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Chris had been placing himself through rather harsh paced training lately and it was no doubt noticeable from the sounds of constant beating coming from his room. He had been in there for three days straight. Training to non stop potential. He had been prolonging his training with Master Suko, he was determined to get a strength to match his sister. All he could guess was that she was getting stronger as well. If he was going to have to fight her possibly. Than he was going to be in a world of pain if he failed. Failure..was something he had done multiple time and each time he despised it more and more.
He couldn’t hold off on his Master’s training any longer. He was sorry to say that he would need to hold off his own personal training just until then. Maybe he could work on trying to master his own form. He had to strive for a higher form. If it was anything like the super saiyan transformations than he would need to get stronger and master the first form. Otherwise he was at an empty trail for leads. What more could he do after all? He was experiencing something that he couldn’t think of a single other with a similar experience. He was all alone in mastering this form and yet still he felt like he was trying to catch at a fly that was constantly flying farther and farther away.
Chris slowly began to walk up to the actual base platform of this lookout. He had been hoping to find his mentor to hopefully ask her if they could truly just finish this. He only had one more task to prepare for to earn the final technique. He had thought of what his mentor had said before of the holy water..and he finally had decided on what his choice would be. He just hoped that the choice wouldn’t affect the future terribly too much. The last thing he needed was his friendships changing because of a water.
Ever since he had became this...thing..he had noticed that he had begun to age a bit faster. In the past few weeks he had grown quite a bit in height. He hoped that this would stop, if he was going to be aging faster than he worried just how long he would have. He was noticing quite a difference though. If he had to compare himself to his mentor he would say for sure that he was only a half a head before getting to her height. Scary thoughts all right, but still with his own age moving faster he had notice his perception had been moving faster. Maybe he could use it to help out with his speed movements.
”Master, I am ready to finally take the final trial. That is if you're willing to let me proceed now. Chris would begin to ask as he would approach the throne of his master. He wondered still so many things, but yet..he didn’t want to think of them..he wondered..he wondered where his friends were now.
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Chris ended up changing a lot ever since he recovered from the heart virus, which made sense. But wasn't just on a personality level. He was changing on a physical level, and even his Ki felt vastly different. She could still tell who it was when sensing that energy, but... It took some getting used to, to say the least. The young man had been training nonstop as well, something that the Albino Saiyan could relate to. She had been doing the same for several days in a row, the only difference was she was using the Pendulum Room to do so in privacy.
Atsuko had left him to his own ends, she figured that if he felt like he wanted to return to training, then he would simply tell her... That ended up happening today, as the young lad wandered into the throne room and made his request plain. The Saiyan merely gave an understanding nod. "There's one thing that we need to do before we continue your training... Or rather, I want you to know of it.", she explained. "The Sacred Holy Water, I've explained it several times before. But now I think it's time that you take it."
She added. "I don't think it will do anything for your strength, only pure effort will take you any farther... But it will purify, and restore things to a proper balance.", the Knight elaborated. "What I mean by that is, the Sacred Holy Water doesn't eradicate the darkness inside as I originally thought. Rather it allows light and dark to coexist. They are two sides of the same coin, after all. One cannot exist without the other.", she continued. Hoping that all of this made sense to her student. He needed to know exactly where things stood in terms of all of this.
'When I was trapped in Makai... The only way I could come back was to be willingly Corrupted. It allowed me to travel between dimensions, returning to Earth of course. Ultimately however, I was changed by it... My darkness was in control, but I came to understand that it didn't mean 'perfectly evil'. When I drank the Sacred Holy Water a second time, it didn't destroy my other half.", she explained further. As if to further accentuate the point... She would gesture to the side of the throne, and a dark mist would form. A figure clad in dark armor appeared.
The mist settles, and... There was no mistaking it; that was Atsuko. But she was pale, even more than usual. Her hair a lighter shade of color, and her eyes golden. "As you can see... She's still very much alive. Bound to me in a fashion not entirely dissimilar from Excalibur. We are no longer at war with each other, and instead we work together.", she stated. "This is what I want you to do, Chris. Drink the Sacred Holy Water, whatever darkness might reside in your heart will then become an ally, rather than an enemy."
She then stood up from the throne. "A raging beast meant to be kept under control... It won't have to be that anymore. It's not without it's risks, of course. Everything I said about the Sacred Holy Water proving to be fatal to some who drink it holds true; so it is still your decision.", she finished. So what else was there to go over? "As for your training... There is only one more lesson for us to go over. With it, you will become a full fledged Knight of the Round. It is, however, the most difficult lesson yet."
