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One week later Jason, Rodd, Louise, and Brock all stood in front of Chief Ryan, ready to receive their first mission. The chief was speaking to the group, "you four will be a group for this mission. This missions is simple, and will probably be one you do almost constantly. Your mission is to hunt for yourselves and for others. Hunting is not only a good skill to know for while you are on missions, but there are also many members of the tribe who are too old, too busy, or otherwise unable to hunt for food for themselves, and they must be fed. So you are going to head east from the village and hunt in the woods there until you have a sufficient amount of meat. When you finish take the meat to the meat distributor, who will make sure it gets to where it needs to go.
Louise, the designated leader of the group replied, "Yes, we will leave now." the group of young warriors then left and headed to the east edge of the village.
"Too bad Ackos couldn't be here," Rodd said as the group ran by the huts and paths of the village.
"Yeah, but he has to take some extra time to heal his hand," Jason replied. Louise looked down as the comment was said. She was oddly sad that Ackos couldn't join them on this mission.
The group left the village and headed into the forest, they kept a fast pace for some time, putting some distance between them and the village. When they were far enough for the village they slowed down to a walk. It wasn't long before they spotted some deer grazing in the forest.
Brock tried to approach them without waiting for Louise's orders. He was able to get about 30 feet from the deer, before he stepped on a twig, alerting the deer. Jason, who had been sneaking up on them unnoticed, charged, still silent, and karate chopped a deer in the neck, snapping it instantly. Brock was surprised, "how were you able to be so quiet?" he asked.
"Easy, I have had to hunt for myself for years to survive. I guess looking after yourself has it's advantages," Jason answered. Rodd was quite impressed, he didn't know his still somewhat new friend had such skill at hunting. Jason then heard a growl from behind him. It seems a pack of wolves had been stalking the herd that Brock just scared off. Six wolves were now surrounding Jason and Brock. Jason looked at Brock, "you ready for some exercise?" Brock nodded, and charged a wolf. Jason did the same, kicking one into a tree, knocking it out. Two wolves then tried to charge Jason, but he was too fast for them. Jason dodged out of the way, and the wolves crashed into each other. Jason then kicked both up into the air, then he caught each of them by their fur. Jason then threw the two wolves into each other full force, killing both of them. Jason then looked and saw that Brock had beaten the other three.
Louise approached the two, "I didn't tell you two to move in on the deer," she scolded. Jason and Brock piled the wolves on the deer.
"Now then," Jason said thoughtfully, "we need to find a way to hide these until we can come back for them and take them back home. Any ideas?" Before anyone could respond Jason heard a beep come from Louise.
The scouter had been given to louise because she was the leader, and the Tribe of Fire didn't have enough scouters for every saiyan to get one. "Power level of 75 coming from..." Louise paused, then pointed, "over there!" As she pointed, a roar was heard in that direction. The earth began to shake as a tyrannosaurus emerged from the forest, towering above the four warriors.
"Darn it!" exclaimed Rodd, "looks like he is hungry too!" The tyrannosaur charged the warriors, lunging his head, mouth agape, at them. The four warriors jumped in all different directions to avoid the monstrous head. Rodd was the first to retaliate, crashing his body into the dinosaur's torso. The giant staggered, but did not fall, and responded by sweeping it's tail at Rodd, sending him flying. Jason then headbutted the t-rex in the chin, then Brock lunged at the beast, sending his right fist into it's stomach. The behemoth fell backward, the earth trembling when it hit the ground.
"We need a plan!" Louise, the only one not yet involved in the fighting, yelled at her comrades.
"This is the plan!" Brock yelled back, "we kick this thing's butt and take it home to be cooked up." Jason slid his foot into the tyrannosaur's foot, causing it to stumble, but the dinosaur caught itself, and tried to step on Jason, Jason did a barrel roll to get out of the monstrous foot's way.
Louise continued to hang back, watching for a weak spot in the behemoth's defenses. She motioned for Jason and Rodd to strike the t-rex's calves. They both smashed into the backs of the tyrannosaur's legs, and the monster fell to the ground. Louise jumped into the air and fired an energy wave into the dino's neck, piercing it and breaking the spike and trachea, paralyzing it and causing it to drown in it's own blood. It didn't take long for the mighty beast to die, and after it was louise walked up to it and put her right foot on the beast in a sort of victory pose, "well, that was easy enough."
Rodd smiled, "now we definitely have enough meat to take back home!" he exclaimed.
Jason bent over, his hands on his knees, breathing somewhat hard, "that thing was pretty strong," he heaved.
Brock smiled, "It wasn't that strong, but then again, neither are you," he teased.
Jason turned to his comrade, "no, I'm n..." Jason stopped when he saw something whizz past, right in front of his face. It was a small projectile, but Jason wasn't sure exactly what it was. Suddenly several more whizzed by, and as everyone ducked behind trees for cover Jason remembered what those projectiles were. He had only seen them a couple of times, when dynes had taught them about human technology. It was a bullet. Jason looked over to where the bullets were coming from and saw that there were half a dozen humans, all armed, most with smaller, single-handed weapons, but a couple had larger weapons held with two hands.
