Dragon's of Tribeta-sei
Part 1 A New Life
Chapter 15 Pine's Death
"WHAAAAA!" Goten shrieked in pain, as he was berried into the side of the cliff where he was being pinned upon with a cannon beam from the large black female Obetijins mouth. Whimpering in pain he felt the larger reptile grab the front of his gi and fling him around in circles before letting him fly to the ground. Goten barely had time to ovoid the incoming energy blast. He flayed his arms to get his balance back and once he did he looked around for the creature only to be walloped on the back of his skull with a heavy black tail. He cried out as he sailed through the air and then with in moment found himself in a bear hug facing the creature.
It chuckled in pleasure, "I will crush your bones for killing my people." And it was true to its words because it then started to squeeze the life out of him as if he were its favorite dolly that it had been missing or something. Goten clenched his teeth in an attempted to not to scream out in pain as he felt light popping noises. Then.
"WWWWHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! Aaa AAA. ah." he tried to strain himself to break free but that only caused him more pain. Then finally there was a loud crack like a gun shot going off. His right shoulder had just snapped.
He screamed in pure agony, his pain could be heard bouncing off of the cliffs, as there was stillness as if the world was waiting for a miracle to happen to set the son of Goku free but none came.
"Oh, that must have hurt. I wonder how many more bones with break until you loose consciousness?" the reptile sneered in amusement as it continued its torcher on the 13 year old.
Goten's tail trembled violently as if it too was being squeezed to death. Finally with one last cry of pain, his hair became limp and turned back to it's natural color the same happened to his eyes before they closed and his body became limp in the creature's arms.
The Obetijin chuckled as she shifted the boy so that she was holding him by the front of his gi and began to look around for the perfect barrier site. It didn't take long to find a bottom less black den in between cliffs; it was so dark down there that you couldn't see the bottom. Again the creature chuckled, "Yes this will do perfect." She turned to the boy was stayed limp in her grip. "Good boy." She said once she noticed the tense mussels grow limp and loose on the boy before slowly letting him drop into the vast darkness below.
He fell. deeper.
And Deeper
And Deeper
. Into the den until he stuck rock bottom after what seemed like 30 minutes of falling. It was impossible to tell weather he was still alive or not. but while he lay limp on the ground, a pair of yellow orbs appeared to his right in the darkness. They seemed to glow brightly for a moment.
The site fades from view. ****************************** Meanwhile back at the campsite, all three boys had finished cooking and eating the food that Toma was able to find for them.
"Che. what a shame Goten couldn't have joined us. I hope he found some food for himself." Bow said while dropping another batch of firewood. It has been hours since Goten had left to get some water for everyone. He hasn't come back yet.
Pine yawned as he sat back on his mat; they had managed to find enough rags to rap his arm up in so that he wouldn't have to strain it. They had tied two stiff sticks on either side of his arm to keep it strait and to support it. Pine hasn't been in any pain for a while. If anything he could use some water to drink and to splash himself with to cool down. He sighed and began to rub some sweat off of his forehead, "Man it sure is hot out here. I sure hope that he gets back soon. or I'm going to die of heat stroke here!"
"Calm down, I pretty sure that he will be back soon. I can't sense anymore fighting over there so he must be done. He had better have remembered that water though." Toma spoke up also rubbing some sweat off of his face.
"Well he had better get back soon or I will go and find some water myself!" Bow growled in annoyance as he glared off in the direction that Goten went to. ***************************** After that queen of all Obetijins finished with Goten, she went in search for any survivors of her race. She planed revenge on those who did this to her people. After about an hour, she had found a small camp off to the east. She told them what had happened and what she wanted them to do.
"GO! SEARCH FOR ANY SURVIVING WARRIORS! AND IF ANY OF YOU FIND OUT WHERE THE ENEMY'S CAMP IS, DO NOT ATTACK THEM COME AND REPORT YOUR FINDING'S EXACT COORIDINATES THEN WE SHALL PLAN FOR AN ATTACK!"
All of the reptile warriors that weren't injured spread out their wings and took to the skies to search for any remainders of their camps while others searched by ground to other battle fields to find any still alive warriors who might be in need of healing works.
After about an hour, the 4 remaining camps of the Obetijins gathered where the queen was and began preparing for the battle against the attacking forces. Only 5 injured from the battlefields were still alive, and all those that were injured were killed by the queen and chopped up for a meal for the strongest of the Obetijins to eat before heading into battle. Finally one of the patrollers returned with good news.
"Madam, the enemy's camp is not far from here, they are settled 20 miles south west from here. There were only three of them."
"Good." She chuckled.
