Restoring Hana Valley
Vegeta just rolled his eyes. This was deja vu. Susano lunged at the first fire pillar.
Susano: "SU!"
Quickly, Vegeta drew a line across the fire pillar and cut it in two.
Susano: "SA!"
Susano then lunged at the next one and Vegeta once again cut it in two.
Susano: "NO!"
He lunged for the last one and Vegeta cut that one as well.
Susano: "SUSANO!"
Then Susano turned to the bear.
Susano: "Now for Susano - Style... Exploding Implosion!!!"
Vegeta held back as much power as he could and slashed at the bear to his great distaste. The bear only felt a slap and woke up surprised. When the leaf landed back on its head, the bear rubbed his eye, groaned and fell off of the crystal.
Susano: "Hm? Aha ha ha ha ha ha! That'll teach you, you foolish beast! You're no match for my new secret technique!"
Issun and Vegeta: "... ..."
Vegeta walked up to Susano and tilted his head. Susano looked away form the bear and saw Vegeta looking at him.
Susano: cough cough "Um... Um... Rest in peace, foul beast. The great warrior Susano condemns the offense, not the offender. Anyway, there are other monsters I must deal with! (Running off) Aha ha ha ha ha ha!"
Vegeta watched on with an eyebrow raised and his head tilted. That was his usual confused/stunned look. He didn't even notice Issun had hopped off of him.
Vegeta: "And this guys ancestor was a hero?"
Issun: "That's what I've been saying for years. Look at this! This crystal sphere is filled with leaves."
Issun hopped back onto Vegeta when the saiyan came up. Vegeta placed his hand on the sphere and looked at it closely.
Issun: "Is this sphere used in a ritual for a good harvest or something? Hey, didn't that wall painting have a sphere-like object in it?"
Vegeta thought back to the wall painting. It did have a sphere in it. He stood up on his back feet and began to roll the crystal ball out. Finally, Vegeta rolled the sphere into the cave opening. Now all Vegeta had to do was get it up to the ledge with the water, witch meant he had to roll this sphere up a small sloped path. So he rolled the sphere to the edge and carefully began to roll it up the path. It was slow going but he finally got it to the top and into the water. The second the crystal hit the water, it was raised up by a water spout.
Issun: "Wow, someone had a lotta time on their hands to think all this up. So this WAS that sphere in that wall painting! I bet this sphere here is magic or something!"
Behind them was a waterfall and the sky above it. Vegeta drew a circle on it where the sky was and the sun appeared before them. The light hit the sphere and a dazzling green ray shot forth from the crystal and hit the tiny tree in the center. Before their very eyes the tree grew and grew into a giant tree. Some plants sprang forth with it as well.
Issun: "Hey, is this a Guardian Sapling!? It's all withered like the others."
Suddenly the sky grew dark, and a starry beam of light shined on Vegeta.
Issun: "What the!? Who turned out the lights? Oh... It's another constellation, Geta!"
Vegeta looked up and indeed saw a constellation. It had three stars and two was missing. Eager to meet this god, Vegeta replaced the two stars and the constellation was complete. The god spun around and around with a golden instrument in its hands and stopped in front of Vegeta. It was one of the three flora gods Sakigami, god of Bloom.
Sakigami: "Ah... Amaterasu. Origin of all that is good and mother to us all... My gratitude for releasing my body from its slumber. Please accept my humble thanks in return for your great kindness. I am Sakigami, one of the triumvirate of flora gods known as the Hanagami. My brethren and I have been entrusted with the brush techniques known collectively as Greensprout. I now grant my humble power to you. Use it wisely."
Sakigami disappeared and vegeta obtained the power of Bloom.
Issun: "That was Sakigami, one of the gods of flora! Apparently, the Bloom brush technique can make flowers blossom simply by drawing a circle on a withered tree. Hey! Maybe it'll make the withered Guardian Saplings blossom, too!"
Seeing what Issun was getting at, Vegeta smiled with his usual confidence and called the scroll up. He drew a circle on the withered Guardian Sapling and the tree sprang to life with cherry blossoms. Suddenly, the land around the tree sprang fourth and traveled all over Hana Valley. The beauty of the land returned. Hana Valley was restored. The Guardian Sapling rewarded Vegeta by giving him praise and the saiyan prince felt more of his strength return.
Issun: "Wow! Look at how everything grew back so quick! Sakuya wasn't kidding about the power of the Guardian Saplings! So this is what Hana Valley's supposed to look like... Seems Sakuya's Guardian Sapling has lifted the evil curse. I'm not sure how weak the gods have become recently... But it must've taken some wickedly strong power to suppress this magnificent Guardian Sapling."
Vegeta: "I'll say!"
Issun: "Even if you are Shiranui reborn..."
Vegeta: "Oh! Not this again!"
Issun: "We might be up against more than we bargained for! Hey, Geta! What about that withered Guardian Sapling outside!? I bet you could revive it like you did this one! And by bringing that Guardian Sapling back to life, we might be able to lift the curse there, too!"
Vegeta: "And my strength."
Issun: "What are we waiting for? Leap before you think, right!?"
Vegeta headed back the way he came. He followed the clean water as it flowed back to where he last saw Piccolo, Dende, Riverdance and Krillin. However, when Vegeta got back to them...
Piccolo: "VEGETA LOOK OUT!!!"
The same Imps that had attacked him when his leg was broken were back. But this time Vegeta could move around. He took care of the big yellow Imp first since it was stronger than the other ones. Then Vegeta attacked the green Imps and defeated them easily. When the battle was over, the area sprang back to life. This time however some animals, pigs, appeared with the flowers as well and Vegeta gained a small amount of praise. The saiyan grinned as he walked over to Piccolo.
Vegeta: "Say what now, Piccolo?"
Piccolo: "Why am I not surprised."
Something however caught Vegeta's attention. It was actually someone that wasn't there.
Vegeta: "Where's Dende and that woman?"
Krillin: "They went back to the Lookout and Piccolo and I stayed here to wait for you. We wanted to make sure you were ok."
Vegeta: "Well I am. And you were right Piccolo. When I restored that Guardian Sapling, some of my strength returned."
Piccolo: "Good to know. You better hurry and restore the other one just outside the valley."
Vegeta: "Good point. Krillin when you head back to Kakarot and the others, could you tell Val about how bad the curse is?"
Krillin: "Will do."
Vegeta ran off. He didn't go far when he came up to the very tree that broke his leg.
Issun: "That creepy tree just won't give up. I've got an idea, Geta! Maybe you could hit its fruit right back at it! And while it's stunned, you could use Bloom to rid it of evil."
The tree started to spin. It soon released its fruit at Vegeta, but the saiyan used Power Slash on the fruit and launched it back at it. While the tree was stunned, Vegeta used Bloom on it and the tree was restored back to normal. He walked up to it and tapped it while smiling.
Vegeta: "That was pay back for braking my leg."
Feeling avenged, Vegeta left the tree and traveled back to the bridge. However, there was a cursed patch of grass in front of it.
Issun: "Whoa, Geta, hold on! Hana Valley looks so much better now, but... What about this gloomy patch of grass? You can use the power of Bloom to fill it in. Just fill it with your brush, and Bloom will take care of it!"
Vegeta called the scroll up and covered the cursed patch with ink. When he was done, the grass came back to life. Vegeta crossed the bridge and headed back, taking care of the two cursed trees along the way and restoring the normal withered trees as well. When Vegeta got to the bottom of the hill, he found the drunken Imps again. With more of his strength restored to him, Vegeta defeated them in no time. This time, the area that failed to return before did return to normal.
