IceHeart

Dragon Ball Z: Dark Ascension

Glacier was surprised when she suddenly felt Maximus come up near her to block Wolf's attack. The actions of the saiyan were incomprehensible at the moment, still the robot would be able to block him for a bit, her attention was still mostly riveted on the dragonoid.

Xeroth tried to take in everything that was happening but neither his disposition nor his position gave him much clarity on the matter, all he knew was that there were a lot of targets. "I'll crush you all-" but then he suddenly stopped as the madoshi made telepathic contact with him.

"Xeroth I can sense you're having fun, but Tyrus-sama doesn't want you to hog it all for yourself. Retreat for now and continue the search, you did manage to procure some useful information after all such as that capsule corp location."

Xeroth's eye widened in indignation and while he could have just spoke in his mind he kind of forgot and therefore gave everyone around him one-half of a conversation. "But I could crush them all right now before they have a chance to get in the way! It would be so simple!"

"Oh, so you're saying you're willing to go against His wishes?"

Xeroth growled in annoyance at what the little troll was insinuating. "Grr, fine I'll leave them alone for now but if I see them again," He shot an angry glare at everyone before him and huffed out a plume of smoke, "I can't promise I won't crush em."

"All in good time I'm sure but for now hurry up! You have other things to do!"

"Understood." Xeroth grunted and his power level started to level out, the flaming aura vanished and he flew up into the air. "You're lucky this time but if you get in my way in the future, I'll be sure to break you!" With a final snort the demon jetted away, leaving the headquarters more damaged than before.

Glacier watched him sail away but readied herself to attack Wolf if the need rose.

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Xeroth rubbed his snout where the tip of the flame disc had grazed him, feeling quite uncomfortable. Yet another figure had gotten in his way, a female with power over flames. "How dare you try to injure my illustrious snout..and what did that tin can just do!" Xeroth noticed a silvery orb shoot away from Maximus who had recently got within his vision, though somewhat in the background. He stared for a moment as the orb flew away and his reptilian brain cells tried to put two and two together. Then he realized since the machine had not targeted him the only other explanation had to be...as he thought about its destination the red ribbon base was annihilated and Xeroth's mouth dropped open in realization.

"No no no! Do you realize how long it takes to find those bloody things without a radar! I'm gonna be stuck guarding that sniveling worm and rummaging through lakes and caves for weeks!" As the dragon demon complained his ki started to spike rapidly, a sign of his growing rage and frustration. A burning like aura started to rage around his body and fire started to randomly spew out of his mouth whenever he opened it. "UNFORGIVABLE!" Giving himself over to instinct he charged with reckless abandon at the closest target, which at this point happened to be Amber but what he did was quite unexpected.

As he lunged straight for Amber's spinning disc of destruction, opened his jaw and bit down on the disc, while the disc should of cut him severely instead when he chomped down on it and his own fire enveloped the disc his teeth snapped the disc like it was a biscuit and merely let his own immense girth smash into Amber, shoving her aside with ferocity. Glacier instantly took action and torpedoed down at the beast, firing her death beams into his hide. Xeroth covered his face with a scaled arm, the death beams merely exploded on impact instead of penetrating his flesh. Xeroth instantly counterattacked with one of his wings, leaving Glacier no room to maneuver she took the full impact of the wing, knocking her back into the air, but she was able to right herself and prevent further injury. "His hide is tough."

Xeroth didn't bother to retort and merely shot flames from his mouth at whoever was nearby. While he spread his own brand of flames the lizard reached down and tore a chunk of concrete roofing from the ever expanding hole in the ceiling and flung it at Maximus in retaliation of his dragon radar snipe. The first battle with the demons had begun in earnest.

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Xeroth was about to hit home when Violet mentioned a dragon radar and his reptillian eyes widened in surprise as he looked over toward her. "Really-" was as far as he got since he was already full steam ahead, missed Wolf and rammed into the mountainside with a huge smash, putting some serious cracks in solid stone. Xeroth stumbled back a bit from the impact, shook his head and righted himself back onto his hind legs. Xeroth was still itching to crush Wolf but that would have to wait as this bit of intel was too important to pass up. A rock from above smashed down on his head but he barely noticed it as it split apart over his head.

"If you would take me to the place you speak of and locate the dragon radar for me that would greatly speed up our search for the rest of them. As for their use, it is not for something so petty as conquerering this puny world. All Tyrus-sama wishes is to eternally open up the gateway between this world and our demon one. Once the gateway is eternally open demons will pour in from our parallel dimension opening up new possibilites for demon-kind as we scatter ourselves throughout the cosmos! Well at least that's kind of the speech he gave us, frankly I think he's mostly just trying to amuse himself but whatever the case this world will forever be changed as it melds together with the demon dimension!"

Xeroth brought a claw up to his head and concentrated as he quickly relayed his new information through their madoshi friend. His concentration was interrupted however by Glacier, "If I have heard correctly essentially your master's wish is to allow his dimension to invade this one. Humph, this planet certainly doesn't need to be invaded twice through I have a feeling these demons might stand a better chance when the dark saiyans come to finish us off. However I have a feeling none of us would be around long enough to see the two forces clash."

Xeroth snorted, "As if I give a pea what happens to you guys after the gateway is forced open. You'd better show be where those dragon radars are located if you want even a chance for survival."

