Author's Announcement:
This story hasn't been updated for quite some time, so I figured maybe it was time to do so. Alongside the following: Dusk, Morgana, and new works as such (even the adopted story I took finally from Whitetigerwolf. Sorry for the delay fellow author if you managed to read this chapter, at how long it took to get up.
I also plan to update my other fics, as well as I, decided to eventually go back and adjust/correct my two older fics as well, but not at this point.
As mentioned in the previous chapter, Bulma would indeed be losing one of two children (for specific reasons as such), but I was thinking perhaps replacing Bulla though with an OC Twin? I truly don't want a miscarriage that much but I would like for you all to decide, as I was thinking of a Hidden Ancestry within Bulma passing onto one of the girls, and letting you decide what it is (maybe even saving said twin, who knows).
I would also like to state that this would be the last time in a long while that specific characters would be "Taken" accidentally by Zerina from their universe, and back into Universe 7, from a particular franchise those that are fans of anime might recognize… But there will be hints of other franchises mentioned as such for future or impending content as such, and maybe a few characters here and there for specific reasons.
Now I won't spoil anything as I fixed the chapters before working on this (which I hope're better than before), and hope you enjoy this new chapter as well. There are also some interesting outcomes due to some ideas I liked, to maybe add as well. So this is still a Dragonball Franchised and HP Crossover, for now, as it would shift to when she is in her teens (maybe 14, as a hint).
I also like to mention that a new OC I borrowed will be in this as well, from the Deviant Art site (from this person): WembleyAraujo. "She" will be introduced in a particular way as such.
Zerina's Soulmates: Pan Son, Vados' Child; Hermione/Layla, Oceanus Shenron, Bulla Briefs, Zangya, Android 21 or Maylene Jessamine Shadowfang-Gero, (suggested from a PM via a GUEST as I thought it was a good idea from a few others… Even though she is rather, well, from a certain category of Videos) in this "Long Chapter", ? In this chapter as well, ? (Not met), ? (Not met yet), ? (not met; Got rid of Greengrass OC due to reasons). (Total Soulmates: 10, Maximum).
Magical Sisters to Zerina: OC: Dahlia Suneel (decided to make them sisters, instead of mates), ? (Not met), OC Named-Based-Yet-Based-Off Real Supreme West Kai; From Anime (not met, but in this chapter). There will be others as such, but not for a later date, and the others are her natural sisters (mentioned in the story).
There is a chance though I will adjust some of the list (which has been shown) as to maybe a sister or magical family bond as such, then soulmates, to Zerina, as there are other "Interesting" girls that I looked up that might be more worthy, so there will be some of the girls remaining bonded, and others may be sister, who knows. And the reason being is the guest reviews saying stuff.
Destine: Serena, ?, ? (Fusion-Based wish)
Rose Diana Thurman (Rwbyknight's OC): Erasa (Rare Blond and Kind Saiyan, as Erasa within Universe 7, didn't exist in this Fic)
There is also a chance of someone that has died in her anime, to be brought into existence alongside something you all will be stunned by Zerina doing, and let's say you will (hopefully) like it and leave it at that.
Warnings: Blood Content, Near Death Situations, Crazy Battles, Random Moments as Time Passes, Accidental Bonds Made, few Crossover Characters being added for the time being yet would only be the ones; For now, Hints of future content later down the road to face in this chapter, Illnesses.
Now here is some info:
Thoughts / "Telepathy"
(Number) = At end of the chapter explained.
"Whispers" = Whisper Chat and also Flashback Dates.
"-Singing-" = Singing from characters in this chapter; if " ~ " is in the song, it is longer-sounding.
Hidden Meanings
"Talking"
Powerful Voices
(Flashback Begins / Ends) also Results to Any Test
So let's resume… And do expect something unexpected within here.
Revelations of the Universes, Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend; Zerina's First Test From An Altered Timeline, And A Strange Buu?!
Previously….
The purple-haired teen, Bulla, cracked her neck by looking at him in a not impressed look while firmly stating, "My words still stand Majin: Leave her alone or you will face me once again, you perverted creep."
With an unseen signal, Erasa vanished and to stun Rose by a minor blush along with the girl's wink, gently took Zerina from appearing with a silent indication of following me, she did as well as Destine, since Vegeta narrowed his eyes from quickly sensing the Majin was powering up secretly. The female Saiyan doing the same while Whis limped behind them, "I have been waiting a long time for this brat. So let's see if you can handle my newfound power!"
He then powered even more as the area was illuminated by a dark glow-based light. And he was now the same (after the light cleared) but had misty-red eyes and a dark-like aura was all over his frame. Once it died down, he smirked at her as if to state, beat that, without words.
"Humph, if you think that's what you call power, then think again creep." Bulla declared and to amaze not only Vegeta but the other Saiyan's and with Varakos pausing to stare at her in a scowl at realizing who she was before deciding as he sensed his targets were far away, with Kale and Caulifa following in hot pursuit.
Bulla yelled as a teal/blue/yellow aura surrounded her entire frame while a flash of light briefly made Vegeta look away but when he glanced, was astonished as Cabba (who was up yet had sluggish movements) briefly paused to gap at her before shaking his head, and followed his friends.
Bulla's height increased by a few inches to match Erasa's immediately, and her frame gained slightly more muscle while developing even more curves for the girl and giving her a partial Amazoness look, her chest going up a few sizes along with her eyes instantly teal, and her hair went from purple to yellow while also standing up as her ponytail was still there alongside her tail matching the same color change to blonde.
Bulla smirked while noting in a way to make the Majin half-nervous slightly, "I hope you prepared yourself, creep, as you won't remember what hit you."
Current time…
Bulla charged directly with confidence against Varakos who didn't seem to care for since he sidestepped the female Super Saiyan yet went wide-eyed in alarm mixed with pain as Bulla smirked while rapidly moving to sidekick him to Varakos' left side before she proceeded to punch and kick him with energized fists of Ki Energy.
Varakos then started to block her while he vanished, and made Bulla let out a gasp in shock as he kicked her back and sending her right into the ground and proceeded to charge right at him, yet he was the one to gasp as she moved within the rubble instantly and headbutted the male at his stomach before righting herself, and kicked him again but this time, on the right.
He only chuckled at discovering something she didn't, however, and grabbed her by her hair and making her gasp before sending her rapidly to the ground, and affirmed with a grin, "I would worry about those you left to fight against then myself, as I have a prior engagement to attend to, as my distraction for the last half-hour is done." That made Bulla get wide-eyed as he left oddly enough in a dark-like barrier that showed, and left instantly before flying to where she felt Zerina was distressed.
Zerina somehow ended up being separated from everyone while the crowd knocked and shoved her away as Bulla fought whoever that entity was.
Currently, the child didn't know where she was but what she guessed, was a forested park of sorts as not known to her, was the Wild Lands… Especially since she ran nearly a mile or two into it and was currently on an old log, knowing she was lost. She did, however, liked the way the flowers and plant life on the planet had.
She was also eating to what her nose told her was safe, a blue-like banana of sorts that tasted just like chocolate chip cookies mixed with cream, and once she finished it she stopped before running for her life as a huge wolf began chasing after her that seemed to be a mix of a saber-tooth cat and a reptile.
She kept running as the child was just learning to fly still, and ran into what she thought was a building, but was an old and forgotten temple as the creature growled before looking for another way in from seeing Zerina entered into a passageway that was too small for it.
The building itself was secretly a mix of certain races, mixed with Aztec-like ideas in black-rock colored stone, and had the old language of Saiyan and others on the outer and inside of the walls, with some images, and there were vines and what it told (to be honest), it was indeed abandoned for a long time.
Zerina went deeper and deeper into the building while not seeing creatures and whatnot as stoned carvings as secretly, this world was connected to several others, even as an unusual respite to other Earth-like worlds to those that have lost them, and the confirmation as to what she discovered: Two strange gems as there were three empty slots to realize someone was here before, and a sealed scroll of sorts. Both gems, however, were different yet they each felt friendly to Zerina.
The first was an ocean-blue diamond with the sides of the gem showing tentacle-like designs in opal-like metal with each corner showing a spaded tip, and on top of it was an odd spade-like pearl of sorts (Hint: Something to do squids).
The second was a large jewel that looked like a pink pearl, but it had numerous names written in kanji in silver colors while it was also encased in a thin, bronze vine to not at all cover said names (Hint: Sit Boy!)
Seeing as they were pretty, she took them out of the slots while getting bonked on the skull lightly with the scroll and making Zerina playfully glare at it as her fears presently were forgotten, and did a double-take as a passage revealed itself once the scroll dropped.
As she was a curious child at this point, she followed it while not only discovering the tunnel in which glowed at the entrance when she went in it and was leading her to an alternative universe of her Birthworld where there was hardly Magic, but another set of things, but the scroll itself shrunk and magically (by her own accidental doing) went into her pocket.
Zerina then blinked while glancing all over the area. She came to an alleyway nearby a hospital within a city she couldn't translate as the sign was written in Japanese. She was, secretly, within an alternative universe within Tokyo, Japan, and on a particular night as such.
Zerina was perplexed since she saw that there was hardly anyone at all to confront while walking freely around the city since they were evacuated or hiding.
As she went deeper, she bumped into a girl who was going to apologize yet froze at beholding her body mostly in disbelief of discovering an unusual cat-girl in front of her, on the ground.
The little girl was close to her age, and she has regular purple hair tied into small ponytails by two double pearl-like bands and wore a gown not from a hospital, but from what would be from a laboratory, and has at least undies underneath.
This was Rihoko "Riko" Amaha, and she was currently running from particular machines until she ran into Zerina.
"Are you ok?" Zerina states firstly to make Rihoko blink at the kind gesture while Zerina helps her up, and Rihoko stated unsurely to her then, "I think so. I think I'm ok… But we need to get out of here," Rihoko then grabbed Zerina's left wrist and tried to move her yet was sorta surprised as Zerina stared at her and then asked with a curious yet innocent head tilt as her tail waved gently back and forth to get the purple-haired girl to realize she was a real catgirl of sorts, and to how oddly powerful Zerina came across without even understanding it herself, "Why?"
Before she could answer back, she froze to perplex Zerina further until she glanced and saw they were surrounded by bizarre machines she has never recognized before, and heard them firmly warn her, since there were five of them, "Step away from our target Civilian, otherwise you will suffer."
Zerina only tilted her head again, and her right ear twitched as Rihoko went behind her in small fear, and to which Zerina sensed (oddly enough), and expressed curiously to make the five robots be bewildered as the person scrutinizing the scene as far away, a large battle was taking place and was slowly heading their way, "Suffer what?"
"I-231, it seems like this child isn't in the database," one robot noted as they got new orders to collect not only their original target, but the catgirl as well, and only notified Zerina as her tail twitched by its male tone, "Due to our creators' interests, you are to also be apprehended for study," yet if they would, currently, they would have faulted by her third questioned response, "Study? I don't need to learn to read as I can."
Zerina grew cautious then as they got machine guns out, and the supposed leader stated firmly to her then, "Failure to comply would result in us attacking you. You have till the count of three. One… Two… Thr-" they all froze as Zerina sneezed out a strong fire blast from her mouth as the sensors of each bot briefly went to overload of detecting related energy to the artifact that's presently being used against the others, and were shocked that the Leader Bot was disintegrated by mere energy (and not realized to them, accidentally), by Zerina's Magical Sneezes.
The Bots responded accordingly yet the viewer gapped as Zerina picked up Rihoko before they shot themselves, and they last saw that the catgirl was flying without the aid of machines, and held the other girl firmly to her awed yet fearful eyes of Zerina flying until she almost fell onto the top of the building, and declared the word, ouch, as she at least by pure, unusual luck, had then landed in lounge chairs as they were near a large, top-building pool of sorts on top of a fancy hotel.
"Hey, are you ok?" Rihoko implored in concern while Zerina winced and grabbed her arm as thankfully, it was only bruised with a few scrapes and nodded before observing a small explosion nearby and then Zerina made Rihoko yelp in surprise as more of those Bots showed up while they had blades this time as she made an anime trail and ran down without difficulties, and making the viewer and the one in charge witnessing this, blink, before getting a wicked grin as he made the robots pursue them.
Eventually or later on, Zerina was panting alongside Rihoko nearby an open alleyway as they were being pursued by no more than forty-seven or so Bots, currently, as the main priory shifted to her and Zerina, then The Artifact presently fighting, still.
"What did you do to make them so angry?" Zerina asked while gazing tiredly at Rihoko who also gasped for air like she did before she leaned on the wall and standing, and confided in her, "I think it has to do with Mama fighting them and me being a perfect person for whatever she was wearing? Not sure at all why they want me."
They leaned against the wall as they saw a few of those Bots passed by their entrance and began to try and sneak away until they were running again, together, this time, as several of them were chasing them with metal-mesh nets in a few of their hands.
Zerina yelped as she was almost caught before her magic acted up and sent a pulse from her tail at one, and made it malfunctioned before shutting itself down as they ran long enough to hide in the park's thick bushes while panting once again, alongside their outfits being a little dirty, and Zerina was then going to introduce herself to the girl before making her blink at the wild time she had, officially, "I'm Zerina Potter, what's yours?"
"I'm Rihoko, Rihoko Amaha… But I prefer Riko mostly," Rihoko states quietly to her while realizing the Bots were searching for them all over the medium-sized park and shook hands briefly before ducking as a stray Bot passed them and didn't notice a thing.
Zerina was growing tired and irritable like she knew her new friend was and decided alongside her to move to where they saw a shop further out for food as she was hungry like Rihoko was, and they were suddenly blinded before they fell to the ground as a metal net covered them.
Zerina was then whimpering in fear and confusion while Rihoko was scared as well as they heard the words, got them to whoever was controlling these Bots, and Rihoko knew her Mama was fighting and trying to keep her safe, but her new friend seemed to be dazed while whimpering as if, she was having a panic attack and as they, the Bots, neared her, she couldn't help it as her voice echoed all over her area and a little ways beyond, "MAMA!"
