Sorcery 'Battles'

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Disclaimer - (Cause fanfiction is tricky ground and I hope not to offend the creator of the original story and get sued)

This is a fanfiction, a work of fiction. It is an unofficial, non-canon alternate story based on Riichiro Inagaki's story "Dr. Stone". Most of the media - such as the images and video's used in this fanfiction - are from the web. Thus, most of them aren't mine (because I really, really can't draw) unless mentioned. To fit the story, images are also edited by the photo editor. So they aren't mine, just edited.

Have you ever written something from the back of your head, and then realize oh sh** these were someone else's words. Yeah, that just happened to me, my disclaimer no less. Anyway, like 40% of this disclaimer belongs to KairuSui from quotev

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P.s. I also ask that you do not copy my work and publish it onto any other website (I jump around on a lot of fanfiction websites...) If you're gonna use my idea, please ask me (I'll 99.99% say yes unless you're super duper rude). If I don't contact you within a week, then just assume I'm giving you the all clear and go for it. Just remember to credit me.

I will be writing out scenes even if my Oc isn't in them. As long as she's mentioned, or influencing the characters in some way. This may seem a bit annoying. But that's just how I write. I like to embed my characters into the story line.

Warnings: Spoilers for episode 7, mild cursing

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Today's Special

Science knows no country because knowledge belongs to humanity,

And is the torch which illuminates the world.

~ Louis Pasteur

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{Third P.O.V.}

"Hey, Chrome, Rika, it's sorcery!" Ginro shouted, as he ran to find the pair in question.

"Quit freaking out, Ginro." Chrome shouts back, walking up to him. "We're already here. We saw these from the coast."

"We found them off and decided to come check them out." Rika added.

"Yeah. We'd be crazy not to come here right away." Chrome said pointing at the bubbles.

He then turned to face the man he didn't recognise. "Hey! I'm Chrome. I'm an insanely smart, genius sorcerer!" pointing his thumb at himself he introduced himself.

"Looks like we won't have to go find him, Senku. This is the man I told you about yesterday. And that's his sister, Rika." Kohaku says.

"A sorcerer, huh?" Senku asks, scratching his ear. "I'm Senku. I'm a scientist."

"You know him, Kohaku?" Rika asks, raising an eyebrow.

"Yep. I just met him yesterday." Kohaku nods.

"And you decided to bring him here? What if he's dangerous?" Rika asks, alarmed.

Kohaku was just about to tell Rika that Senku saved her life, only to get cut off by Chrome shouting at the bridge guards. "Don't let him scare you with his cheap sorcery, Ginro, Kinro."

Chrome then turns his attention back to the bubbles. "You can make plenty of this stuff from coal suds." He says, popping a couple with his fingers.

"They're aren't dangerous either. In fact they're pretty harmless." Rika adds to his explanation. "I used to love playing with them. They're really fun to pop."

Their explanation surprises Senku and catches his attention.

"I wasn't scared." Kinro says. "You're a fool if you aren't cautious of the unknown."

"I was pretty scared." Ginro answers nervously, but honestly.

"Why are you here, Chrome? I have no interest in relying on your dubious, so-called 'sorcery'." Kinro says to Chrome, he then turns his attention to Rika. "Nobody's injured here, so we don't need your help here either Rika."

"I can be wherever I wanna be, whenever I wanna be." says Rika.

"I don't care. Do as you like." Chrome answers, without looking at Kinro. He throws his clock back. Rika catching it before it can land on the ground.

"But this is one thing I'm not backing down on. No one beats me in sorcery." Chrome says, getting fired up. "Don't get in my way, guys." He says, glaring at Senku.

He then adds,"If we fight here, the villagers could get caught up in it. Let's move elsewhere."

"Oh? And where exactly do you purpose we go?" Senku asks, raising an eyebrow.

