Book 1: Magic
Chapter 2: Fairies of the Forest
The sun had risen, it was the dawning morning and the Avatar, Korra had taken the last watch. Korra did not like waking up so early, but with being in a unfamiliar place, she could not argue with the logic of Gohan's idea. Since the sun was rising, Korra decided to awaken the other kids... She still did not like the fact she's a kid again.
The Avatar decided to awaken Gohan first, since she felt he would be the best to awaken. Korra rose from the fallen log, the fire place had gone out a hour back or two, and made her way toward Gohan's sleeping form.
She shook him gently. "Hey, Gohan, wake up." Suddenly, Korra felt a furry object wrap around her right heel.
Looking down she saw a fuzzy tail wrapped around her foot, in shock Korra screamed briefly.
Instantly, the scream awoke Gohan, Naruto, and Jaina who all immediately stood up in their different fighting positions ready for combat. Only too see Korra on her bottom looking at Gohan's currently raised tail.
"Y-You have a tail!" She said, causing Gohan to start to worry that she'll get scared.
Until Naruto said something. "Gohan, that's cool! That part of a kekkei genkai you have or something? What's it do for you besides being your tail?"
"Kekkei genkai?" Jaina questioned.
"Yeah, kekkei genkai! Bloodline limit, it's something that gives you a ability that's passed down genetically." Naruto explained.
Gohan took this explanation as a great excuse to cover up his tail. "Yes, it's part of my kekkei genkai, um, it helps me conserve and control energy a lot better than other people!" 'Technically true, along with allowing me to transform into a Oozaru.' Gohan mentally added as he explained.
"Well now that I look at it, it doesn't seem weird... Kinda cute." Korra commented as she touched the tail.
A shiver of pleasure ran up Gohan's body as Korra stroked the fur of his saiyan tail. "Can you not do that... Makes me feel kinda strange."
Korra stopped. "Sorry just never saw anything like it."
"So Gohan, what's it called, your kekkei genkai?" Naruto questioned, wanting to know the name.
"The... Oozaru limit?" Gohan replied, half truthing it. He wrapped his tail around his waist, remembering how both Vegeta and Nappa had them like that during the time when they attacked the Earth.
*Rustle Rustle*
A bush rustled back and forth, the four heroes got into their own stances. Gohan went into his turtle hermit school fighting stance, Naruto went into his Academy stance while Korra took on a water bending form. Jaina had her hands on her blade's hilts, ready to draw them.
Out of the bush, came a very tiny magical sparkling fairy.
Yes, a fairy.
Nearly everyone, except Jaina, was dumbstruck of the miniature human with wings. The female fairy flew over to Naruto's face, her little skin was pale white with shiny white long hair, small bug like wings whipping around continuously to hold her in the air. She flew around Naruto's head two times before stopping in front of his nose.
"Hello Mr. Fox!" She said childishly.
"Um... Hello... Fairy." Naruto said, still shocked by the small thing.
The fairy girl giggled and flew to Gohan. "Hiya Mr. Monkey!" She said briefly before heading to Korra.
"Hello Miss Spirit!" She turned around and faced Jaina. "And hello to you Miss Dragon!"
Jaina nodded, knowing Fairies see things differently. "Good morning fairy of the forest." The Dragon Knight knew to be nice to the little things, despite all fairies being childish, they only seek to help. Jaina eased up and stood calmly, the others also stood in calm stances.
Then the fairy's face turned to horror, and she went up to the Avatar's face.
"Miss Spirit you got to help us! The Dark one's monsters are attacking our home!"
Korra raised her hands to halt the energetic fairy. "Wait, please tell me what happened first." She said. Korra wanted to help, it was her duty, and what she had been training for her whole life, but she wanted to know what's going on first.
The fairy took in her deepest breath she could manage, before spilling the beans in a barrage of quickly said words.
"Couple weeks ago the Dark one got into our land. Our small nation called for our allies, the ponies, griffons, dragons, and satyrs to help us. Since we are so small, we can't really fight well except with magic. But we fairies don't use combat magic, we only heal everything and take care of the forests! But then Darkness came and started cutting down our forests and turning the nice creatures to evil shadow monsters! Now my home is being attacks and we can't fight without our allies' troops!" She teared up a bit. "My mom and dad are going to die! Waaaaah!" The young fairy started crying as she was now sitting on Korra's outstretched hand.
