Author's Note Okay, I have updated Chapter 7 twice and it didn't turn up on the notification. So, sorry for the tease but I'm still contemplating how I'm going to write this chapter, I'm just posting this so you know that chapter 7 is finished and I will start on chapter 8 some time soon, maybe even some time today. That said, I do have a busy week scheduled, so It'll be partial chapters again and since they don't notify you about those, let this be your notification to be on the lookout. I do apologize for taking so long to write so little.
Chapter 8: Rage Rekindled The sound of the explosion, the heat of the blast, the tyrant's laughter. This and so many other horrible memories came back to him.
Frieza, the one being who was stronger than any saiyan, who had employed the saiyan race in its entirety... had detroyed them out of fear.
"Not to give you monkeys more credit than you deserve, but he decided you were getting too powerful, so he decided to nip this problem in the bud."
That voice, the voice of the one being Krae'Nakh wanted to kill more than other, a being... with a power level over 3,000.
That being had met Krae'Nakh off world because he was on a mission at the time, and when this being arrived...
Krae'Nakh awoke with a start, the first thing he noticed were the unsaiyan-like tears streaming down his face, and he unconsciously clutched his right gaunlet... and what he kept beneath.
The second thing he noticed was that he was inside of his invasion pod, remembering the events that transpired, Krae'Nakh checked his injuries.
His armor was still cracked open on the right side below his ribs and a spiderweb crack was on the left side of his chest where the sniper had shot him, but his injuries were all completely healed.
The two earthlings that insisted on caring for him had found the injectable healing fluids that were kept in case of emergency.
Of the five he had with him when he came to this planet, two were missing.
"Guess they used the other one on Lucy, or Nyu." Krae'Nakh said to himself.
He opened the door to his pod and stepped out, he was immediately greeted by Yuka.
"Krae'Nakh, you're finally awake. we were worried that you were going to die." Yuka said, showing genuine concern for a stranger, a concept lost on most saiyans.
"It takes more than that to kill me, if you had any idea what I've survived thus far..." Krae'Nakh said proudly.
"So where are the others, Kouta and my rival's idiot self." Krae'Nakh asked, causing Yuka to change her tone.
"They're... they're back at the inn, your pod is too heavy to move, so I stayed here to watch you... and so I wouldn't do something I'd regret." Yuka said with hints of anger and sadness in her voice.
"Hmph, she scared you that bad huh?" Krae'Nakh inquired, understanding what this was about.
"...The way she looked at me, like there was nothing inside her, no emotions at all. And then, after we helped you... Nyu came up to me, and I panicked... I hit her." Yuka chokes tears as she continues.
"The way she looked at me... she had no idea... she didn't remember, I couldn't look her in the eye, how do I... how should I..." At this she falls to her knees in tears, conflicted by her compassion for one persona and her fear of the other.
"Saiyans are no different." Krae'Nakh said out of nowhere, grabbing Yuka's attention before continuing.
"As I said before. there are some species who have different bodies as Nyu has a different mind. What I didn't tell you is that we saiyans are one such species, but if we don't learn to control it, we behave like wild animals. My father taught me to control myself when I use this form...but I mortally wounded him, and he died. He... he died laughing, he said it was his fault, he was strong enough to beat me and had done so in every other battle as he trained me to master this form. It was his fault because I caught him by surprise."
Krae'Nakh smiled as he remembered the last lesson he ever learned from his father. "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."
"And it wasn't just him, no one blamed me for what happened, because I couldn't control it... it wasn't me, and any time a saiyan killed their child because they couldn't beat them in that form otherwise, they were executed for cowardice, that's just how it is. So you can hate Lucy all you want, but hating Nyu because she's weaker makes you a coward." Krae'Nakh looked up at Yuka, who had found her feet again.
"The point I'm trying to make is treat Nyu like Nyu, and let me worry about Lucy, Im a heluva lot more dangerous." At this Yuka nodded her head and the two of them went back to the inn.
