Dragonball M, Chapter 2: Lighthouse! Across the Shores of Shattered Time!

[Cthulhu_of_R'lyeh]

"If need be, I can simply draw everyone into Vaikuntha to ensure their survival," said Nevanlinna. "I am impressed that my brother was able to work sorcery like that, however haphazard it was"

There was a slight pause. "Do you require any assistance, Ishtar? I am, of course, more experienced with Threshling sorcery than anyone here, and this lot has... impressed me, thanks to that battle."

"He brute forced a sigil already in place, and used his death as a catalyst." Ishtar replied as she split unbroken flesh to create a new well with which to draw her blood. "I have seen Sasheem manage similar, while sealed inside of a trashcan."

The Oni's fingers slowed momentarily when the offer for assistance was made, however, Nevanlinna offering her ... experience. Had she the mind, the transformed Oni might have chuckled. "So you say, yet here we are."

Ishtar resumed her bloodletting.

"Double check the layer that outlines our destination. If I am wrong, Vaikuntha will not save us should we arrive in the core of a star."

[Cleric of Hell’s Brigade]

Asha’rah, something is.....familiar.....as the creature rips its way free of the earth. Even as Sarada grows, it unearths itself to be even taller than her monkey form, with a massive stone ax in its other hand. Even as she tears free of its grip, it starts to raise its ax for a swing.

And then Asha’rah’s attack takes its hand off and it pauses, the stench now absolutely overpowering. Erosa is knocked back off its head by the stench, even too much for her, and the Venom Mist Of Sasheem seems to do nothing but melt some of the meat and blood off.

Zaofan’s blow also manages to shake the thing, propelled as he was.

However, despite missing a hand, it raises its ax and buries it swiftly in Sarada’s shoulder.

[KingofPie]

Asha'rah laid one hand gently upon the massive fingers gripping Sarada, breathing deeply as if she were without a hurried thought in the world.

Orb of Destruction.

A sphere of violet and black formed in the nest of her palm, reducing what it touched to the nothingness from hence it came.

"A grappling attack is a questionable gambit when outnumbered, my large friend."

His Venom Mist ineffective, Sasheem leapt back, deciding what to do next. As he began to strategize, something caught his eye. "Huh...what's that?" he asked, distracted for a moment as he noticed it wasn't similar to any kind of ki attack he'd seen before. Was it even ki?

Asha’rah, something is.....familiar.....as the creature rips its way free of the earth. Even as Sarada grows, it unearths itself to be even taller than her monkey form, with a massive stone ax in its other hand. Even as she tears free of its grip, it starts to raise its ax for a swing.

And then Asha’rah’s attack takes its hand off and it pauses, the stench now absolutely overpowering. Erosa is knocked back off its head by the stench, even too much for her, and the Venom Mist Of Sasheem seems to do nothing but melt some of the meat and blood off.

Zaofan’s blow also manages to shake the thing, propelled as he was.

However, despite missing a hand, it raises its ax and buries it swiftly in Sarada’s shoulder.

"..." Sasheem hummed as he observed Asha'Rah's attack annihilate the skeletal monsters hand. That was certainly more than a little interesting...

Turning his attention back to the skeletal beast, Sasheem armored up into his Katchin Mode. Leaping into the air, he launches ki blasts from his feet while shouting, "METEOR CLOTHESLINE!!" and raises his right arm, slamming it into into the monster's spine.

[Monstrous Bird of Qin, Ou Ki]

"He brute forced a sigil already in place, and used his death as a catalyst." Ishtar replied as she split unbroken flesh to create a new well with which to draw her blood. "I have seen Sasheem manage similar, while sealed inside of a trashcan."

The Oni's fingers slowed momentarily when the offer for assistance was made, however, Nevanlinna offering her ... experience. Had she the mind, the transformed Oni might have chuckled. "So you say, yet here we are."

Ishtar resumed her bloodletting.

