The Rage: Prophecy of the Ten
Disclaimer: DBZ is owned by people who are not me who haven't given me any
permission to use their copyrighted material. But that's not gonna stop me
(Bwahahahaha!!!!). Ahem…well, anyway, all other characters were created by myself
and other fans and any similarity with a real person is either purely coincidental or
intentionally malicious, whichever is more convenient. Please don't rip the characters, it
took too long to make them up!
Part 1 – The SuperHuman Saga
Side Story #1: Jed's Side Story
Jed stared into space, pondering an important matter. He could not decide whether he
liked killing more for the blood or for the screams. He did enjoy the screams, but those
came too cheaply, far before death. He was a hands-on type of guy, and nothing was
more hands-on than pummeling someone till they bleed through their own pores. He
grinned at that thought He concluded that what he liked most, above the screams and
blood, was the last breath of his victims. There was something exciting about that raspy,
shallow exhalation of air that reminded him of his power. It was something you could
only get once from anyone.
"My Lord Jedarian," he heard a tinny voice say, "You may see the Emperor now."
Jed looked at the short protocol android in front of him with disdain. "It's about damn
time." He snarled. Patience was never his virtue, and today of all days he had next to
none. He was excited, for today would be the day he took his destiny into his own hands
instead of allowing the Emperor to continue to decide it for him. Today he would take his
rightful place as the Emperor of the Saiyan Empire.
The atmosphere was almost electric in the throne room. It was intense and suffocating
and exciting, all at the same time, and it imbued Jed with even more confidence. He
walked into the throne room with an overly arrogant swagger that was totally devoid of
the respect that should have been retained for his Emperor. He did not even look around
at what was considered to be one of the most awe-inspiring structures of the Saiyan
Empire. The throne room could easily have stored ten thousand Saiyan space pods
stacked stacked in rows of 100. It only held a few things now; Jed used to think that the
Emperor just used its enormity to intimidate others; upon closer examination, however,
he began to suspect that the Emperor might also have been fighting and killing people in
the room too. There just was no good reason to so highly reinforce the *ceiling*.
Jed stopped short at the foot of the throne dais and bowed low, not out of respect so
much as habit and to keep the Emperor from guessing his true intentions. "Greetings, my
Emperor. I have come…"
"…To kill me?" a voice said from the shadows of the fifteen feet high throne. Jed's
voice stuck in his throat before he could blurt out anything in his defense. "It is too bad,
really. You were easily my best warrior."
Jed cleared his throat, thinking of the appropriate thing to say. "My Emperor, I do not
know what you mean…"
"Please, drop the façade, Jedarian. Have you not learned after all these years?"
Jed whipped his head up and glared angrily into the glowing red eyes that looked at
him from the shadows. He stood up from his bow and crossed his arms over his chest,
casting a disdainful look at the enshrouded figure. "You say that as if the fight is already
over. As I suspected, your overconfidence is astounding. You have been getting soft shut
away here in your throne room while real warriors were being hardened in battle. The
only thing keeping the others at bay is their reverence for what you've done. I, however,
heed the voice of destiny. It is telling me that your time as leader of the Saiyan Empire is
over."
The Emperor laughed a deep, ominous, sinister laugh. "Now I see why you are my top
warrior. Anyone else would be intimidated by your brazen attitude." He stood and swept
his cape away and behind him. He walked slowly and deliberately down the stairs of the
dais. "I hope this is interesting, for your sake."
Jed smirked at the remark. He stepped to the side, allowing the Emperor to walk past.
The urge to attack the Emperor while his back was turned was strong, but he fought it
back. "No, I'll fight him like a true warrior, face to face." he thought. He followed the
Emperor away from the dais towards the center of the huge throne room.
The Emperor suddenly turned and stared at him, almost as if to bore a hole through
him. Jed resisted the urge to flinch at those cold, evil red eyes, not wanting to give him
the satisfaction. They continued staring one another down for sever minutes, searching
for a weakness. A smirk slowly inched its way across the Emperor's face.
