Chapter 17
Athena sighed in relief.
Vegeta leaned toward her, "Is that him?"
"You guessed it," she replied.
"He certainly doesn't look like a challenge," Vegeta said as he studied him.
"I bet he is thinking the exact same thing about you." She looked over at him.
He rolled his eyes, "What ever."
Athena and Vegeta just stood there and watched as Goku fought Nappa. It seemed to be equally matched. "hmmm…Goku should be kicking his ass right now." She closed her eyes and gave Goku some energy. After that Goku seemed to have the upper hand against Nappa. He was winning now. He slammed him into the ground in front of Vegeta's feet.
Nappa was breathing heavily, "Ve….Vegeta. Help…." He held out his hand to Vegeta.
Vegeta looked at him for a moment. He took his hand, then sent him flying in the air.
Nappa didn't know what the hell he was doing. "Vegeta! What are you doing?"
Vegeta held out his hand to blast him. "You are a disgrace to the Sayin race! Just like Raditz!" He sent an energy ball hurling toward him. It hit Nappa, killing him instantly.
Goku looked at him in shock. "Why…would you do that to him?"
Vegeta looked at Goku, "He was a disgrace. A first class Sayin beaten a low third class Sayin. He deserved to die."
Athena walked over to him and hit him upside the head. "You didn't have to kill him. Gosh!"
He turned to her and held out his hand, "Back off woman, or I will do the same to you."
Athena put her hands on her hips, "Go right ahead."
Vegeta looked at her. "Another time. Right now I want to fight Kakarot." He turned to him. "Ok Kakarot lets see what you got." He got into fighting position.
Goku nodded his head and did the same. Athena walked over to Krillin and Gohan. "You two ok?"
Gohan wiped the tears from his eyes, "I think so…."
Athena looked to the ground, "I am really sorry that I can't help. You don't know how hard it is for me to just stand by and watch this. If I could help, I would."
Krillin looked at her, "Why can't you help?"
"For reasons that I can't say. Trust me. Someday I will tell you guys everything." She looked towards Goku and Vegeta. It looked like they were evenly matched, which was good. Jade thought to herself, "At least for now I can relax. So far every thing is going as it should."
Vegeta was getting pissed that he and Goku were of equal strength. "How can a low level Sayin like you be as strong a high class Saying like me." He charged at him again.
Athena continued to watch the fight.
Vegeta and Goku began to talk. Then Vegeta formed a ball of light and threw it into the air.
Athena looked at it, "What's he doing?" She then remembered the technique that Goku's father created. She quickly turned away from the ball of light. She still had her tail and would still transform at the sight of it. Her muscles began to twitch. She balled her first and closed her eyes. Her muscles stopped and she calmed down.
Krillin looked at her weird, "Ummm…Are you ok?"
Athena opened her eyes and looked at him and smiled, "Yep, perfectly fine." She turned back to the fight and saw that Vegeta had gone Oozar, and was beating the crap out of Goku.
"Daddy!" Gohan cried.
"We have to help him," Krillin said. He turned to Gohan, "We have to cut off Vegeta's tail. Then he will turn back to normal and Goku will have a fighting chance again."
Athena raised her eyebrow, "You may be wrong. If you don't hurry he'll be dead before you even get over there."
Krillin looked over at them. Vegeta kept slamming Goku into the ground. Just then Goku used Solar Flare and managed to get far away from him. He held up his hands and started to gather energy. Vegeta still couldn't see. Goku continued to gather energy.
Krillin shouted, "Now's our chance. Lets go help!" He and Gohan took off toward him. Athena just stayed put.
Vegeta could see now and he located Goku. He blasted him and sent him into a mountain. Athena had to give him so more energy so he would live. Vegeta began to pound him into the ground, and Goku cried out in pain. Athena had to keep on giving him energy. "Damn it Goku, you were supposed to be stronger than this. I guess it's my fault though. I shouldn't have interfered.
Krillin and Gohan tried to cut off Vegeta's tail, but he knew what they were up to and dogged their attacks.
Athena looked over and saw Yajirobe hiding in the shadow. He slowly backed away and ran to his car and stared to drive off. Athena thought to her self, "isn't he the one that's supposed to cut off his tail?" Athena appeared next to him in his car. "Hey."
Yajirobe swerved a little, "What the hell! How did you get here, and why are you here?"
"Oh I was just stopping by to tell you that you're a coward."
He squinted his eyes, "So what."
She shook her head, "Your friends are back there and you are just going to run away and let them get killed."
"Look lady, I don't have a chance against that thing. There's no point in me staying."
"You have the lowest power level, he won't be able to sense you that well, you're the one with the best chance." She looked back, "But I can't make you. So see you later." Athena disappeared.
Yajirobe kept driving. A few moments later he spun around and headed back. When he got back he got his courage together and got out his sword. He started to sneak up on Vegeta. A few seconds later he jumped in the air and cut off Vegeta's tail.