White Tiger, Meet Alien Flower [Maruca]

[Raki Zakros]

OOC: This is set during the beginning of the 4th year of the timeskip.

On the outskirts of Satan City, a young man in ripped baggy black pants scavenged on the streets for food. Being a human test subject to become a hybrid a human and a white tiger, he found himself able to survive without food for long periods of time due to the abnormality, not to mention he didn’t get super skinny due to the lack of food either. That didn’t stop him from feeling like any other human would though, he was hungry as hell. His muscles were still toned despite him doing nothing but wandering on the streets for about the year, just barely getting by from the psychological trauma he had to deal with every day.

“This isn’t going to cut it, a city like this… but if I venture out I may risk having an even less chance of survival out there…” Toshiro thought, black bangs hanging over his head as the usual depression took a hold of him. He was just a regular school boy before, he didn’t dare venture into the unknown even with how he was now. With his thoughts drowning him, his eyes widened when he suddenly felt his heart skip a beat, then began to start racing and pounding within his chest, as if a caged animal trapped in there was banging the walls, trying to seize control of its situation.

“Damn it… not again… no…” The boy stammered as he collapsed on all fours, feeling the inner beast within arise again. He noted with all the previous times he had done this, every time he reached a certain point of depression or anger, he would black out and wake up to utter chaos around him that he assumed he had caused himself. From the experiments his father did on him what he heard from those scientists, he vaguely remembered that it his emotions that trigged him to transform, and his lack of control caused it to happen frequently.

“Grrrrrrrr… AAARRRGGGGHHH!!!” He cried in pain as the transformation began, it felt as if he was growing something out of his very skin, the pain was so unbearable but at least did not usually stick to his memory for long. The bare skin on the man than began to grow white and blue fur as the body began to start morphing into something much more sinister, the feet and hands changed into claws, his head turned into one of a white tiger’s, and most notably the muscle mass on his chest and limbs grew significantly, turning him into nothing short of a wild beast on the loose.

“RAAAAWWWWRRR!” The white tiger beast opened its mouth to reveal jagged sharp teeth as it let out a bellow to affirm its dominance to the world, it was now nothing more than a mindless beast relying on unstable instinct forged by scientists, a beta project to say the least, utterly unstable. The beast then suddenly swiped a claw towards a green garbage dump container nearby, getting it stuck there. In frustration, he lifted his arm up and began to try to shake it off, but it was suck there. It then opened its mouth and a white energy ball started glowing in between his teeth, soon shooting out of his mouth in the form of a stream of energy that vaporised the container and its contents into ashes.

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Maruca was walking along and enjoying her day when in what appeared to be a back alley loud noises could be heard. She rushed over to the area, crossing over an asphalt street, and as she gazed past a smoking pile of rubble pondered, "Did a mad scientist break loose; that looks like a giant white tiger with the ability to shoot lasers."

She wondered how such a creature could exist and noticed it was standing on two legs and had a massive chest underneath all of its black and white stripes. She smiled to herself before saying, "Hey! Mr. Tiger if you can speak you better do so now or I might feel like hurting you! Explain why you blew up a trash can!" She stamped her foot down in front of her and began to prepare her body for a fight by standing before this awful menace, maybe it was some awful experiment gone wrong. Yes, she could almost sense it had to be since tigers like this did not exist in the natural world.

[Raki Zakros]

After demolishing the trash, the white tiger’s senses picked up a scent, a delicate one at that. It turned around to see a woman, thought all it saw was its next target. “Rarh…RRRAAAHHH!” It suddenly slammed its fists onto the ground onto the ground, denting it below him before he clawed at it, it seemed it was readying itself for a sprint as it continue to stare at its prey.

Suddenly the white tiger beast ran forwards at superhuman speed, an arm and claw raised up to shimmer a little in the light to empathise its sharpness. It was ready to slash at the woman into shreds when he got close enough to her, she was the object of his rage, potential food as well seeing as he was starving.

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Maruca's eyes glinted with excitement as the humanoid tiger creature, turned around, roared at her, and slammed its claws into the ground. As it sprinted towards her Maruca held her ground, despite its sharp claws, she quickly brought her arm up and raised it in front of her, just as the creature reached her, and grappled it by the throat. Her face turned into a frown as she brushed her hand aside with her free hand and gripped the animal's throat even tighter.

"Stand down..." she commanded "Get a hold of yourself and stand down, or I will have to hurt you badly." She wondered as she stood there and slowly lifted the tiger aloft if it would follow her commands. It seemed to have some human response actions? She hoped it did because it looked rather more human than animal in some notable ways. The creature was big, but not so big that she felt it towered over her in a dangerous way.

