Author's Note: In case anyone hasn't noticed, I've been rearranging some of this story, just combining several of the chapters. The story hasn't changed any, I've just combined two chapters into one, except for chapter one. So, with that said, on with the fic.

Chapter Thirteen:

Pain exploded in Osiris' head like a bomb, more pain than he had experienced in a very, very long time. Goku's fist broke through the flesh and then plowed through what was left of his internal organs after two millennia of disuse. Blood flooded in his throat, turning the scream he had been about to let loose into a low gurgle.

The hand extracted as quickly as it had entered, another spray of blood following it. The flesh was already beginning to heal the instant Goku's hand left, but Osiris had no time to even give it a thought before Goku spun a quick three sixty and slammed a booted foot into the back of his head.

The world quickly flipped around and Osiris saw the ground zoom up at him at an incredible rate. He pushed out with every bit of force in his body as fast as he could, using his ultra quick vampire reflexes, and was able to at least get right side up before he slammed into the bare rock.

The impact sent up shock waves, and the vampire plowed through the ground, despite his pain filled efforts to slow himself. Splinters of rock dug into his skin, causing small lacerations that healed almost instantly.

Goku stared down, his reflexes as quick as the vampire's if not quicker. He could sense the huge ki that the vampire still projected even after having a fist plunged into his stomach, and was not at all surprised by it. If Osiris could survive decapitation, he could certainly survive this last attack.

The saiyajin stood in his aura of fierce gold, impervious to the fact that Uubu and Arda had only just now stopped staring and gotten back to the tasks they had been on, and equally impervious to Vegeta's wide eyes gaze. In fact, for the moment, the saiyajin prince seemed relatively forgotten, just part of the scenery, something that Vegeta very rarely was, even if he was far weaker. But right now Goku appeared to be far above anything Vegeta had ever dreamed of.

"Come on, bastard." Goku muttered down at Osiris, who could undoubtedly hear him even though he was buried in the ground. A vampire as powerful as Osiris had hearing so acute that they could hear people talking in planes from the ground, so the low whisper should have been loud and clear, but there was no response from below.

I couldn't have killed him already…? Goku wondered to himself, but then dismissed the idea. There was no way that it would be that easy. He had caught Osiris off guard once, and he doubted he would be so lucky again. This was probably going to take a while.

"Come OUT!!" Goku yelled down. He lifted hand and quickly fired a blast downward at the hole, not very big, but enough to serve his purpose. And it worked just fine.

As the blast flew down, the vampire flashed up out of the crack in the earth, slapping it out of his way and shooting straight at Goku, very fast for someone that had just had such a blow dealt to them. Goku caught a glimpse of the stomach, and saw that the wound he had inflicted less than thirty seconds ago was already healed to a slow trickle of blood. Not good.

But aside from that, the saiyajin knew he pretty well had the fight, if he had gauged Osiris right. He was very powerful, but he lacked real technique and skill, an almost unavoidable side effect of having no one of your own strength to compete with. He was trying a full frontal attack, the same mistake that had almost cost him the fight with Gohan.

Goku quickly dropped down, sliding under the oncoming fist and then down under the surprised face of the vampire as well. He flipped his legs around, and slammed them home to Osiris' midsection with as much power as he could muster in the awkward position. They connected solidly, and Osiris was sent flying upward.

But he reacted much more quickly this time than he had the last time. As Goku shot after him, he stuck his flat palm out, not even bothering to stop his assent. The super saiyajin suddenly found a rather large ball of white ki slammed into him, and pushing him down.

He oared and pushed back, letting the energy pound forward from every power of his body, and his momentary downward plunge stopped within a second of it's start. Then, almost without any apparent pause, the blast reversed direction and flew right back up.

But something was a bit wrong. Goku was angry with him, yes. In fact, he was furious. But he wasn't using his power to it's maximum capabilities.

A fist, almost too fast for the vampire to see, drove through the ki blast, and he just had time to move a bit, so that the blow only glanced off his shoulder, causing him to spin away from his own blast that was following Goku.

The ki ball tore past both of them, and off into the sky. Goku wasted no time, but he still wasn't coming with all the power he possessed. That was very strange, and Osiris thought that he might know why.

