Chapter 5 - 5 - Blake Belladonna

Ghira carried Shallot inside his house and footsteps from inside could be heard. They were light footsteps showing that the person wasn't incredibly large as Ghira. From around the corner a cat Faunus came out who had a has short hair and three gold piercings on her cat ears - two on her right, and one on her left. She wears a black hakama and sandals with white tabi socks.

Over her outfit, she wears a black shrug with a long right sleeve and a short left sleeve, gold-leaf trim adorning the opening on the front. She wears long, black arm warmers that extend to the middle finger. The left warmer has a purple band tied around the top and a pair of gold bangles around the wrist. Around her waist is a black and gold sash that trails behind her, with a gold flower-shaped buckle at the end.

Kali: "Dear your back ... is that child ok?

Kali asked after seeing the bruised and damaged Shallot.

Ghira just exhaled before retailing what happened and about the Grimm in the forest and about his men telling him about this boy that was fighting the Grimm. He also told her about what he was told about the boys' clan and that he was thrown out because he was weak to them even though he is just a child.

Kali went to grab the first aid kit and began to patch up Shallot and brought out a floor mat so that he could rest on it. Shallot was exhausted from this day and immediately fell asleep on the mat while trying to recover as fast as he can.

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2 Hours later

Shallot could feel someone shaking him and groggily opened his eyes feeling that most of his bruising had gone down and could feel that he was slightly stronger but not by much. He could tell it was nowhere near the zenkai that the Saiyans got while fighting Vegeta or Frieza but this was a start so he was ok with this. He had only got into one fight after all and nothing was a heavy injury just exhaustion and bruising.

Shallot opened his eyes fully and turn to see a small girl beside him with blake hair that looked like a small Kali but on blake pants and a light red sleeveless shirt.

???: "Who are?

Shallot looked at the small girl seeing the resemblance of what he could only imagine being the daughter that Ghira was talking about since she looked just like Kali.

Shallot: "I'm Shallot. Who are you?

???: I'm Blake. Why are you wrapped in bandages so much? Were you attacked by Grimm or humans?

Shallot looked at her

Shallot: 'why would she think I was attacked by humans. I was in the middle of the forest and I doubt a regular human could do much to me currently. Ghira said that even grown men and women unless trained can't compete against a Grimm without a weapon.

Maybe I should get some information about this place. Even in my old world, although there were only humans they still were at each other throats and I doubt they'll be any different here. If it can hold a weapon then it's dangerous. If that wasn't true I wouldn't have died.

Anyway besides me ranting about bad luck this has been a long first day I just want to sleep. I guess I'll humor little Blake for a while before going back to sleep.

Shallot: "So ... do you want to be friends Blake?

Blake seemed to be happy that she could make a friend already. She had only a couple of people she talked to and only had a handful of friends.

Blake: "Yeah ... let's be friends.

She quietly answered him. They talked for a couple more hours until Blake got tired and decided to fall asleep right next to Shallot.

Shallot: 'She is trusting or maybe I should call this ignorance since she's only 4. Mr. Belladonna said that she will be 5 next week. That means that she is a year and some months older than me.

The one good thing about getting the memories of this body is that I could recall everything from both of my lives for some reason now. I wonder if I have perfect recall now. If I do have perfect recall I'm going to have to abuse this as much as I can.'

Shallot then could feel the exhaustion overtake his body that he had been holding off for this entire day and feel into a deep sleep.

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1 Week later

Shallot: 'Today is Blake's birthday. She'll be turning five and so far during this week, I have been getting used to my body so I don't misjudge my distance while walking or doing anything. That only took the first two days while I was here and spent the rest practicing my martial arts.'

He knew that his martial arts aren't ingrained into him anymore and need to repeat that process now. Making sure that his martial arts are muscle memory will make it so that he will be able to defend himself without wasting too many movements.

He only started trying to find the limits of his body recently since he isn't completely sure what a young Saiyan is capable of, but he knows that he doesn't want to start weight training yet because he doesn't want to stunt his growth. He's not sure if Saiyans can stunt there growth that way since he knows they're biologically different from humans.

Shallot had woke up this day and started doing 100 pushups and 100 situps as a light workout to wake his body up. He had kept his tail wrap around his waist under his armor when he first gets there and kept it under his shirt when he was given a change of clothes. He found that have a tail wasn't something he would just wave around if he wasn't in Menagerie.

He needed to make sure that there were no full moons here since he didn't want to turn into a great ape and wipe out this place since they were nice enough to look after him.

During this week Blake had wanted him to go out in the night time to watch some fireflies and see the stars and only after asking her if it was a full moon out and she told him it wasn't he would go out with her.

They were only allowed to go to the back of the house and couldn't be out after 11 o clock at night. After the first to nights of being asked why he keeps asking about a full moon he just tells her that where he comes from if you are outdoors during a full moon a monster which could destroy entire towns.

A voice yelled towards the front room where he was laying from the kitchen. He would have stayed in the guest room but Mr. Belladonna came down in the morning one week ago when had had first got here and saw his daughter laying on top of his ċhėst and became angry and asking why was he sleeping with his daughter.

Eventually after trying to explain everything he said that he would continue to sleep on the floor. Kali had come from their room hearing Ghira and seeing Blake laying on top of Shallot's ċhėst and just gave him a thumbs-up before having Ghira come back with her and telling him that it was fine since they are kids.

Shallot: 'After that time I just stayed in the front room until he would calm down. I don't see how someone could get so angry at a kid anyway. Well, I'll guess I understand when I have my own kids in the future.'

Shallot got up and grabbed his bedsheet while folding it up placing it to the side. After fixing his sleeping area he headed into the kitchen to eat his breakfast and sitting next to Blake.

Shallot: "Happy Birthday Blake."

Blake turned to him and smiled

Blake: "Thank you for remembering even though you've only been here for a week."

After that, they continued to eat and talk about white fang. Blake had started talking about the white fang to him and telling him about how they are fighting for faunas' rights to be treated equally.

Shallot would tell her that as long as there was a reason for people to see something as different they will never accept it. The best to live is by having the strength to choose your path.

Shallot: "Even if you gain strength you should only use that strength to protect those close to you and try to change things for the better because if you use that strength for only harming others then your no better than the people that the white fang is fighting for. There is a saying "That with Great Power Comes Great Responsibility."

Shallot: 'I always wanted to use that line in a conversation and try to inspire someone with that quote. I really did like reading the marvel comics growing up in my spare time.'

Ghira and Kali who was sitting on the side eating the side heard their conversation and was thinking that Shallot was pretty intelligent for his age.

Ghira: "Shallot, you said with great power comes with great responsibilities. That is very true if you are the leader of a group or place or even hold physical power then you would have the ability to save a life or take a life."

Ghira was starting to think about what this kid could probably achieve in the future with his intelligence but also about his strength. Shallot was only 3 years old but he was capable of holding off a Grimm which would be able to kill a regular person easily. Ghira was told that he was sent away because he was weak.

Ghira: 'If Shallot is considered weak by his clan because his brother was far stronger. If he is this strong at a young age how strong are the ȧduŀts where he comes from and where are they now.'

Ghira was thinking about this all week and about how some things didn't line up from the explanations. What he was told sounded like the truth but with a slight twist in them. Ghira had decided that it would probably be better to keep Shallot close by to watch over him and try to get him to think of this place as his home.

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Tier 9-B

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