Several Minutes Ago; Near Megina Drive:
A woman was destroying left and right the Bots that were after her Artifact she kept out of the hands of both Douji Groud Industries, and NSWF's New Owner she was fighting alongside the Weapon Bots, in her true from to which she had little to no control over as the Artifact otherwise known as "The Witchblade", was controlling her actions.
The woman was around twenty-three years old, was 5'5 feet tall, and has a lean/top hourglass figure with a large FF-Cup (for a young woman her age as they were natural), while wearing revealing armor of sorts; red and purple armor, and her eyes are currently purple and pink with black sclera, and her hair was also pure white and reached to her behind. She also has attached to her armor, two matching curved-lined blades that also matched her armor's true form (both easily showing on both her right and left forearms).
This was Masane Amaha or truly, Ohara Yasuka, and was the Adopted Mother to Rihoko, a person who doesn't recall her past for the last six years, and was defending not only her, but trying to end it once and for all.
The woman that she was facing, however, was known as Maria (sorry but I cant detail her great, just look her up), and they were clashing against each other while Masane saw her body quickly reacted while slashing an incoming I-Based Bot, and felt her body, inwardly, was straining the longer she fought.
And it's your fault for that, for basically everything, Masane mentally told herself to hear a male-like huff and a response back, Yet you wanted me to take full control over this situation while sending the True Wielder away from us, for safety. Masane sighed at that while she blocked another attack from Maria who screamed and kept hitting her blades, and dodged Masune's four whips that came from her hair yet they easily sliced through four of the Bots coming after her, instead.
They then fought everywhere while Masane winced while feeling her get cut up by a few Bots that Maria cackled at her for while also extending her clawed digits, and tried to stab her through.
"Give it up! Your day ends with me!" Maria yelled out as they clashed; claws against blades while Masune didn't say a word, and they fought near a park that was by Helvana Boulevarde, until Masane and for once the Artifact, froze, by hearing a familiar scream, "MAMA!" Maria only wickedly smirked at her as she was able to stab Masane who felt the Witchblade, quickly, with enough strength to kick her right into a large building alongside heading to the location, and began quickly hacking and slashing the Bots currently under that man's control mixed with Maria.
Maria blinked as she glanced at seeing the full eyes of Masane sparkle with life as she quickly took off, and knew where she was going as she then commanded the Bots or truly named as the X-Cons, to follow and finish her.
Back with Zerina and Rihoko at the time, they were struggling within the X-Cons' hold as they had to grip tighter for Zerina as one had a damaged limb from her mere bite, and one of them told Zerina, "Resistance is futile, Mutant Child," Zerina stopped struggling as she was hurt at that term of what she was, "You are going with us back to The Industry, and to be tested like Subject Rihoko Soho-Amaha is." Zerina huffed at the meanie robot before her before she then sniffled, and then sneezed as she sent said X-Con right into a few trees to get the others, if they would, to blink a few times, as the observer only seemed more interested since it was lightning that shot out of her mouth, and Zerina hid back a small scream as her left arm was gripped tighter.
"You be sor-sorry for messing with me, Bad Robots," she states with narrowed eyes with Rihoko hearing the tone, she meant by her words as one of the X-Cons stated as if, honored by her while stating plainly and up in her face, "You Cannot threaten to what you cannot dish out, Child… There is only you and the other subject, and twenty or so of us. What do you plan to do?" Zerina let out a cute puff of her cheeks while telling them firmly as if it would happen yet made the men back at The Industry be quickly confused by whom she mentioned, "My Uncle Beerus would kick your butt."
Before that X-Con could say a word, it was the precise timing of Masane arriving and slashing a few X-Cons nearby, and they then began to engage her instead while the two holding X-Cons, began taking both Zerina and Rihoko away.
Masane saw this as the Witchblade knowing that the true wielder was being taken away from them, began to take control of sorts while quickly slashing away as more X-Cons showed up, and Zerina seeing the last that looked oddly familiar, was hacking and slashing away at the bad robots, and saw Rihoko was crying out for her as Masane was sliced through her gut to both The Witchblade and Masane's inward shock, by Maria.
"At last… Die!" She stated to the woman and current wielder of The Witchblade, and twisted to the point that Masane spat out blood, and was then harshly tossed into a few trees before seeing satisfaction at Masane reverting to normal while weakly trying to get up yet she could only watch in horror while seeing Maria, feeling The Witchblade itself vibrate in utter rage at what had just occurred.
Masane (as her true self) is the same figure and chest size, but she has light-brown hair and eyes alongside her hair having a few cowlicks on the back of her head that perpetually stick up, while she also is wearing a yellow shirt with a black sports bra underneath that also reveals her belly and her belly button, and regular blue jeans with The Witchblade on her right wrist… Though she grabbed her sides from feeling and also seeing blood easily leaked from her exposed abdominal area, and coughed up a few things of blood as well from her lips.
Maria was still in her form, and wickedly smirked at the two girls while holding, forcibly, Rihoko's face to get a good long look at the child, and stated firmly, in disbelief, "So you're supposed to be the True Wielder? You're nothing more than a pathetic brat," she then made Zerina angry at slapping her new friend in the face to the point even Masane was angry alongside The Witchblade, for once, agreeing with her (which was truly rare) as tears quickly sprang from Rihoko's orbs while the little girl was staring defiantly at Maria to which the woman was only amused. "I can't wait to see you suffer by The Industry's hands… But you, you seem to be a Freak of Nature itself, aren't you Child?" Maria stated then at the end to Zerina.
Zerina while Maria came close, acted on instinct and tried to bite her yet to only get slapped while seeing that she scratched her to the point of leaving some cuts yet inwardly was stunned (like Rihoko was) as they began to quickly heal up, and knew then this child might be the true key for the Cloned Blades' one effect, alongside The Witchblade, on curing the one thing to keep things smoothly going: Degradation of the Body.
"Now you intrigue me, Child," she then looked at the X-Cons and nodded while taking the children away as Zerina watched as the longer she did, the longer she felt the sudden anger built up inside her as Maria went over to a struggling Masane. She then kicked her on the sides to send her nearby the van that showed up, and Rihoko and Zerina saw Maria vanish before appearing near Masane while easily picking her up with her left hand around her neck.
Masane was then struggling while looking over to them, and Maria stated with a wicked face and laugh, "Now you die as I take The Witchblade from you, and know that soon those two will die as well!"
That did it as Zerina's anger grew to the point she yelled while shoving the X-Con that was holding her while at the same time destroying it, away, and sending the van that opened up (as Rihoko was thankfully alright as well), and Maria and Masane (even The Witchblade was stunned) while on the ground as Zerina was once again in that one particular form, and was staring right at Maria before vanishing, appearing, and made the female gasp in utter shock since Zerina was also secretly being recorded, kicked Maria in the solar plexus, hard, and immediately sent her into a few buildings before going after her.
While on the ground, Rihoko went over to her, Masane, and tried helping her up yet couldn't as Masane coughed up blood again while weakly telling her as Rihoko shaking her head in a firm no, "Go… Go somewhere safe."
"I'm not leaving you Mama, please don't go," Rihoko stated while she began to cry with begging words since Masane felt her vision was blurry and knew she was dying right before her little girl she raised, and tried to speak yet there was a sudden flash of light and before them (to their minds), was what would be considered an Angel, except it was merely Vados as she was with Bulla (to whom quickly took off from Vados) sensing a connection already in place between the two, went over and without words, began healing Masane's wounds and at the same time, extracted The Witchblade itself from the woman while at the same time, recognizing the very item itself as she cupped it in her hands.
Masane, all the while, was stunned as she felt oddly… Free, and was feeling better than ever, except that her eyes were burning her alongside her entire body as not known to the stunned gem of The Witchblade, Masane underwent a slight change.
Her screla returned to black while her once brown eyes shifted to a mix of white for pupils, and golden-yellow for her original Witchblade Form. Her hair around the back grew to her mid back while she gained natural highlights of both forms (her original and true, mixed with her own) as on her wrist, a tattoo resembling The Witchblade in Wrist Form, showed except that the gem was pure green emerald in design, before it changed into an actual gem that fused with her very being, then while the tattoo remade itself to a bumped-up version of sorts (just like a permanent scarring-like sheen) as lastly, it was like it was a fused-like metal device on her wrist.
Masane also felt that same feeling she had as The Witchblade, changing her cells for strength, speed, and a sudden burst of energy she never knew all the while to stun Vados and Rihoko, as she was affected as well by being near her, they gained matching, hair-colored, Saiyan-like Cattails.
It seems they no longer allowed in existence of this Universe… An interesting development as I sense they are now in relation to my Godchild, Vados thought with quizzical surprise as she wondered what outside force was powerful enough to do this while she healed the young woman that now had semi-immortality, like the child.
For those that are confused, it means they can die only by being attacked, fully, by body (obliteration, lava, or acidic pools), or their head chopped off (which their body disintegrates yet regrows back from the neck down within a day, if the head was not), and can only get small illnesses. Like a simple cold or flu, and lastly they would age slowly to the point Masane stopped, while Rihoko, however, would be aging the same way Zerina is, currently.
In a separate dimension, said person sneezed while making another Artifact for a new universe to send it to, and shrugged while resuming her work.
Especially since Darkness and Angelus were wanting another one made… More like several made in separate universes, for some reason.
Vados heard an explosion far away to know Zerina might be fighting by Blind Rage, and sighed while giving them a look while Masane also blinked before looking at her wrist, and then at her while Rihoko was now hugging the woman, "It seems whatever power this device gave you, made you a mixed race of itself, and to what Lady Zerina, My Godchild, has mostly encountered as a race, currently."
Masane and Rihoko then blinked dumbly by Vados next set of words as they heard another explosion farther away, "But more importantly, it seems that you, Lady Masane, or whomever you desire to be and your official child, are now related to Lady Zerina by mere accident due to outside forces at work, and are now Elder Sister, and Niece." She pointed her finger in an obvious way to amuse herself firstly at Masane, and then at Rihoko, before looking at the fires in the distance while sighing, and confused them as she told them to grab onto her, and vanished alongside a lone soul that has been secretly with Rihoko as Vados took that weapon (without meaning to) with her.
With Zerina, however, she was still fighting in blind rage against both Bulla, now, and Maria (who was currently regretted calling the girl a Freak again) as she winced while holding her left arm and was thankful her Blade Form, is healing it quickly while ignoring the glare Bulla had at her as they dodged a black ball of energy, "Why did you call her that? Didn't you know- Whoa!" Bulla dodged a electric-white ball of energy that instantly decimated a nearby car to dust from that small area imploding around itself to leave a hole, "She was abused, and that was a trigger word!"
Maria stiffened briefly at that yet yelped as she was nearly sliced by several energy blades that Zerina did as she yelled out with glowing eyes at her, by sending wave-like crescent blades at her from her hands in swift motions, "How the hell was I supposed to know the brat was going to end up like this?"
They kept moving away from the Enraged, Powered-Up Zerina as she had no emotion on her face whatsoever as her eyes glowed and kept sending wave after wave of attacks at them, until they came to a rival of The Industry that held a secret monster they took away from Asia as it was frozen and thawed from ice. A alien-like creature they planned to adjust as a weapon to counter Dohji and NWSF's own weapons, and it woke up once it absorbed the large beam-based attack of black and white light at the building.
The creature was eight feet tall, and resembled a female version of a top-lean/hourglassed Slenderman (the chest size being a large E-Cup) yet she (from the gender of it), had the face of Ruby Rose as secretly, this was the very girl as she and her team became separated, and divided into different realms as unjustified punishment. She also wore red and silver mostly while her chest was slightly revealed to show off yet at the same time, be decent, and her eyes were robotic due to her weapon fusing with her.
Ruby took off quickly while jumping into the air, and easily smacked Zerina while snapping her out of her Rage Mode, and passing out as to her shock, she felt a tingle and felt the outfit fell from her once she landed before she wore, while her leaking, silver colored, optical eyes spewed out blue liquid of sorts, to know they were tears of mixed sadness and joy.
Ruby, after so long, wore a black long-sleeved dress with a high collar and red trim on the sleeves, a black waist cincher with red lacing up the front and around her skirt has a red trim. She also wears a pair of thick black stockings and black combat boots with red laces and trims around the top and red soles. Her outfit is topped by a red hooded cloak fastened to her shoulders by cross-shaped pins. Her emblem appears as a large silver brooch and is pinned to a wide black belt slung around her hips on an angle, which also carries bullets and a pouch. Her outfit (to make her tint as her hair also gained the red highlights with ebony hair), clung to her frame and was decently sexified for her to look perfect.
"Who are you?" Bulla asked the teenager from the way she felt the aura the girl had before yelling as she and Maria were held upside down by two slender, red and black tentacles, and Ruby blinked before looking apologetic as she lowered them, and saw a stray one gently grabbed and carried Zerina (who looked normal), and saw her markings to widen her eyes before sorrow filled her (only briefly), while looking at them, "Someone that's part of the Kid's life now," Weiss you dolt, you were reborn instead of being cursed and sent, just like me and the others… Why did you have to insult that woman while refusing, at first, to be that Lady's Champion a second time! Ruby mentally cried into her head as she confused Bulla and (mentally) Maria, before they glared at each other while she began to walk with Zerina.
Suddenly without warning, missiles were heading their way and Bulla, to stun Maria and even Ruby herself, powered up to Super Saiyan with narrowed orbs at seeing those remaining X-Cons were the cause while one seemed to have a familiar voice while making Maria glare at them all with sudden betrayal, from one of them, "We want the other child since Project Witchblade is no longer to our interests, Ex-Leader Maria Soho… I personally wanted to kill you off after we retrieved the True Wielder, but alas… She is gone completely by that strange blue-skinned woman leaving off with her." The voice was Dohji himself, from the tallest, more monster-like humanoid X-Con there was as it also had dark-green metallic sheen, weaponized armor, blades on the bottom and top of its forearms, and had four, spider-like robotic legs, and sort of like the Ghost in The Shell Anime Spider-Bots, and dismissing missile launcher going from the sides and back into itself before that was replaced by two rocket launchers on each side.
