The mist had lifted, Yamcha and Chichi watched as a tree suddenly formed not far from them. Chiaotzu and Tarble saw the same thing as they regained their composure. The two separate groups soon ran toward the tree, as it felt to be their goal. Tien and Krillin did not wait for their allies, the two believed their friends would not be killed by the witches.

Deep in the roots a large house was hidden, a mansion covered and impaled by roots. The ground upturned and uneven, and as Tien and Krillin landed before the doorway a series of windchimes began to ring out. Chineel stood in a room watching Yurin, the young 14-year-old seated on a small land of rock surrounded by water. Symbols and sigils marked along the walls and roof, random spouts of magical energy fired toward the young human, only to be forced to spread over an egg-shaped field around her. The ring of her alarm came to her ear, her eye shifted back in annoyance.

Of course, my sisters fail… a useless lot. Looks like I was right to find a replacement for them. Chineel thought to herself, looking down at Yurin. With the two of us, our power will be much greater then the other three. And I have focused on her training to make her see me as a mother figure, stern but fair… all so she will help me drain the other three of their magic. And when that is completed… I will do the same to her. Then I will be the only poison, so powerful that no one could dare challenge me.

Chineel sighed as she turned away from Yurin. "Keep working on your protective barrier. Our sisters seem to be having trouble."

"Should I come with? I can lend you my magic." Yurin said, her voice soft her eyes only slightly open with a dead stare to the waters as the ripples shined lightly.

"As I said, keep working. I don't suspect trouble for me." Chineel laughed as she vanished.

"Right." Yurin said, her eyes closed for a moment. Only to open once more, looking to the ripples as small drips from the looking pool fell into the waters surrounding her. "Show me the visitors."

Tien and Krillin were about to open the door when suddenly it swung open, the two jumped back as a young woman appeared before them. An unhappy look on her face and stepped out with a stride that spoke volumes of how she viewed herself. Each step curtain of her conviction. Her fingers go through her red hair as she stood in the dirt just before her house.

"I am Chineel, I do not like visitors, and I do not like it when they don't take a hint and leave." She spoke as if it was expected they would understand and leave.

"So, you must be the ring leader." Tien said, his body shifted and was trying to keep his senses open for any threat.

Chineel chuckled at this and smiled lightly. "You're a flatterer. No, my sisters and I are on equal terms. No one rules us, not even ourselves." She said as her hand rose, and the fingers danced in the air. "But that does not mean you should not fear me. In lost of our fourth member, I shall act as the final two challenges. Let us see how well you fare."

"Listen, we don't want to fight. We just want to see someone and make sure she is safe." Krillin said suddenly, Chineel's eyes glared to the small man.

"And makes you care now? The one you seek has been gone for years and only now you care if she is alright. My sweet Atropa, she came to me with such great sorrow. And you dare come at the pinnacle of her training to make her waver. What cruel men you both are!" Chineel fingers became rigid suddenly. "Chi che Neli, Chin hin eel!"

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The poison of Self- Chineel Vs everyone
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Before Tien and Krillin the mud and rock lifted and broke apart. Chineels magic summoned roots from the ground to raise, break from the tree, and crack and break tell it took their shapes. Tien and Krillin having already dealt with false people, just grin as they suspect it to be easy. The two warriors leaped forward, only for the false them become more life like and counter leap at them. The warriors collided in the air, forced to fight themselves. Each move lead to it being copied from their clone, and them turning more human like.

By the time Yamcha, Chichi, Tarble, and Chiaotzu show, it appeared like Krillin and Tien were in a fight with an exact copy of themselves. The four new warriors jumped in to find out what was going on, Chiaotzu remarked that the fakes do not think, and he can tell which is which. But as they joined in, their own clones grew from the ground and locked into battle.

"How sad for everyone to come and join the party. I cannot believe so many came for her. How has she influenced all your lives in such a short time? If I remember only three fellow students were at her school." Chineel said as she watched the warriors slowly grow more tired as her replications showed no means of slowing down.

"It is not about if she influenced all our lives." Yamcha finally stepped in. "We have seen the monsters you and your sisters are, felt the pain they are willing to cause. No one should be in that risk."

