"…You're kidding… right…?" Kuririn asked me as I walked across the platform and over to its edge. "You're actually going to fight them… err… him?"

I smiled before I replied. The stunned silence that had occurred after my proposal had amused me, lifting my spirits for the first time in several hours. "This will be a good test of his promised abilities…" I then went into the ascended state. "But, the only way to see that is if he fights me while I'm at full strength." I then turned towards the fused warrior. I was going to have to ask someone what they call him. "So, are you ready to do this?"

There was another stunned silence before the fused warrior began to laugh. "Even if you are at full strength, I'll still beat you." He then rubbed his nose in a rather arrogant fashion. "Not only am I stronger than you now, but you'll go easy on me just because I'm family."

"I can't wait to beat that arrogance out of you," I said in a tone dripping with an excitement that I had rarely used in the past several years. "Trust me, there's no way I'm going to hold back, which, should make this all the more interesting, don't you think?"

As I floated into the air by the platform, I motioned for him to come. This had to be done. This kid was a danger to himself because of his attitude. The probability of him making a foolish mistake was high, and there was no way that I would be able to stand it if I lost my youngest brother because of something like that.

"Are you ready, Goshi?" the warrior asked after he joined me in the sky.

"Go ahead and start whenever you're ready."

"You're gonna regret that decision." The warrior charged and started the assault with a right hook. It was easy to block, and he was rather surprised when I did. It did not bother him for long as he started a combination of attacks.

He would constantly switch between punching and kicking. For a normal person, this type of fighting would be hard to block, but to me it was predictable and childish. The only thing that made it challenging was his speed and his strength, which was much more than I had expected. As he attacked, I kept myself on the defensive so that I could study his style. That was one of those things that I had learned from my teacher.

"Am I too much for you, Goshi?" the warrior asked in that arrogant tone as he backed away and sent a large chi blast at me. "You haven't even tried to attack me."

I easily dodged it and took his back. "No," I said softly, which caused him to turn in surprise. "I was just getting a feel for your moves, and guess what? I'm not impressed."

A kick from me sent him flying backwards. I quickly followed and reached him just as he recovered. The two of us launched into a furious assault, but this time, I had taken the offensive. This seemed to startle him a bit as he had not expected to need to be defensive. It irritated him, which caused his moves to be more reckless than they had been.

At one point, I decided to move back from him a bit so that I could change tactics. He saw it as a chance to attack, and lunged towards me. To humor him, I made it look like he connected using the zan zo ken, but in reality, moved out of his eyesight and repressed my chi.

"How'd you like that?" he demanded proudly. That pride then vanished and was replaced my surprise as my 'shadow' began to fade. "W-what…? How'd she…?"

I then sent several low-grade chi blasts towards him and quickly moved out of his line of sight before he either dodged or reflected them. "You've got to do better than that!" he called out as he dodged them.

He then began to turn as he sensed my chi. "There's no way that you can sneak up on me again…! Huh!" Instead of finding me behind him, he found another chi blast, which was larger than the previous ones. He once again dodged it, which allowed me to come from above him and use my interlocked hands to send him flying again.

This time, I did not chase him. I just waited for him to recover.

"How'd you get there?" he demanded of me once he caught himself. "I didn't even sense you."

A smirk found its way across my face. "I spent six years fighting against the artificial humans with my Sensei… and if you didn't know, we cannot sense their chi. This makes fighting with them very difficult as you have to rely almost entirely upon your eyes. After returning home, both of us noticed that the other fighters tended to solely rely on sensing chi, which made it more difficult than expected when it was their turn to fight them."

I paused with my story a moment so that I could enjoy the look that was a mixture of confusion and anger on his face. "After the Cell Games, I began experimenting with that concept during my sparring matches with Gohan. Although it is almost impossible for a transformed Saiyan to completely mask their chi, I can lower it much more than expected due to Tou-san's training. Because of this, I can use chi blasts to cover my movements by making them more noticeable than I am." A chuckle escaped my lips. "So, the lesson here is that you should never forget to use your eyes."

As he tried to process the information and come up with a witty reply, I charged him. He hastily moved out of the way, which gave me the perfect opportunity to use my favorite attack. He was rather surprised when he noticed the large, shaky red wave approaching him and dodged it. That was not what I had been expecting, as I really had not put that much into it, but I did use the moment to once again get close to him.

