Lately I've been thinking(Open)

“Maybe you’re right Ulixes, maybe I do need to relax a bit. Still, so much has changed ever since I became one. I just don’t know where to begin. From what I’ve known...we’re not exactly the easiest species to find.” Chris would comment trying to lighten his own mood a bit. Having Ulixes here to talk with...it helped...just having someone to talk with had helped in more ways than he could actually name. It was different than say back when talking with Komatsu or Atsuko. Even though they were technically family, something had always kept him wary of them. Komatsu was especially more so now that he had this marking on his head. Komatsu had said the demon queen couldn’t see or hear anything with him possessing that mark, However Chris just wasn’t sure if he could believe him on that. What if the demon queen had influenced him to lie there? It wasn’t beyond what he did know of her after all.

“Well if you want to watch the sun set, we just need to wait one more hour.” Chris would say a bit joyfully as he looked back at her, right into her eyes. Ever since he had met her, he couldn’t shake this feeling in his chest, yet he didn’t know exactly how he could word it. The thought of how simply eluded him at every possible turn. It was then that heard the subtlest of footsteps on a fallen branch. His combat instinct quickly turned to activate. His instinct’s forcing him to turn around towards the unexpected guest, his hand raised seemingly ready to launch an attack if needed be. Did Nasu find him? How? These thoughts pulsed into Chris’s head as Ulixes just stared at Chris wondering what had set him off. Only as the female began to speak did Chris begin to calm down. It wasn’t one of Nasu’s goonies...that was good. As he felt her ki, he could feel the elemi inside of her. He recognized it from the many elemi he had the chance to meet. All ranging from Shizen to Ayami and Flare, all of them had helped him to recognize the elemi ki almost anywhere. The feelings even between them even. Shizen who’s ki felt like it radiated with life, Ayami who’s ki felt as calmly moving like the water itself, and Flare’s whose fiery ki left him with a constant reminder of that thirst for action. The one he could feel from this newcomer, it was cold, solid. Similar in a way to the calmness of Ayami’s however still in a way that it was a noticeable difference. He had perfected his ki sensing to the best of his abilities over these years of training. Most of which learned either on his own or from Suko.

“I’m sorry for that, not used to other’s sneaking up on me as of lately.” Chris would say simply as he would look towards the female elemi. “We’re not here for training actually, I brought my friend here to see the peak, one of my friends had told me about this place a long time back.” Chris would explain as he would his hand out towards the view beside them. “I suppose introductions are in the way however. My name is Chris,” Chris would say only for Ulixes to cut him off right after his name had been finished being spoken. “And my name is Ulixes, a pleasure to meet you.” She would say, her cut off mainly as a tease to Chris. Afterall surely she could introduce herself. “Ha ha very funny I see what you did there.” Chris would tease right back towards her. “Anyways, I’m the unofficial leader of the X-Fighters, and the only original member of the Earth Special Forces who is still actively fighting. The rest of whom either having gone missing or...are gone…” Chris would say thinking of the friends he had lost. His old mentor to the corruption she hadn’t been able to beat, Ayami to god knows where. Gouken having vanished without a trace only to leave his gi behind. “If I have to guess, your description of living in other environments and of how your ki feels similar to how I’ve felt other’s felt. I’m willing to say you're an Ice elemi.” He would simply say as Ulixes would speak as well.

“I felt it as well, I’m actually a darkness elemi, of course both of us are hybrids however. Chris’ father was actually part earthling along with my mother and father being part earthling. I suppose we should ask as well who you might be?”

WC: 805

As he watched the elemi conjure up a chair from the ground made seemingly from ice, he could tell that this was going to be a long conversation it seemed. Strange how a random visitor was to infringe so immediately on what had been…a more private moment of sorts. Still make due as things were, he supposed they were a part of their business now it seemed. He wasn’t one to favor the investigative type as much but he always had the fall back stories Ulixes told him before that he could use. He still remembered them fresh in his mind back with his history lessons of the race he was now apart of. “Of course I know that already, I only guessed you were an ice elemi due to how you were describing you lived around this area. I’ve met many other elemi before.” Chris would inform as he would continue to stand. Still this girl was very..strange to say the very least. The quizzical gaze from their eyes reminded him of someone he preferred to have fully forgotten in the past.

