We're up to 6 [Rukia]

Blind rage.

Was this what it was? There had been times when she had been pissed off, sure, but growing in power had made that part of her die down. For quite some time, she had also been convinced that she could no longer get as angry as she used to, as if she was losing herself the same the Vampire seemed to be losing her mind. But the fact of things was, is that everyone was different. The brunette and the others growing uncaring, had nothing to do with her own growth.

She wouldn't end up like them, so long as she had kept her priorities straight. But this was just different. This kind of rage, almost felt similar to well before the Vampire had even become a Countess. Though unlike the first time, she was actually the one experiencing the other end of things.

The Saiyan she was stuck here on the planet with, didn't waste any time into blowing apart pieces of her body away. Enough to not leave any pieces behind, that could reform and trap the girl. She did what she could to dodge the blonde's movements, the girl's hair being much longer and more rigid than before.

Her aura was also more flame-like in appearance, jagged and flickering in a way that reminded her of the brunette back on earth. To be honest, the resemblance scared her, although as calm as her mind was, she couldn't hold onto that fear long enough for it to really matter. It wasn't just the Saiyan's appearance and fighting that had changed. The gap in between her jumping and the girl's incoming strikes, had shortened more than it had been before.

She could tell from feeling the blows coming earlier than it was supposed to, and it was hard not to be impressed. This is apparently what fighting a Super Saiyan 2 was like. The power, if not for her own fighting against it, would have easily weighed her down the same way the Vampire's own always did.

From the corner of her eye, a distance away from where they were fighting, not that far from the mansion, were three orange balls the size of a person's head. She had heard enough about these things, but never imagined of actually being able to see it up close or in person. Let alone even hold three.

They were incredibly heavy, and from what the Vampire had mentioned, there was supposed to be seven of these things. If not for the mysterious weight of the balls, she would have found it surprising these things could grant wishes. At the power a majority of those living here had, it should have been no problem holding them. But that just didn't seem possible. It seemed like what magic they had, were meant to make these things feel heavier than they should.

It was her best guess anyway. She had stood still in one of her movements around the area, catching the Saiyan's fighting fist, and using her ki to help herself flip over the girl, before swinging at her. If they were really going to start changing the way they fought, then she was going to have to keep up.

Though it was amazing to think just deciding when they were done training, would really be the thing that caused her to act like this. She must have really read their relationship wrong, thinking it was fine to do that. Shooting a large blast of ki from her hands, which was still weaker than her spheres of ki, it was the presence of a familiar signature, that allowed her to throw a hard punch directly at the Saiyan's face to knock her down.

The energy coming from the girl had suddenly stopped, and she turned to face the new arrival, spotting a similar device to the one she had been entrusted to the Vampire. Unsurprisingly just as well, he had started off as if he was going to question them. With how often they openly fought like this, in what they had designated as their area, it was easy to get lost in the kind of power they let out. Though hearing the rest of his words, and having seen what he had been holding, it was just as unsurprising to hear what he had wanted to know. Gathering these things was such a strong word for what was going on.

"You're babbling about nothing old man."

Before she could really answer his question though, the Saiyan had already commented on her own, a cheek visibly bruised, though so was the rest of the girl's body. Clothing and armor was torn here and there, bringing to attention how tall the girl had grown, and no longer looking like a twelve year old.

She was also starting to answer less indirectly, and actually addressing people. When it came to appearances though, she doubted she had really looked any better herself. She knew and could feel one of her arms was regenerating, having been blown off into nonexistence directly by the other girl.

Her body was also just as equally bruised, and if not for her feet turning into mass of flesh to help keep the balance, she would have been struggling to stand more than the Saiyan was already trying to. Though whether injured or not, the remark wasn't really something that was surprising to her either.

"She means gathering is a strong word. We found them while training all over the planet, and this thing beeping."

Although her arms were visibly in the process of molding over her own injuries, she had turned slightly to the side, and produced the radar the brunette had given her, before leaving the planet with the others. The girl's words and neutral expression was clear in her mind, even though it had been awhile since.

"You know who, gave this before she left, saying it was useless on earth. Though she also wrote instructions on what to do with them."

A notebook was also pulled out from within her body, which she had held up for the man to see, though she already knew most of the contents that were inside. It was like some kind of choose your own adventure esque writing, referencing the kind of pages to go to, if certain situations popped up.

Practically everything the Vampire thought was typical, and one of those situations, involved them actually finding one of these things, and being approached about it. Regardless of who it was, they were supposed to be defensive about them, if only to keep it away from the wrong hands.

"You should have met those Majins by now, that showed up awhile ago, right? Or those two other Saiyans? They're the kind of people we're mainly supposed to keep an eye on, not letting them find these things."

