This is the first story I started on nearly a year ago which I am going to begin to write again, I do not believe my first attempt did it justice so I have now decided to go back over and rewrite from the beginning and carry on from where I left off I hope you enjoy the read – Dragonball AT

Chapter 1: Prologue

50 Years before the start of Dragonball.

Fear and anger.

The only two emotions the young Frost Demon Lord Freeza could feel as he sat alone inside the dimly lit war room of his father's ship waiting for the rest of his family to arrive. The blackened scorch marks on the wall opposite him were all that remained of the unfortunate soul who had the misfortune to inform the lord of the destruction of his home planet Glacier. The deed had been committed by the ruler of the Southern universe whose vast army had been at war with the trade planet organisation for many years.

Smash! The Lord's tail pounded the floor behind him in frustration as tears began to form in the young demon's eye's. If only him and his father hadn't been away taking over the northern quadrant leaving only Coola to defend the planet. Surely with his father he would of had a chance to save the planet, to save his mother. Crack! His tail smashed into the floor again before he stood from his chair a dark purple aura surrounding his body as he tightened his fists. His patience was wearing thin and if his family, the last remaining survivors of his race, didn't arrive shortly he would set out alone and abstract the revenge he so rightly deserved.

Bang! The metal doors flew off their hinges and towards Freeza who quickly fired a Ki blast to destroy the metal object's before they could make contact with him. Looking though the smoke the lord could see the black outline of a tall slender figure walking towards him. As the smoke cleared the young Frost Demon could see the ever so obvious purple skin of his elder brother.

"Subtle as always I see Cooler" Freeza said spiting in disgust.

Without warning Coola fazed out of sight appearing before Freeza and sending a hard right handed punch into his younger brother's stomach.

"You should have been their!" Cooler cried out in rage, tears threatening to burst from his eyes at any moment. "You and father left me to defend the planet alone. I never stood a chance"

Freeza fell to his knees clutching his stomach desperately trying to gasp for breath as Cooler circled him. The purple skinned frost demon wore a smirk of deep satisfaction at the pain his brother was currently suffering at that moment in time.

"The pain you are feeling now is nothing compared to the pain I felt when I watched our planet explode right in front of my eyes" Cooler cried aloud before smashing Freeza across the face with his tail sending the younger frost demon crashing into the opposite wall.

"You know you wouldn't have been able to do that if I was in my true from Cooler" Freeza yelled angrily at his brother while wiping a bead of purple blood from his lips.

The young demon was literally shaking with rage.

"Maybe that's true you little runt" Cooler said while stroking his chin as if he was deep in thought, which in fact he was. Deep in thought about what he could do next to torture his little brother.

"However unlike me. You and father have not learned to control your true powers and thus you have to resort to use our races weaker primitive forms. I believe you should learn more respect for your betters Freeza otherwise you may have a little accident" The smirk grew larger on Cooler's face as he taunted his brother.

Bringing the younger boy pain was relieving some of his own.

Standing up with great difficulty his knees shaking due to the pain. Freeza looked up at his older brother defiance clear in his eyes. he would no longer allow Cooler to make a mockery out of him like this.

"You are only able to control your true form so easily because your full power is nothing compared to mine and father's when we are in our true forms. This is the only reason why you control your power so easily because there is barely anything to control in the first place. Father is even stronger than you in his second suppressed state. It just goes to show how much of a disapp…."

Freeza didn't manage to get the last of his words out as blood shot from his mouth and on to the enraged face of Cooler whose fist was currently embedded in his brother stomach. Freeze was helpless and could only watch as his brothers fist faze out of sight. The pain of the millions of blows being delt to him was causing the lord to scream out despite how much he hated showing weakness.

Crumpled on the floor Freeza looked up as Cooler placed his foot on the formers chest and pointed a single finger towards Freeza's head.

"Tell me brother if you are so strong how come you are unable to fight back" Cooler mocked as a pink beam of pure energy began to gleam at his finger tip.

"Good Bye brother."

