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Chapter 6: Fire from Heaven
Goku reappeared in the heart of the Western Capital as the impact of Medon's Kamehameha upon the surface caused the entire planet to shake, the Sayai-jin nearly loosing his footing upon materialization. He gave a glance back to the direction that the battle still raged in. They were cross-continent and he could still feel the energy as if it was right next to him. That meant Medon hadn't dropped out of Kaio-Ken yet.
Pushing the thoughts aside Goku turned back to the area he had teleported into. Pan should have been right near here, he had locked onto her ki the moment he had used his Instantaneous Movement. Then the ground shook again and this time he did lose his balance, falling into a sitting position. It was then he noticed the huge hole in ground a few hundred meters off. Pan and the daemon she was fighting must have ended up underground. That was why he hadn't appeared right next to her; he had been aiming for the surface, not under.
Standing again, Goku closed his eyes and focused, slowly walking forward and trying to get a better fix on his granddaughters ki.
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As the smoke around him cleared Kale tried to figure out how he was still alive. The Sayai-jin had fired an enormous energy attack at him; he had felt the power in it. It should have killed him; he had felt it strike him as well and the mind numbing pain as it burned through his flesh and bone. Using his one remaining arm the giant pushed his elbow back to raise himself up. That's when he saw the result of the attack. Both his legs had been vaporized from the knees down, no blood ran from the wound, the ki energy having burnt the limbs clean off. Kale's great strength and constitution were the only thing that had allowed him to survive so far, he only had one arm left though and no way to defend himself, if the boy attacked again, he was as good as dead.
Medon turned away from the crippled daemon, he had fully intended to maim Kale. They deserved to suffer for what they had done. He let his eyes pass over Laele, only hesitating a moment. She was no threat to him; she hadn't even given it her all when she had attacked him. He would decide what to her with her later, her twin was the next one on his list. He could feel small aches beginning in his limbs, along with a tingling sensation in his fingertips. It had to be the Kaio-Ken, if he used it to long Kaiosamma had told him there would be consequences. It just meant he had to kill Zilvra that much faster. Amber flames flared around the demi-Sayai-jin as the ground around him cracked and burst apart, his form streaking off in the direction he had knocked the assassin. He couldn't even sense her, the force of his own power was dulling his senses, or else he'd know Goku had returned to Earth, as well as the presence of the huge ship that now orbited the blue planet.
Zilvra was just getting to her feet when she felt Medon's ki rushing towards her. She brought her hand up to her face, trying to wipe the blood from her eyes before he got there. He had shattered her nose and splattered her face with blood with a single punch. She was injured and tired and he just kept getting stronger. The ki was closer now, nearly on top of her, she still couldn't see, but she wasn't going to give the bastard an easy win. Spinning around, Zilvra brought both her hands up, twin continuous beams of purple energy lancing out of her palms, both her arms weaving rapid patterns in the air as she tried to make contact with one against the oncoming Sayai-jin.
Medon didn't even attempt to dodge the energy lances, if anything he actually picked up speed as he saw the attack. His amber aura flared as he rammed into the twin beams, his hand snapping out in front of him and slapping the energy aside, breaking the tight matrix that held them together.
Zilvra's vision had finally cleared, though everything she saw was in shades of red. She had felt the shock of her attack breaking up and was not surprised when the first sight that greeted her was Medon, in a flat out flight path for her. She threw her arms up in front of her in an attempt to block, and waited for the collision.
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With a groan Pan pushed herself up to her knees. Irruit had managed to take her totally by surprise in their last few exchanges. The daemoness had managed to move the battle to cramped quarters where Pan's superior speed wouldn't come into play as much, and the assassin's greater physical strength would aid her. It still had been close to an even battle until Pan had made a mistake shortly after they had ended up in the sewers. Irruit had formed a ki spear that she had tossed at the demi-Sayai-jin which Pan had easily dodged without thinking, she had run straight into a full force energy blast though as Irruit had intended. That had been followed with a barrage of blows that had stunned Pan and knocked her quite a distance.
She was just now managing to recover and get up again. Irruit was right behind her though, she'd have to make her move perfectly or she'd be in an even worse situation then before.
"Well little monkey, are you ready to get this over with?"
Irruit was expecting Pan to make a move at any moment if she could recover further. She didn't plan to let her though, the assassin raising her right hand and gathering blue energy around it. She intended to fire a bolt of concentrated cold and freeze Pan to death within seconds. The beam was just reaching completion when the roof of the sewer above her shattered, a fist punching straight down and into Irruit's face, her forehead and cheek on one side crushing in and her body dropping down into the water.
Goku dropped through the hole his punch had created in the ground, landing in the knee-deep water besides Pan. He hadn't killed Irruit with his attack, only injured her, and he didn't have the time or desire to finish her off.
Pan took her grandfathers offered hand and came up to her feet, as she looked him over. He was clad only in the white pants he had been wearing upon his arrival, though they were torn. Dirt and blood caked his chest and face, though he had no visible injuries, thanks to the healing he had received from Dende upon New Namek. His golden hair stood up straight on his head, he was conserving energy it seemed, he could hold Stage One almost indefinitely even sleeping without reverting to normal. She would have to remember to ask him how he managed that; the transformation still took some of her ki to accomplish, which was energy that she could use for battle.
Goku offered her a smile and used his thumb to wipe some of the caked blood from her face. She had become a Super Sayai-jin in the Room of Spirit and Time. He hated to admit it but he hadn't thought she could do it, with the trend of the generation the proceeded her, Gohan, Goten, and Trunks, he figured if she hadn't managed the transformation by her late teens it wasn't going to happen. He was delighted she had surprised him though.
"C'mon Pan, we need to go help your brother."
Pan let her senses expand now that she had a break from battle, almost instantly detecting Medon's ki on the other side of the continent. She was surprised she hadn't felt it even while fighting, he had told her he had a technique to raise his power while they were in the Room, but refused to show her. She had figured he was just meaning he could focus more, not anything like this; his power was equal to or slightly greater then Goku in Stage Three if he wasn't holding back. It was more raw though then her grandfather's energy, Medon didn't have over fifty years of control and practice behind him. She had seen him throw a few immensely powerful ki attacks while within the Room of Spirit and Time though; he most likely hadn't reached the maximum his body was capable of holding if he didn't push it to much further. She knew her brother though; he'd probably go beyond his limits if left to his own devices.
"Right, let me just catch my breath a second."
Goku gave her a wink as he set his hand onto her shoulder. She could recover as they assessed the situation upon arrival. Locking onto Medon's ki he activated his Instantaneous Movement and the two of them vanished from the sewers, leaving the injured Irruit slowly stirring in the dark waters.
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Laele felt all the blood leave her face as Zilvra crashed back into the shattered remains of the Tenkaichi Bodoukai stadium. She watched her sister strike the ground and bounce across the dirt floor until she impacted with the stonewall opposite where she had reentered the ring, sending cracks across the concrete from her impact. To her credit Zilvra was up on her feet and in the air as a gold bolt of ki slammed into the spot she had been a second before, blasting clear through the wall and continuing off into Satan City where it exploded.
