Chapter 13

In the next room, was nothing.

"Damn! All this way for nothing!!" Asoret cursed angrily.

Vegeta sighed in anger and dismay.

"Where is that Earth Dragon!?" he demanded.

"That's what I like to know!! There's supposed to be a Dragon here!!!" Elvor shouted.

"Uh… guys?" Haelles said.

"What?!?!" Vegeta demanded angrily.

Haelles pointed upward, and everyone looked up, and instantly, their eyes were as wide as saucers.

"I was wondering when you might show up," a seemingly young feminine half-Dragon said, dressed in yellow clothes, and the same color hair.

She had on a pair of pants with some loose shoes and a sleeveless shirt. Her hair was long and spiked for some odd reason.

"You humans made me wait forever!!" she complained, and jumped down the ledge she had been on, landing gently by using her wings to diminish speed. "The Black Dragon Twins told me a lot about you. Trying to save a poisoned child, huh? Hydra poison was it? Well, that's tough luck! No more Hydras around for the antidote!"

Vegeta growled angrily.

"Are you the Earth Dragon?!" he demanded.

"Who-ho-ho!! You should watch that temper of yours, boy! You could get seriously hurt!" the Dragon taunted.

"Oh! Terra! Stop taunting him already!!" Haelles said.

The Dragon, obviously named Terra, turned to Haelles and pouted.

"Awe! Phooey!! You're no fun!! You always have to ruin my fun!!" she complained, then seemed to cheer up. "Doesn't matter!"

She turned to the group in general.

"If you want my relic, you're going to have to beat me first! But I warn you! I'm not as easy as I look!!"

Terra might look innocent, but that was the outside, as she wielded a razor-sharp swallow. Everyone was standing in a battle pose, ready to fight. Vegeta ran toward the Dragon and tried to hit her with his axe, but she either dodged, or blocked. Asoret readied his bow, and while Vegeta was keeping the Dragon busy, he fired. And it was a direct hit. Terra screamed out in shock as the arrow implanted itself in her shoulder, giving Vegeta the opportunity to get some hits in. Terra didn't like this, so she kicked him away, leaving a shoe mark on his cheek as well.

A tap on her shoulder made her turn around, only to receive a blow to her jaw from Haelles.

"Sorry Terra, but you were asking for it," he apologized.

Terra shook her head, and relocated her jaw, before growling angrily, until she smirked. She placed her palms flat on the ground, and kicked Haelles where it hurt, before sending a punch to his chin, making him fly away.

Terra smiled, when a sudden pain in her leg made her cry out. She looked down, and noticed a pin in her leg. When Terra looked back up, she could just dodge a pin aimed at her head.

"AH ZUT!!!" Ancha cursed. "Ah well."

Blazing red sparks circled around her, and she screamed: "FIRE BLAZE!!"

A boll of fire energy formed around Terra, centered, then exploded.

"Ooooh!!! Why you!!" Terra hissed.

Yellow sparks rose up around her, and she screamed: "ELECTROBOLT!!!"

Ancha gasped and looked up. Electricity began gathering above her head, and Ancha knew what would happen.

"Uh-oh," she whispered, before the bolt hit her.

Goku winced, but grabbed his sword and was determined to finish this. By using an old technique he had learned when he had been with the Acacia Dragoons. Ultimate blue sparks surrounded him.

"INVINCIBLE!!!" he screamed, and raced forward, slashing at Terra in different angles and lines, before slashing across one of her wings, immobilizing her to the ground.

Terra screamed out in pain as not only her body was hit, but her wing as well. Because if a Dragon has a wound on his or her wing, it can take months, maybe even years to heal.

"You bastard!!!" she shouted, trying to cover up the bleeding on her wing. "You're going to pay for that one!! UPHEAVAL!!!" she shouted as yellow sparks once again arose around her.

Goku gasped, but couldn't stop it. Large rocks shot from the ground, and hurled him against the ceiling, before making him fall flat on the ground.

Elvor growled as he screamed: "TURNBLACK!!!"

Terra looked confused at the black energy surrounding her, until a mass of white sparks surrounded him. His rapier changed into a swallow, he lifted off of the floor, twirled around in the air once, and ended up holding the swallow with one hand, aimed at the Dragon. Behind him, a white, ghostly figure of himself, only without the swallow, was following his movements as the world turned black. The see-through figure seemed to hold something that seemed like a large glowing arrow, before Elvor screamed the name of the attack.

"FLYING ARROW!!!!"

He shot at the Dragon, who felt that one, rather badly. She stood up, and growled.

"Two can play at that game!!" she said. "TURNGREEN!!!"

Green energy spiraled around Elvor.

"This can't be good," he mumbled.

"It sure as Hell isn't!!" Terra screamed. "GERANIMO!!!" she hollered as yellow sparks surrounded her.

She jumped into the air, spun around wildly, then dove at Elvor with such an impact, that it sent him into a wall.

Bulma snorted, and ran toward Terra, dagger in hand. She lashed at Terra with her dagger, but the Dragon blocked. Terra twirled her swallow around and sent it crashing down onto Bulma, who quickly bent to one knee on the ground and blocked the blade. Terra tried to make Bulma yield, but she wouldn't, and pushed Terra aside. Terra whirled her swallow around, and almost hit Bulma, hadn't she handflipped away from the Dragon. When Bulma stopped, she ran at the Dragon again. Their weapons clashed with loud clangs of metal, but neither of them managed to get a good hit in.

Terra screamed out as a pin hit her heel (and remember, that's where one's Achilles tendon is!) and Bulma managed to get a few lucky hits in. Asoret ran toward the Dragon as well, and together with Bulma, lashed out at her. Terra was having hard time with blocking them both, and it was stating to grow rather annoying. She kicked Bulma in her abdomen, sending her a small distance away, and focussed her attention to Asoret.

