Enma calls Enma part 4 - The impossible task
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"I beg your pardon?" Vegeta stepped back and laughed contemptuously. "This old woman is supposed to train us?"
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"Don't be so hasty," hissed Piccolo, eyeing the old woman with narrow eyes. "She muffles her aura, but I have a feeling that Enma chose her for this with good reason."
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"You're damn right, Greenling," laughed Genkai and looked Vegeta from head to toe. "You are just as stubborn as Hiei, huh?"
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"Pah!" Hiei folded his hands defensively and turned around demonstratively. To be lumped together with Vegeta went against the grain of the proud fire demon.
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Kurama wanted to say something, but let it go.
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"The green one is called Piccolo and can heal itself," Yusuke said to Genkai. "The one with the black hair is Vegeta, a prince of the Sai ... Saidingsbums and apparently quite strong the way he talks."<br />
"It's Saiyan, you human," hissed Vegeta. "And Saiyans are way stronger than you can even imagine."
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"Well, oxen are strong too," Hiei scoffed.
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"Do you mean I'm an ox, you dwarf?", Vegeta grabbed his collar and started to hurl him over the next mountain.
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"Your own dwarf and take your paws off me," Hiei whispered hoarsely, sword in hand, "or can you grow your arm back like your green friend?"
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“No more childish banter!” The authority in Genkai's voice could not be ignored.
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"Ph!" Vegeta let go of Hiei and turned to the old woman. "If you're already making such big sayings, Grandma, I hope for you that you don't have arthritis."
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"Should that be a challenge," countered Genkai with an amused undertone. "If so, follow me."
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With her hands loosely clasped behind her back, she walked light step forward.First around the temple, then a bit through the forest to an abandoned quarry. "Here you can let off steam, Vegeta, that was your name, wasn't it?"
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Vegeta punched his empty palm with his fist and took a deep breath to gather his strength. "Don't forget that you asked for it, old woman. And don't think that I'm holding back just because you're a woman!"
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He went into attack and waited for his chance.
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"Be careful, Genkai," advised Piccolo, who had sat down on one of the stone blocks, "if Vegeta is really angry, nothing can be guaranteed."
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"Don't worry about her," said Yusuke and made himself comfortable next to Piccolo. “The old witch has enough tricks up her sleeve.” His thoughts briefly wandered back to the time when he himself had apprenticed to her. The training hadn't been tough, because the word "tough" hardly did justice to the inhumane rigor of Genkai's methods.<br />
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"Is that going to happen today?" Genkai asked calmly and made no move to take the initiative on his own.
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Vegeta didn't feel that he was being taken seriously and his aura began to glow. Genkai raised his eyebrows. "So there is a little more to it than that, pleasing, very gratifying ..."
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"Better not be too early," Vegeta growled and started to attack. He shot at Genkai, who easily moved to one side without taking her hands off her back.
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"I knew", said Yusuke. "That's what happened to me at the beginning. It's just beyond belief."
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Again and again Vegeta punched and kicked the old woman, but she always seemed to have an inkling of where the next punch was going and was already out of reach again when Vegeta's fist parted the air.
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“Well, then differently.” Vegeta was still in full swing, even if she was already slightly irritated and frustrated. "Now I'm just getting started, old hag!"<br />
"About time too. I still have some soup on the stove," she said gently. "Step up a gear, kid."
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That gave Vegeta the rest. He gathered more and more energy and with a tremendous scream he became SuperSaiyan. His muscles swelled and his hair glowed like flaming gold. Orbs of light shot from his palms.
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"Take cover!" Piccolo called and jumped behind the boulder. "Now there is no stopping it."
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"Not necessary, Grüner," Hiei said carelessly. "Genkai has taken precautions."
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In fact, as the first to hiss toward the four of the four balls of energy that had been shot in blind rage, he fizzled out two paces from the boulder they were sitting on against an invisible wall.
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Genkai was still easily avoiding the crackling bullets, but at least she had given up her overly relaxed demeanor. The energy balls that came threateningly close bounced off her shield.After a while, Vegeta also noticed that he did not get to his goal that way. He stopped panting and began to concentrate his strength even more to go up one step.
