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It was nice from time to time to just stop and admire one of the things Earth had that Vangreth had never even imagined in all of his lifespan. Today, as he ended up for some reason losing himself in the Southern regions, into an archipelago of Tropical Islands that truly where something else, completely different from the rest of this world he had seen!



First, the animals were different; most of them looked less dangerous than the huge ones he saw back on the mainland, every one of then was much more colorful, stranger, had peculiar forms and sized, and they seemed to be much less afraid of humanoids! Like for example, that one very long creature that attempted to bite him! Lucky of him, his skin was just too durable for the giant snake to piece it, and he brushed off the creature before whipping the strange liquid it had dropped from the fangs, on his skin, that was inconvenient!



Second, the plant life! While everything was, at least, generally the same green color as the mainland, the craziness about all of this place where the seeds, or fruit, that seemed much more plentiful than anywhere else, which got Vangreth curious enough to eat some of them, and they mostly tasted very sweet and good! Particularly those Orange, Yellow and Green spheric ones, the best of them all!



With all these new information around him, Vangreth spent most of the day just exploring these new lands and having a fun time doing so. But around midday, he had to take a pause, settle down, maybe even meditate a little? So he found a rocky spot, on the shore, where he could be relatively calm enough, the animals didn’t seem to get that close and the noises produced by the waves was calming enough for everything to work out, waves are great!



Then, as kind of a warning, Vangreth heard a few noises in the distance, someone was visibly near him, but it was okay, Vangreth looked peaceful enough, sitting on the warm sand of the shore, enjoying the sun on his kin, the water slightly touching his legs and he felt in harmony with everything around him, until he heard a body approaching high speed and piercing the air; at that moment, he had an idea that this day was not going to go the way the thought it would.



Barely a few moments before hearing something hit the water, Vangreth opened his eyes to a gigantic wave just crushing down on him, and pulling him straight into the ocean. Sure, he could of fought it, but the shear surprise of it stunned him long enough that he simply didn’t. When he finally caught back, he shook his head and bursted out of the water, his aura boiling the water around him as he arose from the water, emerging like an Old God awoken from the sea. Waves where not so great anymore!



The Ancient One looked around, searching for the person responsible for this!

Now Vangreth was ready for a lot of things! A giant sea monster that was trying to eat him? Easy! A bunch of alien or Earthlings that would want him dead because they didn’t want people like him around? Of course! The mysterious Shinjin returning to finish what he had started a few days prior to this moment and end Vangreth’s life? Of course he was expecting that… but… what was about to happen when he looked around for the cause of all this commotion… that… he could have never expected something that even got close to what was about to happen, as it was a complete randomized version of events pulled together with a little string of whatthefuckery that was definitively not supposed to happen by any means of odds and logic.

First, there was this Saiyan woman emerging, although she looked like any other Earthlings due to the missing tail, and well, she didn’t have black hair, which was kind of the two things that seemed to differentiate Saiyans from Earthlings other than their massive power level, which, well, at first she kind of had, making Vangreth afraid for his life as he had just basically indirectly threaten that person. He looked panicked for a moment, and then… everything went super, SUPER weird.

The Saiyan woman began to hold her belly and scream like a crazy person, and Vangreth, while still angry that his meditation had been interrupted by a change tidal wave out of nowhere, approached her with the intention of helping; perhaps she had nothing to do with it, or perhaps she was in real danger and she had no intention of harming him in the first place.

Vangreth came to the Saiyan’s aid by grabbing her hand and flying a little higher. He held her by the forearm and looked at her, confused.

‘’ Is there something dangerous in the water? Perhaps something that would cause giant tidal wave?’’ He would ask in a very calm voice, with barely a tiny bit of annoyance in it, which was already a lot for him, but she wouldn’t know that.

Vangreth was also confused that she kept screaming ‘Get out of the water or you will die’ when he was already higher than her in relation to the water, she was perhaps completely out of her mind, but that wouldn’t stop him from helping out.

‘’ You can calm down now, surely, whatever is in the water could not defeat the both of us.’’ He’d say, still holding her to make sure she wouldn’t have this kind of ‘losing altitude’ thing she had a few seconds earlier.

Vangreth had felt with his ki-sensing that her power went from way outside of what he could ever hope to even damage to around his level; perhaps she had the kind of power that allowed her to intimidate enemies by increasing her power, perhaps she could suppress it, and was doing it now, and maybe this could all be an elaborate trap or maybe, in a moment of panic, did he overestimated the power level ? This was all just very confusing, and he had a strange feeling that it was not going to get simpler with time.

