Chapter 28: souls embodiment

The cracked and dry earth sped past Bra as she flew as quickly as she could, grasping the headset firmly in her hands. She was surprised that Vegeta had gotten this far a head of her. It was almost like he had known that she was following him and decided to try and avoid her. Although, as he was hunting a dragon, that seemed very likely. She was his little princess after all.

Bra continued to speed along until she could finally make out a figure floating clearly above the ground with her father's ki radiating off of it. As the young princess got closer, she could see that it was Vegeta and he looked more annoyed then usual.

She came to a halt in front of him and Vegeta frowned down at her.

"What do you think you're doing out here? You're supposed to be back at Capsule Corp with the others." He said a little harsher then he intended. Bra just held out the headset.

"Delivering this. It won't do you any good if it stays on mum's desk, now will it?" Bra replied innocently. Vegeta shifted his gaze momentarily to the headset.

"I do not need that thing to find me my dragon. It will only hinder me." He replied. Bra smiled at her father craftily and waved the headset slightly in front of him.

"Really? So you're not just floating out here because you have no idea where to find it then? Or have you already found it and have the Dragonball in your back pocket?" she asked. Vegeta growled.

"Don't get smart with me." He snapped, and then took the headset anyway. He glared deeply at it before putting it on.

"Onna-"

"Oh, look who it is who decided that he did need help. Nice to hear from you Vegeta, or is this just another way of you telling us that you're still too full of pride to accept given help?" Bulma's voice interrupted him. Vegeta growled again.

"Listen Onna, I just-"

"I've been pretty worried you know! I didn't know if you ran into a dragon and gotten yourself killed or not! You could of at least humoured me and took the blasted thing – even if you weren't going to use it – rather then just leaving it on the trolley! You can be really inconsiderate sometimes!"

Vegeta's eye twitched as Bulma continued to ramble on, he really didn't have enough time for this.

"And another thing-"

"Bulma! I'm sorry! Now shut up!" he yelled with a bizarre mixture of a smirk and a frown on his face – a smirk for actually rendering the 'onna' speechless and a frown for having to apologise in the first place.

"Now Onna, be good and tell me where the blasted dragon is before I really get annoyed." He added more calmly. Bulma decided to let his brash behaviour slide as she was still in shock. It wasn't very often that Vegeta said sorry or called her by name, much less in the same sentence like that. The Old Vegeta would have simply of destroyed the headset to avoid it…

"Ok, The dragon is about 12 miles west of you're current location." She told him. Vegeta nodded and took off the headset and crushed it in his palm. He then turned west.

"You better go now." He told Bra and began to fly off. Bra followed him.

"Why? I can help out." She replied. Vegeta looked over his shoulder at her.

"No, you go home now. It will be too dangerous for me to have you on the field." He replied and sped up. Bra did the same.

"Aw, but dad! It won't be that bad! I am a super saiyan after all!"

"I said no! You're too in experienced and from what I've sensed from the others, the weakest of the dragons have been defeated. Your basic super saiyan form won't protect you. Go home." He snapped.

"Well how do you know super three will help you? We might be heading straight towards one of the big and scary powerful ones! A little extra help might make the difference!" she insisted.

"If it is one of the 'scary powerful', then it will be all the more reason for you to get out of here. You're too important to me and you'll only get in the way!" Vegeta snapped, making Bra stop dead in her tracks. Vegeta stopped as well and stared down at her.

"How exactly do you expect to help out anyway?" he asked heatedly. Bra sighed and looked down in defeat. That's when she noticed something out of the corner of her eye.

"I'll help be seeing stuff like that." She replied and pointed to what she had seen.

Behind Vegeta it looked as though something was tunnelling under the ground. And what ever it was, it must have been at least the size of a van. Vegeta turned to look at it and couldn't help lightly smirking. They had found his dragon.

"Bra, go home now!" Vegeta stated clearly before flying towards the dragon, ignoring his pouting teenage daughter.

