(A/N): I apologize ahead of time to my readers. My story "Still Meant to Be" is on hold as of now. I really want to travel into new areas with my DBZ fanfics, and my writing in general. Do not lose heart though, for I do intend to finish it someday in the near future, but for now I'd like to go into different genres and not just the main theme of romance.

Like with this new story, I'm going to try my hand at action/adventure along with a little dark storyline as well. I'm going to try and keep it as Dragon Ball as I possibly can, with the pun names and silly humor, but the overall story will be fairly dark, considering it's all about saiyans.

Again, I'm terribly sorry for the temporary cancelation of "Still Meant to Be" but I hope you enjoy this fan fiction as much or more than the "Meant to Be" fics.

Dragon Ball Z

The Saiyans

Prologue

Somewhere deep within the Northern Galaxy lay a planet inhabited by one of the most fierce warrior races in the entire galaxy, the saiyans. The saiyans were a belligerent bunch, employed by the tyrant Freeza to conquer worlds and sell them at a fitting price. They were all born with the tail of the monkey, which, during the full moon, absorbs seventeen-million zenos worth of bruits waves and transforms them into giant apes known as Oozaru. Their tails are also one of their greatest weaknesses. If squeezed, the saiyan will weaken and make for an easy defeat, that is, unless they sever their own tail, cutting their power slightly, but still freeing them from a humiliating loss. Some saiyans, however, have learned to overcome that weakness, making them seemingly invincible.

The tyrant, Freeza, hardly set foot on the saiyan planet, but when he did the saiyans stayed clear, except for the elite who acted as guards for the dictator, though most knew he did not need them. He always feigned kindness and sweetness, but he was a ruthless monster that, if crossed, would not even bat an eye before sending one to oblivion. While Freeza sat comfortably in realization he had the saiyan race firmly in his grasp, the rebellious King Vegeta was thinking much differently…

The king paced his throne room, deep in thought, his royal red cape flowing behind him. Few other saiyans were there watching and waiting for him to speak, but the king just kept his pace, his hand on his goatee, rubbing his chin as he thought. Then he spoke.

"Too long have we been under the reign of Freeza," his deep voice boomed, "and too long have we saiyans been sacrificed to fulfill his needs. We are a warrior race! We're not to be servants to a tyrant being such as Freeza and his wretched family! I feel we must rebel!"

The saiyans in the room gasped and swallowed hard. One spoke up.

"But sire," the saiyan began nervously, "He'll destroy us all, and surely his army greatly outnumbers us. Even if we may be stronger than most of his men, they still hold an unfair advantage."

King Vegeta thought this over, "You may be right. I think the best action is a surprise attack on his ship. It will be as if we are merely there for a meeting and then we will strike. We must prepare." The king growled, "We will have our day, and it will be soon!"

The prince of saiyans was still a child, but a strong child, as strong as some of the adult saiyans. He was on a planet of formidable enemies, assigned by Freeza, of course, and he was barely damaged. His partner, an adult saiyan named Nappa, stood next to him, looking around at the dead beings of the planet, a smile plastered on his mustached face. He was pleased, but the prince, Vegeta, didn't need praise, he didn't need anything but battle.

His little red cape clung to his armor and blew in the slight breeze of the planet. He looked to Nappa and nodded, "I do believe we are done here, should we head back to Lord Freeza?"

"I think perhaps we should clean the place up," Nappa said, thinking about Freeza's reaction to the dead bodies piled everywhere, "He won't be happy seeing this planet a mess."

Vegeta rolled his eyes and sighed, "I don't care if Freeza's unhappy, but fine, a little clean up might do me good." The saiyan prince turned to look at a pile of the dead, bug like creatures. He let out a small yell and extended a hand quickly, firing a blast of ki at the pile, disintegrating it. Soon, Nappa followed suit, helping the saiyan prince clean up, blasting corpse piles.

King Vegeta walked with his men through Freeza's spaceship. They walked coolly as if it was just a routine meeting where the saiyans report their mission's completion, but their intentions were to take Freeza by surprise, outnumber him and take him down.

