//------------------------------// // Chapter 59: Before the Semi-Finals // Story: Saiyan of Equestria // by Boyzilla //------------------------------// Tournament Saga Chapter 59: Before the Semi-Finals The darkness is all that covered his vision, total black, no color or light to be seen. He couldn't help but think he was dead, by some awful incident that perhaps his newly found ability caused the user to die afterward, or that he wasn't prepared for it. "Wake up!" Wait, who is that? "Wake up already! Copper!" Did whoever that is, have to be so loud... "Okay, fine, you asked for it!" Asked for what.... WHAA! Copper Will shot up into the air within a fancy dandy infirmary ring, before landing back on the bed, his vision was greeted with the laughing sight of both Kira and Ken. Huh, that sounded a bit off, okay then, Ken and Kira. Within Kira's open palm, a small orb of energy was radiating a blue glow. He narrowed his eyes at the female hybrid girl, no doubt she was the culprit behind his rude awakening. "The nine hells was that for?" Copper Will said. "To wake you up of course!" Kira replied, her hand falling down, the orb of energy dissipating into nothingness. "You don't wake someone up by burning their fur with a magic energy orb thing!" Copper Will exclaimed, sitting upward. "Ki, Ki." Kira corrected absently. Ken couldn't help but giggle, "Okay Copper Will, now that you're awake, how you feeling?" "You wake me up by singeing my fur, making me jump three meters into the air and land flat on my butt, and then you ask me how I'm feeling?" The minotaur ten year old questioned with a irritated expression. "Yep!" Both twins said with happy, carefree expressions. Copper Will sighed, "Yeah, fine, whatever." Ken instantly pointed to his sister, "It was her idea." He said with a grin. "Whaaaat!" Kira yelled, looking to her brother with a betrayed face, "No! It was totally nii-san's idea!" "Mmh hmm..." Copper Will couldn't help but smirk with amusement as the sudden betrayal of Kira's twin brother. He then decided to change the subject, "So, did I win?" "Huh?" Ken said, before noticing what he said, "Oh, no, you lost!" He said with a smile. "Why you so happy!?" Copper Will exclaimed. "Cause," Kira began to say in her brother's place, "Now you know what to aim for! So train really hard till you can beat Colrath!" The hybrid eight year old exclaimed, her fist raised into the air, clenched tightly. Copper Will sighed, "I'll sooner marry you than try facing him again." Kira blinked, before making a slight face of disgust, "Okay, first off, Eww, boy cooties. Second, think of how much you can train now that you know his moves and everything! Not to mention you got a new skill you could totally make better!" "I was joking, and... I guess so, through it'll take only like... Forty years of my life." Copper Will said with a hopeless tone. Ken tilted his head, "Why would it take that long?" Ken questioned. "Because one, I'm alone, two, I got no living relatives that can use the ability and which means I got no teachers, and finally, I got no sparring parties." Copper said. "Isn't being alone, and having no sparring partners, the same thing?" Ken questioned again. "Pretty much!" The minotaur child exclaimed. Kira tried to make a more positive remark, "Well, you got us! We're your friends, so we can spar with you!" She said. "You're not my friends," Copper Will began, "You're just some random people I met due to this Tournament." "But-" "You're not my friends." Copper Will interrupted Kira before she could make a argument. Ken spoke up, "Then why we here with you in the medical place?" the child stated, his tail wagging about. "I- Uh, why are you here in the infirmary?" He questioned. "Cause we're your friends!" The Twins exclaimed in unison. "Ugh... Forget it, fine, whatever!" The minotaur gave up as he threw is arm openly into the air. "Ken, Kira! Time to go!" The voice of Lyra, the Twins' mother, called out. Kira shouted back, "Okay!" Before looking back to Copper Will, "We'll see you tomorrow alright? Ken has his match against the pony minotaur hybrid thing." Copper Will snorted in contained laughter, "Scorpan, Kira." He corrected the little girl. "Yeah, yeah, schematics!" Kira said, waving him off. "See you later!" She said. "Bye Copper!" Ken yelled as he and Kira went off to their mother so that they could eat dinner, and go to back to the hotel. Within the unique, complex seal that lay permanently marked on Ken Altarmore-Heartstrings, Chris Dell-Altarmore watched his son and daughter walked with their beloved mother to the hotel they had temporary residence at. The saiyan Z-fighter smiled, heart filled with warmth that both of his children were enjoying life. But this happy-filled expression soon turned into one of slight concern and seriousness for the immediate future of his eight year old son. 'While I am glad that Ken is living his life and slowly regaining confidence in using his Ki, I fear that traumatic experiences of the EIOSES have left him a deeper scar.' Chris thought to himself as he paced around his capsule home construct within the seal. 