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Hecate
Ever since that enormous well of magic energy allowed itself to be present within the area of Nanda Parbat, a place that was thinner than most places between the mortal realm and the beyond, Hecate's attention was put all on the monastery that Rama Kushna watched over; Rama herself was absent from the place, which made Hecate more suspicious of the familiar magic energy.
Within her own private dimension, having made it herself after escaping her imprisonment, Hecate stood in front of several mirrors, most of which kept an eye on the various women she divided her power out to for safekeeping, just in case she was sealed again by humans.
One of the mirrors, she placed her palm up against to spy on Nanda Parbat itself, a frown grace's Hecate's lips as she moved her palm a bit to look around the place, before her eyes widened a bit. "He's been unsealed!?" She asked herself, bewilderment in her tone.
This was beyond what she expected, that capsule ball should have kept Majin Buu sealed for a good few more millenia, before it would be redone by The Raptor. As a matter of fact, how Majin Buu was on Earth at all, made Hecate more puzzled.
Then again, as of late, events have been converging on Earth more and more over the Decades, so perhaps this was just fate for the Chaotic Destroyer to end up on Earth.
A frown then graced Hecate's lips, as she observed Buu himself as he sat at a table conversing with one of the Monks there. This was beyond what Buu was capable of, intellectual speech, and reason…well, beyond the few barbaric words he'd let out his mouth, before blowing up whatever planet that he was on.
This might be as good a chance as any to bring the Great Chaotic Destroyer under her control, now that he seemed to be a passive entity; perhaps that was what Rama meant, when she said that Buu's unsealing would bring forth a balanced soul within Majin Buu. After The Rapter tore Buu's soul asunder, before sealing away the rest of the chaotic being's essence away.
Rama herself was insistent that Majin Buu would return, like the western Phoenix, born anew but less chaotic; To keep himself at balance, unlike his old self.
But therein was the problem, it took concerted effort for any God or Goddess to barely 'control' Majin Buu, as he was chaos incarnate at the time; he was a whirlwind of chaotic power, but now he was simply sitting at a table like some ordinary being of reason.
Controlling Majin Buu at all was laughable, as his old self sought only to fight and destroy, so the most a higher being of power could do was try their best to steer the chaotic creature towards something they wanted destroyed.
Hecate still remembers the stories and rumors of an entire galaxy being destroyed within the span of a century at the hands of Majin Buu, so using the chaotic creature to one's means was often caused by those with nefarious intentions. Trigon tried using the Majin in his war against his home dimension, it was only after losing one of his horns and two of his six eyes that the demon was able to place the chaotic being under temporary control.
The dimension Trigon wanted to conquer at the time, kept the Majin mollified enough to not break free from Trigon's authority, until there was nothing else for the demon to conquer and for Majin Buu to finally break free from his metaphorical chains of Trigon's control.
How Majin Buu escaped that dimension before returning to his home dimension was unknown, but Hecate still remembers the rumors of how a scream was heard through the realms before Majin Buu was finally found back in their universe.
The true origin of Majin Buu, however, was lost to Hecate; she still has trouble remembering her old self, but she remembers enough of the old times, just not far back enough to remember when or how Majin Buu came into existence just yet.
Hecate viewed the mirror once more in front of her, and formed a sly smirk on her lips. Using any one of her avatars was out of the question to subdue Majin Buu, none of them were ready or even capable of rendering Buu to a low enough state for her to control him.
she'd have to go down herself while condensing herself into a constant state of an avatar of sorts to exist on Earth. If she failed to do what she wanted with the Majin, she always had her other puppets to eject her soul out from her damaged avatar and into one of her puppets as a last resort to keep herself alive.
It's what they were for, after all. Fighting Buu demanded the utmost power at her disposal, no holding back, before she could have any chance of controlling him so that she could finally start her plan of wiping out humanity.
Majin Buu
I exited the entrance to the courtyard of the monastery that led out and down towards a small village, several other monks I could see were milling about in the dry cold weather of the mountains. The conversation I had with Bodhi was fine and all, but the man insisted I didn't stay too long in Nanda Parbat, as time passed differently between here and the outside world.
I was left of course given a simple scroll of meditation techniques to start off with, before I was welcomed back after a month.
"Buu not understand. No fight moves?"
"Patience is key. If one wishes to know violence, learn violence, one must build their foundations up and accept that violence, while not always needed, must have control when wielded."
