Dragon Ball Neo: Emperor Brick and the Herculean Water Vs. The Might of the
Sayajins!

The guards moved aside and the source of the voice was soon visible to the three sayajins. Emperor Brick was about six feet tall, making him much taller than the child sayajins; he had long silver hair and blue eyes that seemed to peer into his opponent's very soul. Emperor Brick wore a jet- black gi with a blood red belt around his waste, a menacing sneer upon his face as he approached his latest challengers.

"So, you want to challenge me for the dragon ball I hear," Brick said mockingly to Koffi as he walked towards him. Koffi looked at Brick and spoke in a voice that was cocky and cool, "I plan on kicking your ass and taking that dragon ball, there's no 'challenge' about what I'm going to do!"

Emperor Brick looked at the sayajins and shook his head, "Please, we can't fight here, too many annoying people to get in our way. If you would be so kind as to follow me to the courtyard of my palace however, we can commence our battle there." Dante and Tree look around the area noticing the large amount of people that are walking the streets going about their daily business. Koffi looked around as well and it was decided that the fight would be moved to Emperor Brick's palace courtyard.

The walk to Emperor Brick's palace courtyard was a very brief one and on the way there each sayajin couldn't help but notice the increase in his heart rate, the adrenaline pumping through his veins. This was what it means to be a sayajin, to live to fight; the anticipation of the coming battle affected each of the sayajins differently however. Tree walked with a wide grin visible on his face. "Oh man," he thought to himself "I almost hope Koffi gets his butt kicked, I don't want him to get hurt bad or nothin, but man I want to take a shot at that guy!"

Dante walked a bit slower than the rest of the group, his mind was on strategies that he would possibly use if he got the chance to battle. "This," he told himself with a satisfied nod, "is what I've been training for, the hours of meditation, the struggling to gain better control of my KI. Everything I've learned through my training will manifest itself in the coming battle but I'm ready for it."

Koffi walked next to Brick, keeping perfect pace with the Emperor. "Brick you fool," Koffi thought to himself, "You have no idea what you are up against, the brute strength of three sayajin warriors is something you can't possibly hope to stand up against. Koffi chuckled under his breath, "I promise I'll try not to kill you, I just don't know how hard I'll try."

The group arrived at the palace gates after a short walk and Emperor Brick lead the group of warriors to the courtyard of his palace without a word. Suddenly the Emperor turned to the group of warriors. "I shall have the dragon ball brought out before you so that you may know that I truly have it in my possession, then the battle shall begin!"

Brick bowed to the group of sayajins and then walked into his palace, leaving his adversaries to talk amongst their selves in the courtyard for the moment. "So," Tree said looking around trying to get a general idea of the area in which the fight would take place, "who gets to fight this guy first anyways?"

Dante who was simply standing still with his arms crossed was the first to speak, "If you two wouldn't mind I'd like to take a crack at this guy actually. I've been training a lot and I think this would be a good opportunity to see how much I've improved since we fought."

Koffi spit on the ground and began to speak, "I'm fighting this guy. We'll get to have plenty of battles, I can already tell. Gathering the dragon balls isn't going to be an easy task so we're going to split the battles up, it's only fair. I'm going to fight this fight; you two can squabble amongst yourselves over who gets to fight whatever we come up against next. This battle is mine and if either of you try to take it from me I'll beat you worse than I'm going to beat that loser, do you hear me?" Dante and Tree nodded in agreement and the three soon heard Emperor Brick's footsteps as he reentered the courtyard followed by one of his armor clad servants.

The servant carried a glass case that contained a dragon ball with one red star visible on it's shiny yellow surface. Tree pointed to the case, "Hey Koffi, try not to break the dragon ball while you fight, ok?" Koffi nodded and stepped up to the Emperor. "So," said Emperor Brick with obvious hostility in his voice, "you're the one who is going to fight me?"

Koffi nodded, "I'm not just going to fight you, I'm going to beat you. Then after we get your dragon ball and gather the other five we're going to summon the dragon and get our wish granted." "Is that ok with you almighty Emperor," Koffi asked with mock concern in his voice.

