Chapter 53
A young redheaded boy sat on a wall, watching the people down below with a heavy frown. None of them seemed to be a very good match. He was bored out of his mind, and searching for someone to train with. But there was no one who seemed to be at the same level as himself. His legs swung back and forth in annoyance.
"Hey! What're you doing up there?!" a voice suddenly called out, making him look down.
There was a flame-haired boy standing there, watching him in slight confusion.
"Nothing!" he called back with a growl. "All these people here are too weak to compare to me! I just want to fight!"
The boy raised a curious brow at him.
"Fight? Don't you think you're a little young for that?" he asked.
The redheaded teen growled, and jumped down, right in front of the other boy, making him take a hurried step back.
"Who you calling young?!" the boy hissed, and pulled out a katana made out of Heckran bones. "If you think you're any better, bring it on!!"
The black haired boy smirked, and pulled out an axe of the same material.
"My pleasure!"
Vazo finally made his way through the crowds, searching for his son in the midst of the crowd. That kid had the tendency to just run off and show up when they were ready to go. This time though, he was nowhere to be found.
'He's probably found someone to fight of their money,' he thought and chuckled. 'Where on Earth did he get that from anyway?'
When he heard battle cries, he rolled his eyes and went over. When he arrived, he noticed his son fighting a boy of around ten, the same age as his own son. The boy fought with an axe, and seemed a rather strong opponent to the other lad. Instead of calling his son over, Vazo simply watched, quite amused. The fight never ended with a winner, because just then…
"Vegeta!!" a furious voice called out, startling the two fighting kids.
Vazo looked at the person who yelled, and was a little shocked to see General Veldock Viper walk over. The General was dressed in some black pants with dark black boots and a long coat with white thin belts just below the chest area, and looked rather pissed off.
'Uh-oh,' he thought, and he wasn't the only one.
"What in the name of the Dragons are you doing?!" General Viper demanded.
Vegeta swallowed in fright, and this didn't go unnoticed by the redheaded teen. His emerald gaze moved back and forth between the two, unsure of what was going to happen.
"D-d-dad, I was just…" the young boy started, but was rudely cut off.
"I don't even want to hear it! Now move!!" General Viper ordered.
Vegeta hung his head, and was about to walk away, when he was suddenly pulled back. The redheaded boy stood in front of Vegeta, glaring hatefully at the man.
"Hey! Just because you're the General, doesn't mean you have the right to order him around like that!!" he screamed, causing a few people to turn around in shock.
No one had ever dared to stand up to the General.
"You have some nerve!!" the General hissed.
"Look who's talking!!!" the boy screamed again, visibly angry.
Vazo rolled his eyes and shook his head lightly.
'That boy never did care about status. Why would he anyway?'
What happened next, went too fast for hardly anyone to notice. General Viper had almost drawn his weapon, but the teen had been ready, and delivered the man a kick with both feet in the guts, sending him to the ground. He then grabbed Vegeta's arm and ran away, leaving people to stare.
People were shouting, but the two teens were safe under the small bridge near the shrines to the east of Termina. Guards ran out about, but no one knew that you could get underneath the bridge by using a rather sneaky route. He had found it completely by accident. He looked at the other boy, who seemed a little frightened, but he simply waited, keeping his cool.
When the guards finally left, he waited a few more moments, before looking at the flame-haired boy.
"Why do you let him do that?" he asked, causing the boy to look at him.
"What?" he asked.
"Why do you let him order you around? He treats you like everyday trash and you don't seem to care," he explained. "No human being must be treated that way. No living being for that matter," with those words, his gaze wandered to the large river to his right.
The river ran through Termina, to a large lake further downstream, where mermaids from Termina came to relax. Life caught mermaids were priceless, but the Hydra had already died out because of humans' greed, so it had been forbidden to hunt for the mermaids.
He gave a sigh and leaned against the rock behind him.
"I didn't introduce myself before," the other boy suddenly said, and he turned around in confusion. "I'm Vegeta No Ouji Viper," he said.
