Chapter 37: Majin Roots

We entered the spaceship without difficulty and made it to floor one. There are three floors, so most likely I wouldn't get to fight yet.

Babi-Dee sent Pui-pui to fight first, and Vegeta won the round of rock-paper- scissors. I played too, but I lost on purpose. There is a trick to losing rock-paper- scissors, by the way. Then he easily beat Pui-pui in an uneven match where Babi-Dee used his magic to send us to Pui-pui's world temporarily, giving him the advantage. But Vegeta won anyway.

Next was Yakon, the monster from the eternal darkness planet. This room was giving me the creeps, since it was reminding me of the Darkness that seemed to follow me everywhere.

"The girl trembles, yes?" I heard it hiss.

"No, the girl thinks you smell bad." I said in anger. But he didn't get mad. He was crawling on the walls to look at me whereas I couldn't see him at all. Sayjins have good night vision, but not good enough for this place.

"No, no, you are afraid of the Darkness. You tremble because the night is dark. You tremble in your dreams because of the dark, yes."

"Shut up." I said, trying to stay calm. While this was being said, Goku was warming up to fight, already winning the round of rock-paper- scissors.

"Lord Babi-Dee could help you, yes. He could save you from the Darkness."

"You don't know anything. Shut up."

"Its too dark, here we go." Goku transformed and lit up the room. My cat-like eyes already adjusting to the light. But Yakon swallowed the light and we were thrown back into darkness.

"That tasted good, yes. I want more delicious light."

"Goku, this thing eats light." I said.

"Well, then, I'll give him some light." So Goku transformed again and fed the monster until it exploded. So much for Babi-Dee's second fighter.

"There, easy." I said in relief. That thing was creeping me out, and the room returned to normal as we got going to the next level, waiting on Dabura, Babi-Dee's number 1 man, the demon king.

We got to the floor and waited for what seemed an eternity before a small blue alien entered the room. It was slightly taller than me and had human characteristics, except that it was more of a lizard than a human. It even had a tail. It was concealing itself under a black cape.

"Lord Babi-Dee wants to see this girl fight next. I'll be your opponent. My name is Sahara." Its voice even sounded reptilian. It removed its cape to reveal itself. This thing was female, and it wanted to fight me.

This creature, Sahara, was pretty for a lizard. It smelt warm-blooded, I could tell because of my Sayjin sense of smell. The one thing that the animalistic side of a Sayjin loves is the scent of blood. She had long green hair and claws on each finger. Her knees were backwards compared to mine, and her tail had spikes on it. She smelled the air with her snake-like tongue and her eyes were tiny slits and bright yellow in color. Her teeth, when I saw them, reminded me of fangs. It made me wonder if she was venomous. She was dressed simply in an outfit that reminded me of a Greek toga. And the Majin symbol was tattooed onto her arm. She tossed her cape away as she stepped closer to the group.

"I will be happy to oblige. I didn't think I'd get the chance to fight so soon today."

"Katie, no!" Supreme Kai hissed to me.

"I'll be fine. She won't cause an energy profit for Buu." I whispered back. I stepped closer to her as she took a stance of her own.

"Be careful, I don't know much about her species." He warned as I stepped up to fight. Babi-Dee was watching and he transformed the room to that of a desert like area. It could only be from another planet, presumably Sahara's home world, because the sand was purple and I could see three suns in the sky.

"So, you accept my master's challenge to fight? You must be the chosen one. The girl from another dimension that will defeat an evil great enough to threaten all worlds across all dimensions. That evil could only be my master's pet, Buu."

So she knows of my destiny? What does she know, and if she knows that much, what does Babi-Dee know?

"I don't think the prophecy meant Buu, but yeah, that's me. You wanna fight or not?"

"Yeah, lets go." She powered up and I felt an increase of a great amount. It surprised me, but SSJ2 was far more impressive. So what else did I do but transform to SSJ2.

Everyone jumped at my transformation. Sahara immediately got back into form, doing her master's bidding, though that didn't hide the sweat.

"I'm not holding back. If I do, Buu might get free."

"Great idea." Vegeta said. Sahara's aura faltered.

"Scared? Unlike some other people I know, I reached this level and kept training anyway. I'm stronger than you think Sahara. I'm stronger than you, Babi-Dee, could guess." I said to Babi-Dee, knowing he could here me.

