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fleetsonourgecentral · 3 months

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so it first Scourge only stays in the dimension because he has no way out, but what about the Omniviewer or the Ring of Eternity? do they for some reason not have the ability to take him to his dimension? or are we just shoving them out of the picture for the sake of the story until we can think of a good reason for their absence?

hi can you tell how much I've got the Fleet!Sonourge bug

So the Omniviewer and Ring of Eternity, although they do have dimension-related powers, don't quite have the powers to send Scourge back to his own dimension (Sonic was distraught upon discovering this, because the Omniviewer was his first solution. Locals say he stormed off yelling "THEN WHAT EXACTLY IS THE POINT OF YOU???" when the Omniviewer said he couldn't help). Their powers, while impressive to someone from the fleetway dimension who didn't even know dimension travel was possible, are actually pretty standard and minor in the grand, cosmic, multi-dimension scheme of things, as both of them can really only use their powers on the fleetway dimension and nearby "connected" dimensions

The Omniviewer's power is mostly limited to Mobius and the Special Zone, the latter of which is still inside the fleetway dimension. There's the bonus of time travel, but that still only really impacts the fleetway universe. I don't remember if we ever see him use his powers for anything outside Mobius and the Special Zone, but if he can, it's limited. The Ring of Eternity has a bit more power, as it can connect to other dimensions, but only... local dimensions, I guess is the way to put it? The Cosmic Highway is big, there are a lot of alternate dimensions to hold, and not all dimensions are within the same distance as each other

Think of it as like a bubble, I guess? The Ring of Eternity can reach dimensions that are within the bubble, and most if not all of those dimensions have a direct connection to the fleetway dimension. The universe that has King Sonic, for example, is directly connected to the fleetway universe, because, well, it's a parallel for it. It's a relatively close dimension, from a multi-dimensional perspective, which means it's within the reach of the Ring of Eternity's powers

Moebius, however, is not part of these connected dimensions. Different bubble, or neighbourhood, or whichever metaphor you wish to use. It's not a dimension that's close to the fleetway universe, so even if the Ring of Eternity or the Omniviewer were aware of that universe to begin with, they couldn't send Scourge there, because they just don't have that kind of power. Probably for the best, otherwise there could have been some... unforeseen complications when the Omniviewer trapped Super

The fleetway universe, and similarly, it's connecting universes, are pretty well-contained. Travel between connected dimensions isn't very common as it is, unless you count Sonic's trips to the Special Zone, so getting outside of that little bubble is incredibly difficult. Portals that open directly onto the Cosmic Highway just don't spawn often, and it's incredibly difficult to find an alternate way out. Perhaps it's a cosmic evolution; a dimension that specifically spawned and adapted to keep things and people (like Super) contained

Either way, it's effective at keeping people in. Between that, and Scourge's dimension being not only completely unconnected to the fleetway universe, but also thousands of miles away on the Cosmic Highway, neither the Omniviewer nor the Ring of Eternity can help, so please stop yelling at us Sonic it's not our fault there's nothing we can do

#sonic the hedgehog #asks #headcanon #can you see me just making shit up as i go because i'm too lazy to learn all of the lore and rules of the multiverse in the archie comics #so if anything contradicts archie canon. no it doesn't.#for that matter if anything contradicts stc canon? no it doesn't #my lore now #i read through the wiki that counts as research right #anyways hope this is at least semi-coherent???#the tldr is 'they don't have the power to have that kind of reach'#so scourge has to find another way #and unfortunately for him none of his usual methods work because the fleetway universe is pretty airtight #literally his only advantage is he's done this before. but it still isn't easy #of course if you brought in like. a way to create a portal from outside the fleetway universe. that would be different #bc those are probably specifically designed to either open onto the cosmic highway or into a specific dimension #unfortunately for scourge. he crash landed without any of those things #and the fleetway universe was not keen on making it easy to find a way out #much to the dismay of sonic #at least. until he got used to scourge. and caught feelings #fleetway universe: all according to keikaku >:)#my fleet!sonourge brainrot.... tis spreading as planned...... >:3

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mobius-prime · 4 years

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249. Sonic the Hedgehog #180

Oh, come on, cover page! There's no way in hell Sonic would end up as friends with Eggman! This has the same vibes as when older cover pages would try to tease something like "Has Sonic the Hedgehog actually died? Find out in today's issue how super dead he is!" Like oh, sure, of course he's dead! I totally believe you, Cover Page of a Sonic the Hedgehog Comic!

Preparations for War!

Writer: Ian Flynn Pencils: Tracy Yardley! Colors: Jason Jensen

Eggman is back to take revenge for his victory being stolen away from him last week, hoping to use his latest invention to upload a virus to Nicole's systems to take her out and leave New Mobotropolis vulnerable. Sonic, however, isn't even totally interested in fighting Eggman, as there's something more pressing to worry about right now.

