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Taliyah charged at the feline warrior with such rage she never knew had existed inside of her before. A flurry of attacks were met head on and blasts of energy erupted everytime they hit. Taliyah aimed attacks in all the vital areas, but Cougar blocked them with certain ease, but whenever the feline tried to retaliate Taliyah would just block them as easily as she had. They were dead even, but Cougar decided it was time to speed things up so she elbowed Taliyah hard in the ribs, grabbed her by the neck and then slammed her down onto the ground. She raised both her claws high in the air and then swung them toward Taliyah. But before Cougar could do any serious flesh wounds to her, Taliyah lifted her arms up and blocked the upcoming assault, grabbed onto the feline's paws and then threw her forward.
Cougar landed gracefully on her feet like most cats do. She quickly dug her feet into the ground and pushed off to give her an extra pulse of speed and slammed into an unexpecting Taliyah with her shoulder straight in the gut. Then back fisted her in the nose and smashed her elbow up against the Saiyan's chest. The wind had been knocked out of the Saiyan fighter and she stumbled back a bit to get her 2nd wind. Cougar took this to her advantage and grabbed ahold of Taliyah's throat, lifted her off the ground and slowly began to close her paws around her neck. She could feel the Saiyan struggle to swallow against her iron grip.
Taliyah felt her vision blur against the lack of air going to her body and brain. But with enough strength and mental power to gain her conciousness, she gathered energy into her palms and decided to take Cougar out now. Before Cougar could do anything,(For she had sensed the energy that Taliyah was gathering.) the Saiyan had slammed both the ki balls into the feline's chest, causing her to fly backwards and skid on her back. The mountain lion dug her claws into the grass to keep herself from flying too far and in a flash of bright light she transformed to her 2nd stage.
Cougar wiped a smudge of dirt off her elbow and grinned, fangs showing. "I think it's time I shook things up a bit."
Cougar pulled herself off the ground and raised her arms high in the air. "EARTH," she screamed and then slammed her paws down onto the surface of the grass as a massive boom was heard and the ground began to rumble. "QUAKE!"
The entire planet began to shake and Taliyah fought hard to keep her balance right on the unstable grounds while everyone else hovered above it. The land split into 2 halves and suddenly boulders of all shapes and sizes began to shoot out of the crevice and as they soared up in the air, each one burst into flames, burning radical colors of red, orange and yellow. The pressure was too much for Taliyah and the shaking of the planet caused her knees to give way and she fell onto them. After the quake had stopped, she slowly pulled herself back up, but Cougar wasn't done yet.
"METEOR FIRE!" the feline yelled at the top of her lungs with a fit of rage and each burning rock started to tumble towards the ground, all headed for Taliyah's direction.
Taliyah leapt into the air just as a flaming boulder crashed just seconds after she had gone into flight. But the others were closing in fast on her. She managed to dodge most of them while in the air and then when they seemed to have her against the ropes, she would jet down in a nose dive straight toward the ground and then pull up fast so they would crash into Earth and scatter into harmless pebbles. Just as she had dodged a group of flaming rocks, a large chunk of rock slammed into her back unexpectedly and caused her to collide into the grass head first.
Shocked by the attack from behind, another shower of meteors toppled onto her, scortching her every muscle and flesh all over. She forced the pain deep in the back of her mind and started to roll on the ground to dodge the showers of fire. It seemed endless, rock after rock and an occasional boulder would try to bury her alive or stay there till she was roasted. But she wouldn't give up, vengeance would not permit it to be so. Taliyah gathered energy into her palms and shot off the ki blasts, destroying the rocks the plumitted down toward the ground, ready to crush her body in thousands of places. But they were all being destroyed, ash burned as she disentigrated all the heavy chunks of rock.
Finally a large boulder, as though a piece of a mountain had been torn off, came falling down on top of her. Taliyah clasped her hands in a tight fist as though she were about to do a hammer strike, curled her feet underneath herself and then pushed off the ground with tremendous force. The 2 figures rushed head to head, the Saiyan and the boulder were about to collide. Taliyah busted through the flaming ball of graval until she was right in the middle of it and then let all her energy go so as to completely destroy the mountainous rock.
Taliyah floated in the sky, the wind blowing her spiky brown hair aside. "Is that all you can do?! Throw rocks?!" she snapped at the spectating feline below.
Cougar shrugged. "I donno, did you have fun blowing them up?" she said with a certain coy.
The Saiyan's eyes narrowed. "That's enough! It's time you stopped kidding around!" she snarled at her.
The mountain lion's yellow eyes glittered with excitement. "I totally agree!" she replied and quickly powered up to her 2nd form, violet eyes now filled with mischief and excitement. Since 3 days ago was her 1st time powering up in a long time, during her 3 days of training Cougar had learned to do it very quickly now.
