Chapter 7
A new crater sprung up around the fallen body of Vegeta as the blast carried him into the ground. The earth was pulverised beneath him as the energy was dissipated into the ground, trapping Vegeta beneath a wall of energy and the planets crust. Trunks saw the fall of his father and the Saiyan inside of him took over.
"Father!"
Leaping into the air, transforming as he went, Trunks blasted towards Kaos his sword already unsheathed and ready for use. Kaos turned to look at this new golden haired boy and stopped his laughing. Trunks came forward faster than Kaos could dodge, his speed boosted by the fall of Vegeta. Swinging the blade he sliced cleanly though the arm of Kaos as he sped past. Screaming out in agony Kaos tried to cradled the stump of his arm as he was spun around by Trunks.
Not relenting Trunks came back at him once more swinging the sword. Kaos spun around, shocked by the loss of his arm but still not slowed enough. Dissolving once more he reformed the stump into a sword and brought it up to counter Trunk's own. With a clash the blasted off a huge explosion the two fighters where obscured from view. Inside the ball of smoke Trunks and Kaos clashed swords again and again, neither being able to pierce the others defence.
Gohan jumped back as the former arm of Kaos landed at his feet. Already the limb was dissolving in the sunlight, burning away like dry ice.
"Gohan. Take a Sensu bean to Vegeta; I think he is going to need one."
"What about you Piccolo?"
"I think Trunks is going to need some help."
Gohan took a bean out of the pouch and began to run over towards Vegeta, deliberately keeping his Ki low to avoid detection from Kaos. It wasn't long before he reached the edge of the crater and saw Vegeta slowly standing up, his hair now back to normal. Suddenly a stray blast lanced out from the fight above their heads and slammed into the ground knocking Vegeta back to the ground unconscious. Gohan fared only a little better. The blast was nearer to him and managed to knock him almost to the point of unconsciousness. Waves of blackness threatened to roll over him as he tried to stand up. Getting slowly to his feet Gohan never noticed the form of Trunks as he hurtled towards him.
Piccolo was in no mood to messed around with, the others could take care of themselves. Kaos had already unleashed the voices of the Namekian race upon Piccolo's mind and now he was about to get his payback. Throwing off his weighted clothing he stood tall in the weaker gravity of the planet.
"Kaos! Your fight is with me now!"
Kaos looked down at the green Namek standing below him, wonder what such a creature could possible do where three Saiyans had already failed.
"A namek. I thought I had killed the lot of you when Namek exploded along with your pathetic dragon."
Piccolo stood there drawing energy into his body, the power of the Namekian race now flowed through him and he was going to use it. Powering up faster and stronger than he ever had Piccolo's body bulged with contained energy, a fact not wasted on Kaos. Reacting first Kaos dived down towards the Namek, annoyed that one so strong had avoided his detection.
Piccolo leapt up towards the rapidly descending form of Kaos, the ground caving in under his power. The two meet in mid air, each one landing a blow on the other. Both their aura flashed up around them, the power of the attack blowing them both back across the sky. Recovering almost at the same time the launched off after each other once more.
Trunks stood up slowly, rubbing his head trying to shake the pain from his body. Kaos had beaten him up pretty badly. He wasn't exactly sure what had happened up there only that Kaos had somehow managed to get past his defences and land a solid blow on him.
'I even cut off his arm, but it didn't slow him down one bit'
Standing up slowly he looked down at the unconscious form of Gohan lying at his feet.
'Did I actually land on the kid?'
"Gohan, are you alright?"
No response came from Gohan as Trunks slowly walked over to him. He could feel the powers growing above him as Piccolo and Kaos fought. He was too tired to follow the battle he poked Gohan to get a response. A vague mumble was the only reply that he got.
"Gohan, wake up. Sorry about crashing into you. Gohan."
Still nothing more from the boy. Trunks reached down and managed to find the pouch of Sensu beans. It was torn open at the bottom. Of the original six beans only one remained.
"Well Gohan, looks like it is time for me to return the favour."
Reaching out he placed the last of the beans into Gohan's mouth before he collapsed onto the ground.
As the beans power flowed trough Gohan he sat up refreshed and confused. Above him he felt the power radiating off of Piccolo and Kaos. As he watched Piccolo slammed an elbow into Kaos sending him careening into a mountain.
Kaos shook his head as the smoke cleared around him. He sat deep inside a mountain where Piccolo had just blasted him and was beginning to get very annoyed with the Namek. Powering up he shattered the mountain around him sending fragments of rock outwards in all directions. Piccolo stood in mid air, crouched in a fighting stance as he watched the showing off of Kaos.
'Reminds me of Vegeta.'
Not letting up on Kaos he powered up, drawing more energy into his hands as he charged up his attack. Hands glowing white Piccolo pushed his energy into them, bringing them together he unleashed the pent up power. The white wave blasted across the landscape to where Kaos and a mountain had been. Seeing the beam come towards him Kaos reacted with one of his own. The purple beam lanced out from his hands and met with Piccolo's. The two fighters stood trying to push their own beam towards their opponent. Piccolo had the upper had as his blast had travelled further, but Kaos was not making it easy.
Gohan could just but stand and stare at the battle above him, the forms of Trunks and Vegeta forgotten as he watched his mentor battle the form of Kaos. Slowly but surely Piccolo was winning. Kaos' purple blast was slowly being beaten back despite the creatures best attempts to stop it. It was however taking a tremendous toll on Piccolo as more and more of his energy was drained into the blast.
Piccolo poured more power into the blast, feeling the energy drain from his body as he did so. All he could think off was keeping the attack going and destroying Kaos. Suddenly a tremendous noise erupted inside his head as the Nameks broke free. Piccolo's mind was swamped with noise as a hundred Nameks started talking at once. His concentration lost he clamped his hands over his ears, trying to shut out the noise. With a final push of effort Kaos blasted apart Piccolo's attack and sent his own washing over the Namekian warrior.