She turned to glance at the sunset to the south, "We shall attack by nightfall. WE SHALL DESTROY THEM!" ************************* It was so dark and cold. His entire body ached as though he had been through a meat cinder. He lay on hard, cold rock mostly covered in cold sand. The air was Luke warm and very humid. He could feel trembles in the ground as though a lot of creatures were running around at high speeds. He could hear the sound of rocks and dirt sliding down the cave walls, at least he assumed he was in a cave. but were caves really this warm? He could feel warm liquid running down his forehead and past his ear. He couldn't tell what it was just yet. But he laid still and quiet waiting for something. But waiting for what, he had no idea. He didn't care about his surroundings much but still kept a slight alertness for any danger. Slowly he drifted into dreamland. As he did this, he couldn't help but think that he had betrayed or been the cause of his friend's death. Surely they could take care of themselves? Toma could become a Super Saiya-jin and possibly become a Super Saiya-jin 2. He had no idea how strong Bow neither was nor did he know about Pine. They all fought greatly in the first fight. But then why was he worrying? He could not think about it much. and fell into a sleep that led him to an ugly memory.
(Dream)
He's stronger than I thought! Goten was close to panic as his face once again came in contact with the rocky landscape. Groaning, he picked himself up off the ground, wiping blood from his split lip. Almost before he could react, cold were on him again, fists, feet, and tail sending blow after blow to rain down upon the boy. It was all he could do to dodge and block most of them, wincing as every once in a while a blow landed. So when he saw an opening in the Aisu-jin's defenses, he quickly took advantage of it by sending a large ball of ki into Cold's face. While the lizard was distracted by the pain, Goten brought himself into a familiar stance, cupping his fists, the heels of his palms touching. "Kaa..." Blue energy sparked in his hands. "Mee..." He pulled his hands to one side, the ki gathered growing exponentially. "Haa..." Cold was focusing on Goten again, quickly recovering from the surprise and pain of the last attack. "Mee..." The ball of blue ki was huge, almost too painful to hold anymore. Just a little longer.... now! "HAA!!!" As Cold blasted towards the young Saiya-jin, Goten thrust his hands forward, launching the attack. The bright blue beam shot forward, slamming into the lizard's chest before he even had a chance to dodge or block. Screaming, the Aisu-jin was blasted into the ground, plowing a trench a hundred meters long. Panting heavily, he readied another ki blast, preparing to send it after Cold. Unfortunately, he never got the chance to use it.
At the edge area where the fighting was taking place, Trunks, Vegeta, and Bardock watched closely. Only Trunks could see everything that was happening, since King Cold and Goten were traveling too fast for the other two to see most of the time. However, they all saw Goten crash into the ground with earth shattering force. Despite the strength of Goten's Kamehameha, Cold had recovered with impossible speed, phasing out of existence before Goten could send another attack his way. He phased back into existence directly behind the young boy and brought his doubled up fists to smash into the back of Goten's head. "Goten's in trouble," Trunks worried, gnawing on his lip. "I didn't think Cold would be this strong." In his mind, he weighed his options. Should he rush to his friend's aid? Or should he wait and see if Goten would pull through? "Does he need our help?" Bardock asked, unknowingly echoing the chibi's thoughts. Trunks watched the fight pensively as Goten struggled to keep up with his opponent, taking more blows than he was landing. "No," he answered reluctantly. "Goten's not finished yet, and he'd be mad if we thought he was too weak to handle this guy on his own."
~*~ Feeling dizzy from his bone jarring impact with the ground, the injured demi-saiyan picked him up and shook his head, trying to clear the stars from his vision. Big mistake. Instead of clearing his vision, more stars appeared and he nearly fell back down as a wave of pain beat inside his head. So stupid! He berated himself. I knew better than to let my guard down after I attacked. Baka, baka, baka! Rubbing his sore head, he hastily erected a ki shield as Cold bombarded him with hundreds of small energy blasts. Defending against this left him feeling drained and exhausted. Can't keep this up much longer. The barrage of ki stopped and Goten looked up to see why Cold had stopped. The Aisu-jin was slowly advancing on him, his tail swishing back and forth lazily. Goten's mouth suddenly felt dry. If King Cold reached him, he knew that it would be over. In a last, desperate attempt to delay the outcome he foresaw, Goten charged up his strongest Kamehameha, pouring everything into it. If this didn't work, he didn't know what he would do. His hands shot forward, and the deadly energy sizzled through the air, straight towards its intended target.
~*~ Trunks held his breath as he watched Goten prepare a final attack. This was it. This was the deciding point of the fight. Dazzling blue light reflected off of everything, blinding anyone who tried to look directly at the source. Through his ki senses, the purple haired boy felt the attack fly towards the Aisu-jin with blurring speeds. Cold wasn't moving. Surely he wouldn't be able to dodge the blast. It was too fast, and he wasn't doing anything to get out of the way. He was just standing there, placidly watching his death speed towards him... Lifting one hand, the alien batted the blast away. Straight towards Trunks, Vegeta, and Bardock.
