The Salga Saga
Chapter 16
The ground shook, and buildings crumbled to into nothing but stone as the conqueror Salga and the Saiyan hero Goku squared off in the partly destroyed city in the south. Goku attacked with three strong punches, but Salga quickly jumped back to avoid them. The orange clad Saiyan growled as he pursued the murderer of his son to the center of the city. Goku charged with a ready to drive through Salga's gut, but just as it was about to connect, Salga ducked under Goku's arm and delivered a swift knee to his stomach. Before the ebony eyed fighter could react, he was laying face up staring at the sky courtesy of a strong uppercut.
Goku jumped to his feet and charged towards the conqueror. Salga just smirked as he evaded the constant punches that looked like blurs from Goku. He suddenly caught one punch, and pulled the hero into a fierce left hook across his face. Goku spun on his right foot and brought up his left giving Salga a powerful hook kick to his ribs. However it looked as thought the dark fighter felt no pain at all. Instead he just chucked and slammed his elbow on Goku's ankle. The Saiyan fighter cried out as felt bone breaking. He quickly pulled back his leg, but in a second Salga was nose to nose with him, and kicked him through a building.
"Is that it? You're starting to bore me," the conqueror remarked, and folded his arms. Goku growled as he emerged from the rubble. In a blink of an eye he charged towards Salga again, his movements nothing but blurs to the normal eye, but Salga saw them as slow. As their battle started to rise into the air, it was getting obvious that Salga was gaining the upper, but it wasn't obvious to Goku who just kept punching like a mad man. (Well is he is mad) Salga moved his head to the side and knocked Goku into two buildings this time with an elbow strike.
Seconds later, Goku appeared behind the conqueror, which caught him off guard. The orange clad Saiyan delivered a fierce right hook to Salga's face, sending him flying through smoke covered sky. But the hero wasn't finished; he quickly activated his Kaioken and appeared in front of the dark fighter. Salga was once again caught off guard, and as a result received countless blows to his stomach. Goku let out a loud cry and gave him another powerful punch, but before Salga could go flying again, Goku grabbed his arm and slammed him on top of a building. The impact of the throw caused the building to collapse into nothing but bits of concrete.
The hero floated to the ground to obverse the damage, and not much to his surprise Salga emerged from the rubble, with not an expression of anger, but of pleasure.
"That's more like it," he chuckled as he wiped the blood coming his chin.
'What's up with this guy, doesn't he feel any pain at all?' Goku wondered and went into a stance. 'Oh well, I guess I'll find out right now!' In an instant Goku was on the offensive. Salga blocked every one of his attacks and moved out of the path of a sudden side kick. The conqueror grabbed the Saiyan by his neck, and slammed him to the ground. Goku quickly rolled to his feet and went into another stance.
"I won't lose to you!" he declared and charged again. Not too far away, the prince of Saiyans was having his own battle.
"What's the matter?" Vegeta shouted as he attacked with swift punches. "Too afraid to make a move boy!" Shakaku was easily dodging Vegeta's attacks and had yet to make a move. "I don't blame you! I am the prince of Saiyans after! You have a right to fear me!" Shakaku scowled at this comment, and caught one of Vegeta's punches.
"Let's get this straight big mouth," the young fighter said as he started to bend Vegeta's fist in the opposite direction. "I fear no one!" With this said Shakaku landed an electrically charged fist into Vegeta's hard stomach. The prince of Saiyans gasped as he stepped back holding his stomach.
'Damn! He's stronger than I first thought,' Vegeta thought and looked at his opponent. Shakaku's fist was sparking with electricity rather than ki. 'He certainly is unusual, I'll just have to take this seriously from this point on.'
Vegeta got to his feet and attacked with a fury of punches that Shakaku could barely keep up with. A powerful left hook collided with the electric boy's face, sending him sliding across the street. The Saiyan prince just laughed as he watched him get to his feet.
"Is that it boy! At this rate you'll be dead before I even break a sweat!" Shakaku just growled, as electricity started to form around his right foot.
"Don't be so sure of that loud mouth," he mumbled, and suddenly stomped his foot on the ground. A blast of electricity suddenly blasted towards Vegeta, who easily dodged by taking to the air.