Yuka while thinking about what sort of battle form the saiyan had, and Krae'Nakh while thinking of how he was going to kill that insect that shot him in the throat.
Krae'Nakh stared at his plate as if doing so would increase the amount of food on it.
"I know your stomach is bigger than the house, but I just can't afford that much food, I'm sorry."
"No, it's fine." Krae'Nakh said as he excused himself. "I'll get some more." And before anyone could stop him, he flew out the open window.
Yuka looked back to her plate hoping he wouldn't do anything crazy, and then she turned her attention to Nyu.
Kouta was still hand feeding her like an infant, but she was learning to use utensils at this stage.
Yuka walked up to Nyu who immediately shied away with fear in her eyes.
Yuka couldn't find the words, how could she ever strike Nyu, Krae'Nakh was right, Nyu wasn't that other girl that he had called Lucy.
With no words, Yuka closed the gap between them and gave the innocent girl a tearful hug. "I'm so sorry Nyu, I never should have hit you, I'm so sorry."
Nyu didn't understand, but she knew that Yuka wasn't upset with her anymore. "Nyu" she said questionably, after a moment, Nyu returned the hug with a cheerful "Nyuu!" and Yuka knew she was forgiven.
The mood dissapated when Krae'Nakh came back through the window with a 9 foot shark that was still smoking from the energy blast that the saiyan used to cook/kill it.
After dinner, Krae'Nakh excused himself and went to the beach to contemplate his next move.
He would've simply hunted down the bastards who injured him, but his main concern were his feelings.
It was unsaiyan-like to feel loss after the deaths of comrades, but is it the same to have lost everything?
He wanted revenge, he knew that much, but how could he get it when Lucy was the strongest challenge he could hope for?
He stopped his contemplation when he realized that he was being watched.
"Who's out there?" He called out. The observer showed their self, it was the girl Lucy had protected from him during their fight.
"I-I'm sorry to disturb you." The girl said, bowing politely to the saiyan. She didn't show it intentionally, but Krae'Nakh could sense the girl's fear of him.
"Did you really just bow to someone who tried to kill you?" Krae'Nakh asked, crossing his arms.
"Um, I-I want to know why... why were you fighting with Nyu and that other girl?" The child mumbled, barely audible while keeping her distance from the saiyan and staying between him and the annoying yapping creature that was starting to bug Krae'Nakh.
"I told you, I was fighting them because I wanted to, that's all there is to it." Krae'Nakh said with a stoic expression.
"B-but why, why do you want to fight them so bad."
Krae'Nakh was about to answer when they were interrupted by three pistol rounds that hit the saiyan in his armored chest.
He shook it off like it was nothing and turned, scowling, towards his attacker.
After they reported what happened on the beach, Bando and Sato were briefed on exactly what they were up against. When they learned of the dicloni, Bando dismissed the threat they represented, caring only for revenge against the unidentified assailant, but Sato couldn't comprehend the thought at all, if this were an evolution of humans, then wouldn't they still be the next generation?
Unable to see their existence as wrong, Sato resigned, and a few days later, he found himself at the beach.
He didn't know what he was doing there, but suddenly he heard voices.
He went to investigate them and saw the young girl who had helped him with Bando with fear in her eyes talking to- Sato's throat seized when he saw the child from before glaring at the girl. He remembered his superiors deducing that this boy was some mutant form of diclonius, he remembered the description of their capabilities, and he remembered what this boy did to Bando.
Sato always wanted to do something heroic with his life, but he feared saving this child would be the last he ever did.
With tears in his eyes and on the verge of pissing himself, Sato drew his personal revolver and fired.
Great, first the insect, now the gnat. Krae'Nakh thought to himself.
"Run! run now while he's busy with me." The gnat shouted towards the girl who just stood there shocked.
"W-what's going on, what are you doing here?" The girl asked the gnat, apparently knowing him.