She continued to hold its throat though in case it was more than met the eye an waited for its breathing to slow. Surely it was just having a bad day maybe. Only the tiger could eventually answer these questions for her.

[Raki Zakros]

The beast thought he had it, she was just standing there like an idiot. But it was rudely surprised as it was grabbed by the throat, not only was this feat was ridiculous to him, to add insult to injury she did it so effortlessly too. It tried to growl but found that it couldn’t, all it could do was gag as its mouth was left open.

Running out of options, it did the only thing he knew best and did well on instinct. It’s mouth began to glow as ki began to gather inside it, it’s power grew steadily as time ticked on, soon enough if she’s allow him, the beast would shoot off a white mouth blast at her face in hopes she’d let him go so he could finish what he started.

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"Naughty, naughty tiger..." Maruca grinned as the tiger tried to blast her with a beam of energy from her mouth. She clearly noticed it, since the technique was being performed directly in front of her, and took action. She sent a good punch straight into the blast before her hoping to break down the energy in front of her with overwhelming force. The tiger should have just listened to her and calmed down, but she understood in her current situation she was probably threatening it more than it was threatening her now. She shed a tear for the tiger and thought, "I have to make it up to the poor beast once I get rid of all his dumb energy..." Why oh why did cats have to get so angry so easily?

[Raki Zakros]

The tiger was about to fire his laser but it suddenly vanished when the woman punched it, why? She kept on doing such feats its wild mind could not comprehend, he always trashed the place when he was like this, why was she stopping him? Well then, if mouth blasts wouldn’t work, he’d try the next best thing. It got reminded it was hungry as hell as it looked at the fresh meat before him, it then tried to to grab her shoulders with his claws so it could shove itself forward and maul her face off and be done with it.

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Maruca felt the giant tiger's huge paws weigh down on her shoulders, but it was definitely not the kind of weight she could not handle. She smiled at the tiger and said, "Aw, kitty wants a huge!" Before raising her arms and wrapping them around the tiger's waist to squeeze out all of it's potential energy. She squeezed as hard as she could and added, "If you keep in close contact with me like this I will squeeze the life out of you."

[Raki Zakros]

The beastly tiger struggled to pin the woman down, he was obviously much bigger but why couldn’t he accomplish it? It let out a growl of frustration as hit continued to press down on her, but she would not budge an inch! Not only that she was hugging around his waist, she was getting on his nerves and but she kept him in a lock he could not escape through brute force.

The warning came to deaf ears as it continued to struggle, nothing he did was working and soon that made him less hostile and more accepting of those fact. In one last ditch effort to save its pride, it roared loudly at the woman’s face in hopes he could at least knock her out with his bad breath or something. As it continued to struggle, the beast went to calm down, not to mention it was running out of energy anyway and the tight squeeze was not helping.

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Upon hearing the tiger's loud roar Maruca released the beast and jumped back slightly. "I really hate loud noises sometimes..." she growled to herself as the ringing sound of the tiger's roar rattled in her ears. The tiger looked like it was less energized than before, so perhaps it was time to leave it alone. All it had done was shoot a trash can with an energy blast.

"Wait," Maruca muttered to herself, "This beast can shoot trash can with an energy blasts..." and thus she was back to square one. Perhaps, the tiger was intelligent? She beckoned it closer with her hand hoping that it would not decide to run away out of fear of getting injured. She did not want to hurt the poor beast unless she had to, but then it had the intentions of hurting things. Why oh why had she just gone and done circular logic again? This whole situation was such a hassle.

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The tiger beast’s idea worked, so she was scared of his roar after all, so it thought as she finally let him go. As she leaped back so did it, feet skidding against the ground from the jump, it slammed its fists into the ground again but this time to halt itself, it growled at Maruca again as it kicked a foot back and then went sprinting forwards again.

While it was doing so, it once again started charging up another ki ball in its mouth as it crossed his arms, claws showing. It was getting tired of the woman and jut wanted her dead, so as it ran past her he would fire the mouth blast and then slash at her in an X formation, hopefully that would at least injure her.

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For the first time in a while, as Maruca waited for the tiger to do something, she noticed how it leaped back and skid across the ground before standing before her and growling at her. It then proceeded to rush her. This tiger was wasting its time trying to scare her. Maruca was scared by its loud noise, but she realized the beast might not have much power within it after all. She was going back and forth on this since gauging her opponent was rather difficult in the midst of battle when she did not necessarily have perfect training for it.

