[IC] Dragon Ball: Legacy (Mogtaki and Vena Sera)

[GambolMuse]

"It's one thing to take advantage of an enemy Viral, but you're not an enemy! And besides, we're just doing this for fun..." Yumi thought it was all fun and games anyways. Viral was taking it a bit more to heart than she was, but of course he often did anyways. It wasn't her fault she felt bad for hurting a friend, she mused, lowering her guard a bit further. It would aggravate her friend to no end if she went through with it yet she figured stopping might not be a bad idea. If he hadn't healed fully after all then they could reopen a wound and cause damage, no one wanted that. Before she could utter so much as a single sound however Viral sprang into action again, raining down a flurry of fists yet again on her. Hardly ready for that she took the first hit to the head, being made to stumble backwards as she had her bearings knocked a bit loose. A second hit her stomach, and a third her head again, causing her to reel quite a bit. Raising her arms to block she took a few more blows, having her guard broken and ultimately being knocked down once again, swept clean off of her feet and falling onto her back. Those hits hurt, quite a bit, more than she'd figure sparring would. So Viral really wanted to get serious.

The thing with fighting, as Yumi had been told numerous times by instructors, was it was half physical and half mental. If your mind wasn't in it then your body was as good as useless, all the strength in the world did you no good if you couldn't use it. Now was pretty good example of that, she knew she had the strength but was lacking the will to use it. Viral wasn't, not in the slightest, and he seemed to want a good fight. Well, it was going to be difficult to put aside her concerns for him, but if this is what he wanted then she'd try to oblige him. Glaring at him for a second she rolled backwards, ending up on all fours and emitting a low growl sound, not entirely sure where it even came from. Then pouncing forward much like a feline she raked her hand down at the Beastman, trying to claw at him and make him back off. After that she would jump up and try to kick him, followed by a series of kicks and punches alike. So long as she kept Viral on the defensive she could avoid being struck again, and she was confident she had the speed advantage if nothing else.

Takeshi was watching Shu and the aliens interact, rather curious how his sibling was going to handle things. The big one that had shown up seemed awfully mad, his own scouter vaguely picking up some broken English that didn't come across at all as thrilled. His brother was holding his ground though, and the little guy he had been traipsing around with seemed to be on the Saiyan's side too. Engrossed in the scene below he almost didn't hear T'charrl, only catching just enough to know what was said. Looking over at the Kaesstrian with a slightly disappointed expression before smiling he reached over, giving T'charrl's forehead a light flick. "Of course we would have, what kind of question is that? We're not bringing you along because you're a tool to us you know. I mean sure, it's handy, but that's not why. You need training, and we can give it to you, so we decided to offer you to come along. That's the truth, I swear." Poor guy, hopefully he wasn't still thinking he was just here for convenience. T'charrl was among friends now, that was a simple as it got, hopefully he'd come around to see it that way.

Whatever the alien boy was prattling on about made the armadillo-man awfully confused. Evil things and monsters, what could he be talking about? Their world wasn't exactly thriving with terrifying beasts. Sure, their god could be a bit demanding, but it was hardly to the degree one might call him evil. "Evil here? No evil, wrong. Nothing rid of, wrong alien. Wrong." In spite of his aversion to this visitor his son was warming up to him for some unfathomable reason, not showing any caution towards the potential danger. This quite annoyed him, he felt like his child was going to be deceived and harmed by this alien. Hearing there were more with this one he looked up to the cliff, amazed to indeed see two more figures up there. One looked similar to the alien with them now, albeit a little different, and the other was completely foreign to him. He didn't like the looks of either of them, the unknown quite unsettling him. "Brother...? Friend? Nice... Say nice, but true? Don't know. Doubt." he remarked, frowning as he looked at his son. "Here, now Tesuga. Now."

Father was being awfully mean about all of this, but he didn't want to disrespect the man. Tesuga looked up at Shu once more, smiling before hurrying over to his parents' side, snuggling up against his mother. "Nice alien, nice. Don't hurt, he friend." the child repeated, nuzzling his head against his mother's legs as he wrapped his arms around them. "Sh... Shu, yes? Friend yes?" Then looking up at the cliff above and seeing the other two figures the child smiled, waving a claw up in their direction in hopes of bringing them down as well. "Other friends? Yes?" He was going to make all sorts of friends today, this was so exciting. Now there would be people to play with and feed him when his parents were busy!

Takeshi thought he was hearing things, but sure enough that little fella down below was calling for them. "Well, I guess that's our cue?" he mused, flashing T'charrl a smile and shrugging his shoulders. He'd not thought about getting involved, not really all that keen on meeting the natives just yet. It would be kind of hard to not do it now though, not to mention rude. Pushing himself forward he swung right off the edge of the cliff, falling right down to the ground and only just slowing his descent before hitting the dirt. The father backed off when he landed, not looking very excited at having another Saiyan in his presence. Offering a polite smile Takeshi put his hands up defensively, walking up only so he was at Shu's side. "Relax, we're friendly, I swear. We're not going to hurt any of you."

"Friendly... Could be lie, or truth. Not tell, don't know," the father mumbled, still not backing down from his stance. Looking over his shoulder at his wife and child he nodded towards the entrance, silently ushering them inside to their den as he remained outside. Two aliens to contend with, and possibly a third if the other came down. If they were indeed friendly then there would be no issue, they could all get along just dandy. If not then he'd have to fight... And that wasn't a prospect he was terribly excited at. "Believe you why? See god, yes? It judge you."

[Mogtaki]

Viral didn’t want to give Yumi a chance, she had to learn to expect a lot from her opponent and he was going to have a big opportunity to strike if she was allowed to be curious over an injury. His body was hurting after that attack, but that shouldn’t have to be a worry for her considering she went for his abdomen with that attack and managed to land it successfully despite him being a trained warrior. She had to pay for it now as he threw his attacks straight down upon her, managing to strike her down successfully. Hitting near enough all of them, he stopped when she was knocked down, his hand going to his stomach momentarily as he stared down at her. She had to keep trying if she wanted to keep up with his kind of training regime, she knew fine well how he trained and she should had remembered just exactly how he went through with these training sessions.

Staring down at her to see if she had gotten the gist of it, he moved towards her to see if she was going to get up and going again. She shouldn’t be down after that, it wasn’t in her nature to give up that quickly. Moving as if he was going to pull her off the ground, she instead ended up rolling backwards, growling at him. Feeling a little confused over her change of stance, he didn’t expect her to try and outright claw at him as he raised his arm to block what he thought would be a punch, instead clawing his arm open. Pulling back a little and looking at his arm, he was suddenly struck in the head by a fair kick. Disorientated, he tried to catch his breath but just as expected she immediately went straight back onto the offensive and delivered a flurry of strong kicks and punches. He couldn’t block them all, the wound on his arm getting hit a few times before his guard was broken and with a strong punch to his head and a kick to his chest he was instead sent tumbling to the ground, unable to keep up with it.

T’charrl couldn’t help but ask it, the whole notion plaguing his mind quite a big deal of the time since he had left. He didn’t want it to be true, but it didn’t hurt to ask when it was important to him understanding why he was here. Twiddling his claws a little bit, he kept his eyes averted before Takeshi instead flicked his forehead, letting out a snort in response as he shook his head. Looking to Takeshi quickly, he tilted his head a little as he spoke. Smiling a little he looked away, giving a small nod, “I-I understand, I’m sorry I asked”, he spoke, looking back to him a little, “I didn’t mean to be rude by it, I-I was just…well, I didn’t want to feel like it was out of pity or something”. He hoped he wasn’t insulting Takeshi by saying all of this, he was more worried that he was more like baggage rather than anything useful, especially considering there was a lot of hyper-powered beings out in the universe that he’d probably be no match for.

