Disclaimer: I don't know DBZ. All original Characters are mine though.
Chapter 2: The Empire of New Satan
New Satan City. It's appearance resembled old Rome. Many buildings made from various beautiful materials. Large pillars ran up the front of maybe of the larger buildings. Some roads were paved in cobblestones others were just dirt. A large structure could be seen in the distance from the outskirts, it was The Stadium. Much like the coliseum of Rome. Many people walked the streets of this city. Dressed in all kinds of clothes, some in rags, others in platinum plated armors. That's when the wagon came down the main street.
"Clear the way!" A man sitting on the front of it yelled.
"The emperor's new pets are on that wagon!" One of the women from the crowded streets yelled.
"There's a grown man in the cages!" Another yelled. All the children in the cages had been crying since they were recaptured, and Goku was crammed into a cage made for a child. A few rear guards followed on tamed bearcats. Akira road sat on top of the cage that held Goku.
"That's Akira! The emperors best warrior!" Someone yelled.
"Where's the rest of her men?" A man shouted from the other side of the street.
'Simpletons. How do they look at cages children and not get sick to there stomach,' Akira thought as she looked down at the naked Goku. 'He spared my life, and I doom him for a life of slavery. What kind of person am I?'
The wagon came to a halt, "unload them and Get them to the trainer!" The commander of the lesser guards yelled. Akira jumped down from the cage and walked to the front of the wagon. The guards unloaded the cages and dropped the ones on the ground with the children in them. They all laughed, then took the one with Goku off.
"Milady," A man dressed in a cloak spoke to Akira, "The Emperor wishes to speak to you." Akira nodded and followed the man into the palace.
"Father, How can you allow this crime against humanity take place?" Akira asked the priest as they walked.
"I know it is wrong my child, but one who stands up to the Emperor is one who is dead," The priest said looking back at her. They walked through the beautifully crafted palace built in honor of the emperor. Everything was made out of marble and some things were coated in gold, silver, and platinum. They arrived at to doors about two stories tall that were in a golden archway. To guards stood on both side and saluted Akira as she walked through the archway.
"Ah. General Akira. How did you trip go?" The emperor asked her as she knelt before him.
"The mission was successful, but I lost all my men," She told him rising to her feet.
"All of your men? How?" He asked her leaning forward in his throne.
"A man. He was at the ruins with a young girl we captured. He killed everyone of the guard beside me."
"We not you?" The emperor motion for two female slaves, which were about fourteen, to fan him with large leaves.
'Sick bastard,' She thought as he grabbed one of the girls chest, "I do not know why he spared me."
"Did you capture him?" The Emperor asked her.
"Yes milord."
"Very good General. I will wish to meet him sometime soon. Tell the trainer to prepare him and the girl found with him first.
"Very well milord," She bowed her head and left the room.
****
Goku awoke with a throbbing pain in his lower back. He could feel cold steel on the floor where he laid down. He slowly opened his eyes to see bars in front of him. They were all around him. He was in a cage hardly big enough from him to lie down. Then he looked down.
'Wonderful,' He thought as he noticed he wasn't wearing any pants. He walked to the bars. They were made of a metal substance. He grabbed one and tried to bend it.
"Oh, you'll never bend that," A short old man came in the room. "Those are made of Platinum reinforced titanium. You would need to be able to create the force of a five square mile meteor hitting the planet to bend that metal." Goku glared at him.
"Where am I?" Goku asked him walking to the back of the cage.
"New Satan City of course," The little man said.
"And who are you?"
"I am known as the trainer," The little man said grabbing a syringe filled with a liquid, "Now come here." The man walked to the front of the cage. Goku didn't move; he just sat down. "Very well." The trainer pressed a button on his wrist guard and the back of the cage lifted up and Goku slid to the front. The trainer stuck the needle in his neck and injected the liquid.
Goku grunted in pain as the cage went back to room, "What was that?" He said rubbing his neck.
"That was a tranquillizer. With you asleep it will be easier to work with you." Goku charge the front of the cages running into the bars. Bad move. He bounced off of them and hit the back of the cage, "I told you. You can't bend those." Goku tried to stand up, but the drugs started to kick in. When he collapsed on the floor, he saw Nina in the cage next to him.
"Nina..." He said before he blacked out.
