Summary: Margy makes a speech, * God help us!* and the beginning of the Tournament.

Title: The power of Ki

Author: Saiyan Jalapeno

**=telepathy

A/n: nothing much..

CHAPTER THREE

We communicate

Without any style

I hope it's not to late,

To sit and talk for a while

Come out of your cage, and talk to the stars…

Communicate, The Feelers

"Why do I have to do this?" Margy whispered.

"Because it's your party! You invited everyone, So get up there!" Leo pushed Margy to the platform and gave her the thumbs up. "Go for it!"

The saiyan mockingly mimicked her enthusiasm and rose on the stage. She grabbed the mic and blew into it. "Hey…everybody…." The crowd didn't hear her and continued dancing and listening to the music turned up full blast. Leo waved to get her attention and imitated someone shouting. Then gave her the thumbs up again.

* You expect me to yell and scream? * Margy asked telepathically.

* You could try dancing,* she suggested. * That always works for comedians*

Yeah right.

"YO LISTEN UP!!" everyone stared at her. "Hi…can you turn the music down abit? Thanks…Hi everyone, I'm your hostess, Saiyan Jalapeno. I'm very pleased to announce that the Tournament will begin in one hour from now, please heed the rules I'm certain you all read before you can here…"

"GET OFF!!" someone in the crowd yelled.

Margy was already wound up tense, but that was the last straw. "WHAT THE HELL DID YOU SAY??!" She shouted. "Get up here you S.O.B!!"

The boy was pushed forward and Jalapeno yanked him onto the stage. He had rusty blonde hair and disheveled clothes. She shoved the mic nearly down his throat. "State your name, dipshit."

He looks around nervous. "My really name?"

Everyone groaned. No one said their REAL name! "No idiot, who the hell's gonna know you by your real name? What's your pen-name?? SPEAK UP!!"

"Billy."

"Billy who?" she snapped. "Billy Idol??"

"Billy…butt….69."

She peered at him in recognition. "Ohhh…I remember you." Jalapeno turned to the crowd. "Who here remembers Billybutt69?"

There were a few murmurs, then someone shouted, "Hey, you PRICK! You stole one of Ash the Wanderer fics and claimed it as your own!"

"Just what I was thinking." Margy agreed, glaring at him. The authors booed him. She held him by the neck and said, " and what do we do with assholes that steal from the Great Ash the Wanderer?"

"TIE THEM UP!"

Jalapeno threw him to Becky with disgust who caught him and roped him with his hands behind his back. She rose and tied him upside down in a tree and pushes him so he would swing. "Get me the f*** down, you bitch! Ash the Wanderer is a…" Becky slapped a gag over him to shut him up and resumed her place in the crowd again.

Margy glanced up in loathing, ignoring his cussing and cursing, then back at the crowd. A smile broke across her face. "Now, as I was saying, all I ask is for you to heed the rules I have place, until the beginning of the Tournament. You will all be guided the specific arena

When the time comes, but until then enjoy yourself and have fun."

Everyone politely clapped as she quickly bowed. Gammek raised the volume and Linkin Park started screaming their heads off again.

"That went okay." Leo said as Jalapeno jumped down from the stage.

"Thanks. Uh-oh…" Margy saw Hsumi making her way to her, Sess-chan tailing behind.

"Sorry for joke, Hsumi. And you, Sesshomaru." Jalapeno apologized. "I promise not to pull a stunt like that again."

"Hm, well, I found Sess-chan, some big guy with blonde hair was trying to get him. Poor Sess couldn't see properly with a bag over his head and ran straight into him."

Margy raised her eyebrows; Becky nodded like she was interested.

"This guy, he didn't have a white tee on, did he?" Leo asked suspiciously.

"Yea. And some elf with red hair with him. Poor Sess-chan! The ugly brute kept calling him Legolas and trying to kiss him! I told him to shove off." She added, feeling very proud. She tweaked Seeshomaru nose. "The only person allowed to kiss this kawaii face is ME!" She quickly planted a big kiss on Sesshomaru cheek and hugged him.

