, whose curled himself into a ball, trying to lessen the torment and humiliation that these 5 have unjustly inflicted onto him, but to no avail. Surrounding them are the corpses of his parents and siblings, each long dead by now.
But before they can go any further, their ship is caught onto land... land that is rising rapidly from the Sea Floor, erecting high into the clouds above. And waiting for them, their retribution, The Avengers.
"Have. You. No. Honor." Said venomly by the 8-foot eleven, Absolute Behemoth of a Giant, standing before them on a cloud, a witness to the torment of a boy far too young to be in a situation like this; Flowing Spiky Red hair and red eyes. Wearing armor gray-ish in tone (the same as Mjolnir) with gold accents, equipped with a belt that you can tell with one look that the belt is a divine relic, and topped off with a flowing red cape. This.. visible, malevolent-yet-divine black/red aura of suffocating pressure, wielding a hammer coated in Golden Thunder, as the skies above turn darker by the second.
*Hawk Tua* Spits out one of the Targets, aiming it toward the Giant, but Gravity said otherwise, leaving the spit suspended in the air.
"... Avengers, Do. Not. Hold. Back. For they do not deserve a Warrior's End." Said the Giant to his companions, his eyes a now Featureless Gold with blackend sclera, now Truly Pissed with Cold Fury. It was here that the Jōgan revealed to Tsor that the 4-targets standing before The Avengers had traded their ability to speak in exchange for power, as is the nature of their systematic cosmic-influence.
The battle commences with both Sonic and Ruby using their combined speeds to rush down two of the Four Targets, a flurry of strikes and slashes from the both of them send those two Targets into panic; The one facing Ruby is faring better, trading blows from their chosen weapons. The Target manages to break past Ruby's swipe, slipping into her exposed side, that was until Ruby used her Semblance - Petal Burst, to dodge the attack and reform right infront of the over-extended target, Cresent Rose transformed into its Gun Form, and fired a point-blank Flame Dust Round at their face... *BANG* The Target Ruby faced no longer had their head on their shoulders... or so Ruby thought, as the very next moment the Target's head had regenerated.
Ruby's Target then began to transform into a full-blown Reptilian Beast, no doubt the source of their heightened regenerative capability; With Twelve Snake-Heads and a multitude of venomous fangs, razor-sharp claws and scales, all finished with a pointy tail. Ruby's Target had eaten the Mythical Zoan Snake-Snake Fruit Model: Hydra.
Over to Sonic, his Target was taking a ass whoopin' of a Lifetime. Every attempt of even trying to touch Sonic was met with The Blue Blur running circles around them, [Quick Cyloop], sending them into the air, only for them to be then met with various blows to everywhere on their body just Under the Speed of Light, [Chain Combo Attacks] + [Phantom Rush]. From above, Sonic then used his Rinnegan to conjure Red, the size of a basketball at his fingertip, blasting it toward his Target and sending them violently into the land below, creating cobwebs of destroyed Earth. To make double sure the Target stays down, Sonic tore off his left arm and armed a Missile Barrage via Asura Path, and sent the missles flying into the newly made crater, setting off chain explosions. For the finisher, Sonic then morphed his lower half into a Spartan Quasar Laser Cannon via Asura Path, aimed at the crater, charging Chakra and letting it loose, creating one last huge explosion; The Target Sonic was facing is dead dead, as they were hit with extreme repulsive force, then a missle barrage and a big ass Laser. Confirming the kill, Sonic speeds over to Ruby to help her out with her fight before things get out of hand.
Over to Granolah, the Target he chose fared no better, as Granolah blasted through every vital points in their body without even physically touching them, only using his [Finger Beam Blitz] to do so. With his Target dead, Granolah moved to aid Ruby with her foe, providing covering fire for her while Ruby faces off against the Hydra.
