//------------------------------// // Four Children of Four Energies // Story: Undestined Friendship // by Boyzilla //------------------------------// Undestined Friendship Book 1: Magic Chapter 1: Four Children of Four Energies Princess Celestia and Princess Luna couldn't believe they never saw it before, how could they not? Under their noses arose a darkness that even they, raisers of the sun and moon, could not have anticipated. The darkness had gathered strength from the shadows, it had planned, and executed those plans. The enemy successfully managed to spread the Elements of Harmony around the globe, then somehow their bearers: Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, and Rainbow Dash disappeared off the face of the planet. Without the Elements of Harmony, any hope of defeating the darkness decreased drastically. Nations around the world gathered together to combat it, but they proved too late as the enemy already had half of Equis under its whim. Slowly but surely, the endless armies of the darkness will destroy kingdom after kingdom, races will fall under its shadowy form. Desperately, other nations attempted to research new forms of weaponry to guard themselves, technomages became reality, combining their limited technology with magical prowess. But the ages of stagnation worked against them, no progress had been made in a thousand years. The forces of Equestria stretched their armies across the borders, some reinforcing the nearby kingdom of the Dragons whose nation was now halfway under darkness control. Even the dragons, with all their might and power, slowly were falling. At this time, Celestia wished one race still remained, Humanity. Humanity, also known as the forefathers, could defeat this darkness. They created the Elements of Harmony, they discovered magic, they had technology surpassing all others. But in all their glory in their golden age, they mysteriously vanished. Some theorized they went extinct, others believed they simply went into hibernation to awaken once again when the world needed them. Celestia knew what happened through, the humans of Equis curiosity caused them to discover other dimensions, with this discovery, they moved away from Equis to colonize worlds where they could be alone. If there was any hope for Planet Equis now, it was with Humanity, the heroes of the Golden Age. Humanity always had heroes, for they also had their villains. Princess Celestia needed heroes, and heroes she and her sister, Princess Luna, will conjure from a portal. Princess Celestia stood upon an ancient Alicorn-Human circle, a place where Alicorns and Humans of old practiced powerful magic. "Sister, you sure this will work?" Celestia looked at Princess Luna, the worry in her eyes. Smiling to ease her sister's thoughts, Celestia replied... "I'm sure, once we summon Human heroes, they will find the Elements of Harmony and defeat the darkness." "But sister, what if the Humans decline?" Luna questioned. Celestia paused, thought briefly about this but replied. "They won't, they will aid us." Luna circled the runic writings. "Alright, sister I am ready to proceed." She stopped on a full moon drawing. Celestia looked up to the sky, the spell required a certain astrological event which only happens rarely, in order to continue. The two Princesses must create a Solar Eclipse. The raiser of the sun stood on her solar drawing. The two sisters closed their eyes, their horns lighting with solar and lunar magic, colors of gold and dark purple resonating in magical auras. The moon and the sun closed in together in the close, before the sky shifted to an orange hue, the sun black, a Solar Eclipse stood in the sky. In the ruins where the princesses lay, the runic magical writings glowed with colors of all sorts, blinding lights shone throughout the broken stone. Four pillars shone the brightest, each colored a bright sky blue. Slowly a small circle, portals, of energy opened up. The two princesses concentration increased, desperate to complete the spell and summon their four human heroes. Then, a dark figure stood, human-like in appearance he looked liked a shadow come to life, dressed in a cloak with a hood. "You shall not summon other humans, this world is mine!" He stretched his hands, black energy engulfed the pillars before they crumbled. The blue portals shifted and twisted against the strain of a foreign energy. "No! You shall not win Darkness!" Princess Luna used all her might and magic and blasted the figure. But the figure moved out of the way and revealed a shredded blade in it's right hand. He charged at the Princess, shooting a blast at the concentrating Celestia and swinging his blade at the Lunar Princess. Celestia's spell stopped, the magical residue blew apart the ruins in massive explosions that shook the forest. In the sky, if anyone would have seen, four small portals joining together and then streaking across the sky to a distant land fighting against the armies of Darkness. Destiny had been altered for Equis. Seventeen-year-old Korra, the Avatar, sidestepped a disc of earth. She had just joined a group of pro-benders called the Fire Ferrets and was fighting the other team. She then bended a gush of water at an enemy pro-bender but the enemy reflected