Taliyah smirked. "Alright, I see your game."
Taliyah burst into golden ki flames and instantly transformed into a Super Saiyan. Her brown hair now was a bright yellow and jagged out into rough spikes all around. Her eyes flashed from jade to violet, then back to the emerald green. Every muscle in her body began to pulsate from the power that was being exhurted inside of her. Finally, with a ferocious battle yell that shook the skies, she was finally at her maximum in Super Saiyan form. She had obtained level Ultimate in such a short amount of time. It was amazing, the power, the energy, the life that emitted from this one Saiyan.
Cougar dashed up towards the sky and slashed at Taliyah with her long sharp claws. The same form that had slaughtered the Saiyan's offspring was preparing to do the same to the one who bore the Saiyan boy. Taliyah quickly dodged and then retaliated with a few kicks and punches until finally both of them swung and clasped their fingers together in a strain hold, one trying to overpower the other. Energy flames erupted in the sky as each powerful force put all their effort into defeating the enemy. Finally Cougar pulled free and slashed Taliyah's arm, blood dripping from the flesh wound that had gone through 2 layers of skin. She clutched her arm and this distraction gave the feline a perfect chance to react. She quickly kneed the Saiyan in the stomach and brought her fists crashing down onto her back.
Tailyah descended from the sky and quickly stopped herself by placing her palms on the ground and then she pushed herself up with her feet into the air just as Cougar had blasted an energy wave. The ki blast missed its target, and before Cougar could think of another game plan, an energy attack burrowed itself into the feline's side and then shot her across the sky. Cougar howled in pain and struggled against the force of the blow. The Super Saiyan then smashed her elbow into the cat's face, causing her to speed down to the ground and slam up against the surface. Cougar curled up into a tight ball, cringing in pain as the blood poured over her fangs.
Above her, Taliyah raised her hands high in the air, energy swirling throughout her enitre body. The ground began to tremulate against the pressure of energy she was creating. The Z fighters struggled to hold their ground, when suddenly chunks of square rock began to tear from the ground and encircled Taliyah. They spun faster and faster until it seemed like they were in a state of being blurred. Down below, Cougar waited intently for the upcoming assault, while Rowan continued to nurse the unconcious Tessay.
Rowan's eyes narrowed. "These Saiyans are incredible, simply incredible!"

 

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Lei opened her eyes in a flash and sat up quickly only to have herself be restrained from getting up. She felt herself being roughly pushed back down onto the bed she layed in. It was pitch dark and she couldn't see a thing. The images she just saw were so real and confusing that she couldn't even place the ki signature of the person who was trying to keep her under control. Lei started to struggle and fidget against the weight, but it was no use. She reluctantly let herself be placed back down against the pillow and she sighed angrily. The shadowed figure switched on the lamp and light flooded the darkened room. The mysterious person was now revealed to be Goten.
Lei shot forward and clung to his neck before he could shove her back down. "Goten! God I thought I was dead for sure!" she exclaimed.
He returned the embrace and let his face rub through her soft brown hair. "You're safe now Lei."
She felt her eyes blur from tears. "Oh Goten! The images, they were so real Goten! Afer I had passed out I thought for sure I was going to die and that's when I saw that Cougar monster attack I think Nina's mom or sister!" she said, then pulled away. "Oh Goten, and I felt...I felt the whole Earth tremble beneath my body. It was as though someone were changing the shape of the whole planet or something!"
Lei then wrapped her arms around Goten again while he caressed her back. "I just wanna stay here with you now Goten. I don't ever wanna be without you."
"Neither do I, not after what you just did! You scared me half to death girl!" Goten declared.
She gently kissed him on the cheek and let her lips brush over his. "I love you Goten, now and forever."

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Taliyah felt the pwer continue to surge through her body, every cell and vein would tingle from the power that continued to rage within her body. The massive chunks of gravel still circled around her as the malicious feline waited down below for her attack to commense. Her son's killer was right below her, so she was going to make this last attack count until there was nothing left to give. She was doing this for her son, Jarvus, her handsome yet incredibly stubborn son but nontheless he was her child.
She bared her teeth in anger. "Let's see how you like this!" Taliyah called down to her enemy.
Her response was a simple yawn from Cougar that showed all her glistening white teeth. "Hmph! Go ahead!" she called back.
Taliyah growled in rage and the entire planet began to tremble from her rage. "QUAKE!" she yelled and then suddenly the rocks disappeared from view all around her.
