(AN; I recommend you play Bruce Falconer's Goku Super Saiyan theme. You'll know when. Enjoy.)


Legend

For a moment, time stood still as Son Gohan, like his father, had fallen all but lifelessly to the ground.
Despite having hit terminal velocity, the sound that the boy's body made was all but a soft thud as he hit the ground.
Instantly, the Namekians were at his side, doing all they could to help the boy whom had saved them from certain destruction.
Tien and Krillen fell in, the latter of whom was still shaking in fear, looking at the crater that a single boy had made. Sure Gohan was that man's son but that level of destruction was simply... shocking.

Gohan smiled as his wounds slowly faded, allowing the afterglow of his victory to wash over him.

"You did good kid." Tien smiled.

"Thanks mister Tien. You too mister Piccolo, it was your plan after all." Gohan smiled.

The Namekian just smirked and shook his head.

"He killed almost all of my race and your father. I wanted him gone, that's all." Piccolo said.

The two Namekian children were happy to meet a child from another race as they had been disappointed to learn that Krillen was simply a child sized adult.

Said dwarf finally found his voice and joined in the chatter of the group and soon they were laughing together just as the old Z gang always would.

Then everything went horribly wrong.

One moment, Cargo, the Namekian child was commenting on Krillen's size the next, he was dead on the ground, a pool of blood spreading from his chest, his life snuffed out in an instant.

For Lord Frieza was not dead.

The tyrant appeared like a phantasm before them, his albino body covered in his own purple blood, ghastly burns covering the plastic like skin. His tail had been completely severed, his right eye had literally melted away and his biogems had several splits and cracks in them. He was literally smoking, his bloody face pulled into the very image of Lucifer. Somehow he had bulked up and was putting across a much more menacing aura than before.
This was his full power, his one hundred percent.

In his left hand was held the burning lifeless corpse of prince Vegeta, his right hand held out in the signature gesture of the death beam.

With slow and precise movement, he turned his hand toward the other Namekian child. Ignoring the cries of rage from the warriors he destroyed the child with a single snap of his fingers.

He gave a twisted smile and turned towards Tien.
"It seems I'm finishing all kinds of genocide today." He said, pointing his finger at the three eyed warrior.
With a pulse of psychic energy, the man was lifted into the air.
"NO! NOT LIKE THIS! DODON RA-" Tien tried, straining to power Ki to his hand.
Frieza never gave him the chance and tightened his fist. The crush of psychic power caused the man to instantly explode, his blood and inner organs splattering across the plain and over Son Gohan. The man's arm fell to the ground with a thud, the only part of him that survived whole.

Frieza watched the boy's tortured expression with glee and decided to give him one final push into the pits of despair.

With a swipe, he threw the body of prince Vegeta at the boy's feet, using another pulse of psychic energy to cause the corpse to literally pop, showering the boy with another wave of blood.
"You know, of all the murders I've committed, I've never actually killed one of my own kind, monkey. You know what that means? In a way, you're actually worse than me. Hehehe, look at that, his blood is on your hands, in both ways." The tyrannical lord smiled, revelling in the boy's pain, watching as the boy looked down at his hands where Tien and Vegeta's blood stained the skin.

"Aww, poor little filthy monkey. Are you going to cry? Beg for mercy? Beg me not to kill you and your friends. I'd really like I if you did." Frieza laughed as his own blood leaked out of the empty eye socket.

Gohan shook, his breathing hastened, the air quivering around him as he trembled.

Piccolo and Krillen began to step back from the boy as they felt an utterly insane power building up inside him. It wasn't the boy's normal bright power, nor the feeling of his wrath. The intensity of what they felt rising was beyond anything they'd felt before. It crushed them, pressing down on them, and even the stoic Piccolo felt as is his life would flicker out under the pressure of Gohan's rage.
Son Gohan looked up towards Piccolo and the Namek almost fled right there and then.

The boy's eyes had changed entirely. No pupils, no iris, no calming, innocent onyx black, just pure, white, Rage filled nothing. His features were pulled into a grotesque snarl as he breathed over and over, a sound like a heart beating resonating across the plain as the ground shook.

"Father... Tien... Friends... It hurts... It... Hurts... F...Frieza... FRIEZA... FRIEZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA." He boy's naturally spiky hair grew even wilder, flying as if blown by a divine wind, flickering between its natural raven black to a golden yellow to a sickly radiation green. It was as if two divine powers were battling for dominance inside the child as he let out a scream that made the very heavens themselves tremble.
A Godly golden aura burst up around him as lightning began to strike the ground, his hair turning fully gold as if King Midas himself had touched him. With one final cry of pure agony and hatred, the boy's aura burst out, more vibrant than ever.