"Hey don't cry, I'll save your home." Korra said confidently.
"R-really?" The fairy sniffed.
"Yeah, we will help you out! Those dark ones won't know what hit 'em! Believe it!" Naruto yelled, giving a thumbs up.
"Naruto is right, we'll save your village! I doubt they can handle all of us!" Gohan said, eager to help.
Jaina just looked at them, but nodded saying, "It'll be a good training experience while we're at it." In the meantime she thought. 'Is the Dark One one of Damian's allies? If that's the case, he's made an enemy out of me!'
"Now tell us, where your home-" Korra was interrupted as the fairy jumped in the air, her wings flying.
"This way! This way! Follow me!"
"Run away!"
"There is too many!"
"The Darkness is going to destroy us all!"
Fairies all around scrambled for shelter, but the trees around them proved fruitless against the axes of the shadowy figures. A pack of shadow wolves chased after a family of ten fairies into a corner. The lead male fairy flew tall and defensive against the wolves, but for all his bravery, he knew it was for naught.
One of the wolves got closer to the cornered fairies, that was until a blond ninja popped out of nowhere, running toward the wolves.
"Leaf Village Secret Finger Justu!" Suddenly a small kunai stabbed the wolf's behind. "A Thousand Years of Death!" And propelled the shadow wolf into the air, a tag attached to the kunai lit up, and exploded.
*Boom!*
Suddenly rocks erupted from the ground, and slammed the two other wolves into the nearby trees, knocking them out.
"Oh yeah! That's right! The Avatar is here!" Korra yelled.
"Who are you?" The fairies asked the blond kid who did the effective technique before.
Naruto grinned. "I'm glad you asked!" Suddenly some sort of music played, and in the heavens a old man stood proudly.
"I'm the apprentice of the great toad sage Jiraiya! Master of the Sage Art of Senjustu, and Shadow Clone user of hundreds! I'm the future Hokage of the Village hidden in the leaves, and ramen extraordinaire! I'm Naruto Uzumaki here to save the day!"
Naruto striked a heroic pose in front of them.
"Idiot." Korra whispered as she saw the pose.
Naruto grinned, scratching the back of his head with his hand. The two heroes looked back into the fairy village to see Gohan laying down the law upon some of the shadow creatures.
Son Gohan, brought his left foot upward smashing it into the jaw of a large bear-reptile... Thing. He then shot his right hand out, firing a Ki blast. Knocking the bear-reptile into the depths of the forest out cold. The half saiyan turned one-eighty degrees and shot his left arm into the other bear-reptile's face. The bear flinched back, before it's side caught fire from Korra's fire bending. The bear-reptile screeched in pain before falling dead.
"Nice one Korra!" Gohan praised her skill.
"Thanks Gohan! Behind you!" She yelled.
Gohan used his tail to grasp the arm of whatever assailant that was attacking him, and flung him into the ground beside him. It looked like some sort of goat man with a dark clock of energy surrounding it and pure black eyes staring at Gohan.
"You won't win, the Dark One will consume this world!" It spat at Gohan.
Gohan's face turned from his calm personality into one of seriousness. The half saiyan grasped the front armor collar around the satyr's neck.
Gohan then said lowly. "I know his kind, I've defeated his kind before and I'll do it again! The Dark One's days are numbered!" A Ki blast formed into Gohan's right hand, and then blasted the corrupted satyr into oblivion.
Avatar Korra flinched at the brutality the saiyan warrior showed. "Gohan, that was... Brutal of you."
Gohan faced the now eleven year old girl. "Types like him don't listen to reason, I've lost my father and a friend trying to convince them. I won't lose anyone else again." He then turned from serious to calm emotion. "Sorry if I frightened you."
"It's alright, we still got a village to save don't we!" Korra said.
Gohan nodded, bringing his sword out of his sheath. "Let's see how Piccolo's blade works here."
