Shopping Disaster

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The man almost instantly regretted snapping at Kayen, both because she was physically imposing and from the fierce glare she directed at him, in the moment after he was caught in her gaze he regretted even coming to the mall that day and he felt as if his life was flashing before his eyes, it was only when a new voice broke in that the man snapped out of his fear and began backing away before hitting a dead sprint, promptly pushing into even more people as he fled.

Kayen barely caught a glimpse of the man's escape as her attention was shifted from him to the new arrival, she had not been bothering to reach out and sense for any elevated power signatures but now she could feel the power from the strange guy offering her a hotdog, he was far stronger than the average Earthling, and even most ‘average’ Saiyans.

“Sure” Kayen took a long moment to respond not quite sure about accepting food from the strange man, but her growing hunger outweighed caution as she took it “Maple? That name is familiar…” Kayen said raising an eyebrow, she adjusted her Blutzviators to get a less obscured view of the man though she still could not quite place it, he claimed to be an ‘evil Demon wizard’ which did little to actually help her figure out why she was so certain she knew the name.

“I’m Kayen, baddest pirate in the universe. So no, not a usual Sunday shopper. What’s an ‘evil Demon Wizard’ doing selling corn dogs?” Kayen paused looking briefly back to the half eaten corn dog then back at the man “If this thing was cursed or something I’ll kill you” While it was entirely possible that he WASN'T a demon, or a wizard, Kayen was at this point so used to the extraordinary that the fact she had potentially just happened upon a random Demon was not something she was inclined to immediately question.

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Kayen had not really expected an answer, preumably if it HAD been cursed she would have soon realized and then the murder would have begun though ‘knowing’ it was not at least put her a bit at ease, granted she was unsure exactly if she could trust the word of the person who may have actually done it.

Kayen chuckled at the Demon’s reasoning for his little hotdog sales buisness “Fair enough, I can’t quite understand all the strange ways Earthlings try to radically shift their diets, I’m not entirely sure I’d survive a month under some of the ones ive seen” Kayen said shaking her head at the very idea, granted she supposed the average Earthling lead a drastically different life than she did but even still it was too much of a disconnect for her to comprehend.

He also managed to help her figure out where she knew his name from he was a Stargooon or at least had been. If memory served he had even been the rough equivalent of the ‘leader’ of the group “Mmh, yes. I think that’s where I knew your name from. Your team has done some interesting work, even if Namek did not entirely pan out well for you and the Fleet” Really the fact that the Fleet or more accurately Boreal and the Stargoons had started butting heads had more or less guaranteed the Kingdom’s ‘victory’ there eliminating two massive threats.

“Yes, or at least looking to see if they have what I’m looking for, Earth is certainly in its own league when it comes to shopping, the only real vague competition they have is Raiti and Knutts and that’s only because they dominate the black market. Earth’s not exactly interested in competeing there, it would be a rather amusing thing to see them try, something like this lined with all manner of ‘illicit’ goods” Kayen chuckled again at the thought, it was however for the best that Earth did not, while Raiti and Knutts held firm control on those areas Earth getting in on the business in a REAL way would be a major detriment to either.

“Perhaps it’s a bit of a cliche, but I’ve always personally preferred gold. Even if it IS a bit less convenient”

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“Mmh, if only Katchin were even half as easy to get my hands on” Kayen said with a roll of her eye, Gold was easy, even if most planets had shifted toward digital currencies or Zeni equivalents people still LOVED gold, it was the ideal sort of display of ostentatious wealth, she’d once raided a cruiser that some fool had actually had layered with gold. It had been quite the pity to crack it open but it had still sold well in the end.

It was interesting to hear that Maple was apparently planning to get back into action, she had mostly figured he had either died or was some sort of background leader, an organizer for the group who was more administrator than warrior but the power he had even if not quite as impressive as the numbers she’d gotten on the other Stargoons such as Mumbo was enough to prove otherwise.

