Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Fight for Survival ❯ Chapter 3

Chapter 3 -

 

She was suddenly snapped out of her world of thoughts and looked up to see Vegeta in the middle of the half crowded stands, fly over into the centre of group. “It is time to begin!” his voice filled the air and everyone stopped stretching to do their round of `rock, paper, scissors' to see who would get the `new kid'.

 

I straightened my back with a smug look on my face. I was so excited, today was the first day of the rest of my life and that was something worth looking forward to.

 

The rounds of rock, paper, scissors stopped and the loser grunted with a sour look upon his face. If I could have seen my face, it might have been almost an exact replica of his. He was the average commando looking guy, Spikes. The first words that came to my head went along the lines of `this fucking sucks. Why the hell did I have to get the pervert? Just my luck.'

 

He seemed to catch the good side of his result and gave me a smirk before retreating to the group for some idle chit chat before they all did final stretches before partnering off. Squatoff strolled over to me and smiled a sort of excited but determined smile. “You know. Spikes seems to have taken an interest in you.” He casually said which getting into a fighting stance and started the sparing bout. The guys just started when they were ready, just doing simple punches and kicks, warming up their bodies. I frowned “Yeah, it wasn't half obvious the way he keeps looking at me while gossiping like a school girl” he looked confused for a moment before resuming conversation “Things have changed since you locked yourself into that room, girls no longer go to school. They have no need for schooling, thus school is only provided for males, females, if they want schooling, must be tutored” I caught one of his punches and threw back a kick which was also caught.

 

Why was this relevant? We were mere minutes away from kicking each others asses and all he wanted to chat about was the history over the last few years. It was confusing but maybe later I would see an underlying meaning of some sort, or maybe he was just trying to keep the conversation going. Whatever, I really didn't need to distract myself with such things.

 

There was a bark in the air and distracted for a moment I caught a glimpse of Vegeta up there on the wall at the edge of the arena, red moon in the sky behind him, giving him the red glow of a god. In that instant of the moment that bark came, the pace picked up and the opponents actually tried to hit each other, being distracted with that glimpse for a split second was all it took and I earned myself a fist to the jaw. My head recoiled and bounced back as he threw another punch to my face to meet it, I grabbed his hand instead and slammed my forehead into his nose.

 

It was amusing. The first second into the fight and already I had a split lip that had started a line of blood running down my chin and his nose was also running with the ruby liquid. He licked his top lip where blood had already met the divide of his thin lips and then cleaning off the flow with a scrape with the back of his hand. He smirked “You have some quick thinking there girly, let us see how fast you are” With that he charged, maybe with out all of his strength, but boy was he fast. He was the fastest I had met thus far, even though that wasn't really saying much and I was just able to keep ahead of him, dodging all sorts of attacks, and soon realised that most of his attacks were faked, he would punch but as I moved to evade it, his other fist would be there to meet me, but it would also fake as I moved out of its path. The pattern was endless, and keeping the same speed for a long time would be difficult, so to break the cycle would have to be my only choice.

 

I moved the upper half of my body forward, to gain some momentum. He saw this as an opportunity and put but forward the blow with effort into it, using his ki and creating a silver shimmering glow about his hand. I swung backward to avoid the attack and striking out with a kick, catching him in the chin, if only just barely when he tried to dodge it. I continued on bending backward until I had done a reverse cartwheel and then charged at his slightly stunned and recoiled form, delivering a kick to the stomach, just for it to be caught at the very last instant.

 

I thought it would work, as my plans pretty much always worked… well… so far, I keep forgetting that there are other people in this world, other people that are definitely smarter and probably stronger than I am. I had most basic knowledge crammed into me when my parents were still alive, probably a little more than most kids had. Knowledge was important to my parents so they made it their duty for me to have as much as I could take, no matter how long it took.

 

He had grabbed my leg and flung me across the stadium like I were nothing, and this was supposed to be training! I hit straight into a wall, debris and dust flying everywhere. I pull myself from out under the heavy boulders of stone and look up, ready to attack when I see the group has stopped and Vegeta is down in the crowd, talking to Squatoff is his stern tone. Some of the other guys are chatting and some are listening to Vegeta's conversation. I dusted myself off while I casually walked back to the crowd, I was a mess already and the real matches hadn't even begun.

 

Vegeta backed off to the stands once again, just as I had walked back to the group. Squatoff left and went to go stand with another warrior and they exchanged conversation with eagerness. Spikes marched over and stood in front of me. He was a lot taller than I expected. He grinned and cracked his knuckles and neck and then picked himself upwards hovering above the ground, I followed suit just as everyone else had done.

 

In a flash his grin was gone and there was a total seriousness a commando embraces. I looked at him as he grunted “You better not let me down, pipsqueak. Don't let the squad down” Looked toward the other pairs and put a determined smile on my face `I won't'

I vowed and did a mid air fighting stance.

 

His voice once again shot into the air and in an instant I was gone was suddenly above someone. Spikes was already there, fight one on one with him and I took that one totally unawares, slamming my fists into the top of his head and he went crashing into the arena. Spikes was already gone, off fighting elsewhere and I raced off to join him. I didn't even hear Vegeta call off Squatoff after I had crushed his partner, who was just pulling himself out to go and sit on the sidelines.

 

After all sorts of combinations of attack and team work, we managed to get another team out of the battle and it was only our 2 teams left. They both charged at once, a punch pulled back to strike me in the face and I put my arms up to block and closed my eyes, ready to take the impact that never came.