Traveling as fast as his powers of flight would allow him to, James took Will to be checked out at the same hospital that, by pure coincidence, Cho had taken Aida to for her injuries.
When James came barging through the front doors of the hospital with an unconscious Will in his arms, a few of the staff, patients, and other people that were in the waiting room jumped in panic. When one of the nurses saw this monkey-tailed man holding another person like him in his arms and quickly called for a doctor to come and help.
One of the hospital's doctors, an older looking gentleman, showed up with two more of the nurses pushing a medical cart. They helped James set Will down on the cart and quickly rushed him to an available room.
After getting Will in a bed, the doctor asked James for an explanation of just what exactly happened, so he explained "Uh... Will was one of the finalists for the World's Strongest Fighter tournament. You know what that is, right? I fought in it too actually... Whatever. We were getting something to eat after his fight when... he suddenly collapsed."
The middle-aged man looked at James skeptically and asked him "What exactly is you're relation to this man?" James felt like he was being accused of something, so he responded to the doctor in an honest, yet still defensive tone "I'm his brother. Why do you ask?"
The doctor rubbed his beard and replied to this in a satisfied tone, "Well, you two don't really look that much alike-" Glancing quickly at James' Saiyan features, the old man continued with his sentence, "Aside from your odd... features... I'll have to ask you about that once I've examined your brother and found out if he has any permanent injuries."
The short haired, Saiyan bodied Human looked concerned when the doctors said this, so he asked him "Is he gonna be okay?!" The medical professional opened one of Will's eyes, shined a surgical flashlight in it, and then responded "Aside from some bruises, I can't see anything obviously wrong with him, but we'll need to run a few quick examinations, just to make sure. Please wait out in the hallway while I do."
James gave the unconscious Will a quick, but concerned glance, before telling this doctor in a much more passive tone of voice "Of course, I understand, sir."
About a half hour later, after the doctor and his nurses had finished examining Will, he left to find his patient's brother, and was a bit surprised when he immediately saw the man he was looking for, pacing outside of the room.
When James saw Will's doctor leave his room, he quickly rushed up to him and, in a worried tone of voice, he asked "Is Will alright?!" The doctor gave off a calming smile for James while patting his shoulder, and replied soothingly "Your brother just passed out from a combination of stress and overexerting his wounds. He should be fine in just a few hours. But he shouldn't be exerting himself too much for the next couple of days."
Even though his concerns were eased by this, James couldn't help but think to himself in a guilty tone "Well, that's a relief... but I... if I'd just waited to see that stupid fight, and stopped Cho and Aida, then none of this would've even happened in the first place!"
Noticing that the young man had become lost in thought, the older man gave off a clearly fake, yet attention grabbing cough. James, instantly noticing the doctor's attention grab, snapped out of his little pool of self-loathing and turned to face him.
The physician, while glancing back and forth between James' black eyes and his monkey tail, asked the young fighter in a genuinely curious tone "So, like I said, I have to ask; why do you and your brother have monkey tails and black eyes? Also, why were you both entered in a fighting tournament?"
Without any sign of hesitation, James responded to the doctor's question by casually explaining "In all honesty, I have have no idea why we were born this way, but these tails give us an edge in the balance department, so we thought we'd give professional fighting a shot."
The doctor, having bought James' bluff, nodded his head and said to him in a satisfied tone "If you really don't know, then I guess I'll have to be satisfied with that answer. Thank you for your time; now please excuse me, I have some other patients that I need to check up on."
After the medical specialist had turned around the corner of the hospital hallway, James collapsed into one of the chairs in the hallway, let out a sigh of relief, and thought to himself in a panicking tone "Oh, thank God! I can't believe he actually bought that."
Later in the day. James made his way to the waiting room and had been sitting in a bit of a depression the entire time, however, desperately wanting to put his mind on other subjects, he decided to look up at the clock on the wall of the waiting room. After seeing that he had been waiting at the hospital for three hours, he asked himself in confusion "What the-? Where the heck are Kyle, Leo and Cho? They should've gotten here by now!... I mean, they should've, shouldn't they?"
