Shining lights

To train was a must, an obligation. Things were getting pretty dangerous with that freaking android and even Aspa, Natto’s sort of rival and antagonist had cast aside his pride and asked for guidance from both Kaula and Reikiko back at the throne room. Natto had to do his best to, in order to be able to protect what was dear to him. The young saiyan would never forgive himself if his slacking off cost the lives of the inhabitants of Planet Vegeta. With that in mind, he flew out of his dorm’s window, with his weighted battle suit on, that was starting to feel more natural. ”I feel like I’m almost starting to get used to this thing! I don’t know how effective it will be once I get used to it, but I need to make the most out of it, since the Imperator Royal Spaceship is not on the planet!” he thought to himself, as he flew through the skies of the planet. ”By the time the queen’s squad is back… I’ll surprise everyone by getting as strong as I can become! And… About that super saiyan thing… Will I be able to reach such a state?! Well… There’s just no use on thinking about it now! As Radasha, Kaula and Reikiko said… I’ve got to reach around 100.000 of power level before I can even think about transforming!” Natto frowned his brows, flaring his ghostly-white ki aura around his body and increasing his speed. ”And I’m so close… I’ve reached almost 80.000! That’s a power level I’ve never imagined!” a smile appeared on his face, as he felt butterflies on his stomach, filling himself with pride and excitement. ”To think that I, a mid-class warrior, could’ve become one of the strongest saiyans alive…” however, shortly after that thought, he smiled disappeared and a concerned expression took over his countenance.

”Still… Reikiko said something about mastering the transformation… And about a super saiyan two… I don’t know if I completely believe and trust her… But for the legendary super saiyan form to be defeated… It may actually mean that there’s something far beyond that level of power…” he gulped, feeling a few drops of sweat running down his temples, as he felt completely filled with a feeling of unease. ”It’s just insane to think that there’s so much more to climb… I wonder… How strong is this Virtual Poi thing?! Like… How badly would he defeat the the queen? He actually managed to rip her arm off, which gives me an idea… But I like to think that she improved a lot since that battle…” he sighed, shaking his hand quickly and slapping his forehead once. ”Stop! No pointing getting so much inside my mind! I have to focus on my training! And the development of my new technique…” he decided, as he scratched the crimson skies of Planet Vegeta, flying towards the central wasteland.

The young saiyan landed on a place around the southern area of the wasteland. It was a very wide, rocky place, with a very irregular terrain. Natto’s feet touched the top of a big mountain-like rocky formation and he stared at the place, with an angry expression on his face. First and foremost, he spread his legs apart, bending his knees quite a bit as he brought his arms to his side, bending the elbows and clenching the fists as he started to charge his ki to its maximum potential. His ghostly-white ki aura flared up and increased, engulfing all his body and expanding. Small stones started flying up, as his power level reached the mark of almost 20.000 due to it being suppressed by his weighted battle suit. – AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!! – he screeched as the ground beneath him started to crack, due to his incredible power level, that was far above the average elite saiyan warrior by that time, even restrained.

He kept on charging up his power the most he could, but that was his limit. Natto didn’t know how to suppress his own power level or how to power weighted himself, and thus he was always around his maximum potential, even though he tried to surpass it now. ”That’s how she does it, isn’t it?! She keeps on charging up her power!! And then she transforms out of the blue! I know I’m not strong enough yet… But nothing is changing! Dammit! What can I do?!” his anger started to build it up inside of his heart and he gritted his teeth intensely as his veins started to pop out on his temples, neck and arms. The rocky cliff he was on cracked so much it shattered completely and he stood there, floating in the skies, destroying all the stones that were around him with his sheer power, but no increase at all. Finally, he gave up, making his ghostly-white ki aura to vanish, as he deeply breathed, staring at the place with a rather disappointed look upon his face. ”She is a hybrid… And yet she makes it seems so easy and I, a saiyan, cannot even tap into that power…” his sadness was clear. One thing should be mentioned though: Natto had no prejudice against hybrids, since he believed that anyone who carried any trace of saiyan blood inside their bodies was as much of a saiyan as them, at least in an esteem regard. But he couldn’t help but to wonder if it wasn’t supposed to be easier to become a super saiyan by being a full-fledged saiyan. Well… His theory made since on his own mind, since, as it was a saiyan transformation, being a pure saiyan should make things easier… But nothing seemed to make sense these days anymore.

