Chapter 30: Imprisonment
Vegeta had gathered his royal guard an army of ten strong were bowed at his feet including his war general Nappa who had recovered from his previous in counter with Goku. A cape flapped in the wind behind Vegeta's back as the King looked down on his subjects.
"We have livid for slaves for too long!" Vegeta roared as a white aura burst around him. "Too long have we served lord Friezia the tyrant responsible for killing my father and in slaving our race. But we now have been blessed with the opportunity to gain an significant increases in power. This blessing comes from the traitor Turles who stole the Tree of Might from our home world, but has now brought it here to this planet just at the moment we need it most"
The King Paused and took a moment to look at his subjects around him all of whom had been with him since he had been a child. Teaching him, protecting him until he was strong enough to look after himself and in some case them, but most of all their undying loyalty there was no doubt in Vegeta's mind that each and everyone of his men at his side right now would die for him in battle and for that they would be rewarded once he had slain Turles and Friezia and maybe even that blasted Kakarot if the mood took him.
"This is our time, The time we prove once and for all that the Sayian race is the mightiest of the universe!"
This caused a roar to boom out from the ten Sayian's mouths a roar so powerful it made the surface of Namek shake due to the vibrations. Vegeta slowly held up his hand to silence his subjects before continuing with his speech. His father had taught him how important it was to give motivational speeches before a fight how just a few words could make a Sayian feel so empowered that he would be capable of taking on beings far stronger than themselves however current King usually skipped over such formalities preferring to just give orders and letting his subjects get on with it but right now he wanted every advantage he could get.
Opening his arms out to his side Vegeta raised his Ki higher causing his white hot aura to double in size and wipe up wind and dust into the air.
"I am the Sayian that will vanquish the traitor Turles and return the Tree Of Might back to our people so that we may eat once again from its forbidden fruit's, It is I your king who will face off against Friezia on this planet and show that snowball the true power of our race, For I am the Sayian that the legends have fore told of, the one that will lead our people on a glorious conquest for I am the one and only Super Sayian!" Vegeta roared flinging his head to the sky while releasing a wave of destructive power which literally blew away the Sayian's that had crowded around him. "Behold my power! It will be the saviour of our race, the rope which will lead us though the darkness of servitude and out into the light of lordship. For each and every one of your aid in battle I will grant you whatever your heart desires be it a planet, a woman or an oppoment to defeat you shall have it upon our victory. Now who's with me!"
"Me!" The Sayian's roared in unision though the sound echo and was more like the roars of their great ape forums than their normal voices.
"Very good" Vegeta said calmly his arms crossed over his chest as he flouted up into the air. "Now follow me to victory!"
With that the Sayian King flew off towards the looming shadow of the Tree of Might followed by his loyal subjects.
~DBZ~
Bulma sat alone on a high cliff her head in her lap as tears began to roll down her eyes. The scientist was scared alone but most of all she felt abandoned. Everyone had simply ran off and left her behind and there was no hope of the scientist catching up as they were all too fast for her.
"Oh man" Bulma sighed into her hands before looking up into the burning light of the Nameks three suns as she wiped the tears from her face. "Why does it seem like nowhere days that I am simply left back on the side-lines and forgotten about. I bet if someone was writing a story about me and my friends adventures they would completely forget that I existed and leave me out for several chapters"
With that the scientist got back up onto her feet in order to try and find her friend or at least find something to eat or drink.
~DBAT~
A cloud of smoke and dust was all that remained of the mercenary Racoome. The fragments remained in the air for several seconds before a strong gust of wind blew the remains away.
Gohan looked up at Piccolo with an expression of both shock and fear as the Namek looked down at his student with narrowed angry eyes. It had all happened so fast the boy didn't know how to react or the true ramifications of what had just happened.
Smash! Piccolo's right fist connected with the young boys jaw sending Gohan spinning though the air before he smashed into a rock face. Tch, Piccolo appeared before the boy an energy ball already formed in his hand ready to release it's destructive power in full force. The young Demi-Sayian couldn't react he didn't even have time to process what exactly was going on.
"Do you see how easy it would have been?" Piccolo snarled as the energy beam he had charged disappeared from his outstretched hand. "One false move and it's all over Gohan, You take your eyes off your opponent for even a second even if you think their beat and they will destroy you do you understand"
The young boy didn't speak but simply nodded his head as he gulped down fear.
"Good" Piccolo replied before flouting backwards and allowing Gohan to escape from the rock face.
The Namek folded his arms over his chest in order to give off his normal cool calm exterior but inside he was raging an internal battle. The truth was Piccolo was angry not just at Gohan for allowing himself to nearly get killed or for that fact at Racoome for nearly killing him. No the Namek was angrily at himself one for hitting the boy and the other for his so far failure to teach Gohan what it took to become a true fighter.