With Tsor, the Target who tried to spit on him layed suspended in a hold of Gravity, unable to move or even blink. With a gesture, Tsor sent the Target crashing into the Earth in x1000 this Realm's Gravity, as Mjolnor soon followed after, crashing onto the Target unable to scream. From above, Tsor came in like a comet, stomping on his Target's torso, as Tsor grabs their leg and begins to slam them further into the ground back and forth and back and forth twelve times, [Puny Mortal], finishing with a Gravity-Enhanced Curb Stomp to the back of the Target's head, concaving in their skull. All that remains of the Targets is Ruby's foe.
The Hydra charged an attack with all Twelve Heads, combining Corrosive Haze and Serpent Fire into a much stronger Green-ish Flame focused into a single point, aiming for Ruby but their true target remains the Ship behind her, where the child still takes covers. The Hydra let loose the potent concentrated flames, but this wasn't for free as the other Avengers made their moves; Tsor directly dealt with the beam by smacking it away with Mjolnor, sending the flame into the far off distance. Ruby and Sonic combined their speed to create a Mighty Whirlwind, an enhanced [Cyloop], lifting the Hydra into the air as Sonic from below uses [Homing Attack], striking the Hydra in its stomach. From above, Ruby prepares to behead all Twelve of the Hydra's Heads with her scythe as Tsor temporarily blesses Cresent Rose with the essence of Storms, drastically increasing Ruby's attack speed and cutting edge. With aid from Cresent Rose's firing mechanism and one clean swipe, Ruby cuts off All Twelve Hydra Heads, cauterizing the stumps as Scythe met flesh and bone. The Winds gently sweeped away both Ruby and Sonic as Granolah spent all this time charging his attack, [Charged Finger Beam], toward dangerous levels of Ki, as high above the clouds, Tsor swirled Mjolnir to gather the surrounding Storms and channeling his power into a single blast, forming a Vortex in the Skies.
[FOR MIDGARD!!!] Tsor brought down the Fury of Mjolnir onto the suspended Hydra, as from below Granolah's attack, [Charged Finger Beam] would meet Tsor's attack in the middle, entering a Beam Struggle with the Hydra in the middle of it all; The skies violently parted as the Explosion exploded with enough power to level half of this Realm. The Hydra BEYOND DEAD at the resulting Beam Struggle. Tsor then collected the lingering souls of the four, and with the Primordial Runes, erased their Souls of Self and their collective systematic cosmic influence, before returning them to the cycle of True Reincarnation.
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(Tsor POV)
With all Targets dealt with, the Phone came alive to inform us of our spoils. But none of that concerns me at the moment, as I make haste towards the child who endured far too much.
I see the child curling to the deceased corpses of Samurai and the singular Ninja, crying tears of sorrow. Setting down Mjolnir, I sit next to the child, offering silent company as his tears flow for his people. Once the tears stopped flowing, I move to gather the bodies of the fallen brave warriors, creating both a bonfire a casket of Earth to collect the ashes. With the bodies cremated, I made three small earthen vessels to House their ashes, giving it to the child.
"Child, your fallen parents and siblings gave their lives, their everything to protect you. You will Honor their sacrifice by persevering onward."
Turning my sights back towards the ship, the Jōgan haft shown me where the spirit of the Devil Fruit Reincarnated... There, in the basket of Fruit, lay the Fruit of the Hydra. Grabbing the Hydra Fruit, I handed the Fruit to the boy.
"Live... Live well for them. Live Strong and be Brave and Courageous in their Honor and Memory." I say as the Winds gently carried the boy to the closest civilization from our position. It was then the Phone, once more, came to Life to relay our spoils.
[Ding]
[Congratulations Tsor Thorson, Sonic the Hedgehog, Granolah, Ruby Rose for slaying their first Bounty Board Target(s). Estimating rewards based on scale of danger. Bonus applied for first blood. Applying overkill bonus...]
[Bounty Reward = x3 Gold & x1 Platinum Random Chaos Gatcha Tickets for each Quest Taker and 10,000 GP]
"Let us depart this Realm." I say to my fellow Avengers, as I swirl Mjolnir whilst channeling energy to create a Vortex-Portal back to my Home Realm.