Narina could not express the horror she saw before her..

An entire village lay before her.. burned to the ground.. with corpses left to rot out in the open while ravens pecked at their remains.

Children.. women.. men.. none were spared.. A sickening feeling went through Narina's body as her hair began to discharge static out of pure emotion.

"This.. there's no words to describe this.."

"This was one of our neighboring villages. " said Mitsune, walking over and putting a hand on Narina's shoulder. "I thought.. well.. that you deserved to see what happened.. even dragons mourn dead ones they never met."

"Those bastards have to pay.." Narina growled. "For all they've done.. I.. I.."

Narina didn't know how to describe it.. it was as if she was instinctually enraged.. as if somehow her heart knew that these people were of her own ancestry.

Narina looked away. She had seen terrible things already in her early hero work. She had seen dead bodies.. deals between criminals gone awry.. everything..

But this was just too much..

Narina stared down at the burnt and charred skeleton of an infant. "Has... has there been plans to try and bury them?"

"We could not. We simply don't have the man power.. nor can we distinguish the bodies from each other to give them gravestones.." Mitsune.

Narina clenched her fists so hard, that if her skin was like a normal human's, her hands would've began to bleed.

And that's when she heard it.. singing..

And it was in her voice..

Narina looked up as Mitsune blinked with slight confusion. They looked around until they saw her.

Valerie was strolling through the burned battlefield, wearing a school blazer and skirt.

She bent down and laid a bouquet of flowers at the feet of a burnt up mother holding her infant child.

She stared down at the corpses curiously, as if still unable to comprehend the significance of everything.

"Sh-she looks just like you.." stammered Mitsune. "Except.."

Valerie looked at Narina, her violet irises glowed and turned like a dial, much like how Bella did when she analyzed a target.

Narina stepped back. She had gotten so used to her female body now.. that it was enough to feel very weird looking at her own twin..

Much weirder when it was a robot copy.

Valerie walked over, and Narina grew more apprehensive.

"I have no intention of entering battle form." said Valerie. "Please, remain calm."

"Why should we!?" Mitsune growled angrily. "AFTER WHAT YOU DID!?"

"I have not done anything so far." said Valerie. "I have yet to fight any of your people.. Senes believes.. that I am not emotionally ready for battle yet.. I wonder why.."

Valerie's eyes dimmed as she looked at her hand and wiggled her fingers around, as if curious to how they worked. "Androids only simulate emotion.. if we are made for battle, simulating the emotions that would hinder me would be useless.."

Valerie sighed. "So logically, I am to assume that I bare no such emotion."

"You have no emotions?" Narina muttered, raising an eyebrow.

"Yes.." said Valerie.

Narina paused for a minute.. then.. She whipped Valerie's skirt right off..

"WHAAATTT!?" Valerie squealed, going red and attempting to cover herself.

"There, you have emotion.." said Narina.

"G-geh.. er.. Narina-san.." Mitsune stammered.

"TH-THIS ISN'T EMOTION!! I-IT'S AN IMITATION OF AN... An.. EMOTION.. which I don't like.. I DON'T LIKE!!!"

Valerie squealed and snatched her skirt back. Narina smiled.

"I like you.." Narina said with a grin. "You're not like the other androids are you? "

Valerie glared at Narina. "I have this strange sensation of my chest.. and for some reason I believe that by punching you in the face, I will make this sensation go away.."

"That's called anger.." said Narina. "Bella, my friend, sometimes feels this when she finds that I spent the day playing Xenoverse 2 instead of cleaning my room."

(Mikoto:  "Kanae? have you done your laundry yet?"

Me: "Uhhhhh... yes?"

Mikoto: "Riiiight, explain this pile of clothing then.."

Me: "ええと... alien time travelers?

Mikoto: "Oh.. *looks at the tv where I'm playing* and I'm sure Zarbon and Dodoria went back in time and took your dirty pile, setting it up just for you.. but Zarbon and Dodoria aren't going to see you again until after the Time Patroller decides to do her laundry."  

Thank you sis, for loving me enough to be my mother when our mother isn't around. :D )

Valerie stopped glaring at Narina.  "You.. just what are you?"

"I was going ask the same thing, all things considered." Narina said. "Especially since it's kinda my face you have.."

Valerie shook her head. "I do not know.. I am not aware on how I was made.. all I have is orders.."

