Author's Note I think I fixed the bugs in the previous chapters. I'm going to keep my notes grouped together like this so they don't get confused with the story. Let me know if there are any other problems I should fix and cast your vote for my next story.
Chapter 6: Graveyard Bash Part 2
Krae'Nakh waited for the source of this new power level to reveal itself.
It was 228, stronger than Lucy, and closer to his own 235, and he was pretty much finished with Lucy, who while entertaining, hadn't quite kept his attention as long as he had hoped.
The source had finally come within visual range, it was another one of Lucy's species, a younger female, just older than the girl with the dog had been.
"I finally found you." The newcomer said to Lucy who stared coldly towards the girl.
"So what, you.. travel in packs or something?" Krae'Nakh inquired, already aware of the fact that Lucy did not see this girl as an ally.
"No, I don't." Lucy replied without abating the saiyan's curiosity. "You might as well go home, I'm not going back." This she said towards the newcomer who stared back at Lucy with a sense of duty in her eyes.
"I'm sorry, but I can't allow you to run free. If you won't come back, then I'll have to make you." The young girl said without betraying her emotions.
"Heh, ya know, you were seconds away from being disintegrated, It might not be a bad deal, assuming I let you." Krae'Nakh said, hoping to antagonize both girls into fighting him at once.
"I would rather be disintegrated than return to that damn place." Lucy replied, stroking Krae'Nakh's curiosity just a little.
"Well, I wasn't going to let you anyway." The saiyan stated before turning his attention to the newcomer. "Listen up sweetheart, you see how your friend over there has been tenderized like a choice cut of steak, you're looking at the tenderizer, now why don't you go back home and play with a doll or something?"
The newcomer didn't understand what the saiyan had meant, but knew that he was trying to threaten her. "Um, I don't know who you are, but if you're the one who was fighting Lucy, I understand why you would be afraid of me, but I'm not like her, I don't wanna hurt people, and I'm trying to take her away so that she can't hur- GUHH"
Krae'Nakh was done listening to this idiot and let it show in a gut-punch. "You may not hurt people, but I KILL people." And with that, he kicked her in the head and she landed next to Lucy.
"Now then to clear up any further confusion, I wasn't defending myself, I deliberately picked a fight with her just for fun, I'm going to kill her just for fun, and now that you're here, I wanna kill you too. Just. For. Fun."
Lucy glared between the two threats as Krae'Nakh explained the situation and the other diclonius struggled to her feet, unsure of which one to worry about first until Krae'Nakh spoke up again.
"So, since you're both on my kill list, why don't you put your differences aside and fight together." As he said this, the saiyan's aura flared up and Lucy felt his power grow, Lucy thought he was getting stronger, but then realized he had stopped holding back.
"Listen up, this brat had been playing with me the whole time we were fighting, I only hit him when he let me, and THAT'S all the damage it did." Lucy said, indicating the crack in the saiyan's armor and the scratch within.
The younger diclonius stood silently before replying. "All right, I'll help you until Papa shows up, after that I'll have to take you back with me."
Lucy scowled at the very notion of going back there, but she would worry about that later, Krae'Nakh felt almost twice as powerful as he had before, and Lucy didn't know how much of his real power he had yet to reveal. Together, the two dicloni extended their vectors and prepared for battle.
This time, the saiyan struck first, firing two beams of energy from his hands. Lucy used three vectors to absorb the attack and the fourth to shield the other girl, who in her inexperience, only used one vector.
The girl would've been killed if it weren't for Lucy's foresight, remembering how she herself once underestimated this powerful adversary, however, she was still sent flying, and Krae'Nakh capitalized on this, sending a double palm energy wave at Lucy.
Lucy used her vectors to rocket skyward. Krae'Nakh intercepted her, but Lucy anticipated this and whipped her vectors in every direction, creating a razor sharp shield.
Krae'Nakh challenged her defense, and when he started attacking the vector-shield, Lucy focused her offensive defense towards him in a skirmish that ended when Lucy hit the ground.
Lucy staggered as she landed and Krae'Nakh capitalized with an energy blast that Lucy barely blocked and was still sent flying.
Krae'Nakh was about to press the attack when his scouter informed him of an attack from behind. He leaped forward, turned about, and leaped into a skirmish with the other diclonius.
Her vectors were longer than Lucy's, but that didn't help her in close-quaters combat, and she hadn't expected Krae'Nakh's speed and strength. The saiyan overpowered her easily and sent her flying yet again.
This time, it wasn't his scouter that alerted him, but the sound of something large being broken and torn. He turned around and saw Lucy uprooting a tree which she then threw at him.
He made a knife hand and launched a blade of aquamarine energy as sharp as a vector, cutting the tree in half. But this was only a distraction, Lucy had launched herself forward as she tossed the tree and Krae'Nakh didn't see her in time.
Lucy knew better than to cut at him with single vectors, so she wrapped them around the saiyan, 2 on his chest and arms, 1 on his legs, and 1 around his neck, each one squeezing like pythons.
At this point, the other diclonius recovered and joined Lucy in strangling the seemingly unstoppable saiyan. "I'm sorry to do this, but you're giving us no choice."
