Disclaimer: I do not own DBZ or the characters, Jade and other made-up
characters are mine though.
Chapter 7: SECRETS REVEALED
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Raditz flinched by the sight of the pure white lunar image, his hand released it's grip around Goku's throat; an intense shudder ran over his spine and his saiyan blood pumped hard throughout his veins as he started growing rapidly and a dark fur covered his pale skin.
His furry tail lashed furiously behind him and the fully transformed Ouzaru landed firmly on the ground on the ground, threw his head back in his neck and broke loose in a long, terrifying howl to the sky.
His howl was replied by a deep, challenging roar.
Raditz looked down to see a treat he hasn't seen in a long while, one of his own kin, transformed as well and more than ready for the fight. Raditz smirked in a very sharp-teethed grin.
Never letting a challenge unanswered, the two Saiyans launched themselves at each other again. Punches and kicks were exchanged one more, but shifted in slashing claws and bites with razor-sharp fangs. The ferocious fight intensified by the passing second.
"This.... this is just horrible!!!..." Jade screamed out. "Now we don't have just one, but even two of those vicious monsters!!!!" Oolong exclaimed.
The group, consisting of Bulma, Jade, Yamcha, Krillin, Oolong, Puar and Jackie Chun, had gathered quickly outside the tournament building. "You mean this happened before!!???" said Jade. Bulma quickly nodded.
"GOKU!!!! STOP IT!!!!!!!!!!! You're hurting people!!!! You can change back now!!!" screamed Krillin, but to no avail. Yamcha had to hold him to prevent him to jump onto the arena. "That won't help, Krillin!" he said "They have looked to the full moon and now they aren't their selves anymore!"
"The moon, huh...." murmured Roshi softly. He jumped onto what was still left of the arena, threw aside his black shirt and start to gather his power. The others stared at him wondering what he was doing. "Hey.... now that's strange..." muttered Bulma suddenly. "What, apart from that we're about to be crushed by to almost perfect copies of King Kong, but just even worse!!!!??????" yelled Oolong. "Shut up, pig!" Bulma smacked him over the head. "OUCH!"
"What I meant is... look at Raditz; he's still wearing his clothes!" "Yeah... as if they just have grown with him....." said Jade. "And believe me, there's no such material on Earth that can do that."
Roshi just had finished powering up to his fullest and began to create his attack. "KA........ ME........" "He's gonna do the Kamehameha!!!" yelled Yamcha, "He's gonna blow them up!!!!"
"HA...... ME....."
Raditz saw something flash in the corner of his eye. He turned to see Roshi scream: "HAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!" and firing his deadly attack. The eyes of both Ouzarus, and practically everyone else, widened as they flinched, while the massive ki blast created a huge flash.
When the white light finally faded, everyone looked up ... and saw that both monsters had disappeared.
Krillin immediately jumped onto the arena and ran to the old man, eyes starting to fill with tears. "You murderer!!!! You killed them!!! You didn't have the right to...." Roshi grabbed Krillin by his shoulders and the boy stopped screaming.
"I didn't destroy them..." he said while he looked up. 3veryone followed his gaze. ".... but the moon." People's jaw fell open seeing that there indeed was no moon anymore. A soft groan made them return their attention to the arena.
Raditz stood up, rubbing his head and feeling rather groggy. He had got a lot of the brick wall of the tournament building fallen on his head Goku had had more luck and lay snoring a few meters from him.
"What the hell happened.... why did I transform back...." snarled Raditz and looked up to see on his turn that the white sphere in the night sky had disappeared. He blinked a few times and looked to Roshi.
"You did THAT, old man!?" He nodded. 'Then he's stronger than I thought...." thought Raditz.
"YAWN!!! .... Hey.... what happened...." Goku sat up. "You don't know?" asked Krillin. "Know what?" answered Goku. ".... Never mind..." said the bald fighter.
