Chapter 22

The gang didn't question Elvor's behavior, and headed toward the cave in which the Black Dragon Twins resided, with Asoret in the lead. When they reached the cave, Asoret stopped.

"I… I don't think I'll be able to help. My aunt will kill me if I help you guys! And believe me, that's exactly how she is!" he said.

The 6 fighters nodded, and headed into the cave.

In the very first room, sat a single Dragonian, whom was definitely male. He had curled horns on his head, long, messy black hair, and was dressed in black armory, unlike the other Dragons. He had no hands and feet, but had claws instead. They were as big as normal hands and feet, but were black and scaled. There was a sheath around his waist, containing a scythe. Like all other Dragons, he had large Dragon wings. He looked at them with dark green eyes, and smirked, before it was gone.

"It's about time you arrived!" the Dragon said. "I am Mura, eldest of the Black Dragon Twins, although I'm not the strongest, I admit. But if you want to fight my sister, you'll have to get past me first!"

Mura held his scythe in both hands, scowling angrily. From all Dragons they'd faced so far, Mura was definitely the most threatening one of them. He ran toward Vegeta with great speed, and banged into him using his shoulder. This contained a lot of strength however, and Vegeta was hurled backward. Bulma looked closely at Mura, and noticed that… he did not carry a plate with him!!

'His sister probably has the plate,' she thought as Kari launched an all-out attack on the Dragon, trying to out-smart him.

Mura simply knocked her back though, and suddenly turned to Bulma.

"As a matter of fact, yes, Same does have the plate!!" he said, right before shooting at her and lunging at her with his scythe, which she dodged.

Mura continued to slash at her, but she dodged and blocked, trying to think of a way to get away. She suddenly remembered another attack she possessed.

As if burnt, Mura suddenly jumped away. Elvor took that moment to attack, and lashed at Mura with quick attacks, of which Mura couldn't block all. One lash hit him on his arm, and he cried out, before growling at Elvor and sending him away with a strong punch. Elvor shook his head angrily, and glared at Mura, who returned the favor, grasping his scythe tightly. Blood was trickling down his arm, but he didn't seem to notice.

Suddenly, Mura's ear pricked, and he turned around.

"ELECTRICSWORD!!!" Bulma screamed loudly, and ran toward Mura with a blade made from electricity instead of an ordinary Stone Dagger.

The blade cut through the ground, and Bulma aimed the blade at Mura, but the Black Dragon spread his wings, and with a strong clap of his wings, flew up. Everyone looked up at Mura, who was still glaring. He placed a loose lock of black hair behind his ear, and smirked.

"You shall not leave this place," he said, though there was an angry undertone to his voice.

Mura was rather easy to piss off by the looks of it. Within a second, he was gone, and Kari was hurled against a wall when Mura reappeared in front of her and sent her back with his horns. Goku growled and focussed his energy.

"RAGING WATER!!!" he shouted as blue sparks surrounded him.

Mura cocked his head to the side in confusion, when a sudden blast of water hit him straight in his stomach and another hit him from all sides, before knocking him back.

Kari, who had already gotten up, raced toward Mura, and banged him square in his face with the hilt of her katana. With a loud grunt, he was tossed aside easily, but he jumped into the air easily, shaking his head a little. When he looked up, his face was one of mild anger.

"Alright," he suddenly said, and straightened up, landing not too far away.

His hand was still grasping his scythe, and he looked a little ticked.

"Fine, have it your way!!" Mura suddenly screamed, and blue sparks surrounded him. "DELUGE!!!"

A large barrier was created between Mura and the other fighters, made completely out of ice. They turned left when they heard the roar off water. Hundreds of gallons of water poured over them, and Ancha and Kari were extra affected by the Blue Element, seeing as how it was one of the strongest Blue Elements there were.

Ancha panted, and shook her head, before growling and sending a barrage of pins at Mura. But he shot into the sky with the use of his wings, and avoided them easily. However, there was one thing Mura hadn't counted on.

"FLYING ARROW!!!" a piercing male voice screamed, and before Mura could turn around, a sharp pain hit his left wing, and he cried out as he crashed onto the ground.

Blood was gushing from the large wound, and Mura took heavy breaths, trying to control it slightly.

"RUN & KILL!!!" another voice shouted, and another bolt of pain hit him, but in his other wing.

