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10 Star Ball || Piccolo

[Piccolo was sitting on the front steps looking very, very bored. He had been waiting for two weeks to get outside, but now that he was he found himself with nothing to do. His little roommate had returned to her rightful room and now Piccolo didn't have anyone to show off the fruits of his training to, making training feel a little pointless. And he didn't do quite a lot in his free time other than training.

Piccolo's room was no longer a source of entertainment without Elphie. Of course Piccolo wasn't too keen on going back to his room anyway. It seemed that someone had tied the now lifeless rice cooker to his doorknob by the cored.]

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[Piccolo laughed. He was rather glad not to be the Daimao any longer. As nice as it was to dominate the world he couldn't imagine dealing with such a burden in his current mindset. He would much rather be left to his solitude nowadays.]

Well that and the child-sized hole in my chest didn't help. And yes I hatched, the old man spit the egg out of his mouth. Why is everyone so surprised to hear that?

"Most people don't hatch from eggs."Zidane said with a bit of a cheeky grin. "Though I don't have a whole lot of room to talk of course."

He was over it. Where he came from, how he was born. At first it did. A lot. But then he realized that wasn't important. The present was the only important thing.

So you came from an egg too?

[Piccolo was confused, not that confusing him was a particularly hard thing to do, but still this time it may have been merited. This kid was all surprised that he came from an egg, but he just implied that he wasn't born like a regular human. So he had to come from an egg... there aren't any other ways to make babies is there?!/i>]

Zidane kept his smile but it didn't quite reach his eyes. "Not quite. But I wasn't born the way regular people are either. I never had parents...well, there's my Boss. But he adopted me. I was just sort of...created."

There was more to the story than that of course, but he's see if Piccolo was interested in hearing it first.

Created?

[Well everyone was 'created' he just guessed the kid meant he was created in a special way...]

"Yeah." Zidane replied. "That guy you saw hovering around me as a ghost? That was him. He made Kuja too. Though Kuja kind of hates to acknowledge any of his past, so I wouldn't bring up Garland around him if I were you."

Wait he made that little fruitcake too? So you and him are... related?

[Piccolo shudders at the thought.]

you've got my sympathies kid...

He threw his head back and laughed. The comment was too accurate as far as his feelings went.

"My 'brother' was meant to be my original." he explained. "See, the place I live, the planet I should say, is called Gaia. But me and Kuja were originally from Terra. Both of of us were created to be instruments of that planet's destruction." He frowned. "But Kuja was too stubborn to be controlled. And don't tell him this, his head is big enough: but it's the only thing I really admire about him. Anyway, Garland realized Kuja was not trustworthy and made me. Then Kuja got jealous and dumped me on a planet that was meant to be destroyed. I must have been very young, 'cause I can't remember. The joke was on him though, not to mention Garland! My real family adopted me and I became on of the greatest thieves of the age."

He put his hands on his hip and grinned widely at that parting statement.

[Piccolo listens intently and chuckles at the mention of Kuja's big head.]

No worries kid, you would be hard pressed to find me EVER give the Purple-haired Princess anything that would inflate that ego of his.

[Piccolo gives Zidane a playful punch on the cheek at the last statement]

Greatest thieves of the age? Tch, your power isn't even half as great as your brother's. I fought your brother not long after my encounter with you when I first arrived here. By the time the fruitloop was done with me I was an arm short and my insides where practically soup. But if you two are really related like that I can't see a reason why you can't have to same amount of power...

Zidane rubbed his cheek. Ow. He back flipped and landed on a step that put him more at eye level with Piccolo. "Being a thief's got nothing to do with brute strength. It's about speed, cleverness, stealth...not to mention being able to talk your way out of anything. And disguises help too sometimes. You got to be part-actor, really. In some cases. Can keep you out of prison."

He frowned. "I don't want to be like Kuja. He got his power from stealing souls on Gaia and who-knows-what-else before that. He's good at magic, but aside from that he's a big cheat. And he has this thing for selling insane Queens powerful weapons and destroying nations two at a time for no good reason other than his overinflated since of importance." Zidane's voice was rising with his anger. "I don't care what happened back on Terra. It was no excuse to be such a total monster on Gaia!"

[Piccolo chuckled at the kid's enthusiasm. He was going to make a great fighter]

Well pardon me if I'm more preferable to the more direct approach. I've never had to worry about something as trivial as prison anyway.

