Labor of love (Open)

[Zach]

The day was bright and sunny on the plantation, the second crops having been planted just days before. The recent planting meant after the for Zach, the rest period allotted him after the more strenuous then usual work day was coming to an end and with that, the master would soon be turning his perverse eye back upon the young man. Sure as clockwork, Just as the blonde teenager was finishing up stacking the latest batch of hay bales from the baling machine, two of the master's toadies strolled up, shoving workers about as they usually do. The Saiyans were bullies, everyone knew it but unfortunately the last hundred years of subjugation proved that for the time being, the human race was not strong enough to stand up to those bullies. They had tried during the initial war and the battles were valiantly fought, however the Saiyans had a foot hold and were simply too strong. Had the Earth not been so instantaneously invaded and rather had the chance to fight the war in space, the little blue planet might have fended off the bullies. Unfortunately this was not the case and as Zach knows so well, the bullying did not stop when the war ended.

"Hey blondie." one of the pair called out, shoving his way past a man carrying buckets of water who wasn't just fast enough to get out of the way. "Boss's been ask'n for you."

Pausing on the top of the pyramidal pile of hay bales where he'd placed the last of the stack, Zach looked reticently across the fields towards the slave worker's shacks and sighed. Then looking back to his task masters the boy hopped down from the stack as the two stopped near the base. He didn't know exactly what the master wanted, his tastes weren't always the same, just the end result, so Zach thought it best to ask the pair if they knew what he was wanted for. "Does he want me to clean up first or go as I am?" the boy asked and then obediently fell into stride with the pair as they turned and started back for the main house.

"Just come like you are. 'E's probly just gonna kick your ass and send you home." the guard replied. In truth the pair didn't particularly care for their assignment, escorting Zach to and from the main house was never a problem since the boy never disobeyed them and they so wanted there to be a problem. Though the job was easy, they didn't want easy but if they laid hands on the boy the master would have both of their hides, so the pair were trapped in an easy but boring job. And so the trio walked up the dirt road leading towards the main house, every slave along the way shaking their head sympathetically as they knew what would soon be happening to the boy. Zach though walked stoically and tried not to make eye contact with any of them lest he make them feel worse for him and do something potentially stupid.

[Legendary]

Koli let out a groan of frustration as she wandered theough the main house, things on the plantation had been so incredibly BORING, it was actually beginning to drive her a bit nuts considering she needed to spend a bit of time pretending to 'acclimate' to the North. Everything here was just so.. awful, her Uncle was a disguising jerk, though from what she could tell that was actually rather par for the course for these northerners. The man owned a rather staggering number of slaves and from what she could tell did practically nothing with himself except brutalize one of them in particular. The man didn't deserve the things he had and living with him was only making her even angrier. Back home a man like that wouldn't have made it a DAY, but here in the north he lived like royalty off the backs of others.

Koli punched a wall as she approached the main door leaving a none to small hole in it that someone else would have to deal with, so far she hadn't actually gotten into any trouble for 'accidentally' breaking anything and she intended to push that for as long as she could. Sadly it was all too likely that it would just mean a bit of extra work for one of the slaves in the main house but with any luck it would be something better than they normally had to do. As Koli approached the main door however she saw a scene that she had learned was disturbingly common. A young human boy being walked up to the main house from the road that lead to the slave quarters. Koli let out a sigh of annoyance at the sight. Why her uncle seemed so disturbingly focused on that boy was beyond her, when she had arrived here she had only seen her uncle for a brief few moments before he had gone off to 'take care of something' not long after Koli had seen this very boy being brought back to the slave quarters battered, bruised and just overall brutalized. When she had inquired as to what had caused it she had only learned that this was pretty much a weekly thing, when she had inquired WHY the response had mostly been disinterested shrugs.

Koli could perhaps vaguely understand something like this if the human was disobedient or disruptive, then at least it would fall in line with the normal jerkishness of slavery.. But this guy was being brutalized just for the hell of it, probably for FUN and if her uncles attitude was any indicator it was unlikely the guy was given a chance to even defend himself. With a sigh Koli decided she'd see if maybe she could stay the stupidity for at least a little while. She marched out through the main doors heading directly for her uncles stood crew as they walked the boy toward the house. "Oi you two, want me to take him off your hands? I know where my uncle is so you can go do something more interesting with your time." Koli said, hopefully they wouldn't put up too much resistance to the idea, Koli had made it a point to try and help around the house until she had learned that much of the tasks that she had done back home were done here by slaves so with luck they would just assume this was here continuing that 'helping out' trend.

The two guards looked at one another with rather perplexed looks upon there faces, this was most certainly not how things normally went down but then again this was also there chance to finally break from the monotony of there task and if anything ended up happening it would be on the girls head since she was the one who would be escorting the boy. With matching shrugs the men thanked Koli and then took off to elsewhere on the property. Koli smirked as her plan worked out and then turned to the boy. "You got a name?" She asked crossing her arms over her chest as she inspected him. He was probably one of the most fit people in her age range she had ever met aside from herself and was almost certainly more fit than the other slaves she had seen. Why on Earth would he uncle do something as stupid as attack this guy of all people. Without really waiting for the boys response Koli began walking very clearly NOT towards the house "Follow me."  She called over her shoulder as she did so.

[Zach]

As the trio made their way silently up the road and started to approach the well kept grounds surrounding the main house, Zach and is escorts were stopped by a young woman stepping out of the doorway and calling to the pair of Saiyans at either side of the blonde boy. Zach looked up when the other two were called but once he realized that the girl was one of the owners he immediately looked away. The short glimpse he got told him that she had brown hair and was well built for a girl, however given the nature of the Saiyans that wasn’t much of a surprise. What was a surprise though was what came out of her mouth next after she called for the attention of the guards. With a cheery tone she asked the pair if she could escort him the rest of the way into the master’s clutches and even more disturbing was that she identified herself as his niece.

