Disclaimer: Please don't make me repeat myself. Chapter 4 states what I own and what I don't…
Note: Xell's new girlfriend is named Stormi Oaki, by the request of the maker of the character. In the previous chapters, whenever you read Hitomi, think Stormi. :p
The Ultimate Largely Massive Pointlessly-Named Big Final Bout Super Tournament… 5!!! – Chapter 8!
Last time on Dragonball Z:
Zeon: Can't you just come out and say it? Everyone knows you have the hots for her, and boy is she HOT!
Zori: Yes, I know that!
Zeon: So why don't you just take your chance, Zori?
Zori: Zeon, how many times do I have to tell you!? I just can't be rushed into this sort of thing! Sure, I have strong feelings for Lisa-Chan, and I've loved her for the longest time, but there's no possible way I could tell her that! I mean, what if she doesn't like me the same way? Don't you know how much that would devastate me? If my feelings for Lisa-Chan are in vain, then I wouldn't even care if I got my head kicked in half in the next fight I go into…
Lisa-Chan: Z-Zori?
*dramatic pause*
Zori: Yeah?
Lisa-Chan: I… I love you…
Zori was frozen in shock. Had he really just heard what he thought he had? Lisa-Chan had been his desire for years, and had never had the nerve to tell her. Sure, he'd say she's cute and pretty and everything, but Zori had never expected to find out how Lisa felt about him. At least not in the middle of Hawk and Vegeta's fight. What if he hadn't heard right? What if those long-awaited words were just a dream? Zori required confirmation, and he knew it. Zeon, however, was in as big a state of shock as Zori was.
"Umm…" Zori started.
"Whoa, whoa! Let me get something straight with you two," Zeon interrupted. "Did you just say that you're in love with him?"
"Well…" Lisa-Chan replied. "Yeah… Hey, super heroines gotta fall in love too, ya know…" Now Zori was sure of it! Lisa-Chan loved him! The answer kept repeating in his mind to remind him and so that it would be at least one (if the only) thing he'd remember if he were to pass out. LISA-CHAN LOVED HIM.
"O-oh, my God! This is great!!" Zori cried out in joy. "I can't believe it! Is it really true, Lisa-Chan?" Zori's face had turned completely red as Lisa-Chan leaned closer to him.
"I guess my voice was too soft for you to hear…" she stated. "Well, you know what they say: actions speak louder than words!" Before Zori could make another movement, or even get a grip on what was going on for that matter, Lisa-Chan had locked her lips onto his. It was at that moment that the audience roared in cheer. Of course! The fight!
"Hey, you guys! Don't forget about the fight!" Zeon called. But it was unmistakable that Lisa-Chan and Zori weren't paying the slightest bit of attention to their surroundings. This left Zeon with only the fight to concentrate on. That was when he noticed something about Hawk Flamewind. His fighting pattern was familiar somehow. As he carefully noted how Hawk used his Flamewind attack (which was similar to a Kamehameha, except with rings of fire surrounding it) to counter Vegeta's Final Flash, Zeon definitely had some idea that he's seen similar attacks before…
In the heat of the battle, the pressure was proving too much even for the cocky Saiyan prince. Hawk, however, looked as though he had the winning edge.
"So, how does defeat feel, Vegeta?" Hawk asked. "Do you even HAVE a power level?"
"D-d-d-d-… DAMN IT!" Vegeta called out. "I… will not… lose… to the… to the likes of YOU!" Now unfortunately for him, this was Vegeta's last phrase of the match. A sudden slide in the energy discharges saw a ring of fire heading around the Final Flash and straight toward Vegeta! Upon contact, everything flashed red for the next ten seconds. When everything returned to regular colours, Hawk was standing in the middle of the arena, Angel was cheering from the sidelines, and only half of Vegeta's left leg could be seen. This was due to the rest of his body being in a corridor leading to a waiting area, out of the view of the audience. Wearily standing up, Vegeta cursed and walked away.
"Vegeta has vacated the arena!" Bulma announced. "He normally wouldn't do that, folks, but he landed outside the fighting zone anyway, so our winner is Hawk 'Saiyan Badass' Flamewind!"