[Destroying nations two at a time? Piccolo remembered doing that a good few times... good times those... of course he figured now was probably not the time to say that out loud though.]

Stealing souls hm? Well that sounds like tricky business. Looks like the fool's power isn't all his own... either way I'm sure you'll be able to beat him sooner or later. From what I remember your attacks were strictly physical, Kuja handles physical attacks like sapling handles a hurricane.

"Yeah, well, they try to lock up people that go against the status-quo where I'm from." he replied, winking. "Even if most of it was on our Regent's orders."

His brows shot up as Piccolo's words reminded him of something. "Yeah! He does suck when it comes down to physical strategies. He blackmailed me into getting this stone for him - held all my friends hostage so I had no choice - because the place had an anti-magic barrier around it."

Ha! I'd like to see them try with me. People have tried to lock me up when I was much much weaker then I am now... it was fun.

[Piccolo smiles triumphantly]

Yeah, a few weeks back I got into another little fight with him. Landed a good punch right in his gut. The look on his face was absolutely priceless. I got a few more punches in before he set my face on fire sending me reeling into the kitchen counter...

"Evading is fun." he admitted grudgingly. "But it's even funner to see the stupid looks on their faces when they realize you were just playing along and you escape."

Oh, there were many a fun moment in Treno...and once in Dahli...and a few times outside of Alexandria.

He scowled in distaste. "Sounds like him. Of course, he might break his nails throwing a punch back or something."

Hm, I'd give it a try, but I'll be the first to admit I'm not the brightest thing on two legs...

[Piccolo shrugs, it didn't really bother him that he was ~~an utter moron/s> uneducated and not at all witty ~~as shown by his countless array of cheesy one-liners~~. Piccolo lets out a good hearty laugh about the comment about Kuja~~]

Ah, what I wouldn't give to take him on in a good fist fight... but I suppose that would hardly be fair. Not that I care, he needs that smug smirk wiped off his face for a while.

"Ah, come on."he laughed, pointing at his forehead. "It's like fighting, just takes a little practice. As for Kuja, he never fights fair, so you shouldn't care."

Yup, his fellow Genome took the prize for jerk all right. At least he hadn't been causing havoc lately.

[Piccolo chuckled]

alright, alright I'll give it a try sometime. If it goes wrong I suppose I could always fall back on my fail proof plan of mashing people's faces in and blowing things up.

I would really like nothing more then to mash up your brother's face some... if it's all the same to you.

He looked at Piccolo thoughtfully. "You'd have to get in line. A lot of people want to do that."

He sighed. The peace loving part of Zidane wanted to work things out with the older Genome. Naive, yep. Wrong to hope? No. Kuja had grown up under Garland's influence most of his life whereas Zidane had escaped - ironically, thanks to Kuja. He shook his head. He couldn't think like that. Kuja had been trying to destroy him, not help him. Besides, there was no letting him slide on the reckoning that would be coming for what he did on Gaia.

Why did the enemy have to be his damn brother.

"Is that all you want to do?" he asked. "Because while I don't see any harm in him getting his ass amply kicked, he needs to return home alive to answer for his crimes."

Well even if he did get killed in this place he'd just pop back up again a few days later. I've died before, it's terrible and it's a real pain, but he wouldn't even have to be born again to live. I don't see any harm in that.

[Piccolo shrugged. He really couldn't understand the severe psychosis involved after dying and then undying.

Piccolo let out a heavy sigh]

It's not like I'll get an opportunity to take him on anyway. The way I am now I can't beat him.

"Wait...we can kill him several times and he'll just come back?" Zidane's tail perked up. "I don't know if that's funny or just annoying."

The monkey-boy cocked his head to the side and seemed to be thinking. "That's why you were going on about training."

Yeah, back in that city some little brat was killed and woke up a few days later. They made a big deal out of the whole thing, although I don't see what the problem was since she just came back.

[At the second statement Piccolo nodded solemnly]

I've been training hard for the past few weeks, but it's odd, I don't seem to be getting any stronger. It's like I've been frozen at this level... it's incredibly annoying...

The teen looked apprehensive. "The author's way of keeping us in check?" he offered, since he couldn't think of any other explanation. There was no telling what she could actually do. It wasn't like anyone had seen her. "Has anyone actually seen her?"

Well whatever it is she needs to stop. She can't just put an opponent in my way without giving me any way to defeat them!

[Piccolo scowls at the mention of seeing the Author]

I haven't and I have tried for a while.

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