The saiyan prince stopped above the tunnelling dragon and watched it closely. He raised his hand and created one small blast that hovered slightly above his open palm. Then, when the moment was right, Vegeta threw the blast at the tunnelling dragon and it exploded as soon as it had touched the ground. The tunnel caved in and a cloud of smoke and dust rose up. Vegeta watched it carefully and could just make out the outline of a creature coughing through it.

"Hey! What's the big idea?" a voice called out and as the dust and smoke settled, a creature the resembled a rodent came into view. It was a light purple in colour, with two black horns on top of its head. In the centre of its forehead was the blue, seven-star Dragonball.

Vegeta frowned down at the rodent like dragon.

"You are the dragon I'm supposed to defeat? What happened to green and scales?" he asked flatly and the dragon whirled round to glare at Vegeta.

"Hey! I bet it was you who hit me! What's wrong with you?" it yelled up at the saiyan.

"It's called a challenge. You have something I want so you can either cooperate or I can just kill you. Your choice." Vegeta replied and the dragon frowned.

"How about not? I don't fight. I prefer just going around and making earthquakes. If you want the Dragonball then you'll have a long wait." He replied and then turned to start digging again. Vegeta growled.

"Coward!" he yelled and the dragon turned back to face the prince.

"Hey! Naturon Shenron is not a coward! Naturon Shenron is actually really brave!" the dragon exclaimed.

"Well then stop talking in the third person and prove it!" Vegeta yelled before appearing directly in front of Naturon and kicking the dragon hard across the face. The dragon was completely shocked when it saw Vegeta's leg swinging towards him and it was a direct hit that sent Naturon flying and then skidding across the ground.

The dragon groaned loudly as it tried to get up, and then glared at the saiyan prince.

"Why you…" Naturon muttered before jumping to its feet and placing his hands flat on the ground. He powered up slightly before glaring at Vegeta.

"Take this!" he yelled before his energy pulsed. Vegeta was confused momentarily before he sensed something beneath him. The prince quickly sidestepped just as a beam of energy shot up from the earth's surface. Vegeta frowned at the close call and tilted his head towards Naturon.

"Interesting move you have there." He commented.

"Yea, well I'm not done yet!" Naturon replied and he began to send more blasts through the earth. Vegeta quickly sprang into action and jumped to the side as the first blast came up. The rest of the blasts followed him as he flew backwards, away from where he could sense the energy.

Naturon growled as he watched Vegeta dodge all of his attacks and focused on making one large blast. When it came out of the ground, it was the size of a city block and Vegeta had no time to try and dodge it like before as he was now in the centre of it.

Bra gasped as she watched her father be engulfed by the dark energy and Naturon laughed from his place on the ground. But as the light faded, the sight of super saiyan Vegeta floating casually above the ground greeted them both.

"My turn." Vegeta said calmly as a smirk spread across his face. He then spread his arms out in to his signature move.

"FINAL FLASH!" Vegeta yelled as he moved his arms in front of himself again and fired the blast. Naturon panicked as it sped towards him and raised his arms in a feeble attempt to block. Vegeta and Bra could only just make out Naturon's out line fade away as the blast hit him and when the blast dissipated, there was only the blue Dragonball left floating in place. It quickly fell to the floor and Bra flew over to her father.

"You did it! You defeated him!" she cheered. Vegeta stared at her with frowning teal eyes.

"I thought I told you to go." He said calmly. Bra shrugged.

"Come on dad, you know I wouldn't leave you alone out here. Besides, there's no real threat around when you're nearby to protect me." She said innocently and then turned to go and collect the ball. Vegeta smirked after her. She was definitely his daughter. But he was still uneasy. He could still sense the dragon's energy signature…

Bra picked up the Dragonball and looked over it curiously. It was still blue with a darker star and it was still cracked. She didn't understand it. From what she had heard from the headset, the other Dragonballs had all turned back to normal after the dragons were defeated.

She turned to her father and frowned up at him.

"Hey dad, something's not right here-"she started but was cut off when the Dragonball began to glow. At first she thought it was changing back but then she sensed Naturon's ki coming from the ball. She stared at it in confusion and then felt it sucking her in. she really began to panic when her fingers disappeared somewhere inside of the ball.