****
Akira walked down to the dudgeon where the recently arrived pets were taken. She walked through the room of the cages and into the room where the operations took place. Goku was on the table. The power restriction collar was on him. The bar code had been tattooed on his neck. She walked in the room.
"Trainer!" She yelled. The little man came running in the room.
"Milady! What are you doing here?" The sound of death came from his mouth.
"The Emperor sent me to get his pets," She pointed at Nina and Goku, "Are they finished?"
"Why yes milady. Just finished up on this one." He told her.
"Very good. Attach the leashes and give me the charger." She ordered him.
"Right away milady." The little man scurried about the room looking for a leash strong enough to hold Goku, who was now wearing shorts given to him by the Trainer. He grabbed one and attached it on his collar. He then remove Nina from her cage and put a leash on her and hand the ends to Akira, "There you are milady." Then he put the Charger control chip into her wrist computer. "You know how those work."
"Thank you, Trainer." He bowed his head and woke up Goku.
"On your feet pet!" He kicked Goku in the ribs. Goku fell from the table and saw pants he recognized.
"You!" He yelled then charged her. Akira press a button on her wrist computer, and it sent twenty thousand volts of electricity threw his body for a half a second.
"On your feet!" She shouted at him jerking on the leash. He slowly stood up and glared at her.
"Perhaps we should disable speech in this one?" The trainer asked her.
"That will not be necessary. He will break eventually. They all do," She said as Nina walked next to Goku and took his hand, "Go!" Akira yelled jerking on both leashes. Goku and Nina started to walk in front of Akira. They were going to see the Emperor.
****
Back at Goku's house, his mother was starting to get worried. She hadn't slept in days. Her brother was starting to get worried about her and Goku.
"Bra, You need to get some sleep. I'm sure he's ok." Goku's uncle told her.
"I know, but I can't help but worry. He's never gone this long," Bra, Goku's mother who was named after Vegeta's daughter, told her brother.
"If you are that worried, I can go search for him," A very deep voice said from behind them.
"Ryu! You would look for him?" Bra asked him.
"Of course I would. I would have gone with him in the first place if he wasn't so stubborn," Ryu laughed giving Bra something to laugh about.
"Are you sure you want to do this?" Goten, Goku's uncle, asked Ryu.
"I am positive. He is my best friend. It wouldn't be right to leave him out there if he's in trouble," Ryu told his two elders.
"Go get your weapons. You may need them," Goten told him. Ryu nodded. The dragon-man walked out of the house and towards his own. Ryu was a member of the Ryian race. A race of dragons that were humanoid. They stood on there hid legs, were very intelligent, and very strong. As children the color of there skin is a dark red, but as they get older, it turned to a very dark blue with highlights of red, yellow, and silver. (AN: Those who have played Final Fantasy 10, Ryu looks a lot like Bahamut from that game) He stood about 7'5", and he weighted about 300 pounds, which was a weight were the man could be considered in very good shape. His wings were neatly folded on his back. The tips stuck out about a foot above his head, but when they were expanded, his wing span was about fifteen feet.
Ryu had lived alone since he was about twelve. That is the age of adult hood for his race. When Goten had found him fifteen years ago, he lived with Goku and his mother, but now he was in his own house. He was also the lead hunter. He could easily kill any animal in the air, on the ground, or underwater. Five years ago he learn that he was the last of his race. His mother was killed three days before Goten found him. She was killed by the Army of New Satan City for killing one of the emperor's deer. Ever since he learned that he hated the empire.
Ryians live much longer then humans. Even without medicine, they lived an average of three hundred years. Though Ryians could have children with humans, Ryu didn't want too. He didn't think he could deal with having the mother of his child die before he reached the halfway mark of his life.
Ryu grabbed his lance, the weapon of his race, and he left his house for the exit of the cave. He was meet there by Bra and Goten.
"Good luck Ryu," Bra said to him giving him a quick hug.
"Find Goku and bring him back alive," Goten told him as they walked out of the cave together. They walked until out of hearing distance of Bra, "Go to where we last sensed him. But be careful, it's in the middle of New Satan City." Goten told him, and Ryu nodded.
"I'll find him, and I'll find out what is going on," Ryu told him as he walked away. With his wings fully extended, he let a moan out. It had been so long since he stretched them out; it felt good. In one large flap of his wings, he was in the air. Soon he was a mile above the earth soaring at two hundred-MPH. He would reach New Satan City in an hour.
