Questline: The Power of One

Chapter 9.

The Power Within

"Your not going to win this kid!" The saiyan shouted as he lunged at me with a slow but powerful punch.

I duck and grab him by the waist, flipping him over my shoulder and as he falls, I throw a backwards kick. It lands in his face and knocks him out cold.

"The winner is Aleks!" The announcer shouts.

"Aleks has been relentless in this tournament. The little human that could is what I would call this if I wrote a book on it." The announcer said.

"Ladies and gentlemen, there are only two competitors left. They have both climbed their way to the top and if I had my way, I would give the top rank to both of them. However, there's only room for one top dog in this tournament. Ladies and gentlemen, the the final match between Cabba and Aleks will continue in ten minutes so don't go anywhere. I'd hate for you to miss it." The announcer finishes saying.

Caulifla and Kasa come running down from the stadium seats. Kasa jumps on me wrapping her arms around me saying, "I can't believe how easy you made that one look. I'm so proud of both you and Cabba for making it to the finals."

Caulifla then adds, "Just remember not to kill each other in there. Your both friends so between you two it really shouldn't matter who wins. You both made it much farther than I thought you guys would."

Caulifla then looks to me and Kasa as kasa continues holding onto me and says, "I like the way you two look together. You both seem happy."

Caulifla then pulls me away from Kasa and says, "Sorry Kasa. I need to talk to him for a quick second. You know, trainer and student stuff for his next match."

"So tell me. What happen between you two to make her suddenly so attached to you this whole day?" Caulifla asked me as we walked several feet away.

"Remember yesterday when you told me about the whole presenting opportunities thing? I asked.

"Yeah? Why? Did you take my advice?" She asked me.

"No. I didn't. But that night, I woke up and saw her on the chair sleeping. So I picked her up and brought her to the bed but I guess she heard you and me earlier that day and before I could leave the bedside, she grabbed me and pulled me down and kissed me." I told Caulifla.

"I slept in the bed with her that night." I finished saying.

"After this tournament, whether or not you win. You should kiss her again infront of every saiyan, Aleks." Caulifla said.

"Well, when have I taken your advice so far?" I asked her.

"Just promise me you'll concider it!" She demanded.

"I promise I will concider it Caulifla." I told her.

After the ten minutes go by, I hear the announcer calling me and Cabba to the stadium. Once I get there, I notice I'm the first one there. I look around and after a couple minutes go by I see Cabba walk up to the stadium ring.

We stand facing each other as the announcer then says, "You may begin."

I look to Cabba and say, "Lets both do our best Cabba."

He continues to look back and smiles as he says, " I agree Aleks. Don't hold anything back. I want you to go all out."

I dash at Cabba and drop to the ground as I reach him, spinning my legs to sweep him to the ground.

He jumps and lands, kicking me hard in the face and then jumps back. He just stands there waiting for me to make a move.

I get back to my feet and then get my guard up. I look at him for a while and then drop my guard and begin walking towards him casualy.

He looks at me confused but keeps his guard up.

As I walk up to him, he tries to strike me with a few rapid punches but as he does, I block them and grab him by the armor and pick him up. I take a few of his punches and punch him in the stomach and throw him to the ground and then take a few steps back.

He gets back to his feet quickly and then tries to rush me but as he reaches me, I grab his attempted punch and pull him into my kick and then I do a spin around him kicking him in his back.

"Well It's clear to me that I can't beat your style of fighting as I currently am right now. I guess I'm going to have to turn things up a knotch." Cabba says.

Cabba just stands there as this burst of powerful air begins to rush around us. Cabbas glare turns more fierce as lightning begins striking the all around the stadium. His black eyes begin turning green and his black hair turns to blonde.

Suddenly he appears infront of me and begins striking me with great speed and entensity. The power in his punches knock the sense out of me as I take the onslaught.

He stops and I fall to the ground in great pain.

He turns around and begins walking away as the ref then comes running up to me. The ref was unsure on whether to call the match or not. That was, until I started slowly rising back to my feet with nothing but sheer willpower.

After I barely got back on my feet, I look to Cabba and put my guard up. He vanishes and appears infront of me and punches me once. The punch sends me ten feet away and hitting the ground.

I felt my consciousness slipping away until everythin went dark. It was then, that I saw a figure in the darkness walking up toward me.

It was that girl. The one I saw before I saw Malon and Kasa in that dark tunnel.

She walks up to me while I lay there on the ground in total darkness and places her hand on mine and asks, " Wow, you really are having a tough time aren't you. Would you like some help?

