The Tiny Arcosian (Core Stold/Closed)

[Heavy weight on: Base pl: 51,818. Weighted P: 19,954]

There was really something about this planets landscape that impressed the young Arcosian more than everything else he had ever seen before his arrival on Earth. Core was actually above the ocean itself, looking around himself as the only thing he could see all around was a huge amount of water, which was rather impressive knowing the very little amount he saw back om the days he were he was living in the lab on Arcose.

The youngling would get slowly go higher and higher in the airs before suddenly plunging in the water, going deep into the ocean as the life, would it be the fishes or other sea creatures, would be scattering around him to leave his path clean, which was rather nice of them since it would allow him to see where he was going pretty well, despite the general darkness of the ocean. The Arcosian was practicing more and more the technique of ‘swimming’ that Kay-El, his dearest friend on Earth, though him back in the day he first met the saiyan hybrid. He had gotten better at it, using his tail alongside his other limbs to pick up his speed and self-control under water.

After a moment of wandering in the big blue ocean, Core would finally see the land of the continent, or he would though as it was simply one of the many island of the south he knew pretty much well since it was the place he was using to most to train. [ Oh, wait, that looks suspect…] He would think as he saw a big boulder that seemed out of place to him, he would get to it and began to try to move the huge boulder, which wasn’t an easy task in the water, especially since he was wearing his heavy clothing, which was composed of a shirt, two wrist band and another band for his tail.

After a certain moment, the boulder would move and, at Core’s biggest surprised, he would be absorbed by the cave that was hiding on the other side, which would act like a super-fast water slide, only under-water through a cave. [WOW THIS IS AWESOME!] He would think to himself, making bubbles as he was yelling under water, looking like a child on a roller-coaster though the many tunnels of the underwater cave which was really making him wonder where he would end up.

The many stream of the water slide would get stronger as the time pass, and, in a split second, Core would be sent in the air by a powerful water stream that would come from under one of the boulder Celmaru left not destroyed, sending both Core and the boulder many feet in the air, quickly being grabbed back by gravity and falling down on the ground, in front of Phae and Celmaru, which Core could barely feel as the trip he just took was a rather confusing one.

The young Arcosian would rise from the hole he made on the ground and would slowly climb up, rubbing hiss bio-gem on his head a bit as well as the plant of his horns. ‘’ Itata… it hurt dammit…’’ He would say before opening his eyes and seeing both Celmaru and Phae, the woman who he remembered by her warm smile and generally peaceful look. ‘’ H-hi guys… sorry if I’m… interrupting something?’’ He would say, his voice still a bit confused.

When he finally recovered a bit from his huge fall, he would look at Celmaru and Phae with a light smile as he stopped to rub his head and smiled wider. ‘’ Eh eh, hello Celmaru, hello Phae, and well, it was going all great before this little ride… though it’s not that bad, just a bit annoying on my head…’’ He would say as he looked a bit at Phae and giggled a bit. ‘’ Little Core? That’s only because I’m in my suppressed form~ I can be as tall as Celmaru if I want!’’ He would say with a wide childish smile on his face, those two were looking rather friendly and amusing.

While Core simply stretched his limbs, his fall would have make him a bit weird so he figured it would help, which was kind off true since a couple of crack would be heard, he would then look at Celmaru, who had said something that confused Core a ibt. ‘’Such language? Uh… I said something bad? Or… maybe you mean English? Because I’m not that good at speaking Arcosian… English is always easier and well… more people do understand it…’’ He would say, raisins his shoulder lightly, he wasn’t sure if that was what Celmaru meant.

The young Arcosian would sit lightly next to the motherly Phae, who was really, who was really welcome by some sort of charismatic grace she had, some sort of aura that meant there was no problem if she was around, which made Core comfortable to sit next to her, he would smile at her and shake his head. ‘’ Eh~ I’ll be fine, thank you Phae, my brothers use to say I was really though for my size, even for an Arcosian!’’ He would say with a bit of pride as he would then look at both the hybrid and his friend talking, well, Core didn’t knew what was more than friendship, but those two seemed to have something more to them, which made Core question a bit, but only to himself.

Core would turn to Celmaru when he asked his question, he would recall what happened and laugh a bit to himself. ‘’ Well, I was in the ocean near the coast, and I moved a boulder who looked out of place, then I was pulled here by the water in some sort of geyser… I think it’s what it’s called right?’’ He would say, looking at both of them with an happy smile.