‘Oh great, what is she going to watch while he works on me?’ Zach thought to himself and shifted uncomfortably as the guards agreed and took off without argument. Zach was made even more uncomfortable when he glanced up once more while the young woman walked up to him and in spite of asking him for his name started looking the teen up and down like a piece of meat. It wasn’t really anything new to Zach, the master treated him like meat but this was the first time someone of the opposite gender was looking at him in that way.

“M… My name’s Zach ma’am.” the blonde responded to her inquiry, returning his gaze to the dirt directly in front of his boots. By the time he’d croaked out the first syllable though she’d already turned and started off heading away from the house, commanding him to follow. Looking up once more Zach noted the direction and turned but only took a single step forward before stopping. He quickly looked towards the main house and then back towards the slave shacks, conflict evident in his expression.

“Ah… Ma’am… I was being brought to the master…” Zach spoke up, not sure if he should follow the girl or not. His sessions with the brutal sadist were always held in a lower level under the house, never out in a public place as she seemed to be heading for. Perhaps she knew something he didn’t, perhaps something new was in store for him today. But Zach couldn’t take the risk of angering the man and putting his parents in danger. He was an obedient slave but now didn’t know which master to follow, the one who was likely waiting for him, or the one telling him to follow her.

[Aice]

Sitting afar on a hill nearby Aice watched the farm below,
humans worked out in the fields, watering, collecting the food, and processing
it. He'd been sitting up here for some time unnoticed by anyone nearby,
watching the back breaking labor that those human where put through. Down in
the field he could see a blond human being taken away from his working station
and being led off to the house by two Saiyan's for what reason, Aice had no
idea.

"Maybe it's time for some house work for the big guy?" Aice thought.

Without a fight he went along with them to the large house on the plantation,
as obediently as a dog on a leash, maybe he had already been broken like so
many before. Coming up to the step of the manor a young girl came out from the
front of the house stopping just at the wooden steps, she called out to them.
Whatever she said it could not be heard by Aice, but the two shrugged their
shoulders, leaving the blonde behind at the steps. They headed off down the
road away from the house, stretching and yawning as they did; Aice guessed they
were taking a break.

“Not only where they brutish Saiyan's they were
also lazy, great this should be easier than I
thought.” Aice thought.

Aice had only came across this place after coming back from the blood plain
from his last adventure, his checks where slightly sun burnt and he had ring
impression around his eyes from his goggles. Wanting to take a closer look at
the plantations to see how bad the conditions where here; as far as he could
tell they were no better than anywhere else on the planet. Every once and
awhile the two Saiyan guards form below would randomly abuse some poor worker
on the field, push him to the ground and then yell at them to "get back to
work". This angered Aice greatly but it was not the time to take but that
of waiting and watching.

Peering back down at the two at the manor he could see that the blond seemed to
be confused, looking around as if trying to find an answer that was floating in
the air. Whatever went on between them was about to be interrupted by the two
Saiyan's from before, distracted by the blond on the steps; Aice hadn't noticed
the other two coming up the hill. Taking notice of them just in time Aice was
able to scramble up a nearby tree, leaving no detail of him ever being there.

As they got close Aice could finally make their details out
better, the two Saiyan’s where nothing good to look at. Both were on the
shorter side, not much taller than Aice but much wider than him; they hadn’t missed
too many meals. One of them had a broken nose that never set in properly
leaving it crooked as if it was looking off at something. The other was bald,
his head shinned in the afternoon sun, almost blinding Aice up in the tree.
Both wore the traditional Saiyan armor, but they were missing the middle
section; as some of their fat hung out the sides.

"Man, finally we can take a break, it's about damn time. We've been on our
feet all day." Broke nose said to baldy.

"Ya’, and it about damn time that Koli did some fuckin’ work around here,
she’s done shit since been here. Making us do all the hard work, I think we
deserve a nap. I just hope ey’ send her back into space soon; I'm getting real
tired of her shit." Baldy said.

"Who is this Koli? And what this about being from space...how many planets
do the Saiyan's have?"

Laughing they sat under the tree, stretching and yawning they both soon fell
asleep. Throwing a few nuts down at them to see if they were really a sleep
Aice jumped down from the tree sliding into a bush. Looking back he saw the two
passed out against the tree,

"Well with those two incapacitated it should make helping these people out
easier." Aice grinned.

Rolling from his hiding space he made his way down from the hill closer to the
open fields, backing his way from tree to tree. Eventually Aice made it way
around to the side of the house, covered completely by the bushes that surround
the manor.

"Maybe I should check inside first for keys, or flies that could be
useful, even black mail would be good." Aice laughed to himself

[Legendary]

Koli smirked to herself as 'Zach' managed to pull it together and give his name, he also rather dutifully followed behind her as she lead him away from the main house and towards one of the more open parts of the plantation, just far away from both the Slave Quarters and the main house to avoid the view of pretty much anyone unless they happened to be wandering about aimlessly just as Koli had been when she had found the place. Koli actually raised an impressed eyebrow as Zach spoke up again informing her of where dumb and dumber had been bringing him, she hadn't actually expected him to question her, as far as she could tell the majority of the plantations slaves were a bit too broken down to do so. That was actually a rather good sign as it meant the guy had a bit of life to him. "Yeah, you were. But I cant imagine anything good comes out of that considering the state I saw you in when he had you pay a visit to the big house last week." Koli said with a shrug as she finally stopped feeling that they were just about in the right spot now and if not it was good enough.

