[D][U] The final battle at Monte Christo

[Reijin]

He's pulling the trigger

Reijin's realization overtook him as his eyes gauged the distance between the changeling before him and Vejita I. Reijin recognized the creature as Koola, a being he'd fought alongside many times and had even assisted in the wish for Kajin Rala. This Koola... seemed different though. He was far weaker.

Leaping from the tree, Reijin landed behind the crouching changeling just as his finger twitched. Without hearing whether the shot successfully fired or not, and without seeing the result of the shot, Reijin grabbed the creature by the tail, catching him by surprise. Somehow, in all of this fighting, Koola had completely neglecting to keep track of him after he had run, and had instead focused on retreating and his attempt on the life of Vejita I. Doing so would be his downfall.

His gloved hands tightened their grip on his tail, jerking sharply with his Super Saiyan strength to sling the changeling against another rock wall, watching as it shattered around them. Reijin could feel a massive power difference between the two of them. In an attempt to pull himself to his feet, Koola pushed himself from the ground only to find Reijin suddenly on him, his fingers around the changeling's throat.

Reijin spun, slamming the creature to the ground by his throat hard enough to see the ground splinter around his body. "Of all I've seen you do, I should have realized your treacherous life would do something like this," he growled into the changeling's face.

The purple warrior's hands were clenched around the iron grip of the saiyan's wrist. "I don't know what you are talking about, fool," he spat at the young warrior. "But if you release me, I'll make all of your nightmares come true."

The raven haired youth simply chuckled. "Right, the old 'I have amnesia' trick, is that it? I've seen how ruthless you are, changeling, and I've fought alongside you. I've wished for a great planet with you. I've seen Raditzu himself both fight as your greatest ally and against you as your greatest adversary."

Koola's eyes glanced over to see the nearby gun, but Reijin followed his gaze and immediately kicked the gun away with his boot. Koola looked back up at the saiyan and laughed slightly. "You forget one thing out of all of that." His knee came up into the saiyan's gut, knocking the wind from him and forcing him to release his grip. "I have no need for oxygen!" he laughed, grabbing the wrist of the saiyan and peeling it back from his throat.

Wrenching his gloved hand free, Reijin glanced down at it as he tightened the straps on both of his gloves, readjusting the metal knuckles at the end of his gloves. "Well well..." he rasped in anticipation. "You seem to have some of your old fight within you." His aura bloomed like a fiery blossom as his golden hair returned to its stiffened static position. "Your lack of requiring oxygen... Do you not need the rest of your throat as well? I'll remove it for you!" he taunted.

The changeling leapt at him, but Reijin sidestepped him quickly. Spinning, the purple creature's fist came towards him, forcing his hand to quickly parry it aside. Continuing his spin, Koola snapped his tail around behind the saiyan's back, wrapping it around his throat and then pulling him backwards, slamming him to the ground. He quickly released his tail and leapt onto him, raising a clawed hand high above him dramatically.

Reijin quickly threw his hand to the side, telekinetically summoning the gun the last few inches to his grip before bringing it up in front of him to hold it against the changeling's striking hand. Pushing him back, Reijin rolled his body, flipping the changeling backwards over his head. The young warrior rolled forward to leap onto his feet on time to see the changeling land in a feral position before him, his tail twitching in anticipation.

Extending a gloved hand, Reijin's fingertips twitched, mirroring the tail in a challenge. Koola leapt into the air, landing before the dodging golden warrior. Koola spun around with his claws in an attempt to rake them across Reijin's face, but the gun in Reijin's hand was used to knock aside the claws, before the saiyan gripped it from one end and brought it up to strike the creature across the face.

Koola struck the ground but his tail snapped in the direction of the saiyan to ward off the potential attacker. Reijin simply brought the gun down with force into the creature's back. He'd aimed for a skullcrushing blow, but that damned tail had intercepted it midswing and knocked it from its course.

Reijin snatched the gun back and held it to his side like a large sword, his other hand flinging out to throw a concussive blast of energy at the felled opponent. Like a beast, Koola rolled to the side and was back on all fours for a moment before rising back to full stature.

"So is this where you die, little saiyan?" the creature mocked him, crouching into a fighting stance. "That gun is useless. I already know it only has two bullets left. By the time you fire it, I'll have removed your intestines."

The saiyan's gaze was not on Koola, but instead had drifted behind him, appearing to look at another person. "Hehe... Its about time you've shown up, Vejita. Would you care to do the honors?"

The changeling's eyes widened a moment and he dropped down, dodging the assumed gunshot from the other saiyan in hopes that it would strike Reijin instead. As he dropped, he spun to fend off his other attacker... only to find noone there.

"I will give you the same honor you gave to Akane. This bullet will leave nothing more than a pile of ruined flesh where you have died."

The dark fighter pulled the trigger on the sniper rifle, his viewpoint aimed directly at the changeling's head from merely three feet away.