"Errr, I'm sorry to interrupt your conversation, but the fight must go on!" said the announcer, "... and could you put some clothes on, you can't fight naked, now can you?"
"WHA!!!????" Goku yelled jumping up, "WHERE DID MY CLOTHES GO!!!?????" "He really doesn't know...." muttered Raditz.
So Krillin lend Goku his kimono, and he put back on his usual clothes.
"LADIES & GENTLEMEN, THE FIGHT OF THE YEAR CONTINUES!!!! WHO WILL BECOME OUR NEW CHAMPION!!!???"
So the two Saiyans faced each other once again.
"It was a nice fight, but it's time to end this, little brother....." Goku gasped "What did you call me?..." Raditz smirked and used to opportunity to run forward and hit his opponent square in the chest with a flying kick.
Goku flew back by the hit, came to a painful halt against the wall between the arena and the crowd, slid down and... hit the ground.
Silence for a few seconds... and the crowd broke loose in a loud cheer.
"RADDITZ WON THE MATCH AND IS THE NEW WORLD CHAMPION!!!!!!" The announcer screamed through his mic. "Both fighters fought amazingly but one has to win! Congratulations!!!!"
The announcer handed Raditz the prize money. "Thanks..." He continued speaking to the crowd, information about the next tournament and that sort of stuff, while Raditz walked off to where Bulma, Yamcha and the others had gathered around Goku.
"You were fantastic, Goku! You almost won!" said Krillin, patting his friend on the back. "Maybe after some serious training..." All turned around to the dark voice and looked into the face of Raditz.
"Well, kid, there's no escape now!" spoke Bulma quickly, "So start explaining!" Raditz laughed at the girl's remark, but looked then to Goku.
"Say, Kakarr... er, I mean Goku, aren't you hungry?" Goku jumped yelling "Never been more in my life!!!!" almost drooling... actually, he was drooling.
Raditz grinned "Thought so... well, let's put this money to a good use and I'll invite you people for a dinner. We'll talk then." Everyone cheered in agreement.
"I know a good place where there's lots of good food and they're not so expansive..." The group turned to see Roshi, who suddenly had appeared by them, after taking off his disguise, of course.
"Hey, master! Have you seen our fights!?" "Of course, Krillin, and I'm very proud of you both." He looked then to Raditz. "Boy, you're an amazing fighter with great power... who has trained you like that?"
"My father has...." "I see... who is your father then? I would actually almost say your strength is not human..." "I thought I said we were gonna talk at dinner...." said Raditz with a soft, irritated growl.
"Am I invited too?" asked Roshi. "Err.... yeah, sure..." answered Raditz. "Come on then!!! Let's go!"
A few minutes later, they were walking down the road towards the restaurant Roshi had recommended. Goku walked next to Raditz, their tails swaying almost simultaneously from side to side, and looked up to him.
'A brown, furry tail, exactly as mine...' thought Goku, 'and black, spiky hair, standing in every direction... only much longer then... and why does his scent seem so awfully familiar..."
Goku didn't know why, but the scent some way or another remember him of his earliest childhood, even if he couldn't remember anything of it but a few short flashes.
Raditz noticed Goku's gaze and looked back at him. 'And those deep ebony eyes...' Goku's thoughts were interrupted when Raditz suddenly spoke.
"I suppose you are very curious about who you really are and where you are from..." Goku nodded. "My parents left me behind when I was very young, and my grandfather found me and took care of me... I've never know anything of my parents or anyone of my family.
We've travelled far and so... but never saw anyone like me..." Goku looked in front of him again, looking to nothing in particular and there was a sad tone in his normally cheery voice.
"I was always different from the rest... my looks, my strength, ... and then suddenly, you pop up. You look a lot like me, very much even, and prove to be even stronger.. Raditz, how could you be not related to me in one way or another..."
"Hm... so you don't remember anything at all...." "Remember WHAT!? Please, Raditz, tell me!!!" Goku had strengthened his voice and it sounded a tad desperate.
