Yep...this is a parody. A parody that I have collaborated with Donjusticia today. A parody that involves hooking Zarc and Ray up in a super awesome (and hilarious) date...with overprotective side characters.
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ACK, I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE! I AM A FUSEDSHIPPER, YA HEAR ME, LEO?! I'M! A! FUSEDSHIPPER! ZARC X RAY FOREVER, GOT IT?! XD
Also, ignore the really stupid and obvious name of the "restaurant"...that was my idea. XD
Here are Donny's words! :D
Donjusticia (co-author note): Well guys, CorinnetheAnime and I have been wanting to write a fanfic about Zarc and Ray, but we couldn't figure out who should do it. So we came up with a compromise! We would each take turns writing segments of the story 2-4 sentences at a time, until it was done. This was the result. ENJOY!
TITLE: Zarc and Ray's Date: Part 1
A collaborative effort by CorinnetheAnime and Donjusticia
"BRAAAAAAAAAAAAW!" Supreme Dragon King Zarc roared, finally merged with his counterparts after all this time.
"The time has come once again...we are FINALLY ONE!"
"NOT IF I CAN HELP IT!" said Ray, brandishing her Duel Disk as she stared back at the demon duelist.
The black-scaled dragon cackled wildly in return, throwing his head to the sky. "Do you really think you can STOP ME?! I have been reborn again...and this time I'll make sure that your little bracelets are useless against me!"
He started to advance towards her, with Ray summoning the power of the four girly elements, flowers, birdies, romantic moon-light, and fragrant scented candle wind, when the two both suddenly stopped, staring back at one another as they admired each other's dueling skills.
Zarc smirked. "Heh, I'll admit that you're persistent...and certainly have gotten a lot stronger since our last meeting."
"Awww...thanks, Zarcy." Ray smiled, hoping she didn't betray too many of her feelings by using his nickname. "You're pretty strong yourself."
Slightly taken aback by the nickname, Zarc's smile widened, his eyes becoming half-lidded. "Strong enough to beat you this time, Ray."
"Oh?" Ray teased, swinging her hips seductively while her dad, Leo Akaba, looked on in horror, "I'm pretty sure I'd be the one dominating you in any...conflict we have with each other."
Zarc chuckled lowly from this, walking right up to her and reaching over to stroke her cheek. "You think so?"
Ray giggled back at the tall, dark, evil, and handsome demon before whispering to him in a seductive voice. "Careful, Zarcy...you keep attacking me with those dirty words, and I might have to show you my...trap card."
He licked his lips, leaning over to her ear. "Would you really...against me?"
Ray was about to respond when her annoying overprotective father stepped in.
"Stay away from him, Ray!" Leo bellowed, activating his duel disk and flashing it at Zarc, making him step backwards with a hiss in his voice.
"But dad..." Ray protested, angrily putting her hands on her hips, "...we were just talking! It's not like we were doing anything. Zarc's actually a pretty sweet guy when you get to know him."
"No demon is going near any daughter of mine," he replied in a stern tone, stretching an arm to separate Ray from Zarc, who glared venomously at the bald man.
"I think you should let Ray make her own decisions." Zarc growled, his eyes glowing with ominous red light.
"Yeah, I'm not your little girl anymore, I can take care of myself!" Ray added, lowering Leo's arm.
"Last time you made your own choice, you died as a result," Leo interjected. "I lost you once thanks to this devil, so I won't take the risk of losing you again!"
"But daddy, I love him!" Ray wept, throwing herself into the hunky demon dragon overlord's arms while Zarc sneered back at Leo with a "watcha gonna do about it?" look.
Leo was taken aback, but quickly still stood his ground, reaching for Ray's shoulder. "All the MORE reason to keep you away! Plus, HE'S NOT YOUR TYPE!"
Supreme Dragon King Zarc blew the minor Yu-Gi-Oh villain away with a flick of his hand before looking back at Ray, who was smiling sweetly at him for getting rid of her majorly annoying chaperone.
"So...you wanna go out for lunch?" Zarc asked.
With you? Of course," Ray replied in a calm tone, gazing lovingly into his crimson eyes.
"NOT WITHOUT SOME SUPERVISION YOU DON'T, RANDOM PERSON WHO IS 25% MY SISTER!" Shun hollered, appearing behind the two lovebirds from out of nowhere.
Zarc turned to the Raidraptor duelist with an annoyed glare, not happy that his time with Ray was constantly getting interrupted. "Too late for you, then."
Spreading his wings, the demon grabbed Ray into his arms before soaring up into the sky, leaving behind an enraged Shun Kurosaki, shaking his fist at them.
