Chapter 7:

Everyone was still observing Jered's features. It was unbelievably hot here, which would make it harder to fight. There was a lake nearby that had completely white waters. The water glistened in the light of the setting red sun. The gang flew up again and saw mountains in the distance as well as the fallen palace. The jungle they were in ended about fifty feet to the west. They could see a very small forest of black trees far away. They observed everything around them. There seemed to be no life around so far.

"Well, now that we're here... what do we do now?" asked Trunks.

"We should try and find Bulla and the others. They must be here some place." Goku said as he closed his eyes and tried to sense the others' powers. Then he sensed something behind him. He turned around and began to feel an enormous power. It was definitely not Bulla's power or any of the others. Goku opened his eyes and saw a light coming at the group. When it came closer it turned to be Smoke... or it looked like Smoke. Something was different about him. He looked like Smoke, his outfit and hair were red but his wings were regular white and not red.

"Who are you?" asked Vegeta.

"I am one of Lord Motaro's servants." The person said.

"You're definitely weaker than Smoke." Umbra said as he prepared for battle.

"I am not here to fight rather to welcome you. We did not think you would come actually. Lord Motaro awaits you at his castle on the other side of this planet. I think you will find it much harder to get there as it was to get here." The servant said as he disappeared.

"What was that supposed to..." Goku was interrupted because he fell to the ground. As a matter of face they all fell to the ground. They all got up and rubbed their aching heads.

"Ow, that really hurt." Goku complained. The others tried to fly again but they could not.

"What gives?" asked Goten. As if to answer his question the moon of Jered came out and emitted a green light. Everyone grew weak when the light touched them. They started to feel like... regular humans. They all started to fire ki blasts but they could not. They tried to pick up huge boulders but they could not.

"What's wrong with us?" asked Goku.

"It is that moon. It must be giving off some sort of weakening glow. It has made us regular people with no extra strength, agility or anything. The good thing is that this will only happen in the night for in the day the moon goes away." Umbra said.

"Well, that's good but what if it stays night time for a longer time on this planet." Trunks said.

"Then we will have a great problem on our hands." Vegeta said.

"We should stay in the ship for t he time being... at least until it becomes day again." Goten said.

"No, we must begin our way to the castle." Umbra said.

"But we have no method of defense." Goten said.

"This is true but I'm sure we'll be alright. Aren't we the greatest race in the universe?" Umbra said.

"I agree, we should go now." Vegeta said.

"Hey you guys, why don't we just take the ship to the other side of the planet?" Goku asked as he turned to look at the ship.

"AHHH" Goku exclaimed at what he saw. A giant snaked had wrapped its body around the ship and crushed it.

"Hey you, we need that!" Pan yelled. The snake hissed at them showing its poisonous fangs.

"Hey you get out of here. FINAL FLASH" Vegeta yelled. Sadly he forgot how powerless he was. He stood there in firing position with a big grin on his face waiting for his attack to fire. When it didn't Vegeta remembered that he had no power. The snake prepared to attack.

"Run" Trunks yelled. Goku tried to fly away but he fell to the ground. He got up and ran as fast as he could. Pan picked up a rock and through at the snake's eyes giving them a few more seconds to run. When they were far away enough from the snake they all started panting.

"I can't believe this is happening to us." Vegeta said angrily.

"I know what you mean Vegeta. ALL THE FOOD WAS ON THE SHIP" Goku screamed. Pan gave him a good smack in the head.

"Grandpa this is serious." She said.

"Hey look you guys, a cave. Maybe we can stay there until morning." Goten said.

"Good idea Goten." Trunks said. The gang went inside the cave to inspect it. It looked like any cave on earth but it seemed to go on for miles. When they were deep in the cave there was no more light.

"Hey guys, where'd you go?" asked Goku.

"Over here grandpa." Pan said from a far distance. Goku ran forward and to his surprise he ran into Pan in less than a second.

"Huh? How did I go so fast?" Goku asked himself.

"GRANDPA GET OFF OF ME" Pan said in a rage. One she started yelling the cave shook. Trunks finally realized what was happening. He let out a yell and as he suspected the golden aura surrounded him as he went super saiyan and illuminated the cave. Vegeta and the others turned around once they saw the light.

"How did you do..." Goku was cut off as the rest of the gang also went super saiyan to illuminate the rest of the cave.

"How come now we have our powers back." Asked Goten.

"... Because we're not in the light off that moon" Trunks concluded.

"So you mean wherever the light cannot touch us we get our powers back?" Vegeta asked. Trunks nodded.

"Just to be sure..." Trunks blasted the top of the cave and the moons light came in. Once they were in the path of the light their powers disappeared and they went normal.

