Chapter 27

Looking at the Saiyans in their cells specifically designed to keep even the most powerful warriors trapped, Salza looked at the still unconscious form of Yami and Turles. The Right hand man of Cooler was watching the two in amazement, never expecting them to be as powerful as they were. "We were lucky we chose to use the tranquilizers. Otherwise I would have lost some of my best men." Turning around to walk out of the room he walked down the hallway and entered another room to see Dore and Neiz already healed up but Core and Falter where still injured.

"How much longer would it take for them to heal?" Salza asked.

"Core and Falter will be ready soon, roughly in an hours' time, they should be ready to fight again."

"We can destroy the planet without them Captain." Dore said.

"We can, but I like to give the planet to send us their strongest warriors, see if they can provide entertainment or even a potential recruit." Salza said turning to leave.

"As you wish Captain Salza." Neiz said. Salza made his way to the command center of his ship where the rest of his crew waited for him.

"Find the highest concentration of power, once my men are recovered we could fight the strongest then capture the rest to hut for sport." The crew shouted with a yes Captain Salza, and did as they were told. Salza sat in the commander's chair and watched as the map of the planet formed and markers signifying high enough power levels appeared all over the planet with a certain huge hot spot. "Locate the top ten highest power levels in the hotspot, tag them and send it to the Armored squad's scouters. We will kill the best and offer the strongest a chance to join us, or we destroy the planet."

Back to the tournament.

The tournament was finally coming to a close as a The girl of 14 who was one of the 1st fighters managed to make it to the finals against another woman of 20. In fact, the fight as coming to an end as the fight reached its peak. The younger Girl fought bravely keeping up with her opponent but then the 20-year-old side stepped one of her punches and maneuvered behind the younger girl as quickly as she could and wrapped her arms around the younger girl and proceeded to Suplex her but just when the other girl was lifted into the air, the younger girl broke free from the other's grip and used the momentum to land on her feet. She was on the edge of the arena and could have been eliminated if she didn't stick her landing. Sadly, despite her best efforts when she looked up she took a Ki blast to the stomach and fell off. The crowd cheered as the older woman stood, exhausted but victorious.

"We have a winner, Cerci!" Xiox announced as people cheered. "Now to follow traditions to remind you how much further you must go you will face the Elder with the least seniority." Soon the victorious smile on Cerci's face faded when Ginny stood up. It would have been a comical sight to see an adult fear a child, but no one dared to call Ginny a child. For she was already the third strongest Elder, and possibly the 4th strongest warrior from the temple. 6th in the world if you counted Yami and Turles.

"You who has fought and championed this tournament, Cerci, Show me your resolve!" Ginny said as she stood before her,

"Well, looks like she is enjoying herself." Tarden whispered with a smirk.

"She does seem to be behaving a little dramatic don't you think?" Gear whispered.

"I wonder where she got it from?" Tarden said amused.

"I wonder who, Oh Prince Tarden son of Prince Vegeta rightful heir of the saiyan…" Gear said mocking the times Tarden spoke dramatically.

"Ok, ok I get it, Do I really sound as arrogant as that?" Tarden said cutting of his brother.

"You don't know the half of it." Gear smirked.

Sure Enough Cerci recovered from her fear and mustered up all the power she could, her power considering what remained was surprisingly high, proving she was stronger than several masters before her. 'A new era indeed,' where the thoughts of several Elders. As Ginny powered up to match the strength of the warrior before her.

"Come!" with that said Ginny stood ready as Cerci charged her, everyone watched with excitement while the Elders watched carefully. Ginny dodged the punches and kicks that Cerci sent her way, before starting to block them and throwing her own light punches and kicks in, most where barely blocked and avoided but the few that did meet their marks hurt Cerci clearly. As tired as the older woman was she wasn't sporting heavy bruises minus a few, but when she and Ginny separated she was now bruised up.

Cerci's arms hurt to move now bruised and swollen from being used to block a direct hit from Ginny. Cerci watched as her own body trembled from the fatigue and pain. Before she looked up at Ginny, who hasn't broken a sweat. It was unfair for her, there is no way that she could catch up to Ginny. Cerci was approaching her prime and Ginny hasn't even reached it.

"Why did you stop." Ginny asked.

"I can't even hit you, and your holding back so much. It seems pointless to try." Cerci said.

"Is your will so easily broken. If I gave up like you I would never be as strong as I am now, nor will I be able to keep up with them." Ginny said looking behind her towards her brother. "Find a way to push yourself otherwise you should give up being a warrior."