The vampire drew up one hand and fired another good sized blast at the oncoming saiyajin, but before it had even reached it's target, Goku let off a blast of his own, and pushed it straight back the other way.

Osiris' eyes flew wide, and he shot off to the right, avoiding being hit by his own large blast by mere feet. Instinctively he slipped around again, flying backward a few feet as well, and it was a lucky thing for him. Goku's fist passed right by his head, it's gold energy heating the side of his face.

He stared down, and his eyes locked with the saiyajin's.

If I am correct from your attitude, Osiris sent quickly, I am not your main concern right now. You seem rather…distracted.

This was true. Goku's power was enough to cause Osiris serious damage rather quickly, but he hadn't. it had been close to a full minute since the fight began, but Goku hadn't killed him yet.

I'm not by nature very good at lying to myself. Osiris sent when he got no reply but the blank golden stare of fire. You should have been able to kill me in two hits. Why haven't you?

Goku didn't send any reply, but he did seem a little shaken. Was it only the vampire's imagination, or had he seen a flicker in those eyes?

Perhaps we could talk? He sent, and then realized how cowardly and false that sounded. I mean, I don't want to die, and you could obviously kill me with so much power. But whatever you are afraid of, you can't deny that I may be able to provide assistance.

Goku finally sent a reply.

You're just afraid to die. Once you see an opening, you'll turn and it me with everything you've got.

But despite his words, Goku was drawing his fist back, and Osiris was able to slowly move and float upright.

I am very afraid to die. Osiris admitted. Even after two thousand years. But I have a feeling that whatever is threatening you wouldn't discriminate. Am I correct in thinking that it would kill me as well?

Goku seemed to hesitate. Some of the fire faded from his eyes, showing the faint residue of blue-green.

Probably.

Osiris smiled slightly. He had thought as much.

Of course, what Goku had said was perfectly true. He would turn and do his best to kill the saiyajin at the first chance he got. But he had no intention of making the fact known. And if he could use a little mental persuasion to get some information about any potential competition for the golden moon, well, so much the better.

One of his vampiric abilities, one that many vampires never even bothered with, was the powers of persuasion. Anything he said sounded much more reasonable coming from him than it did coming from someone else. And Goku's distracted mental state made him a perfect target, an easy catch in a situation where he normally would have never had a chance.

In other words, he was begging for his life in semi-dignified terms, and because of a few subtle telepathic abilities, he was about to get it.

So what or who is it that you're afraid of?

Goku felt a sudden surge of doubt.

Why should I tell you anything at all?

Oh, come on, Osiris sent with the air of a parent coaxing a child. I thought you would realize the position that we're in. anything that has you worried that much that you're not even using most of your power… well, let's just say that you'll need all the help that you can get.

This was true. That didn't matter to Osiris, however. He was simply marveling at how easy it was to get out of death. He could have run, or perhaps even attacked and had a fighting chance at catching Goku off guard, but he was still slightly curious to see what Goku was so afraid of.

To Osiris' glee, Goku let a mental sigh trickle over.

Okay, I'll tell you.

Uubu flew as fast as he could, now that he was pointed in the right direction. He could sense the two huge hostile kis, right next to Goten and Trunks. There were several lower, more subdued kis, but he couldn't identify them. He couldn't really identify any of them, because all of the owners had died long before his birth. But he could tell just from their feel that they weren't good.

So it's up to me. Goku-sensei and Vegeta are fighting that Osiris guy, and Arda has to go and make sure none of those Dementors cause any trouble. So unless a few people show up pretty quickly from our telepathic call, it's all up to me.

That didn't shake him up as much as it could have. Goku had told him, in no uncertain terms, that once he was gone, Uubu would be the one in his place. Vegeta would probably still be around, but he was not a leader. He was a loner. Gohan and Goten wouldn't want the responsibility, and Trunks was the same as his father.

"It's going to be up to you, Uubu. I won't be around forever, and when I'm gone I want you to take care of the earth for me."

That was how he had finished. And that was what Uubu intended to do. He was going to protect the earth and his friends.