"So, you're the General's son? Not that I really bother. Name's Elvor Crono Greadon," he answered right back, and the duo shook hands for a moment.
"Where are you from anyway?" Vegeta asked.
"Arni," Elvor answered. "Dad's from Zenan though. He came here to have a holiday, but then he met my mom."
"How is your mother?"
"Okay I guess, but she's a little ill right now. Doctors say she'll be fine though," Elvor replied, looking straight ahead.
"That's what they said about mine and she died," Vegeta said coldly, and Elvor hung his head.
"Sorry, I didn't know that," Elvor said.
Vegeta was about to ask something, when suddenly…
"Herr Elvör!!" a young girl's voice called out, and Elvor looked to the side.
A young girl with dark blue eyes, light yellow hair, and a fish's tail was laying on her tummy on the sand, hands tucked under her chin, and fin waving a little in the wind. She smiled at them both, and for fun, waved her fin at them. Elvor smiled.
"Eneii!!" he said, got up and walked over. "Holy Cosmos! What on Earth are you doing here?!" Elvor asked.
"Sun-bäthing," the mermaid said, rolling onto her back.
Her fingers were connected with fins too, for higher speeds. All she wore was a belt made of Heckran bones that had fallen into the lake, and a single neckpiece, which was open at the front. When she would grow up, she'd get a tiara too, but she didn't have one yet.
"Oh, Vegeta, this is Eneii, Eneii, this is Vegeta," Elvor said, introducing the two of them, after Vegeta had walked over as well.
Eneii smiled at Vegeta, and Vegeta simply nodded.
"Elvor!!!" a loud male voice called out.
Elvor looked up in confusion, then groaned.
"That's dad, gotta go! See ya!!" Elvor said, and ran off.
Eneii smiled dreamily.
She turned to Vegeta and said: "Öne öf these däys, I'm gönna märry him!"
Vegeta looked at her a little oddly, and said: "I don't think you understand that Elvor's a human and you're… well… a mermaid."
"Jä?! Sö?!" Eneii demanded.
"It'll never work out," Vegeta said with a shake of his head.
"Yöu wänna bet?! If yöu win, I'll get yöu a speciäl seäshell I have!" Eneii challenged.
"And if you win?" Vegeta asked with a quirked eyebrow.
"If I win, yöu häve to beät all 7 Dragöns!!" Eneii said with a smirk.
"Deal!" Vegeta said, and the two shook on it.
"Who would've thought I'd ever become a Deva?" Elvor said as he and Vegeta walked through the gardens around Viper Manor.
"Not me, that's for sure," Vegeta said, hands in his pockets. "I guess dad was impressed by your guts. And you were also strong to top it off."
Elvor shrugged, not really caring.
"Yeah, well, you know who's supposed to be really tough, have guts, and be strong beyond belief?" Elvor asked.
"Whom?" Vegeta asked, a little curious.
"The youngest Princess Of Guardia," Elvor stated with a smirk. "I've heard rumors that she's kicked a few guards through a wall when she was 5!"
Vegeta whistled.
"Wow! If rumors are true then, I wouldn't like to see her mad as an adult!"
"Me neither!" Elvor said.
"Don't try ta act like ya know everythin', got it?" the young looking woman demanded of the girl standing before her. "Jus' act like ya got amnesia and tha all ya had left was yer name. Understood?"
"Yes, ma'am!" the girl said, and waved her goodbye, before heading toward Arni Village.
The woman snorted, and ran off, unfolding her black wings and shooting off into the sky, leaving for Marbule.
"3… 2… 1…" the male counted softly.
"MURA!!!!" a female voice shouted.
"……0……She's back," he mumbled. "I'M UP HERE!!!!" he screamed back.
With a few wingbeats, his sister had joined him easily.
"So? Wha is't?" Same asked.
"Not a clue, Same," Mura said with a shrug. "She said it was called the 'Dragon Tear', but whose tear could it possibly be?"
"Mura, it's way too big ta be a tear," Same said with a look at the blue and white orb.
The blue hexagons shimmered in the light falling upon it.
