...... The four teams stood there in silence, trapped in some sort of amazing staring contest.
"That's it! Everyone, start introducing yourselves or you'll be sorry!" Bulma shouted, waving her blaster around, "I'll yell until your eardrums burst! I can't take another moment of this silence! I'm Bulma Briefs, smartest and richest woman on planet Earth,"
"Son Chi-chi, daughter of Ox-king,"
"Son-Goku, married to Chi-chi, strongest man on Earth,"
"Prince Vegeta of planet Vegeta,"
"Trunks Vegeta Breifs, son of Vegeta and Bulma from the future, only survivor of the Z-senshi,"
"Son Gohan, firstborn son of Goku and Chi-chi,"
"Raditz, brother of Kakarot-"
"He means me," Goku cut in.
"Yes, now shut up! I am Raditz, brother of Kakarot and Turles, son of Bardock,"
"Piccolo,"
"Tein,"
"Yamcha,"
"Um.... I'm Pu'ar.... Um...."
"My name is Krillen. I'm a monk,"
"....Who doesn't have any hair, lacks a nose, and no one know how in Kami's name he got a wife and daughter," Yamcha said with a snicker.
"Shut up!"
"Chiaotzu,"
"I'm Tamahome of the seven Suzaku Seishi, that's Miaka, the Suzaku no Miko. That over there with the sword in the young Emperor Hotohori of the Konan empire. That over there with the long hair is a pervert,"
"Hey!" Nuriko 'lightly' tapped Tamahome on the shoulder, he fell over.
"Baka! You almost broke me arm!" Tamahome hollered, Nuriko smirked.
"I'm Nuriko of the Suzaku Seishi, the one with super-strength,"
"Chichiri of the Suzaku Seishi, a monk,"
"Tasuki of the Suzaku Sei,"
"Mitsukake of the Sei,"
"Zidane Tribal, one of the two surviving souled Genomes, famous thief of the daring gang of bandits known as Tantalus,"
"You are lying, Zidane. I am Princess Garnet til Alexandros the 17th. My friends call me Dagger,"
"V-vivi Ornitier. Black Mage prototype one..."
"Master Vivi, speak not so lowly of yourself, I am Captain Adelbert Steiner of the Pluto Knights! Protectors of the kingdom of Alexandria and forever loyal to the Princess Garnet til Al-"
"That's enough, don't talk their ears off, Steiner. I am Freya Cresent of the Dragon Knights. I am from the kingdom of Bermecia,"
"My name is Eiko Carol, I'm one of the only surviving summoners of Madain Sari. Dagger's the other. We're the last of our kind. After we're gone... They'll be no one to help unlock the Eidolons..."
"Keep your chin up, kid. It's not over yet. We're not gonna let these jokers beat us. I'm Amarant Coral. Famous and most wanted bandit in Treno,"
"Oh, I almost forgot..... The name my birth mother gave me was..... Sarah. That is my summoner name,"
"Me Quinta Quan of the Qu, I am chief,"
"Hiei,"
"Kurama,"
"Kuwabara the great!"
"Liar," Hiei grunted.
"Koenma, I agree with Hiei,"
"Why you...!" Kuwabara began.
"Shut up, Kuwabara, I'm Yuuske,"
"Genkai,"
"Not very talkative, are they?" Bulma asked.
"Yeah..." Goku agreed. Vegeta 'hmphed'.
"Hey! This is far out!" Bulma exclaimed.
"What?" Trunks asked.
"That guy has a tail!" She pointed to Zidane.
"Huh?" Zidane lifted his tail up, "Oh... What about it?"
"Are you a Saiyan?" Goku asked.
"A what?" Zidane cocked an eyebrow.
"Lets start with this, are you human?" Gohan asked.
"No," Zidane was still confused. He looked over to Dagger, she shook her head.
"Then are you an alien?" Gohan asked.
"Kinda.... How did you guess?" Zidane asked.
"Hold that thought, what planet are you from?" Bulma cut in.
"Terra... I think... Kuja did say.... Yep, I'm not from Gaia, thats for sure," Zidane still looked at the strangers, confused.
"What species are you?" Bulma asked.
"Genome," Zidane did not like where this conversation was going.
"Oh.... Well, then there is another species with tails besides Saiyans," Bulma looked disappointed.
"...." Zidane wanted to disappear at that moment.
"Does your tail so anything special? Like ummm... Is it really sensitive or something?" Bulma asked.
"No... Actually, it's really strong," He grinned and wrapped it around Dagger's waist and lifted her up. She began to thrash.
"Zidane Tribal! I demand that you set me down this instant!" Dagger commanded, voice thick with royalty.