"Piccolo. Get away. Go. If you die... If my dad can't come back... I'll drag you to the very pits of Hell by myself." The boy growled quietly, closing and opening his fists as the tornado of power burned around him, his eyes a vibrant electric blue without pupils.

Piccolo took the hint and grabbed Krillen whom was currently soiling his pants before bursting off in a random direction, hoping he could snap the Earthling out of it so that they could return to the ship.
"Well, at the very least, I do like a moving target." Frieza sneered, lifting his hand up to fire yet another death beam.
Gohan turned and moved at a speed around a quarter of the speed of light, appearing in front of the tyrant in an instant, grabbing his wrist, snarling like a beast. His eyes turned pure white again, his golden hair flickering to that radiation green. He let out a noise that should never come out of a four year old boy's mouth, one of pure and total hatred. This lasted mere milliseconds as the boy wrestled control back and he glowed golden once more.
Frieza almost screamed as the boy snapped his bones with a simple motion.

He pulled away with all his considerable might and flew back, looking over the boy.

He was different in every aspect. His eyes were cold, full of only wrath. His hair had become gold, as had the boy's tail. The boy now had a commanding aura of burning gold and for the first time ever, Frieza began to sense energy. What he felt almost made him beg for mercy right then and there. He was being overwhelmed simply by the boy's will. It washed over him in waves, each one forcing him back a little.
"W-what are you?! WHAT ARE YOU?! ANSWER ME, FILTHY SAIYAN MONKEY!" Frieza screamed as me popped his wrist back into place.
"Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi... Monkey... Saiyan... You fool, you... You don't even know what you're dealing with... I am son Gohan... And I... I AM A HUMAN!" Gohan roared, a new wave of power bursting up around him as he rushed forth, dealing a straight blow to Frieza's chest.
That singular blow sent the tyrant through the air like a bullet straight from a gun.
The diminutive fighter was right after him, his bright golden aura lighting up the Namekian sky which had begun to cloud over as the 'fight' began in earnest.
Frieza moved to block but his body wasn't responding well, a mixture of traumatic shock and pain causing him to fight sluggishly.
The Godlike child continued his assault against the tyrannical alien who was slowly but surely failing under the shear amount of pressure and power being put behind every blow.
He needed a plan, a way out, a way to stop his longest held fears from coming to pass.
"Human, Monkey, Saiyan, you're all the same, filthy little ingrates far beneath a power like mine." Frieza began, sneering into his bluff, the lie giving him confidence.
"I am only beginning to show my power and I'm sure you grow bored of this little charade, no? Allow me to come to my full power so that we can dance as we should." Ginyu must be rubbing off on him a little but the words felt right and he could see that the boy was beginning to fall for it.
In truth, he was at one hundred percent, his power weighted form being one he used very little. It cost too much to keep it up and now he had to end it. Now all the boy had to do was buy it.
The boy's electric blue eyes disappeared again, turning to the furious empty white, his hair glowing green once more as his mouth spread out into an insane grin.

"Kukukukuku... Frieza... Frieeeza... You have... Ten... Do as you wish... Entertain... Your lord." The boy said, his grin ever widening as he reached out his palm condensing Ki into a tiny ball of pure energy.

"Ten." He grinned, licking his lips slowly, drunk on his own intoxicating energy.
Frieza's eyes widened and his fists clench, growling at the boy before realising that this was the perfect opportunity to pull off his plan.
With a smirk of his own he lifted away, concentrating all of his energy into his most devastating attack. The planet buster, a relatively small ball of Ki, made up of densely compacted energy that sparked with dark energy, as if to mirror the very soul of the one whom summoned it forth.
All this time, the boy had been counting down and was now at 'seven.'
Frieza laughed out loud now. All that power, all that potential, all wasted.
Because no monkey, no matter how powerful they had become, could survive in the vast emptiness of space.
With that thought, a victorious smile played on the tyrant's lips and just as the word "Five." Passed through the demi-Saiyan's mouth, the tyrant thrust his ball down towards the planet below.
And the cataclysm struck Namek for the second time.


King Kai's planet.

