Author's Notes: Okay, hope you didn't wait too long for this chapter. It's hard to have fanfic-writing time, what with school homework backlog and the SARS outbreak over here. Anyway, I seriously, desperately need more information on Bloody Roar 3 and Primal Fury. Not for now, the story's still developing, I've got bigger plans you see :) Hope you don't mind, because apparently, this fic will be centered on Kris, though a lot of the original characters are playing a part, big parts hopefully (look at Busuzima!) And since I like in character writing the best, I seriously really need info on all the characters and stories after BR2, because I, unfortunately, can't afford anything beyond a PS and that's it. Therefore, I'm relying on FAQ info and some unreliable info from friends with the game.
The bottomline is, I REALLY some of you guys out there to send me info, as in-depth as you possibly can! Especially on the Sign, the Tabula of a Thousand Beasts, Xion, Long, Uranus, Kakkeru (I mean Kenji, according to my Jap speaking friend, Kenji is really Kakkeru, but the English version turned him into Kenji. It's not that I don't like Kenji, but I find Kakkeru cooler-sounding), King Orion, Chronos and what the hell is happening in this Zoanthrope nation, because I have no idea how a nation came about ANYWAY and stuff like that.
So, please be kind, SEND ME INFORMATION! Thank you, enjoy :)
"Hee hee hee! I may have lost our 'glorious leader', that insolent Shenlong whose brains were a mockery, and even my precious assassin Bakuryu, but you make up for ten times their worth, dearie. Hee hee hee!"
It was dark, or else Busuzima might have noticed two shadows that had stolen away from the smoking remains of Tylon's laboratories. They had stayed away from the fighting as best they could, and followed the escapees of ZLF. Tean and Xan were a lot wiser than to stay and put up some bravado, dragon or no dragon, they realised the ZLF just was not as good as they thought. Tean had some misgivings, but Xan was determined to leave right then and there. Although he did try to think of ways to help the girl, but as Tean said, "She's a freaking nine feet tall red dragon, with really big horns, really big teeth, really big claws, and is tearing up the guys like she's having Arts & Crafts and YOU want to HELP her ESCAPE from WHAT?!"
Xan had to admit, he had a good point, so they ran with the rest, but kept an eye on their backs as well. They also stayed close to the road, since Tean also figured that if the dragon got serious on chasing, she would chase the rest in the forest first and if they coasted the road, they could hop to the other side.
Then, they heard the sound of a car coming, headlights bright and some seriously crazy laughter coming at them fast.
"Car? Probably some Tylon guy," said Xan, looking behind him.
"Yeah, and we probably could use a ride. Ready?" asked the African-American man.
"Ready," affirmed Xan, transforming into his Tylacine beast form.
Tean followed suit but stopped and prepared for a pounce at the side of the dirt road, hidden beneath the brush. Xan ran out to the middle of the road and stared at the advancing headlights, growling.
"WOAH DOGGY!" yelped Busuzima as his sandal feet scrambled about, accidentally hitting the accelerator instead of the brakes. Or, he may have really wanted to step on the accelerator, he didn't really care if the dog became an omelette anyway.
Xan snarled savagely and sprang up high, swung his arms backwards over his head, electromagnetic energy coalaesced (OC: Note that I have this theory, that bio electromagnetism plays a key part in activating beast transformation powers. Simply said, more rage = more adrenaline in your blood = more electromagnetic waves being passed about through your body. Enough of the electromagnetism is gathered and you transform as your beast genes are activated by the spare power. Therefore, Guard Break moves are really using on that stored and continually producing electromagnetic power to produce a powerful shockwave on your target.) in his closed fists. The jeep was just beneath him as he swung down hard, slamming his Guard Break move down on the hood. The jeep screeched to halt as Xan pressed down on the front, the back tipped up violently, sending Busuzima's face straight into the windscreen, and the unconcious girl slamming into the front seats like a ragdoll.
"XAN! The IDEA was to secure us a RIDE, NOT DESTROY IT!" roared Tean as he sprang out of the underbrush, his face was a look of contempt on his marsupial friend, as he approached the jeep and lifted the hood.
"How did you think I was going to get this idiot to stop?!" retorted Xan in a gruff as he turned to the front seat.
Busuzima had slid down the windscreen, his saliva leaving a clear trail, and seemed somewhat bewildered by the whole situation. First, dogman in front, then, dogman coming closer very very quickly, then, big band and windscreen, in pain.