The young saiyan took a deep breath and closed his eyes for an instant, as he brought both his arms to the side of his body, charging blue energy spheres on both his hands, and after that he started throwing them forward one after the other, firing a rapidly succession of blue colored ki blasts to the skies. – Continuous Energy Bullets!! – he shouted as he started his technique. He kept on firing them until he had fired ten blasts and then, he bended he bent his body, charging his energy as he vanished, reappearing in front of his own ki blast, with arms wide open, willing to get hit by his very own attack. – Come on!! – he exclaimed, as he got ready to withstand the damage. The blasts started hitting him, one after the other, making him growl in pain, as he took them straight to the chest. – Ugh! – they were powerful enough to single handedly defeat most low-class warriors, but he was there, taking them to the chest.

It did hurt and injury his body, but it wasn’t nearly enough to make him need medical assistance. After the attack, smoke covered him, due to the consecutive small explosions that took place on him. Natto was there, panting a little big, as he felt his chest burning due to the attack. ”This attack is nothing compared to what Kaula could do with her power suppressed… And nothing compared to what that android is supposed to be able to achieve… He is a planet buster after all…” realizing that was quite painful to the young saiyan, since he had his race’s pride and to admit that he would be useless in a fight against such opponents was tough, but he had to face reality, and as of now, he was still a fly.

Natto gritted his teeth as he repeated the same drill a couple more times, firing the ki blasts, and then vanishing towards them, to help improve his own constitution and endurance do damage and pain. Still, he was only able to repeat that specific training a few more times, reaching his limits as to withstanding injury. If he were to continue like that, he would only injury himself deeply and being forced to stop his training altogether. Instead, it was about time to begin another drill. He repeated the first part of the previous drill, by firing his Continuous Energy Bullets straight ahead and vanishing, reappearing in front of them, but only this time he wasn’t there to endure their hits: with a quick and precise movement, he hit the ki blast with the back of his hand, making it fly away towards the rocky cliffs around the area, making it blow. He was now focused on deflecting them as fast as he could. With a swift movement, he used his other hand to deflect the second ki blast, as he brought back the arm that deflected the first one, getting it ready for the third and so forward.

His sight was far better than his body movement, making it rather easy to anticipate the trajectory of the ki blasts, and to precise the exact moment to move his body, since he was getting used to the weights, due to the fact he was using his weighted battle suit almost on a twenty four hours basis. He kept on doing this training drill for far longer, since it didn’t take so many tools on his body. His limit now was his own ki reserve and his stamina, which were quite high now, making it possible for him to keep it up for more than an hour, in such an intense and unstoppable rhythm.

After that time, he started to get tired and his body’s reaction wasn’t quite as fast, which became evident when, as he was deflecting the ki blasts, he missed the ninth one. ”Missed it!” his eyes widen as he realized the fact that he was about to get hit and couldn’t do a thing to avoid it. Due to that, he was hit by the last two blasts, growling in pain. – Ugh! – the damage wasn’t serious, but as his body was already under a lot of stress and injured, that was enough to make him consider taking a short rest. ”I can’t keep it up like this… I’ve gotta catch my breath again…” he decided, as he flew towards a large rock, sitting on top of it, deeply breathing as he stared at the skies of Vegeta. Natto loved to look at the sight of the twilight, when the two suns of the saiyan’s home planet would start to set, one after the other, painting the canvas of the skies in a deep crimson and black color. ”Such a beautiful sight… It’s indeed worth protecting it!” he thought as he got awestruck by the beauty he could never get used to. For Natto, to be back home was something impossible to describe. He felt a sense of belonging, even though he wasn’t like the ordinary saiyan. That planet was theirs and it was their duty to protect it from any harm that could come and put its survival at stake.

That thought made him furrow his brows again. ”That damn bot! Take your time at Earth you freak… Enjoy victory while you can! And give us time to improve and increase our powers! You are going to be beaten to the pulp the moment you place your filthy feet on these grounds! I’ll be there to stop you along with the others! I’ll protect the empire, my comrades and Tomoroko…” he paused, feeling rather surprise with what he thought to himself. Natto gulped as his mind made him think about Tomoroko, the young saiyan girl he met a couple days ago, when she landed badly injured on the oasis on the eastern part of the central wasteland. She shook Natto’s world, as she was also kind and gentle, like him, and had been through hell, just like him. Immediately he felt a visceral urge to protect the girl, as she was the proof that saiyans could be much more than complete jerks, but it wasn’t only that… The truth is: Natto was a lonely person his whole life. The only moment he had some sense of family and bonds was when he lived in Felucia, with Sugoko and Sugoroko, but he severed those bonds by wiping them out as a rampaging Great Ape.

