Chapter 32

The journey continued on. Their boats hadn't survived the storm, but they managed to buy new ones. The weather was on their side that day, for they got there half a day earlier than they should've. It didn't make Laze better though. She was in so much pain, and it showed. Hope found it a bit scary about how the girl looked, but she kept quiet.

"Alright, we've got the relics, the Dragon Tear, Laze, so, it's off to the Sea Of Eden!" Vegeta announced.

When they arrived at the Sea Of Eden/Dead Sea, they were a little shocked to find --- nothing.

"What's going on? There's nothing here but ruins!" Asoret exclaimed.

Indeed, all they saw were ruins of buildings, but you couldn't even make out what those buildings had been. The rest existed out of nothing but rocks. The two boats didn't move. There was no wind. They lowered the sails, and used the oars to move on. Silence reigned. Laze was shivering, but for some reason, the seizures lost their power the second they entered the strange sea. Kari looked around carefully, and suddenly giggled.

"That rock look like Dactyl! Mommy always fly on that with Kari!" she exclaimed, pointing at a rather odd shaped rock.

Everyone laughed at Kari's child-like behavior.

"Hey, hey, hey!" Bulma said, pointing at a different rock. "If you look at that one from this angle, you could see Sky in it!"

They looked closely, and noticed the resemblance as well.

"And that one over there looks like Same from this angle!" Goku said, pointing.

Elvor wasn't even looking anymore.

"Who the Hell is HE?!?!" Elvor asked, pointing at something atop a large rock.

There was a man standing atop the rock. His back was facing them. Long purplish hair waved about in the wind. The left side was spiked and seemed much like Elvor's, while the right side was silky and done in an easy ponytail at the side of his head. That side was long and could easily reach his knees. From what they could see, he wore a long red cape that waved along with the wind that seemed to be waving high on top of the rocks. They could see he had his arms crossed over his chest, and he stood as stiff as a board.

They slowly moved over with their boats, but when they got too close, he unfolded his arms, bent his legs, and jumped away. He jumped from rock to rock, until he stopped again. Grobyc's eyes narrowed a little.

His homing vision focussed, and finally, he said: "I-have-a-feeling-he-wants-us-to-follow."

They followed him, and constantly, the man kept jumping away, closer and closer toward the center of the sea. Finally, after some time…

"Holy Cosmos!! What is that?!" Elvor asked, looking at the strange light coming from the center of the sea.

The man didn't pay him any heed, and jumped up one last time, before diving into the light, vanishing from sight. Everyone waited for him to come back up, but he never did. Laze coughed silently, and Elvor absentmindedly stroked her head lightly.

"Think he drowned?" Vegeta asked the others.

"Nah, I dunno why, but I feel like he ain't dead," Hope said.

Bulma was about to ask something, when she screeched.

"Vegeta! Look!!" she said, pointing at his pouch.

Vegeta looked at it, and noticed the strange lights emitting from it. The Yellow Relic suddenly shot from Vegeta's pouch, and, glowing a bright yellow, it began to talk to them, while hovering above the light in the water.

"So, you made it? Congratulations! No one has ever been able to beat us all!"

The Blue Relic came next and hung on the Yellow Relic's left side.

"Now this is new. Who could've guessed? Good luck!"

The Red Relic hung on the opposite side of the Blue Relic.

"For humans, you're pretty Goddamn strong to beat all of us! What are you?!"

The Green Relic hung on the opposite side of the Yellow Relic but on the Red Relic's right hand.

"I'm not too mad about you guys beating us! You humans are tough! I guess you're just too tough for us to handle!"

The Black Relic hung between the Yellow and Red Relic.

"Good going, you beat us all! That's a rarity!"

"I rarely say this, so ya shoul' be happy! Congrats, and enter!"

The White Relic hung across from the Black Relic, between the Blue and Green Relic.

"You are strong fighters indeed. Good luck, you'll need it!"

Then the relics began to spin around above the circle of light, faster and faster until they were nothing more but blurs.

"Thou art worthy of entering the Sea Of Eden," all Dragons said in chorus as energy gathered at the center, before shooting into the water.

A blinding beam of light shot up into the sky, and it soon engulfed them whole.

Everyone was in awe by what they saw. Three islands, a large water barrier in the center, disabling them from seeing what there was there. Grobyc suddenly grasped his head and cried out.

"Grobyc! What's wrong?!" Bulma asked.

"Power-overload! The-power-of-this-sea-is-damaging-my-circuitry!" Grobyc rasped out, falling to his knees.

Bulma looked up at Vegeta in shock, who was staring down at the cyborg in confusion. Bulma bit her lip and walked to behind Grobyc. She hurriedly pushed in a few numbers in Grobyc's circuitry. After closing the lid, Grobyc seemed to be a lot better.

