Chapter 2: Training begins, Part 2
M
ou looked perplexed, and rightly so. She had just dealt this guy two pretty punishing blows, one nearly sent him through the wall, and now he said that she couldn't touch him. She was a bit confused, but smiled nevertheless. She put up her fists, monkey tail swaying, and waited for the command to attack."Go!" the trainer, Fudge said.
Quicker than that, she bounded up the floor and flew at him, her foot extended to deliver a crushing kick to the chest. Fudge merely bent two inches to the opposite side, and Mou went careening past him. A look of shock plastered her face, but was quickly replaced by a look of annoyance. Instead of stopping, Mou simply planted her feet on the far side of the wall and bounded off them, coming at Fudge quickly with her fist cocked.
Swish! Mou gaped as she flew right past Fudge again, his head bent slightly down, a small smile covering his face. By this time Mou was starting to get pretty annoyed. She did a couple of mid-air flips and landed quickly on the ground, turned on her heel and bounded at Fudge again in a ridiculous looking attack, both arms extended.
"Yahhhhhh!" She cried, she was moving at such speed, she was basically positive she would nail him. Fudge liked her confidence, but nevertheless, bent his waist to the side appropriately and, for good measure, slapped the bottom of the flying girl as she whizzed by, sending her crashing into the nearby wall.
Fudge almost expected her to be hurt by that faux-attack, but instead the girl crawled up from her heap, rubbing her head, a look of pure malice covering her face. "Ow" She said simply. "Darn it. You're too fast."
"Actually, I wasn't being really fast at all, Ten" Fudge told the girl smiling. Her eyes widened and she gave the trainer a look. Fudge caught it quickly and continued "No really, I wasn't being faster than you were. I was just anticipating your attacks. It was easy."
Mou blinked at him "Antipated?"
"Anticipated. It means, I know what you were going to do, before you did it." Fudge explained.
"What? How'd you do that? Are you a magician? Can you teach me how to antipate?"
"Heh, uhh, come on now. I'm no magician. I just used my ki, that's all."
Mou stared at him with a blank look on her face.
Fudge scratched the back of his head. "Ki, you know. I was able to read yours. It was all over the place. Anyone could be able to figure out how you were going to attack."
Mou continued to stare. Then she asked, "What's ki?"
That sweatdrop that Fudge had worked up an hour ago slid another inch down his face. "Uh, what do you mean what's ki? I mean ..nobody taught you? Then how did you attack like th-" He could see that it was pointless. If the girls eyes got any bigger with confusion she'd lose her nose and her mouth in the process. Instead, he sighed, and decided that maybe it was time for an explanation.
Fudge went over to a nearby closet, and pulled out three candles. Mou looked forward in anticipation. Fudge placed the candles equidistant to each other, and then stood next to the girl.
"Keep your eye on the middle candle." He said, and with that, contorted his eyebrows slightly in concentration.
The middle candle melted faster than butter in a toaster. Not only that, it fizzled completely. Just a cloud that floated in the area was proof that a candle had been there in the first place. Mou's eyes bulged as if to come out of her face. Fudge smiled.
"Alrighty, look at the second candle now." Without the slightest look of effort on his face, Fudge burst the candle into flames, which melted into a gooey mess on the floor.
Mou's mouth hung open wide enough to catch a truck.
"WOW!" she exclaimed. Fudge chuckled.
"Yep, that's the power of ki. See, ki is a living energy in which all sentient beings can possess and sense. Most people don't know how to control their ki, but if they did, they'd be able to do things like that too." He gestured towards the melted candles. "And you could do a heck of a lot more. Like sense your opponents ki, to anticipate what is coming, if he's slow enough for ya." Fudge winked.
"So you can teach me that too?" Mou asked
"Well yeah, some. We'll start with the basics."
"All right! I'll do my best!"
"Of course ya will," Fudge believed. Then he wondered… "hey, Ten, were you really that impressed with that?"
"Yeah!!"
"Do you think your….mom would be impressed with that?" Fudge asked.
"Well, sure!" Mou replied.
"Well do you think, you know, girls younger than your mom would be impressed by that?"
Mou held yet another confused look and shrugged. "Yeah I guess so."
Fudge grinned. Finally he had a sure-fire way to pick up chicks!
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A few blocks away from the Bowl School of Martial Arts, three criminals; Pin, Land and Lid, were sweating in the sun. Grumbling and complaining at their fate.
The short and stocky Lid cursed as his fingers passed through his stringy pale hair. "Pah! How long are we gonna have to hide it out in the boonies?" He asked.
"As long as we have to, you idiot! The cops won't search us here in the 'boons'" The tall, lanky Pin retorted. His black hair was matted to his long face with sweat, and he was just as annoyed as the other. "Of course, if it wasn't for your dumbass plan, we wouldn't be up here."
Lid growled. "At least we're not in jail, which is where we would be, if it wasn't for my quick thinking!"
Well for those who don't know, the plan consisted of the classic daylight bank-robbery. No one was hurt, they just took the money and left in their get-a-way van, a 10 year old Ford that was in great need of help. They would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for the Donut shop right next door to the Bank, and a myriad of police officers annoyed with having their daily timbit meal interrupted.
