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How Far Would You Go To Achieve Victory?; Bow Down To The King...Kai
Topic Started: Jul 8 2009, 12:54 PM (134 Views)
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Reina had always wondered what dying would be like. More importantly the woman had been curious as to the afterlife and what it would be like. Never in her wildest dreams had she imagined death would be another way to get stronger. It had only been a week and already the woman had felt the incredible differences, but putting a timeframe on her time there seemed pointless. There was no day, no night, no hours, or minutes. To say she had been gone any length of time was a joke really. Who knew how much time would pass on Earth.

“You can’t think about there.” Reina had spent some real time with Goku in hopes of finding some advice. This hadn’t been his only time in Heaven after all.

“Much easier said than done.” Reina replied running a hand through her hair. With the Universe’s greatest defense (at least as far as the good guys were concerned) in Heaven it left the villains of the tale free reign to wreak havoc.

“There isn’t much you can do from here other than get stronger. You were defeated for a reason, now that you’re here you have an opportunity to surpass your previous state.” Goku paused and turned to her, setting a hand on her shoulder. “I’m sure there are people missing you. I’m sure you feel helpless here, but you can’t let yourself be distracted.” Though surprised, Reina was grateful and nodded to the man as they kept walking.

“Before you do anything else, I would visit King Kai.” He said after a moment of silence and motioned to King Kai’s planet hovering in the ‘sky.’ Reina followed his hand and crossed her arms over her chest. There was no reason to ask why. King Kai’s training was legendary, and considering how powerful Goku was, Reina could hope it was what helped the man well on the path towards who he became later on. She’d only heard very short mentions of the great King after all. When you’re alive you never really get this far in the comprehensive scheme of things.

“Trust me. You’ll emerge a new kind of fighter all together.” Goku patted the woman on the shoulder. “And when you’re done, I wouldn’t mind fighting you. I’ve never sparred with a Saiyan woman before.” Something Reina could have taken several different ways. Were there just no female Saiyan fighters in heaven that were powerful like Reina? She hadn’t expected that sort of outcome. Reina sort of half smiled at him before he turned to leave.

“Thank you, Goku.” She said after a moment. The fellow Saiyan laughed and glanced back at her.

“Don’t thank me yet. Good Luck.” Blue ki surrounded the man and he took off at full speed the direction they’d come from. Reina admired that little planet from a distance before her red aura skirted up around her body and she felt the ground leave from beneath her feet and fade away as she moved higher into the sky.

King Kai’s planet was considerably smaller than the other planet she’d visited. The flight hadn’t taken long at all and as she came closer she could make out a hut standing out against the green grass. She felt herself leave the orbit of one heavenly sphere and enter the other, obvious by the accelerated rate at which she began to descend. IT was harder to control the pace that the planet came rushing towards her the longer she flew. Lit red and hot with ki, suddenly unprepared for the intense gravity that weight heavily down on the woman. With a strangled cry Reina’s body met the hard ground with a destructive force that cratered the ground around her. Several moments of deafening silence passed before Reina tried to lift her head. The weight only seemed to keep her pressed in place the harder she struggled.

“Damnit.” She managed to stammer through grit teeth when her forehead touched the dirt again.

“He must not have warned you.” A voice said from overhead. Reina would have turned her head to see but given her predicament she found herself unable.

“About what.”

“The gravity.” There was a moment of laughter and Reina seethed inwardly. “He must have sent you to me for training. Well first round will be to pick yourself up out of that hole.” The man mused for a moment as he looked down at her.

“A female Saiyan, hrm? I guess there’s a first time for everything.” King Kai adjusted those glasses as he paced a bit back and forth around that opening watching her as with great determination Reina managed to lift her head and pulled her knees up beneath her.

”I swear, everyone here, acts as though they’ve never seen a Saiyan woman before. Are there none of us who have made it this far to be trained by you?” She was frustrated now, evident in the annoyance of her voice as she found her feet and lifted herself into a shaky standing position. Her knees trembled but she depended on her own strength to keep her upright. Fingertips found the wall of dirt on the side of that crater and with one foot in front of the other; Reina began the slow climb that would bring her out of it. King Kai watched silently, his face void of expression. Ordinarily Reina would have grown annoyed at her unanswered statement, instead her concentration was in the climb and when she reached the rip of that opening after many failed attempts, fingertips grasped at the grass beneath them and the woman managed to escape the deep crater and sprawl out onto the ground, her head weighed heavily down with more than sweat.