"Wait a minute, how come WE didn't get nicknames in our battles?" Zeon asked as Hawk re-entered the waiting area under the stands.
"Maybe you should have asked for one?" Hawk replied. "But I don't remember asking to be called 'Saiyan Badass'…" That's when something caught on to Hawk's mind. "Angel, you asked for it, didn't you?" Angel just put on an innocent face until she noticed Lisa-Chan and Zori undergoing a type of wrestling you won't often see in the arena: lip-wrestling. (What were YOU thinking, perv!? Just kidding…)
"Well, well, well…" Angel smirked. "Looks like things decided to heat up between you two lovebirds after all!" Lisa-Chan pointed toward the ground where Angel was standing and a cloud of flame shot from her finger, causing Angel to jump back in fear and realise the literacy of the term "heating up". "OK, OK, I get your point!" Angel cried. (Awful pun, I know) "I hope Veggie's not too mad after Hawk kicked his ass!"
"I imagine he will be. After all, Vegeta is Vegeta…" Zeon replied. "But if I know Zeron, he'll be ready for old Veggie, am I right?" Hawk gave Zeon a funny look.
"How is it that you know me by that name?" he asked. "Unless… hey, you're the Mystic Zeon who I battled nearly a year ago, aren't you?"
"Yeah… your Flamewind attack definitely wasn't as powerful then as it is now…" That's when Zeon and Hawk remembered. A year ago, somewhere underground, Hawk had conceded defeat to Zeon in an all-out one-on-one battle.
"You beat me last time…" Hawk stated. "But next time will be different." After a few seconds of silence, a soft yet perceptible rumble was heard among the group. All eyes turned to Lisa-Chan, who quickly blushed and giggled.
"Hey, super heroines gotta eat too, ya know…"
At the tournament's food court, Gokan was 'enjoying' the sight of Amy stuffing her face to replenish her energy. 'How can one unimaginably busty girl eat so much and not gain a single pound?' Gokan thought as he resumed tucking into a rather large selection of food. Of course, being two Saiyans fused as one, Gokan had the appetite of at least 20 people, but being a RocketGirl with an enormous amount of spirit energy, Amy seemed to have the appetite of hundreds! DJ, Xell and Stormi were there too, probably with the same thoughts as Gokan.
"Err, so DJ…" Xell started. "Does Amy ever have to worry about whether there's enough food back where you guys live?"
"No need to worry, there's tons of food!" DJ replied. "But the thing with Amy is she hosts so much spirit energy that when she gets hungry, she REALLY gets hungry! I mean, she literally radiates the stuff!" Stormi seemed puzzled.
"I can't really see Amy radiating anything…" she said "Although the vast amount she's eating kinda takes away my appetite…"
"I dunno, I'm getting kinda hungry." Xell said. DJ suddenly sat up straight, tensing his muscles and assaulting his senses.
"Try concentrating really hard…" he said. "As though you're trying to watch a fight when everyone's moving really fast…"
"OK…" Xell replied as he joined in "But I thought we weren't supposed to try to see anything?"
"Exactly… just look in Amy's general direction while not really concentrating on anything, and you'll see what I mean…" Gokan didn't find this too difficult. Watching speedy fights came naturally for Goku, and Gohan remembered Piccolo teaching him, so the combined Saiyan efforts paid off. Even Stormi, who knew next to nothing about these highly advanced battle techniques, was giving it her best shot. Then, although invisible to everyone else in the room, a gold, shining aura started flowing around Amy's body. Xell was shocked when he first saw it, but when he blinked the aura was gone. Stormi found the aura pretty and wanted to experience the sight some more, but she could only go on for so long without blinking. Again, the aura disappeared. Gokan had held on for the longest time, only stopping when Amy noticed his vacant expression.
