The Days of Maruca Senda

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Leaves of Green

Year 1

"Training with Kaioshin Heiwa!"

After ending up inducted into the home of Kaioshin Heiwa, less than a year ago, life had become an easy, yet routinely scheduled plan for her. She would start every morning by awakening in the strange mansion home she now inhabited, brush her teeth and get dressed in plain green gi, and have breakfast with her host. He would usually read a book while she ate a breakfast of pork sausage, bacon, ham, and hard-boiled eggs. This would give her massive amounts of energy during the day and not force her to do the one thing she really hated to do in her life. That thing was to eat green vegetables, or much other plant material for that matter. The reason was that by consuming plants like rice, broccoli, and squash she felt she was killing herself and her people. In fact, there was actually some truth to that since Florians were indeed alien plant like humanoids.

As alien plant like humanoids, Florians only needed three things in life sunlight, air, and water. Maruca though liked to consume meat though because she felt it added more power in her noticeably frail body. It was how she considered she had shamefully died in the mountains she was exploring; therefore, this shame needed remedy and as such Maruca needed more power if she were to ever get herself revive and stay alive in a world filled with aliens, dangerous martial artists, and a universe of other creepy phenomena.

Every day, she spent her mornings with Heiwa perfecting her Solar Absorption Shield in order to learn his secret technique. She also watched news daily using Heiwa’s antennas to listen in on Earth news from Geurin. After many weeks of listening to him, she found him somewhat dislikable and quickly forgot about him in order to focus on her training. Heiwa had her do many weird things like pull carrots from his garden against her will, fetch the morning newspaper, and do pull-ups over a pot of boiling vegetable soup every night. It was for their dinner, but due to Maruca’s dislike of his actions against plants, she really came to wonder if she could learn anything under him.

One day, she managed to clench her hands in front of her and produce a ki shield that fit the specifications of his Seraph Shield. She practiced this for about eight weeks and slowly over time mastered the technique as she came to find two other things occurring. One thing was that the gravity, which was ten times Earth, seemed quite lighter on Heiwa’s planet and that she ended up with a lesser aversion to him taking plants and manipulating him for his own uses. After all, she realized some people needed the cute leaves off shrubs, the sticky lichen of caves, and the hard bark of great big trees to do things. The great thing about her shield was that as the pink aura rose around her to protect her anything that was hurt came out looking much better than it had before as long as it was under her shield and she had the right amount of ki to supply to a thing. Most of the time, this technique only seemed to work on organic materials, but to Maruca that did not matter since those were what she cared about the most. She mostly used the technique on his planet to heal a few low-lying grass areas where there was practically shrubbery. She wanted to turn his planet into a land of Green Leaves and by the end of learning, her technique it already looked like it was going in that direction.

To increase her power and make sure the technique ended up learned, Heiwa had her practice against weaker techniques with her ability to dodge shot and aimed ki blasts. To do this, he created three yellow smiley faced balloons. He then proceeded to tell her that if she wanted to pass this first test she would need to block the ki shots he fired at her. At first, Maruca thought the best strategy was to stand in front of them and use both shield capabilities she had. Unfortunately, she soon came to realize he was increasing the speed and power of each ki blast, which caused her to end up knocked back until all three balloons popped.

He would have her training with this same technique for another three weeks until she realized that she needed to move her feet to protect the easily pop able balloons. It took another two weeks, but she managed to learn how to dodge the shots fired at her by constantly using ki to activate her Bukujutsu and jump tremendous heights while running instead of standing in place. This caused many of the blasts to veer off in directions Heiwa had not intended and allowed her to pass the test with more solid footing in fighting.

As a final test, Heiwa called in Maruca the next week for a last bit of training. He moved them to the sacred Kaioshin planet where both stood at the bottom of a hill with a giant boulder until Maruca realized there was one hundred times the amount of gravity pressing down on her body. Heiwa sat on the ground there and said, “If you can stand up, push the boulder up the hill, and stop it from rolling down the other side. You pass and can go home. But you may not use your powers.”

Heiwa then waited as Maruca strained her body to stand up before him. Maruca agreed to this test and stretched her arms out to wake up her muscles in the early morning, trying to pretend she was not feeling any pain at all. She stepped towards the boulder and tapped the smooth, rocky surface saying, “I am sure this thing can be moved by my own hands. She proceeded to push against the side of it with her hands then her full body, but the rock barely moved an inch.

She would slowly, over the remaining months of the year come back to this rock each day and try to push it up the hill. The issues that always came up she thought was that she was not really moving it at all. The boulder was just so heavy it did not appear to move, and each time it looked like she managed to move it the rock would slide back down the hill and nearly crush her. It was only thanks to her previous trainings that she was able to move her body with the finesse to dodge it. Eventually, this training took so much strain on her body that by the time she did finally manage to get it to the top of the hill there was literally a giant rut behind her where the rock had rolled over.

“Oh boy!” she heard Heiwa cry as he gave her a cheeky smile. “You helped me finish my terrace garden! But I really do need two sides to it for a nice runoff area.”

Maruca gawked and cried, “I was helping make a terrace garden this whole time!” she was very angry with herself for having taken this person’s training seriously. The last test had made sense she felt since then she could move faster and the others before that appeared to be for endurance and gaining of basic skills. This test, however, did not make sense since she thought, “Why take it at times? If this is some kind of test for training power I already have enough.”

Unfortunately, despite Maruca’s sweaty condition after this test, Heiwa would not let her rest. He immediately warped over to the top of the hill and floated next to the rock while saying, “I am going to push this rock over the other side. You better catch it and stop it before it destroys my lakebed on the other side. I almost have a completely desired spot here for myself, but it needs a bit of tweaking.

Maruca could not believe what she was hearing as she watching him push the rock with his index finger over the other side of the hill. She rushed towards it and immeadiately got in front of the rock while thinking, “What am I doing? Should I care about his garden? Wait, I am a Florian! Of course, I should! He’s trying to amend for eating so many poor vegetables.”

Tears formed in her eyes as she drew up all the strength in her body and braced her arms out straight in front of the rock. She pushed back on it with all of her might, but the rock did not seem to slow. The hill was big though, a hundred feet high, and very slick due to the grassy surface on it. Maruca hoped she could stop the rock in time and then… She felt the power of her primary transformation well up. She was going to have to use her full power and transform to stop this situation, however, she knew this was against the rules, so she suppressed it and used her own natural strength alone to get the job done. She did not think it was much strength, since Florians were not physically strong, though to her surprise, she found herself suddenly standing before the rock, standing straight up, on the other side of the hill. Her power alone had saved the day, for now.

When all the tests were done, she was ready to leave, Heiwa had her meet out in front of his mansion house, promise to use her training for only good things, and to protect the innocent. Heiwa then got rid of a strange disk, a halo, which Maruca had not noticed much over the past her, on top of her head. With that, Heiwa said she was good to go and the poor girl blacked out and left his planet. She ended up finding herself of all places right in the center of a crater, which she assumed could have been the mountain she had died on since she doubted Heiwa’s kindness would not allow her to end up put elsewhere other than the spot she died. It would be too cruel to put her in a place stranger than Earth. Maruca though knew she had one thing on her mind and that was to join the Tournament of Champions Geurin had professed about over the past year. She intended to join it to test the limits of her strength and to see if it would be good for her to go home after that. It had come to her attention that many creatures were going to it based on the TV like images Heiwa’s antennas let her see.

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Budding Opportunity

Year 2

“The Tourney of Champions: Maruca vs. Nam!”

Maruca is a tall woman with waist length brown hair tied down by a special headband with leaves on it. Her sky blue eyes always convey a fierce looking gaze towards her opponents and the people she normally speaks with in different situations. She has a lithe looking body frame, but has more than enough muscle to throw around for a fight. Due to her peoples' customs, she wears special tattoos on her arms and face. In addition, due to her royal lineage, she wears fine silk robes, two golden armbands and a neckband, and even wears some nice jewelry that hangs down from her neck. Despite this appearance of wealth, she is fierce, unafraid, mostly, of the things around, and more than willing to show off her beauty her because she walks about barefoot and has little else adorning her body than her robes.

Maruca was waiting for the announcer to state it was her time to fight. She was standing ten feet from the stage and when she heard, her name walked up to it only to end up greeted by a strange person in black clothes. Who was this? All she knew was that she did not care entirely as long as she could win. Geurin's tournament offered the perfect place to test her skills and she would take this to the max if she could to determine if she were ready to go back to Amazonica.

The hooded warrior remains silently on the other end of the ring as the announcer calls out their names. The names he announces are the Masked Warrior and Maruca Senda. The crowd cheers wildly before the bell rings. He remains idle, letting Maruca have the first move.

Maruca blew her nose at him and said, "I don't know who you are or how strong you are, but if you don't move now I'm going to let you send me the first punch. I don't like the 'ladies' first' rule I have observed in my life." She told the mysterious cloaked stranger as the bell rung and the crowds cheered. She crossed her arms and waited for him to attack whilst tapping her left foot.

Nam shrugs and moves in for the first strike with a right punch, which Maruca would find quite easy to dodge.

Maruca stepped back three feet from his incoming punch and snapped her left leg up into the fist towards his outstretching elbow. "I hate to say this, but your punch is short sighted and I'm going to break your arm." Her attack would be swift and surely, something slightly unexpected this strange-cloaked figure, in her opinion, did not look very strong.

"Heh..." a small chuckle escapes the hooded warrior, revealing nothing but a grin that might be perceived ominous by the other as he swiftly evades the left knee and closes up to her face, with the intention of ramming his left fist into her stomach. Nam shows plenty of restraint in his attacks, keeping them to a minimal. The impact of this punch would be enough to hurt but not devastate the woman. The way in which he evaded the woman's counterattack probably seemed like Zanzoken, but it was actually his advanced speed.

