Treasure Hunt [Open/Blaze] Part 1

[Serori Yakedo-Satsumaimo]

A new day, a new cold. Serori had bundled herself up in order to go training outside of town. Even with all her sweaters and long sleeves, thermals and woolen socks, she was still shivering to her bones. She loved Suki, she really did, but why did the Icers have to live on a planet that was essentially one giant ice cube?

It wasn't all bad though. Once it was realised that Suki's ideas had changed, and he wasn't just a cold-blooded killer, the people began to warm up, as it were, to the royal family. For the most part, Serori was treated with genuine respect, and even offered free drinks at the local pubs. She declined, of course, if she was going to drink, the least she could do was at least pay for it. But the Icers were a generally nice race of people. All this talk she'd heard about bloodshed this, and kill kill kill that back on Earth and Vegeta was all a load of poppycock.

She had reached the end of the village limits, feet in snow shoes to stop herself from falling chest deep in the snow. She continued walking until she could barely see the city line, before activating her bukujutsu, and flying up a mountain. Suki had warned her of the monsters that lived here, but she wanted to see for herself. Besides, where there were monsters, there were idiots who wanted to hide their treasure. And, even with her allowance, she still enjoyed finding treasure as much as a little kid.

Reaching a cliff on the nearest mountain, Serori carefully landed, making sure that she still used her bukujutsu so she touched the ground softly. She didn't want to cause an avalanche, or to just fall off with snow jutting off the side of a cliff. She scanned the mountain face, looking for anything that might be concealing an expanded opening.

[Blaze]

Blaze had finally found peace and quiet. A nice place away from people who wanted to fight, or yell, or taunt him. He could finally catch up on his meditative training. Nobody would be crazy enough to fight here, an avalanche could do serious collateral damage to the village below. That would probably piss Suki off.

Blaze was floating, cross legged with his eyes closed. He was going deep within to try and tap into some of the hidden potential he had lost out on. He'd never see it all, but he may get a fragment if he tried hard enough...

Then he sensed a familiar energy, but he couldn't place exactly who it was. Ah crap... I really hope Suki didn't send someone to drag me back to the palace... Blaze thought to himself, his concentration breaking. He plopped down into a standing position and crouched down to grab his watter bottle off the ground. He stood again, looking around for whoever the energy belonged to.

[Serori Yakedo-Satsumaimo]

Everything looked white from up on the mountain. Either white, or shade of gray. It would be hard pressed to find any kind of hiding places where some monster might lurk, hiding long forgotten treasure by some old Icer. However, it didn't take Serori long to decide which direction she should go. She easily chose to go left. Being left handed, she made sure that, should anything come at her from her non-shielded side, she would be able to ward it off.

Before long she saw, off in the distance-ish, a shadow that hinted at a hidden cave. Her heart fluttered, hoping beyond hope that this is what she was looking for. Any kind of treasure would do, although zeni would be preferable. Maybe she'd find some sort of gold, or armor, or lost artifact, maybe even money from a system long forgotten. Or bones from some extinct alien race...with this planet, frozen over in time, the possibilities were endless.

As Serori approached what she presumed was the cave's mouth, she suddenly felt a large powerlevel. It felt like an Icer's, but Serori had heard tales of what kind of beasts lived in this area. There was no telling what she may find. She activated her ki barrier, before continuing forward.

The closer she got to it, the more that she realised she'd felt it before. Maybe only a few times, but it was definitely a recognisable ki signature. It was just around a corner, and Serori was sure that she had felt the energy before...sometime with a fond memory...but nobody she could think of with fond memories had this energy. She had only had good memories with one Icer, and this was definitely not him...but who could it..

Then she realised. She'd felt this energy only one time, and it had been recently. When she'd gone to visit Ammy, who'd crashed on the planet, this energy was with her. He was indeed an Icer, wearing black armor, but what had been his name? The young Saiyan was horrible at remembering names, and this one completely eluded her.

Still keeping her ki barrier up just in case, she turned the corner, and saw the black-clad Icer. The name jumped out of her mouth.

"Blaze?" The name was said with much surprise, confusion, and a slight bit of fondness. After all, he had helped out one of her three best friends.

[Blaze]

"Blaze?" A confused feminine voice chirped. Blaze turned to see Serori Yakedo looking at him. Now he knew who the energy was. "Serori? What are you doing up here? This place is dangerous, you know!"

He knew she could handle herself. The real reason he was worried was the situation. He wondered what Suki would think. Oh, Suki, you know, just hangn with your wife in a secluded aria... He shuttered. Then again, nobody was around to blow things out of proportion, so Blaze relaxed.

