Chapter 15:Growth and Love

Nine years have passed by and now all the kids are in their teenage years.It was morning time and all the kids were in the house resting,except for Cloud who was walking out the front door.Edward saw Cloud walking out of the house so he got up off the couch and confronted him.

"Where do you think your going?"Edward said in a calm tone.Cloud turned around and looked at him.

"Me and Polaris were going to train for a little bit.Than I was going to go hang out with Violet.Is hat okay?"Cloud said with a cranky tone.Edward sighed as he walked closer to Cloud.

"Cloud, just make sure you come home early this time.Sometimes you two take things to far with your Super Saiyan abilities and you come home late and injured, not being able to even train with your family."

"Yeah yeah whatever Edward.I'll come home eventually but I need to train with someone that's as strong as me,and no offense to the others but Polaris can also go golden just like me and if I want to get stronger I need a real challenge so if you excuse me I have plans to do today." Cloud said as he walked out of the house slamming the door.Edward sighed again as he sat walked to the dojo to meditate.Just than Snow walked around the corner and looked at Edward with a concerned look on his face.

"Don't listen to him Edward. I don't know what his problem is lately but he's been acting like kind of a jerk lately to everybody in the house."Snow said walking next to Edward and into the dojo.

"It's not Cloud acting like that,it's his Saiyan energy.Saiyans are supposed to be a warrior race so it's no surprise now that Cloud is acting cold hearted a little bit to everybody,especially since he's a teenager now and is at a very rebellious age.So don't take him so seriously."Edward said with a calming look on his face.Snow stayed quiet as she walked into the dojo with Edward at her side.Just than Ellie walked in right behind them.

"Man! That was a good nap! I feel super refreshed now!"Ellie said as she stretched into the dojo."Good morning guys, you sure are early."

"Yeah.I though maybe I could practice my waterbending a little bit early.Do you wanna spar with me Ellie?"

"Yeah sure!"Ellie said stretching her body

"We'll be back Edward!"Ellie and Snow said as they changed from their pajamas and into their casual outfits.Snow and Ellie walked out of the dojo and into the backyard where they got into their fighting positions.They both nodded their heads and they rushed eachother.

SNOW LANDED A PUNCH TO ELLIE'S FACE MAKING HER LOSE HER BALANCE.SNOW FOLLOWED UP HER ATTACK WITH HER WATERBENDING POWER,GRABBING WATER FROM A NEAR BY POND IN THE BACKYARD AND CREATING A WATER SHAPED WHIP IN HER HAND.SNOW RUSHED HER AND GRABBED HER WITH THE WHIP, TOSSING HER IN THE AIR.SNOW SUMMONED MORE WATER AND SHOT THEM TOWARDS ELLIE'S DIRECTION.ELLIE REGAINED HER ENERGY AND COUNTERED THE ATTACK WITH A SPECIAL ATTACK OF HER OWN.

"FIRE ROAR!"ELLIE SCREAMED AS SHE SHOT A GIANT FLAME OUT OF HER MOUTH DOWN TOWARDS SNOW.SNOW PUT HER ARMS UP IN FRONT OF HER FACE TO TRY AND DODGE THE ATTACK HOWEVER ELLIE RUSHED DOWN TOWARDS SNOW FACE AND AXE KICKED HERARMS MAKING HER STUMBLE DOWN AND GET HIT BY THE FLAMES.ELLIE BACKED UP AND PUT HER HANDS IN FRONT OF HER AND SCREAMED ANOTHER ATTACK. "FIRE BULLETS!" ELLIE SCREAMED AS SHE MOTIONED FIRE AROUND HER BODY AND SHOT THEM AT SNOW WHO WAS ON THE GROUND.SNOW GOT UP AND CONTROLLED THE WATER TO PROTECT HER, FORMING A DOME OF WATER AROUND HER.THE FIREBALLS TOUCHED THE WATER AND IT AUTOMATICALLY EVAPORATED.SNOW MOVED THE WATER AROUND HER AND SHOT IT BACK TOWARDS ELLIE.ELLIE PUT HER ARMS UP ABOUT TO DODGE BUT SNOW MOTIONED THE WATER TO GO UP,MAKING ELLIE GET TRAPPED IN A DOME OF WATER WHERE SHE THAN FROZE THE WATER TRAPPING ELLIE IN AN ICE DOME.ELLIE STRUGGLED TO MOVE BUT THAN HER HAND STARTED TO GLOW AS SHE STARTED TO MELT THE ICE BY MAKING HER HANDS VIBRATE.BUT ONCE THE ICE MELTED AND ELLIE WAS FREE,SNOW RUSHED HER AND GRABBED HER WITH HER WATER WHIP,HOWEVER ELLIE KNEW THAT SNOW WAS GONNA DO JUST THAT SO ELLIE LEANED BACK AT KICKED SNOW IN THE STOMACH CONTROLLING HER FLAMES TO MOVE TO HER FEET.SNOW STUMBLED BACK AND COUGHED A LITTLE BIT.ELLIE CONTROLLED AND SHOT MORE FLAMES AT SNOW BUT WAS CUT IN HALF WITH SNOW'S WATER WHIP.ELLIE RUSHED SNOW TO FINISH HER OFF BUT SNOW LAST SECOND DODGED THE ATTACK AND HIT ELLIE IN THE STOMACH WHILE SHE WAS CONTROLLING THE WATER,BUT ELLIE DIDN'T GO DOWN ALONE AS SHE USED HER FIRE ROAR MOVE ON SNOW LAST SECOND,MAKING HER FALL ON THE FLOOR.BOTH GIRLS COLLAPSED ON THE FLOOR,OUT OF BREATH FROM THE FIGHT.ELLIE LOOKED UP AT SNOW FROM OFF THE GROUND AND SMILED