Cerci realized what Ginny said was true, looking up to where Gear and Tarden sat she realized if they gave up like she felt like doing now then they wouldn't have been able to defeat Lord Slug. Slapping her own face, the young woman forced herself to draw out her power, she shouted to ignore the pain and the protest of her body as she drew out power she didn't know she had. Then Cerci Charged Ginny with her new found strength when Ginny smirked in approval. Cerci Landed a clean punch and was about to back away when Ginny reached out and grabbed the arm that threw the punch.

"Good just like that." Ginny said as she drew out her true power, after taking the punch without feeling any sign of damage. All the previous contestants and Cerci herself watched in complete awe as Ginny slowly cocked back her own arm to throw a punch. Then as Ginny punched Cerci she stopped a mere fraction of an inch away from the woman, the sudden stopping of the punch causing a burst of wind to blow through cerci and the people behind her. Ginny let go of Cerci and sat down as her life flashed before her eyes for a brief moment.

"I trained with the most powerful person ever and after each session I had the same look on my face as you had now, and each time I had to learn to overcome what you feel right now." Ginny said before offering a hand to help Cerci up. The crowd cheered the two females as Ginny raised Cerci's hand. Once the crowed Settled Xiox took the center of the arena and spoke, Ginny sitting back by her brothers and Cerci back with the other contenders.

"And thus this year's Masters tournament comes to an end, Young Cerci has proven to become worth of the title of Master, as for the rest of you who fought proudly, we will post the names up on the boards of those of you who will become masters as well or if you need one more year of training. Now to continue the tradition we will now leave the rest of the day for everyone to rest and celebrate this special day! Xiox said as every clapped and cheered when the clapping ended Lucis and Karax arrived with the others and reported their finding to Xiox. Gear walked up to Xiox when he saw the Grand elder's face grow sour while Tarden went up to Ginny getting ready to challenge her.

"What's wrong Xiox.?" Gear asked as Karax and Lucis looked at him, their faces grim.

"It seems Yami and Turles are missing… somehow they been captured." Xiox said a chill running down Gear's spine. Whoever can capture Yami and Turles alive without much of fight is… implausible. "You don't think it's Cooler?"

"Yami said they were being hunted, I think she mentioned that Cooler would announce his presence first, if it wasn't it would be his right hand man, and the Elite armored squad."

"Elite armored Squad?"

"They're like Coolers Spec ops group, they are the strongest in his army and never fail a mission. Yami ensured me she was stronger than them now but the chances of them becoming stronger sense the last time they met was an option as well." Gear looked at Tarden, as he and Xiox silently agreed.

"I'll take him away, he needs to complete his training before They find out he exists," Xiox said.

"I promised his mother that if the Armored squad arrived they wouldn't discover him; he is the trump card against Cooler. Turles and Yami can barely hold their own against him now, but Tarden still believed that they are holding back." Gear said.

"Prepare the others. We don't know when they will be back." Xiox said as Gear went to gather the attention of the other Elders as Xiox walked up to Tarden who was doing some pre warm up stretches as Ginny did the same from across. Xiox smiled at the excitement he could see in Tarden's eyes. The boy was definitely excited to spar with Ginny after so long, Xiox smirked at the idea of upsetting the Saiyan again. After all, Xiox can no longer keep up with his strength so the only sense of satisfaction he had now was denying the Saiyan of any fights that he was interested in.

"Tarden, it's time for you to continue training." Xiox said causing Tarden to fall forward as he stopped his stretching, turning rapidly he looked at Xiox upset.

"What! I thought we could have the day off, its master's day." Xiox laughed as he saw Tarden pout, how much longer will the boy act spoiled.

"That's the reason why it will be so perfect, we will spend the time mastering the technique we been working on, instead of the normal routine. Ginny go talk to your brother he has something important to say." Xiox said quickly moving Tarden away much to the boy's protest. Ginny herself was annoyed due to the fact that she actually wanted to test herself against Tarden to prove to herself she could keep up but those feelings disappeared when she saw the grim look on Gear's face.

"We don't know how much time we have, but When Lucis and the others went to go find out what the disturbance was earlier they come to the conclusion that Yami and Turles where taken captive by someone." The news made everyone uneasy. Ginny eyes widened as she realized one of the possibilities this meant. "Now not many people can defeat Yami and Turles as they are now. Yami told me only two people she knows can be stronger than her and Turles. One being Cooler and the other being his right hand man Salza. Considering how Yami Said Cooler would easily present himself, this must be the work of Salza, who is the leader of Coolers Spec op team. Until we know who is behind this we must Keep Tarden a secret. Yami said he might be the only one right now able to stop Cooler. We must protect him at all cost."