"With any luck this little adventure will delay him a bit, maybe a day or two. I'll do my best to shift the blame onto the stooge crew." Koli said with a smirk as she finally turned to face Zach once again crossing her arms over her chest. "Also quit it with the 'maam' bullshit, my names Koli." She said with a roll of the eyes, the idea of being called ma'am was just waaaay to awkward for her tastes, it was bad enough she needed to put up with it back in the main house, she certainly wasn't about to let that continue if she could avoid it. "Now you're probably wondering why I bothered doing this, mostly its because I was bored but ALSO because you actually look pretty tough and I need someone like that to help me out. I've been cooped up in there" Koli said gesturing distastefully at the main house. "For a week already and for a month before that I was cooped up in a craped little space pod." Koli said visibly cringing at the memory of her trip to Earth. "Which has left me stiff and out of practice for combat. Something I'm hoping you can help remedy." She said giving Zach a practically diabolical grin.

Zach was most definitely the most physically impressive slave she had seen in her brief time here and almost certainly ranked up there with the tougher looking young people she had met in her life, quite the accomplishment for a human as far as she was concerned. "So what do you say, want a chance to try and smack around a Saiyan for a bit? I just KNOW a Human like you has got to have plenty of pent up anger he wants to let out." Koli said hoping that the chance to actually get back at a Saiyan even one he didn't entirely know would be enough to goad the boy into a fight, it had been entirely too long since she'd actually had to fight anyone and her blood was absolutely screaming for battle. Sure she could spar with any number of the other Saiyans around but most of them were rather... pathetic and would almost certainly not give her the sort of fight she wanted. She wanted a chance at someone who legitimately wanted to cause some pain.

[Zach]

Zach didn't want to follow the girl too far away from the house but she seemed insistent and even though he'd paused to consider whether to continue inside or follow her, she was still moving. Finally though he decided to follow the Saiyan girl as for all he knew the master had sent her to intercept him on the way to the house, favoring something new. Breaking into a jog, the blonde teen caught up to the young woman and then fell into pace behind her until they reached their destination. The master was nowhere in sight though which was making Zach a little worried, if he didn't get to the main house soon for his appointment the boy wasn't sure what would happen, but he knew it would be bad and the punishment for disobedience would likely be taken out on his parents. Finally though she slowed and replied to his statement a few minutes earlier, informing her that he was wanted at the main house. Her reply was not what Zach wanted to hear as it seemed she was indeed diverting him from his appointment.

The Saiyan girl drew to a halt and turned back to face him, continuing to speak she explained that she did not what to be called 'ma'am' as was customary for addressing a lady of the house. Instead she informed Zach that her name was Koli, although the boy's mind immediately changed that to Miss Koli as anything approaching being familiar with a member of the household would be grounds for punishment. She went on to explain that she'd try and blame his absence on the two guards who routinely escorted him from the slave quarters to the main house but that didn't bring Zach any comfort, neither did what came next. The girl went on to explain how she'd been stuck in the house for a week now and before that had a long, slow trip on a space craft. Being of that age Zach thought she was about to start hinting at an encounter of the romantic kind and at once the boy started to sweat. Teenaged hormones will do that and once started they didn't stop easily, even if the boy fancied the boys more then the girls. She went on though and expanded on her explanation for bringing him here, apparently desiring a fight.

The sweaty and now faintly blushing teen didn't know what to say, this girl had dragged him away from his appointment with the master and by extension might be putting his parents in danger. He didn't think her blaming the delay on the guards would work, even a lady of the house has to obey physics, if Zach wasn't with the guards and wasn't working, then he was some place he shouldn't be and that was his fault, not the guards. She went on to talk about how angry he must be and Zach honestly didn't understand, this is the way it had always been. He was born into slavery, his parents never spoke of rebellion and Zach assumed this was simply the way the world worked. The world was cruel yes, the guards unfair, the master a monster, but what could he do? His place was to work and do what he was told, not to fight with the guards or the master unless the master himself ordered him to.

"Ma'... Miss Koli... I... I don't know if I should..." Zach stammered, not sure how one would say 'no' to one of masters. Granted it wasn't really saying no, more informing her what would happen if he disobeyed the master. "Im grateful for you looking out for my health, but if I don't go to the main house, the master will be upset. He'll take it out on my parents you see." Zach stated, trying to get over the hormonal rush Koli had given him. He was still sweaty though both from his labors and now from said chemical imbalance.

[Aice]

The girl passed by followed by the nervous looking blond
boy, he seemed unsure of whether to follow her or not, continuously looking
back over his shoulder at the house. Frozen in the bushes Aice sat, the boy was
staring straight at him, Aice for a second thought he had been caught before he
had time to do anything. Once noticing that he was not being looked at but the
house Aice relaxed a bit, his shoulders shrugging back down.

"Man thought for a second he saw me, hopefully he wouldn't call me out
though; he was human after all. Sometimes you never know I've seen some many others
so brain warped by these Saiyan's they'd turn their own mothers in. But he seemed...
like he still had control of himself... at least a bit, he looked hesitant to
follow her...."

Leaning slightly from the bushes he looked up at the manor, it was very nice,
following the design of older human buildings with a bit of Saiyan influence in
it, by which I mean all the slaves inside the house. The outside walls where
made of brick, this would be pretty easy for Aice to climb, but at the same
time he would be in the open; anyone looking over would be able to see him.
There were also window not but a few feet away from him, but from the sounds
inside the house he could tell there were people inside, how many Aice couldn't
be sure.