A loud roar echoed around the room and within a second Cooler was abruptly pulled of Freeza and pinned against one of the many cold metal walls in the room. Freeza's and Cooler's father's large menacing hands where wrapped tightly around his son's neck blocking Cooler's airways and threating to snap it like a twig at any moment. A look of pure uncontrollable rage was stretched across King Cold's large face as he looked deep into the smaller Frost Demon's eyes.

"How dare you hurt him you sorry excuse for a Frost Demon!" King Cold bellowed. His grip tightened around Cooler's neck with every syllable. Even in his second suppressed state King Cold was more than a match for either of his two sons present in their current forms. "Our home planet was destroyed while you were meant to be watching it, keeping are people safe from harm which you failed to do! And now you have the audacity to come show your face in front of me; and not only that i find you have come to attack your brother and not even have the honor to wait for him to transform out of his sealed form!"

"He started it!" Cooler replied weakly his voice was gurgled as blood began to trickle from his mouth.

The grip was becoming ever so close to causing unsurvivble damage to the frost demon. Noticing this King Cold released his grip allowing his son to slump against the wall before smashing his fist into the purple demon's stomach.

"I don't care if he started it. He has every right to be angry with you. Our home planet has just been destroyed under your watch, of course Freeza will lash out at you. Ypu deserve it" King Cold hissed at his son "You are a failure Cooler, a complete and utter waste of space even Freeza a mere teenager could have done a better job than you, a fully grown up man, at defending our planet. But do you know the worst part?"

Cooler merely shook his head in response trying desperately not to throw up the mouth load of blood currently lodged in his throat.

"You ran away from battle, a crime I deem worthy of death"

With that Cold launched a powerful kick into Cooler's stomach sending the blood the demon was so desperately trying to keep in erupting out of his mouth and onto the metal floor painting the silver a crimson red. Holding back tears Cooler winced as his father wrapped his large hand around his face and lifted the demon off the ground before slamming him against the war room's wall creating a rather large Cooler shaped dent.

Freeza watched the beating Cooler was being given by their father with unresponsive eyes that had become used to seeing the abuse his older brother would suffer at the hands of their father on a regular basis. In fact if the rumours that the young lord had heard around the palace were true Cooler was in fact only his half-brother a result of an affair the Queen had with one of the palace guards when the King was away on "Business".

This fact was never confirmed by the Queen or King Cold however Freeza always suspected the rumour to be true because of the difference of how King Cold treated him and his older brother.

"I doubt father would ever attack me like this" Freeza thought to himself before the appearance of another being appeared at the door.

"Father stop this madness right now" Came the demanding voice of the new arrivial who had snapped Freeza out of his train of thought.

The young Demon couldn't help but gawk as his father paused in his beating of Coola in order to turn round and stare at the new arrival.

Freeza followed his father gaze already knowing who the new arrival was. There was only one person in the universe that was able to stop the proud King Cold dead in his tracks by merely speaking. In the doorway stood the eldest son of King Cold, Prince Sleet.

The six foot seven giant had his muscle bound arms crossed as he walked into the room quietly already in his true form. His silver skin and gold markings filled the room with a glistening glow of light that was almost blinding.

Sleet's brilliant blue eyes immediately made contact with his father's purple pupil's locking on to them. A lock that wasn't broken until Sleet had reached the middle of the room and allowed his eyes to fall on the blood trail leading to the mangled form of Cooler.

"He will need to be taken to a medical tank and quickly if he is going to live" Sleet commented off handily before he again made eye contact with his father.

Freeza felt his heart racing as a deafening silence echoed around the room. Nobody moved as Sleet looked each of his remaining family members up and down with critical eyes. Freeza couldn't help but stare at his oldest brother as mixture of awe and fear washed over his body. Nobody including his very own father had the same presence his brother had. It was as if his very aura gave off a mixture of reassurance and absolute terror at the same time. Sleet was a true Frost Demon Prince a cool sophisticated being whom could grace the many diplomatic halls of the universe without anyone batting an eyelid but could also quickly turn into a cunning warrior who would kill any foe who got in his way with neither mercy nor regret. Freeza's hero.

