When Earth Arises
Disclaimer: All characters from Circle of Magic, The Circle Opens, The Immortals, The Lioness Quartet, etc. belong to Tamora Pierce. I do not own them. Or characters from Dragonballz, which belong to Mr. Toriyama...anyway
I know this is a weird combination, cross-over, whatever, but then, I'm a weird person. O_^
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Ok…someone was wondering about the Stormwing and Dende….well, Dende is not on Earth at the moment. He doesn't dare, because he is scared of Vegeta, for one, and second, he feels like exploring the realm of the gods. Why, I don't know. Because I felt like making him adventurous…or something…So, yeah, he is in the other realm right now.
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"That is the craziest thing I have ever heard." Trunks glared at her. "Yeah? Well, who ever heard of a girl who keeps lightning and wind in her hair?" Tris scowled back, knowing it was highly unusual, even at Winding Circle. Trunks formed a small blast in his hand and held it for a moment for his stunned audience, before allowing it to fade. Suddenly, he grinned, and Goten grinned back, picking up on his plan. "Oh, did Gohan mention?" Trunks asked innocently. "We can power up and become even stronger. This is called a Super Saiyan." With that, the two chibis leapt up and yelled. A sort of breeze blew around them, and a golden glow surrounded their small forms. Their hair became golden, and eyes a piercing green. They then turned to look at Gohan, who looked at them for a moment, then shrugged. Standing up, he began to raise his ki. His hair flashed gold, and his cheerful dark eyes became a hard green.
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Chapter Twelve:
The Tortallans, Briar, Evvy, and Tris gaped at the three Saiyans, while Piccolo just sighed and closed his eyes, bored.
"Wha?!?How-?" Tris tried to say. Trunks grinned and allowed his power level to drop and his hair once more became lavender and eyes a clear blue. The other two followed suit as he smirked at the red headed weather witch.
"Ridiculous?" he taunted. She just looked at him, clearly stunned. After a moment of awed silence, King Jonathan spoke.
"Well. I do hope you will agree to help my kingdom," he said, looking around the room. Papers and books had been blown around by the blast of power emitted from the three demi-Saiyans. It looked like a tornado had gone through the room. Or, Briar thought, it looked like Tris had lost her temper…
Numair spoke up. "Your majesty, I believe that I can work with our three mages, if you will allow me. I believe that they may be able to help you with your control when you call on Tortall with the stone. Briar is a plant mage, Evvy a stone mage, and Tris, as you already know, works with earth forces and weather."
Suddenly, Piccolo's head snapped up and his eyes flew open.
Hellooo, my fellow Namek! {haha, I know this is totally OOC for Dende, but, hey! It's my story…:) }
Dende! Piccolo growled mentally. What the hell do you think you're doing? Who is this, this Dream King? Dende laughed. Gainel, god of dreams in this realm. He visits the people through their dreams, sends warnings, you know. Anyway, he has seen something that he wishes your assistance on. Do you want to talk to him? I'll tell him to come in a dream… Dende paused for a moment. Well, I can tell him to talk to Gohan in a dream. You don't sleep. Piccolo's scowl deepened, when Gohan's voice broke into his conversation.
"Uh, Piccolo?" He focused on the boy. "What's wrong?"
"I'm just talking to Dende. He says that some god named Gainel, or the Dream King is responsible for our being here. He's going to have this Gainel come talk to you in a dream. To explain himself." He stopped for a moment, and his eyes seemed to go out of focus. Finally, he turned back to Gohan. "I just explained to him that it had better be as soon as possible, or King Kai will be looking for a new Kami for Earth." Gohan nodded uncertainly.
"Okay…"
Trunks wasn't so forgiving. "Make sure he tells this Gainel that he had better stay far away from me, because I will blast him into the Death Zone if I meet up with him." Goten brightened visibly. "Hey, Trunks, remember what you said last night about the pramph-mmlemmagommp-" He was cut of as Trunks clamped a hand around him mouth. "Shut up, Goten," he ordered, then released the little chibi. Goten scowled, but kept quiet. Gohan regarded the young Prince and his brother suspiciously, but turned back to the King.
"If you will excuse us, King Jonathan," he said politely, "Trunks, Goten, and I are going to go explore a bit. I'll get back to you when this Gainel person talks to me, and explains a few things." He turned to Piccolo. "You wanna come?" The Namek shook his head and stalked out of the room. Gohan shrugged, and motioned to the two chibis. They, too, took their leave.
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Trunks spun in a plunging spiral toward the earth and zoomed back up just at the last moment. Goten laughed and began copying him. Gohan just shook his head as he watched. He could tell the two were bored, and missing home. He wouldn't mind getting back himself. Suddenly, a flash of silver nearly blinded him and he spun around. He came face to face with a hideous black haired creature. While it had the head of a human, it's body was that of an avian creature made of a silverish metal. It's hair was tangled, with various bones, beads, and other objects intwined in it.
"How is it that you can fly, human?" the creature sneered. Gohan nearly gagged as its stench reached his nostrils.
"I-I'm not human," he gasped, moving slightly, searching for fresh air as he hovered. Breathing a bit easier, he eyed the creature. "I'm only half. What are you?"
"You have never heard of Stormwings?" it asked in insulted tones. "And what is your other half. Are you of the gods?"
"Sorry," Gohan shrugged apologetically. "Never heard of you. I'm not from around here. And no, not gods. My father is from a race known as the Saiyans."
The Stormwing snorted, then dipped around, before flying away without even saying goodbye. Trunks and Goten moved up beside the older boy as they watched it go.
"What was that, 'niisan?" Goten asked. "I dunno," he replied. "Something called a Stormwing."
Suddenly, a piercing scream sounded from below. Looking down, Gohan could just make out the figure of a young child scrambling away from the most hideous thing he had ever seen. It, like the Stormwing, had a human head, as well as two arms that weilded doubleheaded axes in both hands. The body, however, was that of a gigantic spider that sprang at the child from a nearby tree. Gohan swooped down as the creature raised up and shot a thick, sticky gray rope at the young boy, entrapping him in a tangled mess. He was getting closer when a man suddenly jumped from the trees, slashing at the creature with a pitchfork. Gohan could see the sheer terror on the man's face as he desperately tried to save the boy. The spider-thing simply swept one ax down, cutting the pitchfork in half, and thrusting the other into the man.
"NOOO!" Gohan shouted as the man fell. Startled, the creature looked up as the enraged demi-Saiyan's fist plowed into his face. Black blood sizzled as it ran down the creature's face, splashing onto Gohan's arm as he broke it's neck. Suddenly, a burning pain shot up his right arm, and he fell to the ground near the child with a cry. Goten dropped next to him in concern, as the older boy writhed in pain.
" 'Niisan!" he exclaimed in fright. He had never seen his brother in so much pain. "What's wrong?!?" Trunks blasted the sticky rope from the boy and helped him up.
"It's the spidren's blood," the boy exclaimed. "It got on his arm. Spidren's blood can eat through flesh like nothing. You must get him to a healer!"
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Thank you guys for being so patient with me! I came back a while ago, but then I left again to go halibut fishing…if any of you have ever done it, maybe you can relate to how my arm feels right now…IT HURTS!!! Halibut can fight like you never would have guessed…but anyway, I can still type a little, just not straighten my arm to fast…hahaha, so yeah, REVIEW!!