Medon came through the hole a moment later, landing besides the ring. The amber flames around him breaking apart as emerald eyes rose to Zilvra. The a smirk crossed his face as the currents of electricity around his body vanished, his golden hair softening, the hard spikes it had been in, dropping slightly into a pointed mass atop his head.
"Your so weak your not even a threat to me anymore, and you, your will to fight is gone. You can leave if you want..."
He had directed the end part at Laele, and he was correct. Seeing the boy in action had crushed her will to fight, she knew she couldn't win that battle. She wasn't to sure of his first statement though, Zilvra was injured but with the amount he had powered down she could probably give him a decent run for his money before he beat her. If she rejoined the battle and attacked before he was able to raise his ki again they could win, but she couldn't bring herself to do so. He was like the demons of this world had been described, a creature of rage and fire, and she couldn't face that. Medon was looking between Kale and Zilvra now, not done speaking despite his pause.
"..you two aren't going anywhere though. Your both going to die here."
Kale heard Medon speaking but he wasn't paying attention, using his one good arm he had managed to pull himself out of the ring and was slowly crawling away. He just needed to get enough energy to teleport himself together and he'd be fine. He didn't care a bit about Zilvra and Laele, but maybe they'd distract the Sayai-jin enough to let him get away.
He was reaching out to pull himself another few inches when he grabbed hold of something other then ground. His red eyes slowly rose up from the dirt to his huge hand and the slender leg he had latched onto. It was the girl that had been fighting Irruit, her black pants and vest a little torn and a few splotches of blood and dirt on her smooth skin but looking relatively unharmed. A man he had not seen before stood besides her, dressed in a ripped pair of white pants. They both shared the traits of green eyes and golden hair that the boy he had been fighting exhibited.
"Shit."
Pan only smiled as she opened up her palm, the golden flare of energy that engulfed his head the last thing that Kale saw before everything went black.
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Mephiston snarled and backhanded the warrior who stood besides him, knocking the lesser daemon backwards into a wall. He had given his warriors a few more minutes to attempt to salvage the situation because he had not wanted to open fire on the planet itself. He had intended to use Earth as his base of operations in this dimension, the multitude of various technologies the humans had developed and the plush landscape to his liking. That option was gone now; the young Sayia-jin had somehow managed to beat his prized assassins, and Kale. Irruit was also down. He had ordered Ranaghar to stay out of the conflict in case he was needed to recover the others.
The magistrate closed his eyes, his mind reaching out to his protégé upon the planets surface.
~~Ranaghar, get the others that are still alive and teleport to the Leviathan, the situation is lost. We will destroy the Sayai-jin with the secondary batteries from orbit.~~
~~As you command, my master.~~
Mephiston then turned to the ships captain, a daemon who had served under him for nearly three centuries and let several campaigns for the warlord. A nod was all that was needed to communicate his desire. The Leviathan had several batteries of high-powered cannons that would gather pure elemental energy and amplify it into destructive rays. He wanted a surface bombardment to destroy the city and it's occupants, anything more could risk piecing the planets crust and striking the core.
The vast darkness of space lit up for hundreds of miles as the lower batteries of the Leviathan came to life, red beams of energy flashing forth towards the blue planet below.
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Medon's halted in his advance upon Zilvra, several things occurring at once. The least surprising and the first being the appearance of Goku and Pan to one side of the ring and Pan's blast into the wounded giant, the golden beam lighting up the area. The second was the arrival of a black armor clad warrior in the sky besides Zilvra, he held a glowing two-handed sword in his hand and was speaking quickly to the daemoness before both descended to the ground besides Laele. That didn't concern Medon, it was the red glow that lit up the sky that bothered the boy.
"What is that?!"
Goku's attention had also gone skyward, he had known the cruiser had come into orbit around the planet but had been hoping it didn't have any offense capabilities despite the enormous ki aboard it. He grabbed Pan's arm and tossed her to the ground, moving his body to cover her up. The daemons had done the same, all three focusing energy into a purple barrier around them to help soften the onslaught.
"Medon, get down!"
No soon had Goku shouted his warning then the barrage struck, in the span of a few terrifying seconds, Satan City had been reduced to little more then a twisted heap of melted metal and rubble. The great cannons of the Leviathan continued to fire for nearly a minute, digging huge craters and trenches into the ground and blasting apart everything it touches.
As he felt the elemental beams striking onto his back and around him, Goku had to let a small smile pass on his face. If he hadn't brought Pan here the Western Capital would have been destroyed instead, and there was a few survivors along with Ubuu still there. The daemon warriors had been withdrawn as well, so they should all be ok. Individually the beams hurt incredibly but if several managed to hit him at once he'd be lucky to remain breathing, luckily the attack was aimed at the entire area. The Sayai-jin simply gritted his teeth and dealt with it, despite feeling the skin upon his back blistering and burning beneath the rays.
The attack halted after what seemed an eternity for Pan, huddled under her grandfather, feeling his body tremble with each blast that struck him she struggled to get her head free to see what had happened to her brother. No sooner had Goku tossed her down the attack had begun, Medon couldn't have had time to seek cover. From what she could see even the three daemon warriors had been hurt by the assault, the leader holding his sword high and letting it project the force field that had taken the brunt of the beams, but several holes were visible in the purple field and each had a few smoking wounds.
Goku slowly rose to his feet, helping Pan up as well. They were going to fire again, he could feel the energy aboard the cruiser building up. This time it was focusing more, most likely directly at them. In a blur of movement he was on the opposite side of the blasted ring, besides a large piles of rubble. This was where they'd fire.
"Pan besides me, and Medon get up."
Pan moved to Goku's side, trying to figure out what he was doing. Medon wasn't anywhere to be seen. She was about to flip out and begin shouting at her grandfather, then the pile of rubble besides him shifted.
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"The targets were not destroyed your lordship."
The magistrate growled and looked at the image upon the huge scrying screen that made up the front of the bridge of the ship. The three Sayai-jin were arranging themselves it seemed to prepare for the next attack of the ship.
Ranaghar had arrived on scene and protected Zilvra and Laele against the wide range barrage, and was now moving them into the slightly underground area of the ring where the fighters would prepare for battle. It was a smart move, and would probably save them. Not that Mephiston cared about their lives at that moment, he just wanted these three dead and the planet in his possession.
"Fire the main cannon on those three, seventy-five percent of maximum power."
"If we miss the Sayai-jin the main battery will piece the planets surface at that charge."
The unfortunate gunner who had voiced the fact was vaporized a moment later, the rest of the crew rushing to complete their master's orders.
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Medon had actually taken the full force of several elemental beams impacts, his red gi was scorched in a number of places as was his skin, but his ki hadn't dropped much from the attack. Now he stood besides his sister and grandfather, emerald eyes to the sky.
"Now what are we doing again?
"Their going to fire directly on us, I can feel a huge energy forming up there. Either that or on the planet itself, but I'm guessing us, why put all this effort out just to blow it up? So when the attack comes, we're going to counter it with a blast of our own."
