Episode 1
First Day High
The place was barren and wasted, that was her first impression to this place, no sign of life only the beating heat of the sun at high noon was her company in the area. Where am I ? She thought to herself, And what am I doing in this forsaken place? She added, then suddenly she heard a voice, a strong voice of a man and said "One thousand years ago, when this world was young, where no one had dared to make colonies in space... ". "Where are you? Who are you?", the woman said to the mysterious voice, but she heard no reply.
Then out of nowhere a man appear, his characteristics is more of a dragon rather than a human, it has an expanded mass on its chest and other muscles. His white carapace in his upper torso were like breastplate with a spike armor, its wrists had dark-blue sections and procuring blade-like protrusions, but most of all, the carapace on its head completely encases his entire head except for his vicious eyes, his mouth being covered behind something reminiscent of a vizier, four spikes extend from his cranium and there is a large dark-blue section in the middle of his head.
"Hey, are you the one who is talking to me?" inquired by the woman, but she got no reply . Again the voice had spoken to her saying "Tyrants from every walks of life and space came to enslaved this planet and its neighbors". "Could you please look at me when I am talking to y-" the woman was cut short when a blast of aura came from the man, a combination of purple and white aura which magnifies the evil manifestation of the person that shut the woman's sight.
What was that? Who is that person? she asked herself, when she opened her eyes she saw another man, a human this time, it has a spiky black hair, an orange gi with a character which means "kame" or "turtle". She approach this person and ask the same question when she heard the voice again saying "Where true heroes arise to defend and protect the universe from the menace and agents of chaos and destruction...", when the girl heard the voice she realized that it is also not that person. Then the man blast a strong golden aura that changed the man's appearance making its hair yellow from black and from every strand its stand up, its muscles became bulkier, and its black eyes became green.
The golden man charged towards the tyrant to make a head on collision with the evil fighter.
As the woman saw the clash of power between the two powers her eyes were suddenly shut.
And when she opened her eyes again she saw the man going back to his normal form from being a golden fighter looking at the sky. Then again everything was black, and all of a sudden there was a thunderstorm in and an old man, a green man who had an antenna on its head with a wooden staff, wearing a blue cape and white dress with a character marked as guardian.
It looked at her straight from the eyes and said "You along with the other chosen warriors, shall became the guardians of the seven dragon balls, the new hope and protector of the universe. "
"AHHHHHHH!" The woman screemed, as she awakened from her sleep, It was just a nightmare... she said to herself, thank goodness it was just a nightmare... She looked at the clock and then she shouted "WHAT? ! ITS ALREADY 7:15 AM? !" damn! I'm going to be late, its first day of the school! the woman cursed, not sparing a minute she goes to the bathroom to make a quick bath, then after taking a shower she fixes her shoulder level curly hairs and wear her red sailor fuku with blue tie. Because of her family's influence and being the only child of the family she was given special treatment or it was just an excuse because her parents are always gone. But in her heart she does not want to have that kind of treatment anymore after she and her rival became friends after they settled their differences in the last World Warrior Tournament. "Mistress Karin!" address to her by her muscular yet slow personal aid Ishizaki. Karin Kanzaki, the only child of the Kanzaki zaibatsu, was really in a hurry and she cant just simply use her family's influence on her school.
"What Ishizaki? I'm late and I've got no time for this" She told the aid with full authority, "The car left by your parents had a problem and we can't get you into your school" the butler said in a nervous tone, guess he doesn't want to get to the bad side of his mistress. "Oh great! You know what? send that to a shop to fix the car ok? " she said Ok, Karin you better start running... No time for whiners like Ishizaki Karin said to herself.
She dashed along her family's compound and when she get to the gate WHAM! she crashed to another person. "Hey watch where you going!" The girl in a white sailor fuku that had a red tie and a white head band on her head said to Karin and then realized "Oh Karin!" the girl said.
"Sa..Sakura Kasugano? How are you? I am sorry, are you hurt" Karin replied with an apologetic tone knowing that she had bump head-on her rival and best friend by accident. "It's ok Karin it does not hurt that much" Sakura replied, then they laughed until they realized that the clock is ticking against them. So they rushed towards the school, from there they go to the list of students in the third year. "There are so many enrolled students today in our school Sakura" Karin said as she and Sakura fighted their way to their class room, when they saw to the list that they are classmates. "Yeah, too bad Kei is not here anymore" Sakura replied, missing her old close friend after Kei went to Colony L2-0397 in space. "Well that's life and it sucks big time". Then they arrived to their room, Sakura and Karin sit next together looking new and old faces. "Hey Karin, look its Yuki Kushinada" Sakura whispered to Karin pointing to the brown face-length haired girl, who's well known for her boyfriend who became a champion of well-known fighting tournaments "Do you think her pyromaniac boyfriend is in this class too?" she continued, "I dunno... maybe..." Karin replied.