it with his own bending of fire, producing steam. The steam had pushed the pro-bending to the third line, with determination Korra, and her fellows pressed on their assault with Fire, Earth, and Water bending techniques. Slowly but surely the Fire Ferrets pushed them back when suddenly one the pro-bender had enough. "Screw the rules! The Avatar is going down!" In the confusion, the Fire Ferrets stopped bending for a brief second. The foe fire bender blasted at them lethally, especially at Korra herself. Korra stepped out of the way, but the fire bender than ran closer with flame, in surprise Korra, took a few steps back with water at the ready, she blasted at the bender, but he used his fire bending to propel himself into the air. And then blast down with anger. Her team rushed to her aid and started attacking the fire bender, who then started to use electricity against the Avatar. The electricity blasted Korra off the edge. While falling a blue portal opened behind her and she fell in. "What!" She yelled before the portal closed. Nineteen-year-old Jaina Draconis, Dragon Knight of the Battle Tower, reverted back into her human form from her Dragon one. She landed on the cliff side and brought out her weapons, a duel wielder of the Blades of Fjords. She charged at the Black Ring foes with a battle cry. "Magic Missiles!" She yelled, six white balls of energy erupted from her palm and homed in on the enemies, blasting them backward. "Charge Attack!" The effect was instantaneous as her speed tripled and she charged forward with great dexterity, bashing her weapons onto the Black Ring Lieutenant, then spun "Whirlwind!" She yelled, a gust of slicing wind came off her blades as she spun three sixty degrees. The enemies knocked onto the ground with heavy wounds. Quickly gathering herself and went over to two Black Ring soldiers and stabbed her blades into their hearts, killing them. She brought them out and saw the others getting up. "Fireball!" She said, blasting a ball of fire at another incinerating him. She parried the Black Ring captain's weapon, the latter who had gotten up and attacked her, the captain slashed at her side, but she blocked it with her blade and attacked with the other which collided with his shield. "Tell Damian I said hello!" She said to him, then magic coursed through her muscles and veins. "Final Assault!" Jaina Draconis yelled once more, her blades struck continuously in a matter of five seconds she dealt fifty blows to his torso, which he fell on his back and died. Satisfied that another group of Black Ring soldiers lay dead, she then jumped off the cliff to change into her dragon form. But instead of the sky, she collided with a blue portal, she was a bit shocked but she had seen many portals, Jaina wondered where this one would take her. Jaina disappeared from the face of her world, literally. "SHADOW CLONE JUTSU!" A blond teenager of sixteen years gathered his Chakra energy within him, he had performed hand-signs which directed his Chakra and pulled forth the technique. With four clones of himself, Naruto Uzumaki gave chopsticks to each clone. "Alright, first one to beat the score wins!" He yelled. Each clone of Naruto and the original looked on in determination, the battle before them about to rage in what would take hours in only a few minutes, tensions all around they watched carefully as a powerful item was placed before each Naruto. "On your mark... " Chopsticks at the ready, eyes glaring at the item with sheer willpower. "Get set... " The item steam rose into the air, each individual ingredient taunting Naruto with all its glory and power. Teeth clenched, as the clones continued to stare at their enemy. "Go!" The clones and Naruto tore at their enemy, attacking it with all their speed they could possibly conjure with their arms, chopsticks flew wildly, slurping sounds filled the stand they sat upon, in the distant the sound of a timer clicked down, tick tock tick tock. Then the alarm rang, the item and copies of it stood forty-two bowls high. "Ahh... That was the best ramen contest ever!" Naruto said joyfully, ramen now eaten and in his stomach. He got up and looked at the man and daughter who made the food. "Thanks, old man! That was the bomb!" "No problem Naruto, anything for my favorite customer and the hero of Konoha!" The ramen stall owner, Teuchi said. Suddenly, as Naruto jumped to get to the rooftops and make his way to the Hokage Tower, a blue portal opened up in front of him. "Whoa Wha!" Naruto yelled in complete surprise as he disappeared into the portal and the portal disappeared, not a trace to be seen. Within a realm that held seven mystical wish-granting objects, within the world in a time of peace and prosperity, somewhere on the continent, a sixteen-year-old half saiyan, half human, boy fought against a peculiar opponent. This strange foe happened to be the teenager's teacher in both life and martial arts. And for this day and hour, this was Son Gohan's opponent. An array of bright blue bolts traveled through the air quickly from Son Gohan's sparring partner, the Z-fighter, protector and hero of Planet Earth, brought his hand forward in a straightened fashion, deflected each of the Ki energy blasts in several directions. Once having elimated