Chapter Sixteen: A Few Surprises All Around
A Saiyan steeped forward. "What's your name kid?" He asked in a husky voice.
"Anrosa." The girl called out. "The youngest and toughest." She added with a smirk that came down from her Saiyan heritage.
"Really? Well Anrosa my name is Bailik and I'm going to kill you." He responded with a cocky snicker. "Such a shame a pretty, young girl like you has to die. I can think of much more pleasant things I'd rather do to you."
Lanil, Anrosa's lifelong friend, made a move forward in sheer anger. "If she doesn't kill him, he's mine." He said gritting his teeth hard.
"Patience, patience you'll get your shot if not at him, then someone else." Goku soothed.
Anrosa simply laughed. "In your dreams loser. Now are we going talk or are we dance tinkle toes?" She expertly quipped.
"I see she's mastered the art of trash talking. You've been coaching her have you Vegeta." Piccolo teased. Vegeta huffed.
Bailik lunged at Anrosa without even powering up. She easily dodged and turned waiting for his next attack. He landed on one foot sideways and rocketed back. Again Anrosa easily dodged. "Hmmm... you're going to be more of a challenge than I thought sweet thing. I like challenges." He said with hearty laugh as he landed and powered up slightly. Lanil inched forward again as his blood boiled and power slowly climbed.
"Easy..." Piccolo warned. Lanil clenched his fists tightly.
"I'll take the as a compliment thank you. But again you'll never have me so push that fool-hearty desire from your mind." Anrosa said with a smile dropping down into stance. "I wonder why he attacked when he knew I was stronger and faster than him without him powering up." She thought. "I'm begging to think he can't sense power levels..."
"I don't think he can either..." Piccolo said telepathically. "Of course he is a Saiyan and no offense, you know how stupid they can be."
"True." Anrosa responded. Just then her over-observant child eyes caught a minor wince on Bailik's face. She shrugged it off for the moment.
"Just how strong do you think I am?" She mused playfully. "On a scale of one to ten."
"Three." Bailik replied condescendingly.
"And yourself?"
"Six not quite seven."
"And them?" She gestured to his companions. Bailik simply shrugged.
"Stronger than me. But look let's just get this over with. I'll even make it remotely fair. You can stay at you max and I'll fight at half power. I'll even give you the first hit. " Anrosa smiled at this response.
"Well I'm just shy of my max really. Give me just a moment and then we'll tango." She responded sweetly. After brief power up she lunged at Bailik and began a vicious onslaught, which he could barely defend against. She knew she had to move fast if she was going to defeat him before he changed his mind and went max.
"You're a clever girl." Piccolo said happily telepathically as he smiled. "This could definitely work to our advantage." He said aloud. "They can't sense our powers. Or at least he can't. She's only at half power but he thinks she's near max."
"That could definitely help us out if all of them can't." One of the trainees said thoughtfully. Everyone nodded.
"What an idiot! I should have figured he couldn't sense power levels..." The shortest of the Force thought. "He has no clue what he's up against. This will be no cakewalk in the least. The tall green one is almost as strong as Nalin and three of the black haired ones could defeat him easily with a fourth not far behind. But I only see three of those powers... Where's the fourth. Hmm... The rest are just here for show perhaps, they're far weaker than those five." She shifted her weight as she watched Bailik try desperately to get a few solid punches in as his power level slowly climbed. "None of them can defeat Caristo and probably not myself either."
"AAARRRR!!!" Bailik shouted as he broke from Anrosa. "What's wrong big boy? Can't keep up with my tempo?" She taunted.
"I will not be beaten by a child!" He said letting off a series of rapid ki blasts which Anrosa dodged with a bit of difficulty.
"Good waste energy fool." She thought powering up a blast of her own. She sent it sailing down toward the weakening Saiyan. The blast hit it's mark and barely had time to dissipate before she rocketed down and gave him a swift knee to the stomach followed by a roundhouse kick that sent him flying toward the remainder of Grand Matron's Force.
Knowing she had nothing left without transforming she turned and walked away breathing heavily. "You're up Lanil." She said collapsing to her knees in front of him. He nodded and shot into the air. "GARU NI CARU!!!" He shouted in the native tongue of Archenakia. A massive blast flew down and hit Bailik as he tried to get up to his feet. He was forced down deep in the ground that cracked around the point of impact.
