Tournament Saga
Chapter 63: The Impenetrable Barriers
Kira's Ki surged outward from within her body, channeling toward her hands that whipped to her forehead. The half saiyan girl's palms brightly glowed with a spike spherical yellow energy before she released it all only a few seconds later, shouting the technique's name with a fantastic display of sheer Ki.
"Masenko ha!" Kira exclaimed loudly, her hands thrusting forward as a yellow beam of energy shot outward.
Colrath's eyes widened in surprise at the spontaneous instance of the technique's creation and initiation, hastily twelve barriers lit up in defense of its host. Kira's Masenko collided with great amounts of force against the first of the numerous shields, splitting apart into multiple beams that seemed flow all around the outer edge of magical defense. The ground cracking apart, and the arena lighting up brightly with a yellow and reddish hue mix from the collision of the two instances.
The hybrid's technique died down soon after, not meant to be continuously channeled like the Kamehameha Wave. It had served its purpose for Kira, as while Colrath defended against the Ki attack, the eight year old rushed to the side before channeling Ki energy into her legs to get herself a speed boost in which shot her forward into melee range with breakneck haste.
"Fast!" Colrath commented as he turned to face his young opponent.
"And you're slow!" Kira replied as a royal blue sphere of concentrated Ki energy formed within her palm. "Swirling Sphere!" She shouted as she smashed the technique into the other side of the barrier, large amounts of volts circulating from its origin and spreading throughout the entirety of Colrath's defense.
However Colrath wasn't one to stand around as his foe took the offense, channeling magical energy into his claws he began launching a multitude of arcane bolts in retaliation. This counter attack prompted Kira to disengage as she leaped back to avoid the incoming bolts, dodging each one of them in succession with no damage to herself.
Kira's feet dragged themselves against the stone tiles of the arena floor, small clouds of dust picking up into the air as she finished halting her fast movement. She looked up to see Colrath, having stopped his attack as he glared right back at her, the twelve barriers vanishing from sight until Kira strikes again.
All this happened within the span of two minutes.
The watching audience were speechless, how could they not be when they had just seemed an intense match between two fighters in such a quick matter?
Our heroine didn't have a single drop of sweat, nor did she have any loss of breath.
Colrath had an identical appearance.
'Dang it, I don't think I was fast enough...' Kira trailed off in her thoughts, 'Now what?'
That thought process cost Kira, as Colrath had been watching attentively for Kira's attention to lapse. Large draconian wings spread outward before propelling Colrath with a great beat of his wings.
"Uh oh!" Kira exclaimed, a blue aura of Ki bursting around her as she tried to fly around from Colrath's quickening approach.
But the humanoid dragon seemed to quick despite his size as his large claw came up to strike, Kira, in mid-air, bent her head back as the dangerous natural weapon swiped upward, missing Kira by a hair's length. In a quick counter action, Kira's foot came in for rebound, only to meet the annoying magical barrier of Colrath's creation.
"Stupid barraaaaaaah!" Kira yelled as she found her foot grabbed hold on by Colrath, who pulled down, spun one-eighty degrees, and then toss her rolling and skidding across the arena stone ground.
She recovered quickly, smacking her hand onto the ground and pushing up, allowing her to get into the air and then land on both feet. Colrath had already made his way in front of her, both fist closed together in an effort to slam downward onto her, but as his melee attack approached, Kira's body lit up with a bright red flash of Ki energy.
"Kaio-Ken times two!" She shouted, additional speed, power, and strength fueling the hybrid's body as she dodged Colrath's attack with ease. Kira Heartstrings approached from the side, an red fiery Ki aura traveling along her figure as her left hand punched harshly against the barrier that came into appearance in defense of Colrath's vulnerable state.
The ground shook from the pressure that emitted off Kira's attack as it impacted against the first barrier, small cracks forming in its wake as tiny red energy shards floated with strange natural grace away from the shattered cracks of the defensive shield.
"Curses!" Colrath replied as his tail came swiping toward Kira's form, the hybrid girl backing away from the lengthy appendage. The dragon fighter fueled his magical energy into his first barrier, repairing the damage that the human girl had done to it.
With the Kaio-Ken technique extinguished, Kira jumped back a few meters to give herself some space to think of a solution in penetrating Colrath's formidable fortifications.
'Wow, Colrath wasn't kidding when he said that his barriers were improved. I used twice the Kaio-Ken and yet it didn't shatter the first one, not to mention he repaired it shortly afterward...' Kira trailed off in her thoughts as she watch Colrath looked back at her in anticipation of the fight continuing.
"I got to say Mr. Colrath, your barriers are really strong!" Kira exclaimed her compliment.
"I thank you for your positive comment," Colrath replied in earnest, "And I must counter that... That Kaio-Ken skill is quite the augmentation to break a part of my barriers."
Kira paused, she didn't really know what augmentation meant, "Um, thanks?" Kira replied questionably.
"But, if that's all you can manage, then you can forget trying to break through my barriers." Colrath said with a smug look as he crossed his arms.