"So my choices are being seen, or being seen...." Aice sighed.

"I'm so glad that I learned how to do this." Aice slowly fading from
sight.

Now invisible for none to see he quickly made his way up the brick wall, the
grooves in the stone made it easy for him to get a grip on. Knowing that whoever
owned this place probably had an office or bedroom on the top floor. Aice made
his way to the top row of windows, stopping just next to one. Peering inside he
could see a long hall way that seemed to run the length of the building,
luckily it was empty, at least for now. Taking his chance Aice opened the
window allowing him to enter the manor; quietly he slid his feet on to the
floor boards. Even as light as Aice was on his feet he could not make the
wooden floor boards any less squeaky. They crunched under the weight of his
body, letting a squeal down the hallway, apparently this noise was enough to
get someone attention.

"Eh, Who in the hallway? Zackery? Is that you? How long does it take to
come here, I called you minutes ago!" A man yelled from behind a door at
the end of hallway.

 “And I’m off!”

Without a second thought Aice climbed the walled and wedged himself against the
ceiling facing downward, not but a few seconds later a door swung open from
down the hallway. A man walked out from if heading down the hallway, boards
squeaking under his feet as he went.

"ZACKERY? Where the fuck is that boy?" Standing below Aice, the man
noticed the open window.

"What the hell- WHO LEFT THE WINDOW OPEN!" Grabbing the window pane
he slammed it shut causing the frames to vibrate violently.

"Where the hell is Zackary, I told those two morons to bring him straight
to me, If find that their sleeping again, I'll have their heads!" The man
yelled as he walked down the hallway towards the stairs, Aice could still here
him mumbling as he went down.

As he became visible once again Aice had a large simile on his face, if it
wasn't for the fact that he was trying to keep quiet, he would be laughing his
ass off. Even from down stairs Aice could still here him moving throughout the
house as if he looked for something.

"Well whoever Zackary is, he's in one heap of trouble...hope it’s not
blondy from before."

Keeping to the ceiling Aice made is way down the hallway to the still open
doors, grabbing onto the door frame he swung into the room. Still hanging from
the frame Aice looked into the room, it was a study of sorts, a lot of book
selves filled to the brim with books, paper scattered on a wooden desk an
across the floor. Behind the desk was a large red chair that sat in front of three
wide windows, which gave a great view out over the fields. Many workers could
be seen out in the tall crops, taking care of the food that was grown here.

Swinging his feet back and forth Aice built up his momentum, letting go once he
had enough he jumped from the door way onto the wooden desk with a slight
thump. A bit louder than Aice had wanted but it was the best he could do, he
wasn't used to robbing people with wood floors. Hopping into the chair Aice sat
back, it was rather relaxing, supporting his lower back and what not, after
taking a swivel in the chair Aice got back to working. Noticing a large
black safe under the desk Aice got on his knees to get a better look at it,
just Aice's luck it was tumbler lock; something Aice had little skill in
cracking.

"Dammit, I've never broken into one of these before." Coming up back
to the desk Aice looked through the papers for a code; he knew that most codes
to locks are less than 20 feet away.

Without any luck Aice turned his attention back onto the safe, looking it over
for any weakness in it frame. It was pretty well built, from the looks of it Pre-Saiyan.

"Ugh...we sure knew how to make a safe." Sliding his back against the
desk he sat on the floor.

"Well this was fun, no keys, no info, nothing. Can't even break into the
safe, I'd need a professional weight lifter to rip that thing open... Or...
Where's that blond guy at?" Aice shot to his feet.

"Zachery? Is that you up there?"

"Crap, well at least Mr.Yellateveryone hasn't found him yet." Aice chuckled.

Taking a hold of the safe Aice pulled it from is hiding place, dragging it to
the windows, its rough metal scraping across the wooden floors. Pushing the
glass pane windows open Aice back up to them, putting one foot on the ledge he
slowly lifted it up onto the ledge. With the shifting of the weight Aice and
the safe slipped off the edge, landing on the ground with a loud thud. Knowing
he needed to get out of their quickly Aice bolted back up, picking up the safe,
Aice struggled off into the trees.

[Legendary]

Koli was rather... confused by Zachs reaction to her interest in fighting him. She had expected the boy to be just as excited for a chance to thrash a saiyan... not that she actually expected him to actually accomplish as much, but she had expected that that would be how a Human would feel when presented with a chance to actually fight a saiyan without any repercussion . But instead he jsut seemed to get really sweaty and nervous a fact that merely caused Koli to frown in annoyance, her frown worsened and was joined by a look of annoyance when Zach decided to call her 'Miss Koli' as he stammered a response. Had the damage already been too much for this guy? She had expected him being one of the more physically capable slaves that he might have enough resistance left to actually have an interest in a little defiance. But here he was doing everything to avoid a fight with her.

Then Zach finally managed a solid sentance and explained that if he didn't show up for his 'meeting' with her uncle that it would end poorly for his parents. Koli grit her teeth in annoyance at that, that certainly explained it, why someone as tough as this guy was just completely 'accepting fate' as it were. Koli's head snapped to the side as she heard a familiar if now incredibly loud voice. Her uncle shouting at the top of his lungs about an open window. Koli glared at the main house for a few seconds trying to catch a glimpse of what was going on up there even from this far of a distance, sadly all the could make out was the slamming shut of the window that Koli could only assume was the one her uncle had been angry was open. "Why do you and your familiy even bother staying here? It probably wouldn't be particularly hard to escape, the guards around here a lazy as hell, lazier than even those two who he sent to get you. And the ones who aren't, I bet you're tough enough to take them down, you'd probably even make it out without anyone knowing for a while if you're smart enough." Koli asked still keeping an eye on the main house just in case her uncle decided to venture out into the world in order to find Zach.