Leaping with a burst of Ki energy, Gohan charged forward with the sword grasped with two hands. Three of those shadowed satyrs came up at him, both only dressed in weak leather and daggers at their disposal. Which did not do much in the face of Piccolo's blade, Gohan slashed down upon them, reducing them to bits of dark energy which evaporated.
Meanwhile a couple yards away from Gohan and Korra. The Dragon Knight Jaina Draconis, stood before three shadowed satyrs that surrounded her on all sides. Her duel Sword of the Fjords held in each hand, she could feel the magical energies coursing through her veins, and her draconic nature eager for blood.
A satyr to her right came at her, she steps backward raising her left sword to her torso, and her right sword down back mid waist. The dagger of the satyr parried against her left blade, she took a step forward, lifting her right foot and kicked the satyr back. She then spun, bringing her right blade across with her arm, slashing across the satyr's abdomen.
Suddenly, two other enemies let loose their battle cries and charged within the Dragon Knight's striking range. Jaina grinned as she felt her magic strengthen her body to let loose a signature technique.
She spun in a fast motion, her blades reaching outward to strike all those around her.
"Whirlwind!"
The spell knocked them back, some cuts across their bodies. But Jaina frowned at her spell's effectiveness.
"That should have killed you all, it seems I'll have to retrain my spells."
Naruto appeared behind her. "Need any help to beat these shadows?" He said.
Jaina shook her head. "No, but make yourself useful and deal with the last group over there." She finished, pointing toward the direction where a group of satyrs and a wolf stood chopping down the fairy tree homes.
The jinchuriki gave her a thumbs up before running off in the said direction.
She held her swords, then ducked at the two satyrs attempted to stab her with their daggers. Jaina flipped her hand's grips over the her swords' hilts and then thrust both blades in the hearts of the last two satyrs of the group she was dealing with.
'Good thing I've trained at such a early age, so I still have muscle memory of swordsmanship.' She thought as the two satyrs evaporated into dark energy that dissipated in the air. Jaina then resheathed her sword and walked back to where her two new acquaintances, Gohan and Korra, where located.
At the last group, Naruto Uzumaki the hero of Kohona, stood face to face with the shadowed being.
"Hey you! Leave those fairies alone and pick on someone your own size ya Nara shadow rip-offs!" Naruto yelled at them, forming his signature hand seals. Chakra flowed through him in large quantity as he released his technique.
"Shadow Clone Justu!" *POOF* Suddenly, smoke rose out of nowhere and out came twenty five copies of the blond ninja.
The satyrs were in shock that their opponent multiplied, one even said. "Oh crap."
Within a minute, the clones and the original beat down on their small shadowed satyr group, plus a wolf, with punches and kicks of all sorts. When it was over, the last of the dark energy evaporated into the air as Naruto dispelled his clones in puffs of white smoke.
"C-ranked Mission: Save the fairy village, complete!" Naruto shouted before heading back to the rest of his 'mission team'.
The forest, now quiet and filled with life once again, shown itself with the natural wonders it contained. Within the forest, the wooden tree homes of the fairies had in couple, humans of different worlds.
"We thank you for saving us. Spirit, Fox, Monkey, and Dragon, your group seems to have arrived at just the right time. But may I ask, why are you here?" A male chief fairy, with a robe of majestic beauty said.
"We don't really know, I'm guessing we were summoned to help this world from what we heard of." Gohan said, Piccolo's blade already put back into it's sheath.
"Well, Mr... "
"Gohan, Son Gohan, sir."
"Well, Mr. Son, you can head toward the Fairy capital to aid there. We fairies could really use your aid against the Darkness that tries to take over our land." The fairy chief said.
In Jaina's perspective, the Dragon Knight questioned the so called Darkness. Jaina decided to delve deeper to gain information via dragon mind-reading.
Mind-reading, a gift granted to her when she had become a slayer, if only briefly. The ability allows one to delve into the outer surface thoughts of a person or creature, however it has it's drawbacks. The consequence of using the spell requires the target to be weak-minded or unaware, and if the target proves strong they will know who used the spell.
It's a good thing Jaina can tell most of the time who's mentally strong.
'I hope these beings will be able to help us, but was it wise to not inform them that the journey to the capital is filled with peril?' Jaina mind-read.
