Quarter finals (x80 gravity)

Natto was on the dining hall of his royal spaceship, having a snack. He had just finished some really intense training session under 70G, where he faced a namekian programmed illusion named Tsumuru. It was a rather easy fight, but that was only the preliminary round of the fake tournament he was holding in order to train himself, at the same time as he had ideas for the saiyan tournament he, Tomoroko and Aspa had come up with. The food was quite good, being basically barbecued steak almost raw and a few bottles of water, to rehydrate himself while recovering his energy. Unlike most of the times, he was taking his time eating, as he was also using this opportunity to rest his body from the stress of fighting under seventy times the normal gravity. Even though he did a good job, things were only going to get rough and rough, since, on the very same day, he intended to go as high as one hundred times normal gravity on the final round of his fake tournament. ”It’s not going to be easy… But the challenge is fifty percent of the fun! Hahaha!” he chuckled as he devoured the last piece of his meal, burping loudly as he finished.

After finishing eating, Natto laid down on the floor and closed his eyes, breathing deeply. His body was all sore, but nothing serious and, after about ten minutes, an alarm clock went on, informing him that was about time to get back to his training session. Natto sighed deeply and got up in an instant, slowly walking towards the training hub, where his gravity machine was. As he got near the control panel, he cracked both his fists and neck, before starting configuring it. Like before, the first thing he actually did was to turn on the gravity enhancing controls, making the gravity increase as far as eighty times the normal gravity. As soon as it reached such a high point, he could feel his body being put onto an immense pressure. It was really intense and that one was getting really close to his functionality limits.

That means that a little more gravity and he wouldn’t be able to move, unless he transformed into a super saiyan, increasing his power level fifteen fold. Natto wanted to avoid resorting to his super saiyan transformation, not because it caused strains on his body: it didn’t anymore. Ever since he had mastered his transformation, it felt really natural and easy. There wasn’t even that inner anger anymore. The reason he didn’t want to resort to it was because he wanted to keep pushing himself forward as a normal saiyan, therefore his transformation could become a true ace up his sleeves, to be used only on dire situations; he didn’t want enemies learning too much about the power and abilities of the saiyans, since such knowledge let to countless tail amputations, as the enemies knew that it was the best way to get rid of the Great Ape’s. Mayze was the living remembering of such brutal act.

Anyway… After setting the gravity, it was time to start the hologram system. With the press of a button, the environment changed back to that of a Vegetan coliseum, with dirt as the ground and a full stand, filled with saiyans from the imperial database. The announcer, the fat and short saiyan named Dackus was there, smiling with his large grin as he got ready to announce the continuation of the greatest tournament of the universe. – We are back, fellow warriors! To watch the Greatest Tournament of all times! Our representative, Commander Natto got classified to the quarter finals after defeating the not-impressive-enough Tsumuru of Namek, and now he is about to face another foe who also just conquered the preliminary round of the tournament! – He paused, to hear the crowd go crazy with sheer excitement. ”Good! The configuration was enough for him not to go so overboard with the compliments to me! That’s perfect!” he though in relief, since he was starting to get rather embarrassed with the previous “ego massaging” configuration he had put into the holographic saiyan announcer.

– Ladys and Gents! On my left side the King of Earth! The greatest warrior of the blue marble! The one and only Kokonut, the earthling warrior!!! Please, give him a round of applauses! – Dackus said, pointing towards the large iron gates that slowly opened to let the earthling through. The man named Kokonut had an average height, being 6 feet tall and a rather slender build, which made him look quite agile. His skin was really dark, since Natto believed that to be a very common trait of the earthlings, mostly because of Beryl Roarke and Kaula’s appearance. His hair was wavy, brown in color and medium size, with a couple locks covering his forehead. He was wearing a blue-colored tank top and baggy black pants with white boots and gloves. The moment he got into the arena, half of the people on the arena applause, and the other half shouted “Boooooo”, since they were mostly saiyans and they were cheering on their representative: Natto.

The two contestants approached each other staring into the other’s eyes. – Just like before, this is a fight to the death! May the best warrior survive! – he said, flying away just after that, into a higher platform, where he would signalize the beginning of the match. – Ready… Set… FIGHT!!! – he shouted. Natto immediately slid to his fighting stance, with his left foot forward, knees slightly bent, his left hand in front of his face, with fingers slightly opened and his right arm by the side of his body, elbow bent and fist clenched. The earthling, on the other hand started hopping back and forward a little bit, with the tip of his toes, raising both hands with clenched fists. The left hand was in front of his mouth while the right hand near his ear, in a boxing stance, that Natto didn’t know about, which led him to arch one of his eyebrows. ”So that’s the boxing kind of fight that was on the database… I wonder what kind of attacks I should expect from this guy…” he thought to himself, as he analyzed the enemy. A drop of sweat ran down both of his temples, due to the gravity pressure he was withstanding and the two warriors kept on staring at each other for a few more seconds before the fight actually began.