"I guess there is no real way that this will work out since you've got you're parents to look out for." Koli said with a scowl, she could already feel apart of herself screaming out at her for not fighting. The longer Koli stood here NOT fighting the more her blood called for it, the most Saiyan part of herself knew she had a viable opponent standing before her and was doing everything in it's power to command her to throw compassion away and force the boy to fight her. Koli did her best to restrain herself, clenching her fists, cracking her neck and popping her knuckles were all little things that helped just enough to keep her sane a bit longer. Letting out a deep sigh Koli turned back to Zach. "I suppose I should take you back then." Slowly words were actually becoming  a bit of a challenge. This was all rather new territory for Koli, she'd never actually gone this long without an actual fight, back home she would have already easily completed seven missions by now and at least one of them would have certainly given her the challenge she needed.

Koli briefly turned back to look at the main house glancing over it one last time she noticed something... odd, the window that her uncle had slammed shut was once again open. And moving through said window and into the trees was a person, she couldn't tell if they were a Saiyan or Human from this distance, and they appeared to have a safe of some sort. Koli's eyes narrowed as she watched the person attempt to escape with the safe having rather clear difficulty with carrying it. "The fuck, oi Zach follow me. I'll bring you to my uncle if you want but first I think I gotta take care of something." Koli said gesturing for the boy to follow her as she made a beeline for the intruder. While Koli had no love for her family here she most certainly was not about to allow some petty thief an easy escape when they were messing with what amounted to her territory. Forming a sphere of green energy in her right hand Koli hurled a Crusher Ball at the tree the thief was in with a roar of fury. "THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOUR DOING" she hollered at the thief as the Crusher Ball caused the tree to explode sending shrapnel flying everywhere. Koli wasn't entirely sure why she was so angry, perhaps it was the fact that she had denied the fight she had wanted? With any luck the thief would show himself and she'd get a chance to thrash them, maybe that would be what she needed to calm herself a bit.

[Aice]

Shrapnel went flying all around the area, the nearby my tree
exploding in a green light, pieces of wood went splinting off in different
directions. Ducking behind the safe Aice was able to block most of the debris
caused by the explosion. Peering out from behind the safe Aice glanced around
the area trying to see where it came from, that's when he heard an angry voice
calling out to Aice. Swinging his head over to his right, the girl and blond
guy from before where heading his way, well at the girl was at least; blondy
seemed un-sure what to do.

"Ah well fuck, I'm gonna guess that she was the one to throw that at me.
Really got to work on these tumbler locks." Aice sighed.

From the looks of it she was ready for a fight, something Aice had rather not
come here to do. Taking a glance at the safe he checked if it had taken any
damage from the green blast; the front was slightly wrapped but still not
enough for Aice to break through. He would still need help breaking it open,
but he also needed to get further away from the house, that sound caused by the
blast would get everyone attention from a miles away, and her voice alone would
wake a sleeping bear miles away. Picking the safe back up Aice ran with it into
the woods, the weight of it slowed him down a bit but nothing that Aice with
his speed couldn't handle.

"She wants to get me, she'll have to work for it, and with my luck maybe I
can just out run her." Aice smiled, he always liked a challenge.

"If worse came to worse I can just bring it to Winta, I’m sure we could
get it open together."

Booking it Aice went further into the woods, getting away from the now very
angry Saiyan, Aice was sure that  more people were on their way. The trees
grew closer together to each other, normally it would be difficult for people
to move through, but it was just like being in a large crowd in the slums.
Quickly Aice shuffled his way passed the trees with easy, with any luck it
would slow the Saiyan down long enough for Aice to set up a trap.

 Looking back over his shoulder he couldn’t see the girl any
more, but Aice could feel here on the air, she was definitely heading his way.
Not having much time Aice found a small clearing, setting the safe in the
middle of the clearing, Aice ran off into the nearby trees. Anyone walking by
would notice the out of place safe, hopefully she would too. Aice needed to
test just how smart this girl was before engaging her in any type of combat.

Stopping Aice crouched against a nearby rock, with his
clothes he almost blending into the surround area. Anyone looking at him would
have a hard time telling if he was a rock or not, prefect for Aice’s plan.

"Now we play the waiting game."  Keeping his eyes looking out for the girl.

[Zach]

Still sweating, feeling conflicted with options before him and afraid for his parent's wellbeing, Zach pondered on whether he should just do what Koli wanted. It wasn't the first time he'd been asked to fight, quite the contrary, in the last year the master had taken an interest in Zach putting up a bit of a struggle and so had had the boy trained. It wasn't the best training after all but even meager training combined with the blonde's impressive physical strength was enough to make him dangerous, Zach though didn't know exactly how dangerous. His mind was that of a save and it didn't occur to him that he quite literally had the power to take on half of the lazy guards around the farm and free it himself. In his zeal to breed the ultimate whipping boy, the master had created a powerful fighter, but Zach had no understanding of this at all. While he knew he was stronger then most if not all of the other slaves, he had always been taught that no matter how strong any Human was, a Saiyan would be stronger.