"You seem to have looking out a long time to the moment that you would finally know your past." "Who wouldn't?" "At the moment, Goku... I wish I didn't.." Goku stared at the mysterious older kid. "Wha ... what do you mean?" Raditz didn't answer however, and they entered the restaurant silently.
"Aaaaaaahhh... that was good! MORE!" beamed Goku. The others at the table looked sweat-dropping to the kid, except for Raditz, who seemed to find this unusual in the least, he himself was eating like a starved wolf.
"I'm sorry, sir..." said the waiter swallowing, "but all our food is used up..."
"Bah...." said Goku disappointed, "oh well, it's not that bad, I'm on a diet anyways!" Everyone fell back anime-like.
"So Raditz... we had dinner, and now you're gonna talk!" said Bulma a few minutes later. They were all sitting back relaxing in their chairs at the table. Most other people were leaving the restaurant, because it was getting late and all the food was gone anyways. Soon, they were alone in the restaurant (except for the waiter and the other restaurant people).
"Come on, Raditz, tell us. Who are you now exactly?" asked Jade. Raditz looked to Goku, leaning back in his chair while his tail rocked lazily back and forth behind him.
"Well.... first, your name isn't Goku. It's Kakarotto." "Kakarotto????" Raditz nodded. "Anyways, you were given this name by your birth." Something glittered in Goku's eyes and his voice sounded even more cheery as he impatiently said: "You already knew me from my birth?? You were there then????"
"Not at the moment of your birth.... but a few days later, yeah." "Then you must know my parents!!! How are they? And what have you to..." "Wow, calm down, kid! And YES, I know your parents... have known at least. And I suppose that's your next question, I know them because they're my parents as well. Goku.. I'm your big brother, Raditz." Everyone's jaw fell open and they stared at Raditz.
"Bro... Brother??? ... BROTHER!!!" Goku's eyes filled with tears of luck as he pounced onto Raditz, his chair fell back so they both fell and rolled over the ground. Goku hugged Raditz and they couldn't stop laughing. The others watched, mostly grinning like fools.
A few minutes later, Goku and his new-found brother sat up again. Goku still looked like it was the happiest day of his young life and Raditz looked serious again.
Bulma spoke finally "You aren't done explaining yet, Raditz." "Yeah!" said Goku " I still have loads of questions! Where are we from, who were my parents, how where they like?? And ... why did they abandon me?.. I wasn't good enough for them!!???" The sad tone had reappeared in Goku's voice.
"No, that's not it... First of all, .. maybe you could have guessed, but... Goku and I aren't human."
Jaws fell open for the I-don't-know-how-many time. Raditz couldn't help but chuckle at seeing their reaction. "You now REALLY mean that you aren't human!?" said Jade amazed.
Raditz nodded. "Yep. We're Saiya-jins, Saiyans. We do look a lot like you, but there are big differences... tail of course, strength, the full-moon transformation,..." "Full moon transformation?" asked Goku.
Raditz nodded again. "At the look of the full moon, a Saiyan transforms into a gigantic creature called Ouzaru..." Goku blinked while his friends swallowed nervously.
"According to a legend, Saiyans have even more transformations, but that have nothing to do with the moon;" Raditz continued, "But more with the strength or the 'powerlevel' of that Saiyan. Or some incarnation thingy... Once every thousand years, a Super Saiyan would arise with powers beyond any imagination.
For as far as I heard, there was only one Saiyan who ever accomplished this level, but his strength was too great to control, so he blew up the planet he was on, destroying himself with it.
The thing is... is it just a legend or not..." "You speak of your saiyan race.... How come I never heard of it? So gigantic is Earth not really..." said Bulma.
"That's because we aren't from Earth. We're from outer space, born to the planet Vegeta-sei." Another gasp (A/N: well, wouldn't you be surprised when your best friend suddenly is an alien from outer space?)
