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[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

WARNING: XTREME VIOLENCE/YAOI/ SHOUNEN AI. X-OVER WITH RUROUNI KENSHIN.


KALERAGETSUSEI

CHAPTER LXI

THE PRELIMINARIES

(PART II)

STRENGTH GAUGE

"V-V-Vegeta, I-I-I th-th-th-thought that you guys killed that gray bastard on Minerva not two years ago?" Krillin stammered as he cowered behind 18.

"Stand up, Krillin, and stop making Marron and I look bad!" 18 growled through clenched teeth.

"Besides, we took care of that ice thing, his dad and a few others of their putrid race, including the one responsible for the whole shit load!" a gruff voice sounded.

"Who the hell are you? One of Vegeta's by-blows?" Arteaka taunted.

"No, bitch, your worst nightmare! A Koorime/hi-youkai and I'll be more than happy to turn you into a puddle of melted goo or perhaps I should carve my initials in you like I did to that deformed son, your slut grandmother and those disgusting grandsons of yours! Their screams of pain were delicious and that Ice-jin blood was nectar. Don't bother trying to wish them back, they no longer exist," Hiei smirked, having returned from setting up his mate and Jeita with their booth.

Arteaka fell backwards but strong arms of a large male Ice-jin caught her.

"I've got you, my queen," the male said.

"Unhand me, you low life son of a Yeti!" the Ice-jin elder queen snarled as she ripped herself from the one that held her. "You... Hina, only you were common enough to mate with a Hi-youkai! You shame not only the Koorime but also the Ice-jin as we-" Arteaka found a katana under her chin and crimson eyes burning brighter than the darkest fires of the Makai.

"You say one more word disgracing my mother, you'll be wearing that forked tongue, bitch! I've been under a lot of stress lately and killing you should be a good remedy!" Hiei snarled as his arms smoldered and katana quivered.

Vegeta no Ouji stepped forward and put a hand on his adopted son's shoulder. "Calm down, Hi-chibi. Save it for the ring. I'll make sure you get first throw. Go check on that lovely mate of yours and take your mom, aunts and sister," the prince soothed and Hiei, after shooting his look-alike a death glare, turned with a nod. "Now, if there are no more issues, let's line up and begin!"

"All right, spectators, go browse the shops and vendors' tents, otherwise move to the spectators' area if you wish to watch the gauge of strength preliminaries," Sakyou announced as he, his team and Vegeta had moved to the official's podium.

The teams lined up and those spectators, who desired to watch, made their way to the spectators' area.

"I can't believe my boys have to fight in this nasty event! It wasn't enough that that filthy Buu blob character destroyed all of us, no! Now, my boys have to fight in this Dark Tournament where they could get killed and never be wished back!" Chichi wailed as she looked over the fighters being lined.

"Hey, is Vegeta crazy? He's just lined up a buncha little kids! He's a maniac!" Bulma shrieked.

"Well, you know that Saiyan dog could never be trained nor reformed!" Chichi shot.

"Yeah, well, at least after his sacrifice and the wishes to restore the lives of all the good people was made, he returned to the living plane and didn't stay dead for seven years abandoning the family he had made!" Bulma snarled in retort.

"Ladies, if you cannot contain those unruly tongues of yours, I'll have to contain them for you," a very large apparition said in soft tones that booked not argument.

At the sight of the apparition, which was three times larger than Nappa and Raditz put together, the two Earth ex-wives fell silent as fear of indescribable depth took hold of their voices.

Once silence had been restored, Vegeta and Sakyou moved to stand beside a drawn curtain.

"Behind this curtain is the punch machine used during Hercule's martial arts' tourney some years ago," Vegeta began.

