Area C: Day One

[Kami]

With a now full recharged Slug standing before him, Kami reassesed the situation. Well...I said I'd fight him at my base power level, but if it starts looking like I might go down for the count I might have to power up a bit just out of self preservation... The old powerhouse wiped away sweat and blood, not all of it his, and looked at Slug once more.

They both had the same idea, to come in right at each other head on. They met midway, in a power struggle. Their hands clasped together each one tried to push the other back. Kami was obviously gaining ground on the younger Namekian, who was starting to buckle under the pressure. He dug deep and pushed hard, hoping to catch Kami off guard. Slug's aura began to swirl around him as they wrestled for position.

Kami was starting to feel the strain of this tug-o-war and of the fighting. Slug was starting to turn things around for him, and was pushing as hard as he could towards the old Namek. Suddenly Kami let out a big smile, Slug loked very confused, but kept pushing on the old guy anyway.

"Hahahahahahahahaha!" Kami howled with a strange laughter, arms above his head trying to out muscle Slug.

"What is so funny?" Slug demanded to get an answer.

"This." Kami said the single word and then dropped his arms down, causing Slug's momentum to carry him right into a knee from Kami, who still held onto Slug. It caught him right square in the chest, and even after that senzu bean it still hurt like hell.

Still holding onto Slug, Kami pulled him up over his head, arua flaring around him, and bashed him face first hard into the ground. He let go long enough to get around to Slug's feet and pick him up again. He tossed him up and punched him in the face, sending him skidding across the dirt, kicking up dust as he went along.

Slug quickly clammored to his feet, not wanting to be caught off guard again. Kami sped through the kicked up dust, hoping to suprise Slug but ended up not being able to find him. By the time he tought to look up he felt a kick to the back and he was flying. Slug did his best to catch up to nail Kami again, putting an elbow out for the Namekian to crash into. He hit it, and the force was almost too much for Slug to handle, but he held strong and watched as Kami practically bent around his elbow, legs and arms jetting out infront of him. Slug popped a fist up and nailed Kami in the face, sending him down to the ground.

Kami looked up as Slug came crashing down, he barely managed to roll out of the way of the vicious stomp that was headed his way. Slug quickly slammed a heel down to try and catch Kami on the way back but only succeded in smashing the ground below his foot. The green geezer was up on his feet and headed right back at Slug.

Slug was ready and waiting, blocking the first few attacks from Kami as he came barreling in. He could see beads of sweat forming on Kami's face, flying away as he delivered punches with incredible force. Then something strange began to happen. Everytime Kami threw a punch his auara began to flare up a little bit, almost like someone was reving an engine. With each hit the aura blazed a bit brighter and more intensely, the punches came quicker and harder. Slug was starting to worry.

Kami sent in a blinding right, left, hook, uppercut combo, sending Slug skyward. Instead of following him up, he stood on the ground, palm outstretched and fired off a quick ki blast. Slug was coherent enough to put up some sort of defense, but the blast was intense for being fire off so quickly. The force of the explosion sent him flying a little farther, but he managed to regain control of his movement and flew back down to the ground and wasted no time in dive bombing Kami.

The old Namek had his aura flowing around his body, sparks flying, rocks exploding, he figured anybody who say this was frothing at the mouth while throwing babies and rubber bands. Slug came in with a brilliant move, flying along the ground and wailing away on the aura engulfed Kami. Slug was feeling pretty good about himself until he noticed he wasn't really hitting Kami much at all.

NO! He didn't!...

Slug had a quick though of what Kami must be up to, then took a punch to the face and had a sudden direction change because of the hit. "You said you would fight without power ups!" Slug angrily slammed a fist into the ground on his way back to his feet.

"Yeah, I did, and I was. You used a senzu bean and said something about 'Round two' I figured we were starting over. Besides, this is not exactly your run of the mill tournament. So show me what you've got, it'll be a good test for you to run up against a Super Namek...it'd be no fun if I were much higher than this!" Kami seemed to have a strange arrogance about him at the moment. Normally this feeling was absent, but he hoped maybe Slug would just give up. He had no real reason to kill him, but if he had to he would.

Once again, they played a game of chicken, coming straight at each other. Thinkign fast, Slug went upwards right before he collided with Kami. The Super Namek quickly spun around and followed Slug up into the sky, not wishing to waste a moment of time or a single oportunity. He bashed Slug up and down with a quick barrage of punches and then came in with a spining kick to the side. Slug went spiraling off in a direction unknown to him.

Kami flew ahead and caught Slug, who was still disoriented. He slapped him across the face, "You can't win kid." and then punched him in the stomach, letting him float back down to the ground. Kami followed suit and the two were once again facing off.

Slug didn't say a word, he simply took up a fighting stance. Kami did the same, bringing one foot up off the ground and slamming it down hard while at the same time flaring his aura up around him. They looked each other down for a moment, and then resumed their battle.