The temple located at the top of hill is indeed one of the mysterious places in the world, it is well known especially those who seeks spiritual guidance or to those who need to train their powers. Going to the temple's location is easy, only a train going to the Western Sector station of Kutō and you are already at temple's premises. The only problem is going to the main temple and dojo itself, the reason is simple, it will take a normal person's energy by climbing the steep steps of the hill. The owner of the temple is an old woman, whose height is around 5 inches, her hair is a combination of light pink and grey, her skin is wrinkled which marks ages of overcome challenges and years of gained wisdom, but despite her age she is still strong and had an amount of spiritual energy that makes her respectable not only to her students but to other influential people of different races as well. "Thank you Botan, I am gonna send a messenger to deliver this invitation, you better hurry and give that to the two knuckle heads before they start a trouble in their new school, I know the one who defeated that slacker in the last tournament studies there", receiving the letter that will be delivered from the blue haired girl who wears a pink kimono, "Yes I will Genkai... I know He is still bitter after his defeat in the finals from that new comer..." and from there the reaper flew away from the temple.
Then a figure just emerged from the shadow inside the temple, The man had a long blond hair, had a fit physical appearance and wearing a blue kimono, but despite of being look like a human he is still considered from another planet because of his angelic wings. "Who is that sensei?" the winged-man asked, "That is Botan, and she gave me an invitation that must be delivered immediately" Genkai replied. She then turned around to the winged-man and said "So, Richter, how is your study regarding about the discoveries of your late father regarding ancient planets and the Budokai era?", "I've found discoveries during my last excavation in our new home planet. I cannot believe that the cause of extinction of those who first lived there are two ancient Saiyans..." Richter replied, "How can you be sure that the Saiyans are true? Are there any proofs? Your father died in an assassination without any milestone on his studies regarding the Saiyans and leaving a crown to an ambitious Baam and dragging this planet and what is left to your old kingdom into a war..." Genkai inquired the Baam prince with a little bit of nag reminding harsh his actions ten years ago. "Luckily that teleportation technique that I teach you, when you are young, worked perfectly, when you changed your mind about committing suicide by crashing into a sun... But that was in the past Richter, you redeemed yourself time after time." Genkai added.
The Baam prince indeed contribute good things for the peace of the universe, following his late father's footsteps, he overshadowed his former self, he is not the ruthless commander during the Earth-Baam War anymore, but a noble man who dedicated his life to studies of ancient planets and its civilizations. He found a planet that is suitable for his people, giving his sister the crown as the heir to their late father's throne, and giving his sister's husband the title of Lord Protector of Baam Empire as a wedding gift. From there, they became major allies of Earth Federation becoming the founding members of the Galaxy Alliance after the events of the Endless Waltz aka The Great Galactic War then after that he retired to earth to continue his father's study in Genkai's temple, with his wife the Baam scientist Raiza, who had just revived as Genkai's request for Koenma. Well it was indeed Richter was one of the old spirit mistress's prized student, because he posses a quite talent in harnessing spiritual powers before she met the slacker.
Being a refined gentleman and a member of Baam nobility, he had an unmeasurable tolerance towards Genkai's nagging, he then showed Genkai an unusual visor, a green visor that covers only one eye, a strap with a rectangular button on side. "This is the artifact that I discovered in planet Baam, it matches the description written by my father in his journal which he left in your library when he was recalled for his coronation... " Richter said
"I don't know if its still working, but Raiza will managed to repair it" He added. Genkai looked at it and closed her eyes and chuckled "You Baams are really persuasive... And yet it does really pay..." then she looked Richter in the eyes and said "Are you familiar with the legendary Z-Senshi and the mythical Dragonballs?", Richter responded hastily "Yes sensei, they are father's last journal entry before he was assassinated, what about them?". With a very serious look at the Baam prince she said "They do exist..." Richter became petrified on what he heard, because based on what he read on his father's journal entry about the Z Senshi and Dragonballs, it tells about how the legendary Z Senshi fought against its nemesis in a scale that makes the entire universe tremble and how powerful the mystical dragon compared to the four gods. Then slowly Richter regain his presence of mind and replied "What will I do sensei?". Genkai handed over the invitations to the Baam prince and said "Deliver these invitations Richter, two days from now we will find the new hope of the universe...". As Richter received the invitations that will be delivered hew saw a name of a person who is invited to his mistress's temple "Well, guess I had an idea who I will visit first..." he said to Genkai with a smile.