"But I know it ain't mine!" Same hissed, as if stating a fact.
"I never said it was," Mura said, looking at his sister.
"But befere ya did!" she hissed, and stalked away.
Once she was gone, Mura shook his head. A soft chuckle was heard behind him and he frowned.
"What, in name of Vegeta-sei, did you see in her?" he asked.
The final Dragon smirked and said: "The person beneath the shell."
Mura looked at him in shock.
"I shall explain some other time," the other Dragon said, before vanishing without a trace.
The duo screamed out, before their weapons clashed loudly with the sound of clashing iron. Emeralds clashed with obsidian, before they jumped aside and jumped right back at each other. Weapons hit, and they lashed out at each other, each trying to outsmart the other. Sweat rolled down their foreheads, but neither stopped to wipe it off. They kept it up for quite some time, before they finally stopped.
Elvor wiped the perspiration from his forehead, exhaling silently. Vegeta sheathed his axe, and picked up a wineskin, taking a long swig, before he tossed it to Elvor.
Elvor caught it, but said: "I don't drink, Vegeta."
Vegeta looked at him with one quirked eyebrow.
"Just try it!" he said.
Elvor was silent for a few moments, then pulled the teat off. He didn't bother to smell it first and took a swig of it. He instantly began choking as the liquid touched his tongue, causing Vegeta to laugh loudly.
"Ugh… gross…" Elvor choked, holding a hand in front of his mouth.
Once he could control himself, he wiped the remains of the liquor from his mouth.
"That," Elvor hissed, "was disgusting."
Vegeta tried hard not to smile, but it was becoming rather hard.
The water rolled calmly onto the sand, and the young girl sat on the ground silently, staring at the water. Something in her veins told her that something would one day go horribly wrong. Porre was acting rather suspicious, ever since they discovered the El Nido Archipelago. She didn't know how, she didn't know why, but something told her to run when the time came. And while she worried, the water kept flowing onto the beach, missing her by a few inches.
She had part of her hair tied in a braid, and the rest was loose, giving her an innocent look. But she was all but that.
"Your highness," a familiar voice said.
"Huh?" the young teen said, looking at the redheaded mermaid swimming toward her. "Yeah, wha's wrong?" she asked.
"It's Porre! They're planning a war against Guardia!"
"They're plannin' WHAT?!?!" she asked in shock.
"You have to warn your father!"
"Righ'!" the girl said, and ran off as fast as she could.
Same jumped away and stopped dead in her tracks. Sky gave a sigh.
"Now what?" he asked.
"They found her!" Same whispered, catching Sky off guard.
"They WHAT?!?!"
"FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIREEEEEE!!!!"
People screamed in terror as they ran for their lives when Porre finally opened fire on Guardia. The young girl watched the scene for a moment from the boat people were still loading, before turning away, not wanting to see it. Not wanting to see or hear all those people suffer.
"Why?" her big sis asked in terror. "Why'd they do this?"
"I don't even wanna know," she whispered, and ran to her room on the ship, crying.
How was that?
Reviews:
SaiyanGal: You're the first to call me by my name. But thanks!
samicat: Well, I had to do something with those guys! [PS: The Dragon Riders also managed to escape]
Ciria: Who else? Yeah, so do I. [Chichi is sent flying through the studio wall with a scream] [whistles innocently with a frying pan behind her back] - Vegeta's home. It was the other way around. Laze received it from Hope, but I can't tell what it was. It'll be revealed in Chrono Crystal.
VegetasDarkAngel: I'll try.
Bulma BriefsYue Lover: Don't bother with it. The gang will all be mentioned once more, in the next chapter, and then it's over. Anyway, Laze and Elvor have a lot of Dual Techs because they're both of the opposite Innate Color, and Haelles and Laze are a couple yeah.
The Mad Orange: This fast enough?
ketsui-8: You listen and you listen good cause I'm only going to say it once!! I said that they weren't in this story!! Get the picture?
REQUEST
Please review the names of two people who are/could be good/close friends.