(Weighted Armour and Power Weighted if possible o.0)
Meraxa walked out of King Yemma's check-in station, and was greeted by a small ogre (or something like that anyways).
"You must be Mister Delwas correct? I will be taking you to the beginning of Snake Way, though from there, you will have to make the journey to King Kai's on foot." The ogre said, as he and Meraxa got inside a rather small vehicle - it was cramped to say the least.
"Oh don't worry, I can fly."
"Impossible I'm afraid, you see your entire ability to fly is based upon defying the gravity of a planet. However above snake way, its not gravity that pulls you down, but rather the karmic pressure."
"Karmic pressure?" Meraxa asked, slightly confused by the concept.
"Yes, in other words, good pressure is drawn towards evil pressure, just as people are tempted to sin in their daily lives."
"Makes some sense I guess." Meraxa said, only now noticing the small halo above his head, and flicked it, letting out a small ringing sound.
"So yes, you'll have to run all one million kilometres, instead of flying."
"O-o-o-one million?!" Meraxa was utterly dumbfounded by such a claim.
"Yes, or if you want that in mi-"
"No thanks, I know my maths. If I wanted to get there in like say... 172 days, I'd have to run over 240 kilometres an hour non-stop. Thank god I know I
can run faster than that." Meraxa sighed, perhaps those races against Cargo would serve a decent purpose afterall.
"We're here." The Ogre cheered, though as to why, Meraxa did not know. The car of sorts came to halt, and Meraxa was let out. True to its name, Snake way looked like a giant snake, stretching to the horizon and beyond. Maybe that whole 'one million kilometres' thing had some basis to it afterall.
"Do I get any kind of food and water for the journey?"
"No worry, whilst yes there is food in the afterlife, it is by no means necessary to one's survival, nor will you ever feel hungry in actuality." The ogre informed him, well that was pretty useful actually, if not a bit obvious. Why hadn't Meraxa realised that spirits didn't need food?
"I'll be off then." Meraxa made a small salute goodbye, before jumping atop the Snake Way 'head', setting himself into a position similar to that which sprinters took at the start of race, and then sped off into the distance, leaving the ogre baffled.
"Well, thats certainly not happened with the others..."
Meraxa sped down the snake way at speeds that exceed that of sound by a long mark, he could even give a certain blue hedgehog a run for his money.
"Hmm, now that I think about it, didn't that giant say something about there being a 'King Kai' at the end of this Snake Way?" Meraxa muttered to himself. Now since he was going to this guy instead of being sent to heaven despite being such a 'pure' soul, this could only mean one thing - that this King Kai or whoever he was, was a teacher. And since this was the afterlife, who knew how unrestrained training was here? Dammit, it was all so interesting, he just wanted to get to King Kai's before the day ended. But that would mean having to cover a million kilometres in less than a few hours - even he couldn't go that that fast.
"A curve? Might as well just jump over it!" Meraxa yelled, thinking this would be a simple endeavor. Then, just as he jumped, he remembered why he couldn't fly in this world.
"Karmic pressure?" Meraxa laughed dryly, before screaming out as he fell through the clouds.
As he fell, he then asked himself a question.
"Hmm, I wonder whats down beneath these clouds?" He tried to recall what the ogre had said to him earlier.
"Oh don't worry, I can fly."
"Impossible I'm afraid, you see your entire ability to fly is based upon defying the gravity of a planet. However above snake way, its not gravity that pulls you down, but rather the karmic pressure."
"Karmic pressure?"
"Yes, in other words, good pressure is drawn towards evil pressure, just as people are tempted to sin in their daily lives."
"Makes some sense I guess."
A lightbulb practically lit up above Meraxa's ahead once he realised the answer.
"I get it. Good pressure gets attracted towards evil pressure, and this is the afterlife, so...
I'm falling towards HELL?!" Meraxa screamed once more, before hitting his head on the ground, the rest of the body falling soon after to meet it.
He got up and wiped the dust off, coughing slightly.
"Oh great, I'm supposed to be off training with some other-worldly deity or something, and instead I round up in hell the very same day I set off."
"Thats HFIL! Geez, doesn't anyone ever read those memos we send out?"
"I know Goz, but I don't think this one's meant to be here?"
"And what tells you that Mez?"
"Take a look at him, does he honestly look like someone who's ever commited enough sins to land himself down here? At most he's probably just stolen from the cookie jar, and even then that's pushing it."
"Uh, excuse me-" Meraxa tried to interrupt, but the two oncoming voices continued to chat away.
