Nikal and Corvin turned to see Polaris with his two followers, both in fighting stances. Nikal sighed outwardly.
"Oh come on, I don't understand how you guys are even standing after the beating I gave you yesterday, let alone how stupid you would have to be to want seconds."
"And what do you mean "kiss or something"?" said Corvin.
"Well, sense you two are clearly a thing I figured I would, you know, let everyone know, you really managed to hide it pretty well though, so I give you props on that account."
Nikal looked over to him, Ki starting to surround him. "Sigh...you know, I thought I would be angrier, seeing how you are trying to ruin my social life, but you know what, I'm actually not that pissed, maybe it just hasn't set in ye-nope, here it is. Nikal rocketed towards Polaris, only to then be blown back by blaster fire from Polaris's two followers, sending him sprawling, now, if he had been prepared for the attack, he would have been completely unfazed by it, but he hadn't expected to be blasted at and therefore was using only a fraction of his power. He landed on the ground, two burns on his chest, if there was one problem with the fusion vest, it wasn't exactly armor, and it left him wide open, he started to get up as the two goons prepared to fire again, only to have their arm cannons disintegrate, they looked over to see Corvin standing next to Nikal, her hand outstretched.
"There, no more surprises, now Nikal, kick his a**." Nikal got up, looked over to the three, and vanished. The three thugs started to run in towards the school when Nikal appeared in front of them, one of the two followers tried to throw a punch but was easily sidestepped, Nikal then simply gave a quick chop to the upper part of the back, slamming him into the wall. He turned to see the other one come at him with a kick, Nikal stood there, with a look somewhere between boredom and fury, throwing up is hand at the last second, blocking the blow instantly.
As this was happening, Polaris started to walk over to Corvin, the now weakened follower in toe. He then rushed forward, to fast for Corvin to see, and vanished. She looked around, trying to see where he had gone, before quickly dodgeing out of the way of the other boys punch. Corvin continued to dodge attack after attack as she backed away, not noticing that Polaris was behind her, charging a Ki blast. She didn't realize that he was there until it was far to late, only turning as she heard the ball of Ki fly at her. She stood there, unable to move in time, and closed her eyes. Nikal finished his beating of Polaris's thug just in time to see the blast hurtiling at his friend, not even he would be able to reach it in time.
Then, just as the ball of energy was about to reach its mark, there was a blur of movement in the corner of Nikal's vision, moving so fast he could barely keep up with it, it flashed in front of the blast, reaching Corvin, before vanishing in the explosion.
When the smoke cleared everyone looked to see that there was no trace of Corvin, the one conscious follower and Polaris backed away, terror starting to fill them as they realize what had happened. Polaris looked over to Nikal, only to see that he was staring off to the right, he followed Nikal's line of sight and stared, confused and shocked, at what he saw.
The man stood there, unmoving, for a solid minute and a half. His armor plating had a beige coloration to it, and he was adorned with light blue gems, his head, somewhat different to most Icejins, instead of having spikes had what appeared to be fins, and he wore a scouter on the left side of his head. his eyes never left Nikal, however, as if he was nervous as long as he was in his presence, Corvin, sitting in his arms slowly opened her eyes, looking up to see her savior.
"Are you alright miss?" He asked as he lowered her to the ground, she nodded slowly. "Good, now, if you may excuse me, I have some unfinished business to attend to." He turned, walked over to Nikal, and said. "I'll take the guy on the left, you take the guy in the back, on my mark." Nikal nodded, assuming a fighting stance. "Okay, 1, 2, 3, NOW!" He rushed forward, throwing punches toward Polaris's backup. The poor sod didn't even see what had happened, he was knocked back, desperately trying to dodge The man's lightning fast attacks...he was failing. He threw a final punch, knocking out the boy, before turning to see whether Nikal needed assistance, only to see Polaris backing away on his hands desperately. Nikal was walking up to him slowly, glowing white Ki swirling around him, you could feel the power coming off of him, it was immense. The man then felt his scouter explode as he looked at the reading, eyes filled with shock.
"He is even stronger than they described, how does this kid do it?" He then felt himself being pulled back to the real world by the sound of Nikal's voice.