As if a trigger had been pulled, the two flew at each other, feral yells escaping their
throats as they tore at each other. Jed took the offensive, sending flurries of punches and
kicks in the Emperor's direction. The Emperor blurred, avoiding each blow with ease.
Before he could react, Jed felt the sting of a string of rapid-fire punches to his chest and
abdomen. He suddenly found twenty-five feet separating himself and the Emperor.
"You are lacking, Jedarian." the Emperor said with disgust. "Can't you even hit me
when I'm moving slowly? Or should I stand still?"
Jed growled angrily. He quickly powered up to Super Saiyan and launched himself at
the Emperor with his right foot pulled back for a kick. He brought his foot around, intent
on lopping off the Emperor's head. The Emperor calmly raised his arm, as if in slow
motion, and intercepted the kick with his forearm. Jed flipped back, avoiding a retaliatory
uppercut. He didn't have time to rest, however, as the Emperor pursued him with
lightning quick kicks and punches. He kept backpedaling until he slammed into a wall.
His vision filled with stars momentarily, but a punch that barely grazed his face brought
him back to attention. The Emperor continued punching at him, tearing holes into the
reinforced metal wall as Jed barely managed to avoid the onslaught. Jed began
channeling ki into his hands as he searched for an opening in the Emperor's attack.
Suddenly he saw the Emperor overextend slightly; taking advantage of the slip-up, he
thrust his hands forward, unleashing his ki directly into the Emperor's chest.
The Emperor looked genuinely surprised as he saw the energy jump the few
centimeters from Jed's hand to his chest. In a great flash, he was hurled 30 feet back
before he was able to stop himself. Jed decided to press his advantage, flying towards the
Emperor throwing ki blasts. The Emperor angrily slapped them away like so many flies
before launching himself at Jed. Before Jed could react, the Emperor had zanzokened
directly into Jed's face and landed a powerful punch to his chest with a sickening crack.
Jed flew back fifty feet before landing with a thud on the floor and sliding ten more feet.
Jed grimaced through the pain of three broken ribs on his right side. He could not
understand what he was doing wrong. He would seem to be holding his own in the fight,
when the Emperor would suddenly unleash an attack that would catch him off guard. He
had the unsettling feeling that the Emperor was merely toying with him. That was not a
pleasant thought, considering he was already at the first level of Super Saiyan while the
Emperor was not. He would have to go to the next level. Jed got up and began channeling
his anger and hatred, forcing the second Super Saiyan transformation to emerge.
"Now we're even." he said confidently.
"No, Jedarian, we will never be even."
Jed laughed impetuously at the statement, putting on a front of false bravado. The
sinking feeling in his stomach, however, would not go away. The Emperor still wore the
confident smirk he always wore. There would be no intimidating him. Jed would have to
do something now to gain an advantage.
"Fine, if you're so confident, my Emperor…" Jed leapt into the air and began to growl
as he gathered his ki, concentrating it into his forearms. His growl soon became a yell as
the ki began to rise to painful levels. Suddenly, his eyes flew open and a calm look swept
over his face. "…take this! DUO BEAM FURY!!!"
Golden energy beams shot out of his clenched fists like lasers. The thin streams were
soon overtaken by violently churning eruptions of energy. What initially looked like
average beams were now twenty feet wide and ten feet high. For the first time, the
Emperor appeared to be concerned about the attack. The boiling rage of energy plowed
into him before he could raise his arms in defense, exploding on contact.
Jed breathed heavily from the exertion. He peered into the smoke that surrounded the
impact area, looking for signs of the Emperor. It amazed him that the throne room
managed to take such damage without showing a mark. The Emperor had survived that
blast, of that much he was sure. How much it had damaged him was the question.
As if on command, the smoke somehow found wind and blew away, revealing the
Emperor, his head lowered and arms crossed across his chest. Besides some singing and
bruising, he looked not much worse for wear. A slow laugh escaped his throat that grew
to fill the chamber.
