The Legacy of Son Goku
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Previously on Dragon Ball Super: The Legacy of Son Goku
Cabba was fighting off Kale in her Super Saiyan Berserk state. Although Kale was having an edge and the upper hand against Cabba even at his full power, the young elite saiyan took a moment to recall his mentor, Vegeta and his pride as a saiyan, allowing him to defeat her at the expense of his arms. Meanwhile Gohan, Piccolo, Goku and Caulifla trains to go beyond their limitations…
Starting...now!
Chapter 8: A strengthening resolve! The elite saiyan's decision!
"Urgh...am I dead…?"
The young saiyan, Cabba, was stirring from his sleep. Did he die? He stood up on...a bed and rub his head. What just happened? Is he's in hell? Why is he breathing? He punch himself in the face to see if he's alive or not and much to his dismay, he feel crazy pain being struck by himself- Wait!
"Ow w-wait...could it be…?"
He was moving his arms around, making sure he isn't going crazy. No way! Not only is he alive, but he can use his arms again! It was unbelievable! He felt his arms was reduced to ashes yet it acts as if it works before!
"Alright! My arms work again?! Great! But Kale…"
His thoughts shifted to Kale and he was becoming depressed. He killed his CRUSH's best friend and the temporary leader of her gang! What will he says to her?! He was getting nervous. Killing her was his greatest mistake even if it's for the sake of Sadala. He starts to move about, trying to figure out where he is only to bump into Vados and Champa. Oh no! They can destroy Sadala if he disrespected them in the slightest!
"L-Lord Champa! Vados! I humbly thank you for taking your time to visit Sadala!"
He bows before them. He really wants them to feel as though they're comfortable. The fat cat-like God of Destruction chuckles as he still see the boy acting spineless towards him but what's to be expected? He's a destroyer!
"Boy, stand straight."
Cabba stood up straight, looking confused at Champa's generosity. Why is he being so generous towards him? This is weird! He would normally treats him with indifference. What gotten into him? Is this really Lord Champa?!
"You needn't to act as a peasant now. I would like to offer you an opportunity to become a God of Destruction Candidate!"
Cabba has a shocked look on his face. Him? A God of Destruction? He never thought of the possibility of becoming one! He put his hand on his chin as he consider the offer thoroughly.
"A God of Destruction? I doubt Master and Caulifla would agree to this... What can I do? Becoming a God of Destruction means I won't be able to access that power on my own and probably give up my Saiyan Pride…"
He closes his eyes, trying to find the pros and the cons. Being a destroyer means he can perform the justice Frost falsely created but he won't be able to get to his peak and test it while being a God and on top of that, he will destroy a lot of planets and claiming a lot of lives.
"Every individuals are able to select their path. Master, you'll have to forgive it but yes, Lord Champa, I will become your successor! I will pick my own path to be stronger than Master, even if it's to be a God!"
Champa grins slightly. Cabba accepted the offer! A boy who is normally against destroying planets choose to become a destroyer candidate? But why?
"Why? What driven you to make this choice? Your people aren't into wiping out planets."
Crossing his arms to his chest, Cabba considers his reason. Sure he don't have much of a reason to taken up the role. Is it because people like Frieza and Frost are out of his class? Is it because to appeal to Caulifla? Is it to fulfill duties and obligations? Even he is unsure why he agree to this.
"To be completely honest, I am not sure, Lord Champa, but something in me thinks I should be a destroyer and therefore, I'll take the job."
Champa nods in understanding. It could be his instinct that makes him want to be the next God Of Destruction. He can tell Cabba has the willpower to do this! He is serious about doing this and he found a good successor in him.
"Alright boy, remember, you decided this. You shall begins your divine training, a training for one to become a destroyer! Vados, Will you-."
"On it, Lord Champa, I will inform Father and Lord Zenos of this."
Cabba looks confused as he watch Vados try to contact the Grand Minister with her staff. The young saiyan glances at her, understanding she's an angel and technically is his superior, but have other thoughts in his mind.
"She's so pretty...powerful yet so beautiful...wait, Cabba, what are you doing?! You love Caulifla, not Vados! Know your place!"
He snaps away from his thoughts as he heard the Grand Minister's voice somewhere.
"You call for me, Vados?"
He turns towards the staff's "screen", seeing a hologram of the Grand Minister. The Grand Minister has a mysterious, yet kind look on his face as he addressed his daughter.
"Greeting, Grand Minister. I would like to humbly apologize for interrupting your duties. We have news regarding our status."
Initially, the Grand Minister has a surprised look on his face, then he quickly appears to be neutral a second later. Did the priest lower his guard by this? Only he'd know.
