12-12-2004, 04:14 AM
"Alright, let?s go." Bulma spoke as group headed out from the bunker, leaving off in the direction that the area code named under "D" laid in. The tracking was anything but easy... encountering thickets of the largest trees the youth had ever laid eyes on became little more then a boring detour as they continued.
"Hm hm hm... hm hm hm hm... hm hm hm ... hm hm hm hm." The humming of the child that would have sent any sane being into a rush of pure hatred was little more then a breeze to his two older companions. Bulma, being the mother that she was, simply looked on as if Goten hadn't been making a sound... 16 was used to the small annoyances of the Saiya-jin so it made little difference what he did now compared to the past problems. As the small Saiya-jin was making his rounds to go into the second chorus of his song there was a sudden pressure in his lower gut. Blinking blankly he looked up to the two ahead of him as spoke.
"I gotta go!" The youth said with urgency to receive a chuckle from both android and human alike, Bulma nodding as he waved her hand off towards a tree.
"Go on then, we'll walk a little slower so you can catch up." The cyan haired mother smiled and turned back to the walk with the carrot top android who strode ahead of her by a few steps. Goten thankfully retreated over to a tree askewer of the path, stopping abruptly with a sigh as he dropped his pants slightly to pee against the tree. Smiling briskly as he finished up... yet... something was wrong. He was suddenly three inches shorter and his ankles had sunk into the ground... eyes widening the demi Saiyan struggled to get himself free, Bulma and 16 having already left gave him no hope of help.
The short warrior groaned as he felt his feet beginning to slide out of his boots, knowing that if he lost the only pair of shoes he had available that he would be suffering when the chill wrapped itself about him as he had been feeling lately. Trees above showing leafs containing small flakes of frost that had gathered blissfully, a breeze blowing by containing the light hint of a frigid gasp... air began to press down under the small Saiyan as he began forcing his ki down against the ground... at first it looked as though this would come of no avail but was quickly mislead as the stout child propelled himself upward above the ground, boots and all, to hover within the air.
"Hahaha!" The demi Saiya-jin did a little mid-air dance of victory as he stuck his tongue out at the spot where he had been held in. "Take that!"
"Indeed..." An umbrous and deep voice said, almost choking the happiness strait from joyous little party as a figure stepped forward from the midst of the trees.
The shrouded man wasn't all that tall, standing at least a good five foot eight at his peak with a heavy build hidden under but a black tank top that had seen better days. Completed with a pair of deep maroon boots as well as a pair of abyss colored pants that hung loosely from his legs, it seemed as though he were just looking for a fight. His hair was long, standing on end in waves flowing to the back of his head... and, of course, that black metal collar beeping about his neck with a habitual red blinking light upon one side of it matching that of Goten's own collar.
"Wha?..." The youth spun about in a confused manner as he landed his eyes upon the stranger in a half innocent fashion.
"You have a collar, which means you are libel to die... I'm the insurance that you will die... too bad you didn't save the receipt." The man spoke in a darkly endowed tone as he moved even further away from the trees he stood near, eyes singled upon the child as Goten's high descended rapidly before touching down against the ground. Clearly it hadn't been apparent to the young one that this was a tournament, not some social gathering where displays of power were given... but that quickly cleared up as the shadowed fighter dashed forward in assault against the tiny warrior, the liquid mud that the path between the two had been loosely paved with kicked up in the wake of his rush.
The air drifted peacefully between the branches of the trees as if it were some sort of magic amidst in the area that would bring this awkward silence... but that only lasted a moment... a stray ki blast bolted through the natural guardians of the forest to slam heavily against the side of one, causing an almost snapping like sound to fill the air, another jolted past to cause the same effect on a nearby tree as two figures dashed through the timberland. Goten's small frame wheeled backwards as his hair flapped franticly in front of his eyes, watching as the man in black threw storm after storm of sizable blasts at the young warrior.
"I can't run forever! But first I gotta get up and outta these trees!" Goten told himself as he looked up, seeing a sign of the heavenly light shining through the thick grove of leaves above him. Closing his eyes he darted upward and through the thicket, emerging above the tree tops... and at the edge of the forest... his head turning to see a wasteland. Snow fell, indeed it did, but didn't touch the ground. It seemed as though a continuous volley of heat that rose up from the earth itself melted any sort of frozen spectacle from touching down, making the heated water from the melted snow flakes land in mush wakes, forming a marsh like grounding about the random vents of heated air.
