A New Day, a New Life | Open

It wasn't too often that Nizin got a bad feeling about something anymore. Earth was a peaceful enough place, after all. So when she felt that 'hair on the back of your neck' sensation, she found her attention shifting away from the signage on the streets, just in time to watch..was that a Saiyan? Huh. Seems all sorts really were finding their way this far out. That wasn't important, though. The important part came with the frankly too loud sound of concrete cracking and giving way, along with the groaning crunch of bending and crumpling metal. Under normal circumstances, she might have assumed that this Saiyan was aiming to try and get the drop on her to prove that their belief in the whole "Heran vs Saiyan Warrior" idiocy was the correct belief.

However, if that was the case they could have quite easily just blasted her. Hell, now that she wasn't distracted, it hit her that she had been feeling a mostly familiar presence for about ten minutes now. Her immediate assumption had been that one of the two she had come to this planet with might have been around. They had all been around the same level of power before they split up, after all. Of course, these were all thoughts that ran in the back of her mind as her attention was drawn to the Saiyan's hand. Normally the act of pulling something out of the ground was what made all the noise. But the grinding and groaning noises hadn't really stopped. They'd just gotten lower in volume.

As she watched, the metal crumpled, bent, and folded in upon itself, creating the haft of a weapon, with the remaining broken shards of glass forming a brutal, jagged blade before they too started changing. By the end of it, there was a halberd in her hands, made entirely of metal. Huh. That was a neat enough trick. Of course, by the time this newcomer was done making a halberd out of city property, a cop had arrived. Not a big surprise. They were in a rather heavily populated area, after all. Causing such a loud and obvious disturbance was bound to draw in the authorities.

As was to be expected, the officer pulled out a gun. It almost made Nizin feel bad for this poor man. However, the Saiyan woman called out to her when she was accused of destruction of property, obviously trying to get her to cover for her. Nizin gave her a deadpan look, purple eyes drifting down towards the obvious hole in the ground right next to her, then back up as she sighed.

"You know, if you're going to lie about it, you could at least have bothered to cover up the obnoxious amounts of noise, as well as the massive hole you just made." She called out as she started making her way over towards the two, her hands still in the pockets of the jean jacket she was wearing.

"And as for you, officer. I mean this in the most polite of ways, but if someone can just casually rip a lamp post out of the concrete, do you really think that a pistol is going to be able to do much to them? Just charge her for the cost of repairs. It's going to be a lot easier than trying to drag them away." She asked, her gaze shifting over towards him. When talking to the Saiyan, she almost sounded like she was scolding a child. But with the officer, her tone of voice had shifted immensely, like she was just pointing out something obvious. Sure, she was a citizen of the Earth. But that didn't mean she was as accepting of the structure that this planet's law enforcement took, or even their methods.

Even so, she knew that if this panned out into a fight, there was a snowball's chance in hell of this man surviving more than a few seconds. She'd have to hope that she could defuse the situation.

Nizin's eyes followed the officer as this woman's energy forced him to stumble back. Yeah, that gave her a good read on the Saiyan. They were definitely at the same level of power. Of course, she ignored the Saiyan's smartass retort. It was something she had come to expect in her years wandering with her old friends. Though the casual sadism she was hearing definitely bothered her. It was a trait she despised. That was why it took this woman finally shutting up to speak. "I see you really are just an idiot, huh? Let's take this apart bit by bit. Firstly, I don't know if you live here, but I do. I don't need to deal with the aftermath of detonating a city." She said, scowling as she pulled her hands out of the pockets of her jacket.

"Secondly, I'm a Heran. Not that it matters. I don't plan to go back anytime soon." Now her left hand was opening up, her right still balled into a fist.

