Chapter 3: Lucy Revealed

Krae'Nakh had been staring at the beach for hours, it was night now and had started to rain.

Krae'Nakh couldn't stop thinking about it. The pain, the grief,... the rage.

Revenge, that's what he wanted, what he needed, but he wasn't strong enough, not yet, and probably not ever.

But he would be damned if he wouldn't try, his ancestors would roll over in their graves.

"Krae'Nakh, Krae'Nakh where are you?" The saiyan Recognized Kouta's voice and turned to see him and Nyuu coming closer.

"You didn't have come looking for me, I can take care of myself." The saiyan called back to the Earthling, who immediately came up to him.

"Look, I don't know what's going on with you, but I can't just leave a child alone out here you'll get sick or worse." Kouta stated, clearly not capable of understanding the power of a saiyan, even a young one such as Krae'Nakh.

"Whatever." The saiyan replied as he sat down on the beach. "Look, I don't know what's going on with you, but I'm not going to leave you all alone, so why don't we just go back to the inn an-"

CLONK* Krae'Nakh turned his head to the sound of the impact only to see the buttstock of a primative weapon collide with his face.

"...ae'Nakh, Krae'Nakh!" the saiyan groaned as he got to his feet, and then he shivered with instinctive fear as he remembered something.

"Remember my boy, while we saiyans are the most powerful race in the universe, that power counts for nothing if the enemy takes you by surprise."

His fear became humiliation, and then it was hatred of the highest order. The ground began to tremble as Krae'Nakh pieced together what had happened.

Some insignificant lowlife piece of trash had knocked him unconscious.

He surveyed the area but the only one here was a frightened Kouta.

Krae'Nakh didn't know what he was worried about and couldn't have cared less if he tried, he was only concerned with finding who hit him and making them pay.

He activated his scouter and found 5 nearby power levels, the first 2 were 1 and 3, Krae'Nakh grimaced at the thought of being taken down by opponents like THAT.

The other 3 were 12, 23 and- At that moment, he realized that the reason Kouta was freaking out was because Nyuu was missing.

And while the scouter was still reading an 86 from her, Krae'Nakh hoped it was malfunctioning in reverse for her kidnappers, he wanted to enjoy kicking they're asses.

Bando was having a bad day.

He had gotten so hyped about this super killer he was supposed to fight but his excitement was met with disappointment.

First off he was stuck with this punk kid Sato who seemed to be out to spoil all of Bando's fun.

And because of said stick in the mud, he had to let the witnesses go, the older brat didn't bother him much, but the fucking space cadet, God did he hate nerds like that.

And to top all this off. The "super killer" was just some dumb bitch with no vocabulary.

"Man, what a let down." Bando said after knocking the girl unconscious from frustration after the third time she tried to run instead of fighting.

"Go ahead and shoot her Sato, I need a smoke." Upon hearing this, the horrified green horn tried to protest but Bando was having none of it.

"Listen you little shit!" Bando snarled as he grabbed Sato by the shirt collar.

"We have our orders and we follow them without question. Now shoot that bitch before I decide to shoot you." Bando said as slung the inexperienced soldier toward the unconscious girl.

Sato recovered from the sling and actually apologized to the girl he was about to kill, Bando scoffed at this before trying to light his cigarette. The lighter sparked once... twice... BANG!!

What should have been a silent gunshot was instead as loud as a cannon and followed by a resounding crash 2 feet from Bando's position.

The shocked mercenary dropped his lighter and drew his weapon, pointing it towards the sound only to find the space cadet from before.

Bando couldn't believe his eyes, the fucking brat was FLOATING and was enveloped in what appeared to be an aquamarine flame.

Krae'Nakh narrowed his gaze on the stronger warrior and said "You must be the sad sack of ozaru shit that took by surprise, not so tough now are you?"

Krae'Nakh smirked at his quarry before firing an energy blast from his hand and blew the hapless earthling into a nearby boat shack.

Krae'Nakh was careful not to kill him, at least not yet, but as he was making his way to the pair of humans his scouter went Berserk.

BEE DEE DEEP!! Krae'Nakh pressed a button to focus the scouter and froze, something with a power level of 216 was standing right behind him.

Krae'Nakh practicly jumped around to face the scouce of this power and was disappointed to find Nyuu was the source.

"Damn thing must be malfunctioning again." Krae'Nakh thought to himself.

But suddenly his scouter went off again, this alerting him to an attack. Krae'Nakh dodged backward and looked again.

This time, he didn't just see the girl he had previously dismissed as an insignificant moron, he saw her face, or at least her eyes.

She bent her head downward, concealing her face in shadow, but her eyes shined through, and unlike her previous expression of infantile curiosity, these eyes were opened wide and radiated a single desire... to kill.