Buttercup's POV
It was cold on Christmas day, it had been four other Christmas' since I left, this marked the fifth year of my leaving, Voku stood next to me the whole time, just smiling into the morning sunshine, even though I didn't show I was upset, I could tell he already knew I was, it was always holidays that I got upset, smiling towards him I turned around and headed back inside.
I was just grabbing a bowl of oatmeal that was left for me when he came back inside, smiling at me again he moved and sat across from me, while eating he asked me," So it's almost been five years hasn't it?" Nodding slowly I was curious as to what he was getting at, his smile widened as he said," Well you were, around 12 or so when you came and now that your seventeen or will be, I thought I would take you to visit Townsville for a little while?"
At the moment I probably dropped my spoon, I hadn't ever considered going back but after hearing what he said, my face just lit up, I was overjoyed I so badly wanted to return, thinking back to all my training this is probably his way of giving me a break for a little while, I can remember clearly the first training we did together…
Five Years ago…..
I rose up from the nice warm bed I was sleeping in, the night before I arrived at Voku's door not sure if he would take me in, after agreeing to train me he allowed me to sleep the night, training was supposed to start early this day so I was very quick to throw my clothes on and get outside. After pulling my shirt down I exited the room and entered the living area.
Voku was standing motionless on the floor, his eyes were a bright white and his whole body perfectly still, I sat across from him at the table, eyeing some fruit I snatched up an apple rather quickly and began to chomp through it, I heard shuffling and saw that Voku had risen from his sitting position, his eyes back to the strange purple like color they were.
Smiling he said," Well your sure up early, did you need something?" My face must have looked surprise because he chuckled and quickly continued," Just kidding, I know we are training I don't forget things easily, so meet me outside in about fifteen minutes, then our first power training will begin, finish that apple first though, you need your nutriance for a healthy body."
Heading outside he left me to finish, it took only another minute before I was finished with the apple and carefully threw it away, leaving the house I followed the stone path that lead around the house, there was some kind of large building behind it, one I hadn't noticed when I first arrived, slowly pushing the door open I spotted Voku standing there waiting.
After another few minutes of waiting he said," Alright first like all tradition you will tell me your name and then you will bow before your master or trainer." I did as he told and then waited for his next command, he smiled and said," Alright Buttercup, first things first we never go by true names in this dojo, outside yes, but not inside of the dojo, my name is Death in this room, you dear Buttercup shall be called Desert Bloom."
Questioning I asked," Why am I Desert Bloom?" He twirled his hand and said," Well lets see, from what I have picked up from researching Buttercup, the Powerpuff girl was a brutish type of fighter, but that you have soft spot for certain things. The Desert is an unforgiving rude place sort of the brute of the world, but the Bloom shows that you have beauty, maybe you don't show it but you are full of a deep beauty that anyone would crave."
His reasoning was pretty good after thinking about it, he described me better then I could have, shaking my head I remained focused, he continued," Alright, the first thing we shall do is learn to focus all of your energy, alright first take a fighting stance!" As instructed I did as told, standing my ground I readied myself.
He nodded his head and said," alright I want you to block my attack alright?" I smiled thinking," Wow does he know who I am?" He stood for a minute, surveying him I watched for any weak points, if he had one he clearly hid it well, he struck rather quickly faster then I thought, I flung my hands up and blocked his fist, I was joyed at first, but suddenly a rush of pain shot up my system and I crashed to the ground.
Tilting my head up his other hand had struck me in the stomach, but that didn't explain the pain I felt, he put his hand out and helped me up, he said," Alright now, you see what I did there is I faked with one hand while I stored up my energy into the other and the reaction of most after blocking ot hitting someone is that they get cocky which is the perfect time to strike, now do what I did, first charge your energy and then release it at me in one punch, or even a blast it doesn't really matter, just remember charge up your energy don't just throw it willy-nilly, now go!"
I closed my eyes, blocking out all sound I waited, I could here my energy flowing I could here every individual breath that I took, concentrating hard I sent my energy down into my right hand, all the energy began to flow wildly. I opened my eyes as I charged at him, he stood his ground preparing fro the assault, needless to say I don't think even he quite expected what happened, I know I certainly wasn't.
I my fist made contact, a strange almost field ruptured around him and he was sent flying back through the forest, taking down several large trees in the way. Suddenly his appearance was very startling, and to say the least scary, he still had a smile, but were there was one side of his cheek and smile was on just gone, I could see through his face and could see his teeth, bones, gums anytihn that would have been hidden.
That was merely on the right side, on the left side his eyelid was gone and the skin around it peeled away showing into his skull and his eyes which moved as freely as the other eyes, he smiled again but this time pushed his tongue out of the opening in the side of his face, he said," Well that was totally unexpected, I really didn't think that you could get my body to turn into second state like that, you sure are powerful kid!"