"Well then, this may be an interesting thing to hear of. What do you wish to inform me, Vados?"
The beautiful female angel cleared her throat as she was ready to inform her father of great news he wouldn't believe in a millennium. This may be a shock to all, even to the Zenos!
"I shall note that Lord Champa stated that he wish to pass the title of destroyer to Cabba of the Universe 6's saiyan race regardless whether he is erased in the Tournament or not, Sire. He would like to request the Omni-kings' approval for me to start training."
She bows towards her father with utmost respect. Champa and Cabba look at each other, wondering if Zenos would approve of such a thing. After all, if Champa dies, Cabba would immediately take his place.
"Oh my. A Saiyan as a Destroyer? Young Cabba, step forward."
As told, the young saiyan walks towards the hologram and bows before the Grand Minister. He sweats nervously as he found himself under the pressure of 3 superior deities. It is a shuddering thought of how insanely strong they all are and how they can make him look like a baby in comparison.
"Y-Yes, your highness? H-How may I, the h-humble C-Cabba assist y-you?"
Although he knew he got nothing to fear, he is still terrified of upsetting any of the gods before him. Who wouldn't be? Except Son Goku, somehow...That saiyan doesn't seem so terrified of the gods yet he respects them.
"I must stress to you and Lord Champa that once you have taken this oath as a God of Destruction candidate, not only will you gain immortality of a God, but you shall be blessed with the energy of the God. You will be trained for millennium with Vados. Once you are fully trained, Lord Champa will lose not only his immortality and he will lose access to not only his god powers but his rights to live on his planet. You must also pledge you, as a future God of Destruction, you must not show favoritism towards your own species. As such, do you, Cabba, agree to these terms?"
Champa chuckles nervously. He figured he'd lose his immortality, that makes sense but to lose his planet? This will be a heavy price to pay. He don't want to be homeless and lack a place to slumber. But if it means to brag to Beerus he has a successor and his brother doesn't, it's a good way to humiliate him.
"Y-Yes. I will uphold my duty as a God of Destruction candidate. Sire, I will not misuse my power and I will follow the terms I am given. Granted, I shall not slack off on my duty, but for me to fulfill this, I must return to planet Sadala and inform my king I resign as Captain."
Champa and Vados nodded their heads. They did basically kidnapped him and drag him against his own wills.
"Yes. Please, return to Sadala and organize things. It shall be your last visit as a mortal before you live with Vados and Lord Champa."
Cabba nodded in agreement. This may be his last time he might see Caulifla as a mortal...Wait. He realized. If he wants to be with Caulifla, he has to convince her to be immortal and to be with him!
"I bid you good day. I shall see you and Vados in 6 months time, Lord Champa."
The hologram disappeared, signifying the Grand Minister is gone. Champa sigh irritably. He can't believe he made this decision, but he can live with it.
"Boy, time to take you to Planet Sadala."
"Ah...that hits the spot!"
Goku finds himself on a bit of downtime in his trainings and just begins to eat his 37th ramen noodles in the cup, while Caulifla was sitting next to him was eating almost as much with Beerus and Whis near the saiyans as well.
"Tell me about it. Yo, Goku."
While chewing, the older saiyan was looking at her curiously. This one is interesting and he see great latent potential in her. She is definitely someone he is looking for in a competition.
"What is your life is like? You know? Outside of combat and all?"
Goku swallows his ramen and burps a bit, to which Caulifla arrogantly gives a smug smirk towards and made a bigger burps in response before Goku responds to her.
"Um, my life? Well, I lost my entire race to a guy named Frieza an-."
"Whoa, whoa! Frieza? As in that snake-y lizard-lookalike bastard you teams up? Or another Frieza?"
Goku rubs his head sheepishly as he forgot how much of a scum Frieza is. He hurts so many people yet he did inadvertently saved trillions of lives of innocent people in Universe 7 by acting out of his own self-preservation.
"Oh yeah, He was scummy. I forgot about that trait of his. Anyway. I landed on Earth and I was raised by an old man I called Grandpa Gohan…"
Caulifla noticed that Goku's face was containing both rage and remorse when he mentioned Grandpa Gohan. What could have triggered his anger? Was he having a bad relationship with his grandpa?
"My Grandpa Gohan was the reason I became a Martial Artist. He taught me the basics of how to fight the way I do today. Sadly...I killed him when I became this thing Universe 7 called a Great Ape."
Caulifla may be a part of a Gang but that doesn't means she isn't dumb to urban legends. In Universe 6, there's a legend of a Super Saiyan that possess a Tail and transform into an Ape-like being on the night of the Full Moon. It was due to this legend that Universe 6's saiyans evolved without possessing their tail. She feels bad that he accidentally killed his grandfather figure in his uncontrollable state.