She didn't find it odd to talk about her own people that way. She knew her own kind well enough to know they were the type to be too invasive, from lack of understanding basic social cues. Though what those two had been doing, beyond blowing up one of the cliffs within this region, was already odd.

"If the Vampire was here, she would have pointed out the Majins were at least up to something, since my kind aren't really bright enough to find themselves on a planet like this. But that's still just all about other people coming onto the planet that we don't know."

The first part she was clearly reading from the book itself, tracing her finger along the sentence before stopping, with the details about her own kind's intelligence, coming more from her. Quickly flipping through the pages, she had stopped on the one she was looking for, regarding the man or one of the others who the Vampire thought was important, wanting the artifacts for themselves instead. Which differed in tone in a way that she was sure the brunette must have been smirking, when she had wrote out these parts. That was also something she found unsurprising, especially reading about a certain blonde.

"There's some stuff here about not letting a blonde swordsman get close to those things? And if she acts like some divine intervention when the ritual is starting, to remind her how she's all talk, since the girl bailed out after challenging her. She also guesses that whatever wish anyone but that swordsman could make, would involve saving people, and if you specifically, are aware she'd go after the earth dragonballs if they weren't inert. Something she says is Capsule Corp property, I guess because of these radars or something."

Reading things line by line, a lot of what was written, she doubted had to really be serious. It was just childish, those parts about the blonde. The only thing that really made sense here, was the Vampire wanting to continue to remind the man whatever had happened between these two, to get this kind of mention. Though the last part about the earth ones being Capsule Corp property, there was no doubting that was how the Vampire had really felt.

There was some stuff in here just as well, about the man possibly asking what the brunette would have used a wish for, but only if it was prompted, and just one of several. She and the others already knew about what the girl had wanted, but there was probably still the whole idea around that the girl would toss them away if she had needed to. Which, even with the supposed speech the brunette gave about carrying their will or whatever, was still possible.

"If you want them yourself, I doubt she would care, by the sounds of it. She's really already set on the idea the earth ones would come back, even if it takes a couple of decades. Though knowing her, I guess there's also other questions she would have asked. I guess one of them, would be what after you guys make all your wishes? Are these things just going to go unused? What about this blue-haired guy she was told about, possibly coming back?"

What these guys planed to do after the wishes were over with, she could understand. Though more people coming onto this planet, less so. They seemed to have gotten things handled, even if a couple of Majins had been allowed to destroy a cliff out in the open, right within the region their mansion was.

Ir reminded her of just how much the Vampire went on about how they were treated unequally here, because they weren't related to the leader of this alliance. There was truth to it, sure, but so long as they were being ordered to stay on the planet, it wasn't anything she would really bring up.

Some things were just better off ignored. While she had been talking, the Saiyan behind her, had gone back to the three balls sitting at the front of the door, grunting here and there as she went on with the explanation. One she had noticed, from the way the girl's ki was just moving around.

When she had finished, the first ball had been tossed right at the man, without a care in the world. It was a surprising thing to see, and she had guessed right when the girl had decided to toss her one of the other balls, with the Saiyan going on and holding onto the last one they had herself.

"You talk too much."

The girl had flew off on her own after commenting on things, quickly disappearing from sight. It should have been obvious just where the girl was going, injured as they both were. Only shrugging at the directness, since it was nothing new from the girl, she had looked towards the other Saiyan.

"These things are pretty heavy, right? It's better if we helped carry them."

That's what the girl must have meant.

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He didn't know the half of it. The Vampire never failed to keep going on about things she wanted to do, or had planned for them. Didn't matter if they had already heard it. The girl wanted them to know how things would work like the back of their hand, knowing the people who would be helping them, would just keep growing. They had like what, five mansions and two houses? Ones which were all over earth, not counting the single one they were using here.

Of course they knew what the brunette wanted to do. Most of them just didn't care, or really had the kind of say to change things. Which would have been pointless, anyway. The girl would have just argued about the resources they were currently allowed to use, among other things. And really, it wasn't all bad. The Vampire might have had her own thoughts about how she wanted things, but it wasn't like they really couldn't have done things other ways.

That evacuation she heard some of the others had done, was just filled with people who didn't to be rescued, being saved by them anyway. The brunette could have cared less about those people, because she wasn't exactly right in the head right now, but she never really stopped them from doing what they wanted.

"It works both ways. I don't really care about how she keeps poking at whoever this swordsman is, but I think we've heard enough from people expecting her to be evil. And you should know, she would talk her way into saying otherwise."

She hadn't been around for a lot of the instances, where the Vampire was told she had just fit into one alignment, but she heard enough from the others who were there. It never really ended well for the other side, who if they didn't just get their ear talked off, wasn't going to really be standing easily.