Inside the castle, the Council of Acorn is having their first meeting to hear Dimitri's testimony about the danger of Enerjak. By the way, it's worthwhile to list off who's on the council: Elias of course, then Uncle Chuck, Rotor, Rosemary, and to round it off, Hamlin, Penelope, and Dylan! Nice to see these guys again, it's been a long time! No sign of Arlo, unfortunately, but he was the only one out of these four to end up injured outside of battle, so we can assume he had to retire and go back to being a civilian. Anyway, Dimitri tells the story of his initial transformation into Enerjak and how he was eventually stripped of his powers, a story which to his credit he tells frankly and with no attempts made to minimize what a power-hungry tyrant he was. He then admits that once his cybernetics started to fail after Knuckles' sacrifice to save him from Mogul, he in desperation went to Finitevus in the hopes of continuing to hold onto his life and regain his former power. However, when he realized that Finitevus betrayed him and was looking for a different candidate to become Enerjak, he came straight to New Mobotropolis, hoping they'd be able to put up a sufficient fight against this ancient and evil force. Sally, who's standing down on the floor to help hear Dimitri's testimony, immediately offers to mobilize the Freedom Fighters to go to Angel Island, but the council vetoes this in favor of keeping their own city safe first. Dimitri then suggests the Chaotix since Angel Island is their home, but the council still seems reluctant - and Charmy, who's been listening to the proceedings the entire time from within an air vent, reports all this back to Julie-Su, who adorably is using her cybernetic dreadlock as some kind of communication device.

Outside the city, Sonic has finished relaying what he knows of Enerjak to Eggman, who true to form is mostly concerned with the idea of someone else finishing off the Freedom Fighters before he himself can get to them. An exasperated Sonic offers Eggman a temporary truce - to work together to defeat Enerjak as a greater threat before going back to being at each other's throats. Eggman decides to agree in the creepiest and least-trustworthy tone possible, which of course makes Sonic leery.

Sonic is somewhat disgusted with himself for even agreeing to form an alliance with Eggman in the first place, but with that problem out of the way, he begins to rush back into the city to let everyone know of the new situation. However, Nicole pops up to warn him that the Chaotix are currently busting some heads at the airfield looking to jack a plane to Angel Island, so he runs over there to do some damage control. Meanwhile on Angel Island, Fiona (sporting a new black leather look) and Scourge call Finitevus with an update on the situation between the island's various factions. The dingoes, still led by General Kage, are making a move on the last of the echidnas, while the Flame and Frost Legions of the Dark Legion have called a truce between themselves to go after Finitevus, feeling he's a bigger threat to their plans. Finitevus thanks them for the update and tells them they can basically do whatever they want from here on as he doesn't need any more info, so Scourge dutifully sits his butt right down against a tree to "enjoy the show" while Fiona becomes frustrated that he's not taking this seriously, as she thinks Finitevus is way too creepy to trust. Maybe should have considered the kind of company your new boy-toy is keeping before running off with him, huh, Fiona? Back in New Mobotropolis, Sonic does his best to subdue the Chaotix without actually hurting any of them, while trying to convince them that they need a plan before they rush to Angel Island. Wow, if Sonic thinks you're rushing a little too quickly into things, you know it's serious. However, Julie-Su doesn't feel his opposing them is justified.

At this moment Sally shows up to talk to them all, agreeing that running off to Angel Island without a plan is a bad idea and informing them that Nicole's sent a probe there to gather information. Julie-Su becomes hostile and angry, certain that Knuckles has already been captured or worse by Enerjak and that waiting for info from a probe isn't going to help, but Sally isn't finished speaking.

Well there ya go, Julie-Su! See where a little waiting gets you? However, things are a bit worse than they perhaps realize - as Scourge and Fiona suddenly find themselves with a front-row seat to Enerjak returning in a blast of golden light - but if it isn't Dimitri in that golden armor, then who is it…?

Sonic Rush Adventure (High Stakes on the High Sea)

Writer: Ian Flynn Pencils: Tracy Yardley! Colors: Stingray GW

Welcome to yet another one of those "we're gonna tease this upcoming game and make a version of it canon within the comics but not actually adapt the entire game into comic form leaving people who haven't played the game totally lost" stories! This time, we're looking at the very beginning of Sonic Rush Adventure, starting off with Sonic and Tails waking up feeling woozy after a storm caused the Tornado to crash onto a beach. Out of nowhere, a small raccoon zips up and immediately tries to recruit them as her "swabbies" so that they can all sail and explore the high seas. Literally, this happens within half a page, this girl ain't messing around. Sonic and Tails are understandably baffled and get her to slow down long enough to explain what she's going on about, so she introduces herself as Marine and tells them that they've landed on Seagull Island, and that there's a band of roving pirates that's been looting this island in search of treasure, something that actually gets the two Freedom Fighters' attention.

Who is the individual that's stolen this giant pretty gem? Why, Johnny the Robot Pirate Shark, duh! Apparently he's some… speedy guy or something, blah blah blah, look at this point we know that Sonic's designated rivals tend to always be Fast Guys with a penchant for proving that they're faster than Sonic, and clearly this Johnny is just the next in a long line of other speedsters looking for a challenge. Naturally, Sonic is ready to go to battle for the Chaos Emerald (hey, how did it get out of Feist's clutches within the Special Zone, anyhow?), and… the end?! Come on, I know these little adaptions are always incomplete, but they didn't even show Blaze! She's literally one of the main characters of the game! I suppose I shouldn't be too surprised, though. Sonic Rush Adventure has always baffled me because every single promotional description I've ever seen for the game makes it seem like some random action romp where Sonic does nothing but fight pirates, instead of an actual sequel to the first Rush game where Blaze is an integral part of the plot. The good news is that I think this is the last one of these weird non-adaptions, as far as I can remember at least - from here on they're replaced with the "In Another Time, In Another Place" stories, which we're not gonna bother covering due to their non-canon status.