“None of them have been nearly as powerful as you are. Or nearly as determined.” King Kai said his words giving her the impression he was impressed with her actions. It surprised her really. She’d known many powerful women of her race. She turned her head to look up at him and King Kai knelt beside her. Reina rolled onto her side and pulled those legs up beneath her once more. Her body strained under the weight of the gravity as she knew she would not be satisfied until she was on her feet once more and ready to take on the challenge that had been set before her. With great effort the woman found her feet and only when she had widened her stance and had stopped teetering (for the most part) did she nod her head.

“Ready?” King Kai said with a smile on his face, a smile that Reina hadn’t noticed yet.

She nodded again, now looking at the man. Fists clenched at her either side and she took a deep breath attempting to find her center.

“Are you sure?” He was trying to hide the amusement in his voice. What was so damn funny anyways? When Reina nodded again a bit firmer this time, King Kai lifted a hand up over his head as though he may make some sort of grand gesture to begin their training. Instead he thrust that hand forward and barely flicked the woman on the nose. The movement was enough to force her weight backwards where she collapsed in a heap to the ground.

King Kai rolled with laughter, Reina groaned. This was going to be a long training session.

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Learning how to walk on King Kai’s planet had been the most difficult portion of the day so far. After many attempts at standing walking had been the next challenge and on more than one occasion the woman fell to the ground and had to focus on standing.

“There’s no way you’ll be able to complete the rest of my training if you can’t stand. I’ll leave you to work on this.” And King Kai turned making his way into his little hut, leaving a quiet Reina to struggle in silence. He wasn’t being too hard on her, Reina realized it was likely the truth. She’d never been in such strenuous gravity before, and she was finding it harder and harder to grab onto than she had first imagined. The weakness it instilled in her made her ragged with frustration.

Several hours that had probably melted down into days went by and Reina found herself walking in steady paths forward around and around that planet. Her chest was heaving but one foot in front of the other carried her farther and farther. Soon she was jogging, her hands lightly balled at her sides, giving her a little extra momentum with each step. She became quite familiar with the scenery of the small planet very quickly at time after time she strode around it in great efforts. On several occasions, Reina had spotted King Kai’s smaller companions, Bubbles and Gregory, outside to watch her efforts.

“You don’t ever give up do you.” Gregory had commented on one of her passings. The woman paused from her jog and turned to stare at the little creature.

”No, I don’t suppose I ever do.” She had said in reply between deep breaths of air. It had been the first time she’d stopped moving in hours and was finally beginning to feel the fatigue.

“Good. You’re going to need all the determination you can muster. Because you haven’t even really started yet.” Gregory said again with a laugh and Bubbles clapped his hands in excitement. Something told Reina she was getting close to her next task by the sounds of things.

She turned then and looked across the ground where she’d been jogging for the last few hours. It was time to step things up to the next level if she was ever going to get stronger. She set her feet on the path and crouched for a moment before Reina took off in a full sprint, opposite the direction she’d been running before. She was slower at first but as she moved Reina could feel the shackles of the gravity begin to lift and soon she didn’t feel like she was running any differently than she had on Earth or on Yardrat. The gravity’s weight had been lifted from her and she threw her arms up and cheered in victory as she came around that little planet again and again. It was the first time Reina had truly felt free in so very long that she couldn’t help but relish the feeling of it.

“Alright! That’s enough then.” King Kai had stepped out of his hut and was waving those arms in the air to catch Reina’s attention. She stopped her run and jogged over to where the man was standing.

“I think you’re ready to continue with the training now. But before we do anything, let’s eat.” Now that Reina was in closer proximity to the hut, she could smell the food come wafting out of that hut and fill her nose. Her stomach began to growl loudly and she looked up with surprise. King Kai could only give a knowing smile. He, after all, had worked with Goku. She wasn’t the first Saiyan he had encountered. He turned and motioned for her to follow. Reina turned and gratefully did just that.

