//------------------------------// // Chapter 36: Heroine // Story: Saiyan of Equestria // by Boyzilla //------------------------------// EIOSES Saga Chapter 36: Heroine A white light traveled across the sky at resounding speed, it flew by the clouds and mountains easily like it was guided, which of course it was. The lighting aura was none other then a little eight year old girl, Kira. Who was heading toward the direction she felt Ken's Ki that night before. After traveling for two hours straight at fast speeds, and an empty stomach with nothing but pure determination. Kira finally was feeling a drain in her Ki reserves, and decided to take a quick stop for a snack and breath. She landed in the mist of the valley, looking around, she saw a cave nearby. Kira remembered from some Daring Doo books that a fruit called cavilon grew within the caves of Equestria. Hungry for a quick snack, and a little scared that she would eat all the food in her pack, making Ken not have any when she rescued him, she made way toward the humid, valley cave. Kira walked into the mouth of the cave. The little saiyan girl touched her light crystal tied around her neck, it lit up magically, showing the saiyan hybrid her surroundings. Just what she expected, she saw the fruit growing from the cavern walls. What she didn't expect, was a giant blue dragon to be sleeping in the cave. In shock, Kira took a few steps back. But unfortunately, luck was not on her side as one of those steps knocked down a rock which caused a collision with other rock pieces. The dragon began to stir from it's slumber. "Uh oh." Kira whispered to herself. The blue dragon opened it's eyes, it's eye ball was as big as the little saiyan herself. The dragon shifted it's front arms before looking toward the source of the light that had mysteriously lit in it's cave. Not thinking, Kira forgot to deactivate her light crystal, which in turn made the dragon locate her all too easily. "Which matter of creature are you to have entered my humble lair?" The blue draconian creature said, it's voice having a tint of feminine influence. Kira stumbled onto the ground in surprise, she intelligently said... "Sorry, I'll leave right away!" Revealing both her voice, her possible age, her gender, and her position even more. She turned around to leave the cave, then suddenly, the sky crackled and a large boom was heard overhead. A thunderous roar shook the sky and water came pouring down from the heavens. Or in simple terms, it was thunder-storming. "I wouldn't advise that hatchling." The dragon's voice seemed to be much, sweeter now, as if to appear more motherly. The Dragon shifted it's position, looking straight at young Kira. "So, what matter of creature are you? I've seen many in my time, but you are... unique to me." "I'm a... uh... human!" Kira said, switching the word saiyan with human. It's not like she was lying, it was partially true! The dragon raised a scaly eyebrow at the 'human' hatchling, but discarded the information and returned to the previous subject. "And what might you be doing here?" She questioned. "I-" *GROWL* Kira's stomach spoke for itself, growling like a lion on a prairie. The dragon chuckled a deeply. She now knew why the human hatchling had entered, the fruit of course. The blue draconian reached with her tail at a basket filled with cavilon fruit. She brought it in front of the child and dropped it, motioning her to go ahead. "Thank you miss?" "Sapphire Bluefang, and you?" The dragon asked. "Kira! Kira Altarmore-Heartstrings!" She responded cheerfully before digging into the cavilon fruit, which was pretty much the watermelon of Equestria, except the outside was colored yellow. Kira's tail wagged behind her in joy at finally getting something to eat. A few minutes later of uninterrupted eating... Sapphire blinked, not once, not twice, but three times. Why? Because this little human hatchling just kept on eating... And eating... And eating... She could continue on, because that's all the little human in front of her was doing! She was practically eating eight times her size! Where did it all go? How was she doing this? And why was Kira in the valley in the first place? The last question seemed more logical to ask then asking her where did the fruit go. "So hatchling, what is your purpose here in the valley?" Sapphire asked. Kira turned her attention to Sapphire, now filled with contentment in her stomach. "Oh, well you see..." The rain ended and a group of eight ponies traversed along the old Alicornia roads once again. Three unicorns, two pegasi, two Earth ponies, and the princess of the night, the Alicorn Luna. Suddenly, Pinkie's whole body spazzed out. "Oh, oh! A big, big, big doozie is gonna happen!" Pinkie cheerfully said. "Is that a bad, or good, doozie?" Lyra questioned. "I don't know, but it's usually something like both! It feels like a good and bad thing close together!" Pinkie ecstatically replied. "Well isn't that reassuring." Twilight replied with slight annoyance on how she still couldn't figure out Pinkie's pinkie sense. "Well, whatever it is, let's just hope that it'll be the good one first." Applejack assured. The group of ponies continued on the road. When appearing over a hill, they saw a big set of ruins. The leader of the group, Luna, turned her attention to the rest of the ponies. "Alright, this is the designated area. Now we can't just barge into the front door and scream for them to release the human. We'll circle the ruins and enter from the side, we'll have to do this quietly