Training in Ruins - Part I (Cambia/Invite)

The Flash Spirit technique was successful and Nasu’s elbow hit Cambia right at her face with crazy strength. Immediately after that, he managed to hit her with the final part of his technique, kicking her right at her guts. Nasu fell back to his fighting stance while he watched Cambia bleed a little, and that sight was satisfying. ”Good… My skill is giving me the upper hand, even though she exceeds me in raw power! Hahahaha! This is amazing! Now… Let’s see just how skilled she actually is! If the same blood run in her veins and in mine, she will be able to grow rather quickly!” he thought to himself, feeling rather excited with his fight. Cambia grinned and inquired who had named the technique, Nasu chuckled in response and chuckled a bit.

– Father did… He started developing this technique while he was still a member of the Empire… But you will see well how it evolved with the other techniques! Their name are quite revealing! Hahaha! But all in due time, Cambia! Now, shut up and fight! – he said, unable to hide the excitement and thrill of the fight on his tone; Nasu enjoyed it, he liked exchanging blows with people that could actually hurt him and he truly hoped Cambia wouldn’t end up being a sore disappointment. And she wasn’t!

Cambia dashed forward at an absurd speed and managed to replicate the Flash Spirit, hitting Nasu hard at his face with her elbow. Following that, the powerful kick sent him flying, but he managed to summon his ghostly-white ki aura once again and stop midair, recovering from the attack. Blood was streaming down his nose and he held his stomach with his left hand, grimacing a bit, before getting back to his grinning expression. The high heeled boot helped in increasing the damage a bit, as the small impact point increased the damage output, but that was nowhere near powerful enough to defeat him, and, with that in mind, he went back to the floor, wiping the blood off his nose.

– Look at that! You’ve made me bleed! You already did more to me than Kimiko did! Hahaha! Just show how awful her fighting skill is! You, Cambia… You fight like a saiyan! With blood thirst in your eyes! And that’s what we need! Hahaha! Now… I see you’ve understood the basic of the movements of the Soy School… Therefore… - he paused briefly, as he started to charge a blue-colored energy sphere on his hand. Then, he drew it backwards and the sphere grew a bit more. – I will show you our father’s signature technique! – he announced, chuckling a bit, as he got prepared to throw it right at her. – Watch the power of the Soy School! Spirit Cannon!!! – he roared as he fired the powerful energy sphere right at her.

Natto was known for using some very cheeky names on his techniques and, although Nasu wasn’t quite fond of that nomenclature, he kept them all as a memento of his father. He worshiped Natto and wanted to be like him and, although their personalities were very different, with Nasu leaning more to Tomo’s and Miso’s sort of personality, he really did make efforts to get closer to what his father would’ve expected and, with that in mind, he inherited both his school as well as his position as Overseer of the Saiyan Alliance, and now was even protecting the planet he hated just so that he wouldn’t disappoint them.

When Nasu badmouthed Atsuko, Cambia put her hands on her hips and started defending her, saying she was raised by monks in a church that were suppressing her nature. Nasu scoffed and shook his head. – Cut the crap! She was raised by the bitch who kicked the Alliance off the planet, and she was close to our father’s strength and even stronger than out mother, so don’t give me such an excuse. But… Screw Kimiko, let’s focus on our training! – he said in a serious tone, showing how much he was despising Atsuko as a warrior now. Truth be told, Atsuko got really close to truly gain his respect during the fight, but her attitudes tainted her honor and her glory as a warrior, and that only made Nasu see her as a coward and a weakling.

Still, he had to help saving her and protecting what she held dear, and that was annoying. But it couldn’t be helped, so he would do it to the best of his capacities. Anyway, when he started charging his father’s signature technique, Cambia seemed very impressed and Nasu would be too when she started speaking, revealing she had a very similar technique, with the sole difference of her version used her demonic side and that made Nasu chuckle a bit as he kept pouring power into his blue-colored energy sphere. – Interesting! Maybe that’s some genetic memory of some sort… Then it should be easy enough for you to learn it! – he said before continuing to focus on his attack.

Nasu fired the Spirit Cannon; the basic version of it, as he didn’t want to end the training session. He needed Cambia whole in order to keep up with him and continuing to train. The blond hybrid started emulating the technique perfectly as he had already expected her to do due to her Makyan Spear and, once he fired it, so did she. A beam struggle started and it was very intense; if it wasn’t for the gravity chamber and it’s protective power, the ship would be suffering. Slowly, Cambia began gaining the upper hand, and Nasu tried to pour more power into it.