the threat, Gohan brought his left hand back, before thrusting it forward and releasing a wave of deep blue energy. "Ha!" The hero of Earth screamed, briefly watching his basic Ki attack travel toward his mentor. "Geerraaah!" A gruff masculine voice roared as Gohan's attack was met with a unmovable object, and soundly redirected into the sky above harmlessly. Gohan chuckled and called out to his opponent, "Good one, Mr. Piccolo!" He complimented the addition of such an attachment to the name more out of respect than that or courtesy. "Mmpfh," Piccolo grunted, before charging at Gohan with fists to bear. Gohan replied likewise, sparring with his mentor was perhaps one of the most enjoyable actions of fighting. Not to mention, it was quite rare for Piccolo to meet him in Mt. Paozu especially when concerning the son of Goku's mother. They met in the air, exchanging blows faster than an untrained eye could ever follow, indeed the speed of which the two fighters gave each other their martial arts couldn't be tracked by those of even trained sight. The trick lies in not relying on the sense of sight, but that using all the senses together. Even then, one might catch only the briefest moment. The sense of sound only echoed with each punch, every kick, only did you hear them long after the origin of the attack happened. With a resounding shockwave, both Piccolo and Gohan disengaged one another. They both stared at one another, neither of which were out of breath. "You've grown soft in these peaceful times," Piccolo stated. Gohan nodded, he would not have tried to hide it anyhow, "Yes, I haven't been training as much as I should have." "You should, Goku gave you his mantle. You are the strongest fighter and so should be constantly on watch." "But what is there to watch for?" Gohan questioned the green-skinned Namekian, "It's been five years, nothing has happened that could be a threat to the Earth." Piccolo stared, before answering, "Nothing on Earth, perhaps. But there are other places." "Like Space? Frieza was the ruler of an intergalactic federation, he was the strongest being out there. And now we're leagues ahead of him." Gohan stated. "You don't even need me to beat someone like Frieza; Tien, Krillin, and Yamcha could do it now." "Don't lecture me, Gohan. I know how powerful we've all become." Piccolo snapped back but still remained calm and stoic. "There is always someone stronger, and I have a feeling someday we will see that." Gohan sighed, "You're right, Mr. Piccolo." "It's fine, try to convince your mother to let you train now and then." Piccolo finished, before both he and Gohan's head shot up in alert. "What's that?!" Gohan yelled before covering his eyes as a bright flash erupted into existence just in front of him. It formed into that of a curved door-shaped portal, pulling at Gohan's body towards it. But the half saiyan could easily resist it, his form instantly covered into a golden aura of power, hair shifting into the same color, halting the pull of his body closer to the portal. Piccolo seemed to have a calculating expression, Gohan looked toward him for answers, the Namek had always held more skill in sensing. "Someone is calling you, I can just barely sense large quantities of malicious energy on the other side..." He trailed off, "Fighting and winning against a smaller more innocent one." The Namekian Z-fighter turned towards Gohan, tossing him a small brown pouch unexpectedly. "H-Hey, why you give me these for?" Gohan asked puzzlingly. "Kid, you need to aid them. If that darker source triumphs over the weaker one, it could spell disaster for that world, and our own." Piccolo said. Gohan smiled, he knew there was more to what Piccolo was saying, "Looks like I'm not the only one who's grown soft." He smiled, a small smile, "Open your palm." Piccolo said; the half saiyan teen doing so. "Geraah!" Within Gohan's hand, a long sword, sheathed in a scabbard, formed. The hybrid recognized the symbol imprinted on the blade's handle. The hero of Earth, defeater of Cell, also noticed that the gift happened to be a larger, and more well-made, version of the very same weapon he held in his childhood days. "Consider it a gift," Piccolo stated, "I'll watch over the Earth while you're gone." Gohan left his Super Saiyan state fall, his hair receding to its natural black hue. The hybrid drifted toward the portal, a bright smile on his face. "Thanks, Mr. Piccolo." With that, Gohan left his home, his very dimension. Gohan opened his eyes to see tall trees protruding over him, slowly getting up he noticed his body reacting much slower than usual. He stood up, too see the ground closer than other days, he looked at his hands to see them much smaller. Curiosity and confusion flowed through his mind, he went over to a lake to see himself. "Oh... Well... That's unexpected." He looked at the reflection to see the child version of himself, around eleven years, looking back at him. His eyes then soared over to a fuzzy brown object wiggling back and forth beside his image. "My tail? It grew back?" The half saiyan glanced to his backside to confirm that his tail had sprouted back and confirmed it was. Gohan faced forward and looked at his hand, clenching it a few times to see if it responded, he brought some Ki forth and a Ki ball formed, albeit much weaker. Gohan checked his clothing, his purple Gi given to him by Piccolo remained intact, the clothing seemed to have shrunken to his new height over the crossing into the new world. Thankfully a tail hole was made when his tail grew back, he wrapped his tail around his waist like a belt to not draw attention. Gohan went into his thoughts. 