The silence droned on longer not even the beaten and bruised Cooler dared make a sound for fear he would incur his brothers wrath. Finally it was Sleet who broke the silence his deep monotones echoed around the room even though he spoke in little more than a whisper.

"Father, Brother's. " Sleet greeted "We shouldn't be fighting with each other in this way while the tyrant who is responsible for destroying our home is still out their breathing. The time for grievance is over we must now plan and prepare for war. But first we must get both Coola and Freeza healed " With that the prince took a seat and waited as his subordinates entered the room who quickly set about picking up the broken body's of both Cooler and Freeza before taking them to the medical bay.

~DBAT~

The plan was made by the Frost Demon's by the time the clock struck noon the very next day. A message was sent out to the Southen ruler declaring an intergalactic challenge demanding a battle between himself and the Frost Demon's and three of his chosen men on a derelict planet in the western quadrant with video footage being broadcasted throughout the civilised universe. The winner's would lay claim to all of the Universe and the gifts it had to sow. The losers would face Death! Or worse a lifetime of slavery to the winner.

Freeza found himself flying alongside his father and brothers as they raced towards the battlefield. Fear gripped at his heart as they slowly drew closer to the battle that would decide the fate of the universe. It was indeed the first time they had all gone to battle like this he couldn't even remember the last time he was in his true from let alone his father whose true form was crackling with the sheer amount of uncontrolled energy. His aura threated to destroy anything around it within an instant.

"Frieza are you listening to me?" King Cold bellowed at his son, over the sounds of his fierce cracking KI.

Freeza allowed himself to gulp before forcing his head to look at his fathers rage filled face it was obvious that his father was struggling to control his real power more so than Freeza and it seemed if the King wasn't careful he could blow himself up with his power or go completely mad and destroy everything around him including his sons.

"Sorry father I was focusing on the battle ahead" Came Frieza's meek reply.

King Cold shook his head in annoyance at his son's lack of attention before continuing. "As I was saying, we shall be arriving in a few moments and I wanted to make it clear what the plan is, understand"

Frieza simply nodded in reply.

"Good, now once we get there we will use are scouters to determine their forces power levels. Once we know the order of their strength, we'll attack accordingly. Cooler being the weakest of us will attack their weakest fighter and hold him off, until one of us can save his skin. (Cooler gave his father an angry glare, which King Cold seemed to ignore due to the importance of the situation, or didn't notice.) Freeza, you will take on their third strongest fighter and once you have defeated them you shall help your brother Cooler finish his fight. (Frieza gave his brother a visible smirk at this.) And I shall take on the Southern universe's ruler myself, while Sleet takes on…"

"Father I am the strongest of us shouldn't I be the one to first take on the Southern ruler?" Interrupted Sleet.

"No you see that's my plan. The Southern ruler will expect me, your father to be the strongest of us all." King Cold stated plainly before turning his head to face his son "I want to keep it like that until we have to reveal your true powers, you shall be our secret weapon. You'll join me as soon as you've defeated your worthless opponent and then together we shall destroy the one who dares to destroy the frost demon's home planet!"

Both Coola and Freeza roared triumphantly in agreement at this while Sleet merely nodded in acknowledgment to his father. It was after a very cunning plan which executed correctly would win them the battle.

~DBAT~

Finally the Frost Demons had arrived at the location prepared for their battle, mini camera's zoomed overhead as the scanned the area for their opponents. However there was just one, a solitary figure stationed on top of where the Frost Demon's landed. The Southern ruler had come alone.

"Fool" Freeza thought to himself as he looked up at the destroyer of his people "He has sealed his fate by coming alone he has no chance of defeating us all together" The last of the Frost Demon's took a moment to take in the appearance of the being that had destroyed their home world.

The Southern ruler stood over seven feet tall and his body was a mass of muscles with two huge wings protruding from his two shoulder blades. His spiked tail flopped lazily on the floor as he crossed his arms over his orange chest. If Freeza and his family had known of earth and it's creatures they may have described the Southern ruler as a humanoid dragon.