Chapter 7: SECRETS REVEALED
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Raditz flinched by the sight of the pure white lunar image, his hand released it's grip around Goku's throat; an intense shudder ran over his spine and his saiyan blood pumped hard throughout his veins as he started growing rapidly and a dark fur covered his pale skin.
His furry tail lashed furiously behind him and the fully transformed Ouzaru landed firmly on the ground on the ground, threw his head back in his neck and broke loose in a long, terrifying howl to the sky.
His howl was replied by a deep, challenging roar.
Raditz looked down to see a treat he hasn't seen in a long while, one of his own kin, transformed as well and more than ready for the fight. Raditz smirked in a very sharp-teethed grin.
Never letting a challenge unanswered, the two Saiyans launched themselves at each other again. Punches and kicks were exchanged one more, but shifted in slashing claws and bites with razor-sharp fangs. The ferocious fight intensified by the passing second.
"This.... this is just horrible!!!..." Jade screamed out. "Now we don't have just one, but even two of those vicious monsters!!!!" Oolong exclaimed.
The group, consisting of Bulma, Jade, Yamcha, Krillin, Oolong, Puar and Jackie Chun, had gathered quickly outside the tournament building. "You mean this happened before!!???" said Jade. Bulma quickly nodded.
"GOKU!!!! STOP IT!!!!!!!!!!! You're hurting people!!!! You can change back now!!!" screamed Krillin, but to no avail. Yamcha had to hold him to prevent him to jump onto the arena. "That won't help, Krillin!" he said "They have looked to the full moon and now they aren't their selves anymore!"
"The moon, huh...." murmured Roshi softly. He jumped onto what was still left of the arena, threw aside his black shirt and start to gather his power. The others stared at him wondering what he was doing. "Hey.... now that's strange..." muttered Bulma suddenly. "What, apart from that we're about to be crushed by to almost perfect copies of King Kong, but just even worse!!!!??????" yelled Oolong. "Shut up, pig!" Bulma smacked him over the head. "OUCH!"
"What I meant is... look at Raditz; he's still wearing his clothes!" "Yeah... as if they just have grown with him....." said Jade. "And believe me, there's no such material on Earth that can do that."
Roshi just had finished powering up to his fullest and began to create his attack. "KA........ ME........" "He's gonna do the Kamehameha!!!" yelled Yamcha, "He's gonna blow them up!!!!"
"HA...... ME....."
Raditz saw something flash in the corner of his eye. He turned to see Roshi scream: "HAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!" and firing his deadly attack. The eyes of both Ouzarus, and practically everyone else, widened as they flinched, while the massive ki blast created a huge flash.
When the white light finally faded, everyone looked up ... and saw that both monsters had disappeared.
Krillin immediately jumped onto the arena and ran to the old man, eyes starting to fill with tears. "You murderer!!!! You killed them!!! You didn't have the right to...." Roshi grabbed Krillin by his shoulders and the boy stopped screaming.
"I didn't destroy them..." he said while he looked up. 3veryone followed his gaze. ".... but the moon." People's jaw fell open seeing that there indeed was no moon anymore. A soft groan made them return their attention to the arena.
Raditz stood up, rubbing his head and feeling rather groggy. He had got a lot of the brick wall of the tournament building fallen on his head Goku had had more luck and lay snoring a few meters from him.
"What the hell happened.... why did I transform back...." snarled Raditz and looked up to see on his turn that the white sphere in the night sky had disappeared. He blinked a few times and looked to Roshi.
"You did THAT, old man!?" He nodded. 'Then he's stronger than I thought...." thought Raditz.
"YAWN!!! .... Hey.... what happened...." Goku sat up. "You don't know?" asked Krillin. "Know what?" answered Goku. ".... Never mind..." said the bald fighter.