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"A lot ..." Genkai suddenly became a beautiful, young girl with big eyes, her pink hair shining with life and strength. "..to ..." within the blink of an eye she stood in front of Vegeta and reached out with her right hand, "... slowly!" The blow was precisely measured and perfectly aimed. Although the thick neck muscles protected the nerve node concerned, the effect was immediate. Vegeta's aura died, his hair turned dark again and he fell over.
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Genkai stood in front of him unmoved, grabbed his hair and pulled the motionless Vegeta, who was still fully conscious, upwards. Her face was wrinkled again and the pink of her hair was pale. “Are you ready now to let me train you?” She asked with raised eyebrows, “or do you need another demonstration?"Of course Vegeta couldn't flinch an eyelash." Well then, "Genkai said contentedly, letting go of his hair so that his head hit the floor," so you have no further objection. "
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She turned her back and sauntered away.
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"Umm ...", Kurama answered, "haven't you forgotten something, Genkai-sensei?"
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She glanced back over her shoulder. Kurama pointed to the motionless Vegeta.
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"Oh," waved Genkai, "I don't feel like wearing it. You do it, Greenling. After all, he's your friend."
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"My name is not Green, it's Piccolo," he growled and bent down to Vegeta. With a jerk he picked it up and put it with its legs forward like a sack over his shoulders. "Hopefully you will paralyze him before the training starts, right?"
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Genkai shrugged. "If I feel like it ..."
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Hiei suddenly stood next to Piccolo and looked at the helpless Vegeta with a mocking smile. "Ox!"<br />
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"Hey!", Kurama said reproachfully. "It's not nice if you laugh at him where he can't defend himself and put the pen straight away!"
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But it was already too late, on Vegeta's cheeks the characters for "weakling", "ox", "idiot" and "please, kick me!" along with a fake mustache with ends curled up in a spiral shape.
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Piccolo almost craned his neck to take a look at Vegeta's face as they followed Genkai with quick strides. "You", he looked at Hiei, "you already know that he will kill you for it, right?"
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"Only if he has learned by then that strength must not be wasted," said Genkai, who had apparently heard the whole conversation behind her. "And your hot-headed friend still has a long way to go."
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"He's not my friend," Piccolo replied. “I don't have any,” he paused, and in his mind's eye the trusting face of little Gohan appeared, “almost no friends.He and his buddy killed me back then. "
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"But you are alive," Kurama wondered.
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“Yes, thanks to the Dragon Balls and Gohan's wish.” A warm feeling rose in him as he thought of the young Saiyan. He missed that time more than he would ever admit.
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"Then it doesn't mean anything," said Yusuke, who ran just one step behind Genkai. "That one," he pointed with his thumb at Hiei, "didn't just want to take me around the corner, but to turn my girl into a monster. Nevertheless, he's my friend now." He winked at Hiei, who quickly looked to the side. to hide the embarrassment and mumbled something that sounded like "bullshit". Yusuke laughed. "And as carefully as you are carrying it," he added to Piccolo, "it is worth more to you than a sack of potatoes, isn't it?"
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Piccolo didn't know what to say and they walked the rest of the way to the temple in silence.
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<br />"How should the training look like, Genkai?", Asked Yusuke and looked around. "I can't tell if you've prepared anything."
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"Just don't get impatient, Yusuke," grinned Genkai. “First of all, I have to examine the strength of our guests more closely.” She pushed open the door of an adjoining building and lo and behold, the old amusement arcade, from the time when she wanted to filter out her apprentice and successor from among hundreds of applicants, sparkled in the light of the many candlesticks ancient splendor.
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"Shall we do that too?" Asked Hiei in a bored tone.
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"Are you deaf in the ears?" Genkai replied. "This test is for the green ..., for piccolo and the sack of flour he carries."
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Piccolo bent down and let Vegeta slide off his shoulder onto the floor. "His name is Vegeta and not Sack of Flour," said Piccolo. "And he can hardly take the test in this condition."
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"Where he's right ..." Hiei muttered.
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<br />"It's okay," waved Genkai. She knelt next to Vegeta and pressed her thumb to another part of his neck. Vegeta winced immediately and rubbed her throat, panting. "I'll get you back for that, you witch," he groaned and pushed himself up. “Right now!” His aura flickered and blazed in full force.
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"Ts ... ts ...", Hiei said simply. "An ox cannot get out of its skin ..."
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"You little ...!" Vegeta started at him, but already with the third step his legs got caught and he stumbled