"And you can forget about beating me!" Kira retorted, although a smile was plastered on her face, saiyan blood flowing through her veins with much eagerness for the incoming fight.
Colrath began firing off multiple arcane bolts toward Kira, with a single step on the ground toward Colrath, Kira's body lit up in a fiery red flame. With muscles straining, and energy coursing through her body, Kira activated the Kaio-Ken technique on higher level.
"Kaio-Ken times three!" The hybrid girl exclaimed.
Like a bullet, Kira's form traversed the distance between herself and Colrath within seconds, a substantial amount of dust being thrown into the air behind her, bits of the child's aura dissipating around her like small crimson candle lights. In despite of Colrath's offensive spells, Kira weaved her form left and right, dodging the arcane bolts faster than the naked eye could follow.
"What in the name of Tartarus!" Colrath shouted in shock, giving up the action of continuously firing his arcane bolts, he hastily channeled his inner magical energy into that of a technique comparable to a spread shot.
Kira, at that very moment that Colrath began to use his technique, stepped on Colrath's barrier and ran over the topside as he fired the magical spread shot which missed altogether. The half saiyan girl leaped from the top backside of the magical fortification, hands cupping to her right side as a bright blue concentrated ball of energy formed within the empty space between her palms.
"Kamehameha!" Kira quickly shouted, firing the blue beam right at space she leaped off from.
The powerful Ki wave collided with Colrath's defenses with a bright continuous light, struggling against each other as the destructive force tried to overcome the impenetrable wall.
"Come on, break already!" Kira yelled as she pushed more of her energy into the Kamehameha Wave; which grew in size in response, increasing the pressure it kept pressing onto the shields.
"Grrrrgh!" Colrath growled through his teeth, pouring his own magic into the first barrier to hold back the child's dangerous technique.
The ground crackled apart from the constant struggle between the two energies, each battling the other for dominance; artificial winds blowing from the origin of the collision, blanking over the audience whom all held shielded their eyes with hooves and claws to not get dust in their eyes.
"Tch," Kira hissed through her own teeth, before shouting, "Kaio-Ken times four!"
The reddish aura that surrounded her previously seemed to flare outward in the sudden increase of the technique's usage, Ki surging through her body and fueling the hybrid girl's Ki technique with additional fuel. With this substantiation augmentation in fire power, the first barrier could no longer handle the heavy strain caused by Kira's Kamehameha, cracks formed and shards shattered.
*CRASH!*
"Nee-chan broke it!" Ken shouted from the background.
"Yes!" Kira exclaimed in her small victory, the Kaio-Ken technique fading from her body, "One for Kira, zero for drake face!" She finished.
Looking down at her opponent, Kira stopped fueling the Kamehameha Wave as to stop wasting Ki. She then clenched her fists, her move only destroyed one of those super annoying barriers!
'Well, at least that's one down! Lots more to go...' Kira's thoughts trailed as she floated back to the ground, standing many meters away from her opponent.
Colrath walked forward with a slow pace, his eyes staring down at the eight year old child in front of him.
"From this point on..." Colrath began, a blue magical aura emitting around his form, slowly channeling throughout him like water serenely crashing on the beach shores. His barriers formed around him, and Kira stood shocked as the first barrier she had just destroyed repaired itself within a instance notice. "You will know a true battle."
"Wha... How?" Kira seemed shell shocked.
Colrath was there one moment, and the next, he vanished.
Kira's instincts warned her in a moment's notice, her sensing abilities screaming for her dodge. The hybrid girl weaved to the left, only to be too slowly as Colrath appeared and struck her side with his knee, following it up with a claw strike that tore through pieces of her outer Gi as she finally managed to get out of the way of the attack.
'He's energy increased a lot!' Kira thought to herself, her mind running at a million miles an hour, 'I won't be able- No I can beat him! It's just going to be really hard with Super Saiyan.'
The half saiyan girl dodged another blow, just barely, but didn't expect the tail swipe which impacted her backside, sending her flying before she righted herself with a burst of Ki.
'I can't hit him once with those stupid barriers! Not only that, but he can repair them if given enough time!' Kira began to formulate a plan, as she and Colrath once against collided in a spree of martial arts. 'I have to hit him!' Kira thought.
She ducked, before uppercutting with her fist which only impacted against the barrier. Kira quickly defended herself by raising her arm and blocking Colrath's right claw, it didn't penetrate her skin due to her reinforcing herself with Ki energy.
'All at once!' Kira continued as she pushed the claw back, and began jumping back, shooting a volley of Ki blasts as a effort to distract while she evaded. "I got to destroy the barriers all at once, in a continuous barrage of powerful attacks! Each stronger than the last!"
Our heroine landed, her feet dragging against the stone ground and picking up small traces of dust before she came to a complete stop. The eight year old looked upward at Colrath, fists clenched as her body went back into her martial arts stance.
"Only..." Kira trailed off, "How do I do that?"