"Hey, what are you guys
staring at?" Amy asked, cheerfully. "I didn't spill anything on my shirt, did
I? I'm sometimes clumsy like that…"
"Nah, you didn't spill anything,
Aimes…" DJ replied. "I was just teaching Xell, Stormi and Gokan how to see your
spirit energy. Now, you guys, I reckon that Amy won't be full up until that
aura you just saw fills up the whole of this room when we concentrate…"
"WHAT!?" Xell cried out, falling backward. "The entire room? That's amazing!"
"So that's why she doesn't get fat… most of the sugary things in all that food she eats must be converted to spirit energy…" Gokan suggested.
"That's right! That's not all it's used for, though, we also need spirit energy for our attacks. I remember once when Lisa tried firing a ki ball at a huge robot and it hardly damaged him at all, so I gave her a huge tub of ice cream, and after she'd finished eating and tried the same attack, she blew the robot sky high!"
"N-no kidding…" Xell commented. "But wouldn't that put us at a disadvantage? I mean, all Amy, Lisa or Leanne would have to do is eat a lot and they could level any opponent with a single blow!"
"Not necessarily," DJ explained. "The process of Spirit Energy's very delicate, so if Amy were to eat a lot and go into battle, there's a chance of the power actually turning against her…"
"In what way?" Gokan inquired. Suddenly, the area around the group darkened as though DJ were about to unveil a frightful secret.
"There are countless possibilities… they can range from small disruptions of energy, which would cause a mere stomach-ache, to rather big disruptions which can lead to apocalyptic explosions. Fortunately, an explosion hasn't occurred yet." As DJ finished his explanation, the lighting reverted to normal. Amy didn't seem at all uncomfortable with all the talk about her body (or to be exact, the energy generated by her body) as she continued happily snacking away on her favourite desserts. Stormi's face, however, had substituted its usual tone for a ghostly shade of white.
"If the Spirit Energy can explode, does it kill whoever's energy is disrupted?" she asked.
"I should hope not, but it hasn't actually happened to a Rocket yet. We have, however, done extensive testing on synthetic subjects." DJ replied.
"Synthetic?" Gokan asked. "You mean you have your own laboratory back home?"
"Well,
not me personally. Liz Geralski is our science genius, plus Lyla and
Carley work for the police, so they have that Forensics thing. If I were to try
anything in a lab I doubt if this planet would still be here!" DJ laughed as he
imagined how dangerous it would be to let him even 30 feet within any explosive
chemicals. While many others managed to keep their level of serenity, Stormi
was becoming increasingly worried.
"Ummm, maybe Amy should stop
eating now?" she suggested. "Otherwise her spirit energy might kill us all!"
"No need to worry, Stormi…" DJ
replied, laughing again. "Amy won't be battling for quite a while, even after
she's eaten her fill. The next match is between Delon and Kage, and after that
I think Zin's facing Piccolo…"
"That's right, DJ. But
who's facing Hercule?" Any asked, albeit with her mouth full. Amy never usually
forgot her manners, but despite this minor setback, Amy's 'full-mouth' voice
was very cute.
"No idea whatsoever." Stormi
replied. "They still haven't decided upon a contestant for him…"
"Maybe it's because he
can't beat any of us!?" Xell stated, laughing his head off.
"No offence, but even YAMCHA
could beat Hercule!" Gokan added. Somewhere on a back table, a certain
not-so-powerful "world champion" hadn't heard a thing. Or perhaps he pretended
not to…
(A/N: Damn, that paragraph was long!)
Back at the arena, Bulma was just about ready to make the call.
"Bulma, the fight's not scheduled for another five minutes…" Chichi warned.
"Oh, don't be such a
prude!" Bulma retorted. "People have read through a paragraph that's 99 lines
long! They HAVE to be thirsty for a good fight! Will contestants Delon and Kage
please report to the arena where your bout is about to take place?" as though
waiting for the cue, Delon and Kage rushed up to their respective places on the
arena floor.
"It's about time!!" Kage called,
excitedly.
"I have to admit, I was
eagerly waiting for this to start…" Delon calmly said, though a grin was
evident on his usually expressionless face. Kage noticed this, and a smirk
emerged on his face too.
"I guess this means you're ready
to start…" he said.
