Thread: Nebula Academy: Search for the Chosen Ones (Start Up)

"Preaching to the choir!" Dante yelled, throwing a snap kick.

Zephyr landed in the school grounds and went solid, panting as she held her stomach. "Please stop kicking, Melody. You're only making things worse." Zephyr said, looking at her giant, child-bearing stomach.

Ronald appeared in between both Dante and Ellery, a smirk on his face as he looked at the two of them and held both of his arms out. "You kids are feisty but it's not like you're anything special." he stated with a soft chuckle before starting to decrease the temperature of the area, freezing the grass, ground and even the objects around them.

"Crap." Ellery tried to jump away, but the temperature decrease was so fast that before he was able to jump away his legs had already been frozen.

Ronald then spun around and put his hand on the floor before firing a powerful wave of flames around the area and both brothers.

***

Jared stood up from the ground slowly, groaning in pain before seeing John appear behind him and slam another fist strike on his gut. "You should just give up, you already failed before so why try it now?" he stated with a snicker before sending Jared flying away.

Jared clenched his fists together as red scales began to appear around his skin, his features becoming more bestial as his hair and ears grew spikier. He vanished from aside and appeared just in front of John, slamming a barrage of punches against the man, though they were blocked by John's shadow surrounded hands. "I'm doing all of this for Alice not for myself, because I want to raise those babies with a real family that doesn't look down on them."

"Weak." John slammed his knee against Jared's face, sending him falling back. "That kind of thinking will only raise more weak people such as yourself, you'll just destroy our family's pride." he pointed out while frowning in disappointment. "Failures just like you."

Jared slammed his fist on the ground. He remembered how his fights against Jabber and Mea both went, they both shared a similar view, a view that was different to his. His mind went to others like Dirk, Shinn, Dante or Cooper and even Alice, they were people that had influenced him in one way or another cause they all had something that he lacked, they all had something that he always rejected. He began to stand up slowly from the ground and panted. "I can't be strong."

John raised an eyebrow of curiosity, noticing that the crimson flames were wrapping around Jared's body now. "I'm not strong, I have to rely on others to fix my problems, I'm not confident in myself nor on what I can accomplish and I know that I'm just too much of a clutz to do anything right." he clenched his fist tightly, the flames now surrounding his whole body. "But I'm not going to give up!" he screamed and vanished into flames, only to reappear to the side of his grandfather, his body now turned completely into crimson flames as he slammed his fist against his grandfather's face and fired a jet of crimson flames that burned the trees behind him and his grandfather. "Once I put my will to something I won't give up."

"That's an honest feeling." John stated, causing Jared to gasp as he saw him walk back towards him, his shirt and jacket had been burned off and his skin did have some burns but he wasn't out. "Unfortunately this world isn't honest, and that's why you're weak." he raised his hand and pointed at Jared. "To protect the things a person holds dear he must sacrifice their pride an honor, he must do the unthinkable all for them, lie, hurt, kill it doesn't matter as long as they're safe."

Once he said this Jared stared at him for a moment an expression of sorrow on his face as he looked down. "That's why I want to change things." he raised his head once more. "I want to give them a future that they can look forward to." his face had become determined now, and his arms were blazing once more. "Even if I have to turn my body into ashes to accomplish that."

John snickered a bit before shadows began to surround his body as well as black coloured scales. "Then I guess I'll just have to test you huh? boy."

"Red Shield!" Dante yelled, grunting as the force of the fire slammed into him, and sent him tumbling. He looked at his frozen feet, which, like his brother, he had time to barely dodge being completely frozen.

"Dante!" Ellery yelled as he got up from the floor, groaning as he coughed up blood onto the floor. He looked over at his brother for a moment before grinning. "Calm down." he stated simply. "I'll distract him, you just try to clear your head, focus your power all of those cliche stuff, trust me, something good will happen." he smiled happily.

"You have got to be joking." Dante said in a disbelieving tone, getting up and smashed the ice off of his legs.

"Just trust me bro." Ellery advised. He looked at the teenager and smiled. "It should be easy for you, you being named after a great hero and all."

"Alright, go and run interference." Dante said, getting up and closed his eyes, and he began to clear his mind.

Ellery nodded his head before charging at Ronald. He vanished and appeared behind the man now, his hand stretched out before wind surrounded his right arm and he spun around. Ronald ducked out of the way, causing the blast of wind to fly past him before he slammed his hand against Ellery's chin and made him step back. "I'm not just some rookie." Ronald pointed out. "Thanks to your bitch of a mother I've had to live my life as a rogue, I've had to fight to keep myself from dying." he raised his head a sadistic smile on his face. "I'm going to enjoy taking my revenge on you and your brother before claiming my price for all my suffering." he said before licking his lips.

