Legend of Mara
The lost child Saga
Chapter 1: Mara the lost child
Age 775, Planet Horvass
Smoke pillars from the capital city, buildings destroyed and devastated with the planets leaders surrounded by the invading soldiers, the leaders stood unsure what to do as they stood there unsure what to do as the crowd departs allowing a corridor to open up through the crowd of soldiers as a figure walks through, a lone Saiyan, Mara. She looked to be in her late teens her long black hair hanging behind her, her red Saiyan armour glisten in the dim sun light, her red scouter over her right eye as she stares down the leaders of the planet that she was invading.
"All this death, all this destruction… you could have spared!" Mara said her focus on the leaders. "Now, will you surrender?"
"This is Horvasss, we do not simply lay down and let anyone walk all over us, the day we do this is the day we die and will not and never will surrender to tyrants to you!" one of the leaders states as he stood proudly, Mara turns to him.
"Very well," Mara said raising her arm aiming it at the leader, firing a blast, the leader cried out as it hits him causing a small explosion taking an out small area as it did, "Anyone else? I only need one of you to surrender at this point I couldn't care who!"
Seeing what Mara did to their follow men, the remaining leaders kneeled down surrendering to Mara, the battle was over.
"This battle is over" Mara groans, turning around to walk through the crowd of her soldiers.
"May the galaxy cheer in relief when you Saiyans die out!" a leader's voice calls out causing Mara to stop, Mara's eyes narrow as she clenches her fist tightly, quickly turns around firing a power blast at the group of leaders, instantly vaporizing all but one.
"Like I said, I only need one… tell your soldiers to stand down, we are down here!" bursting in a blue aura Mara flew off just so she could get to her ship and get off this rock. Reaching her ship within moments, Mara descends down upon landing the aura that consumed her body vanishes as she meets up with three of her top lieutenants Tiss, Vampa and Kob waiting for her.
"So?" Vampa asks his long fiery red hair brushed backwards in length and volume.
"Another conquered planet!" Mara said walking right pass them.
"Good then, you can give the good news to Lord Zero, he has been awaiting for an update!" Kob smirks his fish-fin ears flutter slight to his grin. Mara eyes narrowed yet again, she never knew how she obtain these three as her head lieutenants, they constantly show no respect to her, Mara's only theory was that they were just to report on her. Entering into the ships to see many of the soldiers now returning from battle but none worth her time, Mara simply walked pass them not even giving any a second look as she enters into another room with a huge screen set up in it.
"Contact Lord Zero," Mara spoke as she kneels to one knee, the screen turn on showing a figure seeming to be over looking out of a large window. "Lord Zero, we have captured Horvass, the planet soldiers are surrendering as we speak!"
"Very well Mara, yet another planet falls to your power, your parents would be proud of the warrior you have become!" Zero said seeming not to turn to Mara.
"Thank you my lord, you granted then sanctuary when Planet Vegeta was destroyed by Frieza, I am only paying back that kindness!" Mara explains.
"Oh it wasn't kindness that I spared your parents," Zero stated as he turns back to Mara, "it was potential, now are fulfilling the potential that I saw in your parents and now as such I am giving you what you have been aching all these years, the one that killed Frieza!"
"You found him?" Mara asks her interest lifted.
"Reports show that the Saiyan called Son Goku, the one that slain Frieza can be found on a planet named Earth, here is where you will find him!" Zero said.
"Then I shall go right away!"
"Caution Mara, this Son Goku is also reported to have slain Majin Buu, a being that power is one not to take not likely, remember it was that blind-sightedness that got your parents killed, do not repeat their history, refurbish your crew and rest before seeking this man!" Zero stated, Mara lowered her head annoyed by this.
"As you wish my lord!" Mara responded.
"Once your campaign is completed make your way to Station #327, rest, restock and regain your numbers, then you can make your way to earth!" Zero states.
"And this Son Goku, he is mine?" Mara asks.