"I have a feel tricks of my own boy! Like this! Gallic Gun!" Shakaku's right arm started to spark with an electric charge as the blast sped closer and closer to him. The teenager suddenly slapped the ki attack back its sender while charging an attack of his own in his left arm. Vegeta quickly dodged his blast and looked back to the teen fighter. "You'll need a better trick to beat me boy!" Shakaku smirked.
"Don't worry, I do. Here's what I call, Electric Disc!" With those words Shakaku hurled the electric energy he had charged in his left arm, and it took the shape of a flat circle as it shot towards Vegeta.
"Tch! Child's play!" he scoffed as he slapped the attack away. But seconds later Shakaku appeared in front of the Saiyan prince with both arms charged with high voltage electricity.
"Child's play eh? Then what do you call this!" Vegeta gasped as he felt a tremendous force collide with his stomach. Fighting the pain, Vegeta gave the teenager a swift left hook, and followed up by lacing his fingers together and slamming them upon Shakaku's head, sending him face first to the ground. Before said boy could collide with the hard concrete, he quickly flipped over and landed on his feet. Vegeta blasted towards him in seconds and attacked with a fast kick. Shakaku darted out of the way latched his hand on the prince's neck.
"What the-!" but before the man could finish his sentence, countless volts of electricity entered his body. Vegeta let out a loud cry of pain as the electric energy flowed through his entire body.
"You have no idea how much electricity can effect the body," Shakaku chuckled as he increased his grip, doubling the power of his attack. Vegeta gritted his teeth together trying to fight the pain, and managed to knock off the teen's arm with his elbow. The Saiyan prince's body was trembling, not from fear, but because of the excessive amount of electricity in his body.
"You bastard," he muttered s he struggled to get his body under control. Shakaku just laughed.
"With that little jolt you've lost control of most of your body! Making you as vulnerable as a newborn!" At those words, Vegeta was on the receiving end of a fully charged electric punch. The teen solider followed up with a fierce knee blow to his stomach. Vegeta went to block an incoming punch, but when he went to move his right arm, his left leg moved instead. Seconds later he was on his side with a red mark on his face.
"Damn….him," Vegeta growled as he struggled to get to his feet.
"And there's still plenty more where that came from," Shakaku chuckled. By now Vegeta was on his feet fully, but still had little control of his body.
"If there's still plenty left, then by all means show me," the prince chuckled as he went into a stance. The two fighters stood there for a few seconds before going back to their battle.
The ground shook as Salga and Goku exchanged blows on the city streets of South City. Salga dodged a fast round kick, and countered with a sudden jab to Goku's face, knocking him back. Goku grunted before firing four ki blasts at his opponent. The conqueror deflected all with one hand while he was yawning.
"Is that it?" he asked with a bored tone. Goku growled before charging up both hands with ki.
"Barely! Take this!" the enraged hero exclaimed and fired a fierce array of powerful ki blasts. Countless blasts of light were heading towards the villain, but the expression of fear or concern failed to cross his face.
"Oh please, is that all?" Salga drew his sword and went into a stance. Goku raised an eyebrow, but continued to fire more ki at the conqueror. A dark smile crossed Salga's face before he swung his sword at the ki attacks. Much to Goku's surprise all his blasts were redirected back at him!
"Now way!" he cried before he was overwhelmed by his own ki blasts. Salga chuckled as the smoke started to clear.
"Too easy." When the smoke cleared Salga raised an eyebrow when he noticed there was no body. "Must have vaporized." But the conqueror was wrong, dead wrong. A sudden voice exclaimed behind him,
"KA ME HA ME HA!" A powerful blue wave suddenly blasted the villain through five buildings, bringing all of them down. Goku smirked. "Instant Transmission, the only way to travel!" The Saiyan hero flew towards where the monster was blasted, and was taken aback when he saw Salga already out of the rubble.
The conqueror's neck was an obvious position that told Goku it was broken, and he could also tell his right shoulder was dislocated. His face was covered with bruises and small cuts, but despite all this, he still had a small smile on his face with no look of pain whatsoever.
"Interesting technique you got there," he said calmly with a light chuckle. "I wonder if you would be willing to teach me."
'How can he not feel anything after that! He took the full blast of my Kame me Ha, and not so much as a groan!' Goku thought in shock. Salga smirked as he snapped his neck back in place, and snapped his shoulder back in its normal place.