Shu didn’t know what to make of the father. He was trying hard to convince the guy he wasn’t dangerous but the body language that was constantly being displayed wasn’t working very well in terms of communication. Looking between the younger alien and the father, he tilted his head a little before sitting down on the ground, his tail wagging at the tip, “Yeah! Friends, nice friends…big fluffy friend and brother-friend”, Shu nodded, bouncing a little, “I like making friends, I don’t like not making friends. I was just exploring and hurt my head”.

T’charrl was still in a little bit of a dream by the time Takeshi spoke up again, his antennae twitching in response as he looked to him, giving a little nod. Despite the fact that he could fly and was perfectly capable of dropping down from a height, he was still a little nervous about going down there. They were little creatures and he was a big one, they’d probably get pretty scared with him going down there. Frowning a little, he watched Takeshi drop down before he decided to slowly down the cliff-face, sticking to it pretty easily as he tried to prevent them from getting scared of the sight of him.

Shu smiled when Takeshi came dropping down, seeing T’charrl strangely scale the cliff head first instead of just flying down. Tilting his head a little, he gave Takeshi a nod before looking to the father. He really didn’t know what a god was and had no idea what he was supposed to do about it. Maybe they could see this god thing, looking up to Takeshi, “Should we go see? What’s god? I had food, it was tasty”, he spoke, standing up again quickly before rubbing his head, “Oooohhh, dizzy! Who is god and why does it judge?”

[GambolMuse]

First a strong kick to initiate the fight, followed by a hard jab, an elbow, a kick. Yumi kept switching up her method of striking as she went after Viral, trying to make it impossible for him to know what she was doing next. It seemed to be working, she was getting past his defenses fairly often and managing to deal some decent hits. He wanted to train a bit more seriously after all, so she was going to treat this a little more like an actual fight. As one hit after another landed she noticed his guard gradually weakening and Viral was losing ground as well. With a last good strike she managed to topple him over this time, watching as he fell onto the ground. Hitting an opponent while down like this was just lowly, she didn't want to do that, certainly not with a friend. So rather than strike him again Yumi immediately pounced, landing on the Beastman with a small smirk. Putting her hands on his biceps and straddling his waist she tried to keep him pinned down, giving him no choice in the matter as best she could. "So, do I win now? Or do you want to keep going?" she mused, cocking her head to the side, an excited gleam in her eyes. "I'm having fun, I don't know about you though."

"T'charrl, trust us, we're taking you along because we want to. That's the reason for it, so don't think so low of yourself, okay? We're all friends here, that's why we're traveling together." Who would have thought that Takeshi of all people would be consoling someone. Everything he said though was true, and he meant every word of it. They were a team one way or another, and as a result friends, at least he liked to think so. Hardly the expert on friendship however he was mostly taking a stab in the dark, figuring friends ought to do things like this. It felt right, and it just seemed proper to not have someone around just for some use. After reassuring T'charrl a bit the Saiyan finally dropped down to join his brother, making a soft landing after a quick fall to stand next to Shu. Now, what were they talking about? He kept hearing the word 'god' being thrown around, so was there someone else here too? Watching as the child and mother hurried past them into the den he frowned a bit, wondering why they were scurrying off like that. No one was going to hurt them after all, and it wasn't as if that little hole was the most fortified place anyways. Heck, Shu had literally come in through the roof.

Takeshi listened to Shu carefully, not entirely sure what they should do. Looking into what these people called a 'god' could well spell trouble for them no doubt, especially when the father mentioned the god might kill them. For all they knew however this could well be just the thing they were searching for, and not following the lead would be silly. Smacking his own forehead when Shu bolted up and got lightheaded the older boy smiled, hefting his shoulders before scratching at his cheek. "I guess if it means these people don't hate us then we really should, yeah. It's not like we've got anything to hide, so I'm sure we'll be fine." Ah, now for the question about what god was. Like science and space travel it was just another thing that Takeshi wasn't overly versed in. He knew enough to offer some basic insight though, and that was all Shu really needed. "A god is like... Well... A god is like a king, basically. They rule over people and do things for them. And usually a god isn't, er... How to put this... Mortal? Like they can't be killed." Albeit if their supposed god was one of these creatures then it most certainly could be killed, they knew that first hand.

"Not that you kill god. Too strong, you weak. Our god strongest of all, yes." The father looked between the trio a bit worriedly, an expression of doubt crossing his features. If these three were anything like the ones before then maybe they could topple the god, it might be possible. It was a long stretch, to be sure, and risky. If it did work though then they would be all the better for it. The relationship with their god was complicated to say the least, as it could be both benevolent and malevolent, often both in short order. Looking between the Saiyans and Kaesstrian he let out a sigh, lowering his head and scratching at one of his ears. "Judge, yes? Can be judged, only by god. We show you, it judge. If good, you friend, if bad, you die. Yes?"

Takeshi was pretty confident this little god of theirs wasn't going to be killing anyone. Even if it was one of those monsters from before that didn't make it all that powerful, they could easily handle another or two. Maybe it was arrogance talking, but he was sure they didn't have anything to worry about. "That seems fair. If it's what we've got to do for you to trust us then fine, we'll do it." It was kind of a big decision though, taking on a god. Looking over at Shu and T'charrl he smiled sheepishly, wanting to get their input too. "That is if you guys are up for it. Don't want to drag you into a mess I jumped into."

[Mogtaki]

Viral had been hit pretty hard several times, his body battered by the flurry of attacks and now he was left on the ground. He didn’t want to be down here, but he should have been able to keep his ground but had let several distractions get in the way. Grunting when Yumi decided to jump on him, he looked to her hands on his arms before to her, a pained yet angry look on his face. Staring at her as she spoke, he growled at her before moving his head to the side, “…You cheated. That’s hardly a win”, he spoke, trying to shift his arms, “You used a weapon…I did not use a weapon against you. I didn’t shed a claw to you and you decided to use a whole set of them. Is that how you usually train…?” Letting out one last growl, he tried to throw her off with one forceful turn so he could possibly see to his wounds.

Shu didn’t know how he was supposed to react with Takeshi around and T’charrl slowly managing his way down in his own way. He didn’t know if they would make things better or if things would get worse, especially when they weren’t really going anywhere with the current conversation. Staring at Takeshi as he decided to take the lead with the conversation, he tilted his head at the explanation to what a god was only to be confused all over again, “Do things for them? Can’t be killed? That sounds weird”, he spoke, scratching at his head a little, “If I couldn’t be killed, I wouldn’t want to make people see me like a King. Why would people like someone like that…?”

Looking to the little creature, he stared at him curiously before giving a quick look to Takeshi, trying to work out what was being said and what they were supposed to do about it. He didn’t think there was any way around not seeing this god, but hearing it was the strongest of all was a little worrying. He didn’t know if he wanted to get in the way of that kind of creature, but he knew Takeshi would probably want to. Frowning a little, he looked to T’charrl as he slowly moved into the scene. He wondered if T’charrl knew what a god was too and what they might be up against, it would probably seem alien to him too considering his world didn’t have any mention of one. Giving Takeshi a quick look, he smiled a little, feeling fairly nervous about it, “I-I guess so…I mean, you want to fight it, right? And if it can’t be killed, I guess it’s…something to look at…? Where is it…?”

