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Chapter Twelve:
Goku looked down at his own body in wonder, still somewhat jaded. What was he? What had he become? Was it permanent? But the power…
His body was covered in red fur, except for the chest which was bare. His gi top had been vaporized, revealing the muscles of his upper body, now bulging out, almost like Ultra super saiyajin.
His hair was shaggy and wild, black, not as long as SSj3, but still down to the middle of his back. It made his normal hair look almost ordered. His eyes were rimmed in red, though he couldn't see them, and the irises had turned gold. His tail, red like the fur covering him, whipped back and forth behind him.
Only feet to the right, Vegeta was standing, looking at himself in the same way Goku had been. He, too, was a super saiyajin four.
Kakarott…what is this? Goku heard the voice in his head, and in this strange new form, mind-speak seemed somehow more natural than any earth language.
I think it's the next level, however we achieved it. Super Saiyajin Four.
The power he felt moving through him… it was amazing. Goku wasn't sure, because he had never been able to accurately gauge his own power, but he felt that he must be at lest three times what he had been at SSj3 full power.
That much ki in one living being… Goku had never heard of it before. Feeling it was astronomical, like being made of pure energy. And it was more… wild. Less tamed than the other forms had become. It was like Oozaru, only far, far more.
He looked up to his enemy.
Morgoth was still floating in the same place, looking down at the two saiyajin curiously. For the first time since Goku had seen him, Goku saw an expression he couldn't place. But then he realized, that for the first time Morgoth was seeing something new. Something that he hadn't seen many times before. Could this be the legendary form of super saiyajin?
Uubu watched his sensei with ever growing astonishment. He had never seen, never felt, never even dreamed of anything like this. There was so much energy in the air with Morgoth and the two saiyajin that he was getting a headache just sensing it.
"Has Goku ever done this before?"
Uubu slowly turned his head from his sensei and looked at Arda, who seemed to have gotten his arm to heal. He shook his head.
"Goku-sensei has never done anything like this before. Not even close." He glanced back at the battlefield. "I had no idea that this kind of power was possible."
"Neither did I." Arda said quietly.
Morgoth finally seemed to be able to process what he was seeing, and didn't look amused by it in the least.
"Stupid monkeys. Prepare yourself for death." He extended his hand, palm pointed at the saiyajins.
But faster than anyone could see, Goku just wasn't there anymore. He was next to Morgoth, the demon's arm twisted back in his hand.
"Give it up." Goku's voice sounded feral, wild. "You're through."
Morgoth growled and yanked his hand from Goku's grasp, eyes wide with alarm. Vegeta floated up to join his fellow saiyajin, eerily calm.
The demon suddenly seemed to regain his composure. He crossed his arms and regarded the saiyajin with a faked look of contempt.
"So, you have felt the effects of the Golden Moon. I must admit that you've surprised me, but there's no way it will get you anywhere."
He clenched his clawed fists at his sides. "Now you'll see real power."
A scream ripped from Morgoth's throat, and black ki erupted suddenly, surging as it had before, glowing energy slamming into the ground, reducing rubble to dust, then melting them into magma.
Only this time instead of surging up and then coming to rest, it kept growing. The energy's black color was strangely intense, hurting the eyes of anything that looked at it, forming an aura that was over twenty feet tall. Goku and Vegeta watched with the same calm as before.
Finally, it stopped. Purple and black ki lightning snapped and cracked around Morgoth, hitting the melted and half melted rock on the ground, throwing small waves of lava that forced Arda and Uubu to move back. He glared at the two saiyajin, the small points of flame in the center of his eyes swollen to bright infernos.
"Now, we fight."
Goku and Vegeta needed no more encouragement. They attacked.
Morgoth's leg blocked Vegeta's, and his arm blocked Goku's, the impact of the blows throwing off aftershocks that shook the ground. The demon seemed to turn sideways, and spun a kick that connected with both of the heroes, sending them back, but not causing much damage. Then he threw his hand out and roared, sending a huge ball of ki barreling at Vegeta.
The saiyajin prince didn't have time to dodge. He caught it, pressing his ki at it to stop it…. And found that it required almost no effort at all.
"You baka." He laughed at the look of surprise on Morgoth's face. "You used your power too late, and now it's not enough. You should have killed us when you had the chance."
As if on cue, Vegeta threw Morgoth's attack back at him, adding his own ki with it, and Goku shot beside hi9m, also pushing his energy into the blast.
The demon leapt out of the way, and his own energy ball shot bast him on a wave of Goku and Vegeta's ki, detonating far behind him, wind howling over the three warriors.
In that split second, there was an opening, and in the kind of clarity that only the most extreme anger can create, Morgoth saw it. He dove forward at his top speed, and sunk all five of the clawed fingers on one hand into Vegeta's chest, dug in, and ripped out a huge chunk of flesh, missing the heart by mere inches.