"Well, that was a good sparring match."Ellie said

"Yeah, it was.Let's take a break."Snow replied out of breath.Just than Arno,Viper,Nexo,and Dawn walked into the dojo with tired expressions on their faces.Arno yawned and looked at the backyard which was both on fire and moist from all the attacks Ellie and Snow traded at eachother.Arno and Dawn panicked a little bit and rushed towards the fires to put them out while Viper and Nexo just stood and looked at Ellie and Snow.

"Maannnnn.You guys look busted."Viper said laughing.

"Oh yeah! How about you and me go at it right now! I'll show you who's busted! Ellie said as she jumped up and put a fist in front of her face.

"Calm down over there human torch, or you'll burn yourself out!"Viper said continuing to laugh

"Oh yeah?Just like how you failed to make popcorn in the microwave and started a fire just the other week there lizard breath?!"

"That was not my fault! The bag said leave there for three minutes and forty five seconds and I just so happened to leave it for a few seconds, big whoop! That's false advertisement!"

"Or maybe your just to stupid to use a microwave there booger hair!"

"Grrr, That's it! You and me one on one now!"

"Fine let's go!"Ellie and Viper said bumping heads with a cartoony expression on their faces.Nexo laughed at Ellie and Viper's bickering as he walked over to Snow lifting her up from the ground.

"You okay there Snow?"

"Yeah i'm fine.I just got to learn how to master my waterbending a little bit more and less on all my physical attacks."

"No offense but you guys are super loud with your bending magic's.All we heard from the rooms were the sound of water being tossed and fire being ignited."Nexo said with a smirk on his face.

"Yeah well when your training that stuff happened Nexo!"Ellie said pulling on Viper's hair.Nexo smirked and sat down on the wooden staircase that leads to the training area.Arno and Dawn blew out the last flame and had a sigh of relief.

"You guys seriously didn't notice those huge flames in the backyard!"Viper said with a cartoony facial expression.Nobody payed attention as they were doing there own thing at the moment.Arno sighed again as he saw Dawn who was knocked out on the floor with a cartoony expression on her face as well.Arno than looked around and smirked as he saw everyone doing the same thing they've been doing for a years now, such as Viper and Ellie having funny arguments while Nexo and Snow laugh at the arguments itself.Just than Amber walked out of her room and towards the entrance of the backyard with her lightning aura activated.Amber stood at the entrance of the backyard and formed a gun shape with her fingers,

"LIGHTNING GUN!"Amber screamed as she shot lightning out of her finger tips,electrocuting both Viper and Ellie. "Man, you guys are so loud! Waking me up with your arguing again!"Amber said with both her eyes barely opened. Ellie and Viper layed down on the ground looking like baked potatoes from the electric shock.Everyone laughed as they saw Viper and Ellie burnt out on the floor.

"Well,looks like everyone's up!"Dawn said standing up now.

"Almost everyone at least.Tony's probably in the room still sleeping.He hasn't been looking that good lately,like he's holding something back."Nexo said

"Give him a break,it's probably not easy being a ghoul and having to live with the other HUMAN kids."Amber said sitting down next to Nexo.

"And than there's Cloud."

