To fill in the missing parts. This chapter will start primarily by telling what happened during those hours that were lost in the previous chapter.
Disclaimer: Sorry, I still don't own it. Don't own Dragonball, that belongs to Akira Toriyama. And I don't own Ranma 1/2, as that belongs to the super-great Rumiko Takahashi. I do own MY characters (to a degree), but take no responsibility when they break something (like my house... \_/).
~~~~~~*** LOST HOURS ***~~~~~~
"Are you ready, Chaotzu?"
"I'm ready..." Chaotzu was wrapped up in chains and standing stock still. He didn't really understand what this training was supposed to do, but he had decided he could fight through it (he had been assured it wouldn't kill him...).
Alex nodded solemnly as she stood across from the little white kid.
Chaotzu braced for the worst.
...kkkrakkle...
A short burst of electrical energy came in contact with the chains, sending Chaotzu into involuntary convulsions.
"Ah! Yeee! Ow! *Huff Huff*"
"Okay. Stage one finished. Now comes stage two."
"Huh?"
Krakkle... SNAP!
"AAHH! Ow!"
"We're going to at this for quite a while now... don't worry, it is leading somewhere..."
"Ha! Okay! But, um... where is all that eee-eel-eck-trr..."
"Electricity? Where is it coming from?" Chaotzu nodded his head.
"Well, let me show you before we move on, okay?" Chaotzu nodded, anything to give his lungs time to get oxygen back to his brain.
Smiling, Alex put her gaze downward as she floated slowly into the air. As she did, the wind started picking up, swaying the forest trees to and fro.
She then opened her eyes and looked into the clear blue sky, seeming as if some kind of angel.
KA-RACK!! HWWWRUMMMBLEE--
A HUGE bolt of lightning seemed to come out of nowhere, blasting a small crater in the ground and engulfing the teen in its white light.
Still, she was there. Hovering motionlessly in the air. Still staring blankly into the sky.
Smirking, she spoke in a slightly restrained voice. "And now... I'll show you."
"H-huh?"
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"YEAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!"
The green blast of the Evil Containment Wave flew through the air, spiralling toward an electric rice cooker.
"-AAAHHHHH!!!!! NYAA!!" Surging a final burst of power, Tien motioned for the head of the wave to land inside the rice cooker, which then closed in the vacuum of energy. He didn't even need anyone to close it for him.
Flump. Tired, Tienshinhan fell face-first to the ground.
"Hehe.. hehe, I did it... I mastered the... Evil Containment Wave..." Satisfied with the results, he decided the next step was to confront Piccolo himself, and to defeat him.
Of course, it would help if he waited until he regained his strength.
"Zzzzzzz....."
The owls looked at the sleeping man under the light of the Moon. O.O
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"Now, Son Goku. If you accept, I will allow you to drink from the Super Holy Water. If you survive the trial of this potion, then it will grant you strength. Not the strength of its own, but strength from deep within you." A deep, tired voice rang out in the darkness of the cave. The source was the darkness itself.
Literally.
"I accept. If this will help me fight Piccolo, then I accept."
Yajirobe stopped Goku. "Hey, wait a minute Goku. Let me taste this before you take it..." Dipping one finger into the dark liquid, he put it in his mouth with the look of a professional taste-tester.
"YEEEEEEAAAHHH!!! AHHH!! AHH!! PFTHBTBTBTBT!! Haah, haah, haah... No way man! Do it Goku! It's terrible!!!" Yajirobe looked as if he had just tasted the world's worst-tasting poison (A/N: Close, but not quite... O.o THERE'S THEM OWLS AGAIN!!! Oh, wait. That was me... ^.^).
"Geeze Yajirobe! Don't scare me like that! I don't wanna chicken out!" Goku was chiding the mountain boy for what he percieved to be a joke.
"I'm not Jokin about this Goku! That stuff is terrible!"
Goku looked into the cup with a determined gleam. "Well, I have no choice. If this is it, then this is it." Closing his eyes, he chugged the entire glass in one gulp.
For a moment nothing happened.
"YAAAAAA!!!!!! AHH! AHH!! HAAAHAHAAAAA!!!!" Writhing in pain, Goku fell to the ground.
Yajirobe looked to the face in the darkness, known simply as 'Darkness'. "So how long is this supposed to last?"
Darkness 'hmm'd in thought. "I'm not really sure. Most who try the water don't even last this long. There are a few, however, that last many hours before finally dying. So there's no telling really."
Yajirobe didn't exactly feel comforted by this, so he just sat to wait to see what would happen. 'Oh well, it was his choice. May as well stick around to bury him...'