[GambolMuse]

Yumi blinked in confusion before frowning, giving Viral a funny look. "Cheated? I just attacked you, how was that cheating? I thought that was the point of training?" Then it dawned on her that she had used Ki, if only slightly to rebound from an attack. Okay, that was cheating, she'd give him that. Disappointed in herself she let out a little yelp as she was tossed off, sitting to the side and giving her friend an apologetic smile. "Okay, using Ki was wrong, sorry. But weapons, seriously? What do I have that are weapons?" Looking at her hands she held them up for Viral, raising an eyebrow incredulously. "Not a single claw, just my hands. Now unless you count me trying to scratch you as using a weapon I never used any. But... All the same I won't do it again." This was probably the end of training then, the Beastman definitely wasn't looking too keen to continue. That was a shame, they were just getting to the thick of it, it had begun to get exciting. Getting up to her feet Yumi offered a hand down to Viral to help him up as well. "You hit really hard, you know that? I'm probably going to have some bruises later now."

Takeshi's attempt to explain what a god was hadn't worked, and even left himself confused afterwards. He didn't really know any god, nor did he know a lot about religion. He supposed that once upon a time Kami might be considered a god, or Korin. Heck, as far as humans were concerned Dende was probably a god to them. But Dende was not the atypical kind of person one imagined a god to be like, as he wasn't exactly a force to be reckoned with. "Just think of them as people or things that know a lot, and are really powerful. And yeah, they probably can't be killed or something since they're a god. I don't know, it's complicated..." Takeshi mumbled, crossing his arms and sighing. "Fighting one in that case is going to be a real pain." An opponent that couldn't be slain, definitely a little intimidating. Not that they had the intent on killing anyone anyways, just those monsters if they happened to find some. Nonetheless they ought to look into it. Maybe this god of theirs could at the very least point them in the right direction.

"Of course I want to fight it! Don't you?" Takeshi asked Shu, smiling over at him. "I mean sure, maybe we can't kill it, but it should be a fun fight! And just because it's immortal doesn't mean its going to be super strong. Heck, we might even be leagues above it for all we know, which I guess kind of makes us like gods huh?" Now that was an interesting prospect, and a dangerous one. Not wanting to get his ego inflated over that the older boy looked down at the father alien, hoping to get some answers out of him. "Maybe you can tell us where your god is? We'll go through this trial or whatever to show we're trustworthy, and then maybe we can ask it some questions." And fight it too, if they were given the opportunity. A spar with a god, that was exciting.

"Cannot fight god, stupid child. God too strong, not defeated." Watching the Saiyan get a bit miffed over who knows what the alien backed off slightly, though tried to safe face by keeping himself upright. "If you want god, you get god. Not easy find, far away. Tell you where, but you go alone. Too dangerous, too far." A trek some few kilometers away in fact, a journey that would take him several days to make himself. Looking at the trio for a moment an idea crossed the alien's mind. It was a bit radical, and if it went poorly then it would backfire immensely, but it had to be worth the risk. There wasn't any other option for them anyways, this was their one shot. Having to actually ask a favor of these three was a little off-putting, but he'd do what was necessary.

"Your, Tesuga's friend... Friend yes?" the father asked, as if looking for confirmation. Walking over to Shu he paused for a second, dipping his head and closing his eyes as a show of respect towards the young Saiyan. "Son, in danger. Sacrifice, for god. No choice, make god happy. But... You save, yes? Defeat god, make spare, anything. Can't do, too weak, help. No gift to give, but thanks. Please?" These three had to be associated with the aliens before somehow, they were too similar not to be. Those ones had been strong, and it stood to reason these were as well. If anyone could beat the god then it was them. "Tesuga die if not, don't want. Save son, yes?"

[Mogtaki]

Viral moved himself off away from her a little, staring at her for a moment before he let out a sigh, shaking his head. She barely even realised what she had done wrong, probably because she had trained with those who could use Ki way too much. She probably wasn’t used to her implemented abilities either, seeing as how she barely even realised what she had done to his arm. Looking to her hands as she held them up, he looked to her as he slowly rubbed his head, “Do you even think when you’re fighting? I thought you were the one who put some thought into your actions”, he spoke, holding up his own wounded arm. It held pretty deep scratch marks, pretty clean cut with red showing through his thick skin. While it wasn’t bleeding, it still stung pretty harsh like a series of paper cuts. Letting out a huff, he took hold of her hand and pulled himself up, letting go of her once he was on his feet and rubbed his arm slowly, “Do you even know what it means to be part beast? Do you really think they would just give you flappy ears…”

Only feeling confused by all of Takeshi’s words, Shu smiled a little and gave a nod as if trying to play on the fact that he understood his words. He tried to think on examples of people that might come under this tag, but all in all he couldn’t so much as think of anyone beyond his father and even then the guy didn’t really give back. Scratching his head quickly, he stared at his brother before frowning a little, lowering his hand, “Umm, I guess I want to fight it, but what if we upset people here?” he asked, pressing his fingers together, “I don’t think I want to be like a god, though. I mean…I don’t think I’ll be living forever”.

As the little creature spoke up once more in defiance, Shu turned his attention to him curiously as he told them off for even thinking they could fight such a creature. He really thought he could do it too, but if this alien said they couldn’t then maybe it was true considering they were natives. Frowning a little, he looked off into the distance, trying to think to where this creature might be. It might take a while if they couldn’t get the location out of this man, they would probably have to try and find more of these mysterious creatures, but sure enough after a moment of hesitation the father approached him once more, sounding a little less aggressive. Staring down at him curiously, he tilted his head a little before looking to Takeshi, frowning, “Sacrifice…?” he questioned, not entirely sure what that word meant. It couldn’t have been good, especially considering how the father was reacting. Looking back down again, he squeaked a little as his eyes darted to the young child, “I-I don’t want him to die…” he spoke, slowly rubbing his arms, “I want to save him! I want to save him from sacrifice…that sounds like it’s really bad! Where is god? Where can we find it…?”

[GambolMuse]

"O-Of course I think! What kind of question is that? I'm not Takeshi you know." How rude, Yumi most certainly thought things through while fighting. To suggest she did anything less was an insult. She had been taught by Viral after all to think through her battles, and she was doing just that the entire time. Still a bit defiant at the suggestion of using a weapon she quickly doubled back on her stance upon seeing the scratch marks in his arm. A little disbelieving she looked down at her hands, not able to fathom how she had caused that with just her fingers. Viral had some awfully tough skin, and she didn't exactly have claws or talons, so how in the world did she do that? Helping her friend to his feet nonetheless his next words made her cringe. "I... I don't know... I don't know what I can do now, okay?" Yumi shook her head, crossing her arms across her chest uncomfortably and moving her feet around nervously. "I haven't had a chance to see what I can do, and I don't know what more there is. I might... I don't know, maybe I can change like you. Maybe there's something in me, I don't know. Maybe it was naive to hope the only thing I had different were the ears... It was stupid of me..."

That was a bombshell if Takeshi had ever heard one. Their god took sacrifices, and child sacrifices if he understood right. Kind of difficult to tell in the alien's broken English, but he was sure he'd gotten the gist of it. So then they weren't super fond of the god either, mostly being under him out of fear more than anything else. That was awfully reminiscent of their father's rule over his subjects, and that just ticked the Saiyan off to no end. Following his brother's gaze to the child in question he knew they had to do something, there was no way they could let Tesuga just die. Shu was properly upset over the idea, they were going to have to do this for his sake too if nothing else. "Just tell us where to go and we'll deal with it. This god of yours doesn't deserve to stay here anymore if he's going to hurt kids."