"Well…" Bulma started. "Since Krillin still hasn't shown up yet, I guess I'd better tell you guys when to start fighting, OK? Start fighting!!!"
"Allow me to start things off…" Kage said as, in a sudden flash, he appeared behind Delon, but before any further movement could be made, Delon delivered a swift kick to the head. Quickly bouncing back from this, Kage leapt into the air to attempt a different approach, but a wrongly timed kick left Kage open to another attack! Using a deft uppercut, Delon sent Kage flying high into the air, but it wasn't long before Kage fell back down, landing on Delon's head! Both fighters fell to the ground, holding their heads in pain.
"Oww!!! Lucky shot!" Delon said.
"You haven't seen anything yet, Delon!" Kage yelled as he jumped to his feet. "I hope you're ready… you're up against the one and only Supreme Saiyan!"
"That doesn't scare me one bit…" was Delon's reply. "All I have to offer you is a crushing defeat, but if you want it that badly, come and get it…"Both competitors rushed to the centre of the arena at the same time, being sure to throw a punch at each other while being wary in order to dodge whatever he had coming. The only possible outcome was for both Delon and Kage to miss each other.
"Damn… you're pretty fast…" Delon said. "But let's see you dodge THIS!" Delon held his left hand out toward Kage and clenched it into the tightest fist he could, until his entire hand was glowing in a rather metallic silver colour. He then opened his hand and a barrage of little ki attacks were shot forth.
"No…" Kage started. "I can't lose to someone as weak as you!!" Kage threw as many ki blasts as possible with every ounce of energy he had. In order to spice things up (and try to catch Kage off guard) Delon rushed toward Kage and darted to the right. Kage mirrored this action, moving left instead. Eventually the ki blasts stopped and both of them were just standing face-to-face, holding their palms out as if to blast one another.
"…you're empty…" Kage smirked.
"…so are you…" Delon replied.
"What do you say to us making things a little more interesting?" Kage asked.
"If you're referring to the both of us charging up to full Ki levels and using our best attacks against each other, it's too similar to the Zori Vs. Amy match…"
"…………shit………" The next thing Kage felt was Delon's right foot crashing through his ankle, causing him to lose his footing. Before Kage could hit the floor, Delon's left foot flew up, kicking Kage into the air. Before he could get too high, however, the final kick of the combo, a downward kick with the right leg, sent Kage back to the floor. "Grrrrr! Not bad… I admit you caught me by surprise…" Kage said. Then he quickly got up and delivered a kick so fast Delon wouldn't have seen it coming if it was recorded and played back in slow motion! This sent Delon flying toward the edge of the arena, but something seemed to flare up inside him as Kage flew forth, intent on delivering a blow that would surely send Delon out of the arena and disqualify him. Rather than let this happen, Delon quickly rolled to one side, grabbed Kage's ankle and threw him down just outside the arena, forcing him to hit the grass below.
"I didn't actually want to hurt you…" Delon said. "But you left me no choice…"
"OK, this one's officially over!" Bulma exclaimed. "Delon is the winner!"
"This means there's only two matches left of the beginning heat!" Chichi said. "What are we gonna do if we don't find a contestant for Hercule?"
"We really shouldn't be worrying about that right now, Chichi. Let's worry about it after the next fight is over, OK?"
"OK, Bulma. Our next fight is between Zin and Piccolo!"
Nothing interesting really happened between the fights. Lisa and Zori kissed some more, Zeon made jokes to embarrass Zori, and DJ and Amy ate to their hearts' content. Everyone else just crowded around to watch Zin and Piccolo as they faced each other in the arena.
"You both know the rules, right?" Chichi asked.
"We only heard them 800 times last night while you babbled about it in your sleep…" Piccolo retorted. "We could hear you two rooms down!" Chichi blushed.
"I… guess 'yes', then. In that case, you know what to do…"
"Yeah, tell the audience about you ordering a PVC suit and a leather whip, plus what you plan to have Goku do to you when this tournament's over!" Zin called. "You told us all THAT in your sleep, too!" Chichi's face blossomed into a deep crimson colour. Piccolo looked at Zin with interest.
