Chapter 9: New Allies and Old Scars It's been 3 days since Lucy started training with Krae'Nakh, during which she has learned flight and energy control.
She's not nearly as strong as the saiyan, but she can use her vectors to fire ki blasts much faster than he can, giving her the advantage in long range combat.
Also during the 3 days, the little girl that Krae'Nakh now knew as Mayu has come to live with them, though Krae'Nakh couldn't care less.
The gnat survived his encounter with the saiyan, and now resides at the beach, Krae'Nakh only cared to warn him that messing with his pod ment death.
Kouta and Yuka were still attending their college classes (the teacher's still alive) and today was no different, and with Mayu taking her yapping thing for a walk, that left Krae'Nakh alone with his punching bag.
Krae'Nakh drew Nyu to the graveyard with candy and knocked her out, Lucy awoke to the now familiar pain and prepared herself.
"You've made progress, I'll give you that, but I seriously doubt it'll be any different this time... but a week from now, we'll definitely be equals." Krae'Nakh said with a newfound respect for the fighting prodegy.
"A week huh, well I'll be happy to disappoint you." Lucy said with a knowing smile, and Krae'Nakh smiled too, wondering what his rival had cooked up this time.
The battle began when Krae'Nakh charged in with gusto, attacking the diclonius with all he had, Lucy countered with her vectors, but when she saw the opportunity, she kicked the saiyan away with a well-timed/well-placed shot.
Without giving him time to recover, she unleashed a ki blast barrage from all four vectors.
Krae'Nakh dodged some, but had to counter most with his own ki blast barrage.
Were it not for his scouter, Krae'Nakh wouldn't have realized that Lucy was channel most of her energy inward, she now read 413 and was still growing.
Krae'Nakh realized what was happening, while keeping him occupied with her barrage, she was channeling an energy wave into her hands to finish him off in one blow.
But Krae'Nakh also realized that in order to do this, she would have to pull power from her ki blasts, meaning they were just a bluff.
Krae'Nakh launched himself at his quarry, the blasts not injuring him, but making it feel like flying through a hailstorm.
Suddenly, Krae'Nakh was knocked back, Lucy put more power into a single blast and caught him off guard.
Krae'Nakh righted himself and channeled a last minute energy wave just in time.
Lucy brought her hands from a lower diagonal position to right in front of her and fired a red energy wave with a pink aura.
Krae'Nakh threw his own energy wave and held it in position right in front of him.
The ruse worked as Lucy used her vectors to launch herself and flew mid-launch for a speed boost and coiled two vectors around her arm for an enhanced punch.
Krae'Nakh grabbed her fist and twisted until Lucy took a knee, she tried to fight him off with her other vectors, but Krae'Nakh deflected each attack with one hand.
Finally, Lucy tapped out and Krae'Nakh released her. This is how it's been going, Lucy has remarkable energy control and has a new strategy every day but intelligence and strategy is all she has, she's just not strong enough to fight Krae'Nakh... yet.
"There are two things you could've done better." Krae'Nakh stated with full understanding of Lucy's physical weakness as an earthling.
"Whenever you cranked up the heat with that one blast, you should've abandoned the energy wave and hit me with a real barrage."
Lucy nodded her head and asked "What's the second."
"Well, I don't blame you for not getting this one because I thought it was a waste of time too, but if you NAME an attack, it actually works better, because shouting the name of an attack with enthusiasm actually causes you to unconsciously put more power into it, I don't know why it just does."
Lucy looked at Krae'Nakh like he had three eyes, but she couldn't find any hint that he was lying and while retreating from the battle with Nana and the other humans, she had heard Krae'Nakh yell something before a much stronger attack was launched.
"All right, I guess I'll find a name for it then. Shall we continue?" Lucy said, getting back into her fighting stance.
Krae'Nakh smiled and took his own stance, but before either of them could attack, Krae'Nakh's scouter went off and Lucy felt another diclonius nearing the inn.