– AAAAHHHH!!! SHOW ME YOUR POWER!! – he roared as they continued to try and best one another. Still, Cambia’s hybrid power was giving her the upper hand when the matter was pure energy and, due to that, she started pushing him backwards until he was on the losing side of the beam struggle. ”Dammit! It will hurt!” he thought to himself. Of course he could have poured more power into it and, in the end, he would win it, because he had more power at his disposal, but this wasn’t the goal of this struggle and she had indeed successfully learned the beginner level of their father’s school, and maybe she deserved that small victory.

The energy sphere she fired completely absorbed Nasu’s and hit him hard, generating an explosion. The Saiyan Overseer was caught in a smokescreen and, when it cleared, he was there, with his arms crossed in front of his face and chest, slightly scorched. The jumpsuit on his forearms and part of his white gloves had been destroyed, but not completely. He stared at Cambia with a much more serious face and then cracked a grin, chuckling a bit.

– Congratulations! You’ve understood the basic of our father’s school! Now… All we need to do for the rest of the day is to refine your technique until you are too tired to move! Hahaha! – Nasu said, laughing a bit at the end, as he slid back to the Soy School fighting stance, showing he was ready for more fighting.

If Atsuko held back mentally, it was her problem, and Nasu didn’t care about it; it just showed how much of a weakling and a coward she was for having no warrior’s spirit. Then, after the clash of power where Cambia emerged the victor, she asked about Seuta Hwa-Jae, which led him to arch one of his eyebrows, intrigued on what she meant by that. – What? – he simply asked, before noticing she was already sprinting towards him, continuing their spar. Nasu scoffed a bit and narrowed his eyes with a much more serious expression.

”She is getting the grip of it and I can’t let my guard down, otherwise I will be facing some severe punishing due to her superior power level!” he reminded himself, as he watched her approach. When she pretended to throw a hook, Nasu back stepped, trying to get out of her way, but it was a feint; luckily, his choice of defense helped reacting to the new attack, and he quickly rose both his arms to block her attempt to slam both of his ears, which would – ultimately – cause him to lose his balance. Nasu growled a bit once he managed to block that attack. ”She is resourceful!” he thought to himself, with a mix of annoyance and pride of his half-sister.

But there was only so much you could react to, even when you are superior in skill and Cambia’s power was also playing an important role on that. Her tail hit him hard in the gut, making him grunt immediately, but he wouldn’t let her have it her way and quickly recovered from that attack, with an improvised Soy School stance. His eyes were like a wolf’s eyes, due to both Karota’s and Natto’s style. When Cambia approached to attempt her dropping spinning kick, Nasu leaped upwards and prepared his counter. He clenched his left fist and threw a 12-6 vertical elbow strike at her leg, aiming to cause some serious damage and pain to it. Following that, he would spin his waist aiming to throw a reverse spinning kick to her face, using his heels to make it much more painful and effective. Finally, Nasu would dash forward to end his combo with a powerful headbutt against her nose.

No matter the final result, he would slid back to his fighting stance, feeling completely rested. When Cambia spoke again, saying he had a good eye, he scoffed. – Really? You want to talk about this sort of bullshit with me? If you care so much, then let me enlighten you on the matter: I had nothing but gratitude for that person for nursing me back to health after my fight with mom. – he said, and he did seem to be honest about that. – On top of that… It’s overly stupid to fall for someone you barely know, and you should know it all too well. In any case, if you care so much, don’t worry. I will give you nephews eventually. – Nasu said in a serious tone; he was still sort of mourning the end of a relationship that didn’t even start and already ended due to some earthling line of bullshit thinking, but that enlightened him to the fact that there was possibly one person that could fill in that spot. Actually, a person that deserved that spot far better than anyone else. ”I will see about that when I return.” he thought to himself.

Cambia was fast enough to avoid getting her leg screwed up by Nasu’s elbow strike, but she wasn’t fast enough to avoid his heel strike to her face, which left the saiyan Overseer a bit satisfied, as he sent her flying backwards. Of course he wouldn’t let her rest and, as soon as that happened, he dashed forward with his powerful ghostly-white ki aura and hit her hard on the nose with a headbutt. Cambia countered by trying the same tactics, but Nasu pulled his head backwards quickly and her slaps hit his cheeks. It hurt and made it turn red, with the drawing of her hands, but he managed to once again avoid losing his balance by her attack. Once that clash was done, Nasu slid back to his fighting stance as he watched Cambia snapping her nose back to its place, which made Nasu grin and chuckle.

