DBZ:

The End of a Destiny

Part 6 of New Destiny Saga

AS22: long time no see!I decided to post all of this one at once since its so short, and it's sad, too. warning: tradgedy! It will have a happy ending, but until then, beware! R&R!

Prologue:

I know I've said it before, but I was wrong. This time I couldn't save a loved one or avenge them. I lost my world, and it almost claimed my soul.

This time it wasn't a monster or a wizard that took a life, but I'm getting ahead of myself. I need to start at the beginning.

This was after all the fighting. After facing our dark sides, after all the carnage. After all of it. But for me, it was only the beginning.

Why didn't I think of this? I'm a writer, and an artist. Artists are supposed to think creatively, yet this sort of idea never came to mind…

But I need to start from the beginning, so I will.

Chapter 1: All's Well

I was sitting alone on the Capsule Corp. roof, staring at the stars and thinking. Just as I always do. Nothing out of the ordinary. It was dark, and I could hear the snorting of the Ayokii and my Mirna. They were restless, but tomorrow Codie and I would go riding.

Well, I guess tomorrow I'll tell Codie. His 20th birthday, wow. I just can't do this any longer, but I know he can. This is so hard… the responsibility… but Gohan was 11 when he started, and Codie is much older and so like his cousin.

"You miss him, don't you?"

I looked over to see Vegeta walking over, joining me in one of our many nightly thinking sessions. We usually don't talk to one another, just enjoy the dark sky and company, and think without ridicule or restraint.

"What?" I asked. He caught me in the middle of a stream of thoughts.

"That clown, Kakorot. You miss him."

"Yeah, I guess I do."

"That was foolish of him, pushing that honor on you so suddenly."

"Yeah, but I can see why he chose me over the others." I paused as I remembered going to the darkling universe. Even then I protected people, "But he just… he never saw any fault in me, I guess."

"That's because they are few and far between." Vegeta began, "You're a wise fighter, and a quick learner. You are very fast and able to think on your feet. You're very brave, and honorable."

"Forty years ago I admired you like a, well, teenager admiring a hero. That's all you could have ever been for me then. And now here you are, telling me how good and great I am. But I'm not, Vegeta. I've screwed up so many times. Too many times. Things I should have left alone I intervened."

"Like Majin?" he asked.

"Exactly. You were supposed to become Majin, kill the people at the stadium, and then give your life to stop Buu and protect your family. Instead all you did was break me away from Babi-Dee's mind control and die."

"I would have done anything to save you from yourself. You showed me a better way than the path I was traveling. You saved my life, letting me leave earth when you knew all the trouble I'd bring."

"But I didn't care, Vegeta. I loved you then, and I do now. You're the reason I'm this strong. In the alternate timeline you're the reason I became a Super Sayjin."

"You're the reason I became a Super Sayjin. Not entirely, of course, but right as I felt that I was going to die on that asteroid, I thought of you and Bulma and my unborn son. My hate turned my heart white as snow for a moment, and then there I was, counted among the greatest. But still, that clown… and now it turns out to not be the legendary power. Tiom's line from his son led to Brolly. His daughter's line leads to me." Vegeta trailed off, staring at the sky. I turned and leaned back against the railing, looking straight up.

"Then how did Goku and I become Super Sayjins?"

"Same as I did. Brolly was born a Super Sayjin. We earned it."

"Isn't that better? Anyway, I didn't earn it. You know why I was so bent on killing you as a Majin? It was because you and Goku were stronger than me."

"Katrin, you were Super Sayjin 2 at the time, we weren't. That doesn't make sense." Vegeta reasoned.

"Your power level may have been lower, but the two of you were the best. Your minds, your wills, were stronger than my own. You could fend off whatever Babi-Dee threw at you, but I couldn't. One little promise was all it took…" I said, thinking back, "I'm still terrified that I might become that… thing again. Katherine the Slaughterer… or worse, become like my darkling counterpart…" I shuttered, remembering how evil and crazy she had been.

"If you hadn't helped me then, I would have become Majin. You were the voice of reason that broke through to me. I could fight Kakorot anytime I liked… I needed to protect my family, and so I fought off Babi-Dee and then you were…"

We stood there, quiet again. I once again found the place Planet Vegeta use to be, but Frieza took that from me, and from all the other Sayjins.

"I wonder where my parents are…"

"Otherworld. They'd have to be, or else you would have found them by now." Vegeta said.

Yeah, I've been to HFIL so many times, but never in Otherworld. They have to be there, happy.

"Vegeta, if you ever go to HFIL, don't talk to Brolly."

"Why?" he asked with a smirk. I've said it before.

"Because all he ever said to me was 'Kakorot' over and over. Weird…"

Vegeta and I laughed. It felt so good to laugh. We had no worries, no monsters, no impending doom, nothing. We could relax, slack off now and then. Or train like we've never trained before.

"Thank you, Katrin." Vegeta said.

"Huh? For what?"

"Everything." Then he walked back inside.

Everything? Yeah, I guess I have done everything. I'm one of the few who really understand him. I know him better than Bulma, or Goku, or even that damn Icejin.

After a moment I followed Vegeta inside, and everything was fine. Sleep was a welcome friend.