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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2019 0:27:19 GMT -5
The planet Konats is an independent world, far removed from much of the politics that plague the galaxy as a whole. A peaceful planet, ruled by a just queen and in close cooperation with in the Knights of Cordis following the tireless efforts of the late King Gallius, the Knight of Manus. A world of elfish humanoids known simply as Konatsians, a magically inclined race with powerful warriors and wizards both. Theirs is an idyllic world, one that seeks to commune evenly between modern technology and the tranquility of nature and the natural order. As such, Konats remains free and clear of many of the problems that afflict more technologically advanced societies such as the Arcosians. Konats remains relatively unspoiled, with little pollution and huge sprawling forests teaming with life. A generation ago, Konats was a much less peaceful world. The lineage of the throne was in question following the death of their late king. A beloved ruler, stern, yet fair, the man had been taken by the gods far too early if you asked those of his royal court. Many believed foul play afoot, but could place no evidence towards suspects. In his wake he left two daughters, born to different queens. The king's first wife, who had sadly died in childbirth, bore him his elder daughter. His present mistress, who many considered a power hungry temptress of a woman, had born him his younger daughter. This vile dutchess ruled in the interim as regentess until the King's elder daughter would come of age and ascend to her rightful throne. And that is where Majin Ala came into play. The late king's mistress had secretly contracted the universes' deadliest assassin of their era for her fiendish schemes. None other than Majin Ala herself, who better to kill and leave nothing behind. The Majin is elastic, able to slip in and out of anywhere, can pull open dimensions if needed, absorbs the victim leaving no evidence or trace, and possesses strange ki that none but her own kind can properly read. More importantly, Majin Ala's price was reasonable compared to most. A freighter's worth of the finest snacks, sweets, and candies the planet had to offer. And the freighter of course, that was part of the deal too. The mistress had met with the mighty Majin in secret, to discuss terms and the conditions of her step daughter's removal. Majin Ala obliged, and in the dead of night days later she silently penetrated the castle defenses, absorbing wayward guards caught alone, using her Majin magic to bypass security measures, and slipping unnoticed through air ducts and under doors. She eventually made her way unseen into the princess' bedroom. Unfortunately, this is where the plan went awry. The royal wizard of the Konatsian throne had, at his late liege's bidding, warded the princess' room with powerful spells to warn of danger and alert the castle. Majin Ala's cover was blown, and guards were already on their way. In anger she hastily absorbed the princess, and the newfound sense of justice spurned on by the young woman's pure heart compelled her to reveal the motives of her employer. This revelation did little to grant animosity for the mighty Majin, who was still seen as a cold blooded murderer and a monster to be destroyed. Konats amassed soldiers and wizards, intent to bring Majin Ala to justice for her crimes against the throne. Unfortunately, Ala proved far stronger than expected, and her full strength threatened to destroy the planet and its inhabitants. Great heroes from across the sector of space amassed on the powerful ki signature, and Majin Ala was locked in a climactic battle against the heroes of the last generation. Ultimately she was defeated, weakened enough not to be killed, for she proved far too powerful to be outright defeated and slain. But weakened enough the royal wizard was able to seal her in a magic ball, a fate ironically shared by her progenitor Majin Buu at the hands of Bibidi. The sealed Majin Ala was then carefully carried by court wizards into the deepest, darkest, most desolate caverns far underground beneath Konats' surface. There, buried miles below the surface Majin Ala was sealed away. The knowledge of her location was closely guarded, shared only by court wizards and told to no outsider.  And there Majin Ala has remained to this very day. Laying dormant, trapped within her sealed ball, slumbering in a dream like trance. Unable to awaken herself, all she can do is continue to sleep as her body continues to radiate the intense, strange ki that Majins wield. The pinkish chaotic energy radiates from her sealed ball, undetectable on the surface by most. But to another Majin, it is like a beacon upon this world. A strange, thrumming pulse of energy like the ever circling light of a lighthouse against a foggy storm. Guiding ships to safety, or Majins to a sleeping giant. Majin Ala subconsciously yearns to be reawakened, to walk once more among the universe's strongest and carve up more than her fair slice of the pie. She only needs a catalyst, one with the magic and the power level needed to release her from her sealed ball.
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Post by Doctor Kaijin Vex on Feb 11, 2019 16:20:08 GMT -5
Once upon a time there was a boy. And he got lost. From Earth to Konats.
How? Well, he simply ripped open a dimensional hole and ended up on the other end of the galaxy.
Okay, okay. Time for an actual explanation. By this point, Khoshai had been living under Tora's roof for quite awhile, and although his knowledge of Tora's technique was growing slowly by the day, he still kept his original nature as a wild card, and often found himself discovering new techniques on the fly to unleash upon his foes. And one such ability that he had "picked up" was the ability to open rifts in space and time. But how does one stumble upon such an ability. Well, it was quite simple...
Khoshai had discovered the ability by complete accident. During one of his private training sessions that Tora had made him do one day, Khoshai had decided it right to power up to his absolute max (at the time, given his maximum power fluctuates on a daily basis) and see what happened to the ocean waves when he exerted his energy upon the shore, just because he wanted to create big waves. In doing so, he had accidentally created a portal when he screamed and charged his energy. Did he truly understand what the hell it was? Hell no. Even now, he didn't truly understand that he was tearing holes in space and time to do such. But he knew this much. He punched one hole, and it came out of another hole and smashed into his opponent.
The ability to tear holes in the fabric of reality was a rare one, to be completely honest, and one that the gods above probably should not have entrusted to a Majin child of nine, who, if such an ability was used incorrectly, could probably collapse dimensional walls and degrade reality as a whole. But hey, who needs dimensions anyway?
Nonetheless, he had showcased this technique to his master and a Super Saiyan warrior by the name of Null. In that instance, he had proven capable of creating rifts in order to maneuver across the confines of the arena, teleporting small distances or warping attacks back to their respective owners. However, Tora, being the responsible adult he was, had decided it best to train Khoshai in its' use, to keep him from accidentally collapsing something important within the fabric of space in time, or creating some galaxy eating wormhole he couldn't close. Thus, the boy was put to work on learning how large to make his wormholes, and how to know where each of them led.
But one day, Khoshai found himself daydreaming a little too much in the middle of his lessons, and lost control of his wormhole on the final destination part. Luckily, he wasn't turned to dust as he spiralled out of control in a realm between dimensions, but instead was spat out on some random world....luckily within the same universe.
But what was this place?
He was in some sort of deep underground cavern. Catacombs from some form, although that word wasn't necessarily apart of the Majin's rather simplistic vocabulary. All he knew that it was dark, cold and kinda wet, with precipitation from above seeping through the soil until it reached the hard rock of the cavern, eventually slipping through the cracks of even that. Was he still on Earth? Even if he couldn't understand the finer points such as atmospheric pressure or air differences, Khoshai could understand what he felt, and he felt his body tingling, with a strange form of ancient magic...it riddled his flesh, made his lips tingle. But where was it coming from? Where was the magic? He wanted to go home!
With nothing else left to do, he resorted himself to wandering the many twisting pathways that the cavern held, searching about frantically for someone. Anyone. For a good amount of time since he left home, Khoshai had been on his own, traveling the galaxy, living on Earth, which until recently attracted him nothing but trouble and people who hated him. Yet, his recent discovery of friends in the form of the raccoon Sly, and his caretaker and master, Tora no Seishin, Khoshai's overall mood and attraction to people had skyrocketed, to the point where he was used to, and yearned companionship and company, like most children did. To that effect, being alone in a strange place scared him, and he wanted desperately to get out. Now, why not just conjure up another Dimensional Rift and leave the way one came? He managed to get himself here in the first place, right? Well, Khoshai didn't know what or where "here" was. That along with the fact that opening a rift this large was completely accidental. Never before had he been able to teleport himself across the galaxy, and he wasn't even sure how he did it in the first place. So how was he supposed to replicate it?
After more than half an hour of wandering aimlessly, Khoshai succumbed to the despair of the situation, and simply sat down in the middle of a cold, wet pathway, drew his knees up to his chest and pouted. Was he to be stuck here forever? For all eternity?