Before Phae asked her question, Core would pat on his weighted shirt a bit, he didn’t wanted it to be dirty while talking to such lovable people so he would try to clean it up a bit, the shirt was already dry thanks to his passive presence rising up the temperature, which Phae and Celmaru could feel, though he was trying to minimalize it after he would have dried. The young Arcosian smiled at Phae. ‘’ Well, if I’m on Earth, that can only mean the worst for them… let’s be clear, I don’t have ‘biological’ parents, I was created artificially back on Arcose. If they activate the escape protocol for me and my brothers… it probably means they aren’t from this world anymore…’’ He would say in a neutral tone before smiling lightly. ‘’ But anyway, it has freed me from the limits on the lab and made me land on Earth, meet many good people and live on my own! But yes, I think they would be proud of my results… though… it would be more like pride in themselves than pride in me, since for most of them, I was an experiment that ended up right.’’ He would admit to Phae in a rather conflicted ton, he knew one of the scientist did treated him like his child, but the other were forcing him to act more cold and distant over him.

The Arcosian child would smiles as he heard Phae mention she had seen other Arcosian, that would imply she would never call him a ‘frost demon’, which was a nickname Core really disliked when it came to his species, and a really earth-only name for them really, going as far as calling them demon was kind of rude to the youngling, especially since a good portion of human he met just thought of him like a nuisance and danger for the population, when honestly, he never thought about harming anyone ever.

When the young Arcosian would feel the woman’s hand gently on his head, he would close his eyes and rest his head on her shoulder softly, his tail slowly hugging around the woman’s waist as he let a sound that was some kind of purr, this feeling was rather surprisingly good for the Arcosian, relaxing, endearing and filling him with a weird feeling he haven’t felt ever, somewhat close to what he felt every time he went to hug his friend Kay-El, though not exactly the same. His bio-gem would feel comfortably warm for the woman stroking it, since inside it was contained the power of the Stold star, focused and suppressed by Core himself, which was something that was natural for him as this point since he was trained from the day he was born to control this power inside him and only use it on purpose to prevent him from destroying the lab when he was still a baby, he could not imagine the damage he could cause with it right now.

As Phae would keep stroking his bio-gem lightly, the Arcosian still had his eyes closed and would listen to the woman’s speaking of ‘swears’, apparently bad words that were used in common English, which were apparently words that shared a lot of think with insults, and his instinctive reaction when he felt down, the worlds ‘dammit’ was apparently one of those. He would nod lightly to Phae and smiled a bit. ‘’ I’ll make sure to be careful about that…’’ He would simply answer in a soft, tamed voice.

When the woman mentioned some injuries that never healed, Core would open his eyes back and look at her eyes, she was looking at Celmaru, the young Arcosian would slowly drift his look to the hybrid and noticed a scar on his face, the mark of a fight he had probably, and seeing the scar was still there, and Phae mentioning it like a traumatic event, Core concluded that this fight probably wasn’t one where the hybrid left victorious.

Core felt that his story triggered a reaction on the woman’s reaction; he could feel that she was embracing him a bit tighter, which wasn’t going to make him complain at all, her body was so warm and comfortable; it was Core’s first try on a motherly embrace, which he barely had the words to describe. He would simply let himself melt against the soft and warm feeling of her embrace. After a moment though, he heard her soft voice speak to him something that made him instantly confused, his eyes would open widely and he would turn to her right before she continued her speech about becoming his motherly figure, and his childhood being sad, he would look nothing but surprised, was that even possible? Could someone actually… threat him… as he was a real child? Of course, since he’s on Earth, he had been treated well, and rarely will someone ever consider calling him an experiment, but for someone to actually threat him like a child, which was a first time, and Core didn’t knew how to react to it. ‘’M-my mother? I-I mean… my… childhood wasn’t that bad… I had my brothers for family and well… since him on Earth, I met many people that brighten my life even more… but… a mother… uh?’’ He would simply say as he saw Celmaru come quickly towards them, has he heard that? Was he okay with that?

When he saw Celmaru’s somewhat severe look, Core would be really conflicted within. On one side, he could finally get some of his childhood’s best memory, a mother’s love and everything he barely heard in stories before, but on the other hands, wouldn’t that cut from his freedom a lot? Wouldn’t that restrain him a lot? And could an Arcosian really be the adoptive son of someone who was half saiyan? Which were the absolute enemies to Arcosian since the dawn of both species? Core couldn’t give any answer and would simply curl back against Phae, could he really say no to something like her embrace? Could he ever forget this feeling, or even get something that could replace it now that he tasted it? This could have been the Arcosian’s hardest choice.