The classroom is very noisy knowing that they saw old friends again, some of them is bragging about what they did during vacation, while others teasing other students, a typical first day high to a typical student. Well that is not the case for Sakura, Karin and Yuki for that day will be the day that they will never forget. Sakura by being friendly by nature approached Yuki with Karin, knowing that she and her boyfriend just transferred from their school last year had no friends in this school last year, maybe because all of the students had no spine to go near to them because of her boyfriend who made a reputation out of participating tournaments and winning one of the prestigious tournament in the galaxy. "Hi... Yuki Kushinada right?" Sakura asked with a friendly smile, "Hello... Yes that's me and you are Sakura right?" Yuki replied also with a smile then she looked at Karin and said "and you are Karin Kanzaki?", "Yes that's me, but how do you know about us?" Karin puzzingly replied, "Well, my boyfriend had encountered the two of you during the prelims of North Star tournament last summer" Yuki replied "I guess we made it in the mainstream of martial arts tournament even we are easily eliminated" Sakura responded with Karin nodding her head as an approval, "Hey, do you want to come with us during lunch time "
Sakura asked with a polite smile, knowing that she will be a good friend to her and to Karin and can take up Kei's place. "Sure, no problem..." Yuki replied enthusiastically knowing that she and her boyfriend will not be loners anymore. "Yuki, would you mind if you want to sit right next to us?" offered by Karin pointing the vacant chair next to her, "Okay... but how about my K-" Yuki added but was interrupted when by Sakura and said "We had already reserved a chair for him also which is next to you" happily pointing to the chair where Karin harassed a male student who occupies the chair to get out of the said chair.
As they sit on their respective chairs, their adviser had just arrived to orient them. She had a short boyish like white hair, had a fair height and a figure of a model. The students in the classroom is suddenly quiet but not only because of her presence but because of her intimidating look for the case of the girls, but for the boys its the other way around, she is more like goddess to them. With her are three new students, one female and two male, she pointed them to sit on the three vacant chairs in front of Karin, Sakura and Yuki, then she started to write her name in the blackboard, the class read it silently. Those two boys look pretty familiar, but I don't know when or where I saw them... Karin thought to her self as she looked at the guy wearing a green school uniform and had a brushed up hair and to the other guy who is taller, bulkier and had a weird Elvis-hairdo with respect to his orange hair color. After the teacher write her name she introduced herself to the class saying "Hi class, good morning my name is Yayoi Schwael. I am a new teacher here in Tamagawa Minami High School, and I will be your adviser and chemistry teacher", the students look at her attentively, "also as an added info, I am a veteran of the Endless Waltz fighting for the Earth Federation 2 years ago...", Yayoi added reflecting that some of her subordinates during the war were same age as them who were volunteered because of their skills in the field in military, "Wow! then you must be a Mobile Suit Pilot Sensei!" said one of her students, "Nope", "A Gundam pilot?" said the other student, "Neither...", "Ah let me guess... A Getter Robo pilot?" Sakura said while raising her head, "Well... I wish I was a Getter Robo pilot..." Yayoi replied to Sakura with a smile. "Well I'm gonna tell you later after I make the roll call so you can introduce yourself to your classmates and try to get know each other" Yayoi adressed to the class.
Then a male student came inside of the classroom, he is wearing a black uniform but unlike the other male students, he rolled up his sleeves up to his arms making it look like a short sleeve polo, he had a white shirt inside of his unbuttoned polo and a mark of a blazing sun on embroidered on its back which signifies his clan, his hair length is down only to his face which is similar to Yuki. He scan for an empty chair and he saw Yuki waving at him and pointing to sit next to her, when the students saw him they felt a little bit of scared or awkward towards him, except for Sakura, Karin, Yuki and the three new students. Well... everybody is here, guess I am gonna start the new students introducing themselves first... on the second thought, I'm gonna call the newly arrived guy... Yayoi thought to herself, but unknown to the her, the newly arrived student had make its mark on the green uniformed student What is he doing here? Him and his goof-ball orange head buddy? Hmph, well I guess this is going to be a fun, after all he's a worthy opponent after all, I almost lost to him during the finals. he thought. On the other hand, the green uniformed student thought to himself Well it's a small world after all isn't it? Guess we can settle this later after class and prove to him that I am ten times better than him as he looked back to newly arrived student.