"Caught ya." A deep voice abruptly brought the adolescent back to attention, but a moment too late. The man's hand grasped heavily upon Goten's ankle in a catch as he turned quickly, whirling the toddler around in a whirlwind spin before releasing his hold, sending Goten flying downward at a break neck speed. With a crash and a splash the young Saiya-jin was submerged in scolding hot water, causing him to open his closed eyes suddenly and burst forth from the heated prison.
"Hehehe, toasty, ain't it?" The dark man said as he lowered himself to float just above the waters of the mossy area, a steam vent breaking up from beneath the marsh waters to blow its heated air into the sky. "Active volcano... makes for perfect killing grounds."
"That hurt!" Goten said mending to a small red mark on his hand where he had pushed off of the hot waters with, glancing up as his eyes narrowed. "I don't even know who you are!"
"Kelz," The fighter said vociferously over the roar of several other hot geysers erupting from below. "And I will be your killer today."
It was obvious that this 'Kelz' was no human nor a member of the staff Synex promised would be going around making bunk-calls on all the participants... in fact, this might be a participant. His strength was about that to fit in with anyone else?s in this tournament, Goten's small sense of ki gave the hint that he was something other then both a reptile that he had felt off Burter or a Saiya-jin that he and his father had both been accustomed to holding.
"Let's get rolling." Kelz pronounced without a moment's hesitation as he shot forward again, waves lapping in either direction as he approached Goten in a rush, bringing his right elbow up as well as a mockingly challenging grin which lay upon his lips. Goten's arm coming up as he blocked the jab of the elbow, eyes widening as Kelz's leg swings about to nail him in the side, catapulting the youth to the right with the dark man closing in quickly on his tail. A grunt coming from the child as he regained composure, spinning about upside down with his hands positioned with palms aimed at his attacker.
"Kamekame-Ha!" Goten said quickly, with the quickness of the attack it wasn't very effective. A small beam darting out to burst in a rush of smoke against Kelz's chest, the fighter bursting forth from his dusted aura to throw a punch into the demi Saiyan's stomach. Goten's teeth clutching as he was tossed away by the fighter, skating along the heated lake in a hurried pace, trying to figure the next best position for attack... till it struck him. Turning about onto his stomach facing backwards, the youth gave a quick push of ki energy as he bolted himself back at his opponent. Waves curling left and right of him as Kelz had done on his approach as the distance between the two decreased quickly.
"Little... just die already." Kelz whispered to himself as he jumped higher into the air, Goten following him up to meet in fist to fist combat. A sense of seriousness hanging in the child's eyes as he threw two quick jabs simultaneously with his right hand, blocked simply by Kelz's extended right forearm which remained risen as Goten's right arm reared back as if setting itself for another punch... but instead, the child spun backwards, slamming the heel of his right foot against the side of the man's face, distorting him for a moment as he drifted uselessly in mid air. The hybrid's saiyanistic instincts taking over as no mercy filled his mind, dashing above Kelz, he held his hands up over his head in a fist, bringing it down heavily upon his opponent's back to send him careening down into the mossy lake below. With a large splash echoing, Goten darted higher, spinning once to position him directed toward were the bubbles coming up in the liquid began to grow.
"Err..." The snarl on his lips began to grow as Goten's hands began to glow... radiating with a pulse as energy leaped in bounds from his palms, an aura becoming known as the youth began to throw his hands forward, first slowly... then picking up... more and more rapidly until a wave of ki bolts darted downward in between Goten and the lake that now glistened in the color of the ki, shining in a brilliance only an artist could come to appreciate. The demi Saiya-jin now floated tiredly, panting up a storm as the water droplets that had become air born lowered down into the heated pond again, his hands hissed violently as they hadn't been used to pushing as many blasts as he had at one time.
