Chapter 33

Z-Vor didn't change into a Dragon, like Same and Sky had done in the first round. Also, what they found scary about Z-Vor, was that he had no Innate! The Guides would just show a question mark, and that's it.

Grobyc waited for a moment, before running at the purple haired Dragon. Z-Vor smirked and ran at the cyborg, sword in his hand. Grobyc launched a punch at the Dragon's face, but Z-Vor blocked it easily with the Masamune. Z-Vor landed a punch in Grobyc's gut, and kicked him away easily. Grobyc wasn't one to give up though. He landed on his hands and pushed himself back up, before running at the Dragon again. Z-Vor smirked wickedly, and stepped aside from the cyborg easily. Grobyc wasn't fooled that easily though, and his fist made a sharp turn, and connected with the Dragon's jaw, which sent him flying.

Hope saw this as her chance, and raced at the Dragon, both her blades in her hands. Z-Vor saw her coming though, whirled around, and blocked both blades with the Masamune. Hope tried to get through his defenses by slashing at two places at the same time, but that didn't work, because Z-Vor somehow managed to maneuver his sword to block both of hers.

Bulma ran at the Dragon, and lashed out, but Z-Vor punched Hope away and focussed his attention on Bulma. Z-Vor blocked the first lash, and dodged the next. Bulma became frustrated with him, and started lashing out wildly, getting one shot in on his arm. Z-Vor didn't winch, he just looked at the wound once, and knocked Bulma away.

Vegeta tried to hit Z-Vor with his axe, but Z-Vor blocked Vegeta's axe, without turning around. When he did, he kicked the boy to his ribs. Vegeta gasped as the air was kicked out of him, and couldn't avoid the elbow that came sailing toward the back of his head, sending him to the ground. Vegeta rolled out of the way to avoid the blood-stained blade, not wanting to touch the sword ever again.

Goku raced at Z-Vor with speed unimaginable, and lashed out, but Z-Vor once again blocked. A smirk graced the Dragon's face, before he back-flipped and kicked Goku to his chin. Elvor noticed this, and raised an eyebrow. He'd seen that move before.

Same jumped up, and back-flipped while kicking Bulma to her chin.

Z-Vor landed on his feet, but had to back-flip again to avoid getting his feet chopped off from behind by Kari. Z-Vor kicked Kari away easily, and dodged an arrow from Asoret. Elvor blinked. That one too.

Sky touched the ground, and instantly had to back-flip over Elvor, whom had tried to lash at Sky's feet, before kicking him to his spine.

No one seemed to be a match for the Dragon. Elvor looked back, at Laze. She choked again, and blood poured from her mouth, onto the marble tiles. Finally, he growled, and reached behind him.

Z-Vor blocked Hope's blades again, and punched her to her jaw, sending her sailing straight into Bulma. Vegeta tried to hit Z-Vor's waist, but to no avail. Z-Vor spiraled away from the boy and lunged out at him, but Vegeta blocked the blow easily. Asoret fired another arrow at Z-Vor, but he caught it between his fingers and snapped it in half. Kari lashed out at Z-Vor, but the Dragon grasped the blade of the katana, and hurled her away without even scratching himself. Goku tried to hit the Dragon's Achilles tendon, but Z-Vor whirled around, jumped on top of the blade, and kicked Goku in his face. Grobyc sent his fist at the Dragon's face, but Z-Vor caught it easily by the wrist, and twisted the cyborg's arm, badly. Bulma gasped when she saw Grobyc's arm. This made her a tad angry, and she raced full-speed at Z-Vor. She lashed out at him, but he kept blocking, before he kicked her feet away from under her and sent her away with a strong kick to her side.

His hand grasped the cool metal hilt of the ultra black sword he carried along.

Hope growled, and crossed both her blades in front of her face, but just below her eyes. A mystic glow surrounded both blades as white sparks slowly surrounded her. Hope then raised the blades to above her head, and released a howl as the sparks shot up at high speeds. The glow on the blades expended, and Hope finally slashed downward in an 'X' motion. The energy shot at the Dragon, whom just watched, before smirking, and vanishing. Hope's eyes widened, before she was kneed in her stomach. Her hands lost their firm grip, and her blades fell on the ground. Hope followed shortly, falling to her knees with her arms slung around her stomach, vomit rising to her throat, but she tried to keep it in.

He shivered lightly as he felt the cold metal touch his flesh.

Goku cried out in rage as blue sparks shot up around him. He lashed out at the air in front of him, and a large energywave of water was shot at Z-Vor, and fast. Z-Vor turned toward the wave. It was but a few feet away, and Z-Vor simply raised his hand. The wave hit his hand, and stopped, but it tried to go on. Z-Vor wouldn't have any of it though, and pushed it away, back at Goku, who yelped in surprise, and hurriedly ducked to avoid it. The wave missed him, but when he stood back up, he got a kick to the side of his head, throwing him to the side and knocking him out.

