Mizos

Dragon Ball Z.5: A Nexus of Warriors { Angel & Mizos }

Goku nodded at her understanding, it was hard to imagine 21 turning against them and this Yuvo person seemed to know about them and their abilities. Bringing up Dr. Gero only made him all the more concerned, Yuvo didn't seem like the good androids, or whatever he was. Goku decided to inform the others about this just in case Yuvo approached them as well, though it seemed he was focused on the three of them he probably knew of the others and he seemed to be using 21, he doubted he'd stop there if given the chance.
"I'll take the next watch so train as long as much as you want, Vegeta's taking the first one. Probably his way of apologizing for what happened a few days ago."
He had offered to go first but Vegeta was already sitting in the chair and staring at 21, they didn't expect her to wake up until tomorrow but they stayed near her just in case.

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The following afternoon Ryo stood at the front desk staring at the female clerk, she seemed a tad bothered by the fact someone in costume was here and Ryo had come as Kitsu since that was how he was known. Soru was also working the gardens so he couldn't risk him seeing his face as well. The woman at the desk adjusted some of the things on her desk before folding her hands together, judging by the kind of guests Bulma got this wasn't a rare occurrence, but it seemed the appearance of costume visitors made her job harder.
"Is there something I can help you with?"
Ryo raised a sleeve and pointed inside causing the woman to glance back before looking back at Ryo who lowered his sleeve.
"Um...if you don't have an appointment-"
"Let them in."
The woman turned before jumping a little seeing Vegeta standing nearby, he glared at Kitsu before turning and walking inside.
"They have business here."
Ryo let out a mental sigh glad he showed up before things got awkward, but he still gave off that fierce aura making it hard to follow him.
"Man...the stares I got coming here in this outfit...that woman didn't have to shield her child from me."
Vegeta led Ryo into the room where 21 was waiting, she was awake and staring at the window in silence. It seemed she had woken up earlier that morning, but she refused to talk only saying she would say something when 'everyone' was here, which seemed to mean Kitsu as well.
This was confirmed by her glancing at Ryo when he entered the room and took a seat near the wall.
"...I'm sure you have questions...I'm...not really sure where to start," 21 said.

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Ryo took a look around capsule corp surprised he was actually getting to see the inside, he knew Soru would be immensely jealous if he told him, but there was no way he could tell him why he got to see the inside. He held in a chuckle at the idea that he was a gardner here yesterday. Though he still couldn't believe he was meeting Goku and Vegeta, and Kinoko who seemed to be their sister. From what he could tell the three were close, especially considering Vegeta's response the other day. Speaking of that man he seemed to be the 'husband' Soru was talking about, and it seemed Goku had explained the circumstances to Bulma including why he was there since the camera's were destroyed by that point. Ryo didn't intend on sticking around too long though, this Yuvo guy seemed intent on killing these three and judging from his other actions he didn't seem to care too much about who was in the way of that.

Ryo was getting read to leave when he noticed Kinoko approaching, it was hard to imagine they were punching each other mere moments before, but the occasional twinge of pain reminded him it was quite real. When she thanked him he tilted his head at her, he...wasn't expecting that, though he waved a sleeve in front of his face to indicate that it was fine. Turning his back to her he raised a sleeve before going to leave.
"Leaving already?"
The voice caused him to turn as Goku walked up to Kinoko resting a hand on her shoulder.
"You're welcome to stay if you'd like, it is pretty late."
Ryo shook his head and Goku smiled before offering a small shrug.
"Could I ask you to come back tomorrow though? Sometime in the afternoon. 21 will probably be awake then and I'd like you to hear what she has to say too."
Ryo stared at Goku at this before holding his sleeves up, it took Goku a moment to realize Ryo was asking why he was needed.
"Well you saved her didn't you?"
Ryo flinched a bit at that and moved his hands into his sleeves turning his face away from them.
"Haha I had a feeling, I don't know how but seeing the smile on 21's face it seems that's what she wanted. So I definitely want you back here tomorrow. You deserve to hear what's going on...that Yuvo guy might return too and if he finds you he might come after you. It'd be better if you had someone to watch your back when that happens right?"
Ryo held up a hand at that and walked away from the two, he didn't offer any promises only a wave as he quickly made his way out of the building.
"What that really necessary?" Vegeta said walking up to the two.
"I think so...they don't seem like a bad person," Goku said. "Besides I want to know more about that Kitsu person, they took one of Kinoko's strikes and are walking around like nothing happened. They gotta be strong."