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The girl known as Ranma Saotome was making her way back to the palace of the King of the World. 'That chick said I could get a real fight here. But I have yet to see a real opponent. But... if those monster-things were just the kids of that first one, then he must be stronger than them. Okay, mister Demon-King, get ready for Ranma! Killer of Gods!' Blinking at her nickname, she decided to re-name that. 'Okay, then I'm Ranma! Half-Killer of a demi-god! Crap, that sounds terrible, even in my head!'
Always one to look and sound cool, Ranma decided to sit down and think of a better nickname.
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Still smirking, Alex curled into a ball. "Now, you, and you alone, will see..." 'After all, I'm not against showing off from time to time...'
Laughing a reserved chuckle, she expanded, and with her, came a milky-white aura. Its white-hot power flowed through, and into the air. Like a kaleidoscope of just one color, it seethed and flowed around, from, and into her as if a part of her.
Closing her grip, she tightened the aura, and with it, her power changed ever so slightly. It took on a slightly yellowish look.
Rrrrhummmbllleee...
Accross the landscape, a rumbling was heard. And with it, several bursts of lightning coursed through the air, like a cloudless thunder-storm.
The air was empty, filling in only with the increasingly powerful blasts of arcing electricity.
The girl's voice came in an echo, giving it an almost... surreal feel. "You see... it comes from me."
Pointing her fingers in a calm gesture down toward the ground, she stretched out again. "Ha!"
Immediately, a whole bunch of bolts of lightning coursed back to her, and surrounded her in an invisible sphere of energy. After a few moments, the lights died down, and she was left there, looking as if nothing had happened.
Tap.
When she landed, she looked back at Chaotzu. "But... this will stay here. I cannot fight here. This is not my place, I cannot use my hand here."
Chaotzu came out of his cringing frenzy (as one of the larger bolts of white-hot electricity came within a meter of him) and looked calmly at his new teacher. "So instead, you're teaching me so that I can fight... because you aren't allowed."
Alex smiled. "Yes. But not just you... my hand extends much farther than you know." Her smile changed, it wasn't dark, or even serious at all anymore. Now it was sweet and innocent. "Now why don't we get back to your training, huh?"
"Uh..." Blinking twice quickly, Chaotzu was beginning to give this second-thoughts. "I... Are you sure this won't kill me?"
"Oh! Chaotzu! Please, give me some credit! I know your limits."
Chaotzu wanted to ask how she knew his limits if they had never met before, but thought better of it. "Alright, I'm ready."
"Okay, then let's get going..."
Chak-ka-rack!
"AAAAHHHH!!!!" High-pitched shouting was dampened out by the trees of the forest as Chaotzu endured his training... But with who, or what, was he training?
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"...and so... my seat as king of the world has been contested, and taken. From this moment on, though it pains me to say it... the King of the world shall be the Great Demon King Piccolo..." The former King of the world suddenly took a panicked, angry look as he shouted into the camera. "BUT WITH HIM AS KING THE WORLD WILL BE RUINED!! SOMEONE!! PLEASE!! TAKE HIM DOWN!!"
Piccolo grabbed the former King by the neck and lifted him into the air. "I thought I told you not to improvise. You don't want to die yet, do you?" Turning around to face into the camera, he adressed the world. "Now... Citizens of the world, I am King Piccolo, your new Monarch."
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"Of course! He's at the King's Castle!!" Tien blasted off toward the castle in question, not thinking twice about giving his own life to get back at that monster.
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"Ranma the Killer of a God? No, how about, Ranma! The Phoenix Slayer! Yeah! That sounds good! Ha! I'm such a genius!" Standing proudly, the redhead bounded off toward the castle in question.
~~
Goku was overjoyed. "Wow! Look at the size of that Nimbus Cloud!"
Korin smiled. "Go ahead! Jump on and take however much you want, be my guest."
"So does that mean that the Nimbus that Master Roshi gave me?"
"Mmm hmm. I gave it to him when he came here."
"Wow! Cool! Thanks!" Goku jumped atop the cloud and pulled out a puff about the same size as his previous cloud. "I'll take this much!"
"Are you sure you can fit on such a tiny cloud?"
"Uh huh! Hey Yajirobe! You wanna come?"
"Are you kidding!? I don't feel like Dying today. I'll pass."
"Okay!" Goku hopped atop his new cloud and zoomed off. "Wee!!! Haha! Okay Piccolo! Here I come!"
After watching Goku take off, Yajirobe turned to the cat-person next to him. "So, can I have one too?"
Korin snorted a choked laugh. "Hehe, something tells me I don't think you would be able to ride it even if I did give it to you. So no, sorry."
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Chaotzu fought from within the grasp of a giant crystal of ice. "Mmmmmh! Mmmh... HAAAA!!!!" Surrounded by fire, he shattered his frozen prison and sent a red-hot blast-wave outward.
"Ah good! You have sufficiently mastered your energies. Now for the final leg of your training."
"Huh?"
