Thanks for the reviews. This chapter was giving me a bit of trouble. I ended up planning an alternate one & I'm still not sure if I should have used it instead but I don't really see what good it would do besides prolong the ending. So here it is, the near completion of a story that's here to explain my little character before I move on to the GT remake. Enjoy.
Chapter 51: final clash
Everyone watched Zara as she smirked at Kyaku. They were still unsure of what was going on. They didn't know if they were in trouble or not. Finally Trunks stepped forward.
"Err…Zar-"
"No." she cut in. everyone stared at her in surprise. She didn't take her eyes off of Kyaku as she quickly explained.
"I'm still with you. I'm better then all right, just peeved."
"Just tell us what happened girl!" Vegeta yelled from further behind her. Her smirk widened.
"I was getting to that. The all-powerful Lord couldn't get through all of my defences in time. If one of you hadn't blasted him then I might not be quite as cheerful right now." She said calmly. The boys sighed in relief and Trunks couldn't help smiling. He had prevented it. But the relief was soon taken away. Trunks put his hand on her shoulder.
"You sure you're ok." He asked and noticed a visible shudder from her. Zara could still see the last flash burnt in her mind. His face and the others…
"I'm still going to have my way! No matter what your friends do!" Kyaku yelled, pulling her back to reality. He was now on his feet and scowling dangerously. Zara just laughed at him.
"You weren't paying attention, were you?" she asked, just making his scowl deepen.
"Thought not, here, let me show you," she said and her eyes slowly turned red. She smirked again and her power level spiked then continued to go up. Soon she had a roaring aura round her but she kept watching Kyaku and didn't say anything until she levelled off.
"See what you did?" she asked.
Her power had shot up to match the Lords almost evenly. It was hard to see who was stronger. But something was different. It looked like she had control.
"So do you want to try this again or not?" Zara suddenly asked, now completely serious. Kyaku growled.
"You sound overly confident form such a minimal power boost. Foolish." He told her, regaining his composure. Zara didn't say anything and instead smiled, beckoning forward. He frowned and went against his usual plan of attack by attacking first.
The two powers clashed again and again as the two exchanged blows. They took to the air and went all out, neither managing to obtain the advantage for long. Zara landed a blow to his jaw and he came back with a kick to her gut. He then continued with a blow to her back when she doubled over but she materialised out of view and attacked behind him, making him do the exact same thing and they both started moving further away.
The group watched from the ground.
"Come on, we have to follow them." Goten yelled as he ran forward. Trunks agreed and ran after.
"Yea, we don't know if that's all of that guys power."
"We'd be a distraction to the girl if we went." Vegeta yelled after them.
"Maybe we will but they're getting too far away. Nitara! Look after Sam!" Tank said and handed his wife to the winged woman, reminding her what would happen if Sam were harmed. The older men had to follow the boys as they took off after the fight.
The fight was now closer to the main land but still far away from any major cities. Zara had managed to get a good hit in and was continuing with a blaze of punches. Kyaku dodged most but the last three connected with his jaw and gut. He growled fired a blast from his mouth that Zara found impossible to dodge at that close a range. She was thrown backwards but managed to push herself off the blast and throw another back that singed his cape as he dodged. He growled and looked up at Zara.
"Close call huh?" she asked in a mocking voice. He growled louder and charged at her, throwing several punches that she barely dodged.
"Looks like your slowing down all ready!" she commented and threw a punch that Kyaku dodged.
"You were saying?" he asked before being smacked in the face and chest. He stumbled backwards, holding his nose and glared. That's when he noticed the four warriors watching from a distance. After a quick thought he threw several ki blasts at Zara who dodged, not realising who was behind her until the last minute. She turned and watched the blasts speed towards the four.
Tank and Vegeta were able to dodge with nothing more then a scorch as a blast flew past. As for Trunks and Goten, they weren't so lucky. Goten was hit hard in the chest and was slammed into Trunks who had been floating behind his friend.
Zara watched then glared at the Lord. She clenched her fists at her sides and her aura blazed around her.
"How dare you…" she said and erupted, her power level suddenly sky rocketing and losing most of the control she had before. Kyaku growled and quickly powered up, both levelling off at the same time.
Zara attempted a jump kick that Kyaku dodged before firing a blast she dodged and didn't realise it was a homing blast. It circled back and she was just able to dodge it the second time before Kyaku's fist slammed into her jaw. She quickly recovered and sent her own punch right back to him, both falling into combos that the other blocked, dodged and returned before having to momentarily part to dodge the circling homing blast.
Energy flickered around them as they came together; the water below them was churning violently and the sky made an almighty rumble as rain began to seep through the clouds. But the two fighters ignored all this as they began to fire close range ki-blasts, slowly moving further back as they did so. Then they both charged a large attack, Zara made one over her head and Kyaku made on in both hands that he clapped together before they both fired massive beams of energy. Both beams hit head on and neither seemed to give way. They were both completely equal in power and seemed to waver slightly but more or less stay connected in the exact middle.
Both warriors struggled to make their blast be the dominant one. Kyaku slowly powered up more as he struggled, making his slowly push Zara's back. Zara gasped and used her mind to help guide the blasts back towards Kyaku. It looked like Zara might win until Kyaku got a burst of energy that sent the beam right back at Zara. They exploded and she was thrown out of the sky a hard onto the ground, leaving a large impact crater in her wake.
