Confections and Conversations(Closed/Core)

The night before this was something of a rather energy-spending night for Core. He passed the whole night fighting crime as his vigilante counterpart, and today was really showing him that this kind of job was made for him. Even if he was a bit tired by the slight lack of sleep it gave him, he was still running on the energy and thrill of fighting dozens of thugs at the same time, dressed all in black like a knight of the night. The young Arcosian really had hell of a night, but it had proven to him that in fact, being a vigilante was something he’d enjoy a lot, and that he was going to continue and improve himself through this, it was a good alternative to normal training and it was actually useful for his new home planet as he was cleansing the society from people who were escaping justice.

When the night was over, Core slept a bit at a local motel and then came to this place, a bakery and ice-cream café were apparently there was the best sweets on south capitol. This city was not to Core’s liking, too much crime in the street and everything, but it was a nice playground for his counterpart so he’d have to spend a lot of time here and learn the place a lot, and knowing a place for sweets was really primordial for the young Arcosian who was running on those since he got on Earth, the Earthlings apparently had a huge bonus on term of cooking and the Arcosian was really happy to discover more and more everything it had to offer to him, and today was bakery, good thing he found just the right place for that. The Arcosian had commenced a few cookies and things like that, he was actually going with recommendation and things that people already commanded before him.

After a moment of enjoying his food, Core would notice someone had entered the café and wasn’t like anyone else. She was typed female, but she wasn’t from any species Core knew, the only thing he could see from her was her head since she was wearing some sort of body-armor made of leather, but her head was nothing he could recognize. She had weird eyes, a pastel yellow and orange skin, which was unheard of and tentacles for hairs, really something that was surprising Core in the whole. The young Arcosian was driven quickly by his curiosity and directly went to her table with his plate filled with sweet things, he would sit in front of her, making them a pair of ‘one of those table is not like the others’ as the café was filled with normal humans otherwise.. He would look up to her eyes, an innocent and childish smile to his face. ‘’ Hello! I’m Core Stold… uh… could you tell me… what are you?’’ He would ask curiously to her, his childish nature was abnormally high, maybe it was because having a family and a home was making him slowly more like a human child and not like an experiment of a super-Arcosian genius in both fighting and knowledge.

As Core sat in front of the newly met Majin person he just noticed, he would notice that, very like him, she was into sweet food, which made him smile widely before he got settled up on the table, listening to her first reaction to his presence, which was rather interesting to hear and pretty much meant the race she was from lives mostly on Earth, otherwise she would know what he was, but he would simply slime at her widely. ‘’ Interesting, so you don’t know my race uh… I’ll explain that after you answer my question, don’t worry, I’m not shy about it or secretive.’’ Core would tell her in his friendly and innocent voice as he took a couple of bite on his cookies, not really minding that all the people in the café was looking at the odd duo that was suddenly on the same table.

When the Majin girl finally decided to spill out what she was, Core would listen closely and try to gather the information she was shooting to him as most as possible, his enhanced intellect doing the job mostly for him as he assimilate everything he could from her explanation, which was really different from any other species he had ever heard of. ‘’ So basically… all the people like you are from the same specific person? And you reproduce mainly by splitting in two uh? That’s… kind of funny actually, and created by magic, that’s awesome! Since I was created by science personally, I guess that makes us polar opposite creation!’’ Core would say in a bit of an excited voice as he when looked at her amused. ‘’ Well, for my own species, you’ll see it’s a bit less interesting but we are called Arcosian, we come from planet Arcose and we’re a highly evolutive species that are usually born really strong, which if you have ki-sensing you can figure out. And for an example, I am actually at my fifth form right now, and probably going to have another one sometime… we also own a good part of the galaxies’ planet and the empire of Arcose is in constant war with the saiyans… if you don’t know who the saiyans are, they’re a bunch of meanie killers… well… the one that lives on the their planet… most of those on Earth are pretty nice though!’’ Core would say, getting a bit lost in his explanation.

When the Majin presented herself as Cynthia, that would get Core back on track with were the conversation was going, which would make him shake his head and look back at her. ‘’ nice to meet you Cynthia, I’m Core… wait… I already told you that didn’t i… uh… sorry about that.’’ Core would tell her as he then looked down at her cake. ‘’ Isn’t Earth awesome? There is plenty of good sweet food! I don’t know about Arcose… but I was raised in a lab, so we never had such good food to us! Oh, also, I’m not like all Arcosian, I was created to be the strongest of our kind… and from what’s I’ve seen so far… I’m right on the spot… there is still someone I need to meet to confirm that though…’’ He would say, mostly to himself.