Cougar suddenly tensed up as she saw the large clusters of earth vanish from sight. She searched the skies and waited, turned her head in all the directions to see if they were waiting to attack her from behind. But they were nowhere to be seen, not anywhere. Even all the Z fighters were puzzled as to where the rocks had went to, but Nina only smiled. She was the only one out of her 3 siblings who knew this attack since she stuck around her old home to study it and find out. She had also learned this technique during one of her mother's simulations, but had never really put it to action. But when the attack finally commenced, it was gonna rock this world!
"Brace yourselves!" the Super Saiyan called down. Cougar looked up in confusion while Taliyah simply chuckled. "SMASHER!" she voiced with all her strength.
Suddenly the clusters of rock reappeared in an instant just millimeters from Cougar's defenseless body. The boulders collided with the Feilynx and before she could be seen from view she gave out a howl of pure pain. Each piece of rock felt like a mountain falling on top of her and scraped her entire flesh to wear it began to tear at her clothes. Taliyah started to turn up the heat and flames of energy erupted from around the chunks of earth.
In turn as the power was increased so did Cougar's screams of agony. The jagged edges tore at her clothes and flesh, blood flowing freely from the wounds. The rocks crashed into her guts and had already broken one of her legs and a few ribs. Her arm felt raw and stung against the cold night air just when the rock pounded into her arm, causing that one to dislocate and then the rock smashed into the arm again which made the humour snap in two. She screeched against the night sky and her screams were deafening, but she knew no one would come to her aid, not even Rowan. He believed that if you choose to fight alone with pride, then you have to finish it alone with pride, whether dead or alive.
The Z fighters and even Rowan felt their jaws open just slightly from the power of the attack. The fact that it was simply earthshattering alone, the other was she created this while a Super Saiyan. It must've done some serious damage alone while not transforming to the Super Saiyan level, and now it was totally lethal since Taliyah was. Kino and Nina smiled as they watched their mother from below, and even though she was hundreds of feet in the air, they could still see that smirk too.
The pain was horrendous to Cougar, a pain she had never felt before, or was it that she hadn't felt in a long time. Her days in Feilynx all seemed like a distant memory to her till this moment. All was lucid and open to her now. Cougar's life in the Feilynx Military Academy seemed like yesterday to her now. She had entered the Academy when she was 5 years old in human years and had trained diligently until it was the time of her graduation. Her classmates told her that she was one of the best Earth element controllers they had ever seen and so did her commanding officers. They also told Cougar that her will to win and be the best is what would make her successful in life. The rocks had finally stopped their assault to where Cougar figured she was buried alive in pain. What her comrades said about her, with all her fighting spirit she believed them and their words. She was not going to make a mockery of her Feilynx people nor her own strength.
Cougar's eyes flashed bright red with a deadly black slit down the middle of the blood red color and suddenly an incredible power awakened inside of her as it surfaced all around her body, adrenaline to her soul. She felt her body start to grow in size and her long angled snout was now starting to push back in. The whiskers were beginning to regrow and thicker in size. Her physical structure of bone and flesh was being reformed through ever pore and skin cell. Cougar's paws shrank down from fingers to stubby pads again and then swelled in size along with the rest of her body. Her palm tree tail began to curl into the snake form it had been and it in turn continued to burst with power and size as it thrashed back and forth. The jagged edges of rock were no longer a worry to her anymore, for the power that had been awakened suddenly made her stronger as it healed her wounds. Her long pointy ears began to reform into small stubs and they grew large as well.
"Man, I guess that takes care of her!" Krillin boasted hastily.
Yamcha laughed. "Yeah, tell me about it! I thought that fight would never end!"
Vegeta scoffed at their remarks. "Humans, always taking things so lightly! Taliyah! I never she was so strong! But that last attack has drained her though."
"Yeah, I suppose Vegeta. But the battle's over now. We only have one more fighter to deal with." Goku commented.
Gohan wiped the sweat off his forehead. "Golly, I was getting all worked up just by watching. Glad it's over now."
The Tears glowed against Nina's chest. "I wouldn't be so sure yo guys." she said as her eyebrows twitched from the power signal she was recieving.
Trunks was immediately at her side. "What's up Nina?" he asked.
"Yeah, what's going on sis?" Kino asked while wearing her usual serious expression.
Nina shut her eyes tightly, as though she were in pain. "Cougar's not dead! In fact, she's getting stronger!" she declared.
All the Z warriors ran to her side and encircled her as the Dragon Tears glowed brighter. "WHAT?!"
A ferocious roar was heard under the rock pile and it didn't once nor even come close to sounding like it was muffled, and so powerful that it caused the earth to quake just barely and then all was still as the roar echoed against the mountains. With a flash of light the rocks exploded from the pile and in its place was a newly rejuvenated Cougar who had a whole new look to her.
