Southern Yukon, Earth
ROOOOOOOOAAAAARRRRRR!!!
Half the world looked towards the Pacific as the dragon's scream of agony echoed across the sky.
Bloodwind, Supreme and Typhoon were flying north through the Yukon when they stopped after hearing the roar. A group of thirty-five S rank terrorists had just destroyed the Chicago hero academy. The 3 of them were currently chasing a group of 18 that had escaped the local heroes and fled.
Bloodwind gazed out to the west with a worried look on her face. Supreme looked over at Typhoon. ('Might as well do it now while we've got her alone. It'll be a lot harder when she's not distracted.')
Typhoon got a dejected look on his face. ('Yeah, you're right. It's too bad it had to come to this. She's too strong for us to take the chance of her finding out. There's no way she would have agreed to the terms the bank gave us.')
('Obviously. We're inciting a world war to weaken the rest of the planet so they can be captured as slaves. It'll keep the US protected when the trial takers arrive. That's all that really matters.')
Then Supreme rushed Bloodwind shoving his hand through her back and out her left chest destroying her heart. Bloodwind looked down at Supreme's blood covered hand in shock.
His hand and arm erupted with electricity and Bloodwinds body turned to ashes as the pillar of lightning engulfed their bodies.
Supreme looked over at Typhoon. ('Time to go kill some scapegoats. Just remember. She got ahead of us and was ambushed.')
Typhoon nodded then took off after the still fleeing terrorists followed by Supreme.
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Back on the island of Hawaii.
Vector let go of the prince's neck. Prince Long fell back into the sand. His body was covered in burn marks and twitching uncontrollably while his robes were destroyed above the waist. Vector looked at him again.
'I can't really be mad at the guy. He's just trying to save lives. What about humans though?'
('What about the humans? What were you planning for them?')
The prince raised his head with a look of panic on his face. ('I can promise senior I had no intent of stealing slaves from the backing of the trial takers. My only goal was the spirit beast population.')
Kai's eyebrows rose as an idea formed in his head. 'Think…think…think. Alien Invasion in 90 days… Wait. Telepathic intelligent spirit beasts and dragons that can take human form. He didn't even question the fact I was human. Damn it! Why of all the fantasy crap in this world? Why cultivators?'
('You may rise. I will give face to your clan. I will let this go just make sure you're gone before the trial starts')
The prince slowly stood up keeping his head bowed in respect. ('Thank you for your benevolence senior')
Vector looked at the 22nd prince of the Long clan when another idea stuck him. 'Wait. This guy is some sort of royalty. He's probably got resources on him. He might have better energy stones than we have here on earth…'
('Young prince… Do you perhaps have some higher tier energy stones on you? This planet's resources are abysmal…')
Prince Long's eyebrow twitched. ('Haha. Of course senior. Here take these 5 divine tier spirit crystals as a gift.')
He then reached toward the bracelet on his left wrist as 5 different colored crystals the size of a fist appeared floating above his outstretched right palm.
Kai barely kept himself composed as he took them. ('Good… Good this is an adequate show of your sincerity.')
He then looked at the crystals examining them with a serious look on his face. From what he could sense they were full of different elemental cosmic energy. A lightning one, a wind one, a metal one, a light one, and another that was a dark blue shade which seemed to slightly warp the space around it.
'Is that space energy? I don't care what you say. That's gotta be rare… These things are packed with super dense cosmic energy on top of that. If I hand some out maybe we can get strong enough to stop the trial takers.'
('Very well Prince Long. I will take my leave. Tell the local spirit beasts not to invade the human territories till the trial is complete. It will lessen their casualties that way.')
The prince bowed again. ('Yes of course senior')
Vector then disappeared from the 3 beasts sight leaving only a small surge of electrical arcs where he was previously standing.
The prince looked at the other two spirit beasts ('NOT A WORD OF THIS SPREADS OR YOUR CLANS WILL ALL BECOME WAR SLAVES!!! AM I UNDERSTOOD?!?')
They both responded ('YES PRINCE LONG!').
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Above Saint City.
Justice held his head. To him it felt like he had been punched in the head repeatedly. Everyone else on the coast was currently collapsed in the water or on the ground.
Kai appeared in front of him. Justice jumped back. "Dude what the F**K!!! You call that a ruckus?"
Vector held out a golden slightly luminescent crystal the size of a fist. ('I got good news and bad news. Which do you want first?')
Justice's eyebrows scrunched together. ('What's the good news?')
Vector tossed the crystal to him. ('The dragon I saw is some sort of alien cultivator royalty.')
Justice's eyes bulged. "HOW IS THAT GOOD NEWS!?"
('He's gonna be gone in less than 90 days and he's making sure all the beasts behave till after he's gone. He's only here to take away the intelligent spirit beasts on earth before the trial takers show up. He also gave me some of these divine grade spirit energy crystals. So we can totally use them to power up and get stronger.')
