23rd World Martial Arts Tournament - Part One.

(Blake Belladonna-POV)

 Some time passed while waiting for her turn to fight in the preliminary round. She was up against the fighter named Yamcha. She had him outclassed. Moving much quicker, she punched his abdomen and sent him backwards, dodging his retaliation of A flurry of punches, she retaliated, quickly moving into range and hitting him with A flurry of her own blows. These fights were only to last for one minute for the judges to decide who moves on and so far, she was outpacing her opponent which should put the judges in her favor. Huffing at her, she smirked as this Yamcha tried to move quicker than her, afterimaging behind him, she smashed her left leg against the back of his head which sent him flying into the tent wall.

"Arrrrgh! why you-" Yamcha stopped the collision by flying but he was interrupted by the announcer.

"...And the winner is... the fighter Blake Belladonna!" she watched as the fighter she beat, the one called Yamcha had slowly raised up and left the arena with disappointment on his face, heading towards he friends. A tough fight for her seeing that she had to heavily suppress most of her fighting power thanks to King Kai getting into touch with both Weiss and herself. King Kai had asked them not to fight these opponents at their full power, stating that it wouldn't be A fair fight for those who'd trained for this exact tournament, while she and Weiss didn't exactly train for the tournament and only entered it for the cash prize. he further went on to explain that Kron also wanted them to fight at the weakest they could get their power down which wouldn't be A problem seeing that they learned all of this from King Kai on his planet in the other world. Weiss and he agreed since it was both King Kai, the man who trained them and also Kron, the man they desperately wanted to see and even kiss again. King Kai further added that Kron had an interest in the warrior named Goku and the one named Piccolo fighting in the final round which got A furrowed brow from herself and Weiss but... they did owe him much for him risking himself to revive her and Weiss so they would fight as much of these opponents as they could... then give those two A bout before either surrendering or getting themselves kicked outside the ring.

Most of the remaining fighters were tougher than the rest of the fighters in their groups with many of the weaker fighters being thinned out from the preliminary round but her agility, as well as her training under King Kai had been boon's for her victory even held back. She headed out of the arena she was on, and went to watch the fight about to happen nearby.

"Goku vs Weiss Schnee, let this Preliminary round begin!" The two of them begun to circle each other, this Goku stood in A martial arts stance while Weiss haughtily circled around him, an air of arrogance marred her beautiful face, Weiss was also holding back and seeing that she had to fight this Goku, the one they were warned about, Weiss would likely have to lose this fight for this mans and Kron's sake. Being that the round would only last one minute, they suddenly rushed at each other, Weiss's heels clicking on the arena while Goku rushed forward, her kick was dodged while Goku used her momentum to strike her in the stomach, watching her counter with her own punch and they both jumped backwards from their hits. The fighter named Goku was smiling through the fight, A friendly sort of smile and Weiss, from what she could see had taken that personally though she knew not to go overboard even if she thought he was mocking her. She rushed on in, gliding along the arena floor and tried to swipe at him with A swift kick, he dodged and bounced back with his hands while swinging his legs upwards, hitting her in the stomach.

"...Hrugh!" Weiss grunted loudly, taking the hit, Blake smirked though seeing her choke out A grunt...

Weiss was launched up, though she begun to hover in the air and landed, her heels being the first heard while hitting the floor.

"Time is up!." the announcer yelled through his microphone, He headed to A group of other men dress, the judges in yellow Gi before they huddled, deciding on the winner. 

"...Hmm, I wonder who won." Blake murmurer to herself sarcastically, knowing that Weiss had to fight like an inexperienced beginner in order to lose the bout against this Goku, bad luck being paired in the same preliminary group as him but they promised King Kai. Winter was already beat genuinely by some girl who kept her name anonymous who was much more skilled in martial arts than her and this was the last fight for the preliminary rounds With both Schnne sisters out of the fight, she was left with the task of trying to win against the remaining competition until she herself had to either fight against this Goku or the one named Piccolo, whoever he was. The announcer came over and looked around, before speaking loudly with help from his microphone.

"The winner is… Goku!, his skills were able to enable him much more hits in this bout. Now, those who have lost, it was good seeing you come here in order to test your skills but now, the 'real tournament' will begin and shortly. The preliminary's are over!" he announced, some grumbling from the losers, Weiss 'hmphed' and went to leave, waving to her and Winter while she left.

"Well, your still in this, might as well knock these fighters around... until those two we've been warned about are paired with you." Winter whispered to her, Blake nodded in agreement. Weiss and Winter stood nearby, intent to watch the remaining preliminary rounds.

