Two Weeks Vacation Comes To An End!
Day Five of Vacation...
"Aagh" Lyric gagged as Granny placed her left hand on her student's heart reviving her from the blow she had taken from the master.
"Tell me, why do you keep losing Dimwit? You're clearly strong than me, so how is it I keep winning? Do you want to answer me?" Granny berated Lyric who simply lied on the ground in defeat. "I don't know Granny" Lyric replied as she laid on the ground watching Lance and Nagato spar outside the temple "I used to have fun while fighting, but know...I don't know".
"Is it the feeling of defeat?" Granny asked "Or are you angry at your weaknesses?" she continued as the elderly woman also began staring at the boys sparring outside her temple. " You're far too angry when you fight Lyric, it nearly got you killed today" lectured Granny as she prepared some tea and patted her student on the head. Nagato and Lance ended their hand to hand combat session as Nagato picked up a bokken and Lance picked up tonfas as the two rivals got into stances.
"You sure about those Tonfas?" Nagato asked with a smirk.
"Yeah, they're good enough to be you Kimchi!" Lance replied which quickly anger Nagato.
"...Oh you'll pay for that one Easton" muttered Nagato to himself as the two young teens charged at one another with flurries of quick strikes. "There's no avoiding is Kimchi ...Whirlwind Fist!" Lance yelled as he seemingly trumped Nagato with a tonfa strike surrounded with transparent Ki that whirled around his fist. "That's what you think" Nagato replied while barely dodging the strike, swordsman quickly spun clockwise and unleashed a powerful swing with his bokken. "Sōryūsen!" Nagato yelled as he landed the hit on Lance sending crashing to the ground.
"Oww, you got lucky Kimchi!" complained Lance as he mended to his back.
"Bullshit, that's skill and you know it!" Nagato replied in anger.
"I kicked your ass in fist fighting!" Lance yelled in retaliation.
"You got lucky!" replied Nagato as the two rivals bickered at each other before Granny blasted them both away with a Ki blast while continuing to stroke Lyric's head putting the teenager to sleep.
"To think 747 years I've been alive and never once have I had children of my own. But these knuckleheads who've come over the years as my students are now my family. Especially those three idiots, they can't seem to leave this old woman alone. Lance Easton, the descendant of one my very first students Roland Easton who just his ancestor was genius fighter. Nagato Kimchi, heir to the chiefdom of the obscure Kimchi tribe and a genious swordsman. And finally this one, Lyric Shi, the Idiot Genius... I still remember the first day we met." Granny thought to herself as she began to reminisce about their first encounter.
"I CAME ALL THIS WAY TO BE TRAINED BY YOU!"
"Is that so? Well then, prove your worth and survive these mountain tops by yourself for a month and maybe I'll think about training you."
"BUT I ALREADY SPENT A MONTH TRYING TO FIND THIS PLACE!"
"Well then, another month should be so tough?"
"Good times" Granny said to herself as she watched Lance and Nagato walked towards the temple together. "Did you say something Granny?" Lyric asked as she awoke from her nap on Master Granny's lap as the boys entered the temple.
"Listen up Dimwits I'm only going to say this once! I've thinking about this for a long time now and I've decided that...I'm finally ready to die" Granny said to the shock of her students.
"Please don't!" Lance pleaded.
"Reconsider" asked Nagato.
"Aren't you immortal?" questioned Lyric as Granny stared at her.
"Just shut up and let me explain, I've finally found a candidate willing to take on this offering. Follow me." Granny ordered as she and her trio followed their master as they walked behind the temple, through some forest until reaching a pond with a small tree growing in the middle. "Is that a...?" asked Nagato at the sight of the small tree, Lance also had an astonish face as a sadden face appeared on Lyric.
"I see, you're giving your life to a Yggdrasil Tree. So you really are doing it?" asked a sadden Lyric to which Granny simply nodded.
"Yes, but don't look so sad. It's gonna be a long time for the tree to be ready for the ritual, so cheer up Dimwit" said Granny as the short woman jumped up and place Lyric in a headlock "Knowing you, you'll probably be dead before it's even ready" teased Granny as she began burrowing her fist into Lyric's head cheering the fighter's up. "Oh wait Granny! Stop!" Lyric laughed as Lance and Nagato jumped in, dog-piling the two ladies ending the day with a happy scene.
Day Six Of Vacation...
[Dawn]
Granny and Nagato stood across from each both holding bokkens as Lyric and Lance watched on from the sidelines. "Now watching closing boy, I'm only going to show you once" Granny said as Nagato braced himself for a powerful attack. Granny launched herself and instantly disappeared from her students' sight while Nagato continued his defense before suddenly getting hit with nine simultaneous attacks.
"Kuzuryūsen" softly spoke Granny as Nagato fell to the ground "I saw it...it was amazing" the young boy said before collapsing.
[Noon]
"Ready Granny!" Lance yelled as he stood in a fighting stance awaiting his master's attack. Granny rushed Lance as the young student attacked with a flurry of punches in an attempt to stop the elder from striking him. "Hyakuretsu Dan!" Lance yelled a flurry of thousand punches flew at Granny whom simply dodged them all and quickly side-step her student. "Musō Tensei " she softly spoke as the master appeared behind Lance and chopped him behind the neck paraylzing and rendering him unconscious. "I hope you'll remember what you just saw" she said with a smirk as she, Lyric, and Nagato picked him up off the ground headed for the temple.