[Mizos]The Tides of The Past[SanaChan][Take Two]

Alari was silent for a moment staring at the others in front of him, he watched Larel who continued to glare at him but gripped his pants trying to hide his curiosity. After everything that happened they deserved answers, especially after what Kaori did and in the end Larel probably knew one of the secrets Alari kept from him. He shut his eyes realizing he was just making up excuses, he wanted to share this with Larel for a while now, and with Hotaru and Mera being an important part of his life, he felt a need to let them know too. With how things had changed perhaps this time would be a little different, but he remembered what happened when he got his hopes up, it generally ended the same way.
"...All right..." Alari said. "Please pay close attention, you can come out."
Something ran around in Alari's clothing and in the next moment the little fox named Jin popped out, he rubbed his head head against Alari's cheek causing him to pet him before he whispered something to the little creature.
Jin nodded and leapt off Alari's shoulder before his eyes glowed, in the next moment red energy flowed off him before hovering above his body, Alari reached forward and turning the energy around let it form into a sort of circular shape.
"I figured it'd be easier to show then tell," Alari said closing his eyes.
A moment later images started to form in the circle, it was fuzzy at first as the memories came together but after a moment the scene became visible and it wasn't exactly a pretty one.

In the distance a large village was on aflame, screams echoed from the burning town and people ran screaming for an end as the flames consumed their bodies, corpses burned beyond recognition laid nearby enmass, and there were only two people not affected by the fire.
A child who looked an awful lot like Larel and a tall man with long silver hair fluttering behind him, he was covered in blood and he held a bloody sword in his hand as he stared at the flames. There was a cold expression on his face, and upon closer inspection he looked extremely similar to Alari
"...this is what happens when you get close Larel," the man said glancing at him. “They’re suffering is due to your own foolishness.”
The boy who was apparently Larel grit his teeth and glared at the man, he quickly ran towards him tears streaming down his face fists brought back but the man kicked him away with little difficult, the boy gritting his teeth as he hit the ground. He was covered in bruises showing this wasn’t the first time he had tried to fight back. The man shook his head and tossed something in front of Larel, hidden from view earlier. When Larel raised his head his heart sunk in his chest seeing the head of young girl resting in front of him.
"S-sis.......n...no...nononononono."
Larel shivered his hands reaching out towards her, only to pull them back seeing the horrified expression on his face.
"...Alari....why...she didn’t…she did nothing…" Larel said raising his head to him. "You...you bastard! I-I'll kill you!"
Alari sighed and slammed his foot onto the back of Larel's head forcing him back onto the ground when he tried to stand.
"You're not strong enough to kill me boy...and unfortunately I need you alive...so...if you want to kill me that badly...then get stronger. If you want to be allowed to pursue silly things like this...then kill me. Because I'm just going to keep taking away the things you love until you learn what your place is in this world."
Alari took his foot off Larel's head and walked past him ignoring the boy's whimpers as his hands closed into fists, blood running down his wrists as his nails dug into the skin.
"Hurry up I don't have all day," Alari said.
Larel shivered but climbed to his feet slowly, he looked back at the village of fire for a moment and then to the head at his feet.
"...I’m sorry..."
He mumbled the words before turning and following after Alari.
"I promise...I'll kill him...for all of this..."