"Yeah, shame you girls lost your fights though... I told Weiss not to wear heels, just joking...." she laughed lightly while Winter smiled, with Winter also knowing thanks to their telling her. Blake was wearing an outfit she made that looked similar to her old one while she was at Beacon, without the bow though as she wasn't worried about anyone seeing her 'Faunas' heritage anymore, she was A woman grown at least mentally and didn't care about anyone knowing she was A faunas. Winter wore her specialist outfit with an combination of the Saiyan armor she got from Kron, just the boots and gloves instead of her usual heels. 

The announcer called for attention, grumbling into the microphone to clear his throat, the eight of them watched him.

"The eight of you will compete, we will be tallying who will be facing who. The rules are simple, those knocked outside the ring are disqualified. Those who are knocked out and can't get back up within A count to ten lose. If both fighters are both knocked out, the first one to stand back up are announced the winner." the blonde announce with glasses said. 

Blake and Winter stood off to the side, Winter with her arms folded, Blake glanced at the competition. Physically, She and Weiss hadn't aged by much, just A year but seemingly 'living' on in the kind of limbo they existed in for eleven years, the 'other world' had aged them up at least mentally. Their bodies had adapted to their training with King Kai A little, hers much more muscular than Weiss's while both of them are lean, like swimmers more than the gathered fighters here. Sexy, would best describe themselves now, if she was vain enough to care though judging by most of the fighters bar some would leer at herself, well... she figured it would be another point she could use against the competition before she was warned to take the fighting easy against those two. Her inner thoughts distracting her, she missed how they organized the opponents and she snapped out of it, watching what was happening.

There was A massive jar brought out, with what looks to be eight balls wobbling inside. Each of them, She being fifth to do so, walked up, randomly drawing one of the balls from the over-sized jar.

Blake pulled out such A ball, the number Eight etched on it. Once everyone had A ball, in the grumbling Green man who sounded to be grumbling.

"You've each taken an ball labeled with A number on it. There's eight numbers and these will be the order the tournament will decide opponents. When called for your number, say your name so we can decide right now. Who faces who. Now... One!." the announcer said loudly and each competitor, her included shook waited in anticipation for their names to be called.

"Tien Shinhan." the bald man with the third eye yelled out.

"Two." the Announcer yelled.

"...Tao." the man who looked to have implants said, then he smirked towards Tien, nat at all friendly.

"Three."

"Junior." the green man spoke, arms folded as he viciously gave the one with hair matching Kron's A swift glare, maybe they are rivals? the announcer called out another name.

"Four."

"Krillin." the smaller fighter, said. Blake guessed she would be fighting this one.

"Five."

"Son Goku." they already gave him A once over when they were warned about him but now that they were not fighting and they could get A good look at him they noticed that he had A similar hairstyle to Kron himself. Maybe he was some long lost brother and Kron wanted him to excel at this tournament... Whatever Kron knew about this one, they would have to get into contact with him first. She gently tapped Winter with her elbow and spoke up. Blake also didn't know who this 'Piccolo' was though, she would have to find out soon.

"Just another question Kron must know about, I can't to get my hands on him, get that information out of him..." she said, eyes narrowing and Blake chuckled. Winter looked confused so, she was about to explain-

"Six."

"'hmph... just call me as Anonymous." She beat Winter though it was close. The woman has much more better technique and was more experienced than Winter in hand-to hand fighting as Winter was self taught and had the bare-minimum from her days as A specialist as she relied heavily on her sword skill than hand-to-hand specialized combat, Winter was able to gain the upper hand because of her Aura which helped to shrug off blows but this 'mystery woman' was simply much more skilled in evading Winter's hits and getting in her own. Their fight was intense, from what Blake witnessed when she could as Blake too was fighting in her own group at the time, the woman got into Winter's defenses and their fight was considered by the judges for A while before they came to the decision for the unnamed girl to pass the bout as the winner.

"Seven."

"Hero." the elderly man raised A hand, glasses and he seemed to be glaring at the green man who also glared at him.

"Eight." the announcer said one final time.

"Blake Belladonna." she spoke up loudly, catching some of the fighters around her glancing briefly in her direction. Winter gripped Blake's shoulder briefly before she made her way outside, heading for the seating.

(Winter Schnee-POV)

Finding A spot around the arena, she spotted her sister easily by her hair color standing near the front. Moving over through the crowds, she arrived nearby and nudged her lightly. Weiss looked at her.

"Its going to begin soon. The competition is fierce, yes." Winter glanced around, still A little sore, both pride and body from her final fight Weiss glared outward and then glanced in her direction, Weiss then sighed as she knew she promised that she would hold back though it kind of took out the excitement in join in the first place...

