The Three Legendary Saiyans

Chapter 42: The Three Maidens of Love

Author's Note: I apologise for the long wait for this new Chapter; this chapter has been quite difficult to write as I personally detest violence against women and writing this chapter has been one of the most difficult chapters to write, and thank you to all those who have been patient in the long wait.

17 and 18.

The duo of Androids stood at the bottom of a spire of Kachi Kachin staring up at the three beautiful young women standing atop the very same spire; all three smiling down at the duo with a mysterious look in their eyes.

"Girls… how about we show off our true powers" the green-haired girl spoke' brushing her flowing green hair out from her face.

"I agree Brianne; let us reveal out true forms" spoke the girl in the blue dress; his eyes darting to another figure walking on onto the battlefield.

"Hey… three against two doesn't seem all that fair; can I get in on this bout?" Raijin spoke; walking out into one of the few remaining solid and flat spaces of the arena's floor, carefully walking up and in-between 18 and 17; joining them in their imminent battle.

"Sure you can; just don't slow me down or get distracted" 18 spoke with a confident smile the moment she set eyes on Raijin; giving him a nudge to his right arm though Raijin smirked at the memory of how 18 had kicked him from The Ring during The World Martial Arts Tournament.

"I remember watching 18 kick you out of that ring like a football; thought it was funny" 17 scoffed; smirking in Raijin direction.

The trio of Raijin, 17 and 18 all looked up to the Observation Stands as a loud cheering and chanting began along with the waving of bright pink glowsticks.

Observation Stands.

"Yes! Its finally beginning!" shouted The Second Universe's bearded Supreme Kai; an Angel sitting directly behind with a stoic expression though his eyes darted to the Kai and only shaking his head is distaste for only a moment.

"May these beautiful flowers bloom on this battlefield; show these ingrates what True Love is" called out their God of Destruction; a woman dressed in the robes and jewelled finery of an Egyptian Queen, she and her accompanying Supreme Kai and eliminated fighters all began waving hot-pink glowsticks in support for the three maidens.

Beerus gave a sigh; his eye half-closed in boredom, "What are those Second Universe idiots doing now?".

"This is combat! Not a concert!" screamed Champa from across the stands, Beerus only slightly nodding in agreement with his twin's comment; an action that caught the eye of Krillin, Shin and Whis.

The Arena.

"All the way from The Second Universe to grace your meaningless lives; I am Brianne de Chateau" the green-haired woman announced herself; his eyes gleaming as her own energy produced a spotlight down on top of herself as well as her two partners.

"I am Sanka Coo" announced the young woman in the blue dress; her eyes radiating a beast-like fierceness.

"And I'm Sous Roas" spoke the glasses-wearing girl in the yellow poncho; her simplicity sticking out like a sore thumb when compared to Brianne and Sanka Coo.

"Let us blossom and let us sing out the song of love and victory!" Brianne called out with her arms spread; the five remaining fighters from their Team calling out in cheers of support for the trio.

"What the hell is this crap? A fight or a parade?" Vegeta shouted; standing atop a floor fragment while glaring up at the trio.

Just as the roaring support echoes across the arena; three beams of light burst out from the floor exactly where Brianne, Sanka Coo and Sous Roas, pink for Brianne, blue for Sanka Coo and yellow for Sous Roas, the three pillars of light converging into a single bright purple spotlight that drew the attention of everyone in the vicinity.

Goku stood hidden amongst several broken fragments when catching a glimpse of the purple spotlight but returned to waiting for an opportunity to strike at Jiren, a deep rumbling in the floor turned Goku's attention away from Jiren and to the fading energy of one of his allies; a sense of impeding loss entering Goku's heart and mind as he rushed to the aid of his ally and praying he made it to their side in time.

Frieza sat on a piece of Kachi Kachin; his eyes and coy smile aimed at the spotlight from his comfortable spot within the arena where no enemies had crossed him since settling there after Frost's erasure.

Gohan and Piccolo both stood together; taking a moment to catch their breath when they too caught sight of the purple spotlight.

"What do you suppose that is?" Gohan question; the purple spotlight seemingly drawing him in, Gohan's feet subconsciously walking towards the source of such dazzling spectacle.

"I'm not sure but we mustn't drop out guard when so many enemies still lurk" Piccolo replied; reaching out and grabbing Gohan by his shoulder and halting his transfixed path towards the spotlight.

"Yeah; we need to stay alert… and thanks" Gohan answered; patting Piccolo's hand with his own and turning his back on the purple spotlight just in time as a number of identical clones of a singe fighter: a tall dark-green skinned man charging directly towards him and Gohan, "Gohan! Stay alert!".

Piccolo could only get those words out before the clones struck him and tackled him into the distance leaving Gohan alone against the new opponent.