[Evening]
Somewhere in cave Lyric and Granny sat alone across from each meditating other as the Time Patroller began to break in a nervous sweat. "...Um Granny? What are we doing?" asked Lyric who peaked with one eye "Shut up Dimwit and meditate" Granny quickly replied as they continued meditating until nightfall. Lyric's power and awareness had reached their peak as the moon began to rise as Granny manifested an orb of powerful energy between her palms.
"Lance the successor of my combat style, Nagato the successor of my weapon style, there is still more I need to teach them but you Lyric...this is your final lesson. You my dear are the successor to my spirit style, of all my students throughout the years you are the only one who's shown such stupidity, naivety, stubborness, but yet despite your serious flaws... You've blossomed into a fine warrior with such willingness to learn, you Lyric are indeed my Idiot Genuis" Granny said with a sense of pride much to Lyric's annoyance. "Only you have what it takes to endure the final lesson" further elaborated Granny as she handed the orb to Lyric. "Take your time to feel the energy and try to understand it's natural" Granny said as the orb generated an intense heat as it pulsed in Lyric's palms.
"What do I do with it?" Lyric asked as she stared into it's center.
"Whatever you think is right" Granny answered as she watched her student examine the orb of energy slowing gain size. Without hesitation Lyric thrusted the orb into her belly causing an immense pain to the young fighter. "AAAAHHH" she screeched in agony as Granny watched on in concern.
"You must endure Lyric!" Granny yelled out. "This will awaken the ability that all humans have within them! This will lessen the gap between you and your alien comrades! Endure Lyric endure!" Granny continued as her student rolled around in continuous agony.
"The pain she's enduring...it's as if every single fiber of her being was to slowly torn little by little. Seconds turn into years, that's the kind of pain I went through and now you must go through. Please forgive me Lyric" thought Granny to herself as Lyric's pain continued all through the night. Lyric's pain had come to an end as dusk turned into dawn, she laid her head upon Granny's lap as the master reminisced about her past and past students.
"And I clearly remember the day your mother came to me for training. I told her the exact same thing I did you, One month in the mountains!" Granny remembered as the stroked Lyric's hair to comfort the teen. From the distance Nagato and Lance could been seen running towards the ladies in the cave.
"Master! Lyric!" Lance yelled as the boys reached them.
"What happened to her?" Nagato asked in the sight of a battered Lyric.
"Is she alive?" the boys asked in unison as Granny chuckled a bit "her heart stopped several times but she's fine now, this stubborn idiot won't die so easily" laughed Granny as Lyric slowly opened her eyes.
"Hey guys, how are you?" Lyric asked in a tired voice.
"Nevermind us, how are you?" Lance asked in returned.
"I can't move...but other than that I'm fine" replied Lyric slowly and quietly chuckling in pain. The four laughed as the sun rose on the mountainside, later that day the three students recovered with the help of Senzu beans and lined themselves up in front of their master. "You don't know how proud I am of all you, please come by and visit again" Granny said as her students flew into the air and travelled towards Hercule City. "Oh wait! I forgot to tell you two! I've joined Time Patrol!" Lance said cheerfully.
"Wow! Congrats Lance!" Lyric said in excitement hugging the boy and giving a noogie.
"Time Patrol must have lowered there standards letting you in" Nagato snarked as Lance confronted him. "Yeah well, I'm better than you! Country hick!" Lance fired back as Nagato insulted back "What was that, City runt!" as the boys began their usual round of comical fighting. Watching the cloud of dust and appendages Lyric began thinking to herself "I wonder..." as she raised her hand and fired an invisible Ki blast sending the two flying off. "Nice" she commented as she raced off for Babz's house.
"Lyric...you changed. Babz doesn't know how to explain it but you changed!" said the fascinated Majin as Lyric let loose some of her power. "Whoa! I guess I did change some!" Lyric said as a violent wind bursted out from aura with Babz, Maxim, and Percel watching. "That's incredible Lyric!" Maxim commented "Well done" Percel said as he watched with pride in his subordinate. There small party went on without issue as the team returned to Toki Toki City by orders of Trunks.
"Team Leaders: Percel, Rusto, Sammit, Serori, and Hibiki meet the newest member of your squad. I present you Team Leader Reso!" announced Trunks as the team leaders applauded the arrival of Reso, the gentle Frost Demon bowed at the applause "It is my hope that Percel, myself, and others will repair the image of Frost Demons that had been tarnished by Chillad's bloodline and establish the Frost race as a protector race" spoke Reso to his small audience. "Always the noble wordsmith, aren't ya Reso" joked Percel as patted Reso on his back as the others laughed. As the team leaders talked with one another their subordinates met with the members of Team Reso.
Joshua Johnson, a 16 year-old with dark skin, green hair, and yellow eyes, stood alongside his female teammate Milla Maxwell, a curvaceous blonde 19 year-old with pink eyes and a proud attitude as the two were joined with Lance. "These are my teammates Lyric! Josh and Milla, they're both human just like us!" said Lance proudly as Lyric and Nagato met his teammates. Team Reso went on there first mission the next day and began trying fix a timeline where Frieza waged war with Cooler over Namek. The rest of the teams returned to work the following week and continued peacefully working until the next crisis.
A/N: A bit of a weak ending I know...but I haven't had much time to write due to work. No worries though I've already started writing the prologue to the next arc! Also thank you to Jmac99 for his OC submit Joshua Johnson who will be a great addition for the team! As always thank you for reading!
And now... a very short special!
~* Awkward Moments*~
*With Lyric and Ren*
"...Hey...Ren...what's up?"
"...Nothing much."
"Well this is awkward"