For the first time in such a long time he felt that sort of connection, and this time with a girl from his own race, almost the same age and all. ”What is it that I’m feeling? I mean… I often find myself thinking about her… And I like spending time with her and look forward to that… I definitely want to protect her from any harm… Even if I have to put myself into some serious risk… I… I just don’t get what I’m feeling…” the truth was that Natto was still too naïve to understand that he was falling for her. Don’t get me wrong, he was not a stupid fool who couldn’t understand attraction and drive. He felt that for Rose Snow, the gorgeous hybrid he met on the outskirts of Cacumber Capital, but for Tomoroko it wasn’t only about physical attraction. No. He felt a connection and that was a much deeper type of feeling. A feeling he didn’t even tap into understanding.

Natto ran his right hand through his hair, as he sighed. Tomoroko was a clear image on his head and the fear of losing her to that android was too much. He couldn’t take it, even though he didn’t quite understand as of yet what exactly he was feeling towards her. That thought gave him enough will power to get back on his feet and continue his training. ”I can’t give myself the luxury of resting so much! There’s too much on my shoulders… I have to improve at any cost!” he thought, feeling the flame of determination burning inside of him. The moment he stood up again, his ghostly-white ki aura flared around his body, engulfing it all with his power and he flew up in a dash, completely destroying the stone he was on due to his impulse. As he got up into the skies, he looked around and put his right hand forward, charging a blue energy sphere, on it. Then, he drew his arm back before bringing it forward and firing the energy sphere at the ground. – Spirit Cannon! – he shouted, as the energy sphere roared through the skies.

The energy sphere hit the ground, causing a big explosion that created a huge crater on the ground, destroying all the rock formations around it. Following that, Natto landed at the epicenter of the crater and started charging his Spirit Cannon once again. ”This technique will be my first planet buster! But I’ll develop a new one! One that I can put even more strength into it! One designed to protect Tomoroko!” he thought as he gritted his teeth, launching the energy sphere up into the skies with a shout. – Fly, Spirit Cannon! – Immediately after that, he vanished and reappeared above it, high up in the skies. The young saiyan drew his hand back to his right side and started charging an energy sphere. His mind was focused on the young saiyan girl, and somehow that affected the color of his ki attack, making it red, instead of his traditional blue-colored ki-based attacks. The red energy sphere appeared on his right hand as he brought it forward, firing the energy sphere, that immediately took the form of a powerful red colored energy wave that flew towards the Spirit Cannon. ”This attack… This attack is for you, Tomo…” he thought to himself, as he screamed the name of the new technique. – Shine Trigger!! – the name couldn’t have been better, since the young saiyan girl was a real trigger into his determination, with her light shining through the darkness of his fears and insecurity. She was helping him become a true fierce warrior, without sacrificing his own kind and gentle self.

The two energy attacks collided and a beam struggle started. The attacks were even in power and the point where they intersected formed a purple sphere of energy, with jolts surrounding it from time to time, as the energy was accumulated. Natto was putting a lot of strength and energy into that attack, as he faced himself, trying to overcome his own limits. ”Come on!!! Be stronger than you was before! That’s the only way to become better! Evolve!” and slowly his Shine Trigger started to gain the upper hand against his Spirit Cannon, pushing the energy sphere towards the ground. Soon, the beam struggled hit the ground, making the old crater double in size with a huge explosion, that was so bright that Natto couldn’t look at it, covering his face with his left arm. After a second, he stared at the result of his new technique and he was quite pleased. ”I… I did it! I’m truly getting there…” he said to himself, mentioning the fact that he was indeed getting close to his first goal: the first prerequisite to become the legendary golden warrior, the power level of one hundred thousand. After that, though, he was quite beaten, since he used quite a lot of stamina and energy to fire so many ki blasts and for such a long time, culminating with a self-beam struggle where he had to overcome his own attack, roughly with the same power, in order to overcome one more obstacle on his path to the top.

Natto landed on the huge crater, feeling his body sore and heavy, especially due to the weighted battle suit he was wearing and laid down there, almost like he was falling to the ground. He closed his eyes and breathed heavily for a while. ”I wonder… What does she think of me?... I hope she trusts me…” he thought, opening his eyes slowly and imagining Tomoroko in front of him, with her gentle and beautiful smile on her face, making him smile too. He was happy he met her, and it didn’t even matter what sort of relationship they would have, he would be more than glad to only be able to protect such a person.

After that he slept right there. His scouter was on, so any impending threats would be announced, letting him relax and forget about everything. He wouldn’t wake up until the next day, feeling all rested, but still a little bit injured due to his own ki blasts. But nevertheless, he couldn’t lose much time on healing pods. He had to train more and more, there was no time to waste.