Ruby, after grabbing her from her tentacle, placed Zerina's head to her chest while holding back a bluish as she felt her sleepy-like purrs Weiss did so long ago upon her chest while the child slept, and glared at the machine before blinking at Bulla while also giving her a knowing look yet stated to her, firmly, "Take her out of here, this buffoon is mine." Maria looked like she was going to object until a dark-like portal showed up, and made Ruby glare briefly yet did as she was told as it was one of the few surviving scumbags that ruined their world, appearing, stating to the machine, "It seems you were holding back some details to perhaps, benefit to the cause?"
The person was garbed in aztec robes of midnight black, has a bronze skin tone while also having animal characteristics to that of a panther; mostly the ears, eyes, clawed hands, and fangs of one. He was easily nine feet tall and was muscled to know he was no amatur. He also wore silver armbands that held on one, a sigil of that to a panther, and the other, the sigil to the organization he was part of. He also has a panther tail that at the end, held a blackened iron mace-like object as well alongside small spikes all around it.
"I have told you all I know, Pantora, and left nothing out as such… But that new child that was in that odd woman's arms-" "I know whom you speak, Mortal," Pantora states firmly to the machine before glancing at Bulla and Maria in sudden interest, "But you didn't tell me you were working with a Clone… Formerly, and facing against a Half-Breed." Bulla growled at that to only make Maria raise an eyebrow for yet grew wary by that dark-like aura showing now from Pantora, and stated to the machines, firmly, and tilting his head briefly to crack it and also was cracking his fingers, "You go on ahead and try and get your newest interest while at least getting her blood, while I take care of these two enemies of yours."
The X-Cons then left while following the one Dohji was controlling and using via a remote controlled object, and Pantora looked at them both while getting into a stance that in martial arts, represents to that of a cat, and stayed where he was. Bulla rolled her orbs in irritation, however, as Maria decided to take off instead of possibly aid her, and making the strange male chuckle while shrugging and resumed his stance as she got into her own.
It was pure silence before Pantora decided to be the first one as Bulla quickly dodged as the large blast of dark-purplish energy blasted through a few buildings before going after her as she in turn, sent stray energy blasts back at him; which Pantora easily swiped away and those blasts hit random objects to cause small explosions to occur.
They then began to block punches and kicking each other all over the area, even in the air as their aura's grew denser while doing so, and even dodging his weapon he has as well as it oddly followed and floated with him in the same energy.
Bulla managed to narrowly dodge the cat-man's end of the tail he had before gasping, in shock, as she was punched, hard, on her abdominal area, before getting quickly blasted by him and into a few buildings, and some of them being old, collapsed easily as he charged at her.
Pantora then channeled his energy into his right hand with the aid of his weapon as a dark purple mass of ball-like energy was formed, and he charged right at her while shoving the powerful Ki-Ball right into her gut alongside sending her even further away while, for once, actually screaming in pain as it felt like not only it was burning her, it was also harming her from the inside out, and before she could get up, she was suddenly grabbed by her neck by the cat-like male, and easily picked up before being shoved while making a dent on a random brick wall of a building as he also chuckled at her darkly while his weapon floated aimlessly nearby him.
Bulla though, made him temporary wheeze in place before he was blasted away from her, quickly, when she kicked him in the manly jewels, and charged right at him while sending her own large ball of Ki at his location; which exploded and caused him some damage, before she vanished, and appeared while grabbing his tail, swung him around three times oddly enough like Mario done in Super Mario 64 Game, and he went flying into a few buildings upwards before she vanished and then appeared while sending him down a four story building while collapsing it instantly by her powerful attack… Pantora though, once he crashed, had other plans.
When she was charging, he opened his maw as a violet beam came from it as his weapon went into his bodily from to empower him, and sending her skyward while not only blinded, briefly, but scorching some parts of her clothing until she gasped as he was instantly there, and punched her hard right once again in the gut, and then swirled quickly around as he kicked her downwards before he began his assault of punching and kicking her rapidly along with her crying out in pain before she felt suddenly weak while he smirked, and then tossed her away right downwards into the nearby street while at the same time, making a dome-like crater as she laid sprawled open as her arms and legs were laid out while panting weakly as she also had blood on her arms, legs, and even some parts of her face. She also had torn clothing to reveal some parts of her chest, and grunted in pain while trying to get up, but realized in slow-growing horror, she couldn't.
She quickly cried out in a small whimper of pain once he landed on top of her, and then moved to her right while chuckling lowly, and gave her an amused look while she only glared back at him along with her body returning to normal, "You were a fool to challenge one of the thirteen Shadow Fighters in the first place, as I am only ranked number ten, and the others are far more powerful than you can imagine… I delight in the irony of facing this realm's version of you as I get to watch as I kill you one, last, time, before I have to go find the child and finish my tasks."
Bulla went wide-eyed at his words before she held in a scream as he picked her up once again by her neck, and tears falling down her face after seeing he was going to carry out his weird threat by making with his free hand into a violet-like energy dagger of sorts, just like a large cat clawed hand, before he was suddenly blasted from behind by teal colored energy, and he turned with a frown to see it was both Android 21, and a young man Bulla was shocked to see at all alive.
He was a slim yet well-built young man of below average height and had light skin-color as his facial features and skin-tone are inherited from his father. He also has blue eyes, and hair colored either lavender, purple or blue and depending on the way the light hits it, and that is soft and straight that parts from the top of his head to frame both sides of his face reaching his ears with two loose strands over his forehead as his traits he inherited, truly, from his mother. He wore a periwinkle-colored jacket that reaches his waist with the 'Capsule Corporation' logo on the left sleeve, with a long red scarf around his neck, dark gray pants, and pale-green boots with black tips. Underneath his jacket, the young man in his early twenties wore an olive green colored shirt with patches on the shoulders and forearms; reminiscent of British Military Standard issue jumpers.
"Hmph, I see that you're somewhat alive still... Pity that you managed to escape," Pantora states to make the man narrow his orbs as he powered up to Super Saiyan, and Pantora dropped Bulla without much of a choice as he was now fighting against the young man in random locations while in the air, and through buildings along the while, Maylene went over and checked Bulla over while stating to her, "You should of never challenged that Warrior, as he was the one to kill you off in our timeline."
That briefly stunned her as she was still surprised that Maylene was alive as from the opposite of her words, she was killed within her own, and Maylene had soft eyes briefly by Bulla's weak words as she inwardly wince how weak she sounded right now yet knew this pain and everything would be a big boost for her Genes, "Good to see you again… May," Android 21 only nodded while guessing by the way she looked at her, something bad occurred for this version of her friend, and by Zerina's Bond or what she guessed, Soul-Sister, and helped her up while passing a Senzu Bean she brought with her thanks to Vados fetching her and the young man from his current task for at least a few years from what occurred, as a Newly Employed Time Patroller.
"The feeling is mutual… But where is Zerina?" Maylene asked to get Bulla be puzzled for a few moments before her eyes suddenly realized whom she meant, "You mean the cat child? She was taken to safety by an odd teen girl a while ago, why?" Before Maylene could respond, they moved as an energy beam nearly struck them down, and they both glared at seeing (to their slight surprise), a laughing entity that was supposed to be dead, but they had a dark-like aura around his frame.
It was Cell, somehow, and they saw an odd insignia that has been told Dark Broly had on his forehead, and was on his, and sent out Death Beam after Death Beam at them along with Maylene knowing Bulla was weak, took off as Cell or whatever version this Cell was, chased after them.
With Zerina this entire time, she was partially awake yet felt oddly safe within Ruby's hold as the teen was gently comforting her while hiding within a Recreational Stadium within the city itself, and heard Zerina whimper again.
Ruby knew that her bond with Zerina was pouring memory after precious memory into the child. Though not known to Ruby herself, the bond was forcing the child's soul to break free of the curse placed upon it to be reincarnated as Zerina, and after nearly a long while, it broken to give little Zerina all of Weiss' Memories of their own world, and then some, to make her still be Zerina, but a few streaks of pure white was then formed on the right side of her hair.
Though Ruby stiffened before she hugged Zerina then as she hesitantly asked after blinking a few times, her old nickname that ended up as such to Weiss back then to her, "Red? What happened to you?" Zerina blinked while recalling who she, in both last and current mixed, was, yet sighed to herself to then amuse Ruby while also holding back tears of joy at the child recalling her, "That Gypsy Lady was right, I ended up as a cat girl… Don't tell Blake wherever she is, it was right about karma."
"It's a long story, but things happened and everything went wrong… But from what I see, your's ended up better than I did," Ruby told her gently to make Zerina look at Ruby and see she held longing while holding her (to then get a dark feeling in her gut) and before she could reply, Ruby moved her quickly while Zerina/Weiss inwardly groaned at feeling helpless at this time, and recalled what she was currently training in yet was somewhat mixed about her new life, but decided to go with the flow- "Yes, and we will eventually meet, Reborn Child, as since you hear me, you will be able to see soon." That Same Female voice stated to her while Zerina as she decided since she was reborn by the catchy name, she would stick with it and maybe her original as a nickname, See what? But she had gotten no response.
Though the reason why Ruby moved while narrowing her eyes (with mixed shock) just like Zerina, was the creature they thought wasn't supposed to be here at all… Mostly the race as such as they moved in time, since it stood while supposedly staring at them.
It was something they fought before: Twilight Thorn. It was a gargantuan Nobody (The Race, as they fought Heartless and Grimm before) that seems to be clad in a white bodysuit, as evidenced by the large, silver zipper lining its front. It's simple, round head's only feature is a white Nobody logo on its front where the creature's face would be. It has rather thick, short legs with spikes on its hips and long, pointed feet. Its waist is quite thin and has dark grey sides. Its shoulders each sport a gigantic, diamond-shaped spike and its arms are very long, and reach the floor when fully extended down. The Nobody only seems to have one distinct digit on each of its hands, the thumb. They also seem to have high-heels on their ankles. It also has four long, blue tentacles with tips resembling the spikes on the Nobody sigil that wrap around its neck. Its overall body shape seems to be meant to resemble the Nobody Symbol.
Ruby dodged a sudden swift slamming of its fist at her location, and Zerina inwardly groaned to which Ruby was smug at knowing how young her Soulmate and reborn lover was, at being a child while she handles things as Ruby blinked since her limbs (black tentacles) she has went quickly at the end and it began to dodge somehow while Zerina glanced at Ruby a few times before glancing at her body, and wondered what had happened to her before they began running away from Ruby somehow cutting its end-part of its wave-like scarf the Nobody has, and it was angered mostly at her.
When it was very close to striking Ruby and Zerina down, it roared in utter, surprised pain, as it was struck by a yellow blast from Bulla within the air since both her and Android 21 were showing, to be having a sudden agreement, by them both attacking (in-sync with each other) with some energy blasts.
Though the attacks did damage, they were stunned as it began to regenerate the missing chunks it had while from it's cross-like part of its face (the Nobody Symbol), it began to glow before quickly sending a large beam that the two thankfully dodged, at them, and Zerina shivered as the beam itself felt negative, before they stilled, and both females (Ruby and Zerina) turned to see Cell holding his hand out while exclaiming with a smirk to them while his palm glowed an eerie purple color, "Take this fools! If I can't do as I planned, then I can take out the true threat!"
Before Cell could send it at them, the attack was somehow sucked right into The Nobody before he was suddenly blasted from behind by Bulla as the two glared at each other, and Cell gave Zerina a firm look before taking off into a vortex that suddenly appeared within the air, and once it closed up, Zerina yelped as she was tossed and handed to Bulla as Ruby dodged a claw strike.
Despite having her old life's memories back, Zerina cried out for her in sudden fear as Ruby was suddenly side-swiped right into a few buildings alongside Android 21, and Bulla held gently yet firmly against the child's form as the Half-Saiyan knew what she was going through, and The Nobody oddly shook as if it were laughing before a dark-like aura covered its frame, and odd sigils began to appear on it's arms before doing a x-like motion quickly, and moved away while in the air with its arms, and Bulla and the others dodged the sudden, orb-like attack that left several x-like crevessess into the ground and destroyed a few buildings.
"This thing isn't going easy on us!" Ruby told the other two elder females as Bulla passed Zerina to Maylene (Android 21), as The Nobody began to not only swipe them with energized limbs of darkness, but it's scarf it was wearing was also trying to capture them as well.
The Nobody looked ticked off as they had been warily dodging and passing Zerina over to each other (between Ruby, Maylene, and Bulla) for the past half-hour as it suddenly vanished, and reappeared high into the air as it quickly began to lift both hands up, to confuse them all, before dread filled them at the very huge, half-stadium sized void-like energy ball it made.
It then sent the orb right at the girls to make them wary as Maylene and Bulla sent a combined energy attack at it while inky slowly it down, before they sweatdropped while looking at Zerina as she sneezed. Her sneeze this time sent a golden blast of energy right at it and into the orb itself, and if the entity had eyes, they would have been wide as saucers before it was easily obliterated as the darkness from its body was then misting away.
Bulla and Maylene powered down yet before they could finally ask who Ruby was or anything, they stiffened at seeing a black cloaked person standing a few yards away that also held white and silver markings on them, and stood easily at six feet in height while telling them in a deep, dark voice while gazing at the area, "This world is lost… Impurity has successfully taken root within the core of this world and soon, this world will be eradicated by the darkness itself."
Maylene, Bulla, and both Ruby and Zerina were merely frozen as they could sense whoever this person was, was beyond their abilities to face and yet, they sensed whoever it was… was merely not at all here. Like whoever this person was, was merely energy of sorts appearing right before them.
