Chapter 7

The motors came to a stop in front of a large center with a sign that said: 'Rainbow Training Center'. The building was painted in 6 different colors; white, black, red, blue, yellow, and green. Under the sign, hung a strange symbol. It existed out of a circle, surrounded by 6 others, and they all connected with straight lines. Bulma was amazed by the size of the center. It was a large tower that towered high above the other buildings, and everyone could notice it from afar. She got off of Vegeta's motor, and gazed up at the building, not understanding the meaning of the enormous height of it.

"Hey Bulma, what's your Innate Color anyway?" Elvor asked out of the blue.

Bulma looked at him, confused.

"My what?" she asked.

Laze shook her head, but kept silent. After the gang capsulized their motors, they headed toward the building, and Bulma immediately noticed the circle in front of the door on the ground.

Vegeta stepped onto the circle and raised his left hand. Bulma first thought him crazy, when something on the door lit up.

"Analyzes complete. Vegeta No Ouji Viper. Innate Color… Green. Registered weapon… Axe."

A strange portal opened, and Vegeta walked through it. Elvor stepped up next, and lifted his left hand.

"Analyzes complete. Elvor Crono Greadon. Innate Color… White. Registered weapon… Shape-Changing Rapier."

The same portal opened, and Elvor stepped through. Norak stepped up, and raised his left hand.

"Analyzes complete. Norak Milen. Innate Color… Red. Registered weapon… Staff."

Norak entered in the same fashion.

Bulma was astonished. She had never heard of technology like this before.

"Bulma, step onto the circle and raise your left hand. The computer will help you around," Laze said.

Bulma swallowed, and stood on the circle. Slowly, she raised her hand. The light that shone in her eyes was blinding, and her hand felt warm for a moment.

"Analyzes complete. New attendant; Bulma Briefs. Innate Color… Yellow. Recommended weapon… Dagger."

The portal opened, and Bulma gulped, before stepping through. Laze watched her, before standing up, and raising her hand as well.

"Analyzes complete. Milaya Laze Milen. Innate Color… Black. Registered weapon… Scythe and katana."

Laze easily stepped through, never hearing the last sentence.

"Welcome back…"

Bulma gazed around the room in awe, amazed by the size of the immense room. Thousands of seats surrounded the arena in the center, where racks of weapons were stocked, each a different size and material. Vegeta walked down the rack, and finally grasped an axe with a silver color, which he picked up with relative ease. He studied the blade, slid his finger over it, nodded, and placed it in a sheath on his waist.

Elvor took something that looked like a stick of some sort, but when he flipped it a few times, it changed shape. One time it was an ordinary sword, another time it was a swallow. Finally, it returned to its original shape and was placed into a sheath on his thigh.

Norak simply took a staff with a large gem at the end, but what was odd, was that Norak didn't touch the staff! It just hovered near his hand. With a twirl of his hand alone, the staff twirled along with it. The gem was a blood red color, and seemed to radiate energy.

Laze, unlike the others, grabbed two weapons; one whopper of a scythe, and a shining katana, which was placed in a sheath on her back. She just held onto the scythe.

Bulma remembered what that voice had said, so she walked over to the rack, and walked past it. Finally, she came among a rack of daggers, and she carefully studied them. After awhile, she picked up a silver colored dagger made out of iron. She picked up a sheath, tied it around her waist, but made one side dangle on her hip, before placing the curved dagger in it.

Bulma slashed at Laze with her dagger, but Laze dodged, and lashed at the blue haired genius with her scythe, which Bulma blocked with her dagger. Laze aimed for Bulma's legs, but she blocked again. However, this time, the end of the scythe came up to meet Bulma's face, who looked a little dazed. She shook her head.

"Touché!" she said jokingly.

"Not funny!" Laze snarled and aimed her knee for Bulma's abdomen.

Bulma sidestepped, but Laze whirled around, and her foot connected with Bulma's side, making her fly to the floor. Bulma growled and wiped a small stream of blood from her chin. Her lip had been split by that hit of Laze's scythe. She screamed, grabbed her dagger from where it had fallen to the ground, and ran at Laze, who held up her scythe in defense.

The two continued their sparring session for a long time.

"Bulma!" Vegeta shouted, and Bulma looked up from where she was resting. "Could you come over here for a minute?"

Bulma blinked, but came over anyway.

"What's wrong?" she asked.

"Nothing, but it's just that you're going to need some information about the Innate Colors."

Bulma nodded, and was silent, allowing Vegeta to explain to her, while the others continued to spar.

"There are six different Colors; there's White, Black, Blue, Red, Green, and Yellow. Every Color has its own alternate Color. That of White is Black, and that of Black is White. Which basically means that White is in the advantage against Black, but has a clear disadvantage too, as well as the other way around."

"Huh??" Bulma asked, running a hand through her hair. "Come again?"

"It's hard to explain, but once you understand, it's not that hard. The other pairs, are Blue and Red, and Yellow and Green."

Bulma nodded. She could remember that.

"What's your Innate?"

"Yellow."

"Alright, that means that your attacks are extra effective against me, but mine are extra effective to you too. So you'd better be careful with everyone. Because if you're in the advantage, you'll also be in the disadvantage."

Bulma nodded, even though she still didn't really get it.

"You still don't get it do you?" Vegeta asked, with his arms crossed and one eyebrow raised.

"No I don't," Bulma said with a smile.

The two of them laughed for a moment.

"Yeah, I know. It took us some time to get all of that in our heads as well. But it's not too hard."

Bulma's smile didn't waver.

"This might help you," Vegeta said, pulling something like a watch from his pocket. "It shows your opponent's Innate, which will help you choose Elements."