****
Akira led the two pets into the throne room. Goku had shown how much he didn't like this by punching one of the guards. After that, Akira placed handcuffs on him.
"Milord, you two pets," Akira said bowing before pushing them forward.
"Ah very good General," The Emperor looked over them, "What is this! A full grown man!" The emperor yelled in disgust.
"This is the man who killed my men," Akira told to him and he nodded.
"I don't want a man for a pet. Take him away," The emperor motioned for two guard to take him away.
"Wait milord!" Akira shouted stopping the guards. The Emperor cocked an eyebrow, "Leave him for me. I've never had a pet, and this one will do nicely."
"Very well. You may have him. But if he acts up; I will make him a gladiator," The Emperor told her. She nodded, "Now, that the girl to my chambers. Put her with the rest of them." The two guards, that were about to take Goku, grabbed Nina's leash and started to leave.
"No!" Goku yelled as he broke out of the handcuffs and darted towards her.
"Goku!" Nina yelled before she was dragged out of the room. Goku kept running until Akira sent twelve thousand volts of electricity through his body. Goku collapsed on the floor as smoke came from his body.
'I'm sorry for all this...' Akira thought as she walked Goku start to cough up blood.
"Very good Akira," The Emperor said as he watched Goku get pulled to his feet by a guard.
"You!" Akira pointed at one of the guards, "Take him to my house and get a cage sent up for him. I must take care of some things." With that she left the throne room and the guard dragged Goku to her house.
****
Ryu landed just outside of the city. The flight only took him about forty-five minutes to complete. Neatly tucking his wings on his back, he started for the city to look for his best friend.
"Oh my god! What's that thing?!" He heard someone yell as he entered the cities main streets.
"That's a Ryian! I've never seen one in person before," Another person said. Ryu just wanted to disappear to get away from the stares, but him being about two feet taller then the rest of the people on the street made that hard. He just did his best to ignore them and concentrate on finding Goku.
'It's gonna be rough finding him in here,' He thought looking at all the various people walking the streets. To make matters worse, buildings were everywhere. He couldn't just fly to the top of one. He didn't come here to start trouble unless he has too. He decided to walked towards the biggest building he saw to ask questions.
"Ryu!" He thought he heard someone yell, "Damn it! Ryu turn around!" He heard it again, so he did. He saw Goku being pulled by a man holding a leash, "Ryu!" He yelled again this time the man holding the leash did something, and Goku fell to the ground in pain.
"No!" Ryu roared and the streets cleared. The man holding the leash nearly dropped it and ran when he saw Ryu walking quickly towards him, but he just pulled his weapon. Ryu did the same. Removing his lance from his back, he pointed it at the man. The man stood his ground, as he looked inevitable death in the eye.
"What is this?" Akira said walking up to the guard and her new pet, "Friend of yours?" She pointed at the dragon, "Go home little dragon. He's mine now." She grabbed the leash from the guard's hand, and she started to walk away. A low growl came from Ryu's throat.
"Kill her Ryu!" Goku yelled before getting shocked.
"Tsk Tsk. I thought you would have learned by now," Akira scowled him. Ryu couldn't deal with this anymore. With one swing of his lance, he cut the leash.
"Get this thing off me!" Goku yelled, and Ryu ran over to get the collar off before Akira could shock him. When Akira came too; she saw the Power Restriction collar, or what was left of it, in Ryu's large hand. He grunted before he threw it in the air and vaporized it with a blast of fire. Goku, with his full strength returned, easily broke the handcuffs, and he walked to Akira.
"Where'd they take the girl?" He said grabbing her hair, forcing her to look at him.
"Emperor's chambers," She winced in pain.
"And my sword?"
"Weapons Room in the dudgeon," She told him, and he released her hair.
"What are we doing?" Ryu asked Goku.
"Saving a girl and getting my sword back," He told him as he started to walk towards the palace.
"What girl are we saving?" Ryu asked as he put his lance on his back.
"A girl I meet in Satan City."
"I see," Ryu said teasing Goku.
"She's six years old. Get your mind out of the gutter," Goku lightly punched him in the stomach. Ryu smiled at him, "By the way, What took you so long?"