#nala reads archie sonic preboot #archie sonic #archie sonic preboot #sonic the hedgehog #writer: ian flynn #pencils: tracy yardley #colors: jason jensen #colors: aimee r ray #colors: joshua d ray

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twinkluffy · 7 years

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Forgotten Island.

A few months ago I writed a one-shot under the same name for the first day of the zoluweek but it never satisfied me (or what i wanted to express trough it) so today at last I could bring it to be what I wanted.

Summary: Human kindness is his weakness. The love for the brother that he loved (more than anything) his sentence of an eternity of solitude and the joyous laugh of the swordsman the ache on his heart.

References: Ulysses is the hero of the odyssey and he passed through the island of the sirens in the book XII. The song is the same one that the sirens sang for him. Antemoesa is the name that virgilio, the poet, gived to the island of sirens.

Warnings: OOC, Ace dies even when i’m who is writing this.

Words: 2902

(If there’s any mispelling, i’m very sorry I get so nervous when i write in english )

(story under the cut)

You can also read it here [AO3] and here [FF]

Prologue

“I’ll do whatever you ask” the boy said in a broken tone, tears streaming down his face while he hold close the dead body of the brother he loved dearly “Take my life instead of his”

“Are you serious about your offer?” The supreme ruler of the gods, Zeus, asked with interest “even if I sentence you of a eternity in hell? is the life of this boy worthy to risk that much?”

“He’s worth more than Hell” the boy answered without a trace of doubt “I said it before, I’ll do whatever you ask… just bring Ace back, let him have a normal, happy life”

“You’re a brave kid, let’s make a deal” Zeus said looking to the boy, the 17 years old teenager who faced a war who costed too much “I will bring your brother back to earth and he will have a happy life without any memories of you”

“I understand” the boy said, bowing his head in utterly gratitude “Thank you very much”

“You don’t want to know the consequences for you?” Zeus asked and the boy denied moving his head

“I don’t need to know,” the teenager said, his lips touching the cold cheek in a kiss “If he lives is okay for me any punishment you put me trought”

The presiding deity of the universe laughed in a sardonic way, his eyes never leaving the black ones of the kid.

“Let’s see if that strong will of yours stay after you know what punishment I have in store for you”

. . .

“Humans are strange creatures, everything in this world is deadly for them and even knowing this they risk their lives doing things beyond their power” Zeus said in a tired sigh “They don’t know their own limits and sometimes they need a reminder of how little they are” The god touched the cheek of his new creation and it trembled “and that's where your existence is necessary”

“You are no longer a fragile human, the best of the qualities of earth and sea are part of you now” The god said “You can walk in the land and bleed red blood if you’re hurt like any other human being; but you can breath under the water and swim with the ease of a fish. This island is now your domain in the middle of the sea where you will lure sailors to their early grave with your beautiful voice”

“Is a beautiful place” the boy answered, looking to the flowery meadows around him and taking seat in the rocks from where the vast sea extend

“Remember, Luffy” Zeus said, this time with fatality in his voice “In the end I couldn’t bring myself to tear you apart of that gentle heart of yours and that’s your weakness…don’t let humans aproach to you, it only will make you suffer”

“I understand” Luffy said, looking beetwen his hands, the one under the water have is fingers webbed and his other hand, the one that is resting in the ground is normal “Thank you for giving my brother another chance in life, he deserves to be happy”

“I will keep my promise” The supreme ruler of the gods swear “Keep yours, until the whole world ends”

[-]

He doesn’t keep a count of how many time has transpired nor how many humans he had seduced with his voice but Luffy’s hair is so long that it drags in the ground when he walks.

He sings about nothing and everything. With promises of treasures, of a city of gold and emeralds, of inmortality, of power and glory, of world knowledge, of food or of eternal love, anything the sailors truly desires in their hearts.

So he sings and sings, until nothing is left, until the sailors lost their minds or their ships capsize and they drown like rats.

(and he sings and sings and sings…)

[0]

“Come here,” he sang,”renowned Ulysses, honour to the Achaean name, and listen to my voice. No one ever sailed past me without staying to hear the enchanting sweetness of my song- and he who listens will go on his way not only charmed, but wiser, for I know all the ills that the gods laid upon the Argives and Trojans before Troy, and can tell you everything that is going to happen over the whole world.”

Luffy looked to the man, bound to the cross piece halfway up the mast and praying to be set free. His comrades rowing away from antemoesa, in a desesperate attempt to found their way back to home. Luffy laughs, because is amusing the human stubborness behind his actions and how this one is the first human in hundreds years in listen his voice without dying.

[1]

After several hundred years life in Antemoesa became boring. Is no wonder, after all it is a small island forgotten by the gods in the middle of the wide sea and whose exact location is only found in ancient texts in an already extinct language. He’s older than time but not as much as the creation, product of the boredom of the god who sought to mortify the humans who had the audacity to sail the seas belonging to Poseidon.

He can walk on land and breath under the water; If he’s hurt, his wounds bleed but his own tears are able to heal him. He can bring wisdom and knowledge to the humans but also can destroy them with his voice only. Luffy is no longer mortal, but a scourge of immortality, terrible, painful, wild and invincible but also doomed to spend the remaining time on earth in the flowery meadows of antemoesa waiting for new humans who seduce through his singing.