Koli wanted a good fight, but Zach didn't think he could even give her decent one, especially since he would be up against a woman. One thing his parents had instilled in him was a sense of chivalry and Zach adhered to it strongly. It would be tough to fight a woman when he couldn't actually hit her. Such was part of the nature of Zach's conflict as he stood by pondering what he should do after having explained what might happen to his parents should he fail to show up for the master. Thankfully Koli didn't seem interested in pressuring him, at least that's how it sounded, though it was clear by her body language that she still wanted that fight. It was at about this time that shouting from the house caught both of their attentions and Zach too turned about and looked at the dwelling. The words were indistinct although the voice was recognizable, he knew the master was calling. However before the blonde could attempt to excuse himself, Koli blindsided him with what was potentially one of the most absurd questions he'd ever heard, at least from his point of view.

'Why would we stay here?' he though looking back to her in astonishment that such a concept was even possible. "Where else would we go?" Zach responded aloud. "We've always been here and the guards would stop us if we tried... and probably make an example of us." Zach went on between Koli's words. She went on in half understanding of why he couldn't oblige her, at least not now, however she raised the question of Zach fighting back against the guards and that got the boy thinking. She obviously though he was strong enough to do it and the master had given him training. Perhaps all of those grunts the portly Saiyan elicited when the blonde landed a strike weren't simply for his own amusement, perhaps he really did have the power to hurt the master, otherwise why would Koli be interested in fighting with him?

"Perhaps... If you spoke with your un... the master... he would excuse me and we could do as you ask." Zach started to suggest however just as he was breathing in to continue the sentence, Koli's attention was again stolen to the main house. She yelled an expletive that the blonde didn't normally hear and then ordered him to follow along behind her as she took off, running back towards the house. Nodding, Zach did as told and broke into a run behind her. Something was going on at the main house and it obviously had the girl alarmed, else she wouldn't had darted off in such a hurry and now, of all things, seemed to be getting ready to launch some form of glowing power. Zach wasn't sure just how close he should follow behind lest what ever the light was be dangerous and so backed off to about twenty feet behind the Saiyan girl. It did indeed prove to be dangerous as a moment later Koli sent the ball of light rocketing ahead of them to blow one of the large trees surrounding the main house into splinters.

'What the hell is going on?' Zach wondered, not having caught sight of the thief exiting the upper floor of the house. All he knew was that Koli was cursing up a storm, yelling her head off at someone he hadn't seen and now blowing up trees. This was exactly why he and the other slaves did not fight their captors. Zach knew of no man or woman who could do the things the masters can do with their energy nor would he want to. Though that power might be useful and indeed the boy had tasted a small portion of it when he was taught how to strengthen his own punches and form a basic shield, she preferred the honorable mode of settling one's disagreements, with his fists.

[Legendary]

Had it not been for the distraction of Koli spotting the thief she would have immediately corrected Zach, despite what the guy thought he was almsot certainly beyond the capabilities of the majority of the guards maybe if he was stupid enough to draw them into a big 'most of them' vs him then he would lose but on an individual level she was certain he would destroy any of them, Koli herself could easily tell that they were some of the worst the North had to offer and that was why she didnt even bother with sparring with them. She wanted someone who could actually put up a fight and her blood had said that Zach was just that sort of person. Sadly he had his family to think. Perhaps she would see if she could get her uncle to let her 'borrow' Zach. But those thoughts were far from the forefront of her mind. What WAS on her mind however was the moron who decided it was a good idea to try and seal something that belonged to her uncle. She didnt like the man but he was regretably family which meant an action against him was an action against her in her book.

The fact that she'd been looking for quite literally any reason to start a fight also didnt help her remain calm and now she was tearing ass through the treeline blasting chunks out of trees as Zach presumably followed behind. It was infuriating how fast this guy was and how well he mvoed through the trees. Then again if he was a thief there was a decnet chance he was used to booking it through crowds to escape capture, trees werent quite like crowds but for him they seemed a good enough facsimilie. For Koli however he normal approach to crowds became a bit harder when translating to trees. Most often she simply smashed her way through people if she was in pursuit of a target in a crowd, mostly just shoving unless the people actively hindered her movement. Considering the trees were doing just that they got the next level. Destruction. Blasts of energy erupted from Kolis hands ripping chunks just large enough to help reduce how impaired her movement was so that she could keep eyes on the thief.

But eventually his speed, even reduced by the heavy safe just prooved too much and he pulled ahead, Koli continued her pursit taking only a moment to look back to see if Zach was still around, he was albiet he was keeping a rather signifigant amount of distance between Koli and himself and had a look of utter confusion. "Hurry up! The others are probably on there way, you cant get caught out alone!" Koli shouted out behind herself as she darted past a tree, she knew he was probably rather uncomfortable with the power she was throwing around and the destruction but it would NOT look good for the guy if someone else caught him all by himself in the woods. Refocusing on catching the thief Koli charged through a few trees finding herself in a clearing finally. With the safe in the middle of it. Koli stopped abruptly raising a confused eyebrow before her eyes began darting around.

The thief definetly hadn't just given up, he was so much faster than her even while lugging the metal safe around that all he should have needed to do was just keep things up and he probably would have gotten off scott free. What was his game here? Koli's eyes scanned over trees and rocks but her confusion and the pumping of her blood caused her to look over her target as he arm began shaking slightly as her fury began boiling over. Koli took a few long breaths trying hard to keep calm, keep rational, she'd almost lost control when she'd seen the thief but thankfully apart of her knew that keeping control and blasting was the better path to her fight. "Come out you fucking coward!" Koli growled out as she took a few steps into the clearing. "When I find you I'm going to bash your skull in with this safe!" She shouted taking a few more, slightly more confident steps toward the sage. She grabbed hold of one end and found it a bit hefty, nothing she couldn't actually lift but it would be difficult to actually follow up on her threat if she was lugging it around. Which meant she needed to be stronger. With a low breath Koli let her energy flood her body, her breathing quickened almost immedietly as her muscles began to expanding and becoming more defined. She let out a howl of mixed anger and pain as her 'transformation' completed her now expanded muscle mass causing her shirt to tear and only barely remain in place. Now with ease Koli lifted the safe with one hand and gave it a few practice swings as her eyes contiued scanning for the thief. "You want this back thief? Come get it." Koli said her voice now more of an angry growl as she waited for the thief to respond.