The more Core was enjoying the embrace of the motherly woman, the more it would be hard for him to refuse their offer. It was rather weird for someone weaker than him to give him such a powerful feeling of security, despite Core being very well able to deal with most of the danger that could ever block his way should the worst happen to him, which was rather unlikely since the only things that could be a threat to his life on this world was the power that was wielded by the protector of this planet, and he wasn’t planning in his darkest nightmare to harm this planet at all. When he heard the saiyan speak, Core would get back to the conflict he had, hearing what the hybrid said, he would nod lightly.

‘’ Don’t worry, I am aware that you don’t want to do anything bad to me, I mean… you guys… are so sweet to me… this is a wonderful offer…’’ He would say, blushing lightly, which wasn’t visible that much on his gray skin.

When Core heard Phae asking were his brothers were and why weren’t they with his, he would feel a pain on his heart, he hasn’t been thinking about them for a while and the feeling of seeing his brothers in his mind would make him react, he would look up at Phae, his tears almost falling down his cheeks as he would barely be able to talk.

‘’ M-my brothers… I … I don’t know where they are… See, I’m on Earth because of the escape protocol, should we have been sent at the same place, and it would be too easy to find us. Our creator wanted to keep our DNA’s secret with them forever… so my brothers… they…. We are scattered between the planets that contains life enough for us to survive, socialize… and live long enough to be strong enough should we have to face our creator’s enemy, those who were not even considering us living experiment, they were considering us as monsters because we weren’t created naturally… I barely got my new name when I landed on Earth… beforehand… I was called red…’’ He would say as he tapped his bio-gems. ‘’ Because of the color of my bio-gem… imagine that… we were given a real name in ours ship to not be recognized too easily…’’ He would finally say, he would then breathe up and look back at Phae. ‘’ I miss my brothers a lot…’’ He would simply conclude

After his long speech, it was Core’s time to listen to what they had to say; only things that would make the decision easier for him, he was happy to learn that Celmaru didn’t cared about the war between saiyans and Arcosian, though Core was a bit confused, was he reading his mind? He was literally having a conflict about that a few minutes earlier, saying he acted more like a human than a saiyan. After all was said, Core would look up at Phae, then at Celmaru, he would smile lightly, then look back at Phae with a childish look.

‘’ I am not sure if I understand what you expect from me by being your ‘son’, but… this is really tempting… I mean… you’re right; sometimes I have to make some changes but… I will never reject my brothers… so at some point in my life, when I’m going to be easily calling Earth home, I will go look for them… I have to bring them with me once more… reunite my blood family… but until then, and even after that… if you accept that I don’t really know what to expect from this relationship… I am willing to have you as a motherly figure… I think I could love to have a strong bond like this…’’ He would whisper to Phae in a soft and polite voice as he hugged her a bit before feeling another hand laying on his head’s bio-gem lightly, which was the one of the hybrid.

Core would enjoy the head-rubbing of the hybrid, not as much as Phae’s, but it was different, something he like nonetheless, and he felt his ki somewhat interacting and melting into his, which was a nice feeling of power, but it would trigger a reaction in Core’s ki. A small electric-blue spark would gently string Celmaru’s hand, there was no pain, but for a couple of second, there was a message, and a face, that would appear in Celmaru’s mind.

The face of a young saiyan, looking directly at him, the voice would say. ‘’ Take care of Core, he needs it more than he thinks…’’ The voice would say before totally fading away as quick as it appeared.

For a second, Core also feeled the presence of the saiyan he had seen previously, who tried to teach him something, he would look around, then back at Celmaru. ‘’ Are you… no… you’re not him…’’ He would say, looking around looking confused. ‘’ You sensed him, didn’t you? The saiyan..’’ He would ask to Celmaru as Core yawned a bit and cuddled more against Phae.

When Celmaru and Phae both were cheering Core up about his brothers, he would smile to them lightly, they were trying so hard for him, how he could ever resist all this appreciation towards him, which made him even more sensitive to their offer that he had accepted rather quickly, he would feel the hug from Phae tighten a bit, which made him gently let himself hug, this was a feeling he was enjoying more and more with the time, which wasn’t something really surprising coming from the young Arcosian, a mother’s love is always strong, and when your first touch of it is when you are old enough to remember, there is nothing comparable to it, or so Core would begin to think.

Hearing the words of cheering from Phae and Celmaru, Core would smile and wipe out his tears softly as he nodded at them. ‘’ Of course I will, I’ll simply have to look on planets that are knowns to have good condition of life, this is where they are sent… and I’ll find all 5 of them... and also Cel, don’t worry, you’ll meet them when I’ll come back~’’ He would say in a funny ton as he cuddles a bit more with Phae, of course they were already becoming important for him, how could it possibly not happen?.