That’s the price Zeus demanded to pay to save the life of his older brother, whose freckled face that plague his dreams and his warm voice reminds him his own name in those days that he thinks that solitude is gonna make him lost his mind.

The conditions were simple and fair enough, seduce with his singing the sailors but never aproach to them because according to Zeus, human kindness is his weakness and it will end to be painful for a being like him.

(Because Luffy is not a human nor a fish. He can walk on land and breath under the water)

Not that it matters too much by now, hundreds of years have passed since the last time Luffy saw a human and sincerely, he doubts to see one in the coming hundreds of years he has remaining.

[2]

At first, when he saw the deplorable ship floating in his direction, he thought it was just another unfortunate ship that had crashed against the rocks or an old ship whose crew died in the midst of the treacherous sea and paid it no mind. The ship docked a few meter away from him and to his utter surprise he heard the sound of groans coming from the ship.

Without even thinking twice, Luffy got on his feet and held the human in his arms to laid him down on the sand, the man has a brutal wound that comes from the right side of his waist to his left shoulder, from where the blood seems to have ceased to sprout but would end up becoming infected if it is not taken care of.

Luffy knelt beside the human, buries his nails in his arms until small drops of blood begin to slide down his arms and tears make his vision cloud, he leans over the human and let his tears fall on the chest of the man whose wounds begin to heal leaving behind a huge scar.

“The first human who passes here after hundreds of years and is half dead," Luffy says in a sigh, looking at the human whose once laborious breathing has returned to normal. "You can’t seduce a half-dead man”

(Zeus advice rings loud in his mind but the now peaceful expression in the face of the human and the soft sounds of his earrings moving with the wind distracts him)

…

When the human wakes up three days later after his arrival he seems surprised to be alive and Luffy doesn't blame him after seeing the serious wound in the man’s chest. When Luffy dark eyes, black as night meet the intense silver eyes sharp as a sword, that an epiphany hits him like lightning, leaving him breathless.

Luffy sees the bright future that awaits this man who was born to obtain greatness and a title that positions him above all the others swordsman in the world.

But not yet – He still so weak, so fragile…

That if Luffy were to press a little he would collapse completely along with all that awaits for him in future.

(‘The man they know like Hawk-eyes found defeat by your hand,

the black sword that give you that scar and teared apart your pride,

Is not strong enough in the face of the three swords you carry on your right hip,

your name reachs to the heavens for a talented little girl who died too soon.’)

“You helped me?” the man ask, touching the scar on his chest with a wince

“Yes, but I don’t really did that much” Luffy responds, as if it were a matter of everyday that a creature like him saves stupid sailors from die of an infection

“My name is Roronoa Zoro” the human says, bowing his head lightly in a gesture of respect and gratittude “Thank you for helping me”

“How did you get that wound?” Luffy asks, curious to know how this man, Zoro, arrived in such a state to his domains

"Fighting for my dream," Zoro answers immediately, with a confident smile and a gleam in his eyes that the merman can identify, having already seen it in a human before.

(Another stubborn idiot, like Ulysses, maybe even worse because Luffy can’t bring himself to sing the destiny of this man)

“You must be hungry” Luffy says, with his thumb point the forest behind him “You can find fruits to eat if you walk a little around there”

The human nods, placing a hand on the scar that crosses his abdomen to rise and walk lazily in the opposite direction that the merman points

“It's to the other side, stultus!” Luffy shouts at Zoro, who looks embarrassed while now he walks to the right direction ‘I found a very troublesome human’ – Luffy sighs, defeated.

…

“Hey, Luffy, aren’t you a little too young to live alone in this island?” Zoro ask, hours later with the sun hide behind the clouds “did your boat dock here too?”

“I have more years than you'd know how to count or you could get to have” Luffy answered, taking an apple to bring it to his lips “This island belongs to me, was created by Zeus himself just for me”

Zoro laughs and shakes his head, believing it to be a joke on the part of the black-haired man, Luffy doesn’t bother to insist and simply shrugs.

[3]

With the passing of the days they are installed at a comfortable pace of coexistence, where Zoro would offer to go find things to eat and return to Luffy on the rocks where the dark-haired man sit for hours watching the sea while huming softly. Zoro usually remains silent, taking a nap or trying to annoy the merman to kill boredom.

“Why are you on this island, Luffy?" Zoro ask, Luffy doesn’t know how many times this absurd man will keep asking the same question “doesn’t it get kinda lonely?”

“I’m on this island to sing” Luffy replies, without taking his eyes off the sea as he tilts his head slightly as if trying to found another way to answer but decided against it “That’s all.”

"You're a strange child" Zoro replies, looking at him out of the corner of his eye for a reaction that soon arrives

“I told you, I'm older than you could imagine!” Luffy answers annoyed, no longer looking at the sea but the man next to him “You’re a diaper brat compared to me!”

“I don’t know” Zoro says, putting a hand on his chin as if he was seriously thinking about something “I would say that you are definitely a child and a very short one”

“Don’t make me hurt you, brat!” shouts Luffy, taking Zoro’s cheeks between his fingers and pulling it in a painful way “don’t get so cocky, I could kick your ass across to other side of this island”

Zoro laughs hard, putting a hand on his chest where his scar still hurts and without trying to remove Luffy’s hand of his cheek.

…

There are times when Zoro joins him and makes him company while watching the sea, the eyes of the human acquire a nostalgic glow as he watches the distant horizon, and it's in time like these where Luffy remembers that the dream and goals of Zoro are not in a place as boring as Antemoesa, but on the open sea fighting against powerful enemies that help him develop his skills until he becomes the best.