He was now fully immobilized to the ground.

He turned to Vegeta, his eyes suddenly shifting to a pitch-black. Within a second, he'd vanished, and was now in front of Vegeta, who suddenly looked up at the Dragon in shock. Pure anger was written on Mura's face, and before Vegeta knew what happened, he felt an agonizing pain in his stomach. He looked down, and saw the claw that was partly buried in his stomach and blood pouring down his body. Mura pulled his hand away, and Vegeta fell onto the ground.

"VEGETA!!!" everyone screamed as the lifeless body lay there.

Bulma growled in anger, and screamed her lungs out as a large mass of yellow sparks surrounded her. Electricity crackled loudly and the cave darkened to a pitch-black, lit only by the occasional electricity bolts flying across the room. It merged with the ground, shot back out to merge above Bulma's head, before hitting the blue-haired wonder. The spot where the electricity had hit her was radiating a pure yellow, and it soon expended across her entire body. Her eyes were pure white, and Mura looked on in confusion.

"ELECTRIC STORM!!!" Bulma hollered as the color returned to her eyes, and the electricity burst forth with a cry of anger from Bulma.

Mura no longer had the capability to fly, and the bolts of electricity hit him almost constantly, before all bolts hit him at the very same time, making him cry out in surprise.

A pair of pale white hands touched the boy's face, feeling the cold. The owner of the hands, a seemingly young girl, looked up, and scowled at the eldest Black Dragon. She then turned to the boy and cast a spell, which had been so hard at the beginning. Now it worked flawlessly, and the boy's eyes opened with a snap.

When Vegeta sat up, the girl was gone, but there was a new Element in his Grid.

Mura shook his head angrily, and growled at Bulma, who was panting with exhaustion.

"Nice Element, but it won't help!!" Mura shouted, and he screamed in anger. "BLACKFIELD!!!" he screamed, creating a Field Effect. "GRIMREAPER!!!!"

Blazing black energy came to his scythe, and behind them, they could see the see-through body of Death, holding its scythe tightly. Mura grasped the weapon with both hands, and was gone. Pain shot through everyone's body as they saw the dark energy slash over them, felt it hit their bodies, but didn't see the culprit move.

Blood began seeping from their bodies when Mura reappeared, and Ancha quickly used a RecoverAll Element, healing their wounds. Mura wasn't really happy.

"Alright! This has gone far enough!!" he screamed.

"Mura! You should give up!! We're going to win anyway!!" Elvor hollered.

"Ha!!" Mura scoffed. "In your dreams! This battle is far from over!! I didn't even use my personal Tech Skills!! And once I do, you're as good as dead!!"

"You-you-you!!" Bulma hissed, gritting her teeth and holding her dagger in her hand. "You MURDERER!!!"

With a loud yell, she ran at the Black Dragon, who yelled as well, and ran at her at the same time.

The clashing of weapons signaled that they hit, and more of that followed soon after. Bulma continued to block and dodge, while trying to wear Mura down and get through his defenses. But even with his wings immobilized, he was incredibly quick, and was capable of avoiding her constantly, and blocking when need be, but he couldn't get anything through her defenses as well.

A sudden slash with his scythe downward made her lower to one knee and raise her dagger above her head. She just managed to block, but the pressure on her arms grew more intense as the seconds dragged on.

"If I were you, I'd yield!" Mura hissed through his gritted teeth, which were becoming sharper and sharper by the second.

Bulma growled.

"NEVER!!!" she screamed, and suddenly moved backwards.

Mura, having nearly placed his whole weight on her, tumbled along with her. Her foot found his stomach, and hurled him over her, sending him into a wall with a painful grunt. Mura fell on the ground, but shook his head and jumped away before Kari had the chance to hit him with her katana.

A mass of black sparks surrounded him, and was blown away by a sudden gust of wind. The winds were painted into a piercing black by the black sparks, and as if on sudden impulse, the entire gang, besides Kari, looked horrified as Mura's eyes closed.

"The Black Wind is brewing…" he stated calmly, before opening his eyes. "Bring it on!!"

A sudden blow made them all stagger. Their bodies became freezing cold, then burning hot, and it repeated itself over and over again, and it was really starting to hurt. Practically everyone was falling to his or her knees easily. Mura smirked wickedly, but he suddenly got a large kick to the side of his face, breaking his concentration, as well as sending him into a wall.