After Yayoi flipping at the roll call cards looking for the newly arrived student, and she said looking to the newly arrived guy, she smiled and said "Okay mister, since you are the last one who arrived you will introduced yourself to the class", "Uh... Me? But-" the guy protested but his girlfriend look at him pleading to him to obey the new teacher. Well guess its time to introduce to him who is the MAN in this campus, he said to himself. Standing up going to the front of the class, looking the entire class where he noticed the class adviser is already at the back of the class to listen on his introduction. Then he finally said "My name is... Kusanagi... Kyo Kusanagi, heir to the Kusanagi clan and to the Kusanagiryu Kobujutsu, I became a participant of well known martial arts tournament and winning some of them, namely The King Of Fighters Tournament and the most recent North Star tournament" locking his eye to the green uniformed student."Oh shit, I smell trouble here Karin... " Sakura whispered to Karin as the two girls noticed Yuki's facial expression towards Kyo somewhat irritated. Yayoi a little intrigued on Kyo's introduction then said to him "Oh you mean the last tournament that is held at the moon which is sponsored by her majesty, Queen Diana Soreil?", "Yes Sensei..." Kyo replied, "I watched it live with my friends, but too bad I lost my bet, because I prefer the other guy in the finals... Thank you Kusanagi-san you may take your sit... okay next please!" smiling as the arrogant student took its seat.
The next student to go front in the class is the new girl in their classroom, she had a brown hair whose length down to the shoulder level, she had a bright brown eyes that gives an impression that she is a smart girl. She gives a friendly smile and said "Yukimura... Keiko Yukimura, I am a transfered student from Sarayashiki High and I will try my best to prove my worth in the school", then she courteously bowed down and go back to her seat. Next to stand up is the tall new student who had goofy oranged colored elvis hair style, stands in the front of the class and introduce his name saying "I am Kazuma Kuwabara, but you can just simply call me Kuwabara, I am also a transferred student from Sarayashiki High like Keiko, in fact, the three of us are classmates an-", "Get on with it Elvis!" Interrupted by Kyo that makes everyone in the class laugh but makes it was short because they are reprimanded by Yayoi not to disturb other classrooms. Wait, did he say Kazuma Kuwabara? Karin said to herself making a short flashback of the same tournament she and Sakura joined. Yes! its Kuwabara alright then that means the other guy is- her conclusion was cut short when Sakura whispered to her saying "Karin, Do you think He's the reason why Kusanagi is arrogant earlier?" pertaining to the green uniformed student, "Yes I think". Irritated by Kusanagi's remarks and seeing Keiko and her boyfriend, the green uniformed student, also laughing he continued "Just as I was saying, the three of us are classmates and I AM NOT SOME PUNK-ASS PYROMANIAC WHO HAS BEEN ELIMINATED IN THE SEMIS OF URABUTO SATSUGEN!" locking his sights at Kyo, while the latter looks back at him with a smirk. He sat down while the last new student stand up and whispered to him "Keep your head cool Kuwabara we'll settle this with him after class".
Then the green uniformed student looked at his class and finally, he said "My name is Urameshi... Urameshi Yusuke, but you can call me Yusuke... Just like my friend Kuwabara said earlier, Me, Keiko and Kuwabara are classmates from our previous school", "Ok... what else can you say about yourself Urameshi-kun" Yayoi added, "I also participate well-known martial arts tournament namely the World Warrior Tournament, The Makai-Invitational, The North Star Tournament, The King of Fighters and the champion of Urabuto Satsugen, and I am proud of my Youkai Heritage" locking his eyes to Kyo as the latter look back gesturing that he is ready in an open battle anytime soon.
It is already dismissal time Karin and Sakura is walking around the school premises looking for Yuki, when they saw their classmate Keiko who is somewhat lost in the premises. "Hey you're Keiko right?" Karin inquired, "Yes and you're Karin and you are Sakura right?", "Yes that's us, are you lost?" replied by Karin, "No, not really, I am just looking for Yusuke and Kuwabara, have you seen them?" asked by Keiko to the two girls. "No we don't see them they just simply vanished after the last class... Do you happend to see Yuki-chan?" Sakura replied, "You mean, Kushinada? yeah I saw her and I think she headed that wa-" Keiko's instruction was cut short when the three girls heard a loud familiar voice saying "GO GET HIM URAMESHI!", "Kuwabara! Yusuke might go picking fights again!" Keiko realized as she dashed toward the location of Kuwabara's voice. "Damn it! C'mon Sakura let's follow Keiko I think we know where to find Yuki" Karin told Sakura "I am with you, I just hope they won't accidentally harm Keiko and Yuki, when Yusuke and Kyo start killing each other " as the girls dashed following Keiko.