Well, he didn't exactly get an answer, but he got a beacon. A strange Ki signature flashed across his radar, causing the boy's heterochromatic eyes to widen. He had felt that energy before....or at least something like it. It was an energy signature that was similar to his mother, Majin Leah's signature. Chaotic, constantly ebbing and flowing, with a distinct magical presence that only Majins could express through their aura. Was his mom here? Was he back home? Smiling at the prospect of possibly being back on Abbayor, Khoshai rushed through the caverns, following the twisting turns and the sharp jagged edges of the catacombs until he came across a rather large clearing, the large cave area being taken up by one sole object.
What was it? And why did it feel like his mom? Maybe his mom was inside. Despite his suspicion, Khoshai edged closer and closer to the ball, as if afraid it would explode any second, but not letting such juvenile fear squash his curiosity. Tentatively, the boy reached out his right hand, and felt it make contact with the base of the ball. At that moment of contact, Khoshai felt his body suddenly surge with energy as he expelled it into the Sealed Ball, his magic presence automatically taking hold and sending it coursing through the veins of the sealed ball.
What was happening? Where was he?
"Mom....where are you?!"
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2019 17:30:51 GMT -5
Majin Ala had long since lost a sense of time within her dream like state. Every moment bled together, her only solace was reliving her memories to experience something other than crushing isolation. It was like limbo, one she raged at her body to end. Her mind was a prisoner within her form, and her body in turn trapped within her ball. Suddenly though, something changed. Something was different! Yes, new, new feelings, new sensations. Anything to break the monotony. Ala wanted to cry out for help, to scream at the top of her lunges. She couldn't see, couldn't even will her eyes to open. Not that it mattered. It remained pitch black within her sealed ball. But she could sense it, bless the Kais could she sense it. Energy, so much energy. Majin ki, swirling spinning twisting energy that bubbled and surged with chaotic power. To most beings it felt strange, unfathomable and enigmatic, but to Majin Ala it was the most familiar sensation in the world. She felt Majin Khosai's hand press foolishly against the side of her sealed ball, and immediately her trap was sprung. As soon as he did her, energy absorption powers kicked in full gear. Ala forcibly drained as much ki as she could muster from this unknown Majin source. She drank it in like a sponge desperate for water, as it coursed along the veins of her sealed ball. Yes, energy, so much energy. More than a Super Saiyan, more than a Frost Demon's Fifth Form. This being was powerful, his strength was vast and his potential greater. None of that mattered so long as there was more to drain. Power coursed through Ala for what felt like the first time in eons, and her black eyes opened wide within the darkness of her ball. Steam hissed from the giant orb, as pressure vented from the seam down the middle. In one terrible moment the Sealed Ball fell open, revealing it was completely filled to the brim with a pink bubblegum like putty. Majin Ala's rubbery body filled every nook and cranny within her ball, and now sat motionless like a giant pink piece of bubblegum. Then it began to tremble, to quiver and shake as a fearsome pink aura formed around it. The giant sphere began to condense, taking the shape of a humanoid appearance. Arms and legs emerged, rough and crude at first. A long tail slithered out from behind, and a wavy mass formed the basis of what would be hair. As it shrunk down the figure increased in definition. Fingers formed on the mitten like hands, ears and a nose emerged from the head, and a mouth and eyes appeared. Steam hissed from vents along the Majin's arms as if changing its internal pressure. Then with a vacuum sealed pop Majin Ala snapped into place as if nothing had happened at all. In an instant her body materialized into clothing, creating high heeled black boots trimmed in gold, as well as puffy white pants held up by a golden belt emblazoned with the Majin Demon Mark. A black tube top formed over her considerable bust, with black sleeves to cover her arms, though her shoulders remained bare. Lastly, Ala formed a number of over-sized golden rings around her neck, wrists, and ankles. Her version of jewelry, they were obscenely thick much like the Majin herself. Ala's long mane of pinkish white hair tumbled down to the small of her back and her long tail swished eagerly behind her as she inhaled her first breath of air in years. Majin Ala raised her hands high over her head, stretching as she arced her back. Her neck and spine cracked, despite not actually having bones, and she exhaled a long sigh as she once more became comfortable in her own form. Suddenly it all came back to her in a flash of emotions. The battle, the anger, the warriors trying to seal her away. Majin Ala's aura flared violently, the entire planet beginning to shake as she summoned forth her immeasurable, unbridled power. "I'LL DEVOUR YOU ALL!" She roared at the top of her lungs, voice hoarse from not speaking in decades. "THEN I'LL DESTROY THIS HORRIBLE PLANE--- Wait..." And just like it was gone. Ala could not sense the mighty warriors she'd been locked in battle with only 'moments' ago. Nor was she on high in the skies above Konats raining death upon their capital. She was underground, and it was very damp and dark. In fact the only light came from the pink auras of the two Majin, not that Ala had actively noticed her companion yet. At last the wheels clicked in her head that something was amiss, and Ala looked around the strange room with a puzzled expression on her face. She couldn't sense anyone from before, none of the power levels matched. The only one of any notable strength was right next to her. Ala's tail twitched and she whipped around one hundred and eighty degrees, her head and neck moving unsettlingly faster than her upper torso as she trained her gaze on the stranger little Majin before her. She then furrowed her brow slightly, trying to piece together what exactly had transpired. Had she actually lost? Or did she win but just tire herself out. Perhaps this Majin knew, maybe Buu had woken up and sent him to find her. Maybe he was her little brother, or something? Ala reached out, pinching Khosai's cheek like an overexcited grandmother and pulling at his elastic face to the point it'd tear normal flash from bone. "Aren't you a cute little pipsqueak. Thanks for waking me up. I don't remember falling asleep though..." The Majin admitted reluctantly, free hand rubbing the back of her head. She let go of Khosai's face, before finally inspecting her surroundings in greater detail. "What happened? Where are we? Did I win?" These questions addressed as much to herself as to her acquaintance, not that he could really answer them either. Remembering her manners, Ala turned back to her savior, giving a slight curtsy as she smiled widely. "What's your name Runt?" She asked bluntly, not skipping a beat. "I am the Mighty Majin Ala, a pleasure to meet you."
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Post by Doctor Kaijin Vex on Feb 13, 2019 1:24:38 GMT -5
Having his Ki sapped was not a fun feeling. It had happened to him once before, when locked in battle against the mighty cat-man, Will o. Wisp in the skies above Dragon Shrine in East City, but even the cat collar that the Turtle School Master had summoned to use against Khoshai hadn't had nearly as much of a profound impact upon the boy as this. Immediately upon touching the Sealed Ball, Ala's sleeping form from within drank the smaller boy's energy, lapping up his Ki as if the woman had not had anything to eat in centuries, which was probably an accurate assumption to make at this point. Khoshai whined as he sank to his knees, his body growing weaker as his Ki was drained into Ala's form inside.
And like a coconut cracking open, the Sealed Ball burst open, steam pouring from the stressed points of release, as if the ball had been sealed under great pressure to begin with. And as the shell widened and fell open on either side, Khoshai was regaled by the rather graceful form of the figure inside.
A giant lump of pink flesh that had previously filled and occupied every nook and cranny of that damn ball was unveiled before the frightened Khoshai, whose eyes nearly bugged out of his head as he scrambled backwards. What could this thing possibly be? The figure pulsated with the same familiar energy....but Khoshai had no idea what it was beyond that fact. It certainly wasn't his mother, that was for sure. Before Khoshai could let his little imagination whisk him away into the possibilities, the figure began to tremble and shake, pink energy pulsating off the being as it began to fold within itself, condense into a more humanoid figure, taking the appearance of a rather curvaceous young adult woman with long, flowing pinkish white hair. She had the same white genie-like pants that Khoshai himself sported, with a matching Majin Demon Mark symbol showcased upon the belt buckle. She was a Majin too? Like him?
A rather loud one too. Khoshai squeaked and covered his ears in alarm as Ala began screaming at the top of her lungs about "devouring" and "destroying". It startled him, and he could feel his heart pounding in his chest as she rambled on her post-awakening frenzy. Luckily though, she managed to figure out that no, she was not on some random plain on Konats, fighting warriors who died centuries ago, and realized that the only threat before her wasn't even a threat. Just a nine year old who tore a wormhole and managed to transcend normal travel limitations by warping from the North Quadrant to the South in under five seconds.