Medon gave a nod even though he didn't quite like that idea. He'd prefer to just dodge the attack but if his grandfather wanted to return fire, they'd return fire.
The dark clouds above lit up and spread wide as the huge yellow beam from the Leviathan split the atmosphere, rocketing down towards the two generations of the Son family.
As one the three Super Sayai-jin cupped their hands at their sides, golden flames springing up around them. Their voices in sounding as one, as the blue balls of energy gathered within their palms.
"Kame..."
The elemental blast came closer, the ground beginning to shake around them as it came closer to the Earth.
"...Hame.."
Goku had waited until it was right on top of them to unleash their attacks so the initial flaring of energy would push the blast upwards. The three of them were bathed in yellow light, the same color as their flaring golden ki.
"..HA!"
All three of them tossed their hands up, the blue energy forming into a single beam several meters beyond their hands and jetting up to strike the energy beam from the Leviathan head on. The huge elemental beam flaring and slowly, nearly halting for a moment, but continuing to push down against the Kamehameha towards the Sayai-jin.
Pan felt her knees buckling under the massive pressure of the elemental cannon; she couldn't believe something was able to generate enough energy to push back against all three of them. The blast came closer as she fell to one knee; her hands remained high though, giving energy to the three-prong counter.
Medon gritted his teeth as he saw his sister weakening, his golden ki flaring as he went back into Stage Two, the on-coming blast from the Leviathan stopping completely as the two become locked in a stalemate. He didn't want to go back into Kaio-Ken his entire body ached from the usage of it, but he didn't see much of an option or they'd simply run out of energy and be overtaken. Then Goku's ki flared up besides him, electrical sparks flaring up around the older man as he also raised his power up a notch.
The elemental beam split clean in half the energy dissipating instantly as another surge of ki rocketed up the triple Kamehameha, the Turtle Destruction Blast continuing on to the source of the attack.
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The Leviathan rocked to the starboard side, explosions echoing within the armored hull as the ground based Kamehameha broke the gravity of the planet and struck the cruiser full force.
Mephiston stumbled and nearly fell as the side of the ship exploded, a number of his soldiers screaming as they were sucked out into the void. They were acceptable loses, and if they were higher class daemons would be able to survive the cold of space and without air, they were trash though and thus deserved to die for their weakness. The fact the Sayai-jin had managed to defeat the main cannon and damage his flagship though was unacceptable.
He still wanted the planet though and was considering his options when two more gigantic portals tore apart the fabric of reality above Earth. The cruisers Behemoth and Kraken entering into the prime material plane, and carrying aboard them the Lord Magi, Abbadon and the Black Knight, Azazel.
Azazel was a warrior to the core, he could be reasoned with. Abbadon was a cold, calculating butcher though. Any hopes Mephiston had of keeping the planet fled, if they arrived they would have orders from Emperor Asmodius himself and would follow them without error or care of any personal wants that the magistrate had.
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Pan groaned and fell out of Super Sayai-jin shortly after they had managed to push the elemental beam from the Leviathan back and strike the ship itself. She had used up too much energy in her fight with Irruit and then in sustaining her part of the Kamehameha. The short mass of her golden hair wavered a moment before fading to black and dropping down to it's original shape. Medon shifted back into Stage One, conversing his own energy for the moment, as he reached down to gently take her arm and help her to her feet.
"What happened to Trunks and Tenshinhan?"
"Grandpa got them off the planet. Trunks said Ubuu had also been fighting, but his ki is so low we haven't been able to find him again yet."
Medon frowned and was about to respond when he noticed Goku still looking up to the sky. The Sayai-jin had also dropped out of Super Sayai-jin Stage Two and into normal form, but he wasn't suppressing his ki at all, which meant he expected another round.
"What is it?"
"Another two spaceships have entered into orbit above the planet. One is carrying a ki even greater then the one that is aboard the ship that was firing on us."
Pan didn't like the tone of her grandfather's voice when he mentioned the last part. It had wavered slightly, which meant two things, he wasn't sure about their ability to win, and he was also excited about fighting whatever it was, that was up there. That was one trait that hadn't been passed on the later generations, the Sayai-jin desire to push themselves to the limits against superior opponents. Well at least they hadn't previously, she wasn't to sure about her brother anymore, and he was looking towards the passageway the three daemons had gone into green eyes slowly narrowing.
"Well then we better take out those three before the others come down here."
He was off then, dashing across the remains of the stadium towards the underground passage that led to whatever was left of the locker rooms and the three daemons that waited within.
"Medon wait!"
Goku gave a slight wave of his hand to stop Pan's protest to her brother. He was right; they wouldn't need anymore distractions if the ki's he felt aboard the ships came to the surface. They'd be lucky if they were able to handle one of them, even if all three of them participated in the fight. After a minute of simply sensing, he had managed to pick out five separate ki sources that would prove challenges if they came down to fight, four were new arrivals. Three were probably capable of fighting off all three of the Sayai-jin with barely breaking a sweat, the other two he thought were maybe beatable if they went all out.
"No let him go, we need those three either running or unable to fight. Take a moment to rest here, I'm going to try to locate Ubuu and get him out of here."
With a reluctant nod, Pan shifted off her knees into a sitting position. Admit it or not, she needed a break.
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Azazel looked out his cabin's window to the sparking form of the Leviathan that had just appeared on the port side of his battleship, the Behemoth. Small explosions were still occurring inside, the attack from the surface having crippled the ships one side almost entirely. It didn't matter; this was all going to end now.
The daemon knight, Azazel was the Supreme Commander of all the armies of the Dark Dimension. He was also the Black Knight, Champion of the Emperor and leader of the elite warriors of the realm. It was not a bad station in a life where power was all that mattered; he was not like his kin however, possessing a strict code of honor that dictated his every action. Above all though was loyalty to his master. He was under orders to end the conflict, though the swiftest means necessary. That was why he had brought Abbadon, the Lord Magi and his cruiser as well. Abbadon had a number of mighty spells at his command, and his ship was designed to enhance his energy channel abilities.
Red eyes flashed as his telepathic abilities reached out between the ships, contacting both the Lord Magi and the Magistrate at the same time.
"Mephiston, you have failed to initiate a favorable beginning to this campaign. You are favored by Asmodius so you shall not be punished. This world is forsaken though, as are your agents upon it if they cannot flee through their own power."
Azazel picked up both Abbadon's amusement and Mephiston's fuming rage through the telepathic bond. The Magistrate was incredibly powerful and skilled in his form of manipulation but he had made the wrong choices in this campaign. It was one of his few failures.
"Lord Magi, you may begin our assault at will."
"As you wish. To bad Mephiston, it was such a pretty planet. Was."
Then Azazel broke off the telepathic communication and went to the bridge of his ship to watch the assault. He did hope the warriors Mephiston had sent to the planet managed to escape, it was such a shame to lose those loyal to the cause.
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The field was about to break. Ranaghar had used his own innate magical abilities and those contained within his arcane blade to put an energy field in the path he had retreated with Zilvra and Laele, it was buckling now though under the assault of the demi-Sayai-jin that had pursued them into the tunnels. The teenager had landed about a half dozen punches against the force field so far, another few and it would break. The only thing that had helped it stay up so far was Medon had taken a few seconds to power up again after his first two attacks hadn't broken though.