'He fears training, I know he does. Little things like some Katas and weights are fine, but he fears sparring with his sister or anybody else for that matter.' The Z-fighter sat down on a chair looking out the window to the forest landscape, 'That will wear him down, his power will decrease too slowly to deal with any major threat in the future. Not to mention, it also affects Kira, since she would no longer have Ken to spar with as well. The two would fall out of sync, their combination fighting style would be crippled.' He stared into seemingly nowhere as he looked at the window, his fingers rubbing his chin in a thinker pose, 'I know something will appear, its bound to happen. A world such as this has quality similar to my Earth, villains both terrestrial and extraterrestrial will seek to control it for their own gains.' "Hah, the boy doesn't stand a chance anyway." The voice of a aggorant person said, "Focus on the girl, she's much more of a saiyan! Prideful, strong, and can take and give a beating." Chris stood up, and turned, he walked over to a living room and faced the person dressed in a blue battle suit with alien white armor encasing his upper body while his black hair spiked upright, defying gravity. Chris easily identified him as Vegeta, Prince of all Saiyans, "Ken is just as strong as his sister, and it is his own choice on what he should become." "I agree!" A more cheerful, carefree voice responded. "We can't force anyone to do something they don't want too do, it's best Ken and Kira train at their own rate!" Vegeta glared at a new person behind to voice, whom had spiky black hair pointing toward seemingly every angle, and a orange outer Gi with a blue inner shirt, "Shut up Kakarot, you don't understand saiyans. We live for battle if you've forgotten, if you are weak, then you die. Focus on the strong." He said. Kakarot, or more correctly, Goku, retorted back, "Anyone can defeat a strong person if they put their mind to it, all it takes is dedication." He responded. "However," Chris started to say, "That's what Ken lacks, he doesn't have any dedication beyond that of protecting Kira." "Tch," Vegeta said, "A true saiyan would train and rejoice for upcoming fights. Not cower in even using their abilities. Instead, he should control the Red Super Saiyan form and use it to crush the opposition!" "Vegeta!" Goku exclaimed with a shocked expression. "You know I'm right Kakarot," Vegeta said, glaring at the mentioned saiyan. Before turning to Chris, "And you as well, Karmel. That brat has to control that form sooner or later, best do it now." Chris glared back at the saiyan prince, "I will not force him!" He yelled. Vegeta remained in his arrogant attitude, "Wake up Karmel! You know a untrained power has consequences, either he learns how to use it, or you kill him before he kills both you and your daughter." Goku's eyes went wide, "It won't come to that, I'm sure Ken is just like Gohan! He'll control it!" Goku countered. "Just like your son controlled his own transformation? The somehow called, Super Saiyan two?" Vegeta retorted. "Enough!" Chris exclaimed with anger, "Ken is who he decides he wants to be, I will not force him to fight unless absolutely necessary! If he wants to do school, then he'll do school, if he wants to be a artist, then he will draw. If Ken wants to train and fight, then he will, darn it!" With that, both illusions of Goku and Vegeta whisked away into nothingness, leaving Chris alone in his Capsule home. "Even if I succumb to my own lonesome in this seal, Ken and Kira will have a lives of their own." He said to himself. Chris sat down in a recliner, looking at the large TV screen which was one of the ways to view the outside world. He could always just join alongside Ken's senses like he does in battles to gain a much better perspective. But the Z-fighter preferred this way in times of peace. His son and daughter looked to have arrived in the hotel room and were getting dressed for bed. Lyra helped wash them up. Chris smiled, the unicorn was a good mother to the Twins. He felt a slight pang of jealously for being able to physically be with Ken and Kira, but the Z-fighter squashed it. If he had found a way to leave the seal without killing Ken, he would have long ago. The lucky stroke with the remaining chaos magic was all but spent getting Kira back on her feet to fight her twin brother back in the EIOSES charade. He clenched his hands when thinking of those cursed so-called scientist. They were a mockery to the good-natured, the whole of Capsule Corp, himself, and to everything the Z-fighters stood for. Not to mention, they had quite the similarities with Dr. Gero, especially the leader... Ziek Foreton. Another thought popped in Chris's head, in which he had to bite his lip. He hoped that Kira was not scarred from fighting against Ziek Foreton from what he had gathered so far from listening outside of Ken. But it seemed the EIOSES leader had gone down self-destruction route, so Kira shouldn't feel like it was her fault, at least not too much. 'Dad,' Ken's voice suddenly made itself known. "Hm?" Chris replied. 'Good night,' Ken said through the seal. The Z-fighter smiled, 'Good night my son, sleep well.' He replied, before heading off to his own bed chambers to get some sleep of his own. 'For tomorrow will be a difficult day for you, Ken. This foe of yours, Scorpan, is no normal adversary.' Chris thought, 'And I'm afraid, you will be in the midst of struggle between yourself and your fear of using more and more Ki energy. But whether you give up, or find it within yourself to trust in your own strength. I will be there for you, every step of the way.'