A silence echoed around the landscape as the warriors eyed each other, Cooler began to shake uncontrollable with fear as he remembered his last encounter with the tyrant who had manage to re-direct Coola's own death ball in to his home plant a fact the Frost Demon dared not to disclose to his family.

"Yes I came alone." The deep voice sliced the silence like a knife though hot butter. The Cold family just stared at the Southern ruler all dumbfounded. "Cheek your scouters if you don't believe me, just the five of us all alone, with this big planet, to host are little game."

As the beeping sounds confirming there was no other life forms faded, Cooler confidence grew, the Frost Demon spoke up.

"Fool you just sealed your own fate! Do you truly think you can take all four of us at once!"

The Southern ruler merely chuckled, as his eyes fixed on Cooler.

"Oh I don't think so!" The Southern ruler spoke calmly before fazed out of sight suddenly the powerful tyrant reappeared in front of Cooler. Before any of the Frost Demons could react the Southern ruler slammed his right fist into cooler's abdomen, causing a gasp of air to leave Cooler's lungs. Keeling over the weakest Frost demon clutched at his stomach as blood forced its way out of his gaping mouth. "I know so!"

After the word had left the Southern rulers mouth the rest of the Cold family joined the fray of battle. King Cold was the first to strike his right elbow connecting with his foes left forearm before the King found himself kicked aside by a powerful right foot. Sleet was the next to strike hitting the large being with a karate chop to the neck only to find himself being slapped aside by his opponent's huge orange tail. Frieza fired a death beam aimed directly at the Southern ruler's heart. Only to be left open mouthed in amazement at how easily it was dodged and in an instant was knocked into a mountain by a powerful left punch.

Flying slowly into the sky the Southern ruler aloud a smirk of amusement to cross his lips bringing his right arm forward to taunt his foes to come and get him. All of the Cold family looked back up at the orange tyrant with anger, their purple aura's washing over them in their rage.

Knowing that they were extremely outclassed by their opponent King Cold turned to his eldest son, a look of determination spread across his face.

"Sleet how long will you need to power up into your super form?" King Cold voice boomed around the landscape

Both Coolet and Freeza looked at their father in amazement both thinking the exact same thing. "A super form?"

Sleet gave a sly smile as he noticed the look on both of his brothers faces.

"It will take me a couple of minutes to power up in order to transform it's still quite new but I should have more than enough power to crush him. Do you think you can hold him off long enough?"

King Cold allowed himself to give a small chuckle at his son's challenge before immediately becoming serious again.

"Of course I can I am not the King of the Frost Demon's for nothing" King Cold roared before turning to his two younger sons'. "Freeza! Cooler! You two are going to help me fight this bastard until your brother is done with his transformation."

Sleet watched as his father and two brothers take to the sky in order to face the tyrant that destroyed their home plant. The Frost demon prince focused as his ki began to rise steadily as the transformation process began.

Fists and feet connected in mid-air as the second round over the fate of the universe began. Moving at speeds greater than that of light the Cold family quickly used their numerical advantage to great effect. This did not last long however as one by one the Cold's were expertly knocked aside by the Southern ruler. Freeza was the first, his lack of combat experience clearly showing as he was foolishly took in by a fake opening. He was rewarded for his stupidity with a broken arm as the Southern ruler dodged the Frost demon's right fist and brought his orange elbow down on Freeza's arm. This was followed up with a powerful kick to the head which sent Freeza's limp body rocketing to the ground.

Cooler was the next to fall as he sent a right kick at the Southern rulers rib's and found his leg caught by the Southern ruler's powerful arms. An unforgiving elbow quickly smashed into the purple skinned demon's knee causing it to smash into pieces. The forearm smashed that followed sent the Frost Demon sprawling to the ground blood gushing from his now broken nose.

