Chapter 2
Dende awoke in the hot morning air, his body aching and head spinning. His sleep had been full of perturbed dreams about home and Porunga. Something was amiss upon his home planet. But he could not leave the earth without its guardian to investigate, and Piccolo was in no state to help. Pushing all thoughts of home to the back of his mind he stepped out into the hallway only to be nearly run over by Mr Popo.
"Dende come quick something terrible has happened."
"Somehow Mr Popo I thought you where going to say that."
Mr Popo launched himself off down the corridor from which he had come, Dende having to fly after him to keep up. Twisting and turning through the maze of corridors inside the lookout Popo and Dende came outside onto the remains of the main courtyard. The others where already out there, each one with a look of horror upon their faces. Even Vegeta was looking worried. Dende moved slowly forward into the centre of the courtyard, fully aware that all eyes where on him. Walking past Vegeta and Trunks he eyes fell upon the reason for the horrified looks. Upon the ground were fourteen semicircular stones, a deep orange in colour, filled with many small red stars. The lay out on the courtyard spread out in a giant circle upon the floor. Realisation suddenly dawned over Dende as he realised that they where not fourteen stones, but rather seven stones that had been split in half.
The Namekian Dragonballs lay discarded upon the courtyard of the lookout, each one split almost cleanly in two. The balls had lost their usual shine and now looked lifeless and dead.
"Porunga… How could this have happened?"
Dende stepped forwards, reaching out he touched the nearest stone. Drawing energy from Dende it began to glow suddenly, a wave of energy that swept through each stone in turn. The pulse circled the stones, moving faster and faster around the circle until it was an almost continuous stream. Inside the circle a vague shape began to form, coalescing from the air it resolved itself into Porunga. Porunga was now only a few feet tall, his power waning even in taking on this form.
"Dende," Porunga rumbled, his voice still sounding deep and powerful, "There is something that you must know. You must know what happened upon Namek, what happened to me and you must stop it from ever getting to Shenron."
With that Porunga disappeared back into the mist from which he came leaving the glowing Dragonballs at his tail. Each of the balls began to pulse on its own. Six lances of light leapt out from the stones and earthed themselves in to each of the six spectators. Each of them where suddenly taken back to Namek.
Namek, a few days earlier
The day began as any other. The Namekian's were a peaceful race who kept out of most species way and lived their lives themselves. Today however someone wanted to change all of that. From out of the sky a meteor came plummeting out of space leaving a fiery trail through the atmosphere. The small fighter came screaming down above the heads of the Nameks, tearing up the land in its supersonic wake. It blasted across the planet in search of the Guardian. Coming across his mountain retreat the ship finally stopped its pell-mell trip across the planet. Alone figure stepped down from the fighter. Dressed in an orange gi he shut down his space ship and turned to face the Elder Nameks dwelling.
Standing at 5'8 wit spiky black hair his faced seemed to radiate warmth and happiness. Around him the few Namekian guards stood dumbfounded at the apparition.
"Goku is it really you?"
"Hi everyone."
With that he was gone, trans-locating directly inside the house. Once outside of the light his features began to wane and twist slightly. His skin began to boil and vaporise into a mist that flowed around his now semi solid body. Advancing upon Moori the creature spoke.
"I have come to find porunga. where are the dragonballs?"
The Elder Namek could but stand and stare at the apparition before him. So akin to Goku but so totally twisted and warped at the same time.
"I say again. Where are the dragonballs?"
He could not read the creatures intentions at all. No good, but no evil flowed from the creature as it spoke in words of ice and lead.
"I will not let you have them."
"My name is Kaos and none shall say what i can or can not do."
"You shall not have the Dragonballs."
"You think that you can stop me. I know all about you."
With that he held out his palm aimed directly at Moori's head.
"Go ahead and kill me."
"kill you and lose the dragonballs. Where is the sense in that?"
From his hands a strange energy pulsed outwards, wrapping itself around the Elder Namek, binding him. Another pulse was released, and another, each one adding a layer to the crystal like structure trapping the Namek.