"It has been modified to withstand the punch from a Super Saiyan level-4 and beyond. The chibis will punch first, followed by groups from several martial arts dojos, Tarukane's delinquents. After them will come Hatanaka's mucazoids, the X-team and other mutant humans, the Vincente-jin, Tsuria-jin, Rockaria-jin, Amazonia-jin, Venusia-jin, Minerva-jin, Mobile Suit fighters, Reesus-jin, Templer-jin, Arlia-jin, Araknia-jin and finally, the Ice-jin. Team Sakageta will punch last," Sakyou listed.

"After Tarukane's team the super humans will punch the bag to determine their position. Chibis, we will call your names in alphabetic order. When we call your name, you will step to the punch pad, punch as hard as you can and your strength will be recorded on the screen. Let's begin," Vegeta nodded. The prince took one end of the curtain, while Sakyou took the other, and the two pulled the curtain to reveal the punch machine.

"One more thing, this punch machine also records spirit power as well as many of the opponents will be from Spirit World and otherwise invisible. If you should chance to fall opposite one and you lack spirit awareness, the loss will be yours and that is not a threat," Sakyou completed.

Moving back to the announcer's podium, Vegeta and Sakyou began to call the names of the chibi fighters. Four hundred chibis and smaller beings like Sonic, his friends and a few PokeMon that had arrived unannounced but were welcomed nonetheless lined up to punch the pad. After the children had exhibited their strengths, the super humans put forth their efforts. As with the children, the officials called the names alphabetically. After the humans had their strength measured, it was no surprise that Tien, Ubuu and Yamcha had put forth impressive numbers, that were surprisingly followed by Hercule's and Chichi's numbers. Changing the order a little, Vegeta called on the Mobile Suit fighters, whose strength more than rivaled that of the super humans.

"I thought that bitch gave up fighting after she had tricked my mate into marriage. She'll be a force to be reckoned with but we both know Genkai and Keiko are much stronger. Look how they handle Yusuke," Vegeta laughed and Sakyou nodded.

After the Mobile Suite team donated to the cause, the strength trials proceeded by intergalactic race beginning with the Amazonia-jin. The female warriors dominated until, after fifty more teams from other planets, the Ice-jin punched the pad. The numbers were near to the Saiya-jin and the youkai themselves.

"They could give us a run for the money. We'd best be on our guard," Nappa noted.

"They'll never meet us in the ring," Vegeta Ouji smirked as he watched Queen Arteaka punch the pad. "Not a bad showing, but it'll take more than physical strength to beat team Sakageta," the Saiyan prince spread his arms to indicate the large mortal/youki team.

The punches and spirit power of Team Sakageta were by far the most impressive that even the Ice-jin queen had to admit the team would take a strong amount of effort to bring under control.

"This concludes the strength gauge portion of the preliminaries. We will break for lunch, as many have not eaten in quite some time. Return here by six for Team Sakageta to gauge your power levels. Mingle with the crowd but no unnecessary roughness unless there is no other way to solve the issue," Sakyou nodded and released the fighters to go dine to their heart's content.

The Saiya-jin ran over the rest of the crowd in order to dine first, however, the royal houses joined Sakyou and Team Sakageta in a private dining area near where Kurama and Jeita's craft/botanical stand was located. Those two were doing a killing business for first timers and were driving the other vendors crazy.

"Seems our two boys are driving wedges into the cash-flow of the other sellers," Sakyou guffawed and Vegeta agreed.

"SIRE! Oh, we did a killing business for the first day and we should do more tomorrow!" Jeita squealed when he noticed the prince and the others.

Getabon embraced the petite male around the waist and swung him into a hug. Hiei did the same to his mate, sat him down then went to go fetch the male vixen enough food for himself and the kit.

"So, how were the strength trials?" Kurama asked as he ate with the grace he had always had.

"They went well. Hatanaka's mucazoids would be in the first round of fights based on their strength readings. The only spirit power is our team, mainly due to Yusuke and Kuwabara," Sakyou mentioned as he sipped his champagne.

"Kazuma, how is my love? Where is he?" Yukina asked as she, her mother and aunts approached the men.

