The nonstop battle between Alex and the 10 Tails keeps going in Alex's soul realm. None of them know how much time has passed. They only know that they've fought for a very long time.
If this is the real world, they would've run out of power a long time ago. But they are in the soul realm in their soul forms and they keep getting more and more magic power from the red flower.
They don't have physical bodies here, so they can keep moving as long as they still have magic power. So they are getting stronger instead of getting tired because of the magic power they keep receiving.
Though they can still get tired mentally. If Alex doesn't have a really strong will to survive and return home to meet his loved ones again, then he might have given up and let himself get killed by the 10 Tails.
Still, even with his strong will, he can still feel exhausted. Fortunately, after fighting alone for so long, Alex finally gets companions. The Tailed Beasts are finally awakened.
While they have been awakened, they are nothing more than just small pecks of sous now. They don't even have forms, just consciousnesses. When they've just awakened, they just look like small talking orbs.
But that's enough to lift Alex's spirit because at least now he can talk with others. Furthermore, with the Tailed Beasts' consciousness awakened, Alex now can start using their abilities.
At first, he can only transform small parts of his body into the Tailed Beasts' body parts, like his hands into claws. Slowly, the parts that can transform increase from only hands, to whole arms, to arms and legs, etc.
As the Tailed Beasts recover more of their power, Alex can use more of their abilities. That's why they are focusing more on recovering the Tailed Beasts power because it will be the key of their victory over the 10 Tails.
Also, after the Tailed Beasts are awakened, the 10 Tails' magic power absorption rate gets slower. It's because the 9 Tailed Beasts try their best to take most of the magic power that gets absorbed by the red flower.
The 10 Tails can't focus on gathering magic power because of its battle with Alex, so they are benefitting from this situation. They also help Alex get more magic power so he won't lose to the 10 Tails.
Even so, it's still not easy to fight the 10 Tails that keeps getting stronger and bigger. As Alex grows stronger, the 10 Tails also grow stronger. It even looks like it is growing stronger faster than Alex because it only feeds the magic power to itself while Alex needs to split it with the 9 Tailed Beasts.
So even though they get more magic power in total, they still get less than the 10 Tails individually. The 10 Tails also has an earlier start than them because it awakens very early and has absorbed magic power for a longer time.
So they are still weaker than the 10 Tails and the best Alex can do is still running away from the 10 Tails' attacks even after the Tailed Beasts are awakened. They need to recover enough power first before trying to defeat the 10 Tails.
Time passes and Alex is doing something that would be impossible to do in the real world. He fights the 10 Tails nonstop for around 4 years in his soul realm. Not even Acnologia or Zeref would be able to fight this long without rest if this is the real world.
4 years since they started their battle, which means it's been more than 5 years since Alex's battle with Acnologia. If this keeps going on for 2 more years, then Alex will be trapped here for 7 years, which will be the same with how long the Tenrou group was trapped in Fairy Sphere.
Of course, Alex doesn't want that, although he can't tell how much time has passed in the real world. He wants to get out and live like a normal person again as soon as possible.
Fortunately, the Tailed Beasts are recovering their power fast. They can't perfectly recover their power because half of their souls have been absorbed by the 10 Tails, so they have reached their limits.
But with the 9 Tailed Beasts here, Alex doesn't need to fight alone anymore. The 9 Tailed Beasts that have regained most of their power can finally show up and fight together with Alex.
When they appear, they are still as massive as their original selves. Unable to gain their full power doesn't mean their body sizes will be smaller, after all. They are just being weaker than they are supposed to be.
But even with their massive sizes, they are still smaller than the 10 Tails. With its size alone, the 10 Tails could destroy a country just by moving. That's why they need to defeat it at all costs.
Alex get on Kurama's head before all of them charge toward the 10 Tails. They have discussed their strategy while the Tailed Beasts were still amassing their power.