"Maybe I am going about this all wrong" Piccolo thought to himself as he watched Gohan rub at the now purple bruise on his cheek. "Maybe I am being too harsh on the boy?" The Namek immediately shock this thought out of his head however and regained his internal composer. "No! I am right to be harsh the world and the battle field is a harsh place and the sooner Gohan learns that and how to deal with it the better it is for him and me"
Just then a small spark of dark energy blipped into life just over ten miles away as at the same time the life energy of the plant life around it seemed to blink out of existence. Gohan, Piccolo quickly relished must have sensed this too as the young boy was quickly alert and on guard.
"What are they doing over their?" Gohan asked looking at the direction of Turles and his last remaining mercenary's.
"I don't know" Piccolo replied lowering himself to the floor and signalling Gohan to so the same as well. "But we are about to find out, Suppress your power level so that their scouters can't detect us and follow me"
With that the Namek took off at a run flipping off and landing on rock faces with perfect ease while the young Demi-Sayian behind him desperately tried to keep up and keep his power level low.
~DBZ~
Turles lay on the floor his arms crossed behind his head as he looked up at the Namekian's green sky a small smirk was upon the dark skinned Sayian's face as a small shadow began to fall on him caused by the slowly growing Tree Of Might.
"This planet's really something" Turles thought to himself "It's so full of life even with most of the dominant race having been killed off the planet life has more than enough energy to make a load of ripe fruit"
Without even thinking Turles raised his right hand and crushed it into a fist as he imagined how much more power would soon be rippling through his veins. It had been a long time since the Sayian last had a bite of the fresh sweet fruit from the Tree. Yes he and his crew carried spares with themselves at all times in case they needed a quick power boost but it was nowhere near the same feeling as eating the fruit fresh. For one the power increases was significantly less the older the fruit became and two for some strange reason which Turles didn't like to think about let alone admit if the space mercenary didn't have a piece of fruit for a week or two either fresh or old he would start to feel his body get the shakes and an uncontrollable need for the fruit. But worst of all the power the fruit gave him seemed to ebb away and fade while his body also began to feel and look older.
Turles quickly shock his head clearing these thought out of his head. They were of no consequence to him as at this moment he was about to get a fresh crop of fruit and then take out his worse two enemies all in one glories day.
"Master"
Burters voice caused Turles to sit up straight and look at the blue humanoid alien with a mixture of angrier and disgust.
"I thought I told you and Jeice to watch the Dragonball's while I relaxed while we waited for the Tree of Might to grow and for Racoome and Carcao to come back" Turles snapped angrily jumping to his feet and cracking his knuckles threatenly.
Burter immediately backed off in fear taking a huge step back before he lowered himself into a submissive bow in order to appease the Sayian and abstain from getting another beating.
"I know you did Master but I have some important news to report to you"
"And that is?" Turles asked impatiently crossing his arms over his armoured chest and staring at Burter impatiently.
"Master the two power levels that we believed were Racoome's and Cacao's have just vanished. I've this means they were just killed or the boy and Namekian defeated them and are able to hide their power levels" Burter said quickly desperately trying to stop himself from stuttering.
"And?" Turles asked coldly his eyes narrowed. "What difference does it make?"
"They were are friends Master" Burter replied quickly as he continued to stare at the floor.
"Your Friends" Turles corrected as he strode forward and put a hand on the blue aliens shoulder, Burter couldn't help but flinch. "They were nothing to me but solders of war and Soldiers die"
The way Turles said it was so matter of factly it nearly brought Burter to tears after all the years they had all spent working together it was still painfully obvious that their Sayian leader still didn't care for his men. They were just tools to be used and when they finally broke they would be discarded like trash their was simple no loyalty.
Guarding the Dragonball's Jeice couldn't help but see red due to the anger that had built up inside hi. He had always resented Turles leadership, disagreed with his methods and most of all hated being lead by a Sayian but he had put all that aside by pure professionalism this however was the final straw.
"You no good Barstard" Jeice roared as he strode forward a white aura had engulfed his features. "Thoese are your men that have just been killed. Don't you care? Don't you want some fucking revenge!"
Turles looked at Jeice calmly a neutral expression across his face as he unfolded his arms from his chest.
"I care only that two of my loyal men have been killed however unlike you I do not allow such things as sentiment and emotions. Attachment makes you weak gives your enemy a vulnerability to exploit and clouds your judgement when such as these occur. If you were in charge right now you would have us all run of seeking revenge for your friends" Turles spat on the floor before gridding the spittle into the ground with his right foot. "You would lose sight of what's important guarding the Tree of Might and the Dragonball's you would also completely ignore the fact that the Namek and the child were after the Dragonball's and if they did indeed manage to finish off Racoome and Cacao they will be heading off to us right now. So yes we will get your much desperate need for revenge"
Jeice was dumb stricken by Turles response. It was so unexpected and surprising the red man no longer knew what to say or do with himself other than stand still with his mouth slightly open.
"Oh yeah by the way Jeice one more thing.." Turles voice had suddenly risen to a dangerous growl that sent Burter scurrying away and put the small red man on his guard.
The Sayian faded out of sight before reappearing in front of his red skinned colleague. Before Jeice had a chance to defend himself Turles had embedded his fist into the smaller man's stomach keeling him over causing Jeice to spit up blood onto the ground.
