Dragonball: The Chill Saga

Chapter 3: Long journey


Vegeta looked out the window of his spaceship. He had been doing so for a while now,
but it was impossible to keep track of how long. He was overcome with a deep sense of
nostalgia. It had been a long time since he used to travel through the galaxy with his two
companions, Nappa and Raditz. The adventures they had...
Of course, he was a young man then, too naive, and far too reckles. His only thought
at the time was of getting his revenge on Frieza. If he had only known how far he really was
from attaining that goal.
He walked away from the window, shrugging off any feelings he had about that time.
It was a lifetime ago, and he had come a long way. And he also had a purpose now. Perhaps he
never did kill Frieza at his own hands, but at least now he could kill his son. He smiled at
the prospect, and walked over to the gravity machine.
It had been set to 150x, and that was when he was relaxing. In training, he had gone
to 1000x with some comfort. Of course, he could go higher, but no sense in hurting himself.
He still had plenty of time, and he only had five sensu on him. But he had rested for long
enough. He set the gravity up to 1500x Earth's gravity, and felt the change in the room. He
tensed up, adapting to the new weight, and relaxed. The last time he had trained this hard
was when he had been forewarned about the two androids that would reak havoc on the Earth
in three years. And indeed, history did repeat itself. Although he couldn't care less about
the actual threat that Chill posessed. No, he was thinking about bettering himself. Perhaps,
to a new level, like Kakarotto had done for himself. he powered up and began his training.

***

"Aaaaah, now why can't all the dragonballs be in nice places like this?" Pilaf said,
as he walked through the sand dunes on the sunny beach. His previous encounters with the
dragonballs were disastrous, but it seemed that luck was beggining to change. he had already
collected 4 dragonballs, and the 5th was close.
"Emperor," Mai said, examining the Dragonball radar, "According to this, the dragon-
ball should be right up there," she said, pointing to a hill in the distance.
"Exellent!" cried Pilaf, unable to control his exitement. "Follow me!" He ran down
the beach, as fast as his little legs would carry him (which actually wasn't that fast).
Once he finally climbed the hill, he saw it. Lying in the warm sand, half burried,
the sparkling dragonball. His prize.
Pilaf rubbed his hands together and began to drool. Nothing could stop him. He walked
over to it.
"You may want to be carefull, master" shuu said to him.
"Nonsense, shuu, what could possibly happen?"
As if in response to his question, a giant crab came out from behind one of the sand
dunes, and blocked the way. It didn't look happy.
"Yaaaaaaaagh!" Pilaf squeeked, and ran back to his companions. "What is it?"
"It's a crab, emperor." Shuu replied.
"I know that!" Pilaf yelled.
"Then why did you ask?" Shuu said dumbfoundedly.
"Don't question me!" Pilaf snapped. "Just bring me my dragonball! Kill that horrid
thing if you have to!"
Mai seemed to know what to do. She pulled out a bazooka (no one noticed she was
carrying it), and took aim. The crab was scurrying around in a frenzy. Finally, it stopped,
giving her that second she needed to fire.
The weapon let out a big 'BOOM', and a heavy net flew through the air and landed on
the crab. Pilaf laughed triumphantly.
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That's what you get!" He yelled as he approached the immobile
beast. "No one can stop me! I'm invincible!" he ran up and kicked the crab. It was then he
noticed the net didn't really slow it down. It got up and let out a loud yell. Pilaf yelled
in horror and tried to run away. He tripped, of course.
"Help!" he shrieked, "Get me out of here!" Shuu reached around in his bag and pulled
out a gas grenade. It was powerfull enough to knock out anything, even this thing. He pulled
the pin, and was ready to throw, when Mai stopped him and grabbed his arm.
"Stop, you fool! YOu'll hit the emperor!"
"Oh. Right." Shuu said, and put the grenade back in his bag.
"Did you pull the pin already?"
"Whoops."
The grenade went off, and before Mai could even shout at him for his idiocy, they
were out. The crab walked up to them curiously, and also fell down unconscious. Only Pilaf
remained to get his Dragonball, and run away until either his companions woke up, or the
crab left. He waited 3 hours, but he had his dragonball.

***

Three weeks had passed, and Vegeta had become more powerfull than he had ever thought
possible. He would be arriving soon, perhaps within a day or two. He smiled at this. it would
be his first real battle in a long time, even though he didn't expect it to last very long.
Not with his newfound power.
He turned the gravity back down to it's normal setting, and got used to the feeling
of almost being weightless. From 2000x Earths gravity to 1x. He smiled at this. "Soon,
Chill," he said to himself. "Soon."

***

"Lord Chill." came the voice from a speaker on Chill's throne. "We have recieved an
energy signal. It appears to have come from Earth. This can only mean that the Super Saiya-
jin has come to face you. Shall we shoot down the ship?"
"Of course not." Chill boomed, "This is my chance to avenge my family. To get my
long anticipated revenge! I'll kill the Super Saiya-jin!"
The voice on the speaker was silent for a moment. "Ah..yes Lord Chill, forgive me."
"Have the Ginyu prepare for the Saiya-jins arrival. I want to test him first, to see
if he's really as powerfull as the legends say."
"Yes Lord Chill." said the voice. Chill turned off the speaker, and sat back in his
chair. "Soon." He told himself. "Soon."