“In a way it is kind of. The original Z Fighters however merged too much on the ideals of one person and instead of helping bring peace to those all around the galaxy, it now only helped those on Earth. I actually was a member of that group, offered the chance a bit after it was changed. After nearly a year, I couldn’t stand how it had changed from the stories and formed my own group to regain that original ideal view.” Chris would explain the full story, this conversation was going rather smoothly, however he was viewing it now more one sided for the questions as this continued going. He did want to find out more on his own. Something this stranger did say however did catch Ulixes attention.

They both let out a slight chuckle however when she asked if they were siblings. “Nah, were simply good friends who have known each other for a while. The aura you sense from us however, that is actually from the both of us having bloodline ranging back to a very powerful earthling clan. It’s a rare trait only a few earthlings have. The power from it however has made our clan quite strong.” Ulixes would explain the cover story, it was a story they had used for many excuses over the years over the questionable auras. It helped being hybrids that they could explain it so easily. “So our turn for a question, what is the Homeworld Restoration Effort? Neither of us have heard of it before, and Chris here has been across the universe practically.” She would say only to feel Chris tighten his grip on her hand. Too much info, he didn’t want the wrong person to know he was still alive after all.

WC: 490

He felt as his own grip held tightened around her own. He felt the beating of his own heart from the slight nervousness coming. He was worried yes, not only because of the burden he did in fact bare. No, he had came to terms with that quite a while back. No, he was so worried recently because he was scared of what Nasu would do. He never had meant to hurt his cousin so badly. He regretted truly every minute of it. If only he had realized how much power was still stored inside of the spiritual energy. If he could go back to that moment in time, he would have used less power, at least enough so he wouldn’t have been as injured. That was what he truly feared that day. Of the pain he had caused his cousin. Ever since losing Leena, that had been the last thing he ever wanted to physically hurt...his family. He was forced to do so however to help the Kold Demons who were on the brink of a genocidal rampage by his cousin.

“It may be a burden, however it’s something I’ve had to do since I was fifteen. There is also the matter of another reason. If I didn’t do something about it...who will? This power you can sense from me, I won’t lie. It is actually merely a suppression. Only around a quarter of my true strength. The people I’ve faced..their strength nearly doubles my own. That’s why the question still hangs there. If I didn’t do anything right now to help those out there. Who exactly would? Who would be able to handle the massive powers scattered throughout the universe. I respect you goal as well to want to seek to bring it some peace as well. You will need to be careful out there however. There are those with great power who will only use such power to destroy those who don’t agree with them.” Chris would finish with his little speech as he would gaze towards Arlumia.

Shortly there off they would both listen intently as they began to describe the HWRE, an interesting proposal for sure. Work that most likely wouldn’t see the light of day for over two hundred years possibly. Ulixes and Chris did however both hold thoughts upon that single one however. In two hundred years, many of their friends, and for Chris, almost all of his family, they would all be gone and yet he would still be living. The cost of being an Anegelean, the knowing that one day all of your friends and family would pass on and yet..you would still be here..existing. “It’s a shame that’s so far away, I can’t lie that I would love to see such a place restored someday. I know many of my friends as well would, but a lot of us won’t..really make it that far.” Chris would say as a subtle hint for what they all knew meaning for. Maybe they wouldn’t know that Chris had meant himself included living to see it, after all, saiyans were only known to have the same life spans as humans and as far as what was said, he had no elemi blood in his body.

WC: 548

"I know how that is indeed, it becomes however considerably harder when most of those enemies hold something close to you and make you witness what they do. When one of them is a god them self however...time becomes no longer an ally, however, but rather an everlasting painful memory." Chris would comment stuck in his own darker thoughts. Was this constant fight becoming pointless? In a constant war with enemies who seemingly over and over again kept appearing. Each one designing to provide more and more trouble than the last. A battle truly that would never end but it was one he simply had to keep on fighting, one he had to try and reach the end of, one he had to try and find a means, a means to at least provide some peace somewhere. This dream, this love of the world, that was what he kept fighting for, one that he couldn't bare to say goodbye to.