“You’d be right, I am a warrior” Kayen said with a smirk, she couldn't quite tell if Maple just did not know who she was or if he was just having a bit of fun, it really did not matter much either way as the prospect of getting to see how he fought was interesting, perhaps even more useful down the road, while the Stargoons were to her knowledge still mostly affiliated with the Fleet they were not BOUND to the Fleet, they were mercenaries and could perhaps be swayed to fight under a different banner.

“And I rarely pass up a chance to have a decent fight, with any luck this gym you’ve got in mind can actually stand up to a decent brawl, I tend to be a bit… destructive” Kayen said with a grin “as for training you, I don't fight like most Saiyans so if that’s what you’re looking for your scope will be a bit different. I’m a swordsman, I’ve got my blade hidden since otherwise the Earthlings would probably start panicking” Kayen could see most Earthlings being spooked by a normal sword being openly displayed even if not wielded let alone Fateburn which itself was larger than the average Earthling.

“But I’ll always take a chance to learn some tricks against less direct fighters” and getting a guage on how Maple fought could be useful down the road if the Stargoons held no interest in shifting themselves away from the Fleet’s inevitable demise.

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The trip to the Dojo was surpsisingly short, though the fact it was inside the Mall itself certainly played into it, Kayen had sort of expected that when Maple had mentioned knowing a place they could spar that it would be somewhere else in the city, perhaps somewhere a bit more… sturdy… she could probably work with this though she would almost certainly have to hold off on actually USING Super Saiyan, perhaps a brief jump into it for a bit of intimidation at some point but any amount of stray power output from any variation of that power would probably tear through the whole building.

Hell Kayen was fairly certain it would be difficult to avoid doing so NOW unless this place was made of sturdier stuff than she figured. Maple took the lead on actually dealing with the people running the dojo, as he spoke to the receptionist Kayen surveyed the room, it was sad to see that even the Earthlings with at least a vague interest in martial arts were not reaching any particularly relevent tiers of power, even the ones that looked like they knew what they were doing were nothing.

“I wonder what the Earthlings would be like if their planet had gravity levels more like Vegeta” Kayen wondered aloud as the receptionist all but sprinted to find their manager. Earthlings werent particularly combative by nature but perhaps having a planet that challenged them like Vegeta challenged Saiyans would result in a higher average of power. Kayen was glad her own home had gravity roughly on par with Vegeta.

The trainees were very quickly ushered out of the area much to Kayen’s amusement, the manager decided to watch from behind a glass wall as Maple and Kayen prepared for their spar, to her pleasant surprise Maple summoned a weapon of his own, a staff of some sort that sparked with magical power.

Kayen replaced her shirt with her workout shirt not wanting one of her few decent pieces of casual clothes to be destroyed, her ruby pendant now on active display and glowing faintly in the presence of Maple's power, she also produced a capsule and with a click it exploded and revealed the massive blade Fateburn, Kayen caught the hilt as it dropped through the air and gave the blade a few quick swings to loosen herself up.

As Kayen geared up for the fight she felt a spike in power from Maple and was pleased to find that as she turned to see him again he was no longer quite so insignificant a threat, suddenly he was a little over half her current power and if her fights with Sensoa proved anything about Demons it was that Maple likely had more to give.

“Not bad, not bad, I like the new look” Kayen said with a grin rolling her shoulders as she stepped forward, Maple was already in a defensive stance and by his call she assumed he wanted her to get things started, luckily for him she was more than willing to oblige “But not bad-” Kayen’s power began to surge, not yet increasing beyond her base level but instead simply rising to action and causing the room to creak and a few of the shuddering floorboards to crack under the pressure as Kayen lunged forward aiming a powerful swing at Maple’s side “-ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH!”

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Kayen let out an amused laugh as her attack sent Maple flying, crashing through parts of the Dojo to what she could only imagine was the utter horror of it’s owner. Getting a real gauge on just how much the Demon could take would be a bit tough but even as she awaited him to take some sort of action from the hole in the wall her had been slammed into she was relatively confident that Maple would be back for more, the Stargoons in general seemed like a tenacious sort and she doubted a single hit, even one that appeared to catch him a bit off guard, would be enough to take him down, at least not without far more power being put behind the attack.