With that, the environment around them would begin to shift as Excalibur took her Human form. The gathered four would find themselves within the same Reality Marble as the last time they trained. The Corrupted Half of Atsuko would glance around. "Yeah... This place is about as I remember it.", she commented quietly. Seems like it was going to be the ah... 'Proper' Atsuko that would be handling the lesson today. "It's been a little while since this place has seen use... Perhaps that will change now that we have another student in Seuta Hwa-Jae, hm?", Excalibur chimed in.
Atsuko merely gave a nod in response. But true to what she said before, there was one other thing to do before their training began proper. The Albino Saiyan would offer a vial of Sacred Holy Water to Chris. "As I said, it's your choice. If you don't want to drink it... Then we'll continue without it. But know that it will also give you a defense against dark beings that may wish to manipulate you. It will even offer you a minor resistance to the water that the Demon Queen has. If you wish to find Leena...", she paused for a moment.
"Then the defense it can give to you will prove invaluable.", she then fell silent. Her story added up, after all the Corrupted Half didn't seem to be causing any trouble. The two halves were able to coexist with the other. The Albino Saiyan seemed more healthy for it, too. Of course... Chris was the first one to find out that her Corrupted Half was still alive. It wasn't a secret that she had revealed to many. So no doubt all of this came as a surprise. But if she couldn't show trust to her students...
What reason would they have to trust her? The Knight would wait patiently for his response. Whether it was acceptance or refusal, they would then begin the final lesson. Tapping into the full power that Excalibur had would be no easy feat, even for as much as Chris had progressed in terms of power... Then again, he did train with a being known as King Kai, who was able to offer him techniques of the likes that Atsuko had never seen before. Still, it was going to be a fairly long process. One that they would need to work at together.
But one step at a time...
WC: 1,007 _________________ Corrupted Atsuko revealed to be alive. Everyone is now in the Reality Marble (Training Dojo) Atsuko is offering the Sacred Holy Water to Chris.
Chris had known that this very question would have been coming up. He had prepared for every way he could think of, to say his answer to her. Yet still nothing was like the experience of now, of actually being in front of his Master asking him this very question. He felt almost a bit nervous standing in front of her right now as is. Here he was now repeating the very same image that had been but months ago. He had gained so much time to think about his choice..and he couldn’t hold it back any further. He knew the choice he was going to make.
”Master..I know it won't bring me any strength, I know because I still remember what you had said before. You had told me it would unlock my potential. That would be impossible for it to do as is if I’ve manage as is to unlock my potential as is. However strength isn’t the reason why I don’t want to accept it. The reason is..everything you're only just discovering about the light and darkness. I’ve discovered already on my own, I’ve accepted it as a part of me long ago. I don’t need the water to help me with that.” Chris would continue to say as he would enter his Celestial Boost form, a form he had found was a good representative of his ki. As his power would double, his ki would radiate slightly around him showing his white outer ki with an inner black ki. If this wasn’t a good sign of what he hadn’t been showing yet..well. He didn’t know how else he would get his point across. ”You know, it's almost funny how right now in this form, I stand closer in power to you than I would have thought. Yet back when we first started training, I wouldn’t even match a chance against your base form. It’s almost as hard to believe that soon I will be sixteen, almost a whole year since I first started my journey..so much to happen in this year..so much to happen still in the next. Master..I don’t face a raging beast like you have, I came to terms with my spirit..the day we had that battle against the saiyan alliance and Jarvis…” Chris would continue to say as he would look right towards his master.
Nothing could have prepared the shock on his face however for seeing the corrupted version of his master right there. However...it only disproved what he was thinking. ”Master are you really at a balance with your darkness? Or is it just that you think you are… If you really were at a true balance..then there wouldn't even be a split of you, a true balance exist as one, not both as two separate entities. Events here in your reality marble, are you really at a balance? Or do you...just think you are?” Chris would ask with a hint of questioning as he looked at her.
Though as Excalibur began to explain about Hwa he couldn’t help but let out a bit of smile along with a laugh. ”Yeah I ended up meeting with Hwa just a few days ago. She came into my room in the middle of one of my training sessions. She reminds me a lot of Ayami...Master? When do you think we will see the others again? I haven't seen Bern in a long time nor Ayami, not even Kohl, Gouken, or Galen ever since he took up the job of Tower Keeper. Galen I'm guessing might be busy with that job but still I worry about the others. I mean it could be because I’ve been so focused on training lately, but still I do worry. They are my friends after all.” Chris would begin to ask as he adjusted to the celestial power he was feeling, it pushed a bit on his body, but it was at a rather slow pace. Most likely at that rate it wouldn't start to hinder him until he held this form for a while.