"Uhh, don't remind me.He's been acting up lately and it's starting to get annoying yuh know?He barely even spends time with us anymore."Viper said as he sat up with his legs crossed.

"Edward told me this morning,it's not technically Cloud that keeps acting up like that.It's his Saiyan energy that's in a way taking over him and turning into a jerk" Snow said pouting.

"Still, what even is Saiyan energy? Both him and Polaris have it and yet Cloud is the only one that acts like a jerk."Viper said pouting as well.

"Maybe it's because Cloud is a little bit stronger than Polaris so it hits him harder?"Ellie said sitting up now as well.All the kids shrugged and stood up again.

"Well forget about those two, anyone wanna train? I'm up for a little challenge now that we're all up."Viper said with a excited smile on his face.All the kids looked at eachother and smiled exceot for Amber who was still thinking about Tony.Nexo elbowed her arm and whispered in her ear.

"I know your thinking about him."Nexo said with a slight grin on his face.Amber's face lit up like a tomato as she whispered back, "I have know Idea what your talking about".Nexo rolled his eyes at her. "If you want, when we're done sparring I can go check on him for you."Nexo said moving his eyebrows up and down trying to mock Amber.Amber looked down pouting and nodded her head yes.

"Alrighty than everyone! Let's get started!"Nexo screamed.

"Yeah!"The kids screamed raising there hands up in the air with a clenched fist.

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Meanwhile from Cloud's POV "HAAA" CLOUD SCREAMED AS HE PUNCHED POLARIS IN THE GUT AND HAMMER KICKED HIM DOWN FROM THE SKY.POLARIS REGAINED HIS STAMINA HOWEVER AND PUNCHED CLOUD IN THE FACE BUT CLOUD TOOK THE PUNCH EASILY AND SHOT A KI BLAST AT POLARIS'S STOMACH SENDING HIM FLYING BACKWARDS.POLARIS STARTED BREATHING HARD BUT CLOUD DIDN'T NOTICE,RUSHING HIM AND PUNCHING HIM WITH A BARRAGE OF FISTS.CLOUD THAN LAID HIS FINAL MOVE ON POLARIS."LEGENDS GOLDEN PUSH!" CLOUD SAID AS HE PUSHED POLARIS DOWN,SENDING HIM FALLING DOWN TO THE GROUND WITH A SUPER HIGH AMOUNT OF PRESSURE COMING FROM HIS PALM. POLARIS GETS SENT FLYING DOWN TOWARDS THE GROUND AND SLIGHTLY BREAKS THE EMPTY STAGE WHERE THEY FIRST FOUGHT AT.POLARIS SAT UP WITH HIS LEFT ARM ON THE BACK OF HIS HOUSE AS HE SAW CLOUD GLIDE DOWN FROM THE SKY AND REACH THE GROUND AS WELL." "Damn man! You didn't hold back at all today.Polaris said as he powered down his Super Saiyan form. "Are you okay? You fought as if you were annoyed at something."

"I'm fine.I'm just starting to get annoyed with this power I have! I already mastered how to go golden, and how to activate my flames and yet I feel like I need more of a challenge."Cloud said as he as well powered down his Super Saiyan form.Cloud put his hand out for Polaris to grab it and Polaris did just that,getting lifted up and dusting off his gi.

"Sorry man, I hope I didn't get your clothes dirty in that fight" Cloud said.

"Yeah,the white is a little bit dirty but it's fine.The blue part should be fine though.Your lucky your gi is black and red since you could barely even see the ".Polaris and Cloud walked off the empty stage and started to walk into the town.While Cloud and Polaris started walking into the town Polaris had his hands on the back of his head and staring at Cloud who had a serious expression on his face.Polaris smirked and tapped his shoulder to make a funny face.Cloud stared at him for a little bit and giggled.Polaris stopped making his funny face and smiled with his eyes closed.

"Are you sure your okay man? You've been looking as if you have to much on your mind."Polaris said.Cloud looked forwards as they kept on walking around town.

"Well yeah, I'm upset about the whole needing to get stronger.The thing is, I might be getting a little bit tired of Edward and the others.Don't get me wrong I love them all but sometimes I just want to beat the help out of them sometimes, you know?"

"Well yeah, that's what it feels like to have siblings you know? They might annoy the hell out of you but at the end of the day you still love them.You just got to deal with it until you grow up and have a family of your own."Polaris said.