"We'll have to see about that, won't we?" then Sahara disappeared from sight and before I could move she had me from behind in a chokehold.

"You're fast." I said as I struggled to get free.

"I'm only warming up. You're pretty, did you know that? When master Babi-Dee chooses to control a girl, he only chooses pretty or powerful girls to do his bidding."

"Which are you?" I said in anger. She hissed angrily, "He's sick. And his plan will fail."

"Not if I can help it." she pushed me away and disappeared from sight again. When she reappeared, I only saw a flash of a liquid yellow before my eyes began to burn.

"Damn!" I hissed in pain. That answers my 'venomous or not' question…

"Katie!" Goku called. I was holding my eyes in pain, but I could still tell what was happening in the room for a small part. Sahara was standing back and watching me in agony, and she was laughing.

"I'm okay, she spit venom into my eyes to blind me." I said calmly.

"I'd worry if I were you. My venom usually kills." She hissed in a very snake like tone.

"I'll be okay after I kill you." I said bluntly. Like I said before, SSJ2 is like a drug, and right now the power was enticing me to do what Sayjins do best: kill.

I was truly blind, even when I finally opened my eyes, I couldn't see anything. There was nothing but black. Before I could do anything I was hit over and over by Sahara's clawed hands, punching away at me. My power was far greater than hers, but without sight my power was cut in half. And if she kept this up I'd end up freeing Majin Buu, and that was the last thing I wanted to do. I had to think back to my training, I knew there was a way to fight without eyes.

I was training with Piccolo and Gohan in the woods, before the Sayjins arrived. Piccolo was teaching us a few things that would come in useful, the one thing I needed now. How to see without eyes.

The concept was simple enough. There are seven chakras in the body, and the term 'mind's eye' came from one of those chakras. We were expanding our Ki to that area, and enhancing our mind's eye and focus our other senses. Piccolo called it Ki sight. We were sitting presently in a field and with our eyes shut we saw the field. The next stage was going into the caves and seeing what we hadn't seen before in the darkness of the cave. That's how I started sparring with Piccolo in the cave.

And now I'd do the same. I felt out the room, and I used my Ki sight to see Sahara's aura. I blocked her punch and her kick with ease.

"But how? You're blind!"

"Only a fool is truly blind." I said as she came at me again. I blocked that, too. When she shot an energy blast at me I deflected it back at her. Then I went on the offensive.

I used my Sneak Attack Ball, since I couldn't see it would be strong. Sahara's Ki disappeared, and I had won with minimal energy loss. I powered down and Supreme Kai was the first to grab my arm to help me walk toward the others.

"Katie, that was remarkable." Supreme Kai said.

"It was Gohan and Piccolo helped me. Our training in the caves finally came in handy."

"Here, it's a Zinzu bean." Gohan placed it into my hand and clenched my fist for me. I happily ate it and my vision was restored. The venom was gone.

"Katie, you killed again today, did you realize that?" Goku asked.

"Yes, but I had to or-"

"Or nothing. You let your power control you again."

"Maybe you're right, Goku. I did let my power control me. I could just as easily defeated her without transforming. I'm sorry."

"Focus next time. The last thing you want is to become accustomed to killing." Vegeta said with a shudder. He was remembering something painful.

I will save you from you evil side's rebirth, Vegeta. I owe it to you.

So we waited again and soon enough Dabura entered to fight. Gohan was next up, and I knew it would be a great fight.

Gohan immediately transformed into SSJ2. Since Ki is different for boys than girls, as I've said before, he already had a better control on his powers. I still needed to exercise SSJ2 out before I did something I'd regret.

Dabura spit at Gohan, hitting his glove. And Dabura's spit turns people to stone. Luckily my SG didn't go off and Gohan got off his glove in time.

Their fight was fascinating, so much so I almost forgot I was really there seeing this fight. But then Dabura acted as though he heard something and he stopped fighting.

"I must leave you now, master Babi-Dee is calling me. But rest assured that I will return to finish you." Dabura said as he left the room. Gohan was so dumbstruck he didn't react.

"Well that was pointless. What was the point of that? What could Babi-Dee be up to now?" Vegeta spat.

"It can't be good, whatever it is." Supreme Kai said. And I knew he was right. I knew, and I prayed I could change it.