Dante's Abyss Finale 2006

[Burter Jr]

The Finale: Part 1

Android 13, Android 20, Kami, Kid Buu, Krillin, Super Buu, Minoshia, Raditzu, Reijin, Trunks, Vegeta, and Violet

Rain fell over the morning sky.

Kid Buu followed his group without much haste. He was, as most, eager to start the final battle. Nervous? No...that wasn't like the childish version of Buu. But it was certainly a new feeling to hold. Perhaps it was pride that he had gotten so far, or worry that it would all slip away despite the effort he put in.

Violet was the closest person to him, about ten feet ahead of him, travelling up the steep hill. Krillin, Android 20 and Super Buu were leading the group. He gazed over them, wondering to himself how long it would take before they had to fight each other. Soon? Never? He knew, regardless, it would have to happen. No one was playing for second.

KB was the first to see it. Movement to the south, just behind him. When he turned around, it was too late.

Reijin and Trunks opened fire.

"Look out!" Was the only warning Kid Buu could shout to them. He whirled around as the two machine gun fires hit his body, side and front. His pistol fired in retaliation, but it was all for naught. He fell back, hitting a rock, and laid there.

So this was how it ended. Blindsided and ambushed? No...too weak. Too forgotteable.

"Run!" He shouted a single word to his allies, even though they already hurried up for cover. "Go, go, go, go, go!" He forced himself up, feet and hands refusing to give up.

"Kid!" He heard Supes shouting. It made him smile that at least someone noticed his kamikaze dive.

When Buu lept into the air, pistol still firing randomly, Reijin and Trunks both raised their guns, eliminating another contestant. "There were others," Reijin said, "Keep moving."

"Shit!" Violet cursed as the remaining four warriors ran behind a rock. "KB's done! I saw them kill him!"

"Keep calm," Twenty said. "How many did you see?"

"Keep CALM?!" Violet nearly lunged at him, but Super held onto his shoulder. "I just watched my friend die, asshole!"

Super Buu pulled her back, "I can hear them coming. He's right," Buu gave her a rather uncomfortable look. "We can mourn over him later, alright? If we don't move, we're going to be the ones getting mourned."

Some ki bullets slammed into the rock, "They're closing in!" Krillin called back. He had to admit, it was kind of cool acting like a military general, calling out warnings.

"Make a run for the mountain-top!" Android Twenty told them. "NOW!"

The rain gave them shelter from sight, but not to the magnificent ears of an experienced namekian. "I'll hold them off," Kami told his group, "I can hear them moving."

Ki Bullets were fired from the pistol Kid Buu dropped, and the two machine guns, but they missed completely due to lack of sight in the rain. However, a lucky shot blasted into the foot of Violet, causing her to stumble.

"Shit!" She cursed again. The others hadn't noticed. She looked back, seeing Kami in plain sight, sword and shield at the ready. For a moment, she paused. The namekian aura made him glow, even in the pouring rain.

She was snapped back to reality. "Violet!" Came Super Buu's call.

"Super!" Violet forced herself up, even with the busted foot. "Help!"

A sword peirced her from behind, and sprouted out of her neck. Super Buu had been running to help, but stopped when he saw the sight. An elder namekian standing behind an empaled Violet.

Her eyes...Super could feel them looking at him, even when he wasn't gazing at her. So helpless...and what had he done to help her? Yell? Suddenly everything he did on the island seemed pointless. He had completely disregarded friendship, and at what cost?

"Sorry," Kami said as he dropped Violet to the side. "I hope you understand."

As the namekian expected, Super Buu wasn't very understanding.

He lept forward, but with a quick slash of the sword, he was batted to the side effortlessly. He hit a boulder, hard.

Meanwhile, the other members of the now-deformed group were stumbling around a wall of rocks to get up the hill. Twenty led the two, with Krillin right behind.

Thirteen appeared in front of them, like magic. His wrist flicked to the left, and Twenty was caught between a boulder and the giant hammer. His chest hadn't done much in the way of protecting him.

Pause. Silence. Krillin's face was one of shock. How could things be so exciting and now...so tense. Twenty was fighting with himself, in his head. Gero hadn't seen Thirteen coming because of the rain.

"Twenty?" Krillin asked, "You okay."

The Android laughed. He couldn't help it. Even in the gravest situations, Krillin was clueless. Always the last to know it, too. "No." Was the only answer he got.

Thirteen pulled the hammer back, exposing the wires to the rain. Twenty fell to his ass, in silence.

How can you properly explain what Krillin felt? He was looking at the cold, machine eyes of Android Thirteen, who had no real hatred for him. He simply played to win. Krillin had just watched him murder his best friend in cold blood.

The bald-headed human was always full of joy and jokes. He had a smartass and witty comment for everything. He took life one step at a time, full of happiness.

But that fire roared inside him, the same one that he refused to let out all the time. Hate. Madness. Sorrow. Anger.

That was it. Anger.

Thirteen threw a punch.

Krillin caught it.

Words can't even describe the look Krillin made at Thirteen. All that anger he had pushed aside all his life had built up to this one, single, moment.

#21 Kid Buu DEAD
#16 Violet DEAD
#24 Android 20 DEAD

09 Fighters Remaining

Krillin has earned Kaioken