Chapter 3: A merciless warrior...

After the brief quarrel with Goku, Torch sits leaning next to a tree with his arms crossed and his head down, the red du-rag hiding his hair. The West Kai snores away, laying on the grass on his back-side a few feet away from Torch. But the peace that Torch seems to posses is suddenly ruined, as 3 large figures approach Torch, and hover over him. Their massive bodies causing the whole area to shake with each step, but Torch just sits there quietly, remaining motionless as the dead.

"This is the punk who's suppose to make us piss in our pants?" The brute in the middle says, he brushes his shoulder length blue hair with his right hand, a huge smile on his face. "You heard of us i'm sure you have," he continues, "If you haven't you must be deaf or stupid, i'm Toko, the scaly red guy next to me is Tiancha, and the guy on my left is Tonto, and we are.."

"I really don't give a damn who you three clowns are." torch says quiet, interupting Toko, he opens his eyes and turns to look at the three bullies, "Well, you three look dumber then I thought."

"What was that?" Tonto says, growing a temper, his blue skinned muscles growing veins, sweat dripping from his short red hair. "You skinny little punk, you need to take that back."

Torch unfolds his arms and stands up, looking straight at the 3 warriors, "You're lucky you three are dead, because now i'm not able to kill you."

Tonto starts laughing, "You kill us, you crack me up kid."

"I will be cracking you up, in a few seconds if any of you would like to make a move." Torch says with confidents in his voice, "I don't even have a guard up, surely this is an advantage that even you three idiots can capitalize on."

The three fighters look at eachother until Toko, the bulkiest of the three, approach Torch while cracking his knuckles.

"Look at you kid, you're nothing but a toothpick compared to me."

A smirk comes over Torches face, "Is that all you are able to do, insult people, because you shouldn't insult those who surpass you, i'll tell you what," Torch puts both hands in his pocket, "I'll knock you down without the use of my hands, sound fair?"

Toko looks as if his head is about to explode, as his cockiness changes into bitter anger. He quickly flies towards Torch, his hands balled into a tight fist and aiming straight for Torch. He approaches him and goes for a swift right jab, but it's not swift enough as Torch dodges it by quickly moving to the left and knees him in the stomach. Toko gasps for air, as Torch looks like his knee is about to penetrate his stomach. He removes the knee then without hesitation goes after a stunned Tonto and Tiancha as Toko falls to his knees , his arms wrapped around his stomach, torch, in blinding speed, suddenly hits Tiancha with a right punch sending Tiancha crashing to the ground, then he goes for a lightning fast kick to Tonto, Tonto crashes through a tree then he falls to the ground, Torh lands standing firmly with a smirk on his face.

"If you were all smart, you wouldn't get up." Torch says,

But his comment is ignored, the three warriors manage to get up with bruises all over them. They surround Torch, forming a triangle with him being in the middle.

"You don't scare us kid." Tiancha says gasping for air, "We have way more tricks up our sleeves."

The three extend their right hands, aiming at Torch. "Tri boms!" Toko shouts as huge round, red, energy balls extend out of their right hands, and float in front of them. "Fire!" Toko shouts, the three ki balls rush in lightning speed straight at Torch.

"You guys don't get it do you?" Torch forms a black ki aura around his body with red lightning surrounding it, the ki balls hit the aura, but the aura works as a force-field and blocks the ki bombs. Torch finally lets out an ear-piercing scream, the dark aura that surrounds him becomes bigger, the ki bombs bounce off of the aura and heads back towards each of the three warriors, they try to dodge it but it's just to fast, as the ki bombs hit them all causing a huge smoke to fill the arena. West Kai is woken up from the dramatic attack.

"Cough..cough," West Kai sits up, covering his mouth, "Damn it what's going on?"

"Sorry Kai, I was just having some early training that's all." Toch says, the smoke clears and West Kai sees Torch standing firmly in the middle of three fallen fighters.

"Wow, you really did a number on these fellas huh?" West Kai says smiling,

Torch nods his head but he nods too soon, as Toko can be seen moving his fingers. "This guy just doesn't quit." Torch says, Toko slowly stands up, his left arm dragging down, as if he's unable to move it. Bruises and scars all over Toko, but Torch finds Tokos pain amusing as he simply smiles. "Can't you see you can't possibly hurt me, what more do you want me to do to you?" Toko stands there, barely keeping his stance shaking, both because of the fear and anger he has for Torch. "I was thinking about saving you for the tournament but now I see, that you're a waste of my time."

Torch suddenly dissapears under the eyes of Toko, toko looks around but he's unable to detect Torch. "Here I am." Torch says as he stands in front of Toko, like a magician who just re-appeared out of nowhere. Toko goes for a right punch but Torch blocks it and punches Toko through the stomach, Toko spits up blood as the punch is slowly going through Tokos stomach. Torch then kicks him in the chin, followed by several more kicks to the stomach and face. Toko still struggles to keep his stance, but the vision he has of Torch is so blurry. Torch quickly jumps back and extends his right hand. "I have a gift, for you." Torch fires several ki blasts at Toko, hitting each body part of Toko.

"Do you like that, do you like it?" Torch says laughing sinistly, West Kai slowly approaches Torch.

"Ok, that's enough, you're going to get us in trouble, please."

But he ignores the West Kai and continues the assault on Toko, the ki blasts open wounds and is slowly crippling the giant.

"That's enough!" A voice from behind Torch and West Kai shouts, Torch turns his head and it's none other then Goku. Torch haults the assault, Toko falls to the ground motionless and bloodied.

"He started with me first, this wouldn't have happened to him if he had just kept his thought sto himself." Torch says smiling, fully satisfied with his actions. "I bet he'll think twice about entering the tournament now."

An anger'd Goku looks at Torch, "Beating him was enough but what you did was down-right cruel, I don't know why King emma even didn't even consider putting you in the H.F.I.L."

"Shut up, you should be more worried about yourself, because I will show you no mercy in the tournament, come on Kai let's go." Torch says, leaving the area with the West Kai right behind him. "If you only knew Goku...if you only knew."

to be continued