Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2013 12:05:36 GMT -5
After having finished, the trials at the Temple of Flowers Maruca Senda awoke with new purpose in mind. Her body and soul and had changed since her contact with the creature known as Virion and as she opened her sky blue eyes to the world above her physician looked down upon her and asked, “What happened? I have never seen this kind of transformation in a Florian among our race ever.”
Maruca happily answered him with a smile and said, “Dear physician that is because I went to Earth and experienced a love and kindness from the people there and from a greater being who lived there, such was his kindness that he gave me a gift of immense power that made me now as you see me.”
She sat up and looked over her new body. Her muscles had grown denser than previously, her skin had become a rich brown color and her eyes a delicate pink. Three one-foot long wooden horns protruded from her body at ninety degree angles, one, from her forehead and two from the back of her shoulder blades, in her hair were far more numerous blue flowers and out of her hips grew two large sunflowers. She poked herself and noted that although her skin was still slightly elastic there was hardness, almost as if it had come from wood or a tree.
Maruca placed her hands on the ground and pushed herself up to her feet. She then ordered the priest to act, “Tell the people that a great power has come to our nation, I am now more than queen, but their goddess. If they wish to bask and share my lovely abilities, I shall offer them to them, just as the higher god offered them to me.”
“And who would that be?” the physician pondered. He could not believe Maruca was possibly rejecting the existence of the Father Plant of Amazonica the violent creature that had sprung forth on the grounds they lived on and ended up calmed by foreign seeds to produce the vast jungles around them.
“That person would be the Great One, but you shall not see him until you or anyone else accepts the gift I have.” Maruca answered him. She gave him a small frown as her lips curled downward and told him, “I am off to train for in this world there is darkness and light, and if we want to save this world we must reconcile them all creatures must and become perfect.” She allowed a burst of purple ki to well up around her and using this floated up into the air and flew to her private quarters, the central area of their lovely palm village.
One hour from this point, an extensive set of training would occur for Maruca, one that would make her even stronger than before. She had now accepted the Infection and as such could hear increasingly distant thoughts of her comrades on planets far, far away. She had no clue how to communicate with them yet, but she wished to tell them of herself and let them see her in all her glory. It was certain Virion wanted a queen within his group for queens could control people and needed to believe in him because they had been going on the wrong paths this entire time. If it took an entire year she would make sure at least all of her people either believed in Virion or accepted the same gift as she had.
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Maruca landed in her home a wooden square building with a slanted roof made from tied together palm leaves. It was a space 100 x 100 square feet across and all the people of the village had come to her home the first day it was built to bless it as ritual required for the Father Plant. Here, she had lived with her mother and father until they had died. Now she was the sole owner of the house yet kept quite a few belongings of theirs strewn around the place. People often thought she was a messy queen because of this, but Maruca did not mind.
Among her things were a set of white bone four legged chairs crafted from two giant lizards, a table made from a rhino's back bone, a a hanging rack made from a bamboo pole, and a small iron cooking set she had bought from Saiyan traders. It was all the rage now instead of making fires by hand, but she figured she still had the skills to do that.
She looked around her space and judged it with her eyes as she stepped over bits of food and clothing she had left on the floor. "I ought to clean up and fix up the place for some training," she thought to herself. "I have not been here in five years, going on six now."
She bent over and started picking up dried egg shells, half eaten mangoes, and completely gnawed off bones, etc. She thought to herself, "Hm, somehow I got the sense I became a pig in the last five years or did not have time to clean my house... Why should I clean it though?"
There was a metal garbage can in the corner she had also gotten from the Saiyans so she tossed of the trash in her hands now into it with one big throw. Once she was done with this, she walked over to the can, picked it up and carried it outside a long wooden walk way that was a simple long, thick branch out the back end of her house. She stepped off it and dropped two hundred feet with the can tightly held in her hands before proceeding to use her ki once more to boost off into the air towards a large trash pit towards the south of her village.
What she came upon when she got there was a stinking pile of rubbish that looked to be a hundred feet wide and one hundred feet deep. "I ought to vaporize this trash or crush it. Then tell my people to do a better job cleaning up." she stated as she held her nose and tipped her trash into the pit with her free hand.
Powering up a few ki blasts she fired three shots into the pit and it instantly exploded and began to burn. She flew down to the ground, spread out a series of seeds she ejected from her hand, and forced them to grow over top of the trash pit. These seeds burned and because of this a strong smell of burning wood rose up from the forest. mixing with trash.