The father was a little surprised how quickly these aliens had agreed to do this for them. They had absolutely no stake here and no reason to save Tesuga, yet they agreed to do so anyways. The notion of having his child not be taken away and eaten had him fair hopeful, maybe this would work. Smiling gratefully between the boys he bowed his head again, trying to show as much gratefulness as possible. "Thanks. Very thanks, much. The god... It sleeps in mountains. Far away, across fields. Not here, far from, that way," he explained, pointing back across the way they had come. "In mountains, not high though. Careful, god big. God strong, careful. If... Danger, run yes? No die, don't want. Save Tesuga another way maybe."

So they had to back track the way they had come by the sounds of it. Thinking back to their landing Takeshi couldn't think of a single mountain range that had been in view back then. If they were going then there was going to be quite a bit of walking to get there, hardly ideal. Then again... Maybe they didn't have to go. There were others who were probably closer who could do it, perfectly capable of doing so too. That gave him an idea, and without a word he stepped away from the others, pressing his scouter to turn it on. "Hey Viral, Yumi? We've got something, and we're going to need your help. How do you feel about mountains?"

[Mogtaki]

Viral looked to Yumi before letting out a grumble, rubbing his arm slowly. It’d heal eventually, but it was still a pain to experience and was definitely pretty annoying. The wound was bruised after being hit several times at full force, but luckily it wasn’t bleeding seeing as how that’d just be another inconvenience. Slowly flexing his claws as if seeing if he’d feel pain through using them, he looked to Yumi for a moment, raising an eyebrow before looking away again. He had inadvertently upset her, he didn’t mean to do such a thing, especially when it all stemmed straight back to himself in the end. He was the root of all these problems she was currently having, he didn’t even have any answers for her to what she could and couldn’t do when it all hadn’t been shown before.

Slowly running his fingers through his hair, he gave her a glance as she continued to try and figure out herself with unfortunate thoughts coming through. It was that whole changing business again and her despising the thought, her tone becoming considerably darker as a result. She still had an aversion to the thought of him transforming, she hated it and feared the thought of becoming something like him. Slowly rubbing his head before removing his hand, he stared at it for a moment in contemplation. Sighing a moment he shook his head, flexing his claws, “Don’t worry, you’re nothing like me. You would know if you were anything like me the moment they did that to you, you would have that brought to the surface first for the King’s convenience. You would know if you were a monster, unless you feel you already are one as you are…”

Shu was definitely a little more than nervous already over the thought of what that word meant and how it was very bad considering the reaction it got out of Takeshi and T’charrl. T’charrl looked fairly worried while Takeshi seemed willing to do what he could to help out. It wasn’t anything he had heard of, but luckily Takeshi knew and he knew exactly how to make the creatures happy. Looking back to the family, he smiled a little, giving a reassuring nod in response to Takeshi’s words, bouncing a little on his feet. He’d be pretty happy to fight something if it meant saving people, even if it was something that couldn’t die and was possibly stronger than they were, “Mountains! Lots of climbing…oooh, it is good to fight there, I think”, he nodded, looking up to Takeshi as he tried to contact the others through the scouter, “I don’t see any mountains around here, though…”

Viral had remained to himself for a moment before there was a sudden distraction, his scouter picking up the voice of Takeshi out of the blue. Growling lowly, he pressed at his scouter, moving away from Yumi, “What? Whatabout mountains? What do you have in mind?” he spoke up, feeling pretty annoyed. There was no warning in their call, they could had at least said what it was first too before going on like that out of the blue, “What kind of ‘help’, exactly…”

[GambolMuse]

Yumi felt awfully self conscious right now, having things brought up that she would just as soon forget. Holding herself a bit she looked down at her feet, biting her lip as her ears folded flat against her hair, trying to hide a little better how unsettled she was. Thinking about just how different she could be now terrified her, she didn't want to be something entirely new. She wanted to be her, that was that. The ears were a big enough change as it was and were still taking some getting used to, and that wasn't even mentioning how most of her senses were now heightened as well. Coupled with her apparently razor sharp nails now she was pretty much a new being in her entirety, even if she didn't look that different. There was very much the worry that she could now transform herself and become a creature like Viral, something she couldn't properly control. Not being able to handle her own powers was a terrifying concept indeed.

"You're not a monster Viral... And neither am I. We're Beastman..." Yumi mumbled, frowning deeper as she fought with that concept. She wasn't a human anymore, no matter how she might think of herself as such. She was a Beastman now, the same thing that Viral was. Not that there was anything inherently wrong with being a Beastman, she had even mused over the very thing once or twice before. Being forcibly changed into one however was much too sudden, and the realizations that her life was now different as a result hit her hard. "If I thought I was a monster then I'd think you were one too, because we're the same now. Can we please just drop this though...? I don't want to talk about it..." Were Vegeta here he'd be very much trying to get them to talk it out. She could almost hear him chiding that keeping it in was only going to make things worse, and it was a good thing he was absent, otherwise she was liable to smack him silly for saying that.

Takeshi hadn't seen mountains either, Shu wasn't alone there. According to this alien however there were some near where they landed, only off in the other direction. While they could certainly go travel back it seemed a little redundant, going all the way there only to return here. So he figured that Viral and Yumi may want a little bit of action. Viral had been complaining about exploring this world anyways, so a battle should be just the thing to brighten up his day. The call went through instantaneously, and on the other hand was a hardly thrilled sounding Beastman. "Just bear with me, because this is going to sound kind of nuts. We found some of the natives here, a bunch of armadillo looking people. And turns out that they're worshiping some kind of god here, and the thing doesn't sound super friendly. We were going to go see it at first to show we can be trusted, some trial or something probably. But now we might be fighting whatever it is, save some kid from being sacrificed. They say its back in your direction, the mountain range that is, and we're kind of far off here. So... If you two are up to it maybe you want to go look into this? It's bound to be interesting at least."

[Mogtaki]

Viral was pretty annoyed right now, his mind hardly finding it easy to settle on the thought that he wasn’t a monster when the thought of becoming something like him freaked her out. If there was nothing to be freaked out about when it came to something like that then he wouldn’t be regarded as a monster. She wouldn’t have what he can do, her modifications wouldn’t be able to go that far in just a few days. It took a long time to get his body stable with such a devastating power inside him, it wouldn’t be possible to give her the exact same function in such a short time. Such a thing would make his existence meaningless if it could be recreated so easily with a more updated ‘model’ as it were, he wouldn’t have much of an existence anymore.

Looking to Yumi as she grumbled at what he said before, he huffed and turned away from her, feeling fair annoyed at her concepts. If she didn’t want to talk about it and yet tried to say it wasn’t a bad thing then all she was doing was contradicting herself, especially when it was freaking her out so much. If it wasn’t such a bad thing to be like him then she’d have no reason to freak out, “Howabout you don’t tell me what to do”, he told Yumi, giving her a quick look before his attention went back to the scouter. There was something about a god and sacrificing, knowing all too well that a god would never exist on a planet like this. He would think they were a powerful creature, more so than the primitive natives here so they would naturally be seen as gods. Letting out a grumble, he looked off towards the horizon, seeing the mountains, “Fine. I’ll check it out and get rid of it”.

Shutting off the connection for now he gave Yumi a quick glance, narrowing his gaze before he looked away again off towards the mountains, “Go back to the ship, I’ll deal with the problem”, he spoke, rubbing his wound, “You don’t need to be getting hurt, so leave it to me, will you? You’ll be better off not being near me if you don’t want to get freaked out any more or questioning your existence…” As soon as he finished talking he immediately began to run towards the mountains, not wanting to keep going with the discussion. She would only end up hurting herself around him if he was going to have to fight against a god-like entity who demanded sacrifices of all things.

