Chapter 8 on the way! Don't ask me where I get my creativity (huh?); ask
only where I get my ideas (the same place anyway).
Whatever, anyway I want to get this chapter out so now I'm writing it. Also I would like to promote my other story, the one I've released recently! It's called Traveler X and it chronicles Alex's journeys through a series of Parallel dimensions! It is going to include everything from beating on the bad guys from DBZ to dimensions never before heard of! I've got entire worlds swimming around in my head and I really need to get them out and available for my devoted fans to read! That is... if I HAVE devoted fans...
Anyway, this chapter has been swimming around in my head for a while so I'm going to write something down and see what comes out!
Alex: [Insert big yawn here] Hey, what's up?
Alex Ultra: Not much.
Alex: Okay. Good night.
Alex Ultra: But it's noon.
Alex: Really? Oh well.
Hehe, that sleeping powder really works! [Hides frying pan behind back.]
On with the chapter!
Chapter 8
~~~~~~*** KI BLASTS, BURSTS, AND... BUBBLES? ***~~~~~~
"Okay, now concentrate your energy into your hands. Got it?" Tien was gently coaching me on the ways of ki.
"Uh," and I was watching my hands start to glow. Again, I was pacing myself so as not to hurt myself or anyone else. "Uhm, like this?"
"Yeah, now push it out through your palm. It won't hold together very well, but it's simple and easier to do so you should get it pretty quick."
"Uhm," I pointed my palm at a nearby tree and shoved my energy out through the flat of my palm. It felt kind of tingly but I definitely got results, signaled by the bright flash and the smoking pile that was once a tree. "Did I... do... that?"
"Yup. That was an energy burst. It's not as controlled as a blast or ball, but it's pretty powerful at close range. But anyway, now you need to start at a ki ball, so just put your hands close together and focus your energy in between them." Well, he's quick to move on, isn't he?
Well, I did as I was told, and despite all my practice with ki, and all the ki I had ('cause Tien addressed me on that last night) I just couldn't seem to force it all into one place like I wanted. Defeated, I gave up and looked at Tien. I'm sure I looked sad but I can't see myself so I really don't know. "Hey, Tien? Do you think you can show me?"
Well, I don't know exactly what it was supposed to accomplish, but I wanted him to show me. So, I guess he didn't see any harm in it. "Fine." He brought one hand up to chest-level and slowly formed a ball of ki.
I watched intently and made sure to keep track of where his ki was. I had found that it was rather easy to sense his ki, especially from this range. So, I watched him make his ball, and watched as he let it rise out of his hands, and then watched some more as he blew a hole in a nearby mountain- face. "Well, happy now? Huh?"
I guess he was surprised by the little ball of light in my hand. Well, I wasn't surprised, I was happy! Watching him did the trick! I'm not exactly sure why, but it did.
"Uh, great! Hehe, uh, now, uh, shoot it somewhere, or, something." I shot it at the mountain next to Tien's hole, and surprisingly, even though it was my first one, the hole I left was even bigger than his!! COOOL!! But that's okay, 'cause neither of us were really trying so it really didn't count.
"Okay, uh, now you just need to, uh, practice... yeah." He walked off and started talking to himself. Just before he got out of earshot I heard him ask 'Why do I even try?'
Well, I guess that all that was left was practice. So I set out to get some practice, maybe even get some of my specials to work?
~~~ 12 hours later ~~~
"Hey Tien!! Come see!!" I know I was acting childish, but I couldn't help it!
"What now?" I think I interrupted Tien's meditation, so he was a little grumpy.
"Look! I've got my own technique!" His expression lightened a little to something that looked like curiosity so I went on.
"Well, show me."
"Okay!" First I thought I would try a Manal-a-Star (Mu-n-all-ay Star). I started by the first pose, but Tien interrupted me.
"Hey, that looks like the Kamehameha! How did you learn that?"
"I didn't!! This is MY attack!" He only grunted and I went on.
Yes, I guess it does start out like the Kamehameha, but it gets better. I put my wrists together and pulled my hands to my side, keeping the wrists together but turning my arms so they were facing each other. "Uhn," I shoved some energy into my hands and pulled them apart, so that there was a space about the size of a baseball between my hands.
Now it sounds a lot like the Kamehameha, doesn't it? Well anyway, I kept pushing power into the ball between my hands, then I put my hands out in front of me (much like in Goku's technique) and the ball of energy expanded until it was big enough to cover my arms up to about half-way up my lower arms.