The 10 Tails send its tails to attack them from different angles. But they nimbly dodge the tails. The agile ones move at the front while the slower ones like Shukaku and Isobu are on the back.
After getting closer, they start attacking the 10 Tails. Shukaku binds its feet with a lot of sand. Isobu shoots massive water balls at its chest and face while Kurama and Matatabi slashes their claws at its legs and waists.
They quickly get away before Gyuki shoots a massive lightning ball at the drenched 10 Tails. It screams as it gets electrocuted. But the damage it receives doesn't seem to be as much as they wanted to.
"SAIKEN!" Kurama shouts while flanking the 10 Tails from the left.
Saiken doesn't answer with words, but by shooting numerous acid bullets at the 10 Tails. He aims at the cut wounds that Kurama and Matatabi made with their claws. The 10 Tails screams in agony because the acid makes its wounds very painful.
It screams and flails its tails everywhere, pushing everyone back. Then it looks at them with rage before opening its mouth. It creates a Tailed Beast Bomb and then shoots its energy rapidly at the Tailed Beasts.
The rapid shot of Tailed Beasts Bombs is dangerous even for the Tailed Beasts. So they do their best to run away from them. Alex also has been running away from them for years because he knows he'll die if he gets it by even 1 of them.
To counter its attack, the Tailed Beasts also shoot their Tailed Beasts Bombs. Their attacks are weaker, but they are still powerful enough to hurt the 10 Tails and eventually make it fall on its back.
They can't waste this chance, so all of them charge toward the 10 Tails. Kurama jumps at its neck, biting its neck and stabs his claws on its head and chest.
Matatabi bites its right hand, Chomei holds its left hand, Shukaku holds its left leg, Isobu holds its right leg, and the others quickly hold its tails. They hold its body while also trying to damage those body parts with their abilities.
"ALEX!" Kurama shouts.
"I know." Alex who sits on Kurama's head quickly jumps to the 10 Tails' big Rinne-Sharingan eye.
He transforms into the mini Kurama and creates a Tailed Beast Bomb with his hands. The 10 Tails flails around to get them off its body, but they hold on with everything they have because they are putting their lives on the line here.
"Let's end this here, 10 Tails! Get lost from my body!"
Alex throws the Tailed Beasts Bomb that's even bigger than his body at the 10 Tails' massive eye. At such a short distance, there's no way the 10 Tails can dodge his attack and it can't close its eye, so it can only get hit.
A massive explosion happens on the 10 Tails' eye and it throws Alex far away because he is still in the explosion radius. He gets caught in his own attack, but it's the risk he must take because attacking from a long distance is not possible.
Kurama who bites the 10 Tails' neck also gets hit by the explosion, but he keeps holding onto its neck even though the explosion hurt him. Alex's attack might not be enough to defeat the 10 Tails, so he can't let it go just yet.
He takes off his right claws from the 10 Tails' head and then stab them into its eye before the explosion effect even disappears. As he thought, the eye hasn't been completely destroyed yet although it has been damaged badly.
The 10 Tails' body jerks when Kurama stabs its eye and finally destroys it. Matatabi sees this as a big chance and jumps to the 10 Tails' chest. She enhances her claws with fire and slashes them across the 10 Tails' chest, creating some deep cut wounds on it.
"SON!" Matatabi shouts at Son who still holds some tails.
"ALRIGHT!" Son Goku lets go of the tails and jumps onto the 10 Tails' chest. He plunges his hands into the wound that Matatabi made and then injects a lot of very hot lava into the 10 Tails' chest, burning it from the inside.
It's not the end yet because then the Tailed Beasts keep attacking it with their abilities. After all, the 10 Tails is very durable and tough, so they need to keep attacking it until it's truly over.
It takes a while, but the 10 Tails is finally defeated after so much effort. Its soul breaks apart, freeing the parts of the Tailed Beasts' souls that it took. Now finally, Alex is truly freed from the 10 Tails and he can finally return.
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