Valerie turned away. "You should probably try to kill me now, I am a part of the enemy."

"No." said Narina. "I don't think I will."

Valerie narrowed her eyes at Narina. "Is it because I look like you?"

"Nope." said Narina. "I just don't think you're evil.. not yet anyways.. maybe the other androids in the control of the King became evil eventually after working under him.. but.. you've still got a chance.. "

Valerie tilted her head curiously. "So this is a human.. or a Ryuu.. you.. are quite friendly up close.."

"I'm naturally friendly, as for other humans, it depends.." Narina said.

Valerie smiled slightly. "I will remember that.. when I'm deciding whether or not I should kill you.."

Valerie disappeared, having used her amazing strength and agility to move at the speed of sound.

"She's that fast even without her battle form activated." Narina muttered. "She's definitely going to be tough."

Mitsune glared at the spot where Valerie was. "Are you sure about letting her go?"

"She hasn't killed yet.. she's new.. like she said.. and something about her is telling me she's different from the other androids.. other than the whole part that she looks like me." Narina said.

"I'm sorry, but at the moment, I'm feeling antagonistic towards any androids I see." said Mitsune. 

Narina suddenly became thoughtful. "Androids you see huh? That makes me wonder.. do they have a base of operations nearby? I mean.. Bella needs maintenance once every two days, she has to oil her own inner joints, clean out her circuits to make sure they're not dusty.. she says her combat and deductive systems get slow if her circuits get dusty.."

"You think they couldn't afford to keep going all the way back to the Palace every time they're done fighting with us.. and they need a place to continue issuing maintenance to themselves." said Mitsune.

"That's the idea.. though generally, they're better survivors than humans, since they don't need to eat or sleep (Though they do have a sleep mode). However, I did some serious damage to that Chompani guy.. I mean.. he was literally in pieces when I finished with him.

"I see.. they aren't attacking now.. because they're vulnerable.." said Mitsune. "Are you suggesting we find them before they find us?"

"It's worth a shot." said Narina. "You go back to the village, I'll call up Stoor and run the idea by him.."

"Actually, maybe it's better I do that and YOU go back to the village.." said Mitsune.

"Neh? Why?" Narina said.

"Well.. seeing as you've grown up in the city, never learning the ways of the Ryuu People, I realize you never had a Heritage Rites done.."

Narina raised an eyebrow. "Heri.. wha-?"

"Here, let's switch to Japanese, I can never get the precise translation down." Mitsune said.

Mitsune switched to Japanese. "it's called a Jidai No Torai.. "

"Coming of Age ceremony?" Narina repeated in English before switching abruptly to Japanese. "oh.. I see.. so you have something like this for the people in the Ryuu culture.. but edo... I.. I'm not suited to that, really.. I grew up in a differing culture, so it wouldn't be right.."

"That's precisely why you need it though!" Mitsune exclaimed. "We are all family, that is how our traditions work, as long as the blood of dragons run within us, we're all related!"

"I am not going to begin to say how that makes marriage weird, or contributes to the weird thought that Chasm is our great times a million Grandpa." Narina muttered.

"Chasm is considered family as well, though, I don't exactly know what to think of him as specifically.. he.. scares us." Mitsune said. "But please! Allow us the opportunity to do this for you.. you coming back here.. well.. you're the first Ryuu to not grow up among us.. that we know of... you're like a long lost little sister!"

"Brother.." Narina muttered under her breath.

"What?"

"Nothing." Narina said. "Sister.. and Brother.. and.. never mind.. okay.. let's do this.. by the way, is it a girl's only festival?"

"No.."

"Oh thank god!" Narina sighed with relief. Considering how she didn't grow up as a girl.. It would feel too weird.. "So what do I have to do?"

1 hour later..

"LET THE AGE CEREMONY COMMENCE!!!!!!"

Narina stood there stunned. She was standing within a giant arena that was on the edge of the village with stone tile floors, designed like a martial arts arena. She wore loose fitting pants and breast band with tribal markings painted on her body.. and on the opposite of the arena.. were other similarly dressed boys and girls (boys without breast bands), all of them around Narina's age.

They all gave Narina grins of violent anticipation, cracking their knuckles.

The village elder stood up in the stands of the arena. "As is tradition, those who come of the age of 15 must battle those whom have already completed the rites! The amount of people she manages to defeat in a consecutive fight with no breaks, shall determine her place in the village!!"