Just as the young fighter finished his internal questions, three people with serious injuries were carted into the hospital from the street. James heard one of the staff mention something about a mugging and serious injuries, so, out of curiosity, the Saiyan bodied Human decided to get a better look at the victims as they were being carted off to the emergency room.
When he saw the victims, James' heart skipped a beat, because, much to his horror, he saw that these people were Kyle, Cho, and Leo. Having become overwhelmed with concern and fear, the horrified fighter started running alongside the nurses that were carting his friends off to be examined.
As soon as James and the medical staff reached the rooms that Kyle, Leo and Cho would be recovering in, the terrified young warrior grabbed the collar of one of the doctors, a women looking to be in her mid-thirties, and asked her in an anxious tone "What happened to them!? Are they alright?!"
The frightened doctor grabbed onto James' superhuman arms, in an attempt to get him to let go, while giving him an explanation in a calming, yet nervous tone "They, uh... They were assaulted on the street and got some pretty bad injuries. I can't say for sure how long it will take for them all to recover."
After hearing this, James' pupils dilated as he thought to himself in disbelief "Assaulted?! Who'd be stupid enough to attack them?!... Wait, no! Who on Earth could be strong enough to do this to them?! Nothing's supposed to be able to hurt us anymore!"
The nurses eventually got James to calm down, let go of their colleague, and told him that he needed to wait out in the hallway so that they could operate on his friends and see just how bad their injuries really were.
A few tense hours of waiting had past by, and the old doctor that James spoke about Will to earlier had been informed that another person with black eyes and a monkey tail had shown up at the hospital. Not having any patients that he needed to attend to at the time, the doctor decided to track down James.
After finding his monkey-tailed acquaintance, the physician greeted him in a joking yet sympathetic tone of voice "Hello there. I see you're waiting on another relative of yours'. Just how many of your brothers are in this hospital anyway?"
James was visibly annoyed by that remark and asked the doctor in a tone that matched his mood "Could you make yourself useful and check on how they're doing?!"
The medical professional was a little caught off-guard by this response, but he quickly recomposed himself and replied in a calming tone "No worries, young man. I can take care of that for you." He quickly went into Kyle's hospital room and came back out just a few moments later.
The doctor, while carrying the backpack that James had left behind when he flew off with Will, explained to the black-eyed young man while giving him a comforting smile "They'll be fine; don't worry, son. No permanent injuries, so it should only take them three days tops to fully recover. Oh, and they had, what I'm guessing, is your backpack with them." The middle-aged man then handed James his backpack, prompting him to respond in a somewhat apologetic tone "Oh, thank you..."
About a half an hour later, James was still sitting in the hallway outside of Kyle's room when suddenly, a mostly recovered Will walked around the hallway corner and towards James.
As soon as he got into earshot of his brother, Will yelled over to James in a grateful tone "Hey there, James! Thanks for flying me here. I checked up on Aida before I came looking for you; the doctors said that she's healing up surprisingly quickly and it should only be about three weeks until she makes a full recovery!... So, what're you doing over here, anyways?"
Looking at the ground in disappointment, James took a moment to collect his thoughts, before explaining to Will "... I don't know what actually happened, but here's what I've heard. After I'd flown off to get you here, someone came by and attacked Kyle, Leo, and Cho. Somehow, this guy beat them all senseless... And now they're recuperating here. The doctors said it'll take a few days or so for Kyle to recover."
Having not followed this explanation, Will cocked his head and stated in frustration "Okay, that makes absolutely no sense! No one on Earth could ever hurt us! Who IS this guy?! Where's he now?!"
Shrugging indignantly, James answered Will's question in annoyance "I just told you that I don't actually know what happened! I'm just repeating what I heard! Sheesh."
Clenching his fist in frustration for a moment, Will calmed himself down and apologized to James "Sorry about that. I just can't understand how this happened. Didn't mean to yell at you."
Smirking calmly, James reassured his big brother "Hey, it's fine. I'm just as confused and upset about this whole thing as you are."
The two of them spent the next few hours just sitting in the hallway outside of Kyle's room together. After sitting in silence for a while they suddenly heard some commotion coming from inside of the room.
