CMG: At long last after nearly a month of planning, I have taken the next step to bring a sequel to the fic that left everyone hanging. As I have stated in the prequel, I do not own Dragon Ball Z and will verify that here and now in this new series as well in this chapter only. Please don't sue for I do this out of pure entertainment only.

Fear's Revivification

Prologue

The village was quite deserted when Goku landed along with Ubuu flying on Kinto-un; the yellow cloud that Goku got as a little boy from Korin (after the one he received from Master Roshi was destroyed during his battle against the Demon King, Piccolo). With a light tap upon the rather dry ground, the Earth-raised Saiya-jin looked around to see the streets were empty and it felt like a ghost town that Ubuu said that he came from. The young boy, who was once happy to hear that he would receive training from the world's strongest fighter himself, was rather shocked to see no one there to welcome him home from his first tournament.

"Did everyone leave?" Goku asked the boy he met hours ago at the tournament.

"No," Ubuu said; looking around confused like Goku was. "We're usually busy this time of the day."

"That's strange," Goku replied before closing his eyes. He focused his senses to try to reach out for any chi within the area. Then he felt a faint, yet tiny flutter of chi. It was as though a small butterfly was struggling to fly against the strongest wind. Following his heightened senses, he started to walk towards it; eyes still closed. Stopping before a small house, he opened his eyes to see that he was in front of a door as he cautiously walked inside. Upon entering, a loud scream was heard as the Earth-raised Saiya-jin found himself on the ground with a young girl attacking him with her own hands.

"Maya! Calm down!" Ubuu rushed in and yelled at the little girl. Green eyes looked up from the dark brown hair as she saw that she was attacking a friend of Ubuu's. Seeing the young boy, the girl looked down and blushed a bit for her rudeness and got off of him.

"Sorry sir," Maya apologized as Goku got up chuckling and brushed himself off.

"It's alright," Goku sweetly said; easily forgiving the girl for her little mistake. Who knows? Maybe something made her want to attack anyone trying to find her. "Where are the other villagers?"

"They've… been kidnapped!" Maya said with tears in her eyes.

"Kidnapped?!" Ubuu said; clenching a fist. "By who?"

"An evil man… who was… who was threatening… to kill the elder," Maya sobbed; tears falling to the ground.

"Don't worry," Ubuu said to the little girl. "Goku and I will find out what's going on."

"Correction," Goku said. "Ubuu, take Maya to safety. I'll save the villagers after you make sure she's taken care of. I have a bad feeling that you will only get in the way."

"How so?" Ubuu said.

"I have a feeling that anyone who would do this is obviously up to no good, so I think it'll be fair if you take Maya away from here as fast as possible," Goku said. "Take her to the nearest village and stay there."

"Right," Ubuu said as he gathered the little girl in his arms quickly and carefully.

"Be careful," Maya hiccupped as Ubuu walked out of the hut carrying the small girl in his arms. He jumped onto the awaiting Kinto-un and flew off into the heavens themselves to seek help from the nearest village. After they left, Goku walked out of the hut and suddenly, he heard a dark, rich baritone laughter from behind him.

"About time you returned," a familiar voice said to the Earth-raised Saiya-jin. Goku spun around and saw what would be considered impossible. The hero of Earth could have sworn that he had slain the Lord of Fear when he fired a blast at Trepidation and made him fall into the lava pools itself, but lo and behold, he was alive and unscathed. What sorcery, if any, was he using to defy Death himself?

"How can this be?!" Goku growled as his tail bristled from around his waist. "I thought that you were dead, Trepidation!"

"Au contraire," Trepidation responded. "I believe I owe my thanks to these mystical orbs here." Goku's face paled as he saw the seven Dragon Balls by Trepidation's feet.

"How… when…" Goku gasped.

"My servants managed to make things easy," Trepidation said as Goku saw the villagers standing there with blank eyes looking at him.

"Let them go!" Goku yelled; clenching his fists in a challenging fashion. He couldn't, no wouldn't let Trepidation use them in order to create panic and confusion. After all, they were innocent people that have never committed adultery and if Trepidation had his way, then they would only perish or taint their hands by killing others.

"On one condition," Trepidation said as he looked at the Earth-raised Saiya-jin in pure satisfaction of seeing Earth's mightiest warrior at his mercy. "Surrender yourself to me."

"And if I refuse?!" Goku challenged.

"They'll be disposed of," Trepidation smirked as he snapped his fingers. One by one, they grabbed a knife from the belts around their waists as they held them by their throats. Goku hissed; his clenched fists loosened as he bowed his head and looked shamefully at the ground before him.

"Fine, I'll give myself up," Goku softly replied. "Just don't hurt them."

"You're mine," Trepidation said in a rather enthusiastic voice as the Saiya-jin's head snapped up in pure confusion. Before Goku could react, Trepidation grabbed his wrist and threw him at the villagers. Unable to fight the momentum, he felt hands holding him tight as others bound him up in chains. Struggling, Goku was afraid to fight with his full strength; fearing that he might do more harm than good trying to free himself. For if he dared to free himself, he would at the price of hurting the villagers struggling to bind him.

"Why do you want me anyway?" Goku questioned.

"You will not be able to save them this time." Trepidation said to Goku, who is in chains.

"What do you mean?!" Goku growled as he looked with eyes worried and confused.

"You will be their downfall." Trepidation smirked.

"What?!" Goku exclaimed before he knew nothing more; his own fate shrouded in mystery.

CMG: I hope everyone liked the prologue to this story. To answer everyone's questions on where I got inspired by writing the part where Goku and Chi-chi were holding each other their arms near the end of The Fear, you can visit this artist by her fanart name to view this gorgeous piece of art that had inspired me to make the end of the prequel rather sad near the end of it. Visit this website at: h t t p : w w w . d e v i a n t a r t . c o m / v i e w / 1 2 4 6 6 1 7 / (just take out all of the spaces due to FF's editing option andmight most likely destroying the link that I'm trying to create) to see the artwork that bri-chan had created prior to finishing the fic and helped with the ending a little bit. Anyway, I welcome your reviews and hope to hear back from those who read the prequel as well as new visitors reading this series for the first time.