"Oh, sis, let me go! I told you I'm sorry, I didn't mean to punch Naisha but she did startle me when I was about to pounce on Uremeshi!" a cry of pain from a raspy throat cut into the crowd.

Kuwabara-Sakyou Shizuru entered the vendors' area dragging her brother Kazuma by the ear. The sight made Yukina and all gathered break into uncontrollable snickers and howls.

"Man, Kuwa-kun, it must suck to get beat up by your sister and not be able to defend yourself," Yusuke laughed from sitting beside his fiancée, Keiko.

The crowd broke into a fit of hysterical laughter that drew passersby to their table as beings that were known never to have laughed in known memory except in private, were sharing mirth with others.

"I-I-I don't believe what I'm seeing! Heero laughing! He's always been such a hard one and never showed emotions except negative ones!" a lovely blonde female gasped as she neared Bulma, who was rooted to her spot.

Bulma turned at the sound of the voice and her mouth dropped. "Relena? Maria Louise? Miss Magume? Dorothy Catalonia? What brings you four to such a Neanderthal event?" the blue haired genius asked.

One of three well-dressed blondes and a female with long raven locks turned to address the speaker and the faces of all three fell in surprise.

"Bulma Briefs! Oh, my word, I have not seen you since university! How are you? I was just telling her highness how we never see any of our 'sisters' anymore. What have you been up to? Did you ever marry that man you had that gorgeous little purple haired boy with you brought with you to my garden party fourteen years ago?" Relena asked.

Bulma clamped down on a harsh retort as she glanced at where the women stood. "Let's go some place private," Bulma suggested and herded her acquaintances to a more secluded area.

At the same time, Chichi was making her way with Hercule across the courtyard when the raven-haired female noticed a gathering of females not far from the table of the super humans.

"Well, I haven't seen you girls since training school, what's up Rain, Allen B., Hilde, Launch, girls?" Chichi asked and the girls turned to regard her.

"Chichi. I thought you hated these kind of events after what happened during the last World Tournament following Mr. Wonderful's defeat of that green thing, Cell?" a blonde with back-length curly hair and dressed in military garb asked.

"Yeah, I did, until Hercule and I married, went to another planet to find my sons from that child I had been married to only to be railroaded into this event. My man was nearly humiliated when that red head hootchie and a bunch of those snotty nosed brats challenged him to a fight! How about you?" Chichi asked as the group moved to sit near Bulma and her friends.

"... I still can't understand why he'd prefer that kid with the long braid to me! I mean Heero is everything a woman could dream of and he prefers that!" Relena was heard to lament.

"I know what you mean. The man I had the children with left me for my best friend! Of course, I had thrown the flea bag out after my daughter turned a year old," Bulma retorted.

Chichi looked over at the neighboring table. "If that's not a blow to a woman's ego, I don't know what is! That man I was with and had two sons by I could split him in two! He took my youngest son and they went to live with that pigmy Saiyan prince he seemed to have more time for after he had returned to this life plane! Hercule, I want you to wipe the mat with him even if you have to put a bullet in his head!" Chichi shrieked.

"That tired subject again? Launch, what are you doing over here with these losers and jealous shrews? You should be with us since you and Tien are an item," a cold alto female voice sounded.

"Hello, 18. So, we're losers are we? I hope you can back that up when I pound your head into the ground!" Chichi hissed.

"You'll have to catch me first, alte frau, and at your age, your knees'll give out before you land a punch! C'mon, Launch, Shizi, Genkai and Keiko wanna work on a plan to annihilate the competition," 18 said and Launch gathered her things and moved to the Super Human table and sat beside Tien.

At the Sakageta table, the Saiya-jin and Saiyan half-breeds in the group, along with Duo had completed their tenth serving, then a few couples decided to work off their heavy meals with a little light sparring.

"No chi blasts until the real deal, ok, hotshots!" Sakyou admonished as most of his and Vegeta's team deserted them. "I'm surprised you're not fighting with them, sunshine."

