The Elemental Kais--Round One

A/N: Sorry this took so long peoples! Well, up first: Krillin v. Shakaku (a.k.a. Fire Kai)

The Fire Kai nodded to Seiyuuki, gesturing for the female Saiya-jin to follow her. She then turned and caught up to the Lightning Kai, whom was sauntering up ahead. "You're in the first match." He said without looking at her, as if that ticked him off that she got to fight before he did.

The Fire Kai smiled. "Yes, it shall be fun, provoking Yamu and Spupolvitch."

The three warriors walked into the fighter's lounge as the Lightning Kai said in an annoyed tone, "Why not just tell them now and be done with it?"

"You're being impatient, as always." The Fire Kai remarked snidely. "Because we need Spupolvitch and Yamu to attack me when I transform."

"Don't draw it out, woman. I would like to fight sometime today." Lightning Kai just got a smirk in reply.

The fighters stopped their conversation or dropped their voices to whispers or grants of good luck as the announcer began to announce the competitors in the first match. "All right then, folks! I--n the first match we have Krillin, an old hand at this particular tournament and expected to do well in the competition." He announced as Krillin walked into the ring. "And his opponent is a fiery [A/N: Excuse the pun...] woman by the name of Shakaku, new to the tournament." With that breif introduction Fire Kai walked out, her arms crossed over her chest, glaring at several cat-calling men with her luminous green eyes.

Krillin was at the opposite side of the ring as Fire Kai walked up the steps and onto the raised ring. She breifly looked around, and then slipped into an impeccable fighter's stance, both defensive and offensive, watching the old friend of Goku's. "Your move."

Krillin grinned, running up to her and throwing a punch at the elemental Kai's face. Fire Kai watched him run, only to catch his fist in her hand and then punch at his stomach, letting go of his fist in the process. Krillin dodged quickly, suddenly concerned about his odds against this new warrior. Fire Kai took up the offensive, using a volley of punches and the occasional kick, fast enough that he couldn't dodge, but not so fast that he couldn't stop her attacks. Throughout the volley there was a slight smirk on Fire Kai's face.

"Spupolvitch. What does it read?" Yamu asked Bobady's other henchman. Spupolvitch consulted a white object witha circular base and three spikes protruding from the top as well as a dial in the center of the base with a black hand pointed up a the 12 o'clock position had it been a watch, the end of the hand over a small black rectangle. Around the edge of the dial were identical rectangles.

"No. It's not them. No energy."

Krillin stopped punch after punch from the flame-haired [A/N: again, excuse the pun...] jade-eyed woman wearing an outfit resembling what his wife had worn when he first met her, before she had been absorbed by Cell. Stop thinking about your damn wife, Krillin! You need to pay attention to the match! Stopping punch after punch, only being able to block befroe the next first was headed his way, not able to attack her himself, forced to defense. Damn, she's fast!

"Wow! Look at Shakaku go at it! I don't know how long Krillin can stand up under this barrage!"

Krillin jumped into the air, intent on catching his breath before attacking her again. Fire Kai put her hands on her hips and glared at the short man. Might as well let him catch his breath a bit. 1.... 2.... 3.... 4.... 5..... 6..... 7..... 8..... 9..... 10! And on the mental count of ten, Fire Kai shot into the air, throwing a fiery red ki attack at the short man. Krillin was very suprised, to say the least, that she could fly and use ki attacks! "WHOA!" Krillin just barely dodged the blast, watching it dissapear into the atmosphere, and then turning to stare in awe at Fire Kai. "This is quite a fight! They're both in the air, and Shakaku just threw some red glowing attack at Krillin... This is an amazing match up indeed!"

Fire Kai smirked at the dumbfounded look on Krillin's face. "Suprised?" she asked coldly. "Well. This is just the beginning of the end."

Krillin just stared at Fire Kai, and so she took advantage of his dumbfoundedness to fly behind him, clasping her hands together and swinging her clasped hands above her head, lowering them to hit Krillin in the back. She hit her mark, and so Krillin plummeted to the ground, and was just about to hit the arena when Fire Kai caught him. "Ah-a-a!" She scolded. "Don't want to destroy the ring, now then, do we?"

Krillin's eyes had been closed in pain from the blow to his back, and he opened them to look at her after she had dropped him. Fire Kai folded her arms across her chest, and waited for Krillin to stand up. Krillin lay on the ground for a few moments, and then painfully got to his feet.

Krillin had no sooner gotten to his feet than he was in a headlock. "So, you want to see my real power? Or are you too much of a coward?" Fire Kai taunted the short man.

"Uh... Sure, might as well." He consented. Fire Kai grinned and let him go. She backed up, and then clenched her hands into fists, her arms bent at the elbows at angles slightly greater than 90ยบ. Her legs also bent, and she closed her eyes. The Z Fighters gasped as they felt Fire Kai's power surge up... and up... and up.... as the tiles in the ring came loose and floated.

"What is she?!?" Gohan exclaimed as the power level soared above that of Super Saiya-jin and then made it seem like a pebble compared to a mountain. The Fire Kai became engulfed in flames, and she ground her teeth together-rather than screaming as a saiya-jin would before transitioning to Super Saiya-jin or a fighter before powering up. Fire Kai's eyes turned from a brilliant green to a deep blood-red pits of despair, puipiless.

Fire Kai's hair turned from flaming red to a deep raven-black, and grew long and spiked like the hair of a Super Saiya-Jin Level 3. This caused Seiyuuki to gasp at the change, and the audience as well as the fighters other than Lightning Kai were shocked, and in the case of the fighters, not only because of her appearence, which was still changing, but also because of her soaring power level, which was starting to level out.

Fire Kai's hands were covered in deep crimson blood which was the result of her nails digging into the soft flesh of her palm as she began to scream, her voice a slightly musical treble. The spectators and fighters were blinded with a last flash of red light, and when they could see agian the Fire Kai was barely recongnizable, except for the fact that her ki signature was the same. Fire Kai's hair was long, black, and spiked, with red, orange, and yellow light flickering across the spikes to resemble flames licking at a log in a campfire, and her eyes were blood red in colour, pupiless, her eyebrows as raven as her hair.

The most surprising change, next to her power surge, was the resulting outfit. Her skirt had changed to black with a flame pattern from the bottom reaching upwards, her belt was a deep blood red with a black buckle. The red areas of her shirt were now black, and the black now blood red. The same change went for the boots. The pants and earrings, which resembled those the Supreme Kai wore, only black and red, had not changed.

"Oh, man! Now I really feel outclassed!" Krillin moaned as Lightning Kai smirked.

"Yamu! Look! The energy reader!" Spupolvitch said stupidly to his partner. On the dial on the device Spupolvitch was carrying the arm was spinning frantically clockwise, the various black rectangles around its edges turning red. Yamu looked at the dial, and his eyes widened in disbelief.

A/N: Dun dun dun.... ^_^ Sorry, that's just such a perfect ending point!

On the next episode of The Elemental Kais, Krillin and Fire Kai continue their match, but what are Spupolvitch and Yamu doing? And why is the Supreme Kai and three Elemental Kais at the World Martial Arts Tournament, let alone being on Earth?