"Heyyyyyyy!" Khoshai whined as his cheek was pulled, the skin stretching well out of proportion as a result to the force she put into what was supposed to be a relatively innocent show of affection. Nonetheless, it didn't cause the boy any sort of discomfort, but that didn't mean he had to like it.
"I'm not a baby...." The boy said, frowning, albeit the pouting face he made thereafter didn't exactly make him look like an adult either. Gazing up upon her from his seated position, Khoshai, eyes wide with wonder, took in her features. Like him, she had hair and a tail as well. He knew his mother and sister had these strange headtail thingies instead of hair, and from what his mother told him when he was younger, his father had the same thing, thus leaving it to the imagination how in the world Khoshai's body had mutated so as to include a full head of hair and a tail instead of headtails. Then there was of course, the heterochromatic eyes, that was an even deeper mystery. Like Ala, he had one eye that possessed the black sclera and red iris that was typical of the Majin species, while his right eye possessed white sclera with a blue iris that represented something more..human-like. It was almost symbolic in a way, as if the boy was fated to always walk the path between good and evil. Light and Darkness.
But that was enough spirituality for one day. Back to your regular scheduled programming.
Khoshai cocked his head curiously as Ala began asking questions regarding some event that he knew little to nothing about. What did she win? Did she boy a lotto card maybe and win lots of money? He learned about that part from Sly, when the boy pressed his face up against a convenience store one day wondering why people bought those weird tickets when they could buy candy instead for dinner. Nonetheless it didn't take long for the woman to introduce herself as the "mighty" Majin Ala, confirming Khoshai's suspicions that she was a Majin..like him. That was....so cool! He had never met another Majin besides his family members before. Maybe she knew his dad? It was possible...but she looked like she had been asleep for a long time, based on their surroundings, so maybe not. But nonetheless, maybe they could be friends...maybe she could even get him back home to Tora!
Blushing lightly with embarassment, the child moved to stand up, no longer petrified over the surprise of the situation.
"I...I'm Majin Khoshai. N-Nice to meet you too!" Khoshai perked up before offering a small little smile to the woman, his eyes darting back and forth once more to take in his features, as if he were examining an art exhibit that he found fascinating.
"I don't know who won what you were talking about....and I don't know where we are either. I got lost, and I was looking for a way out...and I found you, and then you woke up, and here you are! Maybe we can get out together!" The boy spat out rapid fire, going from starting off with a confused tone of defeat, the reminder of the fact that he still knew not where he was getting to him, but obviously not for long considering he ended up a hopeful note. But hey, how could you blame him? The child was still at an age (and level of maturity) where he believed grown ups (at least, nice ones) had the answer to all questions, and could solve anything. Big Brother Tora often shocked Khoshai with how smart he was, and whenever the boy was frustrated at not being able to figure out something, Tora would show him how! And it was obviously cuz Tora was a grownup, right?
So, Ala was big! Maybe she knew the way out of here?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2019 3:02:21 GMT -5
"Pfffftttt..." Majin Ala made the sound very sarcastically as the strange little Majin protested her pinching his cheeks. "No, but you're small. So that makes you a pipsqueak." She stated very matter of factly, crossing her arms beneath her ample bust as the Majin woman continued to survey the dimly lit catacombs the two were lost in. She snickered when her new acquaintance blushed, though she did listen rather intently as he introduced himself. "Khoshai?" She repeated his name, as if it tasted funny on her tongue. "Kho-Shai." She repeatedly, adding extra emphasis between the syllables. "Nope, I don't like it. Too long. I'll call you Kho, it's much shorter." Ala said innocently, offering no explanation for her peculiar comments or the rational behind them. The truth was she didn't like long names, especially Majins with long names. Buu had a short name, he gave her a short name, Kho should have a short name too. Where poor little Khoshai spoke with a mixture of embarrassment and mild fear, Ala spoke boisterously and with surprising authoritativeness given she'd been awake for mere minutes at best. She studied her new Majin friend more carefully, he actually looked fairly similar to her now that she thought about it. Ala's tail lazily slunk its way around hers side. It stretched effortlessly the distance between them, until it coiled lightly around the end of Khoshai's own. Hers was thicker, and she smiled to herself upon that realization. She was taller, and older, so it should be expected, but it still made her beam with pride knowing her tail was the bigger of the two. Following this intrusion of personal space, Ala's tail recoiled back to its normal dimensions as it lazily swished behind her. Khoshai even had hair too, though his was a purer white than Ala's. That was ok, pink was her favorite color anyways, and she liked the light pink hue of her hair. Again, Majin Ala also had significantly more hair than her smaller counterpart, another mental victory for the Majin. She liked her lengthy mane of wild wavy hair, even if it sometimes got in her eyes in battle. That was ok, her ki senses and her psychic powers usually did more for her in combat than her eyes alone anyways. Majin Ala stared blankly at Khoshai when he stated he didn't know who'd won, like she was vexed the child she'd never met before lacked answers to such questions. She let out a soft sigh, leaning back to sit on her tail as it formed an upside down question mark shape with the ground. Like an impromptu chair, although when Ala put her weight on it, her tail crunched the rock beneath her and upturned large chunks of stone like it was nothing. "Well..." She said simply, tapping her finger to her chin as she looked upward, remembering what had happened before she fell asleep. It came back to her in a flood of memories, and Ala's pink aura flared around her as she suddenly became quite visibly anger. "Oh right... I got caught. Paid to assassinate that stupid princess. She was tasty at least... and I got her ears." Ala said proudly, free hand touching her elfish ears as she smirked at her victory. "But that stupid spell went off. And those wizards came. Then the guards... then the soldiers. Then the battle started." She was more talking aloud to herself at this point, having gotten lost in thought and forgetting Khoshai was even there to listen to her. "They were so mad I ate their dumb princess. They didn't even let me go when I told them who hired me, so I just absorbed her too. She tasted bitter, blegh. Bitter, stupid, wrinkly woman." People that were black hearted tended to taste worse than those that were good natured or pure of heart. Their anger and their spite poisoned their souls and made them bitter. It was a taste only a demon could love, for Ala it was more an acquired taste. As in, she tasted the thing she was acquiring. She clenched her fist, energy crackling like pink lightning around her slender hand. "Then the battle really started. There were so many of them. Most were weak, weak and easy to kill. But some were strong, not as strong as me..." She said with a malevolent grin, thinking of the brave warriors she'd killed and the wizards she'd slain. "I was gonna kill them all, eat every last one I could. Then when there was no one left to eat, blow up this horrible planet." Ala paused, realizing those were the very words she'd been mid sentence when she awakened. Her head spun around on her neck in a way that'd break it if she had bones, inspecting her Sealed Ball behind her. It swiveled back to gaze at Khoshai, brow furrowed in concentration. "And then I was in there... and then you. And then you freed me, and then this..." The realization slowly dawned on her that she had in fact, not won. That she'd been defeated and sealed away in that stupid ball for who knows how long with only her thoughts to keep her sane. Ala blushed slightly, too proud to admit to her little friend what she'd just realized. She coughed into her hand, clearing her throat before speaking again. "I know where we are Kho." She said simply, speaking with a sense of newfound clarity. "We're on Konats. This is the planet I came to for that princess job. We're just... underground somewhere. This place is greener on the surface, I promise. It's kinda like Earth. You've been to Earth right? Its my home." She was trailing off on a tangent again, and had already probably overloaded Khoshai with a barrage of information. Majin Ala smiled at Khosai, nodding her head as she did. "You got lost, and you found me. That's good, because otherwise I'd still be asleep. So I'm gonna make you found, because that's how favors work." Her wording was off, but the sentiment was there. Ala rose back to her feet, the ground under her heeled black boots buckling under her. She looked down at her feet now embedded half a foot into the rock, brow furrowed. She'd forgotten, forgotten how fragile everything was. How she had to concentrate or she'd break stuff without trying. Majin Ala began her long practiced passive telekinesis, counteracting the fact she possessed titanic weight and as a result, enormous density in this condensed form. Ala raised her hand high over her head, the golden rings around her wrist jingling as they clacked together as she summoned a large ball of pink ki. "Gravity is pulling us this way." She said matter of factly, pointing down at the floor with her free hand. "So that means the planet's core is that way... And that this way is up." Her finger pointed to the ceiling. This was incredibly obvious information, but Majins were a special kind of clever. The fact Ala was as intelligent as she was at all was a miracle of her many absorptions. Then without warning or provocation Ala unleashed a massive blast of energy directly into the ceiling. With seemingly no effort she fired an enormous Vanishing Beam that surged skywards through miles of earth and stone. The caves around them began to shake, massive tunnel collapses and cave ins happening as the enormous energy wave destabilized the entire tectonic plate. Not that Ala cared much, though she did catch falling boulders and stalactites from the ceiling with her telekinesis, keeping them from flattening her or Khosai. Not that they'd harm the elastic Majin duo in any circumstance. Then in an instant Ala stopped, cutting off the flow of energy to her beam. She exhaled steam from her nostrils, as well as vented it from the holes along her body. Ala then looked up at the perfectly bored tunnel she'd carved in the ceiling. The edges were still glowing red hot, molten rock sizzling as it cooled from her blast. Daylight shone above and the sun was high in the midday sky. "There! A way out." Ala said proudly, ignoring the fact the catacombs were still collapsing around them. "You go first, I'll meet you at the top." She said simply, casting aside the rocks and boulders that had fallen loose from the ceiling. Ala made her way over to the Sealed Ball, scooping up both haves and setting one inside the other like two huge guacamole bowls. For whatever reason she planned on keeping the damned thing, which was why, being the pinnacle of Majin intelligence, Ala had preemptively blasted a tunnel specifically large enough she could fit her Sealed Ball through. Ala held the giant orb halves above her head, effortlessly carrying them as she blasted off skywards through the tunnel to the surface. She arrived moments later, landing gracefully on soft grass, setting her ball halves down besides her. She looked down the hole and whistled, though the ground began shaking violently as the tunnel structure began to collapse entirely. A great sink hole gave way, trees and earth being swallowed whole as the many tunnels below failed in sequence. Ala grabbed her prize and hovered in the air, watching a bowl shaped valley that formed beneath her. When the ground finally settled, she flew to the edge of the depression and touched down once more. Ala waited for Khoshai to reappear, and gave him a smug look of self satisfaction. "See, I told you I knew how to get out."