The scroll also offered a few tea recipes and channeling my chi better, so I suppose it wasn't all that bad. I can fight, it's not like I was never in one in my last life, but that was all in highschool and middle school…I still find it weird I became friends with my old bullies after I decided to throw hands with them after having enough of their bullshit.
Now with the scroll in hand at present, as I glanced down at it, I shrugged to myself and absorbed it into myself for safekeeping through my hands, before I stepped off into the air to fly away towards the landing area of my tree ride. I wanted to ride the tree again, but this time stand up on it the whole way back.
While I flew towards the very spot I landed down at, the tree pole itself was still stuck in the ground and at an angle; for an odd reason however, something felt weird in my mind as I drifted down to my ride back to Jump City…well not exactly my ride, since I can fly without it, but I'm having fun with this strength of mine…
Once I finally landed, I frowned as I looked around, perhaps this was an innate ki sense that Buu was capable of. I was after all figuring out the full faculties of this body, and Ki sensing was still one of those novel things to experience.
Everyone had a low signature of sorts, especially when I was in Jump city; it was like feeling a massive white haze of sorts…quite honestly, it was hard to describe. Narrowing down each lifeforce was its own difficulty too, but I was getting better at it.
This approaching life force wasn't anything I've felt before. It was massive but at the same time condensing itself down by each second as it felt it was getting closer to my location.
I traced my eyes around to track the energy as it headed my way, and just as I was about to turn around and face the incoming source of energy or magic that I was feeling, I instantly felt a harsh beam of energy blast me in the face point blank range.
KRACKOOM
I felt slight pain, on the scale of a feeling like I had my face up near a fire or the feeling of forgetting to pull my face away from the fresh hot oven after I opened one and getting blasted by the heat of whatever I cooked inside of it.
Whatever the pain scale was, I felt the damn shit, as I felt my body soar through the air; it wasn't terrible, it was tolerable, which meant whoever came to knock my shit, knew me and was trying their best to get rid of me since the person attacked me on site.
And to be fair for anyone that knew the Buu before me, this was justified, but I was him now, and the old Buu was gone; but that did not mean I will take this lying down.
With a harsh 'boom' of air from me stopping myself in mid air, I glared with my fists by my sides and ready for the incoming fight; I didn't know any martial arts, but I knew how to scrap…besides the other powers this body was capable of.
Reacting quickly, I threw my fist with a ball of energy at the end of it, right where I felt the energy of the person that sucker blasted me in the face would be; A woman teleported into existence, right where my fist would end up at.
The woman herself expressed some shock right as I plowed my fist into her face, letting the ball of pink energy surrounding my fist explode as well to blast the woman point blank range in the face, sending her flying down towards the mountain scape below.
Having just seen the woman use that teleportation technique again with my own eyes, the very ability itself started to ingrain in my mind, as dwelled on what I saw and witnessed twice. As the woman stopped herself from falling too far to impact the ground far below, she hovered in the air and righted herself to look up at me with a scrutinizing gaze.
Seeing the full view of the attacker, the woman wore a headdress made from gold and jewels that was draped over her black hair that cascaded past her shoulders. Over her entire being, she wore a garb of purple that flowed in the gentle breeze, with golden bracelets near her hands.
…I have no idea who I am fighting here…
I narrowed my eyes back down at her, and scowled, before I powered up a ball of pure black and pink energy into my hand, "Magic lady make Buu mad!" I yelled out with a grouchy voice, she was a threat already in the fact she chose violence first, so I probably needed to take her out before she became a problem later.
The woman demurely smirked back up at me, "The barbarian speaks!" she taunted back, making me frown, before she cackled and disappeared through her teleportation ability.
Having seen it three times now, it felt like I could understand the ability more than the first time and second time I saw it; instinctually using the same ability myself, I teleported out of the way right as the woman blipped into existence with another hand aiming for where my face was.
I myself teleported right behind her where I felt she would teleport next, "Huh whe-?" She was cut off mid sentence as I aimed and fired my ball of energy into her back, making her shriek in pain as she was sent hurling through the air towards the nearby mountain, and collided into the face of it.
I used the same teleportation ability I saw her do, and blipped right where her body impacted the face of the mountain; The woman groaned before she snapped herself back to her senses as I moved to grab her by the face, my hand grabbed nothing but air as she blipped out of existence.
Using the teleportation ability again, blipped into existence where she would be next, high up in the air with a roundhouse kick. The woman let out a heaving gasp of air, but seemingly was able to keep herself from flying off, no doubt using her own ability over flight to stay in place.