"From that look on your face, can I assume that you are too shocked to continue fighting? Because if you are, I'll just destroy this whole city and move on to the next one." This got Goku's attention, and he went back into his stance.
"No you aren't going to destroy or kill anything or anyone anymore! I'll make sure of that!"
"Quite the declaration. Let's hope you can live up to it. Because if you can't, no worries, you'll be with your son in the afterlife." This got Goku going, in seconds their battle had began again. Salga dodged an array of swift punches and kicks from the Saiyan hero, and countered one of his attacks with an elbow strike to the back of his head.
Goku grunted and spun around for a back fist, but Salga easily ducked under it, and sent the orange clad Saiyan flying with a ki blast.
"Oh come, come," Salga said as Goku skidded across the street. "That was a simple blast, very minor. You can't tell me you're hurt after that."
'That was just a minor blast!' Goku repeated in his mind as he felt the blood coming out from his chest. 'That probably had the same amount of power as Tien's Blast Cannon! Just how powerful is this guy! I haven't seen him power up once since we started fighting!'
"I'm starting to lose my patience," Salga said in a singsong tone. "I'm started to consider blowing up this entire city and everything around it." The villain charged up a blast to emphasize.
"I told you! You aren't going to hurt anyone! Kaio-Ken!" Goku exclaimed and the familiar deep red aura formed around him. "Now Dragon Fist!" The fighter disappeared in the blink of an eye, and reappeared behind his opponent. Salga just smirked and elbowed Goku in the face before he could even throw a punch.
"How predictable." Goku stepped back wiping the blood coming down from his nose, but quickly summoned the Kaio-Ken again. Salga just smirked and swung his leg out to the side. At that moment, Goku was knocked into a building. "You're starting to become a one trick pony."
'Damn it! I'm starting to run out of ideas! Everything I do it's like he's two steps ahead! Damn it!'
"Ready to give up?" Goku gritted his teeth as he stood to his feet.
"No I won't give up! Kaio-Ken times 10!" The deep red aura surrounded Goku and he instantly took to the air.
"Oh, and what's this?" Salga wondered as he looked up.
"KA…ME…HA…ME…" Goku chanted as the ki started to form. "HA!" With that Goku released the ki and it was enough to destroy at least four major cities. But just like always no look of concern crossed Salga's face.
"Oh please is that it?" the conqueror muttered as he drew his sword. "I'll show you a real attack."
Meanwhile on the other side of the city, shockwaves echoed through the air and ground as Vegeta and Shakaku clashed. Vegeta quickly blocked two jabs, and went in for a fast knee strike, but Shakaku moved to the side. The teen soldier knocked the Saiyan prince to the ground with a fully charged electric fist. As he slid across the ground, the older man flipped back on his feet, and fired four powerful ki blasts. Shakaku slapped them away and countered with a blast of electric energy. Vegeta teleported behind the teen blasted the boy into a building.
"Well that's that," he smirked, but was proven wrong with a sudden blast of electricity.
"I'm sorry, what was that?" the teen asked as he emerged from the rubble with his hand extended. Vegeta slammed his fists into the street as the electricity surged through his body. When it faded, he was shocked when he realized he couldn't move.
"What…what…. the hell…. is this!" he exclaimed. Shakaku chuckled.
"That's just another one my special effects I told you about earlier. With enough electric energy I can paralyze someone's body. And yes, even a tough body like a Saiyan."
"Damn it," he muttered.
"And now I can do things like this!" the teenager zapped Vegeta with another surge and raised him into the air with his arm extended. The next thing the Saiyan prince knew, he was slammed into a building, then into the ground. Shakaku smirked and pinned him against a wall. "I can also use static cling to stick to this wall."
'I can't move at all! Not even so much as my fingers!'
"Now I have you right where I want you," Shakaku said sinisterly as he charged up an attack in his other hand. A look of fear crossed the prince of Saiyan's face as he awaited his fate.
OOOOO
"You want me to what!" Gohan exclaimed to his grandfather.
"Slay the dragon and steal one of his fangs. Did I stutter?"
"No, but do you have any idea what you're asking of me grandpa! If that thing is so powerful even the Kais stay away then there's no way in all the hells I can beat it!" Bardock rolled his eyes.