'' My name is Vangreth, if that can help.'' 

Vangreth simply accepted all that the Saiyan was saying, after all, he had no reason to ever doubt her even if her story sounded a bit off; who was he to dictate what could and couldn’t happen on Earth after all? He felt the girl’s grip on his hand and wrist and flinched for a second, he didn’t expect her to almost break his hand on such a trivial matter, but hey, maybe that was also a tradition on Earth? Shaking hands very hard to see who was the strongest? But he had missed his opportunity to show that he was not as weak as she probably felt when he shook her hand back, rather gently.

‘’ Well Cassandra, I am glad that you calmed down this quick. It would have been dangerous to stay in that kind of mood with your power potential, something could of been destroyed, or wor…’’ He got cut in his sentence by her just flicking away the Shark, who flew way too far before landing back into the water; Vangreth hoped that it was still alive after doing this little ‘Bird Simulator’ it just went through! ‘’ … st… So, the tidal wave was caused by… childrens? Now that’s odd, I had that feeling that whatever jumped had a rather high power level… perhaps those were… very strong kids?’’ He was starting to realize the plot holes in her story, but still couldn’t grasp the whole thing, as he still didn’t understand why she would lie to him, especially since lying was not so much of a thing back home, or he though so.

‘’ Well, I am exploring Earth to be honest, and I had not ventured around these parts, so I figured I could do a little reconnaissance, map the place in my mind a bit, get a general idea of how things works here, and I’ve got to say, the south part of this planet is quite different from everything else, it is very peculiar.’’

The Ancient One was speaking in a very polite and calm tone, kind of like you’d expect to be treated while at the bank.

‘’ Then well, I saw this pretty quiet and relaxing place, decided to do a little… uh… the translation would be sleeping, but it’s a bit more complicated than that… and meditation is kind of an understatement… somewhere between the two for you, I guess. And well, the wave that got you underwater, you know the rest.’’

He turned and noticed the girl was now making a weird shape in the sand with her limbs. He would look down at her, kind of an adult looking down at a Children’s drawing, trying to figure out what could possibly be represented, but he had a light smile on his face.

‘’ What about you? You must be here for… cannonball… I presume… although I’d like to know what it means, if you don’t mind.’’ He asked, not so innocently, as he had an idea that maybe, that was the thing that caused the tidal wave in the first place, and his suspicion about the Saiyan womann began to grow a little, although he had no violent intentions at all.

Vangreth was not very surprised that the Saiyan Woman didn’t seem to understand exactly what he meant by this trance he got into instead of sleeping, but he didn’t take it as an insult or anything, he knew that was probably out of her grasp, as she didn’t experience something similar to it or probably heard of anything similar. When he felt her pat on the back, the Ancient One got a shiver, she went relatively close to his collar, and he didn’t like the idea around that at ALL. He took half a step back, adopting a slightly protective stance, although he didn’t want to seem TOO suspicious.

Listening to her talk about cannonballs was… peculiar to say the least. At first it seemed like this incredible feat achieved only by the best, as she said it was an art form as ancient as the stars, and he knew for a fact those giant ball of plasma where old enough for this to be an impressive feat on its own. And then she spoke of it like it was this incredible technique, akin to his people’s Void Punch technique, which was the base of their fighting technique, but could be mastered in something else that could have an incredible potential for destruction… and then… well… she took the pose, and he kind of added two and two together… the noise of something piercing the air, the ki-blast, the jumping… and the wave… it had become quite obvious that she was the cause of all of this.

He didn’t even had the time to confess that he had figured the whole thing out that she was asking him to try and do exactly that.

‘’ Wait, you mean…’’

He said before seeing how happy it seemed to make her, and he smiled for a moment, nodding.

‘’ Alright, I shall give it a try, can’t ignore that if everyone enjoys it.’’

He’d finally say, smiling lightly as he looked at the peak of a waterfall she was pointing at.

‘’ Sure, I’ll race you to the top, just give the signal!’’

He said, kind of excited about any kind of competition, he did not have to understand much else when it came to these. He readied himself, good position, stretched his muscles.

‘’Shall we go on foot? Because flying would make this way too fast, wouldn’t it?’’

Vangreth got an honest laugh surprisingly getting out of him as the heard the female Saiyan assuming he was not from this world. It was one of the rare time he actually got the laugh, but this… now… this was just excellent! He had spent his whole time on Earth with everyone looking at him like he was a literary Demon God coming to the world, and others just being creeped out just by looking at it! And this Saiyan woman, coming out of nowhere, simply looked at him and took a moment to realize he was not from here! He listened to her story about where she lived, although he kept laughing until he finally managed to regain his composure, and looked at her with an everlasting smile.