Inside, the hut seemed a lot bigger than it did from the outside. A table was completely filled with bowls of rice and an assortment of meats and vegetables. King Kai had to have been busy while she was outside training, Transfixed on the sight of it, Reina sat down on one end of the great table and looked to King Kai for a moment who was trying to hide his amusement behind those glasses he wore.

“Eat up, you’ve been out there for a—“ Reina hadn’t even waited for him to finish speaking before she’d scooped up one of the bowls and a set of chopsticks and had gone to work devouring it. She could have put Goku’s eating to the test as she made her way through one bowl and into another. King Kai watched quietly trying not to laugh. Perhaps it was the site of a woman eating as quickly and as much as their male counterparts. King Kai still found their species absolutely fascinating. He was not looking forward to the news he would have to give her.

“There are some things from the living world I feel you should know about.” He said after a few moments. Reina paused and looked up at King Kai, running a hand over her mouth to wipe it clean of rice. News of Rosencrantz maybe? Perhaps another village destroyed? Maybe the death of a comrade? Not that she had many, and Aiden was already here. It could have been a number of things, and none of them thrilled Reina any… Whatever it was, was bad news, the kind of news Reina wouldn’t want to hear but needed to.

When Reina said nothing in reply, King Kai continued.

“The planet Vegeta has been destroyed again.”

There it was. Reina’s face turned to shock, her eyes wide, her heart pounding so loud she couldn’t hear it. Her family, her father, Awya. All of the people and things she had known since childhood was gone again…and over the years the Dragonballs had lost their incredible power to wish any of them back. The bowl fell out of her hands and clattered empty to the floor beside her. She set the chopsticks down onto the table her eyes blinking back tears of anger, and rage. She set those fierce dark orbs back on King Kai who had to take a step back from their sheer intensity.

“Who.” It wasn’t a request, it was a demand that seethed between her teeth. She swore if it had been Rosencrantz, if she hadn’t been there to defend it against him again she was going to lose her mind. How many of her kind had survived? How many had lost their lives and were waiting for their turn to enter paradise or Hell. And the King? Had he survived? She had so many questions, so many things that she wanted answered right then and there, but she couldn’t find the words as sheer emotion took her over. Suddenly she wasn’t hungry anymore for food. Suddenly all she could think about were pools of blood.

“It is rumored a Changeling was the cause.”

A changeling? That surprised her. What sort of changeling had the power to destroy a planet? Azazel was evil, but he’d vanished sometime ago and she hadn’t heard about him. The only other Changeling she knew anything about was…

“Kuhn?” And she hoped she was wrong.

King Kai nodded slowly, and Reina felt an even greater blow come over her. She covered her face for a moment. Kuhn had destroyed her home world. Kuhn, one of the few Changelings she may have even respected for his great strength of body and mind. She felt herself rise to her feet then, her body trembling so hard it was visible. She turned and made her way out of King Kai’s home and back into the opening of the planet. She needed to be away, had to get away now so the burning tears would be seen by no one but herself. Her red aura flared up around her and Reina felt that planet once more fall from beneath her feet.
“Do you think she’ll be back?” Gregory asked and King Kai came walking out of the hut behind her. The great Kai nodded slowly before watching her red trail of ki as it moved farther and farther away.

“She’ll be back.”

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Running in a world with no extended gravity made her movements seem like a blur. The sky was growing dark overhead almost in response to the woman’s mood as she’d returned to that planet she’d come to before. Her feet had touched down somewhere in the woods and Reina had started running until her body burned from the intensity. She wanted to be lost, if not for more than a few minutes, she wanted to forget everything about those last few moments. The knowledge alone had nearly brought the woman to her knees and after the days of training she felt a greater exhaustion than she’d ever felt before.

