The Legend of Dragons & Dragonballs
The door opened, Vegeta was still on guard, still holding the big energy ball in his hand, but suddenly the energy ball disappeared, leaving Vegeta shocked, "what on earth just happened" said Vegeta in complete blank expression, "You would hurt someone kid" said a voice standing in front of Vegeta, it was a gigantic person towering above Vegeta, holding an stick in his hand, he was wearing a big gown, its was black in color, on close observation his skin was green in color, and had pink color in some parts of his body, "Who are you?" asked Goku.
"Dende, it's so glad to see you" Exclaimed Aunt Bulla, as she hurried towards Dende and hugged him. "So nice to see you again" said Dende, "seems you have grown a bit old" Dende.
"I thought you were gone, how did you survive" asked Aunt Bulla. "I will explain every thing, first lets relax a bit, you all are looking very tired" said Dende and started walking away from the door, "so you must be Jr Vegeta the great grandson of Vegeta" said Dende looking towards Vegeta. "And you must be Jr Goku, the great grand son of Goku, I must say you remind me a lot of him" said Dende and smiled at Goku. "follow me" said Dende and started walking towards another door, as soon as he reached the door, he removed a key from his waist pocket and opened it, " welcome to my little home, I guess you are hungry" said Dende, and there was whole lot of food on the dinning, there were lot of pastries, chicken, rice ball, meat balls, tofu, the list was unending, the room was very huge, with a large ceiling, it had eight pillars on each side of the room, there was a throne like chair on the other end. Dende slowly moved towards it and sat on it, in a short while his eyes were closed, Goku and Vegeta was busy filling up their tummy, and they were literally stuffing their mouth with whatever they got.
Aunt bulla stood close to Dende "Why don't you eat some thing" Dende said in a soft tone. "I don't think there would be much left for me" said Aunt Bulla. Dende gave a little smile, "it's just like young Goku and Vegeta are in front of me" said Dende. Goku and Vegeta had nearly wiped out every thing out of the table. In a while they came towards Aunt Bulla and Dende, "I think we are done" said Goku, "And, the food was exceptional, sir" said Vegeta. "Please call me Dende" said Dende. "I suppose you are the guardian of earth" saidVegeta. "Yes you are right, till the dragonballs were there, now I am just someone who lives in this haunted mansion floating in mid air" said Dende.
"I didn't get your point, you were supposed to be the guardian of earth, then what happened" asked Goku. "when Shenron left with Goku all the Dragonballs were disappeared, they didn't vanish permanently, but were in hiding, and it was Shenron's decision that they shouldn't be ever united, so I was meant to protect it and not allow anyone from acquiring it, till Vegeta intervened, he was vey adamant about it, I said to him that they are no more and it shouldn't be disturbed, but his decision was unchanged, I had all the dragonballs, so I fought with all of my powers with Vegeta to protect the dragonballs, but all in vain I was no match for his super sayian strength, at last he acquired the dragonballs, and summoned Shenron. Which broke the seal, Shenron erupted in a rage, but he was bound by the power of dragonballs, so he had to fulfill his wish, so Vegeta asked for immortality, and his wish was granted, but not before he cursed the whole sayian race, that in time they would be burned into ashes, Vegeta didn't really care about it and went again to train and to make self stronger him" Said Dende.
"As stubborn as always" said Aunt Bulla. "So what you are trying to say is Vegeta is still alive" asked Goku. "Yes, Shenron granted him the wish for immortality, so he should be alive" said Dende. "Yes I knew it" Vegeta shouted. "And we all will be burned into ashes, and cannot do anything, to protect ourselves" said Goku. "I guess so" Dende said in a bit disappointment "Because of Vegeta we all have to suffer, how mean of him" Goku in anger. "hey that's my grandpa you are talking about" Vegeta said "you know what I had respect for that person in the past but not any more, a person who used to call himself the prince of all sayian has endangered all the sayian's for his selfish needs" Goku in an harsh tone. Vegeta was shocked on hearing this and he did not have anything to say in reply "Why did you have to do this dad" cried Aunt Bulla. "Just answer this hypothetically, if at all we had a solution to this, then what would it be" asked Vegeta to Dende.