Alari opened his eyes the image fading as Jin's eyes returned to normal, reaching over he ran his hands over the small bracelet on his wrist, he was silent for a moment his eyes focused on the floor. After a moment he opened his mouth and spoke.
"Your sister is dead Larel..." Alari said before looking at him. "I killed her."
It happened in the span of a moment Larel slammed Alari against the wall his blade against his throat, his eyes glowed a bright red and his breathing was heavy as darkness poured out of his being staring at this man. Unlike most times however Alari made no attempt to move or dodge, he just averted his gaze from Larel.
“You need to let her go,” Alari said staring at him. “Stop pursuing it.”
"Y-Y-" Larel tried to speak but he could feel Zenmaru slipping out of him.
He brought a hand to his head and released Alari before turning and running out of the door, moving away from the inn as fast as he could.
Alari sighed and touched his neck pulling it away seeing a bit of red, the blade had been pressed against his skin, at least hard enough to break it. Shaking his head Alari sat tailor style before looking over at Hotaru.
"...I'm sorry to ask Hotaru but could you retrieve him. He's going to need a friend in this moment..."
Alari still seemed to be keeping something to himself, it was hard for even him to hide it in his current state, but whatever it was he didn't seem keen on sharing it at the moment, he wasn't proud of what he just showed after all.
“That…went about as expected unfortunately.”

Dragon Ball Z.5: A Nexus of Warriors { Angel & Mizos }

21 remained silent at Kinoko's question, she clearly didn't want to fight either but that was hard to tell for Yuvo who was only staring at her back, she didn't back down however only digging in seeing her change into her Super Saiyan form. When Goku and Vegeta did the same she shut her eyes her nails digging into her skin at the sight. Yuvo grinned at this as his eyes let off a red glow, he held his arms out grinning as his green aura seemed to surround his body once more. Ryo watched this his eyes narrowing a bit before he looked back at the others. Goku and Vegeta rose into the air as 21 started to move forward when something appeared behind her. Ryo had dashed forward and raising his hand chopped 21 in the back of the neck. Her eyes widened as her Ki suddenly vanished and she fell to the ground unconscious.

"What?" Goku said looking down.
Yuvo looked down as well and seeing 21 unconscious sighed and crossed his arms, that was a bit of a problem. Not a large one but he didn't want any hindrances and his current plan involved her. If the information on them was off which judging by the power levels of the two Saiyan's in front of him it was, he was going to have to make adjustments. That and the masked one down there was unknown, but since she was strong enough to take down 21 out in a single move, she probably wasn't a pushover.
"How unfortunate...painful as it is I'll have to retreat, I'm not in the mood to deal with four of you."
"Who says you're going anywhere," Vegeta said flying towards him.
"Solar Flare!" Yuvo yelled bringing his hands to his face.
A blinding light hit everyone in the area and Yuvo's chuckling could be heard before his Ki vanished, when the blindness faded Yuvo was gone along with his energy.
"Damn it! That cheap little..."
Vegeta trailed off as Goku pat him and motioned down to the ground, the two landed next to Kinoko staring down at the unconscious 21. Goku looked up at Ryo whose attention move from her to them.
"I'm...not sure how to feel about you right now," Goku said. "Is there a reason you did that?"
Ryo offered a small nod though he wasn't sure how he was going to explain it without a voice. Turning he started walking away from the others not really about to get too into that.
"...I guess we take her back home," Goku said. "We can have her explain when she wakes up."
Ryo didn't make it a few feet before he realized something was wrapped around his leg, lookign down he noticed 21's tail was wrapped around his ankle, he blinked before reaching down and trying to yank it off with little effort.
"The hell is this made out of steel?!"
"I guess you're coming with us," Goku said looking at Ryo. "It's probably for the best, that Yuvo guy will probably come looking for you too."
"...how delightful."

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No blasts came from 21 but Yuvo didn't hesitate to react to Kinoko's sudden entrance, he stared at Kinoko as she entered the arena. He brought a hand to his chin at this and slowly descended until he was on the ground a few feet for them.
"I don't need you fighting my battles Kinoko," Vegeta said crossing his arms as Yuvo landed.
"Now Vegeta Kinoko's just showing she cares about us no need to be so harsh."
Goku's gaze went up to 21 who merely watched the scene silently, he couldn't sense any killing intent from her, she seemed more of a spectator than anything else, but judging by the fact her Ki was still surrounding her body she was expecting a fight. His attention moved back to Kitsu who still standing nearby though there still no presence of their energy.

