Raditz grunts as he stands up and stretches his still sore muscles. It's been 2 weeks of resting and he's mostly regained his strength. He looks over at the pile of bones he'd made from the native animals he'd eaten to keep his strength up. "Alright. Now that I've back to at least 70% power, I should be good to move around without worry. Now then, let's see where they're at."

He taps his scouter and sees it functioning differently, not locking in on a target's location. "Damn. I was so busy using it to measure myself as i tried practicing what Kakarot and the green one did that I didn't take into account this thing's battery life." He grit his teeth and figured he'd have to deal with it until he can find a way to recharge it. "Okay, let's see. I can't get a lock on them but from the readings, they're at least in that direction. I'll turn this off just to save energy." He taps his scouter and flies off in the south-west direction.

Meanwhile, Piccolo was watching over Gohan's training. With the threat of the saiyan still on Earth, he decided it would be best to train the kid directly rather than let him fend for himself. He was irritated that the kid wasn't showing much effort in his training but at least he'd made enough progress in these past couple weeks that he'd finally stopped crying all the time.

Piccolo's eyes widened in shock as he felt a familiar power approaching them. Though something wasn't right. What he was feeling wasn't at all possible. "How?! How is he that much stronger than last time? It's only been 2 weeks!"

Gohan turned and looked at Piccolo while holding some berries that he'd planned to eat. "What is it Mr. Piccolo? You look like you've seen a ghost." He looked in the direction that Piccolo was looking but didn't see anything and just ended up confused.

Piccolo grabs Gohan and starts flying in the air, moving East as fast as he could "We have to keep moving right now! We'll continue your training when we land!"

Gohan shouts in surprise as he was grabbed and drops his apples. "But Mr. Piccolo, my apples!"

"There'll be more food for you to eat when we land! If we stop and go back now, there's a chance that we'll both die!"

Gohan started to tear up, causing Piccolo to growl as he looks straight ahead. Great. 2 weeks and we've managed to backtrack all the way to step 1.

Raditz ended up showing up roughly 10 minutes, stopping mostly to rest. He wasn't exactly in the best condition so he needed to take a breather. When he landed, he noticed the pile of apples and walked over, picking it up. "Now isn't this interesting. This looks fresh. whoever was here ran off. but who.. Ah yes, now that I think about it, the green one was able to detect my presence before I was in view without a scouter."

He turns his scouter back on and turns to to the East. "Damn. Who the hell knows how far away they are and this thing isn't gonna be useful consistently." He turned his scouter back off and felt the ground shake. He turned around and saw an enormous dinosaur staring him down. "Annoying ass animal. I don't have time for you." He aimed his hand, ready to fire an energy blast when his stomach started growling. "Well well, guess those small creatures weren't enough to satiate my appetite. Lucky you, you get to live a couple seconds longer."

Raditz leapt up and slammed his elbow straight into the skull of the dinosaur, killing it in a single blow before it could even respond. He spends a couple hours tearing the meat off and eating it raw. Once he finished he turns his scouter on for a moment to see which direction, then flies that way.

This state of running and chasing lasted a couple weeks. Piccolo had gotten faster with each chase while Raditz was getting more delayed with each chase as his scouter was draining after every chase. Piccolo sat down exhausted from the chases of the day, knowing he had a little while before he had to start running again. He dropped Gohan who awoke from landing on the ground.

"Good morning Mr. Piccolo. Are we safe yet?" he asked as he rubbed his eyes, taking a seat and yawning.

Piccolo looked down at him and crosses his arms. "Yeah, only for a little while though. So don't get used." He looks up and noticed the full moon hanging above them. "Look's like it's already been a month since Son Goku ended up dying."

Gohan widened his eyes as Piccolo just brought up his father's death so easily. He didn't start crying though, since he knew that he'd already cried a lot over his dad's death. "You can really tell that just by looking at the moon?" He decided to look up at the moon as well.

Piccolo sighed as he looked down and closed his eyes "Yeah. It's pretty simple to tell when there was a full moon the day of the battle. Surely you should have picked up on that already."