The prep stuff finished I launched the big white ball into the air, where the tail showed itself to be only about an inch around and disappeared quickly.
Tien followed the ball into the sky with his eyes and watched until it exploded, sending us both to the ground. See, I was too busy feeling proud of myself to worry about standing up, hehehe...
"Well, that was, uh, interesting..."
"That's not all! I have a couple more! Watch this! It's called Samal-a Star (similar pronunciation), I've got this thing for stars..." I started by getting a pose where I had one hand out in front and the other was behind me. I gathered my energy into both of them and concentrated. This attack takes a lot of concentration so it took a while to get to the next part.
When I was convinced that I had enough energy I moved my hands around me so that the trails left behind made a complete circle around me. Then, with my right hand still behind me and the other in front, I moved them so that I made another circle in the other direction.
Then, I quickly put my hands together and all the energy expanded and filled the entire area inside the circles I had made with my hands.
"Hey! What are you doing?" Tien was worried about me, I think. Anyway it wasn't necessary 'cause I was just fine inside the ki-shield my attack had made, having expanded to include my feet and stuff.
And to finish it all off I brought about half of the energy to my hands to form the beam. See, the really nifty thing about this attack (which I originally called the "Star Beam Cannon" but that sounded too stupid) is that the beam isn't round like most of them. Instead I arrange my hands so that they form a star-shape and that's how the energy comes out!
I fired the beam at a large boulder and it carved out a star shape about five inches across, leaving Tien speechless. So then I thought I would leave him with a bit more to chew on.
"Power! BOOST!" I took the energy away from the shield and put it into the beam, the beam lost its star shape but it gained a HUGE kick! That boulder was TOTALLY blown away as soon as the surge of energy hit it, leaving the ground with a bit of a crater and Tien with nothing left to say.
"Wow! I didn't know it packed that much of a punch! Cool!"
"... uh ... um ..."
"Tien? Is something wrong?"
"Uh, no, uh, wow, uh, hehe, um."
"Please don't tell me you're broken!"
"Uh, hehe, no. It's just... wow! Uh, nice... attack... uh, hehe, yeah."
"You sure sound broken, or did you just forget how to talk?"
"Uh, yeah, well, anyway. Didn't you say you had another one?"
"Yeah! You wanna' see it?" I was really proud of this one. I thought it was really cool!
"Uh, sure..." Tien was still smiling nervously, trying to keep from freaking out, or something.
"Great! Okay, here it is. I don't have a name for it so tell me what you think!"
I put my hands together and stood straight up with my eyes closed. As for the rest, I think Tien could tell you better.
~~~ Three Eyes ~~~
Okay, now what am I here for again? Oh yeah. Now I remember.
Anyway, Alex just kind of stood there glowing for a second or two, nothing special. I could tell that she had a ki-shield to protect her while she did... whatever it was she was doing.
I was still speechless from the last light show, so it knocked the wind out of me when I saw ki-balls forming out of mid-air! All around her Ki was forming into balls right out of mid-air! Honestly I had never seen that before, but that's why she was showing me, wasn't it?
Okay, so there she was, standing there with balls of energy forming all around her. So what does she do? She opens her eyes and shouts (screams) out loud, making my ears hurt and the balls of energy pulse with a bright light! Oh, and in my surprise I didn't keep my guard up so I was knocked to my butt by the wave of energy moving away from her. And on my butt, I looked up to see that the balls of energy were forming everywhere!
Hey! What? Oh, I'm done? Well, okay. Well folks, I guess Alex will take it from here.
~~~ Alex ~~~
I stopped gathering energy and making the energy balls. I relaxed from the stress of the attack but made sure to keep them around.
"Tien? Hey, where'd you go?" I looked down and saw him on his back, staring up at a ball of energy no more that ten inches above his head. Moving that one aside I helped him up.
"Wow! But, how?"
"Oh, that! Well, control is very important to me. I made this attack to prove to myself that I could!" I was smiling like some kind idiot I was so proud of myself.
"Well, I think you succeeded! This is incredible!"
"Yeah! And I can do all sorts of things with them! See?" I started moving the ones nearest me so that they were moving in a circle around me, actually two circles going in opposite directions. "Cool, huh? And watch this!" With the two circles still going around me I took another one right out of the sky and pulled it in front of me.
Concentrating hard I managed to split the six-inch ball into lots of really little points of light.