"What did I tell you about using your eyes?" I asked as I hit him again. I then began another volley of attacks, and this time, I did not give him time to attack me again. Once I felt that he had enough, I knocked him onto the platform and followed.

"Well, we've learned a couple things here," I said as I approached him and reverted back to my normal state. Everyone, including him, watched me carefully as I approached. "You're definitely powerful, and if you had done the fusion as Super Saiyans, it would be unlikely that I would be able to match you in either speed or strength. Actually, you could have defeated me in your current state."

The warrior began to chuckle. "Even after all of that, you still have to admit that I'm better than you."

"Since when did I say that?" I asked sharply, which caused his smile to fade. "Your technique is childish and predictable, and you can easily be misled by your senses. There is no way that you handle Boo the way you are now. Maybe, when you're a Super Saiyan, you'll be able to win by overpowering it." I then looked over at Piccolo. "Was that enough…?"

He seemed a little taken aback when I looked at him. He hesitantly replied 'yes.' I then walked past everyone and began to head back towards the palace. I was rather surprised when my mother stopped me.

"You could've killed your own brother!" She was gripping my arm rather tightly. It was very clear that I had scared her. Mother had never really cared for the fact that her children were fighters, and after seeing something that intense after losing one of them was a little too much for her.

"I wasn't trying," I told her in what I thought was a reassuring way.

"That's not what it looked like to me!"

"Kaa-san, if I was being serious, I would have aimed." She looked at me blankly, and I tried to comfort her. "Calm down. I'll explain it better once you do, okay?" It took a little bit, but I managed to get her to agree. I then excused myself right as Piccolo was starting to lecture the fusion warrior.

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I was still feeling euphoric after I taken some time to freshen up. It had to be the Saiyan blood in me that was causing it, and even though it was not really appropriate for the current situation, it was definitely a welcome change of pace. I then used that feeling as inspiration for some last minute training before the boys tried fusing again.

This time, they were going to do it as Super Saiyans. This was both comforting and concerning. Their fused form, Gotenks, was going to be exponentially more powerful than before, but would that form still be as arrogant as before? That was what really made me nervous, even though I was trying not to think about it. Boo needed to be stopped as soon as possible, and that temperament might end up preventing that from happening.

Piccolo said that he was going to have the boys train for the rest of the day, I guess to see if he could knock the cockiness out of them. I was pretty sure that he was not going to succeed. I mean, they tried to do that for Vegeta, and it failed miserably. So, if he is any indication of how this will work, because both Trunks and Goten look up to him, then Piccolo's efforts are just in vain.

My training lasted for several hours before I decided that it was a good time for a break. I was going to use that time to eat and try to possibly think of any alternative solutions to the current situation, but that fell through as Mother decided that I had to do something productive that did not involve fighting. There was no arguing with her either.

…

About mid-morning the next day, the boys prepared to do the fusion once again. As the boys transformed and got into the perspective positions, Piccolo warned them not to get carried away like they had the previous day.

That comment got thrown out the window when they went through with it. Gotenks' chi was absolutely astounding. The force of it nearly knocked a couple of people over, but it was that attitude that really got me. It was even worse than before.

After Piccolo asked him to demonstrate his abilities, he said, "You sure you want to do it here? I might break the buildings. Let's go down to earth!" He then took off without a second thought. Piccolo took off after him, cursing.

Bulma asked me if I was going to follow them, and I shook my head. I had tried to get through to him once, and it failed. There was really nothing, other than perhaps forbidding the boys from dinner, that I could do. Besides, there was no way that I would be able to catch him, since he was so fast! As we spoke, I could sense Gotenks circling the globe repeatedly at a remarkable pace. Piccolo could not keep up with him, and it was almost amusing to sense him chasing him.

Gotenks eventually let Piccolo catch up to him for a moment before he flew, by himself, to where Boo was located. It was then that I noticed something somewhat odd; there was another chi, nowhere near as powerful, with it. After a moment of confusing, I realized that it was Hercule. What in the world was that man doing there? He was going to get himself killed!

Gotenks arrived at that location as I was contemplating how to interoperate the new information. And, it was practically just after he had gotten there when his fusion dissipated. I could just imagine the looks on the faces of the boys before they flew off, which caused me to laugh. In a way, it served them right.