They quickly barged into the hospital room and were surprised to see that a confused looking Kyle was already standing up and was mostly healed up.
Being completely baffled by his friend's quick recovery, Will asked him a question in complete disbelief "What the heck?! Kyle? How the Hell did you heal so quickly?!"
He was still a little hazy at first, so he didn't give an answer right away, but once he came to his senses, Kyle quickly examined himself and responded to Will in a very puzzled tone "I... um... I don't really know to be honest... Uh, by the way, where are we?"
James cocked his eyebrow at his brother's confusion over Kyle's condition, so asked them a question to get some clarity "Wait, have you guys really not noticed the new way we heal now?"
Stopping their conversation, Kyle and Will looked at James, shook their heads and simultaneously asked him "Sorry, what?"
Letting off a fake sigh, while clearly looking a little excited, James started explaining what he was talking about to Kyle and Will "So, haven't you guys noticed that ever since we got our new bodies that we heal faster than when we had Human bodies? Well, even if you guys haven't noticed this, with Leo's... Uuumm... assistance, I've calculated that our new Saiyan bodies can heal approximately three or more times faster than our old Human bodies could, and, since the doctors said it should've taken you three days to heal, it only took your Saiyan body less than a day to heal enough for you to walk on your own again!"
Having found themselves becoming genuinely intrigued by James' quick explanation of Saiyan biology, Will and Kyle both nodded their heads in understanding, that is until Kyle fully snapped back to his senses and remembered what had happened to Leo, Cho and himself.
Suddenly showing a huge amount of fear and panic on his face, Kyle rushed over to James, grabbed his by his shoulders and screamed frantically at him "He took the Dragon Ball!"
James flinched a bit at Kyle's sudden and frantic actions, before responding to him in confusion, while also trying to get him to let go of him "What!? Someone took the Dragon Ball?! Who took it?!"
While releasing his grip on James, Kyle tried to explain what he was talking about, but he was speaking in a very sporadic tone "Some sort of flying lizard monster took it! The thing flew down from a building after you took off with Will, and, then swiped the Dragon Ball out of your backpack before any of us could do anything! Leo, Cho, and I tried fighting it off, but I was still beat up from my fight with Will, and the thing was so strong that it beat all three of us without even really trying!"
Having gained a dismissive look on his face as soon as Kyle mentioned a lizard monster, Will started talking to him in a tone of voice that mixed together disbelief and concern "Um... Kyle, maybe you were just seeing things after our fight. I know that I didn't have the clearest head; heck, during dinner, I thought my soup was talking to me at one point. But, I mean, a 'lizard monster', really? First you talk about some sort of demon when we all met back up, and now a lizard monster?... Maybe some crook just took advantage of the fact that you were hurt and mugged you guys."
Upset at Will's lack of trust, Kyle glared at him for a second while trying to think, but then he asked him a question in an impatient tone "Alright, Will. Let's say that I really am crazy, but would you please explain to me how SOME CROOK managed beat both LEO AND CHO in one hit; and why did he only take the Dragon Ball and nothing else!?" Will honestly couldn't think of an answer to either of these questions, which caused a small amount of concern to form in his mind as he considered the prospect that lizard monsters might be real.
Deciding to see if Kyle was telling truth or was truly talking nonsense, James looked inside of his backpack in search of the Seven Star Ball, and started panicking when he saw that the Dragon Ball was, in fact, the only thing missing from his stuff.
Seeing that his friends were starting to believe him, at least to some degree, Kyle recomposed himself, went over to his hospital room's window, opened it up and exclaimed to James and Will in his leader-voice "Alright, guys! I say that we use the Dragon Ball radar to find that stupid lizard freak, kick his ass to Hell and back, and then retake the Seven Star Ball from his broken body!"
Will smirked in both confidence and amusement at the fervor in Kyle's words, shrugged in an arrogant manner, and stated in a nonchalant tone "Alright, if it turns out that there really is a lizard monster, than this sounds like a fun way to test out the new strength we got from our fight. So, I guess it's time for a monster mash!"