She and the Saiyan had been around the girl long enough, to know the girl had really stopped trying to kill since becoming a Countess. People were used instead, which wasn't exactly any better, but it also wasn't just the brunette going around and trying to blow places up just for someone's attention.

"It's hard to say what she is. We're not really forced to do things her way, but she's also not going to just put up with some of the stuff that just happens to people. If you just look at all of the business stuff she does, I'd say we're just all assets to consider, and she wants to have more to fall back on, if that makes sense."

Her arms were fully healed now, and the first thing she found herself doing as she went and explained, was rub the back of her neck. Listening to herself talk about this whole thing in the first place, that sounded just about right. The Vampire made business with people and meant to keep them running.

That was just about it. All the stuff that came with any killing, or really just beating people down, were just the kind of things that weren't supposed to be unusual. At least, right now. It was a phase that had been grown out of, was what she was really trying to get at. Lots of people tended to change.

The weight of the ball that was tossed her, took her arms back into mass in certain parts, to even able to hold the thing in the first place. The male Saiyan had been given two to hold at once, which was more than the one they carried, but he was the one who wanted these things.

"We don't really care for these things, so it's no big deal, really."

A shrug had been really all she could give, still not knowing how to respond to these kind of things. She was more used to just accepting that something was done, and going back to doing whatever at the mansion. No one was supposed to go and owe her anything. It was supposed to be nothing more than a job.

The wish these guys even wanted to make in the first place, wasn't anything surprising. Them being split off from each other, was probably going to make things worse with these new ones though, wouldn't it? If it wasn't for these being magic and wishes, she would have also been more surprise at how they were just so casually talking about reviving the dead. There was also how the Vampire and others existing, had to mean resurrection was possible.

"I should be fine after a few hours, but she'll probably be the one sleeping. That Super Saiyan 2 isn't really something she can just shrug off."

Flying in the air now just in front enough to see the female Saiyan in the distance, she had thought about the time the raven-haired girl had apparently went Super Saiyan at her best, against the Vampire. While the brunette had been able to brush things off fine, the other girl was knocked out for the rest of the night, waking up earlier than anyone else around that time. But since the others had left, they didn't really have any healing tanks.

She did what she could herself, to heal the girl, but it was more like just wrapping bits of herself onto the Saiyan, than actual help. That was one thing she needed to remind the brunette to buy more of, whenever she saw the girl or one of the others again. The three they had, were on the mothership, and a lot of the money the Vampire made, just went elsewhere. But it was nothing they couldn't just get around and make due of, until she figured it out herself.

They had enough time for it.

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Genocide.

That was the reason they were trying to revive their people, wasn't it? He was right that the brunette wasn't really doing that kind of thing, but it was more because she couldn't. Trying to, would have all of them fighting against this alliance, which would have just been a waste for the Vampire.

With all of the girl's plans to just move onto a planet of their own, they were just better off avoiding that stuff if they could. Although it still wasn't going to be anything that was up to her. If the brunette had wanted them to attack another city, then they were going to wind up doing it.

What people they could get out of the buildings, would be moved away though. That was just the kind of stuff they were able to get away with. It wasn't going to matter to the girl in the end, if they did what she had wanted. Although all that stuff was still really a thing of the past at this point.

"Yeah, that kind of thing is more of a phase to get over. Like how some of my people challenge anyone, before they're smart enough to know better."

The Majins that found themselves on this planet, being a good example of what she was talking about. Most of them were supposed to just follow orders and enjoy the peace that could come from a field of lowers, when they weren't incorporated into the military. These guys being different said enough to her, they were the other half. The kind that even she was cautious about, if only because it was basically giving a bunch of idiots, some power.

But the man didn't seem like he was too concerned about that, so she wasn't going to really go back and push things. What really mattered, is that he could at least tell these new arrivals weren't going to be welcome around the mansion. Not unless they wanted to get beat by the power of a Super Saiyan 2.

The raven-haired girl, at least when it came to being in that form, didn't seem like she was really playing around. It wasn't really a bad thing either. Only meant that the Saiyan was able to see things she hadn't before. They were supposed to work together, but the girl could play solo if she wanted too.

"How many are you expecting to be revived, anyway? Like a planet full?"

The more they talked about this whole revival thing, the more it became obvious just how crazy powerful, these artifacts must have been, if it had that kind of power. Reviving the dead in the first place, she knew the Vampire would have likely thought was unnecessary, at least the last time they had talked about it. If only because the girl wasn't really wrong in that a wish like this would mean bringing people away, from whatever afterlife there was.