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Post by Doctor Kaijin Vex on Feb 16, 2019 2:27:14 GMT -5
"I'm not that small..." Khoshai protested, pouting, although he did cock his head curiously to one side when Ala mulled over his name, right before the woman decided to discard the name for being too long, and giving him the nickname "Kho". Kho? Khoshai had never thought to give himself a nickname before, and he had to admit Ala was the first person to call him such, with Tora usually either calling him by name or calling him "Little Tiger", a term of endearment that Khoshai absolutely loved. Even though this nickname wasn't up to par with Tora's, it worked enough, so Khoshai didn't complain much about that.
Interestingly enough, the boy wasn't listening much when Ala went off on her long winded tangent regarding the circumstances of her capture. Khoshai didn't really understand the circumstances of her capture and her rather vague explanation, which wasn't even that much directed to him, so he unintentionally zoned out, lost in his own thoughts. He thought about last night's dinner, and how good a cook Tora was, and how the Tiger Master had tried to give him this thing called vegetables. Now, Khoshai wasn't opposed to trying new things, but he was extremely picky about what he liked, and the things that he liked, nine times out of ten, had to be sweet in some form of way. One taste of a greenbean and the child had zoned off dinner for the night, refusing to eat the remainder of his vegetables, resisting even Tora trying to force feed him for ten minutes, before slipping away back to his room. He wondered briefly what Tora would make for dinner tonight, and if he had even noticed that the boy was gone. The thought made Khoshai want to cry.
He had definitely gone soft. He had grown complacent with Tora. After being alone for so long, so far away from home, Tora had took him in and given him a home, a purpose. A future. And he treated the boy nicer than anyone else Khoshai had ever met. Hell, one could even say Khoshai saw Tora as the father he never had, given his biological one was an absentee sociopath father who sought to consume life...literally. The problem was, had he continued to be alone, Khoshai would be concerned about his predicament, but would ultimately take the "go with the flow" approach until the situation eventually resolved himself. Tora worked Khoshai hard and tried to mold him and help him solve his own problems, but Khoshai was still a child, and was dependent upon his newfound caretaker. Tiger Island was his safe place, and Tora no Seishin his savior. Being away from him, and the fear that he may never return, broke the boy's heart.
"I know where we are Kho." Ala's voice pierced the haze that had enveloped Khoshai's mind, shocking him out of his self-pity and bringing him crashing back to reality. Looking up to Ala, he listened for more.
"We're on Konats. This is the planet I came to for that princess job. We're just... underground somewhere. This place is greener on the surface, I promise. It's kinda like Earth. You've been to Earth right? Its my home."
Khoshai stood up at that. Konats? He had never heard of a planet like that. Although, to be fair, Khoshai's knowledge of astrology was rather limited. Hell, he could barely name half the important landmarks on Abbayor, and he went to school there until the third grade. He had just fallen asleep during the history portion of his elementary school classroom, or played with a paper airplane he had made at home awhile back (which was interesting given how rare paper was used in this day in age, especially on a first world planet such as Abbayor). But it didn't matter, because Ala recognized what planet they were on, and she knew where they were. And she knew what Earth was, which was where home was!
"E-Earth is my home too." Khoshai said, offering a small smile, as hope gleamed in his heart for the first time in many minutes. Instinctively, he reached out and took Ala's hand. If she knew how to get out, the last thing he wanted to do was lose sight of her and get lost here by himself. Smiling up at Ala, he spoke softly.
"Thanks..." A simple word of gratitude, with little context behind it, but you had to give the kid a pass on this one. He was in a state of vulnerability that was rarely present in the usually exuberant adolescent. Such behavior was unlike him, although Ala would hardly be able to note stuff, given that the two had only met mere minutes ago.
Khoshai then went silent, allowing Ala to do her work on getting them both out of there, his heterochromatic eyes studying her. She was pretty, very pretty. Pretty like his mom and big sister. His experience with other Majin was shaky at best, with the only others of his kind being his own family. Will O. Wisp, Turtle School Master and the most adorable talking kitty cat Khoshai had ever seen, had mentioned the existence of another Majin on Earth, by the name of Zam, but Khoshai had never followed up on the Z-Fighter, regarding where she was. So, Ala was more or less his first non-family member Majin that he had ever met. And he was intrigued, to say the least.
And then, without further ado, Ala graced the wondrous ceiling of the cavern with the most gracious of energy waves, burrowing a hole straight to the surface, sacrificing the integrity of the entire catacombs in the process. Khoshai "eeped" in alarm and moved closer to Ala. He wasn't exactly afraid of getting hurt, since he rarely ever stayed hurt, given that his magical regeneration usually acted on washing away pain before it could really set in on Khoshai. But, in response to his mood, the boy's power level had taken a stark plummet since he had arrived on Konats, and with it much of the boy's bravery. Nonetheless, after the initial shock subsided, Ala turned to Khoshai and instructed him to go first. Given that the cave system would collapse completely any second, Khoshai didn't need to be told twice, nodding and rising off the ground, flying up the opening. Majin Ala followed moments later, carrying the huge halves of what used to be her spherical shaped prison. Together, the pair watched in silent awe (at least Khoshai did) as the cave system collapsed on itself, the ground above it giving way to a giant sinkhole that swallowed trees, grass, foliage and soil alike, everything falling into the deep cavern until the space was sufficiently filled, leaving uneven, upturned ground in its' wake, the likes of which Ala touched down upon without a care in the world. After a moment of hesitation, Khoshai touched down besides her.
They had done it! Well, Ala had done it! And he knew she would! Khoshai's trust in adults had skyrocketed tenfold, successfully reinforced by Ala saving the day, just as he predicted. He knew adults held the answer to everything. Khoshai wasn't sure he ever would've thought to blast his way to the surface, much sooner succumbing to the pressure of the situation then simply bursting out of it. Even if Ala's plan was rather hazardous and foolhardy to anyone else, Khoshai saw it as genius! And the most important thing was, now they were free to get back home! If Ala could find her way out of the cave so quickly, then who knew how fast Khoshai and her could go back to their mutual home?
