Me- Hahahaha! Last chapter I said I'll publish chapter 17 somewhere on May. Never expect myself to publish it on the last day of this month. XD My laziness is getting the better of me. 'sighs' one of the quirks of being a procastinator. 'cross arms'

Leanne- Yeah, 'chuckles' also, man. 86 favorites, 100 reviews, and 119 follows. This story is on the roll!

Me- I know, I got a frikin' heartattack when I saw that along with how many people read this fic. Dang. 'I rub the bridge of my nose'

Leanne- Thank you again for the support everyone! I hope you'll enjoy this chapter. AJ had to hurry this one up. (^_^")

Me- I apologize if this chapter seems too fast for you guys. Please leave a review, follow, or a favorite! I don't own Dragon Ball and its characters. I only own this story and my characters. Now time to get this chapter started! Hit it, Lea!

Leanne- Hiyah! 'presses the publish button'


Chapter 17 - Weak

After splitting up with her uncle, Leanne ended up tracking the aura at Papaya Hospital. Her brown eyes looked around in confusion before they widened in shock, hearing an aggressive growl from not too far away.

Leanne move towards to that sound before seeing something... unexpected.

It was round and small. Leanne thought it was Kirby or Jigglypuff, but she shrugged that off once realizing the creature's skin is blackish-blue.

The creature looked adorable, to be honest. Its bright, blue teddy bear eyes and soft appearance made it look like it's harmless. Leanne knew that appearances can deceive people's minds. Many have proved that in her past experiences. Taking one slow step towards the creature, she watched its eyes darted around. The creature sniffed, jumping through the hospital wall like a ghost.

Leanne choked and jogged to the place where the creature used to stand. She touched the white wall with her fingertips before giving out a heavy breath.

"Transyt," she muttered.

A blue magic circle appeared on the wall. Leanne watched the ciecle faded away before stepping forward, phasing through the wall like the creature earlier.

Her eyes blinked, seeing that she entered in the hospital's storage room. She sighed in relief and muttered a simple camouflage spell while her eyes darted around for the creature. Once the young girl walked out of the room, she took cautious steps in the hallway.

Three minutes of walking, her head jerked up. Leanne turned and faced the door. It was no doubt that she sensed the creature's aura there. The young girl advanced forward with a mutter and phased through the door.

She entered in a patient's room.

The room was filled with several bed. Each has its own curtain to give the patients their own privacy. While Leanne passed each patient's bed, she saw that one of them laid the competitors. A guttural growl sounded. Leanne inwardly choked and slowly turned to her side.

She saw the creature, sitting on a random patient's chest with its mouth wide open. Leanne watched a gray misty figure coming out of the stranger's body while 'it' did a vacuum-like action with its mouth at them. Realization dawned on her face with her brown eyes narrowing in thought.

"Small, can phase through physical object..." she mumbled.

With a hand raised to her chest level, she created a small ball of pure magic. Flicking a finger at the ball with a silent aim, it went flying towards the creature.

The creature shrieked at the burning sensation on its back. Its head snapped at Leanne's direction and the creature's soft features went deformed. It gave out a vicious shriek combined with a growl at her. Its eyes flashed red causing Leanne to gasp inwardly.

"A Soretch?" the brunette said with wide eyes.

She quickly shrieked once the 'soretch' leaped at her. Leanne ducked down, dodging the creature which made it land on the ground.

Her eyes glared at the creature, remembering reading about them in one of her uncle's private books. Despite Micheal forbade Leanne to read one of them, she just couldn't help herself to read some pages in his books while he wasn't around.

Good thing she remembered about the soretch. They were supposed to be extinct if Leanne remembered correctly.

The soretch growled and its teeth sharpened. Its small form slowly went large, Leanne watched it expand before it shapeshift into a ravenous wolf.

It jumped at her with a bark which made the young mage to yell. Phasing through the sealed window with the wolf, she landed outside of the hospital. Leanne grunted at the impact she made while the soretch has its paws laid on her shoulders. Before it could about to bite her head. The young girl shrugged off the large paws before punching the soretch's jaw. The wolf yelped and jumped away from her with a feral growl.

The two stared each other down. The soretch growled and barked loudly, summoning a dark blue orb. Leanne brought up her shield in a second causing the blast to hit it. She flinched, feeling the hard impact it made on the shield.

"I didn't expect that attack to be that strong," Leanne's eyes moved when the wolf jumped at her with its claws out.

"Burst," she yelled and ducked down while a red magic circle appeared in her hand.

Once her palm touched the scoretch's chest, the circle glowed and exploded sending the wolf flying into the air. Leanne knelt down with her hand on the ground.