And the fight started. Kokonut, without saying a word, charged forward towards Natto with an incredible speed, too fast for the saiyan to react, since he didn’t know much about his attacking pattern. The earthling started throwing jabs at Natto, and, even though the saiyan warrior managed to dodge the first one by tilting his head to the right, another one followed at a lightning speed, hitting Natto straight on, which made him growl. Another one came right after that, hitting him again, and again and again. After the fourth consecutive strike, Natto was ready to dodge the punishment, feeling rather pissed for being continuously hit, and took a single back step to get out of his range. However, as he did that, the right hand came with a haymaker, straight into his face. The range was wider, just enough to hit the saiyan and send him plummeting through the dirt with a scream.

”What the heck?! That style… Somehow reminds me of Beryl! Dammit! How could I forget about the stance and all?!... Gheez! It has been a while since I fought that peculiar earthling! But damn! I can’t go easy on this guy! It’s on a totally different level than Tsumuru!” he thought to himself, as he jumped back to his feet. The moment he got up, however, Kokonut was already there, ready to throw another series of jabs. This time Natto managed to react and deflect the first blow with his left hand, pushing it to the right side. When the second came, aiming at his head, Natto also deflected with his left wrist twisting it up and creating an opening for a counter, which he seized with a straight punch with his right hand. Notwithstanding, the earthling pulled back his left arm and bent his elbow, blocking the attack and countering with his right hand in a swing punch, that landed right on Natto’s left cheek, where his cross-shaped scar is located. The strength of the impact was so great, that it send Natto to the ground again, falling on top of the right side of his body, moaning a bit as he did it.

The saiyan spitted some blood due to the impact, but nothing serious, but as he was recovering from the hit, the earthling was already over him, ready to deliver some ground and pound sort of attack. Natto had to keel over backwards and the somersault back on his feet, avoid the attacks by mere inches, as he got back into his fighting stance, in order to have a chance on the fight. ”Dammit! This is Beryl all over again! He is outmatching me too easily! I guess I overdid the configuration this time…” he complained to himself. Natto had configured the earthling to be as strong as someone with a power level of two hundred thousand, but without feeling the ill effects of the gravity of 80G, which was making quite a difference now. Kokonut could move really fast, while Natto was having trouble harvesting his full potential, as the gravity kept on pushing him back, but that was an obstacle he had to overcome if he truly wanted to become stronger.

– You are durable. But how long can you endure taking such punishment? – Kokonut finally spoke. He had a serious and deep voice, and his tone showed serenity. He was a seasoned fighter and that was pretty obvious. If Natto intended to win, he would have to do much better than that, otherwise Kokonut would have him for breakfast! And that thought made him frown his brows. ”Can’t go easy on this guy! I have to use my fighting style to its fullest!” he decided, as his mind focused on the fighting, adamant about taking it as seriously as possible. And Kokonut charged again, aiming for another sequence of furious jabs. Natto, however, was more than ready this time. He had already understood his pattern and his timing, and, with that, the young saiyan commander managed to block the first jab and immediately counter with a low roundhouse kick to his ribs. Kokonut was fast to block it with his left forearm and respond with a haymaker with his right hand.

Natto intercepted the haymaker with an elbow strike with his left arm, making them even on terms of strength there. The two warriors started to exchange blows after blows, blocking and countering for a while. Kokonut only used his arms, while Natto attacked with punches, elbows and kicks. The earthling was faster due to the intense gravitational pressure that Natto was suffering, but in terms of skill the saiyan was slowly getting the upper hand and he was saving an ace up his sleeves for a golden opportunity that was soon to come. The impact of the attacks was quite great, but Natto’s body was strong enough to endure it with minimum strains to it. – Oh my gosh! Those two titans of battle are in a breath taking exchange of attacks! It seems though that Natto is on the worse position! Kokonut only uses his arms!! Will our saiyan warrior lose this battle?! – Dackus decided to comment on that, since, with the speed Natto and Kokonut were moving, it was hard for many of the supposed people on the crowd to follow that, and the illusion was that good as to simulate such situations in order to give the scenery a greater taste of reality.

When Kokonut tried a swing punch on Natto, the saiyan lowered his body for a second, on the exact moment the attack was about to hit, dodging it. Then, the saiyan commander propelled his body upwards, landing a very powerful knee strike to the earthlings chin, sending him flying upwards, sailing on the air as he was caught completely off-guard by the attack Natto was holding back until the perfect opportunity. ”That’s my chance!!” Natto narrowed his eyes and used hid Rapid Movement skill to vanish and reappear in a split of a second behind a drifting Kokonut, sledgehammering him to the ground with full strength. The earthling fell to the ground, creating a small crater as he hit the dirt.