Alex smiled almost a bit like Piccolo, beaming of confidence. "You have mastered the use of your attack energies. Now you only need to learn to properly use your other energy."
"What energy is that?"
Alex smiled down her nose. "Psychic. The energy that you specialize in."
Chaotzu was a bit confused, and could only manage to blink before he was suddenly cringing noiselessly.
'Once we're finished here, he can join the battle with King Piccolo.'
A dull purple glow lit the area as Chaotzu calmed, and the forest fell silent.
~~
'Now, let's get going. The West Terrirories are waiting for me to destroy them.'
Before loading his airship his attention was caught by a passing aircraft. "What is that?"
"PICCOLO!! STOP THERE! YOU'VE MET YOUR MATCH NOW!" Tien shouted at the Demon King from the seat of his aircraft.
Piccolo crossed his arms. "Well, it didn't take long for the first suicidal fool to show up."
Piccolo's attendant, Piano, nodded her long pointy head. "The world's full of them."
Piccolo chuckled. "Fine, I'll take a moment for him. Make an example of him for my subjects. I'll put his shredded body on live TV for all to see."
Floating quickly to the ground, Piccolo landed and looked back up to the flyer. "Come on down, I'll make an exception and play with you today."
Tien began muttering to himself. "Happy, aren't you? Well, enjoy your castle while you can. Because soon this electric rice cooker will be the only home--!!" Looking at his rice cooker, he noticed something he had passed up before. "Ah! It's cracked! I'll never be able to seal him with this!"
Drum and Haito (the human fighter) came out of the palace and took their places beside Piccolo.
Sneering up toward the jet-plane, Piccolo taunted out. "Well? Have you lost your nerve? West City is waiting for me to destroy it!"
"My master, might I be allowed to fight the fool?"
Smiling, Piccolo looked to his newest lackey. "Perhaps if I grow bored with him I'll let you finish him off. But for now, I've promised him my time, so I am obligated to do this personally."
Tien dropped the rice cooker with a grunt. "All right, I'll just have to fight without the Evil Containment Wave."
Calmly, yet quickly, Tien floated down to the ground.
"Ha! You can fly, eh? So you're not half-bad. Sadly, it is your martial artists pride that means your death."
Tien snorted slightly. "You haven't won yet, even with all those beside you."
"Hey Drum!" Another voice rang out from somewhere to the side.
As everyone looked in the direction of the call, they saw a redhaired girl standing confidently no more than twenty meters away. "So? Drum, is this that girl?"
"Yes, shall I kill her?"
"Yes."
"Yes, my master." Drum zoomed away after the girl.
"Now, let's get started! HA!" Piccolo launched after the three-eyed one.
"HYA!!" A foot, launched by an orange blur, knocked the demon king off his intended course and into the ground.
"Goku?"
"HYEAH!" Ranma blocked a thick fist just above her head with seemingly minimal effort.
"You know, your brother was far better off than you are..."
Drum looked flabbergasted. "Wh-what did you say?"
"He had those blades to keep me from hitting him... you don't have that... do you?"
Growling dangerously, Drum launched an uppercut heading for Ranma's jaw.
But Goku blocked the kick headed for his face. "Piccolo, you've hurt too many people. I WON'T let you leave here!"
Haito smirked in the direction of Tien. "Well, fighter. It looks like it's just you and me now, eh?"
'Maybe I can get another electric rice cooker while they're distracted...'
"En Gaurde Freak!"
"FREAK!? Why you!" Running up to his new target, Tien launched a vicious uppercut for his gut.
Haito dodged to Tien's left and sent a roundhouse kick into the small of his back. "Is that all the world champ can do? Really, it almost makes me wish I had entered the competition!"
Ranma jumped to her left to avoid Drum's ground-breaking punch, and spun around him in rather graceful fashion, landing a powerful side-kick to the middle of his back just between his shoulderblades.
Drum got off the ground and glared at Ranma. "Ugh... why you!"
"Oh shut up! You aren't even worth my time! MOKO TAKABISHA!!" A white hot blast of energy erupted from the girl's outstretched hands and engulfed the ball of blubber.
But Piccolo missed. 'What? How!?'
"HYAAA!!!" Goku hit Piccolo in the head yet again, sending him to the ground.
But Haito wasn't done yet. "DRAGONBREATH!!" Putting his intertwined hands forward he shot out a stream of red-hot energy at his opponent, which continued to flow until Tien stopped it by throwing a semi-large boulder at him.
"RRGH!!" Haito melted the boulder with his energy wave, but he didn't see the fist heading his way from the side.
Sprawled out on the ground, Haito barely saw Tien as he floated into the sky. "And now!! TRIBEAM!!! HAAAAA!"
"AAAHHH!!!" Scrambling quickly out of the way, Haito managed to avoid being crushed into, and through the ground, as a square hole roughly the size of the Tournament arena opened up right where he had been sprawled out only moments before.