"I know, I would have won if I...was able to fight with my maximum-" Winter rolled her eyes knowing she was right but she didn't have to keep on reminding her and then there was the heels she wore which wasn't what A martial artist should wear in these sorts of fights, remembering Blake's advice Weiss ignored about her her wearing heels in A fight was redundant.

"Yeah, sure." she nudged playfully her sister that technically was now older than her… yeah, that is weird, Winter didn't count her years being 'dead' as her being older than her, 'other world' or not. Soon, the announcer came out and spoke to the crowd, just announcing the beginning of the tournament and he called on the first two contestants in A showy way that got the crowd riled up.

"Would Tien Shinhan and Mercenary Tao come on out into the arena!" he shouted into his microphone and the crowd eagerly waited the two fighters, the Schnne sisters included.

The two walked on out, they seemed to know each other and the two circled each other while engaging in talk only the two could hear. 

"Begin!" the man called Tao charged at Tien, who dodged swiftly leaving an afterimage before reappearing and retaliating with his own punch. Tao went falling onto the arena floor in A growl. Standing, the man yelled loudly, jumping up high and swiftly landing A kick at Tien-

"-See that, he was able to block it and with his hand, nicely done, yes." Weiss whispered, impressed. Tao was flipped backwards and sent A ways back, landing with A loud groan. He got up again and rushed back in, trying to land A hit at Tien who continued to dodge. Many of the crowd surrounding them were in A bigger awe than them and so as the man named Tao continued to try and land A hit, suddenly the man called Tien wrapped his hand around Tao's fist and stopped him in his tracks. Tien than mockingly, wrapped the mans hand around Tao' back as he lead him away to the arena edge, like helping an elderly cross the street...by the neck.

"Aint that cheating, the old man now has A blade… coming out from where his hand was... poor old fool, I don't think this Tien will have any problem." Weiss spoke and Winter nodded, not responding. The man called Tao had implants for hands and they looked to be able to 'disconnect', he used that surprise to jump behind Tien. The first blood was drawn by the cheating Tao, who slashed Tien's chest. Angering most of the crowd with that, none other were madder than Tien himself who began to angrily glare at the cheating bastard. 

Ripping his shirt off, Tien awaited Tao's next strike as the man lunged at him. Though…

"...Called it, yes." Weiss said, watching as Tien then snapped the blade in two pieces. Tao then, with his arm without the hand had launched A blast of energy towards Tien who just… stood there. As the blast engulfed him, Tien begun to yell loudly. The energy exploding briefly blocked the crowd, including their eyes from the wind and flashing light intruding onto them, obsuring the shouting warrior. Once the blast begun to dissipate, Tien seemed to be fine when-

Tien slammed quickly into Tao, A fist smashing into his gut which huh… knocked the cheating bastard down. Heh...he appeared to not be getting back up.

(Raven Branwen-POV)

"...Alright old man, when are you going to teach me that technique, the one that you call 'Kaio-Ken', I think I'm-"

"-'Ready', hmm… your making good progress I know. Hmm… fine, you have managed to catch Bubbles, finally… and your well on your way to hitting Gregory... fine, I'll teach you then." he said, arms folded as he watched her catch her breath somewhat.

"...finally… Those two brats managed to learn it after catching the monkey, what else can you teach me."

"Besides my fighting style, nothing. Your not my usual pick of A student I'd usually take on uh... no offense meant heh...huh, wait I'm getting A connection... huh, it's that Saiyan Kron." Raven glared at him briefly as he didn't even mention what Kron wanted from King Kai. Raven blew out air in agitation and stood back up to continue to try and get that bug, picking up the hammer along the way.

"You've got three more hours, I'll teach you then. Then we will have lunch hehe." King Kai snickered, rubbing his belly as he walked over to his house. The bug she hoped to squash with the heavy mallet spoke up, mocking her with each word.

"Well, old lady, you ready for me eh, well-" she barred her teeth, swinging the mallet upon him to which he disappeared, he heard his voice from behind her A ways back.

"Go on lady, you've got to actually hit me, Hehe!" she growled.

(Bulma Briefs-POV)

"Go Krillin, Go! Woohoo!" she cheered, watching as he strolled into the ring, though the arena began to murmur to themselves when Piccolo Junior floated inside the arena without any glance to another, his gaze affixed on his opponent. Krillin looked to be getting some last minute words from Goku, chiaotzu, Yamcha and Tien who watched on, there was that brunette standing near them too, the one who came with Winter and the other girl, who looked to be Winter's sister. Winter asked her about the green man named Junior, Bulma explained that his name was Piccolo Jr but he must have entered as Junior instead when Winter mentioned his name.