"Now you can never talk to me girl again." Lanil said quietly floating down.
"Caristo, I'm not liking our odds." The small one chirped with a worried expression.
"Shut up and do your job." The large one snapped pressing a button on a remote that dangled from his tail. "Use you special powers to immobilize them all." He said into a small remote. The small one nodded and held her hands and one by one the Z Fighters froze in place and floated into the air. "Go on Nalin. Make short work of the pests and we'll take the prizes. Then we can find that damn kid and get out of this place." Caristo said with a sly smirk. Nalin nodded and floated slowly toward Lanil. He lifted one knee and thrust it hard into Lanil's stomach and it did extra damage due to his inability to recoil. Lanil cried out in pain as blood shot out of his mouth.
Laughing hysterically Nalin moved on to Z Fighters. He looked Bardock in the eye and smiled grimly. "Aren't you a little seasoned to be here old man?" He mocked.
"With age comes experience." Bardock replied with a smirk. Piccolo sent out eye lasers that met with Nalin's eyes and temporarily blinded him.
"Oh that's it! I was just going to hurt you all real bad! Now you die!" He screamed holding his eyes and wincing severely.
Kaykora was lipid to say the least. "It's up to us now Gohan." "Yeah to leave like Grandpa said." Gohan said pulling Kaykora back.
"Wait a second." Kaykora pulled away and eyed Caristo intently.
"Now bring us the females pet." Caristo smirked. "And perhaps a partner for yourself I suppose."
"No!" Goku screamed watching in horror as his female students pulled away from the group. Caristo smirked with pride as they drew near.
"I WILL NOT STAND FOR THIS!!!" Kaykora screamed transforming and floating up into the air. Everyone turned and looked at her. Well with exception of Nalin who was still blind as a bat.
"What the Hell? Who is that?" He said looking around in every direction searching for the source of the voice.
"You're about to find out." Vegeta cackled with a cocky pride in his voice. A second later Nalin flew back several hundred feet. His trip provided all expenses paid by Kaykora's foot. She turned on a dime and rocketed toward Caristo who looked smugly at her. A moment later she expertly shot a finger sized ki beam that destroyed the remote in his hand. The fighter felled to the ground and the small Archesaiya dropped to her knee then disappeared. Caristo looked around madly and finally saw Kaykora setting her down on the other side of the field.
"Goku, Vegeta, take care of lame brain over there. The leader is mine." Kaykora said shooting away before Vegeta could protest.
"You have committed treason and murder against your people, how do you plead?" Kaykora said as she stopped a few yards away from Caristo.
"Guilty." He responded defiantly.
"Then you die." Kaykora said with a smirk of her own.
"Oh but will it be that easy?" Caristo beamed. Suddenly the dark crystal on a chain on his neck began to glow. "As we speak this crystal is sucking the souls of my comrades granting me their power." He said with a smile. Kaykora disappeared and resurfaced in front of the Archesaiya ripping the crystal from her neck and instantly crushing it. "You have only delayed the inevitable!" Caristo shouted boldly. "Today they die and you become part of the Hellstorm Army!"
"It is you is prolonging the inevitable! You know not what forces you have provoked today!" Kaykora shouted slowly floating back to Caristo.
"Oh I know you're a legendary Super Saiya. Finally I'll fight one of my own caliber." Caristo said laughing as he powered up.
Kaykora laughed hysterically. "One? One? Try 20!" She exclaimed mockingly.
One by one the Z Fighters transformed. Gohan floated down beside his father and grandfather and did likewise. Each one wearing a smirk of confidence.
Caristo's eye opened slightly. "So it seems this pathetic weaklings have infected another planet." Caristo said defiantly. "No matter, I'm stronger than all of you anyways."
"It's me you have to worry about." Kaykora said with a smile.
Bardock looked on carefully. There had been an obvious and drastic change in Kaykora's demeanor and speech. She moved and spoke as one far behind her years and clearly civilized. The personality transformation that seemed to correlate with her physical transformation worried him far more than Caristo but he couldn't figure why. "Perhaps it's better we not know who her father is. It's obvious to me in the knowledge I have that she it's her power from him. And if that's the case, he must be extremely powerful." Everyone in earshot turned and looked at Bardock perplexed.