and slowly as to not draw attention." Luna said, marking the area on the map. "Um... couldn't we just... Ask nicely for the child back? If that's okay..." Fluttershy whispered. "Sorry Fluttershy, but these ponies are bad and will do anything to hurt others." Twilight said. "But... Oh, I don't think I can do this!" Fluttershy said, attempting to shrink herself into a smaller being. "Uh... Perhaps it's best if you stay here... With Rarity." Twilight responded, looking to Rarity. Rarity nodded and said. "Yes, a place like that is no place for a lady, I shall accompany Fluttershy here and watch for hooligans." Luna nodded, after all a lookout had an important job too. "Alright, Fluttershy and Rarity will stay here and be the lookouts. If you spot anything just do one of your bird calls Fluttershy." "Oh yes, I can make bird sounds really well." Fluttershy replied. "Well, what are we waiting for! Let's go show those ponies who's boss!" Rainbow yelled. 'Don't worry Ken, momma's coming to get you.' Lyra thought, determined to bring Ken back safely To bad they didn't see a small black figure entering the ruins. Kira landed in the midst of the ruins, it was thanks to Sapphire she had even found the place at all. The blue dragon had told her of some ruins where suspicious activity was rumored to be happening, and though she couldn't leave the lair due to some dragon eggs needing care for, she gave Kira a new technique that easily applied to her Ki. It wasn't that hard of a technique to learn, but that was probably because of Kira's unique DNA. With both human ingenuity and the saiyan learning speed, you can only guess of the possible things the little hybrid could do. The previously magical technique was called Swirling Sphere, basically the only thing Kira had to do to adapt it was compress her Ki into a sphere shaped orb like the Kamehameha, then spin it around and keep the energy suppressed. Then you slam it into a target and the orb would burst outward like a one-way stun bomb, essentially paralyzing the opponent. A useful skill for one such as her, she couldn't bear killing someone, let alone a pony. The only thing they had really killed was a Manticore and a rampaging mindless dragon, but those were barbaric and without thought. The little saiyan female moved quietly alongside the wall, unlike ponies her feet and boots barely made a sound, especially if you had some Ki in them. Kira saw an opening, but before she could enter it, she heart voices just inside it. Kira hid from sight and listened in with her enhanced saiyan hearing. "What! Why do I have to gather them!" A stallion's voice was heard, obviously complaining about something. "Because you failed to get the female human along with the male! Now toughen up pony and get to your job!" Kira instantaneously now knew that that specific stallion was the one who had stolen her brother that fateful day. Her Ki began rising, anger and resentment towards that specific pony, and the one whom he talked too. But a logical part in her mind held her hand, it told her to stay hidden and wait, this ironically came from her saiyan side which was not as conflicted by emotions. The pony mumbled with complaint as it exited the ruined building, he didn't see Kira who was on the ceiling keeping afloat with her Ki. The pony turned around and used magic to close the ruined building entrance into a wall, then he turned back around and left the area. Kira jumped down from the ceiling and stood up. She then looked at the now walled up entrance. She placed her hand on the wall, only to receive a mild shock. "Ouch!" She said as she pulled back her hand. She looked back at the wall "Now what? I have to get in..." She looked around, for any sort of switch or maybe a loose brick, however each time she tried for a brick she would get a shock. *TISS* "Ouch, okay, okay, no more bricks..." She said to herself, flexing her slightly numbed hand. So, she decided another course of action, she took a few step backs, raised her non-numbed hand and gathering Ki, shot forward a weak Ki blast at the wall. Only for it to sizzle and be absorbed, making Kira frown. The little saiyan went against a pillar only to feel the familiar shape of Ken's Slicing Pole. "That's it!" Realization came to her, she unsheathed the Slicing Pole an attacked the wall with it. The wall might have well been paper, because the magical bo-staff sliced through the rock with ease. The wall tumbled onto the ground just as quickly as it was cut down. Kira re-sheathed Ken's bo-staff and made her way into the ruined building, deeper and deeper she went. "Hurry, you don't what him to be angry, do you?" "Shut up you brainless bird! I'm doing my best!" "Well your 'best' isn't good enough!" "Perhaps you should work instead of stand there you-" *BANG TANG KADOON* Both the Griffon and Pony fell unconscious from the blows of a little human saiyan hybrid girl. Kira looked at them, and then stared at the knocked out Griffon. Well, she read about them, but had never seen one before except in books. "So, this is a Griffon?" She questioningly said, poking the Griffon's wings, her saiyan tail swishing behind her in contentment. "Hey, what's going on down there!?" A not-so-distant voice rang out. Kira looked around for an escape, but finding none, she used her Ki and floated to the ceiling top. The voice turned out to be another Griffon, who was wearing a lab coat and carrying a spear. The Griffon ran up to the knocked-out scientist sprayed across the floor. Kira from above, opened her right