"You only spread fear and show no love. Your stories even lend to you being petty and uncaring for any but yourself." Chichi called out. "I don't know who we are saving, but anyone in your fingers needs to be saved from the cage you put them in.

"Besides, our friends know her and want to save her. That makes her our friend as well, and we will back up our friends no matter what. Even if we return to rivals after this." Krillin attempting to add his own statement.

"So, you three do not even know her plight, the reason she left and asked us to train her. She came here for revenge. A poisoning of her soul so tainted by the men she cared for, leaving her alone with a cruel master. You three are the reason she begged and pleaded to join my… our sisterhood." Chineel's voice growing more and more angry.

Tien blocked an incoming kick and forced his clone back before turning to face her to speak. "I have done many wrongs in my life. Many I cannot fix, but this one. This one I can apologize for and correct the error. I can make it up to her no matter how hard the task is." He called out, forced to block a series of blows from his replication.

"I am not innocent as well, I should have known many things. I am just as guilty of her pain. I will try my best to end that pain by returning her to the light with us. And you won't stop us, Chineel." Chiaotzu was battling his own replicant, seeming to mimic his own psychic powers with the act of mysticism.

Chineel growled as the psychic called her out directly, her eyes flashed with fury. Suddenly Tarble's replication flew back into the wall of the house and snapped her attention to him. Tarble shook as he stood straight up, his replicant got up and rushed him once more and continued to attack as Tarble kept his moves basic.

"And what of you? You here to save her from what she wants? You here to demand she follow your way. Your warrior's way." Chineel sneered as her hand positioned toward Chiaotzu still, but another to Tarble.

"No." Tarble spoke as he entered a grapple with his replicant, the two struggled to get control. "I… want to understand her." He broke away from the grapple, sending a mental signal to Tien. The young Saiyan dashed forward, ready to punch his clone. Only then Tien used Solar flare, the replicants become more and more human tell their eyes reacted just like a living person's. Tarble allowing his eyes to be blinded by the Tien clone, and changed from a simple punch to his own clone to a blast of energy. The clone becoming enveloped in the attack and burning away.

"I want her to understand me. I want her to know that I was once alone like her, and that she does not have to be. I am returning to help her… with what ever she wishes. I just want her to be happy and have a good life. From this place, I cannot see that happening. If she truly wants to learn from you all… then I can do nothing to stop her. But I want to hear it from her, not you. Not over baring false sisters that demand her to fall in line and not allow her to speak for herself. She is a strong woman, always has been. She had to be, sensing things I never could. That is why I will fight for her, I will protect her with everything I have!" Tarble yelled the last part and rushed toward Chineel, only for a shield to repel him backward and into the fray.

Chineel's eyes opened, blood shot and fury. The boy showing caring for her, it made her heart ache seeing it. "SISTERS!" She yelled out. Aconi, Kalmia, and Brugman appearing beside her. "We are switching to the poison of the heart. Lend me your magic."

"As you wish sister." The three smiled and chackled as they all changed together. "Penta poi poi, Penta Poi Poi."

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Poison of the heart- The Penta Poison Coven VS Yurin
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The clones dropped lifeless as the magic no longer propelled them. The six warriors were not sure what to expect. The four witches had devilish auras begin to swirl around them, all four motioning their hands at the group. But a field suddenly appeared around the four witches. All four blinking confused, Chineel's face contorted in anger.

"Which one of you was stupid enough to make a protective barrier before we launched the attack. Now we wasted the magic energy for it." Chineel said turning her back to the warriors.

"Don't look at me, it must have been Kalmia. You know her mind has addled after all the self-medication she has done. She probably purposefully put it up because of it." Brugman yelled her focus on Kalmia.

"You would like to believe that, but your own age probably made you sentimental. Does one look like your long-lost child?" Aconi said with venom on her tongue.

"How dare you! I bet it was you then! A pretty girl and you want her uninjured, so you have a new disgusting body." Brugman's attention shifting on the mass of flesh that was Aconi.

Kalmia just giggling as her old body began to crumple into a ball as her eyes widened as she drew in the ground with her narrow finger. Chineel's veins in her head looking like they would burst. "I don't care who it was, just stop it now. You morons are giving them a chance to escape." Chineel's voice pitched high and screaming.