"Let me tell you something about your Mother dear precious Princess if you truly deserve that title. Your mother had no right to be queen and she knew that. Your mother was adopted because she showed the most intellect and potential. She was merely a last minute replacement for your "Grandmother's" missing heiress. So you see dear "Princess" your merely a figure. A title and now the Grand Matron will rise up as the real heir to the throne. She rightfully has claim to it and it's power."
"You lie..." Kaykora said through gritted teeth.
"No the said truth of the matter is your mother was extremely weak. She could make diplomatic decisions as no other could but when it came to the brute strength needed to maintain and protect, she was nothing. And you are nothing just like her. Why should I be afraid of the daughter of a weakling who is weak herself?"
"You lie! My mother may have been weak but she was not false. And I may have her weak blood within me, but my father was a powerful man and his blood courses through my veins equally. And with his strength I will destroy you!" Kaykora screamed transforming to level 2 for the first time.
The blast of energy that came off of her budge Caristo back a few inches. The ground directly around her sighed and gave way beneath her sending up a plume of rocks, dust, and debris. When it had settled down Bardock stood a few feet behind her.
"Kaykora, what he said about your Mother is true. She was adopted. But you are the heiress not the Grand Matron. The Ancient laws decreed it long ago. They never said how the heir came to be in the family as long as it was accepted as part of the family. Your grandmother loved you and your mother very dearly. That's all the claim you need. Now avenge the foulness he has placed on her name."
Kaykora nodded and charged.
On distant planet a wary traveler awoke from her sleep in the peaceful house of a Namekian family. "She is alive!" She exclaimed happily rushing out of the house and to her ship outside. "Thank-you for you hospitality! I have to go now!" She shouted as the door closed.
---------- ~~~~~~~~~~ ---------- ~~~~~~~~~~ ---------- ~~~~~~~~~~~ A/N: Again I would like to urge anyone with a favorite attack or move that would like to see it in the Caristo/Kaykora fight please submit it in a review! Thanks Hope you enjoy!
A Saiyan steeped forward. "What's your name kid?" He asked in a husky voice.
"Anrosa." The girl called out. "The youngest and toughest." She added with a smirk that came down from her Saiyan heritage.
"Really? Well Anrosa my name is Bailik and I'm going to kill you." He responded with a cocky snicker. "Such a shame a pretty, young girl like you has to die. I can think of much more pleasant things I'd rather do to you."
Lanil, Anrosa's lifelong friend, made a move forward in sheer anger. "If she doesn't kill him, he's mine." He said gritting his teeth hard.
"Patience, patience you'll get your shot if not at him, then someone else." Goku soothed.
Anrosa simply laughed. "In your dreams loser. Now are we going talk or are we dance tinkle toes?" She expertly quipped.
"I see she's mastered the art of trash talking. You've been coaching her have you Vegeta." Piccolo teased. Vegeta huffed.
Bailik lunged at Anrosa without even powering up. She easily dodged and turned waiting for his next attack. He landed on one foot sideways and rocketed back. Again Anrosa easily dodged. "Hmmm... you're going to be more of a challenge than I thought sweet thing. I like challenges." He said with hearty laugh as he landed and powered up slightly. Lanil inched forward again as his blood boiled and power slowly climbed.
"Easy..." Piccolo warned. Lanil clenched his fists tightly.
"I'll take the as a compliment thank you. But again you'll never have me so push that fool-hearty desire from your mind." Anrosa said with a smile dropping down into stance. "I wonder why he attacked when he knew I was stronger and faster than him without him powering up." She thought. "I'm begging to think he can't sense power levels..."
"I don't think he can either..." Piccolo said telepathically. "Of course he is a Saiyan and no offense, you know how stupid they can be."
"True." Anrosa responded. Just then her over-observant child eyes caught a minor wince on Bailik's face. She shrugged it off for the moment.
"Just how strong do you think I am?" She mused playfully. "On a scale of one to ten."
"Three." Bailik replied condescendingly.
"And yourself?"
"Six not quite seven."
"And them?" She gestured to his companions. Bailik simply shrugged.