"White Geyser!" she casted.

The circle on the ground glowed and created a beam. It shot the scoretch's stomach while Leanne watched it howled. The soretch fell lifelessly with a hard thump. She panted, feeling her magic drained.

"Dang..." Leanne whispered and wiped the sweat on her brow.

Clap, clap, clap...

She twisted herself to the right and saw a boy. He looked about twelve and seemed to be a few inches taller than her. With a smile beaming on his face; the boy's red hair stood out.

"That was awesome! I didn't know you can do such a powerful attack," he said with his gray eyes shining as he took a step forward. "My name is Kell, what's yours?"

Leanne eyed him closely while her pants eased, "Lea." she replied, still cautious at the boy.

Kell's expression couldn't get any brighter, "Nice to meet you, Lea!"

In a blink of an eye, Leanne staggered back with a scream revealing a glowing rapier stabbed through her shoulder. She shakily knelt down with eyes closed shut as her shoulder bled.

Forcing to crack one eye open, the young girl saw the boy's aura radiated around him in a dangerous way. Leanne breathes heavily while a heavy weight came down on her. She let her guard down...

GROOOWLLL

Leanne turned to see the soretch growling beside her. Her eyes stared at it in disbelief then turned to Kell.

The boy laughed and approached her. Leanne tried to back away, but her upper body ended up falling to the ground in pain. Kell stopped and didn't hesitate to stomp a foot on the wound. She screamed and Kell repeated the action again with much force.

"Aaaahhhhhhhh!" Leanne shrieked as she felt the pain shot through her.

The boy grinned at her agony, "It's been a while I fought someone besides your uncle's family. Hehehe, this is fun!" he said, adding some pressure on Leanne's wound.

Leanne's teeth gritted again and breathed heavily. Sweat slid down on her cheek. She froze and felt chains wrapped around her body.

Kell giggled and grabbed hold of the chain, dragging the young girl on her back. "Sorry, Lea, can't have you causing anymore trouble. Come on, Danny!" he said cheerfully, still dragging her behind him.

"Did the kid just named the friggin' soretch 'Danny'?"

The soretch followed Kell behind him and eyed the girl's struggling form with a growl.


After Micheal split up with his niece, he arrived at the place where the elimination rounds were held. Micheal's eyes widened, seeing a soretch (in a form of a jaguar) sucking out the aura of an unconscious monk. With a flick of his wrist, a dagger was summoned out of nowhere. He threw the dagger at the jaguar and the weapon stabbed its left rib. The soretch screech and stopped before turning to his direction.

Micheal quickly ducked down and rolled away, dodging a flying sword attack from behind. He summoned a shield in a second and blocked a magic blast before Micheal's eyes widened at the attacker.

"Hello, Micheal. Pleasure to see you again," the attacker said. His face bore a nonchalant expression and patted the 'dust' off of his attire.

The mage eyes went narrow and glared at the nonchalant attacker. He stood up slowly and fixed his shirt with a deep inhale.

"Frank," Micheal faked a smile. "A pleasure it is. How many months and days did we last saw each other?"

Frank shrugged, "I say about thirteen months and twenty-seven days." he replied and fixed his rectangular glasses.

"Twenty-seven? I thought it was twenty-nine," he chuckled, "I guess I miscounted then." Micheal grinned and rubbed the back of his neck.

Frank nodded and walked closer, "Indeed."

"What are you doing here, Frank?" Micheal's grin went down and his eyes narrowed once again.

Frank sighed and the soretch growled at Micheal's threatning form. He held up a hand, signalling the jaguar to stop. The mage continued to stare intensely at him.

"I was ordered to send you a message." he fixed his glasses again. "My master wanted me to tell you to give up."

The mage scoffed at his comment, "Give up? And why should I give up?" he held his hip.

Frank's mouth twitched like he was fighting back a smile, "Maybe this will explains it."

Summoning a picture, Frank threw it like a shuriken at Micheal. Micheal caught it with ease and his eyes widened once he took a clear look at the picture.

Frank smirked at Micheal's form. He can see his opposite's aura flared furiously along with his mood. Why is it so amusing to piss him off so much?

"Mr. Frank!"

A childish voice sang out with shoes clicking on the floor as if somebody landed out of nowhere. Frank turned his attention to the red-haired boy.

"Kell," he grinned, "about time. So?"

Kell smiled and snapped his fingers. The wolf soretch behind him pulled the chain with its mouth, bringing the passed out body in front of Frank.

"I did what you asked. Did I do a good job?" Kell asked with a smile.