Every time Luffy is about to open his mouth to say something the human will simply watch him and start to annoy him about his height or age.

[4]

One night, meanwhile Luffy is trying to calm the fast beating of his heart after that damned nightmare who seems never leave him alone (a battlefield where they tried to achieve freedom, the sound of the cannons, the terrified screams of people dying, the fire consuming everything in his path and the cold body of the person he loved the most in this world). Zoro wakes up, sits beside him and begins to talk like he hadn’t doing before.

The human tells him how left his home searching to acomplish his dream, how he lost his way back; in a way that he couldn’t no longer get back and his only option would always be moving forward. Zoro speaks of the places he has seen, the things he has eaten, of a drink called sake that is the most delicious of the nectars and about some kind hearted humans and others not so much. He talks about a rival with empty cold-eyes and sword handled as it were a extension of the body of his rival, about an humiliating defeat because of his arrogance and his newfound determination to become even stronger when he leaves this island.

Zoro talks about a future together, for both of them, out in the vast sea searching to make their names reach heaven together, because they can go anywhere… the sea is freedom when you want it to be.

(He remember now, the painful but so warm gentle nature of humans)

Luffy can't leave, not because he doesn't wanna but because he made a promise so many (how many?) years ago, with a god for the sake of the brother who raised and protected him (who must be dead by now, but who cares, Ace was happy, he lived happy, that's all that matters.) yet he’s still holding that promise, until the whole world ends, until he dies and he welcomes the final end, singing.

Luffy makes a decision that night while he looked at the peaceful face of the swordsman.

. . .

When the sun comes out the next day and the swordsman wakes up, Zoro seems confused to see his boat in good condition.

“You have to go now” Luffy says, taking Zoro's face in his hands, his thumb touch soflty the strong jaw “Just follow right in direction of the sun for a few days and you’ll find dry land, your dream is far away from this place... you say you want your name reaches so high to be heard in heaven, then make the name of Roronoa Zoro be heard on this island too when you become the best swordsman in the world”

“What about you?” Zoro ask “You’re asking me to leave you here, alone? After everything I say to you yesterday?”

“I made a decision hundreds of years ago, which I don’t regret, and if I left this island, I would be breaking my promise” Luffy explains, the human has a frown in his face and is ready to argue when the merman interrupts him again “You know the valor of a promise and after all I have been hundreds of years alone… please don’t pity me”

Zoro seems to think what to say before a smug smile forms on his lips “When I become the best swordsman in the world I will come back and stay with you, so we will both fulfill the promises we have made”

Zoro says, wrapping Luffy in a unexpected hug that last too little for Luffy’s taste (how many years had passed since the last time he felt the touch, the warm of another body against his?) the swordsman turns his back on him and begins to move away towards the ship on the shore, climb on it and begin to row away, without looking back even once while with every movement of the waves that move the ship, Luffy's heart sinks a little more because he knows that it is not a promise that Zoro can fulfill.

END.

#zolu #zorolu #fanfiction #my writing #one piece #*leave this here and never comes back*#man i love to make that kid suffer???#i love him tho #captain and firstmate #AU #fantasy au!

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markmceachran · 4 years

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Angel

This was probably the middle of his journy. It contrasted Jim’s, which was likely ending soon. Even thought he was physically able, he couldn’t defeat the years forever. Angel figured Jim had a few more years left before some critical part of his body gave out, whether it be his heart, liver or, god forbid, his mind. Jim already had some crazy, wild-assed ideas, Angel couldn’t imagine what kind of shit a legitimately crazy Jim would throw out.

He’d grown to trust Jim, and to make the building, and the bar, part of what he considered home. This place wasn’t an outpost where he traded goods for other goods, this was where he set down to relax when he wasn’t flying, this was a place worth flying for.

It was tricky for Angel to trade in water with other outposts. Keeping his source a secret was paramount so he never routed his runs the same. He wanted people to think he was just picking up water for other goods along the way. At the same time, per Jim’s intentions, he wanted to get the water out there to people that needed it. Jim envisioned that someday one of the nearby wells would fill up again and that would signal to everyone that the world was recovering a little bit. The idea would be that the masses, or what was left of them, wouldn’t experience the sense of desperation. They’d be less likely to ransack any one source of available water because other nearby sources would be easier, safer to attain. Once water was at least regionally everywhere the people would grow powerful again, eventually becoming strong enough to take on The Dragon, and certainly strong enough to dissuade their recruits.

Of course, defeating The Dragon was not paramount. There have always been, and will always be those who yearn for the end times, for civilation to fall completely and for humanity to become extinct. They think the world would be better off without the silly, little species with the big brains. To them, humans were not doing their job of tending the garden that was mother earth. Instead they raped it, and spread across the planet like a scourge, a tenacious animal that kills and eats and destroys everything it touches. Humans knew they were doing this and were powerless to stop themselves. Like an addict they made up games to justify their destructive habit, making money being the best of them. With money the humans amplified their devouring by enrolling more humans in the process. They either paid humans to devour, or collected money from humans to make the devouring more efficient. If there was one thing that humans loved to praise themselves for, it was devouring at scale. They even had competitions to see which group of them could devour more, faster.