"Stronger than me. But look let's just get this over with. I'll even make it remotely fair. You can stay at you max and I'll fight at half power. I'll even give you the first hit. " Anrosa smiled at this response.
"Well I'm just shy of my max really. Give me just a moment and then we'll tango." She responded sweetly. After brief power up she lunged at Bailik and began a vicious onslaught, which he could barely defend against. She knew she had to move fast if she was going to defeat him before he changed his mind and went max.
"You're a clever girl." Piccolo said happily telepathically as he smiled. "This could definitely work to our advantage." He said aloud. "They can't sense our powers. Or at least he can't. She's only at half power but he thinks she's near max."
"That could definitely help us out if all of them can't." One of the trainees said thoughtfully. Everyone nodded.
"What an idiot! I should have figured he couldn't sense power levels..." The shortest of the Force thought. "He has no clue what he's up against. This will be no cakewalk in the least. The tall green one is almost as strong as Nalin and three of the black haired ones could defeat him easily with a fourth not far behind. But I only see three of those powers... Where's the fourth. Hmm... The rest are just here for show perhaps, they're far weaker than those five." She shifted her weight as she watched Bailik try desperately to get a few solid punches in as his power level slowly climbed. "None of them can defeat Caristo and probably not myself either."
"AAARRRR!!!" Bailik shouted as he broke from Anrosa. "What's wrong big boy? Can't keep up with my tempo?" She taunted.
"I will not be beaten by a child!" He said letting off a series of rapid ki blasts which Anrosa dodged with a bit of difficulty.
"Good waste energy fool." She thought powering up a blast of her own. She sent it sailing down toward the weakening Saiyan. The blast hit it's mark and barely had time to dissipate before she rocketed down and gave him a swift knee to the stomach followed by a roundhouse kick that sent him flying toward the remainder of Grand Matron's Force.
Knowing she had nothing left without transforming she turned and walked away breathing heavily. "You're up Lanil." She said collapsing to her knees in front of him. He nodded and shot into the air. "GARU NI CARU!!!" He shouted in the native tongue of Archenakia. A massive blast flew down and hit Bailik as he tried to get up to his feet. He was forced down deep in the ground that cracked around the point of impact.
"Now you can never talk to me girl again." Lanil said quietly floating down.
"Caristo, I'm not liking our odds." The small one chirped with a worried expression.
"Shut up and do your job." The large one snapped pressing a button on a remote that dangled from his tail. "Use you special powers to immobilize them all." He said into a small remote. The small one nodded and held her hands and one by one the Z Fighters froze in place and floated into the air. "Go on Nalin. Make short work of the pests and we'll take the prizes. Then we can find that damn kid and get out of this place." Caristo said with a sly smirk. Nalin nodded and floated slowly toward Lanil. He lifted one knee and thrust it hard into Lanil's stomach and it did extra damage due to his inability to recoil. Lanil cried out in pain as blood shot out of his mouth.
Laughing hysterically Nalin moved on to Z Fighters. He looked Bardock in the eye and smiled grimly. "Aren't you a little seasoned to be here old man?" He mocked.
"With age comes experience." Bardock replied with a smirk. Piccolo sent out eye lasers that met with Nalin's eyes and temporarily blinded him.
"Oh that's it! I was just going to hurt you all real bad! Now you die!" He screamed holding his eyes and wincing severely.
Kaykora was lipid to say the least. "It's up to us now Gohan." "Yeah to leave like Grandpa said." Gohan said pulling Kaykora back.
"Wait a second." Kaykora pulled away and eyed Caristo intently.
"Now bring us the females pet." Caristo smirked. "And perhaps a partner for yourself I suppose."
"No!" Goku screamed watching in horror as his female students pulled away from the group. Caristo smirked with pride as they drew near.
"I WILL NOT STAND FOR THIS!!!" Kaykora screamed transforming and floating up into the air. Everyone turned and looked at her. Well with exception of Nalin who was still blind as a bat.
"What the Hell? Who is that?" He said looking around in every direction searching for the source of the voice.