Amber just giggled before kissing him. "Actually, that kinda sounds like fun, nobody else is around, so we have this beach to ourselves, well except for my Pokemon but they won't be paying attention to us" Amber commented looking delighted by that idea.

"Then let's go," Noah smiled before kissing Ambe once more. "It'll be like being teens again."

A symbol appeared in the air in front of Dante that looked like a button off of a game controller. When it got "pressed", a surge of power exploded out of Dante, making him open his eyes as red and gold energy came out of his body. The same button was pressed down rapidly now, and it got more energy to start welling up, then a final press make the power jump in intensity.

Dante opened his eyes to reveal glowing, pupil-less eyes, which were glowing gray in color. "Like hell that's happening.​" He spoke out, his voice echoing and raspy.

"What the fuck is that?" Ronald pointed out, his face looking bewildered as he saw Dante´s transformation.

"That´s why you don´t mess with us." Ellery smirked as he stood up and wiped some blood from his mouth while glaring at Ronald. "We might not be as strong as Mr. Killing Machine but we can still kick that smug ass of yours." he pointed out with a snickered before stretching out his hands and surroundering both of his arms with wind. "Dante and I fight a lot, that much is obvious." he then looked at his brother. "But there´s a difference between us and our uncles, even if we argue our combo is still one to be feared."

***

The forest had been almost completely destroyed, a lot of the trees had been lit aflame, others had been blown completely apart and all over the place, the sun was now startin gto fall over the mountains a large collision of red flames and shadows occured, causing a large crater to be formed in the forest. "I think they´re done." Elise stated, she standing with the others of their group as they had watched the fight.

Jared laid on the ground panting, having exhausted all of his strenght as John stood above him and looked down at him. "Is that all you´ve got?" he asked before seeing his grandson roll around and try to desperately stand up.

Jared groaned and coughed, his hand clenching onto the ground as he stood up. "Sadly yes." he said, his eyes staring at the ground in disappointment as tears began to appear on his face. "I can´t win...no matter how much I try I know that I can´t." He had tried all he could to defeat John but at the end of the day he had failed, he had failed everyone, and most of all Alice.

John grinned before walking over to Jared and patting his back a bit. "Sadly you did win."

"No I didn´t, you´re still standing." Jared retorted, only to see his grandfather smiling.

"In strenght I beat you nine ways till sunday, but if I remember correctly this fight wasn´t about strenght to begin with." that´s when it hit him. Back when they had first started their fight Jared had burned John´s jacket and shirt completely off along with anything that was over or under them.

"The bracelet!" Jared gasped loudly before looking down at the bracelet that was on his own wrist.

"I had kept the bracelet under the sleeves of my jacket." John pointed out with a nod. "The heat of those flames was really something since it even managed to melt it." he raised his right hand, showing that he still had the frozen remains of the melted bracelet stuck to his hand.

"That guy just fought with scalding metal around his hand." Shiro deadpanned. "Now that´s just impossible." he said while scratching the back of his head.

"Regardless." John interrupted. "A rule is a rule, just like a win is a win and with that I admit my defeat." John bowed down in front of Jared. "Congratulations Jared, the title of head of the Drac Clan is now yours and yours alone."

Dante raised his right foot and slammed it down with enough force to make a decent crater right as a button was pressed. He then repeated the performance with his left foot, and then punched his fists together, getting organic metal to grow and cover his forearms up to his elbow. He then sprayed his arms out with a burst of energy, getting him to yell as his muscle mass started to multiply, making him taller and more fit.

His hair bleached out until it went totally white, and his shirt ripped to reveal his ripped body, with his lower leg part of his pants following suit, revealing they also had a metallic film from the knee down to the toes. Lines were now etching themselves along his body, giving the feeling that his entire body was armor.

"Fallen... Trigger!" Dante yelled, taking a combat-ready pose.

Ellery took out a small notepad, a grin goin through his face as he wrote in it. "I think I'll coin that name." he muttere to himself.

Ronald grinned widely as he looked at the two brothers. "impressive, though that just means that I should just go, I can always come for her layer after all."

***

Jared and the others were scolde back to the mansion where they had their wounds taken care off. "However just one thing went through his mid, Alice. "Where is she?" Jared said weakly as he walked into the mansion.

Alice heard the door open and stood up as she walked towards the doorway. She saw Jared and ran to him.

"A-are you alright?" she asked in shock.