When Celmaru talked about learning everything he could, he would smile a bit. ‘’ Well, for my age, I know quite a lot of things… including most of the language, including Arcosians, Namekians, Saiyans and even some demonic bases! ‘’ He’d say in an happy voice, he did learned a lot back in the lab. ‘’ I’m also trying to learn about Earth’s culture… but it’s quite harder… I never know what good thing to say or do…’’ He would admit, rubbing the back of his head lightly as he ignored the part were Phae and Celmaru spoke about Celmaru’s father and grandfather, he didn’t knew the full story and didn’t wanted to get on that territory. He did  however felt his newly adoptive mother nuzzling gently on his bio-gem, who he knew well was rather comfortably warm, he would smile lightly to himself and close his eyes.

When Core heard Celmaru’s ‘what the hell’, he would point at him while looking at Phae. ‘’ Swear word! Pretty sure it is!’’ He would say with a wide childish smile on his face before realizing what caused his reaction, he had felt Daiki too. Core would then look at both his adoptive parent one at a time, they weren’t leaving him much time to speak, even if he knew the answer to their question, though putting a number on Daiki’s strength was something he couldn’t have done himself, it was a power so overwhelming that Core would have never even tried to scale that.

When they finally stop to talk, Core would clear his throat a bit and look at them both seriously in the eyes. ‘’ Well you see, this is a saiyan knowns as Daiki. He appeared to me when I apparently walked in his ship a bit ago. I think he’s some sort of ghost or presence, he was once a powerful warrior in this place and according to what he told me, it wasn’t a long time ago. He was apparently sent somewhere to help into a big crisis and was only able to leave a… small…. Part of his power here, I don’t know how that works though…’’ The young Arcosian would try to explain before leaning a bit more on Phae’s embrace, he would giggle a bit. ‘’ He’s a nice guy, don’t you worry, he told me to buy those clothes so I’ll get stronger! He’s also really strong in battle, we fought in a weird place, of course he was lowering himself to my power, but let’s say his power level isn’t the only thing that made him so strong…’’ He would simply say, looking at Celmaru and tilting his head. ‘’ Anyway, explain yourselves? What do you mean by that?’’

When Phae pointed out that Core had seen right and that Celmaru did in fact let out a swear, he would be all happy that he found it, he was getting good at this really quick, like most of the things he was trying, but that was a part of his enhanced DNA, which was providing him with an ability to learn, replicate and assimilate faster than most being in the universe, which was why he knew a lot of things even taking his age into consideration. While he was certainly getting taken care of a bit by Phae, enjoying every moment of it and every now and then, he would crawl closer to her and curl up, the warm feeling was what he craved for at this moment, even though he knew it couldn’t last all the time, but he was sure going to enjoy it as far as he could, even if he knew it wasn’t the last time.

When Celmaru begin to talk about his race being a burden, he would tilt hid head lightly on the side, how could a saiyan-human mix ever be a burden, it was making him stronger, live longer, giving him a potential to train far over those of a human among other thing, that made him super-human compared to most people of the Earth. Of course being given power based on your emotion wasn’t good, but there was a lot of good point in it, especially talking about saiyan DNA, there was a lot Core learnt about saiyans, including a couple of legends that were told to be true and would certainly be, at least, for Core since he saw Daiki in super saiyan in his mind when they fought, and the simply feeling of his power level would show Celmaru that he had a great potential far over what he could though.

Core listened to Celmaru and nodded as he step up, looking at Phae gently. ‘’ Don’t worry, just give me a few seconds… if we are talking full power, and if you are to adopt me, you should be seeing my true form.’’ He would simply say as he would start charging his power. It took a few moments for his aura to burst out because he was mostly trying to keep it gentle since he was close to them after all. His red-orange aura showed up a moment after, it would begin to rise, to shine, to warm the place up. The wind was blowing in all the others direction from the presence of the saiyan and the Arcosian showing off their power like that.

Core’s aura would cover him entirely and would become thick at a point where they couldn’t see through anymore. They could only hear some struggles from Core, which was due to his transformation being rather hard to obtain on one go without going through the others.

After a moment of struggle, there was a light impulse of power, which would show his new power shining around him as his aura lowered and suppressed itself to a point where they could see him in his now true form.