He was beginning to worry now though. At the current level of energy that the Sayai-jin was at, he wouldn't be able to defeat him alone. Laele was almost uninjured and would probably be able to hold him for awhile if she got into the fight, but Zilvra was in no condition to give aid, she'd probably actually hinder their efforts. He also needed to converse his own energy for the expected escape from the planet after the last message he had received. Mephiston's order had been short and to the point.
"Flee at the earliest opportunity."
To teleport though Ranaghar would need to drop his field, leaving them defenseless for a few seconds. Daemons were not an altruistic race, but he was a solider above everything else, and it was his job to bring his subordinates along when they pulled back unless they were dead, as he assumed Kale was. Irruit had awoken and transported herself back to the flagship. She had also informed him that she had found a human of moderate ki upon her awakening within the sewers. Ranaghar assumed it was the same human that had attacked Kale earlier in the day.
Turning his snake-like eyes flipped to Laele. Of all his troops she was the most expendable in his opinion. She was powerful, but to soft in the heart, it had caused her to fail before, as it had this time. She would be the distraction.
"Hold off the Sayai-jin while I escape with your sister. Then you may follow."
She turned toward him, intending to object, but at the intensity of his stare she only lowered her eyes and gave a short nod of her head. Despite her misgivings she couldn't just leave her sibling to die. She could give them at least a few minutes.
The choice of when to drop the force field was made then as the golden flame sheathed fist of Medon burst through the purple wall, causing the energy matrix to break down and send small bursts of energy in every direction, burning small holes in the wall.
Stepping in front of her teammates, Laele firmly planted her feet onto the stone floor and waited. The crackling electrical sparks reached her a moment before Medon rushed in.
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Son Goku was again looking at the sky. Ubuu's energy had vanished a moment ago. That meant he was either dead or had someone gotten off planet. He hated to admit it but he suspected the former, Irruit's energy had flared briefly just before the warriors had disappeared.
Goku's senses were also blurred; a huge energy surge had formed again in orbit from one of the two new ships that had arrived a few minutes ago. It easily outclassed the elemental cannon that had fired on them previously. He suspected the level of pure ki to be about five to six times that. Even at full strength a triple Kamehameha from the three of them wouldn't drive it back, and with Pan and Medon both tired that wasn't an option.
He was about to teleport up to the ship above and destroy it from the inside when he felt the a ki within the ship rise dramatically within a few seconds, at the same time the elemental energy he had been sensing peaked. They were firing again, this time the blast wouldn't be stopped.
"Shit!"
Pan looked up from the ground with her grandfather's shouted curse. Less then a second later he roughly grabbed her arm and shot off in flight towards where Medon had gone after the daemons. They had so little time, as the end descended upon them. Goku knew there was no time to save anyone else, but he had to try to reach his grandson.
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Ranaghar smiled as he watched Medon crash into Laele, the assassin grabbing hold of the teenager and directing their path sideways, the two crashing through the wall of the hallway. He could hear the thumps of fists against flesh and more stone being bashed to dust as the two progressed through the ruins of the stadium. She would hold him until he was gone/
Zilvra was only half-awake as he gripped tight to her belt. He briefly thought she was lucky Kale was dead; he would have taken great advantage of her in such a state. With a low chuckle, his energy spread outward soaking over both of them, their body's dematerializing and turning into magical energy that shot up to the Leviathan overhead. His last view before the two of them vanished was Goku sliding to a stop before him and looking down the side passage as the rumbling began announcing the coming of the beam.
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The Behemoth shuddered and the dark blue hull lit up a bright orange as the magical essence of its' master ran through the ship. Abbadon was the Lord Magi of the daemon realm and possibly the most powerful manipulator of energy that had ever existed within it. Physically he was barely above average, but he excelled in every other way. So it was with his cruiser, the Behemoth. The ship was a marvel of design, able to take his own energy into it and add the power of it's own magical generators into a huge destructive blast. It was the pride of the fleet, capable of turning a star into a black hole with a single blast.
Now it unleashed that power upon the Earth. Abbadon did not have them aim for the Sayai-jin in some hope of killing them with the beam. He had the ship go to the opposite side of the planet and fire into the ocean. They would have no chance of intercepting the beam and somehow turning it aside. In a single action he would end his conflict, destroying all resistance in his dimension, and embarrass his chief competition for attention in the eyes of the Emperor, Mephiston.
The Behemoth gave a single last shake, a point of glowing orange and red energy forming at the pointed trip of the almost triangle shaped ship, then the blast streaked forth, lighting up the sky of the planet below and space for hundreds of miles in every direction.
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Goku had stopped only briefly when he reached the two teleporting daemons. He had to make sure Medon wasn't in the mix of bodies that was being taken off planet. Then he had heard the noise that was echoing through the structure. Still holding tight to Pan he shot off after the two warriors continued to move away from him.
Laele had managed to knock Medon skyward after she recovered from his initial assault, the boy crashing upward through the top of the sundered stadium and into the sky. She had quickly followed, their battle taking them higher and higher into the sky. Both oblivious of the on-coming danger or the two members of his family that chased them, the barrage of punches and kicks from their opponent taking their full attention.
Then the energy beam from the Behemoth split the sky. The clouds being torn from the planet as the atmosphere burned up on its contact, the sky, whether day or night turning a sickly red as the beam hurtled downward. The entire planet shook as it struck, burrowing deep through the crust and into the molten core. Still it did not stop, from space the sight was quick spectacular from the bridge of Azazel's flagship, the Kraken. It seemed as it a lance of energy had stabbed into the planet, piercing one side and emerging from the other.
Goku was just emerging from the stone ruins when the beam hit and all time was gone. He wouldn't reach Medon or even the daemoness. The two of them were over a mile up and moving away from him. He looked down to Pan and saw the same realization on her face, and the tears in her dark eyes. Closing his own he put his fingers to his forehead and the two Sayai-jin vanished.
Medon and Laele both ceased their attacks when the elemental blast entered into the atmosphere. Realization dawning upon both of them what was happening, Laele though of teleporting but with the distortions in ki to the area from the cannon she had no clue where she would end up, she could well enough teleport into a star. She was just focusing her energy to give a shot when she saw Medon's golden ki flare up as he rushed in at her again. There would be no escape.
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The three daemon lords, Azazel, Mephiston, and Abbadon all watched form the bridges of their respective ships. It did not take long after the beam had burrowed through the Earth. Cracks spread across the planets surface like it was a piece of glass, molten lava billowing up as it broke apart.
Then in the blink of an eye it happened. The blue gem that was the planet Earth, the pride of the Kaiosamma of the Northern Galaxy, burst apart in an explosion that was visible as far as the distant moons of Jupiter. Then there was nothing but the void.
Standard disclaimer, I do not own Dragonball Z/GT or any of its related characters. Most of the names of daemons and such here in are taken from sources of mythology and religion, though no reference to either is intended. This is purely a non-profit work, for the enjoyment of those that are kind enough to read my work.
