Chapter 21: Ziyan Bounces Back

Vegeta continued to attack Ziyan. And Ziyan continued to take the hits. It seemed like nothing could stop Vegeta and his assault. After a while of beating on Ziyan the crowd started to get tired of it and cheered for Vegeta because he was going to win anyway, well… that's what they thought.

Ziyan stumbled back keeping his balance after getting hit in the stomach. Vegeta stood there huffing and puffing, completely out of breath. Ziyan looked at him smirking.

"Are you done yet Saiyan?" Ziyan asked. Vegeta gritted his teeth and growled. He couldn't believe that this kid had the guts to say something like that to him. And the one thing that bothered Vegeta was that smirk across his face. The same smirk he had when he killed his son.

"When I'm done that filthy smirk on your face will be gone!" Vegeta shouted pointing at him. Ziyan continued to smirk, unafraid of the Saiyan's threat.

"There's nothing you can say that will scare me." Ziyan said. "I've killed your son successfully and you will go and meet up with him in the other world." He added. Vegeta really didn't like his positive attitude. But the one thing Vegeta had done to himself was wear himself down. It was like he was too tired to care. But Vegeta's emotions wasn't about to let Trunks down.

"Yeah right! You'll meet or other teammate in HELL!" Vegeta lunged forward pulling his fist back. When he was close enough her through it at Ziyan. But, Ziyan clearly dodged it. Vegeta's eyes widened. How could someone as beat up as Ziyan move that quickly?

Ziyan lifted up his knee hitting him in the gut. Vegeta was about to go flying when Ziyan trapped him in between his knee and elbow. Ziyan removed his knee and hit Vegeta with his elbow in the back of the neck sending him onto the ground. Vegeta hit the tile floor hard. He lifted himself up and out of the rubble as Ziyan stood there watching him. Vegeta got to his feet. But he wasn't looking at the beat up Ziyan. Ziyan was completely fine. Vegeta's eyes widened as he looked at him. There was nothing wrong with him. It was like he just had a Senzu Bean. There wasn't even a scratch on him.

"What? Surprised?" Ziyan asked. Vegeta stood there staring at Ziyan trying to figure out what had happened. He was puzzled. Which doesn't really happen everyday; it was rare to find Vegeta puzzled as he was right now.

Suddenly, Vegeta's puzzled face was wiped off with a powerful punch to the gut. The force was so strong that it caused his eyes to roll into the back of his head and almost everyone felt like they felt the hit. Vegeta fell back onto the ring gasping for air. The pain shot through his body. Ziyan reached down picking him up holding him in the air.

"You shouldn't have come here Saiyan. You should've never shown up and let your planet blow up." Ziyan said. Vegeta looked at him with one eye closed. He didn't have the energy to keep on fighting him. Vegeta's blonde saiyan hair fell back to black and from that point, Ziyan was smirking. "You're going to lose today." He said. He tossed Vegeta to the right and then he blasted a ki beam at his back Vegeta hit the floor face first. He struggled to get to his feet but he fell back down. Ziyan walked over to him placing his foot onto his back stopping him from getting up. "Why don't you give up?" Ziyan then asked. Vegeta turned his head enough to look at him.

"Because I am no weakling! And I will avenge my son's DEATH!" a blast of energy surrounded Ziyan pushing him up into the air. Ziyan came to a halt about 20 feet up. He looked at Vegeta and he was now back in his Super Saiyan 2 state. Vegeta lunged upward toward him. He started to through fists, kicks, and energy beams. But Ziyan blocked them all. Ziyan then landed a kick across Vegeta's face. Vegeta's head was tossed to the left. Ziyan grabbed onto his arm swinging him around and around. But Vegeta pointed his other arm at Ziyan launching a ki blast at him. The ki blast exploded right when it touched his chest. Smoke rose into the air. Once the smoke cleared Ziyan and Vegeta were both throwing attacks.

Vegeta dodged and blocked almost every one of Ziyan's attacks and the same with Ziyan. But they soon slowed down because they were both tired. Landing on their feet on the ring they huffed and puffed. Sweat trickled down their foreheads and faces. They both stood with a slight hunch and they never took their eyes off of each other. The staring went on for about 10 minutes and the crowd was getting restless. They wanted their battle and they wanted it now. They didn't want the tow fighters to stand there looking at each other trying to catch their breath. They wanted it now.

"COME ON! FIGHT ALREDY!" someone yelled out at them.

"WE WANT A BATTLE!" another one yelled. They crowd started to yell and yell. The gang couldn't even hear themselves think. But, Pan heard someone. She turned around to see Kotari standing up on her feet. One had was next to her mouth making a half of a horn. The other hand was waving around in the air.

"COME ON VEGETA!" She was shouting. Pan watched as she noticed her brother Guru had his arms crossed looking at her. Pan looked away back at the battle that had started.

Vegeta was the first to launch. He pulled his fist back as did Ziyan when he launched. They both through their fists forward. Their fists collided creating sparks. Vegeta placed a serious look on his face as Ziyan had that same smirk. Vegeta and Ziyan leapt back.

"HAH!" Ziyan launched an attack. Vegeta leapt up into the air at the last second. The attack went on toward the crowd of people. They started to scream as the attack hit killing most of them in that section and injuring a few. Vegeta put his hands together.

"BIG BANG ATTACK!" Vegeta launched his Big Bang Attack. Ziyan flicked it up into the air easily as he lunged at Vegeta. Vegeta made it look like he wasn't going to do anything about his attacker. But that was true. Vegeta held out his hand blasting a ki beam at the last second blowing Ziyan back into the tile ring floor. Ziyan sat up as Vegeta landed on the ground. Ziyan stood up brushing dirt off of his shoulder. He then saw some on Vegeta's shoulder and then wiped it off. Vegeta through his fist into his face knocking him back further.

Ziyan's feet skid across the ring coming to a stop at the end of the ring. Ziyan looked back and sighed a relief. He looked forward bringing up his forearms and crossing them as Vegeta's fist hit them. Ziyan swiped his arms down pushing him back. He lunged forward landing three kicks to the gut. Vegeta flew backwards. Ziyan disappeared and reappeared behind Vegeta kicking him up into the air and then he followed. Vegeta stopped himself as Ziyan lunged upward. Vegeta pulled his hands back and then through them forward.

"GALICK! GUN!" Ziyan came to a halt as Vegeta's attack rapidly grew bigger and picked up speed. He held his hands out trying to hold the attack off. "HAAAH!" Vegeta screamed as he added more energy to the attack. Ziyan closed his eyes tightly as he tried hard to hold it off, but it was fatal.

Ziyan's arms were flung to his sides as the blast entered his body. "AAAAAAAAH!" Ziyan screamed in pain as the attack dragged him into the ring. Vegeta slowly hovered out of the clouds landing on his knees on the tile floor looking at Ziyan's lifeless body. He was in the same position that his son was in when he was killed. Vegeta looked away. He heard the ref walk off of his platform and toward the lifeless body of Ziyan. He looked up watching the ref look at him. The ref stood up right and held the microphone to his mouth.

"Team Earth has won a second time!" the ref shouted. Vegeta smirked as he stood up.

"There you go son." He said to himself walking off of the plat form.

"Next Fighters! Jiro vs. Gohan! Fighters please step onto the ring!" Gohan and Jiro stepped up standing in front of each other. The ref stood beside them both. "Fighters! Please remove any weighted clothing!" Jiro removed his shirt and his shoes tossing them to the side as he looked at Gohan. "Fighters, are you ready!" Gohan and Jiro set themselves into their fighting stances. "BEGIN!"