The prince cried out in extreme pain as he saw his own chest muscles in Morgoth's hand, but there was nothing he could do about it. The scream, though, was more of a reflex, and the pain was far away. He would feel it later, maybe even die from it, but in this form, this super saiyajin four, he was more like an animal than a man, and an animal will bite it's own foot off to get out of a trap.
Holding his hand protectively over the wound, which was seeping blood like a waterfall and staining the red fur a darker maroon, he stood up straight.
"Final…" his hands out at his sides, like a crucifixion position, power surging through his body.
"Chou Ka… me…" Goku cupped his hands, power immediately gathering, stabbing out in bars of light.
Morgoth, now in desperation, surged his energy even higher than it was, and put one hand in front of him, the other hand steadying his wrist. Ki began to gather there, the same black as his aura that hurt the eyes to see.
"FLASH!!!"
"HA ME HA!!!!"
Vegeta's attack wasn't what it could have been, since the shock from the strange wound sapped a bit of his strength without his noticing, but it was still huge, more power than he could have even dreamed of before. And Goku's kamehameha was huge, of galaxy destroying potential. The two beams met, spiraled around each other, then merged into one, zooming at Morgoth.
The blackened ki surged in the demon's hand, taking on a slightly domed shape as it grew.
"Underworld Hammer!"
The attack flew out, a dome of ki backed by a huge blast behind it. It met Goku and Vegeta's blast in the middle, clashing with a roar, simply the lightning and force that shot off the sides destroying anything that was left of the rock. Now the warriors were floating over a pool of magma.
The attacks had met… but neither moved. It seemed that they were equal, and only had to wait for someone to run out of power. And if Morgoth was drawing his energy from some inexhaustible source, it was obvious who would become tired first.
It was just then that Piccolo came back, though neither of the saiyajin saw him. He landed next to Uubu and Arda, who were now over a mile away, trying to keep out of the line of fire.
"You." He pointed to the vampire. "I need your help now. Uubu, you stay here, and if it looks like you can help in the battle, do it."
Arda didn't argue, just took off with Piccolo so fast that Uubu, as powerful as he was, saw only two blurs.
After a second, the boy began to fly slowly closer to the battlefield.
The namek and the vampire flew up and up, almost out into space. When they had gotten far above the black clouds, Arda finally spoke.
"What are we going to do? I can tell you have some sort of plan."
At first Piccolo said nothing. Then he turned toward Arda. "I think, and Kaio-sama agreed with me, that mrogth is drawing his power from the Golden Moon." Even as he said this, they were almost near it, a huge ball of gold the size of a small planet.
"So if we destroy it…" the vampire's face lit up.
They pulled to a stop, now less than 100 yards from the moon.
"We destroy his energy." Piccolo finished. "Let's do it."
The two warriors surged their ki, and fired into the huge ball of gold.
Uubu was now almost on top of the battle, close enough to feel the heat radiating off of the huge ball of ki. He was trying to decide how he could help when the moon exploded, the whole sky suddenly lighting up in golden light.
"WHAT!!!??" Morgoth roared in disbelief, his power suddenly dwindling to the level he had fought with when he first arrived, Goku and Vegeta's attacks pushing down on him. But if he was still able to block some of it, he might live.
Uubu knew that was a chance that couldn't be taken.
He flew quickly over so that he was less than ten feet from the demon, his hand above his head, charging the attack that Krillin had invented and Goku had taught him long ago: the Kienzen.
Morgoth looked over at him while trying with both hands to hold back the advancing blast, and his eyes widened in absolute horror, the fire pupils flaring.
"Goodbye, monster." Uubu smiled, and threw the disk.
It was perfectly aimed, hitting Morgoth's arms and slicing both hands cleanly off at the wrist. And even as the brown muck flowed out of his arms to heal them, Goku and Vegeta's blast (now with no resistance) roared over him, Morgoth's scream of rage lost amidst the sound of ki incinerating flesh, destroying the demonic creature.
Uubu took off as fast as he could fly, and a second later when the blast exploded, he was a mile away.
Goku looked at the huge trench in the earth that their attacks had carved, a few football fields wide at least, and longer than he could see. Probably stretching to the ocean, he thought.
"Kakarott…" Vegeta said, his voice slow with disbelief and blood loss. "We won."
The prince's eyes closed, and Goku only just caught him by the wrist before he passed out and fell into the pool of still bubbling magma. But he wasn't even sure if he could hold himself up, not after expending so much energy.
Almost as if he had wished for it, a strong green arm grabbed him around the chest, and though he couldn't see the namek, he did see Arda's marble white face near his own, asking him something that he couldn't quite hear…
"thanks for catching me, Piccolo." He managed to croak out. Then he too went unconscious.