The air was thick and damp bringing Reina to the conclusion there must have been some water nearby. She followed the heavy scent until she could hear water now more than she could smell it. Through a few layers of bush and trees Reina emerged at the end of a large rock lined pool. The water was hot, so perhaps it was over the top of a volcano of some kind? Did they even have volcanoes in the afterlife? Whether magic or by some other means, Reina’s hand moved through the steam. She was already stripping her body of clothing, her armor removed first, falling in a heavy heap to her side. That jacket and the wraps beneath it came next followed by the black shorts she’d been wearing and her shoes. Those first few steps down into the heated water were glorious to the woman and she snapped the band that held her hair at the nape of her neck, letting the thick black locks free. She washed the sweat and the dirt from her body and found herself reclined on one end of the pool trying to forget where she was and why she was there. Not that the halo didn’t constantly remind her where it floated over her head, but she did her best to ignore the damn thing in the darkness beneath the trees. If there was light in the sky she couldn’t make it out through the thick canopy that covered the clouds.

There was noise in the darkness then and Reina instantly sat up, those dark eyes looking from side to side. Her eyes had adjusted to the low light with the time she’d been there, but she couldn’t make out anything and all was silent. She reached out with those other senses, thinking it maybe Aiden there to play a joke on her having sensed her return to the planet. But she felt no one, saw no one, and sensed no one nearby. Maybe it had all been in her head to begin with.

Cautiously the woman reclined again though her eyes remained open and she stared fixated on one spot in the woods all of her other senses going crazy trying to determine whether or not she was alone anymore. She felt it coming maybe a second before she could make out the green energy that came streaming from darkness in the trees in the form of a ki blast. Reina’s hands grabbed the edge of that pool behind her and she lifted herself into a hand stand flipping backwards and landing near where her clothing had been dropped. The ki hit the ground where she’d been seated moments before. So she hadn’t been alone. Her gut instincts were hardly ever wrong. Another blast came from the woods now from a slightly different location and Reina had enough time to grab the bundle of her clothing before the ground erupted into ki once more. She dropped her armor and took off into the darkness that bundle tightly against her side as she moved. Running and dressing at the same time wasn’t an easy thing, but something Reina found she was getting better at the more she hopped and bounced trying to get her feet into those shorts again. Not only was she in a hurry now but she was wet, her red ki flaring around her to dry her body. Once dressed the woman crouched beneath a row of hedge, hands moving up the buttons of her jacket to hold it closed for her for now. That band was returned to her hair pulling it out of her face and off of her neck. Fantastic. Who would want to attack her here in Heaven? Obviously she knew it wasn’t Aiden now, not even in a fun game. There was nothing kind about a ki blast to your skull by any means.

Reina felt movement around her, as her ‘enemy’ was closing in on her location. She’d forced her power level down as low as she could muster but obviously whoever was looking for her knew what to be looking for. She half stepped around the bush as she could hear him to her left and her hands lit with red energy as she rolled shooting it towards the tree line. The shadow leapt up into the trees then, hands on the branches as it swung around and landed on a lower branch. She could make out the tail as it waved beside the man. A Saiyan?

He leapt at her then from the lowest branch and tackled the female as the two rolled head over heels in an attempt for dominance over the other. He was strong, but so what she and as they came around Reina planted her knees on either side of the man a fist reached back wreathed in red energy as she was moments from bringing it down onto her opponent.

Until she saw who it was…

“Father.” The whisper left her lips and the anger melted from her face as she stared down at the man obviously upset to have been bested by not only a woman but his daughter. Grydo shoved the woman off of him now that the tussle had come to an end and they both found their feet panting from the mixture of exertion and adrenaline.

“I didn’t realize you were on Vegeta.” He said after a moment of silence and crossed his arms over his chest once his armor had been adjusted. Reina tugged at the edge of her jacket as she stared at him. How long had it been since she’d last seen him? How unkind had their last meeting been. “You didn’t even check in with me. I’m still your father.”

”I didn’t think you’d remembered.” She said rather unkindly as she left her arms at her side something that Grydo instantly took into account. She’d managed to get herself a new arm it seemed. He would have asked, but he wasn’t sure if she would have given him an answer or not. He, after all, had been there when she’d created the horrible prototype that had been destroyed on Vegeta when she and Biito had escaped.