”Master, I know you want me to drink the water. However it won’t provide me any more of a defence than you yourself had gotten when you were in this demon realm. No, the only thing that can help me now if I can get there, is to keep my wits and willpower. I won’t give in as easily as you did, the water couldn’t possible be the only way to get in and out of that place. There has to be another way...there always is. And if I drink that water, then I will not be the same person as I was before hand. I promised that ‘I’ would rescue my sister. Not the person the water would make… Besides, if it that very vulnerability that you think will make my trip harder. I’m fine with that, because at least I will know it was the real me who goes there to risk my own life to bring her back. Not a completely different teen. Call it a guess...but when I do go one day..if Leena is as corrupted as they say now..only one of us, will be coming back most likely. I’m hoping it doesn’t come to that...but I am ready for it if it comes to that point..I think.. I want to make sure I’m prepared for any trick the demon queen has to offer. So if your ready as well, let begin this training, the final skill of your school, though, never the final lesson. As long as there is a future, there will be more lessons from what we do in the present.” Chris would quote the last bit from a book that he just couldn’t remember the name of anymore. Slowly he began to shine with light as his clothing changed to white and blackened clothing of his embraced form, a white ki surging around an inner black ki. His eyes hidden once more under his hood as his hair flattened and changed to its golden color
Declined the offer of the Holy Water
Enter Celestial Boost form (x2) PL: 410,082 Ascended Further into Light's Embrace(x16) PL: 3,280,656
Atsuko fell silent as Chris started to go into all of his reasoning for refusing the Sacred Holy Water. It... Was a little surprising to hear, honestly. Most didn't have any hesitation about drinking it. He knew all of the benefits that this would give him, but he still didn't want to drink it? The Knight wasn't entirely sure how to react. Though before she could say anything either way, the half clad in dark armor would casually walk over. "Hey. Chris, right? Normally, I'd be all for not drinking that stuff... But she's got a point.", an unexpected vote in favor of the water.
"I know you think you're all badass right now, especially with those fancy new transformations and that spiffy Ki of yours. But trust me. None of it is going to help you against our enemies.", she continued. "The truth of the matter is, everyone fighting against this shit needs every possible advantage they can get. She would never say it herself, but she was hanging on by a mere thread once she got abandoned in the Demon Realm. That place is designed to break you down if you're not a Demon.", the Black Knight explained further.
"And you might think there's another way out, but there isn't. Nakiya's Water is the only way you're getting the ability to make a portal out of there. That or you can consort with a Demon. Your final option? Achieve the peak of your power and try force open a dimensional hole. So take all that into account and; you guessed it. There's only one feasible way out of Makai for most everyone. Atsuko here is the sole exception, and she only got to that point after she got out of Makai.", the Corrupted Half would continue the argument.
"By the way... She didn't give up shit easily. Her brother is an asshole that left her for dead, the Saiyans aren't much better. It's enough to break anyone down. You want to follow those footsteps and you don't even want to have the same preparations she did? When we're facing off with not just the Demon Queen mind you; but Abzerute, a Sorcerer that has awakened ancient magic.", she added. "And who the hell else knows what is going on in Makai. Face it, you want your sister back? You need defense against this crap. Because you don't have the strength like she did to come back from it."
Seeming to fume from it all, Corrupted Atsuko would then wander off in a huff. Excalibur merely sighed in response. "...You may think she was exaggerating it, Chris. But she isn't. None of us are. I respect your decision, but you need to know exactly where all the cards lay before you decide either way.", the Sacred Sword would add in her own comment. For the moment, the Knight would merely put the vial away. "Not exactly how I would have put all of that...", the Albino Saiyan spoke up now that things settled down.
"But she's better at confrontations than me... To answer your question, I think 'true balance' is impossible. But what she and I have is the closest we're going to get. But as Excalibur said, I respect your decision. Just know that the offer remains open.", with that out of the way... She'd note that he was powering up now. A pretty respectable amount of power, all things considered. "Impressive... I tend to do my training in base form, however. It's more effective for me that way. But I may make an exception for this one time."
With that out of the way, there was just a single instant that passed once she stopped speaking. A blink of the eye would show that her hair was glowing golden now. Her eyes were a soul piercing teal, her aura flared momentarily, but then settled quietly. The rise in power, however... That was immediately noticeable. It had been forever since she used the first form. The second form was what she needed because of the power it gave her, but even that went mostly unused once she achieved the flawed third form... And then perfected that, as well.
The Knight felt as if she didn't have much more to aspire to. Something that would need to be fixed soon, as she had no intentions of stopping her training now. "It's weird... I almost don't even feel any different in this form. I'm so used to tapping into more of my power.", she spoke her surprise. But that didn't matter now. No, it was time to begin their training. This was going to be a complicated session. As now he would be drawing out the full power of Excalibur. So how to start describing what that was like...? Hmm.
"Well. I suppose I should start by explaining. The last technique you will be learning covers how to call out Excalibur's full power. You may have seen it a few times before, you may have felt it too. That should give you a fairly rough idea of how it works... Today however, I'll be going into detail on how to perform the technique. I don't know how many attempts this will take you, but you've learned from a being called King Kai, and learned very interesting abilities... If I recall correctly? So hopefully this will be something familiar.", she finished.
