CHAPTER 3: PLANET REDLON AND THE GREEN DRAGONBALL

The ship landed on the planet with a soft flumpff sound. Trunks got out of the spaceship and

looked around. Goten stood out and immediately raced back inside. The thing that had made

the flumpff sound was snow. Outside the spaceship snow lined the planet. The tips of trees and

branches were covered in snow. The first thing that Trunks noticed (save for the snow) was that

all the trees were evergreen. Trunks shrugged to himself. "Must get lots of cold months then." he

mouthed to himself. Gohan emerged from the ship. "Just checking to see if your clothes are dry

Trunks, if so you're going to have to change." Gohan shivered and went back inside.

Inside the ship Gohan was rummaging through the laundry closet looking for some winter

clothes. Goku came round the corner with a very cold Goten. "Got anything yet? Only Trunks'

clothes aren't dry and Goten needs some." Goku said. Gohan pulled out a light green fleece,

yellow coat and pair of blue trousers. Usually Goten would have said no but it was so cold that

he had no choice. Gohan then threw out four hats and four pairs of mittens. Goten immediately

dived for the black pair, leaving Trunks with a bright yellow pair.

After the gang was all kitted out they left the ship and looked at the dragon radar. "South"

Trunks said, pulling out a compass. "Which is," he looked at his compass. "That-a way." He

pointed to some cliffs. "Aw, crud!" He said and made for the cliffs, others behind him. When he

reached the cliffs the compass needle span round and pointed to the left of them. "What the

fuck?" Trunks asked. "Hey Gohan, come take a look at this!" he shouted. Gohan walked over

to Trunks, as did the others, and the snow gave way. They were down a large pit, about twenty

odd metres in height, with smooth walls. The floor was covered in pine needles. Trunks looked

up just in time to catch a glimpse of the thing that lowered the trapdoor. It was a furry head with

two horns sweeping out of the top. "Shit!" Trunks shouted. pine needles and snow began to pile

on the trapdoor, blocking out all light. There was a rumble from below and small leaves and

pieces of snow fell into the hole. "Nobody shoot at anything or we could be buried alive!"

Trunks ordered. The rumble from below became greater and more fell into the pit. Up above

them they could see a glint of light. Goku got ready to fly up but a large cyan tentacle grabbed

him by the leg. Tentacles came out of the ground at all angles, grabbing what they could. Trunks

and Goten were lucky, they managed to get away. They turned and shot the tentacles, slicing

some in half. A putrid grey liquid shot out of the tentacles, shooting Gohan. As he pulled the

liquid off his face he said: "Eww, gross!". But that was not the worst of his problems. The

ground caved in and a large face was revealed, cyan like the tentacles, with an ultramarine eye.

There was a large mouth situated roughly in the middle of the face, all bent and misshapen.

Trunks fired a shot into the mouth. The creature writhed and squealed in pain, before doubling

its size. "Balls!" Gohan said "Trunks, could you help me!?" Trunks scowled at Gohan. How was

he supposed to know? Goten shot two beams at the creature, one slicing Gohans tentacle, the

other Gokus. They flew out of reach of the tentacle. Trunks pointed one hand at the top and

launched a ki attack at the opposite side. Twigs and snow caved in. The creature recoiled its

repulsive green tentacles and started to burrow back underground. The thick tree branches fell

into the hole, some narrowly missing Goku, who had to fly to the right to dodge them. The

creature squealed in pain and burrowed into the wet mud. Trunks, Goten and the others flew

out of the pit. They looked around at the landscape around them. Trunks flew up to the top of

the cliffs to get a better view. To the left he could see a small cluster of white and yellow lights.

Trunks guessed that it was a small village or town. Then he looked right, where he could see

another small town. It was much closer. Trunks could see the small round houses, cream at the

bases with light yellow tops. They had cream chimneys with puffs of grey smoke sprouting from

the tips. "Hey you guys, take a look at this!" the others emerged from the pit and looked

around. They looked towards the village that Trunks was looking at. On the far side of the

village was a palace, tall and twisted. It was made from four main grey columns, twisted and

gnarled, with jagged little windows stuck at irregular intervals around them. There was a main

base, deep green in colour, roughly eight feet high, with ultramarine doors. The main twisted

columns sprouted little sub columns and small balconies about some of the bigger windows. the

bigger windows had tinted glass, green, and behind them there was a pair of cyan curtains, with

gold froging, delicately made, obviously by very skilled people. It was almost as if the palace

keepers intended the curtains to stick out like a sore thumb. They were made of fine materials,

silk and lace, the likes of which would probably not be found on this planet. The rest, however,

looked like a clumsy craftsman who had flunked collage and had Parkinson's disease had made

it. Trunks looked to Goku, Gohan and Goku. "Shall we go there? I expect that the prince would

help us." The rest of the team looked at each other, then at the ship. Or where the ship should

have been. For in the space where the ship should have been there was just a scruffy person.

He had long bushy grey hair and a beard as long as his elbow to his wrist, which was not

actually that long for he was of very strange body proportions, he was quite tall but with short

arms and legs about the same size. He was searching in and amongst the snow for what

remained of Trunks' ship. He slinked about in the snow, his arms about his chest. He picked up

a piece of metal from the snow. Trunks jumped out at him. He pulled a face not unlike a

bulldogs, save for the fact that he had no fangs and more hair. His eyes widened and his pupils

came to a point. He shoved the piece of metal in the pocket of his leapord skin robes and

turned. He ran, the tumbling cascades of hair fell bout his face and flapped in the wind. From his

pocket he dropped a small green object. Trunks picked up the ball and rolled it in his hands.

Trunks handed it to Gohan, who examined it. "It's probably just a dirty peice of junk from

another ship." Gohan said without much enthusiasm. He was about to throw it to the ground

when Trunks noticed a small orange star on the side. "STOP!!!" he yelled. He snatched the ball

out of Gohans hand.

"What's the big deal? It's just a stupid ball!" Gohan exclaimed. Trunks rubbed the dirt and snow

off the ball. "LOOK! It's a dragonball!"

"But it's green!" Goku exclaimed. "What's up with that?"

"I don't know but we'd better take it to the prince." Trunks replied.

Over on planet redlon Vegetas statue was slowly losing colour. A second ghostly statue

appeared in front of it. It began to shrink in size and solidify. Instead of being an emerald green

colour, it was now the same colour as Vegeta. The cracks in it smoothed out and Vegeta stood

there. A dark figur stepped out of the shadows. It was Gatmed. He aproached Vegeta and said

"VEGETA, YOUR ORDERS ARE TO ILIMINATE GOKU." Vegetas eyes sparkled. The

name rung a bell in the back of his mind. He pictured the scene. He was in the kitchen, Goku lay

on the floor with a knife wound in his chest that was bleeding profusly. Vegeta was standing

nearby with a dripping knife held aloft. Goten ran up to his father and cradlled his head. Goku

died quietly in his arms. Vegeta snapped back to reality. A tight, cruel smile formed across his

cold lips. He was going to get revenge.

Trunks looked at the palace. It didn't look so far from the cliff tops. The snowy plains were

wide and smooth. Trunks looked ahead and saw the palace. There was still a town to pass

through before though.