Crono's Story by Traum

Chapter 26 Arsenia

I'd rushed head-first into a lot of things in my life, some with good consequences, some with bad, but I thought Kami had changed my patterns, taught me how to control myself. Then I reverted back to the old days when I sprinted over to Kennard and Nikita with the others. It felt good really, giving me a kind of adrenaline rush I hadn't had in a long time.

Luckily the Caprians hadn't been prepared for the five of us to all come out at once, and fell back in surprise as we all crowded around the downed Nikita and the stunned Kennard. I made sure to face in the direction of the one Kennard had knocked senseless, didn't need a pissed off Caprian to go unnoticed. Luckily I could sense him still trying to figure out what happened, so I managed to make out the conversation Gideon and the really big were having. Gideon was speaking at the time I began listening in "Back the hell up damnit, don't start something you're not ready for."

I heard the other guy laugh deeply, and I turned to look at him. When he managed to stop hooting, he replied, "Don't make me laugh. How long did you plan on hiding there in the rocks, like cowards?"

"As long as it took for you to make a fatal mistake." Came Gideon's quick reply.

"Ah, they admit to their own cowardice, what morons." Was the quip from the other apparent commander.

I couldn't let something like that go un-contested, so I cut off Gideon and yelled back "Who's the fucking cowards here you piece of shit?" I could feel my blood beginning to boil, so I kept going "You're the ones that would kill a warrior that's obviously not near you power wise." I screamed as I pointed towards the body of Nikita.

"I see they have a mouthy one in the group." The big one looked me straight in the eye, and I made sure to give him a glare he'd remember. Suddenly though he started laughing, mocking me in the crudest way possible. I clenched my fist and bit my lip in order to restrain myself from going over to try and kill the stupid bitch. After a few seconds he regained control of himself and yelled out "We'll set you straight yet, son", I thought the "son" was pushing it a little, even for him "You just wait."

"Maybe it will be us that sets you straight." I replied, half-calmly.

"I highly doubt it." Then he turned to one of the Kalandrilians and said, "Power levels please Eagel."

The shortest of the insect-like beings pushed the large button on his scouter and began to read out power levels. Since I was pissed off, mine was rising the fastest and consequently was the first one read. "The feisty one is at 60,000 and rising slightly." After reading mine, he moved slowly over to Gideon, "The black guy is at 82,000 and...." Before he could move onto any others, his scouter exploded on his face in a bright flash of light. I traced the ki blast that had destroyed the device to its source, and found Karnai, his hand outstretched and his palm smoking, a grim look on his face.

"That shit ends now." Was all the Namek warrior said. I smiled, barely containing my laughter. "There will be no scouter's used in this fight." The way he said it, you just knew he meant business.

The big leader one glared through squinted eyes at Karnai and answered "Who's going to prevent us from using them, you?" Karnai just nodded, and the big one just replied "I'd love to see you try."

Now I knew Karnai well enough to know that he didn't back down from a challenge. He instantly fell into his attack position, claws extended, fangs bared fully, he actually looked quite formidable. The huge one just smiled, and began to drop down into his own fighting posture. They looked about ready to rip each other to shreds, and probably would have if the Caprian Kennard had demolished moments ago hadn't shown up all of a sudden.

He flew in on a blue streak of ki, landing just a few metres away from me. His eyes were bloodshot, a trail of blood ran down from the corners of his mouth, and he looked very pissed overall. His vision was concentrated on Kennard, and as soon as he laid eyes on the human he screamed out "Get the fuck over here so I can kick your punk ass!"