So, hungry (Private, Hikaru)

Hikaru sat with the town elder in his home, sipping at an aromatic tea he had prepared for her. She had been a regular visitor to this little village ever since she had defeated a band of marauding demons that had been eansacking them in the previous year. The elder she sat with now was the very same man who had given the red band she wore around her right wrist, proclaiming her a friend to the people.

They had been exchanging small talk, as much as the quiet human could exchange small talk. It was more the elder telling Hikaru of the daily goings on in the village since her last visit. Hikaru nodded and listened, but spent a majority of her time nursing her cup.

Until she sensed something.

Hikaru stood up, cup clinking to the table hard. The elder was cut off mid-sentence as Hikaru glanced upwards. He opened his mouth to question her, but Hikaru was already exiting the building. Once under the open sky, Hikaru focused her search, and saw the incoming object she had previously sensed.

Hikaru barely thought, she just moved with blinding speed, and snatched up the Namekian that had almost been at the center of the impact. Hikaru floated just a few feet above the air, the man dangling from her arms. She brought him to the ground and he scrabbled away while Hikaru focused her attention on what had arrived…

A small reptile. Small but powerful. The average Namekian wouldn’t have stood a chance. And definitely not these peaceful people.

Hikaru tightened her jaw grimly and waited to see what the creature would do next.

Word Count: 276

Power Level: 39,145
Weighted Power Level: 9,786

Words. Words were transmitted into her mind.

Hikaru blinked in surprise at the foreign sensation. She raised scarred fingertips to her forehead and rubbed her temple lightly. Hikaru gave her head a small shake. She couldn’t speak telepathically, so hopefully responding verbally would be enough for the tiny creature.

“That wasn’t a meal. That was a person,” Hikaru waved a hand towards the general vicinity, “These are all people.”

Hikaru kept her gaze steady on the small beast, trying to read its intentions. But Hikaru was terrible at reading people at the beat of times, much less a completely foreign telepathic reptile.

“If all you want is a meal, then I can get you food. You don’t need to kill anyone,” she hoped that the creature could be reasoned with. She didn’t sense any immediate hostility and Hikaru had found her taste for violence had been utterly spoiled since leaving the PTO. The human wanted to avoid conflict if she could.

But if she couldn’t… she would not hold back...

Word Count: 176
Total Word Count:452

Power Level: 39,145
Weighted Power Level: 9,786

Health: 9,786
Energy: 9,786
Stamina: 9,786

Ooc: Hikaru is going to refrain from making the first move. She doesn't want to be aggressive and provoke Sun-Star. Depending on how Sun-Star reacts, she might take off her weights. Its all a "we'll see" right now.

Hikaru wanted to argue further but the reptile instead attacked her with a lash of it’s tail. Hikaru gritted her teeth, and raised her forearm to block the attack and then deflect it to the side. It seemed that Hikaru would have no choice but to fight. Hikaru hardened her expression, resembling the soldier she had once been under the Planet Trade Organization.

Hikaru struck back at the creature, her fists blurring into a series of punishing blows. Her palm struck out at the creature’s snout, intending to toss it’s head back. She then sent a back fist against the left side of its face. She finished the combo by slamming her fists into the bioroid’s belly again and again.

Hikaru then summoned her ki into a flare of white spiking energy. She infused her body with the ki, bracing herself for the little croc’s counter attack. She didn’t know just how hard this thing would hit, so she braced herself to be safe. The human didn’t want to risk under estimating her enemy.

“We don’t need to fight,” she wanted one last attempt to end this peacefully, even though she sensed it was pointless against this being, “I can provide you food.”

If the creature didn’t stand down, Hikaru would have to find a way to get it away from the village to mitigate as much collateral damage as possible. She didn’t want these people having to rebuild their homes for a second time...