"Unhand the princess you dirty little thief!" Steiner shouted. The Suzaku Sei and Yuuske's team took a wise step backwards.
"Whoa! Thats cool! I wish Saiyan tails could do that...." Bulma grinned at Vegeta, he smirked back.
"Hey, er... Your name was Chichiri, right?" Krillen asked.
"Yes, why?" Chichiri asked back.
"Well.... I was wondering if we could chat or something, no one else looks normal enough to talk with,"
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT?!?!?!" Bulma hollered.
"Um...." He turned to Chichiri, "See what I mean?" Chichiri laughed nervously.
"Yes, so... What do you want to talk about?" Chichiri asked.
"Um... Why are you called the 'Suzaku Sei'?"
"Well...." The two walked away chattering about the Z-senshi and the Suzaku Sei. Goku, Gohan, and Raditz walked over to Zidane. They began a long conversation on.... Tails. They forced Raditz to show Zidane his tail for the others had their tails removed.
"None of you are worthy to carry Saiyan blood. True Saiyans protect their tails with their lives...." Raditz grumbled as he uncurled his tail from it's resting spot around his waist.
"Thats where you keep it? Maybe I should try that, then my tail won't get in the way all the time," Zidane mused.
Hotohori and Trunks had gone of to the side, Trunks took out his sword and show it to Hotohori, Hotohori did likewise for Trunks.
"This is a very unique sword... I do not think I would be able to fight with it," Hotohori observed as he ran his finger along the flat side of the blade.
"I've never seen anything like this sword before.... The curve, the length, the width.... It's nothing like mine, I doubt I could wield with either," Trunks waived the sword around a bit, "Very light... I better give it back before I behead myself," Hotohori let out a light chuckle.
"Likewise," They both returned the other's sword. They began to talk on the different types of swords and how hard it was to learn how to handle them..... Moving on. (In other words, BORING)
Yuuske, Genkai, and Kuwabara had wandered off with Amarant, Quinta, Vivi, and Nuriko, heaven help us if they talk about what I think they are going to talk about.
"I hungry" Quinta moaned.
"You sound just like Miaka!" Nuriko exclaimed.
"Miaka good to eat?" Quinta asked
"Erm...." Nuriko trailed off. (We're off to a nice start....)
"Genkai... They all seem very nice... Must we fight them?" Yuuske asked.
"Don't get to friendly with us, 'cause we're going to beat you to pulp without second thoughts. All of us have bright futures ahead of us. Dagger and Zidane 'll prolly settle down. Eiko is only six years old and the new princess of Lindblum. Vivi..... I can't say Vivi will have much of a future... Freya still has Fratley back in Bermecia. Me? You don't need to know about me," Amarant grunted.
"Hey!" Nuriko shouted sharply, "You're not the only ones with your whole lives ahead of you! Miaka and Tamahome are a set couple. Tama-san has four siblings and his father to take care of back home. Hotohori-chan has the entire empire of Konan to rule! You can't say it like you're the only ones who deserve to live!" (I don't like where this conversation is going....) They continue to bicker...
"OH MY GAWD!" Bulma and Chi-chi shouted at the same time, they were both looking at Hiei who stood alone in the center of the arena. Their eyes darted from his Jagan (I spelled that correctly....?) to his hair, then back to his face.
"He,"
"Looks,"
"Just,"
"Like,"
"Them!!!!" They both finished together, Hiei cocked an eyebrow, wondering who 'they' were.
"I'll get my hubby and you get Tien, k?" Bulma commanded Chi-chi who nodded, "Er.... Hiei, stay right there!" Both women darted off.
"Hmph, ningen females..." Hiei shook his head as they rushed back.
"Woman! What are you doing?!?!" Vegeta snapped as Bulma dragged him away from Raditz, "If you were not my bonded mate I would blast you t-"
"Shut up, Vegeta! We know you're just trying to act tough! Your race is long dead, your planet is rubble. You couldn't harm me if your life depended on it!" Bulma snapped, Vegeta become too shocked to talk back.
"The hell?!?! I was talking to Chiaotzu! Wh- Holy shit! Vegeta! This is amazing! That dude looks just like you!" Tien pointed to Hiei, all traces of anger gone.
"Nani?!?! You're right! Except he has another eye...." Vegeta stared in shock, his arms still crossed.
"Huh? Where?" Tien asked stupidly.
"I swear! You have the brain amplitude of Kakarot! His forehead of course! Isn't that where your third eye is?" Vegeta snapped.
"Oh, well, how was I supposed to know that?" Tien snapped back.
"Will you all just CHILL OUT!?!?! Give me minute here!" Bulma shouted, she was tinkering with her watch.