Language: This chapter had a bit harsher language then previously, there isn't large amounts of it, but please keep this in mind before reading. Rating is still PG-13.
Chapter 6: Fire from Heaven
Goku reappeared in the heart of the Western Capital as the impact of Medon's Kamehameha upon the surface caused the entire planet to shake, the Sayai-jin nearly loosing his footing upon materialization. He gave a glance back to the direction that the battle still raged in. They were cross-continent and he could still feel the energy as if it was right next to him. That meant Medon hadn't dropped out of Kaio-Ken yet.
Pushing the thoughts aside Goku turned back to the area he had teleported into. Pan should have been right near here, he had locked onto her ki the moment he had used his Instantaneous Movement. Then the ground shook again and this time he did lose his balance, falling into a sitting position. It was then he noticed the huge hole in ground a few hundred meters off. Pan and the daemon she was fighting must have ended up underground. That was why he hadn't appeared right next to her; he had been aiming for the surface, not under.
Standing again, Goku closed his eyes and focused, slowly walking forward and trying to get a better fix on his granddaughters ki.
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As the smoke around him cleared Kale tried to figure out how he was still alive. The Sayai-jin had fired an enormous energy attack at him; he had felt the power in it. It should have killed him; he had felt it strike him as well and the mind numbing pain as it burned through his flesh and bone. Using his one remaining arm the giant pushed his elbow back to raise himself up. That's when he saw the result of the attack. Both his legs had been vaporized from the knees down, no blood ran from the wound, the ki energy having burnt the limbs clean off. Kale's great strength and constitution were the only thing that had allowed him to survive so far, he only had one arm left though and no way to defend himself, if the boy attacked again, he was as good as dead.
Medon turned away from the crippled daemon, he had fully intended to maim Kale. They deserved to suffer for what they had done. He let his eyes pass over Laele, only hesitating a moment. She was no threat to him; she hadn't even given it her all when she had attacked him. He would decide what to her with her later, her twin was the next one on his list. He could feel small aches beginning in his limbs, along with a tingling sensation in his fingertips. It had to be the Kaio-Ken, if he used it to long Kaiosamma had told him there would be consequences. It just meant he had to kill Zilvra that much faster. Amber flames flared around the demi-Sayai-jin as the ground around him cracked and burst apart, his form streaking off in the direction he had knocked the assassin. He couldn't even sense her, the force of his own power was dulling his senses, or else he'd know Goku had returned to Earth, as well as the presence of the huge ship that now orbited the blue planet.
Zilvra was just getting to her feet when she felt Medon's ki rushing towards her. She brought her hand up to her face, trying to wipe the blood from her eyes before he got there. He had shattered her nose and splattered her face with blood with a single punch. She was injured and tired and he just kept getting stronger. The ki was closer now, nearly on top of her, she still couldn't see, but she wasn't going to give the bastard an easy win. Spinning around, Zilvra brought both her hands up, twin continuous beams of purple energy lancing out of her palms, both her arms weaving rapid patterns in the air as she tried to make contact with one against the oncoming Sayai-jin.
Medon didn't even attempt to dodge the energy lances, if anything he actually picked up speed as he saw the attack. His amber aura flared as he rammed into the twin beams, his hand snapping out in front of him and slapping the energy aside, breaking the tight matrix that held them together.
Zilvra's vision had finally cleared, though everything she saw was in shades of red. She had felt the shock of her attack breaking up and was not surprised when the first sight that greeted her was Medon, in a flat out flight path for her. She threw her arms up in front of her in an attempt to block, and waited for the collision.
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With a groan Pan pushed herself up to her knees. Irruit had managed to take her totally by surprise in their last few exchanges. The daemoness had managed to move the battle to cramped quarters where Pan's superior speed wouldn't come into play as much, and the assassin's greater physical strength would aid her. It still had been close to an even battle until Pan had made a mistake shortly after they had ended up in the sewers. Irruit had formed a ki spear that she had tossed at the demi-Sayai-jin which Pan had easily dodged without thinking, she had run straight into a full force energy blast though as Irruit had intended. That had been followed with a barrage of blows that had stunned Pan and knocked her quite a distance.
She was just now managing to recover and get up again. Irruit was right behind her though, she'd have to make her move perfectly or she'd be in an even worse situation then before.
"Well little monkey, are you ready to get this over with?"
Irruit was expecting Pan to make a move at any moment if she could recover further. She didn't plan to let her though, the assassin raising her right hand and gathering blue energy around it. She intended to fire a bolt of concentrated cold and freeze Pan to death within seconds. The beam was just reaching completion when the roof of the sewer above her shattered, a fist punching straight down and into Irruit's face, her forehead and cheek on one side crushing in and her body dropping down into the water.
Goku dropped through the hole his punch had created in the ground, landing in the knee-deep water besides Pan. He hadn't killed Irruit with his attack, only injured her, and he didn't have the time or desire to finish her off.
Pan took her grandfathers offered hand and came up to her feet, as she looked him over. He was clad only in the white pants he had been wearing upon his arrival, though they were torn. Dirt and blood caked his chest and face, though he had no visible injuries, thanks to the healing he had received from Dende upon New Namek. His golden hair stood up straight on his head, he was conserving energy it seemed, he could hold Stage One almost indefinitely even sleeping without reverting to normal. She would have to remember to ask him how he managed that; the transformation still took some of her ki to accomplish, which was energy that she could use for battle.
Goku offered her a smile and used his thumb to wipe some of the caked blood from her face. She had become a Super Sayai-jin in the Room of Spirit and Time. He hated to admit it but he hadn't thought she could do it, with the trend of the generation the proceeded her, Gohan, Goten, and Trunks, he figured if she hadn't managed the transformation by her late teens it wasn't going to happen. He was delighted she had surprised him though.
"C'mon Pan, we need to go help your brother."
Pan let her senses expand now that she had a break from battle, almost instantly detecting Medon's ki on the other side of the continent. She was surprised she hadn't felt it even while fighting, he had told her he had a technique to raise his power while they were in the Room, but refused to show her. She had figured he was just meaning he could focus more, not anything like this; his power was equal to or slightly greater then Goku in Stage Three if he wasn't holding back. It was more raw though then her grandfather's energy, Medon didn't have over fifty years of control and practice behind him. She had seen him throw a few immensely powerful ki attacks while within the Room of Spirit and Time though; he most likely hadn't reached the maximum his body was capable of holding if he didn't push it to much further. She knew her brother though; he'd probably go beyond his limits if left to his own devices.
"Right, let me just catch my breath a second."
Goku gave her a wink as he set his hand onto her shoulder. She could recover as they assessed the situation upon arrival. Locking onto Medon's ki he activated his Instantaneous Movement and the two of them vanished from the sewers, leaving the injured Irruit slowly stirring in the dark waters.
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Laele felt all the blood leave her face as Zilvra crashed back into the shattered remains of the Tenkaichi Bodoukai stadium. She watched her sister strike the ground and bounce across the dirt floor until she impacted with the stonewall opposite where she had reentered the ring, sending cracks across the concrete from her impact. To her credit Zilvra was up on her feet and in the air as a gold bolt of ki slammed into the spot she had been a second before, blasting clear through the wall and continuing off into Satan City where it exploded.
