Interlude 2.B
Taylor was breathing hard, almost out of it the moment the giant dragon showed itself right on top of Winslow High. She looked up, confused at first but she smiled weakly. She laughed for a split of a second before coughing. Her legs couldn't carry her anymore, and she fell on her ass.
Then, the giant eastern dragon spoke with a booming voice. "Reflect upon your desires mortals. For I shall grant any wish… but only one."
"Dragon." Taylor said. "It's an eternal dragon."
The dragon looked down at her. "State it. What is your wish."
"My wish is-" Taylor began to say, but Sue put her hand on her shoulder and pressed.
"Wait." Sue said. "That dragon grants wishes. Right?"
Taylor nodded. "Yes, he can grant any wish. My senses coming from him are completely different than from my other summons. I can- I can understand him almost as if he's part of myself."
"Did you get that, dad?" Sue said out loud.
Taylor shook her head as she heard Andrew Richter saying, "yes, Sue. Taylor. I know you can hear me, you were going to wish Akane back to life, right?"
Taylor looked up at the dragon. "Shen Long." She said, instinctivly knowing his name. "You can bring back the dead, correct?"
The dragon's eyes shone for a second. "It is a simple matter." He looked left and right, and for a moment he almost looked confused. "However, it appears that in this world the rules that bind me are different from what I am used to." He leveled his gaze at Taylor and nodded. "I can grant any wish you ask. State it. If not, I can leave now."
"Wait, one second!" Sue exclaimed.
Andrew nodded to himself. "Ok. He can bring back anyone. Asking for everyone killed by Ouroboros could be a better idea. But… I have something bigger in mind."
Taylor tsked, she didn't want to waste time by talking. If the dragon decided they didn't have a wish, he would leave and be scattered across the Earth. She didn't want to waste months or even years searching for the dragon shards.
Then, Andrew told her his wording for the wish. She nodded, and grinned at the idea. "You sure it's smart?"
"I don't know if it's smart. But it is just." Andrew said.
Taylor nodded and looked up at the dragon. "Shen Long!" She exclaimed. "I have my wish!"
"State it!"
Taylor breathed in before shouting, "I want every good person who died, got frozen, petrified, or trapped in a time loop, by the monster snake, an Endbringer, or an evil parahuman to be restored. Their life should continue as it was before it was violently taken from them!"
The Dragon seemed to consider the wish. "That is 30 years of dead people. Are you certain you really wish for this?"
"YES!"
"Easily done." The dragon said, and with that, millions of lights started appearing around the world. Each one becoming a person who had died up to thirty years before, when the first parahuman appeared.
Blood flowed back to Akane's mouth. The snake's sharp fang swiftly removed itself from her shoulder, and then, the life went back to Akane's face. She breathed in, almost like she had been drowning a moment before.
The giant dragon seemed to smile at Taylor. "Your wish is granted. Fare you well." The dragon vanished, and its place, seven shiny spheres appeared. They danced in a circle for a moment and then, they all rocketed to different corners of the Earth.
The sky cleared itself, almost like it the dark clouds had never been there. Similarly, everyone who had been killed by the giant snake was alive again, almost as if they had never faced it, along with thirty years worth of victims to evil parahumans.
Taylor smiled at Akane, and hugged her. Akane looked startled at first, but hugged back.
Sue smiled from the background.
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"I can't believe it." Legend said, looking at the person that had suddenly appeared in the meeting room. "You- you are-"
The armored man in front of him took off his helmet and smiled at him. "Still not gay."
Legend's eyes widened when the other man smile grew into a grin. When Legend didn't say anything else, the other hero frowned. "What's wrong?"
Alexandria narrowed her eyes at the man. "Who are you?"
The man blinked and scratched the back of his neck. "Seriously? It's me, Hero."
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Glaistig Uaine had her eyes closed, floating mid-air, meditating. All of a sudden, she felt something disturbing the entire world. A Dragon God summoned to a world he didn't belong.
The shadow that had been keeping her floating vanished, and she fell face-first to the floor. She growled under her breath. "What is- what-"
Many of her carefully collected powers over the years… they were just gone.
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"Door, 54° South, 70° West" Contessa said, and stepping into the portal led her to the position of one of the seven shards that allowed the summoning of the wish-giving dragon.
The fedora-clad woman bent over and picked it up. And looked it over. For a moment she wondered how something so small could change the world in such a manner. The orange-sized rock didn't feel special, but-
She checked the steps to complete her current goal, and nodded to herself. The dragon could do what she needed. It really was game-changer. She just had to be patient, and wait one year to get what she needed.
"Six more to go." She closed her eyes, letting her power take over to lead her to the next position.
"Door, 43° North, 128° East." Another step, and another dragon shard down.
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Later, a man with green skin showed up in Earth Bet. He narrowed his eyes, looking around. Everything felt different from what he remembered. For a moment he wondered about the walls that surrounded the place he had appeared in.
"What?" He frowned. "Where's that coward of a dragon- don't tell he can-" He growled under his breath. "It sent me away?"
He looked up and slowly floated to get a better view of the town he had shown up at. Everything looked strange, like it wasn't natural.
He moved forwards, examining the place. Birds with reptile-like features flew at him. He didn't mind.
When the birds reached him, they started trying to peck at him. A simple backhanded slap produced a great gust of wind that sent the strange bird creatures to the ground, breaking them into tiny pieces.
That's when he noticed something else. Lizard people silently stared at him from the ground. None of them appeared to have any real emotion in them.
He examined them for a moment and snorted. He opened his mouth, and started muttering under his breath. "Poko-pen… poko-pen… dah-leh-ga… tsu-tsui-ta… poko-pen… dah-leh-ga… tsu-tsui-ta…"
His mouth twisted and grew, alowing him to spit an enormous egg. It was covered in a green fluid. The egg landed by the lizard people, and they all turned to watch it intently.
"Raise my son, raise Bongo!"
All of the lizard people backed away as the egg started shaking and a hand broke it from the inside. Another followed, and a snake-like face appeared from the inside. The figure rose and bowed to the flying green man.
"Excelent, Bongo. Now, kill everyone here. Don't leave anyone alive."
"Yes, master." The figure said, and extended two bat-like wings.
The green man laughed as his creation extended his arms throwing bolts of lighting at the lizard-men, electrocuting them all. "Yes, yes! This pathetic world is about to learn who the Great Demon King Piccolo is!"