Chapter Five - Legendary Warrior
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Mizuna stared across the battlefield at Cooler, whom all good humor on his face had vanished. "Vengence comes for you, Saiyan." Cooler said, his power suddenly appearing for her to sense as his pale purple aura flared up, as he charged at her. He's fast. He aimed a knee for her midsection, but she managed to duck under the blow, kick his exposed foot out from under him, and follow that up with a devastating gut punch while he fell forward and she rolled out and away from under him.
It barely even seemed to phase him as he stood back up with a chuckle. "Your relaxes aren't bad, but we're just getting started."
"I'm not here to play games with you!" Mizuna yelled, her own aura blue aura exploding from around her. I can't give him any time to get a read on me. She flexed her arms on either side of her as she silently powered up to half of her maximum. Then she went on the offensive, their auras clashes together from the impact as she opened up with a furious flurry of punches and kicks on any inch of him she could manage.
Cooler with driven back by the unexpected barrage, fending off her attacks, but he took more then a few blows to his face and midsection for his trouble. She managed to break through his defensive with a savage knee to his face. The Frost Demon was knocked back a feet steps, momentarily stunned. Mizuna didn't let him catch his breath and let loose a large blue blast of energy that connected and detonated on impact. She could feel his energy, it hadn't dropped at all. If anything, she was probably starting to annoy him at this point.
Out of the smoke shot out multiple thin purple death beams, intended to pierce her and kill her at once. She knocked most of them away with an open palm and redirected the final one back at it's source, she didn't hear it hit anything, but she heard something else. He was behind her. She attempted to take flight but his tail had already wrapped around her foot and pulled her back towards him. Before he could launch the punch he was readying, she launched two dual energy from her hands, causing him to pull up short and block them with his arms, but his grip on her wasn't loosing in the slightest. Irritated, he yanked her down towards him, and landed multiple blows across her face and then using his tail, threw her away from him into the nearest building. It collapsed into rubble on-top of her. She stood back up and dusted herself off, it hadn't hurt much, but she could tell he was playing with her, it hit a sore spot within her not being taken seriously enough. "Cooler, I know you could do better then this," She said in a mocking tone. "I'm barely trying over here."
Cooler smirked darkly, and she wasn't sure how to feel about it. "As talented as you are, I'm only using a small percentage of my power. I did promise you pain, I suppose I best get started." His aura exploded around him as hers did previously, except even more so. The strain was obvious on his face as he went to 100% of his strength in his third transformed state. The winds picked up into nothing short of a hurricane and the ground cracked around him for miles. From the feel of his energy level, she was beginning to regret egging him on like this. She couldn't match him in pure strength, there was no way. But she had to try, she had a planet to protect after all, and power wasn't everything in a fight. She let her power go up to her maximum as well, but he was still 7 or 8 times stronger then she was.
She quickly brought an arm up, palm open and silver energy gathered there. "Onio Cannon!" Mizuna shouted, the huge attack swallowing up Cooler before he got a chance to put up his guard, A huge shock-wave emitted from the epicenter of the blast. Then she went in after him, feeling out his energy signature precisely to where he was still standing. She threw a punch aimed at his face, which he caught, then another one which he also caught effortlessly. The force of the struggle crating a larger and larger crater beneath them. "If you had tried that earlier, I might be hurting right now, unfortunately. You can no longer defeat me, I'm afraid. Unlike my foolish brother, I know how to do the job properly."
"There was time when it'd be unheard of for a Saiyan to be able to fight you one on one like this, it'd won't be too hard to believe
With lightning fast moves, he kneed her in the jaw like she did to him earlier, a punch to the gut, a tail whip to her face. She could taste blood in her mouth. She threw her fists back at him, he didn't even bother blocking because she wasn't capable of harming him at this point. He brutally kicked her into a small hill after a few more heavy blows.
She found it considerably more difficult to get back up after that, but she had to. Her power might be dropping, but she wouldn't lose her chance at vengeance. This is what she had been training for all these years!
Mizuna heard his voice again, he was floating in the air a few meters above her, arms crossed, and a smile on his face. "You earned my respect for a decent battle, but it's over now. You can see how hopeless it is."