With that, the Knight would walk over to the center of the Reality Marble. She'd draw the golden sword at her side, and begin to gather her energy. It still struck her as odd, only relying on her Super Saiyan form, instead of ascending higher. A part of her thought that the attack should be even stronger than what it was now... But she wasn't in a battle either. This was just a demonstration. Still, it would take some time. "Focus on how I'm gathering my energy, as well as my stance.", she explained. The Knight was slowly moving her sword until it was raised overhead.
A golden pillar of energy formed around the blade, and ascended up towards the ceiling....
WC: 1,021 Total WC: 2,028 ___________________ Super Saiyan Full Power [x16] PL: 7,800,592 Atsuko has begun demonstrating Excalibur [ULTIMATE]!
Listening to the Corrupted Suko speak, it made him angry that she thought that he thought that he could handle this with his new ki. To be undermined, not talked down to like he was just a child again..it irritated him. What more did he need to show that he wasn’t simply a child anymore. Keeping his teeth gritted, grinding against each other. It was taking all of his will to keep from snapping back. Still he wanted to more than ever, in fact he wanted to punch them, but still he kept his fist down. He was more responsible than that.
Only the corrupted suko didn’t stop there, no she only continued to go on and on, Going about the only ways to get out of the place. Going on about the sob story for his Master, he was tired of it. Tired of his master going poor her, it's all her fault, lah blah blah. ”No, you say that those are the only ways, but those are only the ways you know of! You don’t know everything so stop acting like you bloody do. Every time it's the same thing, you start going about poor you, and then you switch to how it's all your fault when it isn’t. Everyone here has there own sad stories, and I can guarantee yours is not the center of the universe. Ayami’s father wanted to use her to destroy her own home after growing up in a village that hated her. My sister escaped the life of under the saiyan empire! I watched my own parents burn alive, I watched my real father finally come see me after sixteen years, only to find out he had been lying to me on how Leena was doing. You have a home here on earth besides the lookout, the monastery you always talk about. Me? I have literally nothing besides my single room on this lookout. I’m not truly accepted on Natto, and I’m not truly accepted by the people on Earth. The only few who don’t look at me like such is Ayami and the gang as well as you and Komatsu. Others I’ve thought I could trust? Literally nearly broke my wrist when I was trying to alert you to danger. If you're wondering why I don’t just go back to where my home was? Why don’t you ask the saiyan alliance, their rebuilt outpost is sitting right on top of it, right on their graves.” Chris would let out as he slammed a fist into the side of the reality marble hard in rage. A crack appearing in it only for a second before it was automatically healed..
Slowly he began to regain his cool a bit as Corrupted Suko huffed and walked away. He was just tired of being talked down like that. Tired of the constant excuse being used. It seemed all was silent though, at least until his master had begun to talk about the last technique, Excalibur. As ready as he was to use it, he was planning to put all of his strength into this one..he was going to show that he was stronger than everyone had given him credit for. After all, a student’s goal was to become stronger than their master one day right? Well he knew he wasn’t stronger than his Master, but that still didn’t mean he wasn’t going to try. He had to show them that he had gotten so much stronger since the beginning. Still..
”Look, I know I’m not ready to try and get her back yet, I know that. That's why I’m still training and not looking for ways there right now. Heck I don’t even know what the limits of my new ki is. I’m hoping I can try and reach some kind of power similar to when you first entered super saiyan two. Still, I just can’t ascend further yet. I still hope to, but I don’t know how. It’s not like how the super saiyan transformations felt, when I take these forms..I don’t feel rage from them, I feel all the guilt of the choice I’ve made in the past.” Chris would continue to only say as he noted his master demonstrating her form. Summoning one of his short blades, Internal Conflict, he began to enter the same stance, focusing the light he had as well as his ki into the blade.
Slowly the blade did begin to glow with a rather white light however it was not extending nearly as far as Atsuko’s had. However Chris personally preferred the smaller size rather than the massive one Atsuko’s was. He was always one to prefer short blades over longswords. As much energy as he was putting focus into this, he kept silent for the rest only to wait on further instruction from his mentor. All the while the thoughts of what corrupted suko had said, he needed to show his mentor how much stronger he had gotten...if he could show her just how much power he could put into Excalibur, maybe just maybe he could.
Seeing Chris and her Corrupted half fight like that... It was a pretty unpleasant situation, really. Especially because a lot of what he said had, perhaps unintentionally, cut rather deep into the Knight... But she took it in stride, it was best not to dwell on the past. All she could do now was look forward and focus on the present. The Albino Saiyan bared her teeth a little though as she held the form for her technique. Keeping herself from asking why he'd say something like that, especially right in front of her... But she kept it hidden, somehow.
