Cambia Vs Galen

So, it was once again time for him to go up on the arena and fight. This tournament was tiring as hell, even for someone as strong and trained ad Galen. This was his third fight and, to make matters worse, it would be against Cambia and, although they were somehow aligned faction-wise, he couldn’t help but to think she wasn’t very fond of him, even after he saved her son Okra from being accidentally abducted by Lord Lagerus and Whis, that one time on the Timeless Lookout, when something very odd happened, which made his memories quite foggy and weird. In any case, it was about time for him to get there and fight, but before he did so, he was given a bracelet that set his energy signature to a static level. It didn’t change his power at all, so he just shrugged. Following that, he was informed none would be able to transform and that was quite a relief, as he had been pushed to release his tension and hurt people more than he could handle already.

As Galen stepped up onto the arena, he stared at Cambia and have her a quite gentle smile. ”Miss Cambia, it’s an honor to be your opponent.” he said with sincerity in his tone, as he too admired Cambia’s power and skill that he had witness only once, on the very day she left the hyperbolic time chamber with Ayumi and the newly born Okra. ”I hope little Okra is doing well, too! I look forward to see him again.” and then, as Cambia unsheathed her sword, so did he, pushing it out of the scabbard on his back, releasing the blade of his broad sword while he still held it with only one arm.

”I hope I won’t disappoint you. I will do my best.” he said, making a brief nod, smiling with kindness. He was ready to fight, but he would let her be the one to start it.

Like many others, Cambia was also bothered by Galen’s politeness and insistent use of honorifics, but he wasn’t going to drop that anyway and, at least in that regard, Cambia would lose that battle anyway. He was happy to know the baby saiyan was doing alright and even surprised they had a crèche, but it only made sense since otherwise single moms wouldn’t be able to participate in the tournament. Galen chuckled when she stared at the camera and spoke to her son. ”I’m glad the little man is doing fine. I hope to see him grow into a quite remarkable gentleman!” and his tone was honest and caring like always.

Still, it wasn’t the right time for lollygagging! It was a tournament after all and they had to fight. When Cambia was kind enough to warn him she was about to start fighting, he nodded and got ready. Her initial strike aimed at Galen’s side and he was quick to dodge it by jumping upwards and avoiding her blade, while, at the same time, getting his sword ready above his head and, as he started descending, he aimed to throw a powerful strike with the blunt side of his blade to her head. ”YYYAAAAA!!” he shouted as he attacked her.

It was but the start of the match and Galen was gasping not only Cambia’s style, power and speed, but also his own since they had those bracelets on restricting their power. He needed to know what he could achieve before forming his own strategy; the human may be a gentle soul and all, but he was very adamant about winning this tournament, there were things he had to do and this money would surely help him accomplish that.

Surprisingly his attack hit her, even though she partially blocked it. Galen wasn’t quite sure why he accomplished that as he was already anticipating she would be able to react properly. ”Maybe it was the boost of the planet’s gravity plus my weight… It should be that… It’s the only thing that make sense anyway!” he thought to himself, as he landed back on the ground, but before he managed to get a proper balance, Cambia used another style and that caught him off guard completely as he hadn’t expect such a shift from a heavy blade-related style to one that focused solely on melee attacks. The punch to the gut was strong and made Galen spit some saliva from his mouth as he curled over his stomach and grunted in pain. ”UGH!” he took a few steps backwards, embracing his stomach with his left hand while his right hand kept the blade as ready as possible.

”T-that was quite a blow! Gosh… I felt like I wouldn’t ever be able to breathe again!” he said as he recovered a bit, getting back to his Kikoukenjutsu Sword School fighting stance. ”But that just makes us even, right?! Well… Not quite even since… I’m pretty sure this punch hurt way more than my lucky strike… Hehehe! You are really something, Miss Cambia! Amazing! Skilled with the blade and without it! I myself began training without a sword recently and I’ve gotta say… It’s quite the change… Anyway… Shouldn’t be talking quite this much, but… If you are really willing to take it up a knotch…” he said, cracking a grin on the corner of his mouth.

Galen flared his light blue ki aura around his body, showing he was ready to pour some real power onto his attacks. His sword glowed in a red hue and then he slashed the nothingness in front of him. ”Void Tempest!” he exclaimed. From the cut in the air he summoned arcs of red colored energy beams that headed straight towards Cambia. The beams of energy were locked onto her energy signature and would chase her until they hit her. It was a special technique that was literally impossible to dodge, but would she realize that in time?

Galen not only agreed with Cambia’s words but he also hoped he had more aces up his sleeves for this fight. Even with their power suppressed by that bracelet and the rule prohibiting them to transform, Cambia was showing she was indeed the best fighter among the two of them; she clearly had more experience and training and if he didn’t do something about it soon, she would eventually grow bored of holding back and just finish him off and take this win for herself, and that was something he didn’t want to happen at all.

It was absolutely frustrating to see his Void Tempest, a technique he had so much trouble coming up with being blocked so easily by the hybrid. With a swift, precise and powerful swing of her sword, she made the arcs of red energy dissipate. Of course she struggled, at first, trying to dodge it to no end and, for a moment, Galen was happy his strategy was working out, only to see it being frustrated with such simplicity that it made him feel like he just wasted his energy in vain summoning such a draining technique, and that made him sigh. ”Damn, she is good… I’m really running out of options now…” he thought to himself, gulping discretely as a drop of cold sweat ran down his temple. The human frowned his brows as the hybrid grinned and asked what else he had to show.