"I gave you my word Mara and I do not go back on my word, claim this… Earth for me but beyond that he is yours, such a shame… to loose such potential, he would have made a great soldier in my ranks!" Zero sighs returning to gaze out of his window once again. "Dull the news of his death by one of my own soldiers would come in use too, maybe even bring this forsaken war closer to its end!"
"It would be a sight to see!" Mara said.
"Indeed, go… there's much left to do!" Zero said as the connection goes dead leaving Zero to stare over the vast galaxy. "Such a sight indeed!"
Back to Mara, she returns to her feet and walk out of the room seeing Tiss standing there awaiting for her orders, Tiss was the lease hated of her lieutenants. Maybe it was because she barely spoke and did what was asked of her without a single argument or question, or maybe it was she only few females who gain some form of a title and rank like Mara did. Either way Mara tolerated Tiss more than anyone else.
"Send word once we are done with this campaign we are leaving this planet and rest at Station #327"
Tiss nodded as she leaves Mara sight to do what she was instructed to do, leaving Mara alone in the corridor, a common sight for Mara.
Within several hours Mara's numbers left the world, her soldiers reporting that barely a quarter of her men were defeated, an acceptable loss for Mara any more she would have questioned her soldiers capability of fighting. The ship had now left Horvass with those left knowing who know ruled them and rebellion would only bring more death. Mara couldn't care about it, she had given them the chance to surrender like all the time she did before. It was Zero's that taught her this, he was more diplomacy then any in his position who were more blood thirsty and cruel. To give any to surrender peacefully and join then simple overpowering them and forcing them. Personally Mara had more on her plate then a planet that wasn't hers trouble, she had one goal in her grasp and she be damned if it slips through her fingers. The trip to Station #327 didn't take long, but long enough for Mara, she wanted off and give herself a break from everything. Looking out of the window seeing the enormous station in sight with two ships that were as big as hers dwarfed by the station. Mara knew these stations all too well, they were scattered over Zero's territory, a place for any to his armies to rest and restock before going to their next mission. Mara knew them all too well, for she was born on one, moving to one station to another, never staying too long to get comfy nor too short to be called 'passing through'. Turning away she sees her soldiers walking through the corridor some of them having something from their home discussing how soon they will return to their homes, to see their families, to touch the ground that they call home, now freed from war but never too far from it. Mara turns away her eyes looking down at the cold floor, the only thing she had to call a home, she didn't have planet, she didn't have family, she had nothing just one goal, to kill the one who had robbed her from having it, the one that killed Frieza, the one called Son Goku.
"Then what… what will do?" An voice she knew so long ago echo through her mind, "After, you kill Frieza or Frieza dies before you reach him, what will do? What then? What's next?" Mara shook the memory out of head, she couldn't think it, not now. Soon her ship docks and her crew exit, Mara was the last to leave, she always the last to leave, Mara dreaded being on these stations dull they had many things to pass the time, with gambling and games that in few circles would been deemed as unethical. Mara looks over her surrendering seeing soldiers coming and going, got somewhere to go, a purpose to go somewhere. Mara did not, she rarely spent a night in a single room, she never felt comfortable in any rooms, she never felt comfortable in any place. No ship or station, Mara always found herself wondering, not knowing where she going or what she would do once she got there, seeing everyone around her. They seem to be content in what they were doing, Mara just moved on her mind in a fluster she still had that voice echoing through her mind, that voice she heard so many years ago.
"Then what… what will do? Will you drift in the abyss or will you accept the hand that is reaching out?" Those words echo through her mind seeming to be haunting her, Mara just shake it away something about those words just stuck with her, no matter how she wanted to ignore them they still were there. By the first day, Mara spent her time wondering the halls, getting to eat not out of hunger but out of sheer boredom, by the second day Mara spent the entire day training and training fearlessly and by the third day Mara was ready to destroy the station and everyone on it just so should could get away from. She had gain her strength back by the first day and even the harsh training she gave herself on the second she was still a hundred percent. The troops she had while staying was no where even near to what she had lost, it had to do, it must. Mara soon found her lieutenants enjoying a meal as she walks up to them ordering to pack their things and send word that they were leaving within an hour. Tiss, Vampa and Kob looked at her knowing full well there was no way they had regained the numbers that they lost at Horvass.
