Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Slumber Party! ❯ Hydrokenetic... ( Chapter 18 )

A/N: Thanks and credit goes to my dear friend Demoness Yasha for her suggestion of the hydrokenetic villian. Awesome, girl! Hope you like it!

~Ami

She looked down and saw a bit of water seeping beneath her invisiable barrier and instictivly moved away from it. She did not know why, exactly, but that small trickle made her blood run cold and she knew, without saying how she knew, that is was…wrong…evil.

"P-Piccolo…?" She reached for him, "We have to get away from…."

Before she could finish her sentence that small bit of liquid spun about and began moving in the opposite direction, reminding Tori of a snake turning in it's course and suddenly, a voice filled the air behind them.

"My my my." It sang, "What have I found? I go out hunting alone and look at what I've found!"

Tori turned to see a stranger standing there. He, for it was indeed male, had hair that was long, nearly past his shoulders, that seemed the hue water, silvery-blue and shimmering. His eyes, as he looked down at her, not hiding the fact that what he found most interesting about her were her…ah…assets…were ice blue and looked just as cold. A bit of water trickled from his fingers as he grinned down at them.

"This should be fun…" He said, looking at the huge namek who had all ready gained his feet. He'd shoved the girl behind him. Too bad, he thought, I was enjoying looking at her.

Without waiting a moment more than nessesary, the stranger seemed to glow and shimmer, and suddenly, without warning, a tidel wave of water came crashing out of him straight towards Piccolo. Tori screamed as he was thrown back, as much by the force of the attack as by surprise as to exactly what type of attack it was.

Tori got to her feet, not even caring anymore than she wore nothing by what God had graced her with upon her birth, and faced the boy, who was only a little older than herself; "So that's what this is, huh?" She asked, her blue eyes narrowing, taking a fighting stance, "Your game's water, eh? We'll two can play at this!"

She held her hands out, fingers splayed and called up her own power, feeling the air around them become charged. She watched in satified pride as the blast exploded from her hands in fiery brightness, heading towards the boy. He flew backwards, into a tree, and Tori saw him raise his arms up and call upon his own power to shield the flames from searing his flesh and burning his clothes.

"No one…" He growled, coming after her, "Attacks me and lives to tell about it! Certainly not some stupid bitch!"

Tori barely heard him, she felt an odd tingle and looked down at herself for a fraction of a second, realizing she wore what seemed to her old gi, only it wasn't stained or torn…She had no time to question it as the boy was now tossing balls of water at her that would explode with the force of a storm when they made contact with her flesh. She felt the first few and darted like a cat out the reach of the others.

Somewhere behind her she felt Piccolo, but she could not spare him a glance to see what he was doing. He should be helping kill this guy, that's what he should be doing! With the two of them they should be able to put an end to his antics….

"Missing your lover?" The boy mocked, laughing, "I decided that this battle should be just between the two of us. It's pretty poetic, once you think about it, isn't it? Two elemental-power users, locked in battle…?"

He lauged again and Tori used that as a distraction to glace over at Piccolo. She gasped at what she saw. He was held, suspended in place, by a cell of pure water! The bars were moving liqiud and steam was rising off them, over his head as well as round him, close, but not close enough to scald, unless he tried to go through them to escape. "Piccolo…no!"

"Don't think about me, girl!" He called to her, sweat beading his face from the closeness of the heated water, "Just fight!"

"You see," The boy said, tossing his hair back in a very feminine gesture, Tori thought, "I too can use heat to my advantage. If he tries to escape, I will only make to hotter…"

"Who are you?" Tori cried, not understanding this at all, "Where did you come from and why are you doing this?"

"Full of questions are we?" He asked, pretending to look thoughtful and pained; "Well, you see, when I was a little boy I didn't get enough love and attention from my mother so…" He paused, looked at her and at the impisioned Piccolo and laughed, "Ah, who the hell am I kidding, I came to this planet because I wanted to try out my new powers and I'm attacking you because I can!"

Tori did not answer, she blocked his attacks as best she could and called upon her pyrokenesis to aid her. She wasn't about to let this water-controlling asshole win! She'd roll over and die first! She thougth as she avoided another blast of those scalding, exloding water bubbles he was so fond of.

"You will never beat me, girl." He said, coming close to her, his face and body were nearly as bruised and cut as her own, "Might as well give up now…"

"Over my dead…body!" She screamed and threw more flames at him, with he ducked and they caught fire to a nearby tree, quickly spreading through the branches and towards it's fellow trees surrounding them. Piccolo's eyes wided at the sight of the flames, if they didn't stop it, the fire would travel until it surrounded the whole area! Everything would burn to nothingness and Tori and the strange, demented kid were too involved in their fight with each other to realize it!

"Tori! No!" He yelled, watching those greedy, hungry yellow tongues of flame; "The fire!"

"Yes! Let it burn!" The boy laughed, and laughed, Tori wanted to rip his tongue right out of his mouth, slit his throat with her fingernails and silence his laughter once and for all; "How does it feel, Tori, to use your powers for destruction? Pretty good, huh?"

"N-no!" She cried, seeing he flames but knowing she was all ready too late, "What have I done…?"

"Fun, huh?" He went on, "Just think, in less than no time at all everyone and everything here will be ashes and smoldering cinder! Unless they manage to escape. Your friends in the house, I believe they'll be able to outrace the fire." He looked at Piccolo; "But your lover here, hmmm, I don't know if he'll be as lucky…"

"You bastard!" Tori cried, understanding; "You made me do that! You made me use my own powers against myself and my friends!"

"Perceptive, aren't we?" He said, studying his fingernails, He looked up at her, his eyes blazing; "Come with me, Tori. I've changed my mind about killing you. Come with me and we can be a power no one be able to withstand!"

"Tori!" Piccolo cried, "The flames…!"

"Join me, Tori…" The stranger spoke, and indicted the flames, "And I'll put out the fire. You know I can do it. Your friend's lives are in your hands, Tori. Just one word from you and the fire will be out…"