Chapter 3: Atomic Cero
After Nobita gained more friends (though this was one-sided), they ran again. Though Loly and Menoly didn't understand why Nobita kept running, somehow they gained more power just from running - no, not just running, but running with Nobita...
During their journey, Nobita tried fighting with them. Actually, he just stood still while Menoly and Loly couldn't do anything to him. Ulquiorra just watched the fights, rarely interacting with Loly's group, though Nobita would often drag him to listen to his boasting throughout their journey.
At first, they found Nobita's stories annoying, but gradually they began to wish they could experience human life too. Strangely, as Hollows, they felt sad hearing about Nobita's life confined to a hospital bed... He wanted to live like a normal human, but now here he was, still wanting to enjoy this new life. They came to respect his strength...
During their travels, they sensed some spiritual pressure...
"Um... Lord Nobita..." Menoly spoke.
"Told you sixteen times already, just Nobita is fine. That 'Lord' stuff tickles..."
"Um... okay... but this spiritual pressure... it's at your level."
"Yeah, probably. Might be two Vasto Lordes like me, and maybe three Adjuchas."
Now they stood before a cave.
"Knowing that, you still want to go in?" Loly asked.
"Well... meeting new friends is good, right? And judging from their spiritual pressure, they seem friendly."
"You can tell who's friendly from spiritual pressure?" Loly asked.
"Yeah... call it intuition, like how I felt about you guys," Nobita answered straightforwardly.
If Loly and Menoly had human bodies, they would have blushed.
"Oh really..." That's all Loly could say.
"Are we going in then?" Menoly asked.
"No need..." Nobita replied.
Because in a flash, two female Vasto Lordes appeared before them... Both were clearly women, judging from their prominent chests. The first was a woman with a human-like face around her eyes and blonde hair. Her right arm had what looked like a large bone blade
The other was a woman with a goat-like lower body and human-like upper body, with a Hollow face but human eyes like the other. She had mountain goat-like horns on her head and long green hair
"Looks like we have guests," the green-haired woman said.
"State your business," the blonde woman spoke.
"Hi, I'm Nobi Nobita... We're just traveling around training, and I wanted to make friends too. I sensed power around here so I came to visit," Nobita greeted them friendlily.
"Is that so... Well then, nice to meet you. I'm Nelliel Tu Odelschwanck, but you can call me Nel. And this is Tier Harribel. Though she might not seem friendly, she's actually a very good person," Nel smiled broadly and shook hands with Nobita.
And Nobita walked over to shake hands with Tier, completely disregarding whether she was willing or not.
"Hi Tier, nice to meet you," Nobita smiled broadly, though it wasn't visible behind his constantly grinning Hollow mask. Even Tier didn't know how to react to his childlike friendliness.
"Those two, you're looking after them?" Tier turned to look at Loly and Menoly...
"Yeah... they were attacked by Barragon's..." "Barragan's," Menoly corrected. "Right, right, Barragan's followers attacked them, so I helped. I wanted friends, and they wanted to get stronger, so we traveled together. And this friend can't speak, so I don't know his name, but judging from your names, his must be hard to pronounce too. No offense."
Nobita turned to apologize to Ulquiorra, who shook his head to show he didn't mind...
"I see. You're like us then," Tier nodded with closed eyes.
"Similar?... Oh... the Adjuchas inside, you're looking after them too?" Nobita asked.
"Yes," Nel answered. "Seems we both have people to protect and the same enemy... Barragan wants us to serve him, and he looks down on us for being women... Even though Tier and I are Vasto Lordes, Barragan has a larger army, so we're at a disadvantage. That's why we're here..."
"Hmm..." Nobita thought, his long tail swaying. "Then why don't we help? Training Adjuchas together might be better, and your friends inside are women too, right? They could get along with Loly and Menoly."
"Did you ask if we wanted to get along?" Loly complained.
"Come on... being alone in a place like this is lonely..." Nobita gently stroked the centipede Adjuchas's chin.
"Tch... guess we have no choice..." Loly started to soften.
"You don't have a problem with this, right?" Nobita turned to ask Ulquiorra, who had no objections...
"But before that..." Tier spoke, "you must fight me first."
"Huh? Why?"
"If you really want to help, I want to test your abilities first."
"Hmm... no problem... bring it on..."
The other Menos moved away, leaving space for Tier and Nobita to face each other... Tier attacked first, swinging her shark-like blade with her right hand. Nobita blocked it with his tail, which was three times longer than his body....
The impact created a powerful shockwave... While blocking her blade with his tail, Nobita thrust both arms forward to punch Tier, who quickly retreated. But as she backed away, Nobita used Sonido to close in rapidly...
Nobita swung his tail to attack again, which Tier deflected with her blade before using Sonido to retreat once more. She then charged spiritual pressure into her blade and released a yellow Cero, the energy beam that Menos could release.
"Cero," Tier spoke.
Nobita quickly backed away, his dorsal fins beginning to glow blue. Heat radiated from his body, and everyone around could feel the spiritual pressure emanating from him....
"Atomic Cero!!!" Nobita released a blue beam from his mouth toward Tier's Cero....
The difference in power was immense. Tier had to dodge the blue beam, which when it hit the wasteland in the distance... created a massive mushroom cloud explosion.... shocking everyone....
"You know you could have killed me just now," Tier spoke calmly.
"Well, I wasn't aiming to hit you anyway, and that was my first time using Cero too. Sorry, sorry," Nobita apologized while scratching his head.
Tier sighed, understanding now that while the Hollow before her was powerful, he still had a child-like personality.
"Lady Harribel!!!" A woman's voice called from inside the cave.
When Nobita turned, he saw three Adjuchas with different forms - a deer, a lion, and a giant snake.
"Hey you... what did you do to Lady Harribel?!!!" The deer Adjuchas shouted, though her legs were shaking from fear of Nobita's spiritual pressure.
"Y-you say that, but your legs are shaking, Apache," the lion Adjuchas said.
"Shut up, Mila Rose... I'm not scared..."
"That's enough, both of you. Clearly they were just sparring," the snake Adjuchas spoke coolly, though she too was secretly afraid of Nobita's power.
"Oh... sorry for scaring you."
"We're not scared!" Apache protested.
"Well, I apologize anyway... I'm Nobi Nobita.... Um... maybe Tier should explain the rest."
Harribel explained the situation, making her three followers understand and calm down... Then she approached Nobita...
"Let me introduce Emilou Apacci, Franceska Mila Rose, and Cyan Sung-Sun."
"Yo, even though the names are a bit hard to pronounce, nice to meet you... Sorry for scaring you again... Let's be friends!!" Nobita greeted cheerfully, leaving the three women unsure how to react, as he was a Vasto Lorde who acted even more childish than Nel.... "And... everyone get along okay?"
Nobita pushed Apache's group and Loly's group together.... Though both sides still eyed each other with some suspicion, this was the beginning of a beautiful friendship... These Hollows, who shouldn't have been able to become companions or family to each other, were about to change everything...
And the cause was none other than this Nobi Nobita himself.
To Be Continued
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