"I shall not be beaten as easily as my son's!" King Cold shouted his purple aura blasting into life around him as he smashed his large white tail into his opponents face. The attack knocked the Southern ruler back a few yards before the tyrant stopped himself in mid-air lifting his left forearm up to his face the tyrant wiped the drizzle of blood from his lips.

"Oh you think so ? Such brave words, you know I respect bravery very much. I'll tell you what once I have defeated you and your family and shown you your place I shall let you join my army as generals"

King Cold gave out a roar in frustration his dark purple aura intensifying as the clouds above him were pushed away by the sheer power generated from the sharp influx of Ki. The Frost Demon King struggled to hold on to his sanity. The Southern ruler reacted quickly to catch the right hook sent his way as he looked into the crazed eyes of the Frost demon. A red aura appeared around the tyrant as he began to overpower the giant king.

"I …. Will…. Kill …you" Cold cried out barbarically his senses deluded him as he was overwhelmed by his own power.

"Now now…. Temper temper" The Southern ruler laughed aloud "No general in my army can have such a volatile temperament and they must fight with a cool calm head. I'll have to teach you the importance of keeping your emotions in cheek"

King Cold lunged forward with a left jab directed at the Southern rulers face. He replied by dodging to the left and kneeing the Frost demon in the stomach. He then proceeded to launch King Cold into the unforgiving rocks of the ground below.

From within the crater created by his fall King Cold stood up purple blood sprawling from his blue gem shoulders. He flashed a quick glance towards his eldest son. Sleet had nearly complete his transformation into his super form the king would have to simple occupy the Southern ruler for just a while longer. Building his ki around himself King Cold launched himself from the crater. His eyes set upon the Southern ruler his aura exploding around himself. The Southern ruler dived towards King Cold in turn. They meet in the middle fists hitting their mark with perfect accuracy. The barrage of punches that followed were either blocked or dodged by their intended target. The fight was almost perfectly even between the two until the Southern ruler decided it was time to reach within his own ki and began to power up. With a roar the red aura flared into life knocking King Cold back. When the Frost demon recovered himself in the air his eyes met the sight of the Southern ruler smirking at him his arms folded around his chest as a large red aura engulfed him.

"Come on my good general Cold do not be frightened I will not hurt you I merely want to test the true extent of your powers I will even fight you with just one hand if that will make you feel any better?"

King Cold roared in anger as his purple aura doubled in size. Nobody made a fool of himself and lived. He rushed forward only to be left standing opened mouthed as the Southern Ruler appeared before him his right fist clenched in anticipation. King Cold could not even see the barrage of punches that followed as his body burned from the punishment he was receiving, though the pain mercifully sub-sided when a tail slap sent into the rocks below.

The Southern ruler landed gently next to the broken body of King Cold taking a moment in order to admire his handy work a glistening black disk appearing in his right hand.

"You fought well my good general too well in fact that I am afraid that you may very well become stronger and try to fight me again. I believe the removal of one of your limbs will be enough of a reminder to you of your place. I guess you will not be needing your left hand dare I say you have enough power just in your right to destroy any being in the universe you wanted apart from me of course." With that the Southern ruler pulled his right arm back ready to launch his attack. However he found his progress stopped by a strong grip around his wrist. Turning to face the fool who dared to stop him the Southern ruler came face to face with Sleet.

Cursing himself for forgetting about the other Frost demon, the Southern Ruler took in the appearance of his new foe. something was indeed different about this Demon's appearance from what he had come to know from the destruction of the Frost demon home planet. His opponent's body appeared to be in its third suppressed state or alien form. However his body was much broader and spikier than he had ever seen. What was more perplexing was the fact the Frost Demon's face was exactly the same as his true form. The only difference was that on top of his head sat the crown of his third suppressed form.

"Leave my father alone!" Sleet cried, in a menacing tone, as a mask plate appeared over his mouth.

"Make me!" Came the Southern rulers reply.