~*~ Sinking to his knees in shocked horror, Goten could only stare at the rising cloud of dust billowing from where his friends had been standing when the blast struck. Frantically, he searched for their kis- -And found nothing. Not a trace or whisper of ki could be felt from the smoking crater. "NOOOOO!!!!" he screamed, guilt and loss tearing at his soul. All of his power had gone into that blast, and Cold had deflected it, sending it flying towards his friends. Vegeta and Bardock were too weak to have even had a chance to survive. Trunks... had Trunks been powered up enough to live through it? If so, then where was he? Goten couldn't find his friend anywhere. With his heart in his throat, he realized that not even his best friend had survived the attack. His attack. "NOOOOOOO!!!" he screamed again, his voice raw with emotion. Vegeta, Trunks, grandpa... what have I done?! With a wordless cry of grief, he blasted towards the crater, hoping against hope that maybe, just maybe, they had survived. He slammed into a wall head first, falling onto his rump. How had a wall suddenly appeared like that? Dazedly, he looked up and found King Cold standing over him, smiling frostily. "Oh, what a pity. You killed your little friends. How sad." The lizard's voice oozed with false concern. Sobbing, the demi-saiyan blinked back tears and got to his feet. The Aisu- jin's tail whirled through the air and slammed into the boy's side, knocking him down again. Tears of pain and loss sprang to his eyes as he once again pulled himself to his feet, ignoring his protesting muscles and bleeding wounds. Perhaps it was the stress of being lost in the past for the past four days. Perhaps it was the grief from losing his grandfather twice in as many days, or the guilt from being the cause of his friends' deaths, or anger at his tormentor. Perhaps it was the merely the physical pain he was enduring. Perhaps it was a combination of all of these things. Whatever it was, it caused something in the innocent, sweet, caring boy to snap and he almost seemed to visibly change before Cold's eyes into something far more deadly and powerful. His power skyrocketed to levels he had never bothered to reach for. He didn't know what the attack was. It just came instinctively. Gathering his newfound energy into his fingers, his arms stretched out, he was only half aware of what he was doing. The ki in his hands flared a brilliant golden color. The color of the sun dawning on the horizon. The color of a Super Saiya-jin in all his glory. The color of King Cold's death. He clapped his hands together and the golden ki of each hand clashed, combined, and suddenly released itself in the tyrant's direction. Still yelling, Goten poured everything into this nameless attack. His grief, his anger, his loss, his pain, his soul. Everything he had been directed at the being that stood before him. For a moment, the only thing that could be seen was the luminous light of Goten's attack. It consumed everything until the whole world was a golden color. And then it was gone. And so was King Cold.
(Dream End)
Goten's eyes snapped open as he remembered himself believing he had killed his friends. It just wasn't right! How come everything that happened always was his fought? He didn't protect his brother when Majin Buu came around, he didn't protect his mother from being killed. He could not get revenge for their deaths because he was weak.
He clenched his eyes shut to prevent the tears from escaping and swallowed hard to push down that huge blob of tears that is creeping up on him. No he will not be weak again! If he breaks down this would be the tenth time that he lost control of himself in his life. He was so weak to let his emotions get hold of him like that. He reminded himself that he was a teenager now and that he would have to act more mature. So ignoring the pain and the protesting of his body he pulled himself to his feet. He staggered a bit but refused to let himself loose control of his emotion. Because he has learned through the past three years of his training, that that is how it starts. Once he looses control of himself like that and lets his emotion get hold of him like that, it will only be a matter of time before he changes into the 'Evil Goten'. Goten would rather put it as the 'Suffering Goten' more then the other one.
He didn't have enough energy to fly so he would have to climb his way out of this deep, deep pit. He put his hands out in front of him and began to limp forward in search of a wall that he could climb up but so far came up with none. "No, I will not give up!" With all of the determination he had he continued to walk forward slowly for he could not see a thing. ************************* It was nightfall, the army of reptilians moved across the land towards Toma's camp.
The others were getting worried about Goten for he had not come back in a long while. So Bow had gone looking for him while Toma stayed to make sure nothing happens to Pine.
Bow searched for a while until he spotted lots of movement in the distance and headed over. His jaw gaped as he spotted the army approaching their camp. There were way to many of them! He turned around and saw that they surrounded them! He immediately turned around and headed back to the camp as quick as he could.
"TOMA! WE HAVE A BIG PROBLEM!" He hollered as he landed.
"What is it? What's wrong?" Pine asked as he noted the panic in Bow's voice.
