Chapter 18

Vegeta's mind went crazy the second she kissed him, one half screaming at him to push her away, to not let her toy with his mind, while the other half told him to response to her. He had no idea whose side he was on, so he didn't know what to do. When Bulma pulled away, she noticed the boy's dazed expression, and didn't realize that she had been one of the first to do that. They stared at each other, Bulma with a confused look, and Vegeta with a half dazed look. Suddenly;

"Yo lovebirds!!" a familiar voice said, and they both turned to face Elvor, a worried look on his face. "You two have to see this!!"

Pyro, the Fire Dragon, laid the sick child down on the bed Bulma'd been laying on minutes ago. The girl looked horrible. She was starting to loose both flesh and weight, making her look thin, and her hair was more like a really light yellow or something, her skin was pure white, the markings on her face weren't even visible anymore, and her breathing was uneven. They all looked worried, and each wondered why Laze had left Arni in the first place.

"So, that's the girl you're trying to save?" Pyro asked.

"Yeah, but what is she doing here?" Vegeta wondered aloud.

"Wouldn't know. But I think that it'd be better if you fight me for the Red Relic before the girl dies."

Elvor, Ancha, Bulma and Vegeta looked at her, and noticed that Pyro was worried about the child as well.

"Alright."

Pyro smirked at Vegeta, and left the room.

Outside of the room, she turned to them.

"Although the girl's ill, I can't disobey the rules. Defeat me, and the relic will be yours. Now let's fight!!"

Pyro fought with a double-edged axe, just like Vegeta, only she held the axe behind her neck and had her arms slung over it, one leg crossed across her other. Before the battle, they had all allocated some extra Blue Elements, just incase.

Bulma noticed the same plate once again, and she wondered what on earth they were for.

Yellow sparks surrounded her, and she cried: "QUICK SNATCH!!!"

She placed her dagger in her sheath quickly, and ran toward Pyro. With one hit, Pyro was sent spiraling, and Bulma hurriedly snatched the plate from the Fire Dragon. Pyro shook her head to stop it from spinning.

"Wow, not bad kiddo, but not good enough!"

Blue sparks surrounded her. No words were yelled. Strange squares appeared around the group, and the four squares were connected with electric energy.

The gang looked confused as the squares and the electricity vanished.

"What waz zat?" Ancha asked.

"Don't know, don't care!!" Goku hissed, and ran toward Pyro.

He lashed out at her, but Pyro blocked and gracefully jumped aside. Goku growled, and blue sparks surrounded him. Pyro smirked.

"AQUABE---huh??"

Goku never got to finish, because just then, the sparks created four bolls, which merged, and flew away, straight into Pyro's waiting hand. When she opened her hand, she was holding a Blue Element.

"Aquabeam," she mumbled, shrugging her shoulders. "Oh well."

Bulma's eyes were wide when she said: "She stole an Element!!"

Pyro suddenly vanished, and reappeared in front of Bulma. Bulma looked up in surprise, not having noticed that Pyro was quite a few inches taller and more muscular than she was.

"You stole from me, so I steal from you," Pyro said, before bending over and elbowing Bulma in her abdomen, making her gasp in pain.

Pyro's fist connected with her face, and her foot connected to her side, swinging her straight into Vegeta.

Vegeta groaned as Bulma banged into him, but he managed to keep the two of them to their feet. Goku growled and ran toward Pyro again. Pyro jumped up to avoid having her feet cut off, and landed square on the blade. Goku looked up in shock, only to receive a kick to his face, sending him back. Pyro screamed as a pin connected with her arm. She growled ferociously, and glared at Ancha, who was the culprit behind it. Ancha simply stood her ground, not really caring. She was of the Red Innate after all. And as long as Pyro didn't use TurnBlue, everything was fine.

"Why you!" Pyro hissed, then ran at Ancha.

Ancha received an elbow to her face, which sent her back, before having Pyro slash across her stomach. Vegeta growled and ran at Pyro. Pyro ran at Vegeta at the same time. They slashed past each other, a loud clanging sound heard before they stopped some feet apart. Neither of them moved, until they both whirled around and shot at each other again. Their weapons clashed, and they battled for a time, the sound of clanging metal sounding through the cave. Pyro grew tired of him however, and managed to get him out of her sight for awhile.

Elvor ran toward the Dragon, holding a swallow this time, and swirled it around, hitting Pyro in her face with the flat of the blade. He then slashed downward, just missing the Fire Dragon. The next slash to the Dragon's side was blocked, and Elvor growled in annoyance. He jumped away, and blue sparks surrounded him.