palm, she focused concentrated Ki into a swirling white sphere crackling with energy. The emitted light from the sphere caused the Griffon to look up, spotting the young child. Too bad for him, he was too slow. The heroine came crashing down onto the Griffon's back, the furiously, rotating white sphere slamming into the base of his wings. "SWIRLING SPHERE!" Kira yelled out her attack's name. The concentrated Ki orb exploded outward onto the Griffon's body, the energy coursing through his spinal cord effectively paralyzing the large bird. The Kinetic force from Kira's fall also applied to the sphere, rendering the Griffon into the world of dreams just like the previous two scientist. "That's for Ken!" Kira said to the out cold Griffon, grinning at her so far success. She turned toward the hallway, her tail whirling with her body, and journeyed down it. The little saiyan girl came across a doorway, she cut through it with Ken's Slicing Pole then entered the... Apparently quite large and marble covered room. The room also happens to have a half a dozen unicorns in it, all staring at her. Horns Glowed. "Oh frost tarts." Kira sighed. *Pew pew pew* Kira rolled forward, the magical bolts going overhead. With determination she jumped up dodging another blast and propelled herself from the ceiling down. Her speed seemed to make it all in a few seconds as she dodged every single bolt that appeared in her path, with every step she came closer to the unicorns. The hybrid child shot a Ki blast right into the middle of the group, separating them as the kinetic explosion cause them to fly in multiple directions. Kira, ran toward two other Unicorns. The two Unicorns tried to cast their offensive spells but underestimated Kira's speed. She reached toward them, and shot her left leg onto a Unicorn side, and using her momentum, shot her right elbow into the others face. A cracking sound was heard as bones broke, both unicorns sent flying to the direction the force of Kira's attack applied. 'Two down' "Whoa!" Kira yelled in surprise as she brought her arms crossed over her face in a protective stance. Four magical bolts made contact, but somehow, the little girl was only pushed back slightly, and barely felt anything. She checked herself for damage, but found only small scratches. No blood whatsoever as the magic never pierced her skin. "Wow! I must be too strong for them!" She exclaimed, grinning joyfully at her strength. The unicorns looked onward in shock, Kira decided to finish them. She brought her hands to her forehead in a quick manner, yellow Ki energy gathered so quickly that if you blinked, you would miss it. She brought it forward in front of her while saying it's signature name. "Masenko Ha!" The attack wave came forward at lightning speed, crushing obstacles that lay in it's way to dust. The unicorns never stood a chance as the wave exploded at their feet, effectively either killing them or knocking them out, Kira didn't know. She was on a mission to get her brother. She exited the room to come across a splitting crossways. "Mmh, if I think about it... That fight was really easy." Kira said to herself. "Now, which way is nii-san?" She looked down both pathways, but couldn't pinpoint her brother's Ki or anything to lead her with. "Well, I guess there is only one way to do this!" She exclaimed, she pointed her finger at a pathway and then started saying... "Enie meanie miney mo catch a Manticore by his toe, if he hollers let him go, uhh... My mom told me to pick the very best one and you are it!" The little human saiyan hybrid rhymed out, her finger switching to a pathway choice with every word. Her finger ended on the right pathway. "Of course! It wouldn't be the right way if it wasn't the right path! That would be silly if it was left!" She said, the young heroine then ran down the right pathway. *Kkkkkkreeek* A door creaked open, and the being looking through, seeing nobody around, opened the door fully and walked in. Once again, the little saiyan hybrid heroine looked around for potential enemies. 'This place is like.... empty, where is all the bad guys?' She questioned herself, she stepped in front of a long iron bridge, with rushing water deep down under it. Like, really rushing water, like super fast rushing water. Kira stared over the bridge into the furious river below. 'Wow, I didn't know they had a river in this place.' Our heroine thought to herself. Suddenly, the doors behind her closed and locked. And the walls on both sides started to close toward her, a trap it was, anypony would be forced to jump down into the river and possibly drown. Too bad for the trap, Kira wasn't a pony, nor was she considered an 'average' person of the world. "Silly trap, I'm no Daring Doo!" Kira giggled to herself. With Ki pumped legs, Kira let loose a burst of speed that was inhumane to an average human, she reached the other side of the bridge in a matter of not minutes, not seconds, but milli-seconds. The hybrid child then cut through the locked door easily with the Slicing Pole before entering, leaving the trap with it's now useless purpose. Once Kira entered, she was greeted by the friendly coalition of white lab coated species. "Not again... " Kira commented softly. Two Minotaurs charged forward, hoping for an excellent pay raise after they catch the only female of the human race. But Kira acted faster, she jumped up at exactly the right time, her small nimble body provided her with easiness to slip from the Minotaur's attempted grasp. The two minotaurs bumped into