"Double check the layer that outlines our destination. If I am wrong, Vaikuntha will not save us should we arrive in the core of a star."

"Indeed, here we are," replied Neva. "Had I not rewritten certain parts of his death spell as it hit us, most of this lot would in all likelihood be dead or dying." Admittedly, the best she could do at that time was for the destination to be rewritten to a planet with a breathable atmosphere for this lot, but she had been so focused on... other matters that by the time she'd noticed her brother's death curse, it was had been far too late to counter it in full. Never mind the difficulties of doing it at a distance. Why, it is a testament to her brilliance that she was able to manage such a thing in the first place!

Without another word, she got to work checking the destination layer. There were a... few discrepancies, quickly remedied. Spellcraft like this, however, was delicate work, and she continued to monitor the runes for destabilization. "Hm, a few... errors, but they have been corrected. I shall continue to monitor that layer for any further anomalies."

Asha’rah, something is.....familiar.....as the creature rips its way free of the earth. Even as Sarada grows, it unearths itself to be even taller than her monkey form, with a massive stone ax in its other hand. Even as she tears free of its grip, it starts to raise its ax for a swing.

And then Asha’rah’s attack takes its hand off and it pauses, the stench now absolutely overpowering. Erosa is knocked back off its head by the stench, even too much for her, and the Venom Mist Of Sasheem seems to do nothing but melt some of the meat and blood off.

Zaofan’s blow also manages to shake the thing, propelled as he was.

However, despite missing a hand, it raises its ax and buries it swiftly in Sarada’s shoulder.

Totoma sighed. One thing after another.

He released his concentration and his body expanded into its Oozaru form. Or, well, quite a bit larger than it should be, considering he was drawing upon his 'legendary' power. And then he did what Oozaru do best. He smashed, bringing down his giant fists upon the skeleton in a double overhand smash.

[Sub-Zero MKA]

Asha’rah, something is.....familiar.....as the creature rips its way free of the earth. Even as Sarada grows, it unearths itself to be even taller than her monkey form, with a massive stone ax in its other hand. Even as she tears free of its grip, it starts to raise its ax for a swing.

And then Asha’rah’s attack takes its hand off and it pauses, the stench now absolutely overpowering. Erosa is knocked back off its head by the stench, even too much for her, and the Venom Mist Of Sasheem seems to do nothing but melt some of the meat and blood off.

Zaofan’s blow also manages to shake the thing, propelled as he was.

However, despite missing a hand, it raises its ax and buries it swiftly in Sarada’s shoulder.

Sarada roared in pain as the ax was buried into her shoulder, a bellow that echoed across the horizon. Whatever this creature was, she was already tired of it.

She turned to face the creature and breathed in. Eat this! She let loose the Roar of Death, the supersonic scream that she used against Battersea a year ago.

[bruceleegreyhulk]

These do not match what you know as the Tadpole Galaxy.

Praxat looks at Jack , Cyanna and the others saying " the stars don't match any of the constellations I can see from my home world so this isn't the Tadpole galaxy." " Okay to figure out just were in the hell here are first we need to draw a map of these stars and see if they line up with any constellations in any known galaxies ." " we can rule out the Milky way and Tadpole Galaxies." " that only leaves the 1 Black Eye Galaxy, 2 Andromeda Galaxy , 3 Bode's Galaxy , 4 Cartwheel Galaxy , 5 Cigar Galaxy , 6 Comet Galaxy , 7 Cosmos Redshift 7 , 8 Hoag's Object , 9 Large Magellanic Cloud , 10 Small Magellanic Cloud, 12 Mayall's Object, 13 Pinwheel Galaxy , 14 Sombrero Galaxy , 15 Whirlpool Galaxy and many other galaxies. "


" for the record Earthlings are the ones who came up with those names." " it take forever to map out every galaxy ." " so we just have to do a comparison with the ones we know."