"...I wouldn't know how to help you with that new power of yours. It's unlike anything I've felt before, and it's unlike anything I've read about. The only real advice I can offer you is that the more you can control your energy, the easier it might become to achieve greater heights. It's just something that you'll have to work towards overcoming... The Super Saiyan Three form is much of the same however. It's not accessed by sheer anger.", the Saiyan explained in a calm tone of voice. "That's how I did it the first time, but... It doesn't need raw emotion."
She explained. "I'll explain more of it later... For now, the final technique. Once you've gathered your energy... Slash towards your target, and send all of your gathered energy crashing forth in a wave!", the Albino Saiyan then swung her blade downwards. "EXCALIBUUURRR!!", the massive collection of holy energy exploded outwards, first in the form of a slash, but then overwhelming everything within the general vicinity of where she aimed. It was easy to see why this was referred to as a technique that could break through any guard. There was no way to defend against that sort of thing.
"It's important not to swing too early, wait until the energy builds up to the right level. Then you need to work with the Ki you've gathered as you swing down. It makes the strike that much more potent. You may need to attempt this a few times until you get it right.... But that's about all I can really tell you about the technique, too.", the Saiyan finished her lesson. With that, she would step out of the way and allow Chris to practice the technique as much as he wanted... Although, something crossed her mind. Just where was her darker half right now?
Corrupted Atsuko had stormed off in a huff earlier, but she heard every last word that Chris had to say... She had suppressed her energy, and blinked into the Third Super Saiyan Form. He wanted to say that shit to her and then act like nothing was wrong? He cared so much about proving how strong he was... Well, she'd show him just how little he progressed. How he didn't even hold a candle to his Master, and that meant that he was on a goddamn suicide mission. Maybe Atsuko and Excalibur didn't have enough courage for that.
But she sure as hell did. The Black Knight would watch silently as Chris practiced with the final technique... Meanwhile, Excalibur... "I have no doubts that you'll perform it well! You've passed every other lesson, after all~!", the woman in red merely offered encouragement towards the student. Everyone else seemed so pessimistic right now, but the Sacred Sword managed to keep her usual joy. It seemed that she really didn't like seeing everyone sad like this, even if there were legitimate reasons for it. But what could she really do? Excalibur had just decided to be herself.
Like always. Maybe it would be enough to have someone that they could rely on in that regard. Atsuko had been through so much trauma that it was entirely understandable that she ended up different from it. Her darker half hadn't been making everything very easy, even if the core of what she wanted was respectable enough. It was just a flat out mess... The Albino Saiyan continued to observe Chris's form. He seemed to be holding it well enough. The energy he gathered wasn't quite as large, but he always seemed to prefer shorter blades instead of a longsword.
In the end, with how their fights played out... It didn't exactly matter much. A slight lack of range was easy to compensate for when you could move as fast as all of them could. Now all the Knight had to do was just hope that she explained it all well enough for him to perform the technique. It wasn't easy by any means, trying to put it into words. Conveying just how to do it instead of simply doing it. There was only so much you could show, however. The rest he'd just have to figure out for himself, sadly.
The means were there... The Knight began to think about what he said earlier. She never tried to imply that Ayami and even Chris himself hadn't gone through horrible things. But he was underestimating their enemies, just what Makai was. In the end, all she wanted was for him to come out of this alright. Because if he got corrupted... There was a chance he wouldn't come back from it. Not without some sort of intervention, in any case. Atsuko had the means to do that, she just had to hope he would understand if it came down to that.
Because she wasn't going to abandon him, even if he swore he would never drink the Sacred Holy Water. If he wanted to hate her for that... So be it. But he was her student, and he knew damn well what he was getting into when he made that decision... With that, the Albino Saiyan felt assured about the future. Her path was clear. The Knight just had to get through this, and maybe they could start moving onto something more pleasant. If nothing else, maybe they could come up with an actual plan... One that he wouldn't be so opposed to.
Maybe.
WC: 1,006 Total WC: 3,034 ____________________ Atsuko fired off Excalibur [ULTIMATE] for 10,530,799 damage! Corrupted Atsuko's Super Saiyan 3 Full Power PL: 22,426,702. But suppressed to 0.1
Chris still remembered just how much he had went and accomplished to just reach this point now. He had journeyed so far to reach such strength, and yet still others thought of him as weaker still, many treated him like a little kid. He wanted to prove to them that he was stronger than they would think but how? How would he? That was the main problem? How could he prove that he was stronger than everyone actually gave him credit for. That was when he heard the noise of Atsuko’s Excalibur, he could...counter Atsuko’s..He didn’t know if he could win against it, but the knew that he could at least show his strength against it.