"Yeah I guess your right."Cloud responded with a pouting face.Just as the boys kept on walking in town,they both ran into Violet who was checking out some sweets through a window.Cloud decided to mess with her and stood close to her and whispering in her ear,"You know you have to actually go in the store to eat those cupcakes right?". Violet jumped and turned to look at Cloud where she now had a huge smile on her face

"Cloud! What are you doing here?"

"Well Polaris and I decided to take a little break from our training real quick and just wanted to take a little walk around town."

"Oh okay.Well, I've just been..um..taking a walk around town to."

"Wooaahhh! Who knew the town was a bakery in a form of cupcakes."Polaris said chuckling.Cloud turned around and giggled silently at Polaris's joke.

"S-shut up! We don't have these back at home and these cupcakes smell so good!"Violet said as she turned back to look at the cupcakes through the glass screen. "Well I think i'm gonna go for now.I got chores to do at home anyway, i'll leave you two lovebirds at it."Polaris said as he jogged away.Violet turned her head to look Cloud with her face blushing a bright red color. "Lovebirds?"Cloud said tilting his head.He looked back at Violet who turned her head back at the cupcakes super fast.Cloud walked towards her and grabbed her shoulder.

"Hey, you want to actually go inside and eat some of those cupcakes? Looks like it's just me and you though I hope that's fine."Cloud said smiling at Violet.

"Um..yeah,s-sure."Violet said as she opened the door to walk inside the bakery with Cloud right behind her.The two sat down and was greeted by a maid who was walking with a tray in her left hand.

"Hello! Thank you for coming into Diana's bakery,may I take your order?"

"You want anything special,Violet?"Cloud asked

"Well, those cupcakes up front looked pretty tasty.May I get one of those please?"

"One Red Velvet cupcake coming up. What about you sir,do you want anything?"The maiden said as she wrote down Violet's order.

"No i'm okay for right now,thank you though."Cloud said smiling as the maid giggled and walked away.Cloud turned back to look at Violet. "So, what's going on with you? It finally feels good to have freedom out in the world right?"

"Yeah! I've seen so much of the world already! Snow took me to the beach and we were able to swim with the whales and dolphins! Dawn and Amber even took me around to see the whole nation with there powers! And the boys took me to a fight club where we saw many professional fighters, there was a lot of blood but it was still so fun to watch!"Violet said raising her arms up and kicking underneath the table.

"That's great Violet! I'm really happy your going out and enjoying your life. But what does your dad think about all of this, I mean he can't be to happy with all this is he?"

"Surprisingly, he hasn't really done anything at all.Ever since that day of the tournament it's like he doesn't care about most of the activities I go out to do,it's almost he's a whole entire different person."

"Maybe me winning that tournament left a mark on him?"

"Cloud..I just have to thank you.You went through a lot of pain on that day just for me.I don't ever know how I can ever repay you,really."Violet said looking down at the table with her hand folded in front of her.Cloud looked at her and wrapped his hand around hers.Violet blushed and looked up at Cloud who was smiling.

"You don't have to thank me,i saw the look on your face when you were being controlled by your dad and I knew that you needed help.Now look at you, running around with a beautiful smile on your face.All that pain I dealt with was all worth it, it also benefited me.If it wasn't for me meeting you than I probably wouldn't have gained my new powers and transformations as well, so if anything I have you to thank."Cloud said.Violet's face was so red she could identify as a tomato.She broke the embaressment by asking Cloud questions about the others."S-so how are the others?I haven't seen Tony in a while."

"Well the others are fine, but I don't know what's been going on with Tony lately.He barely leaves the room anymore and everyone's worried about him but I'm sure he's fine.He's probably just going through some special ghoul phase we don't know about."Cloud said with his face in his hand and his eyes closed.

"Man,it must be tough living as a ghoul out in a world like this.I hope he's okay."Violet said with a concerned look on her face.Just than the maiden walked next to their table and delivered Violet's cupcake.

"Enjoy!"The maiden said as she bowed and walked off.Violet looked at the cupcake and grabbed it with both her hands, taking a bite into the cupcake I a cartoony way and making a mess all over her face."Ahh, it's so good."Violet said savoring the flavor of the delicious cupcake.

Cloud started to giggle as he saw the big mess Violet was causing.Cloud grabbed a napkin and wiped her face with a tissue from the table. Violet's face was so red from the blushing she hid her face behind the cupcake.Violet started to think to herself,

"Dang it Cloud, you always do these embarrassing things when your with me! Your always making my face turn red and my heart race a lot, just what is this feeling and why do I only feel this way when I;m around you?" Violet said echoing her thoughts In her mind. Violet shoved the rest of the cupcake in her mouth and began to chew,finishing the cupcake and smiling at Cloud.Violet left the money on the table and walked over to the door with Cloud where the maiden walked over to Cloud and bowed.