"Please stop the two of you!" Yuki pleaded "Please stop them! Kuwabara do something" as Yuki looked at Kuwabara begging for his intervention. "I ain't stopping it Yuki, I am not stupid enough to get between those two, sorry" Kuwabara replied helplessly, for he knew Yusuke and Kyo are one of the well-known rivals in the field of martial arts tournament and it's too late to stop those two who had each others neck since they met.
Like a duel in a western movie, Kyo and Yusuke looking at each other with a smirk and then Kyo break the silence saying "Well guess it's a no holds barred right?", "Yeah, are you ready? because I am not holding back" Yusuke replied, "me too Youkai I will not hold back" and the two fighters generate their respective aura, a flame aura for Kyo and a combination of blue and red, representing the Spirit and Youkai energy to Yusukue, then they dashed to each other in a head on collision with fist heading to each other's face when suddenly a figure appeared between the two fighters, the person had a blue hair and wearing a pink kimono and "STOOOPPPPP!" screamed by the blue haired girl as the two fighters halted their fist when they realized some one will get hurt on their duel, but for Botan a one inch apart from each fighters fist is no joke even for a reaper like her "ARE YOU GUYS CRAZY! I AM BETWEEN THE TWO OF YOU AND YOU TRY TO HURT A HELPLESS LADY! WAIT UNTIL I TELL GENKAI ABOUT THIS!" As she nagged the two fighters who tried to hide themselves in Kuwabara's back, "What ? ! It is our fault now ? ! You are the one who appeared between me and Kyo!" Yusuke fired back, "I agree with him! We had a duel and no sane person gets in the middle of this kind of duel!" Kyo also fired back supporting his rivals' reasoning. "Kyo! How could you? ! You try to hit a woman? !" Yuki nagged Kyo after seeing what happend. "Yes he try to hit me!" Botan cried to Yuki.
"B-bu-but- Yusu-" Kyo defended himself "No buts! I saw what happend!" Yuki nagged to her boyfriend with her signature ear pinch, making Kyo scream for help "And I thought Keiko is the only one who can do that" Yusuke awed. "Yusuke!" a loud voice came from nowhere and slapped his face "Hey! What did you do that for Keieieiei-" Yusuke's protest got short when he got his own ear pinching discipline from Keiko, "You are going to a fight again and I saw that you and your fighting buddy almost punch her in the face!" Keiko shot back. After the two fighter's had been disciplined by their respcetive lovers, Kuwabara made a short comment saying "I am glad Yukina is not violent" and from that comment he received to violent blows to head from Keiko and Yuki "What's that for!" Kuwabara cried, "That is not for stopping them" replied the two girls. Upon seeing the violence made by Yuki and Keiko towards the three boys, Sakura had an awkward smile from them and said "You may be strong but you still had no balls towards woman", "Ah Shutup!" replied the three boys who had just licking the injuries they sustained in that so called fight. "So Botan what brings you here?" asked by Keiko, "Ah yes, Koenma had just sent me to give this invitation and this concerns you, Yusuke, Kuwabara, Yuki, Kyo , Sakura and Karin", Botan replied as she busily distributed the invitation to the concerned parties. "This is regarding about your true destiny..." Botan added "True destiny?" Yuki inquired.
"Yes, your true destiny" Botan replied grimly and after that Karin broke the silence and told her dream last night and said "I had a strange dream last night... It is more of a vision of a prophet that-" she was cut short by Sakura and said "I believe we had the same dream is about protecting the universe and-", "Its new hope-" interrupted by Yuki, "Is there a golden fighter in that dream" asked by the three boys in unison "Yes and I think the prophet had an-" interrupted by Keiko but she was cut short by Karin and said " an antenna...".
The seven students in Tamagawa Minami had the same vision regarding an ancient battle and the prophet who say that they are the chosen one who will be the new hope of the universe and thus two days from now they will travel to Genkai's temple and from there their true destinies will be revealed.
