Opherla had sensed the Majin's approach... because Liari was taking her sweet time getting their. It had been a little while since she actually FLEW herself anywhere so why not make a detour or two? Why not snipe at the occasional rock-face or blast threw country-sized cloud formations? She didn't have anything to so other than wait for Arctic to appear. Opherla had challenged her in every way but verbally, letting her power loose like a beacon to draw in Liari. This energy was... vaguely familiar. Maybe she had even felt it at one point... She couldn't really remember. Maybe this person, whoever she was, was related to someone she ate! 

    When Liari arrived after a GENEROUS amount of time, she was shocked to find that she was back at South City, the place she had nearly destroyed during one of her rampages... and standing between her and it like some kind of gatekeeper... was a girl. Liari stared down at her more seriously, almost CERTAIN they had met before. ...Where was it... Where WAS IT!? Was it here, in this City? Or was it before all that when she was small? She couldn't be certain... she didn't KNOW... and it annoyed her to no end. Liari would drop out of the sky, preform a deft front-flip and land right in front of Opherla, the Majin looking her all up and down. She... KINDA looked tough, she guessed. This stranger's power implied this as well, though it wasn't anything to ride home about. ...And that face... She leaned in close, almost nose-to-nose with the woman, her silver eyes staring into Opherla's intensely! ...She HAD seen her before... Yeeeeees... She was one of those that was getting in the way when she was stomping around the city, wasn't she? Flashes of memory zipped through the Majin's mind as she recognized the girl! BOY, had she gone through a transformation or three! She almost didn't look the same as before!

    "So... What do you want?" Liari questioned, still in Opherla's face! At this point, it was a power-move more than it was an attempt at recognition! "If you wanted to fight, you coulda chosen a better place. One stray blast and..." Liari whistled, her finger tracing a line downwards as if simulating a falling bomb before she made a noise with her mouth copying the sound of an explosion! Liari's eyes drifted over Opherla's shoulder, staring at the city behind her. "...And I really don't need something stupid happening around me right now."

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    Liari cocked her head to the side. "Changed?" What did she mean by that? Since South City? Why did she even care? Liari looked at the half-breed oddly as if she asked how many fingers she was holding up... with no hands held up.

    "Eh... Not really...?" Liari quipped, nonchalant. "If you're trying to ask if I'm like you goody-goodies now, you're out of your mind. Seriously. Get that noodle examined." The Majin pointed at her head then lightly twirled it in circles in a "cuckoo" motion. "...And yeah, I want to train for Arctic, are you nuts? That man is wiping out planets like it was his birthright. He needs to die before I can do what I want... But I'm sure you got the spiel from Callion already." Opherla then offered herself as Liari's training dummy- SPARRING PARTNER, even going as far as to offer to move their fight elsewhere for fear of IMMENSE collateral damage! 

    ...As much fun as it would be to turn Opherla into city killer-by-proxy, she really didn't need to make more enemies when someone like Arctic was floating around... It wouldn't stop her from mocking the poor girl, though. And why not? Acting all high-and-mighty, asking if she's CHANGED as if she'd do it for HER or something. 

    "Eeeeeeh... I dunno. You look kinda weak." Liari commented, taking a jab at Opherla's strength! "I already beat the bricks off that Liek-guy and he was about as strong as you so...." She shrugged her shoulders... but she didn't object. Rather quickly, the two fighters would hop on over to a pretty empty piece of farmland just beyond a small mountain range. In fact, it looked as if they had entered some kind of valley, giving them both pretty decent visual indicators of where the boundaries of their fight were! Liari would do some light stretches, crossing her arms over her chest one after the other, bending down to touch her toes, stretching her neck... the works. She wasn't really in any hurry to engage Opherla... not while she seemed so anxious to prove something. Opherla CLAIMED that this was all for the sake of defeating Arctic but Liari herself wasn't so sure. It seemed to her like something else was afoot, some other reason she was calling her like that. 

    ...Hell if she knew what it was, though. 

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TWC: 815

    "Oh, please. Shut up." Liari sighed, rolling her eyes. What was WITH all this theatrical indignation? What, did Opherla see herself as the protagonist of her little story or something, making speeches to all the bad guys like she was doing it for an audience? OF COURSE OPHERLA WASN'T A PURE GOODY-GOODY! Hell, the stern look she was giving the Majin was proof enough that there was at least ONE demon hidden in there! "You can complain about your terrible bowels to someone else and you can consult a therapist about whatever 'darkness' you have inside. I don't care. Just throw a punch and hit me already." 

    Gods, she sounded like CALLION! She wondered if that monk-monkey had been giving lessons to this lady in both martial-arts AND Shakespearean speeches. Hell, Liari was practically expecting Opherla to lament how the light and darkness in the universe was unbalanced and that Liari needed to reach inside and find her true self or some such nonsense. Was it normal, when someone reached a certain level of power, for that person to suddenly get a taste for long-winded metaphor-infused spiels? If Liari were to make a sigh large enough to express her true discontent with this growing trend of behavior, she would have to bulge out her chest TWICE THE SIZE in order to intake enough air! When was she going to meet someone that spoke like a normal person? When was she going to find someone that was both POWERFUL... and TO THE POINT!?