Shu stared at Takeshi as he spoke through the scouter, tilting his head a little before he smiled. If all went to plan then Viral or Yumi would take care of it and the kid would be saved from whatever a sacrifice was. Looking to T’charrl a moment, he looked away again before he pressed his fingers together, shifting his foot a little, “I hope this goes okay…I mean, I don’t want anyone getting hurt and I don’t want this to happen more when we leave the planet. If they can’t be killed, how do we get rid of them…? Are they one of those monsters, maybe?”

[GambolMuse]

"Right... Sorry Viral." It was safe to say that this whole endeavor had backfired, none of it was panning out as Yumi had hoped. Well it couldn't be said she hadn't tried, albeit trying had not given her anything in the end. Fair dejected at this point she hardly had the desire to argue any longer, letting it lie where it was. No doubt she'd try again at a later date if need be, she wasn't ready to well completely abandon Viral just yet. But she recognized that pushing things now was only going to escalate and ultimately make matters worse. Listening to the conversation she wasn't entirely sure if this was a good idea or not, going after a supposed god. Viral hadn't completely healed, and was not exactly in the best state of mind. Coupled with her questionable strength and it seemed like an awful poor idea to have them go into battle, together too no less. They weren't quite seeing eye to eye at the moment, teamwork might be a little lacking. They had been asked however, and confident or not Yumi intended to go through with the request. If it met their goal then she'd be silly not to after all.

Viral on the other hand didn't quite agree with the plan. Rather than agree to the partnership he immediately told Yumi to go back and leave matters to him. Watching in silent surprise as he darted off she frowned deeply, balling her hands up into fists out of frustration. So she couldn't tell him what to do, but it was fair game when it came to her? Oh no, things didn't work that way. It was mutual or not at all as far as she was concerned. Watching her friend slowly distance himself further and further she opted to go behind his back, not allowing him to do this alone as he pleased. With an indignant huff she began to run after Viral, not quite trying to cover the distance but just to follow him. "I'm not a little girl, you can't just brush me off like that!" she called after him, staring at his back. "And I already said you won't scare me away, so I'm coming! Deal with it!" Between the two of them they would have a better chance, that couldn't be debated.

Takeshi felt a little nervous once Viral was gone, knowing he'd just set something in motion that could well end up poorly for their friends. There was no way of knowing exactly what they were going to fight, and with this so called 'god' apparently being fair strong he couldn't help but worry for the well being of the others. Shu shared his concerns and voiced them readily, bringing up more questions as well. "I don't know... I really don't. And if they are one of those things from before then I'm not sure they'll be able to handle it alone." This was bad, they really should have looked into it more before diving right in. Running a hand through his hair nervously Takeshi looked at his brother, forcing a small smile. "But... It's Viral and Yumi right? They can take care of themselves, so we shouldn't worry so much. They'll be fine." If only he felt as confident as he was letting on.

"Friends brave, courage lots. If strong be okay. God maybe not die, but maybe god trap? Bury, or put in hole. Prison god, if not kill. Maybe?" From what they had seen of their deity it was indeed strong and imposing, but they figured it could be caged just as any other being. Granted a simple hole or barred room wasn't going to likely cut it, but if these people were resourceful then they would find a way. Wringing his claws together nervously the father went over to his wife and son, standing beside them and looking up at the trio gratefully. "Food? Hunger? We feed, least can do. Like berries? Roots? Sweet and spicy, good. Try?"

[Mogtaki]

Viral didn’t want Yumi there for a number of reasons, especially when a lot of those meant she was going to end up getting hurt because of him and end up in a worse state than she’s been before with his way of fighting. He was aware with how much he hit her and how hard he was throwing those punches at her, seeing as how she had to go and use other measures to try and beat him down that didn’t consist of only her fists. If they were going up against a monster then he would need to concentrate on taking it out quickly, not with the problem of having to watch out for Yumi and make sure she wasn’t going to get in the way of things; he was the one with the blade, not her.

Running straight for the mountains in search of the so-called god, he looked back when she called out to him, seeing her running on after him. Letting out an annoyed groan he shook his head, letting out a huff, “Hmph! Don’t be stupid! Do you even know what you’re getting yourself into by fighting with me??” he spoke, running faster yet, “You’re getting just as bad as those damn Saiyans with that pride of yours!” He couldn’t afford to let Yumi get hurt, she was too important to everyone and it would only make things worse if she came back hurt because of him or not come back at all. He was pretty annoyed by her stubbornness, trying to concentrate on outrunning her first rather than talk her out of it; if he was able to escape her just through running, then maybe she’d get fed up and turn around.

Shu stared up at Takeshi as he spoke, giving a little nod before letting out a sigh, looking away again. While he did have a lot of belief in Viral and Yumi, he just hoped they’d be okay if the creature was really going to be as strong as these ones made it out to be. He didn’t want them getting hurt and they were awfully far away if they were going to get in trouble, he didn’t even know if they’d be fast enough to fly over there and help them just in time, “I-I guess so, I hope they’ll be alright”, he spoke, lowering his head a little before his attention went straight to the native instead. They seemed confident in the others too, despite never meeting them as well. Smiling a little, he tilted his head as the father moved back to his family, giving a quick nod at the sound of food, “Oooohh food! Yes! I like berries! I like sweet!” he spoke, only to look up to Takeshi confused, “What is ‘roots’? What’s spicy like?”

T’charrl wasn’t sure what to make of any of this, seeing as how he was fairly new to this whole adventuring in different worlds and new species. He really did hope he wasn’t insulting any of them by acting the way he did and keeping away from all of them, just incase his size was a little imposing. Hearing about the others going off to fight a god-like creature was a little worrying too, especially with this feeling in his chest not indicating everything was going well. He felt nervous, his mind unable to settle on one thing just now as everything the natives said went straight over his head as he slowly looked around instead.

[GambolMuse]

In spite of clearly disobeying Viral she was determined to come along and help fight. Dangerous or not she couldn't well in good conscience let him go alone, she'd never forgive herself if he ended up hurt. He took notice of her approach fair quickly, instantly trying to dissuade her in his own little way. Not that it was going to have any effect, her mind was made up. "I don't know what I'm getting into, and neither do you! But I do know we're both better off with someone as back up!" This wasn't up for debate, they were doing this together like it or not. Normally quite accommodating towards Viral this would be one of the few times she refused to bend for him. The comparison to the Saiyans drew a bit of amusement from her, as well a bit of anger. "Those damn Saiyans are our friends you know! And you've got pride too, so don't act like you're better than them!" Yumi sped up her run to try and catch up to Viral, determined to get there at the same time he did. "Instead of arguing how about we figure out what we're doing, how's that sound?"

Viral and Yumi's well being was in their own hands now, there was no helping it at this point. It would be fair easy enough to call them off still, but knowing them they weren't going to be deterred once given a task. Takeshi rubbed at his temples to try and relieve some stress, closing his eyes and sighing softly. They're going to be fine, he told himself, nothing they can't handle. The discussion was taken away from the situation at hand with the mention of food, rather quickly exciting Shu as a result. While he wasn't overly thrilled at the idea of more fruit the older boy was more than happy to indulge his brother. If nothing else it gave them something to relieve a little stress. "Roots are the part of the plant that is underground Shu. They help feed the plant by sucking up water and nutrients," Takeshi explained, smiling a bit. That much he knew. "And spicy is... Well it's like hot food, but its not warm hot... You know, like fire is. It's... Er... Try some, you'll find out."