"You gotta watch out for him Hsumi." Leo warned. She lowered her voice. "That guy's GAY. The elf was his boyfriend."

Hsumi brought her hand to her mouth in horror. "Gay people are sick!" (a/n: quote ^-^)

Jalapeno shrugged. "What can I say? All different people make up the world."

"But still..I mean, yuk!" She stuck her fingers in her mouth and made a choking noise.

Leo copied suit. Soon both were making loud noises on how gay people were revolting.

"Okay okay, cut it out." Margy said. Leo stopped and wiped her mouth. "I'm hungry."

"Yeah, me too. Hsumi, are you coming?" Becky asked.

"I can't eat after hearing THAT!" She declared, tugging Sesshomaru arm. "We're going this way."

She pulled Sesshomaru into the crowd.

"Hsumi?"

Hsumi whirled around and battered her eyes. "Yes, Sess-chan?" She asked sweetly.

"I…want to..thankyou..for saving me from..that…" he turned away, embarrassed.

"Awwww…Sess-chan!! Of course I would rescue you from someone like that! I love you!!" She leaned in closer to him and whispered, "Now you have to kiss me for saving you."

Sesshomaru blushed furiously and quickly looked around. Then he bent forward and pecked her on the cheek.

Hsumi squealed in joy and hugged him, and shouted, "Now let's get married!"

"What are we going to do with HIM?" Becky asked, pointing at the figure hanging from the tree.

Margy delicately picked a piece of cake and bit into it. "I don't know. We could leave him there until all his blood rushed to his brain and out his ears."

"But I thought we weren't allowed to kill anyone until the Tournament."

"True. But theoretically we can blame it on gravity."

Leo laughed. "Oh right."

* * * * * * * * * * *

57 minutes later……

"This place is HUGE!" Amee gaped, looking up in awe at the stadium. Soon everyone was seated around the ring that stretched four miles left and right. (a/n: now your probably thinking how 50 people can cover that wide and area, but just bear with me. ^-^) Margy held the mic and walked in the middle of the arena.

"These fights are to the death. No-one but myself and the participants' creators may enter the ring before, during, and after the fight, unless stated otherwise. The area is surrounded by an invisible barrier intended to protect the audience…that's us…and cannot be broken, even by saiya-jins. When a fighter in battle yells, 'stop' the round is over, and the opposite person wins." Jalapeno looked around at the silent audience. "That's it…I think. Okay! Let's get it on!!"

The saiyan ran off and to the front of the stage as the crowd hooted and yelled. She sat on a chair raised onto a pedestal, but didn't consider it a way to distinguish herself above any other author. All were the same here. Apart from Billy. He never wrote any stories anyway.

"How are we going to figure out who goes first?" Becky asked.

"The good ol-fashioned way," replied the saiyan, pulling out a hat and sticking her hand in. "Everyone who wanted to participate put their names in here."

Leo raised her eyebrows. "Your right, that is old-fashioned."

Margy shuffled her hand around a bit more, then pulled out a piece of paper. She read the name to herself and jerked the microphone to her mouth. "First up: Keith Valerin!"

The crowd roared and clapped. The spotlight shone on Gammek Keith and Zel. Zel whispered something to Keith and patted him on the shoulder. Keith walked to the middle of the arena, his black trenchcoat breezing behind him. He stopped and waited.

"And next we have…" she pulled the mic away and whispered, "Here Hsumi, you choose."

The saiyan quickly stuck her hand in the hat and pulled out a name. Jalapeno looked at it and yelled "Leo!"

The spotlight shone again on Leo and she gushed and gasped like she had won and academy award. Leaping onto the arena she bowed and waved at everyone.

"Keith, pick a number, if you will." Margy said, nodding her head at him.

"17." He answered.

"Leo? A number?" the saiyan asked at her.

She loudly sighed in content. "278!"

Jalapeno added the numbers together in her head and said, "Talon, upload simulation 295."

The computer beeped in compliance and the air in the middle of the ring twisted and altered. Then a hazy light burst out covering every corner of the room. Rusty cars and jagged metal stacked onto one another appeared, crudely placed in different parts of the area. Broken glass and large cracks and crevices scarred the earth. Keith stood on a glass bottle that shattered under his boot.