"So which restaurant is catching your fancy?" Zarc purred at Ray, who was riding in his arms while Shun hopelessly tried to catch up with them while riding on the back of his fanfic-original, Raidraptor Supersonic Chaperone Falcon.
"Hmmm..." Ray tapped her chin thoughtfully, looking down at the ground. "How about...over there, the R-Arc cafe?"
"That place that sells stupid vegan food?!" Zarc growled, before noticing Ray stare back at him with bright puppy-dog eyes.
"Good choice." He grumbled, hoping they'd serve something that tasted remotely like meat.
"Yay, you're the best, Zarcy!" She replied joyfully, pecking her lips on his cheek.
"Yes, I know." Zarc agreed before swooping down to the front entrance of the restaurant...before casually blasting Shun and his giant metal birdy away with an energy blast from his hand. For good measure.
"CURSE YOU, ZARC!" Shun bellowed, splashing into the sea.
Zarc ignored the overprotective Raidraptor duelist as he lowered her to the ground gently, Ray thanking him before they entered the restaurant side by side.
Once inside the restaurant, the waitresses, Gloria and Grace Tyler, greeted them, ready to take their orders, Zarc smirking at the twins with a rascally expression on his demonic face, much to Ray's annoyance.
"Zarcy, you promised that you wouldn't flirt with other girls," she huffed, grabbing his attention.
"I wasn't flirting with them!" Zarc protested before Gloria interrupted them.
"So...like...can we take your orders or whatever?"
"Like, totally, can we take your orders right now?" Grace asked. "It's like...totally not easy making a random cameo when the apocalypse is going on with a supreme dragon overlord rampaging around."
Understandable," Ray mumbled as she and her dragon boyfriend took their seats (although, it wasn't exactly easy or comfortable for Zarc, considering his large, black wings covering the entire booth, and his tail wrapping over and around his legs).
"So..." Gloria began, adjusting her apron, "... our special today is like...kale soup with a side of kale, but if you don't want that, you could get our kale pizza with a side of kale fries, kale spaghetti, with a side of kale bread, or the kale lover's salad."
Zarc looked like he was about to vomit, while Ray enthusiastically looked through the menu.
"Um...do you have anything with meat or...some other organism that isn't related to kingdom Plantae?" Zarc grumbled lowly, tapping his clawed fingers on the wooden table.
Ray scowled playfully at him before deciding what she would like.
"We'll share a large Kale Lover's salad." Ray ordered, glad to get rid of the two much-too-attractive-for-their-own-good-waitresses. Once the twins had left, she decided to engage Zarc in a conversation.
"I'm glad we're together like this again...after so many years of being separated, that is," she remarked, reaching over and grabbing Zarc's hand, which had stopped tapping at this point.
Zarc began sweating, wondering how he should respond.
"Say something, you idiot!" He told himself.
"What should I say?" Another part of him protested.
"Say you're glad to be together again too." Starve Venom suggested.
"NO, THAT'S CRAZY!" Zarc snarled. "I CAN'T LET HER THINK I'M NEEDY! Dark Rebellion, you used to be Assembly Nightingale's girlfriend, what do you think I should do!?"
Dark Rebellion replied in his usual rad-dog way. "Yo, just go with your heart, Z-man, and give her a kiss or something! You the boss!"
"Yes! You're right!" Zarc agreed, feeling pumped. "I AM THE BOSS! AND I'M TOTALLY GONNA MAKE OUT WITH THIS MORTAL GIRL UNTIL SHE'S BEGGING FOR MORE! HERE I GO!"
He resolved, leaning in for the touchdown...when suddenly Grace returned, setting a massive bowl of kale salad between the two fused individuals, before Gloria set down two glasses of Kale Lemonade on a pair of felt pads.
"Like, enjoy this totally no-meat, kale-flavored lemonade...that has no lemons or sugar," she declared, before walking out of earshot of Zarc's cursing.
"Yeah…like…enjoy, or whatever." Grace added, winking at Zarc before walking away.
"Thank you!" Ray replied, shooing the waitresses away before smiling at Zarc once they had gone and offering the demonic dragon a forkful of kale.
"Now, open wide, Zarcy!" she instructed, "A growing dragon demon needs a healthy diet!"
"NO!" Zarc internally screamed, "Now what do I do!?"
"Just eat it." Clear Wing suggested."It's not like it's gonna kill you or anything."
"HAVE YOU EVER EATEN KALE!?" Zarc snarled at Clear Wing, "IT TASTES LIKE...!"
Too late, Ray had already shoved the salad into Zarc's open dragon/demon mouth. His mind went blank in that moment when the taste of the plant overwhelmed his senses.