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Xeroth glanced over to where his fireball exploded in huge cacaphony of red and orange. "Heh, your bluster amuses me worm." Xeroth heaved up his tail and smashed in down on the 'roof', causing a tremor that knocked a bit more of the ceiling into the room. The poor facility was just having no luck today. "I doubt you know anything about the dragon balls but if I bust you up maybe that scientist lady will loosen her tongue and maybe you'll even be able to help me warm-up!" Completely focused on Wolf, Xeroth was very quickly forgetting that he was not alone, his instincts already starting to take over. Xeroth got down on all fours like a lizard and almost as soon as he had, bolting toward Wolf at an incredible speed for such a large body. Quickly closing the gap Xeroth launched himself forward, claws extended in an attempt to catch the saiyan in his grasp and let his massive weight and muscle provide the rock demolishing power he was capable of.

Glacier listened to the beast's words with intense interest, "A demon you say? So this creature is of this planet?" Glacier asked Maximus as she watched the drama unfold before their eyes. She could not help but make a mental note at the creature's mention of dragon balls, could the creature be talking about the legendary items that Freiza tried to collect all those years ago? It was too soon to be certain, for now she would wait to see if intervention would be necessary.

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Think of Xeroth as being built kind of like a huge fiery brick. You can go ahead and get some shots in on him if you want though you won't be doing all that much if you do hit him. I'll just keep him around for a little while, spill some more information like a bad minion should, then he'll split.

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Amused by Alice's and Wolf's attitude Xeroth grinned, "Well you see that is a bit of a problem after I spent all this time looking for this secret lab and all. The way I see it you've got a few options here," as he spoke Xeroth started to crack his joints, including his tail by doing various stretches with his limbs, "you can either find me a dragon radar so our search for the dragon balls goes more smoothly, make a dragon radar for me, or else I just rummage through your lab like all the others ones I've visited recently. This might be just another imp chase but then again some secret lab must have a few interesting secrets." Xeroth moved on from his limbs to his knuckles with dreadful sounding results.

"I'm sure you'll have at least something of interest to sate my lord's curiosity." Xeroth eyed Wolf back, taking the saiyan in as he floated in the air before him. "You seem to have at least some power unlike most of the beings on this planet, since you so kindly flittered up before me perhaps I'll roast you and then we'll see if the rest of you are more compliant." Taking a deep breath, a warm, orange glow built up in the dragonoid's chest, traveled up his neck and then a raging fire blast bellowed out of his opened mouth straight towards Wolf.

Glacier vaulted onto her feet and looked back up toward the lab, "Something isn't right." She sensed something and then she saw a red glow from on top of the lab. Instantly reacting she rocketed into the air to get a better look at what was happening and saw what was going on. She took in the situation coolly but decided not to act quite yet until she had a sure grasp of the situation.

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The dark saiyan's would cream us as we are now, we really need at least one more chance to power-up before our characters have a prayer to survive that. I'll try to make this 'arc' as fun as possible so hold your horses pardner.

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Just the one guy in the area at the moment since this is more of a 'introduction' to the next battle arc. Shouldn't last too long.

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So far Tyrus, nor any of his underlings, had any luck in locating a dragon radar, but then again it wouldn't have been any fun if they had found it right up. After communicating telepathically, using their madoshi friend as a medium, Lissandra reported something interesting to the rest of them about there being locations outside of the cities, secret labs. She had promptly found the remains of one by a certain scientist but the place was too trashed and apparently had nothing of worth left in it so it had been back to square one. At the moment they were separately scouring the mountains for signs of these secret laboratories and while they had a general idea of where they might be...it was still a lot of ground to cover. Things started to look up however when Tyrus came across quite a recent battlefield, or even perhaps some kind of testing grounds which meant that either there was habitation close by or else someone just wanted the most destructive bonfire ever in the middle of the forest. They tightened their search patterns to around the area and the game was afoot.

"Tyrus-sama was always a fan of long-shots." Xeroth grumbled as his massive, dragonoid frame flapped through the sky. Anything that peeked Tyrus's curiosity just had to be checked out it seemed, while the official reason for checking the area was to find one of those hidden labs the unofficial reason was no doubt to satisfy his own selfish whim of figuring out what had happened to level such an expanse of trees. As he was heading over a certain part of the mountains, Xeroth's sniffed the air, it was different from the burned trees he had visited earlier but he couldn't quite place it. Most likely it was organic, perhaps even flesh? He decided to narrow in on the scent and flew lower for a better look. Soon he saw it, it appeared that something on the mountainside had collapsed in, but it wasn't natural, something constructed that was blasted in and sure enough, it was the faint scent of death that probably only his sharp nose could sense, the scent being the poor scientists who had been present during the Majin's attack. He noticed a few figures down there, perhaps this was one of those secret labs, talk about luck!

Xeroth dove down and righted himself with a heavy flap of his wings and stood on top of the roof to peer down into the room. He considered trying to get in but the hole wasn't quite big enough without him having to smash through so for the moment he contented himself to grin down at the occupants with his sharp teeth. "Well well, if it isn't a secret lab of some sorts." He sneered as he tried to take in as many of them inside as he could. "Heh, forgive the house-call but your roof was open and I have a rather pressing matter to discuss with whoever runs this lair, a certain matter that concerns a device called a dragon radar."

Dragon Ball Z: Dark Ascension

Well the thing is this OOC talk about ending it is just not happening IC so I'm thinking about just going ahead with a little saga introduction, the characters will know something is up after the initial encounter but we certainly don't have to get into the meat of it yet. After this 'introduction' which should at the very least make everyone realize they'll have to get along, we can then get back to some character development. Common threats seem to always bind everyone together in DBZ after all. Say yay or nay if you think this is a good idea to get things hopping.