The Dragon was born of the antithesis of the devouring. They survived, thrived in scarcity, and destroyed the wasted humans too blind to see the ill of their ways. On Tynon had put enough thought into their purpose to fully understand it, but he conveyed enough to his subordinates to enroll them in the mission. Even Tynon’s predecessors didn’t quite see it. They came close. With Tynon at the healm there was the definitive purpose of the beast that devoured men for the sake of the planet.

Angel never quite bought into Tynon’s bullshit completely, and Tynon knew it. He saw the skeptic in the pilot and stopped trying to sway him over. Why he never killed him was simply a practical matter – no one else had a helicopter and those things can come in handy from time to time. Tynon saw a future opporutnity where the flying machine could further his agenda in some large, magnificient way. Unfortunately for him, he never got to follow through on that vision. Exiling the women was as much service as he saw from Angel, and even that ended poorly in part. Even in its failing, however, Tynon managed to figure out a way to have it serve him. It brought his men together around a common enemy, one who had killed fellow members. In a way, it actaully ended perfectly for Tynon because all the doubters, the critics, the ones who liked the old way of The Dragon were now silent. They couldn’t speak against Tynon or the mission for fear of being called a traitor to their fallen comrades.

For the Dragon a living Angel was probably more useful than a dead one. He was always out there, driving the hunt, pushing them to go further, kill more, take down more of humanity. If anyone doubted the mission to end humanity, they could lean on the secondary mission to find Angel instead. It was more straight forward and would, given the nature of the way The Dragon do business, accomplish the primary mission anyway.

Of course, they would try to catch him, and they would definitely kill him when they did. It’s quite a miracle that he didn’t die that night after the crash. Had Hope and Cindy been with them, altogehter they would have died at once. If Tynon needed a living Angel, he could just suppress the information until he found a new enemy to keep himself in power and keep The Dragon on task. Angel, Hope and Cindy were just filling that role for him and there was nothing they could do about it save for destroying The Dragon completely, or perhaps just killing Tynon.

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Hope and Angel finally realized that they were very likeminded. Both had dealt with The Dragon, rather than trying to confront them head on. Hope maneuvered herself to become a concubine with the leader at the time. It was the path of least discomfort in the state of captivity shared by every other woman who had been taken by them. In a similar way, Angel had cut a deal with The Dragon to be left alone in exchange for providing occassional courier services. They didn’t kill him, or break his stuff. He knew what they did, but had not the power to stop it. The best he could do was to cut a deal that kept him flying and alive.

Together they were survivors and with Jacko’s attack they watched each other survive in dramatic fashion. Their bitterness toward each other turned into a mutual respect and trust, and something more. With their simple, basic desires well understood they began to anticipate each others’ thoughts and actions. They didn’t even need to exchange winks and nods. It was truly unspoken.

So when the day came to exile the four prisoners, their orders were to take them as far west as possible, to the edge of the cauldron if they could find an outpost that far out. The plains between Chicago and the cauldren were barren and, by all accounts impossible to cross — unless you have a helicopter. Angel was to have loaded up with extra fuel to make the journey. With the bird fully loaded with the four prisoners and Hope in the copilot seat he set an initial course to the west. Once they lost sight of all but the sliver of light carving into the sky, the laser light’s plasma shield, he rerouted eastward, toward Buffalo. Hope said nothing, she knew the plan already, even without talking about it in advance.

The extra bodies would flesh out parts of the message that, on some level, were a little blurry being spelled out with only 17 dead Dragon. The E in particular benefited greatly from another human figure. That’s where they landed, just off the E. They discussed the details breifly, but then went to work on the first man.

Angel’s soldier’s discipline kicked in the moment he grabbed Zeb’s arm. There was no talking, just doing. He was off the helicopter and into the sand. Angel paused to shut the door. They dragged him away from the bird so as not to have a pile of bodies to drag subsequent men over. Angel removed the gag before the hood, it’s easier to remove the gag when the victim is not tempted to look around. Also, once the hood came off the victim generally would get the sense that they were about to die and start to panic. He only let Zeb look for a few seconds, just long enough to let his eyes adjust and for the terror to set in at the sight of 17 dead Dragon strewn out across the sand. Angel knew Hope wanted to see their faces when she killed them, she wanted it to be intimate. This didn’t bother Angel, in fact by the second man, Badger, he started to get a little charge out of her pleasure.

She was corrupting him, if taking joy out of killing an enemy could be considered a corrupt attribute. He wasn’t doing the stabbing, and the pleasure he got from it was not a direct result of the killing, but rather of her pleasure. No attempts were made to reconcile his feelings on the matter, he didn’t care to analyze it, to see if it was right or wrong. It was bringing some joy and satisfaction and that was something he hadn’t experienced with a woman in many years. There was no romance to accompany the sensation, it was more like — lust, and not necessarily for her, just for her pleasure. Where he became complicite was when he wanted more.

With the next man, Weed, he let him look around a bit longer. His horror intensified Hope’s expression and amplified everything. Angel’s breaths grew heavy and his muscles tensed with each hole she put into Weed’s body. He held him up as long as he could, and she stabbed until he passed out, falling to the sand in a heap.

Clip was to be the perfected execution. He was their new leader and should have felt the greatest terror and horror at what had happened to his men and was about to happen to him. Like Weed, Angel forced him to look around. He did not respond like the other men, though. Instead he seemed to accept his fate. So Angel pointed his head toward his own belly so that he would have to watch Hope let the blood out one hole at a time. He just nodded at her. She hated it, there was no joy in killing this man. He practically wanted to die. Enraged, she gutted him and the sight of his innards exploding out of his belly brought her back to where she wanted to be. She sighed and smiled with satisfaction, and Angel followed suit.