The tiger's sprint forward would not help it. The white ball of energy forming again in its mouth and the sharp claws that it had might, but as it reached her and started to run past her she stepped past the blast it fired from its maw by stepping forward rather quickly. Behind her, she left an after image of herself which the blast started to fly through. A good use of Zanzoken had occurred, she then proceeded to turn around as the beast did to slash a large X across her chest. She caught both claws and told the beast once more. "Give up please. I am not using my full strength. I have not this entire battle I believe and I do not want to hurt you."

The gaze from her sky blue eyes was now instead of fierce more calm and controlled. She really wanted to understand what this creature's issues were now since it seemed persistent on getting rid of her. She decided though it might be best to cripple the beast, so she raised her foot towards the beast's waist and attempted to send a kick into its lower abdomen.

[Raki Zakros]

The tiger beast thought it had finally got her at last, but to his irritation he had stuck a mere afterimage of her, she dared trick him like that? The beast was furious to be fooled like that, growling at Maruca as it turned around to face her, it had so much malice and intent to kill in its eyes, in its eyes only she was his only prey, and he always got his prey.

He went on to execute his X claw attack but found his arms being held by her strength, but how? She didn’t even look that strong, she didn’t have bulging muscles like he had! And then came her words, she dared to take pity on him like that? It let out another roar in disagreement and tried to bite at her head but his restrained arms won’t let him do it, he would not by toyed like this.

She finally made her move though, a swift kick to his lower abdomen and he forced himself to kneed down on one knee, growling in pain. Noting how that worked, he realised she didn’t restrain his legs and he had one free so the beast attempted to raise its knee to slam it hard into the gut in hopes he’ll be able to get away from her hold.

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In the ensuing battle, the beast had turned to try and strike her with both his claws. This attempt had failed though because she had caught its claws with her hands and held them in place. The roar the tiger emitted made her a bit nervous, but it was not like that last one which was sudden and rather unexpected. She held her ground against the beast and expected it to give up any time now.

Maruca could feel the tiger's power weaken for a moment after the kick she sent into its stomach. Especially since it lowered himself down onto a knee and had a face that showed contorted pain. Maruca though was a bit suprised when the tiger's knee came up and slammed into her gut. She staggered back from this attack about five feet, but soon realized that the only reason she had was that the attack was sudden and fast, and almost felt like the quick jabs made by boxers. There was just not enough power behind this beast's attacks. Or rather, it was almost like it could not control it since the blast she had punched through earlier and some of the swipes it had made with its claws looked scary to the average person probably.

Maruca smiled and rubbed her stomach where she had gotten hit. There was a tiny bruise forming there, but nothing her body could not handle. Maruca glanced ahead at the tiger and wondered if it would charge her again. She decided if it really was going to continue fighting her then perhaps a bit more of her own power was necessary. She told before the tiger and closed hers to focus. She could feel her power well up deep within her body and as it did a pink aura formed around her. Once her power reached about 25% percent above her normal power levels though she stopped and held it at that level to use against the tiger's next attack. It was time to get serious and stop playing around she supposed, but for now it was important to wait to see what it would do.

Power Level Increased To: 54, 019 PL

Warning: I may increase power out put to even higher ranges.

[Raki Zakros]

The beast’s sudden knee had did the trick, Maruca had finally let him go, and it was relieved to find out she was not as invincible as he first thought. It let out a low cautious growl at the woman as she took the hit as it was nothing though, was she even a bigger monster than he was? It didn’t matter, he intended to see it through that he’d rip her to shreds.

It’s fur tingled in unfamiliar sensations as her pink ki began to show, he had never seen anything like it, everyone one he had faced were easy prey, cowardly humans who didn’t even come near to his power, but this woman was in a league even higher than his own? It was impossible, and he would prove that. Though the ki was making the atmosphere a little heavier than before, it found itself panting a little due to the abnormality.

Still not intimidated, the beast clasped its claws together in a clap before ki charged into its mouth again, it did not learn of course, it was merely a beast relying on instincts alone, whatever it took to destroy. “RRRAAAWWWRRR” it roared again before it let off another mouth wave that ended up pushing the ground under and outwards from the bright white laser beam fired at his foe.

After the blast, it smashed its fists into the ground and then propped off its limbs with a high leap into the air. It then descended down towards where it sensed his opponent was, arm raised as it generated ki into his claw with a shimmering light. With another roar, the let the claw slash forwards, hoping for a decent hit due to the momentum he was coming at her with.