“You’ve become quite strong.” Which was his way of saying she’d surpassed him. Reina had become her father’s better quite awhile ago, and now that she was within close proximity the man she had always regarded as her better was now dwarfed within the potential of his offspring.

”I wasn’t on Vegeta when it was destroyed. I died weeks before on Yardrat by the same man I had protected Vegeta against.”

“Yardrat? Don’t tell me you’ve aligned with the Majin, they don’t need any more support.” Her father seethed inwardly as his dark eyes glimmered looking from the vacant woods to her again.

”No Father, I haven’t.”

“Then why weren’t you on Vegeta protecting it…?” He moved closer to her, the male still towering over her. Reina felt small in comparison despite the fact she knew she could break the man between her fingertips. He was her father still after all…

”Because I was needed elsewhere at the time. I died before I could get to Vegeta.” Which was the truth. And now she was stuck here.

“Pathetic. No amount of power has reminded you where you belong and who you should be fighting for.” Always a man of the military Grydo was obviously ashamed of his daughter. “And now your people rot in the afterlife, their planet destroyed yet again. At the hands of a changeling at that. In a war you should have been fighting beside us in.”

He turned and made his way away from her in the darkness, to leave her in her shame.

”I won’t be ashamed for not being there, Father. I won’t let you do that to me anymore. Because I’ve become a greater fighter than you ever dreamed. ME! A cripple! I overcame the odds, and am now one of the most people in this life and the living. You can’t take that away from me. I’m not stuck here, I’m far from stuck here, because I will escape this place and take vengeance on our kind. There isn’t anything you can do to stop me, or to take away my victory over you.” She called after him, her voice echoing through the trees in the near rage she’d fallen into. He paused and without looking back at her he spoke.

“I hope you’re right…”

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Reina’s body was a red bullet as it charged through the sky and entered the realm of King Kai’s planet again. She felt the weight of gravity and was more than able to overcome it as her feet hit the ground and she crouched for a moment before rising to stand once more.

“You’re back!” Gregory called out as he left the hut followed by Bubbles and King Kai.

”Of course I’m back. We’ve wasted enough time. We have training to finish King Kai, and I’ve completed the first task you set before me.”

“Indeed you have.” King Kai let his arms fall to his sides as he smiled and stepped around the other two. “I would say you’ve passed with flying colors so far.” He hadn’t expected any less from the woman. She seemed as eager and determined as all of her kind before her.

“Very well then. Your next task is to capture Bubbles.” Bubbles hooted a bit as he came around King Kai with his paws in the air waving them from side to side. Reina glanced down at the monkey. Was this a joke? Surely it wasn’t. People travelled from around the afterlife to receive training from King Kai. There had to be something more to the little monkey that what met the eye. After a moment she nodded and adjusted her armor. The added weight would help her grow stronger, something she was sure King Kai knew as well. She’d learned to run on the planet with it on, surely she could capture the little monkey as well.

“Are you ready, Bubbles?” King Kai asked as he glanced down at hit little companion. Bubbles nodded and clapped his hands together in excitement. He turned and took off as King Kai gave the command and the chase was on.

Reina had to give it to that little monkey, he was fast. And he was tricky at that, letting Reina draw close enough to touch his fur before taking off at an even greater speed than before. On more than one occasion Reina would get close to capturing him before he’d take off and leave her behind, his legs an almost blur as he ran. Frustrated, Reina was persistent. There was no way she was going to let this little ape get away from her again and again where many others had been successful before her. Reina had never been the fastest fighter, relying on her strength to pull her through. This was a new challenge for the woman all together. He ran one way she followed and could barely keep up. He turned, she turned, and continually he stayed ahead of her. Something told her there was more to this little challenge than what met the eye.

How had the others done it? She pondered the possibility in her mind as she ran and chased him, keeping him well on his toes but never getting close enough to make the final strike. Reina charged forward then, leaping out at the monkey as she came closer, arms stretched out in front of her to make the grab. She met the grass and dirt face first as the monkey turned at the last possible moment. Her mouth filled with grass as she lifted her soot covered face and spit in frustration.

“Wow! That was close! And so soon even!” King Kai was excited as he had been monitoring the events from afar. He clapped and gave a little cheer in amazement. Gregory didn’t look thrilled in the least.