When she was done letting her tender vines burn she squinted as she dug her hands into the earth, churned it up and pushed a great pile of it towards the flames. She could see and feel the heat of the flames as she approached it and quickly flew back after one pile of dirt covered the flames. She then repeated what she had done ten times before the flames finally died down and she had before her a flattened cooked area of earth.
She sighed as she looked overhead and noted the time of day was noon. Stamping her foot on the ground she shouted, "And I so wanted to train before now!" Using the last of her energy though, she flew off back to her home and decided to continue doing more work. She needed to do this before she trained in order to make sure her house was clean and big enough to set down her own personal training chamber. The one she had was a x 50 gravity chamber that came in a pink and blue Capsule Corporation capsule, it was a metal dome that was seventy by seventy feet across and she was afraid she would not be able to fit it into her room unless she cleared out and moved out a lot of stuff.
She figured for now the best thing to do to get stronger was to test herself by moving stuff around and helping herself out to make her new training area pristine and clean. She was a woman still after all, and frankly speaking, she had high standards for cleanliness. That is if she had access to the ability to be clean.
Maruca walked around the room and moved her chairs, table, and hanging rack to the far side of the room. She stepped back into the center of her home and found that most of her clothes were piled up there. She picked up one set, a black body suit and held it up against her body. This one had small training weights lined inside of it.
"This is not good," she thought, "Ever since my transformation occurred I had not expected the possibility of my suit not fitting." She had not noticed till now, but now as she looked over her shoulders she could see the two horns growing out of her back stretching the spider silk material that had been woven for her by her doctor apparently. She wondered where her other clothes could be and perhaps thought he had taken them from her since he might have felt it was inappropriate to enter the temple in such strange, off world clothes. She decided the next chance she would get that she would go back and get them. But for now it was important to modify the clothes she had for herself. She would simply tear them if she tried to wear them while training, especially in the gravity chamber.
She picked a black full body suit with skin tight sealing and examined it by holding it up in front of herself. She rifled through the rest of her clothes until she found an odd pair of scissors underneath them all. Flipping the suit over, she cut two three inch holes in the back of it exactly where her shoulder blades protruded. She then walked over to the few circular openings she had in her home and pulled the a set spider silk curtains across them. Spider silk was a valuable and fashionable commodity, which is why Maruca had used it a lot along with silk to make herself a prominent queen among her village, but since she had gone to Earth she had gotten quite into their polyester and other materials.
Once the room was completely dark she changed out of her dress and put on the black training suit she had fashioned she then proceeded to open up all her curtains up again. "Perhaps, I should call a few of my people to come in here and train with me..." she pondered as she stood again in the center of the room with her hand resting under her chin. A few combatants fighting against her under gravity would be fun. She could test herself and figure out where her people were in terms of strength, she only hoped it did not hurt them.
Thinking back on it though she scratched her head and decided against it. Her people had only been used to one type of gravity, just what would ten times their own gravity feel like to them unmastered, much less fifteen times. Maruca pulled out the capsule for her x 50 gravity chamber and clicked the button. "Here goes nothing..." she uttered before leaping back towards the front end of her home and tossing the capsule in the center of the room. It exploded and smoke bellowed out everywhere as she closed her eyes. When she opened them again the giant metal dome that was seventy by seventy feet across sat in her room. She was glad her home had a one hundred foot ceiling, but she could still feel the house shift slightly as the weight of the dome caused her home to creak. She took a step forward and with each step more creaking noises occurred.
"I suppose this is safe," she told herself before stepping into the dome and closing the door behind her. The dome at the moment was at zero gravity and as she entered she could feel the slick, shiny metal's cool surface against the soles of her feet.
"I probably should go over and turn on the switch she told her," she stepped towards the center of the dome where a main control device was bolted down into the floor and turned the singular knob on it. The gravity of the room automatically went to ten times her regular dose of gravity, but unlike last time nobody was dropping to the ground nor feeling headaches from the pain. She turned the knob again, ever so slightly, and closed her eyes.
That was a bad idea. The moment she did she found the gravity take hold of her body and no matter how much she tried she could not open her eye lids. She stepped, rather fell back from the machine and her butt firmly planted itself to the floor of the dome. Spreading her hands out, she tried to push herself up, but they too got stuck to the floor. She tried to move her legs, which were splayed out in front of her, but even they would not bend to her will. She was sitting in a dangerous seat caused by her own stupidity.