"DADDY!" she yelled and Vegeta snapped out of his thoughts to see his daughter being sucked into the Dragonball. The process was speeding up and her whole arm quickly disappeared.

Vegeta growled and quickly dived towards his daughter. He reached out his hand to grab her but he was too late. The ball pulsed with energy and sucked in the rest of her body in one go.

Vegeta halted in mid-air as laughter filled the air and slowly got louder. The Dragonball glowed brighter and around it a solid mass of flesh built up until Vegeta was staring up into the transformed face of Naturon Shenron. He was now twice the size and his colouring had changed from purple to aqua. His horns had grown out and he now had a neck reef with black spikes at the end. Then finally, the Dragonball reappeared in his forehead.

Vegeta glared into the slightly more human face of the evil dragon as it began to talk again.

"Well this is better. Who'd have thought one little girl could have so much power? Granted, my original plan was to merge with the z fighter that came after me before hunting down the others but the daughter of one will do nicely."

Vegeta growled as he watched the dragon and flared out his aura to get its attention.

"Hey! What did you do to my daughter?" he demanded and Naturon looked down at Vegeta with mild interest.

"Why, I am your daughter." He then said in a perfect impression of Bra before breaking down into hysterics.

"But seriously though, you can't have her back as she is apart of me now. Hey, I guess in a sense I'm pretty much her now." Naturon continued and laughed. He then saw Vegeta's deadly death glare and decided to quit joking around.

"Ok, look. I am the dragon of the earth. I have nifty little powers that help me to use that little element to my advantage and because of that the Dragonball grounds me. Get it? I am the Dragonball, the Dragonball is me and I can use it to absorb any living creature to help craft a body and to add any energy gained to my own. That's what happened to you daughter. She is in side of me, adding to my power and sustaining this form," the dragon explained. Vegeta growled deeply and raised his arms for another final flash attack.

"We'll see about that!" he proclaimed and powered up. Naturon just shock his head and index finger.

"Uh-uh, if you kill me then your daughter goes with me. And something tells me that you don't want that." He said craftily and Vegeta hesitated.

He couldn't kill Bra. She meant the most to him. She represented all the changes he had under gone since the birth of his son, beyond that even. She may have had a rough exterior but deep down she was a sweet little girl that represented everything good about Vegeta and the prince didn't know if he could kill her knowing that.

"Well, now that you know that, I think I will fight!" Naturon declared, making Vegeta's head snap up before an over sized foot crashed into him.

Vegeta was sent flying backwards and as he managed to regain his wits, Naturon appeared above him and fell onto the saiyan. He then rolled off and then sent his fist plummeting into the prince but Vegeta managed to raise his arms just in time and catch it. Naturon put more force into the punch, trying to slam it into Vegeta but the prince was engulfed by his aura and transformed to level two. The fist was pushed up and Vegeta then blasted the fist the rest of the way off, making the dragon stumble backwards. Vegeta then flipped onto his feet, turned, then dashed towards Naturon, shoulder barging him. The Dragon continued to stumble backwards and Vegeta started to furiously hit the dragon backwards with a barrage of attacks until Naturon flared up a golden aura and slapped the saiyan into the distance.

Vegeta flew through the air and growled before his aura engulfed him again and he burst into the third level of super saiyan. Vegeta then stopped and turned to face Naturon again.

"You know that now I have more then enough power to defeat you. Your time is up." Vegeta called to the dragon but Naturon only laughed.

"I doubt that. You can't kill me as long as I'm holding your little girl. You're just trying to stall. And I can tell you this; it won't work." The dragon then replied and Vegeta grit his teeth.

"How do I even know that she is still alive?" Vegeta then asked lamely and Naturon sighed before he focused and part of his stomach seemed to melt away to show Bra's head. Her eyes fluttered open and she stared right at Vegeta.

"Daddy! Help-" she then disappeared back into the belly of the beast before she could finish.

"Is that proof enough for you?" Naturon asked as he folded his arms across his chest. Vegeta lowered his head thoughtfully, monitoring Naturon's energy signature as he went over his choices. He could either kill the dragon and Bra with him or try another approach. The other approach would be a lot riskier and he didn't even know if the right opportunity would reveal itself and if he did kill Bra then there was a chance to wish her back although that would be a risk in itself as it would create more negative energy in the Dragonballs and he'd have to rely on the others to get their Dragonballs. It really didn't look good for Bra.

