Dragon Ball Neo: We're Getting Closer to Our Goal! Let's get Another Dragon
ball!

The young Sayajins sat on the ground silently for a moment, studying the dragon ball they had just acquired. A small golden sphere with four red stars on it, it was perfectly smooth.

Tree held the ball up in the air, studying it as a small child may study an odd animal they were encountering for the first time. "How can this teeny tiny thing have a dragon inside it?" Dante moved over next to Tree and joined him in studying the dragon ball. "Well," he said looking at Tree, "Master Roshi said there are seven of these things, so maybe a part of the dragon is in each ball?"

Koffi cleared his throat and kicked dirt at the other two sayajins. "C'mon," he said sounding impatient, "there are six other dragon balls out there and I don't want to spend a year gathering them all!"

Dante and Tree quickly jumped to their feet and Tree stuffed the dragon ball in a pocket on his gi. "Hey Koffi," Tree said, "Where's the closest dragon ball at now?" Koffi clicked the button on the dragon radar and studied the screen, making sure to ignore the yellow blip that represented the dragon ball in Tree's pocket. "It's pretty far away. We won't make it there even if we fly all night, so we're going to have to camp out somewhere." He looked at the other two; "I don't suppose either of you thought to ask Master Roshi for a tent did you?"

Dante looked down at his feet embarrassed, "I uh, heh heh, I knew I forgot to do something." Tree just looked confused, "What's a tent?"

The three sayajins powered up and began flying towards the closest dragon ball. They continued flying for about 6 hours before finally landing in a small open area near a stream. Utterly exhausted the three sat down to rest each of them feeling as if they could eat just about anything.

After resting for a bit Tree caught some fish from the stream and cooked them for himself and the others. After they had finished eating Tree fell asleep snoring loudly with a huge snot bubble moving in and out of his nose. Dante was sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed meditating and Koffi was practicing his fighting techniques.

After training for about three hours straight Koffi was covered in sweat and rather tired. "I have to keep training," he told himself. He tried to continue but found that he had sapped most of his strength away already. Koffi walked over to a nearby tree and sat down, his back propped up against the trunk. "I won't fall asleep, I'm just going to rest my eyes," he muttered but even as he spoke he was drifting off to sleep.

Koffi was dreaming again, he knew he was with the others, and some people he couldn't recognize, but when he tried to look around and see where he was it was too blurry to make out any details.

Koffi also realized that a battle was going on, and it was a powerful battle at that. Dante was nearby, but he was in a maroon colored outfit with a black vest, and black gloves. His hair was different as well no longer the wild jungle of black it had once been it was now cut short and only came a bit lower than his ears. He also appeared to have taken quite a beating his clothing was torn and he had a large bleeding gash on his forehead from which blood was running down into his eyes. One of his arms even looked as if it may be broken.

Suddenly Koffi heard a voice that sounded like Tree let out a horrible scream of pain. In what seemed to be an eternity Koffi turned towards the sound and saw that it had been Tree he had heard scream. Tree looked the same except the back of his Gi now had a new insignia on it. Koffi quickly lost interest in the insignia however when it dawned on his reeling mind why Tree had screamed in the first place.

A shadow of a figure was beating on Tree relentlessly, bombarding the sayajin with such a flurry of earth shattering punches that shock waves were sent out each time a hit connected. The figure suddenly stopped beating on Tree for a split second and muttered something that sounded like the word "inferior." However the figure was not done causing pain to the young hero, the shadow raised an elbow over Tree's head and in a motion so fast that it almost went unseen he brought it down on Tree's skull. The young sayajin went flying down to the ground with a scream and hit the ground so hard that he sank down into it leaving a crater. The force of the impact was so much that cracks were sent out in all directions, splitting the ground up into something that resembled a spider's web.

The shadowy figure then turned his attention to Koffi and panic flooded the sayajin's brain. "What the hell is wrong with me," Koffi muttered as he tried to move and realized that he couldn't. Then without a word the shadow began to gather KI into his hands. Panic stricken Koffi tried again and again to move but the efforts were in vain. The shadowy figure then placed both his hands out in front of himself and fired the blast at Koffi. The sayajin's eyes opened wide as he realized he would most certainly die, then with a pain in his chest and a loud scream of fear, Koffi awoke.