Krillin turned from Goku and Tien, heading into the middle of the arena.

"Now, the next round will begin… now!" The blonde announcer yelled into his microphone. Krillin and Piccolo immediately engaged, moving quicker than she could keep up with, she along with her friends were watching in awe at Krillin's speed as they traded blows, Piccolo started to gain the upper hand in melee and Krillin was knocked upwards but he recovered, hovering above the arena. Piccolo appeared above and they begun to trade blows in the air, each more fierce than the last.

"Woah, Krillin has gotten much stronger… but so has Piccolo… This fight has just begun." Roshi spoke up, observing much more than the rest of them could pick up, Bulma knew. She continued to watch in awe as Krillin was able to trick Piccolo into overextending himself before sending him towards the ground. 

Piccolo growled loudly, catching himself as he hurdled towards the ground and than flew back upwards.

"Ah yes… you can do it." Roshi murmured, she watched as Krillin charged up A 'Kamehameha'. The surprised Piccolo become engulfed in the large blue energy blast, which washed over him and continued to hurdle above the arena. She watched, before hearing Goku yell out.

"It's A trap, Krillin!" Krillin and the whole arena heard him yell that, looking behind Krillin as Piccolo threw A downwards punt towards him, sending him flying uncontrollably to the ground. Bulma winced as she watched Krillin's body smack into the marble arena floor, cracking A piece of it with his fall and opening A small crater at the area of impact. 

"...Oh! Is Krillin out, wait, no! He's getting up!" the announcer yelled, voice loudly heard from the speaker-system.

Though Krillin managed to get up from that encounter, she watched as he begun to smile, hearing him speak loudly.

"Well, huh haa… I'm giving up, heh, ouch… easy Goku." Goku came out onto the arena and helped his and their friend out as he looked to be having A hard time standing, anyone would have trouble from the kind of damage Krillin took from that fall. Piccolo looked on, somewhat from what she could tell, surprised from the encounter, she ignored him as the announcer proclaimed Piccolo's win and for the next contestants to enter the ring. Goku stayed in the ring and the girl that they had met before had entered confidently, the one who looked somewhat familiar...

(Kron-POV)

I spoke with King Kai A few days ago about Winter, Weiss and Blake, asking him if he could get me into connection with them via his telepathic abilities. He asked me about what it was regarding and at the time I paused, I was curious about what was happening in regards to Dragon ball canon, but I didn't want to straight up ask that to the godling. Instead I asked what they were doing currently for work and if I could speak with Winter. King Kai got back to me about it and with his abilities to literally scan the universe with those antenna on his head, I knew he could do something about it. He got back to me an hour ago, Winter, Weiss and Blake had entered A tournament, the 23rd world martial Arts tournament to be precise. I was frowning, knowing nothing about it except for one thing. It was the fight that Goku won and made himself A long-time rival with Piccolo. This... remembering that Weiss and Blake had trained with King Kai, I asked him in what capacity would Weiss and Blake are, strength wise in terms to the strongest fighters of Earth which gotten me silence for some twenty minutes. He got back to me afterwards, telling me that currently Weiss and Blake could dominate every other fighter on planet Earth... with one hand tied behind their back, he said it so certain that I believed him, remembering just who this man was. The man who hopefully in the future, would train Goku as well.

Now, I wasn't sure about this but, at the time when I spoke with King Kai, I was so certain of one thing. That those two at least, couldn't beat Goku nor Piccolo. I was worried about piccolo not being redeemed if Piccolo up and decided that Blake or Weiss was his rival now and I am certain that the only reason that Piccolo trained Gohan in Canon, one was his strength and two was that Gohan was the son of his rival. I needed to intervene, though King Kai should be able to in my stead.

Asking him that he get into contact With both Blake and Weiss, asking them to either fight with their power suppressed or forfeit when fighting the fighter named Goku or Piccolo got me one question I had to make up, why...

'King Kai, Goku... he is special, you can see what's happening on Earth. Piccolo so badly wants to fight Goku and Goku wants to fight him. Each with their own reasons but Piccolo is also A special case too. If he dies, another dies with him. Goku wouldn't kill him though, I bet he would spare him.' I thought mentally and their was silence, after A tense ten minutes later King Kai mentally responded.

'Hmm...fine, keep your secrets. Fine, I'll get in touch with them. I do not know what game your playing but I will trust you, those two are my students and at it wouldn't be fair to those competing in this tournament that they steamrolled through the competition. OK, goodbye... Remember what I said about that tyrant leader of yours.' he said mentally and cut the connection, hopefully Piccolo would not end up A villain from changes I've made in the form of Weiss and Blake being on Earth...