"You ever talk to me like that again I'll finish you understand me"
Jeice merely nodded and Turles withdrew his fist and walked away allowing the red alien to slump to the ground and gasp desperately for air. The Sayian turned to look down at the cowering Burter.
"You" Turles bellowed. "Gather the Dragonball's from the cave and place them next to the Tree. I want them in plain sight so are friends won't be able to grab them without us noticing."
Burter nodded before hurrying off to carry out his duty.
Turles turned his attention to his surrounding's taking his time to absorb every inch of detail he could manage.
"Come on" The Sayian thought to himself. "Come out and play"
That was when he saw it a flash of light which just gave the Sayian enough warning to dodge out the way as a purple beam surrounded by orange spirals rushed right past him directly central to where he had been standing moments before.
"There you are" Turles yelled throwing his own ball of energy forward directly where the spiral beam had come from.
~DBAT~
"HA,HA,HA,HA" Friezia chuckled though in his new forum it sounded like he was chocking as he continued to fire a barrage of death beams at Nail's body.
Guru had surrendered control of the body back to Nail as the warrior Namek was more adapt to fighting than the former was.
Blistering hot pain shot though the Namek's body whenever a death beam made contact burning the skin into boils as the Namek's natural regeneration desperately tried to heal it's body up. However much to Nail's dismay the regeneration was starting to slow down and soon it would palter out and he would be over whelmed by the oncoming attacks.
"If I don't act soon this fight will be all over and I can't let that happen" Nail thought to himself Guru's message to prolong the fight as long as possible still ringing in his ears. "No matter what the cost I have to give Dende and Moori more time"
With an almighty roar Nail grabbed a hold of his right wrist with his left hand and with an almighty tug flesh and ligaments tore as bone snapped before the right arm of the Namek was torn right off .
Friezia paused in his assault his eyes slightly widen before the Frost Demon suddenly cracked a small smile and chuckle.
"Well well well my Namekian friend do you really think I am doing a bad enough job of inflicting pain that you have taken it upon yourself to do it for me ? Well I have to say your presentation is awful but it's hard to argue with the finished result" The tyrant chuckled his eyes set upon Nail like a poisonous snake ready to strike.
The Namekian merely smiled back down at the Frost Demon craziness had seemed to set itself in Nail's eyes as he too also began to laugh before he grabbed the top of his head with his left arm the tall green humanoid ripped off his own head and flung it directly at Friezia.
The Frost Demon caught the head from thin air effortlessly and watched as the now lifeless body fell from the air and hit the ground with a small thud. Friezia then turned his attention back to the head he held in his hands.
Nail's eyes were still open and he had a wide crazy smile upon his face that unnerved the Frost Demon a little bit. Friezia had seen his opponent's commit suicide before out of fear but this was different the Namek hadn't seemed like a coward in fact it almost seemed as if he had a plan.
"Tch Crazy fool" Friezia said off handily before dropping Nail's head and throw his right leg forward to hoof it away like a football.
Splat! Nail's body regenerated from the Namek's head as the warrior reared up and smashed his fist against his frost demon adversary's stomach before firing away with a rapid flurry of punches, elbows and kicks.
Friezia was completely caught off guard by this never before had he known a race to be capable of regenerating their bodies from just their heads.
"Raaaahhh" Nailed roared as he kept up his constant attack every hit caused him physical pain as the Frost Demon exoskeleton was harder than diamond and the Namek did not have time to negotiate the spikes.
With an intake of breath Nail fired a mouth beam directly into Friezia's chest knocking the Frost Demon backwards to the ground.
"Take this you Barstard!" Nail roared throwing his right hand forward. Thousands of balls of light energy flung out of the Nameks out stretched hand as he fired his none stop barrage. Smoke shot out of the ground into the air but Nail's keen senses informed him that Friezia was still very much alive.
"This is not going to work" Nail thought deciding he would have to try another tactic.
Stopping the barrage of beams that was just wasting his energy Nail closed his eyes and waited. Soon enough Friezia flung himself out of the smoke and rapidly up towards Nail. The Frost Demon's eyes were red with rage and his white skin was darkened with ash he was however unharmed.
"I am going to fucking murder you!" Friezia roared allowed as he throw his fist back ready to strike.
Nail's eyes flung open as his arms also were flung open in front of him in unison.
"Pronga's Imprisonment" Nail roared allowed.
Flames shot out from the Namek's hand's an engulfed Friezia's body stopping the Frost Demon from moving any further.
The Frost Demon roared as he struggled to break out of the flames too no avail. His skin was scorched due to the extreme heat but Friezia didn't give up he thrashed against his bonds and cried out in rage.
"When I get out of this I am going to break you! You hear me?! I won't just kill you I'll torture you!"
Nail ignored Friezia and focused purely on holding up the bonds around the Frost Demon for as long as possible.
Hello everyone, I hope you like this chapter :o), Btw for future reference I will probably no longer do power levels but I will answer anyones individual questions with a pm.
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