Reina rubbed her sore face now and rose to her feet, wiping her mouth. Bubbles gave a little cheer before he turned and took off at a run, away from her. Reina took a deep breath and analyzed the situation before deciding to chase him. Maybe this was more about outsmarting the little monkey than it was having the speed to chase him down and capture him. As she ran Reina let her body dematerialize and using Instant Transmission she appeared in the path the monkey had been running. He gave a little shout in surprise and turned fleeing in another direction. Reina took off after him, letting herself grow closer before doing the same as she had before, her body vanishing and reappearing in front of the little monkey. She came to her knees to wrap her arms around him but Bubbles had skidded to a stop just out of her reach and took off in the direction he’d been running at before.

Though frustrating, Reina could feel herself getting closer and closer to her goal. Obviously it was more than just brawn that went into all of this. If there was one thing the woman was known for it was her intelligence, more than just the strength in her punch.

”What’s the matter, Bubbles?” She called after him as her body vanished and she appeared before him once more. It elicited a cry from him and he turned once more only to find Reina standing there again. She was getting faster and took off after him as he turned and ran once more.

”Running out of places to run?” Reina said quietly as she was hot on the monkey’s tail now which was more accurate than could be said. Bubbles clapped his hands over his head as he turned and darted away once more. Reina was right behind him again getting closer and closer until he would turn and dash off even faster. How much stamina did this little monkey have? Reina stopped then and took off in the opposite direction as Bubbles. The two moved around the little planet and soon in the distance Bubbles could see her coming towards him. He turned and ran away, Reina planting her feet and running opposite of him once more. She could make him out in the distance about the same time he saw her, and once more he turned and took off. This was working even less than before.

“Be careful, Bubbles! She’s smart!” Gregory was cheering from the side lines. It was obvious this was getting close, something that all of them were realizing very quickly. Reina’s body vanished, but this time, no one could make out where she’d gone. It was like, one moment she’d been there, and the next she was gone. Bubbles came around the planet and paused in front of King Kai and Gregory. He looked to them and they both shrugged slightly. Neither of them had seen where Reina had reappeared.

Bubbles crept very carefully forward, his eyes on the ground and up into the sky as he moved. He came sneaking around the King’s big red car, eyes peering beneath it as though looking for her. She was nowhere to be found.

”GOTCHA!” Reina came leaping over the top of the fancy red vehicle and landed on top of Bubbles, her arms wrapping around him as the two rolled across the ground and she landed on her back lifting the monkey into the air. Bubbles, though stunned, clapped his hands happily. Reina rose to her feet, carrying the monkey on her hip like a small child as she came to stand before King Kai, patting the monkey on the top of the head.

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“Well done! Well done! I’m impressed.” King Kai said with a clap as Reina set Bubbles down. She wiped the sweat from her brow and stood ready for the next task, or rather what she hoped was the last task. Reina seemed filled with a new resolve, a renewal of her own self consciousness ever since she’d encountered her father. To have seen the man after so long, and to have felt the great differences between them in terms of strength had been amazing to the woman. She had done that alone. She had accomplished something that her father had always told her she would never be able to do. Reina was a fighter, a strong one at that, and if there was one thing she was good at it wasn’t giving up.

”What’s next then?” She asked crossing those arms over her chest. Gregory stepped forward then. Reina glanced down at the little grasshopper as he tugged on the hem of her shorts.

“You have to capture me now.” Apparently the rules had changed where Gregory was concerned. See in the canon of Dragon Ball Z, the object of Gregory’s task was to be hit in the head with a hammer. Your guess being as good as mine, is that perhaps too many over anxious people had smashed the little grasshopper’s skull in. After a short strike, maybe some heavy opposition, King Kai had felt the need to remove the hammer from the entire equation, or so that’s what it seemed. For whatever reason, now the task was to simply capture the little grasshopper instead of the more fun aspect of the quest which would have been to hit him in the head with the hammer. Oh well. You win some, you lose some.

Reina arched a brow as she looked from the little creature to King Kai who simply nodded.