Bounding forward, Khoshai closed the difference between himself and the bigger Majin woman, and wrapped his arms around her waist in a tight embrace, showing his gratitude in a physical show of affection. After a few moments he looked up at her
"Thank you, Ala! You're the best..." He said, a bigger smile growing on his features as his heart was filled with newfound hope for their situation.
"You're my newest friend! Can we be friends? Can we? Can we? We can go do lots of things together! I can take you to get candy with me on Earth, and I can introduce you to Big Brother Tora! And...And..." Khoshai prattled on and on with fantasies about all the fun shenanigans that they could get into together once they got home, his mind ablaze with excitement now that they were out of that dark, damp hellhole.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2019 3:54:26 GMT -5
Majin Ala beamed with pride, inspecting her handiwork. It was quite the valley she'd accidentally created, now all it needed was a lake and it'd be perfect. But that was besides the point. Her concentration was broken when Khoshai came running over, Ala instinctively threw out her arms to accept his embrace. The height different between them was rather, suggestive given their hug. With Khoshai's arms hugging Ala's waist, his face was squarely at eye level with her considerable bust. Ala didn't mind, wrapping her arms tight against the smaller Majin and burying him face first into a squishy valley of scantily clad cleavage. "You're welcome Kho. I am the best." Ala replied, giving her smaller Majin friend a tender squeeze to reassure she meant it. It'd been a long time since the Majin woman felt this kind of affection towards another being. She'd just met Kho, but already she was bonding with him. Majins were rubber after all, they had to stick together. She squeezed him tenderly, an unspoken embrace filled with love and motherly affection. He'd be hard pressed to breath if not for the fact his elastic biology allowed otherwise. Such was the crushing nature of the Mighty Majin's hugs. Majin Ala let out a content sigh. "Aaawwwwww... You're my newest friend too Kho, and you're my little rescuer aren't you?" Ala said in a baby-talk voice like a mother addressing a toddler as she gently swayed her hug from side to side. "If it wasn't for you I'd still be trapped in that ball. Maybe forever." Ala nodded in eager agreement at Kho's rambling suggestions. "Yes yes, of course we can be friends. Majin friends, best friends." Her eyes lit up at the word candy, and Ala nodding twice as eagerly. "I love candy, its the best. I'd love to get candy with you. I like chocolates the most, now you're making me hungry, Kho." Ala giggled and cooed, spinning Khoshai round and round as he rambled ideas. "I didn't know you had a big brother. I wanna meet Big Brother Tora. I only have Buu... and he's sleeping now." She paused, making herself sad. "...And I miss him." The Majin woman said wistfully, sapping her own happiness in an instant. Ala paused, blinking back tears as she tried to bury her feelings. Her energy shifting chaotically even for a Majin, spurned on by emotions. She swallowed the lump in her throat, then cracked as false smile as she looked down at Kho nuzzled against her bust. "But, now I have you. Majins are family. Majins should always stick together." Her voice quivering, as if she was trying to convince herself more than state facts. The Majin woman then reluctantly pulled herself away from Khoshai, still blinking back tears. She wiped a sleeve across her eyes, before letting out a determined sigh. "We can go to Earth soon Kho. I just need to one thing first." Ala said with sudden, and grim determination to her words. She picked up Kho and set him down gently in the upturned sphere halves of her ball. Ala took several steps back, the ground splintering under her feet as she did so. "HHHHYYYYAAAAAAAA!!!" Ala yelled as her aura flared around her, vibrant pink shifting into a deeper and more sinister crimson. The ground shook, the skies darkened, and the Majin woman surged with unknown, unfathomable power. Trees were uprooted, knocked aside like matchsticks and the ground around them upheaved by the Majin's raw display of might. Ala then raised one hand high over her head, pooling her ki into a pink energy sphere. It grew and grew in size, until it filled the sky and blocked out the sun. The massive energy sphere looming with sinister intent, powerful enough to cleave the planet itself in half. Ala looked up at her bright star of a weapon, scowl on her face and determination behind her black eyes. Her gaze then wandered back to Khoshai, seeing the concern in his eyes and sensing it about him. "It's ok Kho. After this we go to Earth, promise. After I Destroy Everything!" Her gaze shifted down to the planet around them, her prison for how long. How good it'd feel to see it explode beneath her feet. The source of her immediate anger turned to dust, vengeance enacted for her imprisonment. And this time, there was no one around to stop her.
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Post by Doctor Kaijin Vex on Feb 16, 2019 23:08:17 GMT -5
Khoshai giggled slightly as he was embraced in return by the older Majin. She was so nice, and so warm. He actually felt safe in her arms, as if she would protect him, a feeling that he only shared with few to be honest, his mother and Tora being among that select few. But Ala had just joined that category. Perhaps it was the fact that she was a Majin, or the fact that she helped him out of a scary situation, or maybe because she exuded such tender affection that made him leap to her. The entire scene showcased Khoshai's vulnerability, a level of the child's persona that laid beneath the happy go-lucky exterior.
Perhaps he wasn't the biggest fan of the baby talk, but it was bearable, as he was practically twirled around in a circle by her, lifted up off the ground and into the air by the Majin woman. This, accompanied with Ala's heart warming confirmation of Khoshai's offer of friendship had the boy laughing and giggling in a matter of moments, his spirits raised in seconds now that he was safe with Ala, and they were confirmed to go back to Earth soon, Khoshai took a moment to celebrate, and enjoy having fun with his new, older friend. However, she suddenly stopped spinning him as she spoke of some old friend of her, named Buu. Was it the Majin Buu? That was a name Khoshai knew, for every Majin should know of their common ancestor, albeit that was what his mother said when she used to sit him down and teach her what she knew of the legendary pink man. She seemed saddened by his absence, even coming near the point of shedding tears. At such an expression of sadness, Khoshai edged himself closer to her and hugged her again, his slender body wrapping around hers, trying to use his tail to help wipe away some tears that ran down her face.
"Don't cry! Once you meet Big Brother Tora, he'll show you how awesome he is! He isn't a Majin, but he takes care of me and is really nice! You'll like him alot...don't cry..." Khoshai said, smiling reassuringly at Ala. Then, her voice changed when she spoke again. Something about it..was dark and menacing, and Khoshai didn't like it.
"We can go to Earth soon Kho. I just need to one thing first."
"Huh?" Khoshai asked as Ala carried him over to the two halves of the Sealed Ball, and set him down inside one of the halves, his body sliding down deeper into the upturned semi-circle. Then, with an expression of absolute horror on his face, he watched as Ala began to release her energy in waves, her power level skyrocketing past anything the boy had ever experienced in his life.
"It's ok Kho. After this we go to Earth, promise. After I Destroy Everything!"
She was planning to destroy Konats!
It was a weird moment. Based on what Ala had mentioned before (and what he heard when he was listening) Ala was trapped by the people of this planet. She had to do some job, and it didn't work out and the people of Konats rose against her, to try and seal her. They feared her, and wanted to make her go away. They tried to kill her....and then tried to put her to sleep for who knew how long. Khoshai could identify. While Khoshai hadn't committed half the amount of sins Ala had in his short lifespan, he too, had been bullied by others because they thought they could either take advantage of him, or because they feared him. Before Big Brother Tora had found him, Majin Khoshai had been constantly chased out of village after village by that town's police force, not to mention his more "special" encounters with Lilith Nevermore, and those Vegetan Army Eaters on Planet Vegeta. The boy had it rough, and his heart ached for Ala....but this was not the answer
Never ever, had Khoshai felt even the slightest bit of resentment towards Earth. Maybe towards those specific people, yes. But never enough desire to destroy the entire planet! If she destroyed the planet, w-would that make Ala a bad person? If Tora was around, he'd say yes....but maybe he should just sit still and let Ala do it. She was a grown-up after all. Maybe she knew something he didn't?
Without thinking, he rushed forward, flying through air and wrapped his body around Ala's waist once more, in what would be their third embrace of the day. He didn't try to stop Ala's blast, for he was just as likely to be obliterated in that as the remainder of the planet. However, if Ala were to look down at the smaller child, she would notice that he was crying.