"It's a bit complicated but I don't mind answering that, see to understand this you will have to know the legend of dragons,"
"They were a mystical creature, but they were not alone, when the universe was formed, the creator or the God created a lot of things, lots of planet galaxies, milky ways, he wanted every thing to be balanced, to control every thing, so he created four mystical creatures or four spiritual creatures, out of that the first to be created was dragon, he was extremely powerful with magical power embedded in him, second was The White Tiger extremely ferocious, filled with dark powers, and third was Phoenix the one who only had magic in her, and could create the unimaginable, and the fourth and the last one was tortoise, the symbol of peace, he who kept everybody's mind calm, his divine power were always for the well being, and not to be misused, but extremely powerful, each one of them were equally powerful, so God appointed each guarding a direction on the compass. And they began to create their own world, but as different race progressed they started migrating, to different quadrant of universe, and it became extremely difficult to look after each race for the guardians, as they had to cross other guardians territory, so they made a deal or a decision that the one worthy of guarding all the universe would be given all the powers, and to decide that they agreed to fight each other, the one who wins the fight, will get all the powers, so they fought each other, their fight lasted for centuries, but there was no result, the Dragon out of the four was very intelligent, even though the White tiger was the evil one that never reflected on his nature it only reflected on his power, he knew that the white tiger had the darkest power and the tortoise can never be manipulated, so he made a pact with phoenix and White tiger to crush tortoise combining their powers, so they did that, and they had Tortoise out of their way, But White tiger didn't knew that the Dragon and The phoenix had also planned the same for him, and he couldn't escape their wrath, finally it was two of them the Phoenix and the Dragon, the phoenix was no match for dragon, she had only magic to help her out, but the Dragon combining his magic and strength tore the phoenix into two, so as decided all the powers were given to him, but the three of them weren't destroyed completely, they were enslaved by the dragon, he used each of them as a symbol in the society, the tortoise as the fortune or the good luck the one related to the astrology, the white tiger as the protector, and the phoenix as the one who brings different climate, colors, smells, each and every thing that is heard, felt, saw and tasted.
But The Dragon had to make sure that there was no imbalance in his universe, since a mistake will make the other guardian powerful and he could be overthrown, so he came up with a plan he started reproducing dragon's, using his magic and produced many eggs, which were placed in different parts of universe in different planet, after a period of a century these eggs will hatch to produce a new dragon which will increase his strength, and keep him powerful no matter even if there is imbalance in the universe, But lately the human race found its egg which were know to us as dragonballs, and they found out a way to unlock its magic, by bringing the seven of them together, when they were brought together the Dragon Shenron had to appear, to bring it back to normal, but since he was bound by the magic of those eggs he had to grant a wish so that the power in those eggs weren't wasted or in other words unleashed which could have destroyed our planet. But humans didn't stop once, they kept on collecting it and Shenron had to come every time to protect it from being destroyed, the thing which were meant to keep balance was itself getting imbalanced, we used not once but many times for our selfish needs and a times for the betterment of different races, and leaving no other choice for Shenron but to create the black star dragonballs which grants wish but it also curses them, but going that to in vain, he had no other option rather to find someone powerful so that his powers wont diminish, and that's when he eyes found the powerful sayian race, he thought of using their power, and he did that, so he took Goku and enslaved by him he was made the Dragon lord, and when Vegeta unleashed Shenron again, it just became worse, when he cursed him it just meant that he would enslave all the sayian race one by one, I don't know but maybe Vegeta must also have been enslaved by now,"
"Sorry to interrupt you, but how come you know all these, and if you knew why you didn't warn everyone before getting into this trouble" asked Vegeta.
"When the universe was divided into four quadrants, each of the guardians created a race of their own, and we were the race created by the Dragon, and that is why we could create dragonballs" said Dende.
"So who created us, the sayian race" asked Goku. "It's not Dragon for sure, but some one from the three guardians" said Dende.
"And the only way to undo the curse is to Summon Shenron again, and ask him for a chance" Said Dende.
"What chance" questioned Goku? "When you ask to undo the curse, you will indirectly question his decision, which means you should defeat the dragon lord" Dende.
"No way there is no way, that we can defeat the greatest sayian of all time, it's impossible" Said Goku. "He isn't the greatest sayian of all time" Vegeta said. "Now don't get me started on that" Goku furiously. "Stop it, kids' thatis quite imaginary; to get there we should at least have the dragonballs" Dende in disappointment. "What if we have, not the seven but one, can we find out the rest" said Vegeta and removed the Dragonball from a small bag. Dende's eyes got locked on to them, he took it from the hands of Vegeta, he gazed it continuously "oh maybe this was the last set of eggs Shenron planted, this is it. your only chance" Said Dende.
Dende smiled, Goku and Vegeta smiled back "I knew we would find the answer, I always knew there was something special about you two as your names" Said Aunt Bulla. And Smiles was all around.