"It matters none to me who I start with," Yuvo said with a small shrug. "Hurry and change so we can get started, I might accidentally end up killing you if you fight me like this."
"You have a high opinion of yourself," Vegeta said drawing Yuvo's attention. "If you can talk that big I expect you have something to show for it."
"...hmmm I suppose show you mine before you show yours," Yuvo said. "Fair enough, I'll let a little bit out so you know I'm only trying to keep it fair."
Yuvo raised his hand and closed it into a fist, a burst of power exploded from him obliterating the nearby stands and waiting room before he let his energy flow naturally out, the green aura created a vacuum of pressure around him as Yuvo stood still letting them read his power themselves. Vegeta's eyes narrowed a bit, and Goku's hands closed into fists. It seemed Yuvo wasn't lying, it felt like Goku's Super Saiyan 3 transformation, and this was apparently only a 'little' bit. Yuvo let the energy fade away away before motioning to them.
"There I was fair, now please hurry I have a schedule tea time," Yuvo said. "If the Princess wants to go first that's fine with me. I wanted to save Goku for last anyway. No offense Vegeta."
Vegeta started to step forward at Yuvo's remark when 21 landed next to Yuvo.
"You should fall back," she said looking at him. "I'll handle Kinoko."
Yuvo arched a brow at this and 21 got into stance.
"She's stronger than Dr. Gero's records say, in your current shape she'd ultimately end up killing you in a prolonged fight."
"Stronger you say..." Yuvo said arching a brow. "Hmm...still I trust your judgement 21, and you're right I am weaker like this."
Yuvo floated away though he hovered nearby as 21 moved in front of Kinoko, Ryo stared at the scene scratching his head.
"Wait...did he just say...Goku...and Vegeta..." Ryo said looking back at the two.
After a moment he brought a sleeved hand to his face before realizing who the three in front of him were.
"Well...that explains...a lot. No wonder I got a weird feeling from those two and Kinoko is their sister...man...I got involved with the wrong people...maybe I should just leave."
Ryo turned to leave only for a ki blast to slam into the spot he was heading towards, turning he noticed 21 looking at him with her hand outstretched.
"You're not leaving...I have business with you after this," 21 said before turning back to Kinoko.
"21...why are you doing this? Aren't we you friends?" Goku asked.
21 remained silent as her Ki flowed from her body, Yuvo smiled at the sight crossing his arms over his chest.
"...if you won't attack I will."
That was the only response she gave as she stood in front of the three aggressively.

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"Good job Kinoko," Goku said once she had returned.
Vegeta didn't offer congratulations but a small nod before his attention focused back outside, Goku was starting to comment on her fight when the announcer wasted little time mentioning the next fighters. It wasn't that hard to determine who the last two were, where it would ultimately decide who would face Kinoko and after that who would face the champ. Vegeta was already walking towards the arena and Goku chuckled and pat Kinoko on the shoulder before walking past her walking behind Vegeta.
"All right let's call out the next two contestants. Go-"
The announcer stopped when he was shoved to the side by Vegeta who took his place in the ring, Goku standing across from him. The two eyed each other before a small grin formed on the face of both them, the two wasted little them getting into their stances. The Announcer looked between them and casually took a few steps back, something told him getting in the middle of these two wasn't a good idea.
"Uh...begin whenever your ready."

