Zach and Antary; Rivals for life.

[Antary]

Zach leaped at the saiyan once more, calling him cocky, and also saying that he didn`t do anything to be cocky. Well, Antary was not exactly being cocky, but he believed that he had the full right to do so. Zach took more attacks than he gave, even with their differing power levels. Either the blonde was not fighting seriously, or the saiyan was just so good! Thinking that way sure made him more confident. Maybe too much. His head was quickly filled with these thoughts, but then arised the fear of failing - now that would just be embarrassing. He did not want to do anything wrong right now.

Fear is easily one of the most powerful feelings a living being can experience. It can either drive them to do amazing things as adrenaline pours into their bodies, or do the exact opposite of what was intended, especially when the task requires a cool head. And counter attacking needs exactly that! To properly carry out any technique, you need to know what you are doing, and being afraid creates spots that block out the most important parts.

This wouldn`t be such a big deal if Antary wasn`t a saiyan. His pride was on the line - lose the initiative now and have this blonde guy laugh at you as he finally starts using the power advantage he has, as well as gains the advantage of confidence. "Not gonna happen!" Confidently exclaimed the saiyan to himself, readying a counter to the showy off uppercut.

"I`ll just block this attack. It should be easy." He already bulged his muscles, quickly moving them to the contact point, but then... He hesitated. He realized that with the power advantage, blocking such an attack would still end up in a lot of damage. So Antary tried to quickly fix his stance and avoid the impact all together...

But how fast do you need to be to dodge a punch an inch away from your face?

The attack lifted the saiyan off the ground, making him close an eye due to the pain. The other eye angrily stared as Zach, who not only just nearly broke his jaw, but also set his pride on fire. Maybe the human does not understand how much shame Antary feels right now, but it is for the better. It was embarrassing.

Still lifted by the force of the uppercut, through clutched teeth the saiyan whispered the word that he didn`t understand the meaning of, and was unsure whether it even had any. Ever since he learned the technique, it always associated with intense pain and power. "Kaioken!" Antary grabbed his opponent`s extended arm, using his left hand to deliver a devastating punch to the gut as his whole body became surrounded with a crimson aura, transferring his life force into power level.

After a spin, the saiyan would throw Zach with enough strength to get him off the floored tiles and away from the Lookout. But he was so angry, that the assault would not end on that. With a zanzoken he would close the distance between them, and angrily do an attack with both his hands gathered into a single fist. He did not care where it hit, as long as it did, and that was all that mattered to him at that point. If it connected, Antary would follow the blonde downwards, as their fight rapidly changed location from the Lookout to the sky.

The saiyan could not fly with his weights on. He just launched himself with the power he obtained in order to keep up with Zach... This would only work when going downwards, however.

[Zach]

Launching into his uppercut Zach watched his opponent’s jerking attempt to avoid it and then felt the hard impact of his fist crashing against the other’s face. It looked for a moment as if the Saiyan was going to try and block the blow but opted for trying to avoid it all together, only the choice came too late. Or it was also possible that he’d simply been too fast for the younger boy and the shuddering reaction he observed was simply shock at his speed. In either case Zach had landed the punch. However before he could analyze the success any further, the blonde felt his extended arm become ensnared in the surprisingly firm grip of his opponent and then an instant later the other’s left fist exploded into his midsection.

“OOOOoooough!!!...” the blonde teen gagged as Antary’s fist was buried into his stomach and would have doubled over from the blow had his arm not been held up above his head. Like all of the other strike before Zach’s abdominals hadn’t been tensed but what was different was the strength with which he’s just been punched. Zach couldn’t miss the sudden serge of red energy around and recognized it as the same power Nam had used during the tournament. It had greatly amplified his opponent’s strength, allowing him to plunge his fist uncontested nearly through Zach’s gut.