"Simulation 295. Call this place a virtual reality if you like. Everything you see here is real, or as real as I can make it, so can be use and manipulated to any fighter's will." Jalapeno pointed at a wrecked car, and it rose in the air. She pointed again, and it smashed into another broken-down vehicle, crushed under its weight. "I thought this would make the fight a bit more interesting." She nodded at the fighters. "Are you ready?"

They signaled an affirmative.

"Jalapeno sat down. "Begin."

Instantly they slid into their stance, Leo in a cat stance, and Keith with his hands set by his side.

Leo lunged at him, throwing the first punch with her right fist. Keith dipped and blocked her arm and with his left hand punched her in side. The blow to her kidneys shocked her and she twisted around and flung her elbow out, intending to hit him in the head. Keith darted and leaped away. His hands joined together and blasted her with heated ki. Leo jumped out of the way, and stood her ground. The attack exploded around her, cars and rusty metal pipes were flung away, burning red hot. The audience gasped as some of the raining wreckage pounded on the protective barrier above them.

"Are you sure that's safe?" Hsumi asked in a worried voice.

"Pretty sure."

The hazy smoke cleared, revealing Leo. She dropped her hands, and focused her own ki. Keith was nowhere to be seen. Leo extended her left and gathered a beam in her hand, watching the air. Keith appeared and Leo threw her hand out, her will focused.

Keith just floated there.

The attack splattered against Keith's ki shield, suddenly visible around him.

Leo cursed. She closed her eyes and stretched out her awareness. Rusty cars and metal around her quivered and shifted, then rose in the air and flung themselves at Keith, as if drawn to him by magnets.

"Kick her ASS Keith!!" Zel shouted.

Keith ducked a hunk of meal directed at him, and curling himself up into a ball. As soon as his power had build up, he exploded with massive amounts of energy, consuming the bombardment in yellow streams of power. Everyone shielded his or her eyes against the blinding light that enveloped the arena. A few moments passed, and Keith floated, breathing slightly uneven.

Leo was no where to be seen.

Keith scanned the arena.

"Keith, WATCH OUT!!" Zel shouted.

Leo appeared above him, hand raised. Too late Keith noticed a sharpened length of pipe floating in her fingers. She threw it at him with the speed of thought; it caught him dead center in the chest.

The audience gasped in dismay and unwittingly rose from their seats.

The spear slammed into the concrete pinning him underneath. Keith felt the spear run him through, and his blood pouring out underneath him.

Zel stood up, and pounded on the barrier. "Gammek! Do something!!"

He shook his head and waved her down. "Just wait a moment."

Leo shouted victoriously. "I'm the winner!! He's a dead-man!"

Jalapeno grinned. "Are you sure about that?"

Leo looked down at Keith, just in time to see him phase out of the metal that had skewered him to the concrete and roll on his side. Leo gasped as the fatal wounds healed and closed up. Within minutes, Keith stood up again, and slowly looked up at her, a smirk in his face.

"Wha- what happened!" She asked in dumb shock. She looked at him them at Jalapeno, who also had a small smile on her face. Leo pointed an accusing finger at him. "Am I fighting an immortal or something?? How can I defeat him, if he can heal in minutes? It's not fair!!"

Margy smiled at Leo's confusion. "Keith isn't immortal, Leo. You just have to find his weak spot." She waved her hand. "Carry on."

Leo spun around, her focus set. So. A human who was almost indestructible and with the ability to master ki! Dammit. Oh well. Leo smiled mercilessly. This made it a whole lot more interesting.

"And I have no intent on losing." She said to herself.

She lowered to the ground, and waited. Keith watched her silently.

"I hate all this suspense stuff!" someone complained. She cupped her hands over mouth. "Cut the crap and FIGHT ALREADY!"

