Konats was a rather peaceful planet as a whole, so Kembu’s short episode with the cutting of logs from a tree and the playful combat with a dinosaur were the most practical uses of his strength from day to day. The whole point of any warriors on the planet training at all was because of situations like the original day of Kembu’s birth. His mother had been in labor when a fearsome attack took place on the planet Konats.
The fact of the matter was that Konats had made an ill-advised move in sheltering the Tuffle refugees that the Saiyans clearly wanted to exterminate. Having finally located these refugees and confirmed the existence of their camps on Konats, the Planet Vegeta sent Saiyans to destroy the camps. Their war was not with Konats, so they would not directly attack the Konatsians; however, it was assumed to be inevitable that the Konatsians would involve themselves in the combat. The Saiyans merely saw fit to treat this mission the same way they treated other allegedly “weak” planets; they sent very small squads accompanied by two children whose names were still known throughout Konatsian history to this day: Asperok and Genzhi. These children transformed into giant apes and wreaked havoc indiscriminately upon the planet.
Matters like those riddled Konats’s history, so it was imperative to them that they train warriors to be ready for such occasions. This was something that always lingered in the back of Kembu’s mind no matter what was going on around him. He had just brought in logs and a massive, fried dinosaur for the family to eat, so his mother called for the extended family to join them that night for a lovely feast of no expense. The convivial gathering, at which the inexorable consumption of libation proved superfluous, could only be upheld for a short while. Kembu’s cousins of the same age (15) and younger continually tested his awesome strength by feeling his biceps and arm wrestling. He was the only fighter in his family, so he loved these times; furthermore, he loved his family.
The heartwarming scene was paused, as there was a knock at the door. No one paid any attention to it, not even Kembu or his father, who both felt assured that Kembu’s mother would answer it, which she did. As she opened the door, far from the dining room of the impressively sizable house, she asked, “May I help you?” with the wide smile of a great hostess as well as closed eyes and a tilted head. She opened her eyes and saw nothing until looking down at the very short visitor that had arrived. He seemed so mysterious in his short stature and hooded, navy blue cloak. His eyes peered through red glasses, and his skin was olive green but just barely visible. “You may be able to help me, as a matter of fact,” he replied. “Are there any strong, young, male bodies in the house?”
The strange request caught her off guard, and she was taken aback; as such, she failed to answer the question before two soldiers, both clad in armor and skin-tight, black pants, appeared behind him. Both had blasters on their right arms and aimed them at the woman. Her eyes witnessed the slow build of yellow energy within these blasters. In the dining room, all that could be heard was a frantic scream followed by the sounds of lasers blasting through walls. She ran through the house as the soldiers calmly followed her, walking instead of running. Their matching helmets with visors made them identical. The family was roused from its happy time as the soldiers entered the dining room slowly and stared at them all for a moment. Everyone was silent; then, the soldiers lifted their blasters, and everyone gasped.
Kembu jumped on the table abruptly as both blasts were shot, and he quickly deflected them with both hands to protect his family.
“Run!” he shouted, and the family scattered out the back door and into the backyard. The youngest cousin still stood there motionless as they prepared to open fire on her. “Damn it,” Kembu said as he raced to the small boy with lasers whizzing past him, picked the boy up, and dashed out the window.
((OOC: "Trouble on Konats" (Drag You Down, Finger Eleven)))
From outside, Kembu stood up and saw the moonlight shining on a very short figure that stood on the roof of his house. The two soldiers ran outside and began firing again, but Kembu charged both of them head-on, weaving in and out between lasers as he said,
“Huuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhh Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!” The emphasis was on the second grunt as it synchronized with his fists both going into the stomachs of the two soldiers. Then, Kembu jumped up to the roof of his house to engage the small figure in combat. When he landed, he equipped his katana and shouted his question,
“Who are you? Answer me!”“Yes,” the short being said, “you are exactly what I am looking for.”
“What?”“I am Kakuja[1], previous lead scientist for the now deceased Super Namek known as Lord Slug[2].”
“Namek?”“I am a demon whose lifespan greatly exceeded his, and I shall continue to perpetuate my life now; however, to do so, I must once again don yet another body as I have every thousand years or so.”
“A body?”“Preferably a stronger body than this feeble one I currently employ. My creatures will see to it that you serve my purpose.”
“Say what?”More soldiers climbed up onto the roof from far behind Kakuja. This time, there were eight of them. Kakuja jumped up into the air and began to fly into the sky, and Kembu could not follow him because he could not fly. The soldiers swarmed him, and he engaged them in a fight, displaying his excellent skill in combat. One came at his ten o’clock and attempted to punch Kembu in the head while another came at his two o’clock to kick him in the ribs. Kembu blocked the punch with his left elbow and caught the kick with his right hand as two more approached directly ahead. He quickly dropped low and spun three hundred sixty degrees in counterclockwise rotation with his left leg extended; this roundhouse leg sweep tripped the two whom he had just blocked as well as a third encroacher, but the fourth managed to jump over it since he was a half second behind the third.