"I must have fallen asleep before she said that…" Piccolo said.
"Actually, I just made it up!" Zin replied, grinning. "How about I tell you what her name means?"
"JUST FIGHT ALREADY!" Chichi yelled. She absolutely did NOT want everyone to know what her name meant. Knowing it's not wise to get Chichi angry, Piccolo quickly rushed in to attack Zin. Before Piccolo could reach him, however, Zin quickly jumped and sent a foot crashing into the back of his neck. Piccolo was sent to the ground so fast, the recoil bounced him high enough to send a punch to Zin's face, and thus the both of them initiated in blisteringly fast hand-to-hand combat.
"These two certainly know how to get stuck into these battles!" cried Lisa, who was watching from the side with Zori, DJ, Amy, Zeon and Gokan.
"I can't stand this fighting…" Amy said. "It's so barbaric…"
"Then why did you enter the tournament, Balloon Breasts?" Lisa retorted.
"It was YOUR idea!" Amy yelled in reply, pointing at Lisa as though to emphasise the fact that it was indeed her idea.
"Girls, you can stop arguing now…" DJ said, becoming the referee once again. "Amy, I know the tournament was Lisa's idea, but you could have always refused the offer…"
"Not when she forged my signature on the application forms, I couldn't…" Amy sighed, sadly. Zeon couldn't help but burst out laughing.
"What is it, Zeon?" Gokan asked.
"Those two are such a comical pair! Even more so than Zori and I!" Zeon replied. 'Well, not quite…' Gokan thought. 'I'd say all four of you bring out the fun in this little adventure…'
"Lisa, you really forged Amy's signature?" Zori asked.
"I wanted to toughen her up a little…" Lisa replied. "I mean, look at her, she's a wuss! A Balloon Breasted WUSS!" Lisa could say no more before the foot of a certain "wuss" crashed into the back of her head.
"I heard that!" Amy scowled. Lisa got back up to her feet, holding the back of her head and growling in agony, as though she'd been shot.
"Ouch!!" Lisa cried. "Amy, that was LOW!"
"I don't understand you sometimes, Lisa…" Gokan said. "You wanna train her to not cry when you tease her, right? Well, she didn't cry. In fact, she fought back! Isn't that what you want?"
"Yeah, I want her to fight back, all right…" Lisa groaned. "When I'm ready!" DJ just sighed.
"Looks like there's only one way to stop these two…" he said as he sat, got a book out of nowhere and started reading. "I've never actually tried this method before, so I don't know if it's safe…"
"What book's that, DJ?" Gokan asked.
"What else?" DJ replied. "How To Stop The Time…"
"You're not trying THAT, are you?" Vegeta snapped as he arrived. Bakaryu, Hawk and Angel were with him.
"You got a problem, Veggie?" DJ asked.
"Stop calling me Veggie!!!" Veggie yelled. "I don't even know why I'm wasting my time with you! I should be out training for my next match! Every second I waste here could have been used to advance my skills to the highest level!"
"And become a Super Saiyan 46 hundred, blah, blah, blah…" Lisa yawned.
"Who do you think you are!?" Vegeta yelled. "You should be fearing me, little girl! I'm the prince of the Saiyans, remember!? I am the strongest fighter in the universe!" Lisa yawned again.
"I could beat you with both hands tied behind my back…" she said. Vegeta was infuriated!!
"Well, it would have to be, since you can't get them both around your front!" He yelled, pointing at Lisa's chest. "And, if you keep up all this snacking like you RocketGirls do, you won't be able to GET both hands behind your back!!"
"Veggie, enough is enough…" DJ said.
"And you can cut the 'Veggie' crap, spike ball! How would you know when enough is enough!? You wouldn't know a good fight if it hit you in the face while you're charming the pants off of these stupid, whiny bimbos!" Lisa stood right in front of Vegeta and pushed him back.
"Take that back!" She yelled. Vegeta was in no mood to take anything back, as Lisa was about to find out…
Back on the arena, Zin and Piccolo were beginning to take it to the sky with all the fighting and stuff. A swift elbow jab from Zin knocked Piccolo down to the ground, just in time to narrowly miss Lisa, who had just been sent flying as result of a punch from Vegeta.