She tried again and again and again to lift herself up with her own muscles, yet nothing budged. Three minutes in she felt her forehead begin to sweat as though she had been practicing for the last fifteen to thirty minutes non-stop. Just what was going on?
"Three minutes of desperate movement equates to fifteen exercising minutes?" she questioned. She did not understand as the beads of sweat rolled down her chin and soaked into her black body suit. She was glad it was sweat and water absorbent since she felt she would be stuck in the room a while. Frankly speaking, five times more gravity than previously had shown her one thing and that was that there was a limit to herself. Before she had been simply doing house chores to allow herself to set up her own person machine in the room she was currently in. Now, she was actually in it. This was a new and wondrous experience to her, and she had no idea now what to train; outside of trying to stand up again like she had on Kaioshin Heiwa's planet.
That fat pink creature undoubtedly probably had training in these kinds of experiences she hoped. She was sad she had no way to communicate with him. It could have been fun to talk with him again after five years and so many changes.
Right now though, she could feel her body getting heavier as she tried once again to lift her appendages off the metal floor. A five times greater gravity difference really did seem to make a change for her. She could feel her muscles tense up and the joints in her bones lock up.
"Oh crud!" she cried as the pain surged up and down her spinal cord. She had a similar problem of not being able to stand on Heiwa's planet in the past and problem before her was not much different. This time though, she had no one who could help her stand herself up under this kind of gravity. Was this the kind of stuff Toshiro had trained under when she was with him on Earth? She remembered how much ki he had out put just to try and push himself to be able to fight her. Perhaps now, her only way to stand would be to emit her own ki and use her spiritual energy to force herself up i.e. take her normal will power past it's regular potential and unlock something greater, something, just something she had not had before in her life. That would be the ability to sense and understand her surroundings more.
She felt, whenever she looked at Nam or another fighter they had been able to easily find and locate her, attack her in unexpected ways but she had no idea how. She knew all creatures had a natural life force and energy but she did not know how to channel said energy for anything other than fighting. Her people practiced channeling it for peaceful purposes, yet despite all her meditation in the past she had failed all of that kind of training thus far.
Long ago, before she had ever come to Earth, but after she had come back to her village, after seeing and witnessing a child protect her people. Well, she had gone to see her village physician, the royal family doctor who's name was Vered. He was an odd, old man who wore a giant leaf like a cloak and had a huge pet spider. He trained Maruca for apprenticeship, but after living with her a month flat out told her that she needed to just go ahead, see the world, find a guy who she liked, get settled down, and act as a figurehead who would "protect" her people. Thinking back on it, she realized it was his way of telling her she stunk at channeling energy and therefore would never really be able to lead an army herself against any future slave traders on Amazonica, despite many of them being wiped out by a mysterious wild child in the past who had aged into adulthood, yet his time and identity were short lived on the planet. Somehow though, his deeds had been ingrained in many though they never knew he had done this.
Maruca figured that today, well, after seeing the Saiyans easily establish a city on her people's planet, that they were indeed led by a similar man. One, Boliko Koregutsu, fearless, unconquered, and ruler of the Saiyan Solar Empire. She had a feeling he had many of her people under his boot worshiping him like a god. It irked her since she wanted to be a goddess now. It was her rightful place since she was one of her people, a natural leader in the sense she was born to her rank, and knew her own people's customs more than she did.
Fortunately, Boliko had not crossed that line yet. In fact, many Florians also said that they did not see much of the Saiyan Solar Empire. It was a very complicated matter and Maruca hoped to one day settle it out with him, maybe even take back the planet for her people if she had to. For all she knew, now was the right time, she had not been on the planet long, yet she knew not many were around to say they had seen Saiyans either.
Maruca shifted her legs slowly, thinking she would become stronger than the king who now had a hand in ruling her planet. Even though her body joints felt locked up she let her ki flow into them and her feet and using this power forced herself to stand. She could feel a sweat begin to flow down her legs and realized even standing still under gravity was a problem for her, at least this gravity it was, she had not adjusted to it yet.