"Now step back away from hole in the roof" Trunks said as he backed away until the light didn't touch him. Trunks was right. It was the light that weakened them.

"Why don't we just destroy the moon?" asked Vegeta.

"Excellent idea." Umbra said as he moved around the cave until he felt he was directly under the moon.

"EMERALD SKY BALL" Umbra yelled. The greenish energy completely destroyed the cave as it made it's way to the moon. However once it left Jered's atmosphere and entered space it got smaller and smaller until it became nothing. Everyone was stunned.

"Now what went wrong?" asked Pan.

"It must have been when the blast exited the atmosphere. I guess there was some sort of barrier surrounding the moon." Trunks said.

"This is ridiculous." Vegeta yelled. Suddenly there was a rustle in the bushes. Everyone turned and saw the bush there normally. Then there was another rustle behind them. A circle of mini-dragons surrounded them. There were ten of them. They were each sapphire in color and were about the size of a human only fatter. On their backs were majestic wings that were lighter than their bodies. Diamonds coated the border of the wings.

"Perfect just perfect." Umbra said. The dragons roared and then opened their mouths to show razor sharp teeth. The gang assumed the dragons were hungry. Five dragons flew into the air while the other five charged the gang.

"Alright guys its time to... RUN" yelled Goku as he turned and ran. The dragons were much quicker so they surrounded them. The five o n the ground walked closer and closer to the group of saiyans.

Bulla awoke in the same cell where she had fallen asleep. She found that the green light in the cell was off but the see-through roof showed the moon's glow that gave off the same glow as the lights. Bulla sat up and thought of what she should do. She didn't know where she was, she didn't know where the others were, and she didn't know how to escape the cell. Then the answer came to her... literally. A guard came and unlocked the cage to give her some scraps of food. When the guard turned around Bulla took the key from the guard's pocket. To her delight the guard didn't notice her. When the guard left she unlocked the cell and slowly tried to find her way out of where ever she was. It seemed she was somewhere in a dungeon. She walked down a hallway and found empty cells. She was about to turn a corner when she heard some footsteps. She peeked around the corner and saw a man-eating dog-like creature. There was a guard hitting it with a whip. When she saw the dog-like creature she would have screamed but someone's hands covered her mouth and pulled her back. She turned and saw it was Lumis.

"Lumis" she whispered.

"Shh" Lumis waited until the creature and the guard left.

"How did you find me?"

"I have my rescources."

"Well how do we get out of here?"

"Through there" Lumis pointed back down the hallway where there was a wall.

"But there isn't a passage or anything" Lumis and Bulla walked to the wall. Lumis pushed one of the blocks and the rest of the blocks separated revealing the outside.

"How did you find this?"

"I saw a guard enter through here." Lumis and Bulla walked about a mile away from the dungeon to be safe.

"How come I can't use my powers?"

"I can't use mine either. None of us can. The moon of this planet some how makes us normal." Little did the two saiyans know, Trunks and the others were having a bad battle against some dragons.

The others were fighting off the dragons very badly. Most of them were bitten and bloody.

"How do we kill these things?" asked Vegeta.

"I don't think we can kill them without our powers." Goten said.

"Don't say that. If we put our minds to it we can do anything." Goku said.

"Shut-up Kakarot" Vegeta said as he barely dodged a dragon's claw. The dragons now fired fireballs at the saiyans. They didn't have the speed to get out of the way so they were all hit and burned badly.

Suddenly a loader roar echoed through the air and the dragons flew away immediately.

"What was that?" asked Pan.

"I guess the head dragon called them back... but why?" asked Trunks.

"The important thing is that we escaped those accursed dragons" Vegeta said. The gang continued their journey, which was going really slowly.

A few hours later it was getting brighter which meant the sun was coming up soon. The gang just collapsed from exhaustion. They weren't used to walking so much. For them flying was much more efficient not to mention faster.

Since none of them could muster enough strength to get up they all just lied there. They were so exhausted that they all fell asleep right there in the middle of the jungle. When they awoke they were tied to a rope above a pool of lava. On the right of them were what looked like tigers but they were standing on two legs like a human. They had armor and axes in their hands. Goku smelt something good. He looked down and found it was he. The tigers wee lowering them into a pool of lava to cook them.

"I never knew I would smell so good." Goku said as he and his companions' legs sunk further into the lava. Goku wondered why he wasn't dead yet. If Chi-chi were lowered into lava the minute it touched her legs she would have cried in pain but Goku didn't complain at all. Now he was shoulder deep in lava and he wasn't even in much pain. Sure it burned a bit but he was a saiyan. Then the answer came to him as a ray of light hit his eyes. He looked and saw the red sun of Jered. It was now daytime.

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