Piccolo came back a little afterwards, without the boys. He was clearly in a bad mood and really did not want to be questioned about what had happened until after the boys returned. He just took to his habit of looking over the side of the platform, which is what I heard the Kami-sama before Dende had done.

…

Piccolo was absolutely furious with the boys when they came back, and was going to put them through the training from Hell, but that fell through after their respective mothers realized just how tired they were. They were then, grudgingly, allowed to take a nap.

It was only a little later when I noticed that Piccolo and Dende were discussing Boo and Hercule. "You mean to tell me that he's still alive?" I asked as I approached them. I could tell from their expressions that they could tell that I was clearly surprised. "I had noticed that earlier when I was focusing on the boys, but I honestly thought he was not going to last that much longer."

"Uh… yeah… apparently, Hercule and Boo have managed to strike up some sort of friendship, and since then, Boo has held back on killing anyone," Dende explained.

"Huh… That man actually has a use. Who would have thought?"

"You better not let Videl hear you say that." Although Dende was trying to scold me, he was just as amused.

I just shrugged. "But, putting that aside, is this only a temporary thing, or…?"

"It's impossible to say," Piccolo told me. He still seemed irritated. "There is still a threat." Piccolo and Dende suddenly glanced back at earth, with worried expressions. It was quite awkward, since they are able to 'see', in a sense, what is actually occurring on the earth, but usually do not voice it. Unfortunately, I did not have to wait very long for an explanation.

Boo's chi suddenly rose. At first, I thought that he was going to attack something, but that thought proved to be incorrect. It is hard to explain, but it felt like that chi somehow split. Usually, the separated chi would begin to dissipate after a moment, but this did not. Instead, it seemed to be self-emanating.

"I don't understand… Why does it feel like there are two Boos?" my voice definitely showed my confusion.

"It… It somehow managed to split itself into two forms…!" Piccolo told me. He was clearly concerned.

I did not respond to this statement as I just tried to understand the new development. How in the world was it possible to spilt one's self into two separate entities? Not only that, there was a very distinct difference in how their chi felt. The one was nothing but pure evil, but the other one was clean, so to speak.

Did Boo split itself between its dark and light halves? The only time I had ever heard something like that happen was when Piccolo and Kami became two separate entities. It was so puzzling, especially because I did not think that Boo even knew the distinction between the two.

The dark half then seemed to go on a rampage before it decided to turn on the light half. It was clear that this was not going to end well. "Piccolo… I'm going to go wake the boys," I told him as I began to turn. "Call it a hunch, but I think that we're going to need them shortly." He agreed and I sprinted to where the boys were sleeping.

Even though I really wanted to go as fast as possible, there was no way that I could alarm everyone more than they already were. Although, as I passed, I nodded to Kuririn and Yamcha, to let them know that what they were sensing was true and a danger.

As soon as I actually got inside the palace, I flew up the stairs to the boys' room and immediately began to attempt to wake them. It was not easy, as neither of them decided that they wanted to be responsive to normal methods.

As I began to yell, I could sense the dark half taking the upper hand in the fight between the two halves. "Goten, GET YOUR ASS UP!" I roared at my younger brother as I pulled the futon out from under him and Trunks. I did not mean to curse at him, but I had absolutely no patients for this.

Both my brother and Trunks looked at me rather blankly as glared at them. "Nee-chan… what's wrong…?" Goten asked with a sleepy yawn.

That set me off, but before I could even say anything, something that felt like an explosion of chi rocked the building. The dark half of Boo had apparently won and had somehow managed to absorb the strength of the other one. The result was a power that was so much more intense than what we had felt before.

"W-what was that?" Trunks' look was nothing short of a fearful bewilderment.

Again, there was no time for me to answer as the thing that was now Boo began to move. At first, it appeared to go after something on earth, but it suddenly changed directions. It was coming towards us! "We have to move!" I shouted as I hurried to a window near the front of the palace. The boys followed me.

"…!" There was a collective gasp from me and the boys when we got to the window. Boo had just landed on the platform. Its power was even more intense than I had thought it was. Not only that, but its form was different than before. It was no longer chubby and childish; now it was lean and stern. It was clear that it was now built for fighting.

A wave of terror washed over me. Before, we at least had a chance with Gotenks, now… this thing out-classed everything.

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What is this new form that Boo has taken? Is it really as powerful as Goshi believes? And if so, can anyone stop it? Find out on the next heart-stopping episode of Dragonballz!