The Arcosian was eating while listening to her, and when she mention that his claim was maybe a bit much, Core would nod lightly, and he would even blush when she said he was the strongest person she ever met, that was very nice to hear, but also he didn’t wanted people to see him differently because he was stronger, except for training tips, that he didn’t minded at all being asked and really would help anyone that would ask for it, he liked to share his tips for power with everyone that he saw as good, which probably meant everyone on Earth at the moment. ‘’ Well I know this might sound weird that I tell you that, but I have yet to meet another Arcosian that achieved the same form as I do…our four first form are something we are born with, and really, I don’t have much secret training, but I do have a gravity chamber, and… I guess that helped a lot…’’ Core would share with his newly found friend.

The conversation between the two weird-looking humanoid would continue with pretty nice topics like sweets and bone-breaking, which would make Core laugh lightly at her remark and his tail would wave around above the table, staying still away from the food of both of them. ‘’ Well, talking about my bones… I can do that sort of thing so…’’ Core would say as from his tail would rise up scale-like armor and spikes made of bio-armor, then it would melt back in his tail, making him giggle softly.        ‘’ Like I said, my species is very compatible with evolution, we do a lot of transforming in our life so I guess we evolved in a way that didn’t required breaking bones every time we transform.’’ Core would tell her, eating a whole cookie down.

A quick silence passed by before Core looked back at the Majin and curiously poked her skin, immediately, at his contact if she would let him do so, his finger would poke her cheek and the feeling of it would make the young child giggle. ‘’ Wow! You must be super though! I mean… a skin like this… no worry about injuries right? And I assume you can like… put back limbs in place? I mean, your skin looks like a living thing on it’s own, it must be awesome… it’s like my bio-armor, only you can probably repair it easily… right?’’ Core would ask her, pretty amused by her skin that was all bubble-gum like at touch, which was really a first time for him to experience and he was surely making fun of it, if he knew her better, he would have probably draw a smiley on her.

Speaking with another odd species that he had never heard about was making Core so happy, and was definitively worth spending a lot of time, after all, she was good company and was already a friend of his in his mind, maybe that was because he was still so young or that he was too friendly to everyone and basically wanted everyone to be his friend, well, everyone that was good in his eyes and not a total jerk or something like that, he would definitively not make friend with someone of the Saiyan Solar empire, even if he don’t know but two of his friends did turned to this very place, and one of them was dead, but he had no idea of that and quite frankly didn’t mind to know, he just wanted to have a nice life on Earth and be accepted like any other person would.

When the Majin spoke more about Gravity training, Core would nod quickly to her while he was drinking some milk; he would then swallow and put the glass down. ‘’ You really should, I mean… I don’t know how expensive it is, the one I use is to one of my friend but really, it gives you the best training results I’ve seen so far, it’s literally a cut above everything else and the more you train, the higher gravity you can sustain and the more efficient the training becomes!’’ Core would say with a lot of pride, not mentioning that he was actually able to train at a gravity so high, she would probably be reduced to a sad puddle of yellow goo… which the more Core was thinking about it, would look like a sweet desert, but that was just weird thinking about, one couldn’t eat a friend right? While Cynthia kept speaking about his bone-breaking theory, she mentioned that she had no bones herself, which Core would look at her with wide eyes. ‘’ Does that mean I could like… uh… that might sound weird but… literally hide inside you? Do you have organs or anything? Or are you really driven only by magic?’’ Core would ask with a new burst of curiosity.

When Core’s finger made Cynthia’s skin squish under the pressure, the young Arcosian boy smiled widely in amazement, it was so soft and amusing that at the same time, her body was just like a group of funny things mixed together; it had the look of a candy, was super soft and puffy like a cupcake. When hearing about the many proprieties of her body, Core would try to keep all that information and register it, he could always need some of this if one of her species was to be evil, and anyway this kind of information could always be useful even if Core happens to have an ally, which was already the case double, since Cynthia was now his friend and Zexama, which he was wanting to meet, was one herself, but he also didn’t knew that. ‘’ Woaaa! Your body as like… a lot of funny characteristic… I mean… you can split and re-unite yourself without dying or something? I know it cause a lot of pain, but that’s still a huge advantage in a fight! And I mean, with that funny body, you must give the best hugs ever!’’ Core would say without any sign of being shy, he has been hugging people a lot since he discovered this way of giving love to people, and sure loved to share it with everyone he met, he just simply loved it. ‘’ Talking about hugs, mind if I steal you one?’’ He added amusingly.