Medon came through the hole a moment later, landing besides the ring. The amber flames around him breaking apart as emerald eyes rose to Zilvra. The a smirk crossed his face as the currents of electricity around his body vanished, his golden hair softening, the hard spikes it had been in, dropping slightly into a pointed mass atop his head.
"Your so weak your not even a threat to me anymore, and you, your will to fight is gone. You can leave if you want..."
He had directed the end part at Laele, and he was correct. Seeing the boy in action had crushed her will to fight, she knew she couldn't win that battle. She wasn't to sure of his first statement though, Zilvra was injured but with the amount he had powered down she could probably give him a decent run for his money before he beat her. If she rejoined the battle and attacked before he was able to raise his ki again they could win, but she couldn't bring herself to do so. He was like the demons of this world had been described, a creature of rage and fire, and she couldn't face that. Medon was looking between Kale and Zilvra now, not done speaking despite his pause.
"..you two aren't going anywhere though. Your both going to die here."
Kale heard Medon speaking but he wasn't paying attention, using his one good arm he had managed to pull himself out of the ring and was slowly crawling away. He just needed to get enough energy to teleport himself together and he'd be fine. He didn't care a bit about Zilvra and Laele, but maybe they'd distract the Sayai-jin enough to let him get away.
He was reaching out to pull himself another few inches when he grabbed hold of something other then ground. His red eyes slowly rose up from the dirt to his huge hand and the slender leg he had latched onto. It was the girl that had been fighting Irruit, her black pants and vest a little torn and a few splotches of blood and dirt on her smooth skin but looking relatively unharmed. A man he had not seen before stood besides her, dressed in a ripped pair of white pants. They both shared the traits of green eyes and golden hair that the boy he had been fighting exhibited.
"Shit."
Pan only smiled as she opened up her palm, the golden flare of energy that engulfed his head the last thing that Kale saw before everything went black.
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Mephiston snarled and backhanded the warrior who stood besides him, knocking the lesser daemon backwards into a wall. He had given his warriors a few more minutes to attempt to salvage the situation because he had not wanted to open fire on the planet itself. He had intended to use Earth as his base of operations in this dimension, the multitude of various technologies the humans had developed and the plush landscape to his liking. That option was gone now; the young Sayia-jin had somehow managed to beat his prized assassins, and Kale. Irruit was also down. He had ordered Ranaghar to stay out of the conflict in case he was needed to recover the others.
The magistrate closed his eyes, his mind reaching out to his protégé upon the planets surface.
~~Ranaghar, get the others that are still alive and teleport to the Leviathan, the situation is lost. We will destroy the Sayai-jin with the secondary batteries from orbit.~~
~~As you command, my master.~~
Mephiston then turned to the ships captain, a daemon who had served under him for nearly three centuries and let several campaigns for the warlord. A nod was all that was needed to communicate his desire. The Leviathan had several batteries of high-powered cannons that would gather pure elemental energy and amplify it into destructive rays. He wanted a surface bombardment to destroy the city and it's occupants, anything more could risk piecing the planets crust and striking the core.
The vast darkness of space lit up for hundreds of miles as the lower batteries of the Leviathan came to life, red beams of energy flashing forth towards the blue planet below.
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Medon's halted in his advance upon Zilvra, several things occurring at once. The least surprising and the first being the appearance of Goku and Pan to one side of the ring and Pan's blast into the wounded giant, the golden beam lighting up the area. The second was the arrival of a black armor clad warrior in the sky besides Zilvra, he held a glowing two-handed sword in his hand and was speaking quickly to the daemoness before both descended to the ground besides Laele. That didn't concern Medon, it was the red glow that lit up the sky that bothered the boy.
"What is that?!"
Goku's attention had also gone skyward, he had known the cruiser had come into orbit around the planet but had been hoping it didn't have any offense capabilities despite the enormous ki aboard it. He grabbed Pan's arm and tossed her to the ground, moving his body to cover her up. The daemons had done the same, all three focusing energy into a purple barrier around them to help soften the onslaught.
"Medon, get down!"
No soon had Goku shouted his warning then the barrage struck, in the span of a few terrifying seconds, Satan City had been reduced to little more then a twisted heap of melted metal and rubble. The great cannons of the Leviathan continued to fire for nearly a minute, digging huge craters and trenches into the ground and blasting apart everything it touches.
As he felt the elemental beams striking onto his back and around him, Goku had to let a small smile pass on his face. If he hadn't brought Pan here the Western Capital would have been destroyed instead, and there was a few survivors along with Ubuu still there. The daemon warriors had been withdrawn as well, so they should all be ok. Individually the beams hurt incredibly but if several managed to hit him at once he'd be lucky to remain breathing, luckily the attack was aimed at the entire area. The Sayai-jin simply gritted his teeth and dealt with it, despite feeling the skin upon his back blistering and burning beneath the rays.
The attack halted after what seemed an eternity for Pan, huddled under her grandfather, feeling his body tremble with each blast that struck him she struggled to get her head free to see what had happened to her brother. No sooner had Goku tossed her down the attack had begun, Medon couldn't have had time to seek cover. From what she could see even the three daemon warriors had been hurt by the assault, the leader holding his sword high and letting it project the force field that had taken the brunt of the beams, but several holes were visible in the purple field and each had a few smoking wounds.
Goku slowly rose to his feet, helping Pan up as well. They were going to fire again, he could feel the energy aboard the cruiser building up. This time it was focusing more, most likely directly at them. In a blur of movement he was on the opposite side of the blasted ring, besides a large piles of rubble. This was where they'd fire.
"Pan besides me, and Medon get up."
Pan moved to Goku's side, trying to figure out what he was doing. Medon wasn't anywhere to be seen. She was about to flip out and begin shouting at her grandfather, then the pile of rubble besides him shifted.
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"The targets were not destroyed your lordship."
The magistrate growled and looked at the image upon the huge scrying screen that made up the front of the bridge of the ship. The three Sayai-jin were arranging themselves it seemed to prepare for the next attack of the ship.
Ranaghar had arrived on scene and protected Zilvra and Laele against the wide range barrage, and was now moving them into the slightly underground area of the ring where the fighters would prepare for battle. It was a smart move, and would probably save them. Not that Mephiston cared about their lives at that moment, he just wanted these three dead and the planet in his possession.
"Fire the main cannon on those three, seventy-five percent of maximum power."
"If we miss the Sayai-jin the main battery will piece the planets surface at that charge."
The unfortunate gunner who had voiced the fact was vaporized a moment later, the rest of the crew rushing to complete their master's orders.
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Medon had actually taken the full force of several elemental beams impacts, his red gi was scorched in a number of places as was his skin, but his ki hadn't dropped much from the attack. Now he stood besides his sister and grandfather, emerald eyes to the sky.
"Now what are we doing again?
