Zone E -- Highlands

[The Future Warrior]

In good time, the majin and the mercenary left the fog-shrouded city behind them. And as they did, the path began to grow increasingly more steep. Just a gradual incline at first, but quickly growing more and more treacherous and a literal uphill climb. For her part, Graowr was ecstatic about this entire prospect. Not just getting out of the city and having somewhere new to explore, but for having another reason added to her already boundless list of reasons to do well in this contest and see more of the island.

At first she'd just been here because she thought it would be fun. That there would be a lot of fighting, and the chance to meet a lot of strong people, maybe make some new friends. And she'd certainly accomplished at least part of that. People like Cell and Archer were definitely strong enough, in the whole grand scheme of the Omniverse, and then there were people like Isaac and Gamzee, and...well, maybe to a lesser extent, Jak and Tony back at the preshow facility, before they'd all been taken to the island. She'd even gotten to run into Zedd again, even if it was only for what seemed like a few seconds. It was definitely a fun time, even if it wasn't what she expected.

She hadn't come here to win. She was almost positive that she was nowhere near strong enough for that. She'd just come here to take part and enjoy it, test her strength. But now...now it was starting to seem like maybe she'd misunderstood the rules. There was a lot of fighting, but it seemed like most of it she was missing out on. It was supposed to be in the arena, when people were picked at random to duke it out up there, but apparently people kept ambushing each other, setting up fights over items or just to get them out of the way, down here on the island. That was just all kinds of uncalled for, and it was weakening people's chances of a good, fair fight! That was just all kinds of silly!

But for all the confusion and lack of getting to participate in what she'd come here for, well...it was still fun. She'd gotten to meet a bunch of new people, figured out how to work the dataverse better and even managed to make some new friends there, AND she'd run into God Enel! An actual god! It wasn't a surprise that they were here, of course, but still. Now she had an all-new objective: she wanted to win all the more. If God Enel was anywhere near as strong as Lord Beerus, then he would definitely be really, really strong. And that meant he would be a really, really good person to fight. And the only way to guarantee that was to ensure that both of them made it to the end, so they could fight to see who came out the winner of this competition!

Yeah. That was a good plan. It was a good motivation.

Dawn was fairly certain she had no idea what the strange little blue alien-creature was so happy about as she trudged after her, along the slippery, rocky path up into the mountains. Again.

Graowr and Dawn moving from C3 to E5