Blaze sighed. "I guess I should calm down." he said, cracking his usual cocky smirk. "You messed up my meditation. I was about to reach enlightenment... but, meh, who wants that..." He shrugged. He was kidding, but she may not catch it.

He wondered why she was up in the mountains to begin with...

[Serori Yakedo-Satsumaimo]

Serori smiled brightly, closing her eyes, cocking her head.

"Oh, I know how dangerous it is, I just came to search for treasure. But I've been training really hard, to get stronger. I might even be stronger than you!" She winked, teasing. She had started being this playful, acting much more girly every since she had married Touketsuki Yakedo. She could tell, through her telepathy, and by reading body signs, that Blaze was worried about what would happen should he get caught alone with Serori.

"And don't worry, I can assure you nothing will happen with us," She assured Blaze. "You can feel free to tag along, or I'll leave you back to your meditation. Don't want to mess up your zen thing going on."

She walked around Blaze, staring intently at the wall of ice. She patted it in places, moving snow, knocking against it. It made a hollow sound, and Serori grinned mischievously.

"You might want to stand back," She told Blaze. Taking a step back herself, she extended her hand, concentrating a little bit of ki into it. Taking a deep breath, she readied her energy, a small yellow orb of light appearing at her palm. Suddenly, it shot out, in a five and a half by five and a half foot cone, the point where the orb used to be at her palm. The blast stopped right after it broke through the rock, revealing a dark opening. A breeze emanated from it, carrying musty, stale air. Serori beamed.

"This is exactly what I was looking for. Who knows what could be inside!" She turned to Blaze. "Are you coming?"

[Glaecer]

You said it was open so im gonna be here

After the training with Blaze, Glaecer felt that he need some time alone to make sense of all his restored memories. Glaecer decided that he could disobey suki orders and go back to his childhood hiding spot he still remembered it fondly, off in a mountain near one of the Acrosian towns almost completely impossible to get into and there was plenty of monster that kept others away, there was also that silly treasure but Glaecer paid no attention to it.

Glaecer made record time making it past the village and got to the mountain within ten minutes. Glaecer still just managed to fit though the crevasse. The place was just as he remembered the beautiful stalagmites made of pure ice glisten with the small sunlight that seeped through and even the musty smell was something Glaecer was comforted by. He ran his hand along the ice tracing the carving that he and his lifelong friend Valance and made in the ice. He reminisced about the two of them playing in the caves her young laughter echoing as they tried to find each other. Glaecer let a single tear slip from his eye as he remembered being told that she had disappeared and was probably dead.

“I’m sorry I couldn’t protect you” Glaecer whispered remembering how they had both been running from this acrosian thugs when they had been young and how she had tripped. Glaecer had tried to protect her but the thug over powered him and when he woke up Valance was gone.
Glaecer was snapped out of this by the sound of ice breaking in a nearby section of the maze of frozen tunnels. Glaecer remained out of site as he headed towards the sound. When he arrived he found out that it had been Blaze and some other creature. Glaecer let a mischievous smile slip across his face.

“You are trespassing on a sacred tomb leave now or suffer a fate worse than death” Glaecer yelled as the wall amplified and distorted his voice.
He had done the same thing with Valance they had always done it to scare explores who came up here, the always laughed when the explores ran away in fear.

[Blaze]

Any normal Icarian would have boasted against her teezing claim of possibly being stronger. Not Blaze at all. He just smiled. "Heh, well, your the wife of Suki and the leader of Tore Squad... No doubt you're stronger! We should max out our powers sometime so I can see how far I gota catch up!

"You can feel free to tag along, or I'll leave you back to your meditation. Don't want to mess up your zen thing going on." She said to him, walking over to part of the mountain. Blaze shook his head, then shrugged. "Yeah, I'll go with you, I guess. Better than "Yo Suki, your wife got eaten by a big ass monster!

"You might want to stand back,"

Blaze nodded, standing behind her. She blasted the ice away, exclaiming it was what she meant to find. "Well, that's convenient." Blaze said jokingly.

He walked up beside her. Then it boomed. “You are trespassing on a sacred tomb! Leave now or suffer a fate worse than death!”

Blaze looked around, activating his ki blades. "Who's that!? Try me, you creepy voodoo ghosts!"

[Serori Yakedo-Satsumaimo]

"Well, that's convenient." Blaze said jokingly.

Serori smiled, and trawled inside, to which she was almost immediately assaulted with a loud, angered voice.

“You are trespassing on a sacred tomb! Leave now or suffer a fate worse than death!”

Blaze reacted negatively, activating ki blades. Serori admired them briefly, noticing how they were similar to the technique she had learned in the past year. She did nothing preemptively. She didn't need to; she was not afraid. The Saiyan just held an arm in front of Blaze, whispering to him.