Goten's upper lip twitched slightly as his mind tried to master what had happened, what drove him to do that? As his mind wondered a being below slowly emerged from the wake of the water, battered and bruised... strength still in him... his jaw moving slowly as a senzu bean was grinded down between his teeth, filling his body with a sense of new power...
"Hm hm hm... hm hm hm hm... hm hm hm ... hm hm hm hm." The humming of the child that would have sent any sane being into a rush of pure hatred was little more then a breeze to his two older companions. Bulma, being the mother that she was, simply looked on as if Goten hadn't been making a sound... 16 was used to the small annoyances of the Saiya-jin so it made little difference what he did now compared to the past problems. As the small Saiya-jin was making his rounds to go into the second chorus of his song there was a sudden pressure in his lower gut. Blinking blankly he looked up to the two ahead of him as spoke.
"I gotta go!" The youth said with urgency to receive a chuckle from both android and human alike, Bulma nodding as he waved her hand off towards a tree.
"Go on then, we'll walk a little slower so you can catch up." The cyan haired mother smiled and turned back to the walk with the carrot top android who strode ahead of her by a few steps. Goten thankfully retreated over to a tree askewer of the path, stopping abruptly with a sigh as he dropped his pants slightly to pee against the tree. Smiling briskly as he finished up... yet... something was wrong. He was suddenly three inches shorter and his ankles had sunk into the ground... eyes widening the demi Saiyan struggled to get himself free, Bulma and 16 having already left gave him no hope of help.
The short warrior groaned as he felt his feet beginning to slide out of his boots, knowing that if he lost the only pair of shoes he had available that he would be suffering when the chill wrapped itself about him as he had been feeling lately. Trees above showing leafs containing small flakes of frost that had gathered blissfully, a breeze blowing by containing the light hint of a frigid gasp... air began to press down under the small Saiyan as he began forcing his ki down against the ground... at first it looked as though this would come of no avail but was quickly mislead as the stout child propelled himself upward above the ground, boots and all, to hover within the air.
"Hahaha!" The demi Saiya-jin did a little mid-air dance of victory as he stuck his tongue out at the spot where he had been held in. "Take that!"
"Indeed..." An umbrous and deep voice said, almost choking the happiness strait from joyous little party as a figure stepped forward from the midst of the trees.
The shrouded man wasn't all that tall, standing at least a good five foot eight at his peak with a heavy build hidden under but a black tank top that had seen better days. Completed with a pair of deep maroon boots as well as a pair of abyss colored pants that hung loosely from his legs, it seemed as though he were just looking for a fight. His hair was long, standing on end in waves flowing to the back of his head... and, of course, that black metal collar beeping about his neck with a habitual red blinking light upon one side of it matching that of Goten's own collar.
"Wha?..." The youth spun about in a confused manner as he landed his eyes upon the stranger in a half innocent fashion.
"You have a collar, which means you are libel to die... I'm the insurance that you will die... too bad you didn't save the receipt." The man spoke in a darkly endowed tone as he moved even further away from the trees he stood near, eyes singled upon the child as Goten's high descended rapidly before touching down against the ground. Clearly it hadn't been apparent to the young one that this was a tournament, not some social gathering where displays of power were given... but that quickly cleared up as the shadowed fighter dashed forward in assault against the tiny warrior, the liquid mud that the path between the two had been loosely paved with kicked up in the wake of his rush.
The air drifted peacefully between the branches of the trees as if it were some sort of magic amidst in the area that would bring this awkward silence... but that only lasted a moment... a stray ki blast bolted through the natural guardians of the forest to slam heavily against the side of one, causing an almost snapping like sound to fill the air, another jolted past to cause the same effect on a nearby tree as two figures dashed through the timberland. Goten's small frame wheeled backwards as his hair flapped franticly in front of his eyes, watching as the man in black threw storm after storm of sizable blasts at the young warrior.
"I can't run forever! But first I gotta get up and outta these trees!" Goten told himself as he looked up, seeing a sign of the heavenly light shining through the thick grove of leaves above him. Closing his eyes he darted upward and through the thicket, emerging above the tree tops... and at the edge of the forest... his head turning to see a wasteland. Snow fell, indeed it did, but didn't touch the ground. It seemed as though a continuous volley of heat that rose up from the earth itself melted any sort of frozen spectacle from touching down, making the heated water from the melted snow flakes land in mush wakes, forming a marsh like grounding about the random vents of heated air.