With a jolt he realized that the group of kis he had been sensing was now visible. It was time to fight.

He steeled himself for a confrontation and flew on.

The smile on Frieza's face widened as he gathered power at the end of his finger for a cutting beam, to pierce the flesh and then the heart of the boy in front of him. It was finally the start of his revenge on Vegeta, and finally, Goku.

"Goodbye, monkey." He said.

And then a boot slammed into the side of his face and sent him flying into a cliff a few football fields away.

"What the…" Coola no more than caught a glimpse of the tanned, mohawked boy before he was given the same treatment and joined Frieza in a pile of rubble.

"Uubu!" Trunks yelled out, and Goten let out a moan as he began to come back around to the world of the living.

"Hey, guys!" Uubu said with a smile, reaching down and yanking the bands of ki off their arms and legs in a few quick jerks, as if the huge ki power was no more than string. Up until then, the two teenagers hadn't really gotten a full picture of how strong Goku's pupil was. Now they did, and they were more surprised than they should have been. He was Majin Buu reincarnated, after all.

"We don't really have time to talk right now." Trunks said quickly. "Apparently, they're the strongest ones here, and Cell knocked me out in one hit. So I don't think that kick will keep them down for long."

"No." Uubu agreed. "See if you can wake Goten up, and I'll try to keep the battle over there."

"Not so fast!" Cell yelled out, and the two boys spun to see a green blur flying at them, much to fast to counter.

"Shit!" Trunks let out a curse, and that was all he had time for.

"Kai-ko-HO!!!"

The shout rang out even faster than Cell's had, and in a flash the green blur was hit by a shower of golden light, and driven back the way it had come.

Trunks and Uubu's eyes darted from side to side, instinctively checking to see if any of the Ginyus or Frieza's to bodyguards were going to attack, but they all looked as stunned and unprepared as Cell had been. Obviously they hadn't planned any kind of real strategy, and hadn't expected much resistance.

Their fighting instincts satisfied, the two warriors turned and looked behind them.

Tenshinhan, Yamucha, and Choutzu were standing together behind them, and all three wore half smiles that said, yeah, we're in trouble, but that was pretty good. Tien's hands were still in the familiar triangle position.

"Uubu, you go take care of those two." Tien jerked his head toward the rocks, where Frieza and Coola had landed less than ten seconds ago. "We can take care of these. Right Trunks?"

The teenage demi saiyajin gave a self confident smile and a nod.

Uubu nodded back, and was about to fly when the ice-jin twins exploded with ki.

So what is it?

The question came to Goku through the strange language that was almost totally feelings through telepathy, and he felt hesitation again. And not just hesitation, but puzzlement. How was he supposed to explain?

Almost unintentionally, he let one word slip through. He didn't expect any reaction or recognition, and certainly not the kind he got, but the word went through just because, almost like it had a will of it's own.

Morgoth.

The effect on the vampire was instant and savage, as if he had just been slapped. The half formed smile vanished from his face, and he suddenly closed his mind off completely.

"What did you just say?" Osiris asked, his voice lowered, and even trembling a bit. "Did… did you just say that Morgoth is coming out?"

Goku looked puzzled. "That's what he called himself."

Osiris suddenly went from looking disbelieving and a bit fearful to looking very, very worried. He tried to keep a stony face, but he wasn't able to hide his fear very well.

"But… he's supposed to be locked up. He can't get out…" Osiris seemed to be talking to himself. "Where… wait, are you sure he said Morgoth? You saw Morgoth?!"

Goku was taken back by the sudden fear that was plan on a face that hadn't shown it even when it had been plain that it was facing death. But he wasn't ready to back down at all.

"Of course I'm sure. But who is this Morgoth? Why are you so scared? Did you know him?"

"Not him." Osiris said. "It. And Morgoth was… before my time. All I've heard have been stories."

"Then what is it that's got you so scared!?" Goku shouted. Suddenly, for a reason he couldn't define, this seemed more important than anything.

Ask Arda, Osiris sent in telepathy. He saw it first hand. But if you're smart, you'll run and give up this planet for lost. Even the power of the Golden Moon isn't worth that.