"Their going to fire directly on us, I can feel a huge energy forming up there. Either that or on the planet itself, but I'm guessing us, why put all this effort out just to blow it up? So when the attack comes, we're going to counter it with a blast of our own."
Medon gave a nod even though he didn't quite like that idea. He'd prefer to just dodge the attack but if his grandfather wanted to return fire, they'd return fire.
The dark clouds above lit up and spread wide as the huge yellow beam from the Leviathan split the atmosphere, rocketing down towards the two generations of the Son family.
As one the three Super Sayai-jin cupped their hands at their sides, golden flames springing up around them. Their voices in sounding as one, as the blue balls of energy gathered within their palms.
"Kame..."
The elemental blast came closer, the ground beginning to shake around them as it came closer to the Earth.
"...Hame.."
Goku had waited until it was right on top of them to unleash their attacks so the initial flaring of energy would push the blast upwards. The three of them were bathed in yellow light, the same color as their flaring golden ki.
"..HA!"
All three of them tossed their hands up, the blue energy forming into a single beam several meters beyond their hands and jetting up to strike the energy beam from the Leviathan head on. The huge elemental beam flaring and slowly, nearly halting for a moment, but continuing to push down against the Kamehameha towards the Sayai-jin.
Pan felt her knees buckling under the massive pressure of the elemental cannon; she couldn't believe something was able to generate enough energy to push back against all three of them. The blast came closer as she fell to one knee; her hands remained high though, giving energy to the three-prong counter.
Medon gritted his teeth as he saw his sister weakening, his golden ki flaring as he went back into Stage Two, the on-coming blast from the Leviathan stopping completely as the two become locked in a stalemate. He didn't want to go back into Kaio-Ken his entire body ached from the usage of it, but he didn't see much of an option or they'd simply run out of energy and be overtaken. Then Goku's ki flared up besides him, electrical sparks flaring up around the older man as he also raised his power up a notch.
The elemental beam split clean in half the energy dissipating instantly as another surge of ki rocketed up the triple Kamehameha, the Turtle Destruction Blast continuing on to the source of the attack.
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The Leviathan rocked to the starboard side, explosions echoing within the armored hull as the ground based Kamehameha broke the gravity of the planet and struck the cruiser full force.
Mephiston stumbled and nearly fell as the side of the ship exploded, a number of his soldiers screaming as they were sucked out into the void. They were acceptable loses, and if they were higher class daemons would be able to survive the cold of space and without air, they were trash though and thus deserved to die for their weakness. The fact the Sayai-jin had managed to defeat the main cannon and damage his flagship though was unacceptable.
He still wanted the planet though and was considering his options when two more gigantic portals tore apart the fabric of reality above Earth. The cruisers Behemoth and Kraken entering into the prime material plane, and carrying aboard them the Lord Magi, Abbadon and the Black Knight, Azazel.
Azazel was a warrior to the core, he could be reasoned with. Abbadon was a cold, calculating butcher though. Any hopes Mephiston had of keeping the planet fled, if they arrived they would have orders from Emperor Asmodius himself and would follow them without error or care of any personal wants that the magistrate had.
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Pan groaned and fell out of Super Sayai-jin shortly after they had managed to push the elemental beam from the Leviathan back and strike the ship itself. She had used up too much energy in her fight with Irruit and then in sustaining her part of the Kamehameha. The short mass of her golden hair wavered a moment before fading to black and dropping down to it's original shape. Medon shifted back into Stage One, conversing his own energy for the moment, as he reached down to gently take her arm and help her to her feet.
"What happened to Trunks and Tenshinhan?"
"Grandpa got them off the planet. Trunks said Ubuu had also been fighting, but his ki is so low we haven't been able to find him again yet."
Medon frowned and was about to respond when he noticed Goku still looking up to the sky. The Sayai-jin had also dropped out of Super Sayai-jin Stage Two and into normal form, but he wasn't suppressing his ki at all, which meant he expected another round.
"What is it?"
"Another two spaceships have entered into orbit above the planet. One is carrying a ki even greater then the one that is aboard the ship that was firing on us."
Pan didn't like the tone of her grandfather's voice when he mentioned the last part. It had wavered slightly, which meant two things, he wasn't sure about their ability to win, and he was also excited about fighting whatever it was, that was up there. That was one trait that hadn't been passed on the later generations, the Sayai-jin desire to push themselves to the limits against superior opponents. Well at least they hadn't previously, she wasn't to sure about her brother anymore, and he was looking towards the passageway the three daemons had gone into green eyes slowly narrowing.
"Well then we better take out those three before the others come down here."
He was off then, dashing across the remains of the stadium towards the underground passage that led to whatever was left of the locker rooms and the three daemons that waited within.
"Medon wait!"
Goku gave a slight wave of his hand to stop Pan's protest to her brother. He was right; they wouldn't need anymore distractions if the ki's he felt aboard the ships came to the surface. They'd be lucky if they were able to handle one of them, even if all three of them participated in the fight. After a minute of simply sensing, he had managed to pick out five separate ki sources that would prove challenges if they came down to fight, four were new arrivals. Three were probably capable of fighting off all three of the Sayai-jin with barely breaking a sweat, the other two he thought were maybe beatable if they went all out.
"No let him go, we need those three either running or unable to fight. Take a moment to rest here, I'm going to try to locate Ubuu and get him out of here."
With a reluctant nod, Pan shifted off her knees into a sitting position. Admit it or not, she needed a break.
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Azazel looked out his cabin's window to the sparking form of the Leviathan that had just appeared on the port side of his battleship, the Behemoth. Small explosions were still occurring inside, the attack from the surface having crippled the ships one side almost entirely. It didn't matter; this was all going to end now.
The daemon knight, Azazel was the Supreme Commander of all the armies of the Dark Dimension. He was also the Black Knight, Champion of the Emperor and leader of the elite warriors of the realm. It was not a bad station in a life where power was all that mattered; he was not like his kin however, possessing a strict code of honor that dictated his every action. Above all though was loyalty to his master. He was under orders to end the conflict, though the swiftest means necessary. That was why he had brought Abbadon, the Lord Magi and his cruiser as well. Abbadon had a number of mighty spells at his command, and his ship was designed to enhance his energy channel abilities.
Red eyes flashed as his telepathic abilities reached out between the ships, contacting both the Lord Magi and the Magistrate at the same time.
"Mephiston, you have failed to initiate a favorable beginning to this campaign. You are favored by Asmodius so you shall not be punished. This world is forsaken though, as are your agents upon it if they cannot flee through their own power."
Azazel picked up both Abbadon's amusement and Mephiston's fuming rage through the telepathic bond. The Magistrate was incredibly powerful and skilled in his form of manipulation but he had made the wrong choices in this campaign. It was one of his few failures.
"Lord Magi, you may begin our assault at will."
"As you wish. To bad Mephiston, it was such a pretty planet. Was."
Then Azazel broke off the telepathic communication and went to the bridge of his ship to watch the assault. He did hope the warriors Mephiston had sent to the planet managed to escape, it was such a shame to lose those loyal to the cause.