"Don't worry. I already made amends for what was done. A year or few later, I met my first friend and her name is Bulma. If it wasn't for her, I would likely never leave my home, which is Mount Paozu. It's the home of my Grandpa Gohan so I stood there out of respect for him. From then on, I travel with her to collect these things she called Dragon Balls; gather all seven and you can make a wish!"
The female saiyan look hooked on the story of her mentor's life. He is really an interesting being if his story is anything to go by so far.
"Goku, would you please wrap this up soo-." Beerus had his mouth cover by Whis's hand. It appears his attendant is too, interested in the story. It's not everyday he get to hear a story of his student's life, much less ones like Goku.
"Milord, with all due respect, maybe you should relax a little. Beside, hearing about Goku's life peaked my curiosity and I cannot help but to feel intrigued by it. They will train after this and they know that all too well."
Beerus nodded in his annoyance as Whis remove his hand from the God of Destruction's mouth. Each seconds the saiyan wasted to talk, they wasted their chances to become strong enough to ensure his survival, he would think.
"Fine, fine, I'll stick and listen. They better train and give me delicious earth foods in return. It is more important than ever now I'm in jeopardy!"
Goku then explains his story from how he met Yamcha to how he fought against Chi-Chi in the World Martial Arts Tournament as a Teenager.
"Chi-Chi used to be a graceful fighter with a passion to fight! I bet she can become even stronger than an average Super Saiyan if she trains hard enough! However, she said something about me being supposed to marry her and I took it it was a food so I accepted her proposal as a child. Granted, I liked her drive for combat but she stopped fighting ever since we got married or all and when Gohan was born, I was training but I stopped that for 4 years because she wanted me to look after him and I was dead when my other son, Goten, was born."
Caulifla can already see a dysfunctional family from what Goku had said, though he likely wouldn't know what it means himself. A saiyan husband and a human wife is almost impossible to maintain if one has an addicting crave for battles and mayhems like Goku does while wives like Chi-Chi would retire from their fighting days to mold into a traditional family Society demanded them to become. She can't help but pity the marriage. Goku is too innocent to understand how his family life is working out and while she can't blame him for it, hey she loves to fight just as much as he does, the fact Goku prefers trainings and to reach a level of peak and enjoyment over his own wife and sons says his family is dysfunctional unlike a Saiyan marriage. A male saiyan and a female saiyan in a marriage would be a perfect unison as both saiyans not only can fulfill their lusts for battles by fighting each other and training their youngs, or at least that's how Universe 6 saiyans functions in their marriage. On top of that, a human job in society given to a saiyan? Saiyan biology and composites are different than that of a human so working in a field not involving uses of martial arts or applying fighting elements will be difficult for someone as simple minded as Goku no matter how easy it appears to be. Wait...why is she so concerned about Goku's well-beings?! She's supposed to be his rival, not his best friend!
"After that, I'm starting to learn how different I was from humans. I have my thanks to Vegeta and Frieza for allowing me to embrace what I am."
Embracing his heritages was one of the hardest things Goku has to do in his life after seeing his race in a negative light. It is not easy for an innocent martial artist like Goku to find out he wasn't a human and he came from a race of alien that commits many evils of the Universe and one would feel disgusted at the truth. Hell, he thinks his parents, no matter how much he'd like to meet them, were as disgustingly evil as his older brother, Raditz was. He continued his story up to when Gohan was fighting Cell and ready to self-destruct.
"Your son sounds like a pretty big badass as a kid. Almost as much a badass as you were as a child. You really died for him twice?"
Goku beamed with a rare parental pride. How strong Gohan was at that point of time made him a very proud father and he couldn't ask more of his son. Gohan tried his best regardless of the circumstances and he couldn't blame him one bit for getting arrogant against Cell.
"Yeah. Gohan was pushing himself to his absolute. I never knew Gohan all that well and if I'm being honest, I still do not understand him but he is very intelligent and strong! Granted I wish he was training more. He's not as powerful as me nor Vegeta but he's still exceptional."
Caulifla smiles brightly at him oddly enough. Someone like Gohan sounds so badass it's almost unreal given how weak he looks now. Listening to Goku's story of his life was a joyful thing to do. She is glad he came back to life after dying twice. Otherwise, she couldn't hear him speaking of his life or even challenged him in the Tournament of Power, which is the most exciting fight she'd ever had against him in her life. Goku was going on for another hour and explains one of the toughest battles he've ever had in his life: Against Majin Buu.