"Thirdly, my name is Nizin." She said as energy focused in her palm. It was a green, sickly glow. Almost ethereal in nature as a sphere slowly formed. It was a bit unfortunate. She knew that fighting in a city was a bad idea. Too much potential for legal blowback. But hearing this snarky bitch antagonize people, and even casually call herself what she assumed was the name of a god in mortal form? It was incredible how much she was pushing the Heran's buttons. She was all but seeing red at this point. The sphere in her hand continued to grow, flickering that ghostly green.

"You wanna treat your actions like some kind of game? Fine." She said as her arm raised, the sphere floating mere inches away from her palm. It was now the size of a golf ball.

"Then I'll Buy In." As if on cue, the miniscule ball of Ki whipped itself towards Reiki! As it flew away from Nizin, it started to grow exponentially. First from the size of a golf ball to the size of a baseball. Then a softball. And by the time it was closing in on Reiki's location it was a ghostly green sphere of burning ki that was the size of a basketball!

Meanwhile, Nizin took to the sky. She'd thrown the first attack in a gambit to urge the girl to follow her. Angry as she was, she still couldn't afford repair costs in the city, and those damn government stooges knew where she lived.

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Combat Intiated

There was no more room for talking. Nizin was getting too irritated by this woman to do any of that. Thankfully, the woman took the bait, spending some energy of her own to fizzle out the attack she had thrown her way before throwing the halberd she had made. For most people, that probably would have been a new one, and a move that they might not have been able to keep up with. However, Nizin had experienced all kinds of strange things in a fight before. Dodging the thrown weapon was easy enough.

All it took was cutting off her Ki at the right time, allowing her to start dropping, causing the halberd to narrowly miss. This allowed her to snap her hand upwards as she started flying again, fingers wrapping tightly around the haft of the weapon. She had managed to grab the weapon just in time. She swung her arm down, bringing the back of the weapon sailing towards Reiki, and the sword she had drawn to swing against her. Steel rang out against steel as the back of the polearm connected with the blade of the sword. Even without the leverage advantage, the two weapons were locked against each other thanks to their equivalent strength, which prevented Reiki from carrying herself forward with the momentum of her swing to make that grab.

Without saying another word, Nizin thrust her free hand forward, a basic Ki blast launching out of her hand as she let go of the Halberd. Without the weapon tying her down, Nizin flew backwards and further up, continuing to slowly drag Reiki away from the city proper. However, she didn't retreat without cover. In fact, she flung a few extra basic blasts her opponent's way. This was a poor matchup for Nizin. Her opponent seemed to be more melee oriented, and she had always been more of a mid range fighter. She'd have to keep watching for now. She had a few tricks to use, but now wasn't the time to employ them..yet.

Time. That was what her gambit with those unrefined blasts had been all about. Energy had to come from somewhere. She could have kept throwing small attack after small attack. But when this woman's Ki Signature vanished, Nizin only saw one other option. She had no idea how strong the attack coming her way was going to be, and this woman was determined to hound her with everything she had. Arrows the size of stop signs whizzed past her, flying through the distracting blasts she had fired. And then, a moment's pause. A chant, and another arrow. This one on fire. It hit her almost as soon as she watched the blaze light up. She couldn't dodge it. Not because she wasn't fast enough.

It was because this woman had done the unthinkable. She had waited until Nizin was in the path of a building before she fired. The Heran had been angry before. But at this point, her blood was boiling. Her heart pounded in her head. And just like that, the metaphorical hands that each woman held had been dealt.

Nizin's hands were engulfed in that same ethereal green glow as before. But this time, it was more concentrated. Her skin seemed to darken heavily in hue, as did the color of her hair, the blue streaks that had already been incredibly vibrant and notable popping out all the more as the orange around it shifted into a deep, blood red. And yet, the Saiyan in front of her called out, asking if she wanted this fight. The question itself only served to anger her further. Reiki only got one thing in response, if she could even hear Nizin's suddenly cold, almost cruel sounding voice from this far away.

You're going to wish I didn't."