Following that, Natto flared his ghostly-white ki aura and charged forward with both his fists clenched in front of his body. His goal was to hit Kokonut’s belly really hard, but the earthling was a better warrior than that and wouldn’t waste much time on the ground. The moment Natto got near him; he flared his snow-white ki aura and evaded the crater, flying near the ground and away from Natto. The young saiyan had to make a very difficult L-turn before hitting the ground to pursue Kokonut. – I won’t let you run away!! – he shouted, with a smirk on his face. Kokonut, however, smiled towards Natto. – Come at me saiyan! – he answered as Natto closed in. When the young saiyan commander as about thre feet away from him, the earthling opened his mouth firing a blue-colored mouth blast aiming at Natto. He widened his eyes and arched his eyebrows, surprised by such an attack. ”Crapbaskets!!” he exclaimed inside his mind, as he had to do his very best in order to dodge the ki energy wave by doing a barrel roll around it. He could feel the heat of the energy attack as it grazed beside him.

Kokonut gritted his teeth as he missed the attack and had to cross his arms in front of his face to block Natto’s strong punch. Natto kept on punching a few more times, as Kokonut blocked. And then the earthling surprised him by throwing a knee strike to Natto’s gut, winding the saiyan. – AARRGGHHH!! – he growled and, by seizing such an opportunity, Kokonut started throwing a series of cross and jabs on Natto’s face. The punishment was hard and Natto, who was flying above Kokonut lost track of his balance and fell to the ground, plummeting across it, before he managed to get back on his feet, and stare at the earthling with a gritted teeth.

– You are good, boy! If this wasn’t a death battle, I would spare you! – Kokonut said, as he got back into his hopping fighting stance. His comment, however, only flared Natto’s will power and drives to win the fight. – Don’t mess with me! I’m not even using my full power! And I won’t! You are too much of a small fry for me to tap into such strength! – he said, sliding back into his own fighting stance, staring at the earthling. Kokonut chuckled with Natto’s words. – You saiyans like to talk big… But I see little threat in your words! Maybe your pride is blinding you to the facts. But, very well… I won’t waste any more time talking. Let’s allow our fists to decide the fate of our battle! – he said, to which Natto nodded, smirking in a conceited way. – It is already decided! You will lose this battle! At least you will have the honor of dying by the hands of a saiyan! There’s no better way for a warrior do die! – and, with those words, the two warriors charged at each other again, starting another exchange of blows that pushed them to harvest the maximum of their own skills.

Kokonut was faster, Natto was more skilled, and that made them almost even, with the saiyan again slowly gaining the upper hand. After a few blows, Kokonut landed a powerful hook to Natto’s gut, but the saiyan held his breath inside his lungs, avoiding getting winded with sheer will power and countered with a powerful head-butt on Kokonut’s nose, making him lose his balance. He screamed in pain giving Natto the perfect opportunity to attack him with one of his techniques. The saiyan pushed his hand forward, charging a blue energy sphere on it. Then he drew back his arm for a second, before throwing it forward, launching the energy sphere that flew straight towards Kokonut.

– Eat this! Spirit Cannon!! – he said, as he fired the suppressed variety of one of his finishing moves. The attack hit the target with a deadly precision and an explosion occurred in midair. Kokonut fell to the ground, heavily injured and scorched due to the blast, but he wasn’t defeated yet, as he showed by getting back up on his feet and into his fighting stance, only this time he wasn’t capable of hopping anymore. – D-dammit! How could you fire such a powerful attack?! – he asked, with a startled expression on his face. Natto landed on the ground and back into his fighting stance. – As I told you… This fight was already decided! Now, let’s finish this, earthling! – he said, and the final clash was about to start.

The earthling frowned his eyebrows and screeched in anger as he charged forward, aiming to attack the saiyan. Both of his hands glowed in a blue-colored fiery-like energy, but Natto was ready to intercept him without giving him time to use his ki energy attack. As Kokonut got into close-quarters, Natto stretched his right arm and spun his hips. His arm wrapped itself around Kokonut’s neck and with the force of his whole body; Natto threw him towards the ground with a powerful lariat. The attack was strong enough to open a crater on the ground and, with the impact, to break Kokonut’s neck, effectively killing him with that hit. – It’s done! Our champion Natto is the winner! He defeated the King of Earth in a breath-taking battle!!!! – Dackus announced, making the crowd go crazy in applauses and screams. Natto, on the other hand, sighed, feeling really tired this time. The pressure of the gravity enhanced eighty times was too big, and his body was asking for a long rest now.

The holograms slowly faded away, and he was back into the training hub of the Star Javelin, feeling completely tired. The young saiyan commander walked towards the control panel and, with the hit of a button, he turned off the gravity, getting it back into 1G. With the pressure gone, he sighed deeply and sits on the ground, touching his face. The hard-light hologram hit him hard this time and his cheeks were swelling a bit due to the impact of the fake punches he suffered. ”This gravity is crazy! I’m beat! I should definitely call it a day! I can always continue my training tomorrow!” he decided, needing a couple minutes until he had enough strength to get back on his feet and head for his bed.

Natto wasn’t in the mood of taking a shower, even though he was all covered in sweat. All he wanted to do was to rest. And tomorrow he would continue his training, going to the semifinals of his tournament at 90G! If he wasn’t so tired and with his body sore like that, he would probably be completely excited. But, for now, all he could think of was sleeping!!