Bulma rubbed over her sore abdomen, amazed by the strength behind that one kick.

"Cure!!!" a familiar voice said and blue sparks surrounded Bulma, making her feel better.

She looked over at Vegeta, who had been the source of the blue Element cast her way. Vegeta looked at her, and nodded. Bulma smiled and did the same, but then she turned to Terra with a look of anger again.

Vegeta focussed his energy, and finally cast a Green Element.

"VITAL ENERGY!!!" he screamed.

From the tip of his axe, shot forth a beam twice the size of his weapon, and it hit Terra straight in her chest, sending her into a wall. Terra growled angrily, and focussed her energy.

"ELECTROJOLT!!!!" she finally screamed as yellow sparks surrounded her.

Electricity crackled around Vegeta, and they hit him, more than once. And because Vegeta was an Innate Green, it hurt him more than it hurt others.

Bulma held onto her dagger, and suddenly noticed some sort of plate that Terra was holding, besides the swallow she was fighting with. Bulma focussed her energy, then screamed the name of her new tech.

"QUICK SNATCH!!!"

She ran at Terra, and ran around her, making Terra spin around once.

When Terra could stop her head from spinning, she noticed to her shock, that that kid had stolen her plate!! She looked up, angered out of her wits.

"WHY YOU BITCH!!! YOU ARE SOOOOO DEAD!!! GROUP-TURNGREEN!!!!"

Green energy spiraled around everyone but Terra, and they knew this couldn't be good.

"YELLOWFIELD!!!" was the next thing to escape Terra's mouth.

Vegeta's Innate Guide bleeped to life, and showed a small picture of three ellipses, each a pure yellow. Vegeta looked up in shock.

'Oh shit!!'

"EARTHSHATTER!!!" Terra hollered, and before anyone knew what happened, the earth beneath their feet began to shatter, and the ground looked like it was ready to swallow them up.

They hurried out of the holes, climbing up as fast as possible, but getting hurt in the process.

After that, Vegeta was wounded the most, and Terra's next target. She ran toward him, surprisingly fast, and lashed out at him with her swallow and her claws, which finally made him black out because of the blood-loss. Elvor saw this, and cursed angrily.

"REVIVE!!!" he screamed as white sparks flew up, centered, and merged into Vegeta, and again, a piece of his heart broke.

Haelles was panting heavily, so he used one of his own Elements.

"RECOVERALL!!!" he screamed, as the white sparkles came and healed everybody.

Terra growled, royally pissed off. Suddenly, Elvor looked from one to another of his friends, then smirked.

"Hey Vegeta," he said, and Vegeta turned to face him. "Remember that technique we used to do when we were kids?"

Vegeta smirked, and turned to Terra. Elvor did too. White sparkles arose from both of them.

"Dash & Slash!!" Elvor shouted.

"Run & Kill!!" Vegeta shouted after it.

And then, at the same time, they screamed: "X-STRIKE!!!!"

They ran so fast, that it was hard to notice, but a large X was slashed across Terra's chest, and she cried out in pain as she fell back, onto the ground.

Terra was now sitting up, smiling like a satisfied child.

"Now that was fun!!" she said.

She stood up, her wounds instantly healed.

"Here, you guys deserve this," she said, and pulled out a yellow artifact.

The Yellow Relic.

"You humans are good! We should do this again!" she said, waved them farewell, and flew upward, toward the place she had come from.

Bulma stared at the relic that Vegeta was holding.

"Wow, it's lovely," she said, watching the light bounce right off, giving it the effect of amber.

It probably was anyway.

After leaving Earth Dragon Isle, there was another goodbye. Asoret said he had to head to his father and aunt on Marbule, and told them to visit whenever they had to be there. They promised that they would, and Asoret left them on their own.

"So, now where do we go?" Bulma asked.

Elvor looked at the map, trying to decide whom to visit next.

"We could visit Water Dragon Isle, and afterward, we can head towards Mt. Pyre, how's that Vegeta?" Elvor asked.

"Sure, whatever," Vegeta mumbled.

Elvor blinked in confusion at Vegeta's odd behavior.

"Hey, you alright Vegeta?" he asked.

"Just fine," Vegeta said calmly, not turning to face Elvor.

Haelles raised an eyebrow at him, but kept silent.

They had decided to head for Guldove to spend the night, not really feeling at all that good to either head for Arni or Termina. Guldove was a small village, but it was beautiful nonetheless. There were a lot of Demi-Humans in Guldove, but no one bothered with it. Ancha took Bulma shopping for some more Elements, as well as some food for the long trip. The town was small, but they had some great Elements. They bought a few Blue, Red (especially Red), White and Black Elements, for those were the ones they didn't have too many off.

The night was still young, but they ate nice and early, planning to get up with the sun. Bulma didn't mind; she really wanted to help Laze. As they sat in a small café, they each thought of the things they had to do when they'd reach Water Dragon Isle. Search for the Water Dragon was obvious, but how were they going to find it? Elvor was studying the map that Bulma had copied during Geography, and studied the currents of the water, which Bulma had written down as well, even though Elvor knew them from the back of his head. He moved his hand past the currents, heading toward Mt. Pyre, when he noticed a few spirals there.

"Bulma, what are these?" he asked.

"Oh, that's mist, it was on the map, so I painted it on it. Don't know why it's there though," Bulma said.

Elvor didn't really pay attention to it. He had that feeling again. He looked out the window, not knowing what there was to see, but something told him it was out there.

Somewhere.

Reviews:

Hope: Yeah, but those roaches are damned ugly! Jeez!

Guitar Daughter of Piccolo: Yep. That's what I meant. And no, I don't play an instrument, because I didn't get a single lesson in music.

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