But Xan's comment made him wake up immediately, and made him very, very, angry.
Busuzima sprang out of the jeep and glared at the Tylacine with sheer madness, "IDIOT!? IDIOT! IDIOT?! I'll show you 'idiot', you whelping pup! Noone insults MY genius and leaves without a manicure, that is, DIE! HA HA HA HA!"
Xan's tylacine face screwed up in confusion, his eyebrow cocked, "THIS is genius?!"
"YOU MISERABLE LITTLE MONGREL! PREPARE TO BE NEUTERED!" laughed Busuzima maniacally as he transformed straight into his chameleon form.
"Another zoanthrope?" queried Tean as he lifted up the hood of the jeep and fiddled with the engine, "Deal with him while I try to fix this thing,"
"You don't have to tell ME that!" yelled Xan as he dodged out of the way of Busuzima's headbutt.
"GRAW!" cried out Busuzima, whose lizard beast form was not suited for talking in human tongue. He struck out with a clawed punch, using his elongated arms to attack Xan from a distance.
"Ergg!" Xan growled as he was sucker-punched repeatedly, but kept his ground and blocked Busuzima's kicking.
"Here's something you should know, iguana man," snarled Xan as he drew back a clenched fist, "I'm a tylancine, a Tasmian Tiger to you, mate!" he guard-breaked through Busuzima's hasty light guard and proceeded to deliver his Dustdevil Combo, first punching hard into Busuzima's face, then while he clutched his face in pain, delivered a heavy punch in the gut, and slashed him with powerful claw slashes upwards, sending him spinning into the air. With great swiftness, Xan swung around in a anothre guard-breaking roundhouse kick, slamming Busuzima into a tree.
"Tasmian Tiger's AREN'T dogs in the slightest, lizardo," grinned Xan.
"Grabp!" Busuzima sprang to his feet again and looked like his was about to deliver a punch, Xan quickly prepared a defence when Busuzima suddenly disappeared.
"What the..." Xan peered about in confusion, he felt a sudden blow of wind above him and looked up to see a shimmering outline of a figure that flickered away in a second, then...
"GRAAW!!" roared Xan as the invisible chameleon zoanthrope delivered a full Taiman Straight Retsuden right into his back. Busuzima made no effort to pull his punches as he delivered the full force of his attack into the tylacine's back, sending him to the ground with his last punch and reappaering.
He leered down at Xan and tried to stomp on him when he rolled away.
"Grrraaaa..." snarled Xan as he stood up some distance away, Busuzima made strange 'grabp garbp' sounds as if he was laughing.
With a mock punch, Busuzima disappeared again. Xan knew the trick now, and prepared himself, listening hard.
Thankfully, he had placed himself in a position which had more moonlight, and he distinctly saw the movement of the dirt where the lizard man was walking. Suddenly, the invisible steps quickened and Xan knew he was rushing headlong into him.
He lept and swung his leg in midair, catching Busuzima by his unseen head and once again, hit him with a guardbreak move into a nearby tree.
Xan pounced on him with a vengence and before Busuzima could retaliate, he was treated to a flurry of powerful slashes that sent him up into the branches.
His head slammed hard into a large branch and Busuzima fell back to earth, seemingly unconcious.
"Hmpfg!" growled Xan, stamping his clawed foot on the chameleon's hard and pinning it to the ground.
"Hey! We're done over here!" yelled Tean, who had returned to human form when he was fixing the engine. He flipped himself over the door and into the driver's seat, while Xan sat beside him.
With a start, the engine roared to life and they started to rumble down the rocky dirt road.
Unbeknowst, Busuzima had climbed back to his feet and with as much anger a chameleon can muster, charged after them with a Chameleon Rush.
Xan snarled when he saw Busuzima in the rear view and stood up on the seat, and turned to face the back, staring as the lizardman was catching up to them.
"This guy won't quit! Xan! You sit down now or I can't accelerate!" said Tean, as he tried to keep the jeep steady so that Xan was not risking a potential flight out of the jeep.
But as Busuzima neared the jeep, he struck out with his lengthened arms at the rear of the jeep, knocking it about hard.
"YAAARhhggg!" Tean did his best to keep the jeep steady, as it was forced to swerve every which way by the maddened lizardman.
Xan clambered over to the back, and only then discovered the girl in the back seat. Unconcious, wounded and breathing hard, as if in pain. The smell of blood and sweat was slight about the girl, but made Xan winced a bit.