"You're about to find out." Vegeta cackled with a cocky pride in his voice. A second later Nalin flew back several hundred feet. His trip provided all expenses paid by Kaykora's foot. She turned on a dime and rocketed toward Caristo who looked smugly at her. A moment later she expertly shot a finger sized ki beam that destroyed the remote in his hand. The fighter felled to the ground and the small Archesaiya dropped to her knee then disappeared. Caristo looked around madly and finally saw Kaykora setting her down on the other side of the field.
"Goku, Vegeta, take care of lame brain over there. The leader is mine." Kaykora said shooting away before Vegeta could protest.
"You have committed treason and murder against your people, how do you plead?" Kaykora said as she stopped a few yards away from Caristo.
"Guilty." He responded defiantly.
"Then you die." Kaykora said with a smirk of her own.
"Oh but will it be that easy?" Caristo beamed. Suddenly the dark crystal on a chain on his neck began to glow. "As we speak this crystal is sucking the souls of my comrades granting me their power." He said with a smile. Kaykora disappeared and resurfaced in front of the Archesaiya ripping the crystal from her neck and instantly crushing it. "You have only delayed the inevitable!" Caristo shouted boldly. "Today they die and you become part of the Hellstorm Army!"
"It is you is prolonging the inevitable! You know not what forces you have provoked today!" Kaykora shouted slowly floating back to Caristo.
"Oh I know you're a legendary Super Saiya. Finally I'll fight one of my own caliber." Caristo said laughing as he powered up.
Kaykora laughed hysterically. "One? One? Try 20!" She exclaimed mockingly.
One by one the Z Fighters transformed. Gohan floated down beside his father and grandfather and did likewise. Each one wearing a smirk of confidence.
Caristo's eye opened slightly. "So it seems this pathetic weaklings have infected another planet." Caristo said defiantly. "No matter, I'm stronger than all of you anyways."
"It's me you have to worry about." Kaykora said with a smile.
Bardock looked on carefully. There had been an obvious and drastic change in Kaykora's demeanor and speech. She moved and spoke as one far behind her years and clearly civilized. The personality transformation that seemed to correlate with her physical transformation worried him far more than Caristo but he couldn't figure why. "Perhaps it's better we not know who her father is. It's obvious to me in the knowledge I have that she it's her power from him. And if that's the case, he must be extremely powerful." Everyone in earshot turned and looked at Bardock perplexed.
"Let me tell you something about your Mother dear precious Princess if you truly deserve that title. Your mother had no right to be queen and she knew that. Your mother was adopted because she showed the most intellect and potential. She was merely a last minute replacement for your "Grandmother's" missing heiress. So you see dear "Princess" your merely a figure. A title and now the Grand Matron will rise up as the real heir to the throne. She rightfully has claim to it and it's power."
"You lie..." Kaykora said through gritted teeth.
"No the said truth of the matter is your mother was extremely weak. She could make diplomatic decisions as no other could but when it came to the brute strength needed to maintain and protect, she was nothing. And you are nothing just like her. Why should I be afraid of the daughter of a weakling who is weak herself?"
"You lie! My mother may have been weak but she was not false. And I may have her weak blood within me, but my father was a powerful man and his blood courses through my veins equally. And with his strength I will destroy you!" Kaykora screamed transforming to level 2 for the first time.
The blast of energy that came off of her budge Caristo back a few inches. The ground directly around her sighed and gave way beneath her sending up a plume of rocks, dust, and debris. When it had settled down Bardock stood a few feet behind her.
"Kaykora, what he said about your Mother is true. She was adopted. But you are the heiress not the Grand Matron. The Ancient laws decreed it long ago. They never said how the heir came to be in the family as long as it was accepted as part of the family. Your grandmother loved you and your mother very dearly. That's all the claim you need. Now avenge the foulness he has placed on her name."
Kaykora nodded and charged.
On distant planet a wary traveler awoke from her sleep in the peaceful house of a Namekian family. "She is alive!" She exclaimed happily rushing out of the house and to her ship outside. "Thank-you for you hospitality! I have to go now!" She shouted as the door closed.
---------- ~~~~~~~~~~ ---------- ~~~~~~~~~~ ---------- ~~~~~~~~~~~ A/N: Again I would like to urge anyone with a favorite attack or move that would like to see it in the Caristo/Kaykora fight please submit it in a review! Thanks Hope you enjoy!