A Chosen Champion [Cornatto/Galen]

It had been almost a month and Galen could already see the results of King Kai’s impressive tutelage. His energy level was rising like never before and he could feel the power of the Kaioken being mastered quickly as his body and stamina grew used to that feeling. It was still a quite dangerous and deadly technique to use, but if managed carefully it could prove a quite interesting asset to the human, which he could put to perfect use when protecting earth. Still, it saddened him to think that even with the power of the Kaioken he was still outclassed by the likes of Jarvis and maybe even with that, he wouldn’t be able to change the tides of the battle he and Jie Shan had against the wicked demon god.

But at the very least Galen had found his spirit again. His resolve was back to full throttle and he knew he could be at least a decent support for his friends, but he had to keep on pushing himself harder, because he had no saiyan genetics, meaning he had to train twice as hard to get half the results. But the human was done feeling sorry about that, he had managed to get this far, to a level of energy and physical prowess he never dreamed could be achieved by a farmer boy from a forgotten village to the east.

He was trying to improve both his blade work as well as his melee finesse when unarmed; a true warrior must be ready to every situation and sometimes he would find himself without his blade and that was something he needed to be prepared for. King Kai wasn’t there all the time, but his directions were precise and helped them overcome every milestone they faced when training his skills. Galen was so caught up with that he barely even noticed the arrival of two of the most fearsome creatures in all existence: the God of Destruction and his attendant, Whis.

It was only when Lagerus said “him” that Galen heard her voice and turned around to stare at her. When his eyes and brain connected and he realized who it was, his jaw dropped and so did the blade on his hand, falling to the ground in a loud thud. Galen’s sweat dripped like crazy and he felt deadly shivers running down his spine. ”O-oh my gosh…” he gulped as he quickly kneeled before Lagerus and lowered his head. He was shaking in fear, but what else could’ve be expected?

”L-lord Lagerus… L-lord Whis…” that was all he could muster to say.

The Earthling Saiyan raised a little bit of an eyebrow in a genuine amusement as soon as Whis asked him whether or not the man had received King Kai’s special training, and he did! In particular, the Kai had taught him the Kaioken-- a technique capable of enhancing not only your strength but pretty much every single other characteristic of your body but at the expense of one’s stamina. It wasn’t undoubtedly pretty, given the fact that it could get to the point you may as well die at an inevitable end, and Cornatto wasn’t indeed all that happy about it; he was dead already, after all!

He nodded a few times with a smile on his face. “Yeah! He’s been training us for a month or so,” - he replied confidently as he wondered who those two were; the two certainly knew a little bit about King Kai than any other newcomer that they could have expected to arrive. Corn couldn’t tell, they just felt like… they were pretty much aware of what they were doing in the whereabouts, but yet again, they didn’t look much like either the ogres or the Kais.

The man had then shifted his gaze towards Laureus in evident curiosity as he had heard something about a ‘little King’ fellow. He couldn’t quite figure out who she meant at. First, he didn’t know many Kings, but there was only one small person that also had a King title. It was Nasu, wasn’t it? Or maybe was it some other person that he just didn’t know? Cornatto almost internally sighed to himself; the Earthling knew so little about some of the new people! They popped up like mushrooms almost.

“Little King fella’ with God powers?... What does that mean?”

However, before he could get an answer-- or let Cornatto have any other say in it. Lagerus had decided just to go away and leave the planet but before anything even worse could happen, King Kai quickly sped up his pace up to the Earthling Saiyan and forced his head down to a bow directed towards Lagerus. Corn had almost lost his balance a bit but successfully bowed as he listened to King Kai’s words.

The man had already heard about their kind before from Cervez, and while the latter was apparently supposed to be one of them, he had lost his powers or something like that, either way though, he had to say, that he was getting excited! He could only wonder just how strong a God of Destruction could be and there was one right in front of him! That was amazing! He didn’t quite know what Lagerus had come all this way for, perhaps she had some unfinished business with King Kai, but it looked like all that she wanted to do at the moment was related to Cornatto. Maybe she wanted to fight him? He didn’t get it.

The man’s eyes seemingly lit up with a bright, newfound interest. “God of Destruction?! Are you serious?” - the man exclaimed. He did indeed see quite more than just a few similarities with Cervez, not only by their anthropomorphous form but also their choice of fancy accessories was pretty much alike. The man looked at her once more as he blinked his eyes.

“So, she’s the actual God of Destruction! That’s amazing… but why can’t I sense her energy? Cervez is incredibly powerful, and if they’re like, almost the same thing, I should be able to pick it up… same goes for the blue guy, huh.”

Cornatto abruptly shifted his gaze at King Kai once more as he called the monkey man an idiot, in an evidently offended expression as he pouted a little bit. “That’s mean, Kaio-sama,” -muttered the man before he dropped it and then decided to play along and act formally-- he wasn’t that good at it, but he could try. “Uh-uhm, hello there! Lagerus-sama, Whis-san.”

If Lagerus was the God, though, who was Whis? He looked a bit like King Kai when it came to color skin, but at the same time, he could pinpoint King Kai’s power level quite clearly while Whis’ was undeniable-- and probably that meant that he had to be something like Lagerus? Cornatto had only known of Androids that far who could completely not show off their energy at all because of their machinery but what was those two’s excuse? It was such a simple thing, but he couldn’t find an answer! It gave him the headaches.

The Earthling Saiyan forced the most normal of expression over his face to perhaps hiding his excitement but he wasn’t used to acting all formal and stuff, he liked to be friends with almost everyone. Even with Nasu! Despite the fact that the latter didn’t quite get along with him, that was fine! He wondered, though, what were these people doing on King Kai’s planet? Not to mention that it looked like Lagerus had come for Cornatto correctly, but why was that? Maybe it had something to do with Cervez?

Soon enough, Lagerus revealed that her reasons to be seeking out someone, and that someone being Cornatto had to do for the Universe’s sake itself and while Corn couldn’t quite understand what she was talking about, it was pretty serious. And at the question, if Corn was strong or not, the man almost got out of boundaries. Of course, Corn was going to say that he was strong, but at the same time, he was sure the best way-- not because it was, but pretty much because so Cornatto would get to fight a god, was a spar! Hopefully, Lagerus would have accepted, though, she didn’t seem to be up for jokes or whatever.

“Oh-oh! Ye-- I mean, I would… yeah, I would gladly spar with you Lagerus-sama and show you my strength if ya-- you would allow me.”

King Kai was just about to shit his pants when Cornatto asked for a spar and he was about to punch his head with all his strength when suddenly Whis seemed to agree. The Shinjin was stunned for a moment, but then he gulped and held his hands together, with a forced smile on his face. "T-that's a wonderful idea, but wouldn't it be better to do it elsewhere? I... The planet is quite small..." he cautiously tried to suggest.