"Don't worry, I got this."

She shouted back to the voice. "A fate worse than death, you say? My my, but that sounds awful. I can't imagine what Lord Touketsuki Yakedo would do to someone who killed his own wife; and just imagine what he would do to someone who did something worse!"

She let the words ring before continuing. "Go ahead and come out, Jikken. It is me, Sousori, and a friend. We're just here to explore. Oh, and Blaze is apparently here to protect me as well." She gave the black Icer a light, playful shove with her shoulder.

Glaecer couldn't get away with anything around Serori. His voice was too noticeable; it had a sort of mechanical undertone to it, hardly noticeable but to someone whom had been training for the past five years with him, and gone on missions together.

[Glaecer]

Blaze quickly fell for the trick extending his energy blades and Glaecer let out a small laugh. Unfortunately Serori saw right through his trick and after someone sarcastic banter finally called Glaecer out

"Go ahead and come out, Jikken. It is me, Sousori, and a friend. We're just here to explore. Oh, and Blaze is apparently here to protect me as well."
Glaecer emerged smiling still
“Damm you can see right through me” Glaecer looked over at Blaze
“At least I got one of you, and I wish you wouldn’t call me by that silly name”
Glaecer walked toward Serori

“So your moving up in the world eh, a general to the ambassador of Kold it’s a rather large transition isn’t it” Glaecer Glanced over at Blaze again before continuing

“So why are you here? Wait let me guess the treasure in the frozen catacombs” Glaecer stepped back into the ice caverns leaning up against the wall. A darken silhouette appeared a short distance of from Blaze and Serori,one of the Wild animals on the mountains no doubt.

[Blaze]

It was Glaecer. Blaze was suprised at first, but then he smiled, retracting his blades. Glaecer spoke. “At least I got one of you, and I wish you wouldn’t call me by that silly name” He said. Blaze shrugged. "Eh, I shoulda figured it was you, considering the voice sounded like it was speaking through a soup can..." he smiled, trying to get him going a little bit.

He listened to Glaecer speak to Serori, and listened to her response. When Glaecer asked why they were there, Blaze answered "I was... trying to meditate. But a cirten someone..." He said, walking over to Serori and crossing his arms "...showed up and distracted me." He said.

He didn't realise he was looking her over. In more ways than one. He thought, as a continuation to his last words. It was an inside thought though. He caught himself examining her, hoping they hadn't noticed. Would have been quite awkward for him if they did.

He heard a noise behind him, and looked over his shoulder. He made the full turn and a look of confusion and suprise came over him. "The hell... is that thing?" he asked.

[Serori Yakedo-Satsumaimo]

Serori laughed at their silly antics.

"Yes that's right Glaecer. The Ambassador. Or, what is it Suki likes to call it...Arch Chancellor, I believe? I don't know. But I deal with social things for Kold now, not just military."

She laughed again at Blaze.

"Meditating? Looked more like sleeping to me. I don't know, I'm pretty sure..."

Her spoken thoughts were cut off by Blaze.

"What the hell...is that thing?"

She followed both Glaecer's and Blaze's eyes to the monster behind them, a huge hulking ice beast, ready to eat and swallow the trio.

Serori was the first to act, her reaction time being strained to nearly a breaking point by Suki himself. Immediately ki blades appeared above her palms, jutting out past her balled up fists, as she teleported in front of the monster, slamming it with an upper cut. It barely knocked the beast off balance, just seemed to shock that something had attacked it. Serori was in general mode now. She forgot what Glaecer had said about his code name, and forgot that Blaze wasn't part of her team.

"Jikken, go around left, Blaze, attack from the right! I'll take up its back!" Activating her bukujutsu and barrier, she flew behind the monster as its jaws went up to snap at her. Once behind it, she shot several ki blasts at its back.

[Glaecer]

The time for chit chat was over the monster that Glaecer had noticed was now on the trio location. Serori had order Glaecer to arch to the left and Blaze to the right. His military training switched on as he obeyed. He slid across the frozen land scape to the left and began his barrage of ki blasts using several slashing motion across his chest to make energy gashes from his body. The monster was not being affected by any off the attacks and instead swung both his arms at inhumanly fast speeds. The arm hit Glaecer head on, and no doubt had made its mark on Blaze as well but Glaecer was unable to see if it really did as he was knocked down the mountain into the foggy abysmal crevice the last look anyone would have got of Glaecer was his limp body falling into the fog.
Unfortunately neither Blaze nor Serori would be able to help Glaecer as they were both pre-occupied with the monster that was still attacking without mercy the two remaining members of the trio. No one was able to see Glaecer in the thick fog but as he hit the bottom he finally woke up. Glaecer stood back up still sore from the blow and he cracked his neck he muttered one thing

“Alright, now I’m angry”

Glaecer rocketed back up into the crevice, his body began to spark dangerously as his momentum built up and as he became closer to the icer landscape the sparks had become lightning bolts that left burn marks as they barraged the nearby walls of the icy crevice and they just became more and more powerful. Glaecer adjusted his hands slightly as he was just a few inches from the surface. When Glaecer broke up through the fog he was going to prove to both Serori and Blaze that just because his had a lower power level did not mean he was weaker.