[Cyke]

Asha’rah, something is.....familiar.....as the creature rips its way free of the earth. Even as Sarada grows, it unearths itself to be even taller than her monkey form, with a massive stone ax in its other hand. Even as she tears free of its grip, it starts to raise its ax for a swing.

And then Asha’rah’s attack takes its hand off and it pauses, the stench now absolutely overpowering. Erosa is knocked back off its head by the stench, even too much for her, and the Venom Mist Of Sasheem seems to do nothing but melt some of the meat and blood off.

Zaofan’s blow also manages to shake the thing, propelled as he was.

However, despite missing a hand, it raises its ax and buries it swiftly in Sarada’s shoulder.

Zaofan is caught completely offguard by the ferocity of the attack on the Saiyan, with the giant axe in the giant shoulder. "Sarada! No!"

The chef soars up, circling the creature and pelting it with an array of optic blasts on its joints. "What is this thing's deal? Why does it have beef with Sarada? Why is it singling her out but ignoring the rest of us?"

Turning his attention back to the skeletal beast, Sasheem armored up into his Katchin Mode. Leaping into the air, he launches ki blasts from his feet while shouting, "METEOR CLOTHESLINE!!" and raises his right arm, slamming it into into the monster's spine.

Totoma sighed. One thing after another.

He released his concentration and his body expanded into its Oozaru form. Or, well, quite a bit larger than it should be, considering he was drawing upon his 'legendary' power. And then he did what Oozaru do best. He smashed, bringing down his giant fists upon the skeleton in a double overhand smash.

Sarada roared in pain as the ax was buried into her shoulder, a bellow that echoed across the horizon. Whatever this creature was, she was already tired of it.

She turned to face the creature and breathed in. Eat this! She let loose the Roar of Death, the supersonic scream that she used against Battersea a year ago.

Zaofan normally isn't the bloodthirsty type, but this thing, straight out of their nightmares, clearly wasn't giving them any quarter. No, its demonic, hellborne appearance would be sure to haunt his nightmares.

With the creature as large as it was, dwarfing even the two Oozaru (Oozari?), Zaofan flew up to the creature's eyes. As large as it was, its eye sockets would be half the size of Zaofan himself, giving him plenty of space to fire an Optic Blast straight into a socket and aimed right for its optic canal -- now the size of a dish plate, which might as well be the broad side of a barn. He fires with the intent of turning the blast mid-stream into a Ricochet Optic Blast, to bounce the beam inside the endocranial canal like a laser in a hall of mirrors, pulverizing any flesh and matter -- and hopefully demonic brain matter -- in its skull.

"There are head shots, and then there are head shots! Lay off Sarada!"

[Tami]

Sarada roared in pain as the ax was buried into her shoulder, a bellow that echoed across the horizon. Whatever this creature was, she was already tired of it.

She turned to face the creature and breathed in. Eat this! She let loose the Roar of Death, the supersonic scream that she used against Battersea a year ago.

The creature was huge, but it was also slow. Meagan and Dash used their speed to go after the creature's arm that was holding Sarada, moving in quick, Meagan with her Sword, Dash with her Chakram. Cyanna chose to teleport in close, then attack with her Urumi, then teleporting back again.

Moving fast to avoid the creature's grasp, they kept up the attack on an attempt to disarm the creature.

[Ptrvc]

Jack pulls out two cigarettes out of his jacket, and lights them.

"Don't try this at home kids!"

He then shoves them into his nose and breathes in deeply, effectively killing any sense of smell and God knows how many brain cells.

His sinuses girded against the nasueating stench, Jack charges in laying into the skull of the monster with his sword.

This is a bit much even for me, Jack as he hacks at a place in the monsters skull where he had just hacked up a smoke stained piece of what he could only hope was phlegm.