Gohan and the fighter that he recognized as being a member from The Tenth Universe; crouching low in caution for whenever the clones might make themselves known again.

17, 18 and Raijin.

"Happiness to all! I sent you my Love! Ribrianne!" Brianne stepped out from the purple spotlight having apparently put on a lot of weight and now dressed in a full-body pink dress with a hood that left her now blue-skinned pudgy face poking out.

"The thunder of the wild! And the roar of Love! Kakusna!" Sanka Coo let out a mighty reverberating roar as she revealed her new form to be that of a beast-girl, claws attached to her gloves and boots while her body was dressed in a skin-tight white bodysuit with blue fur-lined belts crossed her waist and chest.

"The strike of Love! With dreams and magic! Roasie!" Sous Roas announced herself- stepping out in a full martial arts attire with a pair of light-blue goggles over her eyes and a purple hat on top of her head.

"Transformation… Complete!" the trio spoke and posed as one; posing with their right arm across their chests and the left arm swept to one side, the purple spotlight fading into a rain of glittering star-drops that gave a heavenly gleam to their newly transformed bodies.

Raijin, 17 and 18 all stared as the trio unveiled their transformations with deadpan eyes; their strange forms being nothing like anything they'd ever seen before, 18 gave a swift slap to the backs of the heads of 17 and Raijin to wake them out of their deadpan stupor from witnessing such a bizarre transformation.

Before Raijin nor 17 could react; two arcs of blue and pink auras ploughed into them; propelling them both in different directions and forcing the trio into separate locations, leaving 18 and Roasie alone and staring each other down until the pair leapt off the ground with quaking force and began their battle with a barrage of fists from 17 and slaps from Ribrianne.

18.

18 leapt off the ground away as a lightning bolt struck the spot where she'd just been standing; a white aura cloaking her form just as Roasie leapt down from her perch, charging and striking at 18 with lightning speed and pinpoint accuracy with her jabbing punches; 18 kept backing up until her back hit a wall, glancing backwards at the wall and realising her mistake in taking her eyes off her opponent; flinching at the jab as powerful and sharp as a bolt of lightning struck her hard in her left shoulder and blowing off part of her pink tracksuit leaving her shoulder exposed.

"How do you like my Love? After all… Love comes in all forms" Roasie boasted; winding back her hands for another attack just as 18 suddenly raised her right leg and kicked Roasie in the chin, sending Roasie backwards several feet just as a rumbling in the ground resonated under their feet.

"This energy… its Raijin's but there's another… the old man?" 18 muttered under her breath; sensing the two powers causing the ground to rumble under their feet.

17.

17 and Ribrianne came to a halt with 17 being dropped into a section of the arena where the broken fragments of Kachi Kachin had formed high walls around the Android and when flying had been ruled out the only option was to climb and scale over the walls until Ribrianne floated down to the ground just as the rumbling began and the heat of intense flames was carried over the feeling of somebody's power rising.

Raijin.

Kakusna and Raijin came to a halt at another section of the arena; the edge of the arena and the mucky depths of The Null World in sight, taking note that Kakusna was sharpening the claws on her gloves with a wicked yet confident smile.

"I want you to know that I take no pleasure in striking a woman… but I won't hold back if you continue to challenge me" Raijin spoke slowly and carefully; laying out his displeasure at fighting a woman.

"Shut it; you are just a mere man who knows nothing of Love, you cannot possibly conceive the depths of my Love" Kakusna roared back; the fierceness radiating in the sky-blue aura as well as her words and eyes left Raijin feeling impressed with her conviction.

Raijin merely smirked while his eyes sparked with a fascination in her so-called Love; his thought flooded with images of Bulma, Trunks, Bulla and Mai, even images of Gohan, Goku, Krillin, 18, Chichi, Future-Trunks and Future-Mai, Nail, Dende and even Vegeta, and all the other Namekians entered his mind; the images of the people he truly loved stood around him before converting into a brilliant crimson flame that burst into life and engulfed Raijin's body.

Kakunsa brought her gloved hands up to her eyes; shielding her eyes from the unexpected blast wave of heat from the divine flames engulfing her opponent and the very floor under her feet rumbled from the immense power Raijin was generating, "What… what is he doing?".

17.

Ribrianne glanced away from her fight with 17 as she and 17 too felt the heat of Raijin's ferocious flames and ominous rumbling in the floor.

"Looks like he's turning up the heat" 17 smirked; feeling the heat of Raijin's fire and his strength emanating within the rumbling floor, the sensation filling him up with a fiery determination for a fight akin to that felt by a Saiyan in times like these.

"What do you mean?" Ribrianne demanded; her eyes narrowing and staring through the heart shape she was making with her hands, her attitude blatantly ignoring Raijin's power entirely.