Bulma looked up, and gasped, then smiled.

"Vegeta!!!" she cried, her eyes suddenly watering up.

Vegeta held his axe in his hands tightly, and white sparks surrounded him. A strange glow of white power entered the room, and bounced off on the cave walls. The glow settled on Vegeta, and he screamed the name of his new Element.

"ULTRA NOVA!!!"

Mura's eyes widened in shock as the energy surged straight at him, and hit him with such force, that he screamed out in pain. Soon it changed into a pain-filled roar, and when the light dimmed, Mura's eyes rolled to the back of his head, and he dropped flat on his face, scythe loudly clattering beside him.

Ancha walked over, and lightly pushed him with her foot, but the Dragon wouldn't budge.

"Moi t'ink he'z dead," she said softly, stepping back.

"Ah great!!" Elvor said, placing his rapier away.

Bulma walked over to stand behind Ancha.

"If he's dead, Asoret's not going to be too happy about this," she mumbled.

"The bloody bastard ain't dead!" a loud, yet rather familiar voice said.

Everyone looked up to see a black haired woman watching them, with eyes of an indescribable color, a large diagonal scar across her face, and black, strangely familiar markings on her face. Her hair was tied atop her head in a large ponytail, and she wore a long black dress that reached just above her ankles, which were dressed in easy step-in black shoes. Her eyes were highly slanted, her nose was rather sharp, she had high cheekbones, sharply pointed ears, and her face looked a little bit at ease, even though she was partly scowling. The sleeves of her dress ended in a ring on her third finger, and her nails looked pretty sharp, or were those her fingers?? Around her neck, she had a strange, triangular shaped pendant with a blood red gem embossed in it, in which they could faintly make out the Dragon Emblem.

"Takes more than an Ultra Nova Element ta take 'em down, believe me," the woman said, crossing her hands over her chest.

"You… you're that woman who helped us at Arni once! Aren't you?!" Goku asked.

"Yep, that'd be me," the woman said with a nod. "It's been awhile, though. I'm Same, youngest o' the Black Dragon Twins. Pleased ta meetcha!" she said, giving them a rather formal bow.

Bulma blinked.

"You're Same?" she asked. Same nodded.

"O' course, I can change inta a Dragon if I wanna, but I don't feel like it righ now. And… ye are?"

After some small introduction, Same nodded.

"Ye humans are good, but ya oughta be tired, so I suggest ya rest at the Inn 'til ye're ready ta fight me. I ain't as heartless as ta let people fight me when they're not ready."

"Thanks, we appreciate that," Vegeta said politely.

Same smiled, but then smirked and a fierce scowl formed on her face.

"And ye'd betta be ready, 'cause I ain't gonna be easy on ya."

Alright! That was Mura. Next up in line; SAME!!!

Reviews:

shadowmoon: Thanks for liking the story. You should really try the game! It's terrific!! And you might know a lot about highschool, but I don't!! We don't have those here!

Hope: Who can tell? I know I can't (for the moment).

Ciria: If I say 'Black Dragon Twins', would you remember how many Black Dragons there are?

Bulma BriefsYue Lover: I don't mind all the questions at all! Anyway, my friend and I thought the same about Leah. Ummm… I think… somewhere in the Sea Of Eden… though I'm not sure where. Hey! Just one thing. In Chrono Cross, do you know who you'll find at the end of the game?! One hint: The person I'm talking off, has been thought dead by everyone but a single person, whom continued to search for this person.

trunks babe: Yes, but she'll show up after Laze is healed.

cat421: Hey! This story is far from finished! All right?

Dragon battle schedule [so far]:

1. Earth Dragon Isle - Terra, the Earth Dragon

2. Water Dragon Isle - Douse, the Water Dragon

3. Mt. Pyre - Pyro, the Fire Dragon

4. Gaea's Navel - Flora, the Green Dragon

5. Marbule - Mura, Eldest Black Dragon

6. Marbule - Same, Youngest Black Dragon

7. ????????

8. ????????

Hey wait a second!!! Let me recheck that!! Let's see… Terra [1] Douse [2] Pyro [3] Flora [4] Mura [5] Same [6] and Sky [7].

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Funny. There are seven Dragons, but there are eight battles. Now why was that again??