"Uh, hehe, nice, I... guess..."
"But that's not all! I haven't used it as an attack yet!"
"Uhm, okay?"
I told them all to stop and brought them closer to me. Then I put my open hand out in front of me, signaling all the little balls of energy to zoom off in the same direction, forming a bit of a stream of energy balls. It was COOL!!!
Not only that, but the resulting explosions nearly blew the top off of the mountain we had earlier used for target-practice! It was cool!
"Uh, uhm, hehe, that was, impressive!"
"Really? You think so?"
"No, that's not really the word to describe it..."
My hopeful demeanor was interrupted 'cause I didn't know what to think from how he was acting. He still seemed as if I had knocked the wind out of him.
"Uh, it's not?"
"No, it was... INCREDIBLE!!! UNBELIEVABLE!!! I've never seen anything like it!!"
I breathed a sigh of relief, and smiled proudly. "Thanks! But I still don't know what to call it!"
"Well, what do you think it looks like?"
I thought about it for a second, then came up with an answer. "Uh, I guess they kind of remind me of bubbles. What do you think?"
"Sounds good."
"Bubbles?"
"Yeah. Something like that."
"But what do I call it?"
"It's your attack. You name it!"
"Dinner's here!" Chaotzu called out to us, signaling the arrival of the Pizza (yes, pizza), and finding out just how much I like pizza by getting knocked to the floor as I passed.
"Exthuse me, Khaothu!" Well, I guess I'll see you later! I've got Pizza to eat! Yum!
~~~~~~*** End of Chapter 8 ***~~~~~~
Well, as usual, you HAVE to tell me what you think. But this time I am drafting you all out there to come up with a name for Alex's attack! I know I should come up with a name for it on my own, but I just can't come up with anything that sounds cool. So can I depend on you to leave a name for it in a Review? Huh? Please?
Alex: Mmmmm, pizza!
Alex Ultra: Forget it! You've had enough already!
Alex: Awww...
Alex Ultra: Now why don't you go home or something?
Alex: 'Cause I'm having too much fun bugging you!
Alex Ultra: Makes sense.
Well, I really don't have much else to say so I'll just say these two things.
Next time Alex is paying a certain Namek a visit. Alex has questions and gets answers next time on Internal Flame!
And, of course, until next time...
LATER
Whatever, anyway I want to get this chapter out so now I'm writing it. Also I would like to promote my other story, the one I've released recently! It's called Traveler X and it chronicles Alex's journeys through a series of Parallel dimensions! It is going to include everything from beating on the bad guys from DBZ to dimensions never before heard of! I've got entire worlds swimming around in my head and I really need to get them out and available for my devoted fans to read! That is... if I HAVE devoted fans...
Anyway, this chapter has been swimming around in my head for a while so I'm going to write something down and see what comes out!
Alex: [Insert big yawn here] Hey, what's up?
Alex Ultra: Not much.
Alex: Okay. Good night.
Alex Ultra: But it's noon.
Alex: Really? Oh well.
Hehe, that sleeping powder really works! [Hides frying pan behind back.]
On with the chapter!
Chapter 8
~~~~~~*** KI BLASTS, BURSTS, AND... BUBBLES? ***~~~~~~
"Okay, now concentrate your energy into your hands. Got it?" Tien was gently coaching me on the ways of ki.
"Uh," and I was watching my hands start to glow. Again, I was pacing myself so as not to hurt myself or anyone else. "Uhm, like this?"
"Yeah, now push it out through your palm. It won't hold together very well, but it's simple and easier to do so you should get it pretty quick."
"Uhm," I pointed my palm at a nearby tree and shoved my energy out through the flat of my palm. It felt kind of tingly but I definitely got results, signaled by the bright flash and the smoking pile that was once a tree. "Did I... do... that?"
"Yup. That was an energy burst. It's not as controlled as a blast or ball, but it's pretty powerful at close range. But anyway, now you need to start at a ki ball, so just put your hands close together and focus your energy in between them." Well, he's quick to move on, isn't he?
Well, I did as I was told, and despite all my practice with ki, and all the ki I had ('cause Tien addressed me on that last night) I just couldn't seem to force it all into one place like I wanted. Defeated, I gave up and looked at Tien. I'm sure I looked sad but I can't see myself so I really don't know. "Hey, Tien? Do you think you can show me?"