And then Naturon himself was a lot more powerful now so Vegeta could not risk being concerned for his daughter whilst fighting him or else he'd surely make a mistake and lose. Vegeta really did not like this situation.

Vegeta looked up as he sensed Naturon's energy moving. The dragon had decided to attack after waiting for so long.

Naturon dived at the prince with his fist thrown forward but the saiyan jumped and flipped over the dragon as Naturon continued to dive underneath. Vegeta twisted round in the air and then fired a blast at the back of the dragon's neck. Naturon whirled round just in time to slap it away and to use his tail to try and hit Vegeta but the saiyan blocked it and then dived forward to attack with a barrage of punches and kicks. Naturon frowned and swung his tail back round to hit Vegeta from behind before using his fist to hit the prince away.

Bra frowned as she sensed what was going on. She was tied up with some kind of rope made out of Naturon's flesh and completely unable to break free as Naturon was using her energy to fight her father. She could sense everything that was going on outside, she could almost see it in her head. Every punch, kick and blast Naturon used she could feel and she hated it. The dragon was trying to kill her father and he was using her energy and powers to do it.

"DADDY! Stop worrying about me and finish this! I can't go through with this and watch him pick you apart using my energy! You can use the Dragonballs later anyway so go ahead and beat him already!" she screamed, unsure if anyone would even hear her.

Vegeta blinked and then smirked. Bra's voice had come out muffled but he had still been able to understand it clearly and now the dragon looked sick as he stared down at his belly.

"Well you heard her, dragon. She wants you out of here. So do I as a matter of fact so I'll make it quick." Vegeta told the dragon slyly as he got into position.

I'm proud of you Bra, and I'm sorry about this. Two apologies out of me in one day…I must be getting soft…Vegeta thought and then powered up his attack.

"Final FLASH!" he yelled when he was sure that he had gathered enough energy and he fired the mighty golden blast at the dragon. Naturon panicked as he watched the blast sail towards him and did all that he could to try and escape, although it was all in vain as the blast still hit him full force.

Vegeta lowered his head as he tried to catch his breath, contemplating what he had just done. This didn't last long, however, as soon laughter reached his ears.

"Ha! I knew it! You couldn't do it! You held back!" Naturon's voice greeted Vegeta's ears and as the prince raised his head, he could see Naturon Shenron through the smoke.

"What? But I didn't hold back!" Vegeta called and Naturon laughed again.

"You sure? I may have gotten stronger but there is still a significant gap between our power levels. You should have been able to wipe me out easily is you weren't holding back but I'm still here! You held back subconsciously." The dragon replied and continued to laugh. Vegeta stared down at his hands blankly as he listened to the dragon. He then growled and began to power up, his power escalating and his aura ripping apart everything it touched as Vegeta screamed. Naturon stopped laughing and stared at Vegeta fearfully before the saiyan collapsed to his knees and returned to his normal form.

"I…surrender." Vegeta said weakly and both Naturon's and Bra's jaws nearly hit the floor.

"You what?" they both cried in union and still Vegeta wouldn't look at Naturon.

"I said I surrender. I just have one request and if you are the warrior that I know you are then you will grant it." Vegeta replied, this time harsher. Naturon watched the saiyan cautiously as he edged forward.

"What's the request?" he asked. Vegeta's eyes quickly shifted from the floor to the dragon and back again.

"I wish to see my daughter one last time. Are you going to grant me this?" he asked. Naturon stopped in front of the saiyan and peered down at him. Everything stayed silent for a matter of moment as Naturon contemplated the request. Finally the dragon sighed and nodded.

"Ok, fine. That seems reasonable." He muttered and then allowed Bra to come out up to the waist with her hands still tied up but out side. Vegeta glanced up at her.

"Come on daddy! Get up! You can't just quit like this! You don't give up! Ever!" Bra pleaded after she took in her father's form. Vegeta lowered his head slightly in a way the made Naturon think that Vegeta was acting ashamed but Bra knew better.