Justice looked at the crystal sending his senses inside only to blink repeatedly in amazement. "HOW IN THE???" ('This thing is like solidified light energy. It's gotta contain as much light energy as a star… wait. Trial takers? What trial takers?')
('Yeah… guess it's time for the bad news… Well it's like this. We're gonna get invaded by cultivator aliens in like 90 days. Since I'm pretty sure the dragon is a teenager and S rank; the aliens will probably be at least that strong.')
Justice's body went stiff. "WHY DIDN'T YOU START WITH THAT?!?"
('Well you asked for the good news.')
"..."
"..."
Justice sighed. ('Dude we really gotta work on how you prioritize info…')
Vector raised his index finger. ('Oh, they are coming here to take slaves and possibly mine for energy stones.')
Justice's expression sunk. ('Seriously…')
('Seriously... I'll message grandma and my masters. You message your grandpa. They'll know what needs to get done to prepare. I gotta get back up north before they notice I'm gone.')
Then Vector disappeared.
Justice stood there floating in midair lost in thought for a moment. He then got on his holo-device and messaged everyone in the Circle in a group message.
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Justice Sept 7th
We are getting invaded by aliens at least as strong as S ranks in 90 days. I wish this was a joke but it's not…
Supreme Sept 7th
How did you find out? We need to talk. Don't talk to anyone except us about this. I'll talk to you when you get back to school.
Blockbuster Sept 7th
It's better that he knows.
Rampage Sept 7th
…
Supreme Sept 7th
I'll break the news to Kai.
Justice Sept 7th
He's the one that told me.
Supreme Sept 7th
I still need to talk to him. Make sure he doesn't spread the news about the aliens. Ok John?
Justice Sept 7th
Ok. I will.
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On an ATC flying over Colorado
Sunday, Sept. 11th, 19:00(PST)
Vector and Justice had already had another talk concerning the upcoming invasion. Kai had agreed to not tell anyone else till they talked to Supreme. He had messaged 3 people about it. His masters Rajin and Fujin as well as his grandma. He couldn't get a response from his grandma at all no matter how much he blew up her device. Raijin and Fujin told him to be careful and to go there if he was in danger. He assumed the Circle were all maintaining radio silence.
Before they boarded the aircraft, Blockbuster had said that she had to meet up to discuss things with the rest of the Circle. Then she flew off.
Given the gravity of the situation; he decided to just wait till after the field trip to talk to his grandmother once he and Justice had their talk.
As the ATC crossed the Rocky Mountains, Vector tossed Matt the metal spirit energy crystal while holding his index finger to his lips. ('Absorb this as fast as you can when we get back. Don't ask where I got it from. Ok?')
Matt's eyes widened as he held the crystal in his hand for a moment before shoving it in his backpack. ('Holy s**t! Is this thing even still considered an energy crystal?')
('It's something called a divine spiritual energy crystal')
('Vector… Please tell me that this didn't come from that dragon. This never ends well in novels.')
('...')
('Please tell me you at least didn't kill the dragon. If novels have taught me anything there's always a bigger dragon.')
('Oh, not to worry, it was a gift.')
('So it was a friendly dragon? That seems off for some reason… Well I guess you can't always go by what's in a fantasy novel… Wait a sec… So did it mention anything about starfields?')
('No… it mentioned a Tor region and a cosmic sea though.')
('So it's a dragon from space. That is so… Horrible!!! THAT MEANS THERE'S PROBABLY CULTIVATORS IN SPACE TOO! Dude I hope they just don't notice us. Maybe they won't even notice our planet because it's so small.')
Matt was sweating profusely as the thought of cultivators from the online novels he had read that were strong enough to be in space came to mind.
Vector scratched his head. ('Yeah maybe they won't notice us…')
Matt suddenly looked into Vector and Justice's eyes. ('Guys we have to get stronger. Like now. If dragons are showing up, cultivators are next. We are frogs in a well. We are so screwed…')
Justice looked at Matt's worried face. ('Dude, don't panic, just absorb the energy out of that stone as soon as you can. It'll be alright.')
Matt looked at Justice. ('You know something…')
He then looked at Vector who turned his head to look out the window. ('You both know something... F**K THEY'RE ALREADY ON THEIR WAY! We are so dead…')
Vector looked back at Matt. ('Dude… chill. It'll be ok. Just absorb the crystal's energy and get stronger.')
A smile slowly grew on Matt's face. ('Of course… In the novels they always send the younger generation. If we can get strong enough and not offend them we might survive. Hell, we might even get into a space sect.')
Vector looked at Matt for a moment. ('Yes exactly…') 'Where does he get this stuff… Oh, right eastern fantasy novels. The same place I… We are so screwed...'