Maruca received the cloaked fighter's punch, without being able to register it in her mind, and stumbled back three feet. Compared to most fighters at this tournament she was strong, yet not suited for close combat situations. This man was definitely someone who fell into the category of a powerful close combat fighter. His speed was already starting to look like it was too much for her to handle on the first blow.

"How is this possible?" Maruca pondered as she gripped her stomach with her left hand and raised her right hand, aiming for his face. She gathered her ki, forced the seedpods in her body to grow rapidly, and ejected them from her fingertips towards him. At this close of range, his punch had hit her so she could hit him right back she felt without any mishap. If the attack hit the seeds, would violently rupture and cover his face in a web of strong vines. It would stop him shortly; although, probably not long enough for her to think of a new plan. All the other fighters she had fought up to this point to get her, as a sort of preliminary round had no such skills as the man she was fighting. Just who was he and how was he this strong?

Unwilling to risk his hood coming off, the masked warrior evaded whatever it was that was aimed at his face. Using Zanzoken, he left but an afterimage of where he once stood, which faded within seconds. By that time, he was standing behind Maruca and pressed his hands against the center of her smooth and lithe back. A weak transparent force would expel from his hands with the intent of propelling her a few feet away.

She was sure she blinked as she watched an image of the cloaked fighter appear and disappear before her eyes. Within seconds of realizing he was gone, she felt something press against her back. It felt like someone's hand.... She grits her teeth as she felt a gentle force push her forward, which caused her to stumble once more. She regained her balance and turned around to face her attacker.

"You're really starting to get on my nerves,” she growled at him. Once more, she created seeds in her hands from her body and manipulated them to start growing. She threw them out upon the hard ground of the stadium platform and smiled as she stomped on the ground with her foot. Small cracks in the ground appeared and some of the seeds tumbled down into them before she started focusing her ki on the tiny kernels. With a bit of effort the seeds began to grow and a large vine with thorns popped out of the ground.

The hooded warrior could not help but chuckle again as the woman expressed her annoyance towards him. He remained silent though and jumped out of the way, as the ground beneath him crumbled and vines spread thin over the surface. He kept his distance and observed.

The vines grew out to a maximum length of ten feet and were three feet thick. She snapped her fingers and the tentacle like branches of these vines swung at the hooded figure with intent to jab and catch his where he stood. Maruca smirked and truly loved her alien powers for the fact that she could stand by and watch her lovely children do her work for her. These vine would not stop this man, but they would tire him out, that, she was sure of.

The hooded warrior swiftly evaded the vines, but they would not stop. The white tiles of the arena would crack and crumble upon impact. After a few minutes of evading, the masked fighter would make a sharp turn straight towards Maruca, assuming the vines would indiscriminately strike despite their her presence and cause her damage.

Maruca was quite surprised as the hidden warrior came towards her with amazing speed. He made a sharp turn against her but threw neither a punch nor kick, or even an energy blast. Instead, she realized he had about five thick vines following him, all of whose thorny edges were coming straight towards her.

"Oh crud..." she gasped as the spiked edges reached her and pierced the skin on her arms. She quickly pulled back from the thorns so as not to find herself caught in more vines. Nevertheless, the damage occurred. Green liquid was coming out of her forearms in two or three spots on each arm. She felt her arms drop to her sides, due to the loss of vitality, and cried, "How could I be so stupid!"

She felt her legs give out under her, but was not about to give up. She really did not want to. No, she would let the mysterious fighter continue to attack her so long as she had the ability to breathe.

His plan was successful. As he thought, the vines had a mind of their own and were ultimately this woman's downfall. Nam hopped ten or twenty feet into the air and sent a small yellow energy sphere towards the vines, making them explode and disintegrate as small pieces landed across the entire ring. He landed a few feet away from Maruca and remained idle in case she decided to forfeit.

Maruca watched as the cloaked figure moved up into the air with a single leap and fired off a small energy ball at the vines. The explosion that resulted caused them to burst into flames before disintegrating entirely and leaving nothing but small bits strewn across the battlefield. After he landed, a few feet from her Maruca had no idea what to do.

She certainly did not want to look him in the eyes since the humiliation would show on her face. This person could clearly destroy her, even if she somehow made twenty different versions of herself appear on the platform they both stood on. She knew she was a decent fighter, or at least she thought so, but this was just humiliating. She voiced just loudly enough for the referee to hear the words, "I surrender..." and then stood up.

With that done, she turned away from the cloaked figure and walked off the platform. She felt she did not have to shake his hand or anything. He already knew how skilled he was and certainly did not need the praise of weak royalty to get that notion across.

The hooded warrior stood as motionless as ever and watched as Maruca walked away. Yet by the time she passed by his side, he quickly spoke so only she could hear him at their distance. "You're a talented fighter..."

She heard him comment on her fighting skill and turned her head to look at him. She gave him a quick smile before saying, "I hate to say this, but you're wrong. You're so strong I know you can kill me with your breath." She hoped this would not end up viewed in the wrong way, but she was sure if he were to breathe in and blow a puff of concentrated air it would be like being hit by a hurricane.

Before the hooded man could even think of responding, the announcer came in.

"There you have it folks! The winner of this round is the Masked Fighter!"

The hooded man reassures his hood and looks away. The conversation ends and both go their separate ways.

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Budding Opportunity

Year 2

“Amazonica, The Planet of Wild Animals!”

After the tourney concluded, Maruca decided to head home and went into the Yunzabit mountain range to pick up her space ship and leave. She needed a place to keep a low profile since Geurin was not up to liking too many aliens, especially those with her kind of intentions, the kind that wished to live on the Earth in large numbers. When she got to her ship, she found it in a cave where she had left it with quite a lot of damage to it from her crash landing. She took it upon herself to repair the ship as best as she could and found that after a month the ship was not in all that great of shape. It only had enough full for one trip to get her back to her home world. She appreciated the fact that it still had this energy left in its engines because otherwise she was now a stranded person on Earth.

Maruca opened the hatch of her ship, started the engines up and took off. The trip through space was rather uneventful and somewhat boring, since all she had to look at was the passing stars. She spent many days doing this and when she saw the atmosphere of her planet outside her ship’s window, an atmosphere nearly covered entirely with a leafy green covering and splotches of blue from the sky, she smiled. She was finally home.

Upon landing though, her troubles were not over. Many Florians greeted her upon landing and wished their queen happiness as she returned to her kingdom. They asked her about her travels and she related to them how living on the Earth might be to their benefit still, despite the failure of a past Florian colony to do so. She asked for information on the planet’s current situation with things and the counselors who had watched the planet in her absence said more people continued to come into the forests and take what they wished without gratitude or care.

This infuriated Maruca slightly, but she was not ready to attack people yet. She was not sure of the extent of her full power yet and the counselors informed her of a mighty slaver kingdom on the other side of the planet that kidnapped young Florians and put them to work in mine shafts to harvest strange metals and jewels that the Florians had no idea about until now. The counselors informed her that in her absence they had tried for peace and sent a few groups to attack the slavers when this failed, but the slavers had large weapons capable of firing attacks from a very far way distance and these weapons. Maruca informed them that the items had a name called missiles, had enough destructive power to take out entire forests. They also noted that the villains had energy like attacks like none they had ever seen and could manifest it in ways much more capable than the Florians could. With these missiles and energy attacks, primarily in the form of energy blasts they had turned the jungle on the other side of the planet into dead wood and left much of the landscape in ruin. Florians had trouble even approaching them since weird devices connected to their heads with tinted glass, scouters, detected the Florians upon approach.

They wanted Maruca to go for peace again, but Maruca wanted to fight them. She was strong, much stronger than before. Something she would prove this to her world. The problem was that despite putting together an army and attacking once more with it, Maruca’s power was still not enough, she used her Seraph Shield and her Solar Absorption to increase their chances of a longer, easier campaign against them, but after another month of this fighting nothing came from it. It was then she heard word of a third force on a different part of the planet that were attacking slavers and beating them back. The people she had heard were not Florians, so she went to investigate. She was surprised to find a man who looked quite young, had black hair, and sharp eyes about him. The man had a scar on his right cheek and wore heavy battle armor of some kind which she could not recognize, but had a strange red insignia on it. Most importantly, the man had muscles all over his body and had an aura of battle around him.

He introduced himself as Boliko Koregutsu, and the head of the Solar Saiyan Empire, and promised to take on the slavers. Maruca could not remember the name at first, but she felt she had seen his kind of attitude somewhere before, a violent kind of attitude, which desired to fight in combat as she soon found upon watching him blow up missile launching stations and other slaver soldiers. She searched her memories and had a feeling she had helped take care of a violent brat of the same nature long ago. Maruca could not help but believe he was of this same brat’s clan or group, but that was impossible since she had not figured out what he had done once he had mysteriously disappeared from the planet one day.

Maruca worked with Boliko who called himself a Saiyan and watched him take out the entire slave kingdom by himself. He soon called in his own soldiers though and let them live on the planet, which Maruca had to reluctantly agree to due to their power difference. She was reluctant to it only because she felt he would harm them, but he did not let his troops do this kind of thing. He told her of plans to build cities or outposts on the planet and the Florians seemed rather happy about it. Many of their cities had ended up destroyed and he was offering them rather modern cities, something a good number liked to think was good. Why? Well, most of the Florian cities that existed were made of wood or stone and hard to maintain in an attack from stronger foes. Maruca agreed to join in the empire Boliko wanted their planet in, the Solar Saiyan Empire, as long as oppression did not occur and the people did not end up attacked again at random. She then proceeded to go into the wilderness and left her counsel and some Saiyan officials in charge of her throne. Saying, “I am not a good queen, not good enough at least; I will be going to the wilderness to get stronger.”