"N-No...."
"D-Don't destroy...everything. I-I don't want you to be a bad person."
"I...I understand. I was bullied by people...in the past too. B-But I live with Big Brother Tora now...a-an-and I'm happy...I want you to be happy too." Khoshai choked out between his sobs, his grip tightening on his pink bubblegum friend.
"L-Let's go back to Earth, now....p-please....don't d-destroy Konats. Not everyone here is...responsible..." That was probably about the most mature thing the boy had ever said, and it was said while crying his eyes out in fear of what Ala would do. Would she slap him aside and continue anyway? Or would she stop being his friend because he acted out against her? He just wanted to go home.
She just wanted his new friend to be a good person and not go through with mass genocide.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2019 19:29:44 GMT -5
Majin Ala stopped, time seeming to grind to a halt around her. "Huh?" She said softly, feeling something press against her as Khoshai hugged her tight around the waist. Her gaze shifted down to the small Majin boy, clinging tight against her. Kho was... crying. Sobbing as he spoke. A pang of guilt shot through the Majin's heart, and Ala took her free hand to wipe the streaming tears from Khoshai's face with her sleeve. She found herself crying, the tears streaming even as she tried to blink them away. "Khoshai..." Ala said mournfully, moved by the child's words. "I am a bad person. All I do is eat, kill, and destroy. It's... it's what I like to do." Her voice trembled at her own words, as if she was trying to convince herself more than him. In her eyes Majin Ala was a monster, but at least she knew what she was. Killing made her happy, it was fun. Eating made her happy, and people tasted the best. Then blowing up this planet should feel good. It should make her happy. She'd get to kill, get revenge on the people that trapped her. Make them suffer just like she did. No, worse than suffer, die. Then she could go back to doing what she wanted, like finding friends and making herself a family. Then why did her heart ache so badly? She looked down at Kho hugging her tight, and wrapped her arm around his small shoulders holding him close against her. She could feel his body tremble with each sob. "I...I want to be happy too." Ala said as she swallowed the lump in her throat. Her confidence wavering, doubts beginning to swirl in her mind. Was she wrong, was Kho right? With great pain in her heart, Ala took her right hand off her Planet Burst so she could hold Kho in both her arms and hug him tight. "I want to be happy." She repeated herself, "But seeing you unhappy, doesn't make me happy." Ala added simply, as she gazed up at her planet killing sphere of energy. " I'm making you unhappy, and I don't want that."Ala slumped to her knees, resting her forehead pressed against Kho's as she sobbed. "You're right. You're right and I'm wrong. I shouldn't destroy Konats. I'm a bad person, I'm a monster. But... but... I can be better. I can change." She looked into Kho's strange eyes, smile on her face even against her streaming tears. "I will be better. I'll be better for you. That's what Majins do. We change." Majin Ala paused, sighing as she hugging the child tight against her one last tight. As she withdrew her embrace, she kissed him softly on the forehead, before rising back up to her feet. "I know what I have to do."Without her energy control to regulate the massive sphere of energy, the Planet Burst was becoming unstable. It crackled with electric pink lightning and pulsed with unbound energy. Ala stared down her monster, grim look of determination on her face. "It's too big to reabsorb." She stated bluntly, raising a hand and condensing a sphere of pink ki at her palm. "But not to destroy." She spoke as the sphere condensed with ferocious power. Ala gazed up at her Planet Burst, beginning to collapse under its own destructive weight. It was a lot like her, things had to change. She couldn't live like this forever. Khoshai represented what she wanted most. A brighter future, friendship, family. Not destruction, not empty mindless violence that served no greater purpose than self indulgence. Ala had to become an example, for what a Majin should be, not what a Majin could be. The mighty Majin pulled back her hand, shouting with all the pain and anguish in her heart as she fired an enormous Vanishing Beam into her Planet Burst. The huge sphere of energy buckled and shuddered, deforming like a poorly inflated dodge ball struck by a savage kick. Ala poured more energy into her beam of ki, and the larger sphere began to slowly inch its way higher and higher into the sky. The ground at her feet buckled from the recoil of her energy wave, but she didn't give an inch of ground. Her tail slammed in agitation, hair whipped wildly behind her from the hurricane winds kicked up by her aura. Inch by inch, meter by meter, Ala's Vanishing Beam forced her Planet Burst skywards. The massive sphere of destruction pierced through clouds with ease, leaving a spherical hole in the skies above Konats. Higher and higher it soared, until at last it pushed through the upper atmosphere into the edges of space itself. "HHHHRRRAAAA!!!" Ala roared out, sending one final surge of power into her energy beam. The burst of ki surged along its length until it pierced deep into the Planet Burst, causing it to detonate violently high above the world. Out in space the wave of pressure was immense, satellites vaporized in seconds and star ships sent panicking into warp drive at the sight of the energy blast on their scanners. But Konats was sparred, save for the pink light show that lit up the sky briefly. Like a second sun, smaller, bright, and painfully pink. In a few moments it all faded away, and Majin Ala collapsed to her knees, propping against Khoshai for strength. "Alright Kho." She whispered softly, "Let's go back to Earth."
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Post by Doctor Kaijin Vex on Feb 21, 2019 3:27:16 GMT -5
It was almost amazing how innocent the mind of a child was. Here he was, with a stranger he had met only about half an hour previous, and was practically embracing her like he would with his mother, with Ala reciprocating such kindness and exuding love. Majin Khoshai was more innocent than most, however. His behavior didn't exactly align with the typical nine year old (instead aligning with a child much younger), but his heart was true, and this wasn't the first time he had won over the hearts of the "heartless". Khoshai's cries resonated with Ala's, and they both broke into sobs together.
Yet why did the child feel such emotion? Sure, he didn't want Konats to be destroyed, but why cry instead of try and stop Ala outright? Khoshai wasn't afraid of combat, he fought people stronger than him on a near daily basis, and had little issue. In fact, the boy found combat equivalent to a game, a little trait that multiple warriors, such as Tora and Will O. Wisp, had tried to beat out of him. So why didn't he try to fight her? Why expose himself emotionally like this, and latch onto her and beg her to stop? Why did he care about her?
Well, she seemed nice. Khoshai was a hopelessly naive, innocent child. He wanted to see the good in people, and was the kid who "wanted to be friends with everyone" and hated when people were upset with him. He was a people pleaser, a child who loved to see people smile. And he was also quick to attach himself to others. He had only been living with Tora for only a little while now, and already saw him as the equivalent of a parent, and was practically attached to the Tiger Master at the hip (when he wasn't venturing through dimensional wormholes, of course). He met Majin Ala, and immediately liked her. She was a Majin, like him. She treated him well, and she understood him. And she exuded this loving nature that just attracted the boy, who had gone without parental care for....well....a long ass time, to say the least. He believed Ala could change, and the fact that she was gonna blow up the planet scared the boy out of his wits, so all he could do was beg her to stop, and pray she listened.
And, surprisingly enough, she did.
"I am a bad person. All I do is eat, kill, and destroy. It's... it's what I like to do."
Khoshai clung to her a little tighter, trying to stop his crying long enough to answer. Sniffling a bit, he looked up to her, his heterchromatic eyes meeting the darkened sclera of her own.
"You're...n-not a bad person. Not to me. You're really nice...and you look alot like me...and..a-and...you weren't mean to me when you woke up, like a lot of other people. Even if yo-you did bad stuff in the past....don't do it now."
"I can show you around Earth...I can introduce you to Big Brother Tora. He's really nice, and if you don't destroy stuff, or turn people into candy...he can help you be a superhero! Li-like he's training me to be. And we can be a happy family...and I ca-can call you Big Sister Ala...and we can have a lot of fun..." At that, Khoshai smiled softly as he tried to wipe away his tears. In doing so, he watched as Ala kissed him on the head, a gesture of affection that made the boy smile a little more, before she turned to face the giant monster in which she created. With a mighty roar, the woman sent another energy wave crashing towards the planet busting sphere, her "Vanishing Beam" as she penned it, crashing against the gargantuan sphere, sending the sphere rocketing back against the impact force. Up and up it went, disappearing beyond the clouds, pushing the gigantic sphere ever so gradually into the upper atmosphere, before it detonated, literally bathing the sky in brilliant hot pink.
