Chapter 4: Hunt for Dragonballs

The radar showed a bleep straight ahead, Krillin pointed at the approaching mountainside. "That's were the first dragonball is!" He glanced back at the radar, noting the exact location of the ball, and handed the radar to Tien. "You go ahead and start locating the next one; I'll go get this one."

"Alright Krillin," Tien said as he glanced at the radar, and back at Krillin. "Be careful!" Tien and Chiaotzu blasted off towards the second dragonball on the radar. Krillin watched them go, until they vanished, Alright, let's go get that dragonball! Krillin headed towards the mountainside, noting the layout of the mountain, and how it matched the layout of the screen on the radar. He floated above the mountain, searching the rocky surface for any sign of the dragonball. "There it is," he shouted as a gleam of light started shin in his eyes. "That's got to be it!" Krillin shot forth towards the light, as he got closer the shape of the three star dragonball came to view. "Alright, I've got it, now I got to get back to the others!" Krillin started too concentrated, he was slowly gathering in the energy around him, and he started to feel the energy of anyone who was nearby, until he located Tien's and Chiaotzu's energy straight ahead of him.

Krillin blasted straight ahead, to rejoin his two friends. He was steadily approaching them; their outline was slowly coming to his view. "Hey you guys, did you get the next dragonball!"

Tien looked up at the approaching figure; he lifted the five star dragonball in the air. "Yeah, did you get the other one?"

Krillin was now hovering next to Tien. "Yeah, it's the three star, I see you've found the five star. Two down and five to go!"

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After locating four more dragonballs, the group was now heading towards the finally dragonball, the seven star dragonball. Krillin glanced at the radar. "We should be getting closer to the dragonball by now." Krillin glanced at Tien. "Do you have any idea where we're at?"

"No," Tien replied shortly. "I don't think so, but yet, it does seem familiar." Tien glanced back Chiaotzu and noticed that the he was shivering. "Hey, are you alright Chiaotzu?"

"Ti…Tien," Chiaotzu sutured. "I feel an evil presence ahead of us." Chiaotzu looked frighten at the approaching village. "I don't like it here!"

"I know what you mean," Krillin said. "I'm starting to feel a chill as well." Krillin glanced back at the radar and then at the village ahead. Maybe we shouldn't go there, but as he thought this, images of Bulma, with her neck length blue hair, crying over her mother's shoulder, flashed through his head. What am I saying; we need that dragonball to bring Yamcha back! The group was now hovering over the village; they slowly landed on the soft beach sand, as the glanced through the wreckage that once was a village. "Who do you think did this?"

Tien studied the marking on the small huts; it seemed like an energy attacks caused them. "You don't think it could've been Kakarot, do you?" Tien glanced at the huts again. "No, wait, these markings look like they've been around for years." One of Tien's mystic eyes special abilities was seeing things others couldn't. "It appears, that these markings have been around since…since a hundred years."

Krillin threw up a questionable eyebrow at Tien. "So, that means Kakarot didn't do this?"

Tien glanced at Krillin. "Yes, whoever did this is probably dead." At least I hope so; Tien glanced at the village once more. "Come on let's get the dragonball and leave!"

The three warriors walked slowly through the village, searching for the seven star dragonball. Krillin looked in the huts on his left, while Tien looked through the ones on his right. Chiaotzu floated between the two of them, looking directly in front of him, until he noticed a small white bottle, sitting on a ceremonial shrine. He floated towards the bottle; he picked it up and looked at the strange markings located on the side. "Hey look guys; I think this is holy water!"

Tien looked up at the bottle, then everything came back to him, he'd been to this place before, he knew what was in that bottle; he knew who caused these markings, just as all of this started to come back to him. Krillin popped out of one of the huts with the seven star dragonball in his hands. "I've found it!"

Tien glanced back at Krillin for a second, but then he remembered Chiaotzu, he quickly turned back to his small friend. "No Chiaotzu, don't do it!" But it was too late, Chiaotzu already pulled the top off of the small bottle, and then it happened. The air around them started to get cooler, the sky above them started to be consumed by shadow, and the bottle started to pour out evil energy through the opening.

"No," Tien yelled. "Not Piccolo Daimoa!" Just as the 'moa' escaped his mouth, the bottle pulled away from Chiaotzu, and smoke started to pour out of its mouth.

"You're only half right," a chilly voice cut through the smoke. "It's Piccolo Daimoa…Junior!" The smoke cleared away to reveal, a tall man—no, not a man, so kind of demon or alien—he was green, and wore a purple gi, with a weighted cape and turban on his head. His eyes were dark as coal, and they cut through the three warriors standing around him. "I guess I should thank you for releasing me, I know, I'll think you by sending you to your graves early!"

Chiaotzu floated near Tien. "I'm sorry Tien, I didn't know!"

"It's alright Chiaotzu," Tien replied. "For some reason I forgot about this place, I guess seeing so many cities and villages ruined by Kakarot, made me forget about this one in particularly!"