After saying this, she made her way for the wilderness and spent the remaining months of the year there training. She learned to connect with nature through meditation from this concluded that the ki she had access to could act like the branches and vines she encouraged to grow with only a little bit of ki. She found that she could bend, shape, and twist ki like a tree’s limbs and make ki act like the mighty forests around her if she sought to learn proper control. In order to do this, she felt she needed a great mind and body. She did not have a great body though so every day she would start her morning with one hundred pushups and sit-ups and take a two-mile run through the forest. On this run, she would search for wild animals to hunt down later. She would then have breakfast in a makeshift hut she built from dead tree limbs and return to wilderness again to hunt down particular animals with her techniques.

Usually, she would pick Amazonica Jungle Rhinos to hunt. She would ensnare them with her with her ki and practice a technique she began calling Konki Shiba or Energy Branches. This technique would usually keep them in place by using the ki in her body and surrounding to grab things, and make them unable to move, that is until she could knock them out with a powerful punch or kick and then drag them home. Amazonica Jungle Rhinos were a good thing to hunt for her since they had bodies filled with twice the amount of protein found in a high quality cow. The rhinos were like this due to their abnormally massive size. A rhino from Amazonica could easily be the size of a small yacht at twenty-six feet long and equate to one ton of weight. The rhinos were different yet had similarities to rhinos of Earth. They primarily had two main differences and those were the four toenails on their large feet, as well as the three, five-foot long horns that stuck out of the front of their snout. Amazonica Jungle Rhinos were a great source of food for a warrior since they could feed a person for two weeks.

Maruca would often go searching for one, take half the meat home, and sell the rest to some of Boliko’s Saiyan guards. Apparently, they talked about needing it for their ongoing war machine, whatever that meant. Maruca was not sure exactly what Boliko was up to, but he seemed more trustworthy to her than other people invading her planet had. She sold the meat to the guards for zeni for many months on end and ended up getting herself quite a bit of money for a new ship. The work was difficult and very taxing, but Maruca managed to enjoy herself while also feeling happy and much stronger. She knew though, in a way, she was neglecting her duties as queen. Yet she did not feel they respected her entirely yet.

(Zeni Please and a New Ship)

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Blooming Flower

Year 3

“Kami Guardian Special Forces Initiation, The Missing Ship, and Nam’s Test!”

A hooded figure is walking through the windy Yunzabit Heights and stops to observe an odd plant placing his gloved hand over it.

Right now, she was the plant, which Nam was touching. Her hair, which had many flowers in it now due to her maturing, was sticking out of the ground and whatever it was happened to touch one of the red roses near the top of her head. She could feel the strange thing yank at it slightly and remembered when she had returned to Amazonica to get a better space ship and more training. It was much better than compared to here. The thing above her and the other humans she had run into earlier were quite mean on this planet. She had only come to realize a few customs about Earth and one of the things that she noticed were that people were afraid and rather rude to aliens a lot, unless they personally knew them.

This had happened to her not too long ago, as she landed in Central City. A strange mob of anti-alien supporters, which she had not heard of appeared before her in front of a TV Store where she landed. They started throwing rocks and stuff at her, whom she easily blocked and crushed, but at the same time, they were shouting for her to leave or die she looked behind her and noticed twenty TVs broadcasting messages from Geurin. It was he speaking on re-runs about wanting to get rid of aliens, but he himself clearly looked like one, so how did this work out?

She pondered this as she punched her way through the mob of people and used her power to carve a tunnel in the ground. With that, she buried herself enough to expose the flowers on the top of her head and hid her energy; just enough to appear like a flower. She spent many hours there before using her feet and hands to dig through the rock below her and headed north.

This is how she got to Yunzabit Heights and was now having her head pulled on. The sad thing was that she left her ship behind on the city streets. It was bad and she needed to get it back since she was underground and literally had little idea where she was, at the time, Nam, the strange thing above her, had come across her.

The hooded man continues to stroke on the odd and interesting flower.

Maruca felt an odd sensation above her. It felt like it might just be the wind blowing over top her head. Yet the movement was feeling on top of her head was excessively soft and gentle. Her body cringed as she thought about what could be up there, and so she simply decided rather than face the debasement she decided to pop up from under the ground.

Using all her strength, she used her Seraph's Shield to push out the rock and rubble around her and as this slowly moved aside cracks began to appear in the ground where the strange thing was standing. The shield pushed out further and further causing a small pink bump, from the top of the shield to appear over top of her head. She hoped that whatever was touching her would either go away at this point, or wait for a coming whooping.

The hooded man moved back and watched as the flower now covered by a pink bump on the ground sat there. He chuckled. "You know I can sense you, right?"

Hearing the voice of someone above her, she blasted the rock around her apart and floated up to the surface. "I don't know who you are,” she voiced, "But your voice sounds like someone else I've just met a year ago. Some weird masked fighter beat me up in a tournament, but I should let you know I'm not weak, so don't go think you want to attack me."

Maruca hated to be pushy, yet ever since she had come back to life, the beautiful Earth she had come to know only a little bit had changed. The people, she had not really met on this planet, though they all seemed just about as bossy and power hungry as her so she needed to push back in order to keep them off she felt. Her eyes glared at Nam, yet softened towards him. He had been chuckling at her, but not in a bad way. So was he an exception?

The hooded man stepped back and waved his hands in front of him. "Calm down, I'm the one you speak of... and that was two years ago."

Maruca listened to his words, but was not feeling much better by them, especially when he admitted who he was. She pulled back her left fist and sent a punch towards his open nose. He would get what he deserved. As she sent the punch towards him she cried, "Do you know what you nearly did to my arms!" she cried. She remembered the pain that he had caused them when her own thorns had stabbed through them and gouged holes into them. It had not been fun. However, she had walked off that battlefield pretending not to feel pain because that he would laugh at her or seem far too weak in terms of Earth's strongest warriors. For this reason, she had left quickly in order to not because more trouble for herself or for others.

The hooded man, seemingly unfazed, caught the punch before it hit with his right hand. "I'm sorry if I hurt you," he said.

She used all of her strength to push her punch through, but the person only seemed to continue to hold her fist. Had she heard an apology though? She decided to make him feel even worse for his actions and let him know the truth about her, "You know... I'm a rather weak queen in terms of power, but you still injured someone of royal background."

The hooded man took a moment of silence before he answered. "Why did you join the tournament if you were afraid to get injured?"

Maruca pulled her fist back and said, "I'm not afraid to get injured. I never said that. I said that you injured an important person." Maruca then pointed at herself with her thumb, "Me, anyway, I joined the tournament since I had just gotten out of limbo with some pink, fat creature Heiwa. He is a mighty Kaioshin that deserves respect, but I doubt you would give him that respect and call him what I just said which is "a pink, fat creature". He taught me a good deal how to fight last year and I just wanted to stretch my limbs again since I felt rather cranky after coming back to life."

She cracked her knuckles and flexed a muscle on her forearm. It did not really move much though. "So do you believe I am a real fighter or what? You are here making accusations of me kind of and yet you are not willing to ask if I would be willing to back up my pride, put it on the line, and beat your sorry butt for making it seem like I am weak. I was killed in a stray energy blast you know, so I really do not like fighters like you, but I had to fight you because the tournament rules said I would not get to fight more if I didn't beat more and more people along the way."

"Does this mean you had no interest in becoming Commander of Geurin's organization?" he asked, a sign of relief was clear from his words. "I have no need to 'test' you, I've already fought you."

"Commander who?" Maruca asked as she pouted. "I've never heard of a Commander Gherkin before, but why would you and whoever else is with you want to fight a pickle? Cucumbers are the sweetest things and there's no reason to fight such nice vegetables."

This person was starting to get on her nerves like people she had recently met too. He was openly saying he was fighting cucumbers. Cucumbers Maruca knew were a type of plant. So then, how exactly did he threaten them and why? In addition, what was in it for him and his group? Threatening cucumbers was surely an act of war was it not. After all, all plants in the universe had the potential of being part of the small Florian kingdom that Maruca controlled. The problem was had she misheard this person or not because if she had then he would be talking about something different, way different from her.

"Um," she voiced nicely, "You wouldn't be attacking and eating cucumbers would you? That is because if you were, I would have to beat you senseless. If you are not then you should tell me who this Gherkin person is. Also, please do not test me... I might just win this time."

The hooded man remained silent for what almost seemed like a full minute and then lowered his concealed face into his palms as he realized the woman did not understand.

"What was your name again? It was Maruca, right?" He confirmed. "Listen... Geurin is an evil man -but he hides behinds his lies and is now preparing an organization to rage war against alien races. He is the one who put together that tournament we fought in two years ago. The winner of that tournament would become Commander of his organization..." he took a moment for her to absorb the information and then continued.

"I joined the tournament with the intention of winning, but not become his commander. I wanted to show the world that there was at least one person against his reign, and I succeeded."

She sighed as she took in the information he provided her with and put her hands on her hips. "I hate to say this to you, but that makes no sense to me. Why would you join a tournament to become this person’s subordinate? If he is as powerful as you said he was then you should clearly denote from your own explanation of your reasons for joining the tourney why that was near suicide. For one thing, if you entered the tournament there was a high chance he already knew who you were, since I doubt if you are as powerful as I think you might be, there is only a small group of people on this planet who can have your energy levels and notice. I noticed it though a little when you fought me that you seemed to be really holding back I think. I lasted not more than five minutes, but I can sense those kinds of things with my ki sensing abilities."