"I don't understand, I really don't. I mean, what is it that makes pissing me off so fun for you guys, do you have a death wish, are you just stupid, do you like the feeling of pain, or do you really think that your better than me? SERIOUSLY, what the hell kind of evidence is there that I am even thinking about dating, I've never had a girlfriend, I don't have a girlfriend now, and I probably wont have one in the future, I mean, who in there right mind would want to have anything to do with a TICKING TIMEBOMB of anger? The answer is NOWONE!" Nikal pointed to Corvin. "Corvin Is just a friend, that's all she has ever been, and that's probably all she ever will be, I mean, sure, she is nice, and smart, and attractive, and strong, but THAT DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING WHEN YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT YOUR CHILDHOOD FRIEND!" He sighed. "Needless to say, if I ever, EVER hear about you causing trouble for me again, I will end you."
Nikal took a deep breath, he started to calm down as his Ki lowered, he then looked back to Corvin, who was simply standing there, no longer speaking, and he walked over to her.
"Are you okay?" She didn't speak; she simply looked up, tears in her eyes, and ran off, leaving Nikal alone with the idiotic cretins.
"Wait…what just happened?"
"Do you not understand what that was?" Nikal turned to see the man walking over; he reached out for a handshake as he introduced himself. "The name is Percel, that was a hell of fight you just put up."
"Um...thanks, thank you for saving Corvin, I don't know how to repay you."
"Oh please, that blast wouldn't have hurt her too bad, just roughed her up a bit."
"Then why did you bother saving her?"
"Well, if I hadn't, you would have been pissed, am I right?"
"What's your point, I was pissed anyways."
"No, I mean really pissed, like the shear anger and Ki alone would destroy the block kind of anger."
Nikal was silent, he hadn't rally considered that. He realized then that he still didn't have full control of his power, or his anger, and he could have caused quite a lot of damage, even to Corvin herself.
"I guess so, wait, what do you mean do I really not understand? Understand what?"
"Well, it's really quite obvious, isn't it?" Nikal started to lose patience.
"Will you stop stalling and just tell me what you meant."
"Well, it is very clear that you have known that women for a long time, yes?"
"Yeah, what's you point?"
"Well, you have clearly upset her with your last statement about you status of being just friends."
"Why would that upset her, it's not like-." Nikal stopped, realizing what Percel was getting at. "Oh…Oh…ooooooohhhh…S**t."
"Exactly, now do you understand?"
"I…wait…what…when did that happen?" Nikal stuttered.
"I couldn't answer that, but it must have been at least for a while."
"But…what the hell am I supposed to do about this?"
"Well…I have absolutely no idea, but I would start by going and talking to her."
Nikal looked down, thinking about what he said, honestly he was kind of shocked, well, surprised was the better word, he never really thought of himself and Corvin being in a relationship, he didn't really feel as though he was prepared for that kind of thing, after all, he was only eleven, although the problem with that was that with the new form he looked 15, the other problem was that Corvin apparently saw things differently, of course, that made sense, she looked like she was thirteen, and acted like she was fourteen, despite the fact that she was also eleven. Nikal looked back up to Percel.
"All right, I'll talk to her, but what am I supposed to say?"
"Hmm…I have no idea, I really cannot help you with that, you're just going to have to explain to her what is going on."
"…All right, I guess I'll go find her, thanks, Percel right? I don't think I've seen you before, why were you here anyway?"
"I am new here, I just came into town when I noticed you, and decided I would help."
"I am finding that hard to believe, seeing how fast you were moving, I mean, I don't think I've ever seen someone go that fast other than myself, but even then I wouldn't have been able to get there in time, I was to far away." Nikal thought for a second, he then looked up in surprise at Percel. "You must have been trained by Frieza, that's how you got so strong, wow, you may even be almost as fast as he is." Percel looked at him in surprise.
"Doesn't he realize that he is stronger than Frieza, he could squash him into paste in an instant, although, he is just a child, he may not yet understand that Frieza isn't the strongest in the universe, I guess I'll just have to play along."
"Um...no actually, but uh...my father trained under him years ago, and he taught me what he learned." Percel lied.
He started to hear a ping. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a scouter before starting to talk into it quietly.
"Yes, I'm here, yes, I have made contact with him, what? I'll be right there." He turned the scouter off, putting it on his head. "I'm sorry, I have some business to take care of, goodbye, Nikal." He turned and started to walk off.
