Chapter 3 – The Krarg
The next morning, Drake is up again watching the television. The fact that Strika is still after him made it difficult to sleep. But Strika was behind bars now, so why did it still bother him? He sees the news and decides to watch.
"I'm here in Pewter City, Kanto, where yesterday Drake, the fourth Hero, fought an old nemesis from the first Hero's adventure, Strika. Strika is somehow alive after more than a hundred and twenty years, but Drake was able to put him back down just like his Great Grandfather did." Drake smiles at his work. Maybe the news anchors were wrong.
"I can live up to the Legacy, no problem." He pats himself on the chest.
"But some of the civilians here aren't happy with how he did it. Apparently during the fight, millions of dollars worth of damage was done to some surrounding buildings, including one massive gash straight up the huge skyscraper behind me. Some people here felt that if he was the real deal, then Drake would have been smart enough to take the fight someplace else to minimize property damage."
"Awwwgh…" Drake sighs. "It… it isn't my fault that happened!"
"All we can say is, if Drake wants to get out of the shadow of the first three heroes, he'd better start wising up about how he does it. He just doesn't know what a real Hero is." Click, Drake turns the television off.
"RAR!" He whips the remote control at the wall, shattering the plastic device to pieces. "They make it sound like I'll never be able to do this." After an hour of frustrated pacing around his apartment, he sees that there is only one person he can talk to about the Hero; Strika.
"So… what was my Great Grandpa like…?" Drake asks as Strika through an impenetrable force field. Strika sits in a chair with his hands and feet bound together. He could not speak, as for precautionary measure; a device was hooked up to him where every time he spoke or acted in an evil way, he would be punished physically. Instead, the device translated his thoughts so that there would be no possibility of a lie.
"Your Great Grandfather was young when I met him. Barely eighteen I believe." Strika's machine translates. "I admit, he was not the smartest, but he was the most beloved. I eventually figured out what it was about him that made him a success and it went deeper than being the Hero everybody looked to. As a man, I have to respect him. But as my nemesis, I-UHHNN!" His body twitches in pain from the machine. "Well, you get the idea. This damn machine will not let me say it. As for you, I am just seeking my revenge through you." He sits motionless in a chair, staring out at Drake.
"What was it that made him so great?" Drake asks. He completely ignored the fact that Strika wants him dead.
"What made him great was the fact that no matter what happened to him, he always kept pushing forward. No matter how much his body hurt, he never quit. I don't truly know if he even had a breaking point. That, and he always kept his mind on the people. To say the least, he cared. But for what he did to me…" Strika almost continues with the thought. "Well, you can figure that one out on your own."
"So then what do I need to do?" Drake asks him calmly.
"Let me out of here so I can kill you with my bare hands." That didn't sit well with the device. A few moments later after Strika's jolt… "If you really want to improve yourself, you need to do what is necessary. I can't wait to watch you fail, heh."
"Watch me fail…? Wait, what's coming?!" Drake asks. His heart rate increases.
"And I would bet anything that not even your Super Saiyan 2 abilities would stop it." Drake is silent as he listens to Strika. "Its name is Krarg, and it brings with it Death."
"I…I…" Drake stutters. "Grr, I'll find this Krarg monster and I'll beat it." He leaves Strika to vegetate alone. But he isn't the only one. "What the hell is a Krarg?" Drake heads back home, unsure about what it was that just happened and what Strika had told him. Without even a moment's rest, he is called back into the president's office. So uses Instant Transmission and appears before the president.
"We've a situation." President Scott tells him. "Apparently, there has been a reported monster over in Cerulean City in Kanto."
"It must be what Strika told me earlier." Drake says to himself.
"This is the monster on the outskirts of the city." The president says as he pushes a button, revealing a monitor that pops up from his desk and turns to face Drake. It was the Krarg monster Strika was talking about. The purple crystalline creature appears to be walking towards the city through a lush green field, however all around the creature, the green grass had turned yellow with death. "We don't know how this thing works, but be careful, okay Drake?"
"I'll go take care of this thing immediately." Drake says, placing his fingers on his forehead and uses Instant Transmission. He teleports back in sight on the outskirts of Cerulean City. He hovers hundreds of feet in the air but can clearly see the yellow path of dead grass leading into the city. He flies down to the path to investigate it. "Why is everything like this?" He walks along the path and approaches a yellow pine tree. He places his hands on it and grabs a few of the branches gently. "They're… brittle. Like a dried out husk! Man… and it's in the city. This isn't good. Kaioken!" He shouts, powering up his Kaioken Attack. He leaps off towards the city, leaving his red energy trail behind. He finally reaches the inside of the city. "Oh no…!" All around he sees people, dead. From what he could tell, it looked as though they all aged a hundred years in an instant and died. He walks along the path of dead people, picking up his pace until he is in an all out spring. He follows the path of human husks and enters a park. All over, he sees nothing but death. Every tree, every blade of grass, every human being, everything, was dead.
"OOOOOGH!" A monstrous voice howls out.
"That's got to be the Krarg." Drake says to himself. His hands shake, but he clenches them down and rushes off towards the noise. After breaking through the park's trees and out the other side, he sees his opponent. The purple crystalline creature stared at him with its green eyes and stupid looking face. In its three fingered hand, he holds what looked like a small child, dried out and dead. "So, you're the Krarg huh?"