"No, no, no, look at that spiky hair - obviously a Class A felon!"
"Oh yeah, then what about that Goku fellow? You know, the one who became one of King Kai's best students."
"You always want to spoil my fun don't you Mez?"
"Hmm, lets see, fun, and having our asses handed to us by King Yemma for doing a bad job? Or keeping all of HFIL and subsequently much of the afterlife in order? Which do you think I would choose you BLUE MORON!"
"Oh, so now you're picking on my colour you RED BABBOON?!"
"Wanna fight you brainless idiot?!"
"I'll smash your head in you ligthweight!"
"Not if you can't catch me!"
"Hold it! Enough of this bickering!"
"Eh?!"
"Eh?!"
The two voices had been none other than two ogres, bigger than Meraxa, and yet despite apparently being tasked with 'keeping all of HFIL (hell?) in order', they acted like freaking children over the whole thing, and now an actual child was holding the two of them up by their shirts.
"Who do you think you are kid?"
"Yeah, what gives you the right to get involved?"
"The fact that at this rate I'm gonna be late for my training with King Kai, and that if I am late, there will be HELL to be pay, is what gives me the right. Now
someone show me the quickest way out of here, before I quite simply destroy everything in sight." Meraxa dropped the two ogres, his ki levels rising, and aura surrounding him that dwarfed the ogres in terms of height by a large measure.
"H-hold on! We'll show you, but only if you beat our challenges." The blue one - apparently Goz - spoke, getting a 'what the hell are you thinking?' look from the red one - Mez.
"Challenges? And what would those be?" Meraxa said, calming down, suppressing his ki once more.
"You must defeat I - Goz - in wrestling, and outdo my brother - Mez - in a race. Relatively simple no?"
"Sure, sure, mind if I have a piece of this fruit?"
"Of cou- FRUIT?!" Goz and Mez both turned around in shock, to see Meraxa digging his teeth into a golden piece of fruit, tasty too, and it was filling him with energy. Must've been like some kind of pesudo-senzu bean.
"Did you just eat that?"
"I did, what about it?"
"But that's King Yemma's fruit..."
"And I've met King Yemma. I don't think he'll mind."
"Of he will - thats the precious fruit that only grows every few years, and is the one thing that gives him peace of mind when he's filing souls."
"I see, alright then. I'll stop. But still..." Meraxa said as he plucked out the seeds from the fruit he had eaten, and buried them in the ground - at least they might grow later.
"Two challenges right? Lets do it."
A few moments later, Meraxa was standing in a standard sumo circle along with Goz, who was getting ready to begin.
"You know the basics right? Fall outside the ring, you lose."
"Of course, though I don't think you'll do that much."
"We'll see... Go!" Goz yelled, charging at Meraxa... only to struggle to get the boy to even flinch. Meraxa turned his head to look at Mez.
"Is this really all he's got?"
"W-why yes. He's the second strongest ogre after King Yemma, and yet..."
"Yet NOTHING! I haven't lost, I'm just going easy on him."
"May I?"
"Might as well, he's stubborn like that."
"Fine then." Meraxa said, and with a simple, if not light touch of his palms, Goz went absolutely
flying! The blue ogre rolled across the landscape for a bit, before friction caught up with him, and he came to a halt.
"Well thats one down, wanna go next Mez?"
"Oh please, unlike Goz, I'm a reasonable being. See that cliff over there?"
"Yeah, but its just... wait... is that a column of clouds?"
"Precisely, its incredible density bounces back anyone who tries to use it to escape."
"Oh yeah, this is basically hell-"
"HFIL!" Goz screamed from a distance.
"Fine, HFIL is basically hell, so this is where all the bad guys go when they die."
"Precisely. As you can plainly tell, we're not the strongest around these parts."
"So if the exit was constantly open every single day..."
"The worst of convicts would be constantly breaking out again and again. The universe would see no end to the horror."
"I see, so you think it'll be safe to let me use it then?"
"If its only for a few moments, and the path is clear at the start, then it shouldn't be too hard."
"Oh, don't worry about it. You're name's Meraxa isn't it?"
"Yeah, how'd you know?" Meraxa asked, he'd never given out his name now had he?
"Some of the inmates have talked about you, particularly the ones from the red ribbon army."
"B-b-but I swear I never killed any of them!" Meraxa yelled in shock, did this mean his attempts at peaceful resolution were all for nought?