Looking at the boy's work, the man recognized Micheal's niece wrapped in chains with blood on her clothes. Frank saw the stab wound and a few bruises on her. The image brought a smirk on his face.

Kell, so innocent and dangerous at the same time. Frank patted the boy's head with an approving look. "Yes, Kell. You did a very good job." he said.

Kell's eyes brightened and giggled proudly.

"You b*****ds..."

He turned and his yellowish-green eyes gleamed, seeing the mage's angered look along with a death glare. Frank chuckled and turned around.

"I guess my work here is done. Come along now, Kell." Frank held out a hand which the boy took without question.

Micheal's shoulders shook and his look went worse, "You..."

Holding out his hands to his sides, he summoned two katanas. The mage charged at the two with a yell.

"—piece of s********ts!"

Micheal sliced the two with the dual swords, but his eyes stared in shock once Kell and Frank faded away. Teeth gnashing together in anger, he returned his swords back to where it was and turned to his unconscious niece with clenched fists.


Leanne opened her eyes and flinched at the sting on her shoulder. She turned and saw her uncle sleeping, looking quite exhausted for her opinion. Leanne slowly sat up and noticed the bandages wrapped on the stab wound.

Filled with curiosity, she carefully unwrap the bandages to check on the wound. Leanne gawked at her shoulder once she's done unwrapping.

She has a scar. An awesome, two-inch scar

It may seem strange that she's hyped up over a petty scar, but this is basically a sign that she survived.

Wait...

If Leanne remembered from one of Kuya Bon's lessons back in her world, it's possible that her arm won't work like it used to anymore. Kell stabbed right through her. Severe stab wounds on the shoulder can seriously damage the nerves of the arm; therefore, if Leanne's arm won't really work like it used to. She'll have to do physical therapy in order to function her arm normally again.

Leanne stared uneasily before attempting to make a fist using her injured arm.

"Oh gosh, it's working normally. Thank you, Lord." Leanne sighed and patted her chest.

A groan snapped her out of her thoughts, she saw Micheal slowly waking up with a huge yawn.

"Oh, Lea..." her uncle stretched his neck which made the usual cracking sounds. "You're awake."

The young girl smiled softly, "How long was I unconscious, tito?" she asked.

Now fully awake, Micheal sat up straight and replied, "Three hours."

"S-Say what!?" she spluttered.

"You heard me," he shrugged, "I have to say. Master Roshi and Goku are fighting for far too long. I'm guessing Goku will turn into his Great Ape in any minute now."

"Yikes. I rather not see that. No matter how many times I watched the series, that episode always stresses me out." Leanne sighed and looked around. "Where are we anyway?"

"We're on top of Papaya Island's hospital, kid. Eat this." Micheal hand her a gem.

She smiled and nodded in gratefulness before eating it whole. Leanne exhaled as her magic was restored. A frown framed on her lips and she exhaled before staring at her hands.

She let her guard down. She got herself injured.

She didn't even make sure that da*n soretch stayed dead.

"Leanne,"

Leanne looked up to see her uncle smiling softly, "It's okay." he said softly.

Her eyes teared up and she looked down again, "I-It's not. I let my guard down and almost got myself killed. I'm so weak!"

"You're still new at this, Leanne. It takes time to improve and learn," Micheal scooted closer to his niece and hugged her to his chest.

"But I'm still weak,"

"Getting stronger takes time too,"

She sniffed and wiped her tears away, "I promise to train even harder to get better. I'll get more experience and learn as I can, tito."

The mage sighed and pecked her forehead, "I know you will, baby girl. I know you will." he said and rocked her back and forth.

Leanne choked and silently cried on Micheal's chest.


AUTHOR'S NOTE!

Me- Drrraammaa Booommbb! Again, sorry if this chapter seemed rushed and short. Gosh, I'm too nervous now. I'll be transferring into a new high school on June, so I have to focus on my studies (mainly Math and Filipino).

Micheal- I can't believe this will be your sixth time transferring. 'rolls eyes' I hope your new school will be the one.

Me- I hope so too, Micheal. Anyway, guys, welcome Micheal! He will finally join Leanne and I in this fanfic's author notes and also will join me counting the votes. 'wiggles brows'

Micheal- I'm still not okay about you doing this behind my niece's back. She'll be pissed one she knows about the votes.

Me- Eh. Don't worry. Besides, the votes are just for fun so you can relax.

Micheal- Still... 'mumbles the rest silently'

Me- Now let's see the votes!

Votes for Guys To Be With Leanne 😂

Goku- 24

Vegeta- 7

Krillin- 2

Piccolo- 2

Android 17- 2

Daniel- 1

Tien- 1

Others- 0