"Isn't it obvious, he's trying to rescue you... and get himself killed." Krae'Nakh said, flaring his aquamarine aura and stepping towards his new plaything.
"N-No, stop it both of you, this isn't right." The girl shouted, trying to stop the fight before it starts.
"Of course it's not right, I'm fucking evil."
Krae'Nakh said with pride, continuing to step towards the gnat he would soon crush.
"No, please sto-" The girl stepped between them and Krae'Nakh batted her away, she landed a few feet away unconscious and the little yappy creature followed after her trying to rouse her.
"grr, Damn you!" The gnat shouted as he aimed his weapon at the saiyan.
Krae'Nakh leaped to the side so fast, it looked like he teleported.
The gnat tried to aim his weapon again, but the saiyan kicked him in the stomach and grabbed the weapon as he staggered, crushing it in his hand.
"Now then, why don't you try fighting like a man, come on, I'm just a kid after all." Krae'Nakh smirked at his prey who was shaking in fear.
Just when it seemed like the gnat wasn't going to attack, he reached behind him and pulled out another handgun, this one being bigger than the last.
The gnat fired at the child's head... and Krae'Nakh caught the bullet with his bare hand.
With a smile on his face, Krae'Nakh flicked the bullet through the gnat's kneecap.
He then grabbed the man's shirt collar and started punching him in the face and stomach, starting at normal speeds and working up to his top speed.
Once he hit top speed, he continued for 3 seconds before finally hitting him in the face hard enough to send him flying.
Krae'Nakh spent a few minutes enjoying the sight of the broken man before looking towards the girl who had found her feet during the beat down.
"Now back to your question, I want to hurt people because I like it, like being violent, I'm a violent person, I always have been, I always will be... Because I... am a saiyan."
When the girl asked what a saiyan was, Krae'Nakh told her the history of the warrior race from planet Vegeta.
When Krae'Nakh told her as much as he wanted to, she understood that she was never going to convince this alien to live in peace.
The next morning, Kouta and Yuka had to attend their classes and, rather than taking Nyu with them, asked Krae'Nakh to watch her, to which he agreed.
After they left, Krae'Nakh took Nyu outside... and knocked her unconscious.
When Lucy awoke and saw Krae'Nakh, she had terrible flashbacks about the only other boy who made her feel this way.
"What do you want, are you going to finish me off?" Lucy asked the saiyan, who replied by showing his power.
"Yeah, you feel it, don't you?" Krae'Nakh addressed Lucy's look of shock when she realized he was stronger than before.
"It's called a Zenkai boost, it's a saiyan only power, like your vectors, any time a saiyan is driven to the brink of death and comes back, their power increases immensely." The saiyan explained to the shocked diclonius.
"Now, here's the deal. I know all about being hated for your race... because my race struck fear into the most powerful tyrant in the universe, you think I'm powerful, this freak destroyed my home planet and thus, wiped out my whole race and my family and all my friends with the energy he channeled from one finger. My new power level is 386, Emporer Frieza's power level is 530,000. So I teach you how to fight like me, energy blasts, strength and speed, so you can crush your enemies without even trying. And you push me as far as you can, in the hope that one day, I will have enough Zenkai boosts under me to kill Frieza and avenge my race."
Author's Note Now then, how will this turn out? Who is the mysterious figure that plagues Krae'Nakh? What did this figure do to him? How strong will Lucy become?
All these questions answered and more presented in the next chapter of Elfen Lied Ultimate Tenkaichi.
I've given up the voting thing, instead my next story will feature my avatar from An Author's Rampage holding a tournament similar to the one from the fan manga "Dragon Ball Multiverse" With Elfen Lied as the core universe and instead of Namekians and chicken people running everything. Female Dicloni with saiyan tales will have the main jobs (referees, chefs, nurses, etc..) and male saiyans with diclonius horns will be the security guards.
Something to look forward to, see you next time.