"Huh?? Elements?"

"Oh! Right!"

Vegeta dove into his pocket again, and pulled out something that looked like a bracelet, but there were 43 circles on it. Three of the circles, were more like indents in the material. Vegeta wrapped it around her arm, and Bulma wondered what it is.

"This is called an Element Grid. You can store Elements in it which can be useful in battle. It's important to have Elements of all Color with you so as not to be surprised by your opponent."

Bulma nodded.

"But, what are Elements?" she asked.

"These," Vegeta said, holding up his hand, in which he held one colored orb that seemed not to be able to fit into the Grid Bulma had.

There was a symbol in the boll shaped thing.

"This happens to be a 'Fireball' Element. There are many different Elements, and it's best that you have Elements of all kinds with you."

Vegeta squeezed the orb, and it instantly shrunk. When he opened his hand, it was small enough to fit in Bulma's Grid. Easily, Vegeta popped the small boll into her Grid.

"How do you use them?" Bulma asked.

Vegeta was about to answer, when he suddenly looked over Bulma's shoulder. Bulma turned around, and gasped.

Black sparks rose from the ground and surrounded Laze for awhile, until it vanished, and she raised her right hand. Sizzling purple electricity crackled around her clenched fist. She pulled back, and with a scream, slammed her fist to the ground. The energy on her hand was directed to the floor, which seemed to dissipate and the whole room shifted to nothing but space. A piercing white orb appeared between herself and Elvor, which soon became surrounded by purple energy that kept spiraling around it.

She raised her hands, aimed them at the energy floating in front of her, and finally screamed what she had practiced for months.

"FOREVER-ZERO!!!"

The energy expanded, and Elvor's eyes were wide in horror as the energy raced toward him. He placed his arms in front of him in a cross and placed his chin in his throat, trying to block.

No such luck.

Bulma and Vegeta got ready for the explosion that they thought would follow, but it didn't. It looked like a television screen was turned off, before everything returned to the room. Laze hadn't moved, and Elvor was laying on the ground, knocked out.

"Wow…" Bulma managed to get out.

Laze straightened up, and smirked wickedly. Elvor finally managed to get up, and looked like he was in a lot of pain, yet there wasn't a single bleeding on his body.

"How did you do that?" he asked, panting.

"It was a special Element I've been practicing for a few months. It took some time, but I finally did it."

Elvor looked down at his shaking, gloved hands.

"Damn. I'm not bleeding, but I feel like shit!"

He looked up and smirked.

"That was a dirty trick!"

Laze smirked too.

"I thought you already knew that… I… al…… ways…… play……… dir……… t…………"

Her voice trailed off as her eyes drooped shut, her scythe clattered onto the ground, her skin paled, her eyes dulled, her knees buckled, and she fell face-first onto the ground.

"LAZE!!!" Norak screamed and ran over.

Elvor gasped, picked up his rapier and ran toward the unconscious girl as well. Vegeta and Bulma ran toward her as well, and looked down at the panting, pale girl now lying in her twin's arms. Her eyes were draped half shut and glazed over, her breathing was uneven, the markings on her face grew a dull gray, while her lips were now an icy blue color, as if she was freezing to death, yet there was perspiration forming on her forehead.

Bulma checked the girl's temperature, and pulled it back instantly.

"Gods! She's burning up!!" she exclaimed, blowing on her hand.

Anja sighed, and stood up from checking her sister's condition. She turned to Bulma and the three Dragon Riders.

"Sorry guys, the poison's gettin' stronger. It's resistin' the medicine," she said grimly.

"What?!?!" Norak demanded.

"Y-y-you're not serious… are you?!" Elvor asked, shaking his head in disbelief.

Vegeta was silent, but was shaking terribly. Bulma was shocked.

'Poison?! But… how?!'

"Bulma, I'm sure ye're wondering what we're talkin' abou', but… I… I don't think ya shoul ask either me or Norak," Anja said, a sad look on her face.

"V-V-Vegeta?" Norak asked, his voice quivering.

Vegeta turned to Norak, and noticed that he was close to crying, something that was rare in the Milen family.

"C-c-could ya tell her? S-s-she really needs ta know."

Vegeta nodded, and guided Bulma from the room.

"Vegeta, what's wrong with Laze?!" Bulma asked once they were out of the room.

Vegeta turned to her, a neutral look on his face, but his eyes were screaming out in pain.

"Have… Do you remember with… with Geography? The teacher was telling about a place called 'El Nido'. Remember?"

Bulma nodded.

"Yeah, it's a group of islands to the east, why?"

"Do you remember what the teacher said about the Hydras in Hydra Marshes?"

Bulma thought hard.

"Uh… something about large snake-like monsters with poison for blood, which can be used to poison people. The result is usually……"

Bulma's eyes widened as she realized what Vegeta was getting at.

"No!!" she said as she shook her head in denial, but Vegeta just nodded.

"B-b-but… how---?!" she asked.

"Didn't you ever notice the scar Laze has on her face?"

Bulma almost said no, when she remembered the diagonal line on Laze's face.

"Oh… my… God…!!"

Bulma looked into the room, and noticed Laze's unmoving form lying on the bed. Her hair was loose again, and her body seemed to be weakening with every passing second. Bulma blinked tears away from her eyes, and turned back to Vegeta.

"I want to know what happened."

Vegeta sighed, but nodded, and Bulma got ready for the story she was about to hear.

Alright, now I KNOW I've played FAR TOO MUCH Chrono Cross!! First the out-fits, and now the Elements as well!! God!! What's next?!?!

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