"You're kidding me.." Narina said, sweat pouring down her brow. "What are we? Saiyans? Klingons?  WHO CAME UP WITH THIS PAINFUL TRADITION!?"

"Your great great grandfather!" said the elder.

"That figures!!!" Narina roared, now looking very stressed.

"NOW!! BEGIN!!!" The elder yelled.

Ryuu in the stands cheered as the first contestant walked forward.

"Uh.. so.. let's have a good match.. and." Narina began.

"I'M GONNA TEAR YOUR SPINE OUT!!" The girl suddenly exploded with energy, and her clothes tore to reveal her Wyrm Form.. a blue scaled one piece with spikes on her shoulders and a long blue scaled tail. 

The girl gave Narina a fanged grin, her yellow dragon eyes burning brightly before she snorted flames from her nostrils.

"Look, I'm new to this.. so go please go easy on- WWWAAAGGGHHHH!!! OW!! OW OW OW OW!!! HEY! MY NECK!!!"

The Ryuu girl had moved at astonishing speed, grabbing Narina in a headlock and slamming her against the ground, creating a crater in the center of the arena with Narina's head.

"Urrgghh.." Narina groaned, her faces squashed against the crater.

"Heh! Not even a challenge!!" growled the girl. "looks like another farmer."

"Okay.." Narina growled. "Now I'm pissed. PRISM DRAGON: ADAMANTIUM QUEEN!!"

A burst of electric light later, a massive diamond tail slammed into the girl.. bashing her into the ground, creating another crater.

Narina rose from the ground in her Adamantium Queen form, rubbing her cheek sorely. "You know.. you should AT LEAST give me a warning.."

"FLAME DRAKE FIST!!!"

"WHAMMMM!!" The girl's flaming fist collided with Narina's abdomen.. a shockwave ensued.. only to result in the girl pulling back, squealing and clutching her fist. "OWWWIEEEEEE!! IT HURRRTS!!"

"Eheh." said Narina.

The audience stared, stunned. 

Narina grabbed the girl in an armhold and swiftly punched her in the abdomen. There was a brief pause, and the girl fell over unconscious.

Narina popped her neck and flexed her claws. "Alright... whose next?"

About 10 minutes later, a bunch of Ryuu in their Wyrm forms were lying on the ground, groaning as Narina stood there, unscathed, still in Adamantium Queen form.

"Sooooo." said Narina. "How's that?"

"Nobody... has ever beaten all 20 consecutive fights without tiring out!!" stammered the elder.

Garac, who had been watching from a secluded area, grinned. Narina was on a whole different level from most of the Ryuu tribe. Thanks to the effects of her Super Human abilities, Narina might be something completely different, neither Ryuu or Superhuman.. perhaps.. an entirely new subspecies of human altogether.

"Hold on just a sec!" Without warning, Machi herself jumped into the stadium, seemingly out of nowhere.

Machi smiled at the Elder. "Told ya.. "

The Elder nodded. "Indeed, you warned me.."

"Wait.." Narina said. "What is this?"

"We had a little wager on you that just turned in my favor.. as expected." said Machi. "Now.. this is a little unconventional from the usual tradition. But I'd like to have a little fight with me this time."

Narina felt a horror she only ever felt when she came up against Chasm, rise in her chest...

Narina backed away.. shivering.

Machi grinned. "Oh? So you can tell how strong I am? You really are a rare talent aren't you? Perhaps even more so than Violet-chan.."

Narina gulped.. she couldn't even bring herself to speak.  Though Machi seemed cheerful enough.. Narina could tell just by looking at her.. that there was an aggressiveness within her.. a violence waiting to break forth and tear it's prey apart..

"You can feel it.. can't you?" said Machi. "My killing instinct? In the Universe.. there are plenty of powerful foes.. way stronger than the puny heroes on this planet. If anybody wishes to survive them, they must become ruthless to the point of attempting to kill their opponent."

Machi held out her hands. "Of course. killing is mostly forbidden in our line of work.. but our fighting thirst is no less diminished. You're about to learn that.."

A Nintendo 3DS, and PSP floated out, flying next to her, turning into Program Master and Game Master respectively.

A PS4 controller, and an Xbox 360 controller flew out, all of them changing as well, expelling holographic images and transforming. 