Each of the three soldiers tripped and fell on their sides, and Kembu quickly jumped from his low stance toward the fourth soldier to plunge his right knee into the soldier’s helmet, crashing through the tinted visor and smashing said headgear. He landed on his right toes as the soldier hit the ground, and the first three soldiers began to get up as Kembu charged the next four. He darted toward one target and stabbed his sword into the soldier’s abdomen with his left hand, yanking it out quickly. His right leg came up high with force and smashed into the side of the helmet of an enemy to his left as the first three approached from behind him.
Kembu found himself surrounded, rapidly dodging, parrying, and blocking several strikes in quick succession. Occasionally, his blade would sweep horizontally to slice the armors of his enemies, but being so outnumbered, there was little he could do until he finally back-flipped out of the huddle and landed four meters from his targets before immediately jumping even further back along his rooftop. As he glided backward through the night air, his right hand formed a light blue sphere of energy and threw it at the five remaining soldiers. This exploded and, thus, destroyed a corner of his house, but it took the soldiers with it.
“Yes,” said Kakuja from above Kembu as he floated high in the air, “such marvelous power. You will make an excellent host. Your power level is among the highest on this planet according to our computer, so I should have no trouble conquering Konats in your body.”
“I won’t let you take over my home! I’d rather die!”“Hahaha, well, don’t worry; your preference is just as likely to happen, young man.”
Above Kakuja, a flying saucer suddenly became visible as though it had been cloaking itself so far. Out of it dropped a gargoyle whose wings flapped eventually so as to hover next to Kakuja who said, “Welcome, Dorobado[3], I need you to kill this child for me, but leave the body in tact.”
“Of course, Lord Kakuja,” he answered.
((OOC: "Bigger Problems" (Stupefy, Disturbed)
The bulky gargoyle flew down toward Kembu with bulging muscles and much rage. He shouted, “Rrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!” as he charged at Kembu, but long before reaching the red-haired fighter, a purple beam of energy shot from his mouth. Kembu gasped in shock as the beam quickly reached him, leaving him with only enough time to put up his guard and block as much as possible. The explosion destroyed yet another corner of the house—demolishing a much larger chunk than Kembu’s damage had been—and knocking Kembu down to the ground harshly.
On the ground, Kembu opened his eyes to see Dorobado charging him and closing in fast for the kill. He launched at Kembu fist-first, and his arm plunged straight into the dirt—Kembu having rolled to the left to dodge it. While on his hands and knees, Kembu kicked with his left leg, and his foot knocked Dorobado in the head. The kick appeared to have little effect, so he performed a short series of back-handsprings to put distance between he and the beast. Dorobado pursued and performed a combo: two punches followed by a kick. Kembu dodged both punches, leaning left and then leaning right for evasive purposes, but Dorobado’s right knee drove itself right into Kembu’s gut. After this, a simple uppercut launched Kembu high into the air, soaring toward the sky as blood leaked from his mouth. Finally, Dorobado ended it all with the same oral beam from earlier.
Kembu, still flying higher and higher against his will, looked down and saw the approaching ki energy. He didn’t panic, though; instead, he summoned energy from within and blasted a beam of his own. His Konatsian Honor was at stake and, fighting an opponent stronger than him, he seemed to almost double in strength, shouting
"Noooooooooo!" as his light blue ki wave zoomed toward its purple opponent. Dorobado’s scouter began to react, measuring a sudden, unexpected increase in Kembu’s Power Level as the two beams approached each other.
The energies collided, and pushing his beam against another kept Kembu elevated in the air. Slowly but surely, Dorobado’s beam gave way to Kembu’s, which eventually reached him and ignited a massive explosion due to the contribution of both blasts. Kakuja was stunned as he watched this event unfold. “What?” he said, “He practically doubled his power in the event of being so greatly outmatched, and it would seem that he could focus his energy during an attack to become more powerful with just a simple ki wave. Remarkable… This is not over, Kembu! I shall return with my stronger henchmen after visiting Arcose to retrieve them, and you will fall to their knees. You think you’ve won?! Hahaha, don’t flatter yourself! You’ve only made me that much more determined to steal your body!”
With that, Kakuja flew back up into his spaceship, which abruptly took off into the atmosphere. Kembu landed in the grass only twenty meters from the shallow crater in which Dorobado’s body lay. His family approached from behind him with much love and thanks. His mother was quite worried and wanted to immediately tend to his injuries. All were exceedingly proud of him, as he had saved them from certain death at the hands of Lord Kakuja, but Kembu was not satisfied. He said,
“I must get stronger. Kakuja said he’d come back after a trip to Arcose, which only takes a few days, and his other henchmen are all stronger than this guy was. I could barely beat him.” Indeed, things looked bleak for the future, and Kembu would need to find a solution as soon as possible.
To be continued…
[2025 + 477 (last post) = 2,502wc. First 1700(.5) = 850 PL + original 150 = 1000 PL. 2502 - 1700 = 802wc(1) = 802 + 1,000 = 1,802 PL.]
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Footnotes: [list]
- Kakuja - One of the short, mysterious scientists that worked under Lord Slug in DBZ Movie 4
- Lord Slug - The central antagonist of DBZ Movie 4, a Super Namek.
- Dorobado - The gargoyle in this story has the original, Japanese name of one of Lord Slug's minions in the 4th DBZ Movie: Lord Slug.
- Music in this post came from the original Lord Slug Movie.
Thu Jan 19, 2012 10:10 pm
