Author's Note: My previous story, Memories Cast Adrift, was a failure in my eyes, so I decided to rewrite it, to improve it better than before. On top of that, a new friend of mine, Shepard's Lore, decided to help me with my new story. We exchanged ideas back and forth until we came up with ideas I could never have come up with on my own. He has my eternal gratitude. Without further ado, here is the story.
It is said, in a time before the Kais were born, before the Gods of Destruction existed, there lived a rather peculiar race. They hated war, combat, bloodshed… even a casual duel was enough to drive them to insanity, so they hid on a planet far away from the other bloodthirsty races.
This peace for them was meant to last for the years to come, but it didn't take long for them to fight amongst one another. A conflict started when two men charged at one another and ended up destroying one another completely, inducing fear into the rest of this race. One by one, the beings began to die, sparking a war that would consume the galaxy in blood.
However, on that very same planet, a lonely individual found herself surrounded by corpses of the dead, the air being filled with a terrible odor that made her sick to her stomach. Flying up to the sky and watching from above, she took notice of the countless explosions ravaging the planet, many craters formed as a result.
Becoming terrified of what she witnessed, the countless injuries on her body coupled with the war caused her to flee her own planet. She intended to go to the furthest reaches of space, to a place not touched by this brutal war. But she didn't make it very far. Barring her path was a rather large man, tall and muscular carrying an equally tall staff in his right hand.
Before she had time to react, the man whacked her in the face with his staff, sending her crashing through an unnamed planet which created a rather large crater. The girl struggled to get up but her knees gave in under the pressure. She slowly slumped to the ground but the man wasn't done. Grabbing her with one hand, he kicked her very hard in the abdomen, causing her to cough up blood as a result.
In a fit of fear, the girl bit the man's hand and quickly flew away, hoping to lose him in the asteroid field. However, he was smarter than this and simply destroyed everything within twelve square miles with a series of ki blasts. The girl barely managed to dodge some of the ki blasts before being grabbed by the man and slammed her to the planet, breaking it in two.
Shrieks of pain and explosions could be heard, the girl constantly getting pummeled by one ominous man who smiled the entire time. Not a single noise exited the man's voice, possibly due to his hideous glare which spelled "Die damn you" from the girl's point of view. Of course, she knew all this, even so… why wouldn't the girl just give up?
"Damn it, at this rate I'm not going to last very long… I didn't want to have to use this, but I have no other-" Before she could finish her sentence, the man attacks her even more fiercely than before, constantly hitting her with the same level of punches he dealt her earlier. Kicking him in the face with both legs, the girl was able to flee to a safe place hundreds of miles away.
"Things aren't looking very good… I need to transform. And fast! But I'm running out of energy. If I don't power up soon, there is a chance I will die," she said aloud, doing her best not to get detected by him. She then began to slowly power up, her hair turning a different color and her eyes.
Taking a few deep breathes along the way, the girl hurried to transform, feeling her muscles slowly decompressing, feeling a great surge of power within her. However, before she could complete her transformation, she feels all the ki suddenly rush out of her all at once, as if every drop of ki had been completely drained from her body.
"No, it can't be! He couldn't have-" Her words were interrupted by the sudden kick to the side by the man who had become infuriated by the fact she had tried to flee from him but ended up failing ever so miserably. A shriek of pain writhed through her body, the force of the kick was powerful enough to end her flying through several planets, the pain intensifying with each planet she came across. Lying broken and bloodied, the girl was getting awfully close to losing her will to fight, something the man had always wanted to see.
But, he knew better than this, for the girl didn't quite understand the meaning of defeat and continued to fight. Even with the pain the man had inflicted upon her, she was nowhere near the point of giving up, even going so far as to repeatedly kick him in the face to rest her from his grasp. But eh, the attacks were in vain, not a single one landed a powerful enough blow to deal any significant damage to him. Without her ki, she was like a lamb in a lion stock, about to be torn to shreds by the cruel predator.
Seeing an opportunity to attack when a ki attack struck the man from behind, she managed to escape from the distraction and flee to a different planet in another galaxy. She was breathing heavily, more so than before, because the man had induced a great deal of pain within the girl. At first, it was overwhelmingly painful but she found a way to nullify the pain by purposely breaking her abdomen with her own two hands.
"I need to think... how do I beat him? He has me corned like a cat corners a mouse. If I don't figure something out soon, there's a good chanced that I will die. I cannot allow that to happen! But.. I'm all out of ki. He has me pegged... there just has to be a-" Before she could finish her thoughts however, she was struck by a ki beam from behind which struck her right lung, an inch too close to her heart. At the same time, just as she turn around to see where the man was, a ki blast hit her entire face, catching her off balance.
Temporarily blinded by the attack, the man took this chance to bombard her with a series of ki lasers, causing significant damage to her body, but still she smiled. Intensifying the attacks, he fired them three fold at her, breaking most of her bones and arteries in the process, even breaking a tooth or two off. Going in for the kill, the man grabbed the girl by the neck and began crushing the life out of her, hoping to crush her life and her spirit at the same time.
But yet, he wasn't seeing that all, all he saw was the girl let out a casual sigh and smiled at the man, greatly annoying him. She didn't look like she was giving up, her look spelled "Do what you will to me. I will NEVER give up to the likes of you!," which prompted the man to strike her against the face with the back end of his staff, only for her smile to remain, not going away in the least bit.
Teleporting her over a planet, she let go of her ravaged body, letting her fall to the planet at such a height that she was set on fire from the speed of her fall. Hovering over the planet, the man began charging a powerful purple sphere of energy from the staff he was carrying. Its shining brilliance was more than enough to consume the entire cosmos in its light, something which caused the girl to smile.
The girl landed with a crash to the planet, creating a rather large crater in the process, but still she persisted in her smile. She simply watched on as the man charged an energy sphere and aimed it directly at the planet. Snapping back into reality, she watched on as the very planet she swore to protect no matter what, was now about to be reduced to nothing but ash and rubble, possibly more than that. Given the size of the sphere and the power it contains, it would appear he wanted to destroy the girl and the planet.
"I'm sorry, my friends… it seems I wasn't fast enough to stop him. Please, forgive me for causing your deaths…" The girl slowly closed her eye, the sphere rushing towards the girl after the man had fired it at her. It easily outgrew that of the entire planet, something which surprised the girl.
At the moment the girl let out a sigh of relief, a strange light began to form around her, causing her to lose consciousness due to the damage she sustained in the assault.