As if sensing their unease, the person let out a humorless chuckle before gazing mostly at Zerina's form, and stated to them still in that voice, and they saw some cracks as indeed black-like mist of sorts was coming from the ground, "In mere hours this world would be taken by the impurities that afflicted this world's own devastation… It's own unfortunate outcome from years of darkness slowly spreading to the core of this world… As you can see, no matter what type of world it is, impure darkness can take the Heart of the World very easily if the seals are destroyed to prevent that… And that is something that I have done yet altered to suit my own world long, long ago while sealed away."
The area was shaking as a vortex suddenly appeared right behind them and sucked the girls into it, and he stated lastly to them with glowing, crimson eyes under that hood to mostly Zerina, "You are not ready or at all prepared for me… Though my followers will test you, Chosen Child, know that I will be waiting… Watching… And knowing you could have prevented this outcome while here is priceless… Farwell."
Capsule Corp., at this point and time:
Bulma sighed while hearing that a few hours ago, that Zerina ended up within the now collapsed Temple within Universe Six on the Saiyan Homeworld, there, and found out she was sent to an alternative world of sorts, somehow, and sent Maylene and a few others to that world to locate her.
She didn't expect new people to arrive via odd portals into her courtyard, earlier, while also tending to them and sighed while drinking her coffee to settle her nerves as she did wish she knew the child was alright, as two things would occur if it wasn't: Her Uncle's Wrath, and possibly their world ending up doomed.
Trunks showed up as well, but he looked angered about himself over something as he appeared out of a purplish vortex before glancing at her with a small smile before heading to The Lookout to train and heal better as he was beaten pretty up badly, and told her to tell his lover he would be there a few days.
Bulma at this moment, jumped quickly as a vortex appeared right within her large lab as Zerina and Co. arrived while falling on top of each other (with Ruby and Zerina on top).
Bulma was told then that they were indeed on a world that was oddly doomed from the start, somehow, and things were explained to her about Zerina from Ruby, and from the others.
It was a few hours later after that Zerina woke up in a guest room within Capsule Corp., and recalled things while oddly feeling weak once again and thought to herself that she may have gotten her energy nearly spent from her accidental, energy-like sneeze she did, but sighed as it looked to be close to sunset outside the window and she felt that Ruby was sleeping somewhere, and with her learning Ki Sensing easier than others, felt the others were alright.
Zerina then hugged herself while holding back a wince on the plain colored bed, and thought to herself and not knowing to her thoughtful wish, the Wishing Gem she entirely forgotten about glowed while hearing her heart's desire within her outfit, With everything that's been going on with my new life… I feel like I need advice and everything just like Winter used to give me back on Remnant… I do wish I had someone to call Big Sister officially, once again. Maybe help me as well as despite Vegeta and the other's training, I barely managed to get anything entirely done with only little success.
Zerina was confused while getting the wishing Gem out and blinked as it was glowing somewhat, and further out in the wildlife, a golden vortex glowed as the child did indeed get her wish, but it was also altered to bring forth others that were on doomed worlds as well, randomly, all around the globe.
Within the forested area near a cave, a young woman shakily stood up while seeing her injuries and even her outfit was being fixed up while confused at the area she appeared at.
She wore a short-sleeved navy-blue coat with Capsule Corp. on the right breast pocket over her sleeveless white tube top, also exposing her midriff and cleavage, decently, and tight yet stretchy lowrider blue denim jeans (that exposes a bit of her hips). She also has white armbands on her forearms with one containing the kanji for her family, and the other containing her teacher's names in black stitching. She also wore fingerless black biker gloves along with on her left wrist, a golden bracelet accessory as a gift; with it having small blue diamonds in perfect cut-like shape all around it. Lastly she wore a black leather belt with golden studs on it with the belt buckle having a diamond look in design. The young adolescent woman also has white shortcut wild styled hair with light-blue/cyan infused eyes, and her face resembles closely to Android 18, and she has a muscular yet top-slender frame with her chest being a DD-Cup, and also being at least 6'1 in height while appearing to be at least a seventeen-year-old.
This was Yuuko Maebara (#; WembleyAraujo), and she was now frustrated as she knew she defeated that entity that was after her friends, yet knew, somehow, her sacrifice was in vain since she lived while knowing that somehow, she was somewhere different as this forest (she recalled), was supposed to be destroyed from being the battle area she fought that odd creature.
Sighing as she was at least thankful she had her Capsules, Yuuko glanced at the cave nearby and was going to set camp and then look for perhaps Bulma and see if she could possibly help her, yet froze as a cloaked man came out of it while glancing at her as if he was expecting her as his cloak looked to be slightly moving as if it was the waves of the ocean, and stated to her gently then while at the same time she became guarded, "It took you long enough to arrive, Yuuko. I can relive you as to why you are at the same site as to where you're supposedly fought within."
"Who are you, and how in the seven dragons do you know my name?" Yuuko states firmly to him while in a stance, and she nearly falters by his unexpected chuckle at her before stating in reply, "You will be seeing me quite often, and due time, you will know as to how I know you, Child."
The man paused before he gave his name to her while indeed revealing it was him, "I am known as Aeroza. I had an odd feeling that after your success within your own dimension, you ended up alive and well here in this one. I do believe you owe that debt to a child to where you intend to head to, tomorrow, and just so you know this is indeed another universe as to know most of those you know, don't at all exist here… Especially you."
Yuuko went wide-eyed at that while hearing the man's tone to know he was being honest with her and yet after noticing things about herself at this point and inwardly shocking her, Why do I feel weak?
It would seem she would get her answer as she quickly turned to the man in shock from somehow hearing her thoughts by his next set of words, and hid a slight scowl at the end to know she has to go through that all over again, "You were given another chance, so it would seem like that it was only obvious to retrain all over again to gain that power you lost… But I have a feeling you will gain it more quickly yet halve the time period for your power, once again."
Aeroza then came over to confuse her as he gently patted her left shoulder while handing her a small, enclosed box while widening her orbs right at him for, and secretly stunning her as well once again, "I have unfortunate news for you though: You have stopped aging and would return to aging if you were either de-aged as a child, somehow, or if or when the child that wished you in this world, is your current age and to that, you will age slowly to that of a High Elf… Which I knew you studied about the lore of mystical beings in secret." Maybe more of what I foreseen comes to pass, for the Better Future. Aeroza mentally added to himself.
"How will-" Yuuko began as her confidence in herself slipped by what he just told her, and he paused her words while then explaining briefly instead of at all relieving her, "You indeed died back in your world to the point you cannot at all return to it, otherwise, you will be dead within a days time… Which I know who had a hand in your return. However, I highly suggest you use the current time you have to settle your mind and then proceed as planned to Capsule Corp. as I sensed or should I perhaps say, I foreseen the child ending up contracting a virus that you currently have a cure for within your own blood."
Yuuko slumped slightly at knowing what virus it was as she gained it a year ago and was thankfully no longer able to get it, yet she also wondered if the same virus was still within Vegeta and the other's Saiyan Genes, and Aeroza sensing her thoughts once again, somewhat relieved her, "This virus was sucked from them by the child somehow without her knowing, during a tournament they all were located and yet from her past abuse that she suffered, she secretly has a low immune system and would need a blood donation of sorts from someone close to her, mixed with yours, to prevent her ending up paralyzed or worse, eventually."
Yuuko looked at her hands as she recalled how her friend and rival nearly lost her life to the virus itself before she aided her in making the cure, alongside Bulma's help, as the virus was sprung to them all within a week after all their adventures from a stray, mutated-like robot from Gero's destroyed lab, long ago, and merely activated the virus without warning within them (after its defeat as the virus itself was airborne from Trunks blowing it up, back then, from a large container in the labs).
Yuuko then looked at the man as it seemed he was expecting an answer or something from her, and she sighed while nodding as it seemed she made the right choice. He only smiled warmly at her, then, "Good. I wanted to let you know that she wished for you as something particular she would state by instinct alone, as you do resemble her in the child's past life, and merely wanted you to know it wasn't just you that arrived as I may have altered her wish to bring others from other realms as well, to this one, to save them… But it seems they were placed randomly from a few months, to within years apart, or even sooner."
Yuuko narrowed her orbs at him then as Aeroza merely crossed his arms and from the vibe he also gave off, expected her question then as Yuuko crossed her own with a raised eyebrow, "Who is she anyways, as you have yet to state her name to me?"
She sighed then as Aeroza only smirked before vanishing, and leaving her some equipment to settle for the night, "Merely head to Capsule Corp. the next day or any parts of West City while sensing distress, and you will find out for yourself."
The Next Day, within the Room that Zerina was in:
Zerina was currently sleeping upside down on the bed she was placed into last night, and Bulma was currently in the room as she gently sighed, and saw that in the spare chair nearby was the girl… Ruby Rose as she was called, and Bulla (which shocked Bulma knowing she was an alternative daughter of hers and a man she refused to explain), was currently training alongside both Goku and Vegeta in Super Saiyan. Maylene was also somewhere for the moment as she was with Zerina, but took off for unknown reasons.
Bulma, though was also glad for the other unfortunate guests thanks to whatever Zerina or whoever had done from what she was told by Whis (since he showed up to check up on her), lost their universal-like world.
The others were currently busy doing some shopping or whatever while Whis and Beerus for once (oddly enough), was watching Looney Tunes within her main living room.
It was then Bulma accidentally woke up Ruby while she blinked a few times before realizing it was just her, before looking at Zerina with a reminiscent look as if she expected this, and only shook her head gently while asking her with a small yawn that showed her sharp teeth to which only half-unsettled Bulma yet was already accustomed to the abnormal, by now, "What time is it?"
"It's around 9:32AM," Bulma replies as Ruby nodded at her while still tired, and was stretching in place before looking at Zerina, and deadpanned as Zerina slept on when Bulma tried waking her and turned to Ruby while seeing her chuckling at her attempt, and told her to puzzle Bulma, "You won't wake her up like that as knowing her, she needs something to motivate herself to do so like I do sometimes…" Ruby trailed off with a look while recalling the good days, and wondered how Blake, her Half-Sister: Yang, and the others were after getting sent to different locations, but shook her head when Bulma asked her curiously with her seeing suspicion in her orbs, "What will wake her then?"
Ruby paused before asking Bulma a hinted question, "What's her favorite food she likes to eat that she had recently, and would crave?"
Bulma understood, and went to Zerina's left ear and stated the words, pudding, to nearly get knocked down as Ruby laughed when the child almost knocked her over and saw her blink in confusion before giving Ruby a playful glare as the latter started laughing while Zerina merely looked like her hair was crazed from her sleeping, and stated accusingly, "You tricked me again by telling Bulma, didn't you Red?"
Bulma now was truly suspicious of what was going on as Ruby nodded while grinning slightly, "Yep, and as always, it's funny." They then turned to Bulma as she decided enough was enough, and asked them both in a suspicious tone of voice, "Alright you two, what is going on, and how does Zerina know you instantly?"
Ruby looked at Zerina as she gave her a look to which she only replied back with a wordless look of 'Your on your own', and Zerina sighed while they began explaining things in parts to Bulma and nearly thirty or so minutes later, the Capsule Corp. Heiress and Owner, blinked in slight surprise yet this doesn't surprise her anymore. Zerina or the point, Weiss Schnee, being reincarnated into this life would seem odd to her, especially since she regained her memories back, and oddly enough, an heiress to her own right as well from her previous life, Bulma briefly thought to herself.
Bulma though curiously asked them after a few minutes of thinking, and Ruby sighed and knew this was coming, "So how did you two end up as is then? I mean, Zerina being reborn as she is and you, uh… Well," Ruby nodded and sighed once again to worry Zerina over before looking at her in shock, "Well things were complicated beforehand, and sucked into a voided space while we encountered an odd enemy that wasn't Grimm at all, and he oddly also looked like that one man we briefly encountered."
That made Bulma blink before understanding went to her orbs, mixed with her scientific mind and wonder being secretly thrilled about the knowledge and existence of other alternative worlds then she knew may exist, "But tell me though… If you all did what you did, how did you two wind up as you are now?"
Ruby looked at Zerina and she looked deflated a bit yet gave her a single, curt nod while somewhat amusing Ruby as she had to go to the bathroom and decided to leave her to explain things, and explain things she did.
(Flashback; In an Unknown Location as Time is Meaningless here)
Team RWBY was confused as they were facing off against the enemy they never encountered before as they were also teamed up with Cinder and her group, alongside Salem (as in this verse Zerina was originally from, the woman was redeemed), as everyone they knew was sent away to who knows where by this armored foe that oddly resembled a demonic dragonic knight, and glowing red eyes.
Ruby was herself alongside Weiss (or Zerina's old body in this case as both Ruby and her had the same height distance), alongside Blake and Yang. The man sent the others away into a vortex as it was just them, and the last thing they recalled from aiding Weiss on a powerful spell, was sending him packing before they whited out, and ended up within this odd, void-like yet barren wasteland with endless night.
Zerina or otherwise known as Weiss Schnee back then, appeared as a young girl (despite her age being the same as Ruby, around seventeen) and dressed primarily in light blue, white, and some red. She wears a pale blue bolero jacket over a similarly colored thigh-length dress with a piece of black lace making up the neckline of the dress. The inside of the bolero is red and the sleeves turn blue as they get closer to her wrists. The bolero has the Schnee crest on the back that bears a resemblance to a snowflake. She also wears an apple-shaped necklace along with a pair of thin, rectangular earrings. She wears white, heeled wedge boots that go to mid-calf also lined with red on the inside, and a small tiara that resembles icicles. Her long hair is white and pulled back in an off-center ponytail. She has a pale complexion and ice-blue eyes. She also bears a crooked scar down her left eye.