Unyielding Force Activated
Strength: 3 -> 6

[Aice]

Aice sat outside the wooded clearing watching the girl, her
anger grew as it became apparent that she couldn't spot Aice, he laughed
quietly under his breath. Once again Aice found himself in a situation in which
he wished he could laugh out loud at what was going on but unfortunately his
life was on the line, although it would be a great story to tell Winta later.
Suddenly the girl’s muscles grew in size, ripping her shirt into pieces,
sending them flying over the clearing. One piece landed next to Aice, quickly
he snatched it up without anyone noticing, it was of a finer material, much
finer that anything he would find here on earth.

"So she's from space I'm gonna guess, either that she has really good
connections out there, but from looking at her I wouldn't think so. That temper
of hers could melt steel.”

Shoving the scrap of cloth into his back pocket, looking back up Aice blushed a
little bit as he now noticed how much of her shirt had ripped, it was barley
holding together , there wasn't too much left for the imagination. Staring off
to the side, Aice shook the though off he needed to get out of here before his
brain was smashed in with safe. Taking a few second to make sure he was ready
he dashed from his hiding place, running around the clearing Aice began to
shoot blue Ki shots at her, blondy was still too far back to get hit; lucky for
him that he decided to hang back. His Ki blast threw up blue smoke into the
surrounding area, covering the girl in the opening. With one final blast Aice
flipped back into the trees away from the reach of the girl, turning away from
her he dashed deeper into the woods.

"If what I think about her is true then she'll follow me." Aice
grinned.

Rushing in a Zigzag pattern Aice made his way deeper into the woods, making
sure to keep his distance away from her but not far enough for the girl to lose
sight of him.  He kept this pattern up until Aice heard the sound of
rushing water; following the sound he quickened his pace. Bursting out from the
woods he came face first with a large river rushing over a large cliff, on the
over side of the river was a large hill, standing about 100 feet high. It was
jagged and rough looking like someone had ripped it out of the ground with the
force of the gods, part's looked shattered barley keeping together. One of the
slabs of rock had fallen at a strange angle hanging out over the river; casting
its shadow far down almost to the edge of the cliff. Trees surrounded the whole
area, Aice could keep running but this seemed like a good place for his next
little test.

Aice had learned a lot from Winta one the most important things that he
taught him was that space was big, very big. From the sounds of it she'd hadn't
been here very long, so she was probably weak and bit out of shape from the
flight. Aice was hoping on this, it would make the fight a whole lot easier,
especially since Aice was luring her out here away from the rest of her help.

Getting a running start Aice jumped over the river, landing on the other side
and aimed his hand at the sky sending a Ki blast into the sky, it was low
enough to blocked by the tress, but anyone nearby could have seen it. Landing Aice
climbing up the side of hill over to the fallen slab of rock, crawling to the
ledge Aice laid on the edge waiting and watching the forest edge for the girl
to come out.

"She'll probably be more cautious this time, unless that temper gets the best of her once agai

[Zach]

Running after Koli, Zach was growing more alarmed by how far they were getting from the farm, indeed, in minutes they were deep into the woods that bordered one side of the estate. The blonde had never been this far away before, the former farthest being to the end of the drive where it meets the main road. Now they were so far from the farm that Zach could no longer see it through the trees, or rather couldn't if he were looking. Koli too seemed to understand the implications of his being so far away from the estate and told him to keep up as she didn't want him found out here alone. Zach wasn't exactly lagging behind, rather he was maintaining a respectable distance so as not to get caught in another volley of energy blasts or end up meeting the pointy ends of the trees Koli was splintering left and right as she chased after whom ever it was that had been at the main house. Unfortunately the two were faster then he and in spite of his impressive physique, Zach couldn't keep pace. Try as he might, Koli and whom ever it was she was pursuing were pulling ahead of him.

The pursuit ended abruptly though when Koli came to a clearing ahead of him and discovered what it was the specter from the main house had been doing. Zach could just make out the shape of a metal box as he was catching up and slowing to a jog near the edge of the clearing. As the blonde teenager approached he got an eyeful that sent his adolescent hormones raging again but didn't get a change to respond. No sooner then had Koli hefted the safe up and proceeded to shred her top, then did a rapid succession of blasts issue forth from the bushes beside him. The barrage was centered on Koli's position but the point of launch was moving and for the first time Zach caught sight of who it was they were chasing.

Darting out of the bushes at fantastic speed, Zach would have likened the shabbily dressed young man's movements to that of a gazelle if he even knew what the creature was. Astonished, Zach tried in vain to chase after the other young man but barely made it half way around the clearing before losing sight of the other boy. Turning back to the dust cloud that had been raised by the explosions, Zach called out to his female master.

"Miss Koli, are you ok?" the blonde asked first and then continued. "What should I do? Chase him?"