Maruca tapped her forehead and continued with, "Secondly, if you had actually won, well, you'd be his subordinate, but there would be no way to assassinate him if you think about it. He's got everyone in his organization under his command meaning you would have to kill him by yourself undercover, which would be impossible since that's x number of people against you. Third, based on that I believe you might be asking something of me that you wish me to do for you. I am not sure I can join you in whatever you wish me to do. I do not have the time. I have to get my space ship back and leave this silly rock. I only landed here, um, two years ago because I wanted to make a colony for my people. Now that chance is gone."

The hooded man shook his head. "You misunderstand. My goal was not to infiltrate. That is impossible. My goal was to create awareness. The people of earth follow Geurin because of his lies, because of ignorance. -You are right, he 'is' too strong, and it was a risky move. However, it was necessary. I am forming a rebellion against this man and I am going to stop him somehow. I am not sure how, but if I do not, then the universe will be at war. Saiyans, Namekians, Earthlings, everyone; and my main concern has become keeping that peace, because frankly, earth's people wouldn't survive..."

He looked away and gazed at the horizon as he spoke, "I understand if you don't want to get involved. I just want you to know that eventually, it will become your problem too. Geurin plans to stand above all races and conquer everything. Eventually, he'll appear on your planet -and he's not the only one who aims for such an ambitious plan."

The hooded man turns around and starts walking away. "It's been three years since I found out... beware, in two more years, we'll be at the brink of war and there'll be death everywhere..."

After hearing Nam's words, she ran after him and cried, "Wait, wait! Please I am an important member of a royal family! You would not leave a queen to die on such a hostile sounding rock as this would you. Think of the resources I could provide! I have a working space ship! Please, listen to my offer and I can surely help you."

She stopped there in front of him and waited for him to turn around as she said, "Look, you want a good rebellion you're going to need an army. To get an army I could possibly convince my brothers and sisters to come to your aid, but the problem is they might not listen to me, and take this kind of risk, unless I am stronger than as you see me now. I could try to convince them, but the likely hood of that working is extremely low. I will definitely help you though because they see me as a wandering space queen now probably. I have been gone nearly three years from my home now. I just want to get back and see what I can do for people to somehow eventually help you."

The hooded man left an audible gasp of surprise as the woman rushed after him in tears and turned around to hear her out.

"You'll be fine, there's a peace treaty between every planet for the moment, which expires in two years as I said." He explained. "Although, I'd appreciate your help..." he looked away as he considered the thought.”So... technically, what you're saying is you need to get stronger in order to receive your brethren's acknowledgement and then you could help my cause?"

"Yes," Maruca admitted as she nodded to him. "I've been gone so long and am the only known royal descendant in my family at this time that I believe my world's government has probably gone into chaos. Not to mention my planet, Amazonica, has been a frequent stop for strangers from other worlds. At one point and time, many years ago, someone with a monkey tail took over it I know once in the past, but he has let us live there without much hassle since the beginning of my reign. I am not sure of this man's current situation though since he has been gone for quite a while. He, although, instead of me... He is the true ruler of our planet in a sense and its defender. I am really only "Queen" in title. I think this is why it is possible for me not to end up with much help from my planet. They would rather keep out of things in the universe and would likely side with him than me if I were to pick a side in this upcoming "war"."

Maruca explained all this to the best of her ability as she could. She tried not to leave out details to make things easier for the warrior before her to understand. She hoped he would and could train her and she could help him in return. She was not too familiar with the Earth still and getting back to her home would be hard without his help.

"There's no side to be picked," he explained. "You're an alien to these people as they are to you. The difference is, while your people prefer to stay out of trouble; trouble is going to eventually find 'them', whether they like it or not. As long as people like Geurin exist, there is no peace. If your people can understand this; then I'm sure that they, along with whoever their ruler is, will accept..."

He turned to face her once more. "I'm not really the 'master' type, but I will help you train by acting as a sparring partner, deal?"

Maruca accepted his explanation, but as he turned to face her and said, he could not be her master she got a little irked. He was more than capable of being her master since he was much stronger than she was and a good deal smarter seeming than she was. She had no idea that there was a problem on Earth these last three years, and without his knowledge, she was sure to end up a sitting duck in the net conflict.

She stomped her bare foot hard against the rocks at her feet and cracked them as she said, "Look here, you will be my spar teacher as long as I want you to be, you will inform me more about this evil Geurin creature, and then you will provide me with fifty pounds of meat a day. Why? Well, I am a princess for one thing and without your help, I am going to end up dead on your planet. Do you want to have the death of someone on your hands? If you do, well, I am going to have to try to beat you to a pulp to get more of my point across. You can outclass me in all the ways a warrior should, but perhaps you don't think you have the experience."

With that, she dashed forward and raised her leg, spinning to the side with her hip to attempt to send a roundhouse kick into his rib cage. He could certainly block this and begin to prove her points above rather quickly. That is, if he felt like even defending himself against her sudden attacks. If he did not she definitely would not join him right off the bat still, even if he wanted to defend aliens of all kinds from one crazy alien creature. Why? Have the resolve or care to try to stop her. There was no doubt that if Geurin was trying to defend the Earth the best thing he might do is get powerful fighters. Nam had clearly said this about him or at least indicated it. He needed to match up to her and even greater forces if he wished to rebel though against this madness of Geurin's plans. She knew neither Nam nor Geurin fully, but Nam had convinced her mostly to be on his side.

Unfazed by her sudden movements, he raised his right arm and caught her kick. "I was just trying to point out that I have no experience in having 'disciples', but I'm willing to try..." He let go of her leg and then reached for his hooded, finally taking it off and revealing his tanned face to the woman. He had short brown hair and brown eyes that seemed cold somehow yet curious and warm.

"My name is Nam Reikonaga," he finally said, outstretching his right arm to shake hers. "Together we will become stronger than ever," he smiles.

"I suppose you're not as bad as I thought you were." Maruca voiced as she lowered her leg and shook Nam's hand. She noticed his tan face, brown eyes, and short brown hair and blushed. Whoever liked him was surely the luckiest girlfriend in the world. Despite being of a different alien species than Nam, he really was a looker. "Nam... Ma-ru-ca..." she uttered quickly giving him her first name. She was sure this would be a good friendship if nothing went wrong on her part.

"Nice to meet you Maruca!" he grins.

Maruca smiled back at him reluctantly as she tried to hide her blush and said, "Um, I hate to bother you, but I believe now the human creatures that were chasing me now probably have my ship. I landed it in the middle of one of their cities and now I have no idea what to do about that. I can't go back there because I feel I might kill them if I go to take my ship back."

"No problem," he said, flipping his hood back on to conceal his accused face. "You landed in Central City, right? Let's go!"

Nam started flying towards the city, assuming she could follow.

"Yeah!" she called out to him.

She flew after Nam with as much speed as she could push into her body. She really wanted to keep up with him and not end up left on such an odd planet as this Earth was. She had already died on it once, so she just really wanted her ship back so she could have the option to leave if she wanted to. She supposed some would call it cowardly, but it was not. I mean why stay on a planet when the place was not actually yet like a second home. Maruca knew she had not grown to like it yet, but she knew she might if she had the option to return to her real home, deal with possible problems there, and then come back with a more appropriate number of people. This Geurin guy might call it an invasion, what she was intending to hopefully do, but she hadn't actually gone and done things like blow up buildings yet, so hopefully at the time she did this she would not be attacked by him in the process of her re-landing when she came back later.

On their way to Central City, Nam was leading. He looked back at Maruca as he spoke. "So why did you come to earth in the first place?" he wondered.

"My people and I live on a planet that is often attacked by bounty hunters. Sometimes people on my planet die in these attacks, so they have gone and tried to train to the best extent to defend themselves, but the only Florian who has made any real progress combat wise is I. We are a peaceful race, so therefore, they felt it wise to send me away from my planet to somewhere hospitable like Earth, train here, colonize it, and then return home to tell them all the good news. I know what I want to do training wise after getting beat up by you in the tourney, but I am not sure about how I wish to set up a colony here. I have read in the past that there was one tiny group of Florians that tired to live here, but they were all possibly killed somehow or died." Maruca explained.

She stopped in mid air and looked around. She could smell awful fumes wafting into the air, "Are we near one of your planet's cities? It kind of stinks..." She held her nose with her fingers for a moment but then released it and continued with her story saying, "Anyway, because of this, my people definitely want me to stay here and figure out what could have happened. By colonizing, I am not sure what they mean per say. They do not want me to hurt people, but they asked me to try to assert my authority when I could. I still don't know what that means though." Maruca sighed and her sky blue eyes fell upon a glistening silver object far below her.

"I think I found my ship..." she pointed her finger to a spot two hundred feet below them where a group of guards stood around a large silver sphere about eight feet by eight feet in diameter. It was large enough to hold one person and as Maruca spotted it, she floated down towards it causing a large insignia of a flower on the front door of the ship to appear bigger. There was a single window on the ship as well made from clear tinted glass since Florians needed as much sun as possible to travel in space and to other worlds. They could live off sunlight, soil, and water as a normal plant could, but really liked to eat meat when they could as well.

Before Nam could reply, the woman flew down to the space pod. The ship had surrounding it yellow straps of paper that said 'Caution!' on them, along with two or three cops scoping out the area. One of them spotted Maruca as she descended.

"Up there!" he shouted. Moments after, all of them were pointing their pistols at the woman.

"Y-you're under arrest! Surrender peacefully or face execution!"

Nam watched readily from above, unsure whether he should interfere or if Maruca could handle a few bullets.