* * *

They were both fully charged when they got the view of their work from the sky. The cockpit was thick with their electricity. With time to kill, figuratively this time, Angel flew them back to his new hanger. Once again without words, they acted on their mutual instincts and were fucking in the back of the bird before the blades had stopped spinning. There was no kissing, there was no romance. They didn’t feel romantic toward each other, in fact they felt as close as siblings, perhaps twins even. The connection was nearly psychic and with every grind and thrust they relived kill after kill. Hope with her stabbing, gutting, pounding of deadening meat, and Angel taking exquisit pleasure in her passion for it.

Her body quivered over and over again as he fulfilled the contract of each of her kills. After she reached her capacity for him, she grabbed him by the throat, pressing his head against the metal floor of his machine, and ground on top of him until she had finished him.

Breathing grew easy with her laying on top of him, their bodies still coupled. They would lay for hours together, holding each other until their limbs grew sore from the stillness. The pleasure fulfilled her bloodlust for the time, and his satisfaction and being a part of her climax squelched any feeling of guilt that might have tried to emerge. They were, in that moment, utterly satisfied and complete.

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twinkluffy · 7 years

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Forgotten island [Fantasy AU]

Day 1 of the Zoluweek2k17, Fantasy Au: Merman Luffy and human Zoro.

Hi, i wanted to take part of this week so badly that I ignored how much I suck on english, bc is not my first lenguage and even when I can read it without trouble when it comes down to write long things I get a little nervous = a lot of failures. So, if there any misspelling i’m very very sorry ;_; and i hope this counts as fantasy

some facts about this one shot: Antemoesa was the place where mermaids habited (well virgilio, the poet, says so) and there is a the oddyssey reference too. Luffy is very old but look young, he is a fatalist (because he has seen so much and being in solitude for so many years tends to mold you in that way) but still is very hard too think about luffy like that so a very ooc luffy

Warnings: ooc, and none other mayor warning, this pretty sane oneshot in my standars

[1]

After several hundred years life in Antemoesa became boring. I’ts no wonder, after all it is a small island forgotten by the gods in the middle of the wide sea and whose exact location is only found in ancient texts in an already extinct language. He’s older than time but not as much as the creation, product of the boredom of the gods who sought to mortify the humans who had the audacity to sail the seas belonging to Poseidon.

He can walk on land and breathe underwater; If he is hurt, his wounds bleed but his own tears are able to heal him; He can bring wisdom and knowledge to humans but can also destroy them for no reason at all. Luffy is no longer mortal, but a scourge of immortality, terrible, painful, wild and invincible but also doomed to spend the remaining time on earth in the flowery meadows of antemoesa waiting for new humans who seduce through his singing.

That is the price that Zeus demanded to pay to save the life of his older brother, whose face has forgotten over the centuries but whose warmth still remembers vividly. The conditions were simple, seduce with his singing the humans who listen but never approached near enough to be affected by them, according to Zeus, sometimes humans can be kind and this is painful for beings like him.

(Because Luffy is not a human nor a fish. He can walk on the ground and breathe underwater)

Not that it matters too much by now, hundreds of years have passed since the last time Luffy saw a human and sincerely, he doubts to see one in the coming hundreds of years he has remaining.

[2]

At first, when he saw a deplorable ship floating in his direction, he thought it was just another unfortunate ship that had crashed against the rocks or an old ship whose crew died in the midst of the treacherous sea, but to his utter surprise he heard the sound of groans Coming from the ship, without even thinking twice he dived into the sea and swam until he was next to it, where a human man struggled to breathe.

Clutching the railing with all his strength, he began to move his fin quickly, dragging the boat with him to the edge of the beach where his tail turned into two legs when they make contact with the sand. He held the human in his arms and laid him down on the sand, knelt beside him and removed those strange clothes that covered his chest where now stands a brutal wound that comes from the right side of his waist to his left shoulder , From where the blood seems to have ceased to sprout but would end up becoming infected if it is not taken care of.

Luffy buries his nails in his arms until small drops of blood begin to slide down his arms and tears make his vision cloud, he leans over the human and let his tears fall on the chest of the man whose wounds begin to heal leaving behind a huge scar.

The first human who passes here after hundreds of years and is half dead," Luffy says in a sigh, sitting down next to the human whose once laborious breathing has returned to normal. "You can’t seduce a half-dead man.”

Luffy sighs again, defeated, while the human emits snoring sounds with both arms scattered at the height of his head, without any concern that he was about to die and that his salvation has been what many call the voice of the doom of the Seas.

…

When the human wakes up three days after his arrival he seems surprised to be alive and not that Luffy blamed him after seeing the serious wound in the man’s chest. When his dark eyes, black as night meet the intense green eyes sharp as a sword, that an epiphany hits him like lightning, leaving him breathless. He sees the bright future that awaits this man who was born to obtain greatness and a title that positions him above all the other swordsman in the world which falls comfortably on his shoulders, as if it couldn’t have been otherwise.

But noy yet - He still so weak, so fragile … that if Luffy were to press a little he would collapse completely along with all that awaits for him in future.