"Our shed." Rika answers. "It's not too far, yet far away enough not to involve people who don't want to be." It was actually the very reason they had chosen to build their shed there in the first place. That way they wouldn't have to walk far from the village, but at the same time, it would keep their sorcery away from people who didn't want to be involved.

"Lead the way." Senku nods.

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Soon, Rika, Chrome, Senku, Kohaku, Kinro and Ginro are at the shed.

Where Chrome wastes no time in starting a large fire.

Chrome spreads his arms before the fire, being the only one to stand on one side of it, opposed to everyone else standing on the other side. His face shifts into a focused, menacing one. Scarring Ginro.

The blond starts sweating buckets as he thinks, 'A sorcery battle? What are they going to do? They aren't going to burn everything to a crisp, are they?! Stop it! Nothing dangerous! Don't get us caught up in it! Not even Rika can do anything if where burnt to ash!

Chrome starts laughing creepy, only for Senku to squat down in front of him. "Check out my badass sorcery!

"Rainbow Bridge! I am the master of flames!" He shouted as he threw a powder into the flames.

"The fire turned yellow!" Ginro shouted. "How?!"

As Chrome threw other various powders into the flame, the flame changed it's colour again..

A blue powder turned the flames greenish-blue.

"It changed again! To a greenish-blue?" Ginro asks, moving even closer to his brother.

"Of course it will. It is called the Rainbow Bridge." says Rika.

Chrome then threw in the final powder, changing the flame to a bright dark purple. It also caused the flame to rise high into the air.

"Purple?!" Ginro shouted, moving backwards from the flame a little. "Amazing. This is..."

"...sorcery." Kohaku finished.

Rika turned her attention from her flames to the man who was sitting on the ground near the flames the entire time. Never moving. He had an unimpressed look on his face, only sweating a little from his proximity to the fire.

"Rainbow Bridge, my ass. It's just a flame test reaction. You just threw salt, copper, and sulfur on it in that order. What's the copper? Copper sulfate or something? I guess that doesn't help. It's the blue crystals you picked up in the caves, isn't it?" asked Senku.

'Oh, shit!' Chrome thought. 'How the hell does he know about the blue crystal?! The only person I ever tell is Rika! Wait! What if he's reading my mind? Is he reading my mind? Is that his sorcery? Oh, shit! Th-That's a thing? Damn, nature, you're scary!'

What he had expected to happen, and what had happened were two completely different things. What he expected Senku to do once he saw his Rainbow Bridge was to jump up scared and run away crying, all the well shouting, "Oh, no, I'm scared! I'm running away!" or another scenario that played out in his mind was for Senku to strip naked and apologize to him, saying, "I'm defeated. Please make me your apprentice."

'I thought his reaction would be one or the other, but oh, man!' Chrome thought.

'He knew about the blue crystals? That's unexpected. Who is he?' Rika thought.

Seeing everyone looking at him, especially Kohaku with her intense gaze, Chrome unwilling to admit defeat, made a cocky face and said "You'd better not be thinking that these cheap tricks are the only sorcery I've got."

Rika sighed as she thought. 'Chrome. Why on earth would you call them cheap? You're just undermining yourself. Just saying that it's not all you've got would have been enough.'

"I didn't say anything." Kohaku says bluntly.

"Just wait right there!" Chrome yells, he then turns around and runs up to his shed. Slamming the door shut behind him. "I'm gonna show you something that can actually be weaponized. This one's legit, trust me." He shouts from inside the shed.

"He went to get something." says Ginro.

"Is that why he wanted to relocate?" Kinro asks.

"So he needed his tools." Kohaku observes.

Rika nods. "Yep. Another is that the village chief doesn't like him messing around near the village."

Soon Chrome comes back outside. This time he's holding a medium sized dark brown ball. He then starts rubbing it furiously from different angles in front of them.

In only a few moments, he's huffing and puffing. He slowly makes his way towards Ginro. Pointing a finger close to his nose, he shocks him.

"Ouch!" The blond cries out. "What was that attack?!"