"WHAT IS THIS!!?" Goku yelled. But he didn't even get an answer. Osiris seemed to be completely changed, now very afraid.

"Goku, I don't know if any of your friends will work with me, and once this is over I know I won't work with them, but if Morgoth is coming out…" Osiris paused and ran a hand back over his hair, a gesture that was so totally alien it shook Goku more than any of the words had. "We have to help each other or die. Everything else is on the side until it's over."

Goku had no idea what to say. But he knew what he had to do.

Ask Arda. Arda knows.

And that was what he intended to do. Even if it meant leaving Osiris for a while, he had to find out what was going on, and fast.

Something told him that there wasn't much time.

Vegeta finally spoke, startling Osiris and actually making Goku let out a slight cry. They had completely forgotten that he was there.

"Kakarott, HAVE YOU GONE MAD!!?" he screamed, both of the other warriors spinning to stare at him.

"Are you actually going to let him go!? Do you actually believe that he won't turn on us the first chance he sees!?" Vegeta went on, oblivious to the vampire's contemptuous frown, completely focussed on Goku's now startled face. "He must be brainwashing you, or something! You can't actually be listening to this drivel!"

Goku's looked slightly puzzled, but his eyes were wide. Osiris stared at Vegeta maliciously.

"I don't believe you were invited to speak." The vampire said, voice low, eyes narrow. "You seem to believe that you are on an equal playing field in this situation. You're not."

Vegeta now looked back, his own gaze as hate filled as the vampire's. "What?"

A slight smirk curled on Osiris' face, but there was no humor in it. "You needn't worry about my turning on you. I could kill you right now, if I wished. You are nothing, monkey."

Vegeta now looked as if there should be steam curling from his ears.

"I admit that Goku has risen above the pathetic level of your race, a race that were, even in their best years of their existence, mere galactic vermin. But that doesn't mean that I have any respect for you." He said this last word as if he really was talking to vermin, his voice practically dripping with disgust. "You are nothing but an ape."

Vegeta was now seething with rage, and probably would have attacked Osiris himself, except that Goku beat him to it. Before the vampire even saw that he had moved, Goku slammed his elbow into Osiris' neck, and the vampire flew straight to the ground, slamming into the rocks and throwing up a huge cloud of dust and chunks of earth.

The rage dissipated in Vegeta's face, not disappearing but taking a backseat to surprise.

As the dust began to settle, a blurred shape snapped up, and a very irritated Osiris was back, now standing in front of Goku with Vegeta slightly to his right.

"And what exactly prompted that?" he asked, one eyebrow raised, his mouth twisted down in a snarl. "I believe I didn't say anything against you. Or do you still feel some attachment to the filth of the saiyajin race?"

"Shut up." Goku said coldly. "I don't care what you meant or what you want to say. I'm as much of a saiyajin as Vegeta is, no matter what my power level."

"But you must understand that by rising above your races limitations that you have also risen above them?" Osiris asked, now looking honestly bewildered.

"That has nothing to do with it." Goku said. "I'm a saiyajin. How would you react if I said all other vampire's were trash?"

"Nearly all of them are." Osiris said, the disgust now back in his voice. "My power is quite exceptional as far as the undead go. Most never live past their hundredth year, and can't even walk in the sunlight. I'm far too strong now to be killed by sun, even if it wasn't for…" here he stopped and smirked slightly, "other reasons, and I'm past two thousand years old. I am the vampire equivalent of what you are to the rest of the saiyajin. Vegeta," here he glanced over at the saiyajin prince, "is to you what Arda is to me. Another who has risen above most limitations, but is still too weak to be really great."

"Fuck off!!" Vegeta screamed. "What do you know of greatness!? I m a prince, and one of the strongest warriors in the universe! You are merely a pirate, just Frieza with more power. So you can take your ideas of greatness and power and shove them up your ass, because I'm getting very, very angry, and if Kakarott doesn't kill you soon then I will!!"

"Will you?" the vampire smiled indulgently. "Please, I would love for you to try."

Frieza and Coola stood in the middle of the bare rock where a pile of rubble had been until their rush of power had blown it all away. They were gazing calmly toward the area where the z fighters and the other enemies were standing. They had both clearly observed Tenshinhan blasting Cell out of the way.