"A very interesting attack, " he said," he said almost nonchalantly, "Anyone else
would have been vaporized; to me it was barely a scratch."
"You bluff." Jed responded unconvincingly.
"Do I really? I am not the one with golden hair and green eyes, gasping for breath like
a suffocating fish. As we speak, your power diminishes, while I have barely broken a
sweat." A flicker of emotion passed over his face. "You disappoint me."
Jed's mind raged. It was true, here he was a second level Super Saiyan while the
Emperor had not even powered up. Even the Fury beam attack had been ineffective, and
it was one of his most powerful ki attacks. He had no choice; he would have to use his
last resort. God help him if it was not enough, he could not take any more attacks from
the Emperor.
"Well, Jedarian, do you have any more little tricks to show me, or shall I begin your
excruciating death now?"
"Watch and learn." Jedarian said confidently, "Know the power of the first Silver
Saiyan!"
The Emperor wore a cruel smirk. It disappeared from his face when he felt the
stirrings of power within Jed. Jed remembered all his hate and anger and bloodlust and
focused it all into the very core of his being. Then he used his ki to stoke the fire fed by
those dark emotions, making it grow hotter and larger each passing second. Soon, he
shook with rage and his hands were red with blood that ran from gouges created by his
fingernails as he clinched his fists. As if possessed, he began gnashing his teeth and
growling and his eyes rolled into the back of his head. Finally, before it seemed like his
control over his rage would fail, he forced the rage back until it seemed to be nonexistent.
The Emperor blinked, then laughed.
"So," he said, "all of that for a temper tantrum?" His laugh echoed in the monstrous
chamber.
It was Jed's turn to laugh. His laugh, however, was guttural and had an underlying
tone of deadly menace. "My Emperor," Jed replied, almost spitting, "You have no
patience."
The air began to shimmer around Jed. Sparks began to jump around his body,
gradually joining together to form electricity that coursed around him violently. Jed
spread his arms out to his sides, as if welcoming someone or something. The electricity
lifted his course black hair, shifting it around as like a gale. Slowly, his hair began to
flash as its color changed. But the color was not gold; it was silver.
If he was surprised by this new transformation, the Emperor did not let it show. He
continued to smirk arrogantly, apparently unimpressed. Jed noticed that he had
unwrapped his tail from his waist and allowed it to swish around freely, the greatest insult
from a Saiyan in battle. Jed refused to let this unnerve him. Though he had been handily
defeated in his Super Saiyan form, his Silver Saiyan transformation exceeded Super
Saiyan in speed, stamina, and ferocity.
"Now you know the truth about me, Emperor. Now you know that your time is up."
He launched himself at the Emperor, his newly grown fangs bared and his blood-red eyes
filled with hatred and bloodlust. He cocked his fist back and thrust it forward, multiplying
its power twenty fold with his ki. With a loud smack, his fist impacted with the
Emperor's face. Then Emperor did not even move.
The Emperor looked directly into Jed's eyes, then he flashed a predatory smile. At that
moment, Jed knew fear for perhaps the first time in his life. He felt a sharp pain in his
stomach. He looked down to see he was impaled on the Emperor's arm up to the elbow.
"H-how…" he stammered weakly.
"How did I do that?" the Emperor said. "You are a great Saiyan warrior, Jedarian, but
your confidence is only exceeded by your ignorance. You see, what may seem impressive
to you was nothing but slow motion and weakness to me. And, for the record, you were
not the first Silver Saiyan." His hair became spiky and silver in an instant. "I was. As
usual, you are a disappointment. Go where all things that disappoint me go."
The Emperor grabbed Jed by the throat and began to squeeze, laughing as he enjoyed
the panicked gurgling escaping the throat. He did not stop squeezing till he felt each of
the vertebrae in the neck pop out of place. Unceremoniously, he tossed the body to the
side.
"Till next time, Jedarian." he said aloud as he turned and headed back towards his
throne.