As I lay there looking at her, I ask her, "Who are you and how could you possibly help me?"

"Silly, I'm the Yin to your Yang. I'm your light in the darkness of your heart. You have me. Your hidden inner strength. I'm the hidden source of strength you have, up until now, never met or knew of and it's my wish to help you here and now. If you don't accept me then this is were you will die. I'm your life line." She says.

"So would you like my help?" she asks.

"Deapends. I'm not going to loose control over myself with this strength and power you offer me am I?" I ask her.

"That all depends on you and the strength of your heart. I know your capable. But you must first have faith in yourself." She says.

"Fine. I'll accept your help, but I refuse to kill Cabba." I tell her.

"Don't make promises you can't keep." she says as she smiles and begins to pick me up.

After I get to my feet, she pulls my head to hers and kisses me on the forehead and says, "Enjoy it."

I look to her and begin shouting in anger, "I refuse to kill any and all friends!"

Suddenly I rush Cabba and begin striking him with all my fury. As he tries to fly up I vanish with great speed and stop in front of him in the air, punching him with such great force that he gets sent flying back to the ring and as he hits the ground, he leaves a good sized crater. The force of the impact from hitting the ground sends him bouncing back up. Just as he bounces back up, I appear infront of him and kick him so hard he broke the sound barrier and crashes into the wall landing outside of the ring, unconscious.

"We have ourselves a tournament winner." The annoucer shouts. The crowd begins shouting in complete excitement.

I then snap out of it, realizing what I just did was way to harsh and hard. I quickly ran out of the ring and to Cabba. I grabbed a water bottle and begin pouring it on him to wake him up. He does eventually wake up and asks, "Well I take it I lost right?

I looked at him and said, "Cabba, we are both winners in my book. We both made it to the finals. That all that really matters."

We both get back up and into the ring and we both begin to bow to the crowd. We both turn to each other and shake hands. I then said, "You did great Cabba."

Suddenly we see Caulifla, Kasa, and Kale come running up to us and Caulifla shouts, "Aleks, that was amazing. I never in my dreams, thought I'd see you fight at super saiyan level. You never showed that level of skill and power before. It was increadible."

Kale walks up to Cabba and congradulates him on doing so well.

Kasa comes up and hugs me so hard I thought I was going to go unconscious again.

I then looked to Kasa and asked her, "Are you ready?"

She asked me, "Ready for what?"

I pull her into me and bring my head to hers and it's at this moment she begins to know what I ment as she quickly smiles.

While everyone was watching, I pressed my lips against hers.

After we finished, she looked at me and smiled again and asked me, "Is this really what you want? Me and you?"

"Kasa, you have always been there and worried for me since day one. Your way more than what I could have ever hoped for. Honestly, your more than I deserve. You bet your all that I want!" I announced infront of everyone.

She smiled as she continued to hug me.

Later that night, we were all back at Cauliflas house. Caulifla and Kale were eating like they haven't eaten anything food in several days. Kasa and Sakata were in the living room talking. Cabba was in the bedroom sleeping. I was in the kitchen making coffee.

"Hey Aleks, once you finish making your cup, you should come to the living room. I need to talk to you." I hear Sakata say.

I poured myself a some coffee and began walking to the living room where I then sat down on the couch. I looked over to Sakata and asked him, "So what did you want to talk about?"

"It's about what happened in that last match between you and Cabba. That strength and power you displayed at the last second to be more precise. I'm going to take a guess and say that you were given that power weren't you?" Sakata asked.

"That power. I was told it was my hidden power." I told Sakata.

"Who told you that and when?" Sakata asked.

"Well it was when I briefly lost consciousness and was down in the match. I closed my eyes and when I opened them back up I was laying in that dark portal hallway again and I saw a girl there. She told me she the yang to my yin. My light in the darkest half of my heart and that she wished to help me. She said that if I didn't accept her help, I was going to die right there." I explained to Sakata.

"Hmmm, then why has no human ever displayed that power before I wonder." He said.

"I don't know, but I told her I would only except her help as long as I got to remain in control of the power. I refused to loose control and accidentally kill Cabba. She told me that all depends on the strength of my heart." I told him.

"A human power that could take on a super saiyan. It's just hard to believe. But we have no proof against what your saying. The power you displayed though felt dark. It felt so angry and hateful. But right after you won, it just disappeared. Aleks, If that power really is yours, then may I suggest that you only use it in extremely dire situations. Power like that can easily be a double edged sword if not used properly." Sakata warned me.

"You got it sir." I said.