"There. Now you shall not do anything so foolish and die."
The Namekian guards simultaneously launched their attacks upon Kaos, each blast melting scant inches from his body and dissipating into the mist around him.
"Come now I have heard that the Nameks are great warriors. Surely you can do better than that?"
Almost as one the three guards leapt forwards and began to attack Kaos. In the middle of a spinning fury of blows Kaos dodged and folded his body around the attacks, converting his from solid to gas at will. Even with this constant changing the Nameks still managed to land blows upon him. One successful one smashed him across the room towards the crystal encased Elder Namek, his body warped in strange and unpleasant ways as he passed through the crystal appearing on the other side.
"My my, what they say is not all rumour. But come now, enough playing. I have a job to do. Give the Dragonballs and I shall leave you alone."
Refusing to give in the Nameks all leapt back into battle, their aura's blasting up around them. This time Kaos fought back. In a matter of moments all three of the Nameks where lying dead upon the floor.
With a blast of raw energy the building around him exploded into shards. Once again in the clear light of day his body reformed, become more solid, once again resembling the form of Goku. Walking back to his ship he retrieved a small device, much resembling a scouter and fitted it to the side of his head. Pressing a small button on the side of the ship, he spun around before blasting off into the sky.
It took only a matter of days for Kaos to find and collect all seven of the Dragonballs from their Namek protectors. The planet was littered with the dead who had stood in the way of him. Now with all seven Dragonballs, Kaos could finish what he came to do.
"Porunga, come forth and grant my wishes."
The seven Dragonballs began to glow with power as the sky darkened around them. A blast of energy seared upwards into the sky forming itself into the mighty form of Porunga.
"Who has summoned me from my slumber?"
"I Kaos have come for my three wishes. Grant them to me now."
The mighty Porunga looked down upon the creature at his tail and nodded.
"My first wish is that my ship, the Nal-Zagger, be rebuilt to its full former glory."
"It is done."
"Second, bring my ship to orbit around this planet."
"It is done."
"For my third wish mighty porunga. I wish to fight you."
With that the being known as Kaos launched out at Porunga, his body dissolving into the strange blue/black mist as he travelled. Porunga was more surprised than angry that someone would even think of attacking him. His surprise was Kaos' gain. With a sudden fist forming from the mist he struck out at the huge body of Porunga, slamming with amazing force into the dragon. Porunga howled in anger as he reached down to try and bite Kaos in two. As his jaws closed around him he dissolved once more flowing out between his teeth. Swirling around Kaos slammed a foot into the side of Porunga's jaw. Again and again Porunga tired to bite the menacing creature that attacked him. Again and again Kaos simply dissolved whenever he came close. With a lunge down towards the ground Porunga caught and slammed his jaws closed around Kaos who failed to re-materialise.
With a reassuring silence Porunga began to shrink back into his Dragonballs. Something stopped him. From deep inside a blue/black light emanated from his body, growing in intensity and size as a deep scream cut through the air. With a burst of energy the form of Kaos burst out from inside Porunga, shattering his body, dissipating his energy to the seven winds. Porunga had no real time to think, pouring as much of his essence into the Dragonballs he sent them into the air towards Earth.
"Oh no you don't!"
Forming his arms into two large blades Kaos blasted after the dragon balls and in seven mighty strokes shattered them each into half. The broken balls fell back towards the surface of Namek as Porunga disappeared. Kaos just laughed, flying up to meet his ship in orbit. Placing two fingers to his forehead he trans-located onboard.
Within moments he was aboard his ship; now back to its full destructive self. Looking around the sleek and fitting bridge he brought the ships mighty engines back online. Powering up the main weapon batteries he launched a tremendous salvo of energy down upon Namek. Wave after wave of energy poured forth from the ships many batteries, slamming into the planets crust as they gouged deep holes. With a final salvo of energy the Nal-Zagger began to move out of orbit. Behind it the planet of Namek was in its death throws as the gravitational forces ripped the planet to shreds. The shockwave travelled outwards but the Nal-Zagger had already jumped to hyperspace.