Gohan turned to the others and spoke, "Guess we have our new destination then."
Suddenly, Jaina pulled Gohan to the sidelines, where she stared intently at him. "Look here, I usually work alone, and I have a duty of vanquish Damian off the face of my world. But I can see that my quest will have to wait in the wake of being transported here. Now as my temporary ally and 'leader' of this miniscule group, I suggest we stay within the forest for a few days. Reason being our journey to this capital of theirs will possibly be teeming with enemies, we are unprepared to face them in our current levels. So, I recommend you and your... Fellows... Train your skills."
Gohan nodded, her reasoning held all the correct points to stay put for a while. "Your right, we'll stay put and train our abilities to a sufficient level before heading off."
The two walked back to the others of the group, Gohan said to them. "Alright, Jaina and I decided we will head toward the capital after we... Summarize and refine our skills within the forest."
"Okay cool, I'll be able to work on getting back my Chakra control." Naruto approved the decision.
Korra shrugged her arms, "I guess so, maybe some training for my airbending."
With everyone agreeing on the decision, Gohan turned toward the Fairy chieftain. "We're heading for the capital soon, until then we'll train within your woods if you don't mind?"
The chieftain shook his head. "No, we don't mind. You and your friends are allowed to train in your abilities within the forest clearings at the lake you arrived from."
"Thank you." Gohan replied. He turned around and nodded to the rest of the group, who then proceeded to head toward the same lake they all awoke at.
The forest of fairies, filled with animal life and trees that measured many meters high. Tranquility was sung as the fish swam down the streams and the birds chirped on their roost built on branches. Entering a clearing by the lake they had arrived in this world at, our four preteen heroes trained in whatever skills they thought appropriate
"Anyone wish to spar with me?" Gohan asked, glancing around he saw Jaina sitting on a log reading some sort of tome written in a mysterious language. Naruto created some clones and was currently climbing up trees with only the soles of his feet. While Korra practices through some sort of martial arts form Gohan was unfamiliar with.
The original Naruto heard Gohan's request and replied. "Sure, I'll spar with you Gohan!" He turned briefly to his shadow clones. "Keep working on tree climbing while I spar with Gohan."
"Sure thing boss!" A clone replied.
Naruto ran up to Gohan and stopped a few yards away from him. Gohan spoke to the blonde. "Do you want any rules?"
"No, let's go all out!" The ninja replied.
Gohan slipped into his martial arts stand, his left foot going ahead of the other. Gohan's left arm also went forward while his right positioned itself in front of his abdomen. Each hand consisted of being shaped like a claw, Gohan's knees bent slightly. Naruto took a more offensive stance, his left foot only slightly edged forward then his right, and his hands were clenched to fist yet close to each other to allow himself to form hand seals immediately.
Silent words seemed to whisper into Gohan's mind, the familiar voice of his sensei Piccolo giving him advice.
"Kid, if you ever find yourself facing an opponent of unknown ability, wait for his concentration to lapse before striking. Watch his eyes to slide out of motion, once they do, strike at that time and your opponent will be unable to react."
Really, it didn't take long for Naruto's concentration to lapse as he charged forward at Gohan. Naruto shot his right fist towards Gohan's face, but the saiyan hybrid backhanded it and hit Naruto's stomach with his left fist. Gohan made sure to hold back as it was unknown if Naruto could handle his attacks at his current full power.
Naruto gasped for air as he flipped away from Gohan, avoiding a kick aimed for his side. One of his hands clenched his stomach in pain. "Dang! You hit hard like bushy brows and Sakura!"
Gohan grinned at the compliment. "Thanks, but you'll have to do better if we're gonna spar."
"You asked for it Gohan!" Naruto formed his hands into a T-shaped seal. "Shadow Clone Jutsu!"
*Poof!*
Gohan's eyes widened he was suddenly surrounded by fifty clones. All yelling their battle cries they charged at Gohan, fists at the ready.
Gohan side stepped, dodging a kick and punch. Gohan then spun flinging two clones that had grasped onto him into the dirt, and flung his left leg at another clone, dispelling it. His senses screamed at him to jump into the air, which he did dodging two clones who had attempted to attack his back. Suddenly out of nowhere, six oddly shaped black knives came flying toward the Z-fighter at high speeds. Quickly, Gohan stretched his arms outward and yelled.