She had seen only a few guns in her lifetime from the people who came to invade her planet Amazonica for its notable riches. Yet as she looked at the guards who had run over to her and were pointing their guns at her, she noted that their weapons looked rather dull compared to the shinier, lightweight guns she was used to seeing. At least they had the sense not to fire quite yet. She was not sure what they could do with these guns, so she was somewhat nervous to go head on with them.

"Hello," she voiced, "Could I please have my spaceship back? I worked really hard selling wild animal meat just so I could buy one and come back to this lovely planet." She made no intent to attack them and showed this intention by keeping her hands in front of her at all times. Then again, they had said the word execution, so her words now were probably futile. She might have to kill them if they really were intent on killing her, as it seemed.

She reached deep within herself as she floated in herself and drew upon her new, latent ki. The red tattoos on her arms glowed as a pink aura surrounded her body. She calmly waited as many vines sprouted from her arms and legs and wrapped around them like a suit of armor. A set of large, pink petals sprouted from the back of her neck and covered the back of her neck as a neck guard on protective gear would. Green leaves also erupted from her body and drooped down to cover her front and back side like chain mail. If one looked closely, they could see her body was also changing from his its regular tan-white color to a greenish color due to how much change her body was outputting. One thing was clear. When she finished changing, she was certainly someone who was not of human looking origin anymore.

She glanced down at the men and their guns and although she had wanted to be a bit more kind she voiced to them now instead of what she had earlier, "Look, you want to kill me I get this, but you are in possession of my property, royal property. If this were my planet, I would have you brought up on charges, but this is your planet so I will possibly go with you, however, the threats you have made make me want to possibly hurt you where you stand."

She raised her hand and allowed seeds to grow out of the palm of her hand into a very long vine. The vine headed towards the men with intention to knock the guns out of their hands. She would only go with them if they released the guns, were a bit kinder, and surrendered her ship. Nevertheless, as she thought about this she knew this was not going to happen, so striking fast was her only option.

The cops stuttered back as the vines slapped the guns off their hands. One of them managed to pull the trigger out of reflex, but the bullet would probably just bounce off Maruca's armor. They would then run to their vehicles and call for back up on their radios.

"Leave them," Nam said from above her. "They're harmless; just get your ship and let's go before more of them arrive..."

She nodded to Nam and said, "I see them running and getting out of my way, but now that they're gone do you think I could actually lift my ship, or move it, and get it out of here by myself?"

She had not come to think of how strong she had gotten the past three years yet she knew her training with Heiwa and last year's workouts had to be worth something. She landed on the ground and walked over to her ship whereupon she circled it quickly to look for dents. The hull had none, so she wrapped her arms around one side of the ship and said, "Nam, if anything happens with this, please help me lift my ship. I don't want to turn it on because I don't know if it's damaged internally or might fly off into space on its own."

With these words said, she forced all the power she had into her legs and lifted with her knees. She also tightened her abominable muscles up to prompt her good lifting technique. Much to her surprise, the ship rose a couple inches off the ground then a completely good foot until she had the entire sphere level with her chest. She turned around with the space she in hand very carefully and said, "I think would transport this in a much better manner normally, but we're really short on time here so let's go." She managed to lift up off the ground and with the ship in hand and waited for Nam.

Nam ended up left speechless by her method of transporting the ship. He had forgotten came from her planet and not by Capsule Corp. on earth; where all they needed to do was click a button and the whole thing end up reduced to a tiny capsule the size of a finger.

He watched, somewhat amused, as the woman started flying off with the object in her arms and then followed behind her.

After a few minutes of flying, Nam resumed their previous conversation. "About you coming to earth... you can't colonize it," he said. "-But you can always live here if you wish. If you were to move here, eventually, those 'bounty hunters' would just follow you back here. What you need to do is stand your ground and fight them off. As I said, I will help."

Maruca heard Nam come up behind her and listened to his advice. She responded with, "So what you are saying is if I do decide to live here eventually all that will happen is that the bounty hunters I wished to avoid on my planet would come here and threaten other people?" She really did not want this to happen, but could see no way around this issue. Nam was right that she needed to stand her ground and fight. "I think someone came and landed on our planet last year to get rid of a few, but relatively few people tend to stay around long on Amazonica to stop planet hunters."

Maruca closed her eyes and thought for a moment before saying, "I think I will take you up on your offer Nam. I really need to get very powerful because otherwise I cannot live on that planet of mine without issues. My people, they trust me as Queen for now, but they would like two things out of me very badly. One is to be strong enough, as I have said to protect our territory and now that I have thought about it a little while here. They might actually want me to have an heir in mind. I'm the only person of royal blood who can care on my race's leadership, so they want me to have a family I suppose to make sure there is a spare heir in case something happens."

She smiled and said, "I know you would love to help me train, but do you possibly know where I could find an heir? I'm not sure if the people of this planet would want to mingle with me much, as I'm pretty scary right now."

"I honestly can't answer that," he admitted. "Before, this planet had a similar way of living; where they'd marry in order to keep the family blood alive and the throne would be passed down to the heir. However, earth is not like that anymore... regardless, I am sure someone like you cannot stay single for too long. For now, let's worry about getting you stronger."

Maruca sighed and said, "I suppose you're right. If I am not stronger then I am sure a person will not be going to take a second look at me. I have to be confident and capable of defending myself."

She paused in mid air though, now that they were a much further distance away from the city and asked, "Nam, where do you want me to place my space ship and where are we training?"

Nam stopped and looked around. "How about right here?"

He descended to the ground. They were not anywhere, just rural plains of earth. There were visible vacant homes here and there, but much too far for them to worry about it and the ground was full of short grass.

Maruca landed about ten feet from him and set down her space ship. She rubbed her arms and flexed her bicep before looking at him and the short grassy field around them. "I think we can train here for now. So why don't you go first and show me more of that excellent power you beat me up with."

She smiled and waited for him to strike as she clenched her fists and concentrated on her transformed state. She had been in it for a while and although it was very powerful sometimes, it drained energy from her. She wanted to keep in the state she was currently in though because she was not certain how dangerous their sparring session might end up being.

"First, as your 'master',” he said, still not comfortable with his new title, "I think I should teach you a new technique..." he observed her lithe and slim body, knowing almost instantly which move she could benefit from.

"It's my, High-Speed Movement technique." He explained. "By expelling short bursts of chi through your feet, you can move a lot faster, which seems to me like it'd work very well with your physique. Since you know how to fly, obviously, you know how to control energy. Try to concentrate that energy into your feet and then let them burst for a short moment, -like opening a soda and then instantly closing it."

Nam then proceeded onto demonstrating the technique. He started to appear as though he was running on air. "If you master the precision and timing, you can literally run on air and make sharp turns that you simply can't do with normal flight," he explained.

Maruca stood around taking in his explanation and notice how quickly he moved along the ground with his technique. Yet she was not impressed. For some reason she felt this technique would not suit her. Despite having, the perfect build for such a technique, it seemed a bit too flashy for her.

She obstinately responded, "I really don't like your technique. I do not think I could handle it. I'm more of a person looking for power and I do not really need it I feel since I have a technique that restrains people already, sensei." she made sure to address him as this since he was already reluctantly calling himself this.

"I understand," he said, landing on the ground. "But sometimes, the best offense is the best defense. Suppose if someone who can outrun your vine attacks. If they cannot hurt you, they cannot beat you. Maybe you'd like a move that's a bit more..." he said, now demonstrating the Zanzoken as he disappeared from her sight and spoke behind her neck. "...simple?"

Maruca had barely any time to blink before she realized Nam was behind her and speaking to her from there. She turned around, faced him, and said, "Now that might be something you could definitely teach me. I assume though it is the same as that last technique. Yet, this one, this one seems to pique my interest."

Nam removes his cloak and grins. "To be honest, I child taught me this technique. Its name is 'Zanzoken'. I do not really know how I could possibly teach you this move because I learned it through mere observation. I'm sure you can do it too if you try." he said.

Suddenly, Nam multiplied into a dozen as they idly surrounded her from all sides. He spoke, but none of their mouths moved, they were simply frozen images of his previous position. "The Zanzoken is a technique which allows you to move at blinding speeds -leaving an after image; the image of your previous self, in its wake."

Her jaw dropped as he moved around and left after images of being all over the place. He was fast. Since Maruca had heard him say, he had learned it from a child she copied him in suit rather quickly and started moving around too. Only partial images of her body ended up left standing around each time she moved though. She continued practicing though with him for the next hour though and slowly got a better grasp of the technique. She would definitely need more time to learn it still for full mastery.

"That's good, you're getting the hang of this," he said as all of his replicas vanished. Nam braced himself, lowering his power to match Maruca. "Now try applying it to a fight!" he said, dashing forward. He thrust his right fist at her face.

Maruca readied Zanzoken as Nam rushed towards her face and just before he hit created an after image before using all of her speed to twist around to Nam's right side and lean on his shoulder. She looked at him and smiled, "When you're fighting at my power level this is kind of fun." She stated. "I don't know if I want to fight much more, but I'll measure your response now and see if you actually do."

"He he, I see we're getting cocky already!" he chuckled. "What do you mean you don't want to fight? You have to get used to using Zanzoken in real battles so it becomes natural and fluid," he said, turning counter-clockwise on his right foot and attempting to plant his left heel on Maruca's side.

"I think I like you..." Maruca stated as she noticed Nam's heel coming towards the side of her ribcage. She used Zanzoken again to produce and after image and this time went around to the backside of his body. "Of course, I assume the feeling's not mutual based on how you're acting now and have acted." She shrugged as she added, "Oh well..."