"No, no, no! Tien has to be shorter!" Chi-chi squealed with delight.
"Done!" Bulma shouted proudly. She pressed one more button, "Activate, TienVegeta File disk A 12 01629. Activate holoprogection Hiei 1!" A hologram appeared, it wore Vegeta's hot pink 'BADMAN' shirt with a black cape and black leather pants. It was only slightly taller than Hiei. It had Tien's eyes. (All three of them) Vegeta's hair. Hiei's face. The arena suddenly fell silent, then into fits of laughter. Everyone felt Vegeta power up.
"Goku! Go get Mom before Vegeta blows up!" Gohan joked.
"Brat! I am going to re-open that wound of yours!" Vegeta began to stride over to Gohan.
WE HAVE ANOTHER GROUP ENTERING THE ARENA. WE HAVE ANOTHER GROUP ENTERING THE AUDIENCE. PLEASE WELCOME THE BRAVE TEAM OF WIZARDS FROM HOGWARTS. THEY ARE ENTERING THE ARENA NOW.
At the word 'now', ten people dressed in black robes fell the floor in a heap.
"Fred! Get your foot out of my face!"
"HARRY!!!! That's my arm!!!"
"Sorry, Hermione... Headmaster, are you alright?"
"Fine, fine, fine.... Not as young as I used to be, you know...."
"Sirius! Your here!"
"Where's Buckbeak, eh?"
"W-whats going on?"
"Lockheart's here!"
"Oh no...."
"Ron! Don't be rude!"
ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE THEM. HEADMASTER DUMBLEDORE. HEADMASTER OF HOGWARTS. SCHOOL OF FINE WITCHCRAFT AND WIZARDRY.
A old man with a fluffy white beard stood up, "Good heavens... What are we doing here?"
RUBEUS HAGRID, GAMEKEEPER AT HOGWARTS, ALSO TEACHES CARE OF MAGICAL CREATURES.
A giant of a man looked around, "Eh... Dumbledore? Wh're are we?" He looked around, "Funny lookin' bunch over there..."
SIRIUS BLACK,
A shaggy looking man with silken, shoulder-length black hair glared around with deathly eyes, he spoke not a word.
PROFESSoR GILDROY LOCKHEART, EX DEFENSE AGAINST DARK ARTS TEACHER AT HOGWARTS.
A vain-lookin man smiled at everyone, "Hello, hello!" He chirped. Yuuske nudged Koenma.
"Finally, someone thats almost as ugly as Kuwabara," Koenma cracked a smile.
FRED WEASLY, ONE OF THE WEASLY TWINS,
"Are we even on school grounds...?" A red haired boy asked.
GEORGE WEASLY, THE OTHER WEASLY TWIN.
"Duh! You must be the stupid one. Look around! Not one ounce of magic! I bet them people over there are just a bunch of Muggles,"
HERMIONE GRANGER, FIRST CLASS STUDENT AT HOGWARTS.
"Those, George, 'those people'. They can't be Muggles. Look at them. That boy has a tail, those people have three eyes. That person is floating. That person is resembles a clown. I can go on and on." a brown haired girl droned, pointing at various people.
RON WEASLY, SECOND-YOUNGEST WEASLY.
"What a great way to be introduced..." a boy that looked a lot like the twins moaned. His nose was smudged.
HARRY POTTER, ONLY SURVIVING VICTIM OF THE VOLDEMORT ERA. All of the new team shuddered except the boy with glasses, the Hermione, and Dumbledore.
"Don' say dat name!" Hagrid shouted.
"Well.... Why are we here?" Harry asked.
YOU WILL FIGHT IN THE FINAL TEST. IF YOU FAIL TO DEFEAT THE OTHER TEAMS, YOU SHALL PERISH. CHOOSE SIX TO FIGHT. NOW, MEET OUR NEW AUDIENCE. CASSIE, JAKE, RACHEL, TOBIAS, MARCO, AND AX. MY OWN TEAM THAT SHALL ENTER FOR THE FIRST BATTLE ONLY. WE ALSO HAVE THE SAILOR SCOUTS WITH US. SAILOR MOON, SAILOR MARS, SAILOR MERCURY, SAILOR JUPITER, AND SAILOR VENUS, ALSO WITH US IS TUXEDO MASK.
Vegeta snickered, followed by Tien, Yamcha, all of the men in the Suzaku Sei (Including Nuriko!), and the every warrior in Yuuske's team. Except Genkai.
"Hey! You leave Tuxedo Mask alone!" Sailor Moon shouted, she was surprised to hear Tuxedo Mask to stifle a laugh as well. Soon, the Sailor Scouts were laughing quite hard.