"You sure complain a lot."
"I'm not complaining! I'm just saying it's impossible!"
"How would you know that? It's not like you've ever fought him before. You never know until you try."
"But….still….." Bardock growled.
"Look if you don't slay that dragon, you'll never find out the truth about your Dragon Wings!" Gohan's eyes widened.
"How do you know about them?" Bardock turned away and started to fly off.
"The only way you'll find out is if you kill that dragon, now get moving." Gohan stared at the fading figure of his grandfather in confusion.
'How did he know about the Dragon Wings? And will killing this dragon really tell what I want to know about my Dragon Wings, and how I got them? Well there's only one way to find out.' Gohan nodded to himself and took off towards the canyon. He really didn't have much of a choice anyway.
The canyon looked like a long twisted road, it didn't look like any force of nature he had ever seen before. It was much too wide for any kind of water source, and it more straight forward than any canyon he had ever seen before. It had looked like something had made it intentionally, that or some giant creature passed through the area millions of years ago.
At the end of the canyon was large cave that seemed to be very deep. The entrance was a wide arc with small holes around the side. On top were words that said
"Let he who enters or disturb my slumber suffer a painful end."
"Real inviting," Gohan muttered sarcastically. "Hello! Is anyone in there! I'm looking for a dragon!" After a few short minutes a loud, angry, and booming voice replied.
"WHO DARES DISTRUB ME!" The ground shook like a level 10 earthquake, and fierce breathing echoed through the cave as the monster started to emerge. Gohan's eyes widened as he looked up at the dragon he was supposed to slay. It had an extremely long body, in fact Gohan was sure about whole other half of the dragon was still inside of the cave. The half of the dragon that was visible had dark red colored scales on top and white at the bottom. It's long blue hair flowed with green antenna on the sides. It had fangs similar to crocodile, they were so long, and looked extremely sharp. Even with its mouth closed Gohan could still see his fangs. Its angry red eyes stared down at the half Saiyan as it continued to emerge from its cave.
"Oh….man…." was all Gohan could say as the dragon fully emerged from the cave and was in the air. Despite the fierce shaking it had caused, Gohan was surprised to see it had small arms and legs. Its tail held a sharp spikes that started at the tip and ended where his hair began. He was immense. And even though it didn't had wings, he still managed to stay in the air.
"Who are you!"
"Uh….Gohan Son, and I'm going to slay you!" the half Saiyan declared. The dragon laughed with his booming voice that made the earth quake in fear.
"HA, HA, HA! You a mere human slay the great Saioyoshi! I'd just love to see you try!" Gohan made a fist and flared up his ki.
"All right! Fine!" With that Gohan let out a loud yell and blasted towards the dragon. The teenager gave the monster a powerful punch but it felt like he just punched the strongest and toughest metal in the universe. Needless to say Gohan instantly flew back.
"HA, HA, HAAAA! No human can hurt me! My scales are harder than any known metal in the universe! No one can even come close to even scratching me!" Gohan transformed to Super Saiyan 3 and once again blasted towards the dragon and gave him a hard punch, but just like last time absolutely no effect at all.
"What!"
"My turn!" Saioyoshi opened his wide mouth and unleashed a powerful blue blast that blew Gohan through two cliffs. The teenaged warrior struggled to get to his feet, with that one attack he had already broken an arm and blood was streaming down the front of his head. Plus the top part of his gi had completely burned away, and he was already out of his Super Saiyan 3 form.
"Not…good," he muttered.
OOOOO
Vegeta struggled to move as he watched a ball of electricity form in Shakaku's hand.
"Now take this!" he shouted and hurled the ball at Vegeta. The prince let out a loud cry that caused his yellow aura to flare up and protect him from the attack. The prince smirked when he realized he could move again.
"All right, this time I'm killing you for sure!" With those words Vegeta started to power up again his yellow aura increased with every passing minute, but Shakaku wasn't concerned. "Get ready to feel one of my most powerful attacks!"
"Do what you want, I'll just counter it with my own attack!" Shakaku laughed as the ground started to crack, and wires wrapped around his arms. Vegeta raised an eyebrow at this, but continued to power up. By the time Vegeta was finished powering up, Shakaku was almost completely covered by wires that wrapped around his arms.