All the elders looked grim, they were the most powerful warriors on the planet, but compared to the Saiyans most of them aren't even comparable. "Yami said that there are only 5 dangerous members of Salsa's group, with our numbers we can overwhelm them, there are 9 of us here. I'll fight Salza alone if I must, but the rest of you will have to work together to defeat the rest."

"You can't mean to face him alone, if he really is as strong as Yami." Karax said.

"I can and I will, I will see spirit armor to try to overpower him quickly, or by time until the rest of you can help me." Gear said. "I trust that you all, with my sister's help, can defeat the weaker members." Gear said as they all looked around nervous.

"What about Yami and Turles, shouldn't we send someone to save them?" Orin said.

"Every space craft that we saw before was destroyed, we are going to have to wait for them to attack us again and then find Yami and Turles while they are distracted." Gear said, "Lets prepare for their arrival, I'm going to contact Fe. He is the smartest guy I know when it comes to Technology, there's a good chance he has been trying to replicate some sort of space ship, using the money and footage he got from his drones." Once Gear finished what he said they all left to do their tasks and Ginny went up to Gear to speak in private

"I still haven't mastered the full power of Mad claw I won't be much help if I go berserk, only Yami kept me from going on a rampage." Ginny whispered nervously.

"Even then it's something we have to rely on for survival. Come with me, let's go check that rich bastard Fen, least he could do is provide sentry with his drone network." Gear said as he and Ginny took off.

With Tarden

"What do you mean I can't leave until I finished reading all of these texts!" Tarden said annoyed, "You never mentioned this before!"

"In these text lies the secret forgotten and abandoned techniques of Grand elders of ancient times, it is your duty to learn them like I told you before."

"Yeah but last time you said to learn one at a time and less dangerous ones, you told me one mistake could cripple me." Tarden said as he Flipped through the pages quickly and saw a lot of highlighted entries, "this book is full of crossed out and forbidden techniques, you told me to avoid learning them because the cost of using the techniques are too high!"

"It is the duty of Grand elder to mark techniques as forbidden until you can find a way to make them less lethal, its also our duty to finish the incomplete techniques. Before wax it was Forbidden for non-Elders to use the reflection technique until he found a way to master it better so now all of our warriors can learn. And the Spirit armor was a technique only available for the Grand Elder before the Grand Elder Malt, Wax's predecessor, found a way to channel Life energy through meditation."

"Whoa Spirit armor was able to be created without meditation how!"

"Without meditation it took a more dangerous way to complete the technique, using your own bodies cells. In simple words an example would be for each attempt of forming the spirit armor you shave off a year of your life."

"So this book is full of techniques that can be improved on and made less lethal?"

"Yes and now it's your responsibility as it was mine."

"But I'm not Grand Elder yet, I haven't earned the title or won the election?"

"Well the election is next month, I was going to announce it next week, but I'm letting you know now. You're the only real candidate besides your brother, and he was the one who nominated you, saying something along the lines of if I can't beat him without transforming I don't deserve the title of Grand Elder." Xiox said as Tarden finally started to read the book. "Now I will leave you alone, I'm locking you in the study."

"Wait what, but why?" Tarden asked turning his head quickly watching Xiox place a hand on the underground root sticking out of the entry way. Tarden watched as Xiox's enhanced arms created the artificial Ki and the root Glowed green before several tree roots separated the two successfully leaving Tarden trapped in the study underground.

"The Grand Elder typically locks himself away to study undisturbed, the life energy of the planet has now manipulated the roots of the nearby flora. The other thing it does makes it hard for you to sense the energy on the surface. Don't worry when the sun goes down you will be freed." Xiox said walking away.

"This isn't cool Xiox I will remember this!" Tarden shouted before angrily reading the book. Making Xiox smirk before frowning as he made his way back to the elders, 'Forgive me Boy but this is the best thing we could do if your mother's information is correct.'

Salza's ship

Core and Falter where finally healed and clothed as they joined Dore and Neiz waiting for captain Salza to arrive. Surely enough they didn't wait long as the Blonde Haired Blue skinned leader of the Elite armor squad arrived, holding a small tablet with the highest power levels on the planet below them.

"I hope you boys are ready, theses planets warriors aren't the weakest we met, they should be fun to fight against if they double team. There are maybe two who might be strong enough to face us one on one." Salza said.

"Good I was hoping for a good enough fight, Turles surprised us earlier with his strength so I need to kill a few somewhat strong warriors to boost my confidence." Dore said. The rest nodding, agreeing to that statement.

"I agree boys, now let's go have some fun." Salza said with a sadistic smile as they made their way to their space pods. Once they arrive on the planet's surface the real fight will begin, and the fate of all those who live on LLabnogard will be on the line.