"Caught ya." A deep voice abruptly brought the adolescent back to attention, but a moment too late. The man's hand grasped heavily upon Goten's ankle in a catch as he turned quickly, whirling the toddler around in a whirlwind spin before releasing his hold, sending Goten flying downward at a break neck speed. With a crash and a splash the young Saiya-jin was submerged in scolding hot water, causing him to open his closed eyes suddenly and burst forth from the heated prison.
"Hehehe, toasty, ain't it?" The dark man said as he lowered himself to float just above the waters of the mossy area, a steam vent breaking up from beneath the marsh waters to blow its heated air into the sky. "Active volcano... makes for perfect killing grounds."
"That hurt!" Goten said mending to a small red mark on his hand where he had pushed off of the hot waters with, glancing up as his eyes narrowed. "I don't even know who you are!"
"Kelz," The fighter said vociferously over the roar of several other hot geysers erupting from below. "And I will be your killer today."
It was obvious that this 'Kelz' was no human nor a member of the staff Synex promised would be going around making bunk-calls on all the participants... in fact, this might be a participant. His strength was about that to fit in with anyone else?s in this tournament, Goten's small sense of ki gave the hint that he was something other then both a reptile that he had felt off Burter or a Saiya-jin that he and his father had both been accustomed to holding.
"Let's get rolling." Kelz pronounced without a moment's hesitation as he shot forward again, waves lapping in either direction as he approached Goten in a rush, bringing his right elbow up as well as a mockingly challenging grin which lay upon his lips. Goten's arm coming up as he blocked the jab of the elbow, eyes widening as Kelz's leg swings about to nail him in the side, catapulting the youth to the right with the dark man closing in quickly on his tail. A grunt coming from the child as he regained composure, spinning about upside down with his hands positioned with palms aimed at his attacker.
"Kamekame-Ha!" Goten said quickly, with the quickness of the attack it wasn't very effective. A small beam darting out to burst in a rush of smoke against Kelz's chest, the fighter bursting forth from his dusted aura to throw a punch into the demi Saiyan's stomach. Goten's teeth clutching as he was tossed away by the fighter, skating along the heated lake in a hurried pace, trying to figure the next best position for attack... till it struck him. Turning about onto his stomach facing backwards, the youth gave a quick push of ki energy as he bolted himself back at his opponent. Waves curling left and right of him as Kelz had done on his approach as the distance between the two decreased quickly.
"Little... just die already." Kelz whispered to himself as he jumped higher into the air, Goten following him up to meet in fist to fist combat. A sense of seriousness hanging in the child's eyes as he threw two quick jabs simultaneously with his right hand, blocked simply by Kelz's extended right forearm which remained risen as Goten's right arm reared back as if setting itself for another punch... but instead, the child spun backwards, slamming the heel of his right foot against the side of the man's face, distorting him for a moment as he drifted uselessly in mid air. The hybrid's saiyanistic instincts taking over as no mercy filled his mind, dashing above Kelz, he held his hands up over his head in a fist, bringing it down heavily upon his opponent's back to send him careening down into the mossy lake below. With a large splash echoing, Goten darted higher, spinning once to position him directed toward were the bubbles coming up in the liquid began to grow.
"Err..." The snarl on his lips began to grow as Goten's hands began to glow... radiating with a pulse as energy leaped in bounds from his palms, an aura becoming known as the youth began to throw his hands forward, first slowly... then picking up... more and more rapidly until a wave of ki bolts darted downward in between Goten and the lake that now glistened in the color of the ki, shining in a brilliance only an artist could come to appreciate. The demi Saiya-jin now floated tiredly, panting up a storm as the water droplets that had become air born lowered down into the heated pond again, his hands hissed violently as they hadn't been used to pushing as many blasts as he had at one time.
Goten's upper lip twitched slightly as his mind tried to master what had happened, what drove him to do that? As his mind wondered a being below slowly emerged from the wake of the water, battered and bruised... strength still in him... his jaw moving slowly as a senzu bean was grinded down between his teeth, filling his body with a sense of new power...