“You helped me?” the human asks with a frown

“Yes, but I don’t really did that much” Luffy responds easily taking away importance, as if it were a matter of everyday that a creature like him saves stupid sailors to die of an infection

“My name is Roronoa Zoro” the human says, bowing his head lightly in a gesture of respect and gratittude “Thank you for helping me”

“How did you get that wound?” Luffy asks, curious to know how this man, Zoro, arrived in such a state to his domains

"Fighting for my dream," Zoro answers immediately, with a confident smile and a gleam in his eyes that the merman can identify, having already seen him before in a human. Like that stubborn man, Odysseus, which was tied to the mast of his ship so as not to succumb to the charms of his voice because he was fully convinced to return home.

“There you can find fruits to eat” says Luffy raising his arm to point the forest a couple of meters beyond

The human nods, placing a hand on the scar that crosses his abdomen to rise and walks lazily in the opposite direction that the merman points

“It's the other side, stultus!” Luffy shouts at Zoro, who looks embarrassed while now if he walks in the indicated direction “I found a very troublesome human” Luffy sighs, defeated.

“Aren’t you a little too young to live alone on this island? Did you get lost at sea or something?” Zoro ask, hours later with his arms crossed under his head looking to the sky

Luffy can’t help laugh, he doesn’t remember how much time has passed since the last time he did it and the human looks confused

“I have more years than you'd know count or you could get to have” Luffy answered, taking an apple to bring it to his lips “This island belongs to me, was created by Zeus himself just for me”

Zoro looks at him incredulously as he shakes his head, believing it to be a joke on the part of the black-haired man, Luffy does not bother to insist and simply shrugs.

[3]

With the passing of the days are installed at a comfortable pace of coexistence, where Zoro would offer to go find things to eat and return with Luffy on the cliff where the dark-haired sit for hours watching the sea while singing softly. Zoro usually remains silent, taking a nap or trying to annoy the merman to kill boredom

"Why are you on this island, Luffy?" - Asks Zoro, with both arms under his head while looking at the sky “doesn’t get kinda lonely?”

"I'm on this island to sing," Luffy replies, not taking his eyes off the sea as he tilts his head slightly as if trying to see something beyond “that's all.”

"You're a strange child," Zoro replies, looking at him out of the corner of his eye for a reaction that soon arrives

“I tell you, I'm older than you could imagine!” answers Luffy annoyed, no longer looking at the sea but the man next to him “You’re a child compared to me!”

“I don’t know” says Zoro, sitting and putting a hand on his chin as if he was seriously thinking about something “I would say that you are definitely a child and a very short one”

“Don’t make me hurt you, brat!” shouts Luffy, completely forgetting his composure and pouncing on the human who only laughs at the hilarious reaction of the raven

…

There are times when Zoro joins him and makes him company while watching the sea, the eyes of the human acquire a nostalgic glow as he watches the distant horizon, it is then when Luffy remembers that the dream and goals of Zoro are not in A place as boring as Antemoesa, but on the open sea fighting against powerful enemies that help him develop his skills until he becomes the best but every time he is about to open his mouth to say something the human will simply watch him and start to annoy him about his height or age.

…

One night, meanwhile Luffy is looking at the sea, Zoro sits beside him and begins to talk.

The human tells him how left his home in search of his dream, how he lost his way back and in a way that he couldn’t no longer get back and his only option would always be moving forward. He speaks of the places he has seen, the things he has eaten, of a drink called sake that is the most delicious of the nectars and about some kind humans and other not so much. He talks about a rival with empty cold eyes and sword handled as it were a extension of his rival body, about an humiliating defeat because of his arrogance and his newfound determination to become even stronger when he leaves this island.

He talks about a future together, both of them, out in the vast sea searching to make their names reach heaven together, because they can go anywhere… the sea is freedom when you want it to be.

(that is what Zeus had mean, the painful but so warm gentle nature of humans)

but he can’t leave, not because he doesn’t wanna but because he made a promise so many years ago for a brother whose face he doesn’t remember anymore yet he’s still holding that promise, until he dies, until the whole world ends and he welcomes the final end singing.

Luffy makes a decision that night while he look the peaceful face of the swordsman.

…

When the sun comes out the next day and the swordsman wakes up, stretching his arms and yawning is that Luffy asks him to follow him, after walking in silence they reach the shore of the beach where Zoro seems confused to see his boat in good condition.

“You have to go now” The merman says, taking a step forward and taking the swordsman's face in his hands “Just follow right in direction of the sun for a few days and find dry land, your dream is far from this place... you say you want your name reaches so high to be heard in heaven, then make the name of Roronoa Zoro be heard on this island too when you become the best swordsman in the world”

“What about you?” Question Zoro “Will you stay here, alone?”

“I made a decision hundreds of years ago, which I do not regret, and if I left this island, I would be breaking my promise” Luffy explains, the human has a frown ready to argue when the merman interrupts him again “I have been hundreds of years alone… please don’t feel sorry for me”

Zoro seems to think what to say before a smug smile forms on his lips

“When I become the best swordsman in the world I will come back and stay with you, so we will both fulfill the promises we have made”

he says, wrapping him in an unexpected hug that lasts too little for Luffy's taste, the swordsman turns his back on him and begins to move away towards the ship on the shore, to climb and begin to row, without looking back even once while hile with every movement of the waves that move the ship, Luffy's heart sinks a little more because he knows that it is not a promise that Zoro can fulfill.

End.

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Angel

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