"You'll see; among the Saiyans we have on our team… Raijin chose an previously unknown path to gain his powers, he spent years trying to catch up to Goku and Vegeta… but he found his own power and chose to pursue that; and I respect him for that decision" 17 explained with a confident smile; a silent wish to fight Raijin himself forming in his heart and mind.

"How do you know this?" Ribrianne demanded; finally turning her attention to the power she was sensing within the floor and the heat spreading throughout the air, realising that her ally Kakusna was defiantly in trouble as the power dwarfed her own and even surpassing Ribrianne's own tremendous power.

"My twin sister told me about everything that's been happening" 17 smirked; having received letters documenting everything that had been happening over the last few years.

"Interesting… I'll have to test his Love when I'm done with you" Ribrianne spoke; his bright pink energy forming a gigantic heart, drawing a bowstring out from the heart with her left hand before releasing a firing a volley of heart-shaped arrows down upon 17, the arrows striking the ground around 17 into the perfect form of a love heart.

"All shall fall when confronted with my Love" Ribrianne spoke with a loving smile; casting her arms out as the arrows burst out into an explosion so large that it engulfed 17 entirely.

Raijin.

The flames died down almost immediately; leaving Kakunsa to gasp in shock as Raijin stood with his chest bared but covered in bright red fur, his tail having turned from a dark brown to a bright red and his black hair having become excessively much wilder and longer.

"What… what are you?" Kakunsa stuttered; taking a step backwards and pushing her own back up against a wall, her eyes staring solely at Raijin and sensing the immeasurable strength that he was radiating.

"This… this is Super Saiyan 4; a form I reached because of my friends trust in my abilities to surpass my limits… and I also had a big helping hand from my beloved wife" Raijin spoke while flexing his fingers and wrists; feeling the power that came with his Form's strength, God Ki running through his veins but most of all the love he felt for his family and friends.

Kakusna didn't even have a second to react when Raijin vanished from her field of view; the sudden impact of Raijin's fist colliding with her stomach forced her entire body to arch forwards upon being winded by the sudden lightning-fast blow, Kakunsa's eyes almost whited-out until recovering and countering with a swift but predictable slash from her claws; following up with a pair of blue heart-shaped blasts aimed for Raijin's base chest.

Raijin managed to doge the claws but took the heart-shaped blasts head-on; the dust whipping up from the resulting explosions which her quickly dispelled by a swift motion of Raijin's sweeping arm, charging back towards Kakunsa with such speed that Raijin took her off her feet by sideswiping her.

Kakunsa fell straight down onto her back; flipping back up onto her feet with a backflip before Raijin jetted back towards her knocking her to the floor for a second time, Kakusna backflipping back up to her feet; her ears twitching as she heard Raijin's feet touch the floor with a resonating tap, smirking and sidestepping Raijin's third attack; and countering with a multi-ray blast from her claws.

Raijin smirked as Kakusna managed to dodge him; he wanted to win this fight but the opportunity to fight somebody with similar wild power like he held was too enticing to not pass up, backflipping through the volley of blue blasts with little effort was a simple matter for Raijin; rising back up to his feet with a confident smile and a challenging look in her eyes aimed solely at Kakusna.

"You move well for someone who does not know nor understand our Love" Kakusna spoke; revealing the fang-like teeth when in her transformed state, her words and teeth obviously trying to unnerve Raijin.

"I do know Love, I have the love of my family, my friends and the people who raised me even though I was not one of their own" Raijin spoke slowly she Kakusna would hear him; his mind going back to those images of those he loved and it was those people that gave him his great strength and willpower.

"It does not matter… your skinny black-haired friend is suffering at the hands of Ribrianne, and the blondie won't last long against Roasie" Kakusna kept grinned with her fanged teeth bared

"Oh I'm not worried about 17; that arrow attack won't hurt him in the slightest, and as for 18… there is even less reason to worry since she's actually beaten me! Something you have no chance of" Raijin spoke with confidence; his eyes concentrating and watching Kakusna for the slightest movement to predict her next attack and effectively counter.

Kakusna felt her mind snap; forcing herself forward with such speed that her flowing hair was flung backwards, her claws raising to kill rather than defeat or eliminate, the look of anger in her eyes made Raijin smile with delight as he effortlessly kicked her feet out from under her; grabbing her by her arms and crashing her clawed gloves into the solid floor with a resounding crack as the claws shattered on impact with the Kachi Kachin.

"I repeat… I take no joy in fighting a woman, but you chose to fight me… and I won't hold back when my Universe is on the line" Raijin repeated; lowering his fists while he gazed down at a kneeling Kakusna, taking in the sight of her broken claws with a blank joyless expression.