With his arm still caught and unable to bend over, Zach groaned and dropped his head, eyes closing with a well earned grimace of pain. Antary’s attack didn’t stop there though and a moment later the Saiyan had hauled Zach around by his trapped arm and tossed him right off the side of the lookout. Normally this wouldn’t be a problem for Zach as he possessed the capacity to fly even as heavily weighted down as he was. The problem came two fold, first being a massive two handed hammer blow that crashed across the boy’s face, disorienting him as the two fell and the suddenly nagging thought that his opponent may have just killed himself in the follow-up attack.

“Errrg!...” Zach grunted as the blow knocked his head to the side and sent him into a tumble. ‘Ok, this isn’t good… I’ve never seen this guy fly… I don’t think he can… But should I grab him?... Kami certainly wouldn’t like me letting him go splat, especially since he made me promise to be nice…’ Zach thought, about the only clear thoughts he could assemble as he and Antary plummeted towards the ground far below.

[Antary]

Antary could feel the powerful winds opposing him as he boosted himself downwards, like a hawk towards its prey. The winds were felt even through the thick layer of the Kaioken`s aura, which meant that they were going ridiculously fast. And that means that the ground will soon be reached. So he needs to deal the hurt quickly, and either brace for impact or find a way out of this... Situation he created in a fit of rage. Well, clearly this is Zach`s fault for pissing him off.

It took mere moments to reach the blonde. The saiyan used his knee for a first strike, and with the momentum he had it would surely be really painful if it hit. Once again, Antary could care less where it hit, especially since in such a position it`s pretty difficult to even pick specific points, so he simply didn`t bother. This knee collision would also serve as a way to keep at about the same height as Zach, to attack him even more. This obviously could backfire on him, but with Kaioken that was unlikely. Well, so Antary thought, and he was proven to be wrong multiple times.

But after that initial attack, there would be no more fancy moves - just straight forward brawling. Punches and kicks, to wherever it is possible. There was simply no time to be doing anything fancy or revealing any tricks in your sleeves, mainly because the ground will probably be visible any second now, so Antary wanted to deal as much damage as possible and this was the easiest way. Unlike Zach, who seemed to be holding back all this time, the saiyan did not hesitate one bit to fully use the power advantage he obtained.

Little did he know, however, that it was the opponent who is holding the biggest advantage right now. Antary couldn`t fly and maybe the blonde already knew it, and was just waiting for a suitable moment to use this fact to his advantage. The saiyan was simply blinded by anger and completely disregarded anything not relevant to doing damage right now, so he certainly wouldn`t see that one coming.

[Zach]

Dropping out of the sky like a stone, Zach’s tumbling fall was made worse when his opponent managed to descend closer and started to pummel him with punches and kicks faster then the blonde had seen from the Saiyan. Two more quick punches knocked Zach’s head from side to side before his nerves fired again and he pulled his arms in, covering up his head. Still the blows rained down on his unguarded chest and stomach, accompanied here and there by a kick to his sides or ribs. One would normally try to stop such punishment, but this wasn’t so in Zach’s case, this beating was in fact what he wanted. Ordinary solo training could only do so much for him, what he needed to do was push his body beyond it’s limits and destroy his musculature so that he’d come back even stronger.

As gasps and gags escaped the blonde teen’s mouth while Antary continued his relentless, fast paced barrage of punches and kicks, Zach was regaining his wits from the massing two handed punch he’d suffered moments earlier and was now starting to become aware of just how far they had fallen. The ground would very quickly be greeting them with it’s usual, unyielding nature and that sudden stop could be a lot more damaging then Zach or his Saiyan opponent bargained for. Zach was also still wrestling with the quandary of trying to save the Saiyan or not. It would be a simple matter to just apply his power of flight while directly below his opponent, although then Antary would literally be riding him to the surface. Alternatively he could try and grab the other’s clothes and try to swing around so that he was above and then apply his power of flight to slow them. The third option, one that was sickly appealing was to use his flight to pull away from Antary and let the Saiyan hit the ground and it was in a moment of moral weakness that the blonde did just that. Applying his power to fly, Zach accelerated laterally in an attempt to get out from under his opponent and then try to slow his descent to the ground before he impacted.