"Hoo?" The monster grunts as he turns to see Drake in stance, ready to fight. "Arrrgh… RAWWWRRR!" The Krarg throws the child's body to the ground, turning it to dust on impact.
"Yich… this thing is disgusting." Drake says as he sees a stream of drool drip from the monsters toothy mouth. "Okay big guy, let's go." Draker rushes in at the monster. The Krarg swoops his right hand at Drake, trying to bat the Saiyan out of his way. Drake ducks, and counters with his own fist, slamming it down hard into the monster.
"Rrk?" The monster looks down at Drake with a questionable face. Drake's fist did little to impress the monster.
"That… didn't work… OW?!" He pulls his hand off of the monster and sees his skin has withered slightly from the connection. "That can't be good." Drake says sarcastically. The Krarg slams both of his hand down towards Drake. Drake leaps away, firing several energy blasts at the creature as he moves. When the dust settles, The Krarg just walks out, completely unharmed.
"Grr, fine, we'll turn it up a little. HYAHHHH!" His hair flies back as he continues to power up. In a matter of moments, he assumes the level of Super Saiyan. "Fine, we'll see how you handle THIS technique." He widens his stance and cups his hands behind his back, powering a glowing blue ball of energy in them. "Kaaaa…meeee…haaaameeeeHAAAA!" He shouts out as he unleashes his family's signature attack. The blue beam rockets towards the Krarg, slamming into it with great force, digging the creature down into the ground. "Ha… gotcha." Drake says as he flicks the end of his nose with his thumb.
As the smoke clears from the blast, he sees the Krarg standing in a ditch that was created by his attack. There was a huge curve where the monsters head should be. Instead, it was completely open and vaporized. The Krarg's arms drop but the creature remains motionless.
"…?" Drake stares at the monster curiously. He then sees the monster's head area begin to move, it shines brighter in the sunlight brighter than the rest of its body. The crystal features then slowly fill in the hole that was blasted away, giving the creature a brand new pair of eyes and a mouth.
"OOOOOGH!" The monster throws its arms to the sky and roars outward.
"What the… hell?" Drake says in astonishment. His jaws drops, unsure of what just happened. "But I hit him directly in the head. This thing shouldn't be moving anymore!"
"ROO!" The Krarg hurls its arms forward, shooting off a group of five small purple spines from its hands at Drake.
"Geez!" He dodges left, trying to avoid the spines. He rolls on the ground and looks back at his opponent. The Krarg fires another blast of spines at him. He presses off the ground, shooting himself into the air. The Krarg leaps up after him, denting in the ground around him from the force it used to get airborne.
"Holy sh-!" Drake says in shock as the monster catches up to him. It slams its left hand in his chin. The blow sends the Super Saiyan flipping backwards back down towards the ground. His chin feels like its on fire from the blow, but in reality, his cells were dying from the impact and touching the Krarg's body. Drake smashes into the ground, destroying whatever he hit. "Uhn… orgh. I feel horrible." He rubs his chin and feels the first few layers of skin peel off the bottom of his chin. "IGH! What the hell? The skin is dead!?" He looks down at the cracked skin on his hand. "Does this thing kill just by touching it?!" He looks back up at the monster. "Man, this would hurt a lot more if it wasn't for that trick Grandpa taught me when I was little." He places his hands on his chin. He winces in pain but fights it. His hands glow a brighter yellow compared to the rest of his aura. In a matter of moments, he pulls them away and reveals his chin to be completely healed back to normal.
"Heightening the metabolism to make things heal faster sure does help in this line of work. Huh?" He looks up at the Krarg who is falling back down from the sky. He jumped too high into the sky and was coming back down for a second assault. The Krarg unleashes a barrage of purple crystalline spines from his hands, aimed for Drake." Drake rolls to the side once more. The spines pierce the ground, killing small patches of grass that were around the area. Drake gathers yellow energy in his right and left hand, charging them up for the attack. He holds them out, unleashing a barrage of his own energy at the Krarg with eat seeking energy attacks. The Krarg falls and lands on the ground, firing more of its spines at Drake. Drake's attacks vaporize the monster's spines, blasting right through and headed straight for their target, slamming into it and shattering off pieces of its body. Just as before, it regenerates its body fragments. "Grrr… what's it going to take to beat this thing?!"
The Krarg, fully regenerated, now lunges forward at Drake with its arms extended. "ROOOOG!" It cries as it rushes him.
"How am I supposed to fight this thing if I cant touch or blast it?" He dodges out of the way, leaping over the monster and blasting it with more small yellow energy attacks the size of baseballs. They slam into the monster, splintering off small pieces that are quickly regenerated.
"Fine then Krarg, we'll see how you handle me at full power! I'll blast you so far apart you'll NEVER regenerate! HRAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!" He throws his arms to the sky. Yellow beams of energy now surround his body, shooting towards the sky. His hair spikes up even further and he even takes on a lightning like blue electrical aura. His beam aura calms down, reverting back to his normal yellow flame and blue electrical aura that Super Saiyan 2 creates.
"OOGOOGOOGOOG!" The monster pounds his chest with its thick hands, ready to take on the challenge.