"Ahhhhh!" An invisible force erupted from around the saiyan pushing back the kunais toward the surrounding trees.
"Not as fast as a bullet, but I'm not taking chances. Wait... Where did all those clones go?"
The half saiyan hybrid felt hands grasping onto his ankles and then pulled him down onto the ground level. Gohan looked to see a ladder of multiple Narutos and soon he crashed into the ground.
Naruto and his clones took this chance with Gohan on the ground to attack. They charged in toward the saiyan, four clones kicked him from the ground into the air. All of them yelling...
"U..." Three clones jumped off the previous four, and kicked the Z-fighter higher into the air. Each individual clone continuing the words, "Zu-Ma-Ki!"
Finally, the original and nine other clones, who all were already in the air came down upon the slightly ever dazed Gohan.
"Uzumaki Barrage!" They all yelled as pairs of fist and feet made contact, sending Gohan swirling down and crashing onto the ground. The clones disappeared into puffs of white smoke which dissipated quickly as the Chakra returned to Naruto, who landed on the ground only a few meters away from Gohan, breathing heavily with mild exhaustion.
"Ugh... Wow, that's a nice technique you did there Naruto." Gohan said, bringing himself off the ground wiping some dirt off his face with his hand. The Z-fighter stood up and looked toward the slightly panting jinchuriki.
"Thanks..." Naruto said getting back his breath. "Haven't used that technique in a while."
"It's impressive, but now it's my turn." Gohan replied. The human saiyan hybrid grinned as he went back into his martial arts stance, his tail still wrapped around his waist.
Korra, the Avatar, had stopped practicing her fire bending forms when the spar between Gohan and Naruto begun. During her practice however, she realized that her body would go out of place during the now unfamiliar, yet known mentally fire bending stance. This meant to her that she had to relearn her fire bending forms and start over on air bending completely. But back to present, Korra felt the urge to join into the spar, preferably as Gohan's teammate seeing how he was winning.
Running up to them, Korra yelled out load. "Hey, mind if I join the sparring session!?"
"Sure, I don't mind. Do you Naruto?" Gohan questioned, Naruto shook his head. Gohan continued. "Join Naruto as I could use more of a challenge... Since I appear to have suffered less from the portal incident." Gohan added to give a better reason why Naruto lost, so not to degrade the young ninja.
"Oh... Well if you say so I'll team up with Naruto." Korra replied, a little distraught that she didn't get what she wanted, but didn't mind nonetheless.
Gohan, Naruto, and Korra entered their fighting stances. Korra decided to use her water bending form to make use of the lake nearby, her form was elegant her feet firm on the ground yet allowed swift movement, her hands were flat shaped one outstretched in front of the other, her left palm facing Gohan.
Gohan outstretched his palm toward them, a bright blue ball of energy gathered in front of it. Suddenly it shot forward with blinding speed, Korra switched form immediately, slamming her foot down and causing a wall of earth to erupt from the ground and block the Ki blast.
She didn't get the desired effect as even through the Ki blast was blocked, the wall of earth shattered due to the forceful explosive power of Ki energy.
But Korra made use of this, and bended the shattered earth pieces back at Gohan. The saiyan hybrid saw the incoming projectiles and crossed his arms over his chest gathering Ki energy before throwing his arms to his side and yelled.
"Ahhhhh!" Gohan yelled, a Ki aura burst into existence channeling at rapid speeds which made the contacting earth shards grind into dust. Gohan then stopped only to get whipped in the back by a seemingly floating stream of water, causing him to once again crash face first into the ground.
*Cough* "Word to self, Korra's attacks can't be sensed." Gohan coughed a bit of dirt out of his mouth. Gohan's saiyan hearing perked up as he heard the sound of flying objects head his direction. Quickly, got up and back flipped before landing back on the ground and glanced to his previous spot to see some shuriken.
"Don't forget about me!" Naruto yelled. Gohan grinned, Korra stood determined, and Jaina just continued to read her book.