"There is too many of them. We're completely surrounded. There is no way that we sill survive this!" he stuttered and frantically pointing in all direction.
Toma looked around then froze as he felt a large mass of chi surrounding their group and found himself adopting a battle stance as every part of his being gone on the alert. Pine's white face told him that he too could feel the incoming danger. "Ok, we have to fight them off. Our job was to get rid of all of them remember? We'll be just fine so long as we don't let our guard down. Prepare yourselves! Because here they come.
The queen reptile chuckled at her perch on a tall rock then she opened her mouth and let out a battle roar "ATTACK NOW! KILL THEM ALL!"
All of the reptilians charged from both the air and the ground from all directions.
"HHHHHAAAAAAAAAAA!" Both Toma and Bow powered up into Super Saiya-jins while Pine powered up to his fullest which was about 50,000 on a scouter. Seeing that there were less of them in the air then on the ground Toma shouted to Pine, "Pine you take to the air, there are more on the ground, Be careful because of your injury!" With these words he and Pine scattered in opposite directions to the incoming circle on the ground. Meanwhile Pine nodded and took to the air to attack the ones who had wings. These ones however were just shooting there cannon beams not to fight hand to hand. So Pine had to watch himself up there or he will find himself getting barbequed.
Pine dodged to the side to ovoid an incoming energy blast and shot and energy blast of his own at one of them, which hardly singed it. He could not fight with his left arm so he had to shoot energy blasts at them and if anyone of them came in too close he would try and hit it or kick it as hard as he could. Once he barely got a hit in he got hammered in the back of the head sending him further down towards the battle below. He barely managed to catch himself and then he concentrated and pushed himself into three other forms and so the other two copies shouted "Tri-Form Technique" and charged in different directions to attack three different ones. This did him some good for a while.
On the ground it appeared the Bow was powering up an awesome attack because the air around him was turning the colors of dark red to black and dark energy simmered off of him. His eyes were turning red and everything with in a 10 ft diameter around him was wilting into dust. Finally he shouted "FLAMING RED EYED DRAGON!" and red lightening crackled around him before he thrust his fist forward and a long snake like form erupted in a burst of flames the energy blast was so big that it could engulf Mt. Everest, it formed a red dragon which breathed fire in all directions, anything and everything that it touched was reduced to dust, anything living was immediately reduced to a mummified rotting corps. This awesome attack killed up to 20 Obetijins leaving an icky stench in its wake.
Toma was doing just as good as a job shooting a barrage of energy blast in all directions, once each blast hit the ground a 20 ft tall explosion was erupt each time. He has so far killed off 25 of them and it wasn't even that hard.
Pine was failing miserably in the sky while his companions were doing wonderfully glorious on the ground. He mentally cursed himself for not have the ability to become a Super Saiya-jin. Because this would be a whole lot more easily if he could. He doubled over in pain then he screamed out in agony as he was hit in his bad arm. There was a loud pop and the bone broke completely. Then he found himself at the mercy of a huge black red-eyed reptile. It was a female and the leader of the army, he watched in horror as she slammed him into a cliff headfirst. Then after his last fall and was now being held by the throat, he realized what he has to do, the only thing he has left is to bring out that hidden technique of his and he could barely have enough energy to do that.
He chuckled weakly at his captive before he closed his eyes and began to pull the remaining bits of his energy out around him, dark energy surrounded his form and swirled into a deadly poison the melts anything that it touches, The queen let him go as soon as the deadly aura touched her black skin. He landed on his knees but managed to stay upright.
Toma and Bow felt Pine's energy and their eyes widened in horror. "Masaka! He isn't going to do what I think he is doing!" Bow yelped as he felt all of Pine chi shoot through the roof. Leaving the boy's body.
A large black ball of energy formed above Pine, it looked like the spirit bomb only made from dark energy, the middle of it was a white gray color while the outer part was a black color. It sturdily grew larger and larger while feeding off of Pine's chi. Pine skin was turning very pale as his life energy was leaving him. There was a flash of light above, which signaled that it was time. "G-good bye my friends. w-we shall meet again in the afterlife. he whispered while knowing that they could barely hear him. Then he let out a piercing scream, as the heavens grew dark and shallow. Then he let loose what was left of his being into the black bomb in the air as an black energy blast shot up into the air at the ball of dark energy then with a shout. "DEATH STAR BLAST!" that last cry was his last breath as his body vanished in a mighty explosion, which was so big you could see it miles above the planet's atmosphere.
"NNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOO! PPPPIIIINNNNEEE NNNNNNOOOOOOO!"
This doesn't look too good; did Pine Cone just take his final breath? And what is Goten doing? He is still searching for a way out of that cave. Will Bow or Toma ever forgive him for not being there for their friend? Find out in the next chapter; Giant Explosion of Anger!