Before they knew it they were at Freeza's door. The king took a moment to shake the nervousness from his bones before pressing the button that opened the door. As the door slid open, the king saw Freeza's two guards, Zarbon and Dodoria, who stood near to Freeza's chair. The two warriors noticed the king of saiyans and notified Freeza of their arrival. The king saw the shiny black horns of the small being known as Freeza, it seemed so unfitting that such a small creature had so much power and control.

"Ah, Vegeta," Freeza began politely, not turning in his chair, "You called for a meeting, what about? Is it about planet Tasba? Have you finally eradicated its inhabitants?"

King Vegeta noted the tone of Freeza's voice, almost as if the tyrant knew what was really going on here, but he dismissed it, he was here now, he knew what he must do.

"No! My men and I have come to remove you permanently from your throne!"

The room went silent, and then Freeza snickered as he got up from his throne to look at Vegeta, "Oh my, this is a surprise." Freeza stared at the king, and then tilted his head to look behind him, "What was that you said about your men and yourself? It seems that your men have gotten cold feet."

Vegeta stared hard at Freeza a moment before turning to regard his men. They stood at the doorway, fear obvious in their eyes, some shaking, and a few ran back down the corridor. Freeza's laugh had the king's fists trembling with rage.

The saiyan child named Raditz was not as strong as most of the children his age, but he was formidable because of his ability to deceive. He was sent to small moon inhabited by green alien creatures that resembled humans, but their eyes were blood red and wore sophisticated armor. Raditz had taken out the entire race of beings; the only one of them keeping them from being extinct was the emperor of the moon. He was large and burly yet fast and skilled, he was outmatching Raditz quickly, but Raditz didn't give up.

The emperor threw a punch, his large fist coming in fast at Raditz, but the saiyan child back flipped out of harm's way and as he landed back on his feet, launched himself at the large alien. He kicked the alien across the face and when he should have retreated to regain another advantage, he continued his onslaught with punches, trying to end the battle quick. The large alien's hand shot up and grabbed the child by his long, spiky black hair and threw him to the ground, knocking the wind from his lungs. The emperor laughed and slammed a foot down on Raditz's back, pushing down, threatening to snap the child's spine.

"W-wait!" Raditz stuttered painfully, "Please don't do this; I'm just a child, please!"

The emperor eased his foot, "A child who murdered my entire race before my eyes!"

Raditz's cheeks were now streaked with tears from his eyes, "Please, my king is ruthless, he sent me here to do this. If you let me go I'll leave here forever. I won't come back. I'm sorry!"

The emperor kept his foot on the child's spine a moment then lifted it, "Go then. Don't ever come back."

The emperor began walking away, and Raditz's face held a devious smile in realization that his fake pleading worked. He shot from the ground and landed on the green alien's shoulders. He quickly hooked his arms around the alien's head, one hand gripping the emperor's chin tightly, and the other hand on the top of his skull.

"I fooled you!" Raditz wailed with joy as he broke the emperor's neck with one quick movement of his arms. The emperor died before he hit the ground, and Raditz leapt off his shoulders, smiling in triumph.

"You goddamn fools!" King Vegeta roared at his men and turned on Freeza, coming in with punches and kicks that could level the best of the saiyans, but Freeza was not a saiyan. Freeza merely tilted his head from side to side casually, easily dodging the king's punches and kicks. King Vegeta pulled back for a powerful punch, but Freeza came in with a powerful punch of his own, shattering the king's saiyan armor, and his ribs. Vegeta shrieked with agony, clutching his abdomen in pain.

"Poor, poor King Vegeta," Freeza said sarcastically, "You had no idea what you were up against, did you?"

The king stayed silent, knowing he had just doomed his people.

"I was planning to eradicate the saiyans anyway," Freeza said, his tone now sinister and cold, "I did not know I would have to do it so soon…"

Freeza sent a kick at the kneeling saiyan's chin, breaking his neck in the process and sending him flying back to end up in a crumpled heap on the far wall. The saiyan men who had accompanied Vegeta to Freeza's throne stood at the doorway, staring at their dead king.