"Alright Kho." She whispered softly, "Let's go back to Earth."
She did it...she gave up destroying Konats...for him. The fact of the matter spurred Khoshai to jump into her arms once more, not exactly factoring in that in her exhausted state, that she might not have been capable of carrying his weight. But then again, he was pretty light for a child his age. Unlike last time, however, this hug was not out of sadness, but out of happiness. The boy embraced Ala once more, resting his head against her shoulder, as a child might do with one's mother or other loved one. He was happy that Ala had chosen the good route, and wasn't going to destroy the planet. Now...they could properly go home.
"T-Thank you...Big Sister, Ala....do you know how to get home? Back to Earth?" Unfortunately, Khoshai didn't. The entire journey with Ala did not make him any more adept with opening dimensional rifts, and while he could probably make another one of that size, there wasn't exactly a way to pinpoint whether they'd end up on Earth, or Kabocha, or the Demon Realm. Or hell, maybe the Sacred World of the Kais. Thus, it was perhaps a better idea if he relied on the woman who had almost summoned enough power to destroy an entire planet, and then some, to get them home somehow.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2019 22:13:17 GMT -5
Majin Ala simply sat there for a few moments, letting out a long sigh. It felt like the weight of the world was lifted off her shoulders, if only for a moment. She could feel the warmth of Khoshai in her arms. So small, so young, so innocent. She wished she was still that innocent. No, Ala was far too wise for a Majin for innocence. While that may seem an oxymoron to most, it mattered to her. She'd seen how ugly the universe was, how much evil there was in it. She'd absorbed the negative emotions of so many powerful beings, she felt it swirling inside her. Anger, hatred, greed, cruelty, and so many more. A part of her wanted to go back to all that. It was, such an easier path. Caring about no one but yourself, just killing and eating and destroying simply for fun. She'd been a monster most of her life, because being a monster was easy. Being a person, that was hard. "Oh Kho." She cooed, brushing a lock of hair out of the young Majin's eyes. "Don't cry. Big Sister Ala won't allow it." Already she was taking to his nickname, returning the affection. Majins were like sponges for emotions. It had been the evil of civilization that had originally turned Buu to violence and anger. And now, it was the emotion of a small, scared, innocent little boy that was swaying a world destroying devourer to spare an entire planet. Just as simple as that, at least to a Majin that is. "You're right Kho. About everything. I want you to show me around Earth, it's been so long. I bet everything has changed. And I want to meet this Big Brother Tora, I bet he's great if you like him so much. And I'd never destroy anything on Earth. Earth's my home, it always has been."It truly had been eons since Ala had been on Earth. Centuries no less, for when last she was there humanity was only tentatively taking its first steps towards colonizing the stars. Their place in the galactic hierarchy was among the lowest rungs on the ladder. It was part of why Ala had left at all. Earth was boring, she had seen all there was to see. Done everything she thought she wanted to do. At least, that's what she'd thought then. What had adventure and travel gotten her anyways? Well... admittedly a lot. She'd grown enormously as a Majin, in both a literal and figurative sense. Gained nearly unrivaled power level, absorbed mighty foes and gained their knowledge and techniques. Experienced so much, even if so much of it was violence and destruction. Maybe it was time to put that all behind. How many people had she killed that deserved it? Lots, but so many magnitudes more hadn't. Entire cities, countries, planets of people. Panicked, scared, just like Kho. She hadn't cared then, battle lust and hunger in her eyes. All she'd thought about in those moments was sating her cravings. But now, now with the young Majin boy in her arms, she felt something new. Something Majin Ala had never felt before, not in all her five hundred and some years. The desire to protect another, to care for a being that wasn't just herself. Motherly instincts she didn't know she had welled up inside her, and she squeezed Kho tight in a spine crushing hug. Not that he had a spine, which was good for him. "Family." She said aloud, mostly to herself. That one little word, it meant everything to her. It was what Ala wanted more than anything in the world. More than battle, more than power, more than even food. She wanted a family to be hers, and a place they'd all call home. "I want that Kho. I want that a lot. I want to be a happy family. We can train and spar, and eat together and be happy and so much more." She looked into the boy's piercing mismatched eyes with her own twin black stare. "It will be fun. Promise."With that Ala rose to her feet, patting Kho's back before she let go of him. "Don't worry. I know how to get home. The same way you got here." She stated, though she didn't know for certain the Majin had a good hunch what Khoshai had done. He'd done the thing, the shout that rips apart space. The Vice Shout, a Majin technique that left unchecked could damage the fabric of the universe itself. Or, in more limited approach, rip a hole through the dimensions. Ala took Kho's hand in hers, squeezing it tenderly. "Ok, here's how we get home. Sense out, with your mind. Focus your ki, feel it? Everyone around us, all the people on Konats, great and small. Strong and weak, young and old. Feel all of them. Now, broaden your search. Use your more energy. Feel your way across the stars, search for Earth. You'll know it when you find it. Every race's ki feels a little different. You know what Earthling ki feels like, I know you do. Find it? I have." Ala herself had located the planet well before she began her lesson, this was merely teaching for her. "Once you find it, focus on the planet. Feel it moving in space. Planets go fast, we don't want to miss it. Even if its hard to tell when you're on it. Now focus your ki in your throat. Fill it with magic and emotion. Keep focusing on Earth. We let it out in a shout. Shout so hard you want to tear open space. Shout hard enough and it can open up a portal. But not too hard, or the Kais get mad at us. Ready?" She squeezed Kho's hand tenderly in hers one last time. "We'll do it together. It's easier that way, we don't have to yell as loud. Ok. Three, two, one, go!" With that Majin Ala tensed her muscles, aura flaring as she opened her mouth to scream. It was a deafening sound, it sent birds flying in terror and lightning crackled around her as she shouted. In front of her the air itself began to distort and change, shifting and swirling as reality itself began to buckle under Majin ki. A seam tore open, then split wide like a wound. It rippled and crackled with the effects of the Vice Shout. Then in a moment, the portal was opening in full. Big enough for even Ala's Sealed Ball, more than big enough for the two of them. On the far side was a rocky, barren expanse. The badlands of Earth, far from civilization. Ala wasn't sure where the portal would end up, but as long as it was Earth she didn't mind. "There. See Kho? Easy. It's because you're such a brave little Majin. And because you've got a big strong sister now." Ala said with a grin, letting Kho stare at their creation while she moved to grab her ball. The Majin picked up the two halves with ease, holding them overhead as she walked back to Khoshai. "Ready to go home? Ladies first." She said with a giggle, stepping through the portal, albeit having to duck a bit so her ball would fit too. She stood on the other side, setting the heavy sphere down in the dirt. Looking back on the grassy hills of Konats, before waving at Khoshai, ushering him to step through.
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Post by Doctor Kaijin Vex on Feb 28, 2019 3:38:32 GMT -5
He was content. Hopelessly content in her arms. She had listened to him, had avoided destroying the planet, instead choosing to do good and save the planet from her own destructive blast. Khoshai was ecstatic. He had seen enough destruction, enough killing, enough malicious intent for a lifetime. His father was a representation of mayhem and destruction, and as much as Khoshai tried to subconsciously block the memories out, he couldn't help but draw parallels between Ala's murderous gaze as she nearly prepared to destroy the planet, and the bloodthirsty, lustful look in his own father's eyes as he proceeded to eat Khoshai's entire family, before fighting the boy himself in an attempt to dominate him too. Even though the trauma of such an event caused Khoshai's mind and memories to just shut down, suppressing the majority, there were some things he simply could not forget. That was why the child instantly broke down. He didn't want her to end up like him. He didn't want another Saharis in his life.
