I am back from a wonderful vacation / honeymoon with my wife! And a big thanks to all my reviewers! I am glad to see that I am still R&Red (as usual, the Review answers are at the bottom); now, without much further ado on with the story!
Note: Due to some 'improvements' ff.net has obviously made during my vacation all my story formatings have gone to HFIL. Additionally text is marked as fat I never marked this way. Until the problem is solved you'll have to live with those formatings. AND, apparently ff.net has disabled the use of special characters in the documents, for I can't use the signs I used for telepathy / thoughts any more. That also goes for smileys, sadly. If anyone has an idea how these new rules work and why those special characters can't be used any more (or if they can), please tell me in the reviews.Now these means telepathy / thoughts
Welcome to the afterlife, son!
And really, someone had watched with more intensity than all the others, and this person was a young human woman named Videl Satan, who could simply not believe what she had seen during the past minutes. Not only was this guy cute, but he was also very strong! Unbelievably strong!
Hmm, I guess I'm falling for this Son Gohan... she thought, while her father was still bug-eyed from what he had just seen. This was the first time he had seen a fight like that, for he had only been allowed to watch the tournament now for the first time. But seeing something like that was something else. And he had thought he was the best martial artist...
Now the continuation...
The preliminaries for the main tournament continued, and the East quadrant was next to find out who would represent them in the tournament.
It turned out during the preliminaries that an amphibious creature, a frog, a blue haired guy and a midget were the fastest and strongest and would represent the East quadrant.
The West quadrant had, as the North quadrant, only to choose three more fighters, as Goku as the winner of the last tournament and Pikkon as the second winner were automatically qualified. A giant dinosaur, an ape and a cat like creature were their other fighters.
The South quadrants best fighters were a bear like creature, a speedster, a creature that looked like an orgre and a very tall lizard-like creature.
They were rather known for their speed, but speed was not everything that counted in a fight...
But the third and fourth fighter of the North quadrant had still to be determined. After short fights (Vegeta and Piccolo proved much to the delight of King Kai just how strong they had become) Vegeta and Piccolowere declared the third and fourth fighter of the tournament.
Then the alien announcer guy stepped into the ring."Ladies, gentleman and everything in between, now will be determined who will fight who. As all the fighters who will represent their quadrants in this great tournament have been chosen, we can now begin. The tournament brackets will be decided now!"
And then the drawing began. Pikkon got the number one, and he would fight the lizard like creature from the South quadrant who had drawn # 2.
Gohan draw the number three, and he would fight in the second fight of the tournament. His opponent, number 4, turned out to be the amphibious creature his father had fought against in his first Afterlife Tournament.
The third fight would consist of a blue-haired guy named Alamba from the East quadrant, who had drawn the number 5, and he would fight the cat-like creature from the West quadrant.
Goku, the winner of the last two Afterlife Tournaments, had drawn number seven, and he would fight the orgre-like creature from the South quadrant who had had the bad luck of being number eight...
The fifth fight would be West quadrant, represented by an winged ape, against the East quadrant, for which a bearded midget would fight.
Piccolo had drawn number eleven, and he would be up against a fighter from the South quadrant, a dangerous looking bear-like creature.
Number thirteen, a speedster from the South quadrant, would be fighting a frog-like creature from the East quadrant.
And, last but not least, Vegeta would be fighting a Dinosaur-like creature from the West quadrant.
The spectators already pitied the poor Dinosaur, for they knew what Vegeta would do with him. They had seen what Vegeta was capable of in the last tournament.
The Saiyan prince had only been stopped by Pikkon in the semi-finales, and this only due to an unexpected attack. They were anxious to see how he would fare now...
The alien announcer guy stepped up in the ring again.
"Ladies, gentleman and in between, the fights have been determined!" he said, and the two guys who had rolled in the blackboard with the rules of the tournament before rolled in another blackboard with the tournament brackets.
Clearly visible written on it was:
1) Pikkon (West quadrant)
vs. S'Raz (South quadrant)
2) Gohan (North quadrant) vs. T'Nass
(East quadrant)
3) Alamba (East quadrant) vs. Neko
(West quadrant)
4) Goku (North quadrant) vs. A'Raskar
(South quadrant)
5)
Boldo (West quadrant) vs. Jabadai (East quadrant)
6)
Piccolo (North quadrant) vs. Arrar (South quadrant)
7)
Tantar (South quadrant)
vs. Maraiako (East quadrant)
8)
Vegeta (North quadrant) vs. A'Rau (West quadrant)
The
alien announcer guy looked at the crowd and grinned.
"Now to the first fight! It's Pikkon, last times second best, versus S'Raz!"
The fighters entered the tournament from opposing sides, and Gohan was fully concentrated. He wanted to know what this Pikkon could do, for according to his dad he had to be very good...
The crowd cheered and Grand Kai gave his sign, and the fight started!
Pikkon was still wearing his weighted clothing, and the audience knew what would happen when he saw reason to take them off...
Pikkon opened the fight!
"Arrhhhh!" he screamed, and his aura blew his opponent S'Raz nearly out of the ring. It was becoming clear that S'Raz was no match for Pikkon, but they had to give him credit for the fact that he did not simply throw in the towel.
S'Raz tried to put up a fight, but each kick or punch he shot at Pikkon was blocked with ease. Pikkon simply fazed out of sight and appeared behind S'Raz, and his elbow to the neck of S'Raz was nearly enough to render the South quadrant fighter unconscious.
S'Raz staggered back to his claws and decided to up the anti. He started beating with his aerofoil, and seconds later he began zooming through the ring.
Yeah, South quadrant fighters were known for their speed, but speed is not all that matters in a fight. S'Raz threw super fast punches at Pikkon, but Pikkon was not impressed in the slightest.
He dodged and blocked each punch with ease, and S'Raz began to tire soon. He was no match for Pikkon...
Pikkon was not the one to toy around with an opponent or show off, so he simply kicked him out of the ring.
That was naturally as expected and once the alien announcer guy grabbed the mike and declared Pikkon winner the crowd cheered.The next fight would be Gohan, the tournaments newcomer, versus T'Nass, the amphibian fighter from the East quadrant. The crowd was anxious to see how the newcomer would fare against the battle tested and clever fighter.
But they should find out soon...
to be continued...
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Now the fights will really begin! Gohan versus T'Nass, the rookie in this tournament versus a
battle-tested opponent! Who will win? Stay tuned! Please R&R! °°
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REVIEWERS
RESPONSES:
Goten's Girl12: Glad that you like it! If
Gohan and Videl will come together remains to be
seen...
Digi fan: Thank you! And the next match will include...
you guessed it... Gohan!
chris: Your idea is
good! I love to write fighting scenes, and I am glad that you like em!
animeprincess1452: Oh yeah, Hercule is a pain in the ass most of the
time, but Videl gave him a good dressing down, heh.
She will show him...
DBZ Chick1: Thanks! Gohan will kick some
ass, starting in the next chapter...
Marshmellow13Dragon: I felt I had to include Videl and Hercule in there.
I am glad that you like the idea, and Videl will play a role in this story. And
I am honoured to be on your favourite list! Thanks!
Candy the Duck: As this is my story I can say... definitely yes!