She was no longer standing on 2 legs, but 4 and was about 12 feet high in size and 24 feet long down to her tail. The energy continued to grow and she suddenly burst into bright ki flames that engulfed her body as her mass was increased. Her hair was a flaming orange against her golden brown fur and it glistened against the moonlight. A long and powerful growl escaped her throat in a crescendo. Now she was 16 feet high and 28 feet long down to her swishing tail with the white tip and black line coiled around the base of the white. Her claws were a pearly black and the tore at the grass to where it seemed like a tractor had came and plowed 20 trails of fresh soil where each leg was firmly held.
Finally her transformation was complete and she stood 18 feet high and 30 feet in length to her tail. Her red eyes blazed like fire against the dark sky and if she were to rise her self onto her hind legs, she would've been at Taliyah's level in a matter of seconds. Cougar admired her new look, at how this was the legend of her race and that only a few exceptional warriors were able to achieve their ultimate form. At one point in time on her planet Feilynx, all the inhabiters looked like her current form. But the planet was not large enough for all the adults to live and then have offspring too, so they began to evolve and regressed to the humanoid state of body. They continued to stay this way until some of them forgot how to achieve their final form. Everyone could transform to their 2nd level on Feliynx, and only a selected few could reach their 3rd form, but it was a definate rare occassion for someone of the Feilynx race to achieve maximum other than the king on their planet.
Cougar smiled and admired her fabulous yet terrifying fangs, opened her jaws and then snapped them shut which caused a few rocks to slide off a mountain side from the sound wave. "Well now, I must say that I've outdone myself!" she said with pride. Her voice was a bit monotoned, but it still had the feminine chord to it and she sounded similar to Android 18, yet 20 times or maybe 30 times louder.
Her tail continued to lash back and forth and Rowan could only look on with amazement. "She's finally done it! She's achieved her ultimate form!" he declared, and then grinned. I wonder how long the Saiyan will last now?
Cougar tossed her gaze up towards Taliyah who was in her fighting posistion, ready for any attack. The fully formed Feilynx licked her toungue over her whiskers and then over her fangs, polishing them to where they seemed to glow. She turned her body with graceful ease and then in a quick dash leap, she was now in the air and merely seconds away from Taliyah. But the only thing she was able to do was tense up and brace herself.
Cougar swiftly turned in midair and struck Taliyah with the tip of her tail and sent her careening down towards the ground. But before she collided, Cougar grabbed ahold of the Saiyan's struggling body and started to squeeze, then tossed her in the air and then swiped her gigantic claws over the Saiyan's stomach and ripped through the flesh. Blood spilled immediately while she moaned in pain. Cougar slapped her paw over her and then finally caused the Saiyan to crash into the ground, bleeding and half concious. The huge mountain lion then picked her up roughly in her jaws and squeezed the being in between her sharp teeth, listening as Taliyah's clothes ripped and then her blood spilt onto the predator's tongue.
Next she threw the Saiyan in the air and then Cougar rolled onto her back, all 4 paws in the air while the claws extended to full length. Taliyah gently descended from the air and landed on the huge padding of Cougar's paws and then felt herself being bounced back up again as one of the claw tore through the back of her shirt and down her skin causing just a minor flesh wound. She was becoming dizzy and fatigued, but held her strength although she was starting to fade out of her Super Saiyan form. As she was bounced up and down again and again, each time being cut on her skin which caused her to ooze out more blood, Cougar grinned. Even while the blood dripped onto her nose and fur, she didn't care because she was causing extreme pain was loving it.
Finally she rolled over onto her side and slammed her paw on top of Taliyah's wounded and severed body. She barely concious and her vision was a mess. Cougar's claws had dug into the grown to where it made it virtually impossible for Taliyah to move or wriggle free because 2 of her claws locked around her head and she would've been able to snap the Saiyan's neck in two at any given moment. She felt the giant paws push down onto her chest and felt at least 5 ribs crack, or it may have been a rib snapped twice and the 3 other cracked. In either case it hurt her badly and she could've sworn that one of the bones had brushed up against her lung sac which caused her to go into convulsive coughing and wheezing. Taliyah didn't know if she could take much more of this.
As she continued to cough, blood splattering on her clothes and staining the grass she felt her conciousness waver until her vision was so obscured that she had to cry in order to see just a little bit. The pressure on her chest due to Cougar's massive paws was starting to irritate her lungs even more. The last thing she remembered seeing was the paw rising in the air, claws aimed like daggers about to slammed into the earth but the target was her head.
She knew this, and so awaiting her demise, Taliyah closed her eyes to embrace the darkness.