Kyaku stared down at her then over at the four warriors that were watching in horror further away. He laughed at their faces.
"You seemed shocked!" he pointed out, " You should have realised that this would happen but it doesn't matter. Before I go and finish what I set out to do I better take care of you."
Tank and Vegeta quickly got ready and powered back up to full, Vegeta going level three and Tank seeming to be even. They both glanced at each other then launched themselves forwards to start fighting the Lord. Tank reached him first and started throwing punches, all missing, before Kyaku shoved his fist into Tank's gut, leaving him to fall to the ground. Vegeta appeared over Tank as the Kalroo fell and swung his leg round, just catching Kyaku's jaw. The Lord's head turned with the blow but the warlord grinned sinisterly as the prince turned into a spinning kick that was kicked before the prince was thrown down.
Kyaku looked up after watching the two men fall and saw Trunks coming in, ready to strike Kyaku with an elbow to the face. Trunks was met with air when he delivered his attack. The teenage prince looked round in disbelief before an immense pain greeted the small of his back. Kyaku had slammed his elbow in to the demi-saiyans back. The Lord then moved to Trunks side and sent a shattering kick that broke the saiyan's left arm. Trunks cried out in pain and felt Kyaku's hand slide around his throat.
"Guess I'll be dealing with you before the others." The Lord's deep voice said in his ear before Trunks felt energy being gathered. Kyaku was charging a blast in his palm. Trunks braced himself. But it never came.
Kyaku was about to release the blast when a giant wave of energy struck his back. He took most of the force; inadvertently protecting the boy he was still grabbing onto, and could see some of the energy rushing past on either side as the blinding pain slowly subsided.
The blast dispersed and he was left with his cape and the back of his armour being burnt off and the very bottom of his cape fell towards the ground. He let go of Trunks, who was caught by Goten, and turned to see a glaring Zara with her arms out stretched and still smoking. Her eyes were glowing dangerously.
"Don't you ever, EVER, hurt him while I'm around." She snarled and her aura burst outwards, ripping apart the ground beneath her. All Kyaku could do was stare in shock before a knee was implanted into his face and he was left thinking 'she's that fast?'
Zara was glaring in a way that would have made the devil himself scared as she attacked. She floated back then quickly flipped over and kicked Kyaku in the face then began to throw punches in rapid concession at him until finally he was able to catch one firmly in his fist, surprising them both. He quickly began to squeeze it and Zara winced then acting on pure instinct, she kicked him hard in the groin. He immediately let go and doubled over in pain, just to have her elbow slam into his back and send him flying into the ground, leaving an enormous impact crater.
Zara stared shakily down at him then raised her arms horizontally in front of her and started charging a blast in between them.
"Dragon...cannon...HA!" she yelled and as soon as she moved her arms to her sides, the dragon shaped blast was shot forward and towards the battered Lord in his hole.
Kyaku looked weakly up to see the roaring blast heading straight for him. He jumped to his feet and prepared to catch the jaws of the ki-dragon. The blast hit him dead on and he still caught it and was pushed back only slightly. He was still determined not to lose and began to push the blast back as Zara struggled to push it forward.
The others all watched from the sidelines as they watched the struggle.
"There has to be something we can do." Trunks said and frowned. Kyaku had taken a step forward.
"There isn't, we can only watch." Vegeta said with a growl as Kyaku took another step.
"If we get to close then he'd just attack us mentally and it wouldn't be much of a distraction for him." Tank said and Kyaku took a third step forward. Trunks quickly thought when he heard this then ran forward, holding his limp arm. Kyaku saw out of the corner of his eye.
The fool he thought and concentrated. Just after a thought Trunks felt a blinding pain wash through his mind and he fell to his knees. Zara watched in a mixture of surprise horror and anger before her aura flared out more and a burst of energy was sent along the beam so the ki-dragon was launched forward. Kyaku didn't have time to think as the dragon pushed him forward and managed to clamp its jaws down on him and explode.
When the smoke finally settled Lord Kyaku had completely disappeared, gone with the wind forever.
Zara managed to stay in the sky long enough to check for a ki-signature but there was none. She smiled and fell, her eyes returning to their normal golden colour. Trunks looked up from the ground and saw and managed to get up just in time to catch her as she drifted down.
She smiled up at him.
"Looks like i did it..." she mumbled.
"Yea, and you have got to teach me how to do that," he said, grinning. She smiled back.
"Like you could handle it," she mumbled, completely drained. Trunks just grinned down at her and helped her up. They then started to walk away with Zara leaning on his right side.
Tank ran over to them.
"Wait, Zara...we better get you to the ship so you can heal up before we leave." he said but she shook her head.
"No dad, leave me alone, i don't want to deal with you yet," she said sleepily and the two took to the sky. Vegeta and Goten both walked past Tank and frowned at him and left as well, leaving him alone on the beach, in the rain.
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A/N: ok, so it took me a weekend to write, I couldn't think of how to end certain parts of the fight. I think i need a rest from writing for a few days before I move on to the next story just to get some inspiration so I'll get an epilogue typed up then I'll start the next by the end of the week. Ja'ne