"Thank you for coming, please come again!"

"Thank you for your service.Enjoy the rest of your day beautiful."Cloud said as he turned around and walked out the door with Violet who was looking at Cloud with a jealous face.The maiden slightly blushed and giggled as he walked back to go take more orders.Cloud looked at Violet who looked to be angry. "Violet, are you okay? You look upset."Cloud said bending his head towards her.Violet moved her head the opposite direction from Cloud, scoffing at him.Cloud looked at her with a concerned look on his face.Just than he gave an evil smile and picked her up from her legs and flew up into the sky.

"Wooahh! Cloud what are you doing?!"Violet said with her eyes closed.Cloud said nothing as he kept flying upwards, holding Violet closely in his arms.She pulled closer to him and and held tightly to his black and red gi.Suddenly Cloud stopped flying up and was above the clouds where he saw many beautiful stars up in the sky.Cloud looked down at Violet who still had her eyes closed, and said in a calming voice, "Hey it's okay I got you, you can open your eyes". Violet opened her eyes and they started to glisten with the stars themselves.Violet gasped with her mouth open and smiled, "Wooooww! It's so beautiful!" she said.Cloud looked back up at the sky to see the stars and unintentionally flirting with her.

"One day Polaris and I were sparring and we went to high into the sky in our match and we found these beautiful shiny stars in the sky, and they reminded me of you. The shiny stars reminded me of your pretty eyes when they change colors, I just can't stop looking at them just like how I couldn't stop looking at these stars."Cloud had said. Violet pouted and turned her head towards the opposite direction from Cloud's head in a cartoony way.

"Did you tell that to that pretty maid girl from the bakery too?"Violet said in an jealous tone.Cloud looked down at violet with a concerned face.

"No.Why do you ask?".Cloud asked.Violet stayed quiet as she continued to look at the stars and avoiding eye contact with Cloud at the same time. "Also she might be pretty, but unlike her your the only person who could make my heart beat fast."Cloud said looking at Violet still.Violet gasped in shock and turned to Cloud with her eyes wide open in shock from what Cloud had said. "I don't exactly know what these feeling are but they feel good so I don't mind it." Cloud said smiling at her.

"Cloud.."Violet said smiling back at him.

"Now than, let's get back down to the ground now before I accidentally drop you."Cloud said gliding back down onto the floor.Cloud and Violet reached the floor and Cloud put Violet down onto the floor where she stood up and stretched her legs.. "Come on, let's go find some stuff to do!"Cloud said grabbing Violet's hand and running deeper into the town together.

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Meanwhile back at the house.

Tony was in his bed covering his stomach with both his arms.His ghoul eyes were activated and he started to drool. "I...need food...I need meat...I need flesh." Tony got up from the bed, stumbling all around his room and falling onto the floor.Tony's eyes started to tear up as he was struggling to suppress his ghoul appetite in order for him not to be able to attack the other kids In the house.Tony got of the bed and finally walked out of the room, and to the dojo to meet up with the other kids.Tony struggled to walk to the dojo but he struggled to walk while he was on his way, stumbling all over the house.Tony was about to faint but just as he fell to the ground,Edward rushed and caught him in his arms.

"Are you okay Tony?"

"Yeah..I'm just really hungry...coffee isn't helping me out anymore, I need flesh."

Just than Amber came out of the shower and saw Tony on the floor with Edward helping him up from the ground.Amber hid inside the bathroom so nobody could see her in just a towel and eavesdropped on Tony and Edward.

"If it's flesh you need than I will do what I must do for you to eat. Tonight, meet me in the woods and I will bring you... a meal."Edward said as he stood Tony back up. "For nw however, go and play with your family,They've all been worried about you."

"Yeah, I will."Tony said as he regained some of his strength and walked over to the dojo where the kids were now training outside at.Arno and Viper were in the air fighting with their Legend Slayer and Dragon Slayer powers, where just than Viper looked down mid fight and saw Tony who was spectating them fight.Viper smiled viciously just to be struck down by Arno's Tornado kick and sent down to the ground.Viper picked himself up and looked at Tony with his sharp teeth,smiling at Tony.

"Woah guys! Look who's back from the dead".

All the kids turned around and looked at Tony.They all gasped and walked towards Tony,surrounding him and cracking jokes at him.