Something sparked in his eyes as he felt the hilt heating up.

Bulma gritted her teeth in annoyance as yellow sparks surrounded her. The sparks centered on her dagger, and Bulma clutched the hilt with both hands. The dagger transformed into a sword, and Bulma screamed out as she raced toward the Dragon. The electric blade cut through the ground, before Bulma swung upward, aiming at Z-Vor's waist. Z-Vor grasped the blade with his hand, but nothing happened. Bulma gasped in horror, but that was it before she got a kick to her stomach, sending her to the ground, clutching her aching stomach.

Small electric sparks sizzled and crackled around him.

Kari was surrounded by red sparks, and she vanished. The first kick aimed for Z-Vor's stomach, missed because Z-Vor stepped aside. The second kick missed because Z-Vor backflipped. However, at the third kick, Z-Vor grabbed Kari's ankles, and slammed her hard into the ground, twice, before sending her flying into a wall, knocking her out.

The electric sparks grew more intense.

Asoret growled and screamed out as green sparks centered on his weapon, making a discus out of it. With high precision and great speed, the discus was hurled at Z-Vor. The discus hit the Dragon's neck, but the energy of the discus suddenly shattered and the weapon was hurled into a wall. Z-Vor looked over his shoulder at the weapon, and then back at Asoret, who was lightly shaking. Suddenly, his legs were kicked away from under him, and Z-Vor kicked him in his stomach with both his feet, drilling him into the ground.

Carefully, he slid the weapon from its sheath.

Ancha growled angrily and focussed her energy, making red sparks surround her. She touched the ground with two fingers, and when she stood back up, she whirled around, with a string of fire following her fingers. She brought her hand back behind her head, and flames seemed to shoot up from out of nowhere. Z-Vor watched it all in fascination, before the flames came his way. He placed his arms in a cross over his chest, but didn't clench his fists. Just when the flames were supposed to him, he flung his arms outward, making the flames go around him. Ancha gasped, before receiving the hilt of the Masamune in her face, and getting punched aside.

The tip of the blade never touched the sheath.

Grobyc released his badly twisted arm, as black sparks surrounded him. Then he flipped through the air, his head pointed at Z-Vor. His hair began to glow and suddenly a burst of burning plasma swept down, a solid beam of pink light slashing through the ground and leaving a smoking crevice as Z-Vor easily flipped out of harm's way. Suddenly, a strange boll of energy appeared at Z-Vor's hand, and he shot the boll of energy straight at Grobyc, who couldn't dodge it in time, and had his chest pierced with the blast.

The black katana itself was crackling with energy, as black and purple energy began to spiral around him.

Vegeta held up his axe, as green sparks shot up around him and centered on the blade of his axe. He whirled around, and finally hurled the energy disc at Z-Vor, who stood there and watched, before raising the Masamune, releasing a scream, and slicing the disc with relative ease. Vegeta gasped in shock, before he felt the sharp blade of the Masamune slice across his body in a straight line. Blood began pouring down his body, and he fell down.

As the last of his comrades went down, a strange feeling spread through his body toward his fingertips. Elvor lifted his hand, which was sparkling with a strange white energy.

"RESTORE!!!" he shouted, and the energy shot from his hand to bounce around the room, before hitting his friends and healing them within a few seconds.

Z-Vor twisted his upper-body to meet Elvor and saw what he was holding in his hand. He turned to the redhead completely, as black and red energy began to spiral around him.

Elvor wasn't looking too happy, and his friends noticed this. Z-Vor on the other hand, was looking rather amused. The energy spirals rose higher, and shot at each other at the same time Z-Vor and Elvor did. The Masamune and Murasame clashed with a loud clanging sound. The blood red and pitch black blades clashed time and time again, causing electric sparks to ignite when they did. All the others watched in fascination as Elvor wielded the Murasame better than he had ever handled any weapon.

Elvor aimed the sword at the hand grasping the Masamune, but Z-Vor blocked easily, and Z-Vor lashed upward at Elvor, who took a large step back, before lunging back at the Dragon. Their blades clashed, when Elvor surprised Z-Vor with a downward slash, hitting the Dragon's shoulder. Z-Vor grasped his bleeding shoulder, before releasing it and slashing at Elvor's legs. Elvor received a lash across his right calve, and he groaned a little, but didn't make a move to touch it.

This kept up for awhile, and they each got through the others defenses every now and then. Pretty soon, they were all covered in blood and a large part of their clothing was ripped and shredded.