"Your uncle didn't want me to come until he knew something was very wrong. And when we couldn't sense you anymore, that's when we knew something was wrong," Ryu explained to him as they arrived at the main entrance of the palace.
"State your business," One of the Entrance guards asked them.
"I have come here to reclaim something that is mine," Goku said before kicking the guard in the head knocking him out. Ryu looked at him strangely.
'He's never been like this. Just what did they do to him here,' Ryu thought as Goku took the lead, and he noticed the bar code tattooed on his neck. Ryu wouldn't know of the things that they did to Goku until later.
"You there!" A guarded yelled at Goku, "Slave! Where is your master? Why are you roaming the palace?" He came walking over and noticed Goku had no collar on. "Where is your collar?" He looked at the bar code on his neck. "According to your bar code, your General Akira's pet. Where is she?"
"I am no one's pet..." Goku said quietly before he punched the man in the chest sending him clear across the room, and Goku and Ryu quickly ran into the dudgeon.
****
"Come here young one," A little old lady spoke to Nina. Nina ran into the corner of the room attempting to hide. "Don't be scared. I'm not going to hurt you." The old lady follow Nina into the corner and grabbed her.
"Lemme go!" Nina screamed and kicked violently.
"Sleepy time," The old lady said before sticking Nina with a needle. She fell asleep instantly. "That's a good girl." The old lady said to the unconscious girl. The old lady started to hum to herself as she dressed Nina in royal clothing. Though it was made public that she would jsut become another one of the emperor's pets. She was actually going to be made princess and successor of the throne.
"Anna. How is she?" The Emperor asked walking in the room.
"Emperor Satan!" She exclaimed not thinking he would be here so soon. "She is doing fine. I did have to tranquillize her though."
"That is to be excepted. She will make a good ruler once I am gone," Satan walked up next to the bed in which she laid in her royal dress. "She is very beautiful." He ran his hand across her face. "Anna, get her to her room. She will need her rest."
"Yes milord," Anna, the now nanny of Nina, took the sleeping girl to her new room. Her room was very large. A grand bed sat in the dead center of it. Large pillars of stone ran up as posts. A canopy sat five feet above the bed, and cloth ran down the sides of it. A open balcony was on the far side of the room over looking a massive courtyard. Various dress and bookcases were all about the room. Anna sat the girl down in here bed, and then put her in a nightgown. "Good night princess." Anna closed the large wooden doors of the room and walked to her quarters next door.
****
"This way," Goku told his large dragon friend. They ran through a small corridor until they reach very large doors made of bronze.
"Their on some type of mechanical device," Ryu said inspecting the doors. He was always good with machines and things of that nature. "And they appear to be very heavy."
"No door is going to stop me," Goku motioned for his friend to stand back. Ryu took a few steps back, and Goku shot a large ki blast at the door mangling it.
"I thought we were trying to be quiet," Ryu asked as they ran threw the busted door.
"Fuck quiet. I don't want to think of the things that are happening to Nina," Goku said drawing his sword and cutting a few guards down. Ryu didn't reply; he just followed. Soon they reached another set of bronze doors. Goku did the same thing to them as the last. Beyond those doors was the Throne Courtyard.
"You there! Stop!" A guard yelled and charged Goku. With a swift swing of the blade, the guard fell to the ground dead. Soon all the guards in the room were dead. Ryu had enough of this.
Grabbing Goku by the throat, he lifted him off the ground, "What is the matter with you?!" He yelled at Goku. "You used to hate to kill! Now look at you! Anything that gets in your way ends up dead! If I stood in your way would you kill me too?" Ryu threw Goku to the ground.
"Your right Ryu. I have been not acting like myself. But I fear these people would not show the same pity I showed to that woman earlier," Goku said dusting himself off.
"The woman? The one who claimed you belong to her?" Ryu asked confused.
"Yes, her. I spared here life two days ago. Then she captures me afterwards and makes me her 'pet'." Goku's words were covered in hatred.
"Do not tell your anger cloud your vision! What did your uncle always tell us? He would say 'Anger is a way to victory, but the road there will often be paved in chaos and death. Do not let anger control you.' Do you remember that Goku?" Ryu yelled at his human friend.
"Yes, I remember," Goku could almost see his uncle scowling him.
"Then stop this senseless killing!" Ryu yelled at him to get the point through to him.