"What?" Nam said, turning to face her with a puzzled expression. His eyebrows slightly furrowed together in a gesture of concern, which would tell Maruca that Nam was completely oblivious to what she was saying.

Maruca loved being a woman. She used the slight distraction Nam was experience from her words to send her left elbow into his face. She really did not have to rely on Zanzoken if she did not need to.

Although Nam was briefly confused, the distance between them was enough for him to detect the sudden movement and react. His reaction was shaky though as he stepped back and placed his hands in front of his face to catch the incoming elbow strike. "Ah, you're a sneaky one, aren't you." he said with a grin, no longer paying attention to her previous comments.

Nam then slightly crouched, passing her left arm overhead as he slipped under her and rose. For a moment it seemed like their bodies would collide, but as his face rose inches from hers, he disappeared and his image vanished. Nam would then appear behind her and lightly push on her back. "C'mon princess, give me your best shot," he teased.

She spun around to look at him and said, "This actually is starting to get annoying. Maybe you like me now?" Maruca grit her teeth and powered up a ball of ki in her right hand and said, "We're taking this fight up a notch okay. I want to pay you back for last time."

"Fine by me!" he said, bracing himself for her impending attack.

She threw the ball of ki she had in her hand directly at his chest and then used another Zanzoken to leave an after image of herself in front of him. This time with her technique, she jumped up into the air fifty feet above him and fired off seeds from her hand using the seedpod in her body. The seeds erupted into a set of thick vines as she tried to use this as a distraction to leap over him and get behind him. He would surely dodge this attack or cut right through it if he was meaning to fight seriously.

Nam slapped the ball of ki back at Maruca, soon discovering it was nothing but an after image as the chi blast passed right through it. He then looked to the sky, finding numerous vines raining down on him. Nam extended his right arm forward. From his hands, a blade of energy formed as an extension about the size of his arm. Ki no Tsurugi. He then slashed through the vines with his energy sword, slicing them in half.

After that, his energy sword would dissipate; he did not intend to fight Maruca with it.

Maruca dropped down towards him as her vines ended up cut. She clenched her fist and intended to pound him into the ground with a diving punching directed at the top of his body. She made sure to put a little extra power into it just to make sure she could do an awesome thing like break a hole in the ground if she missed. It would surely not help him either way. Maruca had a feeling she would not win, but she could at least try.

Nam used Zanzoken at the last minute, completely evading Maruca's devastating punch and watched as her fist pounded into the ground and caused it to crumble and burst into a crater about the size of her body.

"Over here!" he teased as he snuck up from behind out of nowhere and dashed over her, grabbing onto one of her legs, he performed a short somersault in the air and then tossed her to the sky. He would then follow her body up and plant his right fist into her stomach with enough force to make her cough out saliva -but nothing more.

Maruca once again could not keep up with his amazing speed. Nam was just too strong even at her own base power level. Obviously, combat experience made this so. Before she could even leave the crater, she felt Nam grab her leg from behind and hurl her into the air. Then he suddenly came up upon her with a frontal punch and hit her in the stomach. Maruca tried to hold back her pain, but as she did, she coughed up a huge wad of saliva and her body began to feel heavy. In moments, she dropped from the sky like a rock and slammed into the ground. She was still too weak for anyone to fear her or accept her as a queen.

Maruca could hardly move her body, but looked up into the sky and wondered, "Why?"

After successfully jamming his fist into the woman's stomach, Nam dived down and caught her; placing one arm under her neck and the other under her knees for a smooth and safe landing.

He heard her question. He smiled. "I know the feeling." he started as he gently laid her body on the ground. He then sat next to her and joined her gaze at the sky, supporting his weight with his hands behind him on the ground. "I was always the underdog. I was never strong enough for anything... -but I never gave up!" he said, looking back down into her eyes and smiled. "I had friends, and because of them, I'm who I am today... Don't give up, I promise you'll one day blossom to be the queen you were always meant to be."

His hair flowed gently in the wind; his black cloak fluttered and his hood dangled from behind, trying to dance with the graceful blades of grass surrounding the pair. The sun shone on his calm and peacefully expression.

She slid out of his grasp and said to Nam, "I suppose after hearing those words I cannot give up." She brushed off the front of her robes and added, "Nam sensei, please teach me how to fight. If I had now taken such a blow from you, like the one from moments ago, I would not know how weak I am. It means I obviously need to work out more. I will not tell this to just anyone, but there are some on planet who claim they are stronger than I am and I get the sense they are right. I am a woman after all so I do have a limit. If you can though, please help me pass this limit."

Therefore, with these words, Maruca had a straight goal in mind. She wished to be much stronger than she ever had been before. Her role possibly as Queen of her own planet was uncertain and she wished to protect it and her people.

"We will..."

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Pristine Green

Year 4

“The War that Comes and the Changing Ways!”

The New Year began with some great changes for Maruca in that she physically changed more than she thought she would. Four years ago, she had reached the height of her physical maturity within her alien group’s normative limits, standing at six feet one inches tall, and weighing a good one hundred forty pounds. She was a great example of women in the small and seemingly unknown Florian race. She had a natural beauty that shined through her brown hair and beautiful sky blue eyes. What she did not realize was that she had not ended her growing cycle quite yet. As time had passed over the last four years training through Heiwa, at the tourney, fighting wild animals and people on Amazonica, and finally fighting Nam had brought out some final drastic changes.

She had never been one to reveal her weigh to anyone or her height since those were personal tidbits of information for her to know alone, but with fighting the above obstacles over the past four years, she had drastically changed not so much in height, but in weight. She only grew an inch over a span of four years before this growth had petered out, but her muscles pushed beyond these limits. She managed to sculpt her body through training with Nam and other members of the Kami Guardian Special Forces such as Dynammo and Draxor, however, brief their contact was. She was an official member of the new rebel group on Earth and despite being an alien was not out of place since these two were not normal themselves. Often, however, the group did not get to meet as much as she wanted as she had heard Dynammo had went off into the universe somewhere to do things for the group hopefully. What these were was unclear to her, but she hoped he was all right.

Yet back to the present matter at hand, she was the only notable female member of their group and as such, when she was around them, did not want to seem too feminine at times. Yet when she went to test herself on a human weight scale one day she stepped on it and nearly cried at the number as she watched the dial move. It landed on a value that read one hundred and seventy pounds. Although, she felt fit and healthier than she ever had and had noticed some bulging in her arms and legs she felt wounded at the fact that she had gained thirty pounds in four years. It had always been hard for her to gain weight and yet here she was now thirty pounds heavier.

“This cannot be from my muscle…” she sighed as she stepped down from the scale. This just did not make sense to her. Somehow, she felt a lot of it must have been from fat. Females, she had come to learn from reading a few Earth books, oftentimes had trouble gaining weight in terms of muscle unless they really worked at it. She had no clue if this principle applied to Florian females since the genetics between them had to be slightly different, but she did know she had had two things in her favor her diet and the rigorous ways in which her fellow teammates trained. Florians she knew survived primarily off sunlight, soil, and water, but also ate a lot of meat for energy too. Such a straight up diet of protein and direct energy probably was the first cause of her body’s changes.

Since her body has changed so much, she re-stylizes her appearance and gives herself quite a few human outfits to work with as well as a more human appearance by changing her hairstyle and eye color slightly with hair salons and eye contacts. She also makes sure to hide her tattoos with make up whenever she goes out on Earth in case anyone gets any weird ideas about her being too different In many ways, she thinks she passes far too much as human as no one ever seems to make too many comments about her as she walks through the streets. This makes her feel much safer.

Maruca also ended up hiding in the Kami Lookout Tower, and moves her space up there she lives with Dynammo, Draxor, an all the other Kami Guardian Special Forces. This spot ended up shown to her by Nam for training rather quickly and since then she had been training under Mr. Popo and the current guardian of the place. It had not been an easy session in that they made her do crazy things like fly around the lookout tower all day to increase the stamina for her bukujutsu and other techniques. Due to the fact, this was such simple exercise for her, the Guardian of Earth sought to find out what other kinds of techniques she had. Once he learned she had at least two other more advanced defensive like techniques he looked at her and said, “The basics… You must learn the basics… Everything you have now is backwards.”

She spent two months learning this technique with him by having energy blasts thrown at her for many hours on end. It was worth the effort though as soon she felt she could easily block many medium sized ki attacks with her new technique, however, she still had not completely mastered it. No, the Guardian said to her, “It would take years to master properly, but what she mostly needed for it was endurance and less fear.” Thus, life went on for her in which she had a sleuth of daily, basic training. Some of this training included jumping off Kami’s Look Out and stopping one’s self before they hit the ground, learning to chop through ten sheets of solid steel, and hand standing in the middle of a rainstorm. Maruca had no clue as to why she needed to learn this one, but the Guardian offered a few reasons. One, by hand standing one learned balance, two, by doing it in the rain one learned how to balance themselves out in odd situations where uneven, or slippery surfaces existed three, three, by hand standing and keeping your mouth open while you did this on a rainy day one could actually drink the rain water if they had enough practice. This was a perfect way to end up without wasting a resource if say you were in the middle of a fight.

One could hand stand to dodge an attack, get a gulp of water and then maybe kick their opponent in the head. The primary importance of this and the other things though was continuing endurance and Maruca followed it straight to the letter. She felt she really needed this kind of work out due to last year’s defeat by Nam, and the previous year’s defeat by Nam, and her untimely year of death during her very first year away from Earth and the rest of the universe on Kaioshin Heiwa’s planet. Somehow, the strange trainings worked out for her and she felt herself getting rather strong thanks to this.