"So, how was hibernation over there Mr. Vampire?"Dawn said giggling at him.

"Hey man you good? You look like a soggy fish."Nexo said with a concerned look on his face.

"Guys, Guys, Guys, i'm fine. I was just going through a phase or something. I'm feeling better now, so let's get to training."Tony said with a fake smile on his face.Just than Viper walked up to him in a rush and telling him to train with him.

"Come on! Train with me first! I need all the help I can get to get stronger!"

"Okay, than. I won't hold back." Tony said walking into the backyard now in his fighting stance.Viper did exactly the same.

"How long do you think Viper is going to last?"Arno said whispering to Ellie.

"Maybe three minutes, five if he's lucky."Ellie said smirking

JUST THAN TONY ACTIVATED HIS KAGUNE AND RUSHED VIPER WITH ONE OF HIS BLUE TENTACLE SHAPED CLAW. VIPER PUT HIS ARMS OUT IN FRONT OF HIS FACE TO DODGE TONY'S ATTACK, BUT TONY WAS ABLE TO BREAK HIS GUARDS WITH THE TWO OF HIS TENTEACLE CLAWED KAGUNE AND SUMMONED THE FOURTH TENTACLE CLAW WHICH STABBED VIPER IN THE SHOULDER.VIPER GRUNTED IN PAIN AND PUNCHED TONY IN THE GUT,SENDING HIM BACKWARDS.TONY STARTED TO TEAR UP JUST A LITTLE BIT SINCE HE WAS PUNCHED SUPER HARD IN THE STOMACH WHEN HE NEVER ATE ANYHING FOR DAYS NOW. TONY STARTED TO LOSE CONTROL OF HIMSELF AS HE RUSHED TONY WITH EXTREME SPEED, CAUSING VIPER TO LOSE HIS BALANCE.TONY USED ALL FOUR OF HIS TENTACLE SHAPED CLAWS AND STABBED VIPER IN BOTH OF HIS SHOUDERS AND KNEES AND SENDING HIM INTO THE AIR.VIPER STARTED TO SCREAM IN PAIN AS HE WAS IN THE AIR NOT BEING ABLE TO MOVE. THE KIDS WANTED TO STOP THE FIGHT BUT WERE TO SCARED TO INTERVENE SO THEY STOOD BACK, FROZEN AND NOT SURE WHAT TO DO. TONY JUMPED UP SUPER HIGH AND PUNCHED GUT IN THE GUT,MAKING BLOOD COME OUT OF HIS MOUTH.TONY THREW VIPER BACK ONTO THE FLOOR WHERE HE WAS COMPLETELY PARALYZED AND FINALLY ONE OF THE KIDS HAD ENOUGH OF THIS GORY FIGHT.

"TONY STOP!" NEXO SAID AS HE RUSHED OVER TO VIPER'S SIDE AND PUT HIS HAND UP IN ORDER TO PROTECT HIM FORM TONY'S NEXT ATTACK, BUT TONY DIDN'T CARE AS HE RUSHED DOWN AND PUNCHED NEXO IN THE FACE, KNOCKING HIM OUT COLD.TONY STARTED TO DROOL AS HE SAT DOWN ON VIPER'S STOMACH ABOUT TO BITE HIM UNTIL EDWARD CAME OUT OF NOWHERE AND KNOCKED HIM OUT WITH JUST ONE KARATE CHOP TO THE NECK.

"Snow, come here and heal Nexo and Viper please."Edward said as he lifted up Tony and carried him on his shoulder,walking out of the backyard and into the house.The kids rushed to Viper and Nexo's side and sat right next to them.Viper made a joke to try and not make the position awkward.

"So..who wants to fight me next? I could take you."He said coughing up a little bit of blood.The kids sighed at him in relief and smiled a little bit.

Edward put Tony back into the room and let him sleep there for now until he was finally back in control of his ghoul self.Dawn and Arno carried in Nexo and Viper as they walked back inside. "Man, I think that's enough of training for today guys."Snow said as she threw herself onto the living room couch.

"For real. I'm pretty tired, I might got take a shower right now."Ellie said with her hands on the back of her head. "Ladies, let us go hog the showers!"Ellie said as she walked towards the showers humming a lullaby. Dawn and Snow smiled and jogged right behind her, also heading into the showers. Arno watched as the girls leave and walked towards the boy's room where he went to go grab his skateboard and ride around town.

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Hours have gone by now and it was night time now.The kids were done doing their own individual teenage activities such as gossiping and listening to music, and were now on their way to heading to bed except for Cloud who still wasn't home yet as well as Tony who was still awake.