"ICELANCE!!!" Elvor screamed and a large lance of ice was created in the air.

With high speed, it shot at Pyro and sent her into a wall. She fell face-first on the ground, but shot up mighty quick.

Red sparks immediately surrounded her and she screamed: "MAGMABOMB!!!"

Five lances of fire hit the entire gang, and they cried out in surprise and pain. Ancha shook her head, and white sparks surrounded her.

"RECOVERALL!!!"

The sparks centered on everyone, and they were instantly healed. Pyro was starting to lose her spirit, but she kept it up.

The battle continued for a long time, and both sides were starting to weaken, although Pyro wasn't really recovering all that much. Elvor was down to one knee, keeping himself up with his rapier, which was now a broadsword. He was panting, though he couldn't really care. Bulma shook her head, and ran at Pyro, slashing and dashing at her, but Pyro blocked or dodged most of them. Vegeta couldn't get through her defenses either, and Goku couldn't get through at all. Ancha's pins were either blocked, dodged, or thrown back at her, forcing her to avoid her own pins.

Elvor finally stood up fully, and growled angrily.

"Alright!! Enough!!" he hissed at Pyro.

He turned to his friends.

"When I say 'now', use all the White Elements you have in stock and I'll handle the rest."

"Flying Arrow again huh?" Vegeta asked.

Elvor glared at Pyro.

"No. This is worse. I had been planning to save it for a fight with Laze, but I'll be needing it now."

Everyone looked at Elvor in shock. An Element stronger than Flying Arrow?! What was he talking about?!

Black sparks shot up from around Elvor, and black energy spiraled around Pyro. He didn't yell for once.

"Now!!" he shouted.

"PHOTONRAY!!!"

"METEORITE!!!"

"PHOTONBEAM!!!"

"METEOR-SHOWER!!!"

A small beam of pure white light shot at Pyro, and hit the Dragon's wings, immobilizing her to the ground. The next attack was a blazing white stone from outer space that hit her square in her abdomen, and exploded on impact. The third was a larger beam of white light, making Pyro fly back, and her hat fell from her head. The last were two extremely large meteors crashing down from outer space.

There was a WhiteField Effect, due to the fact that the attacks were done so fast in a row, that Pyro couldn't get a single Red Element in between. And when Pyro had the time to react, she was too late.

A gigantic mass of white sparks arose from the ground and rose up to high above Elvor, whom had his eyes closed and was facing the ceiling. His clothes waved in a nonexistent wind heading upward, and a line appeared on his face. However, it wasn't just a line; it was a large battle scar. His rapier seemed to evaporate in white sparks, surging upward rapidly, until they shot down and centered at the center of his chest.

His eyes shot open to reveal two pairs of burning red eyes, no pupils, no way to read them, as his hair shot up to form a flame-like hairdo, much like Vegeta's, only different. Energy seeped from his chest to his hands, where two large bolls of energy gathered, his hair and eyes became a pure white, though his eyes were one shade darker than the natural white of his eyes.

Slowly, his feet rose from the ground as his clothes changed into a pure white for a moment, before he returned to normal, save for his eyes. His hands raised high above his head, and turned to each other, making white electricity sparkle between the bolls of energy. His arms spread, and the energy stayed connected in a large half circle above his head. Then he screamed the two words that finished the fight off, and nearly destroyed half the cave.

"EEEEEEEE-TEEEEEEEER-NAAAAAAAL-LIIIIIIIIIGHT!!!!!!"

The energy demolished a lot of crystallized magmaflows, stalagmites, stalactites, and hit Pyro with such a force, that it knocked her straight into a wall, creating a large hole in it. Elvor's arms hung beside him weakly, and his eyes, now a dull green, drooped shut as he tumbled to his knees, and landed face-first on the ground; knocked out.

The entire gang ran over to see if he was still alive. Luckily, he was. Suddenly, Pyro stumbled out of the hole in the wall, bleeding on several places, but most of it was already healed.

"Wow, you humans really are good! I take my hat of to you!!" she said, picking up her hat, and bowing to them like a male.

Then, she reached into her hat, and got out what seemed like a crystalline flame with a gold border around the lower edge.

The Red Relic.

Pyro placed her hat back on her head, and walked over to them.

"Here, you're going to need this," she said, handing over the relic to Vegeta, who accepted it gladly.