Blake Belladonna, was a Cat Faunus, and was a teen around nineteen while having a light olive complexion similar to Ruby Rose and Weiss Schnee, 5'6 in height, and has long, wavy black hair, and her eyes are amber, complemented by light-purple eyeshadow flaring backwards. Her eyes are slightly tilted upwards at the ends, giving her a somewhat cat-like appearance. Blake also wears a black ribbon tied in the form of a bow (which she almost never takes off, even when she goes to sleep). The bow (secretly) is a cover for her Faunus Heritage, a pair of black cat ears. She wears black low-heeled boots and stockings that start off black at her hips, but gradually fade to purple as they near her shoes. On the outside of her stockings, there are white symbols that are most likely belladonna flowers. She wears black ribbons on both of her arms, with a black detached sleeve and a silver band on her left arm. Blake also wears a black buttoned vest with coattails, and a white, sleeveless undershirt that exposes part of her midriff with white shorts that may be connected to her shirt, although it is partly obscured by the vest. Her shorts have a zipper on the front of each leg, but it is unknown if these zippers serve a purpose or are simply decorative. She also wears a detached scarf-like collar around her neck.
Lastly Yang Xiao Long, was the elder of the group while being nineteen years old, and the biggest bust of the group, around a large D-Cup as both Weiss and Ruby have B's, and Blake a Basic C, and she was also a fair-skinned young woman with lilac eyes and bright golden hair worn loose that fades to pale gold at the tips with a cowlick sticking out at the top (greatly resembling her mother, Raven Branwen) and was around 5'8 in height. She wore khaki coveralls to which the gold zipper is unzipped just below the breast to reveal a white low-cut shirt. Around each thigh of the coveralls, however, is a gold zipper that allows for the pants leg to be detached, as well as a belted strap that connects to the leg. The right leg is unzipped but still strapped to the coveralls. Over top the coveralls, she also wore a baggy, black crop jacket with fur trim around the neck and black-and-orange straps along the sleeves. Around her waist is a black-and-orange belt with black-and-yellow folded fabric on the sides and a golden buckle of her emblem. She also wears tall black boots with black laces. Around her left thigh is a wide black belt with a pouch attached. For accessories, she has resumed wearing her orange scarf around her neck and her purple scarf around her right leg. Her robotic arm she has was also exposed as it was black and bright yellow with some torn bandaging while seeing a "Bumblebee" insignia on it.
"Ok, where the hell are we now?" Yang states in complaint for once to her half-sister as Ruby sheepishly shrugged while Weiss held the bridge of her nose, and Blake, they all took notice, was on edge. They felt the same yet were slowly horrified to realize something: Their weapons were missing. "Ok, who took my baby!" Ruby then quickly exclaimed to get all three to drop as they knew she personally made her weapon like they did for themselves, but they didn't sleep with it, sometimes.
"That's what you're worried about more than me?" Weiss decided to state in a way to amuse both Yang and Blake as this froze Ruby up, and she quickly began to apologize to her Soulmate/Lover in terms as it was rare within Remnant to truly have those with the use of Dust or even Aura, to have that, and Weiss then shut her up while kissing her directly on the lips to easily distract her before Ruby instantly responded back, deeply, before a few seconds later, Weiss pulled away while stating to her gently, "Better?"
Ruby only nodded before they all froze at hearing a sweet, mature, yet dark voice state within the surrounding area in a slight echo of sorts, and seemed powerful, "It seems that you have come at last… Though I didn't expect the welcome of others into the very domain I added to my own."
Blake tried to hide how she felt while letting out a low growl as Yang comforted her friend as they were all on edge while sticking together, and weaponless, knowing they had no chance to defend themselves over anything.
Weiss, although decided to be brave and shouted loudly to however was stalking them within the darkness and mists of this barren wasteland, and surprised her team at how brave she was while hearing only hunmored chuckles from the entity, after, "Show yourself you coward!" They didn't expect them to be blasted onto their behinds by the voice gently scolding Weiss as if she was either swearing, or was showing bad manners, "Temper, temper. I wouldn't want my Future Champion as agreed by the mother and father, to be careless in her own actions."
Weiss tensed up at this while Ruby comforted her yet they all felt they were being watched as Yang being the eldest, narrowed her orbs and lived up to her reputation as "The Dragon" when she growled out with red eyes, briefly, "Tell us face-to-face, whoever you are as your scaring my family!"
They were back to back then with each other as they quickly heard dark, melodious laughter that filled the area they were at as fake wind of sorts blew briefly to kick up some of the bone-white sand, "So you are thinking about you, and your Team, as Kinship to one another? This is rather amusing to know by observing and secretly aiding mostly those involved with my Future Champion's life."
Despite feeling sudden dread in the pit of her stomach, she felt like she had to defend her lover and sisters/teammates and once again surprised her team by her words while also feeling the air grew a little dense with each word she spoke. It was as if, the more she spoke, the more the air felt like waterless-based water of sorts, "I'm not anyone's champion at all! Show yourself!"
They heard the same laugh echo within the area, yet it was aimed right at Weiss in hints of amusement as the voice then stated while they also felt some kind of energy of sorts before making them close their orbs as a sudden, dark-like flash of sorts nearly blinded them before gapping at the figure before them as she stated mostly to Wiess, normally, "Ask and you shall receive, Child."
She looked like some kind of dragon girl, standing around six-foot-three with bone-white skin marked with dark red tribal lines on her arms and legs. She also wore gothic medieval armor in shades of pitch-black and ebony that exposed her midriff, cleavage, arms and legs. She had a toned, hour-glass figure (with her chest being a large DD-Cup to be top-hourglass), and a delicate ovaled face. Her wide, angular eyes have neon green sclera with crimson red irises, and black slits for pupils. Pointed ears and rigid ivory horns peeked out of her black as night, curly hair, and the horns curving back over her head. Lastly, she has a tail that was bone-white (like her skin), but spiked with rose-like thorns towards the tip.
They were wary by seeing this person appear rather suddenly before they hid equally shared thoughts as she waved her left hand upwards before seeing four seats raised up from nothing, and found themselves forcibly sitting down and unable to move while looking at her.
The woman then headed over to Weiss and Ruby held back words as the stranger caressed Weiss' face, gently, to which she moved away and Ruby was the only one to see a small glint in the woman's eyes at this before she hesitated a few seconds before standing in front of her, and made Weiss look at her as she mostly eyed Ruby and the others before lastly directly her gaze at the Schnee Heiress, "You are my Champion as I helped you live by the very deal your Mother made with me before realizing that she was the terms of your salvation, Weiss Marigold Schnee." Weiss gave her a look of shock before glowering as her team despite the situation, saw them mouthed, Marigold, to themselves in utter disbelief.
The woman merely decided to continue her words at this point as she moved away, and illusions of the past shown she was telling the truth while, at the same time, was explaining to them, and Weiss indeed looked just like her mother except she had violet colored eyes, "Back then before your birth, an Illness caused by one I thought was my kin… Betrayed the Gods I personally knew within worlds similar to Remnant by the very names of Avalon, and Eracos. They are to what Mortals dubbed as their own Earthly Realms… There is also one other I have little control over as that world itself has its own feminine soul, known widely as Azeroth, and besides mentioned is in relation."
The woman then dismissed the image and made drawings of herself and to what they guessed was Weiss Parents, while seeing a child-like Winter, "You were within your sickly mother at the point as she was somehow immune, like so few others of the Cursed Illness he placed to try and get rid of those that would birth the one to face him… The very man you defeated yet at a price as well," Weiss and Co. went wide-eyed at that before feeling something was off with the woman's words, and she only continued as the sketches shifted to see her within a cloak of sorts. "I was given a tip of who my Champion and also My Mistress from my own Mother as she rules over Avalon as I am a Co-Ruler, would be born from as a prophetic telling was told of one who will be born of white hair to stop a puppet of him, but there would be a consequence of an aftermath between those that said child knew: Either Kin, Ally, or Foe."
The woman paused before turning to them all as she knew, like they did, they couldn't move if they even wanted to as she was preventing them from doing so, and the next image was showing herself while cloaked still, and Weiss' mother and father discussing warily with her, "I convinced before the involvement of other types of gods could to save your life and in exchange, you will be My Champion as they did not know who or why I showed and offered them this deal, but they would take anything from back then at that point, and shook my hand as the deal was made… Though your mother was indeed a kind and gentle soul, and due to her agreement of the deal, I personally saw to it that when she passed on she would be personally escorted without issues to My Palace I owned as My Head Manager, and also a Peacekeeper to others that have stuck in limbo and were my… Unfortunate Guests by declaration of one man I truly trust."
Weiss and the three other girls were confused by what she meant before they looked at Weiss, or glanced as they couldn't move their heads, by the last bit of words the woman stated as she introduced herself fully to her while making Ruby angry as she kissed Weiss lovingly on her lips and making her go wide-eyed at that.
Though it didn't help that the woman was amused by Ruby's glare at her for doing so.
"Besides that, I am truly sorry as I have not introduced myself… I am known as The Draconic Angel of Death for the Worlds of Remnant, Avalon by Partial Agreement, and Eracos, and partially one of the few for Azeroth. I am one of few Allies to the Ancient One, and Among other Gods or Goddesses of Either Side, and daughter to Lady Death and One Other I truly do not know. I am known as Your Master as well as to you under Mine, and My Mistress. I am known as merely the name of Thana." The woman, Thana, states to them and getting the three girls see that Weiss was mixed at the Death Angel's words at her, then, "And I believe it is time we make you My Champion as an official duty amongst both of us, as we have witnesses from those you consider as Your Lover, and two sisters without blood."
Wary of that, they felt they could move again and they quickly got up while being once again close to each other as Weiss decided to firmly ask while seeing Thana hid a frown by her words as Ruby, secretly, felt that something bad was going to happen, "What does this term, Champion, mean to both of us or more importantly, you?"
"The term as Champion would be the one who conquers death and life to the fullest, as you have achieved by defeating the foe from Remnant and earned my own respect, Lady Weiss," Thana began as she began to slowly circle them with her arms behind her while avoiding her wings as she looked directly at the Schnee Heiress mainly then the others as she spoke, and was by their minds circling them like prey, "We will be equals amongst ourselves as we will be doing a partnership of course… Although," she stopped near Weiss as she raised a hand up in afterthought, "There are limitations to our pact as myself being the Entity of Death within four realms and a daughter to one of higher Deaths, I would require patients and foreknowledge of any battle or outcome I am summoned, and in doing so, others will seek you out as I have. I cannot always be there to aid you at times when I am doing my tasks assigned to thyself. But I will tend to lend you my power, whether or not you accept my Deal."
Seeing Weiss' thinking for a few moments, she then warily asked the Angel of Death to make her tense up, and the three girls, unlike Weiss did, saw her eyes glint at her question as if she was surprised, "From the way you sounded it… I won't be able to see my loved ones or anyone else ever again while also gaining more power than I can handle. What would happen if I don't choose this path I'm supposedly supposed to follow?"
"That would be unwise to even ask, but to be honest as I cannot lie, you will no longer see them or those even before us. Indeed life and death are equal alongside enemies, but you are dead while these three are alive." Thana points to the rest of Team RWBY as Weiss was stunned at this alongside them before Thana turned to Ruby as she hugged her lover and didn't see a hint of jealousy within the Angel's orbs, "What the hell do you mean that Weiss is dead? She's alive as we speak?!"
The others wordlessly agreed while they too felt what Ruby was feeling of sorts that something bad was going to occur as they then heard Thana let out a small, sadly amused laugh briefly at Ruby's outbursting question and then Weiss paled like they did by her words, "I may have saved you and those you know from what occurred within your dimensional outcome of your version of Remnant, but I could not stop The Chosen's outcome she had to perform in order to finally meet thyself, face to face, in Mortal terms. I sent the others away in safety as he succeeded in letting Impurity affect your world. I have saved your soul and body currently, Lady Weiss, but it is a limited time span as we can name the terms of what our deal entails to one another."
Seeing Weiss' look shifted to stubbornness, Ruby felt even more dread as the Schnee Heiress firmly stated to the Angel as they saw her gently frown at her then, "No. I won't accept your offer as I may have died, but I would rather die peacefully than some Angel's Servant."
"How… Unexpected of your outcome of an answer," Thana began while they saw her orbs glow in sudden power as she then quickly sent the three girls onto the ground while realizing they couldn't move once again and saw Weiss hold back a scream as she was lifted into the air, and was held in place by Thana while she firmly told her in both a gentle and disappointing tone, "I felt you would agree as life within your Realm was both a blessing and a curse to yourself, Lady Weiss."
Seeing her Team struggle with looks of fear aimed at her while gulping by not liking the look within Thana's orbs before it shifted to sudden surprise of sorts as if she received a message by some odd way as she tilted her head sideways while glancing upwards before looking back at her then.
Thana then lowered Weiss, but the heiress found herself unable to move while standing, "It seems I may have to place a… Temporary solution for ourselves, and possibly give you a chance for testing the waters of what is to come between us."
Weiss and the others saw Thana's hands now glowing with mixed energy (which, to everyone, the same auras that Zerina has in past chapters), and shoved it directly to Weiss' Heart as the Schnee Heiress began to struggle while screaming in place, and Ruby, Yang, and even Blake was either telling the Angel to stop or leave her alone.
Once it was fully into her, Weiss felt truly weak while seeing Thana take a few steps back while gazing at her sadly, "I truly did not want to at all give you parts of my own power as a test run, to what you Mortals claim to speak… But things have now become complicated as things I cannot say, must be done."
Weiss was confused about what the Angel meant as she was growing weaker and weaker by the second before the Angel kissed her forehead before vanishing, and the others were then able to move as Weiss fell down onto the odd ground the place had.
Ruby quickly came over and held Weiss as quickly to horrify them they saw that from her feet, she was slowly withering away into dust as Weiss, for once in a rare time, began to cry in sudden understanding while gazing at Ruby as she felt her vision was becoming dull every few seconds or so.
"No… Please don't leave me, My Ice," Ruby states as Weiss only gently cupped Ruby's right cheek while Ruby herself proceeded to cry as they didn't see Blake was comforting Yang since she was upset and also sad on this unexpected outcome while understanding as her teammates did, their actions may have saved those they know… But at what cost.