[Blaze]

(Sorry, I didn't even notice it was my post!)

Blaze had been given instructions to attack the right. This was all new to him, as he had never fought in any type of militaristic unit, nor had any training on how Tore Squad worked. He reacted anyway, throwing his blades out again at full length and blasting off over the creature.

Blaze noticed the outer two had been using ki blasts. Blaze decided to go with something more up close. The creature swung around at lightning speed, Blaze was sure he seen Glaecer get hit. But he can take care of himself.

The arm came towards Blaze. He didn't dodge. Instead, he angled himself to stab his blades into the arm and get carried along with it. Holding on for dear life, he pulled his right blade free and stabbed it in beside the left one. He had to hang on more as the creature whipped its arm more, but Blaze used this chance to power up until the moment came.

The creatures arm stopped for a brief moment. All he needed. Blaze propped himself up with his feet, braced his tail, and pulled the blades apart with all the power he could gather and released a loud shout along with it. His vision filled with the bright flash of his white blades and a sling of blood in both directions.

Did he sever the arm? Or just scratch it?

[Serori Yakedo-Satsumaimo]

The monster moved like lightning. It had knocked Glaecer down the mountain side, with just a single swipe of its arms. The ki attacks Glaecer had used on it had done nothing to harm it; now it was only irritated. Coming from the right, Blaze was attacking, using ki blades. He slashed upward at the arm, and when he pulled away, had left only a light graze. Her own ki blasts did little to nothing, except making the skin-fur slightly darker, as if singing it. How could it be this strong? As soon as she thought it, she chided herself on her question. Of course anything living in this part of Kold would have thick skin. It would have to be strong in order to even survive.

Serori switched to physical attacks, but to no prevail. They were about as useless as her ki attacks. Obviously the only way to get it was to go full power attack all at once; obliterate the monster, evaporate it. She knew that this would be risky; several things could go wrong, and Blaze wasn't used to taking commands. He was not part of her Tore Squad. But this was a risk that she would have to take.

Tmpf, tmpf tmpf, tmpf, her punches and kicks slammed into the solid mat of skin-fur. The monster seemed confused, it was being attacked from too many different directions, it didn't know who to attack first. With a large roar, the monster swung its tail at Serori, and sent a punch to Blaze. Serori didn't get to see how Blaze reacted, the tail had caught her in the chest. Wind knocked out of her, she was pushed back several feet before catching herself. She took a second to gain her breath, before shouting to the other two.

"Blaze! Glaecer!" Already, the snow falling around her was beginning to stop, floating. A faint purple aura was appearing, flickering between a lilac and yellow. The waves in her hair were straightening into points, some going up, some going down. 'Focus,' she thought to herself, 'get mad.'

"We have to transform, and attack simultaneously. On the count of three!"

Her hair spiked, her aura turned golden, and her power level jumped. In her mind's eye, she saw the dead, drained bodies from the noodle shop when she lived on Vegeta, remembered the pain she felt inside, the overwhelming emotion. This is how she drew her power.

"One!"

[Glaecer]

Glaecer full power activated as he shattered through the haze. It was like a massive lightning tempest had erupted from the cliff, Glaecer’s glowing silhouette lit up the area and the lightning that was on Glaecer body arched around. He could see Serori power up but by the time she did it would be too late the creature would already be gone. Glaecer body stiffened in the air as his arms slowly lowered and where aiming at the monster.

“BE GONE CREATURE” Glaecer voiced echo like a godly apparition.

The lightning exited out of Glaecer point fingers decimating anything it struck. It took All of Glaecer’s energy to keep it on target. The strike hit the centre of the creature and the entire area was enveloped in a blinding light and a loud crash. For a minute everything was white and as it faded out the creature laid on the ground still with the electrical charge in it but completely dead. Glaecer floated slowly to the ground and when he did it had become apparent that something was wrong. Glaecer was a ghostly pale white his orange face making had all but vanished and his crystals where now a very light shade of grey his muscle had also receded noticeably. It was as if within an instant the strike had aged him by several centuries. Glaecer wheezed quietly as he slowly began walking over to the corpse.