"Okay.. that didn't kill him like the other one, but it did make him mad." As Drum kept coming down on Ranma, she kept retreating.
Until she stopped with a vicious smirk. 'Perfect...' "HIRYUU SHOTEN HA!!" Punching a screwpunch into the sky, she used Drum's anger against him, using it to fuel a horrendously large tornado that launched him into the sky.
A youthful voice called out to him. "TIEN!!"
"Chaotzu! What are you doing here?"
"I'm here to help you, Tien!"
Tien looked at the white kid-person beside him, smiling a bit, but still worried for his safety. "Well, there's no need, I have things under control."
"Well, just the same, this is what I have been training for." Chaotzu was suddenly surrounded by a bright white light.
As Tien watched, the light seemed to focus in Chaotzu's stomach, and then he couldn't be seen at all. "CHAOTZU!!!!!!"
Stunned by the sight of seeing Chaotzu disappear like that, Tien didn't have the mind to move out of the way when the small ball of light came after him, enveloping him in its white light. "AAAHHH!!!"
{Tien! It's me!}
{Chaotzu! Where are you!?}
{I... I'm inside you, Tien. That's why I was training, so that I could give you my strength.}
It was true, the fire in his limbs, it didn't hurt. Rather, it felt... incredible.
"Look, I don't know what you are, but you're finished!! DRAGONBREATH!!"
As Tien stood there, caught in the headlights, Ranma prepared for Drum to come down atop her.
"Hehehe... your brother was almost useful, you know?" Pulling out a long blade-like thing from the back of her shirt, she held it with the point ready to impale the obese monster.
"Ahhhh!!! No!" Calling up all the strength he could, Drum managed to steer himself out of the way of the point of the blade.
"Haha... HAHA!!!" Drum crawled up to his hands, almost surprised that he had managed to avoid that deadly point.
He looked down and noticed that he was bleeding green fluid. Looking at his stomach, he saw a blanched blade piercing his stomach. "B... but..."
"Oh shut up already!" Coursing the blade to the side, Ranma cut the demon in half right at the stomach. That shut him up fairly quickly.
"Feh, demons, go figure... Okay, now for the boss."
The red-hot energy was heading right for him! Tien couldn't stop it, or even dodge in time!
'Is this it!?'
{HYAA!!}
A thick sheet of ice seemed to coalesce out of the white fluid-like energy that surrounded Tien.
Tien was shocked and surprised. "W-was that... magic?"
{No Tien. That's what I've been training for! While I'm here, I can make you stronger, and protect you at the same time.}
"Okay then! Let's get on with this!" Tien flexed his arms and faced the motionless Haito. "Now to see what you mean..."
As Haito began to re-think his decision to join Piccolo, he found that Tien was too fast. It was like seeing someone live through a bomb-raid and then simply disappear!
"AHH!!" Haito felt a focused pain in his back as Tien found a target there, and launched him far into the distance.
As Haito flew away, barely realizing that he wasn't on the ground anymore, Tien looked at his hand. "Did I do that?"
{We did that, Tien.}
"Hehe, Piccolo, here we come!" Tien looked over at the green demon and started after him.
Piccolo was rather nervous. He had never been faced with even one warrior who could contest his power. But now he was surrounded by three of them!
"Hey, you're Goku, right?"
"Yeah, that's my name! What's your name!?"
"I'm Ranma Saotome! Killer of the Phoenix God Saffron!"
Tien blanched. "You killed a god?"
"Well, yeah. But he didn't give me any choice! And besides, he'll be reborn again in a few years anyway..."
Goku blinked a few times, trying to let this information sink in.
Tien stood stock-still, unsure of what to think of this new girl.
Piccolo thought it might be a prudent idea to start gathering his full power.
Ranma noticed this and turned to him. "But hey, do you think I can fight him alone for a little while? I haven't had a really good fight in forever!"
Goku was shocked! "What!? Really that long!?"
Ranma sweatdropped. "Not forever forever! Just a really long time!"
"... oh. I knew that."
Tien blinked, unsure of what to think of Goku's reaction.
"RRRRAAAAAAAGHHHHHH!!!!!!! STUPID MORTALS!! I WILL KILL YOU MYSELF!!!"
Ranma looked thoughtful. "Now where have I heard that before?"
Piccolo was infuriated! He had had enough of these mere humans facing him down!
THERE WAS NO LONGER ANY ROOM FOR MERCY!!
Launching at his redhaired opponent, he attacked, intent on the kill.
~~~~~~*** Evil Cliffy Alert ***~~~~~~
Haha! There's the chapter! Chapter 2 finished! Finished with chapter 2!
Well, that's it till next time. And next time is the fight in earnest!
Until next time,
LATER