"Red… I-I don't feel so good, I truly… Truly don't want to leave you either," Weiss weakly states as whatever was occurring was traveling up to her waist and still going, and Ruby hugged Weiss while ignoring the dust from her entire being was being lifted upwards as a glowing bright vortex of light was being shown above them, "We can figure this out. Just hang on Weiss, please…" Ruby begged while seeing that what was left of her lover was up to her chest and her right arm was beginning to do the same alongside her hair, "I love… You, Ruby… Even though I'm going… I feel like this isn't the end, only… The beginning."
Yang touched Ruby's shoulder like Blake did as Weiss was nearly gone at this point and Ruby related quickly what was her heart speaking then her head, as Weiss was only smiling back at her as she was fully gone by then as the vortex closed after all of Weiss was in it, "I love you too Weiss."
Ruby then cried out in frustration as she slammed the ground before unexpectedly, three other vortexes showed up and this made Ruby while sad about her lover as their bond she felt (only confusing her slightly) was both weak while still active, saw glowing hands quickly grab all three and one by one, they were sucked into them and not knowing what would happen to them at all as to Weiss, she was reborn once again.
(Flashback End; Present)
Bulma hid tears at this while seeing Zerina shivers in recalling everything that she went through when she came back as Ruby, held back her secretive anger as Thana didn't have to allow her Soulmate to suffer as she did, alongside sending them away.
In Azeroth at the moment while gathering four specific dragon-based souls that were left in limbo, via their entire being, Thana for once sneezed while gaining a small glint as she was looking skyward to where her Champion was in the universe, and knew that due to her actions back then… Things will take an interesting turn as she was the very voice within Zerina's mind, yet she resumed to reap Deathwing's Soul as she had with the others, and glanced with a sudden idea or two as a perfect gift and note, and redemption for things to come.
Back with the three females, Ruby recalled everything those people done to her, even fusing her weapon that came back by the same energy of light that took her lover from her, and was at least happy she was with her now as she was, then what she had done to those scientists back at that laboratory building… Which she doesn't want to think about.
"You suffered also then?" Was Zerina's only reply to Ruby as the teen herself didn't say anything while holding still as Zerina hugged her gently.
Bulma was about to say something until they saw the door open and Zerina hid a tint while irritated by Ruby as she hugged the girl to her chest in a way to know she was staking a claim, amusing Bulma at this, as Bulla came into the room and quickly held back a glare where Zerina was before her at this, and just neutrally stated to this world's version of her mother, "The food's ready as Vegeta and the others wanted to train Zerina today, but I decided to do so Ma."
Bulma nodded as she was sorta surprised at her being her future child while Bulla was also a mix of both Goku, Vegeta, and her, by this odd fusion of them, as her main father or the fused Saiyan: Vegito, and gave Zerina a soft look before she closed the door to allow them to get around.
Bulma helped Zerina out alongside Ruby to get her a quick bath and stuff in which Ruby would be using this for blackmail later on by what went down, and eventually met with everyone in a large dining room and Ruby held a groan at finally sensing at how many she was bonded to within the room yet reluctantly accepted it while feeling a secret pride of sorts that hers was the Alpha though, alongside her glance to Maylene and Bulla as they all began to eat and stuff, and some even freaked out at how wide she could eat meat into her maw she has before eating normally.
Once that was done, Masane alongside Rihoko was with them, and she now wore a child's tank top that held over a t-shirt with a skirt, socks, and slip-on shoes in basic beige and light magenta colors.
Everyone was currently busy while Masane warily held her daughter at seeing Whis and Beerus looked intrigued by seeing Bulla and Ruby glare at each other, while Zerina herself, sweatdropped at their actions and making them turn to her by her words, "Can we please get this over with as I feel weak and wanted to get this done?"
Whis then whispered to the God of Destruction while only nodding as if he already suspected this from the start, and didn't see Masane blink at this in small surprise as she was overheating their discussion, "Seems the rumors of your Niece being a reincarnation of someone was spot on, My Lord."
"Indeed, and I have a feeling this would only make things interesting for us from now on," indeed he hid a chuckle as Zerina gently tapped both Ruby and Bulla's heads together when they began to argue who was truly going to be Zerina's teachers for the day as they glanced at seeing Vegeta show up alongside Goku, and the Prince was amused as he saw this while Goku was merely confused, but glanced at the mother and child supposedly by Vados' words (as she was with her own child and overseeing her back in her own universe), and hoped they might be worthy as he saw that Zerina blew them off while leaving them gaping, and headed to what the Prince of Saiyans knew was her favorite tree (by now on this property, nearby) and relaxed on it.
"Seems the Princess herself is rather annoyed by her two of many she is bonded to, at this time," Whis submersed to them with seeing Rihoko left her mother after asking if she could go play, and headed over to Zerina while beaming at her, and they began to play tag, then, "Yes, and I rather do hope she recovers then train at the moment Whis, as even I felt whoever this person's aura I briefly sensed not too long ago was here, might prove a challenge to those she cares for." Beerus tells them as he made them all look at him in slight surprise at that.
"What do you mean by that?" Goku plainly asked as it stunned them that both Masane and Rihoko by Zerina unknowingly from what Vados told them, were Pure Saiyan's of sorts, but they didn't have the Oozaru Forms but more in-control, human cat-like ones. In fact it had to take some convincing by Bulma showing Masane and even the child (who was awed by it) on that part of their new lives.
Seeing Ruby blaming Bulla as said girl in turn, blamed her while wrestling over each other like children instead of teens, made Vegeta scoff while telling them as he was walking over to those squabbling girls to the others, but mostly to his rival, "What Lord Whis stats, Kakarot, is that Princess Zerina maybe herself, but she is also mixed with her past life and she finds that if her mates squabble like little brats then they wouldn't have a say in her own actions when she wants to do something else."
Goku only nodded while Beerus held in a sweatdrop like the other three at not only him but also Vegeta easily send both feuding girls away from each other while Ruby simply crashed into a tree nearby and Bulla into a rock, at Goku's words, "What did he mean again?"
Masane though was still having odd feelings of knowing she did feel the bond Vados told her earlier, about Zerina, and the strange man that showed up at night telling her (besides the child), there was one other that was going to be in relation to the child, and loved the sight of her new sister and her own child (which she inwardly was in true happiness about) was playing with her aunt.
Though the woman herself warily glanced at her one arm where the original Witchblade once contained, and was in secret, draining her life force a little at a time as she wasn't the one to truly be it's master, but her child, and mentally sighed as she knew she has yet to move away from that life yet, but was currently happy by the Celestial's words herself she has the same powers, but she wouldn't have to worry about her clothes ever again being torn off as such or being drained evermore.
Ruby, they saw, gave a look of mock betrayal from seeing Zerina laugh at her state while she easily cleaned herself off as Ruby's body briefly vibrated before she and Bulla had a staring match until Vegeta held the bridge of his nose in a pose while wordlessly stating, idiots, and they looked at him warily then by his words, "If you two don't shut the hell up over a stupid argument of training The Princess of Destruction, then I will force you to train with me in the Gravity Chamber at 200%. Is that clear?"
They quickly nodded while glaring at each other briefly once he turned around and only hid a smirk of being amused by rivalry forming between them over The Princess' attention, and headed over to Zerina herself as Zerina fell on her behind and laughed before looking at him, like Rihiko was, and asked (secretly irritating him by the nickname still), "What's up Veggie?"
What he said next surprised the girl while making both children become interested and Bulla and Ruby paused long enough to hear this alongside the God of Destruction getting interested at this, "As stated by Lord Beerus, Princess, you are to relax and reserve from training for the time being. So we can go anywhere you want to go for the day."
Zerina paused at this while glancing at everyone, especially Ruby before an immediate idea came to her head to make Vegeta not liking the look within the girl's eyes, as Masane and even Goku knew that look she had on her face, "I… I may have one idea."
Few Hours Later, within Super World Amusement Park:
Zerina was truly happy that she had gotten to go to an amusement park in this lifetime now, as she recalled from her previous life she only did so for political reasons and was present with Ruby, Bulla, and Maylene while riding the Ferris Wheel.
Bulma decided to stay behind as she had an odd project she wanted to do, and Whis as well. So presently as adults (since Rihoko was with them as well), was her Uncle Beerus (which Goku and Vegeta roped into this as well due to Beerus needing an escort) as he wondered what these parks were about.
Masane was acting childish while still being an adult as from her eyesight, she saw her and Rihoko playing an arcade game nearby, and also saw the sights of not only the park itself but also the city too.
So far things were in hints of truce between Bulla and Ruby, and Android 21 only shook her head while she too, saw that most everyone that came was enjoying themselves, even the other two Androids known as 17 and 18 along with her own husband and daughter were having a blast, even the Namakian or known as Piccolo was on this ride as well, and with Gohan alongside his wife and child.
Zerina although couldn't shake the odd feeling that something unexpected was going to occur.
Meanwhile, near the woods where the park was located, an old man while wearing a black cloak was amused as like one other, Zerina was also part of the prophecy on him as well, and he then narrowed his amber orbs from within his cloak as a small ball of dark energy showed up besides him, "It seems we come to a pass once again, Old Wielder." A dark yet powerful voice stated from the orb.
The old man nodded while stating to him then, "Yes, and with a reason as well as despite my old self, the remnants of Darkness after my own defeat remade me once again of that one man defeated within the Inner Realms." He paused before glancing at the energy orb as it pulsed briefly in amusement as well, back to him, "It's a shame we don't share equal goals when it comes to the child as the other she previously faced, failed his task."
"Indeed, as I plan to test her sooner than later, but for now… Perhaps you can summon them into this world and see what she is truly capable of, or take your time in a one-by-one sort of way… In which case you no longer go by that name?" The orb states before asking the old man afterward as he blinked at him and only nodded while telling him with a hidden grin within the cloak he wore, "That foolish Xehanort himself didn't know the true ways of the powers of both The Heart and Darkness. In due time though, I know I will be found out as slowly, my own power is growing as the days go by, and I will once again gain my permanent youth once I obtain the few ingredients that I require, and rename myself once again."
"Indeed… Perhaps we could start things off with a 'Trick' in this park they are at then?" The orb states as a suggestion while also agreeing with the former man known as Xehanort's Corruption as he indeed died in an alternate timeline, but the remnants of his darkness took over as this version's host was something to which in a far away world-like realm, one was observing this with interest yet would see to it he also makes an introduction in a time when ready as he focused on his current problems.
The old man grinned while making darkness easily form within his hands before sending it into the ground as the fossils of the area they were at, would do.
The ground shook as within moments, skeletal remains of dinosaurs or whatever creatures that have died in hunts or so, converged together to make a very large opposing beast of sorts that misted darkness by the movement, and crimson orbs up to four focused on him.
The creature resembled mostly that to a Living Dracolich or an Undead Magical Dragon, yet its armor it has of sorts was pitch-black from being born from darkness, and most of its armor was, in fact, skeletal bones to be declared as an able-to-stand upright dragon of sorts as the head resembled that of a skeletal Red-Eyes Black Dragon while the wings were fused darkness and bones of the Blue-Eyes White Dragon as the body was that to a mix of a crocodile, spinosaurus, and a velociraptor combined. The creation also had bone-like spikes showing on the elbows, shoulders, the entire spine, and forehead (which those two horns were devil-like and curved), and it oddly had a feminine look.
The creature roared as smaller vortexes showed up and creatures made by darkness showed and took to the forms of Reptile from Mortal Kombat, but black-skinned as night, and crimson orbs as they all took off to the park, and the orb and man then vanished out of sight.
Back with Zerina as she was now trying to earn a prize, and she won a few other booths, if the stuffed Dragon, Griffin, and a child's hat where to go by within Android 21's arms while sweat dropping alongside Bulla and Ruby by her sheer amount of luck, and was trying to get a pet kitten with weird fangs showing from the lower lip, and the game was (oddly enough) a guessing game.
"Did Zerina in her past life be this good at games?" Bulla warily whispered as she would guess the horror if she was taught how to play harder, more adult games, and Ruby shook her head no before admitting to make both females near her to briefly sigh while they were watching the child, "She was mixed as Weiss, but it seems she got blessed or something for this odd luck to be happening."
Ruby reluctantly told the two about Zerina being reincarnated from Weiss, and they didn't find it odd at all but they sweatdropped again as the frustrated male booth owner handed her a kitten which meowed cutely, and also finding it to be a female, waved its two tails it had alongside gently purring within her hold.
The odd kitten was shown to have small saber tooth-like teeth, two tails as mentioned with blue tips to go with her black coating, and her a single red ring as well around the kitten's ankles. She also had cute yet odd, dragon-like eyes instead of cat ones, and had matching blue-tipped ears as well.
"Ok, now we've got your new pet. Zee, can we ride some rides now?" Ruby begged her this time to get Zerina to pause on petting her pet kitten, and gave Ruby a searching look before wordlessly shrugging and blinked while thankfully the kitten was caught by Bulla when Ruby grabbed her and rushed over to where some of the rides were in a quick speed.
Android 21 twitched as Bulla states then to her in small surprise, "Seems she's a fast girl at least… Though she could have waited for us." They froze though alongside the crowd when the rides and other electronics stopped working all at once, and Android 21 or Maylene was placing the prizes into a capsule before feeling, like Bulla was, that something was off.
Without warning, the crowd began running as the very same creatures showed up and were starting to cause devastation amongst the area.
Bulla then cracked her neck while getting warmed up and placed the kitten down while sensing a fight and Maylene only shook her head as they got into a stance, and commenced fighting against the Reptile-like knockoffs.
The kitten though meowed casually and ran where Zerina was at.
With the others, Goku and Vegeta were also fighting these things off as well, and it seems they endure, and he was roped into going by Chi-Chi (which he was thankful Bulma and the others were safe with), "That's thirty-two to me Vegeta!" Goku shouted gleefully to irritate the Saiyan Prince as when they were defeated, a black mist was shown, "Not in your life Kakarot!"
In fact, everyone was fighting the creatures that were part of the Z Fighters, except the crowd of civilians running for their lives as Ruby was protecting Zerina and the odd kitten that followed them, somehow, and was using her abilities to hack and slash the creatures before Zerina turned and yelled while alerting Ruby as the child and kitten was then taken.