[Antary]

The way Antary`s advantage disappeared was absolutely sudden, his eyes widened as he realized just what kind of situation he put himself into. He could only watch Zach just stand in the sky as he was falling to the ground like a meteor. The blonde was probably trying his best not to laugh right now. Especially considering that the saiyan was waving his arms in panic, all while swearing with every curse word he knew, which was thankfully unheard due to the falling speed. The Kaioken also disappeared, as Antary lost anything resembling concentration. Going through a cloud, he could finally see the ground under him, probably not expecting an intruder go right through. And oh how deep would Antary go if he actually collided.

"Damn it, think! How do I prevent such a clumsy death! Ugh!" Thoughts started flying all over his head as he reassessed the recent events, from how he got into this situation to the weeks he spent trying to get to the Lookout. "Wait a minute, I had to get there somehow in the first place! How did I... Hah. Ha ha ha ha!" The red aura returned, this time with white sparkles of electricity around it. Antary started gathering ki into his palms, focusing it in a very specific way. The resulted beam would be damned powerful, but incredibly short. There was a reason for this.

"SAIYAN SOUL!" Yelling at the top of his lungs, the saiyan released his powerful beam... Right at the ground, moments before he collided with it. It created a bright flash of light, piercing right through the ground, and creating a lot of recoil, more than Antary could possibly take... And that was the point. The beam was made short so that it wont cause much damage to the planet, and in conjuction with its disproportional power, it created massive amounts of knockback. The saiyan could feel his feet slamming into the ground, briefly, right before he took off at a crazy speed, directly at Zach.

Antary would try to hit his opponent with the hardest object in the entire universe, one that nobody ever sees coming... With a saiyan`s head! Although it is entirely possible that he`ll end up knocking himself out after such a violent contact with Zach`s abs, it would still be worth it, and the conclusion might be even worse than their last encounter... Or it could gloriously miss, since Antary could not control himself at all because of this insane speed.

Either way, this time, he went into danger knowing the consequences, and no matter what, even if the resulting impact kills him, he`ll die thinking that it was all worth it. Because it was.

[Zach]

As Zach managed to slip out from under Anatry's relentless bombardment of strikes, the blonde reoriented to face downward so that he could keep an eye on his opponent. Not having that seemingly ubiquidus ability to sense other people's energy, Zach had to make sure he could see what his opponent's were up to. Turning about, the blonde teen managed to get a good breath of air in, something he'd been sorely lacking during the descent. His innards were aching pretty well now and the renewed ability to breath was actually having the unintended side effect of making Zach nausious. Still he had to keep his wits about him and figure out what to do as his Saiyan opponent continued to fall out of sight into a cloud bank.

"Crap..." Zach chocked out, relizing the other young man was likely going to end up as a bloody splatter on the ground bellow. "Kami's not going to like this..." he added and started to drop faster again, using his power to fly just to maintain his orientation facing the ground. As the blonde entered the cloud bank though there was a sudden flash of light which prompted Zach to rais his arms in defence once more, but there was no impact, only the cool, white mist of the cloud he was descending through. Zach had no idea what was heading back up his way and so relaxed, postulating that perhaps it was perhaps some last ditch braking maneuver. He was half right in that regaurd, what he hadn't suspected though was that the braking maneuver was also a method of attack. Dropping out of the bottom of the cloud layer at terminal velocity, Zach had no time to react, no sooner then did he catch sight of his opponent, the other young mann barreled into him, folding Zach in half at the midsection.