The pain in her body was forgotten before the pain in her heart. Despair, she knew it was true, but she couldn't stop trying anyway, she'd put everything she had left in this final attack. She had once seen the Prince Vegeta do it as a kids. She put her hands high up at her side, purple energy began to gather there, and a flowing purple aura surround her.
She could feel the ground around her quake as she continued concentrating her energy into this attack, and the wind begin to whip fiercely around the area. Then she fired, putting every ounce of power she had left into it. "Galick Gun!" She screamed as the massive purple beam collided with Cooler. He stuck his hand out and she could feel the resistance as he held the attack at bay without much effort. It seemed like time was frozen as she tried to pushed the beamed further but it was caught firmly in place. Cooler then brought his other hand up in a fist and punched the huge beam space where it promptly exploded, shaking the landscape. He was left unharmed and she was drained now.
Falling down on her knee. It was over and she knew it, she dropped her head low and the flood of failure slapped through her heart like a knife, she punched the ground in frustration. "This can't be all I can do, I have to protect these people." She spoke to herself, but Cooler seemed to notice, looking away from the destroyed buildings and people poking their heads out of their house windows to watch what they could.
"Ah, I see the problem now, I'll do you a favor, Saiyan!" He extended his hand towards the village and it's people and launched a blast of energy and before she could move to stop him, the entire village was a massive crater in the ground. Everyone was dead. Again. Despite her training she was just as helpless now as she had been when Freeza killed all her people the first time.
"There, now you can die with a clear conscience. You were never going to protect anyone, you can't even fend for yourself properly. The time of the Saiyans is over, so jut give up this crusade of vengeance." Cooler said chuckling.
Tears were burning her eyes now, but she could feel a burning in the rest of her body now too. It brought her mind back to the present. "You're wrong, Cooler." She almost whispered. She could feel pure wrath building up within her, her Saiyan pride not allowing her to roll over and just give up. She'd die first. She stood up on two feet, her hands were clenching and un-clenching. She could hear her teeth rattling in fury.
"Come now, I do you a favor, free you of an obligation, and that's all the thanks I get? You Saiyans truly have no class at all. You know what? I know what you want. I'm in need of followers after you killed the last three, perhaps you could take their spot instead. You'd be a slave of course, but you'd still be alive. Freeza doesn't have to know." Cooler said with thick sarcasm, his chuckling turning into a full on laugh.
Crack! The ground beneath her had started to form massive cracks. Dark thunder clouds had started to gather in the air above them as well, lightning had began to bombard the ground around them as it started to rain.
Her neck jerked back in time to the thunder as her pupils vanished, her blue aura was rushing out around her and was shooting high into the sky. A flash of golden light flickered from her aura and her hair. Cooler was watching up in silent fascination, his better judgment left behind as he had never witnessed such a display before.
"Graahh...Cooler!" Mizuna shouted as as the golden light shot from her body again, this time staying just a moment longer before vanishing, her hair was standing on end now.
"A little light show, won't save you! Say goodbye to your planet!" Cooler said, obviously done with being a spectator. He lifted a single finger in the air and a massive red and orange ball of energy formed in the air above him, the size of a small moon, then he launched it at her. The sight of such an attack, the same one that destroyed Planet Vegeta. She let her inner wrath take over and let the power flow free.
With a deafening scream and explosion of power within her. Golden light was emanating from her body. Her hair was a bright golden color sticking straight up, her eyes were a deep green. She lifted her hands towards the massive ball of energy as it came crashing down upon her to intercept it and the sheer force of it drove her into the ground as it collapsed around her.
Cooler was still laughing as he couldn't see her and assumed she was now dead. "I decide who lives and dies! I own everything!" He said, continuing to laugh, but something was wrong with his supernova attack, it was getting smaller?
Mizuna firmly held the attack at bay, but with almost no effort she began compressing the massive sphere of energy into a tiny ball of energy, which she could completely crushed into tiny specks of light. Cooler was almost to surprised to speak. "What is this change? Saiyans are meant to turn into lumbering apes, but this..reminds me of that old legend." He finished muttering to himself, a pang of fear in his voice.
Mizuna looked at herself, feeling the power raging through her veins and knew this had been the strength eluding her before. She never paid much attention to the old legends like other Saiyans, but this could be nothing else.
"I've achieved the legend! I am a Super Saiyan, and I will wipe out every frost demon, starting with you!"