"You are right," Goku told Ryu, "Let's go." They both walked towards the main entrance of the Throne room.
A knock on the door, "Well are you going to see who that is guard?" The emperor asked one of his new elite guard. The guard opened the door and stuck his head out.
"What do you want?" He asked with distasted on his tongue.
"We are here to see the emperor," Goku told him as he wiped some blood from his face.
"Let me see your pass," The guard spoke to them.
"We don't have a pass," A eerie calmness was on Goku's voice.
"Well your not getting in here then," The guard removed his head from the door and closed it.
"Who was it?" The emperor asked him.
"Someone who wanted to see you with out a pass," The guard told him. Just then, the door of the throne collapsed under the force of Ryu's most powerful breath attack, Horizon Flare. The guard who answered the door ran out of the way just in time to miss the door falling.
"What is this!" The emperor yelled in outraged. As the dust from the door hitting the ground settled, Goku and Ryu could be seen. "You! I gave you to Akira!" Just then Akira came in the room.
"I thought you would have learn your lesson by now," Goku said turning to face her.
"I'm not here to fight. I'm here to help you," She told him.
"You...help me? You must be joking," Goku said walking towards her.
"Goku, we must except all the help that is offered to us in this situation," Ryu said as he held off three of the new elite guard.
"Fine. You can help by getting him to tell me where he took the girl," Goku told her looking over at the emperor.
"No need to ask. I know," She removed her guns from the holsters and covered Goku and Ryu. "Go! The palace guard will be here any second!" She fired a few warning shots in the air as Ryu and Goku ran from the room.
"Akira! You will be killed for your treason!" The emperor shouted from behind the wall of men that stood in front of him. She just smiled and followed Goku.
"This way!" She yelled and took off down a narrow hallway. Various statues of past emperors lined the hall. "Push some of these over; It will slow them down!" Goku grabbed one that weighted about five thousand pounds and pushed it over. It fell on the ground and crumble into about ten pieces blocking nearly half the hallway.
"Ryu! Forget it! Mine will work!" Goku yelled past the Ryian how nearly had his off. They continued down the hall until Akira stopped.
"This was going to be her room," She told the two men which stood behind her.
"What do you mean her room? I was going to have to sleep in a cage," Ryu asked confused.
"She was not going to be a pet. She was going to me a princess," She told him, and his face dropped. "No time to explain. We must get her out!" She kicked the door down and ran for the bed. As she got within two feet of it, bars shot up from the floor.
"What the hell is this!" Goku yelled pulling on the bars.
"A trap my boy," The emperor said from behind them. "You will all be my pets now." A wicked smile appeared on his face. Just then, about fifty guards came in the room, surrounding them.
"Just great," Goku said to himself when something tugged on his hand.
"Goku?" Nina's voice sounded in pain and depressed.
"I'm here Nina," He said kneeling down.
"Goku, we must go!" Ryu said as he and Akira started to walk around the cage.
"Goku! C'mon!" Akira yelled from the other side of the cage.
"I'm not leaving her!" He yelled holding on to Nina's hand. A guard attacked. With one quick kick, the guard flew half way across the room. He gripped her hand again.
"Don't leave me..."She began to cry.
"I'm not," He told her standing up to look at the guards. One by one they attacked him, and one by one they fell.
"You fools. All of you attack him!" The emperor yelled, and they all did. Goku was overwhelmed by the mass attack, so Ryu had to save him.
"There is no shame in retreat!" He yelled as he pulled Goku by his arm to the top of the cage.
"I'm not leaving her!" Goku yelled sending a ki blast at the top of the cage. It bounced off.
"We will come back. I swear to you," Ryu said jumping to the ground crushing five guards. Goku followed.
He drop to one knee in front of the cage as Ryu and Akira fought the guards on either side. "Nina, I swear, I will come back for you," He said then wiped the tear away from his cheek. "Don't worry, I'll save you." Nina didn't say anything, and Goku stood up. "When I return here, Emperor," He said the last part with hatred on his voice, "Your empire with be lowered to ash." With that said Ryu grabbed his shoulder and Akira's, and he jumped off the balcony. Extending his wings as he fell and took off into the air. The emperor watched as he flew into the horizon.
"You will die the next time you come here," He said before closing the curtains on the balcony.