"No! Get back here with-" Ruby was about to shout at the things she was fighting before getting slammed by a much larger, armored version a few booths away and into the merry-go-round.
Ruby while duking it out with the buffed version of those creatures, Zerina hid some pain while holding onto her pet as gently as she could as these things were taking her away somewhere, before getting annoyed mixed with being scared by falling from the rooftops as they placed an odd bracelet on her that made her not only feel weak, but her heart soon felt funny as well when they were vaporized by a stray beam of energy to their heads.
"It seems I managed to make it in time to save an abduction," the person states while Zerina blinked at seeing it was a cyborg female of sorts.
She, her savior, has a completely mechanical body in the model of a gorgeous young woman around nineteen while also being 5'10 in height with a slender yet fit frame and a large C-Cup. Her face and ears look like that of a normal human and are made of an artificial skin material, and her eyes also have black sclera with yellow irises. She has spiky blond hair alongside her thin eyebrows being brown. She also has pierced ears while wearing normal street clothes, a sleeveless blacktop, and a grey hoodie.
This was Genos, and she was changed into a woman upon arriving at this world, and also arrived alongside the rest of "Her" friends that survived a few months ago after Saitama was somehow defeated by an entity of tainted darkness, and took their world for greedy gain.
To also mention this, they were minding their own business as usual until they encountered these creatures everywhere within West City and decided to aid the people for once.
Genos looked at the odd child and kitten with a calm look on her face while telling her then as Zerina while feeling weak, hid a tint by how the girl looked by her question, "Are you, alright child?"
Zerina was going to respond yet she coughed instead to worry Genos over as she looked palish purple and her ears were drooping downwards before shaking her head, and Genos picked up with her eyes significant energy readings from where the amusement park was before gazing at the child in small surprise by her mixed numbers as they were fluxing back and forth in random, high numbers.
"Hang on while I get you out of here," Genos tells the child gently as Zerina closed her eyes while her kitten was meowing at her new friend in worry before Genos held the child slightly more by seeing, even more, show up with a cloaked entity version standing their a few moments, before wordlessly pointing at Zerina, in a silent demand to hand her over… Genos wasn't going to have that.
So she ran while keeping the child safe as they were then after her.
They were then moving quickly while Zerina was feverish while at the same time, Genos dodged left and right from shadow-like blasts coming from the creature's palms.
Genos eventually ended up trapped within an abandoned warehouse while holding onto Zerina as she was half-aware of things at this moment before feeling Genos tense when she turned around and was getting blasts forcibly placed upon her robotic back for a few moments until it stopped.
They looked while Zerina blinked weakly in small surprise as they saw an unusual woman using webbing and easily defeating them in brutal ways, before gazing right at her, in her own small surprise.
She was six feet tall while not only having dark aqua-blue colored hair up to her shoulders but appeared to be at least in her early twenties. She also has a delicate looking, heart shaped face with wide, sky-blue eyes, thin lips, and a cute nose. She also has a slim/slender yet top-heavy hourglass frame with at least a basic sized H-Cup. The female wore, however, five odd-like crown pieces on her head (two attached to her pointy ears, and two equal-sized yet smaller ones near her forehead and a medium in-between those) with them being plaid-gold colored with eye-like ruby gems in a total of six (one on each side pieces while two in the central one). She also has easily attachable armor in plaid-forest green colors that were somewhat revealing, and her legs also showed to be copper armored (like the leather clothed gauntlets on her arms that go up to her elbows, and revealed her hands) with two golden, curved hoops connected by her shoulders, underneath her breasts, and perfect birthing hips. She also has revealing, dark-red ligaments of sorts on both her arms and legs and bone-like cartilage on said elbows and kneecaps showing. She appears to have a tan, tiger colored topped with dark brown striped, spider's abdomen attached to her backside to know she was also a spider-like monster girl of sorts with a darker brown underside. She lastly wore flexible, armor-like leggings as well that were dark red in colors (with black stripes) while exposing her hips a little and midsection.
This was a brought-back female from, secretly, Zerina's Birthworld during the feudal times as she was a gentle spider demon who would fight if needed to be, and formerly cursed to eat her lovers (if she ever fell in love that is), by the name of Musumi (so you all know, she is from "Shikkoku no Shaga'' as the well known Mt. Spider girl), and felt the one particular bond she felt from so long ago when her former male mate was giving her "Fear Signals", and it turns out it was from Zerina herself.
"Duck," Musumi states as Genos quickly did while she sent webbing right at one of the creatures before seeing their numbers were growing more and more with one goal in mind: Obtaining the child, and Genos seeing she had no choice, gave Zerina to the spider woman (which she blinked at) before nodding firmly as she took off with the child, "Get her out of here while I handle these fools."
Genos seeing that she was surrounded, a few minutes later, activated her arm's unique abilities as flames were shown, before quickly slamming the ground as torrents of flames were then being sent in all directions at the enemies while Musumi was, thankfully, out of the area in time to not get burned by such a large-scaled attack.
Though to shock her before dodging a very large plasma blast, she was looking right into the sky at seeing a monster-like dragon as it roared loudly while calling more of the reptilian creatures before flying at Musumi and Zerina's direction… Before it got Ki-Blasted with equal yellow and pink-like magenta energy to its right side.
It turned around while glaring right at Android 21 and Bulla as they were then sending blast upon blast at the irritated drake that moved with speed untold, and side-swiped the two to the ground with a mere wing-flap before quickly turning around to head to the further direction Musumi was taking a sick Zerina, before tensing up, and turned irritated when it saw its tail was gently caught by none-other than Goku himself. "Hey now, that's not very nice at sending these weird reptiles all around a park-" he was then blasted by a plasma blast before it began to take off into the air, and it blinked while letting out a yelp of surprise while dodging its own blast being easily deflected back at it, and made Bulla and Android 21's jaws drop a little alongside Genos, at that.
The creature blinked, roared loudly in an echoey vibe as more of those creatures appeared in numbers while glancing at the three females, and did a quick tail gesture before quickly taking off to get Goku reluctantly to not chase after the beast while deciding on helping the girls as there was more then there was able to defend against.
With Musumi and Zerina, Zerina coughed to worry the spider over while detecting a virus within her system somehow, and was spraying webbing every few seconds or so at more of those reptiles that showed up while trying to nab the child.
This isn't how I planned to meet you again, was all Musumi thought while she was then running and the reptiles still pursued her and Zerina growing worse as time went by while she was going through an abandoned warehouse and using the environment as well to aid her in fleeing.
Soon enough, they were cornered in a large open part of the large pile of ruined machines and trash, and held Zerina protectively as the child was going in and out of consciousness to worry the Spider Girl over while defiantly glaring at the Lizard Men as a vortex appeared made of darkness with a cloaked man coming out, and stated to her then firmly, "Give her up, as the assault of my master was a diversion to obtain her."
Musumi only shook her head no as she felt Zerina's breathing was labored only slightly while she just watched with half-glazed orbs and coughed again while this gotten then man to switch tactics, and made Musumi debate this in thought while feeling distrustful as well by what he spoke, "We have a way to personally make sure she is healthy, and if you do give her to us, we can make sure that you would be compensated for it." The cloaked man frowned then when Musumi decided then by detecting a strange vibe from his voice, hunts of deception, and continued to hold the ill Zerina within her hold and if she was also aware, would have blushed due to her head being in her bosom, "No. I won't let you take what I don't want to lose again… I won't let you take her!"
The man then let out a humorless chuckle as Musumi hid a gulp by seeing him channel dark-like energy right into the Lizard Men as they grew more feral looking with misting red eyes as the cloaked man then told her in a tone he was mostly displeased, "Oh… So unwise, Spider Demoness." He then gestured to the minions, before sharply pointing at her while they not at all felt an energy coming from near the back of the building, "Now, you will have to watch from your cold fingers as I forcibly take her from you."
Musumi held Zerina as she was tired and worn out, and expected the worst, and prepared to meet her end- "I don't think so!" A female voice stated as Musumi opened her orbs and blinked at seeing a white-haired girl was in front of them and was easily deflecting back and forth with a blue aura covering her frame in some type of martial arts while at the same time, she saw she managed to destroy each one in a vital punch or kick.
It was Yuuko, and she was in a stance as the cloaked man hid the urge to growl at her while gesturing at her as the remaining forces then began to attack her, and she only kept defending herself while not allowing any other Lizard Men to get by her until finally, she defeated the last remaining one this man brought.
Yuuko was currently panted in place while going right back into a stance, and ignoring the grime and sweat on her body alongside her clothes as earlier, she indeed headed to Capsule Corp. and was puzzled when no one was there, used the outside to solo-train until she felt the immense energy she never felt before and decided to track and follow it.
"So… You are strong." Began the man as he revealed to be not human as he was indeed handsome looking yet he hid elfin ears that had silver loops attached to the sides of said ears, square yet narrow, magenta sclera colored, and snake-like amber eyes, and had tiger markings in three parallel lines on the sides of his face. "I, however, was merely here to obtain the child despite her illness," at that point, Yuuko glanced and wondered who the child was yet looked back with a narrowed gaze while stating to him then in a way she saw he didn't like, "Well. Then that's tough for you then as I plan to stop whatever your plan is, here."
Yuuko grew wary like Musumi was as he then shrugged his shoulders as if warming up, and reached over and easily removed his cloak as it was sucked into a storage space he had to reveal dark plated yet light, the armor of sorts that held strange runes and also the shoulders plates showing the odd design of a dragon's skull on them and in the center of his chest, was an insignia written in Latin stating the word, Shadow, and summoned within the air and caught with ease, a pitch-black basic katana with a silvery grip and green runes on the metal. "Perhaps since you are begging for a fight, then… A test is in order."
He got into a stance like Sephiroth would do before charging right at her as Yuuko dodged before he side-swiped with his blade yet she dodged again and again as the were moving all over the place, quickly.
As they were farther away from the Spider Demoness and Zerina, and despite being tired, moved quickly when they were about to be struck down by the oddest, yet the largest knight-like entity that was hidden within the shadows this entire time and failed at nabbing the moaning in pain Zerina.
To describe it is in relation to a Heartless-like Armored Dullahan in color and description of sorts, yet without the symbol, and it was at least fifteen feet tall while showing glowing amber eyes within the helm. On its forearms was melded yet jagged broadswords with green runes on both sets of blades, and the way began chasing them was of knowledgeable graceful tactics as if it has done this before. The entity also let out a shadow-like mist in dark shades as well with each movement.
As Musumi ducked and avoided being cut up, Yuuko was sending normal Ki Blasts back at the man as he somehow then deflected them back and he tossed his blade with his energy into the air while the two were punching and kicking with powerful thud-based sounds before he grabbed and let out an irritated growl when Yuuko dodged it and she sent a blue ball energy right at him before her own shock, his blade absorbed it before reflecting right back at her in a green orb. "You have truly no idea as to whom your fighting against, Child."
Yuuko felt angered at that term before they glanced and moved away from each other as Musumi alongside Zerina still within her hold, ran past them before seeing the entity that was chasing them still, and Yuuko was debating on continuing or not but was perplexed at seeing the man still glancing at the creature and sheathed his blade before glancing at her and then stated firmly to her, "Postponing a battle is something I hardly do, but I believe from seeing the Wild Dark Knight after them, that my comrade was secretly successful at obtaining what was needed from this city… Farewell."
Without warning, he tossed a purple ball onto the ground and black smoke covered the area to make Yuuko cough a bit before holding back a retort to herself at seeing he was gone, but then quickly decided to deal with the creature and sped quickly through the supposed opening it caused while seeing it was leading them onwards to the forest once again.
Yuuko eventually was able to find them as they were cornered near a large ravine with frothy water being easily churned by the rocks it has, and stated to the large entity as it was about to strike Musumi down with her floating in the air and her arms crossed, "Hey! It's pathetic that you have to get others down while their exhausted… Why not fight a more worthy opponent: Me."
It seems she gotten the entities attention as she saw the eyes glint in slight anger at her before she moved to the left as it actually jumped-slashed but to only slice, a log cleaning in two before she was smirking while dodging with an effort by the entities missed strikes before quickly moving at seeing it got powered up and was sending eerie green colored waves at her from the weapon slashes this time… Which Yuuko didn't expect to actually dodge as to her shock, the energy decayed and withered some plant life while at the same time, the energy also easily sliced the rocks protruding from the ground within the ravine area.
Ok, new plan here. Yuuko quickly thought as she hid while blinking as her jacket managed to get nicked to slightly anger her as she channeled energy into her right hand before acting without thinking, of charging head-on to the entity as the creature itself did the same… Yuuko blinked as it vanished into a dark mist to quickly stop her assault as she would have harmed Musumi and the child.
Perplexed as to what happened, Yuuko shook her head by seeing Musumi was trying to keep Zerina awake and sighed with worry as that was stage two of four of the virus within her, and if it hit three, there would be no hope for the child then.
So she wordlessly came over, surprised Musumi in truth, and attempted to use the Teleportation Technique she tried to perform last night after the odd man left her, as advice, before quickly sensing the familiar energy and managed to succeed (with odd luck) to said location, but didn't see an odd, binary-like black mist vanishing from behind a few trees.
A few hours later, Yuuko sighed while glancing sadly at seeing Zerina still within the healing tank that was mixed with her blood, as Bulma of this dimensional timeline was rather impressed by her story she told to everyone (despite being wary of being near an actual God and Goddess), and from what Bulma stated surprised them as her blood indeed held the cure, but it would have to be administered while she was in the tank.
Currently, most of the Fighters are training alongside those she was shocked the child bonded with and other things.
Mai, however, was sent to the Lookout while planning on a date there for Trunks, and wanted some time to themselves, especially dropping the so-called bomb about her pregnancy as she found out she was carrying twins, and thanks to Bulma's Devices they found out about that.