The clouds, however, that surrounded us, were blown back behind her from the force of my kick I used in an attempt to launch the woman across the mountain range; I wanted to use more of my strength, but I had no idea who this woman was, or what alignment she was on.
Regardless of that though, I was going to finish any fight anyone tries to start with me, and this woman started one.
The woman held her palm against her stomach, and coughed a bit, before smiling, "You're holding back…the Great Chaotic Destroyer, reduced to this." she cackled with a grin.
As we hovered in the air, I scowled back at her with my fists clenched at my sides in anger, "Who are you! Explain yourself!" I demanded, surprising myself and the woman.
The woman lifted her hand to cover her mouth with the back of it, "Hoh, and here I thought you weren't capable of anything beyond speaking barbaric speech!" she crooned, and lowered her hand to show herself licking her lips in satisfaction. "This will be easy."
I recoiled back, while my anger simmered a bit, this bitch was crazy! "Answer Buu, who is lady!" I demanded again, somehow falling back to my awful english…was anger helping me here with speech!? Why?
The woman however smiled with a smirk, before her entire body shimmered like a mirage and disappeared, nothing like her teleportation ability. I looked around, before suddenly, I felt an aching pain in my head. And unknown language spoke into my mind, that made me reach up and palm the sides of my head in pain.
"Skre mehs own rhounethe, bheineiz yeios kheeatuuioes tut mehs khonnhoud."
I felt excruciating pain in my mind, as if I was experiencing a thousand headaches at once, it was beyond anything I've felt before.
Wherever that woman was doing, I didn't want it at all. So going for broke, I screamed to the high heavens, making the entire area around me shake with an intensity that made the mountains around me quake. Like the sound of a window shattering, the air around me broke while the woman reappeared right in front of me like a mirage unfolding, holding her ears in pain.
I breathed a sigh of relief, while the woman herself scowled and looked at me with visceral anger, "Impudent cur!" she howled in anger, while still holding her ears in pain.
I scowled back at her, before snapping my arm out at her to wrap my arm around and engulfed her entire torso while she was still burdened by the pain in her ears; I snapped my arm off from myself, and regrew it back while the part of myself that was still encasing the woman's body, started to contract in on the woman by my will.
The woman let out a strangled gasp of air, as I steadily let the ring of pink mass around her torso shrink more, "Answer Buu! Who is lady!" I demanded once more.
The woman however cursed, as she scowled back at me, before suddenly smirking. "Oh, don't worry your pink head, You'll know soon." she answered, as if she wasn't at all bothered by the pain of being squeezed to death.
The entire form of the woman shattered like molded clay, before I felt a heated blast that felt scorching hot on my back that sent me flying off; while I was sent flying forward, I felt out for that woman's energy, and it seemed lower than before. So she was either catching on I could sense where she would be and was at, or she was now trying to conserve her energy, it could be any number of things.
Nonetheless, I flipped through the air by balling myself up and teleported back behind the woman with a downward axe kick of my foot into her shoulder; the woman herself however blipped from existence, no doubt catching on I would probably do this, or she too was able to sense my energy just fine, but hadn't bother to use that ability yet till now.
I had to quickly glare at the woman as she teleported above me with an open hand glowing with orange magic energy. I quickly reached up and blasted a concussive energy ball at her own attack, causing both our attacks to simultaneously explode.
I teleported to her next location with my fist balled up and directed it into whatever part of her body I could as I caught up with her next location she would end up next. My fist struck true as it was planted into her check, the woman herself grunted in pain as I punched her out of the air.
I teleported again behind her as she was sent flying, and attacked her with my knee into her back; a loud boom echoed in the air before the woman's body was sent flying through the air; teleporting again, I blipped into existence beneath her flying form and wrapped my arm around her by stretching it long enough and caught her in a complete rope hold with my whole arm.
I spun in the air horizontally before letting the woman loose, making her fly downwards into the earth below. A loud cracking boom echoed up to my ears. Using the teleportation ability again, I appeared above the woman with my fist raised and punched it down towards her body.
I ended up hitting some sort of illusion as the woman's body shattered like glass, right before a hand grasped my antennae, and just as quickly blasted a scorching heat blast into my head, shortly before tossing my smoking head down the mountain we were on.
I quickly tucked my arms and legs in to bounce along the mountainside before flinging myself off by bouncing and flying off into the air; whatever that magic blast she was doing, it was doing significant enough damage for me to feel it. I couldn't help but scowl as I sensed the woman teleporting in front of me.
The off us stayed silent, I scowled at her in annoyance, while the woman stared back at me with a contemplative look. "You…" she began to say, giving me a more calculating look, "You've definitely changed from the stories and times I've seen you fight…" she mused.