‘’ W-well! Now that you mention it! I come from a far away planet that was isolated for as far as my species can remember. The barrier that was holding us back on our planet only recently began to shatter, allowing me and a few of my clan to go exploring the unknown, in search of… well… places like Earth, actually! So you could indeed say that I am not from around here. Also, what is this Arcose place you mentioned? Sounds like a pretty nice place, maybe I should explore it sometime, in a few years, when Earth will have no more secrets for me!'' 

The Ancient One was a bit confused by her speech; if there was a race, then by definition, there was a winner and losers, as it was the definition of a competition, but the talk about the destination did resonate with him for a moment, and sent him thinking enough so that when she simply said ‘what’s that’ and pointed in a random direction, he actually turned his head, even though he was not interested in the slightest about what could have been there, at all.

When he turned back to Casca, and realized she had got an headstart, he pushed himself forward with his aura, basically using the same power used to fly, but using it to propel himself forward, still using his feets as if he was running. When he arrived at the ravine, he jumped with the momentum he had built up and caught back with the Saiyan kind of quickly, as he was almost cheating, but his aura vanished as he arrived next to his new friend.

‘’ Well, from where I’m from, this is called cheating!’’ He would tell her, not looking in front of him as he just directly went across a bunch of bushes on his way, some leaves just sticking to him.

Vangreth had simply assumed the ‘right’ path to the race was the one she had took, and didn’t stop himself to think that they basically had gone at the opposite side from their destination, and took a quick turn right through the forest, perhaps he could take a shortcut?

When he arrived, he looked around, having no idea where she had gone, and it took a few minutes still for her to arrive, and when she did, he turned to her and smiled lightly.

‘’ Well, flying would have been over in a matter of second, wasn’t this much more fun?’’ He said in a bit of an excited tone as he looked over toward the ocean, seeing how far they where. ‘’ And the view is always better when you’re on your two feet.’’

Vangreth turned back to the Saiyan and motioned toward the cliff. ‘’ So, who goes first? Want to show my your crazy technique, or perhaps I should go first and you should judge mine? Also, wondering where is everybody that you mentioned where super into that kind of stuff.’’ He simply said as a joke.

The Ancient One listened to Casca’s unending flow of things to say and ask, and quite frankly, he was amused by it! She just seemed to be enjoying everything to her fullest and just express everything she was feeling at the most intense way she could, or at least that’s what Vangreth observed from her, and for a moment, he kind of understood how the people back on his home planet felt when he had his own tiny surges of emotions; for someone who was not able to feel things intense like this, it just felt so strange to see someone this upbeat. He thought about all of that, and almost forgot to actually answer her when she was talking to him, and shook his head for a moment before answering everything he could remember.

‘’ Well, you know, my species is really fine, so there is no real reason to apologize, it’s just that we can’t evolve further if we can’t look beyond our planet which in itself, does not have much on it, and in that way, does not allow us to discover anything new or create a lot of things, as there are very few elements. Also, to be perfectly honest, I was never really afraid to take off; exploring the universe and all, it was something that was completely out of my people’s grasp for a very long time, and being one of the first to get to do it, and well…’’ He motioned at all the things surrounding him. ‘’... if you saw my planet, you’d understand why arriving here was probably the most intense thing I had lived at that point, and since then, it just keeps going up! Earth is truly, truly, the most wonderful place I have imagined.’’ His long monologue was over, and he was surprised his newfound friend even held up her own thoughts for so long, but he would regret having concealed her, as she seemed to have another volley of questions for him.

He quickly began to give out quick answers to her quick questions that kept coming.

‘’ No idea what a chicken is, so probably not, but we might have given it another name.’’

‘’ Now, I don’t know what is a T.V. but I’m sure we didn’t have those around.’’

‘’ I barely tasted soda, but I got to admit, as far as drinking is concerned, it is much better than water, so tasty!’’

Then, Casca began to talk about Earth, and said things that well, Vangreth kind of assumed about this place, and was happy that he got that right, although now, he could not hope for a better place than Earth, which somewhat limited his excitement about exploring the galaxy more, but also made him feel lucky that he landed on the best planet on his first try!.

‘’ It also as diversity, acceptance, so much different way of thinking, so much things to learn, ways to learn them, places to discover and well… you said it… people, everyone I’ve met is just so different from one another, this is just so… diverse!’’ He said, clearly, living back with his species now that he had experienced Earth would be much harder than anything else he could encounter on Earth, or so he thought.