"That better?" Bulma asked.

"Yes."

Elvor was gazing around the isles with a strange sense of recognition.

'No, impossible… it… it was a dream!'

"Holy Cosmos! What kind of place is this?" Elvor asked as they hovered above the sea with a silver and gold bird-shaped machine.

"I dunno, but wha are them isles there?" Laze asked, pointing at the three islands surrounding the center.

"Well, how about we find out then?" Ancle mumbled, wiping a lock of auburn hair from her face and behind her ear.

"But I'll ruin my hair if we do! I just know it!" Zachana whined, only to get punched to the back of her head by Kaichi.

"Would you stop that already?!" she hissed.

"Hey! Calm down Kaichi!" Ancha said, turned over in her chair and looking at the orange haired woman.

"Hey! Are we going already?! We don't have forever!!" Norak mumbled, bored out of his mind.

"I agree, let us be off!" Haelles said.

"Alright! Everybody hold on!!" Elvor said, and brought Epoch down.

Elvor heavily shook his head.

'Coincidence! Just a coincidence!' he kept telling himself.

Just when he thought he'd go mad, a soothing feeling spread through him. He calmed down instantly, and the vision was forgotten.

"Well, let's find out what's on those isles already!" Asoret said, and headed toward one of the isles.

The others followed.

They walked up the stairs, and came to a strange circling pyramid, standing at the foot of a statue. It was a statue of an old woman, smiling, making her face look older than it already did. The pyramid was a pure blue. Kari sniffed at the pyramid, and pulled back instantly.

"Kari no like floating thing!" she whimpered, hiding behind Asoret, who looked at her, a little confused.

She seemed to be doing that a lot.

"No, neither do I, but maybe these things are like a key to the center of this sea," Bulma said.

'Maybe?' Elvor questioned in his mind with a scoff. 'I know for sure they are!'

Vegeta tried to grab the pyramid, but when he touched it, it floated from his grasp, spun around faster, and shot off, toward one of the other islands. Everyone looked at each other, shrugged, and headed back to the boats.

On the second island, stood a statue of a mere child, and near her feet, hovered a green pyramid. They did the same here, as with the other island, and left toward the next isle. Here, there was a statue of a middle-aged woman, and a red pyramid.

"Last one," Goku said, and tapped the pyramid softly.

This time, the pyramid didn't vanish, but the other two pyramids joined this one.

The three pyramids formed a triangle, and all triangles colored red. A sudden clap of thunder sounded, and a streak of lighting connected the three pyramids, and from the center, appeared a large mask of some kind. There were two hands, each hand holding a double-edged spear.

"Wha?! Is this a test or sometin'?!" Hope demanded.

"We don't have time for this!" Bulma said, fearing for Laze's life.

"Well, I don't think this thing is going to let us go without a fight!" Vegeta said, eyeing the badly scowling mask.

"If tha's the case," Hope shrugged, before grabbing both blades from the sheaths on her back. "Le's go!"

The thing, which they decided to call a 'Vita', seemed to be ready to kill them. However, there was one problem for it. They could use Elements, and Vita could, or would not.

"ICEBLAST!!!" Vegeta hollered, as the Vita got trapped in a cage of ice, which then shattered.

Vita cried out. He floated over toward Vegeta and tried to hit him, but kept missing.

"INVINCIBLE!!!" Goku screamed, and ran at the Vita, slashing and dashing, until the final slash was done.

Bulma laughed aloud at the Vita's frustrated face.

"DELUGE!!!" she shouted, and a large wall of ice was brought up between the Vita and the gang, before thousands of gallons of water soaked the Vita.

Kari was rolling over with laughter.

"Vita be easy to beat!" she got out between laughs.

After awhile, she got up and used a Blue Element of her own.

"AQUABALL!!!"

A large ball of water appeared out of thin air, and crashed right into the Vita. Vita was a slow one they noticed. It didn't take long before he went down.

"Tha was a nice work-out," Hope said with a smile.

"Sure was," Elvor said, looking down at the mask.

Suddenly, from seemingly out of nowhere, a strange male voice came.

"Welcome, young travelers, to the Sea Of Eden. If you want to save the child, find me in the center of the Sea Of Eden. I shall help you if you will fight, and defeat me."

A loud rumbling occurred as the mask vanished, and the large barrier shielding the center of the Sea Of Eden fell.