ENOUGH, YOU WILL ARE BE TRANSPORTED BACK TO YOUR DESIGNATED AREA, PREPARE YOUR WARRIORS FOR THE FIRST BATTLE. Z-SENSHI VS. MY ANIMORPHS.
~¤~
Soon, all of the Z warriors had been returned to their room. They all seemed very depressed.
"It seemed we overlooked something...." Pu'ar squeaked.
"Yeah. We aren't the only ones who have worlds to save. All of our opponents are heroes, guys. Just like us. Honest to goodness heroes," Yamcha began.
"Yeah. The Suzaku Seishi. Hotohori is the emperor of the empire of Konan. Miaka is the Suzaku no Miko, the Priestess of Suzaku," Trunks continued.
"I don't know much about those people Yuuske leads but they have three worlds where they come from, right?" Tien stated and questioned.
"Raikai, Makai, and Ningenkai," Chi-chi recited.
"Spirit realm, Demon realm, Mortal realm," Bulma defined.
"Like our timelines. Cell's timeline, my timeline, and your timeline," Trunks mused.
"Or even more like the different levels of our world. The place where Cell and his kind went, the check-in station, and the planet of the Great Kai or something like that, Grand Kai? If King Kai were here, he would kill me for that," that was Goku.
"And as for the Final Fantasy team, they are so young! They seem so happy too. The princess and that thef... Not a great pairing but they seem to be a match made in heaven. As for the children, the littile girl.... Her name was Eiko, I think. Vivi said she was only six! A child of six with destructive power! It sound so much like my little boys....." you may have guessed, this was Chi-chi.
"Um.... Mom? I'm not that little anymore...." Gohan sighed. His mother would never change.
Bulma continued," Also, Eiko and Sarah are the last of their kind, as they said like the Saiyans. Same with Zidane, I think... He said only a precious few Genomes are left and only two of which have souls! He had to kill his older brother, Kuja-"
"Like Kakarot killed me," Raditz scoffed. Bulma was getting tired of being cut off every few seconds.
"KUJA!" Bulma bellowed, then returned to her normal tone of voice, "Now he and his sister, Mikoto or something like that are all thats left,"
"....in other words, we are not just dealing with killing innocent... No, not innocent, heroes. We are not just dealing with killing heroes of their worlds, but with the risk of wiping out an entire race?!?! This is insane!" Goku shouted.
"And those new fighters, from a school called Hogwarts or something like that. They are almost all children! Six of the ten-" Bulma began.
"Five," Chi-chi cut in.
"Huh?" Bulma asked.
"Five of the ten," Chi-chi repeated.
"Oh, thanks. As I was saying, five of the ten were small children! We can't kill them!" Bulma was in a panic.
"Look, I'm sorry Bulma-san, but I have to win, I must go home. I have to go home to.... Pan. I won't let her grow up like I did!" Gohan announced. They didn't notice Goku wince. A pained expression covered his face as he spun around.
"Son-kun? Are you alright?" Bulma asked, worried.
"F-fine, Bulma! Happy as ever!" Goku forced his trademark Son grin and faced her.
"For once, I agree with the brat," Vegeta growled, "I still have my brats at home to worry about,"
"So it all comes down to this," Piccolo remarked grimly, "We should win to save our own worlds and to protect and teach the next generation of warriors, but at what cost? The cost of the lives of children and other worlds? So it's either our world, our children, our lives, or their futures, their lives, their worlds. Bottom line is, us or them?" Unfortunately, no one had an answer.
~¤~
The Ellimist listened to the conversation of the Z-senshi carefully, he shook his head and sighed. He buried his head into his hands.
CASSIE, JAKE, TOBIAS, RACHEL, MARCO, AX... YOU KNOW THIS IS NOT MY FAULT. I HAD TO DO THIS, CRAYAK, HE KNEW THIS WOULD HAPPEN, BUT HE GAVE ME NO OTHER CHOICE....
"Ellimist, it's alright. All will be well in the end," Cassie coaxed.
"Hey, look, it's for the better.... In the end that is," Jake added.
"Yo, you sure we can be revived after we are beaten here?" Marco asked.
"Do you question our fighting abilities?" Ax asked.
"Think about it, man! We can barely take down a Hork-Bajir! Look at those Saiyan men! Those biceps! We'll get flattened in just a few secs! Think about it!" Marco cried.
I BELIEVE YOU CAN BE REVIVED AFTER DEATH..... THE FIRST FIFTEEN TIMES.
"I don't like the sound of that," Tobias stated.
"Believe?!?! That's not good enough!!! Believe?!?! This is INSANE!!!!" Marco moaned, the rest of the Animorphs laughed.