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The field was about to break. Ranaghar had used his own innate magical abilities and those contained within his arcane blade to put an energy field in the path he had retreated with Zilvra and Laele, it was buckling now though under the assault of the demi-Sayai-jin that had pursued them into the tunnels. The teenager had landed about a half dozen punches against the force field so far, another few and it would break. The only thing that had helped it stay up so far was Medon had taken a few seconds to power up again after his first two attacks hadn't broken though.
He was beginning to worry now though. At the current level of energy that the Sayai-jin was at, he wouldn't be able to defeat him alone. Laele was almost uninjured and would probably be able to hold him for awhile if she got into the fight, but Zilvra was in no condition to give aid, she'd probably actually hinder their efforts. He also needed to converse his own energy for the expected escape from the planet after the last message he had received. Mephiston's order had been short and to the point.
"Flee at the earliest opportunity."
To teleport though Ranaghar would need to drop his field, leaving them defenseless for a few seconds. Daemons were not an altruistic race, but he was a solider above everything else, and it was his job to bring his subordinates along when they pulled back unless they were dead, as he assumed Kale was. Irruit had awoken and transported herself back to the flagship. She had also informed him that she had found a human of moderate ki upon her awakening within the sewers. Ranaghar assumed it was the same human that had attacked Kale earlier in the day.
Turning his snake-like eyes flipped to Laele. Of all his troops she was the most expendable in his opinion. She was powerful, but to soft in the heart, it had caused her to fail before, as it had this time. She would be the distraction.
"Hold off the Sayai-jin while I escape with your sister. Then you may follow."
She turned toward him, intending to object, but at the intensity of his stare she only lowered her eyes and gave a short nod of her head. Despite her misgivings she couldn't just leave her sibling to die. She could give them at least a few minutes.
The choice of when to drop the force field was made then as the golden flame sheathed fist of Medon burst through the purple wall, causing the energy matrix to break down and send small bursts of energy in every direction, burning small holes in the wall.
Stepping in front of her teammates, Laele firmly planted her feet onto the stone floor and waited. The crackling electrical sparks reached her a moment before Medon rushed in.
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Son Goku was again looking at the sky. Ubuu's energy had vanished a moment ago. That meant he was either dead or had someone gotten off planet. He hated to admit it but he suspected the former, Irruit's energy had flared briefly just before the warriors had disappeared.
Goku's senses were also blurred; a huge energy surge had formed again in orbit from one of the two new ships that had arrived a few minutes ago. It easily outclassed the elemental cannon that had fired on them previously. He suspected the level of pure ki to be about five to six times that. Even at full strength a triple Kamehameha from the three of them wouldn't drive it back, and with Pan and Medon both tired that wasn't an option.
He was about to teleport up to the ship above and destroy it from the inside when he felt the a ki within the ship rise dramatically within a few seconds, at the same time the elemental energy he had been sensing peaked. They were firing again, this time the blast wouldn't be stopped.
"Shit!"
Pan looked up from the ground with her grandfather's shouted curse. Less then a second later he roughly grabbed her arm and shot off in flight towards where Medon had gone after the daemons. They had so little time, as the end descended upon them. Goku knew there was no time to save anyone else, but he had to try to reach his grandson.
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Ranaghar smiled as he watched Medon crash into Laele, the assassin grabbing hold of the teenager and directing their path sideways, the two crashing through the wall of the hallway. He could hear the thumps of fists against flesh and more stone being bashed to dust as the two progressed through the ruins of the stadium. She would hold him until he was gone/
Zilvra was only half-awake as he gripped tight to her belt. He briefly thought she was lucky Kale was dead; he would have taken great advantage of her in such a state. With a low chuckle, his energy spread outward soaking over both of them, their body's dematerializing and turning into magical energy that shot up to the Leviathan overhead. His last view before the two of them vanished was Goku sliding to a stop before him and looking down the side passage as the rumbling began announcing the coming of the beam.
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The Behemoth shuddered and the dark blue hull lit up a bright orange as the magical essence of its' master ran through the ship. Abbadon was the Lord Magi of the daemon realm and possibly the most powerful manipulator of energy that had ever existed within it. Physically he was barely above average, but he excelled in every other way. So it was with his cruiser, the Behemoth. The ship was a marvel of design, able to take his own energy into it and add the power of it's own magical generators into a huge destructive blast. It was the pride of the fleet, capable of turning a star into a black hole with a single blast.
Now it unleashed that power upon the Earth. Abbadon did not have them aim for the Sayai-jin in some hope of killing them with the beam. He had the ship go to the opposite side of the planet and fire into the ocean. They would have no chance of intercepting the beam and somehow turning it aside. In a single action he would end his conflict, destroying all resistance in his dimension, and embarrass his chief competition for attention in the eyes of the Emperor, Mephiston.
The Behemoth gave a single last shake, a point of glowing orange and red energy forming at the pointed trip of the almost triangle shaped ship, then the blast streaked forth, lighting up the sky of the planet below and space for hundreds of miles in every direction.
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Goku had stopped only briefly when he reached the two teleporting daemons. He had to make sure Medon wasn't in the mix of bodies that was being taken off planet. Then he had heard the noise that was echoing through the structure. Still holding tight to Pan he shot off after the two warriors continued to move away from him.
Laele had managed to knock Medon skyward after she recovered from his initial assault, the boy crashing upward through the top of the sundered stadium and into the sky. She had quickly followed, their battle taking them higher and higher into the sky. Both oblivious of the on-coming danger or the two members of his family that chased them, the barrage of punches and kicks from their opponent taking their full attention.
Then the energy beam from the Behemoth split the sky. The clouds being torn from the planet as the atmosphere burned up on its contact, the sky, whether day or night turning a sickly red as the beam hurtled downward. The entire planet shook as it struck, burrowing deep through the crust and into the molten core. Still it did not stop, from space the sight was quick spectacular from the bridge of Azazel's flagship, the Kraken. It seemed as it a lance of energy had stabbed into the planet, piercing one side and emerging from the other.
Goku was just emerging from the stone ruins when the beam hit and all time was gone. He wouldn't reach Medon or even the daemoness. The two of them were over a mile up and moving away from him. He looked down to Pan and saw the same realization on her face, and the tears in her dark eyes. Closing his own he put his fingers to his forehead and the two Sayai-jin vanished.
Medon and Laele both ceased their attacks when the elemental blast entered into the atmosphere. Realization dawning upon both of them what was happening, Laele though of teleporting but with the distortions in ki to the area from the cannon she had no clue where she would end up, she could well enough teleport into a star. She was just focusing her energy to give a shot when she saw Medon's golden ki flare up as he rushed in at her again. There would be no escape.
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The three daemon lords, Azazel, Mephiston, and Abbadon all watched form the bridges of their respective ships. It did not take long after the beam had burrowed through the Earth. Cracks spread across the planets surface like it was a piece of glass, molten lava billowing up as it broke apart.
Then in the blink of an eye it happened. The blue gem that was the planet Earth, the pride of the Kaiosamma of the Northern Galaxy, burst apart in an explosion that was visible as far as the distant moons of Jupiter. Then there was nothing but the void.