The strange field appeared and his form appeared, placing a hand on my shoulder he said," you see I have three forms, only two that I can activate in the mortal plain, this form, my original form and my second form which you just had the pleasure of meeting. Alright after seeing the power you possess I think it is time to learn to boil down your anger into raw energy, alright you do a similar trick as I just showed you, but instead you focus all the anger you have into a certain area and release it, now before you run off and practice these moves, there is one last move I want you personally to master, I call it The Dorment Dragon, you see what you do is you pretty much at the beginning of a fight you charge up lots of your energy into a point, my favorite being the mouth beam because it is like fire like dragons breathe, and then after continues charging you allow yourself to hold it there and fight without wasting that energy until your opponent completely drops there guard and then strike, is this understood these are the three tasks you will work on every day until you master them."
I nod my head and bow to him, I say," thank you master I hope that the training keeps on going well, please enjoy your time while I'm gone, I'll be back real soon so you might as well get in some fun while you can!" He chuckled to himself and then shooed me off, I could already tell this training was going to be fun.
Present…..
Nodding my head quickly and super happily I shout," Yes I would love to visit Townsville once again, I know u won't be staying forever but to visit there again would probably bring back some good old times, he smiled and said," Alright then, get anything you wish to bring and get ready, I will leave as soon as your ready, and then off we shall go!"
Bubbles' POV
It was a bit chilly out, but the Professor and Mojo didn't mind watching us as we played into the snow, after Buttercup left Mojo decided that since we couldn't find her that he would have to find something else to do, he truly wanted to take over, but after a long talk he became interested in working in revolutionary science.
Blossom graduated from high school two years ago, the only reason she was playing with me was because I continued bothering her about it, Mojo and the Professor both found it really amusing but I think Blossom will deal with them later, of course she is probably taking the whole removing our powers thing seriously still, about a year ago the Professor made startling evidence that stated that if out powers stayed how they were, then we would not live past thirty, of course we decided to cut our powers, I mean who would have attacked, the villains pretty much resigned from villainy after it became pointless.
Blossom was concerned that Him rarely ever came out of his dimension, he never caused chaos and he certainly didn't taunt us anymore, we thought we saw Him on a dark night a few days back but it could have been anyone, I thought Him just died but Blossom says he is just in hiding or just plain bummed out that the villains quit.
I glanced at the Professor and Mojo they were both talking about the particle generator that would increase revenue and could potentially end world hunger of course most of their inventions had been for smaller things they were trying to fix a large scale problem now, I could only hope that they wouldn't go over board, my consantration was halted by a snow ball, the war had begun!
HIM's POV
Blossom and Bubbles were rather amusing to watch as they toyed with the snow and pelted eachother with snowballs but at the moment I was just gloom, after five years of waiting and there was still no sing of Buttercup, I had almost given up, when I finally noticed that my screen was flickering, obviously curious I activated the screen.
My smile finally came back, after five years there she was, more grown up then remembered but you could tell without a doubt that it was her, I was relieved that boredom would not kill me, until I saw him…. Of all the people that she had to be with it was Voku, I nearly blasted the screen, shouting I said," What is he doing here, and why is she with him, Voku when I get my claws on you!"
The familiar pink smoke formed around me and I was quickly gone, entering the town I gazed down to the two unsuspecting duo that were obviously distracted with something, slowly floating down I placed a claw on both of there shoulders, both giving a startled jump from my intrusion, I whispered," Long time no see to the both of you?"
Buttercup and Voku turned, Voku sighing with relief while Buttercup glared at me, I smiled and said," What you going you going to hit me, or call the Cowerpuff Girls to come and help you?" she glared and said," You know I wouldn't call… wait did you call them the Cowerpuff girls?" I nodded and said," Oh poor Buttercup doesn't know, well you see Buttercup, your sisters gave up there powers and crime fighting to become regular for a chance, infact everyone in the town has given up on there ways… All but you and me!"
At first I could tell she didn't know what to say, but she found her voice and said," So then your saying there are no more villains or heroes besides you and me, what happened to change so much?" I smiled widely and said simply," You happened Buttercup, the day you left everything changed. You see after two months every last person in town was looking for you, the villains wanted a worthy fight, the people wanted there hero back, and the girls wanted there sister, and they could have easily found you too!"
She flared after I said that and responded," And how would they have done that, or could they have?" I pointed to myself and said," I could have told them, I knew were you were the whole time I just allowed you your little retreat, if they dragged you back here you never would have survived so I didn't allow them to find you for the soul purpose of being the one who gets to defeat you!"
Confused she asked," But why do you want to fight me, can't you just take over and win like you always wanted to?" I simply shook my head and responded," I don't want to just take over Buttercup, without you here I would die." She asked startled," What do you mean?" I smiled shaking my claw," You see Buttercup, I thrive for battle when I fight I also grow stronger afterwards, but five years of working out and practicing just as you have is going to make the final battle so much more vigorous, so what do you say, will you allow me the fight of a life time?"