"What and leave my two princesses unguarded? Hiei would run me through and Getabon would discover the strength and cunnings of his sire and blow me away. Well, well, Shuichi looks as if your mom and brother wish to speak with you. I'll be sparring with Bardock if you need," the Saiyan prince got up to find his step-sire.

"Shu-chan, you look great! If you need advice on raising the little darling, don't hesitate to ask," Shiori smiled as she fussed with a lock of Kurama's red hair.

"Thank you, kaasan, but being with Prince Vegeta and his people, I'll have all the aid I could want. I hope you come and see us," Shuichi invited.

"Your voice is so cool, bro! Man, if Hiei didn't have you..."

"Shu-kun, don't even go there, chibi. Your dad would have a cow if he knew just how much you admired me," Kurama snickered.

"Still, I wish I could find one like you in either form, though I'd prefer a kit," the younger Shuichi voiced.

"We'll discuss such when we leave this planet but mind, we will be attending classes and honing our fighting skills. We will be living between realms as I do have business to attend to in Makai. Speaking of, Sakyou, did you notice the three rulers are present with their own fighters?" Kurama noted three separate groups seated not far from them.

"Yeah, they placed pretty high in strength but we'll have to see how they fare in power," Sakyou said as he glanced at his watch. "We have an hour before the power-level gauge," the human sighed.

At that moment, Vegeta and Kakarrot approached the table and each bore two boxed of devices in their hands. Once close, Vegeta and his mate handed out the devices to Team Sakageta that had halted their sparring so that they could assist in the power-gauge.

"Since we're all in one place, this is as good a time as any to gauge power-levels," Vegeta Ouji nodded then set the scouters to gauge the power of each fighter.

Vegeta had modified the scouters for the tournament by attaching keyboards to the devices so that the user had to type in the name of the fighter they wanted to gauge and the scouter computed the information from there. With the aid of the entire team, they were able to gauge the powers, jot them alongside the strength readings then organized the fighters in the order in which they would battle.

"Well, we know the walking mucus will die in the first round unless they top out. The delinquents are from death row anyway, so if they die, it would be no big loss to humankind. The Venusians and Amazonians'll give us a good battle. The Super Humans and the Mutants will definitely be worth placing a wager on. The Mobile Suit fighters and Robotrons are a good pick but I have my reserve. Some of our boys might end up severely injured with that match. The Minerva-jin don't fight outside of their own battle suits so well put them against the warriors from New Namek," Vegeta began listing the pairings.

The final pairing was inevitable and put the Saiya-jin along with Hiei up against the dreaded Ice-jin.

"That ought to be a good match. They'll be lucky to make the second round," Hiei snorted as he returned to table and embraced his mate around the neck.

"I don't see what all the stress is over. I feel that they are more afraid of us than anything they have ever encountered. They have no idea what we can do. We're harder, better, faster and stronger than they could ever dream to be," Kakarrot shrugged and the others gathered echoed the sentiment.

Soon, dinner ended and the teams regrouped. Sakyou told the warriors to dress for the opening ceremony and parade that were set to commence in an hour's time. Vegeta gathered those he had invited to be part of the entertainment and took them to the dressing rooms to choose their attire.

"Are you going femme, sire, or will you remain homme?" Piccageta asked, as he dressed in a plum colored Flamenco styled sequined dress then sat for his mate to groom his long hair while he groomed his tail.

"Homme, I am the MC of this event. You boys have fun," the Saiyan prince smiled. Vegeta pulled on a pair of sapphire colored satin hip hugging bell-bottomed slacks, a light blue silk shirt and a jacket that matched the slacks, finally adding sapphire colored leather boots.

Jeice and a chi restrained Zarbon was also present along with their sons Getabon and Jeita. Vegeta's other full-blooded sons that had performed on Minerva a year (Saiyan time) ago. The group was dressed, lined and ready to signal the start of the vast parade that would open the Dark Tournament.