Part 1 A New Life
Chapter 15 Pine's Death
"WHAAAAA!" Goten shrieked in pain, as he was berried into the side of the cliff where he was being pinned upon with a cannon beam from the large black female Obetijins mouth. Whimpering in pain he felt the larger reptile grab the front of his gi and fling him around in circles before letting him fly to the ground. Goten barely had time to ovoid the incoming energy blast. He flayed his arms to get his balance back and once he did he looked around for the creature only to be walloped on the back of his skull with a heavy black tail. He cried out as he sailed through the air and then with in moment found himself in a bear hug facing the creature.
It chuckled in pleasure, "I will crush your bones for killing my people." And it was true to its words because it then started to squeeze the life out of him as if he were its favorite dolly that it had been missing or something. Goten clenched his teeth in an attempted to not to scream out in pain as he felt light popping noises. Then.
"WWWWHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! Aaa AAA. ah." he tried to strain himself to break free but that only caused him more pain. Then finally there was a loud crack like a gun shot going off. His right shoulder had just snapped.
He screamed in pure agony, his pain could be heard bouncing off of the cliffs, as there was stillness as if the world was waiting for a miracle to happen to set the son of Goku free but none came.
"Oh, that must have hurt. I wonder how many more bones with break until you loose consciousness?" the reptile sneered in amusement as it continued its torcher on the 13 year old.
Goten's tail trembled violently as if it too was being squeezed to death. Finally with one last cry of pain, his hair became limp and turned back to it's natural color the same happened to his eyes before they closed and his body became limp in the creature's arms.
The Obetijin chuckled as she shifted the boy so that she was holding him by the front of his gi and began to look around for the perfect barrier site. It didn't take long to find a bottom less black den in between cliffs; it was so dark down there that you couldn't see the bottom. Again the creature chuckled, "Yes this will do perfect." She turned to the boy was stayed limp in her grip. "Good boy." She said once she noticed the tense mussels grow limp and loose on the boy before slowly letting him drop into the vast darkness below.
He fell. deeper.
And Deeper
And Deeper
. Into the den until he stuck rock bottom after what seemed like 30 minutes of falling. It was impossible to tell weather he was still alive or not. but while he lay limp on the ground, a pair of yellow orbs appeared to his right in the darkness. They seemed to glow brightly for a moment.
The site fades from view. ****************************** Meanwhile back at the campsite, all three boys had finished cooking and eating the food that Toma was able to find for them.
"Che. what a shame Goten couldn't have joined us. I hope he found some food for himself." Bow said while dropping another batch of firewood. It has been hours since Goten had left to get some water for everyone. He hasn't come back yet.
Pine yawned as he sat back on his mat; they had managed to find enough rags to rap his arm up in so that he wouldn't have to strain it. They had tied two stiff sticks on either side of his arm to keep it strait and to support it. Pine hasn't been in any pain for a while. If anything he could use some water to drink and to splash himself with to cool down. He sighed and began to rub some sweat off of his forehead, "Man it sure is hot out here. I sure hope that he gets back soon. or I'm going to die of heat stroke here!"
"Calm down, I pretty sure that he will be back soon. I can't sense anymore fighting over there so he must be done. He had better have remembered that water though." Toma spoke up also rubbing some sweat off of his face.
"Well he had better get back soon or I will go and find some water myself!" Bow growled in annoyance as he glared off in the direction that Goten went to. ***************************** After that queen of all Obetijins finished with Goten, she went in search for any survivors of her race. She planed revenge on those who did this to her people. After about an hour, she had found a small camp off to the east. She told them what had happened and what she wanted them to do.
"GO! SEARCH FOR ANY SURVIVING WARRIORS! AND IF ANY OF YOU FIND OUT WHERE THE ENEMY'S CAMP IS, DO NOT ATTACK THEM COME AND REPORT YOUR FINDING'S EXACT COORIDINATES THEN WE SHALL PLAN FOR AN ATTACK!"
All of the reptile warriors that weren't injured spread out their wings and took to the skies to search for any remainders of their camps while others searched by ground to other battle fields to find any still alive warriors who might be in need of healing works.
After about an hour, the 4 remaining camps of the Obetijins gathered where the queen was and began preparing for the battle against the attacking forces. Only 5 injured from the battlefields were still alive, and all those that were injured were killed by the queen and chopped up for a meal for the strongest of the Obetijins to eat before heading into battle. Finally one of the patrollers returned with good news.
"Madam, the enemy's camp is not far from here, they are settled 20 miles south west from here. There were only three of them."
"Good." She chuckled.