Core’s true form was nothing really impressive except his power level rising, he was a couple of inches taller, not that much though, he had no longer shoulder pads bio-armor, and instead had two bio-gems on his shoulder, shining like the rest. His chest bio-gem was a bit bigger, and his head remained generally the same, he would look back at Phae and sit next to her again, laying his head once again against her shoulder and smiling. ‘’ There you go~ my true form, the form I was born to… I hope you like it as much as my suppressed one~’’ He would simply whisper with a light smile on his face.

When Celmaru started the story, Core was listening closely, not wanting to lose important details about his life before meeting him, it was rather important for Core as someone’s story would often explain a lot about them, though after a moment, the story was getting overwhelming, he couldn’t concentrate long enough to maintain a good focus through the entire story and would lost a big part of it, which came with a rather bad headache which he would recover from only when he heard Phae’s swear words as she was talking about a monster, which made him giggle with Celmaru pointed it out and got him back to his concentration. He had understood the whole story, but details might be shady if you ask him to repeat it, but he got the general idea, which was the most important for him.

When Core heard about marriage, he would look at both of them and then decided to ask Phae. ‘’ Phae… uh… what is a marriage…? ‘’ He would ask, the more innocently he had even been, the truth is, he never knew what it was, or what was love between people non-family related. The more they were talking about their relationship, the more they would lose Core’s understanding, weren’t they friends? Friends can’t be forced into each other can’t they?

Finally, when he heard Phae says she would love him, his earth would feel like it expanded, he would rub his cheeks on hers tenderly and giggles lightly. ‘’ Eh eh~ thank you Phae~’’ He would whisper, the story had been over-whelming, and well Core didn’t caught all of it, but at least it was helping him understand Celmaru a bit more, and well, gave him a reason to break the ice and show them his true form, which was a necessity to core if he wanted to allow someone closer to him, it was his true form, the one of his true self, the one he was born to. If someone was not to accept this form, then it would mean to accept him.

Core would smile lightly when he the hybrid mentioned that he was wearing weight and putted a number on his power, he would nod politely and simply speak in a polite voice. ‘’ Five hundred and ten thousands… that is my power level without weights… but do not worry; I am not… going to use this power in bad ways… I am not that kind of Arcosian, honestly, I prefer…. You know… drinking hot chocolate, have myself some Earthling’s sweet, sparring with funny partners and using my power to really fight only when something I like Is in danger of it someone is really totally evil and needs to be stop… otherwhise… I don’t see why I would go out and destroy something or someone…’’ The youngling would say happily, his voice was still childish as he didn’t grew up that much from the transformation.

‘’ Don’t worry, i never lost control of this form… I don’t know what kind of Arcosian you met, but losing control of the power you were born in… it doesn’t make much sense if you want me..’’ He would say as he heard his new mother’s words about him, again, if he had a human skin, she would have been able to see him blush deeply, all this affection was so good for him and he was enjoying every bit of it that he could.

‘’ T-thanks you… Phae… .m-mommy?’’ He would try to say in an extremely shy voice, barely able to speak the words he tried to, it was something really hard for him to say, though he hoped that it would make her happy, he wanted to give her something back for what she gave him. Having such a close contact with a motherly figure was something he couldn’t have imagine in his wildest dream, and suddenly being able to accept something like this and being given all this attention and love, he couldn’t feel better right now in his mind, nothing could compare to this in his previous experience except the weird feeling he had when he hugged Kay-El for the first time, when they first parted away.

While Phae would explain him the definition of marriage, Core would be nodding lightly to her, listening closely to every detail she could mention, though he didn’t understood EVERYHING super easily about it, especially the part about two person not family related liking each other, since love wasn’t something the young Arcosian knew about very well, but he was kind of introduced to it now, he would lightly do his purring-like sound when she patted his head delicately and looked up at her as she mention consent, which was something he kind off assumed to be necessary in the process. ‘’ But… you and Celmaru… it wasn’t with consent to begin with right? Uh… I guess there is something I don’t understand in this… because you two… seems to ‘love’ you right?’’ He would say, putting the focus on the word ‘love’ which he was not certain of the whole meaning between them.

As he got his bio-gem gently rubbed by his adoptive mother, there was a telepathic message that he caught that was making an echo and was much different than the real message, he would look at Celmaru and nodded lightly with a wide smile filled with complicity, he would then look up at Phae and caressed her hairs lightly, trying to imitate her move towards him, he would smile lightly. ‘’ Eh eh~ do you like this?’’ He would ask in a rather curious way, he wondered if humans had the same feeling about getting their head gently rubbed like him.