His could never beat other like this before, if he wanted to prove it finally then he would have to do it now! ”Kaioken ten point oh.” Chris would say as his white outer glow gained a third color to its outer level, a red like color as he looked slightly redder. ”You want to see my full strength, this is it.” Chris would say as he focused on strength beyond that of just the limits. He could feel the energy pushing through his body, a saiyan’s burst of energy and the celestial energy coursing through his body. All running right into the charged power of his blade. EXCALIBUR!! Chris would yell as he slashed with his blade. A large burst of energy coming from this nearly reaching that of his own Masters! All of his energy poured into this blade and yet still even though it wasn’t enough, the closeness it had reached he was positive would at least show his master that he had more tricks up his sleeve than what the eyes simply revealed.
As he watched as his own waves of energy clashed with suko’s it had held for quite a bit, only ending after both drained of power, his masters was left going towards the marble, though the energy from it had been dramatically decreased. Still Chris stared at amazement of how much he had been able to put out. Nearly double his own strength and yet now he felt completely exhausted. He had used way too much power, and it was quite obviously having been very taxing on his energy. As he did began to breathe a bit heavily, he did begin to laugh softly, not so much of a laugh of insanity but rather a laugh of joy. ”Hehe, A little more power and I think I could have defelcted that completely. Wow, so that was the power of Excalibur huh..I won’t lie, that left me a bit exhausted..though whether that was the attack or the actual amount of energy I pulled, I’m almost willing to place it on both.” Chris would say as he at down for a second, he just catching his breath from his first time having done something like this. ”Hey..thanks for teaching me...So..does that make me an official knight now eheh Chris would say as he moved his hand behind his head. He was unaware though of what the Corrupted suko was currently doing.
Entered Kaioken x10 + Lights Embrace = x26 PL: 5,331,066 Launched [Ultimate] Excalibur to try and deflect Atsuko's 135% + 30%(Warrior's Spirit) + 30%(Celestial Outburst) = 195%! Chris Excalibur: 10,395,579 vs 10,530,799 135,220 PL Heading for wall of Reality Marble still
Perfect. This was the moment that the Black Knight was waiting for, as Chris activated his Kaioken, and fired off his own Excalibur towards Atsuko's... That was when the Corrupted Half would spring into action, a blinding speed would see her intercept the path of Chris's attack, and with one fell swoop of her blade... "Holy Sword Wave.", she spoke almost as if bored. Her energy collided with Chris's attack, and thoughtfully she had directed it away from the young man. It was a close clash, but it was one that her technique ultimately proved victorious in. But she was able to do so much more...
Corrupted Atsuko flew straight towards Chris and with her free hand, sent a punch towards him. But she stopped mere inches from actually hitting him. The sheer energy given off would be enough to make almost anyone flinch, however. She smirked now. "...Do you get it now? Let me make something perfectly clear to you.", she then eased off a little. "You don't know any more than I do. But you know what? Atsuko has been speaking to the Kais, and I've actually been in Makai, so has she.", she would point out a fact.
"Look. If you want wishful thinking that you can just waltz into Makai, hug your sister and come back like nothing ever happened... That's your decision. I don't really give a damn either way. But she does. Atsuko would risk her life just to save yours, you idiot.", she was not being gentle, for a variety of reasons. "You know what's going to happen if you go into Makai? You're going to die. Actually... That's if you're lucky!", the Black Knight would then step back a little. "Because you could just be trapped. Again, though that would be pretty lucky."
She continued. "No, the most likely thing is that you'll get corrupted. And there's only one person here that can help you with that... She would put her life on the line for it.", the Black Knight stated. Then she'd turn away and begin to walk away from Chris. "Oh yeah...", she stopped for a moment. Turning back to him once more. "For the record, I don't trust any of you. I've noticed a worrying trend of you all turning on her... That brings me to another point. What you've gone through and what Ayami has gone through doesn't take away from her shit. Same the other way around."
True, it was a bit of a mess. But there was a lot to go over. "But back on track... Consider this your reality check for more than one reason. Because if you turn on her too... I'll kill you.", she grinned a little more. "I don't care how many times any of you come back from it. I'll kill you over, and over, and over again until you get the idea to stop.", she'd let that sink in for just a little bit. Then, she'd merely shrug after the fact.
"You can be mad at me all you want. But you just need to remember one thing... You better damn well hope that you prove me wrong.", with that finished, the Corrupted Half would turn away and make use of a personal sized portal to leave the Reality Marble, likely returning to the Timeless Lookout... The tension thankfully eased up after that. "Damn it... I don't need protecting!", the Knight would voice one of her own complaints, to little use however, as her darker half was already gone. She merely sighed. Excalibur felt a little uncomfortable about all of this too.