Well, I don't know exactly what it was supposed to accomplish, but I wanted him to show me. So, I guess he didn't see any harm in it. "Fine." He brought one hand up to chest-level and slowly formed a ball of ki.
I watched intently and made sure to keep track of where his ki was. I had found that it was rather easy to sense his ki, especially from this range. So, I watched him make his ball, and watched as he let it rise out of his hands, and then watched some more as he blew a hole in a nearby mountain- face. "Well, happy now? Huh?"
I guess he was surprised by the little ball of light in my hand. Well, I wasn't surprised, I was happy! Watching him did the trick! I'm not exactly sure why, but it did.
"Uh, great! Hehe, uh, now, uh, shoot it somewhere, or, something." I shot it at the mountain next to Tien's hole, and surprisingly, even though it was my first one, the hole I left was even bigger than his!! COOOL!! But that's okay, 'cause neither of us were really trying so it really didn't count.
"Okay, uh, now you just need to, uh, practice... yeah." He walked off and started talking to himself. Just before he got out of earshot I heard him ask 'Why do I even try?'
Well, I guess that all that was left was practice. So I set out to get some practice, maybe even get some of my specials to work?
~~~ 12 hours later ~~~
"Hey Tien!! Come see!!" I know I was acting childish, but I couldn't help it!
"What now?" I think I interrupted Tien's meditation, so he was a little grumpy.
"Look! I've got my own technique!" His expression lightened a little to something that looked like curiosity so I went on.
"Well, show me."
"Okay!" First I thought I would try a Manal-a-Star (Mu-n-all-ay Star). I started by the first pose, but Tien interrupted me.
"Hey, that looks like the Kamehameha! How did you learn that?"
"I didn't!! This is MY attack!" He only grunted and I went on.
Yes, I guess it does start out like the Kamehameha, but it gets better. I put my wrists together and pulled my hands to my side, keeping the wrists together but turning my arms so they were facing each other. "Uhn," I shoved some energy into my hands and pulled them apart, so that there was a space about the size of a baseball between my hands.
Now it sounds a lot like the Kamehameha, doesn't it? Well anyway, I kept pushing power into the ball between my hands, then I put my hands out in front of me (much like in Goku's technique) and the ball of energy expanded until it was big enough to cover my arms up to about half-way up my lower arms.
The prep stuff finished I launched the big white ball into the air, where the tail showed itself to be only about an inch around and disappeared quickly.
Tien followed the ball into the sky with his eyes and watched until it exploded, sending us both to the ground. See, I was too busy feeling proud of myself to worry about standing up, hehehe...
"Well, that was, uh, interesting..."
"That's not all! I have a couple more! Watch this! It's called Samal-a Star (similar pronunciation), I've got this thing for stars..." I started by getting a pose where I had one hand out in front and the other was behind me. I gathered my energy into both of them and concentrated. This attack takes a lot of concentration so it took a while to get to the next part.
When I was convinced that I had enough energy I moved my hands around me so that the trails left behind made a complete circle around me. Then, with my right hand still behind me and the other in front, I moved them so that I made another circle in the other direction.
Then, I quickly put my hands together and all the energy expanded and filled the entire area inside the circles I had made with my hands.
"Hey! What are you doing?" Tien was worried about me, I think. Anyway it wasn't necessary 'cause I was just fine inside the ki-shield my attack had made, having expanded to include my feet and stuff.
And to finish it all off I brought about half of the energy to my hands to form the beam. See, the really nifty thing about this attack (which I originally called the "Star Beam Cannon" but that sounded too stupid) is that the beam isn't round like most of them. Instead I arrange my hands so that they form a star-shape and that's how the energy comes out!
I fired the beam at a large boulder and it carved out a star shape about five inches across, leaving Tien speechless. So then I thought I would leave him with a bit more to chew on.
"Power! BOOST!" I took the energy away from the shield and put it into the beam, the beam lost its star shape but it gained a HUGE kick! That boulder was TOTALLY blown away as soon as the surge of energy hit it, leaving the ground with a bit of a crater and Tien with nothing left to say.
"Wow! I didn't know it packed that much of a punch! Cool!"
"... uh ... um ..."
"Tien? Is something wrong?"
"Uh, no, uh, wow, uh, hehe, um."
"Please don't tell me you're broken!"
"Uh, hehe, no. It's just... wow! Uh, nice... attack... uh, hehe, yeah."
"You sure sound broken, or did you just forget how to talk?"
"Uh, yeah, well, anyway. Didn't you say you had another one?"