I growled back at her in annoyance, I had no reason to tell her what my story was. "Buu asks one more time! Who is lady!" I demanded while keeping my fists clenched.
The woman chortled a bit, before she answered, "I guess it's only fair you should know your future master." she palmed her chest with pride, "I am Hecate, and soon, this planet shall know my wrath!" she answered.
…Isn't that the name of some Greek goddess? I honestly don't know her story in the comics, beyond barely remembering her name from actual mythology.
I narrowed my eyes at the prideful goddess, "Buu refuses servitude, whether by force or not! Greek lady should piss off!" I began to seethe, "You won't like me when I get angry!" I began to speak better with my anger.
Hecate on the other hand chortled some more with her palm beside her cheek, "Oh how sweet, you think you have any choice in the matter! I haven't even used my full capabilities!" she taunted, before crowing in laughter.
I lifted my brow at her, making her cease her laughter, "Greek lady should know, Buu's holding back too." I smirked back.
Hecate promptly scowled, "Cease calling me Greek lady! You will address me as Hecate, or soon, you will call me your goddess!" She demanded with some red in her face.
A pause in the air stayed between us, before I looked at her weirdly, "Buu's not into pet play." I sassed back, earning a more red in the face look from Hecate.
"Y-y-you!" Hecate began to shriek, before teleporting in front of me with a fist covered in yellow magic that instantly plowed itself into my cheek. I had to raise my ki this time to stop myself from getting punched out of the air by her.
So now here I was, with her fist planted into my cheek while my head was slightly turned from being punched in the face, both of us glared at each other. "Buu's not going to hold back any more." I dryly state, having had enough with this fight.
Watchtower
Batman narrowed his eyes at the ongoing footage he had zoomed in on to the Himalayas, after reports poured in about a continent encompassing tremor was caused by a guttural scream heard through the entire mountainscape; two unknowns were using fighting it out, the fight itself was a bit difficult to track with how fast they teleported around each other.
The Earth surveillance room's doors opened up, before the clack of boots entered through them.
"Doing a bit of late night work?" Wonder Woman's voice earned Batman's attention, but kept his eyes on the ongoing fight between the two unknowns…well, one unknown. Doing a quick facial analyzer of the pink creature, pegged the alien looking being as Majin Buu.
A recent alien that was awakened in a Star Lab.
"Hmmhm" Batman answered with a grunt, as he zoomed in and freeze framed the other occupant of the fight, a woman of unknown origins. "Something going on over in the Himalayas." He answered her.
As Wonder Woman finally reached him, she stood beside Batman with widened eyes, "great Hera!" She stood forward with a concerned look on her face, "Is that Hecate!?" She seemed to be questioning herself, as while Batman himself was familiar with the Greek Mythological character, he wasn't acquainted with the real deals that existed on Earth.
Batman gave Wonder Woman a minor sideways look, before speaking, "Hecate?" he questioned.
Wonder Woman however expressed an unease look on her face, "It's…a complicated long story…" she winced.
Batman narrowed his eyes a bit, before returning his attention to the screen showing the ongoing fight between the two, "Well, whatever she is to you, it looks like she had business with this Majin Buu a lab woke up over a month ago." he responded.
"Who?" Wonder Woman questioned as she glanced down at Batman sitting beside her in his chair.
Batman clicked clacked few buttons, before he brought up the files on Majin Buu from Star Labs that he 'acquired' just a few minutes ago. "An alien life form, and from what I can understand so far of his character, he hasn't been that bad of a resident on Earth." he mused, no police records on the pink alien, save for the few times he's helped the law enforcement.
So they had another alien on Earth, with super strength as a base ability besides everything else that has been recorded by the lab, and from what the ongoing battle he's seen so far…
…and now he has teleportation as well as of recently. Either he never used it before, or he learned it from Hecate from just seeing her use her own ability.
That was beyond disconcerting.
Batman turned his head to give Wonder Woman a glance, "Is this 'Majin Buu' under any threat from Hecate?" He asked, this entire situation was an unknown to Bruce.
And he did not like unknowns.
Wonder Woman frowned, before leaving. "I'm heading down, just in case. Hecate wants something from that 'Majin Buu', and whatever it is, I won't let her have it." she answered his question, leaving Batman to himself with the room.
He looked back to the ongoing fight between the two within the screen; he should ask John if his ring has any information on Majin Buu if he has his own species somewhere in the galaxy or not. The more they knew about these two, the better.