'Okay, I'm de-aged to eleven thankfully my clothes seemed to have shrunk too, and my sword as well. My power has decreased to around Nappa's, which is pretty weak. My tail has regrown and I'm in an unidentified forest with... Are those kids?' Gohan started at three other figures dressed in various garments. A white skinned boy with blond spiky hair and three whisker cheek birthmarks on each side which gave him a fox-like face. He wore a headband with a leaf symbol engraved in the metal, a sort of orange jumpsuit with black coloring on the top, and a middle black stripe that went downward. On his right leg, there was a sort of white cloth tied around it, and a brownish pouch attached to his waist. He looked about the same age as himself. Another kid was a light brown skinned girl, with sky blue clothing shirt and dark blue pants with a brown animal pelt skirt with white fur lining. She had a brown hair and a ponytail with also two side ones that went down each face. She had a blue cloth tied in front of her waist and a set of royal blue armbands, with another armband on her right arm, colored light blue. She also had brown fur boots. Gohan found her somewhat cute, where that come from? She was also his age. The last kid was a mystery, she appeared to be a tanned color light, red skinned girl. She was decked in dark grayish unknown metal armor. No helmet through, which revealed her face. She held red hair that was cut short and a small dragon tattoo on her forehead. The armor had black leather in her stomach region, and runic markings engraved in the metal. Two swords lie in sheath tied to her back, the armor is smooth and sleek and fitted her childish body perfectly. Kinda weird how she is also the same age! Gohan came to the conclusion, he wasn't the only one that went into a portal. That means these three are here to help this world as well. He wondered how strong they are as their energies seemed different than his own. Gohan decided to set up a campfire, he picked up some surrounding twigs and sticks of the immediate area and a few rocks lined upon the lake shore. He made a fireplace in the mist of the three kids and himself then shot a small blue Ki beam which ignited the wood. Seeing the others not yet awakened, Gohan went fishing in the lake. A couple minutes later... The fire roared as it roasted a few fish. Son Gohan discovered the fish don't grow to big sizes here, so he'll have to down his saiyan appetite to a more human level. Not necessary a good thing, but with his current power level he'll manage fine. "Ugh..." The blonde kid groaned as he began to awaken. "Take it easy, that portal took a lot out of us." 'Literally' Gohan mentally added. The blond kid's ocean blue eyes looked up to see Gohan, he looked at the fire and saw fish cooked. Then looked at the other two unconscious girls on the grass. Turning his head back to Gohan he said. "You got sucked into that por- Why is my voice higher?!" Gohan pointed at the lake. "Take a look at yourself, we've changed." The Kyuubi jinchuriki stepped toward the lake and seemed to take a look at himself for a few seconds, then suddenly erupted in a loud voice. "What the hell! I'm a snot nose brat again! Damn it Kami-sama is this some sort of sick joke!" Gohan raised an eyebrow at the language the blonde continued to scream. Before calming down enough to face Gohan. "So, what's your name?" He said making a fox-like grin. Gohan countered with the infamous Son grin. "Son Gohan, yours?" "Naruto! Naruto Uzumaki-dattebayo!" The ninja yelled pumping a fist in the air. "Will you please shut up!" A feminine voice cried out. Gohan and Naruto turned to face the direction of the voice to find the red haired girl sitting upward, her eyes glowing with a silver colored mist of energy. "Holy Kami above your eyes are burning!" The girl in rune engraved armor jumped to her feet and yelled back at the Uzumaki. "My eyes aren't burning you, idiot!" Gohan suddenly found Naruto hiding behind him from the girl's wrath. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I didn't mean it silver eyed lady!" "Names Jaina Draconis, Dragon Knight of the Battle Tower. Now tell me, which one of you conjured the portal and reduced my age!?" "It wasn't me! I swear!" The blond jinchuriki immediately said. She glared at Gohan, who seemed apprehensive at her look. "It wasn't any of us, we were all reduced in age, so we are all victims of the same incident." Jaina pulled herself into her thoughts. 'Seems reasonable. So I doubt any of them work for the Black Ring, plus they aren't dressed like them or have any of the ugly face paint.' "Alright, fine." She looked at the cooked fish by the fire, took one, sitting down to eat. The girl with pony and pigtails besides Gohan began to stir. 