He had been nerve-wracked with emotions back on Kold, anger, rage, fear. All of it, he had felt all at once, all of it had been an edge that he had struggled to bare hold with now even to how he had barely survived. A Saiyan code of honor even in a fight, all but broken by the kingdom itself. It still shocked him by such ferocity. Such dishonor. He had survived however, he had been healed by the friend of a one truly great friend. One he still could not forget, one that he would be lying to say, even if his friend had betrayed him before, this act truly had made him fully forgiving of him. He missed him. Now back on earth, here he was with Ulixes, someone he truly felt close to, someone who understood him and could understand the pain he went through. The pain of loss and the harshness of trying to come to terms with it. Something he truly couldn’t be more than thankful for.

“Heh, we will see, most races aren’t like elemi. Saiyan and humans only have a lifespan after all of around a hundred years. Unlike elemi who can live most of the time if they are strong enough for centuries.” Chris would say a bit at lightening the mood a bit, using humor as a tool of relief. There was the consideration however of the fact that death, death didn’t exactly hold oneself to an extreme forever. “Death however...is not exactly a prison, maybe in another life most will see it again, I’ve had my own fair shares of viewing death at such close means.” Death was a subject he was more than familiar with, he had so many encounters with it, so close to it once more, having actually been there even before. A promise that still never had been brought upon like his father had promised, but one he still desired oh so much so, more than he was even sure of for himself. He still desired just for one day possibly in death...to finally meet his blood mother?

WC: 526

“A normal god might not last forever, but this one doesn’t fear to spread misery. In fact, I’m quite sure he feeds on it quite delightfully. All actions may have consequences, but, those consequences themselves have effects. Not always in the best ways. Though your words aren’t entire false for my situation. My cousin happens to be one of those enemies. This organization you work for, surely they must keep tabs on the universe, primarily those who would possibly cause danger towards them. I’m willing to be they would know of my cousin and his tyranny he has brought before others. Others may call him a king, an emperor. I call him my cousin, Nasu. The recent cause for the near kold demon genocide earlier this year. The man I nearly killed. When your enemy is someone of your family, it’s hard at first, but you can’t just keep letting them harm others. My toughest fight wasn’t fighting him, it was fighting that feeling of trying not to hurt him.” Chris would speak as he would stare towards the rising moon, the night air beginning to gain its own nightly chill. The first few flickers of snow beginning to land.

“I suppose the real choice is whether I want to invite with me those in my group the X-Fighters, Jie Shan, Galen, Cleo. This fight, however, is one I and Nasu share personally, however. If I brought them as well...Nasu may be somewhat honorable, his other soldiers, however? Far far from it.” His voice would speak going silent near the end as he remembered Kinoko’s dishonorable attack after he had one the one on one fairly against his cousin. He remembered the mistakes of his own teacher before him, however. He wasn’t ready to make the same mistakes she made. She had made this fight with Nasu too personal for her. He wasn’t going to let that happen for him. He had an actual fair reason for wanting a fight with Nasu again in the future, the people here, he wanted to protect those who couldn’t protect themselves.

“Heh, smart words indeed.” Chris would say as he remembered the times he gave hope to his own teammates, back when the Earth Special Forces were more powerful than they were now. He had always been weaker than the others, yet his own undying will, his refusal to give up fully. They always helped push his own team to go further and further. When he had died the first time..he remembered how hard it had hit everyone, all of his friends...At least from what he was told. There was even Ayami, he remembered being told how hard she had taken it. She had after all been one of his closest friends, she had helped her regain control after having become enraged. He still remembered giving that spot up to her in the chamber, he could have gone in instead of her but had chosen to stay and fight to the end, at least to buy whatever time he could. His first real fight, the first one he truly felt the fear of death. It felt so long ago since then since his friend had first betrayed him. “I suppose we should be going soon, Ulixes.” Chris would say as she would look towards her. “Oh yeah, one last thing Ice Queen. Feel free to contact me whenever if you get any updates on your homeworld, it does pique my interest. Just look up my number in the ‘Glossary’ on the Capsule Corp Website. I should still be under it as an Earth Defender.” Chris would say as he would begin to fly away with Ulixes. He had a lot to get ready for, he had promised Komatsu a training session after all. So Namek be ready, he was coming.

WC: 672
- Heading off toward Namek after this post (Using this as my departure)

Fun Thread indeed, Will take PL here