The father alien was happy that the visitors accepted their offerings, feeling indebted for their trying to save his son. It was the very least that could be done after all, and truth be told they did have excess food. Looking over to his wife he gestured for her to grab some of their haul, keeping his child right at his side. Meanwhile she went over to the tall grass again, disappearing into the thickets for a moment before returning, dragging behind her a wheel-less cart with a modest pile of goodies stacked up inside. Setting it down between her family and the aliens she bowed her head politely, looking up with a pleased smile. "Eat, please. Good, yummy food. Take what like."

Takeshi wasn't exactly enamored with the selection they had been given, but Shu was no doubt ecstatic. Plenty of varieties of fruits were piled up on one another, an assortment of small berries and even a few larger, apple sized fruits as well. In the mix he saw the roots the aliens had been talking about, a little off-put at how dirty they still were. Still, it did smell nice, and he hadn't had anything since breakfast about two hours ago so his stomach was asking for a snack. Shrugging off his trepidation he leaned down, snatching up one of the roots and turning it over in his hands carefully. After meticulously brushing a little dirt off he gave it a good sniffing, pleased to find it smelled a bit like ginger. Giving it as best a cleaning as he could then he broke off a bit of the root, again giving it a look over. Seeing nothing inherently wrong with the item he gave it a small nibble just to get an idea of the flavor. Amazingly it even tasted like ginger, candied ginger at that, sweet and spicy at the same time. Excited he broke off another piece, popping it into his mouth cheerfully. Then breaking off two more he offered a piece to both Shu and T'charrl to try, still chewing on his own. "It's good, want some?"

[Mogtaki]

Viral gave one look back at her, seeing her still following and trying her best to keep up. He didn’t need her carrying on with this little mission of hers, she would had been better off back at the ship or helping the other lot considering she was able enough to fly on back like she can the entire time. He wouldn’t know how to handle looking after Yumi and fighting if it really was going to be one of those creatures from the ship, she didn’t even have a weapon to combat it, “At least I know what to expect! Just what could you do against it? Cat-scratch it??” he questioned her, not watching where he was going for a second, “You may be able to blast things part with your Ki, but that won’t work here!”

Looking back to where he was going, he soon screeched to a halt, grinding a fair distance before coming to a stop with a fair cloud of dirt rising up. He stopped just at the face of a cliff, the mountains still standing strong but a cliff leading down into the valley stopped him from going any further. It was pretty high and the valley was wide and quiet below; of course, all that meant he had to get down there first. Letting out a groan, he looked to Yumi with annoyance, “Do you think I care that they are?? They’re still Saiyans and they’re stubborn and full of pride! My pride is not as great as theirs…or yours for that matter!” he spoke, looking away from her, “I know what I’m doing, the question is what are you doing and how do you think you’ll combat this ‘god’ if it turns out to be just one of those creatures?”

Shu didn’t fully understand the roots concept, but he would have to pull up plants and see just what they were to understand the whole concept they carried. Smiling a little bit, he nodded quickly, willing to try anything, “Okay! I’ll try it! I will!” he bounced happily, giving his head a little rub in response. It was odd for the natives to suddenly become accepting of him, but he wasn’t going to question it since they were doing something nice for them and saving their son was always a plus. Looking around for a moment, he soon squeaked when he noticed the other pulling along a strange device, giving it a good staring at before he even noticed there was food all piled up inside.

Watching as the native brought over the food, Shu went down on his knuckles again, scooting along the ground before finally sitting down with his brother. He didn’t know what these things were at all, but he was willing to try them for himself eventually. Giving a little sniff, he watched as Takeshi picked one of the roots up, tilting his head as he decided to give it a taste. Curious to what it was like, he sniffed a little closer to Takeshi only to back off when he broke it up and held out a piece for him and T’charrl. Looking to him curiously for a moment, he soon snatched the root out of his hand, sniffing it curiously before giving it a nibble. He didn’t know what to make of it, but tasting it the root definitely did seem to have a nice taste to it, only feeling confused to what that tingly feeling in his mouth was.

T’charrl was feeling pretty distracted, but when everyone began to settle he slowly prompted himself down, folding his legs up to keep them out of the way. He wasn’t even sure whether he was welcome with them, especially considering how different he was compared to Takeshi and Shu. With his antennae twitching and waving around in the air, he gasped a little when Takeshi held up a piece of root for him to try. Cautiously taking the root, he gave it a quick analysis with his antennae before crunching into it. He didn’t know what to think of it, but he was soon awash with excitement upon realisation over what he just chewed on, “Ohhhh, my first alien food…” he muttered, staring at it for a moment, “And you’re all perfectly okay with eating it too? No worries over what it might do to you at all? There must be tons more like this on other worlds…”

[GambolMuse]

"Hey! My little cat scratch nearly worked against you didn't it? Who says I won't be able to hurt this creature?" Yumi asked, smiling confidently as she ran alongside Viral now. "Besides, I can still punch the crap out of it. Just because I can't break the skin doesn't mean I can't hurt it. After all I'm guessing my hits didn't exactly tickle you did they?" She wasn't on par with Viral in terms of strength, yet she was no pushover either. She was fair confident in her own abilities to be able to fight alongside her friend, albeit there was still plenty of nerves. The renewal of her mysterious changes had left her with a great many questions and even some doubts, but she refused to let those keep her back. As she had told herself she was not going to be deterred, she was absolutely going to be part of this.

Yumi truly didn't understand Viral's aversion to the Saiyans. Sure they had met some bad ones along the way but their friends were nothing like those creeps. Vegeta was basically family to both of them and he was a half-Saiyan, as were Shu and Takeshi. The latter could be bothersome sometimes but he was a good kid, she honestly didn't have any real problem with him. Shu certainly not, no one could actually hate him. She may be a little biased on the matter, but she held no resentment towards Choi, or his twin Kai either. Even Kabocha was nowhere near as bothersome as she'd initially pinned him as, albeit he was the new outlet for her annoyance. Overall they were just... Kids. Prideful yes, arrogant maybe, eccentric perhaps, but not bad. She just wished that Viral wasn't grouping the rest up with their few lousy encounters, or making a bigger deal out of them then it really was. He was so critical sometimes, she really wish he'd change that.

As Viral skidded to a stop so did Yumi, and she took a moment to look out over the valley below. That was going to be quite the walk to the mountains, they were some distance away even now. Perhaps they didn't have to walk though, maybe they could make use of a shortcut of sorts. However, her proposal was going to wait a second, there was more arguing to be done. "I'll find a way to make it work, don't worry about me so much. I'm not a useless girl you know, I happen to know how to fight." How unfair, Viral was treating things as though she was just a liability. Looking over at him sternly she folded her arms across her chest, stepping closer and looking up at him in question. "Just why are you so not confident in me now? You've never thought I couldn't fight before, and you've never treated me like I was incapable. So what gives? Do you really just not want me here, is that it?"

The root really wasn't half bad, even if ginger had never exactly been among the top favorite foods. Takeshi liked it well enough regardless, Shu did too by the looks of it. The root was so tiny that even as a whole it was barely more than a morsel, yet not wanting to seem rude the Saiyan didn't say a word on the matter. After splitting the remnants up with the others he finished off what he had, glad to at least have gotten something into his stomach. Perhaps if these people were generous enough they could show where they found their food and the three of them might help themselves. Then again, considering their appetites it might not be such a stellar idea. Looking over at T'charrl he smiled at his friend's indecisiveness, nodding for him to go ahead and eat. "Of course, why wouldn't we be? And we've got pretty strong stomachs, it takes something really nasty to sit wrong with us. Just try a bit, and if you don't like it then you don't have to eat it." That was something Takeshi had never actually put a ton of thought into. He'd eaten goodness knows how many foods from different worlds, never once thinking how it may potentially sit with him. "And yeah, there's loads of different kinds of food. Hope you've got an open mind."