So the chase commenced. The boys were very close to getting caught, for some reason something was holding the van down. Some unknown weight. The boys wondered what it could be. They only had a about ten bags of money worth about $100,000Z and an old TV and stereo set worth about $50Z ( If they were lucky. ) The cops were catching up fast, so Lid had a brilliant plan. He went to the back of the van and emptied it of all the bags of money. There was enough weight lifted to push the van into an extra 10mph. However, with this extra speed, Land ( who was driving the vehicle ) lost control and went into a nearby ditch. The boys escaped on foot, caught a bus, and ended up where they are now.
Lid felt very proud of himself, and couldn't understand for the life of him why Pin looked like he wanted to punch him. Suddenly the big guy, Land pointed up and said "A house".
It was true all right. A small wooden house was only a few meters from their location. A chance for some money, maybe even some food. This was a lucky break. "Do you still have that piece, Pin?" Lid asked.
"Yep, still do. I know what your thinking. Let's go for it." And with that, they started towards the house.
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Mou was having the time of her life. Finally she could do what she wanted to do, fight, and she was learning new stuff as well. In 30 minutes she was able to control her ki quite well, and was ready for another sparring session with Fudge.
Fudge was sweating pretty badly. He did not expect such an intense workout from a little chillun like that. "Why don't we take a little break?" he proposed to the girl.
"Break?" She actually looked a bit disappointed, her monkey tail flopping to the ground. "Well OK. Fine. Can we eat something? I'm hungry."
That was all it took to break Fudge's spirit. A long frown dominated his face. Well it was my faut for proposing a break, he resigned, and motioned Mou to the kitchen. Suddenly, Fudge's head whipped up. He turned towards the entrance of the school.
"What is it?" Mou asked
"Nothing." Fudge lied. "Follow me." He went towards the front door, just as three surely looking men came through, the skinny one pointing a gun straight at the young trainer.
"All right, lets make this quick. Your food, your money, and whatever else you want to donate." Pin scowled.
Fudge didn't make a move. "Well we don't have much money." He said calmly, as if he were talking to a Jehovah's Witness. "And actually, we happen not to have much food either. I don't appreciate you pointing that thing at me, but if you want I can give you a free Bowljitsu lesson."
"SHADDAP!" Pin yelled. He was very unnerved by this guys eerie calmness. He clutched his gun even tighter. Mou was just watching attentively. Fudge motioned to put his hands up in a forgiving gesture, when Pin snapped.
The gun fired. Fudge was shot pointblank in the left part of his chest. Smatterings of blood salted the air as he was thrown back into the wall with a crash. He slumped down, head hanging, a trickle of blood staining the wall behind him.
Mou stared horrified. Her eyes grew larger and larger. "Blood?" She asked. "I-is that blood?" Sge turned on Pin, who was still partially shocked. "Blood!?" she demanded. "You hurt him! How dare you!!!"
Mou's face took on a look of pure rage, her small mouth contorted into a grimace, and her big eyes sharpened down into two triangles with pin-drops for pupils. Pin, shocked even more at the girls anger, leveled the gun at her in instinct.
*classic angry Saiya-jin look ^_^ -Ten
That was a big mistake. Faster than he could see, Mou twirled around and crushed Pin's wrist into the bar of the door with a kick. Pin's eyes bulged and the gun dropped out of his lifeless hand. He didn't even have time to yell, as immediately, Mou bounded off the door-bar and nailed the tall man with a roundhouse kick to the face. Pin slumped to the ground like a sack of potatoes.
The big man, Land, not having time to react to the initial attack, punched at the girl now that Pin was down. Mou partially blocked the move with her hand, using her hand to bound off his arm and crush his nose with a knee to the face. Blood flew from Land's large nose, but he didn't have time to complain either , as he was knocked unconscious by a double-fisted punch to the back of his head.
Lid eyes bulged and his mouth gaped open, he was paralyzed on the spot. Mou turned on him with a deadly look in her eyes. With that, Lid fainted dead away. The look of rage on Mou's face was replaced with a look of surprise. "Wow..hmph." She was annoyed when people didn't fight.
"Nice work, Ten."
Mou nearly jumped through the roof in surprise. She circled and saw Fudge standing there, a large smile on his face and his hand covering the left side of his chest.
"Bu- Bu- But. I thought you were dead!" the girl exclaimed.
"Dead? Nah, I was just pretending. I wanted to see how you could fight in a real-life situation. I could have stepped in any second, but you did well by yourself." He rubbed the wound on his left side. "Don't worry about this. Not a problem. If I wanted to, the bullet wouldn't have entered at all. I just wanted to make a good show" Fudge winked.
Mou smiled a big smile. Then she looked over at the fallen crooks on the floor. "Umm, sorry." She mumbled.
"Let's walk over to the nearest police stand. That'll be enough training for today." Fudge conceded. "You know Mou, I think you have a lot of potential. Real potential. How do you feel about entering the Budukai tournament coming up at the end of the year? I actually think you could go far. It might be a bit dangerous since your so young-"
Naturally, Fudge didn't get a chance to complete his thought, as Mou jumped up and down in joy and repeatedly exclaimed "Yes Yeah Yahoo! Of course Yeah, Let's go Budukai!"
Fudge chuckled to himself. This is one extraordinary little girl. He thought to himself Heck I don't think she could go far in the Budukai, I think she could actually win. But, we'll wait and see.
So there began the training of the little Saiyan girl in this strange but familiar universe. The Budukai tournament is coming up. Who will she meet, who will she fight, and how far will she go. Just tune in to find out. It should be fun. Thanks for reading, and please please please review. Bye. -Ten