But now? Khoshai couldn't be happier. Majin Ala represented safety, warmth, and family. She was a Majin, like he was. And her motherly instincts were infectious, and they washed over him, prompting him to never want to let go. His eyes met her own, and he smiled softly, even as he was set down besides her. When he was placed upon the ground, he was rather quick to take Ala's hand, desiring to remain in contact with her in some way, at least. Just as he had suspected, she knew how to get home. He knew she would, for she was an adult, and thus knew how to do anything. But the kicker was that she wanted Khoshai to help her. He looked up at her, shifting his feet around in a suddenly fidgety manner, his expression an unconfident one. He looked nervous, actually
"But..what if I mess up? I never did this before....and I-I got lost the first time...and what if we never get home...a-and...and..." Khoshai rattled off, his nervousness getting the best of him as he spilled out his anxiety to Ala. The portal had gotten him here in the first place, and while Khoshai was usually never one to back away from a challenge, today was a day of exceptions, and Khoshai found himself afraid of what was to come. He wasn't clingy and emotional usually either, yet here he was practically attached to Ala's hip, as a small child would be. And here he was, unsure and scared as to whether the next portal he conjured would send them somewhere in which they could not return from.
However, she needed his help. She was a powerful Majin, and she wouldn't have asked him to sense out his surroundings and help open the portal if she didn't require the assistance. He wanted to please her, he wanted to make her proud of him. Even if he was scared and unsure, he had to be brave. Feeling his hand squeezed, the child hugged Ala quickly, wrapping his arms around her quickly before letting go. Then, he stepped up to the plate, and closed his eyes.
Khoshai was never really good at sensing the Ki of others. There were times when he possessed astounding points of clarity, capable of pinpoining the energy of another from across planets, and then there were times where he couldn't sense a fly. This was mainly because, like many of the things that Khoshai knew how to do, his talent in Ki sensing came naturally, and was innate. He knew how to do it, yes, but it wasn't natural, and needed practice in order to perfect it. Practice that the boy regularly neglected to do until now. Listening to Ala's words, the boy sought to reach past himself, trying to get that "tingly feeling" and sense everyone around them. He had felt it before, but it was by accident. Now...he needed to learn how to do it on purpose.
And after several seconds, he just felt sleepy from closing his eyes for so long. But, then...a bright white flame lit up across his mental plane, then several more....then dozens more. The tingling feeling ran through his body as he suddenly became aware of the ebbs and flows of energy, of the Ki constantly flowing through the air around him, through every living thing. He became aware of the people, of the magical presence that surrounded Konats. Of his body absorbing the mystical energy, the likes of it empowering him.
Now broaden your search...
Khoshai felt his understanding, his grasp on the world expand as his energy sensing flew across the stars, across the planets, across the galaxy. He couldn't necessarily pick out the energy signature of one person on a planet halfway across the galaxy, no. But, he could sense the collective energy of billions on each planet, the spiritual vitality of the planets themselves, all giving off energy in waves that stuck out to the boy like beacons. And among the jumble of beacons, sat the familiar energy wavelengths of Earth.
"I...I feel it..." Khoshai reported his success to Ala, his pride in himself swelling by every passing moment. Maybe...maybe he could do this. This time, he was doing things differently than when he had messed up and gotten himself here. Now...he just had to do what he had done to get himself here in the first place...the moment of truth.
Doing as Ala said, Khoshai threw his head back and allowed his overwhelming energy to gather up in his throat, his intense magical and spiritual aura coming to his guide, coalescing in the diaphragm, ready to move up into the throat passageway and out the mouth at one's command. He thought of everything he had waiting for him at home. He thought of Tora, he thought of his friend Sly....and he thought of Ala. The woman that he had unintentionally set free on this day. He felt more connected to her than he ever had to another person, even Tora. He felt safe around her, and she in turn saw a side of him that few could ever see. He wanted to bring her back to Earth, back to Tiger Island, so he could show her the world....and they could travel together. He wanted to restructure his own family...since his original one ended so prematurely, and so tragically. He wanted to be loved..and to be cared for by people he cared about and loved just as much.
He wanted a family just as much as Ala did.
With such thoughts in mind, he threw his head forward and screamed, sending his energy outwards in invisible waves of intense power, the energy cascading in the air around them, distorting it as the very fabric of this dimension began to tear, creating a hole that continued to open up and widen, exposing a rift capable of taking them home. Him and Ala continued to scream together, their combined efforts refocusing the dimensional rift and giving it a clear pathway, cutting a portal in time and space that could send them straight to Earth. Even without jumping in himself, Khoshai knew this was the way home. He was sure of it. Ala and him had done it. Looking up to Ala, he smiled
"We did it!" He said, excitement creeping back into his voice. He beamed at Ala's praise, relishing the fact that she called him "brave". Like any young child, Khoshai thrived from positive reinforcement, and actively sought praise and approval from his authority figures, and hated when it was the other way around. Taking Ala's hand for security, Khoshai followed her into the rift.
The Rocky Barrens, Earth
The sun cast its' deep orange glow across the sky as the sun began to set. It was early evening by the time the two had arrived, the portal having taken them far from civilization, all the way into the rocky plateaus and wastelands where few roamed. Yet, it seemed appropriate in a way. At least this way no one would be freaked out by the sudden tearing of a dimensional portal, followed by two pink creatures stepping out from seemingly nowhere into their world. Regardless of their geographical location, Khoshai was happy.
This was home. This was Earth. Not Konats, not some deep dark black hole on the edge of space. It was home...and Ala was with him. Khoshai immediately closed his eyes, quickly taking to his newfound skill to try and sense anything around him...trying to locate that familiar energy...
And there it was! It was a long way from where they were, but he could sense Tora! The human's life energy was much higher than that of the standard human, given Tora was one of the strongest Earthlings on the planet. And where Tora was....so was Tiger Island. Looking to Ala, Khoshai ran over and hugged her once more, before taking her hand.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you! Thank you...for helping us to get home. I..I know where Big Brother Tora is. We can go there now, okay? Are you ready?" Khoshai asked, already tugging on her arm, eager to get moving.
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Post by Doctor Kaijin Vex on Mar 11, 2019 1:16:06 GMT -5
It was funny, how mistakes could often bear beautiful fruit.
Majin Khoshai couldn't have never imagined that this would have resulted the way it did. When he fell through the wormhole, and landed in Planet Konats, he didn't know what to think. To be honest, he didn't really think. He got scared, and wandered throughout the cave systems frightened out of his mind. His only chance at stability, ruined because he decided to play with portals, and fool around. But, in his folly, he found someone he could be great friends with. Majin Ala, a Majin who was more like him then most other people. Someone he felt truly connected to. He didn't even know why. Ala was nice, sure, and he loved nice people, but it was something else about her that drew him. That drew him to expose her to his true emotions, to allow the happy go lucky attitude to melt away, revealed the gentle, scared, dependent child he truly was, and to trust Ala to protect him.
As he flew through air, with Majin Ala close at his heels, the child couldn't help but grin. Maybe things were finally looking up. He didn't think they would. He thought that, in the aftermath of that horrible night, that he was bound to find something new by exploring the galaxy, especially given the boy couldn't even remember most of the night due to trauma. However, Earth had proven unforgiving. Humans running him out of towns, wicked witches casting bad spells on him, Vegetan Army Eaters on Planet Vegeta. Tora no Seishin was a bright ray of sunlight in the boy's life, and one that Khoshai was very much grateful for. However, he thought that was it. Sure, the kid had his friends. Quite a lot in fact. But, none truly compared to Tora. But...today, Khoshai had thought that perhaps he had found another.
Big Sister Ala.
It had a nice ring. He liked it. She just exuded that motherly instinct. He pictured the scene in his head. He would bring Ala to Tiger Island, make her an extra bed, and introduce her to Tora. They would all get along, and Khoshai would be the happiest of them all. Altogether, no one could ever stop them! No one could ruin their fun...and..most of all. Unlike last time, no one could break them apart. Deep in the back of his mind, Khoshai knew that somewhere out there, his father was roaming through the stars. Probably destroying planets, or eating people, or terrorizing some lone ship. Khoshai knew that one day, his dad would find him. And whereever Majin Saharis went, destruction followed. Khoshai had lost his original family to the menace, and was not prepared to lose another. Never again, would he allow himself to be subjected to the man's will. Never again, would he allow Majin Saharis to bully him again.
The next time his father came. If his father ever came to Earth, Khoshai would fight back. He would be the hero. Save the universe from his father's evil.
He swore it.
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