She turned to glance at the sunset to the south, "We shall attack by nightfall. WE SHALL DESTROY THEM!" ************************* It was so dark and cold. His entire body ached as though he had been through a meat cinder. He lay on hard, cold rock mostly covered in cold sand. The air was Luke warm and very humid. He could feel trembles in the ground as though a lot of creatures were running around at high speeds. He could hear the sound of rocks and dirt sliding down the cave walls, at least he assumed he was in a cave. but were caves really this warm? He could feel warm liquid running down his forehead and past his ear. He couldn't tell what it was just yet. But he laid still and quiet waiting for something. But waiting for what, he had no idea. He didn't care about his surroundings much but still kept a slight alertness for any danger. Slowly he drifted into dreamland. As he did this, he couldn't help but think that he had betrayed or been the cause of his friend's death. Surely they could take care of themselves? Toma could become a Super Saiya-jin and possibly become a Super Saiya-jin 2. He had no idea how strong Bow neither was nor did he know about Pine. They all fought greatly in the first fight. But then why was he worrying? He could not think about it much. and fell into a sleep that led him to an ugly memory.
(Dream)
He's stronger than I thought! Goten was close to panic as his face once again came in contact with the rocky landscape. Groaning, he picked himself up off the ground, wiping blood from his split lip. Almost before he could react, cold were on him again, fists, feet, and tail sending blow after blow to rain down upon the boy. It was all he could do to dodge and block most of them, wincing as every once in a while a blow landed. So when he saw an opening in the Aisu-jin's defenses, he quickly took advantage of it by sending a large ball of ki into Cold's face. While the lizard was distracted by the pain, Goten brought himself into a familiar stance, cupping his fists, the heels of his palms touching. "Kaa..." Blue energy sparked in his hands. "Mee..." He pulled his hands to one side, the ki gathered growing exponentially. "Haa..." Cold was focusing on Goten again, quickly recovering from the surprise and pain of the last attack. "Mee..." The ball of blue ki was huge, almost too painful to hold anymore. Just a little longer.... now! "HAA!!!" As Cold blasted towards the young Saiya-jin, Goten thrust his hands forward, launching the attack. The bright blue beam shot forward, slamming into the lizard's chest before he even had a chance to dodge or block. Screaming, the Aisu-jin was blasted into the ground, plowing a trench a hundred meters long. Panting heavily, he readied another ki blast, preparing to send it after Cold. Unfortunately, he never got the chance to use it.
At the edge area where the fighting was taking place, Trunks, Vegeta, and Bardock watched closely. Only Trunks could see everything that was happening, since King Cold and Goten were traveling too fast for the other two to see most of the time. However, they all saw Goten crash into the ground with earth shattering force. Despite the strength of Goten's Kamehameha, Cold had recovered with impossible speed, phasing out of existence before Goten could send another attack his way. He phased back into existence directly behind the young boy and brought his doubled up fists to smash into the back of Goten's head. "Goten's in trouble," Trunks worried, gnawing on his lip. "I didn't think Cold would be this strong." In his mind, he weighed his options. Should he rush to his friend's aid? Or should he wait and see if Goten would pull through? "Does he need our help?" Bardock asked, unknowingly echoing the chibi's thoughts. Trunks watched the fight pensively as Goten struggled to keep up with his opponent, taking more blows than he was landing. "No," he answered reluctantly. "Goten's not finished yet, and he'd be mad if we thought he was too weak to handle this guy on his own."
~*~ Feeling dizzy from his bone jarring impact with the ground, the injured demi-saiyan picked him up and shook his head, trying to clear the stars from his vision. Big mistake. Instead of clearing his vision, more stars appeared and he nearly fell back down as a wave of pain beat inside his head. So stupid! He berated himself. I knew better than to let my guard down after I attacked. Baka, baka, baka! Rubbing his sore head, he hastily erected a ki shield as Cold bombarded him with hundreds of small energy blasts. Defending against this left him feeling drained and exhausted. Can't keep this up much longer. The barrage of ki stopped and Goten looked up to see why Cold had stopped. The Aisu-jin was slowly advancing on him, his tail swishing back and forth lazily. Goten's mouth suddenly felt dry. If King Cold reached him, he knew that it would be over. In a last, desperate attempt to delay the outcome he foresaw, Goten charged up his strongest Kamehameha, pouring everything into it. If this didn't work, he didn't know what he would do. His hands shot forward, and the deadly energy sizzled through the air, straight towards its intended target.
~*~ Trunks held his breath as he watched Goten prepare a final attack. This was it. This was the deciding point of the fight. Dazzling blue light reflected off of everything, blinding anyone who tried to look directly at the source. Through his ki senses, the purple haired boy felt the attack fly towards the Aisu-jin with blurring speeds. Cold wasn't moving. Surely he wouldn't be able to dodge the blast. It was too fast, and he wasn't doing anything to get out of the way. He was just standing there, placidly watching his death speed towards him... Lifting one hand, the alien batted the blast away. Straight towards Trunks, Vegeta, and Bardock.