"Get ready to die boy! Final Flash!" Vegeta fired a major yellow blast that could easily level an entire city into nothing but a huge crater. But Shakaku didn't look worried at all.
"Voltage Tiger!" With that Shakaku unleashed the major electrical energy he had been charging up and it collided with Vegeta's blast. The two fighters struggled to give their blast the upper hand, but both were equal in power no matter how much ki they put in them. Shakaku was about to add more of his own ki when he just thought of an idea. The teen smirked sinisterly and took a deep breath.
'What in the world is he doing?' Vegeta wondered, but he got his answer when an extremely loud booming yell reached his sensitive ears. The sound alone was enough to make the Saiyan prince slid back for a few seconds, but that was all Shakaku needed. His blast started to overpower Vegeta's until the prince was complete engulfed by his opponent's blast, and was blown into several building with a loud explosion following soon after.
"Where would lighting be without thunder?" Shakaku chuckled as the wires started unwrap themselves.
Meanwhile by now Goku's blast was inches away from Salga when the conqueror's ki suddenly flared up.
"Now take this! Ryu Kaze!" Salga swung his sword releasing a green flame dragon that started to sallow up Goku's Kame ha me ha as it worked its way up towards the sender.
"No way!" the Saiyan hero exclaimed as the dragon completely devoured his attack. Seconds later Goku was screaming in agony as the blast consumed him and felt like it was tearing his body to shreds. When it was over it looked as though Goku had been through a shredder. His gi was nothing but rags and he had cuts all over his body with the blood flowing out of his body and onto the street. The now black haired Saiyan struggled to get to his feet when he heard a loud explosion from the other side of the city.
"Looks like Shakaku defeated your friend," Salga announced with a smirk. "Not nearly as fast as Akira would have, but he still defeated him."
"Vegeta! Vegeta!" Goku shouted as he stared at the mushroom cloud that formed. Without a second thought Goku disappeared from his spot via instant transmission to find his friend. Goku reappeared in front of an immense amount of rubble and debris with a young man behind him.
"You must be the one who was fighting master Salga. I'm surprised to see you're still alive." Goku ignored the boy and scanned the rubble for Vegeta's ki. Rubble shifted as the Saiyan prince emerged from the mess of rock and dirt. Needless to say he was a mess as well. Goku could tell both their kis were extremely weak, he found miraculous that he was even standing and the fact that he could use his instant transmission as well. But still, he had nowhere near enough to continue fighting, neither did Vegeta. However from the look of their opponents they still had plenty of ki to spare.
"Looks like he's still alive Shakaku," Salga said as he appeared next to the young solider. "And so are you, then it looks like this fight continues." Goku growled inwardly and picked up Vegeta who was barely breathing. The Saiyan hero also found it hard to breathe, in fact his vision was getting blurry and dark. He had to get back to the Lookout and fast.
"Salga, wait," Goku said. "I'm in no position to fight right now. My ki is close to used up, and my body is broken. Fighting would be absolutely pointless now. I give up, you win this time." Salga just smirked.
"Well then looks like Earth is mine then."
"Hold on a minute! That doesn't mean you've won the war for Earth! My friends and I will continue to fight to defend our planet, not even death will stop us from defending our home from you! I may give up now, but give me five days and I'll give you a fighter strong enough to beat you!"
"Oh really? Sounds interesting, but five days is too long of a wait. Three days."
"No five!" Salga raised his hand at Goku with a blast charged already.
"I don't think you're in position to argue with me. Three days." Goku growled, but nodded he didn't have a choice.
"All right. In three days come to the Lookout of Kami. It's in the east at the top of a tall tower, you can't miss it." Salga chuckled.
"All right then I'll be there. You'd had better not run away, because I will hunt you down and kill you."
"Don't worry we won't run." Salga turned around and started to walk off.
"Come Shakaku we're leaving." The teen soldier just grunted and followed. "See you in three days." And with that the conqueror and his subordinate disappeared. Seconds later Goku disappeared as well.
OOOOO
When the orange clad Saiyan returned everyone swarmed around him and Vegeta asking what happened. Of course the first he did was ask Dende to heal Vegeta and him, and ask for a bag of Senzu beans.
