Arlick flew, he flew faster and farther from the hut in the valley than he ever had before. The warm streak on his face still persistently planted dead center across his countenance.
His violet gi flapped in the wind and Arlick couldn't hold back on oncoming roar.
His voice carried across the sky, his aura flared covering him wholly, and temporarily turning him into a beacon of light.
In fact his little display had completely dissipated the forming storm clouds.
Arlick glared at his tail. He was now eleven, and with that cane a lot for a saiyan.
It was around this time that the tournaments would be held to decide which fighters were strong enough for certain missions. And beside that was the mating season, a particularly irritating season that had most youngling and adolescent saiyans falling over one another, longing for the warm embrace of their 'lover'.
His hands came up and clutched his head as he stared at the sky.
His slicked back spiky hair and four bangs had become as rigid as they would.
He floated thinking about how to explain away the tail thing until he realized two things.
She had some explaining to do herself. And, WHY DID HE CARE SO MUCH!
He spat and cursed Gohan.
Back at the hut Gohan raised a piping hot cup of tea up to his mouth, slowly, carefully, before sneezing and fumbling the boiling liquid spilled on his crotch. He yowled.
Arlick starred up, past the clouds. Past the outline of the moon, and into the distance.
"Why did you choose me?" He asked to no one, feeling vaguely calm, up here away from everything.
His solemn face contrasted the vibrant green of the valley below.
"I don't see any great evil I need to defeat. I still don't understand why i'm really here." he said through a sigh.
Bringing up a palm he held it out and let the wild spiraling ball of ki form in the center of his palm. His fingers closed around the tight ball before his look of calm was replaced by a furrowed brow of frustration.
He changed from a lying down position and was now standing in the air, clenched ki ball in his palm.
In that wild spiraling orb he saw...everything. He saw all he was, and all that he was becoming.
Laughing he clenched his hand tighter causing the ball to restrict and make a crackling noise. The image of his little brother Kakarot flashed through his mind, then Karen and her brother Kobashi, and finally a faint image of Gohan.
He felt his heart skip a beat as a tear spilled from his eye. It fell forward onto the ball of ki, evaporating instantly.
He let out another sigh, as he smiled. He cocked his arm back and in one swift movement he threw the ball of ki with all his ki toward the sky.
The ball flew from sight, until it was nothing more than a glint in Arlicks eye. It flew with an unmatched velocity that it broke through the many spheres of earth. It now flew through the mass expanse of space. Before colliding with, and destroying, and Capsule Corp satellite.
In the Briefs home, a young girl with long blue hair tied back in a ponytail grunted as she held up a small compass like device with a button at the top, several wires of varying colors ran from behind the device and connected to her computer.
"Alright, let's fire this puppy up." and with wide smile she clicked the button at the top of the compass...and a 'No Signal' message appears...
Her face went blank for a moment before she turned and ran out of her room yelling.
"Daddy!"
She runs through the many halls of the Briefs family home before coming across a blue haired man in a white lab coat with a small box with a flip opened lid revealing three Dyno-Caps within it.
"Oh, hello Bulma." he said, Cigar dangling from his mouth.
"Daddy, why don't we have any signal!?" she asked dejectedly.
He remained silent for a moment before pulling out an egg shaped device from his coat pocket and cracking it open. A hologram projection spilling out showing a sagging line and a frowny face in the upper right corner.
"Oh. One of our satellites is down…"
Bulma stared at the man incredulously before stomping off back to her room.
Arlick looked at the smoke rising from his palm, and smiled. Even if he hasn't broken his limiter yet, he'd still gotten stronger, much stronger in fact.
He stared back at the earth. After this morning's display, all he wanted was some time to cool off.
He flew to the edge of the valley where the tree line cleared up and he saw a large burgundy colored lizard with giant sharp teeth.
In its jaws was a man's severed arm, on the ground below looked to be a crushed car with a black CC on it.
With a smile on his face he flew too just above the lizard before he descended upon the beasts' neck.
With a loud snap the reptilian terror fell over limp.
He looked at the creatures rough flesh that looked like worn leather, and admired all the scars along the creatures side.
"Y-you killed it…" said an alien voice from behind Arlick, who turned with a start.
On the ground was a man with straight brown hair that went back and was tied into a fancy knot.
"Yes I did." Arlick said walking closer to the creature and stabbing his fingers into his flesh, ripping a chunk out and simply holding the bloody chunk in his grip.
"What...what are you?" asked the man as Arlick began kicking wood and dry leaves together in a pile.
"My names Arlick, and I'm a saiyan." as he spoke he pointed a finger at the pile and let the green spiraling beam shoot forth and ignite and roaring flame before him. He looked at the crushed car noticing several straight bars of some sort of metal protruding from the vehicle.
Taking two and jamming them into the ground next to the fire and setting the meat on top was easier than he expected...but now he had to wait.
"Your. Not human...please. I've lost a lot of blood. Could you please help me?"
Arlick looked back at the man, almost having forgotten his was here.
"Oh...sure." arlick said as he walked over to the man and grabbed both sides of his head.
"Ugh, wait...what are you—" he never finished his sentence as Arlick snapped his neck and let his body droop.
As the corps fell over he heard a klank come from the man's breast pocket. He stared down upon the dead figure before reaching into his shirt and removing a silver box, with a red bow with two white R's on it. Curious, he removed the lid from the box and within it was an orange jewel with four darker orange stars.
He smiled as he stared into it.
"Perfect. I'll distract them with this and then I won't have to explain the whole tail thing!" He exclaimed blaring off with enough forced to put out his makeshift campfire.
Author's Note:
So we're coming up on the main timeline now, as well as the end of my little prelude.
As you may, or may not, have noticed depending on how perceptive you are each chapter covers a year. Except this one that covers about an hour after chapter nine.
Next chapter will be the final chapter of the prologue before we enter the main timeline and the adventure truly starts.
I hope your as exited as I am!