~*~ Sinking to his knees in shocked horror, Goten could only stare at the rising cloud of dust billowing from where his friends had been standing when the blast struck. Frantically, he searched for their kis- -And found nothing. Not a trace or whisper of ki could be felt from the smoking crater. "NOOOOO!!!!" he screamed, guilt and loss tearing at his soul. All of his power had gone into that blast, and Cold had deflected it, sending it flying towards his friends. Vegeta and Bardock were too weak to have even had a chance to survive. Trunks... had Trunks been powered up enough to live through it? If so, then where was he? Goten couldn't find his friend anywhere. With his heart in his throat, he realized that not even his best friend had survived the attack. His attack. "NOOOOOOO!!!" he screamed again, his voice raw with emotion. Vegeta, Trunks, grandpa... what have I done?! With a wordless cry of grief, he blasted towards the crater, hoping against hope that maybe, just maybe, they had survived. He slammed into a wall head first, falling onto his rump. How had a wall suddenly appeared like that? Dazedly, he looked up and found King Cold standing over him, smiling frostily. "Oh, what a pity. You killed your little friends. How sad." The lizard's voice oozed with false concern. Sobbing, the demi-saiyan blinked back tears and got to his feet. The Aisu- jin's tail whirled through the air and slammed into the boy's side, knocking him down again. Tears of pain and loss sprang to his eyes as he once again pulled himself to his feet, ignoring his protesting muscles and bleeding wounds. Perhaps it was the stress of being lost in the past for the past four days. Perhaps it was the grief from losing his grandfather twice in as many days, or the guilt from being the cause of his friends' deaths, or anger at his tormentor. Perhaps it was the merely the physical pain he was enduring. Perhaps it was a combination of all of these things. Whatever it was, it caused something in the innocent, sweet, caring boy to snap and he almost seemed to visibly change before Cold's eyes into something far more deadly and powerful. His power skyrocketed to levels he had never bothered to reach for. He didn't know what the attack was. It just came instinctively. Gathering his newfound energy into his fingers, his arms stretched out, he was only half aware of what he was doing. The ki in his hands flared a brilliant golden color. The color of the sun dawning on the horizon. The color of a Super Saiya-jin in all his glory. The color of King Cold's death. He clapped his hands together and the golden ki of each hand clashed, combined, and suddenly released itself in the tyrant's direction. Still yelling, Goten poured everything into this nameless attack. His grief, his anger, his loss, his pain, his soul. Everything he had been directed at the being that stood before him. For a moment, the only thing that could be seen was the luminous light of Goten's attack. It consumed everything until the whole world was a golden color. And then it was gone. And so was King Cold.
(Dream End)
Goten's eyes snapped open as he remembered himself believing he had killed his friends. It just wasn't right! How come everything that happened always was his fought? He didn't protect his brother when Majin Buu came around, he didn't protect his mother from being killed. He could not get revenge for their deaths because he was weak.
He clenched his eyes shut to prevent the tears from escaping and swallowed hard to push down that huge blob of tears that is creeping up on him. No he will not be weak again! If he breaks down this would be the tenth time that he lost control of himself in his life. He was so weak to let his emotions get hold of him like that. He reminded himself that he was a teenager now and that he would have to act more mature. So ignoring the pain and the protesting of his body he pulled himself to his feet. He staggered a bit but refused to let himself loose control of his emotion. Because he has learned through the past three years of his training, that that is how it starts. Once he looses control of himself like that and lets his emotion get hold of him like that, it will only be a matter of time before he changes into the 'Evil Goten'. Goten would rather put it as the 'Suffering Goten' more then the other one.
He didn't have enough energy to fly so he would have to climb his way out of this deep, deep pit. He put his hands out in front of him and began to limp forward in search of a wall that he could climb up but so far came up with none. "No, I will not give up!" With all of the determination he had he continued to walk forward slowly for he could not see a thing. ************************* It was nightfall, the army of reptilians moved across the land towards Toma's camp.
The others were getting worried about Goten for he had not come back in a long while. So Bow had gone looking for him while Toma stayed to make sure nothing happens to Pine.
Bow searched for a while until he spotted lots of movement in the distance and headed over. His jaw gaped as he spotted the army approaching their camp. There were way to many of them! He turned around and saw that they surrounded them! He immediately turned around and headed back to the camp as quick as he could.
"TOMA! WE HAVE A BIG PROBLEM!" He hollered as he landed.
"What is it? What's wrong?" Pine asked as he noted the panic in Bow's voice.
"There is too many of them. We're completely surrounded. There is no way that we sill survive this!" he stuttered and frantically pointing in all direction.