When the question of what Core was doing for a living came for the second time in Core’s life, Core would smile a bit, this time, he knew better and wasn’t going to answer eat and breath. ‘’ Well… I don’t do much, I’m part of the Galactic Patrol and I save as much people as I can and try to be helpful, but aside of that , not much really…’’ Core would say, lying a bit as he didn’t mentioned his alter-ego vigilante that he recently got.

The more Core was learning about the Majin species, the more he found it both interesting and scary, especially with the last information they just got there, the fact that a Majin could literally absorb a person and take their power, memory and even a bit of appearance is literally something Core didn’t expected and was undoubtedly scared of, but he trusted Cynthia not to try such thing on him, after all, she told him about it. ‘’ Wow… that’s… absurd… so you can absorb someone and take some of his strength… I mean… if you beat someone that is evil, instead of killing him, you can take his power and become stronger… that’s kind of awesome but… if this power is used with wrong intent then… that’s horrible… but I know you wouldn’t do such a thing with someone that doesn’t deserve it, and if you’re to absorb someone evil, I don’t mind at all…’’ Core would tell her with a bit of an amused voice, imagining simply throwing the saiyan queen inside of Cynthia and poof, no more problems with the saiyan empire for a long time, that was simply a silly though but a funny one for him.

When the talk about hug started up a bit, Core tilted his head on the side, she never got any comments on her hug, and even worst, she didn’t get that much of them, that was really something Core couldn’t understand, as much as he liked hug, it was such a comforting motion and the young Arcosian was never introduced to people who didn’t especially liked it, so it was really something new to him. ‘’ I don’t see what kind of reputation would become worst with a hug, but if I’ve learned something from Earth, it’s that many forms of affection can be good at many occasion! After a fight, when someone is living a hard time, or even to seal a friendship, when I finish a spar with a good friend, I usually end it with a hug or with a sundae at a place like this, it’s always nice to have a relax moment after a fight, it counter-balance the whole violence and allows you to recover~’’ Core would share his though with the Majin girl before slowly going towards her and wrapping his arm around her frame, then hugging her gently. As he figured out before, her hug was really nice, her body was much like a plush, but soft and alive, which was making it even better, making the Arcosian smile softly at her contact, it was really nice to have a hug from time to time, especially for Core, whom was embracing his child nature a lot more since he came to Earth.

After a quick moment, knowing Cynthia wasn’t too much into hugs, Core pulled back and returned to his place, having a bit of an happy face. ‘’ I confirm what I said, your hugs are softer than most, maybe that’s why you don’t give that much, so they keep a bit of a rarity?’’ Core would ask as a joke to her.

When feeling the hand of the majin softly patting his head, Core would close his eyes and smiled innocently, that was another thing he liked a lot since Phae started to do it, especially since apparently the Bio-gem were a nice contact suface, both being really resilient but letting pass the affection in a movement as well, there was no bad side to having those kind of thing, and he liked the one on his head more than the others. The young Arcosian still listened to the Majin’s word, nodding understandingly to her. ‘’ Well, I guess you don’t have to absorb people anyway right! I mean, having the memory of someone else bursting around and corrupting yours… that must be really annoying and then you probably start questioning if you’re yourself anymore… that really must be a mess to live with… I prefer you being as nice as you are right now~’’ Core would say childishly yet really nicely.

When Cynthia said he would understand when he would be older, the Arcosian pouted quickly after a swift sigh. ‘’ Dammit… they always say that… is there like… a moment precisely when you hit adult life and suddenly you’re allowed to know all of those secrets…? Because if it’s supposed to be when you stop growing, everyone might just be dead before I can finally ask then what them meant by that…’’ Core would say, a bit annoyed with his cute pout showing on his face, he wasn’t really offended or anything, it appeared on his voice that he was mostly kidding but getting this answer was really starting to make him wonder why so many things were kept a secret until he was supposed to be older, was there a good reason to keep something from him until then?

Core smiled widely at Cynthia when she was starting to tell him goodbye, he would hover a bit higher and pet her shoulder. ‘’ Nice meeting you too Cynthia, I’m looking forward to meet you again as well! And if course we’ll have a ‘match’ next time, even if you’re not that strong, I can always suppress anyway, I can use some training from an expert like you anytime!’’ The Arcosian then paid his own bill and walked to her moto before hovering above the ground and waving down at her. ‘’ Bye, until next time!’’ He would say as his whole body seemingly caught fire, but it was only his fiery aura propelling him away from the city to a place where he could get some rest after this crazy night and this little meeting, he had still some sleep to catch back up after all, plus he missed his bed.