"Oh, heavens no you didn't kill them. Rather, it was their commanding officer who did them in, after their failure to stop you from obtaining the dragonballs."
"Really eh?"
"Yes, and word has spread that for the forces of good, you are second only to the legendary Gohan himself."
"Now I wouldn't say that..."
"Oh come off it, what about those demons from a while back? You certainly proved your strength there."
"Yeah but Gohan did most of the heavy lifting."
"Whatever, but still - the point is, you're rather famous on this side of life and death."
"Right... anyways, about that exit..."
"Oh, right this way." Mez said, showing him to the column of clouds, whilst Goz' shouts of 'wait' could be heard in the distance.
They arrived in moments, and Mez raised his hand to part the clouds, which soon did, when all of sudden, the ground split wide open, a familiar set of hands shooting up and out of it.
"W-what's going on?!" Mez yelled, whilst Meraxa got into a fighting stance.
"Just what you feared - a breakout!" Meraxa yelled, charging at the oncoming enemies, soon revealed to be the mob of saiyans he had fought before on the original Planet Vegeta.
"Hey its him! The one we utterly mauled a thousand years ago!"
"Yeah, I remember, the no tail right?"
"Watch yourselves, he's not even saiyan at all - in fact he's the one who killed me and Aspar!" One yelled, Meraxa recognising him as 'Beet'.
"Damn straight, crushed both our heads in." A fat one yelled alongside Beet, that had to be Aspar.
"You're kidding, right? Some kid beat you tw-" One tried to mock the two named ones for their inability to beat Meraxa last time, only to receive a kick from said human, sending the saiyan flying back into the lower levels of hell from whence they had came. He proceeded to do the same to many others, and at speeds which the saiyans could only
dream about.
"H-he's faster, no stronger, no everything about him has improved since last time! What IS he?!" Beet asked in vain, only to see Meraxa suddenly appear in front of him, fist raised...
"I'm Meraxa - Humanity's greatest child!" He yelled, bringing the hammer of justice down on the saiyan, who fell back down along with the rest of the escapees.
"Well thats good and all, but how are we meant to keep them down there?" Meraxa asked, his hands glowing with ki, ready for more fighting if need be.
"One moment." Mez said, speeding off, then dragging back with him Mez.
"Now admittedly, we
do have some preparation for events like this. Ready Goz?"
"Fine Mez." Goz said rather begrudgingly, looked like someone didn't enjoy losing so badly to Meraxa. The two ogres stood a few feet apart from each other, before they started to do what appeared to be... dancing?
"Fu..."
"...sion..."
"HA!"
"HA!" Both ogres yelled out in unison, their fingers touching together. There as a bright light, and then to Meraxa's surprise, there stood not two, but only one ogre.
"W-what in the world?"
"Its called fusion boy, try to keep up. And in this current form, we- no
I am the being known as Gomez. Yes its a terrible portmanteu, but deal with it. This is the only form in which I can seal up cracks in the layers of hell. No, I will not use that stupid name the censors are imposing on us." The ogre said, Meraxa not sure what he was on about, but either way, the ogre made some handsigns, and the crack beneath them healed up quite nicely.
"Now go, they won't bother trying to escape whilst the path is closed."
"Right. Thanks a lot." Meraxa waved goodbye, before speeding up to the stairs, the clouds closing behind him.
"Okay, now with that settled, lets get back up to Snake way." Meraxa was happy for Goz and Mez' help, and thus went on, the stairs stretching further and further up. Oh man, imagine where he could come out. Heaven maybe? Okay, maybe not that high. Snake way directly? Doubt it, he hadn't seen anything connecting snake way to hell below, and he didn't think they would allow him to skip a bit of the journey. He could see the light, just a bit further, and he...
Was in the giant ogre's draw?
"Oh great, you fell to HFIL I'm guessing?" The ogre said, obviosuly pissed.
"Uh yeah, sorry!" Meraxa said jumping out of the draw, and heading back to Snake Way, to hear the ogre shout.
"Oh and so you know, theres someone else heading to King Kai's! Catch up to him if you can!"
Someone else? Well that'd be interesting.
Meraxa sped and jumped onto Snake Way, this time going full speed, the sound barrier long past. Now at least he knew the basic pattern, so if he concentrated...
"YES!" Meraxa yelled, though his blurry image had already gone by the time that sound had escaped, and would later have to catch up to him several days later.
"Hey, is that him?" Meraxa said, slowing down this time, so he didn't completely overtake whoever it was. It even looked like...
"HIM?!"