Then the bullets stopped, Jason looked around the tree to see that the group of humans was moving towards the group of saiyans. One of the humans tried speaking to the saiyans, "we mean you no harm," he said to them.
Louise came out from behind the tree she was hiding behind, "could have fooled us!" she exclaimed.
"My apologies," said a tall, tan human, "we are nomads traveling through this land, and we saw the tyrannosaurus. We did not mean to shoot at you." The group of humans pointed their weapons towards the ground as a sign of ceasefire. Jason noticed they weren't all adults, as would be expected of a hunting party or war party, but that there were about two dozen children behind the adults. The tall human, obviously the leader, continued, "We have move from place to place to escape the tyranny of our home."
Brock had a solemn look on his face, "you shouldn't have come into saiyan domain," he said, "saiyans and humans are enemies." The humans gasped at the realization that the group of saiyans in front of them were just that. Brock charged at the leader, punching him through his gut, killing him. The remaining humans either fled or began shooting the saiyans. It was chaos, and bullets flew everywhere. One of the bullets hit Jason in the shoulder. He fell over in pain. Louise and Brock were able to dodge the bullets, and Brock was even able to a couple of humans out. When the last of the humans had fled or were killed by Brock, and the forest calmed once again, Louise confronted Brock, "what the heck was that?" she demanded. She was quite angry to say the least.
Brock walked up to her and looked her right in the eyes, "They were humans, and humans are the enemies of saiyans," he said, "I was eliminating, or rather, weakening, a possible threat to our tribe."
"They were little threat to us! With their numbers and weapons they were barely a threat to us, a small group of new graduates," Louise countered.
Rodd interrupted before the argument could escalate any further, "I think we need to get back, Jason here might need some medical attention." Rodd was leaning over Jason, who was still on the ground from when he got hit by a bullet.
Jason slowly got up and said, "I'm fine, I can see myself back to the village." Jason was putting pressure on with wound with his hand to stop the bleeding.
Louise recomposed herself, "fine, nothing we can do about it now anyways. Jason, you just worry about getting yourself back to the village." Louise walked over to the tyrannosaurus rex and picked it up by it's torso, though it's limbs and tail were still dragging on the ground, "I'll take this. Rodd and Jason, you two split up the wolves and the deer." The group began the long walk home. They continued to hold off the onslaught of nature, getting a few more kills along the way. When the group reached the village jason broke off the head to the medical center.
When he was almost to the huts that made up the medical center he ran into someone he knew well, "hey, Ackos!" he said.
"Hey what's up Ja... whoa what happened?" Ackos asked, concerned for his friend's wounded shoulder.
"long story, but the blood loss is making it hard to walk," Jason said as he stumbled a little bit.
"Here, let me help," Ackos said. Not waiting for Jason's reply Ackos put Jason's arm over his shoulder and helped lead Jason to the medical center. Jason began to protest, insisting he could do it himself, but eventually gave in to Ackos' persistence. Ackos was still out of work because of his hand, but he was still capable of most feats, such as helping Jason in this instance. Jason was suddenly very thankful for Ackos' help. He was one of the only two people Jason felt he could show any weakness to, the other being Ranorm.
Jason told Ackos about his first mission on the way to the medical huts and Ackos replied, "seems like your day was much more interesting than mine, all I have been doing is sitting at home, and just strolling around the village."
When the pair reached the medical center Jason got patched up, and Ackos' hand got checked on. Jason was given the rest of the week off to heal and the two saiyans went off and spent the rest of the day hanging out.
The group with the food dropped it off at the food distributor's and reported back to Chief Ryan about the hunt's events. After they explained what happened the chief spoke, "well, I will inform the border guards and all future patrols about the invading group of nomads." He then turned to Brock, "while you we probably right to chase them off, next time don't be so hasty and listen to your leader." After that the young fighters had the rest of the day to train.
And so ends the Graduation Saga. Now we can finally get on to a Saga with an actual plot that means something. Please review, and thank you to those of you who have reviewed my work in the past. There seems to have been some confusion from some of those who have read my fiction. First the setting is just the Tribe of Fire in a random large forest on earth. Second, they are training for the most part simply for the protection of the tribe and it's members, as well as asserting their tribe's dominance on others.
Q: Speaking of Ranorm, what is the age difference between him and the students?
A: Ranorm is 13 years older than Jason and his friends
And here are the Graduation Saga power levels:
Chief Ryan: 900
Kyle: 800
Jason: 43
-After fight with Rodd: 53
Ackos: 69
-After fight with Louise: 81
Louise: 104
-After fight with Ackos: 122
Saruna: 34
Brock: 95
Legan: 190
-After fight with Estar: 223
Estar: 129
-Kamehameha: 150
-After fight with Legan: 152
Rodd: 61
-After fight with Jason: 71
Dynes: 252
Ranorm: 322
Etock(45 years old): 630
Tyrannosaurus: 75