Due to being overcome with excitement at the idea of getting to fight against real life monsters, Kyle and Will were about to hurry out of the window to track down the lizard creature, but, before they could leave, James stopped them in their tracks by yelling out in a concerned tone "Hold on; stop! What are we gonna do about the others if it takes us longer than we hope to find this thing? Leo, Aida, and Cho, kind of, can't exactly come with us right now!"
Unsure of how they should handle this, Kyle and Will were forced to stop and think about what to do in this situation.
After quickly thinking it over, Kyle snapped his finger and said to James in a happy tone "I got it. Let's just put notes on their doors to tell them to wait for us in town, if we really are gone for that long." The three of them quickly went about finding paper, writing messages on said paper, and asking the hospital staff if they could leave these letters in their friends' rooms, before flying off as fast as they could to get their Dragon Ball back from the inhuman thief.
After flying for a little more than an hour, the three of them reached the skies around a mountain range of dead looking, grey hills. As they got closer to these hills, the Dragon Radar told them that this was where they could find the strange lizard creature, or, at the very least, their stolen Dragon Ball.
Despite the two of them being faster than him, Kyle and Will were flying at a slower pace than they'd like, in order to follow James, since he was the one who was operating the Dragon Radar.
Will eventually got tired of this slow pace, sped up to be next to James, and asked him in a blatantly impatient tone "Hey, James; can't me or Kyle hold the radar? We're a bit faster than you after all!"
James looked at Will with annoyance in his eyes for a second, before recomposing himself and replying with an overly friendly smile "Sure thing, Will. Here you go!"
He, then threw Will the radar, but after he caught the magically created device, he examined it for a second, gained a humiliated look, and then handed it back to James, while admitting to him an embarrassed tone "... I have no idea how to work this thing."
James smirked smugly at Will for a second, before telling him in a superior tone of voice "And that's why I'm the one holding the Radar!... Hey, I know that this thing is hard to figure out, it took me about three months before I could figure out how to operate and read it. So, how about I teach you guys how to read this thing after we deal with this, supposed, lizard guy?" Both of his brothers thought that this was a good idea and responded in unison "Sounds good to me!"
When the three brothers were about halfway to where their Dragon Ball had been taken, Kyle, who had been in deep thought for about half of the trip, suddenly blurted out to James and Will, with a very clear level of excitement in his voice "Hey guys, I've been thinking of a name for our fighting group! What do you two think of 'The Dragon Fighters' as a name?" James and Will were both surprised by this out of nowhere suggestion, with Will even having a reserved, almost contemptuous look on his face.
Eventually, James gave Kyle an answer by telling him "That sounds like a good team name to me, but we should also ask what the others think of it first."
After James had said this, Will, having assumed that the reason Kyle had been quite for so long was because he was thinking up ways to fight the lizard monster, asked the unofficial leader of this mission in a somewhat joking tone of voice "So how long did it take you to come up with THAT one, buddy?"
Kyle smiled at Will and replied with honesty "I've been trying to come up with a good name for us since yesterday. I just thought that, since we spend so much of our time concerned about the Dragon Balls, that 'Dragon Fighters' would be a good name."
James and Will, neither of whom were actually expecting Kyle to give a well thought out answer to this question, just gave him a slightly surprised look before saying in unison "Huh..."
After another hour or so of flight, the three 'Dragon Fighters' had finally gotten to where their Dragon Ball had been taken to. They wound up arriving at a giant temple that looked like it was a cross between an ancient Chinese castle and a Roman colosseum, and was hidden in the middle of three large, ominous mountains.
When they landed in front of this impressive looking structure, Kyle whistled and exclaimed in a tone of amazement "Wow, whoever this lizard monster works for must be loaded!"
Due to the sight of this giant castle, James was starting to fully except that his friends had actually been attacked by, an honest to God, lizard monster, so, to coup with this realization, he quickly started to examine the Dragon Radar in an attempt to get his mind off of this.
As he looked at the Radar, his pupils dilated in shock; although, due to the black color of his irises, you couldn't tell by looking at him; as he pointed at the castle and yelled to Kyle and Will "Guys; all seven of the Dragon Balls are here at this temple! Whoever took our Dragon Ball has been busy collecting the rest of them as well!"
