Title: Ashes
Disclaimer: DBGT belongs to Akira Toriyama.
Notes: Just a little drabble
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Ashes
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Kakarot is gone.
Gone with Shenron, to 'train'. The snort that rings through the room sounds sarcastic even to me. He didn't go to train, he went to die. For years that common born Saiyan has defended this world and those Dragonballs and now...
Now he's gone.
Damn him! We never did finish that fight, he and I. In truth, we only ever fought once like we were truly supposed to, as Saiyans. We never did prove if he really was that good.
No, I know he was better than me. As much as it galls me to admit, even in the privacy of my own mind where none can hear it, he was better than anyone. When the final history of the Saiyan race is written, it will be his name, not mine that will be named as the greatest of all warriors. And I, the last prince of the Saiyan people, will not.
He's gone now, and I know, deep in my Saiyan heart that I will never see him again in this life. So now, in this new day, I'm the greatest warrior in the universe, for I was always only second to him.
Neither his brood nor mine are truly a factor for consideration in this, because our race is all but extinct. Only Kakarot and I were true Saiyans, born and bred, and now there is only me. None of our descendants are full-blooded, and some day, there will be nothing left of my people. When the blood of the Saiyans is so weak it cannot hope to reach the heights that we did while battling Syn Shenron, then truly nothing of us will survive.
And so, I am finally the greatest Saiyan alive.
And yet that victory is nothing but ashes in my mouth.
-finis