When the topic came back to the cannonball thing, Vangreth calmed down a bit and listened to his incredible teacher, ready to learn this incredible technique and surely, he had figured out was just a child’s thing, but hey, if it was fun, there it was surely worth learning! He watched as she just dropped herself down towards the Ocean, and smiled at it as she seemed to enjoy it so much. The Ancient One, after a few seconds, approached the cliff to look down at the result of her dive.

After the ocean calmed back down from the cataclysm she had caused with landing, Vangreth began to try and imitate her stretching, believed that maybe it was an important ritual or something? And then he looked down to the ocean, and had an idea. More distance of falling equals more force of impact on the water right? No cheating though, he would jump with only his muscle strength! After a few seconds of planning ahead, Vangreth took a few steps away from the cliff, and then ran towards the void, and when his feet were one step away from falling, he jumped upward, as high as he could, before assuming the position that Casca had just a moment ago.

This barely made a difference, but he believed it would, kind of the mindset this whole interaction with the Saiyan Female had installed on him, and when he landed, the ocean almost split as it sank with him, sending massive waves in all direction, him being at the center of it all.

The Ancient One opened his eyes after hitting the surface, he was now deep into the water, and he could see that his jump had created a bit of a panic in the underwater world, where the fishes where living. But he really wanted to know what his master would think of that one cannonball, so he flew upward quickly to emerge, and did so until he was completely out of the water, levitating above it, his feet almost touching the surface.

‘’ How was that out of ten?’’ He said playfully.

The Ancient One was surprised at how she seemed to be a little angry at first that he managed to do this one right, but did not felt any shame; it was mostly luck, beginners luck, even he was aware of that universal law that seemed to transcend logic itself just to annoy people when they attempted to show off their skill in something they’ve been training forever to someone who’s first time was going to be much better than the following three thousand before getting it right a second time. When he heard his note, a smile brightened on his face as he approached her to meet in the middle.

‘’ Well thanks, although I don’t believe you can have eleven out of ten, that doesn’t make much sense, or perhaps you are exaggerating to celebrate my beginner’s luck? That combined with your incredible technique, I was of course going to succeed! ‘’

He said with a little bit of excitement in his voice, kind of like doing this kind of silly things just… awoken something within, kind of like this side of him he didn’t get to explore much, and was not discovering a whole lot, and quickly. He chuckled at the correction she gave him about his feet, and didn’t feel like really fixing anything, he had caused enough destruction with his first wave already, so maybe he’d stick to more average performance from now on… maybe…

When the high five came, Vangreth completely missed the first, going as far as trying to dodge it, perhaps it was to text his reflexes? A bit confused, he listened to the Saiyan’s explanation, and felt like it could be a funny thing to do, and on the second time, his hand met with hers with a loud ‘clap’ sound, it felt pretty satisfying! It seemed like a pretty simple gesture, but the results were there, and he looked at his hand for a moment with this surprised look on his face.

‘’ High five uh, I like that !’’

He said before hearing of the second trial from his master, and with a different name too! Well, he was completely in!

After a few minutes spend re-climbing the cliff, which he still wondered why they didn’t fly there? It would have taken a few seconds at most. But he did say it was funnier that way, so maybe she took that to heart?

Vangreth listened to her explanation of what a ‘jackknife’ was, and seemed a bit confused, as it seemed to be kind of the same as the cannonball, and was curious about the actual difference between the two.

When he saw her performance, the Ancient One was even more confused! Was it supposed to do that kind of results? She seemed pretty unhappy about this when she resurfaced too, and her words only seemed to be generally disapproval, although he could not hear over the distance and the sound of the ocean waves crashing below.

He shrugged, what could possibly go wrong with this? He prepared himself, stretched a few times before, and then jumped without thinking about it a second time!

In the air, he held his knee to his chest, and them wondered if that was all he needed to do? I mean, she didn’t seem to have given him more explanation than that, so he closed his eyes and prepared for impact, once more.

This time, the waves were much less powerful than the former; his confusion, lack of jumping and all around misunderstanding of what the jackknife was supposed to be seemed to have affected the results, and he emerged once again look at Casca, shrugging. This time, he stayed in the water, only his head emerging, it just felt refreshing.

‘’ I don’t think I understood this one as well as I did the cannonball. Sorry for failing you master.’’

He said in a joking voice, swimming a little around, by instinct of course, as he didn’t quite knew how to swim, he was mostly using his flying and pretending, kind of like a children learning how to swim while being held by his parents.

‘’ You do this often? Like, all the diving and stuff? You really seem passionate about it!’’