Hearing this, Will cracked his knuckles, as well as his neck, while stating in a serious, yet cocky tone "Really? Well, that's good. I guess that means we can wish Aida's dad back to life sooner than we thought!"
Feeling a little uncomfortable with the idea of just taking the other Dragon Balls from whoever spent the time collecting them, James asked Will "Don't you think it's rude to just take the wishes from someone who went through the trouble of collecting the Dragon Balls?"
Kyle, deciding to stop an argument before it could break out, quickly pointed out to James in a calm and collected tone of voice "Well, this guy got the last of the Dragon Balls by sicking his pet monster on us, so I think we have a right to at least one of the wishes. Besides, we're the guardians of Earth now, so we have to make sure that no one uses the Dragon Balls for evil! So, let's keep our power levels hidden and get in there!" James' worries were put to rest by Kyle's little speech, and he quickly got himself ready to go as the three of them walked into the castle.
The three Human minded Saiyans made their way through the mysterious castle as fast as they could, running down elegantly decorated, but poorly lit hallway after hallway, and soon could hear voices echoing through the halls of this large structure.
Slowing down to a brisk walk, the three of them listened to the sound of a loud, deep and imposing voice ask, whoever it was talking to, in a friendly tone "So, Kulion; I see that you got the Seven Star Dragon Ball from the monkey boys! Did you have fun fighting them, my son?" The sound of Kulion's voice replied to this question in a disappointed tone "My king, I'm sorry to say that I did go and fight them after the tournament was over, but they were not stronger, they were weaker!"
As started to reach the end of the last hallway and as the source of the voices was getting closer, Will could see bright light coming from around the corner, as well as some pillars lining the walls that lead into whatever room was around the corner, So he turned to look at his friends and quietly told them "Follow me guys. We'll make our presence known when the time is right." Doing as Will ordered, the three of them quickly began to sneak behind the pillars.
Meanwhile. Around the corner, in, what looked like, a throne room. The King that Kulion was speaking to was confused by the lizard creature's explanation of the events that transpired at first, but then let out an amused laugh before saying with slight sympathy in his voice "What I meant for you to do was wait for them to heal and then attack them, my child!"
When Kulion heard this, he got on his knees and wailed in despair to his father "OH NO! I'm so sorry, my king, I misunderstood your orders!" The King again laughed and reassured Kulion in an actual loving tone of voice "It's not a problem, my son. The end goal was to get the Seven Star Dragon Ball and that's just what you did! I was Just trying to give you something fun to do while you were on your mission, my boy."
Without any warning, Kyle, Will and James jumped out from behind the decorative pillars in this room that they'd been using as cover, in an overly dramatic fashion, with Kyle shouting out in a commanding tone of voice as he landed "I believe that Dragon Ball you're talking about belongs to us!"
The three Human minded Saiyans, quickly dropped their threatening postures, due to how surprised they were by the sight of what was in front of them. Two other strange monsters, aside from that Kulion creature, were standing around a large flight of stairs that had a throne at the top; and sitting on the throne itself, there was another one of these strange creatures.
The one standing on the left of the throne was a giant, big bellied, Human\bear hybrid, wearing, what looked like, ancient armor from Rome. The one to the right of the throne was a short and muscular creature that looked like a Human\bat hybrid, this one was just wearing old, lightly torn up clothing.
The creature that was sitting on the throne itself looked sort of like an averaged sized Human, appearing to be in his late sixties, except, he had crimson red skin, pitch black horns on his chin, forehead and elbows, razer sharp teeth and claws, and eyes just like Kulion's.
While Kulion, the bear creature, and the bat creature seemed surprised and ready to fight at the sight of these intruders, the creature sitting on the throne simply smiled at the three Human minded Saiyans standing before him; and addressed them in a very pleasant and friendly tone "Oh, well this a bit of a surprise. Hello there, monkey boys. My name is King Saculon and I am the, soon to be, ruler of this planet!"
Power Levels.
Kyle: 635.(Post healing, but still recovering)
Will: 600.(Post healing, but still recovering)