[Mogtaki]

Viral didn’t know where to go from here, he had managed to reach the mountains but they looked fair empty. The valley was deep and the mountains high, but it was as if nothing grew there or wanted to live there. There was only a feeling of loss and a little bit of fear coming from this place, his mood dropping pretty quickly. Looking to Yumi, it didn’t appear to be doing anything for her; they were just mountains to her. Letting out a groan as he looked away again, he backed off from the cliff face and shook his head, “That idiot Saiyan tried punching that creature and nearly broke his hand! It did nothing to it”, he spoke coldly, staring down into the valley, “Maybe I should let you punch one…just to see your reaction to it…”

Feeling lost to what route he should take, he slowly looked down and around to try and suss out his situation, just trying to make sense to what he was going to do and how he’d do it. Yumi had no problem, she could fly so he didn’t know why she was bothering to run and follow him like this. It was quite aggravating, really, as if she was trying to show off that she was just as good as he was. Feeling the frustration of the moment building, he growled lowly as Yumi continued to question his commands before he turned around to face her, “Yes! I don’t want you here! Is that so hard to understand??” he snapped, backing off a few steps, “I am perfectly capable of fighting alone, I don’t need someone watching over me all the time! It doesn’t matter if you know how to fight, you already showed you know how to fight…but instead, when I tell you to go back you instead stubbornly refusing to do so! I can fight by myself…or are you afraid of losing me on this planet because you can’t track my energy? Do you not trust that I would go back, or something??”

T’charrl felt all sorts of giddy over the thought, finding it pretty fun trying to think through and understand all the different flavours he might come across and all the different textures. He didn’t know what he liked and didn’t like with this body of his, but he was willing to try and find out as many as possible before he returned home again. Despite this desire, he did find it a little hard eating the root, typically because it was pretty solid and pretty rough compared to what he was used to before. Deciding to eat it all anyway, he reached forward to take some of the berries, holding them in his hand as he rolled them around curiously, “It would feel rude to not eat it…besides, I want to try and see what I can find and what might be good for me, especially when my nutritional needs changed as well with this, uhh…form of mine…”

That was definitely one thing about him and what he was nervous about, especially when it meant he now wanted to eat things that were generally out of his diet before. The meat eating was definitely new, even if some of his species ate some meat sometimes he certainly wasn’t used to it or the high energy that came with it. He really hoped he’d be able to sort his diet soon, especially before his cravings got so bad that it would change his personality, “I definitely wonder how strong my stomach is, I mean…not all planets can have fruit, right? It must be just pure luck that there’s some here that’s edible, probably a good thing for your brother too since he ate a lot of it when we had that big dinner…”

[GambolMuse]

"So I might get hurt, that's a given if I'm fighting! And if it's that tough to hit I'll be more careful, that's all." If this creature's hide was going to be that tough then Viral was going to have trouble too. Of course he had his cleaver, but were he to lose it he'd be just as powerless as she was. "If you need that weapon to even hurt it then what happens if you misplace it?" Yumi asked, voicing her concerns. "Unless you're going to scratch it apart too then you're going to be in the same boat as I am. So just let me come along, it's safer that way. Strength in numbers right?" Even if all she did was support during the fight it was still a better situation than Viral going it totally alone. She couldn't let him have it his way, no matter how angry it was making him. Now that they had come to a stop at the valley they had a moment to think things through a bit, or Yumi figured they might. Still sticking to his guns and not wanting her to come along she finally had to voice her thoughts, unable to just sit by and idly take it. Perhaps a bit of a mistake.

It had been said already, but not quite to the degree that Viral had emphasized it now. Yumi wanted to think her presence was doing him some good, and that maybe it would be a little more welcome if she just explained her reasoning for coming along. The Beastman wanted absolutely no part of her regardless of how she might try to say otherwise, that much was painfully obvious now. Did he think that she assumed he was weak? Or incompetent? She wasn't coming along to just watch over him, not entirely anyways. Yes, in part she wanted to come just to make sure he was safe, but she was also keen to fight as well, however nervous she may be. "Yes, I am afraid of losing you!" Yumi shouted, closing her eyes and balling her hands into fists once more. Giving her hands a frustrated toss into the air she looked at Viral again, her hands going to her head where she held it fitfully. "I don't want you to go alone because I'm afraid something might happen. We don't know what this thing is, or what it can do. If you died and I wasn't there to help then I could never live with myself. I would rather die myself than be here without you! So please, just let me come along! I won't even fight if you don't want me to, but just let me be there so I know you're okay, please?"

"Look at it this way, most of what we've found so far tastes like one thing or another that we have back on Earth. There has been a few things I couldn't say what it tasted like, but overall it's been surprising how much familiar foods there are. So... There's going to be a ton of things to try, though not all of them are going to be all that alien." Maybe it was just his imagination telling him the foods were similar. It had been quite some time since he had been to Earth anyways, for all he knew he could be utterly wrong. Heck, the foods on their home world might taste like these other planets' foods, not the other way around. Takeshi hardly cared however it was, he enjoyed what they were finding well enough. Not very ecstatic for another fruit meal however he left his noshing at the root for now, figuring there would be more back at the ship later for a proper dinner. Leaving all the fruit to Shu and T'charrl be backed off a bit, opting instead to poke around the den's entrance a bit out of curiosity. "Only one way to find out, you'll have to eat a ton of stuff. And yeah, definitely lucky we found some fruit here, otherwise Shu would be sulky for the whole trip," he said, looking over to his brother with a teasing smirk. "You really love your fruit, don't you?"

The father silently admitted he may have been wrong about these visitors. Granted they hadn't truly done anything yet to earn his total trust, but their vow alone to keep his child safe certainly meant something. Now it was going to be a matter of waiting to see how their other friends handled the god, whether or not they were going to be victorious. Honestly the not knowing was likely going to be the worst part of this whole ordeal. Behind them the grass rustled lightly, and picking up a familiar scent he turned around to spot one of their fellow natives emerging, fair winded as though he had been running. He looked fair similar to the father, though a little bit of a slimmer build and a bit of curious markings painted on his face and shell. "Yeva, what? Tired, why? Run here?"

Yeva was busy trying to catch his breath, leaning over and resting his claws on his legs tiredly. "The... The Dural... Village, we see, coming now. For son, two, can't stop. Must hide inside, tell them he gone." The Dural were the underlings of the god, his minions as they were. Often times they were laborers, aiding the people in their building efforts. The creatures were even known to protect the natives from time to time, showing some benevolence like their god. However, they were also dangerous when denied what they wanted, such as collecting the sacrifice. People had been killed by the Dural for insolence, and they would be no exception.

"Dural...? Now? Early... Not yet. Days still, too soon." This was troubling, very troubling. Looking over at the trio the father walked forward, again bowing his head slightly for respect before speaking again. "Dural take son, they bring him to god. Soon, not know why they come. Should be days, not now, confused. Can protect him, yes? Dangerous, but please, we can't. Easy battle, if safe." If these three decided all of a sudden to default on their promise then Tesuga was as good as dead, there would be little helping him. Even if the god was slain then the Dural would remain, and they could certainly do as they desired if their master was gone, which was a terrifying prospect.