"Oh don't look so upset," Freeza cooed mockingly, "For you will see him soon enough in hell!" The tyrants arm came up and a large violet blast of energy escaped from his open palm to the saiyan at his doorway.

King Vegeta had exiled his youngest son, Tarble, to a planet far away. Prince Tarble was a few years younger than prince Vegeta, but he was weak and did not share in the saiyan's warring ways. The king had found himself disgraced by his son, and sent him away, to never return.

Tarble's pod slammed into the ground on its destined planet and he exited, still sniffling and sobbing after his father had banished him. He was still a very young child and didn't fully understand why he had been sent away. His brother Vegeta wasn't the nicest kid, but at least he had a small amount of respect for the weak saiyan child. So Tarble sniffled and silently vowed that he would train and try to get strong to please his brother.

Soon he was greeted by the inhabitants of the planet, small people who had heads shaped like horizontal grapes. They were friendly and took the saiyan child into their home, asking him questions about where he had come from.

Bardock, a low class saiyan who was now strong enough to be an elite, had been given a gift, no, it was more a curse. He was granted foresight, to see the future of his planet. Soon, very soon, Freeza would attack planet Vegeta and destroy it, killing all but a few saiyans. He thought of his two sons, Raditz, who still out on a mission, and Kakarrot, who was born the day before, and was already sent to a far away planet on his first mission. He needed to stop Freeza, but none of the saiyans believed him so he went on his own. He flew high into the sky toward Freeza's nearing ship. He was mentally and physically prepared, until he saw soldiers pouring out of the ship to meet him. He didn't care though, he was going to continue his flight and take Freeza head on.

He went through scores of Freeza's men, screaming for the tyrant coward to show himself, which he soon did.

Freeza exited his ship, riding in his bulbous flying machine, and he did not look happy. "Freeza, we've been under your control too long! I will end this right now!" Bardock brought a hand out to the side, blue energy swirling around it.

Freeza glared and lifted a finger, a small orange spot of energy forming.

Bardock grinned confidently, "That's right, Freeza. You're about to die, right now!" Bardock flung his arm forward, the blue energy ball rocketing toward Freeza, but the tyrant began cackling manically, the orange ball of energy above his finger now growing larger and larger and larger. The saiyan's blue energy ball hit Freeza's supernova and dissipated. Bardock's eyes widened in horror as the giant orange globe began its descent toward Bardock and Freeza's men. Bardock knew there was no point in trying to run, Freeza would get him anyway, he was enveloped by the supernova as it made its way to the planet below.

As the great ball of orange energy hit the planet's crust, driving deeper to the core, Freeza laughed and laughed, enjoying the spectacle as if it were a firework show. Freeza entered his ship, still giggling as planet Vegeta crumbled in on itself and exploded, leaving nothing but dust and debris floating in space where the planet once was.

The pod crashed into a beautiful, green forest somewhere in a mountainous region of the planet Earth. The pod opened and the alien air rushed in to greet the naked saiyan baby in the pod. The baby, Kakarrot, began crying hard, his wailing echoing through the forest, which was heard by an old martial artist who had been traveling through the woods.

The old man found the pod with the baby in it after following the crying. He smiled and looked down into the pod at the crying child.

"Well if it isn't a little baby," the old man said with a tender voice, "I don't think you're from around here are you?"

He picked the baby up and smiled, but the child glared and his small leg shot forward, smashing his foot into the old man's nose. The martial artist was trained well and took the hit.

"Well you're a strong one!" the old man laughed, "I'll take you in until we can find out where you're from."

The old man brought the baby back to his house and tried to raise it, but around the age of four, Kakarrot was outside with the old man one night, and the full moon appeared. The saiyan child transformed into the mighty oozaru and trampled the old man. Finally free of the old man, when Kakarrot awoke the next morning, he decided to go about his mission.