When Piccolo was met with unnatural silence, he opened his eyes to look at the runt. He was a bit confused to see him just staring at the full moon. He then got up to his feet as he saw said runt start to grow, both in physical size and in power. He leapt backwards high in the air as he watch the usually whiny little kid transform into an absolutely massive ape, terrified that the boy's power had grown even larger than the saiyan that had been chasing them the past few weeks.

The giant ape went on a complete rampage, smashing down the environment and rock faces with ease. It showed no signs of the whiny yet good-hearted kid from just a minute ago. The ape then took notice of Piccolo and fired a beam from its mouth straight at him. The beam would surely end Piccolo if it made contact and there was no way he would be able to dodge it in time.

By a stroke of luck, another giant beam came from the side and blasted Gohan's attack in another direction, sparing Piccolo's life. Before Piccolo could feel relief, he hearth a quaking, deep voice speak. "Looks like I finally found you." He turned to look and his eyes went wide with horror as he saw yet another giant ape, radiating an even greater power than Gohan. Though unlike Gohan, this great ape wasn't naked and was wearing the same armor that the saiyan chasing him was wearing.

Great ape Gohan looked at the other great ape and charged directly at the it, swinging a fist that was caught in the palm of the stronger ape, though the collision created a shockwave that was enough to push Piccolo back just a little bit. "Not bad runt, that actually kinda stung. This power befits you as that of a saiyan."

The great ape that Piccolo had finally deduced to be Raditz transformed locked hands with Gohan, not using his full force to test just how powerful the boy at his absolute maximum. Gohan roared and fired a beam directly into Raditz's face, making Piccolo think that he'd blown the saiyan's head clean off. Though when the dust clears, the saiyan doesn't seem overly damaged. "I can see it. In this state of uncontrollable fury, you're pushing out you full power, added with the multiplier that this form grants us. However," he let go of Gohan's hand and started charging up a beam in his hand, putting the practice over the past month to use as he blast Gohan square in the chest, knocking the child back and collapsing on his back. Raditz, slammed his foot on the child's chest and started laughing. "You'll never be able to compete against the trained power of a saiyan warrior!"

Piccolo was completely mortified. Not only did the blast from Gohan not even mortally injure the saiyan but had been completely overwhelmed in no time flat. I have to do something, he thought. If I don't do something now, my best weapon against the saiyan is going to die. But there's no way I can take on a monster like that. Think Piccolo, what can you do to weaken their power? He then came to a realization and looked straight up at the moon. Of course. Gohan started acting strange after looking at the full moon, which means he transformed by looking at it as well. Which means.. He charged up and energy blast and fired it directly at the moon, not taking long before it exploded, vanishing from the night sky. He then turned around and dropped to the ground to see what the result were.

His plan had worked to a degree. Destroying the moon had reverted both of them back from their great ape forms. Only problem now was that Raditz was still standing on top of Gohan and he was laughing even more. His press on the child loosened from when he was a great ape and he stared down the namekian. "Looks like I finally caught up to you. How about we sit down for a little chat?"


And that is it for this next installment of this story. I really wasn't planning on doing this chapter so soon but the positive feedback on this was quicker and more plentiful than any other story I had written. I apologize for the potential awkwardness of the chasing bits but I couldn't really plan it out much better and really just wanted to get it out of the way. And to answer the first comment for this story by Awareness Bringer: I do like your idea to bring in Launch for this story to heal Raditz, though there are 2 reasons for me not to bring her in. Firstly, as of this point in the story, she was still fallen for Tien, and judging from the filler during the Saiyan arc with her in it, it's assumed she was dumped recently, so I couldn't implement her. Secondly, it's been a while since I watched OG Dragon Ball so I don't have her character memorized to write her very well. Anyway, I'll leave this chapter here. Feel free to leave suggestions on how to improve this story and I just may implement them in. Tune in next time for the next exciting installment of Dragon Ball Z: A Saiyan's Tail.