With those words, her hands slammed together, the bottoms of her palms pressing against each other as the spheres of Ki surrounding her hands merged together, launching away from her in a brilliant display of dazzling green light, moving at an incredible speed as Nizin's full power thrummed through her body. She didn't notice. All she knew was that what was headed her way needed to have no chance of making it to her.

There could well have been innocent people in here. People with a power level too low to be detected. And knowing that this woman was willing to use bystanders as a way to gain some kind of leverage in the fight? It sickened Nizin to her very core. So much so that she had wound up throwing every drop of power she had at this woman. Unfortunately, that meant that this was it. If this couldn't stop her, Nizin had nothing more to give. The outcome of this battle was officially out of her slowly lowering hands.

Even under the most amiable of circumstances, Nizin had never been one to just stand around idly and let her opponents boast. That would be a mistake that Reiki would be forced to learn very quickly. Nizin was on the move before the dust even cleared. The Saiyan had made the mistake of calling out to her before the dust had even settled, rather than waiting and launching a sneak attack or two from her hiding place within the smoke. The speed at which Nizin moved in this transformed state was astounding. If Reiki hadn't been on the exact same footing as her, she might well have completely lost track of the Heran visually. She was very close to breaking the speed needed for a successful application of the Afterimage technique..but not quite there yet.

Of course, charging into a fight with an armed opponent without a weapon of one's own was a bad idea. But Nizin had always been nothing if not creative. That was why her hands were rapidly becoming engulfed in spheres of Ki again. However, these seemed a little less ethereal than her previous blasts. Almost like it was being compressed into a more solid state. Once she was close enough, Reiki would find herself being the target of three up close, physical attacks instead of Nizin's medium range blasting! These punches were all aimed for center mass, mostly directed at the ribcage. The attacks were quick, for certain. But they weren't exactly packing all kinds of strength behind them. That was probably part of why she had added Ki to her hands. Along with this, Nizin was clearly focused. If she really was an agile fighter like she seemed, that weapon's size might end up being a problem for Reiki.

In the meantime, though, she was dealing with a barrage of punches from an opponent who clearly didn't have the time or patience for her boasting.

Her anger might have been boiling, but Nizin wasn't blind. She saw the metal around Reiki begin to shift well before the pillars launched. Unfortunately, they moved very fast. Nizin had just barely been able to shift herself so that her feet planted against the flat surface of the tops of two pillars. It wasn't the best form on such short notice, and with the speed they were moving at the force couldn't entirely mitigated. Still, she pushed herself off of it, rocketing away with extra speed due to the push she was given from the pillars. It had hurt, for sure. The wince of pain she'd given as her feet made contact with the faces of the two she had touched proved that much. She'd had to take the full force straight into her legs. It was a good thing she didn't need to stand anywhere right now. She wasn't entirely certain that she wouldn't lose her footing upon trying.

Still, she was launched a surprising distance away from Reiki, only able to stop herself by actively applying her Ki in a manner that would have launched her towards the Saiyan, allowing her to 'stand' again, scowling as Reiki insisted on continuing to taunt her. "Oh, you mean the 'infallible ability' to make changes to things you touch? Changes that are so obvious a blind tortoise would be able to avoid them?" She shot back, acid in her tone as she spoke.

She wasn't entirely sure how Reiki was doing it, that was for sure. But she had definitely noticed that it had only been something she did while making physical contact with something. That kind of specificity was something that wouldn't be habitual. It was either a limitation of the ability, or a flat out requirement. Of course, there was always a chance that it could have been habit. That was why she was calling her out. She'd only be able to tell by judging this woman's reaction.

She also could feel how the change she had gone through was straining her own body. She was sure she could keep it up for a bit. But this was entirely new to her. She had no idea how long it could last. She might have been the only one to get a hit in thus far, but she wasn't sure she could keep the upper hand forever. So far, this woman had only used one attack. She wasn't sure if that was the only one she had or not, though. She'd have to be careful.