    ...At this point, Liari would have been content to just have a conversation with the guy.

    All that was for later, though. For now, Opherla would suddenly sprout claws and lunge at the Majin, slicing and dicing her up with her nails into fine little shapes, leaving behind ki-trails between them! She would then kick off of the untouched lower-body just as the ki-exploded, splattering little fleshy chunks, all seared well-done, across the battlefield. The pieces would slither away rather quickly, ducking into cracks and holes along the environment... before the air beside Opherla would begin to distort! Suddenly, a hand would SHOOT out and grab Opherla's face, pulling her into an uppercut to her stomach from a second manifesting hand! Suddenly, Liari's upper body, fully regenerated, would hover out of the air-space beside the half-Saiyan, the lower-body zipping up and reattaching! 

    "Well, that was... something." Liari commented before reverse-roundhouse kicking her across the landscape. "...But it wasn't really inspired, was it?" Liari would then elongate her arm, aiming to grab Opherla by her arm and SWING UP... then DOWN, smashing her into the ground like a mallet! "Try harder, would ya?"

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TWC: 1259

    "You're really an idiot, aren't you?" Liari decided. Opherla... was trying to play with HER? What did she think they were, EQUALS!? The Majin stared down at the half-breed Saiyan with contempt, as if she were a BUG demanding equal rights and considerations from a giant. After everything the Majin did, after all the lives, the attempted destruction, the blood that was literally DRIPPING FROM and CRUSTING on her hands, did Opherla think that because they had a truce that he Majin cared for her at all? It would have been FUNNY...  had it not been so irritating. Look at her... all the blood and pride of a Saiyan being used to ask Liari to KILL HER. SHE WAS LITERALLY ASKING FOR IT! How pathetic. Stupid, optimistic, and pathetic. 

    "OF COURSE, YOU WERE WRONG." Liari snapped, literally holding her hand up to Opherla's face and snapping her fingers in front of her eyes as if to pull her out of a daze. "WHO DO YOU THINK I AM, YOU LITTLE RUNT!? WHAT ABOUT ME SCREAMS TO YOU 'Hey... I want that thing to be my friend'?" The Majin's eyes STARED into those of Opherla's trying to read the answer before she could speak it... Honestly, she was coming up with so-dense-a-blank, it was a wonder if any thoughts bounced around in that head! 

    "I have killed more people than you'll ever know in your life, you insolent little worm..." Liari rumbled. With a finger, she pointed towards the ground and fired a thin energy beam... one that completely GLASSED THE GROUND FROM MOUNTAIN TO MOUNTAIN IN A BRILLIANT WHITE EXPLOSION! As the dust cleared, Opherla would see the earth completely scraped clean of anything considered 'life', flattened into an almost sheening floor of earth-tinted-tile! "I WILL kill more people than you'll ever comprehend! ...And I'll LAUGH while I do it. I'll laugh and I'll butcher and I'll maul because it's FUNNY. And you know what else? I think, after your old and weak, reduced to bones and dust living only off the kindness of others, I'll eat you and find any of your friends that are still alive and butcher them too. WHY NOT!? Who's going to stop me? You?"

    Opherla launched into this speech about how she had come here wanting to face her fears, how SOMEHOW she managed to overcome them during this 'fight' and that she wanted Liari to know what she thought of her. The Majin just looked at her incredulously, as if she had just rattled off the quadratic equation. Was... Was she not getting it? DID SHE NOT UNDERSTAND!? Opherla had completely given up any means of actually fighting her and decided to... what... have some kind of defiant speech instead...? When all this was over, Liari really was going to go kill Callion for spreading this idea around: that evil can be defeated with an improvised martyr spiel. 

    "Everyone's gonna die because of you, you know." Liari taunted, backhanding Opherla so hard, she'd ROCKET into the freshly-glassed ground should she not defend herself! "Because you don't THINK... because you don't show RESPECT... because you don't acknowledge reality, they're all going to be caught, eaten, and absorbed... that is, if Arctic doesn't kill you all first." Liari then smirked, grabbing Opherla by her head and opening a swirling portal. She would then shove Opherla's face inside, revealing to her a desolate wasteland of purples, reds and greens, rolling hills with the odd tree-like-plant sprouting up every so often. If Opherla looked up, she would see yellow clouds rolling absently overhead, blocking out the sky!

    "...And even if he does, do you think I'll die with you?" Liari's voice came through the portal. "I'll survive here and wait for my moment... and all your little sacrifices and speeches will have been for NOTHING." Liari would PULL Opherla out of the portal, closing it an instant after. "My only regret is that you'll likely go to Heaven as recompense for your foolish acts of martyrdom. ...But rest assured, you'll be the only one that makes it... because I'll make it my mission to break your funny little friends, twist them into the ugliest, most monstrous, horrible things I can imagine so that forevermore they will be tortured, brutalized, and tormented in Hell while YOU get to watch from on-high. ...And it will be quite a show. I promise."

    Liari would then THROW Opherla across the landscape by her head, potentially SLAMMING her into the mountainside!


WC: 749
TWC: 2515