Years went by and one by one he was taking out the humans. In a desert region he met a young teenager with a flying pet cat. Kakarrot disposed of them after a grueling battle. He came across a young girl with blue hair. Kakarrot went to attack her, but her quick thinking kicked in and she offered to show him her panties in exchange for her life, but the saiyan child would not have it, so instead she told him about the magical dragon balls she was hunting and about the radar she was using to find them. Kakarrot was intrigued by the wish granting balls, so he killed the girl and took the two balls she had with her and the radar. He remembered the man he had lived with for a while had a strange sphere with stars in it, just like the girl had. He found it and went on his way to find the rest of the things. He killed many on his quest, a rabbit man, a huge fat man and his daughter who lived in castle on top of a flaming mountain, an old geezer who lived on an island was killed when Goku transformed into the oozaru, a stupid pig who terrorized a village and, of course, all the villagers and finally a blue creature and his minions, whom held the last of the balls.

Luckily the blue creature was so stupid, he told Kakarrot that he could never wish on the dragon balls if he didn't know the incantation, so the saiyan boy beat it out of him before destroying him. Kakarrot now looked at all seven balls, he didn't know what he could wish for, immortality never crossed his mind, being only a child, instead he wished for immense power, but when he summoned the dragon and wished, the dragon refused to grant it, saying it was beyond his power. Kakarrot was irate, but it didn't stop him, he wished for knowledge of places he could attain great strength, and the dragon obliged, giving the saiyan knowledge of Master Karin.

Kakarrot found the cat and after a humbling battle with the cat master, he began to train with Karin. The cat thought to train this boy so he knew the error of his ways, but Kakarrot wouldn't see it. One night, Kakarrot snooped around the tower and found a cup sitting on top of a jug, curious, the saiyan opened the jug and saw the liquid within. It smelled strange, but something about it made him even more curious, perhaps it was the power of the dragon telling him that this was how he could attain great strength. He dipped the cup into the liquid and took it all in one gulp. He dropped the cup and screamed, the liquid burning his throat, his body on fire. He screamed and yelled through the night, Karin finally awaking to hear the boy's cries, fearing he had found the poison that would draw out your hidden potential. Finally, as the sun rose, Kakarrot felt the power swell within him and he sat up, looking down at his hands, feeling powerful, more powerful than he had ever been. He killed the cat master and continued his killing spree.

He eventually wiped out most of the humans, and sat, resting by a fire he had prepared. He was much older now, eighteen years of age. He had wiped out entire armies, and cities of people, even the strange king. He had a few more places to go, but he needed to rest. Suddenly, a harsh wind blew in and before him appeared a green man, or monster with antennae. He wore white robes, with a kanji symbol on his chest, embedded in a circle. The being claimed he was the guardian of the planet and that he did not approve of what the saiyan boy was doing. Kakarrot only laughed and tried to fight, but the elderly guardian was angry and easily defeated Kakarrot, but the green man was not finished with the saiyan. He took the saiyan to his lookout and already had the seven dragon balls scattered across the floor. He told the dragon to show the saiyan his past, and what had happened. The dragon did so and showed Kakarrot the destruction of his planet, how his father had died all because of the mercilessness of the tyrant Freeza. The guardian of earth knew what the boy was seeing, for he had asked the divine Kaio-sama about it, and the god of the northern galaxy was happy to answer his questions about the saiyans and all that had happened.

Kakarrot was in tears by the time the visions were complete, he had been doing all this for the being that had killed his entire race? Kakarrot was devastated. He vowed never to kill without reason again.

Five years later, however, his brother, Raditz, came to earth, and took Kakarrot away, not before he and his little brother ended the human race. Kakarrot didn't want to do it, but after meeting another saiyan, and his family at that, he needed to impress them, and deep within he knew this was wrong, but the blood running through his veins told him that this was fun and that this is what he was meant for, and he couldn't change that. He was a saiyan, after all.

(A/C) I do apologize if Kakarrot's back story was a little rushed, but I didn't want to make the prologue too long. I hope you enjoy this story!