Word Count: 257
Total Word Count: 709

Power Level: 39,145
Weighted Power Level: 9,786

Health: 9,786 - 351 = 9,435
Energy: 9,786 - 1,000 = 8,786
Stamina: 9,786 - 978 = 8,008

1. Block Basic Attack - 1,351 dmg
351 HP, 1000 Ki
2. Hammer Fist 10% (1AP) - 978 dmg
3. Ki Defense activated (1AP)
4. It's only Pain activated (1AP)

The human had falsely thought that she had pinned down the croc, and dealt a fair amount of damage. But she was wrong. Hikaru blinked as she watched the creature’s wounds heal right before her very eyes. No wonder the creature had made no attempt to block her strikes. It just recklessly took the attacks and powered through on pure resilience.

Hikaru smiled mentally. They had similar fighting styles it seemed. Hikaru also took attacks recklessly and blowed through on sheer will. But that strategy wouldn’t work here. The creature’s fortitude was greater than her own, and it wasn’t hindered by things like mercy and trying not to kill her.

The beings mocking words echoed in her mind eerily. Hikaru wouldn’t be getting used to that anytime soon. But she didn’t allow it to distract her as the creature launched its counter attack against her. It let loose series of blindingly fast and sharp attacks at any of Hikaru’s openings.

If she had any. This creature wasn’t the only one who could take blows. Hikaru blocked and shifted deflecting strikes this way and that, but not without a fair degree of difficulty. The creature was small and fast. The way it used the metal like a weapon stung against her limbs painfully leaving bruises beneath Hikaru’s clothes.

Hikaru gritted her teeth and waited for an opening- there! She darted forward and grabbed the croc by the tail. Hikaru did a quick spin in a circle and threw the creature skyward. Then she flew up after it. She wanted to move this fight away from the village, and Hikaru didn’t think the reptile would follow her if she left. No, it would just stay behind for the easy pickings.

With how easily the creature had taken her strikes, Hikaru decided to switch tactics. It could take a beating, but now it was time to see how fast it was. If it wasn’t fast enough, could it handle a direct and focused blow?

As the croc tumbled through the air Hikaru focused her ki into her clenched fist. She condensed the pale white light tighter, and tighter. She poured her ki into the ball and compacted it into a smaller ball of concentrated energy.

Word Count: 386

Total Word Count: 1,164

Power Level: 39,145
Weighted Power Level: 9,786

Health: 9,786/9,435 - 41 = 9,394
Energy: 9,786/8,786 - 600 - 1,834 =7,352
Stamina: 9,786 /8,008

1 Blocking Cull the Meek -1,351

Damage reduced 5% - 68

1,283 blocked with Ki defense

Ki defence 50% resource = 641

600 ki, 41 HP

2 Move to far range - 1AP

3. [CT-1] Sniper Beam charged to 50% -2 AP

4,893 dmg, 1,834 ki
Accurate Attack: requires 100% resource to dodge
Released next turn

As the reptile righted herself, Hikaru’s hand was trembling at her side from the overload of energy she poured into it. Ki pulsed between her fingers, a barely restrained power. The human charged her power to the last second, and then when the creature moved to strike at her arm, she instead just took the strike, powering through on will alone, and released the beam point blank against her enemy’s chest.

But the croc had already followed up the strike against Hikaru’s arm for more attacks on her openings. Hikaru gritted her teeth against the pain if the blows and blocked the lightning strikes with her leg and free arm. She wanted to continue pouring the pressure on the creature still, so she gathered ki into both hands this time.

She shot forward two more bullet like beams of energy at the reptile, trying to pile on more damage than it could easily regenerate. Then Hikaru jumped back further from creature and called out.

“Let’s stop this!” Her voice was just loud enough to be clearly heard. It was a flat order, though, with no desperation or pleading. Just firm insistence. Hikaru moved her hand to her wrist, where she hovered over a specific button on her watch, “Last chance. Stand down and I will feed you. There's no need to fight.”

Damnit.

Hikaru cursed mentally as the little reptile continued its assault. It wasn’t going to stand down. There was no point in holding back any longer. While the creature hissed and squeaked, Hikaru simply clicked a button on her wrist watch.