"That is very ill-advice!" Tiss said her voice quiet and smooth, a strange concept when the deadly of the woman behind it.
"I sure the Lord Zero wil-"
"Tell my what Zero would say, go ahead tell me!" Mara snarls, "one planet, one single planet will bring this entire war loser to its ends, if you stay here and slack off that's all fine by me but we all know that Zero would say about that!"
The three Lieutenants eyes widen, Zero may been more merciful then the others space lords using diplomacy before anything but his coldness was even more infamous. They all knew of the story of how a well praised captain in Zero's army was given task to remove a foot hold of enemy troops in a sector, the plan was simple and cunning and if done right, would have gone without a hitch. But it did, the captain returned with only a handful of his men, the captain lost not just the fight but lost the sector. It was later shown that he course off the original plan for a plan of his own. The Captain was then tortured on days on end by Zero himself, if it wasn't for the captain killing himself Zero would continued to torture him even to this very day. Tiss, Vampa and Kob quickly stood up quickly leaving to do the task was giving, Mara smiles as she makes her way to her ship soon she will have what she been wanting for so long, dreaming of, learning for, connection.
On King Kai's planet, Goku trained like always did continuing to push his limits, King Kai on the other hand was looking outward to the sky, his antennas flicking around. Goku with weights on his arms and legs, thrusting his arms and legs in the air as if he was striking an invisible opponent, his thrust direct and fast. Goku pauses seeing King Kai still staring out into the sky, had been like that for two hours now sheering focus on something for what, Goku did not know.
"Um… King Kai"
King Kai attention flicker turning to see Goku looking down to him.
"Oh Goku, how long have you been standing there?"
"Not long, are you okay? You look distracted!"
"Oh you can say that, I've been keeping an eye on the civil war occurring in the other galaxies!"
"Civil war?" Goku asks, this was the first time he had ever heard of this, dull to be fair it wasn't like he wasn't busy with training or eating… or saving the world… or saving the galaxy… or training.
"After the defeat of Frieza it left a huge power vacuum, many of the space lords quickly took over, many of which were from Frieza's own race, now borders have shifted, revolution on many planets has occurred and the lords now fight among each other unable to gain any ground!" King Kai explains.
"Gosh, this is happening across the other galaxies?"
"Not all of them, the war haven't reached our galaxy… yet, but most yes!" King Kai pauses, "Many of these Changelings have grown powerful, more so then Frieza did ever dreamed of, fighting this war for there own engenders, for control or worse, yet there is one who's more different from the others… to what I have learnt he is known as the Black Changeling, he wonders around and if he comes across the fight the battle it self stops, it just halts!"
Goku eyes widen as King Kai continues.
"And then in other times he will seek out these battles and once he appears nothing of that battle exists… I am unsure of what he is meant to be!"
"Sounds like he is a wonder guardian!" Goku stated, making King Kai's brows rise.
"Maybe… maybe!"
Mara looks out of the main deck window seeing a blue pearl of a planet called Earth in front of her. How could a single planet be so important and look so peaceful, but Mara didn't care this was home to the one she seeks, the one called Son Goku. She tries to calm herself her eyes focus on the planet as the ship moves closer to the planet. Her men behind her looking at the planet themselves, soon she will have what she wanted, the one thing that-
"Then what… what will do?"
Those words echo through her mind more louder then ever, seeming like her brain was screaming those words. Mara grimace burying that voice deep, deep into her mind into not even a whisper of it could have been heard. Mara looks to her soldiers all of them waiting for their order, waiting for her to give an order, Mara turns back to the planet her eyes had flicker of need behind them.
"Prepare for landing!"