"Goodnight guys!" Snow said as she ran into the girl's room with her arms in back of her.Edward smiled and waved back at her and all the kids were now in their rooms and about to go to sleep.In the boys room, Nexo,Arno, and Viper looked at Tony as if they were afraid of him for a litle bit. Just than Tony got up from his bed and walked in front of Viper.Tony bowed his head down towards him and started to apologize towards him.

"Viper. I'm so sorry about what happened earlier,I didn't mean to lose control of myself and hurt you so badly. You too Nexo, I apologize for hurting you I know you were just trying to help." Nexo and Viper looked at each other than at Tony who was still bowing at them.

"Tony, lift your head up man."Viper said smirking. "It's fine man, we didn't really take it to seriously."

"You forgive me than?"Tony said picking his head back up.

"Only if you promise to start hanging out with all of us again."Nexo said

"It's a deal!"Tony said as he giggled and high fived all of the boys.The boys stayed up a little bit later, just talking and laughing at eachother but eventually they did all fall asleep.Just than Edward came into the boy's room and woke up Tony.Edward motioned Tony to follow him and Tony followed.Edward and Tony walked through the house and walked out through the back, but Amber heard them walking out of the house and followed behind them. Edward and Tony were now deep into the forest where they both saw a random silhouette on the ground with a black sheet right over it.Edward pulled the sheet off and revealed it to be a dead body.Tony looked at Edward with a frightened expression but even so, Tony's stomach started to rumble and his mouth started to drool. Tony didn't want to eat a dead corpse but he couldn't keep on putting the other's lives at risk to his hunger so Tony approached the body and sat on top of it.

"How did you get a dead body? Did you kill someone?"Tony asked Edward

"No, I went to a graveyard and looked at who the most recent death was, so I took the body and kept it here until this time so you could eat it."

Tony gulped as his eyes switched from a normal green color, to a black eyed and red pupiled eye on both of his eyes.Tony took a bite of the body an started to eat the body with tears in his face.Tony took another bite and slowly devoured the dead body with even more tears falling from his face.

"Is something wrong?"

"It's good but it doesn't feel right to eat a dead body that I couldn't end myself.This was some person's close one and now I'm over here eating them, I just don't want this to be my true nature for the rest of my life." Tony said continuously eating the dead corpse

"When you get older and can master your ghoul abilities, than you would not need to worry about that Tony. For now however, we must take this as our only option even though we know that this is not a good deed."Edward said with a serious look on his face. Tony didn't look up at him but he just continued to eat. "I will take my leave now. I must meditate, you can find your way home right?"Edward asked with his index and middle fingers on his forehead. Tony nodded his head and continued to eat, as Edward teleported home but not without looking at Amber who had her hand covering her mouth behind a tree.Amber walked out of her hiding spot and approached Tony.

"So...how does it taste?"

Tony couldn't bring himself to turn around and look at her. "It's fine, but it's not fresh so it just taste like unseasoned chicken. You should go now, I don't want you seeing me like this."He wiped the blood off of his face with his arm.

"Tony..." Amber said as she walked towards him and sat behind him. Amber took off a piece of her shirt so she could expose her shoulder at Tony. She than created a sharp piece of electricity and stabbed her shoulder where fresh blood was being leaked out at. Tony sniffed and turned around to see Amber's fresh bloody shoulder out in the open. He reached his left arm out but with his right arm he held it back. "Stop..I don't want to hurt you. Please, leave." Tony said

"Tony, for a long time now I have had these strong feelings for you. I asked Edward what it was and he said that it's called love. It hurts me to see you suffering so much so please, bite my shoulder." Amber said bending her head. Tony started to drool as he took a deep bite into Amber's shoulder, making blood drip down her shoulder.Amber held back her screams of pain and grabbed Tony's shirt intensely with her left hand. Tony pulled himself away from Amber and took off his shirt to rest it on Amber's bleeding shoulder.Just than the two looked at each other with intense eyes for a brief moment, where they both leaned in and went for a long kiss. Amber tasted the blood on Tony's smooth lips and yet she couldn't move back.Just than the two stopped and rested their foreheads on each other.

"Well today has been a emotional day."Tony said.Amber giggled and smiled at Tony. "Well I think it's time we get back home, i'm kind of full now."

"Yeah, I better get Snow to take care of this too."Amber said putting pressure on her wound.Amber and Tony got up and held hands and walked out of the forest together.