"UUUUuuuuuuhhhhh!!!......" Zach's lungs emptied what little air he'd managed to pull in during the breife interlude along with a mouth full of spit. Their combine velocities formed an absolutely devistating impact that punshed Zach's body beyond what he'd expected to get out of the day's training. His slackened abs did nothing to protect him from the imense impact of Antary's cranium blasting into his stomach. The collision surface was so wide that it hit the entirety of the blonde's midsection, from the top and his solar plexus, to the very bottom row of abs. Zach's body went into spasm for a moment as he hung there, unable to breath, to think or even move on his own, his face frozen in a visage of pure shock. Zach had been looking to just get a little beaten up but with this titanic maneuver, Antary had just wrecked his day and it was only sheer suborness that was keeping him from passing out after the crash.

[Antary]

After colliding with Zach, Antary quickly came to regret his ridiculous decision. Unlike the other famous saiyan, he was simply not trained in headbutts well enough to deal more damage than he received. His race`s stubborness thankfully prevented him from losing consciousness, but it still put him into a stupor of some kind. For a while, he could only keep his head in Zach`s abs while still shooting the beam. Eventually, they really would go back all the way to the Lookout, and only at that point Antary would regain his half-lost consciousness, realizing that his head was stuck in some guy`s belly. His beam faded, and with his now free hands he lifted the blonde and threw him aside, well, more like put him aside. The saiyan would quickly fall on the tiled floors, the distance simply not high enough to do any damage to his trained body at all.

Head pounding, muscles tearing, barely any air left in lungs, Antary slowly got back up to his feet. Most, if not all of that damage was caused by himself, but hey - it does look like he is the winner, as much as you can get in a spar, at least. "Man... I think I actually remembered who this guy was for a moment... Right before I bashed him with my head... Damn it. Ah well, whatever. I probably won`t see him again anyway." Every thought had a painful echo along with it. The saiyan looked at Zach, still holding a hand at the head.

"Are we... Done here?.." Completely tired, Antary nearly whispered the question. Even as a saiyan he had no will to fight anymore, and was even thinking about surrendering should the blonde try to continue. It would be embarrassing, yes, but what else is there to do! Maybe that attack had no effect on this tough bastard at all? And all the young warrior wanted right now was just some good old rest, not to mention that tomorrow he is expected to give his best in Kami`s training. Oh yeah, how could he agree to this while keeping that in mind?

If the answer given is satisfactory, Antary would simply start slowly walking towards the house where Kami assigned him his room. Tomorrow is going to be a great day - his first day training with the green man Kami, the moment he stubbornly traveled 2 weeks on foot for. His only worry was that he`ll disappoint everyone with this weakened state, so even though its barely noon right now, Antary will have to sleep all the way to tomorrow in order to recover in time.

How was he to expect this much damage in a simple sparring match?

[Zach]

Hunched over Antary's head like a rag hanging on a hook, Zach's arms dangled down in front of him, drool dripping out of the boy's mouth as the pair rocketed higher up into the air. Their ascent eventually crested as the young boy terminated the beam he was riding and a moment later Zach could heel Antary's hand on his sides. At once he was lifted away, the presure in his guts being releaved and allowing Zach to breath again, although his diaphram was still to traumatized by the impact to allow that yet. The pair free fell for a short distance back onto the tiled floor of the Lookout, Zach landing with a thud on his back, his arms dropping out to either side. Antary was back up on his feet before the blonde could even get breating properly so his assumption that he'd won was quite correct. Still the other young man asked if Zach was finished, to which he responded with a fit of coughing as his lungs started to work again.

"...I've had... my fun... for the day..." Zach responded hoarsly after a few moments to catch enough breath to do so. "...But if you... really want to continue... I'm game..." the blonde joked and remained exactly as he was on the floor. This was exactly what he wanted, a good workout that got his blood pumping, his body burning and maybe a little bit of an an ache as well, although the end was decidedly more punishing then he'd originally bargained for. "Next time I... won't go so easy on you." he added with a choking chuckle, having enjoyed the fight more then he would admit to a Saiyan.

[Zach]

{Looks like we're finished here. Power level increase requested. Heavy weights are in effect.}

[Geurin]

Zach 3150
Antary 3600