They took their boats, and headed toward it. Once on the island, they finally looked up at the giant structure looming over them. The palace-like structure was probably more than 50 stories high, and it was truly magnificent sight to see. Elemental Energy surged through strange vine-like pipes, merging into one, shooting upward, toward the roof. The structure was done in some sort of ancient architecture, though it had a slight futuristic look as well. There was a sign on the structure. It read:

CHRONOPOLIS

Inside, they found a large entry-hall, with benches on the right side, and strange machines on the left. One of them had a sign that said: "SODA", and another had a strange bar on it, but a note that said: "OUT OF ORDER". In front of them, was a sculpture of 8 different creatures, all looking ready to fight, with a human-sized pedestal standing in front of it.

Two of them were Dragonians, both a different gender. The male of them was holding only a scythe, while the female carried a scythe and katana along. Another of them was a Vampire in a long trenchcoat, grasping a double-edged axe in her hands. A fourth of them was a human-sized Fairy, grasping two daggers in her hands. One of them was a human-sized Elf, a Magic Wand in her clutches. Another was a demi-human, a cat one, grasping a swallow in her delicate paws. The next was a Demon, holding a swallow-like weapon, but with double-edged axe-like ends. The last was one of the extinct Phoenix race, holding a broadsword with curved edges, a curved hilt, and although the statue was gray, they knew the sword's color, and they knew what blade the Phoenix was holding.

The Masamune.

"Hey, is it me, or are those the same from the statues at school?" Goku suddenly asked.

Bulma blinked, and looked closely at the strange creatures, before releasing a gasp.

"Whoa! Indeed they are!" Elvor said. "Good memory, Kakarot!"

"Yes, these are the same as from the school you went to."

Kari shrieked, and the others looked around frantically for the owner of the voice. He showed himself soon enough by stepping forward from behind the statue, where he'd been standing. It was the man they'd been following.

He had piercing emerald-green eyes, which were highly slanted, had high cheekbones, and had two scars running over his face. One of them was running from just above his left eye to a few inches above his chin, while the other ran diagonally over his face, making a strange 'V'. He had an orange bandana around his neck, wore a white shirt with a curly yet bold 'Z' embossed on it, with a leather jacket, some leather pants that were stuck in some long black socks that came to his mid-shins, some brown boots, and a belt with a large sheath hanging from it, containing a blade they couldn't make out, yet.

"I seem to have startled you," the man said with a smooth voice. "I am sorry for that."

"That's okay, but… who are you??" Bulma asked.

"Oh by Gaia! I forgot! I am sorry. My name is Z-Vor ©, and I shall be the last challenge you must face before you can enter Chronopolis."

"But we already did!" Asoret protested.

"Maybe, but you shall not get any further than this if you cannot beat me!"

Vegeta didn't respond right away. Instead, he looked over at Elvor, who was holding Laze in his arms, who was shivering from a cold only she could feel.

Vegeta's face hardened.

"Elvor, put Laze down!"

Elvor looked up in shock.

"Now!" Vegeta hissed, and Elvor obeyed.

Z-Vor nodded.

"That would be a wise decision indeed."

"SHUT UP!!!" Vegeta hollered. "JUST SHUT UP AND FIGHT!!!"

Z-Vor chuckled, before he laughed maniacally.

"Fine then you little brat!!" Z-Vor said with a voice that was even worse than Vegeta's had been when he'd been possessed by the…

Z-Vor suddenly grabbed the blade from the sheath, showing the blood-stained sword, making all who'd seen the sword before gasp in horror.

Z-Vor was using the Masamune.

WAAAAH!! Sorry. Well, looks like we finally met the eighth Dragon. But uh… what the Bloody Hell is his Innate?!

Reviews:

Ciria: Same was talking about the final boss. Give it some time and you'll see Her. I can't exactly say who Laze was talking about, but I can give one hint. He was with her in the room. That's all I can tell. And they're going to cure her somewhere in Chronopolis. After they beat Z-Vor though.

Bulma BriefsYue Lover: That's normal for those poisoned by Hydra poison.

P-chan: I guess. Nope.

Hope: Thanks. Describing the Dragon Tear was really tough!

RusinIndeed: Yeah, but I'd rather have Magus. God! He's a stud!!

trunks babe: What are you babbling about??

cat421: Oh. Well, sorry in any case.

Kitten: Solt and Peppor are so silly!! How on Earth did they become Acacia Dragoons anyway?! Oh, and you wouldn't be talking about that Mini-Dragon are you? That little Dragon with the spear?? Oh, and how did you like his pet "salamander". That's that thing stuck in the ground.

veggie-chan: The Dragon Tear is indeed blue.

Dragon battle schedule:

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. Sky Dragon Isle - Sky, the Sky Dragon

8. Sea Of Eden - Chronopolis - Z-Vor, the Eighth Dragon

I already told this, but if people desire for me to write a side-story about all couples [lemon style] please tell and I'll see what I can do. I'm not that good at lemons, but that's my own opinion. Also, if you know another couple you'd like to read a lemon about from this story, do tell.