"Hey! What where you're sending people with your punches!" Zin yelled.
"Oh, you want some too, do you!?" Vegeta roared. Zin was about to reply when Piccolo caught him by surprise with a jab to the back.
"That was just low!" Zin said as he recovered and began attacking Piccolo again. Bulma and Chichi were watching from the booth, as usual.
"I have two words for that husband of yours," Chichi said. "Anger Management."
"You're a fine one to talk!" Bulma retorted. "Have you seen yourself after you lose a bet on those steeplechases? I wouldn't wish you on anybody! Not even that girl who keeps getting Vegeta mad…"
"Well, it's not like it's hard to get that blowhard mad, Bulma! I'm surprised he didn't spank Bra and ground her for saying his moustache was lame that time when he grew one!"
"God, don't remind me of that time…" Bulma sighed. "The censors forced me to call her Bula. I mean, why BULA? When I first told Bra about it, she locked herself in her room and cried for weeks! Poor thing…"
"No more distractions, Zin!" Piccolo called as he charged up energy and prepared to fire a beam from his finger. "SPECIAL BEAM CANNON!"
"What?" Zin asked.
"Oops. Sorry… MANKENPOSOPO!!!" The energy of the Mankenposopo beam shot forth from Piccolo's fingers and straight at Zin! But was he about to allow this powerful ray to hit him so easily?
"Take THIS, Piccolo!" Zin yelled as he put his palms forth, initiating a ki attack. "MANKENPOSO-KAMEHAMEHA!" Another powerful wave of energy shot from Zin and counteracted Piccolo's Mankenposopo. Now both beams were straining against each other, determined to prove themselves as the dominant beam.
Meanwhile, somewhere in the audience, Amy had rushed over to help Lisa after Vegeta's surprise attack.
"Lisa, are you all right?" Amy cried.
"Am I allowed to KILL that hard-headed asswipe!?" Lisa groaned as she got to her feet. Someone from above the stands dropped a Blitzball, which hit Lisa on the head first, then bounced off her chest. "OWW!!! Hey, kid! That hurts!" Lisa cried.
"Sorry!" replied the kid. "Can I have my Blitzball back now?" Amy threw the Blitzball back up to the stands. (BTW, as you may have already guessed, I don't own Final Fantasy X. It's a shame, really. Rikku-chan's so CUTE!) It was when Lisa had finished mumbling obscenities and got back to her feet again when Amy underwent a shocking revelation.
"Wait a minute…" Amy said. "Lisa, do you know what that Blitzball looked like?"
"Gee, I dunno. A round object people kick, maybe?" Lisa replied, sarcastically. "Go on, what are you getting at?"
"Oh, nothing…" Amy smirked. "…….Blitzball Boobs." A look of embarrassment, shock and anger enveloped Lisa's face.
"What did you just say?!" she shrieked.
"You heard me!" Amy smiled. "Pay attention, Blitzball Boobs, this fight's getting somewhere. It looks like…" Before Amy could finish, another shocking event triggered which made Lisa freeze in fear. "Lisa, what is it?" Amy asked.
"Amy, something REALLY bad's heading this way…" Lisa stuttered.
"What is it? Is it a monster?"
"Nope…"
"It's not Aeris, is it!?" Amy cried.
"Nope… this is worse… I can feel it…"
"Worse than Aeris?" Amy inquired. "So, what IS it?"
"It's a… a…"
END OF CHAPTER 8
"…cliff-hanger…"
OK, it's taken many months (due to writer's block and college work) but chapter 8 is finally finished! In chapter 9 we conclude the match between Zin and Piccolo, and we finally get to see who Hercule fights against! Sorry it's taken so long, but I've been getting stuck with the fights, and my personal tutor keeps confusing me! But now I'm out of college and I never have to see him again!!! *does a happy dance* What will things be like now that Amy has a counteract to Lisa's name calling? You'll have to read chapter 9 to find out!