Other thing worth noticing was that, although Galen’s breathe was heavy now, Cambia seemed completely fine and that was something really dangerous in a fight. ”I can’t allow myself to get this tired already… Come on, Galen, think!” and that was when he had an idea. Making a brief nod to himself, he dashed forward one more time, with his blade scratching the titled floor, generating sparkles as he rushed towards the hybrid. Upon getting close, he would try and strike her with a diagonal cut aiming for her right hips. ”YAAAA!!!” he roared fiercely.

But that was a feint.

Galen’s goal with this stunt was to throw the sparkles at Cambia’s face and make her flinch even if just for a second, hindering her sight. The cut wouldn’t get close enough to cut and then, using the principles of the Turtle School, he would spin his body and throw a reverse kick at her belly, trying to push her backwards with all his available power.

Galen was in trouble and he knew it. Fighting Cambia was hard and he had to rely on feints or other maneuvers in order to try and land a solid hit on her other than one luck sword strike. To his relief, his reverse kick landed and she was pushed backwards. Cambia coughed but other than that she seemed quite well, and that made him sigh in frustration. ”I hoped it would cause more damage… Dammit, it doesn’t even compare to that punch of her!” he thought to himself, as she took yet another different stance. Galen’s eyes widened as he saw that and he scratched the back of his neck for a second. ”Wow… How many fighting styles do you know, anyway?! You are rad as hell!” and that was some sort of compliment, but at the same time his tone seemed a little annoyed: Galen wasn’t angry or anything, he was just frustrated he was running quite low on options and winning was getting further away as a possibility.

Following that, she started charging some sort of energy in her blade, but the feeling it gave away was quite awful and that made Galen grimace. ”I mean no offense, Miss Cambia… But this energy! It feels evil!” he said in a quite alerted tone as he frowned his brows and grits his teeth a bit, getting ready for what was about to come. When Cambia fired her energy attack though, the angle in which it was fired was what concerned Galen the most. ”Hang on a second! This… This will hit the crowd if I dodge! Dammit! What the hell is she thinking anyway?!” he wondered, feeling completely angered now that she put him in between the sword and the cliff.

There was just no way would Galen allow anyone in the crowd to be injured by her attack, even if it meant he would have to tank it and lose the match. ”Miss Cambia!! What are you doing?! If this hits the crowd many people are going to die!!” he roared, as he wouldn’t go down without telling her some well-deserved truth. ”This blast is evil, and this intent! What’s going on?! Don’t do that!” and with those words Galen got ready as he had already made up his mind; he would have to try and tank it.

Getting his blade ready, he charged forward and tried to deflect the blast upwards so it wouldn’t warm anyone and save him from at least part of the damage. Most of the blast exploded upon contact with Galen’s sword, but a considerable amount of it was deflected upwards until it vanished in the skies above. Smoke was everywhere around the human after the explosion, but as soon as it cleared up, he was there, with an angry expression on his face. His shirt and coat had been blown to bits and he was only with his pants and bandana left; his clothes were already quite ragged from the earlier fights anyway.

”I won’t forgive you for that! I will end this now!” and with the fierce look on his eyes, he used his powerful ki energy to make an extreme gravitational pressure around Cambia, aiming to render her incapable of moving for a while. ”Kikoukenjustu special technique… Gravity Break!” he exclaimed as he used the technique.

Cambia claimed that there was no way she would be aiming to harm the audience, but Galen wasn’t so sure he believed her. They weren’t in their best terms with each other after all, and there was still something quite odd, this feeling he had when near her, as if she had once attacked him, but that made absolutely no sense. ”Am I holding prejudice against her? But… I’ve never had those feelings for anyone…” the effect of Whis’ time do-over was really getting to his mind, and this doubt made him feel quite unease, but he knew he had to ignore it for the time being and focus on the fight. He sighed and shook his head when she mentioned TV. ”I was never really fond of TV, and after my village was destroyed, I’ve been on the road for the rest of my life. But I know what you are talking about and no, I don’t see you as a villain and myself as a hero. I just got mad you threw such a risk attack at such an angle. But it matters not! If I can’t finish this battle now, then it means I definitely can’t win!” he said with quite a lot of determination in his tone, almost as if he believed he had a very high chance of winning.

The Gravity Break technique was quite special in a way it managed to stun people, even if they were used to training under severe gravity, because it focused the area exclusively on the body of the target, rending them temporarily incapable of moving. Seizing this momentum he had created, Galen dashed forward towards Cambia while concentrating all of his energy on his free left palm, generating a bluish energy. As he got close to a vulnerable Cambia, he threw his fist towards her generating a ki blast in the form of a lion’s face that would attempt to bite her and explode. ”Beast!!” he shouted as he attacked.

Galen’s goal with that wasn’t just to damage Cambia, in fact, he didn’t care about it at all. His true goal was to use her stunned estate to blow her off the arena and get himself a ring out, thus winning this round. He hoped it would work, thanks to his tricky strategy of paralyzing her. His heart was beating like crazy and he was clearly somewhat nervous with the outcome of this stunt. ”Please work…” he hoped.