But, he knew he could not bother with her just yet. Busuzima was pratically touching the jeep now, as the jeep could not gain speed with his continuous attacks.
"GRAAAAAWW!" snarled Xan in challenge, his claws ready.
Busuzima wagged his tongue in a mocking laugh from his oversized jaws. Suddenly, his tongue flew out at great speed and wrapped them around Xan's left arm. With a quick jerk, he pulled Xan tumbling off the vehicle and crashing into the ground.
"Xan!" yelled Tean as he turned hard and braked with a screech.
The tylacine beastman slowly climbed to his feet, the fall had been very sudden, and he had landed on his arm very hard. Busuzima's tongue released itself whipped about in the air to get rid of the sand and dirt stuck to it, and returned into his mouth.
With a charge, Busuzima used his horned head to headbutt Xan off the ground, making him collaspe again.
"Grabp! Grawabp!" he laughed in triump.
"Shoot! That idiot..." hissed Tean, wondering about what to do.
Busuzima noted the movement, and turned to face the jeep with a grin.
"Shit! Shit! Shit!" Tean tried to restart the jeep, but it was too late.
Busuzima lept onto the hood and grabbed the young African man by the neck with his thick fingers, and began to crush the man to a choking death.
Unable to transform for the moment, Tean struggled to pry the fingers off, but to no avail. A normal human simply could not defeat a beast man, even one that was just a chameleon.
Xan had gotten back on his feet after being beaten to the ground by Busuzima. His arm ache, he thought it was at least sprained or something, and his chest hurt from the headbutt. That guy was not as stupid as he looked.
"Urg...acK...uarg!"
Xan's canine-like eyes widened in horror as he saw his friend being crushed to a slow and painful death by the chameleon beastman. With a fresh snarl in his throat, he began to charge at the busy Busuzima, who was too absorbed to notice the tylacine was not beaten just yet.
"GARAAAAAAAWLLL!" roared Xan, slamming the large green lizard clear off the jeep, smashing a part of the glass screen in the process. His fists slammed from the sides, crushing the chest and ribs of the lizard man.
As they landed onto the ground, Xan rolled off and gaped his mouth wide, his claws unfurled and ready.
Busuzima jumped to his feet and stared with as much malice as a chameleon can muster, and charged again with his Chameleon Rush.
*Only one chance to do this...* thought Xan as he was filled with a powerful energy, and caught the charging Busuzima in his Beast Drive.
Powerful shockwaves radiated from Xan, sending a huge plume of dust and dirt up around them, almost completely concealing them within this tornado of earth.
Busuzima found himself caught in the middle of this tornado, and is suddenly hit from all sides as Xan, hidden within this twister, attacked him with maniac speed and alacrity. First were punches and kicks, then came shining slashes that threw him high in the air and with a huge leap, Xan appeared in the middle and jumped straight up, slamming those two claws, now surrounded and lengthened by the powers of the beast within him, straigth through Busuzima's body, impaling him as they landed back on earth, and then pulling them apart outwards, lashing Busuzima's body even more.
As Xan's beast drive, Tasmanian Devil, ended, it was enough to send Busuzima back into his human form, completely defeated this time.
Xam sighed with relief, and walked back to the jeep now in his human form, nursing a sprained arm.
"Are you okay Tean?"
"Yeah, just sore on the neck. Nice going there," commented Tean as he rubbed his bruised neck with one hand, and started the jeep with the other.
"No problem," replied Xan, sitting in the passenger seat.
The jeep started and they again drove down the rough pathway through the forest, bumping every now and then on a large rock or pithole. The constant bumping made Xan nervous and he voiced his concerns to Tean, "Tean, can't you drive any better?"
"Blame the road not me, my friend," he replied simply.
Xan sighed and threw his arm back onto the headrest as he tried to make himself comfortable. Suddenly, his fingers came in contact with something cold and he shot his hand back in shock. Turning to look behind him, Xan saw the girl which he had forgotten after the fight.
"Hey, Tean, we have an extra passenger behind here," Xan said as he pulled himself over to the back and peered at the person.
"Whaddya know! It's the girl I rescued back in the lab!" he said in surprise.
"That wouldn't be the...big, red, angry, fire-breathing dragon that we were suppose to be running from, would it..." Tean murmured slowly.
"I guess so," Xan replied as he grabbed a large canvas covering some cages and threw it over the girl, who was shivering very badly from the cold midnight air.
Tean was silent for awhile, and then sighed in exasperation, "Man...what've you got me into..."