Chapter 4

Nappa launched himself at me, and I knew what he was going to do next; kill me. So I quickly turned around and grabbed Claire, and brought two fingers to my forehead. I teleported us out of there as quickly as possible. We reappeared in front of Claire's house.

"Go inside in case he follows me!" I yelled at her, and brought my fingers back to my forehead.

"James, what are you going to do?" Claire screamed, to afraid to move.

"I'm going to give him what he wants." I said. I was about to teleport back to him, but his ki was disrupted for a split second. Then he appeared in front of me, laughing.

"So, you've figured out the Instant Transmission technique. Hahaha!" Nappa laughed, holding his stomach. "Remember, you can't hide from the scouter." Nappa proclaimed, pointing at the object covering his eye. "I think I've changed my mind about destroying you." He said quite suddenly.

"Oh?" I said, not quite believing him.

"I think I'll wait. You have great power. But you're afraid. I'll give you one week to deal with your fear. One week sayjin. When one week is up, I'll come to you. Then you will die." Nappa said, laughing. He brought two fingers to his forehead and disappeared. "One week." He said.

"I've got 7 days to be ready to fight that behemoth?" I wondered aloud.

"James. What are we going to do?" Claire asked me, still afraid to move.

"We are going to do nothing. I am going to rest this week, and be ready for next Saturday." I said.

"James. You can't be serious about fighting that monster. He must be 10 feet tall!"

"I don't have a choice. With that scouter he can find me anywhere, and teleport there instantly." I said.

"Yes, but…"

"But what Claire?"

"He might kill you. I don't want you to die." Claire stated after a short pause. I nodded. I knew what she meant. I wouldn't be able to stand and watch a good friend die. "So you're going to try and get away?" Claire desperately asked me.

"No." I said and teleported away before she could say anything. One week. What can I do to get ready in a week? Sit ups? I didn't know how to increase my power. I guess I would just have to push my limits, see how much power I had available. No, that would just alert Nappa's scouter. I would have to hope that I had the power. Yes, place my faith in hope. That's what I would have to do.

I woke up the next morning, afraid. I could sense Nappa's power signature. 6 days until he would try to kill me. I was shaking, nervous. I looked at my clock. No, I didn't have time for this; I had work. I got ready and left.

At work people noticed that I seemed distracted. Yeah, distracted was the perfect word for it. I decided to walk home. I didn't want to fly for fear of Nappa deciding to cut my week short. So walking was the obvious choice. To walk home I had to go through a slightly bad neighborhood. 4 punks surrounded me. I breathed a sigh of relief. I need to release some tension on someone, and these guys were asking for it. Good.

"Hey, little boy, hand over the wallet." One punk with a knife said.

"Make me." I said.

"Alright…" Another to my right said. He jumped at me with a baseball bat. I let him hit me with the bat. It broke off on my right shoulder.

"What the hell are you?" One of the asked.

"Your worst nightmare." I said with a smirk. They turned to run, but I grabbed the punk with the bat quickly. "You're a fool." I said, and tapped him on the side of the head with two fingers. Then I watched the other 3 running away. Laughing aloud, I phased out, and phased back in in front of them. They stopped short, screaming. I laughed and grabbed two of the punks and threw them to where their friend was lying. They landed hard, but not hard enough to kill them. One of them was still conscious. That left just the punk with the knife. He was stupid enough to try and stab me! I blocked the knife with my bare hand.

"What are you?" He asked again.

"Like I said: Your worst nightmare." I broke the knife, and drove my fist into his gut, knocking the wind out of him. Laughing, I continued on my walk home. Those punks ran away in separate directions, afraid I'd follow them. I laughed aloud, knowing that they should be afraid.

I checked my phone and saw that it had a missed call. I checked it, and noticed it was Claire. I called her back.

"James? Are you alright?" She asked in a desperate voice.

"Yes. I'm fine."

"Why didn't you answer me?"

"I had to work; you know I can't answer the phone when I'm working."

"Oh yeah…I forgot about that."

"What did you call me about?"

"That you can't fight that guy."

"Claire, I have no choice; either I fight him, or I stand there and let him kill me."

"No. You don't have to. Talk to him."

"Claire, talking works on calming people down. It doesn't stop psychos from doing psychotic things." I said. Then I sensed Nappa moving. What? I looked overhead and watched his aura pass overhead. It intersected with a plane, and the plane exploded soon afterwards. Nappa's aura continued to fly away. I could swear I heard his laughing. I quickly hung up on Claire, and leapt into the sky. I flew quickly, and saw that people were falling, with no parachutes. I grabbed them, and dropped them safely onto the street before returning to the falling plane. I grabbed the wreckage, and slowed the fall. That plane was heavy! I placed the wreckage in the construction site; I had managed to change the direction of the fall. As soon as I landed, I picked up my phone that was vibrating like crazy.

"Why'd you hand up on me?"

"I had to catch a passenger plane and the passengers. Sorry."

"What? What happened?"

"Nappa blew up a plane. Now I have to go stop him from doing something else." I said and hung up on her again. I brought my two fingers to my forehead, and appeared right in front of Nappa.

"What are you doing here sayjin? I said one week." Nappa angrily shouted at me.

"One week till you try and kill me. How about you do me another favor: don't kill anyone or anything on this planet while you're waiting. You kill me, and then you can do what you want with this planet." I said.

"You want me to sit alone and do nothing for 6 days?" Nappa asked me like I'd told him that the Earth was flat.

"Yes."

"Fine. When I destroy you, then I'll kill everyone. Starting with that pretty little red-head." Nappa said, licking his lips.

"You kill me, and you do whatever you like." I said with confidence. I used the instant transmission technique to get home, and stood on the porch shaking with fear. I'd just made a deal with the devil. If I died, so would the world. If I succeeded, it would mean killing the last member of my own race. Not that I'd known I was a sayjin. As far as I was concerned, I was purely human. "You will not beat me Nappa! You have never faced someone like me before! The power of a sayjin, and the determination of a human!" I yelled into the sky…