-

Cloud finally got home with Polaris and Violet dropping him off. "Thanks for being available to spar today Polaris, It's fun to push each other to our limits you know?"Cloud said smiling

"No problem dude.Anything for my best friend."Polaris said putting his arm out with his fist clenched.The two fist bumped and smiled at each other. "Later dude".Polaris ran off to go home as well and Cloud stood there at the entrance of his house waving him goodbye.Violet approached Cloud and smiled at him.

"I had a lot of fun today Cloud, thank you ."Violet said stuttering and blushing

"It's no problem really. If you ever want to hand out together again, just me and you than just tell me and i'll be right with you."Cloud said

"Great! Than it's a date next time?"

"A date? I don't know what that really is but yeah sure it's a date."

Violet geeked out in a cartoony way and looked at Cloud. She kissed him on the cheek and walked away waving her hands back a him and him waving back at her. "What a weird girl."Cloud said as he walked back inside of the house just to be greeted in the hallway by Edward.

"Well, well, well. Look who's come home late again."

"Yeah, sorry hehehe. I guess I was out a little longer than I thought ."

"Cloud..I keep telling you to not come home late anymore. Your going to mess your body up and you won't be able to train with a tired body anymore."

Cloud was just about to talk back but just as he was, he saw both Tony and Amber walking into the house from the backyard.

"Why don't you come with me into the backyard and we'll talk about this with a cup of tea."Edward said about to turn around.Cloud grabbed his arm and acted as an distraction for Amber and Tony to move out into their rooms.

"Woah now! I've kind of been outside all day. Why don't we just have tea in the living room instead?"

Just as Cloud kept on talking Tony and Amber reached their rooms where they gave each other a quick kiss and head inside of the rooms. Cloud sighed and turned back to Edward who was giving him a weird look. "Yeah I'm not thirsty anymore so i'm going to sleep. Goodnight." Cloud said walking into the boys room with his hands on the back of his head.Edward sighed and went to go meditate in the dojo part of the house.Cloud closed the door behind him and looked at Tony who was laying down on his bed.

"Dude, what the hell are you doing sneaking out the house. ANd bringing Amber in on it? That's real low bro."Cloud said with his armos crossed by the door.

"It's a long story man, but let's just say Amber and I are going to be having a weird relationship together from now on."

"Whatever you say dude, i'm about to go and crash on that bed now. Night."Cloud said as he fell onto his bed and falling asleep

"Night"Tony said doing the same thing

-

"Snow, wake up."Amber said Snow up.Snow rubbed her eyes and gasped as she saw Amber's shoulder.

"Huh! Amber what the heck happened?"Snow said rubbing her hands and healing Amber's shoulder.

"Well long story short, I confessed to Tony and we ended up kissing today." Snow held back her scream of glee as she heard the news.

"OMG, That's so cute! It's about time too."Snow said smiling at Amber. Amber turned around and giggled with her. "Just than Snow's hands stopped glowing and he was done with her healing. "Okay the healing is done now, your shoulder is back to normal now."

"Thanks Snow!"Amber said as she walked towards her bed and fell asleep.Snow layed back down, pulling the sheets over her and falling asleep.

-

Meanwhile in Darkness's hideout.

Caby walked up to Darkness's throne with a dead body and bowed.

"Apprentice, why have you shown your face here with a mere human corpse."

"My lord, I have been able to successfully track down the man Edward Spear's location".Lord Darkness stood up with a serious expression on his face.

"How did you do such a deed, mortal?"

"With all these years of training, I have been able to use my sensing abilities and it brought me to this corpse you see here. It has the same Legend energy as that man Edward Spear and this bosy has been chewed up by a ghoul.The only ghoul in miles that lives near here is the student of Edwards Spear and now that I have captured his energy, I have tracked down Edward Spear's location.He lives in a town called Brunswick Villa." Darkness gave off and evil laugh.

"AHAHAAHA! WELL DONE MY APPRENTICE!"

"So what will we do now my Lord Darkness?"

"Gather as much dark energy we have saved over the last few years, along with that alien boy. We will gather our resources and attack in a few days."

"Yes, my Lord Darkness."Caby said walking out of the throne room, dragging the dead body with him.Darkness released his dark aura and it was spread all around the continent. "Be prepared Edward Spear, for your days will come to an end, Bwahahaahahaha.

-

Just than Edward gasped and stopped his meditation.He started to breathe hard and had a cold sweat run down his face.

"It can not be! D-Darkness.. has awakened!"