Suddenly Erzix came charging out of the small dust cloud that still remained looking very unhappy. Akira didn't have the chance to react before Erzix's fist slammed into his stomach. He crumpled over her punch and just floated a few inches off the ground as she pulled her hand away from him. Then her knee shot up and slammed into his face launching him into the air. Erzix then jumped up and slammed an open palm down into Akira's chest knocking him back down into the ground.
He started to pull himself back up to his feet but a sudden sharp pain tore through his chest and he gasped spitting up blood. Erzix smirked down at him as his arua flashed and vanished, his power plummeting like a rock. "So, that's all you've got?" she asked smugly. "Not very impressive... And here I thought I'd be getting a real fight out of you." He just glared up at her.
Then suddenly a foot slammed into Erzix's head catching her off guard and knocking her away. Aiko landed between Akira and Erzix. "Hurry!" she called up. A moment later two others had landed and were picking Akira up. By the time Erzix was on her feet again the two Tanarians had already left with Akira between them.
"Lucky shot girl, but you wont get lucky twice." Erzix growled wiping some blood off her chin.
Aiko brought her arm up and clenched her fist, a smirk on her face. "Actually, I think I will." she said. "It's time the Order earned it's keep. I'm going to turn you into dust... well, no. WE are going to turn you into dust!" Erzix's eyes widened and she glanced about. There were other Tanarians around her now, all wearing the Gi of the Order. "Kazuki, Daichi, Etsuko, Katashi, Takako, Kohaku, Nobu, Kuro... Now!" she ordered.
The Tanarians that encircled Aiko and Erzix all thrust their arms out toward Aiko. Aiko held her arms out at her side and looked skyward, eyes closed, as sparkling green and silver light began to flow up from the ground and from the Tanarians toward her. A moment later one of the Tanarians forming the cirlce collapsed, and then another and another. Erzix was confident she could handle whatever the girl had for her, and she was curious to see what was going to happen, so she just stood with her arms crossed and a smirk on her face.
Five minutes later only Aiko and Erzix still stood. Around Aiko was now a sparkling green and silver mist like aura. Lowering her arms and head and opening her eyes Aiko's smirk grew. "Thank-you, my friends." she said glancing at them all. "You've sacrificed yourselves to give me this chance... so that I can give the rest of the people a chance." She turned her gaze back to Erzix. "None of them had even reached their Awakening yet... they never really had the chance for a life..." her eyes moved over to Nobu, the youngest of eight at only twelve. "They gave their lives so that I could destroy you, to save those they care about... I won't let them down!"
"Give me you're best shot girl." Erzix sneered.
"With pleasure!" she cried hunching over and gathering in all the energy around her. The energy flowed into her body and then down into the ground around her and snaked out all the way to the edge of the circle marked by the fallen bodies. That's when Erzix finally felt the energy coming not just from Aiko but the glowing ground beneath her feet. Her eyes went wide as Aiko threw her arms and head back. "Wakusei Kujo Taihou!" she cried.
Erzix uncrossed her arms as the ground shook and the area began to glow intensly. She was about to take off when the entire area suddenly exploded savagely destroying everything for a hundred yards in either direction and gouging out a large crater. When the smoke and dust settled there was nothing left of Aiko, the eight members of the order, or Erzix.
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The Tanarians that had come up to aid Kavar and his guard watched in disbelief as the Transformed Wyver batted Kavar around in the air like he was nothing. There was a loud crack as Wyver's fist smashed into Kavar's face and sent him sailing down into the trees. A loud crash sounded as he slammed into the groud blasting out a crater with his body. The head of the guard held his arms out, blue energy gathering quickly. "Attack!" he called out, as the blast fired.
Suddenly the sky was alight with streams of energy as the Tanarians fired at Wyver and Omta. The two aliens weren't caught off guard by the attack this time and began batting away, dodging, or just ignoring the attacks as they came. Suddenly Omta vanished and a series of loud cracks and flashes began through the group of attackers. That assault ended as the Tanarains began to look for the attacking alien. One by one he landed a devastating blow to each of them, killing them with just the one hit.
Suddenly a stream of energy surged up from below and Kavar slammed his foot into the side of Omta's head, seconds before the alien did the same to one of the Tanarians. The blow knocked him to the right but he recovered quickly and lashed out with a punch of his own that sent Kavar sailing toward Wyver. The Anubian thrust his foot out and slammed it into the back of Kavar with a loud crack. The blue skinned guard's eyes widened in pain and shock and a moment later he fell back to the ground below him, unmoving.
Wyver turned toward where Erzix had been for a moment and shook his head as he changed back to normal. "I never thought she'd bite the big one on a mission of this level."
"These Tanarian's are nasty little devils." Omta replied as he gazed around at the ones still ready to fight. "Come on, let's finish clearing this city and then go report to Recoome."
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Yamcha sat up groaning and put a hand to his forhead. "Man... what the hell hit me?" he muttered. Suddenly the night sky blazed with orange light that seeped down through the trees casting everything in an eerie glow. As he looked up he felt Recoome, Sora, and Hotaru fighting above the trees and recent events came flooding back to him again. He looked off to his right and saw Sango still laying on the ground breathing slowly. "She's alive, good."
He made to stand and walk over to her but as soon as he put pressure on his left leg an intense pain tore through his body and he collapsed again. Looking down at his leg he saw a long and rather thick piece of wood had been punched clear through his leg. Gripping the top of it in one hand he closed his eyes and clenched his teeth. He channeled Ki into his hand and a second later the wood was burning.
Sango was brought back to conciousness by the sounds of Yamcha's screams. Opening her eyes and looking over she saw him holding his leg, the screams dying off. Sitting up painfully she called over to him. "You okay?"