[Lord Falcon]

Asha’rah, something is.....familiar.....as the creature rips its way free of the earth. Even as Sarada grows, it unearths itself to be even taller than her monkey form, with a massive stone ax in its other hand. Even as she tears free of its grip, it starts to raise its ax for a swing.

And then Asha’rah’s attack takes its hand off and it pauses, the stench now absolutely overpowering. Erosa is knocked back off its head by the stench, even too much for her, and the Venom Mist Of Sasheem seems to do nothing but melt some of the meat and blood off.

Zaofan’s blow also manages to shake the thing, propelled as he was.

However, despite missing a hand, it raises its ax and buries it swiftly in Sarada’s shoulder.

Asha'rah's normally relaxed brow furrowed ever so slightly as she sensed something familiar within this rotten beast. Nothing about the creature's body called to mind any friend or foe past. Its spirit then? Had someone been trapped in this strange realm, bound to a rotting carcass? Asha'rah would not have wished this fate on her worst enemy. A clean kill, a blow designed to inflict maximum suffering in the moment, another designed to cripple and break the will to fight, these were her favored tools. Great and terrible were the deeds the fallen goddess capable of, but she was never vindictive.

Whoever it was, perhaps their spirit could be found later. In this moment, Asha'rah needed to deal with a creature with an axe buried in her royal ally, spewing noxious gases enough to make even Erosa blanch.

His Venom Mist ineffective, Sasheem leapt back, deciding what to do next. As he began to strategize, something caught his eye. "Huh...what's that?" he asked, distracted for a moment as he noticed it wasn't similar to any kind of ki attack he'd seen before. Was it even ki?



"..." Sasheem hummed as he observed Asha'Rah's attack annihilate the skeletal monsters hand. That was certainly more than a little interesting...

Turning his attention back to the skeletal beast, Sasheem armored up into his Katchin Mode. Leaping into the air, he launches ki blasts from his feet while shouting, "METEOR CLOTHESLINE!!" and raises his right arm, slamming it into into the monster's spine.

Sarada roared in pain as the ax was buried into her shoulder, a bellow that echoed across the horizon. Whatever this creature was, she was already tired of it.

She turned to face the creature and breathed in. Eat this! She let loose the Roar of Death, the supersonic scream that she used against Battersea a year ago.

The Sasheem Majin, an iota wiser but no less fond of wallowing in wanton destruction, was still on their side for now. He slammed the crook of his now-metallic arm into the monster's spine, putting his momentum and weight into a bone-crunching blow that was likely to unbalance the creature at the very least. Zaofan gave new meaning to headaches, ping-ponging his optic blast through the monster's eye sockets and around its skull. Meagan and Dash moved in on the creature's weapon arm, hacking away at it and unbalancing the force it could direct downward towards the injured Saiyan. And Sarada was not taking her wound lying down either, attempting to shout her opponent to death with an attack that was as much rage as ki.

Asha'rah spun gracefully behind Sarada and sent a glowing golden orb to make contact with her back. Though Roar of Defiance was omni-directional attack, Sarada's main focus at the moment was clearly the attacker in front of her, perhaps allowing the goddess to lend support. New Saiyan cells flooded into her system, pouring into her wound to create new flesh and push the foreign axe out. Fresh oxygen materialized in Sarada's lungs and blood vessels, allowing her to scream harder and longer than she would normally be capable of.

[Sub-Zero MKA]

"Hm. How utterly bothersome." Parsley had to cover her nose and mouth to keep from gagging from the rancid smell of death and carrion that was emanating from this... zombie creature. Sarada had been grabbed as its opening move, resulting in her transforming into an Oozaru to get out of its vice-like grip. Strangely, the creature was still larger than a Oozaru, and buried its ax into her shoulder. Without the hand previously holding it, mind.

"Very bothersome." She sighed. She would have transformed herself, but doing so would have left all three Saiyans exhausted when they eventually depowered. With the future unknown, there had to be one available in case another battle ensued shortly after this one. With that in mind, she summoned several energy vines to wrap around the ax. Such wouldn't stop it, but doing so would so it down enough for the others to mount a defense, and perhaps even disarm it.