It was horrible.
"It tastes great, doesn't it!?" Ray enthused before taking her own bite of extra leafy salad.
Zarc tried his best to hide how terrible it really tasted to him, so he gave her a half-smile...which looked more like a grimace instead.
He didn't want to lie to her. "Yeah...they're really...ugh...something."
"I know, right!?" Ray agreed, offering another forkful of kale to Zarc.
"Let's...talk." Zarc suggested, setting down Ray's fork before brushing aside the salad bowl.
Alright, then," she replied enthusiastically, "so what's on your mind?"
"Good question." Zarc thought, still trying to get the taste of the kale out of his mind. However, Ray's question did bring to mind Zarc's memories of that day all those eons ago.
It had been a beautiful, romantic, moonlit night. The flowers were blooming, the birds were chirping, and a gentle breeze was blowing.
A NIGHT THAT CONSISTED OF ALL THE THINGS ZARC HATED THE MOST!
But then...she came. She was...the most beautiful creature he had ever seen in his entire life. He didn't really care that they were enemies...though, that was a huge problem.
But love was a funny thing. Even as she was tearing his draconic demon body asunder with his four most hated elements in the universe, Zarc couldn't stop focusing on her gorgeous two-toned hair, her sparkling blue eyes, her luscious hips, her...
"Zarc?" Ray asked abruptly, grabbing his attention. He was unhappily snapped out of his daydream...until he met those same beautiful eyes. He lost his train of thought for a moment.
"Y-...yes?"
"You said we needed to talk?" Ray asked, blinking with confusion. She reminded herself she had to be patient with the dragon/demon/overlord. Talking was not really his strong suit...but she could tell he had something VERY important to tell her.
"Er...yes, yes, I did," he murmured lowly, taking both of her hands into his, much to her surprise (and enjoyment).
It was time to say it. He didn't need his dragons coaching him...least of all, Starve Venom...he could do this on his own.
"Ray...I wanted you to know that I l-...that I l-..." Zarc nearly vomited in his mouth, struggling between the lingering tastes of the kale and saying something that was totally against his destructive nature.
"Yes?" Ray asked.
"I-..." Zarc tried again when he was suddenly interrupted by the sound of two people barging into the restaurant.
"STOP RIGHT THERE, DEMON BOY!" Leo Akaba roared, dripping with sea-water.
"YEAH!" Shun agreed, equally wet. "YOU TWO ARE OFFICIALLY BUSTED!"
Zarc muttered angrily under his breath. "Of all the times to be interrupted..."
"Well, you better bet we're gonna interrupt this little get-together before this gets M-rated!" Shun roared, activating his Duel Disk. "IT'S TIME TO DUEL!"
"Really?" Leo asked, hefting a loaded shot-gun. "I was just gonna shoot him."
"M-rated?!" Ray shouted angrily. "We haven't even kissed yet!"
Zarc crossed his arms, glaring daggers at the overprotective brother and the EVEN MORE overprotective father...well, Ray's father. "Yeah! Plus, if you think that little pea-shooter will work against me, then you're dead wrong."
"I TOLD YOU, dueling him was the only way to settle things!" Shun said, waving his Duel Disk at the professor. "Which is kind of ironic, since you DID live through an apocalypse in which conventional weaponry didn't work against this exact same demon and therefore should have known better."
Zarc rose forcefully from his seat, activating his own duel disk (which looked similar to the duel disks of the United World), Ray following suit. "YOU BOTH had interrupted our special time THREE TIMES today, so I'll make sure that you'll stop butting in!"
"OH, IT IS ON, PERSON WHO IS ONE FOURTH OF MY LITTLE SISTER!" Shun declared, resistance cape epically billowing behind him as the four duelists stared down at each other.
"The ultimate battle between teenage rebellion and parental control...BEGINS!" Leo agreed, an ominous lightning bolt clapping between the opposing forces.
To be continued!
Whoo, and that's the end of...part one! Thanks for working with me on this one, Donjusticia! :D This was mostly (and probably) inspired by the latest "Berserk Party Animal" chapter in his story, "Venom's Quest", which I highly recommend to any Arc-V parody lover (I'm looking at you, Crystal Chimera)! It needs more attention and love, because it is simply an amazing (AND SUPER CRAZY THAT IT HAS TURNED INTO A CROSSOVER WITH MAGIC GIRLS, VAMPIRE YURI, BATMAN YUTO, AND GRAVITY FALLS) story. :3
That aside, read, review, do whatever you want with this story (except plagiarize)! And until next time, this is CTA (and Donjusticia) OUT! AND GOD IS SO HOLY AND JUST!