In East City, Krillin walks out of a shop a massive mountain pile of boxes of clothes and shoes in his arms, the pile ten times bigger then him as Eighteen walks behind him with two hand bags in one hand and their daughter Marron in the other.
"Do you really need to get all of these?" Krillin asks.
"They don't call it a bargain sale for nothing!" Eighteen explains looking at Marron who was busy playing with a plush toy bear she got.
"Yeah true but it doesn't mean you have to buy the whole-whoa!" Krillin sharply turns dropping all the boxes as his eyes turns and fixes on a serious of power levels coming to the planet and coming fast.
"Krillin, what is it?"
"Take Marron and get out of here, trouble is coming!"
It wasn't a lie as Eighteen turns to where Krillin was looking at seeing the speck of a space ship coming.
"Go now!"
Eighteen nodded holding Marron tightly she floats up.
"Be safe!" Eighteen whispers before flying off, those words sang more true now then ever as he knew the other Z-warriors would have felt the power and would come soon. On the ship, Mara looks down the city in sight, the ship she was on descending as it fly over the city close enough for anyone who live in the city to see as it slowly descends landing on the outskirts of the city far away that if there was any fighting none of the aftermath of the city would even touch the ship. The hatch opens as she and her men flew out, Mara in front of all of them her Lieutenant just behind her. She looked down seeing an earthling already standing in front of them before several more power traces appeared one after another more and more, the earth defenders appeared standing between them and the city. Mara glance over them, even that she had a scouter she didn't need to sense their power, all of them hid their power, typical not showing their hand but by the looks of them three quarters of them weren't even worth fighting, there was Namekian, he too hid his power, but his wasn't a low as most. Maybe he would give her lieutenants some trouble but it a teen boy about the same age as her, maybe a year older that got her interested she could feel his power, this was interesting, he's power was nothing to laugh at and was interested to what he was hiding, then she saw him, Prince Vegeta. She knew it was him, by his spiky hair and his power. Her parents spoke about the royal bloodline, about the prince most of it was unkind and did not paint the prince a bright colour and yet here he was with these earthlings, betrayed his own bloodline. For what? It made Mara sicken, if she got her hands on him she would make him suffer. Scanning over the fighters none, she knew Son Goku had to be here, this was his planet and he would protect it, but which one was him. There was only one way to find out.
"People of Earth," Mara called out her voice loud and clear, "Your freedom is a lie, unaware around you the galaxy is torn apart by war and grief soon it will come here and your planet will not survive the destruction. However, we are here to give you an opportunity to join us, to surrender to Lord Zero and in return your planet will be protected. You can go on with your normal lives, nothing needs to change all we ask is your full allegiance and when we call… you come, granting your soldiers and warriors to bring this war closer to its end!"
"And what if we refuse?" One of the warriors asks, Mara looks down to where the voice came from, descending to the ground Mara stood meters away from the group all of them ready to fight.
"Refusal is an act of war, many of you will die personally I couldn't care, I only care one thing… where is the one called Son Goku?"
The group of warriors looked around all except for Vegeta stood further away from the main group his arms crossed, looking annoyed.
"What do you want with my father?" a teen boy asks, so he is his son, not good enough.
"My business, now where is he?" Mara said sounding annoyed.
"He's not here, he's on another planet!"
Mara blood went cold, no… after all this time after travelling so far, the one she seeks, the one she wanted, the one that can give her the one thing she wanted, wasn't here?
"What will do? Will you drift in the abyss or will you accept the hand that is reaching out?"
Those words rumbling through her body, feeling more true then ever. Mara was sinking deep into her anguish, her sorrow, her rage.
"And the answer is no, well never surrender to anyone who threatens those who do not obey!"
These were the words that Mara needed to hear, to pull her into that darkness, she needed to in order to do what she was thinking.
"So," Vampa said as he and the other two Lieutenants landed behind Mara. "It's war!"
"MEN ATTACK!" Kob orders a series of soldiers' cries rage outwards as they charge outwards and straight to the city and all the innocents that lived there…