"Yeah! You wanna' see it?" I was really proud of this one. I thought it was really cool!
"Uh, sure..." Tien was still smiling nervously, trying to keep from freaking out, or something.
"Great! Okay, here it is. I don't have a name for it so tell me what you think!"
I put my hands together and stood straight up with my eyes closed. As for the rest, I think Tien could tell you better.
~~~ Three Eyes ~~~
Okay, now what am I here for again? Oh yeah. Now I remember.
Anyway, Alex just kind of stood there glowing for a second or two, nothing special. I could tell that she had a ki-shield to protect her while she did... whatever it was she was doing.
I was still speechless from the last light show, so it knocked the wind out of me when I saw ki-balls forming out of mid-air! All around her Ki was forming into balls right out of mid-air! Honestly I had never seen that before, but that's why she was showing me, wasn't it?
Okay, so there she was, standing there with balls of energy forming all around her. So what does she do? She opens her eyes and shouts (screams) out loud, making my ears hurt and the balls of energy pulse with a bright light! Oh, and in my surprise I didn't keep my guard up so I was knocked to my butt by the wave of energy moving away from her. And on my butt, I looked up to see that the balls of energy were forming everywhere!
Hey! What? Oh, I'm done? Well, okay. Well folks, I guess Alex will take it from here.
~~~ Alex ~~~
I stopped gathering energy and making the energy balls. I relaxed from the stress of the attack but made sure to keep them around.
"Tien? Hey, where'd you go?" I looked down and saw him on his back, staring up at a ball of energy no more that ten inches above his head. Moving that one aside I helped him up.
"Wow! But, how?"
"Oh, that! Well, control is very important to me. I made this attack to prove to myself that I could!" I was smiling like some kind idiot I was so proud of myself.
"Well, I think you succeeded! This is incredible!"
"Yeah! And I can do all sorts of things with them! See?" I started moving the ones nearest me so that they were moving in a circle around me, actually two circles going in opposite directions. "Cool, huh? And watch this!" With the two circles still going around me I took another one right out of the sky and pulled it in front of me.
Concentrating hard I managed to split the six-inch ball into lots of really little points of light.
"Uh, hehe, nice, I... guess..."
"But that's not all! I haven't used it as an attack yet!"
"Uhm, okay?"
I told them all to stop and brought them closer to me. Then I put my open hand out in front of me, signaling all the little balls of energy to zoom off in the same direction, forming a bit of a stream of energy balls. It was COOL!!!
Not only that, but the resulting explosions nearly blew the top off of the mountain we had earlier used for target-practice! It was cool!
"Uh, uhm, hehe, that was, impressive!"
"Really? You think so?"
"No, that's not really the word to describe it..."
My hopeful demeanor was interrupted 'cause I didn't know what to think from how he was acting. He still seemed as if I had knocked the wind out of him.
"Uh, it's not?"
"No, it was... INCREDIBLE!!! UNBELIEVABLE!!! I've never seen anything like it!!"
I breathed a sigh of relief, and smiled proudly. "Thanks! But I still don't know what to call it!"
"Well, what do you think it looks like?"
I thought about it for a second, then came up with an answer. "Uh, I guess they kind of remind me of bubbles. What do you think?"
"Sounds good."
"Bubbles?"
"Yeah. Something like that."
"But what do I call it?"
"It's your attack. You name it!"
"Dinner's here!" Chaotzu called out to us, signaling the arrival of the Pizza (yes, pizza), and finding out just how much I like pizza by getting knocked to the floor as I passed.
"Exthuse me, Khaothu!" Well, I guess I'll see you later! I've got Pizza to eat! Yum!
~~~~~~*** End of Chapter 8 ***~~~~~~
Well, as usual, you HAVE to tell me what you think. But this time I am drafting you all out there to come up with a name for Alex's attack! I know I should come up with a name for it on my own, but I just can't come up with anything that sounds cool. So can I depend on you to leave a name for it in a Review? Huh? Please?
Alex: Mmmmm, pizza!
Alex Ultra: Forget it! You've had enough already!
Alex: Awww...
Alex Ultra: Now why don't you go home or something?
Alex: 'Cause I'm having too much fun bugging you!
Alex Ultra: Makes sense.
Well, I really don't have much else to say so I'll just say these two things.
Next time Alex is paying a certain Namek a visit. Alex has questions and gets answers next time on Internal Flame!
And, of course, until next time...
LATER