Almost as if they heard her, Leo darted forward in a zigzag pattern and raised her fist. Just as she was about to hit him, she dipped low and sprang up. Coiling her fists together, she landed a vigorous blow to Keith's solar plexus. He felt his internal organs twist in unbelievable pain and he incidentally doubled over. Leo seized his hand at the same moment and swung him around and letting go, allowing the full force of the momentum to slam him into the barrier. Since it was unbreakable, Keith's body absorbed the force impact. Blood splattered in the ground, but still Leo didn't give him time to recover. Keith raised himself up and gathered all the energy his concentration would allow. He saw her flying rapidly towards him, and, twisting his head aside, he thrust out his hand. The deadly slicerbeam would have cut Leo's in two, had she been in the line of fire. She blurred away from the fatal attack and mauled into him, kicking and punching. Keith's golden eyes snapped open, and with a delirious yell, he blasted her off him with enough strength to throw her to the other side of the arena. Leo slammed into a concrete wall that broke upon impact.. Her head snapped back as she took the blow, and she felt the bones in her left arm shatter. She bit her mouth to suppress her scream. She had never screamed from pain before, not ever, and she sure as hell wasn't going to show weakness in front of him.

Keith constructed a barrier around himself, and took a moment to catch his breath. His body was in perfect shape, all his wounds were healed as if they never were, but his mind was exhausted, and without a strong concentration to focus and protect himself, he was vulnerable. He had never felt this much pain coursing through his body, not since the last time Zel had beaten him up when he had accidentally killed her guardian. His anger started to boil.

Leo grunted in pain and tried to curl her left fingers. They refused to move, and instead repaid her with agonizing pain. Definitely broken fingers there. Looking at Keith she saw in his eyes that he was starting to break. He was hunched over and already he tottered on his feet.

Leo rose sluggishly, blood dribbled from her split lip. Rage started to rise, and an animal growl escaped her. Damn, he was going to be sorry he broke her arm.

Jalapeno watched the scene, the two superpowers, willing eachother to attack. The saiyan knew everything that went inside Leo's head, how her mind worked, what she was feeling at this very moment. Indeed, she herself had created them, the saiyan-jins Becky and Leo and with enough free will to make their own choices.

And to choose their own victim.

Almost at the same time, Keith and Leo erupted with power causing the ground to corrode and collapse. The simulation's artificial lighting struck Keith, but it only fed his power, causing his aureate colored ki to be hinted with black, the color of fury. Their rage was near breaking point.

Leo was surrounded by purple power, her ki increasing as every second past.

Jalapeno leaned to her right side and whispered, "Hey Xer, are you getting all this?"

The blue-haired human looked at his computer screen on his PC and nodded. "Yup. It's all being recorded."

Leo eyes burned. This guy was going to pay with his life.

She current her power to her hand. Clenching her fist, she shoved it forward. "RENZUKU ENGERGY DAN!!"

Keith completed his powering up. Black spots blinked in front of his eyes, and he know if he didn't finished Leo off now, he never would. He could feel himself drifting in and out of unconsciousness.

Zel suddenly stood up, sensing Keith's incredibly low life force. "Oh no, can he beat her?"

With a yelled that echoed around the arena, Keith thrust both hands forward. "HAIYAAAAAAAAA!!!"

Leo's attack split into many more ki spheres and then joined together at the specific target. Keith raised his shields, his mind straining under the pressure of controlling the curved beam and his shields to protect himself, in case one of Leo's attack strayed and hit him.

The powers connected and forced to overcome one another. Leo could feel her own power beginning to weaken, but then she looked up, a sudden thought hitting her like a thunder bolt.

Why didn't I think of that before?

Leo shouted in anger, and Keith's power was suddenly pushed back toward him, Leo's ki suddenly skyrocketing.

Keith opened his eyes and looked down the length of the beam, and his eyes widened. Leo grinned in triumphant at him, her touquise eye sparkling.

The realization hit him. She turned super saiyan!

With a final yell, Leo modified her Renzoku Energy Dan to a powerful beam. The cutting blow consumed what was left of Keith's attack and enveloped him in an intense light. Leo waved her hand, and with a gigantic explosion, the arena blew up, taking the scraps of cars and the last of the concrete walls with it.