Toma looked around then froze as he felt a large mass of chi surrounding their group and found himself adopting a battle stance as every part of his being gone on the alert. Pine's white face told him that he too could feel the incoming danger. "Ok, we have to fight them off. Our job was to get rid of all of them remember? We'll be just fine so long as we don't let our guard down. Prepare yourselves! Because here they come.
The queen reptile chuckled at her perch on a tall rock then she opened her mouth and let out a battle roar "ATTACK NOW! KILL THEM ALL!"
All of the reptilians charged from both the air and the ground from all directions.
"HHHHHAAAAAAAAAAA!" Both Toma and Bow powered up into Super Saiya-jins while Pine powered up to his fullest which was about 50,000 on a scouter. Seeing that there were less of them in the air then on the ground Toma shouted to Pine, "Pine you take to the air, there are more on the ground, Be careful because of your injury!" With these words he and Pine scattered in opposite directions to the incoming circle on the ground. Meanwhile Pine nodded and took to the air to attack the ones who had wings. These ones however were just shooting there cannon beams not to fight hand to hand. So Pine had to watch himself up there or he will find himself getting barbequed.
Pine dodged to the side to ovoid an incoming energy blast and shot and energy blast of his own at one of them, which hardly singed it. He could not fight with his left arm so he had to shoot energy blasts at them and if anyone of them came in too close he would try and hit it or kick it as hard as he could. Once he barely got a hit in he got hammered in the back of the head sending him further down towards the battle below. He barely managed to catch himself and then he concentrated and pushed himself into three other forms and so the other two copies shouted "Tri-Form Technique" and charged in different directions to attack three different ones. This did him some good for a while.
On the ground it appeared the Bow was powering up an awesome attack because the air around him was turning the colors of dark red to black and dark energy simmered off of him. His eyes were turning red and everything with in a 10 ft diameter around him was wilting into dust. Finally he shouted "FLAMING RED EYED DRAGON!" and red lightening crackled around him before he thrust his fist forward and a long snake like form erupted in a burst of flames the energy blast was so big that it could engulf Mt. Everest, it formed a red dragon which breathed fire in all directions, anything and everything that it touched was reduced to dust, anything living was immediately reduced to a mummified rotting corps. This awesome attack killed up to 20 Obetijins leaving an icky stench in its wake.
Toma was doing just as good as a job shooting a barrage of energy blast in all directions, once each blast hit the ground a 20 ft tall explosion was erupt each time. He has so far killed off 25 of them and it wasn't even that hard.
Pine was failing miserably in the sky while his companions were doing wonderfully glorious on the ground. He mentally cursed himself for not have the ability to become a Super Saiya-jin. Because this would be a whole lot more easily if he could. He doubled over in pain then he screamed out in agony as he was hit in his bad arm. There was a loud pop and the bone broke completely. Then he found himself at the mercy of a huge black red-eyed reptile. It was a female and the leader of the army, he watched in horror as she slammed him into a cliff headfirst. Then after his last fall and was now being held by the throat, he realized what he has to do, the only thing he has left is to bring out that hidden technique of his and he could barely have enough energy to do that.
He chuckled weakly at his captive before he closed his eyes and began to pull the remaining bits of his energy out around him, dark energy surrounded his form and swirled into a deadly poison the melts anything that it touches, The queen let him go as soon as the deadly aura touched her black skin. He landed on his knees but managed to stay upright.
Toma and Bow felt Pine's energy and their eyes widened in horror. "Masaka! He isn't going to do what I think he is doing!" Bow yelped as he felt all of Pine chi shoot through the roof. Leaving the boy's body.
A large black ball of energy formed above Pine, it looked like the spirit bomb only made from dark energy, the middle of it was a white gray color while the outer part was a black color. It sturdily grew larger and larger while feeding off of Pine's chi. Pine skin was turning very pale as his life energy was leaving him. There was a flash of light above, which signaled that it was time. "G-good bye my friends. w-we shall meet again in the afterlife. he whispered while knowing that they could barely hear him. Then he let out a piercing scream, as the heavens grew dark and shallow. Then he let loose what was left of his being into the black bomb in the air as an black energy blast shot up into the air at the ball of dark energy then with a shout. "DEATH STAR BLAST!" that last cry was his last breath as his body vanished in a mighty explosion, which was so big you could see it miles above the planet's atmosphere.
"NNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOO! PPPPIIIINNNNEEE NNNNNNOOOOOOO!"
This doesn't look too good; did Pine Cone just take his final breath? And what is Goten doing? He is still searching for a way out of that cave. Will Bow or Toma ever forgive him for not being there for their friend? Find out in the next chapter; Giant Explosion of Anger!