By the time she was done, the Guardian of Earth voiced that it might be best to go out and see the Earth since she had not seen as much as she had probably liked in the last three years or even prior to this in a cold March afternoon. Maruca nodded at this notion, understanding that she had not seen much of it. Most of her time spent in the afterlife or on her home planet and she had only come back to Earth again to stay just last year, or so she hoped.

Life was good on her when she left the lookout and headed towards the warmer, less cold regions of the Earth. Upon reaching here, she landed in Central City, which looked to her like it was swarming with guards and more or less a functioning city. She had only been in a few cities, like those of her home world primarily, and had not a clue what to expect from an Earth City. Many times, she stepped out into traffic only to have herself dragged back in by little kids or men or women walking in street crowds.

They said things to her like "Are you from out of town? Are you crazy? Do not throw away your precious life you are too young and beautiful!" Maruca did not really understand. She had not seen many hover cars until she had tried to go to the fighting tournament for the Tournament of Champions, and even while there exploring a few sites, people did not drive around in many since it was an older city with not as much business, except during the tournament season. She remembered this kind of thing clearly, so she had no idea what the purpose of cars was or necessarily what they did for humans. She expected that most could fly like her or do the other amazing things she had seen a few humans do. She assumed Nam was one since she had never thought to ask him about this information before and although Dynammo and Draxor, who had met briefly, were slightly different than humans at the same time they were not so drastically different as to make her think entirely.

"They are not human," a notable thing most people would have thought upon seeing them and their abilities. Life and interacting with people on Earth for Maruca was still strange. Anyway, she had come to Central City not to only get information, but grab an officer or someone from the city who might have connections to the Government Special Forces, a group Nam had spoken to them all briefly about in Kami Guardian Special Forces get together sessions. He told how Geurin wanted to control the Earth in order to keep aliens out and to do that he used human forces, even though it was clear he was an alien. He also talked of Geurin having other motives, but those were unclear. It seemed he did not wish to tell Maruca directly, and perhaps he knew not of Geurin's entire goals either.

This is why she meant to grab a person from his forces and take him back to the lookout. It had to be someone weak though, so that Geurin or someone else that Nam knew named Zach would end up alarmed by the sudden attack or disappearance of someone from his or her forces. To do this mission, she randomly walked around the city during the middle of the day until she found an empty warehouse where guards were often posted to guard the human food supplies Geurin probably put up to keep aliens from destroying it immediately on human farms. Maruca at least inferred this on first glance from the warehouse's great number of guards, but the reality of the situation was that the owner of the warehouse was in fact just a person who sold a cereal brand called "Rice-O's".

The owner of the company had asked for extra security from Geurin who seemed to have reluctantly granted it on the executive's story of, "If the human race gets attacked the first thing they will take is our larger supply of food, rice!" The man paid a hefty sum for the guards too. Governments getting money was always good and Geurin probably needed it the executive thought. He might be able to get a tax rebate during the next tax season. The reality was though that the guards were only there because it was on their orders to protect supplies like this for the upcoming war between x number of known and unknown factions.

Anyway, with all the guards set up and surrounding the area where Maruca was intending to enter she found that as she sensed their power levels they were insignificant. Their power for each one never seemed to reach over ten as she sensed for the guard’s ki. Their energy was only so high though thanks to these long tubes with weird bomb canisters on their backs, rocket launchers, that she figured they used to defend this warehouse. She could feel no more than thirty and so she thought, “I should just tie them up and leave, maybe take one with me and see what they could offer in terms of information.”

She stepped confidently towards the warehouse under the high sun and as the guards noted her as she walked by. They noticed Maruca’s long, brown hair, her blue eyes, her toned body, and the pink tank top, dark purple skirt with a thick studded belt around her waist, and a white jacket and black the shoes she had on, many items and things she used to make herself seem human. They had no idea what she was doing here, but at first figured she was an extra hired mercenary possibly due to her demeanor. They wanted to go ahead and double check her since they could not have random people walk on company owned properties, but the moment they tried to they were met with an after image of her walking along in place. She had already gotten over to a large, standing metal door, behind which were most of the cereal supplies they had strangely been asked to guard. They watched as two cameras with lasers on the cove above this door locked onto her and fired, but then noticed she was unharmed. A pink barrier had erupted from her body and completely stopped the laser beams.

“What the-” the confused commander of their group cried. He sat in a jeep with a bazooka in his lap, picked it up, and steadied this weapon on his shoulder. He then proceeded to take aim and thought about firing it. That is until; Maruca lifted up her right fist, clenched it tightly, and fired a punch into the metal door. The door went flying back thirty feet and guards on the inside of the building leaped astride as they pulled out machine guns and aimed all of these things at her.

Maruca looked at the guards, sensed the commander with his rocket launcher behind her, and said, “You cannot hurt me with those toys of yours. Please put them down and elect one of yourselves to come with me. I want as little trouble as possible, and came here not wishing to take anything, except information. I do not want anything on this warehouse though; I want it all on Geurin’s battle forces.”

She then proceeded to walk over to the commander of the guard forces, grabbed him, and lifted him up onto her shoulder. The person was wearing all black, including a helmet and visor so it was hard to tell what he looked like. Maruca smiled cheekily and said, “I bet you look pretty cute under that visor, so let’s go have a talk and you can tell me all that I want to know, or I can rip you to shreds if I really have to…” before walking out of the building with the guard commander. The other guards fired off the machines guns they had at her, but Maruca was quick to put up a barrier of ki and protect herself and her captive from the spray of bullets. She hopped back and forth on her right foot and left foot in front of the building before quickly taking off into the air.

With the threat of the guards behind her, she headed north quickly and kept very high up in the air, so more people would be less likely to notice her movements. She had to keep under the radar for her group’s sake. Eventually, after about a ten-minute flight she landed in the wilderness of Yunzabit Heights and set the commando guard down. She then proceeded to wheel around and firmly planted her foot in front of the guard who stood up and said, “Listen lady, I do not know what you did back there but I am not about to-”

Maruca reached out her right hand and clamped it down over the man’s lips saying, “Please do not start arguing with me. I would like to know some simple information please. How well do you know Geurin and what does he plan to do with all the troops like you?”

The guard ripped her hand off, knowing that at least she was a little polite to him and said, “I do not know much at all. If you wanted knowledge, you should have captured someone else. My men and I are simple defenders of products and institutions and people on Earth. We really should have never gone to that business owner’s cereal warehouse in the first place, but the person wanted to pay Geurin money, which our boss seemed to accept at first, but I bet he killed him. He has a tendency, or at least it is rumored he does that kind of thing, since I have not seen the owner of the business around for a while. I only follow his orders though, and would like to shoot you now you freak, but I have no clue where we are and you are the only one to return me from whence I came.”

Maruca growled, “Fine, I am leaving you here. If you go two miles south, you should reach some kind of human village. You already know I am a non-human based on my feats, and I doubt what you have given me is anything, but inaccurate.”

A brief snow blew in and the guard said, “You really are a stupid woman for whatever alien species you are since there are few humans that can do what you do. You really should not abandon me up here it could cause you trouble later, but since you have not harmed me or my men I will forget about this and get back to command. What is known about Geurin’s plans or motives is truly only known by a select few at the moment, so whoever sent you is going to get nothing from me.”

Maruca then leaned into the guard’s personal space and kissed him on the lips, “You are a rather nice human. I would possibly take you as a potential relationship, but you are clearly on the opposite side of this whole thing. I will leave now.”

The guard growled at her simply because the whole situation was confusing and wiped his lips off. “Leave you scum, you will only get in trouble if you stay around here.” Therefore, Maruca did and headed very far south into an island like region, the Gengoro Islands, she landed on one of the empty islands there and sought to train herself when she came upon a strange, young boy with a long black ponytail and Chinese looking clothing. She wondered who he was and sought to find this information as she approached her future student Toshiro Rei.

It was then she noticed a few odd things about him there was a violent glare in his eyes as he turned around to face. Why was the boy mad? She wondered this until she noticed a huge amount of energy radiating around him. The boy stood before her and let out a malicious roar before charging. Maruca just stood there still contemplating what was going with him until she noticed his body slowing morphing into a giant white tiger. Stripes began to form in layers across his skin and a tail even sprouted from his body. Whoever he was, he was a threat, so as his lunge reached her Maruca decided to stop him.

Maruca grabbed him by the throat though as he was about to land on her and shook his thick neck with a powerful vice grip. “Stop,” she commanded the boy, “Or I will hurt you. I do not know what you are, but change back now.”

For some reason, the fierce gaze from her sky blue eyes seemed to pierce through his heart, and so the boy changed back. He introduced himself as Toshio Rei and Maruca gave him her name, but the boy wanted to leave it seemed. She stopped him though with the words of promise, she would train him since he had such a fierce and strong hatred towards something or someone. That would be dangerous for people, especially those on Earth, so she trained him and said she would act as a sensei for him, even though she was officially not one.

To release his energy safely and not transform, as she had seen him do, she made him meditate, gain control of himself, and gain the basics of Bukujutsu through levitation, she then had him travel through the sky around the island. When she felt he was ready, she had him attempt to fly around the Earth once and followed behind him just in case something happened. This was a process that took her and Toshiro only a month or two to complete, but for her seemed fruitful as he seemed to like himself more. Toshiro often, in her opinion, looked gloomy, especially after the sudden attack against her.

He spent the next six months explaining why. His parents had been working with mutating DNA from aliens and from this DNA they grafted him and made him into an alien like were tiger. He meant to; from the way, he talked of his parents act as a weapon against aliens. Upon hearing this, Maruca shut her trap about being an alien and told him that she was a witch from a distant region of Earth. She was on a training journey to get the approval of other witches and because of this sometimes, people did not like her. It sounded like something would work, so under this guise she taught him what was called a “Witch’s Technique”. It was really the after image ability called Zanzoken, but when she performed it and left an image of herself behind on the sandy beach where they lived he was quite surprised.