"Errr, I'm sorry to interrupt your conversation, but the fight must go on!" said the announcer, "... and could you put some clothes on, you can't fight naked, now can you?"
"WHA!!!????" Goku yelled jumping up, "WHERE DID MY CLOTHES GO!!!?????" "He really doesn't know...." muttered Raditz.
So Krillin lend Goku his kimono, and he put back on his usual clothes.
"LADIES & GENTLEMEN, THE FIGHT OF THE YEAR CONTINUES!!!! WHO WILL BECOME OUR NEW CHAMPION!!!???"
So the two Saiyans faced each other once again.
"It was a nice fight, but it's time to end this, little brother....." Goku gasped "What did you call me?..." Raditz smirked and used to opportunity to run forward and hit his opponent square in the chest with a flying kick.
Goku flew back by the hit, came to a painful halt against the wall between the arena and the crowd, slid down and... hit the ground.
Silence for a few seconds... and the crowd broke loose in a loud cheer.
"RADDITZ WON THE MATCH AND IS THE NEW WORLD CHAMPION!!!!!!" The announcer screamed through his mic. "Both fighters fought amazingly but one has to win! Congratulations!!!!"
The announcer handed Raditz the prize money. "Thanks..." He continued speaking to the crowd, information about the next tournament and that sort of stuff, while Raditz walked off to where Bulma, Yamcha and the others had gathered around Goku.
"You were fantastic, Goku! You almost won!" said Krillin, patting his friend on the back. "Maybe after some serious training..." All turned around to the dark voice and looked into the face of Raditz.
"Well, kid, there's no escape now!" spoke Bulma quickly, "So start explaining!" Raditz laughed at the girl's remark, but looked then to Goku.
"Say, Kakarr... er, I mean Goku, aren't you hungry?" Goku jumped yelling "Never been more in my life!!!!" almost drooling... actually, he was drooling.
Raditz grinned "Thought so... well, let's put this money to a good use and I'll invite you people for a dinner. We'll talk then." Everyone cheered in agreement.
"I know a good place where there's lots of good food and they're not so expansive..." The group turned to see Roshi, who suddenly had appeared by them, after taking off his disguise, of course.
"Hey, master! Have you seen our fights!?" "Of course, Krillin, and I'm very proud of you both." He looked then to Raditz. "Boy, you're an amazing fighter with great power... who has trained you like that?"
"My father has...." "I see... who is your father then? I would actually almost say your strength is not human..." "I thought I said we were gonna talk at dinner...." said Raditz with a soft, irritated growl.
"Am I invited too?" asked Roshi. "Err.... yeah, sure..." answered Raditz. "Come on then!!! Let's go!"
A few minutes later, they were walking down the road towards the restaurant Roshi had recommended. Goku walked next to Raditz, their tails swaying almost simultaneously from side to side, and looked up to him.
'A brown, furry tail, exactly as mine...' thought Goku, 'and black, spiky hair, standing in every direction... only much longer then... and why does his scent seem so awfully familiar..."
Goku didn't know why, but the scent some way or another remember him of his earliest childhood, even if he couldn't remember anything of it but a few short flashes.
Raditz noticed Goku's gaze and looked back at him. 'And those deep ebony eyes...' Goku's thoughts were interrupted when Raditz suddenly spoke.
"I suppose you are very curious about who you really are and where you are from..." Goku nodded. "My parents left me behind when I was very young, and my grandfather found me and took care of me... I've never know anything of my parents or anyone of my family.
We've travelled far and so... but never saw anyone like me..." Goku looked in front of him again, looking to nothing in particular and there was a sad tone in his normally cheery voice.
"I was always different from the rest... my looks, my strength, ... and then suddenly, you pop up. You look a lot like me, very much even, and prove to be even stronger.. Raditz, how could you be not related to me in one way or another..."
"Hm... so you don't remember anything at all...." "Remember WHAT!? Please, Raditz, tell me!!!" Goku had strengthened his voice and it sounded a tad desperate.