Disclaimer: DBZ is owned by people who are not me who haven't given me any
permission to use their copyrighted material. But that's not gonna stop me
(Bwahahahaha!!!!). Ahem…well, anyway, all other characters were created by myself
and other fans and any similarity with a real person is either purely coincidental or
intentionally malicious, whichever is more convenient. Please don't rip the characters, it
took too long to make them up!
Part 1 – The SuperHuman Saga
Side Story #1: Jed's Side Story
Jed stared into space, pondering an important matter. He could not decide whether he
liked killing more for the blood or for the screams. He did enjoy the screams, but those
came too cheaply, far before death. He was a hands-on type of guy, and nothing was
more hands-on than pummeling someone till they bleed through their own pores. He
grinned at that thought He concluded that what he liked most, above the screams and
blood, was the last breath of his victims. There was something exciting about that raspy,
shallow exhalation of air that reminded him of his power. It was something you could
only get once from anyone.
"My Lord Jedarian," he heard a tinny voice say, "You may see the Emperor now."
Jed looked at the short protocol android in front of him with disdain. "It's about damn
time." He snarled. Patience was never his virtue, and today of all days he had next to
none. He was excited, for today would be the day he took his destiny into his own hands
instead of allowing the Emperor to continue to decide it for him. Today he would take his
rightful place as the Emperor of the Saiyan Empire.
The atmosphere was almost electric in the throne room. It was intense and suffocating
and exciting, all at the same time, and it imbued Jed with even more confidence. He
walked into the throne room with an overly arrogant swagger that was totally devoid of
the respect that should have been retained for his Emperor. He did not even look around
at what was considered to be one of the most awe-inspiring structures of the Saiyan
Empire. The throne room could easily have stored ten thousand Saiyan space pods
stacked stacked in rows of 100. It only held a few things now; Jed used to think that the
Emperor just used its enormity to intimidate others; upon closer examination, however,
he began to suspect that the Emperor might also have been fighting and killing people in
the room too. There just was no good reason to so highly reinforce the *ceiling*.
Jed stopped short at the foot of the throne dais and bowed low, not out of respect so
much as habit and to keep the Emperor from guessing his true intentions. "Greetings, my
Emperor. I have come…"
"…To kill me?" a voice said from the shadows of the fifteen feet high throne. Jed's
voice stuck in his throat before he could blurt out anything in his defense. "It is too bad,
really. You were easily my best warrior."
Jed cleared his throat, thinking of the appropriate thing to say. "My Emperor, I do not
know what you mean…"
"Please, drop the façade, Jedarian. Have you not learned after all these years?"
Jed whipped his head up and glared angrily into the glowing red eyes that looked at
him from the shadows. He stood up from his bow and crossed his arms over his chest,
casting a disdainful look at the enshrouded figure. "You say that as if the fight is already
over. As I suspected, your overconfidence is astounding. You have been getting soft shut
away here in your throne room while real warriors were being hardened in battle. The
only thing keeping the others at bay is their reverence for what you've done. I, however,
heed the voice of destiny. It is telling me that your time as leader of the Saiyan Empire is
over."
The Emperor laughed a deep, ominous, sinister laugh. "Now I see why you are my top
warrior. Anyone else would be intimidated by your brazen attitude." He stood and swept
his cape away and behind him. He walked slowly and deliberately down the stairs of the
dais. "I hope this is interesting, for your sake."
Jed smirked at the remark. He stepped to the side, allowing the Emperor to walk past.
The urge to attack the Emperor while his back was turned was strong, but he fought it
back. "No, I'll fight him like a true warrior, face to face." he thought. He followed the
Emperor away from the dais towards the center of the huge throne room.
The Emperor suddenly turned and stared at him, almost as if to bore a hole through
him. Jed resisted the urge to flinch at those cold, evil red eyes, not wanting to give him
the satisfaction. They continued staring one another down for sever minutes, searching
for a weakness. A smirk slowly inched its way across the Emperor's face.