[Legendary]

Koli let out an annoyed growl as rather suddenly blasts of energy began firign off from everywhere, the thief HAD been waiting for a better opprotunity to attack and now it seemed he felt he had one. Koli caught a few glimpses of the person, he had a very human appearance due to his lack of armor or spiked hair which made a level of sense, why would a Saiyan bother stealing from another saiyan when there were so many Humans to abuse? Koli gritted her teeth as a few of the blasts slammed into her before she could properly react whoever after a few moments Koli managed to catch onto the pattern of fire and began blocking the blasts with the very safe that the thief had provided her with the tough metal absorbing the blasts while remaining mostly unharmed save for a bit of scuffing damage. Koli was certain the safe would not survive under any serious amount of power but for lower level blasts such as these it would have to do and really she didn't care for the contents of the safe so long as the thief didn't get it. While Koli had a bit of a soft spot for actual slaves that didn't mean she was about to let some Human walk into her home and steal from her family.

A few more blasts managed to escape Koli's defense nailing Koli in the side causing her to let out a grunt of pain as Zach started asking if she was ok and what he should do now that the onslaught had ended, Koli elt out a heavy breath as she stretched a bit swinging the safe a bit to get a better feel for how it would move when she swung it. Unwieldy and quite inadequate as an actual weapon it was almost more likely to be BETTER if she didn't use it but now that she'd made the threat she actually quite liked the idea of bashing the thief around with the very safe he had wanted to snatch as well if he wanted it it would mean at some point he would need to get up and close with her and THEN she would have the advantage, none of this hide and seek blast from afar bullshit it would be an actual fight.

"I'm fine, I've taken a lot worse than what this guy can dish out,just stick with me and help me keep eyes on the bastard and if you can try and keep some of his blasts off me if you can figure out a way to do it without getting yourself too banged up. Maybe if you're lucky and we get this guy I can use that to keep him off your back for a bit." Koli said putting emphasis on 'him' so that Zach would know who she was talking about but the thief would not if he was still in range of hearing. "Now lets go." Koli said her tone even with Zach losing most of its friendliness and gaining a commanding edge that differed quite significantly from the commanding tones likely used by her uncle and his guards.

With that Koli charged in the direction of where the thief had gone charging as much forward as she possibly could go often smashing tree branches right off the tree in her dogged pursuit, the thief always seemed just out of her reach like always but apart of Koli could practically feel that he was toying with her, not going quite as fast as he had been when he had darted through the trees to attack. He was drawing her out somewhere and even if she knew it she wasn't about to just let the chase come to and end, she wanted a fight even if it meant chasing down this idiot and forcing him to fight. Eventually the treeline opened up revealing a river and a rather large hill, already on the other side and up on said hill was the thief his hand aimed high in the air drawing her attention upward. In the air he had launched a blast of energy but it didn't seem to actually be doing anything, just climbing higher and higher as usual. Koli let out a few breaths as she looked from where she was to the other side of the river.

On a good day she could definitely make the jump, especially with her muscles enhanced as they were at the moment but now... now she was tired, a bit injured, and most annoyingly of all out of practice. Her body had been slowly adapting to being in action again but even now she knew she was not at one hundred percent. Koli glared daggers at the cowardly thief. "Whats your game!" She roared tightening her grip on the safe. "You steal this and then leave it for me to take, you attack but break off before even doing any serious damage, FUCKING FIGHT ME YOU COWARD." Koli hollered at the thief stomping her leg into the ground angrily causing a fair amount of damage to the area it had impacted. "You wanted this! Come fucking take it! I'm done chasing you!" she growled out before taking a firm defensive stance as she awaited the thief's response.

[Aice]

Aice sat on the rock slab listening to the girl yell at her
over the roar of the falls, she really wanted a fight from Aice but he knew he
wasn't the type for that. She was built like a tank, strong, tough and loud,
and it took something powerful to knock her out; Aice had three ways he could
go around defeating her. One he could just wait till she ran outta gas, using
up all the power Aice knew no one could least like that forever, eventually she
would tired out; while Aice on the other hand was just toying with her, he
hadn't even broken a sweat. Second plan, he would just toy with her long enough
to see what she really had going on; he had already seen a few things that she
could do. He was impressed with her raw strength but she lacked the discipline
to control it very well. His last option was to get the blonde on his side, he
was a slave following this Saiyan around, why wouldn't he fight back; he just
needed a little push in the right direction.

"I'm sure he just needs a little bit of confidence, after all the years of
slavery he has forgotten what it feels like to be free. With the right set of
words, he'll be fighting along with me in no time."

 With the stomping of her foot in the ground, a small quake
shook through the earth; Aice could even feel it from where he was at. A small
crater formed around her, slowly filling with water from the nearby river.

“Wow that girl has some serious angry issues and the strength
to match it.”

"Careful there girl, don’t wanna rip the planet in half.”
Aice laughed.

Either one was a good plan but Aice still wanted to prod her a bit more, to see
what else she had going on. For now though he didn't like her being this close
to him, even if she launched herself at Aice he would still have time to move
out of the way, but it was too close for comfort. Quickly he slide down the
length of the rock slab reaching it’s near the base, aiming at both ends of the
width Aice shot Ki blasts. Each one hit the rock creating a line across its
width, with one final blast the split the rock from the rest of hill sending it
falling towards the river and the girl. Still sitting on the crack side of the
slab Aice launched a large Ki blast off away from the river, causing the
falling rock slab to speed up; jumping off before it reached the other side of
the river. Falling down, Aice sent a flurry of Ki blasts across the river, Aice
knew she wasn't fast enough to dodge both; he was interested to see what she
would do.

Hopping backwards he gained some distance between himself and the river,
whatever would happen the blast would be huge and Aice wanted not to get caught
up in that mess. Quickly he jumped behind some nearby boulders for some
protection from the impact, Aice watched quietly from the behind the rocks.

"Well let’s see what she'll do."