"Good." He said and then smiles.

Soon after we finished talking, Cabba came out of the room and sat down on the couch next to me and yawned. He then started talking to Sakata.

I got up and began walking to the bedroom after starting to feel tired myself. I took off my pants, shirt, and shoe's and then hopped in bed.

Soon after, I heard someone walk into the room. It must have been Kasa because the footsteps were soft and light. I heard her clothes hit the floor and then I felt her crawl into the bed with me.

Her arm then came over me and pulled me to roll over and face her and so I did. As my eyes stayed closed, I smiled and said, "I'm really glad to have you in my life."

"I've always been in your life since the day you left your world silly. You could say I take up a piece of your heart." A familiar voice laying infront of me says.

I quickly open my eyes and jump out of bed holding up my guard ready to fight.

"Does it always have to be about fighting with you? I just want to have a very up and close discussion with you." The voice says.

"And you needed your clothes off for that?" I asked with a sarcastic tone as I struggle to try and see who is on the bed.

"I'm just trying to make you feel comfortable." The voice said.

"I was plenty comfortable as it was. Who are you and what do you want?" I asked.

"How funny it is that you already forgot me even after I saved your life." She says as she steps out of the bed and into the light with nothing but a blanket covering her.

"Holo?! How did you get here? Malon told me you left and gave up on me!" I asked.

"I guess she wasn't lying when she told you that. After I left, I tried to forget about you, but I just couldn't bring myself to blame you for all that happened. I thought you left me behind again, but here you are in another world. I now know and understand you don't have control over your little disappearing act. I understand now more than ever." She explained.

"Holo, Malon told me that I had to try and move on. Could you blame her?" I asked.

"No. Infact if I were her, I would have told you the same thing. I saw your fight today. You've grown significantly since your time in hyrule. Oh and don't think I didn't see you kiss that girl." She said.

"Holo, your the one that walked away. You were all I could think of for a long time after I woke up here. And then after a week goes by, I found Malon in some dark corridor in some portal or gateway and she told me you left and gave up on me. How do you think I felt. Malon had to literally slap some sense into me." I said.

"Holo, your still my companion on this journey. However, It's too late to go back to what we were." I said.

"Well I guess I can accept that. So Are you going to introduce me to all of your new friends? Or do I have to do it myself?" She asked.

"After you tell me how you got here." I said.

She smile and then said, "To be honest, you brought me here."

"What do you mean? How did I bring you here?" I asked.

"Remember that girl you met when you fell unconscious and she gave you that hidden strength? Well it seems to be that whenever you go there, its a two way street and there was an entrance on my end. While she was talking to you, I snuck in and then out the other side and appeared it the stadium seats." She said.

"Fair enough, lets get some clothes on and I'll Introduce you to them so they don't freak out as much." I said.

After getting dressed, I head out to the living room with Holo everyone stopped what they were and stared in confusion.

Holo did her usual and was quite open with everyone who approached her. Kasa came up to me and asked, "Aleks, Who is that. Why did she come walking out of the room with you?"

Before I even had time to answer, Holo jumped infront of Kasa and said, "Hello! You must be Aleks's new girlfriend right? It's so nice to meet you. My names Holo. I'm a friend of Aleks. We met back in a place called Hyrule."

"Wait, your Holo? The one Aleks had feelings for? How did you get here? Malon said that you left all of them and Aleks behind." She said.

"Kasa it's okay. Holo's aware of what she did and she did and we already had a talk about it. Honestly I can't hold it against her. I might have thought the same thing if I was her." I said.

I walk up to Kasa and hug her saying, "Besides, it changes nothing between us."

I grab her hand and pull her with me while saying, " She's a friend now and nothing more. Please trust me Kasa and don't worry."

Caulifla then says, "Aleks, Kasa, how about we all sleep in the room tonight."

"Why is that Caulifla?" Kasa asks.

"I just have a feeling about something."Caulifla says.

"Sakata then says, "I agree with Caulifla. I have a feeling that just came over myself as well and I think it would be a good idea."

"Oh, alright." Kasa says while sounding upset.

I walk over to the couch after hearing Sakata and Caulifla, and begin laying down and close my eyes. A few seconds later I feel someone lay ontop of me. I reach up to their head while leaving my eyes closed and as I feel upward through their hair, I begin to feel Holo's animal ears.

I roll myself out from under her and fell to the floor to sleep. After that I hear a giggle across the room and next thing I know I feel Kasa get down and lay next to me. Kasa then says, "After seeing that cute maneuver you just did, how could I not trust you."