>>5357514However, despite his appearance, you know your friend has to be in there somewhere. So you reach out telepathically, calling out to him.
“Aku, can you hear me? I know you're in there!” you <span class="mu-i">think</span>, projecting your thoughts into the giant dragon's mind. “C'mon, don't you dare give up on me!”
“K-Karn?” comes a distant reply, almost as if there is a massive void between your mind and his own. As if you're on one mountaintop, shouting across a valley to your friend who's standing on another mountaintop. You can reach him, but just barely. You're going to have to work hard to reach him through this mental landscape. But as you have that thought, another voice makes itself heard.
“GRRRROOOOOOAAAAAAAR!!” comes a familiar-sounding roar, flooding through the link. Between your minds suddenly a mass of anger and hate shoves itself between your mind and Aku's. Overwhelming malice floods through the telepathic link, nearly severing the tenuous connection. “DIE!”
“Get the hell out of my way!” you snarl aloud, focusing past the mindless rage and thinking directly into Aku's mind. “Come on Aku, you aren't going to let this thing beat you, right? You really telling me that the Shapeshifting Master of Darkness can't even overcome a bit of mindless rage?”
But he can't hear you, the roaring rage drowning your projected thoughts out. Seems like you're going to have to out-rage this beast. You smirk, as despite the air in your lungs running out, you're sure that you can show Aku what REAL anger can do.
“GRRRRAAAAAAAAAAA!!” you roar, cutting loose and letting your emerald aura blaze wildly while powering up to maximum. The draconic Aku before you flinches back, even the rage roaring in his mind stops for a moment at your sudden display. Then you again try reaching him telepathically, but not gently. Now you start shouting at him through your mental link, as if addressing one of your students who's trying to ascend from the False Super Saiyan to a full-grown Super Saiyan. “Is this your best? Are you really going to just let that dragon win? I thought you were better than that!”
“Karn?” he asks, this time his voice coming through much clearer. “What's going on? Are you-?”
“Are you done slacking off?!” you ask, and can almost feel both him and the dragon's minds flinch back in shock. “Now get off your ass, and take control of yourself back! Are you really going to just stand there and let that dragon win? Are you really going to just give up? Or are you going to fight back? Fight, Aku! FIGHT!!”
“GRRROOOOOAAAAAAAAR!!” the Aku dragon bellows, head pointed towards the sky and belching pitch-black flames up into the air. But you can tell that this roar is different, not one of mindless fury. And as his shape begins collapsing and folding in on itself, you can't help but smirk. Looks like you got through to him.
-Saiyan Conqueror Quest 179 paused-