Nikal watched as he snuck off, he was somewhat confused once he realized that the scouter wasn't standard issue, it seemed like a different model, but the next model to come out wouldn't be here for another few years.
Maybe he has a relative who is high up in the military.
The next thing that Nikal was curious of was what business Percel was talking about, it seemed like it must have been important, and otherwise he wouldn't have whispered through the entire conversation. So, his curiosity peaked, Nikal followed him past the fence and behind the back wall, he hid behind the corner and watched, Percel walked out to the center of the alleyway and reached into his pocket, he then removed a capsule like object, he clicked it and threw it to the ground. In a puff of smoke the capsule was gone and in its place was a strange looking machine, it appeared to be some kind of probe or satellite, Percel quickly got inside, turned on the engine, or at least that is what Nikal assumed they were, and started to put in coordinates. The machine started to glow, rings of light surrounding it, as the machine rose into the air Percel looked out and saw Nikal standing there watching, he was surprised to say the least. He quickly pulled some kind of dial on the console and looked over at Nikal one last time, then the machine was consumed in the white light, and then it was gone.
Nikal didn't see Percel at school again.
As Nikal made his way to class, he noticed two things. First, he noticed that everyone who saw him moved back a step, but, what else was new. The second thing was what confused him, you see, the only people who weren't backing away were girls, and all they did was stand and stare at him, he even noticed a few of them would smile at him.
That's odd, they would never do that before, hmm, why would they be so interested in me? Nikal looked down.
It was just then that it hit him that he looked 4 years older than everyone else his age, and therefore all of the girls around him saw a 15 year old wearing a vest that showed off his chest.
Oh D**m it, I look like an eleven year old schoolgirl's fantasy, that's just perfect, friggin perfect, what else could possibly go wrong?
"Um…I'm sorry but, what's your name? I don't think I've seen you here before."
Nikal turned to see a small girl (Well, she only seems small, to be fair, Nikal gained like a solid 9 inches) standing there, her name was Cyra (yes, that is a pun, see if you can figure it out), and before Nikal knew Polaris, she had been the one who made his life a living hell.
OH GOD, WHY ME, I JUST GOT RID OF POLARI-she doesn't recognize me…oh this will be fun.
He smiled as he formed a plan in his mind, Cyra half smiled and half blushed as she looked at him, then he spoke.
"Oh you know who I am; you've known me for years."
"I…I have?"
"Of course."
"I…I don't think that I've seen you before, really, I'm serious."
"Oh come on now, we have the same math class."
"I am quite certain that I have never seen you before today, seriously, who ARE you?"
By this time the majority of the class was watching to see who this guy was, which is exactly what Nikal wanted, a live audience.
"Sigh…seriously, don't you remember the time that you and your friends tied me up, gagged me, and left me in the janitor's closet for 3 days?" he finished with a chuckle. "Seriously, oh wait, what about the time that you all left me in the forest tied to a tree with a beehive next to me, ha-ha I had so many stings, I couldn't move for a week." Cyra took a step back, starting to get scared.
"How…how did you know about all that? I never told anyone about that, did the others tell you?"
"No, I was there, wasn't I?"
"I…how…who…seriously… how do you know about that?"
"Oh come on Cyra, use that pretty little head of yours, god knows you have to use it eventually." The bystanders laughed at this, causing Cyra to start to get simultaneously nervous and angry, which was the EXACT reaction Nikal was looking for. "Okay, I'll give you a hint, who was the one person who was there for all of those events, that wasn't one of you friends?"
He could see the cogs in her head turning, trying to think of who it could be, he watched as a look of confusion slowly, then very quickly, turned to shock and fear.
"You're…you're…"
"In the flesh, it's been a while, hasn't it?"
"But…but…how?" she stood there stuttering as Nikal walked away, a smug look on his face.
I AM SO SORRY THAT THIS TOOK SO LONG TO COME OUT! I needed a break so that i could work on a book I was writing, but now hopefully i can push these , so, this chapter is shorter than I would like, but I feel like this is a good ending point for the chapter, so I finished it here, anyway, thanks for supporting the story so far, and cheers for the Percel cameo, until next time, Au Revoir.