"Are you nuts!" Ryoko exclaimed when Goku told them him and Salga's little deal.
"Yeah Goku! There's no way you and Vegeta can master Fusion in three days!" Krillin agreed.
"Are you sure you didn't have a concussion when you made that deal?" Tien wondered.
"I know it sounds crazy, but that's deal we made, and so he's coming here in three days, so we have to get ready," Goku announced.
"But like I said before, you and Vegeta can't master Fusion in three days!" Krillin repeated.
"I know," Goku agreed. "That's why Vegeta and I won't be the ones he'll be fighting. Are Goten and Trunks out of the time chamber yet?"
"Yeah, they just came out an hour ago," Kiyone replied.
"Good."
"Wait a minute Goku, you aren't saying….!" Piccolo started.
"Yep, in three days Salga will be fighting Gotenks for the fate of Earth. You hear that boys!" Goku called.
"Yes sir!" the two boys exclaimed at once.
"And we're ready! We even came up with a few new moves!" Trunks said proudly.
"That's good, you'll 'em."
"Goku are you about making Goten fight?" Chi-Chi asked worriedly. "What if…what if I lose him like Gohan?"
"I know that you're worried Chi-Chi, but we don't have much of a choice right now. Goten and Trunks have already mastered Fusion, they're our trump card now. Don't worry if things get too intense I'll jump in." Chi-Chi just nodded. "All right boys let's start training!"
"Yes sir!" The two boys exclaimed.
OOO Three Days Later OOO
Everyone was silent as the hours passed by waiting for their opponent. Goten and Trunks were in the center of the Lookout while everyone else was on the sidelines. But being half Saiyans, they were very anxious to get their fight started, but they needed their opponent to show up first.
"Arg! This is taking too long! Where the heck is he?" Trunks groaned.
"Maybe he got lost," Goten suggested.
"How can you not find a tall golden tower!"
"Trunks does have a point," Tenchi agreed. "This is taking too long. You think he's trying to were them down by waiting?"
"That does sound like something a villain like him would do," Piccolo agreed.
"No, he's just as anxious as Goten and Trunks are," Goku said.
"And what makes you so sure?" Piccolo asked.
"I just know." After two more hours of waiting Trunks and Goten were about to go off and have a snack when Vegeta and Piccolo turned around with stern looks on their faces.
"He's here," Vegeta growled. Vegeta was right, below Salga was blasting towards the golden tower with a smirk on his face as he curved upwards.
'This had better be good,' he thought as he could see the tower come closer and closer into view. A few minutes later Salga was floating right above the Lookout with the eyes all on him as he floated down.
"That's Salga? Hm….he's actually pretty handsome," Bulma commented.
"What did you say woman!" Vegeta exclaimed.
"Oh calm down Vegeta! It's like I'm going to go out on a date wit him or something!"
"So where is he?" Salga asked ignoring Bulma and Vegeta's little spat. "Where's the fighter you promised me?"
"We're right here!" Goten said from behind. The conqueror turned around to see the two boys standing behind him. Upon seeing this Salga instantly broke out laughing.
"You must be kidding me! Do you truly expect I, the great Salga, conqueror of at least one thousand galaxies, to be killed by these runts! What a laugh!"
"Runts!" the two boys exclaimed.
"We'll show you how much power we really have! Read Goten?" the youngest Son boy nodded.
"FU….SION….HA!" Seconds later a bright white light covered the entire Lookout, blinding everyone for a few short seconds before it faded away.
"Now you listen to me Salga! My name is Gotenks and I'm gonna be the one to bring you down!" the young fighter declared.
"Such a statement. Well then, shall be begin then?"
"Yeah let's!" And with those words Gotenks dashed towards the conqueror. The battle for Earth had begun.
AN: Can Gotenks overcome all odds and managed to defeat the seemingly unbeatable Salga? And what of Gohan's current situation? Can the young half Saiyan defeat the dragon Saioyoshi, a creature even the Kais fear? These two young fighters must face their hardest challenges yet. Are they able to fight with what's on the line? You'll just have to catch the next chapter of the Salga Saga. Sorry about the delay, but this was a long chapter to write. And I may post my AU Gohan/Sasami fic much sooner than I thought, but just the first chapter, just to see how everyone likes it. Well anyway, see ya next chapter!