Zel watched in shock. She felt Keith's ki wink out, like a candle caught by a sudden breeze. The dust and smoke cleared, revealing a crater stretching over hundreds of meters, and Leo, hovering above the ground like she was walking on air. She lowered her ki and her feet touched the ground.

"Oh shit!" Gammek leaped from his seat and past through the barrier. He ran to where Keith's body rested and his hand on Kieth's shoulder. The young man golden eyes were closed, Gammek felt his pulse; there was nothing.

"Zel, get over here." Gammek called. The request gave the human to pass through the barrier. Zel wasted no time and ran to Gammek and Keith. Looking on, she saw deep bloody welts on his hands and arms, obviously he had called on much of his ki in the fight, and it had taken it's price on his human body. Now his body had expired, and his healing ability had ceased to function. Zel's eyes watered and she turned angrily to Leo. Her eyes flashed, and she yelled, "I'm going to…"

"Zel, wait." When Zel looked at Gammek, he closed his eyes and his hand upon Keith's body glowed faintly. When that was completed, Keith's eyes fluttered open.

"What..happened? Am I dead?" he asked in a dazed voice.

"Far from it, Keith." Gammek replied, grasping his hand and hauling him to his feet. Keith brushed his dusty clothes even as his wounds began to heal, now his body was alive.

Everyone clapped at the good entertainment, and Margy stood. "An excellent beginning to the Tournament. I now present Leo as the winner of round One, therefore she will be fighting against whoever is chosen next."

Leo accepted the praise and winced at her broken arm. She walked up to Keith and extended her good arm. "Hey, no hard feeling eh? Sorry I went hard out, I hate losing."

After a moment, Keith accepted her hand. "No hard feelings." He raised his hand, and everyone cheered again as the trio walked off the arena. Zel turned around and gave Leo a I'll-get-you-for-that smile and brushed past. Leo just glared at her.

Margy slumped back on her chair and sighed. "Man, is it just me or is it hot in here?"

"It's hot." Hsumu sighed. She brushed her white hair. "Maybe I need to cut my hair."

"I like your hair how it is." Sesshomaru commented.

Hsumi blushed and said quickly, "Then again, I like my hair long!"

Margy grabbed a sensu bean (a/n: guess what, I have a whole tree full of them, ^-^) and rushed onto the arena and gave it to Leo, who accepted it gratefully. The sensu's healing properties were almost instantaneous. Leo's arm repaired itself, broken bones fused together and formed the whole it had once been. With an outtake of breath, Leo's super saiyan form vanished, her golden hair darkening until it was black again. Margy patted her on the shoulder for a fight well done.

Then she asked, "A question Leo: What look was that Zel just gave you?"

"I think it was a your-dead-meat look." She looked at the saiyan author. "You saw that?"

"Yeah."

"Oh." Leo looked over at Keith who had resumed his place in the audience again, and changed the subject. "Can all authors resurrect everyone?"

"Here they can. But it's different if, say, Sesshomaru died, God forbid, we wouldn't be able to revive him because no-one here created him."

"So you can revive me and Becky because you created us?"

"Spot on." She gave Leo a playful punch. "Hey, great fight by the way." Margy ran back to where Husumi was, and gave an order to Talon. The artificial simulation went hazy and vanished. They were back in the arena again.

"Zel I'm fine, really." Keith said for the fifth time, exasperated.

"I KNOW that Keith! I just want to make sure, alright? What the harm in that?" Zel glared at the arena. "You were dead, Keith. That bitch killed you!"

"It's what we risked when entering Zel. You know that."

"Yeah but.."

"Shhh!" Gammek said. "Jalapeno's saying the next fighter's name."

Just at that moment, Margy plopped down in the seat and yanked to mic. "Whew! Alright! Next up for round Two we have…. "Hsumi handed her a paper and Margy read it.

"Zelda Devinger!"

Zel grinned at her name being called and stepped through onto the arena. She stood in front of Leo, and smiled a little sneakily.

Gammek know what Keith was thinking. "Don't worry. If Leo says 'stop', Zel will be breaking the rules if she continues."

Keith only nodded.