"Oh me-damnit no!" King Kai swore, stamping over his planet, annoying a certain someone in its depths.
"F***! S***!" He swore, holding his head in his palms.
"W-What's going on, King Kai?" Yamcha asked. It was rare to see the blue faced deity this worked up over anything.
"Frieza just upped and destroyed planet Namek because he'd started losing. He... he wanted to destroy his enemy just that badly. There's another problem too, Frieza can survive in space and I thoroughly doubt that the explosion of a planet would be enough to put him out of business. Gohan could probably survive the initial blast but after that..." He tapered off slowly falling silent for a long, long time before a nibbling feeling in the back of his head told him that someone was trying to contact him.

'It's Kami here, Lord King Kai, I have gathered the seven Dragon Balls of Earth as per your request. What is it that you wish us to use them for?' The age old voice of the Earth's guardian pierced into the audio centres of his brain.
'Give me a few minutes Kami, Frieza just blew up the planet Namek, screwing everything... up... Wait a moment, Piccolo was down there too so... If you're still around then...' He tuned out the subconscious Skype call and sent his universal eye back to the co-ordinates of planet Namek.
To his shock, the planet was still very much there. Albeit with a crater the size of the moon and cracks that spread out across the surface of the planet.

'Kami we're back in business, time to bring back everyone who was killed by Frieza and /or his men.' The Kai said smiling. He loved the feeling of being control. It gave him one hell of a buzz.


Namek

The new Gohan smiled his insane smile, his hair Golden once more. His golden tail whipped out excitably as he let out those simple words that made the albino alien in front of him quiver.

"Four." He grinned, willing the ball of Ki in his palm to expand as an unnatural darkness cast itself across the sky of Namek, turning the former green to a deep pitch black.

Frieza's eyes widened. He'd failed, failed in every way possible. Failed to destroy the Saiyan race, failed to become immortal and even failed to destroy one puny little planet.

All he could do now was run.
And yet he failed even at that.

The boy would just... Appear in front of him, looking as if he hadn't moved an inch, his childish fingers placed against his forehead in a gesture that Frieza was all but certain was meant to mock him.

Every time this happened, the countdown went down and soon Frieza found himself with no time left.
The little boy, nay, demon reached out and grabbed the tyrant's left arm, grinning wildly as he slowly, torturously ripped the skin and sinew apart, pulling the offending limb straight off of his victim.
There was a splatter of purple blood as the tyrant let out a horrible noise that could only have come out of an alien creature's mouth.
Gohan smirked then aimed downwards, unleashing the ball of pent up Ki energy.
Frieza screamed horribly as he felt the burning sensation swallow up his legs.

And Gohan, once an innocent young boy, laughed as he licked the alien's purple blood from his finger.


The other side of Namek

"I AM PORUNGA, DRAGON OF DREAMS, STATE YOUR WISH, CHILD, AND I SHALL ENDEAVOUR TO MAKE IT COME TRUE."

'Kid, I need you to wish that everyone on planet Namek be moved to Earth, except Frieza, his men and... And Son Gohan.'
"Why not Gohan too?"
'He... He's not himself right now, I fear he would cause a lot of damage if we allowed him to return now. Besides, this way, we make sure that Frieza is truly destroyed, after that, well he has that technique, I'm sure he can get off of the planet in time.'
"I'll try my best sir."
"MAKE YOUR WISH SOON, CHILD, I GROW IMPATIENT!"

"Right! Ōdφnae Porunga! Chanæra çesiilla kes dan Keman kenne Terra ðannæ kon Frieza, kinna bon lodahn era ono Son Gohan!"

"AS YOU SPEAK IT, SO IT SHALL BE! YOUR WISH... HAS... BEEN GRANTED. FAREWELL."


On the darker side of things;

Gohan smirked, watching as his victim floated up, facing him.
Frieza looked horrible, a mess of blood, guts, rage and agony.

Gohan's smirk disappeared for all of two seconds as he noticed the powers he'd started sensing had disappeared once more.
He didn't care. He literally had bigger fish to fry.
"Kekekeke... Frieza..." He let out, slowly floating towards the tyrant.
Frieza's remaining eye widened as he boy inched closer. He... He was going to die.

There had to be a way out, a way to stop this. He looked down at the planet and it clicked.
He had hit the planet's core with a planet buster but had done something wrong.