each other, horns now locked. Kira landed back on the ground with her two little feet, whipped around with her right arm outstretched toward the horn-locked duo, and with utmost delay, shot a Ki wave right at them. Surprisingly they were not incinerated as their bodies seemed quite resilient. Not that it helped them that much, the two minotaurs were instantly knocked out from their brains shutting off to stop the major pain. The room was huge, the ceiling allowed for a quite versatile flying area. And thus, a Pegasus charged from the air at the eight year old. Kira's white aura burst into existence and shot her upward into the vast aerial room. To everypony, the Pegasus moved at breakneck speeds, to Kira, they were going in slow motion. Her saiyan blood boiled for battle, she couldn't help but grin as the Pegasus closed in all around her. Her body, toned with the training reflexes and warrior instincts, allowed her to easily guide the first strike. *WHAM!* Kira's fist cuffed together, came crashing down onto a pegasi's head sending him plummeting to the marble flooring below. Another Pegasus came from the side, but the saiyan child shot her left left in a one-eighty motion hitting the side of the pony. Kira pushed off the pony with her legs and propelled herself rightward, dodging another Pegasus that crashed into her previous foe. The heroine thrusted her arms and hands forward and a Ki blast came forward, eliminating two more ponies from battlefield. Suddenly magical bolts and enchanted arrows came shooting at her from the unicorns and earth ponies below. She dodged a few before letting gravity take control and started falling to the ground, continuously accelerating. Before impact she powered up, her aura re-emerging and her fist aiming at the marble tile. *Kadooosh!* Her Ki powered fist and the force from her fall applied to the flooring, making all the marble tile in the room shake and fly up from their edges. Causing all the unicorns and earth ponies to collapse onto the ground and then deal with the pain of falling marble tiles slamming into their bodies as gravity reapplied itself to them. But Kira righted herself upward from slamming her fist into the tiles, her senses screamed at her to duck, but her human mind didn't process the saiyan instincts fast enough as a speeding hoof came in contact with the back of her head. The small child fell to the ground face first from the impact. "I did it, I did it! The b**** is out cold!" The Pegasus celebrated, other fellow lab workers also cheered. The Pegasus turned to his fellow workers in the praise, surely the human female is out for the count! "Ka... Me... " "Thank you, Thank you!" The workers continued to cheer. "Ha... Me... " Suddenly the cheering stopped, they all looked to the air, and there they saw, the same human child that was just 'knocked' out before. The Pegasus looked to the crater where he saw her collapse, only to see 'her' distorting image disappear. "What the B-" "HA!" A colossal blue energy wave erupted from Kira's palms. The Kamehameha wave came crashing into all the foes that were still in the fight, smashing the marble into dust particles and causing all the ponies to dodge, but even if they dodged the wave hurt them, causing many injuries. Kira, not one to look at her incredibly injured opponents. Quickly made her way to the next door and left the room full of beaten lab coats, through deep somewhere in her mind, she enjoyed how they were all injured from all her brother went through on Earth. "Sooo looong!" The human hybrid complained, Kira continued to run down a hallway, turn after turn, hallway after hallway, the saiyan child soon figured out she was stuck in a maze. That, and she was totally lost. She scratched her hair with both hands in minor frustration. "How am I suppose to find nii-san if I'm lost!" Kira yelled. The little girl looked around, but saw no direct pathway that gave a direction for her to go. So she sat down crossed legged and crossed arms. Kira pouted cutely as she racked her human mind for an answer for how to get out of the maze she was currently lost in. 'Maybe if I-no that's silly, umm maybe... Mmh...' Kira continued to think, but it didn't take too long for her patience to wear thin. "Ugh!" She yelled, her hands clutching her head in a failing attempt to somehow get an answer. The small hybrid girl breathed in and out steadying, calming herself down from her frustration of the surrounding maze and lack of answer. 'Daddy said if you can't think, meditate? Kira recalled. Now the twins rarely meditated, mostly because well, they're children. But they did do it time to time, to help increase their control over their Ki reserves. That is mostly also because 'Daddy' Chris didn't want them to suffer into what he calls 'Human power degeneration', which basically causes them to lose strength over periods of time due to inactive training. So Kira put her hands together, her breathing slowing and her tail going from it's frustrated wagging into a calm wiggling motion. Kira's heart calmed into a gentle beating rhythm, and she could feel her own Ki energy as clear as day. The saiyan child felt her aura stretch out, sensing around her immediate area before enhancing itself to the whole maze corridor. Then she found it, the exit where a few signature lay standing in some sort of face off. But one energy signature stood out, one Kira knew too well. The hybrid opened her eyes, her breathing and heart beat quickening for a brief moment as she said one singular word. "Mommy?"