The two started to move forward but stopped before quickly jumping back, a green explosion came from the spot they were at before they started popping up here and there, pinkish black explosions following some hitting the stands thankfully missing the people who were running away. The Camera's ended up getting destroyed in the ensuing explosion and the announcer was hiding behind a nearby rock.
"It would appear someone has placed explosives in the arena! Everyone should head towards the nearest exit in a-ow stop shoving me!"
21 and Yuvo floated down from the sky at his, 21s' finger pointed at the arena and a glow at the tip of her finger as she prepared another blast. Goku and Vegeta looked up at her with Vegeta speaking first.
"You better have a damn good reason for interrupting our fight."
"Oh believe me she does."
The voice that responded was Yuvo who floated next to twenty one, his gaze moving to the retreating people.
"...good job 21...but you missed the earthlings."
Yuvo pointed a finger at some of the retreating people and fired, 21's eyes widened and the other two started to move, but before they could a sleeved hand knocked the blast away into the stands.
"Oh?" Yuvo said.
Ryo stood still dressed as Kitsu stood with arm outstretched and looking back at the people motioning to the door for them to keep running.
"It was kind of hard to notice energy that massive approaching...probably should have just left though..." Ryo thought staring up at the two. "Ugh...and one's a Majin...why am I still here..."
"It's nice to meet you all, I supposed I never properly introduce myself. My name is Yuvo, and I guess to make this simple. I'm here to kill you three."
Yuvo held his hand out a green glow surrounding it as he pointed it at Goku and Vegeta.
"I know you three have other forms, go ahead and change...I'll wait, you're not going to beat me like that. I even made sure there was no audience so you can go all out."

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Ryo continued to attack blocking what he could and dodging what he couldn't as he kept close to Kinoko, however feeling her grip he grit his teeth as the uppercut connected and while regaining his composure he felt his body slam into the arena. Dust and pieces of the arena flew into the air as his body remained hidden amidst the destruction caused. The crowd cheered even louder jumping and yelling Kinoko's name, some yelling Kitsu's as the announcer stared into the smoke wondering if he was going to start counting down. Just as he was about to speak a burst of wind exploded from where Ryo was standing blowing the dust away revealing him standing. He brushed a bit of dirt off his shirt and off his shoulder before cracking his neck.

In the next moment he was directly in front of Kinoko his fist slamming hard into her stomach, Goku's eyes widened at the sudden burst of speed watching as Ryo raised his foot up and slammed it down on Kinoko's head returning the favor of being hurled into the arena by doing the same to her. He took a few steps away from her at this and turned to fully face her. Though it wasn't possible to tell under the mask there was a wide grin on Ryo's face, he didn't like that he was having so much fun right now. However something drew Ryo's attention and that was the purple aura around his hand, Goku and Vegeta seemed to notice as well, it seemed it had come out after he moved away from Kinoko after that last attack. The moment Ryo noticed it he closed his hand into his fist quickly getting rid of it, thanks to the dust still lingering in the area the crowd and announcer had missed it but the fact that showed up made Ryo uncomfortable.
"...not good. She pulled that out of me...I think this is a good place to stop. Best not to get greedy anyway, one million is more than enough."
Ryo lowered his hands back to his sides and mentally sigh before hopping backwards, when he did his feet landed outside of the arena.
"Oh no! It seems Kitsu not paying attention has stepped out the Arena! That's a ring out! Kinoko is the victor!"
The crowd roared and Ryo after bowing turned and exited the Arena rotating his shoulder with a small yawn, the crowd chanted Kinoko's name and the announcer continued to rouse the crowd playing up the fight. Goku and Vegeta stood in the waiting room glancing at each other for a moment.
"That energy..." Goku said.
"I figured as much, that's no normal earthling."
"They were able to hide it that well too...I didn't sense it at all."
"We'll deal with that later, whatever their reasoning for purposely losing Kinoko's the victor."
"Yeah let's congratulate her when she returns."

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"Uh Vegeta," Goku said.
"Hmph good, this'll be a learning experience."
"Vegeta she used her Ki though."
"So?"
Goku looked back at the fight, he supposed he couldn't blame Kinoko this person clearly wasn't a normal fighter, but he knew how these things normally went. He crossed his arms smiling seeing Kitsu lean their head to the side, he didn't have the heart to say anything to Kinoko anyway, it seemed she was enjoying herself. He sighed and decided to just keep watching, so long as they didn't go all out it probably wouldn't be a repeat of what happened last time.
"Ah it's not like me to worry like this anyway. Let's just keep watching," Goku said only to recieve silence from Vegeta.