"Ancha, Bulma, you two get Laze, and Kakarot, give me a hand with Elvor here," he said, indicating to the still knocked out warrior.

"By the Gods! My head smarts!!" Elvor groaned, rubbing his head.

He had been conscious for awhile, but it still hurt his head. Laze hadn't awoken, and it would be best as well. They were back at Arni now, for they were planning to see what Douse had meant with the Hydra Marshes, and what it had to do with Gaea's Navel.

Bulma turned to Elvor and asked: "What kind of attack was that?"

Elvor rubbed his head again, then said: "Just some strange attack that suddenly popped into my head. Don't know exactly how I did it though."

Suddenly, Elvor cried out and grasped his head, digging his fingers into his skull. The pain somehow intensified, and it hurt!!!

"Elvor!!" they all shouted, as he fell onto the ground. "Elvor!! Wake up!! Wake up!!……"

"Elvor…"

Darkness was all around him.

"Elvor."

The voice was getting more insistent.

"Elvor!"

'Goddamnit! Lemme rest! I'm tired already!'

"Elvor!!! Wake up ya sonabitch!!!" a seething female voice screamed and a hand connected to his face rather painfully.

He cried out and shot up, finding himself somewhere he had never been before, or… so he thought.

"Well it's 'bout time!!" that same female voice said, and when he turned, he nearly tumbled over in shock. "Took ya forever asshole!!! Take even longer next time!!"

The woman stood up, cursing under her breath as she leaned against a wall.

She had pure golden hair, strange black markings on her face, a large diagonal battle scar on her face, piercing sapphire blue eyes, and was a pure Goth. She wore a spiked collar around her neck, and had two more around her wrists. She wore dark black army boots, some tight leather pants, a black shirt with a large tear at the front, and a smooth leather jacket over it. She crossed her arms across her chest, and had one foot leaning against the wall.

Elvor looked at another wall, and could vaguely see a mirror image of himself. He was taller, older, had the same hair and eyes, but wore different clothes. An orange bandana around his neck, a white ribbon around his forehead, a pair of white jeans, brown boots, a white undershirt, with a green vest over it. There was a belt around his waist that kept the vest in place, and held a sheath with a piercing white blade, decorated with a blood red gem.

"Where are we??" he asked, accidentally aloud.

The woman looked at him oddly.

"Wha the Bloody Hell ye talkin' 'bout?! We're on another world, inside a place called 'Chronopolis', or sometin', after havin' Epoch smashed. Remember?!" she said, starting to get angry.

"Uh… no…" he offered.

The woman hung her head in exasperation.

"Great. Do ya even remember who ye are?!" she demanded.

"…No…"

The woman growled angrily, baring her teeth, and he immediately noticed the razor sharp fangs the woman had, as she looked ready to just strangle him. She finally sighed, and stood up fully.

"Okay, ye're Elvor Crono Greadon, and me name is Milaya Laze Milen…"

'NO!! That's impossible!!'

"…Ye, me, and everyone else here are time-travelers, and on a travel, we crashed here, without any help to ge' back, and now we're trying to ge' back home ta return ta our family. Remember now?!" she demanded, arms crossed over her chest, and bending over so that she was face-to-face with him (he was still sitting on the ground).

"This can't be!!" he said, standing up.

The woman was but a few inches shorter than him, and it was then that he noticed the Dragon shaped katana strapped around her back.

"Wha??" the woman asked (he wouldn't believe that she was Laze).

"You can't be Laze!! Laze has been poisoned by Hydra poison and is dying!! I was… I mean we were…"

He couldn't get any further. The woman had slapped a hand over his mouth, and was looking at him as if he were crazy.

"By the Gods, bushhead! Wha happened to ya? Ye're actin' so weird!" she said, removing her hand. "Ah, forget it! Let's jus' find a way outta here!"

She started her walk down the hallway, and Elvor followed her, not wanting to be left alone. A sudden scream from up ahead made them stop, before they ran faster. Suddenly, they fell down a hole, and his last recollection was of falling.

Now, which one of you believed that woman at the end?

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I decided to keep the schedule for once, and thanks for the reviews. Now the story's a page longer than it's supposed to be. Also, I decided to add the locations to the schedule.

1. Earth Dragon Isle - Terra, the Earth Dragon

2. Water Dragon Isle - Douse, the Water Dragon

3. Mt. Pyre - Pyro, the Fire Dragon

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