Perhaps all it needed was another little push.
His train of thought was inevitably derailed as the boy's fist met with the side of his face, breaking the bones there and flinging the tyrant down to the planet below.
Frieza crashed through several layers of rock before turning only to find the boy in front of him once more.
"What... WHAT ARE YOU?" Frieza cried on instinct, fully aware that he'd asked the question not long ago.

Gohan paused in midair, his electric blue eyes staring down upon the lord.
"What... What am I? I am... I am darkness, I am light, I am one, I am all, I am the beginning and I am the end, I am wrath. I am what lurks in the hearts of those you bring pain upon, I am vengeance and I am truth." He growled, baring his teeth as his eyes turned white and the green aura returned.
"I AM YOUR NIGHTMARE!" He yelled, his aura bursting out.
Frieza flinched and almost let out a whimper as the child's killing intent washed over him.

This was his death. Vanquished at the hands of a Saiyan child.


Otherworld

Goku landed on King Kai's planet and ran over to the group of people standing on the planet's surface.

"What's going on guys, is my son okay?" Goku asked, running across to meet them.
The dead Z fighters turned and gestured him over.

"Put your hand on King Kai's back, you'll be able to watch." Yamcha said, nodding his head to the strange blue humanoid he was currently holding onto.
Goku did as he was told and placed his hand upon the King.

Instantly, he was flung onto the battle field, well, his vision was anyway.
His gaze fell instantly upon his son, Gohan.
And he shivered.

The killing intent rolling off the boy was intense, his eyes were cold and full of hate.

The young boy's innocence was dead.

At the age of four, Gohan had come to know what few men ever experienced and it was breaking him from the inside out.

The child that Goku barely recognised cupped his hands by his side, readying a Kamehameha wave, the words passing his lips slowly and silently as Ki built up in his palms.
Frieza began to panic and raised his hand to gather Ki into a form that Goku did not recognise.

Goku watched in slow motion as something came to pass that would never leave his nightmares.
Gohan released the Kamehameha, a silent scream playing on his lips as the full power of his fury fell upon Frieza.
"IF I GO DOWN, I'M TAKING YOU WITH ME!" Frieza roared, (though Goku could not tell through the silence of the telepathic connection,) and threw the gathering of Ki down towards the planet just as the Kamehameha washed over him.

Goku could almost hear the screams of the tyrant as Gohan watched the light of the Ki attack disappear, taking Frieza with it.
And then everything ended.
The planet Namek fell in on itself, cracking and shattering, the crust of its earth disintegrating.

Then with a flash of blinding light, the planet exploded.
The light was so great that no one saw Gohan's fingers meet his forehead before he disappeared.

Goku opened his eyes and pushed himself away from the blue God, breathing heavily.
"Gohan... He..." Goku breathed, his eyes wide.
"I'm sorry Goku... But... Gohan is... Dead."
Goku looked up, his eyes wet as ears spilt down his face and across his cheeks.

The planet beneath him quivered and shook, cracking as a spark flew through the air.

"My... Son... Gohan... Why? Why can't I protect you? WHY AM I SO WEAK?!" Goku roared, his hair floating up as his aura sparked to life.

The Z fighters watched on in shock as Goku's eyes began to turn electric blue as his body shook with anger and sorrow.

The air around him throbbed and pulsed slowly as he cried, his hair flickering as slowly but surely it became a golden yellow.
With a roaring scream, Goku's aura burst out, shattering the ground beneath him as he too ascended.

For a few seconds he stood there, stoic and Godlike, his torn gi fluttering in the tornado of power that he himself had summoned forth.

Then, with a flash of light, he took off and flew through the layer of clouds below, flying straight into Hell.
And everyone on Planet King Kai just looked on with bugged out eyes and jaws that had hit the floor.


Half a lightyear from Namek

A group of creatures sat around a table were eating a Godly amount of food and talking amicably between themselves.
Then, suddenly, but a hundred yards away, there appeared a blinding golden light and a wind blew over them.

In the middle of a golden maelstrom there stood a shining golden God, his hair golden blonde, his eyes the purest of blue and his face the very image of wrath.
Surely reckoning was upon the.
However the God did not fall upon them. Instead, the golden power was slowly stripped from him and he fell to the floor, his eyes and hair coal black.

The God that was now revealed to be a young child began to cry, mumbling things about his father between sobs.
The creatures looked to one another and instantly decided to help him.
After all, who would not help someone whom appeared like that?


?