"Chris... Are you alright?", the Sacred Sword would voice some of her own concern. Atsuko seemed a little distracted at the moment, trying to think of how to best deal with her Corrupted Half. "She can't keep doing things like this...", the Albino Saiyan would mutter quietly. There was a time where she would have agreed with how her other half was acting, but times were changing. They needed to change too. Atsuko knew that, the past was in the past and it had to stay there. Maybe that lesson had yet to reach the Black Knight, however.
"...I'm sorry that happened, Chris.", it seemed that she finally came back to reality, however. Atsuko would bow to show that she was being genuine in her apology. Eventually, she would stand back up straight. "To answer your question, however... You're a Knight now! You're a full fledged member of the Order that stands in defense of Earth. You hold no seat higher than the others, and no seat lower than the others. Together we form a council... Everyone mostly does what they see fit. But in times of true need, I'll call everyone together and decide on a plan if we are unable to as a group."
Their training was done now. Although Chris might want to practice a little bit more now that a certain someone wasn't here to distract him. "I don't think there's anything else we need to go over now. You've gone through every lesson I had to share with you. But feel free to practice a little more.... Or if you wanted to talk, that's fine too.", the Knight finished. There must have been so many things going through his mind right now, she wasn't entirely sure what to do about it. Her darker half had really done it this time...
"I think we have the right idea... Let's not let her get to us! That's probably what she wants anyway, so all we have to do is prove her wrong! That should be easy, we all have the means to do it!", Excalibur chimed in. Hoping to keep things steering towards a happier setting. The Black Knight had a cynical world view. Maybe that could be changed, but it was neither here nor there for the moment. Something more important was Chris's official induction into the Knightly Order! The Knights of the Round grew just a little stronger today...
WC: 1,006 Total WC: 4,040 _____________________ Corrupted Atsuko's Holy Sword Wave [OT-2] vs Chris's Excalibur [ULTIMATE]! Damage of 11,213,351 vs 10,395,579. Excess damage of 817,772 directed towards the ceiling and not towards Chris. Corrupted Atsuko makes use of Chris being under half of her overall power and follows up with a Martial Arts Strike for 5,606,676 damage... But she stopped just before hitting him. Chris has taken no damage.
Training finished! We can end the thread whenever you like.
Chris had already been exhausted, though his energy was slowly coming back to him at an increased amount of storage, there was no way he would have been fast enough to keep up with a super saiyan three. As the rest of the attack was launched towards the ceiling, he recognized it as a common thing used for distraction and it took what was left of him energywise to get up a counter ready for the corrupted Atsuko. As the Corrupted Atsuko’s fist was only inches away from his face, his own fist was but inches away from the Corrupted one’s gut. Nearly a year ago, the fist in front of his face might have made him flinch. Now? He didn’t flinch a bit even though he could feel it powers. It sort of lost its touch with that flinch after he had already fought so many who were stronger than him, faster then him. Each time though he had begun to flinch less and less, and now? Now? Well now it was just common practice with the amount of people he had to face before, all of them starting out stronger than him.
He just stared her in the eyes and smiled, hopefully doing his part to annoy her. Even now with such power in front of him he even thought it best to crack a joke. ”News Flash baby, Atsuko isn’t the only being who’s talked with kais. I’ve talked to two and to two guardians. I may not have been to Makai, however if you remember what I said already told you, I don’t plan on going until I know of a way for sure to go in and out. Now maybe calm down a bit, you're already starting to look and act like a monkey with those tantrums and thin eyelashes.” Chris would joke in a way so hopefully Atsuko wouldn’t think it was about her since it was the corrupted one who was throwing the tantrums. The joke was of course about corrupted Atsuko.
”Wow though the amount of times you said if I was lucky, I must have the best luck in the world then.” Chris would continue to joke around with corrupted Suko, he was using his best tactic for maximum annoyance, turning what someone said into a joke. As soon as she mentioned Ayami, he did get a bit serious when someone talked about one of his friends. ”Well aren’t you a bit hypocritical, you were the first one to bring up the whole tragic backstory thing now weren’t you, if it makes you feel even the slightest bit better, I don’t trust you either, because you know why? No matter how much you try to act all tough to me you are just a shadow of my Master’s inner demons. Okusta, a mirror.” Chris would begin to say colder than how his earlier statements were, he was getting really tired of corrupted Atsuko.
It seemed his hint was done though when the Corrupted Suko began to leave, he began to hear the congrats of his friends behind him but he was so exhausted now..he really couldn’t deal with any more of this today. Without a single word even..he walked to one of the edges and opened up his own doorway out. He was going to go rest, frankly if he couldn’t be trusted here..it wasn’t any different elsewhere, everywhere, everyone..always the same.