Ryo eyes widened behind the mask, he felt the presence of Ki, not only that but he recognized it. This woman was the one from the mall, he was positive of that at least, that signature had rooted itself in his being back then. This woman knew how to control Ki, and judging from her healed bruises it seemed she was able to use that to heal herself. Ryo lowered his hand and reaching up scratched the side of his head at her beckon, this was turning into quite the show and his opponent was a special one.
"Healing...man how is that fair. Hah...guess I'll just have to hit her hard repeatedly so she doesn't get the chance to heal everything," Ryo thought.
"What a show! Kinoko is back up and beckoning her opponent has Kitsu lost her nerve! She seems to be-"
The Announcer was cut off as Ryo quickly sprinted forward, remaining silent as he closed the distance between the two of them, slamming his foot down Ryo started throwing multiple punches at Kinoko, spinning and throwing in a few kicks as he released an onslaught of attacks at her.

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Ryo's eyes widened when his fist was caught, he wasn't expecting her to be quick enough to catch it, he grit his teeth knowing what could come next, feeling the force of her blows slam into him. This woman hit hard, but he didn't put any distance between them. He took the hits in silence though his body reeled at the blows. He was patient and the moment her foot rose to kick him his hand reached ou and gripped Kinoko's ankle stopping the blow, he spun his body fully around and lifting Kinoko off her other foot slammed her down hard into the arena, turning he slammed his foot into her stomach with immense force sending her sliding a few feet back. His attacks though slower hit like a force of nature, almost like getting hit by Goku and Vegeta simultaneously in their Saiyan forms.

Ryo stared at Kinoko after forcing the distance between them, he didn't like the fact he had to stop holding back a bit. He didn't like hitting people that hard, no normal earthling would get up from an attack with half that strength. Something about this woman however made him doubt she was a normal earthling, he touched his ribs that were still aching from her earlier punches. That wasn't something any normal earthling could, this woman...was starting to pull something out of him, and he didn't like it. A part of him wanted to resign to just leave this alone, but something in his body was screaming at him to fight this woman and it was hard to ignore it.
Ryo straightned his body and raised one sleeve before a hand poked out of it, palm outwards towards Kinoko, the other hand continuing to dangle at his side.
"It seems Kitsu has finally decided to get into stance! After that earlier beatdown she must be getting serious."
The crowd cheered at the two fighters rising out of their seats, Goku and Vegeta watched the scene with narrowed gazes.
"Vegeta..."
"I see it Kakarot...just shut up and watch."

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Ryo stared at Kinoko in usual silence, if not for the fact he was keeping his identity secret he might actually talk to his opponent. Her stance was pretty strong as well, he couldn't see any easy opening to exploit, he had a feeling but this lady knew how to fight efficiently. He wasn't sure why but his whole body felt warm, he could feel excitement running through his being which made him uncomfortable. It was almost like a part of him was recognizing the strength of his person, he could feel his heart beating a little faster in his chest at the idea of fighting her. Ryo brought a hand to his chest at this and gripped it looking down for a moment.
"Hm...what's that fighter up to?" Vegeta questioned.
"She's getting excited," Goku said. "Doesn't that look familiar Vegeta."
Vegeta stared back out into the crowd seeing Ryo lower his hand, his eyes narrowed as the masked fighter returned their arms to their side, their stance if it could even be called that was a joke, but he could tell they were clearly on full guard.
The stadium was silent as they watched the two fighters stare at each other, there was a strange tension in the air and many people were on the edge of their seat.

"Begin!"
The moment the announcer spoke Ryo started walking towards Kinoko, this caused Goku to arch a brow seeing Kitsu casually making her way towards Kinoko who was clearly on guard. It seemed she intended on getting the first hit in, albeit slowly. The moment Ryo was in striking range his body seemed to leaned to the left for a moment before he quickly shifted forward throwing a punch towards Kinoko's chest, the attack was faster than a normal fighters, and he shifted his footing for his real objective, he intended on attacking Kinoko's feet to create a real opening where he could get a good solid hit, in short the first attack was a feint to make her shift her guard upwards.