As if a trigger had been pulled, the two flew at each other, feral yells escaping their
throats as they tore at each other. Jed took the offensive, sending flurries of punches and
kicks in the Emperor's direction. The Emperor blurred, avoiding each blow with ease.
Before he could react, Jed felt the sting of a string of rapid-fire punches to his chest and
abdomen. He suddenly found twenty-five feet separating himself and the Emperor.
"You are lacking, Jedarian." the Emperor said with disgust. "Can't you even hit me
when I'm moving slowly? Or should I stand still?"
Jed growled angrily. He quickly powered up to Super Saiyan and launched himself at
the Emperor with his right foot pulled back for a kick. He brought his foot around, intent
on lopping off the Emperor's head. The Emperor calmly raised his arm, as if in slow
motion, and intercepted the kick with his forearm. Jed flipped back, avoiding a retaliatory
uppercut. He didn't have time to rest, however, as the Emperor pursued him with
lightning quick kicks and punches. He kept backpedaling until he slammed into a wall.
His vision filled with stars momentarily, but a punch that barely grazed his face brought
him back to attention. The Emperor continued punching at him, tearing holes into the
reinforced metal wall as Jed barely managed to avoid the onslaught. Jed began
channeling ki into his hands as he searched for an opening in the Emperor's attack.
Suddenly he saw the Emperor overextend slightly; taking advantage of the slip-up, he
thrust his hands forward, unleashing his ki directly into the Emperor's chest.
The Emperor looked genuinely surprised as he saw the energy jump the few
centimeters from Jed's hand to his chest. In a great flash, he was hurled 30 feet back
before he was able to stop himself. Jed decided to press his advantage, flying towards the
Emperor throwing ki blasts. The Emperor angrily slapped them away like so many flies
before launching himself at Jed. Before Jed could react, the Emperor had zanzokened
directly into Jed's face and landed a powerful punch to his chest with a sickening crack.
Jed flew back fifty feet before landing with a thud on the floor and sliding ten more feet.
Jed grimaced through the pain of three broken ribs on his right side. He could not
understand what he was doing wrong. He would seem to be holding his own in the fight,
when the Emperor would suddenly unleash an attack that would catch him off guard. He
had the unsettling feeling that the Emperor was merely toying with him. That was not a
pleasant thought, considering he was already at the first level of Super Saiyan while the
Emperor was not. He would have to go to the next level. Jed got up and began channeling
his anger and hatred, forcing the second Super Saiyan transformation to emerge.
"Now we're even." he said confidently.
"No, Jedarian, we will never be even."
Jed laughed impetuously at the statement, putting on a front of false bravado. The
sinking feeling in his stomach, however, would not go away. The Emperor still wore the
confident smirk he always wore. There would be no intimidating him. Jed would have to
do something now to gain an advantage.
"Fine, if you're so confident, my Emperor…" Jed leapt into the air and began to growl
as he gathered his ki, concentrating it into his forearms. His growl soon became a yell as
the ki began to rise to painful levels. Suddenly, his eyes flew open and a calm look swept
over his face. "…take this! DUO BEAM FURY!!!"
Golden energy beams shot out of his clenched fists like lasers. The thin streams were
soon overtaken by violently churning eruptions of energy. What initially looked like
average beams were now twenty feet wide and ten feet high. For the first time, the
Emperor appeared to be concerned about the attack. The boiling rage of energy plowed
into him before he could raise his arms in defense, exploding on contact.
Jed breathed heavily from the exertion. He peered into the smoke that surrounded the
impact area, looking for signs of the Emperor. It amazed him that the throne room
managed to take such damage without showing a mark. The Emperor had survived that
blast, of that much he was sure. How much it had damaged him was the question.
As if on command, the smoke somehow found wind and blew away, revealing the
Emperor, his head lowered and arms crossed across his chest. Besides some singing and
bruising, he looked not much worse for wear. A slow laugh escaped his throat that grew
to fill the chamber.
