DRAGONBALL REALITY

Chapter 5

After the rather embarissing encounter with Recoome Tyson seemed to tone down his ego ever so slightly, and seemed to hang out around Eric and Carl now. Niether of them could figure out why, though the added help had not been

unwelcome, espescially now that they had started stepping up their game a bit. Now they were doing special challenges, such as trying to steal the dragonballs from Frieza's ship, without getting the tyrants attention. Or their was the challenge where you went to find baby Gohan who had gotten lost in the woods before Chi-chi found out. These things gave rewards, like zenni, capsules with random stuff in them, and maybe even some character points to enhance your stats.

Then of course there was the three different training methods. Sparring, meditating, gravity room. Sparring could help you learn how to better measue the strength of your attacks, giving you greater control over how much strength you used,

plus if you won the match you could feel superior for awhile, naturally Tyson loved it. Meditation just increased how much ki you had, and reduced how much you needed to do certain things, but it did nothing else. Gravity training simply improved your speed, endurance, and strength attributes depending on how high you set the gravity. The three of them had used all three, though the only one who did very much meditation was Carl, mainly ecause his style relied heavily on

ki based attacks.

So, you may wonder why they decided to put so much extra effort into things. Well for Tyson the reason was simple, he took the game way to seriously. But aside from that, like any good Z-Fighter would they were preparing for the

world martial arts tournament which was held in the game once a month, and decided who was the best player in terms of combat. In one week the tournament would begin, and they planned to participate.

"Come on is that all you got!?" Tyson demanded as he exchanged punches and kicks with Eric and Carl at the same time. Between the two of them they had the advantadge, but Tyson was no easy foe.

"Try this then!!" Carl cried as he backed off slightly and pulled one arm back.

"Uh oh!" Eric cried as he leapt back, barely avoiding the Demon Wave that Carl fired hitting Tyson head on and flinging him hard into the ground.

"Had enough?" Carl asked casually as he lowered to the ground. Tyson snarled as he stood and stalked off.

"Nice shot, but a bit more warning next time eh?" Eric said with a smile.

"We shall see, but you know how much I like to be flashy and cool," Carl replied with a shrug.

"So true," Eric agreed.

Suddenly another figure flew towards them catching both of their attention. After a moment Eric was able to recognize the figure and said "No, I'm not ready for this,"

The figure was Eric's cousin, Alex, whom he still held a grudge against for taking his girlfriend. Alex had thick shoulder length brown hair, and blue eyes. He was fairly muscular and stood at just under six feet tall.

"Eric, I heard you like to hang around here," Alex said as he touched down.

"What do you want?" Eric asked sourly. Carl wisely went off to do something else.

"Just to talk eh? Ya'know I honestly had no idea that Charlotte was just using you to get to me, honestly we never did hook up ya'know?" Alex replied.

"That doesn't help me any does it?" Eric asked.

Alex sighed as he said "Maybe not, but I am sorry about the whole thing ya'know?"

"Well maybe you are. But I honestly don't care! Now unless you have something important to talk about i suggest you leave!" Eric demanded angrily.

Alex had that look like he had expected something like this, then said "You always were stubborn ya'know? Still, if you plan to go to the tournament, I'll also be there ya'know, so I guess I'll se ya," With that he took off. Eric looked after him,

then shook his head and went back to the others.

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The next week passed and they met up at the tournament arena, where several other fighters were already waiting. Eric observed the competition, and soon spotted Alex enjoying a hot dog, then of course Carl and Tyson were arguing over

who would win if the two of them fought. Eric was fairly certain Tyson would have that win but kept his mouth shut. Instead he looked over the registration board and saw that Sharlene, Carl's ex, was also participating. After that the only name that truly caught his eye was the name of the winner of last months tournament, a guy named Vince.

"Hey hold on a sec, I just saw my ex," Carl said interrupting Tyson's arguement, then took off for the best hiding spot. Alex looked over at Eric and the two made eye contact, and then Eric looked away.

"Well, I hope your ready to lose," Tyson said walking up.

"Yeah, keep on dreaming," Eric said with a smirk. Vince watched this from his corner with a small smirk. He had been ordered to make sure that these guys hadn't learned anything, if they had he would find and kill them. If not, then he would

simply have to settle for crushing them.

The announcer shouted over the microphone "Ok everybody!! If you the combat chart has been placed, all matches were decided at random so go see who your up against!!!"

Vince looked at the list which read as follows.

Vince Vs. Tyson

Emma Vs. GokuClone9000

Carl Vs. Sharlene

Eric Vs. Gozan

Alex Vs. Thomas

A smirk crossed his face as he considered his foe, and Vince decided he was going to enjoy this day.

Then the announcer called "Will the first two combatants enter the ring. Vince moved into the ring, and Tyson followed. Vince had his first victim, now it was time to show his foe true fear.