He nodded and stood, careful not to put too much weight on his injured leg. "Ya, I'm good." he said looking at his make shift attempt at healing the wound. He'd managed to burn out all the wood and any possible chance of infection would have been burned away too. The heat had also cauterized it so he wouldn't have to worry about bleeding to death. A little Ki work and he'd even managed to speed up the growth of skin to seal the hole, though it was still marked by a scar. /Just another one for the record./ he thought glumly before looking up through the trees again.
"I can still feel Hotaru and Sora fighting up there..." he said after a moment. "And... is that Akira?" he asked glancing toward the city.
Sango turned her attention that way as well and felt the high power that was definitely Akira's signature. "That's him... but his power... He must be using a Shika-Shidou technique, there's several of them that increase the user's power. They've all got pretty nasty drawbacks though, that's why Hotaru developed the Kinryoku."
Yamcha nodded slowly, not really sure about everything Sango had said but he got the gist of it. He turned his attention back up to the battle overhead as he slowly drifted up through the trees. A moment later he emerged into the dark night sky and noticed that the pale blue moon was now up over the horizon. /Man, we must have been out for at least twenty minutes.../ he thought shaking his head.
He glanced over as Sango floated up beside him. "You think you can do a Kamehameha?" he asked. He and Hotaru had been teaching her the move while they'd been preparing for the tournament. "We can try and merge our attacks, it may be enough to at least hurt that walking tank up there." Sango nodded and both of them powered up their Kinryoku's again.
Floating side by side they cupped their hands beside them. Blue white light began to gather between their palms, but Yamcha's soon shifted silver. Sango glanced over at him as she felt the power in his attack growing by leaps and bounds. Even after these past few months his power still suprised her. She turned her eyes back up toward the fight as she continued to charge her attack.
Up in the sky Recoome had just slipped another punch from Hotaru and was about to slam a fist into her stomach when his scouter suddenly went off. He stopped in mid punch and turned to look down. He couldn't make out who was floating over the trees, only the silvery blue glow. /Two powers... neither one enough to hurt me... nothing but flies/ Recoome turned to continue the fight but found that one of his opponents was missing. He started looking around for Hotaru but Sora charged in to fight him again.
Yamcha glanced to his left as Hotaru appeared beside him and started charging a Kamehameha of her own. "We could use all the power we can get..." she said as her muscles tensed. "Well, here goes nothing... Mutsu Kinryoku!" Her muscles swelled to an even larger size as her aura grew thicker and brighter yet again, her power jumping up to six times her normal power.
"Now!" Yamcha yelled as Recoome backhanded Sora away from him. The three of them thrust their arms up toward Recoome and their attacks exploded forth savagely. The wind from the energy whipped down passed them and began to tear at the trees uprooting several of them. Yamcha's silver energy stream surged straight up toward Recoome, the twin blue streams of energy spiralled around it for a moment before merging into his.
Recoome turned his attention down to the nearing energy stream and his eyes widened slightly. He thrust his arms out and down and pushed against the triple attack that pushed him higher and higher into the sky. "What... I.. can't..." he narrowed his eyes as his aura flared up around him and his power began to climb.
"What, no way!" Hotaru cried as Recoome's power continued to build. /At this rate he's going to double his power! He was holding back this entire time and mother and I could barely touch him/ Suddenly Hotaru felt her mother beside her and glanced over just in time to see Sora thrust her arms skyward as well sending a stream of orange energy up to merge with the silver-blue of the Kamehameha's.
Recoome let out a loud roar as his aura flared and then flashed and the four attacks were deflected out into space. Yamcha, Sango, and Hotaru watched it speed off in shock. And then suddenly Recoome was there and slamming his knee into Sora's stomach. They could all feel that he'd expended a lot of his energy deflecting that attack, but he was still stronger now than when they'd first started fighting him. Sora doubled over his knee and then he backhanded her down through the trees.
He then charged towards the next nearest person and slammed his fist into Yamcha's face sending him sailing away as well. Turning again he went to attack Sango but Sora came charging back up out of the forest and landed a kick to Recoome's head. The large alien jammed his arm backwards slamming his elbow into her stomach and then turned and grabbed her by the foot. Before he could do anything more however Yamcha was back again and slammed an energy encased fist into Recoome's face.
The large alien released Sora and slammed a fist into Yamcha's stomach before uppercutting him up a few feet higher into the air. He then spun around and slammed a foot into Yamcha's chest knocking him away. Vanishing he reappeared behind the Human and kicked him up into the air. Sora, Sango, and Hotaru watched panting as Recoome continued to pound on Yamcha, all three of them looking for an opening to try and help.
Suddenly Sango blasted into the air and caught Recoome just as he was about to land another blow on Yamcha. She slammed a fist hard into his face but he barely even noticed her. However, he turned from Yamcha who began to fall toward the ground and scowled at her. "That's it, it's time you all start dying!" he cried.
"Sango!" Hotaru shouted as she shot off into the air. She was only about halfway there when Recoome's energy encased fist smashed into and through Sango's stomach. She came to a sudden stop, eyes wide in disbelief, as the large alien whipped his arm out to the side which sent Sango's lifeless body sailing out over the lake and then down into it's cold depths. Hotaru's entire body shook with sadness and anger as she stared at the point where Sango had entered the lake.
Slowly her eyes moved to where Yamcha lay unconcious once more, on the beach. And then to where her mother floated, a look of sadness and fear on her face, and then off into the city as a large explosion lit up the night sky. A spark of orange lightning like energy arced across her body as she floated there, followed a second later by another. And then sparks of orange began to apear in her silver aura. Her fists clenched as she turned to face the grinning Recoome once more, the sight of Sango's death etched in the back of her eyes. With a cry she charged up toward him leaving a trail of orange energy in her wake.