Consent and all that. Would these other Saiyans really be happier alive, than if they were dead? The brunette, being undead and all, was already taking up the kind of responsibility for herself, that wasn't even necessary. But guess that was really more of this group's problems, than theirs.

"It's not that much different with the mansion here, though knowing the others are back on earth, makes me wonder what we're missing out. It can't just be all paperwork, the Vampire's stuck with, if the battles down there were really that hard on the planet."

If she had been able to go back, and the place had turned out to be more destroyed than they had thought from what happened, then of course she was going to busy checking up on whoever was left. Did the people who were evacuating, even return to the planet? Or were they just waiting out the planet to be fixed?

It was the kind of things she was considering, as they finally landed. This place was only getting bigger, by the looks of it. Namek wasn't exactly small, so it wasn't like that was going to be an issue. Though it did bring her back to the whole revival thing, and if they were just going to continue being split, only with a little more people than they had started with. People coming back to life, wasn't just going to bring everyone all together again.

That was one of the things she agreed with the Vampire.

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A million?

Earth had just about that much, before the whole evacuation thing. Now, she wasn't even sure how many of them were really left. Even a lot of her own kind had went there to go serve, and those who didn't, probably just felt as if they had better things to do. It wasn't an easy thing to change the mind of her kind. From the sounds of things, it might have been an exaggeration from the older Saiyan, but the Vampire talked about them enough, to know it was a possibility. Anyone who really knew about space though, would have gotten the idea that the Saiyans were one of the strongest beings out there.

She guessed that when the time for this had came around, these guys were going to tell what happens after, beyond the obvious. Unlike the Vampire, it didn’t sound like they were trying to wish up a new planet. If they had to wait for that, then the Vampire wasn’t going to be happy.

The girl wanted these people onto their own planet, but to take more than one wish, was the kind of thing she knew the brunette was just going to feel like it was supposed to be fair game at that point. Something to let chance and fighting to go and decide when it had came to magic.

This kind of magic, that could probably have the power to destroy a planet or two if someone had wanted, or for something simple, was what the girl would have just considered to be a waste. The proof of that was just all there in the Vampire’s notes and the tone in it.

”Sounds like a lot of mouths to feed, but it’ll at least give those on earth something to do.”

Knowing how their appetite was, if this planet didn’t already have enough materials and the like around, then they at least had the support of Capsule Corp. Probably a lot of return trips though. The ship might have been massive, but there was only so much to do.

The cost for something like this wasn’t really going to be light either. She already knew that was for sure. But this was pretty much what it meant to look over a race of people she guessed. Having to worry about if there was really enough of something or not for everyone.

Vampires were different in that aspect, needing only some drops of blood a day. It was the ones that couldn’t control themselves with the power they were given, that mostly ended up dying. From what she had seen, at least. But she wouldn’t really call the girl’s kind lucky either.

”The both of us are pretty much at the level Rukia was, when she was a Countess, so we’re not too far away into being her level as a Matriarch.”

He might not have really asked about her, but it was kind of a given to answer it anyway. The Vampire was probably already beyond the last time they had felt the girl’s power. She wasn’t the type to really not be moving around, which meant she’d have to get the Saiyan to full power.

It also meant for her, having to deal with a certain bit of hunger, the stronger she had got. Some people she knew kept wondering why she continued to stick around the Vampire, but it wasn’t as if she was any better. She had permanently gotten rid of that other half of hers.

It was really only a countdown until she started feeling like absorbing others. If the Saiyan could get stronger than her, then she could get the girl to really beat her out of anything that just wasn’t her. Absorbing people was supposed to be necessary for her, but not like this.

”I could get her to fight ya, but it’s not going to last too long. We usually just do it until she tears me away, and stop before things get too serious.”

The pieces of her body would only try and regenerate faster to adapt to what’s going on, and there were times recently where she wasn’t sure if she had wanted to let go, having the mass of her flesh practically swallow the girl whole. As if she really cared about winning.

Getting to this medical bay of theirs, she saw they really did have something more official looking, than the Vampire just placing three medical tanks around some counters and cabinets. She briefly watched as the Saiyan just hand over her orb to someone else in the room.

The girl didn’t hesitate into stripping off practically everything, as they did on the ship, which is when she had gotten in front of where the girl’s tank was, back turned. Her feet turned into mass, she was pretty much tall enough to block what view of the inside there could be.

”This is where the Vampire wants us. It’s easier to just stick around until we’re really needed back there.”

That was really the only thing she could really say about their leaving. It wasn’t like she hadn’t agreed to do this or anything. Her place her could have easily gone to the Supidoan or something, if she had really argued. But why do that, when sticking with the Saiyan just made sense?

Whatever the girl had in mind, it was always going to turn out to be fine for them, and people just didn’t see that.

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