She told him he could learn it too, that is to leave an image behind while appearing somewhere else, because many creatures in the world knew how to tap into what she classified as “Illusion Magic”. This was a bunch of baloney she was making up to make it seem she was human, but during a lot of her spare time she had watched many fantasy movies between training sessions over the years. Pretending to be a witch, she felt that fit her profile. Therefore, for the few remaining months of the year she taught him the Zanzoken before heading on back to her world at the end of late December.

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The New Seeds of Change

Year 5

"The Return to Amazonica, Maruca Versus The Mysterious Conqueror!"

Maruca journeyed through space finally happy to be heading home and glad to have met a few new people. This time around, despite her planet being under occupation by Saiyans, she was sure to get more respect from her own peoples. Boliko was a good king, no emperor, Maruca was not sure what kind of title he had taken on since she had left, but last time she was sure he had said something about being the head of the SSE whatever that was, oh wait, that was the Saiyan Solar Empire.

She hoped the group had kept their promise with her not to harm people on her planet. Yet as she landed, things suddenly looked rather bleak. She stepped out into the jungles outside of her spaceship and saw many Florians running for their lives. She ran over to one who quickly said that the Saiyans were off taking care of other things on another part of the planet when some new bounty hunter showed up claiming desire to own the place. The Florians had fought, but he was too strong.

There was a human before her and he was a man who had a big sword on his back and rather cool looking body armor, and red or brown spiky hair. It was hard to tell since Maruca was quite mad and all she was seeing was red, possibly the blood that she wished to spill on the ground, his blood that is. She rushed over to him feeling much lighter than she ever had before and kneed him in the stomach while he was busy burning down a tree with a stray blast. He turned towards her and said, “Are you the owner of this planet?”

Maruca did not care to answer. Instead, she reached deep within her and deep within the surroundings of her environment and pulled out a massive amount of energy she thought she did not have. She then proceeded to exert this energy around her and that was when hundreds of petals from the trees floated up into the air and surrounded them. She heard the person say, “Oh crud, I guess you are not happy to-” but before he could finish these petals passed through his body at multiple points and killed him.

Maruca sighed and shouted to all the continuously fleeing Florians, “The threat is over! From now on, I am moving my house into the cities on a planet I am sure the Saiyans have built by now. If you all will join me, I am getting rather tired of living in the jungle for right now. We will come back here, but not until we have a plan to eradicate these haters.” She held up the body of the dead attacker. “I will defend us with that new technique you witnessed Petal Storm!” With that, the Florians amazingly followed her to the nearest Saiyan city and since then have been living there ever since.

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The Days of Maruca Senda Time Line

Year 1

• Maruca has died after the recent explosion of Mount Paozu.
  
  
• Due to her death she meets the Northern Kaioshin Baka on the Northern Kaioshin planet.
  
  
• Baka takes her in and agrees to train her in Kaioshin martial arts.
  
  
• Maruca, despite his crazy training methods, agrees and lives seemingly alone, only really having the Kaioshin as company. But wait, is this really true? Yes, no one else lives on the planet really. She wants to start training, but does not know what to think of him.
  
  
• Within the first year she learns she can be revived, but also learns that in her current state she is not ready to have this happen.
  
  
• Maruca hears about the fighting tourney Guerin wants to have on Earth while Heiwa is attuned into the earth's natural ki.
  
  
• Maruca really wants to join and decides to work extra hard in order to try and return to the earth within a good time span.
  
  
• Heiwa informs her she likely won't make it since he wants to train her one of his secret techniques and she has to wait to really get proper training. Yet he says she might if she can master proper energy control she can learn it, so he teaches her how to do this first. But the problem is she would rather do this kind of training alone then work with Heiwa since she believes his training is mundane. One has to kind of blame this partly on her royal status and the fact she has yet to cope with her sudden death. She doesn't like doing mundane things.
  
  
• Maruca trains for quite a while, about three straight months of practical non-stop training with Heiwa, or what feels like it and learns Heiwa's secret Seraph Shield. He agrees to revive her as long as she does not kill the wrong kinds of people with it, the good ones that is.
  
  
• He ultimately revives her by the end of their training session and she finds herself where Mount Paozu once was.

Year 2

• Joins the Tournament of Champions and fights the Masked Fighter. It is an interesting fight, but ultimately she loses.
  
  
• She gives up fighting for a while and decides that it is best to keep a low profile. Something in her gut tells her that it would be much safer to return home for a while.
  
  
• She takes the only spaceship she has left back to Amazonica and trains herself to control energy vines she calls "Konki Shiba" or Energy Branches. She also travels around the planet collecting animal hides and planets to sell to get a proper spaceship from the bounty hunters on her planet.
  
  
• Before she does this, she meets with the Saiyan Solar Empire and Boliko Koregutsu who takes over her planet after driving out other bandits. She leaves her position for a while on account of this because although she likes his help she believes herself too weak to rule without more proper training.
  
  
  
  Year 3
  
  
  
• Maruca returns to Earth and lands on the outskirts of Central City only to find herself surrounded by human martial artists with one goal in mind, possibly kill her for being superhuman. They do not realize she is actually an alien, but believe she is since so few humans can actually gain the power to use Bukujutsu and some of the other techniques she shows off.
  
  
• Maruca manages to escape from the city, but only because she disguises herself as a plant. She heads for the outskirts and into the wilderness around Yunzabit Heights.
  
  
• On her way north she runs into Nam Reikonaga who is wandering the Earth looking for people to join the Kami Guardian Special Forces. She does not wish to join though. Instead she fights him believing he is out to kill her too.
  
  
• The fight ends with her getting beaten easily, but not killed. Thus forcing her to join Nam out of respect for his power and his desire to ultimately not kill her either. She asks Nam to help get her space ship back and in return will help him by becoming a member of his group.
  
  
• She wants to help Nam get stronger and he does too, so she travels with him and learns a technique called the Zanzoken to give herself the ability to create after images of herself in order to dodge attacks.
  
  
• She openly wants to continue their match from the tourney, but in order to feel satisfied she only thinks it would be right for him to be continually stronger than her. Nam and her fight for quite a while after this by using this technique and other measures. She loses this match too though when they both use basic techniques.

Year 4

• Stays on Earth and works with the KGFS.
  
  
• Changes her appearance.
  
  
• Trains at Kami's Outlook, thanks to Nam having shown it to her or informed her of it with Dynammo and Draxor briefly. She mainly learns more flight control, but also perfects the very simple Barrier technique from the Guardian of Earth.
  
  
• Considers falling in love with a human she helps capture. But wonders at times if this will be a risk. So at the end of the year releases him. In a very random location.
  
  
• Trains a young boy named Toshiro Rei in martial arts. She does not consider herself a great teacher, but tries to teach him for the sake of teaching.
  
  
• She stops Toshiro Rei's beastly rampages, teaches him flight and how to use the Zanzoken, which she learned from Nam Reikogana.

Year 5

• Maruca returns to Amazonica to settle down for a while and enjoy life.
  
  
• While there everything seems peaceful until a stranger lands on the planet.
  
  
• Maruca goes to confront this stranger since she believes him to be, like many other people who have come to her world before, another threat to her home world.
  
  
• Maruca challenges him to combat in hopes that if he loses she can officially make him leave.
  
  
• During the fight she learns how to use a technique she calls "Kahen Boufuu" or Petal Storm, which allows her to cause petals to levitate and become razor sharp and cut through weak ki barriers. She wins the fight thanks to this and many Florians respect her for it, despite the official control of the planet being under Boliko and the Saiyan Solar Empire. She goes to live in the new cities he has built with her people and hopes for continued peace as the SSE has made quite the impression on her now compared to before.

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Time Skip Overview

Status: 100% Complete

Total Word Count: 17,228 Words

Notable Techniques:

Seraph's Shield - Heiwa holds both tightly clenched fists up, using them as a focus point of the move, creating a barrier which can surround a group of people. The barrier absorbs all types of energies, both physical and energy based, which is then converted into a healing aura within the barrier, slowly healing those within (only those with a pure heart may use it, is his teachable technique). Can be overpowered if takes too much concentrated fire, for the strain becomes to much to sustain the move at that point.

Taught: Year 1 by Heiwa, The Northern Kaioshin to Maruca Senda

Konki Shiba "Energy Branches"- Gives Maruca the ability to control tree branches made from her own ki and ensnare or hurt people.

Taught: Year 2 by Herself.

Zanzoken- The user can move so fast he leaves an after-image, While attacking from another standpoint.

Taught: Year 3 by Nam Reikogana to Maruca Senda.

Barrier- This purely defensive technique forms a Ki-shield around the body that protects the user from Ki or similar attacks. There are two forms of this manoeuvre. One is a spherical shield that surrounds the body, the other is more of a coating of the body. She knows how to use both.

Taught: Year 4 by The Guardian of Earth to Maruca Senda

Kaihen Boufuu "Petal Storm"- Allows Maruca to cause petals to levitate and become razor sharp and cut through weak ki barriers.

Taught: Year 5 by Herself during Combat.

Note: Unless stated otherwise in ellipses please only give my character power level training, thank you.

[Gray Callahan]

A remarkably well-thought out and delivered timeskip, with many relevant plot points with good description. Year 5 seems a little rushed, but works entirely well with the end goal of Maruca having 'evolved' into a suitable leader for her Florian people.

22000 PL rewarded.