Her weighted clothing under her long coat faded away. It was replaced by the plated human style armor she had purchased before. Hikaru felt herself immediately grow lighter. Stronger. The limits she had put on herself gone.

Hikaru raised her arm up right as the little creature struck. The metal clashed against the dense polymer vambrace on her forearm. Hikaru hardly felt the blow. She shoved aside the creatures attack with a toss of her forearm, and then viciously struck the reptile in an overhead strike. She followed up with an uppercut, slamming the creature’s head in a sort of whiplash.

She didn’t let up on the assault. Hikaru intended to end this here and now. The human continue into a hammering combo of back fists and pummeling the creature again and again in the chest, battering the wind out of it.

Hikaru ended the combo by clasping her hands together and slamming them down on the creature, sending it flying to the ground, leaving an impact crater. Hikaru flew down after it and slammed her knee mercilessly down on the creature as she landed on it, deepening the crater even further.

Hikaru’s red eyes stared icily into the reptile's own. Challenging it to get up.

Word Count: 253
Total Word Count: 1,642


Power Level: 39,145
Weighted Power Level: 9,786

Health: 9,786/ 6,974 + 29,358 - 148 = 36,184
Energy: 9,786/ 4,906 + 29,358 - 1000 = 33,264
Stamina: 9,786 /4,008 + 29,358 - (4,893x3) = 18,678

1.) Uses Wardrobe Watch - 1AP
Weighted Clothes switched for armored suit
75% restriction removed.

2.) Block Melee Basic - 1351dmg
Armor reduction 10%, Pain reduction 5%
1,148 dmg
1,000 ki, 148 hp

3.) [PCT-1] Hammer Fist 25% - 1AP
9,786 dmg , 4,893 Sta

4.) [PCT-1] Hammer Fist 25% -1AP
9,786 dmg, 4,893 Sta

5.) [PCT-1] Hammer Fist 25% -1AP
9,786 dmg, 4,893 Sta

6.) Basic Physical Attack 5%
1,957 dmg, 978 Sta

Note: Hikaru's PL is now double Star's giving her 1 additional AP.

Hikaru watched the little reptile, to see if it still would continue to attack, but… instead, it seemed to give up. It’s mental anguish ringing in Hikaru’s head. She sighed and caught her breath, allowing herself to feel the sting of pain from the fight. The human shook her head as if to shake off her fatigue. Then she clicked the button on her watch and felt the weight of her training gear settle back on underneath her coat.

Hikaru almost sagged, the familiar weight being just a little more difficult to bear more than usual after her exertion. But she refused to show it. True to her form and PTO training Hikaru merely strode towards the little being as if she hadn’t broken a sweat from their combat. As if she wasn’t injured at all.

Finally Hikaru knelt in front of the reptile, and spoke clearly and firmly, “There is no such thing as Perfection,” her red eyes were fixed on Star’s blue ones, “There will always be another level. There will always be someone stronger. So long as someone works hard, they can become stronger and stronger. Human or otherwise.”

She didn’t know if the little creature would believe her. Judging by how fanatical and obsessive it seemed to speak of being perfect, Hikaru doubted it. But it still needed to be said, whether Star believed it or not.

Once again, Hikaru didn’t see this creature as evil or malevolent. It was hungry and seemed set on some misguided ideology. Hikaru didn’t want to kill it. She was tired of killing. Utterly sick of it. The croc had refused to listen before, but maybe now that it was completely beaten, and knew fighting her was pointless…

“I can help you get stronger,” the human spoke softly… almost kindly, “I can show you how I’ve earned my strength. Help feed you. But only if you promise not to hunt down and hurt innocents.”

The human gestured off to the village she had thrown Star away from, “Innocents like those people. I can teach you how to be strong so that you don’t need to consume the weak in search for a perfection that doesn't exist.”

Slowly Hikaru held her hand out to Star for her to take, “Let me show you.”

Word Count 392

Weighted Word Count: 1,433

UnWeighted Word Count: 290

Total Word Count: 2,115

Power Level: 39,145
Weighted Power Level: 9,786