[bruceleegreyhulk]

Praxat spots the giant skeleton saying " okay this has to be the work of magic ." " there's no way that this thing just move on it's own ." Praxat thinks about her options saying " I have to help out with this , but it's a damn skeleton so I' m pretty sure electricity wouldn't be effective against it. " however if I charge up my tongue electrocution long enough I could create enough heat to burn it to ashes."


" Bones contain calcium and which means they make good conductors for heat, but not electricity." " seeing as this thing is a giant skeleton it is basically a walking electric insulator ." " still it doesn't matter if the surrounding temperature is hot enough !" " anyways this damn thing needs to be taking care of ."


" can't make a map of these stars with that damn thing in the way." Praxat starts send a surge of Ki though her tongue to charge up her tongue electrocution technique as she maneuvers around the skeleton saying " good thing this thing is slow it gives me enough to charge up my Tongue Electrocution." Praxat looks at the others as she's facing the giant skeleton monster saying " hey everyone I have a idea." " if we create the right amount of heat it might be possible to burn this giant skeleton to ashes."


" so I'm going to try something it's shot in the dark, but I think if I zap it with a powerful enough electric current the heat generate might be enough to burn it to ashes."

[Cleric of Hell’s Brigade]

Between them all weakening it, and with Asha’rah amping Sarada’s scream up, the super sonic attack was able to literally blast the skeleton apart, sensing bone shards for hundreds of meters in all directions.


The scream seemed to eerily echo throughout the canyons and rock formations nearby.

[Cleric of Hell’s Brigade]

Ishtar and Neva feel it first. A jerking on the blood magic ritual from below, as if someone reached out and is pulling it towards them.

Then another.

And another.

And dozens more, as smaller things than the abomination start bursting from the ground. Humanoid skeletons, tattered and battered, drinking in the blood and the magic and the ki as if desperate or driven mad with thirst. They surround the Oni and Princess, skeletal hands reaching and pulling, draining and hungry.

Dozens more start tearing themselves free from the ground all around, and it dawns on the group that this is no canyon or wasteland, but a cairn for the long dead. Ancient ward stones, long since cracked and pitted and inactive, can be seen amidst the rock now where every skeleton pulls itself out of. No longer holding their charges down, the dead now seek the living and their ki and magic.

[Tami]

Ishtar and Neva feel it first. A jerking on the blood magic ritual from below, as if someone reached out and is pulling it towards them.

Then another.

And another.

And dozens more, as smaller things than the abomination start bursting from the ground. Humanoid skeletons, tattered and battered, drinking in the blood and the magic and the ki as if desperate or driven mad with thirst. They surround the Oni and Princess, skeletal hands reaching and pulling, draining and hungry.

Dozens more start tearing themselves free from the ground all around, and it dawns on the group that this is no canyon or wasteland, but a cairn for the long dead. Ancient ward stones, long since cracked and pitted and inactive, can be seen amidst the rock now where every skeleton pulls itself out of. No longer holding their charges down, the dead now seek the living and their ki and magic.

Taking to the air, along with Cyanna and Dash who are staying close to her, she wonders if a way can be found to return them these creatures to their eternal rest. Meagan realizes she had no idea how to deal with the undead. There may be too many of them to take them all out. She notices that they are drawn to the blood, the ki and the magic of the ritual Isthar was working on.

Flying over and closer to Isthar, she summons her Kienzan, then summons the third eye briefly. Using it's power, she transforms her Ki Keinzan into a Bia Keinzan, a disc of pure force energy. As a result, it's appearance changes, looking duller and almost solid in it's density.

Aiming it at the Skeletons surrounding Isthar, she launches it at them, controlling it's movements in order to hit as many of the creatures as possible.

If this works, it should shatter them.