"You seem to have looking out a long time to the moment that you would finally know your past." "Who wouldn't?" "At the moment, Goku... I wish I didn't.." Goku stared at the mysterious older kid. "Wha ... what do you mean?" Raditz didn't answer however, and they entered the restaurant silently.
"Aaaaaaahhh... that was good! MORE!" beamed Goku. The others at the table looked sweat-dropping to the kid, except for Raditz, who seemed to find this unusual in the least, he himself was eating like a starved wolf.
"I'm sorry, sir..." said the waiter swallowing, "but all our food is used up..."
"Bah...." said Goku disappointed, "oh well, it's not that bad, I'm on a diet anyways!" Everyone fell back anime-like.
"So Raditz... we had dinner, and now you're gonna talk!" said Bulma a few minutes later. They were all sitting back relaxing in their chairs at the table. Most other people were leaving the restaurant, because it was getting late and all the food was gone anyways. Soon, they were alone in the restaurant (except for the waiter and the other restaurant people).
"Come on, Raditz, tell us. Who are you now exactly?" asked Jade. Raditz looked to Goku, leaning back in his chair while his tail rocked lazily back and forth behind him.
"Well.... first, your name isn't Goku. It's Kakarotto." "Kakarotto????" Raditz nodded. "Anyways, you were given this name by your birth." Something glittered in Goku's eyes and his voice sounded even more cheery as he impatiently said: "You already knew me from my birth?? You were there then????"
"Not at the moment of your birth.... but a few days later, yeah." "Then you must know my parents!!! How are they? And what have you to..." "Wow, calm down, kid! And YES, I know your parents... have known at least. And I suppose that's your next question, I know them because they're my parents as well. Goku.. I'm your big brother, Raditz." Everyone's jaw fell open and they stared at Raditz.
"Bro... Brother??? ... BROTHER!!!" Goku's eyes filled with tears of luck as he pounced onto Raditz, his chair fell back so they both fell and rolled over the ground. Goku hugged Raditz and they couldn't stop laughing. The others watched, mostly grinning like fools.
A few minutes later, Goku and his new-found brother sat up again. Goku still looked like it was the happiest day of his young life and Raditz looked serious again.
Bulma spoke finally "You aren't done explaining yet, Raditz." "Yeah!" said Goku " I still have loads of questions! Where are we from, who were my parents, how where they like?? And ... why did they abandon me?.. I wasn't good enough for them!!???" The sad tone had reappeared in Goku's voice.
"No, that's not it... First of all, .. maybe you could have guessed, but... Goku and I aren't human."
Jaws fell open for the I-don't-know-how-many time. Raditz couldn't help but chuckle at seeing their reaction. "You now REALLY mean that you aren't human!?" said Jade amazed.
Raditz nodded. "Yep. We're Saiya-jins, Saiyans. We do look a lot like you, but there are big differences... tail of course, strength, the full-moon transformation,..." "Full moon transformation?" asked Goku.
Raditz nodded again. "At the look of the full moon, a Saiyan transforms into a gigantic creature called Ouzaru..." Goku blinked while his friends swallowed nervously.
"According to a legend, Saiyans have even more transformations, but that have nothing to do with the moon;" Raditz continued, "But more with the strength or the 'powerlevel' of that Saiyan. Or some incarnation thingy... Once every thousand years, a Super Saiyan would arise with powers beyond any imagination.
For as far as I heard, there was only one Saiyan who ever accomplished this level, but his strength was too great to control, so he blew up the planet he was on, destroying himself with it.
The thing is... is it just a legend or not..." "You speak of your saiyan race.... How come I never heard of it? So gigantic is Earth not really..." said Bulma.
"That's because we aren't from Earth. We're from outer space, born to the planet Vegeta-sei." Another gasp (A/N: well, wouldn't you be surprised when your best friend suddenly is an alien from outer space?)