"A very interesting attack, " he said," he said almost nonchalantly, "Anyone else
would have been vaporized; to me it was barely a scratch."
"You bluff." Jed responded unconvincingly.
"Do I really? I am not the one with golden hair and green eyes, gasping for breath like
a suffocating fish. As we speak, your power diminishes, while I have barely broken a
sweat." A flicker of emotion passed over his face. "You disappoint me."
Jed's mind raged. It was true, here he was a second level Super Saiyan while the
Emperor had not even powered up. Even the Fury beam attack had been ineffective, and
it was one of his most powerful ki attacks. He had no choice; he would have to use his
last resort. God help him if it was not enough, he could not take any more attacks from
the Emperor.
"Well, Jedarian, do you have any more little tricks to show me, or shall I begin your
excruciating death now?"
"Watch and learn." Jedarian said confidently, "Know the power of the first Silver
Saiyan!"
The Emperor wore a cruel smirk. It disappeared from his face when he felt the
stirrings of power within Jed. Jed remembered all his hate and anger and bloodlust and
focused it all into the very core of his being. Then he used his ki to stoke the fire fed by
those dark emotions, making it grow hotter and larger each passing second. Soon, he
shook with rage and his hands were red with blood that ran from gouges created by his
fingernails as he clinched his fists. As if possessed, he began gnashing his teeth and
growling and his eyes rolled into the back of his head. Finally, before it seemed like his
control over his rage would fail, he forced the rage back until it seemed to be nonexistent.
The Emperor blinked, then laughed.
"So," he said, "all of that for a temper tantrum?" His laugh echoed in the monstrous
chamber.
It was Jed's turn to laugh. His laugh, however, was guttural and had an underlying
tone of deadly menace. "My Emperor," Jed replied, almost spitting, "You have no
patience."
The air began to shimmer around Jed. Sparks began to jump around his body,
gradually joining together to form electricity that coursed around him violently. Jed
spread his arms out to his sides, as if welcoming someone or something. The electricity
lifted his course black hair, shifting it around as like a gale. Slowly, his hair began to
flash as its color changed. But the color was not gold; it was silver.
If he was surprised by this new transformation, the Emperor did not let it show. He
continued to smirk arrogantly, apparently unimpressed. Jed noticed that he had
unwrapped his tail from his waist and allowed it to swish around freely, the greatest insult
from a Saiyan in battle. Jed refused to let this unnerve him. Though he had been handily
defeated in his Super Saiyan form, his Silver Saiyan transformation exceeded Super
Saiyan in speed, stamina, and ferocity.
"Now you know the truth about me, Emperor. Now you know that your time is up."
He launched himself at the Emperor, his newly grown fangs bared and his blood-red eyes
filled with hatred and bloodlust. He cocked his fist back and thrust it forward, multiplying
its power twenty fold with his ki. With a loud smack, his fist impacted with the
Emperor's face. Then Emperor did not even move.
The Emperor looked directly into Jed's eyes, then he flashed a predatory smile. At that
moment, Jed knew fear for perhaps the first time in his life. He felt a sharp pain in his
stomach. He looked down to see he was impaled on the Emperor's arm up to the elbow.
"H-how…" he stammered weakly.
"How did I do that?" the Emperor said. "You are a great Saiyan warrior, Jedarian, but
your confidence is only exceeded by your ignorance. You see, what may seem impressive
to you was nothing but slow motion and weakness to me. And, for the record, you were
not the first Silver Saiyan." His hair became spiky and silver in an instant. "I was. As
usual, you are a disappointment. Go where all things that disappoint me go."
The Emperor grabbed Jed by the throat and began to squeeze, laughing as he enjoyed
the panicked gurgling escaping the throat. He did not stop squeezing till he felt each of
the vertebrae in the neck pop out of place. Unceremoniously, he tossed the body to the
side.
"Till next time, Jedarian." he said aloud as he turned and headed back towards his
throne.