Standing fully erect though she imposed her arms to go against the natural flow of the energy in the room and exerted her own energy upon, thus causing her arms to rise with this power of her own ki. She brought them to the center of her stomach and clasped them together. If there was a time to learn to focus her ki energies it was now in a place she lived in and understood, a place that was relatively safe and far off the map of wanton warlords like the Geurin of Earth she had met. It was her time to get stronger than ever before in a world filled with potential terror, sorrow, and grief to come to all the universe's creatures. Why? She really did not know, but for some reason in her heart she felt Geurin could possibly be a threat still to the balance of everything, if he were out there. He had mercilessly gone toe to toe with her, complete stranger to the planet Earth. Yet she felt it was not out of complete desire to protect said planet, but to destroy her or any alien of a species, maybe he just found the simple pleasures of chaos.
Maruca had prior to now when she had met her more primal self, yet she could not understand entirely why it was today she liked it. It just seemed right to get stronger to her not just to protect others, but maybe just to test one's self. A person's worth only went as far as they did and if she could not prove herself before others she would fail miserably.
Maruca now though had entered her trance. She began by inhaling through her nose and exhaling through her mouth continuously in a very slow manner. She slowly and painfully brought her right leg up to the top of her thigh and let her knee stick out to the side as she entered into a yoga-like Tree Pose. Great amounts of gravity came down on her single, solid leg and she felt like wanting to keel over and hit the floor. Though in her mind, she knew she had to resist. Training her energy, which was the portion holding her up now was extremely important. One day she felt she might have to fire or use more deadly energy attacks and one could not count on them if they could not control their energy. To get real respect Maruca would need to find a way to control hers. Breathing and standing still seemed to be the simplest method since she had seen many Earth women and men do this on TV when she had flipped through the TV channels on their planet.
Frankly, Maruca felt she spent more time there than her own home world, so she decided to make it up to her people. It was always something she felt she should do. One would probably say she thought this so much she was a super patriot of her own planet. she had not felt many were the same way, but then again, she really only knew a select few of her own population due to her comings and goings on her world. The people liked her, but only as a figurehead when they could see her. It was sad, very really. Maruca wanted to do more for them all and become possibly a legendary queen for them all.
Maruca continued to stand on her left leg, she could feel a lot of pressure build up in her muscles due to the increased gravity and wanted to cry out in pain. Although, she held it off by thinking of thoughts in her past. She needed to keep her concentration up or else she would never progress. Her mind suddenly though became a blank slate? How long had she been standing inside her gravity?
Forcing her eyes open with her ki she used what little peripheral vision she had and found that there was no clock inside her machine. Suddenly, her right leg dropped and the force behind it caused her to bounce off her left leg into the air ten feet. When she landed she groaned in pain as her concentration was lost. She forcefully though dragged herself over to the gravity machine's control unit and switched its knob to the off position.
It was time to take a break and hopefully come back another day if she could. As she wearily dragged herself out of the machine, a sudden sensation came over her. Her mind locked onto a familiar energy source and she realized she was feeling the power of Toshiro? She could feel him, some distance away in the forest, but she was not sure where exactly. She had an idea that he would land on the planet, yet had not expected him to land as far away as she was now feeling.
"Wait a second..." she thought to herself as she grabbed her forehead. "I've never had the ability to sense one's energy before!" A smile crept over her face as she realized that she may have developed a new ability and come to advance to the next level of training. It was probably best to find Toshiro now and see what she could do about him. She felt around again with her power and noted there was another different energy sign than the regular Saiyans and Florians she was feeling around her now. Deep in the forest, a second different wavelength of energy emitted it was kind of small, but worth looking into to see if such an energy wielder were hostile. Maruca did not want another hostile alien slaver on her planet like last year. That year some guy with a sword and red hair had come to do some damage and she had punched the guy to kingdom come.
Today was likely to be a very fun day. The sun was shining, she had cleaned up her home, and she had two wonderful visitors she could potentially greet. Life was going to be fun again rather than agonizing as it had sometimes been on Earth. She was on her home world, among her own people, yet no matter what they thought she would go her own way and do as she wished with her portion of the planet. "Er, yeah," she noted as the words tumbled off her lips. "I should at least control half the planet. Maybe I should control all of it." she told herself.
Boliko, the supposed owner of this planet had ruled it long enough, yet he had not seen him since he had conquered it. It was nice he took it under his wing to protect it, but was there anything worth it. She would ask him this later, but for now she exited her house and flew off to find Toshiro Rei her partner in the Kami Guardian Special Forces.
Energy Sensing: The ability to sense the power of people.
(Requesting Power Level with Light Training Weights Active.)