"We can rebuild him, we have the technology, we can make him stronger, faster and improve him in every way. He will soon re-establish himself as the strongest in the universe."
"Heh, little brother has become so weak, to be defeated by a mere Saiyan brat."
"May I remind you, my son that, as weak as your brother may be, you are weaker still. In any case, it seems... prudent that we should gather as much power as possible. This child should be eliminated before he can become a true threat to the Arcosian Empire."
"... If you say so father, I shall obey. I shall accompany you then?"
"That would be most agreeable. Men, use all resources available to repair my son and plot a course to Earth. We will wipe this Saiyan scum from the face of the Universe."
"YES, MY LORD!"


Earth

A slow warm breeze blew throw the leaves of the trees and the dew on the grass shone with heavenly light as the wildflowers grew threw, giving the place a view that few would forget.
There stood a group of people and Namekians.
Bulma Briefs, Krillen, Vegeta, Piccolo and the inhabitants of Namek stood, soaking in the sun.
"Do you... Think it's over?" Krillen asked, breaking the silence.

Suddenly, like a divine intervention, a voice called out to them from above.
'Hello?! Is this thing on?! King Kai here. It's over, Frieza is dead... However... Gohan... Son Gohan died fighting him. As well as that, Planet Namek was destroyed. I'm so sorry.' King Kai said, cutting off the connection.

For a moment, every man, woman and Namekian was held in mutual silence for what they had lost.
Then Guru coughed and turned his head towards Piccolo.
"Son of Namek, come hither. Elder Moori, you too please." Guru said, coughing as if every word burned his throat.
The two Namekians, young and old stepped forward, standing before the eldest Namek.
"Elder Moori, accept this gift. You shall become the new eldest Namek and it is through you that the Dragon Balls shall work. Do not argue this." Guru said, placing his hand upon the other Namekian's forehead. Though there was much protest from the Namekians, the flash of light still happened as the power of the dragon was transferred.

Then the eldest Namek turned to the lost son.

"You whom were once Nail and several of my other sons, as well as part of the son of Katas, I have one final gift before I vanish from this place. I sense... Growing on this planet, a dark power. It is but a seed now however, I feel that it has the potential to become much more. With that in mind, I fear for this planet's safety.
Though it is not much, take my dying power and use it... To protect." Guru said, his voice becoming fainter.

For a moment, Piccolo faltered, however he came to a decision and placed his hand on Guru's chest.
With a flash of blinding light, Guru disappeared, his essence absorbed into Piccolo's being.

After that, not much was said between the gathering of people until Bulma suggested that everyone should stay at the Briefs' compound until they could return to planet Namek using the Dragon Balls. Even Vegeta was invited to stay and he unexpectedly agreed.

As usual Dr Briefs just went along with his daughter's decision and let all the strange green people live with him for some time.

Not much happened between the battle of Namek and the first summoning of Porunga besides the Namekians learning golf and Vegeta and Bulma's bickering.
The first thing that they did was to bring back Goku and Yamcha.

On Goku's request they also tried to bring back Gohan. However the boy was still alive and when the Dragon tried to bring him home, he refused.
Instead, they used the third wish to create a new Namek for the Namekians to reside on.
Thus another four months passed slowly. Goku opted to stay at Capsule corp. With Vegeta and Bulma. Vegeta was always good for a high level spar and Bulma was always good for a quick chat and reminiscing about old times.
Before they knew it, the four months had passed once more and it was time to summon Porunga once more.
This time, Chiaotzu and Tien were brought back by the Dragon and then, once all of the goodbyes were said and done, the Namekians wished that all those that had resided on the old Namek be transported to New Namek.
With a blinding flash, they disappeared, along with their dragon and the sky cleared once more.

Then, for a while everything was at peace once more.

That was, until Vegeta felt something that made him crush the glass that he was holding.
"Frieza's still alive, and he's coming, now!"


Author's notes:
Who are these strange figures with Frieza? Why did Gohan not want to return home? Will the Z fighters survive?
Find out next time on Dragon Ball; A Son's Tale.

Okay so, talky time. No, this will not be a Bulma x Goku story. I will be keeping most pairings cannon where possible and adding a few where I believe that someone deserved a partner.
I am aware of the plot holes I left in the Raditz chapter and aftermath however have not dealt with them because editing old stuff is annoying and time consuming. I'll just have characters lampshade it later on if I can't sort it out properly.

Anyhow, please keep on reading. Do them favourites, do them follows and please God please do them reviews.

Go read my other bull**** if you liked this.
See you next time.
~Umbra Gami