"You wants to fight him again someday? He sounds like the type of opponent I would be DYING to fight!"
Goku chuckled at that statement. She really sounds excited to know such a being exists. He is joyous to see her befriending him after the Tournament of Power when she smack away his offering of friendship.
"He's really is. He was insanely strong! He was toying with me and Vegeta! He's just so insane!"
Seeing him excited to tell more of himself made her happy. Why is he so infectious with his cheerful and laid-back personality? She was listening more on his story and heard of his intense battle with Beerus to protect the Earth.
"You managed to shake the Universe when fighting Lord Beerus? And yet he was using less than 35 percent of his power?"
Goku rubs his head sheepishly, forgetting how uncontrolled he was with his Godlike powress at the time he was fighting Beerus. They almost destroyed the Universe with their fight!
"Oh right! I was going all out and I wasn't having any ideas of how to control God powers at the time. It was quite a hangover, I'll say that much!"
Caulifla hearing how powerful Goku was when he first became a Super Saiyan God made her eager to want to unlock the ability to transform into one herself. Super Saiyan 3 took her quite some times to get used to but her mastery of it wasn't to Goku's extent, but it is getting there. Goku then stopped his story at his battle with Zamasu, who stole his body in an alternative timeline and who was defeated by Vegeta's son, Trunks from the future while he didn't do much but went Blue Kaioken x10 to brutally injured the fusion with a simple, yet powerful kick to the face. All while his body was almost completely broken.
"Up to the Tournament of Power, that was all my biggest fights. I've had so many rough battles and so many challenges along the way but I have my friends to help me with them. Wasn't for them, I wouldn't even be as strong as I am today or even be alive. I have them to thank for these strength and allowing me to keep growing further!"
Goku stares at his hands, wondering what is his limits. He's always getting stronger and stronger. It was hard to gauge how far he can go since he always found ways to circumvent his limitations. Suddenly, Caulifla grabs his right hand and blush. She's not sure why she's holding his right hand but she likes it.
"You know, Goku, I'm glad you told me about your life. I feel inspired to work twice as hard as I possibly can in order to not only compete with you but to support you anyway I can. You are a friend of mine, after all."
Goku smiles innocently and genuinely. Caulifla has really been a good friend and sparring partner to him lately. He express his gratitude the best way he knows he can do.
"Thank you, Caulifla! I feel the same way, I want to work harder to help you when we work together in the Tournament. I don't have much to say but you're as much a friend to me as you say I am to you."
Caulifla blushes even deeper as she knows he is well-intended. He is really a compassionate saiyan and a very powerful saiyan like herself. She stood up, letting go of his hand and took on her usual fighting stance with a slight modifications that emulate Goku's own, clearly learning how he is fighting.
"As your friend, student and as your sparring partner, I wants to spar with you now and learn how to push beyond our limits!"
Goku grins as he stood up and took on the same stance he did when he first fought Vegeta.
"Oh you're on! Let's enjoy ourselves, Caulifla!"
Whis beamed at his two students with pride and approval. Both are always improving and overcoming their limits. Caulifla is pursuing the path of a skilled martial artist and not just relying on the brute force she and her gang always seems to use to conquer.
"Oh my...it's like watching couples performing duets in a stage!"
While Whis looks at them sparring together, Beerus look away with an unseemly unamused expression on his face, being unreadable.
"Hm, they are certainly getting pleasure out of this. I think we can visit Earth for the meantime while they're training."
Whis nods. Eating Earth's delicious foods is more important to them now. Whis thinks he will give them several training drills when he returns from eating. Of course, it'd be rude to not bring back anything for Goku and Caulifla.
Frieza's spaceship was approaching Planet Vampa fast. This planet...It was supposed to be inhospitable to Broly but thanks to Paragus and likely Frieza's two former soldiers, the mighty Legendary Super Saiyan will survive.
"Lord Frieza, we'll land on the surface of this planet in 5 minutes!"
Frieza snickers maliciously and grins evilly as he was about to land on Broly's "home" planet. This planet may not have any benefits to it for the trade organization but the fact Broly is there means a lot to Frieza.
"Time to get my revenge on that accursed monkey, ahahahaha!"
Will Cabba be able to contact Caulifla again? Will Broly be able to defend himself and his friends from Frieza's revenge? Found out next time on Dragon Ball Super: The Legacy of Son Goku
A/N: Sorry for taking so long to release this chapter, folks. I was busy with my life and thus I couldn't find a good chance to release this long-awaited chapter until now. As usual, if you wish to ask any questions/comments/ suggest ideas, please leave a review. Until I do the next chapter, wait patiently!
