Vegitto: Story of Two Men

Vegitto: Story of Two Men

Chapter 3

By: Daniel of Lorien

           

Krillin's Story

Krillin sat at the kitchen table with a cup of coffee thinking of the happenings this morning.  Vegitto had offered to train him and make him stronger.  He had said that Krillin had the ability to be stronger than a super saiya-jin.  The idea somehow didn't feel right.  How could his body even handle that kind of power?  Vegitto had assured him that it was possible.

            He wondered what was in store for him tomorrow when his training started.  He stood up to go to bed for the fifth time that night and decided it was probably best if he went out for a little flight.  He flew out one of the open windows and out over the ocean at a leisurely pace.  The ocean and few islands floated by at an incredible speed as Krillin let his body's energy increase to its max and he pushed it higher then he had ever tried before.

            He could feel it slip beyond the limit and somehow his power doubled and he shot off breaking the sound barrier and destroying a couple of small islands just by his energy wake.  It was incredible, had he really been hiding all this power for so long.  How come he had never felt it before, but then no one had felt it in him before Vegitto touched him and told him that he had untapped potential, even more than a super saiya-jin.

            He tried to judge his power level and figured that he was about half as strong a Goku was when he fought android 19.  'That would put me around ten million or so.  I guess that isn't too bad but not even as strong a Freeza'.   Krillin clenched his fist in frustration as he landed on a small island to feel the full expanse of his new found powers.

            His feet touched down softly on the hard rock that dominated the islands ground.  He let his body go to a rest letting his power drop to a standard hundred thousand.  He chuckled softly as he remembered how not to long ago he would have looked at himself with horror because of the awesome power level even though he was at rest.  He started slowly, allowing his energy to rise up at a steady rate.  As he neared his limit he braced himself and pushed his power quickly over the level he had had just moments ago and higher till he felt his body feel like it was going to explode.

            He felt something snapping inside of him and he screamed out as the power ripped through his body, changing him in insignificant but prominent ways.  He felt like he was being stretched out and his shoulders broadened and his muscle mass increased slightly.  The power slowly stopped increasing and he could feel the warmth of strength coursing through his blood like fire. 

            His black hair settled down to its natural bowlish shape and he sighed letting the power slowly rest in his body.   He was having trouble fathoming his own power and was trying to gage it when he felt a familure power from behind him.

            "So, you humans' do have potential after all."

            Krillin looked up at the Nemekian he had so long ago learned to call friend and smiled.  "Wanna spar?"

            Piccolo smiled at Krillin, "Sure, let's see what you got human!"

            Both combatants' powered up to their highest levels and launched at each other with speed that no human eye, even the powerful Tien, could see.  They traded blows and blocks for a while before Krillin send the Nemekian flying to the ground. 

            "That was a good one Krillin, but now it's time to show you that your not as strong as you think." 

            Piccolo tossed his cloak and turban away and flew at Krillin foot first landing it right in the human's hand.

            "Huh?" was all Piccolo got out before Krillin slammed him into the ground and ten feet deep. 

            Krillin looked down at the hole that Piccolo had made and smirked just as a hand wrapped around his ankle and pulled him down to earth and into it.  Several time Piccolo slammed the human into the ground before throwing him into a small cliff.  Then he added a Special Beam Cannon to finish off the human before picking him up and flying off to Dende's to get him healed.

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            18 watched as her husband flew into their bedroom window.  He seemed different, surer of himself and happier then she had ever seen him.  His clothing was soaked with both red and green blood, but his smile could have challenged Goku's own.  She watched him strip down out of the bloody rags and burn them to a charred crisp before going into the bathroom to shower.

            She wondered what he had been doing and why for some reason she felt as if he was irreversibly changed.  Something about his demeanor when he exited the bathroom and slipped into their bed made her curious as to what happened.  He pulled her tight against him and then she felt it. 

            What had happened to make him so strong?  It was only slightly stronger than he normally hugged her when he was exuberant, but this was just a love hug, not meant to wake her up.  Somehow he had gotten stronger, allot stronger.  He had green blood on his gi, did that mean that he and Piccolo had spared?  Did her husband beat the green giant?

            "I love you," Krillin murmured before he fell into a restful slumber.

            "I love you too," she murmured back, her fingers slowly tracing his jaw line.  She would have to find out how much stronger he was tomorrow.  If he was stronger than her, then she would know that his own strength had been what ate at him all the time.  She was sure that it killed him knowing that he couldn't protect the world or his love.