Kayen hefted Fateburn onto her shoulder as she waited, curious how long he would take to snap back into action, she could sense his energy signature was still in the wall meaning she had thankfully not just sent him through the entire building, Kayen was not entirely sure what to expect out of Maple, he’d claimed to be a ‘wizard’ and presumably had a lot of tric-

Kayens thought process was cut off before she could wonder further on what magical tricks Maple MIGHT have as he fired off one such trick, a bolt of lighting was unleashed from the Maple shaped hole in the wall earning a grin from the Queen, it moved about as quick as one would expect from genuine lighting, dodging would take too much energy to make certain it was avoided and so Kayen chose to meet the attack head on focusing her power into Fateburn and rushing to meet the bolt clashing against the magical lightning with her blade, some of it arced over the blade and across her arm but the blade itself cut through the bilk of the power behind the bolt.

As Kayen swung Fateburn to shake off some of the pain in arm from the attack she noticed that the bold had not been Maple’s only trick, a thick fog now blanketed the Dojo, not just obscureing her vision but also making it a bit more difficult to get a solid read on Maple’s location, she caught a general read of movement away from the hole but she lacked a firm grip in where he was coming from exactly.

That was soon solved as Maple burst through the fog from above his staff surging with power, Kayen raised an arm to defend herself taking the blow on her free arm rather than directly on the head as it seemed Maple had planned, she grit her teeth and let out a low growl, but now that he was near Kayen had no problem targeting the serpentine Demon, and with a primal roar Kayen took another swipe at Maple a sweeping blow aimed at his waist.

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Kayen grinned as Maple dragged himself from the second hole she had smashed him into, this time however he lacked the same level of grace he had before, her second hit or perhaps just the culmination of the two strikes and the impact of where they sent him were now visibly taking their toll on the Demon as he clutched his ribs. He even now lacked his weapon…

Until suddenly it was back, Kayen smirked at that trick, curious if that was simply something the staff could always do, or a trick Maple had developed to counteract those who would try to take his weapon from him. Kayen had learned long ago how to fight to take advantage of others trying to remove Fateburn from her grasp, everyone always thought they were the peak of genius, that none of the idiots she’d killed before them had thought to do the same.

Kayen was immediately back on her guard when Maple threatened to use ‘something thicker’ than the fog considering its minimal effectiveness on her, she had no way of know WHAT that meant but what she was certain of was that she wanted no part of it, Kayen made a broad sweep with Fateburn as Maple prepared whatever spell he was doing to drive back from of the fog around her, give herself some space before he did…

And as she swept away the fog nearest to her the butt of the staff cracked against the floor splintering wood and isshuing forth a torrent of… peanut butter… Kayen only had a moment to give a genuinely flabbergasted look to from the ground to Maple “I think I hate wizards” Kayen growled at him as she wrenched her foot out of the peanut butter as it began to rise higher and higher, she lifted off the ground to match its ascent only for Maple to pipe up again

“DONT YOU DARE” Kayen growled but it was already too late as the rolling fog was transformed into marshmallow fluff splattering against Kayen as she took to the air. The room filled more and more with peanut butter and sailing the growing sea of fluff and peanut butter was Maple aboard what Kayen thought looked like bread.

The surging mass of peanut butter then roiled into a wave that surged right at her tearing the dojo apart with ease as it did so “This is gonna suck” Kayen groaned as she called on the Ruby’s power, the gem began to glow an ominous red and exude a dark power as it’s aura extended over Kayen burning like a roaring fire, Kayen extended her free hand and released a quick series of blasts at the wave each detonating against it with a mighty explosion aimed less at harming Maple and more at disrupting and vaporizing the peanut butter and marshmallows wave, as a consequence the sweet smell of peanut butter was quickly consumed by the much less pleasant scent of burned peanut butter.

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Items: None

Techniques: None

Current KP: 3/3