Leaving Thread, Will Take PL + Bonuses from this thread as well as mastered the Ultimate of Atsuko's school and thus now have 4 stamina points
The Knight seemed to more or less grasp that Chris was joking more towards her Corrupted Half rather than herself. Still, it was a little unpleasant to hear... It was just a cycle of hatred at this rate. He'd give hate, she'd give more. It wasn't going to end. Not unless she put a stop to it. But the Albino Saiyan didn't even have the chance to act before all of this had played out right in front of her. She was sick of it, though. If no one was going to take that first step towards peace, then she would.
In the end, Chris left without saying a word. Maybe he was just exhausted. Maybe it was for other reasons. But the Saiyan was left clutching her hands tightly into fists. "I'm going to beat some sense into her...", she'd mutter. Now that Chris was gone, there wasn't a reason to hold back, right? She called her Corrupted Half back into the reality marble, which is a called that the Black Knight answered. "So he got the idea and went off to bed, eh? Good.", she'd first state. His closing remarks weren't lost on her, but at this point...
She had said everything that needed to be said. "Why the hell are you acting like that?", she questioned her darker half. "Because you're too nice of a person to stand up for yourself! You need someone that can do it for you! I'm your fighting spirit, the one that always tells you to kill your enemy instead of sparing them all the damn time so they can stab you in the back!", the other half would spit out as a response. The Albino Saiyan merely sighed... The Black Knight was stuck in the past, as much as she may have wanted to deny it.
"This is not the past anymore... Things are changing, and they're changing for the better.", she would try reasoning at first. "So you're just going to let your guard down now, is that it? Typical...", that was it. Atsuko would power up into her own Third Super Saiyan Form, and proceed to slug her dark half right across the face. "I don't need protecting! I can take care of myself! Maybe there was a point where I needed your strength, but damn it we have to work together now!", the Knight shouted at her doppelganger.
"Gr...! You think you can just handle all of this shit now, is that it?! Alright, I'll prove you wrong!", the Black Knight would respond with a punch of her own aimed towards the Pure Half's gut. Eventually they began to exchange blows, blocking the strikes of each other and going for every perceived opening that they could. The truth of the matter was that they were evenly matched. They were slowly wearing each other down at this rate. It was a fight that carried on into hours, both of them just shouting and attacking at every opportunity. The saving grace was they were in the Reality Marble.
No ludicrous amounts of noise flooding the Timeless Lookout as a result. Their fight ended up lasting for the entirety of the day, and only at that point were they both so exhausted to the point of not being able to fight anymore. "There... You see? I'm just as strong as you are, and I'm just as determined too... I'm not some kid that you need to shelter.", the Knight would manage between ragged breaths. Both of them were lying on the ground at this point, in this base forms at that.
"Yeah... You've finally got your fire back... He was right, you know. We aren't really working together yet. I made the conscious decision that I would keep you alive, you needed me and I needed you... Maybe I was also a little upset that I couldn't be the one in control. I at least wanted the power.", she explained between her own ragged breaths. Letting out a small, pained laugh afterwards. "But I get it now... We have enough shit trying to fight us, trying to kill us... We can't afford to do that with our allies. Even with ourselves."
Finally, the Corrupted Half would sit up. "You make a good other.", she'd comment. Atsuko sat up as well. "I think you have some improvements you need to work on... But you're getting there. From now on, don't interact with anyone unless we're in a fight, okay?", she would ask of her other half. The Black Knight would give a nod. "Fine, fine... It's probably for the best anyway. I'm more social, but I have more of a temper. So why don't you have a party every now and then? Go out and see some people! It gets boring for you up here!"
Corrupted Atsuko would explain. "And if it's boring for you, imagine how much of a hell it is for me!", she'd grin afterwards... Still, at this point she knew it was time. The Black Knight would begin to fuse back into her pure half. This time they were going to work together. They had their respective world views, and it was a simple fact that they were very different people. That didn't mean they had to be enemies. The Knight sighed a little once more. "Chris is pretty upset... He has every reason to be. I won't try and hold him back."
The Albino Saiyan slowly stood up. "He wants to find his own path... I've done all I can for him. The rest is in his hands now.", she'd finish. One more student had finished their training. But the Knight just felt regret in how it played out. What could be done, though? Eventually the Reality Marble began to fade away and she found herself standing on the Timeless Lookout. Excalibur would place a hand on her wielder's shoulder. "Don't be too hard on yourself. I'm sure he'll appreciate the trust you're giving him.", the woman in red stated.
Whatever the case was, it was time for rest...
WC: 1,012 Total WC: 5,052 _____________________ Taking PL for this one! Training Dojo's 25% bonus applies!
Demon Heart [x2], Mastered Power [x5], Makyo Star Power [x10], Full-fledged Demon [x11], Demon Lord [x17], Demon King [x23], Darkness Demon [x29], Hybrid Potential [x43]
Gravity Machine [x100G], Advanced Medical Machine,
Uchigatana, Senzu Bean, E. Dragon Radar
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