Out of everything that he could have thought of, there were certainly better nicknames to conjure up than the Pink Blur. There were actually plenty of them to choose from, and he had to choose one of the worst. This was going to be fun to bring up at a later date if the situation were to ever call for it. That would have been interesting to say the least, though he would have only really used it when the situation flat out called for it.<br/><br/>At the moment, though, he seemed to have a race that he needed to win even if he had been the one to turn said event into a race. Even if it hadn't really been a competition before his challenge, it was nevertheless a competition now for certain.<br/><br/>While this situation was indeed grave, it was hard to be too displeased on the Dragon World. What was most surprising to Clarinet was that his mood even changed, considering that he wasn't usually the most emotional individual. Actually, saying that alone was an understatement.<br/><br/>Steady pacing was what one should have expected out of Clarinet. Honestly, he could probably have elected to fly. Namekians had a special technique by which they could fly while still preserving their Ki quite well. At least Warrior-type Namekians did. Members of the more passive clans actually probably wouldn't have.<br/><br/>That being said, he figured that he never could have made it to the top like that. They had to climb for a reason. Surely someone in Dragon World could have flown as well, but more than likely they would have run out of fuel before they reached the top too, so to speak. Therefore, Clarinet thought it was probably best to just keep on doing what he was doing for the time being.<br/><br/>Even he had to admit that the view really was every bit as impressive from here as his constant companion had thought that it was. It really was incredible, even for someone who spent most of his time traveling in space. Blinking for a moment, he soon found that this pleasant bit had been rather unusually interrupted.<br/><br/>What made the interruption even stranger was the fact that it seemed like they were being interrupted by a housecat.<br/><br/>"Wait a moment, you...are not an organism that should be speaking to me!" This planet must have had genetically modified monsters. It was the only way!<br/><br/>Well, either that, or Dragon World was even stranger than all the lore had foretold about it. That was probably part of the equation too. All of this had of course transpired only after he had been told that the other knew precisely why they had come and mentioned that there generally would have been some kind of a test involved in this process.<br/><br/>For a time he actually focused on, out of all of them, Yajirobe. He hadn't understood the samurai tradition at all because it was simply foreign to him. He had been raised on a different planet of course. Nevertheless, he could recognize those who at least claimed to be warriors. He could also tell that this individual was at least supposed to be of some high stature.<br/><br/>"Wait a moment, why are you so fat?!"<br/><br/>It was seemingly an excellent way to greet someone like him.<br/><br/>Anyway, though, once more it seemed that Clarinet was about to be interrupted, this time apparently by a puffball. Well, at least that was what she had looked like. She certainly didn't resemble any organism that he was really familiar with at all.<br/><br/>Nevertheless, he wasn't one to judge merely on appearances. He knew entirely too well that could lead to underestimating an opponent. Worse, it was precisely how some people might have reacted to him. To others he figured he looked like some sort of a slug.<br/><br/>"I...was not aware that there was going to be a lesson to go along with the beans." Really he was just expecting that they would be given the beans and then able to move along with the rest of their quest. Considering the serious gravity of this particular situation, that might have been best. Things were looking rather grim for the moment, and he knew that everything here was just making time tick away even further. That was the biggest problem with all of this. The situation was getting tougher and tougher as they went along, and people weren't going to be able to hold off this threat without them for long.<br/><br/>Then again, he was of course certainly always up for a challenge. Clarinet was certain, though, that this was going to be more of a challenge than he bargained for.