"System.. Combine.." Machi said, as her irises began to glow almost like an android, only brighter..

https://youtu.be/PUxbDUfacaY

(The song is the theme of Metal Cooler in Dragon Ball XV 2, I felt it was the perfect theme for Machi when I first heard this during that particular story quest.)

Machi's clothes began to slide away like water... as her body glowed, her game controllers all melted away into a silver liquid that began to slide up her body.

"You're not the only super human who can transform.." Machi said with a sly smile as a new silver one piece suit formed over her.. 

It looked as if she were wearing a silver one piece bathing suit which revealed her legs but formed tight sleeves over her arms. the metallic surface on the sides of her abdomen were covered with flashing rectangular buttons while long blue glowing circuit paths lined her abdomen and her back, as if she were something from Tron. A silver head gear with an antennae and light blue visor, like a virtual reality game device, was adorned upon her head.  on the back of her right hand was a x shaped button and a start button while on her left hand were the typical game control red, blue, yellow, and green buttons that had A, B, X, and Y on them. 

"Wh-what the!?" Narina stammered.

"Trust me Narina Yukata.." said Machi. "In terms of Super Humans having strange never before seen abilities.. you've seen nothing yet.. you're unique on Earth.. but.. then again.. it's a big Universe."

Machi held out her hands, and pixelated green energy began to spread out from her palms. "Say hello to my ultimate form. System Master.."

Narina sweated, but began to grin. "Alright then.. I guess I don't have much of a choice do I? HYPERSONIC EMPRESS!!" 

Narina immediately changed into her Hypersonic Empress form, she began to blitz around Machi with unbelievable speed, creating gusts of wind as she moved.

Machi nodded. "Impressive speed. You're definitely no joke. System Freeze.."

Machi held out a palm, and suddenly green pixelated energy appeared around Narina, freezing her in place for a second.

"Wh-WHA!?" Narina stammered, right as Machi appeared above her.

"Galaga Crush.." 

On Machi's shoulders, two pixelated spaceships that looked like certain sprites from a very popular  arcade game appeared, firing pixelated projectiles into Narina.

"BOOOM BOOM BOOOOOOOMMMMMMM!!!" The stadium shook and those watching yelled out in fright, as the power of the attack could probably be felt all over Kyoto.

Narina rose from the crater her body had created, bruised, bloody and coughing.

"Hurts doesn't it?" said Machi as she levitated above casually. "That is to be expected... after all that's your defensively weakest form."

"H-how did you do that!?" Narina stammered.

"My power is over that of reality itself." said Machi. "Look above you for a second please.."

Narina looked up, and was stunned to see a digital grid-like dome covering the sky.

"Everything within a 20 mile radius of my body becomes a video game virtual reality which I can alter like a programmer or hacker, whichever you prefer." said Machi. "System Freeze was one of my commands, freezing the system of reality that governs your movements and reactions for just a second.. but of course, a second is all I ever really need."

Narina gritted her teeth. "LUNAR VALKYRIE!!!"

As Narina changed into her Lunar Valkyrie form and charged up electricity and cosmic energy into her fist.. Machi giggled. "Oh, going for the all or nothing approach huh? Not going to work.."

Machi snapped her fingers. and a holographic health bar appeared above her head. .. "HP Bonus.."

"SERIOUS DRAKE PUNCH!!!" Narina roared as her fist exploded into Machi, creating an electrical cosmic storm that blasted into the sky, parting the clouds... but when the dust cleared.. Machi's body looked relatively unharmed.. while the Health Bar above her had only decreased by a little.

"Oh? 5 Percent? That's good." said Machi. "You see.. HP Bonus allows me to gain a health bar that randomly sets a damage percentage to all my opponents. For example, it randomly assigned you to 5 percent.. the good news is.. that as long as my health bar becomes depleted, I will inevitably be KO'd. However, the bad news is..  that no matter how powerful your attacks are.. it will only decrease by 5 percent each time.."

"That's.. overpowered." Narina stammered.

"Maybe.. but the percentage is random every time I activate this ability." said Machi. "But I'm always guaranteed to never die in one hit... you however.."

Machi raised a hand to the sky. "Boss Monster."

A massive dragon made of pixels fell from the sky and smashed the ground with it's feet, roaring and breathing out pixelated flames..

"You.. " Machi continued.. "Don't have such perks in my virtual world. So Narina.. better think fast.. because your master is about deal out some harsh education.."