They both left the graveyard in a hurry, Krae'Nakh hoping to be entertained, and Lucy with fear in her eyes.
When the two warriors arrived at the inn, the first one to greet them was Yuka."Hey, what's wrong? You two seem out of breath, did something happen?"
"Not yet." Lucy said surprising Yuka who thought it was Nyu and took a fearful step back, but Lucy didn't even bat an eye at her. She just proceeded into the inn.
"W-wait, what are you.. Krae'Nakh, what's happening?" Yuka said frantic, still terrified of Lucy.
"We're going to have my kind of company, that's what. We'll take the fight elsewhere if we can, but you might wanna run." Krae'Nakh said smiling as he followed Lucy inside.
Krae'Nakh found Lucy eye to eye with... disappointment.
"Oh great, it's you." Krae'Nakh said annoyed. Lucy was stairing down the weaker diclonius from the graveyard, and as soon as she saw Krae'Nakh, she lept at him.
Krae'Nakh ducked under her attack and kicked her in the chest, with his new power level, she wasn't even worth swatting.
But suddenly Krae'Nakh felt a sharp sting on his face. he swatted at the source of pain and pulled a flattened bullet from his face.
He looked to find the source and found that gnat aiming a smoking gun at him.
"Tch, you just don't learn, do you?" Krae'Nakh said, annoyed more than ever.
At this point, the other diclonius pulled herself out of the rubble of the wall she had gone through and took a more cautious approach, but before anyone could attack again.
"Enough! Stop it!" Kouta and Mayu shouted simultaneously. Getting between the two opposing sides.
"All right, all right, jeez, I'm not having fun anyway." Krae'Nakh said, too bored to bother crushing insects again.
The insects themselves, however took more convincing, and by the time they had calmed down, something that no one knew had caused Lucy to painfully change back into Nyu.
"Huh, what happened to Lucy, I can't sense her anymore." Nana stated, unaware of Lucy's other self.
"She has a separate personality, this one's even dumber than you are." Krae'Nakh explained, getting angry looks from everyone.
"So what happens now, what are you doing here anyway, cause if it's payback, you got a long way to go." Krae'Nakh stated with his arms crossed.
"No, this girl watched up on the beach while Mayu was talking to me, she won't tell us where she came from, but she says can't go back there and Mayu said she knew where another diclonius was staying." The gnat explained
"And you thought you would tag along and report back to your boss, too bad you won't leave here alive." Krae'Nakh smirked at the gnat.
"I'm not working for them anymore, I'm trying to find evidence that proves them wrong, I can't believe they're doing the right thing." The gnat passionately defended himself.
"Okay, Enough! What the hell is going on here, what are you all talking about!?" Kouta bursted out.
A few moments later, everyone was sitting down at the dinner table in shocked silence. The gnat who introduced himself as Sato explained what he had learned about dicloni after his debriefing and Nana explained how her papa had asked her to find Lucy before she could hurt someone, only to run afoul of Krae'Nakh, who refused to apologize for what he did.
When inquired about himself by Sato, Yuka explained how Krae'Nakh fell to Earth at the same time Nyu washed up on the beach, and then Krae'Nakh himself explained again that he was a saiyan of the planet Vegeta.
"But why did you come here and why were you in such bad shape? and who is this Frieza Yuka said you mentioned while you were unconscious?" Sato asked and everyone except Nyu showed obvious anticipation for the answer.
"...You think I'm strong... You think I'm on top of the mountain... Dicloni are beetles among ants...But I'm just a mouse myself." Krae'Nakh said, surprising everyone.
"Frieza is the emperor of the universe, I'm not even 1000th what he is. And he took everything from me." Krae'Nakh said, clinching his fists as he remembered.
Author's note I'm cutting the chapter here and the next chapter will be a flashback of the last time Krae'Nakh saw another saiyan. See you next time.