“Yes, you must capture Gregory like you did Bubbles. Gregory is going to be considerably more difficult to manage so be prepared.” King Kai chuckled a bit as Reina and Gregory stood nearly toe to toe, ready for him to give the signal.

“Go!” King Kai shouted as he lifted a hand. Gregory, now surrounded by a blue light took off in flight high above the ground, something Reina was far from expecting. She watched as his light carried him high above them and then he took off in flight around the planet, his aura leaving a little blue trail behind.

”Great…” Reina gawked as the little grasshopper was indeed considerably faster than he looked. Her red aura illuminated around her as she took to the skies and fell into orbit behind him as he was a blur ahead of her. Reina’s energy lit solid red around her as she pushed herself harder and faster than she had before. She’d gotten used to having the ground under her feet with the gravity, but flying was something new to her all together. It was almost harder to keep herself in the air than it had been to move her legs beneath her. Gregory seemed to move faster and faster away from her the more and more she tried to stay behind him. She could follow the same pattern she had before in catching the little insect that she had in capturing Bubbles, but surely Gregory would be ready for that, right? He’d been watching her before when she’d completed that task.

Reina’s body vanished from sight once more as she aimed to put herself in front of Gregory. However, upon reappearing she had found herself inches from the roof of King Kai’s hut and rather suddenly crashed into it through the roof and down onto the table carried by the incredible gravity. The wood splintered beneath her and she lay motionless for a few moments.

“Uh oh…” Gregory said as he appeared over the hole that her body had created overhead, a hand covering his mouth as he tried not to laugh. “Your aim is not so good, is it.”

Reina lifted her head then as she heard King Kai shouting in alarm outside about the damage she’d created. There wasn’t any time to consider it right now anyways. Reina took off up through the hole where Gregory had been staring down at her. She felt her fingertips graze off the side of him as she shot up through the hole and quickly after him, her aura a red trail that mingled with the grasshopper’s blue one.

“King Kai’s not going to be happy about that.” Gregory shouted after her with a little laugh. How he could find the entire thing so amusing, she couldn’t help but wonder. How many other people could say they’d destroyed the great King Kai’s home? Hopefully she hadn’t been the first one. Visibly she cringed as Gregory darted, changing his course. She of course followed him only to find him getting farther and farther away.

”Damnit!!!” She shouted as she came to a stop, the little red light bouncing farther and farther away until it was out of sight on the other side of the planet.

“What the matter? I’m not wearing you out am I?” She could hear Gregory’s voice as he appeared to her right just over the horizon then vanished again.

Reina stopped for a moment and let his words fall on deaf ears. Getting angry about it was only going to make this more and more impossible. That was what he wanted after all. Gregory wasn’t supposed to make this easy on her. This was about getting stronger after all. Reina needed more than speed to catch him. She needed wit, something she had and knew how to use.

Then the idea came to her like a light bulb in the darkness. Reaching up, Reina grabbed the little golden halo from over her head, feeling it cool like steel beneath her fingertips. She spun it between her fingertips for a moment before looking up catching sight of the blue orb in the distance. Her timing had to be perfect after all. Judging the grasshopper’s movements, Reina reached that mechanical arm back and hurled that round halo. It spun and curved with the planet as it moved disappearing behind the horizon. A few moments of silence followed between a startled yelp told Reina her aim had been dead on. Reina took off in that direction her eyes searching the ground.

Then she saw him, there on the ground with that halo wrapped around his body. Reina landed and reached down picking up the stunned Gregory and pulling the halo off from around him, returning it over her head. She held him up in victory and took off towards King Kai’s house where the man stood in front waiting for her to approach.

”I got him!” Reina cheered in excitement as she set the still stunned grasshopper into King Kai’s hands. King Kai, still not looking too pleased, set Gregory down and looked up at the woman.

“Now you get to help me fix my roof…and then I’ll be happy to teach you my secret techniques.” Reina groaned. She’s almost completely forgotten about the damage, but the good news was, she’d completed his tasks to become worthy of his real training, which had obviously been her goal the entire time. Right?

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Edited by Reina, Jul 8 2009, 12:57 PM.
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