Rubbing my temple briefly as I recalled that mental conversation I had A few days ago, I came back and focused on where I was now, mainly the present. It had been some time since our last mission, another very short mission in dealing with some space pirates but it was done quickly. The trip back to headquarters was short, Ginyu told us to be ready for anything else but in the mean time we could do our own thing. I asked the man if I could leave the planet for some training and he just told me to have my scouter with me so here I was, on the way to Namek. 

"The dragon ball's on Namek only need what?… their charge rate is much shorter than the ones on earth for them to be ready... I think? Anyway it has been more than A year since I last came so… I'm picking up... right, here was that planet that I marked... the one with the high gravity that was on the way to Namek that I marked on my scanners, A day back behind on my flight path." I said aloud to myself. I would go there afterwards and do some more training. I was really curious if I could 'combine both the Oozeru transformation with the ah… 

"...Wrathful transformation? Wrathful form?… I need A name for that one…" I said to myself, scouter off as my pod raced through darkness. It was times like these, where I had nothing to do but wait that I curse my inner self for getting rid of my only way of communicating with Winter and Salem on earth but now I was hopefully going to fix that, at least within A day or two.

Time flew passed, not even two days when my pod got A reading that I was about to touch down on Namek, I underestimated the attack ball, almost forgetting that the Ginyu force had access to the most advanced equipment including attack balls and scouters, armors, whatever.

"...Well, lets touch down in the same spot, hopefully the big guy himself lets me make some more wishes. I have some ideas at least." Smirking, the touchdown of my pod ended my trip here and I stepped out of the opening ship. Rising into the sky, I powered up, allowing the native Namek people to feel my familiar Ki before heading onto towards Guru in order to ask for his permission.

"...Heh, maybe Nail would also like to spar, man… uh, I'd like to see the shock on Frieza's face when Nail fights him in the future and then he keeps on coming at him. Fuck, that be funny to witness heh…" I said aloud, arms folded.

My wishes I had lined up were going to be some simple shit and not too crazy, I didn't want to keep relying on the Namek's and their dragon ball's. The first wish would be to give me an ability to learn techniques much easier and efficiently. The second wish is to revive Raven Branwen onto Earth, another fighter for the Z-fighters and if what I have in mind for her works, she might be able to return home if she wants to, though she would owe me A favor. And the third wish Is… I haven't yet got the wording down for it but I want the ability to become 'immune' to all diseases and techniques to do with the mind, body and soul so that Ginyu's ability won't work on me, the likes of Garlic Jr.'s mind control mist won't effect me, or if he exists, Baby and his ability to hijack people won't effect me. There is also the worry that diseases like the one that effected Goku in one timeline that worried me A little, so immunity for that too. 

"That third wishes wording though… I need to figure that shit out while I head to Guru…hmm…" continuing to fly in Nail and Guru's general direction, my flight took me above one of the Namakein villages residing under my flight path.

"Such A good view… look at them… tilling the fields, maybe I should ask Guru if he wants to organize some kind of training competition for the warriors on his planet… much stronger warriors means more problems for Frieza meaning the Ginyu force would be called in much earlier." then I could help and possibly derail 'Canon' in relation to Namak.

"...Just A thought- oh and there's Guru's home… hopefully he's happy to hear my request." landing softly, I awaited outside when the door lifted open, Nail stepping out.

"Hey Nail, hows Guru. You look much stronger." he nodded, replying… seems he's at least cordial enough with me, that's good.

"Guru is well, why have you returned Kron." he asked, still A little guarded.

"I was hoping to use the dragon ball's again, there's someone that needs to be revived and I have some 'selfish' wishes I wanted to see if the dragon can make them reality. I came here to ask for Guru's permission, of course." I said, watching him nod again neutrally.

"...Come in, Guru awaits." he stepped inside and I followed him in. 

Riding the elevator up, I and Nail stepped off of it. Walking up to the elderly Namek, my eyes drawn by his figure, I begun to speak.

"Guru, I have returned. Your looking… well." I said though inside I was cringing.

"Ah, the Saiyan. Kron, have you come for the dragon ball's again. Hmm… Nail will take you… I had the dragon ball's gathered when I sensed of your arrival, sensed you from A day away. Nail…" that was A surprise, maybe he hold's me in more higher regard than I originally thought.

"Right, come with me." Nail led me away and I followed, nodding to Guru which I wasn't sure if he even seen me do so, with his eyes closed like they are.

"Right, thanks Guru."