Speaking of Bulma, she was currently studying Yuuko's bloodwork as she wanted to extract the cure from it and still administer to the others, just in case.
With Beerus, he was currently with Whis out back as Vados also arrived with her child, and needed to drop something they found within their Verse, to him, and for once the Celestials of Universe 6 and 7 were hushed about it.
To mention Chi-Chi, she was currently with Gine and a few other girls as they were preparing meals in case the new and improved healing chamber Bulma placed Zerina into, would cause her to be hungry with few amusements of everyone as well via the "Pan of Doom" from the Saiyan Husbands trying to sneak into it, and Musumi was currently helping them as well.
Trunks and the other kids were currently within the Entertainment Room that Capsule Corp. has, and as for Ruby (since as mentioned, the other girls were training)... "How is she?" She stated as she enters the room while glancing to the tube at Yuuko, and the white-haired Half-Saiyan merely shrugged as she too, glanced at Zerina's direction and saw the percentage of the healing was slowly going onwards, alongside her vitals stating she was still stable, "Fine I suppose…" Is she the child he mentioned? Yuuko added to herself as an afterthought.
After a few moments of silence while hearing some bubbles go up within the tank itself, Yuuko secretly looked at Ruby in small surprise as secretly, she pondered what race she was but kept it aside by her random comment, "I have a feeling she might see you like her sister she lost to the man we faced, in her previous life that is."
"What makes you think that, Woman?" Yuuko states to then get Ruby to cutely puff out her cheeks as, despite her looks, she can still make cute things occur at times, and stated in a way to make Yuuko hide amusement from, "It's Ruby." She then shook her head and confessed to her while glancing once again at Zerina, and revealed a bit more of the past then she told Bulma as she didn't know why, but she could trust her. "I was there when it happened as my Half-Sister Yang and her lover, Blake, were far away from me and Zerina's past life as Weiss Schnee. We were assigned a mission that seemed fishy back then on our own world, Remnant," Ruby states from seeing Yuuko's raised eyebrow in wanting to know the name of the world, "As we were sent to a village that was supposed to have been invested with creatures called Grimm, and yet…" at this Ruby sighed to herself as she was looking at Yuuko while seeing she had her undivided attention, "It was all a trap to lure mainly Weiss away as there was a complication of sorts."
(Flashback, World: Remnant, The Village of Seastar Haven)
Ruby was currently with Weiss and for once with her elder sibling, Winter Schnee.
To describe her is a tall and fair-skinned young woman with slate-blue eyes. She wears her white hair tied up in a bun, high on the left side of the back of her head, while her bangs are shaped around the right side of her face, a small curled lock of hair reaching almost to her left shoulder. She wore, however, a white collared undershirt, a necktie that connects to her new brooch, and a girdle underneath the lapels of her coat. She wears navy blue gloves and pants and sports a Dust Pouch around her waist.
They were told the village here was for truly once held hostage by Grimm, and their activities as of late, seemed fishy, as their attacks lately seemed collaborated with each other in kidnappings and other odd activities their not known for… Especially the odd description of some of the Grimm being altered.
"Stay close you two… I don't want another incident like last time," Winter tells her sister and Ruby to which she was amused at seeing Weiss scowl lightly at her with Ruby hesitantly laughing as they entered the village quietly, and was wary as well to what they were seeing.
There were signs of constant struggles, blood, and destroyed doors and windows to know these people had little to no warning at all, and saw the strange things of bodies being left behind intact, and some looked to have been drained of their life force. "Definitely stay close." Winter firmly stated while guarded.
They then brandished their weapons as they continued seeing the same things they saw when they entered, even some chewed food and whatever others left behind in order to run until they stilled while hearing crying nearby.
They managed to find a rare female Dragon Faunus girl that looked to be at least six years old and wore clothing that was a basic dress in green and blue colors and battered as she has black ivory colored, curled horns growing on the sides of her blue hair that reached her neck, as it was short, and she has a cute oval face with wide eyes that were draconic and sky-grey blue in color. She has clawed hands and feet in relation to a dragon, however, and the claws themselves were ivory, and a slender yet long tail as she was slender as a child as well.
Though Weiss hid the girl's eyes from seeing her deceased parents, Winter saw the obvious signs like all over the village that they were not spared and closed their feared yet dead orbs in respect while she grabbed a device and talked into it, and Ruby was on edge as she felt something was off, "Outpost 7, this is Winter Schnee. The village was devastated by an unknown attack without warning. We managed to find only one survivor throughout the entire village, and request a ship as quickly as possible."
Winter heard a quick response back and other things while Ruby, despite the situation, comments to Weiss as she hid a tint while comforting the Faunus Child still, "I have a feeling you make a great mom one day."
Before Weiss could open her mouth, they all froze at hearing a strange, echoey-like sound of sorts throughout the village as Winter turned off the device and quickly gotten out her own weapon while Ruby did the same, and in time as something swift nearly collided against them but Winter blocked the maws of what appeared to be a mix of a fox and serpent Grimm, leapt back and hissed before taking off.
"That looked to be no ordinary Grimm." Weiss states as she was carrying the child to make Winter only nod with thinking orbs at her, "Yes… It was as if that creature planned for us to find the child."
They stilled once again when they heard several more of the same sounds and prepared themselves while quickly leaving with the child, to get to the evac point as sure enough, the strange Grimm was in a large group while quickly following them, and also blocking their ways to make the elder ponder if their being chased or were being led to somewhere.
Eventually, they were cornered near some cliffs and were surrounded by the odd Grimm that looked like they wanted to attack, yet they refrained themselves from doing so before seeing some move back and Winter narrowing her orbs alongside the other two girls as Ruby held the child, by seeing an armored man appear before them.
"So… It was you that done this." Winter states to the man who merely chuckled at her as he petted some of the Grimm nearby in a wordlessly way of a job well done, "Perhaps. Perhaps not, Child of Schnee." He told Winter in a way he knew her somehow, before Winter didn't like the gaze he had at her sister by seeing something that she didn't, "Perhaps it was Fate or Destiny that led you here as after all… I was waiting."
It took only a moment to realize what he said as Weiss stated it before Winter could, "You lured us here?"
"Indeed, as these Altered Grimm that is infused with Darkness, have better handling in orders then basic Grimm…" he paused before seeing the child and smirked as she cried out from a simple snap, and their horrible shock, the child was changed into a blue diamond in the shape of a small golf ball as it landed on the ground in front of Ruby, and she picked it up while seeing he extracted something from the child and into himself. "Though I am grateful as to how you managed to find the 'Essence of Dragon' I needed, I believe that I should also thank you for bringing me a gift to further things along."
Wary at that, Winter saw how his orbs glinted when he kept looking at her sister in a way she didn't like, and without warning, he snapped his gloved fingers, and the Grimm began to attack them.
Winter and Ruby were then separated from the elder Schnee while Winter was also hacking and slashing the Altered Grimm as to hide their shock, they were disintegrated into a black mist of sorts after they were killed, and Winter heard Weiss shout to her as she killed what appeared to be her fifth Grimm, "Their endless!" On the sidelines, the man merely watched as if he was entertaining himself as Ruby shouted as she used her ability to at least defeat thirty or so of the Altered Grimm as she added in agreement while somehow feeling drained, "There's too many of them!"
Winter seeing Weiss struggled, hacked and killed another while going right to her as a larger version was about to attack her, and early succeeded if it wasn't for her using the spare gun she kept right between the eyes of the entity, and Weiss was looking at her sister in gratefulness before shifting to horror as she didn't get the warning out in time as Winter stilled and looked downwards at seeing the man's blade going right through her abdomen.
Shocked while glancing at the man to oddly feel he was doing this out of respite, mixed with other things, quickly took his blade out of her and kicked her to the sides as something snapped and Ruby was blown back when Weiss glowed an icy-like aura before it expelled from her and disintegrating the Grimm all around them, and collapsed onto her knees while panting to impress the man then.
"Seems that you are not worth my time as of yet…" he stated to still and make Weiss glance at him as he appeared right next to her before sending her in odd circumstances, near Winter who was more worried about her than herself, and heard the ship approaching in the distance, "We will meet again as I am not your world's adversary to yourself, but tested I have done, Schnee… But truly know you could have prevented the one you lost if you were aware of your powers within."
With that, Ruby saw that the man vanished from sight before sluggishly standing up and heading over to the Schnee sisters as Weiss was trying to stop Winter from bleeding out with little to no success as for once, Ruby saw tears flow from her orbs as Winter merely held a smile on her face while telling her then in a quiet voice, "It's going to be ok Weiss… This is what being a part of a Hunter is…" Weiss only shook her head while feeling half-comfort from Ruby dismissing her weapon into a smaller form and held her as she stated firmly to her elder sister, "No. don't say that as you're going to be ok."
Winter felt otherwise as she knew she was going to a better place and stated to her little sister while gently yet weakly holding onto her right cheek as the ship just touched down a few feet from them, "I have never been so proud of you and the way you handle yourself… Mom would be as well… I love you." Weiss stiffened before seeing the life flow from Winter's orbs as she died right before her, and her one hand that held her face fell onto the ground, limp and unmoving.
Weiss was then crying onto her as the ship crew and medical team took care of things while aiding the other two Huntresses while placing Winter into a body bag.
(Flashback Over)
Ruby that Yuuko saw, clenched a fist to herself before telling her then while glancing at Zerina, "Zerina in her previous life was a wreck for a few weeks after that. She hardly slept, had to deal with taking over what Winter had been working on, and other things… If I knew we encountered that man once again after just recalling him, I would have been trying to harm him for the pain he caused her."
Yuuko didn't say anything while she secretly touched her one arm they drew her blood from and she knew more to Saiyan Terms of, well, everything, thanks to Vegeta in her previous realm, and without a doubt may have granted the child's wish for a big sister as either by blood donation (in this odd way) or other means, she would protect the child no matter what.
"You there?" Ruby states up close and personal to make Yuuko blink and out of her personal thoughts as she looked at her in irritation before she declared to her then, "Don't you have a place to go besides here? She is perfectly capable around me."
Ruby hid a frown while at the same time, wondered why Yuuko was acting defensive and sighed before getting up, and going to give a talk to a certain man as she only asked her softly, "Just make sure she's ok for me as I care about her. Either as Zerina or Weiss, she is mine-" Yuuko stopped her with surprised orbs hidden while Ruby blinked, "And mine unto her… Your soulmates, aren't you?"
Ruby hesitates but only nods to make Yuuko groan to herself at this and recalled who she is in relation towards by what Bulma states in random talk, and groaned again while not seeing Ruby shrugged and headed out and thought to herself while glancing at her Blooded-Little Sister in Saiyan Terms, One thing after another.
Yuuko dozed off for a while and jolted awake when she heard the machine was done and saw the fluid slowly drain from the tube and she quickly opened it while relieved that Zerina was mostly asleep, but held in the urge to sweatdrop at how clingy she became when Bulma came in and seeing an opportunity, snapped a picture with her Capsule X-Phone (which is similar to a mix of Android and IPhone), and saw Yuuko glare at her while holding onto the clingy Zerina, "What? It looked cute the way she's holding onto you."
Yuuko only shook her head while making Bulma roll her orbs at, and stated firmly to the blue-haired female, "This better not be shared with others." Bulma only shrugged before she reached out and tossed some towels at Yuuko to irk her again, by her statement, "Since you want to put it that way, why not clean her up and meet us back in the lab for a checkup."
After a bit with Zerina being awake while the two felt awkward to each other by the child calling her "Winter", they were back in the lab with Ruby while glaring at Bulma who was sheepish as it appeared she drew some of her blood and amused her Husband while easily holding the teen down before they noticed the two enter.
"So the Princess is awake I see." Vegeta states before blinking back in shock by the sudden strength Ruby had while making Yuuko oddly hold back a growl to herself as she grabbed a sweatdropped Zerina as Ruby was cuddling her in a way Vegeta understood from the results of the teen's test he understood more, and Bulma had her hands up in the air at this to amuse Yuuko and Vegeta.
"Well, at least I can update Zerina on her shots-" Bulma began before seeing the child stiffen, and the four blinked in place as she took off within the large laboratory. "Of course when it comes to shots she takes off." Ruby shook her head and groaned out with Yuuko understanding before she sighed as Masane and her child came inside the lab, since Bulma wanted some blood work drawn from them as well yet they began to search for the child as a group.
While they were searching for Zerina, Zerina herself scolded herself for being scared of needles amongst other things, and sighed while hearing the others were calling her out, still, and sighed quietly while grabbing her tail.
She felt like she was a burden slightly to herself from her fears in play, and knew she has caring figures once again in her life, and from what she oddly felt from Yuuko, another true big sister to look up to by blood, by her explanation until this point, and yet… "Why does Fate seem to hate me, still." Zerina then sighed while hitting her head before jumping as she knocked over a tarp down from a large machine and was perplexed yet also curious about it. Her childish nature getting better then herself as she gotten inside it.
The machine itself looked old yet still working, and the details seemed to have been restored at the best parts to store several people at once (due to it being bigger than it originally was), and not known to Zerina, was the improved yet remodeled version of the one Time Machine that Bulma secretly kept, long ago, during the timeframe they called the Cell Saga.
Zerina jumped when she turned to see that it was both Yuuko and Ruby, and looked sheepish by their concerned looks as they did see her eyes were scared still, when Ruby states to the child then, "There you are."
Sensing something was off about this device, the two entered into it while not seeing someone shady was in the background as Yuuko stated softly to the Zerina then, "I think it's best to leave this machine alone. Knowing Bulma, this can malfunction anyti- Crap." They quickly saw the door closed with Zerina pressing a few buttons by accident when she was getting up, before they braved themselves as the person adjusted the coordinates as they were quickly gone and the person left in a black vortex.
Bulma and the others arrived too late and she paled at this along with a slight gulp, and Vegeta giving her an irksome look as Masane alongside her child didn't know what she meant yet the mother was surprised by, "They took off into my refurbished Time Machine!"