"Dad, I-"

"Ok, that's enough of this touching father-daughter moment. Back you go, say bye." Naturon interrupted and Bra began to be pulled back in. Vegeta's head snapped back up and with it his hand followed and grabbed hold of Bra's. A second later and Vegeta was back in super saiyan three form and trying to pull out his daughter from the belly of the beast.

"What? No! You tricked me!" Naturon yelled and tried desperately to power up and suck Bra back inside. Vegeta glared at the dragon and held Bra securely in one arm.

"Bye." The prince said simply before sending a blast of pure energy into the dragon's face. Naturon's hold weakened and Vegeta easily pulled Bra out as Naturon fell back.

Vegeta smirked as he lay Bra down at his feet and he then stood up straight and faced the rapidly shrinking Naturon Shenron. When the dragon stood back up, it was barely past Vegeta's knee and was back to looking like a little purple rat. The little dragon gasped at its body and then looked helplessly up at Vegeta, who was already pointing a blast at the dragon's head.

"Hey! Hold on a second! We can work something out!" Naturon squeaked. Vegeta glared at the dragon.

"That's your second." He said coolly and let go of the blast. It hit the dragon dead on and a moment later there was no trace of the dragon except for the now orange Dragonball that Vegeta scooped up. Vegeta then turned back to Bra and helped her up.

"Did you do it?" she asked, exhausted. Vegeta nodded and showed her the Dragonball before sweeping her off of her feet.

"And you should have listened to me before." Vegeta told her. Bra winced and sighed.

"Ok, can we save the 'I told you so's until later?" she asked. Vegeta flashed a rare smile at her.

"Deal." He muttered before taking off in the direction of Capsule Corporation.

A/N: well this should be a little better. This episode in GT always annoyed me slightly because it made Goku look like he cared more about Pan then his own two sons. I just think it fits Vegeta better because it touches on how much he's changed. That and I really do think that he'll find Bra harder to let go as she represents so much to him. So was born after Vegeta had made the transition from pride-filled bad guy to a man who'd do anything to protect his family. I'm just hoping that I made it that little bit more touching then it was when it was Goku trying to save Pan.

Besides, GT annoyed me because it was the same old Vegeta with no real changes to his personality. He's changed since the Buu battle and I at least showed that here, if nothing else.

Reviews:

Erica: well here it is, and it was Vegeta. :)

Rejhan: thanks, I try. It is mainly subtle changed from here up to the Eis fight. I'm mainly setting up the fights by who I think the stories will fit right apposed to who's strongest. That should make it a little easier guessing who's to come…

Darksupersaiyan: well how I bring them together is definitely not going to be the same as the series. You'll have to wait and see what I do though but its not that much longer, especially since I break up from school next week.

Psy: hey, no problem, its good to see you're back. Glad you like and school is annoying that way. It's lucky it's Christmas next week really.

Chris: Hey, another old face. Good to hear from you and thanks for the suggestion. I have an idea on how to get Piccolo all caught up but you'll have to wait and see. I won't be able to put it in until after the dragon saga. But the reason why I haven't got Piccolo fighting is because according with the series he never caught up with super saiyan two and now that the dragons are here then most of them will be as weak as that level. Pan is the only character that is meant to be fighting that is weaker then super saiyan two and she's with Uub so that she'll have a fighting chance. After that, everyone else needs to be stronger or as strong as a super saiyan two to defeat their dragons and if I sent in Piccolo then he just wouldn't stand a chance. It made sense in my head and it kinda shows how the saiyans keep surpassing everyone.

Chico: aw, poor Chi. English coursework can be really annoying. Well here's who's next. Wonder if anybody expected it…
who gets Eis isn't too hard to work out, especially now that there are only three groups left. Guess I don't have that much left to do before the big fight ;)

Trugeta: well…um…Goten defeated Rage. And it probably would have been a lot faster if he had gone subSSJ3 right away, maybe a little too fast though. Well, here's the update anyway and the next will hopefully be later this week to make up for skipping Christmas. Yay for days off!

See you all later this week then, Ja'ne.