Cambia justified her question by saying that, although she was only half-related to him, she was still related, and that she wanted to catch up with him on that department. – Why do you people like to talk about such things? It’s annoying! – he said, as he expression returned to a much more serious one.

When she inquired if he would have done the same for a male, he arched one of his eyebrows, finding her question quite stupid. When she called it bullshit, he hmphed as he continued to listen she talking now about Athren. It was a shame what happened, but Athren was fated to die anyway. Shamefully he died at the hands of a shitty bastard such as Jarvis. ”I would rather have killed him myself should we fight in a second Alliance-Empire War. I would at least honor him with a warrior’s duel and a warrior’s death.” Nasu thought to himself; although he didn’t think of Athren as a friend, like Komatsu did, he still respected him as a true saiyan warrior. In fact, deep inside his heart, Nasu thought it was a shame he was the heir to the Empire. Maybe, if things were different, they grow to become comrades, or maybe even friends.

– I did almost the same thing to a human named… Well, he claims he doesn’t have a name, but he was raised by my dad and Major Cornatto. Of course he didn’t have any other merits, so I only offered him a second class citizenship, but that’s already a lot. Seuta Hwa-Jae saved my life. And, unlike the sister your worship, I have honor and I pay my debts! You people may think badly of me, I don’t give a fuck! But I won’t ever allow my honor and my word to be thrown into dirt! – he said, pausing a bit, as his expression grew more serious. – And if you are glad for what happened there, then you are a fool. Athren could be dark, but he was a warrior, unlike this Jarvis bastard. Doesn’t mean Athren wasn’t going to die… He likely would, by my hands. But he would die like the true warrior he was. Also… Don’t forget, Cambia… Okra is the new Saiyan Prince, and don’t even dream, for a second, that it won’t affect his life. – he said, chuckling a bit. – He has the blood of both our father and the Saiyan Queen in his veins. – he reminded his sister of that fact, still oblivious to the fact that another person carried the same combination of blood: the boy named Houri.

Cambia claimed she didn’t worship Atsuko, but just related to her, and Nasu scoffed at that, not buying it in the slightest. Still, when she said that she was born a weapon to her mother, and that family was the best thing to get under someone’s skin and he knew that all too well; Komatsu was a constant reminder of that. Then, she explained that she wasn’t glad Athren had died, but for the fact that she didn’t go with him to Vegeta, which would lead to her death and, by consequence, to Okra’s death. Cambia also admitted that the fear for Okra’s safety was what triggered her sort of super saiyan form and Nasu nodded, saying he understood that and he could even relate to that: Komatsu’s death was what triggered his super saiyan form. When she said she wouldn’t allow anyone to come and kill Okra, Nasu hmphed once again.

– You are nowhere powerful enough completely protect him. Luckily he is related to the strongest family in the universe, and I won’t ever allow him to be killed! – and he was by no means trying to humiliate Cambia, but Nasu could be rather blunt when he wanted and he had very little empathy towards the feelings of other people. Cambia’s rage made her ascend briefly to her sort of demonic super saiyan form and almost managed to push her above it, making Nasu arch one of his eyebrows. ”So… There IS more to her bloodline… That’s good! Just like I’ve expected!” he thought to himself, still with a serious expression on his face as he analyzed it all. When she said that she could feel it, he nodded. – I’ve noticed it too. You need a little push. Maybe twenty times gravity is just too little. Take a break, drink water and I will increase the gravity to thirty times. This may help pushing you to your ascended state. Still, it won’t be something like a super saiyan two, but definitely better than this sorry state you call your super saiyan form! – he said in a sort of teasing tone, as he walked over a small fridge under the gravity machine and threw the bottle to Cambia, before getting himself one too and drinking it in a single gulp. After that, he wiped his mouth clean with the remains of his white glove.

– Come on! It hasn’t been even half a day! We still have plenty of work ahead of us, and you are just beginning to understand the Soy School! – he told her, as he waited her to finish her water and get ready for the new gravity to come.