Kari was once again hiding behind Asoret, who watched her every now and then, wondering why she kept hiding behind him, and not somebody else. Bulma and Ancha had carefully carried Laze over to the group so that she was safe. Vegeta and Goku kept their eyes glued on the fight, not wanting to miss anything. This battle was too good to miss. Grobyc watched as well, his homing vision showing everything close-up.

Z-Vor whirled around and aimed at Elvor's waist, but Elvor blocked easily. However, Elvor's eyes suddenly changed into a burning red, his hair shot up to form some kind of flame, and as he grasped the hilt of the Murasame tighter, the markings on the hilt, blade, and the pommelstone shone a dark black color. Z-Vor's eyes widened in horror as the sword lashed out sideways, and too fast for him to be able to block. The sizzling blade came in contact with the Dragon's waist, and sent him away, the Masamune flying from his grasp.

Z-Vor dropped onto the ground, blood pouring from the wound on his side. He coughed, and blood flowed from his throat, before his eyes glazed over, and slowly closed.

Elvor dropped to one knee, and leaned on the Murasame, as he panted for breath, blood pouring from several wounds. His friends instantly shot to his assistance, helping him to stand up carefully.

"Aaah!! Watch it!!" Elvor hissed painfully as Kari accidentally touched a rather deep wound on his chest.

"Elvor, you're a fool, know that?!" Vegeta asked.

Elvor chuckled.

"Yeah, I've been called that before," he mumbled, and winced as he Bulma put a lot of pressure on his wounded leg.

"You zhould be more careful!" Ancha mumbled, a little angry.

"I'm not a child, alright?!" Elvor said back.

"Compared to other Dragons you are," a chilling voice said.

Everyone whipped their heads around to face Z-Vor, who was slowly rising to his feet, all wounds healing within an instant. He turned to them, a seemingly angry look on his face. No one dared to move, when Z-Vor's face relaxed.

"That was a nice battle, kid," he said, nodding toward Elvor, who weakly nodded back.

Z-Vor looked around, muttering: "Now where the Bloody Hell…"

A smirk grazed his face as he walked over to a wall and pulled the Masamune from it. He inspected the sword, before sheathing it.

After healing the entire gang with a special move Z-Vor possessed, which also restored their torn clothes, Z-Vor told them what they were supposed to do.

"Just lay the child on the pedestal."

They did. Laze had passed out because of the pain, and even now she looked to be in one hell of a pain.

"Now listen, there are seven spirits wandering through this place. They can all play different musical instruments. And all seven of them can make the music required to heal your friend. Don't take this too lightly though. Just find the spirits and ask them for help. I'll wait here for you."

The gang nodded at Z-Vor, and headed past the structure in the center of the entry hall, and further into Chronopolis.

A strange glow surrounded the purple haired Dragon, and he seemed to separate in half, before two different people formed.

One was a female, with long purple hair, and piercing sapphire blue eyes. She had a diagonal scar running across her face, a tail with fur the color of her hair that waved about behind her, as well as dark black markings running across her face and her entire body. 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.

The other was a male, with flaming spiked red hair, and pure emerald green eyes. He had 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, and had a fiery red cape draped around his neck. He too had a tail, but his was wrapped around his waist.

"Ye think they'll make it?" the female asked, rubbing her hands forcefully through her hair, making the purple hue change to a pure golden glow.

"I don't think so," the male mumbled, fingering the pendant around his neck.

It was a golden circle with a fire-breathing Dragon embossed on a color-changing gem dangling from a silver chain.

The female had a golden, triangular shaped pendant with a blood red gem. In the gem, you could faintly make out the Dragon Emblem.

"I know they will," the male finished.

Does anyone recognize the description? If not, go read the vision in chapter 18.

Reviews:

Hope: Z-Vor's a guy!!!

Ciria: I already said this, Z-Vor's a guy!!

Bulma BriefsYue Lover: Chronopolis is from Chrono Cross. Sure, go ahead! Just make sure that others don't steal from you or me alright?

P-chan: I'm working as hard as I can!

trunks babe: Thanks.

Kitten: [squeals in delight] Draggy is SOOOOOOOOO cute!!! Do you mean Dario? He has blond hair, blue eyes, and has a green cape over his right shoulder. If not, could you give me a description of the scenery there? Oh! To the northwest of Marbule is a small island with some sort of hole in it. Place your boat next to it and press X. You'll wind up in the Bend Of Time where you can battle monsters you may have missed. And if you have all portals opened, you can face three villains from Chrono Trigger.

cat421: More detail of… what? And about that person watching Bulma and Vegeta. How many people have I described with 'indescribable eyes'?

veggie-chan: Serge is cute yeah, but uh… I think Guile's a stud!! That guy looks absolutely STUNNING in that outfit of his!! And that mask!! [drools] Oh! Sorry.

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. [Dragons are allowed as well.]