The Emperor's face reflected a look of anger at Koffi's cocky attitude, but only for a second. "So child," the emperor said entering a fighting stance, "you think you can defeat me?" Koffi simply nodded and entered his own fighting stance. "Ok then," the Emperor said, "LET THE BATTLE BEGIN!" A servant hit a nearby gong to signify the beginning of the battle and the fight began.

Emperor Brick leapt towards Koffi and launched a vicious kick at the sayajin's head. With a nimble trio of back flips Koffi avoided the kick and simply stood in place trying to decide how he wanted to attack.

Suddenly an idea that Koffi couldn't help but smile about entered the sayajin's head. "Let's see what this idiot can do," he thought to himself and with that Koffi used his KI to fly high into the air.

On the sidelines both Dante and Tree were watching the battle. "What in the world is Koffi doing," Dante said aloud, "Emperor Brick can't fly so Koffi's just wasting time. He needs to stop screwing off and finish the fight so we can get the dragon ball."

Almost as soon as Dante finished speaking Emperor Brick jumped into the air and was eye to eye with Koffi. "Ok," Tree said amazed, "he can't fly but he can definitely jump high." Koffi was caught off guard by the Emperor's ability to jump so highly and this provided the Emperor time to land a mighty punch on Koffi's face. Koffi quickly recovered from the punch and grabbed the Emperor's arm, he threw the Emperor back to the ground with all his strength but the Emperor was a nimble fighter and he landed gracefully on his feet.

Koffi floated down to the ground and wiped a small bit of blood from his mouth. "Ok," he said looking angry, "That was a good warm up but I know damn well that you can fight better than that so why don't you cut the crap and show me what you can really do, huh?"

Emperor Brick smiled at Koffi, "As you wish," he said with a grin. Suddenly the Emperor thrust his hand forward with a yell of "HAAAAA!" A wind-like blast of KI shot forth and hit Koffi sending the sayajin flying back and crashing into a courtyard wall which resulted in him being buried in rubble.

Tree began to run to Koffi's aid when he felt Dante's hand firmly grasp his shoulder, holding him back. "Dante let me go, what the heck are you doing," Tree said with obvious panic in his voice but Dante only shook his head. "Koffi knows what he's doing he's simply having fun with the battle. He's doing the same thing that you or I would do if we knew that we could win, it's just the nature of a sayajin." Tree looked like he still wanted to help but he simply nodded and stood still.

The Emperor turned to Dante and Tree and laughed, "Don't you want to help your friend? The longer he's alive the longer you get to live, so I'd suggest helping him." Suddenly without warning Koffi's fist connected with the Emperor's jaw sending him flying back. "You idiot," Koffi said, "don't you know not to take your eyes off of your opponent?"

The Emperor ran to Koffi and threw two punches at him but the sayajin caught the Emperor's hands in his and the warriors began pushing each other trying to gain ground on or find an opening to attack. This continued for about five minutes when Koffi suddenly head butted the Emperor. The Emperor shook the attack off and was about to continue attacking when one of his servants suddenly yelled to him, "Emperor Brick he's too much for you right now! Use the Herculean Water!"

The Emperor glanced menacingly at his servant; "You shut up about that! Nobody is supposed to know about it!"

Koffi suddenly laughed, "He's right you know. You can't beat me. You couldn't beat any of us three right now, so if this water will make you a bigger challenge I'll let you drink it. Go on, bottoms up Brick, drink away."

Brick looked at Koffi in disbelief, "You're going to let me drink the water? You're a bigger fool than I thought, but if you want to let me take the one action that will guarantee the deaths of you three worms I'm not going to pass up the chance."

The Emperor walked over to his servant who took a jug of crystal clear water off of a table and handed it to the Emperor. Brick pulled the stopper from the jug and took a small drink of the water. "I just want you to know," he said turning to Koffi, "that any chance of victory you had just flew out the window."

"We'll see about that," Koffi said. "We'll see soon enough."