"Who are you calling a moron? You always thought yourself our leader, demanding and threatening. Maybe today we test if you can fight me when I am ready!" Brugman screamed back.

"Looks like Lunch time came early for me. Chineel's skin always did look good as well." Aconi said licked her lips with her warty tongue.

Kalmia pulled something from her robe, a vial of multiple colored liquid. Her fragile looking hands crushing it. Glass cutting her hand as the shield appeared again as it filled with vapers. "I have always wanted to try this elixir. Now seems to be perfect." She said laughing pulling out another vial. "After all, I will live!"

The other women begin to cough, veins turning black and their faces turning read. Kalmia had poisoned them all with some strange poison, as she opened her mouth to drink the potion though it disappeared. Kalmia's eyes opening in fear as the poison was affecting her as well.

"You *cough* idiot! You will kill us all. I will have to just break the barrier." Chineel turned to see the warriors watching in confusion. She lifted her hand to summon her magic and break the barrier, but nothing happened. Her eyes opened in worry as she could not pull up her own power.

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Back with Yurin
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The room she was left in now was covered in tags, the magic sigils and symbols having their energy converted to her own magical strength. Looking at images in the water as the four witches coughed and looked death in the face as it approached. "Sorry 'sisters'… but your trying to steal from me. And that is the one promise you said you would keep." Her eyes returning to normal, the magic spells placed on her to make her complacent broken as she heard her friends and all their friends speak to try and help her. "I… I still want revenge, but I want it on my terms. They have a lot to make up for, but I am willing to try to say my fury on them." Her hand over the water, holding the field around them. Their arguing as the magic was not dispelled but reflected on them, the four witches poisoned themselves with their own magic before Kalmia even brought out her vial. Their arguing gave her plenty of time find four specific items. A ring, a mirror, a knife, and a simple doll. The four items glowing as currents of magic flowed into them, slowly draining them of their magic. Stealing it and sealing it into items each of them cared for.

The ring was Kalmia's a momento of her lost husband in a war, followed by the death of her daughter that drove her to creating fake daughters in her own growing insanity. The Mirror was Chineel's who used it to remember her prior beauty as she used magic to keep her young looking. The Knife was Aconi's from back when she was a chef, forced to starve be a monster and used the knife to kill her first victim and feed on human, a fellow captive and her true sister. And finally, the Doll was Brugman's, a reminder of her son's toy before he was killed for being the child of a demon.

These items were now the items that would hold their magic as it was drained from them, their magic unable to protect them from Kalmia's poison now. The four women falling over dead onto the ground. Yurin then broadcasting her thoughts with her magic. "Kalmia's poison will not leave soon. If I release it now, you all will die. You need to leave now."

Tarble walking toward the house as he heard her. "You heard her, get out guys."

"What about you?" Yamcha concerned that Tarble would die.

"I promise I will return, with Yurin. I am not leaving her again… not if I can help it." Tarble dashed into the house, even as Yurin demanded he leave.

The others focused on clearing a way to their transport, no longer caring for the forest as they used combination of Kamehamehas, and Chiaotzu's power to make a clear path. Tarble sensing out for Yurin and finding the room she was in, her young body sweating as she was holding the poison.

"You're an idiot. I cannot move from here or the poison will get out! Now both of us will die." Yurin said snapping at Tarble.

"Then we die, but I am not leaving you behind. I will never do it ever again." Tarble walked to her.

"My hero." She said snidely. "If we are going to try, then gather these things up. The poison might affect the tree and I might not get a chance to get them later." Motioning to the stolen items.

Tarble about to touch them directly when Yurin snapped. "Not with your bare hands! They are on cloth for a reason. Close them in the cloth and put them in that pack." She said motioning to a small satchel. Tarble instead wrapping them in their cloth each and putting them in her pack. Yurin sighing as she released the poison, the vaper spreading as it seemed to consume life and grow bigger. Tarble grabbed Yurin as the vaper rushed toward them, focusing ki before him to try and push the vaper away, Yurin producing a shield around them and hoped it would hold. Suddenly astounded by Tarble's speed as she was unaware of his newest training.

And that ends the Penta Poison Arc. Next chapter will be the 5-year time skip, some changes will take place. What changes, well you will have to find out in the next chapter: Five years of change.