"Heh, damn right I'm not, you pathetic weaklings don't have any choice but to die by my hands." And with that, the saiyan powered up and pushed against the constricting vectors, he couldn't quite get free, but at the same time, the dicloni couldn't cut off his air.
It went on for about 2 minutes until finally the saiyan stopped and said "Well, I gotta say, it's been awhile since I was forced to use cunning instead of power." And with that, the saiyan took off.
He flew circles around the graveyard, dipped down low and zig zagged through the tombstones that hadn't been destroyed, flew straight up and finally shot to the ground, landing on his feet with such force, a crater was formed.
The dicloni held on as long as they could, but when the saiyan landed, they were thrown like amateur bull riders, landing in a 69 position which threw the saiyan into a fit of laughter.
Lucy threw the younger girl off of her, enraged and embarrassed, and COMPLETELY fed up with being made to look like a fool by this over powered brat.
"Are you channeling a red aura or did I strike a nerve." The saiyan smirked, his arrogance increasing as he came closer to victory.
"Damn it, do you have ANY weak points?" Lucy exclaimed as the other diclonius recovered, scowling but not pressing the issue.
"Not really, but then again, my power is not a mere extention of my body." Krae'Nakh replied, pointing out that his power was inward rather than outward like Lucy's vectors.
"Your power may be a decent weapon, but you're as weak as any other earthling, if you used your power correctly, you'd be on par with me, I honestly thought you would be."
Lucy took this in while catching her breath, she sense his presence like he was a diclonius and he was as powerful as she was, only a little stronger, was this really the difference made by they're powers.
"I guess you got a point... I couldn't survive half the damage you've taken, and we only got you twice." Lucy stated, knowing that even one vector would have cut in half, and she could easily be strangled by them.
"Well then, shall we end this?" The saiyan asked with a smile.
"Yeah, let's..." Lucy said, ready to fight to bitter end.
"NO!! STOP IT! STOP FIGHTING!" The three combatants looked to see the girl with the dog running straight for them. "PLEASE! STOP FIGHTING!"
NO! STAY BACK, IT'S DANGEROUS!!" The other diclonius shouted back, dropping her guard. But Lucy was fighting with her against the saiyan who didn't take advantage, instead, he sped ststraight towards the newcomer with a look of irritation on his face.
"What do you want pest." Krae'Nakh said coldly.
"Please, please stop." the girl was panting with exhaustion. "Please..."
"And why the hell would I do that?" Krae'Nakh asked with a stoic expression.
"Please, there's got to be another way to solve your differences." The naive child pleaded with the warmongering saiyan, who was getting annoyed.
"Our differences are that they want to live and I want to kill them, now get lost." The saiyan stated, turning back to the dicloni who have been watching ever since they realized the saiyan wasn't going to kill her.
"NO! YOU CAN'T! PLEASE STOP IT!" The young girl shouted with tears in her eyes. Krae'Nakh turned back to her and channeled a ball of energy in his hand.
The girl's face grew more frightened, but she never stopped begging the saiyan to repent, causing Lucy to remember 4 things.
The first was a voice, a young boy who pleaded with her the same way this girl pleaded with the saiyan. The other 3 were faces, all young girls.
The first was the same age as this one, with grey hair, blue eyes and a violet blue beanie on her head.
The second was far younger, only 8 or 9, with dark hair, blue eyes and pink ribbons in her hair.
And the last was a face Lucy had not thought of in a very long time, she hated this girl because she was weak, and scared, and if she had been stronger and braver, The hateful humans who called her a monster would never had turned her into a monster, the monster she was today.
This girl reminded Lucy too much of her former self for Lucy to let her die. She used her vectors to launch herself at the girl and threw her at the branch of a tree.
The tree branch bent under the girl's weight and she dropped harmlessly to the ground away from the graveyard.
"Aw, the savage killing machine has a heart of gold, that's just cute." The saiyan mocked Lucy as the other diclonius stood in shock at what she just saw.
Lucy remembered something else, SOMEONE else, who had said something similar right before causing more pain than had ever felt, even in the facility.
She launched herself at the saiyan without a word, Krae'Nakh dodged, and just barely realized the other one was attacking too.
Caught in a pincer attack, the saiyan launched himself upward and unleashed an energy blast barrage.
The two dicloni deflected the energy blasts one after the other, each one exploding where they landed, the dust was blinding.
The barrage subsided and the smoke cleared, and the dicloni saw Krae'Nakh holding his arms up with a ball of energy in each hand.
"Well girls, it's been fun." And with that, he launched two energy waves at his opponents, who blocked with all four vectors.
The energy waves sustained and pushed against the walls of vectors. Lucy and her temporary ally were hard pressed to fend off the attack.
"You getting tired yet, or should I put some umph behind it?" KKrae'Nakh asked without appearing that tired. The dicloni didn't answer, so Krae'Nakh just increased the power behind his attacks.
Lucy struggled as the energy wave came closer and closer to killing her, as the energy wave grew inches away from her, she screamed in desperation.
BANG The energy waves halted and Krae'Nakh crashed to the ground and before Lucy knew what was happening, she was surrounded by soldiers.
Author's Note .
Chapter 6 complete and chapter 7 coming soon. was this the end of Krae'Nakh, will be the end of Lucy, find out on the next explosive episode... of Dragon Ball Z (couldn't resist) 3:)