"In that… we agree… I love my Universe… my home" Kakusna answered slowly; her eyes blinking slowly until the rage dissipated from her gaze and expression, her feet slid out from under her and down into a kneeling position before Raijin.

"Then I will honour you… Beast Maiden; with a swift defeat" Raijin gave an honest smile; proud of the battle Kakusna had fought, a smile that Kakusna returned and surrendered to her opponent; closing her eyes as Raijin lifted her up with one hand only to throw her over the debris and over the side of the arena.

The Grand Priest hovered over Raijin as he'd thrown Kakusna over the edge; his eyes wide with interest in the bout and pausing before making the announcement, "Sanka Coo, aka Kakusna of The Second Universe has been eliminated".

When Kakusna opened her eyes again she'd only find herself back in her normal form though her blue dress had been torn up slightly after her battle; gazing down into the arena and whispering a silent prayer for her two fellow maidens.

17.

The dust from Ribrianne's explosion was slow to dispel; the air around the explosion's radius was still and little to no sign of 17 made itself known, Ribrianne smirked an overly-confident smirk in the power of her Love Arrow; and the cheers of her Universe's Supreme Kai and Goddess of Destruction made her victory all the sweeter.

"I wouldn't go about a victory song just yet" 17's voice rang out as the dust finally vanished to reveal 17 standing at the very epicentre of the explosion and completely unharmed.

"How? My Love should have defeated you with its overwhelming adoration!" Ribrianne barked back; the gleam in her eyes never disappearing even though her Love Arrow had done nothing to 17.

17 only smiled while brushing some loose strands of his sleek black hair out from his still-piercing eyes leering up at Ribrianne; the flickering green energy of a shield lingering around his body.

"So… a shield stood up against my Love? I wonder how long it will hold up!" Ribrianne supported by the cheering of her Divine Beings, and defeated comrades cast her arms out in an arc; a pair of bright pink butterfly wings emerging out from her back which allowed her to flat upwards into the air, her hands joining together into another heart-shape while her energy visibly focussed via a flowing pink stream that flowed from her wings to her hands.

17 flexed both his arms and legs; crouching low upon raising his hands and stretching out his fingers, the radiant green glow again emerging around him in the form of a dome-shaped shield that shifted position with the position of Android 17's hands, their fight about to restart.

18.

18 somersaulted over Roasie as she charged in with another lightning jab; Roasie watching 18's graceful moves with wonder in her eyes while the two fought, 18 kicked off a broken floor piece executing a roundhouse kick to Roasie but she merely ducked her it and followed up with a countering uppercut; 18 barely dodged by kicking off another broken piece of the floor but her jacket's left sleeve being blown off entirely.

18 and Roasie kept kicking off broken Kachi Kachin pieces and attacking each other with jabs, kicks and punches; the two fiercely fighting despite the echoes of power rumbling through the floor, the elimination of Kakusna and 18 sensing that her brother was on the defensive in his own battle until The Grand Priest's voice boomed out once again.

"Master Roshi of The Seventh Universe has been eliminated!" boomed the voice of The Grand Priest across the arena.

18 felt herself hesitate after hearing The Grand Priest announce the elimination; leaving herself open and prompting Roasie to strike with a powerful stomach punch, winding and blasting apart 18's tracksuit jacket from around her waist and leaving tattered shreds of the jacket and her white undervest clinging to her body.

Raijin.

Raijin stood in silence while gazing out over the edge of the arena; a smile forming on his lips as a familiar presence made itself know to him, "Since when does an assassin announce himself? I thought you always struck when an opponent least suspects it and finish a fight in one blow… isn't that right? Hit!".

Hit smiled as he walked out from the ruins of what once had been an intricately designed floor pattern; slowly walking towards Raijin with his hands hidden in the pockets of his flowing trench-coat, his red eyes solely focussed on his sole target: Raijin.

"I believe our rematch is upon us… I can't say I haven't thought about facing you at your fullest" Raijin smiled; recalling on how he'd only defeated Hit last time because Goku had already beaten him but now Hit stood before him at his fullest and the idea of fighting Hit like this brought his Saiyan Blood to a boil.

"Yes; I shall go all-out for an opponent such as you; just as I did against your friend: Goku" Hit spoke with a calm tone; his own excitement at the prospect of fighting Raijin a second time well hidden in his stoic features.

Raijin felt his eyes widen with excitement; the bright red fur on his back standing up with exhilaration just as the blazing fire of his God Ki ignited into life with such ferocity that the very air was rippling around his frame, Hit smiled even wider at the sight of the rippling air; his own aura of brilliant purple flames bursting into life with matching fighting spirit.

Next Chapter: Master Roshi's Final Fight.