Rika turns her gaze to Senku, who gets up for the first time. He quickly makes his way to Chrome and nabs the ball.

"A ball of sulfur, huh?" He asks, observing it. "You put that sulfur you threw on that fire earlier into a pot and melt it down with heat. Once it cools and hardens, you crack the outer layer, and you're done. That's a crazy way to make one of these things. A sulfur ball static generator. It's supposed to be a 17th century invention. You're exhilarating, Chrome, you know that?"

'He's good. He figured out how Chrome made it with just one glance. But I wonder what's all the other stuff he mentioned after.' Rika thought.

Senku then undoes the leather attached to the stick he used to support his neck. And wraps the ball in the leather. "Rubbing it with leather instead of your hands will give you ten billion times more power. This is my flag of science." The furiously rubs the ball, causing his hair to stand up. Senku then touches Chrome, shocking him.

"Oh, crap!" He shouts.

"Chrome!" Risk shouts, worried that he's in pain. "Let him go!"

"Relax. It doesn't hurt that much." Senku says, without looking back.

"His head's all spiky!" Ginro says, amazed.

"It was split before, though." Says Kohaku "How does that work?"

"Yeah. I've never seen a reaction that strong before." Rika nods.

Senku smirks, and tosses the ball at the three of them. The second it touches them, it causes their hair to stand up.

"Hey, give it back!" Chrome shouts, longing for the ball. Only for Kohaku to move it before he can grab it.

"What is this, a kid's science experiment class?" Senku asks, crossing his arms. "Such primitive..." he then trails off as his gaze goes to the shed.

"Chrome, did you think all this up by yourself in this primitive village?" He asks. "You gathered all these potentially useful minerals and scientific materials in that shed by yourself?"

"Not really. Rika helps out a lot. Most of the herbs were gathered by her. But it's just us." Chrome answers. "That a problem? Kids collect everything. They smash things together, mix them, burn them... and if something crazy happens, that's sorcery. What else could it be?"

Senku smirks at them over his shoulder and then starts chuckling. 'Check it out, Tsukasa. Even if you kill me, even if you kill anyone, even if you reset science... there'll always be idiots who'll try anything, and the shiny monkeys will inevitably create a technological civilization.'

Senku turns around and walks toward Chrome. Putting his face close to the brown haired boys, he says,"Chrome," lifting his gaze, he meets Rika's, "and you to Rika, the way things are going, your ten billion percent one of the people Tsukasa is going to kill. Your only choice is to join our kingdom of science."

'Tsukasa? Who the hell is that? Is he dangerous?' Rika thinks.

Chrome's thoughts are also on a similar course to his sister's. 'Tsukasa? What are you talking about?'

Meanwhile, Senku climbs up to the entrance of the shed. All the whole cackling, "I'd love to have you and this entire shed of science in our kingdom."

"You're not getting it, jerk! Get down!"

"Who said you could go in there!"

Chrome and Rika shout at the same time.

'Dam it, I look stupid. I can't back down now.' Chrome thinks.

"I challenge you to one last fight, then." Chrome shouts up at him. "It's a duel! If you lose, you'll forget and leave the village for good. If you win, I'll give you everything, shed and all. I'll even throw Rika into the deal."

"Challenge?" Senku repeats.

"What?!" Rika asks, surprised. "Don't bring me into this. I'm the village's only medic. I can't leave."

"Medic?" Senku asks, smirking. "All right. I accept this challenge."

"I'll show you some insane sorcery. I've never lost in my whole life. Arithmetic" Says Chrome confidently. Not realizing he was way out of his league. "Fight me in a battle of numbers!"

"I'm pretty sure Senku is going to go undefeated." Kohaku says in the background.

And exactly as Kohaku has predicted, Senku won in an overwhelming amount.

Shed of Science and the siblings, Chrome and Rika, acquired!!

"There goes 15 years of my life, and the rest to follow." Rika sighs.

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