[Mogtaki]

Yumi was just getting annoying now with her stubbornness, as if she’d end up being able to hurt the thing with punches and kicks if she was to try and fight. He wasn’t completely positive what he was supposed to do if she ended up going in and ending up getting hurt because of it. He wasn’t anyone who could do first aid on the spot and none of them had anything to treat injuries. Grunting at the mention of his own sword going missing, he immediately dismissed that idea with a shake of his head, “I won’t lose it! Even if I did drop it, I have ways to get it back and ways to get around it. There may be strength in numbers, but in this case it only brings in a crowd…”

Viral couldn’t tell her enough, but she was just refusing to take in any of his words and staying put. It was very annoying, nobody would ever listen to him anymore any it frustrated him to no end. He couldn’t take this much annoyance. Letting out a groan, he looked away in anger once more before Yumi suddenly shouted at him, turning to face her. That was the one thing he didn’t want people to be, especially when dying in battle sounded a lot more pleasing than what he had to put up with for the rest of his life. He was constantly going to be the last one left, so what was the point on carrying on constantly as he was when it could all be over and done with eventually.

Watching Yumi for a moment as she made a massive fuss over his desire to fight alone, spilling her heart out over things he felt he had heard many times before. Letting out a sigh, he shook his head, moving back a little, “So you would rather watch me die instead? How is that a good alternative?” he spoke, looking down off the face of the cliff, “How would that feel? Watching someone you know die right in front of you when you could do nothing to stop it? I already know how it feels, why should I let you live through the exact same trauma?? Did you ever not stop to think I might want to die in battle? It’s like a dream for me…you wouldn’t understand…”

T’charrl listened to Takeshi, giving his food a quick look before he sighed, scratching his cheek a little, “That sounds so odd, yet…it must be nice to have that familiarity wherever you travel, even if it is just tastes”. He would be pretty happy if he could find food that tasted like his own planet’s food out on other worlds, it would make eating a lot easier for him when trying out new flavours. Giving himself a moment to eat up his food and get his fill, he let out a sigh as he momentarily backed off, his antennae twitching. He didn’t know whether he should be concerned with what he was feeling, especially when the others continued to talk amongst each other like there was nothing wrong.

Shu chomped down on the food quite happily, giving his fingers a lick when Takeshi talked about him, his eyes looking to him curiously. He really did like fruit and would be sad if he didn’t get any for a while, just like he was really depressed when he was kept in captivity, “Ooh! That’s because I grew up with it! Oooohhh…I would really miss it if I couldn’t have it again…like that whole year passed”, he spoke, squeaking a little before standing up, “I wish to taste as many fruit as I can! I hope I don’t get poisoned by some…that would be really bad…”

Feeling pretty satisfied with the food he got while not wanting to take too much of it away from the natives, he let out a sigh before letting out a squeak, looking to the rustling of the grass only to see another native come out. Tilting his head as they spoke amongst each other, he tilted his head a little at what was being discussed before letting out a squeak, moving quickly over to Takeshi’s side, “Dural?? They the bad guys…?”

[GambolMuse]

Maybe Yumi was being a touch irrational. Viral clung onto his cleaver for dear life most of the time, the notion of him ever misplacing it was a tad farfetched. Still, she couldn't help but try to find reason for her to come along, grasping at straws now for reasons. All of her pleading was proving to be for naught, yet she wasn't just going to back down, she wasn't able to. The idea of Viral going off on his own and dying terrified her, she refused to have it be that way. Why was he so stubborn in allowing her to come along? She ultimately could do so anyways against his wishes, but it just wasn't the same if she was forcing herself.

"Well maybe I don't want you to die!" Yumi said loudly, staring up at Viral tearfully. What did she have to say to get her message through? Rubbing at her eyes with the heels of her hands she began to tremble a bit, lowering her head to try and hide her sad expression. Twice in just the last few moments, she was going soft. "It's selfish, I know... But I don't want you to die! I want you to live, and be with us, and be happy!" Looking up again she bit her lip, sniffling a little as she brushed away a few tears once more. "You can't die... I don't want to be alive without you. If it killed you... Well... Then it'll kill me too! Because I refuse to be alive when you're not!" Overwhelmed by her own emotions Yumi stepped forward, latching onto Viral in spite of his issues with personal space and hiding her face into his shoulder yet again. "Please just let me come. We... We can help eachother out... N-no one has to die. Please Viral... I'm scared what might happen if you go...!"

They had lucked out again as far as planets went, what with Shu and T'charrl both getting some fruit to eat. Takeshi couldn't imagine his brother without fruit, it was like fish without water, one needed the other. He'd seen it in part before with the year of servitude, and while a lack of fruit was hardly the only problem it had certainly had an effect on the young Saiyan. Every time he got a hold of some goodies now he'd light up like a Christmas tree before chowing down, clearly ecstatic to have some again. It was nice, seeing Shu so happy. When Takeshi looked over his sibling didn't look quite as happy as he'd imagined, instead puzzled that he was looking fair nervous. Noting the shuffling in the grass then he turned immediately towards the noise, readying himself for a possible predator. Nope, just another one of the aliens.

Quite a bit of information was being shared with the group, least of which was the mention of "Dural". Some creature on the planet, and apparently the henchmen of this god of theirs. Immediately Takeshi wondered if they might possibly be related to the thing they had encountered on the ship. Whatever they were, these Dural didn't sound very nice. At the very least they worked for the god, meaning they were probably not going to be reasoned with or take no for an answer when they showed up. "Sounds like they are Shu... I hope you're ready to fight then. We're going to have to keep your new friend safe."

[Mogtaki]

Viral couldn’t understand why Yumi was so defiant of him and the levels of frustration were reaching beyond measurement with him. He was completely stressed out at this point and just wanted to shut her out at this point and continue on, but he couldn’t. He was left there standing around instead of doing anything, feeling completely stuck to what he was supposed to do or say. All she ever got was upset whenever he expressed his feelings and desires, no matter how self-destructive they were. Getting his way was never going to be a thing for him, not with Yumi and Vegeta always standing in the way of everything. They shouldn’t had been too surprised that he wanted to fight and die on his own terms.

Feeling like he would be better off going his own way, he looked to her as she in turn began to get upset over what he was saying. He was not happy with this, he had hoped that she would back off and leave him be before things got even more heated, only instead getting upset over his words. He wasn’t used to this, he shouldn’t be here causing this to happen. He had nowhere to go, she had cornered him with this confrontation. Slowly moving his foot backwards he glanced behind him, shaking his head, “You…shouldn’t wish to die because of me, that’s illogical!” he spoke only for Yumi to latch onto him despite everything. He couldn’t understand, she shouldn’t feel this way about him especially when dying was just another part of life, “It’s pathetic to die just because another has…and you have your whole life ahead of you! Why would you want to throw it all away over me…”

While Shu was fairly nice and filled up with food, he was still worried to his stomach over the natives they had just met just incase something might happen and end up with the kid being taken away by the creatures. This whole thing made it sound as if the creatures weren’t simple animals after all, that they had a whole organisation and were determined to do what they could to get sacrifices. Looking up to Takeshi as he tried to assess the situation himself, he frowned a little as he nodded, looking back towards the cave system, “Ooohhh, if there’s going to be many, how do we fight and keep my new friend safe?” he asked, pressing his fingers together, “I’m worried for them incase one sneaks in and takes him…”

T’charrl wasn’t sure what to make of the situation, but it sounded as if he had a fight on his hands soon and had to get ready for it fairly soon. Looking between the two before towards the aliens, he frowned a little before looking to the cave system. They would probably need protecting themselves and he couldn’t fit into the cave and Takeshi might have a problem doing so too. Slowly rubbing his neck, he stepped forward slightly, “Uhh, m-maybe I should help fight them and Shu protects them in the caves…?” he spoke up before looking away again, “I mean…even though I’m probably not ready, at least I’ll get some practice if the natives are somewhere I can’t get to, right?"