'W-where am I?' She thought as she got upward and looked around, spotting instantly Gohan besides her. "Oh, who are you?" She instantly asked to found out who this guy was. "Gohan, Son Gohan!" The half saiyan said, grinning cutely in the girl's perspective. "And what's your name?" "Korra, Avatar Korra." The now identified Korra said proudly. "And I'm Naruto Uzumaki!" Naruto greeted the Avatar, rushing to their side. "Jaina Draconis." Jaina said lowly. "Why is everything bigger?" Korra asked Gohan. Gohan replied to her, "Oh well you see when we all went into the portal, a side effect affected our age. Possibly our abilities as well." "What!?" Korra, Naruto, and surprisingly Jaina yelled. Naruto and Jaina paused, checking their Chakra/Magic for any changes, both found their energy levels smaller, mostly Jaina, Naruto still had huge amounts of Chakra. Naruto went over to a tree and tried to climb it with sticking Chakra to his heels, only to fall off. "Dang it! I have to do Chakra control exercises all over again!" Naruto loudly complained. "It seems we have to do a lot of things, our bodies need to retrain to peak performance. Our skills need to either refined or learned once again." Jaina commented the situation. Korra looked on in confusion, she felt fine, her skills were the same, at least to her knowledge. Quickly, she shot a burst of fire up into the air. "Nothing seems wrong with me, expect being eleven again, which sucks." "Whoa, how did you do that jutsu with no hand signs?" Naruto said in amazement. "Plus! It looks like it didn't cost any Chakra at all!" "What's Chakra, and what's jutsu?" Korra questioned Gohan, who was beside her. "I don't know, I'm guessing it's another name for Ki. But that doesn't explain hand signs." Gohan said. Korra was even more confused, Ki? Chakra? What's next magic? "It seems we all use different energies, my magic levels have drastically decreased and my skills as well." That made more sense. "Oh, guess that's why. Well, Chakra, the energy I use. Is a combination of physical and spiritual energy that can be used for jutsus and increase our strength." Naruto explained. "Ki energy is the life force, which I guess is physical energy, that can be used to do techniques and also increase strength." Gohan explained his. "Magic is the mental, or spiritual energy, that I can use to do spells." Jaina simple informed. "Hmm, Bending is using a natural element to preform skills, which the chi in our bodies guide. I can use all four elements, Earth, Fire, Air, and Water with practice. I can't use the air right now through... But I'll learn it!" Korra said with confidence. "What about lightning?" Naruto asked. "Well, fire benders can do lightning." Korra said, remembering that fire bender that attacked her earlier. Silence then came... And continued... And continued some more... "Fine! I'll introduce myself! My name is Naruto Uzumaki! I like ramen, kicking people's asses, my friends, and ramen! I dislike the waiting time for ramen, people who can't see a scroll from the kunai, and emos! My hobbies are eating ramen, training, and doing pranks. My dream is to become Hokage, the leader of my village and protect all my precious peoples! Dattebayo!" Naruto introduced himself. Gohan decided to go next. "That's cool Naruto! My name is Son Gohan, I like training, studying, and playing with my little brother! I dislike cruel evil people and people getting hurt. My hobbies are training, fishing, and reading. My dream is to become a great scholar and martial artist." Naruto clapped in approval, despite disliking the scholar part. Korra decided to go next, following Gohan and Naruto's examples. "My name is Korra, I'm the Avatar. I like training, pro-bending, and beating the bad guys. I dislike obeying the rules, and meditation. My hobbies are training and hopefully pro-bending. My dream is to become to greatest female Avatar ever!" "What is an Avatar?" Gohan asked. Korra looked at Gohan with a grin on her face. "The Avatar is the person that can control all the elements! They can go into 'The Avatar State' to become one of the strongest benders ever. Their duty is to protect the world's balance between the physical... And spiritual... realms." Korra explained, saying spiritual grumbling. "Sounds awesome!" Naruto said. "That's great, I'm happy for you!" Gohan said. "Really? Thanks." Korra replied to Gohan's saying. Everyone then turned to Jaina, who rolled her eyes. "Fine... My name is Jaina Draconis, I like dragons and swordplay, dislike... A guy... And goblins. My hobbies are... defeating evil men and ruling the Battle Tower. My dream is to become to best Dragon Knight of the current age." 'Even through I'm the last one... ' She thought. 'At least she's not another Sasuke.' Naruto thought. 'Her world must be in a midst of something evil.' Gohan thought. 'Dragon Knight? Sounds cool.' Korra thought. It was then they noticed the sky had stars in them. The fire was burnt out, and the fish all eaten. "We'll rest here and figure out what to do tomorrow. Um, who's got first watch?" Gohan questioned. "I'll watch." Jaina replied, grabbing a smooth stone. The group gathered more sticks and twigs before Korra started the fire back up. They then drifted to sleep while Jaina Draconis watched the ever silent forest around them. Unknown to all of them, of what tomorrow will bring.