"My, my." Frieza said cooly. "Today just seems to be full of surprise rescues, doesn't it?"

"Indeed." His brother answered. "But we can easily remedy that."

"Yes…" the ice-jin smiled.

The second the flash of ki faded, Uubu shot off from the group, not bothering or needing to say a word. He was the only one present that was powerful enough to deal with the two planet pirates, so he was the one who got to fight them while the three earthlings and two demi-saiyajin (well, one, unless Goten woke up) got to fight the weaker enemies.

His opponents weren't far away. He could actually see them from where he had been standing, and now he was almost on top of them.

He dropped from the sky quickly, landing about ten feet away from where Frieza and Coola were standing, waiting for him.

They stared into each other's eyes, the two evil ones with grins on their faces, Uubu with a blank, cold glare.

A metal pole slammed into the face of one of a group of about ten dementors. The red haired vampire wielding the staff spun away, not pausing to watch the now shapeless cloth of the thing's robe fall to the ground, and hit another of the creatures. This one also fell down.

Arda paused for a second, as the rest of the monsters circled him uncertainly. For the most part, the dementors were completely emotionless creatures, but they were not stupid, and seeing countless numbers of their own kind brought down with single strokes of the strange staff made them a bit hesitant.

"Come on, you ugly fucks." Arda growled. "I don't have all day."

Then he suddenly stopped. He raised his head, as if listening, and began to scan the ki signatures where he had sent the boy just minutes ago, and grimaced.

"They sent him alone?" he muttered to himself. "Why the hell would they do that? I was sure that at least one of them…"

He paused again.

"I think I may be needed elsewhere." He muttered again. "Uubu's not likely to get help from anywhere else, at least that's for sure. They're all busy with their own trouble."

He glanced back at the dementors. "I guess I'd better hurry this along."

One of the things seemed to be getting ready to come at him.

"Sorry, guys, but I think I have to finish this now. I'll have to have fun with a few of your relatives later."

The dementors all began to creep closer hesitantly.

"Kaio-ken!!"

The vampire suddenly became a blur of red energy, and there were several sharp bangs, like a burst of machine gun fire.

Eight shapeless cloaks hit the ground, some of them smoking, and the red blur was gone, flying toward the group of z warriors who were getting ready to fight a few old enemies.

Vegeta had quite a bit less of a temper than he had in the old days, the days before he had fought alongside and even fused with Goku, but it was still much more than would seem even remotely normal on earth.

He would have fought Osiris right there, if it hadn't been for what began to happen that very second.

There was a roar, and wind suddenly blew up out of nowhere. It was coming from the gateway.

Goku's eyes widened.

"Something's coming out…" he said, almost whispering.

Tenshinhan was cracking his knuckles, a huge smile playing across his face, as he and the other two earthling fighters got ready to help Trunks and get some much deserved payback at the same time.

But he stopped moving completely when he heard it. The smile that had been half formed vanished rapidly from his face, and he was only vaguely aware of the others sensing the same thing he felt and heard. Even their enemies had stopped paying attention and were looking toward hell's gateway with undisguised horror.

They were all feeling it. A power so positively black with evil that it almost hurt to sense it. And the voice….

Arda stopped in mid flight, wincing at the sound, as the voice that traveled not through sound but on some psychic wavelength that anyone could hear lanced through him in the same way it was going through everyone else.

-It's been long enough. Your time is up, and your squabbles had better be done. Now is my time.-

At first he wasn't even sure of what he was hearing. This wasn't because he didn't know, but because he didn't want to know. It was happening.

"Shit." He muttered under his breath. "This is very, very bad. Very bad. Very, very bad."

A million curses in just as many different languages, but he couldn't seem to articulate any of them except for what he had just said, over and over and over.

-I thought he wouldn't come out…- his brain intoned. -I was so sure that when he didn't show up right away…-

"I have to go to Goku." He said decisively to himself. "at least let him know what he's getting into."

With a look of grim determination, he flew off in a slightly different direction than he had been headed. Toward Goku, the only person who just might be capable of saving them all.

END OF PART ONE.