Post by Ramen on Dec 8, 2022 19:34:12 GMT -5
POWERFUL AND PATHETIC
| Ramen's PL: 1,000 (20,000 - 95% Suppressed) |
| Ramen's PL: 1,000 (20,000 - 95% Suppressed) |
Namek was a planet of occasional peace and mighty warriors.
Unfortunately, some of the greatest of those warriors hadn't learned from the Namekians themselves. Ramen had never met the demon Erebos, but she knew him by rumour and reputation. A chaotic being, but one as prone to surprising heroics as he was forays into trickery and violence. By reputation alone, she couldn't help but be reminded of her own confused youth. She would have been content to leave him to make his own mistakes, knowing full well that the words of a stranger would mean little.
But she could sense a change in him, when he returned to Namek. A new energy source that seemed to pierce through the center of his own power. He had gotten himself hurt, she presumed. While Namek would never be her home, it placed the planet in a precarious position. Perhaps the planet's other protectors would fare well while he recovered, but peace in the galaxy only lasted as long as the rogues' gallery of would-be conquerors knew to fear the repercussions of putting your strength to the test.
Perhaps it was time she shared a little of what she knew with his strange protector.
She settled atop a hill, overlooking the strange cottage of Shadewood that the demon had made home. The polite thing to do would be to knock, but that wouldn't get her point across. She could have sensed him from outer space given how poorly he seemed to keep his colossal power under wraps. Perhaps it was arrogance--or perhaps it was a simple lack of ability. Either way, she extended her palm outwards and formed a small orb of red ki, floating just before her. For a brief moment only, her power swelled to its limit--empowering that orb with a portion of the strength she could bring to bear.
"Time to wake up," she murmured.
With a flick of her wrist, she sent the orb of ki racing towards the cottage. At the last minute, she directed the blast down into the ground, causing it to erupt with a sudden, tremendous force. It wouldn't be enough to damage the foundations of the cottage, she made sure of that -- but the ensuing quake would probably send dishes and furniture rattling around and crashing to the floor, as if a very local tremor suddenly struck earth beneath the demon's hovel. Meanwhile, her energy subsided back to a resting level, well below that of the apparent energy of her directed attack.
She folded one hand behind her back and kept the other clutched around her staff. It was the demon's move, now.
Unfortunately, some of the greatest of those warriors hadn't learned from the Namekians themselves. Ramen had never met the demon Erebos, but she knew him by rumour and reputation. A chaotic being, but one as prone to surprising heroics as he was forays into trickery and violence. By reputation alone, she couldn't help but be reminded of her own confused youth. She would have been content to leave him to make his own mistakes, knowing full well that the words of a stranger would mean little.
But she could sense a change in him, when he returned to Namek. A new energy source that seemed to pierce through the center of his own power. He had gotten himself hurt, she presumed. While Namek would never be her home, it placed the planet in a precarious position. Perhaps the planet's other protectors would fare well while he recovered, but peace in the galaxy only lasted as long as the rogues' gallery of would-be conquerors knew to fear the repercussions of putting your strength to the test.
Perhaps it was time she shared a little of what she knew with his strange protector.
She settled atop a hill, overlooking the strange cottage of Shadewood that the demon had made home. The polite thing to do would be to knock, but that wouldn't get her point across. She could have sensed him from outer space given how poorly he seemed to keep his colossal power under wraps. Perhaps it was arrogance--or perhaps it was a simple lack of ability. Either way, she extended her palm outwards and formed a small orb of red ki, floating just before her. For a brief moment only, her power swelled to its limit--empowering that orb with a portion of the strength she could bring to bear.
"Time to wake up," she murmured.
With a flick of her wrist, she sent the orb of ki racing towards the cottage. At the last minute, she directed the blast down into the ground, causing it to erupt with a sudden, tremendous force. It wouldn't be enough to damage the foundations of the cottage, she made sure of that -- but the ensuing quake would probably send dishes and furniture rattling around and crashing to the floor, as if a very local tremor suddenly struck earth beneath the demon's hovel. Meanwhile, her energy subsided back to a resting level, well below that of the apparent energy of her directed attack.
She folded one hand behind her back and kept the other clutched around her staff. It was the demon's move, now.
Ramen briefly powers up to 20,000 to fire a non-KP blast at the earth near Erebos' cottage. Following that, her power returns to a resting 1,000.
TWC: 455
TWC: 455