With that the Southern ruler flew into the air with an explosion of purple aura Sleet faded out of sight appearing above his foe his fist raised in vengeance. The jackhammer to the stomach sent the Southern ruler crashing to the dirt. A smirk appeared on the tyrants face as he got up on his feet and dusted himself off before staring at the Frost demon that had managed to hurt him. Red and purple aura met in mid-air as the battle commenced. Sleet held the early advantage his fist piercing though the Southern rulers defences with expert ease hitting their targets with fast powerful blows.

Each hit that connected however was met with an ever so familiar smirk that was etched across the Southern rulers face. This angered Sleet who could only think about how much he wanted to smack the smug grin off his opponents face. Slowly, like a plague, anger took hold over Sleet's judgement. Before too long Sleet had completely lost his cool and his defence dropped as he constantly threw punch after wild punch at his foe, each fist becoming more sloppy and ineffective than the last. A wide grin crossed the Souther Rulers face the Frost Demon was playing right into his hands. Anger would be the Frost demon's downfall one more push and the battle would surely be his.

"I've made a decision." The sudden words from the Sothern ruler shocked Sleet enough to make him stop his assault. Standing motionless he waited to hear what the Southern Ruler had to say, his fist clenched in anticipation. With a satisfied smirk on his face the orange tyrant continued. "Once I have defeated you… your family will become general's in my army and my own personal bitches. You on the other hand will not have such an honor as to wipe my ass, you shall die here today under my feet!"

The scream of pure anger and rage could be heard in the next solar system over as Sleets purple aura burst into life around him. Launching himself at the Southern ruler recklessly Sleet attacked leaving countless openings which were all taken by the more experience leader. After a while Sleet slumped to the ground, exhausted his body was unable to move from the amount of damage inflicted by his opponent. He cursed himself as a fool for being stupid enough for falling for such a simple trick. Kneeling on the ground all Sleet could do was stare as the Southern Ruler slowly flew to the ground a smirk was clearly etched across his face.

Freeza awoke from his state of force sleep to find both his father and brother lying on their backs, purple blood covering both of their lifeless bodies. Ignoring the pain consuming his broken and bruised body Frieza stood up to see that back of the Southern Ruler. A gasp left his lips as he saw his eldest brother Sleet kneeling before him, a look of pure determination was etched across his brother's face.

"If you beg I shall make it quick and painless" The icy voice cut at Freeza's heart like a hot knife though cold butter. His brothers remained silent until a blood curdling scream left his lips as the Southern ruler broke his ribs. "Beg…."

Frieza couldn't take it anymore a large purple disk appeared in his right hand which was promptly launched at the Southern ruler with a cry of rage.

The Southern Ruler turned just in time to see the purple disk knowing the attack would surely cut him in half if he didn't dodge and kill him instantly. In an instant the Southern ruler prepared to fly into the sky.

A/N: In the normal cannon series Sleet manages to get up, and put the Southern ruler in a lock hold, similar to Goku's hold on Raditz. He sacrifices himself to save his family and to gain his revenge on the tyrant who killed his people. Cooler, King Cold and Frieza lived from that day and made a pact to honor Sleets sacrifice for them. It was stated that from that day forth they would never attempt to kill or hurt one another, and if one of them was killed or injured by another being the rest of the family would do their best to save their life or seek revenge upon their slayer. However here is where my story splits from Cannon. Sleet is unable to move due to his cracked ribs allowing the Southern Ruler to dodge the attack. Freeza could only stand and watch as his attack sawed his brother in half.

"Noooooooo!" The Southern Ruler watched in amusement, as the young Frost Demon screamed out in pain at his brother's death. A wide grin spread slowly across his face as he began to laugh humourlessly.

Well what do you think of that chapter then? I hope you enjoyed it :o) please review and tell me what you think. Oh yeah power levels of the characters in this chapter, remember to take into account that this is fifty years before the beginning of Dragonball so they will be a bit less to take into account possible training the characters could have performed especially Cooler.

Power levels as followed in order of appearance.

Freeza first form: 450,000

Sleets true form: 200 million

Freeza's True Form 100 million

King Cold's true form: 190 million- 230 million max

The Southern Ruler: 250 million- (spoilers)

Sleets super form: 260 million